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Bill Carrigan has signed up to man age the Boston Red Sox in 1914. * * * It is rumored Charley Dooin is going to be canned as leader of the Phils. * * * Tommy Leach is mentioned as a probable successor to Joe Tinker at Cincinnati. * * * Owner Bob Hedges declares Derrill Pratt, his second sacker, is not for sale or trade. * • * George Stallings has surely made good this season as manager of the Boston Braves. * * * Manager Griffith is likely to let Ja cinto Calvo, the Cuban outfielder, go to Los Angeles. * * * The Cardinals this season have had 16 men out of the game because of serious injuries. * * * Harry Sallee has a big cash bonus coming as a reward for toiling so hard for the Cardinals. * * * Slim Sallee has bought a farm near lligginsport, 0., and may retire to it the coming season. * * * Hobe Ferris has drawn his uncondi tional release from St. Paul of the American association. * * * The Pittsburgh club has purchased 13 players this season in its efforts to bolster up the Pirates. * * * “It's a toss up between the Giants and Athletics,” says Heine Wagner, captain of thh Red Sox. * * * Vice-President Barnard has an nounced that the Naps will not train at Pensacola next spring. • * * Griffith says he will have a better pitching staff next season than any club in the majors ever had. * * * Rube Marquard has fanned Sher wood, the slugging outfielder of the Phillies, but once this season. * * * Baseball is a grand little game, but we’d choke to death on watermelon if served every day for half a year. * * * President Somers of the Cleveland club declares it takes more than SI,OOO a day to run a big league club. * * * Mickey Kelliher, a Washington sandlotter, will be given another chance In the big show next spring. * * * Carrigan thinks that Young Ander son, bought from the Eastern league, will develop into a valuable pitcher. * * * “A pitching staff can either break or make a catcher,” says > Ed Sweeney, the tall backstop of the Highlanders. * * Manager Fred Clarke believes that Pitcher Luhrsen, the recruit from Al bany, Ga.. will make good in the big show. * * The Yankees have added Outfielder Holden, from the New London team of the Eastern association,to their list of recruits. * * * Ed Konetchy, the big first baseman of the Cards, is the only player who has been in every game every day this season. • * * “A good loser,” says a noted Eng lish author, “is greater than a winner.” Yes? Then how great these Reds realy are! * * * Ed Sweeney, the tall catcher of the Yankees, pilots the team whenever Manager Chance is unable to be pres ent. * * * It is said that Maranville, the little player of the Boston Braves, will re ceive a substantial raise for his valu able services this year. * * Art Shafer of the Giants has a tendency to go wide on his slides. He has missed the second bag several times that way lately. * * * Dick Egan, the veteran player on ■whom the Reds received waivers, it is reported will captain Chance’s Yan kees next season. * • * For the second consecutive time Houston captured the Texas league flag by virtue of its defeat of Galves ton. * * * Walter Johnson may go to Cuba ■with the Washington team this fall if the present deal goes through for the tour. * • • Bill Carrigan says that the Red Sox will not play more than three games with the Pirates at Hot Springs next spring if they play at all. * * * Pitcher “Rube" Hinton, who was placed with Nashville by Cleveland, will probably be shifted to the New Orleans club. * * Friends of Steve O’Neill, the Naps’ young catcher, want to enter him In the competition for honors with Schang and Schalk as one of the prize youngsters of the season. * * * Heine Zimmerman and John Evers 3o not believe in letting the atmos phere of the Cub camp get too tran quil. * * * Big Ed Reulbach says that whether be is retained by the Dodgers or not, he will live in Broltlyn. He is inter ested in the automobile business there. * * * i Manager Tinker has informed Mar bans that he will have to cut out play ing ball in Havana the coming winter or else setter a cut in his salary for next pension. PITCHER QUINN. 0 Pitcher Quinn, who was recently signed by the Boston Braves, was for merly one of the New York Yankees’ best twirlers. He was unfortunate enough to get into a slump and Wol verton, then manager of the New York team, let the big fellow go to Roches ter. Manager Stallings thinks well of his new flinger. John Ganzel, Rochester manager, says that Quinn has increased effec tiveness this year because he isn't confining himself to the spit-ball. The former New Yorker has been doing capital work of late. Mike Balenti, Indian shortstop of the Browns, looks as good as any of them in the business when it comes to fielding. And he isn’t a very poor bat ter. * * * Joe Tinker says if. he had known just how many things a manager has to contend with he never would have been as anxious to lead the Reds this year. * * * From the way in which Napoleon