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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-12-09
Two Feet Of. Snow in kentuckv

Lexington, KY, Dec. lone of the
heaviest SHOWS for many years fell in
Kentucky. The fall in the mountains
was two feet, while the lowlands were
covered with ten inches of snow! Bust
ness in the inountain districts is en-
tirely suspended
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-12-09
Total Of. $748,4l4,86l Asked
to Run Government.
F0RCANAL F0RTlFlCATl0NS
Seven Millions Wanted for Immediate
Use, but the. Total Cost Will BE in
the Neighborhood Of Twenty Mil
lIons-A9gregate Appropriations Re-
quosted for lsthmian Service Exceed
Flfty-six Millions.

washington, Dec. 1.-THE estimates
Of appropriations required for every
branch Of the federal government dur
Ing the fiscal year ending June 80
1912, aggregating $748,414,S61, were
submitted to congress by Secretary OF
the Treasury MacVeagh. This grand
total stands against estimates of $745,
067,197 and appropriations of $805, 1894,
513 for the current fiscal year, which
appropriation included over $4,000, 600
for the census, over $10,600,00O for the
postal and other Deficiencies
A lump appropriation of 100000 is
asked to enable the secretary of the
navy to establish at such places as he
may deem suitable depots for coal and
other fuel for the supply of warships.
There is 100000 increase for the
Alaska-Canada boundary work and
$4,000 for enforcement of the insecti-
eide act. There are many items of ap.
preparations needed for public works
of various kinds, aggregating $28,848,.
399 civil and $94, 49, 1853 under the war
department.
For the defense of the isthmian ca
nal the estimates ask $7,000,000, to be
Immediately available, and ask author
ity for $19,546,843 in all for this forti-
fcation project, with view to COM
pletion within three years. This work
will include sites, emplacement guns,
carriages. searchlights, camps: and
posts. The total appropriations asked
for the isthmian canal service reach
$56,928,S47. :,
The total rivers and harbors .esti-
mates for the work during the next
fiscal year aggregate $22,627 ,301,
against. $41,339,113 appropriated for
the same purposes during the current
fiscal year.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-12-09
Heaviest in Ten Years,

Gallipolis, o.. Dec. 7-TWelve inches
OF snow fell in this section, which is
the heaviest for ten years. Railroads
renort trains delayed.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-12-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Welmer's little
son, Clifford, was taken ill with pneu
monia the first OF the week.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03
LIGHTNING CAME BY PHONE

While the sun was shining the other
day at Clinton, N J., and there was no
indication of an electrical storm, q
bolt of lightning struck a liberty pole
in front of hotel shattering the shaft
and soaring team of mules SO badly
that they ran two miles The team
was tied to ring attached to the pole,
which was thirty feet high. After the
animals had been stopped 1t was found
that the bolt Of lightning which had
shattered the pole had also melted the
iron shoes from each of the mules.
Otherwise they were uninjured. The
source of the lightning bolt puzzled all
the local electrical experts and me-
teorologists, but after investigation it
was found that a telephone wire run
ming from Singac passed so close to
the flag pole as to touch it. At the
time the pole was struck a fierce thun.
der storm was raging in the vicinity
of Singac, and the theory is that
lightning striking the telephone wire
in the storm zone, travelled over the
cable until it encountered the unin-
sulated liberty pole, where the full
force of the bolt was spent.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

any others, but they pull unconscious
ly from nervousness. Steady prac-
tise may help overcome this nervous.
ness, and help the hitting
When a runner gets on bases he
ought to have definite plan of how
he is going to get around, and signal
the batter his intentions, but he must
not allow that to keep him from Ia
king any opening he sees, and he
must be watching every instant for a
half passed ball, and be ready to
change his plan in a fraction of a sec
ond. When | reach first look around
to see the positions of the outfelders,
and watch the second baseman and
shortstop to see which is going to
take the throw. If an outfelder is out
Of position / want to know it, for I
may decide to try to take two bases
on hit. or take two on anything he
player gets ball out of position
to make strong, fast throw. A base
runner ought to know exactly how op-
posing players throw, and the
strength of their arms, for a runner
may take base on one man when he
would not dare to start on another.
Above all things, young players
ought to study the game, and the 9TH
er players. One can learn lot just
by watching other players and study
ing their actions-and experience and
knowledge of the other players helps.
There is one more thing; always
play square. / feel almost as badly
when we win game we don't deserve
as when we are beaten. / don't mean
that a player should not take every
legitimate advantage, but that he
should not take unfair advantage. The
longer play the more satisfaction
there is in winning in a sportsman.
like way. There is no satisfaction in
winning by trickery, and a fellow who
does some hot-headed trick regrets
it. They do not pay. The other fel,
lows are trying as hard and earnest
~ as you are.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03
RODENT HAS MONEY TO BURN

