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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-16

SHINING their nclghDorS ana minlStercd
also to any snobbiSh pretenSons with
which the artists themselves might be af-
ilictcd. The hoStesscs offered their guests
the finest playing and singing in the
world: the performers were persuaded 10
forcgo their fees by the supposed adj
vantage of meeting great people rs fellow
guests. An aspiring hostess was thus
often enabled not only 10 get the finest
performances for nothing, but also to
gather together at her receptions people
of social standing who without such an
attraction would never have entered her
doors. Such hoStes,cs therefore would
invite famous singers and musicians 10
meet tie Duchess of SO and SO. and init
mate mt the same time that it was hoped
they would bring their music or their
violin as the ease might be.
There is Il story of the last Duke Of
Buckingham and the famous singer Cata-
lani which perhaps indicates the begin
ming of the fashion of inviting the stars
Of the artistic world to great houses. 1t
is not quite case in point however be-
cause the Duke had Il great regard for Ca
talani's genius (CoRtinucd on Page con
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IAN AA FREDERICK TOWNSEND MARTIN
|osssa&aaaaw Drawings by Elizabeth Wins Jones.

HIS poshumos aele found amons the papers of the author
eubman and famous society babeu Of continents and pub
hShed by Of the Of his Mr. Martin was
uncle OF the Countess Of Craven and brother of Mr. Bradley
Martin Of New York AMI London
Evening star., 1914-10-09
Homers by Athletics.

BakeI SON Ayers. Washington, 2 doth ia
one tgame,: Benz. Chicago. 1: Cavet. Detroit. l.
BaARgardaer, st. Louis / Leonard. Boston, j.
Evening star., 1914-10-09
Always the Same
THARP'S
Berkeley Rye
eI2 F St. NV. Phone Main 277
Special Private Delivery.
G0LFING HINTS.
BY .STRAIGHT DRIVE"

FORCE VS.. SPEEDWAY a
shot in the game. especially with
irons. is spoiled by the player
trying to gain extra distance by
applying force to the stroke in
stead of confining his effort to
getting speed and bite into the
stroke at the instant Of contact.
If you will take a midiron and
make the easiest kind of swing
at ball with just a bit OF speed
as the ball is hit, you will be
convinced that much Of the mus
cular effort you put into your
strokes 10 unnecessary.
have seen Alec Smith play a
simple wrist shot with a mid
iron which gained greater dis
tance than most of US get with a
driver. He hit the ball accurate
ly and with such speed at the In,
slant of contact that the light
little ball had to fly far and true.
Evening star., 1914-10-09

have been chosen at Catholic Univer-
sity Joe Derby is to take charge OF
the basket ball interests and Tom
Glankler is to head the track and field
squad.
Evening star., 1914-10-09
RRAVES SURPASS ATHLETICS
IN HOME RUNS FOR SEASON
Baker Leads Mackmen With Nine Circuit
Clouts, While Connolly Is Best for
Boston With Total of Seven.

