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To Make Fruit Jar Rubbers Last.

To have fruit jar rubbers last, keep
them well covered in a jar full Of flour
until used, and as soon as removed
from empty Jars. One can then afford
good quality of rubbers, as kept
thus they will safely last several sea-
sons. When there is doubt OF old
rubbers, they may often be made to
exc out one more season by using two
Of the rubbers to each Jar and screw
ing down tight. Always stand newly
filed jars upside down until cool, to
test the tops and rubbers.--Designer
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Let Him Do The Guessing

"Gargle your throat with cooking
soda, and l think you will be able to
go to your dinner"
who is this speaking?" asked Mrs.
Brown, startled.
"Oh, that you will never know" an
swered the voice.
Mrs. Brown was greatly amused and
decided to try the remedy. Her
throat improved and she went to the
party. During dinner. she CHANGED
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-07-13
cow STALL is COMFORTABLE
Distinguishing Feature of 6idweIf
Type Is Movable Manager and
Rack-Chain Across Rear.

(By GEORGE p. CIRCUIT. Minnesota Uni,
49,, versity Farm)
inc "Bfdwell" style of stall affords
the greatest degree of comfort to the
COW. The distinguishing features of
this stall are the movable manger and
rack, whereby the length of the stand
ing-room fore and aft may be varied
to suit the individual cow, and the
fastening for the COW, which consists
OF rope or chain across the rear
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-07-13
A Glad Relief.

THANK heaven, those bills are got
rid Of" said Bilkins, fervently, as he
tore up bundle of statements Of ac-
count dated October 1.
"A1l paid, eh?" said Mrs. Bilkins
"Oh, no." said Bilkins. "The dupli-
Gates dated November 1 have come IN
and / don't have to keep these any
lopger. @-Harper's Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-07-13

time that catcher throws the ball back to the
pitcher until he delivers it again, a 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, 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. recall funny instance
of HAL" Chase making Ira Thomas look like
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Mrs. Brown, 1t Must Be Concsded,
Had by Far the Better End
of the Joke.

Mrs. Brown, telephoning to friend
one morning, happened to say:
81 have such a bad sore throat, I'm
AFRAID / cannot go to that dinner-party
tomorrow night
Just then something went wrong
with the connection, and she heard 8
strange voice broak in:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-07-13
CAN WASHER AND POLISHER
Brush Arrangement for Cleaning In
terlor Of Milk Vessels Is Among
Latest Of inventions.

A brush arrangement for cleaning
the interior of milk cans is shown in
the illustration. The device is at
tached over a water receptacle IN
such position that certain amount OF
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Extravaqa

Ada-Cholly Saphedde was in .
brown study the other day, and ! of
fered him a penny for his thoughts.
Edith-You spendthrift! You never
did know the value of money!
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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 splitter"
Young invented this trick and applies it oc-
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water may enter the can after the lat
ter has been pushed into position
over the bushes. The milk cans may
be whirled by hand around the
brushes, or may be held stationary
while the brushes are rotated.
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spect, and remark dropped by him will give
a batter the key to the situation which will
enable him to outguess the pitcher. thing
of this sort happened to me in Chicago one
day last season, with Walsh pitching and
Payne catching
Payne dropped remark, which set my mind
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for four or i've days
at q time every
month, and so weak
i could hardly walk.
l cramped and had
backache and head
ache, and was so
nervous and weak
that I dreaded to
see anyone or have
anyone move in the
room. The doctors
gave me medicine to
ease mo of fhnSn
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Working in combination to outguess the bat
tiers, a catcher will often help a pitcher out
by talking necessarily, hoping in this way 20
distract hitter's 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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a sort Of instinct which some players have and
others never attain. man seems to do 1t oy
intuition and often cannot tell just what con-
crete hypothesis leads him to reach certain
conclusion. But believe me, 1t is a great art for
a ball player to have, great art, and one to
be cultivated.
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Good Care of Calves.

By good fed and care or the lack
of it, it is easy to make variation
of 81 to So or even $40 per head In the
value of the calf the first year.
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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. 1t 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 preliminaries Of knock
ing the dirt out of his spikes, fix
ing his hat the firmer, as If he
expected to take 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
0f his nose
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-07-13

TWO SCr1KeS ana one DILL Oh NE AL
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 it 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, l 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, it broke across my letters, a
beautiful strike, and l had not
even taken my bat off my Shout
der. ICY" had dished up a spit
ter from somewhere in his as
sortment, and I didn't even know
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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 a timely base
hit. The conditions and circumstances Of the
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profitabIe Annie Culture.

