ONCE FAMOUS STATUE.

Bernardo’s “Appennino” \Attracted Vast Amount of Attention. Gossip of the. Sport World In the Demidoff garden at Pratolino, some eight or ten miles from Florence, there still crouches the monster in By “SCORE KEEPER” stone and stucco called the “Appen-.;

Rptiphhbbbbbooo0a nino,” once the glory of the famous Medici garden. Some sixty or seventy August Belmont has refused $200,000 American style of riding, alluded to as statue was more talked yeurs ago the for ‘Tracery. This is the greatest. the “monkey crouch.” It is said that of, but nowadays it appears that few amount ever offered for an American k'Tod Sloane took the style to London things. It tulk know or care for such bred and ralsed thoroughbred. It was sixteen years ago, and almost all the is a good specimen of its style, and a made by.cable by W. Allison of Eng- jockeys have taken It up since. reminder of its existence is Just as land. Allison is a breeder and a com- The chief criticism seems to be that, well. Its‘ height, if erect, would be | mission agent. He probably was acting although shortening the leathers, which about 100 feet,.or say one-fourth the in behalf of one of the wealthy patrons brings the jockey out of the ordinary Paul's cathedrat~ At the height of St. of the English turf. Allison asked to seat. enables him jto climb up on the bgck one can enter into rustic grottoes have the offer remain open until the horse’s neck, lightens the horse's bur into its interior, and from under- built end of the year. The only condition of den and increases his speed, the jockey peuth the hair of the head a cascade the tender was this—that Tracery re- is not able to control his mount, as ip may be made to flow forth ut will over main unbeaten until the end of the the. past. the shoulders and body of the colossus, racing season, says the London Sphere, Tracery is by Rock Sand—Topiary. Manager Dooin Planning For 1914. Buontalenti, the protege of Cosimo four-year-old bay colt. He was Charles Dooin, manager of the Phila. gigantic He is a di Medici, who schemed this foaled at Mr, Belmont’s Nursery stud delphia National league team, who bas thing ‘in 1569, employed the best tal- farm in Kentucky. In his first start been retained in that position for the ent available for the setting of it up, coming season, will bolster up his last year he finished third to Tagalie sculptors, masons, etc., and we are told for the Derby. Later he defeated pitching staff and says he will give all that its abnormal size led,to some of» Sweeper II., winner of the 2,000 Guin- the artists losing all senge of proper- eas, for the St. James’ Palace stakes being rendered unfit for ordi- tion and and Tagalie for the Doncaster St. them losing his rea- nary work, one of Leger. }son us a consequence of helping to Since his first start he has never build the monster. been beaten except in the Ascot Gold ! The audacity of the conception is eup. when he was pulled down by a the great genius, who, train- | worthy of militant suffragist. At the time Tra- ,ed under the eye of Michelangelv, cery was in front by three lengths in hesitated at nothing. knowing that the home stretch. Behind him at the was at his back and | the Medici money time was Prince Palatine he had only to ask when a daring idea of his needed funds. To Continue the English Stroke. This famous boy Bernardo (Buenta- The so called English stroke will be lenti) seems in his day to have out- continued by the Yale crews during shone the Admirable Crichton, being the next year. and W. Averill Harri- painter, sculptor, architect, engineer man. head coach last season, again will and mechanician and much besides. continue in that capacity, assisted by J. O. Rodgers, a former head coach. The Letter M. The Hebrew name of M was Mem, water, and it is curious to note that Soccer Football. Soccer football is rapidly making the original form of this character in the most ancient manuscript is a wav- headway among American colleges. ing line, which to the not too particular Columbia has officially made jsoccer ancients represented water. By some football_a._part of the regular training philologists the letter M as used by the in gymuasium work, which is required Phoenicians is supposed to have come of all members of the freshman and ; ‘Sa sophomore clusses. as from a picture representing the human face, the two down strokes represent- Photo by American Press Association. Fine Stretches of Highway In A Good Example, ing the contour of the countenance, the Charles Dooin, Who Will Again Mane Colorado Constructed by State V stroke signifying the nose, the two Presient .Hibben of Princeton uni- age Philadelphia Nationals. dots, long since disused, and a stroke versity frequently goes on the field to Prison Inmates Working Un- comers a hard tussle for the pennant. beneath the V representing the eyes watch the football players practice and and the mouth. The old Phoentcian confers with thé coaches as to the Dooin, who is known as one of the der “Honor System.” ablest of managers, won his first fame form of the letter does indeed bear a work of the men. Governors Favor Rarely has ‘a college president shown in baseball bebind the bat. comical sort of resemblance to the hu- the Idea. man face. so practical an interest in football. It 1.