I O H l croVF. PRESS. FOREST CRÖVE. ORÉGON. THURSDAY, jULVá, 1913.
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THE STAR
T H E A T R E
H un Up
O ld G lo r y
PERFECTSPHERES
With All His Scientific Skill
Man
Cannot Produce Them.
THE CURVING OF A B A S E B A L L
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It 1« P o a sib l. O n ly Be cau se the B a ll la
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aon W it h Ita Siza M u c h R o u g h a r
T h a n tha Su rfa c e of tho E a rth .
D ifficultle* of tha N a tu ra tisi.
The real reason why a baseball can
A F o u r th oj" J u l y
be thrown so thut It will describe won
"Poem b y
derful curves during Its progress
through the air Is that every such ball
VJ. 2>. JVe-ibit
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has u surface made up o f uiountulus. |
UN up Old Glory!
valleys, craters, canyons, gorges, plains
Let It blaze
and other irregularities o f the surface
if. red and white against the sky
that wbou tile differeuce In size is ■
; And tell the story of the days
taken luto consideration, makes the
When hearts were stout and hopes were
surface of the earth seeui like plate
high.
Forget the dally fights of greed;
glass.
Forget
struggles, the dismay
If It were possible to make a perfect ! Of facing the
cruelty and need—
sphere—If It were possible to make a
Kun up Old Glory for the day!
baseball with uu absolutely smooth sur-
I
Hun
up Old Glory!
faee and au exact sphere— no pitcher
Think of aM
In the world could make it eurve. The
The old flag means to you and me,
very best pitcher» baseball has ever Of how the blast of freedom’s call
Shook out Its folds from sea to sea;
kuowu or probably ever will know
with the blood that it has cost,
could not make the hull deviate u hair’s Rod
White with the souls of them that died—
breadth III Its Might.
Today by laughing breezes tossed
It whispers of a nation's pride.
And so while It Is partly in the art
or kirnck the professional pitcher has Run up Old Glory!
111 holding and releasing the baseball
Fling it forth
And feel anew the country call
us he throws It. it is also due to the
That
thrills
east, west and south and
fuel that a baseball has u wonderfully
north
rough surface against which the air
And has It«» word for one and all.
catches and turns It that gives it the Run up Old Glory—fling it far
Across the blue of heaven’s dome
curve.
It you pass your hand over a plate And feel that every stripe and star
Is warder of your hearth and home.
glass It moves smoothly with nothing
to retard It. If you pass your baud
STO RY OF IN D EPEN D EN C E DAY
over an unplaned hoard yon can fed
the roughness—splinters we call them S te p s W h ic h Led U p to A d o p tio n of
You cannot move your hand as easily
the Im m o rta l D eclaration.
over the board This Is the same prln
in May, 1770. Virginia adopted those
d p le with the baseball. There Is a
famous instructions to her delegates
roughness In Its surface that catches
lu congress “ to propose to that respee
In the air nnd forces one side about or
table body to declare the united colo
retards that side. This has but one
nies free and independent states."
result—to make the baseball leave Its
Thus encouraged, John Adams of Mas
straight course, and In doing tills It de
suchusetts the next day urged success
scribes a curve.
fully the adoption of a resolution rec
Tills does not detract In the leust
from the cleverness of the pitcher who ommending ull the colonies to form for
can so accurately judge his muscular | themselves independent governments
control as to make a baseball curve up In the preamble which he wrote It was
declared that the American people
or down, right or left. But the fact
remains that It Is the roughness of the could no longer conscientiously take
baseball that makes uII his pitching oath to support any government deriv
lug its authority from the crown.
cleverness possible.
On the 7th of June, 1776, Richard
Take a brand new league ball In
your hand. It looks to lie a perfect Henry I.ee submitted u motion em
bodying the Virginia instructions. The
sphere—that Is, absolutely eveu aud
motion was seconded, as a descendant
uniformly round Hud as “ smooth as
o f Putrlok Henry writes, “ by glorious
glass." And It may be as smooth os
old John Adams, and Massachusetts
glass, for glass also has a rough sur
stood side by side with Virginia.”
face.
