Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1916 — Page 2

OLD BOTTLE-GREEN

By HAROLD CARTER.

“This was where the tide of battle first began to turn,” said old BottleGreen to Peter. “This was where we hammered and broke ’em. Set ’em up, and we’ll fight it all over again. You can be the Rebs.” “Maybe I’ll beat you this time, old Bottle-Green,” thought Peter, but he said nothing and began to set up the lead soldiers. For an hour and longer the opposing forces fought tooth and nail with spring guns and chips for shells. Surely enough, the Yankee army reeled back in sore disaster, reeled back as far as the edge of the table, and there died to a man rather than surrender. “That's because I didn’t have Stonewall Jackson,” said old Bottle-Green. “You killed him early in the game. You remember. Next time I'll beat you.” Peter crept guiltily out of the house. It was strange how he had first come to play soldiers with BottleGreen. When Peter’s mother first went to live in the village everybody despised Bottle-Green. He wore a bottle-green coat, he tapped his stick fiercely as he went down the street, and everybody was afraid of him. The old man had no friends, and he lived all alone in the white house, except for his negro servant, Amyas. Peter, fascinated by the old man, crept up to a window and looked in. He saw a big table and a wonderful array of soldiers and artillery. The old man was busily playing one force against another. Smash, smash!

Crept Up to a Window and Looked In.

went the guns, and whole, lines went toppling over. Just then old BottleGreen looked up and saw the little hoy. Peter, too terrified to run, stood eyes. He expected nothing less than to be caught and eaten. Old Bottle-Green came charging out of the door. “Want a game of soldiers, little boy?” he asked. Peter nodded. Old Bottle-Green carried him Inside, and the terrified Peter soon found himself playing with zest and having the time of his life. That game the Yankees knocked some word Peter didn’t understand out of the Rebs. But the next time they played the Rebs gave as good as they got. And so the fortunes of war swayed for many critical games. “Mind you, don’t tell anybody about it,” said old Bottle-Green. “Swear by the password.” “I swear by the Continental congress,” answered Peter, lifting up his hand. "Now you’re sworn in, and a soldier,” said old Bottle-Green. “Any morning you’re passing, step in and have a battle.” Peter’s mother never knew what became of Peter on those days. She thought he was playing with some of the boys. Peter kept his fearful secret, conscious that the destinies of the nation depended upon him. “How is it you haven’t any little boys of your own to play with, old Bottle-Green?” asked Peter one day. Old Bottle-Green scowled fearfully, and opened his gold watch with a snap that sounded like the discharge of a whole park of artillery. Inside was the face of a beautiful woman. It “seemedT ’ vaguely” familiar to Peter; though he did not know where he had seen it.

“She wouldn’t have me,” answered old Bottle-Green. “She said she was going to be true to her country and marry a Reb, although she loved me better. When you don’t get married ' you aren’t allowed to have little boys. So I never had any.” “Oh!” said Peter, thinking, he un- , derstood. “Sb that’s why I have to play with you,” continued tho Bottle-Green. Run away now, and come back tomorrow. ’ Peter ran away. But he did not come back on the morrow. He did not come back during the week, though every morning old Bottle-Green had the soldiers out ready to play. J "I wonder what’s become of Peter?” said old Bottle-Green to black Amyas. "They do say, sah, that there’s a mighty lot of scarlet fever in town,” ■aid Amyas diplomatically. “.You blackguard!" roared old BottleGreen. ‘‘How dare you tell me that? Take a week’s wages!” f “All right, sah," answered Amyas vith a grin, ’ 1 "Walt! On second thought, run

