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Reprinted from an article by Theodore Roosevelt In The Outlook, by special
ttiiAiiaeiiieni who ine uuiiook, oi wmca ineoaore Koosevelt is Contributing
Gen. Leonard Wood has Just re
turned from South America to take up
his duties as chief of the general staff
of the United States army, the highest
military position which the service af
fords. v
Nearly 12 years ago, when Leonard
Wood was acting as governor of Santi
ago, I wrote in the Outlook about what
he had already achieved, and what he
could be trusted to achieve. During
the intervening 12 years he has played
a very conspicuous part among the
men who have rendered signal service
to the country by the way in which
they have enabled it to grapple with
the duties and responsibilities in
curred by the Spanish war. WThat has
been accomplished in the Philippines,
in Cuba, in Porto Rico, in Panama,
and in San Domingo during these 12
years represents a sum of achieve
ment of which this nation has a right
to be extremely proud. In each locali
ty the problem has been different, in
each locality it has been solved with
signal success. Of course .there have
been mistakes and shortcomings, but
on the whole it would be difficult to
find anywhere a finer record of suc
cessful accomplishment. This record
is primarily due to the admirable qual
ity of the men put at the head of af
fairs in the different places. Messrs.
Taft, Luke Wright, Smith and Forbes,
Messrs, Hunt, Winthrop, Post and Col
ton, Governor Magoon, Colonel Goeth
als to these and their colleagues and
subordinates the country owes a
heavy debt of obligation.
Host of those I have mentioned are
civilians. Colonel Goethals, under
whom the gigantic work of the Pana
ma canal is being accomplished, with
literally astounding rapidity and suc
cess, is a representative of the army.
The share of the army in the honor
roil is very large. The importance
of work like that of General Bell in
the Philippines, of General Barry in
Cuba, can hardly be overestimated;
but, as a whole, of all the work of the
army officers, the greatest in amount,
and the greatest in variety of achieve
ment, must be credited to General
Wood. And, moreover, he has at
times combined with singular success
the functions of civil administrator
and military commandant. The part
played, by the United States in Cuba
ha been one of the most honorable
ever played by any nation in dealing
with a weaker power, one of the most
satisfactory in all respects; and to
General Wocd more than to any other
one man is due the credit of starting
this work and conducting it to a suc
cessful conclusion during the earliest
and most difficult years. Like almost
all of the men mentioned, as well as
their colleagues, General Wood of
course incurred the violent hatred of
many dishonest schemers and un
scrupulous adventurers, and of a few
IS TOO MUCH HANDSHAKING?
Other Ways of Greeting Friends That
Are Much Preferable, Accord
ing to Writer.
Although a few have suffered the
unpleasant experience of the man in
the case recently reported, the bones
of whose hands were forced out of
place by the vise-like grasp of a too
vigorous and unduly demonstrative
friend, most people will be inspired by
their personal recollections to sympa
thize with this victim of a misdirect
ed ardor. Everyone knows people who
seek to express the sincerity and ear
nestness of their good-will by squeez
ing the hand they take as though they
were trying to break every one of the
score or so of bones which the human
hand comprises, and every one on
such occasions must have wished that
come other form of salutation than
the one most in vogue had been de
vised and were generally practiced.
Shaking hands is a relic of barbar
ism anyhow. It became the custom
in the days when every one carried a
dagger in his belt and when one friend
meeting another thought it necessary
to attest the peacefulness of his in
tentions by extending an open palm.
Then the other man could do no less
than make a similarly reassuring dem
onstration and the grasp of these two
extended hands naturally followed.
Subsequently, by a logical process of
evolution the handshake grew to be
the conventional form of greeting and
the refusal of a proffered hand was
regarded as one of those insults
whose dishonor can only be wiped out
with blood. Now the custom is too
firTv,iv and widely established for its
abandonment to be conceivalle, and
Bird's Powerful Voice.
There is a bird known as the naked
throated bell bird, that has such a
powerful voice that it can be heard
three miles away. It is loud and
pieicing and has been likened to the
sound produced by a blacksmith
striking an anvil.
Gastronomic Prize Medalist.
The man who invents a noiseless
method of eating corn on the cob, and
points out how one can partake of
watermelon without betting his ears
Tret, will beji true benefactor.
