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year and make $4,000 profit any old
year at ALL
There's no work to operating base
ball club. You don't have to watch raw
material. bargain or buy far ahead a
range of supply. delivery, manufacture.
sale, shipping. etc. You say you have a
club in a league and publish a schedule.
Every newspaper in America then en-
ploys man to advertise your wares for
you.
If wooden nutmegs were advertised as
base ball is advertised. the forests would
have been destroyed long ago.
Hard Road for Ball.
Phil de C. Ball has had the other end
Of the game, He did not get any money
with the Federal League and he got only
little money in 1916. He probably lost
few dollars in 1917.
But Ball is not backing up on 1918
He feels that base ball will have a rea-
sonably good season. If Balls ice ma
chinery business and his oil business
and his refrigerating business and
his skating rink business were adver-
tised as his base ball business has been
and is being advertised, he would have
all the money in the world inside Of a
year.
There is no sense in the owners OF
base ball clubs croaking about a bad
season in 1913. They have had fifteen
years of the fattest sort. They have
ldone less work and got more money
than any other merchants in the world
They do four hours work a day fol
seventy days Of the year Their plants
are idle for 2s0 days of the year. Mos1
of them spend the winter bunting ano
fishing when other men are reall,
working.
The quieter the owners OF base bal
clubs keep and the less fuss they make
just now the better it will be for them
jThey won't get much sympathy If they
cry wolf" Their graft has been too
lgood too long.
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Owner Ebbets of Brooklyn
Pleased With Pirate Trade

Col. Ebbets declares he II thor
oughly satisfied with the big
trade which sent Cutshaw and
Stengel to the Pirates in ex-
change for Mamaux. Grimes and
Ward. 1--WE needed two good
right-handed pitchers and we got
them,- says the Flatbush colonel.
"Mamaux wanted to get away
from Pittsburgh, and is glad to
play under Manager Robinson.
Ward is a brilliant infie1der and
will be an Improvement over CUT
shaw at second base. Stengel
will not be missed. as we have
three fine outfielders in Wheat,
Johnston and Myers. Our pitch
ing staff doesn't look SO weak,
after all. with Cheney, Coombs,
Mamaux. Marquard, Grimes, Gri-
ner, Russell and Mfljus to call
upon for hard work."
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Norman Brookes in Red Cross.

Norman Brookes. who, with Anthony
F. Wilding. wrested the Davis cup, en-
blematic of the World amateur team
tennis championship. from the United
States, in 1914, was at last reports Red
Cross commissioner in Mesopotamia, with
the rank of lieutenant colonel
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Bill Fischer may figure in a trade
between the Pittsburgh and ST Louis
clubs. Barney Dreyfuss would take
Frank Snyder in exchange. but won't
get him without giving more than
Fischer.
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1t is now reported that James McGill,
president of the Indianapolis club, is
anxious to sign Napoleon Lajoie as
manager Of his club to replace Jack
Hendricks.
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Short Working Hours.

The club owner works about four hours
. day, seventy days. while his club is at
8 few letters, ETC. Sees base ball game
every afternoon. Goes home at s is.
A base ball club will, roughly speak
ing. do q business Of $350.000 in seven
months. One clerk can keep all this
books. Service at base ball park is
most inexpensive. Ground men, Sc q
day: tictst sellers. ticket takers and
watchmen. $3.50.
The ehief expense 10 the concrete
Stand. Yet the entire total investment
at sSortsmen's Park II not more than
a3e0j6O0. ground, stands. etc, Col Hedges
- O1Ga1oG111l 1a1f 7fnno2e - =
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Greed Of the Cuban Players
Kills Base Ball in Havana

Greedy demands BY Cuban ball
players have killed the game in
Havana this winter. Last year
Curley Brown spent $4,000 to
build q diamond and field I'm His
big race track epcl0sure. Nu-
merous games were played there
ON on days and Brown split the
gate receipts with the players ON
a fifty fifty basis. In December,
when Brown reopened his track
and expressed q willingness to
resume the ball games, the play
ers sent Mike Gonzales of the st.
Louis Cardinals to the promoter
with q demand for 75 per cent of
the gate receipts or nothing.
Brown promptly told Gonzales
that there would be NO more
base ball at Oriental Park, NO
matter what the players were
willing to accept. with the re-
suit that Gonzales and his COM
panions are spending the win
ter in idleness.
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De ORC BEATS OUT OTIS
IN TITLE BILLIARD GAME
Brooklyn Players Generosity Factor
in Cuban Winning Three Cushion
Match by One Point.

