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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09

Pitcher Raymond Schlei was acquired by the Cardinals from the Cincinnati club in exchange for ssPitchers Karger and Lush Bresnahan also received a block of stock before assuming the managerial reins, and he was signed up for three years for s25, ,000. Bresnahan's contract expires at the end of this season. What no one knows But it is certain he can have anything he wants, so long as it Is within reason
 The late Stanley Robson, owner of the Cardinals, thought so much of Bresnahan that at the outset of che 1909 season he insured the star catcher-manager for a term of five years, on d $50000 policy. The tax was $500 per annum.
 Bresnahan went along swmmingly for half of the 1899 season. and then things began to happen to him. His team was shot to pieces and they offered but feeble resistance in their games. In October the St. Louis fans displayed open dislike for Bresnahan and not few recommended his removal. It was alleged that he abused his players. Not only that, but
 it was said that he snubbed friends and well wishers. But Bresnahan has lived down this animosity of the Cardinal fans until now they actually worship him.
 In June, 1907, Bresnahan was almost fatally injured by q pitched ball. Andy Coakley, now with the Yankees, delivered the wild throw and the ball struck Bres- nahan behind the left ear He was ren- dered unconscious instantly. He was car ried to the clubhouse and when he was revived he gasped for a priest. A pastor of a nearby church administered extreme unction and then the catcher was hurried to a Cincinnati hospital For days he
 lowered between life and death. His
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
WHICH WAY IS NORTH ?.

houses. In the open fields and woods easily adapts himself to the informa- ton of others Is likely, in the woods, to move about in a circle and become lost
 The savage is said to have a better sense of direction than the civilized man, because he has had more occasion to cui- tivate it. ''The civilized man." Emerson declared. has a Greenwich nautical i4i>- manae, and so. being sure of the infor- nation when he wants 1t, the man in the street does mot know star in the sky" But it is mistake to suppose that the savage is never turned around" In woods. It Is his confidence in himself that has led many persons to suppose that the Indian never errs in his direc- ton. The story of the lost Indian who said Indian no lost; wigwam lost," may we'll have been true. for even the savage, though he trusts his own judgment, may lose his sense of direction.
 The Chinese. although the first people to use. artificial means of fixing the d- rection-the compassion the most part have the gift of pudging the direction in- stinctivey. They never say. Turn to the right" Turn to the left" in show ing the way, but always Turn to the north or 10 the south, and so on Their sense of direction probably does not, how ever, come from a particular gift, but from the practice, very common in China, of studying the heavens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Pet Names of Royalty

From the Philadelphia North American
 Queen Victoria said at the death of one of her relatives, "She was the last person who had the right to call me Victoria Kings and queens must get very tired of formality sometimes and welcome the familiarity of family life. Here are some of the nicknames by which the royal personages of Europe are known to their nearest and dear est:
 The czar of Russia is "Nicky;" the czarina. Sunny" or "Alix." One would think that her unhappy life would have deprived her of the first name for ever,
 Queen Alexandra is Alix also, and the late king was known to his rela- lives as "Bertie." The dignified Ger man kaiser is never called anything George has even called him Bill. , George himself is always "Georgie" to his family.
 Queen Mary was once known as May" but has abandoned that name and signs her family letters now "Toria." The queen of Norway is "Au- die," of "Maudie,' and the Duchess of Fife is Louie" Her sister, Princess Victoria. is known as "Vieky," while the late Duke of Clarence was always Eddy"
 The Duke of connaught, once known as Pat has in later years preferred his rightful Arthur. Princess Henry of Battenberg, mother of the Queen of Spain. is "Trixie," always to her own family, while her son-in law re- joices in the nickname of either Al fife" or "Phonso."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Nothing is better known than that some persons have a keen sense of direction, while others have not; and yet everyone is apt to "get turned around' sometimes, losing the correct judgment of direction. When such an error is made the person who has become turned around' is un- der the necessity of being set right The French have a special term for this one who establishes his direction Is said to s'orlenter, which means literally "to <ast oneself" and the sense of direction is called "orientation, word which the English language has borrowed.
 The tendency of the nglish-speaking people however, is tosuse the north as a starting point of direction, rather than the east A people whose ancestors have lived chiefly inland like the Romans and the French, think naturally of the rising of the sun as giving the central point of direction A seafaring race, on the con- trary, looks to the North Star as the one fixed, unchangeable point, sure to guide q ship accurately. So a person of the Anglo-Saxon race is almost sure to ask, when turned around" (Which way is north?'
 , When one has found the North Star or seen the run rise or set. after being turned around is he really set right in his own sense of direction? One may easily make a mistake, specially Tn a city or within a house, and even become turned clean around making north seem south. and east west. When he is corrected it is within his power to make the direction seem right.
 There is a great difference between individuals in this respect. Some are instantly conscious of the points of the compass wherever they may be; they may err, but they cannot avoid the sense for moment that one way is north and another south. Others sell dom give the directions in strange place a thought until they are in- formed. and such persons find 1t hard to understand the case of others, who, though living for years in a place, where they have once been turned around" never can make the point seem right" and are much distressed by the fact.
 There is reason to believe the per sons who find it hard to escape from an error of this sort are really the ones who have the keenest sense of direc- tion They are acutely conscious of di- recton. and when they have made a mistake find the impression so deep 1t cannot be shaken off. Such persons errors are apt to be few, and to be made in towns and the interiors of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09

