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Sioux City Directory TlMoplBorTonflUQQfJg A four flwlfr tot If Bmnrtd. JValrn wnd for prlo!. ft Inn s City llraont Morki, hi no I ty, low SPORTING GOODS Motor Cyalee and Bleri-le. (inn Bapmlrlnf . W. H. KNIGHT I9 Fourth Street Sioux City, low KODAKS catalogue. ZIMMERMAN BROS, and supplies of every description. Send for finishing a pecialty. Sioux City, la. FOLDING CARTS All steel frame, bril rubber cloth, rubber lire wheels, re cllnlai beck. Special Price $4.9L Send (or furnltar catalogue. THE ANDERSON FURNITURE CO. 60fl-60 Fourth St. Sioux City. Iowa n n n n n n n n n n THE QUICKENING FRANCIS LYNDE Copyright, 1906, by Frincla Lynda n n n u xx n n H n n n No. 94 Steele Baggy Harness with Double Neck and Hip Strap Ktc. I. U. or BraM Trimmed. Thiols b.rg-Ju xut to be overlooked. (Special at $13.30. Bead for onr free Harness C'utalog. STDRCES BROS. All Fmrl Stroot Sioux City. Iowa SLOW. a "What, hasn't George propose etr "No, what can you expect of a mam who won't epeed his automobile over fifteen miles an hour." Someone) Might Get Hurt. Pletro had drifted to Florida and -was working with a gang at railroad construction. Ha had been told to beware of rattlesnakes, but assured that they would always give the warning rattle before striking. One hot day he was eating bis noon luncheon on a pine log when he saw a big rattler colled a few feet In front f him. He eyed the serpent and be an to lift bis logs over the log. He bad barely got them out of the way when the make's fangs hit the bark beneath him. "Son of a gunaV yelled Pletro. "Why you no rlnga da bell?" Every body's Magazine. A Handicapped Official. "Tou let eome of the swiftest auto acorchers gt by without a word?" "I know It," replied the village con estsble. "My glasses don't suit my ye like tl;cy tired to, and T enn't do anything with an auto that ain't goln' alow enough fur me to read the num lber. WerMw Largest Cemetery. At Hook wood, Australia, Is the largest cemetery In the world. It covers 1.000 acres. Only a plot of. 200 acres baa bwn naed thus far, in which 100.000 persons of all nationali ties have been bnrted. She Was a Big Fighter. Mrs. Denharn Do you remember When I bad my coming out? Benham No, but it must have been Ska the launching of ft battleship. lluale seeds expression to that for which the ep4ach has no words. Car men Sylva PUZZLED Hard Werlr, Sometimes, Children. to Raise Childreu'e taste is orttlmes more ac Curete. In selecting the right kind of food to fit the body, than that of adults. Mature works more accurate ly through the children. A BrookJya lady says: "Our little boy bad long been troubled with weak digestion. We could never per auade bias to take more than one taste ct any kind of cereal food. lie was a weak little chap and we were puz zled to know what to feed htm on. "One lucky day we tried Grape Nut. Well, you never saw a child eat with such a relish, and it did me sood to see) him. From that day on tt seemed as though we could nlmost ee bint grow. He would eat Grape Nuts for breakfast and supper, and I think be would have liked the food for dinner. "The difference In his appearance is something wonderful. 'My bu&baxid had never fancied co real foods of any kind, but he be came very fond of Grape-Nuts and has been much improved In health since 4UIng It. "We are now a nealthy family, and naturally brieve in Grape-Nuts. "A friend hi two children who wcro formrrTy tiflVietod with rickets. I v.'.ti a tinned that llio disease wua caused by lack of proper nourishment. They ahowed it fi I urged her to use Grape-Nuts cut an experiment and the result m almost magical. "They continued the food and today . boJV chUdrea ere well and strong as any ehUdr-n fn tils city, and, of course, my friend Is a firm believer In Grape-Nuta for she Las the evidence before her eye every day." Read Tae Itoad to Wellvllle," found la pkga. TV-rc's a Itcnson." w m above letter? A MMMie from time to time. Tber CHAPTER XXV. Hoping always for the best, after the manner prescribed for optimistic Ken tinmen who successfully exploit their fellows, Mr. Duxbury Farley did not deem It necessary to confide fully in Ms son when the representative of American Aqueduct broke off negotla tlons abruptly and went back to New York. Whan the comfortable arrangement with tho pipe trust threatened to mis carry, all he did was to urge Vincent to hasten the day when Miss Do-bney's stock could ba utilised as a Farley as set. Pressed gor particular reasons, lie turned It off llthtly. A young man In tho fever of ante-nuptiul expectancy was a mere pawn In the business game; let It ba over and done with, so that the