Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1910 — Page 3

TAKE WEEKLY BATHS

j . ... (Citizens of Aurora Startled by Health Department Orders! iflule Will Be Strictly Enforced and ! Violations Will Invite Prosecutfons to Fullest Extent of Law —Ban on Files Excites. Aurora, Ill.—Take a bath once a week. Do not spit on the floors, even of your own house. Sinks, wash bowls, etc., must be kept strictly clean. ! < Keep out the flies. i 1 Sweep the floors thoroughly each nay and scrub them at least once each jweek. No more than two persons may (Bleep In a small room and not more than five in a room of moderate jsize. All rooms, especially sleepingrooms, ,must be kept clean and well venItilated. Windows must be kept open in all |bedftoms. Bed clothing must be thoroughly aired at least once a week. 1 Yards must be kept free from disease breeding rubbish and refuse. Place garbage in regulation cans and set them oht on day of collection. Publication of the above rules -by Aurora’s *board of health was accompanied by a notice from Dr. A. R- Reder, health officer, that they would be strictly enforced, and that (Violations would invite prosecution “to .the fullest extant of the law." Moreover, Frank Mitchell, chief of police, (Signed his name below Dr. Reder’s as a warning that seekers for leniency ■need not look to him. “Those rules go,-’* said the police chief, grimly. “Every one must take his bath and do the rest of the stunts. And I want to say right now that we

ATE INK NUTS BY MISTAKE

Long Island Folk Thought They Were Mushrooms—All Seized With Nausea and Delirium. Hempstead, L. I.—Gathering In Garden City park what looked like mushrooms, but proved to be ink nuts, resulted in serious Illness to more than |a dozen persons here the other day. Mrs. F. A. Sawyer and her daughter, |Mrs. Keith Trask, one of the trio of Rasters, with their maid, were aB seized with acute nausea and delirium (directly after eating the nuts at luncheon. Dr. Charles D. Cleghorn and R. D. (Grimmer were summoned and strong jaalts were administered with other remedies. Mrs. Sawyer was delirious for six hours and In a critical condition. Mrs. Trask and the maid responded more quickly to the treatment, but It took three days for them to regain their normal condition. Members of E. D. W. Blecker’s and Dr. Joseph O’Connor’s families also had a similar experience after eating Ink nuts. These nuts have slim stems land straight leaves turning up, all of which are reverse characteristics of the umbrella edible mushrooms, appearing only in the autumn on the Hempstead plains.

Drives Goats Across Continent.

Washington.—-Having driven a team of Angora goats a distance of more than 4,000 miles as the result of a wager, Captain V. Edwards, a ranch owner of San Diego, Cal., arrived here from San Diego today.

Pellagra Victim.

Providence, R. I. —The dreaded -.flease pellagra has claimed its first victim In this state In the death the other day of William Riley, aged fiftyfive, an Inmate of the state almshouse.

HISTORY OF CHESTER TOLD IN PAGEANTRY

FOLLOWING the example of many other ancient towns of England, the old city of Chester has been giving a living representation of its history in the form of a great pageant The affair lasted a week and was divided up Into an Introduction, eight episodes and a finale. The episodes were as follows: I.—Agricola returns to De- \ va after defeating the Ordovlces, A. D. 78. H.—King Edgar on his imperial progress, with Queen Elfrida, receives the homage of Tributary Princes, A. D. 973. IHJ-Hugh Lupus, with St Anselm, founds the Abbey of St. Werburgh, A. D. 1093. IV. —Archbishop Baldwin preaches the Crusade at Chester, A. D. 1189. V.—Prince Edward, first Royal Earl of Chester, and Princess Eleanor, visit Chester, A. D. 1256. VI. —Richard H. Is brought a prisoner to Chester by Henry Bolingbroke, A. D. 1399. Vll.—King James L visits Chester, Introducing the Midsummer Revels, A. D 1617. Vll.—Siege of Chester, Visit of King Charles, A? D. 1645.

