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Show noosed Memorial to Annie Oaklev ' fails but She -Remains Enshrined in Hearts of Thousands of Americans irt SCOTT WATSON ,ftw Ntwtpap Vale.) dispatches recem-ferried recem-ferried the news of lansuccessful effort by CjoviUe (Ohio) Histor-Utf Histor-Utf to convert the One of Annie Oakley 'iriae In her memory. W a 10-acre farm Jeenville, was lost jick of funds and has cane private proper-eren proper-eren though the plan 1 1 public shrine of je failed, it will make 'rence so far as the afion of the memory iOakley is concerned.' ago she was en-. j la the hearts of in-ile in-ile Americans and M there is secure. Jjre the1 mQvies made 3ckford America's rt," that title, had a by Annie Oakley it minds of many she arrendered it to any 'tlngust 13, 1866, in Pat-jtsship. Pat-jtsship. Darkt county, ihort distance from the act known as Woodland LeaDed Willowdell, she Vstctied Phoebe Anne 'late but she was des-ntke des-ntke the shortened form suae, "Annie Oakley," Sroufjiout the world. For m "Little Miss Sure jctoibtedly the greatest Uaa in history, iladern Cinderella, aw was more to her la her skill with a rifle pr the place in the hearts 3f America which she k Her life story was a ska Cinderella fairy mtier melodrama but a Wodrama and a sort of ;&tlo Alger-rise-to-fame iSe Cinderella part of it that little log cabin in sory where lived Jake d his wife, whom, as a H child he had rescued ntal stepfather in Penn-I Penn-I Be had given her ft his sister and, after I her when she was 15, with her to make new tie Ohio country. In this oi Vozee and his wife i constant battle with pri-p pri-p poverty. Then Mozee, I from the mill, was 1 death in a blizzard and partner fell the whole 'providing for her seven (ip of six Annie began 31 the family larder by 1 9ttQ and a few years' J" bad made the first start career that was to Jelamous. One of the gwions which Jake brought with him from Ns was a 40-inch cap Mentucky rifle, which the fireplace, but never been used be- was a Quaker with prejudice against Arenas Are-nas tomboy Annie, how-j how-j ;tt share that prejudice. fthe weapon an instru-Metting instru-Metting more food for ir91 nd sisters, and her mother's reluc- nt, finning of her career oman was soon in- went to the county 'J let the chance to at- and while there &eared and offered to 1 the girls at the in-rk in-rk for her "board V Annie was the girl in the home of this kr Cinderella exist-Lan exist-Lan was a brute and '.t!?ag0- "Annie was Qrtwl slave subjected cruel treatment JM feU asleep over Jjwnding the woman W mto a snowstorm Jrer two Tears of 5lhe finally escaped :aelhome. .. continued her for-Provider for-Provider for the fam- Me and thus laid tor the marvelous u to make her ew'of.herkiIl.' Ow)ut Darke county $ncinnati where ho- 1 T"Hed. When there came to Cin-g-w-famed team of company, performing jrlng and dexterity seldom exhibited '"'M .... r, ( ui i ,.i..M .mi,,, Annie Oakley in action as sharpshooter. vailed upon her to shoot against the professional. The girl not only won the match, but also won the, heart of Frank Butler -and a yea -or . so later they were married. f 9 began be-gan taking part in her husband act and for some time they were billed as "Butler and Oakley." Then Butler-;: who was a skillful showman, began giving his wife more and more, of. the limelight and. pushing himself 'more '' and-more and-more into the baekground,' Within With-in a short Iirn4 she Was' ii'noted figure in the eastern theaters.. At one , time while they, were playing m St Paul a. delegation ox bioux Indians, who- were on their way to Washington for a conference with the -"Great White Father," . attended the theater where Butler -arid, Oakley were presenting their act One of the delegation was the famous Sitting Bull, who gave evidence of his approval of the girl's marksmanship marksman-ship with many a "WasteV (Good). Finally as she performed per-formed her most difficult feat, that of shooting the end from a cigarette held between the teeth of her husband, Sitting Bull arose in great excitement shouting "Watanya Cicilia!" (Little Sure Shot). Little Sure Shot was the name of one of his daughters who had died, and so greatly was he impressed with Annie Oakley's prowess that he sent an Interpreter Interpret-er to her after the show and C"stomed to issue Va. 0ne o' Annie's ' vairons who pre- ir-,: .... i m mffl Sitting Bon, chief of the Slo who named Annie Oakley "Little Sara Shot" and adopted her as his daughter. asked permission to adopt her as his daughter. She consented and the ceremony took place at the hotel. After that managers were more eager than ever to book the act of Sitting Bull's adopted daughter. In the meantime Col. W. F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," had organized organ-ized his Wild West show, but the first year had been almost a failure. While it was playing in New Orleans, Frank Butler and Annie Oakley, who were then traveling with a circus, visited the show and decided that they would prefer being a part of this outfit than of the circus. . Cody could not afford to pay the salary that Butler asked so nothing came of it at the time. fBut the next year their trails crossed again at Louisville, Ky.t and Nate