W OFSPORTS Some Seasons "Why Baseball Patrons Should Be Patient With Their Fayorite Teams. HOW BAD JUDGMENT IS PORMED, The Local Club's Chances in the Kaca. Compared With the Chances of the Other Prominent Nines. TEEMER'S CHALLENGE 10 GACDAUB. Oorbetts Confidence ef Defeating Jackson Few Wcrds About Ked O'Balawin. Since tbe baseball season started it has been the aim of these reviews and of this paper, generally, to urge that the patrons of the local club give the team an honest trial before abusing it Even when defeats have been coming stronger than they ought to have come I have urged this point, and at present I am inclined to think that those who have had patience will be quite satis fied of their own wisdom in being patient. Nobody can well grumble at the work of the local team, and they promise to fulfil the expectations of all of us. I have often noticsd that while there may be many changes in the utterances and even policy of the baseball magnates and also those who have baseball teams in charge, there ore, indeed, far more changes of feeling and advocacy among the baseball patrons. Now I am not going to make any comparisons that will hold the dear public up to scorn, but I am going to point out what a curious sort of "Gregory's mixture" the public is, particularly where baseball is concerned. There has been sufficient p'roof of thi6 during the week, because I have met scores of people who only a few days ago were condemning the team to the remotest part of certain very remote regions, and who are now lauding that same team to the seventh heaven of excellence. The ordinary Etate of affairs is 'something like this: A ball team which is expected to fio great things in a long race make a very bad start, or at least they do not do "great inmgs, ana as a result thousands ot its Matrons declare their disgust in verv loud tones. Then this ever-changing public de mands that this man and that man be re leased; that this position be filled by Jones; that the other be filled by Smith, and so on. "Well, just as all this noise and condemna tion is at its height the team begins to per form in something like their best form, and es in the New York series, win a few games straightaway against the very best of play ers, and then that impatient portion of the baseball publio becomes quite another party altogether. They transcend from disgust to admiration in a day; and the verv players and people they have been consigning to perdition are now their idols. This is no fancy picture of imagination, but a real every-day fact It is only the other day that scores were condemning Miller as strongly as words would permit, and in two or three games of the New York series the same people couldn't find language strong enougn to praise him. livils of Hasty Judgment. As a rule the opinions of those very hasty and impatient people are worthless; certain ly very unsafe, because they will not take time to weigh and examine closely and im partially all the circumstances connected with the results that may come contrary to their desires or expectations. In short, the opinions of the people in question are ,the outcome of impulse rather than reason, and we all know that opinions based on any such 1 judgment are Dan J.ney are particularly unfair to those who arc being pronounced upon. "Well, then, it is certainly the better way in baseball aflairs to be careful and im partial and even slow in coming to "an opin ion regarding the true i orth, or what we may deem the true worth of a team. If thoe very impulsive patrons of the game would just consider for one moment how often in a season they change their opinions regarding teams and players I'm sure they would not " be so ready to condemn this man or that man who happens to have an "off" day or two; or condemn this team or that team be cause of losing a few games straightaway. I feel constrained to make these few re marks because so many a ery hard things ha e been said about the local team lately. Everybody connected with it has been con demned since the season opened, and had the management been disposed to lend an attentive ear to the howling admonitions of the grumblers almost every man in the team who have been in turn in almost every position on the team. This is injurious to everybody and everj thing concerned. "What is required is to liave patience in defeat; of course, not too much of it, but a reasonable amount "We should give every body a fair chance at all times to prove what can be done. Local patrons should take into consideration the very important fact that the local team started out under Tery great difficulties. They were almost all new to each other, and that is a very great handicap. As they get more ac customed to each other's methods they w ill certainly do better. There is nothing like good team work, but W e cannot expect first class team work from a nine who are strangers to each other. Practice alone will bring that,andit is quite appaient that practice is making the local team much bet ter. But even though the team would reach its best stage of merit, it is ouite likely that a run of del eats may be their lot, and it is Just at times of th'at kind that we should exercise a calm and patient judgment if we don't want to make matters worse. These word9 are not at all said in the way of a homily to readers of this review, but solelv are said in the hope that our players will not be condemned befoie it has been fully demonstrated that the' are incapable of niung tue mil. ut course, 1 am aware that it is only the intense interest taken by the . puDiicin me team, ana ttie intense desire to seeit at all times victorious that prompts dissatisfaction when defeat comes, but we should never allow our impulse to dethrone our reason on matters of judgment. Few Words About Our Team. The week has been a very good one for the local team in many respects. They have particularlv brought themselves into prom inence by defeating the New York players three games out of four. Few people ex pected a result of this kind, because the New Yorkers are a very strong lot of people on the ball field. During the series I was thoroughly convinced that, taking every thing into consideration, the Pittsburgers are just as good as the New Yorkers. Dur ing the series, when it came to a question of merit, the local team were victorious, and this leads me to believe that if all goes well we will have a team taking just as promi nent a part in the League race as anybody else. Certainly there arc always lots of its in baseball, but if the team keeps all right they will take their own part at any stage. The week has also been successful finan cially, and this is the great and vital point for the club. It is long since there was such a good attendance for four games in this city as there was in the New York series, and I am glad of it, for the plucky efforts of the club directors deserve to be rewarded and rewarded well. Of course there have been the usual stories and rumors about releases. Since the season commenced almost eery