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THE FARMER: JANUARY 17, 1913 FOULKE E. BRANDT EXPECTS TO BE PARDONED BY GOVERNOR SULZER eater Coal 12 $5 Sw Extra Sporting Page FIR n? R? I 1 'J Albany, X. T.. Jan. 17. -Foulke E. Brandt, now serving a sentence of ihirt.v years m the state prison at Dannemora for entering the home of his former employer, Mortirlper L. 5chiff, a Xew Tork banker. Will ap pear before Governor Sulzer today, at the public hearing on his application lor a pardon or commutation of sen GLASS IS PECULIAR. It Has a Number of Curious and Con tradictory Qualities. Glass is one of the most interesting la well as one of the most peculiar things in the world. It has curions and eontraflictory qualities, and many as tonishing - phenomena are connected with It. Brittle and breakable as it is, ret it exceeds almost all other bodies In slastlclty. - ' --- :, If two glass bails are made to strike each other at a given force the recoil, by virtue of their elasticity, wrH be nearly equal to their original isopetus. Connected, jTtiraea-re some rery singular- facts. ". Z- ' ; Take a hollow sphere with a hole and Stop the hole with the finger,, so as to prevent the external and Internal air from communicating, and the sphere vill fly to pieces by the mere heat of the hand. Vessels made of glass that have been suddenly cooled possess the curious property of beiug able to re sist hard blows given to them from without, but will be instantly shivered by a .small particle of flint dropped into their cavities. This property seems fb flepend upon the comparative thickness of the bottom; the thicker the bottom Is' the more certainty of breakage by this experiment. Some of these vessels. It is stated, have resisted the- stroke of B mallet given with sufficient force to drive a nail into wood, and heavy bod ies, such as iron, bits of wood, jasper, Btone. etc., have been cast into them from a height of two or three feet with out irhy effect, yet a fragment of flint aot larger thau a pea dropped from a aeight of three inches has made them 9y. ; ; - . ELIZA WAS GENEROUS. Hsr Munificent Ofver For an Original Five Aot Tragedy. People are likely to look back com piiseratingly upon - the past, in these Bays of modern progress. When we Ilea what the, aiiost. prolific -of present flay novelists . receives a word and what the weekly royalties of any well known playwrights are we say that Xhe literary profession has come into Its own. Some hark hack to the con trasting tale that Milton received tnly 5 for the first , copyright of "Faradise Ixst." an epic in twelve books contalniiig a- total of 10,565 Hues, but that was over two centuries Biro. Poe received $10 for "'The Raven." That may be dismissed with the statement that poetry never paid. The modern way of making money by literature is even more recent than is generally thought. Alexander Hill pf Ckictnnati, one of the best known bookmen and collectors of the middle west, has a letter in his collection of mutographs that proves this point. Two generations ago Eliza Logan was a leading actress in America. Read her letter,- O budding genius on the typewriter, and be glad that when rou are paid it is space rates for the bcal paper: Tremont House, Boston, May 17, 1854. E. Duaseault, Jr., Charlestown. Mass. Sir :I wish an original five act tragedy the feature to be a heroine, myself the pr:onator of It; the scene not to be laid In this country; the plot to be optional with the author for which, if I like it, I will pay K. Respectifully, ELIZA LOGAN. Boston Post. Amerioan Leaf Colors. It has been observed that. Jhe leaves of American ; trees', such aV' maples, scarlet oaks and so forth, which at kome- exhibit splendid - .colors in the autumn, fall below their reputation in this regard when transplanted in Eng land or on the continent of Europe. An English observer, who has been studying the causes of the autumn tints of trees, thinks the superiority cf pur. woodlands arises jCromthesoft X.,V . .