Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 10, 1919, Page 3

SN PR — i " % i S SPRING PROMISES BIG CROP OF ‘HOLD-OUTS' IN BASEBALL GARDEN “Million Dollar” World Series Will Be Boomerang to Magnets By Henry L. Ferrell. (United Press Correspondent.) New York, Nov. 10.—Next spring -promises a sizable crop of *‘hold- outs” in the baseball patch. The “million dollar” world’s series and the swollen coffers of most of the -major league clubs will be a boome- rang on the flushed magnates when they come to t&lk tewms with some «of their stars who are due to consider mnew contracts this season. War times caused the foundation to be knocked out from under the fa- ‘bulous figures that were started by the Federal league. Many of the high salaried stars took cuts of thou- :sands on the payroll when the turn- :stiles were getting rusty in the dark war days. Many of them hooked up .on long time contracts at reduced figures fearing that it might be a long while before the national pas- time could ride the waves back to its former era of financial success. Practically every cldd on the major .circuits made money last year. Some .of them big money. This has caused many of the players to bemoan the fate that prompted the to ‘“play -gafe” on low figures over a long ‘stretch. From the talk heard since ‘the close of the season, even those who have one, two or three years yet to go on a contract, will hit for a new contract with more pay. Everett Scott, the star shortstop, :gave indication .of this ‘a few days :ago, When he issued the ultimatum that he would play next. year with ‘the White Sox or he wouldn’t play at -all. He has two years to go on his .contract. Scott Perry, it will be re- membered bolted the Athletics last :season and he is now scanning the list for a team that he would be will- ‘ing to play with next season. When \Carl Mays got away with his stunt of forcing a change it seemed to put «other discontented players in the :same mood. “Babe” Ruth, greatest of all slug- :gers, left the other day for the west ‘to take up movie work. Before leav- ing he announced that he wanted his present contract, which has two years to run at $10,000 a year torn up and a new one substituted calling for the neat little figure of $20,000 ‘per seaosn. He inferred that he -‘would remain out of baseball and work in the movies if his demands :are not met. Brooklyn has announced that ‘three Dodgers have .been signed to new contracts but similar announce- ‘ments from the other clubs have ‘been very slow ln.q@mlng., ALCOHOL GROWS ON TREES Liquid Declared to Be Plentiful In Blooms Which Flourish in Pro- fusion in India. ~ Alcohol in these days has attention from governments in diverse ways, England has had a committee study- ing the possibilities of increasing the production ¢f alcohol to be used in generating power. The opportunities discussed by the committee are interesting. Of course, potatoes, artichokes and cereals came in for attention. But it seems there @are less known sources of alcohol. For example, there is the flower of the mahua tree, which flourishes in Hy derabad and the central part of India. This flower, when sun dried, contains 8 per cent of its weight in ferment- able sugar, and apparently is to be gathered by the ton. Then there are the fertile gases of the cole ovens. They are so rich in surprises to the everyday man that it is not very start. ding to learn they contain ethylene, which by synthetic processes some- what developed under the stress of war may be converted Into ethyl al- <ohol. . With the coal beds about to pro- duce alcohol, and the trees of India fairly blossoming with it, the man ‘with a motor car may quiet the fears aroused by the scientists’ figures which show that we are in sight of the end of petroleum and gasoline. There is nothing like being easy in one's mind.—The Nation's Bulletin. American Buys Franklin Portrait. A portrait of Benjamin Franklin, painted in Paris in 1778 by Joseph Si- frede Duplessis, and showing him as the American ambassador whom Parisians of that period knew, has ar- rived in this. country, the property of Michael Friedsam, the New York Eve- wming Post states. Franklin presented . the portrait to the Freres Perier, en- gineers and owners of the Chaillot fire engine, when he .left France, and it was from the Perier family that Mr. Friedsam purchased it this year. The portrait, whose gorgeous frame of the period is cary :d In the form of & .gerpent, i3 said ¢o be typical of the best work of Duplessis, who was made a member of the academy in 1774, and wwas later appointed conservator of the anuseum of Versailles, In Versallles is a street called Duplessis, and a statue of him stands in a public square of the «ity. MUST HEMAIN HOMELY. “A rub with alcohol is a great ‘beautifier,” says a physician. Nowadays the rub comes when you try to- get the alcohol.