Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 5, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 April 1908 — Page 7

The Shooting of the Gilsey Boy By J. B. BARRETT

- Euphemia, I decided, siked young Cottingfirst, the ‘admiral's barrister son, better. than the curate. She certainly had done so at one time, but Cottingfirst lost ground by his shooting of the Gilsey boy; which was un-

just, for, though it is not éustomary, when you are invited to a house to shoot, to go round bagging casual village boys, in this case he was not to biame. g

He had been staying at the Pennington’s, five miles off, for a week's shooting, and thither on one or two occasions I-had gone over and made one of the guns. I suggested ‘that when his week was up, if he was not 100 proud after the gorgeous Pennington coverts, he should come over to me for a day or two at wood-pigeons. And, of course, he came, though I did not imagine that either I or the woodpigeons were the attractiofi.

One afternoon we agreed to have a match for the large stake of half a crown. The ladies came with us, and, Lucy sitting with Cottingfirst and Euphemia by me, well screened from the sight of the birds, we had great sport. Suddenly, = following immediately on a shot of Cottingfirst’s, there came a scream—and another—and then a series of the most bloodcurdling shrieks that I have ever heard. i = )

I saw Cottingfirst: plunge into the wood at a point some 40 yards this side of where he had been sitting, while=Lucy stood on the field side of the ditch looking up into the trees, whence we could now tell that the sScreams were proceeding; and when we joined her, there in the topmost branches of an oak was a boy! He was in his shirt-sleeves” hanging below a branch by his hands and feet, like the pictures of the giant sloth, screaming continuously. Cottingfirst, under the tree, shouted at him alternately to come down or to say how ‘badly he was hurt. But how in the world such an inappropriate thing as a boy had got up there we could not imagine.

It appeared subsequently that he had been trespassing in the woods when we arrived, 'and, hearing us shooting, had. climbed into the tree to get g better view of the sport without himself being seen, as he must have been if he had come out through the hedge into the ditch on our side.

We soon had him out on the grass in the open, and examination showed that he had been reasonably well peppered. The boy was undoubtedly hurt, but he was not, as he supposed, killed. 4

“Why,” said Euphemia, as soon as she saw him, “it is the little Gilsey boy.” :

I did not know that Mrs. Gilsey, who did our washing, had a boy; but ‘Euphemia is the friend of every child in the village.: And'l was glad it was the Gilsey boy. Not that I wished him any harm, or had anything but admiration for his mother; but there was less likellhood of unpleasantness with her than might have been the case with a stranger. -With some difficulty we led him to his -home, sending other boys whom we met on the way back to gather up our birds. Mrs. Gilsey is, I gm sure, not a stern mother, but she took an eminently reasonable view of the case. At all events it was a view which commended itself to me. -3 “And serve ’im right!” was her first remark, after she had heard our story. “P'raps he’ll keep away from them woods now. I've told 'im -time an’ ‘again the keeper’d shoot him, an’ properly, too; an’ I'm glad someone’s done it—not, you understand,” she added, apologetically, “as I think you done it a-purpose, but I'm glad it’s done.”

In this 7arid atmosphere the boy’s .grief abated considerably.

“I don’t think,” said Cottingfirst, “that he's really seriously hurt—" “Him!” interpolated Mrs. Gilsey, with some contempt. “Nothing won’t hurt him! Tve tried to often enough, an’ hain’'t never done it yet. Do ’im good. I say.” ’ _ “Not seriously hurt,” Cottingfirst continued, “but I'll send the doctor round at once to find out. Meanwhile, of course, I want to make what amends I can for my clumsiness. I want you to feel, Mrs. Gilsey, that I've done what is right; but it is hard to say what the right is. The more he is hurt the more I feel I ought to do, and—" and he tapered off as not knowing how to proceed. Then an jdea occurred to me.

+ “Why not pay him so much a shot?” I suggested. There was a look of inquiry on the faces about me, so I explained. “Give him a shilling * for every shot that has gone igto him, and sixpence for every mark. The more he is hurt the more you will pay. That seems to make the punishment fit the crime. It ought to work out to something like a sovereign I should think.) . &

. The boy no longer sniffed. On the contrary hq was all agog with expectation.

