The Sunday Oregonian., April 26, 1908, Magazine Section, Page 9, Image 55

THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAN. l'ORTLAXD. APRIL 2G. 190S.
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T'S ben a s;ret month
for thtf
round,"
rntrod. takinc It all
said th Iloti f'lerk.
"You'll have to iihow m said the
1 1 tip Detective. "Nobody ain't ben
around handing me any asparagus 'tips
or tin rut eni'Tal'Ia. Frm where I sit. it
looks likA t he customary relations be
tween Iabor and Capital Is still bein
preserved capital keepln' all the capital
and labor doin the. bulk of the laborin'."
"Don't be a pessimist, Larry, advised
tho Hotel Clerk.
"Just wot In a pessimist?" asked the
House Detective.
"A pMwtmlrt." said the I?otl Clerk. "Is
a party that can't rnjoy his cocktail aa
It a from down fr thinkinR how bad
It'll tate if It ahould happen' to come
up. After awhile be s apt to sloiifrh oft
hit last two Billables and get to be a
plain pest.
"I was saying: wlien you interrupted
that it's been a great month for the
Down trod. And so It has. Just look
around. Dimoverini; that mat eating
had a bad efOct on the wage- earners
b-cuuso it made tht-ni full blooded, and
corky, and gave them skin diseases and
iriih prnik'nt feelings around U ction
t mo. the packing- house philanthropists
thoughtfully Jacked the" price up until
now the Pomeranian poodles of the rich
have been driven to eating second grade
porter-houses, and the children of the
working classes are depending; on tallow
candles and fond memories for their
animal fats.
"That was the beginning-. Next, the
Duchess of Marlborough your Duchess
and mine. I arry. as the papers have
said, although she don't know she's
ours, and is not advertising the fact if
she doea 'twas her who gave things an
tiplift by coming away from her dinner
ere the seventh course had been served,
and hurrying into her simplest tiara, and
coming over to that gut hiring place of
the proletariat, the AValriorf-Astoria, and
telling a breathless audience how her
heart beat fn accord with the movement
to provide free playgrounds in the con
gested quarters, and would boat a good
deal harder, only the diamond. stnnach
er she was wearing fit Her Grace so
snug. Whereupon, there was a loud ap
plause, and a simple collation was served
nt $! a plate, but at that you weren't
allowed to take the plate away with
you. Then they balanced the books and
found there was something like one-ninety-nve
left over after paying the ex
penses, and so the recording secretary
was instructed to take the money ana
buy helpful literature for the poor with
it.. I presume the starving man who
hadn't anything to eat for a couple of
weeks got "Mrs. Rohrer's Hundred Ways
to Cook an Kgg," and the family that
had just emerged In a singed statu from
a tenement-house fire was made happy
by a neat copy of 'Burriers Burned
Away. That's the way the truly rich
usually administer to the wants of the
truly poor."
"These here play-Mke philanthropists
gimme a gnaw In' pain.' said the House
BY JIM XASIL'M. '
0V KIP." said the Old Sport,
i ho had accompanied his son
on the training trip. --jnow
that you have left college and gone ,
out to stab the world In the face, I j
want to hand you the tip that your
educational courso isn't ended, not by 1
a long shot. There are entirely too j
many guys plugging along In this old
dump of a world with the Idea that
they finished their education when
some long-faced professor handed them
a roll of sheepskin and they stood up
in a black nightgown and a mortar
board cap and spit out a bunch of swell
dab about the rcy future, but the
wise guy is the kid who is next to
t he dope that this whole blamed earthly
existence, from swaddling' clothes to
shroud, in nothing but a term of school
days with mighty few vacations.
"And 1 don't care whether a kid is
inking a course in ecclesiastics In the
knowledge factory, or a course in
baseball strategy from the aiTtletic
coach, or a term In pin pool at the
iomer cue emporium, if he winds up
h.y schooldays before the undertaker
gets on the job It's the toboggan for
hi. "So, Kid. Just hocause you were
touted as beln ready for fast company
by your baseball coach in the knowl
edge factory, and subsequently picked
up by a big league club and hustled
off to the Sunny South to show your
goods, where you have copped a few
press notices by slamming the leather
out among the palms and chameleons,
just because the war correspondents
with the team have the fans nursing
the dope that you're a find and they
hand you the merry mitt when you toe
the plate In the opening game, don't
get it into your knob that you're a
finished product, and all you have to
do henceforth is to show the goods
you've got in stock without laying In
a new supply. 1 f you get to nursing
this dope Its back to the Wheat Belt
for yours.
