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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
HOPPE LOADS CANN0Nj
NOW THUMBS ARE GONE

SAN FRANCISCO. CAL, July a
Willie Hoppe. at one time picked by
Ad Wolgast to be the next lightweight
champion pugilist. lost both thumbs
and both index fingers yesterday by
the explosion of toy cannon. which
he was helping a small boy TO load.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
ROBE TO LEAD NEWNANj
HAS 2-YEkR CONTRACT

NEWMAN. GA, July S.-George
Rohe. former utility man for Atlanta
yesterday signed two year con
tract as manager of the Newman
Georgia Alabama team. The direc-
tors of the Newman Baseball Associa-
ton have turned the affairs of the
association over entirely to Robe Ball
players are coming in on every train
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03


THE race in the American League
L has assumed a very different as
pect from. the one in the National, for
class told from the getaway III that
argument. Even rival American
Leaguers admit that the Athletics
have shown all the class Of the cir
cult so far, and they have opened
up such a nice gap now they can
afford a comfortable slump. At the
beginning of the season, the outlook
was for one of those nip and tuck
affairs in both leagues. but the out
look was badly upset in the Ameri-
can. The Boston Red SoX and the
Washington Club were to abound
with class, while something was eX-
pected of the White Sox and little
thought Of Cleveland.
Boston has been a pitiahle failure
and disappointment. The team is
going slightly better now, but there
was plenty Of room for improvement.
Even should the club regain the old
stride that carried it TO a worlds
championship last year, it does not
strike me it would have a chance
with the Athletics now. 1t must he
remembered that the Philadelphia
club is playing much better ball than
it did last summer when it stopped
through its schedule, feeling conf
dent that no team was ever created
which could beat it to the pennant
There is a grave doubt in my mind
whether the Red Soy could have de-
hA
they had performed as they are
going this year.
UTHE Athletics have the class Of
L this league" a player on a
rival American League team told me
the other day. "They are not over
looking any opportunities this sum
mer, either. Mack has his pitching
staff going as well, if not better, than
any in the league, and it was sup
posed to be his weakness. 1t has
been largely through clever handling
that Mack has achieved these results
with his pitchers.
In the first place, he fixed Bender
so that he would work his best this
season and he did this through one
Of the well-known Mack methods, a
promised reward at the end of the
season for delivering the goods. Then
he worked his Youngsters with great
wisdom, getting them used to the big
league ways, while the pitchers on
the other clubs had not yet gotten
the spring rust out of their arms
and the going was easier. In this
way they acquired confidence in
themselves. Then Mack got to TAX
ing the squads out Of the games and
putting in a veteran when his team
acquired a lead Of a couple of runs
to make it sure.
Connie fooled Griffith in Wash
ington recently when he sent both
Bender and Plank out in front Of the
bench to warm up before the game
and hid Bush behind the grandstand
where he worked his arm out. When
the game began, he sat Plank and
Bender down on the bench and sent
Bush to the box, figuring on taking
a chance with a youngster in the
game with johnson and working his
veterans against the easier Washing
ton pitchers. Bush got away with
the game. Mack was always a great
man to jockey his players"
Copyright, 1918, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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TOO HOT TO FIGHT.

NEW YORK, July 3-Declaring il
is too hot TO fight in the summer
months. Har'em Tommy Murphy to-
day turned down the offer to tight
Johnny Dundee, the New York feath-
erweight, at Vernon. Cal. on July Is.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
PLAY FINALS TODAY

The final mems and mixed doubles
matches for the Georgia State tennis
title will be PLAYED at the Piedmont
Driving Club Thursday afternoon,
starting at o'clock.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03

You are particular who you have in
your home The Want Ad Man will as
sist you in securing refined tenants
Phone Main 5000 OF Atlanta 5000.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
INDIANS GET EX.GuLL.

