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January 13, THE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE. SPORTING GOSSIP OF WEEK Western League Meeting in Omtt the Event f the Hour. TEBLAU'S VICTORY IS MADE COMPLETE Magnate of All Minor Baa Ball Tls Hid l ormrr Ad ernrl to III Chariot Uhtrli anil Mrnr On. In the language: c: (.hrls Von der Ahe: "Dip O'Neill, I've got my eye on you." The new president of the Western league was a cure tnough humdltKer In his ball playing days. If he will do half as well nt the head of the little league, lie will be a sue if. That's all. tn the meantime, tn' magnate of the Western league are to be congratulated on one thing, and that is for owning up that they huve only a six-elub league. Last sea son they pretended to bamboozle the world that they still belonged In Class A, , having six active and two ''dormant" franchises This was a Tebeuu plan. It didn't fool anybody, but the Western paid for eight clubs to the Nutlonal us.oclatlon, and held Its position In Class A. This year it fell In with the Tebea'i plan to save the money paid out for protecting the "dormant" fran chisee, and so the announcement la made that Pueblo and Lincoln do not belong to the Western league. The only thing thHt lesvea a bad taste in the mouth about this la that It wasn't decency but economy that led to the announcement. The league was never In a more uncertain condition than It is right now, although the prospects are that the circuit wljl be ns It now stands, and that before the playing season opens St. Joseph will be braced up and the team down thoro will have a good support from the business men. It will take tall hust ling to get it In line, though. $ Mr. Tebeau didn't waste any time In Omaha. He came In from the east In the morning, rounded up the magnates, talked over a few matters, got his lunch, attended the two-hour session of the league and then lit out again. He's a bimy boy, is Mr. Te beau, with all the affairs of the minor base ball world and some of the major resting on his shoulders, but hla outward bound Journey was certainly brightened by the re flection that he left Omaha In much better condition than he did three years ago. He Is a more complete victor than was Jfogl at Port Arthur, for lils vanquished foes didn't even receive the honors of war. Te beau has made his conquest of the Western complete, and In proof of its subjugation he has tied It an a tall to the kite of the American association. With Joe Cantlllon on the board of directors, the vote stands: American association, 2; Western league, 1. And there you have ft. Papa Bill RourkVhT in Just the same fix he haa always been. He has a minority voice In the affulrs of tho league. Com mon decency might have suggested the election of a man who Is to be directly In terested with the Western for the member ship made vacant on the board by the re tirement of Burns. Cantlllon is one of the Des Molncs owners, but he Is also man ager of the Milwaukee team in the Amer ican and proposes to spend his time with that team during the season. Thus, to absentee ownership Is to be added absentee.. direction. Duncan of Sioux City would have made a good director, and with .him on the board, the Western might have had something to say about Its Internal affairs. At present, the control is In the hands of American association managers. When the war started at (he clofco, of the season of 1901 Rourke was on the board of directors of the Western, but he didn't know any thing of what was going on, because Te beau and HIckey carried on their nego tiations in the dark And Rourke only found out what was taking place when ho was offered a limited franchlso In the new league. In 1003, when the season wns cut rhort tan days, depriving Omaha of a closing home series, and costing Rourke at least $1,000, tho first news Rourko got of the move wrs when Sexton wired him that the seasan was at en end. ' These are some of the beauties of being a minor ity member on a board with George Te beau. Resolutions will bo" drawn up and pre sented to Michael II. Sexton, commending hint for his faithful services, and that irt of thing, to the Western league. And when Mike gets the engrossed copy he will hang It up In his cigar storo and laugh every time he sees It. To make the play good, an engrossed copy of his "offi cial" records of the Western league season of 1904 ought to be pluccd alongside the .solutions. The minor leagues reaped the whirlwind dowu nt Cincinnati during the week. The national commission decided thut the minors should not appear before it asking mil Work ' For All , Wm mj Given Without A FINE BOOK FREE A splendid new book a work that will bo of tremendous, Incali'iiable value to all who receive It has Just been issued