Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02

Chance last week" said a rooter for one OF
the department base ball teams. you
know there Is great rivalry among the DE-
partment mines and that each ID resorting
to every expedient to improve its chances
for the championship. The Navy Depart
ment team is made up mainly from me-
chanics at the Washington navy yard, the
War Department team from soldiers at
Fort Myer and Washington barracks. the
Department OF Justice team from local no
taries and the other teams from OUTSIDE
Offices wherever they were obtainable. Well
Mr.. Chance, who Is managing the Post
Office team, heard of mail clerk at
Charleston s. c., who was said to nave
been a crack player In the Southern League.
and determined to secure his services for
the local Post Office team IL 1t were posi-
bic. He got In communication with the man
and said he would try to get him trans
ferred to the Washington office IL he would
play on the nine The man said he was Will
ing and Mr.. Chance succeeded IN engineer
ing his transfer. When the new player re-
ported at the Post Office Department for
duty 1t was observed that he was about
sixty years of age and belonged to an al
most forgotten of base ball. Oh, yes. he
had been crack player in the Southern
League, but ii was many many years ago.
and he hadn't played for long time. Al
though ii is hardly fair to say that he was
brought to Washington only to play for the
Post Office nine, 1t would not surprise me,
now that they have found he Is not the good
thing they expected, If 1t were deemed ex-
pedient to send him back to Charleston
Mr.. Chance may not be angry about the
miscarriage of his little scheme. but his
friends deem it prudent ito avoid any ref
erence to the subject In his presence
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81 don't know whether 1t Is a new one or
not said man who lives in the coun-
try to Star reporter the other day, but
1t was new one on me, and the man who
told 1t averred it happened in his hearing.
1t seems some city people moved out to the
country near where l live recently and set
tied down for the not weather. They had
been there a fortnight or so when one of the
neighbors asked them how they liked coun-
try life and If they were comfortable in
their new surroundings.
'The man of the house said he thought 1t
was pretty average comfortable rather q
bore to make the long trip on the electric
cars, but he guessed he could stand it for
the benefit of the rest of the family. Then
the woman of the family struck In. She said
IL was all right with the budding trees and
the singing birds and the lowing kline and
that sort of thing. but she had to kick on
the milk. She said she could not stand It.
well, of course. the neighbor was SYM
pathetic and that sort of thing and asked
her what was the matter and where she got
her milk. She said that she had tried
pretty much all the milkmen in reach and
finally had to send back to the man who
had served her in town and make an ar
rangement to have the milk sent out She
did not know exactly what was the matter
with this country milk she had been getting
1t was all about the same. and all of II after
1t had stood over night was unit to use be-
cause 1t had thick yellow scum on top of