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Sully. Once "Cotton Kinc,”Now Runs nqM Summer Hotel ssy t - f) j«*i retDemVf "Dan'' Sul | Iv. the only genuine Cotton • K-: g that N<» York ever knew, who only n few year* ago was perc hed on I the 4bw*s«» heights of au 4actons wirrulntlns »w eaaed op I- OOt'.OOO in a few months, loot it in a Ire mccute*. and vanished from tbe lm«tight* WV-1 "Dan" Sully is tow swelling a huajrditg bouse it ta at Watch Hill Rhode Island, t'cdeentahj • teariy at the start that the escotton king is really running tV- boarding House He isn't just pre teodtag to •!,:ii.g a .oof somewhere la lonely tnajewty. lending tls name wad prestige to the undertaking daz zling boarders with tales of past gran hear Xo The erstwhile czar of the cot ton mark** tot only superintends everything In 'he higher departments ef tbe Job. but be turn* to and takes s band often in other natters which moot peoj4e tn his plate would dele gale to or hers Mr swily pointed to the sea. whose ■ ares were roaring over the steep water front of Watch lltll “Over there to the left.” he said. "If lilack is and To the right Is Mootauk htiat Straight ahead tbe nearest land Is the .-oast of Kioto That breeze -omes d!rwrt from there " "Whrr l vaa busy tn the cotton •warhet in New York." be went on. 1 lowed there was no place like this for resting J> rents the brain as no other pie. e does, and when you're working in Wall atreet it's the brain that oog'3t to get rest t used to run up bore every Friday snd stay till Monday morning It made an im mense difference to me “ Oo tl subject of Wall street, that mode aid broke him. Mr Sully is tlslacii. -d to talk. Ai best be is a man of few surds, bat on cotton and specula* two tn general be U Sphinx like “I*o you want to get bark to Wail street* be was asked “Of i -Mirae I'd like to." he an swered When a man's been In really tcirr work he want* to get back in* o it and stay in it until he’s imt urJerre-ath the nod But”—and here ht« jaw* set firmly—"I'm not gadng Uri t have no plans to- do that A- tinea 1 hear echoes of tbe ild daya when I was there, bat l don't liit-nd to try to bare more of (hem ' The hui»e by the way. la a fine cummer residence, built by Mr. Sully himself a year or two before bla downfall on the Cotton Exchange, and nan *4 Kenneth Ridge, after a •on who died It stands on an emi nence the highest la Watch Hill. Be fore tbe owner's financial downfall the bouse witnessed festivities which, if boose-, can mediate, must lead it lo starritng < ontrast 81a years ago. for Instance. Mr Solly gate • dinner and ball at Ken neth Ridge to Admiral Robley D Brans and a party of hi* officers “They laaeed in this room." be told the mpcirter. leading him Into a spa cions apartment "Now. the boarders 1 have use It for a sun parlor "1 weal Into the boarding house business on account | of more business | troubles," Mr. Sully [ explained, when he * I and the reporter ***** -j Beiuea mem i selves to enjoy the sea air on the ver anda “Last fall I went to England to see about some business matters there. I intended to spend the winter either there or out west or In the southern i states. ' But the plans that I had made did not turn out well and I decided to spend the winter right here in Watch Hill. It was the first time that I or mv family had ever stayed here in the cold weather. But. when I built the house. I put steam heat into it. so we were very comfortable. And . riglr there the Idea struck me. not ; ot.ly to run this place as a boarding house but as an all-the-year-round | boarding house.” In that Idea something of the orig inality of the “Dan” Scully who evolved a “system" and played the j cotton market to a standstill crops out again T'p to the present time no body has ever thought of that wind swept promontory. Watch Hill, as a i place in which to spend the winter. Yet having done it once. “Dan" Sully j was amazed at the mildness of the ' air and promptly resolved to make other people besides himself enjoy it. ; In fact, he already talks about Watch j Hill as a sort of future Atlantic City of New England “Out there”—again he waved his hand toward the Atlantic ocean — only a short way ofT the coast. Is | the gulf stream It's quite near enough to keep the weather from get- ' . ting too cold here In winter. Yet everybody who has a house here or ; ; hires one for the warm weather never j stays later than November, and the ’ hotels close early In September. I'm going to show people that this is an all-t he-year-round place.” “Are you doing anything besides running your boarding house?" asked [ the reporter. "Nothing whatever.” answered the : ex-cotton king. Yet this Is the man who. an ob- ■ ; tcure Providence cotton broker, sud- 1 I jbA&zzx, denly appeared in Wall street and began operating in cotton in accord ance with a •‘system” that seemed to be infallible. This is the man whose methods completely mystified the wisest old stagers in the country, whose profits ran up as high as $600, 000 in one coup—the man whose fail ure. when announced from the ros trum of the cotton exchange on March 18, 1904. caused the wildest panic ever known in the history of that institution. The "Dan” Sully who now takes people through his house and quotes prices on rooms to them was once worth $3,000,000. He lost nearly $2, 000.000 of it in two minutes. Accord ing to him, he announced his volun tary suspension to the superintendent of the cotton exchange at 1:45 on the afternoon of that fatal March 18. It was not read on the floor of the ex change until two minutes past 2. “That delay of two minutes cost me $1,176,000,” Sully said once, in tell ing the story. “If it had been read at or before 2 o'clock I might have come out all right.” As it was. when the smoke cleared from the field where he had met dis aster. his liabilities totaled up to something like $3,000,000. At the time “Dan” Sully said to a reporter: “Three weeks ago I was worth $3. 000.000. Now I’m not worth $30.” Such was he who now runs the Sea side boarding house and expatiates upon the glories of Watch Hill and its many advantages as a boarding place. Into all his laudations of the place he puts real enthusiasm: they would be creditable to the most con summate Boniface of them all. "Would you like to get back to New York?” Dike a shot came the answer, with a gleam of the eye and a snap of the jaw: “ ‘Wrould I ljke to get back?’ Why New York is the only place In the world! ” France Leader of Fashions Immerse Revenue Accrues to That Country Because of Its Acknowl edged Supremacy. Jules I lee ret a French writer, as sert* that in fashion France Is still u-riralc J He tas carefully Investi gated i t state of affair* In Germany, Kbglai.<!. Bwtuerland. Austria and norther.. Italy, and Lae come to the conclusion that France stands first In matters of tas'e Her jewelry designs end her imadels of furniture are the finest is ths world, although England %ad O', many are selling well In both these hrtrtloBi. be declares From fashion M Heuret estimates ths revenue of tbs French at 160.000 <M franca In Faria there are over 12.W0 I "js'ness bouses employing from one to 100 working girts For tho wIwims of France th* total of such astabUai. meets reaches M.000. to which taay be added 15.000 lingerie firm* 4.000 bouse* where embroider *•*«* and mender, ars employed. Thus the-# ere 116.000 shop* where sew mg is the industry carried on. More thaa a million persona earn their living la this way M0.000 women and T6.00U men To th* aggregate of a million » age-earners by their needle mat be counted 140.000 employers, large and small, of whom 26.000 are men and 114 009 women This vast energy Wws not provide the means of wage earning only for those occupied In the business; It resolves Itself Into a revenue of over 114,000,000 francs In the export trade of the country. When all the handiworL done for the use of the people living In France Is added to the export trade, and when a note Is made of the strangers who reside in the country, and of thoses who make purchases of clothing or ornaments as they pass through, some idea may be gained of what is earned by French needlecraft Hun dreds of millions of pieces of silk, lace, embroideries, woolen stuffs, feathers, flowers and ribbons are sent into other countries every year because Paris is supreme In fashion. "*3rs Have Control of Millions j' Wealth That Aggregates $365,000,000 Is Intrusted to the Management of Four Women. New York state courts have desig nated Miss Christina Arbuckle, who Is aged seventy-two, as administrator of the $35,000,000 estate left by her brother, Mr. John Arbuckle, the "sugar kind," who died Intestate last March. This makes four American women who have the exclusive control over enormous fortunes, the other being Mrs. E. H. Harriman, to whom the late railway magnate bequeathed $150,000,000; Mrs. Russell Sage, whose husband left her $80,000,000; and Mrs I Hetty Green, whose own estate Is : valued at $100,000,000. These four : women thus have the exclusive man j agement of property of a total value ' of $365,000,000 The newest recruit to the ranks of i feminine multi-millionaires has the same personal characteristics which distinguish the three others. She Uvea simply, enjoying the company of old friends, never flaunts her wealth, and gives her spare time to charitable work, which she accomplishes as se cretly as possible. Miss Arbuckle shares with her sister and nephew the income of the estate which she now will manage, they being the late “su gar king’s" only surviving near rela tives. She assisted Mr. Arbuckle in the management of his fortune for a number of years before his death, and 1b thoroughly familiar with the details of Its administration. She intends particularly to continue her brother’s philanthropic work In connection with the Brooklyn church of which thd late Henry Ward Beecher was pastor. i Raw recruits are often done for. Woman and Culture The lawyer may aee ao deeper than Ma taw hooka, and the chemist aee no farther thaa the window* of hta lab oratory and they may do their work wait. Bat the wotnaa who does uom aa’e work b-*da a many aided, multi form culture. the height# and depths of human life meat not be beyond the reach of bar elaioa; she must have knowledge of men and things in many atatas. a wtde catholicity of sympathy. the strength that springs from knowl edge and the magnanimity which springs from strength. We bear the world and we make It The souls of tittle children are marvelously delicate and tender things, and keep forever the shadow that falls first on them, and that is the mother's, or at best a woman's. There was never a great man who had not a great mother; it is hardly an exaggeration. The first six years of our life make us; all that It added later la veneer; and yet some say. If a woman can cook a dinner ot dress herself well she has enough cul ture.—Olive Schreiner. Safe Proceeding. “Some men are lucky. I know a man who cleaned out a bank and yet they never did a thing to him." “I suppose he had considerable in fluence." “He hadn't any. He was the Jan itor.” Wetoete*-. Suggeetton. Prank l laid e la. a leather manufac turer. »*. recently at a banquet Riven t» tbe Leather Manufacturer a' associ ation. wHere be told tbe following alary. "Webster aad Rufua Choate were dtatog art!h a (dead who war known for ku yoerra of eon vernation and ability to bold oa to the thlngi he bad. lie owned a a pedal brand of Bargundy wlae of which be waa very grand He dternaaed Hi many fine pedate, but retrained from asking hla two distinguished friends if they wanted any. Webster finally wearied of bis lengthy discourse and turned to ! his friend Choate and said: ‘Look 1 here. Choate, suppose we try the ' wine and help stop the Interest on It.'" The New Reading. Miss Mary Garden, lunching with a ' party of Americans at the open-air j restaurant of Armenonrille in the ; Hols de Boulogne, condemned a very ; shocking French dancer. “Prom the success this sort of peo pie have,” Miss Garden said, “I’d re vise the poet’s line to read: ’Clothes make the man, and want of them the woman.’ ” In the Zoo. Zebra—We’re having a terrible time here. Gazelle—What’s the matter? Zebra—The giraffe has a sore throat, the centipede has corns and tbo laughing hyena has gone off late hysterics. WOMEN OF KABYLM Are Even More Beautiful Then Their Circassian Sisters. But Beware of These Beauties, As They Also Have a Violent Temper and May Place a Yataghan Between Your Shoulders. Tizl-Ouzou. Kabylia.—Though tha Mauresques of Algeria and the fair haired beauties of Circassia combine a remarkable loveliness of features and complexion with a certain voluptuous elegance, they compare with the dignified, graceful, insolent Kabyle women very much as the show girls of a light opera chorus compare with the star. Even the humblest peasant girl, grinding the family flour between the upper and the nether stone in the doorway of a mud hovel, possesses a distinction of form and feature which ! would attract attention in any assem I blage. With ail her dignity, however, the Kabyle woman does not rise su perior to tjie African's fondness for personal adornment, being so Taden with bracelets, anklets and necklaces oT gold, silver, turquoise and coral that