THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAN, PORTLAND, KAY 3, 1903.
IS
YANGER GETS DECISION
FIGHTS TWENTY FIERCE KOUAUS
"WITH KID BROAD.
Order el Keatnelcy Judge to Keep
Peace Falls to Prevent Savage
Contest at Louisville.
LOUISVILLE. Ky.. May 2. Benny Yan
ger and Kid Broad -went 20 fast rounds at
the Southern Athletic Club tonight. Yan
ger getting the decision. Twice during the
first ten rounds the men seemed to tire,
"but they recuperated quickly and got at
It again hammer and tongs. Broad proved
a glutton "Jor punishment, and Yanygr
clearly outpointed him. Yanger dw
first blood in the third round wltlj. a hard
emash to the nose. Broad kept on play
ing for the body, and his blows seemed
to shake Yanger considerably. Alter this
Yanger freshened, but Broad seemed
rather winded.
Broad landed three stinging rights on
Yanger" Jaw in quick succession at the
opening of the sixth. Yanger drove a
pair of rights to the stomach, and then
repeated the dose with a vigor which sent
Broad into a clinch. Broad began to slow
down in the eighth under a broadside of
body blows. Nevertheless, his punches
would jar Yanger when they went home.
Yanger began to feel around with upper
cuts, but missed. The ninth round de
veloped a terrible exchange of- right Jabs
tn the hea&. -with honors about even.
It was anybody's fight up to the 17th
sound, although Yanger appeared the
Iresher. From this to the end both tried
fnr n. knockout, but without success, the
20th rourid endlner with a fierce mix-up.
The decision of Referee Hurst awarding
the fight to Yanger was approved by the
crowd, Yanger having clearly proved him
self the cleverer and faster man of the
two. isroaa was very wuuuijr t
finish.
Judge Caruth. of the Criminal Division
f thfl Countv Court, this afternoon is
ed an order for the arrest of Broad,
Yanger and R. C Gray, manager of the
Southern Athletic Club. When the mat
ter was bppught before Judge Caruth ho
announced that it was too much t ask
nv Kentucklan to miss the derby, and
that therefore he would hear the case at
6 o'clock this evening. At that hour ach
of the three was'placea under $1000 bpnds
to keep the peace. This action meant
that the contest wpuld go on. The only
siMHtv of prevention was on the
ground of brutality.
Brltt Agrees to Fignt Gann,
ran FRANCISCO.. May 2. Jimmy Brltt,
the pugiliBt, has yielded to the advice of
his friends and decided to wipe out the
fAinr line. He will now agree to a match
with Joe Gans, and endeavor to wrest
from the colored fighter the lightweight
championship of the world.
BASEBALL KOTES.
What tlie Fans Are Saying and the
riayers Doing.
TSs easier to knock than to boost when
the Browns are on the toboggan. Fans,
hold your roasting department at evens
TTifiniureinent can tighten up the
Tfien it they don't win their
share of gamee let's all turn loose our
toasting machines.
rnn TTnrlnw Is the latest player to aug
ment the ranks of the Brown hospital
corps. The Brown patcher -will be out of
the game for at least a week.
Schaffer has cut out all of the funny
coaching stunts that he was wont to pull
rf Anrinc- the early cart of the season.
Some gnat-brained crank at Loe Angeles
tnnlr M-PPtltionS tO MS 8IUniS, HUB unite
ti,T-tiie,rBrown first baseman put his hu
xnor in cold storage: Manager vigneux
should take him aside and whisper some
thing to him. The local fans have been
waiting for his fun.
Notes from the Brown hospital corps:
Smith's lingering case of Chariey Horse
sticks closer than a jpther-ln-law. His
sprained ankle is slowly mending. Man
ager Vlgneux's injured wrist received an
other cruel wrench during the Wednesday
game. It will be weeks before he will be
able to report "cured." Jay Andrews has
two fingers that distress him a great deal.
Slagle's broken digit is still very painful,
but he pitched splendid ball during the
initial game. Van Buren's ankle Is again
in commission, and he Is no longer in the
hospital.
Shields and Carlo Smith were Interest
ing visitors on the opening day of the
golf tournament at the Waverly lmks.
