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TITLES AND AUTHORS
SIR ROOBR OB COVERLEY
ADDISON
THB VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
GOLDSMITH
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THE MAN OP FEELING
MACKENZIE
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PAMELA
RICHARDSON
JOSEPH ANDREWS
FIELDING
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HUMPHREY CLINKBR
SMOLLETT
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
AUSTEN
GOOD SPORT IN PANAMA
Hunting the Jaguar lis Both Thrilling
and Dangerous.
Illustrated Sporting News.
The sportsman who sighs for the
fhe
on that has never been fished, and
nook of woods that has never been
hunted, should pack his outfit and go
to the tablelands that lie along the
southern slope of the Cordilleras in
the new republic of the Isthmus of
Panama.
For the hardy sportsmanone who
would equal Roosevelt's work among
the panthers and other cats in Colo
radothe stalking of the jaguar is the
real sport. For the panther is a kit
ten beside the jaguar. The natives
there call the panther the "friend of
man," as those of the Argentine do,
but they call the jaguar a devil.
The natives hunt the jaguar by put-
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OTOM out- one.
ting out bait and lying in wait for
him on some elevated hiding-place.
I saw a man who had killed a jaguar
thus with bow and arrow.
For stalking a jaguar in man fash
ion, the best place is on a sandy
stretch of sea beach, and the time
when most likely to find the game is
on a moonlight night. For the
jaguars are as partial to the sea beach
on a moonlight night as more or less
civilized oats are to back fences of
the city. They can be found in the
uplands, however, with no great dif
ficulty, and it is safe to say that,
wherever found, they are not to be
considered lightly. They have not
learned to fear man on the isthmus
as they have,in most of the other
parts of the world where'found, and
they do not hesitate to charge when
they think there is any occasion for
it, and even without occasoin. A
moonlight hunt for the Jaguar may
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TITLES AND AUTHORS
CASTLE RACKRENT and
THE ABSENTEB
EDGEW0RTH
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HARRY LORREQUER
LEVER
CONINGSBY
DISRAELI
JANE EYRE
BRONTE
Ti
THE MOONSTONE
CSLLINS
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND
READE
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BARCHESTER TOWERS
TROLLOPE
be called the best sport the new re
public affords.
For two or three minutes at the New
Orleans race track one day recently Bob
Turner, the eastern bookmaker, made, or
rather stood ready
toever
unique book
make,
vthat has beenthe madmost at
the local track. After the finish in the
fifth race, a selling dash at one mile and
five-eighths, Turner chalked up even
money against Sidney Sabbath, who had
finished four lengths in front of Compass,
so certain was he that Sabbath would
be disqualified.
A moment later, when Aubuchort, the
rider of Compass, went upon into the
stewards' stand, Turner hunched the price
against the winner to 8 to 5, but there
were no takers. The fouling occurred
around about the three-quarter pole, but
it was so palpable that the stewards
promptly allowed Aubuchon's claim.
\s V,s-r"t! '_ Y*f$f^. CK-r'rm
WILL WALK IN
UPON THE BIT
BAT MASTERSON SAYS ROOSE-
VELT IS A LEAp PIPE CINCH.
^T&OtS
'The Strenuous life" Not Only a
Guide for Dally Iilfe, but a Prize
Dope Sheet"Be Not Too Bold"
Gives Bat a Fine Hunch.
New York Sun Special Service.
New York, Feb. 27.Bat Masterson,
president of the Bead Drawers' asso
ciation and Arizona Bad Man Emeri
tus, sat at his desk in the cabinet room
of the Delavan yesterday reading a
copy of "The Strenuous Life," by his
friend, President Theodore Roosevelt.
It was a busy day with President Bat.
Hot engagements were going on sim
ultaneously at New Orleans and San
Francisco. In a low voice he was
giving quick, terse orders to his tele
graph operators to be flashed over the
special wires to his generals, who,
in the very thick of the rings, were
obeying his orders and conducting the
fight against the cold and relentless
bookie tribes at the very gateway of
the Pacific and on the shores of the
gulf.
But between races President Bat
found time to read his book and to tell
of his' call last Tuesday on the au
thor in the White House.
"Of course I called at the White
House," said Bat. "Why shouldn't I?
Didn't I meet the president in Den
ver? Didn't all of my friends join his
regiment in Cuba? He's one of our
own kind. I was in the White House
twenty minutes. We shook hands and
talked about r"
"Seven to two on Miss Melton for
the first race," interrupted the oper
ator.
