Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1897, Page 13

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Latest Patent Gold-filled Nosepiece or any Goid- filled Frame, guaranteed for 10 yrs.; finest French o lens. . $1.25 In Sotid Gold. $3.00 A. KAHN, Optician, 935 F at, mw. YOUNGMEN’S CHANCE Many Old Leaders in Tennis Will Be Missing This Year. CHAMPION WRENN'S ANNOUNCEMENT May Change His Mind About Retiring. PROSPECTS” OF THE SEASON ‘Two changes promise better sport on the tennis courts this season than last, more tournaments and more room at the top for the younger players. Perhaps the greatest drawback to the general popularity of the game last summer lay in the fact that a few crack players monopolized all the hon- ors. Wrenn, Larned, Neel and Fischer took practically everything in sight, and the “field was nowhere,” as racing men say. Larned and Neel captured all of the j invitation tournaments between them, as weil as several other valuable events; Wrenn took most of the championship honors, the valuable Longwood challenge cup, and a few other stray trophies; while Fischer went around the “circuit” and gob- bled up almost everything the other three left for him. In tournament after tourna- ment and match after match the younger players went up against the same stone wall, and the hurricane play of the six- foot-two expert from New York put an ef- fectual damper on the tennis ambitions of many of the younger players. Last Year's Leaders Will Be Missing. Most of the leaders of last season will be among the missing this year, and there will be plenty of room. In fact, a full- fledged reputation as a crack player of na- tional prominence was never so easy to e#rn as it will be this season. Champion “Bob” Wrenn will probably have little chance to play this year. Some time ago he declared that he would not de- fend the championship next August at Newport, but those who were at Newport in 18% will remember his criticisms of ex- Champion “Ollie” Campbell, when the lat- ter refused to defend the championship af- ter having won it three times, and maay of Wrenn’s friends believe that he will change his mind at the last moment and meet his challenger. Should Larned con- front him once more, Wrenn’s suc:ess seems by no means certain. He has ¢el- ways found Larned his most dangerous op- ponent; and the Summit expert should have overcome his Newport “stage fright” enough by this time to acquit himself in the championship as at the other tourna- ments, in which case we may look upon him as the most probable next chdmpion. Carr Neel, the idol of the west, has de- clared himself permanently out of competi- tion, and it is very doubtful whether he will ever be seen on eastern courts again. This will remove one more barrier to Lerned’s success, for Neel has always proved the most difficult man for him to dispcse of. Even at Norwood last summer, when Larned beat Wrenn twice and every- bedy else in the tournament, he lost to Neel. Ex-Champion Hovey is expected to play at Longwood for the big challenge bowl, and probably once more at Newport for a final chance for the championship. The Longwood Tournament. This Longwood tournament will probably be the most interesting event of the year, apart from the championship contest. Be- sides the eastern championship doubles, which have been transferred thither from Narrangansett Pier, the fate of the big challenge bowl—perhaps the most valuable in the country—may depend on the result of this year’s play. Hovey and Larned have each won the big trophy twice, and a third victory would make it the personal property of either. Wrenn stepped in last season, and saved it one more year, in Larned’s absence abroad, by beating Hovey after one of the most sensational matches of the season. This summer Hovey and Larned will have a battle royal for the right to challenge Wrenn; and another victory for the ctamrion would still further complicated the checkered history of the cup, for it would leave the three crack players of the country with two “legs” on the bowl. Larned will try once more for the Middle States champtonship cup, another trophy for which he needs only one more victory for permanent possession; but he will prob- ably withdraw from further competition this season, except at Hoboken, should the promised invitation event, scheduled for the week of August 2 at the St. Geor, Cricket Club, materialize. Clarence bart won this last year from Wrenn, and there will probably be a strong field against him, from‘ which the challen: will be picked; for Wrenn, Stevens, and several other cracks will probably be en- Or the, other ‘cracks f last Fisch. e other o' season, = er will be seen in only a few of the big tournaments, and George Wrenn and Stev- ens will also confine their efforts to two or three of the largest events. With all the first seven players of last year out of gen- eral competition, the honors among the tournaments of the general “‘circuit’”’ should be much more evenly divided. Whitman, Ware, Sheldon, Budiong, Driscoll, Forbes, Miles, Scudder, D. F. Davis and H. Ward, ell_young college players, will probably compose the field in most of the open