Newton, the defeated champion, and Mr.
Young were paired on the opening day,
and the two baseballlsts followed the play
ers over the course. Young swatted the
white ball for a drive of J15 yards. Smith
when he saw the ball sail high into the
air and then foot out the great distance,
came near going wild with delight. "Ah,
boy," he shcuted to Shields, "I've learned
the trick now; nothing but homers for me
after this. I'm going to come out here
every day and take lessons. When I get
the trick corked up. then I'm going to
challenge big Ed Delehanty and the rest
of the big league sluggers to a batting
contest. Nothing to it boy; these golfers
can sure show us hoT to hit." Shlefds
was quite Interested, and he declared af
terward that he was studying the golfer's
method of place hitting. Both players
have bought a driving club and a half
dozen golf balls and are practicing In
cecret, hoping to win some money from
the rest of the team by betting that they
Can drive the little white Tsall over 200
feet
Here arc a few of Mique Fisher's funny
interviews:
"Hey, there! Here I've been in town
over a day and you haven't been around
to see me yet. That's a nice way to treat
me, now, ain't It?"
The reporter turned around and gazed
on the broad features of Michael A. Fish
es the Sacramento' baseball manager,
toupee and all.
"Say. young feller, I've got the best
baseball team that ever happened. They
can't stop me for that pennant Why.
Tm afraid the Senators are so strong that
they will break up the league they win
eo far."
"Say, Mique. show him that toupee."
interjected Morley.
"What ain't he seen that yet? Why. I
thought everybody In California had seen
my toupee. The reporters have been tak
ing pictures of it In San Francisco. It's
a sure peach. Here It Is," and Stlque re
moved his hat exposing to view a swell
tilack wig. He says he's 22 with it on and
44 with it off, and looks the part
"Say, you fellows never heard about
Reilly coming np to Sacramento and offer
ing me the State Capitol building to jump
to the opposition, did you? Well, It was
a faet On the square, he had a deed to
the building all written out don't know
how he got it but it sure looked all right
Wen. I wouldn't go. Then he offered me
the Southern Pacific Railway Company,
but I paid: ICay, nay. And, say, speak
ing of the Capitol building. I don't sup
pose you heard that they had to put police
around that bir glided ball the last few
days of the Legislature, but it was a fact
Some of the fellows were going to scrape
the gilding off and sell It
"I've got a big dog up at Sacramento,
and he has been tired ever clnee he chased
.Doyle.. Cutter and HildebraMi to the de
pot: he couldn't keep up -wiUi me. I met
Reilly at the depot that night and he
said: "Mike. I'll make this cost you some
money.' I told him 'Don't do it Charlie.
I haven't got a cent Then he said he'd
sue me. and I told him to go ahead, only
not for .any rotten little sum not less
than $20,000 anyway. Why, that would
give tne a standing In Bradstreet I
could go cut and borrow money c-n the
strength of being sued like that But
Reilly wouldn't sue.
Tye get a trunkf ul of Injunctions. You
ought to see them. Why, all I've got to
do is to press, the button and out comes
an Injunction any way I want It I sare
fobled some of those rubber-legged ball
players, and I guess Til fool some more
of them before I get through.
'Yes, sir, I've got the best ball club on
earth. You ought to see those fellows
play ball. All pltchtrs look alike to them.
This first baseman of mine, Townsend, la
worth 3000 Unglaubs on a ball team. If
anybody wants to see baseball played
right he can se.e my boys the rest of this
week. If they get beaten this series the
public will see the best six games of hall
ever played.
'T wish you could have seen my crowd
Sunday. There was 6900 paid admissions
to my grounds, and that doesn't count 400
fans who were roosting in one tree out
side, and 396 who were on another tree on
the other side. Then there was the knot
hole brigade of several thousand, too."
They say at Sacramento that Fisher Is
such a public benefactor that he has knot
holes punched in the fence for the benefit
of the kids on the outside who cannot pay
to get in.
This is the best year for baseball we
ever had In Sacramento, and I am going
to run an excursion down here July 4,
when my team plays in Los Angeles
again," continued Mimic "I am sure 250
fans -will come, and they'll make noise
enough for all the rest."
