NEWS OF THE SPO
TENER PROPOSES ECONOMY
National League by Unanimous Vote
Ratifies President's
Policy
New York, Dec. 9.—Governor John
Kinley Tener, of Pennsylvania, whoso
first really active term as executive
of the National League was ushered in
at the beginning of the annual meet
ing in the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday
afternoon, won over his colleagues to a
policy of radical economy in his first
step of active administration. His Ex
cellency carried unanimously a resolu
tion to limit the playing rosters of the
clubs to twenty-one men each and made
his point so strong that the New
club, which had expressed antagonism
toward tho measure, was the most ar
dent in pressing it.
The league also adopted a rule limit
ing the expenses of spring training ljy
making it a misdemeanor for any team
to go into spring camp before March
1. In addition it tabooed barnstorm
ing of players after the close of the
season, except in such cases as the Na
tional Commission deemed expedient
for the exploitation of the national
pastime in fertile fields. The National
League recommended that its rival, the
American, should be asked to grant
representation on the joint rules com
mittee to the National Association, the
governing body of the minors.
It is understood that the National
League will recommend to the Ameri
can League an agreement whereby an
te-season city championships between
rival major league teams will be ta
booed. Johnson and his henchmen are
said to approve of this plan in order
to restore the annual openings to all
their old time favor. Of course iso
late i cities or those which have only
o.tp major representative will be per
mitted a< usual to book spring attrac
tions with teams of the other leaguo.
Mi Dili ETOWN LEAGUE
Union and Car Shop Five Win Close
Games
In the Middlctovvn Basketball
League games last evening tiie Union
von from the Teunis deb by a'seore of
23 to 25, and the Car Shops won from
the Liberty five by the score of 13 to
11. One hundred and ritty people saw
thv games. The scores:
First Game
Union. Tennis Club
Dupes F McNair
Beard F Linglc
f'elt/.er C Defcweiier
Dougherty <• Peters
fc'navely li Keiper
l ie, t goais. Seltzer, 8; Dctweiler, 4;
Board. 3; Dupes, 2; McNair, 2; Lirojle,
Foul gvals, McNair. 10; Dupes,"2;
Board, Di-twejjer. Referee, Baumba.'h.
fc*orer, Dupes'.' Timer, Carver, Periods,
19 minutes each.
Second Game
1 ar Shops. Liberty
'/■ el F Musky
Hoffmen F ISte.-k
Pk'dips 0 R. Keiper
fcniith G. House r
Baaaiiia.-h li. . . .Shellenberger
1 icid goils, Shellenberger, 3; Zertl,
-; Hoffman, Baumbeeh, Steck. Foul
}oml<, Jiaulubaeh, 5; Shellenberger, 3.
Keferee, McNair. Scorer, Dupes. Timer,
Garver. Periods, 20 minutes each.
DECISION OVER RIVERS
Johnny Dundee Wins After 20-round
FUht
By Aivitcidioii Prc*s,
Los Angeles, Dec. 9. —Johnny Dua
d <•. the New Vork lightweight."gained
i: decision over Joe Rivers, of Los An
geles, last night in the lust 20-round
I.attle to be staged in California before
llio anti-prize light law becomes effec
tive.
Rivers had r shade over the New
York man until the eleventh round.
After that Dundee took the lead and
had Rivers almost out in the nineteenth
nn<l twentieth.
Lebanon Valley A. A. Elects Officers
Antiville. Pa.. Dec. 9.—-At a meeting
of the athletic association of Lebanon
A alley College the following students
v.ere elected for the year 19141915:
President, Joseph Hollinger: secretary,
Conrad Curry; fdotball manager, Rob
ert Hartz; assistant football manager,
Paul Wagner; track manager, Mason
Long; assistant track manager, Russell
Rupp; tennis manager, Huber lleintzel
man; assistant tennis manager, David
Fink; member of the executive board
from the junior class, David Evans.
Clearwater Plays Here
W. H. Clearwater, former world's
champion at pocket billiards, will play
at fifteen or no-count game with Percy
Schriver in the Imperial parlors, 1259
Market street, this evening at 8
o 'clock.
DR. KLUGH, Specialist
Pfcyafcliiß and Snrxeoa
OHoc*i 200 Walnat FTarrlabnr*. Pa
of tyomen and nifni arterial,
private, specific, arrtoaa and chronic
dlaenata. General office irork. Connnl.
latloa free and roufldentlnl. Medlclaa
furnlahed. Work gnaranteed. Ck arses
moderate. 20 jreara' experleace.
