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first class players. Without this wide the best insurance against a dearth of public interest the standard of a sport steadily declines.
 That is exactly what is the matter with boxing in England. Boxing has become too much centralized. Real first class boxing has become a sport, not for an enthusiastic public, but for few moneyed men who gather in the National Sporting club and monopolize the game. And because of the limita- tions of this private club the purses that can be offered to the worlds best boxers in London are, comparatively speaking, ridiculously small. Really good and promising native boxers who. if born in the United States or Australia or France could, even If they never reached the topmost rung. earn comfortable livings by boxing are, in this country. compelled to work in other lines in the daytime in order to eke out living. Especially is this true of the newer boxers who. although they may have championship possibili- ties in them, have not yet made a name. The evil in this state of affairs. of course, is that the profession of box ing does not attract intelligence nor does it encourage even those with cour- age who do enter it.
 Contrast this with conditions in the United States and France. In the for mer country one can name a score of clever young boxers who have made from 320,O0O to $50, ,000 each in few years in the boxing ring. Good Eng lishmen like Driscoll. Freddie Welsh, owen Moran. Matt Wells ard others are driven abroad in search of big purses
 Unfortunately Frances crack tennis players have been out of form for. the past year. Last summer they had a disagreement with the English players and did not make their appearance at Wimbledon for the championships Their best year was undoubtedly 1911. when Gobsrt and Decugis carried of the doubles trophy at Wimbledon and the ls=yeaF-eid taurentz defeated the great WildinE on the continent.
 The latter last year suffered from an right off form. but 1t Is hoped that he will strike his pace this summer and again show the briiiiancy that made such sensation three years ago.
 But rapid as is Frances development in the lawn tennis world. 1t is even more
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just large enough so that the mans head could be squeezed through it, his neck lying as it were on the stone. He vas put into this posit.on on his belly, and after his head was put through the hole his legs were bent up over his back and his feet thrust through the T part of the key, bending his body. as it were, in .a knot. The torture was such that it often caused death. had my stenograph- get down and put his head through the hole to illustrate how it was done. also tried to induce him to let me put h's legs through the T, but this he re- fused.
 The palace of Maneo Capac must have been a magnificent home. It's garden covered acres. the main part standing upon terrace, which was 12 feet above the church l have described This ter race is made of these wonderful walls into which were fitted sentinel boxes.
 Walking through the garden. which is now filled with eucalyptus trees and beautiful roses, l came to the ruins of the building itself. It was made of black granite, the blocks being very thick at the bottom and lessening in size from there to the top. l went around to the opposite side of the structure where some of the stones had been torn away Here I could see that the thick walls were double. They had two separate walls of granite, which were filled in with stones and mud. I took a sheet of paper from my note book and tried to fit 1t in be- tween the cracks, but found it impossi- ble. Manco Capacs palace and it's grounds are now the property of MT. Caesar Lomelini, a wealthy Italian mer- chant of Cuzco. He has planted the gar
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cas. They lived in enormous structures scattered over the empire and some of their convents are said to have had 1000 inmates. The one in Cuzco must have covered eight acres, and the walls which are still in existence, run around the greater part of a square, forming the foundations of many homes which are on the second story of the structure. Much of the first story has been turned into stores. The granite walls have been cut away and cave-like vaults made in which all sorts of house industry goes on. saw saddler, sewing on harness in one cave in the wall, shoemaker begging away in a second, and carpenter saw ing and blaming in a third. The blocks of this building are of great size and they will apparently last for ages.
 Other interesting remains were the walls of the palaces which formed the homes of the Incas Take that of Pach- acutec, which stood not far from where the great cathedral of Cuzco now Is. The street upon which 1t faces is not more than 15 feet wide and the original walls of the palace are still preserved to the height of the first story. From there to the second story the building Is colonial. It now forms fine residence, occupied by Thomas Gonzales. one of the rich men of Cuzco. The Inca walls begin with the street aal extend for perhaps 300 feet, in cluding the greater part of the block. The stones are granite blocks, of diff ferent sizes. beautifully chiseled, and Joined with unions so fine that it is impossible to put in knife blade be- tween them Some of the stones have many angles and one great block of granite, about four feet square and weighing several tons. has 12 angles in it.
