a The Winning Score BY TRAY (Copyiiebl. igii, br Auocutod Liurain PrM.) Tie Bf alion guard slammed the gale hut as lleiiion reached It. suitcase 1n Land. He set bis baggage down aud Juopped his ace disgustedly. "Hui.g It! If I express my real feel ings this would be no place fur a Jai'y- ' Someone slapped him on the sboul d r with a lauilli. "First time 1 ever kr ew you to gutt left at anything, old fe low." IJtnton wheeled around, his face lighting with pl-lasure. "By the eter nal. It's Tom I litf-tloy. You look good to me afmr a year's ubseiice. If any thing could make up to me for losing lu.y train, and having to stay ovtv, It would be your having turned up.. IHdn't know a soul In the place, and ' was picturing to myself the hilarity of going to my hotel and reading all the evening." Hartley drtw him over to a bench end handed hint a cigar. "Surry lieu "Ion. but I am leaving In fifteen nilu i:es, myself, for a three months' trip. V.'Wh we could make an evening of It utid talk over old times. Haven't cinly seen you twice since we left col li go. You certainly used to play a devllli h lot of Jokes on me. Wish w vould be thrown together occasionally, jperhap the last four years have de veloped my mentality enough for in to come back at you." Kenton, chuckled remlnlBcently. "I would willingly let yoi. try your hand at It, Toiumle, If only you could relieve Ibis deadly dull evening that yawns before me. Don't know a soul In the blooming city." "1 could give you a note of Introduc tion to the dearest girl living," Hart ley answered enthusiastically, "she I ties the reputation of being the wit tiest girl In town and would make you think missing your train was the leasantest thing that ever happened." Benton looked at his business suit dubiously. "I couldn't call In this get up " "No.isense! She Isn't that kind of e gnl at all. not the least bit snobbish, let n.e write the note Heuton, you can use It or uot. but you might decide that you would like to kill an "Hang It!" evening's monotony, and I'll vouch for It that you don't often meet a girl that compares with this one." He took a card from bis pocket and rcribbled several lines with his foun tain pen. "Here's luck to you, old fel low, and I think that's my truin they are calling Tickled to death to run Into you." Benton checked his baggage and talked several blocks before he de cided that It was not every mortal that vp so favored by the gods as to have the opportunity ' meeting the wittiest girl In town, then finally took a cab and giive the addie.-s Hartley had writ ten on the card. Hartley had written "Introducing my old college chum, llichard Hi ti ton . who Is lit town for the night only, und who doesn't know a mjuI. If you haven't an engage ment, be nice to him. He's O. K., ex cepting a tendency to play practical Jokes, but probably bis mania in that direction will nut crop out lu a dingle ceiling." The note was characteristic of Hart ley's old style, and while It's lurk of dignity was apparent, It would prob ably cause no surprise to any friend of his. When the cab stopped and ilenton went up the steps, his courage weak ened slightly, as be had not expected anything quite so magnificent as the liouse Be was entering. The brtler took his card and left him sitting in the library wondering if he had not lieen foolish to act upou Hartley's Im pulsive suggestion. Checking the In a New York telegraph office where economically minded persons with limited correspondence facilities liave thehubltof dropping In and writ ing personal letters on telegraph Muuks the watchman has adopted tac tics discouraging to epistolary extrav agance. AHer a correspondent has lllled out several forms with hand writing the wntchiuan approaches and ays: '1 trust you are not writing any tiling on those blanks Important enough to be produced lu court as evl nice. If you are please understand It would not hold In law unless the printed mntter was admitted also, and as that expressly states that every message ni'ist bo repeated to make it Uniting you can readily see that un less you write your communication all ever again It would be rejected by compel ent authorities." Pc-iKibly the scribbler 1b writing nothing more likely to be contested In court than a vacation poem, but the wau'hu.aa'a solemn warning scares UFO f$S23 I I f -v" Horituie ALLISON When bis courage bad reached low ebb Mis lillton came- to. She host luted a serond, and lier grey eyns seemed to analyze Beaton. Sh stretdied out her hand cordially, for Kenton's win a face tiat