ASK FOR~,
Lancaster's Favorite Brew
RIEKER'S BEER
JNO. G. WALL, Agt.
Harrisburg, Pa. , Frank J. Rieker, Mgr.
AFTER A $50,000 DEAL
ECONOMY TALK STARTS
National League Limits the Playing
List of Clubs to 21 Between May 1
and September I—Highlanders Not
Sold Yet
The following is a summary of the
big news that broke in baseball yes
terdav:
The Philadelphia American League
club sold Eddie Colliifte to the Chicago
White Sox for $50,008 and two play
ers.
The National League voted to limit
each team's players to 21 between May
1 to September 1.
President Frank Farrell, of the
Highlanders, denied that his team had
been sold.
Ruddy Hulswitt was released as man
ager of the Jersey City team. If the
franchise is transferred to Syracuse,
George Wiltse, of the Giants, will be
made the manager of the team.
K. B. Ward, owner of the Brooklyn
Federal League team, announced that
ho had engaged H T. Brewer as his
private secretary and eastern represent
ative of the Federal League.
The Federal League was not men
tioned at the meeting of the board of
directors of the Nntional League or at
the league meeting.
The National Commission conferred
with the franchise committee of the
International League last night, but tho
conference was without result. They
will meet again to-day.
SHARPE TO STAY
Cornell Gives Football Coach Five-
Year Contract
Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 9.—Cornell is so
much satisfied with the success of the
head <oa'-h system in football that Dr.
A. 11. SJiarpe, the Yale graduate em
ployed three years ago. lias been offered
a five-year contract and ho has accept
ed. Dr. Sharpe, it was announced by
the athletic- office yesterday, will coach
football, basketball and baseball for
the next live years, thus shutting off the
possibility of any other university get
ting hold of him.
When Sharpe took hold of the Cornell
team it had been in the dumps for some
time and it had not won from Penn
sylvania since 1901. In three years the
teams coached by Sharpe and his as
sistants. Dan Reed and Ray Vanonnan,
have beaten Pennsylvania twice and
have managed to put Cornell high on
the football map in the last season.
ORPHEUMS TOF SENATORS
Casino League Mac-h Won by 53
Fins
The Orpheums defeated the Senators
by 53 pins in a Casino League match
last evening. Montgomery and Ross
were high men. The score:
SENATORS
Montgomerv 2 3'J 183 203 618
Fletcher... 161 169 161—491
Kobb 14S 135 192 475
Stigelnmn . 100 190 191— 536
loach 204 178 195 577
Totals . . 900 855 942 —26*7
ORPHEUMS
Ross 183 211 222 616
Hargest ... 1?- 224 165 510
W.A.Miller 1/2 172 179 523
Beck 168 206 172 — 546
Wilson 200 162 193 555
Totals .. 814 975 931 —2750
P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. LEAGUE
Bisons Defeat Eagles by Small Margin
of tl Pins
In the P. K. R. Y. M. C. A. League
match last evening the Bisons won from
the Eagles by a margin of 11 pins.
Hostetter dragged down all of the in
dividual honors. The score:
BISONS
Ford 147 169 168— 484
Crawford .. 137 111 134 — 352
Keller .... 131 125 119— 375
Adams 121 153 139 413
Hostetter .. IS2 166 183 — 531
Totals .. 718 724 743 2185
EAGLES
Hartzell... 138 163 142 443
Felker 135 130 112— 377
Chard .... 137 141 135 427
Ask in .... 127 173 188— 488
Paull 177 124 139 439
Totals .. 727 731 716—2174
Schedule for to-morrow: Federals
vs. Braves.
Johnson Wins at Billiards
Johnson defeated Kennedy, 100 to
94. in a class B billiard match in the
Holtzman tourney on the Holtzman
tables last eveninig.
, Don't Oil Razor Strops
"Never put oil on a razor strop,"
said one of the largest dealers in bar
bers' supplies in New York. "It spoils
it for sharpening steel. A now strop
should need no attention for a year at
least. If it begins to got dry just take
a little ordinary lather on your finger
and rub it well in. This will soften it
again and not hi nig more is necessary."
—New York World.
Contemptible
Grace—-If it was a secret why in
the world did you tell that giirlf"
Gwendolyn—lt won't do her any
good, my dear. I'd already telephoned
it to all the girls she knew.—Puck.
HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1914.
MACK'S REASON A SECRET
Manager Who Sold Collins to White
Box Says He Will Make That
Team a Contender
Following the announcement yester
day that he had sold Collins, king of
second sackers, to the Chicago Amer
icans, Manager Connie Mack issued the
following statement:
, "I have sold Eddie Collins to the
Chicago club for a substantial cash con
sideration. 1 have nqr own personal
reasons for le.tting him go, which.l do
not care to make public. # Suftiee it for
me to say Chicago has acquired one of
tho greatest ball players in the national
game to-day, not even excepting Ty
Cobb, because Collins plays a more diffi
cult position. He will rejuvenate tho
Chicago team. You can look for
Comiskcy's team to be a pennant con
tender in 1915, and they may win the
Hag at that."
Collins was born at Millertown, N.
Y., May 2, 1887. He entered Colum
bia College, New York, in 1903, and
at once made the varsity team, playing
shortstop, lie wore the Sky Blue and
White up to 1906, being elected cap
tain for 1907. During the summer of
1906 he played on tho Plattsburgh, N.
Y.; Rutland, Vt., and Rocktield, Conn.,
clubs. At the opening of the ctfllege
season of 1907 he was declared ineligi
ble. He then played ball on independ
ent teams up in New England. While
there word of his ability was brought
to Manager Mack, and the latter se
cured his signature to a contract Aft
er trials in both infield and outfieTd dur
ing 1907 and 1908, he, in the spring
of 1910, found his right position at
second base. Collins is of tne type of
the quick-thinking, brainy player, con
stantly outguessing the opposition,
whether he is at bat or in the field. His
wonderful hitting, grand fielding and
sensational base running were a big
factor in the Athletics winning the
world's championships of 1910 and
191 J.
He hail a large part in bringing the
American League championship to Phil
adelphia last season, as his timely hit
ting, speed on the paths and st'tadv
teamwork with liis side partner,
"Jack" Barry, resulted in many a win
ning t>raeket for the Maekmen. Collins
is now a man of family, owning a
handsome home at Lansdowne, Pa.
THE SUYFNGCF CALLAWAY
STILL REMS MYSTERY
y | 1 1 1
Mystery still shrouds the killing ol
lumes P. Callaway, prominent club roan,
of Atlanta, Ga., by W. B. Carhart, In the
Carhart apartment* on the morning of
December 2. Indications are that It will
remain unsolved, with many other crimes
which the Atlanta police have to clear up
After working on the case for several
days, the local detectives accepted the
statement of Carhart that he shot Calla
way believing he was a burglar. They say
they will make no further effort at present
to find out how Galiaway entered the
apartments, why 'Jarhart failed to recog
nize the man, with whom he and his wife
had talked at the Capital City Club dance,
and a friend of years' standing, and why
Callaway's shoe laces were united.
Mr. Callaway was well- known and pop
ular in society and In club circles. Mr.
Carhart is a leader in business, and his
wife is a beautiful and accomplished
woman, who has figured largely in the
social life of Atlanta.
The Colorado Blver
The Colorado river wus named by
the Spaniards from a word in their
language, meaning ruddy or red, an
allusion to the tint of the water. La
Salle first named the river Maligne,
which means "misfortune," one or two
of his party having been drowned in
its current. —Exchange.
X-MAS CANDIES
The Kinds She Likes
GORGAS
16 N. Third St. and Penna. Station
"AL" REEVES INCLUDES A
LORD IN DIVORCE ACTION
MRS rfLMEDA REEVES
A counter action for divorce against Ai
med* Fowler Reeves, who Is well'known
on the burlesque stage, wus begun at Mtn
eola, L. 1., by "Al" Reeves, theatrical pro
ducer, who names Lord Innes-Ker, Frank
Banford, a theatrical man, and several
others as co-respondents.
The counter action was filed about one
month ago when Mrs. Reeves filed papers
in an action for divorce through her at
torneys. Mrs. Reeves names Lozetta
Horue, Florence Lee and a woman named
Grace, all members of the "Al" Reeves
company.