—Pathway through ‘the rocks, 2.—Convict Jaborers at work. 3 and 5—Au- is certain that the game would be Fastest Motorboat In tha World. its completion. | toists enjoying the convict built road in Colorado after Our Cornfields. greatly benefited if other college rulers The British motorboat, Maple Leaf RISON road gangs of various 4—An uphill streteh. The combined area of the cornfields condescended to forget their sacred IV., owned by E. Mackay Edgar and states have constructed many of the United States is nearly equal to dignity for a few minutes a day and representing the Royal Motor Yacht placed on the highways Boulder, Jefferson, El! Paso and Pueblo miles of fine roads during the that the state the area of France or Germuny. made personal visits to the gridiron. club, is the fastest motor craft in the gangs. sometimes close counties. They have built 157 miles of last. few. years. The idea of some Men in world. This boat won the British in- and at other times good roddway,. and a great deal of this making road: builders out of convicts to the penitentiary First Submarine Cable. “Monkey Crouch.” ternational motorboat trophy, popular even 200 miles away. has been blasted out of solid rock, seems to be growing in popularity. forty, fifty and The cable between Dover, England, In connection with the Wootton-Sie- ly known as the Harmsworth, cup. in @ not guarded in, the that in Mesa county being the most Striking instances of what convicts These men were and Calais, France, opened in 1850, ver case there has been discussion all series of races concluded over a course at all. Two unarmed super- difficult and heavy work attempted by daytime over England of what is termed the in Osborne bay, Isle of Wight. ean do in this work are found in Colo- was the first submarine cable. intendents had control of a gang of, our men. The average labor cost to rado. The state owes tothe inmates the various counties for the work of of the state penitentiary the Colorado say, sixty men. of train- these men has been 32 cents a day per Springs-Canon City state highway, one It required superintendents the man, and as this cost includes Sundays of the notable examples of roads built ed minds to designate the place for work and to explain how-it Was to and holidays the cost of- the labor of The Height by convict labor. It connects Colorado these men to the counties. fortwo of the Ridiculous A single man, -a.‘trusty,” Springs and the scenic wonders of the be done. camp at night. ‘The camp years, or 731 days. would be $36,725.44. Pikes peak region with the Canon guarded the Traced to Noah. Awful Oversight. | Unnecessary Interference. no wire fence We worked twenty-one state teams, City district and the road to the top of was composed of tents: “They say that chess is the oldest “There is one discordant note in your A woman. mounted the step of a cat It and the feed for these teams cost the around it. no inclosure whatever. carrying an umbrella like a reversed the Royal gorge. It is fifty miles long counties $20 per month per team, game.” remarked the old fogy. garden, my dear madam,” remarked and known not only for its picturesque was located right where the work be- saber. which would amount to $10,080, mak- “Poker is older than chess,” said the the aesthetic Jundscape architect. gun on the road. The men generally beauty, but as a splendid example of wise guy. “What is that?” asked the lady, much The conductor touched her lightly, half a mile to a mile and ing a total cost to the counties for roadmaking and engineering genius. worked from “How do you know?” asked the old alarmed. | saying, “Excuse me, madam, but‘yovu a half in each direction before they labor of $46.805.44. The celebrated “sky line drive.”’ which fogy. “I notice,” he replied, with a sbud- are likely to put out the eye of the moved the camp. “It is hard to estimate the immense runs along a “hog back” 800 feet above “Didn't Noah draw to pairs on the der. “that you have a dogwood planted | man behind you.” value of these roads, for the reason the Arkansas valley also was built by NOVEL HOLIDAY ark and get a full house?” replied the near some pussy willows.”—Philadel- | “He’s my husband,” she snapped The form that the warden used that the work in Mesa. county alone with the tone of full proprietorship.— eonvicts. wise guy.