—Boston “Transcript. Subscribe for The Ploneer. INLAND CITIES COULD BE BOMBED Chicago and other citles as far in- land could be bombed and wrecked by even two enemy aircraft launched from warships 25 miles off the Atlantic coast, and the present coast defense and aircraft service of the United States could not prevent it. That is what Brig. Gen. Willlam Mitchell, di- rector of military aeronautics, told the house military affairs committee re- cently. Graphic indication of Mexican bor- der conditions was given by the wit- ness when he said: “There is now on the Mexican bor- der an efficient and effective force of 400 combat planes, with 800 in reserve for replacement. “The army has about 4,500 planes that could be put to use, but about one-third of these planes are foreign made and there are no extra parts for repairs. Some 400 planes, mostly ob- solete. and fit for training purposes only are being shipped home from France.” The general told of what is belng done for the aerial defense of the country by saying: “The war department’s reorganization plan destroys the alr service as a service and offers no inducements for officers to remain permanently in {t.” e ____J WANTED TO LICK TEACHER Naval Man Came Back to Avenge Fore mer Wrongs—Police Got There First. Portland, Ore.—Neal Campbell, eight years ago, was eleven years old. Ho attended the Failing grammar school in Portland. And Neal threw spitballs in the classroom. One hit Marjorie Brown. The ten-year-old girl cried. H. J. Boyd, the principal, investigated the cause of her grief. Angd, as a result, Principal Boyd ap- plied the traditional birch rod to the alleged culprit. Neal grew to young manhood and left Portland. He enlisted in the navy. But the intervening years and war service didn’t obliterate Neal's recollection of the licking adminis- tered by Principal Boyd. So when Neal returned to Portland he planned to gratify an eight-year- old desire to lick his former teacher. He walked nto the Failing school and announced his intention. But the city schools have tele- phomes. .So has the police station. Just as Neal was about to get revenge the cops arrived on the scene and blasted all his fond hopes. Campbell returned to his ship at Bremerton with the avowed intention of returning some day to “get even” with Principal Boyd. He says he won’t announce what he intends to do the next time. RICH RADIUM FIND REPORTED eligh Content in Pitchblende Discov- ered in Nipissing District. Toronto.—Pitghblende, the ore of radium, has been found in the town- ship of Butt, district of Nipissing, it was announced. An assay, made by New York experts, showed the pitch- blende to be unusually rich in uranium, the parent of radium. The uranium content was 63.60 per cent. equal to 74.98 per cent of uranium oxide. According to the provincial depart- ment of mines this is the second oc- currence of radium bearing mineral reported to the bureau of mines since the Ontario legislature offered a re- ward of $25,000 for the discovery of radium in Ontario in commercial quan- tity. The other discovery, euxenite, which also carries radium, wae made several years ago in the township of South Sherbrooke in Lanark. All Busy. “What's your wife doing?” “Preserving watermelon rind.” “So “And the kids are enthusiastically suppiying her with the material."— toudzville Courier-Journal. FIT QUOTATION _ “Dor’t, ‘show your ignorance by quoting Hamlet ‘as the one who said he’d rather be s dog and bay the moon.” pisze how, for wasn’t Hamlet a grest Dane?” 4 — “SPEECH” UF DUMB ANIMALS Writer Tells of Two Instances in Which They Plainly Made Wants Known to Her. While walking in the street one day an airedale followed me for a couple of blocks. Then all of a sud- den it ran ahead of me and stopped in front of a faucet. It kept on standing there, looking at me. It having occurred to me what was in the dog’s mind, I took a pail which was standing nearby, and filled it with water. The dog watched with hungry eyes, and when the pail was full enough, drank eagerly. Another time, while I was waiting for the car, I noticed a fox terrier standing by an automobile. It came over to me and I spoke to it. It looked so pleadingly into my face that I wondered if anything was the matter. It kept on looking at me oo earnestly and worriedly as if to eay, “Won’t you help me?” Then I discovered that something was wrong with the fastening of its col- lar, which was hurting its neck. I fixed it and the dog’s tail began to wag and its eyes to twinkle happily. When I was done, it ran back to the automobile and lay down contented- ly.