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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-11

IF an ordinary, every day ball player was to
/ tell his friends that he once lost game for
his nine in the last inning with three on
base and run needed to tie the score, because
he was afraid of gettin' blown up | suppose
he'd be put down as about the allfiredest
baseball liar going, outside o the yearly guides
they get out Yet Long Arm Leary, of the
famous Suggtt Corners nine, can truthfully
testify that that once happened to me. 1t
happened on our winter tour of Cuba, and it
was only one of a bunch of strange ventures
that happened to us in that place witch they
used to call beautiful bleeding Cuba"
You got to show me anything beautiful
about that place. It's mostly mosquitoes. An
if Cuba ever lost any blood, it's gettin it back
fast, for they bleed everybody that goes there.
Even a bunch of ornery ball players from the
State O. Texas and the National and American
Leagues wasn't exempt.
You see, | was rather prepared for a hard
time, for in Havana l met Matty Mcintyre,
who l used to know in Detroit where he is
left fielder for the Tigers. He was down with
All American team touring Cuba, and had
been over the route. He told me about how
weak the Cuban batters are, and how cagey
they play, and then wound :, up by sayln,,
Look out for ground rules! He wouldn't
tell me any more, but Carted his luggage away
for the steamship.
We had Cuban who acted as sort of mana
ger of the trip, and without him we'd have
had lot of trouble, for the people down there
are worse than a lot o foreigners in a sewer
when it comes to talkin English. We got to
a place called Handus Bunkus, or something
like that, and get driven out to the grounds,
and find crowd waitin'. And those grounds!
The home plate was an immense rock, and
the ground all around was covered with big
slabs of granite. 1t was up hill from home to
first, and more up hill from first to second;
and up hill yet again from second to third,
over boulders and holes that'd discourage
any shortstop. And from third to home the
IL %1,rE ,,n1 1,,N
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-11
Shop Talk

Said the Engine, 81 drink only water, an
still
l could get on a toot if required.
l can tender my own resignation at will;
But | never can go till I'm fired.
60 get hot when I'm coaled; but never can
shirk,
Nor be switched from my purpose Sc
active
l rail not at fate; but puff my work
And es-steam it something at-track-tive
' have only one eye, which may seem rather
queer,
Till you think, if you haven't already,
That Engines like l am have only one ear
The Engineer, sober and steady.
" My train rushes on like an arrow, swift sped
Till put on my brakes and | slack her;
| chew, chew whenever l coax her ahead
And likewise, l chew, chew to back 'er. ;"
Nixon Waterman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-11

a back country town in Cuba; and on the
other could see the Big Stick League in Texas,
and home, and lot O. fun in the States. s.
stood still.
Just then, zip! In comes the ball from he
center fielder, and the catcher drops the / t..
takes the ball on the bound, Frances out L
touches me, and the games over. We d
been caught by an old gag, and they laugh |
at us all night. But glad to get t
O Handus Bunkus at that. | got kdded !,
but l can stand kiddin better when I'm W,
an happy than can clarifying when I'm in 3.
hospital. So figger l did right in showing d.
yellow streak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-11

