Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 17, 1912, Page 4

+ | { j | i i i 3 | % GAME HAS GONE BACK Anson Says Baseball Not U to' Standard of Old Days. | Bo Many Leagues Requiring Plagsrs That There Are Not Enough 8tars to Go Around—Gives Names of Old Players. “You can state it as emphatically as you desire as coming from me, that the article of ball being furnished in the major leagues today is not up to the standard of play when I was in the game,” was the statement made by | Captain Adrian C. Anson, one of the grand old men of the game. Pop added: “There is a reason for this. The ! National League wags organized in | 1876, and the cream of all the players | In the country were gathered together In the eight clubs. The Natiomal League had full sway for about ten years. Each season we skimmed off the stars and brought them into the ranks. Then the old American Asso- clation was launched and more play- ers were needed. The skimming of players continued. “The American League started off by grabbing all of the stars of the National League. Other leagues grew up and the demand was greater than the supply. At the start the Ameri- can League furnished a better article of ball than the National, because the ranks of the latter had been raided. The parent organization had to go out for new blood. It takes years to de- velop a ball player, even after his na- tural ability has been demonstrated. The National League has improved until today it is a toss up whether it or the American League is playing the better ball. “The game is fast getting back to where it was when I quit. It may take & fow years, but it is bound to get | i | there. Ask a fan of the present gen- eration to pick stars, who compare with the old ones, and he will proba- bly name Cobb, Wagner and Coliins and stop there. Not so in my time. 'The equal of Buck Ewing as a catcher has never been known to the game. They try to tell me that Johnny Kling was the equal of Buck, but he never was in his class. I can name quite a few catchers who were equal, if not better, than Kling. It is the same down the line, McCormick, Clarkson, Radbourne, Keefe, Welsh, Ferguson and Rusie were better pitchers than they have today. No onme was ever in King Kelly’s class as a base steaier. For hitters look over this bunch and see how they compare with the swat prtists of today; Brouthers, Connors, O'Rourke, Delahanty, White, Rowe, Richardson. Thompson. Many others could be named. “The great trouble with the major league teams today is the fact that they are forced to pick players before they are ripe for fast company to fill the ranks. In a few years these young- sters will develop into stars, and then they will give a good account of them- selves. Young men are beginning to realize the great field which is open to them in baseball, and they are learning to play the game, which 18 bound to get better and stronger in the years to come.” JOE JACKSON IS SPEEDIEST Professional Timer Declares Cleveland Outfielder Is Fastest Man on Bases In League. George Dietrich, a professional Hmer of anything that is in motion, from pacers, trotters, automobiles to meroplanes, has become interested in the speed of ball players, and he de- clares that in his opinion Joe Jack- ;un /£ Cleveland is the fastest man in ascOall. “I am positive,” sad Dietrich, “that If this is not a record time, it is pre- elously close to it. I have timed a 80od many other players over the same route, and I never caught anoty- Joe Jackson. man under two and three-quarters jeconds. The only men who, according my watch, made the distance from e plate to first. in two and three- uarters seconds are Ty Cobb and Wil r Good. plate to second base Iln 8ix and ‘one- quarter seconds.” BALL PLAYERS FROM LINDEN Little Town In Tennessee Is Home of Five Professionals, Including Clyde Milan of Washington. The average city of 100,000 people feels fairly proud when it can boast of having a half dozen professional pall players among its sons, but the record is undoubtedly held by Linden, Tenn., the home of Clyde Milan. Lin- den is a little hamlet in the center of the state, with a population of 360, | -Clyde Milan. pnd yet there are exactly five profes- sional ball players who register from there. Milan is the only one in the major leagues. He has a brother who 1s with Nashville. Then there are two boys named Morlbid and another named Paskell, who are playing ball fn some of the smaller leagues. Bones Act as Barometer. The merits of bone as an indicator of fair or foul weather have been vouched for by the capthin of an Ital- lan steamer carrying a cargo of bones from the South’ American port of Buenos Aires to New York. When the ship was