Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1911 — Page 2

LUCK A BIG FACTOR

BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE OFTEN DECIDED BY SMALL sit. - -- CTMIMA&. •'' : ■>-•?’•«-■ M:"'- . HOW PITTSBURG LOST OUT T-' 4?»‘< .•>* “ x Might Have Won Great Bittie of ISOS If Club Had Known Facta In Conj teat With Chicago—Tinker’s Stage Fright By HUGH 8. FULLERTON. rg Baseball championships often depend upon the slightest turn of the .wheel of fortune. Often a pebble, even a tough blade of grass, will turn the entire season and make or- mar the prospects of a club. Possibly the closest shave ever a championship dub had was that of the Chicago Cubs In IMS. That waa the year that Merkle forgot to touch second base, the year that the Chicago club finished tie with New York after beating Pittsburg in the last game of the season, and then won the pennant and later the world’s championship by winning from New York in the play off of the tie game. This yarn Is about that last game of the season with Pittsburg. There is no harm in telling It now, but if the Pittsburg club had known the facts that day it could have claimed the pennant and. won It without an effort. The Chicago club had been on the road, battling desperatetly to hold even with New York. The Pittsburg team, coming from behind with a tremendous rush, had unexpectedly leaped to the front On that last day of the season—Sunday, the situation was this: New York was done. If Pittsburg won the Pirates won the pennant on percentage. If Chicago won the Cubs and New York would be exactly tied. Chicago was baseball crazy. Over 82,000 persons piled into the grounds to see that struggle which was to determine the championship of the National league. The crowd was banked around the playing field fortj deep and every ball that was fouled into the crowd disappeared never to return. And thereby hangs' this tale. Secretary Williams, of the Cubs, had been on the road with the team. When he left home there were hundreds of balls boxed and ready for use, he jerked out two dozen balls, and sent them to the umpires when play started, but within two innings those balls had disappeared into the crowd and the umpires were demanding more. Secretary Williams, summoned from his duties of watching the crowds, rushed for new balls and to his dismay discovered that only a bare half dozen balls were left. The others had disappeared. Not a ball that was fouled off was coming back into play and it was certain that the half dozen new balls would not last more than an inning or two. Failure to furnish bails meant forfeiture of the game and the pennant for Pittsburg and it was certain that Manager Clartee; would not hesitate to seize the advantage. The situation called for action and Secretary Williams acted. It was Sunday and Spalding’s store was closed, but inside of three minutes an automobile containing one of the park employees armed with a key to the store was racing down Jackson boulevard to bring balls. Meantime

"I'm Glad to See You Using Your Noodle at Last."

Secretary Williams, with a bushel of practice balls, balls that had been used and were being kept for morning practice work, was clinging to a screen on top of the stand watching each ball that was fouled off. Every ball that he saw go Into or over the stand and disappear he replaced with a practice ball tossed onto the field near the umpires. In spite of his work there were only • four balls In the bands of the umpires. Neither Clarke nor the umpires detected the trick. By the fifth inning seven balls were in the hands of the umpire. Sbeckard came to bat and fouled off four rapidly, and watch as he could Williams could only get one back onto the field. Two more were fouled off. An honest fan over in the right field crowd threw back one. He did not know It, but his honesty may have saved the pennant for the Cubs. The supply had dwindled until the umpire was demanding balls when that one came back and It gave Williams a new chance. He took desperate chances and threw three more balls onto the field, all from different points on top of the stand, and wlth- . out arousing suspicion. Meantime the man who bad gone after new balls had been held up for speeding on the return trip from the store and was

delayed ten minutes. The aituatfoa was desperate tn the seventh inning when the auto flashed up in front of the office, and a few momenta later Secretory Williams was able to furnish now balls as fast umpires demanded them and the danger was “The only time I ever got stage fright,” relates Joe Tinker, the actorball player, “was the night I opened in vaudeville this fall, and the cause of It all was one of the wisest baseball sane I ever saw In my life. Ho knows baseball all right, but I never saw him before and I certainly hope I never will again. “When I first started trying to act it was pretty hard on the nerves, but I got interested In the work—which was hard for me, and forgot ail about the audience. After one season I thought I wouldn’t have any trouble and when I went onto the stage at Danville, 111., to try out the sketch I was as cool as If it waa a ball game. Down in the second row. on the aisle

