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PSPORT II ENGLAND.
The Baseball lien Find it Hecessary
to Reduce the Price of Ad
mission to Six Cents.
' A MOTE FORESHADOWIKG FAILURE.
Description of the Strng;Ie Between Gard-
aer and Kickalls for the Bcull-
Ing Championship,
69SBIP AH05G THE CHESS PL1IEEB.
Contest it Cricket Between the English sad Autrtl
tin Teams at Lord's.
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IiONDON, August 2. Doubtless there are
hnndredi of Datroas of baseball in America
who are still wondering how the came is
progressing in England. Already I have
expressed my opinion definitely' on that
point, and that opinion was not at all favor
able to baseball becoming popular here. I
did not express the opinion referred to be
cause of any wish I may have had for fail
ure; indeed, nothing would give me greater
pleasure than to see baseball success I ul in
England. But the facts and surroundings
of the efforts made to popularize baseball
among the Britishers were such as to lead
me emphatically to the conclusion at which
I arrived almost at first sight. I make these
statements because I know that some writers
are taking a view of the future contrary to
nine, but whatever may be our sentiment
or private wish on the matter, the true state
of affairs ought always to be given in a
newspaper.
"Well, after these few preliminary re
marks I regret to say that I am going to
state some very significant facts which go to
show that baseball is not likely to last as
long here as even I had expected. There
ere already signals of distress. The few
peonle who took an interest in the game at
the outset have more or less become tired ot
It; so much so that the "magnates" have re
solved to reduce the price of admission from
13 to 6 cents. Think of that, ye bloated
baseball millionaires ot Xankeedom, who
make the cranks plank up the biggest end
of a dollar. Ye cods! 6-cent ball. But to
look at the matter seriously, the reduction
ofpriceisa sure sign of failure, and it is a
pity. "When the Britishers Are not prepared
to put up 12 cents 'or an article of sport or
amusement, depend upon it they don't
want it at any price. But even if the
reduction of price should to some ex
tent popularize the game it cannot be
carried on as a 6-cent article, and then comes
the qnestion what abont increasing the
figure? That couldn't be done very well
without sending the game back to where it
was. It will then be sten that in any event
the reduction in price means that baseball
is doomed here. Another change has been
made in hope of causing the natives to take
an interest in the game. In future the
pitchers are to be Britishers; that is Ameri
can tvirlers as we call them are not to be
allowed in the box. The object of this
change is to produce more hitting. The
English tyros have not gotten the curves
down very fice,while the American pitchers
have. Tne curves puzzle the batsmen and
there is a consequent absence oi hitting and
base running. It is claimed that plenty of
hitting and base running will interest the
people. I do not wish to argue that point at
present, hut I cannot help thinking that
'these changes remind one of the old saying
about drowning people's eagerness to grasp
at straws.
Badly Introduced.
I am going to talk a little more freely
this week on baseball in England, and I
make the statement that the game has been
very badly introduced into this country.
Hark, I don't mean that the young men
having in charge the respective clubs are in
any way connected with what I state. Bet
ter young men for the work could not have
been selected; but it is the general method
of introduction that I refer to. Mr. Spald
ing and his friends made a great blnnder at
the very first stage. They handed the work
of practically introducing the game to
England to two classes of men. One class
knew England, but knew nothing of base
ball, and therefore had no notion of a good
method ot drawing public attention to it,
either by means of the press or otherwise
The other class are men who know all ahnut
baseball but have not the least idea of En-'
gland and the English oeople. Of course I
will be reminded that these two elements
could meet, and combined they would fill
the bill; but they won't blend so re-dily as
might be imagined when one class has ever
been in England and the other ever in
America.
There are plenty of good men who know
baseball and know the English people also,
and it is very, very strange that Mr. Spald
ing, shrewd business man that he is, hhould
sot have discovered this (act. Why I have
talked to several prominent sporting writers
in London on baseball, and they gave me
plainly to understand that nobody had
ventured to take time to exnlain the feat
tires of the game to them. They desire to
know all xbont the eame of course, and
would gladly have published intelligible
articles on the matter, but none were forth
coming. It is needless lor me to point out
that writing about baseball in the United
States is one thing and writing about it in
English newspapers is qnite another. Ouly
the most rudimentary methods wonld be
interesting in England, while the most ad
vanced and technical style of dealing with
the matter wonld be relished by Americans.
These features ought to have been fully im
derstood by Mr. Spalding and his friends.
It may be that they have been imposed upon
as to the characteristics of tbe English peo
ple. At any rte I feel certain that had
they .known these characteristics they never
wonld have introduced baseball into this
country in the fashion that has been
adopted. Doubtless some great baseball
possibilities have been jeopardized, and it is
to be regretted that such a large amount of
money has been squandpred in bringing
about this very undesired end. Probably
tbe poor Pittsburg 17. L. club would have
lelt itself in the seventh heaven of delight
had it been presented with the money that
, has been thrown away here-ou baseball, and
I am inclined to think that it would have
done more good to the game had it gone in
the former direction than in the latter.
Be lore finishinc my talk on this subject
let me quote for The Dispatch readers a
little paragraph from the London It (feres.
It contains some wisdom. It reads: "Apos
tles of baseball in this country are not slow.
Before the public are aware that tbe Ameri
can game has caught on a little bit, except
as a very passing lancy brougnt into notice
by performing tourists, we have solemn re
ports of competitions for professional base
tall championships. It is rather a pity to
solcuWily set up a championship of such a
game as baseball before we have players of
decent class. What a ridiculously mean
pitiful thing a so-called English professional
baseball championship must appear to the
American artists who really are flyers at the
game."
There really is food for thought here for
those who are heroically forking out the
cash to popularize our national game
. throughout the world. I may ay that
Derby is still leading, with Birmingham
second, Preston third and Stoke last with
its one game won and 14 lost.
The Amateor Bcnlllng Championship.
Probably the finest aquatio struggle I
have ever seen was that on the 18th instant
-etweea Gus Wickalls and J. G. Gardner
for the amateur sculling championship.
The prize, that is, the tangible prize, was
for the Wingfield sculls, the wiuner last
year and the two previous years being Mr.
Wickalls. The course was the full Thames
championship course, from Putney to
Mortlake, and much to the surprise to
almost everybody Mr. Wickalls was rowed
to a complete standstill, and easily beaten
at the finish. As I have jnst said, the race
was a terrifio one, as far aa what I may call
a race lasted, and I won't readily lorget the
struggle. The victory of Mr. Gardner
would no doubt be ot interest to Americans,
as Mr. Wickallsxaused Mr. Protta
'and his supporters to take a back
seat. What made the race in
Suestion more interesting still is that Mr.
ardner is a Cambridge man and Mr.
