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%V 0.0(1 Cos. gfprtf*. A L. Fontaine, Editor and Prop.Q GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN. NEWS OF THE WORLD. DOMESTIC. Secretary Bliss denies a report that he will resign. Col. Jesse E. Peyton, âthe father of centennials,ââ is dead. Walter W. Bostwiok, of Brooklyn, is organizing a patent trust. Sewing is taught as a science at the Minnesota state school for girls. The Sons of the American Revolu- tion met in annual convention in Cleve- < land, 0. Washington Gibbons, for years a prominent Buffalo lawyer and politi- cian, died in New York. A 3-year-old girl named Mabel Vaughn, near Milton, Mo., was bitten by a rattle snake and died. Dozens of people are drowned in a flood in Oklahoma and a large amount of property is destroyed. Theodore Havemeyer, vice-president of the Americon Sugar Refining Com- pany, died in New York. Seventy-five married inmates of the soldiers home are discharged to make r i.om for unmarried veterans. President McKinley end party have returned to Washington from the Grant celebration in New York. There is great oppositon at Augusta, Ga., to the proposed appointment of a colored postmaster for that city. William Schuttle, a friendless man about 45 years old, died from starva- tion and exposure in New' York city. The employes of wholesale houses of St. Paul and Minneapolis will have the usual weekly half-holiday this summer. Governor Black, of New York, will give a hearing to prominent citizens who are opposed tc his civil-service bill. âcate Bank Examiner J. W. Brein- denthal of Kansas has taken charge of (he Bank o c Hutchinson, a private con- cern. At Defiance, 0., George Waldfogle, aged 56, a wealthy farmer, was killed by a vicious horse, which he was try- ing to break. The family mansion at Green Ridge, Staten Island, N. Y., owned by Ad- miral Benham, United States Navy, re- l.red, was burned. The senatorial contest in Kentucky ended by the election of W. J. Deboe, republican, to succeed Senator Black- burn, democrat. Ed Newcomer, leader of a noted band of Oklahoma outlaws, has been caught and lodged in jail and the band broken up. The democratic senators have em- ployed experts and will examine the tariff bill in detail before it is reported to f -mate. Senator Nelsonâs amendment to the tariff bill abrogating the Hawaiian treaty promises to cause a lively con- tests in the senate. The jury in Hie case of John F. Ken- nedy, tried as the leader of the Chicago Sc Alton robbery at Glendale, Mo., has failed to agree. The Central Union Telephone com- pany has filed a mortgage at Dayton, 0., to the Illinois Trust and Savings bank for $3,000,000. The Central Union Telephone com- pany lias filed a mortgage at Dayton, 0., to the Illinois Trust & Savings bank for $3,000,000. John Ryan is under arrest in New' York on a charge of having caused the death of Andrew Bowne, w'ho w r as knocked down by a blow-. William T. Powers, colored, con- demned to die on the gallows May 28, was baptized and received into the Baptist church at Chicago. American manufactnreres have been Invited to send displays to the eleventh annual exhibition of the German Agri- cultural society at Hamburg. First Lieut. Ru r " TT. Lane of the United Srates Cruiser New' York w r as married to Miss Gertrude E. Mills at the home of her parents in Geneva. O. The discussion between the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the Revolution as t.e which society was first founded is still unsettled. Gold has been discovered near Ann Arbor. Mich. Dr Traell Green, an eminent physi- cian and famous scientist, died at Easton, Pa. The international Y. M. C. A. has decided upon Denver as the next meet- ing place Ex-Minister Thurston presented to the senate f -ance committee a long list of reas~'.s why the treatv o' re- ciprocity - tb Hawaii should not be abrogated Gather! -e Vanswerth. aged four years, fel '"< m a scaffold thirty foe* above the ound in New York and landed sab in a blanket which was held to catch her. Six hundred blue-eyed rosy- cheeked Irish , .ris reived in Now York. They came directly from Erin Rtid are on their way to various points in the west. Eugene Taylor, linotype operator on The Denver Times, in eight hours made o record of 101,800 ems. The previous record, 85.000 ems. was held by Baker of Seattle. John Burnes. one of the crew of the scow Sunrise, was washed overboard and drowned ia Lake Michigan. He was 23 years old and lived with his mother in Milwaukee. A gray wolf was killed recently at Cave Hills, Wyoming. The creature is *aid to have measured 5 foe: S inches from the tip of the uosn to the root of the tail, and'was 34 inches high. From the point of the nose to the top of the hrnd was 12 inches, and the hide and head bone weighed 20 pounds. The secretary of war announces that all denominations which desire the privilege will be permitted to build chapels on the grounds of the United Staes military academy at West Point. Gen. Harrison will no: be rttosen moderator of the general assembly of (he Presbyterian church to be held in Winona next mmth. os he cannot give the necessary time to prepare for the event. Fire at Pipestone, Minn., destroyed a business block, causing a loss of about $40,000. The losers are W. F. Glasgow, L. E. Breckenridge, W. Terney, H. Bor- cher, J. Hurley, P. Connors. All parties in the litigation over the Chicago lake front property will sub- mit briefs and affidavits to Commis- sioner Herrmann, of the general land office, and the decision will be ren- dered soon after the papers are re- ceived. John S. Bartley, ex-s ate treasurer of Nebraska, was arraigned in the Omaha police court on a charge of embezzling $201,u&0. He pleaded not guilty and waived examination. He was held to answer in the district court in ?50,- 000 bail. A freight train on the Wheeling Sz Lake Erie railway went through a bridge near Warren town, 0.. and plunged in . a creek. Engineer James Garsletler was scalded to death. Fire- man Edward Munn and Brakeman C. E. Keyser both sustained broken legs. Tim bouse of representatives of the Delaware legislature has appointed a ccm â to investigate the charge recently made that certain members of the body have attempted to export money from persons applying for leg- islation as the price of their favorable votes. A boiler explosion at Aldermanâs sawmill, in the Kanawha valley, West Virginia, killed Perry Dae vers and George Conley and injured Z. W. Hick- man, Thomas Hickman, William Bal- ton, Vinton Alderman and John Mc- Cauley. The three former will prob- ably die. The wrestling match between âFar- merâ Burns and D. S. McLean will take place in Davenport. la., May 6. The match will be for SI,OOO a side and a75 and 25 per cent, division of the receipts, the worldâs championship title to go with the decision. The stake money lias been deposited. Walker Fearno, American judge in the international court in Cairo, Egypt, minister to Greece under President Clevelandâs first administration, and chief of department of foreign affairs at the Chicago worldâs fair, is criti- cally ill at the home of his daughter, in New York city. The dedication of the tomb and monument of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Riverside Park, New' York city, fully equaled the expectations if its â magnifi- cence as a ceremony. The number of men in the land parade was estimated at 50.000. President McKinley, Gen. Horace Porter and Mayor Strong made addresses at the tomb. Ex-Governor Altgeld, whose name from time to time has been connected with the affairs of the defunct Globe Savings hank denies that he was in any way responsible for the irregulari- cf its management. He admits V iving been a borrower from the bank, hut says -hat it was simply a matter of business. General Miles has received the for- mal assent of the president to his pro- jected trip to Turkey and Greece. Gen. Miles will be gone two or three months, as in addition to making a personal study of the military features of thg contest between the Turks and Greeks, he proposes to inspect the military es- tablishments of the principal European powers. The result of his observations will be embodied in an official report to the president. Four members of the desperate Weir gang in Chicago were captured on in- formation given by Fred Drenkson. one of their pale. Drenkson went to church two weeks ago and was so im- pressed with the song service that he decided to reform. The four persons under arrest arc Henry Weir, Edward Ernst, Mrs. Mary Weir and Charles Zimmerman. Fourteen robberies are charged to the gang. Some nf the stolen property was recovered. Count Alphonso Chrostowski. a Polish editor, playwright and exiled nihilist, is in Columbus, 0., for the pur- pose of pressing his suit with Miss Daisy Aldrich, daughter of the presi- dent of the Worthington Street Rail- way company and a leader in fashion- able circles. The count met Miss Aid- rich at the worldâs fair and a strong attachment sprang up between them. Correspondence has been kept up ever seems, parents of the young lady were not let into the secret. When they heard of it they at once called the wedding eff in a public an- nouncement in the evening papers. FOREIGN. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia, and was the recipient of many honors. Belgium, Germany and Switzerland have indicated their objection to the preferences of Great Britain in the new Canadian tariff. Captain-General Weyler returned T-om Clara to Havana. It is reported the number of insurgents submitting to Spanish authority is increasing daily. Prince Louis William August of Baden, brother of the Grand Duke of Baden, ts dead in Carlsrube. He was T âovn 1863 was married to the Duchess of Louchtonberg. Expert have determined that the ex- plosion in the London underground railway, by which one person was killed and many maimed. w r as caused by a high explosive placed in one of the cars. ~ Creina Blanche, Bruce Baro- ness Aberdare, widow of the first Baron Aberdare died in England. She was a daughter of the late Gen. Sir M illiam Francis Patrick Napier K C B. NANCY NEWKIRKEâS DIMPLE. Nancy Newkirks, the young societv girl whose debut last week in Philadel- phia was made under such advan- tageous circumstancesâ she received nine bouquets, one basket and a wreath from her erstwhile social companionsâ- has a dimple on her right cheek for which nature disavows responsibility, for when dainty Miss Newkirke first opened her wondering eyes on this wicked wond. just 21 years ago. there wasn't a vestige of a dimple on either cheek. That was her debut on the worldâs big stage and dimples werenât needed at that time. But winter before last Miss Newkirke went out sleighing with a party of ten young folks, chap- eroned, of course, as was the proper thing. In the West Park, Philadel phia. the horses took affright, the sleigh upset and ten young people were precipitately and unceremoniously dumped earthward. Everybody was on his or her feet in a few minutes all except Miss Newkirke. A twenty- minute search, and at the bottom of the embankment, unconscious on the ice of the river. Miss Newkirke was found. She had rolled down the em- bankment, her face was covered with blood that had congealed, and she lay in a heap, one mass of bruises. In an hour Miss Newkirke was brought heme and doctors summoned. A twig had frozen against her right cheek, a litre knot of the twig having dug into a lit- tle point in a place where d:mples are usually worn. For six weeks Miss Newkirke lay in bed suffering bruises and shock, and when she go up again she had a full-fledged dimple. It seems that the twig had dug into Miss Newkirkeâs cheek as she rolled dewn hill, and bad severed a small muscle in the right cheek. The result was a drawing together of the flesh at that point, and an artificial dimple that even a connoisseur could not mil from the real, natural article was the out- come. But there are not many girls v. ho would care to undergo the same experience as did Nancy Newkirke just to have a naughty little dimple in her cheek. A PARIS ELECTRIC CARRIAGE. The Force is Stored by a Battery of Accumulatorsâ-A Successful Trial. The European edition of the New York Herald, December 12, contained the following; Quite a number of well-known ama- teurs of automobile carriages, includ- ing the Prince de Sagan, Mr. William G. Tiffany and Mr. Thorne, were pres- ent yesterday afternoon at the ateliers Belvaiette, in the Rue Duret, to see the new electric coupe invented by M. A Darracq. The copue resembles the fashionable coupes turned out by the best Parisian makers, and has none of the unfinished appearance of the usual run of automobile vehicles. There is a seat at the back of the coupe for the engineer, so that those seated inside the coupe have an entirely unob- structed view. The motor consists of an electric dynamo, and the force is stored by a battery of accumulators. The steering is effected by the front wheels, moved by a wheel at the en- gineerâs seat. The brake is applied in the same manner. The inflated India rubber tires make the coupe run smoothly. The force stored by the ac- cumulators is sufficient to accomplish seventy-five kilometres on an ordinary road, at a speed of from fifteen to twenty kilometres ait hour. The coupe invented by M. Darracq is intended for use in the crowded streets of Paris, and electricity, givng neither smoke or smell, seemse for this purpose decidedly preferable to steam or petro- leum, provided the power and effi- ciency are equal. M. Darracqâs calcula- tions show that the eleerrie coupe, for use in Paris, realizes an economy of 40 per cent, as compared with the use of a coupe drawn by a horse. The accumulators weigh about 400 kilo- grammes. This, of course is a very heavy dead weight to carry about, es- ; pecially when it is remembered that ian average mail eoa.ch weighs 2,400 pounds, or 1,089 kilogrammes. How- ever, M. Darracq is convinced that this weight is much more than compensated for by the stored force which enables this neat and smart-looking coupe to be moved at a rapid pace and with ex- traordinary facility of steering, and without smoke or smell and with com- paratively little noise, through the crowded streets of Paris. The coupe was successfully tried yesterday afternoon, and a Herald re- porter who sat on it was driven, or rather âmotored,â about in the Rue Duret for a few minutes and found it very comfortable. The coupe inns most smoothly. OCCUPATIONS FOR CHILDREN. Necessity of Keeping Young Minds Employed Fully Recognized. The parents of the present day ap- preciate far more than did those of previous generations the desirability and importance of supplying occupa- tions of an agreeable and interesting sort for young minds and fingers. If there is one thing that makes a child more unhappy than another, it is hav- ing nothing to do. Last winter a num- ber of fashionable mothers started a class in carpentry for their small sons, ranging in age from 5 to 10 years. It was under the care of a competent instructor, and each boy had his own complete set of tools, of which it did net take him long to learn to use. Another class of little hoys is given' a weekly lesson, in modeling in clay, which the members find exceedingly interesting. Embroidery, millinery and dress- making are among the occupations pro- vided for the modem little girl. At one of the latter each make a complete set of garments for a doll. Indepen- dent reading classes are becoming more and move popular among girls of all ages. The members meet in the autumn, when each one pays a small sum to the treasurer, and signs a paper agreeing to devote one hour daily to solid reading. In the spring they meet again, and each member hands in a list of the books she has read during the winter. These are read aloud and voted upon the one that is most gen- erally approved receiving a prize, which is bought with the money paid in for dues. âExchange. A HANDY REFERENCE. A bit of slate with pencil attached by a string or some neat slips of paper with a lead pencil similarly attached hung on the kitchen wall near the worn table will save a housekeeper time and wory. Jot down on them the things that are needed from town, the I little odds and ends that are to be done during the day. and that so easily slip your mind when you have not time to do them as soon as they suggest themselves to y#ur mind. When a widow gets to heaven the first thing she will ask is what the men angels like best to eat. âNew York Press. A GLOOMY OUTLOOK TRADE IS BAD AND PROMISES TO - BE WORSE. PRICES TAKE A TUMBLE Prospects ot Speedy Peace la Europe Artec: the Grain Market âFailures Hold Their OwnâBank Clearings Fali Off Over Three Per Cent. Latest Trade Reports. New York, May 1. âR. G. Dun & Co.' weekly trade statement says: âin spite o: tne moderate improvement in most of the great industries, business is disappointing. Expectations of a speedy end of the war in Europe through Turkish victories has helped to depress grain. The demands in Austria and China caused exports of $6,500,000 in gold. Merchandise im- ports are greatly increased and final ac- tion of congress on the revenue ques- tion seems more remote. Wheat rose last Saturday nearly two cents, but has fallen since that day about 5 cents. This is largely because the European markets did not supply the expected i nnand, and because events have ap- peared foreshadowing speedy peace; tidings from wheat growing states and receipts from farms and enormous ex- ports of corn, however, all had their influence. Corn exports were 13,250,- 000 bushels for the past four weeks, against 4.497. ocq last year; while the