A^ncI^t'rTdoles
ft. . famous Mathematician,
jft*Ulsure in P-oduction and
ft Solving Of Puzzles.
H.„ .£0 Samson proposed a
MS earliest of which history
K: the Philistines, allowing
Keek in which to answer it, a
ft? time that would have been
Kt but for the assistance of
K king of Tyre, had a mania
ftructing riddles, as also had
ft and the wager of an im
ftumof money between the two
fthich could construct the most
ft one was won by the latter.
KnAdes the famous mathemati
ftgyracuse, passed most of his
ft-to the surprise of many of his
^Ljn the production or solving
ftes and his discovery of how
Boy its maker had mixed with
ft of King Hiero’s crown was
■ but the solution of a puzzle,
ftreeks had a curious puzzle.
Khilles, racing with a turtle,
ft reptile 100 yards start, and
ft yards while the reptile runs
ft,,, wjU he overtake it.”
ftetlcally, never; as a matter of
ft must in the course of -time,
ftplexing question, one well cal
ftto catch the wise as well as
ftary, was that proposed to the
ft does a pail of water, with a
ftmming in it, weigh no more
ft same pail of water without
led forth much discussion from
ftbers of that august body, who
ft the singular circumstance in
ft ways to their entire satia
Ibut found by experiment that
■ of water did weigh more when
fts a live fish in it.
Bcellent, if an old, puzzle is:
■can a window having a height
ft Its width be made twice as
ftthout increasing its height or
ftible! 0, no. In the first in
lit Is shaped like a diamond,
■s changed to a square.
■ FOR LITTLE SQUIRREL
I Conduces to Keep Young
■ Contented More Than Few
I Animals as Pets.
■at deal has been written re
loncerning the discontentment
■arm boys and girls and their
■on to follow some business
r
— _ s
me for Friendly Squirrel.
n the big cities. Whether this
hould be encouraged or other
a question that will probably
> satisfactorily settled. It Is a
*sver, that the country youth
more contented with his life
sd a little more freedom. An
t way is to allow them to have
ch as squirrels, rabbits, chick
[eons and e\ en horses and
A comfortable home for the
little squirrel is shown in
itratlon.
Superior Officer,
and Mary, aged six, were
ship.” They paced their re
porches grandly, arrayed in
d yachting clothes.
a, n^ce Play.” Jamie sug
tret’s be admirals, and com
1 the ships in the navy."
* kaklt’ h)s next-door nelgh
, y exacted conditions. “All
“■y I must be the highest ad
„ give commands to you"
g'assentfirmly aDd Jamie gave
Inim assured' Mary soften
Tl! , „the letter of her
“tJi If you’ Jamie.” she
That'llP ^y l m the admiral's
cl d° 3ust as well."
companion.
EvadiHg the Law_
ng th? I!*6 youngster was not
art! t ?8 fishing ,aw- ^e
he wat!°0k hiS strlng of fl8h
rch and * aDid found only cal'
feet fnd 8uckers on the line.
d°Wn the Btream
trial weithCa baSS WrtggIlng
M8»,v i8hed down with a
^Slth ^ he
*n takin answered the boy,
I “Mng my bait all morn
* thnough fish. bi“ UP there
•gaziue 8h ng- —National
t <*nJ0reai9ht
.Tll traeknpare 800d’” 8ald Mr.
1 *t a hall y°U t0 the clrc«8 "
-rheramighet?of’hreP,leB the
this year"1 * be *** more
r i. , v ^
PLACE SAIL ON BOY’S WAGON
When Good Breeze Is Blowing It Will
Draw Five Boys at Rattling
Rate of Speed.
Every boy, who loves a boat and has
only a wagon, can make a combination
affair in which he can sail even though
there is no water for miles around,
writes Arthur Gunthers of Oberlin, O.,
in the Popular Mechanics. One boy
accomplished this as shown in the il
lustration, and the only assistance he
had was in making the sails.
The box of the wagon is removed
and the boat deck bolted in its place.
The deck is 14 inches wide and live
feet long. The mast consists of an
old rake handle six feet long; the
boom and gaff are broomsticks, and
the tiller is connected with wire to the
front axle, which gives perfect con
trol of the steering. The sails are
made of drilling.
On a brick pavement the sail wag
on can draw two other wagons with
two boys in each, making in all five
t->
Sail for a Boy’s Wagon.
boys. Of course a good wind must
be blowing. With two boys it has
made a mile in five minutes on pave
ment.
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RIDDLES.
What does an ironclad vessel of war,
with four inches of steel plating and
all her guns on board, weigh just be
fore starting on a cruise?
She weighs anchor.
