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11118 to the .â€"Fordwich ’hc :01; ,docks RTON vertise in ’onto ’hich evad- 1138 in choir singing served him- in good stead when later on he joined the chorus of an Operetta Company. Here As a boy Chaliapin rarely had was sent to a school to learn the car- penter trade. And when the master carpenter wished to punish his charg- es. a plane. a rough heavy board, or whatever tool was nearest to hand, was used instead. of the proverbial cane. After a great deal of this, Feodor de- cided to change over to the book- binding trade, for the very logical rea- son that it would be better to have a book heaved at one than a hammer ! _-vâ€"w~ his child. Many were the beatings ad- ministered to the small and hungry Feodor by his drunken father; and these for no reason at all. For ex- ample. Feodor fell to the ground from a tree which he was climbing. Upon his father seeing his bruises. immedi- ately a public beating was given. Whip- pings were also the order of the day at school. At the age of twelve. Feodor The first book from the pen of Chal- iapinâ€"but as he infers, not the last. This is a volume so fascinating that . D renews. so am enclosing one from my little Preston friend entitled “Pages from My Life” by Chaliapin. This de‘ Aâ€"- I v â€"-wҤ-ymo _, nun brief account makes me feel that the book would be very Interesting read- ing and not only interesting but en- couraging and inspiring as well. Will be glad to hear again from you. Yours, as ever, and know something adventures. Come in Chat Awhile â€"Ruth Raehnrn. “Pages From My Life” letter received. and.- it is indeed trom you again, of your summer’s Ruth Raeburn, After seven years in Russia he again left the country. for succeeding tri umphs in England and America. 'It was during this period that Chaliapin received the reputation of a very con- ceited and overbearing man. He was much grieved by this, but in no way managed to overcome it. Being the ar- tist that he is, it was actual pain to see the characters in opera portrayed incorrectly. or a song sung likewise. The picture of Russia in war time is very vivid. The rich man was robbed of his possessionsâ€"from wine to auto- mobiles. Overnight Chaliapin became a poor man and he and his family came a person very much in demand in musical circles. He sang in many European countries as well as America. In England he met King George. In Germany ex-Kaiser Wilhelm bestowed a decoration upon him. Then it was 1914â€"and war time. me pay, it any, was poor, and freâ€" quently the company would break up, leaving its players penniless, far from home. It was in Tiflis, where practi- cally starving, he came to the atten- tion of one Usatov, a vocal teacher. This good man seeing Chaliapin’s pos- sibilities, took him in and taught him gratis, much that was valuable about singing as‘ well as other things. It was here too that Chaliapin learned not to eat with a knife and to take soup quietly. Usatov gave him his first lessons in social training. It was after he left Usatov that suc- cess began to arrive. In Petrograd (then St. Petersburgh) he became an artist of the Imperial Theatres. Then followed an Italian appearance in ‘ “Meiistofele”. After this, his reputa- tion was established. Chaliapin be- makes an attractive and dainty for luncheon or tea ? 5. Cottage or cream cheese mixed with a little cream formed into little balls and rolled in chopped nut meats 3. Cream will whip more easily and be much stifier'if it is allowed to stand on ice for a day before it is used ? 4. A bouillion cube dissolved in a cup of boiling water and added to soup or gravy gives an unusual taste to the commonplace dish ? grease spots on white or light colored no you KNOW THAT- Caught in the swirling current of the Niagara River late Saturday after- noon. two duck hunters were swept to death over the Horsesnoe Falls, while witnesses of the tragedy on shore watched their frantic signals. power- less to render aid. Miss Phoebe Haggan, of Lakeview, near St. Thomas. dislocated her shoul- der in a fall while fighting off some in- furiated guinea hens that attacked her. The genial host. of course. accepted the bride and groom card. Later in the evening the bride confided to Mr. Spence that. by his hospitality, he had won her husband over to the right side. Mr. Spence gives credit to the bride. who helped elect him last time. He wishes there were more wives of he: calibre. 80 popular was the concert and dance given by David Spence, M. E. Toronto, under the auspices of Ward 6 Liberal-Conservative Association last week, that one young couple, not hav- ing cards of invitation, presented. at the door instead. a photograph of themselves taken on their wedding day. At the earliest date for many years the first flock of Butter ducks came ov- er Niagara Falls Saturday afternoon and evening and many of them are floating below the falls in maimed and injured condition. The early arrival of the birds has caused a rush for shoot- ing: licenses. K Rose Ann Paquette, 32, of Montreal, is dead from a bullet wound in the heart, and police are holding Ernest Messier. 