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ASIILAXI) TID1XG9
Thursday. March 13. lfllt.
AN EXCITING CONTEST
o.
If. Rarr.Uill lecriles Itwent
IUi.skrllHiI Game at the High
School.
I have been asked to give niy im
pressions of the Ashland-Yreka bas
ketball game, not because I know
anything about this athletic exercise,
but because the way it impressed a
tyro might be interesting. For a
long time I had been wanting to
witness one of these exciting con
tests, but could not seem to get
around to it. Chasing the elusive
codling moth and doiug other stunts
connected with the production of
peaches and pippins leaves little
time for the festivities of life.
All work and no play makes Jack
a good clerk, but why saw wood
when you c;i saw the air? Why
punch tickets cows when heads
are waiting to bo punched? Why
kick at the high cost of living when
there are footballs lying all around?
Some people are bound to kick
even if they are hung so why not
go through the motion in a manner
that will best develop the muscles
and yield the largest amount of
pleasurable excitement? Basketball
beats football, because there is no
danger of a player leaving the field
feet first, with his right superior du
plex jammod through his medulla
oblong-gata. The former game is to
the swift, not the strong, and in
stead of making Jeffries and John
sons it develops people who are
quick on their feet and know how
to get there. Eli.
' This game of basketball is quite
different from what its name bad
led me to expect The players do
not carry tup ball around in a bas
net, out enueavcr 10 unow u
through rings, oti of which is fixed I
is permitted to pitch the ball from
position. Pulling hair, whether it be
false, ratted or real, is considered a
foul, and so is kicking shins, swat
ting another player in the eye or
dealing him a solar plexus blow.
When the ball is thrown outside the
field the players are not permitted
to climb over the spectators after it,
but are forced to stand pat until
their plaything is returned. The ball
appears to be veiy light and harm
less looking, couta!ning nothing but
hot air obtained from a local real
estate off:ee, but it is not as soft as
it looks. I learred this from a
chance encounter with the thing,
which flattened out my features
somewhat before I could dodge be
hind the pillar previously referred
to.
The boys' gamp was a veritable
slaughter of the innocents, the home
team representing the meat men and
the visitors the victims. It seemed
like taking candy from a baby, so
easily .was the victory won. The
girls' game was somewhat different,
the teams being pretty evenly
matched. Girls don't appear to play
with the vim an-J vigor, the reckless
abandon, which characterizes the
male athletes, apparently fearing
they will lose a garter or that their
back hair will come down. Occa
sionally, however, they forget ,a!l
about appearances and play ball with
i all their might and main. Several
I of them were knocked off their feet
j the other evening, but after rolling
i over a few times they jumped up
and went on playing as though
nothing had happened. This little
stunt not only cultivates agility and
the ability to rise to the occasion,
! but helps keep the floor clean, the
j dust being mopped up by the clothes
! of the players. At one time a
. Yreka maid attempted to take the
STORIES OF SHERIDAN.
The Great Writer Had a Hard Tim
Dodging Hi Creditor.
lAe many u brilliant man before
and sine bis time. Kit bard Brinsley
Sheridan tud a habit of resting on hi
oars a bit too long when he thought
himself tired. Then, finding "himself
short of money, be would borrow. This
habit increased with his years, and.
UDY MARY'S DIET." j
It Wat Entirely Too Dainty to Suit Her ,
Italian Doctor. )
That recipe of the tallest Scotsman '
In London two meals a day and live !
forever would not have appealed to
the Englishman of the eighteenth cen
tury nor yet to the man who lived
abroad. Here, for instance, are a few
trifles which Lady Mary Montagu man-
moreover, bis efforts to discharge his i aged to exist u in Italy:
obligations grew less and less. Ilia
reputation at last was such that trades
men demanded cash on delivery.
Benjamin Robert Haydon. who wns
himself woefully addicted to the same
bad habit, tells with evident glee two
stories of his fellow sufferer.
A butcher one day brought a leg of
mutton to Sheridan's house. The cook
took it, put it Into the kettle, and went
upstairs for the money. As she stayed
away some time, the man entered the
kitchen, took off the cover of the
kettle, fished out the joint and walked
off with it.
