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The most successful remedv in this country for th > cure of all forms of female complaints is Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. It is more widely and successfully used than any other remedy. It has cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, in. flammation, ulceration, "fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing down feeling, indigestion, and nervous prostration, after all other ahearn had failed. Why don't you try it? Settled Them. . "I've a sight o' sons-thirteen alto gether." remarked a prosperous old farmer, "and all of 'em's done me credit save the three eldest, who sowetf wild oats at a pretty rapid rate, and then came home and saddled my shoulders with the harvest. "Well, I own I was glad to see 'em back, and I feasted 'em, and petted 'em, and set 'em on their legs again, only to see 'em skedaddle off afresh when things had slowed down, with all the cash they could lay hands on. "That thereabouts sickened me, so I called the rest of 'em together and said: " 'There's ten of you left, and If any of you 'ud like to follow t'other three I won't try to stop you. But, under stand this, though there may be a iew more prodigal sons, there'll be no more fatted calves. I've killed the last of 'em:' ' .. . 1 ? ?nnttnued the old man, trl He-Ah, sweetheart,- I love you more than all my wealth. She-Yes, but you only get ten a week. Sensitive. "You don't like educated Indians!" ""Oh, yer I like them well enough, but I always feel a sense of shame when I meet one. He knows that my an cestors cheated his ancestors out of their land, and he knows that I know lie knows it." Extravagant. Ada-Cholly Saphedde was in a brown study the other day, and I of fered him a penny lor his thoughts. Edith-You spendthrift! You never did know the value of money! To Tht Last Mouthful one enjoys a bowl of crisp, delightful Post Toasties with cream or stewed fruit-or both. Some people make an entire breakfast out of this combination. Try ill "The Memory Lingers" Sold by Grocers LPostum Cereal Company, Ltd. Battle Creek, Mich., U. S. A. RUMORS bad been circulated by ina "underground" routes of baseball during the season of 1909 that sig nals were being tipped off in New York and Detroit. About this time. I noticed Ira Thomas ann "Eddie" Plank working together in a game against the substitutes one day in morning practice. Thomas's signals were so ridiculously plain that I yelled to him from my position at second base. "For heaven's sake. Ira," I called, "what are you trying to do? A fclind man in center field could get those signals." "All right. Eddie," he answered. "That's what they're for. It's a stall. We open a series In New York Monday, and they may be tipping signals there." Instead of covering up his 3lgns with his legs as any good catcher will, when he crouches be hind the batter, Thomas was displaying his signals so that coachers at both first and third base could see them. I learned In due time that tue pitchers were giving the real signs, and that Thomas had devised this scheme to throw any observers with spy glasses or other artificial aids off their guards. I might add that, as a result, In the following series four of the New York batters were hit with pitched balls and badly hurt All this means that, every time a batter faces a pitcher In a game of baseball in the big leagues, thero ls a duel of wits. In fact, the batter is pitted against both the pitcher and the catcher, as the incident related above will show. The acuteness of the du ! I depends on the amount of wits enlisted on each sida. Some are not very keen. But, although in the vernacular of baseball, lt is called 'outguessing the pitcher," it is leally out witting the catcher, for the receivers almost uni versally decide what kind of a diet shall be served to the batter. Occasionally a pitcher disagrees and shakes his head. Successful mqn behind the bat in the big leagues have made a careful study of batters, their "grooves" and man nerisms, and it is on this knowledge that a pitcher depends. Therefore, in the majority of cases, lt ls the batter outguessing the catcher. In only a few instances does the pitcher give the signals. So much faith have some pitchers In certain catchers that they pitch altogether a different brand of base ball to other men. This is particu larly true of Krause, the Philadelphia left hander, who pitched such sensa tional ball in the season of 1909, and of Ford, of the New York American league club, who was the thrill of the league last season with his double breaking spitball Krause had no confidence in any catcher except Ira Thomas, and Ford could not work harmoniously without "Ed" Sweeney. These catchers did all the thinking for the two great twirlers, and their work In the box was purely me chanical. Krause randed ten straight vic tories in a row before he fell, in ~.