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The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-12-26

street. Remember all my little
cousins. Well l will close. Good
bye from your little boy,
DANIEL DEWEY BATS, JR.
P, S. Sanity l will be moved to
721 Georgia street.
Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 10, 1918.
To the Nashville Globe
| wish you would tell Santa Claus
I have been good all the year and go
to Sunday-school every Sunday. I
am four years old and l want him to
bring me a wagon to move my dolls
and house in, a telephone, a Negro
doll from the Publishing House, some
candies and a lot of things Now
don't forget to tell him. thank
you
am
CORA E. CRAFT,
COWan Tenn.
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Franklin. Tenn.

LUELLA PEBBLES.
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Franklin, Tenn,
Dec. IS, 1913.

Dear Santa Claus:
! am little girl years old. I
want you to bring me rocking
horse, some roman candles. oranges,
raisins, apples, figs, nuts, a horn.
and a wagon, don't forget George
Green, and my other little friends
that are my classmates. 20 to
school every day, and I am doing
we'll In my books.
Don't forget mamma and papa.
| will close from your little BOY,
WILLIAM E. GENTRY.
Dec. IS, 1913
Franklin, Tenn,
Dear Santa Claus:
] am little girl 19 years old. !
want you to bring me a black cloak,
a pair Of kid gloves, red beaver
hat, a Negro Doll, &c inches and a
set Of furniture, a school bag, a box
Of painting pencils I study 7th
grade Please don't forget my
teacher at brentwood, she has been
7,aE all Of The summer who IS Mrs
Hortense Owens. Bring me a lot
of good things TO eat, remember
mamma and papa and all Of my
friends in Franklin, Nora James
James Ewing and others.
/ will close from your little girl.
SOPHRONIA p. GENTRY.
P S.-Don't forget Rachel Kin.
nard, Mabel Reynolds, Irene Hunt
and Robert Hunt.
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Dear CHRIS:
/ am little girl year old, please
bring me a doll and some candy and
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KATHLBNE PEBBLES.
Una, Tenn,
The citizen., 1913-06-13
CITY Men Needed on the Farm.

In many notable instances city men
are succeeding as farmers. If they do
not know all about raising grain and
handling live stock, they are able, as a
rule, to apply business lpethods TO
their undertakings.
Successful farm management must
include a knowledge of buying and
selling. In this particular the city man
is apt to be ahead CT his rural neigh
Dor. 1t is essential to know what con-
sumers require what the usual retail
prices are on farm commodities, and
the facilities available for transporting
and selling. The man of city expert
ence understands these things. and he
goes in for a line of produce like
onions, beans, potatoes, ducks, chick
ems and carnations and asters, on
which he gets big profits.
1t would not be like city man to
raise wheat at seventy-five cents
bushel and twenty bushels to the acre.
when he can get ninety cents bushel
for onions and 250 bushels to the
acre. This illustrates the whole idea.
and no truth is more striking than the
fact that city men are needed in agri-
culture. c. C. Bowsfeld's Max
ing the Farm Pay"
The citizen., 1913-06-13
WHEN LIBBY SMILED
1t Was When She and Will Ia
Dor Made Up
Again.
EY {. r. MOON.

We all looked upon Libby Arliss as
an old maid, absurdly old, although
her age could not have been more
than thirty-five. But after her mother
died she ceased to go about much in
our village society; and by the time
she was out of mourning she had set
tied down into lonely life in her lit
tie home. She had fine garden, and
we boys and girls used to steal her
pears and mock at her when she came
out and threatened us.
I'D like to get even with Miss Libby
for being so mad about our taking her
wormy old pears" said Steve Marks,
the bad boy" of the village.
None of US liked Libby. She was
certainly as sour as those early Bart
let's that we used to take with the
more gusto because we knew that our
discovery would let loose a storm of
imprecation on our heads. That was
how we came to concoct the love let
ter
Why we hit upon William Tabor |
can't quite remember. The Tabors
had once been the most respected
family in our village, but William was
wild when he was young man and
went West, returning broken down in
health, a year or two before. think
some one suggested that he had been
Libby's beau long before, when she
was pretty girl N the wide-sleeved
gowns then in fashion, and did her
plentiful hair in a jar handle. But
since he had come back he had never,
to our knowledge. visited at Libby's
house, and if he had done so village
gossip would certainly have found it
out.
Three of the high school scholars
concocted the letter. 1t ran like this:
My Dearest William:
MAY I-dare l, one whom the world
calls a sour old maid. avow to you
something against which have fought
for many months in vain? William, |
love you! There. l have avowed it,
The citizen., 1913-06-13
MUST BE HANDLED TENDERLY
Violin and ViolonceIIo Both Extremely
Sensitive to Changing Atmos-
pheric Conditions.