~ “I was thinking of a sovereizn to start with,” said Cottingfirst. “Sovrin!” ejaculated his mother. “Ilt'll be the only soverign he’ll ever earn in all his life.”

“Try my plan,” I urged. “It is perfectly satisfactory to me,” said Cottingfirst, “Well,” said Mrs. Gilsey. “It's a deal more than the whole boy's worth, let alone the little bit of im as you've shot. But if you gentlemen think it's right, why, I'm sure we're satisfied.” “All right,” I said. “We'll call that settled. Do you understand, my boy? The doctor will come up and look at you. Meanwhile this gentleman will pay you a shilling for every shot which has gone into you, and sixpence for every mark besides. You can bring the shot around to me in

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conversation had been going on at the door of the Gilsey cottage, and a ring of the boys and women of the village had collected round us as we talked. As soon as the thing was settled the boy broke away at a run’ . “Billee!” he screamed. “Arree! Dick! Come an’ see 'ow many we can find. A shillin’ for every shot, an’ sixpence for every mark. Come on, Bill!”., And, followed by a trail of other boys, he fled chattering up the road. He was a perambulating zgold mine. . g That evening the doctor dropped in on his way home and told us that no harm was done. “Hasn't scratched him any more than he often scratches himself in Dbirds-nesting, Tll =be bound,” he said. And he estimated the total number of wounds at about 20, with less than a dozen shot. But the surgeons under the village lamp had extracted them all before the doc: tor arrived. ) :

“You will get off under a sovereign,” T said;. but Cottingfirst- thought it would be cheap at a sovereign anyhow.. The next morning it looked as if it would be. : We were still at breakfast when the Gilsey boy presented himself, and—as we could see from the diningroom window—some half a dozen others were hanging about awaiting results. ) .

The (Gilsey boy was sniffing when he canie in, to convey to us that he was still in almost intolerable :pain, and he was hardly able to speak as he held out the handful of shot for our inspection. > > : “How many are there?” asked Cottingfirst. “For-or-or-orty-one,” said the boy.

“Forty-one!” I ejaculated. And then I looked at the shot. I took them, and shook them over in the palm of my hand. - 3

“Where do you get your cartridges, Cottingfirst?” I asked. “You really

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ought to speak to them about "their loading.” For there was every size of shot, from No. 4 to No. 8. . “Where did you get all these?” I asked. :

“From d-d-different parts, please sir,” said the Gilsey boy. “Out o’ my face an” arm mostly.” :

| “Even that?” I asked. holding up a ‘rusty. battered thing which was at | least 88, which I had not noticed at ’ first. , A l “Yes, p-p-please, sir,”. said the Gil- ' sev boy. “There's more'n a h-h-hun-dred nijrks on me.” ! “I can well believe it, Let’s =ses some of them.” . He took off his coat 524 rolled up his sleeve. The other boys had made |a thorough job of it. “I said that we knew shot-marks,” I murmured, “but °I begin to doubt { - - ’. Cottingfirst and I tried to persuade |_him to tell us how it was done, but he ‘persisted that nothing hadn't been Idone, and we had to let it go at that. We learned some time later that the !other boys had hammered nails into him until they broke the skin. At the ' time we gave him a sovereign ' and Icalled it square. . : Whenever I go out with my gun now, I am afraid I shall find the neigh- [ boring trees and hedges full of boys.

