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rst eicnt men who faced hlai In ai. CAVALRY OFFICER IS INJURED BY A MORO hn AtiictiiuKEi bnttinc v. -ztz J-jy. f' i.x...- would btat the train to Chicago by eight hours and 12 minutes. In other words, the catcher who received the ball could go to bed.

Lave a full night's rest, get up and into his uniform again, and be on hand in the morning to meet the Twentieth Century as she rolled into Chicago. Putting it another way the train leaves New York at 2: 45 p. m. daily. Time is set back at Ilutlalo by just an hour, so that the onrushing train gains 60 minutes on her westward journey.

Eleven hours and 4S minutes after the start Johnson's bender has reached Chicago, or at 1:3:5 a m. Chicago time, the roaring locomotive has just plunged through Cleveland without stopping, more than miles aw ay. The s'riking energy of Johnson's missile was shown to be 100 foot pounds. That mesns that it possessed approximately half the force in of a bullet fired from a .41 automatic pistol! According to these figures, it takes less than half a second for a bal. mid ocean, picked up all but dead from thrown by Johnson at his high speed a ta.Kf.n to Cape Town with all to travel from his fingers to catcher's 0f the past utterly obliter-Elov'' ated but afterward restored In small "pj-l ijr -tt-x ft "(Tj'i -ji-tt? important game, and he later struck out 11 other men during the nine innings.

And these men were all crack players, many of whom are now ttars in the western Uagi'ea. la that laano staon Johnson was the slab artist in fifty-seven straight games in which I net a run was scored c.T his delivery. So cu see he got the habit arly! After that ft at Johnson applied to I vatious s.uart managers of the clubs in the cities, l.ut they wotiiun i even give him They were uis-Uainful. and easily declared that John-sou would be shattered by the heavy artillery of the major leagues, it re- I mained for the then tail ender Wash-i iitgtou team to send Catcher Menkeu- ship in 1307 out to Weiser to inve gate the picturesque stories that came tat of the youth's prowess. The i scout lost no time in getting Johnson to sign a contract as soon as he had seen him pitch a few innings.

That Washington is now one of the lead- I ing clubs cf the American league is due in large part to the skill of the western recruit. When Johnson made good from the jump there was woe among all the Napoleonic managers who had turned him down. 1'ut his sttady and astonishing improvement is shown by the following ofheial table: it. it 1 ".4 is o. i'9 74 3 1M L'-U II- 1 IT, A big.

hkable fellow is Johnson, a raw boned product of the prairie farms. There is nothing very speedy about him except his pitching. Otherwise he is slow as law. He moves slow, eats slow and even runs his motor car in an "out of gasoline manner" He saves all his en rgy for the diamond. After teeing Johnson shoot the ball at the plate you wouldn't wonder the poet was inspired to song You wouldn't wonder at the dazed batsmen If vou can't see It you can't Lit it.

Resuscitated Memory. Charles Reade, the novel'st. believed In the daily newspaper as a source I for incidents that wculd furnish better i material for romance than could pes- I I I 6lt!" ted OX 8nV eff0rt fanC'' i He kept a scrap book in which he stored away newspaper clippings which were afterward to masquerade as fiction. His story cf "A Simpleton." is one in which rr. Christopher Staines of London Is lost overboard in im.Mu ttirrii.li 11 arirfv eT a fouple of the territlc thunderstorms peculiar to that latitude.

That story of forty years ago has been more than ovrr and ov-r in ln real hv mt-idents of memory and rer- fonaltty ist and i tie last of -e foinf? Wfrrc n. of a 1 a common labort r. working at silica Rtind hint. who. struck by a fall of has.

while lying ln a regained Lis identity, lost a dozen years ago. and says he Is John O'-ver. owner of valuable building lots in Whet ling. W. Ya and of mineral lands iti Lancaster.

