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The Superior Times
VOL. XXXXL NO. 42.
JEFFRIES AND JOHNSON READY TO FIGHT
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JAMES J. JEFFRIES, RETIRED CHAMPION.
By KNOCKOUT.
T BE eyes of the sporting world are
on San Francisco.
•ven baseball with its thousands
1 followers has been forced to take
lin k seat until July 4, when James
Jeffries, retired champion, who re
to the ring to win back the
; ry f° r the white race, and Jack
'uhngon, champion, meet for the
1 s supremacy In pugilism.
’ " nt *t will be a great battle there
doubt. Jeffries at his best never
a superior. Few persons who
• ■ followed the pugilistic game be
'"'t there ever was a fighter who
1 J hfU ’o whipped the Jeffries that
, me d Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim
ett, B u t right there is the ques
un which this fight hinges.
■im Jeffries the man he was In
'/ v 'hen he took the championship
<'‘r from ’’lanky Bob.” or In 1902,
he defeated the Cornishman a
, orul time? Reports from Jeffries’
: “ r “ n ß cam P for the last month have
' at he la In the greatest of con
■' ,1 Experts from all over the
lJ have expressed their astonlsh
that the "big fellow” should
’® been able to bring himself to
• rare form. Jim Corbett has been
■Jeffries since May 28 and they
bad some wonderful tilts with
* t ’ s - -Joe Choylnskl, though
■■Bh;er, Brother Jack Jeffries
■ Bob Armstrong have tried their
knock Jim out, so goes the re
but he has been too much for
Corbett's aim has been to give
“ speed and Judgment of dls
~ 80 easily lost by a man who
en out o{ ,be ring six years,
"hen the match was made thev
- Jeffries would not be able to get
condition. But If taking off manv
: aiid hardening his muscles
conditj on Jeffries has It. He
will weigh close to 225 pounds when
ho strips for the fray, but will there
be behind that mass of bone and
muscle the stamina required for a
battle with a man like Johnson? Can
didly 1 think the stamina will he
there.
Jeffries never has fought a man
as big or as good as Johnson. This
Is saying a good deal of the man who
dethroned Fitzsimmons, but the John
son of today probably would have
whipped the Fitzsimmons who fell
under Jeffries’ crushing blows. It Is
true that Johnson never has whipped
a man who was the equal of Fltz In
his palmy days, but that Is because
he never had the chance. Johnson
never has been known as a great
"knocker out.” Men who had any
claim at nil to class have stood him
off, but Jack Is a loafer In the ring
and has always seen fit to take It easy
and go Just hard enough to get the
long end of the purse. Johnson also
Is in the condition of his life.
But this battle with Jeffries will be
different. Johnson will have to make
a fast battle. He will have to worry
Jeff with his speed. He must make
the big fellow use his legs. It would
be suicide and the fight would be over
inside of six rounds If Johnson at
tempted to rough It with the "Alfalfa
King.’’ He'll have to keep Jeff off for
at least ten rounds and then peck him
to i leces If he wins. To do this to
a man who has never been knocked
down will be a hard task. Is Jack
Johnson equal to It? The big bettors
say he Is not. Their money is talk
Ing.
Frank Chance and Fred Clarke, so
rumor has it, are to manage from the
bench next season. Campbell la
slated for Fred’s place, while Luderus
will occupy the drat cushion Instead
f the Big Bruin.
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Seal Coat Problem Up to Government
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Stenographers and clerks in
(ho government offices In Wash
ington seldom take more than pass
ing notice of the affairs of state that
come before the department chiefs
for settlement, but a conversation be
tween two young women In the de
partment of commerce and labor a
few days ago showed that one subject
at least, had aroused their interest.
It Is the question of sealskins. The
department faces the terrible catas
trophe of an increased cost in seal
skin coats for women. The average ;
woman could worry along for a while
longer watching prices of meats, eggs
and nearly every other article of
physical sustenance take flight sky
ward, but how she is going to survive
without a sealskin sacque is what Is
worrying the benevolently not to say
paternally inclined officials of the de
partment of commerce and labor.
