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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-12

Summary. TWO-baS hltS, WlIIams, Hendryx, Bluhm Sacrifice hits, Man ming. Korfhagen. Bagby. Stolen bases, Hendryx g. Reilly, Coyle. Struck out, by Kelly f. Bagby 8. Bases on balls, off Kelly s, Bagby 1. Hit by pitcher, by Kel ly (Knaupp). Double plays, Bluhm to Knaupp. Left on bases, Atlanta 5, New Orleans 5. Time, 1:30. Umpire Ches- mutt and Pfenninger
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Grimes Holds Gulls to Two Singles
Brooks and Bartlett
 Al Country Club Today
Tennis Stars Play Off Finals in Singles O'Clock This Afternoon-Boh Men in Excellent Shape and Great Match
 Expected States Tournament Next Month

w. V Bartlett and Lee Allen Brooks the foremost ponen of the art of playing tennis in Birmingham will battle together in the finals of the single of the district tennis tournament at the Country club this afternoon o'clock large crowd of enthusiasts will watch the classic
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y land, Groom. Home-runs, Chastant and Steele. Stolen bases, Donaldson. Chastant ?. Bases on balls. Weston ?. Sigmon ?. Left on bases, Anniston 8, IAGrange g. Hit by pitched balls, Donaldson 2. Hits, off Weston G. Groom 1. Struck out, Wes- ton 3, Sigmon 5. Time of game, 1:3. Um- pires, Head and Ton.
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The yannigans of the Progressive Farm CT walloped the tar out of the regulars yesterday afternoon by the score of T to 2. The regulars were held hitless by the baffling curves of Sims and l.. Brand while the offerings of Greco, Rogers and Goldstein of the regulars were hammered all over the lot. The score: R.H E. U 2
 Batteries: Sims. L. Brand and Rich ardson; Greco, Rogers, Goldstein and Jones.
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International League

At Buffalo: Buffalo 12, Rochester 5. At Jersey City: Jersey City-Provi- dence transferred to later date.
 At Montreal: Montreal-Toronto post poned; rain.
 No others scheduled.
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South Atlantic League

At Jacksonville: Jacksonville c, Charleston 2.
 At Albany: Albany 4, Savannah 2. At Columbus Columbus 2, Colum- bia 8.
 At Macon: Macon 6, Augusta 8.
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Georgia-Alabama League
STANDING
Results Yesterday

Results Yesterday Anniston 4, LaGrange o. Newman 4, Griffin 3. Rome-Talladega: rain.
 Games Today Anniston at LaGrange. Newman at Griffin. Rome at Talladega.
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Georgia State League

Dothan l, Valdosta A. Waycross 5, Gainesville [. Thomasville 3, Brunswick Q3 innings)
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Ellam's Double, Followed by
 Magee's Single, Scored
 Lone Counter of Game.
 Ellam's Fielding Is Good,
SOUTHERN LEAGUE STANDING
Results Yesterday

Birmingham l, Mobile 0. New Orleans 1. Atlanta 1. Memphis 6, Little Rock s. Nashville-Chattanooga, rain.
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Games Today

Birmingham at Mobile.
 Memphis at Little Rock. Nashville at Chattanooga. Atlanta at New Orleans.
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One out when game ended,

Three-base hit Lord. Sacrifice hits, Me Dermott, Schlei Cruthers, Stewart Grib- bens Stolen base. Baker DoS<le play, Elwert to Starr to Covington. Bases on balls. of East 4, Roth 3. Struck out by East 2, Roth 2. Time 2. Empires, Rud- derham and Breitenstein.
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kawfeds Defeated

Kansas City, June 11.-Chicago broke Kansas City's winning streak here to- day. taking the game to 1. A bat ting rally in the ninth with hits by Zwilling, Tinker and Wilson. gave the game to the visitors. Score: R.H F. Chicago ....... 900 900 004-4 9 0 Kansas City,. =. 900 010 000-1 g O
 Batteries: Brown, Mcconnell and Wilson; Johnson and Easterly.
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SU M MARY. Two-Base Hit-Ellam. Stolen Base-Magee. Base on Balls-Grimes 2. Left on Bases-Mobile 5, Birmingham 9. Struck Out-Grimes 5, Covington 8. Time of Camel 20. Umpire-O' Toole.
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second, when a double by Evans and I three singles sent over two earned runs. Score; R H EI. | Newark ...... 100 O15 500-12 15 | Brooklyn .... O20 900 00O- 10 3 | Batteries; Falkenberg and Rariden, | Texter; Seaton, Finneran and Land.
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Yannigans Win