Atlantic exports of wheat in the same weeks (flour included) were only 4,231,- 000 bushels, against 4.597,000 last year. Nor is this surprising; for, if in use two bushels of corn only equal one bushel of wheat, two bushels of corn would cost about 60 cents, and one bushel of wheat nearly 80 cents. Exports of gold would not have much influence if there were not on extraordinary in- crease in merchandise imports and some decrease in exports from New York. Imports increased 60 per cent, ever last year for the week and for four weeks -were 30 per cent, greater. At Boston imports of wool were extraor- dinary and at Philadelphia they amounted for the month to $1,278,000. The thought that this abnormal in- crease may continue as long as action on the revenue bill is deferred, tends to affect exchange, but the main in- fluence is the exceptional demand for a reconstruction of the Austrian mon- etary system and for Japan. Of the great industries, iron and steel manu- facture is slower in advancing now, as it was much quicker in the winter. Prices of Mesaba ore have not yet been {stablished, though ore better than fayal has been sold at $2.45 to $2.50 and pig is weaker. Bessemer is $9.50, with one sale of 2,000 tons at $9.25 at Pittsburg, and grey forge at $8..50. Nails are about 5 cents per keg lower end tin plates 5 cents per box. A heavy sale of lake rapper is reported at 11 cents, and lead is a trifle weaker. There is more business in cotton and v. nolen goods and a little better tone in prices. The mills are rather better employed.â Failures in the United State- for the week were 237 against 238 last year. Bradstreetsâ weekly trade statement says: âThe more conspicuous features of trade are less satisfactory. Including moderate reactions in the prices of staples, a falling off in the volume o? transactions in various lines, continued slow collections and less favorable con- ditions in iron, steel, cotton and some other industries. There is less demand for staple varieties of iron and steel- makers are reporting trouble in secur- ing specifications for contracts on hand. Southern pig iron has secured lower railroad rates to points west of Pitts- burg and Buffalo, all of which saving has been given to the purchaser. The outlook is for shutting down some fur- naces in the Pittsburg district. Sales of wool have declined sharply tut re- ceipts of foreign stock bought up weeks ago make a fair total. Nearly a yearâs supply has been imported during the first four months of this year. The movement of cotton is slow and prices are low, buyers purchasing large lots only where tempting inducements are offered. Woolen manufacturers are fairly supplied with orders, and are inclined to ask an advance on new bus- iness. The three monthsâ restriction on the output in cotton goods has end- , <h! and the mills now run on full time.. The only advance on. general recog- nized conditions are those of pork and i (otton. Higher prices for woolens is an effort to anticipate the tariff. Ex- perts of wheat (flour included) from both coasts of the United States were 1.159.000 bushels this week, against 1,- 1 200.000 bushels the same week a year ago. Exports of Indian corn have also fallen off this week, amounting to 3.057.0Q0 bushels. ag-Unst 4.709,000 last Meek.â The total bank clearings of the prin- cipal cities in the United States for the week were $855,506,196, a decrease of 3.3 per cent, compared with the cor- responding week last year. FINISH OF THE MARATHON RUN. Won by a Greek Amid Great National | Joy, =* Shortly after half-past four a can- non-shot, the signal that the leading i runner was approaching, electrified ; the mass. The pole-vaulting could i not go on. After a while a man wear-; ing the Greek colors, light blue and white, was seen struggling toward the Stadion amid the yelis of myiiads of throats, âEileen! Eileen!â (a Greek! a Greek!), and as he made his way through the Stadion the crowd went 7nad for joy. The stalwart ci'own prince, the president of the games, and the still more stalwart Prince George, the referee, led, or rather al- most carried, this victor before the royal seat in the Sphendone, and the usually quiet king himself had mean- while nearly ripped off the visor of his naval uniform cap in waving it wildly i in the air. Pity it would have been j had a foreigner won this race! None ; felt this more keenly than the foreign ; athletes themselves. All who we: e' present will remember the commotion j of the crowd in the Stadion in that mo- ment of victory as one of the greatest scenes cf their lives. In the gentle light of the sun of Attica as it in- clines toward the horizon, a light not known elsewhere in the world, the magnificent gift of Averoff, the new Stadionâand yet the oldâreceives its real dedication. Athletics were crowned in it as never before in mod- em times. Here was inspiration for a painter. The one coveted honor of the games was fairly won by the Greeks, and held aimest beyond the reach of envy. Shortly after the winner's arrival came two other Greeks, and then a Hungar- ian. The next five in order were also Greeks. It was a Greek victory with a vengeance. The winner, who accomplished the run in the remarkably short time of two hours fifty-eight minutes and fifty seconds, is Spyridion Loues, a weii-tc- do farmer, twenty-four years old, from Marousi. a village on the road from Athens to Kephissia, and near to the Utter place. He was one of the latest entries for the race. Just before going out to Marathon on Friday he is said to have taken the sacrament from the priest of his native village, saying that he wished to invoke the air of heaven in his great struggle.âFrom The New Olympian Games, by Rufus B. Rich- ardson in September Scribnerâs. BRANDED IN A LODGE ROOM. Orangemen Fined for Cruelty in Their Ceremonies of Initiation. One of the strangest cases ever tried in the district court came up this morning before Judge Enos F. Luce when an alleged expose was made un- der oath upon the witness stand of the rites and ordeals through which a can- didate must pass to become a full- lledged Orangeman. Six members of the Orange lodge here were arrested for assault on Frank A. Preble daring initiation. They were John G. Graham, G. O. Nickerson, Edward O'Neil, Daniel Tracey, Leander Weatherbeo, and Wilfred Mabie. Preble was the first witness. It was on the evening of July 25, 1896, that he received his initiatory degree. He swore that his troubles began th*- min- ute tha; he passed ttm âmystic por- tals.â He was compelled to discard all raiment except his underwear. One arm was stripped of its sleeve. He was made to wear a pair of overalls, which were rolled above his knees. Then he was blindfolded and led into the larger lodge room by Daniel Tracey and William Mabie, who acted as conduc- tors. There he was compelled to halt and get down upon his knees ard repeat the Lordâs prayer. Then he had to clamber over a lot of rough blocks, was struck severely with whips, and finally posed upon what seemed to him a stepladder. An obi ! ~Y?on was im- posed, after which the ladder was sud- dently pulled from under him and he was pitched into a canvas blanket, in which he was bounced around for a while. Then he was placed on his knees again, and several people, he says, literally âgave it to him in the neck.â Some more marching followed, and he was made to carry what felt like a bag o' rocks. Finally Mabie told him to raise his hand and try to find âthe serpent.â Brother Graham then cried. âYou did not find it, but it found you,â and then, he says, a branding iron was applied twice to his breast. After that he was seated and the rest was easy. He talked with Mr. Nicholson, another member, the next night, and both agreed that he had been cruelly treat- ed. Nicholson said the abuse he re- ceived was contrary to the ritual of the erder. Nicholson also told him that r.he branding was not in the ritual, and that he ought to have some compensa- tion for what he had suffered. The witnessâ breast was badly burn- ed, and the wounds were raw for ten days. His legs were discolored from the violence of some of the blows he received from the whisp. The only time he protested was while they were removing his clothing. He had been advised to call upon Secretary Ray of the supreme order and enter a formal complaint. Edward Arch said he had witnessed Prebleâs ordeal. Tracey and Mabie guarded the candidate. O'Neil heated the branding iron and Graham applied it. Nickerson had objected that the iron was too hot, but OâNeil heated it further and said they would give the candidate a âdâand good roast.