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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12

NAY! have you ever noticed that the
bug called Vanity can cook up
more trouble for human beings
than any germ that ever built its nest
in brain cell?
It's a subtle little disease. this fever
we call Vanity. No man ever knows
he has 1t but he can always recognize
the symptoms in his neighbor.
Sometimes it breaks out in diamond
rings on the fingers; sometimes 1t
takes the form Of ragtime clothing ac-
companied by rainbow neckties, and
sometimes 1t drives a man into politics
who should remain at his post as the
chauffeur Of a garbage wagon.
And then again there are occasions
when It never shows In a man until
after he is dead and his will reads,
IL give and bequeath the sum Of thirty
thousand dollars for the purposes Of
scattering my ashes from the highest
peak Of the Himalaya mountains"
Hep Hardy has 1t for keeps Around
at the club the other night | saw him
drink seven Scotch highballs because
somebody swelled him all up by telling
him he never showed the effects of
liquor.
Then he had TO lean against the
buildings all the way home.
Even friend wife isn't proof against
the Vanity microbe.
Not long ago some fresh friend told
her that she was getting stout and
Peaches promptly fell for every obes-
ity cure known to modern science.
During her calmer moments Peaches
has the general appearance Of a Fetch
erizng canary bird, but when some
amiable idiot told her that day by day
she was growing to look more and
more like a public building she ut
tered a few shrill screams and started
after that obesity proposition with a
tomahawk
tried to flag her and talk her out
of it. but she waved me back and said
she wasn't going through this world
chaperoninS double chin.
SO Peaches started in to put the
sabots to the fatty tissues and for a
week our crstwhile peaceful home be-
came two reels in the Movies entitled
"A Rough Night at Sea"
When / reached home on the eve
OF the Battle of Embonpoint found
Peaches strolIing around the campus
made up 10 look like a lady scarecrow.
Her face was concealed behind mus
lin mask, there was a feyerlsh glitter
in her eyes and in both hands she
clutched a book which proclaimed
itself The Road to Beauty; or, How
to Get Thin Without Calling in the
Coroner"
As | breezed through the turnstlle
with a CHEEKY Good eventide. Las
.sie!" she turned her acetylene lamps
on me and burned me to a sta.5rull.
Then she threw both herself and the
book on our nearly-Persian rug and
began to roll around the room. Seek
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12
The DEVILS Own.

The Inns of Court officers Training
corps is proud of its traditional name.
the DEVILS Own. a title which links
it with the patriots of the four inns,
who formed a volunteer corps in the
time CT the Napoleonic wars. 1t was
George III who bestowed the title on
the corps. He was reviewing bands Of
volunteers and. as one particularly
smart body of men passed before
him. asked who they were. Law
yers." was the reply. The Devils
Own, the DEVILS Own" said the old
king. who had a habit OF repeating his
phrases And the lawy~cs. ~hc had a
sense OF humor, adopted the title with
glee.-L0ndon Chronicle.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12

screaming! Take it away! Take it
away! Now | know what a hard life
the third rail must lead!"
l think the electric blanket has
cured friend wife
At any rate all the exercising do.
funnys have been presented to the jan
TORS children, and Peaches has prom
Used to be kind to a double chin if Ma
ture slips her one.
Old King Solomon had the right idea
when he said to his typewriter. Van
ity, vanity, all is yanity!"
If surgeon could remove our Van
ity as easily as he removes an appen-
dix there'd be a lot more money in the
savings bank.
What dc you think?
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12

When President James f. Gaifney of
the Braves refused to allow his club to
pay fines of $50 and $25 imposed by
President Tener on Gowdy and Tyler
for abusing an umpire he set a new
record in professional baseball that
fans all over the country will heartily
applaud
The public, who in the last analysis
pays for everything connected with
the game-including fines heretofore
paid by the clubs when one OF their
players was taxed for misbehavior-is
getting tired of the rough stuff on
the diamond
President Gaffney is the first one
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12
Al RridwelI.

