ZIMMERMAN IS A REAL HERO IN THE BRONX
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H«iru« Zirrcrman, Siugg rg Chicago Cub.
The proudest men in the Hnni to
day are those who ran look up from
the hoar hoi* extras and regale their
young hopefuls aith tales of the time
when Helaie Zimmerman maa carry
tag plumbers’ tools and earning f: a
day Ktery citizen of that sequestered
section of Sow York who can faintly
remember the occasion when Ileisie
repaired a leak la bis bathtub today
ret res '* the sensational hitter of the
C uba as one of his boyhood friends
la New York a ball player may get
lost in the shuffle, bat no so in the
Meows When the Cubs are in New
York Young America waits its droves
for the arrival of Zimmerman at his
borne alter the game, and not to
' know where Heinie lives is not mere
ly locked upon as ignorance—it is a
i crime.
During the recent series with the
: Giants, in which Zimmerman banked
tee bail into the stands for three home
i runs, excitement in the Bronx ran riot,
i Heinie was counting on a few quiet
days at home, but such pleasure was
denied him. Friends came so thick
and fast he couldn't get a minute to
hln self, and finally, in desperation,
sio-iked downtown in New York and
Joined the team to escape the demon
! strations.
Zimmerman is 6 feet tall in his
stoeki! g feet, weighs lfO pounds, and
1 never had a day's illness in his life.
OLD TIMER IS PASSED ALONG
i**-" T.tus. for Year* a Favorite of
t*»« Philafclpfl* Fans, is Re
leased to Boston.
For year# the name of Titus has
been ey noeymoos wtib tbe Phil lie*.
Tbe last man la tbe major league* to |
*Uie bis mustache and a good ball
blayer for years, years nad years now
wears a Boston National league uni
form It seem* like a blow In tbe
John Titus.
bfi- to team tbst Titus has been
• napped or soil Philadelphia will .
sot Met the same to the veteran fans
who hate to sew their old time favor
Sa-rrr f White Won't Play.
Bust White, the Princeton bright
■tar who ha* been on the point of
Joining several Team*, with Baltimore
making the most definite claim to his
■orvioox nos announces that be is go
ing to Join none of them but that be
wlH go into business Baltimore claims
lo hose his contract tucked away In
the office safe to spring cn him any
Km* ho changes his mind again.
London Cli/h Pined.
President Fitzgerald recently fined
the !JWdo« club of the Canadian $200
(or (sowing more passes than the
league regulation* allowed. London
threatened to strike" but the league
directors uaheid the president s action
and 1 jimVffi backed up. The $200 was
divided hot ween four clubs that were
victims of the London pass liberality.
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The Jersey City team has bought
Pitcher Barry from the Athletics.
John B. Boyle of Chicago university
is the latest recruit to join the Phil
lies
Jimmy Mr A leer, the president of
•he Boston Americans, is a happy man
these days
Ldgar Willett, of the Jennings crew,
is t * leading pitcher for his team so
far this year
Buffalo has secured Charles High
tower. a pitcher from the Cornell Uni
versity team.
Harry McIntyre, tried out by Mil
waukee in one game, has been taken
on by Indianapolis.
Connie Mack has picked up Johnny
Bing, a college pitcher of the Sacred
Heart team of Denver.
Clark Griffith says If he had one
reliable southpaw he could win the
American league pennant.
< onn!e Mack will get another star
re- rult this fall from his Baltimore
farm In Outfielder Murphy.
Frank Chance complains of his
'besned" head, which Is at least ever
so much better than a bonehead.
Elberfeld Is about ready to quit
baseball and return to his home in
Chattanooga The old boy is all in.
l-ouisville has purchased Second
Baseman Harris of the McKeesport
team In the Ohio-Pennsylvania league.
M:ke Doolan has one defensive
weakness Somehow he can't field
bunts that are tapped toward first
base.
The Siegel company of Boston has
made Denton T. Young an offer to
take charge of its baseball depart
ment
The Reds have sent Pitcher Floyd
Cornwell back to Huntington. W. Va.,
whence he came. They said Floyd
had a nice disposition, but that let
him out
The Cleveland Naps have four of
the first six men in the honor list of
American league batters, and still the
Naps are not able to get up among the
contenders.
Pitcher Weiser Dell, the big pitcher
sent by the St. Louis Cardinals to
Butte for development, seems to be
coming on fast He recently held
Ogden to one hit. Unsteadiness
marred his game, however.