sailing toward a storm the skipper stated, recently, the bones creaked and moaned, and when fair weather was ahead they were silent agaln, Intermarriage in Brittany. In accordance with the custom which has made the picturesque prov- Ince of Brittany famous, twenty-six couples were married at once, at Plou- gastel, one recent morning. In the village there are only some eight or nine family names, and the village folk never marry outside of their community. Last year there were forty-two marriages. The Right to Smoke. “Do you think it looks well for wom- e e e RN R REACH HEIGHTS OF LUXURY|' Good Reasons Why the Newest Ocean Liners Are Referred to as Floating Palaces. While the first photograph of the new steamship Titanic received in New York shows a ship in most re- speots like the Olympio there is a pro- nounced difference in the deck, or what s on the Olympic the lower prower promenade deck. On this deck on the new ship there is no public Ppromenade at all. Instead the staterooms are brought out flush with the outside of the su- Derstructure, and the rooms them- 8elves made much larger. The sitting rooms of some of the sultes on this deck are 15 by 16 feet, in fact, this deck is the most luxurious of the ves: sel. ! The restaurant is much larger than that of the Olympic and it has & nov- elty in the shape of a private prom- enade deck on the starboard side, to be used exclusively by its patrons. Ad- Joining it is a reception room where hosts and hostesses may meet their guests before going into the restau- rant. The biggest novelty is two.private promenades connected with the two most luxurious suites on the ship. These suites are about the most ex- pensive ever installed on a ship so far as the passenger is concerned. It will be possible for the occupants to be just as exclusive on shipboard as in their own homes. POINTER FOR THE BATSMAN Right Way of Hitting a Pitched Bail ls Shown as a Matter of Some Importance. Some of the grueling training of pennant chagers in southern training camps is indicated by Edward Lyle Fox in Outing. Here is what he says of the batting: “A man steps to the plate. The ball comes sailing up, white and big, ri- diculously easy to hit. The batter must think so, too. We see him hunch his shoulders, draw in his upper lip, act just as men do when they're going to kill it. Then he swings. The im- pact has the dull sound of a falling plank hitting the sidewalk on one end. High above second basc the ball arches, wabbles and bolts ia 2 shining arc. The batter looks sheepish. “Hey!” cries the manager, and we see him rush toward the plate. “What do you mean by hitting a ball like that? Why, man, if you don’t change your swing you'll be a fly-ball hitter 8ll your life.” “What’s the matter with it?” The voice betrays disappointment. “Matter!” roars the manager. “Mat- ter! Why, you're hitting as if you were eating soup; coming up under the ball as if it were a piece of clam floating in a bowl of chowder and your bat was a ladle! Matter! When will you ever learn to meet a ball squarely on the nose—not hitting un- der it? Now try again.” He does, and this time we hear a ring, see a white streak that shoots not ten feet from the ground and brings up with a crash against the outfield fence. Mr. Galsworthy and Art. John Galsworthy has a fine imagina- tive piece of writing in the February Fortnightly on “Vague Thoughts on Art” “Art,” he says, “is that imaginative expression of human energy which, through technical concretion of feel- Ing and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting in him impersonal emotion. And the greatest art is that whica excites the greatest impersonal emo- tion in a hypotheticated perfect hu~ man being, “What is this universe—that never had beginning and will never have an end—but a myriad striving to perfect pictures never the same, so blending and fading one into another that all form one great perfect picture. And what are we—ripples on the tides of a en to emoke as they do in some Span- Ish-speaking countries?” “Well,” re- plied the worried Londoner; “it's this way: If they’re smokin’ they’re likely either to be quiet and comfortable, or if they’re not used to it just the oppo- site. And elther way’'s a good chance of keepin’ 'em out of the suffragette parade.” True Nobleness. To love the unlovely, to sympathize Wwith the contrary-minded, to give to the uncharitable, to forgive such as never pity, to be just to men who make iniquity a law, to repay their ceaseless hate with never-ceasing love, is one of the noblest attalnments of man, and in this he becomes most di- vine.