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and priced trinkets, and offered te
give him all the money in the house
and remain quiet If he would leave.
DO you know anything about seven
up'?" the robber unexpectedly asked.
She said she did, and little game
was proposed. The woman won. Then,
regaining her self-control, she offered
to play four games with the bandit
with the understanding that If she lost
the robber was to be permitted to ram
sack the house and carry away every
valuable which 1t contained. If the
woman won the robber was to leave
the house without taking anything.
The woman won the first game, the
Black Knight the second, and with
trembling fingers the little woman won
the third The robber dealt the cards
for the fourth game and Mrs. Holmes
won again.
The robber put the gun in his peck
ct, swallowed another drink, this time
as nightcap, then, raising and kissing
the hand which had extended the
glass, he called his unwilling hostess
one Of the best card players he had
ever known He added that her voice
was the cause Of his loss of mid
night haul and that IL she ever were
In trouble her sole protector need only
be melodious bit of speech such as
had charmed him that night.
With that the Black Knight had
passed the threshold to the porch, the
hall light went out, and little Mrs.
Holmes fell in faint on the floor.
Next morning she told the story.
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4 WOMAN At CARDS
DEF EATS BURGLAR
SAVES HER HOUSE FROM ROB
Berry BY WINNING THREE
GAMES OF SEVEN Up"
SHE FAINTs AFTER He GOES
sociabie Marauder Compliments His
Intended Victim on the Skill She
Displays, Foregoes Rich Haul and
Leaves House Unmolested.

Helena, Mont.-The remarkable abil-
lty of Mrs. Charles V. Holmes of this
city to play seven up the other
night prevented the robbery of her
residence by a bold burglar and
showed the other side of Black
Knights heart.
Mrs. Holmes was awakened shortly
after midnight, while alone in the
house, her husband being absent from
the city, and went to the door in an
swer to the door bell, presumably to
greet her returning spouse.
Instead, she faced The blue barrel
of a big revolver and was sternly told
to throw up her hands and keep her
mouth shut, both Of which she did. The.
robber entered the reception room as
the woman backed in and closed and
latched the door behind him.
Then, keeping his unWelcome host,
ess still under cover of his weapon.
he calmly removed his coat and got
out bag with which he intended to
carry off the plumber.
At this juncture Mrs Holmes. who
was in her night dress and half dead
with fright, regained her self-posses-
sion and in a voice which had but few
traves of culver in it asked her rob
Der guest" if he would not like a bit
of something" as an eye opener" be
fore beginning the ransacking Of the
house
The robber accepted the invitation
and entered the dining room, where lie
took two drinks from decanter OF
bourbon. Mrs. Holmes then begged
him not to rob her of her silverWare
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WRONG SORT
Perhaps Plain Old Meat Potatoes wy
Bread May 1e Against You
for a Time.

A change to the right kind 9 J. se v
can lift one from a sick bed. y ~
In Weldon, Ill, says:
Last spring ! became bed.fass Wy "
severe stomach troubles accom- ~ e
by sick headache. got Wofss nj
worse until / became 50 low ! ~ Y
scarcely retain any food q 49,
though / tried about every KING. I.
Il had become completely alsse I,
aged, and given up all hope u ].
thought was doomed to Stare II! y
death, until one day my HUSBAND .s ss
ing to find something ] could fs'4r
brought home some Grape-N uts.
ITO my surprise the food asls s,s
with me, dtgested perfectly ana -, III
out distress. began TO gain st.s IN
at once. My flesh (which haa "a {,
flabby), grew hrmer, my heath An
proved In every way and eYes, y a
and in very few weeks I galas@ ~
pounds In weight. ~
81 liked Grape Nuts 30 well spa' III
four months I ate no other 1ovu,
always felt as well satisfied alae1 6, ~
ing as II / had sat down 70 g nhs nc
Quet.
IT had no return OF the m', ,ssss
sick stomach nor of the aeaaes
that / used to have when I als5 I'M
food. am now a well WoIaa e.,, l III
all my own work again, ana 81.
life is worth living. aa
sGrape-Nuts food mas peshss III
send to my family: It surely g. IS. nh
life; and my two little pD' yap
thriyen on IT wonderfully a,g,E
given by Postum Co, BatsS
Mich. s,osd Il /
Read the little book, Ine ,
MELVILLE, " in pkgs. There's I ~ II
Ever read the above Ief tsa,s
one appears from time e ., as hssss'
are genuine, trwns sad ED -
interest. 4
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NEEDLE APPEARS AT ANKLE
An Indiana Woman Says 1T is One
She Swallowed Eighteen
Years Ago.

