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lifts GREAT PITCHING
WON GAME FOR BROWN

PROVIDENCE. r. l.. May 14-Tift's
great pitching won for Brown today
Dartmouth making but two scattered
hits. Glaze also did splendid work IN
the box. Both teams fielded sharply.
Score; Brown. 4: Dartmouth, 0.
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INDIANS THREW HOOKS
INTO STATE COLLEGE

CARLISLE. Pa. May 14-The Carlisle
Indians defeated State College here to-
day in the annual track meet by a score
Of 81 &c a.
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Vierkorn. w. T. Wilkins. and NJ. L.
Dinwiddie; address, the Rev w. F.
Locke; solo, open the Gates of the
Temple, Mrs. Thomas A. Hulfish
hymn, congregation; benediction.
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MR.. ENTWIsLE,s FUNERAL.

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twisle will take place from his houc,
5a5 Duke Street, Monday afternoon, at :
o'clock. The interment viii be private.
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McGinnis Did It.

I'VE hadn't got over wonderin' about
where he had gone when one night Reg
gle Van Rensselaer,. our college pitcher.
got IN a fight with a Russetville player
in that town and he was sentenced to
the jug for thirty days. McGinnis did
that. too. The man Reggie fought with
was McGinnis' extra outtielder. He could
spare him for thirty days. but we
couldn't spare our crack pitcher.
The next afternoon Dan Delaney. our
only remaining twirler. pitched grand
ball against the Hayvilles for seven In
nings and then sprained his ankle slid
ing in with a run in the eighth. Jimmy
Harrison finished out. but he's no pitch
er. and 1t was only sharp fielding that
gave US the game. Then Manager Hap
good started of on the first train, and
Captain Haggerty and Pinch. my old
side partner took a look around near
home. We were trying TO scare up a
speed artist
There were no amateurs in town ca
pable of even a tryout. We were stuck
from the start. and probably would have
been looking till dark II a disreputable
looking hobo hadn't struck us at the
railroad station and SAYS:
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He Had a History.

ellison Biliiams was a has oeen
with a history He had played on every
good team east OF the Rockies. including
all the outfits in the National League
hippodrome. He was wonderful pitcher
in his day, they say-strong on speed
and nasty inshoots, and yet with
change of pace that bewildered the
best.
well. Just as he seemed at the top OF
his career he got the booze habit. and
il cut him down and tucked him away
so deep that in a month they'd quit
mourning for him. in year they had
a hazy recollection of his face. and in
two seasons they'd forgot he ever lived.
That's the way with ball players.
We'll. the Alfalfas were struggling
10 beat out Tim McGinnis Russetviiie
aggregation one year out in the Corn
dropper's League, and it was neck
and neck battle The teams were even
" matched. They had the best infleld
and outfield, but we had the best batters
and pitchers. IL was a tosS-up between
the two till one morning, along about
the LIST of September. just as the battle
was getting hottest, when old Lamp
Hymes our steadiest twirler, disappear
ed Nobody knew where he went to for
months. Just so you will keep track
OF the story l will tell you that Tim Nc
Ginnis had him kidnapped.
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| Copyright. 1904. by George William
Daley)
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Took a Brace.

at the mention OF all them cleanin'
things ellison Biniams seemed TO most
faint. but he gritted his teeth and said
he'd do IL. So We give MN a note TO
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re- NEVER see a once famous pitcher
mentioned in the papers as a
i has been that my mind doesn't
swing backward to old ellison Blliams,
the greatest curver of them all. and l
think Of the occasion when he made his
second visit to this earth and how me
and Pinch Hobbs were responsible for it,
and how it nearly broke Tim McGinnis'
heart.
AT the same time. anything that
tell in this story don't abate one jot
or title CReggie told me to say that of
the right me and Pinch Hobbs have
TO bring out at some future time
baseball elixir of youth which viii be
guaranteed to make old ball players
young and put EN- on their feet.
We've got to keep the secret very
close. for if the present-day bunch OF
ball players got hold of it there
never be a chance for young fellows just
growing up to get into the game. The pos
SCISSORS of that wonderful elixir would
never lose their batting eyes and throw
ing arms, and they'd cavort around the
diamond like young colts. till they were
seventy or whereabouts, and then dry up
and blow away The reason we don
bring il out now is because or the steep
price of the stun that goes INTO II. We
amt got enough money. But III ten
that later
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A Regular "Rube."

