Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1911 — Page 2

The Boy PuBBle

DR. j.S.KIRJLEy

A boy needs quite a number of habIta, and he must have them, if he •ver expects to be much of a boy. br to become a man. His body needs the habit of turninc food into blood and (Men blood Into boy. His mind needs the habit of turning sights and sounds into truth and character. His memory is to be merely the good habit of holding on to what he has learned. His morals, at any time, are very largely the sum of his habits tn learning and practising truth and right. When nature equipped him with the power of forming habits, she did him a great kindness, for, without the reinforcement they bring, he would be no farther along the day he dies than he was the day he was born. It is that power which makes it easier to do a thing the second than the first time, still easier each subsequent time. till, by and by. the thing almost does Itself. It really may have a deterrent effect on him to know that he can get used to lying and stealing and drinking and doing every kind of badness and become more and more skillful at it and more Inured to it. through the help of habit Then he win keep his •ye on the dangerous thing. And he can more grow lazy and shiftless and cruel and selfish, or avaricious, when he once starts at It, till he becomes a bundle of vicious habits. Let him know this and also know that he can start tn the right lines and form habits that will be a propeller and a protection and form his. most valuable asset The great Dr. Broadus used to say to his students "Practise makes perfect—bad practise makes perfectly bad!" . ?. ▲ boy has to have help, at first. In Initiating his habits, for he is likely to start some wrong ones. He gets the muscular habit of walking from seeing others walk and from the guidance and support of Lands that show him how to take the first step. He will need some habits, after awhile, that he does not now know he will need and will not start, unless some one gets him at It in a directive way. And he will get some to going that he will find a great injury to him. but he does not know It now; and the most serious thing about It is that he will find It difficult to ever got rid of them, at all. Tot it does seem easy sometimes to give up good habits, while the correction of bad ones is one of the hardest things ever attempted. It seems no task to grow crooked teeth.

▲ boy la more apt to have fairly good motives than false ones. He starts out In life with something In him that will grow Into a sense of right, and. If he gets tangled. It will be because he Is taught it, through the eye or the ear or In both ways. If a boy's motives are entirely bad, he is seldom. If ever, entirely to blame for It There Is a reason. It may be, in fact a case of atavism, In which he has gone back and appropriated the fetid tastes of some vile ancestor and his parents were not wise enough to protect him against the ravages of the atavistic beast At the outset, we must concede the difficulty of knowing exactly what a boy's motives are, for his deepest most dominant motive is often tangled with superficial, secondary and temporary ones; and these may be so complex and active as to discourage us. How we can ever detach the real motive from this tangle of Impulses and make it the dominant thing is the problem. If he asks you a question. you are never sure of his pur pose. It may be fun or fancy or an evasion of duty. Two things encourage us. One is that these surface motives are not the deepest things about him. They are not the symptoms of anything bad. but of a new stage that he has reached, when new forces of the body and faculties of the mind are being released. He hardly knows what hurts him, but something is keeping his eyes wide open and his nerves all jumping. The other encouragement Is that these are the curious ways In which his very deepest and truest nature is finding Itself. His devotion to the gang is the spirit of loyalty starting toward universal brotherhood; his fondness for contests is the first exhibition of the warrior instinct getting ready to fight the good fight of faith; his Bohemianism. an incipient coimo-

polltanism; bls local attachments, the prelude to patriotism; his battles tor his partners, the forerunners of his battles in the higher Interest of his fellow men. “S; His motives will need several things. First of all they must be discovered and recognized by the older people. A young man who had lost a position, because of inefficiency, was employed by another firm, because they were compelled to have some one and he was the only one they could get. Soon they noticed that be had good suggestions to make and he found that they would listen. He began to climb and. before long, was in a very responsible position and was indispensable to the firm. When asked why he oould not keep his first job. be replied “they treated me as If I was a fool.

