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The Detroit times., 1910-12-06
SOX SEEKING
A BACKSTOP

CHICAGO, Dec. 6.-Biily Sullivan,
Jimmy Block and Freddy Payne, the
wind.pad trio OF the Chicago White
Sox, will have a coadjutor when next
season opens-that is they will II
Comiskey can pull off the deal at the
annual league meeting In New York.
YES. am after another catcher"
said Comiskey today. But he would
not name any one man, fearing boost
In his prices when II came time to
talk trades.
II is generally believed, however.
that Comiskey is looking for Bill Car
rigan. the Boston Red Sox backstOp.
and II Carrigan were accompanied here
by Joe Wood, the hurler, Comiskey
would be willing TO let go a couple OF
outfielders and might even loosen a
pitcher who would be more TO Presi-
dent Taylor's liking than Wood has
been.
mo more recruits for me this
year" says Comiskey ANY further
additions To the White Sox will have
to be gilt-edged men, You know we
are going To do things In the league
next year"
he x<ha ~sns .h..s ls-s
The Detroit times., 1910-12-06
Powell Boxes Young Otto.

NEW YORK. Dec. 6.-Members OF
sfhe National Sporting club will turn
'out In force tonight to see what Lew
= Powell, the California lightweight can
do with Young Otto, hurricane hitter
fn ten rounds. The club ring IL IA
foot square, while that I the Olympic
club. where the men boxed month
ago. was only ten feet square. Powell
had a shade on young Otto In that al
fair.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-06
EXPECT FORMAL NOTICE
OF WALLACE APPOINTMENT

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. Dec. CAS- the
stockholders of the st, Louis Ameri-
can League club gathered here lor
their annual meeting. the appoint
ment OF Bob Wallace, the Brown
sisortstop. as manager OF the S',
I. ouis team, was generally expected
among the members.
Manager Hedges had lntimated
that he would name today success
sor 20 Jack O'Connor, whom he re-
leased at the close Of the baseball
season following. the Laioie-Cobb bat
ting incident. John Bruce. secretary
OF the National Baseball commission.
Is an important Brown stockholder.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-06
Young Girl Takes Iona Walk.

BOSTON, Mass. Dec. "a walk
across the American continent will be
attempted by Mildred Belknap. aged
H., a sophomore In the Dorchester
High school. She Is now I'm training
for the feat, on which she will be ac-
companied by her father. a postof.
fice employe. The girl has made many
long trips with her father and expects
90 be- able TO do forty miles a day on
her rip 70 San Francisco.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-06

mer asking: who's going To win to-
day." has shifted to: Ts IL cold
enough for your
The Detroit times., 1910-12-06

The Tigers completed their Caban
engagement Monday. when they beat
the Almendares team OF Havana, 6 to
Summers gave 10 hits, but the Gu
ban pitcher was bumped for -.
The Detroit times., 1910-12-06

AVS Ted Sullivan. White Sox
scout: "Of the many funny
incidents happening during
my baseball career, none Is
The Detroit times., 1910-12-06
Basketball Boss Says He Is Busy
Scheduling Foreign Teams and
Will Play the Spaldings Later
In Season.
Dick Jackson Declares His Five Is
Ready To Meet All Corners
Without Delay.
By HARRY NELLY.

BY HARRY NELLY.
C@lOLOR LINES are not being
drawn by the d. A. G. basket
IL ball team, declares Manager
Jake Mazer, who takes many
axnonfInna ~ ofotapnonta N
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18
THE AMBITIOUS MAN.
BY Rev. Vance,

