1 Play Bali!" Is Now the
2 Distinct Surprises In the Great
J National Sport Predicted
• lor Season of 1909.
By fULUtRICK R. TOOMBS.
THE opening week of the annual
baseball season has swung
around, and the stars In their j
courses look down on no period J
more portentous of hilarity for man- j
kind than this same week. Following i
the inaugurals of the major leagues, j
the National and the American, come
the playing debuts of the big and little ■
leagues that are classed as the minors.
Within a few weeks after the olHcial
opening of the season all the leagues j
throughout the United States, from
thirty to fifty, will be operating under
a full head of green diamond steam, !
and the heart of the fan will wax ex- I
ceeding glad.
Last season the teams in the regular j
organizations spent $12,000,000 In their
efforts to supply baseball pabulum for
the capacious public maw, and this
year they will not spend less than $15.-
I*lo.ooo, Illustrating that more players
have been engaged, players' salaries
have been raised and playing grounds
Improved. Clearly the astute mana
gers are confident that they will estab
lish new records, and, judging from
the impressive makeup of many of the
National and American league teams
and those in the American association
and the Eastern league, etc., pennant
races of a scintillating description are
In order.
The so called big league teams, the i
eight of the National and eight of the |
American league, while the same as
regards locality this year as last, dif
.fer in personnel in varying degrees '
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breaches that neeessarilj existed in !
tlie gigantic structure of the older j
seague. Nobody prophesied victory in I
the campaign of the American league
except those who knew Han Johnson j
and had brains enough to appreciate
his qualities and what they must por- I
tend.
So today the American association, '
with Joseph D. O'Brien as Its presi- !
dent, and the Eastern league, with Pat'
Powers in the van, are In positions of ,
decided strategic advantage. They sue-1
oessfully threaten the sway of the ma- 1
jor leagues. They have forced com
promises not to the liking of the more
powerful magnates.
How O'Brien Beat the Majors.
To O'Brien's tact was chiefly due tlii» !
credit fur the recent victory over the
major leagues. It was O'Brien, with
Powers, who led In tlie fruining up of
the demand of the American associa
tion and Eastern league for a special
rating, and the victory was largely to
be credited to his diplomacy in pre
senting the wishes of the American as
sociation and the Eastern league. "Mil
waul; I*o Joe." sis he Is known in the as
sociation, was formerly better known
In pi iitics than in baseball. lie was
chief clerk of the Wisconsin state sen
ate for several terms, but with tin
coming in of tlie l,n Follette regime
he was displaced lie then turned to
baseball and, being sponsored by Pres- !
ident Havenor of the Milwaukee club, |
was made the association president. !
The American association Includes
such cities as Indianapolis (holding j
the championship), Columbus, Toledo, I
Louisville, Kansas City, St. Paul and 1
Milwaukee.
The compromise agreement conceded ,
by the big leagues during the last win
ter will better the condition of the
Why She Opened the Letter.
Willis—Pm sorry your wife opened !
that business letter I sent you, Harris, j
Tou told me that she never opened !
your letters.
Harris—She doesn't, as a rule, Willis, j
but, you see. you marked It "private." j
A Little Too Young.
New Boarder - How's the fare here?
Old Boarder—Well, we have chicken
every morning. New Boarder—That's 1
first rate! How is It served? Old
Boarder—ln the eggs.—Brooklyn Life.
\l\t BASEBALL SPRING SONG
Pitching staff is simply great.
Fact I cannot underrate,
And I do not hesitate
To eay it's most complete.
None of them is sore or lame,
Each one fit to pitch the gam*
Of his life, and so I claim
A team that can't be beat.
Catching force is working fma>
All of them have got in line,
And I cannot see a sign
Their progress to impair.
And the fielders, too, are strong.
Quite an active, husky throng
That will boost the team along
And win out anywhere.
Infield is a solid wall
Of defense that cannot fall;
They are corkers, one and all,
That will not meet defeat.
