Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1914 — Page 3

‘DAISY AND VIOLET SPRING A SURPRISE FINISH '.'39' -—--—r- —— Dad Wadell (who knew Booth—by iolght)—Bah! These circus followers •round here! I can’t read my Keats. JLs a Shakespearian authority and Ihctor I am out of my element listening to Hon tamers and sawdust actors. Mai Maison .(equestrienne) —Say. IDad, that’s handin’ it to us on a tent peg. Ain't a nice respectable circus person as good as an ol’ ham that played in livery stables all over the 'world? Daisy Purdue (the Purdue Sisters) —Dad’s touchy on circus stuff. He was out with Robinson’s show tor a ■week but the animals couldn’t get along with him. When he came into the “hipp” tent the elephants used t’ set up a holler. His disposition is too sour. Dad Wadell—PH admit the animals •nd I couldn’t agree on several points. ‘But the reason I resigned was because they wanted me to wear a gorilla skin and ride in a cage wagon inrthb street parade. One who played Hamlet at the command of the mayor of Oshkosh one time! Ye gawds! Bud Haley (circus press agent)— Nothin’ against you, Dad. -I played a gorilla when I started. I played “Bugjug, the Dog-Faced Demon,” “Snappo, the Cannibal King” and several others. When I growled as Bugjug they used to carry out faintin’ women. That’s acting, ol’ man. Algy (late of the ’Alls)—You bet it Is, Buddy. Do ybu need any ticket' tikers this season? I’d like to— The Great Otto (lion tamer)—Did

"I'll Admit the Animals and I Couldn't Agree on Several Points. But the Reason I Resigned Was Because They Wanted Me to Wear a Gorilla Skin and Ride In a Cage Wagon In the Street Parade."

you see where my Leo, der big lion, got his name in der paper for ledding a child pat him on der nose? Dot’s goot puberlicity. Bud Haley—Some of my stuff, Otto. Next week I’m going to pull another big spread for Mai Maison and her Arabian Stallion, Prince. How about it, Mai? Mai Maison —Oh, Bud, It’s so kind of you. Going to put something in about my jump through thd hoop of fire, or about my radium gown? Algy—By Jove, -I’d like t’ be with your show, jolly well, Buddy. Id like ♦he publicity. , 0 Violet* Purdue (the Purdue sisters) —You wouldn’t get it, Algy. Haley is too busy getting in the photo of Mai Maison and the cab horse she rides. But! We’ll see later— Daisy Purdue —Well see—later! Violet—lt’s a nice way to treat two girls who was born in the business. Can’t get a line or a picture. Well, I’m quitting— Algy—Nobody knows you’re livin’. Daisy Purdue—Haley can explain the reason. If he must give all his time to the publicity of his fiancee — I’ll have to see m* personal friend, Mr. Murtell. The Great Otto—Who is dis Mr. Murtell? I see his name by all my pay checks. Bud Haley—Old Pop Murtell is our financial backer. The old gink that ■was on the lot yesterday. Algy—Bo Mai Maison and Bud are engaged, eh? I s*y, Bud. congratulations and the samp for Mai. Mai Maison—Since Bud announced it I—l’ll show you folks my ’ring. We’re going to be married when we play Lima, where my folks live. Daisy Purdue —Mistakes will happen. When a press agent is so blind that he can’t press agent for anyone but his fiancee he ought to quit And he will— Violet Purdue—Don’t say too much, girlie. Bud Haley—What’s the matter? The papers wont print anything about a sister act. Get a novelty. Dad WadeD—My “Louis the Fourteenth" was a novelty. I Violet Purdue—Listen to Haley say "get a novelty!" Do you call bareback ridin’ a novelty? Man, we can work in vaudeville. If we have to. The 0. P. C. A would stop her with the horse. He looks so pathetic out of that one eye. He’s got a take-me-out-and-shoot-me expression on him. Bud Haley—ls you’re referrin’ to Mai Mefow and Prince you’d better desist