He and His Habits

A Boy’s Motives

but if you undertake to straighten them, the dentist will have to keep all kinds of machinery in your aching mouth, for weary weeks. But the straightening of crooked teeth and pigeon toes and bent backs and cross •yes is easy compared with the reforming habits, when they have become set Those who have looked into the workings of the brain and nerves tell us that, when we think, a certain amount of energy is discharged in the brain, and that energy goes tearing through the nerve tissues, making a path as it goes, and the next discharge of energy will follow that same path, till all of it flows that way. unless we prevent it. Habits make roads and roads must always run tn the right direction and be be built of right material. teven when a good road has been built, some wrong thought may send a discharge of energy in the wrong direction and quickly cut out a new path for the feet of habit. So one has to watch all his life. A habit will live forever. unless it is interfered with. As most of us get some undesirable habIts started we are apt to have the perpetual task of forming good ones and reforming bad ones. The great habit forming time is when he is from five to twelve years old. The. golden, age of memory is from ten to fourteen. Dr. Hawles says that, if one wants to adapt his muscular and nervous habits to the playing of the violin, he must begin before he is ten. I undertook it, after I was thirty, and soon quit. At twelve a boy comes more under the reign of law and of conscience and of his own intelligent will. No one knows when some emergency may arise that will require all the stores of strengtl secured through the aid of habit. Down in Ludlow, Ky„ a deaf old man was crossing the railroad track, when he looked up and saw an engine coming upon him. They had given him the signal but he did not hear and, coming around the curve, they were not able to stop. He did not have time to go on and climb some steps up from the level of the tracks, nor to turn around and go back. He turned a handspring backward and got out of the way, with a few harmless bruises. He did that because his muscles had formed the habit of doing such things, years before. Every good habit the boy forms will be needed in the ordinary tasks or in the emergencies.

and I acted like one.” That discloses a reason why a boy's best must be recognised. To attribute a bad motive for the freakish and prankish ways of a boy is one way of making them bad, while the surest way to make them good is to consider them so and let him know that you do. His motives will also need protection. Those that are temporary, like temporary teeth, may be treated in a way to disfigure him for life; in fact, the temporary may bs made the permanent by false treatment. A brutal attempt to suppress the outflow of his tumultuous nature may make it ingrowing, may bottle it up to be*emitter, all his life, in Inopportune ways. The war-whoop may become malignant, if it is not allowed to come out in all its innocence. The genuine good will must be allowed to effervesce in its own way, as a protection to his whole nature. His motives will also need Infection from without, so as to correct and complete them. Our growth is always by expansion from within and infection from without. If one wants to get yellow fever, he only needs to let some ambitious mosquito bore Into his cuticle, with a bill that has been dipped in a cauldron of germs, and crawl over him with feet that have a good assortment of germs clinging to them. Then the victim is ready for the worst. One can also have health infection, as in antitoxin and in the infusion of pure fresh blood from some one. Judge Baldwin of Oak Park gave his Invalid daughter some of his own vigorous blood, not long ago, by infusion. It is of the highest Importance that a boy's motives be frequently purified by fresh infusions of motives of the highest kind. When he is thus assisted, direction will be needed more than correction. Formation is a good substitute for reformation; if the former is right, the latter will not be necessary. To discover his best motives, to discriminate them from the secondary and temporary, to direct them in righteous and rational ways—this is some one's high and inescapable duty. One thing more, and it cannot be said too frequently and forcibly, he must have concrete instance of the very best motives that can be produced and must find them in those people who, because of their natural relationship to him and their personal attractions for him. are charged with sacred responsibilities for him—these who create the atmosphere that enters into his. fiber, furnish him a conscience before his own is in command and supply him with motives that reshape and guide his own.

DETROIT FANS ALWAYS REMEMBER KLING

Johnny Kling, Now Premier Catcher for Boston.