Weak spots that we had last year
Havo been done away with; here
Is a bunch that has no peer—
A team that can't be beat.
We shall win out, never fear;
Drive all others to the rear:
Have a pennant raising year.
And next year we'll repeat.
Though before you've heard me say
These same things, then fado away,
I'm sincere in saying they
This season can't be beat.
—Chicago Tribune.
leadership. The struggling American
league of the past would never have
risen to its present equality with the
Nationals had not Han Johnson, its
fighting president, led the way Into
and render the probable outcome a
| perplexing problem. Taking everything
j into consideration, the year 1009 will
I surely prove one of distinct surprises
| In baseball. And probably the friendly
relations that have existed between the
I leagues and the players will become
severely strained.
I Baseball leagues and teams are made
i up of virile, resolute men, who realize
I the uncertainties of the game in which
! their money and careers are invested
1 and engaged and who know that a dol
| lar in the present is worth a hundred
j In the future. In baseball they have
■ learned that you may train a tree In
the way it should go and somebody
else gets the fruit. The philosophy of
| the baseball magnate also teaches him
! that arbitration comes easy after you
have licked the other fellow
Baseball's Fountain head.
The big or major league teams are
the fountainhead of baseball. They
lead the inarch of the game and keep
the smaller teams alive through the In
terest aroused. It is a mistake to lis
sunie that the smaller teams arouse
the Interest (hat makes It possible for
the ma.:' r leaguers to exist. And spec
ulation is iii-1 now very keen over th"
prospect- and conditions in the Xn
tlonal and American organizations.
The influence of the multitudinous
minor leagues on the baseball situation
is frequently underestimated. They
are constantly growing stronger. In
I spite of the domineering method- <>f
1 the larger organizations. .Notably the
! American association of the middle
| west and the Eastern league of the At
-1 lantlc saaboard threaten the boasted
supremacy of the two majors. The
j power of the minor leagues in their
political conflicts with the majors de
pends entirely upon the nature of their
Tongue Twisters.
j Among brief tongue twisters the fol
| lowing are hard to beat: "The sun
| shines on the top signs;" "She says she
I shall sew a sheet;" "The sixth sick
{ sheik's sixth sheep's sick." Some of
| Shakespeare's Hues offer pitfalls to the
: rapid speaker, in "Midsummer Night's
| Dream" we find. "When lion rough ill
wildest rage doth roar," and in the
same play
Oh, Futon, romp, come!
Cut thread and thrum;
Quail, crush, conclude and quell.
—London Chronicle.
Umpire's Cry i
•
lrick Plays to Be a Distinguish- J
ing Feature of the Pres- •
ent Campaign. •
; players. The baseball player has al
ways had vital grievances because of
j the iron bound contract he Is forced to
> sign and of the conditions not stated
I in the contract to which he must bow.
: All the leagues in organized ball recog
nize the rulings of each other regard- j
ing the qualifications of players, and a j
man who secures the ill will of the j
, particular club that holds his contract
can be actually driven out of the fol- |
! lowing of his business in the United
j States by a form of cunningly devised j
blacklist. By holding promising minor
; league players on what Is known as i
the reserve list the major leaguers fre
; quently prevent men from following a
| course of action that will materially |
| advance themselves. And the clubs
: auction off their players like so much i
barley or straw. They sell the player's
| contract, and he must play for the :
; buyer or join the so called and gener- ;
I ally unstable "outlaws" or leave the j
; game for the joys of peddling shoes or 1
I selling cookbooks.
King Bee of thc w Game.
The Interest of organist ball centers '
\ in the omnipotent national commission. !
and its chairman, Garry Herrmann of
Cincinnati, is the big man of the game.
Yet it will always be recognized that J
the players are the lifeblood of the \
game, and the magnates spend much
of their time trying to convince the
players that they are nothing of the
sort. Players like Hans Wagner,
Christy Mathewson, Napoleon Lajoie,
Tyrus Cobb. Mordecai Brown, Johnny
Evers, Sam Crawford, Fielder Jones, .
