Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1902, Page 9

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: 8 DAY, DECEMBER 28 1902 GOSSIP FROM THE CRIDIRON Dhicago Trylng to Get on Game with One of the Big Four. YALE WILL NOT COME WEST TO PLAY | o Make Any Long Journeys. It is reported that Chicago, through Manager Butterworth, e king negoti- atlons with. some team 3f the. eastern big four for a game next season. Specu- lation is rite to which of the star teams ors. run for (W0 years In the ttnference meetings, but Hall of Chicagd is now attracting consid- erable notice and may make an interesting run for him. Walte and Stone will not im- probably be Kellogg's mates in the long fun. Dvorak will entet for the pole vault and Maddock will probably represemt the big university in the shot-put and hammer- throw. Miller, who was last year ineligible, will certainly be the high-jumper of the squad, having several times last yoar cleared six feet. 'The university has as yet found no aspirants to the discus-throw and broad-jump honors. Nufer, the hurdler, and one of the team's best point winners, has been retired by the four-year rule Interest In all brandhes of athletics is unusually great at Wisconsin university this year, and forms of sport heretofore disregarded—hockey, curling and water | has been approached for Butterworth, al- though he admitted that he had made a proposition to an eastern team, refused to say which one of the four it was It seems to be generally thought that Prince- ton I8 the team which has been approached, #&;the Tigers have only one great game, that with Yale, while the others each play two severe games. The Princeton season closen two weeks before the western eon- test and for this reason it s thought that Princeton would be much more likely to come west than either Yale, Harvard or Pennsylvanta. The Quakers also might jbe induced to make playing contract with Chieago, -but it fs very .doubtful if either Yale or Harvard would ever come west for a game. It is the general.opimion that the Ma- roons could get a game with any of the eastern. teams, provided that the western aggregation was not considered 0o strong. At they were willing to play op the home grounds of the easterners and probably early In the season. There s a very strong prejudice In the east against the long Arip west becauss it takes the men from thelr studiés for such & time. Comch Stagg's two-year contract stands hope- lessly In the way of any games with Yale Harvatd and probably with the other two because it stipulates a return game on the Chicago grounds. Princeton wmight be induced to look with favor on a Thank glving day game In Chicago, but this ie Ampossible for next season, as the Maroon W@ already made a date with Michigan. “In my opinion, Yale will nevér come avest to play foot ball,” said Charles Carver, | the Yale strong man. ‘““The sentiment is “strong against having the eleven play games away from home. The Harvard-Yale game ds everything to Yale students and all the remainder of the contests, except that with Prinoeton, are looked upon as practice | mames. Yale might play Chicago at New Haven If it was thought that Chicago was not too powerful to make the contest other than & practice match. I think that Stagg would not have much trouble In getting a game with any one of the big four on its home fleld, but as for making & two years' Agreement conditioned on a return game, he would bo pretty sure to fall with Har- vard and Yale. At the pres time it scems to me that Princeton is the most likely of any of the big four to come west to meet Stagg’s eleven In Chicago.” Probably the last of foot ball in the season of 1902 will be played at Boulder, Colo., New Year's day between the team of the Notth Diviston High échool of Chicago and the eleven representing the Boulder prepar- atory team. The Chicago boys have been t for practice for a week and hope to' have some coaching by McCornack, the new Northwestera coach. They will take fifteen men to Colorado and-have two days there ‘tor practice before the game. 4 44 . T N The résotution against foot ball which s under consideration by the . Milwaukee (school board i meeting with much opposi- tion from some enthusiasts, and, Luclen ‘orden, one of them, has asked several col- lege presidents for opinions as to the eport. President Hadley of Yale, after expressing a disinelination to give an opinion which would do in all parts of the country, says that the easterh boys need foot ball to stir them up, while the westerners need golf to slow them down. President Eliot of Harvard in part re- plied: “Foot ball, therefore, seems to me the