at a cost of over lu.OUO by a distinguished specialist, a man famous in Kurope and America for his notable scientific and humane work. KtgaiUless of the great expense of publish ing thla work, Its author will give uway lS.TwO copies, absolutely tree of charge. Tho work could easily huve made his ortuns, had he placed It on sale. Canting away all thought of gain, he gladly offer It to the public as a tree gift, because he knows it will mean life Itself to all who read Its puses. CfiQ years its author, Dr. Sproule, II. A., ""well known as a leader among the great philanthropists of North America, labored night and day to discover a perfect, permanent cure for Catarrh. He nacriflced tune, enrrgy und money to gain his end. Bleu by step he worked his way along new path, outstripping his rivals on two conti nents. At last his efforts were crowned Send for the Book at Once Po not delay as the edition la going rapidly. The demand for the book Is enor mous. Everybody wants it. Already grateful letters are conilng.back from those who have received It. It Is doing all and more tlwu Ir. Sproule in his sympathy and holelxartmlness hud planned for it. If you or any tf your family need it, send for it today. It Is offered willingly freely gladly that you may avail yourself of its wonderful aid its certain relief. Write your name and address plainly on the dotted Hues, tut out and lor ward to lH. SfHOl I t, NAM B Kiradvigte lmblln liilveiklly, Ireland. formerly fturgeon Hrliinh Koyai Naval Bet-vice) JO 4 Trade tiltlf.. Hoslan. fU. and you will rteclvo this valu able Uh.1i free wf all charge. AVVHKSa any more favors until It was determined If the minors would stand by delsiom already made. And this, by the way, w.n a shot that reached several, including George Tebeau, chairman and head and front of the National Association of Minor Base Ball Leagues. One of Teabean's lit tle games has been to carry a minor black list charge agalnrt le TanneMU and some other players, whom ho socuses of Jump ing from Louisville during the war. nnd whose cases were raised upun and adjudi cated during the peace settlement. Twice, In fad, had the case of Tannehlll been passed mi, and both times decided ad versely to Tebeau. Now, maybe, he will see what hHS Yieen apparent In base bull for some months, that his spite work will get him nothing. It hasn't affected Tanne hlll In the least. Another case settled by the voiumlsMon Is that of Skel Roach, passed urori twice and adjudicated, bat the minors would not stand fcy the deci sion. In fact, the supremo court of base hall had a number of case In -which the minors had declined to live up to the decisions, and was In a strong position. Paid Attorney Griffiths of the minors taw the pocket In which he and Tebeau were placed, and owned up. The minors have again agreed to be good, but will they? The big thing the minors were after was not passed upon at tho Cincinnati meeting, but was referred back to the National and American leagues for further considera tion. This Is the Increase In drafting price. The chnrg-s brought by Comlskcy against Jim Hart, which are known ns "the Jack Taylor case," will be Investi gated. It's almost a cinch that the In vestigation will hurt nobody. Garry Herrmann's common sense finally prevailed, and he withdrew his threat to resign. Tills Is one of the best things that could have happened In base ball. Mr. Herrmann Is ono of tho magnates of the gam In whom all have confidence, and It would have been calamitous had he pur sued his expressed Intention and given over the chairmanship of the national commission nnd allowed it to go to John T. Brush, Pat Powers, George Tebeau or some of the other "politicians" who were mentioned for the place. It Is little wonder, though,, that Mr. Herrmann ha tired of the work that has Seen thrust upon him, for he has more than any other man an opportunity to see Just how the magnates strive to overreach one another and how little of fairness prevails nowa days In what is politely referred to r.s "organised base ball." Some more Herr manns are badly needed in the manage ment of the game. . None of the decisions rendered affect Omaha, but Denver gets the player Ran dall, about whom the Grlizlies and Sioux City were In dispute, and Colorado Springs loses Harry Newmeyer to Wuterloo, la. A notable feature in connection with the use of the automobile In this country Is the wide swath foreign machines are cut ting on this side of the Atlantic. France leads In this respect, with Germany and England following in the order named. This Invasion of foreign automobiles Is In direct contravention of the order of things when bicycles were In vogue not many years ago. American bicycles were ac knowledged by foreigners to lead the world. English