Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1916 — Page 3

STELLA, A STAR

By George Elmer Cobb

4# dli- “Tfc 'Ar ■Vlv" vjV* *JR* ■W* '7lV* vlv "OT5* viv 53 (Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.) Always had Dale Arnold longed for money and he had dreams how he ■would spend it when it came. His predilections were essentially Bohemian. He had been a reporter on a local newspaper, but soon found out that he was not much of a writer. As an advertising man he scored a better success and fairly made a living. Neither was he an actor, but he floated on such. Whenever a show came to town ha had the free entree from his newspaper connection and attended every night. He even became acquainted with tlfe members of several visiting dramatic organizations. He was present at one of their suppers. The careless good nature of the men, the sharp cheery intelligence of the women, the glamour of tinsel and heroics fascinated Dale. They were ‘‘true children of the heart,” up today, down tomorrow, but never discouraged, buoyed up by the shifting variety of their unreal lives. Stella Rossiter —real name, Mrs. Jasper Wynant—was the leading lady of one especial troupe that came twice a year to Linden Grove. Mrs. Rossiter •was, indeed, a lady, and leading. She was twenty-two, independent, but gracious, made of acting a business and in private life was unpretentious, but sparkling, a friend to everybody and of irreproachable character. The manager of the company held her dictation

Stella Rossiter Was the Leading Lady.

!n awe, for she was the main attraction in the old popular plays -the company produced over and over again, Beason after season. The little company was playing to poor houses at a small city five hundred miles from Linden Grove one week, when the manager came to the star just after a rehearsal. “Well,” he spoke, a broad grin on his face, “who do you think blew into town and into-my hotel-this-moralng?-’ Stella made it known that she was poor at guessing. • “Dale Arnold,” explained the manager, and he chuckled serenely. “Who’s he?” inquired Stella, who, meeting odd hundreds a night, could not keep close track or memory of all of them. “You remember Linden Grove?” “Oh, yes—that pretty country town back in Wisconsin.” “That’s the burg. And don’t you, as well, recall the fall guy who was crazy to act and couldn’t, fancied he was a dramatic critic and missed it hard, and for one evening fancied he was a genuine Bohemian because we let him pay for a feed for the whole troupe?” “I remember Mr. Arnold very well,” answered Stella, with a reminiscent nod of her pretty head. “I liked him because he liked us and our ways and was honest and enthusiastic about it. Now, then?” , “Now, then,” answered the manager with a beaming face, “he has fallen heir to twenty thousand dollars. First thing he does is to post after us. ‘l’ve got my chatfce at last,’ he says. ‘l’d like to run a show. Yours is the nearest to the best that ever came to Linden Grove. There was a star actress you had' —and he actually blushed — ‘Stella, you mean?’ I intimated. ‘That’s her,’ he said. ‘She’s still with us,’ I remarked and he looked relieved and happy. Then he let loose.” “As how?” questioned Stella. “Offered to finance us for the season. I explained about our rickety scenery and the old wardrobe. ‘Make It all new,’ he ordered expansively. ‘Call on me for the checks.’ Then I let loose. You know I’ve had a glad dream about playing in the city—our own orchestra, lots of advertising and all that. Here’s our angel. I shall make the most of him.” Stella placed a hand gravely and imperiously on the arm of the manager. “Do it square," she observed, “or Tm not in on the deal. Your great echeme might go. I don’t know. Tm Willing to do my part.” That evening Dale Arnold came be-