With reference to Lord Innes-Ker, the
complaint states that Mrs. Reeves was
rullty of misconduct with him in New
York, London and other places in Europe
between July IS and August 12. 1911
CAPITOL HILL
PROTECTING FSfilßp
FROM FAKE FERTILIZERS
State Agricultural Department Safe
guards Buyers From the Swindle of
Low-Grade and Adulterated Ma
terial—Results in Fertilizer Bulletin
The Secretary of Agriculture of Penn
sylvania announces t'he issue of the Fer
tilizer Bulletin giving the results of
the spring trade fertilizers collected by
the official sampling agents this year.
He notes that this bulletin presents a
new feature 'highly important to all fer
tilizer buyers, namely, an indication of
the kind of nitrogenous material used
in the manufacture l of the various
nitrogenous fertilizers. This feature
has been introduced at the earnest re
quest o.f the State Board of Agriculture,
with the purpose of sesuriug for the
buyers more fully the advantages sought
in the recent amendment of the State
fertilizer law. The analyses presented
in earlier years afforded a good idea not'
only of t'he quantity, but also of the
availability of the phosphoric 'acid and
potash in the fertilizers. The quantity
only of the nitrogen was determined.
This element is four to five times as
expensive ns the other constituents,
and much more variable as to souroo
and availability. I t is believed that this
new feature will do much to safeguard
fertilizer buyers against tShe use, with
exorbitant charges therefor, of such
relatively low-grade materials as peat,
garbage-tankage, hair and leather.
Automobile Idconse Money
Up to date the State Highway De
partment has collected SIOB,OOO for
the issuing of automobile licenses /for
1915. The number of licenses issued
is about 7,500.
Governor Tener's Return
Governor Tener, who is in New
York attending the meeting of tho Na
tional Baseball League, will return to
morrow morning.
Private Bankers
The board to license private bankers
met with Secretary McAfee and took up
a number of applications for licenses,
which will be acted on later.
To Attend Pennsylvania Dinner
Among the Capitol Hill officials who
will attend the dinner of the Pennsyl
vania Sons in New York on Saturday
night are Governor Private Sec
retary Gaither, Harry S. McDevitt, W.
Harry Baker, Senator Beidleman, Sena
tor Crow and Commissioner Jackson.
Others who will attend from Harris
iburg are Charles H. Bergner, Frank A.
Smith and John A. Herman.
Public Service Commission
The Public Service Commission met
in Phiiadelphip to-day in executive ses
sion and took up for consideration the
New York Central merger. To-morrow
the Commission will meet in the City
Hall, Philadelphia, and hear witnesses
in support of the petition that the Com
mission take some action to prevent the
railroad companies from raising the
passenger rates tn commuters and oth
ers. It is expected that tho hearing
will consume all of two days.
MR. BTACKPOLE VERY ILL
Publisher, Who Was Very HI, Believed
to Have Passed Danger Point
The condition of E. J. Stackpole,
former postmaster and publisher of the
"Telegraph," was reported to-day as
being greatly improved.
Mr. Stackpole was prostrated with a
bad cold at his home, 1825 North Front
street, on Friday, and it developed into
sym'ptoms of pleuro-pneumor.ia, tho at
tack being so violent as to occasion
much alarm in his family.
Mt. Sta l'kpole 's condition was so
mucli improved to-day that he was pro-
Vounced to be out of danger.
Oil Wagon in Street Cavein
New Cumberland, Dec. 9.—A cave
in over a setter on Reno street near
the new Church of God enveloped an
Atlantic Refining Company team, the
horses sinking to their necks. After
three hours the horses were taken out
uninjured. The team was from the
Harrisburg office and was in charge of
Driver H. J. Miller. i
HARRISBURC BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION RELPS MANY
Distributed 200 Oraers of Groceries to
150 Families and Supplies Others
With Coal, Shoes, Medicine, Cloth
ing and Other Necessities
The Harrisburg Benevolent Associa
tion organized at a meeting of the con
tributors i-alled on November 5, 1914,
iby eloi-tiiig the following officers:
. G. W. Reily, president; Miss L. A.
Forney, vico president; Donald McCor
miek, secretary; C. A. Kuiikol, treas
urer: directors, John a. Hpiccr, J. M.
Lamberton, 11. B. McCormiok, Miss R.
(Pollock, W. A. Zollinger, H. C. Hem
ming, Mrs. W. E. Bailey, Mrs. M. W.
Jacobs.
The associatipn was incorporated in
1879 for the purpose of relieving the
worthy poor of Harrisbjirg, and for the
last six years it has distributed its
funds through the Associated Charities,
which has no emergency f\hid, in
this manner saved administration ex
pense and reaches the needy in the most
direct way.