take care of any careless catcher that lets one
go by. Besides, it's planted SOS it'll blow out
towards him an the umpire. The catcher that
lets one go by had ought to be blown up,
fgger, and nobody cares what happens to the
umpire"
But how about the batter?" says half
dozen of our men.
That's where you got to take a chance"
says the manager "You can't expect us to
let our catchers make half dozen passed balls
a day just cause some batter is afraid O gettin'
an arm blown off, can you? Why we'd be
losing a hundred games a month at that rate.
Now, you take first base. There's enough
nitro there to pulverize any sneaking, lazy
hound that lets one 60 by him. And the same
way on third. The minute player lets one
go by he starts to dig for home and mother,
to get as far away from that stuff as he can.
In that way several lives have been saved
lately"
But you don't keep that stuff there while
visiting mines is in the feld?" asked Long Arm
Leary, who was down to play first and hadn't
taken his eyes off the nitroglyCerin sign since
he'd first seen it.
Sure said the manager. We can't be
diggn' that stuff up every innin'. It's too
dangerous. Besides the audience don't like
their home players to run any more risks than
the other nine
Leary and the third baseman and the catcher
wanted to forfeit the game right there an
then, and leave the town of Handus Bunkus at
once. The poor grounds should have been
excuse enough, they SAID; but when you threw
in the fact that mighty good ball player
who'd already signed an drawn advance
money for season in the States was likely to
be battered up every time a wild throw was
made, they couldn't see where the profit in
the game was But the manager couldn't see
it that way, when there was a fat guarantee to
collect, and so he said he'd play.
Soon the Cuban players come out, and if
their first baseman and third baseman and
catcher didn't look pictures of hearts bowed
down by weight O woe then I've never seen
any. Only the first baseman looked saddest.
He had prob'ly fggered that the charge be-
hind him 'ud blow him further off the map
than the other two.
Instead O making these fellers careful and
better ball players, it seemed to me that the
effect of that explosive scheme was to make
everybody careful that nobody took chance
to put nobody else out. If ball was knocked
to the third baseman, he wouldn't throw to
first unless he could fairly pass it to the
on the bag. And instead of yelling madly for
the ball to cut off run when a safe hit had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-11

been made and men
were trying to
score, the catcher
would shout like
to split his throat,
" Don't t h r o w
home" and get up
on his toes ready
to light out if any
body should take a
chance on a long
hurl to him.
Under those cir
cumstanceS, we had
no trouble gettin'
runs, but the Hand
us Bunkus nine
knew the grounds,
and when the ninth
innin' began they
were ahead, 9 to 8.
We came in for our
last turn at bat de-
termined to win.
l was up first and
dumped a bunt in
to the pool of water
in front of third.
Of course the third
baseman didn't
throw over, and |
was safe. Then a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-11
A New Diversion

Yes, we are frivolous nation;
Our rage for amusement appalls;
Even now we've an organization
For diverting Niagara Falls!
Carolyn Webs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-11

For reel scientific ball playing this nine
has got everything in Cuba beat four miles.
The grounds amt very smooth, III admit, but
we got a particularly smooth bunch O. ball
PLAYERS Why? Because they got to be the
slickest kind O sickness to get away with
their lives. You see those signs? Well,
there's the reel stuff underneath EN- and if a
ball gets by player and hits one o them
magazr es, it's good night for that particular
error maker My! but that scheme does make
these fellers get on the job! Why, I've seen
our first baseman get right down and take a
low throw in his teeth ruther than let it go by
and sting that box o nitro"
" But there must be wild throws or errors or
passed balls sometimes, says Long Arm Learv.
You don't mean to say the audience stands
for that box of giant powder so near the grand
stand?"
ooh, there amt enough giant powder there
to hurt the audience, while there is enough to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-11

baseman, and it
said, =" Stop! Look!
Listen! Dynamite!
By that time our
eyes was bulgin' out
and our knees were
gettin' weak. Our
third baseman said
he believed there
was a message that
his mother in law
had died suddenly
down at the tele-
graph Office, and
he'd ought to go
right down and get
it before the game
started.
Now the manager
of the Handus Bun.
kus team comes out,
rubin his hands
and snilin'; and
through our Cuban
manager we wanted
to know what kind
of a game this was
we're up against.
and the meanin'
O them signs. Then
he smiles some more
an says:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
SHARP DOWNWARD
 MOVE IN STOCKS Evidence of Liquidation in the
 Selling GRANGER ROADS SUFFER
Weakness of Stocks Originated From Operations By Same Interests as Did Wheat-Governmen ActiVi-
 ties Contribute to Weakness.

