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Evening star., 1917-01-14

tell de future, de pas, de present, de-
Yoh wanted yoah fortune told, seh?"
There was in his voice a sneer of con-
tempt at the willingness of a white man
to meet him on terms of equality. By
consulting him / was doing more than
that: l was admitting superiority on
his part, and he took JUNCTION to himself
accordingly. l looked him squarely in
the eye.
you're no more a minister than you
are voodoo,' l said. you're faker,
and you'd better be careful of your man
ner. Understand"
I WAS between him and the door now,
and the interview could not be cut short
by any act of his. His teeth showed in a
grin of rage.
"Whaffoh yoh talk dataway? What
foh-"-
"Sit down. snapped, "and don't you
try to run for the door, or I'll pulverize
you! / want to talk to you, you scoun-
drel! What have you been doing to my
jockey, Pete Johnson
III call down de vengeance OBJ"
walked over to him and shook my fist
under his flaring nostrils.
you'll call down nothing snapped.
you'll answer my question. What have
you been doing to that jockey of mine?
Answer me now or"
He backed down at once.
Il jes' dunno who yoh mean, seh, he
stammered. IL dunno any jockey by dat
"You know him by the name of Pete,
then,' snapped, "if you don't know his
last name. He rode Vivandiere yesterday
He knew; my far-fung guess had
lighted correctly. For his eyes lighted at
the horses name. Nor in his terror, did
he dare to lie.
"Yasseh, yasseh, knows de pusson
now. A little yaller-colored-"
He was trying to gain time; l cut him
short:
"You know. What did you tell him?
You told him to throw that race; told him
to whip the horse. Why? Who told you
to do it?'
He looked at me cunningly. Despite
his fear, greed ruled him.
"Yoh mentioned money when yoh come
in here, sch, he said.
an pay you if you tell me the truth!
If you don't"
His blear eyes were wicked. "How
much?"
@That depends on how much you can
tell me-" answered
"Oh. can tell yoh lots, he said, @if-r
My hands had dropped to my sides
now. and l stood but yard away from
him, awaiting his revelations revelations
that hoped would make the odds even,
Evening star., 1917-01-14

else is there for me to do? I've picked my
path, Jerry 44s'
"An' I'm treadin' it wild ye,' he said
grimly.
left him and went toward the huddle
of shanties that was the negro Tender
loin of Grantham, and where the fortune
teller lived. found his place without
difficulty A sign over the front door
called the attention of the world that
passed to the fact that within dwelt the
Reverend Doctor Yancey.' Ipulled the
bell of the reverend doctors home, and in
a minute the door opened.
\ yawning, blear-eyed negro, dressed
in dirty red dressing-gown and wearing
carpet slippers, so worn that a great
black toe protruded from each, looked
at me. .t. - t
"Whaffoh you wake me up dis time O.
de mawnin' white MANI he asked inso-
lently. "Goddlemighty, it ain seben
o'clock and yoh comes heah pullin' on the
bell like"
My hands itched to knock him down;
but feared he might slam the door in my
face if made an overt move. 1t was bet
ter to temporize.
aren't you willing to do business any
time?' l demanded. "If you don't want
my money l can take it elsewhere
His eyes widened greedily and he
stepped back, throwing the door wide.
"'Scuse me, seh," he said. Il done
thought yoh was de butchers collector.
Step in, seh."
l wasn't particularly flattered, but l
stepped in.
Right in de parlor. sch, said his rev.
erence, opening door from the hall
I ENTERED the parlor, so-called-really
his office. From the walls hung heavy
black curtains, dusty from lack of care,
and on them were crudely painted repre-
sentations of Biblical scenes. On table
in the center of the room stood large
crystal ball, and beside it grinning skull.
Also, around the room were little figures
stuck through with pins.
A queer clergyman! The Haytian
"vOOdoo' will sell to client little doll,
and will claim that that doll represents
his clients enemy, and that torture ad-
ministered to the figure is torture admin
istered to the enemy. This man claimed
to be a voodoo, and knew how great a
power such claims would give him over
ignorant negroes.
"Sit down, sch, sit down." said the
negro. "Yoh wanted to see me about
"You tell fortunes?" / asked.
Il hab combined de truth OBJ de Lawd
wild de truth of my race he said POM
pously. "Good from all sources, sch.
am a minister OBJ de gospel, and likewise
l am high in de councils oh voodoo. can
Evening star., 1917-01-14

