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10 THE- NOVEMBER BLUE AflD GRiY TRIUMPH "Virginia Military Institute Beaten in a Good Game. FEATUBKS OF THE CONTEST At.tlie Outftet tlie Oltl Dominion Latin OntcInNsed flu- Gcorffptonn I1u-n Krnnn'K lvlcU Tien the hcore Tile CunrdM IlncU Xettc-d Cooil Rain Hlcc'it UllUeuIl Touelitlovvu. Richmond, Nov. 12. Georgetown University defeated the unbeaten Virginia Unitary Institute in a well played pime this afternoon by a score of II lo 5.

It was a perfect football day. and crowd of 1,000 people witnessed the play. 'In the beginning Virginia out-tlassed its opponents, and It looked like easy victory. Then Georgetown braced up a little and seemed to play Better. The Cadets scored in fifteen minutes of play.

Georgetown then kept the ball In Virginia's territory, and Kenna made a try tt a goal from the field. This failed, ind then, after several downs with two leebnds lo play. Kenna kicked a pretty roal from the 30-yard line. This tied score, as Virginia had failed at ticking goal from her touchdown when "Valsh spoiled the punt out. In the second half Georgetown started and" pushed the ball steadily down field and scored a touchdown, Ken-ta kicked the goal, and after this Vir-tinla could" not score, although she tiade a desperate effort to do so.

Owing to the fact that the train on nhich Georgetown came was delayed, -he game began very late, and ended in twilight. Kenna kicked off for Beorgetown at 3:32, and Otley brought it back to the 23-yard line. Shawer rarried the ball through Murphy for two and one-half yards, and the umpire rave a penalty of ten yards for off side play. Meem then turned Barry's end or twenty yards on the same play that Collier used to score University of Virginia's first touchdown against Georgetown last Tuesday. The guards back formation was tried over and sver again for constant gains, the work tf Rice being particularly brilliant in hurdling Georgetown's heavy line.

Georgetown finally held the Cadets, and Dwing to fine work by Murphy, and Walsh, got the ball on downs. Kenna -vent three yards through center, and Casey fumbled, but recovered the ball. Kenna punted and Murphy made a beautiful tlying tackle of Otey on Virginia's 30-yard line. Otey got away from Murphy in the mix up, but Walsh brought him down nicely. Virginia fiunted and Georgetown had the ball on ts own 33-yard line and was downed 9y Scott.

Kenna tried the center for two yards, and Georgetown lost the ball on a fumble. Virginia tried the old crlss cross and Shauer went outside after going ten rards. Shauer fumbled and picked the ball np for three and one-half yards, then Meem went around Green for first down. Meen then worked Harry foe a oln, and the umpire penalized Georgetown for off side play. Meem again worked Barry, and Smith downed him after he went twenty-five yards.

This tackle of Smith was a remarkable one. The guards back netted good gains. Jones did poor work for Georgetown here, and Murphy was not as lively as he can be. Briscoe rushed, for a gain, time and time again, and he and Rice tamed a touchdown for Virginia by the most difficult kind of work. Rice scored It.

On the punt out Walsh stopped Montgomery when he tried to make the catch. Georgetown went to work with the same determination that she has always Ehown, and Kenna's goal from the field resulted. It was a pretty exhibition of generalship by Casey, and good football for Kenna. The touchdown was Fcored In the second half without giving A'irginia the ball, except for the kick off. Casey deserves the greatest credit for the wonderful game he played.

He went Into the game a very weak man, but ran the team better than ever. Kenna and Green did great work, and Long showed wonderful nerve. He was nil over the field. Murphy and Walsh were in every play and did most of the fine work in the second half. For Virginia, the work of Capt.

Ehauer was evident. Briscoe and Rice showed themselves fine players. The Cadets deserve every credit game wonderful in the skill displayed by the lighter eleven. The line-up: V. M.

I. Position. Georgetown. Brlcoe right end Green Ayers right tackle Walsh Rice right guard Moore Perrett Johnson left guard, Scott left tackle. Derbyshire left Long Jones back Casey Shauer.

left half back Smith Meem, Bradford. right half back Owens Otey. full back Kenna Score Georgetown, 11; V. M. 5.

