NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT
P. H. VAN DYKE. Publisher.
NEWPORT, • • • ARKANSAS
However, the girl scout seems to b6
gulte inevitable.
As a last resort for fads women are
Bow making their own shoes.
Old fashioned people like to think
•bout the days before the tango.
Whenever women make up theii
minds to wear trousers they will.
The elevator man who Inherited
flflO.OOO probably is having bis "ups”
BOW.
If you do your f'hrlstinns shopping
bow, you will avoid some of the rush
later on.
Duke Ludwig of Bavaria 1ms tired of
his morganatic wifo. lie la elghty-two
and fussy.
Occasionally you will find a good clt
teen who doesn't take much Interest
In baseball.
Th^ surest way of enjoying Hummer
resorts Is to stay at homo and read
about them.
The way to avoid a split Infinitive Is
to write It the way you don't think it
•ught to go.
The shopgirl has one advantage
over the housewife. She gets a vaca
tion, anyhow.
The cruel critic of tho new-flodged
college graduate Is seldom able to
give him a Job.
It Is hard to resist the temptation
to look at the thermometer when you
know It’s soaring.
Mr. Morgan Is now said officially to
have left only $100,000,000. However,
^ ke left all he had.
I During the hot weather the tango Is
1 laid among the moth balls. Few care
■ If It never comes back.
■ Rochester has barred split skirts
K and peekaboo waists, but bathing suits
■ still are In good form.
ifp A Massachusetts man ate seventeen
$ oggs at a single sitting. There's no
tog like a hog with money.
It appears that the unmuzzled dog
la about as dangerous as the gun that
nobody knows is loaded.
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King George of England sayB wom
an must not ride astride. He Is mak
ing much out of a side issue.
Still, If there were no ruin where
would the dollars come from to buy
tickets to the baseball game?
In putting over an ethical eugenic
marriage is Boston attempting to re
Tlve local Interest in matrimony?
Have you noted the shortage of tiles
this summer? And the excess of mos
quitoes? However, go on swatting.
A noted pianist is about to retire
after accumulating a hlg fortuve. This
•hows one effect, at least, of harmony.
It Is explained that those Princeton
seniors who said they had never been
kissed made a boast and not a confes
sion.
A New York wife blames her hus
band because she has lost her beauty.
He'll probably swear 6he bad none to
1 .
It Is almost a tragedy when a dam
sel with a stunning figure lacks the
means to spend a week or two at the
* seashore.
There Isn't much excuse for the
weather forecasters when they go
wrong. They ba\e three guesses
•very day.
—
Exchange says that people who
marry late In life are well shaken
before taken. But the married man
wilt tell yon that he Is pretty well
ahaken all the time
That man who went Into an uncon
trollable spasm of laughter over a
venerable vaudeville Joke has now
gone crary. Doesn't this call for offi
cial regulation of cold storage stage
humor?
An honest porter in New York who
returned to the owner $8,000 he had
found was given a $50 check, which
he discovered to be worthless. ThuB
ta virtue encouraged to be Its own
reward.
Not many of the native women of
America will agree with that newly
arrived immigrant in New York who
thought she could marry as many men
aa abe pleased because America is a
free country.
The inventor of a beer bottle cork
left fl.OOQ.OOO to hia heirs, but doubt
lees the inventor or the corkscrew left
even more.
Ae was to be - expected, the silt
flirt la to be succeeded by even a
fiore modest little garment, the pan
taloon gown.
We’ll have to thank that Paris
woman for providing a new angle to
the mother-in-law joke. Recently de
fied by her husband, she compelled
Ala mother to pay her alimony.
SOME NERVY PLAYERS
Bresnahan Praises Men Who Can
Deliver When Needed.
Substitute Catcher for Chicago Cubs
Praises Frank 8chulte, Outfielder,
and Heine Zimmerman, Slug
ging Third Baseman.
In baseball there are two kinds of
nerve, according to Roger Bresnahan,
substitute Cub catcher. One is pos
sessed by the type of player who bul
lies men on the field, has a weak
heart when he is asked to go to the
plate in the ninth inning with a man
on third and drive home the run that
will win the game. The other is the
player who refrains from pugilistic
tactics, but has a heart of steel, takes
a viselike grip on the bat and grits
his teeth when the responsibility of
scoring a run jgpput up to him.
