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    THEVWANTEDADOG
But Got a Baby Which Beats
the Best Canine
Living. ~
By C. B. CRAWFORD.
They were a lonely old couple.
Seth Earl was sixty and his wife,
Ada, fifty-five. If they had had chil
dren living they could have faced the
future more hopefully. But the lone
liness that had always encompassed
them since their only boy, Arthur,
had died in babyhood, seemed to be
closing in around them more tightly
from day to day, like a tangible thing.
They owned their house in the vil
lage and Earl's pension from the cor
poration that had employed him for
SO years, small though it was, pro
vided them with the necessities of
life. Since Earl had retired he had
mooned aimlessly about the garden
plot. He had always looked forward
to his long holiday, to a life of leis
ured ease, and now life 6eemed to
offer nothing.
Once, five years before, they had
discussed adopting a child. But Seth
had never returned to the subject.
The look upon his wife's face har
rowed him, and he knew that no
ehild could ever take the place of
their little boy whose photograph was
the only picture in the neat little par
lor.
"I guess I’m too old to start caring
for a child now, Seth," said his wife.
Besides, we'd be in our graves, as
like as not, before it was grown old
enough to shift for itself."
Both of them had always been
somewhat afraid of life, and both
shrank from new enterprises. The
narrow round of their days had be
come a rut along which they traveled
aimlessly.
“If only I had something, if only a
dog,” he said to himself. "That would
be company. He'd come to wake me
mornings, barking and wagging his
tail, and,then what walks wed have
together. Well, why not? Why
shouldn’t I have a dog? Other men
have one.”
As he expected. Ada offered strong
opposition to the suggestion. But
Seth was insistent over his tremen
dous plan, and gradually his enthusi
asm won his wife over.
“He'd muss up the house and
scratch things,” she protested. "But
“This Beats the Best Dog Living.”
if you've set your heart on a dog I
suppose you must have one. But
where’d you get a dog, Seth? A good
dog would cost $20 and we haven’t
a dollar to spare. Nobody we know
has dogs to give away—leastways,
. not good dogs.”
“O, yes, we can get a dog,” an
swered Seth promptly. “The Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani
mals has dogs to give away. I was
reading something about it in the
paper yesterday. It says they pick
up stray dogs that nobody wants, and
lost dogs that no one claims, or that
have got turned adrift, and give them
away to anybody that will guarantee
them a good home. Ada,” he contin
ued firmly, “I’m going into town to
morrow to see that society, and I’m
coming home with a dog.”
“Well, 1 suppose he can eat the
scraps,” said his wife grudgingly. The
Imminence of the event startled—al
most terrified—her, but her husband’s
eagerness quenched all further objec
tions on her part. She even began
to picture their neat little home with
its new occupant.
“I hope he won’t be a noisy, ill-tem
pered dog, Seth,” she said. "And
don’t you get one that’s going to
bark all night, unless there's burglars
round. And mind he isn’t a biting
dog.”
iney discussed all manner of dogs
that night and finally settled upon a
fox terrier as likely to give the most
satisfaction. When Seth had depart
ed next morning Ada found, to her
astonishment, that she had become
almost as eager as her husband. She
paced the floor nervously in the Inter
vals between her duties, and once she
caught herself in the act of poliahing
the chairs, as though some human
visitor were expected. "I wonder
what sort of dog Seth will bring back
with him,” she mused.
And when at length Seth stood at
the door, dejected and dogless, a great
discontent settled upon her.
“Couldn’t you find a single dog that
would suit. Seth?” she snapped out.
“Couldn’t get near ’em," her hus
band answered apologetically. “I
found the society all right, but the
woman secretary wouldn’t let me in.
No, nor even finish what 1 had begun
to say. I hadn’t got the word ‘adopt’
out of my mouth before she asked me
if I were married. ‘Married 30 years,’
I answered, '30 years, ma’am, and to
the best woman—* "Then bring your
wife along,’ she said. *We don’t have
dealings with men.'”
"Ton mean to say they take all that
trouble about a dog?” inquired his
wife. “You'd think it might bo babies
they were giving away instead of
dogs. I reckon,” she added thought
fully, “she must be one of those suf
fragettes.”
"Well, I suppose we'll Just have to
give up thinking about a dog,” an
swered her huEband gloomily.
"Now, isn't that just like you,
Seth!” replied his wife. "The mo
ment a trifle happens to upset your
plans you want to give up. You
promised me a dog and a dog I'm go
ing to have.”
