WILL EXPLORE THE DEAD SEA GcrrrMl bcionUcta. Headed by Or. Led »*• Brunt. u> Take Part In Expedition. As rxprdKioa for thorough scientific fVt. r»tiue of (be Dead Sue baa been arranged. Ki(wt< nootemlin It Bay* ' eru la circulation for some time, and awe lbe dieting ltlw-d scientist* who roaejsjeo (to party are in Jcruaalem and are to embark oe a motor boat ekK~k *a rrpcired for tbo trip on or U*»ci li Ttla boat was uaad for tbo past few years to carry ■ Ana: from tbe south end of tbe Dead I'ca to its » ortaora sboroa. * ben re It Ccrjf of the River Arnon. » transported fey camels to Jerusalem, j Tfei» craft sis wrecked and badly' damaged a few OMlIu ago »!jr ar- ; rwbgexueXM vi s its owners, the nusl «■** assi(Fr cf *fee npditioa bad ffee Ual tbrvgSJjr repaired and over. . -rai- «-d lor tfee use of tfee ei (edition The members of the expedition are: lw Imdatg Hruft!. wbo leads tbe en 'erpnie and a bo undertakes tbe by r..grjpblc aad felolog.ial mark; 111 fciur It Koe'oed arststed by Prof I > P U. Roretste*. bead of tbe cbeml- j *« w on tbe same line with the l nl | ted States survey of tbe Dead Sea b) j jitaiai Lyocb In 1*41. as far at tbat admirable work extended It wtl. :olios up tbe lines at the Duke d« 1-uybes expioracocs In JM4 Since' here ..:*•» no important bydregraphu or chemical researches bare beer made At tbe command of tbe late sultan of Turkey Dr. Hlabkechorr made ie«e»ilganubs in dlSerent scleo tlbc flrKMfii n few years ago. whose preliminary report touched on many , ;tons of mu> n interest but. as fat as tbe writer can ascertain, bis final report has not been made arresslbU to scholars generally It is popularly asserted that tbe depth of tbe Dead Sea bhs ter® grad ual.y increasing curing tbe last few de sde* 'bat Is cot to say tbat tbe waters bare been steadily eneroarb tag on tbe shores This apparently is proved by tbe existence of partly sub merged forerts on tbe east shore and by gradual disappearance of an island that appears m sketches and photo graph* of tbe corib end of tbe sea made thirty or forty years ago This question will doubt lews be autbdMta lively decided by tbe investigation* about to be made. RAZE FIRST THEATER IN U. S. Nrutpn Landmark Being Demcl •*ree—Built Aga.nst Opposition in 1759. I*hliad«-lptta The building occu pied by the fl—t theater In the United States is being demolished to make • ay (or a big business establishment. The early theater*was built in 1759 aid opened a year later with Hatlatn’a company of j layers from England. So great was the opposition to a theater ia Philadelphia that the bulld •ng warn located just outside the con fines at the city proper, in the old die rrlrt of Southwark, in a locality then .a 111-repute, known to the wits of the town as “Society Hill." but eTen there efforts were made to suppress IL 1 The theater burned in 1821. but was retouiH. sad la recent years had been need aa a distillery MADE AUTO EARN ITS KEEP South Dakotan Uses Machine In Bad Weather te Complete a Farm Power Plant. ■Dm fflii. S. U—C. B. Creamer, a farmer near here, has been able to make his automobile "earn Its keep" since the roads become too bad for au uwaobillng. Last fall be took the en cla« from his *b-bor*epower car and scarfed It upon a substantia; base in a frost proof building. Taking the governor from bis talking machine he attached It to the engine and has (Oespirted a power plant with which he grinds feed, shells corn and runs the Hburo and grindstone. Neither Credit Nor Discredit. Chicago—“Smoking or chewing to rero—or both—ia neither to a per son's credit or discredit." said Judge ljncd’.s ia his court la refusing to con aider total abstinence as ground for |sen-T to a convicted mat] riflcr Predict* Many Wars. Korkford. IQ.