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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 16, 1912. 5 A. REAL ESTATE TITY VH OPBHTY FPU SALF. West Farnam Home We are instructed to sell within next two weks a beautiful 8-room, fully mod ern east front home in choicest part of Wert Farnam district, built by present owner by day's labor; quartered oak finish, stairway and floor 1st floor; best enamel work 2d floor; attic floored and finished; fine trees and lawn; cement walks and steps; owner leaves Omaha July 1. This is your opportunity; can be seen Sunday by telephoning Harney 2552 zor particulars, see Harrison & Morton $M Omaha Nat. Bank Bldg. D. 314. 25 Feet-$700 Lake St, second lot west Telephone Exchange; 25x122; two car lines. Resi dence or business. By and by lake will be a business street. Owner, Weoster 2612. 815 South 28th St $1,500 Three-room house. Lot 56x140; paving paid,; 160 feet south of Leavenworth. Armstrong-Walsh Co. Tyler 1536.' 210 S. 17th St. OFFERS ASKED "$300 CASH, THAT'S ALL." Will buy any of the following at your own prlee: 1518 Ohio St., nice, almost new, dandy, large 9-room corner home, all modern xoept heat. 3614-1$ Blnney St. "Small investment." A double house rented for $21 per month. 1441 N. 20th St.. 2 good cottages; live la one; rent the other. 21st and Chicaso sits., a 3-story brick. 10-room house, all modern, good for Rooming house; will consider a trade for vacant lots or machine. HARRY WOLF. 132 Brandels Bldg. Doug. 8068, A-3571. Close-in $500 Nine rooms, completely modern, an ex lellent house, just one block off 25th and Dodge; garage and driveway. Can rent It $55. Price Is 5,500; $500 cash and bal Inoe monthly. Glover Realty Syndicate. ON SOUTH 33D STREET Just south of Leavenworth Is a large l-reom modern house, finished in oak ind maple, located on fine east front lot, street paved; Just a step to Leaven porth car. Price reduced to $:W50. PETERS TRUST COMPANY, 1622 Farnam St. . DUNDEE HOMES 8,700-4811 Cass St., 7 rooms, recp. hall, liODERN. good repair, full lot, good iarn, street paved, one of the choice loca llons. - Dundee owner will sacrifice for lulck sale. Will submit offer. $2,500-810 No. 50th Ave., 6 rooms, full bt, deslrahle location. Owner leaving lity. Will submit reasonable offer. Owner In premises, will show you, or phone me. Doug. 147. Sundays and evenings, Har- ,6y Sm GEORGE MARSHALL. 218 Board of Trade Bldg. 5-Room Bungalow $2,600 Nearly new and all modern, located on Lake St., close to Sherman Ave. car line. Unyone desiring a small home at a leasonable price should investigate this. the Byron Reed Co. Both 'phones. 212 South 17th St. 5-ROOM cottage, in beautiful Clifton Hill.' large lot, $2,100. Small easy pay- "-room cottage, modern, but heat, large ibrner lot, cement walks, one block to lar, beautiful lawn, $2,000. Easy terms. SILAS ROBBINS, IIS. 15th, Room 22,' Tel. P. 2842, A-2842." noi a rMrA4-.rf -ir.A in 7-T modern lut heat. Just overhauled. Two bed rooms Jrst floor, fine bath; shade trees. Mod irate rent to right person.; See it today. Jeorge B. Lenhoff- Phone Douglas 805. FOR SALE BY OWNER New, modern 8-room house in Dundee; lak finish downstairs and oak floors up ind downstairs; white enamel finish, with hahoganired doors, upstairs; sleeping torch, fireplace, cistern and large laun Iry; half block to car; paved street and lhade trees. 4916 Chicago St. Harney 4821. ""FOR" SALS Reasonable priced modem llx-room house, one-half block from car, iaved street and fine location. Inquire if owner, 2415 Manaerson ot. iei. vcu. Offermaxi, 1110 Douglas St. Five-ft. bath tub, $12.50. All trimmings, $3.00. 