Boss. hear you're lookin' for a
first-class pitcher
''The follow was so scraggy with
tangled whiskers and GRUMPY with rail-
road SCOT and dirt, that you had TO look
close to see the hole in his face where
the sound came from. Did you ever
see a man so dirty there was no whites
70 his eyes? Well he was IL.
HE was just one bundle O. rags and
tatters, and there was a fearful smell
Of poor whisky and chewin' tobacco
about him. He tried to smile and some
Of the caked SCOT OF his face busted
the ground.
pinch Dlucked me by the sleeve.
Come on, says he. Don't let that
Weary Willie string you
Hold a while says l. who told
you / wanted a pitcher?'
He gave me a good description Of
Tim McGiEnis.
~ thought So says l. Are you a
pitcher
'Shelp me- says he, very solemn,
and some more dirt cracked off when
me. / am a pitcher. l hate TO tell 1t.
hate 10 reveal the shame OF 1.-TWO
or three tears begun TO make muddy
cricks down his cheeks-'but / am no
other than the famous Gibson BIZ
llama
''Plnch jumped foot and gave a
snort. I thought it was some kiddin
hobo lookin' for q swift kick. But he
went on.
"Ain't Lynn Now"
Don't look incredulous. I'm not
lyin' to you. he says. Gibson Billiams
has He'd and deceived himself most TO
the mouth NV a yawn.ng grave through
the love OF ticker. but he ant lynn now
I'm ellison Gilliams. Of the old Chi
cagoes. and Phillies. and Bostons and
the Giants. Mike Kelly used to ketch
my shoots. Jim Mutrie was my mana
ger once. Me and Big Dan used 70 sleep
in the same bed
There was that In his tone that you
couldn't DOUBT him. 1 believed him.
Pinch believed him. But that didn't get
US anything. There was no reason 10
believe that after ten years or so Of
boozin' and trampin' all over the coun-
try he could still pitch. McGlnnis had
sent him to US so that the Hayyilles'd
win the next day In the first inning. 1t
wasn't out of no kindness 10 US. l turn
cd away despairingiy | wanted live
pitcher, not a cobweD old reputation.
But here the bulgin' brain Of Pinch
Hobbs grasped the situation.
II you're ellison Billiams. said he,
'youn be willing TO do most anything
70 get back into fast company again.
9" Now. first you must go up 10 our hotel
and have Barney. the stable man, scrub
you with q currycomb. an potash, an
I've, an ammonia till you're clean. Then
Wen get you shaved and bring you
clothes and talk business
Took a Brace.
AT the mention OF all them cleanin'
things ellison Billiams seemed TO most
faint. but he gritted his teeth and said
he'd do IT, So We give MN a note TO
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Cambridge, Mass. April 80, 1904.- Of the thousands of Americans who visit the home of Thomas Carlyle in Chelsea. England, during each sum
 mer probably a comparatively small number realize that the books which were used by him in writing 'Crom- weil'' and Frederick the Great" have been for many years on this side of the water, permanently housed in the Harvard College Library. These books. many of them now invaluable owing to the frequent marginal notes in Car iyle's handwriting, were bequeathed by him to Harvard College. and, to- gether with a death mask of Cromwell that had long been in Carlyle's possess Bion. constitute one of the worlds most interesting memorials to the great English author. Aside from the value added to them by his character . tstic marginal notes and frequently re- curring autographs the simple fact that the books, well on toward 500 in number, had been so intimately con- nected with his work would make them interesting to the large number of Americans to whom Carlyle is much more than a name in histories of lit- srature. And the books moreover are a perpetual testimony to the authors appreciation of his American audience.
 In looking over these rows of vol umes--"my poor Falstaff regiments of Books" as Carlyle once humorously de- scribed them in letter to Ralph Wal do Emerson-the privileged visitor to
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dry weather the first sink takes in all the water, which does not appear until at Orangevifle, ten miles west. The riv- CT bed between these points becoming a tangled mass of grass and bushes. The sink Is but a huge cavernous- looking hole in the ground and suggests to the curious the entrance to Hades, so dark and unfathomable is 1t. Light rain will overflow the first sink and the surplus water will continue down the weed-tan- gled channel to the second. Heavy rains will fill the channel to the third. and plus as far as the fourth sink. Tn the last case the water has two exits near orangeville. Where the water is of suf- fcent quantity to enter the fourth sink It rises through three openings and flows on through the river bed.
