BIB BBT ATTACKS Bll ERIEFAMILT Ten-Pound Rodent Turns on Five Persons and Leaps Upon Child's Back. GIRL BADLY BITTEN Food to U^t Quantities Hod Been —teeed from the Pantry, and Ev ery N.ght the House Waa Filled Wit* Peculiar New York —A tea pound tweoty aevia-tack rat fought live member* of a family all over the ground floor of thsdr home ta Bast New York the oth er day If eaa killed oaly after a d« operate struggle ta which one worn am waa hadly Mica aad soother driv ea lata hysteria The rat pot ta Bight Teres e Mr mt M Mootauk aremue. his iad three children M-» Me ta ill as the iwauit of bar fright tar. Mae. Is suffering have haMaead for paat that tbetr borne waa by a plague of rats Food guaatfties waa mlmnd from tbe ymalry. aad every aigbt the bouse The other bight McKeaaa bis wife aad the three rhiidrea-Joseph. IJI has aad Mae—derided to begin war wa the peat* They pat a trap la tbe Ah. he* aad weal into tbe dicing room «o at 11 itvakl They heard two or three loud •hemps aad rushed Mt The trap ■waa empty, hat two potatoes and a eahhugc lay la the middle of tbe finer The MrKeaaa* eeu'■*» a* It •uyi«4 tu Jaw* lenrib McKrtM prk*4 op a re eataer tree* the aMeboard aaJ fired It a jaiode Hallman was pausing and beard the abet* He ran into the hue11 grabbed up a thevad and joined ta the fajeb* The rat had Jaat made a aprlng at Mae HctCeaaa Kb* Jumped atop the 'dhhf table The rat leaped after her aad hat her twice, oa the back aad Ini# MrKeasa Marled to attack the *£ja«l with hia bare hands when Matin.aa awwac the abovet He hit the rate -ewaiety urn 'he bead and killed it A fbyddaii waa called to wtiawd the la fared women Cota Elephant'# Corn* New Turk —Oapbaata' com* which Stand Keeper B.Uy harder aay< are harper thaa paHcewm'a or ordiaarr p. aptr'g were ret the other day at the • mtral Park me Billy cats h&epfcaat*' coma about the Arm. Ft Slay erery fear, aad It fa •ie*Je a feat af chiropody For Jewel and Hatty, the two lady elephant* •centre > urn* Jeet reading araend ta their he en all mater, and corns make hath af them tnr;? I tatty fitted Italy with her trtiak all the -mm that he waa working on Jhcr lent, hnt when be came to Jewel •hr waa peers*! The big elephant dropped her trunk circled Billy'* watet aad lifted him tip where she maid get a goad look at him When «b» aaw that tl waa Just Billy Snyder. Jewel art kirn down I P *« CmiiW Fined < amandyr Va.** —Junta* Kpeneer **»*■*. jr, KTMCMC of J. Pierpoet More** defied the of law and *wd*r by Mtatty ta atop bis auto •be a i«t' the club was on Its southern tr?x.cg trip He previously played with the Boston Nationals, and his home is in Arlington. Mass. "Wave Spitter” Is Latest. Kimt-r Strlcklett, inventor of the ■'si ‘ball " lias a “wave spitter” to fool the big league hatters. The “wave setter” is a ball which breaks in at least two different directions on its wav to the batter. It has more speed than the ordinary "spitter.” Strlcklett “lost” his arm several r ars ago w hen he waa in the niajors, and was sent to the minors. When he perfected the spitball he went back to Brooklyn and was a leading National it-ar ie pitcher several seasons. The “wave spitter” is said by experts 1 :• be m >r<- effective against scientific batters than husluers, and Is expected to mal e Stricklett famous again. Cotton States Venture a Failure. Toe attempt of the Class l) Cotton H'«te* league to operate a team In New Orleans has proven a failure and Cent Detnontreville, who was given the franchise, announces that In less than a month's time he has dropped $2,509 in bis venture and will seek a transfer. Laurel, which was first awarded the Yazoo City tranchlse that ? was later decided to try out at New i Or loses, pr bably will he asked to take over the team. OTooir's Brother ‘•Yanked." Marty O Toole baa a little brother i named Mike He plays with the same team the $25,009 beauty played with wh> n a member of the American as sociation, He twirled tn the game j against Toledo, and SL Paul had to I yank him out ot the box. With a new ; twirler at the helm, Toledo was J trimmed Bates aa a “Waiter.” Johnny Bates is getting surprlslng i tf few “times at bat" in the records. Never has he shown such skill as a waiter, and he Is collecting a barrel of fcaae* on balls. Numerous sacrifices are klao to bis credit, and his “A. B.’s” have been averaging lees than three to the game. AROUND ■iYvRASES It is said that Hank O'Day can smile these days without hurting his face. Milwaukee has sent Pitcher Weidell to Wausau of the Wlsconsin-Illinois league. “There is no great loss without some small gain," says Harry Davis of the Naps. Wheeling has signed the veteran Gu8 Dundon, who was with Lincoln last season. Fort Worth has released Pitcher Charley Deardorft. He was unable to get into playing form. Arlie Latham has caught on tem porarily. He is an umpire in the