The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 24, 1906, Page 2

, Sheriff of Ar- h carefully the base- Sheriff ran that ef: th e team And =0 we makes the Mayor captain | of the team and gets to practicing. We y r giving it up after the first We was mighty near lettjng it| It sure was a plumb_ undignified | fon. It wore us out fearful. It our hands up some. it Norton he told us how to do it, and we kept at it. 1 1e could stop a ball w he Mayor got so | ich was rolling along the ground some swift, and the| rest of the nine wasn't much behind | him. A couple of times the boys stopped | before they hit the groumd. We umb expert e team come, and when 3 # plumb dis- look like lldl"d‘ loped .around loose and| and they c ght balls casual | regular hey knew how. | t as we was getting plumb | d the Mayor he calls a meet- | They s, arguing and Shorthorns look It seems as if they We ain't in it, | don't they? about to rub it in. we? Shucks!: g what? asks one of the g, says the Mayor, closing swift and indicating, ‘that t to pr We got to skin We got to fan the ampbient and we got to die the plate. The mean- ing of all which I don't know, but it| good. It sounds like action t's what there's geing to be.’ “Gentlemen, snort! Gentlemen, rave! come the of the game. It come to the game itself. And things looked | good. Because there wasn't no umpire, | and old man Sanderson he volunteered. He didn’'t know the game, but he was He didn’t know a base on balls | It a fly, but he was plumb willing to And, when these here visitors| they kicked we t o uled ‘em. Tt| was done - calm nd judicious There wasn't no hardware used. emen, hush! Gentlemen, weep! to American down ‘for Y regulations ers find less se- shments often- eff Bread-and- double duty, not always the best tive mprisonment, reverit rence of the ng a rec In kindergarten days the could not be deterr d by a when compelled lows made him a very good boy. g’ on the deck-of a battleship, ning from its fresh coat of ater, is the most ordinary of So officers book of penalties and ded one of their own. e the offender is brought up, 4 ped around his waist, and, risive smiles of his C he narks time in a con- = place on the guarterdeck. s e forget and break the uni- ver ryle again, a spit kit is this time und his waist and each saflor ro walke up and spits in it, .greatly the d iture of the wearer. Officers y6 the second punishment never calls third penalty. is not an upcommon sight to see an grizzied sea- dog squatting on the k of a vessel, patiently. bailing water ) to -another with a tea- fun it for the first 100 but then the humor wears t becomes a trifie irksome. Be- t is finished it has become the hard- of labor. midshipman, now an officer, réferring to the time ne bailed a teaspoon: “I'd = thousand shoulder a hea musket of times than dally with aspoonfu said another officer, who Ay in the service of Uncle ever do the nursing stunt? tively 2 thme I have carried a six-inch weighing 100 pounds, in my an hour and a half. Once I ¢ penaity with too much alacri- and any superior made me swey that shell to and fro and hum an old jullaby. How my muscles did ache when I was at laet al o' deposit that mewling in- the deck.” ihe most drastic, took ty to as well as on a.battle ship of the Atlantic not many years ago. One of the officers Al- | with nalties dy teacher’'s lap the ridicule | For the | HIS TROUBLES they were doing | g | { to | have long | | | | | takes the cake of them |the way and need give himself no un- befell a-salt | months. had & slight defect in hu“un what the dividena speech, so that when he became excited e stammered rather slightly, though un- | fortunately One, day he was giving an orde o an under officer, with the ma- drawn up on deck at “attention,” | and stammering caused a snicker m‘ | the ranks. The officer did not hear it, but the subordinate did, and, being a rol- good-natured son of Cork, the of the situation appealed to him ongly that he'laughed outright. | officer became red in the face, ! up with righteous indignation, nd finally ordered the offender to stand on a cask in full view of all his comrades, | -{and he was then ordered to laugh until he “was relieved.” For an hour and a half poor jackie was prodded on to keep | a hearty laugh, and during the last | hour he presented a most pitiable Finally, when ordered relieved, | e deck utterly exhausted, | so long before he laughed | his comrades dubbed him the man who never smiled again.” | Whistling is forbidden on certain oc- | asions, and.woe betide the offender who | caught sawing off a chord of the| st ragtime or grand opera. He is stood up on deck and made to whistle all his power until his tired and parched lips absolutely refuse to make a sound. A prominent officer, now ‘zing duty in the Navy Department, declares that he whistled once in this ‘way for such a period of time that if a single pucker would have given him the grade of a retired admiral he would have failed to