As for the match, we had to call that off. We recovered 28 birds, of which I declare I got 13, and Cottingfirst is sure he killed 16, but I tell him he counts the Gilsey boy as one. :

Electric Treatment for Violins. - A noted violinist and violin maker believes he has discovered a method for giving, by the aid of an electrical machine, the same quality of tone to a violin that age has been credited with providing. The theory of the violinist, says Popular Mechanics, is that it is not the age of the violin which really gives it its superior tone, but the amount of “bowing” or vibration it has received. By the use of the electrical machine the violin is expected to get as muech “bowing” in 30 days as the same instrument would receive in 50 years of ordinary use. / -Mazarin's Beloved Pictures, Perhaps no more ardent lover of pictures ever lived than Cardinal Mazarin, minister of the regency during the minority of Louis XIV. Being told that he had but two months to live, he was soon after seen in his nightcap m,dmmgown, tottering along his gallery,- pointing to his pictures, ex claiming: “Must 1 quit all these? Look at that Correggi, this Venus of Titian; fhat incomparable Deluge of 1 have loved so dearly and that cost

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Before many more months there will be a brand new boundary line between the United. States and Canada all along the sinuous route from ocean to ocean. It has been creeping on its transcontinental way for seven years. More than that, there will be an able-bodied barbed-wire fence erected on the boundary line, once the monuments are all firmly in place, and it will undoubtedly be the longest stretch of barbed wire in the world. There are still a few hundred miles of the work remaining, but when the snow gets off the ground in New England, two or three weeks after sapping time, the designation of the line will be resumed and carried up over the hump of the state of Maine and on across the top of New Hampshire. It will' be a new boundary only in respect to boundary posts. To many localities it may demonstrate that ground supposed to be under the Stars and Stripes is under the Union Jack and vice versa. The monuments have become wobbly or been lost in numerous places or obliterated, and the boundary line, while easily ascertainable by surveying methods, using the treaties as a basis for operations, has been more or less.indefinite. : Not a long time ago some northern Vermont town became tremendously excited for awhile over a report that the Canadians were trying to usurp.a strip of American/territory. It turned out that the report originated over some such accident as the unintentional moving. of an iron boundary post that had been uprooted by railroad construction work. The line' across Vermont was completed quite awhile ago. Like all the line running between the two countries, it is done jointly by the United States and Canada. J. B. Baylor of the coast and geodetic survey has had charge of the pary of surveyors and laborers employed by the United States, and G. C. Rainboth has had charge of a similar party for the Canadians. " S

Mr. Baylor is now in Ottawa, comparing papers and consulting documents pertaining to the work that has been done, and also to work yet to be done. oot There is a vast deal of formality in connection with the undertaking. The state department is exercising supervision for this side. The cost of resurveying and remonumenting the line across Vermont alone has been about $20,000, of which the federal government pays one-half. Superintendent O. H. Tittman of the coast and geodetic survey and Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, formegly head of the geological survey, g&e had general charge of the work, acting in conjunction with Dr. W. F. King, the Canadian commissioner. 3 ; :

The northwest boundary, the location of which was once the subjcct of a great international controversy, giving rise to the political slogan of “Fifty-four forty or fight,” has also been lately remarked. It was, perhaps, the most difficult portion of the work, covering the distance from the summit of the Rocky mountains westward to the Pacific. Certain “gaps” in that boundary had never been surveyed before, so rough and rugged is the countfy.

Much of the line is a very long distance from habitations. The way had to be blazed through virgin forests, and there was great difficulty in transporting materials for the big cement or granite markers. Now, with the completion of the surveys and the field work of both governments, the examination for acceptance is now under way. It is expected that the gtate department’s report for publication will be ready in about a year. Pending that the geological survey will not make public the details. The survey is along the forty-ninth parallel

UNLUCKY THIRTEEN AT TABLE

Oid Hiram Was Kinder Convinced That Signs Come True.

‘“] ain't a superstitious man,” observed old Hiram, “but once in a while it does* corthe on you kinder convincin’' that signs come true. lam reminded of one certain terrible case up to our house.”

