Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1914 — Page 3

LOOKING DOWNWARD

A GAME OF BASEBALL INFLUENCED BY THE MAGNETIC RAY.

Captaim MacManus, retired air-skip-per, and his coterie of Master Airigators leaned on the rail of the New York receiving float of the F. C. A A. - Aerial line and watched a huge yellow dirigible shoot past on the 5000-foot level. “The .Hong Kong and Washington express,” said one of the younger M. A-’s. “She’s carrying the Hong Kong baseball team to the opening game of the International Aerial league season at Washington tomorrow. That ought to be a typhoon of a game. Good thing they’ve got the mechanical umpires perfected now. No living man would stand a show umpiring for that bunch tomorrow. Seems impossible to think that any human being was ever reckless enough to umpire of a baseball game, the way they did back in 1912 or thereabouts. I wonder why they did it?" “Why did they do it?” grunted old Captain MacManus. “Because they were men in those days, that’s why. They weren't like you delicate, airnourished infants who are afraid to come nearer than 500 ffeet to .earth for fear of hitting the microbe strata. Why, in my early days, we— Puncture my gas tanks! That reminds me. I was the first man to introduce air ships into the international game—’twas only national then, though—of baseball. And that was when they still played the game on the ground. In my humble little way I was the man who first gave people the idea of elevating the game to its present high level.” “Help! Help!” moaned a young captain. “They used to kill people for

"The secret was I was lying up there in the air in Prof. Ignatz’s invisible, sky-blue, self-balancing aeroplane, with his new magnetic ray bearing right on the rubber."

perpetrating such things in the old days/' "Never mind,” said MacManus. "The old days are past. Bui it’s the truth I’m telling. I was the one to first demonstrate that airships and baseball could mix. It was in the year 1910, which wag before most of you children were born, when people still turned to stare up in the air when they heard a ship’s propellers whirring, and when the man who cpuld write ‘Master Airigator’ after his name satill was looked iip to, to use an ancient phrase. I was running a little excursion packet, the ‘Star Tamer,’ that operated between New York city and Atlantic City, a two hours’ run in those days, it being before we began to make much speed. "Naturally, having this sort of a run in those days, when people thought it was something of a treat to ride in a dirigible, we came into contact with a lot of the most prominent people in the country. One day we’d have on board Lillian! Russell, who wsb Just as young looking then as she is now, going down to spend a few hours at Atr lantlc City; next day we’d have a senator from Mexico, coming up to New York to take a look at the lights, and next, probably. Bill Flinger, champion pitcher of the New York ball team, or some other great personage.” “Didn’t you ever have Ty Cobb?" askec the young captain. "Ty Cobb?” said Captain MacManus. "Who was be?" v “I don’t know. I read about him in an ancient history the other t day," sala the youngster. “But to go on With your story." '

BY LEE MAC QUODDY

“As I was saying, I naturally got acquainted with these great people, with hauling them to and'fro between the two resorts, and pointed out to them where the Statue of Liberty used to be, and so on, and pretty soon I was on friendly'terms with a lot of them, and of course the friendship that I prized the most was that of Bill Flinger of the New Yorks. “Bill was as nice and sociable a little fellow as ever you saw, and he wasn’t at all Btuck up, because he was going to be put in the Hall of Fame. He’d talk to you just as if he was an. ordinary man, and many the good fanning bee me and Bill had when we had to go up to the 10,000foot level and lay waiting for a storm to settle down below. - ----- “ ‘Bill,’ I said to him on one of these occasions, ’who’s going to win the pennant this year?’ “‘We are,’ says he. 'l’m in great form this year.’ “ ‘But Chicago’s running you ah awful close race, Bill,’ I said. ‘They’re keeping only one game behind you.’ “ ‘That’s where we want them,’ says Bill. ‘lt’s a frameup. We’re going to run away from the other teams in the league. Chi and New York will be tied up to the last game. Chicago fans will be willing to bet their heads ofT. We’ve got the money to bet ’em. Then we’ll Win.’ • * “ ‘But how do you know you’ll win, Bill?’ I asked. “‘l’m going to pitch,’ says he. ‘Don’t tell anybody. This is just between you and me.’ “That made me feel pretty warm toward the great man, and I put myself out to make it as pleasant as 1 could for him when he was riding with me, and he appreciated it and pretty

