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upon him to hold down the cushion this year there will be no sulking on the part of Donln. On the contrary he will jump at the opportunity.
 A change has come over the baseball world. The ability of McGraw, Chance, Clarke, Bresnahan, Mack and Jennings to keep their men up In front through thick and thin for long period of years has attracted an extraordinary amount of attention to the managerial berth. So 1t has come to pass that when a team does poorly the first demand of the fans is for a new manager
 In adding Chicago to it's circuit the United States league has filled the last vacancy. and the start will be made in May with eight clubs. The Chicago fran chise was granted after Charley White had given up the ghost in New York. and while the jump from Washington to l Chicago is usually long for a new league the chances of a good reception in the Illinois metropolis is better than 1t would have been in New York.
 It makes little difference how Griffith finally shapes up his squad for 1912 Wash ington will show probably to greater ex- tent than any club other than St. Louis response to the present general demand for new blood As 1t stands now, be- fore the cuts are made. there are only six players of about 30 men on the clubs reverse list, who have been with Wash ington more than two seasons. Three of these are pitchers. The other three. Milan. Mcbride and Schaefer may be re- garded as fixtures.
 No man on the roster has been on the clubs pay roll for/ five complete sea- sons. Johnson, who Is now the senior member of the force, having joined in mid-season of 1at,.
 Mrs. Helen Britton, Of St. Louis, the only woman baseball magnate in the world, has a rival in Miss Sadie N Hayes who has just been elected assist ant secretary of the Lynn Greater Bos- ton Baseball team. Miss Hayes Is a real tried and true fan and according to one science"
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ChampiOns Play

New York, April1o-Two former cham pions, Joshua Crane of Boston and Vane Pennell of England, survived the semi final rounds of the amateur court tennis tournament today. They will meet tomor- row in the final. the winner qualifying to meet Jay Gould for the national cham pionship title on Saturday.
 Both of today's matches went the limit Of five sets and some brilliant play was witnessed.
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WITH EVERY CITY REPRE- SENTED, DIRECTORS MET YES- TERDAY AT MORRIS HOTEL. NO CHANGE IN SCHEDULE

To consider the new schedule of the first half of the 1912 season. the directors of the Southeastern league met yesterday morning in Birmingham.
 After working for several hours, 1t was decided that the schedule, as originally drafted, was very good, indeed. As a consequence, not a single change was made.
 Those who met with President Roberts were c. H. Mitchell of Anniston, B. R. Howard of Selma, Joseph J. Bradley of Huntsville F. c. Manasco of Bessemer, w. J. Boykin of Gadsden, and R. A. Dem ny and J. B. Patten of Rome.
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GOOD WEATHER FOR
 OPENING OF LEAGUE

Louisville, Ky, April 10-A clear warm sun smiled today in four cities upon the opening games of the American assoca- ton baseball season. Minneapolis is playing at Louisville, St. Paul at Indian apolis, Milwaukee at Toledo, and Kansas City at Columbus, o.
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MONTGOMERY FANS
 COMING TO ROOT

Montgomery, April 10-John Dobbs will open in Birmingham tomorrow in the frst game in the championship series of the Southern league.
 The team Is in good condition and every fan of, the capital city is opt- mistic over the outlook for the season. A large contingent of Montgomery baseball fans will attend the initial
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FINS GOES TO GAYLESBURG AND GADSDEN DRAWS PITCHERS
 RANDALL AND KANE-BUT
 EIGHTEEN BARONS NOW

The ax was falling throughout yester- day in the Baron camp, and as a result there are but IS of the faithful left.
 First Baseman Ems was sold to Gayles- burg at 10 o'clock.
 At noon Pitcher Randall was farmed out to Gadsden of the Southeastern league.
 At 1 o'clock a deal was closed whereby Gadsden came in possession of Pitcher Kane.
 At 2:30 o'clock Jimmy Wall, third base man, was released outright.
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THE BARONS AND BILLIKENS
 APPEAR ON RICKWOOD TODAY
Everybody Going to Redwood

this will day of the Southern League.
 Birmingham mette Bminghan's reputation s for make more faithful any city
 Let every Birmingham Redwood appeal the
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American Association
At Louisville

