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TiriC BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1913. COGK 0' THE WALK WINNER Takei Saratoga Handicap Without Being Extended Lahore Second. ROLLING STONE IS A GOOD THIRD JVo Arrrata for Violation of Anti Track Onmbllnp; Lutts Mark First Dnr of Mccl, ThnnRh Sleuth Are Present. V SARATOGA , N. Y.. Aug. X The (Springs racing season opened Saturday under Ideal weather and track conditions. Cock O'The Walk won .the Saratoga handicap without being extended. A few rods before the finish lahoro attempted to overtake the leader, but It was futile effort. Rolling Stone was t. good third. At the Btart of the feature event RolU Ing Stono made the pace to the back turn.' followed In order by Colonel Holloway and Cock O'The Walk. There lAhore rushed up even to Rolling Stone and the pair led by a length, turning Into the home stretch. Jockey Qlass then rent Cock O'The "Wnlk to the front, apparently without much Urging, and the winner galloped home. O. M. Miller was not a serious contender, the raco being a three-horse affair after the first mile. No arrests for violation of the anti track gambling laws markod the tlrst day of the race meeting, although a forco of deputies patrolled the track. Sheriff Grlppen said he had seen no violations of the law. A large forco of prlvato de tectives employed by th association also" was on duty. Private betters will be protected, but bookmaklng will be pro hibited, according to a ruling made by District Attorney McKelvy. Strong Program for Annual Blue Ribbon PETROIT, Mich., Aug. 3. With larger nd faster fields left" after the final pay ments,.the classics to be raced at the an nual blue ribbon meeting of the Grand Circuit on the Detroit track, August 11 ta if, are likely to have to take new records. The entire program Is considered strong and the Matron stake of J10.000 will as semble the pick of the 3-yoar-olds, thlrty slx being eligible to the trotting division and fourteen to the pacing. The Mer chants' and Manufacturers' stake has twelve this year and the Chamber of Commerce eleven. In the Hoard of Com merce stake for 2:16 pacers, hobbles barred, there are twelve and In the 2:18 trot eleven. Entries to the two loading stakes for all aged horses are as follows . Merchants' and Manufacturers, 2:14 trot, 510,000: Bertha Carey, Creogote, Frances Graham, Judson Girl, Mlndy C, Reusens, Santos Maid. Star Winter. Tenara, The Guide. Undo Biff and Vlvetta. Chamber of Commerce, 2:13 pace, $5,000. Del Rey, Edith C. Empire Direct, Frank Bogash. Jr.; Grattan Royal, Leativ J.. Mack Thistle. Princess Margaret, Stct brino Lad and Tom King. Tentative Programs of Sports for 1915 Fair Are Announced NEW YORK, Aug. 2. Tentative pro grams for national and International athletics in connection with the Panama Pacific exposition at San Francisco in, . 1315 were announced by Dlrector-of Ath letics James E. Sullivan today. The scheduleof sports covers a period from February 20 to December 4, during whlVh time more than eighty competitions, IrV eluding every branch of athletics in sporting contests will be held. State and national championships opsn to scholastic, collegiate and Amateur Athletic union athletes will be featured. IJaso ball, foot ball, boNlng, wrestling, rowing, bicycling, tennis, golf, gymnas tics, yachting, bowling, hockey, basket ball, shooting, swimming, hand ball and fencing have all been allotted dates In the extennlve schedule. According to the present plans almost ovory governing athlete and sporting as sociation will award its national cnam plonshlp contest to California clubs, io be held in or near San Francisco. The lead ing athletes and teasis of the BrltlHh isles and Europe will be invited to com pote and a number of the events will be held under the metric and Olympic sys tem of sports In order to prepare and familiarize contestants with the condi tions that will prevail at the Berlin Olympic games In 1916. All events will be open tp the world. No athletic competitions, will be sched uled "for women, with the possible ex ccptlon of tennis and golf. Trap Shooters as Targets for Darts of Samson's Crew Trapshooters in Omaha for the na tional tournament, citizens of Kennard and the Bon Franklin club .will -be the guests of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben to morrow night and one of the biggest featuro shows of the season has been planned. The men from Kennard will come to Omaha in automobiles headed by the town band under Bill Harrison. A special reception committee will meet them at Benson and take them to the Den. The trapshooters will meet at the Pax ton hotel at 7 o'clock and go to the Den with the Ben Franklin club members. Almost the entire membership of the Ben Franklin club belongs to the Knights of Ak-8ar-Bcn, so it Is expected that a ma jority representation will bo on hand to see the big stunts. There will be 250 trapshooters In the partv. 