James, st. Louis. 1; Leverenz. St. Louis. /;
Dubuc, Detroit 1; right handlers, 8; left hand
ers, 3.
Walsh. son Russell, Chicago, /: Bentley,
Washington, l; Leonard. Boston, l.; left hand
ers, 3.
Murphy, s-on .Leverenz. St. Louis, 1; Cole
New York. i; Shaw, Washington. l. right hand
oldring, s1on Scott. Chicago. l: Foster. Bos-
ton L James st. Louis ; /; right handlers. s. 3
shang, 2-0n Collins. Boston. /: Scott Chi
{ right sandsr Il lsfs hanssr g or.
Hamilton. st. Louis, l; right handler. /; left
Mcinnis. Ion Hamilton. ST.. Louis, /; lef,
Bender. lon Shaw. Washington: right handler
wyckon. Ion Coveleski, Detroit; left handler
Bush. 1-On Bedient, Boston; right handler.
Homers by Braves.
Connolly. 7-o6 Alexander. Philadelphia, /:
Mathewson, New York. i: Lavender. Chicago. 1;
Demaree, New York, 1; Fromme. New York, 1;
Adams, Pittsburgh. 1: O'Toole. Pittsburgh, i;
right handlers. Z.
Smith. 7-Oh Cooper, Pittsburgh, 2; Alexan.
der Philadelphia, /: Smith. Chicago. I: Mar
! guard. New York. 1; Mayer. philadelphia, 1;
Cheney Chicago, I: right handers 4: left hand
ers. 3.
Maranville.. 4-on Vaughn Chicago. 1: sallee
Mann. 3-or Tesreau. New York. i: Mar
guard. New York u; !; McQnillan, Pittsburgh, /
Gowdy. 3-Aiexandsr .Philadeiphia. /: Allen
Brooklyn. L; Ames, Cincinnati, l; right handlers
schmidt rs a fEon Fromme. New York: r,rb,
handler.
I Dugey. 1-on GriDr. st. Louis: right hander
Evening star., 1914-10-09
Special pispa tch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA. October 9.-The
Braves succeeded in making four more
home runs this season than the Ath-
letics did, but they cannot be considered
better manufacturers of four-bag blows
than the American League champions,
since they played in smaller ball yards.
Joe Connolly is Boston's Frank Baker.
He hit for the circuit seven times this
year, while the Marylander was clout-
ing for the full distance nine times. but
not one of the Woonsocket boys wal
lops broke up a combat. and neither did
he succeed in getting a four-bagger OF
a southpaw.
The Bostonian who had the habit Of
inserting his home runs when they
would do the most good was Maran-
wife. The Rabbit" drove out quar-
tet Of homers. and each meant victory.
The pitchers who suffered were Vaughn
Of the Cubs, Sallee Of the Cards and
Adams and O'Toole Of the Pirates. The
two first named we're located for four
baggers by Stalling's little shortstop
when the hassocks all had tenants
Baker is the only player eligible for
the big series who has the distinction
of polling two four ggers in the same
pense of Doc" Ayers of the Nationals.
The same day the Braves played a
double-header with the Giants and in
each section of the bargain bill Con-
clout was off Arthur Fromme; his sec
| ond off Christy Mathewson.
Gowdy Also a Circuit Hitter.
Hank Gowdy might have been the
home-run king of the National League
| had the scouts lined up fifty or sixty
hurlers whose names begin with the
| first letter of the alphabet. He has a
| trio of circuit smashes to his credit.
each gained off an artillerist whose
name starts with A. Frank Allen. Gro
yer Cleveland Alexander and Leon
Ames yielded these pokes.
Larry Gilbert at one time this season
| gave promise of making regular
Gavvy Cravath-vic Safer record. The
Milwaukee recruit drove out five hom
ers between June 6 and July 3, and then
| ceased pestering the pitchers.
Jimmy Walsh. who will split his re-
ceipts on a $3.50 basis with Pete Daley
hammered the ball out of the lot three
meant a 1-to-o defeat for Dutch
Leonard of the Red Sox, the last a
S-to-1 beating for Jack Bentley of the
| Nationals.
The Athletics have eleven men in the
home-run class this year, the Braves
nine. The homers made by the worlds
| series contenders this year and the
names Of the pitchers off whom they
were made are given below:
Homers by Athletics.
Baker. e-On Ayers. washington, doth in
one game,: Benz. Chicago. L: Cavet. Detroit. L
BSl0Rgardner, st. Louis, / Leonard, Boston, /
Evening star., 1914-10-09

The best worlds series contests were
between the Giants and the Red Soy.
They weren't the best in the quality
Of the play. not by good deal. but
mechanical precision The big side
after all Is the human side, and in ex-
citement, color. stirring interest. the
predominance Of the human equation,
the Giants-R Red Sox grapples were the
best of all.
Base ball history lacks one thing to
make it complete. 1t has had its triple
soueezes, triple steals and possibly six
hits in one inning without q run, but
when Is 1t going to have . game with
no-hit pitching on each side?
Evening star., 1914-10-09

Totals. 45s 'sS 4i9 Totals. 42s 4s6 Il
Evening star., 1914-10-09

Gallaudet does not have . game to.
morrow. It will likely stage practice
contest Of some kind. though, In order
to keep the men in good shape. While
the Gallaudet varsity eleven is idle
though, the Reserves will meet the
Briarly Hall team. The Kendall Green
ers' second string aggre CATION is ex-
pecting to score a victory over their
less experienced opponents.
Evening star., 1914-10-09
DISTRICT LEAGUE
CUNTS Do WELL
Resofutes Defeat the Belmont
BowIers by Getting Two
Games Out of Three.
SOUTHERN MAKES SWEEP
IN TERMINAL "Y" CIRCUIT
Stanley, w. Smith and Warthen Do
Good Work in Match Between
Railroaders.

