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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-15
BASEBALL.
STORIES

Nobody laughs ut the Athletics this
season despite their display Of Witt.
The going In the Eastern league got
too strenuous for Mike DOherty Us IN
umpire, and he resigned.
Manager Stallings put Pitcher Jesse
Barnes on the inactive list when no
took Outhelder Fred Snodgrass of.
Chick Baker, young catcher.
brother Of Del Baker Of the Detroit
Tigers, Is getting q trial with Port.
land.
Baltimore sent Infielder william
Fewster to Worcester Of the Eastern
league, with the expectation Of recall.
Ing him In the fall.
At dinner given National league
umpires President Tener praised them
for their fairness and impartlaiity.
Boy. page Johnny Evers!
Junk dealers are paying double the
former prices for bottles. Yet foolish
jumps object to fans throwing these
valuable articles at them.
Mike MenOskey. recalled by Mime.
apOlis from Duluth, made good start
for his comeback, hitting q home run
on bis first trip to the plate.
Manager Griffith has fled complaint
with President Ban Johnson that
| pitchers on certain teams are firing
] the ball at the heads Of the batters.
II Sam Crawford IL to be given Z
seat on the Detroit bench we know q
lot of ball players who ought to be
picking currants out Of rice pudding
George Sisler, the star Of the st
Louis Browns, was badly spiked in q
play Mt first base during the series
with the Red Sox and was forced ID
lay of.
| The veteran Danny Hoffman, let ouI
by Bridgeport, declares he IL don,
with baseball and will attempt NJ
more cOmebacks. He has gone int
business In Bridgeport.
We generally notice that cities tina
brag about their climate, and thei
beautiful streets, and the number O
their churches. are too foxy to men
ton their baseball teams.
Robert HOgg, the first baseman o
the University of Missouri ball team
for three seasons past, has jOine'
Hannibal In the Three league. H
will be used In the Outfield.
Fans In Hartford are divided as I
placing the blame for the poor show
ing of Charley Wagner's team. Som
say Wagner has failed. while other
say Jim Clarkin's interference IL
blamG
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-15
QUEER CIRCUIT CL0UT
Most Remarkable Home.Run
Drive by Cutshsaw.
Brooklyn Player Makes Accidental
HIt That Eventually Terminated
In zle.zae Course Over
Rloht Field Fence.

George Cutshaw Of the Dodgers
exuded a circuit clout against the
Phillies a week or 80 ago, which will
r0mp down through the wales Of his
tory as the most remarkable since the
game was born.
II was drive that Cutshaw made
In an accidental way to start with; q
swat that sent the ball In zig.zag
course to the fence: and q tally that
was fiukey in the extreme because
after the ball hit near the bottom of
the fence 1t practically crawled up to
top, fluttered there second or So
and then dropped over. Cutshaw's
ludicrous actions while the ball was
deciding what It should do form the
humorous chapter In the story.
The score was tied in the eleventh
when Cutshaw went to bat, facing
Mayer. The Phillie pitcher heaved a
slow one Mt the Dodger second smoker.
Cutshaw started swing, went half
way down and then stumbled" to the
fact that the bail was a hoater. He
"pulled" his stroke but just rs he
stopped, he noticed that the ball was
curving in, whercupon he made an
other swipe Mt It and through some
freak caught II on the end Of the
mace.
Ball dipped Along.
The ball shot through the air, about
ten feet above ground. It sailed just
inside the right.field foul line, turning
and twisting as It went. To the spec
tators watching the ball Tipping along
It looked like succession Of inshoots
As 1t neared. the fence 1t started tc
descend. It struck board which
was nailed to the bottom Of the fence
but which jutted out about three feet
As the ball hit That board Jus
where the top Of this board and thu
fence meet, It seemed to hesitate To-
fraction Of n second. Then, to tn
utter amusement Of the crowd. !
climbed the 12-foot wall as though !
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-15

geles club; Jimmy Callahan has gone
to Pittsburgh, where he Is boss Of the
outfit; Zelder Is with the Cubs, and
HUI Chase Is playing with the Clncin.
mutt Reds.
Callahan With Pittsburgh.
Another sidellght 70 the old deal IL
that Callahan, after being out Of base
ball for year, accepted the manage
ment Of the Los Angeles club, but
turned It down later when he got the
Pittsburgh proposition. Los Angeles
then turned to Chance. and he took 1t.
Today we find HUI Chase with the
Reds doing his best to beat Callahan
and the Pirates, and succeeding pref.
ty frequently, and Zeider acting In q
similar manner with the Cubs.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-15
HAS cRAvATH LOST WALL0P7
Homs.Run King Not Doing Much with
Dat This esason-hlnted He viii
% Replaced.