200 men from Kennard and a few 1'undred members of the .Ben Franklin c'ub. Doo Frye. who was a feature actor wMh the circus of last year, will reap, l'ear for the special benefit of the trap ehootflr. He will repeat the perform nucp he statred at the Den last summer. Bl'ly Oitenberg Is gathering together th forcer of Kennard, He promises to br'ng in the entire male population. - " -p trims CUBS t WISNKR, Neb., Aug. -(Special Tele- - -m Wlrner defeated the Council T.i.,f rub in a onesided game by the n-nre o' 10 tn 0 The, features were the lenvy hitting of the home team and the fielding of the Wlsner team. Score: R.TT E. JV'sner 42010300 10 ji 0 CfW-iirtl Bluffs. ...OnOOOOOOO 0 4 4 Batter'fi: Wlsner. Martin and Thomp rmv Conned Bluffs Karhy, Wallace and Ahaz. Three-base hits; Casey, E. Kane. WINNIPEG ROWING CLUB WINS MOST OF HONORS PORT DALHOVSIE. Ont, Aug, l-The (Winnipeg Rowing club, which was repr sented today at the Canadian Henle re ffatta for the first time In five year, carried off the lion's -share of honors. Its entries were successful In the senior eights and fours, showing decided su periority to the Detroit and Toronto crews, and Its representative In the senior singles, the only other event In which they had an entry, took second place. SUMMER IDYL OF THE PARKS nilaafnl Dreama In Sylrnn 8 tin ilea llndclr Shattered 'by v the Cop. In one of his copyrighted poem of the year T. A. Daly of Philadelphia draws a Picture of aeenes and dreams similar to those rudely shattered by ' policemen at Jefferson square. The poem follows: The scene: A public city square, 2yith crowded benches here and there. The time: A drowsy afternoon, Charged with the heady wine of June. Chltf --tors: Voice. Law's voice, su preme And harbh with petty power; and Dream. A vagrant sprite that stops to play Round one old head, unkenind gray. THE DREAM: Ah I rest. How fnr off seems the strcet Us heat still tingles In my feet, nut Lord! how sweet this Is, how sweett And oh! the shade, this blessed shade That all the little leaves have made The little leaves-they're whispering now Whispering? They're singing on the bough! How clear and sweet the whole tree sings Tree; It's a golden bird with wlngsl How soft Its back Is. Sweet to lie Snug in its feathers here and fly hero heaven ta bo wide and clear THE VOICE: Heyl Set up straight; ye can't sleep here! THE DREAM: The nurne-mald smiled. But she looked kind: so did the child. hat dimpled cheecks; so round, so fair. Mke peaches. Peaches every where! 7alt. little boy, don't climb the trees. ee how the fruit swings In tho breexe. T.le hero with me until they fall. Here whore the grass In thick and tall, tretch yourself out and lie at tase. Don t shnke! don't shake! don't shake th trees I Here they come pelting down like raln- , THE VOICE: Here, Bo! I warn ye onct again. , THE DREAM: . . "Is coat Is blue, vet heaven has the self-same hue; back' H'S belt ,00ks tlBht 1,1 nd mine It never was sd. slack. Somewhere, somewhere, there's bre.-i and meat; 'fmeie,re' ?rhnP- but then the street wi.. ou,d wet m face "id hair t?ow Hfu from. tnat '"""tain there How sparkling the ripples break, ririnii' f gIe'lsant Bund they make! Drip! dr p! rhe mill-wheel turr so slow, hV?W,.; sl0W-Ah! there's a fish! He s In the net! Now for a dish That any royar king might wish! O! peaceful pipe beside the fire n.00.1!." up now ?nd r,sln higher. t?b 1 uthe Snn,p' "lP-cool the night. I I)? nmhAra ftnrA tut ..... .. . - .jr, warm unu orient . nnLW.1v"pf htnt tnat he"'- beat, beat ' .mi nrarr, wayworn reel . j THE VOICE: nKe.r t.w,,c.! an' now I'' done G't out o here! Move on! move on! CHINA'S METHUSELAH LAND Six Ferf Tall, lixld hrmlrrt, and 14' Yeara Old, vrlth Life Tablet - to Prove It, Dr. Chao Choy, a six-foot Chinaman, who stopped wearing a queue long be fore, the Chinese republic came out ,n favor of the plgtallless pate, landed from the Ellls-lsland ferryboat, Ellis Island, nt the Battery in New York.' "it was nol through choice that tho long doctor gave up his queue. He said he had been Just as bald as hi Is today, which is Just as