The Resolutes and Belmonts rolled a
good match in the District Bowling
League last night. The Resolutes final
ly emerged the victor. but it was not
until after they had lost the first game
and finished in the lead of the two
others by small margins The Belmonts
got a score of 526 in their first contest,
against 4s5 for the Resolutes. but in
the second the latter forged to the
front and won by 531 to SIT. and the
last game resulted in a win for the
same quint by 512 to 4s9
Hollebaugh, Farrow and Murphy did
the best bowling for the Resoiutes. Ihe
first mentioned got more than leO pms
in each Of his contests, his as scores e. De.
counts Of 113, 107 and 116. Farrow fell
down in one Of his contests. but did
well in the two others, his high scores
being 1913 and 10S. Lewis got the best
marks OF any of the losers. He knocked
down 1I2 pins in his first string. 102
in the second and finished with one Of
lis.
Fairlawn Loses Match.
The Norris Peters team got the match
It rolled against the Fairlawn five by
two gaines out Of three. Williams OF
the winners did the best work of any
1o1 I02 and lls for a set of 321.
Southern made it clean sweep over
the Freight auint in the Terminal sE,s,, Rail, :
ana Stanley were the mainstays of the
winners. The best scores Of the for
msr were IL and lso: while 1nt the he latter latter
led the Freight aggregation with 100,
112 and 10l.
In the Arcade League the Arcade
..ero tool the measure of the Hess five
hv rettine the hrst two games and
| losing the third. The Arcade bunch
| barely won. though. as its score IN the
drst contest was only two pins higher
than it's opponents
Braves Defeat Grands.
! The Braves beat the Grands two out
of three In the Southwestern circuit
Allen of the losers was high man. He
scored more than 100 pins in every
game, his marks being 10. ia and 1Os.
| The scores:
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-03-24
SETTLED THE JUDGES DOUBTS
Naive Statement of Convicted Muir
derer Removed All Question as
to His Guilt

When Judge Stewart Of Vermont
presided at the trial Of negro charged
with murder Of another Of his race he
admitted afterward to friends that he
had serious doubts of the prisoners
guilt until he began to pronounce SEN
tence.
The negro had pleaded not guilty
and repeatedly, on being questioned
had asserted with much emphasis, Il
didn't do lit" The evidence was not
convincing, and the judge was sur
prised when the jury brought in a YER
dict of guilty His doubts vanished,
when, after reminding the negro that
he had been tried by jury of II men.
etc, ne said: 1T is my duty to warn
you that your days on earth are num-
bered, and it behooVes you to avail
yourself of the little remnant of time
allotted to you to make peace with
God
Just there the negro broke in with
the exclamation, "Ah done dat already,
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Il know" | said.


Somehow we always talked about
military balloons. And that evening
she was so interested in my
work l brought some little
sketches 1 had made"
Il understand" l said.
He looked at me miserably. "She
was to return the sketches to me at
Calman's-the fashionable book store,
next day. | never
thought that the next day was to be
Sunday The book stores OF
Paris are not open on Sunday-but the
war office is"
81 began to put on my coat.
and the sketches were asked for?"
l uggested-'and you naturally told
what had become of them?"
81 refused to name her"
$50 they sent you to fortress?" l
asked.
"To New Caledonia, four
years. l was only twenty,
Scarlet, and ruined.
joined Byram in Antwerp and risked
the tour through France"
81 was under arrest on Sunday. l do
not know. l like to believe
that she went to the book store on
Monday, that she made an in
nocent mistake, but I never
knew, Scarlet, / never knew"
Suppose you ask herr" l said.
His firm hand frightened on mine,
then he walked away, steadily, head
high. And l went out to saddle my
Point Paradise.
So, by strange ways and eccentric
circles, like the aerial paths of hom-
ing sea-birds, l came at last to the spot
l had set out for, consciously; yet it
surprised me to find I had come there.
A boy took my horse, servant in
full Breton costume admitted me; the
velvet humming of Sylvia ElVen's spin
ming wheel filed the silence, like the
whirring of a great, soft moth impris-
oned in a room.
The door swung open nOiseloSsly;
the whir of the wheel and the sound of
the song filled the room for an in
tess de Vassart closed the door and
came forward to greet me.
Are you troubled?" she asked, then
colored at her own question.
mo, not troubled. Happiness is
often edged with shadow. l am con-
tent to be here"
Her face grew graver. you must
forget the past" she said; you must
forget all that was cruel and false and
unhappy, -. will you not?"
yes, madame"
Il, too" she said, have much to for
get and much to hope for; and you
taught me how to forget and how to
hope"
Il, madame?"
Yes, at La Trappe, at
Morsbronn, and here. Look at me.
Have l not changed?"
Yes" L said, fascinated.
I picked up my gloves and riding
crop; as | rose she stood up In the
dusk, looking straight at me.
will you come again?" she asked.
| stammered a promise and made
my way blindly to the door which a
servant threw open, flung myself
astride my horse, and galloped out in
to the waste of moorland, seeing moth
ing, hearing nothing save the low roar
Of the sea, like the growl of restless
lions.
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CHAPTER XVI.
a Restless Man.