Pa A telegram from relatives in Chicago confirms the story. It can not be wholly niinleasatit to wake up after twelve years' slef of this kind and find one's self not dead broke, but entirely solvent Some Books Must Pass Away. The discovey by Professor Cobb of the department of agriculture that documents can be preserved apparently indt finitely In a vacuum offers, if further tests verify his results, a convenient, way of exhibiting precious and rapidly disintegrating manuscrpts while permitting their exhibition tinder glass, put il docs not offer much coti. fort to au'hors whse work is orit on wood pulp ni.T Wuh so many looks in the world, to try to preserve sample copies ii a vacuum would be too ambitious an under-takirg Whatever survive will Inve to be keit alive by the roi ess r'-printiiig from time to time, and not iniiry mnr! rn books st.iy efoUr'll fo' VOgllH. ITtaCcjcrd Second a Tccond a Terosi rZzLb Vi jrl in almost a Scottish mans.

She wasj Illiterate, yet when delirious1 in fever, surprised those around her by repeating long passages of the I Bible in Hebrew. The kitchen where' the girl spent her eveuir.Es adjoined th" minister's He was ac-! customed to read aloud. The gtrl had i.ot understood or consciously taken heed of ihe reading, yet her mind had seized upon and stored the phrases. who at on I on me fa I W'r I i i i i i I Ave. 1 1 iiU no Eesuty cf the Country Very Enticinj Around Moorish City Type of tiie Pecjrie.

ion. TV1-' Torse places than ti.e where a the rui'; cf n. rop rr.rtr.y v. tari'd with tl-tt fcouse irr.id torus. A luate; a scM to bi: Ui.to a Ve of office Llos-iK-Pri-.

I i cli-of end reputed poor lis compared with many parts this fertile land; a. country which produces st-mi-troo- ui.ti frn.tt: UTiH hpr our tea roses, our slocks and other familiar friends flourish luxuriantly, where arura lilies become a is' 2N '5 iff- --2i. Typical Street in Tangier. nuisance, and geraniums make convenient hedges. A land cf views hich lead from one enchantment to another.

Line upon line of mountain ridRes ascending upward from tue sea, f.tdicg into the grays and blues and lender lilacs. lioliins iiplands powdered white with the blosom3 of the rock-rose. On one side the Mediterranean sapphire for our pleasure, ith the Fpanlsh coast and tiie grim rock of Gibraltar in the far distance; opposite the towering gray mass of Gebal-Masa. the twin pillars of Hercules. On the other the itself impetuously against the rocks.

And last, but not least, an ethnological treasure house i when tiring, if tire he can, of eternal hills and sweet perfume of the gardens, the visitor descends into the town. What types for the artist the Moors of Tangiers! What variety of human siois! opulent merchant, lounging in u.s store, obese, skian blowing out his cheeks into that weird bag pipe sounding instru- I ment, which seems ubiquitous in Moslem Africa, and calls up visions cf far distant Ilausaland. The venerable bearded eUDr Moses redivivus. the uiilk-selier, tiie water carier, the i vender of charcoal. Whether old or young, whatever the profession life, nearly all these faces Lave ch acter.

Astonishing faces some them are. A diabolus at receh custom. A Christus selling vegetables, The Laik allows one to set; little of the MoiHjan women. some of the children are divine. Then there are the Jews a numerous tribe here.

Iig- iii (led figures in black gaberdines and skull caps, contrasting oddly with the! white, blue and brown hooded pernus- es of the Moslem. And the color notes, both in flesh and garment! For ef- fectiveness yon lean six-foot traveler i from the Sudan all negroes and negroids are here dubbed "from the Sudan" blick in skin, but with hawklike profile and curling beard, clad in a flowing outer garment of crude violet, would be hard to beat. CATCH A WHITE WOCDCKJCK Rare Little Anirral That Is Pet a Household in New York of Jamestown. Y. C.

C. llazard. hose Ikwj is on the main toad between Perms Point ami F.liery. j3 showing an albino rroundhog. in other words a srkite whi iclrjck.

