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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-05-04
LouD TO lIucIl Praise and q Swelsd Head
SentJl8.OOOs Phenon1 Back tOthes lNinors
1sx 4.IlF.u.Ill.L!.g:RTIoN.lI

1any chappe1l. $4,000 baseban.
player. hailed as the greatest out
deldef turned out os the American
Association In years, has failed and
gohe baek 70 the minors.
Behind the failure OF Chappell is
j lesson.
Here isf q youth who can throw. who
san hit who can run, who can field,
wfioSissfast and smart and even brill
liant who Is better perhaps than any
one % the three outhelders holding
positions With the Chicago American
ieagues team. in natural ability. and
Rho IS branded a failure and sent
Jack 70 the minor leagues.
Chappeil's failure ls lesson
togcvery youth. whether he plays
Baseball, clerks in . store or pto"s
r4attfVirs.
AS boy around McCluBkT,. I'LL, he
FaSsthe best ball player in the COM
nnnity. He could hit harder. throw
3uTther. pitch better and catch balls
heEofhers feared. Everyone told him
he$Was the best.
Even then the foundation OF his
failure was being laid,
HeSwent to Jerseyvil1e. ILL.,, and be.
gnnF playing ball on the town team
there. All Jersey county praised him
andApredicted q great career for him
IN the big leagues. He listened. and
perhaps believed.
Atf any rate he was the Ty Cobb OF
Jefseyville, the best OF all, and every.
one Conceded it. One brief year In
thegsmaIl minors and fresh from the
bnshesIhe was dragged into the AmeEi.
canEassociation as member OF the
Milwaukee team.
He was 10 years old. flushed with
success.
rive major league clubs had scouts
watching his work He was the most
sought after ball player in the league.
Charles A. Comiskey bought him.
EIeNpaid $4,000 and agreed to send
players worth $4,000 more to the Mil
Wankee team.
chappeu evidently figured that
when he reached the major league he
had succeeded. He realized in a few
days that he was the mechanical su.
perior as ball player 10 any out.
fielder on the team.
Manager Callahan struggled with
Ghappell all one season-and on the
eVeSof5 the city series was compelled
%. suspend him without pay for re-
fusaIS toF conform with club rules.
This spring all seemed we'll. The
White Sox had new manager. one
Who had managed Chappell once be-
fore. and who thought he could cure
the Temperament, arouse enthusiasm
and gambitfon. The fattery and sym.
pathysofsfriend got in its work again.
Rowland lacked the patience OF
~. g.. 49,
upongthem. He holds that any player
Who doessnot give HIS best efforts to
thesteamswillingly. eagerly and all the
timesfssa bad ball player.
One case of Temperament was suf-
hcient! Rowland notified Comiskey he
didmot want Chappell on the club and
the 600 star was chased back to
the minor leagues.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-05-04
wILL ATTEND MEETINo,

Local Odd Fellows are planning Ia
attend the Grand Encampment of the
order to be held at New Martinsville
May IL.
The addresses OF welcome will be
made by the Honorable A. B. Moore
on behalf OF the city OF New Martins
Vile. /. D. Morgan for the board OF
trade and C. s. Farmer for the en-
campment. Response to these adj
dresses will be made by Grand Patri'
arch the Honorable e. T. Licklider.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-05-04
3gThe uprlsen Yanks.

There are a few details in connec'
fSn3with the revised Yanks that
miEiit be considered in the light OF
future events.
FromSfhe first OF July TO October !
iast season the Yanks travelled at q
40 clip: or whereabouts, enough to
Isaye put them in third place with a
fsirE START This. too, without the help
81 nav Caldwell the greater part Of
Since then they have added two
first GAS aids in Pipp and High and
EaSe rsEainsd Caldwell. And they
haSe m Bill Donovan "a leader who
nndefstandss the aEt OF obtaining al
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-05-04

You see mighty few potnte ssosc
footprints on the Sands 81 tine
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-05-04

~ before ennre II IS even p6ss s.
80 fiiasf csbfile fiif may u IN ~
"a Us appesf 81 & lie hon E
ana sennte and eErcIaate their esti;
mates a. the Engtlshs systemic tctates:
The chief cong sIoua1 advocate
II the budget IS Representative Shtrl
ley. Of Kentucky, and he promises 70
press the legislation vigorously next
December.
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TWO SENT TO JAIL
zee Yost Law Gases Were Tried
Before Justice Fleming.

