The Choctaw Herald. (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 22, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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By JESSE G. CURD
Pushing a lawn mower Is the oppo-
se extreme from Joy riding.
Baseball slang In Japanese must be
something weird and appalling.
Herewith approaches the joyous sea-
son when a man's keys rust In his
pockets.
No man is a hero to his valet, and
|«o Tiatinee idol Is a hero to the lead
ilng lady.
SERIAL
STORY
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| That was all, apparently. The soft
i clatter of the fan against the arm of
; the chair ran on meanlnglessly after
that.
A violoncellist was dismissed from
a New York show because she would
not kiss a man—in public.
^ The Russian scientist who says
rabies can be cured by eating beetles
lfails to announce a cur* for eating
"beetles.
An Ithaca (N. T.) doctor wishes to
have placed In every public school
the statue of a perfect man " Married
or single?
A bottle containing a one dollar bill
was carried 300 miles by sea. But It
didn t get within reaching distance of
New York.
Reserve a few swats for the mos-
quitoes that are coming, although all
well-directed ones should be applied
to house flies.
A Missouri Judge rules that It Is
lawful for a man to spank his wife.
So, also, is it lawful for him to vhaw
out dynamite.
An Ohio couple have parted because
the wife likes Paris, while the hus-
band prefers Cincinnati. And again
the eagle screams.
A California man who has lived for
«>ight years on nothing but milk has
gone insane. Some milk would have
done the job In half that time.
The directors of the Panama exposi-
tion are offering a prize of *1,000 for
a rose. Now, then, you amateur gar-
deners, here's a chance. Get busy.
A 1100,000 chair is to be endowed
In a western university for the study
of psychic phenomena. This ought to
give the spirits a ghost of a chance.
ISABEL
By
JACQUES FUTRELLE
JHujtrationj by M KETTNER
"May I bring you an Ice?" Mr.
Grimm asked at last.
i "If you will, please," responded the
1— senorita, "and when you come back
I'll reward you by presenting you to
Miss Thorne. You'll find her charm
K. | | I w I ",K: and Mr Cadwallader has monop-
V Ci j olized her long enough."
Mr. Grimm bowed and left her. He
had barely disappeared when Mr.
Rankin lounged along in front of Miss
Thorne. He glanced at her, paused
and greeted her effusively.
"Why, Miss Thorne!" he exclaimed.
"I'm delighted to see you here, I un-
derstood you would not be present,
and—"
Their hands met In a friendly clasp
as she rose and moved away, with a
nod of excuse to Mr. Cadwallader. A
thin slip of paper, thrice "folded,
passed from Mr. Rankin to her. She
tugged at her glove, and thrust the lit-
tle paper, still folded, inside the palm.
"Is it yes. or no?" Miss Thorne
asked in a low tone.
Frankly, I can't say," was the re-
ply.
"He read the message," she ex-
plained hastily, "and now he has gone
to decipher It."
She gathered up her trailing skirts
over one arm, and together they glided
away through the crowd to the strains
of a Strauss waltz.
'I'm going to faint in a moment,"
she said quite calmly to Mr. Rankin.
"Please have me sent to the ladies'
dressing-room."
"I understand." he replied quietly.
SYNOPSIS.
Count dl Roslnl, the Italian ambas-
sador, is at dinner with diplomats in
ttir national capital when a messenger
prints a note directing him tu come to
the embassy at once. Here a beautiful
young woman asks that she he given
a ticket to the embassy ball. The tick-
le , 2ild,> out ln '&*■ name of Miss 1s-
riiorne. Chief Campbell of the
■ecret service, and Mr. Grimm, his head
detective, are warned that a plot of the
races ugalnst the English speak-
brewlng In Washington,
to the state ball for
conservatory ills at-
Isabel Thorne.
Lat
Ing rm
and Grimm Roe
"nformation In
entlon Is culled to M
CHAPTER III—(Continued.)
Senorita Rodriguez laughed, and Mr.
Grimm glanced idly toward Miss
Thorne. She was still talking, her
face alive with interest: and the fan
was still tapping rhythmically, stead
lly, now on the arm of her chair
"Dot-dash-dot: Dot-dash-dot: Dot-
dash-dot! Dot-dash-dot!"
"Pretty women who don't want to
be stared at should go with their faces
swathed." Mr. Grimm suggested, indo-
lently. "Haroun el Raschid there
would agree with me on that point. I
have no doubt. What a shock he
would get if he should happen up at
Atlantic City for a week-end in Au-
gust:"
"Dot-dash-dot! Dot-dash-dot: Dot-
dash-dot !"