Lajoie is performing on the diamond this season it will be a good many years before he will drop out of fast company. * * * Clyde Engel of the Boston Red Sox is going to manage a baseball team down in Cuba next winter. He will take some players from the States along with him. * * • Tris Speaker is one of the few regu lars In the line-up of the Boston Red Sox who has played consistently this season in the form that won for Bos ton the pennant in 1912. * * * Wid Conroy, formerly with the Yanks and Senators, and for the last two seasons with Rochester, has been released to the Elmira club of the New York State league. * * * Boston baseball fans have a great deal of confidence in Manager George Stillings. The Hub bugs believe that George will turn out a winning buncb of Braves next season. SPORTING Memphis University school is to have a $32,000 athletic field. * * * The Dorval Jockey club will stage a $20,000 international derby at Mon treal next summer. • * * The Lehigh university is spending $200,000 for a new athletic equipment, including a gymnasium. Rugby football is the latest addition to the curriculum of sports which have been adopted by the colleges in Japan. • • • The work of excavating the new Yale field of 100 acres, at New Haven, Conn., for the stadium is now in prog ress. * * * Champion Alfredo de Oro will play Joe Carney of San Francisco, for the three-cushion billiard championship next seasou. ♦ * Jeff Livingston has offered Harry Payne Whitney $40,000 for Whisk Broom 1., winner of many handicap stake* this seasou. * * * Matt McGrath, champion hammer thrower of the world, may lose the sight of his right eye as a result of a row with a drunken man. * * The first lady rowingV coach is Miss Lucy Pocock, who has received an ap pointment to a Washington ladies' school, near London, England. * * More than $2,500,000 was won in prizes on the British turf last year. In the last 30 years more than $75,000,- 000 has been won in Great Britain in horse racing prizes. * * * William, a stallion colt, owned and driven by William Marvin of La fayette, lnd., set a new mark for a three-year-old colt by pacing two miles in 4: lots at Peoria, 111. * * * General Voyekoff has been appointed first minister of sport of Russia. He will form an Olympic council among leading Russian sportmen in prepara tion l'or the Berlin games in 1916. * * When Jack Donaldson beat Harry Hutchins’ record of 30 seconds for 300 yards at Weasto, Manchester, Eng land, recently, covering the distance in 29% seconds, he ran on a grass track, which is one of the fastest in England. * Bombardier Wells and Georges Car pentier are to fight again in London on December 6. Carpentier is expected to fight Jeff Smith, the American mid dleweight, at the Cirque du Paris, on October 20. * * * Patrick Ryan flung the 16-pound weight 189 feet 6% inches at .Celtic park, New York. This . beats the world’s record held by Matt McGrath of 187 feet 4 inches. Hannes Kohle mainen also made a new American record in the three-mile run. Time, 14 minutes, 22 3-5 seconds. SEViLLEJATHEDRAL Most Majestic and Important of All in Spain. !n Size tt Is Next to St. Peter’s in Rome— Only Dance Allowed in Any Christian Church Occurs Here in December and June. New York. —Of the 49 wonderful cathedrals in Spain, the Cathedral of Seville ranks as the most majestic and important, and in size is next to St. Peter’s in Rome. It is during the fiesta of the Immacu late Conception in December and on Corpus Christi in June that is present ed in this noble church the only'dance allowed in any Christian church in the world. It is also occasionally given during carnival time. “La Danza de los Seises” is a rite of remote origin supposed to represent the dance of the Israelites before the .Ark. Originally 12 boys participated in the dance, to which fact it owes its name —“The Dance of the Sixes,” as they danced in pairs six on a side. In the seventeenth century opposi tion was raised to the dance by many persons of affluence, but- the people rose en masse in protest and peti tioned the pope to preserve this favo rite and charming feature of the fiesta. At the request of the pope the “Sixes” were sent to Rome that he might judge personally of its fitness. So pleased was his holiness with its sim plicity and dignity that he gave per mission for its continuance “so long as the costumes then worn should last”—and he also decided “that the hats might be worn without any disre spect to the Virgin.” As no costume is ever allowed to fall in total disre pair, tins elusive manner of evading the termination of this unique and at tractive ceremony will result in its surviving for an indefinite time. For this great fete devoted to the Virgin an altar 30 or 40 feet high is erected of solid silver. The back ground is of crimson velvet, and ten of the massive pillars which inclose the’altar and choir are also hung with the same rich color, lending a warmth of tone to the gray interior. Blue being the color of the Virgin, all coverings