"I have been wanting one so bad
ly," Miss Wank was heard to say to
the young woman with a great bunch
of "rats" In her hair, "but mercy me,
Nearly Half of People Superstitious
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WASHINGTON.— "If you pick your
teeth with a splinter taken from
a tree which has been struck by
lightning will you ever have tooth
ache?"
This, and three thousand other va
rieties of superstitious beliefs, having
been investigated by Dr. F. B Dress
lar. professor of psychology in the
University of Alabama, he found that
45 per cent, of the people whom ’ °
questioned believed in them. This
was his declaration in an address be
fore the Medico-Psychological associa
tion, one of the branches of the Amer
ican Congress of Physicians and Sur
geons.
Superstitions ami superstitious be
liefs are still powerful factors in liu-,
Illinois Man Was Sat Upon By a King
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CONGRESSMAN RODENBERO of
tho East St. Louis district, has a
constituent who enjoys the unique dis
tinction of being the only person in
tho United Stales who was literally
sat upon by a king.
When tho late King Edward VII, as
prince of Wales (Baron Renfrew), was
touring the United States ho visited
tho city of St. Louis. Several miles
from tho little town of O’Fallon. In St
Clair county. 111., an accident oc
curred that necessitated several hours’
delay. In those days trains were not.
equipped with dining cars, so. as It
was early In the morning, those hav
ing charge of the prince’s comfort be
Dolliver Enters Home With a Jimmy
£XTRA! EXTRA ? EXTRA!
UNITED STATES SENATOR
ARRESTED AS A BURGLAR
Caught in the Act of Entering a House
FIGHTS VI CIO'.SLY TO ESCAPE
Gives Desperate Battle to Four Po
licemen, Who Finally Club Him
Into Insensibility.
These are only Imaginary lines from
an Imaginary newspaper. Such a story
would break Into the first page of
most anv newspaper.
There hasn't been any such story
and there probably never will be, but
a certain distinguished member of the
upper house of congress found It uec
essary a few nights ago to uae a
if the price Is going up I’m sure 1 will
never be able to get it."
"Oh, what’s the use?" snapped the
one with hair dressed like a Kallr
belle. "I wouldn't have one If you’d
give It to me. They’re too hot for
this climate, anyway."
"Sour grapes,” was Miss Blank's
comment, as she swept out of the
room.
The benevolent, not to say paternal
ly inclined officials of the department,
however, were confronted with the
problem of whether or not the seal
grounds of the ITiblolf Islands shall
be closed under authority granted by
congress If the grounds are closed
the price of sealskin coats will go
skyward, along with other necessities.
If they are left open the price \tlll re
main at the present figure for a while
longer, but eventually will go up, as
the fur-bearing herds of the Bering
sea are depleted. So to the officials
of the department the issue has re
solved itself into the question as to
whether it is best to hold down the
price for a while by releasing the
sealing rights and letting the women
of a future period stand the really
high prices.
The lease of the North American
Commercial company, which for "0
y. ars 1 . enjoyed tho exclusive prl\ 1
lege of taking the seals, expired
May 1.
man behavior, ho said, and, ns far as
known, superstition is exclusively a
human manifestation, not being
known among lower animals. It Is
due, ho added, to an animistic con
ceptlon of the universe which holds
that sticks and stones play a part in
the life of man and conspire against
him. Man’s superstitious beliefs are
variable, he declared, changing with
his condition of mind and body and
even with tho weather and tine of
day, “ghosts existing only at Eight."
The learned professor talked about
the “thirteen” hoodoo which wn many
persons fear, while Friday cttiuo in
for the usual comment.
Some persons think it Is bad luck
to dress one foot at a time, that la,
to put both stocking and shoe on the
right foot or left foot before putting
the stocking on the other foot. Ol
course you till have heard about th<
good luck that Is sure to come if yon
happen to put a stocking on wrong
,-ido out by mistake and wear it that
way nil day.
gan to look around for a sub able place
In whit'll ho might obtain his break
last.
