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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-11-26
A MYSTERIOUS CLOCK.

This clock is attracting the at
tention of every body in and "a
round Hardinsburg, and all visitors
to the county seat. 1t is wonder
full clock. ut runs and keeps per-
feet time. No clock works, nc
electricity, no magnets, and no air
control.
If you want to learn more about
this clock visit the Bank of Hard
insburg & Trust Co., and ask
Franklin Beard to give you the
key.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-11-26

Mr.. Charley Dunn has returned to
his home in McQuady, after visit
here with his uncle and aunt, Mr~Nnd
Mrs Lon Dunn.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-11-26

Mr.. and Mrs John Lawson and
children, John Arthur and Louise
Lawson returned Sunday evening
from a visit in Louisville, with Mr..
Lawsons parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
Lawson.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-11-26
Mr.. p. LaDuke, Farmer, Says, "You
Bet Rats Can Bite Through Metal"

II had feed bins lined with zinc last
year rats got through pretty soon.
Was out SIS. A ST. pkg. of RAT
SNAP killed so many rats, that I've
never been without it since. Our COLI
dog never touches RAT-SNAP." You
try it. Three sizes, CSC, soc, $1.O0. Sold
and guaranteed by Conrad Payne &
Co., Cloverport, E. A. Hardesty,
Stephensport, and B. F. Beard & Co.,
Hardinsburg.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-11-26

Mr. Charlie Sawyer, of Columbus,
Ohio, is the guest of his brother. Joe
J. Sawyer, and Mrs. Sawyer.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-11-26
FOR SALE POLAND cHINAs.

FOR 'SALE--One 300 pound sow,
bred Sept. I, tHas raised one litter
pigs) for second litter, $50. 175
pound gilt, bred to one OF the
Best Big Type bears in state at
$40. Some extra good 100 pound
gifts at S25 Eight weeks old pigs,
either sex SIS. Send check to
Farmers Bank & Trust Company,
Hardinsburg, Ky. Order held until
you get pig. II not satisfied re-
turn pig.-P. ID. Wellington, Hard
insburg, Ky.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-11-26
STARK-LOWMAN CO.
Louisville Representatives
PersnttaI Memtintt

Mrs. A. NJ Miller is in Stephens
port visiting her sister, Mrs Olivia
Lay. She will be accompanied Home
Wednesday evening by her sister,
Mrs. John Hook, of Hardinsburg, for
a visit.
Miss Ruth Chambliss and her sis
noon for Springfield, Ohio, to spend
ter, Mrs. Robert Weatherford, of
Harmed, will leave Wednesday after
Thanksgiving with their brother Mr..
Paul Chambliss, and Mrs. Chambliss.
900
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lawson and
children, John Arthur and Louise
Lawson returned Sunday evening
from a visit in Louisville, with Mr.
Lawson's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
Lawson.
Mrs. Hugh Nelson Wood and
Wood, of Louisville, will be the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. David B. Phelps for
the Thanksgiving holidays.
w. B. Gardner, of Stephensport,
was in this city on business, Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Larkin Gibson were
in Louisville, over the weekend
900
Rev ]. s. Henry was the guest of
his brother, Mr.. John Henry, of
Louisville, part of last week.
Miss Sarah Crutchheld, of Earring
ton, KY, is expected Wednesday af-
ternoon to spend the Thanksgiving
holidays with her sister, Mrs. Eldred
A. Babbage, and Mr.. Babbage.
Mr.. and Mrs. William G. Polk and
SON, William G. Polk, Jr., of Cincin-
natl, are spending the week of Thanks
giving in Knoxville, Tenn, with Mr..
Folks sisters, Mrs. E. A. Coleman
and Mrs. H. A. Evans.
Mrs. Thos. Crenshaw and Mrs. z.
E. Rhodes and son, spent last We'd
nesday with Mrs. Rhodes parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas Crenshaw, near
Cloverport.
Miss Corine Quiggins spent Sunday
with her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
inc. Rhodes, of Addison.
Jno. Rhodes, of Addison, was in
-Hardinsburg, Saturday.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-11-26

Miss Violet Robertson, OF Holt, KY,
spent the week with Miss Wayne
Jordan, OF Webster.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-11-26

FOR SALE-Small farm, 60 acres, near BALL
Town. this county. Price low IL sold at
at once. 4. X. Kincheloe, Hardnsbrrg, n.y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
By Rebecca Drucker

