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New Britain herald., 1917-07-07
Indians Scalp Browns.

Indians Scalp Browns.
 St. Louis, Mo-, July 7.-Cleveland made eight runs in the third inning yesterday and easily defeated St. Louis, 12 to 6. In the third inning twenty-one men went to bat, the two sides making thirteen runs and ten hits. The score:
 r. h. C.. Cleveland .... OO82O20OO-12 IA 2 St. Louis ...... O150OOOOO- 3 Coumbe, Morton and Billings and O'Neil; Davenport. Groom, Hamilton, Molineaux, Koob, Park and Severeid.
New Britain herald., 1917-07-07

Faber, Scott and Schalk; Dauss and Stanage.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31

AFTER SAVING THE LIFE OF DAINTY CORONA BALDWIN.
SMITH TAKES 1T UPON HIMSELF TO SAVE THE COM.
PANY'S PROPERTY AT THE RISK OF HIS LIFE
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31

dead and buried bank-cashier part OF
him. "And if you can manage to stay
in the game and play it out, there is
big money in it for all of you; enough
to make it well worth while for you to
put up the fight of your lives"
"Big money?-you mean in saving
our investments"
''Oh, no; not at all in cinching the
other fellows" Smith put in genally
Colonel Dexter Baldwin lifted his
soft hat and ran his fingers through
his grizzled hair.
"Say, Smith; you mustn't forget
that I'm from Missouri" he said AMI
quizzically.
But l shouldn't think you'd need
to be shown in this particular in.
stance" was the smiling rejoinder.
1.-THE chance to sell you people water
from your own dam isn't the only
thing or the main thing in this case.
They are obliged to have this dam site,
or, at least one as high up the river
as this, in order to get the water over
to their newly alienated grant in the
western half of the park"
you've got it straight" said the
colonel.
every good. Then they're simply
obliged to have your dam, or Don't
you see the alternative now, colonelT"
"Heavens to Betsyp exclaimed the
breeder of fine horses, bringing his fist
down upon Williams desk with a crash
that made the ink bottles dance. And
then: "What a lot OF fence-p0sts we
are-the whole kit and b'llin' of usl
If they get the dam, they sell water to
us; if they don't get it, we sell 1t to
them ~
THAT'S it, exactly" Smith put In
quietly. "And I should say that your
stake in the game is worth the stiffest
fight you can make to save IL. Don't
you agree with me?"
"Great Jehu! 1 should say sou
CALCULATED the amateur trust fighter.
Then he broke down the barriers mas,
terfully. "That settles it, Smith. You
can't wiggle out Of it now, no way or
shape. You've got to come over into
Macedonia and help us. Williams tells
me you refused him, but you can't re-
fuse me-"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31
ALL IN THE WAY YOU SEE 1T
Situation Always Makes Fall
ure of 1t, Says Writer.

Any attitude which makes the worst
of the situation makes failure of 1t.
Concentrating your mind on the hurt
of a headache or the pain of a cut, fair
ly makes either one throb to order.
Agltating yourself over how you are
going to meet the payments on your
talking machine takes all the music
out of every record 1t plays, writes an
optlmlst.
IF you must have your appendix re-
moved next Saturday, why fill the days
between now and Saturday with dis
mai forebodings of how you are going
to feel when you wake up from the
ether sleep? You viii have to have
the operation performed, anyway, and
you might as well come to it with as
much reserve strength and buoyaIcy
as possible.
A glad heart goes the whole day long
and a sad one tires in a mile, as has
been told with poetic fervor. But that
does not make us work hard enough
for a cheerful viewpoint, for the same
determination to see the best of life
which really makes the best in life
tangible thing to all of us.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31
Mozart's Music,

A recent biographer says of Mozart
that the most wonderful fact about
him was that he directed his art to-
ward success without any sacrifice of
himself, and his music was always
written with regard to it's effect upon
the public. Somehow it does not lose
by this, and it says exactly what he
wishes 1t tn say. In this he was
helped by his delicate perceptions, his
shrewdness and his sense of irony. He
desplsed his audience, but ne held him
self in great esteem. He made no con-
cession that he need blush for; he de-
ceived the public, but he guided it as
well. He gave the people the illusion
that they understood his idea, while.
as a matter of fact, the applause that
greeted his work was excited only by
passages which were solely composed
for applause.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31
CHAPTER VII.
TImanyonl Ditch.

