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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-02
MASTEN REFUSES
TO PLAY HERE
Claim Injury to Players Pre-
vents a Regular Lineup;
After Massillon

When Tech High won from Erie
High Saturday, the local aggregation
evidently killed two birds with one
stone. For Erie High came forth
with a number of alibis. and in the
meantime Masten Park also got
word from Erie through the press of
the strength of the Tech team, which
no doubt accounts for the brief mes
sage yesterday afternoon cancelling
the game for Saturday with the
Buffalo High school team.
Injuries in the Thanksgiving game
was the reason assigned. The ques-
ton Tech does not understand is
why the cancellation was not made
directly after the Thanksgiving game
instead of yesterday. While Masten
Park did not lose a game, it is n
sure thing that they would have
been beaten by 40 points by Tech.
Chances are they are not so good as
Erie if comparative scores count
Erie beat Dunkirll by n larger
score than Masten Park. Erie trim
med Lafayette SO to 13 while the
NJ. p. score was 10 to g. The Masten
record does not compare with that
made by Tech. The Maroon team
has a record that will surpass any
thing in the country and can afford
TO rest on it's laurels. In nine games
Masten Park scored 255 points to
their opponents IL.
After MassillOn
In the meantime Percy Grubb has
hopes of landing Massillon High,
whom Scott High beat 10 to g. They
would give Tech good game with
out a doubt and Tech would try to
make a better showing than 10 to
6, the Scott High score. Not being
able to get Scott to play, Tech could
eliminate the Toledoans by this
method. Definite announcements are
expected late to-day. If Massillon
declines, Tech will have played its
last game for the 1919 season, and
can we'll afford to rest on it's laurels
already won.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-02
DEER HUNTERS
ARE IN LUCK
Reports From Gettysburg In.
dicate a Successful
First Day

Gettysburg. Pa, December 2.-Deer
hunters on the Adams county side of
South Mountains, have reported the
killing of five deer on the first day
of the season. Two of these were
killed by members of camps, the 9TH
er three by individual hunters, who
baggcd their game almost as soon
as it was light enough to see the ami
mails coming through the brushes.
The opening day OF the deer season
brought its accident when a rife ball
shattered the leg of Ray Anthony, of
near Hanover. Anthony with three
friends of his vicinity left home early
this morning to go to the South
Mountains while alighting from the
automobile near Gardeners Station,
Adams county, in the northern part
of the county, one of the rifles was
accidentally discharged, the ball
striking Anthony's right leg near the
ankle. Although the leg is badly shat-
tered, an effort will be made to keep
1t from being amputated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-02
Big TREAT FOR
LOCALRING FANS
Harrisburg Association Of
ferS Attractive Card For
Friday Night

Always on the alert to give the
fans the best there is in the pugilis-
tic line, the management of the
Harrisburg Boxing Association scored
a real win when they secured
Tommy Sheridan, of Jersey City. to
meet Johnny Herman, the rugged
Northampton Bear Cat" at the
Chestnut Street Auditorium Friday
right 1t had originally been planned
to send Tim Droney against the
Northampton mauler in the main
bout of ten rounds.
When Droney was defeated
Thanksgiving Day by Eddie F1tzim-
mons. efforts were made at once to
try ana land Fitzimmons. but be-
cause he had a previous date he
could not be secured. Sheridan
should prove highly satisfactory. He
has boxed Fftzimmons, Young Rec
tor, Johnny Drummie. Willie Jack
son and n host of others.
Herman Is Speedy
Johnny Herman is at present
travelling with n speed that indi-
another year. On Saturday night at
Pottsville, he outclassed Joe Marks,
of Philadelphia, so thoroughly that
tho fans urged the referee to stop
the contest. 1t was his second con-
secutive star bout at that club and
Immediately after the show he was
engaged to meet Eddie McAndrews,
of Philadelphia, at the same club on
Christmas Day
The remainder of Friday nights
show is on n par with the high grade
OF the windup. Mickey Devers, crack
Allentown bantamweiGht, meets OPP
pie White, of Lancaster. Dick Got
walt, of York. collides with Bat
tling" Paskos, the little Battling
Greek" of Reading, in another six
rounder. There will be an opening
bout of six rounds between Young
Deemer, of Reading, and K. O.
Casey, of Harrisburg. The seat sale
opened to-day ut Harry's cigar store
and Shenk & Titles sporting goods
store. A large advance sale is look
ed for.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-02

