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Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-11-29
Tea a. q libation.

The CT lnese have curious way Of
worshiping the statue Of Buddha.
with their favorite beverage. Into a
great bowl Of sweetened tea. a statue
OF the god is placed; women bring
their offerings. then taking up some
OF the tea with ladle. pour 1t over
the defenseless head Of the placid
god. From the same ladleful they
help themselves giving a sip to each
OF their little oEes.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-11-29
Gold Production.

The production Of gold In the Unit
ec States during 1906 is estimated BY
the director Of the mint At 500, ,101, 900,
which is an increase Of $s,oO0.00c
over that Of 1905. The production OF
silver is estimated at 56,1s3 900
ounces, an increase Of $4,000 ounces
over that Of the previous year.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-11-29
A Useful Explanation.

"The climate is very cold in st. Pet
ersburg, Is It not?"
Yes answered the traveller, and
fortunately so. The circumstance en-.
abes an official to argue that he 10
shivering because he is chilly instead
of because he Is nervous. Washing.
ton Star.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-11-29
We Grew Our Hair
Now Let Us Grow
Yours with
TRADE MARK
Registered)

When wonderful
bald places the head coned the idea that
possible rapidly
achieving The
initiated largely by
the further that
sell
you
Hair Of
NJ.
The Washington times., 1907-06-30
FLOWERS THAT CHANGE
COLOR AS THE DAY WAVES

This bed Of flowers was blue this
morning and now IT is pink That one
was white and it is now rose. The one
by the hedge was yellow yesterday and
today it is purple"
The gardener chuckled delightedIy.
I call EN- my fair flower beds,
ma am he said. You see. they change
color. It's a grand idea, isn't itP It
gives garden such variety"
But didn't know that any flowers
changed their colOrS
"Oh, yes That bed you first mention
ed Is mutable phlox- At sunrise II Is
blue and IN the afternoon IL is pink.
The one 20 the right IS hibiscus
hibiscus mutabils- It goes through
three changes in the day. from white in
the morning to rose at noon. and to red
at sunset.
The bed by the hedge is the lantana.
South American flower that thrives
none. too well here even in this fine
spring weather. The lantana Is yellow
one day orange the next, and red the
third. It's changes are slow
There's other flowers. too that
change. There's the cheiranthus cham
cleo, that shifts from white to yellow
and from yellow 10 red There's the
gaidiolus versicolor. that's brown IN the
morning and blue in the evening
There's the colaea scandens, that moves
slowly from greenish white to a deep
violet"
The Washington times., 1907-06-30
y OLD SPORT STILL CONTINUES TO HAND HIS SON ADVICE Il

in the atmosphere and singed the grass
on its way 10 the plate. and what is a
rare thing with such awful speed, he
had the control 70 plunk the pill through
knot hole without rubbing the sides.
There was nothing 10 II on the knowl-
edge factory circuit but Dutch IN those
days. All that Yale bunch had 20 do in
the field was TO play he-loves-me. he
loves-me-not with the daisies. while the
backstopper would hold his mitts where
he wanted the ball and shut his eyes,
and Dutch" would shoot a blue streak
PUNK 10 the spot within a hairs
breath Once Dutch got next to a
guys weak spot that invisible shot Of
his wouldn't wander an inch from the
bulls eye Dutch" never iugged around
an off-day IN his pack. Just a few
years ago at q summer resort up in
York State / saw Dutch get out on a
lot for a little exercise and without any
practice he chuczed fifty-two balls from
the plate down 70 the middle bag and
the entire bunch OF mis- filings would
have gone into a three foot circle
Dutch Carter wasn't one Of these sling
shots who work up a rep on the joke
hitters. They all looked alike TO Dutch
Years ago he COPIED out a strike-0ui
record against the old New York Giants.
the chief gazaboos OF the sWatting stick
In that day, which has never had its
heels tramped yet. Dutch went in
against the Giants IN the annual spring
game between Yale and New York
This game had always been. Ike taking
The Washington times., 1907-06-30

