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The Detroit times., 1912-07-15
bOOKMAKERS MAY SOON
DEPART FROM WINDSOR
TRACK MUTUELSCOMIN
Machine Method of Betting
Headed Towards the Track
Across the River
| EDENWOLD STAKE TODAY
Stake Valued at $1,000 is up for
Contention This At
ternoon
EDENWOLD STAKE TODAY

Bookmakers may soon be men OF
the past at the Windsor track. Nu.
fuels are coming.
1t Is only question of time before
the betting methods now employed at
the track across the river will give
way 20 the more modern and general
ly accepted as more efficient method
OF handling the public's wagers with
machines.
The success OF the latter method on
European tracks and some in this
country, has caused turfmen all over
the world TO view It with more and
more favor. BY this method Of bet
ting. machines are provided for the
registering OF wagers according 10 the
amount TO be bet, and the track gets
a percentage OF the money wagered.
While that system may not be used
at the next Windsor meeting or even
at the races next year, nevertheless
when the grandstand at the track
was rearranged. the betting ring was
built in such a way as TO be fitted
for the mutuels when II is desirable
TO make a change.
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WHEN POOR-STICNNG
TIGERS DO THE CLUBS
HITTING, WHATSANSWER?
Also, When Team That Draws
Poorly at Home Brings Crowds
Away, What's the Reason?
LOUDEN HITS PERFECTLY
With an Average Of About 200,
He Bingles O'Brien
Safely Thrice
LoUDEN HITS PERFECTLY
BY RALPH L. YoNKER.

When Tigers who haven't been hit
ting lick get perfect days at BAT
and Tigers that haven't been drawing
corporals guards to Navin field go
abroad and pull in rccord-hreskinS
money, what's the answer
Hold your breath while you listen
TO the statement that Louden and
Delahanty have been doing the recent
hitting for the Tigers. During this
Boston series, Cobb and Crawford
having been smuggling spasmodically
up TO their former standard. but quite
spasmodically.
Saturday Bill Louden had perfect
day at bat with three hits In three
times up. He got half Of the six that
were garnered of Buck O'Brien. In
the second game of the Red Sox
doubleheader, Jim Delahanty came
across with two doubles. In the frst
game he hadn't as iyet got his batting
eye and whitfield a brace OF times
Why do the Tigers draw nearly 40
900 people at Boston in two days
when they bring out less than
tenth OF that number right here in
Detroit when they're playing here?
Pep" is assigned as the principal
reason.
Whatever the reason may be II Is
gratifying to the Detroit owners that
the Tigers are resuming their mag
netism again. They haven't been pay
ing propositions in the west this year
and the magnates have had to de-
mend upon the east for their main
profits.
Only attendance like that of the
past few days for the remainder OF
the eastern invasion and revival OF
interest at home when the team re-
turns for three weeks engagement
the latter part of this month, can
make the financial outlook APPEAR
bright
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The case of Delbert Traeger. OF
Madeira, who has been sent 10 Provi-
dence, Is typical Of the manner
which President Navin, OF the Tigers.
Intends 10 pursue In building up the
Tigers heretofore.
Traeger was discovered by some
Tiger friends away out on the coast.
and was tippAd of 10 the authorities
here. He was grabbed up, signed BIZ
the Tigers and turned over 20 Provi.
dence. IL he can make good as a
Providence pitcher, he can make good
as an American league pitcher. II
he can't make good out on that east.
ern coast, there Is no use trying him
with the Jungleers.
There is one difficulty In pursuing
the policy of making Providence a
Detroit nursery and that is that the
standard OF the Grays playing must
be kept up or there will be a let tI.Nn
In the attendance there. Thus il IS
very necessary for the athletes who
are sent their to show their worth
quickly, II they intend 20 stick for
tho Providence public will not sta,d
for a long trial OF apparent bushers.
Traeger goes east with perfect
confidence that he will return short
ly. He is going TO depend on his spit
ball TO bring him back He lef( for
Providence, Saturday.
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NATIONAL LEAGUR
Standing.
Sntnrin1's Nr-nIts

''N''fHHf HfNults.
I'hlilies 2, tlurinnati1
81 Louis . New York 3
Chicago d Ruaton 3
saturdays Results.
Brooklyn, as Pittsburgh Ia.
Cincinnati q IhNlies
ChiCf@o =. Boston
New York e. 81 Louis 2
Todny's Games.
BDston at Chicago
Brooklyn az Pittsburgh
New York al st Louis.
Phillics at Cincinnati.
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An Attractive stimmer outiro-

III you desire rest and recreation
why not try the River st. Lawrence
Trip See the !. 900 Islands Shoot
the Rapids" visit Historical Montreal
and Quaint Quebec and take a trip up
the world-famous Saguenay River. For
illustrated booklet. Niagara 20 the
Sea" send cents postage to II. Eos.
ter Chaffee, A @. p. A.. Richelieu e.
Ontario Nav. Co. Toronto, Ont.
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Yesterdays Results.

