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SCIENCE MADE BRAIN NORMAL SCIENCE hes reclaimed another person from the crime world, cosed a ehapte' of *i:dntu and converted an irresponsible into a hu man bemg ad moral strength. In the awa«er.ng of Jcanme Gordon. througn the professional ministrations of Or. H. M. Rowel!. a girl who was a run away and >ater a thief haa been re stored to society. Her disturbed brain for pears whirled her out cf the do mestie orbit and she was heading for state ersaen e-hen ?*•« surgeon’s knife and t*w mental healer saved her from hares If. By the time she had grown into early teens she was seized with a •router wunderlnst. It would not let Her rest. She seemed bewitched by the ever moving light of some will-o' • ‘vlfp Powerless to control her •elf. >he fled one day to latng Beach. «here in boy's clothes that she had ■'titrived to torrow. she found work tn a bowling alley. A police alarm wa> sent far and wide. The girl read It. but did not return. A woman probation officer, much taken by the pretty child, discovered her disguise and she was taken back to Judge Barclay's home, and with a solicitude lor her future they placed her und< r the kindly tutorship of the sisters at a convent. iW brain havirg been set awbirl in some strange way. and tn Its wild v ’-riling having cast her out of the domestic orbit, she was cow beyond 'ntrol. She cut out the lock of a d.«or that lmpri oned her and. heed less of danger, she slid down a drain I ‘!«e from a third-story window and sealed the convent walls Taking to ; the highway she reached the open country before dawn. She found a • oanlon of h r own years and sex and together, dressed as boys, they I reamed through south-rn California, hvirg as tran •• and learning how to ndv the slar.' hipped ponies on the ranches like vaqueros. Again the hand of authority fell ;>ob the shoulders of tlie flyaway rlr.ld. and she was carried back under 'traiat to the home which she had abandoned. The ingenuity of a mind keyed to the abnormal is more than a match for * SUM ihsiiov with ». shock erf tiablni brown t*lr at.d eye* rbat »»w lighted with a fewer fire iim up from out the* , >at <h'-d (no at Sac ~b«-f rattle ranch near Tla Jaunm. Meilco. oa iittrrnoun u the yellow rust burning ray* lay aaiac*. the r.-J mesa land. Tb. oppar freed row boys, sitting at the d<*r <4 their shark, looked up with aaaumishmrwt at the haggard Ut ile wruicrr. They saw a bare fir. feet <4 frdfj is sadly wrorn shoes an J trousers, with wrist* bo barter than two !.-.ger*. hands at a child an ! a f**a ' at dies t seem to Is-lots to tht rest if the shadow "U;g way from hums, sonny, ain't j yah’ asked one of the men. who bad | •eft a real came In the east and be c*i*- e Poker Chip Charley- lor cow | per <fc:ts purposes. acd a bit hungry. ( too. I »ues»; eh?" And without waiting for an answer they took the shadow in and seated ft a? a fable and fed it all It could eat. which Is a hospitality denied none In the land erf '.on*horn* A week ’hereafter the shadow lay uputi a rot in 'he big ranch house. 1 with a bandage about the temples and the delicate heart pumping so feebh that «t»ly the trained ear of a nurse, who had beets brought up from Tta Jauna. could hear ft “How did ft happen?" she asked. "Why. ml**'' said "Poker Chip Charley." 'the youngster called his self the kid cowboy, and he wanted to hock a leg an the friskiest horse on the ranch ;ust to show us what h-“ could do So. miss, we give in and put him aboard Dulcie. mbu h ain't no : hors.- for a kid to ride, but he did ride him. the kid did. Newer saw any- j ’Mag ike It. but the kid wa'nt beefy rnongh i*» stick. liulcie bucked and •he idd landed on the head" Kid “Cowboy" a Girl. That night the boss of Sanchez ranch went out to the cowboys* shack with » bit at news. The kid cow ho r was a girl, an innocent little runaway Irosa the states. Her name was Jean- J id* Gordon Right here, a* well as anyw here, j the opening chapter of this girl's I strange life may he told it may be called the chapter at her moral sleep i - a> che other chapter la properly called i that <4 her awakening ieanwle VI* ton Claire Gordon—story- l Uaoky aort of name, hot rightfully u-'/'I'm*._■_i Jeanme dressed in boy's clothes, be came a thief. a perfectly sane person. Even while ■J.Jge Barclay was planning anew for ’he girl's welfare she was wafted away like a thistledown in the wind. This time she was carried far across ‘he border into the wild country of Mexico and to the ranch beyond Tia Juana. Her voluntary return to Los i Angeles after this wide swing in the open was inspired as is now known, fo a temporary restoration of those fa u'ties which guide the morals. She wen' at onre to Judge Barclay’s home. She was calm and penitent. Mrs. Bar clay had died while the girl s last es apade was running its course, and I’.'