New York, May 20-The recent inertia of the stock market gave way today to a sharp downward movement, accom- panied by increase in the aggregate of the dealings over the recent average. Good observers professed to see some evidence of liquidation in the selling, part of 1t induced by the decline itself. The large proportion of the dealings were admitted ly in professional hands still
 There was clear evidence also that the hands which were operating with re- newed vigor in stocks were carrying on parallel operations in the wheat market. This is very usual coupling of specu- lative activities offering more logical arguments for selling of securities, es- pecially of the Granger railroads. The Granger roads were In effect quite con- spicuous in the selling of today, and it was common belief that some of the pro- fessional selling orders came from houses with market connections. The selling from this source was not confined to the Changers and that group of stocks had some factors to contend with in addi- tion to the bad crop reports.
 
 the weakness of stocks originated from operations by the same interests as did the interests in wheat. The bi-lateral campaign was furthered effectively by the publication of crop estimate by an expert in the service of the commission house. in which a smaller outturn of winter wheat was predicted than has been named by other authorities hereto fore. The speculation for the decline re- ceived a considerable impetus from the news of government activities at Wash ington.
 The special weakness of the HIh stocks was traceable to the report from Wash ington that inquiry into the common rela- tions of these companies to the Burling- ton railroad was to be aggressively ex- tended. The contents of the report of the bureau of corporations on the Standard oil company was a companion influence as the principles there formulated reckon ing of reasonableness in charges for serv- ices by public corporations were regarded as widening indefinitely the problem of rates to be charged by railroads as they might be controlled by the government The question of financial needs of cor porations and demands on the money market, which might be made necessary on these accounts, were a continued in fuence in the depression of securities. Brooklyn Rapid Transit was immediately affected by Saturdays announcement of additional bond issues by susidary com panieS
 A number of other stocks were affected by specific rumors of similar transactions to be met in the early future. A strong exception to the trend of the market was the Consolidated Gas. This stock was quite buoyant on the circumstantial ru- mors in circulation that the forthcoming judicial decision in the suit against the 80 cent gas law was to be in favor of the company The rise in Consolidated Gas was of only temporary sustaining
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
COTTON

New York, May 20.-The large outside interest in the cotton market has today been made more or less nervous by per- sistent rumors emanatng from the oppo- sition to the effect that the New York Cotton Exchange would be successful in it's motion to dismiss my suit and that this success would mean my defeat in my effort to reform the New York con- tract and in consequence make practicable the delivery here on July contracts of a, large quantity of low grade cotton.
 l do not share this view. I have con- fidence in the equity of our. American tu- dicial proceedings, and believe that I shall not by any means as yet exhausted. port of Habersham King, denying the seriousness of the crop damage so gen. orally reported. As against this, I have hundreds of telegrams from the best in- formed and most sagacious people in the south, to the effect that the damage to the crop already done, is irremediable and continue to believe in much higher prices for cotton. That the progress towards higher prices will be punctuated by reactions, goes without saying. It is now a broad cotton market, in which the public Is largely interested. but the fac tors at work, namely, the huge con- sumption, the crop damage and the con- tinuous appreciation in the prices of all commodities, resulting from the increased production of gold, will be influences. in my opinion, something more than ephem- s'S' THEODORE H. PRICE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
A BARREN WASTE OF SALT.
Saline Reservation, Oklahoma, Ia Thlr-
 ty Square Miles In Extent.

Thirty-hve miles to the west Of Dnid' Okla, lies the Saline reservation, tract of land unused and uninhahited, but or great mineral value. It is a lake of dry salt. triangular in outline. with one Of It's three sides adjoining the Salt Fork river on the north. This reservation is about thirty square miles in area Its boundaries are as distinctly outlined as those Of a body of water and Ats surface Is as barren as the Sahara.
 Many attempts have been made to de- ternine the amount of salt deposit on this field, but the results have been mere guesses. The ground over the entire area is completely covered with coarse salt or an excellent quality, var1ng from one Inch to several feet in depth. A representative of the geological department at Washing ton, who visited the field recently, stated that in his opinion there are from 00,0O0 to 76,000 barrels of pure salt which could be taken up without disturbing the ground.
 Geoloedsts say that this salt field was formed by an overflow of the river which borders 1t and that the overflow was caused by the sudden upheaval of springs in the bed of the river Excavations along the banks of the stream have shown that
 
