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Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1917-07-14

Misses Wanda and Lola Ball are
spending the month at their cabin
at Mount Charleston.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1917-07-14

Mrs. Harley A. Harmon and son
Charles are enjoying themselves al
Charleston Park.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1917-07-14

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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-09-07

my pride, my desire to snow this
marvel of the House to some friends
at Marseiiles, did not proceed direct
to Paris, where the doll was to be
placed in a case before the Grand
opera House, where Sophia Voltmar
was the attraction. found my friends
at the seaboard city absent at a we'd
ding. Always my precious case with
me, 1 strolled about the harbor. 1t
was one of those royal evenings, the
air pure wine, the sky vaulted sap
phire, the lovely Mediterranean a
sheet of liquid gold. took row
boat, my case ever at my side. Just
as dusk came up yawl holding three
men. They ran into me. later
guessed that these bandits must have
followed me from Vienna and were
after the Damon pearls, which they
believed had remained on the doll.
A blow, insensibility, and 1t was a
long, dull dream of many weeks for
me.
when I came to myself again the
world was nearly 2 month older.
had been picked up, and my case, by
a schooner in the African trade. My
pockets had been ransacked. There
was nothing to indicate who I was
when the schooner found me. The
card / showed you / later discovered
in the lining of my coat. A storm had
driven the schooner out of her course.
They simply kept me aboard because
they made few landings. There was
a passenger who probably recognized
that was a gentleman of culture, pos
sibly OF means. This was one Ma
poleon Ducroix."
l gave the speaker an intense stare.
The pen with which Marvel was writ
ing made a splatter just here. 1t was
purposeful, to emphasize what nat
urally had discovered, that Napoleon
Ducroix was the name attached to the
Jebel River G Great Jangeh bonds.
.Ducroix learned my story. He af.
fected great interest in my forlorn
condition. He advised that / remain
on board the schooner until Cape
Town was reached. Thence l could
cable to the house, explaining all.
my first care was the doll. Except
where dash of rain and salt water
had slightly discolored the dress, its
beauty, its grandeur. were apparent as
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-09-07
Brotherhood.

Your task is to form the universal
family, to build the City of God, anu
by :. continuous labor gradually u
translate his work in humanity lA''
fact.
When you love one another a.
brothers, and treat each other Ie''P
rocaIly as such: when each one sen zen
ing his own good in the good oL az a''
shall identify his own life WIN 49,. 80
life of all, his own interests win 'ns
interests of all, and shall be a."a ~
ready to sacrifice himself Tor a'' ~, sI
members of the common family--'hsen
most of the ills which weigh upon .ts
human race will vanish, as thick ms -,
gathered upon the horizon ValiS arbo
the rising of the sun.-From 10
Book of the People" by KoOeIt -. 20
Lamennais, French philosopher anu ~
ligious reformer, 1872 1854.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-09-07

Iongec to present visitors IA the pri.
vate Office. The cane was such as A
born dandy might carry. The hand
bag was crude in material and clum-
sy in shape. 1t was made of alligator
hide and was ornamerted with shiny.
mottled scales of some gaudy trop-
ical fish.
At one side of Marvel's desk and
within its shadow was a woman. 1
could only divine this from her ap-
parel. Nothing of : r features show
ed. for she was deeply yelled. I made
out that she must be squat to the
point of obesity. Her hands were
splay, but stumpy. l wondered what
the handbag and cannibals could have
to do with her.
This is my friend" spoke Marvel
shortly, and did not even look up
from some writing he was engaged In.
The man Strengthened up with an
elaborate gesture of courtesy. He
was natural poseur, his manner
showed
1T is my service profound to the
friend of friend" and he kissed the
tips of his fingers towards me.
"Be BRIEF" came CURLY from Mar
wells lips.
The Frenchman made slight grim.
ace Of hurt dignity and reproach.
Then he reached within the fashion
ably modelled coat he wore and
brought out a tattered and indented
card case. Its dislocated hinge came
loose as he opened it. He extracted
daintily and with infinite care what it
contained.
This was the dirtiest card l had
ever seen. He handled it as carefully
as if it was some treasured heirloom.
He rendered it gingerly, tiptoeing to
reach me.
eff monsieur will read and return"
he said.
The card was not Illuminating.
With infinite pride the Frenchman re-
ceived it back from me, and then with
sorIowful information remarked:
Once honored, l, Lefort-in the
grand days of the cantatrice, the mod
els of Worth, of duchesses, while now
-alasi"
He embraced the squat figure in
shadow, mute and ominous as some
yelled sphynx, within a sweeping in
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-09-07
ONCE HONORED, I, LEFORT-IN THE GRAND DAYS OF The
CANTKTRICE THE MODELS OF WORTH OF DUCFlESSES.
WHILE NOW- ALAS /