tour- maments, and any one.of them may sur- prise the others. Whitman's Promising Form. Whitman has undoubtedly shown the best form of this lot, and to him and Shel- don and Ware the lion’s share of the Prizes will probably fall. Whitman is a Harvard sophomore—five of the other nine players in this list are also Harvard play- ers—and in some ways the most promising of all the younger men. He is about six feet two inches in height, of slim build and very athletic. For a young player he is marvelously cool, and his perfect control of his back-hand play has made him for- midable. Ware ts a faster but less steady player. He is less favored so far as physique goes, but makes up in experience almost as much as he lacks in other ways. Sheldon has a peculiar style of piay. his cleverness being largely confined to his volleying. He is a Yale man and a cousin of the famous L. P. Sheldon, jr., who went to London with the Yale athletic team several years ago. Young Sheldon is a terrific smasher, but his ground strokes are rather weak, a fore- hand drive and a back-hand twisting stroke for “passing” being the most formidable in his range. Budlong of Brown has “seen better days,” for it was only three or four years ago that he was among the best players of the country, but his play last year seemed to have lost most of its former steam. Driscoll’s Good Showing. Driscoll of Georgetown University is an ex-champion of the Pacific coast; and his first appearance in the east last fall in the intercollegiate championship created a most favorable impression. He is a fast volleyer, and he managed to beat hoth Ware and Budlong, so it is difficult to say how much may be expected of him this year. Forbes, Davis, Scudder, Ward and Miles are all younger players, whose honors have yet to be earned. In the extreme northwest and on the Pa- cific coast in California, as well as around Minneapolis and Detroit, the game has also received a wonderful boom. Really, there is more enthusiasm shown among the western players than is seen anywhere in the east. The success of several of the western players who have appeared in east- ern tournaments has encouraged the west- ern p! rs wonderfully, and the ory of ithe Neel brothers of Chicago, for the national chainpionship in doubles added a final touch to the enthusiasm. At the end of the year the western as- sociation issued a ranking of the leading players in the west, which would place nearly two dozen of them on the honor rolls of the national association, if their comparative skill with those who have visited eastern tournaments can be relied upon. ——___+ e+ —___ THE WORLD’S ARMIES. Whnt the Various Countries Could Put in the Field. From the London Mail. The United States can call upon a greater number of trained soldiers than any other country in the world. Although the stand- ig army numbers only 27,000 men, each state has to support its own militia, and should it become necessary as a last re- source, upward of 7,500,000 men could as- sist in maintaining the independence of the states. To ‘defend the coast there would be a navy of some seventy ships, with 10,000 men. Of the European armies, the biggest is that of France. The number of men_in the active army and its reserves is 2,350,- ovo. It is not likely, however, that under any concetvable circumstances more than 2,500,000 men could be called out. The navy, with 451 ships, also has a reserve of 114,000 men, of whom about 25,500 are serving at the present time with the fleet. Next in point of numbers on a war foot- ing comes Germany. The peace strength of the standing army is about 520,000. There has been no late return of the war strength, but in the last extremity Germany would have an army of not far short of 3,000,000 trained men, while 22,000 men could man the 220 odd vessels constituting the navy. The third great power is Russia. The total peace footing of this country is 900,000 and the war footing 2,600,000. ‘The navy con- sists of 160 ships, manned by 32,000 men. Italy can boast of an army numbering 3,030,000, of which nearly 250,000 are under arms, 600,000 are on unlimited leave, and 530,000 are mobile militia, and 1,650,000 are territorial militia. The’ navy comprises 21,500 men and 220 ships. rom a military point of view, Great Britain {ll compares with her European neighbors. The total of all branches of the service only amounts to 715,683, and of these only 665,164 are classified as effective. The regular force at home and in the col- onies only numbers 147,105, the army re- serve is $0,100, the militia 140,104, the yeo- manry 11,678, and the volunteers 263,528. The British navy, therefore, should at all times be a remarkably strong one. Austria-Hungary has a war footing of 30,000, but should the necessity arise over 4,000,000 men would have to take arms in defense®of their country. The navy has only a total of some 8,500 men to man the U0 ships. The permanent army of Spain numbers 116,000, which could be increased in time of war to 1,085,000; 23,000 men could man the 108 vessels comprising the navy. The army of Switzerland is divided as follows: The elite 131,500, the Landwehr 81,500, and the Landsturm 