35, who they claim confessed to shooting his former friend Saturday night on St. ‘Hubert street. Montreal, one of the main thoroughfares in the east end of the city. The authorities are also holding two men as material witnesses for the coroner's inquest. G. K. Skinner, Guelph, Ont... market gardener, Saturday unearthed a valu- able gold ring which he lost exactly nine years ago. It was while doing his Fall plowing in 1919 that Mr. Skin- ner dropped the ring from his finger. Saturday he spied the long-lost article roll from beneath a bunch of onions he pulled from one of his large onion Richard Loeb, who, with Nathan Leopold, Jr., is serving a life sentence for the .“thrill murder” of Bobbie Franks, has lost his “soft job” at the Joliet Penitentiary. Loeb has been serving as secretary to an assistant warden. Last Thursday he found him- self assigned to manual labor in the yards. The order also removed him from his private cell and placed him in the cell block with other prisoners. American teachers charged with dis- seminating religious propaganda in Constantinople, Turkey, last week were again sentenced to three days’ impri- sonment and a fine or three liras. when the case against them was re- week. The few people in the theatre escaped before the fire, which destroy- ed the theatre and four adjacent build- ings. gained headway. Dudley Little, motion picture ma- chine operator, was burnt to death and several other persons injured slightly when a roll of film exploded in the Lamar Theatre, Sherman, Texas, last Complaining because their booty was not larger, three men, two of whom were armed, held up office clerks or the Deco Refreshments, Inc., ware- house, Buffalo, N. Y., recently and es- caped with $1,800. Daily Events as Told by Cable Condensed .f_or yusy Chronicle World News Seen At A Glance A; . 'I.s:' .uQrVâ€"Z: 93299559 Readers' THE DURHAM CHRONICLE thatheistrainingfor agree: battle. Porywshefreqnentedthegymnasi- mnkeptbyJack Doyle, who was a venomoInsporfingmanotIaAn- With Gene Tunney, a millionaire 'and lecturer on Shakespeare, touring Europe and being received by Royalty, let us take a glance at another former champion of the ring. His name is Ad Wolgast. and his residence is the Cali- fornia State Hospital for the Insane. It is his last residence, too, until he changes it for a wooden box for Wol- gast is hopelessly insane, and he is in- sane because of the many punches he received when in the ring, when “he | By J. V. McAree I l TUNNEY AND WOLGAST CONTRAST IN CHAMPS The Belgrade. Jugoslavia, newspap- ers said Monday that it had been learned from Durazzo. Albania, that eleven conspirators against King Zogu were summarily hanged in the market place at Durazzo recently. This was done on the new king's order within 2“: hours of the discovery of a plot. Two hundred people suspected or be- ing implicated were imprisoned. Mar- tial law wm proclaimed. Charles McInnis, Signalman with the Atlsa Construction Co., was in- stantly killed on Saturday at Welland when two guy lines supporting a gin pole broke. In its fall the pole crush- ed McInnis' head. Fire destroyed a barn on the farm of W. E. Calvert, near Brampton, on Saturday. Spontaneous combustion is Egiven as the cause. Harold Maltby, a neighbor, noticed the flames, and with assistance was able to save an auto- mobile and about a hundred gallons of gas and oil that were in the basement. The fire-fighters were successful in keeping the blaze to the one building. About one hundred loads of hay were destroyed. Mr. Calvert’s loss is part- ly covered by insurance. Dykes at Nieuport and the locks on Dykes on the Yser river burst Monday as a result of a violent gale on the North sea. The streets of Nieuport were flooded. The high seas damaged the .famous Zeebrugge pier. Prairie fires caused considerable damage in various parts of Southern Saskatchewan over the week-end. Damage estimated at $15,000 was caus- ed by four fires which swept over 4,000 acres. and by one barn fire, which broke out in the country surrounding Weyburn, Sask. Five persons were killed and five in- jured in an explosion at a dynamite plant in Orbetello, Italy, last Friday. Private Bank, the second largest Danish private bank situated in Cop- enhagen, failed to open its doors last Friday. The bank has suffered heavy losses chiefly through interests in a German manufacturing plant. A conference which lasted all night at the Ministry of Trade failed to reach a basis for reconstruction. Thirteen civilian laborers were killed and four seriously injured when a boil- er in the arsenal workshop at Piacen- za, Italy, exploded last Friday. , wooden rollers, but now they have de- termined to use rubber-tired