nominal treasurer of Chla wassee Limited could once mors be come the treasurer in fact. Whereupon Vincent, who rode badly t best, bought a new saddle-horse and took his place at Miss Dabney's whip- hand In the early morning rides, the place formerly filled by Tom Gordon which was not the part of wisdom, one would say. Contrasts are pitiless things; and the wary woman-hunter will break new paths rather than tra verse those already broken by his ri val. Tom, meanwhile, had apparently re lapsed Into his former condition of dis interest, and was once more apondlng his days on the mountain, seemingly bent on effacing himself socially, as he had been effaced business-wise by the Farley overturn. A week or more after the relapse, as he was crossing the road leading over the mountain's shouVlcr, he came on the morning riders walking their horses toward Paradise, and saw trouble in Miss Dabney's eyes, and on Farley's Impassive face a mask of sullen anger. With the negotiations for the sale to the trust so abruptly terminated, the promoter-president set Instant and anxious Inquiry afoot, to determine the cause. It was soon revealed; and when Mr. Farley found that the pipe-pit pat ents had not been transferred with the Gordon plant, and that Major Dabncy had given Caleb Gordon a power of at torney over Ardoa's stock in the com pany, there were hard words said in the ton'fi offices of Messrs. Trewhltt ft Slocumh. Chlawassee attorneys, and a I torrent of persuasive ones poured Into jthe Major's ear the latter pointing to the crying necessity for tho revocation of the power of attorney, summarily and at once. The Major proved singularly obstin ate and non-committal., "Mlatah Caleb uoroon is my rnena, sun, ana 1 wan mighty proud to do him this small fa veh. What his object Is makes no man- nch of dlffencs to me, suh; no man nah of dlffe'ence, whateveh," was all an anxious promoter could get out of the old autocrat of Deer Trace. But Mr. Farley did not desist; neither did he fall to keep the telegraph wires to New York heated to Incandescence with his appeals for a renewal of the negotia tions for surrender. When the wired appeals brought forth nothing but evasive replies, Mr. Farley began to look for trouble, and it came: llrst In a mysterious closing of the market against Chlawassee pipe, and next in an alarming advance of freight rates from Gordonla on the Great Southwestern. Colonel Duxbury doubled his field force and gave his travelers a frte hand on tha price list. Persuasion and diplomacy having failed, a frenzy like that of one who finds himself slipping Into the sharp-staked pitfall prepared for others seized on him. It was the madness of those who have seen the clock hands stop and begin to turn pleadlly backward on tha dial of suo cess. Ten days later the freight rates went up another notch, and there began to le a painful denrth of cars in which to Ship the few orders the salesmen were Still able to place. Mr. Farloy shut his eyes to the portents, put himself reck lessly into Mr. Vancourt Ilennlker's bunds as a borrower, and posted a no tice of a slashing cut In wages at the Works. As a matter of course, the cut brod I n mediate and tumultuous trouble with the miners, and in the midst of It tho president made a flying trip to New York; to the metropolis and to tha of floes of American Aqueduct to maka I final appeal lit persoa. Hut the door was shut Mr. Draoolt was not to be seen, though his assist ant was very affable. No; American Aqueduct was not trying to assimilate tlyj smaller plants, or to crush out all competition, as me puuilo seemed to believe. With fifty million dollars in vested l could easily control a marke for Us own product, which was all fh Shareholders demanded. Was Mr. Farley in the city for some little time and would he not dine with the assist ant at the Waldorf-Astoria? Mr. Farley took a fast train, south bound, Instead, and on reaching South Tredegar, wired his New York broker to test the market with a small block of Chluwossee Limited. There were no takers at the upset price; and the high est bid was less than half of the ask In;;. Colonel Duxbury was writing lot ters nt the Cupola when the broker' teler.un was handed him, and he brok a rule which had held good for the bet ter part of n cautious, self -contalne lifetime. Tho following morning the miners and all the white men employ, td In the furnace and foundries anl coko yards at Gordonla went on strike. Duxh-y Farley had resources, a com fortable fortune us country fortunes go. amassed by far-seeing shrewdness, n calm contempt for the well-being of h!n business associates, and most of a'l by a rrownlng nlft In the ability to