are not working in the Interest of the bathtub trust, either.” Dr. Reder further' announces that he or some other attache of the health department would visit every residence each week to see that the new rules ■ were being obsrved. As soon as the new health laws became known there was trouble in Aurora. Former Senator A. J. Hopkins said he thought the regulations were "sane and conservative,” but there were others who wondered how Dr. Reder would be able to satisfy himself on his Inspection tours, whether the once a week bath had been taken as required. “That may be a puzzler occasionally,” said the doctor, “but if I should hale the wrong .man, woman or child into court, wouldn’t it be a matter of evidence? The wise-ones will have their alibis—l mean they will be able to show that they took their dip or soak of whatever the variety was. Proof will lie with members of the family, you know, or receipts at the barber shop.” t Every portable bathtub in Aurora was bought up within an hour after Dr. Reeder’s proclamation was made. Dealers in plumbing supplies all sent in rush orders for bathroom equipment and hot water attachments for kitchen stoves. The towel department of the dry goods stores did a rushing business. Drug stores made record sales of shower apparatus. Next to the bathing regulations, the ban on flies most excited Auroraites. Although Dr Reder told inquirers he “did not Intend to be unreasonable,” he wouldn’t say how many flies to the cubic yard would be allowed without a penalty. However, less blue bottle flies than of the ordinary or garden variety will be permitted. He suggested that parents offer rewards of say five cents a hundred to stimulate the activity of their children with wadded newspapers.

RIDES A BUCKING PORPOISE.

Too Big to Land by Hook and Line, Sea Denizen Gives Fisherman Startling Experience. New York. —Captain Charles Penny, of Flanders, L. 1., is probably the first man who has successfully ridden a bucking porpoise. The pOrpolse was a big bull, head of a herd of twenty,, which had Interfered with the fishing of Penny and his associates. They decided to shoot him and did wound him. Then they found they had no boathook to land their prize. “Walt a minute, boys; I’m going to have that fellow," said Penny. Without removing clothis or hat, he leaped overboard* landed astride of the broad back of the fish, twisted his feet around his body and his arms around the neck and hung on. The fish found a new spark of life when this unlooked for enemy landed on his upper deck. He gave a snort and dived for the bottbm of Peconic bay. This did not frighten Penny, for he Is about as much atjiome In the water as the porpoise, and, as to speed, he had attempted some of that on land in running an automobile. He knew, too, that the fish would have to come to the surface very quickly to blow, for he was three-quarters dead before the excursion started. So he held oh. ’ When the porpoise did come up, a minute or so later, Penny was a long way from his boat, but still astride the porpoise. So he reached around the porpoise’s head with one arm and rammed a big fish hook z lnto Its nose, the fish made another feeble effort to get away, but it was no use. “Hey! you fellows! Come over here and get your fish!” shouted Pdnny to his fellow-fishermen. The combined strength of the men

PAY $500 FOR RARE PRINT

“Bloody Massacre In King Street, Boston,” Is Sold at Auction in New York. New York.—The Hire Paul Revere print, "The Bloody Massacre in King street, Boston, on March 5, 1770, by a party of‘the Twenty-ninth regiment,” brought SSOO, the highest price at the Edwin Babcock Holden sale in the American art galleries. An even rarer print, the contemporary piracy of the Revere engraving, published at New Bury Port, sold for $150; a collection of portraits by St Memln and others, made by St Memin’s soot and bound in a quarto volume, $310; “Battle of Bunker Hill” and "Death of Montgomery,” indorsed by Colonel John Trumbull, $160; two original colored copies of the battle between the British ship Shannon and tl > United States frigate Chesapeake, $162; the victory of the United States frigate Constitution over the British frigate Guerriere, $160; explosion of the British frigate Guerriere, sl3l. The capture of the British frigate Java by the Constitution brought $114; battle between the British frigate Endymion and the United States ship President, $170; capture of the British sloop of war Frolic by the United States sloop of war Wasp, $135; the American ketch Intrepid, commanded by Decatur, boarding and burning the Tripolitan frigate (late the Philadelphia) in the harbor of Tripoli, $117; a mezzotint of Lord Cornwallis, slls, and mezzotints of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, S4B.

Urges More Child Spanking.

