NEW YORK HIGHLANDERS UNEARTH PHENOM HANDICAP TO PLAYERS CANADA’S OFFERING TO THE SETTLER Stars Who Suffered Because of THE AMERICAN RUSH TO Size of Their Digits. WESTERN CANADA IS INCREASINfl Free Homesteads EARLY DAYS OF ANTHRACITE Cy Seymour Found Great In the new Districts of Difficulty Manitoba, Saskatche- In Controlling Ball Because Hla wan and Alberta there are thousands of Free Anthracite as a fuel was once a Devotion in Aosta Hands Were So 8mall—Camp- Homesteads left, which much doubted to the man making entry Evening novelty. William Endl- in 8 bell Another Victim. years time will be cott, a well-known and highly respect- worth f rom 120 to |2S per acre. These lands are | ed citizen of Boston, now eighty-seven Well adapted to grain It was the email size of his handa growing and cattle raising. years read a of rem- old, lately paper EXCELLENT RAILWAY FACILITIES which kept Cy Seymour from being a iniscence in which he told this story: In many cases the railways In Somewhere great pitcher. When he first joined the Canada hare been built In ad- in the early ’30s ru- vance of and In a New York Giants, he settlement, mors had reached in many years ago, short time there will not be a Beverly that settler who need be came as a twirler, but he the more than Pennsylvania or elsewhere anthracite .found ten or twelve miles from a line greatest difficulty in securing control of railway. Hallway Rates are coal was coming into use as fuel. In regulated by Government Com- of the ball, because his handB are so mission. order to make trial of it five or six small that he could not get his fingers Social Conditions gentlemen joined together and sent to The American Settler Is at home Boston all the way around the sphere. Cy In Western Canada. He la not a for a cartload, there being no stranger In a har- was strange land, finally forced to give up pitching ing nearly a million of his own railway. settled there. entirely and go to the outfield, where people already If From my father’s quota I remember desire to know why thecon- his hitting, rather than his fielding, JouItlon of the Canadian Settler Is a lump of about the size of a peck write and send for kept him in the game for a long period Brosperonsteratare, rates, etc., to measure 'which he placed in the open of years. 8. fireplace and heaped about it an as- J. CRAWFORD, Vincent Campbell, the fast center 301 East Gensssa Street, Syracuse, N. T. uortment of pine and hard woods. fielder of the Bostons, last season, has Canadian Government* A gents, or These burned very well, but had no address Superintendent of the same handicap as Seymour in re- Immigration, Ottawa, Cmi*. effect upon the coal, even with re- gard to the size of his hands. Camp- peated trials. Considerable fuel was bell's mitts are far below the average burned upon that occasion, but it was in and and the muffed not coal. length diameter, SPECIALTOWOMEN he is flies which guilty of are the re- Do you realize the fact that thousands Some little time later, when a grate sult'of this physical handicap, to a > of women are now using had been installed in the fireplace and great extent. He iB also not so good a a good fire was in an old burning it, thrower as he would be if his bands gentleman came in to view the novel were a bit more bulky. Campbell, spectacle. After looking at it intently however, played better ball last season for a few minutes he remarked that than ever before. "it looked expensive,” and retired Vincent is a speed marvel, no one from the scene. Little did he think A Soluble Antiseptic Powder excelling him in getting down to first that his sage conclusion would be as a remedy for mucous membrane af- base. But he has two weak points in quoted after the lapse of fections, such as sore throat, nasal os three-quar- offensive work. He is a very poor ters of a and pelvic catarrh, Inflammation or ulcera- century then, perchance, and so does waiter, not get on nearly tion, caused by female Ills? Women put in type and possibly read a cem so often as he would if he was able to who have been cured "It is worth tury or two later.