BIG LEAGUERS IN TROUBLE
Charge* Made That New"“York and
Brooklyn Players Compete With
Semipro8 Around Gotham.
Officials of both the National and
American Leagues have begun an in
vestigation of charges that members
of the New York aud Brooklyn teams
have been playing Sunday baseball
here in semi-professional teams under
assumed names. It is alleged that
from $100 to $250 Is regularly paid to
the big team stars for this service by
semi-professional teams here and in
suburban towns.
On several occasions, it is said, star
pitchers ou the pay rolls of the local
major league clubs have worked on
Sundays for aswnuch as $250, only to
; fail utterly when called upon to enter
the box tbe next day by their regular
employers. One crack boxman. It Is
alleged, pitched a sixteen inning game
; on a recent Sunday in a Hudson river
town in spite of the fact that it was
his regular turn to pitch on Monday.
On another occasion, according to
the investigators, a star batttery hired
! for $250 by a semi-professional club
found that the opposing team had a
j pitcher and catcher equally well
known In organized baseball. The
recognition on the field was mutual,
but in order to fool the spectators,
the major leaguers, whose names
were assumed, did not speak.
The first move, it is said, will be a
sweeping order prohibiting players
under contract to organized clubs
from accepting otters from semi-pro
fessional managers.
SUNDAY BALL IN WASHINGTON
Manager Clark Griffith *cf Senators
Thinks It Would Be Great Bless
ing for Capital Fans.
Sunday baseball in Washington Is
a probability of the near future. A
conference held by President Ban B.
Johnson and Manager Griffith at the
former's office recently resulted in the
head of the league giving his approval
of such a change in the schedule and
incidentally immediately taking the
matter up with the other officials of
the Washington club.
Griffith contends that a majority of
the people in Washington want Sun
day games. He says that It has been
argued to him by those most inter
ested in the project that Sunday base
ball would be a blessing in disguise
for those inhabitants of the nation's
capital who cannot afford to attend
games during the week and who have
no place to spend their Sundays.
President Johnson is an advocate oi
Sunday ball. He pointed out that it
required years to have the barriers
raised against the sport on the Sab
bath in both Detroit and Cleveland,
but that since It has been tried there
the clergy of these two cities sanc
i tion the playing of the games on that
day, and that there is not the slight
est objection from any source.
He immediately w-rote a letthr tc
President Noyes regarding the subject,
and if the club can see its way clear
! to play games at home on Sunday the
schedule will be so arranged at once
as to make this possible during the
Nationals’ long stay at home.
‘•CY” YOUNG SAYS FAREWELL
Famous Pitcher Makes His Final Ap
pearance on the Diamond at
Place Where He Started.
It was a fine sense of the approprl
' ateness of things that led Denton T.
| Young to make his final farewell an
1 nouncement on the diamond where he
began his career. It was at New
Athens. O., at the commencement day
game of Franklin College where the
veteran first learned the fine points of
the game. Y'oung consents to pitch
part of the game for the college team.
He twirled three innings, then the vet
eran walked out before the grandstand
and declared he was through. “The
old arm is gone; I give way to a youn
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Cy Young.
ger man. This Is my last game. It
was here that I began my baseball
career and it is befitting that I should
end it here," he said.
George Browne Again Released.
President Fogel of the Philadelphia
National league team announced that
he had unconditionally released George
Browne, substitute outfielder. Browne,
formerly one of the stars of the New
York Nationals, started in this sea
son as manager of the Washington
United States league team.
Second Place Struggle.
All Interest in the National league
seems to have turned to the race for
second place, in which the Pirates.
Cubs and Reds figure prominently.
All seem agreed that the Giants will
win the pennant unless the team is
kidnaped or totally destroyed.
Athletics Need Pitchers.
Manager Connie Mack has purchased
the release of Pitcher Riley of the
Steubenville, O., team for fl.OOO. Con
nie is not going to stop trying because
he has yet to land a 1S12 phenom.
KALI anditerDarklkiple
UCH as the Eng
1 I s h authorities
would like to abol
ish the appalling In
dian worship of
Kali, the Goddess of
Revolution, the pop
ularity of her little
shrine within easy reach of govern
ment house seems to increase year
by year. Million of followers jour
ney every year from all parts of
Bengal to bow before the god. And .
the strangest part of the whole
thing is that this worship is not
confined to the more ignorant of
the Hindoos, but is participated in
to an equal degree by those who
have had the advantage of Euro
pean residence and education. Al
though formerly there was a daily
sacrifice of human life before Kali,
since the British occupation she has
had to be satisfied with goats and
sheep. But even today the sight
of the daily slaying of 150 of these
dumb creatures before the shrine
of the insatiable goddess is one that
| few foreigners can stand.