Terry Turner, Cy Seymour. Roy Thorn- |
as, Miller Muggins, Bill Bradley, Fred
Clarke, etc., are as the stars in a dra
ma. The magnate is in a 6ense their
business manager, but the latter's pow
er has encroached beyond Its natural
sphere because of his long standing
ability to secure high class legal advice
j in the drawing of contracts. For this j
j reason there will probably never be j
1 another Brotherhood war, when the
j players had the magnates beaten, but
j they didn't know It.and somebody
else did. And this particular somebody
worked successfully the most sizable
bluff in baseball history. The Brother
hood laid down its hand.
When McGraw Gives an Order.
But the players' vocation has seldom
been one that went hand in hand with
business ability. The excitement and
uncertainty of their careers have a
marked effect on their temperaments.
For this reason but few of them maku '
a success as team managers. The suc
cessful manager must lose his heart
and cultivate his head. He must see I
that bis orders are obeyed. A clew to
the managerial success of John Me- ,
Graw of the New York Nationals is
had in the following true story:
The New York team was one rvn be- -
hind in the ninth—a man on first and ;
none out.
"Lay it down." said "Muggsy" to the
I batter.
I The man stepped up to the plate.
; saw a straight one coming over, swung
I at It and lifted the ball over the fence,
j As he trotted into the bench at the
| end of his home run. proud because he
| had won the day, the manager barked
| at him:
i "You're lined fifty. When 1 say bunt
! 1 mean hunt."
| And the fine was paid into the club
. treasury too. Ask Cy Seymour if it
| wasn't.
' McGraw and Chance of Chicago and
! Jennings of Detroit want their orders
| obeyed. They themselves will take the
| responsibility for the failure of their
j plan of action. They have small titue
to bother with players who worry over
I the wisdom of the manager's advice.
Trick Plays to Ee Sprung.
I Every baseball season has at least
j predominating or distinguishing t'eu
j tures. Indications are that the present j
| campaign will prove one essentially of
1 trick plays. Work at the spring train
ing camps of the big teams showed
j this. The squeeze play, essentially a
j trick, has variations In application to ;
other bases than third, where it has
I been invariably used: new base run-
S ning devices are claimed to have been
worked bv one manager; a distinctly
I new curve has been originated, accord
j ing to two or three well known pitch-
I ers. etc.
i Also the "knuckle ball," successor to
; the famous "spit ball" curve, will, it Is
i believed, lie perfected by several twirl
i ers of an experimental turn of mind.
The knuckle hall was discovered last
! year. Jack ("Tax") Neuer, the New
; York American recruit of a year ago.
is said to have mastered three styles
j of delivery of the "foolers."
One of these, which we will term the
"single knuckle" because only the In
dex linger is bent down on the palm,
with the bull resting on the first joint
takes the pace of the'drop. It tloais
up much like a slow spltter. liani.s l'or
• a moment and falls away abruptly
downward. One of the others, or "dou
ble knuckle." Is grasped by thumb and
two outside lingers of the hand, with
the index and big fingers bent down to
form the cushion. This gives a curve
which may Ie controlled so as to break
either way.
The "triple knuckle." or that which
rests on the knuckles of the three in- I
side lingers and is grasped by little fin
ger and thumb, is the one on which
tbo pitcher puts the steam. It Is claim- I
ed that with tills curve one can get an
uoshuot or "raise" of several inches.
A Coraican Vendetta.
' Lecturing on"The Land of the Yen- '
detta" at the Royal Geographical so- j
clety's headquarters, the Rev. T. T.
Norgate said he had discovered In
stances of a vendetta being started In j
Corsica through a pig getting Into an- j
other man's field, and this had caused |
the loss of perhaps hundreds of lives
and had made two families deadly one- !
inles for upward of ,'ioo years. The j
men who carried on such a vendetta |
would scorn to rob any one of a six j
penny piece. I.omlon Globe.
