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The Sentinel=record., 1914-09-05
St. Louis OF, Kansas City IL.

St Louis, Sept. 4.-St. Louis and
Kansas City divided a double header
today the visitors taking the first /
to o, and St. Louis the second, 2 10
J.. Kansas City played errorless bal.
Score-First game: r. H. IG.
Kansas City .0l0 600 000-l s 0
ST Louis. 900 600 600 3 2
johnson and Easterly; Willett
Keupper, Herbert and Hartley
Second game: r.. ii. e.
Kansas City 100 600 00O--l .
ST Louis. .00l 600 00l-2 2
Stone and Enzenroth; Watson and
Simon.
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II you are ever troubled with aches,
pains or soreness of the muscles, you
will appreciate the good qualities of
Eminent. Many suf-
ferers from rheumatism and sciatlca
have used it with the best results. IL
is especially valuable for lumbago
and lame back. For sale by all deal
ers.
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Cincinnati 4. Chicago 2.

Cincinnati, Sept. 4.-Chicago today
dropped the final alme of the season
on the local grounds to Cincinnati ]
to ?. Cheney's widness, coupled
with his wild throw on bunt in the
seventh, was mainly responsible Tor
the defeat Of O'Day's team. Two wild
pitches. five bases on balls ana
an error was Cheney's record for tho
last four innings. Douglass was
steady throughout.
score. r. II. e.
Chicago. 100 O01 600 z 2
Cincinnati. 900 01O 30x--t 0
Cheney and Archer; Douglass and
Gonzales.
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Pittsbura 2. ST. Louis l.

st. Louis, Sept. 4-Pittsburg won
another game from st. Louis today.
1t was pitchers battle, Harmon ex-
ceiling SalIee by holding St Louis to
four hits. Konetchy had % chances
at first base and accepted - OF them.
score. r.. II. e.
600 zee 200 . & l
ST. Louis 600 100 t00-l 4 2
Harmon and Gibson, Sallee, Robin
son and Wingo.
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Renewal of War
i'm Mexico

VIII not interfere with me serving
Mexican Chill. Chill Mac Merchants
Lunch and Hot Roast Beef Sand.
witches wild de graveys oozing out Of
1t at the Empire, s25 Central avenue.
JACK GOODINE.
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Buffalo 2. Baltimore [

Buffalo, Sept. 4.-Buffalo won the
opening game of the series with Bal
timore here today ? to /.
Score: r. II. Il.
Baltimore. 900 100 000-1 ) ?
Buffalo 900 002 00x-2 6 1
Quinn and Russell; Knapp and
Blair.
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BROOKLYN Z. Plttsbura 6.

Brooklyn, Sept. 4.-Brooklyn en-
tered the ninth inning four runs be-
hind today and scored five runs and
won the first game of the series with
Pittsburg Z to 6.
Score: r. II. Il.
putsbnrg. .230 010 000--6 II 2
BROOKLYN 900 010 015-7 10
Camnitz, Dickson and Berry; Fin
neran, Biuejacket, Somers and Owen.
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WASHINGTON 1. New York 0.

New York, Sept. Washington
defeated New York today / to 0 in a
pitchers battle between Shaw and
Fisher. Shaw set the seasons strike
out record, tanning If of the local
batters. Fisher struck out nine
Nunamaker struck out four times.
Shaw scored Washington's lone run
opening the ninth with a single, TAX
ing second on passed ball and COM
ing home on Moeller's double.
Score: r. III. Il.
Washington. 900 600 0O1--1 1
New York. g.. 900 000 600 2 0
Shaw and Henry; Fisher and
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INTERNATIONAL
AMERICAN ASSN.
LEAGUE

Chattanooga A, Birmingham 8.
Memphis 3. New Orleans 0.
Nashville ,, Mobile IL.
Atlanta 5, Montgomery 8.
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AUCTION

am prepared to make all kinds Of
auction saes. Write or call on the
old reliable auetioneer.
JUDGE J. n. RYAN.
Residence 1909 Central Ave.
Evening star., 1914-08-16
GRUB STREET HUMOR
BY FREDERICK HALL