qualif; FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL TR COURTSHIP CURES MENTAL AILMENTS Alling persons in search of health | courtship cure must not be content to|selves indoors a great deal during the who have not tried the courtship cufe should lose no time in taking a com- plete course of this simple but effective tonic. . It matters not whether the pa- tient is married or single. Many married persons whose health has deteriorated look back with long- ing to the sound activity of body and the brightness of spirits of their court- ing days. But they do not see the real reason of their deterioration in health. They attribute it, perhaps, te business cares or domestic worries; frequently pay unnecessary visits to the docter, or.acquire the drug habit by sampling nearly every patent med- icine upon the market. A much more satisfactory and inex- pensive remedy would be a daily dose of courtship carried on under stricfly hygienic conditions, but without the supervision of a meauical man. o Married persons who take up the | make shift with a spurious imitation. The courting must be done in the open {air. Long walks must be taken to- gether, daily or nigntly, whichever is | the most convenient. The courtship of the average unmar- ried couple offers, of course, a large | variety of divers.on. 1In ‘addition to daily walks or " moonlit strolls they have, as a rule, more time and oppor- tunity for tennis, cyci.ng, boating and other outdoor amusements than mar- ried folk. It is to be feared, however, that | thousands -of young couples who derive enormously healwurtul advantages from their courtship do nat realize to what an extent their physical well-being is dependent upon their lovemaking. An instance of this occurred about a year ago in a certain village. A:cer- tain young couple were separated by the girl's departure for the town. She stayed in a situation there for a few months, but was ill the whole time. Her sweetheart, left behing in his native’ place, also suffered in hesith, It transpired that both had kept them- period of separation. ‘When the young woman returned and the courtship was resumed both quickly recovered their usual health. A provineial man recently made the strange avowal that, though too poor to marry, he'had indulged in no fewer ’thun seven courtships, all of which | were undertaken for the sake of his health. He found that solitary walks were not so beneficial as walks taken in feminine society, and he did not care | for tramping with male friends, as he was troubled with shortness of breath and could not comfortably keep up the usual masculine pace. There is no doubt whatever that, in countless ‘instances, courtsulp has a most salutary effect upon the mental and physical health of young men who adopt the role of lover. After marriage many couples neglect to entertain and cheer each other up as in days of yore. This omission, to- gether with the giving up of regular walks or' other recreation in each other's company, has an injurious ef- fect upon their health. Gentlemen—but it was exciting. The Mayor, which was pitching, he never let 'em hit it. He never threw the ball near enough. He kept it away from ‘em a-purpose. And when the visitors got mad old man Sanderson, the same | that was umpire, he quieted them down. “‘I've been reading the rules,’ he says, calm and persuasive, displaying | his armament prominent and “eady, ‘and I observe that the umpire runs things. What he says goes. I'm the umpire, and if I'm inclined to mention that most of these efforts which the Mayor is making is strikes, why, I ain't intending to be contradicted. Besides, he ain't never done it before, and we | got to make allowances,” which we did. “Well, sir, the game loped along brisk | and enjoying until it come to the | inning and the score was a tie. | wasn't anybody had made anything. | The Mayor he never threw no balls that | the other fellows could reach, and :he pitcher for the Shorthorns he threw | them corkscrews which was mentioned |in the article about baseball. But then | there comes a time when the Mayor was | | careless, and he threw the ball near the | man which had the stick. And he hit He soaked it fearful. It went about a mile. And Frisky Wilson, which was out in right field, he chases it. But his cayuse ain’'t handy, and we was all de- spairing and frantic when old man San- derson, which was umpiring, he salls out: it. ‘Only two bases on that hit’ he says, loud and raucous. ‘What's that for? asks one of the horns. ve been reading the regulations,’ | says old man Sanderson, ‘and I observe that a hit into the crowd only counts two bases. Them is known as the ground rules, and they goes.” “But,' says this here visiting Shqrv:- horn, ‘there ain’t no crowd. There ain’t nobody out in the direction took by lhnt. ball except two greasers and a cayuse. “‘When two greasers and a cayuse | congregates in this here town,’ says old | man Sanderson, ‘the vicinity is plumb . Play ball” cr?’;de.l‘l" sir, the visitors didn't like it much, but they goes ahead. And in a minute the Mayor, which was sweating free and continuous, -pitching. he lets another ball come toe near, and the Shorthorn bits it plumb free and en- Joying. “Gentlemen, but we was sad! Gentle- [men, there Was excitement! The ball had hit the trail for other parts, .