IliffiLSmTS
I OF THE TREES $
| James A.Edgerton |
I [Copyright, 1909, by American Press Asso
ciation.]
therefore fitting
that laureates should have been crown
ed with leaves, for thus the collective
world of trees could show gratitude to
(heir panegyrists.
It should be a proud thought to
Americans that of all the singers who
have rendered tributes to our leafy
friends it remained for onr country
man to write the one tree song that Is
Immortal. George P. Morris has now
i been dead nearly forty-five years. To
the world at large much of his other
: work Is forgotten. Yet "Woodman,
; Spare That Tree," lives in all hearts
! and In practically all tongues. Its
1 fame Is self renewing and perennial,
j like Its subject. It has become the
s song of a great crusade, that for the
j preservation of our forests. Annually
! throughout the land It Is lisped on Ar
' bor day by the myriad voices of chil
dren. Its author Is well entitled, there
fore, to be known as the "laureate of
I the trees."
In his day General Morris was per
haps the best known of American song
writers. He sang simply from the
heart, and his words found an Im
mediate and widespread echo In the
hearts of the masses. He touched on
sentiments common to all—home, coun
| try, love of nature and the hallowed
things of everyday life. Many of his
poems had their place In the school
readers and are yet familiar. To the
gray headed boys and girls a mere re
cital of some of the titles will Beem
like calling a roll of old friends. Here
are a few of them: "A Leap For Life"
is oue, beginning
Old Ironsides at anchor lay
In the harbor of Manon.
Who has not felt an apprehensive
thrill as the captain's little son stood
far aloft on the main truck and as the
agonized father seized a rifle and com
manded him to "jump far out Into the
wave?" Fatuous to all New Yorkers
at leust was General Morris' "Croton
Ode," sung In celebration of the spar
kling inouutains whence comes New
York city's water supply. "Land-Ho"
Is another of Morris' famous songs,
loved of all travelers. "The Flag of
Our I.'nlon" Is not so well known rs
112 formerly perhaps, hut once promised
to become one of our national songs.
Every one knows "I'm With You Once
; Again, My Friends," even If he does
not reeoglnze General Morris as the
author. Equally famous Is "My Moth
er's Bible." "We Were Hoys Togeth
er" can now bo sung by old men who
; were boys when this touching song
was written. "When Other Friends
Are Round Thee' Is equally familiar.
"The Miniature" is fondly known of
all lovers. One of the finest and ten
derest little songs written by Morris
and one of the sweetest In the lan
guage begins:
Near the lake where drooped the willow
Long time ago!
"The Origin of Yankee lK>odle" has
a fine flavor both of humor and patriot
ism. Two beautiful songs concern his
daughters One begins thus:
Where Hudson's wave o'er silvery sands
Winds through the hills afar
Old Cro' Most like a monarch stands.
Crowned with a single star.
The other, while not so famous. Is
even more touching. Its first line will
recall it to many:
Ueorgie, coine home! Life s tendrils cling
about thee.
These are but a few of General Mor
ris' famous songs. One or two are
stirring hunting odes, others relate to
the wild, free life of the west, while
some of the most beautiful are ad
dressed to the Hudson river. Ho wrote
at least two dramas and several the
atrical addresses quite popular In their
day. Besides, he was one of the earli
est literary editors In the country, hav
ing started the New York Mirror aud
the Evening Press, which eventually
became the Home Journal. Associated
with him In all his newspaper enter
prises was N. P. Willis. The two
brought out many young authors who
afterward Joined America's little band
of literary immortals. Among the aa
slstaat editors were James Parton, Ed
gar Allan l'oe
and T. H. Al- r
of contributors Jr
novelist; Ilalleck,
Greenwood and
aspiring auth >r
in days before nonius,
literature had become a profession or
, offered monetary reward.
During al) the later years of his life
George P. Morris' home was In the
"eautiful Highlands of the Hudson,
about fifty miles above New York.
