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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1891)
I . 9 t MEETING OF CHAMPIONS. COMING TENNIS CONTEST BE TWEEN EAST AND WEST. Cnnipbrll mill lltmtlnztoii Who Are to I'nco the Munly Cliatiipltui) or Iho Meat 1'lm Ciiiitxi. u'lii i. i. ' Ureal livcnl r the !cihoii. It was not a surprise when 0. S. Campbell and 15. 1 Huntington, Jr., won the tournament at Statcn Island two weeks ago. and thus gained the doubles championship of the Kast, for last year they failed to capture the same honor by only a hairs-breadth, and V. 15. Hall and Clarence llobart, who were their conqueror on that oc casion, are now the champions of the I'nited States, and in accordance with a rule recently established by the Na tional Lawn Tennis association, were barred from competing in the Staten Island tournament this year. Camp bell and Huntington. having now won the Katern champion ship, will meet the winners of the Western championship at Newport next week, and in case thev defeat them, which is highly probable, will have another battle with Hall and llobart, the championship of the L' nited States depend ng on the result. It is the general opinion among the prominent players that this year the tables will be turned, and Campbell and Huntington will earn the title of Double ( hampious. O. S. Cumpnell is a resident of Hrook lyn. N. Y.,and although young has bewn known as a lawn tennis player for at least six or seven years past.' Ho com menced playing when very young a boy in knickerbockers, and has grown np with the game, showing great im provement ont?h year, until l'.K), when lie reached a glorious climax by de feating the then champion. II. W. Slo cum, .Inn., and thus winning the cham pionship of the I'nited States in sin gles. Campbell is naturally of a hardy constitution, and his great powers of endurance nave served him in good stead for whatever may be said to the contrary, endurance is certainly one of the prime factors of success in lawn tennis. His great hold, however, has been in volleying, in which art he plainly excels all players of this coun try, and perhaps those of Knsrhiud. He recently graduated from Columbia col lege. It. I Huntington, .Inn., graduated from Yale m .lime, lie was a resident of New Haven during his college course, but his family also have a permanent home on the Hudson near Itinelcck. Huntington has not played lawn tennis s. long as Campbeil, but suddenly sprang into prominence as an epert two years ago, and has ever siii"e been ranked as one of the most skillful players of this country. Last year he was perhaps the most prominent rival of Campbell for the championship, and was ouly beaten by that player after a hard fought contest of live sets. There is no particular feature of thu game, in which he e.cels. but he is strong in every department, and is greatly aided by nature in that he is unusually tall and has a tremendous reach. Mr. Huntington's engagement to Miss Helen Dinsmore, daughter of Mr. Wil liam II. Din-unoro, lias recently been announced, and it is state 1 that this may be the last year in which he will take an active part in lawn tennis com petition. He is regarded as a formida ble candidate for tlie championship in singles. It would be hard to name a better pair to represent the West at Newport tliunClia.se and i.yeson.the victors at the Kenwood I.. T. C. If C. A. Chase had played with his brothers a somewhat stronger team would have been made up. yet the present champions of the Western States are likely to give Camp bell and Huntington a good match. Hyeson is a steady player, and Chase's work at the net will probably securo them one set at the finals. There is no probability of their winning, and If Campbell and Huntington lose moro than one set it will be highly credit able to the skill of the Chicago pair Such brilliant work as llobart per formed last your at .staten Island can hardly ho expected, ami, barring ex hibitions of unusual skill on tto part of any one man, the puirs will ho evenly matched, and stoady. oaroful work will decide tho championship lor ltsDl. Tho Liverpool cup wm run at Liver pool. Knt'land. on July a. ' he cup U worth 1,100. part in plat or tho whole in bin18' ilUtam e. 1 mile J furlong. Cupt. Muceir. t-four-v.ar old llathheel woni 8. H- Jttrdlno'8 tit- Itonodiot was beco 3 and B. Uob&on'i. Uuruuby third. yjjrj sfi 'J 1 A TIGER HUNTER'S TALE. Account of Oiif of IIU