(xfin[(: there was a man running home. man Sanderson he was stumped an didn't know what to de. But jus this here Shorthorn which was on sec- ond come near third, running Swift and undignified, Baldy Smith, which | was standing there for our side, he lugged out his Colt and begun to spin the cylinder. “Gentlemen, it was remarkable! Gen- | tlemen, it was strange! This here | Shorthorn which was running some. he | pretty near stopped. He slowed down | some marked and noticing. And when he got to third he acted tired. Seemed to have wore himself out. Looked like he was out of breath. And Baldy he slides his Colt back «mn his pants and smiles kind and agreeable. 4 he as “:Sort of thought the dust might have clogged her up.’ he says. amiable and discoursing, to the Shorthorn which had stopped. Just occurred to me to look her over. Guess she's all right.’ And the game went on. “Well, sir, it come again. The Mayor, which had liquored regular and efficient between innings. he began to get wild and he got the ball too near again And the Shorthorn he hit it brisk and earnest. And it went about two mile. And the Shorlhor‘n on third he looked sort of pleading 'at Baldy Smith and started to run “Gentlemen, there was a riot! Gen- tlemen, it sounded like the Fourth of July! Gentlemen, it was exciting! | You couldn’t have told whether it was a ball game or a round-up. “The Mayor being somfe heated with red eye he started first and in a minute everybody on our side was fanning his gun. They was earnest and sincere. They was enthusiastic. They wanted to win the game. But the Shorthorn which was running for home he didn't understand. He wasn't used to base- ball in these parts. And after he'd got half way to home he changed direction and started north. He moved swift. |He had done some fancy running. And |the boys. just to show they liked it, they loaded up and fanned him some more. They was playful and conscien- tious and they wanted to win the | game. “Gentlemen, there ain’t much more to tell. Old man Sanderson, which, as I've indicated, was umpiring some fair and |impartial, he looked things over. ‘I observe’ he says, after we had liquored silent and meditating. ‘that there ain't no home plate, and I'm complimenting some cow gentleman on fanning his hardware swift and ae- curate. And I'm also medtioning that the Shorthorn which was on third, he aiw't showed up yet, and as he was heading south and humping some the last time I looked. I judged he's feft for other parts. And so, not wishing to be hard on this Shorthorn bunch. but |aiming to be fair and impartial, I here- { by declare this here game forfeited and these her cow gentlemen from Arnim |the champions. Which we was.” The | Sherift paused and rolled a cigarette. | “Did you ever play again?’ asked | Jim Hicks of the Bar Circle | “Not at no time,” replied Mr. Sanger. |“We was willing, but we couldn't met | nobiody to play. We was toe scientific for these here Shorthorn mines.” Nature study is supposed to be a quite different thing from the study of books. In a way it may be true that the two kinds of study are not very much alike, cannot be separated. Nature is around us wherever we turn; above us stretches the sky; ‘we breathe the air; we have, whether we live in town or in the country, the sights and sounds of nature near us all the time. If we have enly a little backyard with a small plot of grass and a pot or two of flow- ers, if our only acquaintance with birds is derived from a canary or a parrot in a cage, we still nfay study nature, al- though not with the same degree of | make excursions to green flelds. I take it for granted that the girls who are studying nature are doing so to some purpose. Every one of us ought to know by sight and touch the trees in the locality nearest our homes. We should know them by their pecu- | liarities of bark and branch and bua and leaf. We should know the flowers that grew in our countryside, recog- nizing them by their pecullarities of | root, stem and flower, of color and per- | fume. 5 We should likewfle know the birds. Nothing is more absorbing than the study of birds. They are fascinating little creatures. Their habits, manners and customs are not S0 very opposite ta our own wHen we really penetrate their secrets. In a single rather small neighborhood in New Jersey a bird Here is the financial biography of | the most unlucky man that ever fol- lowed the ticker in Wall street. Even | today, after his speculative obituary | has been written by the final, margin | call, he is spoken of as’ Mr. Hoodoo | Lamb, and that name should serve here | in this harrowing recital. ! Mr. Lamb never