Abject and helpless beneath the despot's
heel, he yet patiently endures from his op-
pressor the most heartless gibes at his
misery. This for instance, chronicles the
Yonkers Statesman:
You waste too much paper said the ed
itor.
But how can l economize?" asked the
author.
Write on both sides of the paper"
But you will not accept articles written on
both sides of the sheet
No. know that. But you'd save the paper
just the same
The laceration is perhaps less keen when
the blow falls by mail; but imagine the feel
ings of one submitting manuscript marked
aAt your regular rates. and receiving it
back with schedule of advertising prices;
or, sadder still, the case of the author who
querulously remarked, "These patent medi-
cine firms are getting pretty Independent.
l sent testimonial to one of them last week
and it was rejected"
The author of course does good work; but
how little it profits him may be guessed from
such disclosure as this doubtless secured
by dictagraph):
MAGAZINE EDITOR: This is splendid story;
Evening star., 1914-08-16
TO understand Grub Street humor, one
L must first know the drdmdtis persona:

THE AUTHOR: A browbeaten, starveling
creature, subsisting upon ''penury-the wages
of the pen
THE EDITOR: A cynical. malevolent ogre,
whose chief delight is in trampling upon the
authors fondest, most cherished hopes.
THE AUTHORS FAMILY: A horde of hungry.
unappreciative parasites, devoid of natural
affection.
@Style," remarks the author in one of his
frequent, pathetic solloquies, 3Style is a
fine thing for writer; but when his wife
has it too it takes away all the profit.
To amplify this somewhat sketchy char
acterization, the Grub Street author is moth
ing if not idealistic. To him can never be
applied the lines of Mary Catherine Rely:
A story check, when it came in.
Just so much money was to him
And it was nothing more.
Nor is he anything if not hopeful; for, as
matter of fact, no story check ever does
come in-and yet:
You may break. you may shatter,
His dream if you will,
But the hope of acceptance
Will hang round him still.
Evening star., 1914-08-16
HIS FINLAND" CAMPAIGN

rIHE frankns
MAGAZINE who has such remarkable insight into
failure the
when he ventud into foreign to his usual ac
While history
dramatic
sequence interesting
break into the
admitted the
ety places
started nothing both family and money
with the Albert
for rich family in this
country The head of it has made great fortune
dusty -
Madrid very
difficulties But he rndereinaed
taking every opportunity
makes of the most inter-
Probably vivid
presentation smaller cities has ever been
that the question why
capacity displayed by the Social devote NM
society," PROBABLY was tne e
Of the much the
such
world expoion Whenever there an epoha event.
m ,.r,.r,v sen anniversary of such an event there
with mighty exposition in which offered
aboutth tmesas the public willing to pay for
that has met the
Just the
possible for real exposition
and its to
in the the Panama canal
article and interesting photographs our next
MAGAZINE
respect expons but
relics The has
and especially those things which
living
much the things
ours working for all these
merry HOOK and the
ugges with facts consciously and is truly
tell
a weu-made ie!"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-09-27

ing cats, without sequent, excessive
or emotional manifestations; those
who manifest such emotions when a
cat is near, though unseen by them:
those who can smell a cat without
seeing it. Besides these, cases occur
in which the consciousness of a cat
is present through its smell. which
once existed, but does not now, and
yet the ability to detect unseen cats
remains"
Just what causes this fear is more
or less of a mystery. The best ex-
PLANTATION yet offered is that of the
late DR.. s. Weir Mitchell. He be-
ileved hat certain emanations from
the cats body, although unrecognized
as odors, may act on our nasal mem
Dranes in such way as to affect the
nervous system.
DIR. Mitchell made an extensive
study OF this strange manifestation
and collected great many data His
researches brought to him indisputa-
Bile evidence concerning a large num-
Der of people in whom the presence
OF a cat gives rise to a variety of
symptoms-oppression of breathing,
fear. terror. disgust. chilly sensations.
chilliness and goose flesh" wea kness
locked jaw, fixed open jaw, rightly
of arms, pallor, nausea, vomiting,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-09-27

