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INTEREsTEii TIN GOLF "
The Game Now Has Hundreds of la-
' fluential Supporters. ‘
United States- Golf Association Organ-
ized for the Purpose of Conduct-
ing Big Championship Tourn-
nmc:1~:s-Its~ Officers.
W. B. Thomas, the new'treasurer oi
the sugar trust, who 'was elected to that
office upon the retirement of'John E.
Searles, has just had additional honors
thrust upon him in his recent election
to the presidency of the United States
Golf association. The annual meeting,
which was lately held at Sherry’s, in
New York, settled many questions oi
important. golfing interest, and chose
its officers for the coming year.
In this latter respect the most notice-
able change was the choice of Mr.
Thomas as the new president. His
.. home is in Boston, but his business in-
terests frequently bring him to New
York, and he is well known by the golf-
ing fraternity there. He is a popular
and genial clubman, a member of many
" golf and other clubs in Boston and its
vicinity, and was one of the first Bos-
tonians to take up the game, where he
has played :«for the Brookline Country
club in many lively team matches. He
has never made any pretensions to be-
come what is popularly known as a
“crack” player, but has always taken a
deep interest in the game, understands
its needs thoroughly, and by those who
have come in closecont-act with him
* 'is said to be an ideal man for president
of America’s golfing body.
The other officers who were elected at
' the same time are: Vice presidents—-
Ransom H. Thomas, of the Morris Coun-
ty Golf club, Morristown, N. J., and H.
J. Whigam of the Onwe’ntsia Golf club,
near' Chicago; secretary, Robert B.
Kerr, of the Lakewood (N. J.) G011
club; treasurer—George D. Fowle, oi
the Philadelphia Country club; addi-
tional members of the executive com-
mittee—John Reid, of the St. Andrew’s
Golf club, and A. M. Coats, of. the N ew-
port Golf club.
There have beenithree changes in the
official list from last year,'says the New
(The New President of the United State
Golf Association.)
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York Times. The former president,
Laurence Curtis, of Boston, who has
occupied the place since the death of
Theodore A. Havemeyer, declined a re—
nomination. H. J. Whigham takes the
place of the well—known Chicago golfer,
Charles B. Macdonald, who was among
the organizers of the association and
has been on the executive board ever
since. He also declined a renomination.
A. M. Coats, the Newport golfer, who se-
cured one of the four championship
honors of the United States about two
years ago, will become a member of the
executive committee in place of Henry
May, of Washington, D. C. The other
four officers are all renominations.
The total membership of the United
States Golf association comprises 130
clubs. This represents the growth of
a little over four years. Of course there
_ are hundreds of other clubs in the coun—
try whieh are not included in the mem-
bership, but applications are constant-
ly coming in to the secretary. The
association was organized late in De-
cember, 1804, with five clubs. They
were the St. Andrew’s Golf club, the
.Chicago Golf club, the Country club of
Brookline, near Boston, the Newport
Golf club, and the Shi'nnecoek Hills Golf
club', of Southampton, L. 1.
1t conducts the big championship
tournaments of the United States,
which are the open competition, in one
sense the professional event, and the
amateur and the women's competitions.
The champions who won these events
last year are Frederick Herd, of the
Washington Park Golf club, Chicago,
who led all contestants in the open
event played at Myopia, near Boston;
Findlay S. Douglas, of the
County club, Greenwich, Conn.,
w h f)
Fairi‘icld ,
captured the highest honors in the aina- '
teur event at Morristown, N. J.., and
Miss Beatrix Hoyt, of the Shinnecoci;
Hills Golf club, who won for the third
successive year the women’s champiom
ship. played at Ardsley.
The intercollegiate golf champion-
ship should also be mentioned, which is
held under the auspices of its own asso-
ciation. Two of these events were
played during the year, as the time was
changed from the spring, when the
contest had been formerly held, to the
fall, and these college games will here-
after take place either in October or
November. The present intercollegiate
champion is John Reid, Jr., of Yale.
and the team championship is held by
Harvard. . ‘
New English Recruits.
’l‘hc'llliteracy of new recruits for the
English army is commented upon in the
report just published in London. Only
4.1. in 1,000 are well educated, and 18 are
utterly illiterate. Thirty-five per cent.
of‘ the applicants are rejected for phys-
icali disability. 'and this proportion is
said. to show a slight improvement over
former years..- .. .
