effSEtS nEiH " l"TsPm&ii xr - fsT 7 AREVIEWOFSPORTS Benefit of the Decision of Judge Max well Regarding the Keilly Injunction Case. GOOD LOCAL. TEAM PROSPECTS. Few Opinions Regarding the Glove Affair Between Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett THEIR FIGHT OJiLT 'A TEBT POOE OXE. Bowen anfl Myer's Hale, Among the Kew Orleans ratrons of the Kins and Other Matters. In the baseball world the most important event of the week has been the decision of Judge Maxwell in the Rcilly case. Pitts burg, of course, has been particularly inter ested in the matter, which made it of more importance here probably than anywhere elc, but the case is certainly one of a na tional character and proes quite a number of things. Ihaeoftcn thought that base ball is a er strange business, for business it is, and the strangest part of it lias ever been tho signing of contracts by those inter ested in it. "When it conies down to sign ing a contract to perform a certain amount of work for a certain amount of pay it is purely a business transaction between the wage w orker and the wage paver. This fea ture has almost at all times led a very great number of people to believe that the ball player would always get the worst in the contract signing, but here we Inn e another proof of the fact that in almost every in stance the law is on the side of the player. I am - ery glad that the Cincinnati court decided as it did; not becau'se the de cision allowed Reilly to remain here, but because I am fully persuaded that the Association magnates, as ve term them, tried the boldest 'piece of de ceiving that has taken place for a long time in any business. There is no doubt at all in my mind as to what the intentions of the Association magnates were from the first They tried, and icry cunningly at that, to hoodwink e cry player they could lay hands on jnto becoming a'member of their forces, which they knew would soon .become a kind of rebel force. In other words, while they were conspiring to become baseball out laws they w ere in a very questionable and in a very clandestine way decoving ball players into their ranks. Bill thev over stepped themseh es. as the decision in the Reilly case fully proves. And this case, at any rate, shows" that the chil law will pro tect a ball player against the cry unfair machination of any organization of schem ers. MarkjT! don't mean to say that all gentlemen interested in baseball affairs are schemers; but I do say that all the Associa tion magnates Mere schemers when they signed players with the full knowledge that they were about to deprive these players of the benefits of the national agreement. Good Effects or tho Case The wav in which the r.eilly case was set tled as pronounced upon was of great im portance to mc because from the day that tho Association turned its back on the na tional agreement I urged that every player in it who had been signed under the old form of contract was at liberty to go where lie pleased. I argued this question fully at the time, and Presiden Kramer tried to show how the contracts of the players were just as binding as c cr. But common sense pointed otherwise, and had the contracts been binding it would simply have meant that ball players were completely at the mercy of those people whom we call mag nates! Tl'e condition of affairs was simply this: A number of the most pronounced, disrupters that have ever disgraced baseball resoh ed that the would break away from all the rules and obligations that havebound baseball into something like a national body. "When this jeohe was made thev kept it quiet and set out to sign c ery good player they could lay lianas on. "These plaj ers signed contracts in the belief that they were as usual to have the benefits and protection of the national agreement. But as ooii as the step of reolt was taken the plavers, that is the intelligent part of them, discovered that they had been misera bly deceived. They found out that not only were they to be deprived of the benefits o"f the national agreement, but they were to be parties in another baseball conflict, and a conflict that they did not want. "When this stcj) was taken by the Association, I at once urged thai they had no claim on any player whom thev had signed under ordinary circumstances. I maintained that neither morally or lesjllv could anv plaver be held by the Association after its departure from national agreement regulations. 1 was so much impressed with the truth and fairness of this, that I helped to convince some players that it was to their advantage to wash their hands entirely of such scheming people as those who were hastening the Association to its death. Well, as a result, it has been shown that baseball magnates cannot have a one-sided contract with ball players; they cannot have a contract which is to be em phatically binding on the player w hile they can change it or ignore part of it at wilt This is a great benefit to the players, and every ball plaver in the Association will do well" to consider the matter. The de cision also tends, or ought to tend toward closing the mouths of those who have been abusing Reilly, Baldwin and others as al leged contract jumpers. In all respects these pla.. ers acted within their own right, end the law has indicated them in rebelling against tl.e doubledealing and unfair methods of the Association moguls. I trust that the case and its results will be instru mental in teaching that hoodwinking in baseball affairs is just as illegal and dis honest in the eyes of the law as dishonest dealings in any other branch of business. Cases of this kind will ultimately point out the great necessity of people interested in baseball having contracts that the law will recognize. Sooner such contracts were in use the better for all parties. Tho Local Team. 2s"one of us can find much fault with the local team now Surclv thev haebcen doing well and the complaints that manv eople had to make a week or so aeo cannot e listened to as complaints now. More than once I ha- Cjjiointed out the wisdom of withholding, our grumblings until we could pkrnly see that our team was a failure. But we luu e seen that our team is not a failure by any means and we have good reason to believe that our players will eventually do just as well as the players of any other team. During the last few days the local jilaj ers have done ery well and still it is reasonable to say they will do much belter just as soon "as they get thor oughly settled down, Miller has demon strated the fact that lie can play short in very brilliant styl- and he has also shown that he can make some very awful mistakes. But it is only fair to expect that as the Beason goes on he will become less addicted to error-making. It he does not w e may conclude that practice does not always tend to perfection. Miller is new to his position and surely as he becomes more accustomed to it he will improve in his playing of it. This would, or ought to, prompt us to have a mut paueuce ana.iortncprcscniJOOK.wiin a spirit of generosity on any mistakes that may be made either by Miller or anybody else. Changes In the Team. The public has little idea of the scores of suggestions the management of a