Seth looked at his variable wife in
amazement. "But I thought you
didn’t like the idea of getting a dog,
Ada.” he said.
“I did and I didn't. When you first
spoke about getting a dog naturally
I was scared a little. But I've been
'hinking it over since and—O, Seth,
I want a dog as much as you ana
mere,” she sobbed
Her husband drew her to him ten
derly. Her old gray head rested upon
his shoulder. He knew it was the
instinct of motherhood within her that
had provoked her grief. At last she
dabbed her handkerchief to her eyes
and Emiled at him.
"Ada. my dear, you’re going to have
your dog. and the finest in the land,”
he said, “even if it takes the last pen
ny of our savings."
"But it’s not going to cost a penny,
Seth.” she answered. ^Because I’m
going into town tomorrow and—and—
I'm going to bring back cur dog.”
Seth Earl put his wife aboara me
train next morning. He was to do
the housework that day, • while she
was gone upon their errand. And as
the hours rolled by he, too, was over
taken by the same impatience that
had overcome his wife on the preced
ing day. and he, too, found himself
dusting the furniture and straighten
ing the chairs as though a human oc
cupant were expected. And when at
last he heard a tinkle at the bell he
could hardly open the door, he felt so
shaken.
Ada stood at the door, a basket in
her arms, and her eyes were bright
with happiness, and the look on her
face was almost like that she had
worn cn their wedding day. She en
tered and set the basket down.
"Let me see him,” cried Seth, as
she began to unfasten the blanket
that 'covered it. “Is it a fox-terrier,
Ada? It must be a puppy.”
He jumped a9 a child's feeble wail
came to his ears and looked at his
wife in terror as. with motherly fin
gers, she pinned back the coverings, 1
disclosing a fine baby boy.
"You goose," said Ada softly. “That
was the Society for the Prevention j
of Cruelty to Children you sent me to.
And when I saw the babies lying In ;
their little cots all in a row I wanted )
to take them all and—and—”
"I wish yon had, dear.” answered
her husband ecstatically. “This beats ■
the best dog living.”
(Copyright. 1913. by XV. G. Chapman.!
PLOW DEVISED BY ABRAHAM
University of Pennsylvania Has Pic- i
ture of Probably First Ma
chine of Its Kind.
The University of Pennsylvania
has just discovered that it owns what !
is believed to be the first picture of
the plow invented by Abraham cen- \
tnries ago. According to the Egyp- j
tologists at the museum, their trans
lations of the hieroglyphics show
that Abraham was the progenitor of
the harvester trust.
While plows undoubtedly were used
before the time of this invention, the i
Abraham plow is a combination seed- i
er and planter, and, according to the j
inscription on the picture, three men ;
%ere necessary to operate it
The picture was made upon a Baby- i
Ionian brick, which was the custom in
those days. The apparatus had a
tube-like attachment, into which the
seeds were poured. A vessel above
the ground facing the frame of the
plow was used as a receptacle for the
seed, and then the harrow was at
tached to the back of the plow.
The Babylonians Bowed and tilled
according to Abraham's commands,
and with his invention they feared
neither the ravens nor any other
birds that devoured their grain.
Royal Widow’s Woes.
Poor old Francis Joseph, emperoi
of Austria, is again called upon to
use his kindly offices by another dis
tressed lady who desires the approval
of the pope to the divorce recently
granted to her by the civil courts.
The lady is the Archduchess Isabella,
who married Prince George of Ba
varia, a union that was but for a day.
Pius X has ratified the legal decis
ions, but has ordered as a pennance
for the lady that for six months she
shall remain retired in the Red Cross
convent and minister to the sick.
The archduchess finds this prescrip
tion of the pope altogether too se
vere. as Bhe desires to attend the
wedding of her cousin, the prince of
Croy, with Miss Nancy Leischman,
daughter of the United States minis
ter to Berlin. In the meantime Fran
cis Joseph will do what he can to re
lieve the lady of the discipline inflict
ed by the church.
London and Its Lumber.
London is the most conservative
city in Europe, If not in the world.
