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The Superior Times
VOL. XXXX!. NO. 1 i.
HANS WAGNER.
Recently litre came out of Pltts
l)!'r a startling story that throe
members of the Pirates had been In a
battle ala Jeffrles-Johnson. Accord'
big to the story Hans Wagner and
Miller, second baseman, had jumped
on to Jack Flynn, guardian of the In
hial sack, and both got a licking from
former Bt. Paul captain.
Was It denied? Everybody denied
Barney Drey fuss, owner of the
■’bates, used the uglier and shorter
i In denying it. Fred Clarke, man
B HOW 1 WIN [fa
—HJ By WILLIAM (“BULL”) BAULI N I 1 1
ri Manager Brooklyn National League Club, ■ ■
I Former Shortntop Anson's Famous
' While Stockings 1 *
■ ' pyright, KUO, by Joaoph B. Bowles.)
lUe only theory on which I ever
tave worked is that every man on a
' am should work for the common In
terest, that each man should help out
’ a< h other one, and that eight men,
B strong ought to help out the weak
one.
Close attention to every move Is
essential. Not only should a player
watch every change of position of his
opponents, but he should watch his
William Dahler.
fellow players to see what they are
'• ng The mind must be alert at
• ■ ery Instant during a game. There
y no room In major league baseball
for an >' except fast-thlnklng and fast-
T -. \,ng players. I do not mean that
■ l Piayer must be a ten-second man.
1 mean he must be on his toee. ready
Kmp in any given direction with
c ’ the loss of an Instant.
ager, declared there wasn’t a word of
truth to the story. Wagner growled
out a denial. Miller said he never
heard of it. Few fans are willing to
place Wagner in the role of a trouble
maker.
Then came Flynn. “I didn’t lick
’em. of course not,” he said. ‘‘l hail
nothing to lick ’em for. I couldn't lick
'em If 1 tried. We’re room-mates and
friends and there has been no reason
for me to punch their faces uo report
ed 11 I wanted to, or could."
Footwork in baseball is one of the
most necessary things. A man who
handles his feet well, either batting,
fielding or base running, Is a good
player, for footwork Is better than
ability with the hands. It is as neces
sary for a player to be shifty on hla
feet as It is for a boxer. No one can
be shifty unless he Is on his toes all
the time, and a flat footed player Is as
bad as a flat-beaded one—and usually
the two things go together.
The batter who Is on his toes, bal
anced and ready for the jump, will
hit, for he can shift and swing and
still get his weight behind the bat.
The shifty runner on first Is ready
to move either way—to dive back to
first or go on to second. In the field
he moves with the ball, and Is moving
when it Is bit, so he covers more
ground.
A young player starting In (lie busi
ness should watch every move of the
batter, and poise himself for the start
just as a sprinter does 1 remember
that one of the first things taught me
after I joined the old Chicago club
was starting, and the crowd of great
players under Anson won many games
because they started faster and were
readier In seizing an opportunity than
their opponents were. Another thing
they taught me was sliding to bases,
not only so as to avoid being touched,
hut also to avoid getting hurt or hurt
ing any one. That slide known as the
“Chicago slide” was the Invention of
Kelly and adopted by Burns, William
son,' Pfeifer and the great players f
that day. There Is more footwork to
that slide than In any other depart
ment of the game. It consists in
watching the position of the baseman
who Is receiving a thrown ball and
throwing the body In the opposite dl
-notion, sliding on the hip with the
1-g partially bent under and the toe
(joking the bag
SUPERIOR. WISCONSIN. SATI RDA Y. ,i I I.Y •_>. 1010.
Punishing Wife Deserters in Nation's Capital
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WASHINGTON -Experience under
the family desertion and non
support law in Washington has proved
that it is possible to bring deserting
husbands to time and make them sup
port their families, however much
they may want to skip out and leave
wives and children to shift for them
selves.
Punishment in itself profits nobody.
The law alms not to punish but to se
cure support. The man decides
whether he will work In confinement
or out of it, and Judge William 11. Do
Lacy of the Juvenile court sees that he
does work In one way if he will not in
the other.