-I rM tence. "He entered a plea of ' guilty after his arrest seven years ao with the understandms "that - he would re ceive a light sentence, and then he got the limit. The Judge who sen tenced him has recently expressed the opinion that he was deceived and that the sentence was excessive. There is no legal way for Brandt's release ex cept by executive clemency. and mild yet glowing climatic condi tions prevailing her in thevfall. Eng land, it is added, Is rarely blessed -with an Indian summer. When the climatic conditions permit the-leaves to retain considerable vitality in the autumn ;the colored pigment is normally de veloped; hence the glorious forests of ,the United : States. Chicago Reoord HeralaV " i . . . Regulating Price of Books. The price of books was once a mat ter for legislation In England. An at of 1534, ' whieb. seems ' never to have been repealed, provides that any com plaint regarding the price of . books should be considered by "the lord cham berlain, the lord ' treasurer and the Justices or any two of these," and that those dignitaries should have "power and authority to reform and redress the enhancing of the prices of printed books and to limit the prices of the books and the offenders should lose and forfeit for every book by them sold whereof the price be enhanced the sum of 3s. 6d." London Mail. She Didn't Do It. The family Jar waxed fiercer. "You talk about my being. to blame for our marryingl" shrilly exclaimed Mrs. Vick-Senn. - "John Henry, did I hunt you out and then make love to you?" "Xo!" he snorted. "But you could have given me the glassy eye and sent me about my business, and you didn't do it, madam you didn't do it!" Chi cago Tribune. Capital Punishment. "Mamma, did you love to flirt when you were young?" "I am afraid I did, dear." "And were you ever punished for it, mamma?" "Cruelly, dear. I married your fa ther." Paris Ri re. The hours we pass with happy pros pects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. Gold smith. . ... A Wonderful Escape. Fieschi tried to assassinate -King Louis Philippe of France in July, 1835. The king was riding along the lines of the national guard in the Boulevard du Temple. There came a crash and a rush of bullets. Louis Philippe's arm was grazed, his horse was shot in the neck, Marshal Mortier fell dead and about thirteen other people were killed and thirty wounded. Fieschi had taken the upper floors of a house several weeks before and there rigged up an oaken frame four feet by three feet six inches, supported on four posts of oak and itself supporting twenty-five gun barrels fixed in grooves at various angles so as to command an area of tweniy-five feet in length and ten feet in height. When he fired the train of powder that let off his battery the king would have been killed if four barrels had not burst and two missed fire. Sorrows of Authorship. "Paradise Lost" brought Milton only a paltry 5 about $25 of our money. Hawthorne for twenty years con tinued to be, to use his own words, "the obscurest man of letters in America." "There is not much market for my wares," he said at another time. -Thoreau is an interesting example. A thousand copies of his "A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers" were printed, but very few of these were sold, and a considerable number were given away by the author. The remainder were returned to him and were stored in his attic. He grimly observed, "I have now a library of 900 volumes, the greater portion of which I myself have written." New L'SnnfaHswiw . 1 OWLING. CITY rT"CK MX I.K.VGUK. Arcades, 2; Cubs, 1. Arcades. Lieberum 103 100 78 281 C. Sperry 86 90 82 258 Hopkins 102 101 105 308 Webber 95 74 90 259 Dudley ........ 96 92 105 293 Totals .......482 457 480 139-9 Ciibs. Johnson 97 88 83 268 Hobson . 95 80 92 287 Brown . JT. . . 81 94 78 253 Callan 99 90 97 286 Dewey . . . 94 93 113 ,300 Totals 466 445 463 1371 INDUSTMAIj ijeague. 1 Bridgeport Bituju Co. Kastner ..... 98 86 86- Lanron "S7 75 83- Jersey- 77 85 82- Japp 80 104 88- McFali;..:....,v 98 105 78- 265 245 244 272 281 Totals . . .435 455 ; 417 1307 A. W. Biwritt Go. Moore-.... 86 77 87 250 Johnson 93 73 84 250 Gardner 85 93 107 2S5 Terrill ......... 94 90 94 27S Wyllie ....105 85 104 294 Totals 463 , 418 476 1357 Game tonight Handy & Harman vs. Bridgeport Public Market Branch. TJ. M. C BOWLERS WEST. U. M. C Co. Skinner 83 95 85 262 Hotchkiss ...i.. 95 93 81 269 Gault 85 79 76 240 Waldhaus '. 8ff 80 82 248 Conway 99 82 115 296 -Totals 447 429 439 12 th IIgt Sep. Club. -1316 Connor. ....,7- . . . . 90 79 8 249 254 254 267 230 Ttice 9i; 88. 75- Daniels,-.. 79. 88 87- Nichols . .... 90 84 . .93- Sherwood . . . 74 70 86- Totals .......424 403 421 1254 TJ. M. C. TWO-MEN- LEAGUE. Tea m One. - r. W. HotchkisB .. 