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MILE RPROMISED
BOUT WITH PELKY

San Francisco. Aug. AFTER a con-
ference with Tommy Burns, manager
of Arthur Pelky. white heavyweight
champion of the world. Louis Parente
has practically gained the assurance
that his heavyweight. Charlie Miller.
win be given the first chance at the
sitie by the champion. Burns and
Parente leave for Los Angeles tonight,
where 1t is hoped articles will be
signed for a twenty round bout before
Tom McCarey's club during the latter
part Of September.
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CUBS WANT
COLE AGAIN

Columbus, o., Aug. 4.-"King" Cole.
the pitching sensation of the National
league in 1910, when he twiried the
weak Cubs into the championship. will
be back in the majors next year. The
barber-pitcher has steadied down and
appears TO be ut to repeat his great
work OF three years ago. Several ma
Jor league clubs are bidding for him,
and II is probable that deal will be
closed for him before the drafting
season opens. The Cubs are said to
have made bid for King.
PUT YOUR WANT AID IN fHD
TIMHE
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-08-04
Swedish Bridal supe~settio1s.

IN Sweden the bridegroom has a
great fear Of trolls and sprites. and @
an aatidote against their power he
sews into his clothes various strong
smelling herbs. such as garlic and rose
mary. 1t In customary to ELL the
brides pocket with bread, which she
gives to the pocr she meets on the
way to the church, and so averts mis-
fortune with the aims she bestows.
On their return from church the bride
and bridegroom visit their COW houses
and farms that the cattle may thrive
and multiply.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-08-04

II 10 q little known fact that the
most delightful music at the present
day 10 producM by playing on milk.
The supply of ivory nowadays does
not to great extent meet the de-
mand. Strange as II may sound. skim
milk forms q substitute. It 10 used
for making the keyboards 81 pianos,
and in appearance this hardened sub
stance is hardly distinsntshAb1e fnona
ivory.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-08-04
THE REDS CAN USE 1T

New York. Aug president Lynch
of the National league. In a decision
Saturday holds that the result of the
protested Brook1yn-Cfncinn game OF
July II, of which Cincinnati won, 5
to 8, stands as played.
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INDIANA TOURISTS
END LONG TRIP

Los Angeles. Cal. Aug. 4.-The most
successful automobile tour ever run
was brought to close here yesterday
when the Indiana automobile manu-
facturers rolled into Los Angeles with
their eighteen Indiana made cars, in
GLIDING two heavy trucks, only yards
apart
Every car that left the Indiana capt.
tai thirty-three days ago. with but one
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-08-04
STANTON WINS TITLE.

Saginaw, Mich. Aug. 4--Phil Stan
ton of Grand Rapids won the Michi-
gan amateur golf championship Sat-
urday by defeating Arthur H. Vincent
of Saginaw, / up.
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ercise will do him a lot OF good.
White Is anxious to put on about i've
more pounds in order that he may suo-
cessfully meet the topnotchers In the
lightweight division.
Nate Lewis, who looks after the in
terests of George Knockout" Brown.
yesterday asserted the match between
Brown and Jack Dillon at Terre Haute
on Labor day had been closed. Lewis
said there was slight hitch over the
terms. But this was overcome by q
compromise between the fighters and
club officials.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-08-04

Chew Nellie High Wine. High class
chewing tobacco. Save the tags. See
remipum Observation-Disclosures Tob. Co.
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S p Q K 7 S
STANDING OF CLUBS,
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Yesterdays Results

Yesterdays Results.
No games scheduled.
Games Today.
Chicago at Washington.
Cleveland at Philadelphia.
ST. | outs at Boston.
Detroit at New York.
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A FEW DIMES FOR CAR FARn OR
POSTAGE IF YOU'RE ANSWERING
ADS. A FEW DIMES FOR YOUR OWN
WANT" IF YOU'RE ADVERTISING
m THE T9MESLAND THE USUAL
RESULT Is A JOB
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Yesterdays Results
Chica go, IL: Brooklyn, 8.
Cincinnati, 8; Boston, g.
Philadelphia, 5; st. Louis, 3.
Only three games scheduled.
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Games Today.