-<njiW eame with tie St. Louis working and which led me to forecast what was coming. This cue and the resultant con clusion I drew, based on the hasty hypothesis of Payne's remark, resulted in a timely base hit The conditions and circumstances of the hit are not likely to occur often in a game with Walsh pitching. He is a spit ball pitcher entirely. He uses his "spitter" and a fast ball with no curves. On this occasion, Payne signalled for either a spit ball or a fast one, I don't know which. Walsh shook his head in reply, and Payne gave him another signal to whicb be again shook his head. "You don't want this one?" Payne mumbled In his mask, but loudly enough for me to hear as he gave another signal. Walsh nodded as sent. Now here ls what passed through my mind, after listening, to the hint carelessly dropped by Payne. Two were out at the time, a man was on third ba3e, who, if he scored, would put us abend, and the count on me was two striker i^l no balls. early innings of the first game, Sweeney had his hand split open with one of Ford's eccentric spit ters. The Highlander was never the same again. He did not pitch the wonderful ball he is capable of In that series. He had no con fidence in the lumbering Mitchell to handle his "spitters," to think fast; in short, to outguess the bat ters. Some catchers have a very busy habit of talking all the time to annoy a batter in an effort to dis tract his attention from his work. John Kling, of the Chicago Cubs, known In baseball as "a bad man with a batter, "chewed" Incessant ly during the world's series in which we won the championship from the Cubs. He seamed to ? want to distract attention from the pitcher. A favorite line of his was: "Now, let's try him on a fast one." It is sort of an unwritten law of baseball to let the firrt one go by to get a look at the style. Kling would say: "He liked the looks of that. Let's try him on another." Then up would como a curve. A favorite trick of his ls to get the batter into an argument, and have his pitcher shoot over a fast one. He tried this on me in the first world's series. "So they say that you are the best base .maier in the American lesr/je," was his orening lin ,. "Well, you aro not ur against American leagr.r catchers now, young f'Jf'jW. Let's see you steal a base if you get down." I paid no attention to him, although he evidently hoped that I would turn around and reply, so that I would be caught off my guard. And ! not In conceit, but, as a his torian, I relate the sequel. I did get down to first base, and by pretending I was go ing to steal, made him signal to Overall to waste two balla. Then, when he had to put a strike over, I went down. Sometimes a catcher will overplay his part in this re spect, and a remark dropped by him will give a batter the key to the situation which will enable him to outguess the pitcher. A thing of this sort happened to me in Chicago one day last season, with Walsh pitching and Payne catching. Payne dropped a remark, which set my mind Pl?-nk. Ford. by Payne. He can't intend to waste a ball, ? reasoned, because the man is on third, and he doesn't think he is going to try to steal. Then it struck me. "Can it be a, curve?" I asked my self surprised. "But he never throws one," I argued In my mind. Then I remembered the surprise betrayed In Payne's "You don't want this one." The remark, mum bled in his mask, had supplied the key. I took a chance. It was a curve, and I called the turn. It was the first and last one Walsh ever threw me, and probably he would have slipped lt over, b*J lt not been for Payne's poorly sup pressed surprise. That cost Walsh the game. It must be remembered by the reader that all. thia giving of signals and reasoning took place in about a minute's time. A ball player must think fast Old "Cy" Young, one of the Solons of baseball, crossed me once in almost the same way with re verse English on it. It was a case of him out guessing me. The veteran Cleveland pitcher is as different from Walsh, in his style, as white is from black. "Cy" relies on a curve and a fast ball, never using a "spitter." Young had two strikes and one ball on me in a game in Cleveland. He walked out of the box and part way to the catcher to receive the ball. Easterly, catching, signed for a? offering that did not coincide with "Cy's" idea of the exigen cies of the situation. The old fellow shook his head twice, which Immediately forced me to conclude that it would be neither a curve nor a fast one. Oldring was on first base at the time, and I guessed that "Cy" must want to waste one, think ing he was going to try to steal. When the ball came to me about chin high, I at once concluded that my diagnosis was the cor rect one, and I let lt go. But, when about two feet In front of me, it broke across my letters, a beautiful strike, and I had not even taken my bat off my shoul der. "Cy" had dished up a splt ter from somewhere In his as sortment, and I didn't even know that he could throw one. He simply outguessed me and caught me in the arms of Morpheus. He had wet the ball, while walking away from the plate with his back to me, after getting It from Easterly, thus giving no hint that he was going