—Declaring that the Monroe doctrine is dead and that "We pose become a military republic." J. llsmin~t Lewis, speaking here of the nets i-of the Panama canal." pro AMERICAN DAVIS CUP CHALLENGERS RETURN Copyright. I nil<*rwood & f'nderwood. N V. Defeated Terwiia Players. TMs photograph shows (left to right* C. Heals Wright. W. H. learned and Mauri -e Mclx>ughlin who have I Just returied ;o America, after failing to "lift" the Davis cup Darned, sev en times holder of the American cham pionship. suffered severely from rbeu- 1 mutism in Australia and on the day of his defeat by Heath, the young Aus tralian, he was in physical distress and limped on the courts. MeLoughlin and Wright did some good work, but were defeated by the brilliant play ing of Brookes and Dunlop. ['uuwuwuuuuuuuuuWUUUUOOSOOOUOUUUOOOUUUUUUUUUUWVUVUVu The Major League Baseball Calendar r January—Club magnates sent out contracts. Players send them k> tack unsigned with threats to return to farming, paperhanging or bar £ benng. e February—Club owners get a look at the schedules and declare ® they are perfectly satisfied. They have to say so, for their protests o would be in vain. March—Clube train for the summer campaign. Glowing reports po come from the south touting the recruits as embryo Cobbs, Mathew ® sons and Lajoles. a April—Season opens. Usual crop of players with bad arms. Re ° cruita do not look so good. e May—Recruits start toward the minor leagues. Supposedly cellar ° champions are neck in neck for the leadership of league. b June—Class begins to assert itself. Weaker teams cn paper drop “ back to the aecond division. s July—Old timers hit like a house afire and recruit phenoms “ taka seats In the background. o August—Club owners announce they certainly will be one-two ° three the following season. o September—Fourteen clubs in the two big leagues try out recruits. ° Others don't have to. o October—Ticket scandal occupies columns in the papers. Inci “ dentally, this Is the month of the world’s series. b November—Ticket scandal echoes. “ December—Big league magnates meet, talk trade and don’t trade. o Bark a little at their rivala and then go home and say they don’t mean a it. Every one claims a first division team for the following season. SooaOOQOPQlflaaPQPOOaOQOQPQfiOOQQOQQOOOOOOOOOonnonnnAw TROUBLE AWAITS HANK O’DAY Chicago Cuba, Espocmilly Johnny Evera, Will Delight in Causing Former Umpire Distress. If Hank ODay bad his troubles when be was a National League um pire. Just wait until be leads his Cin cinnati Reds to battle. All the play ers on the other National League club3 will take a lavish delight in helping to get Hank fired off the field by the umpire. Johnny Evers of the Cubs is one man a ho always bad trouble with Hank, writes Malcolm McLean in the ISSSLI John Evers. Chicago Post. "Just wait until O'Day steps In the coaching box." say§ John ny “If he steps over the line haif an inch we re going to see that the um pire sends him to the bench. Hank himself always was a stickled for the (-caching box rules, and now he'll have to live up to them, you can bet on that. "Another thing—It won’t help O'Day a bit to reach down and pick up small stonea now when he's getting angry. When we used to have our arguments with him we always knew there was trouble coming when he reached down for those stones. We'll simply give him the laugh now if he tries that stunt." Manager Freddie Clarke of the Pi rates already has given (J'Day notice —face to face—that he'll walk behind Hank to the clubhouse the first time he's sent off the field, and laugh loud enough for all the fans to hear. Big Stake for Pittsburg. Secretary George Dietrich of the Grand circuit has announced that the Pittsburg Driving club, the new mem ber of the circuit, has been allotted the Matron stakes, one of the most im portant of harness colt races. All the great three-year-olds of 1912 are eligible, there being trotting and pac ing divisions, original nominations free, the stake coming to a value at maturity of between $7,000 and $8,000. The Pittsburg meeting will be held •he wreck of August 6-9. UMPIRE STAFF IS COMPLETE President Chivington of American As sociation Receives Contract of Last Official. President T. M. Cbivington of the American association the other day announced that be had received the signed contracts of Umpire Charlie Ferguson, who is at present on his ranch about 30 miles from Tampico. Mexico. This makes five arbiters named by the league head for 1912. It practically completes the list, how ever, as Bierhalter. Chill, and Handi boe are holdovers from last season on t-vo year contracts. Without presum ing to anticipate the president, it is safe to say the four chief umpires will be Ferguson. Chill, Bierhalter and Hayes. This would leave Handiboe. Ollie Anderson, R. F. Connolly and Charles E. Irwin for the role of assistant um pires under the plan to be tried this season. The last three named are new men. GOSSIP Yl JAMOAQ I I sports! Abe Attell