uartlng aDOut the track, ana tne ralI-Dlrds,
stOp-watches in hands, were timing the
likely ones for themselves, or for their EN-
ployers, who might be bookmakers or
tipsters who advertised and sold racing
information in the big cities.
"Did you get hold of Pete?' was my
first question.
Jerry shook his head.
II think he's beat it, Misther Sale. He
didn't show up to sleep with the other
boys last night, and they tell me he was
afther talkin' about goin' away whin they
last saw him.
"When was that?'
Jerry turned to the cOlored boy whose
crap game had momentarily interrupted
the night before.
"When did you see Pete last?'
AJest afteh Mist Herman come out
heah, he answered. "He come runnin'
outa the stable, sch, and asst him wheah
he was boun'. He said he didn't know,
but he wasn't comm back sch. Pears
lax he was all cut up about that race yes
tehday, seh'
He put the last sentence in ques-
tioning tone OF course, the whole track
community knew that something had
been stirring because of Vivandiere's
race of yesterday; but the stable-hands,
naturally, weren't in the know, and
l didn't care, for various reasons. to
satisfy the avidity for gossip of the
colored boy.
"He made poor race" said shortly.
IF you see him, or find out where he is
let me or Mr. Kenney know
He touched his cap, and Jerry and
walked away from the stable.
"A young naygur is as har-rd to find
as needle in the haystack, sor, said
Jerry. II can be lookin'-'
mot much use, Jerry warned him.
4If he's made up his mind to disappear
well, he handed me the man part way
higher up, anyway. Where does this
fortune-teller hang out?'
4I'll take you down there" Jerry
volunteered.
PUT l knew the rash temper of Jerry
too well. If the fortune-teller refused
to talk, to admit the truth of our slender
suspicious, Jerry would be apt, despite his
sixty-odd years, to brain the man with
the nearest handy chair. I'm not Won
derfully self-controlled myself though
little more so, on occasion of need, than
my faithful Jerry.
you'd better stay here, jerry" said l..
@Then, if by any chance Pete shows
around, or you get word of his where
abouts, you'll be able to act"
"I'l act,' said Jerry grimly. But.
even though you find out what yeer
afther, sor? The crooks that run this
place-will they listen to YEP
"If the racing authorities up North get
proof of what's going on here, Jerry l
said, at won't be twenty-four hours be-
fore they threaten to bar from the turf
controlled by them all owners who race
here, all horses entered here, and all Of
fcials connected with the track. That
would mean that the public, if the threat
were made good, would refuse to bet in
the pool-rooms on the races down here.
Will they listen to me? Jerry, don't
care whether they do or not! I'm out for
their hides: they've told me they're after
mine.'
Then told him of last nights events.
Jerry whistled
4And Vivandiere starts on Saturday
I ondod aSo Torrv hofnro Coturdov
Evening star., 1917-01-14

