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Baseball rules are supposed to cover
every possible emergency that may
arise during a game yet a dozen times
a week In some nook or corner of the
world there arises a situation over
which there are certain to be bitter
disputes and which the umpire alone
may judge
Even in the big leagues these things
occur One did on the old Eastern
park grounds at Brooklyn in a game
between Philadelphia and the rerain
bulators
The decision of the umpire was up
held by President Nick Young al
though it still is open to dispute
It happened that in the seventh in
nlug with two men on bases Tread
way hit a line drive down the left
field line The ball beyond doubt was
going foul for it was curving toward
the foul line rapidly Gaffuey who
was umpiring the game was standing
at the plate squinting down the line
his eye following the ball
Suddenly a flight of pigeons swept
along The ball struck one of the pi
geons knocking it to the earth and the
ball Itself swerved from its course and
struck the ground a foot inside the
foul line The Brooklyn runners raced
around the bases but Gaffney waved
them back and declared the hit foul
There was a long wrangle which re
sulted in Brooklyn protesting the
game but UncTe Nick upheld Gaffney
-Jiggers Donahue always had a ter
mor of all sorts of snakes toads and
Inigs and this terror once nearly lost
Chicago a victory over Washington
Joe Cantillon knew of this aversion
-and wlien the Senators opened in Chi
cago Cantillon spent the early after
noon digging fishing worms grubs and
the like and he arrived at the park
witn a couple of pans filled with them
Joe waited several innings and then
with one or the Senators on first he
began sprinkling worms around the
sack Jiggers -did not notice it for a
minute and indeed not until the
Washington player ran off the bag to
draw the throw The ball came low
and just before he stooped to catch
It Jiggers saw the ground covered
With worms He let out a yell and
jumped a foot in the air He managed
to block the ball however and sent
in a hurry up call for John to sweep
fhp rrnrnif nmnnil -flu lmcn
Tommy Tucker however was not so
ed a battle all because of a trick Bill
Dahlen and Bill Everett put up on him
Tom never did like snakes Indeed
3be held them In abhorrence and in
-some way Dahlen discovered this
Washington was to play Chicago that
LAMP CLOCKS
OUR PRESIDENTS
J
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The third president of the United States was born at Shadwell Va In
1743 and died at Monticelio Va on the Fourth of July 1820 John Adams
-whom he succeeded as president in 1801 dying on the same day Jefferson
-was elected as a Republican that party being the forerunner of the present
Democratic party He served two terms Jefferson was the author of the
Declaration of Independence He also drafted the Virginia statute for religious
freedom and founded the University of Virginia He is regarded as tho
founder of the Democratic party
BALL FDST0IS
Peculiar Incidents Not Covered
by the Rules
PUZZLES FOR THE UMPIRE
Along in the fourth Inning Everett
cracked out a hit and as soon as he
landed on first base Dalileu ignoring
his usual custom ran out to coach and
a moment later he slipped the harmless
i little reptile to Everett who dropped it
into Tuckers hip pocket
Tommy discovered the snake just as
the pitcher was delivering the ball
and with a yelp ho deserted first
base The shortstop gathered up the
ball on the run and started to throw to
second hut was ton lafi find thrpw
Treadways Fowl Hit That Struck Fair
toward first Tommy was twenty feet
but Was Declared Foul When 0ff the base jumping up and down and
Tommy Tucker Saw Snakes A hunting for something with which to
Batted Ball That Never Came Back kill that snake and tho ball went to
the stands and Chicago scored four
runs in the round
Tucker protested wildly but the um
pire couldnt find anything about
snakes in the rule book and let it go
at that
But possibly the hardest decision an
umpire ever tackled fell to the lot of
Jack Stratton who was umpiring a
game between the Dallas O team
and the club from Sycamore Valley
years ago
The teams were playing down at
Lynus bottom at Sycamore Valley
and the score Avas lo to 12 or some
thing like that in favor of Dallas in
the ninth inning with two out and
the bases filled At any rate what
ever the score was Sycamore Valley
needed three runs to tie and four to
win and it happened that Butch Car
penter one of the weakest hitters on
the team was at bat
One strike had been called when
Butch hit tho ball Where that ball
went no one knows to this day All
the players were running They saw
the ball pitched and saw it hit but
