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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16
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ball nine goin' down to tent afther | hat's-his-name had soaked tn spit ball out iv tn lot an gatherin' around tn tea table. That was an ixcillint slap ye give, Mike Thank ye, Terry; will ye have a saucer iv Young Hison?' I will, with pleasure. Will ye take jam or marmylade. Oh, dear, I've made me fingers all sticky. Is that speck iv dirt on me pants? Well, annyhow, don't go to bat until mkt Thursdah.' No. sir; not fir me.
 "Baseball's all right, with tn pitcher rollin' th' ball in tn mud an thin on his pants, an putin up his foot an his hands to tn altytude an thryin' to sind tn ball so near tn batter's head that it'll scare him to death without hittin' him; an tn batter havin' tn alternytive iv hittin tn ball with his club or lettin' it hit him on tn chin; his eyes not bein' in, he chooses to be hit, an falls down unconscious ontil tn empire says: Take yeer base an thin gets up an runs down to first at pace that wud've sint Barney Wei CTS hands above his head an tn catcher is jumpin around lookin' like a submarine monsther; an ivry man that goes down 10 sicond base leaps into tn lap iv tn shortstop with his spikes on; an a fellow is behind third base sthrivn' to rattle tn pitcher be tellin' him all about his father; an tn catcher walks down an whispers somethin' in tn pitchers ear to steady him, an comes back an has a passed ball scored again him; an tn man at th' bat catches tn next wan in tn eye an sinds it into tn clubhouse an tn ginteel crowd advises tn pitcher that his job is still open fir him on tn dumps, because tn boss knew what kind iv a pitcher he was; an tn game is over an we've won, an get up me circulation be maxim tn pace fir T block or two fr a frind iv mine that wants to tell tn empire what he thinks Iv him befure he can get to his car.
 No sir baseball ain't amy tea-an'- muffins game. It's rale spoort. Why. hogan tells me a man can play cricket ontil he's old enough to be prisidint iv 8 savings bank. He can play it an wear whiskers to his knees, an he don't need to take off his stove-pipe hat onless he wants to- He caa play it as long as he can hold cup iv tea without spillin' it on his flannel pants. But think iv man iv sixty thryin to play baseball with tn profyssyonals. He might betther ship fir an arctic expedition. Baseball, like war. is f'r tn boys. Whin a man is twinty-five they begin to call him OF Man Kelly: whin he's thirty. tn papers advise tn aujience to be kind to him because he has seen betther days; he's not. mach er'ly, as sorry as a young or middle aged. but baseball must be played with tn' head as well as with tn legs an if he lives an holds down a job till thirty-fye. they note that his intellect is wabbin tn same as his knees, an rayspictfully suggist that he go off somewhere an curl up an die"
 Its a rough game" said MT. Hen messy "bnt 1t aint as bad as 1t looka.
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tn summer that l used on tn British 1 governmint in winther. I'm not man 1 iv yi'yent dislikes, but used to say a short prayer that their thrain might mercifully be permitted to jump into ditch on their way up on their nee faryous mission iv humilyatin' our gal lant team explained be a loyal son iv Chicago firm Ioway, with star players firm Jersey City an Yonkers. I didn't want thim kilt, dye mind? 1 wasn { that bad, befure tn game. But wanted thim shaken up a little so that tn pitcher wud have q pain in his back I ivry time he thried to sind over Tn .n- shoot. An while I was feelin' this way about th foreign scum firm Saint l Looey, tn pitcher iv tn Browns owned shoe store in Madison sthreet, an cud be seen amy winters day on wan 1 knee with a button-hoolt in his hand, an tn father iv tn captain iv tn Browns was an old frind iv nine an i held job in tn city hall.
 Its scandlous tn way tn games ar-re wrote up in tn papers. I agree with me frind iv tn North Westhern Christyan Advocate that thim young fellows that write about baseball ar-re
 