ST. LOUIS, July 3.-"Deeh Walsh,
utility infelder has been released by
the local American League club to
the Indianapolis American Associa-
ton team.
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CHRISTY MATHFWSON'S
BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03

CHARLEY FRANK has won more
- controversies and less ball games
this season than any time in his his
tory. He practically hasn't lost an
argument or won a ball game. OF
course that's an exaggerated state
ment but close to the real facts.
If this sort of thing keeps on Char
ley will give up managing and be-
come a lawyer
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honeycOmbed with schools and univer-
sites and many of the graduates of
the colleges have hoped to either get
places under the government or be
lawyers doctors, engineers and what
not. The supply for such professions
has been greater than the demand and
a large part of the surplus has devoted
itself to political agitations and social
naturally high spirited and excitabIe,
and between this element and the SEN
sational newspaper the antigovern-
ment and war following has been grow
ing by leaps and bounds.
X X
Indeed, the great wonder is that the
emperor and the elder statesmen have
been able to handle the Japanese people
as they have. 1t is only the reverence
for the emperor which has been built up
through generations, which has enabled
them to do so. This reverence still 'ex-
lists. but it is a question as to whether
1t is not on the wane 1t was owing to
the generation for the Mkado that the
really great men who have acted as his
advisers for the past generation have
been able to introduce the western civil
zation. 1t was they who laid out the
plans for the great country of today and
carried them out to a successful con-
clusion.
Among the more famous Of the men
We're such Prince Ito Innouye. Count
Okuma and others. Prince Katsura,
who died a month or SO ago, was of the
same class, and was Prince Yama-
gaia, who was at the head of the army
when ! was last in Japan. / have met
all of these men from time to time dur
ing my travels through the Japanese
empire. and have had heart-to-heart
talks with many of them. They were all
of extraordinary ability, and many who
would have made their mark in any ma
ton or in any government.
1t was in 1909 that | had long inter
view with Prince katsura, who was then
the premier of the Japanese empire. He
was also secretary of the treasury, and
was doing all that he could to bring
Japan out of it's financial troubles. Prince
Katsura had command of a division in
the Chinese-Japanese war, and he was
war minister during the troubles with
Russia. He told me that he did not like
to be considered military hero Said
he:
IT am for peace, peace, always peace.
1t is wrong to look upon the Japanese
as consumed with a lust for conquest.
We are a peaceful nation, and when We
fought with Russia 1t was only because
we could not honorably refuse to do
so'
Prince Katsura denied that there was
any ill-feeling In Japan toward the
United States. He said that Japan look
ed upon America as it's great and good
friend, and that 1t was the hope of the
government that the relations OF the
two countries would always be friendly.
He said that any war between Japan
and the United States would involve the
whole world. and what the world needed
was peace rather than war.
x
At that time Prince Katsura wrote me
out a message for the United States. and
I printed facsimile of 1t in one Of my
letters. have the original before me.
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who are left can hold the people in
check. I have just received confidential
letter from an eminent authority In
Toxic, describing the unrest among the
Japanese masses. The enormous appro-
priations for the army and navy, as
well as the extraordinary expenses of
the government and the colonies, have
brought in reign of high prices which
shows no sign Of decrease. At the end
OF the war with Russia 1t was promised
that expenditures would be reduced and
the military establishment cut down.
Nothing of the kind has been done.
On the contrary the cost of the gov
eminent has increased. and during the
coming year the expenses are to be
something like $50 million yen. This is
equal to more than five dollars gold for
every man, woman and child in the coun-
try, or an average OF twenty-five dol
lars per family. In many localities the
farmers are working for twenty-five or
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RELICS AT ST. ALBAN'S.

