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fUE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE$ 'AUGUST B, MOflL" ! t SPORTING GOSSIP OF WEEK Bale af Wloh and Fsrricc Postponed Temporarily at LeuU PAPA BILL INSISTS ON REAL MONEY Tea RalllTSB Tell a Lot ot Good tterles, bat Falls to rroeae the tsah Seeded to dose the Deal. Not yet; but aoon. Harrry Welsh and Qeorga Perring have not bwn sold aa yet. but they will be. Alt week Ted Sullivan kited Papa Bill around town, telling funny stories and other thing, Sr ut when It comea to real money there raj nothln' doln'. Papa BUI la quite wil ling to Bell either or both of these splendid players to a big league club, but he Isn't ready for a fire aale yet, and ha hasn't announced any bargain counter prices on them. Tha magnet who buys one or the other will have to (to down Into his weasel kin for a neat little chunk of money. It's a cinch that they will be taken on draft at tha clone of the season; Papa Bill knows that, but he figures that It Is worth this to him to have some other men on the team protected from the draft to which they would be exposed If Welsh and Por ting were Bold. Sullivan wanta to buy them for Cincinnati, and Cleveland and Boston ara both flirting with the prospect. Ench Of these teams needs playera of the calibre Of Welsh and Peerrlng. and each would be (lad to get them, but eomehow neither seems to be willing to let loose of any money for them. And so It ia a caaa of wait. It has been conceded from tha start that Perring was only here for one season. His brilliant work at third has marked" him na a comer In the eyes of all base ball Judges. Welch, too, has redeemed his promise of . two seasons ago, and Is now one of tha best In the business. He would have little to lonrn In the big leagues, and all he would need would ba a chance. Hla hit ting would hold him a lob on any team. . while hla fielding and throwing would make him a star in ahort order. This Is . known to the wise ones, but they hope to gold brick the old man and get this fine pair of youngsters away for nothing. It can't be did. Back of Welch and Per iling comea Ivan Hownrd, who Is fast de veloping Into a sttar at second base. He la head and shouldera over any man now playing the position In the Western league, and If he doesn't write his name hlch on tha base ball scroll of fame, it will be because of a breakdown. He is today a better base ball player than Del ever thought of being, and with another year of experience under the training of Rourke and Long will be a fielder of whom any team would be proud. He Is a natural ball player: gawky and awkward in repose, he Is the embodiment of grnce In action. Com petent Judges have snld many times this eason that they never saw as big a man who could move aa quickly aa Howard. He covers a field all the way from the ' left of second base to the right field bleaeh ars, and goes after everything, knocking: down safe ones and gobbling impossible grounders. He still haa a tendency to fight the ball once in a while, and this usually crops out on his easiest chances. sVfHa gets Into every play, too, and with a nap and vim that showa he knowa what ba la there for. Second base baa never bean guarded in Omaha any better than It la right now by Ivan Howard. Some other playera have bluffed a little mora successfully, maybe, but they never went' after tha balls this boy Is stopping. At tha bat he la becoming a terror, too. . Ha had much to overcome here whenhe began . work in tha spring, and during the early ' games did not show very well, but of lata hl hitting has been of high order, and aa he gradually misters the new style of bat ting, he ia becoming mora and more of a menace to opposing pitchers. He Is aura to go into one of tha big leagues in an other aeaaon. Two of Papa Blll'a young pltchera showed cause for the faith he has shown In them during the week. Both Dodge and Corna hay pitched nine inning without blowing up and have won their games. They are atrong and lusty youngsters, with every thing a pltcher needa except experience, nd when thley have been aeasoned a little longer will be writing their namea along side of Borne of tha other stars who have gone out from tha lot at Fifteenth and Vinton. Ou ut In Denver it la announced that T- beau -is willing to aeU out his half of the Denver franchise and plant, but the upset price la not atated. If Tebau would part with hla holdings there for a reasonable figure, it would ba a glorloua thing for lha gajna In Denver and for the whole Western league. Or, If he would sell out in Louis ville and Kanaas City and go back to Den