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governments. But Teller did not profit
by 1t. Others were glad enough 70
get his ideas, but were very loath to
pay for them.
1t was learned one day that Charles
Teller was in want. The government
said: "Oh, It's not possible. But, by
the way, who is this man Tellier?"
The truth was that the inventor was
starving. What he had that could he
turned into cash was in pawn at the
Mont de Piete. So the government
finally did do something for him. He
was honored by the red ribbon of the
Legion of Honor, as If the red ribbon
which he could not ard would not pawn
would keep him alive. There is no bet
ter illustration of the words of the
Bible: What man is there among you
whom If his son ask bread, shall ye
give him a stone?
Charles Teller again disappeared into
oblivion and want. Despite his Legion
of Honor decoration the inventor still
needed food. The government heard OF
it again and ii was decided to give him
a great banquet. The banquet was
given on February 15 last 1t was very
brilliant and its menu was made of rare
and delicate dishes with a dessert of
eloquent speeches praising Teller and
his invention. Then the government
believed 1t had done all that any one
90 lOT Iellleis lOI ne WHp WIS
hungry had eaten.
Starving to Death
Again Charles Teller disappeared
from the public eve. The next thing
heard of him was that he was dying,
actually starving to death. \ few days
before his death his proprietor threat
ened to put him out of his little apart
ment at Auteuil, where he lived with
his son, a delicate boy who was not
oh nTt 70 ha,.
He had no food, no fuel. His concierge.
brave woman. drew 100 francs out
of tho savings bank to buy him some
thing to eat and some greatly needed
medicine. But death soon came to re-
lieve the sufferings of this wasted
frame. Now the government is all agi-
tation. Teller will get fine funeral
with wonderful eulogies, for the state.
having allowed him to starve to death,
must make amends, even If 1t is too
late, as 1t always is
There are those who say that the In
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BEARS WILL TAKE
RISKS FOR HONEY

Hood River Ore. December 20-(Spe-
eial The residents of the county liv-
ing in the lower valley are surprised at
the numerous wild animals that are
killed there A week never passes at
this time of the year that some rancher
does not get a bear.
These are the boldest of all the big
game animals that have been driven
into the foothills by the orchardists
Recently big bear was killed In the
Central Vale district
Traps have been set for the animals
but the hunters have caught their own
dogs while bruin went free, maraud-
Ing on their honey.
Many of the orchardists now have
bees and the bears are attracted from
the hills to secure the sweets. for which
they will run almost any risk
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Teller, The In0entor Of Cold
Storage, Stdr0ed To Death

In 1915. at the age of II. he started 10
work in his fathers silk mill at Conde-
sur-Noireau. The revolution OF 1S4S
broke out and NJ. Teller, who had en-
ployed 200 workmen, went into bank
ruptcy. The family moved to Paris.
and there at the age of 20 years Charles
had to support the entire family.
He turned to invention and soon pro =
duced boat in which ammonia was
used as the motive power. It was quite
a success, but its inventor was unable
to make enough money to keep the
family from want and the next heard
of him was when he was thrown into
prison for debt. When he was released
he returned to his work. lie then pro-
duced system of freezing food by
compression. With this machine he was
able to preserve not only meat but ali
kinds of vegetables and fruit.
This was in 1859, and Charles Teller
secured the patronage of one of the
most famous bankers in France, the
Comte de Germiny, former governor of
the Banque de France. The war of 1870
broke out The banker died during tho
war and the loss proved to be irrepar-
able to Teller. In 1872 he solicited
the patronage of the Academy of
Sciences A commission was named to
study his work and 1t reported favor
ably Teller was congratulated pub
licly and he thought hlipsel1 on the
road to fortune.
Academy Soon Forgot Him
But the academy soon forgot all
about him Teller then decided to give
a demonstration of his method. He
formed company, which bought an
English steamer and named 1t the
Frigorifique The steamer was equipped
with Tellier's machines and 1t left
Rouen on September "a 1875. After
ha eta q -
rived at La Plata, the meat and vegeta-
bles 1t carried being just as fresh as
the day they left Rouen.
The demonstration proved to the
world the value of Tellier's invention
and it was soon adopted by several
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BLANK PAGES WHERE.
PICTURES SHOULD
HAVE BEEN IN BOOK
Artist Couldn't Draw to Suit
Publisher and He
Left EN- Out
GALSWORTHY GIVES
$500 TO HELP WOMEN
German Librarian Warns Against
Danger of Infection From Books.
How Kipling Was Named
Rudyard
BY HAYDEN CHURCH