women' trusted. "Mr. Ha'tley cildn't have kent you at a more opportune time. I had stayed In tonight expecting my mother and futber to come So on the train from New York, but Have Just bad a telegram 'that they wliB not b here until midnight, so there was the pitspect of a lonely evening." Denton gated, and thanked tie gods and Hartley. The soft, slu lovll ness of bcr was wonderful! She sat oit tfirt divan near him, a mirthful twinkle In her eyes "Mr. Hartley's card says that you ar prac tlcally perfect with the exception of a prediction tor practical Jokes-" "Poor old chap! It's a shame the way I've Imposed upon his good na ture, for no matter bow mun'4 the laugh was vn him. l.e always saw the point of the Joke and enjoyed 10. He has vowed he will get even with m sometime, but I am not lotting any sleep over his Intention." Misa Hilton's smile of appreciation came mar developing Into a giggle. "1 think we may credit him wltti hav ing made a successful effort, ber eyes full of mirth. Denton looked at her In surprise. "Did he write anything else on the back of the card?" he asked, quickly. "Nothing at all. See!" she held It up before blin. "But 1 am safe In prophesying that you will acknowl edge that he has paid oft all old cores." "Has he 'phoned to you since he left me?" His tone was. puzzled. "No, he hasn't telephoned. Shall I tell you the point of the joke?" she Uaned forward, smiling He gazed fascinatedly at the white ness of her throat where the Dutch nock of her white gown left It ex posed. "I'm consumed with curiosity," "Well suppose I told you that Mr. Hartley didn't telephone me tonight, that be never has 'phoned to me, and that, furthermore 1 never met blui In my life, nor bad 1 ever beard bis name until you sent up his card tonight" He rose to bis fevt In astonishment. "What!" be shouted "Never," she responded laughing. "I hope you are as good-natured as you represented him to be for the Joke Is certainly on you." His face flushed with shame. "What must you tl.luk? If you will allow me a moment to make bumble apologies I will make as gruceful a retreat as the circumstances permit." Miss Dllton smiled and pressed the electric button beside, ber. "I have always had a weakness for playing practical Jokes myself, aud this seems an unusually good one. Suppose, since w , have already met and conversed at length without proper Introduction, you remain until John brings some sandwiched and tea. and you can tell me some of the collegj tricks that led to the Just retribution that has be fallen you tonight." His relief was visible on bis face. "The gods have not only been merci ful," he said Boftly. "they have been most amazing kind." Three months later Benton entered the lobby of his hotel and ran Into Hartley. Hartley's face expanded In his old-time grin. "Clad to run Into you again, Benton, have you been stalled here ever since I left you at the station last fall?" he asked "Not exactly all the time. I have been stationed In New York ns usual, bu'. have ' run down to Philadelphia some few dozen lime.-t," Beutou an swered. "Thought you didn't know anyone In town?" Benton smiled and led the way Into the grill room. "Didn't, until you gave me that card of Introduction." Hartley slapped him on the shoul der energetically "So you really went to call on her?" he howled gleefully. "Yes, Indeed! And I have called dozens of times since " Hartley's eyes opened wide. "By Jove! . have been wanting to meet that girl fcir the last two years, and I didn't know a soul umotig her ac quaintance's. You don't know the good thing you have stumbled Into, Bent, old boy, she Is the swellest of the will, and practically tlu belle of the city. ..et's call bygone bygones," be said pleadingly, "and fix up some plan to have me meet her." "With the greatest pleasure hut you will have to postpone It a few weeks the lady In question Is very busy at present she Is to be married tomorrow." "Just my luck," Hartley growled disgustedly, "who Is the lucky man?" "I am," be answered, briefly. Scribblers. him out and he finishes fc.'i writing elsewhere. Birth Rate and Death Rate In France Dr. Bertlllon. the French auttiro pologlst, Is despondent over the re turns of births and deaths in France for 1910, which have Just been pub Untied. Births numbered 77-1.358 und deaths 703,777. The number of births Is the lowest for the last century, bar ring that for 1909, which was 4.000 less. lu 1859 over a million children were born In France. The decrease In (he d.ath rate also fails to give him any hope. He points out that