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clouds today made IT seem probable
that this afternoons matches in the
western tennis tournament at Onwen.
TIA club would go over until tomo1..
row Nine players who survived ear
lier elimination rounds were to DO
battle IN the fifth round today. Includ-
ed are John Stracheon and Clarence
Giffin, Illinois. Champion Walter Hayes
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night following trouble over the 20.
mile marthon Sunday night, in which
Captain AL Standen, OF the local team
claimed he had been tagged down
after completing 25A miles where, II
he had been allowed to finish, he
would have won the race. AFTER holo-
Ing out half hour, the boys agreed
to ride II none was suspended.
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Brasseys Horse Is Winner.

limited Press Leased Wire Seryicel
LONDON, July a1.--L. Brasseys
"Catmint' today won the Goodwood
cup, the days principal event at the
Goodwood races, the last OF the sea.
sons fashionable turf events. Aleppo
was second and Major I,oders Lance
CHEST third Benny Mater rode the
winner. Six ran.
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MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Standing Of the Clubs.
Yesterdays Results.

Yesterdays Results.
Philadelphia, 2-6-3; st. Louis, 1-5-c.
Batteries Bush and schang; Well,
man and Alexander.
New York, $50; Chicago, Obi.
Batteries-Fisher and Sweeney; Rus
sell and Schalk
DetroitWashington game postponed
on account Of rain.
Cleveland-Bos game postponed
on account of wet grounds.
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|PATHF|NDERS AND
PACKERS SHARE
Burlington Won the First Game From
ottumwa but Egan Shuts
Thorn Out In
eseond.
FIRST ONE WAS EXCITING
Beard Of kewanee Won His Own
Game in the Ninth Inning by
Driving Out a
Single.

BURLINGTON, IA, July Blur
lington and Ottumwa split even IN
the double header here yesterday, the
locals winning the first game by the
close score of to 5 and the leaders
taking the second to 0. Ketter. tbs
new man from st. Joe, was on hano
yesterday and played behind the bat.
He seems to know his business ca,
cept for the fact that he allowed too
many Of his opponents to steal sec
ond. Burlington had its usual bit OF
bad luck In regard to a player being
hurt. Frank Foreman was hit on tho
arm by pitched ball in the secono
inning of the first game. The injury
proved SO serious that he had to be
taken out in the fourth inning. Low
Their took his place at short and Nc
Glade was sent to center in spite OF
his split finger.
The initial contest was exciting an
the way through. The locals took the
lead in the first inning by getting
next to Jimmy Dunn for four runs.
! W. oSOi Cd LII DOtu luSe oGSOllu anu
third innings by Ottumwa tied the
count, but the Pathfinders drew aheae.
again in the fifth frame by one run
and increased their lead In the sixth
by one more. The visitors managed
to get another run in the seventh bu,
were blanked in the last two innings
| John Hines, who played first base
for Burlington yesterday, deserves
much credit for the great game he
] put UP. He is an amateur player OF
I this city and certainly showed class
/ He got a hit in each game and was
always on the job when it came tc
making put-outs and assists. John
| should be able to land a good Job In
professional ball whenever he want.
! it.
KEWANEE, ILL.,, July Blizzard
pitched unhittable ball after the thru
inning and was great in pinches from
then on. The feature of the game
was the sensational Kewanee finish
Taylor singled In the ninth and An
dreen poled his second homer, tyins
the count. Wilde scratched a singl,
and stole second. Beard won his gam,
with clean single to left.
MONMOUTH. H., July 81 -Thre,
runs off Cooper. new Brown recruit
in the first frame won yesterday
game for Cedar Rapids, 5 to 2. Mi,
chell pitched good ball after the frs
frame. Over five hundred Aledt
boosters were here boosting for Thu
i Mercer county fair.
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Motorcycle Raeers strlk.

! un1ted Press Leased Wire service !
ST. LOUIS, MO, July s1.--The en-
cinnat' and st. Louis motorcycle
leans went on short strike Lac,
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and former western intercoIlee;a,.
champion. The semi finals viii b
played tomorrow. -
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Where They Play.
st, Louis at Philadelphia.
Chicago at New York.
Detroit at Washington.
Cleveland at Boston.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Standing Of the Clubs.
Yesterdays Results.

