Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-05

great speed. Then he weakened and was batted out of the box. Once after ward he ventured to play, but the bad arm was again in evidence, and a med ical examination showed that he would never be able. to pitch again. There is a great lump under the arm of the Giant s former celebrity and idol of the New York fans in the long ago. and medical science can find no way to re. duce it.
 Teaching His Son
 'But Rusie has become a philosoph- ical sort of fellow, and he simply settled down at his little $1.50 per day job, He lives in little cottage. and on Sundays or at odd times he has been teaching his son how to pitch ball. The latter has the same brawny arm that characterized hic father in his good days but it is doubtful if he will ever become as noted as was the redoubtable Amos.
 "When the pearl fishing craze struck Vincennes Rusie did not pay any par tieular attention to it, but as one after another of his neighbors began to find pearls and build houses and buy prop erty on the proceeds he became inter ested.
 "About three weeks ago he took his wife and son for skiif ride up the Wabash river and when they had pro ceeded about n mile up the river they alighted at pearl camp. After watch. ing the fishers for little while Rusie saw how they opened the musse shells and how they managed to detect the elusive gems. Then he went down to the mussel banks and saw how the men dived and shoveled for the shells He and his family went on to another bank that was not occupied and he stripped off his clothing and dove for shells. In a little while he had q great pile of the shells on the shore. He and his son and wife worked all afternoon in opening them, and they found three little button pearls that brought at the office of one of the fifty pearl deal CTS here $l each.
 "This was not such bad day g work and the next Sunday Ruse tried it again. This time he succeeded in fnl- ing five of the buttons. He seemed to have struck a place that abounded in buttons. Ten days ago he was working on the shore opening the shells when little boy not five feet from him opone'l a shell and brought ont beautiful! rosebud pearl that brought s200 when the buyers began to bid for it.
 "Thus far Rusie has discovered noth- ing but buttons and 'slugs. The lat ter are worth about 50 cents each, but he is hopeful and at any time he may run across a gem that may make him rich. Last summer boy Charles John son, discovered a rosebud pearl that his guardian sold for $700. It is said to have been one of the purest pearls ever found in the Wabash river.
 Probably one of the most diseour- aging circumstances connected with Ru- sie's hunt for pearls is the mistake made by his son. The latter was sit ting little apart from Rusie and his wife and was busy opening the shells. He came upon a jet black pearl about the size of a pea and of great brilliancy. The boy supposed because it was black that it was of no value and he laid it on a stone and shattered it with an other.
 A New York buyer passed not long after and young Amos, upon being asked if he had made any finds, replied that all he had been able to locate was an old black thing The buyer looked at the broken pieces and there were al- most tears in his eyes as he said:
 Boy, you have just destroyed what may have been the most valuable pearl that has ever been found in the Wa bash river.
 "Thus the Rusie family was once more in sight for fortune, but the ill luck that seems to pursue them was with them still and the fckle goddess ,..,.,l tLo,, gI;,, sn bo ,;nht