least desirable of collgge sports. I cannot think, however, that the prohibition | of the sport would be wise, elther for #chools or for colleges. It ought to be so regulated as to reduce gradually the evils which now attend it.” i President Angell of Michigan thinks that the #port is manly and proper, but should | be caretully guarded by the college authori- | tes. Michigan is well under way with a careful preparation for the spring track events and Wil strain every nerve to win the cham- plonship this year, as by so dolng It will cure as its own the Spaulding cup. This cup. must be won thrée times consecutively | to become the property of the winning team and Michigan has twice carried oft the honors. The team, however, loses this year #ix of the o]d men. These are Fisher, halt- miler; Udal and Fishlelgh, pole vaulter: Armstrong, Barnett and Snow, high jump- ers. Snow was also a shot putter. Hahn, who has won the 100 yards for two years, remalns, but no one has shown up yet with 220 ability. Raymond Stewart, who holds’ the ‘United States interscolastic rec- will take Nufer's place at the hurdles. There are also Hall, Salmon and Mills in this 10 Paul Dickey seems to be the best quarter-miler, but there are others nearly ‘as good, none of them, however, stars. Harpham seems to be far and away best man for the half mile, and Perry d Hall ‘of last year's team will again Gomipete and are expected to land’thé hon- ' of the competing teams from St. Louis and polo—have been taken up with interest and clubs formed to play through the sea- | son and matches with other teams ar- | ranged. Hand ball is reported to be the | most popular sport of the season and the | courts in the university gymnasium are crowded. A tournament has been ar- ranged for the post-Christmas days. B ket ball §s fast coming to the front as a university sport. At Wisconsin fully thirty men had been trying for the team | and the prospect for a successtul and vic- torfous season is good. The first game, that against Sheboygan on Thanksglving day, was easily won, and the team has im- proved greatly since that time. The Impulsé toward winter sports has been felt by the wémen as much ad the men, and they have organized an athletic assoclation which controls the teams in the same manner that ‘varsity ARErega- tions are ruled. Formerly the only games played by the co-eds were tennis and b ket ball, but now magy other branches are to be entered. BASE BALL IN WINTER TIME ect of Pence the Mot Interests Before the Magnates, Walt a little. Next week will witness the most mo- mentous conference of modern times, when the committees of the two big leagties gét together and light the peace pipe. Beveral little matters will have to be more accurately adjusted than they are before the fragrant odor of the killikinick will ascend over the council, but these may be attended to with little friction. One of these concerns the status of the several players who jumped from the one league to the other. It has boen proposd that each league retain its own players, that fs, the players it has under contract at the present time. This is agreeable to all the magnates but Colonel John I. Rogers, who seems to be Implacable. Ho has about re- signed himsqlf to the loss of Lajole, Bern- hardt and Frager, but comes merrily for- ward .with a élaim for big Ed Delehanty, and declines to be a party to any agreement which does not give him the services of the big sedator. And, furthermore, Mr. Rog- ers says that Philadelphia needs “competi- tion” This latter proposition may be the correct one, but Philadelphia people las summer seemed to think that John I. Rog- ers was not the man to furnish the com- petition. At any rate the attendance at the parks on days when both teams were at home didn't indicate it. Then, too, Al Reach didn't endorse the course of his partner in base ball by a good deal. When Rogers let Lajole, Frazer and Beérnhardt get away from Philadelphia after ‘winning 8 lawsuit, just because he wouldn't' pay the money for, them, he not only ruined Philadelphia’s chances, but he made Cleve- Ia Connle Mack was curining ‘enough to secure Rube Waddell for. the Athletics, and the deed was did. Some base ball men are inclined to. think that the chatter of Colonel Rogers just at present arises from the fact that he has sold out, or is willing to sell out. If he isn't ready to quit the game, he Is talking ke a sausage, for the peace movement has set in for good this time, As & matter of fact the American league whipped the National at every turn in the road, and is in a better position before the public today than it ever was. Ban Johnson is sure of his