â Arch had not interfered to protect Preble because he knew it would do no good. His own legs were whipped harder than Prebleâs had been, but his own back had escaped more lightly. Both men were able to work next day. Arch had delayed his appeal to the courts in order to give the Orange- men an opportunity to appoint an in- vestigating committee; and he denied that he had offered to drop the case if the lodge would pay him SSO, neither had he authorized any person to make such an offer to him. Arch had ob- jected twice during the initiation, but it had done no good. He only had one brand, and that was about the size of a half dollar. No evidence was put in for the de- fense. hut council argued that no proof had been given that any departure had been made from the regular form of initiation sufficient to constitute an assault. Preble having applied for in- itiation and having been willing to abide by the consequences, no crime had been committed, and counsel asked that the lodge be discharged as not guilty. Judge Luce, in his decision, fined six officers of the lodce $35 each. The men appealed.âWaltham (Mass.) Corres- pondence New York. GET BACK TO WASHINGTON. , i Vive President and Part of Cabinet | Return to Federal Capital. Washington, April 29.âVice Presi- i dent Hobart, Secretary Sherman, Post- master General Gar?', Attorney General McKenna, Secretary Wilson, British Ambassador Pauncefote, French Am- bassador Patenotre and about 25 other ! diplomats, and the committees of the j senate and house, returned yesterday : fiom New York. President McKinley â will return today. 'ÂŁ49f'Mo-U(r 725 L X i probably prove more beneficial than j either of the two sports named, for ! in one of them the danger to life and i limb is great, while the other is prac- { ideally restricted ro a chosen few. Ju- ! diciousiy followed, a systematic at- â tempt to strengthen every one of the i hundred of little and big muscles in the body can have but one result, and that is, improvement of the physical structure. As all of the big colleges nave experienced men in charge of the gymnastic departments the danger of over-muscleing the body is insig- nificant. The two great strong men of the collegiate world today are Arthur Lovering, of Harvard, and Charles Chadwick, of Yale. C. S. Verrille is | also one of the very strong men of Yale, and it is almost a dead heat be- tween him and Chadwick for first place. Princeton has several aspir- ants for the title of strong man, but none of them approach the records of Lovering or the Yale men. But there is a quantity of excellent material in the New Jersey college; it only needs scientific development. Hovering, of Harvard, has a record cf 1,660 points, and Chadwickâs best record is 1,638 points. Avery small improvement on the part of the Yale man would send his total up to that of his rival, as the method of computing the points is such, that a slight differ- ence between two contestants makes a slightly forward, in order to pull up on the chain to the best advantage. The muscles called into action are primar ily those of the back, but the shoulders biceps and forearm also bear the strain. Lovering has lifted as high as kilogrammes, or 926 pounds. This was not an official trial, however, his best being 410 kilogrammes. On the lift the candidate assumes a different position, bending the knees and gripping the handles at a height slightly above the knee, the chain pass- ing between the knees. In the test all the muscles used in the back lift are employed, and the extension mus- cles of the legâhips, thigh, calf and foot ââare called into action, as well as the muscles forming the side walls of the abdomen. With this reinforcement of the hack muscles, much heavier lifting is done. The grip of the hand test is simply maue by squeezing a hand dynomome- ter. Both hands are tested and an av- erage struck. Often there is t. differ- ence of twenty points between the two hands, the right, of course, being the stronger. The shoulder and arm tests are fa- ii&P-TZW i miliar to all school boys. The candi- date first âdipsâ as many times as pos- sible on the parallel bars, alternately lowering and raising the body. After- ward he grips two hanging rings and âąalternately raises and lowers his body by his arms, bringing his chin each time to a level with Ihe rings. This feat, when performed on a horizontal bar is a familiar form of exercise, but becomes much harder when executed on hanging rings. The two exercises are selected to call into play comple- STRONG MEN TESTS' NEW INTSROOLEGIATE COMPETI- TION MAY BF ESTABLISHED. I HOW POINTS ARE FIGURED I The Lungs, Back, Legs, H*nds, Shoul- ders and Uppe;- Arms and Forearms Are Tested anc the Faints Made To- taled. 400 Points Make a Good Aver- I age. New York, May 2.âWithin a short time it is quite probable that anew in- i tercollegiate competition will be estab- lished. Already there is talk of a meeting between the strong men of Yale, Harvard and Princeton to de- cide the much discussed question as to which of the colleges has the chain- âą i pion strong man. If such a meeting takes place, the defeated âvarsities wiL expect to be given a chance of revenge the following year, and, once the strong man rivalry is begun, it will certainly assume equal importance with the annual rowing race and the football game. What is more, such a rivalry would seemingly wide difference in the scores. Should the strong men of the col- leges meet, the test would be on the lines marked out by Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, the director of the physical culture department, of Harvard. Since 1*79. Dr. Sargent has made a study of the best systems for completely test- ing the strength of the human body; in fact he began the study long before 1579, as in that year ha established his famous system and it has since bee t recognized as the standard. This system calls for but six tcsbs; namely, the lungs, grip of the hands, "he strength of the back, the strength of the legs, the forearm and the shoul- ders. In making the test the athlete is nor. allowed to rest between times. He must take up one test after another without any intermission, so that the muscles will not have a chance to recuperate The first step is the âlung test,â which is directed to ascertain the pow- er of the expiratory muscles ânot the capacity of the lungs. In making this test a manometer is used, and the can- didate is required to exhaust his lungs with all the force that he can command into the manometer through a rubber tube. A dial connected with the mano- I mentary muscles, the one being a push- I ing up of the body, the o'her a pulling up of the body. The points made in these tests are figured in this way. The contestantâs ; weight in kilogrammes is divided by | ten and then multiplied by the number of times he raises himself on the rings â and the bars. For instance, if he I weighed 70 kilos and raised himself ten times, the score would be 70. The ; reason of this system of figuring is ! that a man weighing 190 pounds is heavily handicapped against a man weighing 140 pounds. The greatest âdipperâ on record was 3. L. Foster, a former strong man, who went up and down between the bars 68 times. The man out of training who tries to raise and lower himself once, has a terrible time and the average athlete cannot do it more than six or eight times. To fully appreciate what a score of 1,600 points means, it should be known that 400 points is a good average. Candidates for the baseball and la- crosse teams ere only required to make 500 points, and candidates for the crew and eleven are expected to make 700 points and a great many are turned aside because of their inability to attain these figures. meter registers the amount of force with which the candidate can blow, and he is compelled to continue the pressure until the hand on the dial comes to a rest, showing the power of his expiratory muscles to hold air against pressure. The place at which the index finally rests is taken in com- puting the strength tests. A record of 20 is considered to be fair in the lung test, although Lover- ing has held the index at 3S and by a sudden blow has scored as high as 50. The back lift is made with the legs straight, the body being projected
Transcript of %V Cos. gfprtf*. A GLOOMY OUTLOOK STRONG MEN TESTS'
%V 0.0(1 Cos. gfprtf*.A L. Fontaine, Editor and Prop.Q
GRAND RAPIDS, - WISCONSIN.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.
Secretary Bliss denies a report thathe will resign.
Col. Jesse E. Peyton, âthe father ofcentennials,ââ is dead.
Walter W. Bostwiok, of Brooklyn,is organizing a patent trust.
Sewing is taught as a science at theMinnesota state school for girls.
The Sons of the American Revolu-
tion met in annual convention in Cleve- <land, 0.
Washington Gibbons, for years aprominent Buffalo lawyer and politi-cian, died in New York.
A 3-year-old girl named MabelVaughn, near Milton, Mo., was bittenby a rattle snake and died.
Dozens of people are drowned in aflood in Oklahoma and a large amountof property is destroyed.
