THE WEATHER PROPHET 3
& bsi a
OF BAD LEG.
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By ELLIS PARKER BUTLER. v
It was a big day for Bad Leg when
Old Man JVir'ow climbed out of the
stage and sl :".)? foot on Main street,
and all the able-bodied men lu the
city gathered to give him a glad
welcome, for he had been well ad
vertised. Old Man Barlow came from some
where down In Maine some little
place with u big Indian Jawbreaker
name and he was daddy to Wopily
Barlow, one of the most respected
citizens of Bad Leg, and Woolly had
let us I.aow the old man's good
points. He used to sit for hours and
brag about his daddy's value to a
growing city like Bad Leg, until we
came to believe that if we could just
get Old Man Barlow to come West
anC settle at Bad Leg wo would have
the so-called city of Ringtail beat to
a finish. So we all chipped in to
raise enough to pay his fare West,
and he came.
When Woolly first raised the sub
ject of the advantageousncss of Old
Man Barlow as a citizen of our metro
polis, we naturally wanted to know
the old man's good points, and he
asked Woolly, and the conversation
went something like this:
"Is he a good worker?" we asked.
"Well, no," says Woolly, "ho ain't,
very."
"Is he a good fighter?"
"Well, no, he ain't, very."
"It he a good talker?"
"Well, no, he ain't, very."
And we went on down the list
until at last Copper Jmlklns says:
"Well, what In Sam Hill is he
good for?"
"Well," says Woolly, "he's the
best weather prophet yon ever see.
There never was a match for the old
man at polntin' out what the weather
will be. - He seems jest a natural
born predlcter, and no mistake. Let
mo tell you every man in the State
of Maine is a weather prophet. You
can lay your hand on any man yon
run across first in Maine and you'll
have it on a better weather prophet
than the best in any other State.
.Weather prophesying is a science in
Maine. Kids there three years old
can go out doors and sniff the air a
minute and say, 'Cloudy weather to
morrow,' or 'Snow 'fore nightfall, I
reckon,' and hit it right every time.
I don't s'pose you'll believe me, but
the men have prophecy contests
very winter, when the best prophets
get together from all over the State
to prophesy for,a championship belt.
Well, my old man can give all of
them four aces and win the game
every time."
' So that was why we paid to have
Old Man Barlow come to Bad Leg,
and as soon as he landed from the
stage and Limpy Taylor had made
bis little speech of welcome and we
liad done the honors at Ryerson's
Palace, up speaks Copper Judkins
and says:
"Well, Mister Barlow, soeln' as
tiow you've been initiated into the
good society of Bad Leg and are now
a full-fledged citizen of the eomin'
metropolis of the West, what say you
to giving us a little weather prophe
cy right now. Just as a sample?"
The minute Old Man Barlow heard
the word "weather" his eyes began
to sparkle, and be ran his hand down
bis long white beard, and he says,
"'Boys, I see my son here has been
tellln' you I'm some at foretellln' the
breather, an' he ain't told no untruth.
I guess the weather is one critter I
know from A to Izzard and back
Again. I simply dote on the weather,
and hev studied her all my life till I
know her tricks like a book, and hev
her all cod I tied and scheduled and
put into rules and maxims and poe
try. Jest let nie step to the door a
minute."
With that he did step to the door
nd he looked at the sun to get his
points of the compass, and then he
held out his hand in the breeze
which wasn't much of a breeze, but
as much as we usually had at Bad
Leg that time of the year and he
says, short and decided like, "Wind's
in the east; we'll have rain."
Well, sir, you could have heard a
pin drop if anybody had one to drop,
but they hadn't. We was all mighti
ly embarrassed, for the truth was
that the breeze came from the east
cix months every year at Bad Leg,
and that was during the six months
of dry spell, when it never rained at
all. We ought to have told Old Man
Barlow so, then and there, but he
was smllin', so confident like and
truthful, that, Beein' it was his first
day in Bad Leg, we didn't have the
ieart to do it So we let him go oft
to his son's shack without saying
anything, and he went off smiling.
