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Show t . She was a whole basket of peaches, Kildare. N C.: and I might have married her to get What la thla 1 hear about your Inabil- away from my aunt If It were not ity to ratch ApplewHht and tha Teat ofa that I have made It a rule hla buncht Tour Inattention to your la a matter ttf common a andal, end never to marry the orphaned nieces If you don't vet anxloua pretty noon I of the husbands of my aunUblt'a ahall remove you from your Job and then been a good rule to me, and baa saved 1 ahall be down aooo to aee wrheth aoine me no end of trouble But If my Biser you are pttrhln quoit at the blackter doesn t change her mind, and If smith ahop or llahlnv for lobetere In reek Inatrad of attendlnv to your she really comes through Raleigh toYour (oriduit haa annoyed me knlttina with those friends of am aoinetlilnjc mure than vexed by day In her car uriUI t hers she will be delighted to haYe The eyea of !he your behavior North Miate are upon you Wire me at you pun her for a visit at Ardsley. length Joat what you propose doing or And then you would be nearest hand not doing In thla mutter some special edict from the in i , VUI.I.IAM ltXNnKltKIKI.it erm-, necessary. Governor of N rrth f'arolma gowrnor he Hut wouldnt your sister think It 'What do you think of that x aaktd, hla pride falling aa ahe strange scanned the paper tarelully .Not in the least. Miss Dangerfleld. Ignt It pretty expensive" Jerry Nothing Is strange to my sister. And inquired, counting the wordg to ten bejiih s yon are the daughter of thf and then roughly computing, the rest govt i nor of a great state. She ' I II take care of that, Mitts Danger to meet senators, because you fit Id What want to know Is w belli (an never sure they are respecter you think that will make the gher able, but she rather prides herself on iff Governors are up knowing governors 'Wtll, here s what father gent him difftrenU Since I read the conolllj about a week ago I found It In stitution I can see very plainly that r hook and It g marked governors are much nearer the peohla private rontlih ntial, Ju rt d ink ple, but I guess the senators are nearShe read er tin banks Ail iMutiously In Appleweight use Util I have some shopping to do, Inient hy nrund Jury la und uhtedly and it h ten o Io k It would be hosIn o a tr uhl. arid Ihntt foully t tr s DM IN. pitable to ask you to luncheon, but Ami thm s mol r lik that lapa indiunid t nog so much because she il In tio anythin;, that a do slit know where papa is that our lit Mr FosIm, thr no al at the executive mansion are I lain as il ijl Rit trv4iun r, mums Horn that ounty not i cat v iheerful functions. And -- and she lie thought .ipa wan going to have to eyed Ardmore severedo something so lies holding hai k ly as she rose and accepted her parathe payment of the state bonds just to sol trom him "and besides, you know You see, the st.it our relations are purely official. You frlghttn papa owes the Bronx I.oan amf Trust Com have never been introduced to me, pany that $250,000, and If it Isn t and M lally you are not known to us. paid June first the state will be everlastingly disgraied CHAPTER IX. "Oh. yes. I'd foigotten about that" "I dont tuee how you could forget The Land of the Little Brown Jug, about It That must be almost as Caboose OlStJk with three box care mui h money as there is In the world. a liif hinotive attached, lay In the and even We've got to raise It, anyhow, at Raleigh late in I If we go to the pawnshop pawned southeastern yards same i veiling of the the day. In the I In col was when onee watth my Mr Thotnas sat Ardmore, obsirvatory lege and Hillings he was my guard with the conductor, while tun bad shut me off Grlssy he's (halting for the right of way. Mr. my friend Grlssy says pawnbroking they waitid were filled with Ardmore's pockets Is only a more vulgar form of bankpapers, and he held half a dozen teleing " grams in his hand The freight cars "1 think your telegram to the sheriff Is aH right, said Jerry, reading It b hind him were locked and sealed, If you 11 go to the door and and a number of men lounging near again whistle for the messenger we'll get It appeared to be watching them. The reply of the sheriff of Dllwell off" of Dtlwetl County, To tho Hherltf serial: STORY THE LITTLE BROWN JUG I ! I ATI Harry Mclntlrw, On of tha Winning Pitchers on th Chicago Turn, Tall of Start. life-lon- g du-tle- Itac-riio- HIS CAREER WAS ACCIDENTAL CONNIE MACK IS GREAT LEADER BY HARRY MclNTIRE. (Copyright. 