hind the scenes. His hand shook and he was blushing like a schoolboy when Stella greeted him. He looked proud arid terrifically in earnest as the manager Introduced him to the company as the backer of the enterprise. Of course, Dale Invited them all to a celebrating supper nt the village hotel. After that the ambition of the manager Assayed some lofty flights. He made much of Dale. He introduced him to “eminent tragedians” when they opened up at the Classic opera house in the city. He constituted Dale their “press agent.” He managed to get fulsome writeups on “the gifted young owner of the show.” One day while Dale was alone in his office at the theater a pale, refined young fellow, none too warmly clad, approached him with a manuscript. His had written a play. He frankly confessed that it had been rejected 1 at a number of theatrical sources. Dale consented to have the author read the play to him and took him to his room at the hotel. Of its dramatic merits Dale knew little, but one point attracted him intensely. This was that its heroine exactly fitted the capabilities of Stella. He paid the poor playwright a thousand dollars for the manuscript and sent him on his way rejoicing. The manager was furious when he heard of “this reckless waste of money!” Stella felt complimented from the fact of the play pleasing Dale because the portrayal of its heroine suited her abilities. She read the manuscript, ' “It has great possibilities,” she honestly told Dale. “Then lose no time getting it on the stage,” directed m Dal.e. “It will cost five thousand dollars to get the play started,” snarled the manager to Stella. ' “Well, it may bqjtter go on a promising experiment than on a sure dead loss,”, retorted Stella. “Why don’t you tell Mr. Arnold that our stock company venture is a rank failure?” * "It looks as if you was acting guardian angel to get him to marry you!” snarled the manager.

“I’d take him, if he’d have me,” provokingly answered Dale’s champion. “He’s a good man. I respect him.” The crash came with a suddenness that prostrated Dale. He had given the manager carte blanche and the latter had used It to the limit. The manager eloped with the last few thousand dollars left to. Dale, and behind him a trail of debt. Dale was taken with a fever that night, was delirious for three weeks, came back to life at the end of two months, weak and emaciated. They told him at the hospital that after paying the theater debts he had a bare -five hundred dollars left. The troupe had disbanded. The star, Stella, had called at the hospital several times, but rumor had it had gone to New York city to secure a new engagement. “Ah, well, I’ve had my experience!" sighed Dale, but his philosophizing did not carry him past many a heart pang as he thought of Stella. Dale was well along in his convalescence when one day he was informed that a lady was waiting him in the parlor of the hotel. He went down — to meet Stella. She was radiant. “I could hardly keep* it from you all this time,” she burst forth in her impassioned way, warmly clasping his hand, “but oh! I have been so busy with the drama you bought. It has been a marvelous success in the East. I have made —look! Look !” and she drew forth and showed Dale a bank book. “Twenty thousand dollars from my starring and a sale of the drama' rights!” she cried. “We are quite rich.” “We?” queried Dale. “My dear good man who did so much for me! Surely, we are partners?” “You—you have thought of me in all this?” murmured Dale brokenly. “AU the time —aftd ever will !” came the steadfast reply. Her glance fell, for she saw arise in his eager face the glow of hope that answered that of love in her own beautiful eyes.

Climate of “The Garden."

The chief peculiarity about Kurna is that the natives believe the place where they live is the exact site of the Garden of Eden. The climate of Kurna is acknowledged to be the most trying in the summer time. It is claimed that the British government has a record of 159 degrees in the shade upon the bridge of a boat anchored in the river at Busreh, a little to the south. The missionaries at Busreh tell of nights when the thermometer registers not less than 125 degrees. British sailors bound for the Persian gulf in the summer times usually desert if they can. Perhaps in Africa the thermometer rises nearly as high; but there the air is dry, while in the Persian gulf it is exceedingly moist. The Europeans as Busreh must pass the days in underground chambers, or serraubs, while a native boy pulls a huge fan, or punkah, suspended from the celling to keep ihe air in circulation. The nights are spent on the roof, for it is Impossible to sleep below. In the winter time the air seems exceedinglyly cold, for the marshes are filled with salt? and as the wind sweeps over the plain the moist salt air is peculiarly penetrating. Frequently the Arab, benumbed by the cold, falls from his horse. —Christian Herald.

Price of Politeness.

“Politeness costs nothing.” “I don’t know about that,” replied Senator Sorghum. “The way one of the most unpopular men in my district insists on giving three cheers for me Is likely to cost me a lot of votes."

