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ONE OF BEST KICKERS IN MISSOURI VALLEY. — — ~ -*i«r r *-ac»n«j. Ore cf me Veterans cn the Unive-Sity of Missouri Team. 3ADGERS “COME BACK" STAR .- -» it ) Moll, Aft**- Rest ef Veer,: Restwr.es PcsiUen at Quarter fc*c«—Cette- Thar Ever. iier- of tka hshmsi at Mad,u» 'ids mannaa ear the retort; to 'He ran of - kersie MoU at quarters**** TW a*fie Jeiioe’r rest of a > m ■—urns to Ra*e lot a crrmt Uetteni to Ala He baa tear sack srUfc a de t*e«iitte<t<* aad wUttajrf .*.* to work uat Its itoksito a ennytiat at tbs: -KMoll. »»■■! «Md an much u award— :be tme Wlecoarta rptm“ He baa lost none of Ms aid tune accuracy id j aas *C and icotiu while fats endurance ta batter than b has bees since the tifl d his freshman year DEED FOR ANDERSON TROPHY How' is Formally Presented to Amer •can Autemabi e Association far UfS hi Gladden Tour. A deed dt gift forma!!; presenting ’he Aaderaoa trophy bowl to the American Automobile association to be need as a prise id the Uildden tour, was executed at Anderson. 8 C, the o'Per day. aad the howl was forward ed to Hobart li Cooper, president of tbe asoodstton. It Is provided la tbe deed of gift that tbe winner at tbe tropby. which H to be awarded lor individual excel kme?. thaii furnish a bone at C.OW u> guarantee the car* at the trophy during the time n may he id bis poe ■eoataa aad until h may be awarded after tbe tour of the following year Tbe trophy bowl was designed by a P*itladetpbla Jeweler, and coot Sl.ovo. ( PMder Jooe* former manager of j tbo Chicago White goa. today is a j rich man. and It all came about through hi* ability to seise aa oppor tunity aad iuvest his money at the tight time Haring a chance u> pur • !M scree of land in Oregon last nude tbe deni at a little as a straight Umber deal Today Joses wouldn’t tor many times this hd it has bees discovered j that an U trs sum of the beet-known j •a* deposits is this section at tbe} ■ SEEK WELL BALANCED TEAM Strenuous Effort* Will Be Made to Secure Men Who Will Sweep Board in All Olymp.c Events. Gr**at efforts will b*- made to secure a team from the f'nited States for the Olympic games at Stockholm. Sweden next year, that will not only sweep the hoards in the field and tra-x events, hut will capture most of the other events as well. More attention will be paid in the next selections of a team to rifle and revolver shooting. lawn tennis, wrest ling. cycling gymnastics, etc. This will mean that more men will have to be sent abroad. As the Amer ican Olympic committee has not the ■■ lightest doubt that it will be able to raise the fund of $50,000. there will, however, be no need to be sparing in the number of representatives that are sent across the Atlantic. "The program that has been drawn up by Sweden." said James E. Sulli van. the secretary of the Olympic i ommittee, "is absolutely fair. No body is favored and we have no com plaint* to make "We are beginning to take care of other than the fie'd and tracks events this time." he went on to say “In London in iOOS we were poorly repre sented in the cycling contests, for one thing Amateur cycling docs not amount to much nowadays in this country; but we hope, nevertheless, to gather a strong team. “I am afraid it will be some years before we can excel the Germans. Norwegians and bohemians in gym nastics However, during the last five years wonderful strides have been made at the colleges in gymnas tics. and when we come to look Into the matter we may find that, after all. we have some real Olympic mate rial at our disposal.” “Chick" Evans continues to golf it He whom a paragraph offends is in deed of tender skin. While the other coaches were shout ing Stagg was thinking. When the frost is on the pumpkin it is also on the famous game of base ball. Occasionally a football coach varies the monotony by displaying a gleam of optimism Football promises to kill more In Us few short weeks than baseball did all summer long. Evidently Pennsylvania does not be lieve in shutting out her football rivals this year Death has begun garnering his 1911 crop of football players No country can afford this kind of waste. Even more excruciatingly funny than the review of football U an English man's review of baseball practice. When bowling, semi-pro ball, foot ball and a few others all come at once, what chance is there for wrest ling? “Doe" Roller says the outlook for this year In the mat game la better than ever. He does not claim to be an optimist. One would hare to go a lot further than eight Judges to find a dissenting voice fa the matter at Cobb's suprem acy In the American league USE OF TRICK PLAYS Fakes Gain Most After the First Kickoff. Team* Are Not Alert Then, 8ays