This atiima! is ve-y feldom seta, although hunters and others living in the country freeuee.tlv talk of them The exUUnted by Mr. Ilaz sard is a little over a year old and perfectly white except a very few brow'i Lairs at tin tip of Lis tail. Pink eyes further emphasize the albino characteristics. The woodohuck was caught when but a few weeks old by a nephew Mr. Hazzard.

but escaped. Some time later Mr. Hazzanl located the partly frown animal, and after trying to dig tiim out finally caught him in a steel trap and succeeded in getting him without severely injuring the leg. That night the chuck gnawed cut of a box made cf inch boards and escaped. Some day later he was again located and caueht Since then he has been In captivity.

The woodchuck Las never taken a drink of water, so far as Mr. Ilazzard knows, since he was caught. He is kept in a tin lined box for safety. Had Wrong Man. New York.

FVsnk Winter, charged with running a poker game, was discharged in court here when it was found that his hair was brown and not black, as described In a detective's yellow. iuiperturtiahle. The professional scribe with his leath i l-ortfolio. The young blood beftrid- -v--. scrofulous begitar, literally clad in rags and patches.

The itinerant mu- 1)1 i i i 5 li ii-i J' 9- 1 i 'j LfSy VH II i Itttt I Lieutenant Edmunds Returns From the Philippines to Ra-ceive Treatment San Frafacisco. Cal First I.letit. Kinzie B. Edmunds. First Cavalry, was severely injured by a Moro Seit Lake.

Jolo. Philippine Islands, the night of December 18 last, returned to San Francisco from Manila recently on the transport Thomas to undergo treatment for severe wounds his legs and body. It Is under- stcod that ne win never iuhj from his injuries. In relating his experiences on the night of the attack. Lieutenant Edmunds said: "Perhaps the only thing that saved from being decapitated by ths Moro was that I was sleeping with Dealt Captain Watson a Death Blow.

my legs toward the opening of the tent. We usually sleep in that position, but on this particular night lit Inhn Wiitcon TTio-hfh PnTalrf law down with his head near the tent Rap. because his cot was located on a ri- 4 u.A ha comfortable in that position. We had Just made camp that day about eighteen miles from the town of Jolo, at a nlnce rnllpil T.aVp We turned In wag o'clock, and had been sound asleep, when I was suddenly awakened by a thud and a heavy sigh. The brilliant moonlight was streaming in through the open An-.

I V. iwl Vi na1roi4 't. i.iu. il uaouru vii iv shoulders of the Moro and on his up- rntsed haroni? He had already dealt Watson a death blow. CaDt.

Watpon must have lnstanty kil, ed. for his head was severed from his nck "I had left my revolver alongside my cot, but it became hidden in the bedclothes and I could not find It. Having finished Capt. Watson, the Moro turned his attentions to me. reaching In from outside the tent with the barong, with which he cut deep gashes in my legs.

Then he walked away from the tent while I lay helpless on the ground, and came back again with upraised spear, ln the meantime mj cries had awakened the camp, and several other officers made a rush foi the Moro. Seeing there was no escap for him, he came toward them, ani they sent several bullets Into his body killing him instantly. This More made his way through the line of sentries, creeping up to our tent, reaching in through the open Bap with hli barong. Had not por.r Watson beea lying with his head toward the door he might have had a chance." ROOSTERS AND DOGS FIGHT Cocks Hold Their Own Against St perior Numbers Until Policemen Break Up Engagement. Chicago Four dogs and two roosters belonging to some ice wagon and express v.agon drivers who leave their vehicles on a vacant lot at 1137 West 12'h street after their day's work Is done have kept Albert HoTman, 1535 West 12th street, and five other ten-; ants in a three Btorv building, awakn on recent hot night, and the other precipitated a battle.

The Mar-I Ftreet police were called to quell the roi'b' Th roosters wnged a successful and valiant fight superior numbers of dogs every night. The neighbor held a council of war and a sortie w- to have been made upon the camps of the enemies. The owners, however, heard of the plan and were ready to repulse the flat dwellers, who had planted to capture the offending cocks and dots. Mr. Hoffman called the polb-e and ith ownrof th belligerents, as we; the residents 0f the fiat buihtlra.

were irned to cause no further tra Too Bad. Indeed. faterfon. N. "Too bad I dropped that tall." sai Charles Simons, while doctors set a broKen leg.