ma agnificent physique carried him through safely. For weeks Bresnahan was gun shy and backed away f,om the plate. But he oyercame this fault in a short while and now stands as close to the pan as common sense will allow.
 Bresnahan was born in Ireland June l4, 1880, and came to this country at an early age. He played baseball while at tending school. In 1897 he secured an en- gagement with the Washington National league team. He was re-engaged the fol- lowing season and in 1899 he joined the Minneapolis Western, league team. In 1900 he played with the Chicago Nation als. Manager McGraw, then with Balti- more. picked up Roger the following year. Bresnahan was engaged as pitcher, but In an emergency he was placed behind the bat. That was the end of" Bresnahan as a pitcher. He performed so well as a backstop that he was retained to occupy that position regularly McGraw brought Bresnahan to the Giants with him, and remained here until the mammoth swap, which sent him to the Mound City and opened a path for him to become one of the best managers in the game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Superba Fans Angry

Brooklyn, July S.-The police had to es- cort Umpire lFrary off the field today fol- lowhing a shower of pop bottles and glasses in the ninth inning. The game was close throughout and was marked
 bv decisions that displeased the home crowd and players. The real trouble started when D3ubert was declared out at the plate in the fifth and culninated in the ninth when the home players thought Wagner should have been called out on strikes. Wagner followed witt, a. hit that eventually won the game, Frary ordered the Brooklyn bench cleared of the respective players. who marched down the field headed ny the mascot, while the crowd threw many missiles at Frary. After the broken glass had been removed, the game was played out to a Pittsburg victory by to l. Wagner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
DOYLE DEFEATS
 SMITH EASILY

Atlanta, July S.-Conrad Doyle of Wash ington D. C., south n singles tennis champion successfully defended his title against the challenger, Carlton Y Smith of Atlanta, this morning. He won in three straight sets, 6-2; 6-4 and 6-2.
 The championship play in the doubles will be played this afternoon between Grant and Carter of Atlanta and Doyle and Doyle of Washington. The latter are the title holders
 Mrs. Sanders Taylor of Brooklyn. N. Y,, holder of the woman's singles title will defend it against Miss Murphy of New Orleans today. As Miss Turle, Mrs Taylor wdn the championship last year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Chips of Truth

From the Washington Post
 Many a man cooks his own goose in the heat of passion.
 One crow destroys 100000 insects a year. a year.
 Sentiment is strong mans conceal ment of what he feels, while sentiment tality Is a weak one's expression of what he does not feel
 MT. Roosevelt's only superstitution is the "13" one.
 Every tailor knows lot of promis- ing young men.
 A young crocodile, on emerging from the egg, starts instinctively for the nearest body of water, even though 1t Is not in sight.
 Where there's a will there's way to break 1t.
 Denmark claims that there is not a single adult person in her domain who cannot read and write.
 A fortune hunting girl evidently be- lieves that her husbands means will justify her ends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Barkis on the Job

From the Philadelphia Saturday Evening
 Post.
 A New York newspaper wired its Wash ington office: Suggest a good man to go with Roosevelt for the paper on his long trip west"
 The man in charge of the bureau see- ing a good trip ahead, wired back: 'Barkis is willin'."
 'Who is this new man Barllis we've got over in the Washington office?" asked the telegraph editor of the managing editor when the dispatch came in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
R.H.E
Cards Take Third From Phillies

Philadelphia, July S.-St. Louis won to- days game 6to ? making three straights over the home team. The visitors punched seven of their nine hits in three innings. Only one hit was made off Steele in the first seven innings. Magee was benched at the end of the first inning for dis putting decision. Score: R.H E. St. Louis .............. 000 001 203-6 Philadelphia ............ GOO coo 020-2 2
 Batteries: Steele and Bresnahan; Burns, Humphres and Dooin. Time two hours. Empires, Johnstone and Eason.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
R. c. CIIRBON

R. C. Cubbpn, physical director of the local Young Mems Christian asociation has resigned in order to accept call from the Providence Young Mems Chris tian association, Since coming to Bir- mingham lee l,ns had two calls from Gin cinnatf and one from Hartford.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
A. G. s. Wins