273,200. Sweden has 38,846 men and 1,000 re- serves, with a navy of fifty-three ships, with 20,000 men, and Norway an army of 39,000, although the number of troops actually under arms never exceeds, even in war, 1,800 men, without the consent of the storthing. The navy of thirty-one ships is only manned by 535 men, although some 323,000 men could be called upon to serve. China could bring 980,000 men on the field and Japan 271,000. Of the smaller powers, there is Rou- mania, with a permanent army of 51,000 men, and a territorial army numbering $1,- 900; Portugal, with a war strength of 150,- 000; Persia, with 24,500; Servia, with 210,000; Netherlands, with 69,000, anf a pavy of 133 ships and 2,800 men; Belgium, with a strength of 155,800 men and a garde elvique of nearly 45,000, and Denmark, with a war strength of 60,000 men and an extra reserve of 16,500, only called out in extreme emergencies. ‘The smaller nations of the world all have their means of defense, and the Congo In- dependent State, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia, Afghanistan, the Argentine Republic, Li- berla, Nicaragua, the Orange Free Btate and the South African Republic, among them, could number something like a mil- lion and a men. ———+oo—____ SIR JULIAN AS A OYCLER. British Ambassador Often Wheels Through the Soldiers’ Home Grounds. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British am- bassador, is one of the most persistent wheelmen of Washington. Nearly every fine evening the ambassador, who 1s the ranking member of the diplomatio corps, can be seen taking an outing. He rides a ggg Bi eg Bo al iy ant He is always accompanied by one of ladies of his famtiy, nearly all of whom CITY OF TORONTO The Place of Mésting of the Epworth SOME OF ITS BOINTS OF INTEREST Beauty of Its~ Surroundings and Handsome. Buildings. CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS The city of Toronto, a summer resort of some repute, is well chosen from its situa lion and climate as the seat of the third Great international convention of the Ep- worth League, meeting from the 15th till the 18th of July next. Some account of the city in its main features will be of interest not alone to the young Methodists who will attend the convention, but also to the gen- eral public, who wili follow with interest the proceedings of such an important or- ganization. for Christian work. Toronto, as a city, has the beauty of Washington in well-paved and well-shaded streets, attrac- tive parks and variety of view from diffcr- ent points of a rising slope, the features in which the two cities differ being very greatly to the advantage of Toronto. it has the general artistic effect of Boston, but avoids the compression of building and traffic so noticeable in the neighbor- hood of the “Common.” It is as clean and open—a city of homes—as Philadelphia, without the diffusion of Philadelphia, while its general architecture, both of.” public and private buildings—its _skyscrapers— possesses a general municipal unity totally lacking in such citles as New York and Chicago. Its history is connected with the most stirring chapters of Canadian his- tory, and its citizens are the descendants of the men who made that history. Some of Its Surroundings. Toronto, as its Indian name denotes, is “a place of meeting,” not only in a com- mercial sense as a general distribution point, but also in its proximity in different directions to an endless variety of modes of living. To the north are the Georgian bay, with its 30,000 islands and its deep woods, and the delightful Muskoka lakes, of continental reputation, with their stu- pendous rocks, their health-giving pines, the softest of water for bathing and ns good fishing and hunting as any on the continent—all within reach of a day's Journey. To the east are Scarboro’ Heights, Victoria Park, Lake Scugog. with its mus- kallonge fishing, and the chain of lakes, the delight of the canoecist. To the west are High Park, the Humber river, Mimico, Long Branch, Lorne Park, Oakv and the fruit district, Burlington Beach and Hamilton; while to the south is Toronto Island, and a two hours’ journey across Lake Ontario bringing one to Niagara-on- the-Lake, the Canadian Chautauqua, Port Dalhousie, St. Catherines and Grimsby Park, so well known lo the pubile speakers of America. Trolley routes extend some distance north, cast and west outside the city, while a large flyet of ferries and steamers, with a ligensgd carrying capacity each trip of 10,060 persgns, are plying con- stantly between points on the lake. Some Notaple Buildings. The business center of the city is at King and Yonge streets, Yonge street being one of the first laid oyt in, the province, and extending upward, of, six miles north from Lake Ontario. Tg the south of this somewhat congested cprner is the whole- sale district, where some of the buildings should be noticed., Here also is, in the main, the banking Alsttjct, and the visitor will do well to vis that gem of architec- ture, the Bank of Montheal, on Yonge and Front streets, as Well a§ the Commerce, on King street. Along Kifig and Queen and up Yonge the retgil trade is done, while east and west of Ypfige and north of King is the office distrfet. 