ever. The string of false pearls was
gone-wrenched from place by the
robbers, who supposed they had Sc
cured the famous Damon gems.
"My blow had been bad enc, and
I was a convalescent for some time.
The schooner lined the West coast
We entered the Gulf Of Guinea just as
the typhoon season came on. The
grain coast of Liberia, the ivory coast
of Ashantee, the gold coast of Daho-
mey, the slave coast of the blight of
Biafra-al these we passed in safety,
and then, one tempestuous night, the
schooner went to pieces, blown upon
a rock by a gale that drove every man
on deck overheard.
"Peste! Canaille! sortie de Gle! It
was the traitor Ducroix who was my
partner in wild swim for the shore.
An empty water barrel for our buoy,
we landed on barren coast. By some
strange fate we drifted inland. AS
learned later, we must have crossed
all of the French Congo. We arrived
at the Jebel river, we penetrated jan
geh. Our first sight of humanity was
of the tribesmen of Zwun Zhi, the
king"
Lafort made a wry face. Again his
glance, bitter and resentful, wandered
towards the squat, yelled figure. Then
he mouthed rather than articulaeel
the gruesome word: "Cannibalsl" l
reflected: Jangeh-was it there the
yelled woman came from?
Through wreck, hardship, perils on
land, l never lost sight of my case, of
the peerless Sophia. She was re-
minder of the glorious past. We were
taken before the king. In the gleam-
ing, hungry eyes of his servitors
noted the greasy JUNCTION of festive APP
petite; in his own, only indifference,
the lazy curiosity of man lulled to
content by half hundred wives and
superabundance of food. He was curl
Gus enough to inspect my case, and
then"
ITO be brief" he continued, "the
king reused up like a man drawn by a
magnet to some fascination irresisti-
Bile. He was smitten with the coun-
terfeit presentment of the peerless
Sophia, He appropriated the doll and
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-09-07
WHILE NOW ALAS /

clination of his hand. Then a dimin-
ishing crescendo of his nimble, airy
fingers seemed to indicate leagues of
space, something too immense to de-
scribe, and far away.
"The House." he finally resumed
''Vinc, Ropstorff & Blecha. The one
the only. And Vienna-the center of
metropoli, of grandeur, of sublimity."
He sighed deeply. His eyes grew
moist. "And I, Lefort, representatif.
That was nearly two years ago. Since
then"-again the hand wave, despair
ing and dismal, embracing the uni
verse-and always the squat, yelled
figure included.
"Of the House, what is there to tell?
Institute w. Schimmelfing, Berlin, the
credit dictator of the world, has al
ready told. Dolls-that speak, that
walk, that waltz-and live! And the
apotheosis of art attained when the
great Sophia Voltmar model was
reached"
l understood that the House with
three names were doll makers ex-
ITdOTQludTys IudI uSB LSAOllJ was IASAA
representative.
See you, even royalty came to
view, in the brilliantly Illuminated
show window, Sophia Voltmar. The
miniature latest creation of Worth in
which the doll was CARRIED cost 5000
thalers. About its neck was the Da-
mon string of pearls. 1t had taken
coast fisherman two years to gather
these. mated from the center from a
hazel nut size to that Ola pea, and
listed at 10000 pounds sterling"
From all this l began to understand
that the racy Sophia, founder of the
celebrated cobra" dance known over
two continents, had been duplicated
in doll fashion and exhibited to tho
Vienna world as a most artistic speci-
men of the exclusive handicraft of
the House.
81 was deputized. honored with the
commission, to convey this latest pro-
duction of the House 20 Paris pro-
ceeded the volatile Lefort. When it
was ready for packing the Damon
string of pearls was removed. There
was substituted a cheap imitation
J necklace. 1t was unfortunate that in
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-09-07
Mas Only Shopping.