Touchdow ns Rice and Murphy. Goal from touchdown Kenna. Goal from field Kenna. Referee J. Hadley Doyle.

UmpireKelson Gurnctt. Linesmen John Keane and Julien Hill. Timers Paul Head and J. Drouan. SWARTHMORE WINS.

The Columlilnn Klevrii AVriN Sliuply OufflnKI. After two twenty-five minute halves of hard football playing the stocky Swarthmore College boys succeeded in defeating the Columbian team yesterday afternoon on the grounds of the latter, by a score of 22 to All the old footballlsts were present at the game, and many were the comments as to the outcome of the Columbian-Georgetown game on Thanksgiving Day. It is the general opinion that by the time that Columbian's new team gets down to business she will give the Georgetown boys a tussle for supremacy in the coming game. The team' that played today had only two days in which to practice together. To sum up the contest, one can safely World's Greatest Beer say that, while Columbian lost, her team played the hardest game.

All of their gains were made by hard playing, and every time they got the ball it was forced down the field by hard-earned runs and not by kicks. Several times during the game Swarth-xnore's goal was In danger, and through some unfortunate accident the 'vanity would looe the ball and the Quakers would kick It out of danger. Cummlngs made three attempts to kick a. goal from Held In the second hair, but failed In each. The feature of the game was the long runs made by Beard, who successfully made ten and fifteen-yard gains around Swartlimore's" ends.

Beard was the only man to score, f-r the 'varsity. On a neatly worked double pass he went down the. field for a slxtv--five-yard run and a touchdown. The playing of Parsons and A. Weaver on tha defensive was particularly brilliant.

Bot.i of these men are old timers, and when they get Into shape will do some heavy plaj Ing for the blue and the orange. the left half on Swarthmore College team, made a number of brilliant long runs. During the game he reared two touchdowns for his hide. Capt. Fauqubar was noticeable throughout the game for his excellent defensive work and good kicking.

In the first half Weaver kicked off to Tauquhar. Some kicking was Introduced, and Fauquhar kicked to Weaver, who returned the kick. Swarthmore then worked the ends and tackles for steady gains until on the 'varsity's ten-yard line, when Jackson took the ball over for touchdown. The goal was kicked and the score was to 0 In Swartlimore's favor. Weaver kicked off to Fauquhar, who was dow ned.

The Quakers steadily advanced the ball to the middle of the field, where they lost It on downs. Columbian now had the ball and made a wonderful brace. They rushed the ball for three yards and a double pass was tried. Beard received the ball and went down the field for a touchdown. Cummlngs kicked the goal and the score was even, to C.

The Quakers took a soon forced the locals down the field and Seamen made another touchdown for Swarthmore. The goal was missed and the score stood 11 to in the visitors' favor. The 'varsity boys got together and prevented their opponents from scoring again in the first half. In the second half more kicking was introduced and the ball kept going first on Columbian's and then on Swartlimore's ten-yard line. Finally Swarthmore took the ball through the line for steady gains up to the fifteen-yard line, where Seamen again made a big run and a touchdown.

The goal was kicked and the score was 17 to In Swarthmore's favor. Columbian now had hard luck. They would force the ball to their opponents' twenty-yard line and then unfortunately lose It. This they did five times In the second half. The third time that they were on the twenty-yard line Cummlngs tried a kick from Held, but failed.

Swarthmore got the ball after the kick off and, through good rushing, made another touchdown, but failed to kick goal. Score: 22 to 6. Columbia again took the ball to the twenty-yard line and Cummlngs attempt ed another kick from Held and was again unsuccessful. After the kick-off the 'varsity recovered the ball and for the fifth time took It to the twenty-yard line. Cummlngs again tried a kick, und for the third time failed.

Time was called and tnV game ended. The line-up was follows: Columbian. Position. Swartmore. A.

Weaver left end Williams Brown left tackle Temple Hooker left guard Booth M. center Downing A. Cummlngs. right guard Bell Magown right tackle Verllnden end McNaught Browne right half back Jackson Beard left half back Seamen Parsons quarter back Hall Weaver full back Farquhar Referee Donald Fuggltt, Columbian. Umpire Palmer, Swarthmore.

