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REVIEW 0
SPORTS
j, Borne Eemarks About the Duty of
I Local Ball Players to the Man-
ager of the Club.
THE" HECESSITT OF DISCIPLINE.
Objections to Hanlon's Management of the
Team Stated and Briefly
Eeplicd To.
HILDA'S IMPORTANT BTATEME5TS.
rnepects t! a Battle Between SlaTin arJ Snntran, and
General rnjilisuc Matters.
Matters in the sporting -world have been
somewhat dull during the -week. Nothing
of very great importance has occurred ex
cept the annual aquatic contests among the
leading college oarsmen. But -while noth
ing in particular may have taken place still
there has been much to talk about in base
ball affairs. In this respect it may safely
be said that the patrons or those people in
any way interested in tho local club have
hrd very much to talk about during the
week and leally talked very much about it
Somchow Pittsburg has always been in hot
water regarding her ball team. Kb matter
what men are secured for the team, or what
means are used to secure them there seems
always to be something wrong with some
body, and there has been one feature con
nected with it, viz., defeat. That feature has
stuck to our team just as persistently as
docs a barnacle to the hull of a
ship, and it seems to me that let
our magnates try as they will, they cannot
get clear of this ogre of defeat; it is as hard
to get clear of as was the Old Man of the
Sea who bothered Sinbad the Sailor. Sym
pathetic friends of the club have to a very
great extent kept quiet regarding the mat
ter, in hope that every day would bring a
change. Many people whose duty it is to
talk publicly "on matter of this kind have
maintained a silence that now must be
broken if there is to be any interest taken
in the team at all. To-day I propose to talk
verv plainly about many things, but while
I may speak very frankly I trust that noth
ing f may say will ba considered offensive,
because I am not going to talk in passion.
If anvthing grates harshly on the feelings
of auybody 1 trust that thalt "anybody" will
believe tliat no such grating was intended,
except the statement of a fact be the cause,
end if that be so, then I suppose we'll have
to put up with the grating.
Plajers and Officials.
It seems to me that almost all tle trouble
In the local team has been caused by two or
three plavers who hare rebelled against
Manager Hanlon. Of course I need not
stop to point out that there is trouble in the
team. The fact is just as clear as sunlight.
Wheu our team started out on their cham
pionship struggle thev promised welL
Hopes were eiecedingfy nigh regarding
them, and, indeed, they performed in a way
that led many of us to believe that if they
did not win the pennant they would come
very near it. But just as we were all
mating up our minds to the effect that we
had at las; secured a great team they col
lapsed almost entirely and never stopped
until they dropped from the proud position
of second place to the lowest position on the
list This was a terrible fall, and there
must hae been causes for it. There were
at least two with which I am going to deal,
viz: disabled players and rebellious players.
It is not necessary to discuss theformer very
much, as w e are all convinced that when
the regular players of a team get disabled it
is a great loss to that team, as a rule. The
local team have suffered greatly in that re
spect, as we all know. But th'e matter of
rebellious players is quite another matter
and isacaue of defeat that can be pre
vented much easier than that of injured
players. In trying to prevent the former
cause Manager Hanlon seems to have gotten
himself into cry hot water in the estima
tion of the players who have been violating
rules and their friends who support them.
Now let us calmly see who is right and who
is wrong in this "matter. Manager Hanlon
was more or less gi en charge of the team,
and whatever his powers of authority may
have been, he was certainly held responsi
ble for the good discipline of the players.
And don't let us forget the fact that there
was not a player in the team against whom
Manager Hanlon had any objection. On the
contrary, everr plaver was there
with his sanction and he aided in
getting many of them big salaries.
This is important because it goes to show
that he had no animosity against any player.
Well, c crytl.iag went right for a while,
and then our "stars" began to violate the
rules of the club. One went carousing
around so late that he forgot to report for
duty in time; another deserted his post of
dutj.thatof looking after the receipts in
the interest of his club and also managed to
miss the train on one occasica and
the team had to leave him behind. And let
me say in passing that this player receives
$3,700 per season and his expenses. Well,
the outcome of these violations was that
Manager Hanlon imposed fines on the vio
lators, and as a consequence the arch vio
lator has blackgaurded and abused Manager
Hanlon in the most shameful way. But
amid all this let me say that Mark Baldwin,
for it is he to whom I refer, stated that he
had his fine remitted by President O'NeiL
The latter says he had not, but whether or
not he has had his fines remitted or not I do
know that a friend of mine heard the Presi
dent say to Baldwin that the matter would
be fixed up.
Manager Hanlon Was Right.
Now in all fairness to everybody and in
Jnstice to truth and common sense I submit
that Manaser Hanlon was perfectly in the
right in inflicting fines; if he was in the
wrong at all it was because he did not im
pose more fines. If he was in the right
then, and I maintain he was, neither Mr.
O'Ncil nor any other official of the club was
doinc justice to Manager Hanlon or to the
club by encouraging the fined players to
think that there was in any shape or form
any injustice about the finings. It -was the
duty of every official of the club to rigidly
stand up for Manager Hanlon and let the
players know that their manager was there
to see that every man did ais duty. I
firmly believe that the good eficct ot the
fines was counterbalanced by an official
giving a player to understand that they
would be remitted, and conduct of this
kind simply leads me to the conclusion
that Manager Hanlon has been sadly handi-"
capped. No business firm can be run suc
cessfully on the principle of one official
going about undermining the influence of
the others among the employes. This is
Just as true as the fact that w e are alive.
Manager Hanlon had a duty to perform
and he did it and it was no man's
duty to try nud injure tho good effect of his
(Hanlon's) fulfillment of his duty. But it
is quite certain that certain baseball players
are always dterimned to take liberties that
club rules will not permit. A player of
this kind is a disgrace to his business and
an ingrate to his employers and the public.
And allow me to rerrnrk that, as a rule, it is
sot the low-salaried men of a team who
commit these violations. It is invariably
the high-priced men. They receive enor
mous salaries to perform a certain duty,
and to act according to a oode of rules. To
do this they are given 53,500,M,000 or 55,000
for about seven months. They are located
at the best hotels and taken round the coun
try in the very best cars, all at other peo
ple's expense. But these kingly players,
while quite willing to take the big salaries,
-want to act under little or no restraint
while getting it; they want other people's
money in as lnrgc doses as possible, but
they want no limitations put on their per
gonal liberties for it, and in a short time
they even begin to think that these limita-
tions arc unjust. Of course they don't see
or they won't see that they are get
ting enormous salaries to do what
is right and to act in accordance with the
rules of the club to which they belong.
