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START OF HANS WAGNER.
Real Beginning of Honus Has Been
Unearthed by Writer.
Joe Nolan, of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
has, through a correspondent,
found the story of old Honus Wagener's
real start in professional baseball,
and an interesting tale it is.
"In the spring of 1895," writes
Nolan's informant, "the Interstate
league was formed, consisting of
> % Wheeling Canton, Kenton, the Twin
Cities (Urichsville and Dennison) and
two others. They signed players for
the Twin Cities team, which worked
out at Urichsville, and was finally selected
there.
"A1 Wagner, brother of Honus, had
L made quite a record with the St.
!T^\ Luke amateur team of Carnegie, Pa.,
- v and he was signed for the Twin
Cities team. When he reported he
brought Honus along. Honus was
signed as utility man, but could not
make good, but A1 was such a star
that the owners were afraid to let
Honus go, for fear A1 would quit,
too.
This league applied for protection,
and thought they had it, but on a
trip to Wheeling Frank Bowerman
played such a good game that a scout
for Ned Hanlon, of Baltimore, took
him away from the team, and the
club went away without him. The
-attendance in the Twin Cities was
poor, so finally they had to let Honus
V go, A1 giving his consent.
"We took up a collection and
i bought him a new suit and arranged
with a freight conductor to take him
in the caboose on his train to Carnegie.
When the freight stopped at
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Steubenville for water Honus got on
and hung around there for a day or
, two until they finally gave him a
trial.
"So Wagner had his first contract
as a professional there, and he was
B released on account of failing to
"Wf N make good. A complete record of
I these early incidents in the career
of Wagner is held by Harvey Carr,
' of Dennison, and A1 Wagner states
that his history of Carr's is the only
correct one published.
"I know this is-true, as-1 had fifty
cents in that suit of clothes given
v Honus to get out of town in."
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Profit and Number of Acres.
The size of business often has
much to do with making the farm
* profitable. Farm management records
show that farms are often either
i
too small or too large for the most
successful farming. There may be
too few as well as too many acres.
A man may not have enough land or
he may be "land poor," thereby rendering
all his acres unprofitable.
About 30 years ago a Wisconsin
f farmer with a large family was deep>
ly in debt. His farm consisted of
120 .acres, half of which was under
the plow. The remainder was woodland,
and expensive to clear. For
twelve years the farmer had not been
able to meet his interest. To him
the whole farm consisted of unprofitable
acres. He finally decided that
i
the farm was too small for efficient
use of the labor available. Having
an opportunity he bought an adjoin*
ing eighty acres of cleared land, going
in debt the full amount of the
^ purchase price. From that time on
the farm was prosperous, and in ten
years the entire farm was paid for
j and enough additional money saved
f K
to build a good house and barn. During
this period, there had been no
great change in prices of farm products.
The smaller farm had been
unprofitable because the overhead
expenses were too high for so small
a business. In this case, acres were
made profitable by increasing their
number.
In the early nineties a North Dakota
farmer owned three quarter
T
sections of land. His farm was quite
heavily mortgaged, and for a number
of years he had not been able to
pay interest in full. His family was
small, and for most of the work he
"hart tn deDend on hired help. He
concluded that under the circumstances
he was working, or trying to
work, too many acres. Finally he
sold a quarter section and paid his
debts. Seven years later he had $5,000
in the bank. Increased prices of
farm products during this period only
account in part for this farmer's
increased prosperity. In this case all
r the acres had been unprofitable because
there were too many of them.?
J. C. McDowell, in 1915 Year Book.
j
No Place for a Mere Boy.
The business man had advertised
for a boy. One likely applicant was
accompanied to the interview by his
mother.
"You think your son would make
a good messenger?" said the business
man."
"I do," she replied. "Whatever
' Jim does he does quickly."
"Very well, I will test him," said
the gentleman. "Here, take this let
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ter to the Commercial oanK ana De
back here in 20 minutes."
"Come along home, Jimmy," she
said.
"It ain't a boy they want here, it's
an angel."?Philadelphia Ledger.
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SOCIOLOGY IN THE "ADS."
They May Furnish Most Interesting
Reading in the Future.
