Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 21, 1902, Page 11

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER o 2 1, 1902, COSSIP FROM THE GRIDIRO | First Week of Practios Indicates Ohanges Likely in Big Teams. COACHES AND CAPTAINS CONSERVATIVE Experience Teaches Them Not to Be About Elevens Material Has Heen Well Tried Out. Practically the first woek of real practice in the foot ball world has now been com- pleted, and a. glance over the many teams of the country shows already changes from | their outlooks as they were imagined to | exist & week ago, just before the assembl- ing of the aqua Strange to say, the most remarkable featurs of the week's develop- ments seems to be that most of the teams Dave suffered a leshening of their pros- pects “n that time. Coaches and captains usually leave a wide margin for the pos- sibility of the non-appearance of players 1n the fall. They are never too sanguine, preferring to err In the other direction. For that reason statements as to a college's foot bull outlook made before the squads have assembled are conservative, and can be relled upon to be none too favorable. “This year all the schools began announcing slong toward the first of September how poor their prospects were and now after one week of practice it is found that even at that the chances were overestimated. After every allowance was made for all defections of old men considered possible, it develops, that still move of them will remain out of the game and in conse- quence a smothered how! is going up from most foot bali training quarters. Aside from that fact the Interesting de- velopment of the week in foot ball circles 1s that affairs in this sport are becoming more conservative than they have been of Tecent years. Two facts make this plain In the first place, the commencement of tralning has been universally postponed several weeks. As the football fever has grown in Intensity during the last decade candidates and coaches have been devoting more and more effort and time to prepara- tion for the season. It is a short one, only two months, beginning practically on October 1, and always closing with the Thanksgiving day games. Most colleges open about the middle of September and six years ago or so the time between reg- istration and the first game wac considered ample for preliminary training. But as competition grew keener and interest waxed ferce the time of preliminary work wan lengthened, till finally foot ball men were asked to report before the college year opened. The season of 1901 was the climax in this Hne, For the big teams of that year candidates spent practically the whole summer preparing. Everybody took & plgskin home with him for the summer vacation and did what he could with that. Then sach m: as gupposed to k #00d shape all summer, and to report many weeks before school opened in per- fect condition physically. So all such a man needed was a hardening and training | in the game itself. Even as far west a Wisconsin this extreme spirit was evident in 1901, as the squad was assembled in August, more than a month before the first game. The year 1902 shows a waning of this ex- aggeration, though the game of foot ball it- self has a stronger hold on the colleges than ever. It {s now undoubtedly the national college sport, but there is little chance of 1ts eyer being made so very great a part of on ‘undergraduate’s life as it was last year. Towit, the champlonship team of the world of last season, that of Har- yard, is yet to assemble, it being called together for tomorrow, while the last week has marked the first gathering of almost all | the fmportant squads. The second sign of & coming conservatism 1s that training itself is not so exaggerated a8 in the past. The pace is not so killing. Mén are put to work slower and kept at it ‘easier then before. More attéhtion than ever {s paid to the actual conditioning of the players, which is thelr main safeguard against injury. They are not thrust =o quickly into the scrimmages of the actual game. They are taught how to play it theoretically very thoroughly before they are asked to do it In action. They are not 'compelled to learn the proper place for them in the interference by belng knocked end over end in a scrimmage whenever they lose that position. They are shown with pencil and paper, with non-opposed lineups, just what is expected of them before they are asked to do it in actual practice. In fact, the blackboard is becoming a ‘reAt part of foot ball training. Every play that & team uses is figured out in detall. Bach man has a number, and a relative pos| tion where he should be at different points in the progress of the play. When the day's work at punting and falling on the ball and signal practice is over the squad is assem- “bled by the coach atter diuner and an hour ‘each nlght is spent in quizzes. Each man in turn goes to the board and is made to explaln any point about any play, and he As 8lso expected to:be able to diagram the “Play completely. In pursuit of the spirit of conservatism only one of the teams of the Big Four hae yot had scrimmage work. That is the Uni- Yersity af Pennsylvanla squad, in training at Eaglesmere for the last three weeks. The Quakers were takem out unusually rly, use they were so weak last sea- son. Dr. Williams is bending