Smith had his vote of thanks from
Colonel Dexter Baldwin in Williams
sheet-iron Office at the dam, the
colonel having driven out to the camp
for the express purpose; and the chief
of construction himself was not pres
ent.
you've loaded us up with toler-
ably heavy obligation, Smith-COrry's
mother and me-" was the way the
colonel summed up. "If you hadn't
been on deck and strictly CD the job
at that railroad crossing yesterday
morning"
Don't mention it. colonel" Smith
broke in. 81 did nothing more than
any man would have done for any
woman. You know it, and know it.
Let's leave it that way and forget il"
The tall Missourian's laugh was en-
tlrely approbative.
II like that" he said. sits q good,
man-fashioned way of looking at 1t.
You know how l feel about it-how
any father would feel; and that's
enough"
"Plenty," was the brief rejoinder.
"But there's another chapter to 1t
that neither of us can cross out; you'll
have to come out to the ranch and let
Corry's mother have a hack at you"
Baldwin went on. ST couldn't figure
you out of that If should try. And
now about those claim jumpers: sup
pose you didn't know any Of them by
nameY'
"No,"
"Corry says you gave them the time
Of their lives. By George, / wish I'd
been shere to seer and the colonel
slapped his leg and laughed. did
they look like the real thing--sure-
enough prospectorsi"
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legs and bodies, sufficiently terrifying,
one would suppose, to q young woman
sitting calmly in an automobile a hun
dred yards away.
The struggle was short In just pro-
portion to its vigor, and at the end Of
1t two of the trespassers were knocked
out, and Smith was Dragging the third
over to the wagon, into which he pres
entity heaved the man as If he had
been sack of meal. Miss Baldwin,
sitting in the car. saw her ally dive
into the covered wagon and come out
with a pair of rifles. Pausing only
long enough to smash the guns, one
after the other, over the wagon wheel,
he started back after the two other
men. They were not waiting to be
carried to the wagon; they were up
and running in o wide semicircle to
reach their hope of retreat unslain, if
that might be. 1t was all very brutal
and barbarous, no doubt, but the
colone's daughter was Western born
and bred, and she clapped her hands
and laughed in sheer enthusiasm when
she saw Smith make a show of chas-
ing the cireling runners.
Pc did not return to her until after
he had pulled up the freshly driven
stakes and thrown them away, and by
that time the wagon, with the horses
dashed to a keen gallop, was disap-
pearing over the crest of the northern
ridge.
That's one way to get rid of them,
Isn't it?" said the emancipated bank
man, loosely, upon taking his place
il the car to cramp 1t for the turn.
''Nas that something like the notion
you had in Dlind?"s
"Mercy, nci'' she rejoined. And
then: "Are you sure you are not hurt?"
"Not worth mentioning" he evaded.
''ThOse buffers couldn't hurt anybody,
so long as they couldn't get to their
guns"
"But you have saved the company at
your own expense. They viii be sure
to have you arrested"
"We won't cross that bridge until
we come TO IT," he returned. "If we
were back in the country from which
have lately escaped, it would be
proper for me to ask your permission
to drive you safely home. Since we
are not, I shall assume the permission
and do it anyway"
"Oh, is that necessary" she asked,
meaning, as he took it, nothing more
than cOmradely depreciation at putting
him to the trouble of it.
'Not absolutely necessary, perhaps,
but decently prudent. You might drop
me opposite the dam, but you'd have
to pass those fellows somewhere on
the way, and they might try to make
it unpleasant for you"
She made no further comment, and
he sent the car spinning along over
the hills to the westward. A mile
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31

