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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-23

recognizes that there are some offenses so grave as to make instant expulsion necessary. Nor is the resolution pro- viding that a player may be placed on the ineligible list 30 days but cannot be restored without the consent of all the clubs of vital importance Our present constitution says that club may have but one player on the ineligible list at a time and may keep him there but 15 days. This, it seems to me, about covers the situation. I have no sentiments re- garding the reduction of the waiver price to $25O. That is matter for the club owners solely"
 President Baugh has a number of other matters to present at the Atlanta meet ing. It will be remembered that at the Decemb CT meeting of the league it was provided that the constitution and by- laws of the league should be assembled ir proper form. President Baugh has had the laws of the league codifed and will present the proofs to the Atlanta meeting for approval, following which the laws, in pamphlet form, will be dis tributed to all interested.
 The contract for the printing of the tickets for the league will be awarded at the spring meeting and will probably go to a Memphis house, which has usual ly done the printing in other years. It re- quires expert work and not all firms are competent to bid on it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-23
Domestic Science Interviews

Colum bus, Miss, February 22.--(Special.3 Monday marked the opening of the first Of series of annual institutes which are to be held at the Mississippi Indus trial Institute and College for the pur- pose of giving the mothers and house. wives of the state instruction which will prove beneficial to them in the decora- ton and care of the home and in vari- GUS branches of domestic science.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-23
Can't Get Enough Food

Troy, February 2.--(Special. )-Robert whidby of this city. son of Mr. and Mrs Ben whidby, is now member of the foreign legion of the French army at La Valbonn. France. in the Aisne sec tion. In his last letter home he said their principal trouble was getting enough to eat, and that he had seen very little fighting. However his letter was written about a month before the Germans had attacked the French front where he is stationed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-23
Hart After Chesnutt Job

Bill Hart. the aad Chattanooga twirler it is just possible, may reap pear in the Southern league. Not as a pitcher, although Corbett is trying it after 20 years lay off Bill wants to land the job as umpire left vacant by Scott Chesnutt and has applied to President Baugh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-23
To Watch Snx Train

Jo Lannin. president of the Boston Red Sox, will go to Hot Springs with his boys on March 10, and will watch them work out. He has been occupied with other affairs lately, and has not devoted as much time to baseball as he would like.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-23
Some Strange Things

1t is not to be wondered that Philly fans are throwing fits over the thought of Jack Coombs of Brooklyn pitching
 against Chief Bender of the Phillies in the coming season. The war did
 more than cost somebody a bunch of
 money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-23
Houghton Wanted Myers

Percy Haughton of the Boston Braves was in New York at the Ma tional league meeting and he suffered a severe disappointment The ex-Har- yard coach was anxious to secure Chief Myers from the Giants, but Ebbetts of Brooklyn beat him to 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-23
OTHERS NOT IMPORTANT

As to the other regulations, I do not think them of any great importance For instance, the one providing that player must be fined before removal from the game is already covered by a rule which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-23
Pat Has Plenty

Pat Moran of Philadelphia has been grabbing everything in sight. and will have 30 men report to him at St. Pe- tersburg where the Phillies train. When pruning time comes Moran will either have lots of thinking to do or very little.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
Scientific
Farming
DYNAMITE ON THE FARM.

Has Been Found Beneficial In Many
Ways.
During the last few years dynamite
GAS been found beneficial to the farm
er in many ways, writes w. d. Neale
in the Farm Progress. 1t may be used
for breaking up the hardpan in field.
to make holes for setting trees, to blow
out stumps and trees. blasting rock and
even in ditching.
When soils are underlaid with hard
pan or inclined to be heavy it has been
found beneficial to loosen up the hard
soil with dynamite. The dynamite does
not take the place Of plowing. 1t sim
ply loosens the soil to greater depth
than the plow can run and admits the
air and moisture deep into the soil.
thus making 1t possible for the roots Of
the plants to penetrate to greater
depth.
The dynamiting Of land is done by
putting down holes with two inch
augur or sharp rod Of iron to TIE
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
A Remarkable Man.