At Louisville: Louisville A. Minneapolis c.
 At Columbus: Columbus 10 Kansas City s.
 At Toledo: Toledo 6, Milwaukee 5 At Indianapolis: Indianapolis 6. St. Paul 7
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AIoha Wins

New York, April 10.-Bob Moha of Mill waukee won his third bout in the east tonight by outfighting Fred Hicks of De- troit in seve nof 10 rounds Moha at the ringside weighed 1634 pounds. and Hicks just q quarter of a pound less.
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---------'s.----------- BLECKLER BEATS
 SILVERIO IN BOUT

Boston, April 1O--A special bout, between SiYerio and Charles Bleckler of New Or leans, who was defeated last night in the trials of the 15S-pound class, was won by Bleckler. The men went three fast rounds.
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-----ses-------- ENGLISH LOSES TO
 PERRY WITH EASE

Atlanta, April 10.-Jimmy Perry of Pittsburg was awarded the reception in a 10-round bout here last night with Clar- ence English of St. Joseph, Mo. Perry outclassed his opponent.
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contest at Birmingham and will root" for the players of Manager Dobbs
 The line up as announced by Dobbs for the opening game Stingle, cf. ; Wares, ss.; Dansig, 1b. Elwert, 2b. McElveen, 3b. Williams, If; Gribbens, C.; Manning, If; Herbert or Aitchi- son. D.
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Draw at Charleston

Charleston. April 10.-Billy Griffith, Welter weight of Cincinnati, and Tommy Sullivan, light heavyweight of Lawrence Mass, fought 10 rounds to a draw here tonight
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BOX SCORES OF THE
 GAMES AT AUBURN
FIRST GAME.

Auburn, April 10.-(Special.)-The fol- lowing are the box scores of yesterday s games at Auburn:
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ENAMEL THE STOVE PIPE Before putting it away. Prevents rust nnd decay. Acme Quality Paint Store, 2015 3d avenue.
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DoBBs SIGNS PITCHER

Johnny Dobbs, manager of the Billikens, has signed a new pitcher. The new man is Moser, whom Dobbs secured from the Pacific Coast league. Moser was one of the premier hurlers in that league during the 1910 season. The new man has strong inducements and he is expected to prove one of the best pitchers in the Southern league this season.
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Faireloth ', McGruder 1. Bases on balls. Davenport 3, McGruder 1, Faircloth 2. Home run. Davenport. Hit by pitcher, Faircloth 1.
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Auburn .002 09s-s
 Summary: Struck ont. Cantley f. len nings 1. Bases on balls. Cantlev 3. Jen- hines l. Balk. Jennings l. Umpire Me Farland.
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Mike Donlin figures as strong first base possibility for Pittsburg. It Is predicted that whe nthe Pirates start Mike will get many trials on the sack, and that from the very outset he will be considered along with kolliher and keene as a can didate for custodian of the No 1 pillow
 Mike Is not stranger to the position He played lt-and played it we'll during the summer of 19O1. If Fred Clarke calls
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a NEW LINE OF EXPORTS.

