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The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03

advanced softly, 10th to disturb the
charming picture. AS he came near
enough to see what she was doing, he
discovered that the table was strewn
with cards; and when she sat back
with sigh, saying softly, well, then,
if he won't, then he aUOn't - that's
ALT" Paul was bold enough to leap to
conclusions that certainly were veri-
fed by the event.
Darling Margaret" he said softly,
"let the old cards go hang! l tried
them just before came, and they told
me not to risk it. But am going to,
in their teeth! And if they tell you
that won't, they are liars, for l will
and / do - right now!"
There is no need of recording ex-
actly the words he used or Margaret's
reply to them 1t is certain that the
oracle of the cards was completely
discredited, and an effective blow dealt
to the reprehensible practice of petty
superstitions. And that, of course, is
the moral that makes this SO improv-
ing a little nineteen-thirteen story for
the young, middle-aged, or, in fact,
for anybody at all.
Were they happy? The happiest
ever!
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03

to put it plainly - just scared.
He walked the room with his arms
behind his back, as Napoleon is pic
tured at st. Helena, and still hesi-
tated.
Then he happened to see pack of
cards on his table, and at once made
up his mind to try his luck by play
ing his favorite game of Solitaire.
Shutting and cutting with the care
and solemnity that he felt the situa-
tion called for, he played the game
through with all his best judgment to
the bitter end. And the end was bit
ter, for the cards were in hopeless
tangle that said as plainly as paste
board can speak: "Try not your ven
ture. The Omens are unprOpitious!
Paul sat for moment in gloom, ac-
cepting the result. Then, as he me-
chanically swept the cards together,
his expression frightened, and he be-
himself, inaudibly:
''The best two out of three"
The game was laid out, the cards
were handled with the skill of mas
ter, and though the game was most
difficult one, Paul succeeded in it, and
sat back to view the neatly arranged
pack with the air of conqueror -
say, like Napoleon at Austerlitz.
Backed by this happy augury, he felt
that he could almost demand the
hand and heart of the Beautiful Girl
he Loved.
But suddenly he remembered that
the matter was not decided He had
won once and had lost once The odd,
the deciding, game yet remained to be
played. In preparation, Paul shuffied
out the cards with scrupulous fair
ness. He was not one of the despic-
able race of solitaire-players who de-
scend to the ignominy of cheating
themselves.
With cool deliberation to lose no
chance in his favor, Paul combined
the skill of veteran and the bold
ness of novice = but without avail.
The pesky cards were against him
from the start, and he came slowly
but inevitably to a block.
The cards were gathered, and he
was about to put them into their box
when he had an idea. The cards had
decided in the negative, but how did
he know he was not deceived? That
could be settled by reversing the ques-
tion. He would put the query thus
"Shall l refrain from proposing to
her?" Thus he would equalize the
element of chance in the game itself,
and would feel that the verdict of the
oAu
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03

'NDER the lamp
Ii & h t her hair
cleaned with lit
t | e glimpses o f
brightness a n d
shadow that were
to Paul unspeak-
ably bewitching.
Evidently she had
not heard him en-
t e r, a n d S h e
seemed deeply alb
sorbed in s o m e
engrOsSing Occu-
patton. The lover
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II A L l. | or
sha'n't I?'
p III Osborne
was trying to de-
eide whether he
would propose to
her. He knew that
she was the best
of good friends;
but when it came
to p u t t | n G the
question of his fu-
ture happiness to
the test of a single
question he was
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03

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The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03

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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-16
MEXICAN REBELS
SPREADING RUIN
Capture and Loot Towns in
South of Countrywide
Troops at Capital.

Washington. Jan. 1G.-Conditions in
Mexico are rapidly becoming more
acute. Henry Lane Wilson. American
ambassador at Mexico City. advised
the state department yesterday that
the town of Acytzinso. thirty miles
from the capital. has been captured
by rebels. who defeated the federal
troops. killing zoo soldiers. Federal
reintorcementS which We're sent to the
scene of the disorder were ais routed.
The railway line between Mexico
City and Vera Cruz has been threat
encd by rebels. and the Mexican gov
crnment has sent troops in pursuit Of
the rebels and to protect the trains
of the I%nteroccanic railway. Railway
communication between Mexico City
and OaXaca has been cut.
Small Towns Captured.
In the southern part of Mexico. Mr..
Wilson added. q number of small
towns have been taken by the rebel
forces and many railroad stations ana
bridges have been burned and de-
stroyed.
Railroad officials state that in many
cases where these stations have been
burned. both old and young women
been m%altreated. The rice of
foodstuffs. Mr.. Wilson continues, is
increasing.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-16