Has Cactus Cravath lost his wallop?
Tho home-run king has not done any
great execution with his bat % far
this season and 40 he 10 not Q very
fast outfielder II may be possible that
no will be replaced before the season
IL very much further advanced.
The Phillies have recently signed
Claude Cooper, who was with the
Brookfeds last season. and It 10 whis'
pered that Cooper has been secured In
the belief that Cravath 10 slipping.
Cooper had Q $500 contract with the
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-15
eorton Alone 10 Left.
Gf9fFF'fff'afTTfT
GIANTS new BAT BOY a.:

They say he receives $3O.OOO
per summer and holds quite a
chunk of stock, still John j. Nc
Graw IL just one Of the boys
, when the Giants are out there
on the field every day. II you
. don't believe 1t, says the st.
Louis Times, listen to this:
! When the Cardinals finished
their fourth inning Friday Doyle
was the first batter up In the
nth.
"COme on, boys. hurry 1t
! along" called Umpire Byron,
\ and Doyle, from second base,
! was running to the plate.
"Hey. boy, oh, boy, bring out
J my hut I" sud Doyle. One guess
who brought out the batf-NO
one but McGraw. The Little
Napoleon grabbed the club and
skipped out to the plate. Yes.
he's tho bat boy these days.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-15
Three stars for Yanks.

Dick Klnsella, premier of scouts,
who is now with the Yankees and ex.
poets to keep the owners Of that club
of lemons, met Captain Huston Of the
New Workers In st. Louis and told
him what his team needs and does not
need. Kinsella expects to buy about
three players, but says those three
will be real ones.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-15

burgh Carey has not shown such speed
md pep, and with 800 batting aver
age he would have everything on I'LL
the other Outfieldcrs in the league.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-15
C0UMBE WINNING HIS SPURS
Young Cleveland Pitcher Promises 70
% One Of the Best Of Ysar-oot
start With Utica.

Fred COumbe. the young Cleveland
pitcher, IL winning his spurs In the
American league and promises to DO
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-15

one of the best. twirlers Of the year.
lie certainly started Off well. COumba
got his start In professional ball with
the Utica team In the New York state
league and was sensation from the
start.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-15

Frank H. Jones 10 not only Q demo
erat Of national reputation. but Q imam.
cisr who 10 respected BY everybody.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-15

Patrick J. Carr 10 making . good
record - trustee Of the Sanitary Dis.
triet Of Chicago.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-14
U-BOAT WRANGLE Is SERIOUS
Germany's Note On Sinking Of Arabic
Considered Very Unsatisfactory
BY Uncle Sam.

Washington-Germ acceptance
of responsibility for the sinking with
out warning of the British liner Ara
bia. with the explanation that her sub
marine commander took the vessel for
an auxiliary warship, has brought the
issue over submarine warfare to a
more serious and clear-cut basis than
anything that has happened since the
threat of the United States last April
to break diplomatic relations after the
torpedoing of the channel liner Sus-
sex.
Such information as the American
government now has tends to show
the Arabia to have been passenger
ship of the Peninsular & Oriental line,
passing through the Mediterranean on
regular voyage. Among the many
passengers was an American citizen,
who was rescued.
The German note, made public by
the State Department, says If official
data is furnished showing that the
vessel was an ordinary passenger
steamer, this, then, would be a case
of regretable mistake, from which the
German govrnmnt would promptly
draw the appropriate consequences. f"
1t is assumed her that the conse-
quences would be a2.exxpression of re-
greet and offer of reparation for any
injury or danger suffered by the Amer
lean on board.
The note has been referred to Presi-
dent Wilson, who is considering re-
view of recent German submarine &C
tivities to which the Arabia case
comes as climax. There probably
will be no immediate action, as the
State Department first must clear up
beyond question the exact status of
the liner when attacked. Then it will
be for the president to decide the
course tn he followed
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-14
FRENCH BATTLESHlP LOST
Has Gone Down With All On
Board Lost.

