Nebraska Advertiser
W. W. SANDERS, Prop.
NEMAHA,
NEBRASKA
Pittsburg has floven inoro national
banks than Boston.
Of courso, that paresis germ is of
tho Hoft-Bhell vnrloty.
A womim who has had fi good cry
Is always In a lovely temper.
Tho French budgotry scheme for
1909 will provldo for two Dread
naughts. Tho solf-rulslng noroplano Invented
In Russia, let us hope, haB no alum In
Its composition.
A Swiss scientist has addod ono to
tho seven thousand or so suro cures
for tuberculosis.
Man's dignity Is novor so pondorous
as when tho bartender Insists ho has
had enough.
If Minister Wn remembers tho an
swers to all tho questions that ho asks
what a mass of Information ho must
have.
Some statesmen arc so conceited
they can go homo after their maiden
speech confident congress Is ready to
adjourn.
A Wisconsin man has been arrested
for carrying a satchel full of Bibles.
Another lnstanco of too much of a
good thing.
Look to your liver. More suicides
aro caused by a bad digestion than by
unhappy affalrB of tho heart or
smnshed flnanccs.
Wu Ting Fang sayB that our prison
system is too good for China, but It
doesn't follow that It's any too good
for tho United States.
Tho blcyclo Is Bald to bo enjoying
a revival all over tho country, though
several cities havo nothing to Bay
against their stroot railway systems.
A French count has been arrested
for dishonestly Bteallng n pearl neck
lace from an American woman in
Paris, Instead of marrying her and
stealing It honestly.
Minister Wu Ting Fang has been
glvon tho honorary degreo of LL. D.
by tho Iowa Stato university. Ho al
ready had tho honorary title of "Mas
ter of tho Question Mark."
After being locked inafrclght car
tor a weok with nothing to oat but raw
potatoos, tho tramp who tried tho ex
periment does not think enough of it
to Btart a raw potato cult.
A Now Jersey minister Is advising
tho men of his congregation to allow
their wives to havo tho last word al
ways. And as this 1b ono bit of good
advice Vint is pretty likely to bo fol
lowed. Balloon experiments are attracting
more than common attention Just now,
and no wonder, with tho mercury In
tho nineties. Balloons can go straight
up to whero It Is cool In less tlmo than
It takes to tell about it.
A conscience-stricken man in Now
Jersey has returned to Washington
140,000, representing tho sum of 10,
000 taken from tho government Bomo
years ago, with interest up to dato,
thus making complete restitution.
Tho president of tho Carnoglo In
stitution promises a fortuno and
fame to tho man who can Introduce
to tho public bread that tastes less
like cotton batting than the stuff that
now passes for that article Women
should also bo allowed to compete,
Tho feminine residents of Main
Line, a fashionable suburb of Phila
delphia, are wearing sandals becauso
they say this footwear is "sensible
and comfortable," but tho wise public,
reflecting that thero never wns a style
adopted by women for this reason
alone, will suspect that the Bandals
aro really worn to show off tho pretty
feet of the wearors.
A lot of thoso silver cups, table
casterB and things given to Whitelaw
Reld'B daughter by the British nobility
are in the class of what tho everyday
bride privately designates as junk bo
cause she can make no uso of them.
Miss Held will not have tho satisfac
tion enjoyed by other brides, howevor,
of trading her gifts off for somothlng
she likes better. Sho will havo to
keep them and protend to bo de-light
od with them.
Justice Harlan at 75 has just run up
against ono of thoso rumors in tho
newspapers that he waB about to re
sign. It makes him, say somewhat
tartly: "I cannot imagine how -it is
that two or throo times a year a re
port is printed that I am going to re
tire from tho bench. Tho fact is that
I have nover contemplated,. much less
considered, such a thing. I will ro
tain my position as long as I keep my
present good health, and I do not pro
pose for these reports of my retire
Iment to go uncontradicted."
DETROIT'S MAINSTAY IN THE BOX
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"Wild Dill" Donovan, the Detroit American League pitcher, Is conceded
to be one of the best slabmen In the national game to-day. He lost his first
game of the season a few days ago after winning nine straight victories.
BASEBALL IN THE DAYS
OF ANSON AND SPALDING
E. J. Roe Says National Pastime Was
More Exciting Then Than It
Is To-Day.