Pittsburg-St. Louis; rain.
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Newark Wins

Blair; Quinn and Jacklitsch.
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With fair weather this afternoon the amateur ball lots about the city will be crowded to their capacity. Let us hope that the boys will get an- other chance to demonstrate their skill.
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The name of the St. Clair county circuit has been officially changed to the Jefferson, St Clair and Talladega County league. The reason is unknown but whats the difference?
Evening star., 1915-02-21
THE AMERICAN MULE is A
GALLANT ANIMAL i'm WAR

magnificent national asset and reliance
in war. but a glorious and faithful ally
in peace. Where is the horse that
knows more about plowing corn, cotton
and tobacco. or has done more of it
than the mule?
A good many harsh things have been
said about the mules prodigal use OF
his hind feet. But the mule is no hypo-
crite. When he is irritated he express
and forceful features. He has in d
marked degree a spirit of resolution
mot revolution) and independence. Sell
dom is he fawning applicant for
favors. Few men speak to him gently
and kindly. beautiful woman with
white kid gloves will go out of her
way to rib the velvet nose and stroke
the silky name Crank metaphor) of a
thirty dollar horse, but would pick up
her skirts and founce herself away if
an honest observation-disclosures mule
came near.
However. in this war the mule is
service. And he is rendering it. More of
him will go to the front as the weeks
wear on, and no American fears that
the mule will not prove stanch and
brave to those in whose cause he en-
lists.
The mule in the United States has
grown in number. Notwithstanding the
automobile. In 1850 the number of
niuIeS IN tne Cnlted states was .'J3,.'31 :
in 1880, 1.729 800; in 1900. 2.Os6,027: in
! 1910. 4.209.I .I69. and in 1914. 4.449,O0u
According to the census of 1900 the
value of American mules residing in
the United States was s525, ,391 1868
1t may be that some Americans have
made such poor use of the school ia
cilities open to them that they do not
know what a mule is. Some folk call
him a hybrid, which is not to be con-
founded with high bred. The mule re
SentS this name and prefers to be called
plain mule. The finest kind of mule
had a jackass. which. by the way, is a
very wise and sagacious animal, for a
father. and his mother, who loved him
fondly, was a mare. Another kind of
mule is called jimmy" Mules are pa
tient. sure-footed, strong and vigorous,
and retain their faculties to a greater
age than horses generally do.
Evening star., 1915-02-21
Not Washingtonian, But

lMNE of Eddie Foy's practical jokes
w was recounted the other evening
at an after-theater supper in Philadel-
phia.
1T doesn't show Eddie up in a George
Washington light" the narrator began
but it is certainly very amusing joke
anyhow.
Eddie and another chap had got
themselves up for cinematograp ph
comedy here in Philadelphia as two
tattered tramps- But the comedy, for
some reason or other, had to be post
poned for an hour. and 50 Eddie sug-
Sested to his brother tramp that they
take stroll out Chestnut street to test
their disguises.
out Chestnut street they started.
and everything went well. Now and
tried bit of begging. At Broad street
they turned south to Walnut. and final
ly they came to Rittenhouse square.
Eddie picked out the very finest,
square, and. leaning heavily on his
partners arm, he climbed up the front
steps and rang the bell
tall, statuesque young footman
opened the bronze door. Then he gave
u start. He frowned in amaZement and
disgust at the two old ruins before
him.
Is yer master in, young feller?'
SAYS Eddie, in a quavering, dreamy
treble. like an octogenarian.
No snapped the footman.
"'Well. tell him when he comes in,
pipes Eddie, that his two brothers
from the Blockley almshouse called
And the two old fellows turned and
tottered arm in arm down the steps.
slowly and feebly. and went clump-
dumping off in their rags without once
looking back at the thunderstruck,
open -mouthed, speechless footman.'
Evening star., 1915-02-21
Timely, Anyhow.

A STORY-apocryphal, perhaps, but
~ at any rate timely-is going the
rounds of Park Row about Col. George
Harvey, the editor.
Col. Harvey, according to this story
visited his native Peacham a short
time after his first brilliant New York
success, and, on cold winter morning
entered the Peacham general store. But
nobody. TO his surprise. knew him.
Col. Harvey, seated with the Peacham
veterans around the hot stove, could
not resist telling one or two of his
minor Metropolitan successes-suc-
cesses which the Peachamites heard
in a cold silence.
And l. too, am Peacham boy" said
Col Harvey. Yet nobody remembers
me here Stranger
He turned warmly to an old man
with red chin whiskers striped with
gray.
You" he said. ARE George Slocum.'
He turned to another old man who
had very large, white, even false teeth
You are George r. Boone he said,
Then he turned to the whole circle
of veterans round the stove and cried
mpulsively:
Somebody. surely. must remember
my name. Come now, think, It's
George-George-G
Wall. jedgin' from them tales ye bin
a-givin' u.s." snorted an old fellow In
gum boots. Il reckon it hain't George
Washin'ton. nohow."
Evening star., 1915-02-21

