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, ,••••••••• RODE MANY MILES. TRANSCONTINENTAL CYCLING RECORDS .BADLY teitowent. • Also [be limoord Viet woes N,.,. 1 ork end ChIr• E Forty- PA K h t Daye PO EL sleet/ \VI. LAI. from Inle•go •Cha Kowloon ALF a dozen tired at n d travel -stained wheelmen rode up to the Astor New 'York, the other .morning. It shit Oat lake them long to get into bed, (07 they were sadly in need of sleep, has log traveled 150 from Scran- ton, Pa., In About sixteen hours. Their route lay over the Peconl mountains, along the roughest roads, and the time in which they cov- ered the distance broke all previous records. Two of the six cyders are noted long-distance riders, and the miles from Scranton down were the last of a ithousand-mile ride for one and of a 4.500 -mile journey for the other. The cyclist who came the longest distance is Merton Duxbury, an old Providence, R. 1., boy, and latterly of the Olympic A. C. of San Francisco. It was from San Francisco that Duxbury bad just come, and he traversed the dis- tance in the record -breaking time of forty,eigbt days and eighteen hours, bettering all previous aiiitt mpt:t by ten days and seventeen hours. lie had a number of notabLe adventures on his way east, and at one time came very near losing his life. To begin with, Iluxbury\ started for San Francis.* from Providence on April 2, and, riding leisurely, reached the Golden Gate on July a. In less than three weeks he was ready to return to the east, with the avowed intention of breaking tile eontineatal record of fifty-nine (lass and eleven hours, lie started from sFrieco\ on July 28, ac- eompanied out of the city by a large body of wheelmen, chief among shorn Was T. R. Lillie, the holder of the con- tinental record. Lillie remained with Duxbury entil the 150 miles to Sacra - al F.:11TON DIS X BURY. JaPlItO -had been covered. Then the latter continued on his jotn•nes alone. He rode over six hundred miles on rail- road tracks. • After leavintelriaenver he had the mountains to tras el through. Ile spent HPV era! nights in the moan- tains, camping out by himself. and also made his bed on the Great American Desert night after night: It was in many respects a lonely ride. He fell in with a number of harmless Indians. and on one orhaeion taught one of the red men to ride ale wheel. the brave proving a very apt pupil. One night was spent stS Buffalo Bill's ranch' and another at Cripple Creek. Al Chillicothe. lii.. Duxbury fell from the trestle bridge and, though badly ithakeri up, was fortunately gninjored. iLls wheel, etrangely iefla at broken. 'lluxhury rode in an ordinary bicycle suit of corduroy. ale wore a 'sweater witi l the se . inged emblem of the Olym- pic A. e. on the front, and a cloth cap with a long peak. At Ilasnelisville an enterprising 'merchant with the ad% er- tieing faculty greatly developed gave Duxbury $5 for his bicycle trousers anti furnished him with a nevi pair of cloth knickerbockers. The merchant hung the trousers in his window, and Dux - bury says that it was hinny to see the erowd that they attracted. Inixteiry was greatly benefited by his trip. and • . gained seventeen pounds since leaving California. At Nicholeon, Pa.. Diiiihury was &t e' joined by Robert P. Searle, who was making au attempt to break the time teems) trent t'bitago to New loo - attempt wee iniVeorste. ... The Scitsin ihtte Bits \ for when ..ew York with Linz- In1.0 four other cyclists at 3:30 e. a tn. he had completed the 1.011 Mlles ' MISS MARION CAPWELL-. • a, twenty-three hones are reonisites of %inning tenniis, In her Intl fifteen minutes, thus breaking the extimatiOn, iIss Caporell le aecoin- i - rentard held by J Wolf of Chicago b nilati , ..\ in music and art, and is a VPI - - WV' helve and teen minutes. Searle hliVrted from Oblealgo at II% 1 % , 22. With him Wag) s r Peck tmt ihe Lincoln Cycle t rif Chi- cago. of which. oronnizelion Searle is aliesa tosmber. TOP tan rode togeth er lie stopped at 'Erie after leaving Cleveland, and then at Welleville. Bingltamion and Scranton. At Scranton Frank Leonard and George Witness of the Scranton Cycle club met Searle and Duxbury, who had come to- gether at Nicholson, thirty miles the other side of Scranton. The party left - Scranton at 830 a. m. fa - idea, Sept 11. At Strasburg they were joined by Ted Appley and Newton It. White, ec'l- known cyclists. The :route thgt the cyclists took through Southern New York Wall a new one, this being t he that time that it has been traveled by wheelmen. Searin's -coining had been heralded at all the towns along the smite, and at every one of them he was enthusiastic ally greeted. At Salamanca,, James- town and other places, fireworks Lo- ured In the greeting. Searle is a tall man of powerful