- judge was in no mood for a recon ci’iation with one given to such wild vagaries. He did not know the girl "as irresponsible. He received her formally, if not coldly, gave her a letter to the manager of the canneries down at San Jose and money for her | .iiin.ediate expenses and transporta- I tion. and sent her from his door with . good wish for her happiness some what severely expressed. Became a Thief. The girl s erratic path of wild child :.ih adventure at this moment diverged into one pitifully crooked and crim inal. Jeannie became a thief. She stole things without reference to their value or her needs. When she want ed anything, or thought she did. her cunning mind directed her ready fin gers to the place where it could be found. It was not long before she be gan taking things she did not want— knick knacks which she threw away or l«-ft in hiding places on the premises, \ there to be found by others. In San Francisco, w hither she drift e.! with light fingers, working along the way. she was arrested. Because of her tender years and the evidence that her form of criminality was far removed from the sordid she was sent !to St Catherine's home. In a w eek "***« *hd down a dram pipe from a third story window." hors by birth lfid chrlitmlct -became as <>n>bat> In her infancy Her par n««* »rr» West Virginians They left lb»* -hild In the care of a kind heart nd carv. who took her to California When Jranch- had groan into knee length patferw Judge and Mrs. I-11 ttac Ilarclay of Um Angeles took a Uktr.g to the bright-eyed little one and adapted her They r--christened her Hearti- 'larriay and the took her place la tbrtr borne aa a daughter. COMPANIONSHIP IS TOO CLOSE Cngiiefc Writer* Express Ideas a* to Why Literary Character* Are Not Happy ii Mamag*. era that the reason iHtnry character* are often unhappy u that theirs is a home and they and their wives see of each other. The Carlyle* rise t* the front ae a rueful Instance, the Grate* Mr* humorously. “I like Mr Grot*.- exclaimed Sydney Smith: -he's as Ladylike, and I like her. she's nd m pscfnrt gentleman!** Jenny compered the historian to a fine •U bed In a corner which one longed to dud “And.- commented Hare. *-Mra. Groce dented him!** Hoy* nf ireir1— in defense was the Be* B. C Maturtn who. when in the ^"1 rod wafer stuck on his fora a sign tn hU wife and M not to he the fewest mdeatry la not. canes of the le IH-fcr tfen ; letter of the French wife: "1 am I wriling to you because I do not know what to do, and I am ending my letter because I do not know what to I »*y.” The traffle in kind speeches and oc ' cMional sips from the chalice prepar i er for other lips are potent factors in the pleasantness of married life. When 1 Harm Jan Huidekoper and his wife j added up the same column of figures i to see if the results corresponded and they would sometimes differ, he would always say: “Dear, I must have made I a mistake.” Less tact was shown by ' the autograph collector, who, perceiv j log that the bouse waa on fire, scram j bled out of bed crying to his wife: ‘You save the children and I wtll save J the autographs.” Obviously, if an ! important thing is to be done, one should ‘ do it one’s self! Wordsworth on one occasion, when talking to his wife, referred to a time when, “as you know, I waa better looking.” “But.” my dear,” replied she, “you were always very ugly.” Lady Deere, on her eighty-third birthday, wrote to her grenddeughter: i do assure you that If 1 bad been she was out and roaming to the south in boy's clothes. Then, as medico-criminal records have shown in other cases, the switch controlling the nerve wires of this girl's brain became set for a brief re turn to the normal. She changed ab solutely. Those who did not know at tributed it to the influence of tracts and such moral teachings as is given collectively to inmates of institutions, including jails. They were not aware that it was periodic, and quite inci dental. During this mental lull much of h§r gent'ctrr'S and girlhood sweetness and charm for the time returned. Mr. Thurnherr, a young Berkeley business man, met and fell in love with her and made her his wife. Before they had returned from a brief honeymoon the switch was on again, intensifying her cunning and making her boldly criminal where before she had been cautious. As Kleptomaniac. One evening as he sat reading and site embroidered, he