A pet red squirrel belonging to Otto
speltz, farmer, of Bellingham, Wash.
has been under surveillance ever since
he was discovered tearing a SIS Canad-
Ian bill to pieces. Speltz rescued the
money and sent it to Ottawa for re-
demptfon.
He had no more than despatched
the letter containing the shreds of the
five than the squirrel was found play
ing with a piece of a United States
$40 bill.
Speltz garnered this money in be-
fore it was too damaged for barter,
and is now watching the movements of
his pet It is believed the rodent has
discovered a hidden hoard laid away
in past years by miser or cached by
a robber in a hollow tree and found
by the squirrel
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03
HOARD IN A FLOATING LOG

A party OF campers from Seattle
were hauling a gigantic cedar log up
On the beach of Lake Washington to
be converted into f1reWood when what
appeared to be huge plug attracted
their attention. One ran for the axe
and the log was split into two pieces.
The plug acted as a door of a safety
vault where some logger twenty years
ago had hidden his savings. There
were $500 in gold, $68 in silver and
$500 in currency. The name, though,
dim, on the post office money orders
appears to be Claude Parsons or Par
ker, and they are payable in the post
office at Eau Claire, Wis. The money
orders are dated April. 1891.
Efforts will be made to find the
rightful owner of the hoard. Many sto-
ries are told of the prodigality with
which loggers handled their money
in the halcyon days Of logging. A
fayorite bank was to put boom
augur hole in a big stump. Into this
hole was put the gold. silver and pa
per and big plug driven into the
hole. The plug was then sawed off
plumb with the bark and the wealth
left until wanted. Many of. these i'm
provised banks were swept away by
foods or destroyed in forest fires.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03
WHEN THE BEAD RETURN

This is a story Of mistaken identity
of remarkable character. Mary McGon-
lyle was struck by a trolley car in
New York last April and died shortly
afterwards in hospital. On notifica-
ton from the coroner, her relatives
came to view the body and she was
identified by her son. her sister, her
brother and cousin; burial permit
was issued in the name of Mary Nc
Gonigle; an insurance company paid
SILT on the life of Mary McGonigle;
the traction company paid $3.50 for the
funeral of Mary MeGonigle; the body
of Mary McGonigle now lies in Cal
vary cemetery.
Late one night recently Mary Nc
Gonigle in the flesh walked into her
sisters home.
To say there was surprise at her
visit would understate the emotions of
the relatives. The sister screamed;
the brother dropped his new clay pipe
and small niece tainted. Mrs. Nc
Gonigle herself was surprised but
placid; she had not read the newspa-
pers, and did not know that she was
supposed to be dead.
Then came explanations Mary Nc
Gonigle had been buried all right, but
it was the wrong Mary. The living
woman is in private service and her
address fiuctuates with her employ
ment The dead woman who bears
such an extraordinary resemblance to
her was no relative, but had known
her. and had given her address to the
hospital The undertaken who buried
the late Mary, was summoned to view
the living Mary. 81 never saw such
resemblance, he gasped, land I've
buried many"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03
TY COBB SAYS YOU MUST
TAKE CHANCES TO WIN
pETRoIT's GREAT FIELDER DE-
cLAREs PLAYER WILL HELP
HIS TEAM IF He GRAsPS
EVERY OPPORTUNITY.
gy TY COBB.

Copyright, 1910, by Joseph B. Bowles)
Taking chances at all times, taking
every reasonable chance, and some
that do not seem even reasonable, is
the way l think a player wins games.
# he has speed, and courage, and con-
fidence, and then takes the chances,
seizes every opening and runs hard
and slides harder, he viii help his
team win.
Sometimes 1t seems to me that one
bail player Is better than another, sim
ply because he has more nervous en-
ergy and what we call "guts," than
another Nowadays the teams are SO
closely matched and the men so near
Iy equal in ability, that the team to
win must have some method, or some
skilful leader, and then something
to keep it hustling and lighting all the
time.
If this is meant for advice to young
players, just tell them that they must
hustle every minute, forget them
selves and dig for runs. | know that
when I get into a ball game all
think of is to win that game and get
around the bases. I can't see or hear
the crowd, and every opposing player
Is my enemy, no matter how good
friends they may be off the ball field.
think that is the way a ball player
must feel to win. He must forget him
self, forget everything, and go after
that game with every bit of strength
and speed he has, not loafng min
ute, and taking every chance possible.
He must run out every ball he hits
AS for batting, that is more or less
natural ability and determination. A
man may improve his hitting by
steady practise, but doubt whether
man can be taught to hit / think
the secret of hitting is not to be
afraid of injury and not to pulp at
all. There are lots of batters who
pull, that is, draw back slightly from
the plate when the ball is pitched, and
lose the force of their swing. In most
cases these batters are as fearless as
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03
WITH TWO HEADS