18x30 wash stand, $2.50. Steam and gasoline engine, elevator supplies and fittings. WE DO PLUMBING. B'OR SALE, by owner, a brand new, itrlctly modern 6-room house, between I5th and 26th on Corby St., $2,900. REAL ESTATE FARM fe RANCH LANDS FOR SALE Arkansas. LOOK 380 acres stock farm. 110 a. cul jvated; house, barn, 10 a. apple orchard, inllmlted free range grass and water, rlcer $12-50 per acre; big list free. Ward, Jie Land Man, Mountain Home, Ark. Australia, VICTORIAN "GOVERNMENT IRRIGATED LAND Tracts from 2 to 200 acres on 31-year payments; price $35 to $66 an acre; set tlers can pay off land at any time and become absolute possessors; abundant lupply of water; climate same as Cali fornia; lands close to thriving towns with free schools; government wants settlers. Write to government agents: Peck-Judah Co., 687 Market St., San Francisco, for full particulars as to fares and conces sions offered to settlers." California. CALIFORNIA farms; perpetual water fights; 6 crops annually; station 3 miles; beautiful climate; $100 per acre. $1 monthly.. Chas. Cooper, 4C0 Phelan Bldg, Ban Francisco, Cal." CALIFORNIA LAND. For sale on easy terms, 21,000 acres of the finest land in the Ban Joaquin Val ley, California. In tracts of 320 acres of more. Fine Boll, plenty of water. Price MS to $60 per acre. Will be worth $150 per acre within three years. Send for pam phlet. Wholesale Land Department CO-OPERATIVB LAND & TRUST CO.. 585 Market St., San Francisco, Cal. UNUSUAL Especially attractive be cause Its trees are bearing now. Why wait? Fruits and almonds. Only $30 cash, 1 per month. By the best town north of Sacramento, Go with us next trip while they last. Ask for attractive literature. W have a fine little party Tf three go ing and want two more. Transportation paid both waV-s on this trip. Can buy How and go later, for "Money back if not pleased"' Is guaranteed. Chas. William ton Co., Omaha, Neb., (Bank and busi ness house references.) Canada. BRITISH COLUMBIA lands on GRAND ThUNJC. Frank Crawford, 203 Cotton Elds., Vancouver or Omaha, 1 V 1 ft 1 is.. 4m VmnnMn At. ben, western Canada's distributing ccn tirj ;jlfl Ut $130. Term. JLW down and fl,0 a week. Canada Laces Company, Kdmontcn, Alberta. Colorado. 600 acres Irrigated grain, alfalfa and Vegetable farm; two sets improvements, good witter rights, 50 miles east of Den ver, on Platte river; want good mercan tile or Income property. Might consider mailer faun. Address X 41 Bet. REAL ESTATE FRM A llWCII I. AMIS VOU SALE Colorado. 80 acres, irrigated, in the best part of the San Luis valley. A double system of irrigation guarantees an ample supply of water for lrrli-tirm Rl('h rhlVAlota .nil twnA n.U hlAr. artesian wells only six miles to a rail road town. This is virgin soil, cleared and plowed, readv tO Kfteri It la nff.i f,,.. nnlflr sale at $50 per acre, easy terms. Write for full particulars. Tho Charles E. Gibson Co.. 1017 First National Bank Bldg. Denver, Colo. IDLE MONET. WHY let your money lay Idle when you can buy land at ridiculously low prices and no better outlook ever known in Colorado for fruit and general crops. Buy at half price and make money. Tell me what you want. L. W. Llndermann, 823 First Nat. Bank Bldg.. Denver. Colo." LAND Finest farm land in Colorado and west ern Nebraska. We are Just opening up new tracts. Soil, black loam, clay sub soil; fine water, level roads, good market. Wheat yield from 25 to 40 bushels. Land pays for itself In two years. PLATTE RIVER VALLEY LAND CO., 608-10 City National Bank Bldg., Omaha, Neb. GREAT SOUTH GEORGIA Traversed by the ATLANTIC, BIRMINGHAM-ATLANTIC R1ILROAD. Lands adapted to the widest range of crops. All the money crops of the south plentifully produced. For literature treat ing with this coming country, its soil, climate, church and school advantage, write W. B. LEAHY. DEPT. K, General Passenger Agent. ATLANTA; GA. Idaho. MOST productive hay and grain land In the world Long Valley. Idaho. No ir rigation needed; fine climate, fine water, cheap fuel, telephones, railroad, elec tricity. Improved land $25 to $60 per acre. Also finest orchard land proposition in Idaho, for lutormation write today. Pay ette River Colonization Co., Nampa, idano. THE easiest way to find a buyer for your farm is to insert a small want ad In the Des Moines Capital. LargeBt cir culation in the state of Iowa. 43.000 dolly. The Capital is read by and believed in by the standpatters or lowa, wno simpiy re fuse to permit any other paper In their homes. Rates. 