million magnifying glass" gyroscope, Sam Well
Ter might say. But anyone get idea or
what hand do in revolving baseball
Color part of ball, to see better and lee
watchers near the line along which the twirler
pitches the ball Anyhow if it spins rapidly it will not
aIways stop on striking the ground, and some of its
making 1t revolve to the right left down, and
all In addition to the control and speed, with
ou wnlcn the best pitcher will be bated all over the
A practical question is is it wise for pitcher to
aooionaly strain and distract himself by that which
10 nol YET Systematically tried and reported? And.
by ruler facts theories explanation ought to be
helped.
of the ball revolving forward is greater than on the
side revolving backward, acts as brake to swerye
Of high school who held this theory but taught the
pitchers to twist the of the bali in the direction
he wanted to curve The Bernoui theory is that the
side of the greatest velocity side of the least
from without the side of the greatest
in the direction of the balls fight? And is not the
side revolving backward side where the air goes nv
the ball less rapidly the side of the pressure
from without? According to the theory ball would
be pushed to the side revolving forward side of less
pressure But Professor Franklin to me to draw
the opposite conclusion
Suppose a pitched ball is revolving nose to the left
Pressure and purchase being greater than be-
hind, it would seem that the ball would claw work
itself to the right Also the right being the side CT
greatest velocity, least PRESSURE the ball would
the right, by the Bernoui theory These forces might
be true and yet overbalanced by third and greater
force which we may call the wedge The surface of
the revolving ball on the left front quarter is by fc-
tloH sweeping the air out OF the and backward,
while on the right front quarter it is sweeping the
face air inward and forward against the oncomng air.
that the greater resistance pressure quarter
wedges the ball to the left As ship
ward, II there is little floating ice on one bow
VIII tend to wedge the bow to the other side
repeat for emphasis that most of what we believe
about basebars is from hearsay: that those
who only Il have IT. should consider that for
one to see and know the in question: he would
nave to know just where the plane of the parabola
and have his there that optical illusion is more
common than the unscientifc imagine and seems to
hoe in lie 6icnn thai
ing place. carried for a reasonable time would be a
benefit to players and science
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going to be? So much for those who simply say, Il
have it."
fine wire about sixty feet long On it hung baseball
by sliding ring To the ring attached small fish
line and arranged weight and pulleys that when re-
leased the line would draw the ball swiftly to the other
end of the wire. If l placed my at the wire, of
the ball would to straight all the
way. But if | little away from the wire the ball
would seem to come straight toward me at first ESQ
sharp the angle of deviaton) and then to swerve off
quickly toward the last This repeat only test
in appearance The of the falling ball would
complcate it
Optical illusion is than many imagine
Everybody used to believe the and set, be-
cause they saw it," They killed Bruno for denying it,
Animal painters always thought that horses in
certain till the kaleidoscope proved them entirely
mistaken.
In moving pictures founded on optical iuson) there
is special illustration of curves, viz. If there is
resented something coming from distance toward the
spectator, say railway train, 1t will seem to come
straight toward almost and just 1t passes
to off to the side in most astonishing
way. But know there could be such in the
railway track.
Suppose your eye is half foot off the parabola The
ball in coming ten feet deviates only about inch
from your plane sharp is the angle, and in half
second it whsks by you half foot to the right left
Of course, it seems to especially at the end of
the fight.
So much as to the "they say" and the 81 saw and
the psychology What influences more educated and
skeptical minds is that writers in leading
zines refer to those settled by experiment
From these and from articles that could obtain
the subject about all that could learn was that
long time ago the experiment tried with two
posts that about forty years ago it done Yale;
thirty years ago prominent pitcher on the eleventh
attempt, pitched ball that went the west side OF
tWonch stake the east side of hveinch fruit tree
and the west side of inch rake shaft; and one,
think, with better apparatus, somewhere in Ohio.
These experiments should not be denied or under
rated. They aimed to that certain thing could be
done. But they scientific proof of all the
pitching that the masses talk about. would say, by
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-09-27
Why So Many PAINTERS DIE YOUNG

