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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-10
Big Lake Liner Aground

HOUGHTON. MICH, Nov ia
big lake liner is aground on MAJ
tou Island and a 60 miles an hon
gale is blowing. The life saving craI &C.
of the Eagle Harbor station start
to the distressed vessel. Se'
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-10
Pure
lood

Is healthy blood-blood that is
normal in red and white cor.
puseIes and all other important
constituents. To have it, and III.
strength il gives, be sure to take
HOODS SARsAPARILLA.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-10
ENJOYS PREPARE
7 D ABAN Do n
EX|CO
u. S. Troops Move to Border
as Tension Nears the Break
ing Point.


movement, but President Wilson's
vigorous initiative yet may win Euro
pean support for his program.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11
CARE NEEDED TO
AVOID PTOMAINE
Food Commissioner Talks About
Manufacture of Ice Cream

j. ". Heime. state dairy and food
commissioner. issues the following
bulletin on the The Deadly Pto-
maine;
With the advent of hot weather
comes an enormous increase in the
consumption of ice cream and with
This consumption comes the usual re-
ported cases Of ptomaine poisoning,
Ice cream is a hcalthtul product ana
one OF our cheapest and most valuable
foods and there is nothing dangerous
IN the consumption of ice cream pro-
yidod proper conditions have been
maintained in lis manufacture. II must
always he remembered that milk is an
animal product and that in hot
weather decomposition viii set in milk
the same rs in meat or any other ami
mai product In the decomposition Of
any animal product ptomaines are
liable To be formed and ii the product
is then eaten, ptcma.nc poisoning re-
suits which often causes death and,
N any event very severe surtering.
How Ptonaines Develop.
There are two conditions under
which ptomaine poisoning is liable to
result i'm the manuiacuu- OF ice cream
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11

cream that has once been lI""'" anu
returned II is quite common thihs
I'm many rrral districts for ice cream
Ia be- furnished church soeials WIN the
understanding that cream not useu
can he returned next day. II TINS cream
is refrozen. ptomdine is very liable
to develop. The practice should pe
strictly prohibited 10y law. Dirty MIX
cans and dirty ice cream cans lNe-
wise. may develop pt"maine if"m the
decomposition uf old cream LETT al the
,aug Al nearly every railroad station
ins Michigan can he seen ice cream
cans ina are being returned To the
manufacturer after the cream mas
been uscd aud. ia nearly every case
the can is unwasEcd, and on opening
the sam, The fearful stencil OF the de-
composition OF animal matter reaches
the senses. \ can in this condition
when II reaches the factory is almost
impossible tu wash ana sterlllze ana
II ANY part of this old matter ~ leil
i'm the seams of the can, IL is liable l."
inocuatc new cream placed therein
and ptomancs may generate ana
rausc sickness and death. Every re-
tail dealer If Ice cream should thor
ouehly wash an empty cans before ie-
turnne To- the factory.
The last legislature passed "A law
pro, iG!ne for - penalty of $loO for any
per,on who reships ice cream or milk
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11
cLOVERLAND INDEED.

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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11
THE TARIFF IN THE SENATE.

The Democrats have fifty-one mem
beers Of the senate not counting the
ice president who can vote only in
case OF q tie or these forty-iye have
airen their unqualified adherence To
the uuu bill as framed in the caucus.
The lwo senators from Louisiana have
declared that they viii not vote for it.
senator NewlandS If Nevada has
given I'll qualified assent TO it's final
rassagc, but declines To be bound as
o. "a party measure. Senators Hitch
oocG and Culbcrson were absent from
the Caucus, but are both counted for
lbe bin. senator CuIberson of Texas
IS sick man. and may not be able to
Doc present Tor the final vote. Senator
tlitehcpck of Nebraska Withdrew from
the caucus recently, because it refused
To- endorse his supcrtax on tobacco
companies. 1t is believed that he will
vote for the bill, however.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11
OUR FLAG ABROAD.