SoeSTudy6 Results.
st. Louis, 9-12-2; Boston, 1874 Ba,
teries- Harmon and Wingo and Hide
brand; James, Rudolph. Strand ano
Rariden and Tragressar
Chicago. BIO: New York, o-4-4. Ba,
eries-Cheney and Bresnahan; Tes
reau. Crandall and Meyers and WI,
son.
Cincinnati, 5-s-o; Philadelphia. 49,.
Batteries-Ames and Clarke; Bren,
nan. Rixey and Killifer and Doom
Pittsburgh. $50; Brooklyn, $40,
Batteries McQuillan and Gibson
Ragon. Curtis and Miller.
Where They Play.
Boston at st. Louis. Hs
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh.
New York at Chicago. a
Philadelphia at Cincinnati
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Daily rhounht.

dIIy Huupht'
~ is indeed desirable thing to pe
well descended, but the glory belongs
70 our anceStors.-Plutarch.
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Fifth Tennis Round Is on Today.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO. July 31.--overhanging
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WORKS FAST AND HARD
Roger Takes His Medicine as the IN.
dlans Wake up and Pound
the Horse Hide Without
Feeling.
CENTRAL ASSOCIATION.
Standing Of the Clubs.

Club. Won. Lost. Pct.
Ottumwa ia. SO SO .602
Muscatfne .......... so 81 81,
Waterloo ...........45 AZ .517
Monmouth -. ..44 40 .506
d kEoKuk ...........42 As .4Sa
Burlington ......-.-.45 40 .47s
Cedar Rapids ........3 ST 4S .455
Kewanee ..,........ "a 81 400
Results Yesterday.
Il keokuk ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 15 z
Muscatine .-...-............ 2 Q
seneff and jenkins; Roger and
Hart.
/ monmouth ..,.............. ]
Cedar Rapids .........l...... 5 s i
Kupper, Mitchell, Fingal; Fink,
Spencer and Mccarthy.
heWanee ..'.......-.,.3.,..... 4
waterloo ................... 6 ]
Beard and Haley; Kilkus and Goes
First game
Burlington 4 0 0 o 1 1 o o Ks Z 5
Ottumwa 20 2 2 O o o L o 0--5 10 .
Miller and Ketter; Dunn and Link
Second game
Burlington 80 o 0 o 0 o 90 s /
Ottumwa 800 / o o 6 OF 10 j
Willis and Ketter; Adams and Link
Games Tomorrow.
Ottumwa at Keokuk.
Muscatine at Burlington.
Waterloo at Monmouth.
Cedar Rapids at Kewanee.
All of the mighty things that have
been said by tongue and pen abou
the work of "Styx', Semen were sub
stantiated when Keokuk met tn,
proudfoot Muscatine man-eaters in tn.
second day engagement and the Ohio
nigh school boy, ripe for the creates
victory of his life, held the visitor,
to an almost hitless game. The In
dian twirler delivered beautiful a.
well as brilliant ball and with al
ease that was perfection. Two single,
was the extent of weak damage tina
the Boyle element could find the ioy
giving youngster for and one of thes,
was shakey.
seneff's mates We're also right TO
the grand occasion, which at it
termination caused slight rise in tn,
percentage column and places th,
team within three games of the so
mark and good nose ahead OF Bur
Hngton, deadly rival and nearest ad
yersary In the circuit. Neither on
OF the pair of slams that went to tn
short outfield, counted for run an,
the only tally sifted through the drae
net in the eighth round came after al
error, a sacrince and a walk
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
PHYSICIAN.

PHYSICIAN.
DR.. w. p. SHERLOCK, "
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Once Is North Fifth street. In the
Howell building.
ONCE hours-10 to 10 .. M; q to .
p M; evenings. to s.: sundays. II
to ! p. m. United States civil Ecrvica
examiner.
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With the few remaining games in
the month, Tom Miller is brushing up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-01