entry to New York, whether he can secure a park from the National or not. In all the other invaded towns the American is firmly intrenched and in Boston and Philadelphia at least it commands. At Chicago the break is about even. That it will prove popular in New York is generally admitted. So the rest of it is merely & matter of detail, All this 1s well understood by the men who are to carry on the peace negotiations and will be given due weight by thém in their deliberations. It has been suggested by a base ball man who knows the situation very thoroughly that & good basis for set- tlement will be found in & division of ter- ritory that contemplates the withdrawal Boston and the addition of Louisville and Baltimore to the clrcuits. He would make up the Natlonal circuit out of New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Baltime in the east, Chicago, Pittsburg, Cincinnatl and St. Louls In the west and the American league to havée Boston, New York, Phila- delphia and Washington in the east, with Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Loulsville il the west. This gives two good circuits, with competing clubs in only three towns, and those three plenty big enough to sup- port two good clubs each. Agreement as to dates would make the' support certain and the game would be put on a solid basis 80 far as the big leagues are concertied. Nelther side would lose’ by relinquishing the positions in Boston and St. Louf suggested, and both would gain by the ad- dition of Louisville and Baltimore. we shall see, But Among the minors thete is nothing doing. It #eems a einch that the Western league will go through next summer with the same old circult, and the Hickey leagué isn't Itkely to see any change, either, all the talk of moving the St. Paul franchise to Chicago to the contrary notwithstanding. Of course, the outcome In 8t. Paul depends on the temper of Mr. George A. Lennon. It he wamts to keep the team in the Min- nesota capital city, he can do so. Peoria has sécured new grovnds, right in the heart of the village, where everybody can get in and out without loss of time. Better than that, the new park is located several feet above the surrounding country, and thus is easy to drain. Players who waded around in the quagmires and morasses of the park In the Illinols river bottoms last summer will surely appreciate the cha Down at St. Joseph the fans are beginning to lose flesh over the thought that they won't wii the pennané hext season. As if anyone ever thought the Train Robbers could win a pennant. Out st Denver the cause for rejoicing is real, and as soon as the weather lets up a little the faithtul propose to havé some sort of célebration. It is all because during the week the joydus announcement was made that Parke Wilson had jumped his contract and signed with Seattle for the summer of 1903. Just think! Packard pald Wilson $2,600 to mis- manage the Denver team last year: Wils 80n’'s succesgor hagn't been named yet, but one thing is sure—Packard cotldn’t bo wotse. ‘It has also béeh #ald that Bill” Wilson is to manage Peoria next sea- son. 1 Willie will only attend to the busi- ness of baseball and pass up the Interest he has hitherto shown in the outpit of the Peorla distilleries, the Blackbirds will have a manager who knows the game amd who can get the youngsters to play it. Other managers and magnates are keeping as qulet as mice, even Thornas Jefferson Hickey having abstained for at' least two weeks from writing letters. This 1s 4 hopeful sign. Johnny Gonding has got along as far as Kansas City on his way back from the coast, and has been visiting there for several daye. He is expected soon In Omaha, t6 tesume his sway as king of all the boys in Dougl county. It is doubtful if a ball player ever had the hold on popularity that Gonding has in Omaba, and especially with the kids. When it was reported that he was coming back the boys begad to call at Rourke's headquarters to know if thelr hero had returned. His place Is secure In Omaha, At least. Gonding has well earned his pop- ularity, for a harder working ball player fiever donned s uniform, and a better na. tured man never jollied his comrades when luck scemed against them. OUT OF THE ORDINARY, Bolivia fias the world's second’ greatest siiver mine. Frank Mitchell, a negro born in slavery 108 years ago, is still 117ing at Akron, O., and has a vivid recollection of events that occurred in the first part of the last cen- tury. He has smoked and chewed tobacco for over 100 ye Drs. Greer and Starr of Charleston, Ill, assisted by Dr. Howard R, Chislett of Chi cago, performed an operation on Mrs. L. Y. Parcell of Westfleld. A tumor welghing 12 pounds was removed from the patient. 