Paris. - The battleship Suffern.
which left port on Nov. "a, has not
been heard from since and the minis
ter of marine considers the vessel lost
with all on board.
The Sufferin sailed for L'Orient, a
French naval station in Brittany.
The Suffern had staff Of Is off,
GERS and her crew numbered 700 mer.
The French battleship Sufferns dis
placed 1880 tons. Her nor:nal COM
,plement was 730 men. Sic was 40
feet long and 20 feet of beam and
was laid down in 1899. She was armed
with four Pinch. 10 6.4-inch and eight
4-inch guns, % three-pounders and
four torpedo tubes.
Last year the Suffern took part in
the bombardment Of the Turkish forts
at the Dardanelles. She entered the
straits to attack Turkish batteries and,
according to an official Turkish an
nouncement was damaged seriously
and withdrew in flames. She was sent
back to Toulon for repairs.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-14

sip that he had been called to town,
but from him there had come no mes
sage out of the void.
The days crept into months and
heightened into years, money came to
Miss Emmeline, and spacious house
and friends In plenty. 1t was only
love. that had passed her by. The
eager, happy girl turned into the cold,
hard woman. One day, she learned
from an announcement In the papers
that he had married-years after
wards from the same source, that he
was dead. And only few months be-
fore her nephew, the one human being
in the world upon whom she had Law
ished what affection she had left in
her to give, had married the daugh-
ter of the man who had won her heart
one spring day and thrown II away
as carelessly as he might have flung
away faded flower from his coat.
But had he? Was 1t possible that
after all, they had been separated not
by his Indifference, but by some awful
mistake? Had fate interviewed, po-
Ffeemanlike, and diverted the traffic Of
their lives into separate turnings? Had
he-Miss Emmeline's breath caught in
her throat with queer little spasm-
really loved her, after all? A mist
leomed up before her as the envelope
fell away from the sheet. Them the
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-14
STRONG PROTEST
SENT TO GERMANY
CENSuRES THE DEPORTATION OF
BELGIANS TO GERMANY IN
STRONG MESSAGE.
BRANDED ACTION INHUMAN
State Department Cables Note To Act
ing Ambassador Grew at Berlin
For Immediate Delivery to the
German Chancellor.

Washington.-The American govern
ments formal protest to Germany
against the deportation Of Belgians
for forced labor as a violation of the
principles of humanity has been made
public by the state department. lc
was in the form of note, cabled to
Acting Ambassador Grew at Berlin,
with instructions that he seek an in
terview with the German chancellor
and read it to him, and was given out
by the department with the terse COM
ment:
Tho interview has taken place"
Officials refuse to add to this state
ment, and so far as could be learned
there has been no reply from Ger
many. All information available,
however, indicates that the deporta-
tions are continuing, and it is known
that through earlier informal repre-
sentation Acting Ambassador Grew
learned that the German position was
that the policy was military neces-
sity and not in violation of interna-
tional law.
The American note was put on the
cable Nov. 90, the night of the day
Ambassador Gerard saw President Will
son preparatory to his return to Ber-
lin, and it was then announced that
the United States was making further
representations on its own behalf on
the broad grounds of humanity.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-14
FINDS HIS WEALTH A BURDEN
Trouble With Man Who Has Acquired
Riches Is That He Doesn't Know.
How to Spend.

The nuisance for the man who has
acquired great financial resources usu-
ally is that he doesn't know what he
wants. Possessing the resources ana
feeling the moral necessity to have re-
course to them, he looks about for
something to want, and he selects the
most costly thing.
The acquisition of this most costly
thing always involves, in practice, the
separation of the rich man from So
cfety. Thus, he will acquire a large
estate, or several large estates, and cut
himself off from the world by gates,
doors, miles of drive, lodge keepers,
menials and secretaries. Or he will
acquire a 2,000-ton yacht and cross the
Atlantic privately though less quickly,
less comfortably, and even less pri-
vately than on a great liner. Or he
will keep private orchestra, instead
of being seen at concerts.
All of which, though magnificent, is
anti-social and silly, and in secretly
felt to be so by the rich man when he
happens to wake up in the middle OF
the night and can't go to sleep again.
-Woman's Home Companion.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-14
BRITISH PREMIER RESIGNS
LIoyd-George Assumes Dictatorship
After Resignation of Asquitn-
Forming New Cabinet.

