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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
CAREER WAS SPEEDY.
Roscoe MiIIer's Short Stay in
Major League Company.
Recent Death Recalls Somewhat Sem
sationaI Rise and Extremely Rapid
Decline of Pitcher at One
Time With Detroit.

News of the death of Roscoe Miller,
near Coryden, Ind, his home, will
awaken memories in the minds of fans
who recall the somewhat sensational
rise, and extremely rapid decline, of a
pitcher who at one time promised to
be one of the brightest luminaries of
major league baseball. Miller had but
one really successful season, apart
from a good year in the minors. His
luck left him when he deserted the
club that had given him his first
chance, Detroit, and the only town in
which he ever completed major
league season.
1t was in 1901, the year that the
American league invaded the east, that
Miller gained recognition as a coming
star. Detroit carried q small pitching
staff that year, Miller, Siever, Cronin
and Yeager being its dependencies,
with Miller the strongest highlander
of the lot. He had much to do with
placing the team third in the race.
Detroit that year was one of the best
cards of the circuit, because of its
Dillon, Gleason, Elberfield and Casey
on the infield, and Barrett, Holmes and
Nance in the gardens. Buelow and
McAllister did most of the catching.
Miller's success, in way, went to
his head, and he was susceptible to adj
vances that were made to him the
next year, when National league ennis
saries sought to induce him to jump.
He was induced to believe that Detroit
was not using him as it should, and
when the Baltimore blow-off came,
most of the players of that team going
to New York or to Cincinnati with Kel-
ley, Miller, who was at Washington
with the Tigers, was induced to join
those who jumped to the Giants. And
that move was the real end of his ca
reer.
With New York he was never able to
do any of the pitching that had en-
abled him to win games for Detroit.
Before the season ended he was given
his release. Pittsburg claimed him,
but his stay with the Pirates was brief,
and he was not listed among those
who finished the year. That ended his
career in the majors. He went to the
minors and had one season in which
his work was so good that it looked as
if he had come back.
But no one who was looking for
pitchers seemed to have faith in him.
sHe was left in the little leagues. Miller
became moody and respondent over
his failure to get back, took to dissi-
patton and then tuberculosis finally
claimed him.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
EXPLORED LAND OF MYSTERY
Adventurous Young American Has
Travelled Through the Interior of
Guatemala.

The recent experience of young
American in the great unknown dis
trict of Peten, in Guatemala, has fur
nished for science one of the most
valuable records in years regarding
the life of what is perhaps the most
ancient race of human beings in ex-
iStence.
In trip just competed, in which he
spent more than two years in the
jungles of territory whose mystery
has for years repealed as we'll as at
tracted the adventurous, Russell Hast
ings Millward, Americas youngest ex-
plorer, had not only captured the
worlds mileage record by travelling
across more than three thousand miles
of unknown country, but has opened
up for the merchant and archaeolo-
gist land whose wealth has hither-
to only been guessed at, remarks the
New York Tribune.
The popular impression that there is
no more work for the twentieth cen
fury explorer could find no better ref
utation than in the exploit of this
young man. The district Of Peten,
lying to the westward of British Hon
duras, between the Caribbean coast
and the Bay of Campeche, has been
known since time immemorial to all
Central Americans as "The Mystery
There Millward has located lakes and
mountains whose existence has hith-
erto been matter of rumor only.
For the first time white man has
penetrated those Businesses and seen
the ruins of temples and palaces
which, now overgrown and buried un-
der the foliage of the jungle, were
once the centers of magnificent cities.
He has not only outlined the extent of
the once dourishing empire of the
Maya race, but, of Importance to the
world of commerce, he has practically
opened up a new field whose riches
will in few years be one of the
chief assets of the Guatemalan govern
ment.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11

