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Show THE GRANT8VILLE NEWS, GRANT8VILLE, UTAH, University of Notre Dame NOTRE DAME, INDIANA Coarse bs Agriculture Offers Tall (worses slso la Letters, Journalism, Ifadi-elnXJbniy Solanos, Chsmlstiy, Pharmacy, - awl Law. Commerce Architecture, r r1" e, b ao mote aecaaaarr TYPHOID ttojiaillpoitovtiwnlnee SStbc -- soil cae elt Hots aTKKff-iLiJiyiMlu.sn- due raSSti 5512 CM. m turns lASOSATOSV, sohuv, SBMScui weoui a assess asses e. e. as imssn We are betting that Jnwn Even still haa a- few more yean of good base-baleft la bis system. This extreme optimism Is not based on Inside dope or anything like that, but on pust performances of the scrappy Trojan, who has been chased by the umpire more often than any two playen In the league. Johnny has the nerve, lie will not admit defeat Every time he appears to be down and out he fights linrder than ever and climbs to the top. That la why we are shedding this ray of sunlight the day after Fat Moran signed his name to a contract We cull Evers the Human Crab.' He deserves the title, for he won It fairly and squarely in his 14 years under the Big Top. It's the cold truth that we think of Johnny most ns a crabbed, scrappy ball player a grand player, hut an awful grouch. But this should not be held against him. All of us would be grouchy and crabbed If we faced the hard luck that has fallen to Johnny In the pust 'Without doubt he Is the most unfortunate player In the game. Ho player ever lias undergone the mental and physical sufferings of the Trojan and perhaps no one will and remain In the game. The tough luck started In 1909 when Johnny Invested his money in a shoe store." Philadelphia Ledger. il BASEBALL S STORIES WOULD CALL STRIKE ANYWAY Jim Thorpe Makes Vicious Swing Low Ball Because Was Satisfied Umpire Would Call It at Jim Thorpe was sent to bat as a Bay Caldwell Is the pitcher who pinch hitter In a game which the Giants played at Waco during the spring helped keep Wild Bill Donovan wild. exhibition games. He looked with The Braves have tried more minor disdain at the first ball served up to league players than any other team In him, but to his surprise, Bill Brennan, who was umpiring, called It a strike. fast company. Jim fouled the next and though the Ilank Gowdy, who baa Joined his regiment will not be replaced by Stallings In a hurry. Connie Mack Is getting to be a great little artillery general artillery of the diamond, of course. ' Pat Flaherty, scout for Connie Mack, Is now busily engaged In looking over Eastern league talent Joined the Sioux City team. Joe Judge, the Washington first base-maIs playing wonderful ball and Clark Griffith Is vindicated. n, Stallings alone Is to blame for the shocking behavior of the Braves. He can stop them if he feels like It The Sioux City club has taken on the veteran outfielder, Andy Kyle, who was with Bloomington In the Three--I The Houston team is a hard loser. Considerable disorder has marked games in which It has played recently. I One of the lost acts of Frank Chance as manager of the Angels was to suspend and fine Jack Bynn and Hurl pitchers Jim Thorpe. third offering nearly struck the ground In front of the plate the Indian took a vicious swing at It and The veteran Tom Hughes probably missed. That was a fine strike you called will return to his Job as policeman in Salt Lake Clly. It Is evident that as a on me, Bill, he remarked to Brennan as he turned to go to the bench. pitcher he Is done. It was a better ball than the one slowoff Just struck at," was Bills retort started who you Polly McLarry, hlt-tlri-g .Huh! grunted Big Jim, the only ly with Shreveport, has caught his stride and of late has been swat- reason I struck at that one was because I knew youd call It a strike ting the ball hard. anyway. The Phillies are being accused of trying to pull off a signal tipping bu- YOUNG PLAYER IS SQUELCHED reau again this year, but there Is no proof of the charge. Rookie Who Had Made Sixth or enth Straight Hit Gets Hard Sev- The Omaha club has returned ScrapJolt From McCloskey. py Moore, the college third baseman, to the St Louis Browns. He failed to Years ago, when John McCloskey Hhow anything but Arise. was managing at St Louis, a certain young ball player started hitting the George Stallings has added several ball fiercely. It was his first trip In