Theodore Havemeyer, vice-presidentof the Americon Sugar Refining Com-pany, died in New York.
Seventy-five married inmates of thesoldiers home are discharged to maker i.om for unmarried veterans.
President McKinley end party havereturned to Washington from theGrant celebration in New York.
There is great oppositon at Augusta,Ga., to the proposed appointment of acolored postmaster for that city.
William Schuttle, a friendless manabout 45 years old, died from starva-tion and exposure in New' York city.
The employes of wholesale houses ofSt. Paul and Minneapolis will have theusual weekly half-holiday this summer.
Governor Black, of New York, willgive a hearing to prominent citizenswho are opposed tc his civil-servicebill.
âcate Bank Examiner J. W. Brein-denthal of Kansas has taken charge of(he Bank o c Hutchinson, a private con-cern.
At Defiance, 0., George Waldfogle,aged 56, a wealthy farmer, was killedby a vicious horse, which he was try-ing to break.
The family mansion at Green Ridge,Staten Island, N. Y., owned by Ad-miral Benham, United States Navy, re-l.red, was burned.
The senatorial contest in Kentuckyended by the election of W. J. Deboe,republican, to succeed Senator Black-burn, democrat.
Ed Newcomer, leader of a notedband of Oklahoma outlaws, has beencaught and lodged in jail and the bandbroken up.
The democratic senators have em-ployed experts and will examine thetariff bill in detail before it is reportedto f -mate.
Senator Nelsonâs amendment to thetariff bill abrogating the Hawaiiantreaty promises to cause a lively con-tests in the senate.
The jury in Hie case of John F. Ken-nedy, tried as the leader of the ChicagoSc Alton robbery at Glendale, Mo., hasfailed to agree.
The Central Union Telephone com-pany has filed a mortgage at Dayton,0., to the Illinois Trust and Savingsbank for $3,000,000.
The Central Union Telephone com-pany lias filed a mortgage at Dayton,0., to the Illinois Trust & Savings bankfor $3,000,000.
John Ryan is under arrest in New'York on a charge of having caused thedeath of Andrew Bowne, w'ho wr asknocked down by a blow-.
William T. Powers, colored, con-demned to die on the gallows May 28,was baptized and received into theBaptist church at Chicago.
American manufactnreres have beenInvited to send displays to the eleventhannual exhibition of the German Agri-cultural society at Hamburg.
First Lieut. Ru r " TT. Lane of theUnited Srates Cruiser New' York wr asmarried to Miss Gertrude E. Mills atthe home of her parents in Geneva. O.
The discussion between the Daugh-ters of the American Revolution andthe Daughters of the Revolution as t.ewhich society was first founded is stillunsettled.
Gold has been discovered near AnnArbor. Mich.
Dr Traell Green, an eminent physi-cian and famous scientist, died atEaston, Pa.
The international Y. M. C. A. hasdecided upon Denver as the next meet-ing placeEx-Minister Thurston presented to
the senate f -ance committee a longlist of reas~'.s why the treatv o' re-ciprocity - tb Hawaii should not beabrogated
Gather! -e Vanswerth. aged fouryears, fel '"< m a scaffold thirty foe*above the ound in New York andlanded sab in a blanket which washeld to catch her.
Six hundred blue-eyed rosy-cheeked Irish , .ris reived in NowYork. They came directly from ErinRtid are on their way to various pointsin the west.
Eugene Taylor, linotype operator onThe Denver Times, in eight hoursmade o record of 101,800 ems. Theprevious record, 85.000 ems. was heldby Baker of Seattle.
John Burnes. one of the crew of thescow Sunrise, was washed overboardand drowned ia Lake Michigan. Hewas 23 years old and lived with hismother in Milwaukee.
A gray wolf was killed recently atCave Hills, Wyoming. The creature is*aid to have measured 5 foe: S inchesfrom the tip of the uosn to the root ofthe tail, and'was 34 inches high. Fromthe point of the nose to the top of thehrnd was 12 inches, and the hide andhead bone weighed 20 pounds.
The secretary of war announces thatall denominations which desire theprivilege will be permitted to buildchapels on the grounds of the UnitedStaes military academy at WestPoint.
Gen. Harrison will no: be rttosenmoderator of the general assembly of(he Presbyterian church to be held inWinona next mmth. os he cannot givethe necessary time to prepare for theevent.
Fire at Pipestone, Minn., destroyed abusiness block, causing a loss of about$40,000. The losers are W. F. Glasgow,L. E. Breckenridge, W. Terney, H. Bor-cher, J. Hurley, P. Connors.
All parties in the litigation over theChicago lake front property will sub-mit briefs and affidavits to Commis-sioner Herrmann, of the general landoffice, and the decision will be ren-dered soon after the papers are re-ceived.
John S. Bartley, ex-s ate treasurer ofNebraska, was arraigned in the Omahapolice court on a charge of embezzling$201,u&0. He pleaded not guilty andwaived examination. He was heldto answer in the district court in ?50,-000 bail.
A freight train on the Wheeling SzLake Erie railway went through abridge near Warrentown, 0.. andplunged in . a creek. Engineer JamesGarsletler was scalded to death. Fire-man Edward Munn and Brakeman C.E. Keyser both sustained broken legs.
Tim bouse of representatives of theDelaware legislature has appointed accm â to investigate the chargerecently made that certain membersof the body have attempted to exportmoney from persons applying for leg-islation as the price of their favorablevotes.
A boiler explosion at Aldermanâssawmill, in the Kanawha valley, WestVirginia, killed Perry Daevers andGeorge Conley and injured Z. W. Hick-man, Thomas Hickman, William Bal-ton, Vinton Alderman and John Mc-Cauley. The three former will prob-ably die.
The wrestling match between âFar-merâ Burns and D. S. McLean willtake place in Davenport. la., May 6.The match will be for SI,OOO a sideand a75 and 25 per cent, division ofthe receipts, the worldâs championshiptitle to go with the decision. Thestake money lias been deposited.
Walker Fearno, American judge inthe international court in Cairo, Egypt,minister to Greece under PresidentClevelandâs first administration, andchief of department of foreign affairsat the Chicago worldâs fair, is criti-cally ill at the home of his daughter, inNew York city.
The dedication of the tomb andmonument of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant inRiverside Park, New' York city, fullyequaled the expectations if its â magnifi-cence as a ceremony. The number ofmen in the land parade was estimatedat 50.000. President McKinley, Gen.Horace Porter and Mayor Strong madeaddresses at the tomb.
Ex-Governor Altgeld, whose namefrom time to time has been connectedwith the affairs of the defunct GlobeSavings hank denies that he was inany way responsible for the irregulari-
cf its management. He admitsViving been a borrower from the bank,hut says -hat it was simply a matter ofbusiness.
General Miles has received the for-mal assent of the president to his pro-jected trip to Turkey and Greece. Gen.Miles will be gone two or three months,as in addition to making a personalstudy of the military features of thgcontest between the Turks and Greeks,he proposes to inspect the military es-tablishments of the principal Europeanpowers. The result of his observationswill be embodied in an official reportto the president.
Four members of the desperate Weirgang in Chicago were captured on in-formation given by Fred Drenkson.one of their pale. Drenkson went tochurch two weeks ago and was so im-pressed with the song service that hedecided to reform. The four personsunder arrest arc Henry Weir, EdwardErnst, Mrs. Mary Weir and CharlesZimmerman. Fourteen robberies arecharged to the gang. Some nf thestolen property was recovered.
Count Alphonso Chrostowski. aPolish editor, playwright and exilednihilist, is in Columbus, 0., for the pur-pose of pressing his suit with MissDaisy Aldrich, daughter of the presi-dent of the Worthington Street Rail-way company and a leader in fashion-able circles. The count met Miss Aid-rich at the worldâs fair and a strongattachment sprang up between them.Correspondence has been kept up ever
â seems, parents of theyoung lady were not let into the secret.When they heard of it they at oncecalled the wedding eff in a public an-nouncement in the evening papers.