aquariums is meant the popular concep-
ton Of them, the habitation OF goldfish
with all the furniture and fixings. Strict
ly speaking. however, an aquarium is de-
fined to cover either animal or plant life
Whether or not the scope of the word
will be extended to cover those places
where one now does the fish walk re-
mains to be seen.
est manifested in the keeping OF aqua
RUINS for the study of aquatic animals
and plant life. and interest in them is
still widespread. w. B. Shaw, the kenil-
worth cultivator of pond lilies and other
water-groWing plants. supplies about a
thousand punches a week of cabomba, or
Carolina watershed. for use In aqua
RUINS throughout the eastern part Of the
United States.
Cabomba is a green aquatic plant with
finely dissected leaves, which grows sub
merged in ponds and slow-running
streams 1t is a native Of the southern
states, growing as far north as North
Carolina 1t has escaped from cultiva-
ton and can now be found growing wild
in Four-Mile run and the Eastern branch.
Like all aquatic plants of this type. the
living parts of the green plants in the
sunlight give off oxygen and absorb
carbonic acid gas from the water. These
plants are commonly designated as
aerators or oxygenators. This function
of the plant in water permits the fish to
live in the same water for a consider
able period Of time. Without ii the
water would more frequently have to
be renewed.
If fish are allowed to stay in a bowl
of still water without this plant they
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thirty cents day and there are women
employed in the factories who do not
get more than fifteen or twenty cents
for ten or twelve hours work
The Japanese army, on peace basis.
nominally amounts to 225.OOO men or
about twice as many az we have in the
United States. 1t is really much larger.
for every boy is now forced into the
ranks and there are reserve forces like
those Of Germany. The islands are
divided into military districts correspond
ing to the divisions of the army, and
each division has recruits in it's own
district. Liability to service begins at
the age of seventeen and the actual serv-
ice commences at twenty. The total
strength of the field forces just now
amounts to about 100000 men. This is
fully one-tenth of the whole population.
and at the same ratio we would have
about 100000 American troops. The
army In eauipping this enormous force.
and the taking of several hundred thou
sand productive workers out of the ranks
of industry, has serious effect upon the
productiveness of the Japanese nation.
The army last year cost 75,OOO,OOO yen.
In addition 10 the cost of the army
is that Of the navy, which now ranks
among the strongest of the world. The
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were reduced to lime. On the river
shore south of the tracks is a frame dwell
ing inhabited by a family which lives
by fishing and oystering, and a few
yards farther down the shore. but not
directly at the waters edge, is another
frame dwelling. the main room of
which Is a barroom. Within q few
feet of the end Of the railroad track
and extending a. few yards out into
the river is a feeble little wharf, per-
haps wide enough for two persons to
walk on abreast. However. 1t Is large
enough for the traffic. Small boats only
tie up there. Along the south side of
the tracks is Popes creek, narrow
and marshy little branch Of water with
plentiful crop of dead dry grasses
and cattails. On the north side of
the railroad rise steep and picturesque
hills typical of the southern section OF
Maryland-a really beautiful country.
The only explanation as to why this
place should have been chosen as
railroad terminus seems to be that the
builders must have. at the time of
construction. contemplated a ferry
across the Potomac river, to connect
W.T. o ~ailroad 10 he huflt hut white
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the public treasury. and there are fac
tories which are subsidized in one way
or other.
AT the same time the public debt
steadily increases. 1t now amounts to
more than 1900 million dollars or
about 1925 per family. There is also
great deal of private Indebtedness,
and 1T is said that So per cent of the
farmers are paying interest on mort
cages.
The distress and pauperism which
comes from the high cost of living and
comparatively low wages are fomented
and increased by the yellow journals.
A large socialistic element has grown
up. and it is from this that we hear
the demands for war with China and
with the United States. The socialistic
party is rapidly increasing. and the in
dications are that the emperor and the
elder statesmen cannot long hold the
masses in check. When 1 was In Japan,
prior to the breaking out of the war
between Japan and Russia, / was con-