pleasant eyes that accepted philosoph-
ically the fact that he was old, perhaps
friendless, and certainly poor.
And his eyes looked downward as he
strolled along the quiet street, his lips
moving with his thoughts. as is the
way with people who live alone As he
reached d crossing Il tiny thing in the
gutter caught his interest and he
picked it UP.
The cavalier spirit that was not quite
lost forever made him place the tiny
thing against lips before ne placed il
in his pocket, but while he did it the
eyes smiled whimsically, as if they
were making fun. And the thing he
picked up was d hairpin.
a common, wire, wide-sprawling hair
pin that no nice woman would wear
Here is how one oldish man around
town accoIsted TO another oldish man
around town, who caught him saying
his prayers.
Say, didn't know you belonged to
any church,
Il don't. I don't belong to nothing
I was just saying a mouthfuI of prayers
for Johnson. Me and him used TO work
together in mine in Pennsylvany
when I was a youngster. and one day
Evening star., 1915-02-21
The RemodeIed Gown.

NNANY women now realize that the
ava remodeled gown is not such a
makeshift after all, for very often it
becomes much prettier than the origi-
nal. There never was a time when re-
modelling was more easily done. A lit
tie new material, some planning and
knowing how will enable you to have
new frock at a fraction of the origi-
nal cost.
The difference between the clinging,
ose-ftting skirt, for instance, of last
season, and the fiaring, full, circular
model of today is striking, but a
change is easily made. You could let
In cluster of plaits at the sides or
the front of the skirt or attach the
widest part of the old skirt to a yoke.
Or, again, If the skirt shows signs of
wear and tear, it may be used as the
foundation for a series of fiounces or
may be yelled with a circular skirt of
SILK or transparent fabric. Even a
draped skirt can be cut over into a
foundation, over which may be hung
circular skirt or tunic
Girdles are great help in lengthen-
ing both waist and a skirt, hiding
piecings and connections. You may
ing in the back and at the sides, but
open In front. Almost all sleeves in
the new models are set into the normal
or enlarged armhole, and for daytime
wear are long.
If you wish to lengthen a. tunic into
skirt, add a circular band of a con-
trasting material, and from the un-
derskirt make wide girdle. skirt
with a puffed pannier may be used as
| the upper part of skirt, to which may
| be Joined circular fiounce of net OF
| chiffon, banded in lace.
An old dress skirt frequently makes
| nicer petticOat than one would feel
| that she could purchase outright. When
| it has done duty for an outside skirt
until it has become soiled, faded OF
| is out of style in cut 1t may be wash
| ed and made into an excellent under
skirt without ones feeling at all ex-
| travagant for using such good mate
| rial, when il new cloth were purchased
one would feel obliged to buy an in
ferior quality. A woman who Is able to
dress well at small expense makes
over as long as there is anything left
to use. She throws away nothing.
Evening star., 1915-02-21
ABOUT PROHIBITION.

u ISSES were the first intoxicants and
taxed.
The man who is too tired to help his
wife hang pictures will walk blocks to
get a cocktail
A woman uses a hairpin to help her
out of difficulties; a man uses a cork
screw.
Some people try to tell US that a pro-
hibitionist is simply a poor Judge OF
whisky.
good woman and dog are the only
things that will stick to a drunkard
as he goes down hill.
The oft-emptfed bottle an dthe empty
wallet are boon companions.
Crooking the elbow is one form OF
exercise which has never contributed
toward masculine development.
Most indiscretions are first viewed
through the bottom of a glass.
Ones nose should not be made to
blush for the sins of the palate.
The difference between good whisky
and bad whisky is that one makes your
grave cost more.
If national prohibition ever comes to
pass, fishing will go out of fashion.
1t is the woman who places a pitcher
of ice water by hubby's bed. and ther
acts grieved, who really reads the best
temperance lecture.
| Alcohol is useful in preserving speci
mems and getting man into a financia
| pickle.
Evening star., 1915-02-21
No G. w.