FOREIGN.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austriaarrived in St. Petersburg, Russia, andwas the recipient of many honors.
Belgium, Germany and Switzerlandhave indicated their objection to thepreferences of Great Britain in the newCanadian tariff.
Captain-General Weyler returnedT-om Clara to Havana. It is reportedthe number of insurgents submittingto Spanish authority is increasingdaily.
Prince Louis William August ofBaden, brother of the Grand Duke ofBaden, ts dead in Carlsrube. He wasT âovn 1863 was married to theDuchess of Louchtonberg.
Expert have determined that the ex-plosion in the London undergroundrailway, by which one person waskilled and many maimed. wr as causedby a high explosive placed in one ofthe cars.
~ ' Creina Blanche, Bruce Baro-ness Aberdare, widow of the firstBaron Aberdare died in England. Shewas a daughter of the late Gen. SirM illiam Francis Patrick Napier K CB.
NANCY NEWKIRKEâS DIMPLE.
Nancy Newkirks, the young societvgirl whose debut last week in Philadel-phia was made under such advan-tageous circumstancesâshe receivednine bouquets, one basket and a wreathfrom her erstwhile social companionsâ-has a dimple on her right cheek forwhich nature disavows responsibility,for when dainty Miss Newkirke firstopened her wondering eyes on thiswicked wond. just 21 years ago. therewasn't a vestige of a dimple on eithercheek. That was her debut on theworldâs big stage and dimples werenâtneeded at that time. But winter beforelast Miss Newkirke went out sleighingwith a party of ten young folks, chap-eroned, of course, as was the properthing. In the West Park, Philadel
phia. the horses took affright, thesleigh upset and ten young people wereprecipitately and unceremoniouslydumped earthward. Everybody wason his or her feet in a few minutesâ
all except Miss Newkirke. A twenty-minute search, and at the bottom ofthe embankment, unconscious on theice of the river. Miss Newkirke wasfound. She had rolled down the em-bankment, her face was covered withblood that had congealed, and she layin a heap, one mass of bruises. In anhour Miss Newkirke was brought hemeand doctors summoned. A twig hadfrozen against her right cheek, a litreknot of the twig having dug into a lit-tle point in a place where d:mples areusually worn. For six weeks MissNewkirke lay in bed sufferingbruises and shock, and when she goup again she had a full-fledged dimple.It seems that the twig had dug intoMiss Newkirkeâs cheek as she rolleddewn hill, and bad severed a smallmuscle in the right cheek. The resultwas a drawing together of the flesh at
that point, and an artificial dimple thateven a connoisseur could not mil fromthe real, natural article was the out-come. But there are not many girlsv. ho would care to undergo the sameexperience as did Nancy Newkirke justto have a naughty little dimple in hercheek.
A PARIS ELECTRIC CARRIAGE.
The Force is Stored by a Battery ofAccumulatorsâ-A Successful Trial.
The European edition of the NewYork Herald, December 12, containedthe following;
Quite a number of well-known ama-teurs of automobile carriages, includ-ing the Prince de Sagan, Mr. WilliamG. Tiffany and Mr. Thorne, were pres-ent yesterday afternoon at the ateliersBelvaiette, in the Rue Duret, to seethe new electric coupe invented by M.A Darracq. The copue resembles thefashionable coupes turned out by thebest Parisian makers, and has none ofthe unfinished appearance of the usualrun of automobile vehicles. There isa seat at the back of the coupe for theengineer, so that those seated insidethe coupe have an entirely unob-structed view. The motor consists ofan electric dynamo, and the force isstored by a battery of accumulators.The steering is effected by the frontwheels, moved by a wheel at the en-gineerâs seat. The brake is applied inthe same manner. The inflated Indiarubber tires make the coupe runsmoothly. The force stored by the ac-cumulators is sufficient to accomplishseventy-five kilometres on an ordinaryroad, at a speed of from fifteen totwenty kilometres ait hour.
The coupe invented by M. Darracq isintended for use in the crowded streetsof Paris, and electricity, givng neithersmoke or smell, seemse for this purposedecidedly preferable to steam or petro-leum, provided the power and effi-ciency are equal. M. Darracqâs calcula-tions show that the eleerrie coupe, foruse in Paris, realizes an economy of40 per cent, as compared with the useof a coupe drawn by a horse. Theaccumulators weigh about 400 kilo-grammes. This, of course is a veryheavy dead weight to carry about, es-
; pecially when it is remembered thatian average mail eoa.ch weighs 2,400pounds, or 1,089 kilogrammes. How-ever, M. Darracq is convinced that thisweight is much more than compensatedfor by the stored force which enablesthis neat and smart-looking coupe tobe moved at a rapid pace and with ex-traordinary facility of steering, andwithout smoke or smell and with com-paratively little noise, through thecrowded streets of Paris.
The coupe was successfully triedyesterday afternoon, and a Herald re-porter who sat on it was driven, orrather âmotored,â about in the RueDuret for a few minutes and found itvery comfortable. The coupe inns
most smoothly.
OCCUPATIONS FOR CHILDREN.
Necessity of Keeping Young MindsEmployed Fully Recognized.
The parents of the present day ap-preciate far more than did those ofprevious generations the desirabilityand importance of supplying occupa-tions of an agreeable and interestingsort for young minds and fingers. Ifthere is one thing that makes a childmore unhappy than another, it is hav-ing nothing to do. Last winter a num-ber of fashionable mothers started aclass in carpentry for their small sons,ranging in age from 5 to 10 years.It was under the care of a competentinstructor, and each boy had his owncomplete set of tools, of which it didnet take him long to learn to use.
Another class of little hoys is given'a weekly lesson, in modeling in clay,which the members find exceedinglyinteresting.
Embroidery, millinery and dress-making are among the occupations pro-vided for the modem little girl. Atone of the latter each make a completeset of garments for a doll. Indepen-dent reading classes are becoming moreand move popular among girls of allages. The members meet in theautumn, when each one pays a smallsum to the treasurer, and signs a paperagreeing to devote one hour daily tosolid reading. In the spring they meetagain, and each member hands in alist of the books she has read duringthe winter. These are read aloud andvoted upon the one that is most gen-erally approved receiving a prize, whichis bought with the money paid in fordues.âExchange.
A HANDY REFERENCE.
A bit of slate with pencil attached bya string or some neat slips of paperwith a lead pencil similarly attachedhung on the kitchen wall near theworn table will save a housekeepertime and wory. Jot down on them thethings that are needed from town, the
I little odds and ends that are to be doneduring the day. and that so easily slipyour mind when you have not time todo them as soon as they suggestthemselves to y#ur mind.
When a widow gets to heaven thefirst thing she will ask is what the menangels like best to eat.âNew YorkPress.
A GLOOMY OUTLOOKTRADE IS BAD AND PROMISES TO
- BE WORSE.
PRICES TAKE A TUMBLE
Prospects ot Speedy Peace la EuropeArtec: the Grain MarketâFailuresHold Their OwnâBank ClearingsFali Off Over Three Per Cent. â
Latest Trade Reports.
