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Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
John mcGrsw.

nlngs was no false alarm as catcher,
and his friends declare that he made
a mistake when he switched for an
infield position. "Wee Willie" Keller
was a left-handed hurler. but lacked
weight for pitching, but seemed to
have the necessary avoirdupols to hit
a ball as hard as the best. The noted
Ed Hanlon, manager OF the team. used
10 pitch before taking to the outfield.
Then there was Joe Kelley of the
Torontos. When Joe was full
fledged Criole he played the outfield,
but Mr.. Kelley won considerable fame
as hurler of curves and otherwise.
Even big Dan" Brouthers began his
baseball career as a pitcher. but that
was away back. Reltz, the second
baseman, also Infield +. Bonner. were
good catchers, and spent part of their
minor league days behind the bat, and
the famous Walter (Steve) Brodie was
a clever backstopper at one time. So
every player on that famous old team
won his spurs either as pitcher of
curves or as n receiver of them.
Four of the famous squad are now
four of the greatest managers In the
game, and kid" Gleason Is in line
for big league job as manager. and
It's not to be wondered at that the
Baltimore team of those days won pen
nants with j. McGraw, Hugh Jennings,
Wilbur Robinson, Joe Kelley In its
ranks. and Edward Hanlon. the man
ager Of managers, at the helm.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

accompanying his chum, saw there n
young woman SO plain of face that he
marveled why the good-looHing young
man dancing with her should be eager
to secure her for the next waltz, the
next aud yet others. During the course
of the evening, the young man who
had fought so hard against coming was
introduced by the friend he had ac-
companled to the very plain young
woman. She looked up with smile
and that smile so radiated her whole
face that her new acquaintance looked
upon her In wonder. 1t charmed him,
interested him, made her almost beau
tiful. Her gracious personality, sweet
ness and wholesomeness captured the
citadel of his heart in that first mo-
ment of meeting. He could not for
get her or the sound of her voice or
the touch of her hand. He who had
laughed at matrimony and the notion
that 1t took woman's love to make
man really happy and life worth liy-
ing was manly enough to confess that
he had erred In his judgment, when he
thought the careless life of a bachelor
free lance was happier than that of
the man who had placed himself In
the hands of good woman to be loved
and cared for in the married state.
Cupid very often allows man to go
great length ere he halts him. lie
can only run the length of his rope
finding the matrimonial moose at the
end of 1T.
IF we live, we love-"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
Wise and Otherwise.

Time may be money to everybody
but the loafer.
And often the shoplifter finds it diff
ficult to take things easy.
Dead men tell no tales, but some of
their widows may draw pensions.
AS long as a man can keep his tenn
per he isn't his own worst enemy.
A bachelor says that matrimony is
one of the blanks in loves lottery.
A woman's idea of an entertaining
man is one who says nothing and lis
tens.
Spendthrifts may be so called be-
cause they have nothing in common
with thrift.
girls best insurance against trou-
Bile is to make a contidant OF her moth
er.
It's woman's natural faith that en-
ables her TO believe only the things
she wants to when she knows she
doesn't.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
Little 0rphant Annie"
Says "Jim" Riley Was
the Meanest of Boys

Many VIII be surprised TO learn that
there ever was a real "Orphant Annie"
"Orphant Annie" is now Mrs. Wesley
Gray. Although not a great many
miles from the poets birthplace, Green
field. Ind, Mrs Gray's farm Is situated
In the real, old-fashloned back coun-
try.
II was raw. bleak day when little
"or2hant Annie was brought TO the
Riley home. She came from a print
tive country settlement in rough
wagon, riding on heavy board laid
across IL for a seat. She re-
called the happenings al the Riley
home with amusement and delight.
.Jlm Riley" she declared, "was the
biggest tease and the meanest boy /
ever seen. | used 10 wonder how he
learnt It all; how in the world boy
only twelve years old could be so full
of mischief, and such an awful tease.
He would draw ugly pictures of US
and write mean things beneath 'em,
and tell you, he just nachurly worried
the life out Of us. Then he would make
his. eyes red by rubbing them, and
pretend he was sticking gun caps in
them. Then he'd pull the gun caps out
Of his nose. You can't guess how he
scared us.
Then he had a hateful way Of do
Ing a trick that a circus man taught
him, with button and handkerchief,
by folding the handkerchief around
the button, and then nndoing it, and
the button wasn't there. That made
rs awful curious, and we made him
do 1t again and again, until one time
he dropped 1t out of his sleeve. La
dies Home Journal
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
BEAT AT THEIR OWN GAME:
Tenderfoot Turned Neat Trick on Card
Sharks" Who Had Considered
Him Easy Picking.