every energy and ying all rules of common-sense And apatomical sclence to bulld up a great ‘eleyen, and his prospects grow brighter each week. Till last Wednesday. signal practige was the nearest his elevens came to a scrimmage, and they haven't had much of it yet. Meanwhile the major portion of the time is still being spent in practice in kieking and tackling the dummy and fall- ing oo the ball. The event of greatest in- | year's regular men were expected |year this smattering of the |much by a glance over terest at Princeton is the appearance of Blmer Hare, from Haverford Grammar echool. He is a cousin of the famous T. Truxton Hare, the former Quaker guard and captain. Young Hare welghs 167 pounds and fs § feet 1 Inch tall, but is only 19 years of age, and will fill out. At prep school he played tackle, but his lightness and kicking ability are causing him to be tried out as a fullback. He has Sloan as a rival for the place and both men kick fifty yards easily and regularly. It may be sald that Penneylvania is the only collegn of the Big Four whose prospects have not diminished In the week. The Quakers are almost sure of having a much better team than that of 1901. From old' Ni than ever. sau comes a louder wail A week ago at least six of last as a necleus, but practice began last Monday and the week has developed that this num- ber is to be reduced to five, as Dana rightguard, will not be out. This leaves only Captain Davis as left end, DeWitt at right tackle, Henry at right end, Freeman at quarter and McClave at halfback for a starter. And even that little band s threatened with further depletion. Davis and DeWitt, two of the especial stars, are In trouble with the faculty because they falled to pass the examinations last spring, and they will not be allowed to play unless they pole up and pass some now. S0 on old men the Tigers find themeelves pinched. However, Coach Garry Cochran | finds himself confronted with the most promising bunch of new ones Princeton has known In yvears, and he will do all he can with them, though, of course, they will be green. The new material is of such quality that it seems to assure to the TizZers a great team in a year or so, if not in 1902, The heaviest man of the new ones is a prep echool man from Lawrenceville, named Roger. He weighs 290 pounds. From the same place come the two Rafferty brothers, cousins of the Yale Rafferty They play end and fullback. Another | prominent mew one is Ross McClave, a | brother of the present Tiger half. He | welghs 180 pounds, and is touted as a great | kicker, which will make him very valuable | to Nassau. From such material Cochran and Davis will be compelled to find about six-elevenths of the present season’s team, and though the fact that most of the | promising ones have had prep school 'ex- | perience is encouraging, yet to all intents and purposes they are still green for Princetonfan foot ball men. Feeling that in years past the Crimsons have suffered more from overtraining than trom any lack of it, Harvard coaches are the last to assemble their men. Tomor- row Is the day set for the gathering at Cambridge, and today, as last week, the prospect is that Harvard will be compelled to build almost an entire new team. Like Princeton, only five old men will be back for their places. Barnard at guard and Bowditch at end will be a skeleton starter for a line of seven men, and in the back- fleld Graydon full, Kernan half and captain and Marshall quarter are the old-timers. This means one ha)f, two tackles, a guard, center and end to look for. Though prac- o begun, it le safe to het the coaches are busy looking. After Harvard's brilliant showing of last old stars is | are mot raised the new candi dates. The bunch fs not a very promising | one 60 far. Actual assembling may bring | out some new omes. To date Wright, a law school man, “Zeus” Roberts and Sug- den seem the strong bids for the center job. The vacant guard will be the cause of a hot contest between Robinson, the | shot putter, and Riggs and Kidder, two men from last year's freshman team. That gives a great bunch of materfal for the two places, but with the tackles comes the rub. . Cutts and Blagden would be hard enough to replace anyway, and it will be a poor fellow for them that will be pulled out of such men as Wright, a sophomore, and Jones, both substitutes last year, and | only medlocre ones, and Mills and Oveson | of last season's freshman team. The tackle Dositions are the places that make a team strongest If they are strong and weakest if they are weak, and they are already picked for the Crimson’s soft spot this year. Going out to the vacant end, there is a good list of candidates, with the colored man, Matthews, showing best, desplte his light welght. Clothier, the Philadelphia tennis player, Burgess and “Dud” Clark areother probabilities for the place. Be- hind the line, meanwhile, Harvard starts in strong. With three old men back only one half Is needed, and this should be eas- ily supplied from such candidates as Miff- 1o, Derby, Jones and Knowles. It is ru- mored that Marsball, though a veteran, will be hard pressed to hold his place at quarter by Leo Daly, a cousin of the old Harvard' captain, and Baldwin and Parker are also seeking the peripheral place. Though the Yale Blues have been In