The actors strike casting US on our
own resources, we turned to con-
sideration Of vaudeville, dipping into
back files containing the Coming
Tower symposium "Variety's Golden
Days" for historical perspective. Well,
we'll! Was there really mellow per-
lection in all those fondly resurrected
old memories that newer generation
is denied sight and sound Of? Was the
chap who fell backward over the foot
lights so much more irresistibly funny,
the lady who sang "Ta-ra-ra-b oom-de-
ay" of q so much more devastating
charm, the trick bicyclist so much more
startling than anything we have to
show in vaudeville? Permit US politely
to doubt We would deny no one the
right to a sentimental debauch about
the past now and then, but we remain
shy Of taking all those ecstatic reminis-
cences at par.
The memory Of one not so old is
still long enough to recall the vast
dreary wastes in the variety bill of
ten years ago, of acrobat and animal
act and juggler, spaces as arid as the
insistent jazz of the present. We can
not feel that all that is unique in
vaudeville is outworn--that nothing is
alive and stirring in vaudeville. Not
easily will we admit that while we have
the dashing impact of Eddie Cantor,
the cunning indirection of Frank
Tinney, the shrewdness Of Will Rogers,
the subtle pantomiming of Bert Will
Jams, the extraordinary caricaturing of
Chic Sales rural types, the superb de-
monstration of the comic values Of in
animate objects of w. C. Fields. These
men all draw from rich sources of
comic material, and shape it with
true, unerring art.
They may have passed out of the
variety stage, in the strict interpreted
tion of the term, but what are the roof
shows and the revues but extensions of
vaudeville? Ed Wynn and AL Jolson
are still variety artists, no matter
where they do their turn.
Everything in entertainment from
prima donnas to trained feas" is the
extremely catholic boast of the Keith
enterprises, but the trained feas are
now present on vaudeville bill with
perceptibly diminished frequency and
the Drima donnas in increasingly large
numbers. Vaudeville has not resisted
entirely an insidlous pull toward the
"classical." Good" music, living stat
ues and ballet drama are now legiti-
mate members Of the vaudeville fam
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Variety;s. Golden Days
Go Unn1O urned

fly. However, if one is inclined to
mourn the passing Of that naivete
which was vaudevilles chiefest charm
in other days, he has only to reflect
that in this new passion for refine
ment is displayed naivette of an
equal though a different sort.
The Keith management, which has
shown great capacity for considering
all the angles of their many sided bust
ness, has not overlooked the value of
experimenting the limits Of
good business. If the results Of this
experimenting are not radical, it is be-
cause they have kept tight hold of the
psychological truth that the common
denominator underlying vaudeville is
the love of the familiar. Who said
for new sensations? No audience is
more pathetically eager for the safety
that lies in long usage-for the songs
that resemble other songs it'has loved,
the sting, thrills that do not take it by
surprise. And greater part of vaude-
vile enterta nment is built on a shrewd
recognition of this fact
Every fresh and new act has to spec
ulate against this inertia. To come
through victor in a duel of this kind
there has been evolved rule Of thumb
that a certain kind Of audacity, a GER
tain mode Of attack, is required. This
is the myth of vaudeville personality.
The business of extending the range
of vaudeville also runs up against
the blank wall of native limitations.
There are many things extremely
popular in Continental and English
vaudeville that do not graft onto
American vaudeville. For instance,
none Of the several efforts to popu-
larize pantomime here has ever sue
ceeded. 1t may be that Americans
fail in the necessary finesse of atten-
ton. Notwithstanding the enormous
appeal of Yvette Guilbert and Albert
Chevalier to foreign music hall au-
diences they won no success here. In
deed, Yvette Guilbert's failure still
casts its shadow on many an adven-
turous vaudeville impulse.
Notwithstanding these expressed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

limitations, the inertia or hostility Of
vaudeville s1dience gives curiously
before the push of great talent. how
ever unfamiliar. For instance, Beatrice
Herford's exceedingly fine and subtle
monologues are scarcely of the
robust sort to which a vaudeville
audience is accustomed. Yet they sue
coed enormously And there is re-
cent incident which proves that there
are unexpected responses in any
vaudeville audience.
There is in vaudeville a prodigy who
has memcrized four thousand poems
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