A most wonderful child is the six
year-old daughter of John o. Nelson
of Brooklyn Hills, N. Y. She has two
well developed. heads; and though I'M
able either to sit up or walk, her gen
eral health is good, and she possesses
normal intelligence.
When the child was born the doc
tors said she could not live, but Mr..
Nelson, possessed of considerable
means, engaged the best physicians
and gave the little one the most care
full attention, sparing no expense in
trying to make the delicate infant a
healthy child. According to her IA
ther the child speaks English and Ger
man with equal fuency, using both
mouths when she speaks.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

The unsuitable ship may be long
way off, but she will appear some day,
and then such items as that which
chronicled the drowning of a captain
and eight men by the sinking of the
steamer La Rochelle in the English
channel as result of collision by
which she was almost cut In two.
The modern passenger steamer can be
cut in two and foated as two pieces,
and 1t ought to be possible to SO con.
struct ships that they will stay afloat
even when severed in twain by the
surgery of accident
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03
.PATRIARcHAL WEDDING PARTY

There was gay gathering of merry
veterans at a wedding ceremony in
Rome the other week, the happy cou-
pie being signor Gaspare Finale, the
oldest member of the Italian senate,
who is ninety-1ye, and charming
widow of some eighty-six summers.
The official witnesses at the ceremony
were Senator Gref1, the late ambas-
sador, who is ninety-tnree, and Sena-
tor Farani, who is in his ninety-frst
year.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03
WILD GEESE ATTACK GIRLS

Wild geese, which William stabley,
Of FELTON,, Pa, thought he had do
znesticated. proved still untamed when
they attacked and frightened almost
70 death Miss Ophelia Paine and Miss
Araminta Sentz, who were gathering
arbutus. The flock surrounded the two
girls, picking at them and kissing in
an alarming manner. The girls fed,
but the geese continued the chase al
most to the town
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Mulone, notorious sicilian brigand-
that name sounds queer-has been
sentenced in Perugia to IA years i'm
prisonment. It may be mentioned that
6ignor Mulone was tried in his abb
sence, not having been seen since he
escaped from his captors in 1906 Thus
the exemplary sentence, while proba-
bly, pleasing the authorities, does not
hurt the signor.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03
CAT BRINGING UP ROBINS

A cat on the farm of Fred scfmetto
near Marinette, Wis, is bringing up
two young robins with her litter of
kittens. The fledglings were found
there one morning and the cat was
caressing them.
It is believed that she killed the
parent bird and then took the little
ones out of the nest and brought them
to the box in which her kittens are
stored.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Germany is to have indestructible
aerial warships. From earth modern
progress moved the locality of battles
to the sea and now it is to be moved
thence to the air. 1t is characteristic
of the perversity of human nature that
the first thought of the practical adap.
tation of mans victory over the re-
sources OF nature should be to use thic
victory for the destruction of man.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03
FIFTY-poUND HAILsToNE

The notoriety of setting new stan
dard for all stories of big hailstones
befell William Dittenhafer, a cellar
digger of York, Pa, entirely unsoIi-
cited. He found a mass of many hall
stones CONCEALED or melted together,
thirty-six inches long, fourteen inches
wide and FIVE inches thief, in a deep
depression in the lawn. This mass
weighed more than fifty pounds.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Following recent experiments at
Hammondsport, N. r., 1t is gravely an
nounced that the aeroplane is not very
good as a man killer in war. Who
cares?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Brooklyn has number of young.
sters who promise to shine IN the
fast set with little more experience.
Tony Smith, Daubert, Wheat and Dali
ton are most promising combination
Tony Smith at short is not bigger
than stick Of gum in stature, but In
fielding he is giant Fast as light.
ming, and a quick thinker.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Says Cobb Is Incorrectly Scored.
Secretary Richard of the st. Louis
Browns says Detroit scorers are pad,
ding Ty Cobb's batting average. He
says Cobb Is not batting well, and
that if scored correctly he would fall
below soc
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

If American heiresses who marry
poor Eng1ishmen of title are to be
given the cold shoulder by the Court
of st. James, the circle of mourners
In this country and Great Britain will
be very small.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