Brooklyn at Chicago.
New York at Pittsburgh.
Boston at Cincinnati.
Philadelphia at st. Louis.
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COMBINATION.

You can smoke and chew "COuntry
Club" Nothing better. Save the Cou-
pons. See premium list. McHie-scot-
ten lob. Co.
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In a letter received from Charley
White. the local featherweight, who is
pitching hay on farm near Muskegon.
Charley states that he is taking on
weight and believes the outdoor ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-04

fetch a ball or stone or stick thrown
BY his master: but to run after the pine
cone of Tricky Gustaye, simple quad
ruped like himself. surprised the faculty.
The dog has not. therefore. become en-
tirely and absolutely parasite on man.
as has been said SO often.
Animals games and playthings CON
stitute a faculty of the institute. said
the young professor who took me round
most. The chimpanzee. Walter. who
would never risk going outdoors in this
weather without being fully dressed and
muffier round his chest. built a swing
how dull a day il is, He measured the
rope. and changed its lengths several
times before it suited him"
Walter stole box OF safety matches.
and learned to amuse himself by striking
them on the edge of the box lie makes
playthingS of pieces of wood of peculiar
shape. and carries them In his pockets
He long cherished a sardne-box. which
he polished till it shone. Recently. n
saw two professors playing tp-cat. Soon
he had a tip-cat of his own-a curved
chunk of wood which he struck with
a piece of lath. He took them 70 bed
with them.
More unexpected are the amusements
of Martin, the young red bear Of NADIA
gascar.
He is angry with Us all today said
the professor. See him playing truant
in that tree-top? Martins feelings are
easily hurt. ! took his bottle away from
him"
Martin never drinks but from his bot
tie. Regularly they put sweetened water
in il: but when it is empty. the little
bear often fills 1t with clear water, ana
carries ii about
| saw the bottle 1t was as clean a.
if ii had been washed by druggist
He does wash it, said the professor.
Il have seen him hold II to Tho light. IL
observe a slight clouding- OF dirt on
its inside. Rinse again. and shake the
bottle. | have seen him rinse ii five
times, in running water, before being
satisfied
The poor beast hugs his bottle to his
breast and goes 10 sleep-like a little
girl with her doll
Pathetic trait aid the professor.
DO beasts think
What do YOU think"
STERLING HELLO.
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mother. She comes. moaning and Sob
hing after her baby, tears rolling down
her cheeks. The Malays carefully col
lect these tears in tiny bottles. for a love
charm"
This young dugong is the star pupil.
Throw a fifty-cent piece and some big cop
pers of the same size into the tank. He
will dive for them-and always bring the
90 cents up first A toy water wheel
amused him; he would watch it work for
hours. One day it stuck. He studied it,
removed bunch of the floating cress
that clogged. and started the wheel again
with his fipper! He opens the side of
his iron fence by turning the knob with
his teeth. Outside an old dame has the
privilege to sell buns. When he finds him
self alone this dugong dives for the de-
spised pennies and slOps through the
gate to buy a bun.
That's why he fetches up the silver
pieces when you throw them." says the
usher with the red nose. Hes not al
lowed to keep them. But the coppers are
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the only one who would stand for it was
an aged white SOW, whose wallow he
shared on holidays. They were great
friends. She was mother to him. When
the SOW disappeared-she was too old for
the institute-the tapir mourned and
mourned and mourned
Tears rolled down his cheeks" says
the professor of beastly morals. He
would sit like dog. on his hind quar-
tiers, sWaying from side to side, moaning
and scattering tears over an arc that
measured four feet seven inches. Wren
! would pat him on the shoulder and
whisper consoling words his means
would subside to sobbing grunts, like a
child that is comforted. but ten minutes
after | had left him he would be sobbng
and rocking again. That was six months
ago. He is better now. but not cured.
Look at him.
The seal is another weeper. And in
telligent.
The dog. with 5000 years of human
companiOnship, is fool in comparison =
says the dean. I'VE now have with us a
young dugong seal from the Malay archi-
pelago. We had the mother, but she
died. The Malays. when they capture a
young one. are always sure to get the
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: The DUooNe SEAL, Who DIVES FOR dO1Ns AND
FETcHEs UP The S1LVERPIEcEs FIRST