 Tt is said that these blocks were cut
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den to flowers, and the trees which have below.
 Leaving the palace and climbing up to the fort, | found an enormous structure surrounding many acres and inclosipg the whole top of the hill The walls of the fortifica ton are in terraces rising one over the other. They are made of enor- nous blocks of granite, some of which weigh many tons. There is no stone of the same nature nearby, and the stone must have been brought from a great dis tance. No one knows exactly where it came from nor how it was carried up this precipitous hill. which Is. almost 1000 feet from the plain. It is supposed that roads were made for the purpose and that hundreds of men had to work together to move single stone The fort was built long before the time of Columbus. and some of it's walls are in perfect condi- ton today. Each section of the wall has it's hole for drainage, and he whole structure is almost as smoothly. cut as the palaces I measured some stones which were 15 feet tall and riding on horseback close to the wall beside one great block l stood up in my stirrups and tried to reach to it's top. Tho distance from my hand to the ground was only half the way up. That stone. I venture. weighed 100 tons
 From these Qualifications I rode over the hills and plains in the rear. They are covered with the remains of the Incas. Much of the rock consists of mighty bowders, some as big as haystack which the 1ncas had cut into all sorts of shapes. One is supposed to have been the scene of an open air court, and is
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bet 5000 on his protege and syndicate was formed which offered Wells s50O0 for his end Of the purse, wi.,, lose or draw Wells held out for slO0oo and the nego- tiations fell through. It is mentioned here to show. not only Carpenters won derful confidence in himself. but. as well. the enormous chances Le and his man. ager are willing to take in their chase after fortune.
 Although Franfe has raised whole brood of clever fighters. there is one other Who, with Carpenter, stands in the front rank, on this side of the Atlantic at least. Charles Ledouxs by defeating Dig ger Stanley, who had proved himself as good as the hest American boys at his weight, became real champion with as much claim to the worlds title as any boy in the business. His two re- cent defeats in conclusive style of Bill Benyon, the hard-hitting little Welsh boy, shows that he is sull too good for any- one on this side. s.tt%
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out at the quarries from original pat terms and designs given by the archi- tects. They are joined together like a mosaic, and although l went carefully over them, 1 could not find one place in which l could put my knife blade into the cracks The unions are without nor tar, and the stones are as firm and reg.- lar today as when they were made. New ertheless. the builders knew nothing Of iron or steel. They had evidently no knowledge of cement or mortar, although it is said that gold and silever were some times placed between the joints as a bedding mat erial. saw no evidence of this in my investigation.
 some of the most remarkable buildings of ancient Cuzo were the Qualifications of Sachsa buaman. which crowned the top of hill just back of the city. This hill rises precipitously from the level where Cuzco stands to a height of 700 or 800 feet. It is so steep that one has to wind about to go up it. I rode upon horseback part of the way and then left my horses and climbed up the walls of the fort upon foot. On the lower slopes of the hill, facing a great garden made in two terraces. perhaps 300 feet above Cuzco, stood the palace of Manco Capac the first great Inca ruler This was right under the Qualifications and it command ed a magnificent view of the city and valley. On the first terrace now stands a church which was erected there in the days of the inquisition. and outside it.. in what you might call the churchyard. are some great stone instruments or tor ture, that were used to bring the In dians and heretics to the Christian re- ligion Some of these stones were made in the shape of keyhole. the round part of the hole being nearest the ground. the remainder of the keyhoe being in the form of a capital T. The hole was
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known as the Inca throne. The original granite has been cut in ledges or steps rising to low table or bed, upon which tho Inca is supposed to have lain upon a couch of firs or alpaca skins, with his oft cials sitting cross-legged on each side of him. sat down on the throne and posed as a king.