The violin and violoncello are most
sensitive to atmospheric conditions
and suffer from atmospheric varla-
tions quite as much as the tender vo-
cal cords of the singer.
Those who have attempted to make
the violin an ornament by hanging it
upon the wall have had reason TO re-
pent taking such liberty. The vio-
lin loses it's varnish and gradually its
pitch and timbre The artificial heat Of
rooms in winter makes its tone rau-
cous when it does not obliterate it en-
tirely.
Metal cases, morocco covered, are
equally unfit for it. A strong. we'll
vanished wooden case, even though
it be not especially attractive to the
eye, suits the susceptibilities Of the
violin much better. Certain qualities,
sometimes unsuspected in the wood,
play an important part in the falsiti-
cation of notes, causing progressive
deterioration.
There was time when manufactur-
ers applied to their product several
coats of paint. e., a concentrated
solution Of bichromate Of sodium pot
ash in boiling water The wood soon
acquired yellow tone, and under the
action OF lights after drying, the color
darkened and took on the aspect Of
the very old paint.
For commercial purposes this was
all very well. but what happened to
the purchaser was that as soon as he
began to use his instrument exposed
to the light the bichromate worked on
the gelatin which the manufacturers
employed to color the wood and pre-
vented the penetrating of the varnish,
while some element in the bichromate
of soda was converted into stone. The
violin suffered petrification which i'm
peded its tones and rendered it use
less.-TIarper's Weekly.
The citizen., 1913-06-13

and you cannot guess how shrinking
ly | write down these words which
my hand is powerless to stay. | love
you-and now | have told you all.
The rest is with you.
LIBBY ARLISS."
Yes, it was gem of composition,
and elected screams of laughter
among us all. Only one girl protest
ed.
Il think it's a mean shame said
Sylvia Temple, turning upon us. 1T
must be just awful to be an old maid }"
Perhaps it will bring William to
the point, though" | suggested, and
that gave us an idea. Why not send
Libby a letter by the same post? No
sooner thought of than acted upon.
Williams letter ran in this way:
MY Dearest Libby Arliss:
Because my tongue is weak and
falters in your presence, would fain
write down the words | long to say to
you. Libby, | love you. May l call
to see you and tell you of the fatal
passion which you inspire in my
heart? WILLIAM TABOR
We dropped these epistles into the
letter box and waited with bated
breath, metaphorically speaking. We
didn't know whom to watch, but final
ly decided that it would certainly be
William who would go to Libby and
not Libby who would visit William
So, having calculated that he might
be expected to arrive the following
afternoon, we ensconced ourselves
some half a dozen of us-behind the
hedge across the road and waited.
Presently we saw, sure enough, Mr..
Tabor's buggy coming at breakneck
speed down the road in cloud of dust.
lie pulled in the horse outside the
gate and hitched 1t to the fence. Then
he got out and went in, walking very
quickly He rang the bell and Miss
Libby came to the door,
But | had never seen Miss Libby
look as she did then All the sourness
had gone out of her face, and she was
dressed like young girl, in that abb
surd old-fashioned dress with the
hanging sleeves. There was color in
her cheeks, too, and she was smiling.
And as she stood there looking at
him and smiling up at him, he
took her in his arms and kissed her.
That was enough for US. We were
all thoroughly scared. We took to
our heels and ran as hard as we could
60 We couldn't 90 anywhere after
reaching the village without attract
ing attention, SO we separated and
went to our homes.
Well, lady, there's news in the vii.
lage," said my father, when he came
home that night
Il know, DEAR" said my mother,
smiling. Libby Arliss and VIII Ia
Dor have made up again
Trust a woman for finding out
these things" my father said We'll,
I'd always hoped it would come to
pass. but never thought it would be
in just that way. 1t seems that she
had written him a letter two years
ago, when he returned, and he found
It, unopened, yesterday evening.
among lot OF old papers that his fa-
ther left"
s50h no" I hlurfed out. "sha uyrota
The citizen., 1913-06-13

