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A 1 1 t St A W H I to d L .... A i II. NOT HARD TO SHOOT TAME BIRDS. 'V a- .. At least once a year we read In the papers cabled news of some member of royalty enjoying the slaughter of the beautiful pheasants which their gamekeepers have so- tenderly reared during the preVlous spring. I remem ber once, when some offshoot of a "certain king's family came to see him." he celebrated the occasion by a big hunt among the young pheasants that fca,d just gotten their fine plumage. The dispatch read something 'like this: , 1 Boxers who are In the ring to-day "with the 'valets, private' secretaries, ' press agents cooks, so forts,- don't know what we . old-tlmera went through to pull off a fight. Take my r- fight with John Flood on a barge in .the Hudson-river as a bad sample of . what we used to go np against. That was in 1881, '.he purse was $760, tinder London prise ring ,r,ules, two-minute resets, and one ounce gloves. All the" New York crowd had Flood money . and they had tt framed for ; him to win, even to a fixed referee to make sure, Billy Madden waa my t manager, and ' he has often said he never expected to get off that barge alive. We wouldn't eland for the fixed ' referee, sticking out for Al Smith and ,' a fair show. We finally got Smith, , - Madden ,warned mo to keep away from, the" ropes during the fight, be - cause If I got within arm s reach of " the tough crowd of Flood men J might get an eye- gouged out with a cane by , eome of the thugs that lined the ring t Flood' strong play was to cripple his man by throwing him and. giving . him knee and elbow when he went -y down. Early In the fight. Madden said " to me, after Flood had made many f tries to dump. me over: "John, he can't Jolts From John L j VA?rw jtou; why dont you give him - Sie tow to tne noori ' "Because, "ays I, "I want him to "know that- I can lick him without throwing him." ' In the eigh'h rotund, when I - bad Flood golpg, the crowd started to cut s.the ropes eo as to make 1t eosy to' kick and gouge me to saveMheir man, but Al. Smith swore that if tfiey cut Into the ting he'd give the fight to me, fvmlth took his life in his hands in eay lng that, but it went, and, I finished Mr. Flood. We managed to get home alive. . ' MADDEICS HARD BATTLE AFTER " , .A 20-MILE WALK, , - . ' '.; Madden was one of my early friends. ; lie was with me as manager on year, at the end of which I was champion, then m and Madden had a growl and ve parted, He, ; has : followed the game from the bare knuckle days to the present time of fakes. He was a f ffhter himself, snd hi first battle wa "in the ring at Bay St.' Louts, Mlsftis eirrpl where Joe Coburn, "the Irish "The king and his guest. Prince So-and-So, killed 700 pheasants to-day, and were so tired that they remained for the night at ho king's country estate, at So-and-So. The king en Joyed the day and outshot his guest. It was the first shoot of the season and, considering the time of the year, the birds flew very well. The king and his guest will shoot grouse to morrow." When. jpu read a dispatch like lad," and Jem Mace, of England fought in 1872. Just before the Coburn-Mace fight Madden reached New Orleans, broke, and tickets on the train out to the ringside were Selling at $10 per. He was 19 years of age, and determined to see the fight, he walked the 20 mile? of muddy, rotten roads. When he gofTto the ring-side, 'there was a col lection taken up of $120 for a fight between any two men present. Mad den, at the end ot his 20-mile walk, hungry and dirty, Jumped into the ring. He was faced by Tom Hart, and Madden got down to business. Hart took an awful (beating, and he was helpless, with both eyes closed, when .Tack Ford, a' b-a-d man, who was in Hart's corner, took a hand. ' "You son of a gun," says Ford to Hart, pulling a big knife, "I've bet $7 on you, and if you don't go in and lick that kid, l'U cut your gizzard out." Hart couldn't. -obey orders, though, and Madden won. Of the purse of $120 Madden got $13. SO, for they held out on him at the finish. f , WHAT OEN. PK1L flHERIDAJT THOUGHT OF JOHNi L. i Gen. Phil Sheridan onco said that if I'd been along with him in the war, he'd made me a soldier worth while. "With a couple of troops of men like you on good horses," paid the lit tle general, "I'd guarantee to go any where and do anything." t , A Confederate colonel J met in Lou isville gave 'me the tip that if he had a couple of hundred men built on my plan in the war he'd guarantee to ride Into Washington before, getting stop ped. - . 1 - I don't know anything about that kind of fighting, but it's your one best bet that If I was old enough' to be in that war. you'd eee me come out wV.h a record or Td come out dead. But what's the use of that kind of scrap ping. If the nations would agree to pick a dozen of their boxers to settle arguments with their fists you'd get Jusi as much satisfaction and there wouldn't be half the damage done. With the right Vrc of ndnnlsHion there would be money in fix p the bloody noses, end we'd lick' the world at that kind of a war. - ' "No," not any murder under the Thame of war for mine, f think any maker of . - ' Ws' szT that, you wonder If the fact that sev eral hundred wounded birds crawl away to suffer for several days and finally die ever bothers the royal sports. v The cartoon above doesn't Bhow loyalty killing pheasants; It shows our home folks Indulging in the slaughter. A