"You can take it from me. Kid, that
your schooldays are Just now begin
ning. And your future success depends
entirely on how much new knowledge
you get under your lid each day. This
Is equally true in any business, from
'baseball clear down to saving sinners
or sale-blowing. I won't attempt to
hide the fact that you have glittered
some on the training trip, but X have
been looking you over, and I'm going
to tell you something that the war
correspondents aren't telling the fans.
You may make a grand and glorious
rft-away stacking up against' a bunch
of pitchers who haven't warmed up to
the season's work, or had a chance to
get next to your punk points, but at
your present valuation you wcua't assay
two dollars to the ton on the Fourth
of July. In the gladsome Springtime,
before tho bluebirds begin to twitter,
phenoms spring up like mushrooms,
and they usually last just about as
long- The ones who stick are
as scarce as facts in a political
speech, and they are always
the guys who keep right on going to
school and storing new dope in their
garret. In spite of the dope sent out by
the wai" correspondents at the front, a
training trip has never uncovered a good
oaupiayer. lie noean t get an opportunity l
to show the res! soods until he comes !
up in a pinch, when the real fight is on. !
i?o along about next Fall, when the frost
is on the pumpkin, it will te time enough t
for you to figure up Just where you stand !
In the game.
"I don't want to hand myself a rwt
on the back, but I think you will agree
with me that during your college career
your old dad handed you a bunch of
advice that was instrumental in keenlne i
you from wasting the golden opportunity
ff your youth. Had It not been f or our
old dad you would probably have passed
up your baseball coach and tied up. to the
line of dope handed out by the moss
buek professors who are perpetuating the
wisdom of past ages, instead of concen
trating your undivided attention on an
education course that is thorouuhly up-to-date,
and cops the coin. In that case
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE NON-PROFESSIONAL RADICAL AND TUB
BY IRVIN S. COBB
Detective. "Jest look at the bleat
some of them phony Socialists put up
when the cops gave 'cm the hard ends
of the night sticks down to Union
Square after that bomb went off."
"I was Just coming to that," said the
Hotel Clerk. "That would have been
another forward step In the Uplifting
Cause of the young party If the bomb
hadn't got so nervous and premature.
You remember they advertised It as
a meeting of the unemployed. If I
was one of the unemployed, I'd be too
busy looking for a job to attend, and
If 1 had a job I wouldn't have the time
either, because one of the worst things
you can do to a job is to go off on a
busy Saturday afternoon and leave it
unattended. When you get back,
you're liable to find the boss has put
on an understudy. .But be that as it
may. they ot together a large crowd.
"At the start-off everything looked
you would today be burying your identity
among a lot of musty old volumes in a
law office, instead of getting your picture
in the papers and having the public
standing with bated breath -waiting to
Set a look at your phis.
"There's nothing to It, Kid, there's no
other profession In the whole batting
order of Jobs that can noint to a man
like Hans Wagner, who can retire to trie
back woods and paper his chicken-house
with signed contracts that were sent him
to fill in at his own figures. Hans isn't
quite as ornamental as a May Howard
roster, and he probably doesn't know a
Greek pronoun from a brand of prehis
toric chewing tobacco, but if he was put
on the block in open market 111 gamble
that he'd bring a figure that would make
a bunch of trust magnates look like cheap
pikers." ,
"Aw, I dunno, Dad." answered the
Kid. "wot's do matter wit' Charlie
Schwab, or Bill Bryan, or dis bug
Husrhcs? Law in. ain't sich a bum job,
Dad."