"That young Thomas of yours is quite
a pitcher, isn't he. MiqueT remarked a
bystander to Fisher.
"Thomas? Oh, he can pitch all right.
Seattle never got a man to second base
Sunday, the last game he pitched."
Mique has decided to keep on paying
Thomas money.- Chances are the clever
little fellow will be a member of the Sen
ators as long as Fisher owns the club,
for he has pitched his way into the man
ager's heart and pocketbook as wen.
Another thins I forget to tell you
about is mv erounds. I've got the finest
grounds on earth," stated Mique, witn
emphasis. "They have a little bigger
stand at the Polo grounds In New York
and some other places, but rve got tne
original swell field, apd you'll say so. too.
when vou see It.
For such a truly great man, Mr. Fisher
Is most aDDroachable: the easiest man to
touch In the business, and he readily con-
eonfod to hft Interviewed on any oia sur-
Icct at all. Asked If it were true that It
urns thrnurrh his Influence that the state
capital remained at Sacramento, he read
llv admitted It. and In his own graphic
and inimitable style described the trans
action as follows:
"Thrft was 47 Senators an' 'leven hun
dred Assemblymen come out to my house
at 2 In the morning, and they says to me:
'Mike, they says, 'shall we move ner to
Rm Joser An' I says: 'Naw! She's doln'
good where she is,' an' that's the reason
Vifs there vet-"
On the subject of the loss of the first
two games to Morley, he had a great deal
to say.
"That first game we was all tired. My
hnvs ain't used to this boofay car grub
an' sleepln in Pullman cars ain't such an
pnsv Tame as it looks.
"Then In the middle of the night I wake
up an' my fine imported toopee was gone
thought I'd been scalped. That toopee
post me S7.47 at Weinstock-Lublns an' of
course I couldn't stand for any raw work
like that, so I hollered and got tne Doys
up to help look for It. An' what do you
Mntr? That nlceer norter found It In the
aisle and thought I'd left It there to be
combed! Sure, I ain't kidding you. So
we didn't get much sleep, an' the boys
was tired. Then the second game. I -was
awful worried and nervous. I just hap
pened to think that I'm paying for a room
an a bath at the Rosslyn and here I've
in town two days an' I ain't had a
bath yet! It kind of rattled me to think
oi losing an luiii. -
but I'll ret even. I'm goln' to take three
baths tonight an' that'll put me square
with the house." Los Angeles Herald.
Baseball's death roll for 1902 contains
the names of many who have played the
ttma fimrnd as Its most brilliant his
torians, handled the indicator as judges of
play, and directed its anairs rrom tom
irprlnl benches.
rtt nil thf ritatlntrulshcd dead of the
vear none was better known than Harry
M. Weldon, late sporting editor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, upon -whose grave
the snn-- at January fell. Months alter
trnrd the echo of a nlstol shot startled
th -whole sDortintr world. Crazed by
worry over Western League affairs, of
which organization he was president, the
veteran sporting editor of the Kansas City
Star surswoned death to his relief, and he
gained trife release he sought. That was
nnt the onlv tracedv to cast a shadow
unon the ball field during the season
One morning in March Thomas E. Burns
was found dead in bed at Jersey City.
ThP. old manager of the Chicago team,
and one of tho famous stonewall Infield
when Ned Williamson, Fred Pfeffer and
A. C. Anson made up the White Stock-
Inc auartet. had lust accepted the man
agement of the Jersey City club. In the
Eastern League, when his contract was
canceled by the angel of death. Another
startling death was that of Fred Jevne,
the old umpire, who tumbled out of a
hotel window at Denver and sunerea ratal
injury.
The San Francisco Examiner says of
Flannerr: "He behaves like a bucking
broncho. He nlays his team like Crea-
tore used to Dlay the Royal Italian Band.
He lurches and groans and tears his top
knot when he Is on the line personally
conducting a runner over the straight and
narrow paths. On the field he works
away in center, yet is always bellowing
words of cheer and command away in.
even to his catcher. If willingness to per-
spire carte blanche and intelligent work
will win, Flannery sureiy nas me pen
nant lashed to the Helena mast.