Three out of the sixteen men who
were arrested Saturday by Prohibit
ton officers we're tried and two given
fines and Jail sentences last night by
Justice R. Leigh Fleming. sD
Joe Bishop is said to have carried
more beer in his suit case than the
label called for. He was fined 800
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-05-04
Go,ne-AIl Gone

AS c. Lamb almost remarked
Gone. all gone. are the old familiar
iandmarks.''
IN this sporting whirl the upset
cane with binding speed. On May
1914, the Giants had three pennant
years back Of them. with fourth IN
siShf: the Mackmen had three world
sefieS years back OF them with a
Fourth only canter on ahead.
on the same day the Yanks had 10
wears of disaster back OF then-and
little hope ahead. And tho Philites
were breaking and fading.
And then, one year later, May !.
1af6sthe Yanks and Phillies were lead
nj. with Giants and Mackmen In the
cellar looking as spotted as the
Yankssan Phillies had ever looked at
efrSworst. Which, after all, Is the
nayssof baseball, and lite-and the rest
Ell. ~. -. L---
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standIna "a &c clube.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Yesterdays Results,

At New York R H E
Philadelphia ;. Dol oo2 100 10 Z
New York 49,. 100 80 0o"---s 6 1
Batteries: Forschm, Bresler and
schang and Lapp; Fisher and Swee-
ny.
Other games postponed-rain.
Games Today.
Detroit at st. Louis.
Chicago at Cleveland.
Washington at Boston.
Philadelphia at New York.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-05-04
Lines to the Yanks.

Lines TO the Yanks- 0
J y Tempora! Q Mores! o you Yanks!
Whoever thought you'd start on such
aSspree,
no leaye the rut and climb the dizzy
banks
m where the Giants and Mackmen
used to be?
Whoever thought, old rippers. you
were there
With sprigs Of olive tangled in your
hair?
Some eminent philosopher has fig
ured it out that in this mundane ex-
istence most things even up-that
those who wear the laurel and those
who wear the chaplet OF thorns shall
some day swap possessions.
There is proof extant that he was
right From 1890 to 1910 Yale'S foot
bail machine almost yearly drove Har'
ward on the plains. But since 1910
Harvard, has so predominated that
Yaleshas hardly had a chance.
The philosophers idea is develop
ingleYen keener truth in balloon. The
hFst switch came last summer, when
thesBraves rose and upset the Giants
and sAfackmen. But the most elastic
reversal came on the first day OF May,
i9i6:When John ]. McGraw and Cor.
neliuss illicuddy were plotting tail
endefs while Pat Moran and Bill Don
IVAN, two new leaders, had the scof-
ed:at PhillIes and the jeered-at Yanks
IN frst place.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Yesterdays Results.

At philadelphia2 r H E
New York ..... 600 600 003-3 Q
Philadelphia !. 100 100 000-2 2
Batteries: Fromme, Rixie and Mey-
ers; Chalmers and Burns.
At Brooklyn H E
Boston ....... 600 900 1912 S /
Brooklyn $3.50. 900 0l0 20"-S 5 1
Batteries: Greenhouse and Gowdy;
Dell and Miller.
Games Today.
ST. Louis at Pittsburgh.
Cincinnati at Chicago.
Boston al Brooklyn.
New York at Philadelphia.
CGandIan N% %bA Ht,1bE
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-05-04

The strong Fairview nine were de-
feated by the Rivesville baseball nine.
strengthened by a few Montana play
ers, on the RivesviIle diamond in .
oue-sided game with a fnal score o.
IL to .. knights delivery was strong
and effective and the Fatrvtew boys
we're unable to hit him. securing only
three bingie, which were kept well
scattered. Fairview scored two runs
in the seventh inning on bases on
balls, with single to center and an
error on the part OF the second base
man.
In the first inning Rivesrille brought
in I'VE runs an successive hits TO the
outfield and the game was theirs on
TO the finish. Although Knight had
some good backing, the game was won
by his clever pitching. The score:
Fairview ..... 0 0 90 0 Q 2 Q o )
RtvesvilIe III. 8 Sso210 Ill
Batteries Fairview, Vincent, Tooth.
man and sypult; Riyesyil.e. Knight,
Kirk and Curry.
Umpire-Jackson. H5
Sharp County record., 1915-10-15
SMALL ITEMS THAT
MAY INTEREST YOU
Paragraphs That May Have
BE en- Overlooked When
You Read Your Paper.