skates be- cause they are~ less noisy. Sault Ste. Marie’s record sleeper, Cecil, Chapman, 20, deckhand, of Mid- land. was reported recently to be prac- tically out of his trance after nearly two weeks of unconsciousness and par- tial consciousness. The patient is eat- ing very well and has started to talk quite well, but at times still thinks he is riding the Lake Superior breakers on board. the steamer Anna C. Minch. :in'to whose cargo hold he fell 26 feet headflrst on September 16. i A thick snowfall, beginning about 7 o’clock last Thursday morning, had covered the potato fields at Caribou. Maine. and had not abated at noon. The snow curtailed the digging of the potato crop. Heavy snow also was re- ported at Presque Isle, holding up pc- tato field workers. .i. 2.. :‘x . E. Ifithj on with any hope of success. Wbl- gast’s eyes were snappy, while Nelson' 3 were lusterless. The Dane had lost all feeble way. The champion was a mere punching bag for the waspish Wolgast. and to have allowed the bout to con- tinue would have been to incur the risk of fatality. At the end of even the thirty-fourth round there were cries of ‘Stop it! Stop it 1’ At the end of the thirty-ninth round Referee Eddie Smith took the champion by the elbow and led him to his corner. There he told both Nelson and those who were handling him that it looked as though all hope were lost and, in a weary yet determined way, that the champion- ghad better give up. Nelson shook his .‘ head and said, ‘Never ! Never ! Never !’ ‘ At the beginning of the fortieth round f Nelson put his arms in a position to fight, but the spectacle was pathetic. After he had been smashed full in the , face and on the point of the jaw and l was virtually helpless, Referee Smith 1 stepped in and ended the fight." A Costly Victory Wolgast s victory was won at terrible 1 cost. He had taken almost as much ; punishment as Nelson, and this added 3 to the batterings he had received in i “Nelson’s face was punched all out of semblance to human countenance and great strawberry blotches about his stomach and hips bore testimony to the merciless battering of Wolgast's fists. Nelson was too feeble to fight A Desperate Fight The closing rounds of the epic bat- tle in which Wolgast won his title were described at the time by a West- ern writer, who wrote: Trained for Imaginary Bout He was without funds. but Doyle supported him. His orders were that no one should ever put on the gloves with Wolgast, but that he should be - encouraged to keep up his training be- cause it fully occupied his mind and kept him in good health. Year after year he worked daily at Doyle’s. and then a change seemed to come over him. He became cranky. and would threaten to punch anyone who inad- vertently crossed him. When he went into the club cafe he was querulous about his food. He insisted upon being treated like a champion. and demand- ed the best accommodation at the best hotels. Once he was knocked down in the street by a motor when mooning about. In the end he became a nuis- ance, and Doyle who had loyally sup- ported him for years appealed to the State to provide for him. The doctors in the asylum report that he is not ~violent. his mental disease having ad- 1 vanced beyond that state, for he is dying from his head down. Only occa- sionally he seems to see an opponent. and will set himself to charge across the room when the expected gong rings. He washes dishes. sweeps and makes the beds having no idea where he is, and being willing to perform any task set before him. Physicians an- nounce that there is no hope of him ever recovering his reason, and that future changes in his conditions will be for the worse rather than for the better. title. tion himself, the result being that he condition. Here he would meet the old-timers like Sharkey, Jefiries, Joe Rivera, and Tommy Ryan, all of whom would tell him that he was in wonder- ful shape and certain to retrain his lookeditupiorhal It was a red-letter day in old Mrs. Jones’ life â€" the dayshemadeherfirstlaanz Distancecafl. Butsheaim- plyhadtospeaktoheraon beforehewentabroad! “ it was I never theplasantexperi- it. Just say, fl A woman's idea of a fifty-fifty split is for her husband to give her half his money and then pay all the bills. â€"Kltchener Record. The Chrohicief his climb to the championship and to the beating that was inflicted on him when he lost his title were too much for his reason. His head had been punched so hard and so often that his brain had been aflected, though there were no immediate signs of' insanity. But it seems probable that it was the fight in which he was victorious rather than the fight when he lost that most seriously irriured him. because it is the fight with Nelson that his darkened mind recalls and the prospective fight with the Battier which has inspired MEUIGINE FOR YOUNG GIRLS It gill 1292! you to advertise in phantom for all these PAGE 8.