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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16
SEVENTY-F|VE men
WORKING At AMEs
Restine Has Heavy Squad and Elk
a.. poets Them to Be !, =.
. Winners. :. :.
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4 MES, Iowa, Sept. 15.-Coach
~ Ristine has arrived, ... after
spending the past year devel-
oping gypsum interests in Virginia. He
will take charge of the squad at once
and begin active coaching Of the squad:
Trainer Watson has fully recovered
from his recent illness and has taken
UP his work. He is putting the men
will give them more. 2S:sEf*" %,zs
A general football meeting was held
Wednesday night, at which over one
hundred enthusiastic football men were
present. Ristine addressed the meeting,
and after speaking Of what was ex-
pected sof each man, said - AS you all
know, The football rules have been rad
ically changed, calling for an almost
new system of training: In general the
game as it is to be played from now
on calls for fast backs who can handle
work Of the game will devolve on the
backs, and to them will come the brunt
Of the game. The fullback will be an
important position and will call for
alertness and quickness. A great deal
Of punting will be resorted to during
the progress of the; game, and thus a
team that is handicapped from inabil'
ity' to handle punts properly will not
stand much of show J..
Trainer Watson addressed the meet.
ing. on "How to eat and still be in
training" ~:-.,A.-s, r-.~s ..,~ So.
+. The squad is increasing every day,
over seventy men being in uniform al
most every day. Hubbard, the varsity
quarter 81, last year, has just entered
rsehool and appeared in unif ormi for the
first time last night. He will try out
for quarter or half, having played bott
positions before The position Of cente,
seems to be filed almost before the
season begins, now, that "Tommy'
Watts will not return.
!: "A New, Center.
:. PLACER the reserve center of last
year, is the man. : His work there last
season shows him to be steady and con
sistent and a hard charger, besides hav
ing the weight necessary to that posi-
men out for the guard positions: Alyea
Thayer, Brugger and Nelson. The three
last men are;old men at the game, while
Alyea has played on the reserves. Mel
son is the best Of the bunch, being
Strong: quieksssfast on. his feet and on
who has his head to such an extern
that he can pick out holes wheneve
I there is one. sBrugger Is very heav,
and good charger, besides having. val
punter, which is a good thing in hi
favor; Thus far the two varsity guard
Of last year g team. have not gotten out
There seems to be an abundance Of
tackles, with Murphy. Ford, Mills, Bren
nan: and Lyman. Ford; and Murphy
were sub guards last yearsand both arr
heavier than last year. Brennan an(
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16
GOPHERS START
I L.. WORK TUESDAY,
Six Veterans the Nucleus of the
Minnesota Team for
1906.
True Line on the Available Mate
rial Not .Obtainable for
Ten Days.
BY O'Loughlin.
~ OPHER football for the season be

- OPHER football for the season be-
~ gins Tuesday afternoon. on
~ ~Northrop field. Just. what =, the
season will bring forth is more mat
ter of conjecture than anything else
just now.} Conditions and tiunks have
put an end to what appeared to be
extraordinary brilliant prospects at the
end of last season and not for week
or ten days, perhaps longer, will the
coach know just what material he will
have for his final team building.
The big nine structures forbidding the
playing of varsity football by fresh
men and the one-year rule devised by
some pedantic ,reformer. last January
have cut off all young timber and the
making of the team of 1906 will be
necessarily confined to players of the
squads, of last season, the veterans and
such men of Minnesota caliber as are
eligible, but who have never started in
on football altho students in the uni
versity.
When the team goes on the Held
Tuesday afternoon, DR.. H. L. Williams
athletic director, will find the right
side of the line sadly depleted. Begin
ming at the left end, the line runs
veteran from Marshall at the end thru
Ittner tackle, Vita guard, Bandelin cen
ter, to Smith right guard. Then come
two important vacancies. Brush has
taken his degree and is thru with foot
ball, altho still in the university. Bur
gan finished his football career as 8
player last season, at end, and is now
cOachinp North hiph
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16
Special to Tie Journal.