—Katherine Hansen, in Dumb Animals. Malines Carillons Busy. The carillons of Malines have never been heard so much and to such splen- did effect as of late. The truth is that Malines has undertaken to get together a sufficient sum of money with which to present to St. Quentin a new caril- lon. the Germans having seized the bells of the French town. So every carillon of Malines has been ringing and pealing. There have been carillon concerts, one of the performers on the bells of the cathedral of St. Rombaut being the bell ringer of St. Quentin himself. The hymn which he played embodied the motifs of the “Marseil- faise” and the “Brabanconne, WAR AND ROLLER SKATES. It is a far cry from the world war to a child’s roller skates, but accord- ing to a fashion expert roller skates of the latest approved model are after the style of British fighting tanks. Novelty always being up- permost in the juvenile heart, it matters not that the new skates are surrounded by tanklike bodies made of light sheet metal. COULD HARDLY GET HIS BREATH Johnson’s Troubles Disappear After He Takes Tanlac “The way Tanlac has built me up proves to me that it is a great medi- cine,” was the statement made a few days ago by Gust A. Johnson, when he called at the Abbott Drug Co., in Duluth, Minn. Mr. Johnson lives in Virginia, Minn., and has been em- ployed by the Duluth and Iron Range railroad for thirty-five years. “I suffered from stomach trouble in its worst stages,” continued Mr. Johnson. ‘“‘After eating my food wouldn’t digest but would cause gas to form on my stomach, and I would be so short-winded that I could hard- ly get my breath. I had awful rheu- matice pains in my knees, and at times they would get so stiff I could hardly walk. I was nervous and rest- less, and many and many a night I MEAT INJURIOUS TO THE KIDNEYS Take.a Tablespoonful of Salts If Back Hurts or Blad- der Bothers We are a nation of meat eaters and our blood is filled with uric acid, says a well-known authority, who warns us to be constantly on guard against kidrey trouble. The kidneys do their utmost to free the blood of this irritating acid, but become weak from the over- work; they get sluggish; the elimin- ative tissues clog and thus the waste is retained in the blood to poison the entire system. When your kidneys ache and feel like lumps of lead, and you have stinging pains in the back or the urine is cloudy, full of sediment, or the bladder is irritable, obliging you to seek relief during the night; when. you have severe headaches, nervuos and dizzy spells, sleeplessness, acid stomach or rheumatism in bad weath- er, get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water be- fore breakfast each morning and in a few days your kidneys will act a?e. This famous salts is made from e acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys, to neu- tralize the acids in urine so it is no longer a source of irritation, thus ending urinary and bladder disorders. Jad Salts is inexpensive and can not injure; makes a delightful effer- vescent lithia-water drink, and no- body can make a mistake by taking a little occasionally to keep the kidneys clean and active. 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My nervousness and restlessness have gone, and I sleep like a log, and get up every morning feeling like doing my work. My wife was troubled with stomach trouble and constipa- tion, but she feels well just like I do now—no trouble at all. We used the Laxative Tablets, and I tell you they are mighty fine, and with Tan- lac I never saw them beat. Tanlac is the greatest thing I've ever seen for I've tried it and know what I'm talking about.” Tanlac is sold In Bemidjl Ly the City Drug Store, in Kelliher by Mrs. R. Sterling, in Blackduck by French '& Moon, and in Baudette by J. Will- ams. A new kind of Gorn Flakes ARMOUR'S Made at Battle Creek Crisp to the Last Spoonful Manufactured By Bridge Woik . Gold Crowns .. Pure Oxygen DENTAL CORNER GOOD TEETH Are Essential to Good Health J cayed teeth to impair your Qeneoral Examinanation Free YOU SAVE PRACTICALLY B0 ¢ AT THE UNION DENTISTS UNION DENTISTS grrems BEMIDJ] Dr Nevcross & Co. 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