Fir3t thing Copper Judkins says
"when the old man went out was,
"He's a bloomin' old fraud!" But
Ityerson spoke up quick and says,
"'Hold on there, Copper; don't be so
last. ' How do you know he's a
lraud? Give him a show first," says
le. "Of course," he says, "I'll admit
we ain't ever had rain durin' the dry
spell since mortal man come to Bad
Leg, but then, wo ain't ever had a
weather prophet, either. Mebby
that's why. If he was just a com
mon guesser I'd say like you say
that's he a fraud but he ain't a
common guesser. He's the champeen
prophesyer of the State of Maine,
and I figger that he's got such a grip
on the weather that what he says
has JlBt got to come true."
Some of us thought as Judkins did,
and some of us .nought like Ryer
on, but the end of It was that we
I
agreed to give Old Man Barlow a lit
tle time to prove up his case, which
Is to say, that we'd wait and see if it
did rain like he had prophesied.
Next day Old Man Barlow come
out and took his place on a chair be
fore Woolly's shack, but we noticed
he looked worried and kept casting
his eVe Off tO the mstvilnl Hut nn
rain come. Along in the afternoon
a lot or cimias passed over and the
old man chirped up some, but clouds
don't rain in the dry season at Bad
Leg, and all they did was to pass
over, and by night Old Man Barlow
was pretty glum, I tell you.
Well, the old man seemed to know
we was losing faith in him as the
days passed, and he got mighty blue
and downcast, and kent flwnv from
all Of US. He would lust Kit nn hla
chair and keep his eye on the little
weather vane he had rigged up on
a post before the shack, and talk to
himself. When we passed by we
would hear him sayine. "Wind 'a in
the east: wind's in the. nsr n.
Never knew it to fail before," or
She's got to rain." or some such
thing.
I tell you it was miehtv nltiful tn
see that poor old man and the faith
he had in the weather, for he
wouldn't lose faith. He seemed to
feel hurt at the wav the weather un
treating him, just as if some old
friend had got to actine mean, hur
he never believed the weather wnnM
go back on him entirely, and he sat
out tnore in the east breeze, day
after day, waiting for the weather to
come back and be forgiven. It was
touching scene, and Rverson sue-
gested that we ought to git up a
convention to petition the Almighty
for rain, but none of us being much
of a hand at that sort of thin wo
let it drop. We figured that if faith
would do the work, Old Man Barlow
had enough faith to brine- n rtoh,
but, as for us, we had never known
it to rain except after the wind shift
ed to the west at the end of the dry
season, so we couldn't be expected to
have much faith in rain coming from
the east.
Poor old Barlow cot more and
more downcast as the days went on,
and we got to going round to try to
cheer him up. but it didn't seem to
do any good. He used to shake his
head and Bay: "Eoys, I never knew it
to fail 'East wind brings rain'
I've said it a thonenml timet
every time I said it, it brought the
rain," and then the tears would pile
up in his eyes and run down and
splash on the ground like rain drops,
and sometimes he would think they
were rain drons. and then ho u-nnM
look up, and when he saw the clear
sKy, ne would drop his chin down
into his whiskers and break down
complete, like a little weak baby.
uo, it was terrible!
Sometimes we would wnllr 11 n tn
him and sniff the air, and say: "Air
smells damp this morning. Mister
Barlow," but it never fnnlerl him
and we couldn't get him to smile. He
would just groan and shake his head
in the same old doleful way.
He got worse and worse as time
went on, and he got thinner and
thinner until he WAS A rpfflllnr alrol.
eton, and his face was like a death's
neaa with whiskers, and with two
bright eyes looking out always
looking for rain. And then one day
he took to his bed and went out of
his head. Sometimes he thought he
was back in Maine and then ha
would smile a poor, skinny smile;
and sometimes he thnncht ha wci
Noah, but the saddest was when he
tnought he was the east wind tryin'
to blow a heavy watering cart
through a sand desert. When he
thought he was that, the toughest of
us had to Just sit down and cry, it
was so pitiful.
Then one day he failed pretty fast,
and we knew he was going, and as
he fell back on the pillow with his
eyes shut, the rain began to fall out
side to beat sixty. When he heard
it, a sweet, peaceful smile passed
over his face, and he opened his eyes
and said: "She's come!" and then,
after a minute: "It's all right now,
life is worth livin'," and he seemed
to strengthen up right away.
For a little bit he lay enjoying th
sound of the rain, and then he sort
of raised himself on one elbow and
looked out of the window, but in a
minute he caught sight of his little
weather vane, and the smile fled,
and he fell back and died. You see,
the wind was from tho west.