—The Outlook. say force the pitcher to pitch to him. Its weight in gold." Dissolve In water His great speed makes him a hard and apply locally. For ten years the TWINS A PAIR man to stop in the bases, but he Is not Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. has on there so much as he would be if he recommended Paxtine in their private correspondence with women. Birth records have been shattered could develop the habit of waiting to For all hygienic and toilet ubbs It has by the wife of a better advantage. Campbell hits 15 workingman at Bar- no equal. Only 50c a large box at Drug- Lancashire. points higher than Bob but row, February 24 she gave Bescher, gists or sent postpaid on receipt of birth to a son. Another child—a girl the extra bases on balls secured by price. The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston. —was born six weeks later. From a the Redleg were more valuable than Mass. medical point of view the children are the extra hits made by the Boston gar- Chemicals are more effective in twins, but the law may not regard dener. mine fires than water. them such. Under the insurance act Owing to his Inability to wait, Camp- fighting the is bell went to bat more times officially father entitled to a maternity Ray Ball Artist. Keating, Spit Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Chtldrea benefit of $7.50. If the children are than any other player in the National teething, softens the gums, reduces intlamm»> last He was not adjudged to be twins he will be Frank L. Chance sincerely believes star boxmen were at their best when league year. charged lion,allay s pain,cures wind college a bottleAgt with 624 times at and no other entitled to receive twice $7.50. The that Ray Keating, the boy whom the the Cubs came to town. He had to bat,

•' reached the 600 '■ law counts them as one if are secured from face at the sea- player mark, though A New Metal. .V, i' A' g '''*| they Yanks Lawrence, Mass., Walsh end of Beveral 16 of them played in as or more twins. will be as good as Ed Walsh within a sons In the Chicago city series, and many Some remarkable qualities are than he did. This is a few knows him and this he games Berlous This picture shows a native offering up his evening devotions at a way- years. well, spring claimed for steelite, a nqw metal weakness in a lead-off man, who side shrine at the Roman bridge, Aosta. This Is a section of the Alps sel- LAKE OF PURE SODA “A great pitcher, that boy,” com- bumped against Johnson and Plank. which is composed of 75 per cent, of should be on base more often by the dom touched the tourist and is most and The mented Chance as he gazed at the If any man In the major leagues is cobalt and the remainder of chro- by picturesque interesting. route. in In a to know the relative val- pass Campbell, spite of his composition of the picture Is very fortunate in Its of stone and A lake of Lake youngster. position mium. It may be cast and ground to grouping pure soda, Magadl, is not a clever base ue of the in baseball great speed, very a fine is to rust timber, with the touch of iron in the little grille covering the small window in East was visited “He uses the spit ball almost ex- pitchers high edge, impervious and Africa, recently runner. While BeBcher was Chance is that man. stealing the action of acids and on the left. Aosta is on the Italian side of the Pennine Alps. an Italian scientist. The lake at clusively, but has he the physique for society, highly flexible. by 67 bases last Vincent was year copping As a lathe tool it will cut at the a distance to be of water. Its a spit-ball pitcher?” was suggested. steel appears just 19, both men playing In exactly surface is solid and white. “I’ll with that he isn't as rate of 200 feet a minute, a speed at dazzllngly agree you the same number of games. which steel would burn. ANCIENT STAY-BUSKS SHIPS OF CONCRETE The lake comprises thirty square tall as Walsh, but he weighs 185 ordinarily Certain modifications of this will miles, and at present a considerable stripped, which isn’t being a light alloy The shows four A 500-ton concrete ex- cut and even illustration eight- scow, says an quantity of soda is daily taken from man by a good many pounds, and take JOHNSON NOW HOLDS RECORD glass quartz crystals. eenth The was launched at Steelite Is said to be suit- century, English busks. change, recently Bal- it, while a railway la under construc- a l#ok at those shoulders. This boy particularly busk or as it was sometimes Md. It is 110 feet 28 feet Ends 8ens». able for watch "bone,” timore, long, tion from the lake to the Uganda rail- is only twenty years old. He has a Washington Speed King fittings. was the front of wide and has a of 10 feet 6 tlonal Run When St. Louis Scored called, inserted in depth way. When the railway is completed few years to grow.” the stays and to have been inches. Others, built before this one. Run Off