This is the ungrateful side of the ball
player, because by thus acting he is deceiv
ing and acting unjustly toward the very
people who have befriended him. Depend
upon it ball players should be very careful,
the opinion is fast gaining ground that as a
rule they are extremely ungrateful people,
and do what I will I cannot avoid the con
viction that a vast amount of ingratitude
has beca shown to Manager Hanlon. How
is it that players like Jake Beckley are
never being fined and are never "roasting"
and blackguarding managers? Simply be
cause they live according to rule and to
their duty as best 'they can. I find as a
rule that those players who are noisiest
about the defects and bad qualities of a
manager are the very players who want to
run things to suit themselves who don't
want any restraint at all on their actions.
Plavers of this kind can best be dealt with
by keeping them on the bench a few weeks
without pay.
A Few Words About the Management
I do no not intend in this paragraph to
enter into any defense of Manager Hanlon
as a manager. At this juncture it is not
within my province to do so, mostly be
cause the way things have been and are
muddled up it is hard to tell whether Presi
dent O'Ncil has everything to do with tho
team, or whether he has nothing to do with
it at all But during the week I have
noticed a few efforts that have been made
to show that Mr. Hanlon is not the man to
manage the local club. I propose to dis
cuss these efforts and, mark, not show that
Mr. Hanlon is the man to manage the team,
but to show that the stated objections to
him are not only worthless, but in some
cases really absurd. As a preface I'll give
a sample of what we hear from Mr. Hanlon's
opponents:
"I tell you Hanlon is not a capable man
ager." "Why?"
"Because he's not."
"Well, but you must have reasons for
thinking that '
"Oh, any amount of reasons."
"Well, state one or two."
"I tell you he cannot manage the team."
"Why can't he?"
"Why, because he can't"
The above is a fair sample of the satisfac
tion one gets when reasons are sought for
regarding the matter. But during the week
I have seen it definitely stated that Mr.
Hanlon's inability to manage a team lies in
the fact that "all the players'' are against
him, and that he cannot make himself genial
with them. If this is shown to be false I
trust we'll hear nothing more of it The
opposition to Mr. Hanlon in the team is
confined to two or three players, and their
opposition is not the result 01 any churlish
ness on the part ot Hanlon, but simply be
cause he insists that they do right But
assuming that the opposition of two or three
or four or five players was based on per
sonal objections to Manager Hanlon, has
the policy of the club to be shaped by these
malcontents? Has the manager only to be
selected in accordance with their wishes?
Most certainly not Were their ideal
manager to be engaged the other
four or five plavers might have
objections to him, and they
would have as much right to have their
choice as their associates. The contention
is a ridiculous one. A player is signed to
perform a certain duty and the manager is
there to see that the duty h performed and
a player lias no right to allow a harsh word
from a managei prevent him from doing his
duty. But the fact is that the players
whom Manager Hanlon has treated with the
greatest amount of kindness and on whom
he has conferred most fa ors are those who
are mostly opposed to him now. I have
seen or heard nothing to convince me that
Mr. Hanlon is incapable of managing the
team. One thing is certain, viz: he has notr
had a proper trial and w hen he " gets that
then it will be time to fully discuss his
merits and demerits. A day or two ago I
was reading a few embittered words against
Mr. Hanlon's management Of course he
was held up as unfit for the position; but
the most amusing feature of the article was
another statement to the effect that Mr.
Hanlon was not manager at all, but that
President O'Neil had full control of the
team. Bless us what fine logic. Mr. Han
lon was "roasted" for bad management
and then the "roaster" himself pointed
out that Mr. Hanlon was really not the
manager at all, but that he was under the
orders of President O'Neil. This is a sam
ple of the opposition to Manager Hanlon,
and in it the public will readily see that
there is not a disposition to treat the matter
logically orfairly. Anvbody can string out
charges and assertions, but to prove them is
another matter. All that I argue for is to
give Manager Hanlon fair play, in fact give
everybody fair play. If Mr. Hanlon has to
be manager why let him be manager in fact,
and if he is not to be manager in tact don't
let liim be known as manager at alL
The Team's I'rospects.
It, indeed, requires some nerve to write
anything about the local team's prospects
at present Defeats have been so terribly
numerous of late that to talk about the
prospects of the team at once becomes a
little tiresome. During the time I have
been writing these reviews I have expressed
many singular opinions and I may now be
going to express another. I think we still
have a good team, and I have not yet lost
faith in them. There now gentle, I may
sav, patient reader, I can breathe more
freely now that 1 have thus declared my
self. Depend upon it we have some excel
lent material in the team, but injuries hare
caused great losses. But our players will
soon be all in trim again and then if they
will simply make up their minds to play
their best all will be well. That's all that
is needed, and nobody will be gainers more
than the players themselves by so doing.
The idea of new blood may .be- all
rights bnt it Eeem somewhat late in
the day to talk about new Mood.
We have material enough athand to make a
great showing if that material were rightly
used. There is still strong hope of Stratton
remaining here, and I trust his arm will
get all right again. If Stratton can get
thoroughly into line he will, indeed, be a
great benefit to the team, as he is a first
class player and every inch a gentleman. I
am sure that we all hope the team will start
ana do better. We are all striving for a
common object, though our methods of
reaching it might vary, but for the sake of
those gentlemen who have made them
selves liable for a large sum of money in
connection with the club, I trust that suc
cess will from now on attend the team's
efforts. If the players would have a similar
hope and struggle for the realization of it
all would be well.
The County League.
It Is always a pleasure to me to write any
thing favorable to amateur baseball, because
I know of no sport in which there is more
unadulterated enthusiasm than in baseball
as conducted by the amateurs. In our Coun
ty League we can find that enthusiasm in
very large quantities, and I am glad of it. I
am enabled to say that the County League is
going along in the most successful way, and
this reflects great credit upon the officials of
the organization. I was rathef surprised the
other day at the excellence of work dis
played by two County League teams in a
game at Mansfield. The team of the latter
place and the nine of the East End Gym
nastic Club played a game, the score result
ing 2 to 0 in favor of the East Enders. The
hitting was extremely light", and the victors
played without an error. This shows that
Slaying of a high quality must have been in
ulgcd in, and it also shows that these Coun
ty League contests are certainly worthy of
patronage. True, the teams will give some
miserable performances at times, but all
teams in the country do that; but the contest
I have just referred to shows that the Coun
ty League players are capable of doing some
very good work indeed. The League really
deserves patronage, because everybody who
has money invested in it is in the business
more for the love of it than for anything
else.
Jackson and Corbett Echoes.
When Jackson and Corbett had their fa
mous affair at San Francisco 1 expressed
very strong doubts as to the real genuine
ness of the contest I contended, it will be
remembered, that Cm duration of the con
test and the actions of the principals gave
license to me to think that everything was
not right Of course, some people con
tended the opposite, and declared it was one
of the greatest battles on record. Well,
during the last few days no less a personage
that President Fulda, of the club wherein
the contest took place, has wired a declara
tion which bears out to the letter
all that I said about the affair.