 Thisa dry bed Is not an open channel and Is unlike the valley of the usual streams. Large upland forest trees grow along the banks, showing that for long time the river has been lost in the con- cretionary limestone below the earths surface. The underground stream may be reached at the fourth sink, where the cavernous opening Is about s feet wide and feet deep, the descent being grad uaI and 690 feet.
 Before appearing at Orangeville the river comes to the surface about two miles northeast of Orangeville. Here the stream may also be reached. In OrangevilIe Is the rise of the river. but some people think that the true rise ia one mile further down on the Higgins farm.
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mally small value of the books would be superlative Nay, in truth. many or most of them are not without intrinsic value; one or two are even excellent as books ;and all of them, it may perhaps he said, have a kind of symbolic or biographic value and testify Ca thing not uselessl on what slender commissariat stores considerable campaigns-twelve years long or so-may be carried on in this world"
 The slender commissariat stores," which the average mind would shudder at the thought of digesting even in twelve years of study. are in several lan- guages, chiefly in English. German and French, and many of the volumes are now numbered among the rare books that librarians guard with especial vigilance. Even if they were not rare in themselves the marginal comments of the great Eng, fish thinker would give them priceless value to book collectors. Written as Carlyle was actually wading through the mass of material a large part of which he afterward described as the "bewilder- ed, interminable rubbish heaps of the Cromwellian Histories; the dreariest per haps that anywhere exist still visited by human curiosity in this world.' his notes are naturally extremely character istic. On one Life of Oliver Cromwell we find. for example, that he used to think this a hook of some respectability; it seems no better than the others; here abouts there Is an errc% in almost every line of it." Of another he writes fin ished my distressing survey of it, 10 April, 1S59.'' Hardly a volume, in fact. Is without either marginal notes, which run the gamut from extreme approval to ex- treme censure. or autographs and to read CTS of Carlyle many of the old books have a special interest from the frequency with which he referred to them in his published writings-as when in "Crom- well" he speaks of the 'Rushworth, Whitlocks Nelsons, Thurlows, enormous folios, these and many others have been printed and some of them again printed, but never yet edited--edited as you edit wagon loads of broken bricks and dry mortar. simply by tumbling up the wagon. Not one of these monstrous old volumes has so much as an available
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index" Or when he refers in "Frederick the Great" to certain memoirs of Cathe- rine II as :" creditabie and highly re- markahle little Piece; worth all the other (books about Catherine), If it is knowl- edge of Catherine you are seeking"
 CromweIls death mask. which so ap- propriately rounds out the Cromwell part of the Harvard Carlyle collection. hung for many years in the English writer's s home in Chelsea and was then given by him to his friend and correspondent Pro lessor Charles Eliot Norton of Cam bridge. The cast had been presented to Carlyle by the sculptor Thomas Woolner, the present possessor of the original death mask. and is one of the few casts ever taken from the original mask. When fCHrlyle's beduest came to liar yard Professor Norton presented the cast to the Harvard College library. and the Harvard library thus became possessed of the fourth cast taken from the original mask. other three being respectively at the universities of oxford and Cambridge and in the British Museum. Carlyle considered 1t undoubtedly the truest ex- isting image of Cromwelrs face. far to be prefererd to the common casts in which all the finer points of likeness had become obliterated.