candy from a kid for the New York
bunch. but Dutch had them swinging
into space from cocktail 10 finger bowl
and he famed the first thirteen Giants
who toed the pan. Buck Ewing swore
that there was nothing to strike at but
the PUNK IN the catcher's mitt, and then
II was too late. The New York team
offered Dutch 5000 per 10 get into the
Giant rags. but Dutch wasn't looking
for the coin, and passed Il up.
Sonny. Dutch Carter is the only sam
pie ever turned out Of the factory with
out flaw In the threads He had
everything that any pitcher ever lugged
and he had them all In a bunch. There's
lots Of $1,000 pitching wings put on the
blink by a 2-cent noodle: and there's lots
OF prize top pieces teaming up with bum
whips. There's Rube WaddeI, whose
$1,000 sling shot is worth only S12O0 10
Connie Mack on account Of his pool
check head. II Rube had the works in
his coming tower he'd have them all
chased under the bed
I'm Just butting into these cases.
sonny, 70 put you wise 10 a little college
baseball history. and 1t may help you TO
figure mp the right dope on these knowl-
edge factory pitchers you've been hit
ting. But don't swell up over your
swatting clothes till you can see the
holes IN the knees Perfect bali players
are like the century plant. they only
I bloom once every hundred years. and
your funeral win be over long before
the next one IS due tGOod-by till mex
week FROM YOUR DAD.
The Washington times., 1907-06-30

opposing team or BY the president Of
the league The league rules formerly
permitted this.
So far the managers Of Bethany
and Ninth are the only managers TO
enforce the eligible rule, and are the
only ones 10 protest the games played
by the Rhode Island Methodists, but Il
is very likely the other two teams would
have fled protest had they known that
ineligible players had participated in
the games they had lost TO the Metho-
dists
1t is the general opinion that the d.
rectors win cancel the remaining R. 1.
NJ games and revise the schedule so
that the other four teams can finish
the season: for. should they forfeit the
remaining games 10 the other teams. It
would give one team three games and
the others would get but one game out
of it. II is hardly probable that the
directors viii ask any other team to
take up R l. Ms place in the league
this season
If the directors refuse 70 let the r.
l. NJ team play out the games now on
the schedule as exhibition games. 1t is
likely that the majority Of the players
win get transfers 10 other teams in the
league. LeMatt is already slated 70 don
a Bethany Uniform, and IL he does Join
II will materially strengthen that team.
Buckley and probably Tracey and King
will become members OF the Waugh
team. They viii be asked TO join tha,
team.
All OF the directors have expressed
themselves as being sorry that the r. l.
NJ. team had played ineligible men and
that they are not going 70 finish the
season out, although none Of the direc-
tors were a bit surprised when told
that the MethOdists would not finish
/ the season.
The Washington times., 1907-06-30
R. |. N. BALL TEAM
DROPS FROM THE
SUNDAY SCHOOL

The Rhode Island Methodists team.
tied with Waugh for fourth place in the
East Washington Sunday School League,
announced last night through Captain
Champion that IL would withdraw from
the league Captain Champions action
IN Withdrawing his team was because
the games that his team hs,5 rlayed and
won We're being protested q fast as the
games were played.
The trouble first arose when the man
ayers Of the Bethany and Ninth teams
put in protests and had the games
awarded TO them after Crampton's team
had defeated them. The games in cues
ton We're played with Ineligible PLAYERS
the players that were not eligible being
Symonoslzie and Cleve Richmond. The
league rules in regard to eligible play-
ers are as follows. Before any PLAYER
can participate in any Of the games he
must have attended three sessions OF
Sunday school in succession and that he
must attend three out Of every five
thereafter. Of course the player must
attend where the team he expects 10
play with belongs.
To show that Crampton is fuu or
sporting blood he has asked the directors
or the league to let his team pIav off tbA
games now on schedule but the games
that would be played should be notbfne
more than exhibition contests -,
should not affect the STANDING OF 80.
eluo. 1t is pretty hard to done 4, go,
now the directors will act on Csrsr,T,~
ton request. BIZ; il Is hardly nroEsbIa
that they will let the Methodists con-
einue the season under those conditions
Both OF the players that r. NJ
played that were Ineligible are sood
oall players and the conditions s,,r-
rounding their not being eligible are
peculiar and differ in all respects Sv-
monoskie. despite the fact that he has
played in the majority of the r. I NJ
games, has been 10 that Sunday school
but twice His reasons for not attend
ing are that he has to go down the
river every Saturday night in order to
be with his family during Sunday. Rich
mOnd. the other ineligible player. has
Just returned from England. where he
has been attending college. and as he
only arrived since last Sunday he has
not had a chance to even attend one
although he is an enrolled member of
the Rhode Island Methodist Church and
before going away he had been attend
ing regularly.
Captain Champion makes the assertion
that he is not the only one TO play
an ineligible team and that other teams
have been using ineligible players. too
This is not denied by anyone, but when
team played with an ineligible PLAYER
1t was generally with the consent of the
The Washington times., 1907-06-30
Tells His Offspring Not to Kill the Ball,
Because 1t Will Hurt His Bat
ting Average.
By jim NASIUM.