New York, May 1. âR. G. Dun &
Co.' weekly trade statement says: âinspite o: tne moderate improvement inmost of the great industries, businessis disappointing. Expectations of aspeedy end of the war in Europethrough Turkish victories has helpedto depress grain. The demands inAustria and China caused exports of$6,500,000 in gold. Merchandise im-ports are greatly increased and final ac-tion of congress on the revenue ques-tion seems more remote. Wheat roselast Saturday nearly two cents, buthas fallen since that day about 5 cents.This is largely because the Europeanmarkets did not supply the expectedi nnand, and because events have ap-peared foreshadowing speedy peace;tidings from wheat growing states andreceipts from farms and enormous ex-ports of corn, however, all had theirinfluence. Corn exports were 13,250,-000 bushels for the past four weeks,against 4.497. ocq last year; while theAtlantic exports of wheat in the sameweeks (flour included) were only 4,231,-000 bushels, against 4.597,000 last year.Nor is this surprising; for, if in use twobushels of corn only equal one bushelof wheat, two bushels of corn wouldcost about 60 cents, and one bushel ofwheat nearly 80 cents. Exports ofgold would not have much influence ifthere were not on extraordinary in-crease in merchandise imports andsome decrease in exports from NewYork. Imports increased 60 per cent,ever last year for the week and for fourweeks -were 30 per cent, greater. AtBoston imports of wool were extraor-dinary and at Philadelphia theyamounted for the month to $1,278,000.The thought that this abnormal in-crease may continue as long as actionon the revenue bill is deferred, tendsto affect exchange, but the main in-fluence is the exceptional demand fora reconstruction of the Austrian mon-etary system and for Japan. Of thegreat industries, iron and steel manu-facture is slower in advancing now, asit was much quicker in the winter.Prices of Mesaba ore have not yet been{stablished, though ore better thanfayal has been sold at $2.45 to $2.50and pig is weaker. Bessemer is $9.50,with one sale of 2,000 tons at $9.25 atPittsburg, and grey forge at $8..50.Nails are about 5 cents per keg lowerend tin plates 5 cents per box. Aheavy sale of lake rapper is reported at11 cents, and lead is a trifle weaker.There is more business in cotton andv. nolen goods and a little better tonein prices. The mills are rather betteremployed.â
Failures in the United State- for theweek were 237 against 238 last year.
Bradstreetsâ weekly trade statementsays: âThe more conspicuous featuresof trade are less satisfactory. Includingmoderate reactions in the prices ofstaples, a falling off in the volume o?transactions in various lines, continuedslow collections and less favorable con-ditions in iron, steel, cotton and someother industries. There is less demandfor staple varieties of iron and steel-makers are reporting trouble in secur-ing specifications for contracts on hand.Southern pig iron has secured lowerrailroad rates to points west of Pitts-burg and Buffalo, all of which savinghas been given to the purchaser. Theoutlook is for shutting down some fur-naces in the Pittsburg district. Salesof wool have declined sharply tut re-ceipts of foreign stock bought up weeksago make a fair total. Nearly a yearâssupply has been imported during thefirst four months of this year. Themovement of cotton is slow and pricesare low, buyers purchasing large lotsonly where tempting inducements areoffered. Woolen manufacturers arefairly supplied with orders, and areinclined to ask an advance on new bus-iness. The three monthsâ restrictionon the output in cotton goods has end- ,<h! and the mills now run on full time..The only advance on. general recog-nized conditions are those of pork and i(otton. Higher prices for woolens isan effort to anticipate the tariff. Ex-perts of wheat (flour included) fromboth coasts of the United States were1.159.000 bushels this week, against 1,- 1200.000 bushels the same week a yearago. Exports of Indian corn havealso fallen off this week, amounting to3.057.0Q0 bushels. ag-Unst 4.709,000 lastMeek.â
The total bank clearings of the prin-cipal cities in the United States forthe week were $855,506,196, a decreaseof 3.3 per cent, compared with the cor-responding week last year.
FINISH OF THE MARATHON RUN.
Won by a Greek Amid Great National |Joy,
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Shortly after half-past four a can-non-shot, the signal that the leading irunner was approaching, electrified ;the mass. The pole-vaulting could inot go on. After a while a man wear-;ing the Greek colors, light blue andwhite, was seen struggling toward theStadion amid the yelis of myiiads ofthroats, âEileen! Eileen!â (a Greek!a Greek!), and as he made his waythrough the Stadion the crowd went7nad for joy. The stalwart ci'ownprince, the president of the games,and the still more stalwart PrinceGeorge, the referee, led, or rather al-most carried, this victor before theroyal seat in the Sphendone, and theusually quiet king himself had mean-while nearly ripped off the visor of hisnaval uniform cap in waving it wildly iin the air. Pity it would have been jhad a foreigner won this race! None ;felt this more keenly than the foreign ;athletes themselves. All who we: e'present will remember the commotion j
of the crowd in the Stadion in that mo-ment of victory as one of the greatestscenes cf their lives. In the gentlelight of the sun of Attica as it in-clines toward the horizon, a light notknown elsewhere in the world, themagnificent gift of Averoff, the newStadionâand yet the oldâreceives itsreal dedication. Athletics werecrowned in it as never before in mod-em times. Here was inspiration for apainter.
The one coveted honor of the gameswas fairly won by the Greeks, and heldaimest beyond the reach of envy.Shortly after the winner's arrival cametwo other Greeks, and then a Hungar-ian. The next five in order were alsoGreeks. It was a Greek victory witha vengeance.
The winner, who accomplished therun in the remarkably short time oftwo hours fifty-eight minutes and fiftyseconds, is Spyridion Loues, a weii-tc-do farmer, twenty-four years old, fromMarousi. a village on the road fromAthens to Kephissia, and near to theUtter place. He was one of the latestentries for the race. Just before goingout to Marathon on Friday he is saidto have taken the sacrament from thepriest of his native village, saying thathe wished to invoke the air of heavenin his great struggle.âFrom The NewOlympian Games, by Rufus B. Rich-ardson in September Scribnerâs.
BRANDED IN A LODGE ROOM.
Orangemen Fined for Cruelty in TheirCeremonies of Initiation.
One of the strangest cases ever triedin the district court came up thismorning before Judge Enos F. Lucewhen an alleged expose was made un-der oath upon the witness stand of therites and ordeals through which a can-didate must pass to become a full-lledged Orangeman. Six members ofthe Orange lodge here were arrestedfor assault on Frank A. Preble daringinitiation. They were John G. Graham,G. O. Nickerson, Edward O'Neil,Daniel Tracey, Leander Weatherbeo,and Wilfred Mabie.
Preble was the first witness. It wason the evening of July 25, 1896, thathe received his initiatory degree. Heswore that his troubles began th*- min-ute tha; he passed ttm âmystic por-tals.â He was compelled to discardall raiment except his underwear. Onearm was stripped of its sleeve. He wasmade to wear a pair of overalls, whichwere rolled above his knees. Then hewas blindfolded and led into the largerlodge room by Daniel Tracey andWilliam Mabie, who acted as conduc-tors.
There he was compelled to halt andget down upon his knees ard repeatthe Lordâs prayer. Then he had toclamber over a lot of rough blocks,was struck severely with whips, andfinally posed upon what seemed to hima stepladder. An obi ! ~Y?on was im-posed, after which the ladder was sud-dently pulled from under him and hewas pitched into a canvas blanket, inwhich he was bounced around for awhile. Then he was placed on hisknees again, and several people, hesays, literally âgave it to him in theneck.â Some more marching followed,and he was made to carry what feltlike a bag o' rocks.
Finally Mabie told him to raise hishand and try to find âthe serpent.âBrother Graham then cried. âYou didnot find it, but it found you,â and then,he says, a branding iron was appliedtwice to his breast. After that he wasseated and the rest was easy. Hetalked with Mr. Nicholson, anothermember, the next night, and bothagreed that he had been cruelly treat-ed. Nicholson said the abuse he re-ceived was contrary to the ritual of theerder. Nicholson also told him thatr.he branding was not in the ritual, andthat he ought to have some compensa-tion for what he had suffered.