manufacturers In particular had reason to watch their Yankee competitors. During 1904 over 600 automobiles of foreign make were Imported to this country, the declared valuation being 11,700,000, which is quite an item In the ledger of international balances. It Is noted, however, that dur ing the last six months the American automobile Industry has received new life. All the managers of the large eastern auto shows report their Inability to supply the space applied for by exhibitors. The al lotments of space had to be apportioned out sd that the lurgcat possible number of ma chines could bo represented, with the result that no one received all the space asked for. The Chicago khow promises to eclipse them all, so far as space and number of machines are concerned. Elaborate plans are being made for this event next month. John L. Sullivan, the grand old man of the prixe ring, Is to mako his debut to morrow evening before a Chicago audience as a lecturer. He Is to tell a story with moving pictures. If the volubility of prixo fighters, as chronicled by the funny para graphers. may be taken as a criterion, it will not be a hard task for John V, to face the music. It further goes to show that where there is a will there Is a way to turn a penny. With Jimmy Corbett taking to the "literary field" and a few of the other captains of the fistic art the poor house seems several miles from anyone who can gain fame In the squared ring. II. E. Fredrlekson and wife left last Fri day for tho New York automobile show, which will be held all this week at the Madison Square garden. Tha old saying, "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party," should be changed to read, "Now is the time for the Omaha Curling club to get busy," Hoot, -man, hoot! Tho roaring- game is In evidence in other purts I with suce-ess! He had discovered what all i other searchers had long deapalred of tlnd , lug an easy, perfect, permanent cure for Catarrh. With no thought of reat from his arduous labors, he wrote this wonderful ! work on the cure of Catarrh. With no thought of the wealth It could easily win : him. he now offers It free to all who ask for It. m Information In Its pages will save , thousands of lives. Written by a man heart and fcoul In earnest in his great I work of fighting disease, its lines fairly ! throb with purpose and truth. With skilful hand tie lays bare the heainnlnc of thu loathsome, treacherous disease he traces all Its hidden workings he shows the awiul dangers to which It lends he points out the way to a safe and laating cure the only one of that terrible scourje of North America Cutarrh. Fine pictures by. the best artists Illustrate the different plumes of ths disease In an exceedingly clear und Interesting manner. of the country and should not go by default here. Get together laddies! In Omaha Inst M' nT..y evening Champion Jeffr.es made the statement that at present there Is no one for him to fight, as Ji" has met the big felows twice. On the same evening at San Francisco, K rankle Neil, American bantrmweight champion offered to do things to t -Govern, Forties. Moore and Murphy nil In i no evening and for (in rriee of ndmlsslon. On the east coast the news came the same ilny lliat Tom Sharkey Is costing his eyes on Corbett and wants to try his prowess again. All of which looks good In print, but will tliey all light? someone inquires. TEACHERS IN THE FAR WEST Men t roweled (lot of the Profession Plaint of a Western IMI srrlm la the i:aat. A man from a far western state drifted Into the offices cf tho Hoard of Education In New York City and made inquiries about the number of men and women teachers employed In the public schools. "I am glad," he said, after he had re ceived tho Information, "that there yet remain some male teachers." "Why does that surprise you?" he was asked. it is to different In the fur western states," he answered. "It may astonish you to know that the man school teacher Is becoming so scarce west of tho Mis souri river that he Is classified as a van ishing species, the same as the bison. "I am not saying that tho result Is hurting the educational system of the part of the continent from which I hail. The woman teacher Is doing her work satis factorily. Her pay with us Is equal to that of the man teacher whenever he Is found. But you have to travel miles in some sections before you find a teacher who used to wield the rod in the good old way. "I was talking with the principal of a normal school in Colorado before I left, and hu told me that the man who takes a course for the purpose of teaching Is now the exception. I a."ked him how lie accounted for It. "He traced the beginning of the disap pearance back to the civil war. The old teachers laid aside the chalk und the rod nnd