Linesmen Finney, Columbian; Jack, Swarthmore. Tome Two 23-minute halves. MAJOR TAYLOR'S NEW MARKS. lie Lowers the Out Jlllr unit llnlf-Mllr Ilt-furdM. Philadelphia, Nov.

13. Major Taylor lowered the one-mile record today by three-fifths of a second at the Woodslde track, a one-third of a mile affair, and pronounced now the fastest track. He also lowered the one-half mile record and lowered It twice, cutting another fifth off the second time, owing to a botch in the pace failing to bring it down below 0:43. His mile was made In 1:32, a cut of three-fifths of a second from the mark held by Taj lore, the Frenchman. The major was paced the first third by the Crooks quint team, the second third by the Sagcr team, which picked up pretti ly, and the finishing third by the Callahan team, which made a Jump unexpectedly and compelled him to make a jump to close a clear ten yards.

This was a wonderful exhibition of riding, but when, without rest, tho major went out for the half and did it in 0:43 4-5, lowering the record of held by Wlndle, his work was more remarkable. In this ride he was paced all the way by the Crooks, Fisher, Eckberg, Clelanil, and Newhouse quint, owing to the failure of the Callahan quint to make a pick-up. His second trial at the half was with the Callahan and Sager team0. Taylor finished in 0:43 3-5, a cut of his former time. Five watches were held on the trials, and almost to a dot agreed.

Over 100 spectators saw the trials. DARTMOUTH DOWNS WILLIAMS. Ami WiiiM tlit- C'luimiilfiiiHlilp uf tlie Trl-Colleislntr l.rnirur. Hanover, N. Nov.

12. In one of the fierces struggles that was ever played on Alumni Oval Dartmouth defeated Williams the championship of the tri-col-leglate league this afternoon by a score of ten to six. This victory gives Dartmouth the championship for the sixth consecutive year. Williams showed strength beyond all expectations, and In the first half got the ball within two inches of Dartmouth's goal. Dartmouth braced up and when the signal to p'ay was given, Lowe, Dartmouth's b'g guard, put his shoulder to the mass and held the Williams men on their tracks.

It was the finest exhibition of defensive playing cv er seen nt Hanover. LAFAYETTE DEFEATED. Cornell'- Kiev en Proven Tuu FiiNt for the En-tlmi Tenia. Ithaca, N. Nov.

12. Cornell administered a crushing defeat to Lafayette this afternoon, defeating the E.iston players by the score of 47 to 0. From the start It was evident that Lafayette was in i company too fast for her. The Cornell 1 backs, Morrison, Windsor and Perkins I Jabbed big holes in the Lafayette line for large gains. Cornell simply used close formation plays with an occasional sprint around Lafayette's ends.

In the first half Cornell scored twenty-nine points. In this half Lafayette only secured the ball four times and this was on kicks. l.miKcv it of llnllet llnneers. (From the Philadelphia Time.) btatitician has lx-en devoting hiincf to a study of the eminent in this particular art. and his investigations seem to establish the (act that laey are an unutuall lot.

The famous Cailotta Oriii is thing now at the age of sevtnty-sev en, and one of the luillet uancerJ at the Opera in Paris is wventy; hut he is a nun. Amalia Ferraris is still training at the aire of seventy-eight in Paris, and -wins 1'iVeiy to ton-1 tinue that worK lor Mtme time to tome, tinny Klahlcr was seventy-four when flic died, and Taglionl has passed her eightieth year. Ro.ha the popular premiere at the Opera, in Taris is over fifty, and has begun to talk ol retiru. RESULTS OF THE RAGES At I.iiUeiildc. Chicago.

Nov. 12. The bright, pleasant weather drew a good crowd to the Lakeside track today. The course was sloppy, but not deep. Summnry: First race Seven furlongs.

Czarowitz, even, won; Summer Sea, second: Alvln third. Time. 1:31 1-2. Second race One mile. Boney Boy, even, won; Mr.

Johnson, second; Facade, third. Time, 1:47 1-2. Third race Seven furlongs. O'Connell, even, won; News Gatherer, second; S.a Robber, third. Time, 1:32 3-1.