That delightful book, "A Summer
in Skye," by Alexander Smith, was
published in 1865. In it the author
tells of reading on a windy rainy day
odd volumes of the old Monthly Review,
"dingy literary catacombs,"
dated at the end of the eighteenth
century. The advertisement sheets
had been bound up with the magazines
proper. "And just as the tobaccoless
man whom we met at the
entrance of Glen Sligachan smoked
the paper in which his roll of pigtail
had been wrapped so when I had
finished the criticisms, I attacked the
advertisements, and found them
much the more amusing reading.
Might not the magazine buyer of today
follow the example of the unknown
Isleman? Depend upon it,
to the reader of the next century the
advertising sheets will be more in
teresting than the peotery of the essays,
or the stories."
This was written when the pages
of advertisements in magazines were
not anywhere so numerous, nor were
they so fully illustrated, if they were
illustrated at all. Was it not Kipling
who in this country threw away
the pages of "literary matter" and
eagerly read the advertisements? The
student of sociology a hundred years
from now, yes, 50 years from now,
will study the advertisements in
magazines as important documents.
He will throw away the pages of
puffs by publishers of books, but he
will study carefully the advertisements
of plumbers, motor car makers,
tailors, makers of hosiery and
collars and of others that supplied
wants, real or fancied, in the life of
men and women.?Boston Herald.
SITES FOR NEGRO COLONY.
One Near Charleston, Second Near
Beaufort and Third Near Savannah.
Charleston, Aug. 18.?According
to a letter received by the News and
Courier from Mr. John T. Patrick,
one of the promoters of a scheme to
launch a great colony exclusively for
negroes, the community is not unlikely
to be established near Charleston.
Mr. Patrick and his party, investigating
suitable sites for such a colony,
were in Charleston recently on
the Savannah steamboat Attaquin,
having inspected sites near, Beaufort
on the way here from Savannah. Mr.
Patrick, while here, was taken by a
representative of the chamber of
commerce, into the adjacent country.
Mr. Patrick, in his letter to the
News and Courier from Spartanburg,
says:
"I am able to say definitely that
the great negro industrial town enterprise
will be located in South Carolina.
The three places to choose
from are to be near Charleston, Beaufort
and a point about'fifteen miles
from Savannah, Ga., but on South
Carolina soil.
"The kind treatment of your chamber
of commerce people had its influence
and Charleston was included.
"It now depends on the most fatrnwo
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desirability of the lay of the land.
High lands preferred to the rich
farming land.
"The first thing to go into after the
lands are secured is the publicity department
which will have with it a
large printing outfit to do all lines
of printing. This department alone
will give employment to more than
one hundred clerks, printers and
helpers.
"The money to purchase lands and
to establish the various enterprises
that are to be put in during the first
two years is in hand."
Negro Troopers' Marksmanship.
The fight between Mexican soldiers
and negro troopers of the 10th United
States cavalry at Carrizal, proved
one thing, at least. The official report
of the surviving Mexican commander
shows that the negro troopers
were pretty good marksmen.
Lieut. Col. Genovevo Rivas, reporting
to his government, shows
that thirty Mexicans were killed and
thirty-three wounded. He also shows
that the Mexicans put five squadrons
in action against the two troops of
Americans, and also that several machine
guns were used by the former.
Col. Rivas places the strength of
the opposing American force at "between
eighty and ninety men." Of
course four were officers not equipped
with rifles and at least a dozen
were horseholders, who did not engage
in the fighting.
Thus it appears that, with sixtythree
Mexicans struck by bullets,
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gaged must have accounted for one
enemy, on an average.
This is good shooting, especially
under the conditions of repulsing an
attack by an overwhelming force on
ground selected by the latter.?Memphis
News-Scimitar.
guard recalls deeds.
R. M. Haddon Talks of Confederate
Submarine Exploits.
Mr. R. M. Haddon, of Abbeville,
one of the best known merchants in
upper South Carolina, has been
spending a few days in Charleston
and on Sullivan's Island, on his annuail
pilgrimage to the seacoast, and
he was especially interested yesterday,
in strolling about Charleston,
in the monument to the brave men
who lost their flives in the submarine
exploits in Charleston harbor during
the War Between the States.