It loves its lumber. You may still
see those notices attached to lamp
posts which announce "Standing for
Four Hackney Carriages,” or what
ever the number may be, though for
ten years (in one case, to my own
knowledge, for 25) no vehicles of any
kind have stood there. Perhaps it
is as well that these relics should
remain; they are a tiny part of our
social history. They will probably re
main when we are flying to dinner or
the theater in omni-aeros... By that
time people won’t know what "hack
ney carriage” meant, and there will
be discussions in the “Notes and
Queries” of the period. For each gen
eration hands down to the next cer
tain nuts to crack.—London .Chroni
cle.
Like the Rest of Mankind.
"Well, Harry,” said the visitor, play
fully, "what are you doing for a liv
ing nowT”
"Why," replied the little fellow, sol
emnly, “i do just the aase aa you
do—1 eat*
NAP LAJOIE THINKS JOHNSON IS BEST
w 11 ■ ■ m
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Walter Johnson of Washington.
“Walter Jolmsou is far and away a
better pitcher than Joe Wood, or any
other pitcher in the American league,"
declared Larry Lajoie, than whom
there could scarcely be a better judge
of pitching. Johnson simply has so
much stuff and speed that if he turn
ed loose his hardest throw with ^iis
stuff on. no catcher could get down '
in time to receive the ball.
“Every ball he throws has stuff on !
it. Jcn.e of tha hops his fast ones j
take are bigger curves than the big- j
gest the average pitcher has. I've
seen him throw balls up to the plate I
that didn't look larger than a pin- j
head. Wood is a good pitcher, ali j
right, but he is simply not, in John- !
son s class, nor is anybody else.
“Wood broke into the league from
Kansas City against us in 1908, in Bos
ton. There was a little house in cen
ten field, and. we had about seven
men who were hitting .300.
“Wow! What a reception he got!
First we’d knock a brick cat cf the
chimney, then a few shingles oft the
roof, then we'd batter a window pane.
"Nobody ever did anything like that
to Johnson, and never will. When a
fellow is coaching off first when he's
pitching, it’s next to Impossible to
see his last one. If he didn't have
good control, he would kill so many
batters he would be barred from the
league. He'd wreck every club he
pitched against. There's next to no
chance to duck or back away from his
delivery.
"Almost any time you get a hit
off Johnson don't figure that you're
smart. Just figure it that you’re
lucky; lucky that you happen to make
that blind swing in the spot where the
ball came. If all the pitches in the
league were like Johnson the pitch
er's box would hove to be placed at
second base so one club could get a
run without the game going into ex
tra innings.”
NOTES of the
DIAMOND
Otis Clymer, the ex-Cub, has a reg
ular job with the Braves.
* * i.
Springfield has secured First Base
man Tom Stankard from Holyoke.
* * *
Balks are getting to be rather, fre
quent occurrences at the Senators’
park.
• • •
“Joe Boehling of the Washington
club is the find of the season," says
the New York World.
* * »
Joe Reilly, the former Brown uni
versity third baseman, lasted but a
minute or two with Baltimore.
• • *
Pitcher Doe Ayers, on whom Clark
Griffith holds a string, is pitching
great ball in the Virginia league.
• * *
Fans are wondering how many of
those now making up the Philadelphia
regulars will drop out after this sea
son.
» • *
John Dodge, the new third sacker
of the Reds, is a strenuous player
and is making gtfod for the Tinker
ites.
• » •
The veteran Charley Hickman is off
on a scouting trip to the Pacific coast
and intermediate points for the Cleve
land Naps.
m m *
Cedar Rapids in the Central associa
tion has a shortstop named Wilhelm
Wambsgan&s and he insists on the
scorers using his full name In the
scores.
• • •
this year the Athletics are said to
be the greatest drawing card on the
American league circuit, supplanting
the Tigers and Tyrus Cobb in that
respect.
* • •
Whenever the Nap wrecking crew,
comprised of Jajoie and Jackson, fails
to connect, the team is of second
division calibre, according to a Cleve
land critic.
» * *
Archie Neuschafer has joined his
third club In the South Michigan, re
porting to Lansing. He started with
Kalamazoo and has pitched a short
while with FlintI
* * *
Ntck Altrock gets credit for most
of the success of the sensational young
Joe Boehling. and now he has taken
the boy southpaw, Harry Harper, un
der his tutelage.
• • •
One mascot is not enough for Joe
Jackson. He has two. One is a fight
ing bulldog. The other is a bulldog,
too, hut according to Joe, "he's more
*ar looks than fighting.’'
HERZOG IS A HARD SLUGGER
Stick Work With the Giant* in World’s
Series Last Fall Attracted At
tention in Sport Circles.