Bresnahan declares the first is the
easiest to beat in a game and the sec
ond is the fellow who makes compe
tition keen all the time.
Hob Beecher, left fielder of the Cin
cinnati team, struck Bresnahan last
year in the jaw, after a game of ball,
because the fielder struck out in a
pinch when a long fly or a single
meant a victory. It was while dis
cussing this episode that Bresnahan
defined the two kinds of nerve in
baseball.
"There are two kinds of nerve in
this game/’ said Bresnahan, "and I
profess to have only one. I’ll admit
Boscher took a solid punch at me.
I stood for it. There may be a lot of
fellows playing ball today who can
trim me off the field, but when it
comes to matching brains and nervd
during a game I think I can hold my
own with any of them.
“Reseller was up In the ninth in
ning in a pinch, when just a little sin
gle would have given the Reds the
game. He was aware that it was up
to him to rap out the hit that would
turn the tide. But he was as nervous
as a cat. I Joshed him about it and
he took it seriously. That was how
the argument started. That was ex
acfly what I was looking for, because
it won the game for me. He struck
out in the pinch and that was whai
made him angry.
"Frank Schulte is about the besi
example of the man with the nerve in
a pinch I know of in the league today
Roger Brcsnahan.
You never see Frank argue or dispute
with any one, nor you never heard
of his having a battle on the street.
Hut you have seen him go up to the
plate with runners on the bases in
the ninth inning, smash out a single
or extra base hit off the best pitchers
in the league and win the game, lie
is the type of man to have on a-team.
“Heine Zimmerman appears to be
extremely boisterous and rough, but
he is a corking good man in a pinch
because he is stubborn. He is too
arrogant to have it said that be lost
his nerve, and it is just that bit of
pride that makes him so great a
player."
Leading Hitters.
Four American leaguers are hitting
about the .400 average, while only two
National leaguers have so far been
able to comb the ball for this extra
high percentage. The four leaders in
the younger organization are Collins.
.511; Speaker, .468; Bchaller, .462, and
Compton, .400; Viox, with .436, and
Miller, 429, are blazing the way in the
National.
Jennings’ Long Career.
Hughte Jennings, leader of the De
troit Tigers, started playing profes
sional baseball 23 yeajs ago. Hughle
played bis first professional game on
June 16. 1890, as a member of the
Allentown club of the Eastern Inter
state league.
Wolfgang Doing Nicely.
Pitcher aiel Wolfgang, the young
ster Callahan sent to Denver this
spring, is doing grand work for Jack
HAndrtrlifL
WHICH IS REAL “FIND" OF THE SEASON?
Ray Schalk, Clever Young White Sox Backstop.
An interesting question that has
bobbed up in the American league re
cently relates to the problem of sing
ling out the catching “find” of the
season. Chicago fans are practically
unanimous that the palm should go to
Ray Schalk of the White Sox and
they have much company in other
cities. They consider the problem an
easy one. Some critics have appeared
to dispute the right to the honor of
the young backstop corralled by
Comiskey recently.
"I watched Wallie Schang of the
Philadelphia Athletics closely in the
series with the Cleveland Naps and
with all due respect to Schalk I think
Connie Mack has bagged the biggest
young catcher, all things considered,
in the major leagues,” said a Cleve
land scribe.
‘‘I have seen Schalk in several se
ries and I also have been in a position
to watch the work of Schang in a bit
ter series in which Cleveland was bat
tling Philadelphia with the clubs in
first and second place. Schalk is just
as good a receiver as Schang, but 1
think this young catcher of Mack has
the edge on the Chicago backstop in
speed, in throwing and batting—im
portant considerations in a catcher.”
While some fans and critics are in
clined to be prejudiced in favor of
such stars as Schalk and Schang, it
is interesting to know what scribes
and fans of other cities think of these
players when they are visiting hostile
camps.