a fish peddler who was shouting his
stock. During that day he threatened the
life of the cat II different times; he called
the doctor a quack q times. and he made
use of over 60 cuss words. Mrs. Bowser
cooked beef, mutton and chicken In every
with each dish as 1t was presented. His
feet were too high or his head too low.
and the bed either had hollow or a
lump in It. Not for three minutes at 9
time was he quiet or satisfied, but at
o'clock in the afternoon Mrs. Bowser had
new cook about her wrk Half an hour
later. as she started up the stairs. she al
most screamed out as she glanced into the
sitting room. There stood Mr.. Bowser
fully dressed and bowling and smiling al
the cat rubbed hie legs and purred;
1T am here, Mrs. Bowser," he blandly
answered.
'.But yonr rheumatism
'Rheumatism? Yes. I was at DEATH
door with rheumatism. but I brought my
this Is the resa.t. You would have lain
there and died"
But don't understand"
'.Simply because you don't know youl
husband. I could have filled the house
With cemplsints but uttered ere .r mot o ond
| died, but I wilied 1t otherwise. Let thii
be a great moral lesson to you. Mrs
Bowser, and behold'-
And he went waltxing around the room
with his knees As timber as springs and
the cat followed otter, while Mrs
| .owser raised her hands In astonishmen'
and said to herself:
WAS there ever another man IN al IN, I'M,
world IKE Mr., acknowledgements lSlS
BY the Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
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UBIQUITOUS YANKEE.
An American Is Found Holding Down
q Claim in Siberia.

st. Petersburg, Nov. 1.-The ubi-
QuftOus American trader appears to
have discovered part. at least, OF
northern Siberia and to have made it
his own. So strong a hold in fact has
he secured upon the natives OF that
little known part Of the world that
while the American silver dollar is
taken with avidity in trade, the Rus
sian trader who offers two Russian
roubles for the same amount of goods
is looked upon with suspicion.
Lieutenant Arbeniev Of the Russian
navy, who was a member of the Rus
sian expedition which upon its arrival
at st. Michael. Alaska, a few weeks
body OF land forming the counterpart
Of Nova Zemlya, and enclosing the
Kara sea, in a book on the work OF
the expedition in 1912, just published,
wakes humorous about the American
traders met with during the voyage.
Wherever natives congregated, he
says, there stood the tell-tale log
cabin, whence silver dollars, American
rifles and canned goods were doled
out in return for the precious furs in
two roubles instead of one silver dollar
was in many cases treated with sus-
picion.
Lieutenant Arbeniev argues that II
is about time the Russians took more
interest in their own lands and people
He records a visit paid to the Taimyl
and Waigatch, the two steamers OF
the expendition. when off Tcheliuskir
at the end Of August, 1912, by fungus
a chieftain styled Bobrovsky, which
means beaver. who proudly displayed
q medal conferred upon him by the
president of the United States for sue
coring the survivors Of the Jeanette
Arctic expedition.
The influence of the alien traders
says the lieutenant, does not seem t.
have been physically harmful to thu
natives but quite the contrary SO fal
as the appearance of the younger gen
, Grafton is concerned. They have, how
ever, been unable to alter the indie
scribably filthy habits OF the Siberian
redskins
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a woman with a dying husband"
But what can do for your asked
You can turn my pillow over. rub my
feet. give me that camphor. get me the
morning paper, bring me a cigar. A low
ing wife would think of hundred things
to do"
During that first day Mr.. Bowser was
assisted to turn over in bed % times: his
he smelt of the camphor bottle % times.
and he had his feet rubbed "A times. The
window of his bedroom was lowered or
raised s. times, and he had four kinds of
broth and Il special dishes. He had made
q predictions as to being dead in the
at night he said to Mrs. Bowser:
IF you have no interest In this case,
Just let ct me know. and I'll hire a trained
The second day really began one min
ute after midnight, as Mr.. Bowser awoke
at that instant and complained. of 1erky
sensation in one Of his big toes. At 2
o'clock he had cold streaks. at his knees
were numb and at he felt a fluttering
s the sy Gown psns as dX n sat
dicted that he would die before night. A
neighbor WHO had heard Of his illness
Bowser took advantage Of the occasion ia
remark:
notice how calmly take it. I am not q
man to make complaints and even with
stans in the
Mr.. Bowser wanted beer, ginger ale
and lemonade. He wanted Strawberries
and jellies and ice cream. He insisted
that Mrs. Bowser telephone his condition
to the doctor every hour, and yet he de-
clared that the family physician didn't
know enough to doctor dizzyhead cat
He set out with tears in his eyes to tel
Mrs. Bowser what to do as a widow, but
at the end of ten minutes charged her
with desire to see him planted" sc
that she could marry again. OF the L
special dishes prepared for him he slipped
at one or two, and when night came he
drew up his knees. with a sigh and
II should have gone to the hospital IL
the first place. I might have known that
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QUITS HUSBAND TO Toll HOSPITAL