AL Kaufman. too. has fallen into
the pool of oblivion, and it will be
some time at least before Palzer can
hope TO come hack. Willard and Me-
Carly. and possibly also Bomi,ardier
Wells, are the men who must decide
between them who VIII lac champ.
Certainly Willard looms hi. on the
Fight horizon. TIC :::sia; he bad with
McCaytv in New York showed that
he can deliver tllv goods. He wa;
given the verdict almost unanimous
l.: by the New York papers. and it
was said IN reports of tine contest that
MoC,air WAS hard" able TO land one
tell,m% blow on him.
Willard is liz. %cHEg fellow from
tho Texas ,,lnins un |uNrret. ~ CE"s.
Cutler OF CilirH.u al.nlt :: y-.lr a-u.
Cutter had him maG.r hi &c Cor ::
long time and then mad" the Ei:Stll"
of taking him IL New Work. city and!
leaving him there. Naturally. ome
body stole" less away from Cutler.
ANA nov he is: lost for :,ood and al:
tn tho CHICAGO wrestler.
pa"kcy Mcfarland. TIE Caicag"
stockNh-0S tialirr". is soon 10 TAX:
Willard in hand and teauh the Texan
all he Knows about the sight game.
Mcfarland says Willard IS this most
dangerous white h~a"vywetgilt now III:
the game.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-16

half tho s.ze %: Il modern mans as
representative nf mankind at Tho be-
ginnins of the Pleistocenc: before the
end of that period me- OF modern
type appeared.
Me-, who nave studied the trans
tormat:An ans effected during the Pleistn-
cence period have formed %aryin. es-
Inmates of its duration. but W. may
safely adopt as ii moderate figure the
400. 900 years given ny Pref. Sollas at
"a meeting of This association i'll 1900.
We may accept. then. as the orthodox
opinion of today that the dawn of the
very earliest form of humanity lies
400. 900 years Behind us. For Il rep
rcsentative of modern hcterodoNy-as
far as relates to the antiquity Of man
rannot do better than visit the
ROYAL Natural History Museum in
Brussels and follow the guidance of
NJ. Rutot. NJ. Rutot is convinced that
he has traced man. ny means Of his
eolithic culture. o only to the ron
mencement of the P~ieistocene. hut in
to and through the TWO long geological
periods which preceded the Pleisto-
cene-the Piocene and Miocene-and
ever we'll into the formations of the
still older period. the A%lisocene.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-16
LOCKE RESIGNS
FROM PIRATES
Is to Meet c. F. Taft Tues
day to Complete Purchase
Of Philadelphia Club.

Philadelphia, Jan . iG.--Mill ".
Lock" hts resigned MS the SECRETARY 1f
the Pittsburgh, club. tie wrote. IN.
letter of resignation here NJ The
I5ellevuc-Sliniiord ,nd after lie l;,'l
done So showed ii In I'll" :sr"np IT
%financiers "f this ruN whom Co..
Tenor has Interested i'm the club,
s".nr ut whom :u.gH*trd in ii .iokins
way tha: locke c":.!i no hold ESQ
Jobs at the Salr, time.
The voIra In~.ttshurgher would not
he called. and II" Immediately sat
down and wro1c II formal resisna5i III
.:h.ch h.. carried back with him aud
which ~ told Capt. Jonn q. %;r""rn~
of tina State cons;ahllArN h." Would
give President Dr.yftlss on Mnn.;ny.
Af.er ne had takta this step. l.n' \.
"n up IL good job. aud with as fine /
boss rs / eve knew. J hat" tn leave
Drrvfiss. hut he has given rne this
chance t. make good, aud | all, going
to ;h.a- HIM that i en- do 80. L
know that 1 ought to give this city a
winnin-. tealn. and With the backing
I have there will he little doubt
of it i'll ny mind.
Mr.. Locke intends Ia meet Drcyfuss
tomorrow and then run out to the
bank of Charlcroi which. it is said.
will furnish a part Of the cash that
is to oc used to finance th<, deal, and
he will leave Pittsburgh again somu
time on Monday so as to return To
Philadelphia and keep the appoint
mcnt With Charles P. Taft in this city
on Tuesday.
MIR. Taft will be here in person TO
pass the property over to MIR. Locke.
The fact that Locke was outbid for
the club by the Balfour syndicate is
taken as proof that Mr.. Taft is de-
sirous of keeping a pledge he made
with Garry Hermann to give the
young ~Pittsburgher a chance. and he
will. it is believed. start with every
thing in his favor to make a success.
AS Il man grows older, he doesn't
want to live far enough north to need
for his wardrobe.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-16
MANS FIRST APPEARANCE
Scientists Believe 1t May Have Been
Three Million Years Ago.
(Manchester Cuardion.N