Kalamazoo 2. Lansing 0.
Jackson g. Flint 3.
Bottle Greek :. Adrian 6
Saturdays Results.
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Lansing \, Saginaw 3
Kalamazoo 3. Bay City :.
Battle Greek 4. Jackson 3.
Adrian 2. Flint o.
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There is one little mite OF satisfac-
ton to Jennings in this disastrous
Boston series. and that is that II is
the Red Sox that the Tigers have
been unable to score more than once
on In 20 innings.
Hughie picked the Red Sox as socn
as he heard that Stahl was TO be
their manager. as likely pennant con.
tenders. and as the season progressel I,
his admiration for them increased
He has gone so far as to say that he
believed them the best American
league bets.
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The last time that the Tigers facco
the Red Sox, Buck O'Brien was look
ed upon as a has-been. II was the
general opinion of eastern critics that
Buck had shot his bolt and that he
was gone as great American pitcher.
He has evidently come back.
O'Brien was tinged with good LUCK.
Saturday, however. His main forte
seemed TO be in letting the Tigers
whack the ball into the mltts OF some
of the outfielders.
That outer fringe OF the Boston
lineup, famed as the fastest all
around outfeld in the league. saved
Mr. O'Brien many a time. or the q
regulation put-outs, the outfielders
had 10. Hooper and Speaker each
got trios. and Duffy Lewis a quartet
Of the killings. Two OF Lewis wero
entirely without warrants.
While the former Sox has-been was
working his way into a victory, in
vincible George Mullin evidently
didn't care Just what kind OF base
ball he pitched, for he OF no-hit fame
against the Browns, allowed the Red
Sox IL safeties, two OF which were
for extras.
Mullin was expected TO pitch bet
ter ball than that II seems as If he
can IL he wants to.
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MICHIGAN LEAGUE

STANDING.
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zesu oo@'~ Mzazzan6mM WRmues