just as the bat hit the ball the boiler
at Hicks sawmill about 200 yards
away exploded
About five minutes later when the
smoke and steam cleared away the
base runners remembered and ran
around to Fhe plate
The real argument started about half
an hour later when everybody had
visited the wreck Sycamore Valley
claimed the victory declaring that four
runs had scored and Jack Stratton al
lowed their claim Minneapolis Trib
une
They Were Quite Common In tho Sov
enteenth Century
Of the various examples that have
been given of early specimens of the
clockmakers art not the least interest
lug are the several types of lamp
clocks One of these was of a kind
quite common in the seventeenth cen
tury and consisted of a lamp burner
placed at the base of a glass oil recep
tacle mounted vertically on a suitable
standard The oil reservoir had at
tached to it a scale facing the burner
and showing the hours beginning at 4
oclock in the afternoon at which time
All through the game Cantillon and 1 TJ 2 m
his men sprinkled worms and bugs I ending at o clock in the morning
around Jiggers and kept him in a state Thc laP b1oiu1 hf ed ie gradually
nf fm rniv mf with tlinTifrl re iArtm -v W1 LuU vu ua iiuuuiuy
ku mj av4 vjj U1U UlUUUi
he managed to frustrate his tormentors
tion proceeded marked the hours
and escape without an error and the OI Uer ngin aat
InS back tbe beginning of the last
following day he appealed to the urn-
Dire to make the Senators rir I centlllX utilized the same principle It
consisted of two communicating oil
111 n m 1 mtin na Jt i v
nc TT Ief o - viiamutia auijerijuseu Oy a ClOCK Oiai
X 0 of e cbamers was placed a
Washington to Chicago once and start-
ubui mmji iv lllULUIUUlti LUIS U1U ailCl
in the other was suspended a float
from a cord which passed around a
small pulley The latter was mounted
on a horizontal axis ending In the cen
ter of the dial The float of course de-
-afternoon and during the morning Tr consumea aDtt
led the toa nd
alonS h It
practice on the west side grounds
Js marking the houra precisely as
Jen and Everett discovered a small
gariersnake and treasured it up-
in me tase uireaay cuea Pearsons
Weekly
V55
One of Them
A foreign tourst who hud received
permission to visit one of our large
asylums for the Insane was surprised
at the neatness quietude and good or
der that prevailed within the institu
tion He asked if it was always like
that and the polite attendant who was
showing him through the buildings
said it was
We have what we call our violent
wards of course but I presume you
would not care to see these
- I think not
It is just as well perhaps They
are rather noisy although of course
we exercise the same care In providing
for the welfare of the inmates that
you see in this part of the institution
We also have a section where we keep
the incurables
These inmates then are considered
curable
Their cases are at least hopeful
I am greatly interested said the
visitor but I will not take up any
more of your time You have other
duties to attend to have you not
Yes sir This is merely one of my
recreations In one of the rooms in
the main building I am engaged dur
ing most of the time in pursuing what
may be called my life work
Your life work May I ask what
that is
Havent you heard said the at
tendant in a tone of astonishment I
am compiling an index to Websters dic
tionary Youths Companion
For Shakespeares Sake
There is something remarkably at
tractive for an actress in the rolling
cadences of the Bard of Avon and I
do not wonder that so many players
dream of playing ills work I think it
was in Los Angeles some years ago
that a young actor who was then be
coming popular decided that the time
was ripe for him to do Hamlet What
his mental process was in arriving at
this decision I have of course no
means of knowing but an apocryphal
anecdote was told of him the morning
after his first appearance as the mel
ancholy Dane It seems a friend ap
proached him and said
now do you feel this morning
I have failed to get my whole mean
ing into the character I shall never
play Hamlet again was the reply
Oh but you must play the part once
again remonstrated the friend
And wiry asked the young actor
despondently
Shakespeare turned over in his cof
fin last night You will have to do it
once again for you cant leave the poor
chap in that position said the friend
Eleanor Itobsoii in Bohemian
Wanted Permanent Employment
Old Sam had been for several days
patiently sitting on the bank of the
Rappahannock river near the dam
holding his shotgun in his hand
Finally he attracted the attention of
a passerby who asked Well Uncie
Sam are you looking for something to
do
No sah answered Sam Is get