king may be excused for killing pheasants, for he has noth ing else to do to keep him from stumbling Into all sorts of ruts. . But with any one else it's different. This man in the picture doesn't want birds for eating. He is suffering from.' in firearms has murder In his heart. He supplies tho means to ma"ke death easy. I told a fellow who has all kinds of money, made out of firearms that he ought to be ashamed to tell about how he got It. I told him that he had a lot to answer for because he'd made sudden death cheap and handy. He laughed good and hearty and I had a good mind to g;lve him afoke. A TRIBUTE TO THE, GREAT MOKE KELLY THE BALL FLAYER. There are some great -little . men playing ball to-day, and I haven't a knock for .any of thorn, but there's never been a ball player the equal ot Mike Kelly, Lord have mercy on him. He could think quicker, makeup base ball tricks faster and put more ginger Into a game than any man that ever wore spikes. Mike was full of spunk, he could sing a song, tell a story, and although earning big money, he never had a dollar, . Mike was with me when I fought John Donaldson in Cincinnati in 18S0. There was only one chair in the place where the fight -was pulled oft and Donaldson sat on that, while I sat on the edge of a trunk. Kelly was puffing cigarette smoke in my face before the fight Marted and I roared et him., ; "You keep quiet and you'll get all the fighting you want, for Donaldson is going to hammer some manners into ou right away." said Mike. He didn't think that, nor want it to come out that way, for all his money was on me, and if I lost he'd have to walk to Chicago. I got $19$ for licking Donaldson the day before Christmas, and the next day when we got a Christmas present In the shape, of an arrest. Mike went to work spending all the money he'd made on. the fight try ing to square us with the law. I could talk about Kelly "the $10,000 beauty," whose baseball shoes ain't ever going to be filled. Anson, I. (understand, has been knocking Kelly, now that he is dead and can't talk back, but Kelly had a good deal to do with making Anson, and he did it while the Chicago club was paying Mike about one-tenth what he was worth. THE FOX MYSTERY AND THE . BUSTED BASS DRUM. One of the men who worked over time trying to find sonre man to wal lop me was one R. K. Fox. If I. told all the things he tried to 4h nd me it would fill a book. At the Paddy Ryan ngnt miiy naraing turned - up a basketful of Fox's money bcttlnw on Ryan, and Red Leary." Jimmy Hope and some' more gents of eary money who were "present and saw the b!ae, were surprised that Fox eauUPdo' so foolish a thing. digestion, and possibly gout. Still, he "is immensely pleased at the shot he has just made. Is it his desire merely to kill? No, he has a curiosity to see a beautiful creature suddenly fall from the air. A man in Oregon, whom' I knew, was going on one occasion for a ten mile drive, and some one remarked that he had better take a shotgun, as the young China pheasants were get ting to be quite big. So he borrow ed a gun. I went with htm. We hadn't gone more than three miles when we saw, Just over the fence, a For quite a stretch while on the big tour I. wias always looking for some new candidate Fox was going to shove forward to try to get the $1,000 I hung up for any candidate who could stay a few rounds with me. Every can didate that wore the Fox label got his swift and hearty as soon as I could lay a glove on him right. At Galveston, Texas, when Al. Marx tried for the $1,000. I sized him as a Fex come-on, and when we met In the Tremont opera house I got uip steam ror mm. we were going about a min ute Ji'hen X nvung on , his neck. He DEATH TIUP LAUNCHES. TCaval Craft Oallpd Vnmfa liCsson of Hampton Hoads Calamity, : The Navy. ' Launches like that' of the Minne sota which was lost in Hamilton Roacfs on the night ofvJune U, with the ele ven officers and men aboard of her, are a dmgraco to a modern navy. ; There, has been talk of the air tanks capable of keeping these boats afloat in vase of Injury to the hull, but naval officers know well that theso tanks are wholly Insufficient. . Several launches of this type, with which all our large warships are sup plied, have sunk, in broad daylight af ter humping info target rafts.. .They are safe as long as nothing happens to fhem no longer. They are practically -' open boat, carrying' a--heavy load of machinery. They are covered with a tightly sfur ed ranvaa top, fastened to t domed metal frame; fcsft there Is a narrow opening on each side by way of en trance to the-passenger compartment; tho engine space Is usually completely housed in, and the man at the wheel, In front, 'has a scanty and Inadequate hole in the canvas covering through which to lay his course. These boats are mere death ' traps when they receive serious Injury. Their pawngrrt and -rrew-ers' tn-tc csnvas and Iron cage, from which they have fine covey of pheasants father, moth er and nine half-grown young ones. The man climbed out of the car riage quietly and tiptoed alongside the fence to where the blackberry bushes were thicker. Then, resting his gun cn the fence, Tio took good aim. Hut he didn't fire, and I asked him why not. He replied in a whisper that he was waiting until he could get more of the pheasants together. While he was waiting the male pheasant, as beautiful a specimen as you ever saw, picked a grub from the ground and, with a low note, called some of his went over the footlights kerplunk and smash into the bass drum. He didn't come out of the trance for 10 minutes, and it was thought the clout had killed him. They made Frank Moran. my manager, pay $24 for the smashing of the drum. But after all Richard K Fox did a lot to help boxing, and never had any use for four-flushers. He started in when things were on the leyel and he hasn't learned the new way. I am glad to say this of a man who certain ly went the limit to drive a lot of spikes into my coffin. not one chance In a thousand of es raping If the boat sinks. ,-,,.... , !No other navy puts its men, or even Its full dressed offlqprs, into such snares.