Logansport, Ind.-While Mrs. Peter
Wha1en was pulling OFF her stocking
her hand was pricked and she found
the point OF needle protruding from
her ankle
Mrs. Whalen says that 18 years ago
she became excited while holding a
needle in her mouth and that when
the excitement was over she could
not find the needle. During recent
years she has had pains In her left
leg which she thought were from
rheumatism. She now believes these
pains were from the needle while It
worked It's way down to her ankle.
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Would Try Another.

There was going to be a picnic III.
morning, says the Cleveland phh
Dealer. The little boy prayed beioa.
he retired at night that 1t might IN.
fine day. And when he looked out Il
the window at the peep Of dawn IL
was raining.
In the evening. the little IL
wouldn't say his prayers. Manrss
he asked, as he was going d Nj
where do they sell idols? want i
get one to worship"
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To Make Fruit Jar Rubhars 4,

y HF&fNs 0's osAI EtUUUeFS Aa3{
To have fruit Jar rubbers last, kss,
them well covered IN a Jar full IL fca
until used, and as soon as ferapysi
from empty jars. One can then ahod
q good quality OF rubDers, is Es5.
thus they will safely last seYeral sss
sons. When there II doubt Il Ill
rubbers, they may often W. made d
exc out one more season 81 using til
Of the rubbers to each jar MA scrsF.
ing down tight. Always stand nsHb
filed jars upside down until cool, 4
test the tops and rubbers Dealgaa
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hit are not likely to occur often in
q game with Walsh pitching. He
Is spit ball pitcher entirely. He
uses his splitter" and a fast bali
with no curves. On this occasion,
Payne signailed for either a spit
ball or a fast one, don't know
which. Walsh shook his head in
reply, and Payne gave him another
signal to which he again shook his
head.
You don't want this oneT' Payne
mumbled in his mask, but loudly
enough for me to hear as ne gave
another signal. Walsh nodded as
sent.
Now here is what passed through
my mind, after listening to the hint
carelessly dropped by Payne. Two
were out at the time, man was
on third base, who, II he scored,
would put us ahead, and the count
on me was two strikes and no balls.
MY flash of thought must have been
instantaneous. try never to pay
any attention to the monologue Of
a catcher h11f pauno ic naturally q
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time that q catcher throws the ball back to the
pitcher until he delivers it again, batter
should never take his eyes off the pitcher.
All Of the grooves" of batters are carefully
catalogued Every hitter in baseball, with the
possible exception OF Lajoie and Wagner, is sup
posed to have what is known to the profession
as groove certain real or imagined weak
ness Some pitchers work to fool batter, and
others aim at his groove" Young and Powell
are of the second type, and It is this style OF
pitcher that always try to make pitch to the
limit. as they have to depend absolutely on
their control,
The catcher is obviously included in the
guessing match which always results when a
batter faces pitcher. I recall funny instance
Of HAL" Chase making Ira Thomas look like
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Working in combination to outguess the bat
tiers. catcher will often help pitcher cut
by talking necessarily, hoping in this way to
distract hitters attention from his business
Street OF the Washington club is one of the
worst takers in the business, and is called in
some strata of baseball "Gabby" From the
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ASK FOR ALIENS Foor- asp
the Antseptic powder to shake into vnur shs.
neTes Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Nails s.ss, y
Sweating feet, Blisters ana Gallons snoss
everywhere 25c. Don accept any s4
pie FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, "a n, NJ y
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spect, and remark dropped by him win give
n batter the key to the situation which will
enable him to outguess the pitcher A thing
Of this sort happened to me in Chicago one
Eay last season, with Walsh pitching and
payne catching
Payne d1upped a remark. which set my mind
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that he could throw one. He simply outguessed
me and caught me in the arms of Morpheus.
He had wet the ball. while walking away from
the plate with his back to me, after getting it
from Easterly. thus giving no hint that he was
going to throw a splitter"
Young invented this trick and applies 1t &C.
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ing right. He has almost clairvoyant ability
to outguess pitcher.
