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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-09
RhythIns

p" Dancing is the poetry of motion. :
1 never thought of it BEFORE re.
piled Uncle Flopsole, "but | believe
YOU are right. There is a relationship
between dancing and poetry. Both of
them depend largely on making the
feet behave ''-Washington Star.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-09
The Justice and the Riu

The justice had fined the auto owner
s. for speeding.
The victim pulled out ten dollar
bill.
The Justice stared at it.
It's tn smallest you've got'''
eyes.
Aain't | chump!" said the jus
tice.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Birth Announcements

Mr. and NJ :. Cosmus c. Sloathower.
42l South Fifteenth street, announce
the birth of a daughter. Ferne Eliza,
beth, Fridav. November s. Mrs. Sloat-
hover was Miss Thompson prior TO her
marriage.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Kreider. 2542
Lexington street, announce the birth of
daughter. Aunabelle Mae Kreider.
Friday. October 80.
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Gochenauer.Kreider Weddine

Willow Street. Nov. 9.-Miss Ada
X. kreider was married yesterday to
Benjamin H. Gochenauer. bv the Rev.
\. B. Herr, the ring ceremony being
used. The ceremony was performed
al the home of the bride. They were
unattended
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Publicity

"of course YOU don t care for cheap
notoriety,' said the man Of ideals.
"My dear sir, reioined Senator
Sorghum. "there is no such thing as
cheap notoriety nowadays. Advertising
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Intricate Mechanism

. | don know how to take this
chicken apart, y declared the bride.
"Well, we tackled an automobile
successfully" said the young husband.
We ought to be able to handle a
small job like this. Where's the book
of instructions? ?''-Kansas City Jour
nal.
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Fannie Ward, who will be seen here
in the French farce, MADAM Presi-
dent at the Majestic Thursday even,
ing, is an enthusiastic devotee of the
royal and ancient game, and even when
on tour takes every opportunity to
spend one day of the week on the links.
During her engagement in New York,
she engaged in the pastime as usual,
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-09
Announce Birth of a Daughter

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel r. Michael.
l45l Berryhill street, announce the
birth of daughter. Elizabeth Ro-
maine. Saturday. November !. Mrs.
Michael was Miss Ella Fortney. prior
10 her marriage.
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Home From An Extended Trim

Mr. and Mrs. y. \. Yarlc and son.
Harold, have returned from an extend.
ed trip through the west where they Wis,
ted the formers brother. James T..
laPie, OF Nevada. They also visited
places of interest in Missouri. Kansas.
Oklahoma, Texas and Galveston.
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WIN Attend W. G. T. U. Convention

Mrs. Ella Wilson. of Portland. Ore
gan, spent the weekend as the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Park Shearer. 1851 How.
ard street. en- route to Atlanta. Ga.
where she will attend the W. c. T. L.
convention which will be held there.
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Choir Rehearsal Tonight

\ rehearsal of the choir of Covenant
Presbyterian church will be held this
evening at 1.30 clock All members
are urged to be present.
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The chiffon broadcloth. which is light
weight in comparison with the other
broadcloth, is used extensively for one.
piece dresses. Black, blue, green, beige
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Spirited Conversation

" Ism t it strange how music ntoxi.
Gates you2'' asked the cheerful idiot.
Not at all, " replied the boob. "lt is
written in bars, ism t it?'-Cincin-
natl Enquirer
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the front. The bronze shoes made on n
pointed last and with high French heels
are conservative and yet when used in
the right way give an air of careful
consideration to Il costume.
THE FEMININE ENIGMA
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Time never hangs heavy ON the
hands of boy with his first watch.
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and with the view of improving her
already excellent style of play secured
the services of the chief "pro,'' con
tracing with him to take her over the
eighteen holes once every Monday
morning. The professional grew very
enthusiastic over the stars progress
and Miss Ward in her turn listened
with pleasure to the tales he told Of
golfers in general.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-15
Tn psoint v bank dashight picture took v Il
tn consarn is s. lvent.'