gray hairs to his hirsute adornment the majors and the fact elated him. since Hank Gowdy decided to 'get beWhen he made his sixth or seventh hind the bat for Uncle Sam. straight single he stalked back to the bench and flopped himself near where Jerry Downs, as successor to Harry McCloskey was sitting. Wolverton, has done so well with the reWell, I stung that one, eh Seals that uiey are telling nen Berry marked the recruit Bight on the old ho snould be retained on the Job. beak, too. Lets see, how many straight singles Is that Ive made 7 Fire engines passing the Browns McCloskey eyed him sternly. Timm ball a in broke almost np game he said finally, If you want a fellow, park This could place on this ball club you have to 8t Louis (he inother day. St Louis and Pitts- land out a double or a triple once In a happen only burgh. yhlle, These singles arent enough. r - U Salt Lake City, No. Too many cushions on may account for the room 34-H- 17. the bottom at the top. A widow knows when a man Is In love with her long before he knows It liimself. Difficult to Distinguish. Look sharp now for a periscope." But the whole seas so glassy, sir. Baltimore American.. has never become a large it has always been LAON butof strength. In 1913 It had little less than 15,000 Inhabitants, but in Gaulish times it was already that Blhrax which Julius Caesar took In tlie year 57 B. CL, and where no doubt the Bomans established themselves and maintained the authority of Borne among the conquered. Many curious antiquities have been collected In the neighborhood and are now In the museum. Up to the fifth century the collection was known as Laudunum. During the Merovingian, the Cape-tlaand, In fact, In all periods of French history, says Henry P. Davray in Country Life, Laon has played an Important role. Its geographical position caused It to be frequently beSituated on the road from sieged. Paris and from the valley of the 8elne to the middle valley of the Meuse, It Is built on an isolated mount quaintly carved out In- the form of a promontory which can be seen from a great distance. This mount forms a kind of V of which the point Is turned toward the northwest To the northeast the cathedral rises, and to the south the Abbey of St VIhcent From a height of 830 feet above the valley, of the Ardon it dominates a view which extends far In all directions, and there Is not within a large radius a better post of observation. Moreover, the steep flanks of the hill made the entry easily defensible against the weapons of former times, though twice It has known the humiliation of capitulation to German forces, in 1814 and again on September 9, 1870 a date that many older .Inhabitants carry In their hearts today. In this fortified vantage point the early kings of France made their residence. Here, too,- the church founded a bishopric about 500 A. D which was steadily maintained until the. Revolution. Of Strategic Importance. Laon was a place that all armies fought for with bitterness. The English during the Hundred Years' war, later the Burgundians and Charles the Bold, in the wars of the Reformation,, the Invaders of 1814, of 1815 and 1870-- all regarded the town as one of their great strategic points. It was taken, ravaged, pillaged, burned a great number of times after long and difficult sieges. The garrison easily opposed a resistance, which often enough beat the besiegers. For example, when Henry TV reconquered his kingdom from the duke of Mayenne and the Llgue, the town of Laon held him at bay for a long time-I1594. He took It less by force of arms than by a diplomacy suggested to him by his astuteness and cunning. In 1814, during that Immortal camFrance, when more than ever paign were disthe resources of his genius ' played, . Napoleon tried to drive out Blucher and the Prussians. For several days he redoubled his efforts and These finally abandoned the place. details, which could easily be multiplied, prove the strategic Importance of Laon. Apart from Its geographic position, which gives It military value, It has been the meeting place and crossing point of the means of communication and transportation which existed at all these epochs. The great highways of the district Intersect at the foot of Gallo-Boman- lc n, - First Baseman Buck Boyle, who was with Fargo In the northern league, has Maggart W. N. the mount, and