G ENATOR BURTON, apropos of an
~ attack on speech of his, said at a
Washington luncheon:
That attack would be all right, only
it happens to be false. 1t reminds me
of GuzZler, who was no George Wash
ington.
When Guzzler got home at 4 am,
his wife said sternly:
"'Where have you been?'
My dear said Guzzler. 4 c-can't
teller lie-I been sittin' up shick
friend
George Washington. jr., can't tell lie,
eh? Well. I can tell one, when 1 hear
it, every time""
Evening star., 1915-02-21

6NHE fame of the American mule ex-
tends around t''e world. Among
many nationalities the mule is a
better known symbol of the Great Re-
public of the World than the eagle.
The mule, or at least one of the parents
of the mule. is the accepted symbol of
one of the large American political
parties. The mule is a better known
beast of war than the lion, the dragon
or the dog of war. He has won his
spurs and his oats on fields of glory
which is a rhetorical way of saying
plain battlefields-all over the world.
Whereas the camel and the elephant
have been valiant soldiers. their mill
tary activities and martial enterprises
have been restricted within sundry
climes Not so with the mule. He has
gone wherever duty called him, and his
delicate hoof prints have marked the
sands of time and the roads and the
fields of the earth. He has been a COM
rade of the horse in the campaigns
that have shaped the course of the
world and the affairs of men.
The soldiers of many armies have
doffed their helmets or the campaign
hats in recognition of the services OF
the mule, and no doubt he has wiggled
his expressive ears and switched his
meager tail In acknowledgment o! the
salute. The greatest soldiers who have
marshaled American armies have been
friends of the mule. They have banked
on him in their grand tactics and their
strategy. The horse has cut more dash
ing capers and struck more heroic
postures on the battlefield, but the
practical and reliable mule has brought
up the hay and oats, without which
those horses could not have supported
their patriotism, and he has brought
up the ammunition, without which
guns and rifles would have been cold
and dumb Armies would have biv-
ouacked without supper and have taken
up the march without breakfast but
for the loyalty, obedience and stead
fastness of the mule.
Evening star., 1915-02-21

IF somebody were to give YOU mil
lion this afternoon would you show up
in the morning."
We don't need Burton Anatomy of
Melancholy' man-to tell US that Moth
ing is more refreshing than choice
bit of idiocy after days work which
demands what the cafe calls double
portion of brains. Hence the question
To quote another authority-by name
of Mr. Venus-the answers were "wari-
GUS:
One big lad who had shed his re-
sponsibilities and taken up with Mutt
and jeff admitted that sudden mil
lion might possibly induce him to phone
the chief for day off
Another. hobnobbing with fellow
suburbaniue over the femi nine incon-
sIstencieS of hens. thought it proba BILE
that the novelty of owning million
or two might tempt him to sleep
Evening star., 1915-02-21
Purse Pride.

HE 1c%ss morld rspToaehes w's esus us
proud" said one of them the other day.
We'll, my reply is that nobody is so
purse-proud as your old aristocracy.
There's a story, too, that bears me out.
ITS a story about one of the Stuyve-
SAINTS, or Livingstons, or Rhinelanders
I'm not quite sure of the name, but
il was a real New York first family.
Miss Rhinelander. if that was the lady.
had a back yard abutting on sky
scraper hotel. Well. the hotel got very
prosperous, and one day the proprietor
wrote to her:
Madam, how much do you want for
your back yard, as 1 wish to enlarge
my hotel?'
The naughty lady wrote back:
Sir, how much do you want for
your hotel. as I wish to enlarge my
back yard?'"
Evening star., 1915-02-21
An Evening Frock.

A CHARMING but simple evening g
6N frock is made of soft satin with
no other trimming than bands and
fringe of crystal. A high empire waist
line is formed by several rows of shir-
ring. and the waist is filled in. at the
square neck with tulle. accompanied by
short tulle sleeves headed by a band
of the tulle going over the shoulder
with tiny cap of lace caught up in
the center of the arm. A long tunic
edged with the crystal trimming falls
over a full fiounce shirred on to the
lining at about the knee. In black
with jet this evening frock is very
smart, as it is also in flesh, robin s-egs
blue or deep gold.
Evening star., 1915-02-21