We all stood .there, thinking how
sad it was, I reckon, and none of us
knowing what to do or say, when all
of a sudden Copper Judkins left the
room. The next we saw of him ha
was out in the rain nailing Old Man
Barlow's weather vane so it pointed
from the east. Which leads me to re
mark that Bomehow a feller always
thinks of such things after they can't
do any good. New York Times.
Prosperity Reduces Birth Bute.
The breeder who to improve his
stock must keep them in great com
fort on abundance of food finds his
greatest d!2cu!ty in their tendency
to sterility. Seeing that this law of
fertility governs not only the animal
but also the vegetable kingdom, may
we not safely conclude that human
volition has little to do with the birth
rate, and also hold that the birth rate
of a Batlou is inversely proportional
to the well-being of its people?
Nineteenth Century,
A Terrible Indictment.
The modern girl Is a sphinx; a
hybrid kind of creature who dislikes
children, talks an Incomprehensible
language, mostly composed of slang
terms picked up goodness knows how
and where, and looks upon feminine
graces as to use her own "elegant"
term " tommy-rot. " Correspondent
writing in tho Throne.
ICliznlx-th Cnbot Agassi.
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, widow of
Louis Agassiz, the celebrated natural
ist, is dead. Mrs. Agassiz was her
distinguished husband's assistant in
his work, and also wrote his biog
raphy. Since his death she has been
instrumental In founding and foster
ing Radtllffa College and other pub
lic works. She was eighty-four years
eld.
The Mnnnrt-s of American Women.
In Harper's Bazar, Mr. Henry
James continues his desperate task
of reforming the women of America.
It 13 their manners that concern him
now, and he writes of them sadly but
frankly.
"Let me thus then, making my
image comprehensive, invite it to
cover the cuse of the whole social
opportunity of women In our rough
American world that world indeed
Whose admirable capacity for still
feeding innumerable millions makes
us even yet resent the application to
Its liberality of any invidious epithet.
We have to breathe low that it is
rough, and that the free hand we
have given on ail Bides to our women
has done much less than we might
have dreamed to smooth it; we other
wise invite ourselves to taste over
much of certain forms of tae rough
ness. This, however, is a trifle If we
only succeed in insisting, insisting
with lucidity; than which there Is no
better way, doubtless, than to appeal
with directness. Directness is
achieved, accordingly, when this peti
tion to tho American woman is made,
absolutely, against her much-misguided
self, and when it is asked of
her to recognize, not that her path
is more lighted than that of her
downtrodden Bisters In other worlds,
but that the literally stands In need
of three times their sufficiency of ad
monition. It is in other words not
three times easier for her to please
and soothe and happily to exemplify,
but three times more difficult by
reason of the false Hght3 that have
multiplied about her and that an at
mosphere absolutely uncritical has
done nothing to extinguish,''
A Left-Handed Party.
A good many prospective hostesses
are racking their brains for some new
scheme for entertaining their friends.
The woman' who entertains much
knows that the guests whose hands
are full are at their ease, and all stiff
ness vanishes. If you cannot think
of something with which to fill both
hands, let us try to fill one only. You
may either add to the invitation
"Come with the right hand tied up,"
or the guest may be left in ignorance
of the fate awaiting her in hall or
dressing room.
Let no one be excepted. The host
ess greets the guests extending the
left hand, and begs as a great favor
that each one will register in the
open blank book which she will on a
table or desk near her. This ,alone
will serve to banish the formality
which is so apt to settle like a pall
upon a company of people when they
are met together for social purposes,
especially at the beginning of the
evening. The best of penmen can
scarcely write the name legibly with
the left hand, so all will meet on a
:ommon footing. The page will soon'
look worse than any kindergarten's
first attempt at penmanship, and will
afford amusement for all; while to
the hostess it will become a pleasing
souvenir of the occasion.
After that almost any form of
amusement will be doubly amusing
when performed by the crippled
guests. A soloist might Ling to her
own left-handed accompaniment; a
reciter make a speech with left-handed
gestures; or all draw some simple
object on pieces of cardboard fastened
to a drawing board or on the black
board, in which case it will be very
amusing for the rest to watch the
gestures and positions which the left
handed victim will unconsciously
assume. On no account must the
right hand be r.sed all the evening,
and comical forfeits should be in
readiness to be imposed ppon anyone
caught In the act.