"In my timo wo used to lino 'em
out," K. .1. Roe of Kansas City, a ball
player In the days of Capt. Adrian C.
Anson, A. O. Spalding, Georgo Wright
and Charles Comiskey, said tho other
day in spoaking of old and modern
baseball.
"Hit and run plays, squeeze plays,
sacrlflco hitting and bunting were un
known," ho continued. "Every man
wont to the plate and the only Idea ho
had in IiIb head was to lose tho ball.
Tho Inflelders made few errors In
thoso days, becauso they did not havo
many chances. Tho outfielders were
tho players that were kept busy. I
used to play first base for tho old Can
ton, 111., Reds. Thoy were considered
the second best team in tho stato at
that timo. Anson and Spalding played
on tho Rock ford team, which was con
sidered tho best in tho state. I played
many games in tho summer of 1879
against them. Charley Comiskey was
Juet breaking into tho gamo at that
timo and was a pitcher for tho Du-
buquo team. Pitchers in thoso days
did not throw curvo balla and thero
was no such thing as overhand pitch
lug. Tho pitcher throw tho ball with
an underhand motion. They nover
tried to give a man a base on balls, but
wanted him to hit It.
"Tho salaries in thoso days were
Jokes comparod with what ball players
receive at present. There waB no rcg
ular Bnlary for playing on tho homo
team. It waB an honor that every
young man coveted. Tho rivalry
among the small towns to possess a
winning ball team was lntonse. This
rivalry was tho only opportunity a ball
player had to mako money. Somo club
that was anxlouB to win a gamo would
sond to a town whoro there was a
good team and hlro from ono to throo
players. These men each received five
dollars a day and tholr expensos for
going to this town. That was consid
ered good money, and sometimes an
extra flno player mado as much as $25
or 30 por month. With no more
money than that In Bight, and that
only for two or threo months a year,
bnsoball looked like a poor way to
earn a living, and I did not stay In tho
game very long. I played a fow years
after leaving school at tho tlmo I was
17 or 18 years old, then gavo It up for
Bomothlng steady.
"I still onjoy tho gamo and go when
I have an opportunity, but I fail to see
whero the present day gamo has any
thing on the gamo wo used to play. In
fact, I believe thoro was moro exclto
mont In our games than thero lp now.
No man went to bat in tho old days
ami Btruck out attempting to bunt a
ball. The scientific batter In our day
was tho man who could place his hits.
Tho player who could placo tho hits
luto a certain uncovered territory was
tho only scientific batsman. Tho rest
of them hit tho ball as hard as thoy
could and trusted to luck. Another
thing wo had In thoso days was" tho
club spirit. Tho presont ball players
scorn indlfforont. So long as tho sal
ary check comos rogularly thoy do not
scorn to caro whether thoy win or not."
John T. Brush, president of tho Now
Vork National loaguo club, has author
ized Manager John McGraw to go tho
limit in his efforts to purchase Clyde
Englo, tho big third baseman of tho
Newark Eastern leaguers.
A hit In the pinch Is worth two of
the other kind. ,
DONO VAN
BALL STARS TO INVADE
FAR EAST NEXT WINTER
Pilgrimage to Japan, China, Hawaii
and Philippines by Strong Ag
gregation Being Planned.
For the first tlmo since the great
American game of baseball became a
reality tho stars of the diamond will
invado tho orient next winter under
tho guidance of Jesse Woods, the well
known Honolulu sporting man, and
Miko Fisher, the manager who
chaperoned so many ball nines In vari
ous cities of tho Pacific coast during
tho last eight years. If the trip proves
x success and all indications point
that way it will undoubtedly result
In one of th,o greatest triumphs that
the pet pastime of Uncle Sam has ever
known, and tho game has managed to
achlovo now wonders every year since
its birth half a century ago.
Encouraged by the success of last
season's invnslon of Honolulu with a
nine mado up almost wholly of Pacific
coast league players, Woods and Fish
er decided at Its conclusion to under
take tho trip far across the broad Pa
cific. Carefully they laid their planB
and so eagerly wero they received by
all who heard of them that the mag
nates went at their work with a zeBt
until now they aro being boomed
throughout the orient.
Llttlo by little tho famed tossers of
tho National and American loagues
heard of tho wonderful pllgrimago
planned by Woods and Fisher. Appli
cations for places on the tourist team
came pouring In dally, and now the
men engineering tho deal can have
their pick of tho nation's stars.