8he survived the trying ordeal and gives hopes of recovery. Two young milllonaires, Harry Payne Whitney and Willlam Vanderblit, are vieing with each other as to which ‘shall have the finest country place near Great Neck, L. I. Mr. Vanderbilt has chosen o slte for a private station on the Long Island road and Mr. Whitney s expected to seek the same privilege. At a meeting of about forty manufac- turers and dealers, called at_the suggestion of the fire commissioner of New York City to consider fhe possibility of finding & match that would be sufe to use, it was stated that the safety match is in reality no safer than the parior match. This is a great opportunity fur an inventive chemist. That man has been right-handcd_from the earliest times iy shown'by the greater size of the bones of the right arm in pres historic skeletons. All the evidence goes to show that right-handedness s due to a transmitted functiohal pre-emirience ‘of the Jeft. brain, in which the soul is'row sald to reside, Il manusl sots requiring preolsion and skill, except fingering the violin cords, are done with the right hand. ‘Willlam H. James has been a carrier in the employ [of the postoffice tn. Rochester since May 7, 1865, and {s the only survivor of the nine original carriers theré. A few years ago he was sent to England to in- Vestigate methods in the leading cities of that country. When he returned he re- ported that the United States had nothing to learn from them; its own methods were far in advance of British postal ways. An Interesting experiment in night artil- lery work was made in Germany recently A searchlight was placed at « distance - known to the officers in command of a field battery, and after it was turned on the gone were brought Into action against it. ix 4.7-Inch guns were used, the range was obtalned very . rapidly, and within five minutes the light was broken to pleces, An- other searchiight, at 8 range of about 4,10 . was broken after a few rounds had been fired. been within enormous increase in tions, while the Increase in stocks has been light. The New York Stock exchange in 1901 $933,010,100 worth of bonds, or e the amount of the previous year, ations wanting money now issue instead. of issuing additional stock. An advantage of this plan_and probably the one which leads to its adoption, is that the bondholder has no volce in the . ment of the business—at least as long. is solvent. two years an he bonds of corpora- e most remarkable eities in the Iburg, near Cracow, Poland, for, being situated underground, it is k . The In- 000, court e famo! mines, and all the streets and houses are of the purest white imaginable. One of the most famotis features of the city is the cathedral, carved in salt and lightea with and when the late Crar 1t, eleven years ago, he fascinated with the magnificent effect ht upon the crystal wallg that h presented the cathedral with a thing as altar cross, Suc nown in Kelbu; [ d infectious disease is unk; i dn faet, dle of old ANNUAL SALE . 10,000,0 00 BoOxES Greatest in the World A MILLION AMBRIOAN NURSING MOTHERS keep them- selves and their babies in splendid heslth with OASCARETS sold in b Address Bterling Remedy Oo., Ohicago or New York. ulk. Genuine tablet stamped e | TURNING OVER NEW LEAVES Burvival of the Bottle Method Among the Hot Boys of Gotham. SPIRIT OF THE DAY IN MIXED DRINKS rlons Hollday, When Eversthing but the Skyserapers Become Kittenish, The New Yorker in the mass is not suf- fieiently classioal to know much about the old Roman Saturnalia, but he paye punctilious attention to the details of one once a year, or, rather, twice, for it be- gins on the morning of December 31 and does not taper off unt!l the morning of January 2 The city of lean bulldings moves pon- derously through most of its holidays. It skips coltishly through New Year's. Some time an incoming steamship will report that while still twenty miles oft shore on New Year's day, its passengers could smell the rich odor of whisky, hot and cold, wafted from celebrating New York. New Yorkers who are good through the ordinary 363 days of the year, appear in public in the afternoon and evening of December 81 with bottles in their arms and the coftents of other bottles fidden in their bosoms. The bottle Is the New Year's emblem of the blg town. Unhallowed is the name of the liquor dealer who falls to give a Bottle of whisky, rum, brandy, sherry or port to each regular customer on the dist day of Décember. And it must be a quart botile, too. The unwrittén law is that the stuft inside may bé a gift horse that burns the mouth, but there