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CARPENTIER'S STORY.

Out of the mountain of explana 1tions, deductions, and criticisms con- cerning my swift and dramatic defeat of Joe Beckett, there stands out in a way fantastic, the suggestion that it was because I hypnotised the British champion. And there have come to my home in Paris letters from ment and women, not a few highly placed. and distinguished, pleading for my story of it all..

I have laughed and rocked and roared; that little man Francois Des camps--whimsical and mysterious and uncanny The Daily Mail has described him-has shared ray amuse. ment in a fashion riotous..

The 'fluence, sohv, Georges; ha- ha, oh-oh! he cries even now as I write, and his eyes will dance and romp as he snaps his fingers as the Professer of Lens" used to do in

When I was little more than a child, so little and white-faced, I crept one day, uninvited. into the

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place and, having imparted to me all the information he had acquired about various men, their shape and size, and their mannerisms, and drummed into my ears sharp and distinct characteristics of the place, he would sit down and write out his "play bill." Which would take this form:

The Jungler Magnificent. Professor Descamps. Acrobat Superb. Georges Carpentier, The Man of Mystery. Professor Descamps, assisted by his famous pupil, Georges Carpentier. La Boxe Anglaise. Professor Pescamps and his famous pupil, Georges Carpentier. Grand Finale. Professor Descamps will hypnotise his famous pupil, Georges Carpentier. MY "TRANCE." The hypnotic

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A PLAN TO MAKE TWO

FRELANDS

scheme or the other had been tried, There might have been serious trouble, but a measure of wisdom would have been bought by the experience, and a larre measure of responsibility would have been shifted from the shoulders of the British people, where it does not belong, to the shoulders of the Irish people, where It does belong.

To make two Irelands grow where RENT-ROLLS DOUBLED.

only one grew before might hardly seem to be an ideal solution of the Irish problem from the standpoint of Park-lane palaces and the luxurious the English, who for generations dwellings in Mayfair and Belgravia have had their hands more than full are gradually changing handa, and with one Ireland. But strange to

Licyd George's duty is to pass big efforts, a Daily Chronicle corres-relate, England seems to be the only from words to action. There is pendent writes, are being made by place where the Lloyd George dual overwhelming British the newly rich-especially, Northern Home-Rule plan for Ireland wins any Liberal and Labour as well as Con- opinton- clients, who have become enormous,

great popularity. The Northcliffe servative—for the Premier's basłę ly wealthy during the war to get a papers like it as not ideal, but decid principle that full independence for mansion in the exclusive society dis- edly worth trying. The Daily News Ireland is out of the question. It is

points out An instance of this was given by greater

that it gives Ireland for Lloyd George, therefore, to rally autonomy than shebis majority for putting into effect Messrs. Mabbet and Edge, who have has ever enjoyed since she lost the scheme, he has outlined been appointed to sell privately a her

OWN. Parliament," The legislature for south Ireland, a Louis XVI bouse in Mayfair, con proposal, in The Daily Telegraph's legislature for north Ireland, and taining & collection of works of art opinion. will .commend which the owner has taken 25 years everywhere

itself authority vested in the two legisla 23 a just and fair tures to effect a union when they so to collect.

tender of self-government." Yet desire. Will Sion Fein reject the these most concerned, the Irish partition of the country? Sinn Fein people, both north and south as has rejected British rule altogether- represented by their press and other Will coercion be necessary to put the spokesmen both in the old country scheme into effect? Coercion is now and in. Americs, are apparently in being practised in Ireland. Better a clined to reject the plan in advance, strong hard that attempts to cure The principale would not disclose The Secretary of the Irish Labour than a strong hand that rasps and who the present tenant of this May-party dismisses it as "unworthy wounds. fair "mystery" house. is, with its of serious consideration." Georget Sevres China, Gabelin tapestries. ex-Russell, the Irish poet, sees "nothing seemingly involved in the Lloyd. As for the partion of Ireland, quisite panelling, and galleried stair in the proposals calculated to pro- George proposals, there is every rea case, for which the lowest purchase duce reconciliation." The Dubinson to believe that the separation price is £150,000.