riciixnlr.o tho psychological moment at Which to let K" i;.. t under pressure of toe combined Cls.isters bo lost ills head. quarreUl tv;--. hH eoliler-hlooded hon, and in r of Vincents angry protests, begin the suicidal process of turning his iVBllahle assets into ammunition foi' th tlRhtlng of a battle which could have tiut one possible outcome. Kti iUe-breukers were Imported at fabulous expense. Armed guards under pa swarmed at the valley foot, and sround the company's property else wheie. liy tiook or'crook the foundries were kept koIiik. turning out water p'.pu for which there was no market, nd which, owlnx to the disturbances which were promptly made an excuse . the railway company, could not ba moved out ef the Chlawassee yard. I.r'cr, when t'ae striking workmen began to grow hungry, riot, arson and bloodshed were nightly occurrences. A charging of coal, mined under the greatest difficulties, was conveyed to the coke yards, only to be destroyed and half of the ovens with It by dy namite cunningly blackened and drop ped into the charglngs. For want of fuel, the furnace went out of blast, but with the small store of coke remaining In the foundry yards, the pipe pits were kept at work. By this time the promoter-president was little better than a madman, fighting like a ber serker, and breeding a certain awed re spect in the comment of those who had hitherto held him only as a shrowJ schemer. And Thomas Jefferson: how did this return to primordial chaos, brought about in no uncertain sense by his own premeditated act, affect him? Only a man quite lost to all promptings of the grace that saves and softens could look unmoved on the burnings and rlotingS, the cruel waatlngs and the bloodlettings, one would say. When he was not galloping Saladin afar In tha country roads to the land ward side of Paradise, Tom Gordon was Idling purposefully In the Leban m forests, with the fowling-piece under his arm and Japhets TettigrasV dog trotting soberly at heel, as care free, to all appearances, as a school boy "home for TO. holiday. It was on an evening a fortnight after the furnace had gone out of blast tor lack of fuel that Caleb followed his son oat on the veranda. The Indian summer was still at its best, and since the early frosts there had been a re turn of dry weather and mild tempera tures, with warm, soft nights when the blue hazo seemed to hold all objects In suspension, Tom had pushed out a chair for his father, when, he suddenly became awaro that the still air was once more thrum ming and murmuring to the familiar orb and sigh of the great furnace blowing-engines. He started up quick ly. "What's that?" he demanded "Sure ly they haven't blown In again?" Caleb nodded assent "I reckon so. Colonel Duxbury al lowed to me this mornin' that he was about out o' the woods In spite of you, he said; as If you'd been the one that was doln' him up." But he can't be!" exclaimed Tom. so earnestly ana aetiniKiy that the mask fell away and the father was no longer deceived. Tm only tellln' you what he allowed to me, son. I reckoned he was about all In, quite a spell ago; but you can't tell nothing by what you see when It's Colonel Duxbury. He got two car loads o' new men to-day, and he's shtppln' Pocahontas coke, and gettln' tt here, too." "You teased ma a little at first; but I think I know now wnat has happen ed." Caleb took time to let the remark Ink In. It carried Inferences. Buddy, I been suspectln' for a good while back that you know mora about this sudden smash-up than you've let on. Do you?' "I know all about It," was the quiet rejoinder. "You do?" Tom held up his hand for silence. A man had let himself In at the roadway gate and was walking rapidly up the oath to the nouse. was Norman; and after a few hurried words In pri vate with Tom, he went as ha had come, declining Caleb'a invitation to stay. When the gate latch clicked at Nor mans outgoing, xom naa risen and was knocking the ash from his pipe and buttoning his coat. I was admitting that I knew," ha said. "I can tell you more now that I could a moment ago, because tha time for which I have been waiting has come. You remarked that you thought the Farleys were at the end of their repe. They were not until to-day, but to-day they are. Every piece of prop erty they have. Including Warwick Lodge, is mortgaged to the hilt, and this afternoon Colonel Duxbury put his Chlawassee stock into Ilennlker's hands as security for a nnal loan so Norman tells me. Perhaps It would In terest you a trifle to know something about the figure at which Hennlkor accepted It." "It would, for a fact. Buddy.' "Well, he took It for lass than the annual dividend that It earned tha year we