Ye cudden't get Old Hoss Flint to put on
that armor amy more thin he wud a
divers suit. He used to ketch with his
naked hands ontil his hands got so bust
ed that ye cudden't screen soft coal with
thin. an thin he caught with his nose or
his stomach. He didn't care.
In thin days l niver EXPECTED 10 see
base ball become tn FINANCIAL institu-
ton it is today. TIL season was shorter.
About tn middle " MAY tn great athe
leet turned over tn reins ~ tn grocery
team to other hands an wint down to
tn ball park an reported to tn cap. He
played ontil tn ear muffS blossomed in
tn grand stand an thin resoomed his
civic jootes. Dur:n' tn WHITTIER he was
just like tn rest iv us. Ye niver heerd iv
him onless he got into throuole with tn.
polls. Nowadays tn whittier is TIL
more base ball news Whin tn snow IS on
TIL ground thin there is in tn summer
time Most base ball players show little
Interest in tn game ontil tn season is
over. But whin tn cold weather comes
they begin to warm UP. an NANNY
sturdy fellow that had to be led away
firm first base be tn ear makes a record
as tn spryest contract jumper in
ayether league. Some iv thin go. on tn
stage an become great acthors. Others
take up lithrachoor as a ro-fissyon. an
nanny iv tn best articles in tn pa-apers
is wrote be ball players without tn aid
IL mask.
IF Horace Greeley vas to return to
'arth, tn chances are TIL foreman Nv tn
composing room wud come to his desk
some night an shake proof undher his
nose an say, Look here OF boss, yen
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have to cut this EDITORIAL on TIL Fate "
tn Nation down to stick. We've just
got In article on fungo hittin' be Stuffy
MeGinnis' I whit by tn office " d
magazine TIL other day an see a crowd
standin' at tn dure. WHAT'S tn excite
ment" says l. We're wa.tiE' fr HIM to
come out says a man. Who? Rood
yard kiplin . says l. No. says he:
Ping Bodie. He's signin' an article ON
tn "Neo- Platonic Theery iv TIL Spit
Ball. he says. TIL iditor has offered
him forty thousan' dollars, but he says
if he don't get fifty he'll jump to tn
Quartherly Review
ITS a great change firm my day. Tn
heroes I knew cudden't feel pen in their
hands onless it was as big as a paint
brush an had nails in tn. handle. An I
niver heerd iv a PROFESSIONAL ball player
enthrin' a bank-at Taste in tn daytime.
Now, whin Ty Cobb goes down to wan iv
these hardware stores with a thrunk con-
tainin' his weekly wages tn pris:dint iv
tn bank has a ftashlight picture took "
tn scene to show that tn consarn is sol!
vent. Jawnny Evers wishes us to deny
tn story circulated f'r its effect on tn
stock exchange that he has consinted to
jine tn boord iv tn Standard lie com
p'ny. 1t is reported that Josh Devore
will give his entire collection " rare
paintings. Chinese porcylains. an Per-
shyan rugs to tn art museem. If We see
a young fellow modestly dhressed in a
pink an green checked suit, with an
acetylene headlight in his shirt front,
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He used ketch with his naked hands ontl hands got SO
busted that cudden't soft coal with thirn'