“He Gave Me Cub Signals With His Eyes and Hands.”

was a big easy-lobklng fellow and I decided he would be a good man to play to as the stage director told me when I first started always to pick out one or two persons and alm at them while acting. I never made a worse guess in my life, even when trying to figure whether Bender was going to pitch a curve or a fast ball. ‘7 hardly had got started when that fellow began to give me the Cub signals with his eyes and hands. The first thing he .did after catching my eye was to slip me the hit and run signal that Steinfeldt and I used last year. I don’t know how he got it, but when he flashed it I began to weaken. Then he switched and signalled me to bunt. I tried to get my eyes off him and watch someone else, but it wasn’t any use. When I looked back again he signalled me that I was to cover second, using the same signal Evers uses, and I nearly forgot what I was doing. He had me on the run. I was nearing the climax of the act and had almost forgotten him when I happened to catch his eye again. He was getting up from his seat and looked bored. Without a smile he signaled Chance’s signal to steal. I stuck to the base, but I never was more tempted to try to steal—into the wings—than I was right there. “I don’t know him or how he got his his signals, but if he comes around again I’ll strike out sure.”

Cecil Ferguson, the Adonis of the Boston National league team, made what was perhaps the most peculiar assist ever made In the season of 1910. The play came up late in the season in a game against Brooklyn and resulted in a victory for the Boston team. At least it prevented Brooklyn from taking the lead and as Boston afterward won the game the chances are the play turned the tide. Ferguson was 'pitching. Both teams had been hitting bard and making many runs and Fergy was thrown in to save the day with a runner on third base and one out He pitched well enough, but in spite of his efforts the batter drove a fly to Miller, who was over in deep left center. The runner held his base and the batter tore around first to race to second on the throw to the plate. Ferguson went over on a line between the short stop and catcher, being ready to catch the ball and throw to second base in case he decided there wasn't a chance to catch the runner going home. He decided at the last instant, that Miller's throw wae good enough to catch the runner at the plate and dodged quickly into a stooping position to let the ball go on to Harry Smith, who was catching. But in dodging Fergy miscalculated the shoot of the ball, which darted downward, cracking him on the top of the head. Instead of losing the game the accident won It, as the ball carromed perfectly off the pitcher's pate into Smith's hands and tbe runner was out at the plate by a foot And, as Fergy came to the bench Manager Fred Lake cruelly remarked: *Tm glad to see you using your noodle at last.” (Copyright, DU. by Joseph B. Bowles.)

Life All Too Short.

“It is a great honor for a statesman to have his portrait circulated before the gaze of posterity on our national currency,” remarked the treasury official. "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum; “and yet did you ever know anybody to hold on to a dollar bill long enough to know whose picture is on it?”—Washington Star.

Invisible.

“Here’s a foot-note which says, •See Webster.’" "Meaning Noah?” u . .'\ r .j.?../. ... ‘lt would bo a hard matter to see him now.” .. .

OUR LADY OF THE BANKS, PATRON SAINT OF AVIATORS

PARIS. —On the initiative of M. Odelin, former member of the legislative chamber, a little chapel called Notre Dame du Platin —Our Lady of the Banks —has just been built on the French coast near the spot where Bleriot started his memorable flight across the channel and which has since then been the point of landing of his daring followers. This modest chapel has been consecrated to the aviators, and Our Lady of the Banks has been instituted as protector of the men in the air. Medals bearing the effigy of this new Notre Dame are being struck off and will be offered to all the leading aviators. The designs of the medal are the work of the sculptor Jampolsky. On one side is the Image of the Virgin Mary, classical in conception yet modern in treatment; on the other, the reproduction of the sanctuary overlooking the banks at the very edge of which is a towering lighthouse.

