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Yale defeated Columbia In their
wrestling tournament, capturing five
of the seven falls. Columbia won only
the heavy and lightweight matches.
M. Cure, the French billiardist, who
will compete in the world champion
ship tourney, which begins in New
York April 9, arrived in that city
March 24.
John J. Rooney won from Fred
Russell in a wrestling match at Joliet,
Dl., March 21. He threw his oppon
ent the second two falls out of three,
catch as catch can.
Jim Robinson, Princeton’s noted
trainer, died March 19, at 6:30 o’clock
of heart disease. Robinson was 65
years old, and was the oldest trainer
in America and the first athletic
trainer to be engaged by an American
college.
The fifth chess match by cable be
tween British and American universi
ties for the Rice trophy was played
March 24 and resulted in a draw, each
side scoring three points. The trophy
therefore remains in Biitish posses
sion for another year.
C. M. Daniels, the New York A. C.
swimming champion, in the dual meet
between Central Y. M. C. A. and the
Eastern ciub in the Y. M. C. A. nata
torium at Chicago, broke the world’s
record in the 110 yard swim, covering
the distance in 1:06 4-5.
Edward W. Gardner of Passaic, N.
J.. won the 1906 national amateur bil
liard championship by defeating J.
Ferdinand Poggenburg of New York
in the last regular game of the tour
ney at the Chicago Athletic Associa
tion's clubhouse, 300 to 256.
In the final indoor meet of the
Drake track team Barton Haggard, a
sophomore, hung up a new record in
indoor pole vaulting for Missouri val
ley. The youngster cleared the bar
at 11 feet 8*4 inches, just one quarter
of an inch more than that made by
Chapman of the same team four years
ago.
Two of the athletes chosen by the
Olympic games committee to compete
At the meeting of the Iowa univers
ity senate the recommendations of the
Angell football conference for the
government of football were approved.
The new governing rules were
adopted without criticism or a dissent
ing vote, although they did nctf agree
in ail particulars with the Ideas of
the leading members of the senate.
The board of trustees of Northwest
ern university announced to the stu
dent body that intercollegiate football
would not be played by purple teams
In the next five years. It is under
stood from the manner of the an
nouncement that baseball will suffer
the same fate, the chief reason for
abandoning the gridiron being lack of
funds.
j Baseball. )
The Williamsport outlaw club is
said to have vainly tempted second
baseman Billy Gilbert of the New
York team, with a $500 per month of
fer.
Joseph Cassidy, shortstop of the
Washington American League base
ball team, died at his home in Ches
ter, Pa.. March 25. He had been
ill for seven weeks with a peculiar
disease which his doctor termed pur
puro hemorrhagia, the blood turning
to water. A number of specialists,
however, did nor agree with the diag
nosis.
Boxing.
Jack Root is looking for a fight with
Tommy Burns or Jack O'Brien and
says he will bet $5,000 on the match.
“Mike” Schreck [.topped Dave Bar
ry in the eighth round of their ten
round contest at Terre Haute. Ind.,
March 23.
If any doubt existed as to Joe Gans'
ability to beat any man in his divis
ion or in the welterweight class, they
were removed the night of March 17
when he knocked out Mike “Twin”
Sullivan at I os Angeles in ten rounfs.
Battling Nelson and Terry McGov
ern are practically matched to meet
Robert H. Bryson of Indianapolis,
president of the American Bowling
congress and building at Louisville
in which tournament was held.
in Athens next month have dropped
out, according to a statement made
by Manager Matthew P. Halpin. They
are Ellery H. Clark of Boston and
D. A. Sullivan of Anaconda, Mont.,
and both were expected to compete in
the pentathlon.
The New York Athletic Club’s
aquatic team made a clean sweep in
its dual meet with the Missouri A. '
C., held in the latter’s link at St.
Iouis. In defeating Marquard Schwarz >
of the M. A. C. in the match 100-yard |
swim C. M. Danie’s of the N. Y. A. C. '
also broke the world's record by two j
seconds. The time was 56 seconds.
Announcement has been made of
the English swimming champion
ships, and unless plans go awry sev
eral American swimmers. Including C.
M. Daniels, the United States cham
pion at all distances, will be in Eng
land at the time of their decision.
The first of the English even's will
be held at London July 7, and the
American swimmers who compete at
Athens in the Olympic championships,
including Daniels, Spencer and
Schwarz, will probably go to London
after the conclusion of the Olympic
meet with the idea of preparing for
the English races.