“You ain't seen nothin’ spiritual, I hope,” said one of the field hands. “Well,” continued old Hiram, *“1 cal’late 'twas a real ease, net spiritual exactly, but convincin’'. “One day Mary was goin’ over to her mother's to set a spell with her, an’ so she kinder purposed to stand us off ou the noon meal, ° , “She didn’t git nothin’ for a relisher, but just warmed up some fish an’ potatoes, so’s to git it easy. ‘'Long "bout ‘leven o’clock Tom'’s folks come over, kinder onexpected, an’ as they kep’ agettin’ an’ didn’t make any motion to go, she asked 'em all to draw up an’ hev a bite. There's seven of us an’” five ¢' them, with q:o'ehflqre?, an’ we 5 s ¥ 1

of latitude, known as the northwest boundary, and was originally located during the period from 1858 to 1863. The entire boundary is now defined by cement or granite monuments from two to three miles apart. The effort has been to erect these monuments sa that they will be intervisible and enduring. They are large dnd of the most substantial construction. The original boundary was marked by iron posts. In some cases these have been replaced, but set in a cement foundation.

The greatest possible accuracy has been attained in the locations. Surveying instruments are more perfect now than they were half a century ago, and in locating a parallel of latitude, for instance, there is occasionally some variation from the original location. But this has made little practical difference, adding, perhaps a hundred feet, more or less, at some points. The American surveyors are not very specific about it, but they say the variation is not enough to cause any popular concern whatever. :

Presumably the running of the northeast boundary will be begun at the St. Croix river and proceed over the north of Maine, and so on, across New Hampshire, but Mr. Baylor has the making of the preparations in hand, and all will depend upon arrangements with the Canadians. [t will be rather an arduous piece of work, because miuch of the way will be through forests and rough country and remote from settlements.

Probably the entire marking from the Atlantic to the Pacific will occupy nearly a decade before the last monument has been reset and the two governments have given their formal seal of approval. X No Change in Fifty Years. Waterbury, Conn.—When Postmaster Joseph Widmer of New Hartford lost his little daughter 50 years ago his wife and he were horrified by the thought of physical disintegration and they sought the aid of a New York undertaker to preserve the child’s features. As a result the body was buried in what was known as an ‘“air tight” coffin of iron, with a cover of glass. : The undertaker assured the sorrowing parents that if they looked at their daughter’s corpse a half century later it would be as natural as it was then. The 50 years expired and the Widmers had the body exhumed. When the earth ‘was removed, from the glass cover they saw the child’'s face as calm and unchanged as on the day of -dedath. The coffin was re-buried and the Widmers are happy in the belief that the earthly form of their child will defy the ravages of all time.

Soup for French School Children. In some of the rural districts of France every boy or girl takes to school in the morning a handful of vegetables and puts them in a large pan of water. They are then washed by one of the other pupils, who take turns at performing this duty. Later the vegetables are placed in a Kkettle with water 'and a piece of pork, and are cooked while the lessons are going on. At 11:30 each scholar has a bowl of hot soup. To cover the cost of fuel and meat the richer pupils pay a small sum each month. ~

The Evils in Private Life,

Some are the slaves of servants whom they have trusted with their affairs. Some are kept in. continual anxiety by the caprice of-rich relations, whom they cannot please and dare not offend. Some husbands are inperious, and some wives perverse: and, as it is always more easy to do evil .than good, though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly ar vice of one may often make many miserable.—Samuel Johnson.

hed to dish out the meal with consid’rable caution. Fact is, I hed to divide an’' subtract more'n I've done sence I used to figger in school. “Jest as we ped settled down comf'table, in come Jerry, lookin’ as thin an” hungry as a b'ar in the spring. He drew right up to the table. I say table because there wa'n’t nothin’ else left, Mary felt it pretty keen. ‘I tell you,’ says she, ‘it’s unlucky to pave 13 to a table—especially if there's only enough food on it for 12’ An’ lookin’ at it all ways, it's one sign I hev a toler’ble good faith in. The circumstance was convincin’.”—lllustrated Sunday Magazine, /

Building a Two-Mile Trestle.