Tr leS was broken as he tried to prevent a player on an opposing team ecore a winning run. Old Smoker Gone. P.ryan, Mrs. Elizabeth Maugher-man. who for years has traokM nearly the time while about home, la at the age 103.

1 W-l' TX i S. Margaret's Church, Westminster. Dear to U. S. People.

In the Lanuane of Canon Hensley Her.son, in His Farewell Sermon There, It Is a Link Between England and Republic. Loudon. In his farewell sermon in V.artarefs church, esinunster. Canon Hensley Heusou said: "This church is a link between curst Ives and the great American repuU- lit for reasons partly historical, for he-e is the grave of Sir Walter Ka-H-a'h- the most romantic of those Kiizabethan heroes who first laid the foundations of the English-speaking nations in the new world: here worshipped the Puritan statesmen who brok that tyrannous power which had driven the founders of the Tinted states across the stormy and unknown Atlantic, and here the wi'i and daughters of Milion. the poet who.

perhaps more than any 1 has impressed himself on our American kinsmen, and partly per; sonal lor it is the case that my pre- i -sor. Karrar, was widely in America, and that I If 1 formed many frit ndshlp iu that tn.ir.'ry. St. Margaret's bejotid other English cliurih is d-ar tc Ai: ern atis. who wors'aip h'-re ditring the sua, n.

or It iiu tubers and who come lure almost as by natural right when they seek a plate for religious self-expression. "You will remember how the American colony in Ixndon came together here tor a memorial service for those of their countrymen who had perished in the lamentable shipwreck of the Titanic." llenson might have amplified Lis rt marks considerably on American associations with this chur which is one of the best known, most popular and most fash loi.able in Ixindon. Sir Walter Raleigh's grave is bent ath the chancel, unmarked, and the precise spot is not known. Iter.n Far-rar has left on record on the greal west window one of the chief fea tures. that "the G00 was in America for the west window with out a word more than a casual re A Nit i xk CHURCH.

mark to r.n American gentleman that Laleigh's headless body lay in St. Margaret church with no memorial save a small tablet in the chance The tradition of the rector's office is that Raieii'h's head, which was placed in Westminster hall after kin body was buried, was interred in ne grave if his sn forty-vight years attt-rw W. Ch paid the of iUon memorial 'lie 'he inTth aisle aft wes vimio er an in Caiititi lii iKi to the pti-ti -ra-h wh. tin re is exiilaint liv fact that St. Margaret's li in r'cog-tiizeti as th" chtirrli of house of COTiimotl-: sil.ee 13.

iTUOK PIGGIES TO THE PICNIC When the Mother Died a Kansas Family Wouldn't Abandon tne Little Ones She Left. McPht-rron, Kan. John Beeman. a farmer living ten miles northeast of this city, owned a sow- that brought him eight fine little black pigs a few days before the Fourth of July. A day later the old sow died, leaving the eight little orphans The farmer's wife said she would raise them by Land and a nursing bottle was fixed up which the pigs took to readily.

Now the Fourth was only a few das of and John had promised his wife and children that they should all attend, but the pirs must be about every two hours They could get no help from the neighbors for everybody was going to Mcpherson Finally the wife said: John, get a box. put them in. and I will fill the big bottle with fresh milk and we will take them along" That was done. John found a cool place for Lis team. The pigs were fed regularly and all went home at night, cone the worse for the ride.

I I I I i I hnson's noi is svt II how hi ouhsh'vot" 11 h.it Uv's got 'n the vt: () sai.g a minor poet the major leagues. The hero of this baseball pic was Walter Johnson, the marvelous pitcher of the Washington club, who has just beaten all records by hurling the ball for 56 consecutive innings with such skill and cunning that not a batsman of an opposing club has been able to score a run. Speed was the great factor iu the achievement dazzling, sizzling speed' The big Mahuan's delivery is like the f.ight of a shell. The mightiest Litters of the American league are as helpless as town lot players when Johnson turns loose his fastest ball', i Ty" Cobb. "Home Run" Paker and Jackson alike are babes in his hands.