Vienna, Nov. LIN an effort to
forget the past and heal her own
aching heart, the Archduchess Isa-
bella Marie. daughter of the Arch
duke Frederick. the richest Of the
Austrian royal family. has gone to
work as a nurse in a Vienna hospital
Eighteen months ago the arch
duchess was married to her cousin.
Prince George of Bavaria. She had
been betrothed to him for some time
and everyone expected that the mar
riage would be success. Yet she
left him Immediately after the cere-
mony, thereby furnishing one OF the
most amazing episodes In the amaz-
ing family history of the unfortunate
Hapsburgs.
Efforts on the part Of mutual
friends to effect a reconciliation were
fruitless. Some months ago the arch
duchess had the marriage annulied,
leaving the world at large to guess
the reason.
A few weeks ago the Sisters Of the
Red Cross were astonished when the
archduchess came to them and de-
clared her intention Of training for
Red Cross work. Such a thing had
never been dreamed Of before. Aus
TRAN archduchesses are 30 hedged
dom brought into contact with the
world. Their whole life Il arranged
for them from the cradle to the
grave. They never are permitted to
do q hands turn for Themselves. So
the sisters in the hospital were curl
GUS to see how the archducheD would
enter into her new life.
The rules of the establishment are
severe. The sisters must be at work
at six in the morning. The cases are
all diflcult ones. During the si1
months Of training the sisters are
called upon to witness many opera
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Ho Simply Has . Cl0se Shave Of II,
But Ho Stm Lives.

For ten days or more Mrs. Bowser
had noticed that Mr.. Bowser dragged
one Of his legs q bit when walking,
and in going up and down stairs he
At length she asked:
Have you had fall or hurt your
hip1"
81 notice that you limp"
1.-THE shoe on my right foot pinches
"Oh. that's 1t. didn't know but It
was rheumatism. You've got wet sew
eral times lately"
She said no more, but the other
evening she noticed that he had hard
work getting up the steps. and that
he had a scared look in his eyes, He
was very sober during dinner hour
and for some time after, but after nu-
merous signs and grunts he suddenly
exclaimed:
by John, Mrs. Bowser, but what in
thunder has got into my legs? don't
believe I can walk three steps!"
Its rheumatism. probably" she
replied, land you ought to attend to 1t
very sharply. Your legs must be well
rubbed with Nniment."
"You-yot. lon't mean that I've
actually got rheumatism" he whis-
pered as he grew white around the
mouth.
'I'm sure of 1t. think you've had
1t hanging around you for some
weeks"
"And rheumatism ties a man up in
knots and often goes to his heart and
kills him like a bullet?"
Eyes"
Mr.. Bowser grew paler, and his chin
Quivered, but as Mrs. Bowser began to
express her hopes that this was only
q mild attack and would yield readily
to treatment, he took a sudden resolve
and almost sternly said:
'''Well, we won't worry. Whatever
It il, ! will bear it like a man. I may
be a cripple in the house for months
or years, but you won't hear one word
Of complaint from me-
He managed to get upstairs after a
great deal of trouble, and after he had
been rubbed and helped into bed he
felt SO much better that he went to
sleep. When he awoke in the morn
ing, however. It was q different thing
His legs were almost as stiff as crow
liars. and the doctor arrived to warn
him that he was good for three days
in bed. He was asked to exercise pa
thence and keep q cheerful spirit, and
he replied:
mot one complaint shall be heard
from me. doctor. and I'll whistle and
sing all the time"
That was the way out the first day
started in. The doctor had been gone
exactly four minutes when Mr.. BowseY
suddenly exclaimed:
by gum! you arc taking 1t too cool Tor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-01

drowned with his assistants going
down In q diving bell on the Irish
coast
The British man-of-war, Roy Al
George, sunk or Portsmouth in 1882.
was first surveyed by means Of q div
ing bell in 1917. The talpa marina, or
sea mole, q diving machine for laying
torpedoes and the like. being a cylinder
provided with compressed air sufficient
for two persons for SO hours. was in
vented by Tosseln. a Venetian, and
was successfully tried In the Bay of
Naples in 1S71.-Kansas City Star
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MI SETS A RECORD
Harvester Trust Case Is Ready
for the Courts.
Evidence Will Be Submitted in
Chicago Next Monday.