United States league. Gus Wiser of St. Joseph has been selected as playing manager of the Beatrice (Neb.) team. Fort Wayne has purchased Pitchers Loudell and Fenfer and Catcher Dob bins from Providence. * The first shift in the Nap lineup is the substitution of Jack Gr&ney in left field for Hank Butcher. Manager Kling says that on the shoeing up to date Boston will finish ahead of Brooklyn and St. Louis. The Brooklyns have sent Outfield er Bobby Coulson to their tributary— Newark of the International league. “Germany" Schaefer makes a lot of fun for the fans, but he never over looks a point. He is a real inside j player. Oscar Vltt declares he has fallen in love with Detroit and that he is quite willing to make the city his home for life. That Mclnnes mite of a first base , man was about as good as they make them last year, and seems to have lm j proved this season. Phelan seems to have won Eddie Grant’s corner in the Cincinnati In field. He is batting over .300 and fielding in fine style. Connie Mack keeps Derrick on the team in hopes that he can lift the Athletics out of any possible hole into which the team may fall. Catcher James Shields, formerly in the Cotton States and South Atlantic leagues, has signed with Sharon in the Ohio-Pennkylvania league. Roger Bresnahan Is one of the wealthiest men playing ball at the present time. It is alleged that the leader of the Cardinals can draw his 1 check for 5100.000. Terry Turner, the Cleveland infield | er. expects a good season. Terry’s j arm, which has bothered him for I years, troubles him less this spring than in former years. Frank Bowerman has been signed as manager of the London (Ont.) club of the Canadian league. His first baseman is Loey Bierbauer, son of Louis Bierbauer, the old Pittsburg second baseman. Janvrin, the third baseman of the Jersey City team, has been doing such good work in practice that it is pos sible he will be recalled by the Boston Americans. He moves about like an other Eddie Collins. Jimmy McAleer says the Boston Red Sox are the best team in the world. Many figure the Red Sox will remain up in the race If McAleer will keep his hands off and allow Manager Jake Stahl to run the team. Willie Keeler, who is the Brooklyns* coach and scout. Is receiving $600 a month fbr his valuable services. Keel er and Dahlen, old pals, keep their heads close together. They are trying to make the Brooklyns play some in side ball. Lou Ritter, former Brooklyn catch er. recently released by Indianapolis, on the appearance of Nig Clarke, has gone to Utica in the New York State league. He was given a present of $500 by the Indianapolis club to re i ward him for hisjgood work last year. IDEAL TRAINING CAMP — | Managers of Big League Teams Differ on Question. Some Like Quiet Places Where There Is Little to Divert Attention of Players From Their Work— Others Favcr Big Cities. What constitutes an ideal training •amp for big league baseball teams? Big league managers and players dif ’er in their opinions. Some like the quiet place*, where there is nothing :o take the thoughts of the players off .heir work. Others like the big towns, where there are divertisements to break the monotony of training. Some also prefer the big towns because more money is taken in at the gate. Some managers like to change every rear, so their players will get a change of scene. Many prefer a spot where the athletes may imbibe freely ol mineral waters. In the latter class are the managers jf at least five—Fred Clarke of Pitts burg. Bill Dahien of Brooklyn, "Red" Dooin of Philadelphia and Jimmy Me Aleer of Boston. Of the five, all but New York have picked Hot Springs while the Giants have trained at Mar tin. Texas, for several seasons. The fact that the Giants and Pirates have been contenders for the pennant all the time they have trained at health resorts speaks well for their system. The Boston and Chicago Americans are the two clubs that have made cir cus trips of their training tours. Co miskey several times took his squad to the coast and once to Mexico, while the Red Sox twice went to California Neither team obtained good results. in the opinion or Nap Lajoie. a training camp combining tbe good qualities of Alexandria. La., and Ma con. Ga.. would be the Ideal place. Alexandria has the climate, the water and the hotel, but It lacks population and a good baseball diamond. The latter fault could be rectified, however, by tbe sending of a groundkeeper ahead of the team to get things in 3hape. But the town is small and lacks amusements. Consequently the j players got mighty tired of It In a I week or so. and their work seemed : unusually onerous, especially as Man ager McGuire was a stickler for that I old old-style plan of having the play ers walk some eight miles a day in ad i iition to their double workout. Again. I It was a case of "all going out