Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-06-11

Thought Sanguinetti Failed to Get the
Ball on Warner In Time.
[Posed by Speaker, Red Sox, and Fetch
er. Giants
sion. 1t isn't likely I'll have to put
any one in there with you. You're ac-
tors, all right. at that-bad actors"
NO." said Sweeney. "We've re-
formed. Didn't you hear about us?
It'll be five weeks tomorrow since we
got on the cart"
Good news, says Mrs. Hughes" re-
marked the treasurer.
He scrubbed a few hieroglyphics
upon the back of an envelope and
passed three coupons through the win
dow, and Sweeney, S%anguinetti and
Schultz, led by the finger of fate. dis
appeared through the lobby. If their
seats had been anywhere else in the
house, anywhere but in that upper
stage bOx-but, as we said before, no
postmortems. Life is made up Of the
trivial things. the petty decisions, the
trihing details which make or mar the
future. And we never know until
afterward and then it is too late.
Having guided the three ball players
to their seats the machinery of destiny
began to revolve rapidly.
While the first act was in progress.
Schultz, half asleep in the back Of the
box. was amazed to see a young lady
enter, look about her disdainfully, sniff
q few times. and take a seat as far
away from him as possible. She was
all Of five years old.
Hey! Look who's here!" said
Schultz.
Sweeney and %Sanguinetti were sur
prised too. S%anguinetti thought the
young lady might be lost. He asked
her about it. She regarded him with
scOrn.
Lost" said the young lady. "Well,
I sh'd say not. | sing with my nam
ma in the third act. It's the hit of the
piece!"
"Ohw said Sweeney. rs mamma
an actress?"
SAO LuC Ptll-lpol IVY WILL tAlo
show" announced the little stranger.
"Wait till you see her. She's got the
rest Of these troupers beat to death!!'
Pm going to duck" announced
Schultz suddenly. "She sings up hier
in dis box, unit We git a bawl-owit!'
Stick around" said Sweeney. ut
won't come off until the last act"
Schultz collapsed, mumbling, and the
young lady smoothed her fluffy skirts
and shifted contemptuously.
Destiny, in order to play out the
hand. was using the press agent Of the
house. A press agent is a young man
whose business it is to get the name Of
his show into print as often as posi-
bic. no matter what the city editors
think about him.
This press agent. whose name was
Harley Q. Walker, was a live wire.
He was the Invest wire in st. Louis.
He kept in touch with the doings of
his professional brethren in the east,
and when a new press agent stunt ap-
peared on Broadway Harley @. an
ne2ed it for st. Louis. Consequently
when a baby elephant walked down
the aisle of a New York theater and
handed a bouquet over the footlights
to the leading lady Walker knew about
it. Great idea! Bully stuff! But
baby elephants are scarce, and none
was to be found in st. Louis. What
to do now? Harley q. slapped his
broad. high forehead and reflected
deeply. Aha. There was a troupe of
performing balloons appearing at a
summer garden in the city. Mr..
Walker was saved.
1t took some time to make the ar
rangements. The man who trained the
balloons demanded money. 1t was
pointed out to him that he would Sc
cure a great deal of advertising. which
was better than money. After some
talk he capitulated. Then the balloons
had to be trained to march down the