Manchester G%uardian.)
Dr.. Arthur Keith delivered a lecture
before the British Association on
Modern problems relating to tho an
tiquity of man. After referring to
the storm raised when Sir Charles
Lyell at the British association meet
ing of 1850 announced that "a work
Will very shortly appear by Mr..
Charles Darwin. the result of 20 years
observation and experiment." and that
the evidence which has accumulated
made 1t probable that man was old
enough to have co-eXisted at least
with the Siberian mammoth" DIR.
Keith said that this was now the ac-
copied and orthodox opinion of the
vast majority of thoughtful people.
But in every movement Of that kind
opinion tended TO become fixed and
conventionali2ed. and then a new
~hetcrodoxy raised Its head. That was
the phase we seemed to have reached
now.
II cannot cite a more stalwart or
distinguished representative of the
orthodox opinion Of today than Prof.
Boyd Dawkins of Manchester. In his
opinion the history Of man does not
extend beyond the P%leistocene period
tho phase Of the carth's history
which Immediately precedes the one
in which We live. He accepts the fos-
sill man OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
. being with a brain q little more than
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-16
Dreyfuss Does Not
Believe Bresnahan
Signed With Cubs

P%ittsburg.. Jan. left Charley
Murphy has convinced anyone that he
has signed Roger Bresnahan to catch
for the Cubs les season Barney
Dreyfuss. Pirate. owner, does not he
lieve the story. Dreyfuss said he was
hopeful that Roger would be behind
the bat for Fred Clarke's crew.
The reason l don't believe that lat
est Bresnahan story" said Barney, 'is
that we have heard nothing from
Roger. You know We made him Il
pretty good offer-nothing like Frank
Chance Is getting on papcr-but it was
a fair offer. I'm sure that Roger
would at least give us the formality
OF a written refusal of this offer he
fore signing with anyone else. Don't
put down n bets that Bresnahan
won't be with P%ittsburg in 1913"
While talking baseball Dreyfuss did
something he hasn't done before in
the fifteen years he's been in baseball
picked the pennant winner before
the season opened. When asked why
he had scheduled a spring season with
the Red SoX. Drcyfuss said:
ooh. We just want to show them
what We'll do to them in the worlds
series next fall"
After letting it out Dreyfuss admit
ted he expected the Pirates and Red
Sox would divide the worlds series
money next October.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-16
OLD BILL MAYHAM
IS OUT FOR GOOD
North Yakima Sports Back
ed Him Heavily to Make
Killing at Winnipeg.

New York. Jam. 1i.-Reference vas
not long ago to the fact that the
veteran mare Aunt Polly. otter having
figured as tine leading money winner
"1 her age since 1907, had finally been
retired 1rom racing. Another ever
green racer, M year Older than Aunt
FOLLY. tilas mai been taking similai
hnnors in his class during the same
period in which Aunt Poiiy had heen
DISTINGUISHING herself. is likewise
missing from t.1c lis: of active racers.
n is the roam ssldins Bill Mayham,
whose iinal appearance under colorS
took place last Year. whcn he was Il
l4-yenr-oit..
isill 1iayhan, like Aunt Pally. raced
N The Lao west, Where he had the
REPUTATION ot heine of the fastest
horses for q shor distance we sad
died :1r Il race. Il matttred not wha.
kind OF company Bill MIayham was
meeting. he would s%cneiaily he sitting
OFT ID front in the early part of his
races. Generally. too. ne failed II
stay beg unl The shortest %sprinting dis
tancvs. i'It he certainly was Il fast
n"rse as Lar rs he could go. and his
,St."rne speed enabled him TO win a
race o~craiiunall%.
y >.'Fy appeared in print last year,
when Ga MNyhaN was s.ill in artiN,
trs.ii:ns. II an attempted killing with
The Old .cluiue that Went wrong al
VI inn. peg in 1901.
FASTEST in World.
ELI MaNhu9 was Il 1-year-oid at the
tille ana his owner regarded him as
'.tle fastest horse in the world. He
..n:rped him 10 Winn:peg. where some
Grud HOSES We're racing at the time,
III .:.udin. these belonging to tf.'
Mac"enZ.e stable.
The Rocky Mountain Wonder" az
,,> y.o .,ly>j I;I ,~, ,,,I-> 1T: go,
peAranoe until near the close of the
meeting. He was owned in North
Yakima. Wash. and had been racing
In ough the northwestern states FOR
several snas"rs Al Seattle he had
won = half mile race in A. seconds
and thr"" and one-half furlongS in
~ seconds. Ills people made nu secret
t!..e for any other horse to run
against him. and if amy man lost his
money betting against him it was his
own fault. In those days they sold
pools in town the night before the
races. and the citizens OF North Yaki-
ma Went TO tho front as soon as the
opportunity opened.
Back Him Heavily.
They made tho roam first choice and
bought every pool on him till they
had put 100000 into the box. Mex:
day at til: track they took :; tn ) for
rest of ;hcir II and considered
themselves lucky to get on at any
price.
Maybe they would have been right
if nothing had happened to Bill. but
something did happen. as unfortun-
atcly is frequently the case when Il
man has his money down. Bill spread
his foot or the granitc-hard track dur
ing the running of the race and fin
ished a distant third to -Alzora and
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-16