T rotting.
The new Year Book shows there
were 2,028 standard performers that
took their records during 1905—that it,
2:25 pacing and 2:30 trotting—there
being 1,081 pacers ar.d 947 trotters.
There are altogether 34.058 horses that
have secured re’cords in stan*ird time
since 1845, when Lady Suffolk first
trotted a mile in 2:28t£. The list has
more than doubled in the last ten
years.
| Football.
Those interested in the introduction
of Rugby football in the United
States are working to have one or
more English teams make a trip to this
country next fall.
There is no chance that the action
of Northwestern university in aban
doning football for five years will be
followed at the University of Illinois.
It is safe to say that football will be
played on Illinois field next fall.
The joint athletic committee of the
University of California and the Le
land Stanford university has adopted
a resolution recommending that the
two institutions substitute the Rugby
football game for the present game un
til a satisfactory national game is de
veloped.
The University of Michigan senate
has adopted without dissent the rec
ommendations of the second football
conference of the "big nine” Western
colleges, which was held recently at
Chicago. This practically means the
adoption of the recommendations by
the conference, as most of the doubtinl
colleges have already assented.
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again. The Tuxedo club of Essington.
just outside of Philadelphia, has of
fered to stage a twenty round bout
between the boys. The date set is
April 25.
Young Corbett is to try his hand at
fighting.again. He has signed articles
of agreement to meet Fighting Dick
Hyland the sturdy San Francisco
featherweight, in a twenty round bout
at a boxing show at Salt Lake City
within ten days.
Battling Nelson and Aurelia Her
rera will fight for the lightweight
championship of the world before the
Pacific Coast Athletic club of Los An
geles between the dates of May 7
and 12. The men are to fight for a
purse of $20,000. of which the winner
will receive $9,600 and the loser
$6,400. Nelson is to receive $4,000 in
addition to his end of the purse.
Golf.
The Wisconsin State Golf Associa
tion has named the week of June 25
for the state golf tournament at
Janesville.
The western amateur golf tourna
ment which was to have been held
over the course of the Glen Echo
Country Club during the week of
June 18 has been postponed and will
take place during the week of July 2.
This action wras taken on account of
the dissatisfaction of the Chicago
clubs with the former date. A great
number of their best golfers are col
lege men and would have been un
able to attend the tournament In June
on account of their college work.
President George S. McGrew of the
Glen Echo Club would have been bet
ter pleased with the earlier date, but
he states that the links will be in as
good condition in the early part of
July.
C. E. Durnell and J. J. McCafferty
were ruled off the turf for life by a
decision rendered by the stewards of
the Pacific Jockey Club, which has
control of racing in California.
Danny Maher, the jockey, inter
viewed by a correspondent at New
market, says the report of his en
gagement to Dorothy Cooper, daugh
ter of Sir Daniel Cooper, his wealthy
employer, is untrue. “This is the first
I've heard of It,” he said. "This
rumor is quite unfounded. I can’t
understand how such stories get
about.”
Official announcement is made by
the New Memphis Jockey Club of
ficials that the Montgomery Park
meeting will commence April 16 and
end May 9, assuring twenty-one racing
days. Secretary MacFarlan alto an
nounces that the Montgomery handi
cap will be decided on the opening
day, the Tennessee Derby April 14,
the Oaks on April 21 and the Peabody
handicap on the final day.
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CLAIM SUCCESSFUL AEROPLANE
yntroHT BROS aerostat. 1—1
I he Wright Brothers of Dayton,
Whose partially successful experi
ments with aeroplanes have been
chronicled from time to time, made a
statement to the Aero Club of this
city, which seems to indicate that the
problem of “flying" has been at last
solved, says the New York World.
The public has known that Orville
and Wilbur Wright sold the rights of
what appeared to be a practicable air
ship to the French government, but
the practice flights have been held In
private and no full statement of the
success of the machine has been made
until now. The communication says
that in 1905 the Wright aeroplane,
propelled by a gasolene engine and
carrying a man, made a half dozen
successful flights, varying in length
from ten to twenty-five miles. In their
statement the inventors say:
“Though America, through the la
bors of Prof. Langley, Mr. Chanute
and others, had acquired not less than
ten years ago the recognized leader
ship in that branch of aeronautics
which pertains to bird-like flight, it
has not heretofore been possible for
American workers to present a sum
mary of each year's’ experiments to so
ciety of their own country devoted
exclusively to the promotion of aero
nautical studies and sports. -It is with
great pleasure, therefore, that we now
find ourselves able to make a report
of such a society.