enlisted. Many of them never came buck. "When they went away to fight the chil dren had to be educated. At first thU sys tem of education was of the home mieile eort. Tho mother taught tho girls; tho boys nt home had to do the work. Thus tho girls beenmo tea- hers, and they took the places of the school teachers who had gone to the front. "You folks In the eeist did not notice it, for your population Is so much greater than ours. You had men who stayed at home. Many who came Into your state or city from elsewhere remained here. The oppor tunities to teach were more numerous with you than with lis. "The men who went west from eastern states went to muke .their fortunes In mining or In other pursuits. The women kept pushing their way Into the echool liouses. "Tho teachers who returne-d from the war found .their places In tha school houses taken by women. Even If It had been otherwit-e tho returning soldiers who had previously tuught were etther broken down physically or they had .to engage In work which brought better und quicker returns. "You see, men were still scarco In the west at that time. They wore needed In tho stores, the factories and the mines. One western state that I have In mind sent 75,000 men to the freuit for the Union. You people here have no conception of what that meant to a statu that wua, by com parison, sparsely populated. "Some of the far western states have never yet recovered from that drain. Im migration has done' a good deal to make up for It In many ways, but not In the edu cational way. "And so it has come about that the women have" become the teachers, and they have Increased until they are now as twenty to one of tho opposite sex. In twenty-five years there won t be a malo teacher in tho public schools of the fur west." New York Sun. LAND VALUES IN TWO CITIES How Prices In ew York Compare with Top Kluures la London. Laws and usages as to land tenure and entail prevailing in England make land In certain parts of London artificially high In value compared with the real estate stand ards In other large cities. Tho most val uable Lonelon realty, according to recent transactions. Is near the Bank of England, 1 tho "Wall street district" of London. Land has been selling there at the rate of ;175 a square foot, or llti,SJ5,0U0 an ucre. In the district of the Strand values are from $i to $100 a square foot. In Bond street, West End, $!73 a square foot, or more than $7, 500,000 au ucre, has been reported In recent sules. Let us compare these with land values In the financial district of New York. What is known as block 4e! (se-ctlon 1, bounded by Wall street, Nassau, fcruadwuy and Pine street, Includes tho First National bank, the American Surety building, thu Hanover National bank and the Schermerhorn build ing, and Is valued by the city (for purposes i f taxaton) at fl3,5,0liO. Its probable mar ket value Is $20,000,000. Section 26 Is bounded by Wall street, William, Exchange pln.ee and Broad street and includes the Mills building, the Drexel building, the Metropoli tan trust, tho Mechanics bank, the Atluntlc Mutual Insurance and tho Wall Street Ex change building. The block Is assessed for taxation purposes at $15,S9u,0uo, und the probable market valuo Is not less thun $2 600,000, materially greater than the value of any similar laud area In the financial dis trict of London. More valuable than either of these New York sites Is section 3, which Includes the Stock exchange, the Manhattan Life, the Vlilon trust, Conimerciul, Commercial Cable and the Consolidated exchange buildings. It Is a double b'.ock, bounded by Broadway, Wall street. Exchange place and Broad street. Its assessed valuation for taxation purposes Is 22. 400.000, and Its probable mar ket value Is $3o,00o.0t). Theso three blocks have, collectively, a probable market vulue of $72,500,000, which Is larger than the total assessed valuation of some American cities. The value of the block bounded by Broad way and Nassau, Pine and Cedur streets la fixed ty tho city at $10 Dlo.ooo, und tho as sensed value of block 22, between Broadway mid New street, Beaver and Exchange place, which Includes the Standard OH, the Exchange Court and Welles buildings, Is ln.o,a). Acre for acre, and foot for foot, the land In the financial district of New York Is worth more than land In the fluanclul dis trict of London. In London buildings In tho financial' district are much less exten sive thau those In New York. The build ings, according to the American standard, being "unimproved," the land carries thu chief burden of value, which is large In the neighborhood of the Hank of England. In New York the superiority of the buildings nnd their greater rental value male eg the property as Improved more valuable than iu London. In respect