ran the plant; and between us two. he's scared to death, at that" "Why, Buddy, son! we're plum' ruin ed and so's old Major Dabneyl" "Don't you worry, pappy. Our part since Cqlonel Duxbury saw fit to freeze us out, is to say nothing and saw wood. If the Major comes to you, you can tell him that my word to him holds good he can have par for Ardea's stock any time he wants it, and he could have it Just the same if Chlawassee were wiped off tha map as It's going to be." "But Tom; tell me " "Not yet, pappy; be patient Just a that the stock transaction should figure as a farced sale at next to nothing, in which all the stockholders should par ticipate, and that the remainder of tha purchase price, which would have been a fair figure for all the stock, should bs paid to him and his son Individually as a bonus!" The old Iron-master groaned. In spite of tha hard teaching of ail the years, he would have clung to soma poor shadow of belief In Duxbury Far ley If he could have done so. "That's all," Tom went on, strident ly; "all but tho turning of the trlok that put them in the hole they were digging for you and the Major. Vint Farley had no notion of letting Ardea bring her money Into the family of her own free will: he planned to rob her first and marry her afterward. Now I'm going down to tell them both what they're up against! Don't sit up for me." He had taken s dozen strides down the graveled path when he saw some one coming hurriedly across the lawns from Deer Trace, and heard a voice the voice of the woman he loved call ing to him softly in the stillness: "Tom! O Tom!" Is said, "please wait Just one minute!" But there are emotions mightier, Itw- mentarlly, thnn love, and vengeance is one. He made as if he did not see or hear; and lest she. should overtake him. left the path to lose himself among tho trees and to vault the low boun dary wall into the pike at a point safe ly out of sight from the gate. (To be continued.) PITCHER JOHNSON IS MARVEL THE CAT AND THE BABY. A Medical Oolnlon as to tha Tra dition of a Feline Dancer. Several physicians have investigated the ancient stcry that cats suck the breath of babies, and Dr. J. Rice Gibbs declares that the theory Is ridiculous. Cats occasionally kill children, he de clares, but they do It In a different fashion. "It has been stated that a cat's nos trils are so formed as to make a per fect juncture with the nose of a baby," said Dr. Gibbs, "and that a little pressure would push them upward and make them a perfect fit. Then the cat's chin would rest over and be low the baby's mouth, preventing it from opening to relieve the strangula tion while the cat sucked Its breath. That is all rot. The manner in which little children are killed by cats Is this: A cat looking for a warm place to curl up and sleep lies down upon the chest of a little child, and, being quite heavy many cats are as heavy as little babies simply crushes the breath out of the child's lungs, and strangulation takes place, but not through sucking the child's breath. The idea that only black cats kill little babies is equally ridiculous. It Is Bimply because black cats are con sidered unlucky. In former times the black cat was considered the very genius of witchcraft. In those days when a baby died the blame was often fixed upon some hag who, the Judges said, had sent a black cat to suck (he baby's breath. And often hag and cat Buffered death at the stake. "Evil omen is still the cry In many parts of the world whenever a black cat approaches a cradle. Many persons are so superstitious that the appear ance of a black cat in a sickroom is considered equivalent to an announce ment of an approaching death. What could be more absurd? Mothers need not be afraid of cats, black, white or green, sucking their babies' breath and murdering them. It is tltne that this popular fallacy should be exploded. New York World. i i ""t i' u t B - ' hX lift - jrU IVs j v. m - M . : -:sA , h M i It: - 1 FA : ' -v4 :: : ., ewaaw-ftwwwewa. ; -: - Fwiaaay4e'Wjy'. i PITCHER M. BROWN'S START Premier Twlrler for Chicago Cubs Tells How He Broke Into Fast Company Was Miner. By Mordecal Brown. (Copyright. 