The shop team of the Alabama Great Southern railroad took one-sided game from the North Highlands crack team by score of 10 to ?. The feature was the slugging of the Alagama Great Southern boys. who touched up Mir Tar rant for 15 hits. Batteries: North High lands, Tarrant and Davis; Alabama Great Southern. Knight and Bragan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Flynn to Complete Arrangements

Peublo,' Col. July S.--Jim Flynn will leave today for New York to make def mite arrangements for his meeting with Carl Morris, the white mans hope" having received a telegram to come east from Morris mana ger. While there was nothing definite in the telegram, it is be- lieved that aA effort will be made to stage the fight in New i ork.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Giants Take First Place

New York. July S.-The Giants as- sumed first place in the National league race today by defeating Chicago to ?, in game in which the Cubs errors proved costly. Marquard not only pitched effectively for the Giants, but made a home run off Mcintyre in the third in ming Score: te1 R.H F.. Chicago ............. 020 nO0 000-2 9 1 New York .....-......... col GOA O0s-o 8 ?
 Batteries: Mcintyre. Brown, Cole and Archer; Marquard and Myers. Time, 2:l0. Empires, I<lem and Brennan,r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
CLOTHES FOR ALL BOYS CUT-IN-PRICE--At

Today we talk to bar gain-seekers, , particularly. those who have sought" elsewhere and not found. y " Bargain is a much abused word. When Boys Suit worth $10 is marked $15. then reduced to $10, it is a " bargain.' , But not at Blach s. Webster's defini- ton of a bargain. An ad- vantageous purchase, ;" is the only one we know at Blach $. "Fair & Square"- cash prices and better values come and see. You'll buy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Reds Win Fast Game

In one of the cleverest and fastest games of the season the First Presby- terian team of the Sunday School Attn letc association defeated the First Meth odist Episcopal by the score of to f. Batteries: First Presbyteran. Templeton and Ganong: First Methodist Episcopal. Jones and Owens
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Magalene Crew Wins Cup

Henley y-on-the-Thames, July S-The Magalene college crew which yesterday defeated the Ottowa Rowing clubs eights today won the grand challenge cup, beat ing Jesuit college. Cambridge, in the final by two and onc-fourth lengths. The time was minutes and 70 seconds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
The AgitatOr

From the Louisville Herald
 Anybody can find fault said the eastern statesman.
 Yes, replied the man from the west, but it takes a wise and lucky political prospector to find it in paying quantities. v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09

tra today? The only familiar signs are the criticism of the umpire and the German names in the Athletic lineup.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09

was the main performer, scoring two runs, one a homer in the second. Both pitchers were effective, not base on balls being given. Score: RH.E. Pittsburg .......... 010 coo 012-3 s 2 Brooklyn ............... 0UO Ol0 0OU--l b !
 Batteries: Lefeld and simon; Schardt and Bergen. Time, :50. Empires, Frary and Emslie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
NATIONAL LEAGUE
STANDING
Reds Beat McTigue

Boston, July S.-McTigue's wildness in the first inning of todays game when he issued four passes and was hit safely twice paved the way for Cincinnatis vic- tory II to :, though the Boston team bat ted Keefe hard throughout the game. Four of Bostons and five of Cincinnati's hits were for extra bases. Score:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
MANAGER ROGER BRESNAHAN CAUSING
 GREAT FURORE IN BASEBALL CIRCLES
By W. S, FARNswORTH

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09

Blue Serges are included in all prices from $4.89 up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Boys Shirts and Blouses

soc Soft Collar Shirts .39c $1.00 Soft Collar Shirts .79c $1.00 Soft Shirts without collar 79c $1.50 Soft Shirts without collar $1.19 Detachable "Soft Collars" to match
 these two styles, 19c extra)
 S2.00 Soft Collar Shirts ....$1.29 50c Blouses, 35c; for ........$1.oo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Children'S Straw Hats

$1.50 Straw Hats ...........95 95c $2.00 Straw Hats $1.3e Choice of any Straw Hat in the
 Boys Store up to $4.oo ChiIdren's Hats ........................$1.99
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Boys Straw Hats

Boys S1.00 Straw Hats ...... .79c
 Boys $1.50 Straw Hats ....$1.19
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Boys Wool Suits

Russians for the little fellows.
 Double-breasted for other ones
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
Boys Wash Suits Russians, 21a to 6 years Blouses, 5 to 10 years

Boys Knicker Pants 39c for 50c Knickers. q 79c for S100 Knickers. $1.19 for $1.50 Knickers. $1.39 for $1.50 Kickers. $1.a9 for $2.50 Knickers. Blue Serge knickerbockers are in-
 cIuded from $1.1s up
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-02-02
The Reason Why.