* • •
Why is a man with a cold on his
chest not a man?
Because he is a little horse (hoarse).
• • *
Which of the W’est Indies Islands
doeB a confectioner resemble?
Jamaica (jam-maker).
» •
How would you increase the speed
of a slow boat?
Make her fast.
• • •
When is a boxer’s eye like a bar
rel?
When it’s bunged up.
* * •
Why is credit not given at an auc
tion?
Because all goods brought to the
hammer must be paid for—on the
nail!
• • •
How does a pitcher of water differ
from a man throwing his wife over a
bridge?
One is water in the pitcher, and the
other is pitch her in the water.
• • •
When are weeds not weeds?
When they “become” widows.
• * *
Why are old bachelors bad gram
marians?
Because when asked1 to conjugate
they invariably decline.
• • «
What is the difference between
Noah’s ark and an archbishop?
One was a high ark, but the other
a hierarch.
FLYING BICYCLE IS LATEST
Arranged With Steering and Driving
Wheels and Carries a Large
Lifting Propeller.
The "flying” bicycle comprises a
pair of bicycle frames, with steering
and driving wheels, and a centrally
located shaft, rising to a considerable
..I
Flying Bicycle.
height and carrying a large lifting
propeller. A steering rudder is ar
ranged at the rear.
Familiar Example.
Will Crooks, M. P.. who has been
giving us a list of the ‘‘don’ts’ he ob
served in his daily life, was once ask
ing a little girl some questions in ele
mentary science.
"What are the effects of heat and
cold?” he asked.
"Heat expands and cold contracts,"
was the prompt reply.
“Very food,” the labor member re
marked. "Now give me an exam
ple."
"After a few minutes’ thought the
child replied: “In hot weather the
days are long, apd when it is cold
they are short”—Pearson’s Weekly.
He Knew Women.
Teacher—Bobby, is this sentence
correct: "She’ll go whether she wants
to or not”?
Bobby—No, miss.
Teacher—Why not?
Bobby—Because she won’t go it she
don’t want to.
MANY PROMISING FINDS OF THE SEASON
Larry Chappell of the Chicago White Sox. <•
Big leagu® baseball scouts are be
wailing the >carcity of eligibles for
future greatness? They have beat
en the ‘'bush” from Canada to Cuba
and from Maine to California, and,
while here and there a man worthy
of a trial has been spotted, in al
a look over the youngsters now ca
vorting on major league diamonds we
find evidence in abundance to indi
cate that such is the state of affairs.
Many youthful players have bobbed
up into the spotlight of stardom since
the 1913 season got under way, more
than for a number of seasons back.
An even dozen youngsters have shot
forth this year as real masters of
the mound—seven in the American
league and five in the national. Twelve
debutante twirlers who already rank
close to the best of the veterans. In
Ban Johnson’s circuit Boehling and
Engel of Washington, Russell of the
White Sox, Houck and Brown of the
Athletics, Keating of the Yankees and
Leverenz of the Browns have made
good right off the reel, while Tom
Lynch’s organization boasts Demaree
of the Giants, Mayer of the Phillies,
Rudolph and James of the Braves and
Chief Johnson of the Reds. <
Unless the expensive Larry Chap
pell fulfills expectations, the Ameri
can league will not be able to boast
a single star inflelder, though the Na
tional glories in the possession of
three in Stengel of Brooklyn, Burns
of New York and Kommers of Pitts
burgh.
The oldaTorganization has also been
more fortunate in developing star In
fielders. Viox of the Pirates, Cutshaw
of Brooklyn and Groh of the Reds are
crack second basemen; Maranville of
Boston Is a shortstop of the first cali
ber; Myers of the same team is
playing a fine game for the Braves at
third. Lavan of the Browns and Peck
inpaugh of the Yankees are the best
of the new generation of American
league infield talent. Catchers Gos
sett, a Yankee, and Howley, a mem
ber of Connie Mack’s tribe, also looks
like the real, classy goods and are
making good.
Ray Keating of the New York
Yankees.
most every instance it has been found
that the object of their admiration is
sewed up tight by some rival club for
later delivery. The chief complaint
of the scouts is of a scarcity of prom
ising young pitchers.
Can it be that the scouts combed
the field so thoroughly last year that
they themselves are responsible for
the conditions they bemoan? Taking
WAS MOST POPULAR PLAYER
Jiggs Donahue Was Developed as
First Baseman While Playing With
Duffy at Milwaukee.
When Jiggs Donahue passed away
at Columbus one of the most popular
players ever connected with a Dayton
ball club expired, writes Jerry in the
Dayton News. Donahue was a mem
ber of the Old Soldiers in the days
of the Interstate league, helping Dill
Armour bring pennants to this city.
