The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-23

| demeanor. and whose of~1ciousness was Of
fensive in the extreme.
OF course, the trainman acted within
his rights, but any one ought to have
| gumption enough to know hat one must
give plenty of latitude to a winning oall
club.
Stili. this conductor couldn't see 1t that
way, and he enforced the regulations with
a harshness that would have done credit
to one of Cotton Mather's TIN star jokes
In the DAYS of the Salem witchcraft.
After he had stopped the fellows from
playing a friendly game of cards in the
parlor cars. and was stu puffed up over
the feat like a pouter pigeon. Nick Altrock,
whom you cannot suppress with anything
softer than an AK, went up to the omclous
%potentate In blue and said TO him:
Brother. I want to put you. next to a
poker party that Is on this train"
"Where Is II? Tell me quick"
why It's on the locomotive" replied
Altrock.
ION the locomotive?' aueried the con-
ductor with a puzzled expression on his
Sure" said Nick as he turned on his
heel; Il refer to the fireman who uses mat
And then while the ball PLAYERS all bru-
tally Ruffawed in deep, deep tones the
knight in blue beat II in double-quick time
in the direction OF the buffet car.
What Jimmy Collins Snw.
Ono Of the quietest kldders the game has
ever huOWn IL tnt utupldi JAAAhS OCAA'tSf
of the Athletics, who certainly gets his fun
out of life, though in an e~asy-going way.
Nothing delights Jimmy so much as jok-
ing at the expense of his brother ball
players. AS II Is all done In a .good-na-
tured manner. why, of course, nonody mas
Seated in a hotel some time ago In Phil
adelphia, Collins and several other mem
bers of Connie Mack's bunch We're RECALLING
themselves with the good things dished
-. - ~ NrvIA Tl.apatr affaF olnnE1nH nNnf
the columns of an evening paper, turned
to Harry Davis and exclaimed;
II see. Harry, that the President has
Just disposed of the biggest office in his
IFS that so2' inquired Harry. ''wha
was the Officer"
why, it's a observation-disclosures post
Office situated at the highest point In the
United states. The place is called Mineral
Point; 1t is in Colorado. and II nestles r.
600 feet above tho level Of the sea" added
Collins. as q look Of disgust hoated over
the mobile TEXTURES OF Davis
when Rube WaddeII Made a Hit.
OF course every one knows that Rube
Waddell takes to fishing las a duck takes
to water, and when the call of the fnny
tribe reaches Waddell 1t Is him TO the
river and the stream.
He hearkened. to one of these calls early
last spring, aud while the sorely tried Con-
ME Mack was searching everywhere for the
distinguished George Edward, that celebra-
ted worthy was engaged in the pursuit
that made Izaak Walton famous.
While wandering up the shady river, In
search of a spot where the fish would be
likely to show In quantities. and In Il
friendly way, the eagle eyes of Mr.. Wad-
dell espied over In an enclosed ground one
of the p~rettiest little lakes that It had ever
beer his fortune to run across.
Now George Edward is nobody's fool
when II comes to the fishing game. and he
had no sooner seen this dinky little lake
than he recognized 1t as being one OF those
privately stocked preserves that are so nu-
merous on the estates Of the millionaires
of the north.
Although a sign warned him that there