Mr. Fulda intimates that an arrangement
was made between the two men when they
were in the ring. He declares that their
conversation 'was heard by people at the
ring side. . Mr. Fulda goes further, and de
clares that Corbett fought unfairly almost
all the time by his persistent clinching and
refusing to stand up and fight Now, state
ments of this kind are very important to
those interestedln that classpf sport known
as pugilism. Mr. Fulda's statement of
course strengthens my opinion heretofore
expressed regarding Corbett. He has yet
to prove that he is anything more than a
boxer. One of the most ridiculous things
ever said was the assertion of John L.
Sullivan the other night when he and Cor
bett were boxing. Sullivan, ho must have
been under some kind of influence, re
marked to an audience that Corbett was the
only man who would succeed him, Sullivan,
as champion. This is the merest twaddle,
as Corbett will do no such thing, and if
Sullivan has any brains left at all nobody
knows this fact better than him.
About the Gladiators.
It is now certain that Slavin and Sullivan
will not come together for a very long time
yet, and it is probable they will never come
together at alt I am half inclined to think
the latter. True there has been consider
able newspaper talk about the matter dur
ing the week,but it is certainly as useless to
put up any forfeit at present to bind a match
for next winter as next year. The Slavin
Earty objected to the arrangement entirely,
ecause Sullivan wanted a forfeit up now,
so as to travel on the glory of it in Austra
lia. A forfeit of thiskind would certainly
be worth 51,000 to Sullivan and his man
ager. But just as sure as we are where we
are Slavin, if all goes well, will be ready to
meet Sullivan in September next or any
other month. I firmly believe that Slavin
is quite ready to face any man in the world
at any reasonable time. And it is a fact
that Sullivan must even now begin to take
care of himself. His friendly "go" with
Corbett the other night only showed what a
miserable condition the big fellow is in.
"Why, he couldn't have stood lively rounds
before Corbett, as he puffed and perspired
like an old corpulent man. This means
that Sullivan, if ever he becomes matched
to fight, will need a very great amount of
preparation; probably more than he will
ever get
Pugilism in General.
The most prominent affair in the pugilistic
world will be the contest between Hall and
Fitzsimmons. I don't think I will ever
have much to say about this affair, as there
seems to be something connected with it
that I don't understand. Were the contest
reallv on its merits. I think I would prefer
the chance of Fitzsimmons, although I am
free to confess that I know very little in
deed about HalL But the little I do know
about him leads me to think that Fitzsim
mons is a better man than HalL Austin
Gibbons is to tackle another Englishman,
Bill Reader. The latter is quite a handy
man, but he is not very effective, and if
Gibbons is all right he should prove himself
a victor again. There are numerous other
contests on the list, but they are of minor
importance.
The Death of Albert Hamm.
Everybody who has been interested in
professional boat racing during the last de
cade will regret to learn of the premature
death of Albert Hamm. For more than ten
years Hamm figured prominently in na
tional aquatics. Although he was only a
second-class man he was one of the best in
his class and in his time won quite a large
sum of money. While he was not one of
the speediest rowers, nor by any means one
of the best stayers, never a pluckier man
eat in a boat than Hamm. Those who saw
the famous regatta at Hulton and witnessed
the final heat of the sculls will remember
what a game race Hamm rowed. He was a
genial fellow and a perfect gentleman" to
talk to. ' PEIKGLE.
ELAINE GOODALE'S HUSBAND.
Be nates Books but Delights in the Obser
vation Fart of Medicine.
Dr. Freeman, the Sioux, who married
Elaine Goodale, was graduated with me
from the Boston University School of Med
icine in 1890, says the St Louis Qldbe-Demo-crOL
I know no one in the school who mas
tered the practical details of anatomy,
physiology, microscopic work and pathol
ogy with greater facility than he. His un
erring instinct in picking out the essential
features of any specimen he was set at work
on, whether a portion of the cadaver or a
thin slice of the spinal cord for microscopic
work, was almost marvelous. When it
came to learning long lists of symptoms of
drugs or detailed descriptions 01 morbid
anatomy I considered him somewhat below
the average. That seemed to trouble him,
and he hated books. He was at home in all
forms of observation, but when it came tc
speculation or lengthy processes of reading
ho turned up his nose with disgust
He was a fine Latin scholar. I remember
when he first turned up at the school, the
examining committee, not knowing any
thing about his previous training, and not
supposing he had had any chance to study
the .Roman cards, proposed to him a num
ber of languages from which he might take
his cnoice on which to pass the entrance ex
amination. He said that he was willing to
take the usual thing, and when a Virgil
was handed him, read off line after line in
easy, fluent translation that made the pro
fessor's hair stand on end.
Never had anyone a better heart than
Freeman. There was in the class above him a
youngnegro, raw from the Barbadocs, whose
standing was much below those of the Sioux.
Freeman took quite a fancy to him, and I
have known him to go night after night to
his room and quiz the Barbadoan hour after
hour on the next day's exercises in order to
fasten the leading points on the negro's
mind, which never got a very firm hold on
them. Freeman was a great athlete. The
only thing that would draw him away from
the dissecting table was the announcement
of a game of ball or something of that kind.
THE BOOKS SHE HAD BEAD.
y
A Boston Woman Dictates a Catalogue of
2,000 Works to a Typewriter.
"I have just finished an odd commission
given me by a Boston woman," said a type
writer. "It was to make out for her a neat
list of the books she had read. I went to
her house every afternoon for a week, and
she walked the floor and dictated to me the
names of the books just as they came into
her mind. She had a remarkable memory,
and used no library catalogue ' or anything
of that sort to refresh her recollection.
"As she named each bne she indicated
whether it was history, poetry, novel, phil
osophy, etc I made stenographic memor
anda, and when she had named them all I
arranged them under their respective head
ings and made a type-written catalogue on
heavy paper, ready for binding. There
were more than 2,000 books."
CHABACTEB IN THE EAES.
Good Blood Shows There in tho Human
ramlly as Well as in Animals.
St. Louis GIobc-Dcmocrat.
Did you ever notice how carefully stock
dealers examine the ears of horses, cattle
and sheep? They do it to get an idea of the
quality of the animal, for good blood never
goes with a bad ear. Tho same thing is true
of men, and a banker who knows anything
about ears knows also that there are two
kinds that, to say the least, will bear
watching.
The ear that runs down into the cheek,
with almost 'no lobe at all, is a suspicious
organ, and quite as bad in another way is
the ear that runs toa sharp point at the out
er and upper corner. French detectives call
the first the thief s ear, and the second the
ear of the usurer.
THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, JUNE 28,
VERSATEE GENIUS.