Johnny Kling’s light began to dim in the world’s series last fan. Cub fans were confident that the catcher would repeat his tactics of 1907 and 1908 when he broke the Tigers’ attack, says the Detroit Journal. Chance and his players backed their chances of winning the series by Kling breaking up the Athlletics’ hit-and-run play; but as a matter of fact, the Mackmen outguessed Kling at every point and made a ■'sucker out of him. His work was so poor that Chance used Archer be-

INGERTON IS BOSTON STAR

Manager Chance of Champion Cubs Is Sorry He Let Go of Clever • Youngster.

After seeing Ingerton and Miller, his former recruits, in action Manager Chance thinks that the big league teams should be allowed to carry at least thirty players on their pay rolls up to June at the very latest. While Chance is not belittling

Scotty Ingerton.

his judgment, he is keenly interested in the showing Scotty Ingerton has been making since he traded him to the Hnb team for Infielder Dave Shean. Ingerton has been pounding the ball to all corners of the lot and Chance has been anxious to see for himself just how good this youngster was. It will be remembered that Lngerton was traded to the Doves just before the Cubs went to West Baden. Chance had no chance to get an accurate line on the youngster, but the P L. says if be had seen him in action this spring it is a cinch he never would have traded him.

Bresnahan is Popular.

- Roger Bresnahan is having one large season of it He can be mayor of St. Louis if he can finish the season with his team tn first division.

Reulbach to Stick.

Reulbach seems to be back for some time this time.

hind the bat in the last two games of the series. But Kling was not the only Cub who played below his game in the series, and for all his fall-down in them, he is still a wonderful maskman in all departments, having a deadly throwing arm and being a rattling good hitter.

Washington Loses by Errors.

Washington manages to lose games on errors when ’the pitching is good enough to warrant their winning.

NERVE TO SPIKE M’GRAW

Dick Harley's Treatment of Giant Manager One of Big Events In Baseball History. Dick Harley, old Cincinnati, Chicago and Detroit outfielder, living in Philadelphia, was the only player who ever had the nerve to spike Muggsy McGraw when McGraw played third base for Baltimore, and his treatment of the future Giant manager is one of the big events in baseball history as ball players remember it. Players wore long, sharp spikes nine years ago. Basemen were cut and runners tripped in every game. Of the .rough players McGraw was the roughest, and all feared to try to get even with him. In a game between Baltimore and Detroit, McGraw got after Ducky Holmes, the Detroit outfielder. "How do you expect to play ball? Your whole family died of consumption and you’re full of it,” said McGraw. Harley roomed with Holmes, and when he went to his hotel room after the game he found Ducky crying. “You leave McGraw to me," said Harley. Next day Harley slid into third base and cut a big gash in McGraw’s leg. After that Harley was the most respected base runner in the league. Basemen always gave him at least half the bag when he slid, and most of them gave him all the room he wanted.

AROUND THE BASES

Sandow Mertes, old-time Giant, has been acting as substitute umpire on the. Pacific coast during the Illness of a regular official. Hutchinson, in the Kansas State league, has a player named Laflambois, but he does not seem to be setting the league aflame. Bill James, the new Cleveland pitcher, is the tallest American league twirler. He stands six feet four and one-half inches in height Why do baseball managers continue to “protest games," and why do players squabble and cause delay in trying to get umpires to reverse their decisions? Have you ever attended a game at which an umpire reversed a decision ? Manager Mack once said that Oldring would be the best center fielder in the country if Rube would only think so himself. From the way he is playing this season. Oldring*s oplniou of himself must have increased by a few hundred per cent Bilk O’Loughlin and Bill Dineen, say the pitching this year is the. worst they have ever seen. Bill said in one game be officiated there were twenty bases on balls issued by the pitchers. Silk says the pitchers have the batter three and two in nearly every case. Ty Cobb has been pledged to go with Jimmy McAleer on his All-Star team which will tour Japan next season. Cobb promised to play for MoAleer, no matter whether the teem went to Japan, Cuba or any other old place, for the Tiger star thinks a lot of the Washington leader.

