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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-03

he New OH dllC 81. LottiS
clubs of the American League were
playing at St. Louis, and the game
was close. St. Louis had three men
on bases, and the man on first was
John Anderson. The New York
club was fighting hard to prevent
either of those runners scoring, and
as there was only one out 1t looked
like slim chance. Suddenly, with
out any rine or reason, Anderson
got good lead off first and started
to steal second-mind you, with the
bases full.
Anderson made it, all right; but
he forced out the other two runners,
and St. Louis lost the game That
night he was released by Manager
McAleer, and, strange as 1t may
seem, the New York manager signed
him to a contract. Anderson was q
good hitter, and it can readily be
understood that he was hired on ac-
count of his ability with the bat and
not as a base runner.
For months and months we have
been writing about the science OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-03

rF William Shakespeare were alive to-day and had
been sent to cover game between the Giants and
- the Cubs do YOU suppose he would have used up
,r age OF manuscript trying to explain the stupid
m of certain base runner! Never IN thousand years!
He would have simply called him "bonehead" and
let it &c at that.
Can Won imagine what solace it would have been to
his same man Shakespeare to have known of that word
when he WAS writing Ohelo? Instead of wasting rears
II parer TO make us understand that Roderigo
sr,1Dd ass he could have called him Bonehead Reddy
md the lob would have been done dip OF his quill
Yes many favors have been done the English Ian
1age since the time OF Shakespeare, and perhaps the
greatest OF these was the word bonehead. 1t covers
the entire field OF mSspent mental endeavOr. While 1t
Is thoroughly expressive bonehead" is not without its
Smiles and OF the versatility OF Shakespeare and
other baseball writers occasionally to ivory
dome cocobolo roof, solid granite to refer to
"boneheade,lness asa general condition hardwood
stuff does very nicely
The first bonehead OF which we have any direct knowl-
edge is the man who riding horseback and carrying
TWO waerrneons in sack That history serves
Us right put both waterrnelons end of the sack
and filled the other with stones to make the load
balance across the horses back Had he put one water
melon In each end OF the sack and thrown away the
stones his deeds would have been handed down
10 poSteTity.
At school we learn OF another bonehead who thought
his sack OF ground meal too heavy the poor horses
hack so he climbed down put the sack his shout
ders and then crawled back in the saddle
While our forebears pulling that kind OF hard
wood stuff they were making history; but they were
not creating Tor Us word express their peculiar mode
6 thought Ii remained for the game OF baseball to give
Us the word "bonehead- The idea OF the term IN its
conception was TO denote something solid-sonethng
that did not have works inside. Bone is solid. The
head Is the part OF the baseball anatomy that should be
worked from the inside. When the inside refuses TO
work il Is solid. Hence bonehcad.
The bonehead player has been factor IN baseball
from the games inception But for him the game could
almost be worked ont on a mathematical basis. That
does not necessarily that boneheaded work IS linn
tied to the diamond. Not by iugfu 1t crops up in
business affairs every day and Is quite common in card
games. Suppose. for instance that YOU should trump
vosr partners rici, whist game, what would YOU
expect him 10 sax? Well never mind what he would
Say: but how would you be able To explain 1t:
Dear reader YOU might 60 through the entire language,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-03
Too Many on One Base

A RL1E LATHAM, the veteran player, who is
travelling with the New York Giants tells of bone
head play that he pulled in game at Cincinnati;
but he as whether the used then
not Anyway, it will to illustrate how bone
head play can lose ball game in y after the players
have been fighting hard for two hours.
Arle was on second at the time and Bugs Holiday
was on third A run would have meant the game
/ had big lead off second, says Arie, land no.
ticed that the pitcher not watching All of
sudden it occurred to that it would be easy to steal
third with the big lead had. know that my head
had turned to solid ivory all of sudden; but did not
realize it then until had made long slide into third
and found Bugs Holiday kicking me in the ribs looked
up suddenly.
'''Get out of here!' said Bugs he gave kick.
What you doing over here?'
1.-TWO of standing third basel"
The pitcher threw the ball to third, and Arlie
touched out. The chance for a run had gone.
Il couldn't explain to my life what made me do
that" says Arie, because l certainly knew better
But, somehow, suddenly seized with attack Of
bonehead, and it lost the game.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-03
Drawings by J. Cummings Chase