9. of the depart- mental stores will prove’ a revelation to the visitor from Washington.. The office build- ings of some of the insurance companies, the Manning and Yonge Street Arcades, the Mail and Empire building and the newly erected Globe buitding will point themselves out. The general post office is also in this district, at the head of Toronto street, on Adelaide. The new city hall is on Queen street, a short distance west of Yonge, and Massey Hall, the headquarters of the convention, is on Shuter strect, a little east of Yonge, Shuter street being the first street north of Queen. The hotels are also mainly in this neighborhood, and are all accessible by trolley from the points of entry into the city. The accommodation they offer is unexceptional in its char- acter. The Queen and the Rossin are the leading hotels, and have frequently enter- tained royalty; they are largely patronized by politicians and well-to-do visitors. The Walker and the Palmer are the hotels that acter, The Queens and the Rossin are the travelers. It is quite the custom for busi- ess men to meet here for a noon dinner. The Arlington and the Elliott are very homelike hotels, the former being the only approach to an apartment hotel that Toronto owns. The Palmer is much fre- quented by the better-class theatrical com- panies that visit Toronto. The Albion must be seen on a Saturday morning, when the farmers from miles out Yonge and King streets drive in with their products to the city market. There are numerous hotels of less pretentious appearance scattered throughout the city, but those mentioned are the leading apd. representative ones. Street Car Service. ‘Toronto is well seryed by trolley strect cars. There is but one management, and transfers are readily given all over the city. Twenty ticketa are sold for a dollar, while special rates are afforded.during the busy hours of 5:30 to. 7, morning and even- ing. The lines converge to the corner of King and Yonge, though some of the minor lines cross Yonge at Front street. A ride around the belt line, along King, up Sher- bourne, back along Bloor, and down Spa- dina avenue, will give some idea cf the residence portion of the city, though the homes of fashion and wealth are retiring from streets on which the cars run. By a recent vote, though on a very narrow ma- jority, the cars will run after the 9th of June on Sundays. The residences in Queen’s Park, on Jarvis street and St. George street. must not be omitted. ‘Toronto's popuiation of 250,000 demands for its residences ample space both in front and in the rear, the effect, in conjunciton with the shade trees of the streets, being restful in the extreme. Rosedale, a resi- dent portion to the north of the main sec- tion of the city, with its shaded drives, its ravines and bridges, will afford a pleasant jaunt for the visitor. Educational, Institutions, Toronto is an important educational cen- ter. Its public schnol«system is a matter of justifiable prid#; ith high schools are well equipped, white four universities, with @ total attendance of ever a thousand stu- Gents, are preparing the future citizens of the province. The: University of Toronto takes first rank fm imvportance, its work being recognized by the University of Ox- ford. Its professors arg men of continental Trini versity of the . rch party of Anglician denomination, is beautifully uated on Queen street west, She is still the premier city of the premier Province of the Donrinion of Canada. The literal government, under the léadership of Attorney General Hardy, is in power; the former attorney general, Oliver Mowat, having removed to take a cabinet position fm the liberal government of the dominion at Ottawa, on its return to power in the recent election. The new parliament build- ing is a superb structure in brown stone, in what is known as the Neo-Grecian styie, and though erected at a cost of oniy a million and a half, is held by competent observers to compete in effect of impres- siveness and sumptuousness with the cap!- tol at Albany, costing $20,000,000. There is no “jobbing;” everything ts what it pre- sents itself to be, from the oak carving down to the speaker's dinner service. ‘The various sports are well represented here. Cricket is played at the universities, the Toronto team contesting each year with Philadelphia, and not without successes, 28 well as some defeats, Base ball, played at the island, is in connection with the Hast- ern League, but has to share its popularity in Toronto with the national game of la- crosse. Tennis is played on numerous pri- vate courts, while the grass and cinder courts of the Athletic Club, on College street, and those of the University of To- Tonto, are pronounced by visiting American “cracks as equal to any in the circuit. It is unly necessary to mention “Hanlon” to indicate the interest in rowing and sculling on that beautifully well-adapted sheet cf water, the Toronto bay. A City of Churches. Toronto 1s known as a city of churches. It possesses a place of worship for every 800 of its inhabitants. Every denomination is represented. The cathedrals of the