A REVIEW OF SPORTS Somo Interesting Features of the Contest for the National League Pennant. FEW "WOKDS ABOUT THE HOJIE CLUB Opinions Regarding the Referee's Decision in the Recent Jackson and Corbett Battle. ETIOTS AMONG THE PUGILISTS. Prospects of the Local Imatenr Athletic Sports for tie Season. Nothing very startling has taken place during the week in baschall affairs. The contest for the League pennant is going on still in a very interesting and even excited manner. More than ever has the fact been demonstrated ihat baseball is still king of all outdoor sports in the United States. "While the weather during the week has not been good by any means, the attendance at each game, both here and elsen here, has been extremely good. From this fact wc de duce another, that is as long as the re s pecti e teams do well and make a good argument on all occasions, there w ill be large audiences. For j ears and years this paper has pointed out the fact that a good baseball team in Pittsburg would be a profitable venture. By "good" I mean a winning team, 'because there may be a very wide difference between a good team and a winning team. "Well, we have had the fact clearly proven to us that our team is a profitable one if they only do not perform any worse than they haie been doing. After all, we all like to be on the side of the victors, and teiy few people like to cheer or in any -way tupport losers. The success of National League baseball, then, in Pittsburg depends on the victories of the team, and certainly the stockholders and directors Of the club are aware of this. In looking o-. er the lists df the various teams in the League it is not difficult to discover that more money has been spent by the Pittsburgers in trying to get good baseball players together than has been spent by any other club in the country. The team is a good one, but so far we can not claim that the players have been ex tremely successful in winning games. The verv good fights they have on almost all oc casions made have kept up the enthusiasm, and this goes to show that, e. en though a good team may be a loser, there is to a great ' extent a desire to patronize it. A Few Local Features. "While I am speaking about the local team 1 may as well say all I have to say about it before dealing with the teams in general. There is no desire on my part to grumble unduly about the home team. My readers will know by this time that I am never too ready to praise anybody or any thine that is,"l have to be extremely well satisfied about the case before any'lauda tions are gh en by me. "Well, I am quite free to admit that our local ball team is worthy of praise, but while I say that I am also free to confess that they "have been Bomewhat disappointing. Although our players have the reputation of being an ag gregation of very big hitters they have lost very many games simply because of their very poor hitting. In this respect the team hasbeen a great disappointment, and it is no use shutting our eyes to the fact. And what is more, when they fail to hit, and hit often and hard, thev are a verv poor lot of players. But the irregular hitting is not the only drawback. The infield is not solid by any means, and I think nobody will deny that Beilly aud Miller are just as likely to cause a defeat any day as to help a victory. Many games have "been lost by these two players, but s.till I am not going to say: "Get clear of them." They are in a probationary condition; they are develop ing, and there is every hope that they will blossom into very good players. But in the meantime thev are now and again losing games, and this is naturally causing very much dissatisfaction among'the cranks. 1 don't hesitate to say that if wc liad a first class shortstop and third baseman we would have, beyond all doubt, the best team in the country." But while it is eay to say and to proi e that the infield is weak, it is not so easy to make it stronger. "While we may be "satisfied that the work of Beilly and Miller is not as good as it ought to be, we may not be able to get better men for their places. That is the difficulty. Just let any of the cranks point out to me how and where we can get two better men than Beilly and Miller. About Our Fitchers. In one thing the local team is well fixed and that is pitchers. I don't know of a time when the Pittsburg club was in such excellent condition forpitchersas at present; in fact, there is not a club in the country so well stocked with good pitchers. "When such an excellent man as Staley is set at liberty there must be good material left. But lam aware tliat a very large number of local club patrons claim that it was a very big mistake to allow Staley to go, and that no better material is lclt in the club. I am perfectly willing to express an opinion on the matter, and that opinion is to the effect that Stale v was too good a man let go so easilv. ""sot bv any means do I mean to tell the club officials how they should conduct their business, but as an outsider I certainly have a right to express my opinion on the matter, and I don't hesitate to say that there was a little undue haste in dispensing with Harry Stalej. Depend upon it, we have no absolute proof that our present pitchers are thoroughly safe and sound. And outside that fact b"y giving Staley to Boston we arcstrensthcningsnc of our most dangerou mal There hac been some rumors current during the w cek relative to Galviu. Tnese rumors were to the effect that "Old Sport" and the management were not getting along all right. I am very glad to be able to note that Galvin and the club are all O. K. He may have been a little cross because'he i as not put in to pitch in his turn, but matters are all right now. Of course w e reckon Maul among the pitchers, but it does seem to me quite plain that the club made a big mistake when'they released Laroque. Now just let us see how short sighted were the club officials. "We had any number of outfielders, that is, men who could go out and do tolerably well in the outfield in a case of emergency. But we only had one infieldcr that is, extra infieldcr. "We released him, and then our best infielder got disabled, and we hadn't a man to fall back on, except a misfit. Certainly the judgment hown was bad, because I don't expect that Maul is be ing kept because of his pitching, and if he is not, then there never was a greater mistake made than that of releasing Laroque. A team such as we think we ha-.e should, by all nicaus, ne er be without an extra in fielder, and it is a very great pity that the team is caught now w itliout one. liaschall in General. k The contest for the League penant is still as interesting as ever, and it may be safe to tay that there never was a time when the contestants in the race kept so close to gether for such a long time. Every team in the League has done something to cause.un usual excitement, and there will certainly be more of it yet. One of the great surprises is that Cleveland should be so far up and a team like the New Yorks so far down. That is one of the curious features of baseball, because I don't think anybody will for one moment rank the Cleveland team equal with the New York team as far as ball playing is con cerned. And also