His Suspension. appears it is expected that Lake Magadl will Keating's success Is with the spit Delivery. Parliamentary visible its being have shown a saving in Sir a %. throughout length, large repairs supply soda to the world. ball. He has a good fast ball, but re- Henry Lucy drops hint from ... held in position by the laces. Objects over wooden craft. It is claimed by Walter Johnson, Washington’s star the "Cross Benches” in the Observer lies on the salivated delivery. of this kind are not only of interest the builders that concrete vessels will pitcher, is the official holder of the as to the "suspension” of members of MILLIONS OF TELEPHONES “Walsh uses the spitter. That's all on account of their rarity, but be- ultimately create a revolution in ship major league record for pitching con- the house—and the vaguenees of the he has," went on Chance, “that and a cause they illustrate indigenous of construction. The Italians have al- secutive Bcoreless innings, winding up penalty. Can it be true that members There are said to be 6,000,000 tele- fast one, but the spitter nearly all the folk art. They are not made by skill- ready made use of concrete vessels his great run at St. Louis recently, get themselves named and suspended phone stations in the United States, time.” ed craftsmen nor produced in fac- and have found them practicable, it is when he added three and one-third on purpose to achieve a compulsory and the amount of wire made use of “How do American league pitchers tories in standardized sizes and pat- stated. Indeed, they seem to be of ex- Innings to his work. The Browns Eight pounds a week will totals 12,000,000 miles. Some idea look to holiday? terns the aid of but stout build, for one of you?” scored on him in the fourth make for modest comfort at by machinery, ceptionally this total means be inning. Brighton of what may grasp- “Some of those I have seen look fabricated untutored men rammed a small war Yale has a ball team. Tbo Johnson now holds the record at 66 or by ordinary, them, by cruiser, this winning Eastbourne. The member of par- ed when we calculate that length to the least. There Is showed no other but a pretty fair, say country is safe. innings. liament is whether he is in the injury crack, of wire could be around the paid wrapped Walter Johnson—” • • • which it was to Johnson's teammates claim this is a house or at or in the Clock quite possible repair earth 500 times, and that it would Margate This accidental test "Would you call him better than Clarke Griffith Johnson has not major league record for and Tower. has a more drastic successfully. make 60 separate lines from the earth Bays shutouts, Budapest gave the constructor much satisfac- Mathewson?" on full steam. so far as known it is. Record books If the member is he to the moon, but there would not be yet put way. suspended tion,—Outlook. I would not that Johnson * • * Doc White of the White Sox Is fined a half enough wire to reach from the “No, say crediting 16 shillings day. That Is a better than Mathewson. The Boston Red Sox aren't with 66 innings and Jack Coombs of teaches him to behave. Now that we earth to our nearest planetary neigh- pitcher playing You have to a lot of ball. our we bor, Venus. give Matty credit. any championship pay representatives might SUGAR AND THE TEETH • • • He is a wonderful pitcher. He has make payment conditional on their speed, curves, a good slow ball and a Seaton of the Phillies is leading the representing us in the proper place.— There is a prevalent notion that if DIG UP CANNON BALL great mind. Johnson has more speed National league flingers. London Chronicle. children are allowed to eat sugar they » • • than Matty, but lacks several of the will have bad teeth as a consequence, An iron cannon ball was unearthed other things. Ray Keating, the star hurler of the Convicts College Students. says Health. There is no foundation the on a course by greenkeepers golf a moist-ball "I do not believe that Johnson will Yanks, is pitcher. More than fifty convicts are enrolled whatever for such a notion. The ne- at Perth, a few days ago. The men * • • last as long as Mathewson. A man at the State at of the West Indies are exces- were on some on Agricultural college groes engaged excavations use cannot use as much speed as he does Evers is certainly making good the various courses sive consumers of sweets. eat course when found Manhattan, taking They the they the ball material. for many seasons. He is developing of that high-priced