NicValls represents Ox ord, and party feel
ing in the 'varsities ran high. Tbe talent
thought it was not possible for Mr. Gardner
to defeat Nickalls In a four-mile race as the
latter is about 175 pounds, while Gardner is
not quite 160 in weight. They had rowea
against each other foi the Diamond sculls at
Benley, when Mr. Nickalls won "on the
post" by a short half length after Mr.
Gardner had been leading about a quarter
ol a length all the way. This was only a
short race, however. Well when they met
for the Wingfield sculls there were about 3
to 1 on Mr. Nickalls, and I really was sur
prised because "bad steering had de
feated Mr. Gardner at Henley, and he was
much fresher at the finish than Mr. Nickalls
was.
Along with a few friends who were with
me at Putney I didn't hesitate to say that
Gardner would win. Each contestant was
accompanied by an "eight" The start was
a good one, Gardner going off like a shot
from a cannon. Ee is a pretty sUrter, and
was soon a few feet in front of the cham
pion. Tbe latter, however, soon settled
down, and when 200 yards had been covered
the shells were exactly level. Gardner had
the stroke, and as soon as he recovered
Nickalls was even with him. The latter
was striking deep and pulling his sculls
through the water in the most des
perate fashion. His efforts were
really terrific, but he could not
pass his wiry and plucky opponent. Mr.
Gardner was rowing just as clean and ef
fective as any man could. His fine-style
enabled him to hold thepowerlul champion,
and without doubt the race at this sUge was
extraordinary. Nobody could help shout
ing. Lords, ladies, aristocrats of all kinds
and other classes of citizens right down to
the costermongers were yelling for bare life.
Of course my weak vocal efforts were de
voted toward encouraging Mr. Gardner, but
he couldn't leave the Oxford man, and the
latter couldn't pass the Cantab. Who
could help getting excited? Why, we could
almost imagine we saw the muscles of the
rowers bursting through their jerseys.
About a quarter of a mile away Gardner
got a tew feet in Iront amid the wildest ex
citement Then Nickalls by a herculean
effort was soon on even terms again, and
there were more yells which were wild
enough to be called Indian warwhoops. It
was, indeed, a wild time. Gardner began to
drop a little behind at the half, and the
friends of Nickalls simply jumped up as
if they wonld never come down again. It
was thought that the accomplished Cantab
wasn't strong enough to last, but he was.
only ont of his course a little and was row
ing well. Nearingthe mile Nickalls began
to forge ahead, but only by tbe most desper
ate efforts. His "deep" stroke was
discounting his extra power to a
great extent Tne mile was reached in 5
minutes 28 seconds, and Nickalls was a
quarter of a length in 'ront But Gardner's
IriendB gave some tremendous shouts, and
he responded, game man that he is, and
inch by inch he began to overhaul the
champion. Nickalls reached Hammer
smith bridge only a lew inches in front, and
both men were still rowing as if they were
making efforts to escape certain death. They
emerged from under the bridge as even as
two men on a straight line, and a few strokes
further on Gardner's shell was seen a few
inches in front, and then there was pande
monium. Hats, handerchiefs and in some
instances there might have been heads, were
flying in the air. Everybody was jumping
on somebody else, and I dare say the con
testints were both blind and deaf.
"Never saw the loike o' it before," said
an old waterman. I know I never saw such
a race and I've seen a few. But just when
.the most extraordinary excitement pre
vailed Nickalls, the champion, "exploded."
His right arm had gone and he rowed clean
in to tbe river's bank. The race was now
settled, and Gardnerwon the finest victory
that has been recorded in either professional
or amateur racing. He is a fine sculler and
undoubtedly is the superior of Nickalls,
which means, that he is the best amateur
rentier in tbe world. Kickalls felt his de
feat very much and so did his friend Lord
Amphill. Jack Corcoran steered the loser,
and ''Doggett" Cobb guided the winner. I
may add, that the scnlls were presented in
1830 by Henry C. Wingfield to be rowed
by citizens of Great Britain and Ireland,
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Tbe Chni Flayers.
There is not much to say abont chess, but
I am anxious to deal with all branches of
sport in these letters, knowing that all
branches have admirers who read The Dis
patch. A few nights ago I had a visit
from James Mason, one of the best chess
players in the world; in fact many people
believe him to be the very best when he is
in "condition." He is a very intelligent
man and has a desire to be termed a philos
opher. Undoubtedly he has a good idea of
philosophy and is very well read. He has
some wealthy admirers who keep him
to the front He has been much
in America and to use bis own words is
"now on the quiet" for the big tournament
which begins at Manchester next month.
During a conversation Mr. Mason con
demned tbe new system of playing chess
for receipts. He argues that it is spoiling
the prestige ot the game and driving all its
wealthy patrons away. He said: "Chess
is not a game lor the eye like cricket, base
ball, etc, but it is a game entirely for the
mind. Advertising chess players the same
as boxers and others are advertised may at
tract numerous people for awhile, but tbe
majority will be disappointed because they
are not able to exercise their mind sufficient
ly regarding the game."
Mr. Mason does not think the young
players now coming to tbe front are as good
as the old experts. He, for instance, does
not place Guusberg in the same class as the
late Dr. Zuckertort Mr. Mason alto spoke
highly of Captain Mackenzie's abilities.
Ol course, as is generally known, the latter
is an American champion, and Mr. M.ison
claims that he is just as fine a player as can
be found. The Captain will be a competitor
in tbe Manchester tournament, but Mr.
Mason claims that a tonrnameut does not
always prove who the best chess player is.
There is a great amount of what is called
"luck" in a tournament, it is claimed.
Cilllng tbe Blood Down.
Last week I stated that one of these days
the qnestion of boxing contests in England
wonld be raised in the House of Commons.