take, a team like the Brooklyns. Their place is ,not at the foot of the list by any means, and certainly they will not remain down where they now are. It is one of the good features of base ball that the pennant race is not-to the swift, but that those who go the distance will be the winners. Good solid merirwill make itself felt before next October. It is to such teams as Boston, New York and Pitts burg hat I look for the merit that I mean. By the time that the "Western clubs get through with their Eastern trip, begun yesterday, we will know more about the respective merits of the various teams; The Eastern teams have not bv any means made a great showing in the "West, and I expect that the "Western teams will do much better in the East, that is, better than the Eastern teams did in the "West. There has becn.one very satisfactory feature during the week, and that -has been the good attendance at each city. Of course I except Cincinnati, because matters are not all pleasant there. During the week there have been two ball games going on and a race meeting. The ball games suffered, and it is to be expected that one club or the other will resolve to transfer its team. It is useless and indeed exceedingly foolish to keep two teams in Cincinnati. One would do w ell, and "the other mo ed to another city would also do well, whereas they are both losing now. I am inclined to think that a change will shortly be made, and that we will find the Association team no longer1 in Cincinnati. . Among the Pugilists. Last week I had much to say regarding the affair between Corbett and Jackson. I have a few more words to sav on the matter simply because the case has developed somc- wnat since last week. When I last wrote about it the decision of the Board of Di rectors was not gi en, but since then they have decided to give each man 52,500, and as far as I know the two pugilists have "ac cepted the money. To me there is some thin" very strange about this offer or gift of the California Athletic Club. At first sight one would think that the two pugilists", should either have all the purse, that is the 510,000, or nothing at all. If the fight was an honest one and neither man could win, then by all means each man has a right for 55,000. If the fight was a dishonest one, then neither man should be given a cent. If the decision of the referee and the club directors means anything it means that the contest was" of a questionable kind, and this fully justifies all that I have to say regarding the affair last week. Every body who indorses the judgment of the ref eree and the club directors must indorse what I said on the matter. I have every right to believe that Mr. Cook, who refereed the affair, and the directors of the club are honest men. At any rate I have no reason to believe that they "are dishonest, and this being so, I am forced to the conclusion that they had good reasons for .dealing with the contest as they did. People who contend that two men can stand up and fight more than four hours under Queensberry rules simply do not know what they are talking about. It is difficult to tell whether or not they shall meet again. If they do it will be quite a while before the meeting occurs, because Corbett is already booked for the show business. If they do contest again, I will certainly have something to say about it in due time. There is a report to the effect that Jackson is quite willing to fight again, but that Corbett declines. But no matter how that may be, I am inclined to think that Corbett will be quite ready to mount the stage again if the money is satis factory. The Xert Big Affair. Attention generally is being turned to the Slavin and Kilrain contest, which is to take place on June 16. Both men are in excellent condition according to report, and already there is some betting on the result. One or two of Kilrain's friends claim that he will easily win. That means that hew ill not be knocked out in ten rounds. In fact, there are some people who think that Kil rain can defeat Corbett and Jackson and Slavin or anybody else. Those who hold a notion of this kind are very foolish, indeed, because one of the poorest of heavy-weight pugilists to-day is Jake Kilrain. But he has extremely "favorable conditions in his Eroposcd contest with Slavin. The latter as to knock Kilrain out in ten rounds; that means that" Slavin -must be the man to force matters. This is quite different from a contest' where there is no such limit and where the conditions are equal. "While it may be safe to bet Stolon a man defeating another man quite easily, it might not be safe to bet that the man would knock his opponent out in 10 or even 20 rounds. It may, therefore, be a harder task for Slavin to.knock out Kilrain than he thinks. I say it may be, but I am induced to think that Slavin will accomplish his task. His style of fighting is entirely of the knocking out kind, and if he cannot settle Kilrain in' ten rounds he w ill not be very likely to settle him at alL Judging from the way in which Slavin went at McAuliffc I don't think that Kilrain will make a very strong stand against the Aus tralian. Carney and Barge. The great battle between Jem Carney and. DickBurge, for the English lightweight championship, has taken place, and it has had a 'V ery unsatisfactory termination, in- land about the event Carney had very much. the belter ot lus man, but the reteree de cided the affair in favor of Burge on account of an alleged foul' by Carney. I have been unable to find out what the foul was and nothing can be said about it nntil we do know. But I do know that in England they are very particular about rules, and it may have been that in a frenzied moment Carney lost his head and made a mistake. If he did he would lose, e. en though he had his man quite beaten. I believe at all times in the enforcement of the rules and whenever it has been my lot to act as an official in any contest I have enforced the rules very rigidly. It is because the rules are not enforced that has made so many burlesque battles under Queensberry rules. If referees would insist that the rules be strictly adhered to then it would be much better for the business. But to resume about Carney's fight. "It seems that he had all the best of it from start to finish, and proved himself vastly superior to his young er and active opponent Carney has been a wonderful man, and I don't think his equal at weight has lied in this generation. There may be cleverer men, but he is more igorous in the ring than anvbody his weight. It is a pity that he and Jack Mc Auliffe never got their argument thoroughly settled. There are few people now who contend that McAuliffc was Carney's equal, pr that the latter was fairly treated when thev met I don't think that ever Mc Aulifle and Carney will meet, but I also think that Carney has always ranked higher than McAuliffc The Local Races. "We have gotten fairly into the racing season, trotting I meaand matters look very well here. The spring meeting at Homewood has been tolerably successful; it could and would have been better had the weather been more favorable. On Thurs day there were probably 3,000 people out at the track, and this goes to show that the trotters-are still