which l had entered And he caught me
off my guard. atsS ~
He sank little lower into the chair he
had taken. He seemed to relax, and
felt myself thrill with expectation. And
then he leaped! Taken by surprise, he
was past me before could put out hand
to stop him. He was across the room, and
from a table had lifted metal-studded
club that might once, for all knew, have
belonged to some African chief Or some
Haytian high priest of voodoo. He BRAN
dished it above his head, his eyeballs
rolling in wrath. ,
@Come on, yoh white man., he jeered
4NIek me talk, will yoh? Come on now
and shake yoah fist under ma nose!'
did nothing of the sort. He wasn't as
big as 1, but any difference of weight and
size between us was more than balanced
by that ugly club he brandished. And !
carried no gun. 81 .le
"A fine minister you are" l said.
He winked, still brandishing his club.
II gifts de money, white man.
"And why is it you don't want some of
mine?a asked.
"Yoh amt got enough" he sneered
3Yoah names Ke'nan, ain it? Suah.
Yoh trains dis hawse Vivandiere, eh?
Wheah yoh git money to mount to any,
thin? Go on outa heah now, white man!
l ain goin to fool wild yoh no more. I'm
goin' swing dis yeah club an bat yoh one
on de brains wild it if yoh don beat it
quick
He advanced a trife toward me now,
and his eyes rolled farther back in their
sockets. could see that he was working
himself into frenzy. If he should sue
ceed before l left his house-well an
excited negro is as dangerous, imagine
as any Malay running amuck.
Maybe l haven't so much,' said l.
"but my owner-she'll spend young
fortune to put you in Jail, Yancey! The
Leland horses have always been run On
the level, and she'll see to it that they al
ways do, and that those who prevent
their doing it pay the penalty"
OH, it was weak feeble sort of threat;
| knew it. But | could think of mo-
thing else to say. Nor could | do any
thing. If rushed Yancey | knew that
that great club would crash down on me-
Possibly might avoid it and then subdue
him. But it was chance didn't care to
take. | could only utter futile threats
At least, thought the threat was futile
l was not prepared for the sudden drop
ping of the negro's jaw and his wide-eyed
stare.
whats dat yoh say?" he stammered
Leland? What Leland dat? Yoh say
she? Who dat?"
"The lady who owns Vivandiere,'
answered.
"What heh name? Wheah she come
from? She dat Miss Robe'ta Leland
what come from down Stephanie?'
"Yes. Why?n
"Yoh lyin' to me, white man? Yoh lie
to me and, 'foh Gawd, l bust yoh right
now!'
He took still another step toward me,
and l could see, where the sleeves of his
dirty bath-robe had fallen back, the
muscles of his black arms tighten.
"Yoh lyin' to me, white man?' he re-
peated.
"Look here, Yancey,' l said. @Much
more of that talk and may take chance
with that club of yours. Miss Roberta
pland Ownc Vivo nIsara Apd ,or, ,,o,,
The Cordova daily times., 1917-11-12

While working for the Alaska Nor thern at Mile 1-2 known as the gra- vel pit, out of Seward, three men were caught in slide recently and two of them were buried beneath it. One of death before he could be extricated, while a man by the name of McPher- son was so badly bruised that he was taken to the hospital at Seward. Grim es was young man well known on the line of the road, and a universal favorite. His relatives live in the states.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-11-12
PARIS HOARD|NG |TS COPPER
 COINS
(By Associated PressD

ahA'hfSNAN't~NA
 PARIS. Nov. 12-Traffic in copper coins has frequently been denounced during the last couple of years but is still going on in France. In great many stores, tobacco shops, grocer ies, bakeries, and meat markets, at ticket offices of transportation lines and places of amusement, sous and double sous are taken in all through the day and evening, and none given out if it can be avoided. Subway and tramway employees have refused to sell tickets unless the passengers of fer the exact change. Theatre and moving picture box offices are also collectors of coppers.
 NJ. Hudelo, the new perfect of the Police, made a round of Paris in the subway the other day. He was required to furnish coppers for his tickets after offering a silver franc piece. At one station the ticket sell CT refused in his presence to make change for a wounded soldier who of fered a two-franc piece. NJ. Hudelo passed in his card and ordered that the ticket be delivered, whereupon both the ticket and the change was forthcoming.
 50 you had the change. Now you may go to the office and get your pay for you are discharged" said NJ. Hu- delo, whose authority extends to all employees of public services.
 The perfect was called upon to make his own change at the ticket offices of moving picture shows also, but a little talk with the manager in each case developed the fact that change was not lacking in the cash drawers.
 The result of his investigation was circular to commissaires of police calling upon them to enforce the re 1 gulations and prosecute every person speculating in copper money, and tc send police headquarters the name oi every employee of any public service refusing to make change without 6 plausible reason
 There has been regular marke for the coppers at the Place Gambetts where the subway employees ant other collectors bring their sous ant double sous in rolls and dispose o them at a bonus of ten percent. Tht buyers get back the premium the. pay for this small exchange and ais make an additional profit of fifteel percent through illicit exportation t Switzerland. Though French pape and silver money is at a discoun
 there, copper money, curiously, pas
 ses at par, which has provoked tn systematic traffic that the police c Paris proposes to stop.
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23