fidentially told that Japan would have
to do something in order to take the
attention Of the people away from local
troubles, and to keep them from de-
handing a greater share in the gov
eminent The same conditions prevail
now, and they may result in the nation
being rushed into trouble with other
countries. The Japanese-Russian war
was largely undertaken by the Japanese
to keep their own people In order.
Take the assassination of Mr. Abe, the
high Japanese official who advocated
moderation as to the troubles In Cali
made upon China.
This was brought about by the mob, and
1t may be that his death was decreed by
some of the secret societies Of the So
lfs fnff sat NJ oJST tod
as he was about to go into his own house.
Two men grabbed him and one held his
arms while the other stabbed him In the
stomach, and performed upon him what.
had he done it himself. might be called
hari-kiri.
One of the assassins Is said to have
committed suicide. seating himself first
on a map of Japan. At the same time
he sent two yen, a sum equal to one dol
lar. to the dead officials family. and left
the following letter:
Il stabbed Mr.. Abe. Why did commit
the murder? He Is responsible for the
weakness of Japanese diplomacy. The
act Is the outcome Of my sincere wishes
for the welfare of the state. l stabbed
him deep. He screamed and cried; oh.
hurt What an unmanly attitude /
understand Bushido. and therefore hate
to commit suicide in the open air. like a
die until now. Please forgive. 1 have
killed him. but L entertained no grudge
against him. When remember his fam
lily, | cannot stop my tears. / deeply
sympathize with the members OF his fam
ily.'
This man was probably one of the
Soshi Of Japan. The Soshi became promi-
nent just after the war with China and
in short time spread throughout the
empire. They probably still exist under
a different name. I have never seen them
described In letters OF travel. They are
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you will pass within few yards of these
relics Perhaps you will not see them
because of intervening shrubbery. They
are scattered, though not widely so. on
a bit of lawn and the grass has grown
up among and about them. They are in
picturesque confusion as though they
had been summarily tumbled on the
so many stones in the cathedral close
that have holy associations, stones from
Palestine and from ancient abbeys and
churches, you will conclude that these
stones are likewise holy and historic.
1t was this conclusion that the Ram
bier arrived at when he came upon the
handsome sculptured stones. He sought
information concerning them from pass
ersby and from persons who fingered In
the grounds, but nobody knew their
story. though every one whom the Ram
bier approached thought they were relics
from Palestine or Britain. The Rambler
made a photograph of them and sent 1t
with a letter asking for the story of
these stones to the Rev. George C. F.
Bratenahl, a canon of the National
CATHEDRAL, formerly rector of the Church
of St Albans and the author Of hand
book Of and other publications relating
to the cathedral The reply of DR..
Bratenahl was disappointing. but here
it is:
I'm reply to your favor, the stones
You referred to in the inclosed photo
graph are. / regret to say, of no par
ticular historic value.
They are stones which weoe given TO
US at the time of the demolition of the
old Academy of Design in New York.
and were a part of that structure. We
used some OF these stones in the little
sanctuary, but found the others were not
suitable
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while he was on the way to the house of
parliament. and one of them threw a bot
tie of suiphuric acid at him. but failed to
strike him. A few days later a band of
twenty Soshi attacked the office of one of
the newspapers and stoned the editor, and
other outrages occurred.
! am told that many of these Soshi
came from the old Samurai or retain
ers Of the Daimios, the mobiles of the
country who ruled Japan under the
shotgun before the new government
came in. Each Daimio then had a
number of these fighting men about
him. but when the emperor came out
of his seclusion and took hold of the
government the fighting men were out
Of job. Some of them got places in
the new administration, some went
into private life and took up industries
of one kind or other, and not few sat
and sulked. 1t is the descendants of
these men who are fomenting much of
the trouble today. 1 was told that
some Of them had attached themselves
to politicians and that few of the
Soshi had organized into bands where
they worked together for their own
mutual benefit. l was told that they
are not fond of foreigners and that
they were the basis of the anti-foreign
element of the country. Not few
came from the overeducated Of the