windows guess you're getting enough
light In TO see that your old dad has
been storing the right brand OF goods In
your sky parlor. From the way you are
getting on the corners can see that
you've clinched with the dope that you
mustn't hit the ball unless you have to.
and ! can give you the tip right here
that this dope, combined with a good
batting eye, Is a mixture that's harder
to beat than a china egg.
But don't get so chesty over your
bingling that you'u have TO get a gore
run up the back of youk vest. Just
keep the fact nailed up in your garrett
that you're swinging around with
bunch of guys who never were much in
the swatting line. and that considerable
of your brilliancy Is the result OF con-
trast. You know, even an old kerosene
lamp looks mighty bright alongside a
tallow dip. but II makes a blamed poor
showing when IT gets up against a %
candlepower electric. Once you get off
that knowledge factory circuit and butt
up against the real thing, you'll find
there is a difference.
II you just trim your lamps onto col
lege baseball in the past, IL won't take
you long TO get wise TO the fact that
most college games have been copied
of on less than half a dozen hits. and
that smuggling matches have been scarcer
on the knowledge factory circuit than
happy marriages among Pittsburg mil
Iionaires. The pitchers are the whole
cheese in these games simply because
good hitters are as widely scattered as
facts in a political speech. There's
mighty few OF these knowledge factory
sling-shovers who NOW wide swaths
among the college Lizzies who ever
create much smoke when they butt into
the big fire.
Every season there's a lot OF valuable
space on the sporting pages wasted on
some wonder who is a regular pigs-in-
the-clover puzzle to college hitters. and
the big league CATERS fall for the chaff
and nine times out of ten pick Up a
lemon. There was Lefty McIlveen,
who showed them over for Pennsylvania
State few years ago and had all the
big knowledge factory teams on his
string. Pittsburg picked him up and
planted him on the mound for a lew
| spasms. and what the big league swat
| tiers done to his educated shoots was a
shame. They chased him out to grass
| league team in Washington, Pa, and
the coal miners and corn planters. when
they had nothing more pressing TO do.
| spent their leisure hours slamming
Lefty's twisters all over the county,
Lefty had been some humps as a slug
ger up TO the knowledge factory. SO
when he blew UP as a sling shower they
The Washington times., 1907-06-30
BRENTWOOD MUST
HUSTLE TO WIN

EVANSVILLE. Nd, June alt is
pretty generally conceded that the
Suburban League race lies between
Brentwood. which now holds the lead
by $50 points, and Hyattsville-
Brentwood opened the season with a
flourish by winning seven straight
games, but for the last two weeks has
taken decided slump, and the IN
6lndest cut of all was administered on
Wednesday by Laurel the team which
looks TO have permanent hold on the
last pew. This defeat. coupled with The
Hv1bbins received from HyattsvilIe On
Saturday. makes BrentwoCd's hold on
the initial place decidedly insecure
Another hopeful sign for the local
aspirant to first honors Is that Hyatts-
vile has nve chances 10 raise her per
centage at the expense Of Laurel, while
the majority Of Brentwoods remaining
games are with the strong Berwyn AK
gregaJiOn. BerWyn. by the way, might
also have a look in for the leadership
race If she could develop a few heavy
swatters- Its inability to hit the very
easiest things in the way OF pitchers
resulted in the loss OF second place in
spite OF the fact that II has easily the
fastest and surest fielding team IN the
league
The Washington times., 1907-06-30
Dane a Cheap Sport.
THE SERGEANTS.

When the Confederates destroyed my
ordnance depot at City Point by ex-
ploding a tornado in IL August, 1854.
killing over $50 persons and about half
OF my detachment, 1 found my first ser
geant, Harris, who had been so faith
full, lying dead under the timbers Of
the great wharf building A child
asleep in a cradle or on a mothers lap
could not have worn a sweeter or more
innocent face as he lay with eyes closed
at rest. / know what it is to have and
TO lose a good first sergeant And while
am writing these lines Of captains
and colonies and generals, some OF
whose names are dear to fame, a voice
comes to me from every field ! saw,
from Charlottesville TO Petersburg,
saying. Don't forget the first ser
geant.' And now comes a voice closer
and dearer than all, II is that Of West
Point herself believe 1 know the
tenderness of that voice well. For the
sake of their manliness, for the sake
Of their courage and devotion 10 duty.
let them stand with me in the light
Of your little lamp as long as it burns
on your ge.''-Gen. Morris Schaff, In
the July Atlantic.
The Washington times., 1907-06-30

planted him in the outer pasture, DUt
he hammered the atmosphere of Wash
ington county into such a condition that
the health officers filed a complaint and
Lefty got the can.
Along about the same time that
Lefty McIlveen was buTting into the
hall of fame up at Pennsylvania State,
Don Doyle was down at Princeton ere
ating a bigger sensation than a chicken
at a niger camp meeting Doyle had
the stickers on the college circuit
breaking their backs. but when the
knowledge factory closed he beat It back
to Pittsburg and hooked up with a
bunch Of college guys for a barnstOrm-
ing seance, and the hard-isted mill
hands would take day of just TO get
leaning up against those bendsrs OF
DOn's- Those billet tossers scattered
The Washington times., 1907-06-30