When a man brought up for non
support promises to furnish it he la
put on probation, and ordered to pay
Col. Roosevelt in
£ 1
QEVERAL times recently, when
jJ the name of the American ex
president-sportsman has been men
tioned, I have been asked: 'You’ve
heard the dog story, of course?'” says
Joe Mitchell Chappie in the National
magazine.
"1 like to hear all the variations on
dog stories, ao I asked, ‘Which dog
story?’
‘ ‘That one, you know, that. "Buffalo
Bill” tells about Roosevelt hunting
bears in Colorado. It seems that ho
hired a man and a dog, but neither
seemed to be very successful in get
ting him the desired bear. At last lie
lost patience and Inquired: ''lsn't
there a good dog to be had in this
country?"
“ ‘Oh, yes—Smith down below here
has the beat bear dog in the moun
tains.' The president went to see
Smith and said:
“ 'This is Mr. Smith. I understand
you have a fine bear dog, Mr. Smith?'
Senate “Chair” Calls Himself to Order
IT 13 quite against all the rules of
propriety to make a noise In the
United States senate, even with (he
little bit of an Ivory cube which the
president of the senate once In awhile
touches gently upon the marble desk
to call the attention of the senators to
some little thing.
Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas,
the only aboriginal American who ever
sat In a senatorial chair, was presiding
In the senate the other day, having
graduated over there from the bouse.
As la well known, the gavels on the
speaker’s desk In the house do not last
very long. One session usually splint
ers them. Even If they were made of
Washington Hotel Is Stormed By Birds
PEDESTRIANS who are out braving
the dlsagreablo weather, and who
happened to be In the vicinity of the
New Willard hotel in Washington re
cently, were struck with wonder when
they saw the upper portion of the ho
tel obscured by a rapidly moving
cloud.
And the moving mass which created
all this excitement —excitement within
as well as without the hotel- proved
to he a flock of swallows gone astray
in thslr aerial flight. Within the hotel
no end of trouble and inconvenience
*;• experienced, for many of the
births flew in through the open win
dows and were ousted with a great
deal of difficulty.
The feathered cloud went astray
pro’- ably through the miscalculation >:
a specified amount of tils wages each
Saturday night at the police station
nearest his home. The serge, nt turns
the money over to the Juvenile court
and then the wife gets it in full on
Monday morning, her pay day. The
money is pretty safe hero, and the
plan heads off many a Saturday night
spree. Tho man Is kept at work,
which is a mighty good tiling of itself,
and .he family is kept together.
Men who are not willing to furnish
support under this arrangement and
those who default in payment or dc
sort a second time are promptly sent
to tho workhouso. There they are
made up into gangs and put to work
In Rock Creek park, where Mr. Hoose
velt when president used to take his
afternoon gallop.
Judge Del.acy's execution of tho law
Is effective because it la certain. Fam
ily desertion Is a misdemeanor or a
felony In almost every state and Is
punishable with bard labor In many.
Rut to punish the man In Jail the Judge
must also punish his wife and children
by cutting off his wages.
a New Dog Story
"'None belter in the Rockies,’ was
the assurance.
"‘Can't I hire him or buy him?’
" Tie ain’t for hire and I wouldn't
sell that dog for no price jots could
offer.’
‘‘‘Well, won't you come with the
dog allow me to hire both you and
the dog?’
’’ 'No, I ain’t hirin’ out now. 1 got
to go after bacon and flour and some
more things my folks wants for the
house.’
"Report has it that President Roose
velt felt a trifle nettled at the man's
obstinacy.
“ 'Look here,’ lie said, 'do you know
who I am?'
“ 'No, I don’t know—what's the
odds?’
" T am Theodore Roosevelt, presi
dent of the United States.' A pause to
await the desired effect and yielding
"Smith dexterously deposited sumo
tobacco juice on the ground Just
beyond tho president's nearest hunting
boot.
" 'Well,' lie said, slowly, T don't
care if y#u are Booker T. Washington,
you can’t hire my dog.’
“And all the little Innocent bears
wont to bed happy fiiat night, glad
they had escaped Smith’s dog.''
cast iron they would wear out, and on
Senator Curtis’ presiding hangs a
tale.