very popular here yet The racing was somewhat onesided, but there ivpre some innd horsns lipr. anil ciilarnlila mnnnir wnc inraota t .li ........IX.. -1 The directors of the Driving Park Associa tion are very enterprising and certainly nothing should be put in their way to trouble them. They have had lots of trouble out at Homewood first and last, and now that there is a chance for them to reap a little reward I trust that nobody will spoil their prospects. It won't be long before the summer meeting is here, and I make bold to say that it will be a great .one. It may be that one of the traction roads will run cars right to the park, and if that were done the park would certainly soon become a popular resort. A Treat for Billiard Patrons. To-morrow evening, if all goes well we will have Jacob Schaeffer and Ives here at Davis' billiard rooms. They are on their way to France and will give an exhibition here. It would be impossible to get two better performers of the cue than Schaeffer and Ives, and they areindeed well worth seeing. Schaeffer has been a long time be fore the public and I don't hesitate to say that to-day he has not an equal as a billiard expert His play is simply marvellous at time. It is a gritpity that a contest can THE not be arranged between the English and American experts. If a game could be agreed upon between . say Roberts .and Schaeffer the contest would certainly be an attractive one. It may be that Schaeffer while in Eufope.will arrange a contest with some of the Britishers. I trust he wilL The Amateur Sports. Our local amateur athletes are starting in quite early this year, and before next Sun comes the big field dav will have been held. From what I can learn next Saturday's sports at Exposition- Park are going to be of a verv attractive kind; certainly there will-be plenty of events. Contestants will be here from many of the leading clubs of other cities, and among them I suppose we are sure to find a "flyer" or two. But the sports will do. good chiefly because they will draw public attention to amateurism. A great many people run away with the idea that to b"e an amateur athlete is simply to have lots of money, go to some park or club grounds, don a pretty uniform and have a nice time running round. That is playing at being an amateur athlete, but thercal, simon-pure article is a young man who lives the strictest kind of life as far as keeping himself in good condition is con cerned. And to do this, lots of very hard work is needed. . Show me a man who is in good condition and I'll show you a man who lives well and works hard every day. One of the great objects of amateur athletic organizations is tokeep young men in the condition I have named. And while they are doing good to themselves physi cally they can amuse the public. And on Saturday we will have a chance to see how our amateurs can perform. If the w cather is fine they should have a good attendance. Pkisgle. ' OHE OF BIAVATSXY'S THICKS. "When Five Hundred Dollars Was Needed She Pointed It Out "Sew York Telegram. "The marvels which the "late Mme. Bla-" vatsky used to perform," said a professor of Columbia College, who is deeply interested in the study of Buddhistic writings, "were as wonderful as those of Aladdin with his lamp, even more so, for she did not need a lamp to help her to accomplish them. A few years ago, while she was in this city, I witnessed one of these feats. I had been invited to attend a banquet given at a prom inent hotel here by a son of the leading theosophist, manv of whom had been con verted to the Buddhistic belief by the Madame herself. Just before the dinner was served I was standing with a little group of persons, among whom were Mme. Blavatsky and one of her most faithful and energetic supporters. 'What a pity it is,' he remarked, 'that we are so hard pressed for funds. "We really need money very badly. If we only had 5500 now we might get on very well. ' 'There was silence for a moment; then Madame Blavatsky, pointing to a mahogany cabinet in the corner of the room, said quietly: 'If you will look Into the top drawer of that piece of furniture you will find the money we need.'.. He did as she suggested, and on opening the drawer found a crisp five hundred dollar bill. , Now, this story may seem utterly incredible, but I witnessed the scene and can vouch for its truth. "Whether it was all arranged before hand or not, I 'cannot say, but it certainly was carried out just as I have described it to yon. If Madame Blavatsky was .acting she played her part remarkably well. , It is curious to note in connection with this inci dent that the Madame herself never seemed to have much money." DIJIOHATS ABE MACHINES. Little Expected of Them Than to Tie Their Cravats Properly. Edmond About has defined diplomacy as the "art of tying one's cravat" a defini tion which would seemingly place most American representatives 'abroad outside the pale. Only the new fledged diplomat eycr thinks of thinking for himself or of doing anything upon his own responsibility. The old hand never "takes step without ex press instructions from his Government, which is jealous ot interference with its con duct of nffairt? regarding as its most satis factory agents those who act as, mere ma--chines, executing dexterously the orders telegraphed or written to them. Thus ministers and ambassadors are at liberty to engage themselves chiefly with the elaboration of matters of etiquette, which are of greater importance to-day than ever before", because the ecean greyhound and the electric cable have made all the nations next door neighbors. These envoys find little more expected of them than to pay" calls, attend dinners and wear their clothes properly; but woe be to him who pays his calls wrong or ties his cravat crooked! He will be declared a persona ingrata and recalled. This subject of visits is one of the largest consequence in the preservation of international relations. AH EXPERT ON THE JAG. He Explains the Origin and Different Mean ings of the "Word. SI. Lonls rost-Dlspatch.J The word originated, in the lumber regions of the Northwest A sledge would start off from a camp with a full load of logs. When a bad spot in the road was reached it would become necessary to throw off a part and proceed with something less than a full load. This was called a jag. The common use of the expression is derived from this usage, but is applied to those who not only look upon the wine when it is red, but also drink it "When a man has imbibed eonugh to make his friends aware that he is notamim ber of the blue ribbon league, but is not loaded to his utmost carrying capacity, he is said to hive a jag. " The line dividing a jag from a full load is not distinctly drawn, but drinkers of ex perience sufficient to entitle them to rank as experts state that as long as a man does not lie down on his back and feel upward for the ground he has a jag; after this point is gained he may be regarded as loaded. A ST. LOUIS BUSINESS KAK, And His Idea of the Relative Positions of Heaven and Earth. Chicago Herald. "In St. Louis," said a drummer, "is a firm t6 whom I sell goods once in awhile. The senior partner is a regular Shark. Hot long ago he loaned some money to a church