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since I last heard from him. He has
acted in the most foolish manner. I
offered him an advance of no less than
5000; that is, he was just in the league
one season, and l offered to increase
his salary from 81 800 to $1,000, I'd he
not only declined this offer, but IA de-
clining it he sent me letter that was
extraordinarily insulting. He was
taken by me as matter of friendship
toward his brother on my part. After
much tuition ne turned out to be
fine pitcher. and | offered him what |
have just said. No pitcher ever was
dealt with in such a handsome man
ner, and yet he, by the advice of some
body. spurned the offer. He is the
man who suffers II we were never to
win game in the season he can not
get any more money from me than
what has been offered. Corbett want
ed $4,000 and his expenses to and from
San Francisco. Doubtless his brother,
James j., will be paying him the sal
AIRY that was demanded.
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-11-18

sand is shoveled off and the guano is
then taken out. The guano, Is first
loaded on trucks and carried on
tramway to the shore, where it is
transferred to the ships, to be taken to
Europe or America.
Claim for Hundreds OF Millions.
When Humboldt visited South Amer
lea, in 1904, he called attention to the
value of the guano beds on the Chin
cha islands, They were then sixty feet
deep, and he said there was enough
manure on them to enrich the worn
out lands of the old world The de-
posits, however, were not thought to
be of value by the Peruvians until
nearly half century later when a
Frenchman named Cochet called atten-
tion to them and claimed one-third of
all the product by right OF discovery.
He travelled from place to place and
picked out islands from which it is
said that more than $1,000, 100000
worth Of guanO was sold. He was de-
clared by the Peruvian congress as the
true discOverer of the beds and uses
OF guano, and in 1S49 grant of 5000
tons OF guano was voted him. He
never got it, however. and, although
his claim by right of discovery, which,
according to their Peruvian law gave
the discoverer one-third, aggregated
over $400,0OO,OO0, he died in poor
house in Paris. Another discoverer of
some OF the guanO islands was treated
in the same way by the Peruvian gov
ernment. This was naturaliZel
American citizen named Landreau. He
discovered guano deposits which were
worth about $4O0,OOO,00O. and, accord
ing to the Peruvian law, should have
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-11-18

Ing to Mr.. Watkins. The chief objec-
ton to Watkins system Is that it com
pels players to lose all individuality
and become a mere portion OF tsse
machine that Watkins makes OF his
team.
According to Walter Brodie, late of
Pittsburg, and now of the Orioles,
Watkins is the most autocFatc Of au-
tocrats. He establishes rules that
must be lived up to the letter. and no
man on the team must have mind of
his own. Watkins wants to be all the
brains of the team, and the men must
do only as he says. AT 9 o'clock ev-
cry morning Watkins would make his
appearance in the club house." said
Brodie, and every man had his face
in his locker when Watty arrived. BY
~ O'Clock every man was on the field
ana work was continued until noon.
Such men as We're not putty in Wattys
hands were disposed of as quickly as
possible. | guess that is the reason
| was turned loose" Watkins sue
cess then lies in making machines OF
his men and thinking for them. To
such men as can stand it it is a relief
to have some other person think for
them.
In recent conversation Manager
watkins of Pittsburg, in speaking
about his signs to the players. said: Il
nave only four, one telling the player
to sacrifice, the second for the hit and
run game, the third to hit the ball out
and the fourth to bunt. This completes
the list, and they are as simple as can
be. But when | give player instruc-
tions what to do he will obey or get
out OF the club. Take a peep at Pat
Donovan this season. His work is
simply wonderful. He obeys instruc-
tions without murmur and says he
likes it, as it saves him the trouble of
thinking. If the Pittsburg club wins
| want the credit: when it loses | am
willing to take all the blame
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EnemY of tic Hunters.