"Well, you take it from me. Kid, that
any of these big stiffs who are holding
down' a brain job could float around the
Great White Way for a million years,
and there wouldn't be a tingle guy stand-
ing on the enrhstone who would twist
his neck to rubber the second time. But
just let the husky guy who slammed the
leather out of tho lot with the bases full
hit the pike that evening, and I'll gamble
that the traffic squad will have to be
called out to open up navigation in that
neck of the woods. And you don't see
many instances where the combined popu
lation of forty-eleven precincts will plant
themselves in front of a bulletin board
and bust their thorax yelling over the
daily doings of a bunch of politicians or
long-faced professors. I'll bet you won't
butt into one man in a thousand who can
tell you who is the president of Cornell
University, but every piker In the uni
verse knew when Hughey Jennings was
baseball coach.
"I notice a tendency on your part to
puff out like a pouter pigeon whenever
some dub of a reporter happens to turn
loose on the public a stream of hot air
V Xl ' I'.lartV'C.&fi-Ssei -iSIBCKiM il 1 I Ml. M. Ml J
lovely. The, heartless police were there
with their brutal clubs, and several
unemployed gentlemen and ladies were
starting up the Marseilles lit several
hundred different keys, and one whole
souled patriot had eacrificed his last
flannel undershirt so the inspiring red
flag would be ready when needed. But
the bomb sort of precipitated things.
It was a quaint little conceit, made
of rusty wire nails and broken lamp
chimneys, flecked here and there with
nitro-glycerine. The member of the
Entertainment Committee who had It
In charge made it according to one of
Aunt Emmie Goldman's favorite recipes
In the Household Hints of the Anar
chist's Home Journal. But there must
have been a typographical error some
where, or else he's stirred the 'gun
cotton In the wrong way, because Just
as he was getting ready to touch her
off and fill the vicinity ull of fine-cut
In Which He Shows
Why Phenoms Which
Bloom in the Glad
some Springtime Fade
in the Midsummer Sun
anent your accomplishments on this
training trip, and I want to hand you the
tip that a few minutes spent each eve
ning in earnest conversation with your
old dad will have a tendency to reduce
the swelling.
"Your old dad has been through the
game from cocktail to finger bowl, and
he has laid by a bunch of high-priced
experience where he can get his hooks on
it whenever the occasion arises. And
while you've got to kick around In the
dust and dig up a lot of your dope from
your own experience, yet you'll find In
any line of business that It lessens the
cost of tuition In the school of exper-
. i . w
J TUrf TTTVt'rrTft
de. bushed I iujvviu i-
YU DUB. I rROn - THE -
ILL OFF -
lenco if you get next to some other guy'4
examination papers. And if you take
your dope from your dad you'll leariia
blamed alcht more of real value tliWn
you will by reading the Spring reports
of your own work' In the sporting col
umns. There's just about as much truth
in these Spring reports as there is in
the glowing account on a circus poster,
and let me tell you that they get many
a cub In wrong by getting him to nurse
the dope that he's the real velvet goods
when he really couldn't ' qualify as a
Yanigan In the Epworth league.
"The real velvet goods are never put
In the show window during the training
trip, and if you are beginning to dope
out on your early -season form how you
are going to set the circuit on tire and
create a frightful mortality from over
exertion among the outtielders. you're
mighty apt to bump into something in
the dark before the com begins to to&sle.
cop and shredded bystander, she sort
of exploded, on her own hook, and be
fore the police could reassemble the
young gentleman they had to borrow
a bucket. I understand 'that some of
our most prominent young- dlllitante
socialists, belonging -to the best fami
lies, were . very much put out over the
faux pas."
"I dunno wot Korepaugh had to do
with it," said the House Detective, "but
I do know if I wuz still on the force
and had been down there, there'd
a' been one of them Tpusted harp de
signs In white rosebuds sittin' on the
pianola In the ' front parlor of some
amateur t Socialist's late residence the
next afternoon." t
"You don't want to be confusing the
non-professional Radical leader with
the Professional kind," said the Hotel
Clerk. "There's a world of difference.
The Professional Is apt to be a gentle
"It may have been all right enough
away back in the Dark Ages for old Bul
wer Lytton to hand out the dope that
ln the bright lexicon of youth there is
no such word as fall,' but let me hand
you the tip that in this enlightened age
the wise guy is the kid who always keeps
his eyes on this little word so It can't
sail in and put it all over him when he
Isn't looking. In paddling down the
stream of life, if you see the rocks ahead
you're a blamed sight more apt to get
throught without getting dumped out into
the wet.