The work of Schalk has stood out
in marked contrast to that of any of
the opposing catchers on other teams
in the recent whirl of Comiskey’slath
letes around the eastern circle. His
great plays at times were so thrilling
as to draw spontaneous applause from
a crowd rooting for the visiting club’s
downfall.
Following is the opinion of an ob
server in Boston, after watching
Schalk in the series between the
world’s champions and the White Sox
recently:
"I have seen all the catchers in the
American league this season and I
think Schalk is head and shoulders
above the whole lot. In getting down
in front of the plate for bunted balls
and whipping the sphere to first I
have never seen his equal. His throw
ing is accurate, his receiving a delight
to see and his batting surprising. He
seems as quick as a cat in tagging
runners out at the home plate and
also seems absolutely fearless.”
These two opinions of Schalk, ex
pressed by critics outside Chicago,
show how highly this young catcher
is rated even by those who give
Schang the shade in a comparison
of the work of those two young stars.
Chicago fans have had little opportu
nity to judge of the relative merits of
these young catchers. They are
strong for Schalk and chances are few
White Sox fa*s could be found who
would give any other catcher In the
world the edge over the former Mil
waukee phenom purchased by Presi
dent Comiskey last fall for the rec
ord price of the season paid for a
minor league player.
BONEHEADED PLAY BY COBB
“John Andersonlng” Was Only Ex
ceeded by Catcher Henry’s Forget
fulness and Poor Work.
Ty Cobb's "John Andersonlng’ In
tho first Inning of a recent game
caused more comment in Washington
than any spectacular play Ty bas
made in recent years.
It is the first time that Cobb can
be justly accused of pulling a rank bit
of "boneheadedness," and Ty got out
of the fix because of the surprise and
momentary mental lapse of John
Henry, Washington's star catcher.
Bush had reached third on an error
and a sacrifice, and Cobb had walk
Li Hung Schang is the young back
stop of the Athletics.
• • •
The Cleveland players declare that
the Polo grounds is the smoothest field
they ever played on.
• • •
Mike Balentl, the former Carlisle In
dian, now with the Browns, Is becom
ing a star shortstop.
* • •
They say that Umpire Byron has a
pose back of the box seats that would
be hard for a professional model to
bold.
• • *
Billy Murray, the Pirates alert sccut,
discovered Catcher Coleman when
sent out on a hurry-up order from Fred
Clarke.
• • •
Ty Cobb and Joe Jackson are put
ting up another neck and neck dash
for the American league batting su
premacy.
• * •
One of the greatest Joys of Moose
McCormick's life has been suddenly
taken away from him. He can no long
er bat for Josh Devore.
* * •
Turning back the pages of history
we find that some years ago a Cleve
land team was leading the league at
this stage—and finished filth!
• • *
Lee Magee, the young infielder of
the Cards, pulled off a Ty Cobb stunt
in a recent game against the Pnillies
He scored all the way from first on
• short single.
Ty Cobb.
ed. Ty then stole second, and the
th^ft was so easy that he raced on to
third. Henry was so visibly surprised
that he crept down the third base line, I
with the ball in his hand, as though
intent on reaching and tagging Cob.
Cobb saw the situation, and after
grinning at Henry for a moment he
shot back toward second and passed
McBride before the shortstop took
Henry's throw.
HIS CLEVER SCHEME
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John Moran Arose to Occasion,
and Immediat^iy-Fell With
Great Splash.
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BY HERBSRT DROCER.
(Copyright. 1913. by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
Anything between the ridiculous and
the sublime probably would have left ,
John Moran with a very uncertain
appreciation of the Fourth of July !
celebration. Neither the one nor the :
other, in his opinion, could have been !
very fruitful of results. But when the
ridiculous followed close on the sub
lime, the two operated after a fash
ion peculiarly uncalculated and
brought Susan Duvau to an instan
taneous decision on a matter affecting
John, wherein all the p's and q’s she
had lingered over so long never be
came finally resolved in her mind to
a syllogistic nicety.
Of the two extremes, the sublime
.had been deliberately planned; it was
premeditated. The ridiculous wasn’t.
The former was the result of a clever
scheme and weeks of hard work. The
latter was the chance of a minute, un
foreseen, unexpected, and, some might
have said on the spot, unpropitious.
