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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
GREAT LAUGHING SHOW
COMES TO LYRIC TODAY

Wonders of the orient combined
with effective comedy and some gorge
GUS stage pictures are effectively dis
PLAYED in the performance to be given
by the Aki Troupe of Japanese magi-
clans, iugglers and illusionists, which
will be among the features Of the new
show that comes to the Lyric for the
latter half of the week, commencing
with the matinee performance today.
The little brown men from the filowery
kingdom convincingly demonstrate in
their exhibition that Bert Harte's lines,
"For ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain the Heather Chinee Is
necuItar." might have been more aptly
applied to the Japs. They specialize
in mystery and present series Of
tricks and illusions that BATTLE COM
prehension and completely deceive
the eye.
One of the best comedy features
Of the season will be the rapid fire
comedy dransa IN one act, The. Fire
Escape" in which Charles Deland
and his company of farce players
will be seen here for tho first time.
The piece Is attractively staged and
new in theme and treatment
Richards and Kyle, old fayorites
here, are returning with q great
lughins skit. sntitled "Fifty-Fifty."
Ihis team scored one OF tia most pro-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08

The following story ss by the 1916
champion batter, iris Speaker. and
ia taken from the Trts Speaker spe-
cial Issue OF the Base ball Magazine,
l have played baseball ever since |
can Feutemter or course. such games
,ver" purely amateur and didn't
amount 10 great deal But they did
instiu q love OF the same which has
always continued and gave RE in
Tine certain local reputation, which
was helpful
Some players have always intended
to become professionals had no
such pipe dreams when l was boy.
| never expected to play ball for
money
He Played Football.
At s-htol | became interested in
football and played a number or
games. sometimes at center, some
times AT quarterback. | like football,
but not so well a. | did baseball I
never. tried basketball or any form or
track athletics.
became 10 be considered a pretty
good ball player in an amateur way
/ took naturally 10 fielding and was
generally able TO sting the ball.
Usually ! was a pitcher but | have
never regretted that abandoned this
position for the outfieid-
George HUFF of Illinois university,
was responsible for getting me to sign
with the Red Sox. There was some
talk OF Il claim the New York Giants
had on me at the time, but | never
rightly understood the story Any
way. | went with the Boston club and
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
'OARCY'S THEATRICAL
TOUR WAS FL|WER
His Bluff About Providing For Parents
Called BY Munition Plant
, Workers.

Les Darcy's recent theatrical tour
was not the triumphal procession his
manager had pictured. 1t was fiiv-
er all the way. the receipts in most
cities not being sufficient to pay the
cost of transporting Darcy's para
phernalia, consisting of one. trunk.
Battling Lesfnsky was In Bridge
port. Conn, when the Australian
showed there. In this city is located
one Of the largest munition plants
in the country. about 1000 English
men being employed. These enthus-
iastic supporters of the allied cause
called Darcy's bluff about running
away from Australia to earn enough
money to provide for his parents be-
fore enlisting In the army.
According to the battler, these
1000 employees offered to contribute
81 each to jackpot to provide for
Darcys parents in case he would en-
list at once in the Canadian army.
Darcy refused the offer. The box
ONCE receipts that evening were s71.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
LYNCHDURG WILL SEE
GOOD FOOTBALL GAMES
Virginia Christian College Schedule
VIII Land Strong Teams
This Fall.

Lynchburg, Va. March MAMA
ger Hundley. of the Virginia Chris
tan college football team, Is at work
on a schedule for the coming grid
iron season, which will bring to
Lynchburg several of the strong col
iegiate teams of the state. a feature
in the sport calendar which the Hill
city has heretofore lacked.
Games with Roanoke college,,
Emory and Henry and Eastern col
lege have been arranged and nego-
tiations are under way with several
other strong teams for games on the
local field.
While this will be the first ap-
nearance of the Westover college on
a football field. yet is Is thought that
the school will have an unusually
strong team considering this fact.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
IRIS SPEAKER TELLS OF
START IN BASEBALL WORLD