has gone this length Of time on two
separate occasions, and during this
time he was putting in ten hours a
day for six days week. working over
a machine in a shoe factory.
When I have played my last game
of baseball. I am going to continue
NTH athletics just as industriously and
regularly as l have for years past -
says Bridwell. 4 viii take up hand
ball. boxing and bag punching and by
this means I hope TO keep in good
physical condition as long as l am
alive and kicking"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12

to stick by the new president of the
National league in his endeavor to
make baseball rs clean as possible.
And it is next 10 impossible to have
decent sport when club presidents
wink at their players capers on the
field by paying all fines imposed on
them.
Sometimes when fines are paid by
the clubs the money is deducted from
the players salary, but many clubs
conveniently forget to subtract the
fine money on pay day. This has
practically given players license 10
set up their own rules of conduct on
the ball field.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12
SPORT WITH ALTER
Wanted to Show Fans CIeveI,,a
Had Made Big Error.
Circles Diamond After He Had n...
Put Out, Sliding Into Second
Third and Home at the Com.
mand of Nick Altroek.

Everybody else having chipnad :,
with his funniest play, Umpire PIN
Evans asks to be included. Dave Al
tizer, who is now playing with Mimi
apolis, slipped me my biggest langh
on the ball field, says Evans. Dsvo
was then playing with the Cbjcoso
White Sox. He had just been Sent n
that club from Cleveland WIZ.
Cleveland came to Chicago for a seria.
of games. Dave made up his mind ~
show the Chicago fans what biz mis-
take Cleveland had made.
Cleveland had a lead of a counla y,
runs. With one down, Altizer reached
first base on a single. The bit.ans.
run sign was flashed and as the pitch
er delivered the ball Dave dashed for
second. 1t so happened that the bat.
ter sent line drive into the waiting
hands of George Stovall, then PLAYING
first base for Cleveland. It was an
easy matter to step on the sack, com.
plotting a double play, and retiring tba
side.
Altizer, not realizing that he had
been doubled up, was going at ton
speed. AS he neared second, Nick
Altrock yelled:
"Slide, Dave, slide"
Altizer hit the dirt Stovall seeing
the humor of the situation, threw the
ball high and wide to second. it going
into left center. Altizer regained bis
feet and dashed for third The center
fielder made a good throw to third.
but the third baseman allowed the
ball to get away. Altizer had slid into
third at the reckoning Of Altrock
Noticing the ball had got away
from the third sacker, he made for the
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12
l3ASC BALL
STORES
Pete Standridge is attracting a lot
Of attention with his fork-ball delivery


Of attention with his fork-ball delivery.
Morton of the Cleyelands is a young
pitcher who is giving account OF him
self.
Lou Fiene, former Sox pitcher, has
been given an unconditional release
by the Minneapolis Millers.
Dave Shean. former Philue infelder,
has made a good start as manager of
the Providence InternationaIs.
Pat Moran's recipe for winning the
pennant is very good one. 1t is to
win nine games out of every ten.
Bostick, who was tried out by Con-
ME Mack this spring, is playing third
base for the Newark Internationals.
Frank Chance must be sitting in the
shade of an orange tree these days
wondering how Bill Donovan does it.
The throwing of Heinie Groh from
his new station at third is likened in
Cincinnati to the sort Steinfeldt used
to throw.
Umpire Mullaney is very emphatic
in declaring a strike He nearly
throws his chest protector every time
he does so,
Ed Schorr. the Cub who was re
leased to Terre Haute. has been dis
charged by that club for failure to get
into condition.
Close friends Of Clark Griffith. those
who know him well, declare that he
is no chronic pennant claimer, as so
often pictured.
Pool selling in baseball is about to
be attacked by the national commits
sion. backed up by the National and
American leagues
Bobby Veach has held up his end
we'll in the biting line with the Ii
gers. He is good runner-up TO Tyrus
Cobb and Samuel Crawford
Shaw is one of the men that Crit
fifth is relying on for lot Of work this
season. The youngster has plenty of
stuff. but is just a little shy on con
troll.
Larry Mclean has developed into
a noisy coacher Whether it be such
hackneyed stuff as old boy" or the
very latest slogans, he is out there
with tones stentorian and continu-
Gus.
Pitching experts say emery paper
Isn't necessary to throw the emery
call The same effect can be had
from a finger nail OF anything that
roughens the snrtaCe of the ball and
makes il wingy.
Tommy Leach has a son who is
playing third base for a school team.
As Tommy promises TO so on indefi-
aitely. theJ may be on the same team
ONE day. with such ulleTances as
ais. That's-a-boy. pop"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12