The growth in exports of aero
planes. automobiles, and motion pic
ture films has been especially rapid
The record of exports of aeroplanes
and motion picture films only began
with the present fiscal year, and com
parsons By years are not, therefore,
possible. OF automobiles, however.
the record extends back to the fiscal
year. 1902 During that period the ex-
ports have grown from s94s.52S in
1901 to s17,594.366, in 1911 inclusive
of automobile tires.
For the fiscal year now approaching
its close the total exports of automo-
biles and parts, will approximate, If
not exceed, % million dollars in value.
In the meantime imports of automo-
biles have grown at a less rapid pace,
from $4,000 in the fiscal year 1902
10 s2.250. 759 in 1911, and an indicated
total of approximately s2,5oo.o0o IN
the fiscal year 1912 The import fig.
ure for 1912 is. in fact, much less than
that OF the fiscal year 1907, when the
total was nearly five million dollars,
thus indicating marked decline In re
cent years in importations. though the
growth in expectation during the
same period has been very large
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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NGVvS ~ tiss-
Important features on the political
calendar of the week will include the
following:
Monday-R Republican territorial con-
yention of Hawaii, at Honolulu, to Sc
lect delegates to the national conven-
ton.
Republican state conven-
ton of Connecticut, at New Haven, to
select delegates to the national con-
vention. Republican state convention
of Delaware, at Dover. to select dele
gates to the national convention.
Wednesday, District conventions of
Republicans in Connecticut to select
delegates to the national convention.
District conventions of all parties in
Illinois to select delegates to the ma
tional conve ntions. Democratic state
convention of Alabama, at Montgom-
cry. to select delegates to the nation
al convention.
Friday-Direct primaries of all par
| ties in Nebraska to select delegates 10
the national conventions and name
candidates for United States senator
and state officers. Direct primaries
of all parties in Oregon to select dele
gates to the national conventions and
express preference for United States
senator. State conventions of all par
ties in Illinois to select the delegates
at-large to the national conventions
Nearly all OF the presidential asplr-
j ants will be in the field during the
week Colonel Roosevelt is expected
to confine his activities to the eastern
state. Woodrow Wilson will speak
i in Georgia and Florida. Governor Har-
mon in the middle west and Senator
] La Toilette in the far west. William j.
Bryan will add to the gayety of the
situation by speaking against Harmon
in the latter's home state.
The unwilling of the statue erected
4 in the national capital in memory of
John Paul Jones, the revolutionary
naval hero, is fixed for Wednesday
and will be made an occasion for i'm
pressive military and civic exercises
in which President Taft and other
notables will take part
The conservation of Father Austin
bowling as Roman Catholic bishop Of
Des Moines will take place Thursday
in the cathedral in Providence, R. l.,
with Bisiop Harkins officiating as the
! consecrating prelate.
A central eclipse OF the sun rs
scheduled to take place early Wednes-
day morning, Visible as a partial
eclipse in the eastern portion Of the
United States and Canada.
] The conventions of the week will
include the Episcopal church congress
in ST Louis, the conservation con
gress of the men and religion forward
movement in New York City, the
national convention of the Daughters
of the American Revolution In Wash
ington, and the international conf r
ence on the negro at Tuskegee, Ala
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IOWA TWENTY THIRD
ON POSTAL BANKS
Holds the Record for the "skIdoo'
Number In the Postal Bank
Business.

WASHINGTON D. c., April 15.--
The postoffice department has given
out this statement on Iowa postal
banks:
Jan. 81. 1912.There are 2ss postal
savings repositories in operation In
Iowa with deposits amounting to over
s125.000 This amount was deposited
by about 1000 depositors, or an aver
age of $6S per depositor. Since the
opening of postal savings repositories
in Iowa there have been approximate
ly $500 accounts opened and more
than 5000 deposits made, or an aver
age of less than one to each two de-
positors.
Compared with the number of de-
positors and amount on deposit with
other states. Iowa ranks twenty third
in number of accounts remaining open
Jan. 81, and twenty-third in total
amount remaining on deposit, showing
I that Iowa ranks the same in refer.
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slaves in the hold Of . slaveship. or
the manner of swine, fifty in a
building and ten in a bed. What
they seem to lack most are the
women folks they have left in
Greece. Men can not care for them
selves. they can not progress by them
selves. When they violate our laws,
whether civil laws or laws of health
and sanitation, we may have to deal
harshly with them-bnt it should be
harshness tempered with mercy, with
Justice and with educational uplift.
It is not for US to despise them or to
use them spitefully. 1t is ours to help
them and then they may help US.
Their blood is as pure as ours, as
strong and as heroic.
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Securing Manufacturing plants.