are of this pure color, as are the magnificent gold embroidered vest ments worn by the clergy. The dance is given in the Capilla Mayor at the foot of the high altar, and as the Seises take their position the archbishop and clergy enter and Spanish Fiesta Costumes. kneel during the entire time, as do all who witness it, as it is held in great reverence. Clad in striped costumes of blue and white satin of the time of Philip 111. and carrying white plumed hats, the dancers make Philip 111. a dainty ap pearance. As the orchestra begins the quaint music, written early in the sev enteenth century, played on ancient instruments and held unpublished, the boys kneel and offer a short prayer to the Virgin, afterward singing in their clear young voices the sweetest of melodies, minor in key and plaintive in style, then, donning their hats, the dance commences. This so-called dance is in reality more of a stately walk and a weaving in and out of several graceful figures, ending in a single turn at the end of each of the three parts. The castinets are lightly played and sound charm ingly. At the close of the dance the seises make their final obeisance and ascend the steps of the altar, followed by the archbishop, his long crimson robe rippling over the steps from top to bottom. Never was a more perfect and effec tive picture than this: The glistening silver, softly glowing wax lights and the air filled with sweet harmony. The climax is reached when the archbishop turns, his train curving in graceful folds about him and stretches out his hand to bless his people. Just at this moment all the bells of the Giralda peal forth in joyous unison, the great tones of the organ roll through the cathedral and the orchestra joins in the last refrain of the> semi-religious dance music, and this fascinating fiesta is ended. ' MUSICIAN FIGHTS WOLF PACK St. Louis Concert Master Is Saved by Dog That Brings Aid From Camp. St. Louis. —Lost for twenty-four hours in a north Wisconsin forest on the shore of Three Lakes, Arno W. Waechter, concert master of the St. Louis Symphony orchestra, was saved by the sagacity of a water spaniel aft er he had beaten off a pack of wolves several times with a club. “The span iel left me,” he said on his return, “and went to camp, arousing friends whom he led to my side.” Age Six, Arrested Twenty Times. Racine, Wis. —Aged six and arrest ed twenty times —that Is the record of Richard Tuclovsky, who astounds criminologists. Most of the offenses committed by the boy were those of burglary, but his latest was that of brandishing a huge knife before his playmates and threatening to “cut out your hearts.” The boy was sent to a reform school to remain there until he is twenty-one. THE FROSTBURG SPIRIT, FROSTBURG, MD. THE STORY OF NOTRE DAME Some Account of the History and Vicissitudes of This Great Church. London.—Some account of the his tory and vicissitudes of Notre Dame appears in the Strand. The first ca thedral was erected in the year 528 by Childabert and afterwards demolished, the same site being used for the pres ent building, which was begun in 1163 and finished in 1351. • Alexander 111. laid the foundation stone, the first mass being celebrated by the patriarch Heraclius. The grand old building has been sorely beset by many dangers and has witnessed many strange and stirring scenes. The reign of terror in 1793 led to such disgraceful orgies within the pre cincts of the cathedral that it was closed to the public as a place of di vine worship in 1794, but was reopened in 1802 by Napoleon. The interior has suffered severely at times at the hands of the mob and individuals. The worst offender, was perhaps, Louis XIV., One of Notre Dame's Altars. who, carrying out his father’s vow, caused the destruction of the four teenth century stalls, the high altar embellished with gold and silver stat uettes, the cloisters, tombs and unique stained glass work. In 1845 restora tion was necessary in many parts of the building, the work being success fully undertaken by Lassus, Vlolett-le- Due and Boeswillwald. In 1871, also, during the commune, Notre Dame was menaced with grave dangers owing to the fury of the com munists, who, having effected an en trance, collected all the available chairs and other combustible material and, piling it in a huge bonfire, drenched with oil, in the center of the choir, attempted to destroy the cathe dral by fire. The evil designs of the incendiaries were, however, happily frustrated by the arrival of the nation al guard. MUSIC MAKES BAD MEN GOOD So Says Columbus (O.) Warden After His Experience With His Orchestra. Columbus, O.