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The Washington times., 1909-07-07
MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE


Yesterdays Results.
Boston, 2 Washington. ?
session, 2; Washington. Q.
Nnlc2sO. s, ST Louis. 4.
Cleveland. 6. Detroit, 0
Philadelphia. 3; New York, g
Games Today.
Chicago al St. Louis.
Detroit al Cleveland.
Boston az New York.
The Washington times., 1909-07-07
ConrOy is now on the injured list.


Frank Selee, the ex-manager of the
Boston and Chicago National League
clubs, who died Of consumption ia Colo
RADIO Monday. was one OF the greatest
directors of a ball club that ever lived
His record for good performances was
remarkably consistent. The keeping to-
gether OF pennant winning combina-
ton in baseball for a period OF more
than three or four years is almost an
impC ssibility but Selee differed from al
most all ether managers in that ne was
able to come back with another good
team of his own building within a short
time after he had suffered from the in
evitable effects of years upon his cham
pions He wen remnants for Boston IN
1891. 1892 and 1893 Then came the Balu-
more team under HaniOn that swept ali
before Ii for three years But, while
Baltimore was approaching its climax
Selee was steadily adding strength to
his club, and in 1897 and 1898 again man
aged champions. When his health failed
and he went to Chicago TO take charge
Of the National League club there, he
laid the foundation of the Chicago Ma
tional League club, which won the pen
nant three time in the National League
and twice won the world pennant. He
selected nearly every one Of those IA
nous Cubs. Selee was largely respon-
sibIe for the start and development Of
the Cubs, and had his health not failed
him, he would have had the satisfaction
Of breaking all records for winning PEN
nants.
The Washington times., 1909-07-07

Umpire Egan, who was on the bases
in the first game In Boston yesterday,
made several close decisions against
Washington. which may have been
more or less right but the public has
little confidence in Egau's base work
He lacks judgment, and formerly made
the absolutely idiotiC mistake Of giving
his decisions before the play was com
The Washington times., 1909-07-07

Cy Young hOodOO on Washington
ought to work this time. when WASH
ington is hoodoOed on itself.
The Washington times., 1909-07-07

Trimmed by TO and to in Bos-
ton yesterday our brave boys are today
bound for Cleveland. where they may
win a game.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
Soup Without a Spoon.

Soup without spoon seems even
harder to negotiate than meat with
out fork, and we can sympathize
with the complaint recorded in the
diary of Felix Platter, a young Swiss
VINO went to Montpelier in 1852 in
order to study medicine. He lodged
in the house of his professor, Catelan,
one of the greatest doctors of his
time, and yet, writes Platter, I'VE
were compelled to eat our stew in the
usual French fashion, that is to say,
picking the meat out with our fingers,
and then drinking the broth. In vain
we begged our hostess to let US have
spoons, for not single one was to
be found in the house, the only nipple
ment on the table being large knife
fastened with an iron chain. No one
here seems TO have ever heard. of
spoons, which we at home find so
useful Montague was astonished,
when he visited Switzerland in 1880,
TO find that "at all meals they put on
the table as many spoons as there are
people present
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
HERE'S A NEW OBESITY CURE
Women Patronize Shooting Gallery
Because Fright Caused by Ex-
pIosion Makes Them Thin.