pitching offered at the college. They are, so an enormous amount of sugar cane, about six feet below the surface of • * * a curve ball that will be of great ad- far ns is known, the only convict col- molasses and raw sugar. Yet these the ground. The missile, which meas- vantage to him. He showed a good "Home Run" Baker of the Athletics lege students in the United States. people have particularly fine teeth. ured 18 inches in circumference, was curve when he pitched against us. He Is hatting away below the .300 if of the convicts have ever Whatever other injuries sugar may deeply embedded in the trap rock, Few, any, has no slow ball mark. of to the human to speak of, but with seen the college building, and it will be capable doing and had suffered little from oxidation, • • • that curve and speed he will be bet- be some time before of them can system, it is very certain that it does being secure from the disintegrating any Richard Lloblitzel, the Reds' crack see but nevertheless are en- not do any injury to the teeth. effect of the atmosphere. I-w—m it, they first sacker, has regained his batting rolled students doing regular work. stride. All the convict college students are moments of • • • */ during leisure mainly as inmates of the United States peniten- to their gifts womankind. They are The Cardinals are winning more tiary here. They do their class work 1 almost as In and primitive conception games than Manager Huggins expect- in their cells and mall their lesson pa- execution as a a paddle wrought by A of the Far East ed them to win. pers to the college for correction. Ship • • * native of the South Seas. When a Some of the convicts are *' studying ag- man set about young making a stay- Pitcher Jim Scott of the White Sox riculture, some civil engineering, oth- ... ■ ■ busk for his sweetheart he fell back I1 '■ 1 "" ...... has cut out the spitball, and seems to ers, mechanics, and some are studying the traditional upon elements of or- be doing quite well. dairying. Nearly all of the students it is but he * • • nament, true, strove be- enrolled in the agricultural or dairy sides to combine these elements into Manager Stallings still maintains courses are men employed on the such original forms as his fancy dic- that the Boston Nationals need out- prison farm or in the dairy.—Leaven- tated. fielders and pitchers. worth Dispatch to New York Times. • • • THE CALENDAR STONE The latest cry of fielders when go- MEMORY IMPROVED. ing for a fly isn't "I got It,” or" "I have Since Leaving Off Coffee, it,” but "I’ll tackle it.” The famous Aztec calendar stone, • * • Many persons suffer from poor sow in the National Museum of Mex- Mike Balentl paid $200 out of his memory who never suspect coffee has ico, is a block of basalt weighing 25 to do with it own pocket toward his transportation anything tons and having a diameter of 11 feet. The acta from Alaska when he Joined the drug—caffeine—in coffee, Encircling the head of the sun god is Injuriously on the nerves and heart Browns. i diadem bearing hieroglyphics rep- • * • causing imperfect circulation, too resenting the divisions of time and the much blood in the brain at one time, The new Brooklyn plant seems to be too In another This often Aztec method of numbering the years. little part. laid out Just right for Charley Sten- causes a dullness which makes a The number of days in their year was good gel to get homers, and he is reaping Walter Johnson. memory nearly impossible. 165, as in ours. Each year had a dif- |jg a harvest, "I am nearly seventy years old and ferent emblem four Mordecal Brown. repeated every • « • the Athletics with 53 Innings have did not know that coffee was the The first years. year was called been proved Incorrect, au- cause of the stomach and heart trou- ter equipped than In previous years. There are signs growing stronger making rochtli, or rabbit; the second, Acatel, thentic Information concerning ble I suffered from for many years, As he grows older he will pitch more that the management of the Boston previ- )r reed; the third, Teepal, or flint; the ous of this kind diffi- until about four years ago,” writes a with his brain than his arm and last Red Sox is much worried over performances very Kansas fourth, Calli, or house. The years cult to obtain. Johnson's run of 58 woman. longer than If he depended on that the outlook. \ vere further “A kind neighbor induced me to M arranged by thirteen, • • • runless Innings has been verified and speed and his curve. quit coffee and