Eck ersall— Football Coaches and Players Differ on Time to Spring DeSolvers. Football players and coaches have different ideas as to the best time tn contests to spring trick plays or any other fakes which might catch oppos ing teams off guard. Many believa the substitution of fast and elusive players In the latter stages of the games 4s the best time to spring a deceptive play, while others bold a directly contrary opinion, writes Wal ter H. Kckcrsall in Chicago Tribune. In football it is a well known tact tbat at the beginning of contests the players are not thoroughly alert to the situation, and those who have played the game know the men do not enter the game with the proper spirit until they have been tackled a few times or hit opponents hard in the Interference. The minds or the play ers are not sharpened to the situation and they do not gain that alertness or aggressiveness which they acquire as j the games progress. In 1906. the first year of the for I ward pass, the old “shoestring” trick invariably was attempted on the play following a kickoff. The defensive team had not yet become accustomed to the play, and as a result it often was good for substantial gains. As the 1906 season progressed, one of the fundamental principles of the ends was to scan the extremities of the field to see that no offensive player had been placed there to receive a forward pass. Although coached on this point, many of the ends, carried away with the excitement of the con tent. failed to carry out the coaches' Instructions. A number of teams, es pecially high and preparatory elevens, attempt the play this year, but as there is no deception to the forma tion It generally fails against a well coached team. Coaches of the big elevens repri mand a player severely if he is tricked on a play of this kind, al though the play generally is attempted some time during an Important con test. There is such a great chance of Its ultimate success that the majority of the mentors are willing to take chaEees with the play, but so many formations- can be evolved from send ing a man to one side of the field or the other that it now Is foolish to take a chance w ith a forward" pass unless j the offensive player near the side fine !s not covered by a member of the defensive eleven. The moment a player on the offen sive team is sent wide on either ex tremity of the line the defense Is weakened to the extent that it must send a man to watch the shifted player. Fnder these conditions for mations can be evolved of deceptive character which can be sent on the opposite side from the shifted player, although the defensive eleven nine times out of ten will expect the play on the strong side. Invariably on the down following the initial kickoff in a game the play ers stand erect and attempt to discern the weaknesses of their opponents. It Is several seconds before the teams clash in the first scrimmage. The players are not warmed up to the conflict and as a result they overlook many things which they spot in an Instant as the contest progresses. As a result the best and most op portune time to spring a trick or de ceptive play is on the play following the first kickoff. If formations are evolved in which the players assume the necessary positions to make the play a success and If the ball is snapped before the defensive team has a chance to size up the situation and before minds are sharpened to tbe point where they will be on the look out for such plays, such trick plays are almost certain to be successful. HAROLD KING. ■ Right Half Back on Indiana ’Varsity Team. Penn Golf Title to Duncan. The open golf championship oi western Pennsylvania goes across the Atlantic this year. It was captured by George Duncan of the Hanger Hill Golf club, London, who, playing in the tournament held under the aus pices of the Western Pennsylvania Golf association at the Allegheny Country club, turned in a score of 14S for the thirty six holes. Jack Hutchin son of the Allegheny Country club and Dave Robertson of the Oakmont Country clnb tied for second honors with 153. “Chick” Evans of Chicago, holder of the French amateur cham pionship, negotiated the thirty-six holes in 153. CAREFUL MANAGEMENT NEEDED IN BREEDING COWS FOR DAIRY Animals That Produce Pound of Batter and Cheese the Cheapest Are the Ones to Keep—One Reason Why So Many Herds Do Not Return Profit From Their Food and Cost of Attendance. A Prize Winning Jersey Heifer. (By \V. M. KELLY.) There is no phase of the dairy busi ness that needs more study or more careful management than docs the breeding of t>.e cow. Upon the cow depends success or failure and we mgst. after selecting ; her, look to her care and her feed, and to the handling of her products. The fact that dairymen have de ■ voted more attention to other phases of their dairying than to the breeding j and development cf the cow is one of the reasons why so many of our dairy herds are not capable of returning a profit from their food and cost of j attendance. I We are often asked which is the ! be6t breed of dairy cattle to select for ; the dairy? To such men I would say that there is no best breed. Some think because they have Jerseys they are on the royal road to success. 