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3 CHARLOtTE DAILY OBSERVER SUNDAY DECEMBER 26 1909 FRANK COMINS Vice Prta an a Tree WILLIAM FIRTH President A BOOKS and A MAGAZINES i i 79 Milk Street Boston Mass "thrrn Representative 405 Trust Bldg CHARLOTTE C- Rex Fiinikote Roofing The Best For Leaky ftcof3 For sale onlv )v CHARLOTTE SUPPLY CO (We carry everything in Mil! Furnishings) opines: like a man must think his own life must have been a grand success if he goes a-direeting of his This puts the matter in a new light for her chance visitor who Is the father in question although she does not know it arid a reconciliation is the result To challenge comparison with a bonk and a character like Wiggs" requires no little daring yet the author of Selina Lue" does so and with impunity No less lovable no less loving than the other is this new addition to "character figures" in American literature It is like a cool breeze fresh from the hills to make her acquaintance and a suspicious moisture is likelv to dim one's eye as the last page is finished For thank God unaffected goodness and simplicity have not yet lost their charm Albeit the Newly-Crowned King of the Belgians tion moves rapidly if somewhat fantastically and the style makes it easy reading MADINO IS AN ABLE WRESTLER Albert Madino the big Italian champion who meets John Drake champion of tho South In a wrestling match at the auditorium next Tuesday was born in Naples Italy on March 24 1885 At an early ago lie took up wrestling and soon was able to put the best in his country to the mat Looking for new laurels he came to the United States and located at St Louis He is now making a tour of this country and since his arrival on this side has met sortie of tho best local wrestlers Madino js 6 I'cct 2 1-2 inches in height and weighs 200 pounds Ho 1ms engaged Billy Edwards to assist him in training It will be remembered that Drake defeated Edwards hero a few nights ago In one of the best matches ever hold in the South Drake thinks lie rail hand Madino the same dose Drake's great battle with Edwards lias won him a host of admirers and there will be a different tain to tell about the attendance when the crowd is counted on next Tuesday night Drake is also training hard and will be in his usual good condition when the referee calls time He expects his cleverness and endurance to offset any advantage Madino may' have in experience and weight although Madino is known as a fast man and one who gives for his opponent from the start Manager Wilder has gone to Asheville to assist Drake in his training Both Drake and Madino have requested that Mr Thompson who officiated at the Drake-Ed wards contest tie i hosen as referee ii Herons Interesting Hasketbull Game A ester-duy Afternoon Between Collegians unit Club A very line extiibition game of basketball was played at the Young Mch'h Christian Association yesterday afternoon between the Collegians and the Hoys' club The club won by a score of 47 to 33 In the first half tho Boys' club ran away with the game giving their opponents very little show At one time In the first half the score stood 16 to 2 In favor of the club Some fast and pretty playing was seen In the second half when the Collegians spurred ahead in great shape hut the club had forged ahead too far making It impossible for them to overcome the lead The team work of the club was the most spectacular feature of the game The line-tit) of the teams was as follows: COTHRAN I THE SPORTING WORLD TltXMS AT PINEHl UST Col i esiamdeuce of Tne inseiver Pinehurst Dec 24 Mixed doubles tennis played with handicaps rounded out a full week occupying attention of an interested gallery Sir Bon Jamen Thaw Jr of Pittsburg and Miss Tbeodate Clough of Lynn whose handicap was plus half fifteen winning the final round from Mr A King of Northboro and Mrs Guy Metcalf of Providence 6-1 6-2 who played from minus fifteen Mr Thaw and Miss Clough won the semi-final from Mr Vance of New Britain and Miss Molly Abbe of Bethlehem 6-1 6-4 Mr King und Mrs Metcalf advancing by ihc default of Mr Spencer Waters of New York and Miss Harriet Horton of Williamsport The sutnnuny: First round Mr Spencer Waters New York and Miss Harriet Horton Williamsport (0) heat Mr anil Mrs Ashley Sparks New York (ID by default Mr Charles Horton Williamsport and Miss Alice King Millville Mass (plus 15) a bye Mr A King Northboro ird Mrs Guy Metcalf Providence (owe 15) heat Mr Ackcrson Bay Shore and Miss Blanche Tuple- Lynn (owe 15) 6-2 6-2 Dr Myron Marr Dorchester and Mrs L'oqurd Boston (0) drew a bye Mr iienja-men Thaw Jr Pittsourg and Mirs Tbeodate Clough Lynn (plus half beat Mr Guy Metcalf Providence and Mrs A King North-boro (plus half 15) 6-1 Mr Philip I Llthbourn Bermi'di and Miss Mary Keller Nortiiboro (0) drew a bye Mr Julian Bishop Bridgeport and Miss Ethel Check New York (owe 15) beat Mr Henry Ackerson Brooklyn and Miss Margaret Clough Lynn OD by- default Mr Vance New Britain and Miss Molly Abbe Bethlehem (plus 15) drew a ny-e Second round Mr "Waters and Miss Horton beat Mr Horton and Miss King 6-4 0-6 10-8 Mr King and (Mrs Metcalf beat Dr Marr and Mrs Tufts 6-3 7-5 Mr Thaw and Miss Clough beat Mr Ligntbourn and Miss Keller 6-2 8-6 Mr Vance and Miss Abbe best Mr Bishop and Miss Check 6-3 6-4 Semi-final) Mr King and Mrs Metcalf beat Mr Waters and Mtss Horton by' default Mr Thaw anil Miss Clough heat Mr Vance und Miss Abbe 6-1 6-4 Final Mr Thaw and Miss Clough beat Mr King and Mrs Metcalf 6-1 6-2 FINE DAY AT TAMPA Thousands See the Running of (lie Rest Card Ever Offered Four Favorites Will Tampa Flu Dee 25 Thousands saw tie running ot the best card ever offered at a Tampa lace track today and the sport here was given a decided stimulus In lie grandstand liunrismnely gowned women attested to the popularity of the game with the society folk ami atlriirig finishes kept enthusiasm at a high point Three good things during (ho day fell down offsetting the successes of four favorites who won These were Ker-cheval John (lurncr and ('reuse Jack-on rode four winners and was placed once Colonel Ashmeade was the best bet for the talent being barked from 2 to I to even nt post time Summary: First race 6)4 furlongs selling: Serenade 106 Deverieh 6 tp 1 won Bobby Cook 96 Cole 4 to 1 second Nellie Burgess 1)1 Mathews 15 to 1 third Time 1:13 2-5 Bob Ayers Buteshrd My Love Warner Grlswell Judge Dirndnn Bird-slayer Sanona Girl and Paul also ran Second race 6 furlongs selling: Ban mule KM Jackson 5 to I won ('reuse 103 Irvin 11 to 5 second Bailie Savage 104 Reilly O' to 2 third Time 107 2 5 Locust Bud Carondolet McGinnis Limelight Ievengston Black Annie and Alsine also ran Third race 7 furlongs selling: Shipp 106 Jackson 3 to 5 won Spanish Prince 108 Trueman 7 to 1 second Edwin 102 Davenport 8 to 1 third Time 1:35 1-6 Ozorine and Mrs 'Sewell also ran Fourth rare mile handicap Hans 107 Davenport 6 to 5 won Kerchcval 112 Jackson 6 to 5 second Hvperion 11 115 Giasner 2 to I third Time Bonnie Bard also ran Fifth race 6 furlongs selling: Col onel Aslirneadc 107 Jackson even won Autumn Girl 105 McCabe 2 to 1 second harian 108 Glamier 5 to 1 third Time 1:13 3-5 Irvin Lou Lanier and Inspection also ran Sixth race 6)4 furlongs: Core 111 Jackson 2 lo 1 won Fundamental 103 Lovell 10 to 1 second Cassowary 109 Reilly 8 to 1 third Time ll'tl-i John Garner Caltha McAtidrews Beth Goodwin Billie Bibbs Scarab and The Clown also ran Entries at Tnmpn Tampa Fla Dec Following entries Tampa Monday December 27: First race 6 furlongs selling: Da'sy 94 Boz 99 Frank Fleslier Dun-vegan Silver Klar 104: True Boy 107 Comic Opera Alvlsp Anna Smith Auspicious Blrdslnyor 109 Second race 5 furlongs ptuse: Magic Stone Ethel Martin Ramon Caronu Black Annie 104 I-wvengston McGinnis 107 Catrlne Montour Necklet Brookline Diato 109 (leaser 112 Third rare 6 furlongs selling: Bab-slud Boncbrake Guinea Jupiter Dr Young The Ram 109 Tom DoIho Dredger Confessor 112 lluilock 99 Occidental 101 Fourth race 5'4 furlongs selling: Me- Andrews 101 Charlotte narnlllon 103 Coquota 106 Annie Donahue 108 Scarab Colonel Zcb 109 The Clown John Garner lit: Lucnlliis Esrntcheon 116 Fifth race 7 furlongs selling: Alicp :9 Claiborne Merlse 104 Lens Dm-comnets 109 Ben Howe Red Hussar 112: Virginia Maid Orlandot lit Six til race one mite selling: Great Jubilee 106 Nellie Burgess Huerfano 107 Vanen Reldmoore 109 Amelus 112 Evans Rtidljr Heaton by Dobnn Savannah Ga Dec Dohan of Brooklyn -won the decision over Young Evans of New Yo-k In a fast fifteen-round fight here today before a big house Evans claimed his left arm was broken in the sixth round He was badly beaten and In distress several times The Woman Suportr Waxhaw Enterprise Borne of the doctors say that the new woman Is becoming round shouldered by wearing suspenders to support their heavy skirts There Is a suspicion that some other women are becoming round shouldered by supporting good-for-nothing hus- THE LONELY GUARD By Norman lnnes Frontispiece by Leyen- decker Philadelphia George Jacobs Co For Sale by Stone Barringer Co SI 20 A Blushing quick-moving breaking away from the familiar Imaginary kingdom and giving us as a background instead the Austria-Bavarian frontier in the days of the Empress Marla Theresa this is Lonely There