phlIndeIDhIn. Dec. 2. - Champion
Pete Herman defeated Patsy Johnson,
OF Trenton last evening at the Olym-
pia Club. Pete did not have a very
J hard battle on hand. In the third
round Patfy went down for the count
Of nine. In the fourth round he was
down again for the count After that
Johnson got along better. He finished
out the fight and Herman allowed
/ him to make 1t interesting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-31
1.-The Plant of the Blue Pear

him. didn't speak to him. I didn't
even know whether or not he under
stood English. But as he lay there he
opened his eyes. I smiled down at him.
And minute or two later had to
leave the ward again.
when came back the first thing
did was to look at Angeles cot. 1t was
empty. I at once began to search the
ward. This took time, of course. Then
I raised an alarm got the fat officer
back, and began the search over again.
But by this time Angelo had escaped.
He'd slipped through the partly opened
window, scrambled down a waterpipe,
and his friends, who'd been waiting
outside with clothes, had bundled him
into a covered fruit wagon and scurried
off with him.
There was an investigation. and the
superintendent. who'd been suspicious
from the first, even took me before the
board. And 1 got rather tired of those
pompous old parrots trying to cross
examine me. and resigned ON the spot"
And your italian murderer" the
Inspector crisply inquired.
Was never heard of again, so far
as I know" I just as crisply retorted,
a little nettled at his casual use of the
word murderer" Then I quite forgot
to worry about the matter, for the In
spector was riffiing through a fling
cabinet, with a rather grim smile on
his face as he did so.
angelo Pareto," he repeated aloud. as
he came to a sudden stop and stared at
the sheet in front of him. Then he
looked up at me. ut may interest you
to know" he went on, that your
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spector sIoan had penciled the lock
combination. Ny hand was already
raised to the polished metal dial
when I made sudden and somewhat
disturbing discovery. That safe door
was standing an inch or two. ajar as
faced 1t. I remember that I looked
back over my shoulder as swung the
heavy door open, to make sure, 1 sup
pose, that I was alone in the room.
Then I turned back to the safe. AS
did so think merely gurgied with
foolish sort OF sound.
For instead of seeing the Blue Pear
there I saw a man in black with re-
volver in his hand. He was crouched
low, in an attitude that made me think
of a track-runner waiting for the crack
of the starters pistol. But the fact that
hit me hardest was that his revolver
was leveled directly at my own startled
head.
half leaped and half stumbled to
one side, about the same as I'd side
step a speeding car that threatened to
cut me down on a street corner. 1
went bodily against one of the hard
wood doors. richocheted off it with a
spring, and, being given that start, ran
wailing along the orderly row Of cab
inets for the door that opened into the
next room. I ran through that door
and back into the bedroom before
became at all conscious Of my sur
roundings.
I don't know just when it was that
discovered that the light had been
turned on full. and that beside the bed
where Eleakim Grosset lay stood a fig
ure of yet another man. with his back
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olive-cheeked Angelo has managed to
develop into one of the niftiest gem
thieves on this side of the Atlantic"
You think that Angelo Pareto and /
may meet again?" I demanded, trying
to read his face. But that face was
blank.
When you do" remarked the In
spector, angelo at least ought to let
you of easyi There's just one more
point" he hurried on, as he glanced
at his watch. What did you do after
you left that hospitaf?" I looked at
him in wonder.
why. that's what brought me into
this sort of work. tried to explain
to him, latter a couple of weeks of
Hull House work showed me I was
going to be failure there. I'd talked
two or three times, you see, with Com