HAVANA, January 14.-Alfredo de
Orc, three-cushion billiard champion of
the world, idol of the Cuban people and
enjoying life pension from the Cuban
government because of his skill with
the cue. retained the championship by
winning the last of a series of three
games against Charles Otis of Brook
lyn. challenger for the title. The match
was won by the narrow margin of one
point
With the total score standing 149 to
149, de Orc proposed an extension of the
game, but this was not acceptable to
spectators, and Otis, with the worries
in position for an easy shot of five
cushions, attempted, instead, a three
cushion play, that. according to the
experts, was virtually impossible.
4 Otis missed the shot, and it was the
general belief that he elected to take
the harder chance in a generous spirit
toward the Cuban people, with whom
de Orc was the favorite throughout the
match.
President Menocal a Spectator.
The series of games between de Orc
and Otis took place in the Payret Thea
ter and drew great number of spec
tators, including President Menocal and
his staff. The Spanish minister to Cuba
refereed the match.
When the third contest opened de
Orc had a lead of ten points over his
opponent, the score at the end of the
second block being 100 to 30 in his ia
vor. In the final game the champion
missed often, while the challenger
showed cool. consistent play gradually
overhauling the leader, and, in the end,
scoring So points. which brought him
within 1 point Of the required 150.
Then he missed, and de Orc came up
and, with three to make, made run
of two, which tied the score.
1t was at this stage that, in the opin-
ion of a great majority of the specta-
tors, Otis had the opportunity of win
ming, as what might have been his
final shot was not considered difficult
except under the conditions of his at
tempted shot. AS a consequence, he
missed, and de Orc ran out.
The score follows:
De Orc-50, so, 50-total, $50.
Otis-49, II. 59-total, 149.
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Barney Well Fixed.

Dreyfus was a bookkeeper in a Pa
ducah (Ky.) whisky house some twen-
fy-f1ve years ago. He got into the
louisville club, stuck to 1t, and can
cash in for couple of million any
time he feels like it.
The Robisons bought the Cardinals for
$4,000 in 1890. took about $4,000 a year
for eighteen years, then sold out for $780,
900. This after the affairs of the club
had been grossly neglected for fifteen
years. when the team had been a con-
eistent loser and had never finished better
than third and better than fifth in only
One season
Base ball is the only business in which
O man can work three months in the year.
fail utterly, yet become a millionaire in a
few years
There is no work in owning a base ball
club. A club president or manager gets
down about 10 am. during the winter,
writes q few letters, goes to lunch and
calls 1t day. He makes a few trips to
New York or Chicago during the winter.
Comes spring he works a little bit He
has his park painted. sodded, cleaned
about weeks work-and is ready to
take in the money. Money first in base
ball. you know. You may get the goods
afterward. No wait for cash-no sixty
days. Not oven C. o. d. Always F. o. B
in base ball The goods are not guaran-
toed. either,
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RUN SHOESTR|NGS
into B|GFORTUNES

ST. LOUIS. January 14.-P. De c. Ball
= not one of the men who feel that
base ball will not have q good year in
ISIS. There are any number of men
who own base ball clubs that have
nade from 20 to 300 per cent for the
past fifteen years who fear that they
may lose a few thousand dollars in
1918. These good business men are
hollering. Watch. robbery, horrors" al
ready. AS if every business did not
have a bad year now and then.
Base ball is one of the very sweetest
businesses in the world. Robert Lee
Hedges came to st. Louis with an in
itial personal investment of $4,000.
made an artistic failure in fourteen OF
fifteen seasons. fought through two
expensive base ball wars, drew $4,000
q year and expenses and wound UP
with some S350,000 base ball cash In
his pockets. The colonel was second In
19E, when his team was unpopular
and did not make money; fourth In
1908, and seventh in the other years
THE colonel had three bad financial
years, 1902, 1914 and 1915, and ther
4hucked it.
Comiskey went into Chicago on bor-
gowed money in 1900. He is now worth
t5.000,000. He makes S250.000 a year
out of base ball alone. He gives away
Annthar $100 00O a
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My prices are reason able and work guaran-
 teed