Hurlburt a giant catcher, who was
with Atlanta In the Southern League last
year, has been signed by Los Angeles, of
th Pacific Coast League. iuriDuriB
parents are said to be very wealthy.
A Child's History of Basebnll.
The first pitcher to use a curve was
William A. Cummlngs, of Ware, Mass
No less than 94 players In the National
Leacue batted .300 or better In 1894.
Che Boston National League club is the
only club in existence organized before
1S71.
Bill McGunnigle. catching behind the bat
for Fall River in 1875, was the first player
to make use of a mitt
Boston won every game played on the
home grounds in 1S75, and lost eight games
during the season
Bobby Lowe made four consecutive home
runs off Pitcher Chamberlain at Boston
in 1894.
The baseball mask was invented In 1S76
by Thayer, of Harvard, who took the Idea
from the fencing mask.
Lajole was the first major league player
to go through an entire season with
batting average of .400 or more.
The rule giving a batsman his base upon
being hit by a pitched ball was first adopt
cd by the old American Association.
The highest score on i.--rd was made
June S. 1889, at Buffalo, when the Colum-
blas were defeated by ih Niagaras, 209
to 10.
The first game of ball was played by
the Knickerbockers and New Yorks June
14. 1S4S. at the Elyslan fields, Hoboken,
N. J.
Jim O'Rourke. of Bridgeport Conn., Is
the holder of the record for the longest
service on tne diamond. He made his
debut In 1S72 with the Mansfield nine of
Middleton, Conn., and has seen continu
ous service ever since.
Harvard Has Best Shots.
PHILADELPHIA, May 2. The intercol
legiate shoot between Harvard, Prince
ton, Pennsylvania and Yale here today
was won by Harvard, with a total of 200
out of a possible 250; Princeton second,
"with 137; Pennsylvania, third, 173; Yale,
fourth, 172.
Costs the dealer more.
But Opla zults discriminating smokers.
SUPERSTITION !N RACING
PROMIXEXT HORSEOWJjERS HAVE
MAXY FREAK FANCIES.
The Photographer the Most Cor
dially Hated and Feared Some
Hard Lack Stories.
Turfmen from time immemorial have
paid big toll to superstition. Some of the
leading horsemen of this country today
follow signs and accept certain events as
omens. Some will scratch a horse if a
cock crows In front of the stable on Fri
day morning. Other consider that to drop
handkerchief accidentally means cer
tain defeat and the loss of hundreds of
dollars. There are at the present time
at least half a dozen prominent West
ern turfmen who believe that to have a
photographer snap a picture of one of
their horses means bad luck.
Sam Hildreth Is one of the turfmen who
will go out of his way to dodge some
thing that he thinks may cause him nad
luck. He believes in dreams, and he
dreads a camera as he hates a tout Hil
dreth has had his superstitions proved to
hlra. With him. as he puts it it is no
Idle notion; It has been shown to him
time and again.
At Memphis there came a new proof to
Hildreth that signs are a potent factor
in the luck of a turfman. His 3-year-old
filly WItfull. who won the Crescent City
Derby and who Is entered for the Amer
ican Derby at Washington Park, ran into
the rail on the Memphis racetrack and
was injured, tnougn, as developments
have shown, not seriously.
It was not a mere accident that WItfull
was Injured, If you hear Hildreth tell the
story. It was fate. The morning of the
day on which Witfull was Injured a pho
tographer, who was working for a Chi
cago newspaper, hung around the Hil
dreth stable until he succeeded in get
ting a good picture of the filly. When
Hildreth learned of it. he was mad clear
through.
He had Intended to bet heavily on WIt
full to win the race. She was fit and he
believed her best but she had had her
picture taken, and what was the use of
throwing money away, he asked nimseii.
He wanted to scratcch her from the race.
but then he realized that he owed a duty
to the racing association. It had ad
vertised the race and a crowd had been
drawn to the track in the expectation
of seeing a great contest, with Witfull
as one of the stars. So she was carded
to go to tho post
Hildreth would not bet on her. He was
convinced that she could not finish first
After he declined to tell numerous ques
tioners who usually try to talk to him at
a racetrack, he went out to find the place
where he always watches a race. He had
a particular spot at Memphis. Not to
be in that spot was to court disaster.