you didn't know was running a
kind of anti-fat establishment, did
your said the manager of the shoot
ing gallery to fromer customer
whom he had not seen for several
months. We'll, | am, in connection,
of course, with my regular business.
| have good many women patrons
nowadays. Most of them give fear of
burglars as their reason for wishing
to learn to shoot, but one woman who
yearned for target practice scorned
the suggestion of burglars.
Burglars never come up our way.
she said. I am going to shoot to re-
duce my flesh
The doctor tells me, she said,
that the only way I can ever train
down to normal weight is to get
scared half to death three or four
times week What said he, ARE
you more afraid of than anything else
in the world?" | didn't have to study
one minute for an answer. "The ex-
plosion of firearms" said |. Then,
said the DOCTOR ''go some place regu-
larly where you can hear a whole
arsenal fired off at one clip. If you
can fire the things off yourself you
will experience better results. You
will get scared worse and will tone
down more rapidly And So said
she, here am
Il thought that the craziest idea |
had ever heard of, but | hui
mored the woman's within and
helped her to get scared to the limit.
hadn't much faith in that doctor 8
prescription, but she did soon begin
20 develop a waist line, and within
three months that woman was reg
liar sylph. Unfortunately, the con-
slant excitement was hard on her
nerves. BY the time she began to
ssume willowy proportions they were
pretty bad fix, and she had to lay
up for repairs, but she didn't seem to
mind that. The point of her case
vas that as an anti-fat treatment
daily exercise WI 4 the rifle had
proved itself unequ&led, and | now
have notion to advertise it as a
warranted obesity cure"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
NERVES RASPED BY WEATHER
Fat Man Suffering from the Heat
Made Things Uncomfortable
for Conductor.

Between the Warmest hour in the
day and the hottest man on his car,
conductor on a North Nineteenth
street trolley put in a decidedly en-
barrassing FIVE minutes yesterday
afternoon.
The perspiring passenger, a short,
fat man, with remarkably red face,
sat in the center of the car, with his
head as far out of the window as safe
ty permitted The conductor, also
very warm, touched him apologetically
on the shoulder.
did get yours, sir?" he asked.
Drawing in his head with. a jerk,
the fat man glared at the conductor
ferociously.
Don't you know" he demanded.
The conductor smiled family and
explained that in crowded car he
could never be quite sure whether he
had collected all fares or not.
Its your business to know, is it
not? That's what you get paid for,
isn't it?" pursued the other.
eyes. sir; but"
well. if you've failed in your duty
you may expect no help from me"
and the fat man poked his head out of
the window again.
And as the conductor retreated as
gracefully as possible under the cir
cumstances the chances bestowed
upon him by all within earshot were
expressive of almost everything =
sympathy-Ph Philadelphia Times.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
ALWAYS ON OPPOSITE SIDES.
Delaney NicoI and Clarence Shearn
Like the Connecticut Farmer
and His Wife.

When Delaney Nicoll pushes the
bell on the pearly gates he'll find
Clarence J. Shearn inside trying to
serve an injunction forbidding St Pc
ter to open the portals. says the New
York Globe. Mr.. Nieoll and Mr.
Shearn are, perhaps, the best knock
about team in legal vaudeville to-day.
opposing sides that their tour in the
stirring melodrama, "Ti.e Gould Case;
or Who Kept the Diary which
should have attracted as much atten-
ton as an all-star Ian BIS cast, was
dismissed with a mere Eod by the
public And yet 1t was the gentlemen
Tho are playing the IL gal lead who
ought to be under tie performing
spotlight, while those who had the
name parts in that tank show might
we'll be neglected. Mr.. Nicoll and
Mr.. Shearn have fought each other
so long that the old story of the Con
necticut farmer might well apply. He
was riding back from the cemetery
with his nephew after burying his
wife
We'll, she's gone" said the be-
reaved husband.
The nephew assented dutifully.
"She KEEP good care of me for 40
year, said the relict.
The nephew said that was so, alas.
and do you know" said the mourn
er, toward the last | almost got to
like her"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
MEDICAL SCRUTINY OF CHILDREN

Already 1000 out of the scho' pop
ulation of $4,000 students in Atlanta
have been subjected to medical exam
nation under the new ordinance au-
thorizing this innovation.
The records are of nature to Justl-
fy the procedure beyond the shadow
of negative argument. They have
simply buttressed theory with fact,
as the advocates of physical examl-
nation of school children have always
insisted they would.
Out of the approximately LOCO
children examined, 631 were found to
be suffering from defects apportioned
as follows: Malnutrition, ID; anaemia,
81; heart, 10; skin, A; nervous dis
eases, 7; teeth, 2t1; eyes, 233; bone
defects, 8; tonsils, 176; adenoids, 2Ol;
ear, 12.- Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
SOUNDS PRAISE OF THE PIE.
"Perfection of Feastine," Says Writer
Compared to Amhrosia of the
immortal Gods.