Ho was sold to Pittsburgh and after
wards drifted to St. Louis, Minneapo
lis and Milwaukee, being sold by the
last-named club to the Chicago White
Sox, where he gained his greatest
fame. In this city, in fact, until he
was sent to Milwaukee, Jiggs was a
catcher, but being a left-handed
thrower, he was unable to make good
behind the bat in the big league and
it was Hughie Duffy at Milwaukee
who conceived the idea of making a
first-sacker out of the hustling ball
player. The former received made
good off the reel, and it was only a
matter of months until he was a star
at his new position. In 1906 his re
markable fielding, daring work on the
bases, hitting in the pinches and win
ning spirit were big factors in the
success of the Chicago White Sox In
landing the American league pen
nant. In the series for the world’s
championship which followed, Don
ahue has always been given credit
for being the man that put the fight
In the Sox and endbled them to win
four out of six games from the be
lieved-to-be unbeatable Cubs. After
:his series Charley COmiskey, himself
a first baseman of remarkable ability,
stated that Donahue was the “greatest
Jrst baseman of all time.”
It was not only his sterling worth
is a ball player that gained Donahue
Ills great popularity with the fans in
avery city in which he played. Dona
hue was ont v those fellows who
make friends with everyone they
meet. Always cheerful, able to take
the applause of the fans on and off
the field without exhibiting conceit,
he had his admirers by the thou
sands, and it is not only in Dayton
l ass . - -■*
Jlgga Donahue.
the fans are grieving* over the un
timely end of this one-time hero of
the diamond.
"Hot City” Teams Can’t Win.
The teams in “the two hot cities,”
as he calls them, have practically no
chance to win pennants in the big
leagues, said Connie Mack of the Ath
letics.
"A ball team at Washington or St
Louis will have to be 20 per cent,
stronger than any of its rivals to fin
ish on top,” he declared. “The heat
and humidity rob the players of their
vitality. I caught in Washington three
seasons and know. St. Louis is near
ly as bad.
“Even when the Athletics play a
brief series in those towns they leave
with less life than when they entered
them.'
EXPENSE OF BASEBALL |
Few Clubs Will Show Profit This
Year, Says Somers.
President of Cleveland Club Details
Cost of Running Team and Says
Game Has Not Improved to
Any Extent Recently.
“Few of the major league clubs
will show a dollar profit this year,”
remarked President Charles Somers
of the Cleveland club recently. "The
fixed expenses are too great, and with
the modern plants to take care of
only winners have a chance.
"It takes $1,000 a day, rain or shine,
to run a first-class major league club,
at tho present time, while one-half of
this amount would run a club in the
American league ten years ago. 1
doubt if the article of baseball is an
good as it was at that time, and the
only improvement that I can notice
is in conducting tho game.
“Ten thousand dollars was paid
for the release of ball players 25
years ago, but they were not crude
minor league players, with only n
fair chance to make good. They were
tho best In the business, and the
brand of player that would bring
$40,000 at the present time. However,
high-priced stars are not on the mar
ket, for the club owners know that It
would be a sure suicide to dispose of
a first-class man for cash.
"Champion teams often break up
in a year or two, and unless well han
dled become a plaything, as players
go to the bad when the y lose their
ambition.
"Chicago is the only western city
that can live without Sunday ball, and
this helps the eastern clubs when
playing In tho west. The western
clubs are well handled from a busi
ness standpoint, and all have fine
plants, and Pittsburgh and Cincinnati
can boast of baseball parks the equal
of any In the country, while the St.
I.ouis owners will build a new one
LllJfJ W1I11CI. J lid uuu nm^uato lw i^v
well enough alone Is the little “shau
neen” of Chicago. In this way he
has the game beat, and is not worry
ing about increased expenses.
"The minor leagues are growing
stronger financially each season and
they are satisfied with modest ball
parks. It does not. take a national
bank to run clubs minus a small army
of officers -with nothing to do but look
wise and draw down fat salaries. I
know of league clubs who pay their
officers more salary than it took to
run the league twenty years ago.
"The players are the only winners,
whether the club makes good or not.
Attendance at the games bothers them
but little, and they travel better than
grand opera singers. As a rule the
boys are well behaved, and would
rather talk of farming, fishing or
hunting than baseball. They have no
interest in the history of the game
or the great work of the builders up
of plays, invented by men long since
dead. There has been nothing new
in baseball in the last twenty years.
“Ninety-nine per cent of the pres
ent-day players are simply imitators,
with never a thought of anything
new until the game has grown me
chanical. The club owners, cold and
businesslike, lack the enthusiasm of
the old stockholder."
emu ms
While talking of the real finds of the
season, what’B the matter with Pitch
er Dauss of the Detroit Tigers?