1 cent a word a day; $1.25 per line per month; count six ordinary words to tfte line. Address uea aioines Capital. Des Moines, la. 133 ACRES POLK COUNTY. IA. Good six-room house, cellar, summer kitchen, good orchard, 110 pine and spruce trees, wind break, horse barn for 14 head of horses, cow barn for 22 cows, two large cattle sheds, 60-foot machine shed, 3 good wells, wind mill, orchard and house yard fenced chicken tight, 70 acres fenced hog tight In three dif ferent fields, hog house, running water on place; IV acres of fine timber. For particulars inquire of F. J. Foy, Max well. Ia. A CLOSE-IN INVESTMENT 24 acres on N. Broadway, Council Bluffs, suitable for truck farms or a city addition: good 7-room brick dwelling, five acres orchard, barn ana other improvements, now within about half a mile of the street car line, which will, no doubt, be ex tended on Broadway, beyond this prop erty; divided Into suburban lots would make a splendid investment; good resi dences all along Broadway beyond this property; price, $500 per acre; terms. See U w. Tuiieys or the McGee Seal Estate Co., Council Bluffs, Ia. SMALL FARM BARGAIN. 5 miles out: 15 acres: all excellent land. suitable for any purpose; 5 acres in alfalfa; no buildings; cheapest good land near either city at $1,650; $250 cash, bal ance long time at 6 per cent. KIcGee Keai estate Co, 105 Feari bt., council Bluffs. Louisiana. Corn and Hogs in Lousiana You can buy a section of land in west ern Louisiana, suitable for a hog ranch, at about the cost of forty or fifty acres in Nebraska. You can raise corn, cow peas, sweet potatoes, peanuts and soy beans in very profitable quantities rnd make pork at a less cost than in the north. There are numerous other things you can very profitably raise in Louis iana and enjoy a balmy climate as well. Vegetables, fruits and flowers very early in the spring make life worth living. Full information and nicely illustrated litera ture sent free on request. Wm. Nichol son, Immigration Agent, Kansas City Southern Railway, 195 Thayer Bldg., Kan sas City, Mo." Minnesota. BIG land boom starting In northwestern Minnesota. Get in the gamebuy some cheap land on easy terms. Cheap excur sion rates. We aave our iwn sa.esmea and oifices at Thief River Falls, Minn.: Broadview, Mont.; Gooding, Idaho, and Seattle, wash, write tor rates and par ticulars. Our reputation and financial responsibility are unquestioned. Good agents wanted in every locality. Write now today. ELWOOD LAND CO., (Incorporated). 927-928 Andrus Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. FAMOUS Red River valley prairie land, 320 acres Wilkins county, Minn.; one mile from Lawndale; for quick sale, $25 acre. 160 acres, all cultivated; buildings, large grove, close to school, $46 acre; easy terms. See them now. Cloverland, Scan dinavian Bank, St. Paul, Minn. FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. 320-acre farm 2 miles from good town, 40 miles from Minneapolis, on main road, telephone and mail route. 75 acres under cultivation, 70 acres good meadow will cut over 100 tons of hay; balance In pasture with 90 acres good oak timber, can all be opened up. Land-lays level, good soil in the best of condition, no stono or gravel and no foul weeds. Good seven room house1 In splendid grove with other buildings, good well and water. An Ideal stock and dairy farm. Selling on account of Old age. Price, iib per acre for quick sale. CHAS. E. SWANSON. Elk River, Minn. MINNESOTA LAND, CLAY AND NORMAN COUNTIES. 