Mr Grimm read it with perfect un-
derstanding; it was "F—F—F" in the
Morse code, the call of one operator
I to another Was It accident? Mr.
Now some one has started an Idea ! Grimm wondered, and wondering he
that a11 men shoulJ fear Went on talking lazily:
Curious, Isn't it, the smaller the na-
tion the more color it crowds into the
uniforms of its diplomats? The Brit-
ish ambassador, you will observe, is
clothed sanely and modestly, as befits
the representative of a great nation;
but coming on down by way of Spain
and Italy, they get more gorgeous.
However, I dare say as stout a heart
beats beneath a sky-blue sash as be-
hind the embellished black of evening
dress."
F—F—F," the fan was calling In-
sistently.
i And then the answer came. It took
The latest fashion prevailing among i ,he unexpectedly prosaic form of a vio
the women of the Berlin aristocracy is I 'ent snepze, a vociferous outburst ln a
to have their portraits painted while ^ench directly behind Mr Grimm.
whiskers because the king sets the
fashion. Still be Isn't so handsome.
A Brooklyn woman who sued a man
for kissing her has secured damages
In the amount of six cents. The man
w ho got the kiss must feel pretty
cheap.
Another aviator has come to an un-
timely end. but there will be twenty
foolhardy young men ready to take his
place. Aviation, In spite of its fatal-
ities, has come to stay.
CHAPTER IV.
The Fleeing Woman.
Mr. Grimm went straight to a quiet
nook of the pmoking-room and there,
after a moment. Mr. Campbell Joined
him. The bland benevolence of the
chief's face was disturbed by the
slightest questioning uplift of his
brows as he dropped into a seat op-
posite Mr. Grimm, and lighted a cigar.
Mr. Grimm raised his hand, and a
servant who stood near, approached
them.
"An ic<
tersely.
The servant bowed and disappeared,
and Mr. Grimm hastily scribbled some-
thing on a sheet of paper and handed
It to his chief.
"There is a reading. In the Morse
code, of a message that seems to be
-here." Mr. Grimm directed.
quiring looks, and the plaintive whine
of the orchestra, far away, filtered,
then ceased. There was one brief
instant of utter silence in which white-
faced women clung to the arms of
their escorts, and the brilliant galaxy
of colors hailed. Then, after a mo-
ment, there came clearly through the
stillness, the excited, guttural com
mand of (he German ambassador.
"Keep on blaylng, you tam fools
Keep on blaylng!"
The orenestra started again tremu
lously Mr. Grimm nodded a silent
approval of the ambassador's com-
mand. then turned away to his left, In
the direction of the shot. After the
first dismay, there was a general move-
ment of the crowd ln that direction,
a movement which was checked by
Mr. Campbell's appearance upon
chair, with a smile on his bland face.
"No harm done," he called. "One
of the offleers present dropped his re
volver. and It was accidentally dis-
charged. No harm done."
There was a moment's excited chat-
ter, deep-drawn breaths of relief, the
orchestra swung again into the Inter-
rupted rhythm, and the dancers
moved on. Mr. Grimm went straight
to his chief, who had stepped down
from the chair. Two other secret
service men stood behind him, block-
ing the doorway that opened into a
narrow hall.
"This wa'y," directed the chief
tersely.
Mr. Grimm walked along beside him.
They skirted the end of the ballroom
until they came to another door open-
ing into the hall. Chief Campbell
pushed it open, and entered. One of
bis men stood Just Inside.
"What was it. Gray?" asked the
chief.
"Senor Alvarez of the Mexican le-
gation. was shot," was the reply
"Dead?"
"Only wounded. He's in that room."
and he indicated a door a little way
down the hall. "Fairchild, two serv-
ants and a physician are with him."
"Who shot him?"
"Don't know. We found him lying
in the hall here."
Still followed by Mr. Grimm, the
chief entered the room, and together
they bent over the wounded man. The
bullet had entered the torso just be-
low the ribs on the left side.
"It's a clean wound," the physician
was explaining. "The bullet passed
through. There's no Immediate dan
ger "
Senor Alvarez opened his eyes, and
stared about him in bewilderment
PICKS WHITE SOX TO FINISH SEVENTH
Former Manager Fielder A. Jones.
Fielder A. Jones, former manager of
the Chicago White Sox, and now a
resident of Portland, Ore., was asked
he other day to express an opinion
on the outcome of the American
league race, and the chances of his
former teammates in the pennant
chase.
