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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-02
BY Albert Bige1ow Paine.

to pay for our journey. won't say a
word about the copper and bottles and
other things. They are all beautiful, and
we have place for them. But these
cages-of course, they are pretty and In
| tereSting, too. In their way-but they
simply fill up this room to no special pur-
pose. and you've a lot In the garnet be-
sides. l didn't know you had SO many
until / went up there yesterday. I'm
quite sure I hadn't seen some of them
before
Chatwood did not find words at once.
When he did. he said
'Mebbe | have one or two you haven't
seen. Perhaps You were out when they
came in. I guess l thought you wouldn't
care for them very much.
But 1 do care, John. l care for them
a great deal. and especially as 1 know
you care. Only, we have got to take
something, then let it be the cages
Il don't know as they'll bring their
value. Mary-not yet. You see, people
haven't begun so much on bird cages as
they have on old coppers, and such
things. OF course, some day-mebbe
when FIN
Never mind about some day. It's now
we're going to take that trip, John. If
you can get anything for them at all
what you paid, or even less-let them go
It's really wrong not to do 1t. You need
the trip more than / do. l thought as
looked at you a while ago, and here
We go on, year after year, until by and
by we won't care anything about it, nor
for these things. either Anyway, sell
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That Ended It,

TOHN HAYS HAMMOND, at a dinner in
J Lenox, talked about captains of in
dustry.
"Of course, to a certain extent, they
must be cruel" he said. They must
discharge incompetents. refuse to employ
needy friends if those friends belong to
the incompetent class. But then
Mr. Hammond smiled.
"They don't have to repulse their
friends point blank he said. 'They can
forestall what is coming. Like the pretty
girl. you know.
"a caller said to this pretty girl:
my purpose in calling tonight. dear
Miss Smith. or Mary rather-for 1 may
call you Mary. may ]. not?'
"'Oh, yes the young girl answered
calmly. Yes, certainly. All papa's elder
~ friends call me Mary
"And there, Of course. the matter
ended
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The Splendid 0ptimist.

cCOTT BOND, a rich Arkansas planter
- said at the recent convention OF the
National Negro Business League in New
York
1.-THE open places are the places fol-
ysu. the farm lands. You won't be sick
out there, and the ground will love you
like brother.
II am an optimist for my farm brother
1 know he must succeed. And any argu-
ment you bring against his success I can
answer optimistically. In fact, I'm like
Calhoun Washington. who said bravely.
no matter what misfortune happened,
Well. it might have been worse
But the deacon thought he'd get the
best Of the optimistic Calhoun. and SO
he said to him one day:
"I had a dreadful dream last night. I
thought 1 saw the bad place. There was
great lake of boiling, blazing pitch,
and we all were swimming in it-you and
I and all our friends. And when we'd
get near shore and try to climb out. imps
with horns and tails would jab red-hot
pitchforks into our faces
"'Well. we'll! said Calhoun. He thought
a moment, then he added: But it might
have been worse, eh?'
"'How might it have been worse, you
fool?' shouted the deacon angrly.
"'Why.' said Calhoun, 1t might have
been true:"
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John CHATWOODS COLLECTION.

twice before If he weakened he did not
give evidence of it in words. AT times
the thought that his treasures might go
for little or nothing filled him with a
sickening dread. More than once he was
tempted to treat with Mary with the view
of buying them back. in event of such a
disa ster, but he put this idea aside as un-
worthy and hummed cheerful tunes In
stead, when she was about. though for
some reason they were in minor keys. At
dinner he managed to tell at least two
of his best old stories, and once by some
chance he remembered a new one. He
could not be expected to do better than
that 1t is doubtful if the old martyrs
themselves did much better. 1t is true
that his story telling and music depressed
where they were meant to cheer. and the
shine in Mary ChatwoOds eyes was not
always due to mirth or joyful anticipa-
ton. The hardening process had to be
very carefully performed at such mo-
ments When the day came that the
cages were to be removed. and she got
q look at Johns face unawares; when she
walked through the library and parlor
where no>longer in the arches hung pen
dent the airy homes of those silent singers
of other days and chimes, she broke down
altogether: and when from amid the parlor
cushions she watched the loaded wagons
drive away, she had to rub and dab her
eyes until they were almost as red as her
nose in order to see at all.
''Oh, oh. it's just as if the sheriff were
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base BALL RANKS As
A GOOD ADVERTISER
Pennant Winning Teams
Worth Thousands of Dollars
to City They Represent.