Special attention given
 to express and freight
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1 did not regain consciousness until three days later at sea. But I heard l in the hospital that the French super ] dreadnaught Jeanne dArc and the l light cruiser Normandy were in it as i well as ourselves, though not at the i time l was wounded, and that We had ] all been pretty we'll battered. The ] Cassard lost 96 men in the engage ment and had IS wounded. Some of our turrets were twisted into all man. her of shapes and part of our bow was carried away. One of our lieu tenants was killed in the engagement.
 1 was told that both the Werft and the Kaiserliche Marine were sunk in this engagement. have seen pictures of sailors from the Werft who were prisoners at interment camps.
 When We arrived at BreSt the wounded were taken from the ship in stretchers and after we had been rest ed for about fifteen minutes on the dock put into ambulances and rushed to the hospital. On the way those who could leaned out of the ambulance and had great time with the people along the streets, many of whom they knew, for the Cassard was Brest ship. And of course the women and children yelled, "Vive Ia Francel' and were glad to see the boys again, even though they were badly done up.
 Some of our men were bandaged all over the face and head and it was funny when they had to tell their names to old friends of theirs, who did not recognize them. As soon as one of the Brest people recognized a friend off he would go to get cigarettes and other things for him and some of them almost beat us to the hospital.
 l do not know. of course, just what the surgeons did to me. but I heard that they had my eyeball out on my cheek for almost two hours. At any rate they saved it. The thigh wounds were not dangerous in themselves and if it had not been for the rough treat ment they got later on they would be quite healed by this time, I am sure
 l really think I got little extra at tention in the hospital in many ways for the French were at all times anx- ious to show their friendliness to America. Every time my meals were served there was a little American flag on the platter and always large American flag draped over the bed. had everything I wanted given to me at once and when I was able to, all the cigarettes I could smoke, which were not many.
 While was still in bed in the hos. pital I received the Croix de Guerre
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ITO Be Continued]
Bees On Battle Zone

Popular Bluff. Mo-, Oct. 2S.- Louis Knott, writing to his brother, Lee Knott, from France tells of being out on scouting party in the edges of No Man $ Land when he heard a familiar sound, yet strange considering the surroundings. It was a bee hive full of working bees. He says he stopped. thought of all the good eats surrounded by tue array of miniature bayonets. and then had happy idea. He slip ped on his eyer handy gas mask and proceeded to the attack. In few moments he had 10 pounds of honey which furnished an un usual war time and battle field meal.
 Knott says at another place: We went oyer the top yester day at daybreah and the old band was playing The Tanks Are Coming. That old band surely puts pep in you. Drove them back F miles and took several towns and a lot of prisoners. It certainly is hell over here. If the Huns would only come out and fight like white men, we would fix them too quick.
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which l had won at the Dardanelles. The presentation was made by Lieu tenant Barbey. He pinned an Ameri- can flag on my breast, a French flag beneath it and beneath that the war cross. He kissed me on both cheeks, of course, which was taking advantage of cripple. But it is the usual thing with the French, as you know-I mean the kissing, not the meanness to cripples.
 When he had pinned the medal on he said he thanked me from the bot tom of his heart for the French people, and also thanked all the Americans who had come over from their own land to help a country with which most of them were not connected He said it was war in which many na- lions were taking part, but in which there were just two ide9s, freedom and despotism. and lot more things that I cannot remember. He finished by saying that he wished he could dec crate all of us.
 Of course it was great stuff for me and I thought I was the real thing sure enough, but l could not help thinking of the remark l have heard here in the States-"I thank you and the whole family thanks you, And it
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CHAPTER xv.
Je suis eIesse.