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

FEW VETERANS OF THE AMERICAN LEAGUE

Sam Crawford of the Detroit Tigers, who is slowing up somewhat, I* surely a veteran of the American league. Sam has been with the Tigers continuously since 1903, when the National and American leagues signed the peace agreement. Other players of long service in the American league are Ed Walsh, who joined the White Sox in 1904, and “Terry” Turner, who joined the Cleveland club in 1904. The veterans of other clubs and the years in which they joined are as follows: Carrigan, Boston, 1906; Johnson, Washington, 1907; Fisher, New York, 1910; Austin, St. Louis, 1911.

NOTES of the DIAMOND

There is an old adage “everything creaks even,” but it doesn’t apply to baseball. ** v ~ The fans in Toledo appreciate a good ball team, whether or not it is in the first division. ~ * * * Connie Mack’s pitcher, named, Johnson, is nicknamed Jing and hails from Ursinus college. * * * Winning his first three games gave Pitcher Marty O’Toole a fine start with the Omaha Western team. * * * Catcher Lee Mills of Davenport has a badly broken leg and will be out of the game for two months at least. * * * * Eddie Hooper is playing great ball for Chambersburg and has his whole team playing real baseball all the time. * * * Having exhausted every other alibi, the New York Giants switched benches at the Polo grounds —and they won. * * * The Indianapolis club announces that it has made a working agreement with the Chicago Cubs for exchange of players. —* —* * — Clyde Russell, the college pitcher signed by Toronto, stipulated in his contract that he would not pitch games on Sunday. • * * The distance between New London and Bridgeport by rail isn’t so great, but in the Eastern league standing it’s some journey. » m ■* A pitcher named Apple allowed one hit in two nine-inning games at Little Rock the other day, but lost both. This lad’s a pippin. * * • If Larry Doyle is going to do any leading of the National league swatters this year, now is the time for the Gotham captain to get busy. * * * Harold Crisp, one of Connie Mack’s pitching recruits, is only seventeen years of age. He made his mark with a high-school team in Boston. * * * Connie Mack says ’he took Rube Oldring at his word when the outfielder announced that he had quit baseball for good, and gave him his release. • * • Manager Rowland of the White Soy, it is said, has advised all his players to have tonsils taken out. But why? They don’t tihnk with their tonsils. * * • The Cubs have only four good pitchers —Lavender, Vaughn, Packard and McConnell. Manager Tinker has lost faith in Hendrix, Seaton, Brown and I’rendergast. * * * Vedder Gard, captain of the University of Indiana ball team, who was given a trial by Terre Haute, failed to show at the bat, though his fielding was high class. * * • Pitcher George Leclair has admitted that his desertion of Little Rock “to work in a munitions factory in Canada” was a bluff and he wants to get back in baseball again. * * • One of the causes for Charley Wagner’s dismissal at Harvard was that he let Waite Hoyt, the schoolboy pitcher secured from the New York Giants go without a trial. • .• v , •... The Denver club announces the ac* qulsitiop of Larry Cockingham, the Michigan Normal school pitcher, who earlier was announced as a youngster who would get a trial with Detroit. • '' •" '. *i

Old Timers Who Are Still in Harness.

HARRY LORD IS ,POOR LOSER

Sport Writer on Lawrence Telegram Makes Reply to Ex-Manager’s Strictures on Reporters. Commenting on Harry Lord’s strictures on baseball reporters, who are blamed by the ex-Lowell manager for his failure as a team leader, M. E. Lynch, in the Lawrence Telegram, writes: “We cannot agree with Lord In bis statement about the Lowell writers.

Harry Lord.

as they have always, in our opinion, been loyal to baseball and big boosters for the Lowell club. They may have criticized, but probably justly, and with the sole purpose that such criticism might result in better things for the Low r ell baseball public. Lord takes the appearance of a poor loser when he resorts to such a weak alibi for his failure. “Baseball writers are the greatest assets the game has. Can you imagine how much interest there would be in baseball if all the writers laid up their typewriters and didn’t write a single line about the game. The writers in the first place create the interest and then exploit the doings of tlve individual so that the interest is not allowed to die out, provided, of course, the players do their sharg. When the players fall down, then the interest dies out. “In nearly every instance a baseball writer is a fan. Personally he wants to do all he can to promote the game, and every line he writes is a boost. When he criticizes he does so because he feels that it’s warranted —there are no ulterior motives behind his criticisms, merely a struggle to remedy conditions that are not satisfactory to the baseball public at large.”