On this "particular day, which was
Monday, Hildreth found his place occu
pied. What could have been worse? un
top of an unfavorable sign like the tak
ing of a picture the owner's place had
been occupied. Surely the portent was
something dire. And so HUdretn De-
Heved.
Hildreth then knew that Witfull would
He feared that
never nnisn tne race.
something would happen to her, and even J
before she turned Into the stretch and
then swerved Into the fence Hildreth
knew It was going to happen. He said
so afterward, and one has to take his
word for It in the race oi two sucn
awful signs, Hildreth thinks It Is strange
that the filly Is sUll alive: but she is, and
Is In Chicago, and will race again If
there are no more pictures taken of her
and if some one does not get on the
spot where Hildreth wants to stand when
he watches one of his own horses In a
race.
The case of Witfull Is only one of the
many Illustrations Hildreth has had that
there is something In signs. Just tnose
that can be told of since he came to Chi
cago are enough to convince him.
Iast Spring he had Waring worked up
to the point where he believed the horse
would be able to stand a season of rac
ing. At Worth the ever-busy photogra
pher took a picture of Waring, and three
hours later the grand old horse was dead.
At Harlem last June Hildreth sent his
Derby favorite, the famous McChesney,
to the post It was to-be McChesneys
trial for the Derby, and thousands of
people were there to see the great colt
perform. Before he got to the post tho
colt had been photographed half a dozen
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CUP DEFENDER RELIANCE.
THE SPEEDY CRAFT IS SHOWX BOW OX, REACHING OX THE
STARBOARD TACK.
times. In the race. It will be remembered,
he fell, and it was long after the Derby
was run that McChesney was ready to
run In another race. Ry that time the
horse had been sold. Hildreth, thought he
was hoodooed.
And there have been other Instances.
John W. Schorr Is as bad, about having
his horses photographed sis Is Hildreth.
Just before the Derby in 1901 Lady Schorr
broke down. It happened just after a
picture of her had been taken. There
has been no time when the horses of
J. W. Schorr could be photographed with,
the owner's consent. He Is as supersti
tious about It as Hildreth. It -was re
ported a while ago that .he had reformed
In this respect, but It was a false report.
Tho Memphis brewer would rather have
a horse run away than to be photo
graphed. There are other owners who have dif
ferent superstitions. The stables on a
racetrack lnclosure bear evidence of them.
Some owners could not get along without
goats. There are others who think that
chickens will Bring luck. Harry Stover
keeps the skin of a snake In his stable,
and doesn't mind if there are a few live
ones near by. If the owner does
not
have a superstitltion It is a sure
that the stable hands will have.
sign
There are no Instances, however, of
signs being fulfilled to any other owner as
they have to Sam Hildreth. He has the
champion hard-luck superstition of the
country.
ROOSEVELT AND HARVARD
Likely Place for Introduction of the
Strenuous Life.
From the New York Times.
Why should not Mr. Roosevelt become
actual President of Harvard? Why not
indeed? It Is impossible to imagine any
position whatever In which the President
could be placed to which the prefix "ex
would not be absurdly inappropriate. It
Is equally Impossible to Imagine any posi
tion In which he would not be very much
at large. He would at once "get busy
at the head of that or any other Institu
tion, and he would promote business in
others. When the existing undergraduate
body thinks of his presidency. It must
lament that itself was born too early.
Under the grinding tyranny of the faculty
committee on athletics Its victims now
groan helpless. How would they rejoice
If they could look forward to a Roose
veltlan regime? The new president would
put that body In Its placo if he had to lick
every member of it And how happy
would those undergraduates be who feel
themselves capable of filling every item of
tne Cecil Rhodes bill except the disgust
lng first which the name "scholarship'
implies. If they were sure that this friv
olous and Irrelevant objection would no
longer be brought up against them.