AxtonMilnp Tcr- fnrmniiri'o An AiiiiizimI rtumn. An Knglfch ollleor I heard of, who had served in India, uis a distinguished sports man, having liacged soul's of tigers and other lnrgo game, l".iile K-iuga capital bin! shot. His reputation in this eltt.ss of Hold sports was so well established that on his re turn homo he was in great requisition at tho London club, where lie was often called uKn to relate some of his hunting achievements, many of which were of so marvelous u char acter that ho was suspected by some of draw ing a Ihiw of unusual length. l)n one occasion, after entertaining his friends with an elaUirato account of one of his most astonishing performances, a member of the jsirty very delicately insinuated n slight suspicion of incredulity as to tho ver ity of the occurrence, whereupon the cap tain, with an xeeedingly consequential nir, reniarked: "Why, my dear sir, that is a mere ligatelle when contrasted with ono of my encounters with tigers." "I by no means, for an instant, question the accuracy of your statement," said tho other. "Indeed, I have lieen greatly in terested in them, and I assure you nothing would n (ford me more pleasure than to hear further of your astonishing success in tho rare st tort of tiger hunting." "Ye-," he replied, "it is good sport enough unless the tiger takes it into his head to hunt the hunter, when the excitement liecomcs rather t'i intent to Is? agreeable. I re nieinlKM'," ho added, "at one time while serv ing in India, I went out for h morning's shooting, taking my largest calllH-red'W'estley ltiehnnls, tho right barrel charged with an elongated steel pointed ball and tho left with snipe shot, and after hunting some timo without seeing game, I entered a thickset jungle, and hud only gone a few yards w hen an enormous man eating tiger dashed at mo from one side, and at the saino instant I Hushed an ICnglish suie upon tho opposite side. "Whereupon I llred hnty simp shots to the right and lett, and to my supremo grati fication (for I am free to admit I was a little agitated) the tiger fell dead within three feet of me, and tho stiiiiu dropped upon the other side. l!ut you can imagine my amazement, gentlemen, when I approached tho rapacious monster and discovered that 1 had killed him with the sniiH; shot, while the three ounce bullet had torn tho poor bird into 10,000 atoms, leaving n.ithing tangible save a slight suspicion of u few feathers.'" Hon. Marcy in Outing. Secret (if tlie- Lifter's lNnier. Topham lifted a weight of nearly 0,000 pounds by tho use of the strength of his whole body. He stood within a well balanced framework heavily loaded, and to bo raised by broad strap, two passing over his shoul ders and two attached to a strong waistband. Tho lifting power was obtained by straight ening his lower limbs almost straight just be fore lifting and at tho same tinio slightly raising his shoulders. Tho heavily loaded framework was thus raised an inch or two, n very slight sw aying movement show ing tho spectators that it wusTeally froo from all contact with the ground. So powerful was Tonham's fraino for this sort of work that ho was backed to pull against two strong dray horses his body being in a horizontal posi tion, and the pull of the horses being resisted by the pressure of his legs against a fixed horizontal bar close to tho ground, so that tho action was precisely tho same as that em ployed in the lifting experiment. Tho secret of the great lifting power of tho legs in such work lies in tho fact that tho action has that exceedingly effective leverage which is employed in the iStanliotx) press, familiarly known, in fact, fortius very rea son, as "knee leverage.'' When tho legs arc nearly upright the knees may ho perhaps half a foot from tho position they take when tho legs nro straightened. While they move through this half loot the body is not raised moro than jierlmps half an inch; consequently the lower Used in straightening tho legs is multiplied into a twelve fold greater lilting power. It is because of this powerful kneo straighten ing action that lilting exercises are apt to develop abnormally the muscles of tho lower and inner end of "tho front thigh. Hiehaid A. Proctor. Tim i:iilp.i;c of (lie I'enple. There is considerable rivalry among tho wealthy families of Petersburg in tho matter of riding and driving, and one can s-ihj on tho islands in the .summer and on tho Neva or Nevski Prosjicct in winter tho finest