Here he had a fine country place In an
envlronmem as lovely as can be found
tln America His house was a largj
square brlca with colonial porches. It
was but a little way the village
Her Hands Full.
"Poor woman; she has scarcely time
j to eat and sleep."
"Nonsense! Why, she Is rich and
! has no duties whatever."
"But she tells me she reads all the
I latest novels."—Cleveland Leader.
Favors.
Stella—What were the favors at her
dinner? Bella—Well, all the guests
thought they did her a favor by com
j lng, and she thought they did her a
! favor by leaving—New York Sun.
| of Cold Spring and across the river
I from West Point. The outlook through
J the trees and over the noble river Is
| most inspiring. Directly opposite Is
j the mountain Cro' Neat, to which lis
. often referred. All about Is historic
ground, traversed by Washington and
| his men during the Revolution,
j Up the river, just around the shoul
i der of Storm King, another mountain,
llv<-d Morris' lifelong friend and part
ner, N. I*. Willis. A short row of a
few miles across the Hudson thus
brought the two together. Here at
their homes, Undercliff and Idlewlld,
were entertained many famous men
and women of the early part of the |
nineteenth century. The ways In i
which the two places came to their
names were as romantic as the spots
themselves or as the men who chose
them. Morris' house was situated Just
at the base of a branch of Mount
! Taurus known as "Cloud's Rest." This
! suggested the name of Undercliff. Mr.
| Willis bought his farm after a long
, search through the territory surround-
I lng New York. It was previously
| owned by a fisherman in the nelghbor
| hood, who, when approached with an
I offer for the farm, seemed to have no
I Idea of Its value, denominating It <i
I "rough and Idle wild." The phrase j
! suggested a name to Willis, and Idle- |
I wild the place became.
It has been the writer's fortune fre- j
( quently to visit the old house occupied |
j by General Morris and once to stroll j
| through the sweet scented pine forest J
j at Idlewlld. While many are yet ltv-1
| lng at Cornwall and Cold Spring who j
' remember the two poets, the visits j
| seemed to carry me back to another j
. day—a day so remote that the present j
j generation can hardly grasp the change ,
I that has taken place. There may be j
j but a few years between the America
j that was before the civil war and that
1 which has developed since, yet cen-
! turles could scarcely have effected a j
j more complete transformation.
Sad to say, Undercliff Is dismantled.
The house 1a yet standing hut Is in a
I state of neglect; the fine old parches
| are gone, and the beautiful grounds
j that were once the poet's delight have
I but a ragged reminiscence of their
j former glory.
Undercliff Is now surrounded by a
j veritable forest, as though the trees
! would shield from curious eyes the dls
mantled state of their dead friend's i
home. Approaching It one beautiful |
| summer morning, I was shocked to i
J observe that vandals during the night j
i had been cutting away some of the i
1 fine oaks planted perhaps by the very |
I hand of the author of "Woodman, |
I Spare That Tree." Ah, I thought. If j
be could be here now, what a song
would ho give us! But how V'tter a
comment the whole scene furnished on 1
the Ingratitude of man!
Idlewlld bears evidence that its i
i owner, too, loved trees. I never can j
| forget the great|
AwfCv the quiet old es-
In the most ro
\ mantle and de- 1
ft-' \ ' Ughtful fashion. 1 ldlewlUl
ldlewlUl is still
N. r. v.it.l.is. occupied and Is
, kept In a gi«>d state of preservation.
! It stands on the brow of a broad hill
| overlooking the Hudson, and Its loca
j tlon and surroundings are an evidence
| of Its builder's delicate taste. 1 never
j understoijd Willis uutll lately, but the
discovery, since made, has been a per
, petual delight.
Visiting Idlcwild HO soon after leav
j ing Undercliff. 1 could not but recall
j the tine appreciation Willis bad once
' given of his friend Morris. This was
I written fifty years ago.