1 Others think that the Hoisteins will bring prosperity to the farm. This is a sad mistake, for scrubs are very common among the pure breeds, and a pure-bred scrub is with out doubt the worst scrub of all. Select cows having individual ex cellence as determined by the Babcock test and scales in starting a herd. Better and mote uniform results of breeding may be secured if the ani mals are of one type of breed and great care should be exercised in get ting individuals which assess to a certainty the characteristics wc desire to perpetuate in the herd. What we dairymen want is a herd of cows that will give a profit at the ■pail, whether pure-breds or grades. The ones that will produce a pound of butter or cheese the cheapest are the ones that we want to keep in our herds. We have a number of Improved breeds of dairy cows that represent the skill of years in their perfection, but in adopting any of these breeds we should consider the conditions and environments under which they have been developed in their original homes and then plan to make our care and feed and general management con form to the conditions under which tbS'breed had been developed. If a man has Jerseys, give them Isle of Jersey care and feed for they can not succeed on scrub fare and fodder. They were not intended for that pur pose. The Jersey cow is a delicate, nerv ous machine and requires warmth, kindness and liberal feeding to make her profitable. If Hoisteins are selected do not ex pect them to thrive on closely cropped, scanty pastures where they are com pelled to rustle all day to gather suf ficient food. Give them the care they were de veloped under, large amounts of suc culent forage and well cured hay. warm stables and kind treatment You may get pure-breds if you can afford them, but all farmers are not able to buy pure-breds. However, al ways use a pure-bred sire. The breeding bull always represents half the value of the breeding power of the herd If it Is desired to grow calves for the dairy. Select them from some of the well known families of the breed and be sure that he possesses prepotency which gives promise of being a good calf-getter. A bull of this kind will give you excellent results in improving the herd. Some of the best herds In the country are high grades that have re sulted from the continued use of good sires. In order to be snccessful as breeders we must learn some of the lessons associated with onr stock; have an ideal type in onr minds and always In our selection and mating be seeking to improve the type and standard in our herd. The best special purpose animal is none too good. Never strive to pro duce a general purpose animal by mixing beef and dairy breeds. Aim to produce the animal whose special characteristic is the cheap production of a pound of butter or a gallon of milk. Always seek to have the crosses In harmony. Do not mate extremes. Vigor and constitution are two essen tials. Unless a cow possesses vigor in constitution she will make a poor breeder. Do not inbreed unless you have a definite object in view, such as inten sifying some particular good quality and then do it by breeding the sire to some of his own get. This should not be followed up too closely. Plan to have the heifers drop their first calves at about 24 to 30 months of age. Their offspring will be more vigorous and there will be better results tnan by forcing an im mature animal to bear progeny.' Breed cows are large feeders. Feed them a liberal ration of milk-produc ing foods and give them the best of care. Keep in mind that bad qual ities are more easily transmitted than the goad ones. LAY DRAIN TILE THROUGH SWAMP Good Plan Shown Where Ground Is So Soft as to Not Per mit of Dissinx Satis factory Ditch. It is frequently advisable to lay drain tile through a bog or swamp where the ground is so soft as not to permit digging a satisfactory drain ditch. By driving stakes in the ground and laying a cne-inch board on the tops of them, and upon this laying the line of tile, a good flow of water can be secured. This tile must be laid be \ I/A.. /? — ... IT Tiling a Swamp. low the wet weather water level and after the land has been thoroughly drained for a year or two the tile can be removed and the stakes driven deeper, so that it rests upon solid, earth. Egg-Laying Contest. The success of the Australian egg laying contest has suggested a sim ilar plan to !