The Sigourney A.eview is amazed
at the grocery advertisements in the
Express, and calls upon us to tell
why. Well, the principal reason is
that it seems to pay Knoxville gro
GERS to ADVERTISE. One firm doubled
it's business last year by reason Of
the page and half-page advertise
ments which it inserted. There is
no question that the business
doubled, right in the same store
room, and the proprietors say that
they feel that newspaper advertis-
ing did nearly all of it. OF course,
we have doubling Thomases right
here in Knoxville as well as in other
towns-grocers who think it don't
pay to advertise. But that does not
affect the bank accounts of those
who do advertise and get the trade.
The "Larkin Clubs" 80 freely refer
red to by the Review, are in Knox
vile almost thing of the past, and
the reason is obvious: They sell
cheap groceries at high price and
give cheap furniture, etc., as premi-
ums, but when woman has the
prices of groceries before her every
week in the newspaper she can no
longer be fooled; she can see that
she is paying for all her premiums
and paying a high price, too. The
trouble with most grocers in Sigour-
ney and elsewhere is that they think
they can run gum-shoe campaign
against the brass band warfare of
Larkin and big department stores.
The natural and reasonable result is
that while the grocer saves his ad-
vertising expense his trade quietly
leaves town.
The non-advertising grocers in Sig
Quincy haven't any idea how much
trade can be attracted by low prices
and letting the people know them.
If they would let the bars down and
publish low prices in the Sigourney
newspapers, the people will be drawn
TO Sigourney who haven't been there
for three months, and their neigh
bors in town will cut out the Larkin
habit; but if these grocers keep up
prices their customers will fall away
to more enterprising towns and to
Larkin clubs and to every place that
offers inducements and invites trade.
The Larkin clubs are not hurting
knoxville grocery trade, and another
year of grocery advertising will ex-
terminate the last of them, because
they are not profitable for the pur-
chaser.-Knoxville Express.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-02-02
Decay of the Country Church.

Is the country church to disap-
pear? is question put by mission
airy of the American Sunday School
Union, Mr.. j. w. Mexican. Mr.. Nc
Kean is merely emphasizing condi-
tions which already have been rec
OgniZed.
A staff correspondent for the Star
travelling through Missouri last Oct
ober, wrote on the passing of the
country church. In Boone county
had been abandoned in the last ten
years: Dean Mumford,. Of the de-
partment of agriculture of the Mis-
souri, State University, and G.. B. Ell
lis, for ten years secretary of the
state board of agriculture, agreed
that conditions in Boone county We're
typical of those throughout the state.
One reason, they believed, was the
removal of many of the substantial
families to the towns, which left too
heavy a pecuniary burden for those.
that were left to carry. Mr.. Mexican
suggests that the troub lie is q failure
on the part of the parishers to re-
alize that ministers cannot live on
pumpkins and beans with now and
then a few dollars thrown in
But if people neglect an establish
ed institution and fail to- support it,
the natural inference is that in some
way it is getting out of touch with
it's constituents, and falling to meet
their needs. In this case is the
trouble with the community or with
the church, or is it due to unavoid-
able natural causes? Whatever the
cause the phenomenon is important.
The church has been a great ideal
istic influence in the country. Is
this to flicker out, and if SO, what is
to take it's place.-Kansas City Star.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-02-02
What is Land Worth; How to Esti-
't-* mate Value.

What is a farm worth? Perhaps
you answer, What it will bring"
But is that correct? Suppose that
Brown has a farm that he considers
worth one hundred dollars per acre.
1t will produce about so much of
corn and wheat and hay. Two or
three years pass by and through
speculative advances he finds he can
sell that farm for $3.50 per acre. Is
it really worth any more than it
was before? Is not the true meas
ure of commercial value what it will
produce? To the man who does not
want to sell his farm it makes no
difference whether you call it $25
per acre or 5000 per acre. The
growing corn and wheat and pigs
and apples will grow just as lux
uriantly in the one case as the other.
Suppose Mr.. Browns farm of 100
acres brings him enough to pay his
taxes, fair-salary for himself, and
the varied running expenses of the
farm and leaves him $3.50 ahead.
Then if money is considered to be
worth six per cent the land will be
worth just 500 per acre, will it
not? If that is not figured right
figure it yourself.
Suppose that man pays $4,000
for farm (150 per acre) how much
must it produce to make profit on
the investment?
Suppose that you buy farm to
keep, that you have no idea of
specializing on it and don't care what
folks say it is worth after you get
it, how much would you pay for it?
Just what the investment would pay
you in farm products.
A farm may have sentimental
value-you just want it for home
or because you are attached to it.
That value is just such value as
you might put on your dog or your
cat-considerable to you but moth
ing for salable purposes. But your
horse, that you do not intend to sell
has an actual commercial value be-
cause it's labor brings you returns
in dollars and cents. That is the
kind of value to attach to farm is
it not? Eliminate speculation and
sentiment and then tell us what
your farm is worth-just what it
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