I "Morris," he said, "is the best known
poet of the country by acclamation, not
! by criticism. He is just what poets
j would be If they sang, like birds, with
, out criticism, and it Is a peculiarity of
lils fame t hrt it seems as regardless of
criticism as a bird In the air. Nothing
can stop a song of his."
After half a century it is safe to!
say th:it nothing can stop at least one
song rf his, for ••Woodman, Spare That
Tree," will live as long as there are
trees to love and men to love them.
Cost of Forest Maintenance.
For the administration and protec
tion of the 182 national forests In sev
enteen stated and territories and Alus
ka the government spent last year $2,- !
| .V20.tMW.02, or about 1',4 cents an acre,
j Permanent Improvements. Including
j the construction of 3,400 miles of j
trails, 100 miles of wagon roads, 3,200
' miles of telephone lines, 550 cabin
and barns, 000 miles of pasture and
drift fences. 250 bridges and 40 miles
of tiro lines, cost $592,100.19. Tele- ■
phone wire to build approximately 400
| miles of additional lines was shipped
lo the forests, but with the funds j
available before the close of the year
the work of construction already
planned could not be completed.
National Forest Employees.
At the end of the last fiscal year,
when business was heavier than at
ally other time during the year, the
18" national forests were eared for by 1
nn executive and protective force of
29 inspectors, 98 forest supervisors I
01 deputy supervisors, 33 forest assist
ants, 8 planting assistants, !>4l rangers
521 forest guards and 88 clerks.
Timber Sales.
The total receipts from timber sale;
each year since the national fores;.,
have been under the administration of
the forest service have been as fol
lows: 1905. $60,136.62; 1906, $245,013.49;
1907. $608,813.12; 1908, $849,027.24
The Popular Interest.
With tariff and such leaser things
Mere man will fuse no more.
The only question now will be.
What'e the aeoreT
—New York Bun.
Flying Yacht For Lipton.
Sir Thomas Lipton, In a letter to
friends in Milwaukee, declared that he
will soon take to the air instead of
Irylng t > conquer America at the
yachting game. It Is hinted that he
may offer n trophy for supremacy In
navigation of the air, which will give
Britannia a chance to compete with
America on even terms.
SWINBURNE THE POET
Recollections of England's Fa
mous Master of Song.
LAST OF GREAT VICTORIANS.
Ardent Student of Shakespeare In His
Childhood Days—An Instance of His i
Winning Personality—Two Odd Es- !
capades—Qr«at Lover of Children. |
Algernon Charles Swinburne, tl»e j
poet who recently died at his home, i
The I'lnes, at Putney, near London,
and upon whose shoulders all England
expected Tennyson's mantle of poet
laureate to fall, was born on April 5, !
1837, so that he had just entered on ,
his seventy-third year when death ;
came. lie was descended from an an
cient family which runs back to the
days of Edward 11. for Its pedigree.
lie was the last leaf on the tree that
bore the group of great Victorian poets. 1
The poet was the son of the late Ad
miral Charles Henry Swinburne ami
Lady Jane Henrietta, who was the
daughter of the third Earl of Ash
burnham. As a child he was extraor
dinarily precocious, and at the age
when children think only of their play
he was an ardent student of Shake
speare, taking, as his parents often re
lated, a copy of the plays of the im
mortal bard to bed with him. Swin
burne's boyhood was spent at his par
ents' home in the Isle Wight, and
it was there that his great love for
the sea grew, for the poet knew aiul
loved the sea in all lis moods. His
two favorite recreate 112 were swim
ming and c?iff climbing. In both of
which he excelled.
in 1847-8 he was educated by a tutor
In the Isle of Wight and after a year's
study was sent to Eton, where, how
ever, he led a lonely life.
As an instance of Swlnburne'c pe
culiarly winning personality, when Dr.
Hawtrey, the head master at Eton,
once sent for him to remonstrate with
the boy on bis love for poetry, the in
terview ended with the conversion of
the master and a promise that his
pupil should have access to Dr. Haw
trey's own library and the understand
ing that he should be allowed to take
away any of the works of the old Eng
liah dramatists he desired.