Senator Fall Of Three Rivers wasy
talking at the Republican convention
in Chicago about political tricks.
THE trouble with all tricks" he
said, us that they are apt to be called.
The tenderest political tenderfoot IL.
apt to call the sIickest trickster.
ITS ike the tenderfoot In the Tin.
Can poker game. He was very, very
tender, and they dealt him four aces :.
then, when he turned his back to or
der sandwich the dealer slipped a,
sixth card on to his pile, thus nullity~
ing his good hand.
1.-The tenderfoot said nothing, ap-
parently. He munched his sandwich.
and bet, and bet, and bet. An enor-
nous sum soon lay on the table. The
dealer and his pals were more than
pleased but they could not understand
the bartender, who kept making thes
queerest faces at them from the bar.
1.-THE tenderfoot finished his sand
wich at last, called the betting, anti
laid down his cards. There were only
five of them; the sixth had disanr
peared.
"He gathered up his winnings, nod
ded cool goodnight and walked out-
The dealer, cursing ana swearing
roared:
"What did be do with that sixth
card?
"'What did he do with itY howleta
the bartender Didn't you see me
signaling? He ate 1t with his san6-
wichr
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
important 10 Mothers
Jonnny,s Manners.

Where the carefully trained chiilf
learns bad manners is standing myss-
terry to its watchful parents These,
anxious rearers of the young are often
heard propounding the query, but geH--
orally without result Once in a while,
however, out of the deep silence comes
an illuminating answer.
Johnny furnished one just the other
day. He had just finished a partien
larly toothsome dish Of apple pads-
ding, which he ate to the hast fnorsel.
Then, despite the fact that there WINS.
company at the table, he deliberately
picked up his saucer and liekee -
clean.
JOHNNY" exclaimed his Iaothss.
after Mortified gasp, whom did yUEs.
ever see do thing like thatY
Dogs replied Jobnny.-Life.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

ndppleSt III uic
world, for the
single man never
knows at what
place or time he
viii meet the one
woman who will
cause all his de-
termination and
theories to melt
like fog before the
sunshine. Even the
men who are the
most strepuously
opposed to matri-
mony have their
secret ideals
some one type OF
woman interests
them more than
others do - but
they are frank
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
ITCHING, BURNING SCALPS
crusted With Dandruff Yield Readily
to cutseura. Trial Free.

Cuticura Soap to cleanse the scalp Of
dandruff crustings and scalings, and
Cuticura Ointment to soothe and heal
feelings and irritations. Nothing bet
ter, surer or more economical than
these super-creamy emoliIents for hair
and scalp troubles OF young or old.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura. Dept. l.,
Boston. Sold eyerywhere.-Adv.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
Porch Cushions.

Porch cushions are the gayest .
of the gay. And they are striped,
In conformity with the general .
trend toward striped effects In
decorations and home aeeesso-
ries of every sort. All the colors
of the rainbow are seen In these ,
cushions for the swinging seat,
the settee, the rocker, and gen. :
eral utility. but the combination
of tints have been made so skill !
fully that the result, while unde-
niably vivid, is by no means I'M
pleasing or crude. In the khaki ,
hued couch hammock, or in one
of awning stripes in black or
white, group of these bright
toned cushions presents a deslr-
able contrast.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
Protected.

1--WE sleep under double blankets
every night out where / live"
ut must be delightfully."- cool out
there"
Cool? Who said anything about it
being cool? It's hotter than blazes;
but we need the blankets to keep the
mosquitoes out"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
To Fortify the System Against
Summer Heat

Many users of Groves Tasteless Chill
standard remedy regularly TO fortify the
system against the depressing effect of
summer heat. as those who are strong
those who are weak. Price soc.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
COVETED BY ALL

but possessed by few-a beautiful
head of hair. If yours is streaked with
gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re-
store 1t to its former beauty and lus-
ter by using La Creole" Hair Dress
ing. Price s1.00.-Adv.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
Price Of poliseness.

