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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-14
Mothers, Wives, Sisters

While drifting from bad to worse, as
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every benefit OF freedom from the &C
cursed alcohol. ! speedily and natural
'y lost all desire for drink ! took less
and less. [ began to prefer tea, cof-
fee and other non-alcoholic liquids; the
craving for liquor ceased. ! could sleep
perfectly my stomach became we'll and
[ recovered from other ailments which
J now know were due to my Indulgence
in strong drink was cured in only
three days. BY fortunate circumstances
| learned the True Method for over
coming liquor habit with or without the
drinkers knowledge. Ny remedy is m
dorsed by physicians and in Iegions or
testimonials. l will send YOU ample
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DIRMINGHAM. ALA, Dec. IA.

- BIRMINGHAM ALA, Dec. IA.
X Whether the individual sal
airy limit OF players will be
$3.50 or $500, is the most important
matter coming before the directors
.. the southern association in an
-,a. meeting in Birmingham today.
The settling of this limit will hard
%, he arrived at until after heated
discussion, though it is practically
assured the figure to be decided
.r5u will be much nearer the $500
mark than the lower figure. Nash
,+ve Chattanooga and Montgomery
and possibly Mobile are expected to
s.vor the lower limit, while At
anita. Birmingham, Memphis and
orleans will hold out for the high
.st possible limit, even If Frank
has been talking poor" Of late.
cho,lv Frank is expected to liven
..,ines for a while here with his
Rovdy Elliott matter The little
lighthouse catcher was disposed
.r bv Nashville to the Pacific Coast
league and TWO OIL the 'o"lS III II
are said to be serapplns lor nm
Portland IS making the eIea'esl
claim. Frank claims .Ila' Na'n-
vile disposed OF E''lo.' oe4o. { ''H
ing for waivers on nun anu ne Is
making the ioudest klllu Oh d lloI'e''
In his opinion ElIlot1 is the oesl
catcher in the south ana ne wants
him for the Peilcan outl't'
President havahaugn IS salu 10
have advised FRANK tHal nc was
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NJ EW ORLEANS, Dec. 14.-The
" session Of the Southern In
tercollegiate Athletic associa-
ton here yesterday proved inter
esting. but nothing in the least
sensational was done. The trouble
some Mississippi and Kentucky
State cases viii not be bought up
until today, SO the big b1woff is yet
to come.
An alteration was made i'll the
rules that changed the value of the
relay race in the annual Southern
track and field championships.
Previously this race counted for ten
points. with no credits for second
and third places The same mum
Der of points are now allowed first,
second and third place teams as in
other regular events.
The annual 5. I. A. \. track and
field championship events for 1918
were awarded to Clemson college.
The 1918 5. /. A. A. convention
vas given TO the University OF
Florida, at Gainesville.
The executive committee recom-
mended that Howard college be sus-
pended definitely for eligibility
violations by it's football author'-
ties. An earnest promise "to do bet
ter" resulted in the matter being
re-referred TO the committee.
The request from Professor r. i.
Flower, of the athletic council Of
Trinity college, South Carolina
asking permission to withdraw from
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HOW WILSON'S HOMER
COST .RUCKER GAME

II LOOMINGTON, ILL. Dec. IA
n 7 see thar the averages Of
the National league give me
three home runs" said Arthur
Wilson, second catcher of the New
York Giants, who is spending the
winter at his home
1T is a curious fact" he contin-
ued, that all three won games for
the team. one Of these drives cen
tered about the most remarkable
game of my career. We were at
home, playing Brooklyn, and as it
was Saturday, there were $4,000
persons present.
AT the beginning OF the sew
enth, the score was a tie and Nc
Graw sent me in to relieve Chief
Meyers behind the bat. There was
no change in the score until the
ninth, when BROOKLYN got men on
third and second.
Suddenly the man on third made
dash for the plate. JEFF Tesreau.
who was pitching for us tossed me
the ball and the runner started back
10 third. l ran down the base line
after him and should have caught
him by an easy throw to Third
Baseman Herzog.
4 threw the ball all right. but
it went to the outfeld, and the
runner scored what looked like the
winning run. AS ! walked to the
bench, l got severe panning from
the fans. Their howls shook the
stands.
I was rotten, a bush Lacquer,
and bonehead Barry. In our half
Groh singled with one gone. 1 was
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Fight at League Meeting Centers on Salary Limit
Elliot and Montgomery Cases VIII Be Considered

stockholders will enter strong
protest against the sale of the
franchise and have even threat
ened to go into the courts if neces-
Sary =
Most Of the directors did not ar
rive until this morning an hour or
two prior to the converting Of the
session at 10 o'clock, and conse-
quently there was not much gossip.
Schwartz seems sure of the
Nashville berth.
The meeting Of directors this
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WAL THOUR DROPS
OUT; FAVOR|TES
FALL BEHIND