James J. Collins, Of the champion
Boston team, is the only third base
man who ever made the Baltimores
stop bunting. He was born Jan. 16,
1873, at Buffalo, N. Y, and received his
education in st. Joseph's college at his
native place. 1t was while student
there that he became interested in the
national game. He accepted his first
professional engagement in 1893 with
the Buffalo team Of the Eastern league,
under the management of John G..
Chapman. Part Of the season he play
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WALTER WOODS.

games for Chicago this season. The
first was on June II, against Cincinna-
ii. Each team scored once in the
opening inning and each was there
after shut out until the fourteenth.
when the Reds won by score Of 2 to
l. The second was lost to Boston ON
June % by score of to 5. Young
Woods was successful in the third,
Brooklyn losing by score of to 2.
All these games are monuments of the
young pitchers good work in fast
company, and more than justify the
prediction that he Is a National leagu,
tiXtDrp
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This tablet is erected near Selkirks
Lookout by Commodore Powell and
the Officers of H. Nj. S.
TOpaze, A. D. 1868.

~,
Topaze, A. D. 1868.
The Guauo Islands.
Other interesting islands are found
in the great archipelago which lies
between here and Cape Horn. These
l shall travel among on my way around
the southern end of South America
The most interesting of all the Pacific
islands, however. are the guano ISL
ands. They are, in proportion to their
size, the richest islands of the world
for they have already added more than
one billion dollars to the worlds
wealth. That is what Peru has dug
out Of her guano islands. Her credi-
tors are getting something out of them
to-day, although nothing like the enor-
nous sums realized in the past These
euanO islands are scattered all along
the coast of Peru. l first saw them
north Of Lima, near the shores of Sal
avary, and at Pacasmayo a guano ship
from the Lobos islands came in for
mail and provisions. Off the Bay of
Picco, Peru, I saw the famous Chincha
islands, which have produced more
than twelve million tons of guano, and
have brought into the Peruvian treas
ury millions upon millions of dollars.
The shipping of guano is going on from
these Islands to-day, although the de-
posits are to large extent exhausted.
l am told that the shipments of the
current year will not probably exceed
10000 tons
The guano islands are merely masses
Of volcanic rocks which have risen up
out of the ocean. They have not
blade OF grass nor any green thing on
them, and are merely rocky islands
covered with a ragged white deposit
1t never rains upon them, and for
thousands OF years the manure upon
them lay and grew in quantity from
age to age. For some reason or other
the pelicans, sea gulls and other birds
which feed by the millions in the wa
ters of these parts of the world have
chosen these islands as their nightly
roosting places. They pick out Ger
tain Of them and age after age, year
after year, and night after night, they
fly to them by the thousands and there
rest. There are often other islands
near which to all appearance are quite
as desirable, but which are untouched.
Even the disturbance caused by the re-
moving Of the guano does not seem to
prevent the birds returning to their
roost. On the Chincha islands, which
were supposed to be entirely exhausted,
fresh deposits of guano have recently
been made, and in 1894 10000 tons OF
new guano was actually shipped
Where the CuanO Comes from.
Nearly every one knows that guano
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The illiberal and absurd stolen base
rule which Mr.. Hart inflicted upon the
league this year is poor criterion of
a players ability as base runner,
and has already cut down the number
Of stolen bases, says Sporting Life.
Baltimore, for example, has stolen but
134 bases, only few more than one
player used to steal in a season. I'm
der the present rule the players OF a
team might be stealing bases by whole
sale in every game and never get any
credit for them if the man at bat hits
with the runner as he should. In such
cases the base stealer would only get
credit for steal If the batsman missed
the ball or failed to hit at it and would
be robbed of his stolen base if the
catcher let the ball pass him or the
pitch was wild 1t is hard, therefore,
to get credit for stealing a base this
season.
Chicago leads all the league teams in
stolen bases, the record up to Aug. 13
being as follows Chicago, 1853; New
York, 139; Baltimore, 1874; Boston, 1913;
Cincinnati, 1928; Louisville, 1870; Phila-
selphia, III; Pittsburg, 100; Washing
ton, 95; st. Louis, IT, Brooklyn, 70;
Cleveland IS.
The leading individual base stealers
up to Aug. 13 are Delehanty, A; Ham
ilton, 81; Donovan, 81; De Montreville,
81; Fred Clarke, %; Everitt, 25; Mil
Ter, "a; Duffy, 90; Joyce, %; Mertes,
%; Van Haltron, 20; Tenney, 10; Dab
len, 10; Gettman, 19; McGann, 18; Hoy,
IS; Long, IS; Dexter, II; Holmes, 16;
McGraw, Is; jennings, Is; Keeler, 12;
Grady H.
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ooliars to which they said they were
entitled under the law.