Since I made that statement the question
has been raised twice with particular re er
euce to the Pelican Club. I had not ex
pected that the matter would be in
troduced so soon, but I was aware that cer
tain members tuily intended to bring the
matter before the House. Questions rela
tive to the matter have been addressed to
the Home Secretary, and in his replies he
has pointed out that there is a difference be
tween a boxing exhibition and a prize
fight, but he also pointed out that
there could be a prize fizht
even if the contestants wore
gloves. Mr. Cunninghame Graham, the
Socialist member of the Honse, is the chief
fanlt finder about the Pelican Club, al
though Mr. Cogwill first introduced the
matter. The latter asked if it was true that
the Pelican Clnb permitted fighting on Sun
day evenings, and strange to say the Home
Secretary took the word of a member ot the
clnb, and stated that there were no Sunday
night contests. A newspaper, however, on
tbe following day published the copy of an
invitation card issued by the club to mem
bers and iriends, informing them that
on "Sunday night there would be
contests lor the seven stone and a hair'
championship. It in ridiculous for
anybody to say the Pelicans do not enjoy
themselves on Sunday evenings bv having
boxing contests. There is a tendency in
this country to protect aristocratic olubt, no
matter what they do. Only a Jew days .ago
a well-known workingmen'sclub was raided,
and it is safe to say that the gambling, etc.,
within its doors, couldn't lorone moment be
compared with the wholesale system of the
Pelican Club.
It is this thought or fact that is prompt
ing members of Parliament in making in
quiries about the matter. The notion pre
vails extensively among tbe masses that the
Government shuts its eyes to the illegal acta
of the "upper ten," while the poor people
are persecuted. In other words. It is claimed
thatthere is a law for tbe rich and another
for tbe poor. It is true that almost all the
members of the Pelican Olnb are' members
of other clubs, and that theyare only mem
bers or the Pelican because of Its gambling
and nneilistio features. This tact is very
well known, and surelv if it is right for that
club to exist it cannot tie wrong for the var
ious workingmen'a clnbs in 'Clerkenwell
and other parts ot the citv to be run on sim
ilar principles. I will be much surprised
if the question is allowed to drop m the
Honse of Commons. Mr. Graham and his
friends are of the determined class, and, de
pend upon it, they will force mat
ters. The Pelicans must be very care
ful in future and' I am inclined to think
that no matter what they do they will be
watched very closely. If once the question
is brought lullv before the people the Gov
ernment will be compelled to treat the aris
tocratic Pelicans the same as other people
and that will mean no more championship
battles in the club. I mention these facts
to point out to Americans the strong proba
bility there is of public boxing being vetoed
here. This probability will make it risky
lor American pugilists to come to this coun
try until the matter is thoroughly settled.
There is a strong desire among the British
aristocracy to witness first-class fichts or
glove contests and they are willing to pay
well for them. But as soon as the officers of
the law begin to interfere the bloods keep in
the background.
Toff Wall ana Fosjarty.
A few days ago I made an effort to have a
match arranged between Toff Wall, the
English middleweight champion, and Jack
Eogarty. The former's backer, Tom
Symonds, is proprietor of the Blue Anchor,
Shoreditch, a kind of boxing headquarters.
I had a long conversation with Mr.
Symonds on the matter, and found him to
be a very frank and fair-minded gentleman.
He was perfectly willing to put up a good
stake for Wall to fight Eogarty, or to try
and secure a puree. Further, be was per
fectly willing to visit America with Wall,
provided the latter receives the usual ex
penses for the journey. Mrl Symonds
said: "I have been prevailing on
my friend Wall for a long time
to" go to America, but so far he has been
strongly opposed to the journey. He
doesn't like the sea and he is not willing to
venture across it But I think I can get
him persnsded to cross, and if I can he will
certainly fight Eogarty or any bod v else at
154 ponnds, or I may say 158 pounds. Wall
is abont 150 when in condition., so that he
almost always has to concede weight when
he fights anv of the middle-weights. If he
insists on not going to America he will meet
Eogarty in England in the fall."
The above statement is quite plain enough
to be understood by Fogarty and his backer,
ilr.-Qninn. I am confident that a contest
between Fogarty and Wall would be one of
the most interesting seen for a long time.
Of course I am inclined to think that when
in condition, Fogarty is the peer of any
middle-weight in the world, and we all
know that Wall is one of the most accom
plished boxers in the world. lam certain
that if Fogarty 's backer corresponds with
Mr. Symonds, tbe Blue Anchor, Shoreditch,
London, a match can. be secured; or if a
communication is sent to the Sporjsman
office, London, arrangements can be made.
Wall has a large following in London and
is the recognized champion. He stated two
or three days ago that he is still determined
not to cross the sea, but his friends think he
will change his mind. He has a very singu
lar temperament
.
A I the Bine Anchor.
I spent an evening at the famous Blue
Anchor, and I saw several good boxing con
tests. The latter are conducted on the most
orderly and fair principle. The hall is of
good dimensions, and when X was there it
was packed with a rongh looking, but an
orderly crowd. Mr. Symonds permits of no
collections or anything of that kind, and he
insists on every contestant getting fair play
and on every spectator being quiet and gen
tlemanly. It is indeed a great boxing re
sort, and some of the best pugilists England
has produoed have came to the front by
meins ot the Bine Anchor.
Let me say a few words that I think will
interest the patrons of the historic game of
cricket I was one among the 30,000 people
who witnessed the three-day match between
the English and the Australian teams at
Lords tbe other day. It was the greatest
match of the year by all odds, but it was lar
short of the" exciting features of many
matches of lesser note. The Australians
weie completely outplayed and were badly
beaten. One of the most interesting features
of the contest was the patience exercised by
the tremendous crowd. Thousands sat for
hours and at times they had long waits be
fore they saw anything except the batsman
stopping the ball with his bat As large as
the crowd was there was not a one-hundredth
part of the enthusiasm displayed that can be
seen at a "Pittsburg baseball ground In
an ordinary game. The proceedings were
of the humdrum and matter-ot-fact kind.
There are, however, just as many uncertain
ties in cricket as in baseball. For instance,
in the first inning Dr. Grace, tbe champion,
was retired before he made a run. What a
disappointment that wasl In the second
inning the "People's William," as- he is
called, scored 75, and might have been
scoring yet had a snfficieut number of runs
not been obtained to win. Grace is a won
der ul batsman and at times a bowler must
need a large amount of grit to con
tinue bowling to him. On Mon
day the attendance was 12,345; Tues
day, .12,726, and on Wednesday
5,208, malting a grand total of 30,279 "pay
ing" admissions. This at a shilling per
head represented 1,513, or a little over
57,000. 'The Australians got half of this,
but there was a large amount taken on the
grand stands which the Colonials did not
touch. The . crowd undoubtedly was a
profitable one, but if a foreign baseball team
of first-class rank were to visit America and
play an all-America team three games for
tbr" international championship, I am in
cited to think that twice as much money
wonld be taken as was the case at the cricket
match at Lords. I mention this to show
that, in my opinion, Americans are more
enthusiastic about their national game than
are the English people about theirs. I
certainly came to this opinion amid the
humdrum of the great match at Lords.