war cry gave him his name. He quit
attending baseball games years ago.
but still continues his deep interest in
the sport. and in his apartments he
keeps wonderful set of books show
ing the averages and performances OF
players for many baseball genera
tions.
We'll, Well Well" was another
character who was named because OF
his cry which followed just after a
big outburst of applause on the part
of the crowd. The moment the ap-
plause subsided his well, well, WELL
would boom over the field and never
failed to start the cheering again
The average crowd is cruel. because
it is thoughtless. Few of the fans
who hurl abuse and criticism at the
players stop to think that the men
they are addressing have the capacity
to feel and to suffer Many thought.
less, barbed jest has wrecked the ca.
reer of some ball player. 1t took the
players a long time to discover the
fact that their popularity and their
safety from abuse lies in presenting a
good-natured appearance, no matter
what happens. and in answering ques-
tons when possible.
If you go through league after
league, team by team, you will find
that the most popular player, in nine
cases out of ten, is some outfielder.
He probably is not the best player,
.but he has the most devoted follow
ing, because he keeps on friendly
terms with the men and boys who sit
The citizen., 1913-06-13

in The Office of journalistic neigbbor
fact that probably explains why we
can read with smiling composure an
elaborate editorial apology which ap-
pears in the Hartford Courant
It's able political commentator tried
the other day to say that "unfortun-
ately for Connecticut" Ebenezer J.
Hill is no longer member of con-
gress. Printer and proofreader com
bined to deprive the adyerb of its
negative particlel At least the able
political commentator SO declares, and
we wouldn't question his veracity for
The citizen., 1913-06-13

to him yesterday, and he wrote to her.
At least-I mean"
What do you mean?" inquired my
father, sternly. How do you know
about these things?"
"Oh, sort of guessed, l suppose" |
answered, blushing.
The next morning l met Steve
Marks and he caught me by the wrist.
What do you think?" he exclaimed.
Indignantly. Sylvia Temple has just
confessed that those letters never
reached them at all"
What? Why?" | shouted.
Because she sneaked back to the
post Office after we had gone, and
fished them out with a piece of stick
with a fish hook in the end, and tore
them up-that's why
Then how did it happen?" l asked,
for my fathers explanation did not
seem quite true.
I'm blessed If l know" he an
swered, scratching his head, and at
that moment who should come along
but Miss Libby herself. She looked
ten years younger, and she smiled SO
prettily she gave me quite scare.
so you boys know all about 1t, |
see," she said, when we blurted out
our congratulations. Il cant begin to
tell you how happy am and-and-
we'll, l guess I've been a pretty crab
bed sort of woman for long time.
But now | want you all to come into
my garden this afternoon and pick as
many pears as you can carry away.
They're just about ripe
Well, you could have knocked me
down with a feather, for | had had
those pears on my mind all day.
Pooh, that's nothing" said Sylvia,
when | asked her opinion. It's just
what my mother calls mental sugges-
ton. Don't you see? We imagined
those letters and we imagined the
pears. and both came true
But the pears were certainly line.
did all sorts of imagining after that
and some of it came true, and some
didn't. The best thing that came true
was when | imagined that Sylvia ana
| were sweethearts.
Copyright, 1915, by W. C. Chapman9
The citizen., 1913-06-13

in Cincinnati, Brooklyn and Washing
ton. during most of the season, the
crowds are bitterly sarcastic toward
the home teams, although the Brook
lyn crowds are decent except on Sat
urdays. st. Louis affords a queer
study of the crowds When the
Browns are at home the crowds are
ugly and vent their temper upon the
players, yet half dozen blocks away,
on the rival park, there assemblies a
crowd wilder and more frantically in
favor of the home team and more UNI
reasoning in partisanship than almost
any in the country. Just where this
feeling arises is hard to discover The
crowd is violent in temper when the
team is winning, worse when it is los
ing. Perhaps long years of bitter de-
feat have caused 1t.
In Boston and Philadelphia, on both
major league parks, the home players
and visitors are almost upon equal
terms. and the spectators applaud
good plays irrespective OF the players
They see baseball under the best con
ditions with both teams encouraged
and giving their best efforts to the
work. Pittsburgh is bad because of
the gambling that has become almost
part of the game in the Smoky City
The temper OF the crowd is ugly and
the losing element is in evidence no
matter whether the home club wins
or loses. Detroit is a loyal, rather
violent crowd tanned now because the
fans have learned to endure victory
as we'll as defeat. The crowds were
mad with enthusiasm the first year De.
troit won and have since tanned down
The citizen., 1913-06-13