• • •
Cleveland has a new pitcher from
Maysville of the Ohio State league,
Dashner by name. He is a left-hander.
• • *
Detroit asked waivers on Loudon
with the intention of sending him to
Providence, but the Yankees blocked
the transfer.
• • •
Joe Willis Is pitching good enough
ball for Indianapolis to make up for
all the lemons that the Cardinals sent
Kelley before Joe came.
• • •
Chick Gandil is thinking of going to
Cuba next winter with Calvo and Acos
ta to play ball with (he Fe team,
which consists largely of Americans.
• # •
It is a remarkable coincidence that
three catchers of the caliber of Ag
new, Schalk and Schang should arrive
in the American league all In the same
year.
• • •
Latest >Iew York dispatches are to
the effect that Manager Chance and
outfielder Cree do not hitch very well
and that Cree’s days on the New York
team are numbered.
• • •
Gonzalez, the Cuban catcher whom
Tinker thinks of trying out and hold
ing for next season, Is as tall as Larry
McLean, but very slender. He is a
good thrower and batter.
• • •
Joe Boehling, the sensational Wash
ington youngster, was developed by
Jesse Burkett, who had him pitching
for his Worcester club last year.
Boehling twirled in 22 games, winning
14 and losing 8.
• • •
Myers, the elongated first sacker, Is
proving to be a valuable man for the
Boston club. The hig fellow covers an
acre of ground around the initial sack,
getting all kinds of throws, many of
which would get by a man of ordinary
height. In addition to this he Is prov
ing a good sticker and a fast base
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f v km:k
A. knockuf knocked through all ld« llfo;l
when blit a child at play
He knocked the little ones who helped
him while the time away.
At school lie knocked the other boys, and
when he older grew
He knocked the fellows whom the gh'lw
smiled at as maidens do.
He never lmd a pleasing word to say of
anyone
Who wasn’t present when he spoke, he.
gave good cheer to none;
He rose up from his bed to knock, ho
knocked through all the day.
At night lie knocked and piously fell on
his knees to pray.
One day he knocked upon a gate— Rt,j
Peter sat inside;
"Why come you here?" the gray saint'
asked. The man who knocked re
plied :
"I never killed, I never stole, I never evcjii
swore,
I always said my prayers each day;l
please let me In, therefore.”
"You cannot come,” replied the saint;!
“but many leagues below
You’ll find another gate to which im
mense crowds daily go;
I care not that, you never stole, nor that
you prayed each day—
.Down there no knocker ever knocked ami
then was turned away.”
MERE OPINION.
The reason the fool la so quickly
found out la that he goes around with
ilia mouth open.
In these days it isn’t, safe to judge
a woman’s age by the number of di
vorces she has hai.
A wise man never boasts to his boys
about the great things he did whe.ii ho
was a hoy, if any of the old settle™
are present.
Adam'B luck v*is simply wonderful.
He never had to sit around and hear
his wife’s Aunt Eliza tell what she
did for her babies when they were
teething.
Every dollar that tho vulgar million
aire bets on a horse race or puts Into
a jack-pot or flips to a waiter has been
earned through hard work by some
body else.
When a captain of Industry learns
to pronounce the names of the paint
ers who are represented in hla mag
nificent art gallery he feels prouder
than if he had just scooped In two
million on Colorado fuel.
PLAIN SPEAKING FOR HER.
"I see,” he Bald,!
'that coal hae
gone up some
more.”
"Has It?” she
replied.
"And they’re
raising rents,” be
continued.
“Well,” she exclaimed, flaring up,
"If you wish to have our engagement
broken ofT, say so. I always hate to
have people beat around the bush iu
a case of this kind.”
8poiled Trip.
“And I suppose you had a perfeet
y lovely time while on your yachting
eruise, didn’t you?” ~
“No, it was very disagreeable ’’
“Why, I supposed the weather waa
lust about right for such a trip.”
“Oh, the weather was all right, but
we found out just after getting start
ed that there had been a mistake in
Ailing the order for beer, so that in
stead of 100 cases we had only ten."
The Shark.
The shark enjoys no man's respect.
And doesn’t wish to claim It—yet
It may be said for him that he
Flaunts no pretentious piety
In grabbing all that he san get.
She Couldn’t Stand It.
"Why was it that they couldn’t get
Xiong together?"
“Oh, he stuttered so badly that sh«
never had time to wait around and
get in the last word. ’
Music.
“My son plays entirely by ear.'
“Is that so? I thought it was by
bruts force."