THE FARMER: JANUARY 17, 1913
FOULKE E. BRANDT EXPECTS TO BE
PARDONED BY GOVERNOR SULZER
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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
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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 $15.75
lBmlish la0ki Mills (So
1134 MAIN ST., Half Block North of Fairfield Av
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"Well," he aflmltted that he knew he
was to be called on." Detroit Free
Press.
Well Instructed.
Miss F$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
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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
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