Associated Charities Report
The following is an extract from a
report made by Miss Hazel Clark. gen
eral secretary of the Associated Chari
ties:
"The lack of employment and a se
vere winter made it necessary to sup
ply nearly twice as much aid last year
as the previous year. Three hundred
and twenty-eight families a/id 96
transients were assisted. The order
were distributed as follows:
"Two hundred and ninety-nine or
ders of groceries to 159 families, 116
orders of coal to 72 families, 109 pairs
of shoes to 63 families, 7 pairs re
paired; 35 pairs of glasses to 31 fami
lies, 2 pairs repaired: 151 prescrip
tions for medicine to 89 families, 12
orders of new clothing to 11 families,
11 orders of milk to 8 families (some
orders lasting a month), 9 pairs of
crutches given or loaned and 1 child's
brace kept in repair, 2 months' rent
paid for one fsinily and 1 month for
another, 192 meals to 82 individuals,
all but 3 being transients, 4 2 lodgings
to 17 individuals.
"By relatives, friends and individ
uals
517.7p for 16 pairs of glasses, $8.15
for 4 orders of groceries, $5 for 2 or
ders of coal, $1.25 for crutches, 20
cents for medicine, 25 cents for 1
meal: $32.05 was expended for trans
location for 11 persons, of this $12.88
was refunded.
Treasurer's Report
"The expenditure for direct giving
this vear was $1,299.90 compared with
$930.12 iu 1913, $1,726.61 in 1912,
$2,646.03 in 1911 and $1,637.31 in
1910. The administration cost has been
about the same each year.
"Contributions of money should be
sent to Charles A. Kunkel at the Me
chanics Trust Company and fjood use
is made of clothing and supplies sent
to the Associated Charities at 5 North
Market Square where all applicants for
relief should be referred.
"Received—Miss Clara B. Alricks,
S2O; H. A. Bear, $5; E. Bailey, 10;
Sirs. Margaret H. Barnett, $1; Miss
M. Edith Clute, $2; Miss Mary Cam
eron, SSO; Mrs. A. P. U Dull, SSO;
Miss Jennie Dull, $10; W. M. Donald
son, $25; Miss Fannie' M. Ebv, $55;
Dr. J. W. Ellenberger, $10; M.C. Eby,
$10; Miss U A. Forney, $2; the Rev.
S. Friedman, $2.50; A. H. Gottschall,
$10; .T. K. Greenawult, Sr., $5; Dr.
jo. A. Gorgas, $10; Mrs. S. S. Graydon,
$3; Mrs. Margaretta C. Haldcman,
S2O; W. O. Hickok, 3d, $5; E. A.
Heffelfinger, $5; Samuel Kunkel, $25;
J. C. Kunkel Poor Fund, $150; E.
Mather, $5; Henry McCormick, Jr.,
SSO; Vance C. McCormif k, $25; Robert
McCormick, $100; .Tames McCormick,
Jr., SSO; Miss Anne McCormick, $100;
Mrs. Henry B. McCormick, $100; Mrs.
Henry McCormick, $25; Donald McCor
mick, $100; Mrs. 8. K. McCaulcy, $5;
Dr. H. McGowan, $5; F. B. Musser,
$10; Pine Street Presbyterian church,
$67.46; Miss Marv H. Pearson, $25;
George W. Beily, $10; Mrs. E. H.
Reily, $25; "Rose," $2; Mrs. E. K.
Smith, $10; W. E. Seel, $10; Thomas
T. Wicrman, $25; \V. A. Zollinger, $5;
cash, $5; cash, $2; cash. $10; total,
$1,256.96; A. R. Shellenberger Me
morial Fund, $37.44; Brua Fund In
terest, S6O; balance November 1,
1913, $361.51; total, $1,715.91; de
ficit, November 1, 1914, $84.49.
"Expended Groceries, $659.27;
milk, $11.06; coal, $201.98; shoes,
$175.78; clothing, $24.23; eye glass
es, on prescription of Harrisburg Hos
pital, $39; drugs, $52.65; emergency
rolief, meals, transportation, &c. t
$96.53; braces, $13.40; hauling, $2;
rent, $24; total, $1,299.90.
"Office Expenses—Printing, $20.50;
rent, $120; services, Associated Chari
ties, $360; total, $1,800.40."