London, December 20-(SpeciaL) )-Hert
IL fine tip for authors whose illus
traitors disappoint them Everybody who
has written so much as a short story
and then had it illustrated knows the
anguish that fills a writer's bosom on
beholding the heroine whom he has de-
scribed as petite" pictured as a giantess
TOR the hero, whom he imagined as a
strong. silent man. depicted as one OF
George AIDES ''chinless Percies." But a
remedy has now been discovered. Tell
your publisher, If you can make him
listen to reason not to bother with il
Illustrations at all IL those supplied fail
to come up to the mark but just to in
sert blank pages where the pictures were
to have been, and let the readers use
their imaginations instead, or. If they
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Not So Clever After All

Look here" said a gentleman to a
railway stationmaster. don't you think
that thing is rather dangerous
"Ah" interrupted the official ad
dressed. who had Just been promoted
you've noticed that barrow. have you
sir? You're going to make a sugges-
tion about the place where it ought to
stand, suppose? Might go on, sir
and ask your opinion about the posi-
tion of the booking office? Do you
think that the signal box Is in the
right place? Shouldn't the stationmss.
ter's house be shifted few yards fur
ther west? Any opinion you would like
to express. sir. shall have immediate
attention"
The traveller went away and the sta =
tionmaster turned round triumphantly
TO the guard of train waiting in tho
fiding, says It'd
'Ha. ha!'' he laughed. did you see
the sport I had with that old nuisance
soon shut him up"
I'm not so sure of that" replied the
guard I'm afraid you'll hear more
about it. for. you see. he's the traffic
manager"
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ternational Cold Storage association re-
Gently raised $4,000 for Telller's bene-
fit, but the money never reached Paris.
The aged inventor was approach cd
about the subscription, but 1t Is said he
refused to accept 1t. preferring that it
should so to his son. Others say the
fund that was collected for him WAS
embezzled. At any rate, all Teller re-
eeived was S2o0 on his deathbed, which
Will go toward giving him a decent
burial
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Five Carloads of Goods Received Within the Last Fe
More Carloads on the Way. Our Large Assortment OF
Is the Biggest in the State and Equal to Any Other
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possess artistic powers. illustrate the
volume themselves to suit their respec-
tive fancies.
Preposterous, do you cry? I reply that
the thing has just been done, and done
with all solemnity by a publisher here in
London. This publisher, Erskine Mac
donald, has just brought out a book of
poems, called Apes and Peacocks," by
Norman Boothroyd, in a preface to which
he tMacdonald) makes his apologies for
leaving blank the pages on which Illus
trations should have appeared.
THE poems," he says,- suggest pic
lures strange and wonderful; but the only
artist who could be found with suffi-
cient imagination to linn the poets Wis
ions in line has failed to meet the de-
mand.
THE effort has reduced him to despair;
and the publisher has no alternative but
to send the pages upon which the draw
ings should have appeared blank to the
press!
His only consolation is that the reader
may rise superior to the artist, and be
able to illustrate the book himself, or,
at any rate so to work upon the mag
nation of his friends as to get them TO
make the experiment.
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Wild Duck Skaters LIGHT

Alpena, Mich. December 2o1ispeciaI.) )
A wild duck crashed through the large
plate glass window of the Presdue Isle
light station at midnight and was killed
With wind blowing % miles an hour.
and danger of the light being extlnguished
every minute, Light Keeper Thomas Car
riety and his assistants worked to re-
pair the damage. a 14-inch hole was
broken in the glass.
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How Kipling Was Named