overcame a novel obstacle. ON the spur
of the moment. 1t gets higher notes than
the stag, Tor instance, named Tricky
Gustave. This latter, winning his title
at the Dues hunts by fooling entire
packs Of rusy dogs has certainly great
talents. but he will not show them
OF all the known stays of France,
Tricky Gustave has oftenest worked the
change and that is why the duchesse
gave him TO the institute to study. Time
and again. the hunt, with horses. horns
and hounds, gave chase to Gustave Yet
at the end of a fiye-hour run, when they
came on the exhausted stag-it was not
Gustaye, but another
Any hunted stag. of course will try To
work the chang" to put some comrade
in his place He first makes for the
herds daytime resting place far Off I'm
the forest depths. He dashes in among
the herd with fracas-trusting that the
dogs In the confusion, will follow a
fresher brother. But disciplined pack
of French deerhounds ought not to
break. However much the younger dogs
may be excited by sudden contact with
the herd, they soon collect, and follow
the sage old leaders. intent on the origi-
nal scent. Then the baff1ed stag tries his
great trick, which has fooled or failed
TO fool French hunters since the days OF
file does not seek the herd again, but
single stag of his own age. Finding
the brother, he lies down beside him
Afar of the dogs bay. approaching. Both
leap up. The hunted one lets his unsLs-
pecting. comrade take the lead in flight
he follows him infinitely, jumping aside
when he jumps aside. turning when he
turns. and even prodding him on when he
stops to look back. Then. suddenly when
they running in some narrow forest
path. the traitor makes a great bound
clears the bordering thicket and lies hid
den, with his mLZZle In the dirt-that his
scent may not reach the passing pack
All depends on how it is done The pack
often passes, following hot after the un-
suspecting pacemaker. Why not? The
dogs have been on his trail perhaps an
hour, mixed with the others Much de-
ponds on leaping A good thicket Gustave
was a wonder at Ii.
Well. this stag, so naturally gifted at
the institute persists in acting the baby
When they try to test him he just weeps.
Yet they have watched him in the clear
ing, when he thought himself alone, and
he played rude kind OF golf. With feet,
horns or nose he sets pine cone fair
upon little hillock. Then he gives a
drive-and sends il kiting,
There seems lots of weeping The tapir
for instance. is an inoffensive student In
his own country. India, they go oLt only
at night. marching to the river in single
file. swinging their short trunks to sniff
danger. The females take immense care
OF the young-even aunts and old maid
cousins poking the little ones to walk
just So All right. When this tapir came
TO school at Versailles he had a mania
for walking IN line with any animal, but
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The remainder OF the students, if less
brilliant. are honest.
II was near examination time when
brainy beasts have opportunity TO show
off and get their names in the papers
The mouse. isolated In a big glass lar
was given straWs 10 PLAY with
See what YOU can do with them my
dear said Hachet- SoupIet She might
have bit them into lengths. like children
IN kinder2arten. but she saw the rat
pass his examination and il Jared ner
Mr.. Rat found his lunch tin cup uuex-
pectedly-it had never happened before
suspended high on the wall from two
pulleys BY cord tied To ring ia the
floor Prize jumper in institute sports he
might leap. grab. cling and oVcrturn some
lunch out Of IL aS he fell But ii was, ex-
animation time Miss Mouse was looking
i don't know. In any ease H. studied
the eoru instead. lie pulled it with his
teeth 1t Jerked the tin cup up To bump
the pulley and Jared out some lunch.
which he ate. Like shaking down goose
berries. he seemed To think. But who
knows what rat thinks
The dean Of the faculty thinks Mr. PAT
thinks. because when no more lunch fell
when the rat jerked on the cord again
the tin cup now being partly empty the
rat seemed 10 mediate: They're testing
my intelligence. Here goes And he.
deliberately bit and chewed the cord in
two. the tin cup fell and Mr.. Rat lunched
we'll
The mouse was furious. She saw it all
and she was hungry She stopped biting
straw in kindergarten bits and began fe-
yerishly pushing, hoistinS the longer
pieces. When she got four straws togeth-
er. reaching 10 the jar top. il was like
q ladder.
Miss Mouse tried her weight The lad
der was shalsy. Up another straw was
hoisted. Climbing up the swaying con-
struction. She bit hole in the canvas
netting, wriggled out-and was caught
by the dean OF the faculty just in time
10 prevent her doing some irrepara bile
folly. lie gave her 80 out Of a possible
100 on her examination papers
These examination papers have attract
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The TEARFuL TAPR