BY Rev. Vance, D. D.
Text.-"Then there arose a reason
ing among them, which OF them should
be the greatest. And Jesus
said unto them he that Is the least
among you all, the same shall be
great. Luke 8: 1913.
"The Ambitious Man is a portrait
of all the disciples in one. Unsatis-
fed lust for place and power has taken
possession of the twelve. For the time
being they are dead to the great spir-
itual facts of Christ's kingdom. The
holy voices of the beatitudes are
drowned in jargon of strife. The
patient, self-denying example of the
Master himself fails to act as either
restraint or rebuke to these ambition
driven men. They do not stop to con-
slider their fitness for the high places
they seek. 1t does not occur to them
that weightier responsibilities attach
to positions of larger trust In their
insane scramble for preferment, they
are blind to all save self-promotion.
Hot words have passed between them,
and now, crowding against each other,
in selfish haste, they come to Jesus
with the question: Which of us shall
be the greatest?"
1t is unquestionably ones duty to
make the most of himself and his op-
portunities. The absence of aspira-
ton of this kind is an unspeakable
calamity. 1t makes the difference be-
tween a dead man and a living one.
If the parable of the talents means
anything it is that God expects every
one to get the best. But this is not
the spirit that looks down upon us
from the face in my text. This is rath-
er ambition sanctified. ennobled, puri-
fed, transformed to righteous aspira-
ton.
The highest achievement is not to
capture the prize, but to make the
race; not to surrender to sense, but to
touch the infinite and embody that
which will outlive the tick of the
clock.
Let us crowd out ambition with the
spirit of the cross of Calvary. Let US
open the heart to child trust and child
love. All hail to self-sacrifice and to
that devotion which lays down life for
great ideals, This is the spirit of true
greatness 1t will save the world. AS
it grows stronger the angel with the
drawn sword at the portal of sinless
happiness will vanish, the gates of
that pristine paradise will turn on
their golden hinges again, the light
from the better land will fall upon us.
Earth will move up to the doorstep OF
heaven, and the door will be ajar.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18
Sneezes Out Buck n hot.

After carrying three buckshot in his
head for forty-seven years, Francis
Rogers of Wilkesbarre. Pa, civil war
veteran, elected them from his nose in
a fit of violent sneeZing. He was shot
In the head at Antietam with buckshot
during charge upon the Confederate
lines and severely wounded. He recov-
cred, although the surgeon did not ex-
tract the bullets.
The leaden missiles have been in the
front portion of his head since and
have often caused terrific headaches
but physicians did not like to probe
for them, because they lay so close to
the optic nerves They have gradually
been working themselves about, but
Rogers had no idea they were to come
out until they appeared today.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18
Suggestion for Ro,a,,o

Try this rotation for lands that are
failing down in their grain Yields.
corn or potatoes, MANFRED: wheat
clover; wheat or fax. Oats or barley
may substitute for the wheat This
gives f1ve-year rotation, three crons
OF which have cash value to the
grower. The tillage of the corn has a
better effect than summer fauow the
nanur1ng of the land returns to the
SOIL much Of the fertility and gives
TO the land fTiable texture that re-
tains water well, while the clover crop
aids In the same manner and at the
same time restores to the soil the nj
trogen of which the crops rapidly de-
plete 1t.
1t is estimated by Dean Shepperd, of
the North Dakota Experimental Sta
ton, that this rotation, followed con
s1stently, will in a period of years re-
turn to the owner of the land a larger
cash value, year by year, than will
continuous cropping to small grains.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18
THE PATIENCE OF GOD.

By Rev Richard S. Storrs, D. D.
Text: Now the God of patience
and consolation grant you to be like
minded one toward another. Rom,
xy:5.
The God of patience! That state
ment strikes us, perhaps strangely as
coming from the energetic, aggressive
and impatient apostle and his describ-
ing Him who is enthroned in heaven
and glories in His majesty. We think
of Him, and think justly, as a God Of
infinite wisdom, of unbending might
and Justice, bringing retribution upon
those who offend against Him, of
eternal authority, carrying on His
power from the heights of the throne
upon which He is forever established.
And this is the correct view of God.
This is the greatest thought that has
ever entered within the range of
human mind. 1t Is the thought on
which all noble character and all noble
civilization of communities and of
states are builded We do not think
of Him as a God of patience.
Every. summer in its progress and
from its close really reminds us that
God is a God of patience. How long
a time there is between the setting
of the tender shoot to the wealthy
growth of grass. How long the time
between the flower stem just appear
ing above the brown earth and the
consummate blossom on its stalk, way
ing its body and eXhalfng it's beauty
on the air. A lady spoke to me of
her summer having BEEN passed in
a hospital, in the trying monotony
of a hospital. in the experience of
lingering hours when days seem to
pass perceptibly. She took no note
of time or, at any rate, hardly knew
how long she had been in the ward,
suffering with sickness and pain,
When | went into the hospital" she
said, I brought with me a branch
of apple blossoms which friend had
sent to me As / came out and moved
across the pavement to the carriage,
there were apples on stand near by.
and | felt at once there Is an interval
from the blossom to the perfect fruit.
Il was TO ne: kind of sociological
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18
The Appfan Way.