In the construction of the new har bor at San Pedro, Cal., -the government is building a breakwater that extends two miles out into the open sea.’ Piling was first driven, on which & rallway trestle was built, and immense quantities of rock are boln‘} dumped on both sldelg of it :

CEMETERY IN NEW YORK CITY WILL BECOME GARDEN SPOT. Plot of Gotham Marble Burial Corpo ration an Interesting Bit of Ancient’ Town—Surrounded by Stores and Tenements.. g - New York.—To lift one of God's acres out of a condition that does not harmonize with ~modern conceptions of health, beauty and general fitness is the plan of certain members of the New York Marble Cemetery corporation, the associatiou which owns the old burying ground over on Second avenue: At a no inconsiderable cost they propose to transform the cemetery into what will resemble far more a beautiful garden than a place of the dead, a scheme that is of interest not only to those who have personal associations with the cemetery, but to the generai public, to whom restful and verdant gpaces in the midst of the toil and traffic of the city are of infinit value. The cemetery, which at present presents an old-fashioned aspect of quaintness and order, is an ' especially interesting bit of ancient New York, preserved amid the downfall and destruction of more conspicuous relics of the city’s youth. For within it rest the ‘remains of numbers prominently connected with her development socially and commercially.

The plot lies in the middle of the block formed by the intersection of Second and Third streets with Second avenue and the Bowery, and is entered by an iron gateway which, breaking the monotonous block-front of stores and tenements on Second avenue, opens upon a passage, which in turn leads to the gateway in the eastern wall of the cemetery itself. Once inside the latter entrance, the visitor is astonished to find an open space of 137 feet by 85 feet in extent, surrounded by high walls and giving little evidence of the purpose for which it is used. A grass plot intersected by three straighkt paths runs the full length of the inclosure. -Upon the western wall is a large tablet on which are engraved the names of vault owners, while the eastern wall bears the name of the cemetery. Along the side walls smaller tablets give the names of vault owners opposite their respective vaults. But thera

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Silver in Bank of England. There are silver ingots in the Bank of England which have lain there for more than 200 years. :

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“Ty” Cobb, the star player of the Detroit team of the American League last year, signed a contract with President Navin of the Tigers, and will play with the Detroit team this year and next. The terms of Cobb’s contract stipulate, it is said, that he is to receive $4,000 salary and a bonus of $BOO provided he bats over .300 and fields over .900. S . :

BASEBALL RECORDS MADE . DURING SEASON QF 1907

Donlin Made Six Hits in One Game at Chicago—Two Pitchers Had 22 Strikeouts Each.

During the baseball season of 1907, Lawrence and Welsh of the Brooklyn Athletic club and Miller and Rice of the East End All Stars were at bat the most in one game—ll. Donlin when playing with the Logan Squares in Chicago, made the most hits in a game—6. : * Sparden of Madison of the Wisconsin State league, received the most put-outs in a game—3l. ' Smith of Fond du Lac, also in the Wisconsin State league, received the most assists—l 2.

Shugart of the Marquettes of Chicago, made the most errors—>s. Ganley of Washingten and Becker of . the Chicago Turn Gemeinde made the most runs—>s. ]

Byrne of St. Louis, Hofman of Chicago and Mason of Cincinnati made the most sacrifice hits—3.

Lajoie of Cleveland, during the training trip, had the most two-bag-gers % in a game—4. A player named Beckers had three three-baggers. : : . Kreks of Green Bay of the Wisconsin Stzte league, Donlin of the Logan Squares, McLane of Wilmington of the Tri-State league, » Hopke of Indianapslis, Wagner of Boston, Nordye ot St. Paul, Barton of Trenton and Huelsman of Kansas City each made two home runs in a game. Hairtman of AKoona and Tinker of the Cubs made four stolen bases. Eagen of Louisville gave the most wases on balls—ll. : Wege of Hannover, Pa., and Dodge of Fox Lake, Wis.,, had the -most strikeouts—22. : Schnerberg of Milwaukee hit the wost—4, | : The Henry L. Pierce school and Bennett school played the longest game—>s hours 50 minutes. Sage of Milwaukee and Ames of the Giants had each three wild pitches. Goodwin of Milwaukee made two balks in a game. : - The largest attendance of 1907 was 30,000 in the St. Louis spring serles. The past balls were but two made iQ a game and too many to mention held that record.