plunged. He was a | piker”; but even as a piker -he was a| wonder. He struck Wall street just | two years ago. He was a mild, modest | man. He did not expect to reap a fortune. He simply wanted to win enough to pay for the building of an- other room to his house out in a dis- tant Jersey suburb and install modern 'plumhlng throughout his little dwell- ng. “I have a few thousand dollars,” he announced to the head of the brokerage firm to which he came. “I may not do anything for weeks. In other.words, 1 may prove to be a chair warmer, but I am willing to pay for my own chair, S0 it won't cost the house anything.” As a matter of fact he had $10,000. He was assured he would notlibe in easiness about the chair. So he stayed. The bull market was just starting two years ago, but Mr. Hoodoo Lamb had some speclal information that| Pennsylvania was a sale. When that | stock recovered from about 112 to 118 he sold it “short,” and waited for it| to decline. In two weeks he bought it"back at a loss of $700. No one was quite as voluble as he, after he had been in the “street” a few He knew when “Sugar” was going to “move,” and invariably bought | it just before’a break. FHe could tell on “Copper” would be, but the Increase evidently had been “discounted,” for the steck sold off as soon as_the new rate had been anpounced: ently that soon ne became a marked man. 3 He sold Brooklyn Rapid Transit “short” at 77%, only. to see it rally to 86. He bought Tennessee, Coal and ‘He lost so persist-. Iron at 90%. It rose to 95, but he refused to take profits. Then it began to sag. He put in a “stop-loss” order, and sold but his stock just where he had bought, but at the loss only of his commissions. It was the nearest he ever came to making a profit. Later, the stock rose rapidly.to 160,” and it is now selling around 148. He butted into cotton, but Theodore Price was just starting a bear campaign and caught Mr. Hoodoo Lamb for a loss of 50 points. He was no more'fortunate about $2,000,000 away from John W. Gates and his clique he took away $125 that Mr. Hoodoo Lamb had invested for a -rise in the golden grain. His initial capital was not long in going, and he replenished it by plac- ing a mortgage.for $2,000 on his home, Then he became extremely cautious. He learned to play “straddles,” as he called them—going “short” of one stock and “long” of another. He bought 'Frisco Second at 64 for a rise to 756 and went “short” of American Smelting and Re- fining at par. The dividend was passed on 'Frisco Second and the stock broke below 50. The Guggenheim. clique got under “Smelters” and boosted it finally to 180. Mr. Hoodoo Lamb did not stay until the end. He took another loss, and with his remaining capital bought fifty sha: of Chicago and Alton at 423% and Afty shares of Sugar at 156. Then came the Easter “slump” last year. He sold out his “Sugar” at 138, but there was no market for Alton and he clung to it, with just enough margin to see it down.to 371-2. The margin on the Alton stock represented all that was left of the $10,000 original capital. and the §2000 mortgage. This was) » NT D in wheat, and when Mr. Armour took |, ;¢ more than a year ago. Since then there have been possibly a dozen sales of Alton. A rise in Alton was the only hope of Mr. Hoodeo Lamb. BEvery morning he was at his broker's office before the market opened, and he re- malnea until business closed for the day. e studied financial reports of all the railroads and he watched the “tick- er” and _the blackboard, but weeks passed without a transaction being re- corded in Alton. His monthly commutation was $9.20, u pald it cheerfully in the hope that some day he might see Alton boom and bring him back the money he had lost and build that room and install modern plumbing in his home. ‘With the optimism that obsesses the ‘Wall.street devotee he discussed the possibllity of some financial giant try- ing to wrest from Narriman the con- trol of the little road and put its stock Lblove par. ful- i 2} ) t was an awful® ppointmenty to him when Alton -;ump-'i: :'6 34 1-4. ;hnt quotation remained on the board for nearly a month. Then one day it be- came feebly active and rose to 40. Again came the long interim of silence and dullness. Then one sluggish Saturday the board boy posted a sale at 35. For six weeks more .the stock failed to show on the tape, but Mr..Hoodoo Lamb came in each day in the vain hope t the Harriman-Somebody Else ht might develop and 1ift the price. An- other quotation—this time 32. He grew discouraged. His wife was tired of waiting for that extra room and th modern plumbing. - In April came earthquake. The pudently resisted the San Francisco market at.first.im- pressure, - But one YWN 220UT day Great Northern broke 26 points and vialent slumps occurred in ‘“Copper,” Northern Pacific and other high-priced issyes. Stanch old St. Paul dropped from 175 to 155 1-2, and no man knew where the bottom would be. But Alton was' mute, absolutely dead. No one