ver, he would find tha fsns aa eager aa aver to aee good ball. The mistake he has made la trying to control too many towna. Peo ple reaent this form of base ball manage ment. It Is quite likely, though, that Te beau will do In Denver as he did in Kansas City, aet the price so high no one will want to Buy. , -4- nnn. McP'arland, Messttt. Armstrong, Gib son, Welmer, Nichols, (.'able. Ienver Delehanty. Preston, Jona, Frisk, Dundon, iJevia, Rsdcllffe, Wllsnn, Eyler. MfCloekey, Weteter, Gordon, McConnell, Whltrldge. Mosklman. Milwaukee Thornton, Bone, Cockman, Gatlns. o brlen, InifTy. McVlcker I.ucia, Hannfnrd, Swormetedt, Kenna, McFnerson, Frtrken, Barbr. Colorado firings Fleming. Granville, Hemphill, Gaston, Everitt Prennen, Hol llngsworth, Congalton, McNeeley, Jones, Newmeyar. fit. Joe Welsh, Brsshear Hartman, Mayer. Belden, Robe. Roth. Hall. Maher. McFsdden, Olade. Parvln. Peorla-Vaugl.an. O'Brien, Tlbald. Ball, Moloney, Croft. laotte, Wilson, Hart, Mo Gul, Cox, Schafstall. , Des Moines Clark. Qnlnn, O t-eary. Hor fer, Warner. Burg, Backoff. Lobeck. leo ny, Morrlsson, Davla. These were the rosters of tha team aa ther played In Omaha in July of that year. Many other good playera were with the Western league teaxna during a part of the season, either before or after. And. as said in the beginning, at least six of them were1 better than the Des Moines team of this aeaaon. Raids by tha Ameri can and National have brought down the average of tha Western league, but It la still high in all departmenta but pitching. Another leain"!Itla Cantlllon might learn from the season of 190t la that sense less kicking and barking at the umpire doesn't pay and sometimes costs a good deal. In that season It coat Milwaukee the championship. Tha finish waa very close between Omaha. Kansas City, Denver and Milwaukee. Kansas City won It by virtue of a snow storm. It was a living cinch when Kid Nichols took his team out to Denver for the last trip that ha would lose wo and maybe three of the games. Omaha had to win one game to win the pennant, figuring that Kansas City would lose two at Denver. Milwaukee had to win three from Omaha to make it a cinch, no mtter what happened to Kansas City. Well, when Kansas City got to Denver a mow storm blew up and for two days the diamond at Broadway park was under such deep arms that the teama could not play. On the third day an attempt waa made to pull off a game at the Denver Athletic club's grounds, but without success, and Kansas City retained her standing at tha figures when the visit to Denver was mad. Mil waukee came to Omaha for tha closing series, and won the first two games after hard bottles. Tha third game waa all but over when the fun started. A young chap from Missouri, who didn't know too much about base ball, waa umpiring. The fact that Milwaukee waa winning could not hold back Angel Hugh Duffy'f maneatere, and during all the games they were in a con stant wrangle with the umpire. Milwaukee had the last game won when Omaha want to bat In the ninth inning. With two men out and two on bases, and three runs needed to win, Omaha's chanoe looked hopeless. But here's where the kicker got Into tha game. O'Brien In left field bgan It. and Thornton on first took It up. Cock man on third and Gatlns at ahort were into the mess, and Poet Kenna had to have hla say. When the fuss quieted down. O Brlen, Thornton, Cockman and Kenna had been benched. Muttlo McVlcker was called In from right to play first, and pitchers were put In at third, right and left. The next Omaha batter hit an easy one to Gatlns at short, who threw to McVlcker for an easy finish to the game, but McVlcker muffed the throw. A muff In right field followed. and one In left, and Omaha had the game and Milwaukee had lost the championship If O'Brien had kept his mouth Bhut for two minutes longer, ha might have said all he cared to and Kansas City could pot have won the pennant through Inability to play nil Account of the early snow storm In Denver. Thla little hit of history haa good lesson in it for barking managera. In WH Omaha, Denver and Colorado Springa each had teams that were not only atronger on tha field but also stronger on paper than the present Des Moines team The fight that year waa a memorable one. The Colorado Springa team made a runaway of it for over half the aeaaon. Just aa Des Moines haa done, and then Omaha came strong and won the pennant and Denver finished second. Jimmy Ryan waa a little weak In management that aeaaon or he mlsht have w.on tha pennant. Omaha pitchers worked remarkably well during tne closing games, and the winning atreak was hardly broken