ball team receives every day. The sun never sets without somebody by letter remarking to President O'Ncil: "1 now take np my pen to tell you what yoa should do," &c. It is a very fortunate afiair that all of these ad monitions, and to the writers, valuable suggestions are not always acted upon. If they were, depend upon it we would not have the same team on the field, twice a week. I don't think there is anybody more eager than I am to see the Pittsburg ball team come out victorious, but 1 am not going to allow my eagerness in that respect to prompt me to assume the management of the team. I take it for granted that both Mr. O'Neil and Mr. Hanlori have onie practical ideas about running the team, and I am quite content to allow them to run matters. Certainly we can all ofter suggestions, but if these suggestions arc "not acted upon w e should not throw our heels in the air. Of course, we cannot expect that the directors of the club will be content to carry ail the players they have at present, and some of them will have to go: JJut we are so fortunate in having good players that the difficulty is to find out who is the best among those who are spoken of as the ones to be released. "We all know about the Staley matter. That is very unfortunate, because Staley has always appeared to me to be one of the best pitchers in the coun try, and Manager Hanlon to-day looks upon hint as one of the best men that can be had. But as far as I can understand matters it is because of Stalcy's social con duct that he has to go. There may and there may not be truth in these reports regarding" what Staley does and docs not during liis leisure time, but I would certainly be very glad if matters could be so arranged as to permit Staley to remain with us. On the other hand, the management must miss no opportunity whatever to en force discipline. An enormous amount of money is being ventured on this ball team, and any player who will not fully respect that Acnture and therefore do his cry best in all respects to make the venture "a suc cessful one, ought to be made an exainble of. I don't think that any true friend of the game will object to this, because without discipline the public cannot expect to see a winning team and the club stockholders cannot expect to get their money back. Judging from present appearances it would seem that we could easily dispense with Staley and probably one or two more players. But let me just point out that it is always i great advantage to have more players than you need. The pennant is not won by depleted ranks. "Ve can see the evils of being "short handed" in the defeat suffered by New York. If the finances can possibly stand it I hope the club will retain all of its men at present signed. The General Situation. Certainly there have been some surprises in the League race already. A week or so ago nobody would have thought that the Is ew Yorks would have been so far down and that the Philadelphia team would have bcome so prominent. And let me add that the tenacity with which the Chicago team is sticking to first place is a surprise to me. Nobody deserves success better than Anson, but tor the life of me I cannot bring myself to believe that his team will be in the first three at the finish. We cannot draw anything like a correct con clusion from the week's, play, because of the poor condition of one or two clubs. Hone of us will for a moment think that Chicago is so superior to the Brooklyn team as to defeat the latter four times in succession on their merits. "We cannot believe that; in deed. I have yet to be convinced that the Chicagos are better than the Brooklyns at all and even nt this stage it might not be wide of theTnark to say that Anson's team will not beat both Boston and Brooklyn out. The New York team continues to play under very unfortunate circumstances. My estimate o'f that team has not.at all changed and I am still of opinion that the two best teams I have so far seen in the League are the New Yorks and the Pittsburgs. Depend upon it that the New York team will make itself known before long, and I would not be surprised if they get down to work at Chicago this week in a wav that will sur prise the talent. Philadelphia cannot con tinue to take a prominent part in the .struggle if the club does not secure more pitchers Judging from the work of the Philadelphia team here I don't hesitate to say that at present Manager "Wright has the weakest team on hand that he has had for manv years, it certainly can be made much stronger. There is not much to say about Cincinnati and Cleveland. The former team is getting into condition and ought to be able to beat the Clevelanders out in the race. i Jackson and Corbett. "Well, we have had something like an im portant week as far as pugilism has been concerned. Two of the latter day fights in one week is something to talk about, and doubtless there will be lots of talk about them for a long time to come. One hardly knows how to commence with that afiair be tween Jackson and Corbett, because to be frank on the matter, an "inside history" might at any moment be sprung upon us. The outsidehistory, that is, the contest as far as we can judge from a public stand point, was one of the most questionable that has been known in the history of pugilism. Of course, all mv readers must know that I have steadily held the opinion that Jackson would defeat Corbett. According to the result of Fr5dav morning he did not finish a -winner, but he did not finish a loser and therefore any advice of mino on the subject cannot have resulted in a loss of money. Had Jackson been defeated I would not havp been surprised at all; he was fighting a comparatively unknown and clever and " powerful young fel low. "Had Carbett been beaten I would still have been less surprised; but I certainly was surprised, indeed, to learn that the two men fought 61 rounds under Queensberry rules without any result. Great Scott! Just think of it. They fought, or they were in the ring, 61 rounds; that is more than four hours, and according to re ports they were only leg wearing. "Was there e cr such a farce? Not even barring the two affairs between Coburn and Mace. "Will anybody tell 'me that these two men fought or tried to fight, or tried to knock each other out on Thursday night and Fri day morning? If anybody says they did, let me have an explanation of their being in the ring 61 three-minute rounds. And the affair was under Queensberry rules, too, and under a club rule which prohibits anv "draw" contest. There is a record of a battle between John Gully and Bob Greyson," in which both men fell exhausted when they tried to meet each other .after fighting nearly two hours. Neither man could stand, and a legitimate draw was declared because they fought to punish each other and only for about S2.r0. But here is an affair of two powerful and active men waltzing round each other for four hours, and until the promoters of the contest becuner weary of it. To what con clusion can we come regarding this wonder ful affair? I have my opinion about it, and it is to the effect that it was nothing but a scheme. To me it was just as plainly, a scheme as was the afiair between McAuliffe and