Kali is known to the revolution
ists of India as the Mother; she has
four arms; her hands are covered
with blood; in one she holds aloft
a dripping sword and in the other
a freshly severed head; from her
neck hangs a string of beads; her
feet are on the body of her hus
band, the god Siva. The temple of
Kali is two miles from government
bouse. You pass at one bound from
Europe to Asia, for the road sud
denly assumes a tropical aspect.
Cocoanut palms spring aloft out of
water tanks and instead of splendid
buildings you see nothing but mud
huts thatched with grass. The
iu nit? lem
pie is a narrow lane
: of dark, box-like
shops filled with re
ligious ware — clay
models of the god
dess. garlands or
marigold, the sacred
flower, hideous col
ored prints of Kali
and charms to keep
away the evil eye
The pilgrims who
come from every
part of Bengal to
worship at this
shrine find their
creature comforts in
the food piled on
copper dishes —
sweet meats and
fried stuffs about
which the flies
swarm in hungry
hordes. An evil
eunrumg place it is. Xo sooner do you
alight from the carriage than you are
beseiged by ragged unkempt men who
call themselves priests and seek to
prove their holiness by displaying the
sacred thread worn by the Brahmans.
One ruffian takes possession of you
: only to encounter the clamor of oth
ers. but after a little argument they
come to terms and the latest arrivals
go in search of other prey.
Along a narrow alley thronged with
perspiring natives you reach the
shrine of the elephant-headed god.
I Ganesh—a little cubbyhole of stone
and plaster where the god reposes in
red relief, garlanded with marigolds.
Elbowing our way through the
crowd we penetrate to the court of
the temple of Kali, where men, wom
en and children swarm like bees,
screaming and thrusting their way to
the horrible shrine. The stones are
stained with pools of blood that lie
near a cross-piece of wood shaped like
a guillotine. It is here that the sheep
and goats are slain amid revolting
scenes. The heads are collected and
given to the poor, but the bodies and
skins belong to the pilgrims and the
priest. In the shadow of the shrine—
a plain stone structure—is a barren
looking tree smeared with red paint
and from the bare branches hang
hundreds of little stones tied with hu
man hair, for women who are child
less worship this tree and the stones
and hair are pledges of gifts if a child
should be born to them.
The temple itself stands in the cen
ter—small and mean to the eye. The
main entrance is closed except during
the early hours of the morning, but
there is a side door that opens into
what looks like a bottomless pit—all
dark and dreadful. Through this door
presses a mob of men. women and
| children, eager to do pujah, or rev
erence. to the goddess of destruction.
Only Hindoos are permitted to ascend
i the steps and enter the temple and
others have to be content to crane
■ their necks from the courtyard, while
their, priestly guides strive to press
back the stream of worshippers, in or
der to get a passing glimpse of Kali
in her bouse of darkness. One catches
a glimmer of crimson and gold
through the noisome blackness of the
pit that seethes with humanity. This
was Kali dripping blood and putting
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CASZTJNJ INTAKE OF KALI THSOU&f
ETJOEETO OF LUCKNOW
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jcazi
out her gold
tongue.
It was a re
lief to turn
from this hid
e o u s mum
mery to the
c ourtvard
again where
children play
ed and older
pilgrims equat
ed and ate and
w re a thed
t h e m s e 1 ves
with yellow
g a r lands.
Among them
was a dwarf
whom the peo
ple urged up
I on our notice—a gentle little creature
perfectly formed and 50 years old. If
; Barnum had happened upon him us
! would not be seeking a precarious liv
■ ing in the temple of Kali, for no dwarf
; was ever a more real and graceful min
iature of a man. As we pushed
through the throng our guide pointed
out the shrines of another Ganesh, a
Vishnu, with ten arms and legs, and
a pale Buddha, whose serene compos
ure looked strangely out of place in
the midst of this warlike and sangui
nary mob of deities. Each shrine has
Its own Brahman attendant who holds
out an itching palm to visitor and pil
grim alike.
Three fakirs sat on the steps of the
ghat amid cinders and ashes. The
face of one was grey with ashes. An
other sat in the attitude of Buddha.
For many years,” whispered my
guide, in awstricken tones, "this fa
kir has not uncrossed his legs.” Fa
kirs or ascetics do this sort of
penance. One will hold up an arm
till it withers and becomes use
less; ^another will stand on one leg
for years and a third never rises from
the ground. The faithful supply all
their wants and acquire merit thereby.