 Not far from this place is what ia called the concert hall or amusement ground of these ancient rulers It con sists ci open air court, covering acres. whc; is surrounded by great rocks out of which seats have been cut. On one side of it is a rocky hill which is covered with such seats, and under whci, is tunnel which is supposed to have communicated with the Temple of the Sun, down in Cuzco, perhaps three miles away. This tunnel has now been closed ,Ip. because the students of the Cuzco university recently got lost inside it while hunting for treasures, and had narrow escape with their livess
 Another formation right near the Inca amusement ground is known as the dadero. This consists of granite blocks which look as though they had flowed in ridges down the mountains The rocks are as smooth as glass, and their slopes coaster. They are grooved, and are so formed that one can seat himself at the top in one of the grooves and have to- began slide of hundreds of feet rising and falling as he goes down to the bot tom. It is the greatest shoot the chute exhibition 1 have ever seen and if 1t could be lifted from the top of the Andes to Coney Island it would surely make the fortune of the man who owned it.
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largely the support of the priesthood, and although in the direst poverty, they give large proportion of what they make to the support of the church. In travelling through the country one sees little wooden cross rising above the matched roof of every Indian hut. and in the services at the cathedral here there are more Indians than whites Mixed with their worship of Christ and the Madonna, they have still much of the ancient ceremonies and beliefs of the lncas They pray facing the sun, and they cross themselves when they ap- proach Cuzco, the sacred city of their ancestors.
 am told that there were temples of the sun at many other places in Peru, and that in certain centers the virgins of the sun had their convents. These people had an idea of d supreme being, who was represented by the sun. It was this being who created the world, and who in the future would reward or pun ish them. They had q Lords prayer, which was somewhat as follows:
 70 Conquering and Ever-present Crea- tor. thou who gavest life and strength to mankind, saying let this be man, and let this be a woman: thou who gavest life and who vouchsafest that man shall live in health and peace. Thou who dwelest in the heights, in the storm clouds and in the thunder, hear us and have us in Thy keeping. Thou who art without equal unto the ends of the earth, grant us eternal life and keep us free from danger"
 Leaving the Temple of the Sun, strolled up the narrow street to where the Virgins of the Sun had their establish ment These young women in addition to their religious duties are supposed to have formed a kind of harem for the h.
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H43&3ey tention to the amazingly rapio drawn attention to the amazingly rapid growth of France In the world of sport, one of the most interesting and sig nificant developments of modern times. Although only a matter of compara- lively recent date, yet look at her list of champions in many lines of effort. In lawn tennis she possesses in Decu- gis, Colbert Laurentz. Germot and Ca net quintet of players the equal al- most of any five players that could be brought together in the United States, despite the fact that you have been proficient at the game for generations. In Carpentier and Ledoux. to name only two of her champions she pos sesses boxers who could probably hold their own the world over, weight and conditions being equal. In golf Massy was good enough to win the English open championship one year and Jean Gassiat and two or three others among his fellow countrymen, are almost, if not quite. Massys equal Boulin, the Frenchman. is undoubtedly the finest runner at his distance in the world Finally, In Rugby football the French made wonderful improvement in the past few years and are now good enough to give representative Eng fish side keen fight.
 French athletes excel for the mo- ment In many fields of endeayor be- cause they correspond to or are the res suit of a great national awakening and interest in these particular sports or games Contrast conditions here with those In Great Britain. The latter lags behind for the time being because there Is lack of a similar national interest and enthusiasm In sports like rowing cricket and football the Bnglishman Is as good if not better than he has ever been, but in boxing and lawn tennis and what are known as field sports he has been suffering from 8 slump bee cause of a corresponding decline in public interest, Champions are born Df great public enthusiasms, like the American national interest in field sports and the French interest in box ing, and despite all the hard things that have been said against those who skirt the side lines of the football and cricket t fields and yet never play the games, they are the best guarantee of the health of these particular games and
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none vas possible while the tide is flow Ing their way. but thu fighters record Is almost sure to suffer in the process.