PBIXGT.E.
BEUTALITT TO CATTLE.
How the Poor Benin Suffer In Shipment
From Peruvian Ports.
Hew York Herald.1
"If the British Parliament wants to find
fanlt with the way cattle are shipped from
America," said a gentleman who had re
cently returned from Peru, "they should in
vestigate the methods in use by British
shippers and ship owners in Peru."
When the vessel lies in midstream the
cattle are thrown into the water and are
made fast to a rowboat by their, horns and
in that manner they are towed to tbe ship's
side, when they are hoisted on board by
their horns.
Oftentimes the horns of the unfortunate
animals are broken, and frequently they
fall against the boat and into the Water,
sometimes breaking their legs. In this con
dition, according to my informant, tbey
suffer untold agony until such time as they
hoist them again on board and put them ont
ol their misery.
In many cases in unloading cattle at a
port where wharfage facilities are lew, the
animals are thrown overboard and made to
swim to the shore as best they can.
CARPENTER'S- GOSSIP.
Uncle Sam's Army and Navy Wonld
Fight at the Drop of the Hat.
STORIES OF BLAINE ABD RUSK.
How Justice Bradley Enns to Mathematics
for Bis Kecreatlon.
LAWIBKB AND STDDI OF THE BIBLE
tcoaaxsroauKHCs or th bispatch.
Washington, August 9.
LAINE and the
Behring Sea matters
are 'still tbe chief
mbject of gossip in
naval and military
circles. The officers
of the army are tired
of the innocuous
desnetude enforced
upon them by peace
and the young men
among the West
Pointers would glad
1 y welcome any
trouble which wonld
give them a ohance
to rise. It is much
the same in the navy,
and if a war should
break out with En
gland the United
States will have
hundreds of ambitious men who will jump
to fight At Deer Park last week I met
Colonel Kellogg, who served for years on
the staff of General Thomas. He was on
General Sheridan's staff at the time he died,
and be had been in tbe regular army for 25
years. In speaking of the English and their
actions, last night, he voiced the sentiment
of many of his fellows when he said:
"War is the soldier's harvest. Onr army
has had no chance to distinguish itself since
1865, and the officers of the regular army
would welcome a war with England. As
for me, I spent four years fighting tbe South
and I have put in 17 years fighting Indians,
and I would now like to have a chance at
.U "C.i:.U Tf TA1. TO..11 ..l. i.l..
auc jjugiisu. .u iuuu uuu vau fc ta&B EKIC
oi iauaua, jfc ougab uj oeiong to us, ana n
he gets into trouble with us we will take it.
If we don't want it we can give it to the
Irish, and I imagine tbe Irish sympathizers
on the other side would make things lively
for England in a contest with the United
States."
THE MILITIA FOBCES.
Uncle Jerry Bnsk was one of the party
who listened to Colonel Kellogg's remarks,
and tbe question next came up as to tbe
available troops the United States had in
case of trouble. Our militia was referred to
and the Secretary ol Agriculture, though he
stated that he did not have any opinion to
express as to the situation, stated that he
could raise a division in Wisconsin on 24
hours' notice, and that the other States of
the Union could probobly do tbe same.
Admiral Queen, who did such good service
during the Mexican war and tbe Late Un
pleasantness, was very conservative in re
gard to his views. The first question he
thought to be decided was whether we were
right, and in discussing tbe gravity of the
situation he said it reminded him of the
story of tbe old negro who was
transported from the South to Africa. He
was landed in one of the worst earthquake
regions, and shortly after his arrival the
land began to tremble, tbe trees swayed and
the houses fell. The old darky flopped
down on his knees and prayed. He prayed
harder than he bad ever prayed at a South
ern campmeeting, and as the perspiration
and the tears rolled down his ebony face he
screamed out the following: "Oh, good
Lawd, come down here and save this poor
niceal Come quick Lawd and come youseft
Don't send your Son, for Lawd this am no
place or chillun," and so concluded Ad
miral Queen, "if we have a war for En
gland it will be a lively one, and it will be
no place for children." .
BLAINE AND THE SAILOR.
Another naval officer in commenting upon
the way in which Blaine had handled the
American end of the dispute told one of
Dick Wintersmith s t tones ot Blaine. It
related to a sailor who was at Washington
and who met Blaine for the first time.
When he was introduced he looked Blaine
all over and said "Are you the Blaine who
was born in Pennsylvania?"
"Yes," replied the Plumed Knight; "I
was born there."
"Are you tbe Blaine who was in Congress
and who made the brilliant speeches as the
Bepublican leader of the House?"
"Yes," said Blaine, "I have been in the
House too."
"Are you the Blaine," tbe old sea Cap
tain went on, while his look of admiration
grew stronger and stronger, "who has sev
eral times been a candidate for the Presi
dency of tbe United States, and whose
speeches I have read for the last 20 years?"
"I have been in the Senate," said Blaine,
"and I have made some speeches."
"Well," concluded the sailor as he
reached out his hand for another shake. "I
want to tell you that I think you are the
smartest man in the world. Why," here he
stepped back and looked at Blaine, "you
could do anything. I believe you could
sail around Cane Horn and back again on a
shingle and do it so well that you would not
even wet tbe seatoi your pants."
TWO BICH TOTJNO MEN.
Two of the richest young men in the
United States are now stooping at Deer
Park. They are young King, the son or
the great Texas cattle owner, and the young
fellow who married King's daughter. King
was originally a steamboat captain ou the
Mississippi river. He went out to Texas,
and when he died a few years ago he had
more cattle than any man in tbe world.
His widow now manages his estate, and I
understand that her cowboys branded some
thing like 30,000 calves this spring. This
would represent a herd of something like
300,000 or 400,000 cattle, and the King boys
are worth millions.
When I saw tbrm each wore a soft hat of
a dove color and I was told that tbey came
to Deer Park in broad brimmed straws ol
the style common in Texaa As soon as
they saw that these were not in lashion at
Deei"Park one of them telegraphed an order
to a hatter in New York and the next day
tbe stylish hats which they now wear came
C. O. D.
This story was told me in company with
Uncle Jerry Busk, and as I commented
upon his tall white plug, he said: "I don't
wonder that the King boys wanted a dif
ferent style of hat it they were not in fash
ion. Every part of the country has its own
head gear and I shall never forget an ex
perienced mine at Nantasket, near Boston.
I was governor of Wisconsin at the time
and out-there we thought nothing was so
genteel as a black silk tile.
wouldn't speak to uncle jebrt.