"That's why I am handing you the
dope that there are breakers ahead for
the kid who gets it Into his knot in the
gladsome Springtime that he is 'sailing
on a sea of endless delight and thinks
It's a cinch to make port by drifting with
the current.
"I took a swing around the Southern
training camps this Spring, and I saw a
lot of kids who were tickled like a dog
with two tails to wag because they found
that they could slam the big league pitch
ers Spring offerings Into the tall timothy.
Tho space writers had no designs on
Baron Munchausen's laurels when they
sent out the dope th4 this new man or
that new man was bumping the leather
in i muncui r t JT
T1 TTTTrlT Trn r-rrr t tttts
uwc,Liic)iimu-uf'inc.-c;LAruc;
MIDDlEL - OF - THK - DIAnOND
Wni - THE - 'NEW - FINDV
against the whisky ads., but when they
hand the fans the bunk that these early
Spring sluggers are going to scatter so
much brilliancy around the circuit that
the fans will have to wear smoked
glasses, then they are usurping the
prerogative of the politician and over
working the gab market. Let me tell
you that the Wheat Belt is splattered
with husky guys who can grab a cud
gel and pound the pellet all over the
country when It is 'fed to them where
they want It, over the heart of the
plate with.no breaks, but on a major
league circutt they'd stand just as
much show as a sky-terrier In a sau
sage factory."
"How do you dope that out. Dad?"
"The reason is as plain as a wart
on a debutante's nose. During the
Spring frolic a guy toes the pan with
the almost certain assurance of doing
tA
man who formerly combined two call
ings cigar-maker, or something like
that. In the day-time, and bar polishing
at night. Finding the strain was too
much for him. he has now given up the
day work. He has a constitutional
hatred for the capitalistic group, espe
cially such as are engaged in the manu
facture of bath tubs and soap. He
feels that any man who shaves his
neck regularly is a foe to the common
people. He generally comes from some
where else, and knows just as soon as
he lands that this country Is wrong,
and will have to be done over again
right away.
"On the other hand, the amateur was
born here, but can't remember any
thing else of real importance that the
United States has been able to. pull off.
He shows his abhorrence for the false
conventions of the plutocratic breed
from which he sprang by wearing bone
business with a straight ball. He gets
set for it And goes after It like a wood
chopper mauling rails as soon us the
pill leaves the pitcher's digits, and
under these conditions any husky dub
with a clear eye and a clean swing can
make the outfielders hunt the fence.
But let him stand there facing an un
certainty, until the ball breaks thre
feet in front of his mug, after which he
has to decide and pull off the stunt in
the fractional part of a second, with a
short chop Instead of a Wheat Belt
swing, and you'll find that the grass
out around the flag pole Isn't getting
trampled so much, and the fielders
will be taking on weight from inac
tivity. "Another thing. Kid; the hitters who
haven't got a weak spot are almost as
scarce as Ice cream eodas In Hades. A
few might make a grand get-away in
the opening series, and he may swing
ME PLAY
around the circuit on the initial trip
and create a bigger sensation than a
chicken at a coon camp-meeting, slam
ming the best that the pitchers can
dish up clear out of the pasture and
being tlie real terrible kid In a pinch.
He may get away with this stunt for
some time, but along about the period
when the wise guys up in the press
box are yelling their heads off herald
ing glad tidings of the 'new find.' stne
guy who is dishing up the slant from
the middle of the diamond outguesses
him and digs up his weak spot, and If a
all off with the child wonder and an
other fond dream of fame and fortune
is busted. The news that the new hit
ter 'can't hit a high one on the Inside'
flies around the circuit like a scandal
in a country village, and, thenceforth,
it only requires a sling shover with
control to make the new find look like
ir-M-...-- .-T..:r g.-g --
collar buttons, and long hair, and living-
In a settlement club.