 An instance of this occurred when Car pentier was in England training for his matches with Syd Burns and Young Jo- sephs. Bombardier Wells was then train ing for his proposed fight with Jack John- son. which. of course never came off
 Carpenter, who. be it remembered was then only a welterweight boxed several exhibition bouts with Wells at Earl's Court and became convinced that he could beat the English champion. even though the latter had about 40 pounds advan- tage in weight, five inche0 in. height
 about eight inches in <each and more over was training to fight the greatest boxer of the day, Jack Johnson, heavy weight champion of the world Wells was approached by, Deschamps, Carpen- tiers manager, who declared he would
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sensational in the healm of boxing, large ly due to the work of Georges Carpenter, the youthful heavyweight champion of Europe. Just how good Carpenter really is it is, impossible to say, pending his appearance in the ring with some of the American light heavyweights. Victory over man like Langford, who is just about his weight. would put him in the very front rank of the worlds boxers.
 While one is free to express these doubts as to exact position of Carpen- tier on the pusil > ladder. no one can deny that he has had an amazing career. From mere stripling he has excelled in every weight division, but it was not until he went to England to fight Syd Burns and Young Joxephs and secured a decision over the first and a knock out against the latter that he was gen.
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 ss Hpntihgton. Ind To get coffin for the body of Mrs William .settlemyre in and out Of the house in Roanoke in which she died 1t was necessary to make a hole in the side of the building. An auto truck was used to transport the body to the cemetery
 Mrs. Settlemyre was g. years old and weighed more than dc0 pounds. Until . week before her death. when she was stricken with pneumonia, she was visiting Mrs. Beeher. her daughter, at Roanoke. A special coffin of ofregulat:on length. but 45 inches wida outside had to be made
 Mrs. sottlcmyre was well known in Huntington coznty because of her great weight and her unusual good health. She went through an ordinary doors sideways. and never seemed to be offended when curious persons watched her movements
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orally recognized as being of champion ship calibre. His two subsequent de- feats of Bombardier wells are too well known to need repetition in telling.
 Although Carpenter has not fared par ticularly well against the American box CTS, having been beaten by the gDixey Kid Frank Klaus and Billy Papke, there is certain amount of legitimate excuse for his poor showing in these matches During all the time he has been fighting Carpenter has been growing at a tre- mendous rate and it has been a constant problem to keep him in any one class
 In the Dixey Kid match it is claimed that the Frenchman was i'll while in the other two matches Carpenter un- doubtedly was weakened by in1udicious reducing. Of course the boy and his packers are anxious 70 make as much
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From Lippincotts Magazine.
 James K. Hackett. the actor. tells the story of merchant who had been trav- cling some months and upon his return was informed of the death of valued friend.
 A few days later he called on the be- reayed widow to offer his expressions of sympathy. D1ring the visit he remarked
 was good friend of your late hus- band Is there not something of hia which could have as . memento oi him?''
 She raised her yelvuty brown eyes q his, which few moments before veVv moist with tears, and said:
 How would dor
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right, 1914, by Curtis Brown) IRIS, May 16.-(Special.) )-Prepar- ations for the Olympic games of
 1916 at Berlin have drawn at
 tention to the amazingly rapid
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)ME with me this bright Sunday
 morning and take look at the site of the ancient capital of the
 Incas. that wonderful family of
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There is no doubt about the religious nature of these people of the high Andes
 The Quichas, who are the descendants of the subjects of the Incas, are the ataisf churchgoers Of Psru They are
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tcopyright. 1914. by r. G. carpenter')
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-18
WHAT HAPPENED OUTSIDE G
Los AngeIes.-Wi

Los AngeIes.-Waner Kirby, lion
tanner and moving picture actor, kill
ed by lioness during rehearsal Of film
drama. Beast sprang at him as he
was about to rescue heroine.
Battle Creek, Mich.-George N.
Holden, stockholder, Minneapolis,
swallowed carbolic acid in lumber
yard here Died instantly. Letters in
his pockets indicated he was in fear
of arreste for alleged sWindling of
Minneapolis woman out of $11 900.