training all the past weck, a stern silence 16 being maintalned regarding the team and its outlook, Very little news of the squad has leaked outside New rraven, but what has come is In the nature of a blow to the school. De Saulles, the famous quarterback, is mot to return and he hae been counted on all the time. He was last season the greatest college quarter anywhere, performing remarkable defensive feats in the great game with Harvard. Daly of West Point, Harvard's former quarter and captaln, was given the place on the All- American team, but De Saulles ranked very closely to him and Daly's preference came only because of superior kicking abil- ity. As so often the case with foot ball men, scholarship troubles cause De Saulles’ departure from college. Then comes an- other blow almost as hard {s the announce- ment that Fullback Weymouth will not re- turn. This puts Yale matters on a very different basis from that of a week ago. Then it was thought that only two ends and Olcott as guard would be lost. That left the back fleld intact, and left also more linesmen than any other team of the Big Four will have. Now the back fleld is riddled, the two strongest men going. De discouraging, and hopes ECZEM Quickly & Permanentty CVRED Saulles' place it will be almost impossible to fill satistactorily, but there is some con- solation In the fact that Bloomer has returned to school and can take Wey- mouth’s place at full. He is not a kicker, however, and Weymouth wae, 8o the Blues still have the problem of a kicking back to solve. Metcalf, last year's first substitute quarter, will take that position to start the season, but a stronger man is desired Among all the candidates not a . good Kicker s in aight. Meanwhile the end po- sitions will be well cared for, from present prospects. Captain Neal of the freshman team of ‘01 and Cofin, Columbia‘s tackle a year ago, are brilllant candidates for the places vacated by Swan and Captain Gould Rafferty, first substitute end of last year, will be tried both there and at half. Yale is boasting most just now about Shevlin, the giant hammer thrower of Hill prepa; tory school. Every college of the Big Four went after him, and Yale claims vietory, saylng he has entered. Shevlin s consid- ered the best foot ball catch from any prep school this fall, and Captain Gardner of the Quaker team is equally insistent that Sheviin has entered the University of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile the bone of con- tention has not yet appeared at elher place. From the Malk it would seem that berths awaited him on both teams. Despite the early start in training which some of the conference colleges of the mid- dle west secured, there is 8o far very lit- tle to be sald concerning these teams. When the eastern schools start they start hard, but not so in the west. Towit, but seven men have so far appeared for practice at Ann Arbor, though the squad was called out ten days ago. That mumber does not represent the actual returning strength of the Wolverines. Though only four of last year's team are back so far, there will be two more and several strong substitutes shortly. School does not open there till the coming Wednesday and evidently the candidates are not so anxious about get- ting into the game as to put in an ap- pearance before time for classes. The first week will undoubtedly bring out a great many men, as the high standing of Michl- gan In last year's struggle for western champlonship honors has given the game a great boost at Ann Arbor and every big and husky freshman will bave gridiron a pirations. At Wisconsin things have not been quite 80 backward, but they were slow never- theless, as Coach King did not arrive on the scene till last Wednesday. He found a squad of fifteen men and his own coming out quickly brought it up to a score or more. The Badgers have not done anything toward team formation yet. They are still shy the two halves and a tackle and tho danger now is that a search for a center and perhaps a guard will also be necessi- tated by the failure of the old men to come back as expected. Despite this slowness with which ma- terlal is appearing at the two echools, Wis- consin-and Michigan, it may fairly be prog- nosticated now that they will have the great teams of the Big Nine. Chicago, Northwestern and Minnesota, the other biggest ones of that bunch, have ceriain to date nothing to bulld great hopes on. So mutilated was the Gopher team that the squad was started in training on September 1 last, earliest of any team in thé coun- try. The Iidea was that perhaps green men could be transformed Into players as good as those with one season's experience by long preliminary practice. With three men of a first eleven left, Coach Willlams certainly has his hands full to make up an experienced team. Northwestern's prospects seem equally dark. But four of the old eleven will re- turn to be the nucleus for a new team and the new material which must be drawn upon for the rest is not sald to contain many world beaters. At Chicago university Stagg has a better showing than he had a year ago, but his work o far has not developed any prom- ises of a strong team. He also began work very early and has already played two practice games. Belolt, Purdue and Notre Dame promise fairly well, but Illinois State