GOTCH DEFEATS BULLY IN THE KLONDIKE Showing How Gotch Pins an Opponent V\^ith the Half Nelson and Crotch. GOTCH roughed it for six months in the Klondike in 1901, meet ing all comers. He departed from the little old farm house south of Humboldt empty handed, lie returned with a bag of gold and Canadian paper valued at $35,000. His wrestling triumphs in that Arctic region ranged from a defeat of a bully to a victory over the champion grappler of the Yukon. One of the Butler brothers, wealthy miners, tried to persuade "Farmer” Burns to accompany him to the Klon dike. Burns declined but gave Gotch such a glowing account of the great fortunes to be made on the Yukon that Gotch decided to go. The Humboldt farmer lad was known in the Klondike as Frank Kennedy, one of the host of miners washing gold dust from the sand He passed a month or more as a placer miner before opportunity knocked at his door opening the way to an in dependent fortune. The camp, fortunately for Gotch, had a bully. This fellow was not a wonderful wrestler, but had a habit of intimidating other miners by a show of strength and bull dog cour age. Gotch had not been in camp many weeks before he had a “run in" with the bully. Gotch rushed into his traducer, grabbed him around the waist and hurled him to the ground. Then he pinned him with a hammer lock until he cried for mercy. The story of Gotch’s victory over this "bad man" caused much excite ment. Billy Murdock, champion wrestler of the camp, challenged him to a finish match. The challenge was accepted and the whole camp turned out to see the young stranger’s finish. The bout was held in a saloon. It lasted just four minutes. Murdock, to the surprise of the miners, was thrown heavily and pinned to the iloor in such decisive fashion as to re move all doubt as to who was cham pion wrestler of those diggings. Gotch’s fame spread to other camps and he was challenged by two wrest lers named Riley and Murphy. The matches were for $2,500, the mysteri ous stranger agreeing to throw both in an hour. He accomplished the task in half the time. The miners and sports of Dawson were told of the wonderful prowess of the youngster from the ’'states.” There was a wrestler in Dawson named White who had the reputation of being the second best in the Yukon country. He challenged Gotch to a finish match for $2,500. Just to adver. tise himself and get a match with the champion. Gotch agreed tp throw White three times in an hour. Gotch rushed in at the call of time and drove White to the edge of the mat. White went down in a heap and Gotch tried for a bar arm. White darted out and then put Gotch to the mat with a crotch hold. Gotch was up instantly, his wonderful strength enabling him to break a waist hold. Then he went to the top and gained a partial hammerlock. White spun out of this dangerous grip and came to the top once more, the miners giving him a big hand. White hung on and Gotch raised up with his antagonist on his back, an exhibition of strength that made the miners gasp with astonishment White threw Gotch to the mat. and both came to their feet in a desperate mlxap. Gotch rushed in, grasped his oppo nent by the legs, dangled him in the air and then bore his shoulders to the mat for the first fall after five minutes of wrestling. Going to it again Gotch rushed White to the ropes and secured a leg hold and the Dawson wrestler went to the mat. Gotch fastened a double nelson which the Dawson wrestler broke with difficulty. Gotch finally pinned his man for the second fall in eight minutes. The miners who had laid heavy bets on White were panic-stricken. Gotch was not only a surprise—he was a sensation. When White came up wobbly for the final bout it was plain he could not last much longer. Gotch rushed him and when he was about to fall from the mat, he caught him. pulling him back, and saving him possible injury. White broke many holds but finally succumbed tc his more powerful opponent in 5:06. This match set the whole mining region of the Yukon talking about Gotch. It enabled him to secure a match for the championship of Alas ka and the Klondike. (Copyright. 1912. by Joseph B. Bowles.) Cornell Football Dates. The addition of Harvard and the Car lisle Indian games is the feature of the Cornell football schedule, as fol lows: September 24, Ursinus at Ith aca; September 25, Colgate at Ith aca; October 4, Oberlin at Ithaca; October 11, Carlisle at Ithaca; Octo ber 18, Bucknell at Ithaca; October 25, Pittsburgh at Ithaca; November 1, Harvard at Cambridge; November 8, Michigan at Ithaca; November 15, Lafayette at Ithaca; November 27, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Threaten Suit. Owners of the club at South Bend, whose franchise in the Central league was forfeited, talk of a suit agaiDst the league for $4,000, which they lost in financing the club through the sea son of 1912. They also talk of get ting a berth in the Three I league and will hold on to their players with that idea. Pennant-Raising Day. The Toronto champions of the In ternational league will have Rochester as their guests on their pennant-rais ing day, June 2. It will be something new for Rochester players to help haul up another team's flag, but they expect to lend a hand with good grace. TENER FAVORS SUNDAY BALL Bill Introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature Said to Have Back ing of Governor. The introduction at Harrisburg of a bill to legalize Sunday baseball in Pennsylvania discloses the fact that strong interests are behind the meas ure. It is freely asserted that Gov ernor Tener favors the project. The bill was introduced by Representative Gov. Tener at Bat. James Wiltbank of Philadelphia. The political interests that are financially identified with the Phillies are really its backers. The fact that Gov. 