soon we were the best friends in the world. “Well, finally It came the day before the game that was to settle the league championship, and sure enough, just as Bill had said, Chicago and New York were tied for first place, and one game would settle the hash. That night Bill took flight down to Atlantic City with me to settle his nerves, and suddenly he says to me, ‘Mac, I’m up against it.’ “‘Why?’ cays L “‘l’ve got to throw the game tomorrow.’ “‘Bill!’ I says, horrified. “ ‘Yes,’ he says, ‘that’s Just what I’ve got to do.’ “‘You can’t,* I said; and then I told him what I’d done. Knowing that he was going to pitch and win, I’d gone and begged and borrowed every cent I could lay my hands-on and had bet it on New York to win. ‘lf you lose, Bill, says I, ‘l’m a dead duck.’. “Bill almost cried, he ‘ was that broken-hearted. ‘But I can’t help it, Mae,’ says he. ‘Morgan has ordered that New York lose.’ “Of course, after that there wasn’t anything more to say. Bill had his orders from the nation's boss to go in and pitch the full nine innings, but not to put any speed or curves! on the ball, just to put 'em right ever where the Chlcagos could line -’em out. Having the orders straight from Morgan, he had tg obey, of course. “ ‘Don’t think hard of me, Mac,’ he says, gripping my hand. It’s fate.' “ 'I understand, Bill,’ 1 said. Morgan and Fate were the same in those days.

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T went into the steering turret and sat down to* think it over. It Certainly looked as if my gas-tanks were punctured and I was doomed- to faiL IS: New; York lost, as they were Bure to do, with Bill pitching that way, there wasn’t mucli left for me except to make a nice little hide in the water somewhere near Ellis island and the Jersey shore. I didn’t like water in those days, so I began to think. My little job was to figure out how to keep Chicago bats from colliding with Bill’s curves. It was something of a Job, the way Chicago was tutting In tbbse days, and Bill being ordered to serve them nothing but straight, easy balls. Did I despair? Ha! Little you know of Captain MacMwhus of 40 years ago who ask that question. “When I got back to New York city I hurried up to Yonkers to see Professor Ignatz, the man who knew more electric currents, magnets aftd so on than anybody would believe, and . told him how I was fixed. “ ‘Rest easy, Mac,’ says he, and took me out to his hangar and showed me his new invisible, sky-blue, self-balanc-ing aeroplane. “ ‘Watch me,’ says he, and up he went. In two minutes he was out of sight, though when he megaphoned me 1 could hear him plainly. “‘My own secret,’ says he. “Absolutely invisible from the ground. Come here,’ be says, and he shows me a tiny searchlight machine. ‘My new invisible ray,’ he says, and he shows me how it works. - “‘Saved!’ I said, and went out and borrowed some more money to bet on New York. “That afternoon 100,000 people were in the grandstands when the ChicagoNew York game was called. We used jto thins that was a crowd in the old days. Old Bill was in the box. Blink er was at bat for Chicago. Bill sailed one over. Blinker looked at it in amazement It was a perfectly straight, slow bail, right where Blinker could kill it. Blinker pulled down his cap, set himself and waited, ready to knock it out of the lot. The ball came over. It was the same kind as before. Blinker swung. But as it was about to connect with the ball his bat jumped about two inches and he missed. He tried it three times. Then he went hack to the bench looking puzzled/ “That was the way it wont the whole game. Bill was serving up straight, slow ones right over the heart of the plate and the Chicagos were swinging at them, and missing them because their bats jumped about two inches just before they met the ball.

“With New York it was just the other way. They'd swing at a ball way outside the plate and the bat would shoot over and connect. When the last man was out the score stood: Chicago 0, New York 10. And Bill had pitched as he was ordered. “You see, the secret was that I was laying up there in the air right above the plate in Professor Ignatz’s invisible sky-blue, self-balancing aeroplane, with his new invisible magnetic ray bearing right on the rubber. The ray would magnetize and control anything, even a .350 hitter’s bat. When a Chicago man would swing 1 would wait until the bat was near the ball, then jerk it up and let the ball go by. When it was a New 1 Yorker I’d guide the bat smack against the ball. That, gentlemen, is how airships and baseball first began to mix.” There was a long silence. "What did you do with all the money you won?” asked the young captain. “Blast your dynamo, you inquisitive cub!” roared Captain MacManus. “I endowed & school tor teaching cubs respect for their superiors.” ' (Copyright, by W. G. ObanmanJ

FINDING NAMES FOR NOVELS

Modem Authors Differ From Those of the Past in Selecting Titles for Their Volumes.