society for the purchase of a new organ. "When payment of the loan was made he charged the Eociety 9 per cent interest. This was refused and the principal was not paid. Finally one of the deacons of the church was sent to talk with the usurer. '"You have acted very badly,' said the pillar of the church. '"How's that?' " 'Six per cent was enough interest' '"Nine is fair.' " When the Lord looks down on the 9 He will put a long black mark against your name,' , "This staggered the old fellow for a mo ment, but suddenly recovering, he replied: 'When the Lord looks down on that 9 He will think it's a C" The Queen's Special Edition. Irish Times. A royal edition of the' Daily Telegraph, is prepared and issued daily for the Queen's -special sight This has been the case ever since the death of the Prince Consort, on which occasion the Telegraph obituary notice so pleased the Queen that she ordered a copy of the paper to be sent to each of her palaces daily. Since then 25 copies of the newspaper have been issued on the best of paper in truly royal style; so that if Her Majesty takes a fancy to glance down the columns of this widely circulated dailv she has the privilege of knowing that she reads an edi tion expressly prepared for herself. Badges for lodges, societies, etc Fine and reasonable, at McMahon Bros. & Adams', 152 Fourth avenue. su PITTSBURG DISPATCH, MTAJO JOE'S L1JCK.1 Wagered His Life on the Ace at Faro , and the Cards Split. flMABAR DEMANDED HIS BLOOD. He Had let Daylighi Through a Mongol When He Wasn't Looking. A YIGHANCE COMMITTEE'S ACTION tWBITTEir FOR Tint MSFATCn.J TT T AVAJO JOE was out iWL 1 of luck. Ordinarily 'IV I hjis vagaries were not I regarded in Cinnabar. X His frequent appear- apce in the single, street in a voluntary of nice feats of horse manship coupled with an exhibition of pistol shooting, in which old tomato cans and passee beer bottles performed as targets, had hitherto excited no more bale ful sentiment in the Cinnabar bosom than disgust. "Shootin' up the'town a whole lot," was the name for this engaging pastime as given by Navajo Joe and up-to date the exercise had passed unchallenged. But to-day it was different Camps like individuals have moods; now light, now dark, and so it was with Cinnabar. Just at this time. Cinnabar was experiencing a wave of virtue. This may have come spontane ously from the- .germs of order which, after all, dwelt sturdily in the Cinnabar breast. It might have been excited by the presence of a pale party of Eastern tourists, just now abiding at the O. K.Hptel, and who the rather sanguine sentiment of Cinnabar credited with meditating a large investment of treasure in her rocks and rills. But whatever the reason Cinnabar virtue was certainly aroused to unusual heights; a con dition of the public mind which made it a bad day for Navajo Joe. A Hot Hay in Cinnabar. The angry sun" smote hotly in the de serted causeway of Cinnabar. The public was within doors. The Gold Mine saloon and its sister hostels, the dance hall and the Eull Blown Hose were thriving mightily. Those games known to the world as monte, high ball and faro and which generally possessed absorbing interest for the public were drowsy and dull enough, but the counters whereat the citizen of Cinnabar gathered with his peers in absorption of the incautious drinks of the place, were fairly sloppy from an excess of tradev Notwith standing the torrid heat, this" need not sound strangely. Cinnabar leaning was strongly homeopathic "Similia Similibus Curantur," said Cinnabar, and when it was blazing hot drank whisky. But to-day there was further reason for this consumption. Cinnabar -was excited and this provoked a thirst. Navajo Joe, rendering himself prisoner to Jack Moore, rescue or no rescue, had, by order of that sagacious body, been conveyed by his cap tor before the vigilance committee and was about to be tried for his life. "What was Navajo Joe's immediate crime? Certainly not a grave one. Ten days before it would hardly earned a comment "But to-day, in its spasms of virtue, and sensitive in its memories of the erratic courses of Navajo Joe aforetime, Cinnabar had gravely and grimly taken possession of that volatile gentleman for punishment. He had killed a Chinaman. It happened thus: JJavaJo Joe Had Pressed the Limit. "Yere comes that prairie dog, Navajo Joe, all spraddled out," said Bill Tutt, a short halt hour before He was peering from the window of the Gold Mine saloon at the time; to which he had been drawn by the noise of hoofs, and there was a sense of injury disclosed in the tone, bom of the awakened virtue of Cinnabar. "It looks like this yere camp never can assoome no airs," said Bosewood Jim, in a distempered way, "but this yere miser'ble Joe comes chargin' up to queer it" As he spoke, that offending personage un conscious of the great change in Cinnabar morals, swept up the street, emitting glad some and ecstatic whoops and whirling his pistol on his forefinger like a wheel of light. A tourist stood in the door of the hotel smoking" a nipe in short, brief puffs of astonishment and reviewing the amazing performance. Navajo Joe- ot once and abruptly halted, and, gazing for a dis gruntled moment on the man from the East, took the pipe from its owner's horri fied mouth and placed it in his own. "Smokin' of pipes, "he vouchsafed in condemnatory explanation, "is onelegant and degradin , an' don't you do it no more in my presence. I'm mighty sensitive that away about pipes afi'T don't aim to tolerate 'em; none whatever." This solution of his motives seemed en tirely satisfactory to Navajo Joe. He sat puffing and gazing at the man bereaved, while the latter stood dumblytaring with a morsel of the ravished meerschaum still between his lips. "What further might have flowed in.the "way jf oratory or overt acts may not be stated, for the thoughts of the guileless Joe, suddenly received a new direction. Interrupted by It Bobed Mongol. Just then a Chinaman, vpluminously robed, emerged from the New York store, whither he had been drawn by dint of soap. "Whatever is this yere suds sloppin Mongol doih' in camp I'd like for to know?" inquired Navajo Joe, disdainfully. "I shore leaves orders when I'm yere last for the immejit removal of all seem" "Oh, well," be continued in tones of weary and bitter reflection, "I'm the only public sneritcd man in camp, so all this yere work falls nachcral to me, I'll jest have to make an example-of this pcrticlar speciment to let'em know whatever js. Caucasian is, anyhow." 'Then came the short, emphatic utterance of a six-shooter, a puff ofi smoke which vanished quickly in the hot.air, and the next census was short ono Chinaman. Nav ajo Joe had shot the Chinaman to death. Then cam'e the brief order from Arm strong, the chief of the vigilance committee, to Jack Moore., That gentleman proffered a "Winchester first and a request second, and Navajo Joe, realizing fate,,at once surren dered. "Of course, gents," said Armstrong, ap ologetically, as he convened the vigilance committee in the New York store, "1 don't say this yere Joe is beln' held for beefin' the Chinaman sole an' alone The fact is, he's been havin' a mighty sight too gay a time of late, an' so I think it'll a good, safe J The Censtis Short One Chinaman. SUNDAY, 3MAY: ' pjay bein' as it's a hot day an' we has the time to sorter call the committee together an' ask its views, whether we better hang this yere Navajo Joe xet or not?"' To Stretch Him a "Whole Lot. "Mr. 