While the Manitoba provincial
troops were marching through wmni-
peg recently an American appeared on
The curb waving au American flag ana
shouting. "Hmrab for the American
Eaelc"
After the fight it was discovered
that the stars and Stripes had been
torn and that The American had dis
appeared. il is unfortunate that he
was not detained. Then he could have
been questioned as to his reason for
making So useless an exhibition of his
couutrys nag and Of himself.
No true American rclishes the
thought of the national colors being
dragged in tho mire, but the ethics Of
hag-waving cannot be lightly violated
All the lessons and the logic of friend
by international intercourse forbids The
Haunting Of "a foreign nag in any coun-
try. The flag is an emblem Of soycr-
eighty. Il may rightly float over en-
bassies LEGATIONS, consulates and ships
in foreign lands and waters. Elsewhere
it, display is matter of courtesy
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11
MODERN coNvENIENcES.

The only unoccupied room I'm the
hotel one with a private bath in con-
neItiou with IL. was given Ia the
stranger nom Kansas. The next morn
guest when the latter was ready Ia
check out.
Well did YOU have good nights
rest" the clerk asked.
No. didn't" replied the Kansan.
The room was all right. and the bed
was pretty good. but couldn't sleep
very much FOR was afraid some one
would want Ia take a bath and the
dnly door To il was through my room. .
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11
JAkE'S LITTLE TRICK.

An Atlanta minister tells that at his
own expense He mad EMPLOYED ds a
general utility man a country Negro
named Jake and found him a saiisfac-
tory servant except for the habit he
had of asking for rather long vaca-
tions every little while. one daN he
came To the minister and made his
usual request
Abs DIES bleeged ter go Mars
Jecms," he said. "Ah dun had IN let
ter from nah wife wha Ibis out yam
der I'm de country, AN she dan say All
halter come home an help pick cot
ton"
When did you> get your letter.
the minister asked.
Last Chusday. sal"
Wei. | had one from her yesterday
In which she said that after all she
Thought she could manage the cotton
and for YOU not To come. How about
that" %" asked the minister. who had
rather a we'll developed sense OF hu-
NOR and who was secretly greatly
amused.
"pat SOP" the man asked, in sur
prise. Den Al reckon An won't 90"
As he was leaving the room he turn
ed and said
MIR. Jeems. All reckon All oughter
Tess dat Nh war tellin' n lie. An
neher had no wife in nah life
Harptr's Weekly.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11

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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11
A FRUGAL MAID.

\ Scotchman, wishing Ia know his
fate "a; once. says the Argonaut, tel
eeraphed proposal of marriage To the
lady o. his choice After spending the
entire day at the telegraph Office he
was finally rewarded late in the eve
ming 10y an affirmative answer
If I were YOU suggested the OPP
orator. ia think twice before I'd mar
ny girl that kept me waiting all day
Tor my answer"
Ma, IA" retorted the Scot. The
lass who waits for the night rate Is
the lass for me"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11

According 90 the figures OF the state
game aarden's department there are
only a little more than sixty thousand
deer in the sixty deer counties.
This is not many for SO large an area,
and is twelve thousand less than the
deer census OF last year 1t Is an ar
gument for laws that viii give greater
protection Co deer It is the belief Of
the game department that deer are de-
creaslns rapidly each year. II The sport
is to Doe conserved il is plain that the
legislature win have TO reduce the
number of deer a hunter may legally
Iii from two TO one, and that one
should DE a buc..
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11
THE DEPARTING SON.

"Our hoy has left us, wept the
mother as their only son waved good
bye from the car window.
Yes" said the old man. whom the
boy had Just touched for n heavy
loan. but he hasn't left rs much. -
detroit News
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11

When distinguished foreigner is en-
'ertained here the banquet hall is
adorned with the flags Of mis- country.
Thus We strive to make him feel at
homo
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11
Specialization

q a great deal is said in a
disparaeins way about the
modern tendency toward sPe-
eialization.
q The time was when BARRIERS
were also doctors, when you
could get a man who woLld
pull your tooth or shoe your
horse with equal willingness;
when a woman, wanting the
ruffles for her underskirt
"pinked," would take them to
the undertaken to be done.
q There may have been
certain unique charm about
such combinations of oceupa-
tons. but the quality of the
service -encered must have
been somewhat uncertain.
Nowadays practically every
man and woman in the pro.
duetive business world. works
along some certain weIl.de.
fined line. The result of this
specialization is shown in the
immense advance there mas
been m the quality and var
iety Of articles put into the
market for general eonsump.
ton.
The medium through which
the public is informed Of the
best Of these articles and
their place OF sale S the ad-
vertisine columns OF the rel-
able newspapers.
Local dealers should CO..
operate with and hustle" for
the manufacturers who use
local newspaper advertising
to exploit the products they
handl~
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11
WHAT HE WENT AFTER.

