Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1913 — Page 3

FRANK REFUSED $10,000 FOR JACKSON

Scarcely a day slips by without addling to the fund of reasons why Connie iMack has been so successful in his efforts to land star baseball players. The primary reason for his success 'undoubtedly is that he insists conjstantly on increasing his number of .friends and the number of folks have I cause to be grateful for some favor (done by him. The career of Joe Jackson furnishes 'one of the striking examples. Charley 'Frank, New'Orleans manager, is sponsor for this tale. Connie had control of Joe’s actions from the time that Joe first showed signs of glistening. When Joe refused to play in Philadelphia, Connie turned him over to Savannah, but with the understanding that Joe still was under his control. New Orleans was next in line. Connie turned Joe over to the Pelicans. Boss Frank, of the local, club, insisted on paying some money for Joe’s services. “No," answered Connie. “He may prove a failure. We can better afford to lose the money than have you lose it." “But take S3OO anyway,” insisted [Frank. “I’d like to gamble on him. He may prove a great star.” “Well, if he doesn’t,” answered (Connie, so much the better. But we 'don’t “want a thing for him.” Qet the result of the .good feeling

COZY DOLAN NOW A PIRATE

Incapacitated by Wild-Eyed Youth on Atlanta Team Who Spiked Him in Sliding to Third. Cozy Dolan, turned loose by the Yankees last year, who now is making good with the Pittsburgh Pirates, offers an explanation of why he wasn’t able to play up to his beßt form under Wolver^on. “It was while the Yanks were training in the Bouth last Spring,” says Dolan, “that I met with the aecifient which drove me back to the spinors. We were playing against the Atlantaclub and had the team beaten by something like 13 to 1. In the ninth inning a young fellow came tearing into third base. v “I had him out easily, but he was a wild-eyed chap and slid straight for me. I wasn’t looking for such a play under such circumstances. I felt the

Cozy Dolan.

Jar as bis foot struck my leg, but I didn’t feel any pain and merely gave the youngster the laugh, for bis foolishness. "When I was walking to the dressing room I felt the blood running down my leg. The young fellow's spikes had opened a V-shaped gash in my left leg below the knee. Strange -enough, I couldn’t find any hole in the stocking where the spikes had gone through. . That injury kept me oft the field for several Greeks. “After we went north my leg was still In bad shape. I tried to play a gamo or two, but did so poorly that Wolrorton bad to let me out. Here-

Joe Jackson, Slugger of Cleveland Na ps.

engendered by Connie’s line of argument. He virtually made a life-long friend out of Frank. The New Orleans magnate became deeply indebted to the Athletic chief. When Jackson finally did develop Frank could not be so ungrateful as to refuse to give Connie the first chance at Jackson’s services. In giving the facts for the foundation of that tale Frank indirectly revealed for the first time, that Joe Jackson probably is entitled to be listed as one of the highest priced young fellows ever drawn from a minor league club. Those with a keen knowledge about baseball remember the sensation created by Jackson prior to his removal to the Cleveland club. Joe was the most discussed minor league player in the country in 1910. C. W. Murphy, owner of the Cubs, threw the first real shot at Charley Frank in the shape of a message offering $16,000 for the Carolina wonder. New watch the effect of Connie Mack’s gift. Did Fraak immediately telegraph the news broadcast to get other bids. He did not. His first move was to get a message to Connie, telling of Murphy’s offer and seeking advice. “If you’ve been offered SIO,OOO by Murphy, don’t take $20,000 for him,” answered Mack.

after I intend to keep my eyes on runners coming into the bag, no matter how much the team I am playing on is ahead. „

After Dolan went to Rochester his leg got somewhat better, and in a short time he was one of the best bass runners in the International league. At the end he led the organization with a good margin to spare, and is now exhibiting the same speed In the camp of the Pirates.