1910. by Joseph H. Howies.) When I was a boy I had a hard lime. My people were poor, and 1 was lucky to have one shoe and one rubber boot. I started to work In the mines around Coxvllle, Ind., about the time other kids are starting to kindergar ten. Just when I began playing ball I can't remember. It must have been when I was a kid seven or eight years old and I always loved the game and played It every chance I got Pretty soon, when I wns about fourteen, I began to get real wages In the mine. I became checker, hired by the union to check the coal that came up and keep the accounts of the men. The only time I had for base ball was Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Tbere were seven small towns nearby and we all had teams. I have walked time and again eight to ten miles and back to play little while longer and you shall know all there Is to tell. I'm leaving you with a clean conscience to say to any one who asks that you don't know Caleb had struggled up out of his chair, and now he laid a hand on his son's shoulder. "I ain't askin', Buddy," he said, with a tremulous quaver in his voice; "I ain't askin' a llvln' thing. I'm Just a hopln' hopln' I'll wake up blme-by and llnd it's on'y a bad dream." Then, with sudden nnd agonizing emphasis: "They been butcherln' one 'nother down yonder for four long weeks! "I can't help that!" was the savage response. "It's a battle to the death, and the smoke of It has got into my blood. If I believed in God. as I used to once. I'd be down on my knees to Illm this minute, asking Iilm to let mi live long enough to see these two hypo critical thieves tlniss sand baggers lilt the bottom! lie turned away, walked to the north end of the veranda, where the Hare of the rekindled furnace was redly visible over the knolls, and presently came back. "I said you should know after a lit tie: ned tnis ining; i out to breait them; ana, as u nuppenen, j waan t a moment too soon. In another week you and Major Dabney would have had a chance to sell out for little or nothlnir. or lose it all. Farley had it fixed to be swallowed by the truat. and this is how tt waa to ba done. Farlsy stipulated CAKE OF F ABBOTS. The Proper War to Feed, Case and Teach tha Birds. As few people who own parrots real ly know how to care for them, a few good rules may be of Interest. As to their food, It should be seeds canary, hemp (hut not too much), millet, boiled maize, linseed, rape and the like. Bread soaked in hot water Is good, given twice a day, and fruit in moderation and in variety is whole some, such as grapes, apples and pears, an occasional raisin and lettuce. Gray parrots are very fond of rice. and almost all parrots appreciate rice pudding and have a taste, too, for bread and butter. Meat is bad for them. Clean, fresh wood should be given them to gnaw bits of elm, birch, larch and chestnut. Fresh dry gravel muBt be sprinkled at the bottom of the cage every day and fresh water be put In the glass. It is Important that parrots should have the opportunity to stand flat foot ed, so if the cage has wires at the bot tom it is well to remove them. Always to have his claws clasping a round perch Is injurious to any bird, and two perches of different size are advisable, so that be may change his posture at will. When a parrot continues to scream he wants water or food or feels 111 and uncomfortable or maybe is merely dull. MubIc, which he loves, will cheer him up at all times. A parrot learns to talk only from one who speaks very slowly and dis tinctly to him and preferably when he is about to fall asleep. Last, but not least, a parrot should be carefolly cov ered at night. London Mail. Ever since Walter Johnson of the Washington Americans broke Into fast company opposing players nave marveled at his great speed. With an easy motion Johnson seems able to send the sphere through space at such a terrific pace that even though the batsman knows that the ball will come on a straight course, he is unable to meet it with his etick Johnson gets his speed by reason of his wonderful reach. He has longer arms than any other pitcher in the country and pitches with the least effort. When his arms are stretched out they measure 77 inches from finger lips to finger tips. This is 2 inches longer than Jeffries reach and 6 inches longer than Jack Johnson's. When he releases a ball after hav ing wound up this long right arm it goes through space with the speed of a bullet. Few, indeed, are the pitchers who CLARK GUIDES FROM BENCH Jeering of Pittsburg crowds drives Leader of Pirates From earns for Season. Announcement comes from Pitts burg that Manager Fred Clarke of the Pirates is through with playing left field for his club this season. Be cause he is unable to produce a cham pionship club again the fans are angry. When tha Giants won a double-header In the last series, and won again the next day the crowd began to hoot and Joer him. This diBgusted Clarke and he decided to give way to Vincent Campbell, who will play left field until the season closes. The climax came the other day when CVarke went to bat and was Jeered by can score strike-out after strike-ou without resorting to the use of curves or spit balls, as does Johnson. He