One of these men held his head so
proud and looked at us from under
level brows with the most beautiful
eyes in the world. When one looked
lower and saw the twisted and wiz
ened legs one turned away with a
shudder. He took the rupee flung to
him with the most haughy air imag
inable. It was evident that he was
convinced of his holiness and imagined
that torture had lifted him far above
the rest of human kind.
To what depths the worship of Kail
can descend will be understood when
it Is recalled that she was the patron
goddess of the Thugs, a Hindoo sect,
who devoted their lives to highway
robbery. They entered into friendly
conversation with strangers on the
high road and, at a convenient mo
ment, strangled them to death and
made ofT with their goods. It is less
than 50 years since the last of their
number was banged after a relentless
war with the British authorities.
Honors to Russian Dead
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Japanese Have Converted the Field of
Mukden Into a Beautiful
Cemetery. (
A recent traveler through Man
churia gives us a picture and a de
scription of the great cemetery which
the Japanese have nearly completed
I and which some time ago they conse
: crated to the Russian dead who fell
in the battles about Mukden.
In their precipitate retreat the
armies of the czar left thousands
upon thousands of their fallen com
rades unburied. After the signing of
the treaty of peace the soldiers of
the Mikado collected every last bone
and every bit of ragged uniform and
every broken weapon which the Rus
sians had left upon the field and
buried them with soldierly honors.
In the center of this vast plat they
inclosed by a white marble fencing a
reserved space for those who had evi
dently been officers
Over the graves of the Ammon sol
diers iron crosses, in the Greek form,
were erected and over the graves of
commanders crosses of white marble.
Then as a pivot to the converging
lines they reared a terrace, and on
the terrace built a marble temple, all
at a cost of 50,000 yen. When the
work was ready for dedicatory rites,
they invited Russian ecclesiastics
from Peking, Harbin and Vladivostok,
together with such military command
ers as were near, to assemble for re
I
ligious service In this chapel, where,
amid the assembled men of both
races, the land was solemnly conse
crated as a resting place for the Rus
i sian dead.
We think we have not done badly
when fifty years after the battle of
Gettysburg we invite the surviving
Confederates to meet us where they
fought us. and with their northern
fellow citizens give thanks today for
a united country. But the “Japs" have
bettered as well as anticipated our
act. For within five years of the
battle of Mukden they laid out the
field as a cemetery for their con
j quered enemies, buried them decent
! ly. had religious rites celebrated by
priests of their own faith, and paid
personal tribute to the courage and
loyalty of the men they had van
quished. All this without one word of
| suggestion from outside.—The Ad
vance.
Shepherd Dog.
Shepherd dog, shepherd's dog, and
; sheep dog are interchangeable terms
for the same breed of animal, the last
term being, perhaps, the most used.
A Scotch collie is one of the two best
varieties of sheep dogs. The southern,
or English, sheep dog, is larger than
the Scotch collie, with rather shorter
hair. Ordinarily people who are not
very particular about matters of the'
kennel call them both “collies."
How Aviators Rose To Fame
_ — — _—. ——
Hubert Latham Was a Street Car Con
ductor Before Flying Career—
Some Other*.
Hubert Latham began his career as
a consumptive street car conductor,
doomed by the doctors. But either
the doctors were wrong or flying is
conducive to health, for Hubert Lath
am is still alive and well, having
flown more miles and won more prize
money than any other aviator In the
world.
The Wright brothers ran a bicycle
shop in a small American city when
they first began to realize the possi
bilities of the developing motor car
power plant as a means to the solu
tion of the aerial problem. They
made themselves the first men in the
world to get off the ground with a
man-cariTlng power-driven machine
capable of continued flight. For the
last few years the Wright brothers—
one of whom recently died, not In the
air, but where most men die in bed—
have been regarded among the world’s
foremost manufacturers of flying ma
chines, and the property of the firm is
reputed to be worth close to a million
dollars.
Curtiss was a small motorcycle
manufacturer until he achieved fame
and fortune by the air route. Henry
Farman was a bicycle racer until the
sirens of the air allured him
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Marked Lack of Enthusiasm
_—
“Glad Hand” Waa Not Extended to
Statesman With Any Great De
gree of Enthusiasm.
Senator Joe Dixon comes of Quaker
parentage, and was brought up to
speak mildly, call no man a liar, and
to be not too aggressive.