as he pastes thin on tn thrade mark
whin he's up an hauls thin down with
wan hand whin he's in tn field
YEN see me in a front seat at tn first
game watchin' tn nimble young f-nan-
ceers at pay an yellin. Take him on.
at tn fellow who amt got nawth!n on tn
ball but his good ntintions regard ess iv
his ratin' in oil man Bradsthreets ditch-
nary iv merit Between you an me. d
lust as soon watch a white slave playin'
as a bouid freeman. An IL he played
betther ball, I'd sooner. l haven't car.
in tn wurruld whether his consfifootynal
rights is guaranteed. SO long as he gets
down to sicond ahead iv TIL ball.
II see be tn pa-aper that it's shame
that a base ball player shud get three
times as much salry as college pro-ns-
sor.'' said Mr.. Hennessy.
He may be worth three times as
much" said Mr. Dooley. IF mans
value to tn wurruld was measured be his
wages, a sthreet sprinkler wud get more
thin bank prisidint. But IT amt"
But dye honestly think iris Speaker
ought to get more thin TIL prisidint iv
Harvard CoIledge?" asked Mr.. Hennessy.
That" said Mr. Dooley. lis a matter
I can't give an opinyon on. | niver see
Dock Lowell play. I'd lave tn matther
to a vote " TIL studints Nv that great an
fash-nable resort. I'd let thin decide
which athleet it gives thin more pleasure
to see perform"
Dye think they'd raise Speakers sal
ry?" asked Mr.. Hennessy.
NO said Mr. Dooleyr; but they might
cut down Prisidint Lowelrs.
fCo2yrignr 1914 By smiley Peter Dunne.D
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est iv, an that there'd be more ginooyine
grief in tn homes iv America If Joe
Tinker sprained his ankle thin if Cole
Blease broke his neck.
There's no wan prouder IL tn growth
iv baseball thin mesilf, an faith l ought
to be- FIR haven't l watched 1t firm its
infancy. whin TIL Forest Citys bate TIL
Pecatonica Blues be a scoor iv two hun
dhred an eight to nawthin'? l reminder
whin siven Numbers iv tn championship
team wore side whiskers an whin wan "
thin. Harry Wright, be name. had as
complete a beard as tn wan that gives
Jim Ham Lewis tn on'y privacy he has
iver enJyed. I've seen Jim White pitch
in spectacles an / reminder whin tn
best base stealer in TIL league had a club
Spalding to Eddie Welsh This very re-
threat where We are standin' now used
to be tn thrainin quarthers fir Mike
Kelly. tn grandest player Nv thin all an
tn on'y man that cud make an error so
laughable that We wudden't be able to
scoor it f'r merrymint. reminder whin
Cap Arson, a raw country boy, come
to Chicago firm Marshalltown, Ioway-"
Dye reminder Wash'nton at Valley
Forge" asked Mr.. Hennessy.
Valley Forge was in tn Pennsylvania
State league. an we didn't pay amy at
tintion to tn bushers in thin days" said
Mr.. Dooey. Il reminder whin tn
ketcher used to stand behind tn plate,
without mask or chist protector or gloves.
an take thin all, high an low. in or out
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Yet the fashionable ringside that paid
so per seat wasa not unedifled by us
breyty. Paris knows. Paris is posted
Paris is rot like AK or Leipzig or Turin
or Buda AS Tristan Bernard. theatre
cal authority, pointed out. brevity is the
soul of sincerity.
Paris knows the history Of the ring
Some OF the GREATEST battles have been
brief. Battling Nel;on beat William Ros-
Ser in two seconds Dial Hawkins knocN-
ed out Martin Fiahcrty in four. And
Terry McGovern finished Pedlar Palmer
i'll sixteen
ON the other hai.l. some of the great.
est battles have been draws. So when
Jack johnson broke his wrist on Jim
johnson Paris pale tribute to valor by
acclaiming match null when II haa
paid for Knockout, Did not the most
terrible fight of Joan L. Sullivan's life
that with Charley Mitchell at Chantilly-
end in draw after thirty-nine rounds
And George Dixon's match with Cal Nc
Carthy after sevenay rounds? And JACK
Bcoughtons historical contest with Jack
Slack that lasted 2s2 rounds in 1913. ac-
cording to the vesacious French prose
of Joe Woodman?
Paris knows more boxing history than
.all the other natior.s combined. They are
all the time rea1ing. Whenever an
American pugilist goes broke they give
him 500 to write another hand book.
There isn't thing that Paris hash
seen.
5 ;:
For instance. in Champion Sam Nc
Vey's fight with champion Joe Grimm
the French referee. disqualified the iron
jawed man for gosng down nine times
in one round without being hit. But pre-
viously, when MesVey discovered that
Grim had oiled his body to make the
blows slip off, the black bison made no
complaint but just helped wipe him.
How the Parisians :cheered. They love a
dead game sport.
At times they have weakness to show
Off their knowledge For example. Paris
knows that buttinS is prohibited. But
Scanlon did not but.. Then why did they
break up the entertainment? Just to
show of erudition- crying like 5000 de-
mons that 1.-The dsrky's butting Harry
while the blameEess' scanlon sprinted
in hail of benches. bottles canes and
saucers the regretted Harry just missed
following Louis XVI and Robespierre into
the gallery of French martyrs by pres