to throw a "spitter." Young invented this trick and applies lt oe Let Him Do The Guessing Mrs. Brown, lt Must Be Conceded, Had by Far the Better End of the Joke. Mrs. Brown, telephoning to a friend one morning, happened to say: "I have such a bad sore throat, I'm afraid I cannot go to that dinner-party tomorrow night." Just then something went wrong with the conection, and she heard a strange voice break in: "Gargle your throat with cooking soda, and I think you will be able to go to your dinner." "Who ls this speaking?" asked Mrs. Brown, startled. "Oh, that you will never know," an swered the voice. Mrs. Brown was greatly amused and decided to ' try the remedy Her throat improved and she went to the party. During dinner, she chanced to overhear the ; say to his nelghbc "I had an amu other morning. I and the wires bec denly heard a lad] such a bad throat go to that dinner I broke in and i throat with cook be all right' Th ply sounded rathe der if she took m Mrs. Brown wa ?X EDDIE COLLINS WORLD'S CHAMPIONS ?tirjcw re/A casionaIl7 to grsat advantage, I have learned since, catching .a batter off his guard. But he depends for the most part on a curve and a high, fast ball, relying on his wonderful con trol to put the ball where he wants It That "whisker" trimmer of his. which Ia a high, fast one in the vicinity of -the neck, is a villainous ball. A pitcher of Young's type would Just as soon tell the batter where he ls going to try to throw the ball, because lt is generally known 'that he ls pitching at a batter's weakness. So batting in the big leagues ls largely a game of thought. The man who outguesses tho pitchers accumulates the most hits and the largest batting average. Lajole ls the only exception to this that I can recall. Of course, self-con fidence ls an absolute necessity to any successful hitter, but the Cleveland second baseman ls more chock full of reliance in his own batting ability than any other player I know. It is not conceit, just faith In his eye. He shuffles "You can't get one nj manner appears to challenge. He is simply bulging with confidence. He is the one hitter and the only ' successful one I ever saw who appa rently doesn't try to guess what the pitcher is going to throw and really doesn't care. Pitchers have never been able to discover any "groove" that he is concealing. He simply wades in and hits at any kind of a ball. He is one batter in a thou sand. Tyrus Cobb, the Detroit star, is the exactly opposite type of hitter. He is thinking all the time he is at the bat, figuring, planning, to out guess the pitcher and the fielders, in baseball parlance "to cross" his op ponents, a legitimate procedure. If he thinks that the third baseman expects a bunt, he will hit lt out. He never chases a bad ball, and he makes a pitcher work to the last notch. He worries many of the men In the box by his restlessness, and because he Is constantly guess ing right. He has almost clairvoyant ability to outguess a pitcher. In some games, I have been able to guess right almost every time that the pitcher has thrown the ball to me and yet have not beep able to get a hit. There ls a great dif ference in pitchers. Some are easy to outguess, and others are as bad as a jig-saw puzzle, and I never worked out one of those in my life. I know some men who have mannerisms In the box which betray defin itely the sort of a ball to be de livered. These little physical eccentricities are true indices and often cost men, who would otherwise be successful pitch ers, many games. It may be the twist of the wrist In throw ing a curve ball, or soma motion of the foot peculiar to a "spit ter" that divulges the essential secret This tell-tale sign ls fatal to a pitcher, when players get on to it and lt usually does not take his opponents long to discover and associate it with a certain kind of ball. Working in combination to outguess the bat ters, a catcher will often help a pitcher out by talking incessantly, hoping In this way to distract a hitter's attention from his business. Street of the Washington club is one of the worst talkers In the business, and ls called In some strata of baseball "Gabby." From tho time that a catcher throws the ball back to the pitcher until he delivers it again, a batter should never take his eyes off the pitcher. All of the "grooves" of batters are carefully catalogued. Every hitter In baseball, with the possible exception of Lajoie and Wagner, is sup* posed to have what is known to the profession as a "groove," a certain real or imagined weak ness. Some pitchers work to fool a batter, and others aim at his "groove." Young and Powell are of the second type, and lt ls this style of pitcher that I always try to make pitch to the limit, as they have to depend absolutely on their control The catcher is obviously included in the guessing match which always results when a batter faces a pitcher. I recall a funny Instance of "Hal" Chase making Ira Thomas look like six nickels in a game last sum mer. Thomas formerly played on the Yankees, and, at the time, Chase's