try Postum. I had four such periods a Mexican 1 making In found correct. All other claims are * picking pitchers I think I would Duffy Lewis of the Red Sox gen- been suffering severely and was ige. more or less open to doubt. take Mordecal Brown If I had one erally hits into right field with men greatly reduced in flesh. After using When the City of Mexico was taken Johnson's record follows: pitcher to choose of all those In the on bases. At other times he is Postum a little while I found myself Cortez In 1521 and the likely »y great tem- Inning* heart beats became major leagues. Brown had every- to hit in any direction. New 8 improving. My destroyed the calendar stone was April 10—Against York. jle • • • Now York. 9 and now I seldom ever no- thing a pitcher needed—a great curve, April 19—Against regular 7,v; eft In the square. It was burled in April 23—Against Boston .. 9 tice any symptoms of my old stom- good speed, slow ball and control. He Listen! Chance says he would April 25—Against Boston 1 1555 and not recovered until give ach trouble at all. nerves are again April 30—Against PhlUdelphla ...... 9 My was a wise pitcher, and I do not think today for Joe Tinker. .790.—Popular Mechanics. $10,000 Yes, May 3—Against Boston 2 *-! steady and my memory decidedly 1 ever saw a Fay 5—Against Boston .. 5 better fielding pitcher. Frank, and so would many other clubs, better than while I was coffee. May 10—Against Chicago 9 using Besides that, Brown was always ready but Joe isn’t on the market. May 14—Against St. I«o% tg. 2 1-1 “I like the taste of Postum fully as OWL PLAYS THE PIANO to work for He would In * * • well as coffee.” you. go any Total .66 day at any stage of the game and al- Otto Knabe, the tobasco kid of the Name given by Postum Co., Battle Hearing the notes of his piano way pitch good ball. Phillies, is playing the best game of Gamblers Not Wanted. Creek, Mich. Write for booklet, "The Road to Wellvllle.” (truck first up the keys and then “I did not see a left-hander this his life and has developed into a reg- A further step In the campaign to rid Postum comes in two forms. lown, Ernest Lemmy of St. Paul's spring, though, who, if he always ular Heine Zimmerman with the bat. baseball of the gambling element • • * Regular (must be boiled). •oad, Peterborough, peeped through pitches the kind of ball he pitched among the spectators was taken at Instant Postum doesn’t require tie open door and discovered that against us. Is the greatest southpaw "Funny thing,” remarked Bob Bes- Boston, when admission to the Nation- but is he player was his pet owl. The owl In the country. That’s Plank of Phil- cher, “I have stolen four bases so far al league groundh was refused all per- boiling prepared instantly by lould step on a key and then listen adelphia." this season, and every one of the four sons whom the management claimed stirring a level teaspoonful in an or- dinary cup of hot water, which makes ittentively to the sound. It tried "Do you think him superior to Ruck- was swiped off my old pal, Larry Mc- to recognize as gamblers. it for most mother and another, and seemed er and Marquard?” Lean!" right persons. A big cup requires more and some lighly pleased with the noise it was “I think him to I • * * Good superior anyone Gregg’s Pitchers. people who like strong things put in caking. When It got to the upper ever saw.’ With his Murphys, Walsh, Daley, There are some other Greggs who a heaping spoonful and temper it with md of the piano and found it was And Chance should know. He bat- Barrv, and Mclnnls, Connie Mack con- can I’ttch besides Vean and Dave. a large supply of cream. / mly the black and white keys which These vessels are still seen In the ted the of the National tinues his valiant for the the name picturesque waters of the orient. against pick fight glory The one of with Dubuque In Experiment until you know the lOjnded, it started back and and awkward as again Bulky they appear to occidental eyes, they are handled with league hurlers for several years, and of Ireland, Philadelphia and the Amer- the Three-I league recently blanked amount that pleases your palate and ioucded all the notes until it reached I skill surprising by the oriental sailors. The vessels are employed chiefly In managers were always sure that their ican league. Bloomington with four hits. have it served that way in the future. he ia.>i in the bass.—London Mall. coastwise trade. "There’s a Reason” for Postuu^

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