George measure Evening Telegraph calls the Lloyd will not be permanent. The pull of a political cynic's historic habit and ef economic forces sad joke at the expense of the nation will draw the two sections together which he has thrown into chats." if once the passions of the moment Three-quarters of the Irish people, can be demobilized.. The German declares the Unionist Irish Times, will Empire bad its origin in a Zollverein, reject this bill, the principles of an economic union. The two un- which. "are hateful alike to Unionist willing partners in Ireland, divorced and to Nationalist." In Ulster the on account of temperamenta! incom recent attempted assassination of the the bonds of a common economić. Belfast News-Letter, mindful of the patibility, may yet be reunited by

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, asks if interest."

Amongst these are: important pieces of art, which Richard Wallace and a friend in Paris obtained. They were left as heirlooms, "and acquired by the present owner under the direction of the Courts."

It is so close a secret that even the clerks in the office are not aware of the client, said the principal, but the present owner is a lifelong collecter of works of art, and has insisted. the closest secrecy. even to prospective purchasers, on

But the most astonishing feature six persons informed the agents that this private sale is that no less than

they were willing to pay £150,000 for this wanderful home.

powers of the two Parliaments in his plan and those of the Stares in the American union. On separation be said

the Government is "going to yield ro" In his speech outlining the Home This is not an isolated instance a demand for self-government under Rule: Bill. the British Premier, em- of huge sums being forthcoming for presure of a campaign of assassina-phasized the fact that in spite of the a home in Mayfair and Belgravia," tion and terrorism." Ulster, say Sinn Fein agitation and the disorders he said: "There is a waiting list of the correspondents, fears the plan in Ireland, Britain would never con- days long gone when, I, his famous would preface by the wildest, the for a home in these neighbourhoods, the Sinn Fein." A press correspon emphasized the analogy between the Descames people, who will pay almost any price as meaning eventual "domination by sent to complete separation. He also pupil conspired with him to profit weirdest, the most ridiculous volume by the credulity of the folk of my of words it was possible for any Provided it is just what they want." dent in Cork cables the Univeraa! immediate countryside. This, my man to manufacture.

And this,

Society is leaving the south-western Service that at the present time "the story, which I now write, is a plain embellished by much tearing of his districts and tending to go north, Nationalists will not consider a parti. and unvarnished one.

long black hair, would pave the way been made by owners in the favoured ists," while the Sinn-Feiners will and profits of 120 per cent. have tion, neither will the southern Union fer him to seat me on a borrowed neighbourhoods. There is no diffi agree to nothing short of a republic" face of the innuendoes put forward "I think it is right to say, in the chair. Creeping up to me with arms culty in finding wealthy would be President de Valera of the Irish from Ireland with apparent authority outstretched, he would first stroke purchasers for any of the palatial Republic" has stated his relief that that any attempt at secession will be rough-and-ready gymnasium my fact, mutter something un-dwellings in London, but there is the this new parliamentary plan is noth fought with the same determination, Francois Descamps, which was in intelligible, and before a completely greatest difficulty in finding the ing more than another attempt of the same resource, and the same re- the neighbourhood of my home.

open-mouthed audience, he would Descamps styled himself The look into my eyes with all the tensity

British politicians to fool the Irish Solve as did the Northern States of Professor." He was physical .cul in his soul for a few seconds, pass

people." The Irish in this country America. turist, boxer, gymnast, conjurer, and, his hands in a strange, frightening in his spare moments, a Socialist of a manner over me, and then, as par particularly aggressive type: in my arrangement, I would half-swoon childhood, and through my biz eyes, and become rigid.. I saw in him a man unusual and mysterious. When he beheld me half scared, wondering. I was-he

of

would know my errand, and when I, in fear and trepidation, told him that I wanted to box like the English, he chuckled, so I thought, like some demon.

