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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-05
Games Harder Fought.

Il also think that the present day
player makes a better uphill fight than
the players of the eighties. 4 game nova
days Is never won until the last man is
out in the ninth inning. ] saw games
years ago in which. when one team got
a good lead. the affair develooed into a
farce. The .outfielders of the losing
teams took their time chasing balls. and
did not try to keep the winning team
from piling up runs. I do not mean that
the old fellows were shirlzers or cutters.
but they did not take the game as Sc
riously as 1t Is taken now, and late rail-
lies We're exceedingly scarce"
Heydler would divide the history of
organised ball into two eras. The first
era would be from the time the Ma
floral League was organized, In 1876.
until the ascendency of the Baltimore
Orioles in 1894 The second era would
be from the days of the Baltimore pen.
nant winners to the present time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-05
NEW BOWLING RECORD.
Puritans Of Utica Total 1882 Pins
in Thirty Frames.

UTICA. \. y. March 1.-The Puritan
bowling team of this city claims a new
worlds record for thirty frames. The
five men last night rolled a total OF 3.:3:S2
i'm a thirtyframe competition This is
an average of over :2325 per game for ca CHI
roller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-05
Tommy Dcwd to Coach Trinity.

HARTFORD, Conn.,, March J.-Thomas
J. Dowd of Holyoke, a Boston American
scout, will coach the Trinity College base
ball team this year. He will come here
March Is and stay until June s. when the
season closes The first game will be
with Yale at New Haven March 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-05

fit the playing field for practice. accord
ing to Umpire Rigier. so that 1t is not un-
likely that the players will get out in the
open by tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-05

Dan Mcclellan, the diIhinutiye inf1eld-
or bought last summer by Scranton from
the st. Louis Cardinals. has been put on
the block by the Tri-State club, He was
one of the uneXplainable pickups by one
of Bresnahan's unexplainable scouts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-05

SO largely that it was Acknowledged as
a pennant winner before the season was
two months old. Close races mean bet
ter and faster bali. A team in the race
will always fight harder than team
that is fioundering in the second division.
The more teams with a chance for the
pennant the faster base ball the fans
will get, as every team In the fiSht is
anxious to get diyvy of the world
series spoiis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-05

Two or three hours of sunshine would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-05

Though he has had twenty years
of X. Barry Mccormick who will manage
Mansfield, Ohio. expects to play regularly
this season. He has picked cut second
base as his station.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-22
dents.

N0hNos
Prof. w. c. Erwin and Mrs. Roy Had
sell, the junior class parents, enter
tanned the juniors in the engineering
hall Saturday evening.
Physical Director Wantland is work
ing out large squad of men daily in
preparation for the track meets sched-
uled this spring. The first einder path
contest in which the Sooners viii take
part Is a dual affair with the univer-
sity of Texas, to be held April p at
Austin. A second dual meet will be
held with the Oklahoma 'Aggies"
May on Boyd field. A number OF
other meets are being negotiated.
Robert Harrison Wood of Blackwell,
graduate Of the university, now with
the United States Geological Survey in
Washington, D. c.. had conferred on
him recently the honor of being sent
to Oklahoma to make a report to the
lgoyernment on the minerals to be
found in the land allotted to the Otoe,
Pawnee, Seneca, Wyandotte and other
minor Indian tribes Congressman Nc
CURE introduced a resolution in con-
gress asking that a government geolo-
gist investigate the oil and gas pros
poets and report before the Indians be
lallowed to sell their lands, MIR. Wood
was chosen for the mission. His de
partment chief was so anxious to know
the report that Mr.. Wood submitted
a summary in advance The full re
port will be forthcoming soon and Is
to be published in the government bul
lletin Contributions to Economic &c
ology"
In trial debate held recently be
tween the two Sooner debating teams
the one which is to meet Kansas VOL
lover the one slated to oppose Colo
rado by a unanimous decision of th'
Judges and two thirds Of the populal
vote. Oklahoma has the affirmative 0
, the judicial recall against Kansas an'
the negative of the same question
! against Colorado. On the Colorado
! team are Frank Manning of Chick
5 asha, Elton B. Hunt Of Alex and G. G
! Williams of Durant On the Kansa
t team are w. ]. Armstrong of Boswell
/ John Rogers of Holdenville and Wi
p Randolph of Chandler
o opie Read, the popular author an
l. eminent lecturer, appeared before tn
h students and citizens Of Norman III
l. der the auspices OF the University l.
It ceum Bureau Tuesday night. The el
le tertainment was one of the most plea
h ing heard in Norman for years an
lie kept the audience alternately laugl
n ing or on the verge of tears. The bi
Of picturesque poet philosopher Of Il
ty Arkansas hills devoted considerab
as portion of his time TO depicting vivi
ne lly the horrors of the sweat shop al
u sasking that conditions be reformed
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-22
STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS.