J. D. Hart of Milburn, Ohio, this
season exhibited at his home coun.
ty fair pair of stockings over 100
years DID, They were made by his
grandmother, who picked the cotton
wove 1t into thread and then knit
the stockings.
Women In the vicinity Of Ham,
mon Oklahoma, worked the public
roads lately, repairing several cul-
verts and small bridges, and put q
stop to the complaints Of the mail
carrier, who threatened to throw
up his job II the roads were not re-
paired,
When Kenneth Jornan, an g.
year-old boy at Williston, North
Dakota, secured the Jail keys from
the sheriff and opened the doors
telling the prisoners they could es'
capped, only one Of the twelve pris'
oners took advantage OF the offer
The one who escaped was soon re-
captured.
After telegraph service between
Topeka and Lawrence, Kansas, had
been interrupted for a whole day
W, NJ, Hays, a lineman, found Q
large snake lying across two wires
between the two places. He climb
ed the pole and removed the snake
which had been killed by the shock
from the wires,
At Cartersville, Missouri, Sherman
Smith playfully clipped of one side
Of William Mitchell's mnstache
Mitchell, who alleged that he had
cultivated his mustaohe for almost
fifteen years and priced them very
hiehly, was about to take the mat
ter into court, but Smith gave him
Sharp County record., 1915-10-15
Edwards
Mere. 60.

ten dollars as damages and stopped
the trouble.
Though SO years Of age, Mrs. Ad-
die Harrison Of Hillsdale, Michigan
gets up every morning at daybreak
to begin her daily duties, part Of
which are to care for a garden and
orchard. She has lived alone for
As years. Only once In her life
has she been visited by a doctor
and she strongly insists that she
didn't need one then, sending for
him only to please a neiehbor.
At Beloit, Wisconsin, Clarence
Montroy, a young man, Is earning
money to pay his way through
school by allowing automobiles TO
run over his body at q mile O min
ute clip. Then he takes up a col
lection In the crowd. He also bends
horseshoes In his teeth as a side
line. Montroy was left an orphon
when his father murdered his moth
or, sister and brother and then kill
ed himself.
When William Downs Of Chester,
Pennsylvania, who works In a dye
factory, was entrapped by blue dye
10 a vat which he was mendins, he
was overcome by fumes and taken
out for dead. After the undertake
ers had prepared the body for bur-
ial and removed II to Downs home,
the mourners and spectators were
much surprised when the corpse
arose on his bed and yelled I'm
not dead, and don't you think !
am"
Mrs. Lula Rawlings Of Behnam,
Kansas, raises white turkeys, while
her neishbor, Mrs Roy Oakley
raises brown ones. Not lone AGO
Mrs. Rawlings turkeys hatched
brown little once, and Mrs, Oakley
accused her Of stealing the eses'
This caused Mrs. Rawlings to sue
her neiehbor for slander and $1,000
DAMAGES, but a jury decided that
probably she did steal the eses and
Mrs. Oakley received a verdict In
her favor
Sharp County record., 1915-10-15

wealth that has been accumulated
in a few days. 1t said that clerks
are being worked 18 and "a hours
day recording transactions. The
dispatch concluded with the state
ment that Nothing like the present
mania for stocks has ever been
known before"
Thus we see that the more war
there is abroad, the deeper the
manufacturers of war munitions in
this country will wade in gold.
When the harvest of death stops
across the waters, the extra harvest
of gold will stop to the manufactur-
erS of war munitions in this couL-
try, and whenever you think these
manufacturers won't take their
pound OF flesh, even if it comes
through dead bodies and impover-
ished homes, just bring on your
/ death and impoverished homes and
try them on. They 90 crazy and
mad with eagerness, as the recent
dispatch from New York described,
and probably growl and gnash their
teeth like a Gagged lion about to be
let to his breakfast.
The European war is a good
thing for the American manufact-
urer, and on that account we ought
to all throw up our hats and yell
for more war, according to the log-
ic of a few who can see the inter-
ests Of the moneyed horde further
than they can smell the corpse of
a soldier who died from an Amer
ican made bullet.
Since war is such a magnificent
thing for the manufacturers, and
since it is such a glorious thing for
this great country of ours for their
machinery to be going all the time,
day and night, why not not start
little hell Of our own right here at
home when the one in Europe
shows signs Of exhaustion?
If you have not read the special
articles, which have appeared in a
few newspapers and magazines,
which tell of the friehtful and hor-
rible mistreatment of women and
young girls in captured territory by
soldiers you may have overlooked
one of the most terrible results OF
war. The harvest of death astounds
the whole world. The enforced
shame that follows the soldiers
Is a friehtful price of war.
Sharp County record., 1915-10-15
WAR AND WALL STREET