Myer. But I do not at all mean to say that the California club officials were a party to any scheme; what I mean is that there was a scheme to get the 510,000 from the club. Features of the Event. If we commence' to talk about the alleged contest on its merits, that is, as it actually took place, we will have a very unsatis factory subject to deal with. I have read carefully "the reports of the affair, and I ha e still the same opinion of Corbett that I have had and probably a little less of Jack son as a man. In no manner or form" did Corbett prove that he is a fighter, and if he is one he has it yet to show. He gave fine exhibitions of the professor-stvle of boxing; but bless us if he had been half the man his friends claimed he was he "would have set tled the black man long before four hour? viaustu. ij we ia a uguier, ana it Jaclcson had been in' earnest, would his rushes not have resulted disastrous either to himself orJacuson' Uertainly they would. A man cannot "keep up the rushing tactics for sev eral rounds without considerable damage being done. I don't charge Corbett with dishonesty; not at all, but I do say that he has proven, to us that he is not acufighter-r - And- it is a question to me whether or not he has the pluck." A bona fide fighter with the strength of Corbett does not waltz round and round his opponent; he'fights him," -and goesintojglve and take, rather than make a farce of It "Why. Sullivan wnnld nimnlv have rushed all the prancing notions out of A ,THB Corbett in less than six rounds. At best, that is giving Corbett credit for everything he did, he was afraid, of Jackson. How do I know? "Why, because he would not go near enough to hit Jackson, nor near enough for the Australian to hit him, except when delivering the professor-like taps. As far as Corbett is concerned, there was little credit for him in the contest except in the way of being a very good boxer, because of his long reach. I have not much to say about Jackson. I am inclined to think that he could have won if circumstances had been suitable for that result. If, on the other hand, the contest was absolutely an honest one, then the two principals are rank cow - ards, and proved it by their refusing to get close enough to each other to fight. Tho Big Purse System. ' I really believe that this miserable affair of Thursday night was the result of this ?10,000 purse system. Two men who own nothincof this world's wealth can do many things for 5,000 each, and when a purse o'f the kind in question is being fought for, I am always prepared for anything. Why should the Australian black and Corbett not arrange to each take $5,000 if they could get it? "Why should Jackson not agree to accept half of the purse and a little from the "outside" not to defeat Corbett? These are pertinent questions in the pugi listic world to-day. The big purse, com bined with Queensberry rules, are simply all the incentive to fraud that anybody re quires. But why when such a big p'urse was offered, did "not the referee insist that the men fight and not merely walk around the ring. Certainly I do not complain about the referee deciding the afiair "no contest," but it might have been well bad they been warned after the first 20 rounds were fought. From first to last the affair was nothing more than a farce as far as fight ing was concerned. It was a "show" exhi bition and it ought to tend to kill all these' big battles for big purses. Bowers and Myer. . Space is not plentiful this week, but I want to say a word or two about another miserable affair. I refer to the Bowen and Myer contest at New Orleans. Of all the decisions recorded in the history of the prize ring the decision of the referee in the battle in question is the most remarkable. "When a fight can be stopped on a foul and the purse divided it is time to call a halt. Last week I think I remarked that I had nothing to say about the Bowcn-Myfcr fight. To me it was then very suspicious, and Lam still of opinion that I had a right to be sus picious. I don't intend to waste space in talking about the merits or demerits of such affairs, and all that I have to say is that it would be well if these alleged fights were stopped by law just as prize fights are. Peingle, LOVE-MAKING IK MEXICO. American "Women Popular Because They Are Approachable. Chicago Herald. Baron Straus said the American women were so popular in Mexico that it inter fered with the wheels of justice in that Re public. "The American women," he said, "go about Mexico as they would in this country, while the Mexican women are caged up like birds. The only way to make love to them is to stand off some 100 yards and stare. "The pretty senorita sits in her open win dow and you "can only look at her. There is one chance in a hundred of getting an op portunity to speak to one while she is in church, but that is the only place. Last summer a New York merchant and his beautiful daughter stopped for a few days in the little town where I was sojourning. The young lady wa one of the handsomest that I have ever seen light hair, eyes like bits of heaven's bine, classic form and all that was lovely. "Well, yon can imagine what a stir she created among the young Mexicans, who are held so far away from tne native women. "The son of a wealthy planter used to sland for hours opposite the window of this American girl. One day the father went to the'City ot Mexico, leaving the daughter unattended for a few houra. The young lady walked to the hotel from the station and was followed by the Mexican admirer. As she was nearly home the young fellow rushed up to her, and implanting a kiss upon her forehead ran away for dear life, ""When the father came home there was a little excitement. He had the young fellow arrested and the next day he was brought before the Judge, who gravely asked what the charge was. e '"Assaulting a woman, ' spoke up the New Yorker. " '"What did the prisoner do?' " 'He ran up to my daughter on the street and kissed her.' "'.He Kissed this lovely young lady?' asked the Judge, as he left his bench and carefully scrutinized the fair American. " 'Yes, sir.' "'Well, who wouldn't?' remarked the Judge, as he left the court room. And would you believe that was all the satisfac tion the New Yorker could get in Mexico." An American Theory. Life. "I hate to tell Smothers a joke; he always wants' it explained is it because he's Scotch?' "No, it's because you are English." Vbraclous Banana Eating. Caeeoi.i.to, O., May 22. Last night, at Port Morrow, a 14-year-old lad of this city ate 39 full-sized bananas in 15 minutes, and offered to cat 15 .more in five minutes for 55. . STATUE OF BOBBY BUSKS. The Noble Work Recently Cast From Mr. G. A. La ti son's Mold. A more fantastic scene than that which was witnessed the other afternoon at Mr. Moore's foundry, wheij Mr. G. A. Lawson's colossal. statue of Kobert Burns was cast, could not well be imagined, says the Tall JTall Budget. It was the ideal illustration of a "witches' cauldron" scene, or of Schiller's "Lay of the Bell." Koaring, sulphuric flames, fantastic Wreaths of smoke, tons of molten .metal, like so much liquid fire, and a few burly figures, half hidden by the fumes and flames. In front