Pie alone, or as prelude or post
lude to appropriate viands, is the per.
lection of feasting. 1t may be grace
before meat or after, but it is always
benediction, a blessing. There are
travestieS of pie, but of them we do
not speak. Pie that is worthy the
name, pie that is pie, is the light that
never was on sea or land of Cockafgne,
the conservation and the poets dream
of fast breaking-the fine fancies of
transcendentalisin were nOurished on
pie for breakfast. 1t is heavens best
gift to man. We do not know exactly
what the an brosia of the immortal
gods may be, nor their nectar either,
but there is reason to believe that
the Olympian bill Of fare is the pie
and milk of mortals. At least, 1t is be-
yond mortal mind to imagine a more
excellent menu, and the perfection OF
pie itself is its all-encircling outer
edge of crust,
If the appreciation of pie is to begin
at it's crisp circumference, why are
pies divided into wedges? The in
stinct of the race is sound upon this
point and is the convincing answer.
A pie is not made; it grows under
the hands of genius, and its periphery
is the finishing touch of creation. 1t
is the last word in pie. The apex OF
a wedge of pie is the alluring over
tUre to a crescendo of delight which
reaches it's climax in the crust end,
and as this crust becomes part OF one
self one knows what pie is for. The
"crust end is the final cause OF pie
itself, it's raison d'etre, the solution
of the blissful riddle, why is pie. 1t
is the last act of the play with a
happy ending, the concluding chapter
of the romance in which they lived
happily ever afterWard. 1t is that
which whets the appetite for another
wedge. 1t tastes like more.-NeW
York Evening Sun.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
MODEL RURAL SCHOOL BUILDING

Some three years ago the state su-
perintendent of schools requested the
state fair association to build on the
fair grounds as an object lesson to the
visitors, a model country school
house. Funds were not available at
that time for this purpose, but this
year such a building was placed on
the grounds from plans provided by
the state superintendent, and it will
remain one of the permanent features
of the state fair. The plan made use of
was one of five different plans the
state department furnishes to school
districts that contemplate building.
The law now requires that district
officers must make use of one of these
plans, or secure the approval of the
county superintendent of the plans
that they have secured from some
other source. Not to comply with this
law means expenditure of public
money in an illegal way.
The principal features of the build
ing on the fair grounds are the light
ing, heating and ventilation, and the
coloring of the walls and ceiling. The
school room receives no light from
east or west windows. There are
two small windows on the south side
that may be used or not, at the pleas
ure of the teacher. They admit d.
rect sunlight into the room, which is
considered desirable feature. The
north side of the room is almost en-
tirely glass, as this amount is re-
quired to give the necessary amount
of light. A large chimney 16x16
inches inside measure, with an open
ing at the level of the floor and a
steel stack inches in diameter in
side of it connected with the stove
pipe, furnishes the exit for foul air.
This year it was not possible to in
stall all the equipment, but if money
is available this will be attended to
by another year The association
has a man on the grounds the entire
year and it is possible for people to
visit the building at any time. Crowds
of people visited the building and
great interest was manifested. The
cost was 81, $50.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
.NEEDFUL KNOWLEDGE
Ladysmith People Should Learn to
Detect the Approach Of
Kidney Disease.

The symptoms of kidney trouble are
SO unmistakable that they leave no
ground for doubt. Sick kidneys ex-
crete thick, cloudy, offensive urine,
full of sediment, irregular of passage
or attended BY a sensation of scald-
| ing The back aches constantly, head
aches and dizzy spells may occur and
the victim is often weighed down by
a feeling of languor and fatigue. Ne
glect these warnings and there is
danger of dropsy, Bright's disease or
diabetes. Any one of these sympt-
oms is warning enough to begin
treating the kidneys at once. Delay
often proves fatal.
| You can use no better remedy than
Doan's Kidney Pills.
Harry Webb, 80 N Grove ST.,
Chippewa Falls, Wis, says: ''Doan's
Kidney Pills have proven very benefi.
cial to myself and other members of
my family. Off and on for some
years | was subject to attacks of kid
| ney complaint, the most prominent
feature being sharp, shooting pain
| across my back. My sister had been
greatly helped by Doan's Kidney Pills
and on her advice, | began using
them. / was soon entirely cured
| through their use and | do not hest
tate Co recommend them"
For sale by all dealers. Price sc
cents FosterM ilburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
| States.
| Remember the name-Doan's-anC
take no other.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
Oh, Yes, We're Superstitious.

