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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-02-28

Herman Sholtz is moving on the D..
W. Mccarthy farm.
Miss Kate Joyce of Edgerton is car
ing for the sick at Frank Boss.
Frank Kersten moved to his farm
which he recently purchased near Ley
den.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Barrett and
daughter Grace of Edgerton spent
Sunday at G. w. Nichols.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Boss rejoice
over the arrival of an another son, born
on Washington's birthday. All doing
finely.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-02-28
"sineine Mice" For Harvard.

Cambridge. Mass. = Singing mice"
are the most recent addition to the col
lection of rodents under the observa-
Ition of Charles Coburn of the Harvard
physiological department.
The FIVE rodent vocalists. all females.
were found by New Yorker who was
ATTRACTED to his tool chest by sounds of
high chattering that resembled more
the notes of canarieS than mice
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-02-28
BUREAU TO DRAFT BILLS.
la Toilette Wants It's Chief to Be
Really Fit

Washington Legislative drafting
bureau to draft or revise bills or
amendments at the request of any COM
mittee or ten members of either house
of congress is proposed in Il bill intro
duced by Senator La Toilette.
Its chief is To be appointed solely on
grounds of fitness and without refer
ence'to political affiliations
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-02-28
FRANCE TO SPEND $4,000, 900.
Wakes Up to the Trade Opportunities
In West Indies.

Paris.-Thp appropriations for i'm
'provements III the French West In
dies. notably at Pointe Pitre. Guade-
.loupe, and Fort de France. Martinique.
in anticipation of the opening of the
Panama canal amount to nearly $4,000
900. the chamber of deputies having
awakened to the fact that France had
made no preparation to benefit by that
event.
Colonial Minister lie Brun (now war
minister, sent an important mission to
the islands last year, and its report
and Minister le Bruins energy brought
about the present appropriations.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-02-28
office

Notice is hereby given that the part
nership of Shaw & Wescott has been
dissolved by mutual consent. The bus
mess will be continued by j. B. Shaw.
All bills owing the firm must be settled
by cash or bankable note by April 1st.
J. B. SHAW,
1852 E. l.. WESCOTT.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-02-28
Pardons Soldier Who Didn't kneel.

! Madrid The government has can
celed the punishment inflicted on a
Protestant soldier for refusing TO kneel
lduring a mass at Ferrol and will pub
manner that repetition OF the Incl
dent will be Impossible in the future.
The soldier had been condemned to six
months imprisonment.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-02-28

LEPER COLONY IN INDIA WHERE SIR
GEORGE TURNER WORKED
always, spread by contagion, but most
Ilepers are not nearly so dangerous to
the public as person suffering from
'phthisiS.
Since the terrible day that he made
the dread discovery that he was vic
tim of eprOsy Sir George has lived i'll
comparative retirement near Exeter.
He has received numerous invitations
to social functions and has invariably
replied:
II will come if you don't mind my
being a leper.''
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-13

the cheer masters fell fiat-in Chi
cago at least. The harder the leaders
Of the rooters worked the more apa-
thetic the crowds became. It was an
interesting phenomenon and set out
to discover the reason. The frst
bleacherite l met solved the problem.
Dem guys amt on de square" ne
said. "Usuns out in de bleachers
don't want to rob nobody"
There was the solution. No matter
how partisan a 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. ne
will insist upon 1t. The rooters' clubs
died.
There are few of the noted fans
now, chiefly because the papers sell
dom mention them. Perhaps they ex-
list. 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 1t went
and became q familiar figure all over
the country. He occupied front
seat in the stands, kept a careful
score and studied the game with q
seriousness that was appalling. He
maintained deep silence during al
most all the game, but when really
great play was made he emitted two
sharp staccate barks: eli! Hi" and
then dropped to silence again. His
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-13
BIGELOW|SH ONORE||
Union College Plans Memorial :,
Author and Diplomat.
Committee Raising 100000 for R..I
tatlon Hall and ProfessorshIp a.
Schenectady Institution-Was
II When He Graduated.