eHlllled under the law
The Guano Beds of Today.
0uano Is not worth so much to-day
as 1t was years ago. The prodnct is
now comparatively nothing. Other
1ertlilzers have taken its place, and it's
price Is less than half what it once
was. There have been times when
this bird manure was sold for s1O0 n
ton. To-day it can be bought, l am
told, for $50 or $40 ton. The first
shipment to Europe was made more
than fifty years ago. At that time
twenty barrels of guano were taken
to Liverpool and tried on farm near
that city. The result was such that or
ders were sent back for more, and soon
hundreds of ships were employed in
carrying guano to Europe. Often 200
ships would be at the different islands
at one time. Chinese coolies were
imported to get out the guano. For a
long time the guano islands gave Peru
the greater part of its revenues, yield
ing about $15,000,000 a year for a num-
Der of years. Now they are practically
exhausted, and Peru has fallen from
great riches to poverty.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Too Much Morning Practice,

From Cincinnati Times-Star: Taken
all in all the Reds work away from
home has been better than their work
at home. May not too much morning
practice have something to do with
this? When on the road the team
gets no practice except the fifteen min
utes' warming up before the game.
This leaves the men quite fresh to
go into the game. At home
about two hours every morning
are devoted to hard practice. There is
no doubt that this work is firing and
wastes some of the energy necessary
for a hard struggle in the afternoon.
Perhaps less general practice and
lStle more practice at scientific bat
ting would be better for the Reds all
around.
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ed at shortfield. In 1895 he played in
the outfield for Buffalo. In 1896 he
was drafted by Boston, but there be-
ing no room for him he was loaned to
the Louisville, which club tried him at
third base, where he made an instan-
taneons success. Boston then recall
ed Collins in September, and ne has
been with that team ever since. He
is considered the greatest third base
man the game has ever produced.
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-11-18
Hard Work on Nerves,

Sheriff Roper-Marnin', parsing.
Their boys hev appointed me ter see
ef couldn't git you to ofiiciate at the
funeral of Snaky Joe this afternoon
about 8 O'Clock. Parson-In be there
at that time or little before. Sheriff
Roper--All right, parsing; il yer think
yer nerves kin stan it. He'll be lynch
ed promptly at 2:45. Thankee.-New
York Weekly.
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-11-18

The Bore-"Why don't you publish
your circulation figures any more?"
The Editor-'They are 70 big there
isn't room for them in be paper."-
Indianapolis Journal.
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-11-18

When asked the other day as to the
prospects Of Joe Corbett's return to
the Baltimore team Manager Hanlon
said Il have not thought Of Corhett
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-11-18

'S ~
tenn of Manager
Watkins of the
Fits burg team are
the subject of
much discussion
among league play
ers, who view the
subject from vari-
ious angles, mostly,
however diSDarag.
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-11-18
ROBINSON CRUSOE'S ISLAND.
Frank 6. Carpenter Gives a De-
scription of Juan Fernandez
as 1t is To-Day.

placed about thirty years ago. The in
scrlption reads as follows:
In Memory OF
Alexander Selkirk,
Mariner
A native Of Largo, In the County o.
Fife, Scotland, who lived on this
Island in complete solitude
four years and four
months.
He was landed from the Cinque Ports
galley, 96 tons, 13 guns, A. D. 1904,
and was taken off IN the
Duke, privateer.
18th February,
1909.
He died Lieutenant of H. M. s. Wey-
mouth A. y. 1928, aged II years.
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BASE BALL GOSSIP.
CURRENT NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE GAME.
Watkins Way -- Wide Difference or
Opinion as to Its Enicacy--Ths Man
aSer in Self Defense Base st ealing
RecOrds-A Roast for Jim iiart.
Those Watkins Signs.

|~@ HE arbitrary me h
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A Cure for Lame Sack.