fell asleep; quick as a cat she slipped out of the house and into a neighbor's, where she stole some pretty articles of no use to herself. “Where have you been, my dear?" "The kid cowboy was a girl—a run away.” asked the husband, waking as she re- , turned. “I just ran over to Mrs. -‘s to . show her my embroidery." was the quick reply. "She is anxious to work a pattern like it." It was about this time when some silverware which she had stolen and buried was found, and the young wife was under arrest, that Dr. H. N. Row ell, who long had watched her career from a distance, slipped actively into her life. All the stories he had heard concerning her pointed to tendencies and gave confirmation to his suspi cions that her abnormality was an in cident that could be corrected. Surgery Put to Work. He.made a plea for her probation and became her bondsman. With the consent of the authorities, as well as that of herself and her husband, he took the young woman—she Is now only 22 years old—under his profes sional care. Dr. Rowell’c theory was that aftei the pressure on the brain was relieved, a systematic daily hypnotizing of his patient would cure her. Her sensitive subconscious mind was to be instruct ed to forget the past that had now ceased to be vital and turn toward the perfectly new future and all its pos sibilities. Victory for Science. At first it seemed as If the strenu ous surgical and mental trial she had been through was to influence her but temporarily. But it is beginning to be evident that the old Jeannie Gordon is as dead as the little Barclay girl who ran away so many years ago in a ruffled apron and became a boy. Mrs. Thrunherr is interested in things she never cared about before, never thought of or appeared to no tice. Always strikingly pretty in a boyish way. and with unusually beau tiful. pleading hazel eyes, the young woman has an expression like that of a child taken to see the ocean for the first time—a sort of rapt wonder. And now- that the awakening has come after all these years, and the child of impish impulse and the girl whose brain reeled her always toward the vortex have ceased to exist, she remembers it as one recalls an ugly dream phantom. “1 am not. the same girl at all," sh« says, with eyes that look straight into yours—eyes that are soft, honest, sin cere. “It used to be so strange. I lived a nightmare—a wild, uncertain existence which was as bereft of or derly sequence as the jumble of impos sible things through which we drift in unhappy dreams. Oh, how differ ent it is since the change came. The world seems so much quieter, and now I can rest. Without half trying, I can be good like other people."—New York World. lovely young bride striking 19. more • affectionate and gratifying speeches I could not have flown from my ! bridegroom s lips of 23. I am sc little worthy of it. It belongs to j his nature; I have nothing to do with j it;" a delightful instance of the dor I mant qualities which come out in ele i mental partnerships. ■Hurt Her Dignity. Annie is nothing If not proud and sensitive. The other day, after beg ging and bothering all morning to br allowed to visit a beloved young auntJe, she returned Home In very short order. Annie’s mother naturally wondered why. “Well, mamma.” the little girl ex plained. "I went to see Aunt Estelle, as I wanted, and she was sitting on I the front porch with a great big ugly I dog beside her. And after she’d j 'hissed me she said: “‘Rover, this Is your dear little i cousin. Annie.’ and made him shake i Vrands w#th me. So 1 came right home mamma. ; it was nice of Aunt Estelle e. (Aioeuce me to e do*.” APPRECIATES PLAYERS UNDER CONTRACT Manager Fred Clarke of Pittsburg Pirates. Fred Clarke of Pittsburg, returned after a scouting trip. Besieged by the eager correspondents the manager pro tested that there was nothing doing— that he had not signed any new play er or players; that he hadn’t talked trades—and that he hadn't accomplish ed anything at all, at all. "What did you do on your trip?" the writer asked Clarke. "Nothing," was the smiling rejoin der. "Did you uncover any phenoms?" "Not any, but I did learn one thing.” "What was that?" "Why. to appreciate more than ever the players we now have under con tract. Say for me that we do appre ciate these men. no matter what any person or persons say.” P Greased Ball in New York. The visiting teams have again un earthed that old story about the balls being greased on the Polo grounds There is a soil over in Xew Jersey that makes the ball feel greasy when it is applied, and that is what the Cardinals and Pirates are accusing McGraw