The holiday season, which has brought
us a new Sherlock Holmes" and the
beginning of new "Allan Quatermain''
story has also brought us and you. too,
of course, new one by Rudyard Kip
ing. One wonders, by the way, how
many of the latters readers know that
he was christened Joseph Rudyard Kip
ing. was put in mind of this fact
by the mention, in curious legal case
now proceeding here, of Lake Rudyard,
a beautiful sheet of water in North Staf-
fordshire, from which the poet whom a
big majority of his countrymen consider
should be laureate,s derived his second,
and best known name.
1t was at picnic at Lake Rudyard that
young Lockwood Kipling first met Miss
Macdonald. his future wife, and they
commemorated that happy occasion by
giving their son the name of Rudyard.
But the Joseph" came first until its dis
tinguished bearer himself showed his
sense of the value of words by looping
off and thereafter ignoring it. Which
reminds one, too, that George Bernard
Shaw practically has abandoned his first
name, almost Invariably announcing him.
self, on programmes and title pages, as
Bernard Shaw tout court, as the
French say.
Infection From Books
Beware of the library book. You may
CulCn anything from tuDerCuIOS1Sz down
from IT. This is the gist of remarkable
and characteristically German article by
the librarian of the Kaiser wilhelm acad-
emy in Berlin DR. Hitler, which appears
in the German Bibliophile's calendar for
1914, just published in Viena. In this, he
declares, that the most likely disease to
be transmitted by books is, first of all,
tuberculosis, and after 1t diphtherla,
scarlet fever, measles and smallpox
Working in the Berlin institute for the
study of infectious diseases under DIR.
KOCH Herr Mitulescu examined 81 well
thumbed books-novels. magazines, etc.
which the managers of the Berlin libaries
and reading rooms submitted to the in
spection of the institute. He inoculated
guinea pigs with water in which dirty
fragments of paper from these books had
been soaked, and found that the majority
of them contained germs of tuberculosis,
of malignant ulcer, and of septicaemia
So Dr. Hitler declares that, before BE-
ing passed on from one reader to another,
every library book should be put into a
cleani cover and the reader after every
perusal, should wash his hands in soap
and water According to the Berlin IL
brarian, too, one useful disinfectant is
lamp hot air. Ca phrase which Ameri-
cans will read with a smie), and another
is a vacuum with formaldehide vapor at
4 low temperature
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Galsworthy Helps "Sweated Women


John Galsworthy, whose new novel,
THE Dark Flower has just been pub
lished on both sides of the Atlantic, and
whose latest play, THE Fugitive" is soon
to be seen In America, is evidently one
of the most tender hearted of English
authors
Miss Mary Macarthur. secretary of the
Womens Trade Union society, who re-
Gently induced the Duchess of Marl-
borough to interest herself so deeply in
the cause of sweated women, tells me
that Galsworthy has just sent her a
check for $500 to be spent as she sees fit
This reminds one that the author re-
Gently called attention, IN the newspapers,
to the unnecessarily cruel way in which
cattle destined for food are put to death
in this country. with a result, L believe,
that things are somewhat better at pres
ent. Now Galsworthy has spoken out on
behalf of the performing animal" whose
exhibition he would like to see forbidden
in this country. 1T is too ironical alto
gether," he declares, that our love of
animals should make us tolerate and even
enjoy what our common sense when we
let it loose, tells US must in the main
spell misery for the creatures we profess
to love-.
Galsworthy | notice, writes from Mana
ton. on the Riviera, but he Is one of the
dozen more famous writer's, who re-
Gently have followed the example of
George Bernard Shaw, and set up resi-
dences in the Adelphi, the old world quar-
ter just off the Strand. Among those
who live there now, are, II. G.. Wells Sir
James Barrie, E. V. Lucas, A. e. w
Nason, and, of course, that famous Amer
can pair, Joseph and Mrs. Pennell
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You Out-Of- Town Folks

nense O reasonably
pense-n
checking
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A Parting Shot

Landlord might I make a sugges-
tion?" asked the summer boarder who
was about to depart.
What Is it?' said Farmer Heck
Il think you could take a durability
prize. with this sausage at the state
fair"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-14
MEMPHIS GETS
JORDAN; JOINS
TEAM At ONCE
a DoLPH OTTO JORDAN 4

a DOLPH OTTO JORDAN, At
~ lanta citizen and ex-Atlanta
manager and player. has been
sold by the Chattanooga club to
Memphis and will perform with Bill
Bernhard's club this year.
This deal was closed yesterday. and
Jordan was sent at once to join Bern
hard at Mobile.
This is the second move of the IA
nous second baseman within the
year Slightly less than a year ago
Charles Hemphill, then manager Of
the Atlanta ball club. electrified Ae-
Ianta fans by announcing that he had
decided TO send Jordan to Chatta-
nooga. Otto had a big year under
Billy Smith and turned up in good
order this spring. Evidently Manager
Elberfeld found he needed a lot Of
speed in the infield, so he recently
asked waivers on Jordan, As Otto
goes to Memphis at just this time it
g. probable that he went at the waiver
price.
Jordan should have a couple If
years more of usefulness in the
Southern. OF course. he is slowing
down, but he still has the creates,
head of them all. and is a useful bats
man in the pinChes
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Birmingham Size for the Penna Race
MAN=FOR=MAN COMPARISON OF TODAY'S RIVALS

