THE SiMERY, Only Skilled Artists Are Able to Produce What Modern Audiences Will Tolerate. EEALIS5I L EVERY DETAIL. Hott the Master of Scenic Mysteries Cfces Aboat It to Eerroduce the the Deck rf an Old Gunboat. BEAlTIFCL MODELS IX MnilATUEE. lie K!iif mice in TVang Tas Eepro4ncra Iron a Photograph Taken In Sam. rcORREsro-TOircz or the disfatch.1 Kkw Yoke. Nov. 23. A neat little studio, far up above the scenery in a corner of the 'fly floor." Broad and deep shelves with scenic models like so many chicken coups or dog kennels, one row above the other to the ceiling. Stacki of portfolios tilled -with prints of ancient architecture Iron our own colonial period back to the delate. Bronze end marble and plaster iiguies bits of armor, artistically arranged grases, cars and other bric-a-brac Lovely landscape studies in water colors on the walls. This is the home of the scenic artist at be Broadway Theater. To reach it you en Ter by the stage entrance, on Seventh av enue, climb two long, steep flights of nar row, slippery iron steps that seem to reach t-p like Jacob's ladder, through a belt of darkness into the sky. Onie upon the fly floor you pass along the ledge and peer over between the cordagj on the broad stage, tome SO feet below, whence arises the music rud the chatter of an afternoon rehearsal sad out into the empty gloom of the vast fauditorium. The scenic artist himself, Mr. John H. Young, in full working costume freets you from the paint-bridge that stretches across that awfnl chasm along the rsr wall, and conducts you to his artistic Formerly Only Bequlred Strength. There was a time not so far back but what every adult theater-goer of to-day can read iiv lemember, when theatrical scene paint ig was mainly the work of a lot of stage bands anybody from callboyto manager, who could handle a brush. The then ex port, who superintended and directed the wrk, could cover three 40-foot square can vasses in a single day. "When the old 'Black Crook," with its gorgeous caverns snd fairy grottos, was first put on at Niblo's, u was only a question of slapping on paint, resting up tin foil rocks, and putting in t-oken mirror waterfalls, and everybody took a hind in it. When the calcium lights were turned on this remarkable work from -ery entrance, the effect was simply izzlinc, though in detail it resembled Hein le on the earth or under the earth. The scpcic artist then operated with afree and, and was a crude impressionist, who plashed on colors for the day and the hour. The scenic artist of to-day is as widely different in his methods and in the quality -f his w crk from bis predecessor as is the lodern stage production, in its entirety; 'om the productions of long ago. In fact, "emc effects hate been pushed along far in ivance of any other theatrical feature. Public Taste for the Realistic This is largely due to the public taste for H realisnc and to the combination system i r.at requires tets for the run of a season or tv-u instead of for a week or two. The ineraglasb demands rocks that look like 'ocks, grasi that cannot be mistaken and all .he details of scene and properties in har- nony with Nature and practical every day . fe. The artist who threw off three torty- ,aet canvasses a day now often spends three ceks upon a single piece. There must be no solecisms in the set. Every detail must re worked out in harmony with the realistic :age properties and fit the action of the 'rarna. That means that he must be both Iand "ape and figure painter and possess in a lgh degree that rare artistic sense of bring ng out the salient features and grouping he whole to Eecure the most striking effects. Sow, as to his mode of proceduie. It can not be better illustrated than by taking a abject now being treated by Mr. Young, t is all the more striking because it is a ew play and the scenes and properties -.ustbe originated. On the scenic artist's i-awing table is a model of a single scene. is tbe gun deck of an American man-o'-'ar. The play is called '-The Ensign" and e principal scenes are laid on shipboard. Scenes Taken From Life. The fiist thing was to get a correct view ' the man-o'-war's deck. Not a deck, but ne identical deck on which the action of -i" play rets. So the artist takes his cam--a and goes out into the harbor and takes jout 40 mcturce of that single deck, the liferent views being- for the purpose of etvng the most effective presentation. The cmc artist goes himself, for a personal lew is as valuable to him as a sitting is to e portrait painter There are finer ships ' war a-ound him tbac the old Kearsarge, -t the plav is Isid "CI and the deck of the nicago would be a rank selection. Having studied the ship and secured his .i-rures the artis nert constructs a com .ete model of his tcene about two feet uare to a certain scale. This model is a miature stage with the scene in detail, just s it is finally to appear to an audience, very gun, every rope, every bit of brass t bunting is reproduced. Here the artistio -ill of the scene painter is brought out The ene must be presented flat to the audience, - big guns foreshortened and 100 feet con ned into 24 on the stage. While the holographs give the correct details they o not aflord much assistance in this. The JTcchnnicxl Requirements. Another important consideration must ivern. The scene must be so constructed to be rapidly handled. This often de des the question as between methods of -et-entation. There must be no perspec- e pieces where the actors in the play are able to stand in dangerous contact. An nor in naval uniform by the side of a two ot cannon would provoke the average nseofthe ridiculous. The