"They looked like bunch of hired
assassins," said Smith, with a grin.
IT'S some more of the interference,
isn't it,"
The coloners square jaw settled into
the fighting angle.
How much do you know about this
business mix-up of ours, Smith," he
asked.
"All that Williams could tell me in
a little heart-to-heart talk we had the
other day."
"YOu agreed with him that there
was tolerably big niger in the wood
pile, didn't your"
Il had already gathered that much
from the camp gossip"
"Well, it's so. We're just about as
helpless as bunch of cattle in sink
hole" was the ranchman presidents
confirmation of the camp guesses.
what in the name of the great horn
spoon can we do-more than we have
done?"
"There are a number of things that
might be DONE" said Smith, falling
back. refectively upon the presumably
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31

forms the principal Item In the birth
feast. Other duties that the priest
has to carry out are the cutting of
three horizontal cuts with a dagger
just above the level of the eyebrows on
the forehead of the dead, and the set
Ting of all disputes.
When a couple becomes engaged the
woman spends most Of her time cook
ing dainty and tasty dishes and trot-
ting around with them to her lovers
home. followed by her father with
wine and spirits. Breach-of-promise is
almost unknown, for the youth who
jilts has his throat cut. The para
mour of married woman is hanged on
some remote tree by the red cord he
wears round his neck and the body Is
left as a warning to others. The
erring wife mysteriously disappears,
and no questions are asked. A man
who deserts his wife also is hanged,
while the woman who deserts her hus-
band is compelled to return to him.
There is a secret ceremony OF initia-
ton which every Red Head is COM
PEELED to undergo on attaining his sew
enteenth birthday. 1t involves seclu-
sion for seven days and going without
food and drink for three days. At
the termination of this preliminary
test the youth is taught certain pass
words and grips by which he may rec
ognize his brethren and a red circle is
tattooed on his breast. The strange
people live on terms of friendship with
the whole of their nelghbors with the
exception of the Turks, whom they
hate and treat accordingly,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31
The Resoureeful Dentist.

at was a dreadful moment" said
the dentist. 81 was bathing quietly,
when the great cavernous jaws of the
shark opened before me"
"What did you doT' asked one of the
ladies.
Il took my forceps out Of the pocket
of my bathing suit and pulled his teeth
before ne had a chance to seize me.
1t was the quickest and neatest bit OF
work / ever did"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31

short Of the trestle river crossing they
overlook and passed the wagon. Be-
cause he had the colonel" daughter
with him, Smith put On a burst of
speed and so gave the claim jumpers
no chance to provoke another battle.
In the maze of crossroads opposite
the little city on the south bank of
the river, Smith was out OF his reck-
oning, and was obliged to ask his COM
panlon to direct him.
81 thought you weren't ever going
to say anything any more" she sighed,
in mock despair. take this road to
the right"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31

ST can't talk and drive a speed
wagon at the same time" he told her,
twisting the gray car into the road she
had indicated, and he made the asSer-
ton good by covering the four remain
ing miles in the same preoccupied
fashion.
There was a reason, of q sort, for
his silence; two of them, to be exact.
For ore, he was troubled by that
haunting 81 ase of familiarity which
was still trying to tell him that this
was not his first meeting with Colonel
Baldwin's daughter; and the other,
much bigger and more depressing, was
the realization that in breaking with
his past, he had broken also with the
world of women. at least to the extent
of ever asking one of them to marry
him.
He pushed the thought aside, com
ing back to the other one-the puzzle
of familiarity - when Miss Baldwin
pointed to a transplanted Missouri
farm mansion, with a columned por-
tico, standing In a grove of cotton
woods on the left-hand side of the
road. telling him 1t was Hilcrest.
There was a massive stone port /
fronting the road, and when he got
down to open the gates the young
woman took the wheel and drove
through; whereupon he decided that
it was time for him to break away,
and said so.
"But how will you get back to the
campT" she asked.
81 have my two legs yet, and the
walking isn't bad"
mo; but you might meet those
two men agaiI."
"That is the least of my troubles"
Miss Corona Baldwin. like the Mis-
souri, colonel, her father, came upon
moments now and then when she had
the ultimate courage Of her impulses.
81 should have said you hadn't
trouble in the world" she asserted,
meeting his gaze level-eyed.
The polite paraphrases of the cof-
fined period were slipping to the end
of his tongue, but he set his teeth upon
them and said, instead: THAT'S all
you know about it. What if l should
tell you that you've been driving this
morning with an escaped convictT
81 shouldn't believe it," she said
calmly.
"Well, you haven't-not quite" he
returned, adding the qualifying phrase
in sheer honesty.
She had united her veil and was
asking him Hospitality if he wouldn't
come in and meet her mother. Some
thing in the way she said it, some little
twist of the lips or look of the eyes,
touched the spring of complete recog-
milton, and the familiarity puzzle van
ished instantly.
"You forget that am a working
man." he smiled. MY gang in the
quarry viii think I've found a bottle
somewhere" And then: did you ever
lose a glove. Miss Baldwin, white
kid with little hole in one finger?"
Dozens of Them" she admitted;
land most of them had holes, I'm
afraid. But what has that to do with
your coming in and meeting mamma
HHu letlnS heI LHdhh you LUZ SdFIhs
my life?"
Nothing at all, of course" he
fastened to say; and with that he
babe her good-by rather abruptly, and
turned his back upon the transplanted
Missouri mansion, muttering to him
self as he closed the portal gates be-
hind him: Baldwin, of course What
an ass 1 was not to remember the
namel And now I've got the other
half Of it, too; it's Corona"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31
All Babies Are salted.