. unknown. . ‘ .
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" sLACKs A1115 authors; ‘
'1‘th w-n Fight-Each Other Down in
I-Iayti and San Domingo. “’hen
They Run Things.
If President Simon Sam, of the black
republic of Hayti marches his guard
of the government out, composed of 650
men and headed by ten generals, to
,do battle with Gen. Ulysses Heureaux
'president of the mulatto republic 0'}
San Domingo, it will add only one more
war to the many which vexed the beau-
tiful island of Hayti since it was dis-
covered by Columbus in 1492.
Hayti was the first part of the new
-world colonized by Europeans; on the
island African slavery was first estabv
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PRESIDENT SIMON SA‘M.
.(Head of the Little Negro Republic
Hayti.)
,lished in this continent», and here also,
and chiefly by the instrumentality oi
:the blacks themselves, it was first abol-
‘ished. '
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The island is 400 miles long from east
{to west and about 160 miles wide. It
fcontains 31,000 square miles of terri-
3tory. Its scenery is most beautiful,
"and it presents almost every variety of
climate. .
The republic of San Domingo embrac-
es the eastern two-thirds of the is-
,land, though the population is mostly
confined to the eastern third. The
western third is the republic of Hayti.
Between the two republics a. bitter‘ani-
'mosity has always existed. The terris
ltory over which they are now fighting
is the central third of the island, nom-
iinally belonging to San Dominigo,
though practically uninhabited.
I Within the last century San Domingo
|has belonged successively to Spain,
.‘France, the Haytian empire, Colombia,
.Haytian republic and Spain again, and
Ehas been twice independent.
1 In 1804 the natives of Hayti, almost
fall blacks, successfully revolted against
iErance. They have been independent
ever since. At first they set up an em-
lpire, then monarchies, constitutional
republics, and a second empire in 1848.
:Of the 11 rulers of Hayti since its in-
dependence only one has escaped be-
ing shot or transported, and only two
have completed their terms of office.
» From Columbus down everyone who
has ever visited the island described i
it as naturally an earthly paradise.
THE HARP-O- CHORD.
A New Musical Contrivance “'hich -
' Is :1 Combination of Viind and
String instruments.
Carl Brown, a musical genius of Co-
lumbus, 0., has invented a strange new .
instrument, which he calls the “harp-o- .
chorr .”
It is one of the most unique instru- 1
ments of the present time and is the
first combination wind and string in-
strument of its kind in existence. It
consists of a high-grade cornct har- ,
‘monica or mouth harp and zither of
peculiar construction, strung in simple .
open chords.
In shape the instrument differs from -
any other, it having a large head, in
THE HARP-O-CHORD.
(New Instrument of Torture Invented by
an Ohio Man.)
which are set the tuning pins. The
sides gradually taper toward the lower
end, giving the sounding board a slant-
ing position.
At the upper end of one side of the
instrument, near the head, is a slot in
which the harmonica is inserted so that
.its tunes when played will enter di-
rectly into the body of the instrument
and emanate at the sound-hole under ;
the strings.
Concernihg a harmonica
of strings, changes the tone of the harp ,
and gives it exceptional volume and a
vibrpatory'cifect. .
The strings are arranged in simple
open chords. In practice the instru—
'ment is held vertically against the body,
the harmonica pressing the lips.
The air or tune is played upon the
harmonica and the chords upon the
strings with the thumb or a finger of
the right hand, producing exquisite
harmony. The tone of the mouth harp
is not only increased in volume, but pos-
sesses a richness and mellowness before
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sounding board over which are a series I
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The Famous W’estniinste'r Harmonie:
Are Rung in the Keney
Tower in Hartford.
The clock in the Keney Memorial
tower at Tunnel square has begun to
toll the hours, and the tubular chimes
which are eonnectod with the eleck
mark the quarter hours by repeating in
measures of four notes the famous
“Westminster Chimes.” '
The set in the Honey Tower, says the
Hartford Courant, is made up Of five
tubes which hang in a frame suspended.
by Manila tarred rope, and are struck
by hammers operated by clock work.