When l came into camp, late that
afternoon, l found Byram and Speed
cropping about among a mass of news
papers and letters the first mail we
circus people had received for nearly
two months.
There were letters for all who were
accustomed to look for letters from
families, relatives, or friends at home
l never received lettersI had re-
ceived none of that kind in nearly
score of years.
But there were newspapers enough
and to spare-French, English, Ameri-
can; and l sat down By my lions cage
and attempted to form some opinion
of the state of affairs in France.
When, on the 3rd of September, the
humiliating news arrived that the en-
peror was a prisoner and his army an
initiated, the government, for the first
time in it's existence, acted with
promptness and decision in a matter
of Importance. Secret orders were
sent by couriers to the Bank of France,
to the Louvre, and to the Invalides;
and, that same night, train after train
rushed out of Paris loaded with the
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battle flags from the Invalides, the
most important pictures and antique
sculptures from the Louvre, the great
er part of the gold and silver from the
Bank Of France, and, last but by no
means least, the crown and jewels of
France.
These trains were dispatched to
Brest, and at the same time telegram
was directed to the admiral command
ing the French iron-clad fleet in the
Baltic to send an armored cruiser to
Brest with all haste possible, there to
await further orders, but to be fully
prepared in any event to take on
board certain goods designated in
cipher. This we knew in a general
way, though Speed understood that
Lorient was to be the port of depar-
ture
The plan, then, was simple; but, for
an equally simple reason, it miscar-
ried in the following manner: On the
4th of September the treasure-laden
trains had left Paris for Brest. On
the 9Th the Hirondelle steamed out to-
dan and the orders for the detachment
of a cruiser to receive the crown
jewels On the 9Th the news and the
orders were signaled to the flagship;
but the God of battles unclaimed a
tempest which countermanded the or
der and hurled the ironclads into outer
darkness.
So, fer days and days, the treasure
laden trains must have stood helpless
in the station at Brest, awaiting the
cruiser that did not come.
Speed and l already knew the secret
orders sent. The treasures, including
the crown diamonds, were to be stored
was to lie off the arsenal with banked
fires, ready to receive the treasures at
the first signal and steam to the
French fortified port of Saigon in Co.
chin China, by a course already deter
mined.
Why on earth those orders had been
changed so that the cruiser was to lie
off Groix l could not imagine, unless
some plot had been discovered in Lo-
rient which had made it advisable to
shift the location of the treasures for
the third time.
Pondering there at the tent door,
amid my heap of musty newspapers, l
looked out into the late, gray after
noon and saw the maids and men OF
Paradise passing and repassing across
the bridge.
A few moments later drums began
to roll from the square. Speed, pass
ing, called out to me that the con-
scripts were leaving for Lorient; SO
walked down to the bridge, where the
crowd had gathered and where a tall
gendarme stood, his blue-and-white
uniform distinct in the early evening
light.
Attention." cried the officer, SLIM
hectic lieutenant from Lorient.
The mayor handed him the rolls,
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-03-24
CHAPTER XIV.
EOreWarned.