110. by Joseph B Bowles.) My baseball career was father aa fl accident from th outset. I never had th slightest Idea of earning my livelihood playing ball or of taking it up aa a profession Th truth la that I was Inclined to go Into the priesthood when I was a small boy, and my other ambition waa to be a locomotive engineer. From the time I first can remember I loved baseball and played It, always as a pitcher. If the other fellowa would let me. and when they wouldn't let me pitch 1 played somewhere else. It was at the Brothers school at Dayton, O., that I first belonged to an organised team. I waa backstop for the catcher, and very proud to chase balls that went past him. I began to study pitching then, for we had a good pitcher on the school team, and I watched to see what he did to puzzle batters One of the prteeti had been a pitcher at school, and he taught me some more. I remember when he told me that keeping cool and never losing the temper was a better way of winning than pitching curves. Pretty soon our class team let me pitch, and after a time we tackled the school team and beat them so I was put on the school team. I began to think I knew It all, and It took several beating to show me how little I knew. When I left school I w as looking for a Job and a friend of mine, who waa playing on the Kankakee (111.) Y. M. C. A. club asked me to come over there and pitch for that team. I looked on It Just as a summer vacation, but made good there and found myself getting along so well I commenced to study pitching seriously aa my profession It was hard work with many discouragements, but I stuck to It Every time a batter made a hit off me I studied to find why he had hit 1 ar-a- a-- d I KILDARE re-tus- 1 -- ltt. In-d- h i Copyright U UOH by Tto Omaptof BuMi-Mrri- 8YNOPSIS. ThntnM Ardmore, mr t! milHoftiir and lit nry M tine pr Ti ke in the rnUtrsity of VirtnU train out of Atlanta, 0riMroll t hi rolleKe AMmof tn tuHnit of a girl who h1 ainkiti at Inin MuUktn f Ga Onhor ie of Houlh Carolina, OtIm wold i life U threatened lie icors to Columbia to warn the governor and metti Rarbnra Oahome Ardmora learna that Mm winking lady la the daughter of Gov Uangerfleld of North Carolina lie follow her to Ualelgh and on the way t given a brown jug at Kildare in Kalelgh he dlacovera that the jug Mara a meaaage threaten a Ing I )ti ngerfield unleaa Applewefght Ardorlmimtl. In allowed to go free d more becomes allied with jerry In running the afTalrs of the state In the absence of the governor A scathing telegram Is sent to Oov Osborne Griswold becomes adviser to llarhura Oahoriie who la attnding to her fathers duties In Jiouth Carolina Orders are s nt to the stieriff U capture Apple eight Valuable papers are missing from Gov Osbornes office Griswold places the theft at the door of the attorney general. vr Oro!t! 1 lan-gerflel- CHAPTER VIII. Continued. lie had opened an atlas and wag poring over it with a magnifying glass. "It's positively funny, x he murmured. laughing a little to himaelf. "but I know something about this country over here. Here's Ardsley, In the far corner of Dllwell county, and bere'a Kildare. Dllwell "Yes; 1 understand maps Is green, and there'a the atate line and that ugly watery eort of yellow is Mingo count. South Carolina, and Turner Court House la the county aeat of It. Those tittle black marks are hills on the border, and it's right there that these Applewetght people live, and dance on the atate line aa ISwrt f mmrm m copto "Thata exactly It. Now what we want to do la to arrest Applewetght and put him in Jail In South Carolina, which relieves the governor of North Carolina, your honored father, of all enibai rassment. She snatched the paper-cutte- r and took possession of the map for a moment. then pointed, with a happy little laugh. Why, that mtll be only too easy. You sie there's Azhell county, where the n 11 It la Is encamped, Just three Dountles away from Dllwell, and If we needed the soldiers It wouldn't hurt the troops to march that far, would It?" - -- ' Hurt them, nothing!' exclaimed Ardmore. "It will be good for them. You have to give orders to the adjutant general, and. being engaged to him, he would be afraid not to obey your orders, even If you told him to go In balloons" "Well, of course. I'd send him an official order: and If he was disobedient I could break our engagement. It would have Interested Ardmore to know the total of Miss Danger-- ! field's engagements, but the time did not seem propitious for such Inquiries; and. moreover, his awe of her aa a young person of great determination and force of character Increased "Well, there's the map, and there's that insulting, telegram; what are you going to do about It?" asked Jerry She seemed to be houestly Inviting suggestions, and the very thought of this affected