Waterloo Reporter: Two or three
Iowa towns are dickering with foreign
promoters Of manufacturing pianys
An illustration is the effort of Man
chester to secure a canning factory.
The promoters want $4,000 and lot
of other things.
Waterloo and other cities of a SINH
lar size, and larger. within the con
fines of the state, have had actual ex-
perience in the bonus procedure. There
is nothing in it. You pay good money
for old junk, worn out machinery and
management, and to save the day
have to reorganize and secure local
management. There is within the
limits of every town and city. brains
and business ability sufficient to cope
with the situation and the thousands
expended for bonus will not only
erect the building but buy the machin
cry. A saving is made upon the
start and there is an unhampered cap
ital to operate the business with.
The trouble with most Iowa factor
les is that the bonus. building ano
machinery, sap the very life blood o.
the venture, there is nothing left t.
bring In business and turn out the fin
ished product.
Build and encourage factory estab
lishments in Iowa; start modestly ant
grow to it. Build It in Iowa and o
Iowa men,
A ten person factory, home pro
duct affair is worth hundred mel
| factody OF the bonus variety
When Iowa learns to keep It's mon
ey at home. not invest in holes that |
takes travel to reach: and can stee
clear of gold brick bonus factory, |
will grow and do things.
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Let is be hoped that no farmer in
Iowa is going to thu corn planter
with untested seed corn. 1t would
be awful to find that his seed is not
sprouting. The Cedar Rapids Republi-
can states the case none too strongly
when it says:
1t would mean planting over, If
good seed corn could be obtained at
all at that time. and replanting this
year is going to make a very late
crop OF corn. There is still time for
seed testing and those who have not
done so already. should make their
tests at once. This advice is not
disinterested. On the contrary We are
all interested in the corn crop for 1t
is the basis of prosperity in Iowa, and,
therefore. We can all afford to take
hand in discussing such questions.
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SEED CORN POINTERS.

The state pure food department OF
fers the following suggestions as 20
the purchase of corn for seed:
Buy of reputable and well establish
ed dealers only.
Buy with at least fifteen days time
for testing the corn.
/ Buy with agreement to pay at your
home town, not where purchased
Buy only corn guaranteed to De
tested and to go over "a per cent.
If purchased corn tests under "
send samples to the state pure 1000
department and hold the corn for ex-
animation.
The state officials are doing every
thing they can to aid the farmers IN
securing good seed corn, or rather IN
testing their corn and in making sure
OF good seed. Some of the dealers are
selling with privilege of ten days IN
which to make the test. 1t is pointed
out that this is not time enough, Wheh
the time of transportation Is taken
out, but fifteen days should be insist,
ed upon. Some of the dealers are
also sending out their corn not label
ed at all as to what the test indicates
They can do this with impunity pro-
vided the corn so sold actually tests
out ga per cent good, but II 1t should
test out less than this, the dealer
would be liable for heavy penalties
unless he has tagged the sacks show
ing the actual result of tests made.
The matter Ia of such importance
that the state is prepared through Its
proper officers to give instant aid te
farmers who have been wronged BY
INSCRIPTIONS dealers.
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THE BALLOT VERSUS PETITION.

THE BALLOT VERSUS PETITION.
Fort Dodge in this state is again
trying to secure a petition of consent
to allow regulated saloons to operate
In that city. Reports from there state
that sufficient signatures have been
secured and that the "drys" are now
bending all their efforts to secure
enough Withdrawals to make the Pc
tition insufficient. The fight is the
bitterest one in the history of Fort
Dodge and business firms are being
disrupted, business interests ieopardiz-
ed, boycotts are being threatened and
laboring men are being inundated
| to secure the desired result. Fort
Dodge circulated a petition year
ago and 1t was declared sufficient but
a decision of the supreme court made
it illegal and now the fight is being
gone all over again.
! The question now arises: Why
should it be necessary to jeopardlze
business interests and stir up such
bitter personal feelings in order to
secure public opinion on a public ques-
ton? No more scathing denunciation
| of the present method of deciding
whether county or city should have
regulated saloons or not could be
made than a review of the recent
events which have occurred in Fort
Dodge And Fort Dodge Is only re-
peating the history of every other city
and county in Iowa who have gone
through this same struggle. There is
another feature which is Just as bad,
however, and that is that when the
fight Is over the real opinion of the
people has not been secured. Bust
ness men do not care to have their
| interests In p ril. citizens do not care
to enter into personal strife with
their neighbors and so they keep out
of the middle
If the ballot were substituted for
the present method of securing the
petitions OF consent all this trouble
would be done away with. A man
could cast his ballot without fear OF
being threatened, coaxed or wheedled
to change his opinion. 1t is the one
way American people have of deciding
ell questions of public Importance and
1t would seem that it is time to apply
1t to the settling of this great moral
issue In Iowa.
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Or. Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard
college says that Homework is good
for woman and tends to make her
form beautiful Every muscle is
brought into play. he says, and no
exercise could be better. Running W
and down stairs is good for reducing
he says. and no better exercise can be
devised for strengthening the spine
and chest than scrubing floors on the
hands and knees, especially If the
left arm as we'll as the right is used
Sweeping, TOO seems to be an idea
exercise
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hopeful views regarding the future.
tempered, however, by prudence and
regard for unexpected or temporary
setbacks. The political situation has
been fully discounted, and the market
is now discounting business revival.
Henceforth the crops will be the most
important issue for business men:
Given good harvest and we may feel
confident of good business. Tnat
would mean the disappearance OF dis
content and many of the ''isms' which
have lately disturbed public opinion.
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keokuk, Iowa ........ April IS, 1912
THE INQUIRY.