during tha laat alx weeks of the season. The game that really derld-d tha championship waa played between Omaha and Colorado Springa on an off date in the early part of September. It was a postponed game, the last one of the scheduled series between the two teams, and each team needed It to win. "Tank" Brown and Harry McNeoley were tha op posing pitchers. The score In the sUth wa t to i, when Omaha came to. bat for the last half. Del Howard, who opened tha Inning, surprised all hands by bunting. Harry Welsh, who followed him. also laid down a perfect bunt, and Howard ran from first to third, while Welsh landed safely at first. This started a eueceeslon of bunts and when th scramble waa over Omaha had the game. 6 to X and tha ball bad only been out of the diamond once and that was when "Ikey" Kahl threw It away In hi wild effort to field a bunt to first. Talk about Des Molnea being faster than those teama why. gosh all flshooks. any one of those teama would make tha present Dea Moines bunch look Ilka It waa tied to post In a base ball game. aome of these may not be sufficiently skilled to hold their own with tha cracks who will come, stiM there will be consola tions and a chance for all to play and a aplendld opportunity for all to become wll acquainted with a fine bunch of fellows and to have a fine time. The Field club la an Ideal spot for holding a large tourna ment. The lookers will accommodate all, extra ones having been placed In the locker room for Just such occasions; the cullnatr department is adequate for all demands, and no better clam of fellows can be met anywhere than at the Omaha Field club. True western hospltnllty Is always to be found, and the visitors always suy In leav ing that they were never treated better anywhere they .ever attended a tourna ment. The visitors will be taken Monday nhrht to visit the fountain of youth, a scheme of entertainment devised by the Knights of Ak-9ar-Ben for caring for the atrangers within the gates of Omaha. The goat will be especially fed and fattened up for the occasion and nothing will he left out of ho program. On Tuesday night a gymkana will be pulled off and nothing furnishes more real fun for these athletea than thla freakish athletic carnival. A dance will be given at the club Wednesday night, at which time the young women of the club will lend a helping hand In the entertainment. Thursday night the visitors 111 be taken In automobiles to view the Ights of a great city. A dinner will ba Iven at the club Friday night and some good speakers will be called In to enliven the occasion. As a grand finale a dance will be given at the Field club Saturday night The links of the Field club will be open to the visitors at all times, as well as the bowling alleys, the baths, buffet and cafe. Any communications In regard to the tournament addressed to Will Wood, rare of the club, will receive prompt attention. The golf associations of the world are each invited to send a team of four play ers to compete for the Olympic team trophy, the competition for which will be held at the Glen Echo Country club, Bt. Louis, Mo., on Monday, September I. The competition Is at thirty-six holes, medal play, total medal scores of each team to count. The association, whose team has the lowest total score, will have the custody of the trophy until the next competition and have its name inscribed thereon. Each member of the winning team will be awarded a ellver replica of the Olympic cup. There Is no entrance fee for the Olymplo team competition. Thla la an association and not a club team meet. All the members of a team may, however. be from one club, but the entry represents the association of which the club Is a member and not the club. Therefore all entries for the Olymplo team competition must be made through on officer of the as sociation, not of the club. All members of competing teams, not affiliated with the v estorn Golf association, are Invited to participate In all the competitions ar ranged for the succeeding days of the tournament, except the western amateur cnampionsnip, which Is restricted to mem bera of the Western Golf association. The eighth annual amateur golf cham pionship of the Western Golf association will be held on the links of the Glen Echo club at Normandy, Mo., September 6, S. 7 and 8. The competition will be played under the rules' of the United States Golf asso ciation. The winner of the competition shall be tha amateur champion of the Western Golf association for the year, and his club have the custody of the George R. Thorne trophy until the next annual championship meeting. The competition will consist of a qualifying round at thlrty-elx holes, medal play, thirty-two to qualify. Those qualifying must then com pete at match play rounds In accordance with the program. Gold medals will be awarded to the winner of the champion ship and to the player making the lowest medal score In the qualifying round. silver medal will be awaided to the run ner-up and two bronse medals to the semi nnallsts. Entries for the amateur cham plonshlp will close at o'clock, d. m Wednesday. August 29. 