Y
n ITHACA: n. ~, Sept. 15:-Charles
E., Courtnay, coach of the Cornell
crews, announced tonight that the
misunderstanding lately between the
Cornell athletics council or any of it's
Representatives }or himself had been re-
moved and all difficulties! satisfactory
lily adjusted. He:Will remain coachto of
: This agreement was arrived at in, a
meeting today attended by the coach,
Graduate Manager Senior; Professor
Frank Irvine, president of the athletic
council. and several resident members
of the university board Of trustees,
1t: is Impossible to learn the "details
of the agreement, as. al who know the
to avoid public humiliation for either
Mr.. Courtnay or Mr.. Senior, the two
men. most closely connected with the
recent difficulty. {*H'"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16
GENTLE RUGBY" !. HAS A
SURGEONS JUMPING ! n c
California Players Find. the I'm
F " ported Pastime to Be z Or ssgs
Very Fast. + 5 5>E 81 81
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Berkeley, Cal, Sept. IS" GENTLE
Rugby football adopted at the Univer.
stiles Of California and Stanford: be
cause the, intercollegiate game was too
rough, has proved ANYTHING but3a parlor
affair in actual practice: =. In less than
three weeks of practice and before a
single game has been played there are a
dozen PLAYERS :hmp9ing around st the Gaa;
received in preliminary play: :: s . ..i.5
Six of the menHhavh twisted knees
The game is proving violent enough tic
satisfy the most Il exacting, ~ College
players already see their way to intro
duce scores of notifications under the
rules which will vary the, game greatly
Scrimmages, while not the. same tug
game, are prolific, in bruises and sprains
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16
hinge upon the question: Of material.

hinge upon the question: Of material.
# men are available the gopherss will
have another great team, one fit to
take rank with the great teams Of the
and Of Inferior grade the best Goa h on
earth cannot make winning teams.
Thet.work begins Tuesday and from
now. on until Thanksgiving football will
overcome and >overshadow every other
form of sport in Minneapolis and the
northwest. The schedule is the best in
years., the school has a. coach ranking
peer in the limited, circle of football
experts of the country. There is every
reason to believe that the season will
be as successful and the interest as
great as in former years. - II. ,. (.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16
INDIANA HAS VERY r.. .
" CONFIDENT FEELING

Bloomington, Ind, Sept. 15.-Every-
thing is fine and dandy. Every: Indi
ana a., man is confident, Of the strength Of
the Indiana team and the I. U. boys
are even talking that their team viii
win from Chicago. The Indiana ma
chine. was a remarkable one when the
season closed last year, and it should
be even better this year.
Jimmy Sheldon, now. a professor ;,
of football, will be again in charge and
he will have plenty of assistance to
make l: U: winner. He will have the
services Of Bloom, the great end, about
as good as the best in the west in 1905
who refused an instructorship in Cor,
nell to stay at Bloomington. The fol.
lowing old men besides Captain Bun.
n.y. Hare will be- on the field when
the first = practice is held, Tuesday:
Waugh. center; Steele: fullback; s$Tighe
and Clarke, halves; Heckaman and
Wade. tackles; Bloom and earthly
ends. The freshmen team Of lats year
will furnish some good material, as
will the scrubs. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16