'President," responded Bill Tntt, "if I'm in order an' jest to get the sense of the mcetin to flowin easy an' smooth, I moves you we takes this yere Navajo Joe an' pro ceeds to stretch him a whole lot. I ain't basin' this yere on no defunct Chinaman nor nothin'inpartie'ler, but jest lettih' it fly under the general head of good of the order."- r "Do I hear any remarks?" asked Arm strong. If not I shall take Mr. iTutt's very excellent motion as the census 4f this yere meetin an' it's hung she is." "Not intendin" no interruption," said Texas'Thompson, "I wants to say this. I'm a quiet man myse'f, an' wants to keep Cin nabar a quiet place wherein to pass my de clinin years. Eor which-all I-shorely favors a hangin' of Navajo Joe. He's given us a heap of trouble. I'm. like Bill Tutt, I don't make no pin't on this yere dead Chinaman; we spares him too easy. But this Joe is allcrs a ridin,' an' a yelhn', an' a shootin' up the camp till I'm clean tired out. So I says, let's hang him, an' suggests as a eligible place the wind mill out back of the dance hall." "Yes," said Armstrong, "the windmill is upholstered for jest scch plays, an' as delays is aggravatin', the committee might as well canter over right now an' get this.yere done bv daylight, an'" 'See yere, Mr. President," inquired .navajo Joe, in a tone of truculent in quiry, "don't I get no hand in this yere? "What for a deal is this, I rises to ask, anyhow?" ''You can gamble this yere is a squar' American game," said Armstrong, con fidently. "Your entitled to your say when the committee is done Just stand jour hand now, an we'll deal" to you in a minute." - . "Well, I jest wants to know if I'm in on this play, that's aH," said Navajo Joe. Would Ho an Impressive Act. "Gents." said KosewOod Jim, who had sat silently listening, "I'm with you on this yere hangin'. Any attempt on my part to p'int out those features in the daily lifeof this camp as makes me tired might seem in vidious an' 1 don't aim" to doit none. But TU Gamble My IAfe. we've got to do somethin' in the way of takin' a good, firm, moral step. I takes it hangin' Joe will fill the prec-scription. These Eastern men is yere in our midst. It'll impress 'cm that Cinnabar means busi ness ah' is a good, safe, quiet camp. They'll carry reports East as will do us credit, an' thar you be. As to the propriety of stringin' J05, there need be .no doubt. If the China man ain't enough, if assaultin' of a innocent' tenderfoot ain't enough, you can bet he's done plenty beside as merits a lariat. He Wouldn't deny it himself, if you asks him." There was a silence succeeding the rather spirited address of Bosewood Jim, and at last Armstrong broke it by inquiring of Na vajo Joe if he bad-anything to offer. "I reckon it's your play now, Navajo," he said, "so come a-runnin'." '.'Well," said i Navajo Joe, disgustedly, "these yere proceeding makes me sick; I shore objects to this yere" hangin' idee, an' all for a meanly Chinaman too. This yere jcAmp of Cinnabar is a-gettiri' a mighty sight too stylish for me. It's gettin' that per-"dad-binged-tic'ler it can't take its reg'ler drinks, an " Stop right thar," said Armstrong, with dignity. "Don't cuss'thc chair none, cause the chair Ton't have it. It's a parliamen mentary law if anyone cusses the choir he's out of order, same as it's law that all chips on the floor goes to the house, an' when a man's out of order once that settles it. He can't talk no more that meetin'. Seein' we're aimin' to hang you, we won't claim no rule on you this time, but be careful howyou'eonte titickin' round; an' don't crowd us. You sabe? Don't crowd us none." Navajo Joe's Novel Proposition. "Well, I , wont crowd you," . retorted Navajo Joes "I don't haye'td crowd you. What I say is this: I s'pose I seed 50 men stretchedby committees' between yere,and Oregon an' I never see a man get roped yet on account of no Chinaman. An' I offers a side bet of $100 even it ain't law to hang people on account of downin' a Chinaman. BUt you all seems sot on this thing an' I'll tell you what I'll do. I'm a plain, every day sport and thar's no filigree work on mc, but if it's all congenial to the gents here as sembled not puttin' it on the grounds of no miserable pig-tails, .but just to meet pub lic sentiment naif way I'll gamble my life; hang or no hang, on the first 'ace turned from the box, an' Bosewood deal. Is it a gov Cinnabar tastes were bizarre. A proposi tion, original and new, found in its very novelty a strong argument for Cinnabar favor. So the unusual offer of Navajo Joe to stake his life on a turn at faro was an- 'provingly criticised. The general disposi tion agreed, .ana- even the resolute Arm strong saw no good reason to object. "Navajo Joe," said Armstrong,, "we don't have to do this yere or take this chance, an' it's a-makin' of a mighty bad preeceedent as may tangle us yereafter, but Cinnabar goes vou this time. Bosewood, turn the cards for an ace." "Turn sguar, Bosewood," said Navajo Joe, with an air of interest. "You wouldn't go or to'sand no deck nor run a brace yere agin perishin' flesh and blood, would you?" A Life Saved by a Split. "Well, I should shore say not," replied Bosewood; "I wouldn't do it for money, an' you can bet I don't do it now when the 'epecsode comes more under tbe Ijead of a picnic" "Well, then," said Navajo Joe, "roll your game. . I plays it open." ""I dunno.'' said Bill Tutt. meditativelv. "but I'm thinkin' I'd a-coppered." The turn proceeded, and, as may happen in the interesting device named faro, a split occurred. Two aces came together. "Ace win, ace lose,"- said Bosewood. "Whatever be we a-goin' to do now, I'd like for to knew? "Gents," said Armstrong with dignity, "a split like this yere creates a doubt, an' it's law that doubts go to the prisoner, same as a maveric goes to the first man as runs his brand onto him. This yere camp of Cinnabar abides by the law and Navajo Joe goes free. However, he should remember this little graze and restrain his fun makin' methods yereafter. Some of them ways of his leads straight to everlastin' life, an' if he's wise, he alters his play from now on." "So the camp really lose an' this yere cuss goes free," said Jack Moore, dejectedly. "I aljers was agin faro as a game; wliar we-all misses it is, wc doh't play him freeze-out" rDAK Quur. An Actress for a Rich Englishman. .nother impending marriage. between an American actress and a wealthy Englishman is reported. The actress is Miss Toma Han Ion, a daughter of Thomas Hanlon, the old est of the six Hanlon brothers, and the Englishman is Gerard Warriner. He is an Oxford man with a large income and large expectations. Miss Hanlon has been an actress since she was 6 years old. Will call oil you with wimples ,'of fur niture covering and furnish estimates on work. Hauoh & KzznAX, 33 Water si sn 1891 - ; TO BE LIKE CASSIUS. How the Famous Fat Merchant of London Got Eid of Adipose. DIET THE IMPORTANT FEATTJBE Of His System, but an Acidulated Purgative Seemed