CHICAGO, September 11.-Advertising
is the business of the age, If statements
of successful men are to be believed. The
pendulum has gone SO far that cities
have taken up the cudgel and are adver-
Using themselves. In fact, some Of these
cities have spent money way up into the
thousands. just to show the world what
they have to offer prospective citizens.
Base ball is the greatest advertiser of
city known. This fact has been borne
home to one largely Of late years In Chi
cago is this particularly true The mer-
chants of the Windy city recognize what
the White SoX and the Cubs are doing
for them. Every time enc of these teams
wins a pennant hundreds Of thousands of
dollars of free advertising is given Chi
cago.
At banquet held by the Chicago Ad-
vertising Association not many weeks ago
in honor of Charles A Comiskey, the
speaker of the day declared that Comis-
key had done more to advertise Chicago
than any one else in the city. He paid
tribute to the White Sox as an advertis-
ing asset.
When President Murphy of the Cubs
held a Chicago Association of Commerce
day at the West Side Park not long ago,
thousands of representative citizens
bankers, merchants. lawyers ct al at
tended 1t was a great tribute TO the ma
tional game and it's value as an advertis-
ing asset.
1t is well known and widely spread
fact that the business men Of Cincinnati
are longing for the Reds to accomplish
the wonderful and bring a National
League pennant to RedVille. II would
mean thousands to them in advertising
and the tangible results which would
follow.
Tigers Have Boosted Detroit.
BY winning three straight American
League remnants Detroit as a city profit
ed more than one would believe. 1t was a
wonderful boost for the industries Of the
city. Mayhaps the amazing growth of
Detroit, as shown in the recently pub
lished census figures, may have been as
sisted in a measure by the Tigers. The
writer, for one, is assured of the fact.
The winning Of the present year Ma
tiona1 League pennant by the Cubs--which
now appears a certainty -means more for
Chicago as an advertising factor than the
recent trip Of the enthusiastic committee
Of the Chicago Association OF Commerce.
That remarkable organization chartered
a big lake steamer and toured Lakes
Michigan and Superior, entertaining prom
inent citizens Of many ports. 1t was
merely a booster movement for the
city.
San Antonio is spending large sums
just for the purpose of attracting visitors
and possible citizens. So are many other
cities But every one has heard OF Chi
cago's climate and other things just
through it's ball teams.
Base ball is at, its zenith right now-and
here's hoping the zenith will never be
strayed away from. Great producers of
articles are coupling up their product with
things base ball-because 1t attracts at
tention. A cake Of soap shown on a street
car advertising sign being used by George
Mullin, Addie JOSS. Frank Chance or any
great base ball star. with the words 80
and So uses our SOAP" has proven a big
attraction.
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AN IDEA THAT WILL
SURELY PLEASE FANS
Return to Old Plan of Snowy
Uniforms for Ball Play
erS Talked Of.