Fourth race Five furlong. Canovas, even, won; Frank Bell, second; Dave Waldo, third. Time, 1:03 1-2. Fifth race One and an ilghtli miles. Boanerges, even, won; Swordsman, second; Prince Blazer, third.

Time, ,1:39 3 1. Sixth race Five furlongs. Johnr ie Williams, 1 to won; Ella IVnzancc, s.cond; Nat third. Time, 1:01 1-2. l.ntonln.

Cincinnati, Nov. 12. The weather was favorable, the card fair, but the attendance light at Latonla today. Four favorites and two second choices won. Summaries: First race One mile.

Lord Frazier, to 1, Llew Anna, second; Royal Choice, third. Time, 1:49 3-1. Second race One mile. Chancery, tj 5, won; Slilnfane, Second: Kstabrooks, third. Time, Third race, six furlongs.

Horseshoe Tobacco, 3 to 3, won; Flop, second; ifrimate, third. Time, 1-2. Fourth race Five furlongs. Souchon, even, won; Florrlsson, second; Vera, third. Time, 1:05.

Fifth race Mile and 30) yards. Samovar, to 5, won; Joe Shelby, bcco.id; Barton, third. Time. 2:21 1-2. Sixth race One, mile.

S.tar of Bethlehem, even, won; McCleary, se'eond; R. B. Sack, third. Time, HER FORTUNE GONE. Executor- lllxcover That Funny Dnv enport'H Money Wiuf LoHt.

(From the New York Herald.) When Miss Fanny Davenport made her will in 1S92 she considered herself to be a very rich woman one of the wealthiest American actresses of the day. In deeding the bulk of her fortune to her husband, Mr. Melbourne MacDovvell, she considered that she left him at least and, If all went well with her investments, that he might receive even much more. That was in 1S92. When Miss Davenport died recently those who knew her best that her wealth was greater than generally estimated; that "Fanny Davenport was a business woman as well ns an actress, attended to her own affairs and kept her owncounsel, let no one know all that she had accumulated In a long and prosperous career; that the minimum of her fortune was $350,000, Its maximum JOOO.OOO, and that In leaving $50,000 to her relatives she had cut them off with a comparative shilling and that Mr.

MacDow-ell by the will became possessed probably of half a million dollars that the young actor was made wealthy for life." it was this, coming from people who of all others should be "in the know" so far as any one was In Miss Davenport's business confidence that lent belief in the report that the relatives, to whom the actress was greatly devoted, would contest the will and dispute Mr. MacDowell's receiving such an enormous sum. As a further evidence of her wealth a letter that she left was pointed to not holding In law, but binding in affection distributing additional remembrances to relatives, in the way of jewels estimated at $73,000, a costly library on which It was said she had expended and many valuable personal effects. That was in 1SSS. How rich she considered herself then to be was shown In this addition of perhaps $120,000 to previous loving but comparatively small bequests.

But she felt that was not cutting deep Into Mr. MacDowell's fortune, for all the balance, all the great bulk of her estate, was to go to her husband houses, lands, bonds why, there were those who believed that when the Duxbury country house was searched, safe deposit companies visited, her lawyers interrogated, land registers searched, it would be found that even the six hundred thousand mark would be passeJ in the final accounting of the accumulations of somo eighteen "starring" years of one of the most popular women on the American stage. "Walt till the estate Is examined," they said. The estate lias been examined. A careful search has been made for deeds, bonds, property of any and every kind.

It has been counted up In money and estimated where it was In property, and here is the result, which we are enabled to present on the best of authority: Tho relatives will receive about in legacies. Mr. MacDowell will receive about $23,000 and her MSS. plays. That is believeJ to le all that Is left of Miss Davenport's estateall that it would bring if disposed of now.

That It was once a great estate Is considered undeniable how great no one knows. What has become of it is not now-known. How it dwindled, shrunk, took wings, flew away, it is Impossible to say. Former Judge A. J.