"Philadelphia should repeat in a
walk, with Detroit as a possible con-
tender for a portion of the season,"
said Jones. "The Athletics as just as
strong as last year and should win
again as handily. New York looks to
be good for third place, while Cleve-
land and Boston will fight it out for
fourth and fifth positions. Washing-
ton, with Walter Johnson, ought tc
get Bixth position, while the WhIU
Sox I place at seventh, unless St
Louis shows a greater Improvement
than I believe possible. Comiskey li
shy on pitchers, and the American
league race will be a pitchers' batUe
again tlfls season.
In the National league Chicago and
New York will fight it out, with Cin
cinnati as a possible contender II
Griff's bad actors behave."
Devore Leads Giants.
Dw-ore is leading the Giants at the
bat in a double sense—leads off and
has the most hits.
JOE TINKER FOOLED MATTY
uninte,.igib|e." Mr. Grimm explained. | then alarm ov^ad htofZe. and
1 have reason to believe it Is in the he made spasmodic effort,, tn reaeh
Continental code. You know the Con-
tinental—I don't."
Mr. Campbell read this:
• Stout man fed qaje neaf J5nsef-
at5f, and then came the unknown.
tbey sleep, a rare opportunity
catch the lips in repose.
jumped, then
can be
It is hinted that several of the an-
tique books sold at the Hoe sale were
not genuine. We have no doubt, how-
ever, that they will make just as good
reading as the originals.
A western nature wizard has been
grafting alfalfa roots on strawberry
plants. Now the blame laid on the
early imported strawberry
placed where it belongs.
A woman's stocking rips and she
loses $2,000 worth of diamonds After
reading, or, rather, viewing the "ads" ,
In the popular magazines the occur- 1 Miss Th°rne's fan
rence would seem impossible. "™"
A Philadelphia cook on being dis-
charged is said to have tried to poison
the whole family. She might haveLd
as deadly revenge by staying on and
continuing to cook for them
Most women fall in love with dare-
devil men, declares a western college
professor. That's the reason why men
who are not afraid to be seen pushing
* baby carriage on the street are mar-
ried.
Senorita Rodriguez
laughed, nervously.
Jit startled me." she explained.
"I think there must be a draft from
the conservatory," said a man's voice
apologetically "Do you ladies feel it?
No? Well, If you'll excuse me—?"
Mr Grimm glanced back languidly.
The speaker was Charles Winthrop
Rankin, a brilliant young American
lawyer who was attached to the Ger-
man embassy In an advisory capacity
Among other things he was a Heidel-
berg man. having spent some dozen
years of his life in Germany, where
he established influential connections.
Mr Grimm knew him only by sight.
And now the rhythmical tapping of
iss Thorne's fan underwent a
change There was a flutter of gaiety
In her voice the while the ivory fan
tapped steadily.
"Dot-dot-dot! Dash! Dash-dash
dash! Dot-dot-dash! Dash!"
"S t—5—u—t." Mr. Grimm read In
Morse. He laughed pleasantly at
some remark of his companion.
Dash dash! Dot-dash' Dash-dot!"
said the fan.
"M
spasmodic efforts to reach
the inside breast pocket of his coat.
Mr. Grimm obligingly thrust his hand
into the pocket and drew out its con-
tents. the while Senor Alvarez strug
gled frantically.
"Just a moment," Mr. Grimm ad-
vised quietly. "I'm only going to let
you see If It Is here. Is it?"
He held the papers, one by one, in
front of the wounded man, and each
time a shake of the bead was his an
swer. At last Senor Alvarez closed
his eyes again
(TO BE CONTINUED )
Clever Little Chicago Shortstop Meets
Christy's Low Curve With
Nice Long Bat.
Christy Mathewson, writing for
Pearson's magazine, says of Joe Tink-
ANCIENT ISRAEL USED INK
Writings of Bible Times Inscribed on
Potsherds Have Been Found
in Samaria.
"N-e-a-f," M
Grimm Was Spelling It
Out.
"That," he
the f'ontlnental
"d55f bfing 5ver
A Philadelphia woman threw a veil
over a marble Cupid the other day
and threatened to prosecute the own-
r We have no doubt that the lady
was modest enough to utter veiled
threats.
Three discoveries' of April 26, mi,
are the cure c< rheumatism by re-
moval of the tensils, the prevention of
hydrophobia by eating a beetle and the
restoration of speech and hearing by
being hit by an automobile. All are
practical.
The frequency of explosions In a
quarry flanking a farmyard near Tar
rytown led the ducks to save their
hearing by covering their ears with
their webbed feet. The mule was the
most pronounced failure among the
Imitators.