 twas diff'rent. Tn iditors wud not disgrace their callin' be speakin' iv a pitchers arm as his port propeller They were more dignifled, an always alluded to it as tn south joist' They niver roasted tn empire in tn lan- guage now employed. But whin he was radically wrong, an 1t cud be aisily seen that he was purchased, they sim ply raymarked that tn aujience showed great raysthraint in merely chokin' him; in less cultivated communities they wud've made his map look as though Napolyeon Bonypart had been workin' on it.
 "Thim were the days of baseball. I'm an old vethran spoorts lover. I'll bet I've ct more bags iv peanuts an emptied an threw more bottles iv pop than amy man at tn game yisterdah. Why, me boy, I can raymimber whin Al Spalding pitched fir tn Rockfords. Will ye think iv that? I raymimber Charlie Radbourne; 1 raymimber whin Worcester an Providence were in tn league; I raymimber Will White playin' with spectacles on; see Silver | int get his first bad finger; I was atin' popcorn in tn grandstand whin Cap Anson was thried out at third base, an lived to see him called Pop, an thin 'Granpop.' an fln'lly become wan iv tn Elder Statesmen iv Chicago I'm tn tn oldest living survivor iv tn game, an wan iv tn things like about it is it ain't lawn tennis, an it ain't cut-outs firm tn Sundah Supplemint, an 1t ain't cricket.
 "It's baseball, that's what it is. Ye bet ye. Did ye iver see game iv cricket? They tell me it lasts three days, or ontil tn tea gives out. Ivry time a man hits tn ball he gets cup iv tea There was a man in England last year that score iv two hundred an fifty basins iv bohea, an was not declared out ayether be tn empire or tn doctor. Think iv tn whole base
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oblongata joins tn collar button, an it wint away to rayturn no more.' An there ye ar-re. A picture in simple language"
 Its rough game these days" said Mr. Hennessy.
 Tt is that" said MT. Dooley. "It has deginerated sadly. I'm in thorough simpathy with tn iditor iv tn North Westhren Christian Advocate, who wants 1t supprissed. It ain't tn ginteel game 1t was in my days. In thim far gone times baseball was tn spoort iv gintlemin an twas watched be gintle- min. Whin, our fathers left their clubs ! an wint down to tn baseball park, an took off their coats an collars, they knew they were goin' to spind an afthernoon in tn quiet enjymint fv a contest iv gintleminly skill an good nature. There was no rowdyism in thlm days. No, sir. Tn best people in town wint to tn games an cheered be cryin', Here, here,' excillint, or played, indeed or sometimes in mo- hints iv gr-reat ixcitemint, Kill tn speckled-faced, cross-eyed pickpocket, kill him. Tn polls were not niccissary
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MT. Dooley on the Decay Of Baseball