"I came'East to eet a short rest at the sea
shore, and when I landed at Nantasket
Beach I found that only myself and the
coachmen were wearing high hats. These
Bostonese are a curious sort of people, you
know. They want to look at your geanolog
ical tree and analyze your blood to see that
it is blue before tbey have much to do with
you. They are especially afraid of any
thing that is not from New England, or that
is at all out oi the way,and I wandered
around among them -for three days betore
any of them spoke to me. I had never been
treated so before and I couldn't understand
it, and at last said to myself that it must be
mr hat.
' 'I at once went to my room and put on a
little traveling cap that made me look like
the deuce, but which was not unlike some
of the hats oi tbe Bostonese, I then went
down and posed on the hotel piazza, and I
had not been sitting there five minutes be
fore a man came up and spoke to me. He
TtshIFw HY
SUNDAY. AUGUST
was a one-legged man. and he had a Grand
Armv button in the lapel of his coat He
noticed my button, and from that asked me
where I was from. I told him that I was
from Wisconsin.
"Indeed!" said be. "I know an elegant
fellow in Wisconsin. He is one of the
brightest and brainiest men I know."
"You do; and who is he," said L
"His name is Busk," replied the one
legsred Bostonian. "He is Governor of the
State."
DISABT7SING BIS MIND.
"Yes," said I, coolly, as I looked the one
legged man in the eye. "I know him better
than you ao, ana a can ten you you are mis
taken in your opinion of him. He's a
whelp."
"What!" said the man, fend he jumped
from his seat and pranced around on his one
leg as if he were going to get mad. He
turned to go away and I called him back
again and made him sit down. At he took
his chair I said: "It seems to me that I
have met you before. Have you ever been
in Washington?"
"Yes," was the reply.
"Have you ever been before the Invalids'
Pension Committee of the House?"
"Yu,' he again replied, "and were you
there?"
"Yes," said I, "I was the chairman of
that committee." '
"Why." said the man, "you're Old Eusk
himself." and with that we aeain shook.
The man had not seen me for years, and mv
hair and beard had grown white. Under
that little traveling cap he did not know
me, and I don't suppose he would have
recognized me under the tile. I got a new
hat a day or so later, and I found things as
pleasant as I could wish."
A BTOBT OF BRADLEY.
I met Justice Bradley, of the Supreme
Court, at Deer Park. He left Washington
at the close of the session not feeling at all
well, and came to the mountains expecting
to spend but a few days. His health im
proved so rapidly that he brought up his
family and decided to remain for the sum
mer. There is no more remarkable man in
the United States than Judge Bradlev.
About 5 feet 7 inches high, he has at 77
years of age as springy a walk and as good
a digestion as any young lawyer of 30. He
comes originally from New York, and when
I met him the other night, I asked him as
to the truth of the story about his boyhood,
and that he was asked when he was 10 years
old as to what be was going to be, and bad
uemureiy repucu mat ne naa not yes de
cided whether he wonld be President of the
United States or Justice of the Supreme
Court
Justice Bradley replied, "No, that was
not the correct story, but something really
did occur very much like it I had been
reading a history of England and was much
interested in Charles I. When the above
question was asked me I replied that I
wanted to be either a Judge or a King and
that on the whole I had decided I would
rather be a judge as I found that the Judges
killed Kings."
HE FIQURE3 FOB FUN.
Justice Bradley has one of the most re
markable analytical minds of the country.
He is a noted mathmatician and one of the
curiosities of his constitution is that he runs
to figures for rest He likes to reckon up
the hour that tbe sun will set on the odd
days of the year 3090, for instance, and he
has been even known to moke almanacs and
calendars of various kinds for fun. He is
now amusine himself at Deer Park in this
way and the first night he arrived he wentJ
ont and staked on a number of points from
the North Star and he has since calculated
the altitude, the latitnde and the longitude
of his present situation. He keeps the
mails hot with letters to the officers of tbe
Geological Survey, and he has a better
knowledge of where Deer Park actually is
than any other man in the country.
He works about ten hours a day when he
is in Washington on Supreme Court work
and he does it all for pure love of the wortc,
and he will probably die with a law book in
his hand. I asked him to-day as to whether
he thought the law offered as many ad
vantages to young men to-day as it did
when he entered upon its practice. He re
plied: "I think it does, though the compe
tition is greater. Still there is more money
to be made at the law now than ever before.
The fees are higher and the practice is
changing to correspond with the changes in
life and civiliz ition."
A WONDERFUL LAWTEB.
Speaking of great lawyers recalls a chat
I had last week with Uncle Jerry -Busk
about Matt Carpenter. "Matt Carpenter,"
said General Eusk, had wonderful ability
as a speaker, and he was a greater lawyer
than he was a statesman. He bad that kind
of a mind by which he was able to believe
that every case he took up had the richt on
his side and what's more than that be could
make you believe it. When he came to the
Senate he had to decide for himself which
side of a case was the right one and he told
me once that he did not like it, and that he
would prefer to have some one else make
the decision for him, as he might choose the
wrong side, and in that case it would bean
intellectual impossibility almost for him to
reverse his decision.
"Senator Matt Carpenter, he continued,
"was a well read man, and knew the Script
ures by heart He often corrected preach
ers in their quotations, and when the stories
charging him with leading a dissolute life
were published the people of Wisconsin
would not believe them, and the preachers
stood up for him. He told me once, how he
came to make such a study of the Bible. It
was when he began to study law. He wanted
to be taken into the office of Bufus Choate.
Mr. Choate told him- that it he wanted to
become a great lawyer be must go home and
learn the Bible by heart "Tbe Bible," said
he, "is the loundation o- all law, and i: you
want to become a great lawyer you must
know it" He worked day and night for
seven months, and at the end of that time
came back to Choate, having committed the
whole to memory. His quotations always
took with the jury, and a slice of the Old or
New Testament often bolstered up some
very poor evidence."
Frank G. Carpenter.
CATCHING LIVE BAIT.
A New Way of Trocarlnc HHbdows That
Come From Across lbs Sea.
London Society Times.
A new device 'for sportsmen to enable
them to catch minnows is called the "glass
minnow trap." It is a cylindrical vessel
about a loot long and eight inches in
diameter. One end is drawn out like the
neck of a bottle and fitted with a cap of wire
gauze, which may be screwed on and re
moved at will. The other end is folded in
ward like the bulge at tbe bottom of a bot
tle. In the center ol this bulge is a hole an
inch or more in diameter. Wires are
twisted around tbe trap in two rings pro
longed into standards with spreading bases.
A wire handle connects the rings at the top.