“Previous to the year 1905, we had
experimented at Kittyhawk, N. C.,
with man-carrying gliding machines in
the years 1900, 1901, 1902 and 1903;
and with a man-carrying motor flyer,
which, on the 17th day of December,
1903, sustained itself in the air for
59 seconds advancing against a
twenty mile wind for 352 feet.
“Flights to the number of more
than 100 had also been made at Day
ton, Ohio, in 1904, with a second mo
.tor flyer. Of these flights, a complete
circle made for the first time of three
miles, each made on the 9th of No
vember and the 1st of December, re
spectively, were the’ more notable per
formances.
“The object of the 1905 experiments
was to determine the cause and dis
cover remedies for several obscure
and somewhat rare difficulties which
had been encountered in some of the
1904 flights, and which it was neces
sary to overcome, before it would be
safe to employ flyers for practical pur
poses. The experiments were made
in a swampy meadow about eight
miles east of Dayton, Ohio, and con
tinued from June until the early days
of October, when the impossibility of
longer maintaining privacy necessi
tated their discontinuance.
“In the past three years a total of
160 flights have been made with our
motor-driven flyers, and a total dis
tance of almost exactly 160 miles cov
ered, an average of a mile to each
flight, but until the machine had re
ceived its final improvements the
flights were mostly short, as is evi
denced by the fact that the flight of
Oct. 5 was longer than the 105 flights
of the year 1904 together.
“The lengths of the flights were
measured by a Richard anemometer,
which was attached to the machine.
The records were found to agree close
ly with the distances measured over
the ground when the flights were
made in calm air over a straight
course; but when the flights were
made in circles a close comparison
was impossible because it was not
practicable to accurately trace the
course over the ground. In the flight
of October 5th a total of 29.7 circuits
of the field was made. The times were
taken with stop-watches.
“In operating the machine it has
been our custom for many years to
alternate in making flights, and such
cars has been observed that neither
of us has suffered any serious injury,
thought at the earlier flights our
ignorance and the inadequacy of the
means of control made the work ex
ceedingly dangerous.”
TEACH IN BUDDHIST TEMPLES.
Places of Worship Now Used for Mod
ern Education.
'‘During a recent visit to Hai
Cheng.” says Consul General Sam
mons, “a city of between 20,000 and
30,000 population, located near Liao
Yang, on the Chinese Eastern railway,
the Chinese magistrate, Mr. Kuan
Feng Ho. informed me of his desire
for illustrations and price lists giv
ing information regarding the follow
ing articles: Simple mechanical de
vices for spinning cotton yarn by
hand, simple mechanical devices for
weaving cotton cloth by hand, hand
machines for weaving coarse sacking,
simple hand power machinery for
weaving coarse silk and machinery
for making rope by hand.
“This particular magistrate is one
of the mo3t progressive Chinamen I
have met in the Orient. He is a dis
ciple of Yuan Shih Kai, the Tien Tsin
Viceroy, who is advocating reform
methods for China.
“He has turned the two large Bud
dhist temples and a temple to Confu
cius. in Hal Cheng, into temples of
modern education and modern prison
reform methods. The more important
temple is the seat of education in
Magistrate Kuan’s district, which
comprises a large part of that section
of Manchuria between Mukden and
the port of Niuchwang. Two bright
Japanese male educators are in
charge, and the chief aim is the prac
tical one of preparing native teachers
for the schools soon to be established
in the entire district."
Changing One's Occupation.
"It is not everyone who wishes
to change his occupation, but one fre
quently hears of people who have
forsaken one profession or trade for
another, and in their new calling have
reached the highest rung in the ladder
of fame,” says Ideas. "The spirit of
genuine self-help is the root of all
growth in the individual, and consti
tutes the true source of national
vigor and strength. Before a man de
finitely decides upon making a change
from one calling to another he should
question himself as to his energies,
capabilities, and chances of success
in the new calling he proposes to en
ter. The early aee at which youths
in this country take to a profession
or trade accounts, in a great measure,
for the number who do not find their
calling to their liking, and desire, per
haps not unnaturally, to make a
change. Having decided that their
work is uncongenial, too many let
their minds drift on the dark sea of
no hope instead of trving to find out
the surest way to succeed.”
A Bangor Minister's Story.