The lions had now begun to give me
great deal of trouble Oh, they
knew, and / knew, that meters had
gone wrong with me; that had, for a
time, at least, lost the intangible some
thing which / once possessed-that oc-
cult right to dominate.
That morning, as / left the training
cage-where among others, Kelly Eyre
stood looking on suddenly remem-
bered Sylvia Elven and her message
TO Eyre, which l had never delivered
My son." said l, politely, do you
think you have arrived at an age suf-
fciently mature to warrant my deliv-
ering to you a message from a pretty
girl?"
There's no harm in attempting it,
my venerable friend" he replied.
laughing.
This is the message" said: "On
Sunday the book stores are closed in
Paris"
who gave you that message, Scar
lett?" he stammered
He was so young, so manly, SO un-
spoiled, and so red, that on an impulse
I said: Kelly, it was Mademoiselle
Elven who sent you the message"
His face expressed troubled aston
ishment
is that her name?' he asked.
"Well-it's one of them, anyway" /
replied, beginning to feel troubled in
my turn. See here, Kelly, it's not
my business, but you won't mind if 1
speak plainly, will you? l know
Mademoiselle Elven-slightly. l am
afraid Of her-and l have not yet de
cided why. Don't talk to her"
Butt don't know her." he said;
''or, at least don't know her by that
name"
Then who do you believe sent you
that message, Kelly?"
His cheeks began to burn again. and
he gave me an uncomfortable look.
A silence, and he sat down in my
dressing room, his boyish head hurled
in his hands. After a glance at him
i began changing my training suit for
riding clothes. whistling the while soft
ly TO myself.
Mr.. Scarlet l should like to tell
you about myself; | was a
clerk in the consuPs office in Paris
when Monsieur Tissandier took a
fancy to me, and ] entered his balloon
ateliers to learn to assist him Then
the government began to make much
OF US you remember? We
Il started experiments for the army.
Il was intensely interested, and
L there was not much talk about secrecy
4 then. | made an invention-a
little electric screw which steered a
Il balloon sometimes -
He laughed, a mirthful laugh, and
4 looked at me. All the color had gone
| from his face
There was d woman" | turned
partly towards him.
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MAKING OVER OLD FRIENDS
Much Time Wasted in Effort to Do
What Probably No One Ever
Really Succeeded in.

II remember how, once in my life,
wasted untold energy trying to
make over my dearest friends" writes
David Grayson in the American Maya
zine. There was Harriet, for exam
pie, dear, serious, practical Harriet.
used to be fretted by the way she was
forever trying to clip my wings
suppose to keep me close to the quiet
and friendly and unadventurous roost!
We come by such long road, some
times, to the acceptance of our near
est friends for exactly what they are.
Because we are so fond of them
we try to make them over to suit
some curious ideal of perfection OF
our own-until one day we suddenly
laugh aloud at our own absurdity
(knowing that they are probably try
ing as hard to reconstruct us as we
are to reconstruct them!J and there
fore we try no more to change them,
we just love 'em and enjoy 'em!"
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STRONG DEFENSE OF HER SEX
Miss Huida Mutt Proves by Anecdote
That Men Are Just as Foolish
as the Women.

1T certainly does make me weary,
all these innuendoes in the funny pa
.pers about the women. One would
think by some of the supposedly face
tious jokes that We girls didn't have
enough intelligence to keep out of the
home for the feeble minded remarked
Hulda Mutt to her sister, lima, as she
pointed TO an illustration In the eve
ming paper.
Now here. for instance, is re-
,hashed story about a bridegroom car
.rying a basket, approaching a narrow
creek. He turns to his simple minded
ibride-I Judge she must have been
simple or she never would have mar
lried him--and he offers to carry her
across the stream. This egotistical
male jokesmith has the bride make
the inane reply: But you can't carry
both me and the lunch basket. We
would be too heavy. You carry me and
/ will carry the lunch basket
IS a matter OF fact that foolish
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-03-24
CHAPTER XVII.
The Circus.


A little after sunrise on the day set
for our first performance, Speed
sauntered into my dressing-room in
excellent humor, saying that the
country was Enthusiastically aroused to
the Importance of the Anti-Prussian
Republican circus and the Flying Mer-
maid of Ker-Ys.
l had had an unpleasant hours
work with the lions, during which
Marghouz, a beast hitherto lazy and
docile, had attempted to creep be-
hind me. Again l had betrayed ir-
ritation; again the lions saw it, I'M
derstood it, and remembered. Poor
devils! Who but I knew that they
were right and I was wrong! Who
but 1 understood what lack of free
dom meant to the strong-meant to
Gagged creatures, unrighteously de-
prived Of liberty!
| mentioned something of this to
Speed as l was putting on my coat
to go out, but he only scowled at me,
saying: Your usefulness as a lion
tanner is ended, my friend; you are
a fool to enter that cage again, and
I'm going to tell Byram."
Don't spoil the governors pleasure
now" | said, irritably. I'm going to
give it up soon, anyway-not now
not while the governor has a chance
to make a little money; but soon
very soon. You are right; 1 can't con-
troll anything now-not even myself.
l must give up my lions, after ALL
"When?" said Speed.
Soon don't know. I'm tired
really tired. l want to go home"
Are you really going home, Scar
lett?" he asked, curiously.
L have nothing to keep me here,
have II"
Not unless you choose to settle
down and marry"
After moments thought I said:
Speed, what the devil do you mean
by that remark"
"Oh, what do you imagine | mean?'
he retorted. DO you think I'm blind?