when the railways were built In the nineteenth century the station of Laon became the junction of the lines from Paris, from Terg-ale- r, .from Guise, from nirson, from Bhelms and from Llart Where Railway Llnee Meet. The importance of possessing Laon for the Germans can easily be seen. There meet the railway lines coming from Germany by Luxembourg, Mont-medSedan, Mezieres, Charlevllle and Hlrson ; the lines coming from Cologne and from by the valley of the Meuse, Liege, Namur and Charleroi, and from Brussels, Hons and Lille, by Valenciennes, Maubeuge, Avesnes, Hlrson and Vervins. It Is by these roads and railways coming down the valley converging toward Paris and the heart of France that the German rush was mode. It y, was in utilizing our beautiful French roads, the convenient network of railways, and the canals from the north and the east that the Bochea thought to reach Paris In a few weeks and paralyse all resistance and any offensive Nach Paris I" they cried. Joyeffort ously, emptying the cellars of Champagne and Brie. Their career ended wretchedly on the banks of the Marne, and pursued by the armies of Joffre Appropriation Wanted. Gladys Twobble has agreed to cor. respond with three soldiers. Shes a patriotic girl." I dont know about that She seems to think Uncle Sam ought to supply her with her favorite style of stationery. Only Half Enough. She (delightedly) Father soya If are want to get married he will pay half the expenses of furnishing a house for USL He (despondently) pay the other half? But whoi will As In Much Greater Cases. Johnny, it was very wrong for you and the boy next door tp fight We couldnt help it father. Could you not hare settled your differences by a peaceful discussion of Qe matter, calling In the assistance of unprejudiced opinion, if need be? No, father. He was sore he could whip me and I was sure I could whip him, and there was only one way to find out Washington Star. The Effects of Habit In reward of faithful political service an ambitious saloonkeeper was appointed police magistrate. Whats the charge again this manT he inquired when the first case was called. Drunk, yer honor, said the policeand the heroic little English army, they fell back precipitately to the banks of man. e The the Alsne. magistrate frowned the defendant upon trembling After the bombardment of the Cloth Guilty or not guilty T he demanded, hall of Ypres, the belfry of Arras, the Sure, sir, faltered the accused. "1 cathedral of Helms, and a hundred other useless outrages on buildings cel- never drink a drop." Have a cigar then, urged his honebrated for their beauty and their artistic and historic Interest, there Is or persuasively, as he absently polunanimous fear In civilized countries ished the top of the Judicial desk with that the retiring Germans will destroy his pocket handkerchief. the beautiful towns of Belgium and France. The town of Laon possesses some remarkable buildings, as well as museum, art and antiquity, and It has a library rich In manuscripts. Archeologists and tourists recognize the Interest of the Palais de Justice, the gate, the Chenlzelies postern. The destruction of the ' cathedral will be an Irreparable loss. It was built In the thirteenth century, Is one of the largest and has been better restored than any other In the north of Two towers, each 180 feet finance. high, rise on either side of the porch. The west front la after Notre Dame de Paris the most remarkable Gothic facade fof Its purity' of taste. It Is flanked by two towers, each 170 feet high, surmounted by little belfry towers, decorated with colossal figures of animals representing the oxen which dragged from the plain to the summit of the hill the materials required for the building of I this beautiful monument The nave 80 65 and feet 300 feet long, is broad, feet high; the side aisles Inclose 80 Grape-Nu- ts phnpoin The pulpit Is very beautifuL newly-mad- So-lsso- two-storie- d will bring a package of Accounted For. The fellow I bought my car from said Td never hear anything knocking about It Well, he didnt expect you to take your wife In It probably." The Retort Courteous. He This bargain hunting shows your character. You are always looking out for something cheap. She Too true. That Is how X cams to marry you. A delicious, healthful food and a pleasing lesson in economy. "There's a Reason . |