To operate the trap, which is, by the way,
ot pure, transparentglass, the cap is screwed
on and the interior is pirtly filled with
crumbled cracker. It is then let down into
water not over three feet deep, where min
nows coneregate, the standard" keeping it
off the bottom. To the handle a float is at
tached by a bit of string. The minnows
soon see the moving particles o cracker and
begin nosing around the glass.
Soon the lunnel-shaped opening is found
With the convenient hole through which ac
cess to the coveted cracker can be gained.
Minnow after minnow darts in, and in an
astonishingly short time the trap is full ot
them. The more there are in tbe more those
on the outside want to get in, and once in,
not one in fifty has sense enough to get out
again. When the fisher has all he wants he
pulls up his trap, unscrews the cap, and
pours them out into a pail.
A Newpnppr la Xallo.
Heweastle, Eng-.. Chronicle.
A newspaper printed wholly in Latin is
the latest journalistic novelty. The object
of tbe undertaking is to show that the
language of the old Komans should again
become what it was iu the Middle Ages
ot universal application. The ability to
adapt the tongue of Cicero and Ctesar to
modern methods and usages, will certainly
argue the possession of genius of no mean
order.
HATING LOTS OF FDN.
This Generation Isn't Paying Much
Attention to Old Ideas.
PLEASURES ARE HELD HARMLESS
That Wonld Have Filled Oar Good Grand
mothers With Horror.
SPECULATIOH AS TO THE EEBU1T
rwMrrzjr ron rax dispatch.
If anybody has the time or tbe taste to
wade through the reports of the doings at
the summer resorts, he can hardly fail. to
agree with Brother Talmagein his last Sun
day's sermon, when he says that "the air is
bewitched with the world, the flesh and the
devil." In the good old days of the
straight-laced grandmothers and Presby
terian grandfathers, children were kept in
pinafores and the background. They were
not permitted to talk, or in anyway obtrude
themselves upon the notice of their elders.
"Children were to be seen and not heard,"
was the most oft-repeated quotation with
which they were "sot" upon when they
wanted to know anything or to express an
opinion.
They were made to eat bread and milk
and plain food, to go to bed with the chick
ens, to wear plain clothes, and to be humble
and obedient at all times. They were more
over most carefully taught the Ten Com
mandments. They were well drilled and
disciplined as to the wickedness of profan
ing the Sabbath day by any suggestion of
amusement or enjoyment that would make
its long, long hours less dreary and dismal.
They were carefully instructed as to the hei
nous sin of dahcing, and the utter vileness
of card playing. So deeply was this idea
implanted, that men and women grown
have confessed that when they were chil
dren, they could not see a card without a
thrill of horror.
O XEMPOBAl O MORES I
But as Longfellow says, "All things
must change to something new, to something
strange," but who could imagine that in a
few short years Puritan and Presbyterian
doctrines and usages could have so changed
that the children and grandchildren of the
severe old sages and strictly pious mothers
would be disporting themselves at every
watering place and summer resort in doing
the very things they had been taught of old
were devices of Satan to drag them down to
everlasting destruction. In the reports of
the gay doings up at Cresson, for example,
mothers bearing names famous in Pittsburg
Presbyterian annals are daily indulging in
card parties and games of ebance for prizes.
And openly, too, not in lonely spots in the
woods, up in barn lots or remote corners
from which no whispers of such wickedness
could reach the ears of the "old folks," the
prying spinsters of tbe sewing circle or the
formidable parson and elders.
Up at Cresson the other day even a little
girl of 13 gave a card party a game of
chance which is said to be under ban of the
law and that little Miss So-and-So won the
first prize and another pet boy and girl the
other prizes. Shades of the "strict fathers
and stricter mothers! If their spirits are
hovering around their descendants, as
spirualism teaches, what must they think of
such a change from their times and teach
ings! Is it not plainly to be seen that the
early creeds and doctrines need to be re
vised, or rather abolished since clearly the
standards of right have been changed, and
new lines have been drawn as to the limits
ol sin?
POWER OF THE PULPIT.
How much the pulpit has lost in power,
even among the straightest sects, is shown
by the almost universal disregard of its
preaohings and teachings npon tbe subject
oi worldly amusements. Tbonsands or the
best supporters of the churches now frequent
the theaters and opera houses and ballrooms,
which have been denounced as the ante
rooms of perdition. Tbe clergy ol the Bo
man Catholic cbnrch forbids all but square
dancing, but that is too tame and unfashion
able for anything but church picnics, and
with its members as with others "stolen
sweets are always sweeter," so they dance
tbe round ones on the sly.
On all hands in these midsummer days
myriads of people are making merry in all
the ways so powerfully described by Brother
Talmage. They are putting in their holi
days for all the fun they can get out of them
whether in conformity to creeds or church
vows, or whether the clergy approve or not
Talmaje's sermon addressed to over a mill
ion readers by means ot the press is hardly
likely to make a single one of the amuse
ment seekers to pause in his mad career, or
take one step less in the giddy whirl.
Society has made a law nnto itself, and only
the question remains: What are the spirit
ual superiors going to do about it? They
cannot begin to read all of their members
ont of meeting. They cannot constrain them
to make a bonfire ot all the cards in the
country, as was done some centuries ago.
They cannot prevent their church members
by threat or tright of the future from send
ing their children to dancing school and in
dulging in "hops" and "germans." They
cannot restrain their most staid and respect
able parishioners from reading books which
the church deems daugerous.
WHAT CONDEMNATION DOES. '
The religious views presented in "Bobert
iSlsuiere were pronounced as unsound, and
the book was denounced from many a
pulpit and as a consequence everybody
men, women and children forthwith pro
ceeded to read "Bobert Elsmere." It seems
to bo only necessary for the pulpit to decry
a book to set everybody wild to read it
Good John Wanamaker in order to protect
the public morals, has decided that Tolstoi's
latest work, "The Kreutzer Sonata," is too
improper to be allowed to go through the
mails, and, as a consequence, every express
company will be loaded down with that
book. A hw words irom a man so eminent
as Mr. Gladstone set the whole civilized
world to reading Marie Bashkirtsefi and
thus gave her the fame alter death tor which
she so ardently longed in life.