In 185<1 Swinburne entered lialiol
college, Oxford, but did not wait for a
degree. By this time the muse was re
ceiving his respectful attention, and
Instead of waiting to graduate with
his class he started off on a visit tc
Florence with the late Walter Savage
Landor.
Swinburne's birth was contempora
neous with the coronation of the late
: Queen Victoria. It was in IS6I that I
| Swinburne published his first volume. !
I"The Queen Mother" and "Rosamond," j
| and not a year has passod since then I
| that ho ha 1 * not contributed to the I
j world of letters one or more books of j
i prose or po"try.
Swinburne was strong In his likes j
and dislikes. He appeared to care lit-
I tie for the opinion or criticism of Lon- i
| don and the world outside. He was a j
devout worshiper at the shrine of Rob- j
! ert Browning. and some years ago bo |
j caused all England to shake with
I laughter when he brought a footstool
to a public banquet at which Brown j
lng was the guest of honor and, sol j
euml.v placing It at Browning's feet. J
sat upon It—at the feet of the "mas >
i
Another of Swinburne's escapades t
occurred after a dinner at the London I
Art club when he showed his disap
proval of his fellow members by pil
ing up their hats on the floor of the
banquet hall and dancing on the mod
est headpieces. This made substantial
| grist for the comic papers, and one \
publication burlesqued the affair by
a travesty of Swinburne's own imlta
Hons of the Greek form of drama. The
burlesque was put on the boards, and
the club members made up the cast.
Policemen who were called into bridle
the poefs rage made up the chorus.
| Hats were sent flying about the stage,
and the members wailed:
! As forests with tempeßts that wrestle
i From the hat racks our hats are torn
down.
Then the chorus joined the tumult |
| by shouting:
The Englishman s home is hta castle;
The Englishman's hat is his crown.
And so the burlesque continued true |
to the traditions of Aristophanes when 1
he amused the Athenians by ridiculing |
Aeschylus.
Swiuburne was frank and cordial j
with his friends and, aside from being
a noted leader in conversation, was
fond of reading his own poetry. He
was a bachelor. He amassed a rare
collection of literary curios. The poet
never mingled much iu general society,
as he was somewhat deaf. It was his
habit to take long cross country jaunts,
and as he trudged along with down
cast head, seldom lifting his eyes ,
from the ground, he was a welcome
Lord Bountiful to the children whom I
he met on the way. He gave them I
i cakes and candies and was pleased j
| with their demonstrations. No mat
; ter how hard it rained or severe the
j storm that overtook him while abroad
' on these excursions, he pulled down
' more tightly that old soft felt hat and
: refused to carry an umbrella.
The most touching memory of Bwln
| burne left to us is his great love for
I children, and some of the most beautl
! fill verses lie wrote wore devoted to
their praise, notably In "Ilerse," In
the final line of which Is the keynote
of his whole Idea. "O child, what
news from heaven?"
Another peculiar feature of the poet's
habits was that he never wore an over
coat, but of late years he had capitu
lated to the extent of gearing a pelr
of thick gloves.
Inconsistent.
Howell Rowell Is an Inconsistent
fellow. Powell—That's right: he would
tell you take all the time you wanted
and then have you arrested for steal
lng bis watch.—New York Press.
Public Opinion.
The single snowflake—who cares for
it? But a whule day of snow-flakes—
who does not care for that? Private
opinion is weak, hut public opinion Is
almost omnipoteut.
Wolfskin makes the best banjo
parchment.
NEW K!i OF SURGERY
High Pressure Air Apparatus
Used In Thorax Operation.
KEPT EOY'S LUNGS INFLATED.
Device. First Time Used In the United
Stales, Is Expected to Open New
Field In Operations For Tuberculosis
and Other Pulmonary Troubles.