Caller-"ls the boss in?"
Office boN-"No sir; he's out"
Caller-"WIn he be back after din
ner2"
Omce boy-"No; that's what he's
zone out Judge
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11

minority for "a revenue tarli' me
facts Of the election do not tighten the
responsibility Of the slight majority in
the present Senate.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11
FOR CHARITY.

Boy-"Give me sixpence for poor
lame man, mother"
Doubtful parent-"Who is the poor
lame MANI"
Boy--"The doorkeeper at the c/-
ems"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-28
HAIR CUT BY A SQUIRREL
Rodent Barber Gets Busy on Thatch
of Sleeping Oregon Pho
tographer.

Ernest j. Bloom, photographers
of Hood River. Ore, who has been
passing the last two weeks at the
ranch of II. f. Scott, secretary OF the
Commercial club, returned home with
a portion of his hair gone.
Mr.. Bloom had been working In the
garden and making a lawn on the
ranch. He waa taking a nap after
lunch when a squirrel that had been
making its home In the house last
winter. evidently thinking his long
black locks would make an excellent
lining for a nest. trimmed OF a por-
ton OF the hair while he slept
The rodents teeth must have been
sharp" says the photographer, for
could scarcely feel him at work there
cutting away the hair / must have
moved in my sleep and in his excite
ment he evidently pulled some OF the
hairs out instead of cutting them.
This awoke me. and / let out yell
that almost frightened the squirrel to
death. Portland Oregonian.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-28
HAIR CAME OUT IN PUNCHES

s13 e. Second St. Muncie. Ind.-"My
little girl had bad breaking out on
the scalp. 1t was little white Jumps.
The pimples would break out as large
as a common pinhead all over her
head. They would break and run vel.
low matter. She suffered nearly year
with itching and burning. 1t was sore
and itched all the time. The matter
that ran from her head was very thick.
head was too sore to comb It, and
when I did comb, II came out In
punches. Some nights her head isched
so bad she could not sleep.
Il tried several different soaps and
ointments, also patent medicine, but
nothing could l get TO stop it. began
using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment this summer, after sent Cor
the free samples. fused them and
they did SO much good bought cake
Of CuticuTa Soap and some Cuticura
Ointment. l washed her head with
Cuticura soap and rubbed the CuticuTa
Ointment in the scalp every two
weeks. A week after had washed her
head three times you could not tell she
ever had ~ breaking out on her head.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment also made
the hair grow beautifully" (Signed)
Mrs. Emma Patterson, Dec. %, 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world Sample OF each
free. with J2-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cnticura, Dept. Z. Boston"
Adv
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-28

who can throw baseball $50 feet on
ne Polo grounds. New York, on a
sead calm day. can throw the same
ran almost 400 feet on the Denver
1all park?
In studying the physics OF baseball
ct us commence with the chief impie-
saents Of the game-the bat aad ball
Tho ball is composed OF n small core.
With a heavy layer of highly treated
Para rubber, then wound with two
sinds of wooden yarn, over which is
siue substance. upon which is a horse
hide cover. The ball is semipneusaa at
C, both the rubber and the glue upon
which the cover is pasted teuding 60
sOId air The difference even OK a
sixteenth of an inch in the tbicln ess
u the rubber makes the bali mo CAST
hat IL scarcely can be handled The
makers experimental for years TO get
he ball tuned to the proper pitch oil
alas '~ify and appear Finally to have
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-28
we exnerimented once witn a nnen.