are plenty of thrllle plenty of moving accidents and hairbreadth to pleaso the most exacting but the 'Whole thing is thrown back a century and three-quarters to the time when the young Frederic of Prussia was astonishing the world with his audacity With our book-stands crowded with tales of the type it is a relief to come across an historical setting once more The hero of the story Is one of tubs a bold Scots who 1 throughout many generations took their swords their courage their honor and little besides and made their way as mercenaries to the possession of ease and fortune There is something most attractive about this class With all hope of advancement in their native island blocked by the downfall of the Stuart cause by scores and hundreds they scattered over the continent making the finest officers the many-quarreled prinees could purchase: having this uninue distinction among mercenaries that seldom indeed after their swords were once sold could they be bribed away by higher pay is an accurate type of tilts band of gentlemen adventurers The time is some years after Frederic's rape of Silesia Austria and Bavaria are nt war and young is given command of the garrisort of the oastle of which lies upon the borders of the two Upon his arrival at his post he finds that the family consists of two lone women daughters of the last male who are extraordinarily fair and rather more than extraordinarily hostile to the Empress Marla Tneresa in whose service he holds a commission Of course he falls in love with one of his fair captives and the interference of an Austrian brother-officer who is in love with the sami girl and treacherous both to her and to his colors makes very pretty complications for the young Scot to solve Alternately his rival and himself hold the whip hand: the ladies are abducted by the traitor only to be traced and rescued by the actions are Put in a bad light by his enemy and as a consequence he his relieved from his command and placed under arrest only to be rescued and taken to freedom by his In-amorita Finally he is restorted to his command his record cleared and the inevitable wedding follows The modern romance wrIir does hot -write th4e historical novel as did his early predecessors When Scott or Dumas took up a period like the Crusades or the time of Richelieu their romance went hand In hand With their instruction Seseral generations of young people have gleaned their entire knoweldge of Important historial periods from their acquaintance with Ivanhoe and D'Artagnan There Is none of this in the modern apecles The time is labeled but save for the use of the second person singular and the unimportant introduction of the Empress into the story the scene might Just as well be Rur-ltania or Graustark as Bavaria It is bestowed upon background tage the later manner possesses over the former in rapidity of narration comes even close to compensating for llic amatteringness of attention which Is bestowed up on background Lonely Guard" will be read by thousands of people who attempt to wade through one of works but that there will be bj much real enjoyment extracted is scarcely probable MISS SELINA LUE AND T11E SOAP BOX BABIES BV Maria Thompson Daviess with illustrations by Paul i Meylan Indianapolis Bobbs- Merrill Company For Sale by Stone Barringer $1 Not since Mrs Wiggs took the whole American people into the Patch" and made them laugh and weep at the doings therein has such a delightful lady been presented as Selina The two has a great deal in common yet are very distinct The chief asset of each is that unfailing optimism which persistently looks for the bright side of things and as persistently ignores the gloomy had her hands full with her own offspring aided by such of her neighbors as were fortunate enough to come within the sphere of her beneficences Selina Lue" is a childless widow whose field of labor lies in the midst of those children whose parents ore inclined to neglect them Selina runs a little grocery store on the and has assumed the important position ot nurse-in-ordinary and Providence-in-particular to all the children of that neighborhood Some half dozen she has installed in soap boxes for cradles in the rear of her premises and these she mothers the twenty-four hours through There is a little cherub whom she found in her cow-stall abandoned There are Flarity whose mother knows they-' are safer with "Miss Selina Lue" than they could possibly be dragging on her own frayed skirts There are still others whom chance or parental wisdom (and shiftlessness) have brought to attention But the activities are not confined to her soap-box