One of the innovations that are being
talked Of by the men who own the big
ball clubs is the adoption of bright,
snowy uniforms, each big league club
having Its own distinct color. It might
rather be said that this would be a re-
turn to the old plan, for back In the days
when Buffalo, Providence and Worcester
were in the National League every club
was known by it's color almost as we'll
as by the name Of the city it represented.
No use talking, the base ball fans like
the spectacular end of the game just as
the folks who go to the great surburbans
like the bursts of color that in the heat
Of the race enable them to pick their fav-
orite jockeys.
About the sorriest, dreariest and most
depressing spectacle one can imagine is
afforded by the appearance of a home
team on a muddy diamond, nine uni
forms. supposed to be white. looking as
if they had been tied to a scow and
dragged up a muddy river
Then, too, there Is no class or style to
the travelling uniforms these days Out
side of the stockings they are all pretty
much alike. differing only in the shade
Of gray that has been selected. The only
real color to the game is afforded by the
different hues of the players hose.
In the early days of the National
League the colors of the visiting teams
constituted as distinct an attraction as
Is the crimson Of Harvard, the blue of
Yale or the orange of Princeton on the
foot ball field.
Men with no sentiment in their souls
and no sense of the artistic in their brains
got in control of affairs and practically
q h I'M IN hn
aside for the almost always soiled white
uniforms worn at home and the plain,
unappealing gray sorts that are worn on
the road.
Nine men dressed in all red playing
nine men dressed all in black or blue
or pink. or white. will always attract q
crowd to a game on the sand lots
The brilliant flashes of color by the men
In action is both restful and attractive to
the eyes of the people in the stands.
Leagues afford to try this plan for
season: The old name of the Maps was
the "Blues." Very we'll. then; let the
Maps uniforms be of blue. Jennings
men are everywhere known as the
Tigers Let the Tigers wear the
orange and black color of the animal
their dashing, daring style Of play is cal
culated to typify. Brown for the Browns.
Red for the Reds: all white for the White
sox. are some of the colors that easily
could be adopted.
In these days of gigantic stands and
beautiful diamonds the club owners
would seem to owe it to their patrons
to brighten up the games out in front.
A base ban game played by men in strik-
ing uniforms would be as much more at
tractive than game played by men in
the conventional white and gray as is an
opera sung in full regalia over a morning
rehearsal with no orchestra and with
the men and women in their street attire.
Cleveland Leader
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due PerSl8nS, mary. k1SanSl4n mas
made me a standing offer Of a thousand
for 1t. You see. there are only those
two in the world. and he knows the price
will go up. OF course, when I'm gone
that isl mean"
Suppose we look through the dining
room. john
But In the dining room most of the
things were really for use With the ex-
ception Of a few cages and some copper
things there was little that Mrs. Chat
wood herself would have been willing
to spare. She led the way to the base
ment stairs where, below. in the hall
and In the two rooms especially shelved
and fitted, were the greater portions of
the splendid bottle and copper collec-
lions that were the pride Of John Chat
woods heart and had made his name
familiar to collectors everywhere. Chat
wood followed with the air of man
going to receive sentence.
1t was dark in the basement. but sud-
denly Mary Chatwood touched a button
In the wall. and the place was flooded
with blaze of electric light. Yet it
was not such light as may be found in
the splendor of the gilded hotel or in
the onyx and marble palaces of the truly
rich. 1t was light caught up and re-
Elected and multiplied by a thousand bur-
nished surfaces, refracted through a myr-
lad Of crystal shapes and marvellous
hues, until the whole became such
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FAST CRAWL STROKE
winner IN SWIMMING
Australian Expert Says 1t Is
Same in Antipodes as in
This Country.

According to Norman Cox, one OF the
best and most popular swimming coaches
In Australia. who belongs to the same
school that developed such men as kieran.
Wickham. Lane. the Healys and Cavills.
many of the ideas held in America about
antipodean swimmers are not correct
particularly concerning the crawl stroke
There has been created in America
Cox says, "a nomenclature for the differ
emit varieties of crawl, irrespective OF
what was being done abroad. and while
I cannot but commend the idea of dis
eliminating between types-as it pleases
you to call the several phases Of evolu-
toni fear it is going to entail great
confusion until the chaff has been sepa-
rated from the grain. You often hear
spoken of, for instance, the Australian.
American, Sullivan, Daniels. legless and
other types of crawl as distinct varieties.
Were you to attend tomorrow meet In
Sydney or Melbourne. you would see
every one Of these styles used. though
we class them all under the one heading
of crawl. You would see lads who never
heard OF Sullivan or his stroke doing the
100 in one minute fiat with 1t, straight
away; you would see men who haven't an
idea Of how Daniels swims use the iden-
teal method he does; You might see
styles never attempted in the states and
all considered within the boundary of the
crawl"
Asked whether the original Australian
stroke was not distinct from that used
by Americans. Cox said
THAT is wrong impression, Cavill has
modified his stroke to such an extent
that 1 could almost be assured he swan
the American crawl. They had all length
ened their arm reach, when I tell You
that Healy won the middle distance
championship of 1900 with the crawl. And
let me set myself straight on another
point, too. in which Americans are totally
wrong. There is no such thing among
good Australian swimmers as timing the
right leg with the right arm and vice
versa. That is an idea set forth by dry
ground swimmers. That cr!ss-cross tim
ing is absurd. Each swimmer follows his
own peculiarities. inserting futters and
changes to suit himself. The arms are
now held nearly straight, and the legs II
they act in unison with the arms at all
(Which they don't. for their work Is con-
cluded in an instantly favor the arms OF
beats very quickly. with a flip kind of
motion and Immediately returns to Its
normal position. and it beats just as the
hand OF the same circle. putting the nm
fishing touch to the arm drive. The nor
NAL position of the leg Is slightly bent.
foot extended to the utmost. and the
height of the foot In the water just such
that the heel is about two inches above
the surface, the tendon Achilles acting a.
cut water like the fin Of a shark.
II believe Americans are deserving OF
the utmost praise for the marvellous way
in which they have progressed in swim
ming, Just as they do in everything. Only
want to make clear that Australia has
not stuck in the rut of a ten-year-old
crawl
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The C0IoneI's Tact.
.sxxR. RoosEvELT's tact