20,000 acres In fine Improved and unim proved land in the corn belt; close to good towns; heavy black loam soil; clay subsoil; plenty rain; crop failures un known; $30 to $50 per acre; easy terms. Excursion first and third Tuesday of each month. Send for list and maps. FELLAND REALTY COMPANY, 530 Palace Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Montana. RANCHES-12,000 to $100,000. Send for list. Shopen & Co., Ranch Dealers, Omaha, Neb. IRRIGATED lands, lower prices than government lands. Splendid bench land from $12 to $18 per acre; easy terms; un rivaled opportunities for raising winter wheat, spring grains and alfalfa; also truck farming, poultry raising and or charding. Free booklet. Write Secretary Deer Lodge Commercial Club. Nebraska. FOR SALE 160 acres all fenced; 80 acres under cultivation; (-room house, X2 x62 bam; 16x20 chicken house; 16x16 gran ary; 10x12 stone milk house, windmill and good water; located five miles from Chappell, $40 an acre takes this bargain; half down and mortgage for balance. Address Mrs. Christie Jacobs, Chappell, Neb. HOMESTEAD 320 acres rich farm land at $250 filing fees and all. Not rough or sandy. J. A. Tracy, Kimball, Neb. NEBRASKA. Quarter section of forty-bushel wheat land, mile and half from station; must be sold. J. H. Hardisty, Thief River Falls, Minn. JNorth Dakota. FOR EXCHANGE 730 acres In Guthrie Co., Ia.; clear; want good ranch In east ern Neb.; must be first class and In corn belt. 160 acres In Scott's Bluff Co., Neb.; want small Iowa farm, fid, Kelly Creighton University .. College " 4talK 1 REAL ESTATE FARM RANCH LANDS FOR SALE North Dakota. $1 AN ACRE DOWN. BALANCE SMALL YEARLY PAYMENTS. A poor man's opportunity to get a rich North Dakota wheat farm, $20 to $30 an acre, tO.OOO acres to select from, 320 acres in Morton Co. for $20 an acre. Low Ry. rates. Free maps and facts about our lands and business sites In new liy. towns. Reliable agents wanted. See or write Wm. H. Brown Co., Haynes, dams Co., or Mott, Hettinger Co., North Dakota. Adair. Ia. OUlnhoma. HERE'S a chance for a man who un derstands dairying to get a nice 40-acre farm in southeastern Oklahoma, 1H miles from main line Missouri Pacific, in good live town. Land lays high and Is nearly level. Has good 5-room house, good well, barn, and is fenced and cross-fenced. No better place to raise fruit and chick ens. Two crops of potatoes can be raised, the first crop usually brings $1.50 per bushel and the second about $1. If you have an Omaha or a suburban resi dence or good acreage near car line, I will be pleased to tell you more about this farm. I paid $3,500 for, It. but owing to change In plans cannot use It. Write Box 515 Benson, Neb. If your property Is what I yant and Is worth more money than farm I ml(?ht put In some other good Benson property. Sooth Dakota. ' FOR SALE One of the best quarter sections in Rosebud country, i miles from Winner, county seat of Tripp county, S. D.; good house, barns; very fine well, 95 acres In growing crops; all fenced and cros fenced; can be sold on easy terms. J. W. MeC'ann, Dallas, 8. D. EQUITY In 2 sections of splendid Texas land in Sherman county, south of Cold Water. H mile of townslte; some Improvements; partly under fence. Land selling around it at $30. Will sell whole piece at W per acre. It will develop worth $75 in one year under Improve ments. Great opportunity for good farm. Address P. C. Barldon, care Central As bestos & Supply Co., 215 E. 4th St., Des Moines. Miscellaneous. T. C. TORRISON, D. 1101. 802 City National Bank Bldg. Farm Land and Ranches, CTC7: fS i75F MS ' MW-MLJM -J. Thomas Zeentn Thomas KameJy Basil ZmplueziW 2Tixice2Tjlh& Thorn Xefiaall Wl taker REAL ESTATES. FARM RANCH LANDS FOR SALE Miscellaneous. Land Opening We 'have Just purchased one of the richest tracts of land, suitable for general farming, poultry raising, dairying, truck ing and fruit growing In the United States, and have subdivided It and thrown It open for settlement In small tracts. To a few farmers, poultry raisers, dairymen, truck or fruit growers who would make good neighbors, we are willing to dlfpose of some of this land at a small part of its real value; In fact, less than you would pay for land In a new country away from transportation. This land is located on the MAIN line of the Illinois Central Railroad and only a few hours' ride trom the great markets of Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cin cinnati, Louisville, Kansas City and Memphis. There is no ritfner soil on earth than this section. We have sworn affidavits from farmers and truck growers showing what they have made in a single year: H800 PER ACRE ON CABBAGE t2"0 PER ACRE ON POTATOES. ? "4 PEtt ACRE ON MELONS. in r,rH ApRR ON TOMATOES. 