1906. at the office or the aecretary, 100 Washington street t-nicago. An entrance fee of S3 must be paid by each contestant. Contestants must enter through the secretaries of their re spectlve clubs, and the entrance fee must accompany each entry. All entries are suDject to the approval of the board of dl rector. All disputes must be referred to tne Dosrd of directors of this assort lion, and their decision shall be final. T following special events will be held undee ins auspices of tha Western Golf assocla "on in conectldn with Its amateur cham pionsnip competition: Tueadav. September 4. 8 p. m.-Puttln contest by efectrlo light over nini-hole putting course. Wednesday, September 8, i p. m. Two ball foursomes, eighteen v,r,ii. l.. open for those who failed to qualify In the . "i" umw ror partners Thursday, September 8, 1 p. m. Oualifv Ing round for different flight competitions " "'a. meaai play; three flights of eight each; open to all who failed to qualify for the championship and. those vil 'o the flr,t round of match play. of match play for different flight competl ciauicmi nuiea. t p. m. Boml or amerent night comnetiiinna Tlperino O'Nell Indulged In another in tervlew over at Dea Moinea ona day re cently and again howed how little he knowa about tha Western league, of which organisation he is official head. "Des Moines has the greatest team that waa ever gotten together In the Western league," aays Tip. and "He players are doing won derful work." As a matter of fact, Des Moines has the weakest team that ever led tha Western league, and only f r luck and favoritism by the umpires would now ba trailing away back. It isn't a cham pionship team, even when compared with tha Dea Molnea team of last season. Take them man for man, the Omaha team over tope Des Moines In every way exoept for pitchers. But as to Its being the best team aver put together In the Western league, Tha Bee takes occasion right here to Inform O'Nell that In IMC there were alx teama In tha Western league that could make tha present Des Moines bunch look like tha jokes of Dea Moines and I'eoi la looked that season. Omaha, Milwaukee. Denver, Kanaaa City, Colorado Springs and" Bt. Joe each bad a stronger team that aeaaon than Des Moines has now, and the race between Omaha, Kansas City, Mil waukee and Denver for first place was the etlffest fight ever rut up In base bull. Just look at this list of playera and let your memory recall some of the glorious con tests of that season while you ara amlllng at O'Nell's empty claim of premier dis tinction for the Cantlllon rowdies; Omaha Calhoun, Carter. Ocnlna, Welsh, Stone. Stewart. Dolan. Hlckey. Thomas,' Gonding. Brown. Owen, Graham. Alloway. ivaiia.is uy KMuarm, walflwn, Komn Son. Keminvr. Hlckey, Miller. Rlaley. ttliaii Omaha tennis men ara on tha oul vlve In anticipation, of tha coming of tha tlm for the Middle West tournament, which will ba held on the eourta at the Omar. Field club, beginning August 10. This wlH he the sixth annual open tennla tournament of thla association to be held In Omaha and each year haa aeea better tennla than Its predecessor. The championship of tha middle west In both gentlemen's1, singles and doubles will ba decided under the rules and auspices of tha United States National Lawn Tennla association. The winner In the alnglea will ba called upon to play tha present Middle West champion W. T. Hayes of Toledo, la. Mr. Hayes has been doing considerable work this spring on the courts with Dr. Blatherwlck the noted ambidextrous tennis expert, an Is In fine condition. He played to the sem' finals In the Western at Chicago Inst week when he lost" out. The winners of th doubles will play the present champion R. B. Fletcher and F. R. Sanderson of Galesburg, III., who will be here to defend their title. These men are experienced playera and are a hard team to beat. Indications ara. Judging from tha nume ous inquiries and letters received by Will Wood, the secretary. Con Toung and other members of tha committee, that tha at tendance will not only be larger than I any previous years, but that playera of higher atandard than ever before will be ott