All these are matters for the clergy and
moral teachers to. study. They form for
them a great problem in social life. The
recent Sunday School Convention gave
most encouraging accounts of the advance
ment and success of Sunday schools, and
yet the fact remains that dancing, cards,
novel reading, which the church denounces,
are more prevalent than ever' before in the
families of church members and Sunday
school goers. Is this to be held as advanc
ing or going backward? Is it to be supposed
that church people are growing more
worldly, or is it that the church does not
keep uu with the pace oi civilization? Are
tbe ministers to engage with more fiery
eloquence and glowing zeal against these
wordly amusements, orure they to fall in
with the fashion, give up the contest, and
content themselves with tbe old vnx popnli
vox dei? In tbe future teaching of tbe theo
logical colleges are these to be marked
"snags" to be avoided, or rocks in religious
channels to be blown up?
THE PROBABLE BESULT.
To those broueht up in the old way it is a
matter of wonder to know how the training
oi tbe children of to-day will turn out, op
posed, as it is, to all precedents. What sort
of men and women will come of the sparing
of tbe rod, the indulgence in so much that
those of earlier days thought hurtful, tbe
taking of children to the theaters and shows,
the allowing them to play cards and attend
hops, and u i making their little doings and
doll parties matters ot society reports?
"Children are not children any more
they're nuisances,'' said an irate father,
whose purse was 'drawn upon heavily for
rich costumes for a fancy dress party in
which his small folks were to take part
He had come up from a station In Hie when
a top and string were a rich possession, and
a penknife an untold treasure, but his chil
dren have to have bleyeles and pony carts
and costly toys without end. What will
come of it all? Will the future not show,
as in the present and the past that the
great men and women of the coming days
will not come of such life of luxury, indul
gence and satiety, but rather from the ranks
of those whose pleasures are simpler, vastly
harder to secure, and who, through neces
sity and poverty, rather than perhaps the
wisdom of their parents, ore trained to such
mental activity and self help as will fit
them to secure the prizes of life?
SOME OOOD AFTER ALL.
However, it is certain that a new system
of training children has come into fashion,
and only the future can tell what sort of
men and women wilt be the outcome. The
worst features of the old style are luckily
going out It is no longer to be considered
proper to tell children; that if they are bad
they will burn in everlasting fire. Beligion,
as Bev. Hodges remsrks, has sometimes
been made a device for scaring children, but
he thinks that such harsh elements are best
left entirely out of the' theology ot child
hood, as they were left out of the Apostles'
and Nicene breeds. Such teaching, as he
suggests, will make tbe lives ot children
vastly happier. It will take away
the terror which has oppressed sweet
innocent childhood for hundreds oi
years. With tbe rod that Solomon advises
also left out which by sensible people is
now thought cruel as well as useless the
law of love and gentleness and kindness
will be less likely to spoil the child than tbe
wise old man of old imagined. The great
danger in its administration, however, is
over-indulgence. Fathers and mothers must
study how to govern their children wisely
and well. Erom which will follow that
"the glory of children are their fathers"
and mothers. Bessie Bramble.
PASTEB JACQUES1 SECEET.
How
He Discovered tbe Dlstlllatlve That
ntajs tbe Hand of Hunger.
fall Mall Budget
Succi's rival, M. Jacques, has completed
his 42 days' fast Monsieur Jacques, who
has for many years resided in a little Kent
ish village, was born in St Arnaud les
Faux in 1811, and as a youth served his
apprenticeship to an "imprimeur snr
etoffes" at Epitaux. He fought in the
Franco-German war. during which he saved
his captain's life and performed several
other brave deeds. He was wounded again
and again, and, but for a happy accident,
would on one occasion have lost his life.
His bent of mind toward herbalism was
imparted in childhood, for at Begni, on the
frontier oi Belgium, lived his grandmother,
a woman who was wise in herbs, and who
took a good deal of trouble when he was a
little boy to interest him in her garden of
wild drngs. And he remembered very well
her showing him one plant in particular
the juice of which, she said, would save any
one who ate it from dying ot hunger, even
tbough.he were in the midstof a desert The
shape of the leaves of the plant Jacques
never forgot, and when Br. Tanner began
his fast, and the newspapers spoke of a de
coction which be used to take at intervals,
it occurred to the Frenchman that perhaps
the American knew his grandmother's se
cret At any rate, he set about borrowing
a book on botany, and in his own vil
lage he chanced upon a copy of
Cuipeppet's "Herbal," and in that boot
he saw figured the very leal he remembered.
In the letter-press nothing was said of its
saving men from starvation, but it gave
certain indications ot its properties which
Jacques who, for a layman, has rather a
carious knowledge of physiology and the
human frame putting two and two
together, accepted as confirmation, in
roundabout scientific phraseology, of his
grandmother's tale. Moreover, the book
said that the herb was "common," so he set
about looking for it, and very soon on the
heath close by he found it in abundance.
From it he has decocted or distilled a
"liquor" (which he calls the "Sauveur"),
and this liquor, he asserts from practical
experience, has the power of sustafning the
body in healtS and comparative vigor with
out any nourishment being taken for a length
of time not yet decided.
THE CRY OP THf .
Properties of the Third Most Preeloaa Metal
Known ro Science.
London Socttty Times.
Tin, which everyone knows, but which
few,except men of science and metallurgists,
are acquainted with, is one ot the most
precious and most interesting metals. After
gold and silver, it is intrinsically the most
precious of those in use. It is nearly of the
same color and almost as bright as silver,
but has less resistance and is less valuable.
When warmed by friction, it has a pro
nouoced odor and taste. When it is bent,,
tbe derangement of the crystals of which its'
mass is loruied causes it, without any frac
ture taking place, to emit a peculiar sound
which metallurgists call its cry, and by
means of which'an expert can nearly deter
mine its degree of purity.
The places where tin is prodnced are few,
scattered sparsely over tbe surface of the
globe, and it disguises itself under the form
of a blackish mineral which, to tbe profane
eye, gives no sign of tbe treasure that is
within it. One of tbe richest as well as
most ancient tin mining districts is in the
Malay Peninsula, the Golden Chersonesus
of the aucients.
The use ot tin dates from extreme an
tiquity, tbe most ancient document in which
a mention ol it has been found being a
hymn to the fire, which M. Oppert has trans
lated irom the Acadian language, a tongue
tbe knowledge of which has been recently
revived from cuneiform documents. Tin
was designated iu them, 5,000 years ngo.las
anaku. The Biblical text in the book of
Numbers in which Moses names tin in the
enumeration of tbe metals is therelore com
paratively modern, lor it is of 1,600 years
later date than the bvina to the fire.
THE WIZABIVS NEBVE.
A Little Thins Like iba PhoBograpli Idea
Did Not Excite Him.
Detroit Tree Frets.