of the "burning fiery furnace" the mold which was.about to receive the metal" yawned like an open grave, round which a large num ber of journalists in their higK hats appeared like the mourners at the ceremony. And what a statue it isl. Not that of an ideal ized Robert Burns, but that of a simple yeo man, with "clouted shoon," the attire of a Northern farmer, and with the thoughtful face as seen on Nasmith's painting. In tho Scotch National Gallery. The statue is nine feet in height, and represents Robert Burns at .the age of 27. iiiili 1 1 1 a jj lliJM k flMt ' PITTSBtniGh, " DISPATCH; ' SUNDAY, Mit " A CHILEAN EAILWAY. Trip Throngh the Heart of the Bepub lic to Its Capital City. INTRODUCTION, OP, PARLOR, CARS. Where the Fashionable People Go They Want Eeal Cream. When FLOWEE SALES 'AT THE STATIONS CCOBKESFOKSEXCX OV TITE DISPATCH. Santiago de Chile, April 23. One can hardly imagine apleasanter journey than that between "Valparaiso and this city. The distance is 115 miles, and the time required by rail is five hours. The road, which is one of the oldest in South America, is owned and controlled by the Government. Its queerly-shaped locomotives and small, four-wheeled carriages show plainly that it was built by English contractors, and its equipment and management are entirely on the European plan. The "common" coaches, which for many years were the only ones in use, arc as odd inside as their exterior would indicate, each having two long seats running lengthwise from end to end, so that the traveler sits with his back to the window.and his feet in the central aisle, gazing discontentedly at his companions in misery instead of at the flying landscape. The benches are as un comfortable as pews in a country church, being upholstered in black leather, cold and slippery as glass, and so wide that one can not rest his back and his toes at the same time. Something Like Our Pullmans. Nowadays, on the trains between the sea port and Santiago, there is a parlor coach, with chairs, here known as "the Spooner car," because introduced by'a gentleman of that name. At first it was difficult to per suade any noayio pay a dollar lor tne priv ilege of riding in a chair, for habit is strong, A VIEW IN and these good people were quite satisfied with the transit they had been accustomed to. Bat having once tried the parlor car, they were delighted with it, and now no body who can command an extra dollar will ride in any other. The consequence is that the Spooner coach is always crowded, while the others are nearly empty, and so great is, iue uemana lor cnairs xnat uiey-are engaguu several davs in advaice, men often defer ring their journey'until the seats they desire can be secured. By the way, the Chi'.ean Gofernmenf has received for its railwas 800 cars and 38 lo comotives. which were manufactured in England, but mostly from American models. We are told that the order was placed in England, instead of the United States, solely on account of the cheaper rates and "more rapid delivery from the former country. Balmaceda Friendly to TJnclo Sam. In an interview on the subject, President Balmaceda declared that the government of this Republic entertains most friendly feel ings toward the elder, sister of the "north, and is so anxious to establish direct and regular steamship communication between the ports of tho two countries, that Chile will contribute her fujl proportion, to any reasonable subsidy that may be necessary to secure such service. "Look how it is at present," said Balma ceda. "Of the 73 ships that touch regularly at Chilean ports, 31 aie English, 23 are Ger man, 9 are French, 7 are Chilean and 3 are Italian but not one from the United States. That is not as it should be, since we are all Americans on this "Western Hemisphere, whether born on tho Northern or Southern Continent; and especially since we younger Republics of the South have built ourselves upon the shining example of the stronger Bepublic of the North." The flattering remarks above" quoted were made some months ago. Being fully en gaged in a life-and-death struggle with his chaotic countrymen, the poor President is not particularly interested, just now, about commercial relations with the United States or any other country, beyond smug gling out 'what arms and ammunition his adheren's may require and preventing the rebels from doing likewise. Scenery of Central Chile. The engineering-problems of this central Chilean, railway do not appear to have been great, at least as compared with those so frequently encountered in Peru. The rise between the sea and Santiago is about 1,800 feet, but there are no steep grades, nor bridges worth mentioning, and only a few short tunnels. Neither is the scenery so grand as that along the Peruvian lines; but much of it is eminently picturesque. Running down through the heart of Chile, in a southeasterly direction, the snowy peaks of the Andes areconstantly in view a broad, irregular line ofwhite against the bluest skies I e er saw; while snow-shrouded Aconcagua, the loftiest mountain of the three Americas,' is visible the entire dis tance. After leaving the "Valparaiso station (whose fine buildings would do credit to any city) never by the remotest chance on minutes too early as an hour or more too late the road runs for several miles along the edge of the bay, close to the crav rocks against which the waves are dashing, while culls and curlews circle scrcamincr overhead. In one place the hills trend down so closely to the shore that there is barely room for the track, and in stormy weather the car windows are often sprinkled with spray of lug &un. xiiu iirsc SLnnnin'T TiinfTR is pnnnn Vino del Mar ("Vineyard ot the sea," pro nounced Veen-yo), a suburban town, where the wealthiest people of the country come to spend their summers. It is The Long Branch of Chile, by far the most elegant and fashionable re sort in all South America, not excentiner Petropolis and San Paulo near Rio de Janeiro, those former seats of royalty dur ing Dom Pedro's time. Many of the citizens of Valparaiso and the capital, and even of the far South, own splendid establishments in Vino; and in times of peace' the President of the Ropub lio spends part of every year here. It is In no sense a commercial place, but reminds one oi some oi the tODtflar resorts In Cali fornia, on the Atlantlo coast, and along the shores of the Mediterranean. Graceful cot tages and pretentions mansions an set in marvelous gardens of fruits and flowers. There are lovely walks and drives and lounging places and unrivaled bathing ikcil ities: and an Immense hotel, vlumtn It i the fashion, especially on Sundays, for parties ooming out by train from Valpar aiso, to breakfast about mid-das, A great aiio, to oreaKtast about .aid-das, A great lniany EngUsh jtonlt jmMo to Vteo.ifiirv.l fore it goes without saying that there is a fine race course, and that horseback riding is greatly indulged in by both ladies" and gentlemen. 