Greeley, Col. —American children are not sufficiently sparked, declared Dr. G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark university, Worcester, Mass., in an address here the other day. "I do not believe in too much flogging, but it should not be abolished,” he asserted. “Americans protect their children too much, and it makes them precocious and disrespectful. A little slapping now and then reinforce the moral purposes of the child.”

could not lift the fish to the boat, so Mr. Porp was towed to Riverhead, where it took seven meh to pull him out on the dock. The fish measured feet and weighed more than five hundred pounds. His body is nearly as large as a flour barrel.

NEW YORKER ASKS NEW COIN

Banker Declares Ration Needs Two and One-Half Cent Piece for Small Change. t New York.—The coinage of a two and one-half cent piece by the United States government is urged in a statement given out here by William H. Short, a New York banker, who declares that the use of such a coin would mean a saving of $39,000,000 yearly to consumers. “The absence of such coinage,” he says, “has resulted in the universal custom of the sellers taking the half cent whenever a transaction does not result in even mopey. I suppose it would be a safe estimate to say that each family loses the half cent on an average of ten times a week, resulting in their paying $2.60 a year above the price of articles purchased. “There are about 15,000,000 families in the United States, exclusive of the merchants, and figuring on the basis knentioned, they are losers yearly from this cause the approximate sum of $39,000,000.”

War Machine Trade.

Berlin.—German gun factories are fairly swamped with orders, according to the military expert of the Taegliche Rundschau.

HOW PURTELL GOT HIS START

Clever Little Third Baeeman Saye Its Hard to Play Ball but Harder to Sit on Bench. (By WILLIAM PURTELL) My father was a ball player and I think he always wanted his boys to play the game professionally. He was an infielder and in his time one of the best and fastest men in the game. He played at Syracuse and with other eastern teams, but retired from baseball while still young, because he could make more money in other ways. The love of the ganfe still was strong in him, and even up to the present time he is hard to beat. I think he meant one of his boys to be a player, and when we were little fellows he used to take us into the yard and coach us and teach us the game, as It r.hould be played. > I started playing with kid teams around Columbus, Ohio, my home, and then, with the high school team. At night after a game I would talk the plays over with father and ask his advice as to how the plays ought to have been made. In this way T learned a lot and also became known among the fellows, because I could tell them things about the game. I pitched and played third for the high school team. I was scarcely more than a “kid” when I went to Decatur as a third baseman, or short stop. I did pretty well there and was much pleased when Columbus wanted me, as I hoped to play ball at home, where I could see the people and be patted on the back. I player is a pretty tough one for a kid starting out, and there were lots of bitter nights for me then, when I wanted to quit and run home. It was rough experience especially for a boy who has been praised and applauded in a school team, but it was valuable to me because it taught me the game and made me fight. I did not stay In th<s minors long. Twice Columbus called me back and

Billy Purtell.

sent me away again, and then Chicago bought me and put me on bench duty. If playing ball Is hard, playing on the bench is harder. I had a lot of that bench work, fretting my heart out because I couldrA be In there playing the game and longing for a chance to show them I could make good. They shifted me around in positions, too, which made It harder. One thing I learned was to Jump in, do the best I could, obey orders and not make excuses no matter what happened. I was playing with older and much more experienced men, and I watched them and tried to from them. I found I could learn even from the worst erf them something that might help me. I was nearly killed by a pitched ball, and for a time It shook all the nerve out of me. I determined to fight it out, and after a time was surprised to find myself less afraid than ever, and more determined.

NEW CURVE BRINGS SUCCESS

Wonderful Achievements of Russell Ford of Highlanders Due to Spitball Curve. The wonderful success of Russell Ford, the star pitcher of the Highlanders, is due principally to development of a freak spitball curve. Lajole was unable to find it the other day and did not get a single drive off- the young architect. The regular spitball is thrown by covering the tips of the first and second fingers with saliva so that the ball will slip .off those fingers and not take a rotary motion. The ball, therefore, gets its direction from the thumb and wabbles to the plate In a peculiar, Jerky fashion. The only trouble with that curve is the Inability of the pitcher to make it break "in” or “out” to the batter according to the wishes of the twfrier. Ford has solv,ed that problem by inventing a way of making the curve break in. Ford found that by moistening the knuckle of his third finger with saliva that the ball would sHp off from the side instead of the tips of the fingers, and as there was no friction on the right aide of the ball Jt would gradually drop “Inside” of the plate. He controls It perfectly. He can also make the ball ty-eak outward by moistening the thumb.