A certain .minister of Bangor. Me.,
joined a fishing party of his friends
for two weeks in a woods camp. Sun
day morning some of the boys wanted
to go fishing, and got away without
being seen by the minister; but one
fellow, slower than the rest, was
caught by the minister just as he was
setting up his rod. The fisherman
made excuses, and added: "I suppose
you would not care to go?”
In answer, the minister told the fol
lowing story: “When I was settled
in the church at Dixmont. in the first
years of my ministry. I was called out
of bed one night to marry a couple
who had both been bereft of their
first partners by death. When I got
| to the place, where I asked the man
if he took this woman to be his lawful
wife, he exclaimed: ‘Look a here, par
son, what in h—1 do you think I'm
here for?’ ”
French Foreign Legion.
The picturesque French Foreign
Legion which has just obtained the
honor of bearing the insignia of the
Legion of Honor on its standard,
dates from 1831. and to some extent
takes the place in the French service
of the old Swiss mercenaries, many
of whom are numbered among its
earliest recruits. It only serves
abiuad, however, and has principally
served in Algeria.
Japan Raising Peanuts.
Japan has just entered the peanut
market with a grade of nuts which is
attracting attention English walnuts
come from California, France of Italy,
with France furnishing the largest
supply. The prices which rule
throughout the country are fixed by
an association of growers in Califor
nia.
WHERE INDIAN PEACE TREATY WAS SIGNED
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Columbus (O.) chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, ha,
erected this monument to mark the spot where Gen. W. H. Harrison made
his famous peace treaty with the Oh io tribes of Indians in 1813.
Corporal’s Weird Reasoning.
‘Such reasoning," said Gen. F. D.
Grant In a military argument, ‘‘re
minds me of the reasoning of old Cor
poral Sandhurst.
“Corporal Sandhurst was one day
•drilling a batch of raw recruits.
“ ‘Why is it,’ he said to a bright
looking chap, ‘that the blade of your
saber is curved instead of straight?”
“ ‘The blade is curved,’ the recruit
answered, ‘in order to give more force j
to ! blow.’
onsense,’ said the corporal. ‘The
bfede-^iai curved so as to fit the scab
bard. TT It was straight how would
you get/it into the curved scabbard,
you Idiot?’ ”
Tailor Evidently a Benedict.
Geronlmo. the Apache chief, has
gotten married for the eighth time.
‘‘You are a brave man, Geronlmo, to
marry so often,” a paleface said the
other day to the old warrior.
“Brave? Not at all,” returned Ge
rqnimo. “The fact of the matter is
that an Indian Is master in his own
house and marriage han’t the terror
fpr him that it has for a white.
“Whites and their wives!” Geronh
mo chuckled. "Why. once I went to a
tailor’s shop in Washington with a
congressman who wished to order a
new suit.
“The congressman selected the
cloth and the tailor measured him.
calling out the dimensions to a clerk
with a book.' After the measuring the
tailor said:
“ ‘Married or single, sir?”
“ ‘Married,’ replied the congress
man.
“ ‘One pocket concealed in lining of
vest,’ the tailor bade the clerk."
High and Low Life.
Society Youth—Say, Jack, can’t
you lend me $5? I’ve got to take a
lady to the opera tonight.
Poor Clerk—Yes, George I can; but
you received a check from your
father this morning. Where’s that?
Society Youth—Well, the fact Is, I
stepped Into my tailor’s to get a
necktie, and hadn’t anything but the
check with me, and the rascal, instead
of handing me the change, gave me a
receipt for balance due.—New York
Weekly.
Furnishing a Desk.
The up-to-date writing desk has
more appurtenances than our fore
fathers dreamed of or than the aver
age letter writer could name offhand
as belonging to what the furnishers
call a properly equipped desk. The
modern sets are of bronze, china sil
ver or green metal and some of them
contain twenty pieces.
Some of these In a sliver set are
large, flat blotting pad with silvei
corners, silver and glass ink-stand,
try for small paper and envelopes,
silver handled letter opener, sharp
eraser, roll blotter with silver handle,
pen rack, little silver cup containing
a bristle penwiper, candle-stick and
seal.
Lava Seemingly Inexhaustible.