—Theodore Parker. Puzzled. “What'’s the matter, John?” “Why, ma’am, here’s a note from the master in which he tells me that he’s off on & little hollday and he wants me to send his drawing materials along.” “Well, and isn’t that plain enough “Hardly, ma’am. I don’t know wheth- er to send his paint brushes or a cork- screw.” —_—— Exposed. Translent—“Was the show last night the real thing, as they adver- tised?” TUncle Eben—“Real thing, nothing. It was a fake. The boys ex- posed it. We got hold of the fellow who played the villain, and after riding him around town he finally confessed that he warn’t no real villain after all; Just pretendin’.”—Lippincott’s. Knowledge Must Be His Gulde. As the Spanish proverb says, “He ¥ho would bring home the wealth of e Indies must carry the woalth of the Indies with him.” So it s in traveling: A man must carry knowl- edge with him if he would bring bome knowledge—Samuel Joknson. Danger Above All Others. There is only one real national birthless, deathless, equipoised Crea- tve Purpose—but little works of art!” “Life” 34 Days After Death, Some years ago Dr. Alexis Carvel, an English scientist, showed that the various organs and tissues taken from p-living organism can be maiftained In a live state for a more or less pro- longed time by placing them in a suit~ able medium at the right temperature, and that such tissues may even grow for several days. His results have been contradicted by other. authors, but more recently Dr. Carrel has achieved even more mtriking results. By taking the preparations out of their nutritive medium at the right time and transferring thme to another medium consisting of three parts of the mor- mal plasma of the animal in question and two parts of water, and repeating the operation at proper intervals up to 88 many as nine times, he finds that the connective tissue shows great ac- tivity, even as long as thirty-four days after its removal from the body. - New Musical Instrument. A musical instrument new to Eng- Ush audiences was heard at Queen’s Hall, London, recently, when the Lon- don Symphony Orchestra presented a Russian program. The timplipito— which was used_.in one of Ivanoft’s “Caucasian. Sketches”—consists of two earthenware jars of different eizes, 'bound together by thongs. Over their mouths is stretched a skin which Is beaten with light wooden drum- sticks, producing a sound like a child’s rattle and a drum combined, - Not Intentional Crime. 3 “You are charged with polsoning this lady’s pet dog. I shall deal se- verely with such ingratitude. She testifies: that she had just given you a mince ple,” *“I didn’t do it inten: tionally, judge. I did feed him a piece of de ple.” New Use for Windmlil. An ingenious German baker utilizes danger—ignorance, 2 p windmill to mix and knead his bread 25 well as to grind his grain into flour, dom worth doing. . Vistory to Ghesrful 8pirit. after trouble has been heaped, and Who yet i beautiful at an age when many have lald aside every thought of trying to be otherwise than ‘“de- cently covered,” and who s fighting the battle of life, while her contem- Porarles are knitting by a fireside.—~ W York Tribune. Are Learning Right Ways. An English lady, long resident in Tokyo, once wrote to a friend that the impulse of her Japanese malds is always to sew on cuffs frills and other similar things topsy turvy and Since the publication ot such reports the art of needlework has keen greatly tmproved in Japan. Several of the English methods have been taught with great success, if only to judge by the lovely drawn thread work sold in great quantities inside out. in Great Britain. _— Helpful Hint. A good way to avold getting the fingers inky, if one has a tendency that way, is to save the fingers of: discarded kid .gloves and keep them in the writing desk, slipping one over the middle finger and another, 1if necessary, over the forefinger, when sitting down to write. This often saves time and annoyance when a Tote has to be written just before go- ing out. Glgantio Loaves of Bread. The biggest loaves of bread baked to be eaten are those made in France or Italy. In the case of the pipe bread of the latter country, the loaves are between two and three fee: in length, and occasionally even longer. While the French people make their loaves in the shape of Very long rolla of bread ranging from four to five feet, and in a few instances over six feet in length. Disconcerted by Sneeze. The world has' now well-nigh for gotten M. Vivier, the once famous French-horn player, who was so un- nerved by the late Lord Houghton's blowing his nose at a critical moment of his performance that he threw up all his London engagements. “Ah,” he would say after this, “the English have terrible-noses. They remind you of the day of judgment.” Reason for His Belief, A noted German astronomer is of the firm belief that Mars is inhabited. He recently explained his belief by remarking that if there were 10,000, 000 houses all fitted allke in the world and one was known to be in- habited it would be a logical infer- ence to suppose that all Were, Milton Foresaw America? Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant 'nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; me- thinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, -and kindling her undazzled eyes at ‘the full midday beam.—John Milton. Ultimately Reach the Goal. “Two hearts that beat as one” may Jangle sometimes, not because they are actually hostlle, but just because they lose step. It makes awkward marching when you are out of step with your comrade, but you both keep on in the same direction and with the same purpose, all the time. Have Their Own Methods. The daughters of the land of flow- ers sometimes curiously reverse Euro. pean methods. They needle their thread instead of threading their needle, and, instead of running their needle through.the cloth, they hold it still and run the cloth upon it. Proof of Snake’s Wisdom. Mrs. Reldet (with paper)—I see that the big anaconda up at the Zoo won’t eat chickens unless they are alive. Mr. Reider—Wise old snake! That’s the only way to beat thé cold- storage game.—Puck. Two Pleasant Experlences. To sing with a toothache 1s as pleasant as having your friend bor- row money when you're trying to borrow from him. Undesgerving of Sympathy. There is no use wasting sympathy on a man who can’t be happy with good health, good meals and good weather. Verdict May Be Reserved. The trouble about becoming fa- mous overnight is that there’s tomor- row coming. Poor Interest. Other people may be interested in your troubles, but if they are their Interest isn’t likely to be worth much. Real Difficulty. It is not difficult to tell the truth; the difficulty 1s to get the truth be- Héved. And Rarely Profitable. The things men do for spite are selk Eternal Fitness of Things. It is pretty generally agreed that a man should dress according to station. This means, perhaps, that & man with a low salary should mnot | Wear a high hat. Reward Worth Deserving. Taking everything together, there is no reward that is quite so lasting and satisfying as the good will of our tellow-men.—The Christian Register. To face life brightly as may be, to learn to laugh at minor troubles, to cultivate a gense of humor, all these mean fewer wrinkles and a longer youth, The Budget knows well one gallant woman upon whom trouble Be Extremely Puzzlinz to New- ‘comer and Visitor. There are at present in daily use in Venezuela three different’ systems of monetary standards. One is that based on the bolivar (equal to 19.3 cents) as the unit. This is in use by the gov- ernment in its reports and transac- tlons and {s the officlal system, if it may be 80 called. Quotations in this system are in bolivars and centimos, & bolivar being divided into 100 cen- timos, although tie smajler coin in this system has a value of 5 cen- timos. The second system bas the “peso fuerte” or “dollar” as its unit, the units being commonly referred to sim- ply as “fuertes”” This “fuerte” is taken to be equal to 6 bolivars and to be divided into 100 centavos. The third system has the ‘“peso macuquina,” usually simply “termed “pesos,” as its unit. This “peso” has & value of 4 bolivars and is considered to be equal to 80 centavos, and to be divided into 8 reals, while the “fuerte” 18 considered to have 10 reals, Some few of the mercantile houses keep thelr accounts with their custom- ers in “fuertes,” but most of the es- tablishments render their bills in the “Deso.” 5 When accounts kept in the last two vuits are paid, they are transformed Into bolivars by manipulating by five or four, as the case may be, payments being made by Venezuelan currency, colned gold and silver on the bolivar basis, or bank notes issued on the same system, although. some foreign gold is in general acceptance at con- ventional rates. g Among the humbler classes making their purchases at the market, an ar- ticle which would be worth 75 centi- mos of a bolivar, or 15 centavos of a “fuerte,” will almost invariably be quoted at “a real and a half,” or a purchase will be actually paid for by offering 6 bolivars, 623 centimos in coin, while the seller has stated tha value to be “18% reals.” TO ADVERTISE CHURCH WORK Congregational Ministers of Philadele phia Plan Extensive Use of the Newspapers. " Indorsing church advertising in the newspapers, the Philadelphia Associ ation of Congregational Ministers, which was merged into the Associa- ion of Congregational Churches, oassed resolutions appointing a coms mittee which will advertise each in. dividual church in the local newse papers. The Rev. Edwin H. Romig, pastor of the First Congregational church, was appointed chairman of the publicity committee which is now a permanent Institution, In the course of his remarks, Dr. Romig pledged himself to newspaper advertising, which, he said, must be done. The lack of interest in relig- lous affairs he attributed to the fact that the church is not enough before the public eye, and appealed to his audience to finance the campaign as & business venture.