"My son," said he, "go home to your mother."

But I persisted.. I told him that already I had ventured to try my hand in a boxing booth which at that moment was in Lens, and I had

decided to become a boxer.

But you are too frail, too young: you will be killed," he declared,

However, I persuaded him to allow me to put the gloves on.

How shaped he did not say, but without consulting me he interviewed and got permission from my parents to allow him to take me ifto his charge. And I knew great joy!

EARLY DAYS AND EARLY WAYS.

property.

OLD ST. PAUL'S.

are equally unfriendly. John Devoy's "It is important that this be known Gaelic American viciously attacks not merely throughout the world, what it Mr. A. H. Blake lectured on Dec.

calls in a head-line but in Ireland itself." 20 to members of the London. Rambl-Ireland, concludes this paper.won't fair consideration of the new plan, Lloyd George's Still Born Twins. Mr. Lloyd George appealed for The moment had now come for meing Society 011 to fall into a trance, so I succumbed relating

old St. Paul's have his bastard Home Rule or his insisting that the question to-day is the interesting to the magic spell" of "Professor whilst standing, in the open air, by the Irish Republic, which is the only takes but who can settle the problem. facis twin mice and will stand firm for not who is to blame for past mis- Descamps, the celebrated bypnotist!" the few remains of the arcient possible solution of the Irish ques-Looking around, he can find no And I would tell, in language ela cloisters. Inside the Cathedral the tion." The plan for giving Ireland section in Ireland that will accept borate and mystical, of things that visitors heard the story of the only a northern and a southern parlia anything but the impossible, and were the intimate and personal con- complete relic of old St. Paul's the ment is denounced as "mutilation in the circumstances the British cern of many folk who made up our monument of Dr. Donne This audience.

famous Dean refused to have his Worid (New York), which predicts bility for offering what wisdom and of the Irish nation," by The Irish Government must take the responst- Until I had my first real fight for portrait painted unless he was lying that the Irish people "will inform justice dictate."." money-the purse was, if I remember rightly, some 25 francs-it was neces with a sequlchral urn at his feetjutors that Ireland is a nation, one George dual Home Rule plan include on a couch, wrapped in a shroud. Lloyd George and his Orange coad sary for me at the week-ends to tour and it is thus that the sculptor has and indivisible, and that as such she the establishment of two Parliaments: The main feature of the Lloyd the country cafes as a hypnotic sub-represented him. In the great first will never consent to the mutilation one for the South, one for the North ject; by allowing myself to be sent fire this curious monument was split proposed in the substitute for the including Ulster. These bodies have into a trance or each and every in two, but no sign of this can now Home Rule Act on the statute-book," the option of creating a single legls- Sunday Descamps was held is his be detected, one consuming ambition, which was terested to find that the modern up, "Ireland greets Premier Lloyd reserved to the Imperial Parliament. The party were in As the New York World sums it lature for Ireland with all powers not to introduce me to the world as a Paul's Cross is not (as its inscription George's Home Rule proposal with The Irish representation at West- champion boxer. With very truth states it is) on the actual site of the disdain." Ulster, it says,

can assure you that neither Des original Cross.

wants minister is to be reduced to forty. camps nor myself has ever engaged

only union without conditions; Sinn Each of the two Trib parliaments is in one moment's study of hypnotism.