The famous Appian Way was con-
structed by digging two parallel
trenches, three feet in depth, at the
bottom of which were placed two lay
! serFs'of fiat stone an mortar upon which
a layer of cobblestones was placed
also laid in mortar then came a
course of pebbles III concrete, over
which were placed large, fiat blocks
of smooth lava we'll joined together,
forming an even, uniform surface. It
was primarily military road, and ex-
tended from Rome to Brundusium,
distance Of $50 miles. So perfect was
the construction of this celebrated
road that it still exists in places as
good as ever Notwithstanding it was
made more than twenty centuries ago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18
lack Chandler.

I think, says Charles B. Dean in the
Detroit Free Press, it was the next
Sunday after the first Bull Run battle
our regiment, the Fourth Michigan,
was back in its old camp near Wash
ington One afternoon Senator Zacha-
fiah Chandler rode into our camp on
horseback. He passed up one street
and down another between the rows
of tents, In company with friends, and
all this while expressing his opinion
on the way the war was being run
generally The fact was lack was
riled, and when in that way no one
had treable in finding it out.
After he had finished his discourse
on the conduct Of the war he dis
mounted and proceeded to shake hands
all around Talking about our affairs
he soon learned how hard up for
change, even enough to pay postage,
some of us were, having as yet re-
ceived no pay Learning that we had
credit at the suffers for stationery,
etc, he said:
TN fix it, boys! You lay in for
few packages of envelopes and l will
frank them for you
He seated himself on a cracker box
under a tree, took his hat off and was
soon deluged with yellow envelopes,
more than he could have signed his
name upon in day.
"Oh, -! boys, can't stay over an
hour or so, anyway. See here, you,
and you" reckoning to several, cant
you write that nearly as l do, so it
will pass? Try it."
Soon several soldiers were installed
as secretaries pro tenn, and you may
well believe a rushing business was
done in franking for an hour or so.
!. On leaving for the city he called
back to us: Now, of course none of
you boys will put Il. Chandler, u S:
A. on the upper corner of an envelope
hereafter" (then laughing) cat least
until after the paymaster comes
Did We? Oh, no! Why, bless you,
twenty-five envelopes fixed up that way
sold for one dollar. Our cigars and
pop came high In those days. Well,
the paymaster came in time, bringing
specie and the new greenbacks. We
were always grateful to Old lack for
his sermon that Sunday especially the
application thereof.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18
..eatLon and Farnling.

=, tho heading, Plain Talk by
vD'1' carn,pr," writer in the Agrt-
l ," Epitomist says;
D,''. ..oms to nue. that we are fast
IN that place where it is going
aD' .sr something to own farm and
n' much more to know how to han
,'' -. We are beginning to look upon
u ,,rm as something that requires
..i.btest mind to manage. In my
'ls about the country l have
~ ,Iaces where at one side of the
y, 90 saw fine land and fine stock,
lining looking prosperous, and on
!, otber side exactly the reverse,
,cthing going to pieces, poor crops
W. coor stock. and the owner head
heels in debt. I am sorry for
!, man who IS unfortunate, who has
,,ross or anything of that kind to
Intend with. but what is the reason
,ba same neighborhood for so great
#Eorence? 1t Is not always an &C.
a,Dt or sickness, but because one
-, Is the farmer and the other is
n farmer. I think we can do no
litter work than help speed the day
,ssn We may educate our farmers
b mr. public schools so that they can
nd the agricultural papers and bulle-
fins iDtelligently. The trouble is not
A,r farmers do not read the agricul-
n.sI books. papers and bulletins, but
Aa their early education has been
pgrpcted and they are unfamiliar with
sp terms that we are compelled to
ga in writing upon agricultural top
rs There is no greater need in our
g7catiOn to-day than something that
gD assist in connecting our expert
nPnt station workers, our agricultural
ress and our agricultural writer's
With their readers"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18

chronicle, sort of aerial stop watch,
making the interval between the be
ginning and the end
A God of patience. So events are
slowly established and gradually
woven. Social relations between men
only slowly perfect themselves, forms
of government only slowly come to
their full power. The simple improve
ment in society is so slow that man
almost breaks his heart sometimes
over the slowness, until he feels that
he would hurry all II he had the
power. God does not. He is God
of patience and it is His way of edu-
eating mankind, slowly building up
communities and states into order and
power, slowly but surely advancing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18
SERMoNETTES.