Tom Mayfield of Norman represent
ed the University Prohibition League
in the state oratorical contest held by
the organization at Enid Friday night
The contest was won by the Christian
University representatives of Enid.
Mayheld secuerd first place on de-
livery
Dr.. Albert Bushnell Hart, head OF
the department Of government in Har-
ward University. delivered two able
and scholarly lectures in chapel Friday
afternoon and evening. His afternoon
subject was Abraham Lincoln and
American Government" In the even
ing he spoke on America in the
Orient Both lectures were attended
by large crowds. The distinguished
visitor is an author of wide reputation
and an acknowledged authority on
questions of government Following
the evening address the Harvard men
met at the home of acting president
Monnet where an informal reception
Gas held. The Harvard men on the
university faculty are acting president
Monnett. Professors Paxton, Hadsell
Foster. Kirkwood Turley and Alley.
The school of fine arts viii. present
several pupils in q recital at the opera
house Friday evening,
The new tennis courts are now com
pleted and extend from the library
building almost to the athletic bleach
ers, giving the university the bes
facilities in the southwest for tennis
tournaments.
Last Sundays Daily Oklahoman
contained a cut and write-up of Waite
Ferguson who is making good as al
editor and politician. Ferguson is
former Sooner student
Tom Lowery Of Guthrie was electe
track captain last week succeeding I
a. Taylor of Tussey, resigned.
Robert H. Riley, a graduate from tn
university in the class of 1910, was
recent visitor in Norman. Riley is on
of the many Grads" who is maxim
good in an unmistakable way. He
at present chief clerk and first assis
ant in the state health department
Oklahoma City. He has been espeeia
ly active of late in the fight to STAN
out spinal meningitis. Riley is ais
active in the crusade against tuberc
losis. being seeretary-treasurer of bo
the state and Oklahoma county an
tuberculosis associations, A sho
time ago he wrote pamphlet on 4
disease 'Pellagra," illustrated wi
pictures of patients he had taken. 7
paper brought many favorable co
ments from the medical fraternity
the state and the dean Of the univers
medical school at Oklahoma City b
ordered it bound and placed in
library as a reference for medical $
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-12-07
foreign RELATIONS IS TAFT'S SUBJECT
Congress Is Told Of Improvements in Consular and
Diplomatic Corps and Good Results of Un-
Gle Sans Efforts in Latin America.