BASEBALL NOTES

The Cleveland Naps have eight players batting better than .275. • * * There’s many a uniformed baseball player who does not play a uniformly good game. • * * Clothes do not make the man, nor does a uniform necessarily make a ball player. • * * Michigan team has a “Strong and Wild’’ battery. Sounds like a description of Fred Toney. * • • Earl Tingling, the Brooklyn twirler, seems to be the hardest hitting pitcher in the National league. • • * The Detroit Tigers have purchased A 1 Platte from the Providence club of the International league. • • • Griffith claims the Browns made a mistake In letting Shortstop Lavan go to the Athletics at ‘ the waiver price. » • • * A 1 Demaree is running a close race with Bert Humphries of the Cubs for high honors In the pitching column of the league. • e e "Dutch” Schaefer Is the king of pinch hitters. He has been at bat In that capacity fifteen times. In -twelve of these chances he has either walked or made a hit. f • • •' Frank Chance says he may. have picked up another Bob Russell In Texas in the person of Roses, a southpaw, who has been leading the league in the Lone Star state. * * * Cook, whom the New York Yankees recruited from the Texas league, continues to wallop the ball. Hla fine work lately has been a great help to Chance’s team. .. _

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FAVOR POLICE DOGS

Results m Kaiser’s Army Attracts Many Nations. Bloodhound* Are Too Noisy—German Bheperd Canine Do Not Bay, Thereby Possessing an Additional Virtue for the Work. New York.—There appears to be a general awakening to the value of police dogs all over the world. Without a doubt the attention now being given to dogs as factors in the German army and the police departments of that country has made the other nations of Europe “sit up and take notice." The present enthusiasm among the members of the German Shepherd Dog club of America is simply a sign of what is about to happen in connection, with police dogs in New York and other cities, where, unfortunately, crime is rampant and murder of every day occurrence. It is true that several dogs have been kept in Brooklyn by ths police, but they have been used only in a half hearted way. The dogs have had too' many masters; they have been treated very much like the firemen's dogs; they have been looked upon more as pets than four legged policemen, ever alert and standing for no nonsense from any one.

In no country in the world has the bloodhound been used more for tracking criminals than in America. The old sleuth bound of remote days has been kept right up to his work, and as a consequence the American bloodhound is very much keener in his pursuit than the hounds of his own blood and breeding in Europe. The bloodhound here is often made savage, so'that he shall become a keener hunter of men. It is a practice in some of the penitentiaries in the south to get inmates of the prison to kick palings of the kennels in which the bloodhounds are kept. The disturbed dogs thus are made savage, and when a man is reported mißsing or is seen getting away the bloodhounds hunt his trail with all the grimness of a terrier after a rat - In Europe a bloodhound is not supposed to mouth or worry his human quarry. There is not so much sentiment in this part of the world, but as the bloodhounds generally are hunted on a leash they can be restrained from harming the runaway, who willingly surrenders when the animals are dlose upon b.im. Bloodhounds make a great deal of noise when they are running on a trail. They are more suitable for work in the open country than in a town or near to where there are living many persons, who will naturally rush out when they hear the baying and thus spoil the progress of the man hunt. German shepherd dogs are silent on the line, and for that simple reason they are preferred for work In a city or its suburbs. The wolflike dog is also the more active and he can clear palings and other obstacles with a great deal more ease than can the bloodhound. , It perhaps is not known generally that some of the railroad companies keep up a regular "Btafl" of hounds; they have been found of the utmost assistance in bringing desperadoes to justice. Manning Cleveland, a wealthy Poughkeepsie man, long has been renowned for the excellent work accomplished by his hounds. He is a deputy sheriff and is ever ready to assist the authorities anywhere. His hound, Moses has asserted in some wonderful runs and more than one miscreant has been sent to the electric chair through the scenting out powers of other Cleveland animals. The terror that a man is possessed of after he has been hunted by bloodhounds is well known. Not so long ago the handler of the Cleveland dogs visited the prison where lay A condemned man—the murderer ran down by the aforesaid Moses and a black and tan American bloodhound, the latter half pure bloodhound and half American foxhound. “Do you know who this is?” asked the warden of the prisoner, as he pointed to the Poughkeepsie man. “No,” came the reply. "He is the man with the dogs,” continued the warden, and forthwith the unhappy wretch rushed to the off corner of his cell and actually tried to dig hlmßelf out with his hands. The terror that a red handed criminal has for the powers of a dog is well known;