Story of the Man Who Was Hurt
While Hunting Fugitive Marsh.
SKETCHING T0DE ON THE DANUBE.
Death of The 0'Gorman Mahon Who Fought
Thirteen Old-Time Duels.
GEBMANTS POLICY IN HELGOLAND
Cwbittsx ron the DISPATCH.
There are some persons in this world who
have a natural faculty of keeping their
names before the public. It may to some
be the result of accident, to others .again it
is a matter of choice they like it Take
for instance the case of "Max Freeman,"
the detective who has brought himself into
prominence as the alleged victim of a
deadly assault at the hands of Marsh, the
escaped Philadelphia defaulter. If, as it
.is said, his real name is T. H. Garside,
many will remember him as having been
much talked of several years since, but he
was then engaged in a much different voca
tion or rather vocations, for the must have
had as many as the centipede has legs. He
is an Englishman by birth, and about 38
years of age. He was a clergyman when he
arrived on this side ten years since, and be
came quite noted for sensational work in
New York among the poorer classes. He
achieved still more notoriety several years
later when he suddenly abandoned Chris
tianity and took to preaching materialism.
He then took up in rapid succession, as
they suited his purpose, socialism, anarch
ism and labor agitation. In all of these he
kept himself in the public eye, being quoted
and inteniewed time and again by the
press of New York and the syndicates. '
It may have been from jealousy, but there
were some who accused him of haing little
genuine love for the cause of labor, having
merely adopted it for the sake of notoriety.
It was even asserted at one time that he had
hired a man to club him and had pretended
io be poisoned in order to have himself
talked about, but the workmen who started
these stories were promptly expelled from
their respective orders and that ended the
matter. Will anyone dare to assert that he
submitted to the attack iu the New Jersey
woods for effect? Hardly. If he did the
individual he hired to do the job must have
overdone it and hit "a leetle" too hard.
Savages of the Sahara.
Algeria, or the country to the south of it,
ought to feel proud of some of its natural
products. Not content with offering a most
disastrous plague of locusts as one of its
attractions the present season, it has also on
hand an uprising of the fierce Touaregs, a
race ot desert savages who have won special
distinction in the past as being even dirtier
than our own Digger Indians, in fact the
latter are models of purity and cleanliness
in comparison with the Touaregs. Our
Digger is compelled to swim a river every
two or three years in the course of his wan
derings, but the Touareg, living in the
desert of Sahara, neither crosses rivers nor
washes himself at any time.
These African savages are an awful lot,
and if they carry out their intention of raid
ing the northern settlements, there will be
bloody work, such as only these pooplo can
do. At different times they butchered the
famous travelers Dourneau, Duperre,
Joubert, Flatters, Palat, Douls and Mlle
Tinne. They are conceded to be the greatest
enemies of civilization in existence; if it was
not for them, something would have been
done to improve the Sahara long before this.
Triumph of aXoung Girl.
One evening during the past winter the
staid and dignified members of the British
Association were wheedled into attending a
meeting at which a young girl named Mcnie
Muriel Dowie was to read a paper on Car
pathia and its mountains, from which she
had just returned after a long sojourn.
I said "wheedled" into attending because
they one and all expected to be bored. But
before the paper was half finished they ad
mitted it was the paper of the year. Their
astonishment was beyond measure. Before
them was a young person not quite out of
her teens; a slender and graceful girl with a
refined and beautiful face, who had traveled
through awful wilds and dangers, and had
been through a country of which nobody
seemed to know anything worth talking
about But Miss Dowie did, and she knew
how to talk about it, too, her attractive
style and manner of treating the subject
being universally and favorably commented
upon by the critics present Since the oc
casion mentioned and preparatory to mak
ing another trip, the pretty traveler has
elaborated the short paper into a good-sized
book, which has just been published, and it
is said to be every bit as entertaining and
instructive as her first effort
Mocha Coffee Will Be Higher.
The Arabs of Yemen are in revolt, and as
a result we can look for Mocha coffee to go
up higher comparatively than beefsteak
and potatoes dare think of going in this
eventful season of short purses and long
prices. Now there is a country, at present
in the power of wild barbarians, that has a
history older than Egypt or Chaldea. Some
2,C00 years before the Christian era its peo-
Ele were cultured and prosperous, and they
ad a great trade in frankincense, myrrh
and costly balsams with all the known
world, for which it was and is still the most
noted place in existence. Under the rule of
Himyarites, Persians, Turks and Arabs it
has steadily fallen back instead of ad
vancing until now it is an illustration of a
good country "gone wrong."
Fay Tcmpleton's Chase Over Seas.
A year or so ago Fay Templet8n, the
actress, came back to America and was
immediately the center of an admiring
throng of newspaper writers, who inter
viewed her on every conceivable subject.
The fair Fay or rather not as fair as she
used to be in days of yore, was willing to
talk and talk she did, covering every variety
ter all, she never mentioned the real
cause ui ner mcessaut. iiiiviuk iu aim iro De
tween this country and England, the public
naturally taking it to be a matter of pro
fessional eneaeements and not a verv pro
nounced personal affair as it turns out to be.
From England comes the story that when
the actress went to that country first in
1886 it was in pursuit of a lover who had
fled from her. Failing to locate him she
played an important engagement in "Monte
Cristo, Jr.," only to throw it up and fly to
this country, where she had heard her young
man was. Again the chase began, fortune
favoring first one then the other, until at
last a short time ago came the climax. The
fugitive's mother died, leaving him a large
fortune subject to the condition that he
would never marry an actress. Three days
before the will was read Miss Templcton
bagged her quarry and married him with
out further ado. If she has xbeen chasing
his future wealth she seems to have been
badlv left after alL Every reader of The
Dispatch knows the young husband is j
Howell Osborn.
Tho Danube in Fen and Fencti.
Two artists, Alfred Parsons, the exquis
ite landscapist, and the no less excellent
figure painter, Frank D. Millet, accom
panied by that graceful writer, Poultney
Bigelow, are on their way to the head
waters of the Danube river, which they in
tend to traverse from source to outlet in
canoes, sketching; and taking notes for fu
ture publication in one of our great maga
zines. What a trip that will be, and what a
treat awaits those who enjoy the work of
these accomplished men I The Danube has
been done before, both in picture and story,
but never as it will be now. This cele
brated river is, with one exception, the J
largest in Europe, and in bold magnificent
rceneryand romantic interest it is only
surpassed by the Rhine.
The picturesque towns and villages, the
water-houses of the fishermen and the ruined
astles and fortresses will all be of exceed
ing interest to Americans, and I have no
doubt that special attention will be paid
the Castle Durrenstein, in which Kichard
Coeur de Lion was a captive for 15 long
months, and under the windows of which he
heard, with joy unspeakable, the sweet
strains 01 tne laitmul minstrel wno naa
come to rescue him; also Abbey of Moelk,
which was a famous place when Julius
Caesar was campaigning. Material such as
this ought to be productive of something
out of the ordinary run when in the hands
of such men as those mentioned.