to protect tn empire. In fact, they weren't advisable. In spite iv his uny- form, polisman is but man, afther all. No, sir, tn empire was perfectly safe if he survived tn game an left tn grounds first. In thin days tn empires were very supeeryor class iv men. In ordher to qualify fir tn position they had to go through tn pompier dhrill iv climbin' fences undher tn insthruc- tion iv a competint fireman.
 "Th aujiences were always fair an spoorts-lovin' They sildom hissed q decision whin wan iv tn home players was caught fifteen feet off a base. But they were stern as well as just an they properly riprimanded certain thievin, burglarious, porch-climbin' bribe-takin' ruffyans, who had, undher assumed names, secured tn important position iy empire Tn front rows iv tn fifty-cint seats used to be occypied by clubmen who had whiled away tn mornin' hours in tn, rollin' mills, an come over to spind a quiet afthernoon in tn sunshine watchin' tn naytional game. A pretty picture they made in their red flannel undhershirts fannin'
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TUNISHA AND ALGERIA NEED
 AMERICAN GOODS
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graph poles are enough to supply a line through it's center. A telegraph route across the Sahara has just been survey ed, and, within short time, the French provinces of the Soudan will be joined to Algeria by twenty-five hundred miles of wire.
 There are telephones in all the chief cities. Algeria sent more than five mill lion telephone messages last year, and It's long distance conversations were more than enc million. Tunisia has a telephone system, and I can stand in the hotel here and be connected with the cities for miles around I have already spoken of the rates. They are far lower than any we have in America. I can send a wire from here to France for a cent a word, and I could do the same were I five hun
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thimsilves with copies iv tn Polls Ga zette. They were usually quiet an thoughtful, but at times wud make laughin raymarks about tn empires family; but whin a ra-aly unjust de- cision occurred, or what looked like an unjust decision firm where they set their proud natures asserted thim- silves. They did what amy other American, whether he wears his un- dhershirt outside or inside, wud do They hoped over tn railin' an stamped on tn perjured oficyal.
 >"Thim were th days whin we had local pride. We loved tn boys that fought so nobly fir their home city. an we hated tn Scoudhrels that come firm afar to wrest their lorls firm thim. It was a grand thing to have our home village repriSinted be tn flower iv it's atheleets, la-ads that had larned tn game on tn prairies an vacant lots iv tn west side, an were prepared to do or to die in definse iv tn honor iv Chi cago. 1 always had a specyal delight, Hinnissy, whin they humilyated an degraded tn naughty New York team, which they often did, I'm glad to say,
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and then an Italian, who have modern machinery, and 1t Is only in Algeria that our machinery is used. We sell a hun dred thousand dollars worth or so of agricultural implements there every yeai, this being our share of the two million dollars worth of machinery annually inn ported There is no reason why there should not be a good demand for Ameri- can blows, and also for our mowers, reap CTS, and threshing machines. At pres ent the grain is either trodden out of the straw by horses, oxen or donkeys, or ground out by driving heavy sleds about over it. The chaff Is blown away by throwing the straw against the wind
 Within the past few years the most of the Tunisian wheat has been exported to France, while the Tunisians have bought Russian wheat for their own use. The reason for this is that Tunisian wheat
 inasmuch as 1t comes from one of the French colonies, is admitted to France free from duty, whereas all other foreign wheat pays q high tariff. Such wheat
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dred miles beyow in the Desert of Sa- hara. If I remember correctly, our tele- graph companies charge about 10 cents a word from New York to San Francisco, and no message is sent for less than 25 cents Here the minimum charge per mes sage is 10 cents, and one can telegraph to Great Britain Italy Denmark or Ger many for far less than we can send a message across our continent. The tele- phone rates in Algiers are cents for three minutes and 8 cents for long dis tance messages outside. The charges in Tunisia are about the same.
 A Good Postal Service.
 Both of these countries have a good postal service. There are postoffices In every town, and, of late, the mails have been carried on camels to many of the oases of the desert. The letter rates to
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Gran, and phosphate beds are being devel- oped in different parts of Algeria. I an told that there are phosphates all over the southern part of TunisIa. l know of a phosphate company at SfaX whose shares have jumped up a thousand per cent within the last two or three years. The phosphates are near Gafsa, and they are now reached by railroad They are brought on the trains to Sfax and are sent from there at the rate of about a shipload per day, the bulk of the product going to Europe. Tunisia sold more than $2,000.000 worth of phoSphates last year.
 Overrun by Italians.
 I find that the French Tunisiaas are somewhat alarmed at the large influx of Italians. The Slcilans and Neapoltans in large numbers are coming over 10 Tp- nlsa to buy lands and to take advantage of the Inducements offered to colonists. Boats can go from here to Naples In thirty-six hours and the voyage from Pal ermo Is made in a night.
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Algeria Tunis and France are cents. and postal orders up to S4 may be gotten for cent, and up to StO for cents l can buy a postal order on America to the amount of $2 for cents, and the same rate is given for England, India, Canada and Japan. There are almost daily malls from here to Europe. and France can be reached from either Tunis or Algiers in just twenty-four hours
 The postal business Is rapidly growing. There are something like fifty million packages sent through the Algerian mails every year, and fully half that many through the postoffices of Tunisia.
 Money and Banks.
 Both of the provinces have excellent banking facilities. Every town of any
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land can be brought into use by what Is now known as dry farming. At present the surface is only scratched. The blows are so light that you could swing one around your head as easily as well loaded Indian club, and the farmers often carry them to and from the fields on their shoulders. They are little more than forked sticks shod with a thin piece of iron. They have but one handle, and are so made that the plowman does not need to press upon them as he walks through the furrows. The result Is that large punches of weeds or bushes cannot be plowed up and the farmers work their way in and out through the brush. They have to cut most of their grain with the sickle, as it would be impossible to run mower through the field.
 Farming Machinery.
 It is only the French settlers, and now
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size has its banking establishments and the cities are represented by the chief banks of France l was able to draw money at Biskra, down in the Sahara, and l have had no trouble anywhere in get ting my letter of credit cashed. The Bank of Algeria. which Is connected with the government, has a capital of $4OO0,000 and it's paper notes are exchanged for gold in any part of these French colonies. The Credit Lyonnas has branches in all the Algerian cities, and the same Is true of the Bank of Tunisia as to the cities of that province.
 The money used is French in Algeria and Tunisian in Tunisia. but 1t Is all on the French decimal system and there is no trouble in making change. In ad- dition to the banks In both Algeria and Tunisia, which make loans to farm CTS and settlers and Algeria has seven
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as Tunis itself imports pays practically nothing, and so the people have been bringing In Russian wheat and sending their own off to France and making thereby a big profit off the difference in the respective tariffs. The French gay ernment has now discovered this trick, and 1 understand that 1t will soon tax Tunislan grain just as it does the grain from other countries.
 Our manufacturers of mining machinery should keep their eyes on this part of North Africa. Both Algeria and Tunisa are developing their minerals Algeria has already given eighty concessions for mining iron. zinc. silver, lead. mercury copper, autimony and coal. II produced about S2O0000 worth of iron last year and something like 5O,0O0 tons of zinc ore. There was also a considerable output of copper and silver. Within the past few months petroleum has been found in
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It is only the French settlers, and now
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-16
BUSTER BROWN