Not long after he was first elected
to congress as a member of the lower
house Dixon went down to his old
home In North Carolina for a brief
visit. One of the first people he met
was a woman who had been a lifelong
friend of his family. Dixon stopped
to chat with her. and, as she did not
seem to have heard about his rise to a
place in the councils of the nation, he
watched his chance to let her know,
casually, a few of the things he had
accomplished since last they met—to
let her see that he was making his
mark in the big, wide world.
“Perhaps you haven’t heard,” said
he, drawing himself to his full height,
“that I am now a member of the na
tional congress?” And he got his
hand all ready to receive her con
gratulations.
But the woman just nodded solemn
ly. “Yes.” she said. “I read about
your nomination and also about your
election. Well, I JuBt can’t under
stand It.”—New York Press.
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SPLENDID OUTLOOK
FOR CROPS IN
WESTERN CANADA
RELIABLE INFORMATION FROM
THE GRAIN FIELDS SHOW
THAT THE PROSPECTS
ARE GOOD.
This is the time of year when con
siderable anxiety is felt in all the
northern agricultural districts as to
the probable outcome of the growing
crops. Central Canada, comprising
the Provinces of Manitoba, Sas
katchewan and Alberta, with their
16,000,000 acres of wheat, oats, bar
ley and flax, of which 6.000,000
acres may be said to be sown to
wheat alone, has become a great fac
tor In the grain markets of the world.
Besides this, government returns
show that every state in the Union
1 has representatives in these prov
' inces, and naturally the friends of
l these representatives are anxious to
hear of their success. It has never
: been said of that country that it is
absolutely faultless. There are. and
have been, districts that have experi
enced the vagaries of the weather,
the same as in districts south of the
boundary line between the two coun
tries, but these are only such as are
to be expected in any agricultural
country. The past has proven that
the agricultural possibilities of this
portion of Canada are probably more
attractive in every way than most
countries where grain raising is the
chief, industry. The present year
promises to be even better than past
years, and In a month or six weeks
it is felt there will be produced the
evidence that warrants the enthusi
asm of the present. Then these great
broad acres will have the ripened
wheat, oats, barley and flax, and the
farmer, who has been looking forward
to making his last payment on his
big farm will be satisfied. At the time
of writing, all crops give the prom
ise of reaching the most sanguine ex
pectations.
ju me ceutraj pm uuu ul Aiuerm,
It is said that crop conditions are
more favorable than in any previous
year. Heavy rains recently visited
this part, and the whole of this grain
! growing section has been covered. Re
! ports like the following come from
] all parts:
“Splendid heavy rain yesterday.
I Crops forging ahead. Great prospects.
| All grains more than a week ahead
of laBt year. Weather warm last
week. Good rains last night.”
From southern Alberta the reports
to hand indicate sufficient rain. Crops
I in excellent condition. Labor scarce.
Throughout Saskatchewan all grains
; are looking well, and there has been
! sufficient rain to carry them through
: to harvest.
From all portions of Manitoba
| there comes an assurance of an
abundant yield of all grains. Through
out southern Manitoba, where rain
was needed a few weeks ago. there
has lately been abundant precipita
i tion, and that portion of the province
: will in all probability have a crop to
equal the best anticipations. A large
quantity of grain was sown on the
stubble in the newer west, which is
never a satisfactory method of farm
ing. and may reduce the general av
erage.
Taken altogether, the country Is
now fully two weeks in advance of
last year, and in all grains the acre
ages sown are much larger than in
1911. This means that with aus
picious weather the west will have
the grandest harvest in its history.
Two hundred and fifty million bushels
of wheat has been mentioned as an
estimate of the present growing crop,
and it looks now as if that guess will
be none too large.
Fit Punishment.
The Wicked Soul was sitting on a
hot stove, drinking molten lava and
fanning himself with a chunk of red
hot sheet iron.
“And who is' the poor wretch?”
asked Dante.
“That,” replied Satan, "is the first
man who said, ‘Is it hot enough for
you?’ ”—Milwaukee Sentinel.
Advantage.
Stella—Has that summer resort any
views? v
Bella—Er—no, but it is close to the
moonlight.
Old friends are best, but many a
woman deludes herself with the idea
that she is too young to have any old
friends.
Be Weill
j The First Step Towards
Good Health Is a
Strong Stomach
Is Your Appetite Poor
Is Your Digestion Weak
Is Your Liver Sluggish
These
are Nature’s warnings of
stomach weakness and im
pending sickness. You should
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