for Mcbride, .S15 for Bailey. The At
lantan is a livelier fielder, plays with
better spirit, covers more ground and
is in every way a better player At
lanta leads there by mile.
Jim Bodus of the Barons-A semi
professional from Milwaukee, brought
down and recommended by Marcan-
no records He has made such a good
showing in spring practice that he
has started the season as a regular
He has a splendid arm and covers lots
of territory.
Harry Welehonee of the Crackers
Oh well. don't ask us anything so
easy. Harry Welchonce was the lead
ing batter OF the Southern League
last year, and a grand fielder
Naturally he has so much on this
semi-pro kid that they should hardly
be mentioned In the same breath.
Give the advantage TO Atlanta here
by the distance from here TO the far
thest fixed star
Robert Messenger Of the Barons-
Batting, .259; fielding, .9l9 He is a
speedy player but only a fair base
runner. He is not known as a very
heady ball player. He had a bad
season in 1912 but starred the yeaT
before.
Tommy Long Of the craekers-The
Albanian batted .268 last year and
fielded sensationally There isn't a
manager in the league who. II given
his pick. would not take long in pref
erence to Messenger. A few years
back Messenger was a wonder, but
he has shown nothing worth mention
ing for two years.
Atlanta Leads Here. Too.
Can anybody see the Birmingham
outfield at all compared with that of
Atlanta? Not here, anyhow. The
Crackers have the two heaviest bat
tiers OF last years league in We'll
chonce and Bailey. They have a cork
ing young player in Long. The Barons
have one kid. fresh from a semi
pro team and two veterans who are
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going baCk-WhO were pretty far back
last year and likely to be worse this
year.
catchers About Even.
Fred digger of the DEMONSTRATING.
III; fielding, 1893. Is one of the
greatest defensive catchers In the
minor leagues. on the offensive al
most the reverse is true of him. He
has a good pegging arm. Dilger
handles himself poorly at bat and
does not get on often. On bases he
is heavy.
Pat Graham of the craekers-Pre-
suming that Pat will be used to catch
Brady in the opening game there does
not appear much advantage either
way. Graham is easily the better
batter but does not play his position
quite so well as Dilger.
1t would be hardly worth while try
ing to compare pitchers on opening
day here, for too much uncertainty
exists az to the men who will be used.
From a study OF the two teams,
however, IL is evident that unless the
Barons have most tremendous adj
vantage on the slab the Crackers have
the better team and will cop on open
ing day.
Baron Battery Men Good.
AS for the men not considered-the
Cracker catching staff viii probably
be weaker than the Barons. The
pitching staff is uncertain. II the
Baron slabsters hurl as we'll this year
as they did last, they are likely "a
have an advantage over the Crack
ers, though this is not certain.
The most notable feature OF the
Barons' play last year was the spirit
with which they went at IT, Fans
called them the college team" be-
cause they dug after everything like
college men. They actually seemed
to enjoy il. The right spirit doubtless
contributed ten or fifteen per cent 10
the Barons' strength last year II
they play with the same spirit this
year they will be hard to stop.
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Crackers System is Hit and Run
O. Q O @ o 9 9
Barons Rely on Hitting Pitching
RARONS.