FIND ANCIENT RUINS

Clay Diggers Unearth Steps of Temple of Sacrifice. Discovery of Aztec Temple, Antedating Invasion of Mexico by Spanish Under Hernando Cortez, by Possibly Centuries. San Antonio, Texas.—ls Indian <?lay diggers and potters are to be believed mysterious lights at night, and strange sounds during the day, at a site near San Miguel Amaztla have led to the discovery of an Aztec tern-, pie antedating the invasion of Mexico by the Spanish under Hernando Cortez by possibly centuries. Since time Immemorial the Indians In the vicinity have claimed that both the lights and the noise had been observed by many and it has been impossible to get any of them to approach the scene of the alleged phenomenon—a mound located to one side of a narrow lane leading from the Atzcapotzalco-San-tlago Ahuixotli road to the village of San Miguel. Recently, however, some of them were Induced to dig clay near the base of the mound and In the progress of their work they came across the steps of a teocalll, one-of the pyramid temples of the Aztecs. When first found the ruins were thought to be those of an old ranch house or granary, but soon unmistakable signs of their prehistoric character were met. So far little excavation work has been done. Above the temple, says the Mexican Dally Record, early Spanish farmers had erected a low circular wall, the Inclosure being used for the thrashing of grain. This wall was torn down a few weeks ago and under it and at the base of the temple wall were found Idol statuettes, broken pottery, ashes and bones thought to originate with human sacrifices made to appease the wrath of Hultzlopochitli, the great god of the Aztec system of religion. At a depth of ten feet below the present soil surface a cement floor was found and under it more Aztec statuettes, pottery and human bones. Here also the remains of an older wall were discovered. In view of the fact that the base of the temple is ten feet below the present surface of the ground, there is little doubt that the structure is a very old one. Possibly the surface of the mound represents the platform of the teocalll. The fact that ashes and bones were found on it is ample proof that such is the sase. The Mexican teocalll, or temple, was a pyramid of earth faced with stone, and on its summit stood the sacrificial stone on

PULP WOOD FROM WASTE

Professor Frankfortor of University of Minnesota Makes Discovery of Importance. St. Paul, Minn.—Prof. George B. Frankforter, dean of the College of Chemistry of the Minnesota State university, has announced the details of a discovery made by him by which, he declares, through the utilisation of waste wood and sawdust the United States will produce one hundred times more pulp wood than was believed possible. “It means,” he says, “that every cord of fir lumber will yield $lO profit on by-products alone, and that the greater part of the 60 per cent, of a tree now wasted will be turned into dollars and cents.” Professor Frankforter predicts that huge plants will be built as the result of his discovery and that the new industry will assume proportions of great magnitude. G A. Smith, Of the C. A.‘Smith Timber company, is interested with Professor Frankforter in the process. So convinced Is he of the enormous commercial value of the discovery that an experimental plant Is now being constructed, and a mammoth plant Is already planned, to be erected in the far west.

BOTH SIDES OF THE MEDAL FOR AVIATONS

which the victims were killed by having their hearts torn from their living bodies, certain portions of the body being then made burnt offerings to the deity to whom the. temple .was dedicated. The remainder of thecorpse was then thrown down the steep sides of the teacalli and left there. A feature of the temple at San Miguel is that around Its present base grows a druidlike circle of large trees. In its vicinity are many other mounds, mostly small, and it is therefore quite possible that here at one time stood an Aztec city. Clay diggers and potters living near by have found tremendous quantities of small stone idols, jade beads, earthenware, with Aztec decorations and itzll knives, such as used by priests in opening the breasts of the victims of their creed. According to , present calculations, Aztec civilization in Mexico is not over 700 years old, but it would seem that this period will have to be added to considerably, for the reason that it must have taken centuries to bury the structure at Ban Miguel Amaztla.