It would not be. Can anybody imagine
President Roosevelt letting a good left
tackle go becauso he could not decline
"musa, musae," or, for that matter, be
cause he could not spell "cat"? Assured
ly not Harvard would be first In the field
and on the river, whatever became of the
Homer examinations and the prize debates
or its president would know the reason
why. His aspiration for his undergradu
ates would be that of the poet about his
dusky brood":
Iron-Joined cupple-elnewed, tby shall dire and
they shall run;
Catch the wild goat by the hair sad hurl their
lances in the sun;
i Whistle back the parrot's call ana leap the rain
bows of the brooks.
Not with blinded eyesight poring over miser
able books.
Theodore Roosevelt must have- conduced
considerably to the enllvenment of Har
vard when he was there as an undergrad
uate, even though cramped by the tram
mels of an" effete system of discipline and
' 'alse standard of Instruction. But In
stalled there as president with ample
power to his free and strenuous elbow.
what a transformation he would work!
All over our broad land youths more dls
tlngulshed for strenuosity than for stu
dlousness would be begging the "old man'
to send them to Harvard as the first arena
ever opened for their peculiar gifts in the
guise ot an Institution of learning. The
presidency of Harvard would be great
while it lasted. There Is no doubt about
that
People Who Appear Old.
Success.
People who appear old must expect to
be considered so; and, If they apply for
position with every appearance that sen
lllty has struck them, and that they have
gone to seed, they cannot expect f avorabl
consideration. If gray-haired applicants
for positions would only appreciate the
value of appearances and would "brace
up" when they seek situation go 'nsrell-
CTOomed" and well dressed, with elastic
steps, showing that they still possess fire.
force and enthusiasm they would elimi
nate an obstacle greater than, their gray
hairs. We think ourselves Into Incapacity
by looking for signs of age and dwelling
on them, and the body follows the thought
We should, therefore, avoid the appear
ance of age In every possible way, by
dress, carriage, conversation, and espe
cially by our attitude toward people and
things. It is not difficult to preserve the
buoyancy and freshness of youth, but It
must be done by constant effort and prac
tice. A musician who expects to mane
only one or two important appearances a
year must keep up his practice. Youth
fulness cannot be put on for a day If old
age has had a grip On you for months. It
is important to preserve tho fire of youth
as long as possible, to carry freshness and
vigor Into old. age by keeping up a hearty
interest in everything that interests youth.
Many of ns seem to think that youthful
sports and pastimes are foolish, and, be
fore we know it. vrjs get entirely out of
sympathy with all young life, and conse
quently really old, whatever our years.
We must think youthful thoughts, asso
ciate with young people, and Interest
them. When a person ceases to Interest
the young, he may be sure that he Is
showing signs of old age.
STRONGEST OF NATIONS.
America One Nation Blessed With
"Wealth of Resoarces.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Many" Americans, when told their coun
try is the strongest of .nations, are apt to
doubt the statement and to point to the
larger fleets and armies of others as Jus
tifying, their doubt
War is. Indeed, the crucial test of a na
tion's energy, but fleets must be built,
equipped and manned, and armies must be
fed. armed and recruited, and to do these
things requires both wealth and men.
Comparison of the gross financial re
sources of nations is impossible. But it is
possible to compare the strain put upon
.these resources by the annual receipts
and expenditures of their governments.
Here is such a comparison of the United
States, Great Britain, France and Ger
many for their last complete fiscal years:
Expen-
Rerelnts. dltures. Balance.
TJ. s
Gt Britain.
France
WS4.326.2S0 J59&038.SO4 i 91.287,376
, 695.899.762 951.49S.85t 255.599.092
, 693,275.735 695,250.216 25.519
, 550,251.240 65S.011.46S 7.760.22S
Germany
This comparison is not however, quite
fair to the United States. The European
nations conduct their postal service on
commercial principles and make money
out of it This the United States does not
attempt to do. All three own telegraphs
and some of them railroads, and make
money out of them. To make the com
parison quite fair the net pronts or our
telegraphs and railroads should be added
to our surplus balance. As this Is im
practicable, let us eliminate those three
items from all tho accounts, xnen tne
comparison stands:
Expen-
Reccipts. dltures. Balance.