1600 PER ACR35 ON PEACHES. : I...- i oourfht and paid for, hence we are In a position to make terms to the right parties. Take any number of acrs you want (from five acres up), $2 per acre down and easy terms on the balance. Write or call today. Your name and address on a post card will bring affi davits, maps, printed information and pictures of the property. This will not put you under obligations j to ub whatever and is absolutely FREE to all. J N. VOGEL. 415 Karbach Block. Persistent Advertising is the Road to Big Returns. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS, bU 1114 tor record June II, 11 1: D. Hitler to R. O. Monnell, mi orei of cS . of nw, J-H-U t 1 W. J. ltke to Mur A. Knrlnht. lot 13 Swetmtn't fubdlr ot yt bloclti M and 09. South Omaha 3.OS0 Ed Miber to W. J. like, lot 13, 8wetmn'i ubdtv ot wtt hlockt M and M, South Omoi ' '.SCO M. C Parker to H. L. Arnold. a40 feat lot 17, O'KMfe'l Hilleraat add 2,160 i. W. RoMnaon t N. Laaderyou, lot I, BelbT Helshta add 1"! I U Row to H. A. McCord, let J, El- lUtont Park Place........ 460 ur T T S3SS9tt fc - .""afc,. - - . j pit' J il " ( llj of Liberal Arts, Mrti T CATS A MENACE TO BIRD Prowling: Felines Kill and Rat at: Average of Fifty Songster m Year. Herbert K. Job, state ornithologist of Connecticut, is after the cats. He pre sents a strong case against them in the following statement, which ho has given out: "On a wild tract of land In Connecticut used as a gamo preserve, remote from any town or v!lle, during the first year and a half of Its recent operations the keeper In churge killed forty roving cats, and during the next year two dosen more. Many of these were evidently homoless, having relapsed Into tho condition of wild animals. Others were house cats, accustomed to roam, mostly by night, miles from their homes. All were prey ing on birds and wild gam. ThlB Is no exceptional case, but typical of what goes on everywhere. "People often wonder why our song and Insectivorous birds which are pro tected by law do not Increase. The real wonder Is that they havo not long since been exterminated, with an army of hunt ing felines, especially In the vicinity of towns, roaming everywhere In the breed ing season, searching for nests and young birds. If the neet Is on the ground or anywhere that a cat can climb the case Is almost hopeless. "Even If out of reach, the young when learning to fly are almost sure to flutter down and get caught. If one wll! look around near home he will often find empty nests which have been robbed of eggs or young. Tha cat Is a born hunter and nearly all of them hunt for wild game, even though their owners do not suspect it. It Is a very moderate esti mate to assume that the cat, on the average, slays one bin! a week, gay fifty each year. "In most parts of Europe birds are said to be much more abundant than with us, though they are shot and trap ped much more freely, A well known naturalist, who has traveled much in those countries, considers this due In con Class of 1912 Vs &hn O'Connor H&teel uiaat siderable measure to the comparative absence of cats. It seems to him a locni peculiarity of the American people to tolerate In their homes numbers ot tcett half-wild animals, a queer, abnormal fad. In Europe the possession of cato Is tail to be regulated by law. A common bar' barity Is the practice of abandoning cai-j by people changing their residence, leav ing them to suffer and to prey upon society. In pity I havt taken these home less starving creatures and ' fed them. At one shore resort In Connecticut I have been told that there oro from fifty t;i a hundred homeless