must be a quart of it. One prominent liquot deslef down town gave away $10,000 worth of liquor last year. His best customers got a quart bot- tié of brandy that cost 50 cents a drink over the bar. From royal New Year's lar- gesse Ilke that, the gifts go through various grades until they attain the level of the brown bottle of Mulberry street, wherein there lurks a whisky that would eat a noticeable holé in a Sioux chief. Business men appreciate the fact that the fervid desire to get bottles of some- thing for nothing will selze even the most sober employe on the last day of the year, therefore December 31 in New York has be- come a day of mingled revelry and work, with the work decidedly thinned out in the mingling. Huntin [ the Bottle Present. Even the most solemn and stald old per- sons are seized with the spirit (hat makes them visit the nearest barroom to see if they cannot get a bottle. They find other rolemn and stald old persons there on the same efrand. Each would rather die than to confess to the other that he has come In the hope of deluding the awner of the place into the bellef that he is a eteady customer deserving of a present. 80 they lle to each other stoutly, and at last even go to the desperate length of buying each other drinks. While they are doing it their souls are torn by the sight of bottles being handed out. Recklessly they buy more drinks in the hope that the owner will catch their eye and give hunter imagines that if he gets one he will stop and go back to work. But he won't. If he gets one he will hurry to the next barroom +to another. 't get one he will rry to the next barroom in the hope of ‘better luck. - The natural excitement of getting somes thing for hothing, added to the equally natural excitement of taking at lgast one drink in ch place, makes the New Yorker in the mass a genial dnd discursive person by the afternoon of December 31. His approach is heralded by a rich alco- holle ‘fragrance, and & halo of whisky and sugar surrounds him. The elevated trains bear him In happy compressed carfuls. Every time the door opens at a station the mighty ‘scent of lHquor fushes out like the warm sugary breath from a bakeshop when the ovens are opened. The insides of the cars are | impressionistic plotures of sideboards. The alsles and soats bristie, with -bottles— some carried decorously in their oblong paper packages, bBut battalions of them carried in primitive honesty, open to the gaze of all. It 18 an old New York fashion that New York has not outgrown. It outgrows many, but it does not cast them off entirely. Always somewhere in the herd of com- munities that make New York, there are some that can wear the fashions that have become too small for the city as a whole. Calling on the “Table Setter: New York, as a whole, has outgrown the good old fashion of the anclent days ot ten years ago, when everybody called on everybody else, quite without the mere detall of knowing anybody personally. But if oné go emst or west Into the streets where families live in layers seven and ten Aeep one may still find the glad caller. ‘Windows still sport the evergreen or ar- tificlal wreath with red satin ribbons, which informs all who pass that inside are host- esges who have t & table'” and are wait- fng for whoever will to enter to wish them & bappy New Year. Total strangers arg not really expected to call; If they do, they are not thrown out. Total strangers drop in freely, therefor and the New Year day wanes, they often drop in with absolute fidelity to the literal meaning of the term. It is an unwritten Jaw that the woman who s the table” and her woman friends, may be kissed by the.callers. The kissing is not confined to & pent-up Utiea of intimate scquaintances. The total stranger kisses with as much enthusiasm as if he had known the kissees all his life. The visitor finds the tal set”” with cakes and glass plates full of “lady fingers™ and ‘wponge cake ahd sandwiches. The gluss plates are the favorite patterns that sthnd on & glass foot ke an old-fash- ioned glasé lamp The table may be only & board resting on trestles. But the tabl cloth, with fts glittéring decoration: makes it a8 worthy as the finest of old ma- hogany; at least it so seems to anybody who d0ésn’t peef undernéath, and no gen- tlemdn would do that unless he falls on More aitractive to the caller than the glass plates full of cakes. are the glass things that are not plates. The lady who “sets the table” has no narrow, puritani- cal notions about drink. She exhibits gen- erous aft in wines on New Year's day. Aroma and brand-do not bother her. The main point with her is to achieve variety and - quantity. The callers judge quality solely by the quantity. A truly magnificent table provides thing that is liquid, even lemonade. liquors range from ' whisky and brandy through the finér tomes of burned sherry and port and Rhine wines down to black- berry brandy. Among the callers there is always some sport who has acquired the distinction of having & fad for blackberry brandy. He is esteemed by his companions accordingly, until the oversupply brings its inevitable comsequences. A tall, thin bottle of Mederla s another steady contributor to the galety of the oc casion. It is not a kind of Maderia that General Carroll would pay $100 a bottle | Happily, the Ne t0¢. ' Year's caller does not BE A MAN AMONG MEN That time existed always, without a beginning seems impossible though no more o than a beginning witliout cven time existing, on which to begin. Every hour wasted in this kind of theorlzing thought is that much time wasted with- out benefit or result A man can spend his whole life along such lines, only to find how ignorant he was of his own ignoranc time by the forelock” and “make hay w hile the sun shines.” The proper thing Is to “take It s as unfair to condemn all speclalists because there are frauds, as to condemn all churches because sibly there are hypocrites, Separate the wheat from the chaff and act sen- Hidebound ideas are slaves of opinfon, and a man was never converted from wrong ideas who did not look back and wonder how he could have been 80 honestly wrong. fdly thr regulate. Prece ugh o mw ent Is not always a_correct gulde, it may be unlawful to drive rap- In thoroughfare, but if a team is runnning away law won't Poor health renders the enjoyment of life !mpossible and destroys the attractiveness of an otherwise good disposition, but it ts more difficult to get the polson of prejudice out of the system than to cure dlsease. For a number of years I fought doctors who ndvertise with all the venom of an_Inherent prejudice, and know that my cpinions and contempt were hon- est. est outside of a medical trust, but much broader mwinded as well. fsm is held together by the fabrics of selfishness and facts. A well No argument will give courage to a coward, and not often can a man be convinced against his prejudices. a child than the strongest assurances when left n a dark room. a lighted bed room is more comfort to Over 25 years » 1 came to a realization of the fact that a phyciclan could not only be hon- In the last quart ity to cure theit ailments and these cures have opened the eyes of others the reach of help are still screened from it by a vell of prejudice. Sectional- fiejedice father than ¢ of a century I have convinced thousands of my abil- Yet thousands of despondent men in Men suffering from BLOOD POISON, LOST MANHOOD, RUPTURE PILES, VARICOCELE and REFLEX DISORDERS Let me help you. Let me do for you what I have done for thousands of others in your condition. Let me demon~ strute by proofs In my office, that when I say that I ean cure you of any aflment in my special line QUICKER and SAFER than the average specialist, that the stAtements are borne out hy indisputable facts. g0 through the short space of time allotted to man with a yoke upon you. there is In it, and your privilege to be a man among men. free and solicited. Address or call My consultation You should fiat It 18 your duty to get aill out of life and advice at office’ or by letter is COOK MEDICAL CO. 110-12 South 14th Street, tOver Dally Newns), Hours, 8 a. m. to 8 p. m, consider a glass of it critioally. He is not looking so much for bouquet as for a gen- teel sufficiency. Bestdes that, he has prob- ably swallowed a drink of whisky at the previous house, 8o he Is not attuned to the more delicate harmonies 6f wine bibbling. The ladles who set the table are hos- pitable, but not reckless. They give the cdller his drink cheerfully, for to get a drink at each house is man's privilege. But they do not hesitate to ask him if he expects to take a bath in it, should he betray a strong inclination to come again too soon. The caller, who is known in the neigh- borhood where he performs the rite, must be more careful than the stranger. The latter can overstep the bounde of prudence and suffer nothing worse than a few verbal punishments and a few physical ones later in the evening. But the man who is known is criticized keenly, and if he low- ers himself by drinking too much at any one place of eating a group of hostesses out of house and home, he will awake next day to find Limself a soclal outcast. One of the ladies will, no doubt, explain to him that he acted as if he had been “brung The ladies themselves bave delicate