of having around the pitch er's box. "CHICK*’ FRASER IS ALL IN Former National Leaguer Is Released Unconditionally by New Orleans Club of Southern. The New Orleans Southern league club today announced the sale of Out fielder Harr to the Cleveland club. Harr will not report to Cleveland un FEEBLE-MINDED ON DIAMOND Superintendent of New York State In stitution to Sharpen Wits of Beys With Basebail. Dr. C. S. Little, a Dartmouth football | star of 1S91. who is superintendent of 1 "Letehworth village,” a state institu tion for 2.500 feeble-minded persons. ! will endeavor to build up the wits of i the boys in that colony by organizing a number of baseball teams. He was : in New York the other day to get ; baseball outfits for his charges, and a suit of armor for the umpire. "Do you think that a team of feeble ; minded boys can be made to under stand the intricacies of baseball?” ! asked an incredulous member of the , board of directors when he asked for an appropriation for this purpose. ”Oh. I don’t intend to develop any Hal Chase's or Ty Cobb’s.” said Dr. Little, "but I think we might turn out * good grade of umpires, if all I see in the papers is true. I believe that baseball is so inbred in the American people that oven the w eak-minded love the sport. We hope to have football, too, of the safe and sane variety, and contests with other institutions of the same sort" i ABOUND XBASES Tigers so far show no signs of slow ing up in their pace. Too many managers seem to cause dissatisfaction in Beantown. The fighting spirit of the White Sox is always present this season. The expected slump of the "Ty gers" seems indefinitely postponed Vic Saier has improved a hun dred per cent under Chance’s tutelage. Egan shows them that the old man has not gone back so far as they thought In the days of the slugging baseball teams five hits make it look like an air tight game. Milan, the Washington outfielder, is I considered Cobb's only rival in hitting | this year by some critics. The Highlanders are to get Third Baseman Dolan from the Jersey City club at the end of the Eastern league season. Tony Smith, who was called in by Brooklyn when Dolly Stark was crip pled, and Bert Tooley went wrong, has been released to Toledo. Fred Clarke of the Pirates has de cided that kicking on the decisions of umpires does not pay, and has or dered his players to stop it aiso. Jakey Atz's success with Providence was a flash only. “There does not seem to be any hope for the Grays,” mourns a Providence writer. The combination of Irish and Ger mans on a ball team seems to be the right one for a winner. The Cubs have the mixture and the Phillies are also made up of the Celtic and Teuton races. Owner Grayson of Louisville pro tested, it is said, because St Paul gave Catcher Spencer his uncondi tional release without first asking him if he wanted to buy the player. That’s a new one. The National league is staging the banner show this year. The American league has had the call on the close races for several seasons, and it is no more than right that it should be passed around. Connie Mack is anxious to secure Jack Knight again. The Highlander shortstop started his career with the Philadelphia team, but he was a raw youth then and had not developed into the star that be is now. “Chick” Fraser. :il the end of the season. The New Orleans manager also gave Pitcher ‘Chick" Fraser, the former National leaguer, his unconditional release. Point for Umpire*. Here is a point for umpires who neglect to call “Play” and officially start an interrupted game. Manager Stovall of the Naps protested & re cent game, but inasmuch as the Naps won, the protest will never be sent to Ban Johnson. With Shotten on first, Austin fouled off a ball. As lames resumed pitching and started to deliver the ball to the plate, Aus tin stepped back from the plate and James withheld his throw. St. Louis claimed a balk and Mullen allowed Shotten to take second. Mullen was clearly In the wrong as he had not officially renewed the game after the foul had been hit Gambler* After Umpire. A crowd surrounded the gates of the National league park in Boston waiting for Umpire Johnstone to come forth, at the conclusion of a recent game. It became necessary to call on the police, and five detectives were rushed to the scene. The dis play of feeling was engineered by the alleged gamblers, who became angry when Umpire Johnstone celled Fla herty's hit over the left field fence in the eighth foul. CHANGE IN PLAYER’S WORTH One Year He May Look Like a MiL lion Dollars to Owner 2nd Follow ing Season Prove Failure. Star ball players are