cats, abandoned by summer cottagers, eking out a wretched existence 1 around the piers." Hartford Courant. .Cost of Great Work. Panama canil (estimated) when com pleted (not Including payment to defunct French Panama Canal company and re public of Colombia, 1375,000.000, Grand Central terminal. New York, t-l),000.000. Pennsylvania railroad terminal, New York, 100,000,000. Buer canal, $10.).00ft,000. New York Interboro subway, (when completed In 1018), 176,000,000. Manchester (England) ship canal, $75, 000,000. I.rie canal, $52,540,800. Manhattan bridge. New York. $26,000,050. Urooklyr. bridge, $22,400,000. Wlllla-nsburg bridge. New York, $2J, 100,000. Wellnnd fcht-.-. r.nn1. tl7M.m. I Quecnsboro bridge. $17,25S,C00. St. Uot'hnrd tunnel. $15,000,000. Slmplon tunnel, $23,232,000. Harlem Rlvr ship canal, $2,700,000. Denver Republican. Grieved. "Now, what are you feeling bad about?" "Oh, I am utterly wretched. He doesn't love me as I love him." "How do you know?" "Why, we discovered iRst evening that the day we have set for our wedding day In the day of the opdlntr of the bane ball season, and sIho there's a big bargain scle on at ono of the down-town stores." "And he wanted to change the date of the wedding?" "We both wanted to change it. He couldn't miss the opening game, and I Jupt couldn't dream of missing those bar gains." "Well, then I-" "But he wanted to have tha wedding a day later while It was me suggested hav ing It a day sooner." Houston Post. NEW RECORDS WILL BE HADE Yankee Athletes Have Not Beached Zenith of Their Fli&ht jb. INCENTIVE ONLY lh NEEDED Competition for Kntry Into Olyna piad Haa Been Keener In Track r ana Field Event Tha tZZ Ever Before. NEW YORK, Juno 15.-That the Amer-; lean athl-te has not yet achieved thr senlth of his flight after records It be--, coming move apparent every day. Given the proper Incentive and training and new figures In many of the events form ing the average nlthletlc neet program -can and will be bettered In seasons to cme.t This was proved by the thorough manner in which the United States track and field stars went after the Olympic recorda on the ova of the fifth Interna tional games to bo held at Stockholm next month. The Incentive needed to spur on the., best performers in club and college circlet was mrpUed In th destre to make tha team which represents this country In the Swedish stadium during the garnet ; July 6 to 15. As a result the competi tion has been keener In all branchet of track and field sports this spring than In many years. Record after record hat been wiped out and replaced by better times and distance! until it would appear that "of the breaking of recorda thera la no end." I . So general and widespread haa been' this successful assault on figure! thought to be Invincible that even the leading athletio authorities henitate to fix a limit en the future performances of the spiked shoe clan. With Gardner of Yalo vaulting 1$ feet 1 inch; Hortne cleaxln; the . bar In the running high jump at 6 feet 7 Inches; Rose ahatttrlng tha thot put figures; Duncan the discus record, and a score of runners equalling or Mr son for the national enthusiasm with which thia country It backing the Amer ican team in tha fifth Olympiad. Never 9 a eh n Season. Discussing tha epidemic of record, breaking James E. Bulllvan of tha Amer ican Olymplo committee recently eald: "I am ready to throw up my nandt to far at the future It concerned. There never has been such a season for all around athletio success at the present one. We all expect a record to go here and there each year, but when they be gin to fall In bunchea, why. you can't, blame the old timera If we Just tit back aghast. Of courae new records in Olympic eventt are not to remarkable at In our regular Amateur Athletic union contests, since It It only once In four years that the American performers com pete In these odd distances. Outside o Olympiad yesrt, for Instance, there are no trials at 100 meters, which, figured according to American