The tirst operation in the United
States upon a human being in which
the cavity of the thorax was opened
while the lungs were inflated from a
chamber containing air at a greater
pressure than that of the atmosphere
was performed recently at the Ger
man hospital, Seventy-seventh street
and I'ark avenue. New York, by l)r.
Willy Meyer. That institution has
been the tirst hospital to be equipped,
with the new positive air pressure ap
paratus. The operation upon a littlo
boy for empyema thus far is deemed
to have been successful. The pa
tient's condition has been satisfactory
since the operation.
It Is believed that the use of this
apparatus will open up a wide field in
surgery of the thorax. Up to this
time many operations in the thorax
have been diflicult to perform and oth
ers impossible, owing to the fact that
aa soon as the cavity of the thorax
was opened the atmospheric pressure"
collapsed the lungs and breathing
stopped.
The apparatus used, which is after
the models of I'rofessor SauerbrucU
to a degree, consists of Iwo chamber*
with a door between the chambers
and a do<* from the smaller chamber
to the outer air. The chambers are
lined with rubber. To them run air
| pipes and valves from a compressor
run by a motor.
The operating table Is arranged
that the patient lies outside the main
chamber with bis head within it. Rub
ber about tho neck of the patient
keeps the air within the chamber from
escaping. The front of the larger
I chamber is of glass, which allows tho
I surgeons to see within it Within tho
I larger chamber when an operation Is
| performod arc two anaesthetists, who
I administer the ether. Tho smaller
j chamber Is for their convenience.
I The air pressure within it Is the sama
[ as that within the larger chamber and
j permits them to leave the patient and
j return without changing the pressure.
I In the operation at the German hos
i piial the pressure was Increased very
j gradually until It was deemed at tha
I proper degree for the operation. Then
I the cavity of the thorax was opened.
| While the lungs were inflated and res
| plration was going on from the com
| pressed air chamber Dr. Meyer and his
I assistants were working in the open
j air. After the cavity of the thorax
! had been opened it was found that ouo
i lung was compressed. With there-
I moval of the matter which was the ob
! ject of the operation the lung expand
! Ed at once and Its use In respiration
' returned.
I This, it was said, was unusual, for
j without the use of the positive prea-
I sure apparatus it would have beeu
| weeks or months before the lung would
have dilated sufficiently. In this way
a gain was made In the convalescence
1 of the patient. It was said that the
i little boy recently operated on would
| be out in less tha'i a month,
i The positive air pressure apparatus
and its methods will be applied in the
near future to other operations In
I which the thoracic cavity Is opened,
j For Instance, there Is carcinoma of the
| oesophagus.
j Prior to the existence of the positive
] air pressure apparatus it was impossi
ble to operate for this disease. Tho
j operation, however, to relieve this has
. been performed successfully in Europe
, with the use of the apparatus. It was
thought, too, that the new apparatus
might lead to important results In tu
berculosis. It was said that certain
parts of the lungs could be cut away.
I since the apparatus would keep th<j
j lungs inflated with every respiration
while the surgeons worked in ordinary
| «tmospheric pressure
The Father Pipefish.
"The best of fathers is the pipefish."
' said an angler. "He hatches the littl®
I pipefish, and after they are hatched
| he carries them about with hitu till
| they can take care of themselves.
"This fish has under his tall a sac.
In It he bears the pipefish spawn.
| Thus the spawn hatch in perfect
safety Thev are not decimated, like
| the other fish spawn lying unprotected
lon the bottom of the sea, by every
I hungry passerby. No; they all hatch,
I every one of them.
As soon as they hatch the father ii.-h
j splits, ur nature splits for him. the
I sac, and a!l the little fish drop out into
I the sea, but they cling to papa. Wher
ever he HOC s, like a gray cloud those
thousands of tiny sons and daughters
surround hira, and on the approach of
| danger they pop back again into the
j sac just as baby kangaroos pop Into
I the sac, or marsupial pouch, of their
mamma.
"The male pipefish is, in fact, the
female kangaroo of the sea."
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