always thought well OF that city
My particular style of playing a
short field is my own idea, / figure
that the percentage Is greater playing
close. Some hits Will getaway from
me. but in the long run I will be in
a position to play to better advantage.
OF course, IL would not do TO follow
the system with every player. When
Joe Jackson or Walter Pipp or some
one of those sluggers is at the plate
II would be foolish to play in. They
are likely 10 wallop the ball and 50
you are obliged TO lay back for their
hits. But the average player Is not
in that class. In the long run the
fielder is justified in playing pretty
well in and waiting for what hap
pens.
1912 His Rest Season.
Last year vas perhaps my best
season. but / have always considered
that I played my best game in 1919.
If you will look up the records and
compare the two years ! believe you
viii find that 1912 was the better Of
the two. or course, what gave point
TO my work last season was the fact
that I managed to win the batting
championship.
don't know yet what business
shall become interested In when am
through with baseball. I like civil
en- engineering very well. but don't know
enough about IL 10 express an opin-
ion.
Mr.. Dunn is my Idea OF a fair mag
nate. | don't see how any ball player
could fail to like HIS methods and
enjoy working for him.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
CHAMBER BOARD WILL
ORGANIZE THURSDAY.

Members of the board of directors
OF the Richmond chamber of COM
merce who were elected at the resent
annual meeting OF the organization
will get together Thursday afternoon
at $3.50 O'Clock in the board room.
1t has been announced that at this
meeting President Coleman Workman
will announce the standing commit
tees for the ensuing year, Precedent
WORKMAN is busy getting them to-
gether at the present time and 1t Is
thought that they will be ready by
the time the directors gather Out
side OF this, only routine matters will
be taken up at the meeting.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
LOCKER no. Is IS
SURELY UNlUckY
Minnesota Students Fight Shv and
Give Their Reasons
Why.

Locker No. 8 in the gymnasium OF
the University of Minnesota probably
will be empty every football season
now and forever. Candidates fer the
gridiron- team discovered recently that
for several years each player who has
hung his moleskins in No. 10 has been
carried off the gridiron field of battle
during the season with a serious In
jury, and Manager Perry Dean has
been informed vehemently that none
of the men will accept this ominous
locker next fall.
Following is a list of injuries the
Gopher athletes have. compiled and
blamed on locker No. 13:
1914--Al Quist. end. scalded under
hot water shower bath.
19l5-Gil Sinclair. guard. hr oxen
collarbone.
1915-Bernie Bierman, halfback
and captain. injured leg.
1918-Bert Baston. end and captain.
broken collarbone.
l917-Carl Wallace, injured knee.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
RODMAN WANAMAkER
WINS THE QUICkSTEP

Pinehurst. n c.. March AT to-
days meeting of the Pinehurst Jockey
club, young Rodruan Wanamaker, rid
ing Garth. Meadowhrook entry,
brought his mount up rom fourth
place at the beginning Of the home
stretch. 10 win hy a length az the
finish OF the 1--WE and one-half furlongs
quick-step purse. In the half-mile
match race. y. ]. Souther. Jr.. OF
Brooklyn, lost a stirrup at the start.
but held the lead to the finish, Nat
Hurd. of Pittsburg. finishing a close
second on Traveller. Nat Huri came
through with a win for his string in
the steeplechase event. Hurd's Little
Horn. with O. II. Smith up. mating
a runaway win OF 1t.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08

nounced laughing hits of the last sea-
son at the Lyric.
The newest ideas in comedy skat-
ing will be offered in the exhibition OF
Beeman and Anderson, skatorial con-
tortionists. They are expert roller
riders with an act far out OF the
beaten path.
Marshall Montgomery, the world =
greatest eentriloquist. who has held
the championship title undisputed for
five years. Will DE seen in his new
creation, "A blending OF his marvellous
voice control with corking good
comedy monoiogue.
Among the motion picture displays
accompanying the vaudeville bill will
be pictures recording recent stirring
incidents in the German American
crisis. two amusing Aim farces and
the usual screen miscellany.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
WILL BE HOME SOON
FROM CENTRAL AMERICA

After a tour through Central
America. Waller Holiday, vice-presi-
dent Of the American National bank.
and Edgar B. Ferguson. former
member OF the board OF aldermen.
are expected back In the next few
days. The excursion party went
through the Panama canal and stop
ped at Cuba, Costa Rica ana other
Central American points. Only q brief
stop was made In Cuba. and the shin
was fortunate In being tho only one
allowed to leave the port Of Havana.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
INTERDENoMINATIoNAL
SOCIETY TO MEET,

The regular meeting OF the Interde-
noninational Missionary society, of
Barton Heights. will be held Friday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock In the resi-
dence of Mrs. NJ e, Strother. I'll North
avenue. Mrs. Roscoe Berry will con-
duct ehe devotional exercises. and Mrs.
Charles Carter VIII be the sololist Of
the afternoon.
The Rev. q. o. Buchhoiz. pastor of
the Barton Heights Methodist church.
viii give the third of his series OF
missionary lectures. and after this an
important business meeting will be
held. All members Of the society are
requested to be present and others who
are interested in the work.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
HORACE SMITH IN ACTION.
Putting "Pep" and Ginger In Hender-
SON Business Body.