—-Not a prisoner has been guilty of an infraction of the prison dining hall rules since the eleven-piece orchestra has been enter taining the men during meal time. Two weeks ago the warden conceived the idea of having the prison orchestra' play in the two dining halls. The mu sicians play in one hall at noon and in the other in the evening, but the two halls are so close together that the music from one can be heard in the other. In this way nearly 1,600 convicts have the uplifting influence of music. Under the old plan. Warden Thomas said, about half the fights were start ed in the dining room. Good music, the warden thinks, does not necessar ily mean classical music, and on each program there is a goodly sprinkling of popular music, including ragtime. Warden Thomas is considering the advisability of forming two crack mil itary companies. If the plan under way materializes, one company will be of white prisoners and the other of col ored. Residing temporarily behind the bars are former members of the U. S. army and the National Guard of other states who might be used to start the two companies. FIGHT WITH 100 REPTILES Several Workmen Are Bitten Before Killing Fifty-eight Coppedheads at Washington, Pa. Washington, Pa. —A gang of 150 men laying a big pipe line for the Phila delphia company in Greene county en gaged more than 100 venomous copper heads in battle. The copperhead lair was encountered on the farm of Madi son Scott. James Notts, a pipe line worker, was surrounded by the reptiles before he could get away, and was badly bitten. His screams brought fellow-workers, who engaged in one of the most re markable contests ever waged with a horde of vipers. The copperheads fought with deadly precision and bit several other men before they were flnaly routed. A count after the battle showed 58 dead reptiles. The bitten men were given aid at the Waynesburg hospi tal; but several are in a critical condi tion. Operated on 25 Times. Yuma, Mich. —J*red Maybury, twen ty-three, was operated on for the twenty-fourth time in ten years. His initial visit to the operating table was made when his right hand was cut off. Maybury next lost his left leg. Then he was stricken with ap pendicitis. Next a stray shot de stroyed his right eye, following which necrosis developed in his left arm and several bones were removed at differ ent times. A portion of his liver was removed in the last operation. Fractures Hip Dancing Tango. Los Angeles.—While dancing the tango at Long Beach, near here, Mrs. Raymond Torry fell and fractured her hip. Mrs. Torry declared that as soon as she is able she will tango again. “The mishap was caused by my tight skirt,” she said. MOT FORTHE-PEOPLE Democratic Tariff Bill is Distinct ly Political. Vital Needs of the Country Disregard ed in the Measure So Loudly Pro claimed as Redeeming Cam paign Promises. When the Democrats boast that their tariff bill was so framed as to square with their campaign professions, they admit a very important point, against the bill. They are giving the country a po litical tariff, not a scientific tariff ad justed to economic and business con ditions. It was framed in secret caucus on the sole principle of cutting the schedules to the bone in order to meet a lot of reckless political promises. It is not a tariff for revenue —very far from it. It is a tariff for politics. It will fail even in that particular. It is a tariff for very short sighted politics. Why, for one thing, the farmers of the country will be up in arms against it in the next congressional elections, and Mr. Wilson will have a Republican house on his hands as sure as sunrise. The farmers would not stand for Taft's reciprocity, which would have made Canada pay for the free ingress of her farm products to our markets. How more will they storm against this bill which gives Canada that ingress free —gratis and for noth ing. As Senator McCumber says it, “kicks the American farmer into the gutter.” Must Be Work of Experts. There will never be a consistent, uniform and scientific tariff revision until the rule is adopted that congress ctioii enact the principle on which the tariff shall be framed and non-parti san experts shall fix the rates which conform to that principle. It is the function of congress to say whether the rates shall be for revenue with incidental protection, for. protection only to the w-ages of labor, or for pro tection to exclude all foreign compe tition. That is the part of the tariff question that cannot and should not be taken out of politics. But when that principle is enacted the labor of settling what rates carry out the principle is for experts. Under the present system no tariff bill for decades has been true to its professed principle in all its parts. Plain Fact Remains. Existing conditions do not lead u 9 to believe that free trade will bring about any different results now from those which have appeared in the past. A policy which is intended primarily to expand imports must necessarily limit the demand for home-made pro ductions. This is the avowed object of the new free trade tariff. The president so declares. It is, he tells us, the emancipation of the business of the country, from oppression. is the academic view. But the fact remains that trouble begins when our wage earners face closed workshops and factories run ning on half time. The president -will live long enough to