bald as anybody ever was or can be. for the last forty-nine years. This inspired the ship news reporters to ask the doctor if he had lost all his hair in Infancy. He smiled, display ing an array of teeth that looked na tural and said that his baldness iiad come Just after ho had celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of his birth . It was suggested to the doctor that he meant Chinese years, hut h rteMnriwi in' fair English that they were the regular occidental, Gregorian rletv of vrrm Fifty years ago, he said, he went to Cuba-he was Just -then believing that the climate, assisted by the "lonirnvltv tablets'' that he carries in a bag sus pended from a string about his neck, would help him to attain a ripe old age. He began to feel recently as if Cuban atmosphere was not as noad am It lm.i seemed at first and decided to take up his residence In Canada. His recipe for long life) la ehcprf ulnea abstinence from alcoholic beverages and longevity tabletB. He aiM ihn other Chinamen with him, all former resl- aents or Cuba, were also men of con siderable age, from an occidental point of view. The youngest was close to 70 The doctor and his friends were sent to Ellis Island from the Ward linrr Mexico. They were under bond, and started for Canada by train the next morning. The Ellis Island records show that the doctor had given his urn th.ro a 149 years. The doctors of the island are inclined to doubt the Chinese doc tor's word. New York Sun. Dimrrfiff til l47finln of liver and bowels, In refusing to act. Is quickly remedied with Dr. King's New Life Pills. Easy, safe, sure. 2Sc. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. Advertise, ment. Gulls From tlie Wire About fifty persons who attended a Sunday school picnic near Woodstock, Ga., yesterday are suffering from ptov malne poisoning as the result of eatlncr rood served at the outing. Physicians fear several of the patients 'may die. One cent postage rather than reduced parcel post rates was the plea of Senator Bryan In a speech yesterdar In defanno of his opposition to Postmaster General uuriesons oraem reaucing parcel post rates in the first and second innn nn August IS. The Hit of fatalities resulting from th motorcyclo accident at the Ludlow. Ky., lagoon last Wednesday night was In creased to nine esterday when another of the Injured succumbed to his burns. Two others, a woman and a boy are still In a precarious condition and are nui oxpccivu io recover. A flood rnrratntmt. W. O. Magi, a well known merchant of Whltemound. WIs bought a stock of Chamberlain's medicine so as to be able to supply them to bis customers. After receiving them be was himself taken sick and says that one small bottle of Cham, berlaln's Colic. Cholera and Slarrhota Remedy was worth more to him than tho cot of his entire stock of thssa medi cines: For sale by all druggists. Ad vertisement. In Wnslilngton. 'What a distinguished looking stranger! Why does the reception committee neglect him in sucn snaoDy lasnion. no isn t a criminal Is n7 ' "Why no. They'd all like to speak to him. but are afraid to." "WhyT" "Somebody started the rumor that he I was a lobbyist" Cleveland Plain Dealer. GHOSTS OF OLD ASTOR HOUSE Troop "of Bygone Notables Who Were Sheltered There. WELL-KNOWN NAMES RECALLED Rml of Fnmoan New York Hotel Re vives Memories of DlHtlnttnlnheit Home nml ForelRii Onentn. "If I were shut out of tho Astor house I would never go to New York again." So wrote Daniel Webster In August, 1M9, In a letter to Mr. Ulatchford. Evi dently Webster beheved, as Dr. Johnson believed before him, that 'There Is noth ing which lias yet been contrived by man. by which so much happiness Is produced as by a good tavern or Inn." And now preparations for the new sub way involve the burrowing under a cor ner of the Astor house, at the Vesey street side, and the famous old tavern is closed forever. Between Webster and Mine Host Stet son an Intimate bond of friendship ex isted. When the former left town for his last trip to his home In Maifchflcld his parting words to Mr. Stetson were: "Farewell, old friend. Wo have known nlid loved for more than thirty, years." New York was a queer place then. The hotel proprietor who refuses to accept any money from a guest how distant It all 'seems. There Is nothing of New York of the present time In this. Then the town seems to have had an hour or two for a little tea table chat. "There was something to laugh over, and sorrow had leisure for a tear." Wo have luncheon lopes now, nnd sup