defies the ravages of time, but Abe's is coming. Although Johnny Coulon put away Frankie Burns, the latter refuses to give consent to an obituary. Hugh Jennings, manager or the De troit Tigers, dentes that Ty Cobb ever caused him trouble on that club Ad Wolgast says Jeffries never will fight again. Jeff's recent assertion may have been simply for publication. Roger Bresnahan, manager of the Cardinals, has issued an order forbid ding his men to hit at the first ball pitched and the man who breaks the rule will be fined $10. On the exhibition trip of the world’s champions Eddie Plank, ''Chief” Bend er. Cy Morgan. Harry Krause and Jack Coombs will play with the Yan nigans. The Highlanders have signed Wil liam Stump, an inflelder from the York Tri-State team, but since the re cruit is over six feet high, the n;me of his hardly seems to fit. Vean Gregg says that if he doesn't get the $5,000 contract soon' ue will raise the ante to $6,000. He ought to have started on the top figure and then come down a notch. Frank Baker of the Athletics, says that Chief Bender is a better pitcher than Christy Mathewson for the rea son that he is better at outguessing the hitter. But Mathewson did not earn his reputation pitching against Baker. Harry Wolters, outfielder of the Xew York American League team, suspend ed a player jt Santa Clara College in California, where he was coach. A disagreement with a member of the faculty followed and Wolters resigned the position. Rube Waddell is there with his an nual pledge to look at but taste not the brew which Is red and not. Man ager CantllIon of the Minneapolis team says that he win give Robe $10 a week spending money during the summer and hold the remainder until the end of the season. PRODUCER OF PLAYERS St. Louis Has at Least One in Every League in Country. Mound City Sends 163 Boys to Differ ent Clubs This Season—Fred Clarke of Pittsburg Gets Big gest Part of Talent. That SL Louis Is the greatest base ball player-producing city on the map is proven by the fact that more than 150 boys from the Mound City will earn their living as members of differ ent league clubs. At least one player is represented in nearly every league in the country. Every one of these men has at one time played In the Trolley league or on some of the St : Louis lots. Of this big number of ball tossers. 16 are big leaguers, one of them being a member of the Cardinals. Gene Dale, a pitcher of whom Roger Bres nahan said nice things last fall. Fred Clarke of the Pirates seems to get the biggest part of the SL Louis major league talent every year. Tbls sea son he will start on his training trip j with five Mount Cityans. Bobby Byrne, who has been third sacking ; for the past two seasons, and Lefty Leificld. the mainstay of the twirling staff last season, are the two “vets" of the team. Ray Jansen, who played with the Keokuk (Central association) ; team last season and who will fum'-sh | competition for Bobby Byrne at the far corner; Walter Regb, a shortstop who was drafted by the Red Sox but Bobby Eyrne. was obtained on a claim by the Pirates, and who will try to beat the mighty Honus Wagner out of his job; and Bill Kelly, who Is a battery mate of thp famous $22,504 Marty O'Toole, are the three recruits. The Cubs have two. Ed Reulbach. one of the mainstays In the pitcher’s box. and Artie Hofman, who Is rated as one of the best outfielders in the National league. Arthur Fletcher, who warmed the bench for McGraw a couple of sea sons. finally got Al Bridwell’s job at short, and who was a star of the last world's series, is the only member of the teams representing Gay Gotham. Vin Campbell, star outfielder, who has been with the Pirates for the past 1 two seasons, will line up with the Boston Nationals, having been traded for Mike Donlin. The Phillies will take two young sters who played in the Trolley league last season on the spring train ing trip. ’Red’’ Smith, who caught for the Ben Millers, last year’s city champions, and ‘Red’’ Roach, anothei marksman, who played with the Hyde Parks There is hardly a chance for these sorrel-topped lads to make good on such a big Jump, but according tc minor league managers who tried to get them, they are both players of great promise. While the National league takes 1' players, the American only takes 4 3 ns members of the White Sox—Rube Peters, who was one