 CafIyle nlulsStL ndu uesSIlbSu OAOlA wells face as follows Big. massive head. of somewhat leonine aspect. 'evi- dent workshop and storehouse of vast treasury of natural parts Wart above the right eyebrow; nose of considerable blunt-aquiline proportions; strict yet copious lips. full of all tremulous sensl- bilities. and also, if need were. of all ferceness and rigours; deep loving eyes. call them grave. call them stern. look ing from under those craggy brows, as If in lifelong sorrow. and yet not thinking 1t so now. thinking it only labour and endeavor-on the whole, a right noble lion-face and hero-face; and to me royal enough" And the description is easily recognizable to anybody who examines the cast as 1t now stands in the Harvard library. reproducing both the imperfec- tions and perfections of the mask hastily made just after the death of the Great Protector
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the Harvard Library cannot but be struck with the tremendous amount of research Carlyle did in preparation for the writing of his two famous biogra- phies. At one end of the line there are ponderous tonnes such as Sir Bultsrode Whitlock's Memorials of English Af- fairs" of which Carlyle remarks in hi5 life of Cromwell: "Bulstrode has a kind of dramaturgic turn in him, in- deed an occasional poetic friskiness; most unexpected. as if the hippopota- mus should show a sudden tendency to dance" At the other end are the dummy little quarto" volumes of ser mons of which he once said: By hu- man volition they can be read; but not by any human memory remem- bered." And between these extremes one finds a host of histories; chap books; memoirs; tracts; sermons; biog- raphies; histories of special periods or incidents; diaries-in fact every form of written matter bearing however re- motely on the respective periods of Cromwell and Frederick These vol umes, moreover, represent only part of the material that was digested to make the Cromwell and Frederick bio
 graphies, for the Harvard collection includes simply. in Carlyle's own
 words "the books (whatever of them l could not borrow, but had to buy and gather, that is, in general what | ever of them are still here) which I used in writing on Cromwell and
 Frederick
 The gift of these books to some New England institution, as a way of ex- pressing his appreciation of the recep- tion accorded his work on this side of
 the water, had been long considered by
 Carlyle. His own modesty, however,
 had made him hesitate. In a letter
 written to Ralph Waldo Emerson in | November, 1869. and now part of the 1 Carlyle collection at Harvard.he speaks l in mind for many years. "The extreme l insignlfcance of the gift" he writes, | this and nothing else gave me pause
 Last summer l was lucky enough to meet with your friend Charles Eliot Norton,
 and renew many old Massachusetts recol-
 lections in free talk with so genial, grace l fully social and cheerful man. To him
 1 spoke Of the affair. candidly describ- 1 ing it. especially the above questionable feature of it. SO far as I could; and his answer then. and more deliberately 1 afterwards, was SO hopeful. hearty and l decesive that in effect it has decided me s" To say more about the inhnitesi-
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LOST RIVER.

In Indiana is a Stream With Strange
 Freaks of Disappearing.
 Many small streams and rivers abound in this vicinity, all of which have the habit of disappearing into the bowels of the earth without any system, only to burst forth miles away and continue on their course downward to the sea. says The Pittsburg Gazette, Chief of the rivers Is Lost River, or River Styx. It's source is in the corner of Washington County. from whence 1t flows westward into Orange County. At first 1t is an insignificant, crookedly twisting creek, but tributaries add to It's flow until when about fifteen miles in length 1t lays claim to the word river" During its journey it disappears several times in jungles and swamps, but the real stream sinks. which gains for it the name it bears; beginning some miles southeast of Orleans, there are four of them at an average of about two miles apart. In