Modem novelists find it difficult to find titles for their books, but, characteristically, Dickens could always hit on a score or so of titles for his books, and found difficulty only in the s'election of one from among so many. Fbr “Bleak House,” for Instance, he drew up a list of twelve possible titles—including “The Ruined House,” "Tom-all-alone’s,” “The Solitary House," “The East Wind,” “Bleak House and the East Wind’’—and submitted it to Forster for selection. It Is worth noting that in the end Dickens always chose the most effective of the titles he devised. Talking of titles for stories, how is it that the eponymous title is shunned by modem authors and frowned upon by publishers? Surely the name of your hero or heroine should be good enough for a nogel. Fielding, Smollett,Sterne. Thackeray, Dickens, Meredith all favored the eponymous title, and it is certainly easier to remember than any other. What could be better than “Tristram Shandy," or "Pendenniß,” or “David Copperfleld,” or “Richard Feveral”? Mr. Pugh’s "Tony Dram” is a perfect title, worthy of that remarkable book. The catchy title that so many modem writers seem to strain after is, as often as not, by no means easy to remember, and when yon have finished the book you wonder what the title has to do with it. Let us get back to simplicity in this matter.—London Chronicle.

A Hint.

"Mr. - Staylate, I do hope you will justify my brother's good opinion of you." “What Is that. Miss Prettyfaee?” “He told me yesterday you were one of the enterprising young men of the town who are going some."

VARIOUS FOOD VALUES

IMPORTANT MATTER UNDERESTIMATED BY HOUBEKEEPER.

Dishes Served at Family Table Should, Be Constitution Builders ss Well j: as Palatable—Sweets Have a Definite Purpose.

The average housekeeper selects her food in t very careiess manner. She buys coal and wood for the heat they provide and fabrics for their durability, but she gives very little thought to the efficiency of foodstuffs. She merely gets what is liked and .what happens to be the market and is easily prepared. It is certain that in years to come, when housekeeping, or "domestic science,*’ has taken the high position toward which it is gradually moving, each housekeeper will be compelled to have her little volume on “Food Values” on the shelf with her book of recipes, and she will consult it even more frequently than she does the other books, because Bhe will have been taught that the importance of food lies in its energy-giving properties. But until that time comes we mußt struggle along ourselves and look at the buying and cooking of foods from a readjusted point of view—one which Includes the value they have as con stitution builders as well as their palatable qualifications. We must teach ourselves to choose foods wisely, regarding rather the essentials than the nonessentials, and to use discrimination in the processes of preparing theih. Say that we need so many thousand units to live and work. Well, then, our food, properly chosen and prepared, should help to supply the necessary units. You cannot make bricks without straw or bread without flour or energy without the fuel to provide VL It would be impossible to go deeply into the food-value question in a short talk, but there is one essential which must be mentioned because of the change of view regarding It. When we were all children we were given sweets only as a sort of reward for having eaten the plainer foods. Sweets were not looked, upon'as necessary, but rather as verging on the injurious. Now we have learned that sweets, far from being harmful, are beneficial and productive of energy. There are so many health-giving constituents In the ordinary pudding that it is far more advisable for the dessert of the average child than rich pies or pastries. Almost all puddings require eggs and milk, and these add a goodly number of units to the 00l umn.

There are also many delicious fruit puddings which contain many more strengthening elements than the plain fruit itself. Agd yet a decade of years ago the pudding would have been dealt out to the younger members of the family with a sparing and grudging hand, while they might have partaken freely of the fruit itself. Mothers are now beginning to realize the possibilities of desserts as Strength-giving factors in their children’s lives.

Frozen Custard With Almonds.