Blaise Pascal - 1623-1662 was
one of the most remarkable men
that the race has produced. His
greatness was many sided, like that
Of Leonardo da Vinci, next to whom
perhaps he is entitled to rank from
the standpoint of intellectual bril-
liancy. He was a master Of style,
and his subject covered about the
whole field of mental activity.
Great as a dreamer of rich and
splendid dreams, he was also su-
premely great as logician and
mathematician, as natural philoso-
pher and scientific discoverer. He
died at the age Of thirty-nine after
having been sick all his life, and yet
the fragments Of his genius will
serve to make his name as immortal
as the human race itself.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28

depth Of two feet, and fifteen feet
apart. A small charge Of dynamite is
exploded in each hole. The stick of
dynamite is inserted in the hole and
the fuse and cap placed in position.
The dirt is tamped about it, the fuse IS
lighted, and the explosion takes place.
The manufacturers of dynamite make
different grades and are prepared to
furnish instruction to farmers about
dynamiting their land and the degrees
of strength the dynamite for this pur-
pose should have.
Late experiments are proving that
dynamite is becoming very useful in
the orchard for blowing holes for
young trees and in loosening the soil
between and about the trees that have
been planted for a number of years.
There are two advantages In blowing
the hole for tree planting. 1t loosens
up the soil to great depth and for
some space about the hole. This is
very advantageous when one considers
that the roots of the tree, if not him
dered by a firm. soil, will often pene-
trate the earth to a depth of twenty
feet. This also allows free circula-
ton of moisture. which carries the
plant food to the tree, so the greater
the amount of available food for the
tree. Thus the growth is more rapid
and the tree is more healthy. 1t has
also been discovered that dynamite
not only loosens the soil, but it de-
stroys grubs, worms Or other insect
life likely to prey upon the roots Of
the tree and retard its growth.
Orchardists have also found it bene-
fetal to blast the soil between the
trees. 1t breaks up the soil that is
firm by nature or has been made so
by drought or beating rains. This is
done in September, when soil is dry
and hard. A blast will stir the soil in
radius of six or eight feet, giving the
roots opportunity for greater expan-
sion.
In blowing out stumps and trees dy-
Mantle is a wonderful time and labor
saver. 1t does its work quickly and
rids the soil of stump and tree roots.
This is done by putting deep hole
beneath roots of stump or tree with
iron rod and placing charge Of dyna-
mite in this hole, tamping in the dirt
after putting on the cap and fuse. In
short time one can rid several acres
of land of trees and stumps.
When ditching lowlands dynamite
can be used very successfully in loos.
ening up the soil and blowing much of
it clear of the ditch. The charges can
be set few feet apart and all of
them set off about the same time.
What other work. is necessary can be
easily and rapidly done with teams
and scrapers.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
TWO FINE OLD WORDS.
Vet Few Could Now Tell oflhand Whist
"Shaw" or "Siks" Means.

Vet Few Could N low Tell Ohhand What
"shaw" or "siks" Means.
Why do useful words die? In
good use today there are scores and
hundreds and doubtless thousands
Of needless synonyms, useful only
to the poet and the stylist, while
excellent words of honorable Anglo
Saxon ancestry and needful for use
have been doomed to death, execut-
ed and forgotten.
Shaw, for example, is a fine old
English word. It meant a small
and pleasing open group of trees,
neither copse nor a forest. It was
not so impressive as a grove nor
was it as insignificant as thicket
or coppice.
Through shaw there often ran
sike. We might spare shaw nova
days, but sike is one of those words
which should never have been
thrown in the pathological garbage
can, declares writer in the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer. It is little less
than shameful that the dictionaries
put (obs.) after it.
A sike is a brook or rill that
makes handsome showing in
spring and autumn, but which is
quite dry in midsummer. It re-
quires a dozen or more words to tell
what a sike really is, and yet sike
has been permitted to go by the
board, while needless superduities
have retained places of honor in the
language.
The reason is not hard to find.
In olden days, when cities were not
much, men knew the country, and
the language was built in terms of
natural objects. Then came ab-
stractions and emotions and phi
losophizings and abstruse delvings,
and the little things of nature fad
ed into insignifcance. Men who
read and wrote did not think of
skies.
Only within the last half century
have men turned back again to the
pleasant and inspiring phases of nat
ural beauty. They have found skies
everywhere and have described them
with labored circumlocution, for a
sike is one Of the daintiest and hap
piest offerings of the wide world.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
Jack cade's Monument.

