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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-02-04

TN fine harmony with Detroits
present possession of the Ameri-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-02-04

20 sign for fses. Signed or unsigned.
the teammates OF the Georgia phenom
are Interested 10 ascertain whether
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-02-04

1T IS safe to say that every one OF
the Detroit Baseball clubs play
ing stan Is watching with absorbing
interest the little duel now being
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-02-04

ID. orc, the king OF all the pool play
ers. wont play HusstoiL The pressn nt
he doesn't like the color OF the lat
VeTs hair or somethtng like that
still. De ORC has beaten Hueston
stand
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-02-04

Hob Prfnting--Done Right. Times
printing Co.. IL John R.-st Phone 1923.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-02-04

IL. q. smith a. the president OF the new
Detroit Motorcycle club which will
soon rent club rooms and prepate
wagons WILDE out by the Hundreds
on Detroit streets and boulsvards
next season.
The wageworker., 1908-08-29
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND

Manager Murray made good move
when he pulled Lefthander Foxen
from Jersey City. He has more than
made good.
Managers who stand for players
who insult umpires are worse than
the players, and poor baseball assets" u
declares an eastern baseball man.
Thomas Tuokey, pitcher of the.
Meriden team of the Connecticut!
league, has been sold to the Boston
Nationals for 81, 800. 1t was announced
that Capt Gus Soffel of the Meriden;
team will go with the Boston team at
the end Of the Connecticut league
season.
Jimmy Kane of Cincinnati is the
lightest man in the National league.
He weighs about 122 pounds, but is as
fleet as any fielder in the game and
can stick nicely.
The Cincinnati Reds will surely
have a great string of young pitchers
on hand next spring. They have all
ready signed about dozen, the latest
being Russell Ford of Atlanta in the
Southern league.
Big Ed Walsh of the Chicago
Americans has pitched more games
than any other big league pitcher. He
has now performed in excess Of 80
games, which is a seasons work for
many so-called crack pitchers. He
certainly is willing horse.
The wageworker., 1908-08-29
LIFE OF THE AVERAGE ''''''''' : :
BALL PLAYER Is SHORT
Strenuous Training Each Spring and
Temptations to Drink Hard
on Majority.

Just now while the annual Cy Young
and George Van Haltren stories are
going the rounds and the baseball
writer's are using up reams of paper
telling how long these men have been
in the game, a lot of folks are wonder
ing why SO many ball players last
few seasons, go back to the minors,
and then disappear entirely.
The average baseball life is gen
orally conceded to be somewhere be-
tween 10 and IL years. A man may
work in rolling mill IL hours a day
for 20 years, he can make duplicate
watches and high-grade works of art
for score of years, he can engage in
all sorts of work that requires skill
and good eyesight for perhaps twice
as long as an average ball player re-
tains his skill, and there must be some
good reason for this.
1t is noticeable fact that all the
ball players who have been in the
game for years and who still play as
they used to, never lay off and loaf
for long periods. Ball players by the
hundreds quit all kinds of work when
the season ends in the middle of Oc-
tober and do not do tap of work
until March, when their clubs go
south.
Then the winter laggards have to
swelter and work in hot climate to
get down to playing weight. Taking
off weight rapidly always saps mans
strength, as those who grow fat in
the winter are in weakened cOndi-
ton for several weeks and cannot do
themselves justice.
The temptations to drink and lead
fast life are greater in baseball
than in the more prosaic occupations.
A star ball player is much sought,
and hundreds of hangers on in places
where q ball player shouldn't be are
tickled half to death if the diamond
hero will join them in good time."
A lot of the younger fellows fall for
the spring in mighty poor shape.
An observer could name two dozen
veterans of the American league who
slow up just little each season, who
work. and work to distraction each
spring to catch on by the time the
season starts, yet who spend their win
ters in luxurious idleness. 1t seems a,
queer way of doing.
Some one has suggested that club
owners sign up their players in r..
| months contract, and run a wood
chopping brigade or pedestrian club
in the winter time. But the managers
and magnates have enough woes keep
ing the men going during the season.
The wageworker., 1908-08-29
Jeffries Likes Baseball.