when she moves she sounds like an approaching four-in hand. Her approach is likewise heralded by the i reek of an exotic and almost over | powering perfume, which, like the celebrated parfum de Bey of Tunis, is composed of nearly a score of blended scents, the odor changing from carnation to heliotrope, to rose, to violet, and so on, every few miu utes. Lest this glowing description of their charms should start you post haste for Kabylia, let me warn you that these insolent- eyed beauties are headstrong and hot of temper, and that if you happened to say the wrong thing to them it is more than prob able that you would find the double bladed yataghan, which every Kabyle maiden wears very much as an Ameri can girls wears a bunch of violets, planted between your shoulders. They are fond of cold steel, are these Kabyles, for at the conclusion of a wedding ceremony the bride groom, walking backward, holds aloft a naked dagger, and the bride, follow ing him, keeps the point of it be tween her teeth. Another marriage custom of Kabylia, even more bar baric, consists in the part martyrdom of the bridoe, who, clad in her wed Typical Kabyle Woman. ding finery, stands through an entire morning against a pillar in the vil- | lage square, her eyes closed, her arms pressed to her sides and with only the narrow base of the column for a foothold, the while a ring ol villagers criticise and comment on her appearance. I might add that, despite the stern stuff of which the Kabyle women are made, the bride usually faints during the ordeal. If, after learning of these quaint whims and customs, you wish to see the Kabyle women with your own eyes, you have only to take passage to Algiers and a train thence, for some twenty-odd hours, over a rail way which appears to be suffering from convulsions, to its terminus at Tizi-Ouzou. Thence, on horseback, astride of a donkey or afoot, but al ways with your Arab guide in front of you and with your hand in your jacket pocket, and in that hand a serviceable revolver, you can pene trate with greater or less safety Into those wild fastnesses of the Atlas range, where one can buy a dozen beauties outright for the price of a limousine motor car.—Metropolitan. ROOKERIES FOR WILD BIRDS Audubon Societies of United States Are Busy in Their New Con servation Plan. New York.—The National Associa tion of Audubon Societies as part of its conservation plan hopes to obtain for the wild water birds of North , America permanent and undisputed : I'ossession of the islands, marshes and ' lakes where their largest colonies are j found. The societies have obtained | either by purchase or gift some of the j most populous rookeries left in Maine, j North Carolina. South Carolina, Flori- j da and Louisiana. It is hoped that in the next few weeks other rookeries equally im- j portant with these will be taken over by the organizations. -— Cow Produces 33 Pounds of Butter. Newark, N. J.—To Yaldessa Scott II., a Holstein Friesian, owned by Bernard Meyer of Finderne, N. J., goes the honor of being the best dairy cow in the world. The cow has just completed a seven-day official record in which she produced 695.9 pounds of milk. 33.50 pounds of butter fat and 41.87 pounds of butter. Maids “Not Gadabouts” Get Cash. London.—Money gifts left by Isaac Duckett for maid servants who can prove long service with the same fam ily and are not gossips or gadabouts, were distributed in the parish of St 'Andrew's, Holbora, London, the other | day. TWO BATTING KINGS OF MAJOR BALL LEAGUES Tyrus Cobb, Champion of American League. At the half way mark of the two 41 major league seasons. Cobb and Zim merman are leading their respective leagues in the matter of batting prow ess. In the American the lead for several weeks was held by Tris Speaker, the sensational outfielder of the Boston Americans. Ty Cobb, how ever. In the last week or two has bat ted in remarkable form. In four suc cessive games in Philadelphia he made 14 hits in 18 times at bat against the Athletic pitchers, and these hits included two home runs, three three-baggers and three two baggers. As the result he has ad vanced to the head of Ban Johnson's Heine Zimmerman. swatters with an average of over .400. In the National league, Heine Zimmerman, the hard-hitting third baseman of the Chicago Cubs, contin ues his work with the stick and has a comfortable lead over all his rivals, with figures of about .400. Zimmer man is