70 74 76 220 Wa.ldha.us 89 92 83 264 Totals 169 166 159 484 ' Team four. Connor '. 82 85 89 266 Gaiilt c 67 .85 100 252 Totals ,--149 170 189- 508 . Team Two. Skinner 85 102 84 271 Gray . . 87 87 87 261 Totals ...172 189 171 261 - '-. Team Three. F. Hotchkiss 100 86 58 244 Bishop 84 89 76 243 y .. 1 1 ... ... . ,,-. Totals .,.,....18.1 : 175 137493 . - . - - - ' . YOST LEAGUE. D. Palmer 71 66 72 209 Carroll 81 69 71 221 Totals ...... .152 135 143 430 Bassett- ....73 65 80 218 Murpby- 77 84 68 229 s Totals ........ 150 149 148 447 Reed 78 78 92 24S M. Palmer . . . . . 77 79 78 23 i Totals 155 157 170 482 Hannigan -. . . . . i 79 65 69 21S McCarten ... 73 73 87 233 To'tals ...152 138 156 446 Brooks ..... 79 70 78 227 Daily . .i . 79 76 88 243 Totals 158 146 166 470 C. Newton 79 81 81 241 A. Newton . 86 75 75 236 Totals .......165 156 156 477 DRAFTING RULES MAY BE CHANGED THIS YEAR It would not be surprising- to see some change made in the drafting rules ibefore next fall. Under the present system the league champions stand just as good a chance of obtain ing the cream of the draft as does any other club. During the season the teams in the first division are usually the ones whose -books show the big gest profit, so that they are 'in the best position to pay big prices' for the stars of the minor leagues before the draft ing season commences. The closer the race the more interest it attracts and the better it is financially for all con cerned. It is therefore a good busi ness proposition for the magnates to strengthen the weaker clubs. W4th this end in view several own ers are -in favor of giving the second division clutos the first opportunity at drafted players. If a list of all play ers for whom drafts were put in was made and then the tairenders given first pick the clubs in seventh position second pick and' so on, in rotation, the championship club getting the last choice, it would not only distribute the incoming material fairly but would have a tendency materially to strengthen the weaker teams. WILLARD WON'T THRCW DOWN HIS OLD MANAGER FOR FOXY TOM JONES (Buffalo Elnouirer.) Chicago, Jan. 17. Tom Jones arrived in Chicago Sunday for 4he purpose of trying to induce Jess Willard to go to the Pacific coast under his manage ment for a second heavyweight elim ination tournament, which Tom Mc Carey . intends . putting on a.t his Ver non arena Jones met Willardi, but there was nothing stirring in the way of a. busi ness deal between the two men. Wil lard told Jones than any transaction he would' have in the way of signing u-p would have to be done toy Oharley Cutler. Jones told Willard that there was a lot of money to be made on the coast, and that he was in a position to get it for him. .Speakfsg of Jones coming all the way across the conti nent to talk business with him,Wil lard SM.id': "Jones will have to talk to Cutler about doing business with me. If they fix ithdnge up among themselves and do agree,- I have the final say. I'm not a kid and-. I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking. If Jones or anyone else wants to do business- with me they have got to show me where I get off at. Cutler has been offered S10.000 for my release from any obli gation I may be under to him. I have ven Jharley my word that any agreeable to him. If. Jones: can 'show me' where I can g?et the coin, that's what I am in the boxing game for. Jones has never seen Willard In ac tion, but he says he ie willing: to take a chance on what he has1 heard. It might toe all rig-ht for Willardu to ac cept Jones' proposition whatever 1 nuty be but it is a question whether it is a-divisable for a fellow of WTl lard's experience to step out west and start in going Hie Marathon route. Jess is nothing1 more than a novice in the ' fighting game, and needs a, whole lot: more experience before he attempts to go the route. One thing is certain He is more popular in New York, and, in fact, ny place in the east, than he is out in the Golden "West. If he should box one of the big fellows on the coast and happen to get shaded,- "it's good-by to' a match with Mc carty. JAKE STAHL CLAIMS HE'LL PLAY FIRST FOR BOSTON RED SOX -'.Tak" :FStflh1- -m n.nn.cr rvP t Vl r- world champion Boston American baseball team, took occasion Wednesday night to set his frlenas right as to the report from Boston, that he had decided not to play first base during the- coming season. He said he had no Intention of deliberately quitting the poet.