player on the team has, by rumor, been released. But I don't think that any changes in the nine will be made at present, and I hope there will not, no matter what the olamorings of the cranks may be. I go further and say that as long as tho club can afford it, not a good man should be released. A few days ago it was somewhat definitely stated that among others Pields was to go. Now the club should be a little careful about Pields, or Berger, either. During TO-"-! n the week they have shown that they are capable of playing an admirable game and thev are both young. "We may peed them both, besides a club that want a victorious team should always have a good reserve list of players. Already there are teams badly handicapped because of a scarcity of extra men. "Well, altogether I am quite satisfied with' the local team as it is, and it seems to me that the team will fulfill our most san guine expectations. There has already been one fact demonstrated here, viz., that Pitts burg is willing, and heartily willing to sup port well a winning team. We have so long been accustomed to deal with atail-ender that a "top-notcher" is a novelty that will tickle all of us. The Xieague Eace. A few words, and a very few, about the League race may not be out of place. It is some time since we had such an exciting start for the pennant Metaphorically speak ing a hat will nearly cover the first six or seven teams. This is as it out to be, and I hope that it will be kept up. Certainly, some of the teams are not settled down -yet, and it would be dangerous to make an defi nite predictions about the general results. But so far it appears to me that the final struggle will be between Pittsburg, New Tork and Boston, and it may be that Presi dent O'Neil's luck will land his team a win ner. Certainly if the local team plays in its best form its chances of victory are as good, and maybe better than those of any other team in the country. Brooklyn is not class enough, and although Chicago has a steady lot of players it is only expected that when the stronger clubs get down to work Chi cago wilLsuffeT defeat Anson's team can not get much better and they are far from being in the class of pennant winners at present The Cleveland team is over matched and I will be very much surprised indeadifthey ever get near the top again during the season. Cincinnati continues to have a hard time of it, but the team will get oeiter. The Amateur Players. One of the best signs of the popularity of baseball is the very large number of ama teur teams. This season we have scores of them in and about the city; teams made up of youngsters, not far from their childhood to citizens who are no longer "young men." This is all very pleasing, and, as a result, we wight to have some great players in the city by and by. And among the amateurs are our school and college Youths, who are probably as enthusiastic as anybody. They are making matters lively this season, also. Thereis a feature of these "college" nines to which my attention was drawn the other aay Dy a member ot the Western Univer sity of Pennsylvania team. In a commu nication he informed me that for several years the team of which he is a member have been playing teams from other col leges, or teams supposed to be composed of young collegians. .out he goes on to say that in all this time his team have never faced a college team entirely made up of students of the particular colleges. On all occasions, he avers, outsiders have been rung in, and as a result the "West ern "University team have been regularly facing a picked nine. This is the statement of my in end, and I suppose there is some truth in it But I ask, is not this system a fraudulent one ? No college has a right to get together a baseball team of picked men lrom the outside and foist it on the public as a teamjof the college students. It would certainly be better and more honorable if the truth were toldon all occasions, and if a picked nine is being used, call it a picked nine. The same questionable system is in operation in many teams other than among college teams, .a. season m so ago i knew of a local "amateur" battery and an infielder or two who were counted as members of al most all local clubs; at least, on special oc casions they were hired by any of the clubs. I am not objecting to these players playing when they like, but I do say that their ap pearand .n any particular nine makes it a picked njneand therefore the regular name of that nine is misleading. There are good reasons whv colleee nines when tilnvinc against each ftllfr should consist only of students of the college. The Louisville Derby. How the glory of the Louisville derby has departed! Tt has dropped from a great race to one of comparative insignificance and one which leading owners care little or nothing about The Derby which was run the other day was little more than a farce, both as to the time made and the horses entered. There must bejsomething eradically wrong with the race or its arrangements. Of course there is not sufficient money in it for an owner of a real "flyer" to start his horse to win it and these incur a penalty for something of more importance. But the arrangements and general conditions of the race must be faulty, or certainly the Derby would attract more attention than it does. During the last few davs it has degenerated, so rapidly that it would seem to be near an entire col lapse. Most assuredly it does not now rise to the dignity of a national Derby and the Louisville race authorities ought to try and have it revived. Kingman's victory was a remarkable one as it was the slowest on record. That fact alone will keep Kingman remembered for many years, as it is hardly possible for any horse in this generation to win in slower time than 2.32. The Professional Bowers. After all it may be that we will not have Stansbury, the champion sculler, among us this year. The latest reports from "down under" state that McLean has agreed to row Stansbury again for the championship in July next. Articles are signed, according to report, and if this is so it is not unlikely that, should Stansbury win again, another race will be ready for him in Australia. At present there is more money for the scullers in Australia than there is here and the sport is much more popular. The truth is nobody in this country seems to care anything about it I would Tike to see one of the Austra lian first-raters come here and row a match, only to see how they would perform on American waters. So far English sprinters who "have come here have performed very badly, and it may be that the Australian scullers would notbe so fast here as they are on their own native streams. If the last race between Stansbury and McLean was on its merits it would seem that the latter has a very poor show of turning the tables. But it may be difficult to find out how things are going and how they have been. The history of professional sculling both in America and in England reveals this fact, that as soon as the sport has become thoroughly