SxK Mr.. ROOSEVELT'S tact is .amaz-
1v4 ing" said Harry Mills. the edi.
tor Of the Osawotamie Globe. Here is Q
case in point:
while Mr.. Roosevelt was In Osawot.
annie, an Informal reception was held
In his honor. But one young man came
near spelling this reception. He grasped
Mr. Roosevelts hand and began to pour
out an endless food OF praise. He
analyzed and commended every action OF
Mr.. Roosevelt's public life. And mean
while hundreds Of good men from Fon-
tana, Chiles, Bucyrus, Lomax and even
more distant towns stood waiting in the
background. The reception, SO to speak.
was blocked, grounded.
"Mr Roosevelt, however. was equal to
the occasion. Laying his hand on the
young mans arm, he smiled apologetic.
ally and said:
but I'm monopolizing you"
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Ruined by Prosperity.
From the Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
"Dar now!' exclaimed Brother Dickey.
''You see what prosperity does for pus-
son, don't you? Look at dat man yonder.
Wen he wuz po' he wuz happy, but he
won a prize er SO. an fun dat day ter
dis he amt knowed what peace is! His
wife wanted ter buy hat wild de money
an he wanted to go into de bankin' bust
ness, an dars whar de row started. An
1t amt likely dat it'll stop soon. either.
An all on account er strikn' sudd an
riches by winnin' dat SO prize. May de
good Lawd keep me po' an PEACEFUL
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IRST old rags, then
old brass and iron,
now old bottles!"
NJ airy Chatwood
said one day In a
moment Of warmth
when she had plan
ned a new hat and
a taiior-made gown,
only to discover that
her husband had ex-
pended the neces-
sary funds for q
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1t matters little what 1t is that you
vant-whether q situation or q servant
"a want ad in The Star will reach the
person who will fill your need
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coruscation of living color as one might
CINE for Aladdin's cave.
Perhaps because there were so many
together OF because some of them seemed
rather less human in their associations.
Mary Chatwood cared less for these
things. Still, there were the old samovars
from which tea had been drawn Tor
generations, and the holy lamps and
drinking cups and odd pots, smooth with
the polish of vanished hands. Then there
were the rare scent bottles of old Persia
that some slender-throated woman of
long ago had priced and filled with such
a marvel of perfume that now, when
she was dust and ashes these centuries.
the trace Of it still fingered. Mrs. Chat
wood did not care to part with these.
Besides. they were Johns very soul-she
knew that. To sell these, any part
Of Them meant for him real sorrow. Yet
in her heart she did not mean to sur
render. She had planned her trip too
long. 1t was her one great desire, and
she meant to hold fast
Then, 1t was for him. as well. He
needed it. In the blaze of light that re-
f1ected on his face and silvering hair she
thought he looked old and worn. And
only he would object and protest now
she could urge and combat and get the
matter Settled off-hand. But ChatwOod
merely walked slowly down one side and
In a tired. PARKWAY voice that he seemed
trying. for her sake. to make cheerful.
how he had bought this in one place and
found that In another.
var In a junk shop one night. on the
lower East Side 1t was all green and
dented then and ] got 1t for the price
of old metal. There are no chances.
now. All the junk-deaiers have got smart,
and people have literally raked the shops
for anything that looks like old cop
per- That's worth today fifty times
what 1 paid for 1t. and some day, when
Mary Chatwood touched the button that
shut Off the light.
Come upstairs. John, to the second
floor. where the bird cages are
They assembled to the east room. where
walls and ceiling and floor were covered
with the curious gilt and silver and reed
latticed homes OF a hundred silent song
sters Some 6f the cages were still oc-
cupied-not by living singers, but by
their stuffed remains. perhaps. or bright
| hued imitation little birds to give the
pretty prison dwellings an air of life.
There were cages of every land-cages
of even some of the far Pacific islands
insect cages from Japan. made tall so
that the leaping mushi or -grasshopper-
singer can exerciSe-one rare glass cage
from old Venice. and. finally. the rarest
of all. a curious little Delft cage, one, of
the only three known to be in existence
Somehow in the atmosphere OF this rather
chilly and cherries rOOm-empty but for
these nfeless and voiceless cages-Mary
Chatwood regained courage.
Now. john" she began. you might
| just as well part with some of these
They are not even very beautiful stored
| as they are, and We have all we need for
ornament, downstairs Some of these cost
IL lot Of money and should bring enough
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WEEKS RANGE OF PRICES
Corrected to the Close of Business October at
the New York Stock Exchange.
Railway and Miscellaneous Shares.