A Cincinnati veteran has been lay-
ing away a dime a month ever since
Lincoln died, and this month he will
■pend the accumulation, nearly $250
ln entertaining the members of his old
regiment on the EOth anniversary of
their enlistment. This will be one of
the odd celebrations of the semi-cen-
tennial of the war.
a—n," Mr. Grimm spelled it
out. the while his listless eyes roved
aimlessly over the throng "S--1—5—
u t m a—n!" Was it meant for
"stout man?" Mr Grimm wonder.-rl
"Dot-dash-dot! Dot! Dash dot dot! '
"F—e—d," that wai.
"Dot-dot-dash-dot! Dot-dash! Dash
dot-dash-dot! Dot'"
"Q—a—j—e!" Mr. Grimm was
puzzled a little now. but there was not
a wrinkle, nor the tiniest Indication of
perplexity in his face. Instead he be-
gan talking of Raphael's cherubs, the
remark being called into life bv the
high complexion of a young man who
was passing. Miss Thorne glanced at
him keenly, her splendid eyes fairly
aglow, and the fan rattled on In the
code.
"Dash-dot! Dot! Dot dash
dash-dot!"
"N—e—a—I."
■pelllng It out.
Then came a perfect Jumbl- Mr.
Grimm followed it with difficulty, a
difficulty utterly belied by the quizzi-
cal lines about bis mouth As he
caught it, it was like this: "J—5—n—
s e f—v—a—t—5—f," followed by
an arbitrary signal which is not In the
Morse code: "Dash-dot-dash-dasb:"
Mr Grimm carefully stored that
jumble away in some recess of his
brain, along with the unknown signal.
"D—5—5—f," he read, and then, on
to the end:: "B—f— I—n—g 6—v e
f w—h—e—n g g—
Dot-
Mr. Grimm was still
dash-dot-dash-dash.
plained, "is Y in
code." It went on:
when g goes."
The chief read it off glibly:
Stout man. red face, near conserv-
atory door. Bring over when G goes."
"Very well:" commented Mr. Grimm
ambiguously.
With no word of explanation, he
rose and went out. pausing at the door
to take the Ice which the servant was
bringing In. The seat where he had
left Senorita Rodriguez was vacant:
so was the chair where Miss Thorne
had been. He glanced about Inquir-
ingly. and a servant who stood stolid-
ly near the conservatory door ap
proached him.
"Pardon, sir, but the lady who was
sitting here," and h Indicated the
chair where Miss Thorne had been sit
ting, "fainted while dancing, and the
lady who was with you went along
when she was removed to the ladies'
dressing room, sir."
Mr. Grimm's teeth closed with a lit-
tle map.
Did you happen to notice any time
this evening a stout gentleman, with
red face, near the conservatory door?"
he asked.
The servant pondered
then shook bis head.
"No, sir "
"Thank you."
Mr Orlmm was Just turning away
when there came the sharp, vibrant
era a-sh! of a revolver, somewhere off
to his left. The president' That was
his first thought. One glance across
the room to where the chief executive
stood in conversation with two other
gentlemen, reassured him. The ehol
eric blue eyes of the president had
opened a little at the sound, then he
a moment,
"That the ancient Israelites had a
cheap and easy method of sending writ
ten messages which was in fairly com-
mon use Is now an established fact."
said George A. Relsncr, assistant pro-
fessor of Egyptology at Harvard,, who
for the last fourteen years has "been
conducting excavations In Egypt and
Palestine. Professor Reisner Just re-
turned on the Campania.
"We were excavating In Samaria,
once capital of the northern kingdom
of Israel, In 1908, when we came upon
the palace of the Israelite kings. Last
summer we found on the floor of one of
the chambers of the palace a number
of potsherds and on these shards were
written messages; they related to
tithes or taxes paid to the king, and
were written in an ink made of pure
carbon or lampblack. These, perhaps,
are the earliest specimens of Israelite
work contemporaneous with the Bible
They were written ln the reign of
King Abab New York Evening Post
Would Chase Cats.
The other night a New York man
visited friends In a New Jersey town
where polite dogs help the local force
In routing out burglars. These dogs
are highly trained.
"In spite of that." said the man,
'Max. which I believe Is considered
the best of them, cannot be trained
to leave a cat alone. His job Is to
go around at night with a policeman
and circle houses If he finds a bur-
glar at work he Is trained to chase
him out Into the open, where the po-
licemen can get at him But If Max
finds a cat on his trip around a
house' It is all off with his Job He
chases that cat until pursuit |g nse.
!*ss 1 don't know what he would do
If he caught a cat. because he Is kept
muzzled, but his nature tells him cats
ar to t: worried and he annoys
them all he can in spite of his train
Ing "
The clever little shortstop of the
Joe Tinker.