All .he age OF 35, and after lS,
wears service IN the biz league.
Leon * Ames the veteran OF the
National league. has come into his
own H- IS starting his fourteenth
season an TOP speed sad wiJh such
winning ways tha, 81 promises to
b. .he most successful OF bis on
urs career A marvellous come
back
The Grim son-topped twirler WIS
released 0y McGraw three season
ago. after serving n years as
Giant Ames vas supposed TO De-
tbru
Icon Kalsmity Ames i- what tbey
called him when a Giant old Boy
Iinx seemed 10 follow him ever
where and spoil his games No mat.
Ter how well he pitched no matter
how uncanny his famous wide
breaking curve Nas working Ames
usually iost
lie Is and always has been a Par
better pitcher than tho record
books give him credit FOR
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23
SUNDAY BALL
FOR WAR FUNDS
HAS GOTHAM O. X.

NEN YORK. MAJ % sunday
baseball for major league clubs sill
5e permitted here this summer Both
american league and National league
teams wiil play championship games
ON ,he Sabbath Hitherto champion
ship games have been barred but
exhibition game, between major
league clubs tho receipts going TO
charity have been permitted here
n PLANNED 20 give sll the receipts
of .hc prcpo "a games 20 aar relief
funds hu tne contests viii co4ur In
tAe averages
Efforts 10 pgi across similar plans
lave iailed in Boston and PhIadel
lh,e Washington authorize, have
NOT yet given heir verdict Brook n
a expected 20 snare NsB York s
favorable stand The arsr game of
the sort probably Rill be between
me Yankees and Browns on June ~
Tho Yankees and Tigers are ohed-
ulcd 10 play IN Detroit on lne 3.
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23
TOM STEPHENS
TO FORM TEAM
FOR MT. CLEMENS

semi pro bali ri4yers in Michigan
have found something pleasant to-
listen % Tom Stephens is back m
baseball The lumber king ia roiuy
go nul - team into Tho Hald AZ
Clemens
Whenevcr stephens gets interest
ID in baseball. he boosts The m o.
al over me state BE gets strong
team together and paws tho s'hlo,ts
eelh To. beat him II is neccs ary
Tor other towns 20 gcf strong tesmF.
and 20 pay their athlctes we'll to
keep them
with tho stephens debut at NJ
Glemens Decoration day, semtpro
hall sboEi the state is duo to boom
more than it has This spring
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23
Where 1t Hurts

nAsEBALL pretty
= THIS
Is
will be taken by concpion will than possibly fhe
pennant by handspring club than another The bump
will baseball back Of The w be- wholesale
rebuilding
material anything like adequate Th condition last
FIVE depends much d b ball PLAYED ~ This
develops boy VIII DO several
before talent OF The skin BE- found again inc
jungles
The the colleges Michigan 3ooo
men dlHinB and several hundred
500 students already and drilling daily More than
and 900 other
boys drilling OF Ice th
drilling OF
drilling This an he COLLEGES There
for baseball collegiate ambitions directed toward professional
n such had 1906 1910
major leagues would have shared such hd Ansmb Jack
Eddie
Charley Herzog Harry Hooper Bin KT Johnny aan Suny Mcnn
Chief Meyers Derrl Pratt Robertson jim Thorpe Te
Walker Buck Weaver Urban
Claude Hendrix Hub Ersknc Willie Mitchell Pat
Eptha Rxey Dick Rudolph
Each one Of these fellows school thame and
likely that
there been warning do tho cboo.day
Take these fellows gloom their
CLEAN fairly adequate idea Of baseball
embryo PLAYING ]
the major leagues viii
American league Is not IS fast this IS { last
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23
WILLIAMS GETS INTO
ARMY ON THIRD ATTEMPT

