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Writers of sporting articles are forever chafing themselves into a fine frenzy over nothing at all. It is their trade. Poor fellows, they must find something memorable in every tilt they see and a shred of Hector in every county champion. They are paid to make things seem exciting and in pursuance of their calling they resort to many sad devices so that when at last a moment occurs which, by its inherent humanity, is dramatic and blood-stirring, they have nothing left to say, and can only shake their heads, and tap out fustian phrases with their fingers. Last...
...Marion A. Cheek, Mrs. Charles F. Darlington, Mrs. George E. Debevoise, Mrs. Henry C. Dyer, Mrs. William B. O. Field, Mrs. John R. Fordyce, Mrs. Hollis French, Mrs. Thomas B. M. Gates, Mrs. Percy B. Gibson, Mrs. Thomas H. Halsted. Mrs. Charles L. Harding, Mrs. George Hogue, Mrs. Hector J. Hughes, Mrs. Lewis Iselin, Mrs. Henry A. Jones, Mrs. Samuel T. Jones, Mrs. John K. Kane, Mrs. Louis W. Ladd, Mrs. Charles W. Leavitt, Mrs. David M. Little, Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell...
...Author. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, born in Caen, France, in 1735, served under Montcalm, and turned his back on Canada after the fall of Quebec. Surveyor, mapmaker, soldier, negotiator with the Indians, he settled down as a farmer, after his marriage, in the province of New York. He "suffered much for his attachment to his Majesty's government and friends," was driven from his farm and became a refugee, protected with others of his kind by Clinton's army, until 1870, when he returned to France. After the war France sent him to America as consul...
...would badger, dun, and hector...
...Wellington, N. Z., Prof. A. C. Gifford of the Hector Observatory is something of a cat. The lunar mice, he suggested last week, are meteors. Others have believed that the multitude of craters on the moon's surface are the chilly orifices of extinct volcanoes, mementoes of the aeons just after the moon, a molten fragment, was flung off from the earth's mass, arrested in the heavens by the pull of terrestrial gravity and started in its perpetual monthly swing. Prof. Gifford's contention is that, since the moon has no appreciable enveloping atmosphere, a meteor...