Heat one quart of milk in doubk boiler. Add to this four well-beater eggs. Stir constantly with wire egg beater until this thickens. Sweater to taste and set aside to cool. Take one pound of almonds, shell and blanch. Spread over a pan, a£f one teaspoonful of olive oil, place ir a hot oven and allow them to ge; very brown. Cool and then pu: through a meat chopper. Add to ous tard also one-half teaspoonful of al mond extract When the custard ii quite cold, freeze.

Baked Sweet Potatoes.

Boil the potatoes until barely done then skin them and cut in half incl slices. Fill a deep baking dish witl alternate layers of the potatoes, bib of butter and a sprinkling of sugar Bake in a moderate oven\until th< butter and sugar form a rich syrup in which the potatoes cook until tbs) look almost clear; then allow them tc brown.

Prune Custard Pudding.

Stew Ms pound of prunes in watei to cover until the stones will slip oui easily. Let the sirup boll away.. Soak 1 pint of dried cake in 1 quart of milk Add 2 beaten eggs, a little salt, 1 tea spoon vanilla and the stewed prunes Bake slowly until a knife will com* out clean. Stir at first to prevent fruit from setting. Serve with cream

Potato and Cheese Loaf.

Take hot mashed potatoes moistened with milk and seasoned with peppei hnd salt; stir in one beaten egg to a pint of the potatoes, turn into a buttered loaf tin and cover with one-half inch layer of grated cheeae. Bake in a moderate oven until the potatoes are light, and the cheese melted and brown.

Dark Nut Cake.

One cupful sugar, one-half cupful butter, one and one-half cupfuls milk, two cupfuls flour, one teacpoonfu! cream of tartar, one-half teaspoonful soda, .two spoonfuls molasses, two eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg an<f one cupful chopped walnuts.

Baltic Lunn.

One-half cup butter, two tablespoons sugar, two eggs, an even teaspoon of salt, two cups flour, one cup milk, two teaspoons baking powder. Bake 29 minutes in loaf. In bread pan. ~- -\

ACTIVITY IN DAIRY INDUSTRY IN INDIANA

By J. R. Garver,

:• . t,- ' • . Purdue University Agricultural Extension.

The Improvement In the Breeding of the Dairy Cattle In the State Will Do More to Develop a Contented Dairy Condition Than Any Other One Factor.

That the dairy industry is growing in popularity is clearly Bhown by the active interest leading dairymen throughout the state are taking toward the recognized dairy breeds. In the southern part of the state, In the vicinity of Marengo, a Jersey Cattle Breeders’ association has been organized recently, as well as the Southern Indiana Dairymen’s association, which has its headquarters at Evansville. s ... The State Holstein Cattle Breeders’ association at Indianapolis and the Northwestern Indiana Holstein Breeders’ association at Crown Point have also been organized during the past six months. . . The Guernsey breeders - around Frankfort are also getting in line for the organization of a Guernsey Breeders’ association. These associations and the three cow testing associations that have been organized within the past six months give evidence of changing Indiana’s rank' as a dairy state. The constant urging of Purdue’s extension forces tor pure-bred dairy sires and more pure-bred dairy cattle is showing its effect by increasing the demand for pure-bred dairy stock and it is gratifying to note that Indiana breeders are preparing to supply this demand. it Is not only the farmers who have pure-bred dairy stock to sell that are becoming interested in the possibilities of the dairy industry, but, also the men who are making a living from the dairy cow. Another point of interest is that the men who. have been in tbe business the greatest number of years are the first to lead iq, this progressive dairy movement that is sweeping the state. On Labor day, the first two cow testing associations that have been organized in Indiana, held a joint picnic at Halfmaa’s grove, as the result of the efforts of Sam Woods, an untiring worker in improving the

THE SAN JOSE SCALE PARASITE

By James Troop,

tomology, Purdue University School of Agriculture, Purdue University Agricultural Extension.