Dittenhoefer, ss Davenport's lawyer and counsel for Mr. VacDonell, was seen yesterday by a Herald reporter and asked if he could give any information as to the dwindling of the estate. He declined positively to say-any thing upon that subject or answer any questions about the will or the value of the property. The Herald's authority for Its statements In regard to the discovered state of affairs is undoubted, and the same au-thnriiv snlil to a reporter yesterday that when Miss Davenport drew her will sho undoubtedly believed herself as rich as, or richer than, the public estimated her vv ealth. "It is true that she was very said the Informant, "but values in some of her investments have shrunk greatly since she made her will.

Then, again, she met with some serious tosses in her theatrical ventures as to which she kept her own counsel. Thirty thousand dollars was eaten up in no time by one play that she produced. She was extremely liberal to her family. She lived well, but not extravagantly still, she spent money. Some of her seasons presumably successful were really at times disastrous.

Her Chicago property, reported as immensely valuable, on examination proves to bo unimproved real estate that had been of great value, perhaps, when the 'boom' was on in that section of the city, but is of little or no now perhaps $10,009 or $15,000 above encumbrances. "It is said that the Canton. property mentioned in her will she no longer owns. Her Jewelry, believed to be worth $75,000 has been collected by the executors; what they find she had at her death is perhaps worth $20,000. Her plays are of problematical value not very much, perhaps, though they were of value to her.

"The Duxbury property would perhaps bring today half the-amount she estimated It at; some of the bonds she held are practically worth little or nothing and so on. "I don't mean to say that she never was very rich. She was very rich, but her estate had dwindled at her death to only enough to pay-the special bequests to relatives and $25,000 to her husband, in addition to the play manuscripts, of uncertain value. Of course, It nursed her estate will bring something more. If Its sale Is rushed it may not bring the amount named." -Export' and "Culmlinelier" are the acknowledged kings of light and dark beer.

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c7-tf 3IRD. The UlNPaTcry oflunH '1 hnt AVas I.Tirte Ilcllcvcd to lie' (rrom the Irandurr Standard.) Every one who Is solicitous for the preservation and protesjloiiipt vanishing bird-fauna will hear vVTlh interest the rediscovery, near InverrAigrJi of Mantell's Nb-tornls, the large flightless galllnule of New Zealand. Little, more than fifty years have elapsed since the first bones of this creature vrrrrrfsnt lo England! and determined bjl 'Pvof. Owen to belong to a bird of the rail family, of which we have In Britain seven examples, four of them the the vy-ater-raH. the coot and the nioorhen lielng generally familiar, while the other three are' more or less frequent visitors to our Islands.

As the Imperfect skull on which On en based his opinion was clearly fot3ll. It was believed that the bird was extinct; but within two years a couple of skins were sent to England by Mr. Walter son of the eminent paleontologist, and In 1530 the father had Ihe satisfaction of bringing before the Zoological Society the result of his son's Mnd3. which are now to be seen In the bird gallery of the Natural History Museum. From ilifoe specimens visitors may see what the Notornls wus like; while.

In addition to Illustrations in Sir Walter Uul-len's "Illrds of New Zealand," which appeals to ornithologists, there have been published figures of the birds In honks intended for the general public. Unfortunately, the bones of these two examples were not preserved, so that our national collection Is without a skeleton, though there is one. the skull of which Is imperfect, in Dresden, and another hi Dunedln Museum. The rediscovery of the bird may, perhaps, give rise to hopes, scarcely likely to be realized, of the retention of this form for some time longer In the New-Zealand avifauna. From the nature of tho case, it seems hardly possible to adopt measures of protection for the few stragglers that may yet survive, though the legislators and scientific men at the antipodes should bo ablo to take such measures as will Insure the utilization to the full of all material that may come to hand.

Tho colony has a right to be first served, but the claims of the British Museum must not bo lost sight of, so that, when the opportunity occurs, the skins In that institution may be supplemented by skeletons. Much has happened with regard to museum management since the specimen put up at Stevens' rooms was bought for tho Dresden Museum a fact almost as much to be deplored as that the unique specimen of tho whlte-wlji'd sandpiper, discovered by Cook on his last voyage, should find its resting place at Leydcn. From South America comes still stranger news the confirmation of the long-rumored discovery of a living representative of the gigantic ground-sloth. Some years ago a collector named Ramon LIsta reported to Dr. Ameghlno, of Buenos Avres, that he had seen and shot at a mysterious animal In the Interior of Santa Cruz.