The Hero of Thirteen Duels.
If The O'Gorman Mahon had died 40
years ago the newspapers would have been
full of him, but, as it-is, the picturesque old
figure passes away with only the briefest
mention. But, if the people of to-day for
get his his'tory, as it is evident they do,
there is one on the other side of the river
he has just crossed who will remember and
welcome his brave champion of years agone.
When Daniel O'Connell fought a duel,
killed his man and remorse embittered his
after life, he declared he would never settle
any difficulty by the code again, no matter
what the provocation might be. It was
then that Mahon came to the front, ready
to take tho jmrt of his chief in any little
affair concerning him. Happily, his
services were not much in demand on
O'ConnelFs account even in those fighting
days, but goodness only knows he was kept
busy enough on his own. Within a com
paratively short space of time he fought 13
battles on the duelling ground.
A little incident in this connection gives
us a picture of his character, perhaps better
than anything that could be drawn. Seated
at a dinner party with several Irish bishops,
the subject of the duel came up for discus
sion. One of the ecclesiastics, knowing the
reputation of The O'Gorman, which was
then at its height, thought to save his feel
ings by remarking that he could under
stand why a man with self-respect would
much rather accept a challenge than suffer
social ostracism by declining. The O'Gor
man Mahon, however, would not have it
that way; for he immediately replied:
"Gentlemen, I am bound to declare on my
honor as a gentleman that, however un
fortunate I may have been in participating
in hostile meetings, I never received a
challenge in my life. I always sent it"
Emperor William and Helgoland.
I wonder what Pittsburgers would .think
if our Government, out of diplomatic mo
tives, should cede this smoky yet withal
pleasant little town to China and if the Em
peror of that kingdom should immediately
knock out all the regulation text books in
the schools and compel the youth to study
Chinese exclusively, with all its multifar
ious and perplexine characters. Well,
Helgoland, the island recently turned over
to Germany by England, is practically in
that predicament, although the children are
not so sorely tried as they might be in what
they have to study. But the Emperor of
Germany has turned all English books out
of the schools, and the child that wants an
education gets it in German or doesn't get
it at all. .
China's Emperor's Wife No. 2.
The Emperor of China has just picked
out the second of the seven wives allowed
him by Celestial law and has selected the
lady with the smallest foot in Pekin, as
being to his way of thinking the chief
beauty of his realm. Under the circum
stances it is a wonder we do not hear some
cynic in New York whisper that Chicago at
least was never in the race. Wilkie.
HABITS OF POPE XE0.
He Carries to the Extreme Limit Hlf Ob
servance of Church Laws.
Berte-ir of Reviews.
Every day, about 8 or 9 o'clock in the
evening, according to the season, the Pope
recites the rosary with Mgr. Angeli, his
private secretary, and one of the priests of
the household. In all religious exercises
Leo XIII. bears a serious, dignified and im
posing attitude. I have rarely seen masses
celebrated with such profound and heartfelt
piety. The priest is divined in the highest
acceptation of the word in Leo XTTT. He
carries out to a scruple the laws of the
church. It is known that a Catholic priest
should celebrate mass fasting, but this is a
law of discipline which the Pope, owing to
illness, has a right to dispensate from.
In fact, only lately Leo XIEL Las accord
ed this dispensation to two Cardinals, and
has allowed them to celebrate mass after
having partaken of liquid fopd; but if it oc
curs that in the morning an illness or an in
disposition .obliges him" to take a cup of
milk or broth, Leo XIIL, notwithstanding
the supreme powers of which he is the sov
ereign dispenser, abstains that day from
celebrating mass. After the rosary, Leo
XIIL partakes of a light breakfast com
posed of eggs, vegetables and fruit,, and then
enters his private apartments; it is seldom
he retires before 11 o'clock. His excessive
nervousness occasions him frequent sleep
lessness; he then rises and walks about his
room reading and meditating. At times an
idea strikes nim, and he rouses his secretary
and dictates to him.
MUSICAL BABY CABBIAOES.
How the Youngsters of Brooklyn Are Enter
tained on Their Outings.
New York Times.
That city of strange sights, Brooklyn, pro
duced a pair of unusually strange and some
what coincident sights for the edification of
an observant New Yorker yesterday. He
was walking along the Heights just before
noon, when he approached an Italian gentle
man grinding out "Annie Kooney" on a
chromatic barrel organ. A lusty wail got in
between the notes every now and then, and
as the New Yorker passed by the music he
saw that the body of a baby carriage was
affixed to the truck of the organ, and in it
reposed the grinder's heir. So the inventive
Italian combined the' duty of earning his
livelihood with the pleasure of airing his
hopeful under his own watchful eye.
An hour later the New Yorker was walk
ing past the main entrance to Prospect Park,
when he heard the same strain and similar
wails coming from nowhere in. particular.
He turned his steps across the Plaza to fer
ret out the mystery, and found that two
lovely twins, who sat facing each other in a
big hooded baby carriage, had an orguinette
between them that tney both insisted on
turning at once. So the pretty nurse girl
who was in charge of the allair combined the
duty of airing her charges with the pleasure
of being able to flirt with the policeman to
slow music.
MASSAGE IN PAEIS BY MEN.
Beauty Finds the Stronger Sex Can Do the
Work Better Than the Weaker.
New York Tress.
Apropos of massage, in Paris and London,
the swellest women employ masseurs and
not masseuses. A celebrated physician de
clares that women cannot work nearly as
successfully upon their own sex, and that
as a man possesses much more strength in
his hands, he can can better manipulate the
face and neclc Of course the employment
of men masseurs would bi somewhat of a
shock to the modesty or American women,
but in France, where a valet de chambre
often does up a lady's bedroom, thus al
most usurping the functions of a maid,
scruples are readily overcome, and a French
woman .would think no more of it than
of having her hair dressed by a male hair
dresser. Bernhardt valet was In constant at
tendance upon her as her maid; he came and
went while she was making her toilet,
folded upon her dresses, smoothed out her
gloves and laces, and, in fact, attended to
all the little minor offices usually relegated
to a woman attendant
189L
AEAIM DAY'S OUTING.
The Excursion of the Pittshurg Club
women to Wopsononockt
EVERYBODY HAD A GOOD TIME.
Jupiter Plnvius Couldn't Spoil the Fun on
the Mountain Top.
nW THE JOLLT HOUBS WERE SPE!T
ivim-ms' for the dispatch.