Eastern papers have been making much noise recently over,the discovery that certain parasitic Insects have been at work in thq orchards of Pennsylvania cleaning up the San Jose and other scales. If these published reports are all true, it will soon be unnecessary for the eastern orchardists to use the spray pump any more in order to hold' the scale in check. As these arq native species, there should be no reason why they should not thrive in Indiana as well as In Pennsylvania; and so, in order to ascertain just how efficient they are going to be in cleaning up the San Jose scale in our Indiana orchards, I have procured some of them, and have introduced them to some of our Hoosier scales in different sections of the state. It is possible that the conditions here may not prove favorable for the propagation and dissemination of the parasite, but let us hope that it may prove ifsell equal to the occasion, and do what the farmers and fruit growers have not been able to do, viz., to clean up the scale to such an extent as to prevent further serious Injury. Let us too hopeful, however, and depend entirely upon this parasite to take care of our orchards. People are liable to get over enthusiastic sometimes. Even if we do succeed in getting it Introduced into our Indiana orchards, it will be some time before we pan safely discard the spray pump. There is one fact In this connection that should be borne In mind, and that la that there are quite a number of species of these parasites which have been known to work on the San- Jose scale for years, in fact, aver since the San Jose scale has been known in this country. In bulletin No. 62 of the division of entomology, department of agriculture, Washington, D. C., published in 1904, Marlatt names eight species found In this country, and a

Department of Dairy Husbandry, Purdue University.

Department of En-

dairy stock of Indiana. Part of the day’s program was devoted to sports and a general frolic. A refreshment stand was operated by the Northwestern Indiana Cow Testing association. The members and friends of the Le ROy Cow Testing association and the Northwestern Indiana. Cow Testing association brought their lunches and a sumptuous dinner was served beneath the boughs of the spreading oaks. In the afternoon most of the time was devoted to speaking. Prof. O. F. Hunzifcer, chief of the dairy department at Purdue university, gave a strong address, pointing out, in a clear and forceful mannej, the benefits derived from co-operation and sighted Denmark as an example of what people, pulling together, can do for one another. Mr. James R. Carver, in charge of the dairy extension work st Purdue, gave a talk comparing Lake county as a dairy district with other sections of the state, and also pointed out some of the advantages of a county agent. The rest of the program was occupied by local speakers, who sighted many improvements in the community that have been brought about largely through the dairy cow. After the speaking was ovfer the crowd paused a moment to have their pictures taken and the remainder of the time was spent in pleasant fellowship that country people are deprived of quite frequently. The value of such a meeting is hard to estimate. It not only gives everyone present a greater respect tor his business, but also stimulates every man to make bis farm operationsmore efficient. Consequently, a greater effort is put forth to secure good cows as well as to give them proper treatment- Better methods of dairying make the farm more profitable, hence we see more conveniences in the country home, inore contentment on tbe farm, a greater interest shown by the younger members of the family and a higher development in rural life generally.

number of other entomologists have described species as working on the scale, as far back as 1880, when Professor Comstock published his description of the San Jose scale. But Professor Surface of Pennsylvania states that some -of the species of parasites which he has bred are entirely new to science, but their effect on the scale, method of propagation, etcy. are the same as are those that are well known. The skeptic might inquire how long have these new species been in existence, and why have they not made themselves felt in the realm of scaledom before this? Well, conditions which operate to hold in check the undue increase of the various insect tribes are constantly changing, and it may be that some influence which we know not of has been at work during these past years to prevent them from multiplying in sufficient quantities to enable them to make an impression in the economic world. Hqwever, we shall watch them.' carefully, and give them every opportunity to get in their work, and if we find them measuring up to their op. portunities and our expectations, we shall distribute them all over the state at the earliest opportunity.

Good Place for Poultry.

A good place for chickens in the fall is the orchard They seldom fly up in the trees and destroy the fruit and if they do, all yon need to do la to clip dbe wing. If jrau do not believe that apples are good for egg production just feed them some of the most decayed fruit in the spring, especially if they are a little slow in starting to lay, and then note the difference.

Waste of Wood Ashes.

There are still some persona who> are Ignorant of the value of wood ashes, as may be seen by their being thrown out along a run or In the road. This should never be done. They are valuable for all kinds of fruit frees, or in the garden; and either unleached or leached they should never be .1 wasted. it ' * -

Good Dairy Ration.

A farm dairy ration consisting of alfalfa, pea. leapedeia or soy bean hay. com and a little cotton seed meal keep up the milk flow.