and who recites whatever the audience
asks for. In all his experience no
more than four hundred poems out of
his repertory have ever been asked for.
So, as an experiment, he announced
that he would recite poem of his
own choice, 1.-THE Ballad of Reading
Gaol" But at the end Of his allotted
time only onc-half Of the poem was
finished. He stopped and told the
audience that he could r6t finish the
poem; that the next act, q famous
vaudeville team, was waiting to go on,
and with one accord the audience
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

said it; in fact, the first thing in the
advance notices of "rhe Gray Horizon"
which made our heart jump for joy
was the announcement that he killed
somebody. Our spirits have been very
low about him during those pictures in
swallowing him whole. 1t has become
too much his habit to be always max
ing presents to the poor, turning the
other cheek to slanderous attack, de-
voting his existence to nursing weak
AngloSaxon youths back into the mar
row path, renouncing unfortunate la
dies who suck the honey Of his musical
vows up to the last reel only to be
thrown back upon the. stony bosom of
their family, professedly for their
own good but really in order to graf
ify his taste for remuneration and for
dying for the first person that comes
handy. Forgetful of the royal days
when we sat spellbound while he.
branded Fanny Ward with a red-hot
iron, while he fed through the mid
night of volcanic islands carrying stol-
en- pearls in his breast, or poisoned his
wife for the honor of his house, he
has lately so INDUCED himself in
desire to pluck sympathy from every
flower that there has begun to creep
into his acting, more damaging than
any acid to that keen metal, Il sug-
geston of slow music and of his lin
gering on the taste of his own suffer-
ing virtue as OH an all-day sucker.
Hayakawa Transcends Restriction
This is one Of the dangers of being
an essential poet and tragedian among
those areaway restrictions. Stories of
historic importance, of legendary
beauty and romantic passion, things Of
scope and depth and really large signif-
icance conceived in an ultimate and
distinguished mood, are the very essence
of his meaning as a dramatic figure.
durc the commonplace. We hope we
don't suggest that his acting is not
"natural"; it is not always natural to
be undstinguished. That thoroughbred
racer we were speaking about a while
ago is perfectly natural-as a thorough
bred; he will never be drayhorsc for
all that. Mr.. Hayakawa has, as mat
ter of fact, too truly naturalistic
technique, too justly observed a variety
of manner, for people to be always
gasping about how natural he is. But
story without vivid imagination, which
can clutter along pretty convincingly
arm in arm with mediocrity, faces
him, droops, withers and drops down
dead, leaving him with it's corpse on
his hands; another muffler upon that
mingling of dramatic dynamite and
classic restraint which mark him, for
US, as the most important actor Of our
screen. All, now, if we just could get
him Hamlet-even without improve
ments!
Meanwhile, there is "The Gray Hori-
zon," with the earlier moods of utterly
charming vivacity and the leap and
sparkle of its little river, with its wild
and lonely mountains and the passion
that arises amid them, as lonely and
as wild as they.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
The Scenario TreadmiU
Holds the Thoroughbred

seen equalled, and which lends to the
earlier part Of the picture heaven
knows how much Of its imaginative
value. 1t is always good wager to
keep Mr.. Hayakawa out of doors. If
the story has not the right qualities
for him there, if anywhere, it will
take them on, and, if it has them al
ready, there they will find themselves
with the least opposition of atmos-
phere, for he is entirely competent to
keep scenery in it's place, backing up
human romance.
We aren't going to blunt any ap-
petite by telling the story of "The Gray
Horizon" since it is simply and purely
story, and very good one. But we
ought at least to suggest that it con-
Germs very simple boy whose life is
violently invaded by all the great
forestry death and treachery. by the
lust and satisfaction of vengeance, by
love and the loss Of love, and the sud-
den vision of an implacable fate-and
who meets them as they come with the
passion and directness of his very SIM
plicity. Nothing of this is mushed or
fumbled, NOT is it watered by any
maudlin waverngs or repentance; the
boy charges against the world with an
instant clean obedience to the strength
of his impulse, and with no more
lingering or yearning about his crime,
once it is done, than a young animal
or young god might have. There are.
to be sure, certain brief scenes toward
the close where we think we see Re-
morse invited by the story and hang
ing round the threshold in hopes of
being asked in. But Mr. Hayakawa
Will have none of her. He plays these
scenes for the mere nervous frenzy of
strong nature coming to realize that
it must be beaten and his Yano finally
dashes himself to pieces against life,
with the best grace Of hatred and hard
ihood to the very end. He gives the
part the clear action Of a wave which
gathers and rises and shines moment
in full splendor and then filings itself
away in a spirited and ungrudging
crash.
Restraints Greed for Self-Sacrifice
We are we'll aware that this crash
is sacrifice for love, but of that we
wish to say as little as possible. Not
because we don't like it in "Thc GRAY
Horizon" where it is inevitable and
right, as vigorously defiant, moreover,
as if it were self-assertion. But we
simply cannot bring ourselves to en-
courage Mr.. Hayakawa in that greed
for sacrifice as a chronic state which
has grown on him so alarmingly that
we have learned to tremble lest we
should yet see him drown before our
eyes in the very syrup Of self pity. We
had long determined to say this, even
If our knees gave way with US and
we fell into mere supplication as we
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