In the southern portion of the Argentine territory. According to his description, the animal In size and shape fret-erablcd a pangolin the scaly ant-eaterjqf ijie Old Word but was without with reddish hair. He was 'confident that he had hit the creature, seemed proof against his bullet 1 and, disappeared Into the thick long and careful search proved ineffectual. The collector was ktyjwn to be a competent naturalist, a good observer, and a trustworthy man. Nevertheless, the tale seemed so extraordinary that Dr.

Ameghlno felt sure thjt LJsta had been In some way mistaken. Yet the correctness of his observations has now been completely vindicated, or some remains of an animal Bhot by Indianp In Patagonia have recently been fent to Dr. Ameghlno, and these. In his opinion, put the existence of this creature, hitherto unknown to science, beyond daubt. The skin has no scales," biit embedded In it are bony plates comparable to those of the mylodon, one of the glgarltlc groundsloths which, too bulky to be nr-obreal, procured their food by supporting themselves on' the hind lllribs and tall, and tearing down the branches of trees.

The larger forms, which rivaled the elephant In size, became extinct In the Pleistocene period, but in Tertiary times a smaller form seems to have existed. Jus-ilon has nt last been done to the memory of Lista, who died in exploring the Illi comayo. for in naming mis imii find Neomyiodon Listal Dr. Ameghlno has at once expressed his opinion as to Its relationship, and commemorated the only naturalist who has seen the creature in the flesh. FOREIGNERS IN CHINA.

How the Mltlve CfiiKjner Their Cou-illierorK. (Krom the Cclntial Empire.) The regular practice of the Chinese has been for centuries to conquer their conquerors, not by force of arms, but by gentle persistence In their own course. Who does not know chnrming women who accept all masculine counsels or commands with sweet smiles and ready acceptance In words, yet never budge from their own line of conduct one ioia? It is something after this feminine fashion that the Chinese have tamed the JIanchus, even ns long years ago they tamed the Mongols. Nay! Have they not. after this same fashion, tamed the barbarians from the West? Shanghai Is still nominally an English settlement.

By no force of arms are the Chinese recapturing It. For. elgners having cleaned itandblult houses and made roads and introduced carriages and laid on wnter and electric light, the Chinese are steadily and calmly pushing the foreigners off Into the outskirts by themselves, crowding the roads, hiring the carriages, filling the houses and enjoying the water and light, which they would never lay- on to one of their own cities If let alone but which they are yet capable of enjoying when they find them ready to their hand. Russia is now making a dangerous experiment. She is undertaking to build railway lines protected by her soldiery.

She is going to officer and drill the troops of Shans. All this means the residence for many years of many Russians In China. Russians not always of' the highest class, too. And RuFians nre not of quite another race from the -Chinese, like the Anglo-Saxon. They are, after all, of the same stock orlgin-llly, with many points of resemblance at first" starting.

Is it not possible that by residence in Ctlna they may be rather indoctrinated witli Chinese ways and methods ofhought? The French hnvebdt a short time ago acquired Tonquln.yetMlready so many of them are said to'havfr taken to opium smoking as to hafvf Introduced opium smoking resorts into 'Paris for the convenience of Freneh' blilcers. What will happen in anothericentury, if this be true one hesitates, even to imagine. Now appear the Russians on the scene, men of fine already with an insufficiently developed, power of self-re Every Bad Cold is complicated with Grip. When Grip prevails everything is grip. At this season of the year Grip is in the airj Grip is everywhere.

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Yet Timour was a descendant onlyin the sixthdegree from Genghis himself, the conqueror of a very-different China from that which Englishmen know now. We must never forget that just as England disarmed the Indians, so the Manchu dynasty disarmed the Chinese, and the result probably In both cases has been effeminacy and contempt, as well as dislike, for the forbidden weapons. It Is very hard to say how our characters alter by- prolonged residence In China. We see rather In one another than by self-consciousness. It will be only what we may- expect if the Russian soldiers to guard Russian railways through China, and the Russian officers sent to drill Chinese soldiery after a few years become almost more Chinese than the Chinese, their own discipline undermined by the very men they were sent to discipline.