MAJOR LEAGUE GOSSIP

Mike Donlin of the Giants will be placed second in the New York team’s batting order. Monograms, instead of spelled-out names, will identify nearly every big league team this season. : Ban Johnson says that the New York Highlanders have the fastest combination in the American league. Now that Honus has issued his final note of decision Pittsburg becomes a place merely whére the choo-choos hesitate. i

Bearwald is the real name of Bell of the New York Americans. “Johnny McGraw,” says Harry Howell, “is the smartest guy in the game. He knows more new and old stuff than any baseball man ! ever bumped into.”

Stanley Robison, owner of the Cardinals, looks upon his players as near relatives. He is especially fond of his southpaw twirlers. Malarkey, the Giants’ pitching recruit, is said to have a drop ball that is a puzzler. He used it in practice the other day, and it made a hit with MecGraw. Ossie Schreck, who was the particular friend of ‘“Rube’” Waddell, but who fell out with the eccentric one, is the latest to take a wallop at his former friend. He says the other Athletic pitchers will ‘do better work with Waddell in St. Louis. Ossie opined that “Rube” is a handicap to any club of which he is a member. / : When culling time arrives Griff will be in a predicament as to what disposition to make of Manning. The Williamsport youngster has soine puzzling benders and his giant shoulders hoard a power of speed. - -~ | Frank Sparks, who won 22 of his 30 games for the Phillies last year, continues to hold out. The terms offered him do not suit, and he states that he 1 will quit the game unless Manager Murray gives him what he wants. Ritchie, the Brooklyn National league pitcher, has invented a new curve which is labeled the “skidoo ball.” Reports from Savannah, where the Phillies are practicing, declare it is a hummer. _ S | Charley Hmphm-is positive that he will be mnnébm of the positions in Grifiith’s outfleld, despite the great number of gardeners on the pay oo tho New Yok America. b e

LAJOIE NOW SUPREME AS - GREATEST BALL PLAYER

Comparison Is Impossible with Big German Out of Game-_——Has S ' Managerial Woes.,

Napoleon Lajoie will rule for a year at least as the world’s greatest exponent of baseball. The title has been in dispute for some time, as many critics believed Hans Wagner the best ever. Comparison will be impossible this year if Wagner continues to make good his retirement stunt. ; P

-In the American league all of the fans consider Lajoie the greatest natural ball player of the bunch, while the National league supporters ‘can’t see anything to the title but Hans Wagner. Such a feeling no doubt is caused by the fact that the National leaguers see Wagner often. and Lajoie only every now and then. In the cities where two ‘major league teams are Jocated opinion is divided among the critics as to the greatness of the two stars. 1 L

‘During his 11 years on the diamond Wagner has never fallen below the .300 mark in batting, while Lajoie has been out of the charmed circle only once. Last year he fell one point shy, hitting .299 for the season. . It is almest impossible to make a comparison of their‘ fielding. - Larry is grace personified, while Wagner is as awkward as a rube on his first visit to the city. Larry gets the men at first with ease, while Wagner throws them out with an effort, but it matters little after all how they are - retired just so they are. - - : ? There is but little doubt that Lajoie would be a greater ball player if he didn't have the troubles of manager and captain to fall on his shoulders. There is-a lot of woe conrnected with both jobs, and Larry has to share the double woe of being' responsible for the loss of every game as well as looking aftér the second sack in faultless style. - Wagner has never had the troubles of ‘the man~ ager and captain, Fred Clarke shouldering the duties on the Pittsburg team. Wagner was surely the big card on the National league circuit. The Pirates will miss his services on the field. and feel the effects in the box office.. On the road Wagner always attracted a lot of people to the gama who perhaps won’t go, now that he is no longer a member of-the:Pirates. -