horso llesh in the world. Tho pavements of tho city aro distressingly bad, as bad as thoso of Chicago, and of a similar style cobblo stones laid in tho roughest manner. There is wmo oxcuso for them in Petersburg, how over, as tho streets aro so wido it would bankrupt tho city to pavo them with any thing that would wear out. A sort of com promise with comfort has been effected, how over, by laying a strip of wood pavement on each side of tho roadway, next tho sidewalk, wido enough for two carriages to go abreast, and tho drivers usually stick to that. Tho streets lire kept very clean, under tho direction of Dr. Duncan, u jolly and brilliaut Scotchman, who occupies the olllco of direc tor general of public health, and squads of men are kept constantly at work sweeping them with little brooms and carrying oir tho dirt in carts. There is a law agailibt throw ing paper or other refuse in tho street, and it is rigidly enforced. There was formerly a law prohibiting smoking on the streets, but that i olisolete. The roadways nro con stantly sprinkled during tho Milliliter season, not by sprinkliuc carts such as wo havo, but by gangs of mor with hose, which thoy at tach to tho hydru'-ts. Ono man with a Iftio of hoso is given a couple of blocks, and koei sprinkling from sunrise to sunset. In tho winter nfter every snowfall tho pavements aro cleared by tho soldiers, leaving only n few inchos in tho road for sleighing, which lusts constantly from Novomljer to April. William Kleroy Curtis in Chicago News. 'What n Coliiiulilit I'rofeintor fiuji. Thoso firms of manufacturers of proprie tary medicines, nino out of ten, live solely by tho nowsjmpurs, and sometimes nro admi rably managed. I know homo establish ments in which there is u regular stuff em ployed; I know something about them, be causo tlioy try to brilo mo to certify to tho vultio of their concoctions. As I say, there is a regular stair. There is tho literary man who writes tho letters, giving marvelous ac counts of marvelous cures; there is thouitiat w ho thows tho jKit lent lxjforo and after tak ing twunty-two bottles of tho medicine; thuro is tho jKKit who com); jioems ujiou tho subject; there U tho Iiur who swears to what he knows ln't true, and tho forger who producer turfimoumU from his own im agination. Without exaggeration I should say that nino out of ton of thoso proprietary medicines are fraud, iwro and simple; tho real busine is advertising for dupes. Tho ntedtcMl rt of it u lut u side isoua. I am pretty Mire if I were to found up brickbats and fc)iid i 100,000 in oirenntc it at II an ouiic as a suit) our for hjiim uitftM) w hich OMiiUut bo inirnd, I thoukl get back at leaat tllo.ooo, thus giving in tlu.oio for iny tron bin. Nino-tenth of tho medicine sent out in thU fruhiou lutvu no more curutivo pruwrtiu than bricklvat dun. I'rofufcsor !,.., ,.lli.r. lii Kuiv V..rL- l'mt- i IFARMANDGARDEN Useful Information for the Farmer. IRRIGATING LAND BY PUMPS. Tho Roofs Should Bo Carefully Consid ered by All Who May Sink Wells for Pumps. Where years ago it might not have been, it is "now jHissible to irrigate ninny fair and productive acres by pumping and thereby be independent" of all the present systems of water courses and charges. A gentleman who has a llvron Jucks-on centrifugal pump upon his place, says the Hukerslield Calif ornian, lina made a careful observation as to costs and capacity of this kind of work. The plant will cost as follows : Hngine, $000; pump, $200; average well, say $'200; or $l,f0J for plant. With thirty-foot lift tho pump has a rapacity of one cubic foot per second, and with fen or twelve foot lift, two cubic feet per second. The water should be used direct from the pump, as, if storage reservoir is used, there is additional expense and loss of water from seepage and evaporation. With sninll ditches and attention one cubic inch of w ater per second is ample for 100 acres in vines and trees, and while using the pump it will keep two men busv handling the water, for, prop erly applied, from seven to eight nerea can be irrigated each day. If alfalfa is laid out in narrow checks, so that tho water can gently run over it, three ncrea a day can bo irrigated in this manner. Of course, if Hooding be practiced, each aero will require the old amount of ono and one-fourth cubic feet per second for twenty-four hours. The costs of running this pump nro one cord of w-ood $2.50 or three loads o igebrush at alwut the same