MOUNTAIN LION STEALS FISH

Four Anglers Spend Weird Night In California and Lose Their Breakfast * Redlands. Cal. —To catch a fine mess of mountain trout and then have a mountain lion take it is no fun, according to A. H. Holgate, G. Hulling, O. Gardener and N. Songer, who have Just returned from a fishing trip to upper Bear creek. The anglers caught a fine mess of trout and only used half of them for the evening meal. Just before they went to sleep they heard a noise on the rock above them, and an Investigation revealed a big wildcat slinking off In the moonlight Fearful that the animal Would come back after the trout they bung them on two upright poles in the ground. About midnight they were awakened by the roaring of a mountain Hon that seemed to be almost on top of them. One of the men was brave enough to move toward the sound, ■but the fierce roaring of the lion scared him away. In the morning when they want to look for their breakfast of trout they found it gone.

GROWS-TISSUE ON ARM'S BARE BONE

A wonderful bit of modern surgery, said to be without a parallel, was performed by Dr. W. M. Lawrence, Jr., surgeon of the Overlook hospital at Summit, N. J., on Charles P. Walters, whose arm was caught in the cogs of a press and the flesh“ripped from elbow to wrist. Dr. Lawrence decided on a desperate experiment in an effort to save the man’s arm. The abdomen was the only place with flesh enough to supply that torn from the arm, a’nd an inoision was made there and the arm laid within. The dkln was then stitched over and the arm imprisoned In Walters’ abdomen. Two weeks later the arm was released and it was found that enough skin had grown to the torn parts to permit of the discharge of the patient from the hospital. Walters and his daughter are shown in the picture.

PAY OF BRITISHERS

Premier Asquith Receives No Salary in That Office. Assumes Another Portfolio Remuneration Prom Which Is More Profitable •—Lord Chancellor Geta sso r 000 a Year. London. —Up to date no cabinet minister in this country has threatened to go on the lecture platform on the ground that his official salary is inadequate to his needs, although David Lloyd George recently assured an investigation committee that he was h poor man on the $25,000 a year—or over twice as much as is paid to any member of President Wilson’s official family—which he receives as chancellor of the exchequer. Ministers of the crown are in receipt of salaries and enjoy “perquisites” which must make the mouths of American ministers water if they know about them. One of them draws an actual stipend of $50,000, or as much as ,the presidency of the United States was worth until a few years ago, while another gets $35,000 a year and fees in addition, which more often than not amount to more than his official pay. Three others live rent free at the expense of the public.

David Lloyd Georgs.

and one of these fatter, the first lord of the admiralty, has at his disposal, besides, a private yacht which costs the British taxpayers something like $50,000 a year to keep up. If William J. Bryan, for example. Instead of being secretary of state for Uncle Sam, had Prime Minister Asquith’s Job, be would be drawing more than three times bis present salary and would also enjoy, rent free, an uncommonly comfortable as well as historic official residence. The premiership of England. It Is true, is an unpaid Job, the only real perquisite In connection with it being its holder’s privilege of occupying the famous mansion, 10 Downing street —now the goal of suffragettes and Scotch bailies —which often has been described, and perhaps Justly, as “the most Interesting bouse in the world.” Whoever becomes premier when a new administration comes Into being, however, seldom contents himself with that office, but takes unto himself also the portfolio of some other minister of .the crown. Mr. Balfour before him, that of first lord of the treasury, which carries with it the yearly emolument of $25,000. Directly next door Is 11 Downing street, an Infinitely less luxurious and historic but eminently comfortable house, where, emit free again lives the chancellor of tho exchequer. It is rather a striking coincidence, by the way, that Lloyd Qeoige, who, like W.