—Philadelphia Evening Times. " No Decrease In Disease, Speaking of disease, here is anoth- er deplorable confession from no less an authority that the Medical Record. In spite of the army of physicians, their discoveries, and their hecatombs of vivisected guimea pigs, we may doubt, says the Medical Record, wheth- er the sum total of diseases is any less than it was before the medical profession reached its present high standing. Preventive medicine has made “little headway,” and “in the opinion of some medical men diseases are on the increase.”” In the deeper recesses of our consciousness we had suspected something of the kind our- selves, but such heterodoxy on the part of a layman would have exposed him to excommunication - with bell, book, and candle, or at least with bac- teria, serums, and antitoxins. But with the Medical Record behind us we can afford to creep out into the open, Successful Woman Farmer. Miss Grace M. Putnam is said to be one of the most successful farmers in New Jersey. She was born and brought up tn the city, never even visiting the country until after she was 16 years old. Her farm consists of about five acres and is planted ex- clusively in cantaloupes. She reports that she rented her farm for the first yea the third year she pald up every debt she owed and put $3,000 in bank. She does all the work herself after the first plowing, for which she pays a farmer $12. Her seeds cost her $1 an acre, fertilizer $10 an acre and barrels for shipping one year’s crop $60. She wells her melons direct to dealers at $6 a barrel. She thinks her success 88 a farmer i largely due to the fact that she ‘loves the work better than snything else in the world. Rejolces Over Returned Speech. After being speechless for fifteen yéars, the wife of a rancher of Car pentaria, Cal, has regained her speech. The woman’s voice returned to her just as suddenly as it had left her. She was sitting at the dinner table when she felt a strange itching in her throat, and, surmising the truth of the. situation, she rushed to the living room. Sitting at the piano, she startled the members of the family by ainging a melody that was her fav- orita song when a girl » Old at Three Years of Age. I men lived on-Saturn they wounld be old at three years of age. Baturn’s year is mnearly 30 of ours in length. That is because it is 870,000,000 miles from the sun, consequently imore time is required for it to com- Dlete a circuit of its orbit. -Begin at Home, Everybody wants to reform some- else, but the citisen’s first duty the siate is to. The second year she bought it, | i He wm’i an Angel. ~ During one of the earlier discussions of the United States tariff in the Venezuelan Monetary Standards Must|Oanadian parliament, an opposition member characterized the attitude of the government on the guestion as “a sight that would ke angels weep and jackasses laugh.” The Hon. Frank Oliver, who was then minister of the {interior, replied, with his usual delib- erate calmne “I have observed that the honorable gentleman has been one of those who laughed.”— Judge. Eating Fish In Lent Alded Navy. The connection between fish eat- Ing during Lent and & strong navy may appear remote, but to Elizabeth- an statesmen it seemed vital. So much so that a law was passed com- manding everyone to eat fish on every day of Lent. The reasons set forth for this enactment made no mention of religlous observance. It stated the queen needed ships for defense and the fishing industry furnished men at all times in readiness for her majesty's service. To Make the Boy Orderly. It you want your boy to be orderly provide him with a place of his own wherein he may keep his baseball im- plements, sporting paraphernalia, tools and the thousand and one other ar- ticles dear to his boyish heart. The possession of a locker to which he Depar ilone - carries the Koy i sure to stir the pride of every ambitious boy, es- pecially if he is allowed to bufld it— Housekeeper, Rich Haul by Forgers. The Bank of Naples (Southern Italy) has recently been the victim of fraud to the extent of $160,000, by means of genuine checks, the figures of which, however, had been cleverly altered and sugmented with the aid of chemicals and a perforating machine. The trickster, of whom there is no trace, had checks cashed simultaneously at the branch offices in Turin, Florence and Rome: Deep Childish Reasoning. Father (to Margery, who has been a long time fetching the newspaper)— When you're asked to do anything, Margery, you should always run, Mar- gery—Yes, I will, daddy; except, of course, I can’t when my legs ache. Father—Rubbish; your legs mnever ache. Margery (indignantly)—Hoo! what's the use of the word “ache,” then?