It Is solely due to the dwln dllng birth rate. The reduction Is ob servable only among children under one year. The only reason therefore why there arc fewer deaths li that fewer children are -born. Meanwhile, as Dr. Bertlllon remarks despondent ly, the excess of births over deaths In the German empire last year was 884.000, ns compared with uudar T ti'W la Franc. c;g southpaw is ' : Bill BUI Burns, the former Washington twlrler, who waa recently purchased from Cincinnati by the Philadelphia Nationals, after Detroit failed to land aim. Is probably the sleepiest athlete who ever held down a berth In the big leagues. Bill has all other backed off the boards when It comes to taking Daps, and he is not In the least par '.lcular about the time he picks out for t snooze. It was because of this that Burns was put under suspension by Clarke Orlfllih and luter sold to the Phillies. During a recent game at Boston the Cincinnati twlrler In the box was not going good and Burns was sent for to warm up. He pitched three or four balls to a catcher and then went to the clubhouse and fell asleep. At Brooklyn he was sent out to warm up 'or Caspar, and repeated the perform nice, falling asleep ou the clubhouse nteps. BENDER'S PLAN WAS UPSET Crack Athletic Pitcrer Tells How Worst Ball He Pitched Won for New York Highlanders. "That crly goes to Bhow how a little thing will knock the starch out of baseball r' ." agely commented Chief Bender, talking about a game which he lost against Russell Ford In New York. "You know, Johnson had a three bagger, and It looked as If we would be able to get him there. I figured on nailing Sweeney and Ford on strikes, then passing Wolter and getting Dan iels. That would have left the Swede Sticking on third. "I got the two strikes, all right, on Eddie. Then I gave him a ball that dropped down and out. It was as rot ten a ball as you could find, almost hitting the ground as It broke. I thought he might swing at It and mlKS It. or else pass it along, aud then 1 would stick a fast one across and get him. "Instead of that. Sweeney uppercut the ball and smashed It on the fly to Danny Murphy. It wus a sacrifice, all right, and Johnson came over. It was a clncb to get the next men. That Is what 1 meun. I don't say that we would have won the game, as we Chief Bender. couldn't hit Buss Ford. But the game might have been different If Eddie Sweenev hadn't noked at the worst ball I fired all day. That's baseball for you. It Is always a case of you never can tell." Likely Youngster In Bushes. Bill Murray, the free lance scout fur Pittsburg. Bays there Is not much of a yield In the biiBhes this year. "There are plenty of good young fel lows to look over," Bays the veteran discoverer of baseball stars, "but what' the use? They have to bo wnmlnra to find room on a one. two three team like Pittsburg," but the dis coverer of Harry Davis, Fred Parent, Mike Doolan, George Gibson, Kddlo Grant, Karl Moore and a dozen other lights does not deny that ho already has covered up a clever pair for early Inspection. it IK A prize slumberer. life. 'S it . .. ,: Burnt. Hven during a game In which he Is working, and where every other play er Is oa edge because tit the closeness of the coicbat, Burns does not change his tactics. During hla career with Washington he pitched a game In Chicago In which the score stood 1 to 0 for the Nation als, la the eighth Inning. The players were on a tension watching every move, but while the Washington play ers were on the bench In the ninth Burns fell asleep and actually had to be aroused to pitch the final Inning. Then he was bo sleepy that the White Sox pounded him for two runs and won the game Many Players "Beaned." "To bean or not to bean, thnt Is the question" among most of the American league pitchers at present. Hardly a box score Is passed that at least one batter Is not bit It looks as If Tenuey has a pitcher In McTlgue. 'Can Mike Donlln come buck?" Is a baseball bromide. Ty Cobb believes that hla brother Paul will make good. Mike Mowrey Is developing Into a murderer at the bat. Old Cy Young takes It as a joke that they have asked waivers on him. Walter Johnson Is beginning to get back to bis lust year's speed. Bill Dahlen manages lo draw fines, although he dots not play any more. 