At Heathfeld, in England, is a
farm on which still stand the re-
mains of an old stone house that is
said once to have been the home Of
the notorious Jack Cade. Whether
or not Cade ever lived there can
never be accurately determined, but
there is no disputing the fact that
he was killed in that neighborhood.
On the main road, not far from the
ruins of the house, stands monu-
ment with this inscription tfNear
this spot was slain the notorious
rebel Jack Cade by Alexander Iden,
Esq, sheriff of Kent, A. D. 1850.
His body was carried to London, and
his head fixed upon London bridge.
This is the success of all rebels, and
this fortune chanceth ever to trai-
tors"
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
TRIED TO BEAT THE WIRE.
The Result Of an Experiment When the
Telegraph Was New.

The Result Of an Expsr'snsne Wnen sne
Telegraph Was New.
When the first telegraph message
was sent from Baltimore to Wash
ington in May. 1874, it naturally
created great excitement and specu-
lation over the entire country.
Along the Hudson river people were
especially interested because they
heard that line was to be built
from New York to Albany.
The work progressed slowly dur
ing the summer, and farmers Tor
miles around came down to the
state road whenever they had
spare moment to see what the
strange contrivance looked like.
They shook their heads doubtfully
at each other and would say,
s'There's nothing to it, " ''Trees. and
wire can't carry words" or Gwen
gossip won't travel over thread" "
Prophets were numerous who de-
clared that in less than year tho
wires would be rusted and the poles
blown over by the wind.
As the time for it's completion
drew near curiosity increased. Then
the editor Of the New York Herald
offered $1,000 for the first copy of
the governors message, read before
the state assembly in Albany on
Jan. 1, which should reach the news
paper office in New York. The
precious document was to be deliv-
cred to the telegraph enthusiasts
and also to a special messenger at
the same time. But as the distance
was 100 miles some one suggested
that the people along the route get
up relay race. The man who re-
ceived the copy from the governors
hand was to carry it ten miles and
deliver it to the next rider. He in
turn hurried with it to the third
one waiting, and so on until New
York and victory were reached.
What would become Of the paper
given to the agent Of the telegraph
company no one had an idea.
The day of the race was clear and
cold, With everything in readiness.
All along the road men, women and
children had gathered to see the
riders.
When the last rider reached the
city he heard newsboys calling an
extra. Suddenly it dawned on him,
and he pulled his horse up short.
extra paper! Just out! Full copy
of the governors message!'
At the newspaper Office all was
excitement.
"You and the other boys made
record rum" the manager said, ssbut
the wires beat you. New York
Herald.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
THIRTY DAYS IN FEBRUARY.
Yss, It 10 Possible, and This Writer
Explains Exactly How.

vos, lt 10 Possible, and TINS WesteF
Explains Exactly How.
Leap year never comes oftener
than once in four years, and some
times only once in eight years, so
February usually has to be content
with exactly four weeks and not a
day over. Calendars never give
more than twenty-nine days to the
second month of the year, and it
seems as if the whole world must
believe that February never can
have more than twenty-nine days.
But it can. It can have thirty.
l know enough people to fill a large
schoolhouse, each Of whom has iv-
ed thirty days in February. Among
these people are many distinguish
ed army and navy officers, several
statesmen and financiers, engineers,
schoolteachers and other famous
folk.
knew these people as fellow pas
sengers. We were together on
board ship coming from Yokohama,
Japan, to Honolulu, and on to San
Francisco. We were crossing from
the eastern hemisphere into the
western, out on the Pacific ocean,
where, according to the map, lies
the one hundred and eightieth me-
ridian, just halfway around the
world from Greenwich, England.
All school children know that it is
from the famous observatory at
Greenwich that people who make
biographies measure degrees of
longitude or distances east and
west.
So we on the opposite side of the
earth from Greenwich we're sailing
or steaming east toward the sun
rise. Now, it is the custom Of the
masters of vessels crossing the Pa
cifc ocean to do curious thing.
Both the thing they do and the way
they do it are curious, for what they
do going east is directly the oppo-
site of what they do if they are 60
ing west, though they do it at the
same place. AS most of you know,
to keep their calendar dates right
they drop a day out of their lives
and out of the lives Of everybody
on board the ship, passengers and
crew alike, if they arc going west,
but they add day to the lives Of
every one and give each person on
board an extra day to live if they
are going east. Sea captains are the
only persons who can do this, and
they can do it only on the Pacific
ocean.
BY common consent of seagoing
peoples the one hundred and eight
ieth meridian, on the opposite side
of the world from Greenwich, is the
line-quite an imaginary line, of
course-where the dates are adjust
ed. Our good ship happened to
come to this line on Feb. 20. As
we were going east from Yokohama
to Honolulu, there was nothing to
do but write in our diaries Feb. 80.
But when would baby born on
board that day have another S'birth
pc. L. Brownell, F. r. G. S.,
in st. Nicholas.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
TREES AND PLANNING.
Thsy Ars Important Elements Il
-. Landscape Gardening.