cost; lnoor running engine, $1.05; incidentals, :-f cents a total of $1.50 for, say, seven and one-half acres, or 00 cents per acre. Tho engine of fiftetn-horse power is am ple for a pump of double the capacity given above, and tho snid pump only costs $100 more originally. One thing should be carefully consid ered bv all who sink wells from which water is intended to bo pumped, and that is the roof of the well. If the cas ing ends in a stratum of sand and gravel, as tho water is rapidly sucked out, there is lound to bo a cave, so the bor ing should continue until there is a clay roof at least twenty feet in thickness, for with such a roof "there will never be a cave or obstruction to the free How of tho greatly to be desired water supply. ltoot-Oruftetl ipplo Trees. Tho preference of nurserymen for root-grafted apple trees comes from the fact that by taking very small pieces ol roots they can multiply stocks of new varieties much more rapidly than thej can by top-grafting where a young tree, however large, makes when crafted only a single stock. Hoot-grafting is also largely done in winter or at other times when outdoor work is impossible. The young natural seedling makes at first usually a larger growth the first year or two. Here the advantages of top-grafting end. The root-grafted tree, from the fact that its roots are more compact, bears transplanting better, and in a few years the variety is on roots of its own, so us to ins'ire .i symmetrical growth of the tree nl ive grouiid. Old top-grnfted trees usuallv sl.ow where the union was made by larger grow th either above or below if, and if the lop is lesn vigorous, the trunk below !h filled with suckers produced by sap, for which there is no other outlet. Tliliiiiliitf A pplcN. The codlin moth and other enemies of the apple crop usually thin them enough, and possibly too much for profit. There aro, however, localities where no apples grew last year, and here the trees may may be liable to overbear. Nature never thins enough, though tho tree will auto matically cast fome of its fruit just be fore the time for forming seed. Theao re jected fruits aro always the smaller and poorer specimens, tho best apples ap parently robbing the others and appro priating their sap. Tho fruit-grower should lollow in the same line, (licking oil' all but tho best where two or more apples grow in a cluster. Whut aro left I will bo worth more than the wholo would bo if allowed to grow. Timothy llrcedlnir Cut AVorinn. Tho common white grub is most often found in timothy ineadowa tho second, third or fourth yeur. Tho parent beetle lays her egg just under thu bulb of thu timothy plant at tho surface of the ground. Hero the young grub finds his first food, and soon becomes largo and voracious enough to destroy anv cron j planted on an upturned timothy soil. It in just men, ioo, nun inu oiu iiiciiuow is plowed up, because the fanner sees that the timothy has run out, but does not suspect the cause. Crop audi land tho first and second year with buckwheat and seed with clover. That will atarvo out the white grubs more quickly than anything else. I'eeilllllf Flesh to Unci. It ia a common practice whero exten sive butchering btiaineaa ia carried on to feed the offal to hogs. Pork thus made i ia not so good aa that made from grains, ! and if there are any indications of dis I ease in animals, even though undevel I oped, it may break out in hogs eating uch material. The rule that only herb and grain-feeding animals are fit for food ia a good ono. Tho hog waa by tho Mo saic law pronounced unclean, and left to himself, no will be. It is only aa extra care is taken to prevent tiie hog from eating offensive food that Hh flesh is good to eat. Wariiilni; Holt lif Drttlnlnjr. Evaporation of water dispels heat more rapidly than anything else. Bo long ns all tho surplus water in soli has to lo evaporated to escape, then the noil will remain cold. Kven hot sunshine does not warm it to any considerable depth. Winds and sun cause tho evap oration to progress more rapidly, ami may boinetlmea nuke thu boII beneath the lurlaco colour than before. MISCELLANEOUS. An AIllRiirt' Tnper on Seimtnr Stniiforil'i Preildellitrtl I'liniiee. A mysterious and fatal disease prevails among Connecticut cows. A new Presbyterian hospital has been built in New York for $800,000. General Miles is talking up a parade of Indians for the World's Fair. The press of New York still complains