and you couldn't find a word or a phrase that
could express your action SO clearly as "a plain
case of bonehead work" That completely
covers the field.
Speaking seriously for just minute, there
is a certain little black man in everybody's
mind that at sometime other causes him to
make the most stupid and inexplicable breaks.
The man who makes the break knows better
at the time and often wonders why he did so.
Psychology may not know it yet; but it is
boneheadedness, pure and simple, and nothing
else.
This started out to be baseball story: but
investigation has disclosed that the genus
Bonehead extends to SO many other lines of en-
deavor that it is difficult to keep to the straight
and narrow path.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-03

ing game at Birmingham. Ashenback was manager
of Shreveport 1t the last week of the season, and
he very short of players. In fact, he short
that he hired a local semiprofessona player named
MCGOWAN take the position of right field for the
game
Can you play outfeld?" Ashenback asked of the
ambitious youngSter.
Sure he replied. Il can play anywhere, and can
show lot of these leaguers up too.
well, get that glove and go out to right field,
was Ashenback's order.
During the practice MCGOWAN did very well, and
Ashentacb seemed somewhat relieved. The yorngster
made several nice catches.
The game finally started, and the Birmingham club
had two runners on bases. The next man up drove
high fly into right field MCGOWAN started for the ball;
but somehow he lost his and unable to Judge
its direction correctly. He made three four circles
and finally gave up entirely just as the ball came down.
struck him on the head, and bounded to far corner OF
the lot for three bases Both scored and Asen-
back wild.
Here YOU boneheaded mutt, come here! he yelled
at the top OF his voice MCGOWAN Then, picking
catchers mask. the irate manager ran out from the
bench toward the middle of the diamond to meet the
tiisgraced right fielder. Here, you bonehead he
yelled take this mask and put it or they'll knock
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-03

your brains out with the first fly they put Overt"
The spectators heard the entire dialogue rather
monoogue, and reared with laughter. The story hap
pened to fall to my lot and sent all over the
try. That the first time heard the of the word
''bonehead"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-03
Man or Umbrella

NOV, don't get it into your head that all the bone
heads are in baseball observed Arthur Irwin, the
odtme manager and present day scout for the New
York Americans, when he asked for some instances
of boneheadedness that had under his observa-
ton. Il once knew newspaper man who was SO alb
sent minded that he went home rainy night and put
his umbrella in bed and then stood up behind the door
all night and dripped."
Irwin went on to explain that the fellow in question
was not known bonehead in those days; but he
observed with twinkle in his eye, that is exactly
what it was
Somehow have idea that Irwin meant some
thing by giving that story instead of one ball
player but of he gave intimaton that was
personal.
''Oh, by the way, asked of Clark Griffith manager
of the Cincinnati Reds do you remember John Ander-
SOM
''Do T." he answered Il love every bone in his
head
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-03
Where the Word Came from

lust who coined the word in baseball is a
= matter of wide discussion among baseball
writers; but the man who is frequently cred
tied with it is Eddie Ashenback, late manager
of the Scranton, Pennsylvania baseball team.
Ashenback has been manager of many other
ball clubs and is considered one of the great
wits of the diamond. The first appearance of
the word 'bonehead in baseball literature
occurred some eleven years ago, and it SO hap
pened that the writer saw the incident that
caused Ashenback to use it.
The baseball teams of Birmingham, Ala
bama, and Shreveport, louisiana were play
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-03
A Dome of Solid Ivory

THAT remark caused litter all around the circuit
when it appeared in print and it paves the way Tor
one of the most remarkable instances of bonehead work
that ever occurred in baseball
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-28
new INDUSTRIES
Of THE PAST WEEK
(ContinreG FROM First Page.)