Then, on the 1st of July, congress tak
Put a baseball under the most pow
ing up the resolution respecting inde
erful microscope, enlarge It mlcroscopl
pendency once more, “ nil eyes were
colly 10.000 diameters, and what do
turned on me,” says John Adams.
you see? The very thing mentloued in
Rising, he led off in a speech of sur
the first paragraph of this article. The
passing eloquence nnd “ a power of
surface Is rough.
It looks like the
thought and expression which,” said
landscape In the Alps or Yellowstone
Jefferson, "moved the members from
park or any other rough section of the
j their seats.”
earth. It has peaks, ranges, ridges,
He was “ the colossus o f that con
volleys, plains and holes, gulches nnd
gress,” as Jefferson again testifies, the
all sorts of uneven places, nnd If the
| “ Atlas of Independence,” ns Richard
earth could be made as small as a
Stockton declares. "H e compelled con
baseball It would be practically a per
viction. nnd ut last, on the 2d of July,
fect sphere nnd absolutely smooth
the flame in Ills own soul fused into a
Tills Is because the highest mountains
single molten current the aspirations
of the enrtli and the deepest valleys
of a people, nnd amid the glow of no
would tie millions upon millions of
ble. daring, fervent speech the reso
times smaller In comparison with the
lutions of Independency were unani
rough uneven places on a baseball If
mously adopted." It was then that
either the earth were reduced to the Jol n Adams. In a letter to Abigail,
size of u baseball or a baseball enlurg
burst forth In prophetic strains of the
ed to the size o f the earth.
way the glad event would be celebrat
If this were not true the earth would
ed So It has been celebrated, but the
not revolve so regularly upon its axis date of the adoption of the celebration,
It would perform an “in shoot” or
July 4. is the one the people recognize
••out shoot" and curve olT through
as the culminating moment of the
space.
great event.
Even the hllllnrd ball has a surface
much rougher In comparison to its size
The O ld F a sh io n e d Fo u rth .
than the surface of the earth, and we
The tantalizing third we beat the birds to
refer to a billiard ball as aliout the
bed at night
smoothest thing known. "A s smooth And raced the roosters on "the day” to
greet
the morning light.
as a billiard ball'' Is a well known
cannon, loaded week before, was
simile. For the same reason that a The ready
to salute.
perfectly smooth baseball could not be Our "captain" touched her off and shout
ed "HI. there, fellers, scoot!"
curved, a perfectly smooth aud per
fectly round billiard ball could not be Put Wti, who scorned discretion, stood
around the piece of scrap,
made to curve on the table. It would Each hoping, if the captain fell, to fill the
not take “ English," ns billiard players
glorious gap.
call It when they make a ball go for
Nay, not a whit more cheerfully the fa
ward nnd then roll backward or In any
thers faced the powder.
direction Just by the manner In which Nor could their blunderbusses raise a
racket any louder.
they strike It with a chalked cue.
what more reckless hero ever drew a
This fact of roughness causing It to And sword
from sheath
spin becomes all too evident when a Than he who fired his crackers while he
held them In his teeth?
player forgets to chalk bis cue and
plays several shots thereafter. If the And. since nobody dared to "take a
stump," I’ ve often prayed
leather tip of the cue becomes shiny A blessing on the boy who cried, "Let’s
It will slip on the ball. There is no
go to the per-rade!"
purchase with which It can take bold.
And then we heard the orator (though
But chalk Is sticky stuff, and the gran
much against our will).
ules are large, so that a well chalked Who said, "The blood our fathers bled,
thank God. is bleeding still!”
cue lias a very rough surface, .and this
rough surface o f the tip o f the cue fits He bh d so long we greatly feared he nev
er would run dry.
Into the rough projections on the ball. And some one read "the grand old words”
Slid thereby a hall can be given a lot
—we vainly wondered why—
o f twist. In order to accomplish this But, heaven be praised, a monster gun
was there to make a noise!
successfully, moreover, the billiard
And a gallant fife and drum corps under
cloth nap cnizt be new and therefore
stood the needs of boys.
rough.
the crimson lemonade gushed gay-
During recent experimentation with All day
ly forth at us
regard to the kinetic theory of gases Till aniline enamel lined each boy’s esoph
agus.