tin paid fo what Is doin
Indeed answered the stranger
And what may that be
Shootin de muskratsdat am uuder
niinin de dam answered Sam
Well there goes one now exclaim
ed the stranger excitedly Why dont
you shoot
Spose I wants to lose my job
sah answered Sam complacently
Lippincotts Magazine
Racing at Ascot
Racing at Ascot dates back a great
number of years and it is recorded that
Queen Anne was the first royal person
age to patronize the fixture in 1711
The first and second Georges were not
great patrons of the turf but they
bred race horses on a large scale in
order to encourage their subjects and
George III gave a plate of 100 guineas
to be competed for Ever since those
times the great annual festival on the
famous Berkshire heath has met with
royal favor - -
Study of Man
human nature is the world The only
text books are the works of men like
Shakespeare Hugo Cervantes Sterne
and other students Avho learned in
that school But the effectual study
of human nature demands from the
student a vast fund of love and sym
pathy You will never get admitted
Into the heart of a fellow creature un
less you go as a friend Robert Blatch
ford in Clarion
Finance
The flgieeabie visitor says Judge
smiled upon the son of the house and
said
Willie if you recite that poem your
mother taught you Ill give you a
Not likely I can get a nickel any
where for not reciting it Willie re
plied
Looked Suspicious
Somehow Im leary of Tompkins
Why soV
Hes so polite
Whats that got to do with it
Im always afraid hes stringing
me Milwaukee Sentinel
Demonstration
Grace And did you ever propose to
a girl in a canoe
Fred Yes and Ill never do it again
The girl jumped at my proposal and
upset the boat Harpers Weekly
AH the Difference
Society dropped the De Lacys be
cause they had a skeleton in their
closet I understand
Xo because they didnt keep It
there Cleveland Leader
Mawatia - iKSA jJSHsdja i ass s JisngQi dt
i1 ir1
Matrazinp
CALIFORNIA MONEY
Queer Early Coinage D O Mills Is
sued First Paper Money
least 27 per cent of the gold were for
eign
Most of the other gold coins were
private coins Moult Co got a per
mit from the government to coin gold
Their coinage was stamped Moult
Co
We had all kinds of doubloons and
smaller South and Central American
coins Of the smaller gold coins the
French twenty franc piece led all the
others
The English guinea was fairly repre
sented But it passed for only Its face
value while the other gold passed for
more The twenty franc piece value
37i went at 4
Thdre was a still greater discrepancy
in the silver coins A one franc piece
went for 23 cents and the East India
rupeo value 43 cents went for 30
cents the five franc piece 1 The
French silver represented about CO per
cent of the silver circulation
German silver thalers worth Q0 cents
went at 1 Everything above 50 cents
was 1 and everything above 23 cents
was 50 cents A French bank In San
Francisco was said to have got rich
shipping I rench coin in exchange for
gold dust United States coin waB
scarcei until the mint was established
In the fall of 1S5U the li ks refused
to takfi any foreign coins except at a
heavy discount The result was that
In a few months all foreign coin disap
peared It proved a bonanza for the
saloon people They would still give a
drink for a franc while the banks gave
only 12 cents The saloon people
gathered them and the rupees in at
old prires and sold to the banks for
bullion and made a good thing
But for a few years we suffered bad
ly for ilver change Even until 185G
gold dust circulated to a considerable
extent In mining districts but the
scales vere always used
There was no paper money until D
O Mills Co Issued their gold notes
about 15S In getting change for an
old octagon 30 gold often as many
as four or five nationalities would bo
represented in the change On all
drafts sent east 3 was charged by the
express companies until Adams Co
and Pago Bacon Co failed and left
the field to Wells Fargo then it was
raised to 5
Greenbacks were never recognized as
money only as a commodity They
were used for buying postage and rev
enue stamps All mercantile billheads
and notes had the special contract en
forcement for gold California even
paid the claims of the federal govern
ment in gold And it came in mighty
handy to Uncle Sam in 1S02 and 18G3
The old style Californian still has an
A Vague Prescription
One of the virtues of the modern
physician is definiteness of direction
To prescribe a dose once in so often
is to leave a wide margin of chance
especially if the drug be a potent one
Let it be hoped that the good man
whose prescription is quoted below
was liot Sealing in strychnine nor prus
sic acid The letter in taken from
Highways and Byways In Sussex