lowing old players from last years var
sitY squad, Denslow, end; Wen
strand, guard; Taylor, guard; Mason,
fullback, and Schmidt and Little, half
backs. -: TX ~, ....:... 49, =. ~
A snag has been, encountered in the
ouncementHth chat Weller and Burns.
both tackles, who had been counted
t fRen n nc ne IN Fha 5ns a2 hn b
made that: .Wener's credits in :: his
studies are deficient; as he left school
before completing his work, and Burns
does not hope to- come Until the season
iis half gone, thus virtually procluding
him as possibility. :: Unless Burns re-
vises: his plans it will devolvc upon
tackles and q quarterback, five gaps,
all told, in the rsity+line-up.
3. - Z. . = a Heavyweight. - :,
Wenstrand, guard, is one of the
latest to join Foster S squad. Last
year Wenstrand was the bullSiest man
ION the varsity eleven, but this season
he has expanded until he tips the beam
at 24s.. His height is three inches over
6 feet, making him the heftiest foot
ball candidate that has appeared at
tBaby' Z. Mills, the 260-pounder Of 1904.
Burns has also taken on beef until he
has put on 220 pounds and Foster is all
the. more anxious to get the tackle back
into action. Burns is fast and gritty
and his presence would boost the line
tremendously. r.
I's:S The quarterback situation is the
., greatest problem of ALL Foster does
I,not expect to make choice until he
has tried out at least dozen candi
dates. just at present. Cook. scrub
! end last year. is the most available and
the most promising: material for. the 20
sition. Cook isslightning fast,.a quick
sity. i ssss.. z- I. 81
Foster must also develop new punt
er to fill the gap left by the graduation
of, Maurice Benedict, Nebraska Is kicker
Of the z. ma sf a1tonrs q. II II fha nl
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16
BATTLING DEAD BUT
NO FLOWERS PLEASE
Special to Tho Journal.
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Special to Tho journal. So,
Chicago, Sept. 15.-Battling Nelson
said, today that when he arrived at
Hegewisch, his home town, ne found
five big punches of flowers for: his
funeral, one coming from Toronto,s and
the others from different places. The
senders evidently believed the report
that he died after the Cans meeting.
He plans to send them his picture to
show how much Of . dead one hs
really il
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16
WESTERN LEAGUE

Omaha, 8: Lincoln. =. 'sfz*:" d s,..5
Denver. s.: Des ~Moines. 10. oa..,sAJ i.
Pueblo. 10: Sioux City. /. s5Is (
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16
THREE.I II: LEAGUE .;1lI

Bloomington. A.. Peoria.23.
Decatur. o.; Springfield. Ill
Dubuque. 49, Davenport o.
Rock Island. 8: Cedar Rapids. 3.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16

There is strong feeling In Austria and
Germany against Qoperation stores. At a re-
cent meeting In Vienna a speaker predicted the
ruin Of the mercantile class, unless something
was done 30 check the movement
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16

:. =,
The use of colored naDers for house decora
tons. which scarcely known In; China unit
quite recently is now becoming general. S ! =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16

The money value Of the vatican, sthe pope, 8
palace Ina Rome, and its treasures 10 estimated
at $3.50 600 GOO 7-.s'-s-ll
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16

Foster must also develop new punt.
er to fill the gap left by the graduation
of! the past four Years. { .Halfback
Schmidt is by far the best punter now
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16

b. Report says that Saint -Saens Will visit Amer.
lea this coming winter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-30

That's Miss Louise Cramer-and 8 sweeter girl never drew breath" re- piled Maggie.
 Going into grand opera?" comment- ed Grant, sarcastically.
 Never a bit of it,' was Maggie's quick reply. She'll never step foot on stage again. Two years ago 1t was, she came here to study music, and q cable car hit her. She'll never walk straight again. And did she sit down and cry? Not a bit of it. She just says mo more music for mine, but this is the town where mother and can make some money and so she sends for her mother and they make shirtwaists, nothing but shirtwaists, for the ac- tresses living about here. It's fine living they make, too. You should see the embroidered lavender silk she turn ed out for the leading lady at the Elm pire last week"
 It was odd. but suddenly Herman Grant decided that his mother must be in need of a shirtVaist. Styles at Owego sure, and despite the roses and violOts. there was still a balance to the good fh the little red book.
 He bathed and dressed deliberately, but his thoughts seemed to fairly fly past in an endfes panoramic circle the little drug store at Owego. the studio where he worked so faithfully, the Louis XIV. parlor where he had ap- peared clad in blue and silver, the girl across the court who never again could set foot on stage and yet who could sing with that hopeful, joyous note in her voice. An, there was something real in New York after all, something true! E4 Shortly after noon, he walked into a drug store just few blocks away. Its owner had told him weeks before while he was on substitute duty, that 6 vide awake young chap who could give his undivided attention to business, could find not only permanent work but q chance to buy an interest in that very store.
 After he had interviewed the drug gist he went back to his room. Two hours were consumed in framing up a letter which must be written at once. It is not easy to accept kindness and then escape the charge of ingratitude. and Herman Grant realized this as he wrote a check for an amount that left only zeros in the little red book
 With what the Owego's Women's Club said about its lost Object this narra- tive has nothing to do. At least the would not question the Ob-
  ments of Herman Grant this narra- tive does deal. He went straight to the nearest florist and bought, neither American beauties nor violets. but a great pure white rose. Then he walked past his own door and rang bell in the next vestibule, marked: "Cramer"
 As he claibed the stairs in response to the friendly click of the electric but ton. he turned dizzy. What if they refused to. receive him? He fumbled for a card. Mrs. Cramer stood in the doorway, a woman sweet-faced, slender and shrinking of figure. He smiled straight into her motherly eyes.
 T am Herman Grant, and I live just across the court. In our town, Owego, we still make calls on New Years day and - well I felt sort of lonesome. I thought maybe you being from up- State. too. might let me pay New Years respects to you and your daugh- ter"
 Lonesome"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-30
Modern witchcraft.