missioner Strevel about that Pareto
case, and he finally asked me if I'd care
to swing in with this Office. to go as a
trained nurse-in fact, to take care of
a diamond-carrier who'd been shot in
a ho1d-up. The police thought that
carrier had framed his own hold-up,
but after I'd been with him few weeks
was able to show them they were
wrong. And that first trained nurse
work took me to the Hoey case, and
the Hoey case brought me East and
into the Alliance offices, as you know"
you had your nerve with you in
those daysi" regretfully remarked the
man at the desk.
81 am not conscious Of having lost
it." was my quick retort.
Then why does this Grosset coup
give you cold feet?" was his equally
quick inquiry.
ct wasn't aware that it had I said,
hot from the heels up. I saw that
was being both insulted and coerced.
AndAI promptly decided to save myself
from both of these. and in the only way
that seemed to lie open to me- don't
know why. but I suddenly thought of
that old story of Owen Merediths about
the court lady who threw her glove
into the lions cage as a test of her
lover. That lover rescued the glove,
but he flung it fiat into the naughty
lady's face. And I'd do the same, I
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which stood obliquely across the room
from me. And that lighted room,
knew from my floor map, was Eleakim
Grosset's gem room.
In there. knew. stood the rows of
cabinets in which reposed his collection
| of semi-precious stones. But the more
precious collection. I knew, was care
fully slowed away in the huge wall
| safe embedded in cement which stood
on the far side of the second room.
AS 1 started through that uncertain
half-light was able to make out the
vague gray of a ruff1ed counterpane
which in a stronger light, told myself.
would be white. And between that area
of vague gray and the black mass of
the headboard I could dimly discern
another patch of gray. a smaller one, a
more mysterious one. knew, as
stood there, that was staring at the
sleeping face Of the old millionaire
| himself.
| I took a deep breath and closed the
door behind me. Then crept forward
through the half-light, slowly and eau
tiously, with my little round bottle
wrapped in a plain cambria handker-
chief in my hand. My hand was shak-
| ing again, 1 noticed, as I pulled the
cork from the little round bottle. The
/
straight back to the hospital. It made
me think of instruments and operating
rooms and white-topped tables. But I
had wits enough left, as I soused that
square of cambria, to know that not a
thread Of that handkerchief must touch
the sleeper's face.
| This was not easy, for my hands
were shaking more than ever and the
| chloroform fumes tended to make me
! a little dizzy. But held my square of
cambria over that gray patch Of the
sleeper's face until my arm ached. Then
I emptied the last Of my bottle and let
the wet handkerchief fall softly over
i the face itself.
| I stood there, without breathing, Just
waiting and watching. But there was
not a sound nor a sign or a movement
from the sleeper. And I knew he was
well under. So I lifted the square of
cambria away and dropped it beside the
| pillow on which that Inotionless patch
of gray SO quietly rested. Then I re-
and I tossed the bottle in between the
two huge pillows. Then I turned and
crept softly toward the slightly opened
door Of the gem-room. The stronger
light, as swung this door wider, made
me blink a little. It wasn't until my
eyes adjusted themselves to the newer
conditions that was able to make out
the orderly rows of cabinets bordering
one entire side Of the room.
| I hurried on along the row OF cab
| inets until I came to the end Of the
room-the end where knew the heavy
safe stood under its mask of wooden
| panels, with what looked like two
eighteenth-centure scrutoires built in
on either side Of it, presumably to dis
guise the fact that the room really
| ended in a false wall. But gave small
| thought to these as swung back the
double doors Of polished hardwood COW
ering the heavy metal of the safe front
itself. And this safe front, I saw, stood