by E V Lucas and was written by
the doctor in an English village a
century ago
Mr Andrews I have sent you some
things hicli you may take in the man
ner following viz of that In the bottle
marked with a you my take of the
quantity of a spoonful or so now and
then and at night take some of those
pills drinking a little warm beer after it
and in the morning take 2 spoonfuls of
that in the other bottle fasting an hour
after it and then you may eat something
you may take also of the first and every
night a pill and in the morning
I hope this will do you good which is
tlie desire of him who Is your loving
friend WlLLJM BENBRIGG
The Call of the Dime Novel
The only school for the study of j Itutween the writer and his constitu
T T T T r
ems uiere was a bond of nffepKon
which incited film to make them glad
to be alive In the mind of every
healthy boy there is romance For
that boys entertainment the producer
of dime fiction strewed romance
through farm mining camp and city
street Out of his surroundings how
ever sordid the boy was lifted He
became to himself the center of the
universe At the particular spot on the
globe on which lie stood all the paral
lels and the meridians converged In
no more intense a degree than this did
exaltation ever come to the Count of
Monte Cristo the world was his
What w as JSdmond Dantes paltry 20
000000 to the yast treasures phjslca
and spiritual spread out by Osbon
before Plucky Pad the Boy Pros
pector and his ttim of thousands of
hundreds of thousands of readers C
M Ilarvey in Atlantic
The Backward Moor
There Is no education as we under
stand it among the Moors There are
no clock and it is estimated by one
who knew that not 13 per cent of the
population are able to reckon the time
of day As the sun crosses the
uKteuieeu uiinuies past yz a
flag is run up on the tower of the prin
cipal mosque and immediately other
flags appear upon the towers of the
other mosques throughout the city
This is noon At half past 1 another
flag is run up and at sunset the even
ing gun is fired This is the extent of
the Moorish idea of time Only a few
of the better class have books or can
read or write The mails are carried
by runners who go from Tangier to
Fez in two days They carry a loaf of
coarse wheaten bread whtph
lTn i i i we
u a rai vl uoin you uiiu io witn an occasions drink of buttermilk
whom and of what and where serves as their only sustenance
aCC I nll T Shoota In nr
uwwvF iu VUUU tHUgCUtkUXSv
Absentminded
She was an exceedingly dainty lit
tle woman who was taking a very
great Interest In the welfare of the
I convicts when 6ho was being shown
Coins in California till the fall of tliroUKU tho penitentiary the other day
135G were a queer kettle of fish More Guard OBrien was along when she
thnn CO per cent of the sliver and at j happened to speak to one of the prison-
era I am so sorry for you she re
marked in a tender tone of voice Of
course you will be very thankful when
the time comes for you to leave this
dreadful place
No retorted the man Id a sight
rather stop here where I am The
little woman almost collapsed
Isnt it strange she asked turn
ing to the guard I had no idea tho
prisoners were so contented What
was the poor fellows offense
The guard concealed a covert grin
He was just a little absentminded
that was all followed the grin
Absentminded exclaimed his as
tonished interrogator
Yes madam politely replied
OBrien He persisted in forgetting
he was married and now when his
time Is up he has five wives awaiting
him on the outside
Ihe woman could not deny that the
convict had sufiicient reasons to be
contented with his present lot Colum
bus Dispatch
How Will the World End
It has always been an intensely in
teresting conjecture to scientists and
at the same time the greater part of
the other intelligent members of soci
ety as to the way In which our world
will at length come to an end Many
think that it will be through the gradu
al cooling of the sun v hii h will een
tually fall to ghe out suHcient heat
to sustain life on our i -net But an
otherand a particularly unpleasant
fate that might befall us is explained
in a work by Mr Ellard Gore Real
danger says lie is always to be
feared from tho pres nee of immense
dark bodies moving unseen in space
vast dead suns whose collision with
our own would increase its heat
enormously and thus instantly destroy
the earth We should not however
be without a warning of our terrible
end for on entering a radius of 15000
000000 miles from the sun the advanc
ing body would begin to shine with re
flected light and fifteen years would
elapse between the time of the destroy
ers being sighted and its collision
with the sun
Glass Cutting