Did you read a recent dispatch
'6m New York, which concerned
ho profits Of Wall Street from the
his dispatch said that the En-
Ire City is rolling in wealth. Which
rines to mind that the soldiers
Id are creating this wealth fol
be Empire City are rolling in pow
Nv, misery and death. So are
,elr families.
ID said that Wall Street is now
lei of gold. And there's nc
wing that that is exactly what
fall Street wants to be, if half the
ord is killed first.
II said that millions are being
,ade in stock transactions alone
ifhout the actual creation of one
3nby's worth of visible structure.
f&course that would have to be,
D6Ause an honest man could not
e a million dollars in a thous-
long years. Millions are made
hout visible structure" and we
u to call the readers attention
be fact right here that when a
B makes money without visible
tucture" he has the advantage of
IA on his side. The law governing
folks is we'll known. They
lall not take something for nothing,
This dispatch said men with cap
Hare crazy for war stocks. And
You suppose that men who are
,azy for war stocks are crazy for
3 war to stop? Not by mile,
u don't forget for a moment that
Is is a neutral nation-sO they
Il said that men are going mad
4 headlone rush to acquire inter-
a. in manufacturing concerns
Iaf have orders to deliver shrapnel
Mother munitions of destruction
X the battling nations across the
aters. In fact, Wall Street is en-
yipg the war hugely, and there Is
Ng scramble to get to help pre-
nt it. There would be profound
row in Wall Street if the war
|o0ld cease Nevertheless, don't
r1et that this country loves peace
lafly and is neutral, very neutral.
Yhat was a very interesting dis
|tch, and said much more. 1t
ia THAT brokers are swamped with
ders for war stocks and cannot
'en approximate the amount of
Sharp County record., 1915-10-15

turned to Newark from California,
where he resided for time, an
nounces that next season he will
grow two acres of celery. He ex-
presses confidence that he can make
success of celery in that section.
Forrest May, who lives near New
port, engaged in sweet potato grow
ing this season by way of diversifi-
cation, and this fall is digging more
than 300 bushels to the acre. He
recently took three potatoes to New
port that weighed more than eight
pounds
The Big Flat correspondent to the
Mountain Home Citizen says:
There will be road working every
Saturday, until we make a good
road from Big Flat to the new
school house in District No. SO.
three miles east of Big Flat on the
Sycamore road"
To illustrate the difference In con-
ditions this season and last, W. j.
Nicks, a Lawrence county farmer
and representative from that county,
calls attention to the fact that last
year he sold a load Of cotton in
Walnut Ridge for $3988. This year
he sold a similar load there for
$102.
The timely arrival Of Sheriff
Looney prevented jail delivery at
Mountain View one night last week.
Three men we're in Jail, and one had
just crawled through hole in the
wall and was liberatine his two
companions when the sheriff arriv-
ed on the scene and put an end to
the plans.
The Citizen of Mountain Home
reports the heaviest mast crop in
that section for many years. That
paper says the farmers Of Baxter
county are showing but little in
clination to part with their young
stock this season, because Of the
fact that they have plenty OF winter
feed In their barns.
After hearing several farmers
boast that they had better corn It
home than was displayed among
samples grown by boys corn clubs,
the demonstration agent Of Randolph
county has offered $25 to any adult
farmer Of that county who will
bring him 10 ears Of corn 10 inches
long and three inches In diameter.
J. W. Malone, who lived eight
miles north Of Newport, was drown
ed one day last week In a pool Of
water less than a foot deep In the
public road just north Of Newport
while on his way home from town.
Malone had been to Newport, and
while on his way home was attack
ed by an epileptic ft and fell into a
small pool and drowned while In a
helpless condition
William Yarbroueh, a five-year-
old lad Of Newark, died Of conges-
ton at the Iron Mountain depot at
Newport u few nights ago while he
and his father and mother were
waiting for a train on which { ey
we're to leave for Texas. The fam
lily was without means to bury the
child, and burial was by public sub
scription, after which the parents
resumed their journey.
Sharp County record., 1915-10-15
NORTH ARKANSAS NEWS