Essential. HIS METHODS DID ME KTTiL HTM WMTTEN ron ran dispatch. In 1862 and 1863. I was in London, Eng land. Having caught a severe summer cold it caused a slight deafness, which alarmed me so much that T sought the advice of a celebrated aurist, Mr. William Harvey, of Soho square My visiting days were simi lar to those of an elderly gentleman, with whom I fell into conversation, and being afterward introduced by Mr. Harvey, we became well acquainted. The affable old gentleman who helped to beguile the tedious hours of waiting in a medical man's anteroom, was, I afterward learned, nearly 6G years of age. He was very slightly deaf, nol tall, and appeared to me to be of enormous bulk. In reality he was 5 feet S inches in stature and weighed 202 pounds, a large portion of which he carried from the chest downward, like an immense balloon of .flesh. I am thus particular in describing him because I never met any one who was personally ac quainted with him, and because he was at that very time engaged in writing a pamphlet which was destined to render him famous: He was a London merchant, by name William,Bantrng, author of the re nowned "Letter on Corpulence" An Old System In n New Dress. This little work, appeared in England in 1863, and immediately attained such popu larity that it was translated into almost all living languages, and gained for its writer the distinction of having his name bestowed upon his and any treatment for the reduc tion of adipose tissue. Not that Banting was the discoverer of the dietetic system for the release from one of the oldest plagues of the human race. The physicians of an tiquity gave almost similar instructions as Banting did for the putting off of super fluous fat. Hippocrates, "the father of medi-' cine" (born 4S0 B. C), recommended exer cise in the open air while fasting, and no hot baths. Down to modern times noreduction treat ment had been of any special value. It re mained for Banting to give some new-old information in such a condensed, straight forward form as to place the "cure" for obesity within the reach of every one af flicted with the malady, for that is. what it becomes if left unchecked. Among those old enough to remember the "Banting sen sation," it is generally believed that the author died shortly after, and in conse quence ot his own treatment, sucn is not the case. He was already an old man when he began it, born in 1797, and died in 1871, having lived to the age of 75, and for nine years after he began his celebrated treat ment Now Almost Out of Print His "Letter on Corpulence" is still con sidered an authority upon this subject, but it is difficult to obtain, being almost out of print in this country. Therefore I quote the most interesting and salient portions of it By way of beginning, he says: "I am confident no man laboring under obesity can be quite insensible to thesneers and remarks of the cruel and injudicious in public assemblies, public vehicles or the or dinary street traffic; nor to the annoyance of finding no adequate space in a public assem bly if ne should seek amusement or need re freshment, and therefore he naturally keeps away as much as possible from places where he is likely to be made the object of the taunts and remarks of others. 1 am as re gardless. of public remark as most men, but I have felt these difficulties, and, therefore, avoided such circumscribed accommodation and notice, and by that means have been deprived of many advantages to health and comfort r "Although' no very great size or'weight, still I could not stoop to tie my shoe, so to speak, nor attend to the little offices hu manity requires, without considerable pain and difficulty, which only the corpulent can understand; I have been compelled to go down stairs slowly backward, to save the iar of increased weight upon the ankle and knee joint, and been obliged to puff and blow with every slight exertion, particu larly that of going up stairs." Turkish Baths Will Not Do It. About Turkish biths, now much resorted to by the corpulent, he says: "At this juncture (about threc years back) Turkish baths became the fashion, and I was advised to adopt them as a remedy. With the first few" I found immense benefit in power and elasticity for walking exercise; so, believ ing I" had found the 'philosopher's stone,' pursued them three times a week till I had taken 50, then less frequently (as I began to fancywith some reason, that so many eakencd my constitution), till I had taken 90, but never succeeded in iosing more than six pounds weight during the.whole course, andtl gave up the plan as worthless, though I have full belief in their cleansing proper ties, and their value in colds, rheumatism and many other ailments." Svhen I first took a conrse of Turkish baths in the delusive hope that they would stay back my rapidly accumulating flesh, I asked the bath attendant if they conduced more to the increase or to the reduction of fat. "Yes, mum," she replied. "But which?" I persisted. "Do they make you thin or tat "They does mum, both. They makes fat folks ttiin and thin folks fat" After many experiments by which Banting added to, Tather than. lessened his bulk, he found relief in a dietary system furnished by Mr. Harvey. Strange that an aurist should effect a cure where so many physicians had failed. After describing several of his fail ures, Banting says: An Acidulated Purgative Draught. "At last I found the right man, who un hesitatingly said he belieed my ailments were caused principally by corpulence, and prescribed a certain diet no medicine .be yond a morning cordial as a corrective with immense effect and advantage both to my hearing and the decrease of my cor pulency." My own personal experiments in the re duction of my weight extond over a period of 12 years. Accompaning every so called obesity cure there was some "corrective," a mysterious uiiiinjiv, iuuu, un-uiciuc, uui, powder of tea, the competent parts of which are kept secret from the patient. The "corrective" which Harvey gave Banting was an acidulated surgative draught, and that is the aim of "them all, though the person' supposes the medicine to be a part of the reduction process. Banting goes on to say: "The items from which 1 was advised to abstain as much as possible were bread. Tbutter, milk, sugar, beer and'potatoes, which nan oeen ine mum v.""u -- muugiu, inno cent) elements of my existence, or, at all events, thev had for many years been adopted freely. Thee, said my excellent adviser, contain starch and saccharine mat ter, tending to create fat, and should be avoided altogether. For broakfast I take four or five ounccs-of beef mutton,-kidneys, broiled fish, bacon or cold meat of any kind except pork, a large cup of tea (without milk or sugar), a little biscuit or one ounce of dry toast ' t i The Beverages lid Indulged in. 