FINO PLAYERS BY ACCIDENT

Some of the Greatest Players Diamond Has Ever Known Were Discovered by Sheer Lock. Some of the greatest ball players the game has ever known have been discovered by accident, or through sheer luck. And tills statement Is the truest thing you know. Five players have been picked at random, but they stand among the best the game has ever kndwn, just to show the truth of the above assertion. The men are the late Ed Delehanty, Amos Rusle, who many believe was the greatest pitcher ever in the game; Hans Wagner—by the way, his proper name is John Paul Wagner; Ownle Bush and Ty Cobb.

Rusle began his ball career with the old Grand Avenue team in Indianapolis, when Indianapolis was a member of the old 12-club National League. This was back In the eighties. Rusle was a pitcher, a powerful, husky young giant, who had a world of speed and a dazzling array of curves. The Grand Avenues had one large picnic with the other teams in the old Indianapolis City league when Rusie pitched. Jack Glasscock was playing shortstop on the Indianapolis National league team at that time, and Jerry Denny was holding down third base. Glasscock was captain of the team. He heard of Rusie’s pitching, and one Sunday took Denny and hiked out to the City League park, where Rusle played. Glasscock watched the youngster work, and both he and Denny were so impressed that Rusie was taken downtown after the game. The next day Rusle appeared at League park in an Indianapolis uniform. The story of his career In the big league is now baseball history, known to all fans. Rusie was a wonder, but his habits put him out of the game when he should have been in bls prime. He Is now living at Vincennes, Ind., working In a lumber yard and dredging for mussel pearls In the Wabash river.

Ed Delehanty, the greatest of the Delehanty ball-playing family, began on the lots around Cleveland, his home city.. In 1886 some one told the manager of the old Wheeling team that Delehanty was a great ball player. Some days later Delehanty received a letter offering him a trial with the Wheeling club. The youngster didn’t have any money and no transportation was inclosed, but he started for Wheeling and made his way there by rifling freight trains and walking. He has an infielder, playing second base, and he made good from the jump. In JBB7 Philadelphia decided to give him a trial, and along in the fall of that year Delehanty made his major league debut, succeeding Bastian, one of the greatest players of his time, at second base.

As a big league second basemen the man who was destined to become a terror-to the best pitchers the game has ever known was not a brilliant success. Neither did he shine with the bat In his first year, as his average for 56 games was only .227. In 1888 he played in 54 games and soaked the pill for a grand average of ,292. He alternated between second base and left field, and in 1890 he went to left field and remained there until his tragic death.

M’INNIS IS FAST INFIELDER

Youngster is Not Yet Old Enough to Vote, but Is Sensation of American League.

Jack Mclnnis of the Athletics is not old enough to vote, but he is the best substitute infielder in the country. “Stuffy,” as his team mates call him, first saw the light of day in Gloucester, Mass., in October, 1890. He joined the Athletics in the spring of 1900, having made a name for him-

Jack Mclnnis.

self as a member of the Gloucester High school nine and the Haverhill New England league team. Mack started him in as a regular, but he soon yielded the shortstop position to Jack Barry. He made nine hits in thirteen times at bat in the recent series with the Highlanders, getting five In one game. Mclnnis is the sensation of the American league season.

Lajole's Absence Costly.

Charlie Somers had a hunch last winter that Larry Jajoie was to have a bad season this summer. The absence of the big fellow has kept the Naps out of the race for the season.

Tex Jones Hits Stride.

Tex Joneß is batting .389 in the Western league race. It Aid not take Tex a long time to get his stride after be got back to bls oM berth.

AN ODD LIVELIHOOD

BUG KILLING POWDERS ARE MADE FROM "SNIPES.”