Henderson. N. c.. March with
more than thirty prominent business
men serving on active committees. q
three day campaign for reorganization
and membership was started by the
board of trade yesterday at banquet
in the Vance hotsl. The movement is
under the direction of Horace F..
Smith, of Richmond. and the indica-
lions at the beginning are for a big
success. NJ J. O'Nell is president and
]. S. n. Wharton secretary of the or
Eanisation. and the board is enthus-
iastic in the effort to affect a success
full reorganization.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
Against Tax Measure.

Drys of Kentucky have announced
their opposition to Governor Stanley's
proposal to increase the taxes en- the
liquor traffic, holding that such In
crease would be used as an argument
against prohibition. II believe that
the people of Kentucky want their
taxes paid in money and not in boys.
said Senator w. A.. Frost Many of
the drys believe that the chief argu-
ment against prohibition in Kentucky
is the economic one, and that to In
crease the revenue on liquor would
add to this argument
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
Two Petitions Filed.

Frederick A. Fulton. merchant.
whose place of business is located at
2s South Elm street, Tuesday filed a
petition In bankruptcy in the United
States district court. His liabilities
are fixed at s2.7s6.45 and. his assets at
sT,017.6e. a portion of the latter being
exempted by law.
Another petition was filed in the
court by Benjamin Brock enbrough, a
bookkeeper, who placed his liabilities
at s1.5ss.36 and his assets at s35.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
LEXINGTON CENTER TO
HEAD GENERALS FIVE

Lexington, Va. March Mercer
Graham, of Lexington, Va, center on
the Washington and Lee basketball
team. was yesterday unanimously
chosen for captain of the Generals
quintet for 1917-1s1s, succeeding
"Al" Pierotti. Graham will play his
fourth season on the Ave next year.
He also plays end on the football
team and pitches on the baseball
team.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
Railway Visitors In City.

Key Compton. president OF the
Chesa peake Steamship company, was
visitor here from Baltimore yester-
day. Among other railway visitors
were w II. Harrison, travelling
freight agent OF the r. & O., Balti-
more, and A. II. Dutton, freight So
licitor of the Pennsylvania railroad.
Washington.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08

st. Louis. March Ben. G. Brink
man. vice president of a bank. has been
elected president Of the ST Louis Ma
tionals. His election is part of the re-
organization plan }fostered by ]. G.
Jones, who has paid Mrs. Helen Brltton.
principal owner of the club. $4,000 az
earnest money OF his Intention to or
eanize a syndicate 30 buy the club for
$3.50, 900
j. c, Reid was elected vice-presidcnt
ani'-w e Anderson. secretary
The beard OF directors will consist of
the three officers and also J, c. Jones
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08


BABE Adams signs with st. Joseph.
St. Joseph. Mo. March Charles B.
(Babe) adams. formerly pitching star
for the littsburg National league team,
has signed a contract with the st.
Joseph Western league team 1t was
announced here today.
Young Looks Good to McGfaw.
Marlin, Texas, March THE
Giant regulars had the best train
ing weather today since their ar
rival They took advantage Of 1t in
varied practice work. Ross Young
has appealed to McGraw very strong
ly and the Giants chief has big hopes
of developing the youngster into a
star player. Joe Wagner, who Is a
rival of Young fo- the position of
extra infielder, is loud in his praise
of Young.
"Uncle wiIbert's'' Activities.
Hot Springs. Ark, March MAN
ager wilbert Robinson. In company
with President Ebbets. OF the Brook
lyn Robbins; Lavan Fabrique. from
Providence; James D. Smith. from
Montreal; Ivan Olson and Ed Pfener
~- ~''--7 No-o TO-DAY ana declared u
half holiday so that the players
could join In opening the horse rae
ing season. But tomorrow Roppie
will relieve Jack Coombs OF MS tenn
porary leadership. Pfener mas not
signed yet and will not do SO until
he has talked over terms with
Ebbets. who. apparently, Is prepared
to meet his star half way
Jake Daubert has been granted
permission to postpone reporting un-
til March II, but Cutshaw. Johnston.
Myers. Hickman and Merkle were
ordered to report today. Ebbets has
received a letter from Mike Mowrey
saving he would be willing to sign
for the s3,2o0 offered him. but he
will be unable before April to let
Ebbets know II he intends to con-
-inue in baseball.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08
PREPARE FOR GAME OR
OTHER EVENTUALITIES|
American Leaguers In Winter Camps Take Up Military Drill
As Part of Spring birmingham johnson Offers $500
Prize For Best Drilled Team Cardinals Are Being
Made Over-Other Dope