could tell at what figure it might sell, and Mr. Hoodoo Lamb sat in the chair he had offered to buy, hop- ing and praying with clinched hands and haggard eye that its price might not be posted on the board until the panic had passed. S The market rallled. Great Northern again crossed 300, and other stocks made gains of § to 15 pointS. Mr. Hoo- 'doo Lamb breathed more easily, his hands lost their tension and his eye grew brighter. The storm had passed without striking Alton, and Mr. Lamb thought he could see a ray of sun- shine. A long, low whistle of astonishment from the blackboard boy as he posted a quotation aroused Mr. Lamb from a reverie. He glanced at the board and n;' Alton quoted at 25. r. Lamb slij out of his chair and to the floor. Alton 36—two points and a half below the ex- haustion of h ! _The "$10,000 original capital, the Toom and the modern plumbing had. gone - ing, and a $2000 mortgage rested on his home. A ‘What difference does it make that Alton promptly rallied to 307 He was down and out, ruined, wrecked and hopeless. If would surprise no one now it the Harriman-Somebody Else fight should take place and put the stock to just to l‘:ow how unlucky was Mr. but in another way they | interest that will be ours when we, SANGSTER TALKS TOGIRLS 1lover last summer counted no less than | fifty-two varieties of birds. their nests, their food for their and father’'s care in birds how to fly, all | | Their migrations, patience these are interesting parts of nature study. But it is net so much of this that I am thinking as I write to you as the, way in which we “may help . one _another In these days. Girls who live in the country ought o have a mission to their city cousins, and when spring and summer bring their pleasant days boxes | of wild flowers and garden flowers, too, | should be sent weekly to the school- | rooms, where the pupils have no easy | way of getting specimens for them- | selves. Schools in different parts of the country should exchange flowars, shells and other interesting properties of the nature study class, and it would not be at all a bad idea if there were a regular system of correspondence between Jean of the little village and Betty of the big city, all about the work each was doing in her study of nature. Another helpful thing that I recom- mend is the marking of passages in the poetry and prose that you read with an especial look to their bearing on na- ture. You will find that the poets care a great deal about the winds and the waves, the sky and the earth, and that real poetry is full of beautiful illusions to the phenomena of the world we live in. Tennyson, whom you will study in your classes in English literature, has 80 much intimate knowledge of nature that his poetry is almost a guide book to the flowers of his native land. Long- fellow, Whittier and Emerson have a great deal to say about nature. When you read the great masters of fiction you will find that they have whole pages devoted to descriptions of scen- ery and that some of them paint nature in words as if with the brush of an artist. A good plan is to have a commonplace book, and whenever you find something that you like write it down for future reference. When I was a girl we studied botany out under the trees. There was a ticularly charming bit of weodland near our sehool, and our nature study was always carried on out of doors. Our teacher had a seat on a gray rock, covered with a blanket shawl Mayba you never heard of a blanket shawl, but if you had¢sone with Miss Jane and had been privileged to cgrry her Scotch plaid over your arm you would have known what a delightful and conven- ient wrap it was. The girls grouped themselves around on the grass near a brookside and as the lesson went on the brook sang and sparkled and the sound of its lullaby and the gleam of its waters made music and sunshine in our souls. We !sarne<, a great deal about botany in those en> chanted afternoons, and we learned, too, a love of nature that Is not gained by those who study her only in dried specimens between whitewashed walls. You may be interested to kmow that We aiways carried a luncheon on tne expeditions, and it was not the least in- teresting part of the occasion. Girls who fell below a certain percentage in their studies were not permitted to take up botany in their work. The oppor- tunity of studying nature was thus made very honorable and precious, and ‘wa held it as something worth striving or. The study of astronomy captivates those who have a scientific tpur‘ of mind. To learn the names of the con- stellations and to recognize some of the planets when they appear above the horizon is not beyond any ordinary mind, but the studr of astronomy is, on the whole, too abstruse to be at- tractive to very young girls. Definitions and formulas you may learn, by to grasp the principled of astronomy you require maturity and insight; for these '¥ou must wait. '(Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.)