photographs iciude uniformed officers, petty officersand taaien and their relative size in perspec ve. In short, realism of the modern stage is tmed into all of the details of the scenic -list's art The actors must be kept away obi the painled pieces in the rear of the age, or this part of the work becomes ridic obs. The comi diaa who excites the mirth the audience, by putting his Lat over the sing Jii in the b-ckground. excites the rath of the teen painter. So a big gun x Seet high can bo painted three feet and ok all rint as long as the players keep ?ar from it Importance ot the Color Effects. Evervthmg in the immediate foreground nit broiignt out strong, both in size aud lor, ard eoler gitcsun impression of size the backsround is shaded down in misty ays. It i', thesi colors that the artist gets personal color sketches on board ship. bring out brass work and bunting and e shadows -"quires an artistic brush. This iparcntly trifling matter of shadows is by means cvE.rlcoL.ed. They are marked re in this model, and when tbe scene is aced on the itage the lights must be so raaecsi as to increase the effect and not si-ov it it used to be a not uncommon ing to se? a lo uf bunch or ground lights rosrJcg sLncoifs like a bonfire and utterlv stroying the artistic efiects of the scenic it. The bunch or ground light is rarely -d now, but the liht is thrown upon the .ge to harmonize and blend with the wtcd lights and shadows of the scene. The shadows ore painted unon the deck in this model to be reproduced on canvas oa the stage. When the model is complete it is submitted to the managers, who have in it in miniature an exact scene in shape and color. They pay well for all this, but find it better than to risk the failure of a play by going it blind on scenery. Fnttlng It on the Canvas. The model approved, the scenlo artist scales off his framed canvas from the paint bridge to correspond with tbe scale of the model and then goes to work, calling into plav the services of his half-dozen or more assistants. The rest of the work is done as las long been customary, save in the use of smaller brushes an in tne care ana elabora tion of details. When the scene model is to represent a landscape it gives still broader scope to the artistic mind and hand. Mr. Young showed me a model of such a scene. It is a pastoral scene and comprises a foreground of farm and garden, woodland, lake, waterfall, rustic bridge and stream a background of farms, river, meadows, horizon of rolling hills, rocks, woods and summer sky. Every detail of a farmhouse porch, of boats, of aquatic fowls, of foliage and grass is repro duced in form and color from water color sketches. As in the case of the other models. this is inclosed, so as to be viewed from the front, through a proscenium arch, and is lighted with electricitv from such an angle in the top as will harmonize the shadows of the scene painter. The effect is exquisite. Catching the Eye of the Purchasers. Keal water is caused to trickle over the waterfall and stand in the lake so as to make up a perfect picture of nature and give the managers who are to pay for this elaborate scenery an absolute knowledge beforehand of what they are to get when the work shall have been completed. "In architecture we are still more closely bound to realism," said Mr. Yonng. "I have in these portfolios prints of the archi tecture of ancient times. Here are 800 pictures of Italian churches alone. Now, look at this piece of tbe bridge," he con tinned, drawing me among the paint pots of the scene painter's pallet a long, low, curiously constructed table with a rack full of crockory pots about as big as finger bowls. "I first lay off this charcoal sketch on paper. The charcoal rubs off. I stick small holes through tbe paper following the lines and, placing this sheet upon the canvas, take the pounce-bag of charcoal dust and slap it on the paper over the holes. When the sheet is removed we have an out line upon the canvas. This is followed with an indelible pencil, the lines of which come out stronger when wet with paint The painter can then go ahead. This is done where exact work is desirable, as it often is in architectural pieces. The King's Palace in Wang. "When "Wang' was to be produced I wrote to Siam for a picture of the King's palace. I addressed the letter through our Consul, and not only got the picture, but one was taken purposely with the King and family in the portico. He was quite pleased at the idea of being used in an American tn eater. "Of course, architecture is comparatively simple. There are, however, not more than half a dozen good landscape painters in the United States. Foliage is tne most difficult thing to execute welL I can get all the effects in oil and despise fhein foil rocks and such tricks. Scenery can no longer be slurred, and managers are getting more particular and more liberal in this matter every year. Actors play better and plays are rendered with more" snap where -supported by good scenic effects. Then the publio taste requires this elaborate and ex pensive work. Ifthev can't get the real they must have something that looks so real that a good opera glass is necessary in or der to distinguish the difference." Chabi.es Theodore Mubrat. ORIGIN 0? FIRECBACEKE1 Thj Chinese Blade Them First From the Joints of the Useful Bamboo. IWBITTElI FOB THE DISrATCH.1 HE origin of firecrack ers, according to Mr. W. Woodville HockhilL the Thibetan explorer, is as follows: Tire crackers were original ly joints of bamboo. They are made of pa per at present, but the Chinesename, "bamboo gun," shows what they were. The bamboo crackers made a verv loud noise like our "cannon crackers." Perhaps the fragments of bamboo flew about when thev exploded making them dangerous, so that paper was substituted. In making bamboo crackers the partitions in the joints ot the bamboo were pierced, powder sifted in, and a fuse introduced. 