and while Charlie wasn't athletic or
anything like that, / never seen the
horses yet he couldn't drive.
BY this time Miss Cox had her mail
sorted and turned to us with: IF you
two gentlemen want to see what's in
the safe, now is your chance. I'm 60
ing to open it,"
Everything inside the safe was in
| the neatest order. She removed the
ledgers and put them on the desk, in
| spected the cash-drawer of the safe
and made a tab Of the amount She
also carefully counted the reserve sup
ply of stamps, postal-cards and
stamped envelopes, and added them to
her tally.
Now for the daily cash-drawer,'
suggested the constable. Let's see If
he's taken any of the cash"
That's just like man." snapped
Miss Cox. How ar you going to tell
till go over these books and see how
| much there ought to be? Well open
the cash-drawer after I'm through
looking
There was nothing to do but wait,
and 1t was perhaps half an hour be
fore she completed her calculations,
being often interrupted by callers for
mail
If the cash-drawer hasn't been
robbed" she said, well find exactly
sixteen dollars and forty-eight cents
in it."
In the presence of both of us she
opened the drawer and carefully count
ed out its contents. One five-dollar
bill, two two's, four ones and three
dollars and forty-eight cents in silver
and pennies were in the drawer
Right to t." she exclaimed tri-
umphantly. Il believe you two are
disappointed at not finding shortage.
Charlie Rouser may have his faults,
but he's honest"
What's that there at the back of
the drawer?" asked the constable.
paying no attention to her remark.
The drawer, one of those heavy
wooden affairs with circular pocket
for silver. had been pulled out almost
to it's utmost length. Where the
money compartments fitted into the
back of the drawer little space was
left, barely visible under the overhang
of the desk. 1t was at this particular
space that the constable was pointing.
Following the line of his finger
caught "a CLINT of yellow, just as the en-
ergetic Miss Cox gave the drawer a
hard jerk that brought it out to it's
full length. She reached into the slit
and brought out a neat package of
one-hundred-dollar bills-fifty of them.
The three Of us gazed at each other
in blank amaZement.
What was a poor country postmas-
ter on six hundred dollars year do
ing with five Thousand dollars care
| lessly concealed thus?
Where did he get it?
| Where was he?
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was even aware that had spoken.
With small pocket tape measure he
was taking the various dimensions of
the coat and skirt. He turned up the
hem of the latter and inspected it as
carefully as if he expected to find a
name written there. He did the same
thing first with one sleeve and then
with the other.
you say that she registered as
Teller and that her handkerchiefs
were marked with an 'S"" he sudden
ly asked me, showing that he had
heard all said.
Both the landlord and | answered
him affirmatively.
Where is the telephone" he asked,
Il want to call long distance"
There was a note OF excitement
in his voice that indicated to me that
he believed himself on the verge OF
some discovery, though what it was |
could not imagine.
He dashed away to the telephone,
the landlord following. | ate my sup
per alone and waited. Just as was
finishing he came back into the
| room. and. seating himself, began to
eat, apparently Indifferent to the fact
that everything had grown cold in
the half-hour he was absent.
WELL" ! said inquiringly. did you
learn anything?
He nodded and calmly finished
drinking his cold coffee.
I Expectantly / sat there, waiting for
him to go on. He seemed not to no.
| tice my impatience, though 1t must
have been apparent, and waited until
he had pushed back his chair and
| lighted a cigarette. He always rolled
his own, and never before had | real
| lied what an irritating operation roll
| inc a cigarette can be made. 1t
seemed to me that he was taking en-
tirely unnecessary pains to have the
ends twisted just so. Finally | could
brook no further delay, and burst out
with: We'll, what have you discov-
cred, Mr.. Inspector?
supposed that he might have OBJ
tanned a clue to where the woman's
/ garments ndu OCCh GU
some tiny thread by which he hoped
TO run her identity to earth. Little
was | prepared for the startling dis
coveries he volleyed al me, so tersely,
so concretely put that could not
doubt the accuracy of his information
"The woman was Sarah Sackett,
spinster. She lived on little farm
just outside Bridgeport with her broth
er Robert, who is somewhat older than
she. They inherited the farm from
their parents and have lived there all
their lives The brother is employed
as cashier in little country bank
| about ten miles away. Every morning
he drives into Bridgeport and takes
| the train. When his sister left, two
days ago. he came with her to the
station. He evidently is not aware
| Of her death, though he seems great
] ly worried over her absence. He pre-
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SYNOPSIS.

Harding Kent calls on Louise Parrish to
propose marriage and finds the house IN
great excitement over the attempted sui
eide of her sister Katharine. Kent starts
an investigation and finds that Hugh
Crandall sutton for Katharine. who had
been forbidden the house by General Ear
IRISH, had talked with Katharine over the
telephone just before she shot herself.
A torn piece OF yellow paper rs FOUND
at sight of which General Parrish Is
stricken with paralysis. Kent discovers
that Crandall has left town hurrediy.
Andrew Elser, an aged banker, commits
suicide about the same time as Katharine
attempted her life. A yellow envelope IS
found in Elser's room. Post Office In
spector Davis, Kent's friend, takes up
the case. Kent is convinced that Gran
dali is at the bottom of the mystery
katharine's strange cutlery puzzles the
detectives. Kent and Davis search Gran
dalHs room and find an address. Lock
Box II, Ardway, N. J. Kent goes to Ard
way to investigate and becomes suspl-
cious of Henry Cook" A woman
commits suicide at the Ardway Hotel.
yellow letter also figures in this case.
Kent calls Louise on the long distance
telephone and finds that she had just been
called by Crandall from the same booth.
Cook" disappears. The ArdWay post
master is missing.
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Strenuous, Genial and Virile Type
That Has Not Changed In
Seventy Years.