to tho value of eligible sites In thejr financial districts, Indon and New York have ao competitors among the large cities of the world. They are In a separate and superior class. New York Sua. Cttft'C AGAINST TOE GAME Dericrt Used by Otablen to Separate Jays from Their Msiej. SOME BETS GO BY ELECTRICITY Fake Tools .hotv Ho it "tCasy Money" la fiathered In A Mlroll Thronah Vn York's (ambling Houses. I'lstrlct Attorney Jerome of New York said recently that while he had seen some crooked ileal boxes, he never had seen a crooked rouiettc wr.eel. A gambler of much experience bucks him up. "The number of crooked roulette wheels In any country In the world Is so small as practically to umoiiiit to nothing," said tho gambler. "A crooked roulette wheel Is not necessary. "Everybody who knows anything about roulette knows that every man who rlays It and sticks to it Is an idiot. There Is absolutely no way In which the player can beat the game. "In the course of the last twenty or thirty years I suppeise that 1.000 men have come to me with systems for beating the wheel. The last man to i'ome uround was a particularly wise guy, who told me he coull cipher out by arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry nnd conic sections that he had an absolutely hivlneible system. "Very gravely I told him that if he had such a thing he could le a millionaire be fore the winter was out. Then I asked him what his system was. With much enthusiasm, he told me thut all one had to do to beat the wheel was always to play the second number from the last. "You never want to argue with one of these system fields. You just want to put the scheme to u practical test. Other Idiots tried that same thins ut Monte Carlo and Ostein! years ago und went broke, but the joting man didn't know about that, so I told him that 1 was very much Impressed with what he had to s.iy and, If It would work, I would see whut could be done toward capitalizing It. "I bugegstid, therefore, that we lake a stroll uround to u house not far from whero I live to si how the thing would woik. When wo went In I had a little talk with the proprietor of the place, and It was arranged that I should try the system with real money, und my own ul that, nil I tost to bo returned to me at the end of the pluv. "We tried out the system very thor oughly for about three hours, In which time I lost about $3.W0. The young man went uwuy saying that thera was some slight flaw which he would correct and coma around again. I haven't seen him since. "As everybody knows who knows any thing about wheel playing, the percentage uRiilnst the pluyer on a so-called twenty-six-Inch wheel Is 5 5-19. "Any sensible gambler knows that with such a percentage in his favor he la bound to get the money In tho long run, either from individual players or from the gross number of individual players. Therefore It is not worth the bother and the chance of getflns caught at It to have a crooked wheel. "In a gambling house run by pikers in the west und by western pikers In the cast, where if a player beta more than 60 cents on a color he 'Imagined he was bet ting a fortune, 1 have seen wheels that were not on the level. There are various devices for making a wheel crooked, but tho ones thnt are used most often, when they are used at all, ore the so-culled elec trlo device and the fly-out pin. Your llet Uora by Electricity. ' "An electrically crooked wheel is one in which the groove around which the ball spins Is strongly magnetized, while the ball Is of steel, thinly coated with a white glaze. When the electricity is turned on the mug netlzed groove will hold the bail until the current is tuped off. Then it will quickly drop Into a certuln pocket. "But It will only work as to the numbers. If your bet Is down on a number and the corresponding number on the wheel hap pens to bo near the croupier, It is possible to drop the ball Into that pocket; but the electrical contrivance is not sure enough on the colors to work onco out of a dozen times. "The fly-out pin Is an arrangement by which a little steel pin Is Insetted In the groove on the outer edge of the wheel, con nected by a wire or cord with a drawer near the croupier, and the attempt Is mude by pulling the wire or cord to divert tho ball from tha pocket into which It would naturally fall. "You can reudily see thut such devices aa theao must fail in tho long run and are too absurdly trivial to be fcriously considered. Furthermore, the makers of rouletto wheels In thla country und abroud are reputable business men wlio often manufacture toys as well as wheels, and they would no more turn out crooked product than they would crack a safe. "The daddy of all manufacturers of rou lotte.whecla wua William Dorsey of Puw tucket. Horsey hud un