or a war In Nicaragua; the hating of
lnternecine strife In Honduras The
government of the United States was
thanked for its influence toward the
restoration of amicable relations be-
tween the Argentine Republic and Bo-
nVia. The diplomacy OF the United
states is active in seeking to assuage
the remaining ill-feeling between this
country and the Republic of Colombia
IN the recent civil war in China the
united States successfully Joined with
the other interested powers in urging
an early cessation of hostilities. An
agreement has been reached between
the governments OF Chile and Peru
whereby the celebrated Tacna-Arica
dispute. which has so long embittered
International relations on the west
coast OF South America, has at last
been adjusted. Simultaneously came
the news that. the boundary dispute
between Peru and Ecuador had entered
upon stage of amicable settlement.
The position of the United States in
reference to the Tacna RIGA dispute
between Chile and Peru has been one
of non-intervention but one of friendly
influence and pacific counsel through
out the period during which the dis
pute in question has been the subject
of interchange of views between this
government and the two governments
Immediately concerned. In the general
easing of international tension on the
west coast of South America the tri-
partite mediation. to which l have re-
ferred, has been a most potent and
beneficent factor.
China.
In China the policy of encouraging
financial investment to enable that
country to help itself has had the re-
suit of giving new life and practical
application to the open-door policy
The consistent purpose of the present
administration has been to encourage
the use of American capital in the
development of China by the promo
ton of those essential reforms to
which China is pledged by treaties
with the United States and other pow
ers. The hypothecation to foreign
bankers in connection with certain in
dustrial enterprises, such as the HUI
kuang railways, of the national reve-
nues upon which these reforms de-
pended, led the department of state
early in the administration to demand
for American citizens participation in
such enterprises, in order that the
United States might have equal rights
and an equal voice in all questions
pertaining to the disposition of the
public revenues concerned. The same
policy of promoting international ac-
c-rd among the powers having similar
treaty rights as ourselves in the mat
ters of reform. which could not be
put into practical effect without the
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-12-07
Central America Needs Our Help In
Debt Adjustment.

SSHtTd' SHeTiCd NeeuS Our fteIp IN
Debt Adjustment.
In Central America the aim has
been to help sch countries as Mica
ragua and Honduras to help them
selves. They are the immediate bene-
fciaries. The national benefit to the
United States is two-fold. First It is
obvious that the Monroe doctrine is
more vital In the neighborhood of the
Panama canal and the zone of the
Caribbean than anywhere else. There,
too, the maintenance OF that doctrine
falls most heavily upon the United
States. 1t is therefore essential that
the countries within that sphere shall
be removed from the jeopardy involved
by heavy foreign debt and chaotic ma
tional finances and from the ever-pres-
ent danger of International complica-
lions due to disorder at home. Hence
the United States has been glad to en-
courage and support American bankers
who were willing to lend helping
hand to the financial rehabilitation of
such countries because this financial
rehabilitation and the protection OF
their custom houses from being the
prey of would-be dictators would re-
move at one stroke the menace of for
eign creditors and the menace OF reyo-
lutionary disorder,
The second advantage to the United
States Is one affecting chiefly all the
southern and gulf ports and the business
and industry of the south The republics
OF Central American and the Caribbean
possess great natural wealth They need
only n measure of stability and the means
of financial regeneration to enter upon
an era of peace and prosperity, bringing
profit and happiness to themselves and at
the same time creating conditions sure to
l3ad to a ilourishing Interchange of trade
With this country.
wish to call your especial attention to
the recent occurrences in Nicaragua, for
believe the terrible events recorded there
during the revolution of the past sum
mer-the useless loss of life the devasta-
ton of property, the bombardment OF de-
fenseless cities. the killing and wound
ing of women and children, the torturing
of non-combatants to exact contributions
and the suffering OF thousands of human
beings-might have been averted had the
department of state, through approval of
the loan convention by the senate been
permitted to carry out its now well-devel-
oped policy of encouraging the extending
of financial aid to weak Central American
states with the primary objects of avoid
ing Just such revolutions by assisting
those republics to rehabilitate their
finances. to establish their currency on a
stable basis, to remove the custom houses
| from the danger OF revolutions by arrany-
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-12-07

In the field of work toward the
Ideals of peace this government ne
gotiated. but to my regret was unable
to consummate, two arbitration trea-
ties which set the highest mark of
the aspiration of nations toward the
substitution of arbitration and reason
for war in the settlement of interna-
tional disputes Through the efforts
of American diplomacy several wars
have been prevented or ended. J re-
fer to the successful tripartite media
ton of the Argentine Republic. Brazil
and the United States between Peru
and Ecuador; the bringing of the boun
dairy dispute between Panama and Cos
ia Rica TO peaceful arbitration; the
staying of warlike preparations when
Hayti and the Dominican Republic were
en- the verge of hostilities; the stopping
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-12-04