"Iy heavens, Jack" said the iaos
who had been waiting in the CL I,.t..so
lobby. "What was the matter! " Nv
have you beenT 9. -res
Nothing tn matter, m'oea.' I'D
the reply. "Not a thing in N I'M I'M
JUS been doing Ill shopping ,Io' IN
some saloons. New York LetI4
the Cincinnati Times-Star.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04
Packed Houses Expected 10
 See TonigMs s Biz Match
Brown Parks Arranging Handle Capacity Crowd Freberg and Cutler in Superb Condition-Cutler
 Recently Beat John Olin

am taking no chances with Cutler" said the Swede T am going to put every ounce of strength l have in tonight s bout, but if I lose 1 will have no alibi to offer. I am matching my speed and strength against Cutters weight and science and I believe that I will win over him.
 Cutler is in finer physical trim than he has been for the past two years. Life in the open on his Texas ranch has thrown a glow into his cheeks and the strenuous exercise he went through while out in the plains has erased every ounce of surplus flesh. There is no fat on Cut Ter.
 Tt was nothing uncommon for me to walk 30 or 40 miles in one day, finishing up the last three miles in a run,'' said Charlie in commenting on the way he has been training for the past month. T feel confident that I can put Freberg to the mat, but do not believe for an in stant that am over-confident. I have seen this prove fellows downfall too often. l know F'reberg is a conner and I know that he has beaten some of the toughest men in the game I will be on the lookout for any opening or trick, but I believe that I can wear him down If 1 cannot win in any other way. never knew I had so many friends in Birming- ham until I hit here this time. They've kept my phone al the hotel busy"
 PARRY WILL REFEREE
 E. J. Parry will be the third man in the ring tonight. E. J. has predicted that this match will be the best yet T have refereed matches in which Cutler has worked, and I have also been the third man in the ring when Freberg has torn into an opponent, and I want to say that these two men are two of the classiest men in the game. They know every trick in the game and are fair and square. When you are working behind men who do not try to take an unfair advantage of fellow, refereeing is a pleasure"
 With this Alabama's premier sporting event for the Glorious Fourth, a packed 1 house is predicted tonight and Promoter l Parks has built another section of seats | to accommodat te the spectators. The sea l sons crowd record will topple, it is pre- dicted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04
Lee In Three COrnered Tie
 For Rifle Chdmpionshlp

be decided by a shoot-off between now and July tenth, 50 shots at 75 feet, same conditions as before. The War Department will send representatives of it's own seelction to each city to supervise the shooting and see that rules are complied with. This is the most important yearly match staged by the N. R. A. and first place IS much coveted honor First prize is a life membership in the association and a gold medal weighing IS penny weights, emblematic of the champion
 ship of the United States. 137 com
 petitors entered the match and almost
 every state in the Union entered one
 or more men. Next highest score
 below the three possibles was f9S
 by D. J. Gould. of New York. Next six men scored 497, next seven men
 severed 495, which shows how closely the match was contested.
 Lee has been unable to practice for the past two weeks on account of lame arm, but is at it's again now, and expresses confidence that he will be able to cop the championship for Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04