Interesting history. "Yturs ago he wns tried, convicted and sentenced to the Wethersfield penitentiary at Wethersticld, Conn., for forgery. He nerved his time and after he enme out It was found that he was absolutely Innocent of tho crime. ".My recollection is that he was a book keeper or ae-countant before ho served hla term, but he never went back to his old business. For reasons best known to him self he learned tho painter's trade after get ting out of the penitentlui y, and conceived the notion of painting the colors on rou lette und furo cloths. "Ho wits the ilrst one who ever did it, nnd no one ever knew the ert us he knew It, except us he taught It to them. I-et me say. In pussing. that the numbers on rou lette wheela are not painted on the cloths used in Europe ut all. The numbers are burned In, while of course the red and black colors at the sides of the table are pa nted. It is only here In Ame-rica thut each one Juaker Maid THE TATPPSITICllL WHISKEY WITH A REPUTATION Awarded the Gold Medal at the Louisiana. Purchase Expo sition for Purity, Quality and . Perfection of Age Mill BALI; AT ALL I KAD1NU BARS, CAH-.s AMD DUl'Q BTOUKS S. HIRSCH & CO., Kansas City, Mo. of the thirty-six numbers Is painted red or black. Where Itaelette Wheels are Made. "Roulette wheels ami tallies cost any where from $:50 to . The composite chips to go with them c-st J35 a thousand, and the Ivory chips $) a thousand. I think Canfteld Is the only gambler In the Vnlted States who ever used Ivory chips. "The wheels made In Paris are. In my opinion, better than any American wheel, because tho disc and yllnder are both made of steel, which Is not affected by weather conditions, as are our own wheels. "Every wheel turns on a diamond-pointed shaft, which rests upon n stoel plate, und shaft and plate nre both a hard as steel can be made. I have seen wheels that would revolve eighteen minutes. "While various firms or Individuals make the wheels, there nre only two places In this country where the cloths can be painted. These nre the shops of the men who were apprentices to old man Dorsey, and he taugllt them the art of painting the round discs In the thirty-six squares, with the thirty-six numbers on them, as nobody else In the world has ever been able to paint them. "You will eee from what I have said that a crocked roulette wheel Is not only unnecessary, but it Is practically un ab surdity. A much cannot be said, how ever, of furo deal boxes. "There are many ue Ices for making such boxes crooked, but they all amount to the same thing, that they fnable tin dealer to draw oat two cards Instead eif one. However, the crooked deal boxes are not at all necessary and not at all popu lar In the most responsible gambling houses, und I never saw one in any of them. ,"And I'll tell you why they are not necessary. If the proprietor of any gam bling house wants to get rich quicker than by the work of the fatal percentage, he can do so without any mechanical con trivances. Now, I'll show you something. "Here is un old pack of cards that we've been using In the house to play patience und cribbago and tiny other old game. They're worn and greasy and sticky. Now we'll say that j'ou are on the players' side of the faro table. You're betting the dt-uce of diamonds to win. MialllliiK the Cords. "Now, Mi shuttle the cards. So far ns you could see everything was all fair and above board, wasn't It? The shuffle wus made directly in front of your eyes und on top of the board. "Now, we'll suppose they're in the box. ItenumLor, you're betting the deuce of diamonds to win. By every right of cal culation you ought to cush your bet, but I'm awful sorry, for here she is, und the deuce of diamonds loses. "I can do the same thing with any .card in the pack ut ony time I want to shift a bet. "Take another ease. Jones and you are I ure playing poker. You and I nre In cahootii, but Jones doesn't know It. "On looking at my hand I refuse to come In. Jones draws two cards. Now it's neue&wry, because I drop out, that you get that pot. If you could have four uces, you could bet Jones to a standstill, whatever he got on the draw, generally full house, and you get all the money .end you? "Here's Jones' hand after the draw, and here's yours. Do you win or does Jones? Well, I guess four aces beat a full house and you get alt the money and divide it with me. Crooked Deal Boxes. ''Now, what's the use in talking about crooked deul boxes, made crooked by ma chinery', or trimmed curds thut have been passed through a shaver? Tho little de vice of the human hand is better than all the machinery that the machinists cun turn out, and I want to say to you that I don't imagine I'm any more accomplished In this line thun many other good furo ua:--l: dealers. "But no