Sals-bury, Sals-bury, Buffalo- Bill'a partner,- who happened to be passing by while Annie and her husband were rehearsing re-hearsing their act, was so impressed im-pressed by it and it possibilities as a Dart of his show that he lured them oa the spot ; SH ia the year 1885 Annie Oakley joined the Buffalo Bill Wild West show and there began that series of amazing triumphs which this former for-mer Ohio waif was to share with one of the greatest figures the show world has ever known. It was through her influence that another feature was added to the show which greatly enhanced en-hanced its popularity. For some time Buffalo Bill had been trying to induce Sitting Bull to join his company. But the old Sioux leader lead-er steadfastly refused. After Annie joined the show Cody tried again. He sent an Interpreter to Sitting Bull with the word that "Watanya Cicilia" was with his show and wanted Sitting Bull to join also.. There was no further vgument Sitting Bull came forthwith! And the crowds which turned out to see the reputed leader of the Indians at the Custer Cus-ter battle, the great buffalo hunter hunt-er and the great markewoman in creased at every city in which he show appeared. 'After a- successful season of 1886 on Staten island and in Madison Mad-ison Square garden, New York, Buffalo Bill began, looking around for new worlds to conquer. He found it first in England where he took his show on the occasion of Queen Victoria's jubilee in London, Lon-don, ft was during this engagement engage-ment that Annie won her famous shooting match with the Grand Duke Michael of Russia, a match which had been arranged by the prince of Wales (later Edward VII). Two years later Buffalo Bill's Wild West show was showing in Paris. Cody had met with financial finan-cial reverses and he hoped to recoup re-coup his losses in the French capital. capi-tal. But on the grand opening day, with the president of France and other high officials present it soon became apparent that the show was doomed to be a "flop." The French simply couldn't "get" the meaning of it all the bucking buck-ing horses, the mimic warfare between be-tween the cowboys and the Indians, In-dians, whom, incidentally, they thought were fakes. But when Annie Oakley gave her exhibition of marksmanship then it was different. Here was something they could understand, and she was given an ovation that a queen, might be thrilled over. For the French had never seen such shooting as this. Here are a few of the stunts that she performed: per-formed: In shooting clay pigeons, she stood 20 feet back of the traps, started with the pulling of the trap, ran the 20 feet, picked up her gun and broke the pigeon while it was still in the air. Using Us-ing three double-barreled shotguns shot-guns she broke six glass balls thrown into the air at once. She shot a dime from between her husband's thumb and forefinger at 30 paces. Perhaps the most famous of her stunts was that of shooting the ashes from a cigarette cigar-ette in the mouth of Kaiser Wil-helm, Wil-helm, then the crown prince of Germany. Had her aim been a little less true, the World, war might never have been fought I Tragedy Comes Again. Annie Oakley ended her career with the Buffalo Bill show in 1901. Then tragedy came into her life again. On the last journey of the season the show train was wrecked in North Carolina. Annie Oakley was desperately injured. But the same courage that had always carried her through every emergency carried her through five operations and years of agony. Although the doctors had said she could never handle a gun again, she staged a "comeback," "come-back," and at Pinehurst, N. C, in April 1922, she broke 100 clay targets straight, shooting from 16 yards. Annie Oakley had many other interests besides her shooting. She was probably the first advocate advo-cate of the oneiece bathing suit for women, coming out for it as early as 1894. Although at one time she was making $1,000 a week I:"largr Salary7 in those dayir-her . eswte, ft the. time-, of .her.! r4athTw.w.as Z comparatively small. Perhaps the fact that she supported and educated an adopted adopt-ed family of ISchildren, as well, as giving generously to many charities, had something to do with the smallness of her estate 1 She died in the home of friends in Greenville on November 3, 1926. Her husband, Frank Butler, But-ler, was seriously ill in a hospital in Detroit at the time and he died 20 days later. They are both buried in a cemetery near Brock, Ohio, where staods a simple monument mon-ument with this inscription: "Annie Oakley-1926-At Rest." Reference has already been made in this article to Annie Oak. ley's famous shooting match with the Grand Duke Michael of Russia, Rus-sia, one of the outstanding events In her career. The match was arranged by the prince of Wales (later Edward VII) during Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887. The story of that match, which, as it turned out, had political results of considerable importance, is told in considerable detail by her biographer, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Coop-er, whose book, "Annie Oakley-Woman Oakley-Woman at Arms," published by Duffleld and Company of New York the year after her death, was the first accurate account