American team made UP Of
Frank Kramer and Jimmy
Moran lost lap in a wild sprint
in the SIX day bike race at Madison
Square Garden early today.
Up to that time the two Ameri-
cans had been the favorite in the
betting.
Moran who was riding at the
time, gradually fell behind as the
riders tore around the track at Il
terrific clip for II minutes, and
when he was nearly three fourths
of a lap behind he toppled from his
wheel. The judges declared it was
intentional and penalized the team
one lap.
The score at s a. m, the 12sth
hour, follows;
Kramer and Moran, 9.444 miles.
Pye and Grenda, 2,4441
Perchicot and Egg, 2,444
Rutt and Fogler 1881
Root and Hehir, 2,444.1
Clarke and Hill. 2,444.1.
Bedell and Millen, 2.4441.
Walker and Wells, 2,443.9.
Broccos and Berthel, 2,443.s,
Drobach and Collins, 2,4441.
Carmen and Loftes, 2,442.7.
Cameron and Thomas, lass.
The record is 2,469 miles laps.
made by Demara and Hill In 1908.
Six Teams Left.
During the night leaders We're re
duced to seven teams and the loss
of lap by Kramer and Moran
brought it down to six.
Suter brothers We're forced out OF
the race by a sprint after they had
gamely trailed the field for many
hours
Bobby Walthour, a member Of
the DiXieNew York team and the
hero OF many a six day race. was
forced to retire because of injuries
received in q fall, George Cam
eron, Waithour's partner. then
teamed up with Lloyd Thomas. Of
the Irish team. This left twelve
teams in the race.
Old-timers at the Garden said rha
racing was the most spectacular
since six-day cycling was inaugu-
rated there twenty years ago.
A spiI last night by Egg. who
escaped unhurt, and Ryan. whose
coiiarbone was broken, enlivened the
race Ryan was removed to ioin
Magln, who was taken to a hos
pital after receiving a like injury
Tuesday.
Collins wassfned s25. the referee
declaring he stalled" keeping 9th
er riders back while the Grenada
rye and Ryan Thomas teams were
gaining lap. The gain of these
teams was not allowed.
The score at 10 a. m, the laOth
hour. was:
Pye and Grenda, 2,467 miles s
laps.
Root and Hehir, 2,467.S.
Clarke and Hill, 2.467.s.
Rutt and Fogler, 2,467.8.
Bedei. and Millen, 2,467.S.
Drobach and Collins, 2.46T.S.
kramer and Moran, 2.4678
Pe'chicot and Egg, 2,4618.
Wells and Walker, 2.467S.
Brocco and Bedthel, 2,467.s.
Cameron and Thomas. 2.46T.8.
Carmen and Loftes. 1864.
The record is 3,5O8 miles Q laps,
made by Mcfarland and Moran in
1908
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morning opened with the formal
presentation of the pennant Of 1912
to Birmingham. Reports were read.
but little of interest done.
President Baugh, Of the Bir-
mingham club, will entertain the
directors at banquet tonight. It
is expected that the. meeting will
be finished this afternoon, but pros
poets of a continuance OF the ses-
sion Sunday is regarded as not I'M
likely, as the Montgomery PROPOSE
ton is expected to cause trouble.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-14
T. T. HARE, GREATEST OF
PENN PLAYERS, TO COACH

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 14.-Students
of the University Of Pennsylvania are
jubilant today over the selection Of
r. Truxton Hare as head coach for
the football squad in 1913. Hare, the
all-American guard of 1901. was prob
ably the greatest player that ever wore
a University Of Pennsylvania uniform.
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HITTING PHOTOGRAPHER
WILL COST JOHNSON $50

CHICAGO. Dec. 14-Unless a new
trial is granted Jack Johnson, when his
motion for il is argued December p. the
negro pugilist will have to pay a fine Of
$50 for an assault on Edward +. Wei
gle, newspaper photographer.
Weigle attempted to take a picture Of
Johnson as he entered the jail after be-
ing arrested for alleged violation Of the
Mann act. Johnson struck Weigle with
a cane. He was found guilty of assault
in trial before Judge Goodnov.
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A Des Moines man had an attack Of
muscular rheumatism in his shoulder.
A friend advised him to go 10 Hot
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found it In Chamberlain's Liuiment
Three days after the flrst application
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THE BOYS GIFT.