almost as high as my head.
I glanced down at the floor plan, for
on one corner of it, remembered, In
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Yet my knees were knocking together
as l went up those wide white steps.
and my hand was trembling as 1 put
out my pass-key and tried to fit it to
the lock. I don't think I even breathed
as I turned that key and swung back
the heavy door just far enough to let
my body slide in through the opening.
I expected to find light there, but all
I found was a warm and velvety dark
ness, thick enough to cut with a knife.
So 1 closed the door without a sound,
and stood there with my back against
it, staring straight in front of me.
Buck up. Balmy," I said under my
breath. as I started to grope my way
forward. I counted my steps as went,
for I'd made a frantic and feverish
study of the floor plan. Then I came
to the upper floor. I stood there listen
ing and straining my eyes through the
black silence. But still I could see
nothing, could hear nothing. so 1
CROPPED my way to the sidewall, feeling
guardedly along this as went, count
ing each door that I passed, listening
at every other step for any faintest
echo of sound.
Then I came to the door which 1
knew to be the door into EIeakim eros
sets room I slowly and cautiously
turned the knob, and as slowly anu
cautiously pushed back the door itself
1 didn't push it back far. But it was
far enough to give me a one-eyed
glimpse Of the room. And that glimpse
brought me my first ray of light since
I had stepped into the house and shut
the street door behind me. That light
I saw, did not come from the. bedroom
directly in front of me. It filtered in
through second door, slightly ajar,
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suddenly decided, with the Security AL
lance. I'd get him his Blue Pear, and
ia get it without the help of either
Wilkins or Doyle. He could do what
he liked with it. But after that he
couldn't do what he liked with me.
I was still tingling with that foolish
little burst OF rage as I took up the
pass-key and the floor plan and the
bottle from Kaurot's Office
You needn't worry" I announced
with dignity as I rose to my feet.
You'll get your Blue Pear all right"
Now you're talkingi" agreed the
calm eyed man at the desk.
Grosset house for the second time that
night. I had a pass-key and floor
plan. and Sloan's remembered assur-
ance that both Wilkins and Doyle would
be hidden somewhere in the neighbor-
hood to help me out in case I needed
help. But I'd cooled down by this time.
and I knew that a bullet always trav-
eled much faster than any two-footed
messenger. And I was nearly scared
out of a years growth when saw a
strange man drift by, with a SLOUGH
hat pulled down over his face. That
stranger, saw, was neither Wilkins
nor Doyle, and I had to take my third
turn up and down the lonely side street
before he was well out Of sight.
Then I decided to down the medicine
got out my pass-key and went up
those wide steps without looking to the
right or left. I told myself that I was
Balmy Rymal, special agent and opera
tive for the Jewellers Protective Alli-
ance, and that Inspector Sloan was be-
hind me, and behind Inspector Sloan
was the Commissioner himself, and be-
hind him again all the blue-c coated cogs
of that immense machine which kept
the Island Of Manhattan civilized.
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That was all. But as stood under
the street lamp frowning over those
roughly penciled words. I at least felt
that somewhere in that vast and Sleep
ing city there was one human atom who
knew OF my unhappiness. and in some
blind ana foolish way was trying to let
me know that he knew. And the very
thought Of this. If it did not actually
lift the blackness out of my soul, gave
birth to ghostly sort OF hope that
the truth they had marshaIed against
me wasn't altogether the truth.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-09-26
WHERE He COULD GET COLOR
Mr. Gloom Seems to Have Definite
Opinion Of Denizens Of Certain
Kansas City Locality.

