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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.
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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-
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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. Mor
rison was outfought from ptart to finisl
anil knocked out In the fifth round aftei
receiving dreadful punishment.
The following letter waa written In
Charles Mitchell and published in tin
London Sparling Life: "Cnrlxdt's bint'
ia as funny to me as a pant imime. Tha'
young man is the particular party I an
in Hi-arch of, anil don't forget it. As i
well known, I announced inv rotireinen
alter a draw with John L. Sullivan. I
is t tjuallv well known that my hiindn it
that light were considerably damaged
eU- well, no matter; 1 have not, it ihum
Iw admitted, got good to-iN In work with
but to show how highly I value Corlx-if
abilities as a pugilit. I will flwht bin
for 1,000 with IMa and no Mulling.
was not my intention to ilulit auxin, a
I have done m v share; but when i in
retirement Mtoplo iuingluc 1' nt Mitcle-i
will Ktand ' ot ' niul it I them to Is-n
IsMattful clietllcnwo with Impunity, iui
It lxvi'iiiiH Hilvifiibln to show the i-nl.tt
that there ir at III one left In Kuwait
iiiixioim to uphold tho honor of the t.l
country in any hIihimi or form, that on
In ymir vuty humble ttonuul to van
iimiiil."
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