Buffalo Team Crippled.

These are the handicaps under which the Buffalo team la laboring] George Merritt, broken right arm; Charles Starr, broken bone in right hand; Edward Sabrie, twisted ankle; Catcher Williams, two broken Angara. ------ J ——.—

VETERAN PITCHER IS MARVEL

Cy Young won the five hundredth game of his long career recently when Cleveland defeated Washington In the second game of a double-header 5 to 2. The contest went eleven Innings, Young allowing but one hit In eight.

McGRAW PICKS CUBS TO WIN

Manager of New York National League Team Gives Reasons for Select-. Ing Chlcagos. That so eminent a baseball authority as John McGraw should scan the baseball situation with an unbiased eye and give the Cubs the best chance of winning the pennant this year has cheered that team considerably. They know that many things—unexpected

Manager McGraw.

to be relied upon when he talks baseball in a purely Impersonal manner. This is what McGraw has to say about the pennant race: T am not giving up the fight yet—not by any means, believe me. Neither Clarke nor Griffith should give ft up, either, for baseball Is a mighty uncertain sort of a game, and you and I know that many things unexpected (things—may happen , that would change the whole complexion of the race. r “Still, If you were to ask me, not as the leader of the Giants, but as a student of form, both of men and /of horses, who was going to win this race, rd be obliged to say, “The Cubs.” /‘Reason? Not their pitching staff. Nd, and not their individual or collective experience as players. It’s aim-

"Cy” Young.

ply this: Their experience and thei steady, consistent play they can keep' up without the rattles 'lnterfering.; Don’t you see? If they were so oldi that they couldn’t stand the strain,: that would make things different: Their experience wouldn’t save them: then. But they are still young enough to go the route, believe me; and that' with their long training In the field of championship ball, will carry them through. ' “There are three teams out of the first four that cannot put up the steady concerted game needful to beat the Cubs.”

NOVEL RULING BY CHIVINGTON

President of American Association Or* den One Inning to Be Played to Settle Dispute. President Thomas Chlvlngton of thei American association promulgated; one of the strangest decisions in base-: ball history, ordering the second game of the double header between Columbus and Minneapolis on June 30„ which went only seven and one-half Innings, to be finished after a regular game to be played here soon. On June 30 Umpire Guthrie calledthe game with Minneapolis ahead, si to 4, on account of darkness. Manager Friel of Columbus protested thecontest, and It was established that It' was light enough tt> continue play. 1

DIAMOND GOSSIP

Boston Nationals have made 1* home runs this year, and the team 1«1 .in last place. , ■ Heine Peltz, the deposed manager of the Louisville Colonels, Is now managing the Lancaster team In the P-O----league. Artie Hofman,. center fielder of the Cubs, Is batting .316 in 83 games. Magee ofq Philadelphia Is batting .322 in. 92 games played. Fred Tenney is the latest addition, to the authors among the ball players. He will become a full-fledged writer after the baseball season thia fall. Snodgrass of New York is leading the league in batting with .392 In 3T games played. Campbell, former Cub, is second, with .383 In 50 games played. Jerry Downs, who was a member of the Senators before going to the American association, Is slated for a berth with the Cleveland team for next season. Bill Burns reads magazines between. Innings to keep his mind off the game. That is one of the reasons, he says, that he has been able to pitch so well since he joined the Reds. Patsy Donovan of the Red Sox says the fight for the American league flag Is to be a four-cornered affair. All of them seem to think the Tigers will be in there before the finish. Beecher of Cincinnati has stolen 39 bases and Paskert of the same team has 38 to his credit. Magee of Philadelphia has stolen 28, Hofman of the Cubs has stolen 19 and Chance 12. Ban Johnson, president of the American’ league, has signed J. H. Colllflower aS -Q regular league umpire* He comes ftom the South Atlantic league, and formerly a pitcher. Paul Smith if the Canton (Ill.) team has been signed by President Murphy: for the Cubs. James Murphy, who is scouting tor the Cubs, discovered the youngster and san that he 1* a> wander. •