nursery When Ethel Maud Incautiously sews her thumb in a sewing-machine it is Selina Luc" who rushes to the rescue pushing entirely to one side the totally dazed parents and so coddles the little girl as to make her glad that the catastrophe had befallen her Many times a day she is called to the or the to render her assistance So she goes about her daily life bringing joy into many small lives that otherwise would be joyless and doing her best to share the love which wells up so freely within her heart Selina Lue" Is a philosopher In the nature of things As she herself says she by the loving she gits and and In such an occupation it Is but natural that she should gain no mean Insight into the ways of human nature For example she tells the young artist who has come to board with her that In a man is like a turkey-gobbler a-strutting In The young man promptly asks how about the same trait In the gentler sex you she replies promptly Lord wouldn't have gaye woman shiny curls cheeks pink like a peahe Aggers plumb beautiful and eyes blue as the wild on the creek lessen He intended to excuse them for Being proud?" With which wisdom her hearer Is fain to agree Again when discussing the estrangement of the name young man from his father she goes straight to root ot the difficulty when she JOE PLAY WON FOR ROANOKE Greenville News Joe Holland who played left licbl for Roanoke ia-t has accepted the tusk of coaching the baseball club and it la slated that lie has very fair material to work on Holland Is an ox-Clemson player having during one season served as captain of both the baseball and football organizations Joe also played oil the football team at Furman one year ami was a member of the baseball nine too play second base Bpcaklng of Holland recalls a re-i markable play which lie made during the closing series between Roanok -and Richmond this season und ttiD play in all probability saved the pennant for Roanoke The race for th much-desired trophy was exceedingly close in the game to which reference is made the score stood 3 to 2 in Roanoke's favor It was the ninth Inning xvi'h Richmond nt bat One man was down and Touchstone Roy Wonder" was pitching It was very dark and glowing- darker every minute Richmond had two men on bases Randherr on third and Titman on first An Immense crowd of spectators was present and every tnan of them mas on his feet shouting and yelling Excitement at fever heat Revcllc of Richmond was coaching third and he was jumping up and down and raising sand It began to look as if the Highlanders were destined to lost the game after all Samlherr got to third when Titman hit the leather for a single Joe Hot-land who was in left went in to hack up tlic throw to third Eamlherr iwns safe all right and Joe was supposed to rrtui'h to his old stand hut he did not do it In the gathering gloom lie stayed where lie was not many feet from third and Satidherr took a tremendous lead towards home 'Revellt! fairly plowed tho ground in Ills coaching performance and not a Richmond player or a Richmond fall had Ills eye on Holland Then it was Hint Joe pulled off liis great stunt softly but swiftly placed himself on Hint third hug Big Eil Fainter the Roanoke third baseman scraped the sand pawed the earth and shattered tlic atmosphere In his effort to attract attention For a moment Touchstone dldn look Then Ed Painter resorted to strenuous language tho character of which immediately raught tho ear und pulled ids eyes In the right direction Wlicn he saw the truth of the situation lie straightened up just like on lias seen a rabbit do when It peeps over a bunch of grass Umpire Mace had Ids peepers glued to the play saw It start and realized what was coming Suddenly Richmond awoke to the nature of the scheme They saw ll'Nlimd standing on third like a statue with hit hands stretched out and Tonclisone poised to throw Nundherr made a dive for the bag hut Touchstone with a nerve of steel hurled the sphere to Holland uml Bandherr was caught off tlio base by at least four feet and Mace called him out The uproar from the multitude of spectators Middenly sank to perfect stillness The next man up popped out and victory was Roanoke's If Hint game had been lost or If It had been a tie the Highlanders would not have won the pennant Therefore it was Holland's play that saved the day OLD MAN BUESSE SIGNING PLAYERS Greensboro Telegram Down In Athens Go Carlton Ruexse is drag-netting the baseball world for auitabe material for the Greensboro champions for next season In addition to the players retained from last season's team these rimv men will receive try-outs: Mc Kenzie second base