hand. Some of the Omaha playera at tended the tournament at Kansas City last week and the Kansas City boya will ba here to reciprocate. The management of the tournament la making an especial effort to Induce the towna of the state to sen representatives to the M'd lle West. WM1 7 . V r S 'J .I 1 -t . a i --i - i v. inn I flrT ' C;aHY'aTr1rsTfY.Tia tU 1T The Summer Camping Party that equips itself properly for aa enjoyalla hni in th woodj ia always careful to incluJa a few caaea of rick, ripe malt beer in it outfit, like (GoodTs IPeerlless IBeer A.. 1 ml vou fl tnat life ia wortn living. N ma can once taste tki rplen- J.'J U... tlnut nrnnouncinrf it a beer of commandiotf superiority and magnificent flavor. It contain, indeed, ail tne elemental atrenjtk of tne cVoicett barley and lope, t. ,' ,'. Lrewed. not dv anv of tne common processea, but by tne famous Gnnd Natural Process, a peculiar end unique old German Process, which, retain and develop, in a mot remarValle degree the life principle of the barley end the Lop. In fact human knowledge and skill cannot produce e more truly and wkolesome and deliciou kottled keer. "PeerlesT contain not more tkan Z percent of alcokol, enougk to jut timulate digestion. It ka keen krewed and oU for more tkaa keif a century. Peerless wken first produced, it if PeerleM (till. Bottled at tke kome plant only. Sold at all reputable kotel. restaurant and I..M. hni wan mast ask lor It by name. The borne trade m specialty. Try a case delivered tki very day. Telepkone, write or call Taste it once and youll rcmemker it forever. JOHN GUND BREWING CO., LA CROSSE, WIS. V. c. HKVDKX, Manager, 1320-22-24 Leavenworth Street, Omaha, Nob., Telephone Douglas 2344. . . BARNHAUT & KLEIN, Wholesale IMatributera, 102 West Broadway, Council Bluff, la. and steps are now being taken to ascertain what reception such a movement would meet with here. To this end President J. Rowland Hill of tha English Rugby union, which governs the game on the other side, has addressed the chairman of tha faculty advisory committees of the various leading universities to learn their temper on the matter, and if the replies received are favorable to the undertaking a team will be sent acrors. These letters have gone to Tale, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell, Chicago, Michigan, Min nesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, California, Oregon and Washington and to a number of other friends of the game throughout the United States. For tha first time ?n tha history of ath letics a team of foot ball players Is to be sent from this country to contest abroad. They will be the famous members of the Kerry Oacllc foot ball team, and they will make a tour of Ireland to kick against the picked teams of the F-merald Isle. For thla purpose Denis Buckley, an enthusiastic Kerry man, haa contributed $1,000. The Kerry men's team has been reorganized by Captain "Tom" 'O'Connor, and the children of the County Kerry believe It Is the best aggregation of Gaelic foot ball playera In the world. BILIOUSNESS, HEARTBURN, NAUSEA rle rraa s lor4n4 Monsab. Indtgesttoa, sorvU livei, asosttsae Buvsieurv.aewuUiUiUusuuMS. Jftw Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient Im. D. I. u. Of. I a " enYe ef MttMTOM, eomcto th aebtltr Mri ZuruTa f ueuw eexee awrulu li-Hu.n, u.'lu.u sua U HE. A (jeliotuM. tlhnMrwl drink, oooHns ens rfrhlnf . ?JUii?K Rk7toxuejrmiJl1U4uiuaI it at amy A Prrfr. SO . tl 00 t, Me fm TBI TAIIABT CO, 44 tmtmm t. Dew Terk. tlons, finals eighteen holes. Saturday, September , 10: a. m.-Flrst 1 I. '"'" or nigni competitions nuirs. p. m. Second half o nnsis ror night competitions, eighteen 11 tra. . n, in . t e n ei'j I ninn rin rn, i Lplays not In the finals of the various com iwniHMi., eignieen noies. frizes donated th. ...n.lntln K.. Glen Echo Country club will be awarded inr winner or escu special event. These special events are entrants for the amateur championship .. .ituuivo 10. vi j lor inai competltlo being the sole entrance fee nilr.ri Members of the Olympic teams, not mem bers of cluha affiliated with the tlon. are Invited to participate In these un-iai went,. ' Players competing for the amateur cham piuu.mp man nave tne rignt or way an priority over contestants In other event . Entries for these special events may be maue 10 any memoer or tne tournumen cumraiuig at ine nrat tee. Th first annual dog show of the liar Har bor Bench Show association will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 16, 17 and 18. The list comprises classes for all recognized breeds of dogs. In addition to the regular competition there are