AT THE BOOKING OFFICE OFF-STAGE COMEDIES

by Will Bradshaw

Mai is the feature of this show. She’s on all the llthos, banners and show cards. She draws. The Great Otto—She’s too much. My big lion, Leo, ain’t got his picture no place. She’s everything. Clown, Leo, trapezers, nice little girls like Daisy and Violet, is. nothing. Mai Maison —Bud, try to get a few lines in about Otto’s moth eaten Hoi Daisy Purdue—She'd like to see a few words in about us. Our obituary. Algy— I s'y, the picture of a sweet girl like Mai and *er ’orse is a drawin* card. Eh, Bud? The Great Otto —They don’t like my Leo? - -■ ? Algy—’B’s beastly unpopular. Mai Maison —Girls, why don’t you learn Some new tricks? You’re not too old just yet I’ll get Bud to stick your pictures in some of the smaller papers. Daisy Purdue—Thank you! Well see if we can’t get something in about ourselves next week that will be interesting to you. Bud Haley—l’d be glad to see it. Algy—A press agent like you. Buddy, could put me on Broadway. Don’t y* need a ticket tlker? Dad Wadell —I wouM like to travel with your aggregation, Mr. Haley, till the Shakespearian season opens again. I could play a refined wild man or a polite bearded lady. Bud Haley—l’ll see Pop MurtelL I think I pan place Algy at the side show door and fix you tor the “Borneo King” part, In/he meantime I’ll push Mai’s name. Daisy Purdue —It will be a waste of time, sir.

Bud Haley—Why? Violet Purdue—Daisy—became engaged to Pop Murtell yesterday. When they marry tomorrow she’ll in* sist on some changes. - Daisy Purdue —And one of them will be the press agent—for Mai Maison. Booking Agent (entering)—When does your circus train pull out? (Copyright 1914. by W. G. Chapman, Dramatic Rights Reserved.)

HOME OF THE CORPORATION

Commune of Blaru*,’ in Switzerland, Ha* Established a Happy Hunting Ground. • High hidden In the mountains, one and one-half "hours’ train ride from Zurich, is the Swiss commune" of Giarus, the Wall Street Journal state*. Glams has a population of 000, and most of these are hardy mountaineers, but French financier* have found in it the happy hunting ground* for corporations. When its fame spreads it bids fair to be to Europe what New Jersey was to America before the “Seven Sisters.” * The village is already the headquarters of more than 60 corporations, operating in all parts of the world. The secret of Glarus is not hard to find. AU the neighboring districts of Europe, in the pride of their size and the size .of their wants, levy crushing taxes, but the little Swiss commune obtains a plentiful revenue for it* modest needs by taxing the resident corporations annually only one-fifth to three-tenths of 1 per cent on their capital. ? Great is the glory of Glaru* I

The revival of the Provencal language has been paralleled by the revival of Czech, the native Slav tongue of Bohemia, In which John Hubs, the reformer, wrote at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and which was forbidden and practically destroyed until a hundred years ago. Dobrovsky started a movement which ha* made it again the written and spoken language of a nation. The Yeats-Greg-ory-Douglas Hyde attempt to revive Gaelic in Ireland is a similar but not equally successful movement

Bacon—Of every 200 person* who live to be forty years of age, 128 are married. Egbert—That’s no reason why they should act like sixty. ‘

Ancient Language Revived.

Of Course Not

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BEST FIELDER IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE

George Burns is the best fielder in the National league, according to Manager McGraw of the Giants. "George has it born In him,” is the terse way in which the Little Napoleon explains It. Bums joined the Giants as a regular late in 1912, and made good from the start. He is normally a .300 hitter, very fast on the bases and uses his head at all stages.

STORIES AID THE MANAGERS

Miller Huggins Is Having His First Real Chance With St. Louis Cardinals This Season.

If this thing keeps up, managers of major league teams that are in the rut may be going around to the newspaper' boys and the other professional goat getters, pleading with them to start campaigns for their beheading. Take the case of Hank O’Day. The pink sheets ho sooner began to swfng the ax for him than his team started on a winning streak. Likewise Miller Huggins. As soon as the headlines announced that he was to be decapitated his team started on a spurt such- as Cardinals have not enjoyed for years. The suggestion is offered George Stallings. If he can coax Boston scribes to quit trying to reassure the public and have them denounce him as an impossibility as a team manager the lowly Braves may climb into the first division. But the subject of this brochure is Miller Huggins, the tiny manager of the Cardinals. He is getting his first real chanced this season and look at v, hat he is doing. Last year he took a disorganized team, with a considerable portion of its membership sulking on him. No manager can win with sulkers on his team. Huggins cleared his decks in a trade that was all to his advantage. He developed a young pitcher or two, and a

Manager Miller Huggins.

catcher, convinced his team as a whole that he was a man among men and deserving of loyal co-operation, and set s*H. They* say his destination is “First Division.” It sure looks it The only things Huggins fear* now is that the people who tried to get his goat earlier will overdo the praise for, a* between flatterers and knockers, he really believes the l%fter are to be preferred, at least as long as they come out in the open with IL

Jones’ Unique Record.

Charley Jones, a veteran outfielder, holds a record of having played ball for 18 yean before being unconditionally released. Winnipeg of the Northern league recently cut him loose. Previously, whenever he changed clubs, he was sold or traded.

Hendrix Buys a Farm.

Pitcher Claude Hendrix of the Chicago Fedshas purchased a farm In Kansas with some of the money he got for jumping to the outlaw*.