MR. WATTS WILUECTURE
TO AID REDJROSS SALE
He Will Speak Friday Evening at Tech
nical High School—Governor Tener
to Be Guest of Honor at Gathering
Next Tuesday
On Friday evening at 8 o'clock
Shirley B. Watts, local manager of the
Harrisburg district of the Bell Tele
phone Company, will give an illustrated
lecture for the 'heueflt of the Red Cross
Christmas seal campaign iu the Tech
nical High school auditorium on "Tele
phony—'How It's Done and What It
Does.''
Mr. Watfs will explain and illus
trate the workings of the local Bell
! Telephone office and exchange, will
show how connections are made and how
long-distance calls are passed through
from New York to Denver and> other
western cities. No admission will be
charged, but Christmas seals in 10 and
25-cent packages will be on sale after
the lecture for those who are inclined
to buy them.
On Tuesday evening, December 18,
at 8 o'clock, the band and patrol of
JWmbo Temple will give a drill and
concert for the campaign in Chestnut
street auditorium. At this function
Governor Tener will be the guest of
honor. Details of this entertainment
■will be announced later. A number of
new "stunts" are on the boards.
Members of the committee may ob
tain seals from Donald McCormick at
the Dauphin Deposit Trust Company.
* Good Bait!
Her Mother—You say your husband
has been cruel to you. What has he
donef Young Mrs. Snops—He keeps
bare fishhooks in all his pockets.—Don
don Telegraph.
DAMON AND PYTHIAS,
COUPLE, AT MAJESTIC V"
/ £■ * J -<*'
J V i<, r >:'..'
l», .m ,<«fl»iii - lvVil\\L
The most famous drama of friend
ship known to history, th c story which
has been embodied in the precepts of a
great American order, tho Knights of
Pythias, is thc old Grecian story of
Damon and Pythias, which the Univer
sal Company has pieturized in the six
reel photoplay and will be seen at the
Majestic Saturday matinee and night.
The work of preparing for the pro
duction of Damon and Pythias alone
took two months and a half. That is
AMUSEMENTS
>" \
MAJESTIC
Friday afternoon and rveniug,
"Billy, the Kid."
Saturday afternoon and evening,
"Damon and Pythias."
OBPHEUM
Every afternoon and evening, high
class vaudeville.
COLONIAL
Daily continuous /audeville and pic
tures.
■
"Billy, the Kid"
Few of the infant 'prodigies of the
stage ever appear to amount to over
much as they grow up. It is said that
all rules are made t-o 'be broken so this
ono has been by Berkeley Haswell.
Young Haswell will be remembered as
being featured in many a play where
the part of the boy was that of tho
hero and he was considered the Uesrt. in
that line. Rut as the years have gone
by the little actor has developed into
a big one aud at the present time is ac
counted one of the best of the leading
portrayers of juveniles in tho ■country.
This season he is being featured with
that ever-|>opular play, "Billy, the
KidV' which has for its locale New
Mexico, and which tells a story of great
interest, full of strong dramatic sit
uations, yet telling it extremely well.
Novelties abound in each of the four
acts and the central figure, that ]>or
trayed by Mr. Haswell, is certainly a
heroic young lover. "Billy, the Kid,"
is to be presented at the Majestic Fri
day matinee and night. Adv.***
"Damon and Pythias'*
Wlhen the great spectacular photo
drama, "Damon and Pythias" is pre
sented at tho Majetftrc Saturday
matinee and night, it wilt he with
the full and hearty endorsement
of the Supreme (Lodge of tihe Knights
of Pythias for it is upon this beautiful
story of the friendship of those Grecian
noblemen and warriors that, the great
and good-influencing order is founded.
Ami to this is added the enthusiastic
plaudits of the thousands who have
found in this classic production, with
its scenes of splendor and magnificence,
faithful representations of the em when
Greece was in her glory the acme, tho
exaltation of all efforts in great un
dertakings in motion picture creating.
The preserving pictorially of thes won
derful story and its assimilation by
pictures of wondrous force, magnificent
scenic offevts and a cast of remarkable
dramatic power is in itself a roal record
making event in the world of the photo
play. Adv.***
At the Orpheum
An unusual dancing performance
that has caused audiences of the world
to yield completely to its attractiveness
is the offering of Nana, the Parisian
danseuse, who is assisted in her dances
by Mons. Alexis, in serving up the
cleverest dancing attraction seen at
tho Orpheum this seasou. Nana is a
lithe, shapely little miss, possessing a
pleasing personality and her pretty face
is crowned by an abundance of blonde
tresses. Her appearance is fetching, but
it is tho wild whirls, the tornado-like
rapidity fend dazzling agility of the
dance, that is the real merit of her
performance. Nana and her partner
dauce with mathematical precision, and
Nana, in her reckless abandon, ex
hibits a strength that can scarcely be
credited to so small and' supple a body.