of that city's detestable dirty streets. A movement is on foot in Texas to raise a monument to General Sam Hous ton. The shipmontaof grain from New York .ire now averaging 1,000,000 bushels a day. Kailronders of Nebraska have formed a political organization, and claim 40, OiM) votes. The New York navy yard is to have n new dry dock to cost $000,000. It will be 000 feet long. .Many voung Englishmen nnd Aineri cans hold commissions in the iivsurgenl army in Chili. Neal liw believe3 in whipping. Ho would apply the Delaware remedy ti Maine rumsellcrs. A tar well. Mowing at a rate estimated at -100 barrels a day, has been opened near Glasgow, Ky. M. Kilfol, the famous tower builder, denies that he had submitted plans for a tower at the Chicago World's Fair. A Kansas company has Iven conceded 2,000,000 acres of land in Nicaragua. It will colonise 15,000 families anil raise cof fee. The engines of the armored cruiser Maine, the largest of the kind ever built in tliic country, work well on their first trial. It is the intention of the Chicago, llur liugtou and (Juiucy management to push their lines ot steel to Helena and Butto, Mont. The Tokio society for tho encourage nier.t of Japanese colonization in Amer ica has decided to establish a colony in California or Canada. In the last ten years the railroad sys teni in Mexico has increased from Ii00 to 0,000 miles, ami fnllv -1,000 additional mill's are contracted for. Chancellor McGill of New Jersey has decided that legal advertisements" and I other documents in that State published in am other than the Miglislt language are invalid. The special bicycle service by (he corps of the First Regiment of the Con necticut National Guard has received a complimentary repoi t, and the feature has 1hcu coninieniied to the considera tion of the war ollice. Miss Helen Cloak, a full-blooded In dian of tho Itlaekfoot tribe, lias been ap pointed bv Secretary Noble special allot ting agent, and has' logun her work in allotting lands to the Tonkawas on the Nez Perees reservation. The .Vanillin Kcinomisl on behalf of the Fanners' Alliance says Senator Stan foul can never receive th'e farmers' votes for President or anything else. The only thing the two are a'greed upon is an in .reuse of currency among the people. Const'intine Ashorgan, a young man n New York who h is been a millionaire wice and is now clerking for $10 a week, is in luck again. An undo in Alex"n iria has died and left him a third of his fortune. Constantino saya he will take .are of this one. The United States Supreme Court, which will hold a term in Washington in October, will have many important questions before it. It will pass upon the legality of the McKinley law and also upon the legality of Speaker Ueed't luoruin-counting process. Numbers of Chinese are arriving in this country, says a Itochester dispatch, by way of Canada. Tho plan of their entrance is peculiar. They reifh I In tow ns lving along the Canadian Uirder, and there is a permanent oiler of $100 to any one w ho will land them on United St'.itos soil. SPORTING NOTES. Clllirley Mlteliell Cull Jim Corbett't ('liiilleiiKii a II I il If. I,. J. Itocn has jiublicly announced that he haa determined to retire from racing and breeding and would well out Win entire emablLsliincnt at KoHcincadc, ajh Angeles county, Cul. 1. J. liurli of the Manhattan Athletic Ohib'H bicycle team broke the American tecord for half a mile on a l'licuiuatic .Safety at Hampden Park the other day making the dintaneo in 1 :0S !5-5. Tho tl.'iO ) deposited by Charlie John poii of JJronrtlyn on behalf of Sullivan tr bind the in itch with Slavin to II -lit fot the cliainpioiiHhip of tho world Iuih been withdrawn. The money haa been in the New York Herald ofllce Hincc.hily and the fact that it had been put up was immediately cabled to Hliivin, John hoii at the time of depositing gave notice that lie would keep it posted until Sop temlier 1, and has anxiously awaited ad vices from Slavin, hut nothing has been said by the Australian. A fight for tho heavy-weight champion ahip of Utah was decided at Utah re cently in the presence of 1,200 nnecta tors. 'The contestants were .Inn William of Salt Lake, who has held the churn pionsliip.nnd (Seorgo Morrison of Oirden well known in Denver. A purse ofl'ered bv the Athletic Club of Ogilen was sup plemented by aide bets, making a total of (5,000. The battle was hliort. 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