"Wopsononock" cannot be found .in the
dictionary, nor in "Swinton's Complete
Course of Geography," nor even in Cram's
great standard atlas. Those wh4 desire to
learn how to pronounce it and spell it will
look for it in vain in the pronouncing geo
graphical vocabulary. But for all that it is
an immense place. Everything around it
is on a scale of grandeur. It is mighty, ma
jestic and magnificent It looks down upon
its surroundings secure in its own glory. Its
crested heights are in the clouds. Its tow
ering pine trees pierce the firmament on
high.
It has stood the storms for thousands of
ears yea, ever since the world began
orthodoxly speaking. It may have been
the site of the paradise lost by Adam's fall
for all we know. It may have been the
haunt Of "the intelligible forms of ancient
poets, the fair humanities of old religion."
Who knows but that here Dryads and
Naiads disported themselves and held holy
sacrifices and high revels in early ages?
The pure cold springs, the spicy pines, the
sturdy oaks, the mountain daisies all are
here, while the rocky streams suggest the
delicious trout in hidden depths. The
mountain laurel, with delicate pink and
white blossoms and great masses of dark
foliage, never spread themselves in greater
luxuriance than on this beautiful mountain.
Ferns in richest forms and largest size grow
rank as ragweed in a neglected garden.
The Origin of an Eicnrslon.
In the dying days of last year's summer
two members of the Woman's Club came
home from a happy holiday raving over the
beauty, the g'nndeur, the delights of
Wopsononock. 'The Isles of Greece, the
Hills of Spain, the purple Heavens of
Bome" were all very well, of course the
classic halls of Chautauqua, the wave-kissed
sands of Newport, the royal routes at Sara
toga might be full of charm, but "Wopso
nonock for magnificent scenery, invigorat
ing mountain climate, fresh, bracine pure
air, and the delights of living afar from the
fetters of fashion and "the madding world"
simply took the rag off the bush. An
autumn outing was immediately proiectcd,
but owing to the uncertainty of human
affairs and divers other reasons' the trip was
postponed until last week.
Some of the members spent part of the
winter in learning the pronunciation of the
name of this delectable mountain, which
presents some difficulty to some of them
even yet in unguarded moments. To them
it was a relief to find that the native inhabi
tants of the region have no scruples about
shorting it to "Wopsy," and rhyming it
with Topsy. This in view of its grandeur
and high position may seem irreverent and
undignified, but it will not be forgotten
that the ruler of Britain and the Empress
of India is familiarly known as "Vicky,"
while the great potentate and reigning mag
nate of the United States is called "Bennie"
for short, and is familiarly known as "Baby
McKee's grand daddy."
A Jolly Forty of Women.
However, the trip to this beautiful moun
tain was at last arranged under the able
superintendence of Mrs. Ida L. Easton and
Mrs. M. E. Dinwiddie in behalf of the
members of the Woman's Club, the Travel
ers' Club and the Woman's Press Club, who
desired to go. Snch a party of women was,
of course, enough to frighten any man
save perhaps Mr. Thomas E. Watt, of the
P. K. B, He may have been terrified
enough who knows but he very effectually
concealed it if he was. Some poet has said
of man that three-fifths of him is good for
something, and two-fifths sheer fudge," yet
the world were a blank without him.
Some of the "beloved brethren" were with
the party, and they proved themselves, a
noble factor in the general good time. More
would have been present save for the grind
of business. That those good fellows were
missing the rare pleasure ot the occasion
was the only shadow upon some hearts when
their thoughts turned homeward.
No gayer party ever steamed out of the
Union station. They were bent upon hav
ing a lull measure ot enjoyment out ot the
jaunt, and they had it, brimming over and
stood in the' slop, as some wit said of
Macaulay's overpowering flow of talk.
The Heavens Wept Bountifully.
A two-hours' stop at Crcsson was on the
programme by kindness of the Pennsylva
nia Bailroad, through Mr. Watt. Here it
rained in torrents, said one, like cats and
dogs, said another, all thff animals in the
universe, said a third. And truly it did
rain tremendously, but rain is nothing when
you are out for a lark. Music was called
for something melancholy and depressing
to lower the tone of hilarity from concert
pitch, but even siaging out the stations
from a Wall and Braddock schedule, failed
to flatten the key. "The President's cot
tage" was visited and voted unanimously
to be "a very poor show." Between show
ers the members of the party got
back to the station. The hotel was
not open, consequently the soda water,
candy and chewing gum, cake and cigar de
partment was empty and silent as the grave.
Here the young try went into business, and
with admirable alertnessand dispatch dis
pensed aqua pura, imaginary sodas and in
visible cakes to the party whose appetities
had been whetted by the mountain air to an
incredible sharpness.
At the Logan House, In Altoona, a de
licious supper awaited the travelers, which
was eaten with amazing zest. Music and
dancing and the reception of a deputation of
citizens rounded out a delightful evening.
With Wopsononock in view, they went off
.to the Land of Nod amid tne clatter
and splatter of the rain, rain,
rain. It may be said here that
unlike the hotels at Chautauqua, the Logan
House does not serve what are called "ex
cursion meals." The meals served to this
party were of the choicest, the service was
excellent and everything of the best This
is not a puff, but a truth there was not a
dead-head in the crowd.
Up the Mountain by Bail.
In the morning street cars took the party,
reinforced by members of the press, officers
of the road and Altoona citizens, to, the sta
tion of the Wopsononock Kailroad. When
the mountain was in view it looked terrify
ing, and it would be little wonder if some
of "the girls" said their prayers under their
breath. However, we had come to go up to
the summit of that delectable mountain,
stand as Moses did, and view the landscape
o'er, and we were in for it, even at the risk
of- being made items of iu Tiie DisrAlCH
the next day under terrific headlines.
The road had only been in operation a
few days and, under the rose be it spoken,
there were those among us who would have
preferred the old-time stages. However,
with the courage-more or less of the "six
hundred" who rode int6 the valley of death,
we climbed into the car, all of us. The en
gineer guaranteed safety, and we gave our
selves up to the delights of the excursion.
Of course it rained during the asccht and
the damp fog fell all around. However,
upon an elevated plateau upon the summit
is located the Wopsononock Hotel, where
we received a welcome of the warmest kind
and were presented with the freedom of the
house.
Bricht Coal Fires In June.
How beautiful upon the mountains
were the feet of the Pittsburg pil
grims, arrayed In brand-new over shoes,
it boots us not to tell. In the office and in
the parlor bright coal fires were burning.
How does that sound to those at home who
sweltered in the heat of last Saturday.
Wraps were also in demand. The hotel I
does not put on the style of Bedford, or
Lakewood, or Cresson, but when, oh when,
shall we forget that good dinner, that de
licious bread baked m a brick oven, that
sweet butter, fresh from the chum, that
heavenly, unadulterated cream, that lovely
lemon custard, that luscious pumpkin pie!