In some games I have been able to guess
right almost every time that the pitcher has
thrown the ball to me and yet have not beeD
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working and which led me to forecast what
was coming This cue and the resultant con-
clusion drew, based on the hasty hypothesis
OF Payne's remark, resulted in timely base
hit The conditions and circumstances Of the
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DATENFS Fortunes are made III nsts,,. q.
= asa - tect yonrideas, Our q rare IN.
Modern Ethics,

Do not kick man when \. !.
down. Turn him over and FEEL r 4.
other pocket. Galveston News "
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six nickels in game last sum-
mer. Thomas formerly played
on the Yankees, and, at the time,
Chase's sign for the squeeze
play was given by putting his
right hand to his nose. Ira had
seen him give this many times
when they were team mates.
But on this occasion, Chase
was playing on the New York
club, and Thomas was catching
on the Philadelphia team. It was
in the eighth inning with the
score tied, and a New York run
ner on third base, champing on
his spikes to get home when
Chase stepped to the bat. One
was out. HAL" went through
the usual rreliminaries Of knock
ing the dirt out of his spikes, fix
ing his hat the frmer, as IL he
expected to take a long run and
didn't want to be called back TO
get the cap, and splitting on his
hands. Then he put the first
digit Of his right hand to the side
oF hi d
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a sort of instinct which some players have and
Others never attain. A man seems to do it by
intuition and often cannot tell just what con-
crete hypothesis leads him to reach certain
conclusion. But believe me, 1t Is great art for
ball player to have, a great art, and one to
be cultivated.
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Aaso Ok al 5u1Sulp dUu nave
his pitcher shoot over a fast
one. He tried this on me in
the first worlds series.
so they say that you are
the best base runner In the
American league" was his
opening line. We'll, you are
not up against American
league catchers now, young
fellow. Let's see you steal a
base II you get down"
l paid no attention to him.
although he evidently hoped
that would turn around and
reply, sc that / would be
caught OFF my guard. And
not In conceit, but, as a his
torian, ] relate the sequel. /
did get down to first base.
and by pretending l was 60
ing to steal, made him signal
to Overall to waste two balls.
Then, when he had to put q
strike over, I went down.
Sometimes a catcher viii
everyday his mart In this re-
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EatCuSE. IL only q lew luStduc0S
does the pitcher give the signals.
So much faith have some pitchers
in certain catchers that they pitch
altogether different brand of base
bali to other men. This is particu-
iarly true of Krause, the Philadelphia
left handler, who pitched such sensa-
tiotnal ball In the season of 1909, and
of Ford, of the New York American
league club, who was the thrill of
the league last season with his
double breaking spitball. Krause had
no confidence In any catcher except
Ira Thomas, and Ford could not work
tremendously without ed" Sweeney.
These catchers did all the thinking
for the two great twirlers, and their
work in the box was purely me-
chanfcal.
. krause rangad ten straight vic
tories In row before he fell, In
a ten-inning game with the st. Louis
team, then, as usual, in last place.
The secret is this Thomas was catch
ing him for the ten he put on the shelf
Lapp was behind the bat for the
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OF baseball to let the first one go by to get a
look at the style. Killing would say:
He liked the looks of that Let's try him
on another" Then up would come a curve
A favorite trick of his is to get the batter
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What are you going to do. HAL" asked Ira.
frame up something here?"
Thomas did not expect to find out anything
by the question, but wanted to drag Chase into
conversation to get his mind off his work.
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verse English on it. 1t was case of him out
guessing me. The veteran Cleveland pitcher
is as different from Walsh In his style, as white
is from black "Cy" relies on a curve and a
fast ball. never using splitter" Young had
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reticent man, and his remark surprised me-
Walsh had refused to pitch until he had re-
ce1ved certain sign. This made me think
that 1t was not going to be splitter" or
fast one. evidently the first TWO signals given
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eleventh. and 1t fell off and smashed. Krause
pitched without confidence in his catcher's
Judgment to outguess the batters, and he lost.
The same thing was true of Ford In the
postseason series with the Giants. In the
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early innings OF the first game.
Sweeney had his hand split open
with one of Ford's eccentric spit
tiers. The Highlander was never
the same again. He did not pitch
the wonderful ball he is capable
pf In that series. He had no con-
Rdence In the numbering Mitchell
70 handle his "spitters," to think
East: In short, to outguess the bat
ters.
Some catchers have very busy
habit of talking all the time to
annoy batter in an effort to dis
tract his attention from his work.