NEW YORK Mas 23-R Nor
Ii- williams tennis champion of
America has persevered unrl be-
IS now soldier of tho United
States Williams vas twice re.
ltcted because Of bad feet The
irsf time nc examining board
didn't Anoa who he vas After
n heard % his athletic record.
examiners stretched a poin' and
oohed fhe Harvard man over
-zun Even then no. could not
make tha grade Now comes he
announcement that hi- third n
fort vas successful and thar be-
hss enrolled ~ Plsttsburg 20
train ror commission
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23
NEW RACE BILL
FRIGHTENS BOYS
anadian Racing May BE Legal
Only Until First
of July

TORONTO Oat MAY a. The
racing traterm,s IF Canada has an
ear aimed ~ ottawa today Do is
expected shs government ali begin
This afternoon an assault upon the
racius game % 'he Dominion that
mas send an rhe BOYS 20 work
This government bill ALL replace
lhe Wilcox measure and viii be-
even more radical lt is expected go
provide that al race track gambling
~ Canada cease from JUS until
the end OF The Rar u Is feared
that if Vill even provide Tor 'he
closing Of all he tracks on Juiy
There Is . very wholesome fear
mong followers Of the poRies that
the glH vii' be- made law
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23
INDIAN BALL
PLAYER BUYS
$4,000 BONDS

NEW YORK. AaF ~ Jack
COON veteran pitcher uf The
Brooklyn Nationals and one ~ The.
most popular bali plHcr- in fhe
game, has taken charge of cam
paign f0 induce bi' players go in
vest n Liberty bonds ir said
hat Chief Myers tne indian catcher
has subscribed for 100000 worth OF
the bono.
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23
TO
BATTLE ZION

Friendship team of Masonic
league 0Ili pIaF practice game
win Zion III NorthNestorn neia dia
mond 80 Thursday evening May
- This game should prove inter-
esiing as viii give lnp 4n the
added strength OF fhe two clubs over
last wear Monte Wood and SWORN
stead an old National league. un
divide ihe rvrlns for Friend ap.
sI'h mixer on the receiving end
Iannoth and McCallum rH bc
tbe Zion batter AI PLAYERS re'
bort 40 300 clock Game called 90
8 O'Clock
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23

ly loves 90 beat Philadelphia and
starred az that task last year
Nobody seems To know Just how
Mack is working his pitching stan
ON the basis that the saturday and
sunday pitchers should be- ready to-
day Bush. Myers Schauer, r John
son and Noyos on can work Mack
Is expected % pitch Bush twice this
series. II he does that Bullet Joe
viii have 90 take the firing line this
afternoon
There was no chance m battle the
fanks TUESDAY and they have dc
parted FOR Cleveland The post
poned game viii be played OF in =
double header in July
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23
VIII Hardest By Closing tip Nurseries Whence Come the Rockies
Mack Wins Even Break at
Cleveland; InvadeS Detroit
BANKERS ORGANIZE
BASEBALL LEAGUE

Another amateur league has
popped up The banks have OF
ean.zeA and will'start their sched
ulra "a the mud -thit afternoon
Northwestern Geld viii bee the
battle ground aud the order TO
begin nring viii come az 5
O'Clock First and Old Detroit
National ~ WAYNE County aud
iiome savings National Bank OF
Commerce rs Central Savings
and Peninsular State rs First
state d, the Wedn ~lay schedule.
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23
Shifting Ty

between cobb and loung s
thumb shouldn't be taken serious Burns mus DE- Coa 80
as slItrnated th spng
haved r.
being n long m
ana IN
shifted htfer
roster todd back perch be has made
OF sap and ger
them started
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23
The A. r. ;. b. NJ. r.