A BIG MASONIC TEMPLE

Magnificent Structure to Be Built in Chicago. Work on Great Bujldlng r to Cost |405,000, to Begin May- I—Auditorium,1 —Auditorium, to Have Seating Capacity of 4,500. Chicago.—More beautiful than any Masonic temple In the country, or in the world, for that matter, will be the building that the Shrlners of Medlnah Temple will dedicate to the uses of the craft In Chicago at Ohio, Cass and Ontario, streets, it is declared. Plans for the structure already are well .under way. Building operations will begin by the first of May. Early in April, 1912, the dedication will take place. When completed the building will represent an outlay of $405,000, which is more money than the far-famed New theater of New York cost its millionaire founders. Of'course, in the case of the Medlnah temple, the cost of the land was a comparatively small item compared with the extensive New theater property that borders on Central Park West in New York. The Lambert Tree property, on which the new Medlnah Temple is to

Doctor Frankforter has experimented on his processes tor twelve years. The developed process consists in taking small pieces of waste wood or sawdust, laying them on a steel incline over a furnace, and subjecting them to a chemical process of distillation. Carbon disulphide or gasoline is poured over the sawdust, dissolving the turpentine and resin, which pass off as gases into a coil of pipes leading to a tank The process 18 similar to the distillation of sugar. The wood pulp remains, free from pitch and suitable for the manufacture of paper. The present method of distillation leaves the pulp in the form of charcoal

Emigrants Prove Ungrateful.

London.—The members of the emigration subcommittee of the Birmingham distress committee report that they experience difficulty in securing repayment of the amounts advanced to emigrants, although many- of the persons assisted are now well able to repay. Since 1906 the committee have expended >IO,OOO in assisting emigration, and the repayments amount to >IOO only, to each case the emigrant had entered into a bond to repay the loam

COOKS ARE ALL GRADUATES

New Jersey Club Women Are Inter* ested in Movement to Solve Servant Girl Problem. " Montclair, N. J.—Club women from all parts of New Jersey are Interested in a state-wide movement started by the New Jersey Women’s Prbgresslve league to solve the servant-girl problem. The plan would provide better servants by establishing training and cooking schools in the cities of the state. The students will be taught every branch of housework. Organization of classes for practical Instruction to housewives also Is planned. Under the proposed system servants will receive diplomas. The curriculum will provide the following classes: Special butlers’ and v waitresses’ course; cooks’ practical classes, early fall course in pickling and preserving, chafing-dish course, camp cooking course, lectures on the individual consumption of food, purchasing and kitchen bookkeeping.

315,000,000 Is India Census.

Calcutta: —The final provisional census returns give the total population of India as 315,000,000, an increase of 20,500,000 as compared with 1901.

stand, runs 105 feet on Ohio, 218 on Cass and 150 feet on Ontario, situated directly behind the Studio building, which fronts on State street. Messrs. Huehl and'Schmidt-are the architects for the new building, and Mr. Huehl, with a large staff of assistants, is personally at work on the drawings. The first floor, underneath the auditorium, will be occupied by the banqueting rooms. The auditorium proper will be in the form of a great theater, seating over 4,500 people, a capacity as large as the Auditorium theater before the recent alterations. There will be three tiers, the first floor seating 1,280, the balcony will have .a capacity of 1,672, and the gallery will bold 1,580 persons. Then there will be numerous boxes besides. L. There will be large parlors, candidates’ rooms, rooms for the caretaker, for the Arab patrol and for the bands, in the two wings on each side of the stage. A magnificent new organ is to be a part of the equipment While it has been definitely settled that the style of architecture shall be Turkish, it has not been finally determined of what material the building shall be constructed. Mr. Huehl said he hoped to be able to use terracotta and brick. In Turkey, however, they use for their elaborate effects a red freestone which they can cut almost like butter, and so get the most ornate decorative results with little cost There, too, the climate Is not quite as strenuous as it Is here, and the flight of time does not leave upon buildings such perceptible damage. Another important consideration is the fact that to get the same decorative effect with terracotta the expense in this count try would be enormous. 1 would be more like engraving than sculpture work,** said Mr. Huehl, “and the mpn who do this work charge seven dollars a day.** Arrangements have been almost completed for the sale of the present temple to Oriental Consistory when the Shrlners of Medinah temple move Into their new home. Members of Medinah temple bewail the fact that they have to leave their present building, which has always been very much admired. The move was a necessity, however, since they have quite outgrown their present quarters, and It is barely posslble to get their members into the build ing, much less Into the auditorium, special occasion. There are 9,000 members of Medinah temple living today. They are scattered all over the world, but 6,000 of them live In Cook county, and their present hall holds barely 1,100 persons. —— ' Every man’s business, whatever it is, becomes a liberal education to him, just as soon and just as far as he Uvea, not In tte methods, but tn its princk I pies.—Phillips Brook*. .