 the salt beds extend downward far under the surface until their walls are dissolved in underground streams. The Salt Fork river takes it's name from saline fields and the waters of the stream for more than a hundred miles are made briny by contact with the deposits. Fish thrive in the stream.
 The only use to which the salt fields have so far been put Is that of hunting ground During misty days in early winter tens of thousands of wild ducks and geese congregate on the reservation and many of them fall prey to sportsmen, who lie in wait behind improvised blinds. Tho Den yer, Enid and Gulf railway traverses the salt fields for several miles, and in digging the roadbed 1t was, necessary to excavate large quantities of salt, some of which was marketed In boxes and barrels. bu' the government refused all requests tc permit the erection of salt factories and the utilization of the product.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
London's Blq New Reservoirs.

From the New York Tribune.
 London has recently opened two new reservoirs, the Bessborough and the Knight, the construction of which was begun in 1901. The Knight, or western reservoir, has capacity of 4s0 million gallons and a water area of 5H2 acres, and the Peterborough, or eastern reservoir, has a capacity of 71S million gallons and a water area of seventy-four acres. With the completion of these reservoirs London possesses sixty subsiding and storage res- ervoirs for unfiltered water, having a total area of 14S5 acres, with a capacity of SS34 million gallons. This storage would be sufficient to provide a supply equiva- lent to about forty days of average con sumption for 0 population of 6s4 million without drawing on the Thames or any other source of supply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
REDUCED RATES From Birmingham
R81l4!gs|s!lI|
 

$14.5o-Richmond Va, and return.
 Confederate Veterans Reunion.
 Tickets sold May 26th to 30th.
 limit June 11th. Extension
 July 9th, fifty cents extra. s 7.9O-Knoxville Tenn, and return.
 Summer School of the South.
 Tickets sold June 23rd, 24th,
 25th. 29th, goth, July 9th, 7th,
 14th and 21st; limit 15 days.
 Extension Sept. 30th, 50 cents
 extra.
 S27.65-Atlantic City and return. Amer
 ican Medical Association. Tick
 cts sold May 30th and 31st,
 June 1st, 2nd and 3rd, limit
 June 10th. Extension to June
 18th $1.00 extra. Return trip
 ,ia Norfolk; extension June
 28th.
 S11.7o-Asheville, N. C., and return.
 various occasions. Tickets sold
 May 2Oth, 24th, June 9th, 9th,
 7th, 26th, 27th and 28th.
 Swananoa, June 18th, 18th and
 14th
 S62.Oo-San Francisco. Cal. and return.
 National Eclectic Medical As
 sociation. Tickets sold June 7th
 to 14th; limit August 31st. $26. Philadelphia. Pa, and return.
 Annual meeting B. P. O. F.
 Tickets sold July 11th, 18th,
 18th and 14th limit July 23rd.
 Extension to July 31st $1.0O
 extra. Stop at Norfolk on re- turn trip; extension permitted August 10th.
 e.3o-Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and
 return. Triennial Conclave of
 Knights Templar of America.
 Tickets sold July End. 3rd, 4th,
 5th. 9th and 7th limit July
 16th. Extension July 24th. Variable routes s7.1o higher. S62.75-Spokane Wash, and return. S70.25-Seattle, Wash, and return. B. Y. P. U. and Christian En- deavor Convention. Tickets sold June 18th to July 11th. Limit September 10th, 1907. 8 1.9o-Tuscalcosa. Ala, and return. Summer School for teachers. Tickets sold June 11th, 12th. 18th, 17th, 22nd, 24th and July 1st, 9th and 9th; limit 15 days. Extension September 30th, fifty cents extra. Home Seekers tickets to the South west on sale the first and third Tues days of each month. including Novem- Der. Rates as low in proportion from | other points.
 Further information cheerfully fur | nished.
 | o. H. CHANDLER, ATlMER, C. p. A. p. A. 1925 Firs
 BIRMlNGH,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
COTTON MARKET IS REACTIONARY
 4 Net Unchanged to IA Points
 Lower NEW CROP IS WEAKEST Opening Is Barely Steady at Advance of 2 Polnts-More Favorable Crop Reports Have
 Effect.
NEW CROP IS WEAKEST