A man stood on lower Broadw ay
corner with box of good luck rings.
They were horseshoe nails made into
rings. 1t was amazing the number of
people who went up and bought these
rings of the man, fitting them care
fully on their fingers, paying for them.
walking off with them, turning them
this way and that to admire them.
though their price was only a nickel.
do you make your living selling
them?" asked woman who bought a
very fetching one for her third
finger.
Yes, madam" said he.
There must be lot of supersti-
tious people in New York" said she
IF man cal, make his living by sell
ing horseshoe nail rings at a nickel
apiece
There are, madam said he.-New
York Press
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
A Drunken Clam.

81 once tried If bed of CLANS
would get drunk said clam opener
"They did. | guess there's nothing
living-except a good man and a good
woman-that won't get drunk If you
give it the chance.
81 had these CLANS in little salt
pool down Watertown way. One
morning | poured some whisky into
the water BY lingo, they all got drunk
in no time. Drunk as fiddlers
How did I know they were drunk
BY their open mouths, of course.
Their mouths hung open in such a
silly way. I could put my hand in
they tried to close on me-, but it was
no go-I could put my hand in and
drag a drunken clam clean out of his
shell without his knowing 1t.
THE bed Of clans got over their
spree In a couple of hours. They shut
up and looked glum then, the same AS
a man does after spree"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
Not Perfect. But Try to Be

1t may be safely said that no mon
re more painfully and constantly con-
cious of the imperfections and short
mngs of orr newspapers than those
yho are enga ged every day in the
ask of their fabrication, and vet it
must be said to their credit that none
re more conscious of their RESPONSE
,ility to the public and none more
onstantly on the alert to verify every
letail of the news they set before
the public or more conscientious in
heir purpose to interpret accurately
md fairly the events that demand
critical attention. Newspapers are
imperfect, and doubtless the Marian
press could teach the best of Ameri-
can newspapers very much that would
be well worth the knowing, but the
Times 1oes not believe that ever in
he history of civilization was the
great body of the press acutated by
higher purpose than now or inspired
~ a more general determination to
ell the truth and to interpret accord
ng to it's best intelligence the sig
nificance of passing events-Brooklyn
Times.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
COMMON CUP oUTLAWED

The Kansas state. board of health
has issued the following rule:
mo person or corporation in charge
of or control of any railroad train, or
station or public or private school or
state educational institution shall
furnish any drinking cup for public
use, and no such person or corpora
ton shall permit on said railroad train,
or station, or at said public or prl-
vate school or state educational insti-
tuition, the common use of the drink
ing cup
Other states will no doubt in the
near future follow the lead of Kansas
in this step for public health, which
recent knowledge of the causes OF
communicable diseases makes practi-
cally compulsory. Already in Wis
consin number of schools have in
stalled sanitary drinking fountains.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30

The elevated train was filled with
rerspiring passengers when naval
officer boarded it. All eyes were cen
tered upon him He was dressed fronl
head to foot in spotless white 1t was
as if a breeze blew in over the heated
passengers, his excessive neatness
gave such an effect of rest and cool.
ness.
Il wish | could be naval officer,
said one tat woman to another, so |
could have clean white things from
top to bottom every morning OF the
world. It's the only way to feel as ii
YOU were cool even if you are not"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
Hero of a Lost Cause.