and | nothing coming in." as the gate re ceipts at Alexandria were practically I nothing. Now, Macon has an even better cli mate—that is. from a training stand i point—in that it does not get so ex tremely warm. Macon also is a much larger city, but unfortunately it lacks as good a hotel as is wanted by the big league clubs, who insist on the j best. MURPHY SIZES UP TY COBB Field Captain of Athletics Says There Never Was Player Like Him— Can Do Anything. Danny Murphy has a boost for T. Raymond Cobb. Dan is apt to cen j sure the glittering Georgian for loaf ing a mite when he looks like lying j down on a fellow-player, but when it I comes to the personal stuff it’s aces j and eights for Tyrus as far as Danny I is concerned. Hear the manner in which the Athletics' new field Xa 1 poleon sizes up that Cobb person age: “I don’t believe there was ever one : like him before, and I don’t think : we’ll ever see one like him again. “He can do anything. He hits, he I throws, he fields, and he can run. A I " Ty Cobb. I ' 1 i .ot of the players In our league used | to tell about his baneheaded running :he bases. Well, let me tell you some hing. He’s so fast he can take I :hanees ail the time. The'e isn’t a | :lub in the league that don’t hate to see Cobb on first with one run needed ay Detroit. He keeps the pitcher wor I ried, he has the team bothered, he , aas the catcher worried, and it’s al ; most a cinch that he’ll get around. | He’s the greatest I ever saw.” Marquard Shy on Slow Ball. When Rube Marquard can pitch a ; slow ball Coach. Robinson of the : Giants says he will be invincible. Mar : guard has learned to control terrific | ! speed and a fast-hreaking curve. Rut j he doesn't know much about change : of pace. Robinson is drilling him I ; every day in the art of pitching boat- ; ; ers. and says the big southpaw is : ' making progress. All of the great j i pitchers in days gone by mixed slow j | ones with fast ones, thereby increas- j : ing their effectiveness remarkably. ■..- ' "■ --- “Brick" Owen Is Lauded. “It is seldom that an umpire can give emphatic satisfaction to both the winning and losing teams, but that is what “Brick” Owen is doing in the National league. “He umpired in five of our games,” said Manager Fred Clarke of Pittsburg. “We lost four of them, but there wasn't a kick coming oh him. It is hard to find fault when he is working. J (Copyright. 191k by Associated Literary Press.) When Fred Winters departed for Cuba with his regiment the know-it alls in society said there was an en gagement between him and Ruth Burt, and that when the war was over and the lieutenant came marching back. again there was to be a wedding. By and by there came strange ru mors from the front. In no case could they be traced to a fountain head, but those who held them in greatest con tempt had a half-belief Just the same. 1 Some one was giving out and re pea t i Ing that Fred Winters had shown cow ardice in the face of the enemy. The newspapers didn’t have tt, but letters came back affirming and denying 1L “It’s a lie. and 1 know it!" exclaimed Miss Ruth's only brother, who had reached his sixteenth birthday. “It's the work of some of his Jealous rivals." "I do not know a gentleman that | would stoop to anything of the sort." replied the sister. “Well, some one has been stooping. Have you written to Fred what is be ing said about him?” “Of course not. Indeed. 1 am not writing to him at all." “Just like a girl to condemn a feller unheard! Hang it. 111 write him my self." “You'll do nothing of the kind. I can manage my own affairs." “Go on. then, hut I'd give my pony to find out the liar." “We shall know all about It when the soldiers return.” “Yes, and 1*11 challenge and fight the man that first set the rumor afloat!” And the youth puffed out his chest and walked to and fro in the long parlors and tried to look determined and ferocious. When Miss Ruth's letters ceased to put in an appearance, Mr. Winters was on his dignity at once. There was some good reason, but was it for him to beg it? He had written last, and now he must wait. At the front there were no rumors of cowardice. It was the other way. Lieutenant Winters had received high praise from his superior officers. No One Knew Their Mission. He was in at the beginning and at the finish, and he returned home no wiser about Miss Ruth's silence “If he calls, then what?" asked the brother. “He won’t call.” “All right for you. Ruth, you are as stubborn as a mule.” “A coward has no place in my esti mation.” “How about the half dozen fellers hanging around you? Do you know whether they are cowards or brave men?” “It isn't necessary for me to know. I am going down the country and shall forget all about it.” Young Mr. Burt took a resolve, and next day he hunted out the returned warrior and put the case to him straight from the shoulder. “And is that it?” was mused in re ply. “This is the first time I have heard of the rumors, and it's pretty late in the day to put up a denial. Thanks for your interest." Young Burt went home to sit down and purse his lips and say to himself: “Let’s see? Let's see? The gov ernor and the duchess are keeping bands off, and the thing has been flung on my shoulders to settle. Very well; I will settle. Fred Winters must prove he is not a coward, and Ruth must apologize for doing him an in justice. I bring about a marriage. make two souls happy and gain a tip-top feller for a brother-in-law. Cm! I am equal to tbe occasion.’