of the star pitch ers in the American association with the Minneapolis team; Chink Mat tick, an outfielder, who hails from the western league, and who had a trial last spring under Hughey Duffy, and .Toe Berger, a shortstop, who also comes from the Western league. They will make the training trip under the eye of Jimmy Callahan. Berger had a trial last spring under Clark Grif fith. then manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Bob Groom, who has been a member of the Washington team for several seasons as a pitcher. Is the fourth member of the American league. In addition to this grand total of ICO baseball players, St. Louis will also send out two umpires. Garrett Bush, who graduated to the National league from the Texas league last fall, and • Red” Held, who will work In the Conecticut league. To Introduce Polo. Polo Is to be added to the list of In tercollegiate sports If the program of several enthusiasts at Yale. Princeton and Harvard Is carried out. Efforts will be made to enroll a fourth college, possibly Columbia or Pennsylvania. There are about a dozen men at Yale who have played the game extensively and these men will form the nucleus of the squad. Louis E. Stoddard. Yale *99, one of the American interna tional players, has consented to coach the local team and will lend some of his ponies, which are quartered at a farm near the city. Pickering Offered a Job. Capt. Earl Pickering. Minnesota uni versity football player last season, who was protested by Wisconsin before their annual game, has been offered the post of coach at the University of Vermont for next season, according to announcements from Minnesota. It al so was said Pickering was offered the same post at the University of Ne braska. Dillon to Rajoln mini. Chester Dillon, the sensational halt back of the University of Illinois, has about decided to return to Illinois next fall and play another t9ason for Coach Hall. He has been with the team for two seasons and planned to give up the gridiron forever. His reconsidera tion will be welcome intelligence to the football followers of the univer sity. COLDS AND CHILL8 BRING KIDNEY ILLS Colds, chills and grip strain the kid neys and start backache, urinary dis orders and uric acid troubles. Doan's Kidney Pills are very useful in the raw spring months. They stop backache and urinary disor ders, keep the kid neys well and pre vent colds from set tling on the kidneys. Mrs. E. A. Bennett, Johnson Are, Los Gatos, Cal, says: “If I took cold or over worked, I had such severe pains through my back, I could hardly move. My limbs ached until I scarcely knew what I was about, and headaches and dizziness dis tressed me. I began using Doan's Kidney P1II3 and was entirely re lieved. It is over two years since I have had any kidney trouble to speak of." "When Your Back Is Lame, Remember the Name—DOAN’S.” 60c, all stores. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y. His Only Complaint. Senator Beveridge, at a luncheon In New York, was talking about the child labor problem. "ChilA-en are so plucky and so cheerful," he said, "we don't realize how horribly overworked they are till it’s too late—till their bodies and minds are stunted irretrievably. "I was once talking to a tiny errantT boy at the height of the Christmas shopping season. He was working. I knew. 17 hours a day. As he walked sturdily along with a mountain of par cels piled on his thin, narrow shoul ders, I said to him: ” ’Do you like your job?" ’"Yes, sir,’ he said; ‘I like it fine. Only—' “Here he grinned up at me gayly from beneath his load. “ ’Only i’m afraid I’m doing an au tomobile truck out of a job.” As It Sounded to Him. - Young Fred wai on his way to his grandmother's home. The train reach ed a small station. "Bunker Hill!" shouted the brake man, putting his head in at the door. "Bunker Hill!". “Mamma, mamma!” demanded Fred. “What has she done that they treat her that way?" "What way, my child?" inquired his mother. "Why,” explained Fred, "didn’t the conductor say 'Bump her heels?’ " Tnose Paroled Ones. No. 67,840 (Just paroled)—W’y, Tur tle, ’ow are you? Wet’s doin' In d’ biz?" His Old Pal — Hullo. Chicken! Shake. Wot’s new in d’ biz? Nottln’ much. Dere’s a feller invented a vault door dat’s five year ahead of d’ times! No. 67.840—Gee. dat’a bad! 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