Fein will have nothing less than ab- to have taxation powers, patterned It is true, however, that I have put and weeks' close study of the man papers despair of any solution of the latures, but Britain retains Income solute disunion." Other American on those of the American state legis it on record that before a fight Des-who is to be my opponent. camps takes into himself all that

Irish problem for some time to come. and profit taxes, castorns, excise and Now, Descamps, valuble, extrava there is in me except my ability to

The New York Herald thinks that S postal service. Each House is to gant, insistent from the very first fight and my passion for fighting, that I knew him intimately; I got said the other day that no plan for Jaw and order, except for the higher I felt sure before I met Beckett Horace Plunkett was right when he control local matters and preserve day I became his pupil, used to con Which statement, though a figure of into the inside of his mind; I felt as Ireland "evolved in England by Eng-judiciary and the Army and Navy. jure up pictures of the time when I speech, is no wild exaggeration. But watched him walk uneasily around fishmen would ever be effective." would be champion of the world, he does receive into himself my the ring in his faded dressing gown when both of us would be enormnormal non-fighting self because of that he was obsessed by

Ireland is to "have advantage of all ously wealthy. And this is how we his or my hypnotic power; this he does feeling

But the New York Evening Post duties and taxes in excess of a fair the agrees with Premier Lloyd George contribution to the Imperial Govern set out to gain fame and fortune. because in a manner quite remark him that he was

and the sureness in rhen he says that the settlement of ment," now estimated at about Little or nothing was known about able I can, and do, detach myself semicircle he described in his walkin the enactment of a Home-Rule Irish Parliament comes into being, it la base anglaise in Northern France, from everything except my immediate convinced me that he suffered im scheme, but in its operation. The may expect to receive additional The the Irish problem is not to be found $80,000,000 a year. If the United and, being so young, the day when I purpose, which is to fight when I patience to demonstrate to those who trouble, it says is not that Ireland's grants of power under the Crown, would have a match was remote.ake the ring; and it is Descamps-looked on that by his bigness, his ills are past remedy, but that a but any attempt at secession, will be Descamps, though "The Professor," by his sympathy, by his great leve power, he could win the fight. and incidentally 20 incorrigible for me, by our long association, who optimist, was splendidly conselous has taught me how, so long as I straight away landed my left hand actually applied. It bids English I was sure of victory when I been tried to the point of being

thoroughgoing remedy has never pu: down with a firm hand. that neither of us could live on remain a pugilist to future possibilities. His pupils were wholly and entirely upon my work.

concentrate fully in the face, for then I knew men hake off that "paralyzing! not sufficiently numerous to bring

Beckett was engaged in trying to fatalism" From the moment I agree to erunravel a puzzle which he, perhaps among them when, they talk of two cases of diphtheria, two of

which is so common him more than a handful of francs, gage in a match it a plainly under without knowing it, had made. their sister island. How, asks enteric, and three of cerebrospinal Notifiable disease last week was and so every Sunday at a very early stood between Descamps and myself Beckett did not think about the The Evening Post, can the assertion fever. Since then we have had one hour we would set out from Lens for that I am to be neither troubled nor science of the game and so suffered that the Irish question is hopeless be case (imported) of smallpox and some country place, may be ten or twelve miles distant. Having arrived concerned about details.

from mental fogginess.

maintained until the attempt to two of c. s. fever. there, we would separate, so that We, I think, enjoy a unique posi That I or anybody else, put, the refute is has been made? And the Descamps might find the best, and tion. We are not bound together by magic spell" over him; that 1, or New York paper continuesin this most frequented cafen

any contract. He is my manager anybody else, hypnotised, him, is, of hopeful and practical strain: because he has always been my course, preposterous: manager.

Georges, you are to fight So-and-So Descamps comes to me and says,

Into one or more he would go, and while he took some inexpensive and Anocuous refreshment, he would fail to taking stock of his fellows. With one or two of them he would engage on such a date."

in conversation, and reap a big store It is Descamps who arranges all of local knowledge. As soon as pos-financial matters. I fight, not with sible he would come to my hiding a "hypnotic punch," but after days"

BECKETT'S PSYCHOLOGY.

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..I bit Beckett hard on the chin with my whole body were in that blow, my right band; my mind, my soul, and so I.held to the European heavy weight championship.

The boxing hypnotist has not yet

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