We experimental once with a pneu-
which gave 1t heavy rotation in any
desired direction. 1t was merely an
eXaggeration of the curve. We shot
balls under 80 pounds of pressure, max
ing them curve sometimes hundred
feet. Putting the up curve motion on
the ball (Which always tends to curve
in tho direction of it's rotation), We
aimed the gun at target exactly on
a straight line, and the ball, going
straight for perhaps a hundred feet,
suddenly seemed to slacken speed,
then IL leaped upward and rose at
a terrific rate until il passed over the
cross bar OF the fiag-pole in the Gen.
ter field. 20 feet above the ground.
Yet the ball was not d!sobeying the
laws of physics, rather proving them.
In its terrife speed IL had encounter
ed an air biiiow which it could not
penetrate. and it had bounced Off this
denser bunch of air and rolled up
ward
One would think that if a baseball
is hit into the air is will follow ball
istic curve in ratio 10 the angle of
ascension reduced by the amount of
air pressure. Physics says it should.
1t will not, and no NAH can draw the
ballistic curve that any fly ball VIII
follow The greatest range of any
projectile in theory, is gained by an
angle of As degrees. Military author'-
ties know that, owing TO air resist
ance. the greatest distance is attain
ed at an angle just under 40 degrees
Having both the theory and the prac-
tice, therefore. BALL players to make
home runs should hit the ball at an
angle OF 40 degrCes minus. One of
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-28

Compound and now I am stout, well and
healthy. can do all my own work and
can walk to town and back and not get
tired. would not give your Vegetable
Compound for all the rest of the medi-
cines in the world. l tried doctors med
icines and they did me no good. Mrs.
MARY EARLEwNE, RID. No.2, Utica,
Ohio.
Another Case.
Nebo, Ill.-"I was bothered for ten
years with female troubles and the doc
tors did not help me. Twas so weak AMI
nervous that ] could not do my work
and every month had to spend a few
days in bed. l read so many letters about
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound curing female troubles that got
sbottle of it. It did me more good than
anything else ever took and now it has
cured me. / feel better than have
Tor years and tell everybody what the
Compound has done for me. believe
would not be living to-day but for
that" Mrs. HETTIE GREENsTREET.
Nebo, Illinois.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-28

Frank Bakers worlds series home
runs was near chat angle, 6iie other
scarcely 30 degrees. it went farther.
As a matter OF fact. even, ia a beg
player could hit a ball at any desired
angle. he could not be certain where
Ii would go. 1t would depend too muah
upon the rotary motion OF the ball
Last summer l saw hard line hit
driven straight at Charlie Merzog NJ
the Giants. Ia put up his hands TO
catch the ball, then suddenly threw
his head aside just in tina to avoid
being hit in tlbe face, the hall missing
his hands by TWO feet. Tine ball had
shot" suddenly from it's true path
In a game between Washington and
Chicago late. last fail, Walter Jok<1son
hit a ball al an angle of close go 40
degrees, and with terrific force. l
should estimate that it was nearly 80
feet high, at it's greatest elevation.
Had il followed the true haIlistic
curve, it would have passed over the
center field fence. The bali sudden
ly stopped, started TO drop straight
downward, then caught in another
current of air, and Bodie, who was
running after the ball, ov;Vtook il COM
ing toward him, as II thu batter had
! hit il from center field Under condi.
| tons such as these study of aero
nautics would help players more than
physics would.
The outfielder who gets the jump
| III - h. Hat
figures it's trajectory at glance,
sprints desperately outward and turns
exactly upon the spot where the ball
will alight, then catches it, has all
the calculations ever devised beaten.
Physics assumes that balls, thrown
with equal force, following the same
angle of projection over the same
range, will be alike. / never doubted
IL until practiced at second base with
Malachi Kittridge and the lamented
Tim Donohue throwing the ball down
TO me. Dcnohue threw faster, and
seemed harder, yet the ball came into
the hands as lightly as if tossed. Kit
ridges thrown ball came more slowly
but it Jared and bruised the hands
This peculiarly OF throwers Is un.
derstood well by players. and one OF
the first inquiries concerning a new
player Is whether he throws light
or a heavy ball, which refers to the
striking force of the ball, and not its
weight A ball revolving naturally
and thrown over the finger tips. as a
fast ball Is thrown, has a tendency 70
lift. is light. One that loses it's TO
tary motion, and oscillates rather than
rotates, is dead" and heavy. Every
player throws a different kind OF ball
the variations depending upon the size
of the hands, the length of the fingers
and the manner of holding the ball
The man who knew enough about
physics. and also about baseball, could
fill a book on the physics Of pitching
It is simple, while seeming complex
Il was not so very long ago that
Tying, the Harvard pitcher. developed
curve ball that started a protract
ed argument which finally resulted In
group of learned professors gath
ering to decide whether a ball actual
ly could be made to curve in the air
The professors who doubted the pos
sibility of ball curving based their
doubts upon the alleged insufficieucy
of air resistance. They adrsitted the
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-28
The Physics of Baseball
BY Hugh S. Fullerton
tCopyuigist. l9l8, by W. @. Chapmanl