popular, has been well patronized, the scullers com menced to try and hoodwink and rob the publio of its money. This is absolutely true; and it may be that the same fate awaits the sport in Australia. Efforts of a kind arc being made to have arranged a few races in this country this summer. The latest is to the effect that Tecmer wants to row Gaudaur a scries of three races the same old three races, and the winner of two of them to win the stakes and a nortion of the "irnip. money." There is nothing like plenty of ucitc, uuu jl iiiiij uu luuiji iuab il, requires lots of it to prompt John to spring the three-race notion again. We had the"pair here some time ago, I mean the pair of row ers, ana after their memorable affair Gau daur emphatically declared that he would not, under any circumstances, row against Teemer again. But they are both on deck once more and figuring on their three-race notion. I suppose the three-card, I mean the three-race scheme, is notcceptable, be cause it will cover three cities; that is, three victims. Well, Mr. Gaudaur is quite wiUing to row against Teemer again, and why shouldn't he? It is in his line of busi ness to do so, and in doing so to abuse Teemer, publicly of course, m the strongest terms possible; and it is in line for Teemer to abuse Gaudaur In the same way. All that is one of the chief essentials of profes sional boat rowing for "gate receipts. Xed O'Baldwin's Abilities. Mv remarks two weeks airo abont Sulli van's class as a prize fighter brought me in contact with one of the best informed men pn pugilistic matters in the State a few days ago. While my friend held the opinion that Sullivan did not rank first-class among the prize ring heroes, he had much to say about Ned O Baldwin. He said some very interesting things, and as he was one of O'Baldwin's backers, I now give part of my friend's statement He said: "Ned O'Bald win was the best prize fighter that has ever lived, and he would have defeated Sullivan the" had they fought against each other in their prime. O'Baldwin was a remarkable man, and the cleverest big man I have ever seen. After Mace and Coburn fought their fake near New Orleans Mace went to New Tork and challenged O'Baldwin to fight for a big stake, and put up a forfeit of ?500. O'Bald win was only given nine, days to cover the money. I wired for Ned to come , to Pitts burg and he came, and what a sight he was. His pants were about six inches too short, the bottom of his Test was aboutour inches above the top of his pants and his arms nearly a foot through his coat sleeves. Well, I asked him about fighting Mace and he was delighted. We soon got the 5500 and forwarded it to New York, much to the surprise of Mace. But Mace knew he had no chance at all against O'Bald win and that's all there was of it O'Bald win and Wormald were matched, and while I hold that Wormald would have beaten Sullivan in a prize ring, O'Baldwin would certainly have defeated Wormald if the battle had gone on. A year or so before Joe Coburn died I met him in New York and we talked the old-time affairs over. He boxed with both. Wormald and O'Baldwin and I asked him his opinion abont them. I remarked that we were getting old and that both Wormald and O'Baldwin -were dead. He replied very earnestly: 'O'Baldwin was the best man I ever knew. I couldn't have stood three rounds against Ned in a fair fight That's my opinion of him.'" This opinion, coming as it does from such au- cannot but be interesting to those interested in prize ring matters. The Approaching Big Battle. Interest is still increasing in the Jackson and Corbctt fight, and as the day of contest approaches the rumors regarding the men become' more numerous. Corbett's friends and admirers cannot fail to admire his great confidence regarding the result Here is what he says about the affair to a friend: "It appears to be the general impression in the East that Peter Jackson is certain to defeat me when we meet in the California Athletic Club to fight for 510,000. Jackson may be able to knock me out or render me unable to continue the contest, but every body, friends or foes (and I do not think I have many of the latter), may rest assured that I shall do just as much hard hitting, and display just as good generalship as Jackson. "I never saw a boaster, believing in deeds and not words, but you can chronicle that Jackson will have to fight harder and longer than he ever did before to defeat me. "I look upon Jackson as one of the lead ing heavy-weight pugilists of the times, and will allow that I am only a novice compared with him, for he has been fighting longer ana traveled lurtner tnan J. nave done. Jackson has defeated George Goodfrey, Joe McAulifle, Patsy Cardiff and Jem Smith, and fought a draw with the Australian champion, Joe Goddard. Probably I could have accomplished the same feat had oppor tunity offered. Should I defeat Jackson, you can rest assured I shall consider that I have a mortgage on the championship belt, which Frank P. Slavin holds, and will be only too ready to represent America as the champion, it being my native country, against Slavin or any other man disputing the heavy-weight championship of the world." Pugilistic Aflairs in General. Another rumor is in circulation regard ing John L. Sullivan. This one is to the ef fect that the one stating he had resolved to retire from the ring was incorrect It is now stated that Sullivan will not leave the ring entirely, bnt will be prepared to fight as soon as Ms show engagements are over. This is as little as he and his friends could T gay. in view of the fact that they intend to visit Australia. It would be a great loss to Sullivan to visit Australia as the retired champion. It would certainly be more profitable for him to go there as the "man prepared to fight anybody on earth." This would have a drawing effect and no mis take. I suppose this will be the programme, and it will pay. But I don't believe that Sullivan will ever fight again, and he would be foolish to do so. The example of Dempsy ought to be a warniner. The latter reached a point that gave him alL the glory he wanted, or onghtto have wanted. He could then have retired from the business an un beaten man, and that alone would have been of value to him in business. But he didn't do this, and went and suffered two defeats. Away went his glory and prestige, and to-day his name is never mentioned. This defeat buried him entirely. Well, Sullivan runs the same risk as he is just as likely to be defeated as was Dempsey. There has been nothing of importance said during the weeks regarding the Hall and Fitzsimmons affair. Indeed, I have scarcely seen the affair noted at alL At one or two places Hall has been saying wnai ne wiu ao wim jb nz, ana I suppose that the latter, in another part of the coun try has been telling what he will do with Hall. It still remains to be proven to my satisfaction that they are going to fight for a purse of 512, 000. Slavin and Kilrain are training for their knock-out contest, although both men are keeping a' little