But the lauc,h -was not always on
Sheridan. A creditor whom be had
successfully avoided for some time
came plump upon him as he emerged
from Tall Mall. There was no possi
bility of dodging, but Sheridan did not
lose his presence of mind.
"Oh," said he, "that's a beautiful
mare you're on!"
TVye think so?"
"Yes, indeed. ' IIow does she trot?"
The creditor was pleased even flat
tered. He told Sheridan he should see
and Immediately urged the mare to do
her prettiest. But long before the
animal's best pace was reached, Sher
idan hud turned again Into Pall Mall
and was lost in the crowd. Exchange.
ball from one of the Ashland girls,
at either end of the hall. True,
there are basket fastened under
neath these rings, but the bottoms
have long ago been knocked out,
permitting the ball to drop through
onto the heads of the excited play
ers. The ball Itse!? is abo.it the size
of a California watermelon, being
an oblong affair made of pigskin and
filled with a gallon or two of cele
brated Oregon atmosphere.
Another surpri.vng thing about
basketball is that special uniforms
are worn by the. players. At the
high school where the writer ab
sorbed knowledge it was just an
ordinary school located high tip on
a bill the pupils never thought of ,
changing clothes in order to play
games not even hookey. j
These basketball suits deserve j
more than parsing notice and should j
be of particular inicrest to dress re-j
formers. Those worn by the girls
do not require tiiht lacing, being j
designed to put ( .orset-makers out
of business. The writer had won
dered how it was possible for any
one to play ball when attired in a
fashionable hobb'.'s or tube skirt,
which prevents Hie taking of steps
more than nineteen inches long.
The feminine basketball costume
somewhat resembles Turkish trous
ers, being inclined to bag at the
knees like tho bathing suits worn by
society queens at Palm .Beach the
past season. This garment permits
tho freo use of the limbs and is of
special advantage !u pitchingjhe ball
from position, when the feet are
.spread as far apart as possible, the
flayer presenting atriking and pic
turesque figure.
When the masculine players
emerged from their dressing room
I at first thought they had absent-
whoreupon the latter immediately
i sat down upon the sphere, which
made a comfortable cushion. I
could not learn if this was one of
the regulation plays, but it was a
good illustration' of the Ashland
spirit of holding onto a thing at all
hazards.
Tho Ashland boys were a husky
lot, averaging six feet in height and
160 pounds in weight. By getting
dp on his toes the star player could
almost reach the basket, which en
abled him to put the ball through
! the ring like a cat playing with a
mouse. The Rrer.t altitude of the
i Ashland lads was ulso of advantage
in getting the first whack at Ihe
ball when it was tossed up by the
I umpire.
The rooting of the fans, the high
I school yells and other sounds which
I emanated from the onlookers at first
i seemed rather superfluous. How
ever, as I became interested in the
game I got to making so much noise
that 1 didn't notice the racket the
rest were producing. When things
began to come our way I swelled up
with joyful exultation until I just
naturally couldn't hold in any long
er. So I let out a few yells of ap
proval that made the windows rattle
and cracked the plastering in beveral
places.
A3 our boys warmed up to the
game and began to play ball in dead
earnest most everybody stood up and
laughed and hollered to beat the
band. In ortier to obtain a better
view of the contest, which grew
more and more exciting, I climbed
the cast-irou piTTar, gracefully twin
ing my limbs around the classic col
umn. From this elevated position I
led tho cheering ar.d whooped it up
for good old Ashland town in a man
ner that contributed materially to
NEATNESS IN ATTIRE.
I wake about 7 and driuk half a pint
of warm asses' milk." she wrote, "after
which I sleep two hours. Then come
three large cups of milk coffee and two
hours after a large cup of milk choco
late. Two hours later my dinner,
where I never fall to swallow a good
dish (I don't mean plate) of gravy soup,
with all the bread, roots, etc belong
ing to It I then eat the wing and the
whole body of a large fat capon and a
veal sweetbread, concluding with . a
competent quantity of custard and
some roasted chestnuts."
Even then the day was not done.
Lady Mary goes on: "At 0 In the after
noon I tnRe another dose of asses' milk
and for supper twelve chestnuts, one
new laid egg and a handsome porrin
ger of white milk." In these degener
ate days it would be thought that the
patient had done very well.