—Cincinnati Enquirer. phia Ledger. | The inauguration of this departure to impress the convict more would have cost with free labor not Chicago Post. seemed | than even the crime he committed less than $25,000 per mile, as the rock | {n prison reform necessitated a test of Half of It. Home Advantages. the “honor system,” and the result has which placed him in the penitentiary. in places had to be blasted for seventy- | They Often Do. Maiden Aunt—Venice at last! One- | to hold up five feet in order to get a proper road- “When reverses come you find out been generally satisfactory. At the The warden required him half of the dream of my youth is now t end of the first term of Governor John his right hand and swear that under bed. In this work it was necessary to | who your friends are.” fulfilled. Niece—Why only half, aunt- | F. Shafroth of Colorado the warden no circumstances ‘would he ever at- drill holes twenty-five feet deep and to ' “So.” ie? Aunt (sighing)—I contemplated go- that he would drill three depths before the roadbed { “Yes. They immediately proclaim reported that only two men had es- tempt to escape and ing to Venice on my wedding tour.— | con- was reached. The work in Ute pass. | that they knew you were dn accident.” caped from the road gangs. prevent if possible any. associate Boston Transcript. El Paso county, was done through --Louisville Courier-Journal. INDORSED BY GOV. ODDIE victs from escaping. solid rock for six miles, all blasting. 4 The honor system has been carried When the Royal gorge road was dedi- Shafroth in the The work in Salt canyon and Parkdale Classic Love. to remarkable lengths in other states cated by Governor Uncontrollable Circumstances, hill, Fremont county, and Pingree hill, He—Why do_you force. me to wait than Colorado. It has been tried out summer -of 1911, a most unusual sight Bob Fogtlite (actor)—Failure? -% : prison band in Cherokee hill and Thompson canyon, for an answer? She (who is up in po- in Oregon, Arizona, Nevada and else- was afforded. The should think it was! The whole play with braid Larimer county, contained a great deal litical economy)—Because I don’t want where. A year ago Governor ‘Tasker flashing scarlet uniforms, was ruined. She—Gracious! How was of blasting. . This necessarily would to give you a monopoly until I find out L. Oddie of Nevada in recommending of gold, played merrily. Four “lifers” that? B. F.—Why,. at the end of the have been very expensive work had it whether there’s any competition.—Ex- the employment of convicts on_the were in the band, and the convict last act a steam pipe burst and hissed been done with free labor, and the change. roads and highways said that convicts musicians chatted freely with men and me off the stage. There counties would have been forced to pay then had been employed for almost a women from the outside world. big salaries for drillers, blasters, pow- roads were no shackles nor armed guards, A Man's Way. year in building and repairing | Good Advice, and no more rules to burden the men der men, masons and cement workers. “4 man may adore every hair on his | and that during that time the honor who had built the road than would “Not counting what the contractors’ wife's head.” He—I shall speak to your father tos system, wherein the convicts worked First Pugilist—They say Kid stur- | have been imposed on a body of free profits might be and not including any “Well?” night. How had I better begin? She— under overseers and not armed guards, phy’s wife is a terror. | workthen under similar circumstances. skilled labor except blacksmiths. ce- “But he regards those on her dresser By calling his attention to the statutes had proved most successful from both Second Pugilist—Yes, when the Kid | road which was ment workers and masons, and estt- with mixed emotions.” — Pittsburgh governing assault, manslaughter and the standpoint of improving the roads The magnificent enabled the tourist to mating the cost of free labor at $2 a wants to start trafning, he just “start- | murder. Papa is so impulsive. you and the conduct of the prisoners. Ne fheir handiwork Post. that formerly day, by eliminating Sundays and holi- ed something” at home. — Chicago | know. - , vada at that time was working other easily ascend to a point { and ex- days, we may count 132 men working News. convicts on the prison farm, where the was attained only by long In Self Defense. 610 days at $2 a day, which would ' All Amused. game honor system applies and where hausting climbing on foot. ‘The road give us a labor value of $161,040. We Close Acquaintances. | the results have been excellent. is eight miles long and winds upward surpass- have worked an average of twenty They were discussing, certain ac- It was in 1910 that Colorado enacted in a spiral through vistas-of masons ,and cement workers, which quaintances when Flint inquired: a law providing that convicts might ing beauty and grandeur. The Hoyal the Rocky would have cost the counties $5 per “Saunders and Harris are close work.on the public roads. The argu- gorge, a titanic cleft in day and would: have amounted to $61,- friends, aren't they?” ment was that the prisoner ought to mountains, has been called one of the is a narrow vol- 000. We have-avernged five black- “Yes; neither can borrow a cent from be given a chance to grow strong and world’s wonders. It canic fissure, through -which the Ar- smiths a day, whose labor is estimat- the other,” came the reply.