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Tinker is ambitious to make Cin cinnati a synonym of something be sides anvil knocking defeat He has sympathizers. “What constitutes an amateur?" asks an exchange. Nearly any one willing to go on record that he has not accepted money for his ath letic services. SUCCESS IN MAKING OVER A NEGLECTED TREE DEPENDS UPON PRELIMINARY PRUNING Hundreds of Thousands of Old Native Apple Trees in the United States That Are Well Worth Grafting—Process Is Sim ple and Interesting for Any One to Undertake. (By CLARENCE M WEED. Massachu setts College of Agriculture.) The other day 1 saw some apple trees which had been •'dehorned", according to the orders of the new owner of an old farm. The trunks were about a foot in diameter and all the large limbs had been sawed off very near the fork so that the trees looked like great clubs. The whole operation had been performed at once, with, of course, a great shock to the balance of root and leaf which the trees will be likely to try to make up by sending out an enormous crop of watersprouts. Whether they will survive I am not sure, but I am sure it would have been better to do the remodelling more gradually by ex tending it over two or three years. j There are hundreds of thousands of old native apple trees in the United ; States that are well worth making over into grafted trees. This can be done more quickly than new trees can be brought Into profitable bear ing and it is a simple interesting process for any one to undertake. Success is fairly certain if one is con tent to take a few years’ time rather than to try to do it all at once. Success in making over a neglected apple tree depends largely upon the preliminary pruning; the first thing to do is to thin out superfluous branches and this may be done in summer, fall or winter. Especial care should be taken to open up the cen ter of the top. Any young branches that start low enough to be grafted to advantage should be saved. If two or three such branches can be grafted the first year, others can be grown for grafting in succeeding years. Late summer is a particularly good time to begin the preliminary pruning of these trees to get them ready for the following spring. The spring following the severe pruning a crop of young twigs is likely to appear on the trunk and larger branches. These furnish a splendid opportunity for training a new set of branches for grafting, so near the ground that the fruit will be within easy reach. In every crop of t these watersprouts there are varia tions in the characters of the indi vidual twigs. Some are much more vigorous than others, an indication The right way to top graft fruiting i branches within reach. « that such have a good union with the parent branch and a good access to the supply of sap. Among these vigorous suckers se lect for growth those which are most advantageously placed upon trunk and branches. They should, of course, be some distance from one another, and so scattered that the largest area possible will be occupied when the scions grow into fruiting branches. Then ruthlessly remove all the other suckers, and continue to remove them as fast as they start. This will in volve going over the trees at least once a month, scraping off each time all the buds that show on the bark. The result of such treatment will be ; that the twigs left to grow will re- ! ceive practically the full sap supply ! of the tree and will grow with aston ishing rapidity. They will be large enough to graft in one or two yearB, or they may be budded the first sea son. The scions also will grow re markably fast, healing over in a year j or two and giving a full foliage in three or four years. They will blos som and fruit freely after they begin to hear and the fruit will be larger and better than when tall old limbs are top-worked. As the grafted branches grow they must of course be pruned in such a way as to get as spreading an effect : as possible. The natural tendency of grafted wood is to grow vertically up ward. but by the judicious use of the pruning shears one can force the growth in almost any direction. The skill and judgment of the owner here come into play. Good results are. of course, easier with a tree having a good spread of horizontal branches, because the twigs for grafting can be started at considerable distances one from the other, but even in so upright a tree as the one pictured herewith, desirable results are readily obtained. In many old apple trees there are likely to be horizontal branches ex tending far from the trunk—which are too old and hard to be grafted, 'but which have small