George Burns of New York Giants.

Among the Baseball Player

Chance is looking better this year than he has for several seasons. * ♦ * Charles Herzog is succeeding in Cincinnati because he knows bow to handle his directors. • * • Fans will notice that “I'm-not-get-ting-the-breaks” still holds his job as a major league manager. Pitcher Ed Pfeffer of the Brooklyn* is a brother of'Jeff Pfeffer, the former Boston and Cub pitcher. It is said that W-agner will be used as scout by the Red Sox if he does not get into playing condition soon. « • • Griffith’s young heavers are giving Walter Johnson plenty of assistance in keeping the Senators in the limelight. - • * * Hughey Jennings says that if he had the White Sox pitching staff he’d run away with the American league < pennant ’. • » « Outfielder Leslie Mann of the Boston Braves had the honor of hitting the first home run of the season at Forbes field. If John McGraw said, all of the things he is credited with saying he’d be so busy talking that he’d have no time for managing. • • *. uWS A Milwaukee admirer wishes attention called to the pitching of Tom Dougherty, who has performed like a youngster this season. • • « _ President Hugh Jones of the Lincoln club announces that his team will be known/as Tigers from this on, Instead of Antelopes. ♦ • • Bert Maxwell, pitcher for the Brooklyn Feds, is out with a broken arm. Maxwell was hit by a pitched ball in a game with St Louis. see Harry Lord is as rare a species a* a humming-bird that can shoe a horse. Lord has quit baseball because he says he “felt himself slumping as a player.” Mordecai Brown, manager of the St Louis Feds, is said to have found a very capable substitute infielder in John Mlsse, who was in the Class D Union association last season: • • * Tom Seaton said he quit;the Phillies because they worked him too hard. Well, out of the fiijst 26 games played by the Brooklyn Feds Seaton had been pitched in 13 of them. Does he call that rest? ‘♦• • * . A Kansas City writer comments as foHowa: Bunnyßiriefls doing much this year to keep the Blues up in the race. The peppery first sacker is showing much better form this season than he did last, both in folding and at bat. •_.

s? KT’S all get together and help to make our community a live one. . We all realize the consequences of poor business, stagnation In com- • mercial affairs, depression of real estate values, low wages, etc. What we want isplenty of business, money in circulation, a live interest - In the building of houses, the sale of lots and acre property and a genuine, healthy condition of business in our community. HOW SHALL WE ACCOMPLISH IT? The easiest thing In the world. Just keep our money in circulation, right here among ourselves, and we will create our own prosperous conditions. In other words, LET'S PATRONIZE OUR OWN BUSINESS MEN, INSTEAD OF SENDING OUR DOLLARS TO THE MAIL ORDER HOUSES. Let’s be loyal to our own best interests instead of helping to bolster up the big monopolistic establishments that are draining our resources of all the ready money in sight It Is the aim of the big city mail order houses to drive the small town merchants out of business, so that we will all be compelled to send to the cities for our merchandise. The big mall order houses are spending thousands of dollars every month to accomplish this object THEY WILL DO IT, TOO, UNLESS WE ARE SENSIBLE ENOUGH TO STOP IT. It Is up to us to prevent the big mall order houses from driving our storekeepers out of business, for several reasons, the greater of which are that our community win be rubbed off the map Jf we have no business concerns and that our ownership of property here will not amount to anything, in this „j . ■ , . _„■ '.y ' ■ _ . ' The local stores, to a very large extent, make this town. The taxee puid by our business men are the principal support of our schools and churchew It Is the texes paid by our storekeepers that pay for the local improvements, for the street lighting, for fire protection and for ail other communistic privileges and protection. If we permit the big mall order houses to drive our business men out of competition, what will we have left? A place of empty store buildings, an undesirable place in which to live. If the mail order houses accomplish their purpose it is possible that railroad interests will decide there is not sufficient business to warrant the stopping of trains here—because there win be no reason, then, for traveling men to stay over in our town, no freight to be delivered to our stores. In such cases we will be trying to sell, our property, bat will find no buyers, for who will think it a good investment to buy property in a dead town? / But this is just what we must expect if we keep sending our dollars to the mail order houses, for it is only the business of the town that makes the town possible. . " : 7 When wo send practically all of our business to the mall order houses in the cities there will no longer be a necessity for, or a reason for, a town hero. It aH resolves itself into the question: SHALL WE HAVE A PROSPEROUS TOWN, WITH GOOD LOCAL BUSINESS, GOOD REAL ESTATE VALUES, GOOD WAGES AND GOOD MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT, OB SHALL WE HAVE A DEAD TOWN, WITH PIGS HOOTING IN THE PRINCIPAL STREETS, STORE BUILDINGS EMPTY AND WITH "FOR SALESIGNS HUNG UP, NO LIGHTS AND NO EIRE PROTECTION. IT ALL RESTS WITH US. WE ARE THE ONES TO DECIDE. Common sense and good judgment tell us to protect our own interests. If we don’t, who will? What can we expect from .the mail order houses after they shall have received our money and the local storekeepers, have been put out of the running? Shall we expect help and assistance from the mail order monopoly? We all know that the mall order houses do not pay any of our local taxes. They do not support our schools, or churches or help to pay for our lighting the streets or for our fire department * Every dollar spent at home means added wealth, added prosperity, added real estate values and added facilities of all kinds. Every dollar sent to the mall order houses means more unfair competition for our storekeepers and less taxes toward the support of our community. Which do we prefer? We must make the decision. Are we for or against our community? LET’S MAKE IT A LIVE TOWN BY KEEPING OUR MONEY IN CIRCULATION AMONG OUR OWN BUSINESS MEN. I