John King, Of the Chicago Cubs.
known In baseball as bad man
with a batter, "chewed" incessant-
ly during the worlds series in
which we won the championship
3rom the Cubs. He seemed to
want to distract attention from
the pitcher. A favorite line OF
his was.
Now. let's try him on fast
one"
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TWO strikes ana one Dai on me IN
a game in Cleveland. He walked
out of the box and part way to
the catcher to receive the ball.
Easterly, catching, signed for an
offering that did not coincide
with "Cy's" idea Of the exigen-
cies of the situation. The old
fellow shook his head twice,
which Immediately forced me
to conclude that 1t would be
neither a curve nor a fast one.
Oldring was on first base at the
time, and I guessed that "Cy'
must want to waste one, think
ing he was going to try to steal.
When the ball came to me about
chin high, I at once concluded
that my diagnosis was the cor
rect one, and I let it go. But,
when about two feet in front Of
me, 1t broke across my letters, a
beautiful strike, and I had not
even taken my bat off my Shout
der. ICY" had dished up a spit
ter from somewhere In his as
snrfment and T didn't ovoy, lypou,
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There Is great diff
ference in pitchers. Some
are easy to outguess,
and others are as bad as g;a>
a jig-saw puzzle, and /
never worked out one s
of those in my life. 49,
know some men who
have mannerisms in the
box which betray defn-
itely the sort of a ball to be de-
ltvered. These little physical
eccentricities are true indice1
and often cost men, who would
otherwise be successful pitch
ers, many games. It may be
the twist of the wrist in throw
ing a curve ball, or some motion
of the foot peculiar to spit
ter" that divulges the essential
secret. This tell-taIe sign Is
fatal to pitcher, when players
get on to it, and 1t usually does
not take his opponents long to
discover and associate it with
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"You can't get one by me-" his
manner appears to challenge. He
is simply bullying with confidence.
He is the one hitter and the only
successful one | ever saw who appar
rently doesn't try to guess what the
pitcher is going to throw and really
doesn't care. Pitchers have never
been able to discover any groove"
that he Is concealing. He simply
wades In and hits at any kind OF
g ball. He Is one batter in thou
sand.
Tyrus Cobb, the Detroit star, is
the exactly opposite type Of hitter.
He is thinking all the time he Is
at the bat, figuring, planning, to out
guess the pitcher and the fielders, In
baseball parlance ito cross" his op-
ponents, legitimate procedure. If
he thinks that the third baseman
expects a bunt, he will hit 1t out.
He never chases bad ball, and he
makes a pitcher work to the last
notch. He worries many Of the
men In the box by his restlessness,
and because he is constantly guess
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casionaly to great advantage, have learned
since, catching batter off his guard But
he depends for the most part ON curve and
a high, fast ball, relying on his wonderful con-
troll to put the bail where he wants it. That
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Dy Payne. he can't intend to waste
a bail, l reasoned, because the man
is on third, and he doesn't think
he Is going to try to steal. Then
1t struck me.
Can it@be curve?" asked N.Y.
self surprised. But he never
throws one," argued in my mind.
Then I remembered the surprise
betrayed in Payne's "You don't
want this one." The remark, num-
bled In his mask, had supplied the
key. took chance. 1t was a
curve, and / called the turn. 1t
was the first and last one Walsh
ever threw me, and probably he
would have slipped 1t over, had it
not been for Payne's poorly sup
pressed surprise. That cost Walsh
the game. 1t must be remembered
by the reader that all this giving
Of signals and reasoning took place
In about a minutes time. A ball
player must think fast.
Old "Cy" Young, one Of the
Solons Of baseball, crossed me once
In almost fha sama wav with va
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Whisker" trimmer OF his, which
Is high, fast one In the vicinity
Of the neck, Is a villainous ball.
A pitcher Of Young's type would
Just as soon tell the batter where
he is going to try to throw thu
ball, because it is generally known
that he is pitching at a batter's
weakness.
So batting In the big leagues Is
largely a game of thought. The
man who outguesses the pitchers
accumulates the most hits and
the largest batting average. Lajoie
is-the only exception to this that
/ can recall. Of course, self-coll-
f1dence is an absolute necessity to
any successful hitter, but the
Cleveland second baseman is more
chock full Of reliance ii his own
batting ability than any other
player / know. It Is not conceit,
just faith in his eye. He shuffie,s
out to the plate, almost earelessly,
and bangs his bat Down two or
three times as II to say to the