There were, too, the every day roasts and
vegetables and salads, strawberries and ice
cream; but the home-made things captivated
the city visitors.
"I haven't tasted such bread since I was a
girl," said one. "When have we ever had
such butter," said another. The lemon
custard and pumpkin pie of the olden time
were hailed with a- sort of rapture. So
much for the genuine home things and
a gifted cook.
Wailed In With 3IIsts.
The rain as if determined to spoil sport
kept up & steady pour with short intervals
of sunshine. We seemed upon that mount
ain top to be walled in with mists, but the
golden hours were nevertheless full of fun
and brightness. Dancing, card playing,
recitations, songs, games filled "the rosy
bosomed hours."
Two business meetings were held, one to
dispose of a fine turtle thatahad been found,
and whose fate was to be settled by lot.
The turtle in a lovely bed of dewv ferns,
decorated with laurels under a glas3 case
was finally donated to the chairman in a
spirited and brilliant speech by Mr. Frank
Whitesell, of the Pittsburg bar. Mr.
Whitesell had no hesitation in display
ing AVebsterian eloquence and Henry Clay
oratory for the delectation and edification
of the assembled guests. After some dis
cussion as to the ultimate destination of the
turtle, Schenley Park got the go-by, and
the aquariunr department of the Wopso
nonock Hotel was voted for by the majority.
Then, escorted by the band with a mouth
organ and an accordeon, playing a Wag
nerian march, the host was ushered in, and
accepted the turtle in a telling extempore
speech.
An Ovation in Flowers.
The second meeting .was .to pass resolu
tions andyotes of thanks to those who had
so beautifully managed the expedition
and made it so great a success-.
The speeches were all extempore, and
some remarks were received with shouts
of laughter and applause. Mr. Whitesell
again distinguished himself. His well
turned compliments to the ladies woke the
echoes in other manly hearts, and Mr. Pat
terson rushed in with a bouquet for the
speaker as an evidence of his appreciation.
This inspired the orator to pile it on thicker,
and then more than a bushel of ferns and
laurels were rapturously laid at his feet.
With such wealth of flowers surrounding
him, he looked like Pitti when she sang her
masterpiece from "Traviata" at Cincinnati,
where her bouquets were perhaps two feet
deep all around her. He was overcome with
emotion, of coarse, as were most of the
others, who expressed themselves as unable
even with th aid of Webster's Una
bridged and a French dictionary in ad
dition to find words to portray tneir feel
ings and express their emotions.
But the view the magnificent view which
extends, they say, over seven counties that
was one of the attractions of tbeday; but the
persistent rain, the mountain mists, the
dense fog obscured it. The sun came but
brilliantly for a time long enough for one
adventurous soul who had gone ahead to
witness the transporting rapturous sight for
a few brief moments, but by the time the
coach drove up with a dozen others the rain
came pelting down in mountain fashion.
What They Said They Saw.
They saw all there was to see, to be sure,
and they went back with tremendous "whop
pers" as to having seen, as variously report
ed, not only seven, but 17 counties in fact,
the inspiration of the occasion so stretched
the imagination of some fiat they boldly
maintained they could see the steeple of the
Pittsburg Court House away off in the mists.
Then this first party encountered one of the
bears that infest the region in winter, and
rescued the intrepid pioneer of the expedi
tion, who had climbed a tree. A severe
course of catechism brought out that they
hardly knew whether it was a polar bear or
a cinnamon bear or a catamount
Anyhow, a second coach load started out,
who reported only one countv or less, but
had marvelous tales to tell. The last coach
load saw the magnificent sight, as the mists
had rolled away and the sun obligingly
came out in their behalf. Tbcy have been
in raptures ever since. A Virginia reel
with a country fiddler who had been brought
in from somewhore topped off the festivities
of the afternoon. That fiddler should have
been photographed upon the spot. He is
one of the old-school who rocks his body,
keeps time with his feet, and wears a hat
that has felt the snows seemingly of 60
winters. This old fellow still plays the old
tunes to which our ancestors danced and
knows nothing of the new. Consequently,
square dances, with the figures called, were
the rule. Anything more laughable and
enlivening can hardly be imagined than
those jolly dances.
The Mountain's Sunset Splendor.
While "chasing the glowing hours with
flying feet," the whistle sounded for the
descent of the mountain. With a Chautau
qua salute and three rousing cheers and a
tiger, in which everybody "jined in," for
Manager O'Brien and the Wopsononock,
the party boarded the car. The sun came
out, the mists had rolled away and the
whole mountain and adjacent valleys were
enveloped in sunset splendor the whole
magnificence of the scene was fully devel
oped. The horseshoe curve on this little
Wopsononock road makes that so famous on
the Pennsylvania Bailroad seem somewhat
tame. The descent of the mountain has its
terrors and its dangers, but the engineer
was watcntui ana caretui ana tne loot ot the
mountain and the Blue Juniata were reached
with safety. Then again it rained, but who
cared? The Logan House was again in
vaded, a rousing good supper eaten, and
then, under the care of Superintendent
Watt, the special was boarded. After an
other chapter of enjoyment upon the train
the Pittsburg pilgrims reached home, after
one of the pleasantcst trips upon record.
Let it be noted considering their good
luck that they started Friday, and thus
have given the lie to the 'old superstition
once more. Thanks are due from Pittsburg
and Allegheny that their woman's clubs
were so warmly welcomed and hospitably
received by the press and representatives of
Altoona and the officers or the Wopson
onock Bailroad. Some day, when they
come to Pittsburg to take in our marvelous
works, we shall hope to "get even."
Bessie Bramble.
GREENHOUSES FOB YELLOW JACK
A Proposition to Cure the Disease by Se
ducing the Temperature.
Garden and Forest.
A German horticultural journal says that
one of the latest inventions in medicine is
the use of cold greenhouses in tropical
countries as a means of combating yellow
fever. This disease, it states, can be con
quered if one removes to those elevated
regions in which oaks will grow. This fact
recently inspired a celebrated Cuban physi
cian with the idea of reducing; the tempera
ture of sick rooms by artificial means, and
wonderful cures resulted.
Now it is proposed that in districts liable
to the epidemic each town shall erect a
great glasshouse, in which plants of cold
and temperate regions" may be grown, the
temperature "being artificially cooled in
stead of heated, as in our greenhouses, and
that they shall be devoted to the-treatment
of patients suffering from the fever.
EEPTJEUCAHS OF WAEBEK.
A Stroc; Ticket in tho Field With Energetic
'Tonne Aen to Elect It.
ISTZOXL TXLEQBAH TO TUX DISPATCH.
Wabeen, Pa., June 27. The Republi
cans of Warren county have nominated the
following county ticket: Associate Judge,
H. C. Huntington; Sheriff, B. G. Gregory;
Prothonotary, George F. Yates; delegate to
State Convention, W. W. Wilbur.