him like wine He deliberated for several minutes, while she watched him A delicious country julet lay U on the old atatehouse, in the tranquil park outside the birds whistled their high disdain of law and precedent t -- "ATovfrhof THTBega nTJTT'al way s dignified person who doesn't bother nls head about little things like this unless everybody elgehas gone - - to Sleep. Now, who's the chief of police in a county like Dllwell what do you call him? "Do you mean the sheriff, Mr Ard more?" Now, give me those "Certainly telegraph blank, and I'll drop him a few lines to let him know that the foviTiimi tU at -- Raleigh still --UveaIt Is In the telegram alone that we Americana approach style Our great commanders did much to form It; our business jstrategists took the kty from them Teh grams were, however, with Mr Thomas -- Ardmore, something more than a form of communication or a mere literary exercise. Letter wiltjrg seemed to him the most form'dable of human undertakings. , be-su- addressed himself once It was dear that the Appleweight gang was powerful enough to topple gri at states upon It had, to Ardtheir foundations more's own knowledge, driven a governor Into exile, and through the wretched Foster, who was their friend, the credit of the state gravely tnenared "I'll wait for the sheriffs answer, and If he shows no signs of life I'll go down there this afternoon '' Then you will undoubtedly be shot! Jerry declared, as though a prospect not wholly deplorable. That has Us disagreeable side, but a great many people have to be shot every year to keep up the average, and If the statistics need me I won't duck 1'U call up my man on the telephone this forenoon and tell him to put my forester at Ardsley to work, lie's a big fellow who served In the German army, and If he's afraid of anything I haven't heard of It. If we can drive the gang Into South Carolina, right along here, you see" and Alisa Dangerfleld bent her pretty if we head over the map and saw Ardmore more to the map -- yii Ha Deliberated for Several auLkmJUjL - havn-Xa-- o ta-K- ll dare to visit my aunt, who Is a nice oli lady that lives there The fried corn niuh and syrup at her house Is b, st reverlaxted. andir papa should come when be sees that something is being done quite different front what he Intended, thtn 1 should If you should be he there to explain killed. Mr Ardmore, no one would be there to Identify you, and I have always thought It the saddest thing In the orhl, for any one to die away fiom horu- ; It would be sad, but I hope you would be sin ry " 'I should regret your death and INI make tin m give you a perfet tly beau-tilu- l tuilluty funeral, with Y'hopins funeral march. am1 pppr boots ti?d to the saddle of your horse Hul I dori't let them fuss about pull ing off the boots. Miss Dangerfleld, if I die with them on. It would bo all aunt, but 1 right for shouldn't do it If. I were you. 1 once visited my aunt, Mrs Covington-Hums- , at Newport for a week. It was a deep game to get me to marry my aunt's husband's hlece, whose father had lost his money, and the girl was beginning to bore my aunt. "Was she a pretty glrlf asked under bis hand hi spirit soared free All untrammeled by the horror of the day tariff, whose steep slopes have wrought so tSuch confusion and error emong-theconomical, he gave to the wires and the w1relcs what he never would have confided to a samp He wrote and submitted to Miss Jerry Datgerficld the followingJerry. e Minute. can pass the chief outlaw on to Gov. Osborne, then so much the better, and that's what we will try to do. "Hut youro only the private secretary. and you can't assume too much Manager Connie Connie Mack and Frank Chance each be given a much higher county had precipitated the crisis. rating as a manager by the baseball That official succinctly replied to public than was accorded to either In Ardmores message 1)09, but neither has shown qualities tie good and acquire grace. as an organizer, disciplinarian or genWhile this dictum had arousedMtss eral that he did not exhibit during-th- e Dangerfleld's wrath and indignation, preceding pennant rate in landing It calmed her fellow conspirator, and his tem in second place. Chance for hours Ardmore had poured forth has won a pennant with every major by telegraph and telephone. No such league team of which he has been In messages as his had ever before from Raleigh. The tolls would charge except In 1905 andn 1909. The Cuba of 1905 lost the services of have bankrupted the commonwealth n and if Ardmore had not cared for them the lamented Selee, in out of his private purse His forester, Chance, his successor, established his with an armed poBse