'F.bliets after players," reads a newspaper headline. Brooklyn needs them. Young Is playing a better third base for the Boston team than many old- timers. Stuffy Mclnnes of the Athletics has a brother pitching in tlio New Eng land league. Ty Cobb seems to be going after whatever the manufacturers have to offer this year. President Charles Somers of the Naps denies he Is Interesied In the New Orleans club. Hal Chase expects Jim Vaughn to be as effective as ever, how that be Is lu condition again. Jerry Downs has been regarded as a failure on first base for Columbus and Is shifted back to second. Jocko Halllgan, the former Enstern league star, has ben appointed scout for the Buffalo team. Hugh Nlcol, director of athletics at Purdue university, has been engaged to scout for the Ci' -Innatl Rods. Christy Malhwwson appears to be making pretty good, although ho is said to have cut down his speed. Davy Jones of the Detroit Tigers has been beaned once and sent to first base three other times by being hit Most baseball trades remind one of the magnate who traded hU star for a yellow dog and then shot the dog The campaign for earlier finishes brought a GO minute advance In start ing time for the SL Louis fans at Cardinals' park. Inside baseball: To take a pitcher who has lilt for two safeties out of the game to make room for a pinch hitter who fans out Hughle Duffy Is keeping an eagle eye ou the doings of the Providence club because lie still owns a third Interest in It. Joe Jackson Is to become a high brow player If the Cleveland manage mont can assist him to that He Is going to college this winter. Gus Dumlon, now utility man and pinch hitter for the Lincoln club pf the Western league, but formerly of the Sox Infield, Is bitting around the .400 mark. Tom Jones, the veteran first base man Detroit Bold to Milwaukee last spring, Is playing such good ball some major league club may be tempted to draft elm ouain. Noterw iDiDmonLl BASEBALL CURE FOR INSANE Treatment Is Not Altogether New Expert Says It Quickens Sluggish Brain and Wits, Baseball dope, the batting averages, league standi! gs. vital statistics and the rest of the usinrted, first aid-to-ilic-curlous Inlormiiiion. Is now being put to practical use In curing back ward minds and Incorrlg'ble students in the Newton Technical high school, Boston However, the use of baseball for the treatment of ailing minds Is not alto gether new, for -Or W O Krohn, for mer professor of psychology at the University of Illinois, and h.ad phy sician at the Kaukaket r.sylum. as serts that baseball was used most ben eficially while he wus at the state In stitution and fie had as an nsistunt Frank Pfeffer, who pllcli.'d for the Cubs last year and this yeur Is with the Boston Nationals Dr. Krohn Is a firm believer In the use of baseball as a treatment for the insane, but says that It Is especially valuable In quickening dull wits and speeding the sluggish brain Into ac tivity. "You might say without departing f.oni the literal tntth that baseball makes the Insane sane and the sane Insane," said the doctor. "At leust the sane often give manifestations of violent Insanity while the Insane seem rational while under the Influence of baseball " The new curative baseball scheme became effective when It was found that baseball wa something which. If properly applied, Instilted a new In terest Into the fading Intellects of the unfortunates. It made smiles of In telligence come on thc-lr faces Their f.stless eyes brightened for a moment, apathy was dli-pelled, the half open mouths closed all at the mention of Hans Wagner's batting average and Its comparison to Lajole's cunning. Dr. Krohn Is an all around heavy weight expert In the psychological lore, and talks Interestingly of hla ex perience with the Inmates of the state Instl tu1 Ion. "In Kankakee there are' men lu natics who sit from day to day and don't move a muscle or think a thought," said the doctor. "They don't live; they merely endure like a piece of furniture.. Come up behind a group of them and whisper to them, 'How about a little game of ball.' and you'll see a change that Is surprising " ' Dr. Krobn told of the successful teams that bad been organized from the material found In the asylum. "They'll take their positions In the field when the game Is called. A man who Is in for believing himself to be the missing link is pitcher.' Another whofe ailment results from Imagining himself a complete Egyptian dynasty is catcher. The first baseman Is the same sad fool you will see at other times, walking around with bis bead thrown back He Is balancing bis nose for fear It might fall'off hla face If he didn't. And so with the rest of them. Crazier than h quilt. "And the fans. They're still crajy, only In a conventional way for the time being. "The first ball Is