has frequently struck out three men on nine pitched balls without ever using a curve. It Is Johnson's speed that makes him one of the most marvelous pitch ers the game has ever produced, and it is his great, long arm that gives him his speed. Every batter of note who has faced Johnson says that the Idaho phenome non lias terrific speed. His fast Dan makes the best batters in tne league, including Ty Cobb, Larry Lajoie, and Tris Sfiaker, break their backs try ing to connect with it. The illustration given above is an excellent likeness of Johnson and Catcher Street. Street has had quite a bit to do with Johnson's bucccss. The illustration shown is published by courtesy of The Sporting News. u r.t - t - i n Tha First I'sntomlm. The first pantomime Introduced to tho English stage was "Tavern Bil kers," and was by John Weaver. This was In the year 1702. It was produced at Drury Lane. The great lnstltutor of pantomime in England was, how- . . I 1 . V. jm i a . . . ever, joun ivicu, wuu uuspiseu xnis form of entertainment in 1717. His first emphatic success was in 1724, when be produced The Necromancer: or, History of Pr. Faustus," So suc cessful was Hicn wua ms pantomimes that Garrlck, Quln and others became exasperated. Rich lived to Bee panto mimes firmly established at Drury Ijine and Covent Garden. He die in 1761. London Stage. Not a llonncvr. "Mother," said a 6-year-old hopeful, "Isn't It funny that everybody calls lit- tie brother a bouncing baby? "Why do you think It's funny, WU lie?" remarked his mother. rterause when I dropped him on tat ...... .. . . u.aII I ....... ..... w . 1 , i .11 I ' . . ywu m7 mm nuv. 4 pmn- ej00r this morning o uiuu i uounca g tnis ining; i out to ureas. .... , hollered." Oil. A square-rigged ship may become wreck-tangle in a torm. Never Judge a woman's disposition by the atze of ber sr Manager Fred Clarke. nearly every spectator In the stands. He was hooted because he declined to change pitchers when the fans thought It was necessary.. He paid no attention to the rooters, but took himself out and put Campbell In his position. Campbell played a good aine, making three bits. Walsh After Hjranchise. It wns reported in Washington the other day that Ed. Walsh, the White Sox Pitcher, is dickering for a fran chise in the Connecticut league, and that he may leave major league base ball to become a mngnate. Walsh is after the Hartford fran chise, tt Is said. This is a good paying proposition, and, If he can land the franchise, he will ask Comlskey for his release this fall. It was In the Connecticut league that Walsh made his start In baseball, pitching for the Meridan club. In l'JI!3. Record Sunday Attendance. Kansas City fans came close to retting a minor league attendance record a Sunday or so ago when 17, 74S of them turned out to see the Ulues give Louisville a double beat ing And Dusty Uhoade:, ex-Nap, ehowed that he knew what a psycho logical moment was by pitching a one hit game in the first half of that double bill, shutting out the Amer ican Association champions. Paddy Livingstone of the Athletics says (hat Rube Marquard is as good as any pitcher in the game at the pres ent time. Evidently Johnny McGsaw does not think so, as he uses him very little. T. II. Purks, a veteran guard at the white house. Is the champion rooter of the Senators. Purks has rooted at every game except two of the Ameri can league schedule played In Wash ington. The Philadelphia club is said to have lost $20,000 on its hippodrome venture. The club has no money to spend for buying new players and there is no chance to strengthen much for next season. Pitcher Covaleskl and Outfielder Messenger, two ex-major leaguers, en gaged In a flat fight In Birmingham the other day. A little more of that kind of spirit in the game would have kept them in the big leagues. Ted Anderson, flm baseman of the Flint, Mich, team, but who belonged to the Qulncy, 111., team, has been pur chased by the Chicago American leaeuo club. He will report at the lose of the Southern Michigan sea son. Some of the critics are advocating a change In the rules of baseball so that a batter who Is hit by a pitched ball can have two bases Instead of one. Paul Meleon really denerved a home run for that "bennlng" ho got the other day. Christy Mathewson, the veteran star of the Giants, and Russell Ford, the new find of the Highlanders, will have a chance to show each other up when the two New York teams get together this fall in the post-season champion ship of Gotham. Manager Fred Clarke of the world's champion Pirates established a new record In having four assists from the outfield. Tho record of three assists has been made several