Bagwell pitcher: Km It It pitcher Broome infield Fierce outfield Rickard outfield All of these new men played good ball the past season and a re highly recommended Bagwell ts a young left-handed pitcher who did phenomenal work in Arkansas last season and in the opinion of Ga plain Buesse will make a second Walters Rickard lias been with the Spartanburg team for two seasons was released last season on account of ill-health but he says he Is all right now When Rickard Is In shape he It ft great fiefdor fair hitter and a fast base-runner Captain 'Huesse Is very modest but lie advances the opinions that with these new men nnd the old men to pick from the Greensboro team will be in the running the entire seusun Roon Hack Since Monroe Enquirer A picture agent learned i day last week that there arc some women who can use firearms says Our Homo of Marelivlllc The said agent went to the homo of Mr I Green one mile west of town and spent the night In a few days he returned to the so me place and was suspected by Mrs Green as being Inclined toward familiarity by the way be shook hands hut wus assured that none of his work was desired and he disappeared lie returned the third time within a few days Mr Green being from home and went to a cotton patch near tho house where he found Mrs Green and again showed signs of familiarity Mrs Green Informed him that she didn't want any pictures enlarged and ran to the house and locked the door The agent followed and mude an attempt to enter the house Mrs Green then presented hr revolver at the window and ordered the "gentleman" to leave which he did without NORTHERN LIGHTS By Gilbert Parker Harper Bros New Yarkand London For sale by Stone Barringer $150 Some eighteen hundred and fifty years ago the Roman historian Tacitus wrote a marevelously entertaining account of Germany at that day the frontier of the empire and ever since writers of every description have found along the frontiers of civilization a field rich in the fittest and finest kind of material A generation has scarcely passed since western United States furnished ample pickings for the romantically inclined novelist From southern Texas up through the Sierra country Nevada and California to the bleak enow-swept plains of the Dakotas Montana and Washington the daily lives of the pioneers had only to be written down to furnish the liveliest kind of romance Ali this however- i3 changed now Butte Tacoma Seattle a score of similar cities modern In every respect have taken the place of the cowboys' shake-downs and the old frontier Is frontier no longer There is norje the less yet upon this continent a frontier which is as rich In romantic material as that fought over by Sam Houston and sung by Bret Harte Far to the northward under our Lady of the Snows the Athabascan country is being opened up by a generation which are the blood and the spiritual kinsmen of the men who settled Kentucky with Boone and marched to California with Fremont From all quarters of the globe come the pioneers of northwest Canada Three hundred and fifty thousand have gone from the United States England Scotland the St Lawrence provinces have contributed liberal quotas Under the persuasion of skilful and in defatigably energetic cultivation this new land is being made to yield Us richness: nd its mineral wealth opens prospects which are beyond anything dreamed of by Cortez or Pizarro in the long ago This latest of frontiers has found an annalist In one of the most distinguished English-speaking novelists now living Sir Gilbert Parker's early reputation rested upon his work In connection with French Canada but the same love of his subject which shone through every page of Seats of the Might is present In this collection of stories To kpow this race is to love It made up as it is of all races and unappreciative Indeed must that reader be who does not thrill under the magic wand To those accustomed to our kindlier Southern latitudes It may at first blush seem to bo a blustering country of nothing but Ice and bitter blasts to which we are asked to transport ourselves The snow lies deep and the wind blows fiercely but nature is not without Its compensations Take for example this picture a blaze of joy the sun swept down behind the southern hills and the windows of the house catching the oblique rays glittered and shone like flaming silver Nothing or life showed save the cattle here and there creeping away to the shadow of the foothills for the night The white placid snow made a coverlet as wide as the vision of the eye save where spruce and cedar trees gave a touch of warmth and refuge here and there A