successful gambling house pro prietor will allow that kind of dealing in his house for seven seconds If he knows .t, und why? Because, Just us soon as he permits one of his employes to steal lor lilni, ho puts himself in the power of that employe, and nono of the great gam blers of this or any other country would Jo that for a minute. Do you suppose I would Jeopardize myself or my business by letting a $00 a week plnhead, who could shuffle cards like a trickster, work his sanies In my house?" New York Sun. snide Lights on History. "My names Macbeth," remurked that gentleman us Mr. Macduff approached. "The devil himself," rejoined Macduff pleasantly, "could not pronounce a title more hateful to mine ear." "Lay on Mcduff," exclaimed the other hotly, "und damned be he who first cries 'Hold, enough!' " "(Jentleinon, gentlemen," protested one of the party, "pray lower your voices If you are going to talk like that or people will think this la a mutch between Colonel Bill Greene and Tom Lawson." Whereupon the embattled heroes were much mortified. Alexander of Macedon nnd n grouch. "They call me Alexander the Great, " he said, "and It Is true I have conquered tin w or lit. "But how will I look to posterity com pared with my miniCKikr, Aleck Jones whJ will bo able to buy a chateau in France after being a dr.ilnngt) trustee fu; a few ;-ears?" Saying which lie gave Bucephalus a'dly In the slats. Chicago Journal. What Ailed 'Em. "And now, ladies und gentlemen," said the lecturer at tho museum, "allow ma to call your attention to this wonderful little collection. As you observe, It Is very j-mull, containing only, two or three urtleies. But these urtleies ure absolutely unique. Gen tlemen" (Here lie paused for effect.) "Thepo articles were exhibited at the St Louis fair" (A lunyer pause.) "And not ono e;f them took a first prize or medal!" Chicago Tribune. Ry .11 PROFESSOR'S PHENOMENAL POWER WORKS MIRACLES OF HEALING Tho Blind Made to See-The Lame to 7alk And Hopafess Invalids Restored to Health When Given Up to Die by Doctors. NO DISEASE HE MAY NOT CURE Stops Pain, Hoala Sores, Removos Cancers and Tumors and Performs Marvels That Upsot Modern Medical Practice and Defy explanation. VYC MAN'S STARTLING STATEMENT Says Sho Was Raised from the Dead by This Man's Mysterious Might. REMARKABLE OFFER OF FREE SERVICE To the Sick and Afflicted-Cures Them In Their Own Homes as Easily a Though They Called In Porson-Physlclans Invited to Send Him Cases Pronounced Incurable. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Jan. 12.-(Speclal Correspondence.) The almost miraculous cures of hopeless Invalids made by Trof. Thomas P. Atlkln of this city have been of such a Murtlli.g character that they have aroused widespread wonder, adnirra tlon und curlonlly. Time and again ho has taken cases pronounced hopelessly In curable by the medical profenslon and re stored the patients to life and health in" a most phenonlenal manner. There Is considerable mystery attached to his method of accomplishing theso marvels, ns It Is known that he does not use the' drastic drugs and medicines that doctors depend upon. He claims to huve discovered that a certain law of nature has peculiar properties heretofore unsuspected, and that by the application of this law there is no disease he tnuy not cure. And it In a mut ter of proof that with the myxtcrlous power this discovery gives lilm.hu has made tho brtnd gee and the lame walk. lie has re vived the flickering; spark of Are In bodies on the very verge of the grave and restored to health men and women given up to die by doctors and specialists. He seems to have ubsolute control over human life and the diseases that attack It. Notwithstanding; what might be consid ered a most favorable opportunity, he floes not extort money from those whom he treats, saying "Carnegie choeises to give libraries. I prefer to give life and health. I am not, a millionaire, but I am well able to afford to give my Bervlces free to the sick and afflicted. My discovery Is my own to do with us I please, Slid I could charge every patient u thousand dollars If I wanted to. But I don't. And I know of no law to compel mo to take money for restoring a man to health. I do not care what the disease is. I am just as ready to cure consumption, cancer, paralysis, Brlght's disease, or any ono of the so called Incurable diseases, as I uin to cure rheumatism, stomach trouble, catarrh, blood disorders, or any other 111 that flesh Is heir to. I am Just as ready and willing to give my services free to the poor man as I am to the rich man. When It comes to a question of life and death, sickness or heulth, the amount of money a man has makes no difference to mo. A prince or a pauper, I treat him Just the samo. To me, as to the law, all