Of all classes of laborers, the east
ern Canada shantyman-particulariy
the French-Canadian woodsmen OF
Quebec PROVINCES the most strenu-
Gus while at the same time the most
genial of workers.
SkiIlful in all that pertains to log
making and the use of the ak, which
he has learned to handle from early
childhood, he is ever at home in the
forest and wilds. Like the Indian,
were he unable to find his campground
before nightfall, he would assure you
that it is not he, but the camp, that is
lost. for he is at home anywhere in
the forest, while cold and hardship
have no terrors for him, since he can
usually make himself comfortable in
spite of the worst conditions imagi-
nable.
Tracing the history of the shanty-
man through the romantic legends Of
the contours de conte. the impression
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summer day how they can stand the
heat.
Their manners are very pleasing
and they remind one Of nice little
puppies or kittens. The Servians have
certain regard for their offspring
without any wild devotion.
/ remember slightly shocking some
of my friends out there by my par
tiality for four-legged creatures. 1 was
sitting outside a cafe at Uzhitse feed
ing cat with the remains of my dish
of kaimak, the Servian equivalent to
Devonshire cream. This extravaganza
they put up with, but when they saw
me tempting a dog with bits of sugar
they thought it was time to remon-
etrate.
"Gospozha!" they exclaimed What
strange thing to do Why. you ought
to put that sugar in your pocket and
give it to children on the road"
In Bulgaria one hears of horrible
massacres of babes. Only a day or
two ago Bulgarians near Rustchuk at
tackled harmless Turkish settlement
and spared neither women nor chill
dren.
But the Bulgarians set great store
by their schools, and in these schools
racial hatred is encouraged, and even
the youngest learns that he will some
day has to struggle for mastery
with the Serb, the Greek and the
Turk.
Unlike the babies of other Slav ma
lions, the Bulgarians are not, as a
rule. beautiful They are wooden-look-
ing. fiat faces, and are rather Mon
golian in type; but they are as hard
as nails.
Carmen Sylvia of Roumania might
we'll be called the Childrens Queen.
She adores children, and the grief of
her life was when her little daughter
died.
She has never really recovered from
losing her only child, but it has had
the effect of making her as good as a
mother to all her young subjects.
No one will ever know the extent
of her benevolence and charity, and
Roumanian mothers bless her name.
She interests herself especially in
the blind, and her home for blind chill
dren is perhaps the most excellent
charity OF the country.
One of the things that strikes Wis
itor to Roumania is how everything
is discussed before children,
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TRAITS Of CHILDREN
How Parents of the Balkan
States Raise Their Offspring.
Montenegro Youngsters Taught to
Fight Turks to the Death-In Bull
garia Racial Hatred Is Taught
In Public Schools.

Uzhitse. Servia.-One cannot help
wondering during wartime what the
children of the belligerent nations
think about it all. How do the panics,
the carnage, the firing of guns appear
to their young minds?
1t is fairly easy to answer this Ques-
ton SO far as Montenegro is concern
ed, for from the earliest age. children
take the keenest interest in their IA
theirs collection of weapons and the
dozen or so knives. pistols and other
knick-knacks he wears in his wide
belt. a.
A Montenegrin would be just as like
ly to go for stroll down the village
street without his entire arsenal as
a Philadelphia dandy would be likely to
walk down Chestnut street without
his collar
In Spain | used to watch the chill
dren play, and here the game was in
variably bull-flghting, but in Monte
negro the only game for babies is war
to the death with the Turk.
The Montenegrins are a stern race.
and the fathers, though devoted to
pering them.
But shall not easily forget the face
of Prince Mirko, the second son OF
King Nicholas, and the idol of the ma
ton, when he told me of the death of
his two children. They caught typhoid
-. fny
days of each other
Have you any children" he asked
me.
None" replied.
We'll, you may thank heaven for
that" said he, for you will never go
through the agony | suffered. l veri-
ly thought my heart was broken and
that ! never could be happy again
CAS- it is, ] cannot bear to hear the
Riviera mentioned, and wild horses
will not drag me to Nice again."
Servian children are like pretty lit
tie dolls with great dark eyes, and
wearing long white shirts under
charming brown suede leather zouave
jackets edged with fur.
These Jackets are most quaint and
original, and are decorated with ara
besques and devices of gaily colcred
feathers and pieces of looking glass
sewn i'm imitation of sprays and flow
ers.
The fur is left on the reverse side,
so that the coats are very warm. /
have often wondered on a broiling
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edge of her fathers plight, too, might
have driven her to try suicide. Old
Elser possibly was one of the gangs
dupes or agents who saw exposure
coming, through Katharine's activity,
and feared to face it. The one flaw in
my theory, it seemed to me, was that
1t In no way accounted for the second
Wis prophecy that there would be
more suicides, | was inclined to be-
lieve that perhaps, after all, it was
only a coincidence. Learning her
identity, l did not regard as half so
important as to locate Crandall | al
suit Of him alone. l would have felt
an unholy joy in rounding him up sim
gle-handed, while Davis followed 9th
err minor clues. | felt considerably
annoyed that Davis apparently was
more interested in learning who the
dead woman was than in discovering
Crandall's whereabouts.
81 have no idea what they have done
with the clothes" / said almost cross
ly. 81 suppose they are still in the
room. The inquest was adjourned un-
til tomorrow morning. Maybe they
have been taken to the undertaker's
He came this afternoon and took the
body away. / forgot to tell you that
Crandall called up the Parrish house
this morning and asked for Katharine
right from this very hotel"
What did he say?" he asked apa-
thetically.
l repeated the conversation with
Louise word for word as she had
told it to me.
THAT" said I, lis definite evidence
that Crandall, the man whom we sus-
pect, was here in the place where you
sent me-here under an assumed
name. What greater proof of guilt
can you have, unless it is actual con-
fession?"
'The man you suspect" he correct
ed with some asperity, turning alb
ruptly to the waiter, who had entered
with our supper.
Tell the proprietor to come up here
at once" he said, and tell him to
bring with him the garments worn by
the woman who killed herself"
II I had sent Mahlon Williams such
an order / am positive he would have
paid no attention to it, but Davis was
obeyed. So quickly that it almost
seemed as if Williams had been listen
ing outside the door the landlord APP
peared carrying the black coat and
skirt the woman had worn. Perhaps
it was something in Davis authorize.
tive manner.
There's no use in your looking
those over" I said They were care
fully examined today, and there is not
a mark on them. The only clue is the
letter IS on two black-bordered hand
kerchiefs and return ticket to
Bridgeport. She signed her name as
Mary Jane Teller, but there Is none
of the Bridgeport Teilers who an
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CHAPTER VIII.
A New Glue,