university is the only one of the Big Nine outside of Michigan and Wisconsin. that has really good prospects and there is little fear that this team will class up with either the Wolverines or Badgers. lowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missour! are all in training now. Bach of the schools has & good bunch of candidates, but none of them save Missouri s overburdened with old men. Iowa expects to do better than last year, and is devoting preliminary work to the acquiring ‘of snap, speed and quick starts, which a game with the light- ning Illinois team taught them the value of last season. - Arthur Curtis, Wiscon- sin's captain and tackle of last year, also captain of ‘the All-Middle-West eleven, s coaching Kansas, and will doubtless ac- complish great things with the material at hand. He says his chances for a strong team are mot very bright, however, as the last year's team was none too good, and the feturn of seven of its components is no great feather. Curtis will give Kansas a strictly Wisconsin style of play. Over at Columbla, Mo., ls a team that is not reckoned with much because of its com- plete outclassing by Nebraska last vear. It must be remembered that it was a crowd of new men that comprised the eleven in *01, and as practically all of them will re- turn a far better aggregation should be worked up. Nebraska, meanwhile, from its showlng thus far sbould have no trouble in main- taining an absolute supremacy outside of the Big Nine. Bven at that the prospects for the Cornhuskers are not so bright, since the call of time, as they were on paper two weeks ago, when every player on last year's team but three was a sure return. Now that the squad is assembled and school has begun Coach Booth finds that he s shy a considerable number of veterans. 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The other hope 1s “Mike" Thomas of Omaha, of local High school fame first and later {dentified with Creighton college. Either man could fill “Cort's” shoes creditably and Booth wants them both. The coach came to Omaha last Thursday especially to ee Thomas and it is thought that “Mike” will enter the university about October 1. He is always in good shape and with a little work here in Omaha be- fore he goes down will be ready to go onto_the fleld at once. Booth is especlally glad to hear of Thomas' kicking ability, which s considerable in every department, punts, places and drops. Next come the backs and it is still main- tained that Thorpe will play quarter, though he s mot out yet. His firet sub- stitute will doubtless be Morris Benedict of the Lincoln High school '99 and 1900 teams. Benedict can then step into the 2o for '08. For halves Bell of last out, as s’ Bager. of the Omaha High school eleven for four years pi light of 'varsity fanatics, who thought he was golng to Aun Arbor. Englehardt is almost sure of a regular back position Myers and Hewitt are two more strong candidates. For tullback Booth {s already completely satisfied in Ollle Mickle, whe has made easily the best ehowing of any new man. He played the position with the champion Lincoln High school teams of 99 and 1900 and has just come north from Texas to joln the 'varsity squad.” Ollie is weighing 172 pounds and is fast as lightning. He has wonderful nerve and, although he is a terrific charger, his most pleasing feature to Booth is his defense. There he is strong and there was Nebraska’s weakness at fullback last year. Pillsbury was not strong on defense. All ‘the men save Bender, Cortelyou, Thomas, Elliott and Thorpe are out. Should all these come Nebraska will have a team remarkably strong everywhere, save at the tackles and center, and. possibly a guard. With green men in these places not much can be said in encouragement. Even if Bender and Cortelyou remaln away, the team can do well with the others, but Thorpe and either Thomas or Elllott must be had. Practice is still preliminary, but the com- Ing week is the third one since assembly, and the firce scrimmages will soon begin Booth says he needs much matgrial from the arrivals of last week in order to make up his second, third and fourth elevens. year's squad 1s .The Crelghton university foot ball team will give a first exhibition of its prowess on the 'varsity gridiron next Saturday at 3 p. m. The fleld at Twenty-fitth and Cali- fornia streets is in fne condition, and, as there are to be swarms of visitors in the city that day, the boys are expecting a horde of spectators. The Crelghton alumni eleven will oppose the team of ‘02 in this first game, and, although the ex-Creighton men are pearly all star foot ball players, victory is not certain for'them. Coach Ellick is bringing the new team into shape in a sur- prising manner. The new players are more faithful at, practice than the old ones, and most of the positions will be filled by strangers Thomas and Furay will hold the end posi- tione against Creighton, and everybody knows they are hard men to get around Dan Butler will play fullback and the line is not likely to hold taut in front of his plunges, but als gains will probably be short. The remainder of the alumnj team, except the McShane brothers, i not so tresh in the minds of gridiron devotees, but it will make the Creighton boys play foot ball. Far Crelghton ‘varsity the lineup is not yet