For refreshments anything requir
ing a spoon or a fork may be served,
and no little fun may be added if the
hostess- has selected her menu with
a view to the awkwardness of the
company.
Just as nil are through eating a
large tray may be brought into the
room, set In the centre of the table
and uncovered while the hostess or a
friend counts ten, then covered up
fur one minute, then uncovered again
while ten is counted, then each one
writes (or tries to) the names of all
the things remembered as seen on the
tray. There should be a great variety
of common things on the tray. Or,
if it is too much trouble to write the
names the guests may go one by one
into a room with the hostess or a
friend and feel of the things under
the cover with her left hand, an
nouncing the name of what Bhe thinks
each one is, and the on who has
charge of it writing down and keep
ing track of the ones who guess the
most correctly.
What is Worth While?
After being a housekeeper ovei
fifty years, and all that time on a
farm, would It not be a natural won
der If I had not learned that to pro
vide the wherewithal to eat and drink
Is not all of life?
What then is worth while? May 1
be allowed to say a few words in re
gard to the family circle (the olde3t
Institution on earth)? Is it worth
while to starve the brain and dwarf
the soul by overwork to keep spick
and span, or to get rich In pocket that
some one may live in idleness and
spend it on luxuries? To earn a good
living is a clear duty, but to have
a happy home Is a greater one. A
good stock of love Is the main thing
in the beginning. Let in the sun
shine, and after the necessary work
Is accomplished for that day, swlns
quite round sing, tell stories, or
dance, if there Is music, and don't
forget to do a kindness for some one
As I do not cook much now I can
not send an original idea in that line,
but I do go away sometimes, and
will offr some notes on that. Not
long since I was at a home where
there was only one child a daughter
about twelve. Suddenly she cried
out: "Do, mamma, please be quiet!
I am doing the very best I can, and
you are scolding me all the time."
The mother was a nagger, a veritable
scold. In olden times they fastened
such on a ducking stool over the
water to wash the slu away a few
descendants still live.
Later on John, the) husband, ap
peared, and then the nagging began
to work again. Why do you do this?
Why don't you do that? He looked
as though good victuals were wasted
on him, for the nagging process was
wearing him away, fle3h and spirit.
I thought: "Poor woman, it would
be hard to have a brain without a
tongue, but deliver us from a tongue
without a brain."
In case John was a little stubborn
and could not see that his wife need
ed help, would It not be better to use
the rule of the statesman or captain
of industry diplomacy (or call it
tact, if you like)? -
For instance, if you have a large
wash on hand and he has the labor
ious task of going to the city or tak
ing a trip to the country, make the
proposition that he help you In the
forenoon, and you ride with him in
the afternoon. He may say: "Be
fore I'll come to that, I'll have it
done." But he doesn't need to come
down. The Good Book says: "The
husband is the head of the house
hold," but It also says, "The wife
shall be a crown to her husband," and
we all know that the crown is just
above the head of the good wife who
never nags. Laura N. Kennedy, in
the New York Tribune.
Curiosities of Servant Question.
In connection with the advanced
position taken by "la,bor" in New
Zealand, it is interesting to note the
attitude of the domestic Bervants of
that colony. A union has been
formed which, through its secretary
at Wellington, sent out circulars to
housewives, informing them of the
"claims" of the Domestic Workers'
Union, and expressing the hope that
their reasonableness would be ac
knowledged by signing the agree
ment accompanying the circular let
ter, which informs those concerned
that "by so doing you will obviate the
unpleasantness of appearing person
ally or by agent before the Concilia
tion Board or Arbitration Court."
Here are some of the "claims:"
"The week's work shall consist of
sixty-eight hours, to be divided aa
follows: Work to commence every
morning, except holidays, at 6.30 a.
m., and cease on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Fridays and Saturdays at 7.30 p. m.,
with three intervals of one-half hout
each for meals, and one hour's in
terval in the afternoon of each day.
"On Thursdays work shall ceasa
at 2 p. m., with two intervals of one
half hour each for meals.
"On Sundays work shall cease at
2 p. m., with two intervals of half
an hour each for raealB, but domes
tics shall, if required, prepare tea
between the hours of 0.30 p. m. and
6.30 p. m. on alternate Sundays.
"On Wednesdays work shall csase
at 10 p. m., with three intervals of
half an hour each for meals and one
hour Interval in tho afternoon.
"On Sundays two hours shall b
allowed to attend church in tho
morning.
"Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New
Year's Day, King's Birthday, Anni
versary Day, Easter Monday, Labor
Day, and all statutory holidays shall
be deemed to be holidays, and wor'j
done on those days shall be paid fof
at the rata of one shilling (twenty
four cants) per hour."
To what extent these "claims"
have been acknowledge has not jel
transpired. Harper's Weekly.
New York' Oldest Street.
Crooked, narrow, husv v
street is the oldest thoroughfare ii
New York City to preserve lis uria
lnal form. It has always been a com
mercial mart.
The wettest hour of the day 'a at
o'clock in the morning.
TO CLEAR OUT THE WOLVES.
Men With Ability ns Hunters to Be
Appointed Forest Guards.
Following up the wolf investiga
tion by the Department of Agricul
ture last year, the forest service is
aiming to appoint men as rangers and
forest guards who have had experi
ence In hunting wolves and coyotes.
As was stated In the Star at the time
the wolf report was made by Vernon
Ealley, the wolves do not, as gener
ally believed, makes their homes and
breeding places in the forest reserves.
In fact, all of the dens found in the
neighborhood of the reserves studied
were in the foothills and outside the
limits of the reserves. But the dam
age the wolves did was very real,
amounting, as near as could be esti
mated, to $4,000,000 annually for
the Western country for cattle alone,
not counting sheep, horses and other
animals.
The forest rangers who have so far
been appointed with a special view to
their wolf hunting abilities are F. L.,
Drandensteln and J. S. Whltlach in
the Sawtooth country, in Idaho, and
William Poster and Geor.se M. Glo
ver In the WlTid P.lver valley of Wy
oming. As these men are Govern
ment employes on a salary and not
trapping for bounties, they will have
no inducement to let the wolves
breed, killing off only the qld dog
wolves, n3 is so often the case with
the professional trappers. They will
follow the plan outlined by Mr. Bai
ley and hunt out the breeding dens
of the wolves and break up the fami
lies In thiB way. The next three
months Is the time when this work
is most effective, and good results are
expected. Other appointments will
be made as rapidly as possible.
Washington Star.
Inconveniences of nn Indian Jnil.
A prisoner in Hamporp Boalia Jail
has a clear grievance against the
Government. There are certain In
conveniences inseparable from prison
life which all reasonable criminals
more or less unwillingly accept, but
the most complaisant draws the line
at being marked down and clawed by
a leopardess In the seclusion of the
prison yard. The animal seems tc
have been Inspired by a suffragette
like curiosity as to the Inside of a
prison, and having got in by the
highly irregular method of leaping
the wall, she ensconced herself
among the low brick piers on which
the old barracks are raised from the
ground. In the early afternoon she
espied a prisoner in the yard, clear
ing up, and like tho impulsive crea
ture she was, promptly leaped upon
him, striking h!:n tn the ground and
at once started to clawing his back
Then, with the fickleness of her Bex.
she suddenly changed her mind, and
in an access of shyness ran away and
hid herself among the brick pillars
Now Colonel R. R. Weir, Inspector
General of Prisons, happened to be
In the village, and to him the incl
lent was reported. Though it can
not be said that the duties of an Inspector-General
of Prisons includes
the destruction of vermin, Colonel
Weir did not stop to consider techni
calities, but borrowed a rifle. After
loroe difficulty in getting within strik
ing distance of the intruder as she
lay in her fastness, he succeeded in
planting his first shot behind her
shoulders, after which nothing re
mained to be done but to drag out
the carcass and record its tape meas
urement as more than seven feot.
London Dally Telegraph.
Stiff in the Knee Joint.
The navy is not the only institu
tion which has had trouble over an
one-the-knee order, for kneeling a?
well as standing orders have been
fertile of trouble in tho: House of
Commons. The late Sir Reginald
Palgrave states that the practice of
ordering delinquents on their knee;
was stopped by the obduracy of a
Mr. Murray, in February, 1750. Be
ing ordered to kneel for the purpose
of receiving the censure of the House
for a breach of privilege, he refused
to comply. His audacity was voted a
high contempt, and he was sent to
Newgate, where he remained till set
free by the prorogation, four month;
afterward. But the victory was his,
for no one, according to Palgrave,
was ever afterward compelled tc
kneel at the bar. Oldfleld, however,
records the following among later in
stances: An election for the city of
Westminster took place in 1751,
when Lord Trentham was returned
against Sir George Vandeport. Se
rious outrages having been committed
by the mob, one of the ringleaders,
Mr. Crowle, an attorney, was sum
moned before the Commons. The de
linquent was commanded to kneel
and was duly reprimanded by the
Speaker. On rising he wiped his
knees, and said ho had never been in
20 dirty a house before. Pall Mall
Gazette.