a Belgian scientist desired to find out
bow perfect n sphere could be made In All day. as long as all our wealth could
syndicate the price,
order that by the clashing o f these to We chilled our ardent stomachs with ca
gether an Idea might tie secured of the
nary colored Ice.
efTect o f the collisions of the spherical How could that coal tar dye compel the
flavor of a dream?
atoms that make np a gas The proj
How could that starch of com produce so
ect had to be abandoned Bt last be
heavenly a cream?
cause no machinery could be construct
I wonder why "the day* 1» never cele
ed that would turn out a perfect
brated now.
sphere artificially, and nature has no They try to celebrate It, but they plainly
don’t know how
perfect sphere of large size In all her
many forma of matter. Perfect disks And would 1 do It in the way we used to
If I could?
could be made but a ronnd ball was Of cou~3e I —well, no; come to think, I
beyond the limits of human accom
don’t believe I would!
You s<e. I'm Just a human man and lack
plishment.—New York American.
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T r a v e lin g S a n d H ill*.
On the coast of Pomerania there are
lawn tracts of sand heaped np by the
win I. hundreds of yards In breadth
! mi I from 00 to 120 feet high, and
' tli-ve hills, propelled by the wind.
iu ve steadily In an easterly direction.
TFe speed at which these great hills
travel Is from thirty-nine to fifty-six
f*«t a tear. Pine woods, which sotne-
tlin.sj route Iu their Hue of march, cun
mu st->p them ami are completely de-
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LONDON’S ANCIENT TOWER. i
A
Beefeater and • Yeom an Le ak It s
Gate* E ve ry N i g h t
Strange to say. very few people are
aware o f an undent custom which Is
«till kept up at the Tower of txmefon.
Just before uildulgbt a beefeuter and
the chief yeoman porter secure the
keys from the governor's house to
"lock up.” Having received the keys
they proceed to the guard room.
"Escort for the k e y s f calls out the
porter, aud a sergeant and six privates
turn out
The procession then marches off. sad
the sentries they pass Issue the usssl
challenge of "W ho goes there?" to
which the answer Is "Keys.”
Arriving at the entrance to the Tow
er grounds, the lion's gate, the porter
locks the gntps and the party returns
to the guardroom, the sentry challeng
ing as before aud receiving the same
answer. However, on arrival at the
guardroom again the sentry stationed
there stamps his foot, at (he same
time giving the usual challenge.
“ Keys." replies the porter.
“ Whose keys?" the sentry asks.
"K ing George's keys.”
“ Advance King George's keys, and
all's well.”
The porter then says. "God bless
King George.” and all present re*|>ond
with “ Amen." The keys are then
saluted nnd returned to the governor's
house, where they remain until the
next night's ceremony. — Pearson’s
Weekly.
MUNICIPAL DOCKS.
Everett, W ash., W ill A ls o H a v e N a ta -
to riu m and R e cre atio n Pier.
The reason why mantelpiece clocks
At an election held In thè city of
so often get out o f order Is so obvious
that It Is strauge that attention to It Everett, Wash., the citizens authorised
has not been drawn before. A Loudon the issuance of $G5,000 in bonds with
which to purchase the Improvements
clockmaker said:
"It Is because mantelpieces are rare on the municipal dock site, to extern!
ly levef. If n clock meant for a man tlie present dock 200 feet and to con
telpiece is not placed In an exactly struct additional dock facilities.
It is planned in this connection to
horizontal position it Is sure to go
wrong. When the clock gains or loses purchase the Everett Improvement
because of Its slanting position people company’s dock and about eight acres
regularly move the hands forward or of water front land lying lietweeu the
backward, ns the case may be. In or two docks for the purpose of construct
der to adjust it. Eventually (lie clock's ing a municipal natatorium, wading
bands are moved about so much that pools, tennis courts, sand pits, yacht
the mechanism gets out of order and clubs and recreation piers.
tile clock refuses even to tick. Watches
It is also proposed that an incinerator
and traveling clocks nre constructed will he constructed and that refuse
differently from the stationary dis k consumed will heat the salt water for
and they will go In any position. That the natatorium and furnish the neces
is why they are relied upon more than sary power to operate the machinery
the oniamental mantelpiece clock.” -
on the municipal docks.
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married and brought home to live on C.—The baby.—Stray Stories.
tie.” —Judge.
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