twigs arising from along their outer part. Such vertical branches are soon brought into condition for the insertion of scions by simply cutting off the main limb just beyond them, making a clean cut very close to the vertical branch. The bark will soon heal over the cut end, the main flow of sap will be carried to the twig and when ! grafted it will make a fine fruiting branch so far out from the trunk that it has abundant air and sunshine. Such a branch as shown in the pho tograph herewith is a splendid stock scion. HOW TO IDENTIFY SAN JOSE SCALE Difficult to Detect Owing to Its Small Size and Inconspicu ous Color. Perhaps the worst feature of an at tack by the San Jose scale Is that. , owing to its small size and inconspic uous color, it often remains unnoticed until the tree has been seriously in jured or even killed. That the tree lacks vigor may be recognized, but the cause of its unthriftiness is over looked. Yet it is not difficult to de tect when one really looks for it. In the early stages of infestation a few scales may be found, usually clustered about the buds of the preceding sea son's growth, or even on two-year-old wood, says a writer in the Baltimore American. The mature scales are grayish in color, being usually, but not always, somewhat lighter than the bark to which they are so closely at tached. The mature females are nearly circular in shape, are approxi mately one-sixteenth inch in diameter, and each is somewhat raised in the center to form a slight protuberance ' or nipple, which is lighter in color than the rest of the scale. If this scale is carefully examined by means : of a small magnifier, several concen tric circles may be observed between the nipple and the outside edge; and if it be carefully raised with the point of a pin or a knife there will be re vealed a minute bright yellow object, the insect itself. The trees should be sprayed in mid ' winter with the lime-sulphur mixture. | For a few trees buy a hand vaporizing sprayer. One can be had for $1, and with it an active man can thoroughly spray a bearing tree in ten minutes at a cost of a few cents. To have clean, healthy trees and perfect fruit the trees should be sprayed in season. The lime-sulphur mixture, properly applied, will cleanse the trees of the various scale insects (including the San Jose scale), and is also an ex cellent destroyer of fungus growth of all kinds. Fruit growers recommend i its use for killing the eggs of the ! aphis and oyster shell insect. For | scurfy scale and oyster-sh«l louse use whale oil soap solution. This solu j tion is made as follows; Whale oil soap, one pound, and boiling water, I one gallon. Mix well and dilute with i six gallons of cold water when ready , to use The time to apply is in May or June, or when thy small scale lice are moving about on the bark. Virtue of Carbolic Acid. Get a large bottle of vaseline and put in a few extra drops of carbolic acid. This is one of the very best of poultry remedies for colds, sorehead , and kindred diseases. HOME-MADE DEVICE FOR HEADING GRAIN A hand-made device lor heading kaf fir corn or sorghum out of the shock, says a writer In the Rural New York er. Simply take the sickle bar and sickle off your mower, equip it as above, and hang it over the side of your wagon box with two hooks The driver can easily work the handle it made long enough, and head kaffir corn, or cane as fast as three men can hold the fodder into the sickle from the shock. Treating Manure. The better the feeding the more val uable the manure, and th6 more the manure is worth the more need for the proper handling of it The best meth od of treating manure, it has been well demonstrated, is to haul it out as soon as made and scatter it over the field, whether the season be win ter or summer. Big and Little Horses. It coBts little or no more to feed a big horse than a little one, and ■malt . animate that can only crawl across a field soon become far more expensive than good sized animate, well fed. that step lively and can do a good day’s work. Cutting Back Old Trees. In cutting back old orchards or in pruning large limbs be sure to cover the wounds with some protective compound, such as coal tar or good lead paint Two or even three ap plications are sometimes necessary to prevent decay from setting in. STRENGTHEN A WEAK CROTCH Defective Places May Be Braced by Running Iron Rod Through Two Limbs of Tree. (By W. W. ROBBINS. Colorado Agricul tural College.) > Many trees have weak limbs and develop bad crotches. In some cases these result from injudicious prun ing, while often they are the expres sion of the natural habit of the vari ety. A familiar sight on our streets is the leaking of the large crotches of cottonwoods. There is a strain of the point where the two large limbs meet, hence a partial splitting, mak ing an opening from which the sap exudes. This leakage is unsightly; furthermore, weak crotches of trees are dangerous to life and property. In most cases weak crotches may be easily braced. An excellent method of strengthen ing a weak crotch is to run an iron rod through the two limbs which form the undesirable crotch. A hole is bored through the two limbs a short distance above the crotch. This