'Nowhere in the -world can bet ter society be found, and the dinner parties, high teas, lawn fetes and kettle drums are like a bit of London life transferred to this remote corner. "Where Ultra-Fashionables Go. Close by Vino del Mar is a long, low pale blue painted hospital, which looks large enough to hold most of the population and might be handy in case of an emergency, such, for instance, as a visitation from Yellow Jack or vomitivo, since both those terrors sometimes come thisVway. Just beyond is an immense sugar factory, the largest in Chile; and a few miles farther on is another famous resort, named El Salto, ("The Leap") a little hamlet, with a big w. MMU a iuiiKuiucenv view irciimw it. Though it is fashionable to go out to break fast in Vino, it is ultra-fashionable to come to El Salto, not only because the journey ia longer and costs a trifle more, but because reaicreamistobe had here, .besides fresh fruits and other delicacies which neither love nor money canwring from any land lord in Valparaiso, Behind the great hotel thereis a winding road around and between the hills, over mossy boulders and beside a brawling stream, under the shade of oaks and beeches. The merry little river exe cutes many saltos in its wild race from the highlands.to the sea, and along its banks no end of wild flowers may be had for the picking. There are numerous villages between Valparaiso and the Capital, but only two of size and consequence. These aro Quilloto and Santa Felipe; and at both stations swarms of ragged men and women are al ways collected hen the train stops, with fruit and flowers to sell. . Gorgeous Bouquets at Gorgeous Price. Such gorgeous bouquets one sees nowhere else in Chile. They are arranged in huge, pine apple-shaped bunches, often larger than an ordinary water-bucket some com posed entirely of sweet-scented violets, others all roses, or all pansies, or of mixed flowers every one of them put up in the same ungracelnl shape and surrounded by a vast, circle oi scaiiopea paper. Lazy as these bedraggled traders look, there are no fools among them. Step out upon the platform to purchase a bouquet, SANTIAGO. and every one of them ' in the twinkling of an sizes you np eve. If vou nave tne mistortune to be not ot the manner born they know you for a de spised Gringo, and believe that you . are literally made out of money." They have heard somehow probably through the prattle of injudicious travelers that flow ers cost a great deal in Hew York City; therefore they unblushingly demand 55 for the overgrown bunch or violets (and it would be well worth it if grown in a North ern greenhouse), but will take 2D cents for its, counterpart without a murmur from'u: native customer who is posted on local prices. Chilean flowers seem to be particularly short lived. The hot sun withers them im mediately; the enterprising bouquet venders plunge those they have failed to sell during the day into the nearest stream, and palm them off as freshly picked on un wary passengers by the night train, who are deceived by their 'dying fragrance, but can not see their dilapidation in the dim light. Quaint Cnstoms at Quaint Hamlets. Some of the hamlets along this road are as quaint as their names. There is Llai llai, (pronounced Yi-yi), where you take breakfast or supper, according to the train vou happen to be on: and Thai-Thai, where you mayhave a cup of hot tea, or a glass of! cigarette, according to your taste and sex. Then there' is Limanche, with its beautiful gardens and orchards, where many families of the middle-class, who cannot afford the prices at aristocratic Vino del Mar and El Salto, retire to pass a cool and quiet sum mer; and Los Andes, where you change to a branch road if bound for the mountains, or for Mendoza, on the Argentine side of the famous Uspallata Pass, which we must traverse by and by. Hereabouts in' central Chile the land is generally owned in immense estates, and irrigation is necessary in nearlv all the coast districts, Yet there is no lack of rivers in Chile as many as seventy-eight of them being deep enough to float craft of various Kiaas, witn a total navigable length of 2,800 miles; not to mention a multitude of smaller streamsnumerous lakes and the lomj line of sea coast. Farther in the in terior the climate is more equable than so near the Pacific, and the soil is prodigiously fertile. Notwithstanding the rude methods of agriculture yet in vogue, the wheat crop is enormous; and there is a remarkable yield of other products notably potatoes "nnaiftplMnrt1 fnA litnifo1 nni. ffuvtfAil farming. Of course we . are speaking of peacclul times. There will be almost no crops of any kind this year, because the laborers have all gone to fight. Pannie B. "Wasd. ANOTHER BALANCING TRICK. How to Make a If eedle Stand Upon tbq Bead or a Pin in a Board. - The balancing trick shown herewith is sent to The' Dispatch for its young read ers by R. B. H. Drive a pin into a strip of board so that it stands firmly. Lay it upon a table so the part with the pin in it extends over the edge. Through a light strip of wood A JVeedle Balanced on a Pin. drive a needle at a point about one-third of its length from one end. , Then take a knife and fasten the tip of the blade in the wood at a point about the same distance from the other end of .the striptof wood. The knife should be heavy as compared with the strip so that when the handle is bent tho center of gravity of the whole will fall jnst below the point of the needle. Place the needle point oa the pin head and "R. B. H." guarantee! you will be, surprised. Xtoxixxa furnished by sample at xMl- deflof on rnmlturo re-upholiUry. f iiUvaxjFJaaU&JmJ, 18M..-, A'MHTY MEAN MAF. BessieBr'amble's Opinion of the Great Napoleon as a Husband. DE OFTEN TORE HIS CLOTHES UP, And if Josephine's Shawl Didn't Suit Him He Threw it in the Fire. J A TTEA5T IN HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD wuxrcr ron the piSFATci.l "A true delineation of even the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest," says Carlyle, a truth which all will recog nize. Biography, which is only a higher form of gossip than the ordinary, is inter esting to all readers. This is especially true when the subject is well known and portrayed to the life when virtues are not unduly magnified nor faults wholly ob scured, when he appears as a man like unto ourselves, and is not "written up" as a sort of demigod. Someone has confessed that the story of George "Washington as told in the school readers was always painful to him. As told there the hero of the Revolution is shown to be so tremendously good that his example goes for nothing with the average boy. He Is represented as unapproachable a being who, from "his youth Up, was a model so su perior that no modern boy could come within a thousand miles of him. A saint who would calmly take "a lickin' " rather than tell a little white lie, is made of very uncommon stnffas young folks think to-day. Human nature is human nature, and it is therefore quite likely that they as did the man of whom we speak will feel relieved whenthcy grow up and find that the Father of His Country allowed himself to swear when he got "awfully mad;" that he was oc casionally tart in his temper; that he and Martha had little spats now tyid again, and that he no more loved his enemies than do other men. They will rather rejoice that in losing the saint they find the real man, who is none the less the