young japan. Thousands of young
Japanese have prepared themselves to
enter the professions. The country is
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1t consists of some japanese characters
beautifully written in the hand of his
excellency on a wide strip of white silk.
1t is signed with the seal of the mar
quis. Translated it is:
For Japan and the United States mu-
tual friendship and mutual harmony"
1t was sentiments like that that caused
Katsura to lose his job. The mob went
against him, and they terroriZed the en-
peror to such an extent that he asked
Katsura to resign. katsura did So and
tried to organize new party, a party Of
peace rather than war. He found, how
ever, that this war spirit and this social
istic element We're stronger than he and
it was for this reason that he withdrew
from public life. He remained in seclu-
sion until his death few weeks ago.
1t was at this same time that | met
Prince Yamagata, the great general and
statesman. He was to Japan what Grant
was to the United States. He was the
organizer of the Japanese army. and 1t
was his military ability that did much to
make 1t one of the greatest fighting ma
chimes of modern times. Yamagata dep
recated the military spirit which was
growing in Japan. Said he:
I'VE do not want to be considered
warlike nation and We hope to continue
our national life along the lines of peace,
not war; Our military establishment has
been created for defense, and not for
conquest, and We hope that the time will
eventually come when We can dispense
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of domestic spruce was $3.50 and of
imported $11.34 per cord.
It was the rapidly ascending cost of
spruce that led to experiments with
other and cheaper woods. Early ex-
periments were conducted at Wausau.
Wis, under the general supervision of
the director and assistant director of
the forest products laboratory and an
advisory committee Of the American
Pulp and Paper Association
The government agents three or four
years ago reported that not only have
very promising sheets Of pulp been OBJ
tanned from both the hemlock and jack
pine, but that paper Is being made from
them on commercial machines. operating
at high speed, and under all other con-
ditions Of actual commercial practice,
which has the strength, finish and appear
ance of standard news paper. The pro-
duction per grinder, the horsepower con-
sumption per ton, and the yield per cord
approximate the averages which obtain
In the grinding of spruce.
There is much doubt as to why the
pulp industry so long neglected the use
Of jack pine and hemlock for the cheaper
grades of paper. 1t seems to have been
the general impression that hemiock
would grind too fine and short and that
there would be a great loss in conversion.
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their neighbor trees with bowls that the
insects have got 'em, or that the wind
is blowing too hard. or that escaping gas
is asphyxiating them at the roots. or that
the dust Of the street is choking and
binding them. / wonder why in this age
when everybody poses a sport of some
kind or other, and when educational in
situations specialize in sports, that people
will persist in planting such molly coddle
trees.
Look over yonder at that wretched,
frost-bitten, withered and wrinkled old
oak! There is a tree boastful of it's an
cestry, but, believe me. it Is a parvenu
compared with US conifers, 1t is relative
1y a newcomer among the trees. Why,
my ancestors and collateral kin were
bearing cones and furnishing bow wood
for men to fight with before the first oak
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it. they are slowly moving away over
the dusty roads. Many of the teams en-
gagged in this kind of hauling are OK
teams In some cases the yoke OF
steers is drawing the big-wheeled.
heavy oxcart in common use a century
and half a century ago, and in other
cases the oxen are drawing wagons of
recent model.
The Rambler asked if the people of
southern Maryland were now shipping
out cordwood by train and why, II to
be sold for fuel. was 1t skinned" The
information obtained was that this old
pine wood was being shipped to paper
mills.
J. H. Thickens. chemical engineer in
forest products in the forest service Of
the Department of Agriculture, has
written extensively of experiments
with jack pine and hemlock for me-
chanical pulp. And to get line on
why the hitherto despised scrub pine
of Maryland is being turned in white
paper it is well to follow a few Of the
figures and remarks presented by Mr..
Thickens. He has written that few
well established industries have ex-
banded as rapidly as has the pulp and
paper industry. In less than a decade
the amount of raw material used an
nually has more than doubled. Dur
wv tahn tha~a consumed In the