of her career, minus the embroidery of legends fostered by imaginative press agents. Cooper's version of the shooting match follows: "The request of the Prince of Wales brought consternation and much argument to the camp of the Buffalo Bill Wild West. " 'Go onf said Nate Salsbury, you can beat him I' " 'Hold on there 1' Buffalo Bill broke in, 'there's Just this hitch. She shouldn't beat the Grand Duke. That'd be terrible.' "Thus the argument went on; Cody, the showman, believing that one should do . the proper -V 'i iff. V iV."" Aanle Oakley at he height of her career, wearing some of the medals she won in shooting matches. thing at all times especially when a Grand Duke of Russia believed himself a good shot. But Annie Oakley and her husband hus-band had a different idea. " 'If what we hear of him is true,' said Miss Oakley, 'I wouldn't have to let him beat me. I'll have to do my best shooting to even tie him.' " 'Shoot him off his feet J" said Nate Salsbury, while the be-whis-kered Maj. Burke, press agent extraordinary, all but wept To be so unkind to royalty! "The conference 'at last was over, and Frank Butler and his wife went into the arena where the contest was to be held. There they made, use of a little private information. The Grand Duke bore the reputation of being one of the best shots in Russia. But from what Annie Oakley and her husband had heard of him, he got his best results on clay birds, which flew about 40 yards from the trap, a slower flight than Annie Oakley prepared for bim on that day of their private match. " 'We'll just make it a good test,' she said, and ordered the traps to be screwed down to 65 yards. "That'll be something to shoot at' "Promptly at 10:30 o'clock, according ac-cording to Annie Oakley's recital, four carriages rolled into the Wild West grounds. They contained con-tained Edward, the.' Prince of Wales, Alexandra, the Princess of Wales, the Duke of Clarence, George, now king of England, the grand Duke Michael of Russia and his suite, the Princess Louise, the Princess Maude and one very important personage in the eyes of the Grand Duke Michael, the Princess Victoria. The English papers had not been at all hesitant hesi-tant about stating that Michael was in England upon a special mission, that of uniting the two countries by proposing a marriage mar-riage in which the Princess Victoria Vic-toria and himself were to be the principals. Some opposed the marriage; others were in favor of it. "The contest began . . . while the royal party assembled in the boxes to watch the battle . . . And when the end of the match arrived, it brought a result by which Annie Oakley had missed only three targets out of fifty, while the Grand Duke of Russia had failed on fourteen. "Then began a perfect torrent of lampooning in those papers unfavorable un-favorable to the Grand Duke's alleged al-leged mission.""" -v.; . " 'It was the most amazing and unexpected ptibUcrty I efrerLexpeV riehced,' said Annie Oakley in later years as she jotted down notes of her memories. "The papers that were agalrYst his courting expedition were pink with sarcastic accounts of this dashing cavalier who was" outdone out-done at his own game by a little girl from America, of this Lochin-var Lochin-var who was no match for short dresses and whose warlike career faded before the onset of the American kindergarten. Whether this had anything to do with what followed, I of course can only guess. But about that time the engagemept was broken off , , " ft ADVENTURERS' CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPIE LIKE YOURSELF! "The Color of Death HELLO EVERYBODY: You know, if Death can be said to have a color, most people would say that color was black. Maybe a few of us would pick red as the most appropriate hue for some of the more violent forms of the thing. But to Elizabeth Murphy of Queens, N.-Y., the color associated with death and danger and adventure, is khaki. And khaki it will always remain to Elizabeth. There's a doggone good jreason behind Elizabeth's way of thinking, and that reason goes back to the days when she was a girl in Ireland, living with her mother and dad. Back to July 6, 1921, when, if you'll remember, the Black and Tan revolution was going on in the Emerald Isle! Maybe you'll remember, too, that that was a pretty tough revolution. The Irish fought a guerrilla warfare, and the English Eng-lish sent some pretty tough customers over to keep-order. All through that mix-up, Elizabeth's family ran a pub, or bar, in the litUe town of Dingle, County Kerry, and on that fateful July day two 'Tans." as the BriUsh troopers were called, walked in and called for drLiki. "Tans" Start Drinking in Murphy Barroom. "We lived hi the reems trpetalrs ever the bar, says Elba, beta, "and each member of taw family, from m ether and father down, did hit r her bit bekmi the bar. On thla parttadar day metber and I were ea duty, metber behind the bar and I ea the evtaide baadtag treys ef drinks arevnd. Tbe Tans' sat dewa and drank steadily, aad. after several smaB paddle eae r them began to bstrcbn4a and aasty, and poor metber tried te Biet him dewa by being extra aloe teJUm.".. .. . But mother didn't have much success with the fellow,. She had barely started talking te him when he