times, but nev er four by one man from the outfield in a single game. Eastern sporting men sny Philadel phia is not game and that the Cubn will win because of tho gameness they display at all times. However, with Plank and Bender doing well Chicago fans look for a great world's series between tho league winners. Pat Powers, president of tho East ern league, has instructed his umpires to keep managers off the ball field un less the manager Is actually taking part in the game. Even with a tinl form on tho manager is not allowed to coach in the Eastern league. The manager has no rie,ht to dispute an umpire's decision. Only the captain has that prerogative. The Springfield club of the Three I league got Meloan from the St. Paul club of the American association for J.IOO. Two years bko Meloan played with the Jacksonville, 111., team, and ho was drafted from there by the Springfield club und later went to St. Paul for a trial. He did rot look good enough for Mike Kelly and then went back to Springfield. He need not worry about going back to tho minors any more, for a while at least "Miner" Brown. games. I was a catcher and third b-.: f;e man on the team and showed so much skill at the game that pretty soon the miners would hire a man In my place to check the coal In order to let me go away and play ball to win for the team. I did not like the miner's life. It did not seem to get a fellow any place nnd I saw men grow old and worn out and scarcely save enough to bury them. I. looked to me as If I ought to cultivate my ability to play ball and I set to work in earnest. I read in a paper that pitchers were the best paid plnyers and decided to pitch, al though I never had tried it before. I pitched three games for Coxville one fall, and the next spring I was boosted for a job with the Terre' Haute club. I reported to the team, a great big kid. I never had made a cent out of base ball, in fact the only money I ever had made outside of mining was in acting as protector for a fat boy. His mother paid me fifty cents a week to keep the other kids from licking him and I was so anxious to earn that jj'ty cents that if no kid made a move at him I licked a couple anyhow to earn my money. The spring I went to Terre Haute they had eleven pitchers for trial and' 1 never had pitched but three games. I was determined to make good and the only way I knew how was to work my head off. I never worked harder in the mines than I did there. I pitched every min ute and watched the older pitchers work, learning from them. Also I started to read end study and worked harder than ever. Finally Omaha got me and I began to be a real pitcher. 1 always wanted to make good for the sake of the boys in the mines who had stuck with me all the way and I al most broke records at Omaha for num ber of games pitched. I worked so hard 1 hurt my arm and when St. Ixmis got me I thought I was going back to the mines. I worked the arm around into she.? and when I got to Chiergo it was riht. Everything I ever have accom plished has been due to hard work, and little else. 1 have a great love for baseball, and like o play the game. I realize I owe a lot to It and I want to show It by working all I can. It has given me a chunce to meet peo ple, and lo develop into something. I think the game is a good profession, an honorable one and one any boy can enter, providing he enters it with the determination to work and win his way. No loafer or "joy player" ever will succeed. EVERY PLAYER BECAME BOSS Former Members of Cleveland Spldere Gets Jobs as Managers In Dif ferent Cities. i wonder," remarked Patsy Dono van, speaking of the Cleveland Napa, "if all the crowd will become man agers, as did all the old Cleveland Spiders." "All of them?" asked one of the Red Sox. "I think so." replied Donovan. "Lete see if I can place them all. Yoa know, of course, that Burkett is man ager of the Worcester team, that O'Connor is boss of the Browns, and McAleer of the Nationals. Harry Blake. I think, is manager of the Portsmouth team in the Ohio State league. George l eoeau a mua6 of the Kansas City team before he became a club owner. Dale Gear baa managed a number of teams in tha .-on.. Jack McAllister was manager at Buffalo for several seasons. So was Chief Zlmmer nt Little Rock, Ed McKean at Dayton and O'Meara at Fort Wayne. "There's a lirft of ten managers, all graduated from one ball team, a rec ord that no other club that was ever organize! could show. Jockey Ignores Big Retainer. Jocl-.ev Shilling h:is received a hand some offer tc riJc for Baron Oppen heini In turt-ic next year. Shilling says be prefers to remain here and ride for S. C. Hlldreth birs taielM tree, eat (Mil (