Thsv Ar Important Eismsnts II
Landscape Gardening.
Why is It that in the planning and
laying out Of grounds an unfair per-
centage Of time and money is always
devoted to seeds, plants aud shrubs.
leaving the planting Of trees to the
last? asks Edward Il. Parkinson in the
New York Evening Post. Is 1t that
the effective planting Of them requires
too much skill for the average person
or because he fails to realize how much
trees can be made to do for a land
scape, not only in summer, but In the
bleakness Of early spring and the SOM
berness Of late autumn Perhaps a
closer knowledge Of our native trees
and those which are ours by adoption
might disclose new possibilities in color
combinations of which they are capa-
BILE, for no one should he allowed will
ingly to miss these protecting and
beautiful additions to the landscape
without protest.
As to the purely commercial view
point Of trees value, which might
appeal more forcibly perhaps to some
than the artistic side, a stranger who
was motoring by friends house last
autumn stopped to admire the cxtraor-
dtnary number and beauty Of the ma
pie trees and acknowledged he would
have no peace of mind until he secured
at least one of them. 1t so happened
that the owner had intended to move
three of the younger trees to permit
the more perfect development of some
others, 80 that the stranger was lucky
enough to realize his desire and paid
$50 cash for one tree where it stood,
in addition to $75 for moving 1t, thus
making the total cost reach $135.
Now, had the first owner of this tree
purchased it direct from the nursery
when it was twelve feet high it would
have cost him Il comparatively insig-
nifcant sum. Another point not to be
forgotten is the coOlness it gives In
summer and the warmth and prOtec-
ton in winter, while its leaves, IL
gathered in the autumn, make the very
best compost to he obtained. But how
amazingly ignorant is the average per-
son about the many species and va
neties Of trees! TO enjoy trees to the
full one should know something Of
their habits and characteristics.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
Solitude.

Solitude is dangerous to reason
without being favorable to virtue.
Pleasures of some sort are necessary
to the intellectual as to the corporal
health, and those who resist gayety
will be likely for the most part to
fall sacrifice to appetite, for the
solicitations of sense are always at
hand, and a dram to a vacant and
solitary person is a speedy and Sc
ducing relief. Remember that the
solitary person is certainly luxuri-
GUS, probably superstitious and pos
sibly mad. The mind stagnates for
want of employment and is extin-
guished, like candle in foul air
johnson.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
Helping tho Complexion.

The food we eat has much to do
with the condition of the complex
ion. Green salads are an important
aid to the digestion and will accom-
plish much toward bleaching and
whitening a sallow complexion.
They possess certain chemical quail
tiles and supply the body with need
ed salts. Tomatoes, endive, lettuce
and young onions are splendid for
the skin. Spinach contains salts Of
potassium, iron and other properties
that act upon the liver. Tea and
coffee must be taken in moderation.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
Tho Ocean.


Of all natural stores of water the
ocean is, of course, the most abun-
dant, and from it all other water
may be said to be derived. From
the surface of the ocean continu-
GUS stream of vapor is rising with
the atmosphere to be recondensed
in the upper regions and precipitat-
ed as rain, snow and sleet. Some
eight-elevenths Of these precipitates
return directly to the ocean; the
rest, falling on land, collects into
pools, lakes, rivers or else penetrates
the earth, perhaps to come to light
again in springs and wells.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
Bureau of Efficiency.