James ]. Jeffries is about to take
q hand in baseball. Unless the unex-
pected happens he will buy an interest
in the new Los Angeles, Cal, fran
chise, which was awarded at the last
meeting of the Pacific Coast league.
Jeffries has always been baseball
crank. When he was travelling about
the country defending his title against
all corners he never overlooked a
chance to take in a game, and since
he has retired from the ring he has
been an ardent supporter of the An
gels. Several prominent sporting men
will join Jeffries as a stockholder.
The wageworker., 1908-08-29
HOW UMPIRE TIM HURST
HANDED IT TO COOLEY
Latter Tried to Be Put Out Of Contest,
But Veteran Was On to
His Game,

OF all umpires before or since there
are none that have had SO much news
paper space accorded to them as the
chubby little umpire, Tim Hurst, says
the Washington Post. There has
never been one who has ruled the field
with the same rod of iron as has Sir
Timothy, and this in the days when
ball players were men who would as
soon trim an umpire as they would at
tend to any of the ordinary avocations
of the day.
Such fistic giants of the grassy dia-
mond as Pat Tebeau, Jimmy McAllis-
ter, Jack OConnor, Glasscock, Virgil
Garvin and many others too numerous
to mention, who made it point to go
after the umpires of decade and more
ago, never tried any of their games
on Hurst and came out of the big
end of the horn. Tim always won out
hands down, and, in addition, made
the other fellows eat crow of the Bit
terest variety. Hurst always adapted
himself to the situation in hand, and,
as the song goes in the opera of 'The
Mikado," he invariably made the
punishment fit the crime
Bill Bernhard, when in Washington
last year with the Cleveland Club, told
a story concerning Hurst and Dick
Cooley, who was then member of the
Philadelphia team, as was Bernhard
himself. The story, which has per-
haps never before been in print, treats
of one day when Cooley, in running
backward to make a difficult catch,
fell over on his head, and, in addition,
got such a shaking up that he asked
his manager to allow him to retire
from the game, but Dick was a swell
batter, and the manager, thinking
that he was taking, refused his re-
quest.
But Cooley was surely hurt badly,
for he began to miss balls and also to
strike out, and then he suddenly
thought OF plan that would enable
him to get out Of the game, and he
started in to abuse Hurst, but Tim was
wise to the situation, and he let Dick
"chew the rag" to his hearts content,
and, as Bernhard says, it was esti-
mated by Tom Sampson, the mathe-
matician of the Philadelphia team,
that Dick did enough to be fined, at
the smallest calculation, $1,000, and
to be put out of the game for 355
years.
Every decision made Dick would
come running in and would abuse Tim
frightfully, but Hurst, with knowing
smile on his face, would wave him to
one side. Finally after an unusually
fervid burst of billingsgate, Dick,
sticking his face close up to Tins,
shrieked:
Going to chase me from ne game,
eh?"
"Naw," leisurely replied Tim; I'm
going to keep you in the game, just
to show the people what bum ball
player you really are" :
The wageworker., 1908-08-29
Minor Leaauers Come High.

According to a baseball official who
knows, purchase prices for minor
league players are running pretty stiff
this season. The $1,000 paid by the
New York Nationals for Pitcher Mar
guard is sample. That amount was
paid, too. One American league club
bid $500.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30

On Sooth Coprt street, between Park and Noble, we have a block frontage of 250 feet on Court, mak- ing five 50 foot lots on Court street. There are P hooses on this property, now bringing about $700.00 rent. The city has taken in $ feet at this point to widen the street and every arrangement is made for the present Improvement of the street in front of this prop ertY. We arg authorized to sell this property at a price on which 1t is now paying interest, though the vacant lots are today market able for more money than we ask for the property counting the 2 houses. In other words, you car, move the houSes off the property and get more money for the va cant ground than we ask for the entire plat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30