U. S $562,478,233 5468.7SS.705 93.6S9.5Z3
Grt Britain. 60S.7CO.700 SS6.7C9.732 278.C09.C32
France ....:. 643.107.7C-2 647.000,216 3.S92.514
Germany ... 427.957,553 45s,Mi.Sit zi.sm.ju
Great Britain's heavy deficit was due, of
course, to the Boer War. But France and
Germany were at peace. Yet when the
profits they make from their people out
of posts, telegraphs and railways are dis
regarded their national business ior tne
year shows a loss. Only the United
States had a surplus, nominally of $93,
689,523. and, with the postal deficit de
ducted, actually of J91.2S7.376.
Nor was this better financial position or
the United States attained by taxing Its
people more heavily than other nations.
On the contrary, the burden of our Gov
ernment unon Its people s wealth is much
the Uchtest Taking the population of the
United States as 50.000.000. ot ureat .Brit
ain and France as 40.000.000 each, and of
Germany as 55.000.000. the per capita dls
trlbutlon of the Items m tne last taoie
was:
Kmen-
Recelpts. dltures. Bal.
.S 7.03 S 5.S6 $1.17
United States
Great Britain .
France
. 15.21 22.16 6.95
. 16.07 16.17 0.10
. 7.7S 8.23 0.50
Germany
While every Derson under the American
flasr has an Interest of $1.1 1 in tne riation
al surplus for the last fiscal year, every
man, woman and child In France, Ger
many and Great Britain, as a result oi
that year's business, went in debt to the
nation's creditors from 10 cents to
Detailed comparisons of expenditures,
Bhnwinir what the people of the four na
tions not from their government ior tne
taxes they paid, Is difficult, jowlng to the
difference In purposes of expenditure. The
United States, for example, spent $10,049,
B84 on Its Indian wards, an item unknown
to Euronean budgets. Then the United
States Is vastly more liberal with pen
slons to Its defenders than any other na
tion has ever dared to be. But there are
two items which occur In all the budgets
Interest on the public debt and cost of
army and navy. These compare, in gross
amounts and per capita, as follows:
Per Army Per
Tntrest. can. and navy. cap.
TJ. S.- $29,108,000 $0,363 180.O75.UW
Gt. Britain ..ioo.osj.ww 2.tx zwvtso.wu i.oo
France 240,333,000 e.uos isi.3w.wu
Germany .... ZL073,uw w.3 iDs,a),wu -.f
With its low taxes and relatively small
debt and low Insurance charge for that is
what armies and navies are the superior
financial strength of the united states
Is unouestloned. And we have not only
the wealth. We have also the men.
The United States could. If fighting
for Its life, put In the field more than 10,-
000,000 fighting men. They mignt not.
as a body, know so wen now to ngnt as
France's corresponding 5.000,000 or Ger
many's 6.000.000. but they would be vast
ly more numerous and they would learn
the trade of war faster.
As for Great Britain, she Is Inferior
not only to the United States, but also
to Germany In available numtier or
flghtlne men. She has not In all her em
nite over 50.COO.000 people from whom to
draw armies that could be relied on to
fight for England under any and all cir
cumstances. In a national llfe-and-death
strutrele the millions of India would hav
to be counted out at once. The United
States alone rules colored races that could
be relied on to fight for it as white men
fight
The United States of America is the
strongest of nations. The American
people are thoroughly Justified In saying
to themselves, in slight alteration or the
old song:
We don't want to flght; but, by Jingo, if we
do
We've- got the men can build the ships we'i
got the money, tool
FAIREST VANDERBILT MAID
Ko Fear for Miss May of Washington
in the Old Bridesmaid Adage,
New York Press.