A Kodak. OF course. Who ever heard
of a boy who didn't want Z Kodak? A
size to fit every pocketbook Brownies.
81 TO s12, and Kodaks, So to 500. A. X.
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AUBURN VANDY GAME IN
1918 PLAYED NOV. 18Th

AUBURN. ALA, Dec. 1.-THE Au-
burn athletic authorities have arranged
for the Auburn Vanderbilt game. It
will be played at Fleetwood park, Bir-
mingham. November 10. 1913.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
CHANGE OF
SCHEDULES

Effective Sunday, December 10, train
No. %, Birmingham Special" will ar
rive Atlanta from the EAST 11:15 a. m.
Leave for Birmingham 1870 a. m. in
stead Of arriving Atlanta 1890 q. n.
departing 10:45 a. m, as at present.
J. l.. MEEK.
Assistant General Passenger Agent
Southern Railway. (Advt)
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-14
CALLAWAY AND SMITH GO
TO BIRMINGHAM MEETING

President +. c. Galloway ana Mana
ger ". a. Smith, Of the local baseball
club, left last night for Birmingham to
attend the annual meeting Of the South
ern league
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KEANE OFFERED JOB AS
ENGLISH OLYMPIC COACH

SYRACUSE, \. Y, Dec. 14.-An Of
fer has been made to Tom Keane, coach
OF the Syracuse university track team
to coach the 1915 English Olympic team
and he is expected to accept
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o'DAY HAS OFFERS GALORE.

CHICAGO, Dec. l4.-Hank O'Day,
former manager Of the Cincinnati
team, is considering offers from both
the American and National leagues to
go back TO bis old Job as umpire.
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NEWMAN PLAYS sRANrLEY

NEWMAN, GA, Dec. 1.-THE New
nan High school basketball team will
meet the Brantley institute FIVE Fri
day.
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HOLIDAY TICKETS.

First date Of sale, December IS;
round trip tickets to all points on its
lines and 10 points on connecting lines.
Ask SEABQARD Agents. CAdvt)
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Drink Habit

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Of whiskey daily, also considerable
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

could be laid on the water from Shang- hai, China. across the Pacific ocean to the United States and across the United States and the Atlantic to Europe. and a thousand miles farther on into the heart of that continent.
 Looking al the dam and the locks from here, you get q faint conception of their immensty and cost This impression will be even less when the water is turned in Then everything will be hidden, and 1t will be hard to realize that $40,0O0, 0000 s50,0o0,o00 have been spent in making the construction now lying below us,
 The 100000 cubic yards of concrete alone, so Col. Sibert tells me. cost some thing like s7 yer pard or s14,ooo000, while the excavation cost upward of 5000 GOO more. The gates to all the locks of the canal are to cost over s5.000,0O0 This Is a pretty penny, and 1t Is only when you see the mighty doors, as tall as an eight-story house, made in hundreds of thousands of pieces, fitted together like a watch, that you realize where that money has gone.
 A Look at the Dam
 But let me give you look at the dam. It is more like the side hills of a great. field plowed by the gods than like any kind of masonry construction. 1t is, in fact mountain of earth and rock, which the slaves of Uncle Sams Aladdin lamp have lifted up bodily and dropped down between two other little mountains. shut ting in the valley of the Chagres and making a lake which will be 16i square miles in extent. It is a dam of earth and rock a mighty mound of excavated ma terial a mile and a half long and a half mile wide at the base IL will be less than i00 feet high. The ground slopes up gradually from the lake and slopes grad ually down on the other side lt is more ljke hill than anything else, like bar rier created by nature rather than man. At the ton 1t will be only 100 feet wide, and the water will come within perhaps % feet of 1t. At the back, or facing the Atlantic. il will probably he smoothed off and sodded; and as Colonel Sibert facetiously says it might be turned into golf links, using the spllway for hazard.
 And now just a word about the spill way This Is the overflow of the dam. It is right tn the center and it consists of a concrete-ined opening. a little more than a quarter of uile long and S9) feet wide. which rsns down through the dam to point about 10 feet above sea level The crest of the dam will be 115 feet above that level The crest of the dam will be 1i5 feet above that level The spllway dam will be fitted with gates; and the machinery which will regulate the water over the lake. This masonry s all in place IL Is semi-circuar h shape and 1t looks as if t were made of Berrea sandstone.
 Making a Mountain
 Tn i.y trip today I was shown how the dam was constructed. B. a sue cession of Y's the railroad track leads to its top and we rode here and there all over It. There are two great waiis Of excavated material made Up of rhe mighty masses of rock and othe' spoil frcn the CulebTa cut These form reservoir, as it were, which is beag dredged from the lake and also from the land outside. Il is carried into the basin or core Of the dam between piles of loose rock dumped out by the cars. Dur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