shouted, "Never mind the n.r,
Finish it,"
1t is this extraordinary quality Il,
extension and change, tnis .en,s.~
quality in the gay, shifting, naIv. a.
native crowd, that is the chief fasc,n.
ton Of American vaudeville.
Faithful as it is to It's mediocr;.:
it has the power to fash out into rae,
comprehension. Il is its inconsis,os
cies that make it genuinely repre,e,,
alive OF the times.
As for us, we wouldn't 20 ba.s ..
varie'y's golden days for anythjnv
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-18

CHERWOOD ROBERT MAGEE. most
- aged Of the Reds, also IS the veteran
among the new champs when it comes
to service in the National league. He
played his first game in the senior
organization on June %. 1904. not do
ing particularly we'll Batting four
times against Jack Cronin OF Brook
lyn. Alagee. then a Phillie. got one
hit. He muffed a flyball and mis-
judged two other soarers that went
his way apparently helped in the Su-
perba TO 6 victory.
Some Others Enter.
Henry Sallee reached the National
In 1908. Bill Rariden in 1909 and Jake
Daubert in 1910. Nineteen eleven saw
the arrival on the senior circuit OF
Ivy WingO and a year later Hetnie
Groh blew in. Adolfo LuQue bee me
Heydlerite in 1919 and Louis Baird
falias Pat) Duncan pastimed first in
the National the succeeding season,
getting three day tryout from the
Pirates.
Jimmie smith. Eddie Roush.
Nick Allen and LOrenz Kopf fig
ured for the first time in Nation
nj league boIscOres IN 1916; Earle
Neale, Henry Schreiber. Walter
Ruether, Jimmy Ring. Raymond
until the next year to do so.
ROya Mitchell delayed his Nation
nj league arrival until 1918 Maui
rice Raths Ray Fisher, Eddie Ger
ner and Charles Henry See de-
butted in the parent organization
this year.
The Reds who began in the Nation
al with other clubs were Magee. with
Philadelphia. Salee, with St. Louis:
Rariden, with Boston; Daubert. with
Brooklyn; Wlngo. with St Louis;
Groh, with New York Luque, with
Boston; Duncan with Pitts5urR;
Roush, with New York: Smith. with
Pittsburg; Allen. with Chicago;
Schneider. with Boston. and Ruether,
with Chicago. Queen City fans. there
fore. are under obligations TO the
teams OF the seven other municipali-
ties for players on their pennant win
ming outfit
Played in American.
Roush. Bressler. kopf, Mitchell,
Rath and Fisher played Championship
ball in the American league before GO
ing 70 the National Daubert. r ng
and Eller were connected on training
trips with clubs in Big Bans organi-
cation. but never broke into action in
contests that had any bearing on the
standing OF the teams In the pennant
pursuits.
This is what each Relentless Red
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-18
By .c7a5g .