The inscription on the monument
recalled to Mr. Haddon a very interesting
experience of his own boyhood.
He was in Charleston during a part
of the war, as a boy of 16, and he
recallls well the excitement which ran
through the city in the fall of 1863,
when the word flew about that the
Hunley, which had gone down several
weeks before and for which a
vigilant search had been made, had
been discovered and raised to the
surface.
Tried to Go Under the Indian Chief.
The Hunley sank, as those who are
familiar with the story of this incident
will recall, October 15, when the
inventor of the submarine, Mr. H. L.
Hunley, of Mobile, with a crew of
seven men undertook to dive under
the receiving ship Indian Chief in
the endeavor to prove that the officers
of the Confederate navy were
mistaken in condemning the boat.
The vessel never came to the surface
and Mr. Hunley and all the crew were
drowned.
Mr. Haddon was off duty when he
heard the news that the Hunley had
been raised, and he hurriecT at once
to the wharf at the foot of Calhoun
street, he thinks it was, wThere a
great crowd had gathered. He made
his way to the front of the crowd and
was close by when the hatch was
lifted.
"The inventor of the submarine," J
Mr. Haddon said, "was standing upright
in the boat, with both hands
raised as if in an effort to open the
hatch from the inside. He was tak-j
en out and the crew were then removed
one by one. Officers who were
in charge of the work took from Mr.
Hunley's pocket the massive gold
watch which he carried and a quan-|
tity of gold~coins, greenbacks and
Confederate money. He was placed
in a hearse and carried to an undertaking
establishment where his remains
were prepared for shipment to
his home. My recollection is that
the members of the crew were buried
in Magnolia cemetery.
Undeterred by Accidents.
As those who are familiar with the
exploits of the Hunley know, Lieut.
Dixon and another crew, within a
few months took the little craft out
again, undeterred by the accidents
which had happened to it, and on
the 17th of February, 1864, sank the
Hoosatonic at the mouth of the harbor.
It is especially interesting to know,
however, that Mr., Haddon recalls
vividly that even before the inventor
and his crew had been removed from
the wharf, it was generally understood
in the crowd that seven or
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eignt otners naa aireaay voiunieered
on the spot.
Mr. Haddon was also familiar with
the Little David. He was one of
those detailed to guard the boat
while repairs were being made, after
; it had been hauled on the wharf.
"One of the officers of the boat came
down to superintend the repairs,"
Mr. Haddon said, "and while there
he gave me a description of the trip
and the experiences through whicn
they passed when they were approaching
the Ironsides. The object,
of course, was to blow up the Ironsides,
which was the great bugbear
in Charleston harbor. It was in fact
the main spoke in the wheel of blockade,
because of its position, which
was between Fort Sumter and Morris
Island. In approaching the Ironsides
one of the men was standing
on the little deck and as they approached
he was hailed by the sentinel
on the Ironsides. He answered
with a shotgun and that, of course,
caused the sentinel to call for the
corporal of the guard. The lieutenant
stood at his post and returned
the fire of the Ironsides. The concussion
filled the little boat with a
great deal of water, the hatchway being
open, and put the machinery out
of business.
^Either one or two of the men
were hanging on to the boat in the
water, but climbed back into the boat,
and after lighting a match and discovering
very little wrong with the
machinery, got the fire started again,
steamed out, and came back to shore.
Only two men came back, the others
were captured?four men making up
the crew, if I remember correctly.
He said that he believed that, but
for that incident, the man getting
excited, the torpedo would have been
low enough to have blown off the
side of the Ironsides and put it out
of business."
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Keeping Track of Baby.
"My dear," said Mr. Hemmandhaw,
according to the Washington
Post, "I hope you are not planning
to buy a lot of new furniture."
"I am not," replied Mrs. Hemmandhaw,
"and I don't know what
gives you the idea."
"This shopping list gives me the
idea."
"What shopping list?"
"On this paper wrhich I just picked
up off the floor are written, 'wash
stand, parlor chairs, dining room table,
writing desk, refrigerator, pianc
stool, pedestal, stepladder, cedai
chest, music cabinet and garbage
can.
"Oh, that is just a record I was
keeping of the things the baby has
fallen from this week."
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