The Polish Jews recall with pride
the memory of the great Jewish colo
mel. Berek Joselovitch on the occasion
of the completion of the first centen-
ary of his death. He led the Jewish
regiment in the wars for Polish indie
pendence, and at later stage of his
military career he served in the
French army. He was also the found
er of the flrst lodge OF Free Masons
In Poland. Berek Joselovitch died a
heroic death In a battle with the Aus.
TRANS, and his name Is held In great
esteem among the Poles.-Jewish
Chronicle.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
Reason EnoIlnh

Teacher-Tommy, you should comb
your hair before you come to school.
Tommy Amt got no comb.
Teacher Then borrow your ia
theirs,
Tommy-F amt got no comb.
neither.
Teacher-Absnrd! Doesn't he comb
his hair?
Tommy-He amt got no hair!-Lip-
piYcntt's Magazine.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
;4ake pets Of Bear Cubs.

Bear cubs are popular pets in Lon
don just now. A prominent dealer
says that the taste inclines now to
the syrian variety, while short tinls
ago tie Malayan bear was all the
fashion
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30
Hard TO Connect.

Moneys everything, isn't it?''
Pretty near. For instance, 1t is no
use for man to have broad views
it'll marrow means
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30

Bruce, Wis, Sept. 10th, 1909.
To all members of the Farmers Nut
ual Town Fire Insurance Company of
Rusk County, Wisconsin:
You and each of you are hereby no
titled that the Board of Directors of
this Company have this day levied an
assessment of two and one half mills
percent on the Capital Stock to meet
the losses and expenses of the Company
from July End, 1909, to Sept. 10th,
1909.
You are hereby notified that this
assessment is due and payable Sept
10th. 1909, and if not paid on or before
Nov. 10th, 1909, the same will become
delinquent and your policy will stand
suspended and be liable for the penalty
of two percent per week as provided
by law.
Signed, BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
25-2 BY F. L. mexican, Secretary.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-14
A NEW OCEAN RECORD

During this wonderful season of 1909.
which has witnessed the announcement
of polar discovery and the full demon
stration Of the flying machine" pro-
gress has been made in the lowering of
ocean records comparatively as i'm
portant as any that has been scored
heretofore. The great turbine trans
atlantic liners have been kept diligently
at work improving on their past per-
formances with the result that every
few days either the Mauretanta or rne
Lusitania has made some new high
mark, for a days run or an average
mileage or quick passage cas-, or
west.
Recently the Lusitania reached New
York from Queenstown in four days,
eleven hours and fourteen minutes She
travelled an average of 1855 miles per
hour and she delivered her passengers
and mails for the first time on record
within five days from Queenstown. thus
making her, in the parIance of the sea,
four day boat.
1t was more than twenty-five years
ago that the six-day boat was devel-
oped. She was a marvel then. She
would be a tub now in a race with one
of the great pair of turbners. 1t was
ten years before the five-day boat came
into service and the world stood aghast
at the spectacle. The Lusitana and
Campania Were in the five-day class
marvels of the seas. Men declared
that the art of sea navigation had
reached its absolute maximum. But
even then the turbine engine was being
developed just as doubtless even now,
with the four-day boat finally in act
ual service, some new device to quick
Ell the speed Of ships and to bring the
three-day boat into existence.
1t cost S16,250 for coal alone to bring
the Lusitania on this record breaking
trip, sum which would have sutnced
a few decades ago to guild good-sized
vessel From one point of view there
is no economy in this tremendous speed,
but for advertising purposes it is of
great value. There are certain people
who always prefer to travel on the
fastest ships. regardless of the urgency
OF their engagements. Consequently it
pays the steamship corporation TO
spend money unreservedly on coal TO
clip an hour from the record if pos
sible, for the boat that carries the
broom at her masthead always has q
full passenger list.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-14
Weather Conditions.

The large area of high pressure CEN
trail over the northwestern portion of
the United States is attended by gen.
orally fair weather over the western
half of the country. Light showers,
however fell in portions Of Montana
and Colorado. A slight barOmetric de-
preston north of Minnesota, and rain
has fallen over a narrow strip of coun-
try from Minnesota to Texas. Rain
has also fallen along the gulf and the
eastern Florida coasts. It is cooler in
Washington and Oregon, warmer in
southern Idaho, and nsiderably
cooler in Kansas, oklahoma and Tex
as. The indications are :nr continued
fair Weather in this vicinity tonight
ana Wedne' day.
JOHN GROVEP Observer