Tb< nearest farmhouse was that of
Mr Kegole, a prosperous and substan
Hal farmer, to which the party at once
repaired, and requested that breakfast
lie furnished the prince. Mrs. Ilegole
j responded with alacrity. The prince
was taken Into the best room, where,
while waiting for breakfast, ho sal
down on the edge of the bed. Imme
diately a great squall arose from un
der the covers. Investigation showed
that the prince had sat upon the son,
Henry Begole, heir apparent of the
household, who was at that time abou'
a year old.
The prince apologized to Mrs lit
gole and did his best to soothe the
Injured feelings of the heir apparent
Henry Begole Is at present a resident
of Belleville. 111. Ho has served as
treasurer of St. Clair counJti and hat
also served a term In the state senate
of Illinois.
•Jimmy" to get Into hls*own house. It
was all because ho has more than one
an It of clothes—not an unusual thing
for a senator, although ho Is not a mil
llonalre- ami he hail left his keys In
the other suit.
The certain and distinguished sena
tor is Mr. Jonathan P. Dolllver of
lowa, The policeman on the beat
heard something going on In tho reai
of the Dolllvor home on fashionable
Massachusetts avenue, and without
making any more noise than his No
12 shoes could prevent crept around
the building to Inve tigate.
Imagine the surprise of the blu<
coat, who had drawn revolver and
club, at seeing the senator using !•
■Jimmy” on one of the kitchen win
(low.. senator Dolllver proved a
good 'burglar" and got into his own
home as easily as a trained “yegg"
would have done.
The senator had been on a trip with
bis family to Mount Vernon When
they got back Mr, Dolllver felt for hi*
keys. He didn't have them. Then to
remembered that he had left then
n his other suit Hence tbs "Jimmy.*'
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S He slii<'<> Adam and Kve walked
Jfi In iln garden, lint tin' clmim
stances Hint own their origin
to Ha hand of man havu changed
much in the lad P n years. To r> acli
the valley, Instee 1 of (he former hum
stage ride through a Bret llurte conn
try, with the exhilarating possibility
of helng held uji by a bandit, a ride
over roads half a foot deep in fine
gray or red dn t, with Its stop at the
end of the hot day at delightful Ahwa
nee or Wawona, you now sit at the
rear of an observation ear, watch the
Merced river canon slip behind, muse
on thi' days of the Argonauts as de
serted placer digging and humming
quartz mills glide by, contrasting the
old method of gold hunting with tho
new; and In a few hour; tho (rain
stops at 101 Portal, within a dozen
miles of K 1 Capital!.
According to Henry H. Vandyke tho
artistic appreciation of lofty heights
Is best gained by viewing them from
the bottom, and the common practise
of rushing to the top to look down Is,
from the artist's point of view, a mis
take. As you look from a foreground
nf bright meadow and limpid river to
dark green pines standing out against
marvelous gray ellffs, which sheer up
ward, height above height, Into won
derful domes hacked by the deep hluo
of the mountain sky, your artistic
sense Is Indeed satisfied. And at
night by moonlight, from the valley
floor Yosernlto Is a glimpse of para
(Use. Whatever of sternness there be
in the grandeur of Its precipices seen
by day !.-> dissolved In that soft, sll
very radiance, until tho gtay cliffs he
como unreal, unsubstantial, luminous
with the light that never was on land
nr sea. Yosendle falls lies a silver
ribbon against a wall, slightly darker,
but Itself translucent As well try to
describe to the unlettered savage the
beauty of poetry; to depict to the nat
ural man tho things of the spirit,
which, being pi ritually discerned, are
foolishness to him, as attempt to show
forth In words tho miracle of Yose
mlte by moonlight.