* Eagle’s Nest is a manor house. So is the Birches. They are three miles apart. Two days after Miss Ruth reached the Nest, Mr. Winters reached the Birches. It just happened so. As the ex-warrior had his auto with him. and the girl had had her electric sent down, it could be only a question of time when the two must meet. Young Burt imagined that meeting and smiled. Not a word—not a nod —not a look! For three days be dis appeared from the paternal mansion and a detective might have traced him to a country inn between the two manor houses. He was there on busi ness. He saw his sister and a friend out in the electric, but he took good care not to be seen himself. In his company, much to the wonderment of the landlord and others, were three beetle-browed men who seemed to ache to cut throats. No one knew their mission, but on a sunny morning, out behind tbe barn, young Burt was say ing to them: “You go right down the road about a mile to the thick growth of bushes and go into ambush. When two young ladies in an electric runabout come along look up and down the road and see if you can see an auto. If you can then go ahead and hold up the girls. These revolvers are loaded with blank cartridges. Do a good deal of shoot ing. If the chap in the auto stops to mix in give him fists.” “Are we to hurt him?” was asked. “If yon can. Don’t fear that he wont try to hurt you. If he doesn’t show up then let the ladies pass and come back here.” “If it’s highway robbery or assault we may get arrested.” muttered the leader of the trio. “Then I’ll get you clear. It's all la the way of a joke, you know. The idea is that the man in the auto rescues the ladies, and the harder you fight the more credit be gets. AJ1 as easy ar pie, you see!” For four days Mr. Winter had been out in his auto, and for tbe same four days Miss Ruth Burt had gone spin ning over the highways in her electric. No meeting. One was due. however. On this morning Miss Ruth started for the village, and Mr. Winter to ex plore a pond where there was said to ue gooa nsmng. mere came a time when he sighted her, but too far ahead to tell who It waa. He was about to turn off when he heard the reports of pistols, and saw three men bound out of the bushes and stop the vehicle. Five minutes covered the distance. The autoist didn't stop to look at the woman who was screaming at the top of her voice. The three men were his game. They shouted to him to "hands up," but he didn't put them higher than the professional boxer usually does. They turned their guns on him, but he got on to the blank cartridge bluff, and then followed a sad ten minutes for the conspirators. They were knocked gally-west and gally east. and they finally threw away their useless weapons and fled into tne woods. It w-as then that the puffing, bleed ing Mr. Winters had time to look about him. He knew that the electric and the young lady were there, and that after his arrival the cries for help had ceased. “What—you,” he exclaimed, as he looked Into the face of the girl who wasn’t sure that he was not a cow ard. "And you here!” she answered. “You have come to no harm?” "No. thanks to you.” Then there came an embarrassing silence. One of the men bad left bis cap behind, and Mr. Winters stood turning it over with bis foot. "You did not call on your return from Cuba," said the girl at last. “I feared you might not be at home to me.” “Did you fight this way In Cuba?" “I shall have to refer you to the official reports." “I am stopping at Eagle's Nest” “Yes?” v “And you might call." “Thanks, I will.” And when he did call it didn’t take twenty minutes to make satisfactory explanations, and a week later young Burt was saying to his mother: “They’ve made It up.” “So Ruth writes me.” “Mighty lucky she had a brothei about my size.” “But what had you to do with it?" “Oh. nothing much, exoept that Fred has got to return me the sixty dollars I paid the robbers. You can’t hire fellers to be knocked into the mid dle of next week for a nickel apiece.’ No Mourning. “1 hear Jagsby’s son has taken to gambling." “So he has.” “I suppose he has broken his poor Did father’s heart.” “Not much he broke his poor old father’s hear, he did! He broke the bank.” “I have seen three doctors. The first said it was arthritis and the second ataxy." “And the third?" “Of course he contradicted the other two flatly.”