Chicago club Is a man with whom I
have fought many a battle of wits
and I am glad to acknowledge that he
has come out of the fuss with flying
colors on many occasions. There was
a time when Tinker was putty in my
hands. For two years ho was the
least dangerous man on the Chicago
team. His weakness was a low curve
on the outside and I fed him low
curves so often I had him looking like
an Invalid every time he came to the
plate.
"Then Joseph went home one night
and did a little deep thinking. He got
a nice long bat^and took his stand
at least a foot farther from the plate,
after that night of meditation, and
then he had me. If I kept the ball
on the Inside of the plate he was In
splendid position to meet It, and If
I tried to keep my offerings outside
he had plenty of time to step Into
'em. From that day on Tinker became
one of the most dang&-ous batters I
ever faced, not because his natural
hitting ability had Increased, but be-
cause he didn't propose to let the
pitcher do all of the qutguessing."
McKelvey Makes Batting Record.
The feat of Catcher McKelvey of
Minneapolis in an exhibition game at
Evansville Is a record for modern
days, at least. McKelvey corralled
six hits, four home runs, a two-sacker
and a single In six times at plate.
In 1899 in six times at bat, Ginger
Beaumont, then with the Pirates, got
six hits, but there were no four-
sackers among them. Delehanty of
Philadelphia in 1896 In five times at
bat got four homers and one single.
Bottenus of Buffalo In 1895 comes
nearest to equaling McKelvey's rec-
ord. In five times at bat he got four
homers and a two-bagger. McKelvey
also holds the record for the greatest
number of bases scored on hits in one
game. He has 19 bases as his record.
Bottenus comes next with 18 bases.
m
SIP
Rhodes' Art Fad.
Although Cecil Rhodes was a busy
man he got time for a certain amount
of reading He made It a rule al-
though very fond of good pictures
never to buy any for fear of develop
ing a craze for collecting works of
art. for with all his wealth he fell
calmly resumed th
Grimm impulsive!;
little group, but al
being drawn there
faced, keen-eyed : _
forcing their way through the crow'i | which hung In the dining-room ow
caimiy resumed the conversation. Mr that he could not afford to spend so
Grimm impulsively started toward the much money on a fad. The on
little group, but already a cordon was | famous painting that he owned was
,^"5 <J.r.aWn ?r®_"a C"rdon of 3ulet- ; one by Sir Joshua Reynolds, supposed
men, unobtrusively I to represent a young married woman
through the crowd > which hung '
JnHni T" JHh.,nSwn' and Hafi,lngs, ; the fireplace. As a boy he had taken
Thl ™ a"h " 0tber8- • Breat Utmy ,0 the Plc,"'r*. nd
The room had been struck dumb, when he grew up and became rich b«
t Then dancers stopped, with tense, in- | bought It
Saier looks better every time he
plays.
Fnink Schulte has forgotten how to
rap out the homers.
The Ath'etics gradually are working
their way toward the top.
Young Corban seems to share the
favoritism of the fans with Bodie
Teams may win and teams may
lose, but the Tigers go on forever.
And like Ingerton, I-uderrus is smit-
ing the sphere most lustily for those
Phillies.
Beck of Cincinnati Joined Joe Jack-
son's "Home Run With the Bases
Full" club.
Cleveland secured three of the best
recruit pitchers of the years Gregg,
Knapp nnd West.
Nothing but a railroad wreck can
stop the Tigers if they keep up their
present whirlwind pace
Davev Jones of the Tigers thinks
that Dick Padden Is one of the great-
est field generals that ever lived.
The Senators are going to make
a strong bid for the top of the second
division In the league this season.
In spite of Meloan's refusal to sell
the bat with which Brodle made four
hits In one game Ping keeps on "ping-
ing
Evidently 1911 |« to be a high bat-
ting average year.
Paul Meloan appears to have re-
gained his batting eye.
Boston Red Sox appear to be anoth-
er surprise of the season.
Pretty soon the Cub team will not
be rccognlzed by Us old adherents
Baseball past performances usually
are as reliable as tboae of the ponies
Most followers of .the game are
past all surprise when those two get
together.
President Hedges of the Browns la
trying to land some of the Detroit
players again.
The Phillies are leading the league
in long hits, as well as leading in the
perceutage column.
Josh Devore, the Giant left fielder,
says he Is Eoing out after the base-
stealing record this season.
rateher Crisp, who was sold to tha
Topeka club of the Western league by
the Browns refused to go there
Jim McGuIre
s career as a mnnager
In the big league was not an enjoyable
one cither at Boston or in Cleveland.
Bill Bradley, the old-time Nap third
^.T*u 1,1B0Jn*flns for ,he Toronto-
team He is fielding as well as evas
and making two hlta a day.
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