The eighteenth century Italian wns
not so easily satisfied. The parish doe
tor marveled how Lady Mary managed
to survive with such a finickiug appe
titeLondon Chronicle.
It Not Only Impresses. Others, but Is a
Factor In Self Respect.
The fixed habit of presenting always
a neat and cleanly appearance to the
world Is sure of a double reward. . It
not only creates a favorable Impres
sion, but begets n sustaining self re
spect It Is scarcely reasonable of a
man who does not respect himself to
look for much consideration from
others. It Is not the cost of clothing,
but the scrupulous care of it that
counts. The man of slender moans
should be neither "toppy" nor "sloppy,"
but always tidy and neat In his attire,
seeing himself with the coldly critical
eye of a possible employer to whom
an applicant's dress may mean much
more than hl.s address or politest de
portment. Style In writing, as defined by the
fastidious Chesterfield, is the dross of
thoughts, so the true style of the aver
age man may be correctly surmised
from the care he takes of his personal
appearance. He needs not be finicky,
but should always be free of grease
spots and dust. He should like his
bath even if It has to be taken by
means of a bucket. lie should never
neglect to brush bis hair, his shoes,
his teeth, his coat, trousers and hat.
If he can't afford a presslns iron he
should put coat and trousers under the
mattress and sleep upon them. If
laundry Is a serious item, he should
wash bis own handkerchiefs, dry them
on the wiudow panes and never by any
chance be seen with a soiled one.
Philadelphia Press.
THE COUNTRY LAWYER.
A Legal View of Him a the Slave of
Hi Clients. .
"A professional baseball player in
part bases his claim for a large com
pensation upou the theory that In ac
cepfing service he surrenders In a great
measure bis liberty and becomes the
property of his employer." writes Al
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tricts he would speedily become a mil
lionaire. For he Is the property not
only of one individual, but frequently
of a whole community, and the greater
bis success, the wider bis reputation,
the more abject is his slavery. Ills
clients are tyrannical. They know and
recognize no office hours. The month
hand on a farm has at least a few
hours between late dusk and early
dawn for repose, but even these nre
frequently denied the country lawyer
"Some of bis clients nre prone to con
sult him at his residence late at night,
when uone of the curious minded vil
lagers can see them, and speculate and
gossip on the question and of the na
ture and purpose of the call. Another
class, believing in the adage that the
early bird catches the worm, at early
sunrise interrupts his slumbers to make
sure that they retained the 'best' law
yer In the county to represent them in
some present or expected trouble."
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mindedly forgotten to. don their out- thB splendid success of our team
cr garments. As I realized that their , so Was afterwards told. My com
Karb of abbreviate! underwear was panion, however, seemed greatly
the regulation basketball suit 1 scandalized and vainly endeavored
blushed for my sex and endeavored j wjln a hat pin and other arguments
to hide behind a large iron pillar ; to persuade me to come down and
near which 1 was fitting. My com
panion did not ap.ieur to bo at all
rhocked, exclaiming, "Ain't they
splendid!" Perhaps it is only a mat
ter , of getting acquainted, with the
various tyles of dress and undress.
"We are told that in some parts of
Africa tiio natives habitually wear
their persons on the outside of their
clothes, often wer.ring nothing else
in public save a grass girdle and an
expression of tropical content.
Such economy of clothes may be
all right iu warm countries, but I j
could not help feeling sorry that our
boys were forced to appear in such
scanty garb in the dead of winter, I
wiili the ice frozen ten inches thick
at the plant on Water street and j
nine feet of snow iu the mountains. ;
H looks like, cruolly to animals to
expose such a large amount of cuti
cle and epidermis-to the cold night
?ir. Someone should call the atten
tion of tho Sunshine Society to this
and see if warmer clothing cannot be
Tro' ided f.r our athletic boys.
Bai-.ketb&ll is something like foot
Va'.l, with tho prize-fighting features
cf the latter game eliminated. When
tvo players ge.'. ho'd of the ball the
umpire blows a whistle, whereupon
11 1 y are fovcel to break away.
Wnfn anyoiio foil's, the ball is given
to tic otW star player, who
behave myself. But how can a per
son with red blood in his veins sit
idly by while victory and defeat take
turns staring his team in the face?