THE FLEETING YEARS

PMMHE days of our years ■.*»! three score yean and wn;| JfJBL jk and If by reason of strength wlK.ii they be four score cutoff and we fly away. ... So* teach us to number our day* that we may apply our hearts unto window; Psalm 90:10-12. . Monday. come now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and 1 get gain; whereas ye know not; what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall both Uvel and do this or that James 4'. 13-15. Tuesday. Rejoice, O young man, In thy youths and letthy heart'cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into Judgment. . Remember now thy Creator In the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shaft say, -1 have no pleasure in them. . . . Then shall the dust return to the. earth as It was; and Mie spirit shall return unto God who gave it Eccl. 11:9; 12:1-7. Wednesday, Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day. may bring forth. Prov. 27:1. Thursday. If ye call on him as father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear. . . . For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the GentilesJ . . . who shall give account to him that is ready to Judge the living and the dead. 1 Peter 1:17; 4:3-5. ? Friday. I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm and the caterpiller, and the pal-mer-worm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you. Joel 2:25-26. Saturday, Forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand year* as one day. ’The Lord is not Mack concerning his promise, as some count slackness,’.but is long-suffering to you* ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens (the sky) shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned; up. Seeing that these things are thus all to. be dissolved, what manner of persons ought to be in holy living and godliness, looking for and earnestly de* siring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 2 Peter 3:8-18.

Our Own Burden.

Every man bears his own burden, fights his own battles, walks in the path which no other feet have'trodden. God alone knows us through and through. And he loves us, as Keble says, better than he knows. He hag Isolated us from all besides that he alone may have our perfected confidence, and that we may acquire the habit of looking to him alone for perfect sympathy. He will come into the solitude in which the soul dwells and make the darknss bright • with hie presence and break the monotonous silence with words of love. We have him only to speak to; he alone can understand us. He will rejoice with us when we rejoice and weep with us when we weep. The heart knoweth Its own bitterness; God knows It too; and though a stranger cannot intermeddle with its joy, ha whose temple and dwelling place is the soul that loves him is no stranger, but the soul’s most intimate and only friend. —R. W. Dale.

Meekness.

. You should make a special point of asking God every morning to give you, before all else, that true spirit of meekness which he z would have hla children possess. You must also make a firm resolution to practice yourself In this virtue, especially In your intercourse withthqse persons to whom you chiefly owe It. Yau must make It your main object to conquer yourself In this matter; call it to mind a hundred times during the day, commending your efforts to God. It seems to me that no more than, this is needed In order to subject your soul entirely to his win, and then you win become more gentle day by day. trusting wholly in his goodness. You wtil be very happy, my dearest child, if you can do this, for God win dwell ta your heart; and where ho reigns an Is peace. But if you should fail and commit some of your old faults, do not be dWwartened, but rise, up, and go on again as though you had not fallen.—Saint Francis de Sales.