Sporting Calendar Filled With
 TenptinQ EDents 10 Celebrdte|

fee has been named. the committee leaving this to the discretion of the entry. Foursomes will be allowed. In like manner prizes will be awarded.
 At , o'clock in the afternoon a bicycle race. a five-m mile grind will be held over the Norwood boulevard. A number of entries have been received and classy exhibition is promised.
 At 3:30 o'clock Birmingham and Mo- bile will clash in the fourth and last game of the series at Redwood. Seat sale for the game this afternoon will begin this morning at Hagan-Dunlap Drug company. Box seats and general admission tickets can be purchased here and thus the rush at the park avoided.
 Amateur circles will also be in full swing The banner contest in this line will be the clash at Bessemer between the fast Red Mountain aggregation and the crack Bessemer nine. This game will also start at 3:30 o'clock
 Last, but not least, comes the big wrestling match at the Jefferson the- atre tonight when John Freberg, the champion of Sweden, and Charles Cutler the American champion meet. The bout will start at S.30 0 clock
 And in addition to this, Birming- ham parks will also be in full swing. West Lake and East Lake will draw thousands of people. Swimming will be the greatest attraction at both parks.
 Now. friend fan, that's all you must do today to see everything" It's a busy day and comes but once a year. Join us in the celebration of Inde- pendence Day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04
NEW RECORD SET
 BY EDWARD COLLINS

Chicago, July 3.-Eddie Collins, second baseman with the Chicago Americans. established a record yesterday for par ticipating in consecutive games accord ing to figures compiled today by the official statistician of the American league. Collins has played in 69 games this sea son, bringing his total consecu- tive games up to 379. The previous rec ord was held by George Burns of the New York Nationals, who played in 37l contests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04

local clubs for the benefit of the Ma tional Red Cross society. 4 tourney will be staged at the Roebuck Auto and Golf club and the Country club, each starting this morning at no def mite hour and continuing throughout the day.
 The entire proceeds of the journeys will go to the Red Cross fund. An entrance fee of any amount over S1 will be charged at Roebuck. No four somes will be allowed. The player making the best score for the IS holes will be awarded medal. Other prizes will also be offered. Red Cross nurses will be in charge A Red Cross nurse will also be at the eighteenth green and charge each entry cent stroke for his total
 The tourney at the Country club will be run practically on the same basis No definite amount for the entrance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04

The National Rifle Association an- nounced this week in Arms and The Man, the official organ of the War De- partment concerning rifle news, that the fifty-shot Individual match for the Championship of the United States had resulted in a tie between three men, T. K. Lee. of Birmingham; Capt F. R. Whelan, of Lowell, Mass. and E. G. Swanson of Gisholt. Wis.
 Each of these men made the perfect score of 500 for fifty shots, at a dis tance of 25 yards on half-inch bulls eye. After running the possible 500, Lee continued firing for record, going out on his 9Sth shot for nine, which is a new record for consecutive bulls eyes under match conditions.
 The tie between these three men will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04
BIKE FANS EXPECT GOOD RACE TODAY Ten of City's Best Riders to Compete-Close Race
 Expected

Everything is ready for the sound of the starters gun which will set off the big bicycle race staged to take place to- morrow afternoon promptly at ? o'clock.
 The course on the Norwood boulevard is one mile and the riders will pedal around this circle five times, total dis tance of five miles.
 There has been one more entrant in addition to the nine who reported yes- terday Ellsworth Richter, local rider
 All the boys have been training hard most of them upon the course itself and as the track, although somewhat hilly is in good shape and comparatively free from traffic many bicycle fans" are expected to be on hand and expect to see some great speed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04

Today,the Glorious Fourth, promises to be a banner day in the sporting world for the Birmingham district. No an idle moment is offered the man, woman or child who likes summer sport of any description. From morn- ing until night the programme is swarmed with tempting events and the local colony is expected to put in a full day of enjoyment.
 The day will be started this morn ing at 1O:15 o'clock when the Bir- mingham Barons and the Mobile Gulls clash at Rickword in the third game of their series. The Barons, with two defeats to their credit, will undoubt- edly fight like lions a bay.
 Then comes the two big patriotic golf tournaments, conducted by the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04
FREBERG TO CHANGE
SCOTTS PITCHING
 BEATS LOOKOUTS

Nashville, Tenn, July 3.-Scott pitched a brilliant game against Chat tanooga today, permitting but one bat ter to reach third base and the Vols won the second game of the series easily to 0. Graft and Sheehan each secured two of the five hits allowed by Scott. Half of the Vols ten hits were for extra bases.
 Knisely's bat played prominent part in the victory, home run into the negro grandstand in the third in ming scoring Kaufman who had tripled with two out. On his first ap- pearance Knisely secured double which should have gone for home run on the score board. Score.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04
SPORTS
INGRAM HEARING ID BE REOPENED FRIDAY
Baseball Writers Will At tempt to Prove McGraw
 Made Statements