When a baby is born it is warmly
clothed, placed on a large wooden plat
ter and taken to the priest, who, in
front Of the sacred tree, strips it and
salts it. Probably this accounts for
the few Red Heads that now survive,
It being said that their nnInbers have
dwindled to a mere 1000 or 5000. For
the service the priest is given Shout
der from the sheep which 1t is usual
% kill on KUch occasions and which
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31
CTo BE coNTINUEDJ
Resistance Of the Wind.

Tests on model of the naval collier
Neptune made in the wind tunnel Of
the Washington navy yarG by Naval
Constructor William McEntee show
that If this vessel were steamlng
against a 3O-mIle wind at IA knots an
hour it would require about TO horse
power to overcome the resistance Of
the wind. This is about 20 per cen;
Of the power necessary to propel her
through the water,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31

Do you believe that Smith
would be wise in taking IN i'm
portant position with the ditch
compsny--espeeialiy if he really
hopes to escape prison as re-
suit Of the LawrenceVille affair?
Wouldn't he be wiser if he disap-
peared from the new job7
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-31

Synopsis-J Montague Smith
Trust company bachelor society
Rcande hers wronguly
Dunham his employer and urged be
Smith strikes Durham
tramp
Rockies gets rough lob He soon
and because the financial
Office staff and become
the life daughter of Col Dexter
Baldwin president o company.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-13
KEEP THE COLLEGES WORKING
AT CAPACITY

| FTHE Government has not called for
boys under twenty-one and the Gov.
ernment does not need them. The folly
OF military unpreparedness has been EN-.
phasized so that no man fails to un.
derstand IT. Similar unpreparedness in
education would be even more fatal in
the years to come. Not only must minor
students not be withdrawn from the col.
leges, but every effort must be made to
running to capacity.
Professional men will be killed in
France. There will be n great scarcity
in the ranks OF educated men during the
next decade. Yet 1t will be an era in
which education will be the greatest of
all assets, not only for the individual but
for the nation. We must have fully com
,retent chemists, engineers, physicians,
bankers and merchants. Our customs as
well as our trade are in process of inter.
naturalization. We cannot very much
longer be one.language nation, Our
youth must he equipped in the trade
tongues of the world. The lesson of effl.
cient management has been taught by the
war Science as never before has come
into its own. and will he turned more and
more to practical ends
No parents should stop at any sacrifice
IT, send their children to college in these
days. II is better to endOw them with
an education than with stocks and bonds.
and it is also the fulfllment Of national
duty
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-13
HIS THREE SONS VOLUNTEERED