THE INQUIRY.
Tell me. We winged winds, that round
my pathway roar,
DO ye not know some spot where NOR
tails weep no more?
Some long and pleasant dell, some val
ley in the West,
Where, free from toll and pain. the
weary soul may rest?
The loud wind dwindled to whisper
low,
And sighed for pity as it answered
No.
Tel me, thou mighty deep, whose bill.
lows round me play
Know'st thou some favored spot.
some island far away,
Where weary man may find the bliss
for which he signs
Where sorrow never lives, and friend
ship never dies?
The loud waves rolling in perpetual
flow
Stopped for a while. and sighed to an
mo.
And thou serenest moon, that. with
such lovely face,
Dost look upon the earth. asleep In
nights embrace,
Tell me, in all thy round, hast thou
not seen some spot
Where miserable man may find hap
pier lot?
Behind cloud the moon withdrew
In woe,
And voice sweet, but sad, respond
mo"
Tell me, my secret soul-O, tell me
Hope and Faith,
Is there no resting place from sorrow
sin and death?
Is there no happy spot where mortal!
may be blest,
Where grief may find balm, and
WEAKNESS a rest?
Faith. Hope and Love. best boon L
mortals given,
Waved their bright wings, and whis
pered-
Yes, in Heaven
Charles Mackey.
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Young girls found upon the streets
of Des Moines after 10 o'clock at night
will be escorted home by the police,
and their names secured and upon
the second offense they will be
taken to the police station.
The same treatment should
be accorded boys found on the streets
after that hour. What is sauce for
the goose ought to be the same kind
OF dressing for the representative OF
the male persuasion.
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Why we Grudoe Taxes

Kansas City Times: We are chill
dren of the past Our festivals, our
names, our manners, our whole mode
OF life, are based on thousands OF
years of human history An historical
writer. Prot. j. H. Robinson. of Colum.
bia university, suggests that we still
pay our taxes as grudgingly as Ii they
were the feudal dues paid by our an
cestors to a lord who used them fol-
his own personal qualification, instead
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BUSINESS CONDITIONS.

So far as trade in general is con
cerned there is no change In the
optimistic opinions expressed In the
advices sent out by Henry Clews for
several weeks past In his latest let
ter he says that western bankers and
merchants alike look forward to ex.
pansion in business for the reason that
supplies of merchandise are upon an
exceedingly low basis and the consum-
ing powers of the interior continue un.
checked the inference being that
among the masses prosperity is well
sustained. There is no drawback to
the business outlook except that of
political uncertainty, something which
always exists during presidential cleo.
ton and which is always much exag.
gerated Should the nation be favor
ed with good harvests this wear. We
are sure to see an active revival OF
business. which may even run into ex.
Ecesses however, undesirable they may
be. because industry has been simply
marking time the last two years and
there are big gaps and empty shelves
that must be filled. As to financial
conditions Mr. clews writes:
Fundamental conditions in the I'm
ancial situation are sound. The mar
ket still retains strong financial sup
port. the necessity of making a mar
6et for the liberal amount of new is
sues being a positive Incentive. New
capital thus obtained will be expended
in making necessary Improvement,
and engagements. giving more EN-
iployment to labor and insuring !,
larger degree OF industrial activity
There is continued reason for takin,