M i " ii..ii...iii,i.i.im. , j
eonard Wood
more or less well-meaning persons
who were misled by these schemers
and adventurers; but it is astounding
to any one acquainted with the facts
to realize, not merely what ,he accom
plished, but hew he succeeded in gain
ing the good will of the enormous ma
jority of the men whose good will
could be won only in honorable fash
ion. Spaniards and Cubans, Christian
Filipinos and Moros, Catholic eccle
siastics and Protestant missionaries
in each case the great majority of
those whose opinion was best worth
having grew to regard General Wood
as their special champion and ablest
friend, as the man who more than any
others understood and sympathized
with their peculiar needs and was
anxious and able to render them the
help they most needed.
His administration was as signally
successful in the Moro country as in
Cuba. In each case alike it brought in
its train peace, an increase in material
prosperity, and a rigid adherence to
honesty as the only, policy tolerated
among officials. His opportunity for
military service has not been great,
either in the Philippines or while he
was the governor of Cuba. Still, on
several occasions he was obliged to
carry on operations against hostile
tribes of Moros, and in each case he
did his work with skill, energy, and
efficiency; and, once it was done, he
showed as much humanity in dealing
with the vanquished as he had shown
capacity to vanquish them. In our
country there are some kinds of suc
cess which receive an altogether dis
proportionate financial reward; but in
no other country is the financial re
ward so small for the kind of service
done by Leonard Wood and by the
other men whose names I have given
above. General Wood is an army offi
cer with nothing but an army officer's
pay, and we accept it as a matter of
course that he should have received
practically no pecuniary reward for
those services which he rendered in
positions not such as an army officer
usually occupies. There is not an
other big country in the world where
he would not have received a sub
stantial reward such as here no one
even thinks of his receiving. Yet, aft
er all, the reward for which he most
cares is the opportunity to render
service, and this opportunity has been
given him once and again. He now
stands as chief-of-staff of the Ameri
can army, the army in which he was
serving in a subordinate position as
surgeon 13 years ago. His rise has
been astonishing, and it has been due
purely to his own striking qualifica
tion and striking achievements. Again
and again he has rendered great serv
ice to tba American people; and he
will continue to render such service
in the position he now holds.
THEODORE RCOSEVELT.
yet there are various things about it
which render it unsatisfactory.
Rather surprisingly it has thus far
escaped the denunciations of the doc
tors, who have spared no little else, as
a possible occasion for the communi
cation of injurious microbes, but one
does not have to be a President of the
United States, nor even a popular poli
tician engaged in a canvass for votes,
not sometimes to have wished that
the handshaking habit had never been
contracted. There are so many ways
of shaking hands that are objection
able and there are so many different
kinds of hands whose touch communi
cates a sensation not exactly pleasant.
Hands that are too hot ' or too cold,
too moist or too dry, or whose inert
ness communicates an uncomplimen
tary sense of indifference on the part
of their possessors.
Every one Is familiar with the hand
shake in which all the shaking has to
be done by the party of the first part,
in which the hand one grasps lies
limp and lifeless in one's own, to be
taken or left, to be squeezed or let
drop, as one pleases, while the atti
tude of tho owner suggests an-absolute
lack of interest in the proceed
ings. Behold, that also is vanity and
vexation of spirit. So is the question
which recurrently arises, and which it
may be suspected is the source of
much secret embarrassment, the ques
tion of 1 to shake or not to shake.
Etiquette has its rules for this, but no
rules etiquette can formulate will
cover every case that may arise, and
to determine the right thing may not
always be easy.
It will be seen that the Chinese
plan has its advantages. The China
man you meet does not shake your
hand. He bows and shakes his own.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Peculiar Trick of Lightning.
Lightning played a curious trick
with a funeral procession near Limo
ges, recently. It struck the church and
burned the altar cloth. Outside the
church a girl was killed and four bear
ers of the coffin were knocked down.
Wonderful Flight of Dragon Fly.
The dragon fly can speed through
the air at the rate of 60 miles an
hour and more wonderful still, can
stop instantaneously in its flight or
move backward or sideways without
changing the .position of its boay
! Csrciina Republicans Proclaim
Their Party PoHcics.
DEMOCRATS INCONSISTENT.
Congressmen Vote With Eepublicacs
and Make Democratic Speeches
Local Self-Governmenl Endorsed.