not forget. She let the conservative cid slowpoke know that if he wanted to talk about a telephone he could call at the telephone office. The eonserva- tive old slowpoke gulped hard once or twice when the message was delivered to him and decided that he never would have q telephone so long as he lived few days later, however, he called to see Mrs. Bruce A telephone was installed in his office the next day. Within a week he was chatting over tile wire every quarter of an hour and was wondering how he ever transacted bust ness without telepnone. All the other members of the slowpoke broth erhood followed his example From be- ing scoffers they suddenly turned to enthusiastic advocacy of the telephone. T. was astonishing the way that te1e- phone system in Salem grew
 Within a year every business establish ment in the town had telephone so did all of the lawyers. all of the doctors and most of the residential places of the
 well to do people, Even a washerwoman
 had a telephone put in. The business grew
 so fast that Mrs. Bruce was overwhelmed.
 She hardly could answer all the calls
 There is about an acre around her home.
 She had a house built on her grounds,
 facing a side street. and she transferred the telephone exchange 10 thls new build ing. She put a new and enlarged switch board in there and she engaged q couple of girls to answer the calls. After time she had to get a third girl She
 worked at the switchboard herself a good deal just from the pure delight of working, hut she had plenty of other duties beside There were accounts to he kept. bills to he sent out, money to be collected, complaints 10 be attended to, repairs to be made. new instruments to he put in. other instruments to be transferred. She had to supervise this work, for she had determined to vary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

line of the canal from Limon bay right up to the locks. A score of great dredges are now working in it. and there is only a small amount of excavation. compara- lively speaking, yet to be done
 At the end of this channel is the ma sorry of the locks, now almost completed, and beyond them the dam where the wa ters of the Chagres are rising There is now only about 20 feet of water in the lake. but it is q beautiful sheet with many islands spotting the surface. Later on it will be 70 feet higher, and will cover such a vast extent that sitting on the steamers some parts of it extend be- yond the range of the eye.
 The Locks at Gatun
 Now take a rapid view of the locks. They lie below us in three pairs of gi- gantic stone chambers, one above the other, covering distance of more than half mile, and containing material enough to build a little city of skysorap- CTS The material is concrete and it looks like stone. Connected with that is the dam it's amount Is altogether more than 2.eda,o90 cubic yards, or more than enough to make a wall six feet wide and six feet high of solid concrete from New York to Washington. The dam alone con- tains more than 21.000.000 cubic yards of material and enough earth has been put there to build a roadway a foot thick and nine feet wide, if earth and rock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

The staid, solemn, rich men of the son. nolent old town were very kind and cour- teous, but they Aexplained to her that only had about 2500 inhabitants. It's busi- ness district was restricted 10 a small area. everybody knew everybody, and eV- erybody saw everybody. Telephones were all right in larger places, but not for Salem. Some of them advised Mrs Bruce not to waste her time on such a project.
 But all the people of Salem were not staid and solemn. There was one, E. B. Sankey. at that time division superintend- ent of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad, but now a resident of Seattle, Wash, who was enthusiastic over the idea He is a cousin of Ira Sankev of the famous evangeists Moody and San key. He built the railroad from Cuba Junction to Salem. He had worked one of the iron mines; he had been associated with George Westinghouse in introducing the Westinghouse air brake; he was alive to everything th2t was enterprising. He asked the privilege of becoming Sub scriber No. l. But that was not all He gave advice to Mrs. Bruce and he talked telephones to every one he met But il sas a slow, disheartening job to get enough persons to agree to take tele- phones 10 warrant the blind woman to begin. The canvass, however, did one thing that was good. It gave her some thing to think about other than herself. In a month or two she had enough per sons signed up to make her first definite move She bought equipment for small exchange, wire and instruments enough to supply all the subscribers who had come in, and then electricians came to salem-ahd began the work of putting in the telephones.
 II was not much of a system at that time, 10 or Il years ago. when Salem got it's first telephone The eX- change was in the dining room of Mrs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

and bodyguards They accompany her on her social rounds and on her walks through the town.
 And blindness apparently has made lit- tie difference In her home life. She is great lover of flowers. Before she was stricken blind her house and her grounds were among the show places of the town. They have lost none of their beauty, but rather have taken on more. Every vis- itor to Salem Is advised to see her garden. She makes a specially of roses. The rar- est and finest grown in all Missouri are hers She never can see them, but that does not rob her of the joy of their pos session. She raises chickens of the most arlstocratic breed.
 Her birds are exhibited far and near and have taken many prizes There isn't one that she raises that she does not know and that does not know her. Her home is the most artistic in Dent county. Recently she had it redecorated from top to bottom The color scheme of each and every room was carried out in ac- cordance with her idea, although she no longer knows cnlors. except through her memory. It is so. too, with the furniture in each and every room, with the rugs, the wainscoting and every detait Her sense of harmony and beauty seems to have been accentuated by the loss of her sight
 She is great lover of music. Her aniction cut her off for time from the pleasures of piano playing. but now she has the finest phonograph and the hrest player piano money can buy. Every waking hour is a busy one for her. She has work and she has play. She has health and she has happiness. She is a factor in the life of her home town. She has solved for herself one of the great problems of the suddenly stricken, and in doing t she has given 10 the world an example of how the blind may lead the sighted.
 Copyright. 1912 by Richard spillane.1