sign for the squeeze play was given by putilng his right hand to his nose. Ira had seen him give this many times when they were team mates. But on this occasion, Chase was playing on the New York club, and Thomas was catching on the Philadelphia team. It was in the eighth inning with the score tied, and a New York run ner on third base, champing on his spikes to get home when Chase stepped to the bat One was out "Hal" went through the usual preliminaries of knock ing the dirt out of his spikes, fix ing his hat the firmer, as If he expected to take a long run and didn't want to be called back to .JBB get the cap, and spitting on his ?aeav , v- _ut flrst d to the side ," asked Ira. out anything g Chase into is work. :d Chase, and he repeatea lue ?..a sign very de liberately. "What." exclaimed Ira, "you're not giving me that sign, thinking I'm not jerry to lt?" "That's right. Ira," answered Chase carelessly. "I had forgot ten you knew, but lt goes any way." This conversation was carried on while Plank was pawing around in the box and preparing to pitch. As the tall southpaw wound up, Daniel started In from third base. Plank delivered a perfect strike, and Chase half bunted and half hit the ball, which allowed Daniels to score. "Hal" had beaten Thomas t his own game. He had given a sign that Thomas knew, and which the lat ter did not for a moment think had been passed out seriously. Therefore Ira did not signal for a pitchout as he would have done if he had guessed the play was coming. Thus Chase double-crosswi Ira. A ball player is trying to outguess the pitcher from the time he leaves the bench until he sits down again. He doesn't terminate his engagement at the plate. As soon as a bats man becomes a base runner, his object ls advancement Every "^all player knows ex actly how much of a lead he can take off flrst base on a certain pitcher and not get caught There are recognized standards In the big leagues. For instance, I know that I can go fifteen feet away from the bag and get safely back with "Doc" White of Chicago pitching, but If I go a step over ten feet on Walsh of the same club I will probably get nipped. I can't exactly explain what I mean, but when I once get ac customed to a pitcher's delivery, I know how far to venture. In base running, I believe that the secret of success is absolutely, a great the start thing. Outguessing the pitcher and catcher is a sort of Instinct which some players have and others never attain. A man seems to do it by Intuition and often cannot tell just what con crete hypothesis leads him to reach a certain conclusion. But believe me, lt is a great art for a ball player to have, a great art, and one to be cultivated. White. the start Speed ls asset, but is every Chase.' gentleman opposite ir: sing experience the was telephoning, ame crossed. I sud r's voice say: 'I have ., I shan't be able to party.' Just for fun, said: 'Gargle your lng soda, and you'll e lady's voice in re ?r surprised. I won y advice." B greatly tempted to reveal her Identity as the heroine of the episode, but she decided she could get more fun in another way. She made careful inquiry of her hostess as to the gentleman's full name and ad dress, and next morning called him up. When he answered, she said: "I just wanted you to know that I took your advice, gargled my throat with cooking soda, and was able to go to the dinner." "Who-who is this speaking?" came an astonished voice from the other end cf the wire. "Oh, that you will never know," an swered Mrs. Brown, laughing, and rang off.-Llppincott's. A Glad Relief. "Thank heaven, those bills are go\ rid of," said BUklns, fervently, as he tore up a bundle of statements of ac count dated October L "All paid, eh?" said Mrs. Bllklas. "Oh, no," said Bllkins. "The dupli cates dated November 1 have come In and I don't have to keep these any longer."-Harper's Weekly. DoGtors Said He Would Die A Friend's Advice Saves Life I wish to speak of the wonderful cure that I have received from your noted Swamp-Root, the great kidney and blad der cure. Last summer I was taken with severe pains in my back and sides. I could not breathe without difficulty and was nearly wild with the desire to urinate. Was compelled to do so every ten min utes with the passage cf pure blood with the urine. I tried all the different doc tors from far and near, but they said it was no use to doctor as I would die any way. I was 'at the end of my rope and was so miserable with pain and the thought that I must die that words can not tell how I felt. One day a friend told me of the wonderful help she had received from Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. She gave me one of your pamuphlets which I read and determined to try Swamp-Root. After taking half a bottle I felt better. Have now taken ten bottles and am well as I ever was, thanks to Swamp-Root. I wish to tell all suffering people that have kid ney, liver or bladder trouble, that Dr. Kil mer's Swamp-Root ia the best medicine on the market. 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