quiet, the general opinion among the Eastern talent is that Slavin should knock Kilrain out in six rounds if he wants to. Muldoon and Cleary have Kilrain in charge. It must not be forgot ten that Kilrain is to have quite a nice sum of money even if he loses. Isn't it interest ing to note how the fortunes of the prize ring vary. Not very long ago thousands of people deemed Kilrain Sullivan's superior. To nave said then that anybody would knock Kilrain out in five or six rounds would almost have been pugilistic treason. And now here we are with a man whom good judges think can knock Kilrain out in a very short time. This goes to show that Kilrain has been living in the past on a reputation that was false. There is nothing new among the light weights and feather-weights except that Larkins very decisively defeated Hagen, of Philadelphia, last Monday night Larkins is"a good man and he defeated another good one when he beat Hagen. Pbetgle. TSAirSPIAHTIKQ YOUNG FISH. How the Try Perform When Introduced to Their New Homo. "Did you ever see a lot of fish fry placed in aj stream or lake? No? Well, I'll tell yon how it is done," and Colonel Eich mond laid his cane on the desk, that he might the more accurately describe the operation to a writer in the Meadville He publican. Colonel "Dan" took as his subject the six palls of Susquehanna salmon recently planted in Conneaut late by himself, John E. Beynolds and other members of the Iroquois Club. The fry arrived from the Corry hatchery in the forenoon. The noon train bore them to the lake, where Commo dore Whelpley, one of the best sailors and most enthusiastic fishermen of the day, was in waiting with the steam launch "Marga ret," with a full head. Still water was sought and a can of the fry was placed in A Dasm aDove me ice nouses, one in tront ol Conneaut Park, one above the Willowby, 1 one at the head of the lake and one in HorseShoe basin and one in Miller's basin. When the place intended for planting a can had been reached, the boat wouldbe brought to a stop, a can would be opened, let carefully under the surface and then upset, letting the fish out as easily as possi ble. There was half a pint or more of the fry in each can. They looked like young tadpoles, and were abont a quarter of an inch long, and as soon as they were placed in the water the whole lot spread out over the surface, covering a space perhaps five feet across. JThey lay perfectly quiet, for about ten seconds, and then, as though on a fiven signal, nearly every little fish turned is tail toward the sky and made straight for the bottom of the lake, and 15 seconds after they were placed in the water not a minnow was to be seen. A Practical Interpretation. "Wsshlngton Post. "Did you ever read that new production Lines on the Hudson Biver Scenery?' " in quired the literary, young woman. "Ah," replied the' youth, "1 know what you mean. Them's railroad tracks." 'fittsbot SOUTH Etmarkable, cies of BONES mi UT FEABED, White Sailoni Ipelago Pick-Up eiefi. SPEOIMENU iffl) FOLK-LOEE IX DISPATCH. So. 10. Wehav.i pe stories of a similar complexiol . weird ones that hover about theJ s of the South Seas. The Polynesia , ino or aitu o lerao is clearly il kinsman of the Transyl- vanianvil Here is a tale in which the kinj ppears broadly marked. On the aa Penrhynn, then still partly savage, t f a chief was long the salutary terror o .atives. He died, he was bur ied, and I ite neighbors had scarce tasted delights a icense, ere his ghost appeared about th lllage. Eear seized upon all; a council p held of the chief men and sor cerers, tA with the approval of theltaro tongan Ll-sionary, who was as frightened as the restfand in the presence of several whites my friend Mr. Ben Herd being one the grave was opened, deepened until water came, and the body reinterred face down. The still recent staking of suicides in England and the decapitation of vampires in the east of Europe form close parallels. 'S 1 1 . ' PASSENGERS OS A So in Samoa only the spirits-of the nn buried awake fear. During the late war many fell in the bush; their bodies, some times headless, were brought back by native, pastors and interred; but this (I know not why) was insufficient, and the spirit still lingered on the theater of death. When peace returned a singular scene was enacted in many places, and chiefly round the high gorges ot Luatuanuu, where the struggle was long centered and the loss had been se vere. Patient Watches of the Women. Kinswomen of the dead came carrying a mat or sheet and guided by survivors of the fight: the .place of death was earnestly sought out; the sheet was spread upon the ground; and the women, moved with'pious anxiety, sat about and watched it. If any living thing alighted it was twice brushed away; upon the third coming it was knowri to be the spirit of the dead, was folded in, carried home and buried beside the body; and the aitu rested. The rite was practiced beyond doubt in simple piety; the repose of the soul was its object its motive, reverent affection. The present King disowns indeed all knowl edge of a dangerous aitu; he declares the souls of the unburied were only wanderers in limbo, lacking an entrance to the proper country of the dead, unhappy nowise hurt- A SETTLEMENT ON fuL And this severely classic opinion doubtless represents the views of the en lightened. But the flight of my Lafaele marks the grosser terrors of the ignorant Itcspcct for Bones and Mnmmies. This belief in the exorcising efficacy of funeral rites perhaps explains a fact, other wise amazing, that no Polynesian seems at all to share our European dread of human bones and mummies. Of the first they made their cherished ornaments; they preserved them in houses or in mortuary caves, and the watchers of royal sepulchres dwelt with their children among the bones of genera tions. The mummy, even in the making, was as little feared. In the Marquesas, on the extreme east, it was made by the house hold with continual unction and exposure to the sun; in the Carolines, upon the fur thest west, it is still cured in the smoke of the family hearth. Head hunting, besides, still lives around my doorstep in Samoa, and not ten years ago, in the Gilberts, the widow must disin ter, cleanse, polish, and thenceforth carry about with her, by day and night, the head of her dead husband. In all these cases we may suppose the process, whether of cleans ing or drying, to have fully exorcised the city. ' Escape In Spite of Watching. But the Paumotuan belief is more ob scure. Here the man is duly buried, and be has to be watched. He is duly watched, and the spirit goes abroad in spite of watches. Indeed, it is not the purpose of the vigils to prevent these wanderings; only to mollify by polite attention the inveterate malignity of the dead. Neglect (it is sup posed) may irritate and thus" invite his visits, and the aged and weakly sometimes balance risks, and, like our widow, stay at home. And observe, it isthe dead man's kindred ana next mends who thus deprecate his fury with 'nocturia! watchincrs. Even