downtown and find out where Peter lives.” “He lives in the big house at the corner, sab,” answered Amyas. “There's a sign up over the door.” “What does it say?” demanded Bot-tle-Green.” “Scarlet fever, sah,” answered Amyas. Ten minutes later old Bottle-Green, attired in his bottle-green tall coat, was interviewing the doctor at the door. The doctor was very grave. Peter had a bad attack, and it was doubtful if he could live through the night. All that night old Botle-Green sat under the lilac tree at the gate, waiting. When at last the doctor came in the early morning he saw tears on Bottle-Green's withered cheeks. But when he came out his expression set old Bottle-Green to capering—he, Bot-tle-Green, the recluse, who had glared and tapped so fiercely at the boys and girls at play. “He’ll live now,” said the doctor. “Thank God! ” said Bottle-Green reverently. At last there came a day when Peter was allowed to see visitors. And among the first to come was BottleGreen, with an enormous box of soldiers Under his arm, followed by Amyas, with a folding table. Peter, at an upper window, saw him coming. • • ' "In the name of the ContinentaLcongress, peace!” he cried. “In the name of the Continental congress,” answered Bottle-Green. Old Bottle-Green entered, and in the doorway stood a smiling young lady. “I know who you are,” she said, holding out her hands. “But I don’t know who you are,” retorted Bottle-Green, “unless you’re Adelaide Cannon, come back to me after these fifty years.” "She was my mother,” answered the lady, mystified. “She was the grandmother of Peter. She often spoke of you, of Mr. Clarence Hargreaves — Captain Hargreaves. But surely you are not he?” “I used to be,” said Bottle-Green. And the years seemed to fall away from him, and he straightened his shoulders and felt ashamed of his old coat. There were tears in the young lady’s eyes, and she put her hands in his. "She loved you, Captain Hargreaves,” she said. “And she was sorry. As my father’s daughter, that is all I am allowed to say. And to think Peter found you!” “Oh, yes, Peter, of course,” mused Bottle-Green. “You must come often now,” said Peter’s mother. “Yes, yes,” said Bottle-Green, nod-, ding his head. “Of course.” And he ran up the stairs," shouting, “Peter! Peter!” And just as soon as the folding table could be set up by black Amyas the Rebs and Yankees were fighting a furious battle all over its surface. (Copyright, 1916. by W. G. Chapman.)

IS LAND OF MISFORTUNE

Beautiful Vale of Kashmir Has Through the Ages Had a Record of Natural Calamity.

Beautiful and unforunate is the wonderful vale of KashmirAying high among the Himalayas, ringed with gigantic peaks, “clothed in evergreen fir and deodar, the light-green bed of Jehlam strung across its dun breast like a Jade necklace, blushing with the ghostly pink of peach and plum blossoms.” Kashmir has a persistent record of natural clamity. Jehlam overflows its banks at intervals and sends destroying floods that wipe out whole I districts. The giant peaks around the valley stir now and again in their sleep of ages and shake the flats with mighty earthquakes. Famine and cholera kill more than the river and the trembling mountains. Fire frequently sweeps the fields and cities. As one looks up at the hills on either side from the bed of Jehlam it is seen that one slope is covered with cool, dark forest, while theother grows nothing but long grass. A spark in this grass starts the blaze. Among the Himalayas the air is biting cold and the Kashmiri carries a little charcoal brazier under his rpbe to warm his body. These peripatetic furnaces start many a flame. With a history dotted . with such calamitous landmarks, the people of Kashmir have acquired a 1 pessimistic expression and disposition, i They are superstitious, too, ascribing all manner of miraculous attributes and fairy inhabitants to the mountain springs. ————-— : —--

Mystic and Moneymaker.

Art is the encompassing of the ideal within the limits of the human faculties, and in this sense every Jew is an artist. It is his quality to discern unexpected possibilities in things—to bring out what is in them, whether the subject of his interest is a piece of music or a gold mine. That is the key to the paradox of the Jewish character and explains why he is at once a mystic and a moneymaker —a dreamer with an eye to the main chance.

Spain’s Fish Production.

The annual production of fish in Spain amounts to nearly $20,000,000 yearly in value. There are 586 steam, and 15,194 sailing vessels engaged in the industry. The annual production of tinned fish is 3,500,000 cases of ten tins .to the case. The pack of Portufal is about 1,500,000 cases, and that of France in normal times about 1,003,000 cases. Large quantities of Spanish fish are sent abroad under French and Italian labels. *

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M’GRAW WILL DEPEND ON HIS VETERANS

Great Things Expected of New York Giants’ Pitchers.