wonderful buoyant peace seemed to rest upon the wide silent expanse The birds of song were gone South over the hills and the living wild things of the prairies had stolen into winter quarters" Such beauty beyond question is worth going far to behold Stake and the Plumb Line" is possibly the most Interesting tale in the collection the one that grips the hardest and leaves the most vivid impression A young Washington so-oiety belle marries her sweetheart after whiskey has put him in the gutter and persuades him to migrate to this far cold country where hard work and simple living will be his allies In his attempt to regain his feet The struggle is dramatically told: at times it appears that the man must fall but desperately he fights on until his appetite is conquered Wife" depicts the hardening effect a narrow and money loving career has upon a man and how the straightforward simplicity and winsomeness of hi daughter-in-law finally soften and Improve him Little Widow or Jansen" has to do with the strangest and one of the strongest of human phenomena the lovaltv of a woman to the man whose name she bears no matter how low he may have sunk The three stories include the cream of the collection although the list Is strong without exception The life of the country in which the scenes are laid lends itself to the exhibition of the humanest of feelings and passions and Parker is no little of a realist As in his longer books these stories are full of people whose blood runs high who are Intense in every act who are good bad indifferent as the good Lord made them but never Inert or indistinct From a literary standpoint the book ranks high among the offerings PROFESSOR HENDERSON ON GEORGE MEREDITH Occupying the first place in a recent issue of Twentieth Century is a scholarly review of the late George Meredith from the pen of Prof Archibald Henderson of the University of North Carolina Professor Henderson seeks his recreation from the labors of his mathematical lecture-room in the pleasant fields of English literature and his articles on this subject are always notable Meredith has for years been a favorite snbject of study with him and the present article although very brief Is illuminating We of this generation are accustomed to regard Meredith a among the greatest of the later Victorians Professor Henderson begins his article by calling attention to the fact that chronologically he belongs to the earlier period of the age so denominated Ills first publication antedated Swinburne's by many years The truth Is beginning his work in the full morning of the reign he out- lived all of liis contemporaries and fellow-workers and went finally to his grave as the 'last of a mighty group Meredith was essentially a novelist novelist What the polloi" thought of his work was throughout his career a matter of utmost indifference to him He wrought for the approbation of the selected few who were capable of appreciating greatness The consequence was that until very recently he has stood in the popular mind only ns an abstraction a vagueness For the greater part of his novels a single edition sufficed for many years But however much he may have missed being applauded by the populace the masters acclaimed him one of them Ilis place in the first rank was never questioned by those whose critical opinions were entitled to weight THE POOL Oh FLAME By Louis James Vance Illustrations by John Rae New York Dodd Mead Go For Bale by Stone Barringer $150 This is the best story that has as yet come from this author's pen It is quite different from "The Brass Black Bag" and "The Bronze Bell" and better than any of them It has not so much mystery considerable more action and in the matter of character sketching they are not to be mentioned In its class Pool of Flame takes its name from a gigantic blood-red ruby which had its original place in the forehead of a hideous Buddha In a temple in the interior of India stolen thence by a marauding Englishman It had drifted from owner to owner usually bringing bad luck with it until It fell to Col Terence O'Rourke sometime officer of the French Foreign Legion and always adventurer at large This gallant while disporting himself on the last of his resources at Monte Carlo learns that a reward of one hundred thousand pounds with no questions asked is offered for its return to a certain firm of lawyers In Rangoon Straightway the Irish soldier sets off to procure the gem from a friend to whom he had pledged It for a debt and who had it in safe-keeping His friend chances to be with a punitive expedition in the desert O'Rourke sets out to find him and arrives just