Soil, situation and selection and an
enthusiastic, gritty man make safe
combination-or trust--for profitable
apple culture.
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ooh, that you will never know" an
swered Mrs. Brown, laughing, and
rang off.-Lippincott's.
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hit are not likely to occur often in
a game with Walsh pitching. He
is spit ball pitcher entirely. He
uses his splitter" and fast ball
with no curves On this occasion,
Payne signalled for either spit
ball or a fast one, I 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 one?" Payne
mumbled in his mask, but loudly
enough for me to hear as he 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, If 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. l try never to pay
any attention to the monologue of
a catcher, but Payne is naturally a
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Modern Ethics.

Do not kick man when he is down.
Turn him over and feel In the other
pocket.-Galveston News.
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verse English on it. It was case of him out
guessing me. The veteran Cleveland pitcher
is as different from Walsh, in his style, white
is from black. "Cy" relies on a curve and
fast ball, never using splitter Young had
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ing right He has almost clairvoyant ability
to outguess pitcher.
In some games, l 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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he repeated the old sign very de-
liberately.
What" exclaimed Ira, you're
not giving me that sign, thinking
I'm not jerry to it?"
That's right, Ira," answered
Chase carelessly. II had forgot
ten you knew, but it goes any
way"
This conversation was carried
on while Plank was paving
around in the box and preparing
to pitch. AS the tall southpaw
wound up, Daniel started in from
third base. Plank delivered a
perfect strike, and Chase half
hunted and hale hit the ball, which
allowed Daniels to score. HAL
had beaten Thomas at his own
game. He had given a sign that
Thomas knew, and which the lat
ter did not for a moment think
had been passed out seriously.
Therefore Ira did not signal for a
pitchout as he would have done
IF he had guessed the play was
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-07-13
SEVEN
YEARS OF
MISERY
All Relieved by Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound.

Slkeston, Mo. -"For seven years
suffered everything. / was in bed
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coming Thus Chase double-crossed Ira.
ball player is trying to outguess the pitcher
from the time he leaves the bench until he
sits down again. He doesn't terminate his
engagement at the plate. AS soon as bats
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SL0pb, WduCb AAIO SAO 0S%AA1 ~sN~
"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 l ever saw who appa-
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
a ball. He is one batter in a 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 f1elders, In
baseball parlance ito cross" his OPP
ponents, a legitimate procedure. Ii
he thinks that the third baseman
expects a bunt, he will hit it 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,
ond hocausa ha is constantly guess
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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
of in that series. He had no con-
fidence in the numbering Mitchell
to handle his "spitters," to think
fast; in short, to outguess the bat
ters.
Some catchers have a 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
from the Cubs. He seemed to
want to distract attention from
the pitcher. A favorite line of
his was:
Now, let's try him on a fast
one"
IT ia sort of on unwritfap low
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1uIO oil dl uLncnlt 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. Well, you are
not up against American
league catchers now, young
fellow. Let's see you steal a
base if you get down"
l paid no attention to him,
although he evidently hoped
that l would turn around and
reply, so that l would be
caught off my guard. And
not in conceit, but, as a his
torian, I relate the sequel. 1
did get down to first base,
and by pretending l was go
ing to steal, made him signal
to Overall to waste two balls.
Then, when he had to put a
strike over, l went down.
Sometimes a catcher will
Oyerplav his part in this re-
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itely the sort of a ball to be de-
livered. These little physical
eccentricities are true induces
and often cost men, who would
otherwise be successful pitch
ers, many games. 1t may be
the twist Of the wrist in throw
ing a curve ball, or some motion
of the foot peculiar to a spit
ter" that divulges the essential
secret. This tell-tale sign is
fatal to pitcher, when players
get on to it, and it usually does
not take his opponents long to
discover and associate it with a
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"whisker" trimmer of his, which
Is a 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 the
ball, because it is generally known
that he is pitching at 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
I can recall. OF course, self-eOn-
fidence is an absolute necessity to
any successful hitter, but the
Cleveland second baseman Is more
chock full of reliance in his own
batting ability than any other
player I know. 1t is not conceit,
just faith in his eye. He shufties
out to the plate, almost carelessly,
and bangs his bat down two or
three times as If to say to the
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catcher. In only few instances
does the pitcher give the signals.
So much faith have some pitchers
In certain catchers that they pitch
altogether a different brand of base
ball 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-
chanical.
Krause ranPed ten straight vic
tories in a 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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What are you going to do, Hal" asked lra
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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casionally to great advantage, have learned
since, catching a 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 ball where he wants it. That
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There is a great diff
ference In pitchers. Some
are easy to outguess,
and others are as bad as
a jig-saw puzzle, and I
never worked out one
of those in my life. I
know some men who
have mannerisms in the
box which betray def1n-
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eleventh. and it 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
post-season series with the Giants. In the
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IL is SORT OF an unWrlCten law
of baseball to let the first one go by to get
look at the style. King would say:
He liked the looks of that. Let's try him
on another" Then up would come curve.
A favorite trick of his is to get the batter
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by Payne. He can't intend to waste
ball, reasoned, because the man
is on third, and he doesn't think
he Is going to try to steal. Then
it struck me.
Can it be curve?" 1 asked my
self surprised. But he never
throws one," 1 argued in my mind.
Then I remembered the surprise
betrayed in Payne's You don't
want this one" TIE remark, mum
bled In his mask, had supplied the
key. ] took a chance. 1t was a
curve, and / called the turn. 1t
was the first and last one Walsh
ever threw Inc, 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 ICY" Young, one of the
Solons of baseball, crossed me once
g. oI,,ooc+ %ho Soma WOW with ro-
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reticent man, and his remark surprised me.
Walsh had refused to pitch until he had re
ceived a certain sign. This made me thinI
that it was not going to be splitter" or
fast one, evidently the first two signals given
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shakes his head. Successful men behind the
bat in the big leagues have made careful
study of batters, their grooves" and man
nerisms, and it is on this knowledge that a
pitcher depends. Therefore, in the majority
of cases, it is the batter outguessing the
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"Toss one up here and hurry up about 1t.
I'm not particular"
He seldom let's the first one go past nlm'
He gets his poise, takes couple OF snort
steps. wades into the ball. and bang!
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A4oA OCNOAAOO - D~"ON S~N1 ~~~
object is advancement
Every ball player knows ex-
actly how much of a lead he can
take off first base on a certain
pitcher and not get caught. There
are recognized standards in the
big leagues. For instance. know
that 1 can go fifteen feet away
from the bag and get safely back
with doc" White of Chicago
pitching, but if l go a step over
ten feet on Walsh of the same
club 1 will probably get nipped.
1 can't exactly explain what 1
mean, but when / once get &C
customed to a pitchers delivery,
I know how far to venture.
In base running, I believe
that the secret OF
success Is the start,
absolutely. Speed is
e~~ great asset, but
the start is every
thing.
Outguessing h g
pitcher and catcher is
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-13
GRIsTLE BREAD.
A Favorits In Norway and In Parts Of