"Pekin Myjrteries," the week's splen
did headliner, is without a doubt a won
derful attraction. Mysticism of the high
est order is its key-note, with just
Lan illustration of how much money and
thought is put into the mechanical ac
cessories of a single presentation ol this
. j magnitude.
| When the last scene in this featuro
picture was taken it had cost the pro
j ducing company a small fortune, and
I the remarkable fact remains that every
> i property used in the production was
manufactured in the company's work
| shops with the single exception of the
11 harness used in connection with the
11 chariots. Adv. ***
enough other clever fonts by these Ori
entals to ake the act thoroughly en
joyable and a rattling novelty. Bond
and Oasson, a nifty pair in neat songs
and dances, axe delighting audiences im
mensely, and in fact every turn of the
bill seems to blend into a regulation
variety bill. Adv.***
At the Colonial
Got a husband with a nasty dispo
sition f See Marjjorie Dainton and com
pany at the Colonial these days and
find immediate relief. What pretty
Miss Dainton don't know aibout curing
an irate "hubby" isn't worth know
ing. Meanwhile she and her clover
company will keep you in constant
laughter with t/heir well played com
edy, "A Tonic for Temper." The
Three Melvins, presenting a high class
casting and gymnastic act, are creating
a small sensation iu their respective
line. A fine comedy duo and a nifty
sister team round out a fine bill at
the Busy Corner. Clever moving pic
ture features are pleasing admirers of
this type of entertainment along with
the variety bill. Adv.***
BIBLE CLASS SOCIAL
Men of Redeemer Church Will Enter
tain Their Friends To-morrow Night
Tile Men's Bible class of the Luth
eran Church of Hedee>mer will give ail
entertainment and social to-morrow
evening at 7.43 ,p. ni. in the hal» of
the Plait Iron building, Nineteenth nnd
Derrv streets. All members and their
friends are cordially invited to attend
An excellent program is arranged and
refreshments will be served.
Democrats Enjoy Oyster Supper
The members of the Central Demo
cratic Club enjoyed an oyster supper
last night at Maennerchor hall, North
street. During the evening Dr. M. O.
Caton rendered a piano solo. A. W.
Hartman sang a bass solo superbly aa<l
selections were rendered by the Aeolian
quartet, Harrv Davis, Karl Baer, Bar
nard Lloyd and Harry Mark.
SLANG IN ENGLAND
Expressions Used Here Have a Differ
ent Meaning Over There
If a man meets another man in Pic
cadilly and says, "Jack is pulling your
leg," he means quite a different thing
from what a man meeting another man
on Broadway would mean. In Londou
he means that Jack is telling his friend
some sort of marvelous stories that are
not true, but are designed to deceive
not for the purpose of profit but for tho
purpose of making tho man appear ri
diculous. An American attempting to
express the same thought would say:
"Jack is .kidding you." On the Ameri
can side of the Atlantic, leg pulling
means 4o exchange a counterfeit fairy
tale for some real money.
In thc United States, to call a man
a "nut" is to imply that- he is afflict
ed with wheels in his cranium, bats in
his belfry, or, in other words, to imply
that there is nobody home upstairs. In
this land of the free and homo of the
bravo a "nut" is a lunatic.
Not so in Britain. Over there to call
a man a "nut," especially if he be a
young man, is very likely to be a high
compliment, for an Knglish "nut" is a
young gentleman who knows what the
latest styles in dress are and wears
them, who knows tho latest steps in
the dance and dances them and who
is in every respect an all around, up to
dßte sport. If such a "nut" owns a
racing motorcar or perhaps had his
own aeroplane he is automatically pro
moted to be a "super nut."
"Nut" in Britain has completely ta
ken the place one finds in old English
books represented by such words aa
"dandy" "buck" aiul "beau," a word
that we Americans formerly rendered
"dude."—Boston Herald.
Thee, limax of hard luck is for a man
to marry a laundress and then have to
send his washing out.
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