Chicago. March Baseball teams
OF the American league now receiving
military instructions In their training
camps are to compete for drilling hon
ors, Captain. Franklin r. Kenney. U. s.
A.. In command of recruiting In the
Central department of the army. has
announced.
Capt. kenney said that President B.
h. Johnson, OF the American league
originator of the military training plan
Tor ball players. has offered hve-
hundred-doliar prize to the best drilled
team In the league and price OF 500
In gold to the drill sergeant who in
structs the. winning players. The COM
petition will be decided In July.
The training plan for ball players
has spread to other leagues, The MIL
waukee and Indianapolis clubs are
among the American association teams
that have taken up the movement.
Yanks in First Drill.
Macon, Ga. March New York
American league players had their first
training under a regular army officer
yesterday. Sergeant Gibson. of the Ma
con recruiting station put thirty-two
ball players and eight sport writer's
through the first drill.
Captain 7. L. Huston, part owner Of
the Yankees and a retired army officer,
drilled the men. who are taking mill
tary training connection with base
ball practice
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-08

and Lon Hooker. attorney for Mrs. Brit
ton.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-07-19
PROPHECIES LIVED LONG.

Mrs. Shipton, or, as she was COM
monty called, when she grew old,
Mother Shipton, lived in Yorkshire,
England, nearly 400 years ago. That
vas superstitious age and she had
the reputation Of being witch. She
claimed to have the gift of prophecy
and some of her predictions had
Gredulous believers long after she
vas dead. She died in 1861 and as
late as 1881 many persons in the
country districts of England were
40 impressed by prediction Of hers
that the world would come to an end
that year that they left their houses
and spent whole nights in the fields
praying.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-07-19
BUILD SHIPS ATOP MOUNTAIN
People Of Dutch Island Of Saba Con-
xtruct Vessels and Lower Them
Into Water With Ropes.

About forty miles to the eastward
Of oar newly purchased island of st.
Croix in the Danish West Indies
hes the little Dutch island of Saba,
which is one of the most isolated and
peculiar little communities in the
world. There are no regular sailings
to Saba-the trip is made in sail
boat from st. Croix or from one Of
the larger Dutch islands to the
sOuth.
At first glance, Saba looks like an
Eninhabited island. 1t is an almost
perfect volcanic cone rising 1000
feet from the blue Caribbean. There
Is no harbor anywhere on its circum-
ference. Landing is made on a tiny
strip of stony single, guarded by a
wooden hut that serves as the Dutch
customhouse. The villagers live in
the cup Of the dead volcano, in a
little grassy valley 1000 feet above
the sea, reached by fight.of more
chan 800 stone steps. Up these steps
they carry on their heads all the
necessaries of life, and down the
steps they lower their products-in-
eluding the ships for whose building
Saba is famous.
All over the West Indies you will
near Of Saba-built sloops and schoon-
ers, noted for their staunchness and
iheir sailing properties. These YES
sells are built on an island which has
not the trace of harbor-they are
bnilt in a valley far above the sea
and lowered into the water with
ropes.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-07-19
FIRST TO SERVE ICE CREAM
Dolly Madison Introduced Popular
Dessert in United States, But 1t
Was Made Earlier in London.

Tee cream was certainly first
served in the United States by Dolly
Madison, the wife of President
Madison, and it has often been said
that she invented the popular des-
sert. A writer in the Illustrated
World, however, says that the first
ice cream was made by Gunton, a
London confectioner. But Gun
toms method of freezing was crude
and uncertain and it remained for
Nancy johnson, the wife of an
American naval officer, to invent the
ice cream freezer.
The ice cream business has far
outgrown the small hand freezer.
Vast quantities are frozen by special
machinery. The industry has be-
come so great that fortunes have
been made out of it. Last year, ac-
cording to the Indianapolis News,
the American people consumed $780,
100000 gallons, which, figured at
only dollar and quarter gallon,
means a business of more than
$500, 0,000.-Youth's Companion.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-07-19
IS SMALLEST BIRDS NEST
Home Of the Ruby-Throated Humming
Bird Scarcely Larger Than an
English Walnut.