Charles Lincoln Herzog, infielder of
the New York Giants, was born in Bal
timore July 9, 1885. He began his base
ball career at the University of Mary
land in 1904, and for two years flayed
shortstop on the college nine. In 1908
he managed a semi-professional team
in Ridley, Md. One of his players was
“Home. Run” Baker, who now shines
with the Athletics. The next Benson
Herzog joined the professional ranks,
playing with York and Reading in the
Charles Lincoln Herzog.
Tri-State league. He signed with the
Giants in 1908 and remained a member
of McG raw's team until traded to Bos
! ton in 1910. Owing to dissensions
i among the players the Boston club
j sent Herzog back to the Giants in re
j turn for A1 Bridwell and Hank Gawdy.
j Since returning to New York Herzog
has played great bail. His heavy hit
ting in the world's series last fail at
1 tracted wide attention.
---
Batting Combination.
The Cobb-Jackson batting contest
[ for the supremacy of the American
i league, is developing rapidly into a
Cobb-Jackson-Speaker affair. Joe is
in the lead a few points ahead of Ty
rus, but Tris is visible in the offing
paddling up nearer almost every day.
Shettsline Is Optimistic.
Secretary Shettsline of the Phillies,
who has been on the circuit as long
as anyone can remember, says the
Phillies are a real team and will win
the flar
MANAGER STAHL IS DEPOSED
According to Rumor George Stovall
and Joe Birmingham Are Also
Slated to Be Let Down.
The release of Jake Stahl as mana
ger of the Boston Red Sox, the pres
ent world's champions, was a big jolt
to the baseball world. It had been ru
mored that trouble was brewing be
tween Stahl and McAleer, but both
had dented these reports.
That Stahl was ordered to step aside
was due to his own action, and was
not caused by any previous misunder
standings by the pair, it was learned
from a trustworthy source.
Stahl voluntarily went to McAleer
and asked him whether he was to
manage the Boston team next year.
“Not unless you are able to play
first base," replied McAleer. Stahl
then told the Boston president that
he was averse to continuing as mana
i ge.r unless he was to lead the team
J next season.
“In that event you had better re
, sign,” McAleer said to1 Stahl. Mana
J per Stahl said be wouldn’t resign un
• der any circumstances, and thereupon
; the head of the Red Sox deposed him
; as manager and appointed Catcher Bill
! Carrigan to take charge of the team.
That other managerial heads in the
i American league will fail is not un
likely. Rumor has fastened on two
• in the persons of George Stovall and
I Joe Birmingham. The Ferguson inci
i dent, when Stovall was suspended,
: brought the ax very near to Brother
j George but back of that were reasons
■ that were not made public at the time
' and have not be en.
The three games taken from Detroit
| helped Stovall more than a little, for
I it was tbfc position of the team and j
Jake Stahl.
the way that it was going that weighed
more than anything else with the own
er. Ban Johnson has never been
friendly to Stovall nor has George held
the most cordial feelings of good will
toward the president of the league.
Stovall did not better his position by
openly siding with the striking Tigers
a year age, and it. was freely predicted
at the time that be had forfeited his
chances of managing the Browns. This
did not prove to be the case, but he
certainly did Dot endear himself to
Big Ban.
Birmingham's trouble is that he has
made the Naps too aggressive. In his
efforts to put fight in the team he has
overdone the thing, but now promises
to work with his foot on the soft pedal
so that all may still be well.
Thieving His Forte.
Hap Meyers has done much to lift
the Boston team from last place in
the National league because of daring
on the bases. Meyers is a very weak
hitter, drawing only a .224 average,
but is leading the league In base steal
ing. Were he to hit above .300 his
chances to pilfer would be greater
on account of getting on first oftener.
Meyers stole i!6 bases in the North
western circuit last year and is un
doubtedly the fastest youngster 'to
break under the big tent this year.
Hedges Is Optimistic.
Bob Hedges, owner of the St. Louis
Americans, says the Tigers have no
license to finish ahead of the Browns
"Stovall’s men ought to be ashamed
of themselves if they cannot climb
above Detroit.” be adds, "but I am go
ing to leave the team in George's
bands to see what he can do."
High-Priced Twlrler.
Walter Johnson, the great right
fcsnuer of the Washington Americans,
is going to be the highest priced
twirler in baseball next season, ac
cording to the dope. His contract
now calls for $7,000. but he has an
nounced that with its expiration he
will demand $10,000.