build. The way that he carries him- self and tbe slouch hat that he wears R. P. SEARLE. gives him the appearance of a cowboy. On his ride he wore full tights, as he considers the regulation bicycle snit too heavy for comfort. This month Searle will go to laauisville to break the twenty-four hour record of S9.1 miles held by 'lomat. the Frenchman. In this attempt he will use a scorcher geared to ninety-two with a seen an a quarter inch crank. MISS MARION CAPWELL. Par.eit Tevaili• Cleinikisilti. In a Recent Ionrnament. The title of woman tennis champion of Chicago restsav ell upon Miss Marlon Capwell, of the Windermere Tennis Club, and will remain her undisputed property until next season, when a small army of feminine rocket -swing- ers will undoubtedly attempt the diffi- cult feat of wresting it from her, says Chicago Post. Miss Capwell haft been the heroine of a score of tourneys, in- variable finishing with more honors than a representative of her sex gener- ally secures in hard-fought sets. But her greatest triumph came at the con- clusion of the recent women's tourna- ment at the Kenwood Country Club. In the final round of the tourney, when she defeated Miss Carrie Neely in a contest remarkable for its closeness and marked by superior playing, an en- thusiastic crowd of spectators greeted her as champion. Such good players as Miss Clops, Miss Hew and Miss Faulk- ner fell before Miss Capeella prowess in the Kenwood matches. Particularly watt this gratifying to the woman cham- pion. as her first and only serious defeat was that administered at a Windermere tourney by Miss elites. Those who are acquainted with Miss capviell declare that she is capable of many more ten- nis ((wig:tests. She plays the game as she does everything requIriug effort -- With her entire store of vim and cour- age, making her an almost irresistible opponent. She is a pronounced bru- nette. small of stature, but extremely well -knitted In frame, thus securing a natural advantage over many players of her sex. Muscular effort in the courts does not appear to tire the young lady. She attributes some of her successes not especially to her superiority over op- ponents', but rather to her easy manner of playing and her entire control of her actions. PseeenCe Of Wind, a nen-k iii' elition sea the 1,n k of gelleralsjp as ter AP CIPVPIRTIti. k went along \to enable Searle in ride his wheel in asc SP11111` . 11 own, mhould break down. The letter's machine held out all right. hoe! ',rr TI1P first stop that Searle and leek made wax at La Porte. Ina . ninety-two mike (tom Chicago. Fur- ther on they stopped at !tooth Bend, Ind.; Bosh, O.; Fremont and clew - land. By the time that Cleveland was Yteclied ten hours' time had been lost be ing i heavy win's anti gevithly rose* VORNEtt OF , OiMITIES. . 41 410NIE QUEER AN S 'CURIOUS il-EA LURES OF' LIFE. Patile, bright and entertaining converra- tio n anet. She sap. etincated in a fennele academy and' °col -Weft a warm oiliee In the affection of her aequaintanesse Of her plans for next season neon, the courts the modest t hamploh cares to say but little. Hot she will tintioubteilly he prepared to defend the uitle so well P141110111 In the rerent tourney. ileel•ty In Newport frown---Itta•rhand Against. Bloomers A Maw WhoAlaimes to Have- Been the Haiabaad or lwen- ix/ \tame W 'I Ca,. reidtten• Wigge Would cot have the eoliths. to attend a door Rine Not uniese I were 'tine of the prineipals. Wig- Wiry not e spectator' }liege I notived that . tfir PrInciPala are the only Olftflt mho.P.te ahrolutels safe on (thew eeraeiene. anInistertng otheiel &gide, and an an audible (tone , \ *Sautre, .1 am (happy to Antonia _yeti that this woman is tga , twertan-second wife, anti In ,a few .days will have my twenty-third in tow.\ Judge j lones was astonished. He hastily Informed the witnesses, and an InvethIgation was directed. Before age/ legal steps could be taken Barber and his wife had taken 1 , \seinc.11 leave for parts unknowe. 'ire, Barber, No. 21, Ls left in .a .destitute condition, keying O('IETY to New - neither money nor ti -leads. She sa) a port Town that her marriage was w mock affetts A funny thing it she , beIng under the iufluence of opiates One whooping, jolly .gala day tlf frolic, spirt anti fizz. 'I'he months may come, the nuentha znay go, But what moist puzzles me Is. Who comprise the swagger set In swell society? The Joneses 4 lunch the Greene and Smiths In a manner fitting queens; The Smiths then give a dinner to The Joneses and the Greens: The Greens then give an old -gold tea To Mesdames Smith and Jones. And that's what's called society Upon those gilded thrones. Society on Cherry Hill -- A funny thing it is. Not quite so bong -tong, to be sure; And beer instead of fizz: But, tell me what's the difference Between them? I can't see. 