Schenectady, N. Y.-Plans are ran
idly being perfected at Union colloa,
for the establishment of an elahoras,
memorial in honor of John Bigelor,
the author and diplomat whose lon,
life of service ended in New Yort IS
December 10, 1911. John Bigelow wo1
Union man Of the class of 1885. and
was for many years the oldest livino
alumnus of the college. The memorio7
is to take the form of recitation bol1
which will bear Mr.. Rigelow's Mans
and professorship in political science
and for these two purposes at LEAST
100000 must be raised. A commit
tee, of which Joseph H. Choate i
chairman, has dedicated itself to the
raising Of this fund, and the circulars
calling for subscriptions will soon be
sent out.
1T is felt" says this COMMITTEES
''that the most fitting memorial would
be building erected on the campus of|
his Alma Mater at Schenectady. NY
with lecture halls and rooms devoted
to the studies he loved, history, poll
tics, and literature, and the establish
ment there in Of John Bigelow pro-
fessorship of political science. The
building would be named the John
Bigelow Memorial Hail. and would
stand on the main avenue of the col
lege grounds entered through the gate
way erected to the momory of John
Howard Payne, author of Home.
Sweet Home a member of the class
of 1910 at Union college.
"The service of John Bigelow to his
country in the dark days of the Civil
war should always be gratefully re-
membered. While William H. Seward,
his fellow-graduate of Union college,
was managing brilliantly the affairs
of the department Of state, John Bige-
low, as minister to France, was sue
cessful in the delicate task of main.
tanning our national credit in the
countries of Europe. Throughout the
whole of his long life he devoted his
powers without stint to unselfish and
untiring effort in the service of his
fellow-men.
"He held a place in the esteem and
affection of his countrymen held by no
other man, and when he died at the
age of ninety-four his right to the IT,
tie of The First Citizen of New York
was not questioned. We are confident
that this plan will be received by many
as a welcome opportunity to serve at
once the double purpose of stimulating
the spirit Of patriotism and Of doing
honor to the memory of one whose
name should be held among US in
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 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
Ign 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 q
crowd wilder and more frantically IN
favor of the home team and more I'M
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 1t is los
ing Perhaps long years of bitter de-
feat have caused it.
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 nc
matter whether the home club wins
or loses. Detroit is 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
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-13

The degree of sadness of the Irish
sea is the indicator Prof. H. .Bassett
proposes to use for long distance
weather predictions. The salinity is
found to vary in period of about one
year, with corresponding changes in
temperature, the water being more
salty and relatively warmer in winter
and spring and fresher and relative
ly cooler in summer 1t is argued that
the alterations of temperature must
affect the number and character Of
the cyclones coming from the ocean.
The changes of salinity and their time
of occurrence have been found to pre-
cede certain seasonable types of
weather, and it is believed that month
ly observations of the sadness
would give a general weather fore
cast for the British Isles four or five
months ahead.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-13

A California man Of thirty has
been left $4,000 by his uncle on condi-
ton that he first earn and save $1,000
of his own. Until the thousand is Sc.
cured in the manner designated the
bequest will lie dormant. One is in
clined to commend the judgment of
the uncle. If young man has not
sufficient will power to accumulate
1000 he is not likely to possess the
wisdom necessary to handle five times
that amount handed to him as a gift.
The world is full of men whose men
la vision extends no further than
the next pay day, who have no more
notion of saving money than they
have Of growing tail feathers. Their
acquaintance among poolroom hab-
itues is far more extensive than
among receiving tellers. A weeks
idleness means a doubtful account at
their grocer's. This young Cali
fornian will either get his uncle's be-
quest, or he will not deserve it. In
either case. the money will not be
wasted
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-13

the National league players last year
when they saw the wonderful Brush
stadium was that the crowd could not
make itself heard on the field as it
did in the old stands. The Polo
grounds crowd is odd. Somehow
fans who occupy box seats either are
not as rabid as those in the cheaper
seats or they are on their good be-
havior, and fringe of box seats is
an effective shield for players.
Strangely enough the crowds on the
New York American league park, al
though quite as noisy, are much fair
er, than the crowds at the Polo
grounds.
One would think that visiting play
ers would like to play on grounds
where the home team is unpopular
through defeat or other causes, but
they do not. They rather resent the
home crowd abusing the home men.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-13