forgotten, and he knows it, Why, the
bottom of that tanks his bank
1t is nothing for this dugong seal to
pull a rope that lifts the latch of his
wardrobe when the red-nosed usher
comes to play the mouth-organ to him
NEARLY every beast has his wardrobe
where are kept his instruments OF play
or study, and, in many cases, his } pm
meal: but rhe dugong's fish are kept for
him on ice elsewhere.) Itfis, truly. for
the music, therefore, thar he lifts the
latch. jerks the door wide open and barkS
dismally when the usher is late. Seals.
1t is known, love music. His .favorite
pieces are the 'Sambre ct Meuse and the
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Peculiar Ghosts i'm a London Tower.

tance when a loud cIatter burst upon his
ears and half 4 dozen arms pulled him
back. There was dull singing In his
ears, the far-away echoes Of strange.
ominous CRY, and he was himself once
again.
story is told. TOO. Of the spot where
the bones of the young King Edward Y
and his brother Richard. Duke Of York.
are stated 10 have been found in 1874.
One March evening, just about twilight.
an official of the Tower heard the sound
of digging and the loose suffering OF
gravel. and on turning aside saw the
digging furiously at the soil Much
alarmed the official drew back, and a.
he did the figure swung round and
faced him. when he perceived TO his
horror a skeleton clad in richly fash
Toned garment. on the breast Of which
was emblazone6 the ROYAL arms. The OF
fetal uttered an ejaculation. whereupon
the figure vanished. though the sound Of
the digging continued for some seconds.
And here is a cheerful story told to the
writer by an aged pensioner well nigh
twenty years ago:
Il was on duty in the Beauchamp
tower" he said, just outside the cell
where Anne Boleyn was imprisoned. |
was thinking OF old Henry VIII and
wishing l had his luck with wives, for
my one and only old missus was as ugly
as Newgate. when all of a sudden 1 heard
my name called and on turning round
nearly died with fright Floating in mid
air. Immediately behind me- was a face
il makes me shiver, even now, to think
of it-round. red and bloated with !,
loose. dribbling mouth. and protruding,
eavy-lidded. pale eyed. alight with n
lurid and perfectly hellish glow
Il knew the face al once. for | had
often seen il in the history books-Enery
VIII.
We'll, the affair was hushed up in fhn
usual way. We were all threatened wifh
the sack if we dare as much a. breathe
a word that he Tower was haunted. Ths
oldest thing about il is that on NV re-
turn home found my missus was dead.
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Chant du Depart, " says the usher. who.
being himself very Intelligent told me
many secrets of the institute.
The beasts are encouraged TO burgle
their wardrobes. Ingenuity 10 open a
door is an intelligence test. There are
surprises. A crane with tiny head
she must have a small brain-passed the
door test the third day: while a five-year-
old dog. who had always lived in the
house, had not sense enough 10 pull the
rope and lift the latch though half
starved, at the end of eight days Indeed.
this dog would be considered fool i
they had not caught him caddying 10 the
stag. 1t is commonplace for a dog To
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lDN A RF mouse and
a big wheat rat
attended boarding
school at Yer
sailleS.
The old Toya
town has I d j :
unique establish
ment to study and
encourage ANNA
intelligence. lit is
the Institute oil
Geological Ps.Schol-
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PARIS HAS UENl0
VERSAILLES Institute of