settled. Two teams of about equal weight will play & number of short practice games during the week and the best men will be chosen by Ooach Ellick to play the firet gam The regular schedule -for Crelghton will begin October 4, as follows: October 11, Tabor college, at Omaha. Octover 1§, Doane colicgs, &t Omaha. Springs. ovember 3, Haskell llld‘rll s, Omaha High' school, Omaha. November 15, St. Mary's colleg November 22, Unlversity of Nebraska, at Omaha. October 4, Lincoln Medics, at Omaha. October Amity col at College + November X ] Mary' Kan. November 21, Highland Park colle Omaba " but 1f he does not succumb there are still | |have won the pennant. | the Peoria performance here. Then Billy Englehardt | t has just registered, to the de- | BASE BALL GOSSIP OF WEEK Pooria Berves as Doormat for Omaka During Bov-n G-mes. DENVER RAISES Cnr GF UNFAIRNESS the Omaha-Milwaukee Serles by Asserting that One Team Will Throw Games to the Other, Anticipates What a cinch. 1f Peoria could only have been induced to stay until after election Omaha would But Billy Hart, who is nothing if not a good fellow, sald it wouldn't be fair to cheat Joe Quinn out of his turn at a snap, and so he went over {to Des Moines to dump a few more games. Only ope thing may be urged in support of Every other team in the league has had a chance at Peoria, and all taken full advantage of It. But it is not sport. A pennant won by the game played Thursday forenoon would have a sickly appearance, almost as bad as that | which Denver expects to win by the un- sportsmanlike methods pursued in that town during the last year. Technically the game is all right and will count at full welght in the Omaha list of victorles, but how littie the public cares for such vie- torles has been proven by the slim Aat- tendance at the Peoria series and the sar- castic comment made by the fans in talking of the games. Base ball is dominated en- tirely by the professional element, but the game Is generally conducted along the lines of true sport, & fact that makes the present Instance seem the more offensive. No one is simple enough to believe that three games would have been played in one day If there was any real prospect of Omaha losing any of them; and the cer- tajnty of the result destroys the interest in the contest. One of the really amusing things in con- nection with the windup of the season is the following parsgraph from the Denver Times It 1a a well known fact that there are no teams in the league that are the equals of Milwaulee and Omaha in thelr hatred of Denver. It Milwaukee gets into Omaha and can_be shown conclusively that has no chance for the pennapt, the games will be thrown to Omaha in drder that the Nebraska team can beat Denver out. Or it by any combination of circumstance Milwaukee reaches Omaha with a chanc for the pennant and Omaha Is out of it the games willl be thrown to Milwauke: Only a few weeks ago when the Denver team started on its last trip away from home, the Times printed several sensa- tional screeds charging the team with purposely losing games at Kansas City and St. Joseph. The paragraph quoted was written while Denver was pulling off two games a day with Peorla and the Times was boasting of what an easy thing the home team had. Milwaukee and Omaha do not bate Denver, but they have ample cause to complain of the treatment ac- corded them at the home of the Grizzlies. During the last Milwaukee serles there Manager Parke Wilson deliberately blocked the visiting catcher at the plate while Eyler scored the winning run. Um- pire Messmer saw the work, but would not interfere. So flagrant v s the act that oven the T e referred it as a plece of “dirty ball playing,” haltingly excused it on the ground that Denver had been badly treated at Milwaukee. On the occasion of Milwaukee's former visit to Denver, the umpiring was so rank that Duffy's men practically refused to play. When Omaha was there tho Rourkes got similar doses. The Denver Post stated that at least two games were stolen by the umpire for the home team. It has been the boast all scason at Denver that no visiting team could win a game on the Broadway grounds, and that boast has been made good. The treatment of all visiting teams by players, press and pub- lMc has been outrageous. On the grounds the visiting teams are pelted by hood- lums, who throw pop bottles and cushions, stones and sticks. No umpire dare make a decision against the home team, for the police are only on the grounds to arrest any visiting player who may be goaded into making a protest against the actions of the crowd. And the papers call vis- itors all sorts of names. Now that the season is nearly over the papers there are making a hypocritical protest against hoodlumism, but the damage hae been done. Denver 18 welcome to the pen- nant and to any satisfaction that may come from winning by the tactics adopted, but the course of the people out there has not advanced the cause of base ball in any way. And they needn't worry about Omaha throwing games to Milwaukee or agy other team. Omaha will wind up the season in a posi- tion that will satisfy everybody who has watched the fortunes of the team closely | quring the season. Mistortune has been on the trail ever since the very beginning. As originally organized the Omaha team casily demonstrated