A single juiir of lungs seems woe
fullv inadequate to express one's
feelings upon such an occasion.
O. II. BAItXIIILL.
Has Narrow Escape.
Mail Tribune: A valuable . horse
was lost and William Walters, 16
had a very narrow escape from
drowning when he attempted to ford
Rogue river a short distance below
Gold Kay Sunday afternoon. The
horse stepped Into a hole and
caught by the current, was swept
away, while young Walters succeed
ed iu swimming out. Walters, when
the horse first fell, grabbed the ani
mal by the neck, and it is believed
that this is the reason the animal
failed to regain its feet.
The accident wa3 witnessed by
Leon Field of this city, who assisted
alters aRhore. The horse was
washed down stream several hun
dred yards. Walters resides In the
Sams valley district.
A One Time Literary Mystery.
In the No wry Telegraph, an Ulster
(Ireland! trive"Uly, on April 10. 1S17.
under the simple head of "Poetry" ap
peared what Byron called "the most
perfect ode in the language", '.'The
Burial of Sir John Moore." Byron or
Campbell or any of the others to whom
this poem wns variously ascribed would
doubtless have been proud to claim It.
But the author was the obscure curate
of Ballyclog. In Tyrone. Rev. Charles
Wolfe, and the fame of the piece wns
but a posthumous fume for him. Xot
until bis death of consumption In 1S23
at the early age of thirty-two did the
authorship become known to the world.
And Wolfe, who wrote much other
verse of merit, Is remembered only by
that one poem which sprung from the
columns of a provincial newspaper to
universal recognition in the big world
of letters. Loudon Chronicle.
Gallant Unto Death.
When Sir Ualph Abercromby wns
mortally wounded in the battle of
Aboukir he was carried on a litter on
board the Foudroyaut To ease his pain
a soldier's blanket was placed under
his head. He asked what it was.
"It is only a soldier's blanket," he
was told.
"Whose blanket is it?" he persisted,
lifting himself up.
"Only one of the men's."
"I want to know the name of the
man whose blanket this is," the dying
commander Insisted.
"It is Duncan Boy's of the Forty-second,
Sir Ralph." said bis nttendaut at
last.
"Then see that Duncan Koy gets his
blanket this very night," commanded
the brave man, who did not forget
even iu his hist agonies the comfort
and welfare of his men Of such un
selfish stuff are true soldiers made.
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Larvae Nests.
By. breaking open rotten logs one enn
find in midwinter the grubs or larvae
of many of the wood boring beetles,
and beneath logs and stones near the
margins of ponds and brooks hordes of
the maggots or larvae of certain kinds
of flies may often be found huddled
together in great masses. The larvae
of a few butterflies also live over win
ter beneath chips or bunches of leaves
near the roots of their food plant or In
webs of their own construction, which
are woven on the stems (.'lose to the
buds whose expanding leaves will fur
nish them their tlrst meal iu spring.
Black Opals.
Black opals seem almost misno
mers, for while some of the stones are
actually black und all of them have a
dark body or underground they are
really . wonderful. Basiling, changing
masses of color. All the colors of the
solar spectrum vibrate through them,
some iu small pinpoint markings, oth
ers In harlequin, peacock and formal
designs. Some of them show brond
flashes uf red, blue, green or purple,
which change rapidly from one to an
other ou the slightest change of angle
or light. Others exhibit cloud effects
and sunsets such as Turner painted
and only iCuskiu could describe.
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The Perverse Sex.
"I thought you had such a good maid
comingT
"I did. But when she called up on
the phone my husbuud auswered her."
"Well?"
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her voice that I didn't eugage her."
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"The doctor made me show him my
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"How?"
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The Helpful Man.
Any man who, by sound thinking and
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productive Industry and by his good
Judgment makes that Industry both
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Eliot. ,
He Told Her.
She I wish I knew how I could
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lie Well, write to your father and
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Australia is Irrigating more than
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Permanent,
Afliud Ar vou engaged to Jack ftr
goodY ICthel It looks that way. I
don't think he'li ever lie. in n posititn
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An Old Joke Retold.
Frlend-The public will mlsa you
now you have left the stage. Actor
That's why I left. I dislike being hit
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