ence of mind. He sat still in his corner
while his trainer tapped the towel before
him.
He is ready td continue cried a
Mcnt-martre lady, and the mighty audi
ence cheered him, a3,d they carried him in
triumph, quite forgetting it was they
who stopped Bob Sscanlon from continu-
ing.
So let no misguided fighters try to
fake a match in Paris. That will do
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ward, not to risk imperial embargo like
the tango.
At Luchon they say: You should
have seen the fight at AN.
TWO blue-chinned trasedians, three pale
boys. two reformed comics and three
woman members of the company missed
the commercial hotelsof the little French
watering place and brought up at the
Quinconces. bubbling with summer board
Through the partition OF my room came
bits of mysterious rehearsal. The male
force was hurrying into sparring tights
under street cloths. while the women
hammered on the door. to hurry.
The farm. Cpun for 'ferme' or shut
it,)", Kissed a cigarette voice. You
girls think only of your dinner. You
have time to dress while ! am knocking
out Camille Tell him. Monsieur Rambo.
when and where and how he falls He
don't know yet.
'.relI Willie Corbett he must keep his
hands up. lie is all the time forgetting,
and I'm tired of clinching.
TIA ia. clinching is excessively Amer1-
can Don't forget your infghting. |
shall tell the audience that Wilie's kid
nev-punch is terrible.
sit is barred, these two years past,
Bah, what do they know in AK. Has
Ted Rickert practiced his English? Tssh.
They're going down TO dinner. Now.
With now. the steTnfaced phalanN
stalked through the corridors and out into
the dusk with immense effect. "Brutes.
murmured the professor. Heroes.
whisp, red the buds. For three days the
Casino placards had announced: Battling
Johnson meets all comers-Hogan and
Hardy. welter CHAMPIONSHIP Rickert.
bantam wonderful Sullivan and Willie
Corbett-terminating with the Knockout
To the last man,
The box Office took $2iO, and the nice
families s,uddered at the sponges. buck
cts, towels, fans, ropes and manager 8
brief introduction: "MesdameS, MeSsieurs.
the twenty-cent supplement stamped on
each ticket constitutes your receipt Tor
the life and accident premiums Of the
evening. The Casino authorities are
equally covered. Spectators of sensibility
are begged to retire before the beginning
Of brutal but virile spectacle"
Nobody budged.
Time 1t was Hogan and Hardy. but
il might have been dog fight. Hogan
rushed his man through the ropes and
pulled him out. and slammed him up
against the bucket in the corner. Hardy
Topped on his back. heels over head.
leaped to his feet, chung in q clinch, tore
loose. then drove a left at Hogans jaw.
in the chest. When. bouncing back, eX-
pounded methodicaIly on his upturned
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stopped the striking gesture and the flop
ping genius had the whole show to him
self.
He rolled over on his stomach. lie
leered up, with defiance on his blood
smeared features. at the plying ladies OF
the audience. Hit MIN again. loafer.
whispered the referee No. the poor man
is resting" whimpered the ladies. 10
show them he wasn't he sagged to his
launches. And. while the police COM
missary of AK, in evening clothes, climb
ed TO the ring, Hogan. waking to his
job again. gave a perfunctory. final clout
1t was Hardy's cue to do back-fall,
roll. kick. shiver and lie still-so that
Just as the referee tolled off the seconds
the commissary called. in a loud voice
Let the brutal entertainment cease. The
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victim to a neighborin caffy, where he
was rendered unconscious with cham
payne. While in this condition he was
injooced to sign contract surrendherin'
himsilf into captivity FIR thirty thousan'
dollars Il year, provided he was allowed
to use an autymobile in runnin tn
bases. 1t IS feared that he has been spir-
tied away to Brooklyn. where he Is lock-
ed up in Il safety deposit vault
mo wondher TIL country is all wur-
ruked up over tn situation. Here S
something that Congress an tn Prisid!nt
ought to get busy about. There ought to
be a fedhral commission TO invis'ygate tn
condition an housin " PROFESSIONAL base
ball players. I'm no SOCIALIST. Hinnissy.
but whin an institution gets to be SO i'm
ought to be took over be tn naytional
govermint. Yes sir It is time f'r Dock
Wilson to Quit fooin' with such polly tic
kal croshayin' as TIL rivoluchion in Mex
leo an TIL anti-thrust lesislachion an do
somethin' that appeals to tn heart iv tn
American people
Some people think there's too much
business in base ball They think ball
player ought to be like pote or a law
yer an have amy money he gets secreted
in a bunch " vilets that's handed to him
be his admirers. / don't agree with thin.
Divvle a bit do l care whether a man
is playin ball FIR TIL fun " it or fr re-
to take befure he quit tn game, so long
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face while the audience "Oh-ed. and
bounced in their seats.
How describe those rounds, the bust
ness with the sponges@ Hogan sported Il