and gas resoaresa 10 Tuscaloosa, Fay
cite and fieEsr2s Counties.
Calume, Gzas.aet4ring Co, Liberty.
s. c.. awa:9sa ceastaet for tho erection
of an eigss1y Dy one hundred and
will be ..Sts3 Isa loe looms. enabling
the mill ~ t,aa.stactafe cloth. whereas
1t has beer spinning yarna.
Ringer Gtcre ca, ~. Louis. decided
some details ~ ~ 1sopoged 100000
plant; this Mil ise!adc q main struct.
urc seventy tsss ioEY with various ellis,
the total foos tpacs being 100000
square fee, and cogssing eirht acres
OF land; ths c4!iy capacity will be
1900 stoves EaG ms horsepower re-
auired VIII be 7to,
Virginia Erasge Il Iron Co. Roanoke.
!ncrsaled ~ capital STOCK from $780,
900 10 sl,b90.99q IN order 70 pay for
improvements. eHlafgenents. branch
plants, etc. completed during tho past
eighteen months.
Alaga Bipiag. Power and Develop
ment ca. BIpnton, Ala. was incor-
porated by birmingham parties to de-
yelop 5000 aeres Of ifon-ore land near
Eilnton an6 Lahsdon
Big Giangpa Hydfo-Electfic Co..
tAaHsAs '~ltyt ~ pinHHiHS ~" p'"p''so
development " 21.Q9brhorss power for
transmission By electricity. the plant
being estimated % cost 52,5o0.n0o,
southern Manganese Mining Co,
iarrisonbprg, Va Was incorporated
With 100000 capital stock TO develop
25s acres Of manganese land.
7, A. Iamotne OF Moreauy!llo. La
and associates tho planning the con,
struetion OF y central refinery with
daily capacity OF $50 tons Of sugar
The plant 10 cost 100000
Aquid carbonie Co. OF Chicago. Il
Investigating with View OF building
5 100000 carbonio acid gas plant
SO Memphis,
y r, Barnes, OF Humholt, Kan, ant
y Y. Garrett, of Kansas City, Mo,
Were reported as having contracted e
| locate Portland cement plant al
kauisa, oklass cost to be Sl,a00,Q00 ans
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-28

birds showing a far better return II !,
you use mash feed give 1t to them
in troughs. unless there is grass In
the runs. Keep your drinking ves-
sells clean and keep them in the shade |
in hot weather. This is very impor-
tant. as the sun gets the water warm
and unfit to drink very quickly, and is
one OF the main causes or diarrhoea in
young chickens.
Overlooking is almost worse than
underfeeding; the former causes in
fertile eggs, and very few at that;
also causes liver trouble, paving the
way for any sickness, just like In
human beings.
Always take little time In. feeding.
If you have several pens one should
walk through them two or three times,
giving little rceo each time. It
will be relished more than II all Is
thrown down at once. Feeding time
is also your best chance of watching
your birds for any trouble. II you
see n bird not anxious for food catch
1T up and look at Its eyes; you can
tell almost any sick bird by their
eyes. particularly roup, which is the
most prevalent of any poultry dis
ease. You win find one of their eyes
a little swollen. Grease with a little
carbo,atcd vaseline II you have moth.
ing better use kerosene oil. IT too
bad, buy package of roup cure from
your dealer. A piece of camphor il
very good to keep in the drinking
water, as it prevents contagion. Don't
| feed old stock more than twice a day,
and use the grain feed for their night
feed; 1t will give you the best re-
| suits Green feeds will greatly help
/, your egg yield. Cabbage, turnip or
beet tops. lettuce, grass clippings In
| fact anything in the vegetable line
| that they will eat. I visited sevcrai
/ plants this summer. and must say J
| can't understand why so few Virginia
| poultry keepers raise sunflowers. they
/ are very easy to raise, and serve the
| dual purpose OF giving the chickens
| shade and feed at the same time. BY
. my own experience I've found 1t To
pay better than corn, as the SEEDS
arc oily and are a great help to the
hens in moulting time to get their new
| crop of feathers. II you are raising
4 few ducks on tho side, feed the ducks
! the leaves of tho stalk, and you VIII
have all the green food they need,
and 1t fattens them up wonderfully.
Sow 1t right in the chicken runs; keep
the hens out few weeks till the
plants have a good start. and you will
be amply repaid for your trouble. Don't
4 forget our State Fair Is five weeks
Come yourself and bring some OF your
finest birds along, and get few OF
those silk ribbons and cash prizes.
To our kind friend who wrote for an
article on moulting will try to TX him
up next Sunday.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-11-17