Mt. Matautu, on the island of Sa
\aii, Samoan group, has covered thirty
square miles of land around It with
lava, and a stream twelve miles wide
is flowing Into the sea. The lava Is
thrown up L200 feet and at latest ac
counts had increased the bight of the
mountain, since August 21.-by 3,000
fee t
k
BLAC KSMITHS
in country towns
important posi
tions are allotted
nowadays. Since
the times of which
early poets wrote
the business of
the horseshoer has
broadened out to
such an extent
that he is recog
nized as running
a shop second in
importance to no
otner in town.
In thousands of Instances the
blacksmith wields an influence in the
town council; frequently he is the
mayor. It is a common thing to find
him an alderman, and in some in
stances at least, the residence of a
village blacksmith in a prosperous
town is as fine as that of the banker.
In a great many instances he. has a
good store of books; there are fine
pictures on his walls. The earnings
from his trade are invested in shops
that are equipped with every modern
appliance and «in many other ways
his general prosperity Is made plain
to the world. I
Men in the country now are more
particular about having fine horses
on their farms and naturally more
careful about the way they are shod.
There has been almost as much im
provement in fitting a shoe on the
foot of a horse as there has been in
the work of a dentist in repairing the
human teeth.
And all this change despite the in
vasion of the equine field by the auto
mobile!
HISTO'RIC CLO'Ry' OF SFAIff
Marked though it has been by faults
largely those of the ages, the geo
graphical history of Spain is glorious
to the highest degree, whether meas
ured by its material or moral results,
says the National Geographic Maga
zine. With the discoveries of Colum
bus and the world circumnavigation
of Magellan, modern geography was
born. Indefatigable in purpose, unsur
passed in bravery, unyielding in reli
gion, but differential to racial preju
dices, gracious in manner and courte
ous in speech, Spanish explorers made
an Indelible impress from one end of
the earth to the other. In the Antilles
or South America, in Mexico or the
Philippines, they thoroughly implant
ed their customs and ideals, their ad
ministration and religion, their laws
and language. The Spanish civil law,
whose first Mexican code antedated
by half a century any English settle
ment in the United States, is to-day,
in pure or modified form, second as to
area and population only to English
law, while the melodious language of
Spain is the daily speech of nearly
triple its home population. In the ag
gregate the Spanish explorer, by ex
tending the sway of law over and in
stilling Christianity into the hearts of
the natives of new lands, has exerted
a more potent influence than has any
other nationality.
Of all explorations none appeared at
the time richer than those of Portu
gal, from Prince Henry, the navigator,
to Diaz and Vasco de Gama; yet they
were morally perverted. The coasts
of Africa were circumnavigated and
exploited and the trade of India made
attainable by sea. Pope Alexander
VI., by the famous demarkation bull
of May 4, 1493, confirmed the posses
sion of the eastern half of the newly
discovered world to Portugal, which
at once rose to commercial suprema
cy and the height of its material
glory. But traffic was the sole aim,
and the African slave trade a most es
sential factor in its profits. During
four centuries Portugal was distinctly
foremost in this human traffic, which
by its horrors and immoralities has
not alone outraged the spirit of Chris
tianity, but has also, particularly in
America, produced conditions vexa
tious and portentious to an alarming
degree.
FIGHTIffG OVIVM Iff TEKIff
Pekin, the capital of China, is fight
ing the “opium-shop evil.” Efforts are
being made to reduce the number of
dens and to restrict the smoking of
the drug and to curtail the loafing
and vice that accompany opium smok
ing by compelling each shop to take
out a license and to pay a tax accord
ing to the lumber of “lamps” in each
shop. The shops are divided into four
classes and the fees are graded ac
cordingly from $1 a month to twenty
cents for each lamp, payable on the
10 th of every month. The recent
proclamation of the Pekin sanitary
department reads as follows: “Opium
smoking is extremely harmful to the
.health and the shops where opium
is smoked are the retreats of loafers.
•Such places should really be alto
gether prohibited, so that the people
might enjoy more prosperity, and
dens of thieves would thus be done
■away with. But as opium smoking has
become such a habit it cannot be got
.rid of entirely and at once. The evil
,can only be removed gradually.
“There are in the outer city of Pe
kin many opium shops, and it is evi
dent that the smokers are increasing
every day, which is very bad. The
department has taken into considera
tion the matter and arrangements
have been made for those who will
abandon the habit. In addition, the
opium shops opened in the outer city
of Pekin have been divided into four
classes and are to be taxed after cer
tain regulations. They are to regis
ter themselves according to their
classes and the number of lamps for
the payment of taxeg so that inspec*
tion can easily be effected.