As usual, when we got to Brest there was rush work day and night on the Cassard to get her out and supplies o1 all kinds were loaded for our next visit to the Turks The French gar bies were always keen for the triI back to Brest-they were sure of load ing up on tobacco and other things they needed.
 My twelfth trip to the Dardanelles was different from the others. The Cassard was doing patrol work st the time in the neighborhood of Cape Helles. Those of US who had served on the Peninsula before were thank ing our stars for the snap we were having-just cruising around waiting for something to happen.
 We had not been there very long be- fore something unexpected did happen, for we ran into two enemy cruisers which l afterwards heard were the Werft and Kaiserliche Marine-one on the starboard and one on the port. How they had managed to sneak up so near us 1 do not know. They opened up on us at not much more than a thousand yards and gave US hot time from the start, though with any kind of gunnery they should have done for us thoroughly.
 We came right back st them and were getting in some pretty good shots. I was in the 14-inch gun turret. star board boU-my old hangout-and we were letting them have 1t about four shots every five minutes and scoring heavily.
 do not know how long we had been fighting when part of our range finder was carried away. It was so hot. though, and We were so hard at it that such a little thing like that did not bother us. It is hot in any gun turret. but l have always noticed that it is hotter there in the Dardanelles than simply cake up on us, until our faces were just covered with 6 film of DOW dery stuff
 But the range finder was carried away, and although il looked bad for us l was feeling SC good that I vol unteered to go on deck and get an- other one. I got outside the turret door and across the deck, got the nee essary parts and was coming back with them when l received two ma chine-gun bullets in the right thigh. One went clear through bone and all and drilled hole en the other side, while the other came within an inch of going through. The peculiar thing is that these two were iD line above the wound I got al Dixmude. The line is almost as straight as you could draw 1t with a ruler.
 Of course it knocked me down and I hit my head pretty hard crack on
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the steel deck. but l was able to crawl on to the turret door Just as l was about to enter the gun was fred That particular charge happened to he de fective. The shell split and caused g back fire and the cordite, fire and gas came through the breech, which the explosion had opened.
 It must have been piece of cordite which did it, but whatever it was. il hit nle in the right eye and blinded it. The ball of the eye was saved by the French surgeons and looks normal, but it pains me greatly sometimes and they tell nae it will always be sight less.
 was unconscious immediately from the blow and from the quantity of gas which I must have swallowed. This gas did me a great deaf of damage and gives me dizzy spells often to this day. I do not fnow what happened during the rest of the engagement, as
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An order has been issued from headquarters prohibiting enlist ed men from working outside cf the camp when absent on passes, except when special permission is granted. Many soldiers who formerly worked as printers,
 clerks, bookkeepers, etc, had worked ia Little Rock on after noons and nights they were per. mitted to come to the city before the quarantine was put in effect.
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Man Power And Farm Fuel

It is common practice on the far to cut wood daily as it is needed. This makes a daily chore, daily burden lasting the yea. round. It is a waste of time "a waste of man power. Conser- vation of man power is serious problem facing nearly every far. mer at the present time. Any plan of managing work on the farm or elsewhere that will save labor or make better use of a mans time is vital matter.
 There is much room for labor saving ln handling the fuel ques> tion on the farm. The season has come when some days can not be utilized in the fields. If fencing or repair work is not de manding immediate attention the time should be spent cutting up wood. If spare time is so occu- pied during fall and winter, the years supply of wood will easily be made up so that when plant ing season arrives neither the 1 farmer nor the housewife will have to cut wood. A full day of blowing or planting can be put in without interruption and much more can be accomplished. The making up of full years sup ply of fuel is the best practice for any year, and in some sec tions years supply of wood, cut and seasoned, is found on ev- cry farm and at every home.
 Usually the farmer can find time to do this all himself. How ever, the community wood saw 1 ing outfit is great time saver as we'll as means of saving la bor. This outfit should be used wherever it is available. The farmer may cut his tim Der into saving size and when the saving outfit is available he can. with the aid of the sawyer and a cou- pie of neighbors or perhaps his own help, cut in day or two all the wood needed for a whole year. It does not take long af. ter that to split the wood and store 1t where it will season and keep dry. Such wood is worth more for fuel than green or par tially dried wood.
 | The important thing is the sav ing of time and labor that can be used uninterruptedly for the planting and making of crops. The habit of cutting wood as you go from day to day is wasteful inefficient hand to mouth meth Tod. It is an inexcusable waste of man power that can and ought to be corrected.
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Induction Call No l253