also doing some great long distance clouting. TO CHANGE OBNOXIOUS RULE Home Team* in American Association Have Say When Postponed Games Will Be Played. American association magnates at their next annual meeting may be called upon to pass legislation that will prevent a home team delaying about playing off a postponed game as the Cantillons did recently in Minne apolis. President Schoenhorn of the Columbus club will ask that it be done. It is his idea that the president of the league, as soon as notice of a postponement is received, shall desig nate the day on which this game shall be taken up, as in the National league. If the chief executive is up to snuff, he will not set it for the last day of any series. Only by mutual agreement could this ruling be al tered. When the Columbus club got into Minneapolis it was made evident that the Cantillons were going to stall the double-header off as long as possible. By all rights and precedents, they should have set it for the next to the last day. but they shoved it over to the next series. That’s What the Umpire’s For! Umpire George Hildebrand of the Pacific Coast baseball league cites the following plays as the hardest on the diamond to Judge: Players running out of base lines; an interference plav; three men on "the bases, score tieu and two strikes and three balls on the batter; runner missing bag with winning run going over the plate; calling balk on pitchers; with single umpire, to be in position to give a decision with a man on first jid a man on third. **Cy" Young la a' Writer. Cy Young, the veteran, is writing, telling his views of what a youngster should have in order to make good in the big leagues. Umpire Brick Owens wears steel shoes while on the job. He has corns. Infielder Mattick of Kewanee is a brother of the Chicago White Sox out fielder. And, after all, Rube Marquard was the first Giant pitcher to lose three straight. New York writers .say that the pres ent St. Louis Browns club is the worst in the world. Tesreau is the' biggest man in the big leagues. He weighs 241 pounds. He is wild, but not savage. The way "Dingdong" Bell is going with Newark gives a hint that he may be back in the big show next year. New York isn't going to pledge it self on the coming election until it hears how Rube Marquard is going to vote. Eppa Rixey’s family is much dis turbed because he is determined to follow the career of a professional ball player. Rube Oldring says Amos Strunk is the fastest man in baseball today, and believes he is faster than Craig of Olympic fame. Jack Lelivelt, once a star on the Washington team, probably will be signed by the Yanks, along with Tom my McMillan. Fred Clarke is to retire as manager Df the Pirates next year and Billy Murray is to succeed him. Oh, yes, merely a rumor. Silk O'Loughlin is getting to be a tremendous disciplinarian. The other day in a game at Philadelphia he even banished the bat boy. Cy Young says that all the really great ball players come from the country. For Instance, Cub Heine ! Zimmerman of the Bronx. Cy Barger of the Dodgers is surely I a tough-luck pitcher. Cy has started nine games this season and was ; pounded off the slab eight times. Talk about winning streaks, in 1875 Boston had a team that didn't lose a game on the home grounds all sea son and only twelve on the road. The Pirates have dug up a fast out fielder in Eddie Mensor, of the Port land club of the Northwestern league, paying $3,900 in cash for the prize. Marty O’Toole, the high-priced twirler of the Pirates, has been hav ing his share of hard luck. He has pitched several fine games only to lose them. Jake Stahl is not overconfident that his bunch will be able to pull through. The Woodlawn banker is too good a business man to figure anything a sure thing. Washington fans are going to pre sent Clyde Milan with a gold crown at the end of the season—though what the dickens he'll do with it no body knows. St. Louis says that Arnold Hauser of the Cardinals has shoved Mike Dooian of the Phillies off the map as the best fielding shortstop in the game today. McGraw says: "You Can have your Cobbs, your Lajoies. your Chases, your Bakers and all the rest, but I'll take Hans Wagner for mine as the greatest ever.” George McConnell, the elongated twirler of the Highlanders, has been < pitching good ball this season, i Steady work has made McConnell a ' consistent performer. Ed Reulbach is coming Into his 1 own