Shortly the management OF ths
Grand will offer Buster Brown, q
musical comedy that has withstood
the crucial test of repeated presen-
tation throughout the country. No
better known little chap than r F.
Outcault's Buster has ever been Civ
en- the fun-loving world. And yet ali
OF the boys popularity must not be
attributed to his own personality for
their is "Tige', the sharer of Bs-
ter's joys and sorrows, and as Bus
ter has grown we have also "Mary
Jane" a trio that have never been
surpassed in the realms of the car
toon. They are still in the limeligf1t
of popularity in the play, with the
delightful girl background. This sea-
son all new costumes and scenery
have been provided together with the
latest and most popular songs and
new music In fact, it is a second
edition of Buster Brown revised, en-
larged and brought up to the hour.
Master Rosen will be seen in the
character of Buster"
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women are Industrious and earn
money by spinning. In some loe1li-
ties the young girls earn their pin
money by plating straw.
Bridgeport. Conn, has prosper
Gus Italian community of about $500
members, who have newspapers,
churches and benevolent institutions
of their own. In Utica, N. Y, the
Italians have built themselves an
opera house and provided a local
stock company that gives very cred
liable performances to most courteous
and enthusiastic audiences The ia
nous La Co1onia A1essondrina di
Memphis has a goodly number of
Tennessee's quota OF 5000 Italians.
There are innumerable communities
composed Of this nationality in the
suburbs OF Washington, D. c., Baltit-
more, Md; Dallas, Texas, and all
through the peach and garden dis
tricts of Delaware
An historic Italian town in America
is that OF Vinland, New Jersey. which
was founded by the Chevalier Secchi
de Cassale. disciple of Mazzinin, a
comrade OF Garribaldi, and a refuge
from Italy. He came to this country
in 1910 and established a newspaper
in New York known as "L'Eco D.
Italia Through this country's in
huence he secured the passage of a
bill in the Italian parliament abating
the padrone system. His colonial
ton scheme was great success, and
his people became the best grape
raisers and truck farmers in the east.
The refugee was finally knighted by
Victor Emmanuel. It was owing to
the success of the Vinland community
that the towns of Daphne and Lam
berth were founded in the heart of
the Alabama woods, where success
fu1 vineyards were established
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-16
THE ITALIANS IN AMERICA