certainly a mighty risky commodity. One year a player may show to advantage, look like a million dollars, cause his owner to turn down all kinds of fabulous offers for his serv ices, and the following year proves a big failure. While every club owner is in the baseball business to get the money, still it's the one ambition of every ; owner and manager to win pennants, | otherwise there would be much more ; trading and selling of players among the various clubs of the majors and | minors. Civic pride often keeps an owner from selling one of his stars for ( a big sum. Four years ago George Stone of the j St. Louis club led the American league in batting. Stone and his big stick was feared by every pitcher in the Johusonian circuit Every club owner would have been delighted to buy Stone at most any old price, , while the St. Louis fans simply idol ized their batting king. All kinds or offers were made Owner Hedges, but he turned a deaf ear to them. Stone was expected to be the big noise the following year, but he proved a rank disappointment. Trou ble over salary caused him to get a late start. Injuries set him back sev eral times just as he was getting into his stride and all in all he had a bad year. One of the injuries to his ankle slowed him up considerably and since then a number of hits that he used to beat cut go in the putout ‘column. Three years ago Stone would have brought down something like SI0,000. A few years ago Manager McGraw of the New York Giants offered the St. Louis Nationals $10,000 for Pitch er Karger and was willing to throw in a couple of young pitchers to boot. Owner Robinson of the Cardinals wanted to give the fans a winner and turned down the offer without even hesitating. Karger failed to show the next year, was traded to Cincinnati , and then turned loose to a minor league club. He is now with the Boston Americans, but is nothing like the pitcher he was a few years ago. j Not so many years ago Elmer Flick, Jack Powell. Lou Criger, Terry Turner. Herman Schaefer, Lee Tanne hill. Bill Bradley, Bill Donovan and a f host of other stars would have brought fancy prices were they placed on the auction block of baseball. While quite a few of the boys are still valuable to have around, there wouldn't be any riot should they be offered for sale, and they wouldn't bring one-fift'n_ the price they would have commanded five years ago. Good players are players who take long chances. Players who take un usual risks are. of course, very liable to injury, and slight injuries often ruin star players. Yes. indeed, star ball players are more delicate than the daintiest bits of bric-a-brac. CALLAHAN IS BIG SURPRISE Former White Sox Manager and Play er Is Proving Sensation of Season in American League. Jimmy Callahan, one of the veterans of the diamond, is the surprise of the baseball season. Jimmy was manager of the Chicago White Sox several years ago and left the club to manage a semi-professional team in the Windy city. Now he is back with the Sox again and apparently playing as good ball as he ever did. Speaking of his come back Jimmy says: • 1 11 tell you one thing; it's not old age that stops most ball players, it's the knee. That's what put out Ham- ; ilton, McGraw, Rill I.ange, Jack Doyle and Emmet Heidrick. That knee cap , will stop any of them. But that's not ! my case. I quit when I was manag ing the Sox. 1 was having too good a time. But I haven't been really out of it. I was playing ball all the time in Chicago. At one time I had Mike Donlin. Tom Hughes. Jake Stahl. Bar ry McCormick and myself on my team. That's pretty nearly a ball club. “As to the reasons for my coming back there are four or five of them. Jimmy Callahan. In the first place. I needed the money and semi-pro ball didn’t look so good to me, for the party I rented from raised the rent on me from $1,000 to $5,000 a year. Besides, the American association has just invested $82,000 in real estate in Chicago and you know what they would do to the semi pros. When I started they had two other clubs. Now there are 11 semi pro clubs in Chicago. One day I was pro clubs in Chicago. One day I met Commy and he said he'd like to have me with him again. I was ineligible at the time, so I said to him: ‘You release me.’ fle did and they rein stated me and here I am.” < ! i I I Dolly Gray’s Three-Bagger. 