A news item from Newport says
| More produce and vegetables ha
been raised in Jackson county this
season than for the past ten years
W. F. Kelly, aged So, and Mrs
Margaret Dawson, aged 70, were
united in marriage at DOta, Inde
pendence county, one day last
week.
An aeroplane will make two
flights daily at the Jackson county
fair October 21-22, it is announced
This will be the first flying machine
to appear in this section of the
state.
The apple crop in the Cotter sec.
ton is being harvested and some
fine fruit is being gathered, but the
crop is light. Twelve or fifteen cars
of apples will be shipped from that
point.
Haven Lollar, a negro at Tucker
man, was killed few days ago at
that place. He attempted to catch
a passing train, and was thrown
under the wheels and ground to
death.
I W. P. Detherow, who lives neal
Batesville, has written a letter tc
the Batesville Guard in which he
urges the use of wide-tired wagons
as a means of securing better public
roads.
AT Imboden one day last weel
John Reeves was tried in the cour
OF a justice of the peace on th'
charge of giving whiskey to a minor
Paul Jernigan. Reeves was acquitt
ed by jury.
The crop diversifcation move
ment in Baxter county reduced th'
cotton crop more than was expected
Baxter county usually raises abou
1000 bales, but this seasons crop Il
estimated at 1000 bales.
Homer Myers, a young lad al
Batesville, was found dead in his
bed one morning last week. The
boy had been suffering from conees-
ton, but 1t was not thought that his
life was In immediate danger
The residence Of George Dutton
at Imboden was consumed by fire
one day lately, most OF the contents
being saved. The property was in.
sured for $3.50, but the loss Is con-
siderably more than that amount
The total assessed valuation Of
personal property in Independence
county this year Is $l,827,72O, a
decrease Of $32, 500 from the assess
ment Of last year. That county has
5,887 white poll tax payers and
257 negroes.
One day last week Louis jarrett,
a we'll known farmer living near
Maynard, was killed when his team
ran away with a wheat drill, on
which he was riding His head was
crushed end his body mangled In a
horrible manner.
The residence Of John D. Witt at
Newark was destroyed by fire few
mornings ago. The fire was caused
by the explosion Of lamp, which
was turned low and left burning In
one Of the rooms. Very few Of the
household effects we're saved.
Claude Edwards, who has just re-
Sharp County record., 1915-10-15
FILL GOODS

Our fall stock of merchan-
disc is arriving and we are
better prepared than ever
before to take care of your
every want. Our purchases
this year have been large,
and our assortment is COM
plete.
Dress Goods
We have just received a
large shipment of Ladies
Dress Goods. Come in and
see this line while the stocks
are not broken.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-08
India's Queer Supcrstitions.

India 8 population IL $50, up1 900.
Practically att the races and religions
of the world are represented. This
is an important factor to he consid
cred in approaching this market.
Ninety -eight and six-tenths per cent
OF the people cannot read or write
Four per cent Of the inhabitants
eat regular meals The remainder eat
when they can and where they can.
The average native In India lives on
less food per diem than any other
human being I'm the world Religious
prejudices are intense. Men willingly
die rather than submit to some dis
memhering surgical operation for did
not Allah command them to appear
before him as they left him to come
is;o the world? The Buddhists will
not eat meat or take even a medi-
cine derived from an animal They
died by millions during the bubonic
plague rather than take a prophy-
latte serum made from pepsfn and
beef broth--because the pig from
which pepsin was obtained was un-
clean to the Mohammedan and Hindu
and the killing of this animal and the
bull from which the broth was made
was against the tenets OF the Buddhist
faith. | knew an editor in Poona,
India. 10 absolutely refuse 5000
yearly advertisement ar patent
medicine because II contained pepsIn.
While men earn small daily wages
some times as low as four cents
yet il has been estimated by the gov
eminent authorities that midas ma
tive population purchases foreign
made goods each year to the extent
Of s1.el per head. This amounts to
over $500, 10000 annually.
Indians are fond OF sweets and last
year imported over sI0.000,000 worth
OF sugar. Clothing is made chiefly
from cotton, which is largely grown in
the country-W. f. Aughinbaughs in
Leslie's.