Pontiac, IlI.-Livingston county
vets have filed petitions contesting
election in every city or town in the
county which voted dry at April Z
election. -..-
cIeVeIand.-5o0 children of the
North Dean school called of their
strike against their alleged fire trap
building when investigation was
promised.
LiVerpooI-White Star liner Ma
jestic sold for junk. $125,000.
BerIin-Gen. Won Podbieiski emit
cred Berlin in his nightshirt when car
bearing his clothes and valet was cut
on from train.
St. Louis-AlarU1ed by shadow on
glass panel of her door, Mrs. Julia
King hurled slipper through glass.
Seriously injured postofice messen-
ger with special delivery.
JohnstoWn, Pas-When seud for
$4,000 heart balm by Bertha Lewis,
his bookkeeper, w. l. Stineman,
wealthy coal operator, married Miss.
Catherine Farley, who recently
nursed him.
New York-RudoIph Menzer and
Joseph Wower sold magic love pow
der, price So, and rings guaranteed
to make wearer win at poker, price
$3.50. Neither worked. Men sem
fenced Monday.
Kansas City, Mo.-oscar Harrison,
second to be tried for attack on Mrs.
Gertrude Stidler, March 9, sentenced
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-18

Escanaba, Mich.-Posse still be-
sieging two bandits in swamp near
here. Three members of the posse
were wounded yesterday by the ban
dts in a revolver battle Escanaba
naval reserves have been called on to
aid in hunt.
Tulsa, okla.-one person known
dead and heavy property damage
done tornado which swept Oklahoma
early today. Several oil tanks de-
stroyed by lightning.
Cincinnati.-U. S. Circuit Court Of
Appeals delivered opinion upholding
disbarment by U. S! District Judge
Killits of Chas A. Thatcher, Toledo
attorney, who criticized Judge during
campaign.
New orleans.-AIfred O.. Pessou,
fromerly Southern manager of Union
Central Life ms. Co., sentenced to
10 years in pen for forgery
Sparta, Wis.-FIoyd Miller will be
buried beside wife on whose grave he
was found last night after he had
taken arsenic.
Rock Island, III.-Jake Liebech, ho-
tel clerk, arrested, charged with vio-
lation of Mann act in Transporting
Ore Belle White, IA, to Kansas City
for immoral purposes.
Magazine, Ark.-Jim Franks, who
escaped from pen two weeks ago
while serving Is years for attempted
murder. shot by Sheriff Cook. In crit
ical condition.
New YoEk.-AViator Lincoln Bea-
chey declares he intends to loop the
loop over Woolworth building, to
show how easy it is.
BeIoit, Wis. = Don BeardsIey
drowned while canoeing with Theo-
dore Mann. Canoe capsized.
Mobile, AIa.-WireIess calls from
Captain Olsen, master of Norwegian
steamer Aim Of Seeberg Line, report
ed vessel on fire and asked for aid.
BaItimore.-Arthur {. Mayer, for
xyas,y.o nnv, HJay,fiaI - TrL
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-12-22
GRANT INJUNCTION
Judge Maxwell Declares Solicitation
OF Orders is Violation Of Yost Law
--Restrsins .. q o. and Wells
Fargo Co. From Delivering

Special Dispatch to the Intelligence.
CLARKsBURG. W. Va. Dec. IL
Declaring that solicitations by mail
by non resident liquor dealers con.
stiute a violation OF the Yost prohibi-
law Judge Raymond Maxwell today
in the Circuit Court granted injunc.
lions on behalf Of the State against
the baltimore q Ohio Railroad com
pany and the Wells Fargo Express Co.
restraining them from delivering in.
toNicating liquors into Harrison coun.
" without informing themselves with
due diligence and caution that consi
gnces ordered liquors for their lawful
personal use Without solicitation on
part of the conaignerT Nor unless
consigner signs the defendants liquo,
records In his own proper person and
not In the name Of some fictitious
person or otherwise Judge Maxwell
said he could not abide BY two recent
contrary decisions regarding mail sol
icitations BY the United States Dis.
trict Court