Refer to Circular B 312, quot ing P. NJ. G's. telegram number B 2682, dated Aug. 19, 1918 and Circular B 344 announcing Call 1253, dated Sept. }, 1918. for in formation and guidance in selec- tion of office men qualified under this Call.
 Owing to quarantine at Camp Pike induction has been delayed, but the need of adequate. compe- petent help at Local Board and State Headquarters, necessitates immediate action to that end.
 All Local Boards will again carefully scrutinize their lists of registrants Gncluding regis trants of Sept. 12th) for compe. tent office men tclerk typists) who are fully qualified under lis Call. and immediately fur. nish this office with the number of men your Board can furnish, giving names, addresses and qualifications of the men pro- posed for induction. that quotas may be assigned in accordance 1 herewith.
 Itis imperative that men se- lected for this service be called from the class qualified for spe- cial or limited military service. which means that they are phy- sically disqualified for general military service. Under previous orders 161 men have been in ducted for this service, 63 were qualified for special or limited service, e were accepted for general military servlce, two were rejected, three have not been examined and two are de linquent.
 It Is very important that each man selected and seut to Camp be instructed by his Local Board to immediately after his assign ment, write a letter to the Adju- tant Generals office at Little Rock, giving the full designation of the organization to which he is assigned at Camp Pike, and ir detail. his business qualifications and experience. Boards to make certain in this regard, should furnish each man entrained un der this Call, a card or letter setting forth the requirement as stated above.
 Attention is again directed tt the important necessity of care ful observance of all require ments set forth herein. Make an explicit report immediately.
 Lloyd England,
 Adjutant General
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People of Berlin will have to tighten thelr belts this winter. Meatless weeks are to be re- sumed during November, De- cember and January, an official announcement says. No meat will be obtainable anywhere in Germany one out of every two weeks.
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Strayed

From my place 3l miles north of Screeton Switch, about June 1. four sows and two oarrows, marked with crop and under bit in right, hole in left ear. Suita bic reward for any information leading to their recovery.
 W. D. Webb. 24 2tp Rt 3, Carlisle. Ark
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FOR SALE

Eight room house and three lots, known as the Echlin place. Desirable location for a home. East part of town. For further particulars, write w. J. Robbins Co.,, Carlisle. Ark. l4tf
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-05-04
Prudencio Miranda
(Yisne de Ia 1a.)

noticia de que atvanzaba por Ia sic
IRA probablemente con intenciones de
ilegar a dicha plaza.
e. iefe rebelde, al recibir aviso,
Dor uno de los individuos que tenla
de e~xploradores, del avance de Ia fuer
"a de Martinez, ocup6 las posiciones
mas estrategicas, diviendo a su gen
tie de modo de poder r~esistir con IL
to el ataque del enemigo. Las fuer-
a carrancistas V las felicistas toma
ron contacto, habiendo hecho Miriam
da ocho bajas a Martinez, sufriendo
81 solamente dos, gracias a cue sus
hombres Sc hallaban perfectamente
paraDetados en- las rocas.
Miranda ha tratado de acercase a
la Inca del ]ferrocarril n%acional con
el p~rop6sito de ~ilterrumpir la comu-
ricaci6n entire Monterrey Laredo, pc
70 no ha degrade su proposito, debldo
A que las fuerzas de Ia g%uarnicion de
Lampazos estan dedicadas a e%Jercer
un seryicio eficaz de ~patrullas sobre
Ia via en- aquel!a region.
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NEXICANOS MUERTOS EN- UN
DESASTRE FERROCARRILERO
(Viene de Ia Ia. Pag)

d:entes para que Sc detuviera, a un
tren de carga que a Ia velocidad re-
elamentaria caminaba, por la mlsma
via donde estaba detenido ell tren
de trabajo, yendo tornado ell. con-
voy per tanques de los que Sc asan
nara la CONJUNCTION del petroleo.
.Cuando ell maquinista del tren de
carga Sc do cuenta del peligro, va
fuG muy tarde Y no pudo detener Ia
Marcia de la locomotora cue pilo-
teaha, asi es que Sc produjo un cho-
que entire Ia maquina del tren de
carga V, IN CAIRO cargado cor rieles
de acero que estaba al final del trcn
de trabaio, telescopiandcse esa p!a-
| taforma con ell caro- donde tomaban
sus aiimentos los trabaiadores, que