The witnessâ breast was badly burn-ed, and the wounds were raw for tendays. His legs were discolored fromthe violence of some of the blows hereceived from the whisp. The onlytime he protested was while they wereremoving his clothing. He had beenadvised to call upon Secretary Ray ofthe supreme order and enter a formalcomplaint.
Edward Arch said he had witnessedPrebleâs ordeal. Tracey and Mabieguarded the candidate. O'Neil heatedthe branding iron and Graham appliedit. Nickerson had objected that theiron was too hot, but OâNeil heated itfurther and said they would give thecandidate a âdâand good roast.â Archhad not interfered to protect Preblebecause he knew it would do no good.His own legs were whipped harderthan Prebleâs had been, but his ownback had escaped more lightly.
Both men were able to work nextday. Arch had delayed his appeal tothe courts in order to give the Orange-men an opportunity to appoint an in-vestigating committee; and he deniedthat he had offered to drop the case ifthe lodge would pay him SSO, neitherhad he authorized any person to makesuch an offer to him. Arch had ob-jected twice during the initiation, butit had done no good. He only had onebrand, and that was about the size ofa half dollar.
No evidence was put in for the de-fense. hut council argued that no proofhad been given that any departurehad been made from the regular formof initiation sufficient to constitute anassault. Preble having applied for in-itiation and having been willing toabide by the consequences, no crimehad been committed, and counsel askedthat the lodge be discharged as notguilty.
Judge Luce, in his decision, fined sixofficers of the lodce $35 each. The menappealed.âWaltham (Mass.) Corres-pondence New York.
GET BACK TO WASHINGTON.
, iVive President and Part of Cabinet |
Return to Federal Capital.
Washington, April 29.âVice Presi- ident Hobart, Secretary Sherman, Post-master General Gar?', Attorney GeneralMcKenna, Secretary Wilson, BritishAmbassador Pauncefote, French Am-bassador Patenotre and about 25 other !diplomats, and the committees of the jsenate and house, returned yesterday :fiom New York. President McKinley âwill return today.
'ÂŁ49f'Mo-U(r 725 L Xi probably prove more beneficial than
j either of the two sports named, for! in one of them the danger to life and
i limb is great, while the other is prac-{ ideally restricted ro a chosen few. Ju-
! diciousiy followed, a systematic at-
â tempt to strengthen every one of thei hundred of little and big muscles inthe body can have but one result, andthat is, improvement of the physicalstructure. As all of the big collegesnave experienced men in charge ofthe gymnastic departments the danger
of over-muscleing the body is insig-nificant.
The two great strong men of thecollegiate world today are ArthurLovering, of Harvard, and CharlesChadwick, of Yale. C. S. Verrille is
| also one of the very strong men ofYale, and it is almost a dead heat be-tween him and Chadwick for firstplace. Princeton has several aspir-ants for the title of strong man, butnone of them approach the records ofLovering or the Yale men. But thereis a quantity of excellent material inthe New Jersey college; it only needsscientific development.
Hovering, of Harvard, has a recordcf 1,660 points, and Chadwickâs bestrecord is 1,638 points. Avery smallimprovement on the part of the Yaleman would send his total up to that ofhis rival, as the method of computingthe points is such, that a slight differ-ence between two contestants makes a
slightly forward, in order to pull up onthe chain to the best advantage. The
muscles called into action are primar
ily those of the back, but the shouldersbiceps and forearm also bear thestrain.
Lovering has lifted as high askilogrammes, or 926 pounds. Thiswas not an official trial, however, his
best being 410 kilogrammes.On the lift the candidate assumes
a different position, bending the kneesand gripping the handles at a heightslightly above the knee, the chain pass-ing between the knees. In the testall the muscles used in the back liftare employed, and the extension mus-cles of the legâhips, thigh, calf andfoot ââare called into action, as well as
the muscles forming the side walls ofthe abdomen. With this reinforcementof the hack muscles, much heavierlifting is done.
The grip of the hand test is simplymaue by squeezing a hand dynomome-ter. Both hands are tested and an av-erage struck. Often there is t. differ-ence of twenty points between the twohands, the right, of course, being thestronger.
The shoulder and arm tests are fa-
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miliar to all school boys. The candi-date first âdipsâ as many times as pos-sible on the parallel bars, alternatelylowering and raising the body. After-ward he grips two hanging rings andâąalternately raises and lowers his bodyby his arms, bringing his chin eachtime to a level with Ihe rings. Thisfeat, when performed on a horizontalbar is a familiar form of exercise, butbecomes much harder when executedon hanging rings. The two exercisesare selected to call into play comple-
STRONG MEN TESTS'NEW INTSROOLEGIATE COMPETI-
TION MAY BF ESTABLISHED.
I HOW POINTS ARE FIGURED
I The Lungs, Back, Legs, H*nds, Shoul-ders and Uppe;- Arms and ForearmsAre Tested anc the Faints Made To-taled. 400 Points Make a Good Aver- Iage.
New York, May 2.âWithin a shorttime it is quite probable that anew in-
i tercollegiate competition will be estab-lished. Already there is talk of ameeting between the strong men ofYale, Harvard and Princeton to de-cide the much discussed question asto which of the colleges has the chain-
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pion strong man. If such a meetingtakes place, the defeated âvarsities wiLexpect to be given a chance of revengethe following year, and, once thestrong man rivalry is begun, it willcertainly assume equal importancewith the annual rowing race and thefootball game.
What is more, such a rivalry would
seemingly wide difference in the scores.Should the strong men of the col-
leges meet, the test would be on thelines marked out by Dr. Dudley A.Sargent, the director of the physicalculture department, of Harvard. Since1*79. Dr. Sargent has made a study ofthe best systems for completely test-ing the strength of the human body; infact he began the study long before1579, as in that year ha established his
famous system and it has since bee trecognized as the standard.
This system calls for but six tcsbs;namely, the lungs, grip of the hands,"he strength of the back, the strengthof the legs, the forearm and the shoul-ders. In making the test the athleteis nor. allowed to rest between times.He must take up one test afteranother without any intermission, sothat the muscles will not have a chanceto recuperate .
The first step is the âlung test,âwhich is directed to ascertain the pow-er of the expiratory musclesânot thecapacity of the lungs. In making thistest a manometer is used, and the can-didate is required to exhaust his lungswith all the force that he can commandinto the manometer through a rubbertube. A dial connected with the mano-
I mentary muscles, the one being a push-I ing up of the body, the o'her a pulling
up of the body.The points made in these tests are
figured in this way. The contestantâs; weight in kilogrammes is divided by| ten and then multiplied by the numberof times he raises himself on the rings
â and the bars. For instance, if heI weighed 70 kilos and raised himselften times, the score would be 70. The
; reason of this system of figuring is! that a man weighing 190 pounds isheavily handicapped against a manweighing 140 pounds. The greatestâdipperâ on record was 3. L. Foster, aformer strong man, who went up anddown between the bars 68 times. Theman out of training who tries to raiseand lower himself once, has a terribletime and the average athlete cannotdo it more than six or eight times.
To fully appreciate what a score of1,600 points means, it should be knownthat 400 points is a good average.Candidates for the baseball and la-crosse teams ere only required tomake 500 points, and candidates forthe crew and eleven are expected tomake 700 points and a great many areturned aside because of their inabilityto attain these figures.
meter registers the amount of forcewith which the candidate can blow,and he is compelled to continue thepressure until the hand on the dialcomes to a rest, showing the power ofhis expiratory muscles to hold airagainst pressure. The place at whichthe index finally rests is taken in com-puting the strength tests.
A record of 20 is considered to befair in the lung test, although Lover-ing has held the index at 3S and by asudden blow has scored as high as 50.
The back lift is made with the legsstraight, the body being projected