highest
and pr for tho
year To-
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enough to pay for this trip. and buy
them back or others like them, after we
get home"
But John Chatwood shook his head.
If we sell any. We'll sell all. Mary.
The collection is about complete as 1t
stands, and 1t wouldn't do to break 1t.
You're right, though. about the trip, and
Wen take it. I'll drop into Kinsley's
auction rooms tomorrow and let him adj
vertise the sale for next week.
y
And then. all at once, Mary ChatWoOd
was in his arms, crying and sobbing on
his shoulders, declaring that he was the
best man in the world. and that he
her-nO, never!
And, Of course. this made John Chat
wood all the more firm in his good re-
solve though Mary in all honesty had
not meant it to do SO, yet was none the
less happy to know that they were really
going She consoled herself with the
thought that John would be glad, too,
when at last they were on their way. He
was at Kinsleys bright and early next
morning. and the sale of the Chatwood
cages was announced in the evening
paper.
During the week that interviewed Mary
Chatwood tried to rejoice in the prepara-
lions for their voyage. There were a
good many things to get ready and it
kept her busy. She desired most es-
pecally to buy some nice Christmas pres
ent for John-something that would cheer
him Their first morning at sea would
be Christmas morning. She had read a
jolly story of a Christmas at sea-a won
derful day of surprises. holly and mistle-
toe and bowls of good things, with a
grand ball and revelry under the sway
ing lamps at evening. She had made
this picture part of her dream and she
wanted to surprise John with something
that would cause him to be happy and
to forget. When she recalled that some
of the things he cared for most were
being sacrificed for her sake she became
feverishly anxious to buy something or
do something or be something that John
would appreciate beyond words.
She had all sorts of impulses. She
even contemplated selling some piece of
Jewelry and buying back in secret the
rare Delft cage, to produce it suddenly
on their first morning out. She reflected
however, that this could be no more than
sad remiBder-an aggravation rather
than a comfort; besides, a bird cage would
be frail and inconvenient piece of bag
gage later on. She grew almost morbid
amid these reflections. even repentant at
times and remorSeful 1t took daily re-
newal of purpose, with constant iustifi-
cation and the rehardening of very
feminine heart that had no inclination to
become hard. Or once hardened, to re-
main So in order to avoid compIete s,,r
render at the. eleventh hour
AS for John Chatwood, he was about as
cheerful as martyrs are likely to be, Dur
Ing the day he assumed what was doubt
less intended to be bustling air, and
catalogued and recatalogued the doomed
cages-a labor that seemed unnecessary.
inasmuch as he had done all this at least