a number of unclassified specials for blood hounds, Bt. Bernards, Great Danes, fox hounds, pointers, setters, collies, old Eng lish sheep dogs, Dalmatians, chou chous, bulldogs, bull terriers, sporting spaniels, alrdale terlera, French bulldogs, Boston terriers, beagles, dachshunds, fox ter riers, Irish terriers, Scotch terriers and toy apanlels. The officers of the club are as follows: President, Ed ward Morrell; vice president, Charles B. Pineo; secretary and treasurer. W. If. N. Vass; while the judges of the show will be M. F. Mulcahy, Peabody, Mass., Boston terriers; F. J. Lendler. Greenwood. Mass., pointers, setters and foxhounds, and E. M. Oldham, New York, of all other breeds. A Cresceus, !:. the world's champion trotting stallion, now owned by M. W. Sav age Pf Minneapolis, who bought the horse for 121.000 at an auction aale In this city, haa positively refund to he trained or given any fast work by E. C. Hersey, who trains for Savage. There; Is a chance of a team of Englleh Rugby foot ball players visiting the Tnlted States next year. There has been a strong movement on the part of friends of the game on both sides of the Atlantic to secure Its Introduction Into America If the univer sities and college will seriously take It up. FEW DEATHS BY LIGHTNING Facts and Ftcares More Reassuring; (or the Timid Than Feather Beds. Timid people who are afraid of being killed by lightning should take refuge in statistic rather than In feather beds. The one victim of the storm which swept over Boston recently waa leaning against an Iron bar. Yet even in thla dangerous en vironment his chances of being killed were so remote that the experience might b safely repeated by somebody else thou sands of times. The number of people who are actually killed by lightning Is brd to uscertaln, because It is so small that in most case such deaths go Into the table aa "other causes" or are cqncealed In some other fashion. The BoBton Board of Health, for example, uses the Bertillon regltry system, and here deaths caused by lightning Kould be hidden under "electrical disturbances," which Includes also execu tions by electricity, third-rail casualtlea, fatal falls from electrlo light poles and live wires, fatal shocks from dynamo, etc The registry department, which classifies deaths more correctly, does not record a single in stance of a person killed by lightning in Boston since 1901. In tha whole slat there appear to have been but three yr sons killed by electrlo shocks from tha clouds In the last three years. These figures ought to be reassuring to those wfco always shudder whenever they see a flash of lightning, in tha. thought that It is bearing death in Its wake. There Is something so Intangible about tha bolt from the clouds that the reasoning facul ties of certain people seem to"be suspended during thunder storms. They shrink from the mysterious power, even though it may be shown that more people die from the bite of the common house cat than from lightning. Such has been the case In the past. Another reason for the common fear of lightning is our unfanilllarlty with it. If tnundrr storms happened every day of the year we should probably lose our fears. Tuberculosis kills more men than war, and we do not spend millions for fighting it that- we do in preparing coast defenses and erecting great navies. People do not like to go to war, because they may get killed, but they run risks Just aa great In unsani tary conditions at home to which they give no thought. The deadly microbe is always with us, the lightning aeldom. Moreover, lte sudden action gives a dra tnaUo terror to the occasional blow which It delivers, making it vastly more Impres sive than are the quiet and mora Insidious fos of human life. Boston Transcript. and a polloeman sent to preserve order alike and emerged triumphant from the oonfllct only to be outwitted by the work men in the end. But the final victory of the workmen waa dearly bought, for a more bedraggled lot It would have been hard to find. m All were soaked and two were bruised when Mrs. Doyle jumped on them while they were In the hole which they had dug. The police man, John J. Senior, slipped away to his home to change his uniform ao did not sea the pole go up. As soon aa the men appeared Mrs. Doyle told tha torenian tnat he must not erect the pole. No attention was paid to this. Mrs. Doyle thereupon re-entered the house, but aoon came out again, thla time with a aoap box under ona arm and a big umbrella under the other. She next dragged out tha garden hose. Then, seating herself com fortably on the soap box on her lawn and with the umbrella In