hole should be made to fit the rod as near ly as possible; this hole will not in jure the tree. The rod should have a large head at one end and be threaded for a large nut at the other. The rod is inserted and the nut screwed up tightly. A one-inch rod will support a tremendous strain, but the size will depend, of course, upon the size of the limbs to be braced. DYNAMITE FOR TREE HOLES cound to Be Satisfactory Method in Replanting an Old Orchard— Use Care With Caps. (By XV. A. IRVIN.) I have used dynamite for digging holes for trees, and am still using it with satisfactory results. It is a good plan to use in replanting an old or chard. In my fifteen-year-old orchard there were rocky spots where the sub soil plow failed to penetrate when the orchard was first planted, and two or three replantings since, where holes were dug with pick and shovel, have not been successful. Dynamite did the work all right. There is little danger in handling the dynamite, but great care must be used in handling the caps which ex plode it. I use half a stick of dyna mite for opening a hole in which a tree is to be set, and a whole stick is used to blow out an old tree. My men cut the fuse the length wanted, insert one end of the fuse in the cap, and bore or gouge a hole in the dyna mite, in which the cap is inserted; the dynamite is then tied fast in the hole. A crowbar is used to punch a# hole in the soil to depth of about two feet. INSECT DAMAGES AN ORCHARD Snowy-Tree Cricket Is Most Severe Upon Raspberry Canes—Also Works on Grape Vines. The damage done by this insect Is most severe upon raspberry canes, but it also works on the grape vines. It injures the cane by cutting slits ir Snowy-Tree Cricket. which the eggs are deposited. When , the young crickets hatch they feed upon the sap of the cane and in a short time the branch or stalk con taining the insects is rendered useless and dies. PROPER CULTURE OF GRAPES Spring-Planted Vines Should Not Be Allowed to Produce Fruit—Keep Out Weeds and Grass. Spring-planted vines should not be allowed to produce any fruit, as it weakens the roots. A two-year-old vine, if of vigorous growth, may be permitted to bear two or three bunches. Upon the first appearance of mil dew (whitish spots upon the leaves) dust with sulphur. Keep the vines tied up. Pinch oft bearing’ shoots at the third leaf from the last cluster and pinch laterals to one leaf. Cul tivate the ground between the rows, the ground should be kept mellow and free of grass and weeds. Spread a two-inch layer of coal ashes under the trellis. This mulch will keep the soil cool and moist, the grapes will be free from dirt and the fruit will ripen up nicely. Tie paper sacks over each bunch of the choice varieties. This is a good practice for the family use, as the grapes are much sweeter. Hogs Destroy Blackberries. A fruit farmer says that blackberry vines can be destroyed by making a hog pasture of the patch. The hogs will soon get rid of them; they will root out the roots and this is an easy way to feet rid of an abandoned patch. Small Fruits Neglected. There are thousands of localities in this country where no one is paying any attention to small fruit growing and where strawberries, grapes, cur rants and such fruits might be grown with profit. Segregate the Boar. Keep the boar by himself in a pen with a strong yard attached. If pos sible, he should be kept at a little distance from the sows. Try New Things. Do not seed down the whole place in alfalfa or other new crop. Try a few acres each year of the new things and give them an honest trial. Thinly Clad. Remember that the swine family are not protected by furry coats. SWALLOW HAD LONG JOURNEY Positive Proof That Bird Traveled the Distance From England to South Africa. The capture of a swallow bearing an aluminum ring in Natal, South Africa, the other day, has resulted in an astonishing insight into the migra tory habits of birds. From a number and address stamped on the ring it was discovered that the swallow was one of 11,483 British birds marked in a similar w?ay last summer by enthu siasts, desiring to learn more as to the routes taken by bird migrants, and whether birds return again to their previous nesting sites. This systema tic marking of birds began in 1909, since when nearly 32,000 have been “ringed.” About three per cent are afterwards noted, but the swallow re ported from Natal appears to have made the longest flight so far. A black-headed gull ringed as a nestling in, Yorkshire in July, 1911, was found in February, 1912, in Flores, Azores. A starling ringed in Berkshire in Jan uary, 1912, reached Helsingfor, Fin land, in April. A teal ringed in Staf fordshire in the autumn of 1910 was found at Dalarne, Sweden. July, 1911. A GRATEFUL OLD MAN. Mr. W. D. Smith, Ethel, Ky., writes: *1 have been using Dodd's Kidney Pills for ten or twelve years and they have done me a great deal of good. I do W. D. Smith. not inina i wouia ue alive today If it were not for Dodd’s Kidney Pills. I strained my back about forty years ago, which left it very weak. I was troubled with inflam mation of the blad der. Dodd’s Kidney mis cured me or mat ana me Kian*-y Trouble. 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