We have been authorized to self a plantation of 555 acres, ? t-2 miles from the city limits, on the Plank Gravelled Road. The new Court street road also touches this property and there will be in 4 few months a gravelled road on the north side of this property. This place Is exceptionally well improved. There are three arte- sian wells-75 acres of wired ber- mada pasture--the entire place is wired-there Is a $2500.O0 dwelling
 two large barns--J5 good tenant houses, five of which arc three roomed, and ali of them ceiled and with brick ehimneys-the place is a sandy foam with clay subsoil- the entire place Is open and in culti- vation excepting about 50 acres of woods. The average yield is I25 bales of cotton and 1000 bushels of corn. If you are interested in such a property, we can make you a very reasonable price-in fact t is oUr judgment that the place is well worth more money than we ask for 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
ZIRKLE g. MOORE
BEAUTTFTN PERRY STREET RESIDENCE FOR SALE

We ofYer for sale the beautiful resi- denve. No. 6i7 s. Perry street. known as the Presbyterian Manse. The lot is 76xleO, the residence is two story. hav- ing reception hall and seven rooms and modern in all its Appointments This residence fs located in the best section of this fashionable boulevard. It could not possibly be duplicated in the city.
 FOR SALE--Four-room house. with lot 60xlS0 eight biocks from Court Square. between Lawrence and Me- Donough streets, for $l.250. This can be bought on monthly payments, or we will joan S7s0 on mortgage, the balance to be paid in cash. See us about this property. for 1t Is certain provenent Is being made in this sec ton.
 FOR s'ALE--sa.500 will buy a good fivesroom cottage. with six acres of land adjoining Highland Park, two blocks from car line. Can double your money In short time here. Easy terms.
 FOR sALE--ss75 will buy nice lot s0xt50 feet, best part of Cloverdaie. one block from cnr line. Will bring si.ooo in short time.
 FOR sALE-ss.soO will buy one of the Iss. . henss SSSsSp SsptS to nssetfs tss balance can be carried on mortgage. This will make you nice home. or be a good paying investment.
 FOR SALE--We are offering for sale on easy terms a nice cottage at West End. having four rooms and hall.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30

which can be bought for $500. now renting for $l06 per year. A good in- vestment. or an easy way to buy home.
 wANTED-To exchange a small i've. room house and vacant lot for larger place. Will pay difference in cash.
 LOT FOR SALE-we have a nice lot on the corner of Goode and Cromwell streets, 44xl50 feet, that can be bought at a bargain if sold at once.
 LoTs--Beautiful ones at cioverdaie. College Park and Chisholm that can you will ever be able to get them for again. Secure lot now.
 INSURANCEA-Agains fire and cy- clone, in four of the best companies doing business. Country property and gins written. Let us have a share Of your business.
 LoANs--we are in position to make short notice. If you need money, call on uS
 FOR RENT-we have some of the most desirable residences in the. city on our books for rent, as we'll as numerous smaller homes. and will be glad. to furnish you with list of them attention given to this branch of our business.
 If you have a piece of property to be rented for next year, list 1t with us. and we will endeavor to secure a desirable tenant for 1t. We have calls every day that we cannot supply.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30

MRS. L. V. LEDBETTER-win teach school during September at sayre St: schoo! beginning Aug. s1St Phone 3S2S. ie-su-3t MEN-The Southern Wonder Appliance. per fected by a Texas Banker. is sure tu restore lost vitality as the sun shines. Can carry in vest pocket and last life time.
 Price S2. co: your money returned after 30 Holt, station A. Houston. Texas -l6-su-st
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
FIRE PROOF IRON SAFES.

PRICE s25 OO--Msy save a fortune for
 sala ar exchange new and second hand fire and burglar proof safes. All steel furniture and filing devices for public buildings
 p,,rxe e co --tf
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
FURNITURE.

----------->-------- ----------------~----s JUST Received e nice new line of Art Souares and Rugs of all kinds. cash or credit. 36 Commerce St. Gay Sightler.
 -tf
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
FOR RENT FROM OCTOBER

oUU Washington, 6 rooms .$Z5.OO
 70 acre tract of land with 6 room house in Sotsthern part of city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
F. M. KOEIN & SON, Real Estate and Insusance.
 Stocks and Bonds. 26 t-2 Commerce St.-,Phone 309.