An- glican and the Pomanists denominations, Cooke's Presbyterian Church and the Metropolitan Methodist Church are all in the same neighborhood, on Church street between Shuter aud Queen. The Metho- dists, with whom the leaguers will be as- sociated, possess thirty-two churches of a value of nearly a miilion ana a halt, the denomination possessing property in the city of value of more than $2,000,000. The Metro- politan, which is a magnificent speciinen of the Gothic architecture, finely set off by its position in the center of an entire square of church property, has long had the reputation of being the largest and finest Methodist church in the world, a claim that has never yet been questioned by any of the numerous visitors from Eng- land and the United States. who have in- spected it. It accommodates, wichout un- necessary crowding, 2,500 persons, and will be used by the convention. Sherbourne Street Methodist is probably the richest church in the city. Trinity, Broadway Tabernacle and Dunn Avenue, Parkdale, are among the later additions to the church architecture of the city. Methodists will be interested in the “book room,” and if they succeed in meeting the genial book stew- ard will remember the visit with the keenest pleasure. Here the denominational publications are edited and published, and the various connectional officers have their offices. The Fred Victor Mission is also a Methodist institution. The building nds on the corner of Jarvis and Queen streets, and is a monument to the liberality of the late H. A. Massey. Dr. Miggins of New York has pronounced this mission the best equipped on the continent for work with the Class of people who are not reached by the churches. Toronto is a gay city. No other term will express its charucteristies. It bears no murks of wear or tear, there are no slums. Crime and degradation do not force them- selves on the attention. Every ‘day b tween 1] and 1 the wealth, youth and beau- ty of the city make parade of King end Yonge streets; the women of Toronto are the prettiest and the best dressed on the continent, and the almost eternal sunshine tempts them out of doors. The average Mean temperature of Toronto for fifty-one years during the month of July is 67.67. One hundred and ninety-six days cut ¢f the year are sunshiny days. _ Convention Headquarters, The headquarters of the convention cffi- cers will be at the armory, on Queen's aye- nue, a short distance west of Yonge street. The armory is the largest structure of its kind in Canada, and has a floor space of 125 feet width by about 300 feet length, the span of the roof being equal to the width of the floor. It is of modern renaissance style, with battlemented towers over the southern entrance. The convention meet- ings will be held in Massey Music Hall, seating about 4,000 people, in the Metro- politan Methodist and Cooke's Presby- terian churches, seating each about 2,500, and in tie Pavilion of the Horticultural Gardens, which, until the erection of Mas- sey Hall, was the largest public building in the city. In this manner over 12,000 peeple will be able to take part in the convention proceedings. Accommodation for visitors, programs and general informa- tion will be obtainable at the armory. Time would fail to enter into the details of the work, of the frignds of other con- ventions that will be met, of the ii iration to be gathered for the work of another year. Toronto is making every effort to make the convention a success, and to make her visitors feel that all her facill- tles are at their disposal during their stay in the Ontario eapital. It may be interesting to note that among other conventions announced fer the com- ing summer menths in Toronto ure those of the international convention of charities, the British Association for the Advance- ment of Science and the world’s W. C. T. U. convention. ———__ College Athletics. From the Medical Record. It is an encouraging sign of the times that one president of a college in the west has the temerity to inveigh against the Present fad of college athletics; not that exercise judiciously taken is not conducive to the health of the student, but that the prevalent games are altogether unneces- saryeto that end and are distinctly brutal in their tendencies. Whilé admitting that there is a strong temptation in the view of the public applause at such exhibitions to excel in rough-and-tumble struggles for. the ball, to strain wind and muscle in the boat race, and to test endurance to the ut- mest in running matches, there is a decent medium in such endeavors which invites serious consideration. The accidents and deaths from foot ball alone outweigh all the good that can be claimed for the so- called sport as a safe and healthful one. The self-reliance and hustle which come with the discipline of opposition is replaced by the determination to win at all hazards. In the excitement of the moment all self cor.trol appears to be lost in the fierce de- termination to worst the antagonist. The reputation of the college appears to rest more on the quantity of muscle than of brains. There are more horr: for the begrimed foot ball champion in there is applause