world-renowned hero and revered patriot. The Little Things Interest. ' No brighter page is there to be found in history than that which records the genius and capacity of "Washington as soldier in the field and as President of the Republic, but it is in the former on his estate, the hnsband in his home, the details of his everyday life aaa friend and neighbor that most people take greatest interest especially women. The memoirs of Talleyrand, now so soon to' be published seem, as far as known, to throw but little new light upon the private history of the Bonapartes. He relates his part in the great transactions of his day, which make up so largely the military and political history of the great man, but an abler pen has long before given the inside story of the mushrooms that found place for a few brilliant years in the palaces of the Bourbons. Like so many of the million aires in these days who have risen from the ranks, the Bonapartes were engaged in a constant struggle for precedence, place and power. They always hated Marseilles, it is said, because it was in that city they lived when their reputation was a little shady, and those of its people who knew them at all, knew them as deficient in education and defective in the practice of the proprie ties of life. After their advancement to the "higher life" of royalty it is said that Napoleon never forgave the people of the province for the retailing of the disparaging reminiscences, and that he allowed his wrath against them to interfere with the material interests of the seaport city. Napoleon's Family at Paris. His mother and the entire family seem to have flocked to Paris when Napoleon at tained power to benefit by all he could be wrought upon to bestow. The mother was not a brilliant woman, but she seems to have had a prudent turn of mind, for while the sun of fortune shone upon them she de voted herself principally to saving and amassing money, with which, when the storm came, she returned to Rome and lived comfortably upon dnring the rest of her life. The sisters were intensely jealous of Josephine, and never ceased in their efforts to make trouble between her and Napoleon. It was nothing but lies lies to which he was only too eager to listen. This delight in gossip and scandal was one of the prominent traits of Napoleon's char acter. He wanted "to know everything about everybody and no one received from him a warmer welcome than he who came freighted with the mean and petty tales that find origin in envy and malice. Men- are fond of assuming that this delight in -gossip is mostly confined to women whose lives are narrow and whose minds are given to small things, but a little thoqght and observation shows that the brethren give as much time and tattle to their neighbors' afiairs as the most proficient adepts of the sewing socie ties or the schools for scandal. Napoleon even invited and encouraged tales as to his wife. Such was his suspicious nature that he had no scruples of delicacy or honor as to talking over her shortcomings with their friends and relatives. He kept. ' The Threat of a Divorce ever Impending, and at times seemed to en joy humiliating her before the entire court by his attentions to other women. He had spies ever at hand to report her smallest doings and sayings. She on her side, em ployed the same methods to And out his goings-out and comings-in, and usually got enough of tattle and scandal concerning Napoleon to make herthoronghly unhappy. Hue was irivoious, no? very intelligent, but she was sensitive to such indignities as were heaped upon her when the mood of meanness seized upon him. With all its thorns, however, she valued her high position. She enjoyed its prestige and its power. The prospect of becoming a divorced wife, of resigning the grandeur of a court and crown, of 'retirimy into ob scurity while her enemies gloried inher down fall, constituted the skeleton in Josephine's closet. At times Napoleon se'emed to- take delight in displaying this hideous horror to his wife, and again he would gladden her soul by appearing to forget all about it. But with her knowledge of the boundless am,, bition-of the man, her hours of happiness must have been few and her sorrows keen. Not often in real life are the "ups" so high and the "downs" so deep as they were in the lives of Napoleon and Josephine. Military genius which raised the artillery man to the throne of the Bourbons and to the mastery of kings is a rare quality, and well for the world it is. His passion for war. his success in winning victories made him the autocrat of France, while his easrer-1 Jiess ior power iea mm 10 grasp at every luxeuu, even m me jiuusuuuiu, mat ne might hold everything in his own hands. He dictated the management of the house, the observance of etiquette, the style of Josephine's dress and the selection of her friends. Amonz these he compelled her to cut some of those who had been most kind to her in her early days; and seemed es pecially to delight m sowing dissention and promoting distrust on all sides. How Napoleon "Won Josephine. The Bonapartes began poor. Throngh the kind offices of Barras One of the Di rectory Josephine had been enabled to get back enough of her first husband's confis cated estates to manage to "get along on" in a modest little house in a back street, "With this, after the storm of the Revolu tion, she was content. "With her children and her friends she took heart to. forget the sorrows of her life arid grow happy again. But the young widow was too handsome and attractive to long lack lovers. Amonz fthose who paid court to her was Napoleon, who really, it might be said, Intimidated her Into marrying him. His worldly ad vancement at the time depended upon this marriage, as Josephine's friends in power were only disposed to help him' for her sake. That he overcame her scruples and dislike, ana tnus secured ms promotion, snows that he had ss genius for conquest, eve as a 1Y.m. . - ' r otflsrisra snetnasL tnia. mia.sussr'amaa iisu usuuiusjri wotlb." i - i Carlyle) was aye a hard man to live with." This seems to be true of most men of genius. Shakespeare leaves evidence that he and his wife did not live happily together1, since by his will he left her only his second-best bed. Few women, as history goes1, have had a mora unpleasant married life than the young wife of John Milton. So unhappy did he make their home that both wife and daughters hated him. Byron's married life was a tragedy. The marriage of Djckcns was a failure, and his treatment of his wife will ever be a blot upon his memory.t The Logic of Knskln. Rnskin, with all his beautiful sentiments upon Queen's. Gardens and the power of women, was unhappy in his marriage, and holds women responsible for all the suffer ing, injustice and misery upon the. earth. Josephine, "by his course of logic, was re sponsible for the wars of Napoleon, respon siblefbr the millions of lives that were lost by his ambition just as npon Eve has been piled all of tho sins of the world. It may have been that if Josephine had been more intelligent and less piven tn frivolity; that if she .had had a stronger sense ot right and wrong, and been less lazy and selfish; that if she had