the placatory vifeil ja hcldiperilbus except in company, ana a-f' vwuiid out, to baa. eSTS. onsisten-wtionSi paB-0 tin ' - 'v' , ,. v.i TaE.r. . J suhday, in Botoava, because he had watched alone by his own father. Not the ties of the dead, nor yet their -proved character, affect the issue. A late resident, who died in Paka rava of sunstroke, was beloved in life and is stjll remembered with affection; none the less his spirit went about the island clothed with terrors, and the neighborhood of Gov ernment House was still avoided after dark. We may sum up the cheerful doctrine thus: All men become vampires, and the vampire spares none. And here we come face to face with a tempting inconsistency. For the whistling spirits are notoriously clannish; I understood them to wait upon and to enlighten kinsfolk only( and that the medium was always of the race of the communicating spirit Here, then, we have the bonds of the family, on the one hand, severed at the hour of death; on the other, helpfully persisting possibly for genera tions. The child's soul in the Tahitian tale was wrapped in leaves. It is the spirits of the newly dead that are the dainty; when they are slain the honse is stained with blood. Bua's dead fisherman was decomposed; so and horribly was his arboreal demon. The spirit, then, is a thing material; and it is by the material ensigns of corruption that he is distinguished from the living man. This opinion is widespread, adds a gross terror to the more ugly Polynesian tales, and sometimes defaces the more engaging witn a painful and incongruous touch. I will give two examples sufficiently wide apart, one from Tahiti, one from Samoa: A Strange Tahitian Tale. And first from Tahiti. A man went to visit the husband of his sister, then some time dead. In her life the sister had been dainty in the island fashion and went al ways adorned with a coronet of flowers. In the midst of the night the brother awoke and was aware of a heavenly fragrance go ing to and fro in the dark house. The lamp I must suppose to have burned out; no Tahitian would have slept without one lighted. Awhile he lay wondering and de- V V TBADESG SCH09ITE3, lighted; then called upon the rest "Do none ofvou smell flowers?" he asked. "O," said his brother-in-law, "we are used to that here," The next morning these two men went walking and the widower confessed that his dead wife came about the house continually, and that he had even seen her. She was shaped and dressed and crowned with flowers as in her lifetime; only she moved a few inches above the earth with a very easy progress, and flitted dry shod above the surlace of the river. And now comes my point: It was always in a back view that she appeared, and these brothers-in-law, debating the affair, agreed ''that this was to conceal the imoads of corruption. Again on Inconsistency. The vigil on the Paumotuan grave does not extend beyond two weeksand they told me this period was thought to coincide with that of the resolution of the body. The ghost always marked with decay, the dan ger seemingly ending with the process of dissolution; here is tempting matter for the theorist. But it will not do. The lady of the flowers had-been long dead, and her spirit was still supposed to bear the brand ot perishability. The resident had been more than a fortnight buried, and his'-PAm. j pire was still supposed to go the rounds. 'I'll A HiU MCX1 . B ..we uuu is me laies are not necessarily consistent in themselves; and they are fur- -rrr7 A PBTVATE ISLAND. ther darkened for .the stranger by an am biguity of language. Ghosts, vampires, spirits and gods are all confounded. And yet I seem to perceive that (with excep tions) those whom we would count gods were not maleficent. Permanent spirits haunt and do murder In corners of Samoa: but thoso legitimate gods of Upolu and Savali, whero wars and crickotlngs of lato convulsed society, I did not gather to be dreaded, or not with a llkofear. One God That Was Good. Mahlnul fpv whom ono convlct-catecniat had been named the spirit of the sea, like a Proteus, endowed with endless avatars, came to the asslstanco of the shipwrecked, and carried them ashore in the guise of a ray flsh. The same divinity bore priests from isle to isle about the archipelago, and by Ms-aid, within tho century, persons havo been Been to fly. Tho tutelar deity of each islo is likewise helpful, and by a particular form of wedge-shaped cloud on the horizon, announces the coming of a ship. To one who conceives of these atolls, so narrow, so barren, so beset In tho sea, here would seema superfluity of ghostly denizens. And yet there aro more. In the various brackish pools and ponds, beautiful women with long i ed hair are seen to rise and bathe, only (timid as mice) on the first sound of feet upon the coral they dive again forever. They are known to bo healthy and harmless living people, dwellers of an underworld: and tho same fancy is current In Tahiti, where also they havo . the hair red. Tea is the Tahitian namor the Paumotuan, Moku rea. Even white sailors who ply In the archi pelago become infected with superstitions, or w hat seem to bo so. It is possible ctiough that an atoll may be visible to great dis tances, by the green radiance of the lagoon projected on the atmosphere. That a cloud always indicates the position of a navigable passage I think wo may deny. Eodekt Lotus Stevensou. A Question of Spelling ToDeka Jonmal.l It was Eta'ta, then Itata, and it-may.yst baTarti .. WOMEN ANDTHE HOME. Allegiance to tHe Hearthstone Should Not Make Them Slaves. SOME FAMOUS MAEBIED WOMEN. Platform Ambition Absorbs No More Time Than Church. Devotion. SPHERE OP THE SEX ISN'T LOOTED WBITTEN TOB TUB J1ISPATCH.3 It takes a man and that man a bachelor to announce to the world what a woman should do, or not do. He feels entirely com petent to lay out the boundary beyond which she should not be allowed to go. He as sumes to know all about what her business should be, how she should live and to what extent she should be permitted to 'exercise her talents. Woman,, he thinks, should be allowed to progress up to a certain point. Her education and advancement, he believes in, unless they should lead her beyond the limit that he thinks proper. He admires her onward march, but he is greatly alarmed for fear she is progressing in the wrong di rection. "The great element of danger with women's progress," he maintains, "is that it takes women away from home who ought to be there and nowhere else. God intended a married woman to stay at home, and she has no business to be anywhere else. There js no mission so great or urgent that justifies a woman in leaving the home in which is hex husband and children. Wives should not be seen attending public meetings. A mother who has either sons or daughters to educate should never undertake to speak upon a public platform. She is mistaking hen mission in life when she tries to remedy an evil by striding the lecture platform." What He Doesn't Object To. Brother bachelor will allow Clara Barton