London.-David Lloyd-George has
overthrow the Asquith cabinet and
will become prime minister himself
The new government will be coalition,
like the old one, but probably with
out the same measure of harmonious
support which attended the formation
of the first coalition government, be-
cause its birth has created additional
factional differences.
This result has emerged from an
other day of active and hurried party
conferences and a day of intense sus-
pense and interest throughout the
country.
The court circular announcing the
political audiences and conferences at
the palace adds:
"The king gave a further audience
to Mr.. Bonar Law, who intimated that
he was unable to form an administra-
ton. Thereupon the king summoned
Mr.. Lloyd George, who at his males-
TVS request, undertook to form an ad-
ministration.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-14

which fringed the lawn stood Stiff1y
ut attention like sentinels. A pale De-
cember sun lay like ghost upon the
grass.
But Miss Emmeline Barton, staring
idly out of the window, had no eye for
the beauty of it all. Because it was
Christmas day, she was dressed in law
ender silk and her mothers rings
sparkled coldly upon her fingers. The
orthodox holly and mistletOe were
scattered in vases and behind picture
frames about the room. Miss Emme-
line herself had but recently returned
from early morning service in the lit
tie church, tucked cozily away in the
ehurchyard.
But of the Christmas peace and
beauty there was no trace in Miss
Emmeline's heart. Instead, she no
ticed, with annoyance, as she stared
out of the window, that some of the
shrubs wanted cutting and that one of
the gardeners had left pair of shears
on the ground.
How insistently the call of the bells
came. "Be happyi Be happy! Be
happyw they seemed to say as a
friendly wind carried their message
far and wide. With an impatient
movement Miss Emmeline turned from
the window. AS she did So her glance
fell ON the morning mail, lying, as was
customary, awaiting her attention In a
neat pile ON her desk.
A disdainful smile curved her lips
as her long thin fingers turned over
the envelope. Then suddenly her face
changed. 1t was as il q summer wind
had blown a little pink into it's cold
ness-for moment only. The old
frosty look came back into her face
as she ripped open the envelope. Two
letters fell from it into her lap. One
sealed, the other folded piece of note
paper. Miss Emmeline picked up the
open letter without glancing at the
sealed one. In her heart she said cold
fy: "From his wife, suppose"
"Dear Aunt Emmeline," her nephew
wrote, in his big sprawling handwrit-
ing, Il expect you will be awfully wild
at my writing to you after your hav-
ing told me you never wished to hear
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-14
AMERICAN BURNED
At STAKE BY VILLA
REFUGEES FROM MEXICO BRING
STORIES OF FRIGHTFUL
ATROCITIES BY VILLA.
LIFE OF GERMAN Is SPARED
German Consul at ParraI Ordered Shot
But Later Spared-shocking Sto-
ries of Atrocities and Loot.
ing by Bandits.

Ell Paso, Texas.-Three more names
ers reported to have been killed in
Mexico by bandits. They are CUTLER
mo Snyman, son of the late Gen. w.
p. Snyman of Boer war fame; Howard
Weeks, or Howard Gray, as he was
known in Mexico, and an American
named Foster.
Young Snyman was reported to
have met his death near Chihuahua
City. Howard Weeks, an employee of
an American mining concern, was
called to the door of his home near
Parral, shot through the head by Villa
bandits and his body then hanged in
the door yard, according to informa-
tion brought to the border by Spanish
refugees. Weeks, who went by the
name of Gray, was married and had
five children.
Little has yet been learned of the
third victim. A letter from Spaniard
in Toreron to countryman here said
an American named Foster had been
horribly maltreated and then burned
to death at stake in the presence Of
his son. The murder occurred near
Torreon, the letter said.
Villas bandits also looted many
American homes in Chihuahua City,
carrying off large quantities of Amer
ican-owned property and destroying
what they were unable to haul away,
messages from the Chihuahua capital
state.
The home Of Donald B. Gillies. an
American mining operator in Chihua-
hua, was looted Of practically every
thing 1t contained, according to one
message The family fed to the Dor
der.
The curio store belonging to How
ard Schneider, said to be a German
subject, was robbed, it was reported.
Dennis & Sons store was also looted,
another message stated. A dry goods
store owned by an Arabian company
was robbed of practically its entire
stock and almost solid block Of
stores belonging to Arabs and other
foreigners was burned, according to
another report.
Government agents here received a
report that more than $50 Mexicans
were executd by Villa men.
Howard Gray, an American mining
man at Parral, Chihuahua, was killed
by Villa bandits when they entered
the town, according to a telegram
just received by the Alvarado Mining
& Milling company.
A messenger who arrived from Par
raj shortly after the telegram was
made public said Gray was hanged by
order of Villa.
These men, said Edgar Koch, Ger
man consul in Parral, told them he
was ordered executed by Villa ban
dts at Santa Rosaliak after being
robbed of $4,000 worth of silver bars.
Though taken out to be shot, he was
later released.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-14
ROUMANIAN CAPITAL FALLS
Bucharest and Capture
the City.