MY dauga,er when recovering from an
attack Of fever, was . great sufferer from
pain in tho back and hips" writes Louden
Grover, Of 6srdis, Ky. "Ailes using quite
q humber Of remedies without any aeneht
she tried one bottle Of Chsmberla'n's Pain
Balm, and it has given entire relief" Cham
berlain's Pain Balm is also a certain cure for
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MONEY IN 1.-THE result Of the analysis
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most pleasing to those who had been expert
menting with the vegetables, and there is
some prospect that tho industry will be pur-
sued on large scale. The analysis showed
that twenty five ounces raised by John
Smaltz on gravel land were found to con-
tain 1873 per cent of sugar bects, 1874 sugar
In juice, 766 coeficien. of purity. J. L.
Findlay, heavy limestone land. 10 ounces.
1919 sugar in beets, 1875 sugar IN Juice, So
coeflcient Of purity. George l. Hauck, slate,
10 ounces. IA sugar in beets, 14.S sugar in
juice, III coefilcient Of purity. Estimating
the sugar raised by Mr. Findlay vt &c. h.,
an acre would yield him $3.50, not counting
cost OF extracting sugar from beets.--Hsrah
and Torch.
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VonAiuk NuO
When business man gets to the point
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If he does not, II means nervous prOstration
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For a man who gets into this condition
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put him on his feet and make a man Of him
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1t searches out the hrst cause. When =
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Nothing Just as good" can be found at
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~ had suffered about eleven years with pain
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~ suffered for eleven years and spent great
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LEWISTOWN LETTER.

- We are having plenty of rain and muddy
raods now, with little storm now and then
but not enough sleighing 10 give the old
sleighers little taste of the pleasures of by
gone days.
Prof Apple of the Womans College in
Frederick, preached at Utica on Sunday
morning instead of Rev. Hench, who has
been quite Ill for some weeks past, but Is
now slowly improving
Rev. Pierce of the Methodist Protestant
church in Lewistown will begin protracted
meeting on Sunday evening hext, January
Both, which will be con, nued for several
weeks.
Last Monday eve one week ago tie ladies
and gentlemen of our little town rendered
Miss Make Souder of Lovettsville, Va a
pleasant surprise party at the hospitable
home of the Rev J. U. Aspcr, where she had
been visiting for several weeks. Games and
music were enjoyed until 1880 when the
guests were invited to the dining room,
where table was loaded with the delicacies
Of the season. All did ample justice; after
which some hours Of pleasure continued in
the parlor. when all babe their host and
hostess good night. thanking them for the
kind manner in which they were entertained
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Double Pipe Greek Items.

Mrs L. F. Miller of Union Bridge and
Mrs. E. d Buckley of Mlddleburg, were the
guests Of Mrs J. w. Barrick on Thursday
and Friday last.
Miss Mamie Rooms of Middleburg was the
guest of her brother. Edward Rooms.
Mrs. G. H. Diller spent few days of last
week in Baltimore.
DR.. Chas. Diller spent last Wednesday in
Westminster.
Rev. T ]. Kolb spent few days in Wash.
ngton last week, and speaks in the highest
terms of the pleasant time he had viewing
the many sights he saw at the National Cap.
itol.
Rev. Jno s Weybrigbt filled the pulpit at
Founiaindale on Sunday last.
Miss Mer,ie Weant Of Bruceville spent
Sunday with her sister Mrs Geo. G. Eichel-
berger
Mr.. Martin L. Fogle who has been con-
fed to his home since the first of December
with typhoid fever. we are glad TO say, is
out again.
Mr.. Scott Biddpger and family spent q
few days with relatives at Frederick, this
week.
Owing to the mud being axle deep in our
streets, your correspondent was unable to
secure larger amount of news for your val
liable paper. viii do better next time.
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There is more Catarrh is this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For great many years doctors pronoun'
ced it local disease, and prescribed
local remedies, and bv constantly fail
ing to cure with local treatment, pro-
nounced it incurable. Science has
proven catarrh to be constitional dis
ease and therefore requires constitution
al treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure
manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co..
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional
cure on the market. 1t is taken intern.
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They offer one hundred dollars for any
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and testin onials. Address.
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Halls Family Pills are the best.
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