increased by lack of proper ventilation. If quickly dry
ing, fiat finish paints used in close, ventilaed
rooms serious poisoning from the fumes of coatar
products and of turpentine may result.
The danger from the of lead paints from
paint dust in the air and from paint smeared the
hands which may be carried into the mouth with food
tobacco
Paint dust is caused chiefly by rubbing old or new
paint with dry sandpaper. This process is universally
recognized the most dangerous part of the painters
trade It could be completely done away with by the
of cheap mineral oil the sandpaper and catch
the dust.
through unwashed hands be effected only by provid
ing adequate washing facilities and clean unchroom
wherever work with lead paint is carried
A study of the painters trade in the United States
shows that there are elements of danger, most
OF them avodabe and it shows that if protective legis
aton is to be passed. it should be directed toward
prevention of poisonous fumes and dust and the pro-
vision of facilities for bodily cleanliness.
Such legislation should forbid the unventilated
rooms of paints paint containing volatile
posonss forbid dry sandpaperng dry chipping off of
place for his workmen to hang their clothes and
eat their lunch and Mushroom with sufficient
Der of basins warm water, soap towels and brushes;
require the labelling of all paint offered for such
way that the painter be appraised of the danger
involved in its use; in the of work done in fac
tories, cards of instruction for the workmen should be
posted and, if necessary, these should written in
one more foreign Languages.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-09-27

pronounced hysterical commissions,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES temporary blind
ness. These symptoms pass away
with the removal of the cat. but may
leave the sufferer nervously dis
turbed for the day.
In at least one-fourth of DIR.
Mitchells cases terror in grave form
was shown to be family popularity.
Five in family of seven had it. In
another family the maternal grand
father. two great-aunts, an uncle ana
a sister were all thus troubled. Sex
appears to have no marked influence,
but extreme symptoms are more fire.
quent in women.
In my own family" wrote DR..
Mitchell. ian uncle was the subject.
My father. the late Professor John X.
Mitchell, having placed small cat
in a closet. with saucer Of cream.
asked Mr.. H. to come into the room
and look at some old books in which
he would be interested. He sat down,
but in a few minutes grew pale.
shivered, and said: There is cat in
the room DIR. M. said: Look about
you. There is no cat in the room.
Do you hear one outsider He said:
No. but there Is cat He became
faint, aid. complaining of nausea.
went out and promptly recovered"
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the way, that less than three posts prove nothing
and posts trees and sticks leave doubt
In my experiments used three screens l may
add that did not succeed in pitching any How
ever, had to move away left the
the grounds but heard of anyone succeeding
about.
With all the talk and print about pitching all
the country by amateurs we'll professionals
(the wonderful shoots, jumps, etc., would think
what skillfu science and practice it must be by the
great league pitchers But what do find? One
writer said the great professional pitchers he consulted
did not pretend to know the theory of curves One
thought of trying to IL he could pitch pur
posely he wished This is the age OF science
and baseball is obsesson of this country, still
all this curvng is asserted and denied
AS to explanations, far: We know that a sudden
gust of wind coming at the eleventh other hour will
deviate ball But that is not frequent enough
to confuse series of tests, or could bes guarded
against.
the nadequacy OF the twirng theory and they hreshed
out in vain the falling of various bodies through
diums of various densities would suggest the fact
that all bodies falling through medium their
density liable to deyiate feather pingpong
ball in the air, billiard ball marble in water
density of the ball. But the air is nothing like so
dense baseball. And know that the thrown
baseball does not slow like those falling balls The
theory of air compression may therefore be discarded
Can suppose that if projected balls were given to
unaccountabe deviation gun practice would be so reli
able and accurate as it is?
The revolving of a ball its course causes devia-
ton But how much? rifle ball is revolved on plane
perpendicular to the to keep it straight We
will only note here that it requires a tremendous ex-
plosive force do it. cricket ball is not pitched as
fast baseball and little twirl when it strikes the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-09-27
Are a
BASEBALL'S
''CURVES"
Only OPTICAL
ILLUSIONS?