If Miss Isabel May respects the most
time-honored of superstitions she never
again will be a bridesmaid. On Tuesday
she was one of the four attendants of
Miss Cathleen Neileon. Last Summe
she acted In similar capacity when Miss
Lily Oelrlchs was married to Peter D,
Martin. "Thrice a bridesmaid, never
bride," the makers of saws tell us, and
there" has been comment since Miss May
agreed to attend Miss Nellson. Now wo
hear she will attend Mls3 Thaw at her
wedding to the Earl of Yarmouth. Even
If Miss May were to act contrary to tra
ditlon and go to the altar for the third
time as the bride's attendant it Is more
than possible the superstition never would
be realized In her case, for she Is as at
tractive as she is rich. This is saying
creat deal, because the May fortune is
great and Ml May is one of two daugh
ter8. Socially the family leads in Wash
Ington. where Its members pass their Win
ters. They are connected with many New
York families, the Astors, Oelrichses, Geb
hards and Colemsns and when Henry May,
Miss Isabel's father, was young he was
the greatest beau ot his day.
Miss May was the handeoarest of all
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the bridesmaids, although Mrs. Vanderbllt
chose the best looking girls of her set
Miss Mav is extremely tall and hers la
what Is known as a "willowy" figure. She
lg more the type of Englishwoman than
American girl and her accent Is distinctly
English. She has brown hair and fine
blue eyes, and her coiffure usually is elab
orate with puffs and curls. She is distin
guished In society as one of the few young
women who never wear jewels, iliss May j
passes her Summers In Southampton or
Newport
Time to Get Oat-of-Doors.
The Independent
The time has come Yor us once more to
go out of doors. We realize that we are
a part of nature, a part ot the apple buds,
and the violets, and the cherry blossoms..
Tho voices that whisper through the half
grown leaves are growing articulate In
our ears as we get older and wiser, xne
house was orlglnaly an Improved cave.
The very best house, and the only decent
house for a human being, is mat wmcn
grows about us to express our senUments
and thoughts. We must not make too
much of it, or It becomes a shell that
limits our growth. At present the house
Is the burden of .civilization. It Is one of
tho chief hindrances to a free and beau
tiful development of character. We are
busy all our lives trying to stuff our
houses full of furniture ana prevent tne
sun from coming Into the windows to fade
our carpets. We set these houses In rows
as we set rows of tombstones, and they
are monuments, not to our manhood, but
to our folly. It will be one of the chief
problems of the new age how to get out
of doors. A city is a sometnmg mane
up of houses street after street of plied
brick and stone. Make the best of them
and they are stony-fronted; make the
worst of them and they are so full or
diseases, tragedies and old traditions that
we can do nothing with them unul they
chance to be burned. Hawthorne says the
curse ot Rome is that It was built so
solidly it could not be burned over once in
100 years. The salvation ot our house
and city life Is that It can occasionally be
burned up.
As we go back to country life we must
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not be slaves to our shell growth. The
family must have elasticity and a chance
to express new thoughts and feel new
things. It must be able to work Itself
out In new forms and methods. Our
houses must be grown not In rows, bu"t
where there Is most of sweetness and
strength and Individuality for ourselves:
Our schoolhouses also, like our home
steads, must express liberty instead of
slavery liberty to know and to think and
to feel; not a mere obligation to give up
the liberty of childhood for bondage to
books. We must begin to live our lives,
out of doors far more than we have done.
and the school must be out of doors a3
well as the family. Our cities will nat
urally expand Instead of compressing
themselves. The home life of both toll
ers and capitalists will creep out among
the glens and among the hills.
Success of the Solemn.
Ass.
Washington Post
Look about you, gentle reader, and con
sider the solemn ass In every walk of life.
Who so respected, so admired, so influen
tial? He never takes' sides. He never Is a
partisan. He goes along with knitted
brows, his thoughts too deep- for utter
ance. Smaller men may abandon them
selves to hasty Indications, to rash pref
erences, to robust views. He never does.
If he speaks at all, it is with such pro
fundity and circumlocution and complex
ity that the most recondite cryptogram
ever rescued from a pyramid would seem
to burst of innocent and childish candor
in comparison. Yet he wears fine rai
ment every day. He enjoys the respect
and confidence of the community. He
prospers. The oil of opulence anoints
him. He is the Incarnation of success!
Dairy Produce at Chicago.
CHICAGO, May 2. On the Produce Ex
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creameries, 1220c; dairies, 1519c
Eggs, firm, 1314c
Cheese new, firm, Hc.
Wool at St. IOHls.
ST. LOUIS. May 2. Wool Steady; West
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1215c.
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