1 Some of the pinch hitters are like Dolly Gray of Washington. The first j year Gray was in fast company, Can tillon sent the tall pitcher up as a J pinch hitter every time one was ' needed and Gray religiously fanned, 1 accumulating a batting average of * something like .007 in April, May and 1 June. When a scribe asked Cantll- < Ion one afternoon why he persistently 1 sent up Gray, Joe indignantly re- ■ sponded: "Great guns, man, you ought to have seen the three-bagger * that fellow hit when we were play ing Galveston March 22.” J • i NOTHING BUT AN AMATEUR Fair Damsel's Questions That Re vealed Callow Lover in His True Light. "Do you really and truly think I am beautiful?” she asked. “You are simply divine.” he re plied. "But there are other girls whom you think more beautiful than I.” “No, I don’t think there is a more beautiful girl in the world than you.” “There are other girls you think are just as beautiful, though.” “You are more beautiful than any other girt I ever saw.” "I suppose there are plenty of girls whom you consider almost as beautiful as I am.” "I think you are far more beauti ful than any other girl that ever breathed.” "Well, why didn't you say that in the first place?” “That was what I meant, if I didn't exactly say so.” “O, well, go on. My goodness! Must I suggest everything nice that you say to me?” "What more can I say?” "Heavens! I'm not going to sit here giving you lessons. I thought the way you started out that you had made love before.” J. PIEREPONT, NO DOUBT. 6 pirate when he grows up. Jones—Thinks there is more money in piracy than anything else, eh? Smith—Yes; but I think he’s got Morgan, the buccaneer, mixed up with Morgan, the financier. Sufficient Evidence. Having vouched for the honesty of the woman who wished a situation as scrub-woman the good-natured man was subjected to a severe 'examina tion by the superintendent of the building. "There are degrees of honesty," said the superintendent. “How hon est is she?” The good-natured man reflected. "Well,” said he, “I’ll tell you. She is so honest that if you throw any thing that looks to be worth a cop per into the waste basket you have to tag it 'Destroy this,’ or she will fish it out and put it back on your desk night after night, no matter how badly you want to get rid of it. I don’t know that I can say anything more.” "No more is necessary,” said the superintendent, and he proceeded to hire the woman. Held the Records. Two ladies seated at afternoon tea fell to discussing the prowess of their respective hubbies. After each had related several feats of endurance and hardihood, one of them remarked that her husband had on one occasion dived under the wa ter and remained down for fully two minutes, without coming up to take breath. “Oh,” said the other, “that is nothing. “My first husband dived be low the water five years ago, and has not yet come up to breathe.” Leaving Him at Sea. "Could you do something for a poor old sailor?” asked the seedy-iooking wanderer at the gate. "Poor old sailor,” echoed the lady at work at the tub. “Yes’m, I follered the wotter for 16 years." "Well,” said the woman, after a crit ical look, "you certainly don’t look as if you ever caught up with it.” Then she resumed her labors. Immortality. “Speaking of immortality, what's the matter with the hen?" "Go on.” “Her son never sets.” Hold fast to the highest ideals that flash upon your vision in hours of exaltation.—Prances C. Willard. STRONGER THAN MEAT A Judge's Opinion of Grape-Nuts. A gentleman who has acquired a ju dicial turn of mind from experience on the bench out In the Sunflower State writes a carefully considered opinion as to the value of Grape-NTuts as food. He says: “For the past 5 years Grape-Nuts has been a prominent feature in oui bill of fare. “The crisp food with the delicious nutty flavor has become an indis pensable necessity in my family's everyday life. “It has proved to be most healthful and beneficial, and has enabled us to practically abolish pastry and pie? from our table, for the children prefer Grape-Nuts, and do not crave rich and unwholesome food. "Grape-Nuts keeps us all in perfect physical condition—as a preventive of disease It is beyond value. I have been particularly impressed by the benefi cial effects of Grape-Nuts when used by ladies who are troubled with face blemishes, skin eruptions, etc. It clears up the complexion wonderfully “As to Its nutritive qualities, my ex perience is that one small dish of Grape-Nuts Is superior to a pound of meat for breakfast, which Is an impor f8?1 C°ns deration for anyone. It sat isfies the appetite and strengthens the power of resisting fatigue, while its use Involves none of the disagreeable consequences that sometimes follow s meat breakfast.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Read the little book “The Booh ♦_ <V*nv»le.” ,n pkgs. “Theresa re^on ” true- *wftr*fcs y V