Extremes in age = baseball age =
have been prominent in the big league
pitching this season, prominent by eff
fective work. Such pitchers as
Mathewson and Plank are arguments
in favor of reversing the fixed custom
and building up with age. Each has
begun the 1913 year with a display of
form up to anything displayed in more
youthful times, as if the further away
from youth they get the more youth
full they become.
We find a considerable number CT
veterans going along with no appar-
ent diminution in skill and effective
ness, among them Mathewson, Plank,
Ames, Hughes, Rucker, Walsh, White,
Falkenberg, Sallee, Richie and Cam
nitz. If any Of these men have gone
back nothing that has happened this
year is a symptom to that effect; and
If any or all of these men have passed
the inevitable time at which a pitcher
begins to go the other way the signs
Of that retrogression are hard to dis
cover and the retrogression very
slow. Crack pitchers such as Matty,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11

Walsh, Rucker and Plank seem to
travel along for years on plane
which may have its occasional depres-
sions in the way of effectiveness, but
which to all outward appearance
maintain an almost level standard of
excellence.
But the king is dead; long live the
new king. The SOS were in another
century. The year 1913 A D. not only
finds veterans going at their best, but
has brought out dashes of tip top work
by youngsters. Notable among these
are Seaton, Heating, Demaree, Perritt,
Mayer, Russell and Johnson (the In
diam, all OF whom have pitched one
or more games of conspicuous excel
lence. Also such pitchers as Hub Pur-
due, Gregg, Alexander, Weilman, Al
len, Steen, Hendrix and Robinson,
comparatively late corners, are going
veil.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
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Hank O'Day likes to watch Cincin-
natl play.
Walter Johnson is called the human
gatling gun.
Bill Dahlen's team is trying to live
up to that new field.
Joe Tinker predicts the Dodgers will
finish well up in the first division.
Billy Lush has been engaged to
scout for the New York American
club.
Bert Shotton, the Browns out
fielder, it leading the batters Of the
st. Louis team.
The Mackmen continue to wear
those atrocious looking caps, the style
popular years ago.
National league batters consider
Christy Mathewson the greatest pitch
er in their league.
Casey Hagerman, one of the reliable
pitchers of the Denver team, is study
ing to become a doctor.
Manager McGraw says that Connie
Mack needs one more good finger to
keep the Athletics up in the race.
Ed. Konetchy of the Cards will prob
ably be the only pitcher that will
have 1000 average at the end of the
season.
Manager Jennings would like to get
a frst-class baseman. Hughie would
take Hal Chase of the Yanks If he
could get him.
Outfelder Reilly of the Indianapolis
club of the American association in
a recent game poled out five hits in
as many times at bat.
Meanwhile of the Doves is said to
cover as much ground as the great
Hans Wagner ever did in the days
when Fred Clarke played left field.
y
The Red Sox, no doubt, are still con-
fident, but we fail to see where they
can hand Washington and the Ath-
letics the edge and hope to head off
either later in the season.
Manager Chance declares that hit
ting is what wins ball games and has
decided to have a walloping machine
installed even if he has to sacrifice
all the speed at his command.
Chief Meyers, the Indian catcher of
the Giants, says that the pitchers will
win the games for the Gothamites
Meyers thinks that McGraw has the
best twirling staff in the league.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11

bands stretched tight. The notched
ends of the diagonals should be lash
ed with thread to keep them from
splitting. Lashings of thread around
the frame sticks A, as shown in Figs.
2 and 4, will keep the ends of the
braces from slipping away from the
uprights B, which is the proper posi-
ton for them. Bind the braces to-
gether at their intersections with
thread, as shown in Fig. 1. The
cloth or paper bands should be fas-
tened to each horizontal frame stick
with two tacks, placed near the edges
of the bands. This can be done to
best advantage with the diagonal
braces removed.
Fig. shows one good attachment
for the bride. OF course, the kite is
flown other side up, with the bride
underneath. A good way of attaching
the bride is to slip the loop end
through a fancy-work ring, loop it
over itself, and then tie the loose ends
to sticks A of the framework. The
vertical distance between the ring and
the kite should be about feet. Three
and four point attachments for the
kite bride are used, but the two-point
method is generally considered the
most satisfactory, and is most COM
monty employed.
Copyright, 1912, by A. Nicely HaIl)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
Plausible.

julius Rosenwald, Chicago phiian-
thropist, is profound believer in
civic righteousness.
To politician who defended GER
tain underhand political methods, Mr..
Rosenwald said the other day:
That's plausible defense, but it
doesn't hold. It's like the defense of
the piggish little boy.
"A piggish little boy always used to
take at breakfast the bottom piece of
toast, which was sure to be kept extra
warm by the hot plate beneath it and
the hot slices above.
Zone morning, as he slipped out the
bottom piece as usual, his mother said
reproachfully:
You must stop doing that. Sup
pose everybody did that-what would
happen then?'
Why, then said the little boy,
everybody would get a bottom piece
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
A BOX KITE.