'Tor dinner, five or six ounces of any fish except salmon, any meat except pork, any vegetable except potato, one ounce of dry toast, fruit out of a pudding, any kind of poultry or game, and two or three glasses of good claret, sherry or madeira; champagne, port and beer forbidden. For ,tea, two or three ounces of fruit, a rusk or two, and a cup of tea withoul milk or sugar.. For supper, three or four ounces of meat or fish, similar to dinner, with a glass or two of claTct. For nichtcap. Is required, a tnm- bler of grog (gin, whisky or brandy, with out sugar) or a glass or two of claret or sherry. "This plan leads to an excellent night's rest, with from six to eight hours' sound sleep. The dry toast or rusk may have a tablespoonful of spirit to soften it, which will prove acceptable. Perhaps I.did not wholly escape starchy or saccharine- matter, but scrupulously avoided milk, sugar, beer, butter, etc, which were known to contain them. On rising in the morning I take a tablespoonful of a special corrective cordial, which may be called the Balm of Lifej in a wineglass.of water a most grateful draught, as it seems to carry away all the dregs left in the stonfech after digestion then I take about five or six ounces solid and eight liquid for breakfast; eight ounces of solid and eight of liquid for dinner; three ounces of solid and eight liquid for tea; four ounces of solid and six of liquid for, supper and the grog afterward, if I please. I am not, however, strictly limited to any quan tity at either meal, so that the nature of the food is rigidly adhered to. He Was a Great Bread Eater. "My former dietary table "was bread and milk for breakfast, or a pint of tea with plenty of milk and sugar and buttered toast, meat, beer,, much bread (of which I was always very fond) and pastry for dinner; the meal of lea similar to that of breakfast, and generally'a fruit tart'or bread and milk for supper. I had little comfort and far less sleep." By following Harvey's system in one year Banting lost 46 pounds and reduced his waist Viy$ inches. His health was so greatly improved that he had lost even the feeling of "occasional fainthess" which annoyed him after he had fully entered upon the cure. That "occasional faintness." How well in after years I"eameto know it when I fell a victim to that "disposition to corpu lence which I inherited from both parents. It was natural that I should firstturn to Banting's book to guide me back into the lost path of leanness. Carefully I followed his dietary card ibr two weeks; keeping constantly outdoors and on foot. I lost li pounds in weight in that time, but was then oblieed to take to mv bed and call in a doc tor. I was suffering from weakness and de rangement of the digestive organs. More over, I had a strange, pimply eruption oyer the bodv. caused, the doctor said, br im poverishment of the blood owing to lack of nutritious looa. A Doctor's Guidance Is Needed. Banting expressly says: "I do not rec ommend every corpulent man to rush head long into such a change of diet (certainly not) but to act advisedly and after full consultation with a physician." I "rushed headlong'1 into the change of diet without consulting a physician and suffered accordingly. At the same time I know the Banting enre is not lasting unless the diet is pontinued. My 14 pounds which I had starved off me so painfully 'fairly gal loped back at the first square mealgX took upon recovery. ..-, Bv the Banting system of reduction more weakness is superinduced than by any other within my knowledge. With the. loss of flesh the hands become wrinkled asin age, and most serious drawback of alEforthe fentler sex, the face becomes positively aggard and gaunt. The flabby cheeks drop loosely down on the corrugated bag.of flesh which was once a double chin. The nose becomes blue and pinched, the skin on the forehead gets stretched and tightened, and the eyes bulge out as their bed of flesh is withdrawn. To sum up, the Banting corpu lence cure improves the figure, but spoils the face by giving it that "leanandhungry" look which Cassius wore. " :; , Celia Looajt SPOOKS VS. A PH0K0QBAFH. Remarks or the Departed Caught and Bo corded on the Cylinder. Wahlngton Star.J Spirits that hover about seances in Wash ington are up to the times. They have de manded phonographs or "talking machines" to assist them in their work, and the' earthly beings who attend to their wants have pro vided them. "The-touch of the hand that vanjahed and the sound, of the voice, that is stilL" That is part of a message or address recorded on a phonograph cylinder by an apparition claiming to be the material ized spirit of the late lamented John King, pirate. Mr. King's head appeared at an aperture in a dark screen. The room was dimly lighted. The phonograph was out side of the screen and the horn or sound re ceiver extended up so that it just touched the edge of the aperture. Mr. Cromelicn, the general -manager of the Columbia Phonograph Company, was outside of the screen ana operated the little lever of the phonograph so as to set it going or to stop it at Mr. King's convenience. There was ob jection to Mr. Cromelien's going behind the screen as it might have"a bad effect on 'the manifestations. This all occurred in a honse on I street, where two spirit mediums' are doing business in the usual way. Mr. Cromelien was there with his phonograph last night and on the two nights previous, A reporter listened to the voice of the pirate king as it was reproduced .'by the phonograph. It was somewhat sepulchral, an extra graveyard twang being given to it by the japanned tin horn through which it escaped out of the phonograph. .'3 Tom King's voice was not the one thus imprisoned. There was an address by Mr. Wash Emmons, who, according to his own statement,hadnopalate in life and has not succeeded in picking up one yet in the after life. So a good many of Mr. Emmons' re marks consist of ratfter unintelligible guttur als. Others of the cheerful circle of spirits that have given their time toward making the I street seances interesting also spoke. The mechanical arrangement in each case was the same as in the case of John King. Some of the voices are recorded with marvelous distinctness. The messages are all on about the same level as the usual spirit message. One spirit said it was like talking into an empty barrel to speak into the, phonograph horn. The phonograph experiment was tried because the spirits themselves, accord ing to the statements made to the reporter, clamored for it. One. spirit, much inter ested in the proceedings, claims tp be the immortal essence df Christy, the minstrel. Christy proposes to drum for, the phono graph ana maKe a rocoru oi what is consid ered a wonderful performance even for a spirit the beginning, of a rapid tattoo in perfect time with flight sticks made by splitting a clothespin. This would have been done last night, probably, bufChKsty was" in a hurry to get away from the-performance in order to see a sparring match at one of the. theatets. He keeps up his in terest in these things. Language We Use. Chappie Creating Oie Ocean on a Greyhound. Fishermen Verify Darwin's Law. KewTork Herald. f JasperAccording to the fisherraetf Dar win's law of the survival of the test is daily exemplified. ,91 Jumpuppe In that so? ,av Jasper Yes. The biggest fish always get away. j Will call on you with samples "of, fur niture covering and furnish estimates on work.' Havgh & Keenan, 33.Water st. .. 