"I know a chap named Willbert
Schuyler-Jones, that used to be a shin
ing esample of the class, which was
pretty easy, because Willbert had been
a shine from his birth. He wasn't very
fervent mentally. But the Socialists
thought the world and all of him, even
If he did have a brain like a small
5-cent sack of the mixed confetti. It
seems that it counts them 10 for game
when they can snag; off a convert with
rich kin-folks and a hyphen for a
safety-pin to hold the loose ends of his
last name together. And Wllibert was
right there with the rich relatives. I
think maybe that was what helped to
make a Socialist of him. You don't
feel so poor if all your family Is poor,
too. Willbert was where he could smell
wealth all the time and yet never taete
it. ' So he hopped In and quit patroniz-
a fair imitation of a candidate prac
ticing for the ping-pong championship.
And right there. Kid, is the solution of
a lot of exploded phenoms. It Isn't, as
the dope goes, a case of lost batting
eyes, but it is simply a case of being
found out. It is the same old story
of a chain being only 'as strong as Its
weakest link." And that Is why I am
handing y.ou the dope not to get a
gore run up the back of your vest to
make room for your chest to expand
until you have demonstrated that the
pitcher can't get your goat. And let
me tell you that you can't show this
much befoce nutting time.
"As a sample of this, look at Buck
Freeman. Buck butted into the big
league and lost so many balls right at
the Jump that the factories had to work
overtime. They couldn't build fences
high enough to keep Buck's swats in
the same county as long as lie caught
them coming over about the belt line,
and he got away with It with such fre
quency that the outfielders used to
climb the fences when Buck came up.
But after the pitchers got next to the
fact that he couldn't pick off the low
ones. Buck's batting average took an
alum bath, and he beat it back to Mis
bushes. TyCobb was the king pin with
the big stick in the American League
last season, but Eddie Plank, of the
Athletics, hands him a crossfire fling
that he couldn't hit safely in a million
years. Hans Wagner, the husky swat
ter of the National League, looks fool
ish, in front a slow, fade-away delivery,
dished up by a pitcher with a good
change of .pace. Tim Jordan and Harry
Lumly, of Brooklyn, can hit 'em a mile
when they get them where they want
them, but you'll notice that the old
pitchers aren't feeding' them there any
more. So, Kid, if you want to stick
and be in on the reserve lltst next Fall,
dig up your own punk points and get
your pitchers to feed 'em to you In
practice.
"But now. Kid, it's time for all good
ball players who want to keep their
batting eye from going on the blink to
J. fofeitlMCl CONTRACT JcOKTRrSCTr
PROFESSIONAL
Ingr tr-f barber, and bgan -to prrarh
th doctrine that all thft property of
the well-to-do, oujrht to ho chopped
VP Hmonir the nothlng-to-rio...
"A.. I was telling you. Wilibrrt
no InteUectxial pnxliuy. He w one of
those mustitrrt jtart11iKs. When he trie!
to think hard you roulri see hfs Kills lift
up ami down, lie was tall and pl yel
low, with Kreenish shades, like a sprlc
of Michipan celery. Me carried himself
well, hut he had a llRhl load. To teaeh.
him his letters I'll bet his parents had
4o feed him on educator crackers and
alphabet; consomme. But he - used to
come In to, see me with him limp collar,
and his head like a brush arbor, and tell
me It wouldn't be long until they bea-.jn
cutting up all wealth Into eo.ua! sll;9t
the same as pie In a quick Iunih.
"You know. how It is. Iarry. The alout
party who can't lean over to. plt-k up his
overshoes without rabbin all the- skin.
off his stomach against the floor always
says that no matter what fashion may .
demand, he'll never let any blamed tailor
put corsets on him. Fond Father looks'
at Utile Master Etheloert. aged R. who a
got a nine-inch chest, a bulged-out fore
head and convex ( lensea to his eye
glasses, and announces that no hoy of his
shall ever grow up to be a brutal fullback
on the Yule team. A lady cashier with
a face like a meat pie, and a figure like
a aoup-Joint. reads about how the new
Countess Gladys Vanderbllt Bicheny ar
rived at her husband's ancestral estates
and found a peaceful brood of mild-eyed
Hungarian cows established In the front
parlor of the baronial castle, and she lay
down the paper and looks In the glass
and says, thank goodness no foreign
nobleman shall ever snare her. And 'Wil
lbert told me that all wealth should be
divided.