''P0litsness costs nothing
Il don't know about that" replied
Senator Sorghum. '''he way one Of
the most unpopular men In my district
insists on giving three cheers for me
Is likely TO cost me "A lot OF votes"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

enough with themselves TO scout the
idea that their ideals can be met with
on this mundane sphere.
II Is equally useless for man de-
liberately to refuse to go 10 place
which women frequent or refuse
poIntblank to be introduced TO the sex
for which he has no use. Cupid does
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
Amphibious.

IL hear you've bought a summer bun
galow. Where is it-on the sea-
shoreT
Eyes; that Is to say. It's on shore
mt low tide. When the tide is in the
bungalow Is off Shore"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

William II. Gannett of Augusta, Me,
Is building a one-room house in a large
tree on his estate.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

a clock keeps right on working when
II goes ON strike: thus 1t gets the
bulge on a man.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

Observe the wise carpenter. He
makes every blow count when he hits
q nall.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

An English scientist has succeeded
In obtaining seven gallons of fuel oil
from a ton of seaweed.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

THis Is THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger if you
darken your ugly. grizzly, gray hairs by
using la Creole" Hair Dressing. ADV.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
SOAP is STRONGLY ALKALINE

and constant use will burn out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
ing with La Creole" Hair Dressing.
and darken, In the natural way. those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. s1.00.-Adv.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

All men are fools, of course, but
bachelors are not reminded of the fact
as often as married men.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

gAh has established a furniture mu-
scum.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

Another Sherlock Holmes.
an bet money that woman is ffzss
wife of golf player"
What makes you think soY'
"She looks SO sad and lonely
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

Mexico's national library contains
.225,O00 volumes.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
Uncanny knowledge.

How is 1t the ants always know
where the picnic is going to be?
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

Cane Cod was once an island.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18


who shall say where love begins,
How It's subtle way 1t wins?
Gods, who love the race they frame
Cannot tell whence springs the harne'
Man may reason long and well,
But can never break the spell.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18
woMANs GROWING GLORY

is her hair. If yours is streaked With
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use La Gro
ole" Hair Dressing and change IL fzss
the natural way. Price $1.00.--Adys
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-18

No man should rail at or sheer at
the remark that married life Is the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-08
ONE CENT-THE DAY BOOK ONE CENT
ANNOUNCEMENTS

Esther FdlkenStein SeILlemenL
WOman's club meets Thurs. 2 p. NJ,
1917 Richmond DR.. Gum speaks.
Club will hold St. Patrick social
Thurs. night, March 16.
DR.. Jos. SIattery's, Guardian of Lib
erty, Thurs. night lecture transferred
from Wicker Park hall to Logan So.
auditorium, 3147 Logan blvd. Mrs.
SIattery lectures, 2:3O p. m, Thurs,
Logan So. Masonic hall, Milwaukee
aV. and Logan blvd.
Mass meeting, Bowen hall, Hull
House, 8 p. m, Fri, for Miss Ellen
Gates Starr, 18th ward Socialist can
didate for alderman.
18th ward Socialists hold mass
meeting, Goethe school, Rockwell
and Lyndale. Speakers: Geo. KOOp,
L. D. Delson, candidate for municipal
judge, and Frank Shifersmith, can
didate for alderman
American Woman's Relief Corps
No. 81 will hold card party, 2:3O p.
m, Wed, Oriental hall, Masonic Tenn
pie. Benefit of G. A R golden jubilee
fund
23d ward Socialists meet 8 p. m,
tonight, Clifton hall, 1923 Belmont
av.
John Emerson Roberts will address
Single Tax club, 8 p. m, Fri, Schiller
hall, ga w. Randolph: Liberty and
Morality" Andrew P. Canning will
talk on single tax.
1870
Police watching family of Mrs. Ad-
cline Kunascz, 5722 Wabash av., to
protect it from father, religious ia
matte, who recently escaped from
Kankakee.
Robt. Nicholson, barber, "a E. Oak,
invited pretty pair Of brown eyes to
have a drink with him. They belong
ed to a policeWoman. Fined SIS.
Geo. Marks auto swiped from
Michigan av and Van Buren,; found
later in ditch near South Chicago.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-08
CIGARMAKERS STRIKE - FIGHT
NEW SCHEME OF EMPLOYERS