For several years John Moran had
wooed Susan Duvau, but, so far, he
seemed to himself no nearer the matri
monial goal than he had been at the
beginning. All her people had been
assisting him without apparent avail.
He had pleaded with her; he had
coaxed and cajoled and even assayed
to coerce after a mild fashion, his
threats reaching that superlative pro
portion where he promised to identify j
himself for life with the sublime or- !
der of bachelorhood. But, to all this, i
sue merely uasi uuwu uci
murely and asked him to wait aw'hile.
John calculated that he had waited
long enough. At first he had been
patient, but now he was growing des
perate.
A score and one-half years had
come and gone around the life of
Susan. As her thirty-first birthday ap
proached, John, who had schemed un
til his hair was beginning to fall out,
decided on a bold stroke. He spent
the afternoon with her that day, and,
in the evening, they had dinner to
gether downtown.
That night he sat with her on the
front porch, after the family had re
tired. Over them a dim light shining
from the parlor wdndow, cast a pale
glow'. John sat quietly, waiting for !
the silence he depended on for the
furtherance of his plan. After awhile
it came, and then, when the stillness
had locked the night in its embrace,
he began to hum, “Silver Threads
Among the Gold.” When he had
drew his chair closer to hers, reached
ceased, tears stood in his eyes. Ho ; '
out for her hand again, and asked her ,
to become his wife. But it was the
same old prosaic answer.” I
"Wait awhile, John,” she insisted.
"Wait awhile. Do something grand. ;
Show me that you can rise to the oc
casion.” ]
Rise to tha occasion, he would. He j
resolved that firmly as he stood up
forthwith and bade her good night.
He resofcred ft all the w'ay home. The ■
next morning he still resolved it. But
how? j
A happy thought struck him. John j
had a penchant for happy thoughts.
He would makb a spech at a Fourth i
of July celebration. - It would be so ]
grand and so eloquent, couched in j <
such rich expressions and so laden j \
with nob>e sentiment, that she could !
not help but feej the appeal. He j
would show her that he could "rise 1
to the occasion!”
John got out his old, school die
tlnnnrv wrtf hrn«hpri thp rinat frnm
covers. Then he borrowed an im
mense volume of masterpiece orations j
from a friend and read every spe.ech £
he could find that contained any pa- ^
triotic reference or expression. For
four weeks, he labored almost inces- £
santly, night and day, on his effusion f
and finally he had It completed.
An obstacle that John had not reck- t
oned on now loomed up. John was a f
member of the program committee, t
and he doubted the propriety of hav- ^
lng himself included among the list r
of speakers. But he remembered his ^
penchant, and called it Into play c
again, with good effect. t
The morning before the celebration i
he called around to see the chairman
of the committee. p
"You see—ahem!—Mr. Grubbs,” v
John began, "being one of the commit- 1
tee. I should regret to see .any part r
of the program fall flat.” t
“Just so," answered the chairman, r
”1 feel the same way.” p
"Well, as a matter of precaution, p
Mr. Grubbs, I think I shall prepare a
few remarks myself today. Should t
any of the speakers be tardy, or fail P
to respond, you might call on me."
“Fine td<n. John. I’ll do It.”
Then John took himself around to
the residence of Squire Sloan. He B
knocked at the door and was admit- h
ted E
"Ahem, squire,” began John, after t
an inquiry concerning his host's a
health, "we are altering the program b
for tomorrow slightly.” n
"So?” p
i es. You see, on account of your ] a
advanced years and the fact that you ! a
have been ailing, we thought it might ! tl
°uit you better to speak, say. at 11:30 ti
ran at 11 o’clock." o
1 believe it would,” answered the r
old man. g.