The Baseball Fan Is Unique Amer
lean Species.
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 ali corners.
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. ]
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
the other fielder who dared criticise
him. As.f
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 q
word of warning: Never try to ar
que with a real, dyed-in-theswool,
thirty-second-degree fan. In the first
place the chances are he is right. but
even IL he is wrong there isn't q
chance to win the argument
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-13

grateful remembrance. In the last rev
years of his life Mr.. Bigelow turneu
with peculiar affection to his olo coa
lege, and memorial serving sucn q
useful purpose in the fitting OF young
men for citizenship is one Wnicn lie
would warmly approve" .,o
Contributions may be sent 10 lns
treasurer of the committee, osWaiu
Garrison Willard of the New YORK eve
ming Post. Other members OF the con'
mittee are Justice Charles E. Hughes,
]. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Falrn9 In,
Osborn, George A. Plimpton, Ellp1a,e'
Mott Potter, Andrew Carnegie En- q
Root, John l.. Cadwalader, joseph -
Ransdell, and President Richmond u
Union.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-13

Wow! Wow!! Great eye, EDDIE!
Make him put it across! Bust q
fence! You can do it! Wow! Wow!!
Wow!!! ROBBER! All right. Tough
luck, Eddie Two and two. Make
her be over. Home run, Eddie, old
scout Break the gate. Wow! Wow!!
Wo-."
The red-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 disguised and turning
to me said:
What do they keep that hunk OF
cheese for? He can't 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. He 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 gibes, and in
fhncn nitfnc nj u01I
| There are crowds that remain loyal
I 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 measure right. The major
| ity of patrons will root when the
home team is winning. Any team will
| play better ball and win oftener il
the patrons are loyal. The fan, voic
/ ing the spirit of the town, is a pow
| er LOT Victory or QoIoaC.
Conditions in different cities com
prising the circuits of the major
leagues assert powerful influence
over their teams. Players will tel
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 a pennant for Cincil
| 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 tt
| expect nothing but defeat, have ar
immense effect upon the players anG
teams. They make or mar players
and weak men win for one type while
brilliant ones fail and lose for the
| other
The baseball fan is an unique Amer
lean species and the most rabid of al
enthusiasts. Compared with him the
golf fan, the bridge fan, even the
bowling fan are mild. Baseball il
the most serious pleasure ever in
vented
Probably the most blindly loya
crowd in the world is that which fol
lows the fortunes of the Chicago
/ American league team, and to one
who is disinterested the Chicago sit
| uation is acutely funny. The Whit;
Sox park is located on the south side
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-13
TO MITIGATE DANGER.


That the automobile has introduced
another serious element of danger.
into metropolitan streets is not to be
denied. This applies to- all large cit
les. They face common problem.
Local interest, therefore, attaches to
a recently published dispatch from
Lcndon announcing chat better con-
troll of power-drivcn vehicles In the
English metropolis is likely to be
recommended by select committee
for action by the house of commons
London's commissioner of police sug-
gests, among the other thing. that
reckless driving, as well as drunken
ness of drivers, be made a penal Of
fense American cities ordinarily
follow foreign cities in such matters.
Fer example, Governor Sulzer OF New
York establishes penitentiary term
for any person who drives an automo-
bile while intoxicated. This is the
first law of the kind in the United
States. There are still other pre-
cautions, Showever, which must be
taken to make streets safer. This
is indicated by the fact that the
number of persons killed in Chicago
in 1912 by motor-driven vehicles was
in the neighborhood of 100, says the
Chicago News. One Of the perils, OF
course, is the variety of speeds of diff
ferent types Of vehicles. The London
commissioner of police proposes to
work toward equalization of speed.
Separation Of traffic of different speeds
is another possibility. Certain streets,
for example, might be set aside for
lslow-moving teams, and others for the
more rapid automobiles.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-13
"7hey Punched Mary Garden for Less Than That"