TT the Barons show we'll at the
conclusion of the season this year,
it will be more the result of good
pitching and timely hitting than OF
what is generally known as "machin-
cry" ball
Not many hitters are on the squad
at the present time but one or two
additional men will be procured in
the immediate future. The Barons
present a very formidable defensive
team and the doubt of the fans for
their success, lies In this fact-the
present absence of the necessary
swatters
However, the idea, underlying this
seemingly paradoxical state of az
fairs is that inside" team work win
not figure so very materially, from
what can be seen and adjudged OF ID
from the practice and the opening
championship games.
Team Work Not Big Factor.
Wordsworth is not a stlckler for a
very complicated set Of inside" sig
nal stuff and the necessary signals
used heretofore by his outfit have all
been OF the decidedly simpler pur-
suasion. Team work was not the
main factor in winning the 1912 pen
nant.
There is a marked distinction be-
tween team work and the inside stuff
referred to. As a matter of fact
reference is made herein more to the
signal thing than to the team work
proper With ELAN acting as field
general there is necessarily a ten
dency 10 eXcitabillty on the part OF
the Barons, though they have great
confidence in him as a player.
Believes in Outside" Game.
Wordsworth, while necessarily re-
framing from giving away any of his
signals, smiles indulgently at the
idea that the Barons run on a set
of them Of anything like a complicat-
ed character. He believes in PLAYING
the outside game for all Il Is worth
and keeping no more OF il 'fnslde''
than is absolutely necessary.
The Barons won a number of their
games last season In the last rounda.
showing that they are aggressive IN.
the face Of odds, and therefore NAV
be called an aggressive team as 4.
general thing.
Wants Fans to Know All.
But as for the inside" stuff-wslI.
Wordsworth states that he hopes 10
win out this season in a manner
that all the fans will be able to see.
In other words, the little Baron man
ager is hardly a progressive IN the
matter Of modern signal codes and
believes in making this feature OF the
game as simple as possible, and al
lowing the players to devote ali THAR
energies and brains to PLAYING that
part Of the game that is visible to
the spectator.
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PREP LEAGUE NOTES

at Boys High this year. In practice
Fox has been throwing the twelve
pound hammer 80 feet and the twelve
pound shot 80 feet. LoCkridge and
Bell are trying out for the high and low
hurdles Knox made - feet in the broad
jump while practicing Yesterday
The basketball games at Tech High
viii be played off next week. and the
pennant which was offered by the ath-
letic association Of the school VIII be
awarded 10 the winners.
a class baseball league has been or
ganized at Tech High School, and the
games will be played in the immediate
future. There Will be six teams en-
tered in this league, and the winning
nine will be given a trophy by the attn
letic association.
The Railroad League was formed at a
meeting held last week Five teams
entered. aOnd three more are wanted
II is the aim Of the president to make
the league an elght-team organization.
The teams entered at the first meeting
were the West Point Route the Wood
ward Lumber Co, the Gulf Refining
Co, Inman Yards and the Pressmen.
O. Phelan. Of the West Point Route.
was elected president Of the Railroad
League. He would Ike TO here from
the Western Union, Hapeville. Standard
oil and the Texas Company in regard
to membership.
Several players in the Atlanta Prep
League will be seen with various teams
Of the Railroad league this summer.
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CRACKERS.

IF ever man had his own pecu-
liar scheme Of team play that
man is Bill Smith. Unlike most
of the Southern League managers of
to-day-in fact Bill Schwartz is the
only other exception-the local mogul
has never had the advantage Of big
league experience. He broke in with
a bush league and after a few years
as a player was made a manager
Since then he has been managing
minor league clubs.
The result Of this is that Smith
has worked out a system Of play
peculiarly his own. II is not some
theory of a big league manager, tried
on with a minor league team. Instead
it is a minor league system, devised
to meet Class a conditions, tried In
Glass A ball and found successful.
Has Many Ex-5ig Leaguers.
smith this year has the notable ad-
vantage Of a team made up almost
exclusively Of big league cast-oifs or
men who have had at least training
experience with the guys from the
big show. This means that these men
know modern baseball and how to
play it, They do not need to be told
the simpler rules of the game.
Despite the fact. however, that the
Cracker players are pretty wise heads
there viii never be a time when BIZ
Smith Is not In supreme control Of
the club and directing its every move
from the bench
Must Play Smith Ball.
BIZ never talks of his signals and
his inside stuff But for all that he
has a complicated system for passing
his orders onto the field and any
team that is playing for Smith is
playing Smith style of ball.
Smith believes in a varied system
Of attack. II may be because he
worries himself into constant changes
Of mind but the fact remains that he
is everlastingly switching his sys-
TENS, his signals, his batting order,
his lineup and his mind.
Always Crossing Opposition.
This sometimes bothers the Crack
er PLAYERS a bit but il isn't a cir
cumstance to the way IL bOthers the
opposition. They never know what
they are up against or why The
result is that either by accident or
design, Smiths teams are everlast-
ingly crossing their opponents.
This year the best part Of Smiths
attack is based on the hit-and-run.
Il is doubtful II the South ever saw
a better club at the noble art Of h.
anG-r And # is this system Of play
that has been winning games right.
and left for Atlanta.