erpHERE IS NOTHING OF GREATER IMPORTANCE TO US THAN THE JI PROSPERITY OF OUR COMMUNITY. PROSPERITY AT HOME IS BASED ON LOCAL BUSINESS CONDITIONS. If our local merchants and storekeepers transact a large volume of business their prosperity Is communicated to every perstm in the ehtfre community. The values of our real estate increase. Wages are increased. There i» more money in.circulation and it is more readily obtained for purposes of expansion, paying for improvements, buying luxuries, etc. In every way we can discover better conditions on all sides when our business Inen are busy. There is every reason In the world why we should spend our cash at home Instead of sending it to the big cities. By keeping It In circulation In our home community we profit In many way*. But if we send our money to the mall order houses, that is the last we hear of It If enough money is sent to the mail order houses from our community we may easily put our local merchants out of business. By diverting our trade from our local storekeepers we can make It Impossible for these to maintain their stores. Every dollar sent out of our town to the mall order houses detracts just so much from our own Individual prosperity, as well as from the prosperity of the storekeepers and from the community In general. Think of the consequences if we should all send to the mail order houses for our necessities and our luxuries How long would it be before our local merchants would have the “closing out sale” signs on their doors, to be followed by the “for sale" sign* an the stores themselves? AND WHEN THE BUSINESS HOUSES ARE ALL ADVERTISED FOR SALE WHAT WILL BE THE VALUE OF OUR OWN HOUSES AND LOTS? Such conditions have actually prevailed in some communities. It ha* happened that the citizens became “mail-order-mad” and sent to the big cities for the greater part es their merchandise. The local merchant* abandoned the field, because there was no business there for them. The burden of taxation fell on the various property owners, because there were no business concerns to bear the big proportion which generally falls to their share. Property values decreased until there were no bidders for undesirable real " estate." The town became dead. In the meantime the head of a big mall order house In Chicago was • drawing an income of over a million and a quarter dollars, made possible by the business received by hl* concern, by mail, from such communities a* the on* above described and from our own community, a* well as from other* all over the United State*. Every dollar of this enormous income was diverted from storekeepers tn small communities. Every dollar sent in to that great mall order amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars annually, detracted from the prosperity of some community, struggling to become a center of population, but retarded by the short-sightedness of the citizens who sent their money out of town in preference to helping towards the prosperity of their own community. Of course, It was all done unthinkingly. Those who sent their dollar* to the mail order house did not stop to consider that these same dollar* would add to the prosperity of the home community if expended at home. They did not stop to reason that by helping those to their own community they would be best advancing their own interesta THIS COMMUNITY NEEDS YOUR HELP. YOU NEED THE HELP OF EVERY DOLLAR IN ORDER TO MAKE A BETTER COMMUNITY IN WHICH TO LIVE. YOU NEED THE PROSPERITY OF THIS COMMUNITY TO MAKE YOUR PROPERTY OF GREATER VALUE AND TO GIVE YOU THE BENEFITS OF A BETTER COMMUNITY IN WHICH TO MAKE YOUR HOME BRIGHTER, MORE DESIRABLE AND WORTH MORE IN DOLLARS AND CENTS. . We must all consider these matters. We must stop and think, before ending our dollars to the man order house*, that our cooperation is necessary to t*»e upbuilding of our community and that, for our own selfish adwsnhtge*, even with no other motlve, we ngtot patronlze home institution* and keep our dollars at home so that they can work for the advancement of our own prosperity. ■ We will all find that it is a fact, when we consider the question from every view point, that we can buy as cheaply and as profitably from our local merchants as from a mall order house, and we then know what we are buy* tog. instead of buying a “pig in a poke.” > *

HOME TRADE BOOSTS

■ We Want a Live Town

PROSPERITY AT HOME