from Ardsley, reputation as a leader by securing place. New York won, with was already following the . and beating the brush In search ot Pittsburg as the runner-upThe Athletics have a creditmade of Ardmore's Appleweight. One car able record during Philadelphias special train contained a machine gun and a supply of rifles; another abun membership In the American league, dant ammunition and commissary sup- but Mack has never been able to win two aubcessive flags. In 1901, the plies, and the third cots and bags The men who loafed about the train Initial season of the American league, The were a detail of strike breakers from the Athletics finished fourth a detective agency, borrowed for the White Sox carried off the honors of occasion Cooke, the conductor of the the year. In 1902 the team that dubbed the White Elephants, train, had formerly been In the government secret service, and knew the Carolina hill country as he knew the CINCINNATI SECURES A STAR Ardmore had palm of his hand r warned Ills manager and the on his estate to prepare for Dave Altlzer, Who Has Contributed Much to 8uccess of Minneapolis, the arrival of Mrs .Atihison, whose la Drafted. private car had come and gone, carMiss Geraldine on Dangerfleld rying One hundred and fifteen minor to Ardsley Ardmore had Just received a message from his sister at league players were drafted by the 18 some way station, reporting all well clubs of the two major leagues when and contatnlnipThege sentences She the national baseball commission met Of these the Is rather different, and I do not quite at Cincinnati recently. make her out She has our nob'e National league secured 6". while the brother in law a good deal bewll American league got only 43 The Brooklyn club of the National dered " Cooke ran forward for a colloquy league secured 15 players; the New with the engineer over their older, York Nationals were the next forthe guards climbed into one of the tunate in the 'draw, as they secure IS box ears, and the train moved htowlv. players; Philadelphia Nationals came out of the Raleigh yards to the main text with 12 players secured, Chicago line And rattled away toward K lid ire, Nationals were fourth In point of numwith Mr Ardmore, pipe In mouth, ber with 11 players, while the Chicago Americans secured ten. perched In the caboose cupola The others ranged downward to a Not Capt Kidd nor another of the dark broth rhood sailed foith with single player by Detroit, and thla one under Investigation, so that Detroit keener rest for ba'tle than Mr Ard more Indeed, the trailing smoke of the locomotive suggest d a black flag, and the thought of it tii kled his Above bent the bluest skv in fancy the world, fields of coin and intton the brilliant crimson of G mean clover, and long stntrhea of mix! fi$r cst held him with enrhantn ent And a fter th, long mystli ai twilight the tram ; asd now and then great cotton fo tones that blared out from their thousand windows like huge stcamsh Will mid-seaso- Mc-Gra- house-keepe- . (TO HK I'ONTINt- -t I) ) No Exercise We have the Impression that we get nervous troubles from today's rush of lile llut Impressions and si i ions thought often yield wldi Iv different r We do rush about a lot, but suits matt ,never went eo- - ltnh- - on hrrTeet as here and now Car-- , elev ito-- e au tomoblles carry where ni.iu tt ih jaithout scarcely the crook of a kneo. Actually there are men In hi cl tv who travel toward hundrid-- . n mile-- s ll-- day' and carcetv get imugh'exor else for the final cellular duo eton ot the rich, greasv. julov, vinous viand they Jdevour And never since crea tlon'a dawn, except In abb runmir -- ln stuck under business men . noses a! the time from the firt thing In thf m night rooming to the lasD-hinOnce in a whtlethe Frenchman,- - he Dutchman and the FnglUhman sH with these Intensely ruh, ,lcj gorgs , But like Haffeys whl-k- y ,he u heu for us all all the time N. v Aorv Press. , i g Mack of Athletics. finished first. Boston beat them out in 1903 and In 1904 Philadelphia tumbled to fifth place. In the next race, the Mackmen qualified as the American leagues representative In the first worlds series conducted under the auspices of the National Commission, but were decisively defeated by the New York Giants, and were shut out In four of the five games. Bender blanked the Giants In his teams lone victory. The gameness of the 1910 Athletics baa been proved and those who ear Her In the race taunted them aa quitters and predicted that they would not stand the strain, have been silenced by their sustained steadiness at all stages of the campaign. Most of the veterans are still In line. Coombs, Bender, Plank