ascertain this fact, and possibly to realize that only when our wage earners are well employed can our country he prosperous. Calls for Explanation. While the banana tax is being set tled by President Wilson, if he is to settle it, we hope that he will also undertake to make perfectly clear the real reasons for taking the banana duty out of the tariff measure. So far as we are concerned we think that the masses who eat the bananas daily ought to have the benefit of the dcfubt. If there is any possible chance that the banana tax or any part of it would come out of the pockets of the poor man, we should be in favor of avoid ing the risk by killing the banana duty. But the Democratic senators who passed the tax said there was no risk. Yet they were making a tariff for Mr. Wilson, who undoubtedly thinks there is a tax. The Backward Trend. \A year ago the army of Armageddon prided itself on being a good first in many sections and a strong second in others. Its followers were encour aged to the point of boldness, and pre dicted greater growth, thus insuring its permanency as a political power. In less than a year It is trailing third, with prospects of dropping a notch lower. Instead of growing bigger it is shrinking with a rapidity that is significant. Recent primaries in the northwest found it in third place; in Michigan the same result was re corded. By No Means in the Same Boat. New York bonded warehouses are “bulging” with goods held up until the new tariff passes. It is different with the pockets of the ultimate con sumer, still waiting for the reduction of the cost of living. Democrats as Czars. The house Democrats forced through a special rule to prevent the clause in an appropriation bill abol ishing the commerce court from being knocked ofit on a point of order. W T hat mild despots those two amateur czars, Reed and Cannon, really were. The Flighty Flea. “The Progressive party is very ac tive,” according to the Outlook. Well, so is the flea, but he could not get elected to office.—Louisville Courier- Journal. Before the Democrats rush into the creation of reserve bank-s they’d bet ter wait to see whether they are go ing to leave the country anything in reserve to put in them. A tariff hill carried by a vote of 48 to 47 would be about as conclusive of public opinion as a supreme court decision of 5 to 4. 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Why don’t you do some great deed to show the world how clever you are?” “My dear young woman, if I suc ceed in living on my income it will be the cleverest deed any man ever accomplished.” What He Meant; Not What He Said. “I godt—” “John,” called Mary, the astonish ed wife, “I never heard you use such language before. What’s the matter with you?” “I wased usig such bad laguage. I said I godt —” “John!” called the wife again. “Well, Bary,” explained John, “I was saig I godt to fide thad bedicine or this blabed hay fever will sboid by debber. If I don’t fide it sood I will swear —I’ll say dab." - Woocipecker!s Waterloo “That woodpecker may be persist ent, but I think he’s beaten this time.” “W T hat is he trying to do?” “Drill a hole in an iron trolley pole.” Greece annually produces over 21,- 000,000 pounds of tobacco. The Rugged Food Value of Grape-Nuts shows everywhere in thousands of sturdy youngsters who eat this famous food each day. The sound nourishment of Grape-Nuts builds both brain and body, creating a natural resistance to ills and a sure foundation for the health of years to come. Grape-Nuts have a delicate sweet taste which appeals to parents and children alike—a most appetiz , ing, nourishing, and easily digestible dish the year X’. round. “There’s a Reason” for Grape-Nuts Read the little book, “The Road to Wellville,” found in packages. Building Ships on Mountains. Boat building on a mountain top sounds peculiar, to say the least, but such is being done in Switzerland, says the American Machinist. Sulzer Bros, have under construction at Win terhur a 200-foot passenger boat for Lake .Geneva. It w-ill be fitted with Diesel engines of 1,400 horsepower. Escher Wyss & Co. at Zurich, are building a 200-foot tugboat for the Riv er Rhone in southern France. in both cases the vessels after erec tion at the works must be disassem bled and shipped in a knocked-down condition to the place of launching, there to be reassembled. The turbine-building firm of Escher Wyss & Co., Zurich, Switzerland, has under wa s the largest Pelton water wheel e\4er built. It is for Rio de Ja neiro, in Brazil, and will develop 19,000 horsepower. The head is 280 m. (920 feet) and the speed 375 revolutions per minute. This firm has installed Pel ton wheels in Italy to operate under a head of 1,000 m. (3,280 feet). The Discovery. “What do you suppose is the sad dest discovery a man can make?” “I should think it was to go out for a. jov ride and discover he is in the trouble wagon.'" *• Logical Inference. “What’s entomology, pa?” “Oh, it's all about bugs." “Then, pa, is an entomologist a crazy man?”