John M. Glenn's fertile brain seems
to have cOncocted another scheme to
haITass union labor. Glenn is secre-
tary of the Illinois Manufacturers
assn.
Progressive Cigar Makers union
has called strike of 100 workers at
the La Kuba Cigar Co., S. Water and
State SITS.
The company demanded that the
union put up a cash bond of $4,000
to bind the union during the life of
the agreement, not only to prevent
strikes, but to make good any loss
caused by the action of any indivi-
dual union man.
This is a scheme of the Ill. Man
ufacturers' assn, said Chas. w. Win
field, secretary of the Progressive
union. IF they can set a precedent
in making the cigarmakers sign such
an agreement they will force it on
other unions and rely on getting IA
Vorable court decisions in forfeiture
proceedings.
The cigarmakers have struck eight
times at the La Kuba factory in a lit
tie over two years. In this strike the
men are also asking that an open
shop factory of the La KUba Co. at
Benton HarbOT be UniOnized:
1890
WHOLESALE PRODUCE.-Eggs,
1914 butter, 35.
The daily progressive-miner. [volume] (Ketchikan, Alaska) 1915-1919, 1916-09-20
SIavs Ordered To
Kill, Not Capture

BERLIN, Sept 20.-"Russian meth
DDS of warfare are described by sew
eral eye-witnesses," says an Overseas
News agency An Austrian sergeant
major who escaped from the Russians
reports that soldiers of the 22d and
23d Siberian rifles told him three Ger
man infantrymen who were captured
were taken behind the lines and stab
bed on command of Russian officers.
A non-commissioned officer OF the
Cossacks said a Russian order had
been issued to kill prisoners.
Three Russian soldiers OF the 9TH
Turkoman rifles who are now prison
ers say the commander of their com
pany repeatedly ordered them not to
take Germans as prisoners but to kill
them. \ special order issued recent
ly says Comrades. when we attack.
everyone shall keep in mind that Aus
arians may be taken prisoner but
that Germans, as far as possible. shall
be killed.
The daily progressive-miner. [volume] (Ketchikan, Alaska) 1915-1919, 1916-09-20
TWO TELEPHONE CALLS.

At a dinner of the American Geo
graphic society held in Washington
one of the principal guests was DR..
Alexander Graham Bell, who recalled
that great day"-March 10, 1S76-
when he learned beyond doubt that
complete words and sentences could
be understood through the instru-
ment he had constructed. This early
telephone was connected with the
next room, where his assistant, Mr.
Watson, was at work DR.. Bell talked
into it and said, Mr. Watson, come
here; | want to see you" Mr.. Watson
came to him at once, and the inventor
then knew that his problem was solv-
ed.
Nearly forty years later that orig
inal conversation was repeated under
conditions that showed how marvel
ously the range of this invention had
been extended in the interval. DR.. Bell
was sitting in New York city at a
telephone fitted with the same old
transmitter he had used in 1876. He
spoke through it to Mr. Watson, who
was then in San Francisco, and said
once more, Mr. Watson, come here;
want to see you" His friend re-
piled, 1T would take me week to
get to you now"
The daily progressive-miner. [volume] (Ketchikan, Alaska) 1915-1919, 1916-09-20
WHITMAN LEADS
FOR GOVERNOR
NEW York, Sept. 29--Gov. Whit
man leads for the nomination on
the republican ticket. He is also
said to be the favorite for endorse
ment by the Progressives.
Kodiak Carvings May
Be Relics Of Stone Age

Discoveries OF carvings on the rocks
at the southwestern end OF Kodiak
Island seem to connect the history of
that place with the stone age. accord
ing to Il. Il. Waller United States
land surveyor, who spent the summer
10 the westward The carvings are
in granite so hard that it could not be
cut by a cold chisel, and the natives
OF that place say that they have been
on the rocks longer than any tradition
of the Indians of the westward.
The carvings are OF faces of peo-
pie and beasts and hyrogliphics that
no one who has seen them can inter
pref. The Indians frankly admit
that none OF them know what they
have reference to.
Many Of the carvings with accurate
descriptions have been sent to the
Smithsonian Institution at Washing
ton. and it is expected that a bulletin
will be issued on them one of these
DAYS.
MI. Waller says that some of the
figures and symbols are repeated over
and over.
The only explanations that have
been offered by those who have seen
the carvings is that they must date
from the stone age. Mr.. Waller says
that there are great quantities OF
them
The daily progressive-miner. [volume] (Ketchikan, Alaska) 1915-1919, 1916-09-20
WHISTLER AND POINTED TOES.