per skips and dinner dances and, until recently, cabarets for tho benefit of the milk men. The breakfast dance and a .skating rink upon the hotel roof are the only things that our eating pluces have left undeveloped. But the year Is young. Stetson and Webster and their con temporaries all have gone. The clothes they wore would frighten us like ghosts If we were to look Into the old clothe chests of those for whom the hotel was tho transitory homo. A Ilnll of Fnrae, Presidents, cabinet chiefs, senators, "ongressmen and state officials without number liavo been cntertalnrd In the As tor house. Lords, nobles, counts and nil orts of titled. If not crowned, heads have oposcd under Its roof. And so have Henry Clay, General Win field Scott, Rufus Choate, Horace Mann, 'archary Taylor, Martin Van Burcn. James Buchanan, Franklin Plsrce, Abra ham Lincoln, General Grant, Admiral Farragut and hundreds of others famous n the nation's cniinclls.of peacx and war. Theodore Wlnthrop und Fltz-Grceno Halleck. who "ltd the inradct.of literary linns and struck tho keynote of the town's chorus,"' were familiar figures In Its commodious corridors. Its parlors have echoeti to tho beautl 'ul songs and ballads of Dempster. Sol Smith Russell, tho harp of Bochso, the olano of Gottschalk, tho notes of Parodl, of Parcpa, 'of Kellogg and hundreds of others. It is a beautiful, old, gray grnnito land mark. The sorrow of seeing it depart Is very real. There probably Is more history' and more tradition Intimately associated with the weather beaten walls ofthe ABtor house than with, any other buVldlngJln; 'New York, and possibly In the United States, with the exception of Independ ence and Faneull halls. On Memornlile Occasions. The most brilliant assemblies and pub llo dinners of the tlmo were all hold there Our beloved aldermen gave a din ner to the Russian fleet, at which the hotel's "liquors won for themselves an International warm spot in a night. .General Fremont and his family lived at the Astor house during tho mem orable campaign of 1SS0. General Grant, when ho stopped at the hotel, received thousands of visitors who poured like a torrent through the spa clcus parlors of the hotel. And BJenry Clay, when nominated for the presidency by his loving friends of the whig party, stood In tho Astor house for four mortal hours and was shaken by the hands until his arm was nearly palsied. The brilliant reception that was ac corded Louis Kossuth has come down In history, also the farewell speech to the American public that ho delivered from the hotel steps. Then there was the notable reception to Dickens, in 184,:, after which the great novelist ctayed at the Astor for a while. It was In the Astor house that Thack eray met Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving, and that the Grand Duke Alexis was entertained, also the prince, of Wales, afterward King Edward VII, and Jenny Llnd, Louisa Pyne, Lydla Maria Child, Black Hawk, the Indian chieftain; Sam Houston, Edwin Forrest, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe. A Poet of Qitr Grandmothers. In the '30s N. P. Wills, the favorite poet of our grandmothers, wrote: On. on! by 'St. Paul's and the Astor! Religion seems very ill-planned I For one day we list to the pastor. For six days we list to the band! The Bermon may dwell on the future, Th nrean your pulses may calm When pestl that remembered enchucha Upsets tom tne sermon ana psaim.i Again he writes of a "Lady with Black Buttons," whom he met in an omnibus In front of the Astor house. He shows that in those old "days there was compe tition in tho transportation of the pub 12 Degrees Coolest Route to New England Realize what' it adds to your comfort to enter New England from the north, via Montreal, the White Mountains and Lake Cbam plain. That QrandTrunk route aver ages 12 degress cooler than any other line. No hot, dirty manufacturing cities; no mosqultos; no hay fever. COMPREHENSIVE, ILLUSTRATED GUIDE-BOOKS FREE LOWEST VACATION FARES Should New BncUnd prove too fr, dtierlbe your Ideal. We can provide It If it lit eat or north of Chicago. Addrttt J. D. McDonald, Ant. Geu. Passenger Agent, Grand Trunk Ry, System, 11Z West Adam licagain, how strange It all seems! Ho sighs. "We may pans, and know not each other's nearness now thou in the Knickerbocker Line, and I, lone, in the Wavotly!" lie also refers to "Murphy's Line," proving that the town has always been af f Hated, and to the "Line of Klpp and Drown." Another day ho was carried off his feet by .the