Johnson's amazing swiftness iu pitching is no mere fancy. It has been scientifically measured. la the testing room of the Remington Arms company at Bridgeport, John- I son showed that his right arm could hurl the baseball at the rate of 122 feet a second! It was acknowledged that he could do even better, because in athletic parlance was not warmed up. It is well known that a Lurler gathers sped as a game progresses. Johnson flung th sphere through an aperture in a frame of wood about two feeCsCJare.

Running from top to bottom were ten very delicate and filmy copper wires. These were broken by the ball, and by an elec-j trical device the moment of passage was accurately timed. Five yards away was a steel plate and the impact of ih" ball on this barrier again caused the electric clock to register. Thus th" exact time of the ball's flight was mathematically determined The velocity obtained by Johnson is all t'te more extraordinary when it is known that a bullet from the new government .45 automatic pistol travels M'U fivt per second A high power hunting rifie. .3.1 caliber, aito-loading, travels 2.000 feet per second The Twentieth Century limited, the fastest, long distance train iu the world, makes the 'J7v7 miles from New York to Chicago in just 20 hours.

an av rage pt-t i't hmir This ar: 7-' a secm.d i pt n.i'is vclocitv dball k- 1 1 a at to- a-d the Wi ane sp. -'d It w. a 'it -cot-d I at its own i at up th a.i i hie illifi'l' in just i ball UNUSUAL FEATS OF MEMORY Thomas Babington Macaulay. Historian, Th se Who Could Repeat Whole Books. i i i- lil i i A an t1 (, I.

Ni.I.m.Iv -xj I II ai IS UV Te nel utTS even tile ii i 1 quickest witted batsman. He isn't able to guess whether it is a straigr.t ball, an In or an out curve, a drop, or whether the sphere Is going to jump up into the air in defiance of the law of gravity. "Any time you get a Hit off Johnson." declared Napoleon Iajoie, himself one of the most formidable wield ers of the hat that the gam" ever knew, "you must not think that you're smart, figure that you're lucky lucky that you were able to make that blind swing at just the right spot. There ntver was, I doubt if there ever wHl be. a pitcher as great as Johnson.

If he turned loose his very hardest throw with his best curve on' it no catcher could get down In time to receive the ball. Every ball he throws has stuff on it that an be solved. Some of the hops thet his swiftest ones take are bigKer curves than a man ever threw before. I've seen him slam balls up to th" plate that didn't look larger than a pinhead." Not surprising, is it. that Johnson Is such a terror? Th" quiet, modest young Idaho youth he is only twenty-five jears old- also fooled his exponents into giving htm another rnoni I.a-t year he struck out men iu innings.

of tio- cu.l.i tout''. hat mark P.e''ire he bet-am a big burner striking out wa a pt.stime for Out iu ier. when otily l.ine't 1'" was pl- ilii i'i 'I till a-iiuiir Jul el 'let rrO''it, to a the out of 'h-- Autornsiic Fisiol 6C0 CASH r.ifle ci 2000 vjenturu 1 Jtnited 7 2 ft. merit, he would after a little pause, not only how often the one ir the other occurred in the Pible, but also what it meant in every place. His name was Thomas WaUh.

Such a masler of Pible knowlelge I never Fia 1' One of the a.toi.ishing nine- saw before, ai never expect to see raonic feats on record is recoided by again" Walsh had a close rival la John Wesley. "1 knew a man about I Ma-aulay. who. according to James 2 vears ago," writes Wesley, "who Sit phen. could repeal "all Demosthe-was' so thoroughly acquainted with ties by heart, and all Milton, as well the Pible that if he was questioned as a great part of the Libit.

to any Hebrew word in the old. A strange instance of freak memory admire women who are perfect-r any Greek word la the New Testa i is record-d In the case of a servant ly rquare, but not too angular..