one hand and tha bos In the other, atie called: "Now, Archie, turn it on." "Archie" evidently did turn "it" on, for with a few preliminary sputterlngs the hose sent for a stream of water which fell upon the despollera. The men were deluged. The foreman telephoned for aid and Pollcrrran Senior responded. xx With the arrival of the policeman the electrlo company' employes evidently thought that all resistance on the part of Mrs. Doyle would cease. They were wroi.g. "Madam," said Senior, leaning easily against the fence, "you are violating the city ordinances by using water to sprinkle the street at thla time of day. I must ask you to desist." Mra. Doyle'a only reply wa to direct the hose at Senior, who atood Just about five feet away. Tha crowd which had collected caught a glimpse of Senior's blue coattailB aa he fled around the corner. Mrs. Doyle met her Waterloo when she abandoned the hose. She went to tha street and attempted to jump into tha bole. Seeing her Intention, two men Jumped In ahead of her, but she did not hesitate and Jumped in on top of them. Finding tha position rather embarrassing, she climbed out without paying the least attention to the crlea of the men below. Then ahe turned to listen to the foreman and half a dozen men who had been quietly shoving tha pole toward the hole slipped It Into Its resting place. Mra. Doyla waa defeated. Chicago Chronicle. . DELUGE FOR POLE RAISERS Philadelphia Woman Tarns tha Hose on Them, but Finally Loses tha Fight. Not with woman's usual weapon, a hat pin, but with a stream of water from her garden hose, did Mrs. Margaret Doyle de fend her home at C West Cbelten avenue, Philadelphia, when a dozen employes of the Philadelphia Electric company sought to erect a pole on her sidewalk. With cheerful impartiality aba showered laborer DOUBLE-HEARTED FREAK DEAD Haa One Famona Comes to aa End aa Queer aa His Ufs. After living for two week with on heart dead, George Llppert, 42 yeara old, whose two hearta, three perfectly formed legs and sixteen toes made him one of the wonders of P. T. Barnum's shows. Is dead at Salem, Ore., from tuberculosis. Surgeons who performed an autopsy de clare that had It not been for the eon sumption, which already had the upper hand, the death of Uppert'a right heart would not have materially affected the like organ on th left side and that he probably would have lived for years. Until seven years ago Lippert's life had been spent In the show, business. He could speak five languages and any number of dialects. A globe-trotter's career is not conducive to saving, and LJppert had only a 25 cent piece when he found himself sick and homeless In Oregon. Mrs. Mary Rlggs. a florist, gave him a home, and he quit the show business fur good, making his home thereafter with hla benefactress, In whose house he died, lis was visited here by many showmen. Besldea the usual two legs a third one grew out of his right aide and wss some what thinner than the other two, but per fectly formed. In a French train wreck Llppert sustained a fracture of his third leg and he had his nose broken. There after he wss never able to use Ma leg, but would not consent to an amputation. IJppert last fsll contracted a severe cold, which developed Into consumption. When he spparentlyi was near death two weeks ago one heart ceased beating, but with the other he clung tenaciously to life until the white plague killed him. Lost Power Restored To Men tf All Ajje If Decline Is From Usmtural Cause There ie not a man In existence who is suffering from Impotency that we cannot rebuild and strengthen so as to accomplish the great est desire and experience the keenest satisfaction, and after we have cured a case of this kind tiiere will never again be a alga of weakness except brought on by Imprudence. About three-fourths of the male population from SO to 40 yeara of aire ara troubled with, an abnormally weak condition of the organa of pro creation, and during this period by all means and at all time, this function should afford cleasure of the hlKhesi de gree, with no Impediment whatever to tha satisfaction of th dlspoBlton. Tha only obstacle of Nature's most treasured gift to man 1 disease which 1 Invarlauly brought about by the youth In bis teens or the many excesses to which man is apt to be addicted. Varicocele, emlsslona, drains, premature discharge, small organs, weak back are all symptoms of rapid decline. OUR CURB la a thorough and sclentlflp course of treatment which aots at one upon the nerve forces, stepping the drain and replacing tha worn-out and run-down tlasues. 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