for the relatively obseure stu- dent who honestly wins the prize for Greek or mathematics. such a respect the col- leges are certairfy falling off from their former standard as institutions of pure learning. The education is at the wrong end—skill with the feet Is taking the place of work with the brain. We are aware that it is claimed that the athletes are Benerally the best students, but, even granting the assumption, it is just as true that they are such in spite of their muscle. There is no doubt also that the colleges, in view of notoriety gaine1 by the public exhibitions of foot ball, rowing matches, and the like, covertly wink at the per- formances of the strong boys, at the same time pretending to frown upon the sual demonstrations of the inevitable brutality. Hence it is gratityinz to know that one college through its presiden: is bold enough to denounce the whole thing, even at the risk of his institution suffering therefrom in public estimation. ———_—_~ee-. Played Marbles Long Ago. Dean Farrar thus describes Oliver Wen- dell Holmes when he made his last visit to Engiand in 1886: “He was an old man, and his diminutive figure, perhaps, showed that he could never have had great physi- cal strength. It is a fatiguing thing to go over the abbey, and he undoubtedly feit tired, and was glad to get back to my house tense gave an he told me that he thought those two hours ‘in the great Temple of Silence and Reconciliation’ the most in- struck by ilttie things than by great, more lo great ‘Amidst the imposing of the ’ he es, ‘one impressed in the inverse ratio of {ts importance. are! out the little holes on the stones (of the whero the the choir. (he should have sald of Monastic used to les before America before, it may be. It ae of 8 Ih past, the graffiti of 2 ae SOME LIES ABOUT KANSAS People of the Sunflower State Say That Seme of Them Are Exaggerated, Others Are Asserted to Be Even Made Out of Whole Cloth, From the Kansas City Journal. Kansas is more sinner against than sin- ning; likewise more lied against than lying. This holds good in everything except poli- ties. No story has yet been told depicting the frightful condition of Kansas politics that exaggerates it in the least. But, for instance: If one of the gentle zephyrs of Kansas becomes aggravated and gets an extraordinary move on itself for a brief period “K:nsas had a cyclone, destroying life and property galore;” if a hot wind strikes one corner of a township in a coun- ty in one corner of the state “the crops of the entire state have been destroyed by hot winds;” if the rivers are the least bit swollen, ‘‘western Kansas Is inundated;” If the western part of the state lacks some moisture, “it is so dry all over the state’ that you have to run your well through a wringer to get enough water to cook with:” if the state is favored with an average crop “we have raised enough to fecd if the crops fall below the aver- people are on the verge of star- And so it goes; Kansas always has trou- ble. No one more fully appreciates that such stories’ are accepted by many strangers as virtually truthful incidents of life in the sunflower state than Mr. F. D. Coburn, sec- retary of her department of agriculture, who has for years been making a collection of such as seemed to best illustrate the type of joke always in order when Kansas is mentioned. It requires two large envel- opes to hold them, and as samples of the truly artistic in le-making he rates the following as among the highest: Here is an example of what a Kansas tornado can do, or what a. Kansas liar can do, when forced to it: A farmer had a large, crib filled with ear corn, and there was a knothole in the south end of the crib. It was struck by a tornado and it is claimed that the suction was so great that cob after cob was drawn through the hole and the farmer was left with a crib of shelled corn. Several stories which the reader can or cannot believe, just as he sees fit, were started after the Seneca tornado, two years ago, had violated the state law in reference to the malicious destruction of property and departed for parts unknown. Probably the best one was this: A man was riding along on horseback with a jug of whisky tied with a strap to the saddle horn. After the blow had ceased the jug handle found inside the jug and the strap was sticking out of the nozzle, the jug having been blown inside out without spilling a drop of liquor. : During this same blow a goat happened to get in the road and had his hair blown off, leaving his hide as clean as a skinn banana. The animal looked so much like a Mexican dog with horns that he was placed on exhibition. Another caper which. this tornado was to blow the side whiskers off a ira’ ing man and plant them on the side of a woman’s face, where they continue to grow. Here is another pretty fair one: A farmer was plowing around an oblong patch of ground one day, and at night the tract of unplowed land still contained about five acres. When he quit for the day he left the plow sticking in the fur- rows, as farmers often do. The tornado came along and caught the plow, taking it around the “land” until it was all plowed. A Kansan abroad