The, largest of the five tubes is 0 feet
8 inches in length and 5 inches in diam-
eter, weighs 230 pounds, and is keyed to
A natural. Tais tube is simply for the
' striking of the hour, and has nothing to
do with the production of the chime
music. The next smaller of the tubes
is four inches shorter and weighs 220
pounds. The key of it is B natural, and
it is the heaviest of the chimes. The
other three tubes are: E natural. 7 feet
8 inches, 180 pounds; F sharp, '7 feet,
160 pounds, and G sharp, 6 feet 8 inches,
140 pounds. '
The tubes are of soft brass and are
drawn in the usual manner by hydraul-
ic pressure, the tone being governed by
the length, the. diameter and thickness
of the metal forming the tube. The
tone is soft and melodious, and has a
radius of about one mile under favor-
able conditions. The vibrations last for
two minutes, whereas the vibrations of
2 the largest bell last for only one min-
ute.
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iSome Indications of Character in
the Manner of Handling
the “feed,
When you see a man grip a cigar be-
tween his teeth and hold it fast, careless
of whether it burns or not, you can set
him down as an aggressive, calculat-
ing and exacting, not to say canny, in-
dividual.
' If a man smokes a cigar deliberately,
just enough to keep it lighted, and dc-
lights in taking it from his mouth and
watch the blue smoke from it curl up-
ward, he is likely to'be an easy-going
man, good—natured and honest, says an
exchange.
There is another fellow who smokes
intermittently, takes a puff and then
rests, and fumbles his cigar about.
'He is apt to have little decision of char-
acter, and to be easily affected by cir-
cumstances. A man may be nervous
and fumble his cigar a good bit, and in
this event he is a would—be swell, vain
and frivolous.
He invariably tilts his cigar upward,
while a sensible, level-headed fellow
. will hold it straight out from his month.
When you see a man chewing up an
unlighted cigar, and twisting it about,
he is. nervous, but of gscat tenacity.
A man who cannot keep his cigar
alight has a whole-souled disposition.
He has a lively nature, is a hail-fellow—
‘ well—met, glib of tongue, and usually
a good story teller.
THIS CROW NED HEAD IS IRISH.
Thor (“it Born in Iron
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land, Is an Juliet-ion}: Citizen—w
E King; O’Keefe 3.,
His iding‘dozn.
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1 David B. ()‘lx'ecfc, king of the small
1 islands Yap, Gila and St. David, which
i are about 300 miles from I’elew, has
ihad an adventurous career, says the
i London Leader.
. He is by birth an. Irishman, by nat-~
' uralization an American, and is 68 years
'2 of age. “'hen he settled at Yap he mar-
i ried a native princess, who is ashrewd
l woman and rules when he is away.
i The «islands over which he rules are
: his by right of discovery and the ac-
; quiescence of the native rulers, and may
become the cause of complications. lie
Spain and Holland. Over his islands
he float-s the stars and stripe's, and on
his single trading schooner he flies the
union-jack .
O’Iiee’fe is known in lloug—Kong as
the copra king. He has accumulated
an immense fortune in. the. comment-
trade, and is a millionaire aside from
his claim to the islands. He wishes to
sell his territory either. to the United
States or England.
O’Keefe has complete control over his
chiefs, and has suppressed the slave
trafiicwhich used to be carried on.
CALIFORNIA TIMBER.
It Is Surprisingly Large as Compared
with That Cut on the Goth};
River in Svrcden.
The writer, on ~first visiting timber
'yards in northern Europe, could not
timber vas all culls or waste, says En-
gineering Magazine. A raft of logs in
the Gotha river in Sweden was thought
to consist of telegraph poles. It hap-
3 pened to be a collection of small tim-_
bcr even for there, and a. visit to the
! Pacific coast of North America, soon
l after, still further emphasized the enor-
mous difference in the timber resources
of the two countries.
riving in San Francisco there was en-
countered in the street a squared beam
of 'fir more than 100 feet in length, bo-
~ ing hauled to a factory in course of
erection. g Following this beam to its
5 destination a woolen factory then be-
ing built—it was a, matter of astonish-
, ment to find all thc'longitudinal beams,
, or “stringers,” of the same length.
2 This astonishment was increased when
the contractor said: . “We never bother
; about dimensions. and just order what
I we .want.”“ A section eight feet in di‘
ameter, cut from a redwood tree, com--
.1 pleted a new impression of American
‘forest timber. ' '
Experiments on Dead Men. .
Experiments to reproduce dead men's
features from their skulls are being-
: ear/1.“. in Germany.
holds them against the rival claims of
[get rid of the impression that the round ~
Soon after are,
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STORE II? A CHURCH.