Luther mccarthy may he the white
heavyweight champ some day-he
isn't Vet. At least thus opines one
Texas cowboy, named Jess Willard.
Jess seems to have logic on his
side. for it will he remembered that
not SO very long ago he bested Nc
Carly in a ten-round battle in New
York. McCarty has Vet to wipe Out
the stain Of that Sefeat before he can
proclaim himself champion white
heavyweight fighter of the world.
Willard is anxious to fight McCarty.
too. M it is said that ii battle may
he arranged for the near future III
New York city. That battle will de-
eide, for the time al least, Just what
white man deserves the heavyweight
crown.
Several of the white hopes who
looked good until quite recently seem
now down and out. One. of them is
Carl Morris, the Oklahoma giant. He
may come back. but in the light OF
the past years events it seems quite
improbable.
Jim Flynn need no longer Ice con-
sidered. He has sustained some hit
ter defeats. and he is now thirty-thrce.
Everybody. including FLYNN himself.
regards the Pueblo fireman rs Il has
been so far as fighting is concerned.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-16

AS a man grows older, he doesn't
snowshocs for his wardrobe.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-16
Here and There in the World of Sport--Winter Season Cos

Nersi,ior. With half a dozen others be-
hind him. Hc pulled up so lame tina:
until the nature of the mishap was
discovered it looked as if he would
never start again.
Bill Mayham's career is the answer
.tn tho silly statement that "A thor
oushored's racing days are over mt 4
years" Persons eager to say nas,:'
things abou, racing are little con
ccrned about the truth as one fair
minded writer pointed nut in %referr-
ine ia Fill Mayham's record. 1t would
not suit their purpose.
gill Mayham is a roam gelding by
The ueru-i<atie Wcwekus. His sire
was bred by j. c. Smith of Toronto.
Can. who is credited with having inn
ported in Masetto the first St. simon
stallion that ranlc ~ America.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-16
TWO AviAToRs
When Machine Fails Into Rive
T,Ames-Englne Explodes.

London, Jan. l6.-Two British air.
men. l.. +. Macdonald and a man
named Ingles. were drowned In tho
river Thames.
The aviatOra were flying at a height
we'll above the river when tho ma
chine suddenly swooped downward.
Immediately upon coming In contact
with the water the engine exploded.
One Of the nviators chung for Il
while to the top Of the machine. hut
he sank before the heats. which were
hurriedly put on from shore. could
reach him,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-08

-
Wilson, superintendent of the Koolau
tunnel, is now on his way to Waiau,
word having reached him of the seri.
BUSINESS of the strike. Engineer H. K
Bishop will probably meet him late
this afternoon He is checking off
the payroll at different sections OF
the tunnel
Though the situation now is not as
serious as it was yesterday afternoon,
the foremen at Waiau are still appre-
bensive of trouble, as the power of a
lew leaders over the others is uncer-
tain. Maxine has recommended that
the leaders be immediately shipped
out of the district and forced to stay
away from the laborers.
The strike began when the four
lunas were discharged for not attend
ing closely to their work. The men
under their supervision quit at once,
and many more men were fast drop
ping their shovels to join the ranks
of the strikers. Heavy drinking fol-
lowed, and it was not long before the
dissenters assumed the role of riot
ers.
In the meantime word was sent to
Editor Maxine, a man of considerable
experience in settling labor diff
culties for his countrymen He arrived
at a critical time Some of the
strikers we're marching and yelling
loudly, others were sullenly taking
their positions nearby Bringing them
to attention, the editor cautioned
them against any overt demonstra-
ton, told them that their strike was
without the element of Justice, and adj
vised them to return to their employ
ment.
Many of them yielded to his sug-
gestion. Others insisted that the four
lunas be re-employed before they re-
turned. Marshall refused to comply
with the request. He stated that the
discharged lunas were careless in the
use of explosives, allowing the men
under them to take unnecessary
risks. After negotiations had pro-
ceeded until late in the evening, Ma
kino, acting as advisor and arbiter
for his eountrymen, about two hun
dred agreed to go back to their
work.
1t is with the remaining hundred
Deputy Sheriff Jarrett has to deal.
If they show any disposition to create
further disturbances, officers will be
sent there at once. 1t is not believed,
however, that they will make any
further open demonstration, and as
surances were received by Wilson be-
fore leaving for Waiau that the situa-
ton was we'll in hand.
Maxine returned to this city early
this morning and has been in COM
munication with tunnel employers
since He learned while at Waiau
that an association had been formed
by the Japanese lunas, which is in
some respects similar to labor
union. and he believes that it was in
part due to the rules of this associa-
ton that the strike occurred.