London Outlook.
 How many English readers who have read the witch trial of Vienna know that just such women as Marie Nebily, performing just such tricks, are to be found here? Marie seems to have sur prised the Austrian judge by her story of the Hungarian shepherd. stephan stephanovics. who is ninety years old and who sells charms and in whom she believes. He made the remark, which we have so often heard before, that the world is not in the middle ages. But the judge is wrong. great part Of mankind is in the middle ages, if by that is meant that it believes in which craft The credulous Austrian woman who thought that her husband could be cured of extravaganza if she gave a half of one of his socks to Marie Nebily, who would then for a small considera- tion in ready money give powder to cure him of speadthrift habits, has many French and English fellow-be- lievers. White and black witches thrive in many parts of this country. And what is more they not only make dupes but not a few of them really believe in their own charms, as the woman Nebily asserted that she did.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-30

more often it was in the early hours of Sunday he set down figures in a small red book, which he carried in his vest pocket His one ambition now was to balance to the two sets of figures. He was working much harder than in
 the old days when he clerked in | Owego, and there were times when
 limbs would have dragged and spirits | Jagged if 1t had not been for the fresh young voice across the court It sang
 exultantly fin the morning and sweet ly at fight. It cheered him on to work
 when he faced new day and sent him | off to dreamless sleep when he came home early enough to hear it at all. Occasionally he caught a glimpse of it's
 owner, or at least the girl he felt quite sure must be its owner. She had thick | brown hair, parted in the middle, and delicately moulded features. Herman wondered why she was so pale when all the girl students he knew were ruddy from breathing exercises and long walks And, of course, she must be studying. It seemed to him that every
 man or woman for blocks around was studying for grand opera. Sometimes it almost frightened him to think of the competition. And the girl-if she was delicate and frail, what chance did she have in the mad scramble for recogni- tion?
 One morning he watched her scatter crumbs on the window ledge for the sparrows. She looked across the court. caught his eye, and instead of smiling and nodding as did most of the young people in that semi Bohemian atmos- phere, she instantly dropped the sash curtains of barred muslin and disap- Deared.
 
 man, as he slipped on his overcoat. He had picked up quite a little Broadway slang by this time and felt that he must employ 1t to relieve his senDe of defeat. Yet, when he met on the stairs girl with unnaturally reddish hair, who patted his arm familiarity and told
 him he looked 'very fit," he was glad
 that the girl with the brown hair and eyes had dropped the curtain at sight
 of him.
 Then something happened that made him forget all else, even the girl and
 the sympathetic voice. An agent who supplied talent for drawing room en- 1 tertainments booked him for a dinner poudre. This involved wearing court dress, from wig to silver r-buckled slip
 pers, but the fee was large enough to cover the extra expense, and when Her
 man steppd forward to sing clad In ! silver brocade, his fresh, boyish face l beneath the white wig caught more | than one world-weary eye.
 | In certain drawiag-rooms, the one | time drug clerk became the rage. He
 met here more than society danes and debutantes, for he sang in company
 with grand and light opera stars and appeared in conjunction with footlight
 favorites who danced or gave imita- tions or offered bits from popular plays. l It was a far cry from the austere mingling of studio and business life which he had been leading. but through I 1t all, ne never quite lost his mental 1 and moral balance. In a vague unreal
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-30
< OUR DAILY SHORT STORY