big purple eye that appeared suddenly.
after sponging. Hardy had carelessly
pulled out two teeth and thrown them on
the fioor-yes, you could hear a tooth
DROP Then the thing occurred that
makes the buds of Beziers. matrons of
Montpelier and coIlegians of Cahors say
superciliously: But you should have
seen the fight at AN,
Hardy had gone fiat from right
handler that nearly touched his chin.
Flopping more like toad than a human
being the gifted comedian was half up
and wholly down six times in seven sec
onds. Hogan, out of breath and patience,
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audience is summoned to tsisperse'
That is why they saw; not Battling
Johnson. Kid Sullivan and Willie Corbett.
vet made no complaint AMI that is why
when Big Jim Johnson With a sparring
outfit showed at Luchon. there was dis
appointment at the tameness of it. You
should have seen the fight at AK: they
said.
It is all echo from PARIS. Paris the
pugilistic center of Europe;
In Paris it is different-,ney know the
game.
In Paris they know thays these battles,
full of episode, are often faked. whereas,
like this: When Champion gam Langford
knocked out Champion p g. Curran ad-
vertised as never knockes down in his
life,.. the contest lasted jcSt six seconds
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for the road companies. OF which Inc
poor tax registry shows 3l2 going out
from Paris all over Europe.
The Paris public understands. and the
experts Thus. when McNey and Jean
cite fought three conlbats--tWo draws and
a give-up-the illustrious j. Joseph Re-
maud assured them:
No / think not. | have seen all kinds
of fights, and fake carries less science
and more theatrical ferocity. McFey sent
jeanette swings to kill rhinoceros, and
they missed him only by a hair s-breadth.
were it not real lighting, they must have
rehearsed it a month.
Briefly, Paris has become the pugilistic
center of the world. where first-class,
second-class and no-class American fight
ers cannot look each other in the face for
laughing.
Is it not in Paris that Jack johnson IS
10 have 5000 win. lose or draw Or is
it $4,000? Ii you don't believe me, asl
him.
Swarming TO the Paris honey pot. our
fighters laugh lot, while spending their
own money.
England being nearer, hearts-of- oa k
have also looked in for a smile-and had
it spread all over their face by some
French boxer Percy Jones. the British
fiyweight champion. is the latest victim.
at the hands of Crinui. Coming after the
establishment of Bombardier Wells by Car
pentier. we now behold Joe Borrell mid
dleweight of Philadelphia, coming to eN-
plain to the French Bernard-once again
that America and England are not the
same.
Having a good time and lots of social
honorS. while spending everything they
earn. our Americans begin to realize that
Paris has developed enough home talent
TO keep the prices reasonable Brought
UP i'll the American style, French boxers
like Hogan. Bernard Eustace Dastillon,
Lepreux and Criqui are soaring the Eng
lsh out of Paris. They range from mid
dleweights to featherweights Only Amer
lean heavyweights can stand off for good
wages. While as for frauds. there are
enough of them in France to keep all
Europe going!
It is laughable. 1t is refining. 1t is a
ors are its handmaldens Under the charm
of social consideration as comforting as
novel, the hearts-of-gold fight for less
money than they came for-rather than
not fight at all in Paris.
Cultured Paris ladies are persuaded by
their sons and husbands to witness five
knock-outs in an evening as ply steal Gull
ture. Then they ask the pugilists to tea.
The pugilists give teas-I mean that
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chance he shut his eyes an hit it he was
obliged to stagger a distance iv ninety
feet, an If his faintin limbs refused to
carry him at great speed he was saluted
with foul epithetss such as Ice wagon.
ar tn like. be tn onfeeln' mult'chood
An We must reminder, Hinnissy. that
these serfs ar-re Inmachure young min,
condimned to this brutal and degradin
toll at an age whia more favored youths
are carryin' tn hod. An what cornpin-
sation did they get f'f it? Sildom more
thin tin thousan dollars year, with
what they cud pick up tnrajeedyans
an authors.
Thin come this here Fedhral League
appears Hinnissy.5 that a number ~ min
who have grown hich in tn quick lunch
business. not satisfied with their inhu-
man wurruk. has been ATTRACTED be TIL
hope iv gain to take a hand in tn thraf-
nc in human souls. In NANNY cases nigh
handed Whence has been used. l pick up
tn pa-aper an read: 'Exthry-Jiggs Null
cshy kidnaped.-.st tin thirty-two this
mornin as Mulcaay. tn cillybrated sec
ond baseman Nv tn Scorpions, was pro-
ceedin' in his auiymobile to breakfast,
he was set upon be. ruffyans in tn employ
iv tn Fedhral League, who bate his chat
feur into insinsib.lity an overpowered
Mulcahy be stuffins his mouth with goold
CERTIFICATES. thus previntin his outcries
firm bein' heerd.
a DARN attiinpt be agents iv TIL
other league to rescue him was foiled
be his desprit captors who carried their