OF the more pretentious kites, none
is more popular than the rectangular
box-kite. 1t approaches nearest to the
form of the biplane aeroplane of any
kite yet devised, and is one of the
steadiest of fliers.
Box kites can be purchased ready
made in a number of sizes, but they
are not cheap, and it will pay any boy
to take the time necessary to make
one While their construction requires
considerable more work than the mon
oplane form of kite, it is not difficult,
and is so interesting that no boy can
fail to enjoy it.
The illustrations show kite of
scientifically developed proportions.
Pine, spruce and wildwood are the
best materials for making these kites,
though any strong, lightweight wood
of straight grain may be used If
easier to obtain. The horizontal
sticks and braces must be cut straight
and of uniform thickness, as in the
making of any kite. If you live near
a lumber yard or planning mill, pos
sibly you can get strips of just the
size you require from the waste pile
for the mere asking, or for few
cents get them ripped out of a board.
If not, you will find it an easy enough
matter to cut them yourself, with
sharp rip-saw. Short kite sticks can
be Whitfield straight enough with the
jack-knife, but long ones can be cut
Easier and with greater accuracy with
the saw.
Cut the four horizontal sticks 3s
Inch thick and % inch wide, by Sc
inches long CA, Fig. p, and the four
connecting upright sticks lB, Fig. p
II inch thick, IL inch wide, and 10
inches long. Tack the upright sticks
to the horizontal ones, inches from
the ends of the latter, as shown in
Fig 2, using slender brads for the
purpose, and clinching the projecting
ends. In fastening these sticks be
careful to set sticks B at right angles
to sticks A.
After fastening these sticks togeth-
er in the form of two frames similar
to that shown in Fig. 2, lay them aside
until you have prepared the covering
for the end boxes, or cells" For
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
Maxine Money Sprout,

High finance is not confined entire
ly to Wall street." said a well-known
secret service man recently.
"One of the clerks in a banking
house in Washington wanted to go to
the bail game. He had but % cents,
his exact admission, and nothing for
car fare.
He announced he would rattle his rs
cents for two cents a share. Eighteen
clerks took chances. One won the
quarter for two cents, but the thrifty
promoter had rs cents for his ticket,
ten cents for car fare ano cent over
for an afternoon paper"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
SHARING THE FAMILY INCOME
Matter Presented to Mrs. Potherine-
ham in Manner She Had Not
Thought of Before.

Hiram" said Mrs. Potheringham
suddenly from the other side OF the
evening lamp.
Mr.. Potheringham, safe in the com
muter's heaven, beside his own open
fire, his tired feet stretched luxurious
ly toward it's blaze, his favorite cigar
alight, and the evening paper oper
before him, made an inarticulate muir
muir in reply. such as iege lords uss
to indicate that they are still alive
and know they are being addressed,
but don't propose to come out further
from their abstraction unless forced
to do so.
Mrs. Potheringham understood and
continued briskly: Hiram, I've just
been reading this article on the econ
omic dependence of women. What it
says is SO. Marriage is an equal part
nership, and the wife is entitled 90 half
the income and ought to have it.
There was a decided note in his
wife's voice that walked Mr.. Pothering-
ham up. He lowered his paper, re.
moved his cigar, and listened. When
her quizzically over the rims Of his
reading glasses and in his quiet voice
mildly expostulated:
"Oh, my dear! Do you really think
they would be satisfied with half?"
Mrs. Potheringham wheeled around
sidewise planted her elbows on the
table and looked severely at her hus-
band. Her eyes snapped and her lips
opened quickly to reply. Then, she
didn't reply. In a flash she saw it all
the innumerable home expenses, the
bills for the children's school and col
lege, the clothing, the gifts, the spend
ing money, the amusements and the
philanthropies of all the family, her
own clubs and teas, and charities and
vanities; and this quiet, strong, I'M
complaining bread winner for them all,
with his mere bed and board, his chair,
his cigar, his few suits of clothes, his
one club, his routine life, back and
of the entire family pyramid, and she
talking about half" the income! Nay
they absorbed it all.
Mrs. Potheringham's lips closed
slowly, having uttered no word She
removed her elbows from the table,
relaxed into her chair and took up
her magazine. Then a little ripple Of
laughter crept up into her eyes, and
she said softly:
Hiram, you are simply delicious!'-
New York Post.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
Unsuitable ANGER.

