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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-25

Half the people you meet complain
NJ weary muscles, stagnant brain, jan
gias nerves. and a wonderful desire TO
fsV down and Just quit. Most OF these
neople have been using nervineS that
automatically flare up the nerves only
to die down again, as die they must
Avoid nerve stimulants. Bear in mind
inst this wornout feeling is due TO
poor blood, to bacteria in the Wsief
YOU drink; to the multiplying OF oe-
structive germs in the blood faster
1bsn thew can be overcome by the
white corpuscIes; and to what Is
rpown as auto-t oxemia, that condi-
zion where the venous or impure blood
eccumuiafes faster than II can be re-
niaced by the red arterial blood.
II YOU feel played out go TO any
drug store and ask for bottle OF
& switt's sure specific. Here Is
q ramedv that gets at work In a twink
ling. II lust naturally rushes right INTO
vo,Ir blood, scatteTs germs r1gnt ana
left up and down and sideways:
You feel better at once, not from
stirnulant. not from the action OF drugs.
but from the rational erect OF nat
,,ral medicine Just as active and just
os tI1eiv as to a man who has been
let in the mountains, is about starved
and comes across settler just COOK
Ing a savory meal OF good, honest beef
No NOT neglect TO get bottle OF
G TODAY 1t will make you reel
hetter in inst a few minutes. It is IRE
Dsred oniv in the Ia boratory Of me
See Cnerifc Co. t27 Swift Bldg At
isnta ga send for their free JOCK
Ealing Of the many strange conditions
mat afflict the human family by rea-
Hon Of Impoverished blood
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-25

A pebble, a
feck of dust, a
sneeze, a STUN
BILE may cost a
decision. Aye.
even a cross
word.
The peevish
b / c k ring of
two era C k e r
ball p la y ers,
both Of whom
g h o uld have
known better,
cost yesterdays
game--cost it
just as abso-
lutely as though
the umpire had
awarded 1t.
The Crackers
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-25

wee So to win. True, the game
racked along to the sixth inning. 1
to 0 against them. But that was
expected, for Otto Hess was pitch
ing. And never a Cracker team
could make an impression on that
old jinx. The Crackers knew that
Ira Hogue would succeed Hess. So
they played defensive ball and
waited.
HOGUE started pitching in the
last of the sixth and Alper-
man opened against him with a
single. Bailey flied out, but Smith
singled and Alperman went to sec
ond
Whitley" strayed off the bag
and with a quick turn Hogue threw
to Sweeney and Alperman was
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-25
By Percy II. Whiting.

TIME easiest thing in the world
to lose is money. Next to
that comes a ball game.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05
FUNERAL HONORS FOR A MARE
Trotter Destroyed in Fire Is Given
Obsequies in Keeping With At
fsctiorate Regard of Owner.

Betty Green, a trotting mare de-
stroyed in a fire at Belleville, H.,
was given funeral honors in keeping
with her record of 2:10 and with the
affectionate regard of her owner, VIII
liam H. Reichert The body was
drawn to the grave, on the Walnut
Grove stock farm, by six blooded
youngsters, and was lowered by stable
boys. The coffin was rose lined. Mr.
Reichert pronounced a eulogy after
recounting the mares track achieve
ments.
Perhaps Betty Green's terrible form
of death aroused Mr.. Reichert's sym,
pathies the more keenly, but the in
tense love of a great race horse by an
owner is a primary sentiment. Maud
S. had more friends than any horse
in history, being approachable, IN
quisitive and fond Of contact with the
many whom Robert Bonner delighted
in taking to her paddock.
James R. Keene mourned Sysonby
as he would one of his family. This
superb runner had the admiration of
the east without the popularity OF
Maud S., a trotter and record break
er in times when trotting was the
consuming passion. Mr.. Keene, who
Sysonby's remains preserved, but his
only monument is his unique position
among American thoroughbreds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05