and Frances Willard to do such a shocking thing as "stride" upon a lecture platform, or attend public meetings, or help along re forms, but he protests "firmly and stoutly" against a married woman giving her talents any scope beyond the four walls which are to shut tier in from the public. This is all very well for the women who who haue a taste for. domestic life, and a talent for housekeeping and nursing, but those endowed with the gift of eloquence, the power to sway the multitude, the capacity to teach, or to preach, or to practice law or medicine, are to smother their ambitions, bury their talents, choke their desire for congenial work, and sacrifice their lives in drudging along at housework for which they have neither taste nor inclination, and, we may say, doing very poor and unsatisfactory work at the best. This sort of can't abont the mission of woman is very common among goody goody men who fondly imagine they know more of what heaven intended woman to do then the sisters themselves. Has this brother who proposes to shut in all married women, and restrain them from any mis sion or publio reform never heard of Eliza beth Fry, who notwithstanding the care of a large family, became A Minister Among the Quakers, and whose zeal in benevolence and prison reform have made her name famous? Through her noble efforts for the abate ment of barbarism and the refor mation of criminals, the whole crim inal code of England was changed for the better. She traveled, all through the country organizing societies to aid in prison reform, she spent hours in the jails, which then were de scribed as "hells upon earth," where by force of her intellect she c6ntrolled the ig ,norant and brutalized inmates, and by the depth of her sympathy convinced them of her desire to help them in their distresses. By her untiring work aided by those she had enlisted in behalf of the prisoners the horrors of Newgate prison and others were mitigated, and the dungeons and chains and cruelties gave way to light, fresh air and schools lor instruction and employ ment. She was the mother of 11 children who rose up, as we are told, to call her blessed, and her husband' entered into and encour aged her in all her benevolence. She had the gift of eloquence and magnetism, and had power for good far beyond the common. Has this bachelor brother, who proposes to debar married women from public meet ings and from taking part in anything that will call them from home, no knowledge of Lucretia Mott, who had a large family of children, was given to hospitality, made her husband and home happy, and yet was a minister among' the Quakers and one of the foremost reformers in the country? She or ganized conventions, occupied the public platforms made speeches in favor of tem- peruuue, 111 uppusiuuu iu slavery anu lor me furtherance of woman's rights. She did not require men to instruct her as to her mission as a housekeeper,, as a mother, a wife or a reformer. For brains, charactcrcapacity as a manager of either her house or public conventions, for ability as a speaker, for sincerity in iier convictions uuu power 10 impress them, for devotion to truth and all that is lovely and of good report, Lucretia Mott was one of the most distinguished of American women. James Mott is described as "a magnificent man" who was proud of his wife and gloried in her talents. Her motto was "Truth for authority; not authority for truth." As a housekeeper she was a model for system and comfort , Work of Mrs. Gladstone. It will hardly be claimed that Mrs. Glad stone is not a good wife and mother in view of what is known of her, and yet this brother and those of his ilk would condemn' her. I don't know whether Sister Glad stone "strides," but that she does attend public meetings and make speeches upon platforms in behalf of the Liberal party in England is well known. In the mother country women take large part in politics. They canvass and make speeches in behalf of their husbands and brothers and fathers, or' for any political candidate in whose success they are inter ested. The Primrose League is an associa tion of women who work for the Conserva tive party. To do service for the Liberals are the Women's Liberal Associations. Of one of these Mrs. Gladstone is president Will the bachelor friend assert that she has not done her full duty to her husband and children? Will he make cleat that all of these mothers and wives of England are neglecting their families? Even the party in - England, backed by the arch bishops and clergy generally, have got to the point of imploring the women to take part in politics, to attend public meetings, and use their powers of persua sion in promoting the interests of the Con servative party. This is rather going back upon the preaehing of Paul, to be 'sure, but the Liberals must be defeated at any risk. A Country Preacher's Famous Wife. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore is among the women who are ordered to stay at home and reproached lor neglecting their "greatest duty to their God, their families and man kind." Everybody knows that Mrs. Liver more is the noble wife of a coun try clergyman; that inspired by patriotism, she left her home and toiled bravely as a nurse for the sick and wounded soldiers in the Civil War, that possessing the power of speech and the gift of eloquence she does not hesitate to leave'her home and lecture during the winter just as do Talmage, Stan ley, Kennan, and with as great acceptance, too. If country preachers, where she comes from, are as poorly paid as they are in Pennsylvania would she not be a goose to shut herself in at home and drudge to make both ends meet instead of earning plenty of money for comfort and luxury upon -the lecture platform? A country parson's wife at tne Dest nas a pretty nam time or it, 'catering to,the Mrs. Grundies of the parish, 1. cultivating patience while the conzraeaQon criticises the width of her bonnet strings, the cut of her gowns and the vanity or her ruffles. The woman who by virtue of her brains can manage a house, bring comfort and Tirosneritv into her home, and delight people by her lectures upon the platform is far beyond the average, but she, too, is ordered to stay at home.and keep her mouth shut, and is . moreover told that all the good she can do in the great world at large is as nothing to her possibilities at home as a wife or mother. Another Illustrious Example. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is another trans gressor of this keeping at home rule. She is the mother of a talented family whose care and training did not prevent her from spending part of her time in the recreation of attending conventions, deliveriner lect ures and going about the world. She is an advocate of the independence of women. By her talents she has won fame and high appreciation. Perhaps no better illustration of the brother's audacity' in limiting the sphere of women to the home is presented than Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, whose brilliant ability as a writer and a speaker upon the platform placed her name nigh among her countrywomen. Mrs. Stanton was one of the pioneers of woman's progress, and had a large family of children, but she found time to attend conventions, and make speeches filled with arguments that no man has yet been able to answer. She addressed legislatures, sent in petitions, wrote for the newspapers, and withal, has brought up her family in the way they should go. On one occasion sho made a speech to the New York Legislature. Some of the ladies pre; ent, when congratulating her, said in a de precating tone: "But what do you do with your children?" "Ladies,"-she replied, "it takes me no longer to speak than you to listen; what have you done with your children during the two hours yon have been sitting here?" No more sweet, motherly, noble woman is to be found than Mrs. Lucy Stone, who has attended publio meetings, spoken upon platforms, has stood up for the rights ofthe slave, and the rights of women since she was graduated at college many yeara ago. Nobody h'as anything to say of her neglect ing her family by so doing, or of making a mistake in the mission marked out for her by ordinance of heaven. ' Mrs. Mott's Statement ofthe Case. Apropos to this subject Mrs. Mott has said in one of her speeches: "Why should not a woman seek to be a reformer? If' she is to fear to exef cise her reason and her noblest powers, lest she should be thought 'to attempt to act the man' and not acknow ledge his supremacy; if she is to be satisfied with the narrow limits laid down by man, truly there is a mournful prospect for woman. We would admit all the difference that our great and beneficent Creator has made in the relation of man and woman,nor would we seek to disturb this relation, but we "deny that the present position of woman is her true sphere of usefulness: nor will she attain to this sphere until the disa bilities and disadvantages, religious, civil and social, which impede her progress are removed out of her way. These restrictions have enervated her mind and paralyzed her powers."' Another man who thinks women should be confined to the home is Dr. Shrady, of New York. He says an ambition beyond being the affectionate sister, the loving wife, the fond mother is not to the real advance ment of woman. Just as if a woman could not be all of these and yet be a good doctor. He then goes on to ask what recompense would be the discovery of a new bacillus or writing of a prize thesis, when husband and children may be suffering from neglect? Just as if a "real smart" woman with brains and the requsite ability could not possibly attend to both. How Other Women Spend Time. Society women spend days and nights in the pursuit of pleasure, church women spend days at church, missionary meetings, and sewing societies, yet nothing is heard of their neglect of husband and children. It is onlv when the brainv women nrcsuma to preach, to study" law, to write prize es says, to enter tne proiession oi incuicme, to make speeches, that theyre denounced as heading in the wrong direction. When the women desert their homes in order to get up delicious dinners for the clergy at their convention, when they hold fancy fairs to rake in money for the church or some charitable object when they hold all day missionary meetings to sew for the heathen, nobody hauls tnem over the coals for stavine at home: but to attend public meetings, to make speeches, to lecture for money to help educate their children these sort of doings are shocking to the nice, little-minded man who believes that women should be hedged in by his nar row ideas and prejudices, while ne revtls m the freedom of his own sweet wilL But before the advancement of women stops to suit his views and those of Bishop Vincent, of Chautauqua, it would be well to look back and consider whether in the old days, before the railroads were introduced, the old days of half a century ago when women never got out of the rut of domestic life, when no outings brightened their lives, when toil was their portion from day to day and year to year, with no holidays for rest, homes were sweeter and brighter'and husbands-happier than they are to-day? The "beloved Tbrethren" who are in such a state ofchronicscareastothe evil of independ ence for women need to know that "the sis tern" propose to hold their own, and call no man master. The home is henceforth to be no longer a monarchy, but a republic. Bessie Bbamble, ELEPHANTS TAKTNQ A BATH. Bare Sports for the Giant Unites In Central Park's Menagerie. , New Tork Post. Three of the elephants had a fine bath in the menagerie in Central Park this morn ing. Early this week the hippopotamus tank was filled with water, as it was in tended to give Miss Murphy and her daugh ter Patima a breath of fresh air. But the change of weather persuaded Superintend ent Conklin to change his mind. This morn ing, therefore, it was decided to give the elephants the benefit of the water in the tank. Snyder, their keeper, led out Lizzie, Tom and Jimmy, and they were all soon spouting the water with satisfaction all over themselves and anybody who was around. They trumpeted loudly and tum bled about the tank. This was their first bath since last fall. The neighboring alli gators were astonished at the shower of water that kept pouring on, them, ang moved uneasily about their enclosure or took refuge in their own tank. The cranes, just across the road, trumpeted as only cranes can, and roused- the ire of the lion, who added to the turmoil by roaring. The African buffaloes and the bisons looked on with'an air of astonishment for some time, and soon turned away with composure. It was no easy matter to get the elephants out ofthe tank, and it was not till the water was drawn off that hey reluctantly followed their keeper to their house. Tip, 'the "rogue elephant, who was not taKen out; was not improved in temper by being kept indoors. A Cruel Taunt. Washington Post. "It'SvCurious," remarked Miss Pepperton to "WllUg "Washington, "but your conversa tion reminds me so often of my early studies in arithmetic." "Ah! I was nevah notable foh my mathe matical gifts. But what was it you we ferred to?" "That old lesson about nothing plus noth ing makes nothing." Something So Forgot. Life. - Waiter (handing gentleman hat and cane) Haven't you forgotten something, sir? Gentleman (looking around) No, I be lieve not. "WaiterAre you sure, sir? Gentleman, Yes. Why, what did you thinkTC had forgotten? 