“SLIDING GLOVE” IS NOT NEW

Chick Gandil Causes Sensation in Using Mitt to Protect Hand—Roy Thomas Also Wore One. Chick Gandil created a sensation in Cleveland recently by using a “sliding glove.” Cleveland writers declare that such a thing as a “sliding glove” was never seen at a ball game in that city before. Gandil has a badly bruised hand, and he covered it with a well-padded glove for protection in case he was called upon to slide. A “sliding glove” may be a novelty nowadays, although it would not be a new sight. When Roy Thomas played with the Phillies he wore a “sliding glove” which not only covered his hand, but also covered his arm, even beyond the elbow'.

Job for Eddie Hallinan.

Eddie Hallinan, signed by San Francisco after Salt Lake let him go, will be used as utility Inflelder by the Seala.

GREAT CATCH BY HOY

Performed Marvelous Stunt While With Washington. With Two Out and Two on Bases “Dummy” Ran Back and Made Miraculous Play on Ball That Had Earmarks of Safe Hit. A baseball fan doesn’t have to be very old to recall an agile outfielder named Dummy Hoy, who turned triples and home-runs into outs for a number of years while wearing the livery of the Washington, Cincinnati and Louisville teams of the National league. At the start of the American league he was with the White Sox a short time, but he was then old, as baseball ages go, and he soon vanished from the sport page altogether. What became of the deaf mute, who had to have the umpire's decisions on balls and strikes relayed to him by sign language by a coacher on first base? "The Times-Star of Cincinnati answers the question In an editorial, which is well worth reprinting: “Much has been written how encountering a faded flower In an old volume calls forth youthful recollections, how a forgotten perfume will conjure up a vision of someone of years ago, how a strain of music vibrates with a memory deep in the recesses of the mind. But things other than flowers, perfumes and music can resuscitate other days. The name of an almost forgotten ball player will do it.

“The other day we read of William Hoy, a farmer near Mouqt Healthy, attending funeral service* ami translating a hymn for his fellow deaf mutes. It was ‘Dummy’ Hoy, forme* National league ball player. The mention of his name brought back the memory of probably the greatest catch ever made at the Cincinnati park, years ago, when the wooden grandstand was situated in the present position of the right-field bleachers. Hoy was playing center field for Washington. It was tfie final inning of a tie game that had been dragged on into twilight. With two out and two on bases a Red batsman hit the ball far over Hoy’s head. Somehow in the gathering dusk Hoy accomplished the miraculous. With his exceedingly alert eyes he had divined the course of the ball, and with a whirling somersault succeeded in getting one hand on it.

“The catch was a tradition of the Cincinnati park for years, and was the cause of Hoy’s release being purchased the next season from Washington. But now the park has been turned about, and new faces and new traditions have succeeded those good old days. And Hoy, the man, who never “kicked’ himself oqt of a game, for obvious reasons, had about passed from local recollection. But it was a great catch. And even at this remote day it serves to bring back some of the youthful enthusiasm of one of Its beholders.*

BATTING SLUMP OF M'INNIS

For First Time in Year* Average of Athletics' First Baseman Is Way Below .300 Mark. One of the baseball mysteries of the season has been the batting slump of Stuffy Mclnnis. For five seasons the Athletics’ first baseman has been a paragon for consistent hitting. Season in and season out he has batted above the .300 mark, always around the same figures. He batted .301 in 1910, .321 In 1911, .321 in 1912, .321 in 1913, .314 in 1914 and .314 in 1915 —a remarkable

Stuffy McInnis.

record for a player whq will be only twenty-six years old next September. This year Stuffy has been in a fearful slump, his average being below the .200 mark.

Umpire- Quigley to Quit.