Williams of the Cubs hit oa!' =
Cincinnati which was so long Una. =
was triple instead Of home 10
Had it struck the ground nearer u -, !
would have bounded into the riE1' --.. -.
bleachers. AS it was 1t stfu~A :.
close to the wall that it bounded va
That's the disadvantage OF beng ~
strong.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12

At last we know the truth abol. T..
Giants and Braves. The orae's -.
spoken; Buck Herzog enlightealAE =
world. The Giants be says
done and the Braves would Eazs
good International league club. 1-7'
sure would.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12
ArnoId Aanser ImprovLag.

Arnold Hauser. the famous -
stop Of the Cardinals, who 2as -.
sick for so long. is improving - =,
that his frieno believe he v u. -.
into the game before the end o. 49,
season
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12

Eastern time is 10 be used By the
Detroit ball club in the future Games
are to be started there about an hour
earlier than in the past
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12

Tommy Leach has a son wh0 is
playing third base for a school team
As Tommy promises TO so on indefi-
aitely. they may be on the same team
ONE day. with such utleTances as
ais. That's-a-boy. pop!T
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12

Pitching experts say emery paper
Isn't necessary to throw the emery
call. The same effect can be had
from finger nail OF anything that
roughens the surtaoe of the ball and
makes il wingy.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-06-12

Larry Mclean has developed into
a noisy coacher. Whether it be such
hackneyed stuff as old boy" or the
very latest slogans, he is out there
with tones stentorian and eontinu-
Gus.
The day book., 1915-11-20
ADAM AND EVE!-THEY'RE SHIVERING IN THE
SNOW IN THE MAINE WOODS

O4NNVN 4AN = 49,
Portland, Me, Nov. %. - Adam
and Eve are shivering in the snow in
the Maine woods!
They're barefoot and bare shoul
dered, but they're cheating just wee
bit. They're wearing deer skin jack
cts against the blizzard.
Adam and Eve in city life are Mr..
and Mrs. Walter F. Estes, but for the
duration of their forest exile they
have taken the names of our biblical
forbears.
A few weeks ago they entered the
dense forests to act out the sort of
existence which must have been that
of the real Adam and Eve when they
were the only two human beings in
the world. And, tush! When they
started they wore practically nothing
at all.
To all intentS and purposes the
Estes, like Adam and Eve, are alone
in the world, too Except for a cou-
rier who brings word of their safety
now and then to Portland, they see
mo human being from week to week.
And, undaunted by the wintry
gales, they intend to continue living
alone by their wits and their wood
craft until the middle of December,
bitter as the weather may become.
Estes has long been famous in his
home town of Gray, Me-, as a woods
man. He believed that, lost in the
forest, without so much as a match
or knife of civilized manufacture, or
a shred of human clothing, he could
not only survive, but actually enjoy
life. Mrs. Estes took the dare to try
the experiment with him.
And in unison they declare that
their forest experiment has been the
The day book., 1915-11-20