its superiority over the rest of the league. When everything seemed plain salling the bad luck began to butt in. Dave Calhoun was crippled for | the season just when his services were | most needed. Eddle Hickey met a succes- | sion of accidents which practically deprived [the team of his services all summer, for he has mot been able to play up to his mark, although he stuck to his work man- fully until finally forced out by the rup- ture of a tendon. Joe Dolan has met a succession of painful and annoying in- juries. Frank Genins and Bobby Carter were both compelled to lay off by hurts received by playing. Johnny Gonding was lald up a couple of times and once both he and Thomas were out of the game at | the same time, so that a young amateur had to be pressed into service as catcher for several games. Ace Stewart played ball and wrestled with malaria at the same time for several weeks, and now Stonme is out for good. These are merely incidents of the game, but indicate the handlcap under which the Omaha team labored dur- ing the season. Base ball of the most sat- isfactory sort was served to thousands of delighted patrons, and no matter what the final position of the team In the standing table, the players will be followéd to their homes at the close of the season by the good wishes of all. They have made a gal- lant fight against big odds and have well maintained the name of the city, both on and off the fleld. Wherever the team has gone It b because they knew that while Omaha was in town they would have clean, smappy ball, played by men who would behave both on and off the fleld. In this the players who have worn the Omaha uniform this summer have won more tham a pennmant, and have brought more credit to the name of the city than if they had won the cham- plonship twice over. They may not wear the Omaha uniform next year, but they will all be welcome here at any time. Peoria's presence in Omaha added but little to the batting averages of the Omaha team, but only the great Stome shows any appreciable drop. Frank Genins leads the list, with seventeen safetles during the week, and Bobby Carter is low man, with six. Gonding had sixty ¢hances in the tenm games and Gccepted them all. The statis- ties: BATTING AVERAGES. s 61 149 Last A B. Ave. week. 432 56 53 Stone Wright " Dolan Stewart Genins . Carter 1 homas Hickey ... Gonding . Fears ... Owen ... Alloway . Brown .. I Il N FIELDING AVERAGES. A ) Tot. n7 128 815 161 343 156 w02 2% 98 243 Ave. 084 ¥ 4 Brown ... Thomas Stone Stewart Carter 129 34 01 361 Hickey ... No league record ever showed the same condition as regards the championehip existed in the Western at the close of the Friday evening games. Two teams tied for first place s mot an unusual condition, but to have four teams practically tied was never before known. Last week The Bes called attention to the fact that the first four places depended on the outcome of the last three games, but some of the wise | boys thought the positions were already taken. Denver's cinch has faded and each of the four now has a good chance to win out. Omaba fs unfortunate in not being able to put its full strength into the fleld agalnst the Milwaukee team, which is un- questionably stronger now than it has been at any time during the season. If Omahs should win the pemnant, it will be a most remarkable victory. At all events, no dise grace attaches to any of the clubs in the first division. T, J. Hickey talked through his hat at Kansas City for a few moments during the week. He sald every team in his league made money but Milwaukee, but Quin and Havenor do mot mind the loss of a few millions #o long as they can hold the fran- chise. Some people outside the Hickey league would like to have all the money Kan: City, St. Paul and Minneapolis didn't make. In the National John T. Brush looked over the record of attends ance at Boston and Philadelphia, and then sald it had been a year of great prosperity and all the National teams had made been welcomed by the people, | money. No Summer Bo your insides cool and heaithy. Not for me! I'm safe from all of them and happy. wel Troubles The heat of sum- mer causes organic matter everywhere to decay. All dead vegetable or animal matter rots if not kept on ice. .All undigested food in the human body will ferment a hundred times as quickly in summer as in winter. Consequence — stomach, liver, bowels poisoned, thrown out of order—sour slomach.gases.colic,diarrhoea,dysentery,cholera,ag);end- i icitis, and in some regions yellow fever and the plague. Little ¢ suffer terribly everywhere. What does on ice, an can't keep the human bo dren ood sense tell you to do? You J(he drinking of ice-cold drinks does more harm than good because it stops digestion and ¢hills the in- ternal organs. The proper thing to keep all impure and unnecessary matter out of the body every day, not give ita chance to sour and de- cay in the stomach and bowels, and poison the blood and the whole body. In this way you will stop all hot, feverish conditions, and keep 0 do it, use a medicine that is not offensive to the taste and not harsh and violent im its action. There is only one safe system-cleaner te take in the summer time, beceuse it will not cause diarrhoea or griping, and that is , 106, 85c, goc. Never ‘money back. Ce., Chicage or N e of e I e