We are the general agents for this district for the Maryland Casualty O., and are prepared to write Health, Accident. Plate Glass, Automobiie and allrkinds of liability insurance. We have for rent the two brick stores, No. BIO and 3t2, Houston stores, No. BIO and 3t2 Houston any kind of retail trade.
 We have for rent q place that will make first class barber Shop.
 We have warehouse for rent at $75.00 per month that has plat form on railroad with free track age.
 We have for rent one of the best retail stands tn the city.
 We have for rent a first-cfass liv- cry stable for Sj0o.00 per month. We have for rent the large wholesale store house recently oc- eupied by Engle Millinery Com panY.
 We have for rent the we'll fixed up store recently occupied hy Dowe's Bakery on Montgomery street. This has been first-cfass stand for forty years.
 We have for rent the corner of Lee and Bibb stfeets--the property known as cannon's Locky Cor nef.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
PLUMBING.

ALL KINDS of plumbing work done promptly Repairs my speciality. Satisfac- lion euaranteed.. Estimates cheerfully fur nished. P J Bressinsham. 2ls Dexter Ave. Phone 2S5
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
Weight of Mans Food.

New York Press.
 It is estimated that a canary bird eats annually 234 Ia times its weight in seeds, etc. Don't you believe Itg Certainly. Believe anything. Take 1t on trust. What does man do? ThA English and French army and navy tests show that the food, water and air which a man receives amount in the aggregate to more than 3,OOD pounds year; that is. to about a ton and half, or more than twenty times his weight. The tests for men are ac- tual: those for birds are all guess canary bird wastes a great deal more than 1t eats. Soldiers and sailors are not allowed to Indulge In this diver slon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
PERSONAL.

MEN-The Vacuum Treatment is guaran- teed to cure any vital weakness; sealed proof Charles Manufacturing Co.,. Charles EldR Denver. Colo --l6-su-5t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
6
REAL ESTATE
 Handsome Residence

residence, containing 20 acres with plenty of beautiful grove. facing fine gravel drive.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
ENGRAVING.

1o iIIn-,r ,rs,s ,,-,.- ----.S- our cuts: they add 25 per cent to inc attraStiveness of any Ad. talk it over with
 The Advertiser Engraving Company. 'Phons
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30

We have for sale new modern home on corner lot. facing one of the prettiest asphalt streets in the city. This house is handsomely finished and can be bought at bargain. If sold at once. As
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
FLAMING MILL

---e-<s----.---o5 = A sII I-I,S- c, .S-> nenter and mill work. Estimates furnished
 Door and windows screens speciality J. C TAwiz Phone No. 2. --tf
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30

We have for rent the corner of Lee and Bibb stfeets--the property known as Cannon's Lueky Cor nef.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
MISCELLANEOUS.


 ! W TAYLOR-Contractor for Raising and having Buildings Either brick or frame. Residence T37 s. Hull St.. r. O. Box % %t9. Montgomery. Ala. -%S-su-4t rrRNITURE-Repairtd. refinished and up holstered with the best of reference. Also pack furniture to ship. Call William Simp- son at No coosa St. phone s44A. -&' PAPER HANGERs-Four or five good first class men used to doing high class work. Apply to c F. W. Ksynton. i04A Dexter Ave ga FOR sALE-At a bargain. two good mules. handsome as any in the city: four 10 five years old Weight twelve to fifteen hun dred pounds. Address P. O. Box 126. SEWING wANTED--Neatly done. st per day, call at once and get ahead of the fall rush. Phone S3t0. or q Mill st. -25
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
TYPEWRITERS.

NEW and second hand typewritera for sale,
 machines of all makes rented. repaired and sxchanRed; supplies and accessories D. L. pavant snceessor 70 Terry e PavAnL -tt
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30

We have for rent one of the best retail stands tn the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
Blacksmith and Carriage Shop

sSTrNTIFIc Horseshoelng. builders and re-
 SaIrera of buERies. wagons and drays. rub- bsr fires put on. T. R. Carter. 2l3 N. Perry SS -s0t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30

We have for rent a first-efass fiv- cry stable for $t00.00 per month.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
LOANS.

We have a party who wants to bor- row s3,000 on a new, two-story resi- dence, corner lot. on paved street. in southern part of city. Also few appi.- cations for smaller loans. If you have any money to loan. let us place 1t for you.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
COTTAGE HOME .