COURAGE UNDER FIRE. Interentlngr Experience of a Wnr Veternn (From the llarti5id 13-urant.) Few- men live, even In war, with their" courage constantly screwed "to the sticking point." The best we can do Is to compare the statements of those who have been under fire. The most reliable of these statements come from those who, like Grant, say that they feel like cowards at heart when the battle opens, is it will power, then, that makes the cour age? All agree that the severest strain Is when men are lying or standing idle with shot dropping around them. There is plenty of opportunity then to exercise will power. Some do.

Said a veteran who received his baptism of lire on a Southern battlefield: "We were lying flat on our faces with shot hissing over us. Suddenly a 'plunging' cannon ball come bounding along the ground. I knew I was directly in its path. In a minute it would strike me. I had time to crawl out of its way.

I. reasoned that that was the proper thing to do I owed that much to my family. But I didn't dare. I thought of what the boys would say. I ducked.

The ball struck in front of me and went over, covering me with He said further that all the time the men were obeying the command to "cover" the colonel who gave it was standing erect, unconcernedly clipping twigs from a bush. How he escaped being hit was a marvel to the narrator, yet he said that as the men looked at the officer "their courage stopped oozing out of their boots." Every true officer appreciates fhe virtue of good example. He also realizes that, will or no will, when every man Is under tense strain If one of them gives way others will follow. No sight of the flag, no memory of the cause they have espoused, no prestige of regimental honor can hold them then under a galling fire. The only dictate they obey is the first one of nature self preservation.

How much of battle courage is fictitious? That we believe we -can answer-little. We know of the stories about liquors being served to the men as they go Into action, and we have read professedly authentic statements that, on certain critical occasions, gundowder mixed with whisky was given to the Con federates to make fiends of them. But i what's a drunken man In a fight? Tne policemen can tell you. 'While he may be brutal with another man In similar condition. It is not once in a hundred times that he Is not easily mastered by a- sober man.

Does the fighter become a madman? Is he maniacal in his conduct? If he loses his senses and cannot govern himself, which is not the-case, taking la ge bodies of men together. Good critics have said of the French army that it could defeat ihe Germany nrmy if it could withstand the first shock. The Germans, at home, are more like a pon- derous machine than any other soldiers i2m 5 -p- "5 310 and 312 In the world. They become an unthinking, solid mass, moving at their officer's will. The Frenchmen" do more thinking for themselves.

Thus they can make a fierce tight, like madmen, but, when It was agalnstsuch a strong wall as the Germans put up they showed that they still had their minds under control for themselves and fell back. If they hail had more unreasoning pertinacity, the critic holds, they could have driven the Germans. It is a maxim that the coolest man is the nerviest. FORTUNE TELLING. Mnny Credulons People Are It Vie-tlniH.

(From the Uoeton. There is no end to the credulity in human nature when It has not been trained up on a trellis of good, hard common sense. Sometimes one thing leads you to this conclusion, sometimes another. My latest sympathies went out to a man who talked very loud In a crowd and so let me know just what a victim he was because of his abnormal bump of creiulity. Said he to his friend.

looking at him sldewlse to see Just how he took it: "He told me that that diamond was not in this city, but that I should And it in New York. Strange, wasn't it? But he told me I had lost something just the instant I sat down in the chair. He told me he could find It for me, but that I must give him J23 and he would give me a wilttei contract to find the diamond. Then when he found It I must pay him $23." "But that is north more than the diamond," said the Incredulous friend. "Oh, no.

Indeed," said the enthusiastic friend indignantly. "That diamond is worth flW. "Of course, I would be willing to nay CT to get it back." "But what Is the sense?" protested the man. "You pay the man 123 and he gives you a contract that he will And it. Now, until the day the humbug died you could not say anything because he could always maintain 'I am going to And If you want to be such an Idiot as to keep the old cheat going, why you can throw away 125 on him.