Report from St. Louis has it that, Umpire Ernest Quigley will quit his Job with the National league after’the present season to accept the position of manager of athletics at St. Louis university.

HOME TOWN` 4 Helps

GARDEN FOR EVERY HOME Two Hundred Workmen's Cottages Erected in a London Suburb Ars So Planned. Two hundred and four cottage residences in agreeable contrast with the ordinary working class home have been erected at West Ham, a suburb of London, says the Telegraph of that city. The houses, which are built in blocks of two or more, have bright and artistic frontages of various designs, with tiled roofs. Each cottage has a garden at the rear, and there is ft small front garden, except where the house faces one of the grass covered open spaces for which provision has been made. The forecourts are paved back and front. All the roads on the estate are 40 feet in width, and the distance between each group of houses is such as to Insure ample light and air. Fifty of the houses are three-roomed with scullery; 124 four-roomed and 30 five-roomed. Rents, inclusive of rates and taxes, are 6 shillings 6 pence, 8 shillings 6 pence and 12 shillings a week for the respective types. Each house Is provided with a bath, copper, cooking range, gas lighting and indoor lavatory. Wardrobe cupboards are supplied to each bedroom, and there are meat safes, with outside ventilation, on the ground floor. No effort has been spared tq render the interior of the buildings commodious and as cheerful as their external surroundings.

VALUE OF HOME GARDENS

Distinctly Educational, Apart From the Pleasure Derived From the Work of Cultivation. There are various angles from which to praise the home garden work la which 15,000 Washington children engaged this spring. It helps make for a city beautiful; the children’s waste time is employed; thrift is developed. But one of the chief benefits is educational. This gardening teaches things that cannot be learned inside a classroom. gThe youth gets the joy of “seeing things grow.” He acquires a capital counter-irritant for the supposedly artificial atmosphere of the apartment house. He gets in touch with the laws of nature, the pulse of living things, the great creative forces. He works in good, wholesome dirt. He learns something of where his food comes from. He loses the illusion of the tin can, hermetically sealed, germ proof, wax paper school of household economy. We must live in cities, and living In them does not bring half the evils that* the “back to the farm” advocates would have us believe. But we make our cities difficult to live in by not doing the things that these children are doing—keeping our feet on the ground, and keeping in touch with Mother Earth.

Be Sure to Plant Some Vines.

Morning glories, cypress vines, sweetpeas, gourds, nasturtiums, Japanese hops, wild cucumber, hyacinth bean are amonfe; our most desirable annual climbers. Seeds of them do not cost much, and a package of one or the other will yield shade, beauty and grace. The sides of a steep terrace or bank may be transformed Into a thing of beauty by planting trailers along its top. Rosa Wichuraiana, the memorial rose, and its hybrids, are desirable for this purpose, It produces a profusion of long wreaths of small, thick-ly-set leaves, that look as though they were varnished. In June It literally covers Itself with large, white single roses. The Virginia creeper, honeysuckle, nasturtiums and moon vines are trailers rather than climbers. Of garden plants the sweet potato and the dewberry are genteel enough to be grown as trailers. They give edibles instead of flowers.

Increase in Playgrounds.

Neighborhood playgrounds under the direction of play leaders are being maintained in 432 cities in the United States, according to the annual report of the Playground and Recreation Association of America. The number of new playgrounds opened during the year was 1,000, bringing the total to 3,294. More than one hundred cities employed 1,053 play leaders throughout the year. In 250 cities playgrounds like parks and schools are administered by the municipality itself. Seventy cities maintained classes for training recreation workers. Last year the expenditures were $4,066,357. Bond issues in 17 cities amounted to $1,6€3,750. In 4> cities neighborhood playgrounds have been donated by private individuals.

The School Garden.

The school that excels in the garden farming feature will cover up many defects in the educational process. There is more hope for thp boy and girl who devote themselves to this fine physical exercise and mind-open-ing employment than if they succeed in parsing a whole page of ‘'Paradise Lost” It is a beautiful part of life, and just the thing a boy needs tq make a noble citizen of himself.