The following Characteristic talk
between Whistler and George Moore
is recorded by John Lloyd Balderston
in the Atlantic Monthly: whistler
was walking with me, and he said
Ugly boots-boots pointed toes-how
can your They were new and rather
expensive boots, and | asked in great
surprise what was wrong with them.
Pointed toes pointed dreadful
dreadful looking things" Whistler
went on. Are they really very ugly%
l asked, and Jimmie raped out;
Ugly? Well, of course-how can you,
Moore?'
81 had not thought pointed toes
ugly, but | suppose, Of course, Whist
Ter must be right, and | determined
not to wear out that pair of pointed
toes. Then a little time afterward l
met Mrs. Whistler, happened to say
something about her husbands views
on pointed toes, and she said: OF
course Jimmie has to wear square
toes! He has a deformed foot
In everything Whistler's extraor-
binary egoism was manifested. Be
cause of his foot, you see, he evolved
theory that square toes were beau
tiful and pointed toes ugly and tried
to make other people accept it."
The daily progressive-miner. [volume] (Ketchikan, Alaska) 1915-1919, 1916-09-20
Disappears On Trip.

WINNIPEG, Sept. 12-Miss Mary
llama Turner OF Westmoreland, Eng
land. aged a. has disappeared be-
tween Quebec, Winnipeg and Estevan,
and her whereabouts are sought by
her brother. Thomas, who is at pres
ent staying in Winnipeg.
Thomas Turner, a farmer near
stoughton, Sask., after a six months
visit to the Old Country, intended to
return with his sister. Mr.. Turner
had provided himself with a passport
and he understood that he would be
permitted to return to Canada on pre-
selting the passport to the shipping
officials at Liverpool. It was his sis
ter's first trip, and while she was al
lowed to travel, Mr. Turner had to
forward his passport to the Foreign
Office in London ana have it stamped,
which made it impossible to sail on
the same vessel with his sister.
His sister, however, sailed and he
followed by the next ship two days
later. His sister arrived in Quebec,
August 81, and he followed on Sep
TENDER ..
Mr.. Turner had instructed his Sis
ter to proceed to Estevan, where she
would be met by another brother,
William. However, on the arrival of
Thomas. he learned that neither his
sister nor baggage had arriyed-Van-
couyer Province
The daily progressive-miner. [volume] (Ketchikan, Alaska) 1915-1919, 1916-09-20
VARIETY IN PUNISHMENT.

In the old days in England local
courts exercised much ingenuity in
the treatment OF criminals. Here is
a case at Liverpool in October 1865:
"One Thomas Johnson had been APP
pretended for picking purses, APP
parently he underwent no regular
trial but was dealt with summarily
the program being as follows; First
he was imprisoned several days and
nights, and then he was nailed by
the ear to a post at the flesh sham
bles. As the next item he was turn
ed out naked from the middle up
ward, and many boys with witty rods
whipped him out Of the town He
was then locked to a clog with an
iron chain and horse block until the
Friday morning following and finally
abiured the town before the mayor
and bailiffs, at the same time making
restitution of IS. Sd to the wife Of
one Henry Myln."
The daily progressive-miner. [volume] (Ketchikan, Alaska) 1915-1919, 1916-09-20

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The daily progressive-miner. [volume] (Ketchikan, Alaska) 1915-1919, 1916-09-20
Anti War AgitatOrS
Arrested In Italy

ROME. Sept 20.-Morara and Prin-
otti. officers Of the Italian Young Mems
Socialist Association. have been ar
rested charged with organizing anti
war demonstrations in Italy and other
countries for Sept a. in the house
where the men were arrested the pc
lice seized 10000 COPIES OF an anti
militarist manifesto which was intend
ed for distribution among the soldiers
at the front. Morara and Prinotti are
said to have been working in coniunc-
ton with the international Young
Mems Socialist Association, which
has headquarters at Zurich.