A Favorits In Norway and In Parts Of
Germany.
'What is gristle bread? Why. that
said baker, lis kind Of bread that
is peculiar to Norway and to some
parts Of Germany. In Norway it has
been made for many years, and here
there are bakeries in which it Is made
for Norwegian patrons who still pre-
fer 1t wherever they may be.
I'm making gristle bread the loaves
when first formed up from the dough
are laid on boards and put through al
extra heated oven in which there is
baked on them an outer crust or skin
the gristle. Then the loaves are turn
ed over and put through the over
again, so that the gristle may be baked
all over them. This quick oven makes
only that outer crust on the loaves
which are then placed in another over
for their. final complete baking.
"Originally in Norway gristle breat
was made Of rye -four only. In this
country there was a demand for {
handsomer and larger loaf. and whea'
-four was mixed with the rye, as has
now to some extent come to be the Gus
tom in Norway also. Here the pro
portions now used are about half ant
half, the result being a bigger loaf OF
the same weight as one Of all rye.
"Gristle bread costs more than or
binary bread because Of the greater
time dnd labor required in making It. ,
New York Sun.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-13
WOULD HAVE BEEN
PAID WITH FAv0RS
Illinois Scion Admits He Was
Offered Reward to Vote
for Lorimer.
(National News Association)

CHICAGO, Oct. 13.-Former State
Representative Henry A. Shepard, of
Jerseyville, Ills. admitted receiving Of
fers of political patronage in return
for his vote for VIM. Lorimer for Unit
ed States senator when questioned to-
day by the senate committee, which is
Investigating the Lorimer scandal
Sheard was the first witness called
Others who were in the court room,
ready to testify, were Rep. Harry E.
Whelan of Rock Island; Rep. l.. j.
Pierson, of Wilmette and State Sena
tor E. j. Glackin, of Chicago.
Shepard declared on the witness
stand that he was promised by Sena
tor Lorimer that neither OF two of his
most bitter political enemies would be
appointed as postmaster at Jerseyville
Ills. In return for this promise, he
voted for Lorimer, he said. He de-
MED having received any money for
his vote.
Senator Lorimer was again in the
court room when the days session OF
the investigation began. He was sur
rounded by number of his close
friends. The senator watches the tes
timony of each witness very closely
and often aids his attorneys by sug
costing questions.