'Tit' nothing more than tweedie-dum Changed into tweedle-dee. This evening Mrs. Calahan Will rush the growler twicli For Mesdames MacAdoo and Toole— If she has got the price. To -morrow Mrs. Toole will send The other two a cake, Then Mrs. MacAdoo will hold Next Sunday night a wake. So Newport Town and Cherry Hill Are not so far apart In matters of \exeloosivenira If so in wealth and art. Go where you -will. the world is small. And each one thinks he's swell; But which is \the\ society 1 m dashed if I can tell! Riverhead Against Bloomers. The new woman finds very little sym- pathy In the moral village of River- head, L. I. The introduction of bloom- ers as a part of cycling vosturnes is largely responsible for the coldness manifested toward her, and any wheel - woman with the hardihood to appear on the streets with r abbreviated costume or divided skirts instantly feels the weight of public opinion. One wheelwoman. a stranger to Riverhead, received a se- vere shock through her progressiveness in dross, and her appearance furnished the eiderls• ladies of the village with a choice morsel of gossip. It was after the shades of night had fallen that the stranger was diecovered, and all agree that she rode her a heel with grace anti apparent comfort. These circumstances did not enter into the consideration of the women who object to such outfits. While gliding along a broad avenue the strange woman was actually hooted at by a party of women who oppose dress refill in. This started a general discus- sion of the matter, and the young Ornmen of the village took sides with the ei-lerly. One anti all agreed that the bloomer COBIIIIIIP was scandalous and should be prohibited in Riverhead. No dissenting voices were heard at the discussion, and bloomers received a set- back. The county seat of Suffolk coun- ty wanted no abbreviations in cycling costumes. and that settled it. \Bloomers! bloomers!\ shouted one of the indignant women; \well I guess not.\ The cry was echoed and re-eehoed, aad has become the argument of the objestors. This set the 200 women cy- clists of Riverhead thinking, and not IS! the la umber bee had the eourfige to non the garb of ',leis woman. Where the movement will end is agi- tating the girls s - ho seeretly eherish a wish that the ban Whitt be removed and that they might visit neighboring places equipped to enjoy a ruin with their sisters under the most favorable conditions. The idea that wheelworhen should be allowed to select their co.- Gime has taken root, and It jit possible that a dress reform orgaitizatiOn May spring up. It Is proposed to make the eaperiMent of sending Yttimg women .throUgh the streete attired in black bloolgtrts it r Otiii as a suitable night comes. If this can be done withoie. during the performance of the cere- mony, and that the official was an ins- poateus Her maiden name was 'Willy., and her home is in Marion county, Fla. She conies from respectable parents: Barber is; from Orange county, Fla., and romevvhere in the regions several Liv- its . , wives would like to hear from him Turning Deserted Houses Int. Brillion. Among the greatest mines of AriZ011a sac the Vulture. now the property of If A. W. Tabor, says a Phoenix special. It is fifteen miles southwest of Wick- enburg, whence the ores were taken by wagons to be milled on the bank of the historic Hassayarnpa. The mine pro- duced over $10,000,000 in gold, and the richest of the ore Wil8 found on the sur- face. Of course, in the early clays noth- ing save the best was milled, and in the' gr at waste dumps around the mine was found the building material for the town of Vulture. The mine worked oa for tt score of years with varying for- tune, the town maintaining a large population, when the pipe line from the Hassayampa was washed away by the flood that followed the breaking of the Walnut Grove damn, the 100 -stamp mill was closed down, and the camp was de- serted. Three years ago T. E. Fetish, the well-known miner, secured a two years' lease of the property, fitted up ten of the stamps, put in a gasoline en- gine, got his water out of the mine, and started to \cayoting\ on the lower levels. Near the end of his lease he ran out of really good ore. In his ex- tremity he bethought himself of the scores of tenantlees houses. Every one was constructed of free milling iron oxide gold ore, and specimens chipped from the ((corners assayed an average of $20 to the ton. The last three months his stamp mill ran solely upon build- ing material, much to the profit of Its awnes. Mysteries of the Lunar Ertimm. Careful observation of the recent lunar eclipse tended to show that the test proposed to determine whether the moon was partly illuminated during totality by the