in time to participate in Hie skirmish in which the said friend receives his death-wound With his dying words the officer directs how to get the ruby from the Governor of Algiers in whose strong box it rests O'Rourke goes to that official's sanctum only to find that the jewel has been stolen twenty-four hours before he arrived Nothing daunted the soldier of fortune gets it again from its ravager and journeys eastward with it losing and recovering it several times in the process Success finally crowns his efforts and he has the satisfaction of seeing the stone restored to its original Idol while his bank account is the larger by the amount of the reward gives Vance a chance to spread himself and it is a very attractive adventurer who is presented His devil-may-care attitude towards lit is never disturbed by the most appalling disasters and he turns up smiling after every fracas The scene shifts from Monte Carlo to Africa to Athens to Egypt to the Red sea to India and finally to Rangoon and the episodes In each place seem more entertaining than those transpiring In the place just left behind TITE GAME AND THE CANDLE By Eleanor Ingram With Illustrations by Johnson In-dianauolls Bobbs-Merrill Company For Rale by Stone Barringer $150 i The plot of this story contains something rather unusual in the line of motif The hero deliberately determines to commit forgery in order to obtain funds for the support of his aunt and cousin He works his scheme in such a way that although he Is captured In the end the proceeds of his operations go to his loved ones without their having the least suspicion of how they were obtained This assured tiie forger calmly goes to a Federal prison to serve a long-time sentence From this durance vile he Is rescued in Arabian Nights fashion by a royal prince presumably Russian whom he had known incognito years before in Europe This potentate attaches him to his suite as secretary and carries him off to his capital (St Petersburg It is though the name is never mentioned) His patron is made regent of the empire during the minority of the young emperor Adrian A three battle of wits ensues between the regent and a traitorous noble Count Damarov The former is patriotic and loyal the latter self-seeking and slippery The stake for which both play 1s the confidence- of the boy-emperor The picture drawn of the upright regent hewing his way straight along the line of what he conceives to be his duty unmindful of the slights and neers of his sovereign and trie apparent triumph of his enemy is quite well done Especially attractive is the love story of the regent and his girl wife Aria united at first only for reasons of state but at last drawn together in the tenderest of affections Game and the Candle" is a very satisfactory story with which to while away the hours of a stormy winter's evening for depth of construction or ingenuity of character drawing oo nsd not look Th ac RECORD CROWD AT MON BRIEF Brilliant Card and tlio Prettiest Finishes of the Season Jacksonville Fla Dec The attendance record at Moncrief Park was broken this afternoon the largest crowd that ever attended a race meeting in Florida being present when the barrier shot up on the first event And the handsome gathering was rewarded by a brilliant card the finishes being tho prettiest that have been seen at Moncrief during the present meeting No less than five of the six races were won by favorites and they were all heavily played which sent lie big crowd home in the best of spirits Powers had a great day in the saddle winning no less than three races He finished first in the Christmas handicap on Kyebright at 6 to 5 but in the stretch run he was guilty of unsportsmanlike tactics grabbing the bridle of W'oolwinder and also hitting Woolwinder's jockey with Ids whip This action on the part of the star rider did not escape the eyes of the officials and after the race mount whs disqualified and Wooiwinder was given the first money Jockey Powers was fined $200 and suspended for one week Summaries: First race 7 furlongs selling: Dixie Knight 110 Powers 3 to 5 won Harvey 109 Reid 8 to 1 second Fulfill 105 (J Burns 4 to 1 third Time 1:31 Diction Flashing Captain Glore Golden Flora and Ten Puces also ran Second race 0 furlongs selling: Pialto 108 King even won Horace lofi Grand 7 to 1 second: Many Colors 102 Page 8 to 1 third Time 1:17 Spring Frog KilUecrankie Croydon El Dorado Harold Hall and Mysfifler also ran Third race 6 furlongs selling: Lady Irma 109 Powers 7 to 5 xvon Tout McGrath 113 Delbert 11 1o 5 second: La Salic 104 Reid 5 to 1 third Time 1:17 1-5 Bat Masterson and Jacobite also