J. Bryan, has come to be regarded as the tribune and advocate of the “plain people,” should, like his distinguished contemporary on the other side of the Atlantic, ba the only member of the present cabinet to allege that his official salary is Inadequate to his needs. In the United States there is no exact counterpart of the lord chancellor who, besides acting as speaker of the upper house, is supreme head of the English Judiciary, and who draws an annual salary of $50,000. When he retires, moreover, he immediately enters on a life annuity amounting to $25,000 a year. The present holder of this office is Lord Haldane, who was secretary of state for war before his elevation to the woolsack. Nobody ever has accused the lord chancellor of having a snap. Besides Bitting, clad in wig and gown, as speaker of the house of peers he sits at a Judge in that house, in the privy council, the court of appeal, and the chancery division of the high court of Justice. He has the appointment of all justices of the peace throughout the kingdom, and all the judges of ths superior courts except the lord chief justice, who Is nominated by the prim* minister.

BRAVES FIRE FOR KITTENS

Firemen Rescue Mother Found Cany Through the Smoke. New York.—Maternal instinct led a >ig black cat to Ignore flames and smoke in an effort to shield her six little kittens in the six-story loft building at No. 114 West Seventeenth street, until the firemen had to carry her out of the place to save her life. She was limp and almost suffocated when the firemen picked her up, but was still making a valiant fight for her offspring. All six of the little fluffy felines were dead, but the mother was struggling toward the front windows with two of them in her mouth in a hopeless effort to get them'into the fresh air. V, The Are started in the underwear shop of Fisher & Co., on the sixth floor of the building. When Lieutenant Comiskey reached the place with his fire company he noticed the cat walking feebly toward the front of the loft. She had in her mouth the two little kittens, but the fire had attained such headway that the lieutenant's attention was diverted from the mother cat for a few minutes. When the Ore was under control he again saw the cat standing over a box. He went up and found that there were four more kittens. All of them had been smothered by the smoke, as were the two the mother had been carrying. The lieutenant carried the mother to the street and Acting Chief Ross decided to adopt her. He took her to the engine house at Sixth avenue and Thirty-third street, where she will spend the rest of her life in luxury.

KING SPARES AN ASSASSIN

Commutes Death Sentence of Rafael Sanchez Allegro and Five Others to Life Imprisonment. Madrid, Spain. —King Alfonso commuted the sentences of six prisoners, who had been condemned to death, to imprisonment for Ufa Among them was the anarchist Rafael Sanchez AUegro, who fired three shots at the king in an attempt to assaaslaate him on April 13 last

Hound Causes Jail Sentence.

West Milford, N. Y.—Because a hound ha sold refused to stay with Its purchaser, James Gregory spent one day in Jail here.

Practical Fashions

LADY’S DRESB.

A yoke, into which the body of the 1 _ blouse is fulled front and back la the ■ new touch on the frock. Plaits at the> bottom of the skirt, turned in to give a panel effect are also effective. The. skirt shows a bit of fullness at the waist line in back. The broad, oriental looking sash Is very effective and may be of one of the brightly huedi printed silks if the frock is in a plain' * color. The pattern (6342) is cut in live sizes., 84 to 42 inches bust measure. Medium size will require 4ft yards of 36* inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to “Pattern Department," of this paper. Write name and address plainly, and be sure to sive sise and number of pattern.

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CHILD'S DRESS.

Play frocks must be simple. This design shows a slight fullness at the neck in front and back and has a setin sleeve which may be either long or short It closes down tho back. If desired a bit of lace or embroidery may be used in the neck and sleeves or a touch of hand embroidery may be added to trim the little garment The child’s drees (6328) is cnt in sizes 1, 2 and 3 years. Mediant size requires 1% yards of 36 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to “Pattern Department," of this paper. Write name and address plainly, ana b# sure to give size and number of pattern.

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Rare Works of Art Stolen.

Twenty-five thousand dollars works of art were stolen from the church of San Mosslmo, Padua, Italy, recently. Early In the morning, the thieves broke into the church and carried off two magnificent paintings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. The pictures hung In the side chapels on either side of the high altar, and were wrenched from their frames In such a hurry that portions of the canvas wers left on the frames.

Great Scheme.

"Why won’t you buy something at my table?” demanded the girl at the charity fair. "Because I only buy from the hqmely girls,’’ said the man. “They have a harder time making sales.” y The girl was not offended, he worked this right down the line.

Bitter Sweet

Women swallow at one mouthful the Ue that flatters and drink drop by drop the. truth that la bitter.—-Dealt Diderot