New York, July S.-President John K Tener of the National league has noti- fled the chairman of the local chapter of the Baseball Writers association that there will be rehearing of the McGrawl case Friday, July 6. The meeting wilS be attended by all the members of the board of directors of the National league and by the Baseball Writers associa- ton, which has been notified to have present all those necessary in the ca pacity of witnesses.
 According to the report it is the inten- ton of the directors to sift the case to the bottom.
 Manager McGraw will be confronted in open session by the writers whose alleged statements he repudiated at the last meeting of the league.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04
Frank Chance Quits as
 Pilot of Los Angeles

Los Angeles, July 3.-Frank L. Chance. manager of the Los Angeles baseball club of the Pacific Coast league, an- nounced today he had resigned as man. ager of the Angels. He said he felt his '.health is much better when not bur- dened with the responsibility of manag- ing a baseball club.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04

Flush from a decisive victory
 over John Olin in Houston, Tex,
 Charlie Cutler is in town to do
 battle against John Freberg to-
 night. The finish bout takes place
 at the Jefferson Theatre at S:30
 and it is by far the biggest sport
 ing event with which Alabama has
 ever celebrated the Glorious
 Fourth
 When Cutler pinned the shoulders of John Olin to the bout in such quick fashion and so decisively whipped the Finn, public opinion shifted to his side a bit Freberg was favorite to win to- nights battle until it became known that Cutler had triumphed over Olin and then the odds switched.
 A packed house will greet the two war riors when the gong sounds at the be- ginning of tonight's bill and Referee Parry bids the men go to it. All day yes terday steady stream of reservations came piling in on Promoter Brown Parks from over the state. The prom lnSnCS Ol lIlG DOul. WAS CNldSHCCu WiiCAi six Atlanta fans called up over long dis tance and reserved half-dozen ringside seats for their party
 Both Cutler and Freberg are trained to the minute and both are out for blood. Joe Coffey, manager of John Freberg, came all the way from Chicago to wit ness the bout Fheberg said that he has never yet. lost bout with Coffey in his corner and thats he expects to have him there tonight
 FREBERG TO CHANGE
 Freberg will make a departure from his usual style of wrestling and will gc on the mat barefooted tonight. He ex- sp1ained his reason for this, stating that he believed fellow had much better chance to break the toe e-hold than would be the case if the victim wore shoes. T
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04
COMPTON SOLD TO
 FALTERING PELICANS

Louisville, Ky, July 3.-Peter Compton, left fielder, has been sold by the Louis- vile American association club, to New Orleans of the Southern association, it was announced here today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04

SUMMAR1 Two-base Hit-Lunte. Three-base Hits-Myers, Pope. Home Run-Clark. Stolen Bases-McDowell, Mcdonald, Coombs, Ellis, Caton, Comstock. Double Play-Lunte to Reed Sacrifice Hits-Myers, Pope. Base on Balls-Pope 3. Comstock 3. Left on Bases-Mobile 4, Birmingham [. Hit by Pitched Ball-Comstock (Gol- vin).
 Struck Out-Comstock Il, Pope 4 Time of Game-1:55. Umpires-Marcan and Chesnutt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Results Yesterday

St. Louis 5, Cleveland 4. Chicago 5, Detroit l.
 Boston 0-6, Philadelphia 3-1 Washington-New York; rain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04
Games Today

Mobile at Birmingham (two games). New Orleans at Atlanta (two games) Chattanooga at Nashville 0wo games). Memphis at Little Rock (two games).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04
NORTHERN LEAGUE
 SJJSPENDS OPERATION

Fargo, N D., July 3.-The Northern Baseball league, reorganized this spring, with Fargo, Moorhead, Minot, Winnipeg and Warren as members, suspended to- day owing to financial conditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-04
Games Today

Cleveland at St. Louis (two games). Chicago at Detroit (two gamesA
 Washington at New York (two games). Philadelphia at Boston 1.-two games)