Are you doing yeur part toward help
ing the Majority. or are you expectina
your employers 20 do III
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-11-17
For 4 Long Time Otis Had Been
Preparing for Catastrophe

| Z = fstAtHt y 80 SdesAStAOfSAtS
Were we to accept the theory of
willful dynamiting, there are several
other facts as yet unmentioned which
might be pointed out why the police
should make investigations into the
movements of the proprietors and
managers of the Times previous to
the explosion.
1t is generally reported that plans
for new ten story building for the
Times were already drawn up at the
time of the disaster.
1t is certain that the civic improve
ment plan of the city, which provides,
among other things, for the extension
of New High street and the cense-
quent tearing down of the old Times
building, had been publicly approved
by the owners of the Times.
It is certain that the Times was pre-
pared for an early moving. A COM
plete auxiliary plant, with presses in
stalled and everything ready for opera
ton, had been established at College
and New High streets, and a Times
auxiliary job Office had been establish
ed across the way. The Times itself
boosted that because of the readiness
of these auxiliary plants the Times
did not lose an issue.
Still another thing, how did it hap
pen that the valuable records of the
Times. the ponderus books, were
saved. when all stories agree that the
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-11-17

ory? II not, see why not. The
charge is but ten cents per line pe
month. Publication viii show that you
are alive. and assis ing in the SUP.
port of the Labor paper.l
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-09
smartest of the boys suits, thes,

smartest of the boys suits, these
made often in cunning sailor styles.
with or without shields as the mother
likes. For everyday play suits the
dark blue cottons, such as chambray
and galatea, are much used, these re-
spending very satisfactorily to white
. trimmings.
A girls play frocks and aprons may
be in the same serviceab1e materials,
but for afternoon dimity, handkerchief
linen and white lawn are employed
with suitable trimming, even If the
model Is the same as that used for the
play frock. In fact, as far as the sum-
mer child's get-up is concerned, 1t is
almost entirely a matter of material,
for the least little change in a model
will make 1t suitable for all textures.
The little slip dress illustrated may
be worn belted or loose. and it Is an
other model that can be turned into
an apron by merely opening it down
the full length of the back. The little
frock is one of the paper doll styles
as the models with sleeves cut In one
are sometimes called-and it Is suited
to either boys or girls of the baby
ages.
Here the attractive little get-up is
Of coarse white linen with a banding
in pale apple green and white, but 1t
may be made of the simplest cotton
and seif-trimmed, If 1t Is to be for
rough wear. Where it Is to be a finer
garment, something, say, needed for a
very hot afternoon in town, try max
ing 1t of pale tan or white rajah or
pongee. In this shape, with stitched
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-09
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Jersey Cranberries Coming.

Toms River.-In another week the
cranberry harvest will have begun
and the growers, according to the best
reports a~ttainable, will again have a
bumper crop like last year. Some
estimates put the crop fully as large
as last year; some, a little larger, and
others about ten per cent. smaller.
Last year the crop was so large that
the market slumped directly after the
Thanksgiving trade was worked off
and men who had not sold their ber-
r1es lost their whole years work, to
say nothing of the cost of harvesting.
Many growers are fearful of a similar
condition this winter. In this imme-
date section the prospects are for a
large yield. The biggest growers in
this county are the Holmans, former
Sheriff Charles l.. Holman of Toms
River and his sons, George H. of Toms
River, James D. of Whitesville near
Lakewood, and John w. of Stafford
Forge neal Tuckerton. The senior
Holman is interested in the Paqua
boys in Manchester township. The
four of them, therefore, have cram
berry holdings On a large scale in all
parts of Ocean county, and all will
have much larger crops than last
year. James D. Holman spent a week
in Cape Cod, Mass, and looking at
crop prospects. He says there VIII
not be quite so many, by perhaps ten
per cent, Of the typical Cape Cod
berry, known as the early black"
from its shiny purple color. On the
other hand, he says, the later varie-
ties on the CAPE will pan out larger
than last year.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-09