- "If I don't play first base it will bo because some young fellow can beat me out of trie-job," he said. -''Just now I do not think anyone can beat me, for I feel more like play ing than I did a. year ago. My legs are better this year) because of my playing last season. I suppose the story of my being unable to play this year started because my legs were bad for a while last year. I'll go to Hot Springs about the last week in February, probably a week ahead of Che . team, so I can get the jump on them." REV. PAUL KIRCH SUCCEEDS REV. C. R. TAPPERT IX MEEIDEX Meriden, Jan. 17 It is announced that Rev. Paul Kirch, of Brooklyn, N. T., had accepted a call to the pastor ate of the German Emmanuel Luther an Church of this city. He will suc ceed Rev. C. R. Tappert, who is go ing to Berlin. Ont. THE QILA MONSTER. Repulsive In Le.ca, It Is Really m Hstrmless Creature. Probably there is no other living creature more feared by the ignorant than the Gila monster, about which all, manner of weird tales have been told. It has even been held that the mere breath of this animal is sufficient to cause death to the one upon whom It fell. Scientific inquiry, however, fails to. disclose a single Instance wherein the breath or ewai the bite of this creature has resulted fatally. The fact that dissection and microscopic' examination do not reveal any. trace of. glands for "the secretion of venom is sufficient evidence to indicate that this curious member of the lizard family has been slandered. Some years ago a civil' engineer In the southwest undertook to settle once for all the question whether "the mon ster" was deadly or not. A fine speci men was captured and confined in a wire inclosure. A chicken was obtain ed,- and . its feathers were removed in order that the lizard might have every opportunity, to strike at the breast. The chicken was then held quite close bo the Gila monster, which soon snap ped viciously and secured a firm hold an the fowl's breast, retaining this grip for more than ten minutes. When the victim was released it was found that the chicken's breastbone had been bro ken. Nevertheless the fowl quickly recovered,; the bone knitting and the wound healing with no symptoms of poisoning. It is very probable that the, reputa tion for evil borne by the Gila mon ster is due simply and solely to its most repulsive appearance. Harper'a Weekly. THE UBIQUITOUS SEA LION. He Strayed a Long Way 'From Home Before He Was Killed. The following story is taken from the. American Magazine: "Sunday is a dull day, and the city editors had a habit of detailing men to go to the zoological gardens and get animal stories for Monday morning. The reporters got together one Sunday morning and persuaded the head ani mal keeper to let them publish a fake story. It was rather commonplace, concerning the, alleged escape of a non existent sea lion from the pool to open water. " 'Fake,' said the managing editor as he read the story. 'Let's make it a good one.' "Thereupon Ire sent telegrams to ev ery country correspondent on that wa ter or its tributaries, merely inquiring if anything had been seen of the es caped sea lion. The response was ap palling! The correspondents needed only the hint. That day the sea lion was seen by at least twenty corre spondents, and. Berghand printed all the reports one after another. Thus spurred, the correspondents went to it in earnest. The following day the sea lion was reported at every point with in 200 miles. The story spread like ripples on water. In five days the lion was sighted over half the world, and an enthusiast at Southampton cabled that he was heading toward the north sea. Then a cruel correspondent up on Lake Superior killed him and wired that he was sending the skin as proof. I always suspected that the managing editor did it himself." A Fine Sense of Feeling. One of two darkies who run a boot black "parlor" in partnership was brag ging of his well developed sense of touch, particularly' in the matter of money. He boasted that he could tell the denomination of any United States coin merely by feeling it. His partner wearied of these boasts and came back with this: "Tour sense o' feelln' ain't nothin' to my friend Marcus. Him and me used to work on the Pullman down through Kansas. Marcus had been on this