Two Irishmen visited well-known
perambUlating menagerie. After COM
'pleting the circuit of the show they
came to slit in the canvas with a
bill printed above it in large letters,
containing the legend Exit"
"Begorra, Patti" said one of them,
''here's a place we mustn't miss. I
wonder what sort of haste Exit is?"
They followed the index finger on
the bill, and to their wonder and as
tonishment, next moment found them
selves among the crowd outside.
Och, bedad," said Mick, shaking
mis- fist at the man who barred his re-
entrance, we're an auld swindler, We
are. Bad luck to ye and yer auld
show"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
Well Behaved PLAYERS.

The Washington Star, with justifi-
able pride, remarks: when it comes
to having we'll behaved lot Of play.
ers Griffith is perhaps more fortunate
than any of his rival managers. There
is not dissipater on the team; rules
are never violated and the entire
bunch of players is well behaved and
perhaps well contented. 1t is not nee
essary for a watch to be placed on
any Of them, as is often done by ball
clubs. Griffith has imposed certain
rules which are observed without a
murmur and he places every conf
dence in his men by putting them on
their honor, which is never violated"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11

this lightweight muslin or tough pa
per should be used. Cheesecloth will
do, If after it has been put on you give
it coat of varnish to fill up the
pores and make it air tight. The
lightweight brown paper so COM
monty used now for wrapping-pa is
good covering material
The band coverings for the kite IL
Illustrated should be 10 inches wide
and SO inches long. If of cloth, they
should be hemmed along each edge to
prevent raveling and to make a firm
edge. If of paper, the edges should
be folded over light cord and pasted
Sew together the ends of the cloth
bands, or paste the ends of the paper
bands, tapping them so that the meas
urement around the inside will be ex-
actly SO inches, the proper measure
ment around the sticks of the finish
ed xite.
Slip the bands over the stick frames,
spread the frames to their fullest ex-
tent, and hold them in this position
by means of sticks sprung in tenn
porarily between upright sticks B.
Then measure the proper length for
the diagonal braces C Gig. 81. These
sticks should be notched at their ends
to At over the sticks A, as shown in
Fig. 4, and they should be trife long
SO they will be slightly bow-shaped
when put in place In this way the
frames will keep the cloth or paper
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
Writing Treatise on Chinese Lansuas.

f. DR.. F. A. Chalfant, who will have the
honor of producing one of the most
elaborate and scientific treaties ever
written on the origin of the Chinese
language, is a paralytic, who for a
quarter of a century was missionary
to China. He lives in Pittsburgh and
spends four hours a day in his inves-
LEGATIONS. When completed the book
will be published by either the British
museum or the Carnegie library, both
of which have expressed a willingness
to undertake the work.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
Sure ENOUGH.

Climate that suits one person does
not suit another" said the western
man.
That's right" replied the New
Yorker
But your New York climate is the
limit"
But, just stop and think how many
people we have to please in New
York."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
ONCE NOTED FlRST-BASEMAN
Fred Tenney, at One Time Considered
Peer of All Initial Sackers,
Tells Pathetic Story.

Fred Tenney, one-time famous first
manufacturer in Lowell, Mass, and re-
cites the following pathetic tale of how
player feels after his days on the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
Must Stop SMOKING.