thrown. If bit. The batter runs to first base Hit mind is ns clear as a looking glass. "The whole thing Is only a case of making the person occupy himself with something that Is Interesting to him and base bull Is one of the very few things that can Interest the In sane. "With the same Idea In mind, fac ulties of schools for backward and In corrigible students have stimulated the feeble minded by matting them employ their time working at something they liked, and the faculties learned that there was nothing as generally popu lar as baseball dope." JIMMY COLLINS IS RELEASED Jakey Atz, Second Baseman, Appoint ed Manager of Providence East ern League Team. Jimmy Collins, manoger of the Providence Eastern league team and formerly with the Boston Americans, hns received his unconditional release from President Crowley. Jake Atz, the 9 ' -v vA-ivrv Jakey Atz. veteran second baseman of the Gray was appointed to succeed Collins. Dissatisfaction with the way the team has been directed Is understood to have caused the owners to make the change. President Crowley Bald that every effort would be made to strengthen the team. Cub Get Big Money. The highest salaried big league team Is Frank Chance's Chicago Na tional league club. There Isn't a doubt of this In spite of the fancy price paid to Mathewsop at New York and Cobb, Crawford and Mullln of the Tigers. The three Cub outfielders, Schulte, Sheckard and Hofmon, draw down a total of $12,000 a year, Hofinan get ting more than either of the othet two. Evers and Kllng are close to the $5,000 ninrk, Mordecal Brown Is over It ami Tinker gets lu the neighbor hood of $1,000. Chance himself pulls out $10,000 straight salary and also shares In the dividends of the club. WEE tVHY ONE WAN GAVE UP WINE Mark Rutherford In HI Autoblograph) Give HI Rea-on for Complete Stop In Liquor Hatlt. In the autobiography of Mark Ruth erford he tells us why he gave up the use of wine. He had been led to use It because of physical weak ness and depression of spirits. He was very miserable sometimes, and n '. knowing what e'se to use resort ed to Klne. He found after a time thnt the drink habit was taking strong hold of hfm. So he resolved that he would touch no wine In the day time, but would do his work and then take something at night. There was a new development then, for he found himself eager for night to come so he could Indulge In dr'nk. not In an Intemiernte way. but far enough lo overcome hi physical sufferings. Presently, as he Tclt the strong craving nil the day long for drink and found that he was no. entering with pro.ier spirit, but listlessly. Into the dny's employment, he startled him self by demanding whetlipr he was going to be the slave of the bottle or be a free man. Such slavery he snw meant degrada tion, moral and Intellectual. If he kept up the drink habit he must re linquish all hope of making anything of himself. He must give up bis chosen pursuits In which he had taken so mnch de'lght. He must drop down to mere bod!'" Indulgence, and be nothing more than hundreds and thousands of other young men who had gone the same road Into obscurity and tise'epHness. He balanced the two. In one scale was what were offered by wine tem porary relief from physical pain, and temporary elation of plrl In the other scale the opportunity of grow ing along the line of study which he loved, and the prospect of making his mark somewhere In the world He decided that he was not going to be such fool as to lose what was beat for what wa bo Inferior. Whatever drink offered wa only for a little while anyhow, and if his ex perience would be like that of other before him, the temporary relief and exhilaration would be followed by greater pain and depression. The young man had too much good sense to turn away what was noble for what was base, so he stopped using vine, stopped completely, and never regretted having done so. No one ver doe regret uc' a step. EVIL EFFECTS CF- ALCOHOL Exercises Immediate Paralyzing Ac tion on Nervous System and Pro duct Premature Decay. It must never be forgotten that even If all gross Intemperance were done away with there Is a vast deal of material and moral Injury done by alcohol taken In quantities which most wen consider moderate. Here lies the Impossibility of getting rid of tbe effects of drink by any other rule of life except total abstinence For, of course, the liquor has to be swal lowed before any effects can be pro duced; then It Is some time before any marked effects are obvious and meanwhile there ha been ample time to lake