For s100 cash. banalce by the month. we can sell you a pretty, new. Ave- room cottage, on lot containing nearly one-haif acre. in splendid neighborhood and close to car line.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
IDEAL couNTRY HOME.

Within one-half mile of the UpIands. we have for sale one of the prettiest sites in the county for an Ideal country
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30

We have for rent the large wholesale store house recently oc- eupied by Engle Millinery Com panY.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30

which can be bought for $500. now renting for $l08 per year. A good in-
 vestment, or an easy way to buy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30

We have warehouse for rent at $75.00 per month that has plat form on railroad with free track age.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
20 PER CENT NET

We have a piece of new residence property. for quick sale, that only re- quires $f.000 in cash to handle, and the property will pay you over 20 per cent net on your investment
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
Real Estate & Insurance
 Phones g and $.

A six room cottage situated on the West side of South Lawrence St. lot 50 by 150 This ia in the best neighborhood to be found Anywhere in the city. and for a bargain We believe this to be one. Price $500,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30

A beautiful lot on South McDonough St.. heinz IS by 150 feet, an excellent place to buIId A home on or make a good invest ment by erecting two houses, priea S3.oo0.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-28

there is any need of discussing the
subject further at this time
That ended it. Mrs. Bowser had
said all she intended to anyhow, and
with malice aforethought she ate a
bigger dinner than she had for three
months before. She not only praised
the coffee, the roast and the vege-
tables and dessert to the cook, but in
sisted on lingering at the table long
after Mr.. Bowser had filled up on car
rot and was thinking he would give
went up to the sitting room he walked
about for five minutes and then OBJ
served: %
az think I will run over to the drug
store and ask Brown if he has seen
any improvement in business since
election Adt
"And I think you will stay right
here" was the answer. you have
adopted the simple life, and you can't
get out of the house to smoke a cigar.
The evening paper there will post you
as to how business is going fo-
Mr.. Bowser sat down. liel
Then he got up and walked around
again.
Then he tried to become interested
in the cat.
Then he read the paper for five
minutes.
IT suppose we go to bed at
O'Clock ?" queried Mrs Bowser, as she
watched him out of the tail of her
eye.
''Who-what-whys o?'
adam probably went to roost at
shutdown, but history tells US that our
forefathers made the hour of 9 their
bedtime. 1t is still so with the far
mers. Go to bed at and get UP at 80
Mr., Bowser made no reply, but
turned his face away to hide the lone
some look spreading over it.
"And another thing. Adam didn't
belong to any clubs You belong to
three, and they give suppers and have
cigars and vine. You had best write
out your resignation tonight. You
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-28

clubs"
But a man must have some So
ciety," protested Mr. Bowser.
Adam had Eve, and you've got me.
When night came our forefathers
gathered around their own firesides
and talked with each other. Had any
of the husbands gone gadding around
to clubs they would have been sent to
the stocks"
Mr.. Bowser walked again. Then he
sat down some more. The desire to
smoke was becoming intense. He
thought of that old carrot at the din
ner table, and he felt a dizziness He
thought of the cold water he had i'm
bibed in place of the aclaret and he
shivered.
Yes, you were right when you
said we had been going the pace"
continued Mrs. BOWSer without look
ing at him. 81 am the sole owner and
proprietor of as many as three pairs
of fifty-cent stockings, and you GER
tainly have a-haf dozen pairs of
socks. You also have seven or eight
shirts, three or four suits of under
wear, three pairs of shoes, two over
coats, three or four hats, and at least
three full suits of clothes. Adam got
along without any of those things in
living his simple life. You can't do
the same, but as a simple citizen you
don't need the half you have. I'll
overhaul your wardrobe in the morn
ing and select out enough to stock up
three tramps. You have gone into
this thing, and you should be con-
sistent Adam walked when he went
anywhere. You should quit paying
street car fare. AS a simple citizen
you are expected to hoof it, You pay
thirty cents a week to keep your
shoes shined. Cut it out. Poor Adam
had to even go barefooted. You have
a pair of winter gloves that you paid
two dollars for. A fifty-cent pair
would have been more in keeping
with the simple life. Only two weeks
ago you paid $45 for watch chain.