Woods has sailed for the orient on
tho steamer Mongolia for the purpose
of making the final arrangements and
booking tho team at the larger cities
of Japan, China, Philippines and the
Hawaiian islands. His trip will cover
a period of threo months, and upon
his return on October 1, Fisher will
havo perfected tho arrangements at
this end of tho world, and tho party
will bo ready to invado tho far east.
The team will sail direct to Yoko
hama, where It plays a Berles of games
with tho leading Japanese nines of tho
big city. From there It visits Tokyo,
Kobe and Nagasaki. Finishing Its tour
of Japan, tho team goes next to the
Philippines and then through China.
On Its way homo tho stars will stop
over at Honolulu.
Jack Bliss, of tho St. Louis Nation
als, Claude Berry of the Seals, and
Pat Donahuo of tho Boston Ameri
cans, likely will bo tho catchers. In
tho box will bo Orvlo Overall of the
world's champion Chicago Cubs, and
"Big Bill" Burns of the Washlnglons.
On first, Frank Chance, Hal Chase,
"Jiggs" Donahuo and Joo Nealon will
shine, alternating in the outfield.
Joo Dclchanty of Washington, seems
assured of tho second placo position,
while Bill Ueverenux will do tho hon
ors at third. Ty Cobb, tho champion
hitter of tho Detroit Tigers, and
Georgo Hlldebrand, tho popular Seal
left fielder, will complete tho team
as Mrong an aggregation as ever
toured any foreign country.
Curtice Not to Join Giants.
Harry Curtice, tho Notro Damo base
ball player, who Is under contract to
tho Now York Giants, will not report
to that club, but Instead will remain In
tho servlco of tho university, having
signed a contract to tako tho manage
ment of all of Notro Dame's athletic
teams, succeeding T. P. McCnnnon of
Coming, N. Y. Last season Curtico
was coach of the Notre Damo baseball
team. He is now at tho Notro Dame
summer school at Lawton, Mich
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ROUND THE CAPITAL
Information and Gossip Picked Up Here
and There In Washington.
Marriage to Dissolve
WASHINGTON. With tho marriage
next fall of Miss Evelyn Walsh,
daughter of tho Colorado millionaire,
to Edward McLean, son of John R.
McLean of Cincinnati and Washing
ton, a quartet of tho most famous
belles Washington has ever known
will bo dissolved. This quartet in
cludes In addition to Miss Walsh, Ma
thlldo Townsond, whoso engagement
to the Duke d'Albo of Spain is antici
pated; Miss Katherlne Elkins, who, in
spito of tho non-committal attitude of
her parents, is expected to wed the
duke of tho AbruzzI, and Miss Isabel
May, whom society long ago took for
granted to be the fiancee of Count von
Hatzfeldt, counsellor and first secre
tary of tho German embassy.
This quartette of girls have made
Washington hum in the past two sen-
sona
Evelyn Walsh is very young, but sho
has had probably a wider social experi
ence than any one of the quartette.
Backed by her father's millions, she
has been able to give any sort of en
tertainment her heart desired, and no
figure has been too steep for her to
pay when her fancy yearned for any
thing, from a now touring car to a
funcy dress ball.
Katherlno Elkins has nover said
Jackson Located Treasury with a Cane
THE work of removing the old soft
sandstone or east front of the
treasury building and replacing It with
new granite recalls to several old resi
dents tho story told how tho site for
tho building was selected.
Tradition has it that Andrew Jack
son, who wns then president of the
United States, appointed a commis
sion to select suitable ground for the
erection of a United States treasury
building, and that after the commis
sion had, after looking over several
tracts o: land, failed to reach a deci
sion bb to which would be the best, tho
president himself selected the site.
It is said that ono morning in 1833,
while President Jackson was out walk
ing, ho met the chairman of tho slto
Big Force to Take
IhpuvaiiI
ITT '
D
IRECTOR NORTH is preparing
plans for taking tho thirteenth
census, although congress has not yet
enacted tho necessnry legislation. Ho
Ib arranging all tho details and there
will be no delay In beginning work
when authority is given.
It will require 70,000 persons to take
tho thirteenth census. Tho approxi
mate cost will be $14,000,000.