For the Disappointed inventor.
h The man whose machine
Doesn't rise
Will never fall
Out Of the skies. !
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-09
DESIGNED FOR TUB
COMFORT KEYNOTE IN CLOTHES
FOR CHILDREN.
Finer Ralment Largely Set Aside for
Garments In Which Youngsters May
Romp-IIlustratlon Shows
the Idea.

The small child's finer summer raj
ment is set aside for the moment, the
chief thought now being for the little
ones comfort. In the country and at
the seashore the tiny frocks and suits
worn by baby lads and lasses are all
Of a tub sort and every style permits
as much bare skin being e as Is
possible. Girls dresses and boys
rompers are cut square necked and
short sleeved, skirts and little trou-
sers are very short and socks and
slippers or sandals take the place Of
high shoes and long stockings.
In the way of combinations of mate
rails these ready-made garments give
many ideas to inexperienced sewers,
for the most daring mixtures are
made. For instance, a little frock in
a pale blue cotton will be trimmed
perhaps with black and white-this in
a check, stripe or dot.
On white frocks every species Of
Powered or otherwise patterned goods
will be used. and with the exception
Of the floral trimmings the combina-
tions are used for both sexes. But II
the boy is at all big years old or
over-his Insecurity requires the
banding on his little wash suit or
rompers to be in a plain color-a blue
stripping on white, or white on blue or
brown. The colors that give most re-
freshment to the eye are chosen over
others, and this hint of GOODNESS tan,
white, blue and apple-blossom pink
admirably supply.
Linen canvas crash, which Is a very
cool material, is much used for the
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-09
KEEPING THE ARMS WHITE
Certain Rules That Should Be Fol-
lowed BY Those Who Wear
Short Sleeves.

Now that the elbow sleeve Is once
more in fashion, 1t becomes girls to
pay attention to the skin of their
arms.
Keep a watchful y for dust. A
girl who would be Mortified at the
thought may have a grimy look about
the elbow
Use a small flesh brush and pure
white soap, with once a week liquid
green soap. The latter must be rinsed
off thoroughly.
Be careful to dry the arms well
after bathing; otherwise roughness OF
the cuticle often occurs. 1t also forms
from not rubbing hard enough in
bathing.
When the skin is thus rough it is
more often found On the back of the
arm than elsewhere. Rub with pow
dered pumice moistened in water or
alcohol. Follow by a thorough rub
bling with cold cream.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-09
REPUBLICANS AGAIN
CARRY VERMONT
Majority in Green Mountain State
Cut About 10000.
INSURGENTS WIN PRIMARIES
P~rogressives Win First Ttate-Wide
Primary in New Hampshire
La Toilette Gets 2 to Senator
Burrows Beaten for Reelection.

White River Junction, Vt.-Lieut.
Gov. John A. Mead of Rutland, a re-
tired physician and a prominent bust
mes man, was elected governor by
the Republicans in the state election
by a plurality of about 1900 over
Charles D. Watson, a lawyer of st.
Adams, his Democratic opponent.
The Republicans elected the remain
der of the state ticket and both their
congressman, but the Democrats
made gains in the legislature. The
Republican plurality in 1908 was
about $4,000.
The state officers chosen we're:
Governor, John A. Mead of Rutland;
lieutenant governor, Leighton P.
Stack of st. Johnsbury; secretary Of
state, Guy B. Bailey of Essex juno
ton; treasurer, Edward w. Deavitt
of Montpelier; auditor, Horace e.
Graham of Craftsbury; attorney gen
eral, John G. Sargent of Ludlow. The
Republican congressman reelected
are: First district, David Foster of
Burlington; second district, Frank
Plumley of Mortified.
The legislature chosen will elect a
United States senator, for which Office
the present senator, Carroll S. Page,
has no opposition.