st. Paul, Nov. 1.-The suit Of the
United States We. the International
Harvester company to dissolve it, will
come on for hearing in the United
States district court here before Cir
suit Judges Sanborn. Hook and Smith
on next Monday. In its petition.
which was filed April 80, 1912, the
government alleges that the Interna-
tional Harvester company was organ
lied in 1902 as a trust. in violation
Of the Sherman law; that its purchase
OF the plants, properties and business
Of the Mccormick. Deering, Plano,
Warder, Bushnell & Glessner and Mil
waukee companies created in that
company a monopoly of tho business
in binders, mowers, rakes and binder
Irvine in the United States! and that,
in its business methods and practices,
the company had increased it's prices,
to tho grave injury Of the farmers
and had coerced dealers and elimi-
mated competitors.
The Company's Answer.
The company, in it's answer, filed
Aug. 5, 1912, admitted the purchase
OF the harvester properties and busi-
ness Of the five vendor companies, but
denied that the company was organ
lied for any unlawful purpose or that
such purchase gave it a monopoly in
the harvester trade, or that it had in
creased prices, or that its business
methods and practices had injured
the farmers or the dealers, or its
competitors, but, on the contrary, its
answer stated that its organization
| and business had been benefit to
the farmers in improved machines
and service. and in the low prices Of
| the machines.
History Of the Case.
The taking Of evidence on behalf
| Of the government began at Chicago
on Sept. 16, 1912, before Robert s.
Taylor, examiner. The government
| called witnesses at hearings held In
Chicago, New York, st. Louis and st.
Paul
On behalf Of the Harvester COM
pany witnesses were called at hear
ings held at Omaha, Neb.; Wichita,
Kan; Kansas City. Mo-: Sioux Fails
8. D.: St Paul, Mimi: Pittsburg. Pa,
and Chicago.
| The taking Of evidence was COM
pleted on June n. last. The record
returned to the court by the examiner
consists, with the exhibits, Of Ia
printed volumes Of about 800 pages
each.
This case IL believed to be q record
both in the number OF witnesses ex-
amined and in the short time taken
in preparing the case for hearing.
| Counsel representing the govern
ment are Edwin p. Grosvenor. special
assistant to the attorney general Of
the United States, and Joseph r.
Darling: and for the defendants
Judge William d. McHugh Of Omahs
and John p. Wilson and Edgar A
1 Bancroft OF Chicago.
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AIbino woodpecker Found.

A white woodpecker is the unusual
feathered specimen reported by farm
ers south of Clinton. John Church, a
farmer living near Ellsworth, who has
studied native birds, reports having
been within q few rods Of the white
woodpecker on the Thomas Quinn
farm.
Mr.. Church says In size. shape, in the
manner Of flying, and in every action
the white-coated stranger il identical
with the red-headed woodpecker it as
sociates with. Farmers Of the vicinity
have been debating whether to try to
catch the bird alive or to kill 1t and
turn 1t over to the tender mercies of
the taxidermist--Clinton Qnd.), Dis
patch to the New York SUM-
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'sIAgnlappe'' In Danger.
New Orleans women have organised
to abolish the ''lagntappe'' practice that
has prevailed in the Louisiana metrop-
oils since the time Of the Spanish DOM
nation.
With every purchase, particularly in
drug stores and grocery shops, long,
esta blished custom has required the
dealer to give away half q doDen can
dies or piece Of gum. even though the
customer bought only I'VE cents worth
Of merchandise.
This practice. originally an expression
OF GOOD nature on the part of the deal
part OF the custornnuu.--1Gow York
Mail.
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lions, and this takes strong nerveA
1t hardly seemed possible that the
de1icately trained archduchess could
stand the strain.
Yet she has done so, to the very
great surprise of the other nurses.
Refusing to stand on her rank. she
mingles with her fellow workers,
spending much of her leisure time on
the flat roof OF the hospital. She
works like an ordinary girl from
middle class family. The other
nurses are permitted to absent them
selves from the hospital but once q
week, and the archduchess has not
asked for more extended privileges.
There IL considerable speculation a.
to what the future of the young ARCH
duchess win be. The eldest daugh-
ter >of the Archduke Frederick, sec
ond cousin OF the emperor, she was
destined to a throne.
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Diving bells were first mentioned.
though somewhat obscurely. by Aria
totle about s25 b. C. They were used
in Europe about 1909 A. d. One IL said
to have been used on the coast Of Null.
Scotland, in searching for the wreck OF
part Of the Spanish armada before
1862
HALEY, about 171s, greatly improved
this machine, and was, 1t was said. ths
first who, by means Of . diving bell.
set his foot on the ground at the bot
tom Of the sea. Smeaton made use Of
the diving bell in improving Ramsgate
harbor. A man named spalding wa