- At Hampton Roads last month the British, German, Japanese and Austrian launches were boats with high, thin bows, fit for dealing wth a sea. They were docked over for at least two-thirds of their length' toward the stern, and the passenger space, in stead of being a box, was h open place protected from spray by a buggy top awning rowing forward, and eas ily put out of the wayt of passengers. . i ' t Wliat Mary Said, . Putnam's Magazine, s ' Judge Brewer cites a striking ex. ample of the sort of spoke which the trickster can Insert In the wheels ot Justice. . A witness testified In ' a certain case that a person named Mary was present when a particular conversa tion took iplace, and the question was asked: "What did Mary say?" This was objected to and after soma dis cussion the Judge ruled out the ques tion. An exception to this decision was immediately taken, and on appeal tho higher court reversed tre verdict and ordered a new trial on the ground that the question should fcave been answered. , At the second trial the same In quiry was propounded and elicited the information that Mary eild aeth- .' Jl'iriirii Copyrighted 1907 6 round the proud glittering pheasant young neart and as they bunched cock the man with the gun prepare ed to pull the trigger. The next mo ment his dyspepsia gave him a twinge of ipain, he paused, let the hammers down on his gun and walked back to the buggy, some of the pheasants fly ing away and the rest running off across the field. . f When I asked htm why he didn't shoot, he said: "Why should I have killed and crippled that beautiful family? I saw they were enjoying life even more than we, as they were DEATH IN A NEW CKVISIJ. Scheme Tliat landed a Hungarian Judge in Town Jail. Pall Mail Qasette. In a little vintage on the Hungarian frontier, not far from Pressburg, a peasant woman recently received .400 kronen Si 17) from her husband In America. v, She promptly deposited It in the local branch of the Post Office Sav ings Bank, and then the next day went to withdraw the whole anuunt. The bank official was some what sur prised, and asked for an explanation when she said thet Death had appear ed to her during the night and tnreat ened to take her away with htm un less she had the 40 0 crowns ready j for htm the next night. The gendarmerie were communi cated with, and when "Death" made his promised appearance he was found to be very much alive, in the person ot the local Judge. CATARRH AND CATARRHAL HEAD ACHEJs" are quickly relieved b Nosena. It soothes the congested msmbranta, allsy cleanses. It beps tnoiat all the pas sages wnnae wiiuvncy iu imcsftn anil rcome dry. Cures cold, throat trou ble, hoarsenesi. hay fsver, "stnpped uu" noso. breathing through mouth while sleeping, vffensTvs breath, etc. it tm anttsaDtlo n4 contains no chmi,.i. or drugs having a narcotic . rtwct. or that can cause mm urus nuciu. w. L. Hand & Co, and Jno. M. Scott 4 Co. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. J.- A. Broiion. ot the National Sisn Co., Dayton, Ohio, writes unaor date of Oct. II. IfOU: "Noaena Is the only pre paration I have ever used that rallevae my affection so speedily uf pleasantly. J am getting the first real pleasure out of breathing that ; I have experience lwe I contracted catarrh six yasrs ago. Mousy, would not- buy mv tube of Nosons If I could not get another." - Bu Nosnna from W. JU Hand. Jno. M. Scott aV Co.: get your money back if hot satisflM. Sample tube and booklet by mail w cants. BROWN MA NtTF ACTT.TRTW3 CO.. St. Louis. Mo., and Ortenvtll. Tenn. large stock. '"T"" prompt smr:n:.r. Georgia-Carolina Brick Compcny HOWARD XL STAFFORD, President. Write for rrlcea, " Al'GUCTA, C . by Kathertne N. tlrdsau. not bothered with dyspepsia, and X didn't bulleve I had any right to in fllct wanton pain on such beautiful, harmless creatures." Think of royalty, of others who can afford the expense, wanting to rear ; pheasants and then, when the birds are Just getting their full plumage, ordering the men that have fed them, from their hands to scare them Op so that the owners can shoot them.Andt" the hunters often in poor health from overfeeding. Just what eport there U in that sort of outing and "farming" Is something I cannot fathom. The wrimart! monev; ra.lits- Vlanna. rnrrnnni1nt whn aanriti h story, is still in the bank . and the Judge is in Jail. . , Telephone Travel Is the cheapest, safest, quickest, easiest way to reach a distant point . You avoid the dust and dirti Bell Telephone lone distance lines ena- . ble you to reach any Cliy quiciuy auu uueay- ly. Irs the modern way to do business. It brings results. Reason able rates. ' : ' REASONABLE BATES. Call No. 9050. BELL . SERVICE, Rett and Boil, Dry Pros h ,3 and Common BaUHr-
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