"Who's up?" asked Bat, carefully
sticking his finger between the pages
of "The Strenuous Life," to keep his
place until a less strenuous moment
should arrive.
"Michaels up," replied the operator.
"Michaels is good," said Bat. "Give
them 500 straight on Miss Melton.
Put down a thousand on Sweet Nell
to win for the second race.
"Now, I was saying, when we got
the track odds on Miss Melton, Roose
velt will come in on the bit. He will
win in a walk. You can say that for
Bat and the great west. A man that
can shoot like him and write a book
like this has got 'em all left at the
post.
"Now, listen to this, you guys who
think that the only book is a hand
book. Here's a little ten page flyer
on expansion and peace. The presi
dent throws in a little poetry just to
open the pot with.
"'Be bold, be bold and everywhere
be bold
"That's hedging your bet Teddy.
Now what the devil does he
mean by that? 'Be not too bold.
Well, I've got a hunch out of that line
all right. Have you got the $1,000
to win on Sweet Nell yet?
"No? well, don't put it down. 'Be
not too bold.' Make it 100 on Sweet
Nell to show and 500 straight on
Zyra to win. That's right.
"Have they started in the first yet?
Well, drop that dope sheet and listen:
'Be not too bold. Yet better the
excess than the defect better the
more than less.'
"I don't know just what he is driv
ing at there, but it's a circle that more
has got less beaten to a finish.
"What yer getting there now? First
race Reel it off."
The operator reeled it. "Miss Mel
ton wins, Ralph,GjoMg, second Tross
acks, third., Ti'h}|Ll*14 1-5,"
"Bully," said ^Bat. "Picked up
bully from the president -out in the
Denver country. Miss Melton wins
and that's 600 more, which is a dn
sight better than less. Just as the
president says right here at the drop
of the flag on this piece.
"He is the hottest president we ever
had and I told him so the other day
in the White House, and he said: 'Bat,
I thank you.' They might just as
well begin paying off on him now, for,
as I said before, he'll walk in on the
bit next November.
"All this political talk against him
is hogwash. Root says he's safe. But
Masterson will go Root one better and
say he's a sure thing and I've been in
Washington since Root left there. How
the h1 is Mr. Wood going to hurt
him at the go-off? Wood is a 3-year-
old in the general class. Why shouldn't
he take the realization stakes? I am
telling you"
"Second race. New Orleans," inter
rupted the operator. "Zyra wins, Ves
try, second Sweet Nell, third. Time,
1:20."
Bat's cronies in the Delavan cabinet
room sent five call boys right out to
hunt up the nearest book store and
bring back five copies of "The Stren
uous Life."
"Didn't I tell you he was the hottest
president we've ever had?" exclaimed
Bat after he had made the operator
read the results of. the second race
over three times.
GOLFERS TO CROSS OCEAN
Two American Amateurs Plan a Tour
of Great Britain.
Two well-knOwn golfers on this
side have arranged a trip to the links
on the other side early in the spring.
These are E. M. Byers, finalist for the
last two'years in the amateur cham
pionship, and winner last fall of the
Ekwanok open tournament at Man
chester Vt.
In the Manchester affair, it will be
remembered, Norman Hunter defeat
ed W. J. Travis in the semifinal round
and succumbed to Mr. Byers in^the
final.
The popular yowig Pittsburg ama
teur, with Mr. Horstman and the lat
ter's two sisters, will, according to
program, meet the brothers Norman
and Mansfield Hunter at St. Andrew's
and be the latter's guests.
The party will be joined by John L.
Low and Robert Maxwell and do an
automobile tour of the west coast of
Scotland, visiting the chief links by
the way, culminating in Troon, Prest
wick and Prestwick St. Nicholas.
Then the party .will 'bout ship from
Glasgow to Ireland, and after visit
ing Portrush, Portmamock and other
Irish links, will cross to the south of
England. There they will visit Burn
ham, H. W. Beveridge's home links,
Westward Ho, their automobile being
pointed all the time in the direction
of Sandwick.
According to present plans, the
party will arrive at Sandwick some
two weeks before the amateur cham
pionship. Here the Hunter brothers
have taken a co*te*. where they will
I entertain friend-. Until after the charil
pionship.
IMPROVEMENT IN BREEDING
John McCartney Ascribes to This In
creased Speed ol Trotters.
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A PECULIAR HANDICAP
Alfred De Oro Tells of a Game
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