By- the way, what did it cost you to get that interesting "Only Ji" hurriedly put In the credulous man, "and I know he possesses some strange occult power because he told me things that have happened all right Then, too, didn't he show me a lot of contracts he has made and also showed me the testimonials In regard to what success he has had in flnding keys, articles of all kinds, money, wills and people and things?" added the man, getting excited. "You must cool off and save your $23 to cool with," said the incredulous man, "and let that scoundrel of a fortune teller alone." "Maybe I will." said the credulous man. "but I really should like to see if he can do what he-says he can." As they departed one commiserated and the other considered. llilll'ilpll A. Anliton AkmIshm.

Rudolph A. Ashton, a produce dealer 1 doing business at No. 957 Louisiana Ave- nue, yesterday filed a deed of general assignment to AValter A. Carroll, for the benefit of his creditors. The assets are listed at S2G1.12, and the liabilities at SS04.73.

A Trio of Hess Shoe Styles At $5 That Have no Rival. To every man who wants shoe value at a fair figure here are three particular styles in Hess footwear to choose from. Look where you will you'll not find any other make of shoes with so many worthful features. There's the greatest possible amount of comfort to be extracted from them service so long-lived as to surprise you and exclusive style that will "stamp you as correctly shod. The first Is a tan Calf Shoe-on "Gotham" toe-'Wlth Scotch edge made with the care and thoroughness every Hess shoo gets as stylish a shape as one can wear.

The second Is a Tan TVIllow Calf Sho a I on "Gotham" toe with Scotch edge with every evidence of its splendid origin plainly showing full of smart exclusive-ness. N. HESS' SONS, 931 Pa. Ave. WE HAVE just secured from Hine Lynch of hkeepsie, X.

makers of the finest footwear on the market, their entire line of Men's sample shoes, embracing fine Calf, French Calf, Patent Leathers, Enamels, Winter Russets, Germania, and Via Kids, in the latest, swellest, and most desirable shapes. They represent the genuine shoe "aristocracy" are the most expensive made and being samples, are put together by hand labor from extra select leathers and finished extraordinary care. There is not a pair in the lot worth less than $5, and many $6 and $7. We place them on sale Monday morning at the unheard-of-price of $2.95, and they ought to be all sold in the day. STORE, Seventh Street.

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Pari. tiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiittiitiiiittiittiiiiir (2.00 Il-indscm BrUliantine Skirt; clc- QO pantly made and graceful h-asff. JOu 71b, 1924-1926 Pa.Ae RIDICULING THE CZAR. (lllcer nt 11 Vleiiuir 1'eace 3lectlir- (From the London Xevrs.) The Society of the Friends of Peace of tills city, held a conference here last night. Among those present were Mark Twain and a Prussian ex-colonel, who is the founder and representative of a new creed known as "United Christianity." The president of the society opened tin-conference with a pretty statement that the Czar had lately presented a French church with a silver bell, bearing the motto.

"Sonne pour la Palx et la Concorde des Peuples." Herr von Egydi, the ex-colonel, said or no succ-ss could be hoped for from the diplomatic discussion which must follow the Czar's proposal, and that more might be expected of a meeting of the sovereigns But even if It all failed, the idea which had been sown would grow and bear fruit, and a new generation would appear born under the impression that it was possible for the world to exist without war Mark Twain addressed the meeting in English. He had doubted, he said, whether the world would ever be able to put a stop to war, out tne tiiir iiau convinced and made a convert of him. This speech was not translated for the benefit of them assembly, because the government representative had not le-r. informed of it beforehand and doublet whether all Mr. Clemens had said would bear translation.

The eccentric painter Dieffenbach. in his pilgrim's dress and tousled hair, was the last to speak. He denounced the church, for the absurdity of hallow ing the murdering of the people by blessing the soldiers' weapons and the cannons and celebrating thanksgiving services after victorious battles. He also declared the killing of animals as bad as war and that animal food made the eater bloodthirsty. The president here Interposed to bring his speech to a conclusion.

St 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 I The third is a black vici kid shoe. on "Manhattan" toe, tan, "sweat proof lined with close edge a shoe for dress without an caual ideal style for dressy men. 4 4 -a-5 -rt-fcj f3S-in1CVS4. 4 Hw- 1.