Senator Baron of Georgia, grave,
dignified and somewhat dictatorial,
was trying to address the senate.
Senator Dillingham of Vermont, who
hud the bill in charge upon which Sen
ator Bacon was going to speak, was
engaged In conversation with his col
leagues. Senator Kean of New Jersey
was also talking to Senator Warren of
Wyoming. Senator Bacon wanted to
get the attention of the senator from
Vermont before speaking on his bill,
and hesitated a moment, which Sena
tor Curtis took as a for him to
get busy. Ho he began pounding that
little marble cube until the senate
chamber fairly rang
Senator Curtis, who la nothing if not
polite, with a merry twinkle In bis
black eyes, apologized for bis undue
exertions with the Ivory cube, and
said: " fhe chair will now coma to
order. The senator from Georgia Is
recognized. *
the leaders, and when a few of them,
flying too low, went in the direction of
the hotel windows, the rest followed,
like a flock of misguid'd sheep. Pell
mail they struck against (he roof and
upper windows, and, where the win
dows were open, in they flew and
round and round the rooms. But the
aeroplane landing on the Willard is
not In commission yet and the hotel
management objected strenuously to
any attempt of guests to enter by
means of the roof
Accordingly, a corps ol hotel em
ployes, including all the volunteers
who could be pressed into service,
made for the upper chambers of the
hostelry and swished and switched
the wlngt and visitors out of doors, some
dead and some alive.
Tabloid Novel.
A DA ROBERT W CHAMBERS
He- I beg your paj’lon for taking
♦his liberty, miss, but.
OL, no harm, mr My name is
Louise. and yours?
|)—Malcolm. Lotnye, I love you!
She —Malcolm! 11—FucA.
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MA/A Of Ah'OOf JOLAfiP a l ’. 1 1 . P '>y>-. E|
FOR the last four years I have
earned my pin moin'j out of
chickens. My hens give me
a profit of more than five dot
lavs a head. You think that an
enormous yield for chickens ’ So do
I, for I had been raising a few chick
ens ever since 1 was a small girl;
but 1 have my account book and so |
know just what I spend and what I
take In.
My chickens arc Rhode Island Reds
and bred from the best layers. I have
found that (here Is more In the strain
than in the breed of chickens I cur
ried m> chickens with me when I
went to Florida, so 1 know all about
them for generations.
Years ago I sold all mj other
breeds, keeping only the Plymouth
Rocks and Rhode Island Reb because
I had proved to my satisfaction that
these two breeds gave most eggs In the
winter wlien eggs are scarce ami fetch
the highest prices. I finally discard
ed the Plymouth Recks because 1
found the Rhode Islanders hardier and
lighter feeders, or perhaps I should
say better foragers.
This characteristic of their being
good foragers has hud a good deal to
do with my large profits In Florida. I
never have given my flock meal. They
find Insects enough for their own
meat supply. Since the first season
down there I have never given them
a lilt of meat except the few morsels
that are mixed in the table scraps
which they have regularly every day.
In Florida I hav< not raised my own
feed but have bought It In small quan
tities at the regular retail prices I
have been forced to hire all labor
done, such as building and repairing
tie houses, coops and fences At my
home in Massnebu: etts, being then
a comparatively strong woman, 1 was
abb* to do till stub tiling.■ myself, and
> t my chickens nevei netted me more
than $1 50 a head till the years that I
I niggled with them.
Theie in the winter the birds had
to be housed and supplied with green
and meat fond besides their regular
rations of grain In Florida they run
in I lie yards all the year long and
pet their green food from the small
puteh of grain whl* h I keep for them
tit the back of their yard and their
own meat by catching Insects.