One of the queer things in that city
is the batting of George Mullin, the
veteran pitcher. Mullin is jolly,
quick-witted joker and years ago he
began talking back to the bleachers.
He was warned that the bleacherites
would put him out of the business,
but persisted Every afternoon he
would walk down in front of the
bleachers and engage in verbal
skirmish with the crowd, trying to
hold his own at rough repartee with
hundreds. He abused the crowd,
laughed at them, accused them of
quitting" and enjoyed it. If he had
taken it seriously the result might
have been different, but after time
it became part of the game and now
the spectators in the bleachers would
not be satisfied if Mullin forgot to
start a skirmish. Last summer, go
ing out on car in Detroit, three
young fellows we're talking.
ooh, I've got peach of get-back
at him today" said one, and, at the
urgent request Of the others he drew
out a card and read what he was 60
ing to say to Mullin If he came near
their seats.
1t is not the great crowds that at
tend the crucial games that exert the
strongest influence over players. True
there is a natural nervousness among
all the players when a tremendous
throng gathers to see them, as in
worlds series games; but the ones
that help the home team, or damage
it, are the crowd of from six to ten
thousand, stirred up by the regulars"
who, day after day and season after
season, incite those around them
There are thousands of these regulars,
self-appointed claques or cheer mas
tiers, and some of them feel as if they
are doing as much to help the team
to victory as if they were out there on
the mound pitching. The large crowds
usually are the fairest and most
sportsmanlike, for in these great gath
erings the rabid and partisan fan is
lost and his utterances are smothered.
These crowds police themselves and
Lu0 pay OIS 1CSl 0oAO anu oo0ul GU I'll
fair play, and, after the first nervous
ness passes, they play their best.
A baseball crowd is much like a
mob. Without a leader it is just noise
and turmoil, but with one recognized
leader it can do much. A few years
ago number Of Chicago men at
tempted to carry out a theory that the
crowd needed leaders and the result
was one of the most dangerous ex-
periments ever attempted The White
Sox rooters organized, band of men
far above average intelligence, who
laid daily plans for melting crowds
and stirring up enthusiasm. The
Board Of Trade Rioters operated at
both Chicago parks, being organized
primarily to attack McGraw and the
Giants. They wrote and circulated
songs, invented ingenious methods of
harassing a worthy foe, and to force
undeserved victory upon the home
teams. The idea spread rapidly.
Rioters clubs" were organized In
many cities and towns to help the
home teams. For a few weeks it
looked as If the new movement would
seriously endanger the national game.
The crowds grew more and more VIC
lent. Then, suddenly and without
warning almost. the widest efforts OF
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-13

of the city; the Cubs on the west,
and the city is divided into two great
armed camps. In 1896 when these
two teams, winners of the champion
ships in their own leagues. met to
contest for the worlds championship,
it was the loyalty of the south side
crowd beyond doubt that won for the
team. That fall the Chicago Tribune's
composing room was about equally
divided between the followers of the
two teams and so bitter was the feel
ing that the foreman was compelled
to separate them and send them to
different sides Of the building to main
tain peace. It was civil war all over
Chicago.
It is a magnificent crowd. wonderful
in its spirit and in its intense loyalty.
There are few things that shake an
opponent like the incessant: Get a
hit" Get hit" which is the war
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-13

A pink boil worm is devastating the
Egyptian cotton fields. 1t is small
caterpillar which eats the kernel Of the
seeds and also Injuries the flowers. Last
gear it destroyed 80 per cent. Of the
crop in the vicinity of Aboukir. Once
upon a time there were fears on the
part of American cotton planters that
Egyptian competition in the produc.
ton of cotton might be a menace to
American interests. This fear no long
er is widely entertained The appear.
ance of the Egyptian boil worm will
make it smaller than ever.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-13
70 stop scenes in Russian Duma'

London.-A Russian engineer mas
offered to install in the duma an az
paratus Of his invention which 10 ~
signed by the mere pressure OF a Dus s
ton to render it impossible for any
deputy to rise to his feet. III .n ,ns
way Darkest Russia says, ne cial .,,1
that all demonstrations and unseemgy
scenes can be prevented. M. nh Nh
zianke, the president OF the donna, s sior,
mitted the offer for the consldeIas ~
of the presidential board. the po or1d
was Of the opinion that the duma cOui0
dispense with such an appliance