Amusement for Fans.
On one of the "white suit days” it
was m> hot that Umpires Hildebrand
and O'Loughlin had to take off their
coats. All of .which disclosed a pair
of sleeve garters on Hildebrand and
suspenderr on O’Loughlin. greatly to
the amusement of the crowd.
Rath’s Unique Record.
Morris Rath has a most unique rec
ord. The White Sox second sacker
has made only one extra base hit this
season. He has played in seventy
games, has been at bat close to 30b
; times, yet bis longest wallop was a
two-bagger.
Good Finisher.
Packard of the Reds is surely an
odd pitcher or in odd luck. He can
finish games in splendid style, but
when he is picked to start a game
they drum on him till the hits echo
all over the park.
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Vietna Sausage—just right for Red Hots, or to
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bread in thin dices, spread with creamed butter and
remove crusts. Cot a Libbv’iVienna Sausage in halt,
lengthwise, lay on bread Place on too of the so usag?
a few thin dices of Libby’s Midget ruckles. Cover
with other dice of biead. PRss lightly together. Ar
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Libby. McNeill & Libby, Chicago
STARTED WITH WRONG IDEA
Author Realizes That He Missed Much
of Life by Failure to Be His
Natural Self.
David Grayson, writing a new Ad
venture in Contentment in the Ameri
can Magazine, says:
"It's a great thing to wear shabby
clothes and an old bat! Some of the
best things I have ever known, like
those experiences of the streets, have
resulted from coming up to life from
underneath: of being taken lor less
titan ! am, rather than for more than
1 air..
"I did not always o litre in this doc
trine For many yens—:lbe years be
fore I was rightly b- m trio this allur
ing world—I tried quite the opposite
ct urse. 1 was constantly attempting to
come down to life from above. Instead
of being content to carry through life
a sufficiently wonderful being named
David Grayson, I tried desperately to
set up and support a sort of dummy
creature which so clad, so housed, so
fen, should appear to be what 1 thought
David Grayson ought to appear in the
ey“S of the world. Oh, I spent quite a
lifetime trying to satisfy other peo
ple!*
ITCHING TERRIBLE ON LIMB
R. F. D. No. 3, Clarkfieid, Minn —
“My trouble was of long standing. It
started with some small red and yel
low- spots about the size of a pin head
on my leg and every morning there
was a dry scale on top covering the
affected part and when those scales
were falling off the itching was more
than I could stand at times. The first
year I did not mind it so much as it
was only itching very badly at times,
but the second year it advanced aR
around my leg and the itching was
terrible. I had to be very careful to
have my clothing around the affected
part very loose. At night time I often
happened to scratch the sore in my
sleep. Then I had to stand up, get out
of bed and walk the floor till the spell
was over.
"I bought lots of salves and tried
many different kinds of medicine but
without any success. I got a cake of
Cuticura Soap and a fifty-cent box of
Cuticura Ointment and when I had
used them I was nearly over the itch
ing. But I kept on with the Cuticura
Soap for six weeks and the cure was
complete.” (Signed) S. O Gorden,
Nov. 20, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free.with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card “Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.”—Adv.
Bringing It to a Head.
Briggs—Now you are splitting hairs.
Griggs—No, 1 am merely stating
bald facts.—Boston Transcript.
The poet is born; after which he's
mighty lucky if he can contrive mere I y
to exist.—Alfred Noyes.
Right-Handed Plants.
That there are right-handed plant?
and left-handed plants has been re
ported to the Cambridge (England)
Philosophical society by R. I . Comp
ton. in an examination of eight va
rieties of two-rowed barley the first
leaf was found to twist to the left in
5S per cent of more than 12,000 seed
lings, and an excess of left-handed
growth was found also in millet and in
oats. In corn there seemed to be no
marked tendency either way. No evi
dence of hereditary peculiarity ap
pears to have been obtained and no
special significance of the results is
pointed out.
The Reason.
"The vulture would do nicely for a
religious man's pet. wouldn’t it?”
"Great Scott! Why?”
“Because it is a bird of prey.”
Their Fitness. t
“Talking about police sboes-■*
‘ What about them?”
“1 wonder if they are all copper
toes?”
Suited to the Case.
"Why does Jobberly call bis stout
wife his bantling?”
"I suppose it is because he induced
I iter to bant.”
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