the cheer masters fel, hat--in Chi,
cago at least. The harder the leaders
of the rooters worked the more apa-
thetic the crowds became. 1t was an
interesting phenomenon and set out
TO discover the reason. The first
bleacherite | met solved the problem
Dem guys amt on de square he
said. "Usuns out in de bleachers
don't want to rob nobody"
There was the solution. No matter
how partisan baseball fan may be-
come, or how wild in his desire to see
the home team win. deep down he
wants fair play, and after time. he
will insist upon H. The rooters clubs
died.
There are few of the noted fans
now, chiefly because the papers sci
dom mention them Perhaps they ex-
ist. In the old days almost every
club had one or two such followers.
Probably the best known was Hi
Hi" This was General Dixwell OF
Boston, who for many years followed
the fortunes of the famous old Boston
club. He is wealthy. intellectual and
cultured gentleman who became
completely absorbed in baseball He
followed the team wherever it went
and became a familiar figure all over
the country He occupied a front
seat in the stands, kept a careful
score and studied the game with a
seriousness that was appalling. He
maintained a deep silence during al
most all the game but when really
great play was made he emitted two
sharp staccato barks: Hi! Hi" and
then dropped to silence again HIS
The citizen., 1913-06-13

song Of the Sox rooters when they
scent victory
One o? the most dramatic displays
of loyalty ever saw was in 1901
when the team. beaten and displaced
from the championship came home to
close the season. They had gone
away in high hopes, and failed. II
was Sunday and as the defeated
team marched down the field lIOOo
men and women stood silent and un-
covered for a moment, then broke
into applause that swept the stands.
It Is small wonder that team back
ed always by such loyalty won even
during years when it seemed much
weaker than its opponents.
have heard opposing players de-
clare they would rather face anything
in the game than the grinding root
ing of the Chicago south side fans
The only duplicate know is the
raspiag. nerv~racSiu- long Yale yen.
Not all players ara frank enough 10
admit that the roofing has any effect
Indeed it is a common pose 10 pre-
tend that they do not even hear Vu'
lhey DO. Even among themselves
they pretend they do not care. bui
once in a while they tell their inner
feelings They know tha; half the
men who quit the major leagues 2rs
driven out by the voice q the ian /
have seen men break and e 81 Z
/ pieces. rave and swear ana abuse
+ everyone after suffering = c-1s. s-.-
( ing by a crowd.
Walter WI~ot. ere Il A-sc-'s q
nous old Chicago players came 10
same or the ola grounds Et-ss- E51-s
/ after retiring He .ccs5G ac-1ss =
ward ths ~, 6e,5 ana sa.t
There's some e. hem 60 ,-5-s
now Ia Ike 70 chcks
! YET the rear q he c-cw5 1css .:
break them as quickly $ does so-s
sharp thrust Of sarcasm o. o.:.-S NJ.
, from Al individual. Perhaps ,ha.
shaft s only The as. s.-2~ 5-- ~1s-
2 player i IN 2 cs-yc-s collapse h
usually RACES a. soma individual We
said something e him Jos1 Reilly.
{ one of the me--.est happ.sst players
. I ever knew. ~o.sw -2" one Gar and
/ had to be restrained from assa-lJl-s
three or four thousand men Il the
bleachers
Did YOU hear what he said" de-
mar3ed Reilly as the other players
tried 70 restrain him,
VIVA, did he say inquired some
one
He said Reilly. you're a disgrace
70 the irish" and then he ragged
again
One Of The quickest things ever
heard was I remark from Wash
tag-on fan which upset Frank Isbeu
the veteran. completely Isbells head
is as bald as a concrete pavement.
and usually he kept his cap plastered
lightly on his head 70 shield himself
from the gibes of crowds. This time
he tried to steal second and made
desperate. diving slide around and TN
der the basemaa only 10 he called
ont. He vas so enraged that he ran
al the umpire, grasped MS arm, ar
gued and raved and finally IN sheer
anger. jerked OF his cap, hurled it
onto the ground and jumped upon it.
j His bald head glistened in the sun
light and the crowd roared Then,
above the roar came a voice:
Put on that cap They pinched
! Mary Garden here for less than that '
Possibly more trying than any con-
certed roofing is the incessant nag,
gng to which players on the Polo
! grounds New York, are subjected.
The one great bit Of rejoicing among
The citizen., 1913-06-13