Anxiety tries to see the mountains
in the way and trips US up over a
pebble.
Character is what you are when it
seems that the conductor will not look
for your fare.
Many seem to think that the mark
of level-headed man is that he has
thrown away his heart.
You cannot tell much about a mans
bank account in heaven by his ability
to coin pious phrases.
Many men would be religious If their
friends were not so anxious TO make it
seem petty and ridiculous.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18

take them up stream. My friend n
MED his calling, and then the Admir-
examined him with a manner that in
Dictated that he suspected the truth.
Getting no satisfaction, he left, whis-
pering a word to his Lieutenant, who
called the Sergeant-at-arms and re-
marked in an unconcerned way, You
side in the skiff, lock them up, and
get them ready to be shot. If they
can't be of service as pilots. we can't
be bothered with them as prisoners"
The.seTgeant took them below, but the
bluff didn't work, for they would have
been shot by their own folks, the Con-
F,federates. for serving the Federal
navy, and they preferred death with
honor to the same thing without. Three
days after, Yankee pilot was sent
aboard, and one who knew my friends
we'll. The Admiral determined to test
them again. with view Of having
them exterminated IL satisfied they
were pilots. The prisoners were sud
denly brought, unprepared, face to
face with the Yankee pilot, under close
scrutiny by the Admiral and his stan.
There was, perhaps, the slightest IN
voluntary recognition, but 1t was not
detected, and even when the Northern
pilot was closely questioned as to
whether he knew them, denied 1t
eemphatically, and poo-poohed at the
idea that they were of the profession.
This secured their release, | have Of
ten been in their company since, and
enjoyed the mutual joke of You're the
man that didn't know me at VtcRsburg,
eh?"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18
rHR9NG16AR
l@4bqHa VIZ
fNV T'I,7IF7
DON'T FOLLOW THE CROWD.
BY Rev. J. Lewis n


do eVil.-Exodus 22:2
This ordinance in the book of Exc
dus Is an evidence of that wisdom
which marks Moses as the greatest
statesman Of ancient days The warn
ing Of this old command Is simply,
Don't follow the crowd" The peril
of the city Is the excess of the instinct
for association. Civilization, progress
Is the growth and development of the
associate life of men, but the peril OF
city life is that this instinct is over
done
People hate to be alone. What pro-
portion of the 10000 witnesses of
football match would stand for an
hour or more in the wind and rain
If each man were isolated from the
rest Of the crowd and saw only the
players? In spite of only dirt and
disease, congestion and high rents,
the cities are growing at an enormous
rate, while the towns and villages are
diminishing. This instinct to be in
crowd is one of the most serious de-
velopments in modern civilization.
New York is not civilization; 1t is
great railway station" The inev
liable result of association in a crowd
Is to do as the crowd does. The tenn
per of Broadway, which is damning
thousands of careless lives, is the sub
tie cry which calls, DO as the crowd
does"
All about us are people who lower
their standard to suit the crowd. 1t
is astonishing how far We are infiu-
enced by the practice and opinion of
our fellows. Fear of unpopularity,
desire to be one with the rest, has led
many a prodigal into the far coun-
try The history of the SHINING world
in a nutshell is simply doing as others
do, going the way the crowd does.
Obviously those who follow others
come to have no autonomy of their
own. They lose the power of indie
pendent judgment, the strength and
disposition for personal initiative, and
finally the sense of personal obliga-
ton.
This is The kind of atmosphere in
which many are living to-day, eager,
restless to be in the current of things
where, in the ceaseless fret and foam
of the sea, the mans identity is lost
and his personality merged in the
great composite. Moses speaking to
ancient Israel uttered a warning and
command which was never more po-
tent than to-day: Thou shalt not fol-
low multitude to do evil" Resist
ance is power. Life has been defined
as the sum total Of the forces that
resist death. Resistance is life. In
the centripetal force which keeps the
planet from flying off into space, there
operates the law of resistance, whose
might is the secret of creation. In the
moral and spiritual world the secret
of life is the might OF ones resistance.
When ones sense of personal respon-
sibility and obligation Is lost, his re-
sistance is gone, and when his resist
ing power is gone the man is gone.
Follow not the crowd, but the chal-
lenge of thine own soul Be whole
man TO the whole Of life and vertically
thy feet shall be established thou hay
ing done all to stand.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18