New Departure of Rev. Dr. J. Lew!-
Purks, of Calvary Parish,
New York City.
cavalry Episcopal church, at Fourth
avenue and Twenty-first street, New
York, is well known among the poor of
New York for its charitable and philan-
thropic Work. It now proposes to
open a. shop, under the parish care, in
which will be kept a good line of such
dry goods as are in constant demand
among the poor.
This is not a new experiment for the
rector of the Calvary, Rev. Dr. J_. Lewis
Parks. He had already given his
schime a fair trial in his former parish
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DR. PARKS’ STORE.
(Calvary Church’s Philanthmpic Installs
ment Shop.)
of St. Peter’s in Philadelphia. Dr.
I’arks told a Herald reporter the origin-
al fund with which the shop was start—
ed was furnished from the rector’s
fund. This has been returned, and the
shop has been for some years yielding a
small interest upon the investment.
It is proposed to keep a fair stock of
dry goods which are in common use,
such as ginghams, plaids, 'flannels and
cotton goods. Sales will be made on
the installment plan, and no person
bringing credentials will be refused
credit for such goods as he really
needs. A reasonable price will be
charged in order to make the work self-
supporting, but it is the purpose to
keep the price far below that charged
in the ordinary dry goods stores doing
business on the installment plan.
This shop is really the outgrowth of
a custom which haslbeen in vogue in
Calvary parish for some time. It has
been the practice to permit its parish-
ioners to purchase at cost price certain
articles from its stock of cloth, pro-
vided for the regular work of the vari-
ous organizations. Demand for these
articles increased to such an extent that
the idea of keeping a store here similar
to the one he had organized in Phila-
delphia. presented itself to the rector.
It is proposed as the occasion arises,
to enlarge the scope of the new insti-
tution, and if it seems desirable ar-
rangements may be made by which the
store shall shop for its own customers.
OUR YOUNGE‘ST GENERAL.
His Services in Driving Aguinaldo
Out of Iliulolos Have Made Him
Immenscly Popular.
Brig. Gen. Irving Hale, U. S. Y., the
youngest general oillcer of our army,
was born at Rochester, N. Y., in 1801.
At the age of three- years he crossed the
country with his parents and settled
in Colorado. llis boyhood was passed in
Denver, where he attended the high
school, graduating at the head of the
first class ever graduated from the
school. Through his own unaided ef-
forts he obtained an appointment to
the military academy at West Point,
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GEN. IRVING HALE.
(Youngest General Officer in the United
States Army.)
where for the entire four years he stood
at the head of his class, graduating in
1884, and leaving behind him one ofthe
most brilliant records of the academy.
He was assigned to the corps of en-
gineers, and for three years was a stu-
dent officer at the United States engi-
neer schoOI, at Willet’s Point, N. Y. 111
1887 he was appointed quarter-master
0f the battalion of engineers, and
served in this capacity until he returned
to West Point in 1880 as an instructor
0f eugineerihg. While on duty with
the battalion of engineers, Lieut. Hale
participated in the army riile match at
Niagara, winning two medals.
flaring resigned his commission in
the army in 1590. he entered the service
0f the General Electric company,
Worked his way to an important posi-
tion and made his headquarters in Den-
ver. Although eminently successful
in" civil life, the old military spirit was
by no means extinct, and he took an
active interest in the national guard of
Colorado, and finally became a brigafi
dier general in that organization.
The first expedition to Manila found
him among its numbers as colonel of the
First Colorado infantry, but this regi-
ment soon lost him, for at the battle of
Malate he so distinguished himself that
he» was promoted to be a brigadicr gen- p
eral.
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__ GAIN FLESH.
if You Need to increase Your Weight,‘
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-If you are losing flesh, something is wrong.
You should get back to your normal weight.
You can by taking Vinol. Vinol is an
appetizing rebuildcr that acts in such a man. .
nor on the stomach that this organ obtains
the proper amount of nourishment from the
food to enable the system to repair waste tissue.
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DECEMB ER. 4, 1898.
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The sudden Epidemic of Grip has sartled the coun
try. The doctors confess they Lave no sure Cure
for it, and this is seen to be 1 1 no in the sudden death
of Garcia and Err-Senator Brice and the alarming in--
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It kills the germs, arrests the progress of the diseaSe at
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Norwalk Chronicler