athletio standards, equals a trifle over 109Vi yards. "It Is not surprising, therefore, that thfise odd distance records should be fre quently broken under constant attack by our atnletes trained to the minute tor the American trials. The very fact that" regular standard events, like the pole vault and high jump, go by the board. Is a better Indication of the form that the club and college athlete has reached. As to the reason for this athletio condi tion, 1 think it can be divided Into three classifications: First, bettor and more scientific training methods; second, the general growth of, athletlct Itt all part of the nation, and, v third, the unusual amount of interest and training created by the fuot that this Is an Olymplo games year. llr-Uevra In Yankee Ability. "These, of course, apply to the par ticular and present epoch of record breaking. I am and havo been for years a firm believer in the ability of the American athlete to load the world In this lino of sport. Some years ago, dur ing an athletic discussion In the Chicago , Athletio assocsiatlon club house, I, K. Baxter and Myer Prinstelm both Olymplo honor men, asked me If I believed that a pole vaulter would ever clear thirteen feet and a broad Jumper twenty -five feet I answered, Tea.' The pole vaulter has arrived in Gardner, and I expect to see a twenty-five foot jump at Stockholm next month. Furthermore, the 8-seoona sprinter will arrive one ot these days in the person of soma big. powerful atnleta with the nervous temperament necessary, for such a feat. Ha will be a high-powered human mechanism, capable ot hurl ing himself the full 100 yards at top speed, from the second he leaves the starting pit and then another so-called Impossible sthletlo achievement will be chronicled. "o far as I can see be Isn't In sight at this moment, but these athletio tor ntdoeit sometimes burst into view with out preliminary warning, and for that Tna:,t I can t say that such a sprinter may not be competing at the Olymplo gsmu In July. Even should he fall to appear we will have plenty to enthuse over and be proud of, for I feel certain I that fully 7a per cent of the present 1 Olyniplo records will be broken at the ritocUholm meet if weather and track conditions are propitious. That the Amer ican athletes will assume a commanding lead In this department of the Olympiad I have not tho slightest doubt." What She Needed. A wandering peddler Stopped at a touthern cabin and opened his pack. "Mammy, let me show you some self raising umbrellas," he began. "No use, man; no use," interrupted tha old colored woman, as she busied her self about a boiler of clothes. "Cay n't. use nothing lak dat." "How about self-raising . window shades?" "No good heah", kase dey ain't any windows wuff talkln' about." "Self-raising buckwheat?" - "No good, to me we eat cohn pone. But, mister ' "Well, mammy?" "If you'll tell me how to tuhn dese heah fohteen bad chlilun Into self-raisin' pick aninnies Ah 11 be you' fren' foh hfe, dat Ah will sah."-Clnclniiatl Commercial Tribune. 'lhe Kxttfcaeratlona of Science. The sanitary scientist was gathering wild flowers In mid-Af ilea. "Be careful," they said to him, "lest you meet a lion." "I would far rather," replied the eanlta ttonlst "meet a lion any day than a mosquito!" Just a little later he met a lion.1 ' They claim he looked once at tho beast and then ran a full-sized marathon and tell over a cliff a mile high! Query: What does he do when he meets a mosquito? Cleveland Plain.) Dealer. , -v I The Woe of the RJa rater. The editor looked up. "I can't say I Just like the way your poem begins' he said. "You say 'This Is the month when roses bloom. I don't dispute the fact, but it isn't timely." "Not timely! What do you mean?" "I mean that owing to a press of other poetical matter we can't possibly print your verses before neat December. Bet- ler maRE uiui una reau, xms tm w ; monm wnen onzsara oioom. Put the poet gathered up hit poem an' sadlv went his way. Cleveland 11 Dealer.