John McGraw, Giant manager, says he has three pitchers on whom he can count for good work this season. Poor pitching put the Giants tn the second division last season. “Dope that Matty is through and that some of the other pitchers who did not do well last season will not be good this year is not borne out by baseball experience,” says McGraw. “Rube Benton is one of the greatest left-handers in the business, and I expect good work from him. I also count on Perritt, Matty, Tesreau, Schupp and Schauer.” - . ' ■ -' ’■''' •

WHERE BALL STARS SPARKLE

Scout Mike Kahoe Gravely Informs Umpire Evans Where He Had Seen Many Crack Players. Late last summer Umpire Evans bumped into Mike Kahoe, scout for the Boston Braves, after he had returned from a scouting expedition that had covered a number of western minor leagues. “Have you seen any stars this summer, Mike?” Evans asked. "A lot of them,” he answered. Evans' curiosity was aroused, for Kahoe, always successful in digging up young phenoms, evidently had picked up some new ones. “In what league did you see them?” Evans queried. “In the American and National,” he answered without cracking a smile.

IS STRONG FOR DISCIPLINE

Percy Haughton, New Owner of Braves, Always an Advocate of Obedience to Training Rules. Discipline is likely to be the watchword of the Boston National league baseball club under the direction of the new president, Percy P. Houghton, during the coming season. Haughton, as a Harvard baseball and football player, and later coach of the eleven, has always been a strong advocate of strict obedience to training rules, instructions and the playing code of whatever game he was interested in. While it is not to be expected that Haughton will insist that the players of the Bostoh Braves, will be held to the same degree of accountability that prevails in college football circles, it is certain that the new president of the club will insist upon an observance of all the rules recently laid down by former President Gaffney in his letter to the players, and may even

Percy D. Haughton.

go further. With Haughton as president and George Stallings as manager, it would appear as though the players of the Boston club will have to make baseball playing strictly a business proposition in 1916, or learn that a new regime prevails in the game.

NOTES OF SPORTDOM

“Home Run” Baker will receive $lO/ 000 a year. * * ♦ Spike Hennessey will open a base ball school in Salt Lake city. • • • The signing of Otto Merz gives Omaha six pitchers it believes it can de pend on. * * ♦ ■ , : The Denver club of the Western league has sold Pitcher Harry Gaskell to Sioux City. ♦ ♦ ♦ Beals Becker, the outfielder, is trying to land a job with the Los Angeles team of the Pacific Coast league. « • * The New Yorks have drawn freely Connie Mack for players Baker, Brown, Dailey, Walsh and Shawkey. • • * The Cincinnati Reds will play an exhibition game with the New York Americans, in some neutral city, on July 24. • * • With Meister and Meisner both on the South Bend Central league team, the scorers are in for a lot of trouble this season. * * * Manager Fohl of Cleveland declares that Fred Coumbe,' the young southpaw, is one of the few players who work too hard. i'♦ » * ; The” Binghamton (N. Y.) State league club announces the transfer of Outfielder Jack Blake to the Buffalo Internationals. • • • Pitcher Bert Larson, who was with St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City last year, has been secured from the latter club by Topeka. * * * Arthur Irwin, veteran scout and famous player, has been appointed business manager of the Toronto International league team. • • * Columbia university will build a $20,000 floating clubhouse for its rowing candidates on the Edgewater side of the Hudson river. • * • The transfer of Charley Moll to Win nipeg has given “Shorty” Brautigam a chance to manage the Superior team of the Northern league. • ♦ * The Cincinnati club has purchased from the Sinclair interests southpaw Heinie Schulz, who jumped from Frank Chance’s, 1914 New Yorks to the Buffeds. * « * Jim Thorpe, the famous Indian athlete, regarded as the best all-round athlete in the world, who is now a member of the New York National league club, has lately joined the ranks of the golfers. , ~ - ,-y ■ ' The loss of Heilman, Corhan and Schmidt will leave a great gap in the San Francisco machine, but Owner Berry Is optimistic and declares that the Seals will be even stronger than they were in 1015.