“Shop owners are hereby informed
of the regulations and that they are
to come to this department for regis
tration beginning from the 30th day
1st moon 31st year of Kuang Hsu. If
any one dares to make a falsa declara
tion as to his class or the number of
lamps, opens shops without license or
refuses payment of the tax, if discov
ered, the building used for smoking
opium will be confiscated and the
owners strictly fined as a warning to
these private dealers in opium shops.
All must respect this order and not
disobey.”
HAD TO BE IMPRESSED
1 The driver of the Oaktown stage
was a person of much amiability and
A large fund of anecdote, but his
memory was by no means of the best.
.The inhabitants of his native town
:made many excuses for him, but sum
:mer visitors found his failing a par
ticularly trying one.
“That man should be complained of
: and should lose his position as ex
press agent and mail carrier!” said
one exasperated man who had been
obliged to remain in Oaktown over
: another night, owing to Ranny Peet’s
; forgetting to call for him.
• “Well, now, I guess you didn’t im
press it on Ranny that he was to
take ye,” said an Oaktown man,
moved to mild remonstrance.
“Impress it on him!” echoed the
summer visitor. “I wrote my name
on his order book in the postoffice.
I should like to know what more I
could have done.”
“Well, now, it’s like this,” said the
farmer, with a half-apologetic air.
“Sometimes there’s a number of ord
ers on that book, and Ranny might
happen to forget otV> of ’em, so what
folks most generally do is fust to
write their names in the book, and
then speak to Ranny about it when
he’s up on the trip before the one they
want to go on. And then they ask
Lemu'l. the postmaster to kind of re
mind Ranny when he stops foi the
mail. And then we always deem it
wise to be all ready to start in time
enough so’s we can walk down to the
cross-roads and head Ranny oft, just
for fear it might slip his mind, allow
ing time to go back for-a trunk in
case there’s one to be lugged.”—
Youth’s Companion.
TRAVEL BX STAGE COACH
It was In 1658 that the first regular
stage coach began running between
the two capitals, London and Edin
burgh. It ran once a fortnight and the
fare was £4, which would be a good
deal more than $20 to-day. The time
taken to the journey is not accurately
known, but between York and London
it was four days. This lavish system
of communication was not. however,
kept up, as in 1763 the coach ran be
tween London and Edinburgh once a
month only, taking a fortnight, if the
weather was favorable, to the journey.
In 1754 a heroic effort was made to
improve the London and Edinburgh
coach. The Edinburgh Courant for
that year contained the following ad
vertisement:
“The Edinburgh stage coach, for the
better accommodation of passengers,
I
will be altered to a genteel two end
glass coach, being on steel springs, ex
ceeding light and easy, to go In ten
days in summer and twelve in winter,
to set out the first Tuesday in March
and continue it from Hosea Eastgate’s
the Coach and Horses, in Dean street,
Soho, London, and from John Somer
ville's, in the Canongate, Edinburgh,
etc. Passengers to pay as usual. Per
formed, if God permits, by your dutiful
servant, Hosea Eastgate.”
In the days of stage coaches people
oometimes clubbed together and hired
- post chaise for their journey as be
ing quicker and less expensive, and
Scottish newspapers occasionally con
tained advertisements to the effect
that a person about to proceed to Lon
don would be glad to hear of a fellow
"adventurer” or two bent on the same
journey to share the expense.
THE OJWE SfEEVFVL THIJVG
Acadia College, Wolfville, N. S.,
had as its president for many years
a very able New England divine, the
Rev. A. W. Sawyer who was not
given to much smiling or joking. On
occasion, however, he knew how to
press wit and even sarcasm into his
service with great effect, and he was
very popular with his students.
When the large female seminary
building erected near the college was
nearing completion, the financial com
mittee, of which Dr. Sawyer was p
member, If not chairman, was charged
In stentorian tones by a minister,
fluent in speech, but without college
.training, with being guilty of deeds
of darkness that needed to be un
covered.
This charge of misappropriation of
funds was made at the Baptist con
vention for the maritime provinces,
held at Truro, N. S. The speaker re^
sumed his seat, and for a little there
was a painful silence. Then the com
paratively slender form of Dr. Saw
yer was seen to rise- and move slowly
and quietly out to the front of the
platform.
The dry old doctor brought down
the house by looking up over his
glasses and quietly remarking: “The
good brother thinks there are some
awful works of darkness that need
to be uncovered. About the only
^°W °f that to be
covered is a gold mine."