Hut Yosemlte has a universal ap
peal, and Its downward vistas will
stir the heart that beauty and sub
limity may fall to touch. The terrific
yet fascinating sensation In which the
breath comes In gasps, the heart
thumps In audible pulsations, and the
body shrink backward In shuddering
recoil, can hr experienced by any one
who peers over the edge and down
that vertical three-quarters of a mile
at K 1 fapitan or Glacier point. And
the magnetic attraction of that, fright
fid downward glance Is fresh and tin
diminished at every point. Yosemlte
has thrills for all
Glacier point becomes the objective
after a day or two, alike of th<- artistic
and of those who merely desire to
look down. Tie- grandest view on
earth Is to he seen from the porch
of tho Gbe ier Point hotel, that never
to be forgotten sene embracing the
Half-Dome. Vernal and Nevada fall ,
Panorama cliff and Mt S ( arr King
with the for< -it between, th- smooth
f ton> canon of the Merced above tb
f; lis, and the snowy Jagged peaks of
the high Sierras In the background
At r] barring flying machines, nothing
, mite can compare with
SI.OO A VKA 11.
(hr Hanging rock ns n point from
which to get a thrilling downward
look.
\ Iraip.p thro ;h the who. ls to tho
fissun , coining hack In time for tho
■ ,unset from the top of SSeiitlu.-l ilomo,
ts n trip Hint well repays Us labor.
I* yoml the dome Is a forest of Hr,
tamarack, ami the little" sugar pi no,
with ghidca of (lie gr< nest, velvety
piass, on which the foot givus forth
no sound t'nder the trees the thick
carpet of pine needles ernckles hu
nealh the step; the sunshine fulls
slantingly through the hrnnehes, ma
king (leeks and patches of dazzling
light. on the white rocks ami granite
oil, which relied the warmth with
hardly diminished force; the odor of
the pines, pervasive as light, sweet,
pure, free, scent t the air; the low,
soft mnrmcr of the wind In tho trees
Is like distant surf, now faintly fall
lug, now swelling In crescendo. Cali
fornia Is, in midi Ights and sounds
and smell.-, tie- California of romance;
and the true sons of tho golden west
are those who, like tho Itoheinlanu,
celebrate their mysteries In the depths
of the forest, amid the majestic trees
that are distinctive of the state.
entirely new aspects of Yoscmllo
are gathered In an ev nlng walk down
the short trail from Glacier point.
As the sunlight withdraws, a light
blue haze suddenly fills tho valley.
It, looks like thinly diffused smoko;
but It springs Into existence every
where at once, ami Its effect Is as If
one should look at the landscape
through a delicately colored bluo
glass. As tho night falls, tho lower
parts of the v; hey, the shadowy
woods, tho cation months, darken to
blackness; the gathering gloom blurs
the details of the great elllTs, draws
them nearer, magnifies their vastnesa,
until they seem to rise out of bottom
less depths and to tower portentous
ly overhead The metallic gleam on
their western edges, from tho copper
sky where the sun has set, only aug
ments and renders sinister the myste
rious < ffect of the deepening obscurity.
Awesome, monstrous, titanic, the
scene Is a lianlesipm dream, suggest
ive of the loneliness and the mystery
of death, of the solltudi of a lost aoul
wandering amid the frightful abysses
of a chaotic universe. In maddening
need of sympathetic touch and com
munion with some kindred being
Yosemlte speaks In Its sublimity of
the eternal; yet It ranges over a wide
gamut of the human emotions, and n
experiences i ly touch
jif), humorous ns well as tho serious
| < tit fluent i Always there la sotne
■ thing new, always something Inter
■ . ting The mountains, tho elltTs, tho
, r I; 1 11 tin animal and vegetable
life, tin weather, perefet but fur the
occasional thunder shower, tho peo
ed by tl 1 lay
• horoughly democratic and thorough
ly delightful all combine to form a
1 vacation environment unsurpassed
and nsiirpu sable, Other places
'hroughout tho Sierras have In
dividual features as remarkable as
those of Yosemlte; but none has so
many and so striking exemplars of
natures beauty and grandeur within
he radius of a day's walk, and nono
ran ever compete with the place that
■ijulto comes up to the brag
JAMES E HE VNO EDS.