route for about ten years. One night when we was both ,a-sleepin 'long, around MISS HELEN GOULD AND F. J. SHEPARD WILL BE MARRIED AT HER COUNTRY HOME, LYNDHURST, NEAR TARRYTOWN fi. Y. Tari-ytown, N. X., Jan. 17. Miss Helen Gould and Finley J. Shepafd will be married at Miss Gould's hand some country home, Lyndhurst near this place. It is understood that the ceremony will be performed by the Rev. Malcolm MacLeod of the Col legiate church of Tarrytown. Unof ficial information puts the date at Jan. 22, though ho formal announcement has been made. midnight, I wakes up and I shakes Mar cus and I says, 'Marcus, where are we? And Marcus Jest rolls over and sticks his hand out the window and he says, 'We're goin' through Oswego. " Ev erybody's. Writing on a Pillow. Every one who has had occasion to write while riding in a railway train will be interested in the fact that the disagreeable effects of the Jarring of the carriage are greatly mitigated by writing on a pillow. The pillow may be either held on the lap or placed on a table. The pad of paper and the arm which guides the pen or pencil should both rest on the pillow. In this manner it will be found pos sible to write legibly and -with com fort in a train flying at full speed. London Answers. Poor Mamma. The Dear Child Oh, Mrs. Bloom, when did you get back? Mrs. Bloom Bless you. dear, I was not away any where. What made you think so? The Dear Child I thought you were. I heard my mamma say that you were at loggerheads with your husband for over a week. ' Original, "Was there anything original in his ipeech at the Jbanqaet?" -' - - SUIT OR OVERCOAT TO ORDER Re duced from $25 Also other reductions bring fine merchant-tailored Suits and Overcoats (not ready-made guessfits) down to $12.75 and $15.75 lBmlish la0ki Mills (So 1134 MAIN ST., Half Block North of Fairfield Av , OPE3T MODAY AND SATURDAY .EVEJiTJfGS si jr - - -4-m. ? r - t Ci; i ; - i ... j - ' 1 J? W3 ,!- a . "Well," he aflmltted that he knew he was to be called on." Detroit Free Press. Well Instructed. Miss F$fth Avenue Maudie claims to be au untnstrueted delegate. Miss Bea con Street Impossible! She's from Bos ton. Life. Behavior is a mirror in which every, one displays his image. Goethe. The Thing He Remembered. A young girl of romantic disposition sat at dinner next to a man who had once rowed on one of Cornell's greatest crews. She tried to draw him out on the subject of racing and of the par ticular contest in which he had cap tained the crew in his senior year. "I suppose," she said, "that your most vivid recollection of that race is of the cheers of the crowd as you came across the finish line?" He shook his head. "Maybe it was the start which burned itself on your memory; the rec ollection of the tenseness of the wait before you heard the starter's pistol?" Again he shook his head. "What is the thing in connection with tie race that you remember most distinctly?" "Well," said the oarsman slowly, "when any one talks about that race It always brings one recollection, one picture, a veryvlyi(!L opeT to my mlad X This stylish $5 wool sweater-coat, with warm roll collar, free with every order see them in our window. $5 all-worsted Trousers free, or titnry -vest free, if preferred, with all orders over $12.75. And al! garments tailored to measure. J? "- r - - ' ' ' ' ' - right" away." "What is that?"" askf-1 the girl eagerly. "The man who rowr-J No. 4, who sat Just In front of me, bad a mole exactly midway between hi shoulder blades." New York Tribune. Railway Station Library. lu the refreshment room of a Su.-ofw-x (England) railway station the traveler may sec a small rack of books". If ! is sufficiently curious to look h win discover from a written !abf;l that the books are the property of the vicar of the town, who places them nt th disposal of any passenger who Kki to take a volume away, ih only con dition being that he shall Tit-a th volume to Its place on his 74urii or post It to the vicar. His Part. Magistrate (to wltneasl I understand that you overheard the riinrrl h tween the defendant anl his wife? AVItness Yes, sir. Masistrate THI the court, if yon can, what he sn ! to be doing. AVitnews He seem-ed lo be doln" the llstenin'. Pretty Bad. Wife Tom, I wish you wouldn't piny poker. I don't even like the name of the game. Hub Why not? Wife It suggests "playing- with fire." Iiotoa TTsnnnn,ntrifc i , T