About 11 o’clock the next morning, U<
Chairman Grubbs scanned the gatb-! n
ertng in vain tur a fclirup6e of Squird*' w
o,o*“ „uifeu.
nounced: uk
“Though not app, arinp,
gram, the Hon. .1 - ., m*0® «>* A
requested to main ;i ■-. a° h*i UM
is not necessan j
esteemed fellow ....' 'ntr°duc«BjE
As John appro;.,•! -d ih. . 9H
platform he look-,; ,low df°!lkB
face of Susan an 1 , ,(Jl, ioto
of the surprise ••>, ,^nUI
tenance. He pau> ,, her
improvising a >•;. ,.„h >P
chuckled inward'., .- ,h(, J'®11* |B§
the occasion aft-no ' ‘
pered to hlim.-lf |„ v.,',I*
the caliber of man w *ho*B[
prove that he ®*vqH
occasion.” 8e to
And rise to the occasion K 9
doubtedly did. r . ... h* H)K:
quent, the most |, ’ ?ost«9|
impressive sp—. ®s
As lie concluded In w,,„ „ "3t
a loud and prolon: -,i • eeted
stepped down fre . »9
made his way t-w-ni a 'r®1
approached, he , h. , !\ As »
her eyes, but did -,f trouble blB
with an explain,: .on j1;M th
was too happy. e®' B^K
She arose and to- )lold of. 9
“Let us go off to ; nine piace J?9
we can sit alone,” she said ®ei^B
They made their WaV toward ..9
outskirts of the er-wd When *39
had reached a pein liere ih„v
speak without b, inn oV( ,heard !9
turned to her questioningly ’
“Well,” he said, 'did B
“You certainly did John ’■ -.9
rapted. “Who would have thou^9
The sublime had been attained. I
“Who wrote it foi you, John’" S-H
asked. '
\\ iote it? lit hurt surprise, "tVhj^B
They walked along in silence fl
“How long did it take you to nufl
bare it. John?" H
He did not answer.
“Yes, you certainly did rise to th,
occasion, John. Ncv, you want to |m
careful not to fall, lest—”
Fate would have it that he fell that
Instant. Twitted and stung by her
raillery, he had been walking peril,
ously near the edge of the high dirt
bank that overhung the creek, with,
out thought of danger. As she spoke,
:he ground beneath bis feet gave way
ind he went tumbling through th
Jirt and sand into eight feet of wata
below.
Susan shrieked, and the crowd,
ilarmed by her cry. began to rush to
;he spot.. As the gathering in front ot
the speakers’ stand broke away li
arge groups, the chairman arose and
isked the cause of the commotion.
He was answered by a little urchin,
who stood up in the seat of a tarn
wagon.
“Why, Jack Moran’s fell in tho
trick.” shouted the lad.
John was dragged out at the ford,
i short distance down the creel,
^.bout his eyes, mouth, nose and earn,
ind over a part of his clothing, were
jlaclt splotches of mud. Resuscitat
ng methods were applied, and as he
jegan to revive, the crowd drew
jack, leaving him stretched out on a
juggy lap-robe and attended by
Susan.
When he opened his eyes, she wae
cneeling by his side, and looking down
nto his face.
"Did I rise—” he began.
“There—there,” soothingly. "Yei,
mu did. Now, lie quiet.”
She gently stroked the hair back
rom his brow. He grasped her band
n his and she suffered him to hold it
One night, three months later, afr;
sr the wedding toasts had been pro
tosed and John had made his re
iponse, he made a mental observation
o himself, as he took his seat.
“I wonder,” he reflected, "whether
t was my celebration speech, or tbt,
umble I got?”
Comforting News.
A minister who preached for many
ears in a suburb of Cincinnati re
ired and went to Florida tc live. After
, year or so there he paid his first
isit to New York in 20 years.
He wandered about for two day*
nd then went to see an old Cincinni#
riend.
“I have been watching the people#
his city,” said the dominie to to
riends, "and I wonder and grieve at
he money-madness 1 see everywhew.
'his rush and hurry and eagerness for
ioney abashes me. It is astonishing.
Vhy, down in Florida one can live#
omfort for $2,000 a year, but hers
hey think and talk and act in terms#
millions!
"It is all so vast and so complex
e sighed. “Why, this afternoon
miked down by your tallest building
stood on the curb and looked up
p and up, and tried to comprebe"
he immensity of that structure
lind reeled. I felt faint and •
janed again0* *h" building f°r
ort—and a
“ ‘Cheer ug
) fall on y—
os t.
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