had sense enough to grasp the situation and been less given to a study of dress and devices to make herself look young; that if her love for her children had prompted her to think more of their happiness than their eleva tion to rank, and that her affection for them stirred her to feel the woes of others, she might have exercised, an influence over Napoleon for good. It mav have been that had she been alive to her duty in the State, that had -she been moved by true love 'rather than vanity, had she bech conrageons for peace rather than war, had she been stronger in her love of country than in her passion for cashmere shawls, she might have pre vented the divorce ironi her husband, the bloodshed and desolation throughout Europe and the downfall of Napoleon. It would seem as if his plan for conquer ing Europe, and his mastery of affairs in the field, ana his conduct of the civil govern ment of the Empire; constituted enough business for one man, but Napoleon regu lated besides everything in the household servants and salaries with as much care and economy as Victoria manifests over her cheese'parings. Where His Temper Led Him.. He growled over what his clothes cost, but he sacrificed many to his tantrums. He hated dressing, and when anything 'did not suit him, he nouldily into a passion and fire it across the room or into tne fire, t He had a horror of barbers and always shaved himself. One of his habits when not in a good humor was to stir the wood fire with his foot and kick over the burning logs, in his wrath, much to the detriment' of his shoes. He would not be bothered with courses at dinner, but insisted upon having everything on the table at once, and he usually spent not more than ten minutes on a meal. He had a fondness for eau-de- Cologne and used it to. the extent of GO bottles a month. Imagine a warrior steeped in cologne. He insisted upon Josephine dressing hand somely; and. she was nothing loth, but gave her niuid and her time to it. She in the days of the Empire, had eight dressers who spent hours in "making her up" to look young and beautiful. She changed ' every article of her attire three times a day. If Kapoleon did not like her gowns they were changed at once. On one occasion, as re lated, when he did not fancy one pf the richest of her dresses, he emptied a bottle of ink upon it. This mattered little,- as she seldom wore anything twice. He would at other times throw her shawls which did not lease him into the fire. Shawls in those ays were the fashion, and Josephine gloried in the possession of from threeid.four hun dred, for some of which she paid from f 2,000 to ?3,000 apiece. This favorite extrava gance has gone out of fashion, but may come round again as the Empire styles are being revived. Crowned Through Contrariness. With the divorce in mind, Napoleon at first did not intend that she should be crowned as Empress, bnt his family were so. importunate tnat she should be deprived ot this honor that he crew contrary in nroDor- tion, and determined that she should share in the glory oi his great.-day. .Moreover, he about this time would have relinquished the divorce altogether, if the chief physi cian, Corvisart, in whom Bonaparte had great , faith, could have been induced to enter into the secret plan to palm off a false heir as the child of Josephine and Napoleon. But Corvisart refused to take any part in such an arrangement, and vgs insulted by the mere proposition, much io Napoleon's amazement. The marriage of Josephine and Napoleon had been performed by the civil power only, but Josephine longed for the sanction of the chnrch ceremony, probably with a view of preventing the divorce, in an interview with the Pope, she confided to him her wishes, and ne promised to require that the church marriage should precede the corona tion in which he was to take part. Napoleon consented and they were married by Card inal Fesch. But no rules of church or hull Of Pope could restrain Napoleon when he set his mind to the contrary. The church had eventually to knock nnderand,contraxy to church rules and precedents, the divorce was obtained- Napoleon's Coronation Costume. Napoleon, who is best known -hf his picture in which he appears in a very plain uniform, must have been weighed down, with the. magnificence of his coronation costume, especially" as his ermine mantis alone Weighed 80 pounds. He wore white velvet knee breeches with diamond buckles, a red velvet coat embroidered with gold, a white sash, a short cloak sewn with bees, and a plumed hat, turned up, with a dia mond bnckle. Josephine was equally gorgeous in white satin and ermine trimmed train with a magnificent display of diamonds. How soon, divorce, disaster, death followed this magnificent parade his tory tells. After his fall, Napoleon.turned to the-wife he had divorced for sympathy. He wrote to her: "I have heaped benefits upon millions of wretches! They have all betrayed me." Neither of them seemed to take thought of the desolation and. misery they had brought upon millions of innocent beings in pursuit of their selfish- ambitions and greed of greatness. His second wife, the Austrian princess, had no real love for him, and gave no token after his fall that her vow of taking him for better or for worse was held by her to be binding. Down to his latest hour, Napo leon was a liar. The record of his life shows him to have been not a hero but a selfish man, who having fallen short of his am bition, thought the world had cheated him. The ingratitude of those he had raised to place.and power soured him, but he seemed to have no thought of the anguish, distress nndT broken fortunes he had Drought upon France. In years to come, he will be known as a great soldier, a cruel despot, and a mean man. Bessie ISeasible. TWO LECTURES AT ONCE.; Wendell Phillips Sleets With a Queer In stance of.lfankeo Thrift. Wendell Phillips, having been announced to lecture in the parish meeting house, found on his arrival that the committee was not agreed as to the subject of the lecture, says Youth's Companion. "How many lectures have yon brought, Mr. Phillips?" asked, the chairman.' "All of them are here," answered the lecturer, tapping his forehead. "Well," continued the' chairman, , "we'll ask those in the audience which one they prefer to.hear." - j The audience was also divided. Some called for ' 'Toussaint l'Ouverture, "n others asked for "The Lost Arts." At hwtne old man arose and said: "S'pose we have both. Couldn't yon give us both, Mr. Phillips?" . ""Yes," answered the orator, taking in the humor of the situation two lectures for one fee. "He cave both, wlndine from one to the other," says his biographer, Rev. Carlos Martro. "with such deftness that it .was im possible to detect whert they werajolnsd. Xhasntdlaaof xnlrt4. fif41tsW7xotl)TMKiim -7, .... 