Two Men in St. Louis Gain a « Mag by Picking Up Cigar and Cigarette Butts That Are Thrown Away by the Smokers. 81. Louis. Mo.—London wonders why St. Louis is so wasteful of its halfsmoked cigars. The Londoner has heard that we are careless about taking care of the cigar butts and cigarette snipes that fall on the streets from day to day. Such wastefulness is unheard of in the “right little, tight little island" overseas, where conservation of matter is practiced to the last degree. In a report recent 1 y made by & commission from the London commercial bodies, St. Louis is taken to task for Its seeming extravagance in this one particular. “We find,” says this document, “that no effort Is made on the part of the city or its citizens to take advantage of this waste. There are no Individuals who make of this a business.” The members of this learned commission were surely wrong. They have been misled and misinformed. There are two or three St. Louisans who make of this a means to a livelihood. It is a twilight task In St Louis. Late In the afternoon or early In the evenings these forlorn individuals pace the middle, the right and the left of the street In search of the dead and altogether moribund cigar butt. Neither do they pass by In scorn the stubs of the cigarette. Two St. Louisans make a livelihood by gathering these remnants of the smokers* delight and grinding them into dust. The cigar ends are gathered by the sackful. A sharpened umbrella handle of steel is used by the gatherer. Armed with this and equipped with a cavernous bag slung over his shoulders, he hies him forth about the time that the downtown crowds start homeward. Snipe after snipe and butt after butt is impaled upon the sharpened ferrule. Ground up, these cigar ends become insect powders and bug. destroyers. Housewives buy them to drive away the plagues that beset the rubber plant and maiden hair fern. Gardeners use these to discourage the attentions of the white moth among the early cabbages. Florists use this bug dust in order to exterminate the plant lice that beset the outdoor flowers. Only the Association of St. Louis Glgar Dealers can guess how many butts, snipes and ends bestrew the streets at nightfall. They must run Into the tens of thousands. It Is rich picking for the snipe hunter, whatever use he puts them to. In the foreign cities the snipe hunter is an institution. Since Sirr Walter Raleigh Introduced the Indian weed Into Europe the hunter of cigar ends has had an occupation. It is handed down from father to son. It Is jealously guarded and bought and sold like any other business. Small wonder then that the visiting Britishers were appalled by the seeming waste on St. Louis streets.

WOULD HAVE THE HALOS SHED

College Head Tells Ministers to Shed Their Shells and Learn More of the World. Lynn, Mass.—Ministers of the gospel, Instead of spending their time in the Sunday school and ladies* sewing circles should get out and learn the ways of the world; then they might be able to talk intelligently on the subject of religion,” said President Frederick W. Hamilton of Tufts college in an address before a large gathering of clergymen at the Unlversal--Ist convention in this city. Continuing, he said: "Ministers should come out of their shells, for there is no longer any halo about the profession. People have become weaned from the idea of worshiping a man because he wears clothes of a clerical cut”

Nude Giril Balks at Rescue.

New York. —*Td rather die in the flames than be rescued without any clothes on,” cried Molly Cohen, eighteen years old, when thte Brooklyn firemen broke into her room at 101 Belmont avenue, East New York. The girl first hid behind the bed and then, when a fireman moved toward her through the smoke, she took refuge In the next room. A few of her garments, lying around on the chairs and bureau, were thrown in to her, and after a hasty toilet she reappeared and was hustled downstairs and into the street.

Lost Nearly Fifty Years.

Goshen, N. Y.-—General Henry L. Burnett, former United States attorney, who has a summer home near Goshen, received by registered mail from Chicago a keywinder silver watch that had been despatched to him by messenger during the Civil war and never reached him. A relative of General Burnett came across the watch In a Chicago jewelry store recently.

Lightning is Useful.

York. Pa.—A stroke of lightning in a brief electrical storm which passed over Felton, this county, helped along the house-cleaning at the home of Mrs. Michael G. Flinchbaugh The bolt neatly pulled the tacks from the carpets and even from the linoleum in the kitchen.