The most dainty structure built
in this country by the bill and feet
of birds is the nest made by the ruby
throated humming bird, writes Il.
Gilbert Pearson. When completed
it is scarcely larger than an English
walnut, and is saddled on small
horizontal limb of a tree, often many
feet from the ground. 1t is COM
posed almost entirely of soft plant
fibers, fragments of spiders webs
sometimes being used to hold them
in shape. The outer sides are thick
ly studded with bits of lichen, and
practiced, indeed, is the eye of man
or woman that can distinguish it
from a knot on q limb.
Although the humming birds nest
is exceedingly frail, there is nothing
on record to show that any great
number Of them come to grief dur
ing the summer rains. 1t is, how
ever, not called upon for long term
of occupation. Within month after
the two white eggs are laid the
young depart on their tiny pinions'
Young birds that require a longer
period for growth before leaving the
nest are furnished usually with more
enduring abiding places. In the
case of the bald eagle, the young Of
which do not fly until they are many
weeks old, most substantial struc-
ture is provided.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-07-19
STYLES OF ORIENT SENSIBLE
More Economical Than Those Of oeei-
dent Where Garments Are Dis
carded After Few Months Wear.

Styles of oriental dress differ
widely, but I can safely leave it to
any unprecedented observer that the
American and European woman is
the most hideously, ineficiently and
uneconomically dressed woman on
earth. The Japanese kimono, famil-
lar to all Of US and typical of orien-
tai garb, is made Of straight lengths
of material which, like the Others, is
disable after its first freshness is
gone, says the World Outlook.
We, boasting our efficiency, cut
garments into inconceiyable bits,
have them sewn together at great
expense, only to discard them as use
less after a few months wear.
And consider hairdressing. It's all
q matter of taste whether one
smooths each individual hair with
cocoa butter as IN India, or with a
paste Of slippery elm bark as in
China. Both are to be preferred to
the usual untidy appearance Of the
western couture that leads the orr
entail to ask: "Do they ever comb
their hair?"
The more you know of oriental
women the more you know they are
like us. The seeming differences are
largely a matter of superfcialities
like the color of the skin. Indian
women use saffron to produce a
beautiful yellow complexion. Chinese
and japanese women like touch of
carmine on their sallow faces, while
American women put on first car
mine coating, then a white. Each
is plainly satisfied with the effect.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-07-19
COMMISSIONERS SALE

By virtue OF decree of the Chan.
Gerry Court Of the Second District OF
Chickasaw County. renderd on the
9TH day Of June, 1917 in Cause No
1895 in said Court, styled Mrs. Ruby
Breach, next friend. ct al vs.. E. j.
Ezell ct al, the Undersigned. as Spec.
ial Commissioner in said Cause will
on Monday the 9th day Of Aug. 1917
in front Of the Court House door in
OkoIona, Miss, within legal hours.
offer for sale and sell to the highest
and best bidder for cash the following
described lands to.wit: Lot No. IL in
block 70 and Lot No. 5 in Block "a,
commonIyknown as the old Elon Ezell
homestead, situated in the City Of
Okolona. in the Second District of
Chickasaw County. State Of Missis-
sippi.
The title to the above property is
believed to be good but will convey
only such title as is vested in me as
Commissioner.
This June 9th, 1917,
w. j. WILLIAMS.
Commissioner.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-07-19
Demonstration of salads ant
salad dressings.
SATURDAY

Cooking demonstrations: flour
and meat substitutes, using pea
nuts, COW peas, and soy beans
tomato paste, tomato ketchuI
and making freless cooker.
The cooking demonstration
will be given Satur lay by Miss
Connie Bonslagel, assistant stat
specialist, and we hope all VIII
can will avail themselves of TIL
opportunity of hearing her.
The meetings are being hel
in the Domestic Science labors
tory of the school building. TIL
morning session is from nine ar
til twelve o'clock; the Afternoon
from two-thirty until five.
We are expecting a number d
labies out of town to take advaj
tage of this course. Come i
and bring your lunch and spen
the day.