Tlie platform adopted by tie State
Republican convention is as follows:
We pledge our continued loyalty
to William Howard Taft, President of
the United States, and leader of our
part3r. We heartily congratulate both
him and the Republican majorities in
te Sixty-first Congress on the ex
traordinary number of wise measures
which, in accordance with the prolina
ses of our national convention, have
already been enacted into law.
We renew our allegiance to the
Republican -policy of protection. The
southern States, and North Carolina
in paticular , have profited by that
policy in the past.
We heartily approve the plan of a
tariff commission which enable all men
to joudge for themselves of its fair
ness and justice.
We hold that the south, as shamed
by the glaring insincerity of Demo
cratic senators and representatives
who, while posing as bitter opponents
of the policy in their speeches and
their party plat form, nevertheless
show by their vots that they believe
in it; who seek to secure its benefits
for their ccwstdltuients Inot by ifclie
i manly avowal of their real convic
tions, but by secret intrigues and
bargains.
We especially commend their treat
ment of the difficult subjects of in
terstate commerce, and we heartily
endorse the policy embodied in that
legislation.
We commend also the vigorous
measures already taken to conserve
our national resources for all the
people.
We also cite, as another example
of the efficiency of the Republican
part)', the admirable work of the na
tional monetary commission in pre
paring the way for the much needed
reform of our system of currency
and banking. Some of our oppo
nents are for moderate protection,
some are free traders, some are high
protectionists in disguise, some are
for free raw materials, some against
free raw materials. To put the af
fairs of 'this great country in their
hands would be to turn from the
tried to the untried, from experience
to blind experiment, from order to
chaos.
We favor the reclamation of
swamip lands in the south
We repeat our declaration in favor
of the most liberal policy concerning
education that the state's resources
will permit.
We favor an equally liberal policy
with our institutions of charity and
with our Confederate veterans.
We believe in good reads, and fa
vor the good reads policy, both as an
economic necessity and as one of the
chief means to make country life
the life of most of our people more
attractive. We -bold that the" best
employment for. the state convicts is
on the public highways.
We again call for the establish
ment of reformatories for youthful
criminals of both sexes, and juvenile
courts for our cities.
We denounce the extravagance of
the Democratic party in the manage
ment of the finances of the state,
whereby they have increased the
bonded indebtedness of the state and
caused a constant depreciation in
market value of our state bonds.
We demand a fair election law,
which shall (permit every voter to
cast ' his ballot voluntarily, prevent
dictation and bribery,
In the matter of the state's policy
with common carriers and other great
eonpo rations, we take issue squarely
with the declaration of our opponents
which, if it means anything, means
that all great combinations of capital
are to be destroyed outright.
We reaffirm our allegiance to the
time-honored principle of local self
government and we denounce the
successive betrayals of that principle
by our opponents,
We demand that our judiciary, and
particularly our higher courts, shall
be kept above the atmosphere, of
partisian politics.
Believing, as we do, that in state
and nation alike the policies for
which our party stands are right and
wise, Ave invite all patriotic citizens,
whatever their party affiliations in
the past, to join with us in support
ing them. We welcome all good cit
izens to our ranks. t .
The Republican party of North
Carolina, a party made up of men
who love the south and love North
Carolina, a party which in the elec
tion of two .years ago cast 114.000
votes for its platform, electing three
representatives in Congress and car
rying five congressional districts for
its electoral "vote, utterly and em
phatically repudiates ihat notion of
its character and function which
would make of it a mere machine for
distributing federal offices and elect
ing delegates to national conventions.
We ag::.i:i daelare our convicticn
that a Republican vote cast ' in the
south today is not merely a vote, for
Republican policies and candidates,
but a vote for freedom. It is a vote
for freedom from the slaverv to pre
judice, for freedom from the condi
tions and issues that are past. It is
a vote for the right of all southern
ers to follow their individual convic
tions concerning public affairs. It is
a vote for the light of the south to a
full share in the control of both the
great political parties and in -, the
guidance of the' destinies of the
American republic.
NORTH CAROLINA EYENTS
Life in the Land of the Long
Leaf Pine
Delegates te Irrigation Congress.
The Governor has .appointed, to
represent North Carolina at the 18th
National Irrigation Congress, to be
held in Pueblo, dorado, .Sept. 25
to 30, the following delegates:
Mr. R. L. Knowles, Hertford; W.