Girl Refuses to Contest Will for Fortune
H
EIR apparent under tho law to
$1,000,000; heir, In fact, by her
fathor's will to $50,000; refusing to
contest that document and contont and
determined to contlnuo her labors as
for nine years heretofore, as a $GG0 a
year government clerk, tho attitude as
sumed by Miss Anna S. Cammack,
daughter of tho Into Washington mil
lionaire, John Cammack, Is perhaps
without parallol In tho history of tho
local courts or departments.
Seated In her modest apartment,
Miss Cammack, formerly Mrs. Anna
Cammack Hardesty, until marital trou
bles overtook her and the courts
granted her a dlvorco and restored her
maiden namo, discussed in a most un
assuming and unusual manner the pe
Quartet of Belles
that sho would not wed the duke, and
everybody who has watched develop
ments In tho romance confidently be
lieve the royal suitor carried her prom
Ise to become his bride. Every prep
aration was mado to formally an
nounce the engagement, but It leaked
out ahead of time, and then the family
of Miss Elkins sealed their Hps. But
the announcement, which will proba
bly come very early in tho fall, will
not bo a surprise. I
Miss Mathildo Townsend, who stili
holds sway as Washington's greatest
beauty, is spending the summer at Bar
Harbor with her mother, where they
will entertain the Duke d'Albo some
tlri this summer. The young Spanish
nobleman has been in the train of the
yoSig American beauty for 'several
years, and his coming to America this
year is regarded as proof of his matri
monial intentions toward Miss Town
send. With MIsb Isabel May and the Count
von Hatzfeldt it looks as if the fancy
of Miss May more than anything else
is responsible for tho delay in an an
nouncement. Miss May was formerly
associated in her social career with the
Countess Cassini, adopted daughter of
tho former Russian ambassador, and
is almost too accustomed to having a
good time to think of matrimony. Miss
May's family is immensely wealthy
and she has enjoyed undisputed reign
here.
With tho threatened dissolution of
this lively young quartette of society!
belles Washington will havo to look to
other quarters for Its interest before
tho next season Is over.
commission at tho junction of Penn
sylvania avenue and the White Lot,
and asked him if the commission had
made any selection, and was told that
It had not. He raised his walking
stick In tho air and with great force
brought the end of It down and forced
It into the earth several , Inches, ex
claiming that the building should be
erected on that ground, and subse
quently it was.
It is also said that the spot 'where
President Jackson stuck his walking
stick Into tho earth was at tho south
east corner of what Is now tho south
front terrace of the ground surround
ing the building, the ground then be
ing part of tho White Lot.
Tho building was commenced In
1838, under the direction of Robert
Mills, architect, and was completed in
August, 1839, being, therefore nearly
70 years old.
When tho repair work is completed
the building will be of solid granite,
most of which was quarried in Maine
and New Hampshire.
Next Federal Census
The task of making tho enumeration
of the 90,000,000 people in the United
States, Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico,
and in Guam, Samoa and the Panama
canal zone wll be one of enormous pro
portions. It will bo tho most gigantic
work of enumeration that has even
been attempted in this or any other
country, and it is intended to reach the
acme of correctness and thoroughness.
Not merely a count and compilation
concerning the population alone, it
will include a census of agriculture,
manufactures, mines and quarries.
A census of tho Philippines will not
be included, as one was taken in 1903,
and it is doubted if the Philippine gov
ernment would caro to bear the cost
of anothor enumeration so soon.
culiar stand she has taken.
"I shall not contest my father's.
will," sho said. "I havo never had anyj
such Intention. He left me $50,000 ini
trust, tho incomo from which I may
uso during my life, and which reverts
to tho estate when I die.
"It Is true that ho loft to my step'
mother nnd stepbrother tho residue ofj
tho estate, estimated at from $2,000,i
000 to 13,000,000.
"I Intend to continue my work at the,
post ofilco department, whero I receive
$G60 a year for distributing money or-i
dors. I havo worked as a government!
clerk at this salary for nine years,
Tho lato John Cammack was a rei
tired florist and occupied a magnlfi'
cent homo near Brightwood. Ills death
occurred Juno 15 last. When his will
was filed it was found that ho had lef
practically all of his fortuno to his
wlfo, Elizabeth Cammack, and a mlno.t
son, John Edmund Cammack. Mlsa
Anna Cammack Is tho only other di
rect heir. Mr. Cammnck married about
threo years after tho death of his first
wife, 20 years ago.