recently found a crowd that did not seem to appreciate his con- versation concerning the conspiracy of for- eign capitalists to compl the populist farmers of Kansas to pay their honest debts, so he pulled out his stock of tornado stories, hoping to attract attention. “I saw a cyclone once,” said he, “that picked up a straw stack and moved it a mile and put it back, straw on straw, as it was.” Two or three of the auditors yawned, and the Kansas man tried it again. “Another time,” said he, saw a twister suck sixty gallons of molasses out of a barrel in front of a grocery store and dis- tribute it to every family in town who had a bucket out on the back step for the milk- man.” He cleared his throat and began again: “Back in the seventies we had a terrible cyclone in western Kansas. It blew the cracks out of the fences, pulled a cistern out of the ground, moved a township line and changed the day of the week.” This last fusillade induced one of the listeners to speak up. He said: “I do not know much about cyclones, but once when I was at sea I saw a waterspout pick up tons and tons of water and carry it a mile and—” “Hold on,” cried the Kansan; “if you are going to degrade the conversation to the level of a common lying contest I will re- tire.” And he got up and walked away pompously. Another man with an unblushing face told this story and expected people to be- lieve it: “I was out in Kansas last summer, and the first cyclone of course I went down in the cellar, like other folks. The house was soon blown away. The next thing I knew the cellar went, too, rolling over and over like a silk hat. I was soon spilled out. With infinite labor I crawled back in the teeth of the wind, intending to take refuge in the hole the cellar came out of. To my consternation, I found that that had blown away also.” A prominent .Kansan is accredited with telling this: “Tell you what’s a fact. I have known it to blow twelve days and nights on a stretch, and hold-a sheep up against the side of a barn until it starved to death.” Probably the story which better illus- trates the position of the populist farmer in Kansas than any told in recent years is this: Kansas Man (visiting in the east—“Yes, sir, Kansas is the country for the farmers. ut HEALTHFUL UNDERWEAR The Great Crusade Against Cheap Underwear Led By Physicians. ———_+- — An Irresistible movement for more healthful Un- derwear bas set in, Which owes Its inception to the deading physicians of this country and Burope. Doctors and scientists are beginuing to realize ae never before the importance of wearing au Under- Wear which aot only keeps the body warm, but at the same time protects it from the inroads of colds, coughs, sore throats, pneumonia, rheumatism and kindred diseases. 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Ss Look at the vast prairies, covered with crops so heavy that they make whole counties sink in the middie. Look at her corn crop, 80 vast that it crowded town- ship lines into the river. Same Kansas Man ( ———=—— the populist meet- ing in his own neighborhooay—"F e “1)—"Fellow- suffere Dry weather, Hessian flies and gsoldbugs prey like vampires on our state. Our once fair state is plastered over with mortgages so heavy that we a hole through them with order to plant corn. Rouse, y A country editor rot far from Summers field, just after ving a cord of wood have to bore and a big supply of vegetahtes on subserip- Hon, dipped bis pen in the ink and dashed this off: “When you talk about there be- irg a better state than Kansas, every potato winks its eye, every bect gets ted in the face, every ‘orion gets stronger, s every oat field is shocked. the rye stroke: its beard, the cora pricks up Its cacs, nna every foot of ground kicks.” There bas been a pri the capture of the m offered for man whe started this | clever lie: “A Kansas farmer planted his farm in popcorn and gathered it into hia barn. The barn took fire, the corn popped and filled a ten-acre field. thinking it a snow storm, froze to death.” ussing the questi S not long ago, a cit srass country said His old mare, lay down and in western en from the “I think that arsas is in need of a good-deal of irriga- tion. There are times when it is so dry in the western part of the state that you have to soak a hog over night before he will hold swill. There are places where water is wet oniy on one side. I know a place where the owner of a ferry boat hauls water eleven ronths in the year to keep his ferry running. Why, water is so ecance: there that the men won't drink it, The ceuse of this drought is that the rail- roads of Kansas have cornered the water supply of the state to put into their stock.” Here is another “rought story tod by a traveling man: “I was driving across the country to a little town in western Kansas the other day, when I met a farmer haul- ing a wagon load of water. “ ‘Where do you get water? said I. “‘Up the road about seven miles,’ he re- Pl ‘And you haul water seven miles for family and stock?’ Yep.’ ‘Why in the name of sei don’ dig a well?” ame she ge ““Because it’s jest as far one way as the cther, stranger.’ ” \? 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