—Punch. Riches Easily Gathered. I am startled that God can make me so rich even with my own cheap stores. It needs but a few wisps of straw In the sun, some small word dropped, or one that has long lain Classiried silent in a book.—Thoreau. tment The Pioneer Want Ads OASH WITH OOPY % oent per word per Issue 15 cents. 80 your want ad gets to them all. CLASSIFIED CHICKEN AND EGG DEPARTMENT. B UL VNSV UUUUUSS, FOR SALE—Rhode Island Reds. First prize winners at county fair. Mated with stock from first prize stock at three large poultry ex- hibits. I can spare a few more settings. Will book others ahead. $1 for 13 eggs; $6 per hundred. Geo. T. Baker, 907 Minnesota Ave. 14 Cent a Word Is All It Costs Regular charge rate 1 cent per word per insertion. No ad taken for less than. Phone 31 HOW THOSE WANT ADS DO THE BUSINESS The Ploneer goes everywhere so that everyone has a neighbor who takes it and people who do not take the paper generally read their neighbor's FOR SALE—Small fonts of type, several different points and in first class condition. Call or write this office for proofs. Address Be- midji Pioneer, Bemidji, Minn. fOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Ploneer will procure any kind of < rubber stamp for vou om short «wotice. FOR SALE—House and lot. two blocks from postoffice. Will sell cheap if taken at once. Telephone 402. Fr-R SALE—House at 916 Minneso- ta Ave. Terms to suit purchaser. Enquire of C. W. Vandersluis. FOR SALE—One incubator brooder; can be seen at Bros. Hardware Store. FOR RENT ———— FOR RENT—One large front room, furnished. Call at 108 6th Street. and Given FOR SALE — Thoroughbred Ply- mouth Rock, Rhode Island Red and Buff Leghorn eggs. Telephone 686-2, -J. H. French. FOR RENT—House for rent. Inquire at 1317 Beltrami Ave. FOR RENT—Six rent. A. Klein. ‘room house for FOR SALE—Full blooded Golden ‘Wyandotte eggs for breeding. E. _S. Woodward, 6507 Irvine Ave. FOR SALE—Breeding stock and eggs for hatching from the best fleck of full blood Barred Plymouth Rocks to be had, come and see them at 706 14th. 0. C. Simonson. FOR SALE - FOR SALE—Typewriter ribbons for every make of typewriter on the market at 50 cents and 75 cents each. Every ribbon sold for 75 cents guaranteed. Phone orders promptly filled. Mail orders given the same careful attention as when you appear in person. Phone 31. The Bemidji Pioneer Office Supply Btore. FOR SALE—The Bemidji lead pen- pencil (the best nickle pencil in the world) -at Netzer's, Barker'’s, 0. C. Rood’s, McCuaig’s, Omich’s, Roe and Markusen' nd the Pio- neer Office Supply Store at 65 conts each-and 50 cents a doze! FOR SALE—One five room cottage, modern, except heat, on .50 foot lot and one seven room house in first class condition Ingy Irvine. aven! LOST AND FOUND A A A A A A e LOST—Vol. No. One Ridpaths His- tory finder please leave at Pioneer Office. MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISERS—The great state of North Dakota offers unlimited op- portunities for buslness to classi- fied advertisers. The recognized advertising medium is the Fargo Daily and Sunddy Courier-News, the only seven day paper in the ‘state and the paper which carries the largest amount of classified advertising. = The Courier-News covers North Dakota like a blank- et; reaching all parts of the state the day of publication; it is the paper to use in order to get re- sults; rates one cent per word first insertion, one-half cent per word succeeding insextian; fifty cents per: line per month. Address the Courier-News, Fargo, N. D. WANTED—100 merchants in North- efn Minnesota to sell “The Bemid- J1”” lead pencil. Will carry name of every merchant in advertising columns of Pioneer in order that all receive advantage of advertis- ing. For wholesale prices write or phone the Bemidji Ploneer Of- fice Supply Co. Phone 31. Be- midji, Minn. WANTED—Nursing wanted by ex- perienced practical nurse. Resi- dence 1004 American Ave., or phone 515, BOUGHT AND SOLD—Second hand furniture. ' Odd Fellows building, across from postoffice, phone 129. WANTED—General housework by woman with 3 year old child.