English nobleman announces that he
is willing to marry a beautiful and
wealthy American girl. For once, the
big unmarried male American major
sty can sympathize with the British
peerage.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Cities that are disappointed because
Of the census returns should reflect
that Uncle Sam Is as much interested
In making good showing as any par
ticular community possibly can be.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Anyway, that baseball player who,
while eating, stabbed himself in the
erm with table fork had wretched
delivery.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Colonies, and in 1884 there was such
team as the st. Louis Maroons in
the defunct Union association engi-
neered by H. V. Lucas.
Nowadays we hear of the Boston
Red Sox of the American league and
the Boston Doves, named for their
reputed owner, George B. Dovey. The
Brooklyns are staggering under the
name Trolley Dodgers, and in Chi
cago we have the Cubs and White
Sox. The Clevelands have been nick.
named the Maps because the great
Lajoie is their leader, while the De
troits are known all over the land
as the Tigers. In st. Louis the
Browns and the Cardinals are rivals
of patronage. The Washingtons have
shaken the Senators for the Nationals,
but the Cincinnatis and Pittsburgs still
stick to the Reds and Pirates. That
is the case with the Phillies and the
Athletics in Philadelphia, too.
Some of the other nicknames are
the Baltimore Orioles, the Jersey
City Shelters, the Newark Sailors,
the Providence Clam Diggers, the
Flour Citys of Rochester, the Buffalo
Bisons, the Montreal Royals, the Mil
waukee Brewers, the ST. Paul Angels,
the Kansas City Blues, the New Or
leans Pelicans and others too numer-
Gus to mention.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

It costs $50 to ride 900 miles in the
Zeppelin airship. It is hoped, how
ever, that competition may eventually
sring about lowering of the rates.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Some ingenious man in Europe has
invented a typewriter so small that it
can be carried in the waistcoat peck
ct. This tiniest Of all writing-ma-
chimes is made in the form OF watch.
The letters make their mark under the
pressure of the knob within the ring
and the writing is done on a narrow
strip of glued paper.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03
merkIe Equals EIberfeld's Feat.

The feat of Merkle Ia scoring all
three runs for the Giants the other
day recalls what Kid ElberfeId did
once when with the Highlanders. He
beat RUDE Waddell by scoring all the
runs and making all the hits In
game on the hilltop.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

= We've known amateur gardeners
who saved an unbelievable amount of
aoney by buying their truck at the
grocery store.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

It was not until the inventor of the
hoop skirt was eighty-three years old,
that he died. How long must We
wait for news from sthe inventor of
the hobbIe skirt?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

A 15-ton shark has been captured
near Seattle The people are in luck
that It did not scramble ashore and
proceed to run for Office.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

More earthquakes have been record.
ed at Washington, but they attract
little attention now that HaIley's
comet has proved an alibi.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Anyway. the aeroplano has put an
end to the plant OF the mollycoddle
who was always signing for the wings
of a dove.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

In London there stands an hour
glass that undoubtedly is the largest
ever constructed It contains more
than 100 pounds of sand When the
lower bulb is filed the frame turns
over, and the process is reversed to
mark the fight of another so minutes.
So huge is this glass that the revolu-
ton Is made by a hydraulic engine,
shown on the left of the picture. The
height of the glass is nearly IL feet.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

And after the confounded potatoes
get up, every blessed cutworm turns
into blooming potato bug!
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

A man has reached the limit OF
boredom when he ceases to laugh at
his own witty remarks.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03
Fred pfeffer a Farmer

The onee-famous second baseman,
Fred Pfefer. has purchased a farm
in the Ozarks and will quit the Cal
cago saloon business to live there
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

The Cincinnati woman Who says
she will not rest until kissing has
been abandoned has weary time be-
fore her.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

An airship that goes only 3S miles
an hour will not make much of an
appeal to the joy rider.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

A St Louis man claims that he
never had to swing on car strap.
A circus has an armless wonder, too.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Doing nothing" has been defined to
be looker-on at a game of checkers.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

You will enjoy your own outing bet
ter If you help others who are less
able to get one.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

1t does not necessarily help any to
get cold feet during this sort of
weather.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Drownings are increasing in direct
proportion to the carelessness Of hui
mainly
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Do you think the weather man is
playing to the galleries?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Manager Griffith has purchased
Third Baseman Breen from the VAN
couver club of the Northwestern
league. He is said to be a fine hitter
and f1rst-class fielder, and is strong,
ly recommended by Joseph sugden,
the old catcher, who has been doing
some scouting for the Reds out on
the coast. Breen will not join the
team until fall, after he gets through
out there. Downey is doing so well
at third base that he is not needed
Just at present.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Do not argue with the oontagion-
spreading house fly. Swat him!
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Meanwhile. remember that there is
always some hotter place.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Weather jokes are bound to be dry
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03

Nice and cool to fight flies!