Ber.in.-(Via Sayville.) bucharest
capital of Roumania, has been cap
tured, it is officially announced.
Ploechti, the important railway
junction town 36 miles northwest OF
Bucharest, has also been taken.
The capture of Ploechti, on the
main railway line running north from
Bucharest, cuts the main railway line
Of the Roumanian armies operating
in the Bucharest region.
The official statement does not in
dictate whether the entry of the Teu'
tonic forces into Bucharest and Plo'
echti was simultaneous. The capture
of P!oechti before that Of the capital
would be far more serious for the Rou-
manians. Many military observers
looked for the Roumanians not to at
tempt a defense of the capital to the
last, expecting an evacuation in time
to save the forces defending it by a
withdrawal on the railway route re-
naming to them.
hC Nohlh6 VI DuSAbA Sob AASNNAAJ
completes the conquest by the Teu-
tonic forces of the southern section
of the Roumanian kingdom embracing
territory of more than $4,000 square
miles.
The capture of Bucharest marks
the elimination of an operation &C
counted by military commentators as
one of the most soundly conceived and
brilliantly executed strategical feats
of the great war.
From the hour when Field Marshal
Won Mackensen forced crossing of
the Danube, effecting junction short
ly afterward with Gen. Won Falken-
hayn's armies driving through Walla-
CHA from the west, there seemed little
doubt of the ultimate fate of the Rou-
manian capital. The relentless pres
sure of the Teutonic invading armies,
with their preponderance Of heavy
artillery, proved too much for King
Ferdinand's forces, once the Rouman-
ian front was broken in Western Wal
lachia and the Danube crossed.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-14
The Sun Danced Merrily Upon Its
Shiny Surface as She Read.

from me again, but I am merely send
ing along the inclosed. And thought,
with the explanation about it, you
might forgive a Christmas wish Or two
slipping in as well.
Here is the explanation. You know
Anne and / are living now in your old
home. It Is such a beautiful old house,
by the way-Anne simply dotes on the
spindle-legged furniture in the draw
ing room, but had to have some re-
pairs done. The roof leaked, Incl
dentally, and the dragons on the hall
paper made me feel like st. George
whenever looked at them. The work
men were doing something to the let
ter box when they found the letter
am sending you. You know what an
antediluvian affair the box was. One
of the panels was loose and the letter
in some amazing way had slipped be-
hind it. 1t looks bit yellow, and no
wonder, considering the time it must
have been there. Anne will persist
| the address Is in her fathers hand
writing, but told her 1t is nonsense.
l don't believe you ever met the old
| chap"
Miss Emmeline read no further. With
trembling hands she picked up the Sec
ond letter. Two little spots fiared sud-
denly In her cheeks as she stared at
| the envelope. Yes, it was the hand
writing of the man she loved that
stared back at her. She had not cried
! for years, but now she felt the sharp
sting Of tears behind her eyelids. The
| brassy clang of bells turneda suddenly
into the droning of bees. She was walk
| ing in garden, spring garden, gold
en- with daffodils and sunshine and
youth, with man young and dark,
as she was young and fair; a little
stream ran bubbling at the end of the
garden.
1t was just here he had taken her
| into his arms and kissed her swiftly,
| and Miss Emmeline's soul had drowned
| in the kiss, as the shadows of the bud
ding trees overhead drowned In the
water of the stream. He had spoken
no word. There had been no time. In
terruption by others had followed i'm
mediately on the kiss, but as they sep
arated he said to her: Tonight"
And the night had come, dressing
| the April sky in pale stars, and Miss
Emmeline In satin and pearls. But
! the man himself never came. She had
never seen or heard from him again
Indirectly she learned from village COS
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-14
Paws To Work Their Way.

New York.-To work ones way
through college is entirely feasible,
according to the annual report of
Paul o. Hotter, chairman of the stu
dents appointment committee of Co
lumbia university. The report shows
that in a year which ended May 81,
718 students earned $155, 976.96, an in
crease of more than $4,000 over the
previous year. The average earning
was $217.27, more than enough to pay
tuition in the most expensive courses.