sight of another belle, whom he addressed In part, as follows: Tranquil and effortless thou glldest on. As doth the swan upon the yielding watei , i And with a cheek like alabaster cold! But as thou didst divide tho amorous air Just opposlto tho Astor. and didst lift That veil of languid lashes to look In At I.eary'8 tempting window lady I then My hi"n sprang In beneath that fringed veil, Like adventurous bird that would escape To so i Warm chamber from the oute coldl . . w . u Bowing Green was surrounded by fash- 'onabln residences then, and the moon hung over Broadway n an amorous way In the "Flow-p-. llnlmj- Dy." Rev. T. Do Witt Talmago used to take his cut of mutton Joint nnd potatoes at the Astor house only a few stools away from General Ben Butler, whose modest appetite craved blood red beef and a glass of claret. He was the author of the remark, "I do not conduct war with rose water." There wns the man who "looked llko Booth." He was Senator John W. Dan el of Virginia, of whom his enemies as serted that much of his public stock In trado consisted In his startling resem blance to the tragedian. Senator Daniel was one of the survivors of tho oldltme rchool of orators of the "sink or awlm, llvo or d!c, survive or perish" atyle. There, In the "flowery, balmy days" of the 40s and 0.i, tho rotunda was the place to see how men mixed tobacco and roast bef, whisky nnd oyster soup, cigarette smoko and lemon pie, nicotine and little neck clams. If one wanted to ftnd anybody or every body one went to the Astor house at noon. Now York Tribune. HUGE MOUNTAIN OF ALUM Deposit Tivo Sqnnre Miles nnd Kin Hundred Feet High In New Mexico. What Is declared to be "one of the most marvelous geological and natural curiosities In the whole world" Is a mountain of alum two equaro miles In extent and 0CH feet high, near tho Gila river. In southwest New Mexico. Thest superlatives aro frotn an article by Daniel M. Grosh of Philadelphia, In Merck's Report (New York, May. Tho Industrial value of this enormous' deposit, writes Mr. Grosh, ran not even bo approximately estimated to thoso industries depending upon this mineral, and aisilrcs an at most Inexhaustible nourco for the pur pose 'of reduction, While the deposit hot Tho homo drink. Brewed and bottled by FRED KRUG BREWING- 00. Order a caso today, fjoiinuiners' DlMlrlhtitors, ICXUB MKIM3ANTILK CO., 100-11 No. 10th JSt- Douglas 1880. Through Grand Trunk trains, over double track, skirting the St. Lawrence River (Thousand Is land, ''shooting the rapids", boat trip optional) Chicago to Portland and Boston. Connecting through daily sleeping cars Montreal to Old Or chard Beachond NewLondon, Conn. St., Chicago, Illinois been known for years, Its location and lack of transiKirtatlon facilities have de layed Its development, but theoe have been overcome, and now permit the mar ketlng of billions of tons of aluminous ores known variously as alum rock, al unite, nlumlnlte. nlunogen, gllalte, etc. The United States geological survoj which recently measured (his mountain of wealth and assayed Its contents re ports: "The .deposit Is so pure that any grade or manufacturing alum can bo produced cheaply as com ared with that from othe: sources. For many uses It can bo mar keted In its natural state, and , so Im mense and pure Is the deposit that there Is no doubt it will control the markets of the world. The constantly Increasing 1 irAt a il.a r fin r " TJrinlnintM MniMvth. 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No such combination, as this of unlimited rich and pure raw material, and the cheapest power, Exists in the whole world." She Rose lettered In Clenn Shirts. Pastor Stokes, the settlement white waiting In a tenement worker. nouse one ar. overheard two women conversing on the kfalrs. "One made the remark to the othor," relates Mrs. Stokes, "that her husband For Cost of Mazda ., ",.,1 '. ' . 'JF ' ''. i ' . , t .' ' ' ' ' , ',! . -,,.!. . .!,. V If' ' '.... ... ' ' V FOR SALE Many farmers, many small town men and many city men ned good work horses. If you have any that you wiah to sell, it is your duty to yourself to -let .these prospective buyers know. They are following the classified a da in The Bee every day, and will get your message if you will place a small notice in this paper. Do it now, and got your profitable bargain under way. The mm who hesitates is likely to lose in a way that will cause him masy hours of "be moaning his luok." iGet yeur d i& sow. 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