>e tried in various sec tions of this country. Poultrymen are expected to ship a pen of six hens to an experiment station or other cen tral point where contests will be car ried on under competent management, and prizes awarded to the winners have found good markets for eggs for hatching. Besides requiring the suit able reputation as breeders of the best laying pens, the contests are ex pected to bring out many practical points of feeding, housing and gen eral care of laying stock. Cure Feather Pulling. A good remedy for feather-pulling hens is said to be a piece of tough meat or bone with lean meat clinging to it They will pick at the meat in stead of pulling feathers. MULCHING THE STRAWBERRY BED Where Straw la Wot Readily Ob tainable it Kb XMfflcalt to Get a Cowering of Right Thickness. <Bv H. F. GRINSTEAD. Missouri.) Where straw is readily obtainable U Is difficult to spread properly over the strawberry plants so that It will be thick enough yet not smother the plants or require raking off in the string. A mulch Of oats or sorghum la the best thing I know of that may be ■own between the rows. Oats alone has been Med. but from the fact that we often have a very dry tall it ham not always made a satisfactory growth before frost. Sorghum or kaffir com ate dry weather plants, and if there is suffi cient moisture in the soil to germin ate the seed they will grow till Croat. A good hlaa to to sow oats and sor ghum or oats and kaffir corn la mix ture and thick enough so that it will not be coarse. As soon as It is killed by the frost the sorghum will fall, making an ideal mnlch Then, as the weather becomes more severe the oats will be killed. Mulch grown in this way will al ways be found thickest where needed —In bare places and between the rows. it cannot possibly smother out the plants no matter how rank it grows, and is the best for keeping the fruit off the ground In the spring One of the greatest advantages In a mulch of this kind is that you are reasonably sure to have no weeds sown with it. as is often the case when using wheat straw. ' Iron Pails. Have two or three galvanised iron palls In which to carry fertilisers for distribution. Then if left In the Held or otherwise exposed, they won’t fall to pteoes. as wooden ones will. -. Marketing Lambs. When marketing lambs leath the CHURCH BUILT OF FOSSILS Building Constructed of Blocks Hewed From the Petrified Depths of a Nearby Swamp. Mumford. N. Y.—In Mumford is a church building constructed of fossils. At first glance the walls appear to be constructed of rough sandstone smeared with an uneven coating of gritty, coarse, plaster; but a closer view shows delicate traceries of leaves, lace-work of interwoven twigs, bits of broken branches, fragments of mossy bark, splinters of wood, ail pre served against the wasting of time Mumford Church. ! and decay by being turned into the ! hardest of flinty limestone. Every i block of stone In the four wails is a closely cemented mass of dainty fos I sils, literally packed and interwoven, j There is no basic rock at all. but only ! fossil fibers, which give the rock co hesion and strength. Nevertheless, i the stones are light in weight com pared with granite and sandstone. The blocks were hewed from the petrified depths of a nearby cedar : swamp. Muniford is situated in the I heart of the great area of rock, once the bed of an ocean, known to geolo gists as the Niagara limestone. It crops out either in the form of the soft, calcarerous stone, or the hard and more serviceable blue limestone. The clear, cold water which gushes from innumerable springs or flows in frequent brooks throughout the Mum i ford country is alkaline from the lime ; aeld in solution. GERMANY'S GREAT MONUMENT Colossal Memorial Nearing Comple tion Is Buiit to Commemorate the Battle of Leipzig. Leipzig. Germany.—Perhaps the most colossal monument in all Ger many is nearing completion here. Leipzig was the scene of three note j worthy battles—two in the Thirty Years’ War and one in the Napoleonic wars. The monument is to commemo rate the battles between the French under Napoleon and an allied army of Asstrians. Russians, Prussians and Swedes. The monument will be dedi cated in October, 19X3, on the battle's centenary. In the accompanying illustration the monument is shown as it will appear when completed. Some of the gigan tic carvings—one of them forty feet high—are already in place. Even in i 1 ■ Leipzig Monument. complete, the monument thrills you with Its colossal dimensions. It Is tnree hundred feet in height, but it is built on such a mountainous scale that its tremendous height Is minimized. It faces the city fronting a concreted take several acres in extent. A broad boulevard will lead from it straight Into Leipzig. fHE DIMENSIONS OF HEAVEN Preacher Figures It to Be the Equal of a 792,000 Story Building. Louisville. Ky.