The layman who is introduced to the
mysteries of cutting glass for the first
time is amazed at the amount of work
that the workman does entirely by his
eye The first stage of tho bowl which
is to be cut finds it in a perfectly plain
condition not a scratch upon it and
only a half dozen or more marks in red
chalk which mean absolutely nothing
to the unpracticed eye But to the
workman they mean the whole pat-
Faithful to the End
The fiames crackled ominously the
water bubbled in the great pot and
seated in the shade of a palm the
naked savages began to sharpen their
cruel knives
Is there no hope murmured the
doomed commercial traveler
Xone hissed the ebon chief
Then said the young man point
ing to his sample case if you are de
termined to eat me at least let me
ask you as a last favor to try our
brand of mustard with the feast I
am convinced that one trial will secure
us your permanent patronace and I
But KS ailus seized him here
there was a splash all was over j
Los Angeles Times
Sensible Preference
In One or Miss Mulocks stories she
says that a cheerful heart seetli cheer
ful things and gives this incident in
proof of it
A lady and gentleman were in a lum
ber yard situated by a dirty foul smell
ing river The lady said How good
the pine boards smell
Pino boards exclaimed the gentle
man Just smeli that foul river
No thank you was the reply I
prefer to smell the pine boards
No Reform Wanted
I hope hell reform when you ate
married
I dont
Why he spends every cent he
earns
I know if but he spends it on me
I -Houston Post
Caustic Criticism
Sculptor to his friend j Wf ll what
think of my but Fine piece
of marble Isnt it Friend Maenifi
cent ttbat a pity to have made a
bust of it ft would have mad a- love
ly mantelpiece Bon Vivant
She Was On
The Doctor You understand dunt
you that tiiis is only to be used ex
ternally The Patients- Wife Sure
sir I alius makes him get out o bed
to drink it Harpers Weekly
Face to Face With Work
Darling if you refuse me I dont
know what I am to do
Well Im not to blame for that you
should have learned a trade Pick
lie Up
Tho State Fair to bo held at Lincoln
Sept 2 0 gives promise of being tho
greatest State Fair ovor held in Ne
braska Socrotnry W K Mollor in
forms ua that the exhibits in all de
partments are vory hoavy and promiso
to oxcecd in magnitude thoao of last
year which was tho record bronker
heretofore The management havo so
cured Chas J Strobol and his airship
which aro now making flights at tho
Jamestown Exposition to mako daily
flights nt our Fair Tho stake racos
havo 128 horses nnmod in them as
against 58 named last year and this
feature of tho Fair is looked forward to
with groat anticipation by tho horao
lovers Fully 23 per cent moro swino
will bo exhibited this year than last
and ail tho live stock dopartmonts aro
receiving an abundance of entries If
no moro entries of County Collective
Exhibits aro recoived from now on
Agricultural hall will have a liner
exhibit than over boforu Nobraska
has tho best agricultural exhibit shown
at any Fair in tho United Statos and
such an exhibit is a credit to our stato
and worth going miles to seo Tho Im
plement section is oven greater than
that of Inst year and a farmer con temp
Iatiug tho purchaso of a piece of mach
inery will securo tho best of satisfaction
by comparing the different kinds or the
sumo machine all of which will bo
shown by experts who can teach you
the points of superiority
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POULTRY
and EGGS
Old Rubber Copper and Brass
Highest Market Price Paid in Cash
hand Coursss taucht
by Most Experienced Tcaciiers in the west
Positions for cradnatcs Work for Board Help
for deserving students Address
Mosher Lampman College
Information fre 1700 Krnnm St Oxaih Ikb
t
The Security Abstract
and Realty Company j
FOR LOANS AND INSURANCE
Farm1 Willi Lands and City
Property at owners iiritcs
Properties of non residents
looked after Write for infor
mation
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DEALER IN
Wtotmn Insturrnn tntir P MU
tern Perhaps the dish is a salad bowl 1 1 builihmr t
inclination for the yellow stuff P E I -The marks in chalk will run from the j PlcCook
edge fivi intervals nnirr ilnwn to the
center of the bowl at the bottom In
one of the divisions of tho bowl thus
marked there may bo a little further
marking in the shape perhaps of a
diamond This indicates the pattern
into which the bowl is to be cut and
it will be repeated in each of the five
divisions All the intricacies of the
design the workman has in his head
and they develop on the glass in a way
which seems to tho looker on absolute
ly marvelous New York Times
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