Put His Foot in It. ,
On one occasion in Scotland a
guest arriving rather late at a coun
try house was quartered in the
naunted room.' Although profesqing
:o be a Bkeptic, like many others, hi?
courage vanished with the light. De
termined, however, to protect him
self as well as possible he placed a
loaded revolver under his pillow and
awaited events. As the clock struck
midnight he saw a fleshy hand at the
end of the bed, and, steadying hit
nerve, he addressed the visitant thus:
"If you do not Instantly remove your
hand I shall Ore without further
warning." He counted three and
then discharged the bullet.
A howl of pain which aroused the
household followed, and it was soon
discovered that the successful marks
man had shot away two ot his owe
toes. London Throne.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
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In the Reynoltlrtvliio Hardware Co. bulldlug,
Ualu street Ueynoldsville, Pa.
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DENTIST,
Resident dentist. In the Hoover buildlnf
Main street. Gentleness In operating.
QR. L. L. MEANS,
DENTIST,
Office on second floor of the First National
bank building. Main street.
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DENTIST,
Ptllce on second II nor of the Syndicate build
Ing, Mutn street, Keyuoldsvllle, Pa.
HENRY PRIESTER
UNDERTAKER.
Black and white funeralcars. Main street.
Ruynoldsvllle, Pa.
HUGHES & FLEMING. .
UNDERTAKING AND PICTURE FRAMIN3.
The C. S. Burial League has been tested
and found all right. Cheapest form of In
surance, becure a contract. Near Publlo
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Surveyor and Draughtsman. Office In Syn
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THE NATIONAL GAME.
The Boston Club has sold Pitcher
Joe Harris to the Providence Eastern
League Club.
Tenney covers more ground than
any other first baseman in the Na
tional League.
Pitcher Brockett, of New York, la
said to be as fast as anybody going
down to first base.
Jack Chapman maintains there is
no one In the country who can out
throw Hans Wagner,
The Brooklyn Club has transferred
Pitcher Henley to the Rochester Club
of the Eastern League.
Flick, of Cleveland, is hitting in
great shape and is the best pinch
batsman in the League.
Manager Chance says that Blaine
Durbin, who was signed as a pitcher,
is a second Billy Keeler in the out
field. "Send hira to Boston" or "to Wash-'
lngton" is the cry in Pittsburg when
any of the Pirates falls to do just
what the fans expect.
Frank Isbell, ot the White Sox,
says he will retire after this season
to become a magnate. He intends to ,
purchase the Wichita Club.
Singularly Fred Odwell, who was
last year farmed out by Cincinnati
for weak hitting, this season to date
is leading the Cincinnati batsmen.
There is a pitcher on the Boyers
town (Pa.) amateur team named
Houck who has struck out ninety,
batters in seventy-two innings. Seventy-two
innings are the equivalent
of eight games.
Tommy Leach, though a midget in
stature, is right up with the select
bunch in making long distance hits.
Another peewee who can bang the
ball to the boundaries is Miller Hug
gins of tle Reds.
Pitcher Flaherty has rejoined the
Boston team. While disabled, be
acted as scout for the Boston Club.
The ability of toe JOIe of Japan
to 4ieep Pilent e.t a time nf national
noe(j?:ty 4s remarka-ble. This ability
la a dlotlnot aisioi in tiho great game:
of war. In which knowledge of the
enemy's tnovementj Is still most Im
portiant. It would be a 'particularly
notatle asset in war with a people
like our5-eH'c-3, remarks the Cincinnati'
TleneS'-Star. If an Ar.-ortcan battleship
had been sunk off Santiaijo, It is a
aife guess that all the world would
have known of Ohs disaster, with de
(Alia, within 13 mantes.
The beauties of the English lang
uaco are asuin evident, ta .the Wat,h
liiifton Pc:t. in the 'Case of that west
ern man who had skipped with the
town ifundi and was dexcr!ed aj "six
feet tall tni J13.U0 aorL"