i Herman rose abruptly and began to unpack. He remembered vaguely how his mother had always spoken of her musical gift as lovely memory, some thing beautiful in her past. Perhaps she would like to SC it live again in him. Perhaps as a successful musician be might bring her more happiness than as a mere maker of money, for Herman Grant from childhood had been recognized as possessing a good business head No lad ever worsted him in a playground dicker. No GUS toiuer ever beat him down a penny dur. ing his early clerkship in the drug store.
 Yes, for the little mothers sake he would try as he had never tried before
 -but he must work along his own lines. He could not wait until success smiled upon him to repay the women of Owego. And so, while the self-sat- isfied club members prated of the fu- ture glowing ahead of their Object" that young man was doing his best to unload the miilstone of dependency.
 The very next morning he made arr engagements to take lessons from fa- nous teacher. and then he strolled to the nearest newspaper office and in- serted an advertisement for work as SuDSClLutS III n uFu& stOEc.s An AHc uA br ernoon he rented a piano for practice purposes. per order the secretary of the Owego Women's Club, but that evening he made the acquaintance of man who secured choir positions on commission basis A week later he heard his first opera, and the next Sun day he was singing in choir for $500 per service He cultivated agents who supplied clubs and private parties with entertainers. By day he studied the scores of grand operas. By night he sang popular songs and gave limitations of odd folk in his own town that made sated city people shriek with laughter He lived up to the letter of his con tract with the Owego Women's Club, taking his lessons regularly, practising faithfully, but he never lost an oppor- tunity to turn an honest penny Every week he forwarded to the secretary of the club statemet of his expendi- lures and every Saturday night, or
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-30
A NEW YEARS TROPICAL
By HenrIetta 2. wIekery.

l Copyright, 1906, by Homer Sprague.) The Owego Women's Club regarded Herman Grant with feeling akin to
 gratitude.
 For two years the owegO Women's Club had been searching futilely for an Object. The executive committee held many star-ehamber sessions to discuss worthy Objects Here was the flower of Owego's feminine intellect backed by the purses of Owego's most prosperous husbands and fathers and brothers. literally going to waste.
 The hospitals were ably managed by various churches and the Women's Christian Association. They needed funds, to be sure but not more direc- tors or patronesses, and what's the use of giving more money when you want to add executive ability? The club could not form a cemetery association because old Peter Dolger who, had been sexton of Gods Acre for ten years, kept 1t in such good order that inter- ference would have been resented by those who contributed to his salary. The school children had organized them covered the school walls with pictures, tastefully framed. The Daughters of the American Revolution had beauu- fled the one historic spot of which the town could boast. The Masons had erected statute to the city's one hero.
 The executive committee was just dis cussing the chances of maintaining a day nursery or creche in a town where husbands were so discouragingly pros porous that very few women had to toll for their children, when young Mrs. Calflin with a gleam of triumph in her axLa ruSha1 into tho raoFn
 "Girls-I mean Mrs. President-I have found worthy object for the clubs benefactions and interests. There's a young man with a fine tenor voice serving soda at Bradiey's drug store. His mother is widow with three sons and he's the youngest, so she is not absolutely dependent upon
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-30
Feeling of Uncertainty In the PerfO
 nance of Routine work.


 Eeelang of Uncertainty In the PerfOr-
 nance of Routine work. New York Press
 s'When people fall into the habit of wondering whether they have done routine things. 1t is high time for them to consider the advisability of rest, said physician. There is no surer sgrn, to my mind, that the system is becoming oyertaxed than this feeling of uncertainty.
 T was staying with friend the oth- CT night, spending the night with him. sn fact He's a man whom I know pret- 4v well, and I thought at dinner and through the e'feVening, from little ner- vousness in his conversation and man her. that things weren't all right with him. but I wasn't absolutely convinced fill bedtime approached. We were sit ling upstairs in his study, his family having retired and he asked me to ex- case him while he saw that the house avas locked up. It was still night, and I could follow his progress around aha various rooms on the first floor. Ese seemed to me to be unnecessarily long and, without being inQuisitive. rsaIfS became interested to know