and Morgan are considered the big four of the Athletic artllerists, but none but Mack knows who will be his slab-meIn the worlds championship series It Is possible that Krause may be specially prepared for these engagements n Harry Mclntlre. it and what I ought to have- done to keep him from hitting hard The next season I arrived at Danville, 111., and all summer. - There waa played a wise old catcher there who taught me a lot; and from there I took a couple of big jumps into the big league I think the great and have stuck reason why I have managed to stick la that I never have stopped studyHarry Ixird has been counted as ing the game and its players. If a man the classiest of third basejnen for gets to know It all he will be In the the last two seasons He has been bush leagues soon. teams picked on the of several of the dopesters. Fred Luderus has already made BROTHERHOOD HAD FAST BALL himself solid With the Philadelphia fans. He looks even better than In 1890 Baseball Players Used Sphere Bransfield and It is likely that he That Burned Infietders When will soon supplant the veteran. Hit Some Batting. President Herrman of the national commission announces the national ball Speaking of the rubber-corecommission will Investigate the plan and the ball and likewise for two ball clubs to tour the country the cry for more batting, how many and will bar leagoe'players from the of the fans remember the time when tour If Tex Rickard Is backing IL a ball was used that did result In exThe National commission will not tra slugging? allow the promoters of the All-N' In 1890, wnen the Brotherhood wgs tional and All American teams to get hatched and tried, there was the same , away with It. The commission for extra batting that you hear yell for the game should be allowed to today. The Brotherhood decided to rest In peace during the off season gratify the wish, and, first of all, SnodgrasaXhe leading slugger ej BsSYeiT the "pitcher aToo! tack the National league. Is only a youngThen they had a special ball built, If and he keeps up the record ster, much rubber as was with twice heias set for himself this yearhe contained as In the Reach Spalding should have a record as good as that was The result globule batting till Anson. of Pop Ed Delehanty or Honus you couldnt rest. but. unfortunately, Wagner, as a great hitter, Cobb of Detroit, Snodgrass of New was also bad fielding While the new ball went so fast York Nationals and Lajole of Clevc land are batting .362. .360 and .359, as and so burnlngly thtft the In fielders named. There Is only one automobile had to duck or die, It also took weird to be given To the player having the and Inexplicable leaps, and when sail Ing for the outfield,- - would' actually, highest batting average at the endjif turn and wheel away &g if blown by the official season In both leagues. Pitcher Kletttnger of the Clinton the wind Itls the plain truth, and no exagteam should get a chance to show Dave Altlxer. what he can do In the big, leagues geration, absurd as It may seem, come out empty handed In the after that exhibition against the Cubs many a time a ball would start for fiay St. Louis Nationals did not e a few dsys aaAnT bush pitcher that center and, with the center fielder a player. A little les than $125,-0- 0 can make the coming champions go all set, would Swing over and take was deposited "with .. . Secretary XI Innings to win a 2 to I contest the rigjitowleft fielder off his guard. Pete Browning Batting? Plenty. pruce of the commission to cover the mOst.have something worth trying out led with .891. Had the present scor-lnin his whip drafts. rules. whlrh all lavar .the batsman. Klnsella-ef r President the In Springfield particular Shortstop Qne player been In use, Pete would have T... Altlxer of Minneapolis, was "most i team, who sold Meloan to Chicago, Is been tabbed .450 maybe more. Any a successful In scout. both club He becoming has eagerly sought Every they want more bRtting, a waa finally old four more players of his team: time He him. wanted entered Jeaguea ball, with additional rubOutfielder Shaller to Detroit, Pitcher warded to Cincinnati. ber, Is the thing to do the work. to the Louis toost St. Willis Catchto Browns, Is the take daring Altlzer Browning would have hit about .600 He er HartlerTO'Toledo and Pitcher leap of all this fall, it la reported.one to the St. Louis Cardinals. that season With the pitcher aa far of will march to the altAr with .Is said to have 306 players back as he la now, and using that KTnsella and of ladiea Chicago the fair young lively balL contract. under How himself to be doubled up. d cork-core- d a Isj-lght- se-eur- g rubber-c- |