more. When It has once bien wallowed It Is not likely to be re turned and tbe consequential action on the system must follow, whatever It may be. It has further been shown that harm Is done by doses much smaller than any which the .'onsum er can himself perceive to have done any harm. We have no doubt that nny moderate drinker who may read this will repudiate the Idea that he Is doing himself any Injury. This self delusion Is one eu the reasons for the slow progress of our cause. But It re mains the fact that alcohol exercises an immediate paralyzing action on the nervous system and Its continued use produces degeneration and premature decay. All reforms and reduction of license good as far as they diminish drinking must never be permitted to cause us to relax our efforts to attain to ubsolute sobriety, which can only cotiBlst with total abstinence. Medi cal Temperance Revliw. Great Misery In Alcohol. Caesar Lombroso, the well-known Italian anthropologist, published a book. In which he deals at length with tbe subject of criminality. He at taches special Importance to the Influ ence of alcoholism on criminality and tbe great misery It causes. He goes back sometimes for several genera tions to find why a man Is a criminal. He says that of 97 children born of alcoholics only 14 are normal. Tbe abnormality may not always show Itself as criminality, but when It does In one generation some abnormality can be shown In every generation. Of 100 crimes alcoholism is the cause ot GO In Fiance and of 41 in Germany. Cheap Beer I Handicap. A Munich employer of many skilled workmen speaking of the difficulties of competing with foreign and even North German concerns, laid stress upon the cheapness of Munich beer as one of bis great handicaps. "If we were on equal terms In every re spect," he said, "the fact that my men's brains and bodies are sodden with beer day and night would put me behind In tbe race." Liquor Ttafflo In Africa. Major Lugard, the African explorer declares that the liquor traffic In Af rlca Is an unmitigated curse, and colli upou the governments' of England. Germany and France to come to some agreement which will In -time effectu ally prohibit the importation ol liquors. i Money In Maine. Maine ha more money in the sav Ings bank per capita than any state In the Union, because the money thai would have gone for drink bas gont into the Baving banks. To Get Its Beneficial Effects; Always Ek (he Genuine SYRUpflGS am) fmENNA manulacturelyili(? (AtIFOff,N!A flO SUP (J. Sold by all leading Dtvqqists One She Only, 50 o VoHlo IN EUGGVILL. Willie- Fly Heavens: I'm caught la a cyclone! BABY'S HAIR ALL CAME OUT "When my first baby was six mouths old be broke out on bis bead with little bumps. They would dry up and leave a scale. Then it would break out again and U spread all over bis head. AH tbe hair came out and his head was scaly all over. Then his face broke out all over In red bump ind It kept spreading until it vas on bis hands and anus. I bought several boxes of ointment, gave him bloud medicine, and had two doctors to treat him, but be got worse all the time. II bad It about six months when a friend told me about Cutlcura. I sent and got a bottle of Cutlcura Resolvent, a cake of Cutlcura Soap and a box of Cutlcura Ointment. In three days ufter using them be began to Improve. He began to take long naps and to stop scratching his head. After taking two bottles of Resolvent, two boxes of Ointment and three cakes of Soap he was sound and well, and never had any breaking out of any kind. His balr came out in little curls all over his head. I don't think anything eUe would have cured him except Cut icura. "1 have bought Cutlcura Ointment and Soap several times since to uso for cuts aud sores and have never known them to fail to cure what I put them on. I think Cutlcura Is a great remedy and would advise any one to use it. Cutlcura Soap is the best that I have ever used for toilet purposes." (Signed) Mrs. F. E. Harmon, R. F. D. 2, Atoka, Tetin., Sept. 10, 1910. The really great never seek noto rlety. neither do they like to have It thrust upon them. They are too busy to want to be taken notice of. Count i put inn iviunt'i mnny serimn dn e-tws. It is thoroughly cured by I'r Pierce's Pleamnt Pellets. One a lux.itnt tluee fur cathartic. Any man can get Into a fight, but sometimes it takes a certain auiaaut of courage to keep out of one. want the best there is, ask your grocer for 's: i V J I Pickles i a ' and mfcsS OfivesJl
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