Although America has long been
the land Of thousand roads to for
tune, the Italian was the last to come
here In the search of success. But
now that he has found the way he
is making up for lost time. In the
decade $4,000 only 4oS Italians came
to America, an average of only al
year Now they are coming at the
rate of upwards of 100000 year.
Italy is now furnishing the greatest
number of men that the old world is
sending to the new. The increase
in the population of New York's LIT
tie Italy has made that city the thirl
largest Italian center in the world.
The Italian is a genuine hustler
He comes over here for a job, takes
whatever kind of work he can get,
and sticks to it. / heard OF a ply
stefan who served. as a dish-wasf1er,
and lawyer who worked for several
years as a waiter until he could learn
the language and become adjusted to
the general scheme of things. One
steamship line will have only Italian
stevedores, because they work harder
and are more temperate than the
men of other nationalities. The en-
terprise and thrift Of the Italians is
indicated by the statistics, which
show that in New York they have
1000 real estate holdings valued at
SEQ. 900 600. They own 10000 stores
in Manhattan. and have $4,000. 900 in
the savings bank. There are two
Italian steamship lines and sixteen
daily and weekly papers
1t Is a rare thing to see an Italian
beepar. Boston shows court cali
endar that has only three drunken
Italians out Of every 900 OF the
population. against three out OF every
hundred Of the population drawn
from northern Europe. The women
and are noted for their thrift and
virtue Reports on temperance and
crime show that while "a per cent. OF
the distress suffered by Americans is
due 70 drink. less than forr per cent.
OF the Italians trouble is traced to
this source. They are quick tempered
and their acts Of violence are general
" dne To fhis characteristic
Through the efforts of the missions
arv sisters Of the Sacred Heart. and
Of the resident italians tn Colurn-
bus bospitaf was established in New
York. While this is essentially ali
Italian charity the patients are rep
resented bv sverv nationality and
creed There is not an Italian phv-
sicjan on the stag. which IS proof Of
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-16
STRANGE ADVERTISEMENTS

A London paper recently offered
a prize for. the best collection Of I'M
Intentionally amusing advertisements
Here are pare OF one list:
Annual sale now going on. Don't
go elsewhere TO be cheated-cone
in here"
- lady wants 70 sell her piano as
she IS going abroad III a strong iron
frame
Furnished apartments suitable for
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-16

pines are in the play, and the quaint
sayings and doings OF the country
folk are more distinctly and delight
fully pictured in its various charac-
tiers than in any other American do-
nestle drama ever written. The
mere mention of the names of Joshua
Whitcomb, Cy Prime, Seth Perkins,
Aunt Matilda, Eb Ganzey, Rickety
Ann and Happy Jack, is sufficient to
bring to mind all of those interest
ing rural characters, while at the
same time arise in the backgrou nd
the pictures of the old farm, the
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-16
THE OLD HOMESTEAD"

Denman Thompson's ever verdant,
ever popular "O1d Homestead is a
coming attraction here It seems al
together unnecessary to say that this
quaint chronicle of New England
farm life will be as joyously wei
coined as it has been in seasons past
This is the ttwenty-first annual tour
of the New England idol. The breath
of the meadows and the scent of the
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-16

Now is the time to buy home.
Property never was cheaper and
some mighty good bargains are to be
found in any part of the city. See
the Emery Realty Company before
purchasing.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-16
One Of tie grsatest charms 81 the.

Ono Of the greatest charms Of the
biggest comedy success of the past
three seasons, The Marriage of
Kitty,"yis the music which runs
through the comedy. The songs
sung by Kitty have added charm by
virtue of the fact that Miss Florence
Gear. who plays the part, is posses
sed Of most charming and cuIti-
waited voice, and sings with great ex-
preston and feeling Miss Gear
could easily make her fortune in
comic opera, and has had many of
fers for work of that nature, but has
refused them all. preferring to re-
main where she is, in the ranks of
the legitimate players sThe Mar
rage OF Kitty" in which she is be-.
ing featured this season, will be pro-
duced here within a fortnight, by
Jules Murry, of New York.
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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-16

LAVE you ever attended one of our
IL Spring Openings? If you haven't
you ought to this time, for original,
superb ideas, the ladies in charge OF. this
department have never been outclassed,
and it is forever our ambition to improve
over past efforts. The days set for this
Tuesday, March 10Th.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-16

TAILORED HATS designed and
made at your doors, imported
models OF the foremost modists of Con-
tlnental Europe are exhibited side by side
competing to be harvested by the most
particular and easy pleased visitor At
tend this exhibition of exceptional beau
ty under the auspices of Miss Nora
O'Conner and Miss Winter.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-16

NOTICE
Anybody wanting land deadened in
large or small quantities, call on or
address,
C. A. WORKMAN,
ma Trail Lake.
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