—Heaven's exact di mensions were figured out in the ser mon of the Rev. M. E. Dodd, pastor af a Louisville church, preached to bts congregation recently. In the course 3* his sermon the preacher said: “In Revelations, twenty-first chap ;er, sixteenth verse, nervous Chris tians have read where the dimensions 3f heaven are only 1.500 cubic miles. Immediately they jump at the conclu sion that even this space will not ac commodate the vast, multitude of which the Bible speaks. “However, calculation will show that this space will accommodate a building 792.000 stories high, and it la ?asy to demonstrate that such g building would accommodate an In numerable multitude.” - • The Test of a Man. Giving evidence at an Inquest at Tarmoutfa. a market stall carrier de clared he could take ten pints of beer before breakfast and get home all right The coroner told bim be ought to be ashamed to say so and the wit ness replied that a man who could not take four or five pints was no man at at,.—London Evening Stand ard. Eating Acid Fruits. Acid fruits should not be eaten with food rici In starch, such as bread and’ milk, cereals and meat They com bine well, however, with vegetables and other fruits. STRANDED. tW^PWTlC SCHC’ C» l i li T ^ ■ I Teacher of Dramatic Art—The very first thing is to give the scholar a graceful bearing—to teach him how to walk. Student—Well, er—er—I don’t ex pect to join that kind of a company. BABY'S TERRIBLE SUFFERING “When my baby was six months old, his body was completely covered with large sores that seemed to itch and burn, and cause terrible suffering. The eruption began in pimples which ! would open and run, making large sores. His hair came out and finger nails fell off, and the sores were over the entire body, causing little or no sleep for baby or myself. Great scabs would come oft when I removed his shirt. “We tried a great many remedies, but nothing would help him, till a friend induced me to try the Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I used the Cuti cura Soap and Ointment but a short time before I could see that he wa3 improving, and ia six weeks’ time he was entirely cured. He had suffered about six weeks before we tried the Cuticura Soap and Ointment, although we had tried several other things, am? doctors, too. I think the Cuticura Rem edies will do all that is claimed for them, and a great deal more.” (Signed) Mrs. Noble Tubman, Dodson, Mont.. Jan. 23, 1911. Although Cuti cura Soap and Ointment are sold by druggists and dealers everywhere, a sample of each, with 32-page book, will be mailed free on application to ■'Cuticura,’' Dept. IS K, Boston. Obeyed Orders. Percy—-What are you dotng about your doctor’s advice to take physical exercise, dear boy? Choily—I'm carrying a heavier walk ing stick, and I wear a larger button hole bouquet. tmportant to Mothers Examine caret'uliy every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of /.. In Cse For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria Located. Clerk—Where shall I tile the Ic--j letters in this suit? Lawyer—Under the head of promis sory notes. Some people never go ahead be cause they wait too long to make sure they are right. Stomach Out of Order? Bowels Weak? TAKE A COURSE OF THE BITTERS At Once It Will Do To* Good Splendid Crops In Saskatchewan (Western Canada) 800 Bushels from 20 acres of wheat was the thresher's .return from a I,loyd minster farm in the season of 1910. Many fields in that as well as other districts yield ed from 25 to 35 bu shels of wheat to the •ere. Other grains in proportion. , UR8E PROFITS are; thus derived t_FBF F HOMESTEAD LANDS of M eatern Caoifi. This excellent showing eansee prices to advance. Lend values ubould doubiein two rears’ time. Grain rrowincjnbed farm ing. cattle raising and dairy ing are all profitable. Free Homesteads of 160 acres are to be bad In tbe very beet districts; 160 acre pre-emp tions at tS.OO per acre with in certain areas. Schools and cbarches in every settle ment, climate unexcelled, soil tbe richest; wood, water and building material plentiful. sy For particular* as to location, low settlers’ railway rates and descriptive Illustrated pamphlet. “Last Best West,** and other In formation. wrltetoBup’tof Immi gration, Ottawa, Canada, or to Canadian Government Agent. W. V. BENMETT j Bmb 4Bss IMg. BnhSgM* Plesss write to the ssmt nesrest you