1 that's all, ilr-thit'j all. MW STYLE OF CI1W. It Is Cut From a Bar of Steel So the links Have ffo Welds. POSTAGE STAMPS Off THE SlEEET. Snow and Wire Webbing for Protecting. Ports and Gunners. EFFECT OP LIQUOB OX EQEniBBIU3 FSZFABXD rOB THE DISPATCH. The manufacture of chains has been very much facilitated by the introduction of elec tricity for welding purposesbut a London firm has gone a step further and produced a chain which required absolutely no welding. This is done in a most ingenious way. A cross-shaped bar of steel is drilled at proper intervals with holes the size of which are de pendent on the size of link required. The' bar is then notched roughly to the shape of the links by .suitable machinery, after which it is flattened to prepare it for the hollowing out ofthe links and their rounding np by stamping. In tho next stage the links are punched through and parted, and the con cluding operation is the cleaning and truing up of the links to their final form. The makers claim that the chains are con siderably stronger than those made In ths usual way. Apart from the possibility of de fective welds, the fact that the new chain is of steel gives it a great advantage over or dinary chains, which, on account of diffi culties of welding, are usually made of Iron. It is stated that the new steel chain can b raflo equal in strength to the ordinary chain tfa third less weight Protection of Forts and Gunners. The Bussians have found that snow para, pets offer ample security against rifle fire, and have been making experiments with a view of determining the exact degree of protection that can be obtained. A thick ness of six feet of loosely shoveled snow, or five feet of beaten snow, or four feet of frozen snow was sufficient to keep out bul lets fired at any ranges over 109 yards. No experiments were made to test the effect of field guns, but a. parapet of 26 feet is re garded as sutflcient to resist their fire. Our own Government has been occupying itself with the question of protecting gunners in exposed places on men-of-war during action. For this purpose a peculiar description of wire webbing, made of Interlocking steel spirals of remarkable flexibility and strength, has been made. It bears some re semblance to old-fashioned chain armor, and it is nronosed to nsc it as a curtain behind .which gunnera will be protected from ex ploding sneiis. 'ino srrengm oi tne netting may be estimated from the fact that it la said to be equal to that of a solid plate of steel an Inch thick. . Postago Stamps at Letter Boxes. The English Postmaster General has given permission for an experiment to determine whether postage stamps can be supplied to the public by means of an automatic machine attached to the ordinary pillar boxes. The machine to he used is about 18 inches high and a few inches square. A person desiring to purchase a penny postage stamp drops a pennyinto the slot at the Iront of the ma chine, and a white envelope comes out at the back containing a memorandum bookwith a penny postage stamp in a small slit in tho cover. Should the experiment be successful machines will be attached to all the pillar boxes in London. This new method or dis tribution of stamps has been organized by a limited liability company, which looks to re coup itself out of advertisements to be in serted in the pocket memorandum book bearing the stamp. How Drunken 3Ien Fall. Dr. Shorthouse has been diagnosing ths effect of various intoxicating liquors on dif ferent parts of the cerebellum when imbibed-"not wisely but too well," and the tendency ofthe result of his investigations is to indicate that inebriety can be reduced to an exact science, so far as its subsequent demonstrations are concerned. Dr. Short house finds that good wine and beer indis creetly imbibed, have the effect of making a manfall on his side; whisky,and especially irlsn whisky, on uis lace, ana ciaer ana perry on his back, these disturbances of eanili- brium corresponding exactly with thojt caused by injury to the lateral lobes and to the anterior and posterior parts of the mi die lobe of tho cerebellum respectively. Frotectine Corn Against Squirrels. Among the methods for the proteotiocC com from the striped squirrel are smoUafi; with meat in an ordinary smokehouse uatuj the kernels are black; smoking in a bcjrelj with tobacco dust; smoking over night ia. strong decoctions of tobacco and quarsis;, chips, eta, but the best remedy is found ki be the harrowing of the ground immediately) after planting, to cover the planter's tracks, and then to scatter corn about the border oi the fields and In the neighborhood of thf squirrel holes as soon as tne coxabeglasil come up. Tactical Operations of tha.ITntare, Captain Benson, in discussing tb pnArifc bilities regarding the effect of saokelMJl powder on the tactical operations of th future, says that infantry will gain by 1& creased facilities for fire discipline and conn trol, improved shooting, non-betrayal of thi presence of skirmishers in broken groua&i of sentries on outpost duties, and of th firing line of defense, as well as by the faolll ties for combined action, while, on the other hand, there will be greater exposure. Dt ploymentwill take place further fromih enemy, and the defense will gain feJrObssf attack over open ground. Increase of Coal Consumption. A peculiar case of increase in oos!Vo) sumption is reported from JTranc. An oM ficial engineer, having been called to la vestigate the cause of a considerable augW mentation of the consumption of fuel by aJ large battery of boilers, discovered that tnsl phenomenon was due to the presence- or) water in tne smoite simit. xuo measures,, which were taken to exclude the water havw resulted in a saving of 13 per cent In the aM nual coal bill. Oil Deposits In Boilers. Prof. Vivian B. Lewis, in the course of s paper on "Boiler Deposits," illustrated ths)) danger of the presence of oil in boilers by describing the case of a large vessel In thsy Eastern trade, in tne boilers of which an oil scum had formed. The ship, having to (top some days at Gibraltar, the engineer took the opportunity of blowing out his boilers, and refilling with fresh water; with there suit that before he had been, ten hours nnda? , steam the whole of the furnaces had corns la., The Blse of a Nertr Industry. An instance of the rapid effect of improved mechanical appliances on the development of industries is afforded in the increased demand for the now well-known agitated and jasper ized wood of Arizona, since tbe problem of cutting and polishing the large sections used, for table tops and other ornamental purposes was solved, fully $50,000 of tha rough material has been gathered, and over (100,000 worth of It has been cut and polished. A Xew Alarm Till. A new till has been put on the market which gives an alarm when an attempt is made to open it by any unauthorized per son. The till has five stops on the center of its left-hand edge, anyone, of which can be set as an opening key. Failing a knowledge of the correct sotting anyone attempting to draw out the till will cause a bell to be rung. Pnonmatio line-Throwing Gnu. , The pneumatic line-throwing gun which is now on view at the royal naval exhi bition in England, is as applicable to ths exigencies of fire on land as of wreck at sea, and a rope can be thrown to a drowning man from a vessel, a river bank, or any other, conceivable position. It also furnishes ths 2ulckest method of sending an. asbestos rope ito the windows of tha hucheat storvfloo Jof a-burnlng house. ...if.4fri Sfitt'SB
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