ran Fourth race Christmas handicap miles: (Kyebright won but disqualified) Wooiwinder 104 Ganz 5 to 2 won Sir Cloges 109 Nicol 18 to 5 second: Tot alt 1U8 Burns to 1 third Time 1:56 1-5 Fifth race 7 furlongs selling: Furnace 10S Powers 4 to 5 won Aunt Kate 104 Reid 13 to 5 second Flarney 109 Obert 6 to 1 third Time' 1:31 Home Run Sandpiper Little Fritz Michael Beck and Maximum also ran Sixth race 1 1-16 miles selling: Elfall 107 Ganz 5 to 2 won County Clerk 110 Nicol 9 to 5 second Mamie Algol 102 Obert 5 to 1 third Time Entries at Moncrief Jacksonville Fla Dec Entries for Monday December 27 at Moncrief Park: First race 5'4 furlongs: Feriand Ceclllian Forty Four Martin Mav Tom 109 Chchalls Horicon' Brler-alus Dan Lelian Jack Hale 112 Lorimar 106 Captain Glore 108 Iuc Phoronia 109 Amoretr 112 Third race 6 furlongs: Austin Stu vant Sister Phyllis 95 Home Run Robin Grey 98: Toll Box 101 OHlo Note 102 Kdgeley San Gil Night 5 103 Eldorado Little Lighter 106 Gei Lebolt Hugh Range 107 Rialto Fourth race mile: Joe Rose 102 ard Shean Dr Barkley 103 sir Cle 111: Rostrum 115 Fifth race 7 furlongs: Kndymion Grande Darne Pintante The Earl liecrankle Admonish Sandpiper Rullman 101 Melodeon Michael Roseburg IT 107 Mary Candler Druid Hooray 109 Sixth race mile and an eighth: Bi Viaw Malediction 101 Court Nethermost 102 Dr Holzberg 105 eron 112 New Building uiM iinn Association For AVadcsboro Messenger and Intelligencer There are some enterprise so good and beneficial that it Is next to impossible for any community to have too many of them Building and Loan Association are in this class I he Anson Association organized here some 20 years ago or more has a record unsurpassed In all those years the association lias never lost a cent and has not been under the necessity of foreclosing a mrotgage It has been cf untold benefit to the town as a whole and to many Individual citizens of the county Numbers of families are occupying good comfortable homes of their own who would never have enjoyed this satisfaction had it not been for the Anson Building and Loan Association A movement is on foot to organize another here and Is meeting with ft hearty response from the citizens of the town The new association will be called the Wades-boro Building and Loan Mr John Oulledge Is soliciting stock for the association and is meeting with s-ich success that Its organization Is already assured Its First Wreck Laurlriburg Exchange Our new railroad Laurinburg Southern had Its first wreck last Mond--: morning when a ear loaded with yarn managed to get off the track near the cotton mill and turn over No material damage was done to the yarn Nwiice icrTcd on Those of IJttln Faftli Waxhaw Enterprise It is squarely up to the fellow who presses to have little or no faith In tile future of this town and community to mova hence and move quick WILL FIGHT IN SALT LAKE Teffrirs-Iolinsnn Coolest to Be Fulled Off In Mormon Suit Lake Utah Dec can be positively said that Hie leffr'es-Johnson contest will be held In Suit Lake" declared Rickard today soon after arriving here from the East have been assured by the leading business men of the be continued there will be no official Lterfer-ence with the fight Rnd on that assurance am going ahead with the preliminary Rickard said the contest would be he'd In the Suit Falaee track" the capacity of which would enlarged He expected Hi" contest would draw a $260669 crowd with prices of scats ranging from 5 to $50 At $8 a year Tho tVb-Jcrver is yonr most otnnntilenl nccfc-dty WE MAKE PICTURE FRAMES TORRENCE PAINT Wall Paper Faints 10 Tryon Tho Lltllo Store vrtli the Tffg Stock lias It If you don't ftud it elsewhere With tho opening of the Holiday Season we offer our numerous customers the assurance that we ate prepared to attend to their Holiday Wants Our stock has been judiciously selected with a special regard for the wants of the trarte and season We have purchased a full line of Holiday (J'fts In Diamonds Jewelry Sterling Silverware Watches Clocks Silver Deposit Ware Brass Goods Umbrellas China Cut Glass etc We are showing the latest designs In Gold and Sterling Silver Toilet Articles including Military Brushes Manicuring Sets Jewel Cases Comb and Brush Sets 3-piece Toilet Sets and other Novelties We are glad so many of our customers are taking advantage of suggestion we made by selecting their goods early as those who come first stand the chance of getting choicest articles Ve save rent and give money to von A Different Proposition Durham Herald We know Mr Glenn said it but that does not mean that he would ft If was put up to hjra S15 West Trade Street Near PuktoOka).