ENHE latest in tribes 90 starving
Brood Mares England q T. ii fryv
ms 70 organize
- also believed 20 be fairly sane seems that
on loo IN england 10 turn all the horobred
artillery and cavalry horses the
meufe would pu breeding back
ooaioad OF so OF oats to ENGLAND for TIE
lie booming gallant
ladies nrst' notion seems to be drawing support
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23
All Tiger Pitchers Are
Ready Except
BOland

Connie Macks Athletics blew into
che town Tins morning with the biz
sard n u hadn't been such
stormy night a sea. the Mackmen
would have been an puHcd up when
they srrl,ed They won great
moral victory ar cleveland Tuesday
when Erred Falkenbure heat me In
dams and gave the Macks an even
break for thc series The phladel
phians did az cleveland exactly
what they are likely TO do az any
time They happened 20 set some
good ultching. and cleveland didn't
do much Scoring late in the game
somebody started hitting and be
fore the dust settled he game was
wrecked
Conditions arc not likely 10 b.
very ideal for = Same this after
noon aliho one viii bc played N
possible The bali orchard is
soaked from two days Of rain and
few hours ~ snow and The afr is
Far from ,indly 10 throwing arms
PLAYING conditions are such as
should give smart team An al
vantage over an inexperienced one
There is no telling who viii do
the pitching This afternoon Two
days 81 rain makes every Tiger
nineer eligible except Roland Most
of them viii get workout this
week because the western invasion
of ihe east starts next week. and
HushAy wants 20 know where he
stands Cunnineham ought 10 start
ard hnLsh This series George dear
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23

johnson nti play Riucr tonight
at Sweeney HIs'0os in the ety
hr'' cushion tourney Tulnor beat
Miller 50 to a. and Hewitt beat
Ritter or To g. ~ the Tuesday
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23

THE Tiger machine running smoothly enough nus sfnf ~
lnsteadSoi
Cobb have been scoring mos d" n, rum,
al ta~f1d
been Tally rendezvous That is he "a Ge s
machine 10 cobb 'i.
hl7n idhA
Ccbhs tuals lied lcafou rHAhs '
hf lN'-oittI'
wear finely me
"a he
be road N has ont l,'''p'. e''' ~
81 W fi
was nothing about
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23

last Detroit nearly bdd'' on ae -
exception had Tor 80 saHe 81 nome tl
1919
IFS salRa
the been played out f0n less hei 9
lu1-i-uci HN
eight of he Tiger been b'a onefn Hss nus
la7
Ittle vong with me o ae men been lg
the total o arR't'
is not Impressive dope he BOYS including W games -
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23

~, wiunina ~ of the Hrst z1
namcE % the season the Houston
team sol awas Co hyinE start ~ The
rasc for tho TexHs leREue pcunFnf.
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23

still should bar Bobby IS
hen swing INTO The old stride
also is fellows
viii Tho old Wrecsns
IN failed
fails the onion merry ride every
day is
inhers Spncer luck will turn aad he VIII nnisa e
season creditable
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23

VERY into action TO-DAY Those maznE cubs
~ a stand isf
~ Al Demarees ball Back in fsi+ or Ata" possessed
q possession shipped inc
something
thug
Giants
~ NJ
New a
home me bacon
revenge 10
hammered talent lie
~
had met
of he
discovered na
opneG mat
get his M OF trouble and ar
IN
SO he euhred for Jimmy Lavender
the anne on "neh
when Steamer al viii De summoned
wind the
When he thinks Demaree Chicago
IS II
'front.' he in adrf
Fatbuh McfraW had better chance
all
Johns has improved since
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23

determined fall by tho club
utility
His innedfr II bode gets
hii head ~ ball VIII be- Whe sctHng and hs little
mustsche and defend the meadows
The Detroit times., 1917-05-23

The fairyland lake Of
North America 30 held IN
a chaiice OF glacier and
mountain. Trails 70 the
lakes In tho clouds ard 70
the top 0f tho world.
Lovely drives to the No
nine Lake and chs Valley
81 the Ten Perks. Climbs
with Swiss guides and
camping trips. Perfect
hotel.