trifie late next morning. while-just to
show what contrast can do-a great
big chap with a dimple in his chin.
who was making for home and just
come baby-also with dimple in his
chin-sang out in passing that the
minute he got million he would be
at the Office extra early next morning
so the boys could hear him crow.
The others-which meant a dozen.
bakers count-wanted ii distinctly
understood that it would take more
than any measly little old million to
keep them from getting the best paper
ever on the street at its regular time
There was the usual exception, OF
course There always has to be,
general rule the nice adage man made
for US? You have to keep important
things like that in mind.
All day Exception had shipped finn
sizes with the reientlessness OF that
other fate who does business with
shears And now he was glimpSing a
first issue. hot-coked from the press
which, incidentally, the others were
doing. too. because. confidentially: If
your own stuff is in all right the rest
of the paper can get along. somehow.
And as he read. il needed no seventh
daughter of seventh daughter to ex-
plain the lines in his face. and the
good things, mentally and humanely,
For that matter, even the one insig-
nificant sidecomb in the crowd who
took no interest in possible millions,
seeing she already owned a victrola,
and who didn't even know Exception S
everyday name, could have predicted
without cards crystal ball that the
big half of any fortune that should
ever come his way would go for the
honest helping of that being we know
as brother rnan-and besides
To come right down to tacks-bra IS
preferred-he had already gone on
record. If somebody should give Ex-
ception a million dollars he is going
to buy a yacht and have bean soup
for dinner every day.
1t is always desirable to be prepared
for the best.
cavalier strayed out of a colonial
novel and wandered around Washing
ton until he grew old and lonely, and
SO poor that the only thing he owned
was that non-negotiable asset that a
gentleman calls his honor
His gray hair still retained it's ro-
mantle wave and every line of his
shabby slenderness demanded dcubIet
lutte and white palfrey-
Only his eyes belonged to the world
he walked in. They were just ordinary
Evening star., 1915-02-21
When the Laws Met.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Laws sat about the long greer
table. All the fundamentals were there
save one. Even the decrepit SaIic Law
was present, doing between the Mo
sale Laws and the Law of Primogeni-
ture.
The chairman, the Law of the Land
called the meeting to order.
Are we all present." he asked.
1t was the Blue Laws who responded
II don't see nothin' of the Law of Ma
tions." he sQueaked.
"The Law of Nations has been abol-
ished," the chairman sharply replied
THE business of the convention will
now proceed"
Evening star., 1915-02-21

1t is we'll known that during the
whole of the revolution Washington's
thoughts and visions of rest and hap
piness were in his country home at
Mount Vernon Upon his retirement
in 1897 from the presidency, his chief
interest was his home and It's domestic
life of ease and dignified luxury. But
to one of his character rest could not
be found in idleness; and his syste-
matte method of mental activity al
once directed itself to the practice OF
the most advanced way of farming
known to his day, the fundamental
principle then. as now, being one OF
economics-how to obtain under ex-
listing conditions the best results with
the least cost and waste.
In letter to Sir John Sinclair of
how the early wheat In his section was
found
"A farmer. walking in a field of
wheat when it was in bloom, discov-
cred plant or two that was perfectly
ripe, and, carefully separating it from
the rest, SOW ID it at the usual time
the following autumn. From this
small beginning (about seven years
agol this state and those adjoining are
well in seed. The grain is white and
full and heavy, weighing generally
two or three pounds more in the
bushel of Winchester measure.
From my own experience / can add
but little, for, as my land is heavy,
stiff and slow, not much of it has been
sown, but from the growth of the pres
ent year l send you sack. that by
experiment you may ascertain the util-
ity of cultivating it in England"
To insure the safety of this sack of
wheat he requested the shipmaster to
keep it in his own cabin during the
voyage.
He adds in his letter: The Egyptian
wheat, head or two of which you had
the goodness to send me (about two
years ago) has not answered with me-"
In July, 1899. Washington wrote to
DIR. James Anderson. who was engaged
in monthly publication on agricul-
ture and natural history. as follows:
Il little imagined when l took my
last leave of the walks of public life
that any event could bring me again
a statement that the conduct of France
had been so unjust that it must be op-
posed by firm resistance. He con-.
cludes: With what sensations, at my
time or l1fe-now turned of sixty years
ambition or interest to slim
ulate me thereto. 1 shall relinquish the
peaceful walk to which 1 had retired
and in the shades of which / had
fondly hoped to spend the remnant of
a life worn down with cares in con-
temptation of the past and in scenes
present and to come of rural enjoy
ment, let others decide.
The gardener whom you were so
obliging as to send me continues to
conduct himself extremely well. He is
Industrious. sober and orderly and un-
derstands his business. What adds to
my satisfaction is that he is himself
contented."
Under date of September IA. 1898,
Washington wrote an interesting letter
Evening star., 1915-02-21
Potatoes on the Half Shell.

RAKE three or four large. smooth
" potatoes, according to the per-
sons to be served, cut in halves length
wise, and without breaking the skin
scoop out the potato into a hot bowl
and mash. Add one tablespoonful of
butter, a tablespoonful of hot cream or
milk, and season with pepper and salt.
Beat up the whites of two eggs, and
the potato. Fill the half shells or
skins with the mixture, heaping it on
top, then brown nicely before serving.