$50, Davis" l concluded, you see
that every new clue points to Hugh
Crandall"
The post office inspector shifted.
What have they done with the
dead woman's clothes?" he asked. II
want to see them at once"
had been anXiously awaiting Davis
arrival, not without some little feeling
of triumph, to tell to him the startling
developments in the mystery since 1
had left him hardly more than twenty
four hours before at the ferry. I was
at the station awaiting him, and led
him at once to the little hotel The
noise of his coming had been bruited
about by the village gossips, and as
his fame had penetrated even to the
obscure Jersey village, there was a
curious crowd gathered at the station.
Some of them even followed us as
far as the hotel lobby, pressing so
close that private conversation was
impossible To avoid interruption,
took him at once to my room and or
dered our supper served there
i
as briefly as / could the new features
Of the case, beginning with my finding
the post office deserted, the name
missing from Lock Box IL, the suicide
of the woman, the calling up Of the
Bridgeport police, the testimony of
the maid that the woman had been
crying over yellow letter, the dis
- To14 -,
new hundred-dollar bills in the cash
drawer, the coincidence in the initials
of Cook and Crandall that had first
attracted my attention to the missing
guest in the hotel, his peculiar con-
duct the minute / mentioned the yell
low letter and his fight from the town
behind the fastest horse obtainable.
While | was only an amateur in
criminal investigation, prided myself
that | had followed everything as far
as Davis himself could have done /
doubted II even he, with all his
shrewdness, could learn the identity
of the dead woman or could explain
what the postmaster was doing with
such an unusually large sum, left SO
carelessly hid in the cash-drawer. MY
private opinion was that the money
was probably counterfeit and that
when we had solved the mystery we
would find that Hugh Crandall was at
the head of band of skilful rogues
who We're defrauding the government.
More than likely they had headquar-
tiers somewhere in the vicinity. Prob
ably with the connivance of the post
master they conducted some sort of
green-goods or other swindling game
through Lock Box IL. 1t seemed to
me more than possible that Crandall,
taking advantage Of Katharine Far
rish's love for him, had shared her
father into some nefarious scheme.
Such theory would explain her sud
den break with him and might even
account for her fathers terror at the
sight OF the yellow letter that had re-
yealed to her his error. The knowl-
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Shantymen of East Canada

is gained that those of the early lum-
bering days were OF the toughest and
most formidable physical
giants, with whom the shantymen of
the present day would be but miser-
ably contrasted. From truer, though
less romantic, sources, it is found.
however, that those old bushwhackers
could not chop more logs in given
time than the present day lumbermen
In fact, the whole system OF log max
ing in eastern Canada is, with few ex-
ceptions, the same today as 1t was
some so years ago.-British Columbia
Magazine.