8'1 Cjk ' i .i . i. 15 FOKCE W THfflKKG. A Person Can Easily Think a Hole, Through an Inch Board. HEAT GENERATED BY A PEOBLEJI; ; Ifikola Tesla Predicts a Xew Ira in. Hectric light Methods. TELEGEAPIIEfG TIIEOUGE THE EABTS rWBITTXS TOR THE DISFATCn.1 A writer in an electrical journal has pro posed to measure thought by means of ths heat developed within the brain acting upon a thermopile. The proposition was re ceivedin some quarters with considerable scepticism. The thing, however, can easily be done. Not long ago, a celebrated elec trician stated that he could "think a hola through an inch board," and by connecting a drill so that it could be actuated by the)" current produced he actually did it A. E. Dolbear, writing on this subject, says that the experiment,, far from being new or impracticable, was carried out in. this country more than 20 years ago by oil. Lambard, Harvard College. A thermopila was connected with a delicate astatic gal vanometer, and a person selected for the test. The individual was placed in a re clining posture, and the thermopila touched his head. A certain place was found where, temperature changes in the skull were mors, quickly apparent than elsewhere, and the instrument was fixed at that place. So long as the subject remained mentally passive the galvanometer needle remained quietly; at zero, but as soon as a word was spoken to' attract his attention, the needle would at once be deflected, though no muscle had moved. A noise outside, a door opening, or any incident that would cause concentrated attention would have a marked effect on tho needle. , It is now proposed to measure the rela tive strengths of various mental efforts, as. for instance, working out problems in mental arithmetic or geometry, reading English, Latin, German, or any other language, in all of which processes it will be easy to as' certaiu by the movements of the needle tho respective degree of effort made by the per son experimented upon. In this connec tion it may be mentioned that Charles' Dickens remarked that the mental effort in volved in learning shorthand was equal to that of learning several languages. This humorous idea can now be put to an exact? test Tho Telegraph in Mexico. A telegraph operator, writing from Mex ico, says that the cost of maintaining the wire used on the interior lines of that coun try may safely be calculated at three times the expense incurred by the Government in " landing it at Vera Cruz or Paso del Norte, and the poles have often to be cut in far dis tant forests and hauled slowly and labor iously over long stretches of dry and seeth ing plains. When all this is done, and the line is erected, however, the troubles of the telegrapher have only just begun. Travell ers in Northern Mexico, passing on horse back over the vast, treeless and melancholy plains, stop at night to camp, and finding the telegraph poles accessible and admir ably seasoned, cut them down for fire wood. The rancher, too, goes with hi3 peon ser vants and calmly cuts, down a mile or two of wire whenever he wants to fence in aa' inclosure. Besides a tiny worm, called tha "jengen," which insidiously honeycombs tho poles until they crumble into dust, there is a woodpecker which sits up near the top of the pole and amuses himself for days in pecking around the pole until the top and wires and cross-arms come tumbling down. The linemen are almost afraid to shoot him, for they say that where one dies 40 come to the, funeral In some parts Of the country, especially in.Tabasco, the woods nro-fallioi, monkeys, wf(e favorite diversLn, when not in quest oi food, is to betake themselves to the telegraph line for gymnastic exer--cise, and hundreds of these able-bodied animals may sometimes be seen swinging on the wire, festooned, monkey fashion, by tha. looping of their tails. The continuous vibration of these antics starts the iron nails used on the cross-arms, which are thus often torn down, bringing the wire with themr These monkeys are so robust and aggressive that it is no easy matter to disperse them. Linemen have found that on shooting a monkey swinging on a wire, they have "been pursued by a whole regiment of brother and sisters of the dead simian. Coming; "Methods of IHcctrio Light. Some of the experiments recently shown by Nikola Tesla would indicate that we may look for some early developments and., improvements in the art of incandescent, lighting. By using alternating currents of about 20,000 alternations per second, run through a condenser, he lights up lamps' electrostatically,' or, in other words, with-' out any direct connection with the source of current. At present incandescent lamps are made with the horse-shoe filament now so familiar, but Mr. Tesla lights up lamps . with only a single straight filament, which we may descnte as half a hairpin, or else v he takes a bulb containing just a little block of one.of the less known metals, such, as yttrium, and lights that up. So extraor dinary are the effects he obtains that he can . light up a lamp simply by laying it near an induction coil. The same idea followed out would enable one to go into a dark room with a lamp and have it light up of its own accord as we entered. In a few years wo mav reasonably expect to have our finest halls lighted up from one or two central col umns, movable at will, the brilliant lamps on them being excited to their fullest illu mination by the electrostatic effects of the gildiug on the walls. This sounds like a lairy tale, but it is no more than Mr. Tesla has actually shown with Geissler tubes car ried in the hand between, large sheets of metal, or what was a mere condenser on a large scale. Electrical Insnlatinjr, Materials. Beport comes from Canada that Dr. Selwyn, of the Dominion geological survey, has lilt upon a new insulating material la the shape 6f petroleum saturated sand, of; which immeasurable quantities exist in the Athabasca'district "Nikola Tesla, the ri-jing genius in electrical work, showed at Colum bia College, New York," a few days ago, be-" fore a brilliant assemblage of the electrical engineering talent of the country, that with the "high frequencies" of alternating cur rent he is now using, glass and r-bbe", which" are considered the best insulators, are in reality inferior to others not so regarded, such as oil and wax. Telegraphing Without Wlres. The practicability of telegraphing with out wires has recently been demonstrated by. the success of several experiments. "Not3 long ago Mr. Preece, the head electrician of the postal telegraph 'system in England, succeeded in establishing communication '- across the Solent to the Isle of 'Wight, and telegraphed also across the Eiver Severn, -without wires, merely using earth-plates at a sufficient distance apart. It is now pro posed to make practical use of this system in communicating with lightships. ' . Supply of Precious aietals. ' Mr. B. S. Honton, one of the leading mins " owners of Colorado, says that electricity opens up a new era in the production, of, silver. The reason of this statement is that many of the high mountains have been,' almost valueless, because of the expense, of transportating fuel to them. Now, through' the utilization of water powers with the . electric motor, these mines can be operated, cheaply, and a notable increase of output"" may Te looked for. 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