"But one day I paw In the papers
where a casual great -uncle had died, and
left him nine hundred millions, or some
such pleasing amount. For weeks 1 sat
around waiting for him to bring ma inv
share In a bundle. Rut he didn't come.
It whs about a month after that that I
met him. He stopped his touring car to
speal; to me. He was dressed up like
all the melded aces in the world. He
carried his pocket handkerchief up his
cuff, and when he want.;d to say that he
laughed, he aald he guffawed. Yes. It
was as bad as that, and that's as had
as they ever get. and still live. He spoke
very severely of Roosevelt. He said this
party Roosevelt was stirring up discon
tent among the lower orders and unset
tling vested rights. He Invited me to go
riding with him. He said he was going
to hang around with the car In tho hope
that he might get a chance to run over
ITpton Sinclair. This morning I read in
the social note that he'd just led his 800tn
successful consecutive cotillion. The next
time I see him I expect he'll be carrying
lorgnettes, and have Harry Lehr's picture
In his watch.
"Iarry. them appears to he one thing
In the world that'll tempt even an ama
teur.. Socialist."
"vTot's that?" asked the House Detec.
tlve.
"Temptation." said the Hotel. Clerk.
hit the hay. so you'd better beat it t
the nest. This high society game Is all
right when the snowballs are In sea
son, but take It from me that the guy
who Is trying to pile up a line of
credit In sporting notes "doesn't want
to be clinching with the calico In the
Merry Widow Waltz, or be coughing
up chin music to a select coterie oT
pals when the clock hits the double
figure scores. It might have been nil
right enough at the time for old Bill
Shakespeare to hand out that dope
about 'toiling upward In the night.' but
you know Bill wasn't such a hot bun
on baseball, and his dope falls a little
shy when' it comes to working up a rep
in the diamond game."
"Going to bed, too, Dad?" asked the
Kid.
"No," replied the Old Sport. "I'm not
much on' the 'early to bed' gag myself,
because I've discovered by looking over
statistics that nine-tenths of the people
who pass In their checks die in bed, and
I don't care to expose myself to the
danger needlessly. But that's a chance
that the ballplayer has to take, so
good-night. Kid."
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It will surprise a good many poopU to
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A Whale Tale.
("hfragn PfM.
There was one a liumble polyp at the bot
tom of th sea.
Afid the polyp was contented ss a polyp
well can be;
It was following- its calling- In an humble
Industry
When R- mollusk drifted by It Just about
its time to eat
And the polyp for the mo Husk formed a
gustatory treat.
- And the rn-hale
Flicked Its tail
And"rkerved that later on it mna the mol-
lusk both would meet.
Soon the mollunk met the starfish and rhe
starfish bent Its points
Till the shell about th mollusk came to
pieces at the Joints;
Then the starfish ate the mollusk; when
along: there came a skate
Wlthr an appetite for starfish, so It sailed
right in and ate.
And the wiiale
. Flicked Its tall
And observed that it had patience and could
. well afford to wait.
Soon the skate was swallowed piecemeal by
a haddock swift and bold.
But a. ft-arflsh came for dinner and It had
the haddock cold :
Then a halibut was hungry, and it chased
the happy gar
And It overtook and ate it era It Journeyed
very far.
And the w hale
Fllrked Its tall
And remarked that some one's system soon
was . due to get a Jar.
And the halibut serenely capered off upon
a lark
Till its gay career was ended In the stom
ach of a shark ;
Then the shark supplied a sword fish with
!ts muchly needed feast
And the antics of his sharkshlp at that
little banquet ceased.
And the whale
Flicked Its tall
Saying that it wanted supper when the
wind was In the east.
Came a leaping. Jumping tarpon where the
sword Msh like to swim.
And the tarpon said for swordflth It ac
knowledged quite a whim;
So It fed upon the swordnsb, with enjoy
ment and with. vim.
Then the whale took in the tarpon. Just
as nicely as could be
(Though this isn't aoologlcal, the moral
you ran s'!e.)
And the whale
Flicked Its tall
And commented: "There's nobody big
eooumii to swallow me:''