Bay. To win this will be the cap and
climax of Peter Pans brilliant three
year-old campaign. Trainer Rowe has
the son of Commando Cinderella in point
for the long race right now. Peter
Pan will pick up scale weight, 126
pounds, here, and he will meet a form
liable band of horses of his age, in
Guiding Salvidere. the king Of 1903 two
year-olds, and his great rival
This Is the richest stake for three
year-olds exclusively in the world, the
English Derby paying about $50. 900.
Everybody is looking forward to a meet
ing of Peter Pan and Salvidere with
the utmost interest.
Peter Pan a Wonder.
Peter Pan has had a lot of hard races.
He lost the Withers and the Carlton
Stakes through being in short condition.
Since then he has run over the horses
which beat him there and taken the
Belmont stakes Of $4,000. the Standard
stakes Of $4,000, the Brooklyn Derby
OF $1,000. and a week ago the $4,000
Tidal stakes. This wonderful colt has
won about 10000 for his owner.
John Z Madden and the Hitchcock
brothers have in hand Salvidere. The
colt has been somewhat of a mystery.
rumors OF a spread hOof and a dickey
foreleg having gained Circulation at
different times. In the meantime, Pc
ter Pan has raced himself TO a thin edge.
while Salvidere is liable to come bloom
ing salong like a Junetime rose. How
ever. the duel between them will be
watched with all the eyes of the racing
world looking on.
The Washington times., 1907-06-30

Doyle's Princeton record all over the
dumps Of western Pennsylvania
There's a numbering lot Of these guys
who burn a brown streak around the
knowledge factory circuit with their
speed, but when they butt up against the
tough nuts who haven't dimmed their
swatting eyes by prying into the secrets
Of lost languages. or lost their nerve in
the dark reCesses of a knowledge sweat
shop. they get theirs right where the
women wear their beads. There are a
few exceptions TO this rule. but they're
scattered worse than the population IN
n Kansas cyclone. Christy Mathewson
is a great big chunk OF the exceptions
himself. but Christy wasn't such a
much while at the knowledge factory.
The Los Angeles team had a chance TO
freeze on TO Mathewson as free as the
The Washington times., 1907-06-30

did right. He was trying to get me I'D
quick. 50 he could take another punch
at me.
Two Dirty Tricks.
Now look here. Bat" insisted She
scribe. Il was one OF a hundred news
paper men who sat al the ringside. we
all came there hoping 20 see you win
Before the fight was over we were all
against you 20 a man. We didn't care
for the black man. but we wanted 20
sec you get your head knocked OF to
pay for your foul work. Why, you
butted-"
I didn't, butt" interrupted the Dane.
Il was just rubbing my hair in his
eyes. I soaked 1t in aIkali water, and
when It dried out it was as stin as
wire.
Then. 1 had my whiskers about a
quarter OF an inch long. Why, Z didn't
do a thing with them wire whiskers
when 1 fought Britt last time I rubbed
them on him IN the clinches until the
side OF mis- neck and one shoulder was
like a steak He was covered with
blood That 'whiskers' punch is one
OF my best" And the Dane grinned
wickedly.
The Washington times., 1907-06-30
GATES RECOUPING
SERIOUS SETBACK
BY LUCKY STREAK
Size of WagerS DazeS
BOOkieS-Peter Pans
Problem.
BY I. S. A MACDONALD.