Edison is a very cool man. When he
struck the phonograph idea he made a crude
tin foil cylinder. It was made at Meulo
Park. Edison prepared for the first test
and dictated "Mary had a little lamb" into
a large paper funnel. Krenzi, a confiden
tial iriend of the .inventor, stood by and
ventured the opinion that the verse would
not be repeated by the machine. Edison
turned tbe machine In the opposite direction
and said calmly t Krenzi: "I'll bet you
$T that it will talk hack."
There was silence or, an instant and then
came tbe words back through tbe funnel:
"Mary had little lamb."
Krenzi jumped all over the room in his
excitement, while Edison simply twisted
bis head and said, with quite smile:
"Krenzi, I have won the 7.
31. Jacques.
THE FIRESIDE SPHEfl
k Collection of Enisniatical Ms for
Horns CracMng.
Addrm communication for this department
to E. B, CbadboUKN. liCiotston, Maine.
Copyright 1890. by E. B. CHADBornx
11J9 A OOOD BOOK IN GOOD DEE33.
D. M.&
1160 CHARADE.
First of meanlnirs has a score.
And I know not how many more.
It means to move npon the feet
As when walks along the street;
It means to pass, advance, proceed.
To circulate, tarn out. to lead;
To undertake, decline, apply.
To leave, to tend, to reach, to die.
I know not second's pedigree;
It some relations ha-, I see.
For all about it I can And
Sneaks of relations of some kind.
That of condition comes to view,
Of action and employment too;
And another blood relation
Is that of ontward situation.
Whole Is an animal I've seen;
Perhaos yon know the one I mean.
Some secret orders, it is said.
Are partial to this quadruped.
NzxsoazAK
1161 STNCOPATION.
Whole.
In fnrnaees Fm sometimes set
For driving air; I'm a steam-jet
In shape of tin or Iron plate
1 mav be placed before a grate.
I rush from mines, a caseous gale,
Yet sailors see in me a whale.
Last.
Card-players often use my name
When playing in a certain game;
Sometimes I am a country seat
Sometimes a shady, snas retreat;
As anchor I sink in the sea;
I'm what a man mar sometimes be.
J.Ki
1162 A CENSUS PUZZLE.
A eensns enumerator havine asked a lady
her age and that of her child, received tbe fob
lowing answer:
"The sum of all the factors of my age equals
the age itself, and the sum of all the factors of
my child's age equals the age Itself."
What were the ages of mother and child?
J. H. FEZAX23I&
1163 ANAOBAM.
Tercelvine" so much wrangling rife.
So mnch of enmity and strife,
Amonc sectarians of tbe day
Who sneb unchristian zeal display.
And straggle so In tbe defense
Of dogmas of no consequence,
I turn from all in sheer disgust.
And so "IN TENETS' put no trust
NELSON1A3T.
1164 TRANSPOSITION.
A first on every plow must be.
And 'tis a dividend. I see:
Second hunters kill for game
We sometimes see them very tames
If one relates all that one-thirds.
He needs a large supply of words;
Hands mtutwrA ere mills prepare
A kind of cloth for winter wear. J. 22
1165 DIAMOND.
I. In Plttsbnrtr. 2. Possessive. (Abbr.) &
Small worms. (Entom.) 4. In tbe Intermedi
ate space of. 6. A scullion. B. A voter In cer
tain boroughs of England, where all who boil
a pot are entitled to rote. 7. Radiated. 8. A
Oreek proper name. .Author.) 8. Square
nieces of blankets nsed by the Indians to wrap
tbe toot and ankle in before putting on mocas
sins. 10. A color. It In Pittsburg.
DoMEtrx.
1166 WHAT IS n?
Few things on earth are perfect fount
Bat faults and blemishes abound.
Of these a sample you will see
Whene'er by chance you look at me,
Some folks, so charitable and kind,
Wonld make me a defect of mind,
While others view me as a crime;
Bat in moral dramas of olden time
A charactersome one invented
By which myself was represented.
Dressed in a cap with donkey's ears.
Affording ground for mirth and Jeers,
With dagger of lath Instead of spear.
Attacking tbe Deril without fear.
Belaboring hlrn often o'er and o'er.
Until I made tbe Devil roar.
Still it ended, then, as It does today,
By tbe Devil's bearing me away.
In another form and other kind
You can alwajs see me, if so Inclined!
Bo great is my strength, such is my power,
I'm in constant use each day and hour.
Not a lion itself, with teeth and claws,
Conld escape If once within my Jaws,
Nor a Samson be able his bands to unclasp
When once they are folded within my grasps
it u. WooDroaD.
1167 NUMEBICAIi.
The 9 to 14 may in darkness be at noon.
When 'twtxt thesun and earth there intervene
the moon:
Bol'a 1 to 4 is hid. yet round his S to 7
Is seen a lustrons circle glittering la high
heaven.
Our men of science then observe with ssgsv
gaze
Tbe bright corona that the darkened san ls-
plays:
"Acntaness" mnch they need, and total, too.
To find out facts and make deductions true.
3.H.
1168 DECAPITATION.
Behead a woman all have knnwa
And leave a man that livsd alone.
Again behead bat very strange!
It leaves a female by the ehange.
AXDTX.
' ANSWEBS.
1150 Ships are in danger going round, t
Horn.
1151 Star-monger.
1152 Crest, rest.
1153-
i a
4 s s
7 8 9
Designating the position of tbe nine piles T
the numbers lu tbe above diagram, tbe carol
wonld be distributed as follows:
First Second Third Fourth
No. of playeri player, player, player,
square. Spades. Clnbs. Diamonds. Hearts.
1 3 7 9 5
2 8 3 10
3 7 9 5 8
4 10 8 2 4
5 J 8 6 6
6 3 10 8
r 5 S 7 9
g 4 10 "3
9 9 8 8 7
1154 Fashion-monger.
1155 Sole.
1159 Pitchforks.
1157 Madge-bovtlet.
116S Forum, form.
, A BTTITEBMIXK BASE.
Doctors Prescribe li and the Ladles Use K
Instead of Tea.
As a therapeutic agent, says the St, Louis
Olobe-Aemocrat, buttermilk is given now to
u sick person, when nothing else is allowed.
It is a powerful nerve tonic Buttermilk is
now considered better than sweet milk for
persons inclined to dyspepsia, because
one of the difficulties of milk its slow di
gestive qualities is removed at once, as
buttermilk has already gone through one
process f digestion.
Iced bnttermilk is a fashionable fad now.
L idles offer a glass of buttermilk to their
friends just as they do the "cup of tea" ia
the winter. It is also in vogue as a faeej
wash to remove freckles as well as sua
burns.