The first law OF physics IN that all
Saat goes UP must come down; al
mays excepting the cost of living. The
e5rst law Of baseball is not to let II
some down.
The difference between the physics
u the classroom and of the diamond is
that the student learns the laws gov
esrning inertia, velocity, dynamics. the
oc1rvilinear trajectory of projectiles,
resisting power of air, attractive pow
ser of masses: and the baIl-piayer. by
experiment, deals only with the freak
variants of these laws. Many times
The student who makes his college
ceam Is apt to think that the prof. was
Swinging aim when he laid down
The laws of motion, mass and We
locity. For a baseball under skilled
manipulation and control seems, like a
rust, to come as near violating all the
lava rs possible. The ball always Is
striving to do exactly what the laws
OF Physics say il should do. with half
n dozen other forces striving 60 com
pei IL TO do something else, and with
the bad boys i'm uniform trying to in
Tent new methods of making II violate
the law.
RI the supreme court should lind the
law Of grayitation unconstitutional.
~ Sf the ball player could breathe in
1n;absoiute vacuum. baseball would be
simple proposition. The ball would
Keep on going in straight iiHe until
some one stopped ii. Line hits would
continue to travel in a straight line
o until some fielder. standing on the
needle point of infinity, jumped and
pulled it down with one hand
There is a professor of physics ia
n great eastern university who wrote
me inquiring as to the physics OF the
spit ball, and who later Iectured 20 his
classes upon the subject ] asked sew
s-aA great pitchers TO demonstrate for
The benefit Of the professor how they
acid the ball, swung their arms, re-
-eased 1t with their fingers, and how
much power they applied and TO what
paint on the surface of the sphere.
among them was Clark Griffith, mas
Ger in theory, who used to be past-mas-
Ter in practice. | asked hini 90 take
-he professor to the grounds and show
lin things. The result was a note
FROM Griffith, in which he said:
18n't send any more bugs 20 sec
me"
The point is that the players do not
care what scientific phenomena they
develop so long as the opposing bats
men take their healthies ii. g.. swings)
at the ball and miss. The college pro
lessor does not care much whether
Walsh strikes Collins out three times
With runners on bases TO long as lac
can demonstrate that the laws gov
erning rotation. air pressure, fric-
-tsoa, retard and accelerated motion.
etc, etc, are proved by the actions of
rhe ball. So physics and baseball as
studies have kept aloof from each
other
Yet every move in ball game az
cords a problem. There are basic con-
.Cfitions which, in themselves. are
worthy of study. Consider atmos pEe eric
DreRsure. Did you know that man
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-28
Earrie's Comfort.

1t is saul of j. NJ Barrie that he -
rather shy and retiring in manner and
one OF the most enjoyable social fIDc-
tons" he ever attended was. 1t is said.
a dinner IN which, DE turned to- ixis
neighbour and askedr do you con-
verse;"
mo. don't" replied his neighbcr.
Neither do l." exclaimed Mr.: Bar
rie, comfortably.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-28

came. i had numb
spells and was dizzy,
had black spots be-
fore my eyes, my
back ached and I
was so weak / could
hardly stand up. My
f a &c was yellow,
even my fingernails
We're colorless and I
had'displacement- 7
took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-28

rate of rotation and the weight of air.
The entire science OF pitching con-
sists in the deft application of fric-
ton upon some point of the ball which
makes it rotate in a certain direction,
or, which counteracts it's natural ro-
tation and cause IL to 'wabble" or
float with little revolving motion. The
slow balls, fadeaways. knuckle balls,
all have as their object the proven
ton of rotary motion, or to give false
rotary motion of reverse English"
The ball that PRESENTS the most air
surface to the resistance of the at.
mosphere slows up quickest and yields
more rapidly to g,aylta,fJn. The one
that spirs ofsenest mot necessarily
fastest) curves most