JONES PRAISES PATTEN

Charley "Says Case lls Best Left ~ ‘Hander in the Business. ; “Case Patten is. the greatest left. handed pitcher in the business to-day,” said Charley Jones, whom McAleer got from Washington in exchange for Ollie Pickering. i > “I played behind him long enough ‘to know, tco. ‘Often after we had trounced these hard-hitting teams 1 ~have heard the remark: ‘That fellow’s got nothing, and I don’t see how he gets away with it : : “Patten has the greatest asset of a good pitcher, “brains. - He has out.guessed more batsmen than any other ‘man in the business, and whenever he loses a game you can put it down that it was because of poor fielding <aehind him—you never see an opposing team hammering him hard. = “Patten relies on two balls, ‘a spitter’ and a ‘screw’ ball. His wet one is a tough proposition, but his screw ball is the limit. It floats up to a batter like a drunken sailor going after more booze, and, like the sailor, is all in when it gets to the plate. . “The ball wobbles up big as a -mountain, and the batter steps back with an expression of ‘Here is where I kill it” But I have never seen any one able yet te get it out of the in. field. U b

“In a pinch Patten uses that ‘screw’ exclusively, no matter how many men are on bases nor how many outs. And it seldom fails him. The red-headed routhpaw mixes in an occasional hook, just to let the batter know that he has them.” s e In the Land of Prohibition. The life of the baseball trainer is not one long, sweet dream in Atianta. Mr. Martin, chief rubbist of the New York Americans, tried to get some alcohol for rubbing down purposes the other day. It took nearly a solid day of swearing to affidavits as to his in: tentions before he landed it. S Will Train “Above the Clouds.” - A contract is pending calling for the Tolede American -association baseball team training at the top of Lookout mountain. . This will be the first time ‘baseball -&Tlgm ‘have trained “above the aloude™ o 0 00l o e T e eA RS S S b

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A Counter Stroke. : A stylishly-dressed woman entered a Chinese laundry and paid for & laundered shirt. “Why do you wear those ‘rats’ I think you call them, in your hair?” inguired the Chinaman, who had an inquisitive ‘turn of mind. “Tush, Mr. Johmn,” replied his customer. -“I always thought it was Chinese etiquette not to -talk about. the things they like best.” > The Oriental blinked his eyes as the lady passed out. . Recommended His Wife. - Irvin Cobb, humorist of New York, was recommended to a lecture management. The latter sought an introduction through & friend, Mr. McVeigh. “Come here, Irvin, I want you to meet a friend of mine,” said McVeigh. After a few minutes’ conversation, the jecture man broached the subject of lecturing as follows: =

“I was just wondering, Mr. Cobb, what you would think of a proposition to do some lecture work next season?”’ ~ Cobb looked at his questioner for just a moment in blank amazement. Evidently such a thought had never entered his head before. Then reaching out his hand confidentially, he said: “T've got it. My wife will do it. She is the best one I know.”—Lyceum and Talent. ! :

REPARTEE.

X ?\ - Younger—l wonder if I shall lose my looks, too, when I am your age? - Elder—You’ll be lucky if you do. LOST $3OO. Buying Medicine When Right Food Was Needed. Money spent for “tonics” and “brace ers” to relieve indigestion, while the poor old stomach is loaded with pas try and pork, is worse than losing @ pocketbook containing the money. . If the money only is lost it's bad enough, but with lost health from wrong eating, it is hard to make the money back. 1 oo - A Mich. young lady lost money om drugs but is thankful she found & way to get back her health by proper food. She writes:

“I had been a victim of nervous dyspepsia for six years and spent three hundred dollars for treatment in the attempt to get well. None of it did me any good. , . “Finally .1 tried Grape-Nuts food, and the resulis were such that, if it cost a dollar a package, I would not be without it. My trouble had beemr caused by eating rich food such as -pastry and pork. T : "~ “The most wonderful thing that ever happened to me, I am sure, was the change in my condition after E began to eat Grape-Nuts. I began ta improve at once and the first week gained four pounds. : “I feel that I cannot express mygelf in terms that are worthy of the benefit Grape-Nuts has brought to me, and you are perfectly free to publish this letter if it will send some - poor sufferer Mi&tmm come villa” in pkgs “Thers's & Reason.” , P ot NS S ns R Ve iR e s i e