A. Mauney, King's Mountain; Dr. J
H. Pratt, Chapel Hill; H. A. London,
Jr. Pittsboro ; Mr. J. M. Pruden, Jr.,
Edehton ; Dr. R. W. Haywood, Greens
boio ; Mr. J. B. Sherrill, Concord ; Mr.
Frank D. Hackett, N. Wiilkesboro;
Mr. W. H. Phillips, Lexington; Mr.
J. P. Frizzelle, Snow Hill; H. E.
Fries, Winston-Salem; W. S., Cobb.
Lumber Bridge; Henry Perry, Hen
derson; W. M. Boone, Louisburg; A,
L. Starr, Mooresville; S. Otho Hold
ing, Wake Forest; J. A. Noell, Rox
boro; R. H. Haigler, Haynesville,
No. 2; A. S. McNeill, Gibson; E. A.
Hamrick, Ellenboro; R. L. Hauff
man, Morganton; A. Hall Johnson,
Marion.
A Rowdy Mixed Excursion.
A snuaTl sized riot, in which pistols
and bottles were freely used, took
place Thursday night in Southamp
ton county, Virginia, on a mixed ex
cursion train re mining from Norfolk
to Greensboro.
The trouble started when a white
man went back into the negro coach
and bought a bottle of liquor. One
of the negroes jerked the bcttle out
of his pocket and a big fight ensued.
Ted Stanley, white, of Guilford Col
lege, was shot in his right breast and
seriously hurt.
Robert Jones, a youth 16 years of
age of Greensboro, was severely
beaten over the head by the negro e.
with a bottle.
They are at the hospital at Dan
ville, and four negroes are in jail,
having been arrested, when the train
arrived at Danville. Several North
Carolina officers who were on th
train made no arrests.
Dr. Delegates to Whateveritis.
Among the list of 112 physicians
from all parts of the state commis
sioned to represent North Carolina
at the fifteenth annual international
congress on Hygiene and Demography
at Washington, D. C, September 26
to October 1, are E. C. Register, F.
O. Hawley and J. P. Monroe, oi
Charlotte; W. H. Melvenzie and H.
F. Nathan, of Salisbury and T. E.
MeBrayer, Shelbv.
Eookwcrm at High Point.
Ca.pt. E. P. Carpenter, of the High
Point Rifles, has received the .health
report of bis company in which i4
states that fourteen of his men are
affected with the bookworm disease.
T'Le names are given and it is sug
gested that they receive treatment at
once from their respective family
physicians. The report comes from
Dr. E. B. Glenn of Asheville. wiv
was -the surgeon in charge of ths
Fiirsit Regiment at Ohieamauga l&si
month. .
Extraordinary Cabbage Snake.
While Mrs. E. K. Huff, of Kerners
ville, was cutting up a cabbage
(grown in her garden) she noticed
something "moving through it."
Carefully cutting it apart she found
it to be a genuine "cabbage snake,"
being perfectly white, about the size
of number 50 sewing thread, its head
looked like a "fly speck," its length
being something like eighteen to
twenty-four inches, being removed
from the cabbage and placed in a
bottle of waiter its movements of
"bead, body and tail" were identical
of any other otf the "snake tribe."
It will be preserved in water as
long as it will live, and then be placed
in alcohol.
Circus Will Get $5,000 at Fair,
The State Fair management ds ex
asperated to discover that the coun-
j ty authorities have issued license to
Ringling' Bros.' circus to show in
Raleigh Thursday of fair' week. Sec
retary Pogue declares this will re
duce (fair receipts several thousand
dollars, circus last year having eit
fair receipts $5,000.
That Wreck in Salcish.
The Corpcriition Commission have
examined a number of -witnesses to
sret at the cause and fix the respon
sibility for the collision in the union
station yards at Raleigh in vhieh
Seaboard Air Line northbound pas
senger train No. 84 crashed into the
rear car c-f a .n-gro excursion train
that hsd inst pulled in at 1 :30 Fri
day morning from a moonlight ex
cursion to Durham, two excursionists
being killed an-J 14 others iniured.
CREEDS AND CREEDS
Census Shows Different Re
Eieions in United States.
TWO HUNDRED VARIOUS STYLES
Census Data Will Be Published
Religious Sects of All Kinds
Known and Unknown.