behind him In fact, almost every
outfielder has his own regular pat
rons, who attend games and seek
seats as near to him as possible, and
who defend him against all comers.
To them he is the best in the, world,
a Greater than Cobb" nor do they
forget him; the player who finally dis
places an idol has a hard time 7
have known them to follow a player
around the field when he was shifted
from one to another position and to
battle for him with the retainers OF
tie other fielder who dared criticise
him
Biased, prejudiced and distorted in
their views as most of them are. they
are very human and very lovable in
their blind devotion to the game, and
in their unreasoning hatred. And a
word of warning: Never try to ar.
que with real, dyed-in-the-woo
hirty-second-degree fan. In the first
place the chances are he is right. but
even if he is wrong there. isn't a
chance to win the argument.
The citizen., 1913-06-13
information Wanter

A little girl listened quietly 70 h,
serious conversation of her slao .ue
At last. hearing her father maxi
interesting statement anent tbs aa
tai situation, she could no longer Nv. wv
silence "eep
But, papa" she asked. earne.,
if the postotfice department doos',
pay for itself, then it can't have ~ =
money, can it? Then why do tbs'
keep on advertising postal banks >" ,"''
The citizen., 1913-06-13
By Hugh S. Fullerton



WOW! Vow Great eye. Eddie!
Make him put 1t across! Bust
fencel You can do it, Wow! Wow!
Wow!!! ROBBERi All right Tough
luck. Eddie. Two and two. Make
her be over. Home run. Eddie, old
scout. Break the gate Wow! Wow!
Wo-."
The rei-faced apoplectic young
man in the front row made trumpet
OF his hands and yelled until the
veins in his neck turned purple. In
the middle OF the final Wow" he col
lapsed looked disgusted and turning
70 me said:
What do they keep that hunk Of
cheese for? He cant hit Never
could. Striking out in pinch like
that"
The fan bowling encouragement or
bawling abuse at the ball players is
the spirit of the town Just how
great an influence this spirit exerts
upon the playing strength of the team
representing the town or city is i'm
possible of calculation. but it is GER
tain that it is part Of the national
game. lie and his fellows exert al
most as much influence upon the team
as does luck and this spirit is so in
extricably mixed with the element Of
luck that It is impossible to deter
mine cause and effect. There are
cities IN which the loyalty of the fans
has Waned and turned to gjbes. and in
these cities no player does well
There are crowds that remain loyal
In victory and In defeat These in.
spire the players to give their best
efforts to win Ball players will tell
you that teams Invariably play bet.
ter with friendly crowds applauding
The fan invariably will respond that
he would be loyal provided the club
would win games enough to justify
loyalty The players accuse the fans
the fans accuse the players, and both
are in a measure right The major.
ity of patrons will root" when the
home team is winning. Any team will
play better ball and win ottener +.
the patrons are loyal The fan voic
Ing the spirit of the town, is pow
er for victory or defeat.
Conditions in different cities com
prising the circuits of the major
leagues assert a powerful influence
over their teams, Players will teIl
you they would rather play for the
Chicago White SoX or for the New
York Giants than for any other teams
They will assert that twenty Cobbs
could not win q pennant for Cincll
natl under conditions which the man
agement is now striving to change
The fanatical loyalty OF the White
Sox rooter and the Giant patron, the
angry abuse OF players by the an
nually disappointed Cincinnati pub
lie. the sarcasm and raillery of Wash
ington crowds, trained for years tc
expect nothing but defeat. have ar
immense effect upon the players and
teams They make or mar players
and weak men win for one type while
brilliant ones fail and lose for tbs
other
The baseball fan is an unique Amer
tcan species and the most rabid OF all
enthusiasts Compared with him th5
golf fan the bridge fan. even tht
bowling fan are mild. Baseball i.
tho most serious pleasure ever in
vented
Probably the most blindly loya
crowd in the world is that which fol
Jews the fortunes of the Chicago
American league team and to one
who is disinterested the Chicago sit
uaHcn Is acutely funny The Whit
SoE 1.rs IS located on the south side
The citizen., 1913-06-13
Aoe of Pessimism.

81 had, talk with a pessimistfc
friend the other day. | don't think
ever met any one so completely soured
on the world. He told me he doubted
human honesty-that he didn't believe
in the faith of man, nor the constancy
of woman. Life to him was all graft
and greed. He was very bitter"
Your friend must have had a lot of
hard experiences. How old is he?"
Nineteen"