GRuBBING DEVICE. truths and he set
about inventing an implement on the
lever principle to be used in grubbing.
The result was the article shown in
the cut, which is guaranteed to up
root anything but the village chestnut
tree and the Constitution First there
IS a base with an arm rigidly attach
ed. There is a jaw at the end of the
arm and a brace to which a lever is
pivoted. On the end of the lever Is
another jaw, cooperating with the
aforementioned. The implement is
thrust close to the root of bush, the
stem of which is seized between the
two jaws and pull ON the lever tears
the bush up.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18
HYMNS AND THEIR AUTHORS
EVENING SONG.
BY George Washington DOane.


THE Rev. George Washington Doan'
D, d. (Trenton. n. j., May 81, 1899
Burlington, n. J.. April 27, 1889, inde
fatigable pastor, professor, bishop, an
writer. is best known to our day as tn
author of several beautiful hymns. Sun
to the appropriate tune, Seymour thi
hvnn often is used in the evening serv1c
of worship
Softly now the light of day
Fades upon my sight away;
Free from care, from labor free,
Lord. / would commune with thee.
Thou. whose all pervading eye
Naught escapes without, within,
Pardon each infirmity,
Open fault, and secret sin.
Soon, for me. the light of day
Shall forever pass away;
Then. from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord. to dwell with thee.
Thou who, sinless, yet hast known
All of mans infirmity;
Then from thine eternal throne,
Jesus, look with plying eye.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18
DoN,Ts FOR .cHURcHMEN.

Don't try to keep ideals alive by
simply proclaiming them.
Don't fail to practice the truth that
you are fighting for.
Don't try to lift the church by hid
ing your faults beneath it.
Don't try to learn the way to heaven
by inquiring as to the waywardness Of
your friends
Don't permit the habit of prayer to
mean as little as the habit of profan-
ity does to some men.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18

is It feet apart. A 22-foot trough is
attached to the fence a couple of feet
ABOVE the floor of these troughs, and
oOp poured into this trough runs into
earn one Of the four troughs by pipes.
BY this plan all troughs are filled
With equal raDidity, and if the outlet
Oh each pipe is bent it will shoot the
Stop half the length of the trough be-
"fe the pigs stop it. The trough is
set On cement floor, which keeps mud
a0IeS from forming and makes it a
very nice place to feed the pigs at all
tines
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18

ton. 1t Is not so
generally known that
the work Of grub
bling is a veritable
labor of Hercules
and that the uproot-
ing of a few sturdy
bushes and young
trees is all the eXer-
else some men want.
a Virginia man,
however, was cogni-
Zant Of both these
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18
Not with Malice.

Look here" said the head of the
firm, Il want to give you a pointer"
Yes, sir" the office boy respect
fully replied.
IF l hear you humming any more
popular songs around here III dis
charge you
''AlI right, / won't do it no more
/ wouldn't have done it this time, only
me lips is sore and / can't whistle"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18

'"pre are a great many things that
W can claim to lead the world in. but
australia has the largest incubator in
IKE world. 1t has a capacity of II, 440
''rSS eggs or I4.0S0 hens eggs. This
munster Matching machine consists of
al ordinary shed. with corrugated
Fon roof: the egg trays hold 1870
Uu'hS eggs or 100 hens eggs. There
sc 'oOr of these trays end to end. one
'Oo'e the other. on each side of the
,V'1' making eight in all. Heat comes
NOM steam pipes supplied from a large
uO''t' and moisture from pans under
.Oe lower Tier of trays. The incubator
y'almed 10 be working very well
AUG 10 be quite a success.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-18
when Farragut Wanted "a pilot.

Some days ago former companion
pilot of mine died. and recalled one
of those undying incidents of war days.
said an old Mississippi River pilot to
a reporter of the st. Louis Globe-Den-
ocrat He and two other pilots were
drifting down the river one night just
after having taken some Confederate
boats up. Just as they were passing
Farragut's feet off Vicksburg they
were hailed, but would have drifted on
past in the dark If shot had not been
fired. Knowing well what was wanted
they planned a moment and then one
of them went aboard. The officer of
the deck asked him if there were any
pilots in the party, telling him the
feet was only waiting for some one to