at last. Citizens of Santa Ana, Cal., are try ing to get Cravath to play winter ball with the team there, and overtures have also been made to Walter John son. — Hess Has a Freak Delivery. Southpaw Pitcher Otto Hess of the i Boston Nationals has the strangest de livery now extant in the major league. He plunges forward, his general atti tude being that of a diving horse, and while still kicking up the dust throws : the ball underhand. TO JUDGE A PITCHER Only Way Is to See Him in Ac tion, Says McGuire. Twirler May Have Everything in Practice, Only to "Blow" When the Real Test Comes—Fight ing Spirit Is What Counts. "The only way to tell anything about a pitcher is to see him pitch,” said Jim McGuire in response to a ques tion as to what he thought of some of the youngsters of the Tiger squad. “These boys have all the actions of pitchers so far as any one can see from the practice stunts, but until they have been under fire I decline to pass final judgment on them. “To my mind the ideal athlete is the one who is best when the neces sity for being strong is greatest. It's that old fighting spirit that counts. There are lots of fellows who are wonders in practice, no matter what line of sport they may be engaged in. But parlor boxers seldom are fighters, and many fine warm-up pitchers fall down terribly when they come to face the music In a regular game. "Many a time 1 have warmed up men who had everything that I ever have seen a pitcher display. Speed, curves, control and everything else would be theirs and I would feel con fident that they would be able to win that day if we got them a couple of runs. Then these fellows would go out to the center of the diamond and show me about half of what they had displayed In warming up prac tice. ii isn t always a lack or gameness that accounts for a pitcher’s failure to do as well in a game as in practice. Some of the men are so anxious to win that they work themselves into a stew. There are plenty of fellows who are game yet can't do their best when they want to. It seems to be a sort of a baseball instinct that en ables the great pitcher to rise to the emergency. He has that fighting spirit, but at the same time keeps his head cool. “The youngsters of the Detroit squad might pitch great ball when handing them up to the batters in practice with nothing depending on the outcome of the sluggers’ efforts and yet fall down against even a mediocre club in a regular game. I have seen it repeatedly happen that a twirler would make the batsmen of a strong American league club look badly when he was pitching to them in practice and then let some class E or college nine hammer him all over the place.” RELEASE OF JIM DELAHANH Ends Major League's Connection! With One of Baseball's Great est Families. The recent release of James Dela hanty from Detroit ended the major league connections of one of base balls' greatest families. For 18 years Jim D'tlahanty. the Delahantys have been prominent in the game. Ed Vas the greatest ot the family, and his name will remain engraded on the scroll of the pastime while the game survives. Edward. Thomas. Joseph and Frank, however, all played big league ball. .-... * > ■- .... ■ Praise Etch Other. Bill Bergen, former Brooklyn catch er, exiled to the International leagua says that George Pell, his fellow-exile is a better pitcher than anything Bill Dahlen has on his Brooklyn team out side of Rucker and that Bell will show it when he gets back In the big league Bell returns the compliment and says Bergen is so much better than any thing on the Dodger catching stall that there is no comparison. Precarious Risk. "Rudd" Held, umpire in the Connec icut league, has discovered that a jaseball umpire is regarded by life md accident insurance companies as in undesirable risk. His employment ■anks with that of the aviator as a langerous calling, the insurance men lay. Held tried every company in the •ountry without result, until recently, vhen an eastern company, at a special ate, took his risk. ,Army Officer It Ambitious. George Bearers, a lieutenant in the l nlted States army, has applied to (Voiverton for a try-out with the ranks. Beavers was at one time a •ta!r diamond and gridiron athlete at iVest Point, and since that has been ubduing belligerent natives In the Philippines. Ex-White Sox Doing Well. Freddie Parent and Amby McCon ’.al, two ex-White Sox, are playing ;ood ball In the International leagutw