s13 E. Second St, Muncie Ind.-"My
little girl had bad breaking out on
the scalp. 1t was little white Jumps.
The pimples would break out as large
as a common pinhead all over her
head. They would break and run vel
low matter. She suffered nearly year
with itching and burning. 1t was sore
and itched all the time The matter
that ran from her head was very thick.
did not comb her hair very often, her
head was too sore to comb it, and
when I did comb, it came out. in
punches. Some nights her head itched
so bad she could not sleep.
Il tried several different soaps and
ointments, also patent medicine, but
nothing could I get to stop it. / began
using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment this summer after sent for
the free samples. I used them and
they did so much good bought cake
OF Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura
Ointment. I washed her head with
Cuticura Soap and rubbed the Cuticura
Ointment in the scalp every two
weeks. A week after had washed her
head three times you could not tell she
ever had a breaking out on her head.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment also made
the hair grow beautifully" (Signed)
Mrs. Emma Patterson, Dec. %, 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston"
Adv
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05
Convicts COLLEGE Students.

More than fifty convicts are enrolled
at the State Agricultural College at
Manhattan, taking the various courses
offered at the college. They are, so
far as is known, the only convict col
lege students in the United States.
Few, if any, Of the convicts have ever
seen the college building, and it will
be some time before any of them can
see it, but nevertheless they are en-
rolled students doing regular work.
All the convict college students are
inmates of the United States peniten-
tiary here. They do their class work
in their cells and mail their lesson pa
pers to the college for correction.
Some of the convicts are studying ag-
riculture, some civil engineering, 9th
ers mechanics, and some are studying
dairying. Nearly all of the students
enrolled in the agricultural or dairy
courses are men employed on the
prison farm or in the dairy.-Leaven-
worth Dispatch to New York Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05
Tanbark as a Fuel.

Perhaps the most important OF
waste fuels in the United States has
been spent tanbark. A rough estimate
would indicate that this material gen
Grated few years ago an amount of
steam that would have otherwise re-
CURED the yearly consumption OF
about 100000 tons of high grade coal
Yet this valuable fuel was at one time
considered a mere detriment and an
expense to the leather industry. 1t
was disposed of by dumping it into
rivers, filling in waste ground and by
making roads with it, often necessitat-
ing the paying out of large sums for
it's disposition. This strikingly illus
trates a case of how the improvement
of furnace converted a hitherto sup
posed combustible into valuable
waste fuel of the auto-combustible
class, and shows how an enormous
waste was converted into an equally
great omy.-Engineering Maya
zine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05
THE LURE OF THE WEST
WESTERN CANADA ATTRACTING
THOUSANDS OF SETTLERS.

Writing on the Canadian West, an
eastern exchange truthfully says:
THE West still calls with impera-
tive voice. To prairie and mountain,
and for the Pacific Coast, Ontario's
young men and women are attracted
by tens of thousands yearly. The
great migration has put an end to the
fear, freely expressed not many years
ago BY those who knew the West from
the lakes to the farther coast of Van
couver Island, that Canada would
some day break in two because of the
pTedominance of Continental European
and American settlers in the West"
This is true. While the immigra.
ton from the United States is large,
running close to 10000 a year, that of
the British Isles and Continental
Europe nearly twice that number, max
ing total of 100000 per year, there
is a strong influx from Eastern Can
ada. 1t is not only into the prairie
provinces that these people go, but
many of them continue westward, the
glory of British Columbia's great trees
and great mountains, the excellent
agricultural valleys, where can be
grown almost all kinds of agriculture
and where fruit has already achieved
prominence. Then the vast expanse
OF the plains attract hundreds of thou
sands, who at once set to work to cul-
tivate their vast holdings. There is
still roon,, and great opportunity in
the West. The work of mans hands,
even in the cities with their record
breaking building rush, is the small
est part of the great panorama that
is spread before the eye on journey
through the country. Nature is still
supreme, and man is still the divine
pigmy audaciously seeking to impose
his will and stamp his mark upon an
unconQuered half continent.
The feature that most commends
itself in Western development today
is the "home-making spirit" The
West will find happiness in planting
trees and making gardens and build
ing schools and colleges and universe
ties, and producing a home environ
ment so that there will be no DISPOSE
ton to regard the country as tenn
porary place of abode in which every
one is trying to make his pile prepar-
atory to going back East or becoming
a lotus-eater beside the Pacific.
The lure of the West is strong. 1t
will be still stronger when the crude
new towns and villages Of the plains
are empowered in trees and vocal
with the song of birds-Advertise-
ment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05
Parliamentary Suspension.