10 the EdHor OF the Evening Ledger.
Sir-lt seems Uncle Sam is having n
rather hard time getting his army to-
gether. According to accounts, too many
are putting in claims for exemption.
Now, there is something rotten In Den.
mark somewhere. Lots of these slackers
have nothing to hold them whatever and IT
is up to the exemption boards to look into
these claims thoroughly, because lots and
lois OF them are rank lies and fakes to get
out or doing what true American should
DO. | want to emphasize the fact that lots
or men who are men and did not have n
ne orafted. but who volunteered willingly
mad thousand times more cause to nut in
an exemption than some of the tribe claim
ing exemption now. Men that term Amer.
leans do not argue the right or wrong. but
see the right and answer their countrv,s
call Thank God, there are still some
Americans left. 1t would be a good thing
TO send all men, married or not married
from eighteen to forty-five, AS thew are do.
ing in England. N
We have got to have an army. and tho
only way 1t appears to me now is 10 tase
anything from eighteen to forty-fye thai
mas trousers on, and can shoulder a eun and
march, Gun anu
You may ask. why don't you go ?" bavo
three sons In the United States marine.
and they did not have to be pushed In
they volunteered
Philadelphia, August O.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-13
WANTS JAPAN TO FIGHT

TO the Editor Of the EUening Ledger.
Sir-F'or centuries the iliterate peasants
OF Russia, comprising majority of the
population in this land of few cities, have
looked up to the rural nobility as their
leadership the peasants are likely to con-
tinue to follow agitators and insurrection-
lists OF the worst type, large part of these
agitators being blatant anarchists As with
the peasantry, so with the army, drawn
from the peasantry. Let us face the truth,
that Russia is lost to our cause
Japan has a large army, well-eau.pped
and well-disciplined. The soldiers are now
receiving small pay on peace footing But
Japan has stake i'm the war similar to
ours, and Will suffer bitterly il GERMANY
wins Why does not the Mikado take an
active part? Intelligent observers saw he
hes.tates to incur the great expense because
or the large japanese debt and heavy taxa
ton. If the cost of transporting the troops
and supplying them with ammunition could
he borne by another nation there is little
doubt they would be sent They could
reach Europe in six weeks, going SOUTH
ward, along the Coast Of Asia to the French
colony Of Tonkin, crossing that and British
India on the wel-appointed English rail
ways and thence to their destination by
way Of the Arabian Gulf the Suez Canal
and the Mediterranean
The advent of this powerful army would
decisively turn the scale in favor of the
Allies and greatly hasten the end of the
war. Should not the United States under
take this enterprise? Its cost, while large
would be small in comparison with that of
,ne great armies we are planning to raise.
The crucial point is this: that the lana
nese soldiers are ready, while ours NAV
require many months of preparation. Time
presses. SO far, France has borne the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-13
MORE SCANDAL

HNHE pathetic spectacle OF n great ped.
l. agogue becoming poor politician has
ceased to arouse tears in the public. The
Governors easy acquiescence in the con
spiracies and plans of the faction that
owns him has been notorious for so long
time that the fact causes little com
ment Occasionally. however, some office
holder. for one reason or another. rises to
protest and turns loose on the com.
munity some of the inside facts.
In rendering his resignation. by re-
Gc state Highway Commissioner
Ea,, saws something. We quote:
II have refused consistently, as is well
Haown beth to yourself and your close
p"'' 'c7l associates. to turn the depart
me i'tu political machine. At your
personal order. contrary to the judgment
and advice Of the department | appointed
four s"pe"in' ondoTts whose appolntments
were Insisted upon by you solely for
poiltical reasons. TO take the place of men
OF experience, and in each case these an
poihtac' very soon realized their in
ahil'iy to handle the work and resigned
voluntarily. which simply illustrates
Wat II would mean If the work of the dc.
partment were handled along political
line
That has the ring of truth. II fits in
with the record, a record which began
wit" the appointment OF an Attorney
'tn""pl and the blackness of which prob
ab'y has not ended yet
it Is not worth while to expect much
rom officers who are elected simply he
cause they have agreed in advance TO
prostitute their offices for political advan.
tase' We can expect scandal and plenty
or II until the people of the Common.
wealth tear themselves loose from the
miserable leade. ship they now follow.
take advantage Of the u~na"y to seize
the party organization for their own pur.
poses and nominate II MAJ big enough
and independent enou u =, 81, at Harris.
purg ana do his own hin .i'1 as wen as
his own governing