—Buffalo healthy so that he can find work ed at $4 0 day, and this would have Times. when released. It takes their minds kansas river breaks from the moun- middle west. amounted to $12.220. Estimating the from crime, too, and it keeps them tains to the plains of the value of twenty-one teams at $2.50 a Wrong Again. well. Its length is the same as that of the day per team for 610 days it would “I wish I had never learned to play Colorado had been doing a little road road by which man practically has amount to $32,025. Ata low figure the eards,”’ exclaimed a man who had been construction by convicts for several brought the crest of the canyon down value of the labor of ‘these men and unfortunate at the game. years, but without taking them away to the level of the valley, but this teams would. be worth, to the counties “You mean you wish you had learn- from the penitentiary. They worked eight mile stretch of gorge. proper is $266.285. Add to this w depreciation of ed, don’t you?" was his wife's rejoin- within six or seven miles of the prison, only a small part of the Grand Canyon state equipment. $2,000, and the inter- der.—London ‘Tit-Bits. returning at night and often attempted | through which the Arkansas rushes est on state equipment, $2,000, and you escape and not infrequently succeeded. and roars from Salida to Canon City, a ean see that this labor has been worth The law passed in 1910 granted the) distance of nearly fifty miles. What He Deserved. to the diferent counties $270,285. The convicts a commutation or diminution HOW STATE SAVED MONEY Mr. Gotrocks (reading letter)X—Hang difference between what the free labor of sentence of one-third of the time In their report to Governor Shafroth ~L it, Jack’s in financial difficulties again. alone would have’ cost the public— they worked—that is, the prisoner’s under date Dec. 1, 1912, the penitenti- Mrs. Gotrocks—Well, it's your own namely, . and what the labor term was shortened ten days for every | ary commissioners said, “The road fault for setting him up in business. of our men actually cost the counties “Your son is one of those advanced thirty days he worked on the road. building done by the convicts in vari- Jack always did all right as long as he {shows @ labor profit of $223,479.56. thinkers, isn't he?" ous counties of the state has added did nothing.—Life. “ON THEIR HONOR” However, this labor did not compete “Yes; he has an idea he descended “| paint mainly for my own amuse Tynan, who many miles to our highways, the work Warden Thomas J. with the free labor of the state. for the from a monkey, but «I tell him if he ment.” punishment being of a superior order and in every never applied the corporal reason that the counties could not did it must have been on his father's Not Particular. “Still, your efforts amuse others, usually inflicted in prisons, looked into | way a credit to the institution.” side.”—-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He—Do you believe in love at first more or less.""—Pittsburgh Press. Preceding this report was one to the otherwise have afforded to do this and studied the character of each of sight? She (thirty-eight)—I believe in from War- work.” the men. penitentiary commissioners any kind of love. --Boston Transcript. Comparison. The Colorado convict road building An, Unselfish Angel. A certain amount of time was then | den Tynan. He said: “T have nothing to wear.” | was so successful tliat Warden Thom- “I guess she loves me, all right.” allowed for good conduct, which is a j “Our largest item of labor performed Had Enough. “You have plenty to wear,” declared the as J. Ryan continued it. He believes “Why so?" ' considerable portion of a(sentence, but | by the convicts was, of course. her’ husband. “Just compare yous. that ¢onvict labor will solve the rond “She vows she'd rather be miserable Enthusiast (ut musicale) — We shall of th@‘additional amount of road work. The prisoners have been wardrobe with that of a girl in a comic the giving problem of the nation and has-put in with me than happy. with anybody hear more of this young man. Sufferer of the time for road work employed in the construction of roads opera.""—Louisville Courfer-Journal —Not tonight, I hope. —Houston Post. one-third else.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. The result was in Mesa, Fremont, Larimer. Weld. | effect many ideas of his own. Was exverimental. + —? ‘ netfee fae Se pe