Sir Henry Lucy drops hint from
the Gross Benches" in the Observer
as to the suspension of members OF
the house-and the vagueness of the
penalty. Can it be true that members
get themselves named and suspended
on purpose to achieve a compulsory
holiday? Eight pounds a week will
make for modest comfort at Brighton
or Eastbourne. The member of par
lament is paid whether he is in the
house or at Margate or in the Clock
Tower. Budapest has a more drastic
way. If the member is suspended he
is fined 16 shillings a day. That
teaches him to behave. Now that we
pay our representatives we might
make payment conditional on their
representing US in the proper place
London Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05
a New Metal.

Some remarkable qualities are
claimed for steelite, a new metal
which is composed of rs per cent. OF
cobalt and the remainder of chro-
MUM. 1t may be cast and ground to
a fine edge, is impervious to rust and
the action of acids and highly flexible
AS a lathe tool it will cut steel at the
rate OF 200 feet a minute, a speed at
which steel would ordinarily burn
Certain notifications of this alloy will
cut glass, and even quartz crystals
Steelite is said to be particularly suit
able for watch fittings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05

who can throw a baseball $50 feet on
The Polo grounds, New York, on a
dead calm day, can throw the same
ball almost 400 feet on the Denver
ball park?
In studying the physics of baseball.
let US commence with the chief nipple
ments of the game-the bat and ball.
The ball is composed of a small core,
with a heavy layer of highly treated
Para rubber, then wound with two
kinds of wooden yarn, over which is a
glue substance, upon. which is horse
hide cover. The ball is semi-pneumat-
lc. both the rubber and the glue upon
which the cover is pasted tending to
hold air. The difference even of a
sixteenth of an inch in the thickness
Of the rubber makes the ball so fast
that it scarcely can be handled. The
makers experimental for years to get
tbs 5all tuned to the proper pitch Of
elasticity. and appear finally to have
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05
MEMORY IMPROVED.
Since Leaving OF Coffee.

Many persons suffer from poor
memory who never suspect coffee has
anything to do with it.
The drug-caffeine- coffee, acts
injuriously on the nerves and heart,
causing imperfect circulation, too
much blood in the brain at one time,
too little in another part. This often
causes dullness which makes q good
memory nearly impossible.
L am nearly seventy years old and
did not know that coffee was the
cause of the stomach and heart trou-
bic / suffered from for many years,
until about four years ago. writes a
Kansas woman
A kind neighbor induced me to
quit coffee and try Postum. l had
been suffering severely and was
greatly reduced in flesh. After using
Postum a little while l found myself
improving. My heart beats became
regular and now l seldom ever no
tice any symptoms of my old stom-
ach trouble at all. My nerves are
steady and my memory decidedly
better than while l was using coffee.
Il like the taste OF Postum fully as
well as coffee
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich. Write for booklet, The
Road to MELVILLE"
Postum comes in two forms.
Regular Unjust be boiled.
Instant Postum doesn't require
boiling but IS prepared instantly by
stirring a level teaspoonful in an or
binary cup of hot water, which makes
1t right for most persons.
a big cup requires more and some
people who ike strong things put in
hearing spoonful and temper it with
8 large supply of cream.
Experiment until you know the
amount that pleases your palate and
have it served that way in the future.
There's Reason" for Postum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05

rate of rotation and the weight of ali.
The entire science of pitching con-
sists in the deft application of fric
ton upon some point of the ball which
makes it rotate in a certain direction.
or, which counteracts its natural ro-
tation and cause it to 'wabble' or
float with little revolving motion. The
slow balls, fadeaways, knuckle balls,
all have as their object the proven
ton of rotary motion, or to give false
rotary motion of reverse English"
The ball that presents the most air
surface to the resistance of the at
mosphere slows up quickest and yields
more rapidly to gravitation. The one
that spins oftenest mot necessarily
fastest) curves most
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05