George W. Peck was Chairman and Alex.
L. Herrington Secretary of the convention.
It is hoped, through the efforts of these en
ergetic vountr men and their friends, that
Warren county will regain its former stand
ing in Kepublican politics.
ELECTEICITT IS AET.
Wonderful Possibilities in the Appli
cation of- Pyrogravure.
SIGIOM CHECKS AT A DISTANCE.
Novel Way of Showing- Electrical Progresj
ot the World's Fair.
A CUBE FOE ALL EAR C03IPLAEST3
rWBITTEX roa THE DISPATCH.
The new process of pyrogravure, or en
graving by' heat, has immensely increased
the resources of decorative art This pro
cess consists in tracing, by means of an in
candescent point, upon wood, leather, bone,
ivory and other materials designs, which,
modulated in tone, depth and tinting,
through a carbonization more or less com
plete, produce extremely varied and re
markable effects in the hands of the artist
The flexibility of ' this device is wonderful,
and while it can be handled by a mere
novice, its possibilities of artistic treatment
in skilled Hands ore beyond those of any
kindred process.
The evolution of the invention Is inter
esting. It occurred to its inventor M.
Perier, over 20 years ago, that ales3 primi
tive method should be adopted for branding
the boxes of wine for shipment He first of
all tried, unsuccessfully, to reproduce the
required sepia tint by adjustment of tho
branding iron through red-hot arms. Thesa
cooled very quickly and gave uneven and
indistinct lines. He then went on to experi
ment with gas, and secured much better re
sults with small soldering irons heated by
this means. Still not satisfied, he continued
to experiment until he arrived at the utili
zation of a platinum wire kept incandescent
by the passage of an electric current. Ha
knew he had reached the right principle,
but as the means of storing electrical energy
was not generally available, he had to bide
his time. This has now come, and the.in
ventor is reaping his reward. The princi
ple of the invention consists in keeping the
tracing point, designed to produce the car
bonization of the object to be decorated, in
candescent for an indefinite length of time,
and always at the same temperature.
The apparatus consists of three principal
parts, an air reservoir, a carburetter and a
thermo-tracer. Besides being extensively
used in s rgery, pyrogravure is entering
largely into cabinet-making, carpentry, ar
tistic book-binding and the manufacture of
decorative leather for chairs and hangings.
Furthermore, by combining it with the art
of projection, a drawing or ornament of any
size can be quickly transferred to a panel,
and some beautiful results of this treatment
have been exhibited in Paris by M. Perier.
It is quite a convenience to be able to
quickly transform the ordinary plain glass
incandescent bulb into one of any required
tint, and the ability to do this is now at
hand in the shape of coloring solutions of
various shades, which can be instantly ap
plied, and as quickly washed off when no
longer required.
Signing a Check a Thousand Miles Off.
In a recent article on the possibilities of
the phonograph, it is stated that it is now
quite a common thing for a commercial man
to have his morning mail in New York read
to him over the telephone, while he is in
Washington, Buffalo or Boston. His re
plies are dictated over the wire toa steno
grapher, who reads his "overflow" notes
into the phonograph for distribution, and
the mail goes out in the evening just the
same as if it had been in his office instead of
hundreds of miles away. A leading New
York daily, in commenting on this state
ment, savs: ,-Of course, we all dreamed of
this kind of thing when we firstheard of thev
telephone and the phonograph, but probably
no one but an electrician could actually
carrv into practice the idea' of dictating in
Buffalo letters to be mailed in New York.
And in a few years, perhaps, we shall be
able to sign letters at the same distance."
The signing of letters at a distance is no
dream of the future, it is actually being
done. An exhibition of the "writing tele- '
graph" was given in New York only a few
days ago, when several thousand words
were written and reproduced in: fac simile
handwriting in Chicago. So that, as a mat
ter of fact, it is now possible to sign a
check a thousand or more miles oft Tho
reproduced signature is not simply an ap
proximation to the original, but an abso
lute fac simile. The operator, by means of
a stylus, writes on a movingstrip of paper.
The movement of the stylus rod presses
upon carbon discs and transmits currents
into the lines which actuate the receiving
instrument and cause the pen at the other
end of the line to reproduce such letter as
fast as it is made at the sending station.
Ordinary writing paper and ink are used,
and the pen is a modification of
the fountain pen. The speed of transmis
sion is limited by the skill of the writer, but
in the late exhibition an average of 25 words
a minute was sent with ease. It is not
claimed that this invention will supercede
the telegraph, but there are certain lines iu
which it is likely to be of special value, 'for
instance in "tickers" in hotels aa" business
places; for private lines, where the posses
sion of a permanent record may be of im
portance, or where from noise, errors and
other disadvantages, other means of com
munication are untrustworthy, and for cer
tain kinds of news reporting, such as trans
mitting accounts of baseball games and
other held sports to the evening extras.
Electricity at tho World's Fair.
It is difficult to estimate the exact valus
of the coming World's Fair a3 an. educa
tional medium, but it is certain that the
electrical exhibit will be a succession of
marvels even to that large section of the
community which is already disposed to be
lieve that nothing is impossible to the elec
tric current It is intended, among other
things, to construct at the exhibition an
electric house. The house will be fitted
with burglar alarms, and its panels will be
studded with push buttons for every con
ceivable purpose. The apartments will be
warmed by electricity, and cooled and ven
tilated by the same means. The cooking
will be all done electricallv, and the food
will be lowered to the dining rdom and
served on an electrically-propeUed dumb
waiter. The washing of the 'dishes, the
whole work of the laundry, the scrubbing
of the floors and the woodwork, the scour
ing of the silver and knives and the washing
of the windows, will all be done by the
same all-powerful agency, and an electric
current will instantly destroy all the offal,
aeons ana sewage.
Facts Aboat Electrical Quackery..
It is hardly to be expected that electricity
shouM be exempt from the attentions of a
certain section of that large class who live
by their wits, medical men. The eyes of
the public are to some extent open to .the
imposition involved in "electropathio
belts," "electric hairbrushes," f'electrio
shoes, "and kindred deviccs,but a speciously
worded description of a new invention of
this class, having for its reputed object the
cure or amelioration of human ailments or
suffering, is every now and again foisted on ,
the community, who often learn, too late,
that they have been consummately gulled.
In this category may be placed the '"im- ,
proved ear trumpet," which is said to em- ,
body the latest and best modifications of
electrical science. This ear trumpet, "by
the electricity contained in it," so olalms
its inventor, '"has the marvelous power of -
curing in a short space of time all affections
of the ear, from whatever cause they may
arise. The ear trumpet is approved by f
eminent physicians, and cures are attested
by thousands of well-known people." -.
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