VERSAILLES Institute of
v Geological Psychology
Studies Morals and Mentality
of Animals-Facts Discov-
cred by the Boarding School
Teachers-The fearful Tapir
and the Intelligent Wheat
Rat-Sterling Heilig Visits
the Institute to See How the
Interesting Work Is Carried
On-His Views of the Sub
ject.
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, April ~. 1918.
r F the Americans who come to London
this year find time hanging heavily
= on their hands, they might do worse
than divert themselves with ghost hunt
ing. 1t Is Well known, of course, that the
shade of the famous American law
yer Judah p. Benjamin haunts the
picturesque old temple, where, as one of
the mos. successful *. C.s' In the his
tory of the English bar, he once had
chambers, and now we have il on the au-
thority of one of the leading spook
perts in this country that the Tower of
London, where so many celebrities, from
queens downward. lost their heads, is
haunted, too, though not by as many
specters as might have been expected.
considering the wholesale killing that
once went on there.
Thousands of our countrymen visit the
Temple every year-mainly to see the
grave Of Oliver Goldsmith-and thousands
more explore the grim old Tower, with its
racks and dungeon and site of the scat
fold where Queen Anne Boleyn. Lady
Jane Grey and the Earl of Essex were
beheaded. and perhaps if these visitors
stayed on after nightfall, instead of 60
ing back to their respective hotels and
boarding houses, and kept sharp eye
out, they might be rewarded, at the tenn
pie, by a glimpse of the ghostly Benja-
min, or maybe even of the ample shade
of Dr. Johnson. who likewise lodged
there, or, at the Tower, with a view of
Henry VIII, the much-married. whose
spectral form has been seen in the neigh
borhood at least once.
Eliot O'Donnell, who, OF course, is one
of the most eminent authorities on ghosts
in England tells about the Tower ghosts
in the pages of the current Occult Re-
view, and an astonishing crowd they
prove to be. One of them. which was
undoubtedly" according to OiDonnell,
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ogy. and its dean and founder Hachet-
Souplet. has collected staff of profess
sors worthy 10 attract the calculating
horses of Elberfeld themselves.
The recent report Of the school year,
may say in passing-reioices in the fact
that but one pupil was expelled. This,
curiously, was the calculating zebra imi-
tator of the worthy and learned nags of
Elberfeld: and this zebra, note, was not
allowed to matricuate y preliminary eN-
animation disclosed his pretended extrac-
ton Of square roots to bc mere paving
when wireless current from his mas
ter's pocket 70 his bride gave a signal
The zebra. like many youth expelled
from college. has gone on the stage with
his trick.
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TO make sure he was not dreaming he
shut his eyes. but on opening them the
metamorphosis was quite as vividly APP
parent. The horror of the thing then came
home to him in full force He was no
longer himself, but an abnormality, an un-
namable something, brown and revolving.
Like some serpent just awakened from
its sleep. he bent and twisted himself
and peered around. first on one side and
then on another, seeking for some victim,
some suitable object on which to satisfy
the outrageous feeling that predomnated
in him. Something white attracted his
attention: it appeared to be the recum-
bent form of a woman, clad in white
costume.
"Chucking glesfully, he instantly started
toward it. and had covered half the dis
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ed much attention in Paris. The students.
ranging in size from tapir to pinchbug,
have been given marks for morals also.
Thus the llama is relieved of a stig-
ma that weighed on the gentle creature.
Being brought to the institute from the
Jardn des Plantes in a horse ambulance
without notice, the llama, like frighten-
ed child jerked to school. certainly dis
played the unlovely trait 10 which 1t
owes its bad name 1t spat in the face
of the dean.