A THING greatly to be desired is testing place for
Il baseball suppose the best place would
be on the premises of of the league grounds,
handy leading pitchers in turn from all parts OF the
country as we'll as for local men, S. c. Thompson
in an interesting letter to the Scientific American 1t
should be conducted by few men in turn appointed
by the scientific athletic department or both, OF
some nearby college or association
The apparatus would be eheap--a few small screens
for right and left curves Up and down deVlauons' IL
gone into, would require something more
Here could be carried for a considerable length
time accommodating confirming series OF tests; as
to how often relatively balls out of the plane OF
the paraboa If curving is caused only by tWrng the
ball: if it can will or how frequently; by
pitchers class of pitchers which revolutions,
left produce which curves, etc The accumu-
reliable would be of great practical use
to pitchers and science. Better find out just what
really happens and how much before trying to explain
how why it happens
There seems to be almost universal belief in the
wide of in and out, up and down Shoots, fade
aways" Floating corkscrews etc The scientific mind
naturally why this large belief in this large per-
Torrance and what there be for some curva
ture. These are necessarily the question
There advantage in the oldfashioned college
curriculum, including, something OF both psycho
ogy and physics.
In all the published discussions that have it
be taken for settled fact that all this throw
ing of wide is going all the country and
that it is the material scientists alone to explain
it all Psychology suggests how much of what most
people believe is from hearsay. How out of tens
of thousands get squarely in front of ptched balls and
to If there lateral curves? In like
this the opinion of the great majority is utterly worth
less.
Next of those who have carefully tried to see, how
many know the absolute requirements; that must
get the catcher out of the way and your eye
ball goes out of the plane And how is any human be-
ing going to know just where that invisible plane is
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-09-27
Are Our LETTERS TOO LONG MINDED?

tTHE length of the average letter is the latest
point of attack for the experts who are
trying TO make the business world eff
cient By emitting superfuous phrases and
expressing our thoughts in the fewest possible
words could, they maintain, save at least
Onethird of the time, labor and expense of dicta-
ton and typewriting. There would, of course,
be corresponding saving to the persons who
are now forced to wade through our long winded
communications
Melvil Dewey recently cut 329-word business
letter down to 228 words, eliminating 101 words
that were not alone useless but which burdened
the correspondence unnecessarily In so doing
Mr.. Dewey illustrates Harrington Emerson's con-
ltention that onefourth of the words in corre-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-09-27

inquiry the Judge finds they havs
families of children dependent upon
them for care. What is the Court to
do! Sentence these women to the
Penitentiary and thus work hardship
upon innocent children? Il would
rather" says Magistrate Judge, re
move the conditions which cause
these people to become criminals in
the eyes of the law
1t will be said that il the courts
would deal severely with these people
1t would deter others from commit
ting like offenses. AS a matter of
fact, the courts are almost daily
sending men to prison for burglariz-
ing cars. but these crimes increase in
lumber rather than diminish each
year, proving conclusively that we
have not found the remedy.
1t is quite impossible for the father
of the large family to furnish his boy
with the money to purchase the
things that the natural boy Graves.
The railroad yards. being so easy to
enter, offer the temptation to steal:
the doors of the care are protected by
strip of tin about one inch In
fnioth W uitu I'LL Dt DTOktu ny an
eight-year-od boy.
1t matters not what the car con-
tains: If the boy can carry it he will
take 1t, and will sometimes sell the
most valuable of merchandise for
small sum in order TO get spending
money. The collector of junk gen.
orally furnishes the boy with a mar
ket. The railroad police do not pay
as much attention to these junkmen
as they should, apparently being
quite satisfied that they have accom-
plished something when they have
apprehended two or three small boys
who have burglarized the cars.
If the railroads would wall in their
yards and station watchmen at the
necessary openings the greatest con-
tributing factor to juvenile delin-
quency would be removed and the
number of criminals In all of the
railroad centres of this count !
greatly lessened
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-09-27

sent out without rewriting large percentage
probably far from efficient
But in cutting down the length care must be
taken not to make letters so brief that they
will be cold or lfeess. The best business let
ter is written in an easy conversational style
and has to be somewhat loose, and at times
even verbose. An added sentence or two while
utterly useless from efficiency point of view,
may often be worth the space occupied on &C.
count of the human touch it adds.
This is something which should never be for
gotten in doing business with Spanish-American
countries Here effusive courtesy must never
be sacrificed to efficiency. The letter which
does not devote at least one-quarter of it's space
to extravagant expressions of personal regard
is quite apt to cause offense to business man
of South or Central America