and sharply defined soclal standards to men: ure one another. Generally, three or four combine to “set a table.”” They sélect the home of the lady who has the biggest rooms and whose family combines the two essentlals of presentability and amiability. The lady whose father or big brothers have bhuman weaknesses which might lead them to do things to the bottle decorations, and the lady whose mother imagines that she is “good enough for them people” and re- fuses to put on & clean gown, do not aspire to entertaln In their own homes. Having combined, they subscribe equally to purchase the .cakes and the liquors, buying generally on the principle that actuated the farmer who lald in his month's provisions by buying three gallons of apple Jjack and on¢ loaf of bread. Early on the morning of the first of January they range themselves behind the table. not long to wait. Many of their callers are accustomed to rise early. Many ofhers do not happen to have been asleep at all and find it not only easy but delightful to be on the spot. The first callers are received formally. The men enter in single file, pushing be- fore them the boldest, who hides his con- fusion by being preternaturally impudent and witty. When the single flle has at last shoved its entire sinuous length into the room the men edge toward the walls and furniture as men fearing the approach of deadly enemies from behind. Each holds his hat so as to guard himself still more in that direction. The women bow majestically and for an odious while nobody says anything till a brave spirlt begs leave to introduce “my frien: ‘Then everybody introduces every- body else as “‘my friend.” All the friends | are requested to have a little something; possibly & few friends sometimés decline But careful examination of the callers at night does not disclose a condition that Phonogra They have | would lead one to suspect that many of them are gullty. Ethies of New Year's Kisse Hach friend, as he s his glass, says hastily, “‘Happy New Year,” and then peers around, blushing lest he find it fame. “Same to you,” say the ladies, and the file prepares to sidle out. As thelr giggle chime with the giggle of the women. Later in the day, the friends be. gin to bestow more eloquence on their hostesses and soft scuffies are frequent, as each friend attempts to exploit his prerogative of kiesing them. The women submit with soft patience. But if a man should dream that their kindness {s an invitation to take liberties, he will find hiniself undeceived quickly and impress tvely. The girls draw the line just as sharply as it s drawn in Fifth avenue. The difference is only a difference in man- ner, not morals. Carriage Calls. Often the friends combine their means | to hire a cab for the purpose of making calls in style. The hostesses like it, for the setters of tables keep minute and Jealous count of the number of carriage callers that they and their rivals in the streot receivo on New Year's day. The cab hired for the wccasion has a capacity limited only by the number of those who can get in and on it. the cabman s a friend himeelf and helps to make the calls. This makes the course of the vehicle pledsantly erratic toward the end of the day and occasionally it is left to ehift for itself after the various friends have become oblivious. The real genuine caller expeots to make at least 100 calls and do his duty at each, and still manage to find his way home at night without the help of the police. He performs his calls as a sacred obliga- tion long after they have ceased to become a keen pleasure. He is fmpelled by two influences. One. s that his lady friends expect him to call, for a girl's sacial standing Is measured by the number of their callers, and the other reason is thai the men keep count of the number of calls that they make just as they would keep track of any, other sporting gvent. The caller of the far west and sides has a mighty stomach and a steady hand. The' most drunken objects to be seen on New Year's day in this territory are the very young persons who transpar- ently pretend to be much more drunk than they are, in order to impress the ladies with their noble wickedness. Proteetion for Nation's Wealth, In order to obtain better protection for the nation’s wealth the Treasury depar ment has decided to add to its massive vauits and complicated locks 4 novel elec- tric burglar alarm. While the government is endeavoring to guard the nation's wealth it is very important that we should en- deavor to protect our health from the in- roads of disease. Then Hostetter's Stomach Bitters 1s needed. 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