Frank Bakers worlds series home
runs was near that angle, the other
scarcely 80 degrees, it went farther.
AS matter of fact, even, if ball
player could hit a ball at any desired
angle. he could not be certain where
it would 60 1t would depend too much
upon the rotary motion Of the ball.
Last summer / saw a hard line hit
driven straight at Charlie HeTZog Of
the Giants, He put up his hands to
catch the ball, then suddenly threw
his head aside just in time to avoid
being hit in the face, the ball missing
his hands by two feet. The ball had
shot suddenly from it's true path.
in a game between Washington and
Chicago late last fall, Walter Johnson
hit a ball at an angle of close to 40
degrees. and with terrific force. /
should estimate that it was nearly 80
feet high, at its greatest elevation.
Had it followed the true ballistic
curve, it would have passed over the
center field fence. The ball sudden
ly stopped, started to drop straight
downward then caught in another
current of air, and Bodie, who was
running after the ball. overlook it COM
ing toward him, as if the batter had
hit it from center field. Under condi-
tions such as these a study of aero
nautics would help players more than
physics would.
The outfielder who gets the jump
on the ball at the crack of the bat
figures it's trajectory at a glance.
sprints desperately outward and turns
exactly upon the spot where the ball
will alight, then catches it, has all
the calculations ever devised beaten.
Physics assumes that balls, thrown
with equal force, following the same
angle of projection over the same
range, will be alike / never doubted
it until practiced at second base with
Malachi Kittridge and the lamented
Tim Donohue throwing the ball down
to me- DCnohue threw faster, and
seemed harder, yet the ball came into
the hands as lightly as if tossed. Kilt
ridges thrown ball came more slowly,
but it Jared and bruised the hands.
This popularity of throWers is I'M
derstood we'll by players, and one Of
the first inquiries concerning new
player is whether he throws a light
or a heavy ball, which refers to the
striking force of the ball, and not its
weight A ball revolving naturally,
and thrown over the finger tips, as
fast ball is thrown, has a tendency to
lift. is light. One that loses it's TO
tary motion, and osciIlates rather than
rotates, is dead" and heavy. Every
player throws a different kind of ball,
the variations depending upon the size
of the hands, the length of the fingers
and the manner of holding the ball
The man who knew enough about
physics, and also about baseball, could
fill book on the physics of pitching.
It is simple. while seeming complex.
It was not so very long ago that
Tying, the Harvard pitcher, developed
a curve ball that started a protTact-
ed argument which finally resulted in
a group of learned professors gath
ering to decide whether a ball actual
ly could be made to curve in the air.
The professors who doubted the pos
sibility of a ball 'curving based their
doubts upon the alleged insuff1ciency
Of air resistance. They admitted the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05
Generating the kinqbird.

The department of agriculture has
granted a certificate of good character
to the kingbird, sometimes known in
the rural districts as the bee martin,
a species Of fly catcher which inhabits
nearly every part of the United States.
The Eingbird has been under indict-
ment in many sections as a destroyer
of bees and foe of apiarists.
Experts now declare that it kills
only the drones and the useless bees,
and is, therefore, a boon to the bee
raiser. Besides that, it preys on many
harmful insects and protects farmers
chicken yards from depredations OF
crows and chicken hawks, which it
savageIy attacks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05