"Washington, Special. 'Religious
freedom in the United States shel
ters under its tolerant and ample
folds thousands of representatives of
a number of the so-called heathen be
liefs, in addition to more than 200
various sects of Christianity, accord
ing to census bureau statistics deal
ing with the religious life of the
country.
The organized followers of Budd
hism are Chinese and Japanese.
Their churches, known officially as
"temples" by the irrevent, are re
ferred to as "Joses" houses. There
are G2 Chinese and 12 Japanese tem
ples in this country.
There is no record of membership ;
they have no sermon; keep no Sab
bath and have no religious service.
The only use for their temples are
as places at which individual devo
tes may consult their patron saints.
Three deities are recognized in the
American temples. The God Kuan,
a mighty duke of the ancient Han
dynasty; the Goddess of Fortune,
and the Goddess of Mercy.
The American-Japanese Buddhists
are of the progressive Shin Shiu sect,
which is missionary in character.
'They discard the ascetic practices of
the more austere Buddhists of
Asia, allow the priests to marry and
'have no ban on meat or other food.
The societies are well organized, each
having a priest.
There is no Shintoism, an expla
nation of which is found in the fact
that this religion attaches itself too
closely to the person of the Japanese
Emperor.
In a way the Hindu religion is re
presented by the Vendanta society,
with organizations in New York,
Pittsburg, San Francisco, and Los
Angeles. It was organized by some
Hindu teachers who came here in
1893 to the "World's Fair. It is nam
ed from an ancient Hindu philosophy
meaning "the end of all wisdom."
It is non-sectarian, seeking to har
monize all religious systems. Oriental
philosophies as taught by the heo
sophists, have four bodies with 2,336
members in the United States.
"While Bahaism, strictly speaking,
is non-Chrsiitian, iits 'followens are
native and not necessarily un-Chris-tian.
This is a comparatively new
sect growing out of the teachings of
a Persian leader of the middle of
the last century, named Ali Moham
med. He claimed to be the fore
runner "of him whom God would
manifest" and called himself "Bab"
or "the Gate." Later came Bah a
Ulla, who claimed to be the one
whose coming had been foretold, and
from him the real name of the body
is derived. In 1906 be had 1.280
followers in the United States. They
teach tolerance, love, charity and re
gard all religions as divine. Hence,
they profess not to interfere with the
ordinary doctrinal beliefs qf their
members. '
Another church of Asiatic origin,
but still Christian, is the Armenian,
which has 73 organizations in this
country.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, or
Greek Church, had 129,600 communi
cants. This is the state Church of
Russia and Greece. Of the 411
churches here 59 represent the former
nationality. There also are Servian
and Syrian branches. The Greeks
have 334 organizations throughout
this country.
While there are only 57 main
bodies, there are 215 church organiza
tions, many of them professing a
faith only a shade different from
others. For instance there are 17
Baptist bodies, 24 Lutheran, 15 Meth
odist and 12 Presbyterian. The same
is true of less known organizations.
There are 15 Mennonits, 7 Adven-
tists, 4 Dunke or Dunkard and 4
Quaker or Friend bodies.
There appears no division in either
the Roman Catholic of Protestant
Episcopal Church, although it is
shown that efforts to modify their
creeds have resulted in the establish
ment of independent bodies. They
are designated as the Reformed Cath
olic and the Reformed Episcopal
Churches, respectively. The Reform
ed Catholics number only 1,250 com
municants while of , the Reformed
Episcopalians there are about 9.682.
The cause of origin of some of the
branches is indicated by the name.
For instance, there are General Bap
tists, Separate Baptists, United Bap
tists, Fre Baptists, Freewill Bap
lists, United American Freewill Bap-
j tists, Primitive Baptists, Missionary
j Baptists, Genera:! Six Principles Bap
j tists. Seventh Day Baptists, Duck
, River Baptists and Two-Seeed-in-the-l
Spirit Predestination Baptists.
file civil war caused spats, giving
ries to Southern Methodist and Sou
thern ' Baptist - bodies. In these
churches there is also color division.
Two or three churches came into ex
istence just after the close of the
war as a protest, against political
preaching. Many of the branches of
the Lutheran church are due to dif
ference in nationality.
There were about 700 organizations
in the main branch of the Salvation
Army, with a membership of about
23,000. There were 455 organizations
of Spiritualists with over 35,000
members.