happiest period of their married life.
"Our first Job on entering the
woods, said Estes, recounting their
experiences, was to cover ourselves.
We took big leaves and WoVe them
together in long strings with grass.
Then we tied them about our shouI-
ders and waists. Later we made
suits of birch bark, covered with
leaves, and when we finally caught
deer in trap we were able to make
the suits of skin, which we wear now
in rough weather.
"The next task was to build a fire.
1t took me about 20 minutes rubbing
two logs briskly together to get a
spark from which could light a dry
leaf. Mrs. Estes slept that night on
the ground in downpoud, while 1
stayed up and struggled to keep fire
going.
"The next day we got our shelter
built and since then there has been
no hardship about our life. It's easy
enough to get food We bowl over
rabbits and porcupines with rocks,
we catch trout in the streams with a
birch bark trap, there are scores of
edible roots and greens, and there's
our bread"
How in the world is bread
made?" Estes was asked.
''It's an odd sort of bread" he an
swered, 'but it is good. When we
caught our first deer in the deadfaII
we saved him blood in a bark pail
until it jeIIied. Then we pounded up
roots with it and baked it in IoaVes.
You'll find it tasty at lunch"
The Estes use sharp stones for
knives. 1t was with one of these
tools that Mrs. Estes locks were
The day book., 1915-11-20

SQUASH IN HALF-SHELL" A
THANKSGIVING DISH
Cut a small squash in half and
bake in the usual way. When well
baked scrape out and season with
butter, sale and pepper. Pack all
back in one half shell and serve
from the table.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-10

which in turn refresh the continent and
are gathered into rivers fitted to bear
the commerce of the nation. 1t gath
ers up immense quantities of mist to
supply the mighty rivers of earth. The
sun says to the winter clad earth,
Bloom again" and 10, the icy bands
break, SHOWS melt, vegetation springs
up and singing birds welcome spring.
Gravitation yields to the higher power,
the stronger force of the sun and this
IN turn Yields to the power of mind and
waters of the Red Sea divide and stand
upright. Yes and water itself yields to
and is licked up. when Elijah calls the
| fire from heaven.
We love to gaze at the starry heavens.
We locate the dipper; we fancy we are
sitting in the chair, we call the dog to
US but he speeds on, we sail over the
milky way and chase Tanvers over the
vast plains of heaven. We guide our
course by the North Star, the Mariners
friend, but it is so far away, that it
takes a raw of light travelling at its
marvellous speed, forty years to reach
US. We fix our eye on some of the
stars, little thinking that they are so
far distant that ray of light from it
that just now falls on our eye left that
star when Moses was rocked in his
cradle of rushes. You have seen a little
fly when you were riding in car play
ing along outside, then it would dart off
with such velocity that you could not
see it. No eye could follow the course
but it is estimated that if we could
travel as fast as that insignificant in
sect does. you could travel around the
earth before dinner
| If we had as much strength propor-
tionality as an ant, we could tear up an
oak by the root. We could lift the
I great rock and throw it as easily as the
boy does his ball, or perhaps small
mountain. How wonderfully they are
made. Sometimes IN building the
mountains they are folded, arched,
doomed tilted, erupted or eroded. Ours
affords US an illustration of the folded
range in the western part of the U. S.
They are arched. If you 60 to
southern Utah you Will find them DOOM
ed; the Sierra Nevadas are OF the tilted
construction; the Andes of the erupted.
Some years ago very strange thing
in nature was found when doctor
from one of our eastern cities discover
ed the presence of diamonds in a large
Mrteoric stone submitted to him for
examination. These diamonds were so
hard that several chlsels were destroyed
in the effort to release them from the
stone and an emory wheel upon which
they tried to polish the jewels.
There is only one other record of the
finding of diamonds in meteors and that
as recently as 1887. But enough now.
JOHANNES.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-10
THE PEOPLES FORUM.
Wonders.