began to get abusive, and 'then threaW ening. And toother thought it would toe best to change the- subject -The "He grabbed me with bis rlbt band and kept choking aad choking." surly fellow was wearing a pair of brand new khaki pants and In order to get his mind on something beside threats and violence she said, "You've got on a fine new pair of pants. That material would make a lovely skirt" The fellow turned suddenly to Elizabeth. "Would you like a skirt mad out of this stuff?" he demanded. And without thinking, Elizabeth aid, "No, I wouldn't care for It" And the next minute she knew she had said the wrong thing! "At the time I said It," she says, "I had no Idea of casting any aspersion oa the kins' khaki, bat this bravo bock flew Inte a rage. 8 yea don't like the color, eh? he snooted. WeO, I'll make yea like It!' " And the next thing Elisabeth knew, be bad her by the threat! Crazed Soldier Terrorizes Daughter of Inn Keeper. "He grabbed me with his right band," she says, "and he kept choking and choking, and at the same time shouting over and over again, Do you like it? Do you like it?' without even giving me a chance to answer. It would have done him no good if be had, for by that tune my Irish temper was up and I'd prefer to choke rather than make a sign that I had given in to him." Bat all of a sodden Elisabeth heard something that cooled II that temper of hers. A revolver shot! At the same moment, the second "Tan" leaped np from the table where he bad been sitting quietly an the time, canght bold of bis partner and made him let g of Elisabeth's throat. Aad then Elisabeth saw the revolver. re-volver. It was In the hand of her attacker. While be had choked her with his right hand be had fired that shot' with his left Be had missed. The ballet bad natteaied against the hinge ef the -. door. But now Elizabeth knew she was dealing with a man la a mood to commit actual murder and she was scared te death. The second 'Tan" was remonstrating with the first "Would you shoot the girl?" he was saying. The first 'Tan" roared, "Yes. Til shoot her. I don't care who she is!" Another argument! was starting, and Elizabeth, thoroughly frightened by this time, tried to smooth it over. "It's all right," she said. "He wasn't aiming at me." And again the wrong thing had been said. Fee the surly "Tan" whirled en her suddenljr, whipped up his revolver again and cried, "You think so? Well, this time I want miss!" Then the battle started la earnest The second Taa" grabbed his arm and tried te wrest the gun from him, aad at the aame time he shouted to Elizabeth te run. "And boy," says Elisabeth, "I did run." Elizabeth Escapes Clutches of Tormentor. She dashed out of the bar and Into the house next door. The neighbors there had heard the shot and wanted to know what was the matter. Elizabeth didn't even stop to explain. She dashed through that house to the back door and out into the yard. And the neighbors, knowing what sort of thing can happen in a country that is fighting a revolution, ran along behind her. There were three of them in that neighbor family. Elizabeth climbed the fence Into the next yard, and they followed. That next yard led to a carpenter's workshop, and the carpenter, and his workmen, when they saw four people dash through his place without even a word of explanation, ex-planation, decided they'd better run. too. Out In the street more people joined in the panic "There was quit a little bunch of us, all en the run together," to-gether," says Elisabeth, "by the time things quieted down and somebody shouted to us that the Tana' had left the locality aad we would bave'M more to fear from them." Elizabeth says that now she looks back on it she can see a certain amount, of humor in tha situation of half a town running because en drunken 'Tan" had fired a revolver, but doggone if sho could see It then. "I have always believed," she says, "that I owe. my life to that Tan' who interfered with the other one. And wouldn't it have been awful to have died U because of u pair of khaki pantsf ' . UUJaaaaa br Wcaura Newspaper Union.) Tom Thumb Presented to Royal Family in 1854 . Tom Thumb (Charles Sherwood Stratton-was born st Bridgeport, Conn., on January 4, 1838. His parents par-ents were of normal size and he howod no peculiarity, until he reached the age of seven months, when he ceased to grow. In 1842 his mother took him to P. T. Bar-num. Bar-num. At that Ume he, was 28 inches in height and weighed a little more than 15 pounds, though he later increased in-creased in size. He was perfectly proportioned, active, and intelligent His exhibition! proved a great success suc-cess and in 1854 he was taken to England by Barnum and preaented to the queen and royal family. In 1883 Tom Thumb married tavinia Warren, a dwarf, and together they traveled widely and gave exhibitions. exhibi-tions. He died at Mlddleborough, Mass.. on July 15. 1883. Keep Fit' Program The federal government has lent support to Australia's "Keep Fit" campaign by establishing $5,000 annual an-nual subsidies for lectureships in phystcal educaUon at the six Aus trallao universities. The universities universi-ties will be required to grant diplomas di-plomas in physical education. 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