That her name had slipped his
memory, if indeed he had ever known
it, was true; but one thing fingered
incandescently in his mind, and that
was, he had written her, following
infinitely her own specific directions
and inclosirg his bankers address in
Paris, Naples and Cairo; and for many
passings of moons he had opened his
foreign mail eagerly and hopefully.
But hope must have something to
feed upon, and after a struggle lasting
two years, she rendered up the ghost.
. 1t wasn't the loss Of money that
hurt; it was the finding of dross metal
where he supposed there was naught
but gold. Perhaps his later shyness
was due as much to this disillusion-
ing incident as to his middle names.
isn't it droll, my dear?" the en-
chantress repeated; and George grew
redder and redder under the beautiful,
grateful eyes. II must give him draft
this very morning"
'But Why, my dear Ma
DAME" stammered George. ''You must
not 1 -
Fortune laughed. Somehow the quail
ity of that laughter pierced Georges.
confused brain as sometimes a shaft
Of sunlight rips into fog, suddenly,
stiletto-like. 1t was full of malice.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-12-04

dered what you must have thought Of
me. Monte Carlo is such a place! But
| must present my daughter. 1 am
Mrs. Chedsoye."
81 am glad to meet you, Mr.. JONES'"
and in the sad eyes there was a glim-
mer of real friendliness. More, she
extended her hand.
1t was well worth while, that hun
dred and fifty pounds. 1t was well
worth the pinch here and the pinch
there which had succeeded that loan.
For he had determined to return to
America with a pGInd or two on his
letter of credit, and the success Of
this determination was based upon
many sacrifice in comfort, sacrifices
he had never confided to his parents.
1t was not in the nature of things to
confess that the first woman he had
met in his wanderings should have
been the last. AS he took the girls
hand, with the Interior intent of hold
ing it till death do us part, he won
dered why she had laughed like that.
The echo of it still rang in his ears.
And while he could not have described
it, he knew instinctively that it had
been born of bitter thought.
They chatted for quarter of an
hour or more, and managed famousIy.
1t seemed to him that Fortune Ched-
soye was the first young woman he
had ever met who could pull away
sudden barriers and open up pathways
for speech, who, when he was about
to founder into some cul-de-sac, guided
him adroitly into an alley round it.
NOT once was it necessary to drag
in the weather, that perennial if
threadbare topic. He was truly aston
ished at the ease with which he sus-
tanned his part in the conversation,
and began to think pretty well Of
himself. 1t did not occur to him that
when two clever and attractive women
set forth to make a man talk Cal
ways excepting he is dumb, they new
er fail to succeed. To do this they
contrive to bring the conversation
within the small circle of his work,
his travels, his preferences, his ambi-
tons. To be sure, all this is not fully
extracted in fifteen minutes, but a
woman obtains in that time a good
idea Of the ground plan.
Two distinct purposes controlled the
women in this instance. One desired
to interest him, while the other sought
to learn whether he was stupid or only
shy.
At last, when he left them to change
his clothes and hurry down to Co0k's,
to complete the bargain for the Yhior.
des, he had advanced so amazingly
well that they had accepted his inVi-
tation to the polo-match that after
noon. He felt that invisible Mercuri-
al wings had sDrouteJ from his heels.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-12-04
BY THE YARD.

The other day three or four Lyons
boys went into a local meatshop to
"get one on the butcher" One Of them
advanced to the counter and said:
"How do you sell your meat?"
"Any way you want it." said the
butcher.
'Al right; what will it cost for a
yard?"
"Seventy-five cents"
''Tll take yard"
where's your money!?
The money was paid over and the
butcher showed it in the cash register,
reached under the counter, pulled out
three pigs feet and laid them before
the young man with the remark:
Here's your meat; three feet make a
yard"
The young man was not to be bluff
cd and took his meat amid the laugh
ter OF his friends.-Kansas City Jour-
nal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-12-04
CHAPTER v.
The Girl Who Wasn't Wanted.