We 1--we in the midst of wonders. In
deed we are a wonder to ourselves.
To declare the glorles of the Creator
must produce profoundest admiration.
To declare His wonders produces awe.
/ We stand in awe of one with such
majesty and power, while the concep-
ton of His mighty power makes US feel
like spreading abroad the knowledge of
1t, Let all know of the marvellous
works of our Creator. An active self
denying christian should be intent in
spreading this news abroad.
Look at the wonders of creation. Did
you ever know of anything so wonder
full in its construction. He placed the
/ fires in the midst of it and the intense
heat bursts forth while volcanic erup-
lions carry desolation in their track.
These monstrous up-heavals leave
mountains kissing the clouds while
grass covered plains are sunk into the
depths of the sea which is so troubled
! llldl mig MY waves dlS IOooSO alOAN NliIii
they lash each other into foam and its
very depths are stirred. Yet these
yield to the influence of the heavenly
bodies. The moon, as in queenly
majesty she sails through the heavens,
so affects the expanse of water that
they are stirred to their depths and
follow an invisible hand, which in turn
borrows its force from the king of day.
But who placed the sun yonder as the
center of planets. Who was it said let
there be light, and darkness fled be-
fore the power of the chemical force
which fills our valleys with fruits,
covers our hills with grain, spreads
over the land a velvet covering of a
single blade of which all the skill and
ingenuity of man could not make. 1t
changed the vast accumulations of
vegetable matter into coal, bottled
sunshine, that's what it is and so full of
force is a piece which weighs three
pounds, that it has as much power as
the average man puts into days work.
Three tons of coal will shovel as much
sand as the average man will in life
time.
Would you have an illustration of
divine goodness and see the wonders of
creation power, look at the atmosphere
that surrounds the earth. The heat of
the sun comes to the earth piercing the
miles of our atmosphere. but if the air
were as percious to the heat of --the
earth, this heat would fly away every
night and the temperature would fall so
low that we would be frozen.
What wonderful provision has been
made for our comfort.
The sunshine says to the sea, rise up
from your bed and through forces of
gravitation pull it downward, millions
of tons fly on the winds of the air and
are poured upon distant mountains
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-10

habit of eating three meals a
day, Of a cold plunge in the
morning, of wearing Il favorite
color, of following the business
routine of the office. of talking
about the weather, of being Il
crouch or an Optimist. Yes, life
is all habit. A powerful en-
piGe, indeed. is habit
Habit automatically solves
many of our problems. The hlb-
it of forgetting cures anger and
sorrow. The habit of saving
prevents want and misery. The
habit of remembering saves
waste and inelficiency.
EFFICIENT shoppers Get the
habit of following the ads. in
this paper closely and intelli-
gently. They know just where
they can buy what they want at
any time ut the lowest prices.
INEFFICIENT shoppers, loose
of habit, look up the ads. only
when they want something on
the spur of the moment. or they
even fail to do that. They lose.
as a person of slovenly habits
always loses.
Don't use an ak to lower the
cost of living.
USE HABIT.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-10
NOTICE.

Having sold my stock of merchandise
in Deer Park, Md, must insist upon
all our customers calling and settling
their store accounts either by cash or
note, at once do not want to have
to place your accounts with an attorney
for collection and cause you trouble and
expense. Please call and we will settle
on friendly terms.
EMMA F. SPECHT, Ext'r.
Feb. 10, 1915. Advertisement.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-10
State Athletics fleet.

About 900 husky athletes, the very
pick of Maryland, will go to Baltimore
on Juue II from all parts of the State
to take part in the first Statewide meet
to be held under the auspices of the
Public Athletic League in connection
with the school authorities. They will
win the honor of representing their
counties by becoming the winners in the
series of county athletic meets that
have been arranged for in nearly every
county and which are now going on.
The visitors will begin arriving in
Baltimore on June 10 and will probably
leave the city Immediately after the
meet or the next day. While IN Baltl-
more they will be the guests of the
schoolboys of Baltimore and will be
entertained in the homes of the young
athletics of that city.
This feature of the meet is expected
to be one of the most delightful phases
of the whole affair. 1t will result in
the boys of the counties and of the city
being brought together in homes. and 1t
is expected that many warm friend
ships will be established; and as the
meets go on from year to year, result
in building up a stronger and better
feeling between the city and the
counties.