NEW YORK. June 29-Once again
John W. Gates is the turf hero of the
hour IN this neighborhOod-
The famous et-You-a-AIillion' is
the big tent right now 50 far as the bet
ting end of the game is concerned. for
his wagers have been of tremendous size
during the last week, and his money is
dominating the horse playing market 20
a greater degree than ever before.
At the Washington Park meeting at
Chicago. Ill, along in 1902 and again at
Saratoga in 1893. Gates deluged the book
makers with money. but 1t is safe 10
saw he outdid all existing plunging rec
ords at Sheepshead Bay for "a period ex-
tending from June a up TO today.
Depends Upon Luck
OF course, Gates is not a bit more in
fallible than the veriest 81 piker. He
stands the same chances of winning IS
the Saturday afternoon ribbon counter
visitor to the field" a circumstance
borne out by the fact of Gates being al
most $4,000 behind the layers.
Talk about "Pittsburg PHIL Riley
Grammar, "Plunger' Walton. "Davy'
Johnson, Joe" Yeager. and Jack Nc
Donald rolling high stake money in the
betting ring in their day. Why, they
ali figure deuces compared to Gates.
He established a claim to the plunging
premiership Of the American turf beyond
preadventure this past week.
To Recoup 100000.
According to the clubhouse gossip
Gates determined to recoup a loss Of
over 100000 to 1906. He commenced the
grand work some days after the opening
IT Sheepshead Bay on a regular bust
ness scale. First he put himself in
touch with Boots DurneIl. They
bought Colonel White, savable. Royal
Nane. Monster King. and several other
horses Of medium class. but more suit
able for betting purposes than 10000
stake performers.
A big plunge and a winning race end
cd their usefulness. Back in the dis
card they went Incidentally Charles
Head Smith. one Of the old-time wheat
kings Of the West and.the former owner
OF Garry Hermann and Colonel Gibson.
IS the head Gates commissioner. He
has the proverbial length Of stride. -
for he is tall and attenuated. Leslie
CoEgins bets for Durnell.
It's a great combination and. until
Gates sails away for France shortly
for a months boar hunting on the
estates Of the Due de Etenne. the con-
federacy is bound TO hold the stage
front.
The Washington times., 1907-06-30

climate down there when he jumped the
knowledge circuit. but he looked like a
lemon in those days and they passed
him up.
But sonny. in spite of the fact that
these big college guns usually flash in
the pan when they butt into the real
thing in the sWatting line. the most re-
markable wing artist that ever tipped
them in to catcher was the product OF
a knowledge factory and never played
professional ball II Amos Rusie. Chris
~ Mathewson. Ed Walsh and all the
king pin sling showers ever Matched
were welded together into a husky guy
packing all their qualifications, they'd
pinch him for false pretense II he ever
tried 10 pitch on the same day as
Dutch" Carter. the old Yale whip.
Dutch" had speed that burned bIisters
The Washington times., 1907-06-30

~ EAR SON-You've certainly been
slamming the leather some
lately. that's a cinch. 1 knew
YOU would if you'd only take
your old dads tip and cut out trying
10 drive the pill against the pallngs. I
guess you're getting wise TO the kind OF
cattle you're hocl1ing with out there
now. and aren't laying in so much mush
from the mutt-heads in the cheering
squad as you were when you first butted
into that knowledge factory. You're be-
ginning to get results from that natural
batting eye which the Almighty stuck
in your coming tower and simply be-
cause you're Juggling the right dope up TO
the plate with you now. 1t doesn't mat
ter how clear a window a guy might
have stuck I'm his mansard roof, il he
keeps his attic blinds drawn II won't
illuminate his garnet much. Now that
you've ripped the shades from your attic
The Washington times., 1907-06-30
AMATEUR BASEBALL.

The Second Vigilants want games with
teams averaging from fourteen to six
teen years.
The lineup: Walker. catcher; Law
and VeriIla, pitchers; FrydelI. first base;
Thompson. second base: Oliveri. short
shop; Flynn, third base; Sullivan, left
field: Lamar. center field; Grace, right
field; Reinhardt and Clarkson, utility
men. Send challenges to Manager OIL
veri, Eighth and K streets southeast.
The Stanton Athletic Club easily de-
feated the Topper Athletic Club in a
ragged game at the White Lot by IA 10
T. Features of the game were the all
round playing OF the Stantons the pitch
ing of Avery, who had the Topper boys
guessing. and the catching of Parker
Score by innings:
RHE
Stanton. 49,. 11O42141x-l4 u /
Toppen.......-.. OOO1111O-4 o
For games address c. Avery, 155 Mas
sachusetts avenue northeast; ages fiji
teen years.
The Twinning Athletic Club defeated
the ST. Paul Lutheran Athletic Club at
Marshall Hall by Is to- l. Divers, for
Twinning. pitched a no-hit game. The
WINNINGS last year had a record of
twenty-five games out of twenty-five
played. Twinning wants games Ad-
dress J. r. Coomes. 1923 New Jersey
avenue northwest
The Memorials defeated the st. Ste
phen's Altar Boys Club Sunday in a
smuggling match by II to Y. They also
defeated the Potomacs s to .. one of the
best teams in amateur circles The
Memorials go to Leesbrug. Va, July 4,
and play a double-header with that
team.
The Shamrock baseball team wants a
double-header with any team averaging
fifteen or sixteen years on it's grounds
for July 4. Address T. A. Sullivan, 350s
. street northwest