The first law Of physics is that all
that goes up must come down; al
ways excepting the cost Of living. The
first law of baseball is not to let it
come down
The difference between the physics
of the classroom and of the diamond is
that the student learns the laws gov
erning inertia. velocity, dynamlcs, the
curvilinear trajectory of procedures
resisting power OF air. attractive pow
er of masses: and the ball-player, by
experiment, deals only with the freak
variants of these laws. Many times
the student who makes his college
team is apt TO think that the prof was
stringing him when he laid down
the laws OF motion, mass and We
locity. For q baseball under skilled
manipulation and control seems, like
trust, to come as near violating all the
laws as possible The ball always is
striving to do exactly what the laws
of Physics say It should do, with half
a dozen other forces striving to COM
pei it TO do something else, and with
the bad boys in uniform trying to in
vent new methods of making it violate
the law.
If the supreme court should find the
law of gravitation unconstitutional,
or if the ball player could breathe in
an absolute vacuum, baseball would be
a simple proposition. The ball would
keep on going in a straight line until
some one stopped ii. Line hits would
continue to travel in a straight line
until some fielder, standing on the
needle point of infnity, jumped and
pulled it down with one hand.
There is a professor of physics in
a great eastern university who wrote
me inquiring as to the physics of the
spit ball and who later lectured to his
classes upon the subject. | asked sew
eral great pitchers to demonstrate for
the benefit of the professor how they
held the ball, swung their arms, re
leased it with their fingers, and how
much power they applied and to what
point on the surface of the sphere.
Among them was Clark Griffith, mas
&c III bliCCIy VIM uSCl W NC
ter in practice. / asked him to take
the professor to the grounds and show
him things. The result was a note
from Griffith, In which he said:
Don't send any more bugs to see
me-"
The point is that the players do not
care what scientific phenomena they
develop so long as the opposing bats
men take their healthies H. G., swings)
at the ball and miss. The college pro-
fessor does not care much whether
Walsh strikes Collins out three times
with runners on bases so long as he
can demonstrate that the laws gov
erning rotation, air pressure, fric-
ton, retard and accelerated motion,
etc, etc. are proved by the actions of
the ball. So physics and baseball as
studies have kept aloof from each
other
Yet every move in a ball game af-
fords a problem. There are basic con-
ditions which, in themselves, are
worthy of study. Consider atmospheric
pressure. Did you know that man
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05

We experimental once with pneu-
matte gun the rifing n the barrel OF
which gave it heavy rotation in any
desired direction. It was merely an
exaggeration of the curve. We shot
balls under 30 pounds of pressure, max
Ing them curve sometimes hundred
feet Putting the up curve motion On
the ball (Which always tends to curve
in the direction of its rotation. we
aimed the gun at target exactly on
= straight line, and the ball, going
straight for perhaps a hundred feet,
suddenly seemed to slacken speed,
then it leaped upward and rose at
terrific rate until it passed over the
cross bar Of the fag-pole in the cen
ter field, 20 feet above the ground.
Yet the ball was not disobeying the
laws of physics. rather proving them.
In its terrific speed it had encounter
ed an air biIlow which ii could not
penetrate. and it had bounced off this
denser bunch of air and rolled up
ward.
One would think that if a baseball
is hit into the air is will follow a ball
istic curve in ratio TO the angle of
ascension reduced by the amount Of
air pressure. Physics says ii should.
1t will not, and no man can draw the
ballistic curve that any fly ball will
follow. The greatest range of any
projectile in theory, is gained by an
angle of IS degrees. Military authori,
ties know that, owing to air resist
ance, the greatest distance is attain
ed at an angle just under 40 degrees
Having both the theory and the prac-
tice, therefore, ball players to make
home runs should hit the ball at an
angle of 40 degrees minus. One OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05
METAL OF THE STANDARDS
Scientists After Long Research Seem
to Have Evolved Almost Perfect
Alloy for the Purpose.

There are, undoubtedly, no products
Of human skill on which a greater de-
sree of care is expended than the
standards of weight and measure in
cse among the civilized nations. Two
things in particular must be consid-
eTed-a2curacy and durability. Ma
ture do y not, it is contended, furnish
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-05
PECULIAR POINTS OF LAW
Things of Strange import That APP
pear From Time to Time in Our
Courts of Justice.

Curious indeed is the decision and
action of Justice Greenbaum of the
New York supreme court in the case
Of Mrs. E. Thorpe asking separa-
don0from her husband. At the wife's
request the justice inserted in the sep
aration papers a distinct clause that
the husband could not expect and