If any one wronged George, defraud-
ed him of money or credit, he was al
ways ready to forgive, agreeing that
perhaps half the fault had been his.
This was not sign Of weakness, but
of sense Of justice too well leavened
with mercy. Humanity orrs in the one
as much as in the other, doubtless
with some benign purpose in perspec-
tive. Now, it might be that this charm
ing woman had really never received
his letter; such things have been
known to go astray. In any case he
could not say that he had written.
That would have cast a doubt upon
her word, an objectionable rudeness.
So, for her very beauty alone, he gave
her the full benefit of the doubt.
"You mustn't let the matter trouble
you in the least" he said, his helmet
now nicely adjusted under his arm.
"It was so long ago I had really for
gotten all about it," Which was very
well said for George.
"But I haven't. I have often won
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-12-04

for in running up the stairs, he was
aware of no gravitative resistance.
That this anomaly Ian acquaintance
with two women about whom he knew
nothing) might be looked upon.
askance by those who conformed to
the laws and bylaws of social usages,
worried him not in the least On the
contrary, he was thinking that he
would be the envy of every other man
out at the club that afternoon.
"Well?' said Mrs. Chedsoye, a quiz
zical smile slanting her lips.
"You wish my opinion?" countered
the daughter. IKE is shy, but he is
neither stupid nor silly; and when he
smiles he is really good-lookiug.
MY child" replied the woman.
drawing off her gloves and examining
her shapely hands, Il have looked in
to the very heart of that young man.
A thousand years ago, a red-cross on
his surtout, he would have been beat
ing his fists against the walls of
Jerusalem; five hundred years later,
he would have been singing cnant-
royales under lattice-windows; a pa
ladin and poet"
"How do you know that? Did he
make love to your
mo; but I made love to him with.
out his knowing il; and that was
more to my purpose than having him
make love to me- systematically,
f'Three days, and he was so guileless
that he never asked my name. But
in Monte Carlo, as you know, one asks
only your bankers name"
And your purpose?"
cit is still mine, dear. Do you real.
lie that we haven't seen each other
In four months, and that you haven't
offered to kiss me
'Did he go away without writing to
you about that money!"
Mrs. Chedsoye calmly plucked out
the inturned fingers of her gloves. 81
believe 1 did receive a note inclosing
his bankers address, but, unfortu.
nately, in the confusion of returning
to Paris, 1 lost it. My memory has
always been a trial to me- sadly.
"Since when?" coldly. ''There is not
a woman living with keener memory
than yours"
''You fiatter me. In affairs that in.
terest me, perhaps"
"You never meant to pay him. 10
is HORRIBLE
my dear Fortune, how you jump at
conclusionsi Did I not offer him a
draft the very first thing?"
Knowing that at such a moment he
could not possibly accept it?" de-
risively. Sometimes hate you'll"
I'm these days filial devotion is a
lost art
mo, no; it is flower parents have
ceased to cultivate
And there was in the tone a
strained note which described an in
tense longing to be loved. For if
George Percivai Algernon Jones was
lonely young man, it was the result
of his own blindness; whereas Fortune
Chedsoye turned hither and thither in
search of that which she never could
find. The wide Lybian desert held
upon its face loneliness, a desolation,
less mournfuI than that which reigned
within her heart
CTO BE CONTINUED
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-12-04
Do Won Get It9

Mother-Ne, child, I won't let you
90 and. see Camille" It isn't a fit
play.
Daughter-Oh, please, Dumas.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-12-04
A Fair Offer.

She was strong minded and meant
to have her rights at any cost, and
when she was hauled up before the
justice of the peace for exceeding the
speed limit she demanded to be rep
resented by counesl.
81 just tell you one thing, judge"
she said, whacking the table with
her right hand, "Td rather pay law
yer $25 than give this court SO for
a fine"
Cali right, madam" said the Judge,
''I'm tn only lawyer hereabouts, and
If yell just hand over that $25, I'll guar
antee to appear before myself and get
We Off''-Harper's Weekly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-12-04
Choice Locations.

"The advertising man has his trou-
bles these days"
"As to how?"
'Evedybody wants space next to
pure baseball matter"