New York, May 20.-The cotton market was less active than last week, and while fluctuations were irregular, the general ing to the better weather reports with the close steady. net unchanged to II points lower, August being the only month unchanged.
 Sales were estimated at 300,O00 bales.
 The opening was barely steady at an advance of points on old crop positions, which were influenced by bull support while the later positions were lower on the favorable showing of weather re- ports over Sunday After selling off to net loss of to 12 points during the early session, under liquidation and local pressure, the market rallied on renewal of outside support promoted by continued bulish private advices.
 July led the advance, gaining P points over the closing figures of Saturday, while the new crop sold to 5 points net higher. Offerings increased at this level and during the middle of the after noon the market was weak and unsettled under more general liquidation and bear pressure.
 The new crop was relatively weak and at one time showed net loss of about l3 to l5 points on the active months.
 The close was a little up from the lowest on covering. Liverpool will reopen tomorrow and some of the afternoon sell ing may have been expectation of bearish cables on the weather news.
 Southern spot markets were unchanged to 1sc higher, generally unchanged Re- ceipts at the ports today, S2S0 bales, against S370 last week and 11,9O6 last year.
 For the week, 52,OOO bales, against 59, 234 last week and 75,575 last year. Today s receipts at New Orleans, 1878 bales, against 17Ss last year, and at Houston, 129S, against S29 last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21

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 [ l do not use large advertisements an1 false statements to attract patients whic1 merit has failed to secure. If you fail t4 be curtd by such methods. give me . ea0 md get well.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
New York Cotton Futures.
Daily Cotton Movement.

Galveston: teady; middling, 123sc; net receipts, 1496. gross receipts, 7696; stock, SS,1,S; France, 56lS, continent, 9i52; coast wise, 669.
 New Orleans: Quiet; midding, 12c; net receipts, 179S; gross receipts, 179S sales, 1925; stock, 112,272; France, 1291.
 Mobile: Firm; middling, He; net re- ceipts, 266; gross receipts, 266 sales 30; stock, 10.615: coastwise, 50
 Savannah: Steady; middling, 11ssc; net receipts, 76S; gross receipts, 76S; stock. 41, ,0633; coastwise, 61.
 Charleston: Firm; mlddling, 11lbc net receipts, g; gross receipts, g; stock, S453; coastwdse. 43.
 Wilmington: Steady; middling, 111ac net receipts, SIS; gross receipts, S1S; stock, SS;0
 Norfolk: Firm; middling, 13c; net re- ceipts, 1917; gross receipts, 16l7 sales, "A; stock, 22,213; coastwise, 1871.
 Baltimore: Nominal; middling, 12&c; gross receipts, 59; stock, 10,671.
 New York: Quiet; middling, 1215c; gross receipts, 5529 sales, 1900; stock, 17S6s9; France, 654; continent, 1937
 Boston: tSeady; middling, 12.15c; gross receipts, 1961; Great Britain. 1752.
 Philadelphia: Steady; middling, 12.4Oc; net receipts. 13; gross receipts, 363; stock, 2297.
 Total today at all ports Net, S2SO; Great Britain, 1152; France, 7563; conti- nent, Il, ,119; stock, 495,8 ,831.
 Consolidated at all ports: Net, 16,426; Great Britain, 1902; France, 7563; continent, 12,74T.
 Total since September l at all ports: Net, 9,539. .9T0; Great Britain, 3575920; France, S73. .26O; continent, 3,226,2A; Japan, 226, ,926.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
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 also treated and a legal gnsr-
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 The Birmingham Ledger; Drs. Do- zier are without doubt the best known specialists in the south. and their fame is due entirely to their great skill.
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