DAILEY’S UNIQUE FEAT

One-Armed Twirier Pitches Most Remarkable Game. Shuts Out Philadelphia Club Without Run or Hit —Lee Meadows Handicapped by Wearing Spectacles —Archer Also Crippled. Thirty-two-year-old Pitcher Dailey of Cleveland, then in the National league, shut out the Philadelphia club without a hit or run. Many other twlrlers before and since have broke into the baseball hall of fame by performing this feat, but Dailey stands alone and unique as the one-armed twirier in the history of the game to attain such heights of stardom. Lee Meadows, the Cardinal slab artist, is now considered something of a freak because his lamps are weak and he has to wear spectacles, but spch a handicap is not to be compared with that of the old Cleveland twirier. It is not generally known that Jimmy Archer, the immortal Cub backstop, has a bum wing, but such is the fact. Archer’s deadly right arm is an inch shorter than the left, and terribly scarred. When he was about nineteen, Jimmy, an immigrant from Dublin, was working in a cooperage shop in Toronto. While thus employed he slipped and fell, so that his right arm was plunged into a vat of boiling sap. All of the skin and quite a bit of the flesh was torn away when the clothing was removed, and for weeks Archer was in a hospital. For a time it was thought the arm would have to be amputated, but the surgeons managed to save it, but Archer still bears the scars. Since then he has had his arm broken at the elbow, while most of the fingers of his right hand have been broken or dislocated several times. When it comes to looks Archer’s right wing is far from being pretty, but it still gets him the money, and it Jias won for him a larger measure of fame than has been accorded to any other backstop in recent years.

LEONARD IS STRIKE-OUT KING

Clever Southpaw of Boston Americans Is Champion at Whiffing Batsmen for 1915 Season. “Dutch” Leonard is the leader of all strike-out artists in the major leagues. Basing his work on the average number of strike-outs per regulation game, or games in which he pitches five innings or more, the clever southpaw of the Boston Americans was champion at whiffing batsmen for the season of 1915. Of course G. Alexander, Walter Johnson and also Dave Davenport of the St. Louis Feds fanned the greatest

“Dutch” Leonard.

number by reason of the fact that they worked in about twice as many games as the average hurler, but the best average work was pulled off by Leonard. The hero of the world’s series also holds the best record for whiffing batsmen in a single contest, his feat of getting 14 of the St. Louis Browns in a nine-inning game being the best performance in the major leagues for the season of 1915.

Grass Manicurist a National.

Manager Griffith of Washington has signed a prospect named Leonard Schwab from Cincinnati, where he has been a leveler of the diamond and a mower of sod at the Red’s ball park. Schwab s is an infielder and has played some good baseball around Cincinnati when not busy manicuring Herrmann’s ball yard.

New Stands at St. Paul.

Contracts have been let for rebuilding the stands at the St. Paul bast park which burned last fall. The stands will be of steel and concrete and will cost about $70,000. The park will have a seating capacity of about 12,000 or equal to that of the old stands.

White Elephants Scattered?

All of the famous White Elephants of a few seasons ago are again picketed in the American league and scattered broadly —Barry in Boston, Baker In New York, Mclnnis still In Philadelphia, and Collins in Chicago.

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Repartee.

“Beauty is only skin deep,” she sneered. “Yes, my dear," retorted the other, “but wouldn’t you like to change skins with me?"

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A Beneficent Influence.

“Why do you keep pestering me to go and have some more pictures taken?” inquired Mr. Growcher. “Because," replied his wife, “the photographer is the only person 1 know of who can get you to make an effort to smile and look natural."

Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the original little liver pills put up 40 yeare ago. .They regulate liver and bowels.—Adv.

Cynical Comment.

"Motorists certainly do talk meanly about pedestrians.” "You’re right; they’re always running pedestrians down.”

Man may be made of dust, but he doesn’t always settle.

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