18' LABOR FOE THE FAEM. Acres of land Standing Idle for Want of Help to Plant Them. YET CITT'IDLERS AEE ABMDAKT. Not a Matter of Wages Because Country Work Is Well Paid For. BOYS AND 6IEIS COMEfG TO CITES There is a screw" loose somewhere, evi dently several of them, in our political economy. "While producers claim that 'mo nopolies are making the rich richer and ths poor poorer, and' probably few, compara tively speaking, will deny the assertion; yet, while able-bodied .men and women and children are in actual want in the merry, merry spring-time in this city, and thesa able-bodied men claim they cannot get work, almost within sound of the groaning steam engines and clanking forge-hammers of this industrial hive, farmers are tearing their hair because they cannot get help, either male or female, to run their farms. It ii a remarkable anomaly, as a writer in the New York Etenina Pott puts it, that whereas machinery has been invented to do away with nearly all the hard work on a farm and at equal cost, the machine does from three to ten times the work of a man, yet the "few hands necessary to manage these machines cannot be had at good wages. Forty years ago farmers had a better mar ket than they have to-day and had no trou ble to get hands, though hay and grain were cut, raked and threshed by hand and much more help was needed. Men had rather half starve in the cities than work on farms Better "Wages on Tanns. Hodcarrying is harder work than farm, labor, which is diversified and restful, yei there are plenty ot hodcarriers, and their earnings do not average as much as those of farm laborers. Men can be had to drive street cars at 51 75 per day and work 18 hours a day, less money than i3 paid for farm laborer at 25 per cent less hours for ' work. A good farm hand can get 516 a month the year round, with board and washing, and can sleep better and have better food than in the city, and is out of the way of the temptation to f dissipation, and an extra good man can get f20 a month"and found," yet three adjom- iug luiuicra iu j.buuiuMu luwuamp, wuum eight miles of the city, while able-bodied men with long visages, are telling tales of inability to get employment, have been un able to secure help this spring, and in con sequence must leave a considerable portion, of their farms nnplanted. It is true they can get hands, but many of them are tramps they fear to employ, and the majority are unable to speak English and do not know enough to do farm work requiring any measure of skill. One hired nimself in that locality last year and professing to know all about farming was intrusted with the caieof a place. He was fold to sow a small plot with turnip seed, and he bonght and put i two pounds on it, a quantity sufficient to have covered the entire farm. Then thera' are so many cutthroats coming from.' Europe nowadays that farmers who cannot. be protected Dy police are airaip: to hire i strangers. They tear thev mav eet s butcher like Artwein. Some of the tough-j est characters to be found offer to workw but they either loaf and get fat or "do up'Q their employers, generally both. fleeing From the Country. Ai a rule, neither the fanner's sons norM daughters elect to stay home. If the girlaj cannot get the husbands they want, thai next thing considered is to be m dressmaker, typewriter bookkeeper! or something else that they thinky more attractive than pastoral life. Though: many of them may in after years see theisd folly they, cannot be nfede to see itnowJI and many thousands of girls yearly leaVsT,"""'"" good homes in the country to work in thgi city at ?1 a day, or less, and pay all thefl make for board. The boys want to be law, yers, doctors, preachers, bookkeepers! clerks or niechanics, and it is easier to be4 come a member of one of the learned pro-i fessions than it is to get a chance to learn si desirable mechanical trade. Failing ia all these lines they drive street cars or do a& manual labor they can find in the cities. ; All over the Northern States the samel condition prevails. New England farmsrt cannot get their spring planting done and it is said that in Hartford, Ct, 200 farm hands) can get employment at $16 to $25 a month and board, and yet thousands of able-bodied) men are hungry nearby, in New York Cltjsl A Rather Gloomy Ontloolc, It is scarce worth while to go Into sdj . analysis of the causes that have prodttced .this state of affairs. People may learn the) cure in the expensive school of experieaou but they will learn it in no other. There is na nobler nor mora' interesting employment tha$ intelligent farming, but so long as boytanc girls place the bliss of life in ostentations' jl.a 1a Mn hi 1m.- a i.Ylli 4. .tit I l. spires this love, there will be so impnrr jnent until collapse brings it about. r History tells ns of the inventor OV-sfi least an early maker of the sword, bus fill torians seem to have taken no trouble to s& balm the memory of the one who invesrtsd the plow, and, though farming is so asojf thousand-years old, there is no onellTinj who can tell the productive capacity of is acre of ground. We need industrial schools and of a high order. Every fanner should be a chemist and a broadly intelligent maJij and his wife should be no less a cultured! woman. We ought to be able to turn eul finished Workmen in all lines, instead of inw porting thexn,but in view of'the fact that aa art school a few years ago failed ia Pitts burg to get the small encouragement needed j when the teachers offered their services gratis until it should be self-sustaining, there is but a very slim prospect that thi century will see the accomplishment of aa thing substantial. ;y i IMPOSING HONUHEHTS; The BIxo of the Stone Doesn't Indicate -toil Amount of Grief. ' Ona recent visit to one of the great ceme teries near this city I had as a companion an old gray-haired dealer in tombstonesJ says a writer in the New York TAegnan. Ina what might be termed the fashionable por-j tion of the cemetery I called his attention to the impressive character of the massivsc monuments of granite, with their brightly polished sides, on which were inscribed tha names and ages of those who lay beneath. "That's right," said the old man. "The. effect npon yon is just what was intended by those who paid for the big pieces of granite.. They were meant to be impressive ; that is, to impress outsiders with 'an idea of tha wealth and social standing of those by whom they were erected. Greatness of their grief, , did you say? Well, I guess not. Yon see I am in the business and can see further in- , to a tombstone-than most people. I have to . pell those towering obelisks of dull, gray , stone, but I don't believe in them. It is , merely another phase of human pride. That, these tall monuments are not erected out of regard for departed dear ones m evident from the fact that not one tender thought or, . word of loving remembrance is carved on the broad surfaces of those great masses of stone. "For my part," said the veteran, "I pre- ' fer the old style tombstone of 40 or CO years ago a slab of marble upright at the head of the grave, on whioh, besides the name and age of the dead one is carved a short sum mary of his other good qualities while la life, with a line or two of affectionate re membrance from those by whom the stona has been, erected. It is the fashion now. adays to make fun of the quaint verses mind the lore whleh unlimited these osier! ' 1UUUU upuu VUB OM1 IOIHD910UC9, DUt IO JOJ 1 - .. -. . 1- . -....- -,---- i "" r AH 1 '- JHB Jl&t&&aftMfiiL Mi'i
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