—Rire. “new cure for nervousness ■ ?l Front Platform Trips on Trolley Dur ing Rush Hours Prescribed by One Doctor. When asked if he would allow a pas senger to stand qu the platform beside him the motorman replied that it was against the rules. “I know that,” said the applicant for the post of honor, "but maybe this will put me through.” He presented a letter signed by the manager of the company. “All right,” said the motorman, 'Til he ready to start seon.” "T am making front platform trips during rush hours on my doctor’s ad vice,” the man said. "A year ago I was a mental and physical wreck. A nerve specialist took me in hand. He says now I am cured. To make sure 1 can stand the severest kind of a mental strain he has ordered me to stand beside the motorman and see bow I would meet emergencies. “He has put me on my honor in re porting to him. If a child turns a som ersault in front of a car or a man falls down in a fit, my orders are to decide immediately what I would do if in charge of the car. If I can think as quickly and as straight as the motor man does, my recovery will be pro nounced complete. If not, the treat- I ment will have to be continued a while longer. “Before I got sick I would have thought an ordeal of that kind suffi- 1 cient to cause nervous prostration, but persons who pass through that doc tor’s hands seem able to stand it, and nearly all of his patients are subjected to the test” Novelty in Surgery. The bone of a sbeep was transferred to the arm of a patient recently. The forearm undergoing the novel opera tion had been shattered by the dis charge of a gun. The operation Was pronounced successful. SAILOR IS PURSUED BY A CHINESE GOD Seaman Is Threatened With Death for Preventing a Sac rifice in Yangtse River. New York.—Believing that he has oeen trailed by members of a Chinese secret society all the way from the tarbor of Che-Foo, China, to this city, with ultimate death at their hands aa in inevitable result, Alfred K. Scanze. i mechanical engineer, applied to Fourth Deputy Police Commissioner Dillon for a permit to carry a 're volver. His request was granted, aft er he had shown Dillon letters of a threatening character from a Chinese band. According to Scanze. in 1908 he was a midshipman on the gunboat Min iora, lying in the harbor of Che-Foo, md while on leave of absence took Saw Her Leap Into River. a small river steamer up the Yangtse river. On the way back Scanze saw a young Chinese woman leap into the river. He plunged after her and res ?ued the woman. When he told the story later on the Mindora his shipmates told him he might get into trouble, as the Chinese regarded the girl offered as a sacrifice to the river god. who had flooded the riTer. and in rescuing the girl he had deprived the god of his sacrifice. One of the letters received by Scanze was delivered to him on Sat urday morning while he was at work an a new building at Broadway and Thirty-fourth street. The note was handed to him by one of the workmen employed on the building, who said a Chinaman had asked him to give it to Scanze. The letter referred to the rescue of the young Chinese woman by Scanze. and warned the latter “to be prepared” for a visit from the "riv er god’s messenger." BEASTS INVADE VILLAGES Inhabitants'of Hungarian Mountain* Were Almost Prisoners In Their Houses Last Winter. Vienna.—The inhabitants of several villages near the Rozaly mountains, in Hungary, are almost kept prisoners in their houses by numerous packs of wolves which the intense cold has driven out of the high lying forests. A number of cattle and other domes tic animals have fallen a prey to their depredations. One village near Gross Banya was treated to the remarkable spectacle of a fight in a garden between a bear The Bear Defended Himself. that had come to the village to look for something to eat and a number o* wolves there for the same purpose. The bear defended himself stoutlj with blows of his paws and killed tw» of his assailants. A farmer at Vesszod saw a wol' put his head through the half-openei door Of the room in which he was sleeping. With presence of mind he slammed the door, caught the animal’s neck between door and door post and killed it with a blow on the head from a heavy chair. Gets Corns on Ears, Mount Clemens, Mich.—There is a merry war on in The local telephone exchange. On one side are thirtj sweet-voiced operators with a medium sized district manager as their oppo nent. The operators are compelled to wear a headband contrivance while on duty, and the claim of the girls is that the contrivance causes corns to form upon their ears. They declare that If the manager does not provide another sort of appliance for holding the recelveri they will leave the office.