North* rn friends who have route to
visit mo ask If there is not a differ
ence in the prices which I now re
ceive for my chickens and those I
sold while In Massachusetts. I am
forced to reply that I formerly re
ceived somewhat higher prices than
are paid in Florida. Most of my
eggs and dressed fowls are bought by
the largest hotel and though It, Is run
by a northern manager, ho expects
and gets southern prices. All that
the hotel does not lake ts readily
sold to private families, so I never
have the expense of shipping
I do Dot think any other breed
would do as well as my Rhode Island
Reds. I let my hens sit on their own
eggs. I have found this best In a
small flock A hen must have some
time for rest from laying I never
allow a h<n to sit more than once
in each year, because It Is not neces
sary where all are equally good moth
ers and where there Is a good demand
for fresh eggs
Before the chickens ate a month old
(lie moth' r Invariably h.i begun to
lay again I have four hens that
give me 200 eggs each year. They are
mother and three daughters As the
mother is now four years old I am
looking forward (o the time when her
yield of eggs will drop off, but even
then I think It will pay me to keep
her, not only because of the strain,
but also because she Is an excellent
brooder and mother. The ordinary
hen i do not think it pays to keep
after it Is two ears old.
I have found that In Florida the
houses have to be much more care
fully attended to than In Massachu
,eits because of tie extretm difficulty
In k* eplng down vermin My houst s
are all of wood built for ventilation
more than warmth For the first four
feat lh<* hoards are put on solid to
. re vent the depredations of what lie*
vgrqes Uo v a here call varmint* that
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is. minks, 'coons, foxes and stray
dogs mul cals that may slip through
your fence Above (his sollil line
a space of two inches is allowed be
iwcai the boards until on u Hue with
the III! as There again is a solid
belt lo prevent the chickens from
roosting in a draft.
I Insides the usual enemies here a
rhicki n raiser has lo light snak ■
They slip into (he nests and not only
swallow the eggs, but often devour
young thicks. To light them a Flor
ida friend (old me to gel a pig and
give her the run of the yard, but lo
make 1 r he had no lb rkshlre blood
in her veins It seems that In Florida,
If nowhere else, the Berkshire hog has
a reputation of eating tie h ami I" U>x
especially fond of young poultry.
t suet • .•ded In getting a pig of no
particular breed, mil since then have
had no trouble with snakes; Indeed It
Is seldom that one Is sefi in the
plate Thtil pig and her esslon of
families have driven away all that
they haven't eaten up. < >lv yes, the
snakes tight for their lives striking
the pigs repeatedly, hut thh) doesn't
appear to interrupt the feast. They
are calmly taught and ehowed up
They say the snake diet doesn't In
jure the quality of the pork or af
feet the taste In the slightest, but I
much prefer to sell my pigs lo serv
ing tln monmy ow n table.
1 feed my poultry only once a day;
I mean the grown fowls. The chicks
are fell just as I did in Massachusetts.
This one meal Is given at night, and
they have all they will eat up. In
the fall months when the grass seeds
ai" ilp. tlm fowls eat v ry lightly, At
the Isginning of my venture here I
did give a morning feed, but I soon
found that the chickens preferred to
go to the grain patch and the orange
grove when they lirsl Jumped down
from thdr roosts.
If I w.-re stronger and aide to do
all the work myself I am sure I could
easily make eight dollars a head. I
have heard of several Instances down
here In which such a profit Is made
regularly and without a great amount
of work
MARY FINNY URMSTON.
City Man as a "Come On.”
Til. average city man thinks the
fanner who buys a "gold brick" In
net and of a guardian Vet thousands
of these same city men have paid for
“hilnks" which any farmer would
have known were the commonest kind
of brass There are all sorts of them
nicely prepared for city no n.
Now i' st heme to buy fruit land
on tin I 'at Hie to.i t. Our city friend
Is tobl he tan make |t,ooo an aero
from the : art \ few day t ago I
found a voting nett almost on bis way
to the bank to draw fkbo for such a
theme, a\ awi lier In the Metro
politan ll' had s gnat.nit;, that In
fly. v. ii- le- would b. drawing $-1,000
in his Next It
oi •• cu operative chetne fog Blowing
p. 010 In Texas or oranges In Flor
ida You do riot work. You simply
enti iy for It,
of course, and then sit In the shade
and draw- your dividends. You sit In
the -hade no doubt of that and the
dividend' draw like the memory of
. vil deeds.
Pessimism.
IS) you think the earth i ever Ilk-'-
ly to be struck by a enco-t er any
thing of that kind?"
I don't know; but If it -'..r I- It
will be probably after ? > ve mad-*
the last paym l nt eu *' i- I'm
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