The report records the rapid disap
pearance of communistic societies,
showing that of eight organizations
mentioned in the census of 1S90, only
two are left, the survivors being rem
nants of the Shakers and of the
Amana society.
THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD
The Heartx of Happenings Carve?
From the Whole Country.
For annoying a woman in a New
Fork subway train, Johnv Clancey, a
telegrapher, was committed to "the
workhouse for six months by Magis
trate Breen, in the "West Side Court.
Application of the "grandfather
clause" was made for the first time
in a gas franchise election at West
ville, Okla., and it proved to be hard
on the negroes. Only three of 100
negroes passed the educational test
which the clause requires, the elec
tion judges reported.
The tax returns for Georgia when
complete will show a gain of $40,
000,000 for the year.
Under an agreement of attorneys
the Porter Charlton case has been
postponed until September 20.
Turner Browning, aged 115, accord
ing to most authentic records, died at
Dunham, X. C.
The Alabama division of the Na
tional Red Cross has been organized
with Gov. B. B. Conner as presi
dent. Tyrus Cobb, the' base ball idol, is
valued at $50,000 by the managers of
the Detroit team, with which he playa
under the usual contract.
Advices from Costa Rica say there
was a severe fhurricane last week
on the Atlantic- Coast, destroying a
million banana trees, worth more than
$1,000,000 and belonging principally
to the United Fruit Company.
Robert Treat Payne, president of
the American Peace Society and
widely known as a philanthropist,
died at his home at "Waltham, Mass.
All franks and half-rate certificates
have been called in by the Postal and
Western Union Telegraph.Oomrpanies.
Governor Patterson, of Tennessee,
has commuted ihe sentence of Mar
ceilus -Reinhart, the Montgomery
county Night Rider, to life imprison
ment. Reinhart was convicted of the
murder of Rufus Hunter and sen
tenced to death.
About 15 additional day schools
have been established in various
parts of the country since July 1 and
half a dozen more will be organized
before the fall term begins. State
and county officials are being urged
to open the white schools to the In
dian children.
Children in play poured water down
the throat of Ralph, the 4-year-old
son of J. A. Juan, of Calmar, Iowa,
and the little fellow only lived an
hour. The water went into his lungs
and he was drowned.
During the month of July 52,727
citizens of foreign lands entered the
port of New York and of this number
the Ellis Island records class 12,
985 as illiterate. The number bar
red was 1,127. The immigrants
brought $1,537,794 in money.
Material reductions are made in
the freight rates on cottonseed from
points on the Central of Georgia
Railroad, and Jacksonville, Fla., by
order of the Inter-State commerce
Commission in connection - with a de
cision handed down in the case of
the Florida Cotton Oil Company
against the Central of Georgia Rail
road and other carriers'.
Only 30 generals of the Confederate
forces, one lieutenant geenral, four
major generals and 25 brigadier gen
erals now survive, according to a
statement by Gen. Marcus J. Wright,
who has been an agent for the war
department in the collection of mili
tary records since 1872.
Further competition with the Virginia-Carolina
Chemical Company in
Columbia, S. C, territory 19 promised
through the commissioning of the
Oongaree Fertilizer Company with
an initial capitalization of $100,000
to build a large mill at Columbia.
Mrs. John Hanan, a well-known
society woman, of New York, frankly
admits that she was in the Narra
gansett Club on the occasion of the
anti-gambling raid Sunday, and
she is the only person yet found
who has admitted as much.
For the first f-,ur months of tb.
fiscal year Canada's revenue shows
a.n increase of " $5,600,000 over the
same period last year.
Cavalieri, as she remained on the
stage, an Italian, and of lowly origin,
is declared the most beautiful of
present day singers. Only 12 years
ago she worked for a small pittance
folding papers in a rrin;tin? office in
the city of Pome. She married mil
lionaire - Chan ler of New York.
Joe Gant, hetter Ttnown as Joe
Gans, the retired fighter who was
once chaimpion light-weight pugilist
of the world, died at Baltimore of
tuberculosis at the home of his foster
parents'. The old master of the bat
tling game went gamely to his fate.
Gans was conscious until ihalf an
tour before he died,- The cx
champion spoke his last words to
Kid North, the California fighter,
who helped condition him for most
of his championship battles.