radiation of absorbed sunlight was insufficient to determine the extent and character of such radia- tion. Fifteen or twenty minutes after totality the illumination of the crescent of the new moon, or the moon's western rim. with a bluish white light, seemed to indicate that this portion. long in the sitn•s rays, was throwing off absorbed sunlight, anti was, therefore, mueh brighter than the rest of the moon which had received leas, and was of a faintly reddish hue. At that time the northeastern quadrant was i•ompara- tively dark. While the western rim was undoubtedly brighter than any other portion of the moon daring to- tality, it could not well be compared with the light which appeared on the eastern rim toward the close of the total phase. It was apparent that the moon during totality passed through a hollow cone of bluish white light, Dur- WICKES, ing the middle of the eclipse the moon bareiy touched the ring of bluish light, and was of a reddieh color. Poseibly this reddish appearance when the moon was near the middle of the hollow cone of bluish light was from radiation of alimorbed light, but another ex- planation is that the light within the ring hail been reddened by refraction through the lower' stratum of our at- mosphere. A well-defined bluish band, in advance of a field of red light, was a feature of the earth's shadow as it ad- vanced upon the Illuminated portion of the moon. This band would indicate . sasene stretthestiee of our stmospliere, if he color came from refracted eartlight. It was in this bluish hand that the west- ern rim shone brightly at tits beginning of t d the close he total phase It lmb, Lowest Prices for Cash. towar of totality. and later the easterni would seem that total eclipses of the moon ought to be studied with the i•eateet ears, faS the purpose of gain- ing further knowledge of the earth's atmosphere. The phenomena of the moon's eclipse have not yet betel stint- ciently explained, and nfireftil ins i d e for a series of years IS needed In deter- mine the nsealtas cif Isnnte Of the appear. ances_dsaing • . • -_ _ i Cle t. THE I IINT Wee Imported And Domestic Liquors, Wines, Cigars \ d , Ililwaukee and St. Louis Bottled Beers. , , i , 1 4 , The Anheuser-Busch Celebrated BEST IN THE \Premium On Draught, WORLD. Pale\ , i I 1 SPARLING Wickes, Proprietors, & SCHARF - - Montana. ---- J. W. 11#ZONAHAN, — MONTANA. PEALLR IN Hay, Grain, Flour, Rolled Oats, Corn Meal, FRYE F - L_CDUFZ. bringing the cyclist into contempt, the. StIb.n mars W•• Inhabited. day will be won. ....-le 'Cliere are many reasons in favor of -- -- a , ....- - .. ....t She sapposition that Mars is more like - He Has liiiii ea %v a es, IV to have been inhabited In t ast ages J. Es Barber tenni OS Sieheiss, 'In Montgomery entint S. alioni P “tratr 'ego, with a haroisiome young PiOrtfij o n and baby wheen he claimed aekie'velfe anti says a Dublin...1hr, enerial. Ile elm* well recohttilehtIOValul procured employment RN lifie 4 161110 h. AS soon as imia Iiiisinees becanielHirnewhat monoto- etOns n'arfie here; end, in company' . with &Otter 'Man, embarked in the %dere) stave bitsinese. • The wor k tiiankl.profitable. While here he via - the hotiee of sin 0111 woman named ttray. The household oonsisted of the mother anti four daughter.. Barber's visits were quite freenent. Ile at once ante infd tinted with one of the women. Nlis IIett ui a,, a bu xom young widow, and the love sae recipro- cated, Barber ;taking her han 1 in mar- riage. To -day a large erne .1 f s pecie tors assembled at the Gra% . e mirate gone. and witnettend the nuptial , - tiquIre Jamest Jones performed the ,eremony Al! widows heti to near mourning As soon as the contracting palates write raps in the (lave of Tibersie, under made trap and swqe. ;tallier railed the Penalty of fine see trept ieonment. that at the present time, In spite of its atmosphere, or water, or clouds. Mr. Proctor, for instance. has pointed out that a globe of the size of Mars would cool rather more than two and a half times as unickly as one the size of the earth. If the earth and \tars 0 - ere In a almilar condition 001,0,000 of years ago. Mare woeld have attained (accord- ing to that rate of cooling) to the earth's present condition in 7,000,000 years, I. e., 11.000,000 years ago; and the earth would now reunite 28.000.000 future years in a h1(11 to cool as notch as Mars has cooled during the last 11.- 000,0041 years. So far as i egard• that ooushle,„ation, therefore. the Koh:dull its of the present habitability of Mats mug ( sompered with the probabli ity of the earth's being inhabited when 28.000,0 0 0 more yPill'4 Will he past a nd DEAN & TAYLOR, Wholesale and Pet.iil I)calets in Beef, Mutton, Pork, Hams, Bacon ; AND MONTANA LARD. Wickes, 1V fi fo V 5. I