MAY I not ask whether the presi-
vi dent considers time spent in
Washington as capitol punishment.
Charlie Grimm. who has been DUR
chased by the Pirates from the Little
Rock club Of the Southern associa-
ton, has had a rapid rise IN baseball
Three years ago he was a peanut and
soda pop vender in the Cardinals
park and played semi-pro ball when
the Cards were away from home. Last
year he applied to Jack Hendricks,
then manager Of the Cardinals, for
tryout, and Jack. granting it. liked
the youngsters looks so well he kept
him around for a time, finally turn
ing him over 10 Little Rock for a
seasoning. Grimm played a fine
brand OF ball in the Southern associa-
ton this year and the Pirate scouts
believe he will show to better ad-
vantage at the initial sack than
George Whitted. Whitted prefers to
play in the outfield. and no one will
be more pleased than he II Grimm
makes good
DAVIDSON HERON the new national
amateur golf champion, win be q
years Of age in October. He has been
playing. golf since 1905. Heron
weighs 205 pounds. and this weight
aids him TO get the great distance in
playing from the rough. Golf is his
only hobby, althoug he played foot
ball while he was a freshman at
Princeton He was graduated from
Princeton last year. where he played
for four years on the college golf
team
In the 1913 national amateur
championship at Detroit. Heron
tied with Ned Sawyer in the
preliminary qualifying round. Her
ron is the third Pittsburg golfer
to win the national amateur
championship. te other being W. c.
Fownes, jr-. and Eben N. Byers. Her
ron learned the game by caddying for
Fownes
J. Franklin Baker relates the tale
Of the Oxford Cambridge baseball
game close down to Traps The
game was played several years ago,
and all Maryland remembers. Both
Oxford and Cambridge are thriving
towns in Maryland. and each boasts
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-18


Of q crack negro baseball team One
afternoon they met. Play began at
? o'clock The oxford team went to
bat and was retire din one, two, three
order. Then Cambridge went up and
when up and when play was called at
o'clock only one man was out and
more than 100 runs had been scored.
There was never a game like this on
record so far as is known
TODAY NPUG HISTORY.
1S86-John L Sullivan had an easy
time defeating Frank Herald. putting
him away in two rounds at Allegheny,
1Sss-Tommy Ryan defeated Frank
5 Craig in ten rounds at Coney Is
land Craig. known to the ring as the
Harlem Coffee Cooler" had just re-
turned from a long stay in England,
with the avowed intention OF cleaning
up the American fighters After his
defeat by Syracuse Tommy he tackled
Jack Root, and was again bested. He
then took on Tommy West. and the
chubby Welshman stopped him in a
rounds. Craig then decided that the
American climate was unhealthful
and sailed back to England. and he
never returned to these shores to
fight
19O6-Aurelia Herrera defeated Kid
Goodman in Is rounds at Chelsea.
Mass This was the last Of the long
string Of victories gained by the
greatest Of Mexican fighters The
dusky warrior retired from the arena
after that fight He tried to pull off
come back a year or two later.
when he tackled Willie Fitzgerald in
Boston. but he lost. and later he was
defeated by Dick Hyland in Bakers
field, Cal. The Mexican was one Of
the classiest Hghtweights Of his time,
but too great a fondness for "aguard-
ieute' caused his ruin.
19O9-Joe jeanette outpointed Al
Kubiak in six rounds at Philadelphia.
1911-Leach Cross defeated Paddy
Sullivan in ten rounds at New York.
1911-Joe Mandot outpointed
Tommy Kilbane in eight rounds at
Memphis. Tenn
1s11--Young Otto and Kid Burns
fought a ten rounds draw at New
York
1s12-Young Jack O'Brien defeated
Young Brown in ten rounds at New
York
1s12-Young Jack O'Brien defeated
Young Brown in ten rounds at New
York.
1s12-Jim Hendricks. Of England.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-18
ONE HIT
BY THEFIREMEN
Twirler Bruce of Terminals
Nearly Shuts Out Smoke
Eaters; Good Game.

Staging a timely batting rally in
the fifth inning the Terminal run
ners up. for the Circuit league pen
nant race Wednesday afternoon de-
feated the fast Fireman team by the
score Of three to one at the Foundry
grounds. Twirler Bruce Of the Ter
minals. and Cox OF the Fireman. both
dispensed a superb brand Of ball
Bruce allowed but one safe hit du--
ing the pastime It coming from the
bat OF Grogsn- The game was prettily
contested throughout and was one OF
the best Of the Circuit league sched-
ule.
May Have Football Team.
Circuit league managers have voted
unanimously in favor OF the organi-
zation OF a football team to represent
FL Paso amateur athletics this season
and steps looking to this end viii be
taken at the next weekly meeting OF
the executive committee OF the league.
The srnra-