eff / were a sensational preacher,
and wanted more notoriety than was
Getting," a trifie grimly said j. Fuller
Gloom, II would not waste my time
anfesting boxing matches, rowdydow
dances and the like. Instead, would
array myself in a guileless counten-
ance and a set of false neck whiskers.
lin my right hand would wear cane
of weeping willow with a hook on one
end and thimble on the other. With
rny left hand would clutch by the
ears such gripsack as we seldom see
In real life OF course, | would wear
other and equally appropriate gar
ments. And thus arrayed would ram
1ble around in the vicinity of the Uni
on station, and let the denizens of
that locality play with me. fancy
that in short spell ] would accumu-
late more novel experiences than l
could otherwise acquire in a years
time. Kansas City Star.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-09-26
Cheapest Thing at the Most Fa-
nous of American Resorts
Is Money.
SOCIAL BARRIERS LOWERED
NewIy-Made MIllIonalres Strut About
the Place to Display the Wealth
They Acquired. During the War
Gambling Is Heavy.

Saratoga, N. Y.-The cheapest thing
in Saratoga is money Everybody has
1t ii, abundance off and on and spends
It with the abandon of the drunken
sailor in the old song.
Clerks bet $1,000 on horse at the
race tracks. Newly made rich pile up
checks and counters on cards and the
elusive roulette ball. Men throw dol
lars around as they used to toss dimes.
Women accustomed to ginghams
and rhinestones gladden. the eye and
stimulate the sense of humor in their
efforts to carry with grace silks and
diamonds. The most suitable Is dis
carded for the most expensive.
Extravaganza and a contempt for
money values intrudes itself at every
turn on the picturesque streets of the
most famous Of American resorts, and
oldest Of the cures, In the corridors Of
the great barn-like hotels, at the race
track, in the dining places and in the
lake sections and fits by In the bewil-
dering parade Of fiashy motorcars.
Natives ReapIng Harvest.
And anybody who knows the ruling
passion Of Saratoga doesn't need to
be told that the prudent native is get
ting his.
What escapes him falls to the ho-
tel keepers, the bookmakers, the sleek
anG rat-faced gentry that cap for Sc
questered resorts of chance where the
green cloth, the dealing box and the
other implements Of their craft are to
be found without much difficulty.
The crowds that flock to the race
courses are greater by thousands than
ever before.
All the old social barriers have been
broken down and trampled under foot
by the crowd that comes from the
financial marts of Wall street, the re-
sorts Of upper Broadway, the bench
and forge, and forest and mine and
farm, upon which the fortunes of war
have smiled.
The number Of resorts where wom-
en- are admitted to the gaming tables
is probably less than four. In the
other small places where the wagers
range from IS to $50 at roulette, haz-
ard and one or two other contrivances
for getting the money women are not
admitted. 1t is not considered chubby
to advertise the location or names Of
the owners of the gaming establish
ment because 1t might stir the local
officials to interpret too literally the
legal inhibition against such enter
prises.
There has already been more or less
S1uuble-for the gaming purveyors-
as 1t Is. During the first week of the
racing season all games were closed
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-09-26
Volcanoes in the Southwestern
Part Of Alaska Are
Accommodating.
GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY THERE
Members Who Went to Study Mount
Katmai and Its "VaIey Of Ten
Thousand Smokes" Are Favored
With Fine Performance.

Juneau, Alaska Volcanic peaks In
the far southwestern corner of Alaska
are in eruption this summer, evidently
for the benefit of a party Of scientists
sent by the National Geographic So
ciety to study Mount Katmai, the
greatest of Alaska's smoking noun
talns, and its valley of Ten Thou
sand Smokes"
Persons who have returned recently
from the volcanic country to the west
ward said Shishaldin peak, on Unimak
island, In the Aleutian chain, was In
eruption recently. They also reported
1t was believed Mount Bavloff on the
southwestern Alaskan mainland, also
had spouted, as the snow about the
summit was coal black.
When the party Of scientists left
Anchorage, Alaska, on their way to
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-09-26
YAP AND IT'S PEOPLE


zap is strangely old and strangely
up to date. It's inhabitants are still In
the stone age of progress. The natives
are strict prohibitionists. Bachelor
clubs closed to the women dot the
islands. Food and drink and clothes
all grow on trees In zap wealth is
truly burden. A cingle coin Of their
stone money sometimes weighs hun
dreds Of pounds. zap or Jap, when
translated, means the land, and Is the
only land that many of the islanders
know.
Married and unmarried men alike
belong to the club, which maintains
fine failu, or bachelor house, the host
ess Of which must be secured by force
or cunning from some distant tribe.
There she lives under a polyandrous
system where no man becomes jeal-
GUS and the wives OF the village never
object to their husbands evenings at
the club.
The chief decoration Of the male is
string of pink shells made into
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-09-26
DESERVED TO BE PARDoNED
ouiek-Wltted Younsster Must Have
Heard Of Boast the Surgeon
Was Fond Of Making.

This indianapolis physician boasts
that he would rather do surgical work
than eat Even the children in the
nelghborhood know Of this. as is prov
en- By the following story:
Recently some of the neighboring
boys were playing ball In front Of his
office. Suddenly the ball went wild
went to work to rewrite the duet, TO
clans plate glass windows. OF course
the doctor was furious and he ex.
pressed his feelings to the wee fellow
who had thrown 1t. Haven't told
you fellows that this would happen
some day." he demanded.
The little fellow nodded his head.
'Then what have you to say for your
selff" was the next thrust.
The little fellow gulped, swallowed
and finally sobbed out: swell. /
thought maybe l would hit one Of your
patients"