A bureau of efficiency and economy
has been formed as an adjunct of the
Portland (Ore.) chamber of commerce
10 have oversight Of expenditures and
important activities of city, school and
county governments. The purposes of
the bureau are to collect and promul-
gate information for advancing the IN
terests of the people and through pub
Hctty to procure reforms In municipal
administration.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
Medical Advice.

Witherspoon thought it was a
good chance to get some medical aid
without paying for it.
GLOW do you do this morning,
colonel ?" asked DR.. Soonover.
s'Poorly, doctor, poorly. For some
time past I have been suffering from
weakness. As you see, I can hardly
walk. What shall I take, doctor?'
f'Take taxi" replied the doctor
gruff1y as he strobe off.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
Kings Of ireland.

The kings of the Emerald Isle
were: Maol Ceachlin, $50; Brian
Boroihme, 1914; Donough, or Denis
OBrian, 1913; Firloch or Furlough,
1912; Fordel Vach, 1882; Roderic,
or Roger, O'Connor, 1166. Then or
soon after began the reign of the
English Henry H., after which time
there were no more kings of Ireland,
but only governors of Ireland" un-
der the power of England.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
Miles Grave.

(Which is the deepest, the long
est, the broadest and the smallest
grave in the churchyard?" ?" said q
pedestrian to his companion while
meditating among the tombs in the
burying ground at Esher.
"Why," replied his companion, cit
is that in which poor Miles Button
lies buried, for it contains Miles
below the sod, Miles in length and
Miles in breadth, and yet, after all,
it is but Button-hole."-Pearson's
Weekly.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
A Word Of Appreciation.

Il "Some philosophers say that Oh
jects which we call inanimate have
thoughts and feelings.''
Maybe they have," rejoined Mr..
Cumro1. eff such is the case the
piano my daughter practices on is
mighty patient brute. "-Washing-
ton Star.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
Indian. Town to 30 an Eden.

Indiana EoWn to Be an Eden.
II. X. Volland, mayor, has issued a
letter urging residents to plant seed in
order that Columbus, Ind. may be
made one big, sweet flower garden.
Mayor Volland opens his communica
kion with reference to the garden of
Eden and the gardens of Babylon and
mentions the gardens Of the PhOenf.
clans, Assyrians. Greeks and Romans
likewise those Of the French, Germans
and Dutch.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
sex, In. earnxard Manurs.

Barnyard manure restores worn soils
to productiveness and lasting fertility
better than any other fertilizer. It In
creases the supply of humus In the soil,
improves the texture and increases the
water absorbing and water holding
qualities.
Ordinary barnyard manure properly
cared for viii average about ten pounds
of potash, six pounds of acid phosphate
and one-half per cent nitrogen to the
ton.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28
Moral Courage.

As to moral courage, I have very
rarely met with the 2 o'clock in the
morning courage-I mean unpre-
pared courage, that which is neces-
sary on an unexpected occasion and
which, in spite Of the most unfore-
seen events, leaves full freedom Of
Judgment and decision. Napoleon.
The Washburn leader., 1916-07-28

Commission Form of Government.
The commission form of government
is In effect in ST Of the 2O4 cities in the
United States Of over 10000 inhabit-
ants.
The Washington times., 1916-04-02
Purchased and Paid For by The Washington

Times why would trade with
in this space Sunday reach later than Thursday
Advertising Manager, The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1916-04-02

washington u. Z" MArCh se l"le'
Classified Advertising Manager, The wash.
inFton Times. city.
Dear Sir-Ir your readers want old shoes
to look as near like new AZ II II I,ossi nle tn
make them. V. Marines IL the place
had an old dilapidatcd pair or shoss, he6 u
all run dow soles worn almost Comuletely
through. In fact they were 20 far gone.
was retcent about carrying them to be re
paired. II looked impossible.
These courteous shoe repairars prompt,
made them over al low cost 80 that III.
wore satisfactorily for many months.
Anyone can save money and get fair tr"t
ment At Marines Yours truly.
=. n. MEYER
al2l Pennsylvania ave w
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