Joe Tinker has ordered all the Reds
b stop smoking from now on until the
end of the season. Many managers
have tried this before, but with indif-
ferent success. 1t is hard to enforce
such ruling on big league club.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
Ambition of a Henpeeked Mar

I don't know that l desire to rule
my wife-I used to feel sometimes as
II | wished to, but have got over it,
confessed skinny little Mr.. Henry
peck, to the friend Of his boyhood,
but once in while do kind O. have
an ambition to be as hoarse as she
is"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
Certainly Not.

Bill-A new wheelbarrow dumps its
load forward as its handles are pushed
down saving its user the labor OF lift
ing 1t.
JILL don't see why they should try
to make things easier for a man who
who loses an election bet.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11

diamond are over: GAS the time ap-
preached for fitting south to the train
ing camps a feeling of unrest began to
throb through my veins, even though
I had retired from active participation
In the game. At this particular time
my thoughts revert to the grand old
sport which I played for so many
years. My love for it is as great as
ever, and my chief regret is that / can
no longer perform with the agility OF
the past"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
NEGATIVE Pride.

Stranger suppose every small
town boasts of its oldest inhabitant
Native-Well, l dunno about that.
You'll find our'n down at the tavern,
but he amt much to boast of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
Another No-Hit Game.

Pitcher Dick Wells of Grand Forks
pitched no-hit game against ST. Paul
in the Northern league the other day
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-10
APPROPRIATION BILL
FOR INDIANS PASSES

Washineton Jan 9.rhe indian
appropriation lii, carrying approxi-
maiely 2S.00O,000, was passed late to-
day by the house The principal
Items IN the bill as finally adopted hy
the house. include for gratuity ape
proprlatlons, S6.0S4093. for fulfilling
treaty stipulniions S140,5Ga and for
reimbursable items s850,O00. lsepre.
sentative Murdoch of Kansas. had
called the attention # the house To-
certain statements that had becn
made by ono Of the members of tho
oard Of lndlnn commissioners. 10 the
effect that "A report had been nude to
Secretary Fisher of the Interior de-
parlment ~ T.. y. Linnpn, special IN
speetor for the indian bureau, show
ing Tint The lndlans Of this country
are In q deplorablc condition Iaeprc
sentative Cooper here interecned and
asked that finnl action on the appro-
pration bill he delayed until the
house could learn Of the contents ~
Mr Linnen's report Ills request WIS
poi granted. ana the bill WAS puased,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-10
MEDIUM WHO COT
THIRTY THOUSAND
SUED BY VICTIM
Widow Of New York Policy
King to Recover Fortune
Represented in Note, From
Professional Seer

uBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire.
New York, Jan 0.-Favorable re-
ports Of midnlght reading Of the
Whims Of fate in u boiling POT OF
herbs. brought from a witchs cavern
on an island in the West Indies ln-
duced Mrs Isabelle v Adams. widow
of al Adams policy king 10 sign
q note for 100000 in favor Of Mrs
Marguerite Gilbert il professional
medium. according 70 testimony to-
day in trial Of unusual interest in
the supreme court Mrs Gilbert re-
Icognized in her own mystic world as
Mime dc Bran. is seeking to rceoV-
er the amount Of the note from Mrs
Adams.
'IIega,e with insistent demands for
more money. was a shade" who ac-
cording to Mrs. Adams story Of rep
reservations made to her. translated
what the boiling poi had 70 diyulgc
After giving Mrs. Gilbert sums OF
$1,000. $500 and $500. SO that He
gas" son might visit the island IN
search of fresh herbs and blossoms
Mrs. Adams said she handed the
plaintiff n $4,000 note In return for
promised protection for herself and
family during a trip to Mexico.
When informed that Hega" con-
sidered this amount too small, Mrs
Adams said she wrote the $40 900
note. telling Mrs. Gilbert to keep It
until the defendant had made be-
quest for the same amount IN her will
When this provision was made in the
VIII. Mrs Gilbert reelsed to return the
note Mrs. Adams testified.