persons are equal. I see end -admit of no difference between patients as far as t am concerned. If I choose to help all who ore 111 without pay, there Is nothing to prevent my doing so. And I may as well tell you right here that I mean to keep on curing anyone who asks me of any disease they may have Just as long as I am willing and able. What other men do, what they rail to do, or what they charge, makes no dif ference to me. I feel that It is my duty to curry out my own plan in my own way, however much It costs me. I cannot bear to think' of men and women and little chil dren continuing to suffer and die when I have the power to pave them und restore them to life and henlth so euiilly and quickly. And there is no disease I may not 'cure. "You think that tt broad statement? Well, maybe it is, but no broader than the truth. I know the wonderful power I have because I havo tested It in thousands of cases. You know consumption Is supposed to be Incurable. Well, not long ago I hud a young lady as a patient, Miss II. Kelly, of Seal t'ove. Me. 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Ordinary medical treatment seldom, If ever, cures cancer. The sur geons may cut it uway again and again, but It comes buck every time and brings death with It. Hut I cure It, and I do'not have to resort to the butchery of the knlf', cither. I do not have to cut flesh and scrape bon-s. My treatment Is easy, gen tle and gives no pain, but the disease dis uppenrs. One .of my patients', Mrs. M. W. Nolen, of Covington, Oa., was having1 her life euten away by a cancer. She saw nothing hut a terrible deuth before her when I took her case. Hut I eured her, entirely and permanently. I'aralysls Is an other supposedly Incurable disease. A Mr. H. A. Wullon of Fluey. Mo., had been paralysed for over four years und nothing the doctors could do gave him any relief. Thut did not discourage me, I took tho I'aso In the face of their verdict, and today the man is walking around as well as you or I. So It was with Mrs. L. A. Phillips of Texas. She had been bed-ridden for five years; In twelve different hospitals and under the treatment of various doctors who all failed to cure her of the complica tion of diseases from which she was suf fering, Including kidney trouble, catarrh of tho bladder, gravel, female weakness, ulcers, chronic Indigestion und extreme nervousness. The medicine that doctors gavo her did her no good. Hut my treat ment did. I cured her, and she says I 'r.Alseel her from the dead.' These arqr only random cases from the many hundreds I have cured, and I mention them merely to show you that it Is a mistake to say that any dlseaBo Is Incurable. They may have been Incurable before I made my dis covery, but they are so no longer." "But how do you make these marvelous cures? What la this power thut you pos sess?" asked the reporter. "It would take too long to tell you, but here is a copy of a book I have written describing my discovery and my method of treatment. I do not sell it. I had It printed for distribution among my friends and patients and those who might be In terested In this study of a. new science. To them I am glad to give It upon request. If rending the book does not satisfy you and you want to know more of how I cure any disease, tell some ono who la sick to write to me. I will go even further tell anyone who is attacked by any dls eaBo, no matter what It Is, to write to me, telling me the name of their trouble or their principal symptoms, age and sex, ad dressing Prof. Thomas F. Adkln, Office tK A. Rochester. N. Y.. and I will prove my power to do all that I claim,' and I will give the proof without charging a cent for my services." "Do you mean that anyone can accept thla offer?" "I mean It for nnyone who Is 111, from any cause, nnd v. ho feels that the dot tors do not uiulerwtand the case, or who docs not want to pay doctors' and drug gists' bills." "I!ut how about those at a distance, can you cure them, too?" "Just us easily and Just, as surely as though they came to my office, whether they live one or a thousand miles away, It's ull the same. A letter to me does Just as much good ns a personal visit." "And do they have to enclose any money?" "Not u sliiBle cent. Simply write to me and ask to be cured." But It seemu strange" "Ptrance or not, I mean Just what I sny, as anyone can find out by writing to me." HER! ICIDZ "kills the Dandruff I as." WILL WE IT TOO Heiplclu mailt this "suty' uun u p.e&s ure that the "Herplclde Habit" Is uiu&Jly formed. A hair-saver Uial grows In popu laitty. Delights the ladies by keeping the hair tight and fluffy and by giving It s, silken gloss. Cures dandruff, stops falling hair. Gives satisfaction and excltos admir. atioD. Stops Itching instantly. LATE FOR. HERP1C3E