1 is interesting to see the way the present firecrackers, with their partitions of clay, follow the old bamboo pattern. WHEEK JI'KINLEY'S FATHE2 TOILED. An Bistorio Old Building Tnat Was Put Together TVlthont 'all. Among the points of interest in Steuben ville, Ohio, is Phillip's foundrv, now owned by the James Means Foundry and Machine Companr. In this foundry the father of Major McEinley, the Eepublican Gov-enor-elect, was employed in 1827. On a recent campaign visit to Steubenville, the Major referred to this fact, and said that his father had requested him to look up the place and see if any trace ol it could be found. "I visited the spot," he added, "and found the building still standing." The structure was erected in 1820, being built of oak, and wooden pins being used in stead ot nails. It is in a good state of pres ervation, and is used bv its present owners as a warehouse for obsolete patterns. We give a picture of the former moulding room taken from Frank Leslie's. CONTEOLIIKG THE CABBY. An Elecrrie Bntton and Bell That Will Please Those Who Take Carriages. A useful communicator for vehicles con sists of an indicator, which is placed on the splashboard in tront of the driver, or let in side the roof of a hansom cab, and button boards, which are fixed inside either cab or carriage for use of the occupant The ap paratus has been devised to enable the oc cupants of a vehicle to communicate their wishes to the driver, and is certain and sim ple in action. So soon as one of the buttons is touched the signal at once appears before the driver, a small bell ringing at the same time to call his attention. The order or signal remains on the indicator until can celled by touching the button marked "clear." A bell and a dry battery are placed under the driver's seat The accum ulators used last about 15 hours. Mohammed Brn .411 Slew tho Janizaries. Hotetter's Stomach Bitters slay the dragon of disease. It roots out malarial complaints, dyepcpsla, rheu matism, neuralgia and constipation, reme dies inactivity of the kidneys, relntorces an enreeblcd system. This medicine of varied uses is bctnetiinus imitated. Avoid cheap, fiery, local bitters and demand tbe genuine Hos tetter's. 'j wrmrv IT V M Li Jew w f5!r' THE OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. AFLOAT ON THE ICE. Story of One or the Most Kemarkahle Es capes In Eskimo History A Hunter's lKng Watch on a fchlp of Crystal A Eight With a Polar Bear The Kescue IWBITTEir rOB THE DISPATCH.! HEBE had been ninched times at Piken- bik, a little island in the far North. Not any real starvation, but oftentimes rations so, low that to catch any game whatever, even a little seal, sent a thrill of joy among the poor natives, while to capture a walrus wouia have been enough to have made them in dulge in the wildest festivities, only the Eskimo method of showing delight was simply to grin; they grinned a little when the got a seal, and would have nearly grinned their heads off had they gotten tbe walrus. On one of these stormy nights one middle-aged hunter, with his two small boys on either side of him, was walking the ice looking for walrus. In front of them was a small submerged reef. Shoo Koke, for such was the Eskimo hunter's name, thought he saw an object near the reef that might be a walrus, but when he crept nearer he Bit Dogt Saved Elm. found it was only a large quantity of sea weed. As he was turning to go back toward the shore, with a grunt in Eskimo for "angry," the strongest expression they use when disappointed, he heard a terrible noise behind him like the roaring of thun der, and which the poor fellow knew at once to be the giving away of the ice on which lie stood. Afloat on a Floe of Ice. With what rapidity he could master he ran to one end, but there saw a very wide channel of water, and to his chagrin saw that had he gone to the other end he might have saved himself, for the floe had 6wung around that corner as on a pivot, but by the time he reached the end of the long floe it was too late and he dared not attempt the jump, for none of the Eskimo know how to swim, and it would have been certain death had he fallen into the water. He called as loud as he could to his two boys, but the noise of the howling wind and grinding Ice was so great that not a sonnd could be heard. All that he could do was to wait until his ship should reach the edge of solid ice, and then make his way home as best he could. As the Eskimo people are accustomed to the greatest hardships, they are not accus tomed to sit down and bemoan their fate on an occasion of this kind. Shoo Eoke at once commenced to look around him, and was greatlvsurrjrieed to see a dark object on the floe. Walking oyer to it, he was aston ished to see it was bis light sledge and four dogs. The poor dogs, lightly fed for mahy a day, had curled up in a bunch, and were so comfortable that they had not moved. Shoo fl? s jl Thrust in the Heck. Eoke took out his snow knife, that all Es kimo men and boys carry with them, and built him a snow house, in which he could crawl to protect himself from the fury of the gale which sent the spray flying clear across his open boat He built another to protect his poor dogs, for in case of necessity they would prolong his life, skeletons though tney were. Visited by the Polar Bear. Four long days he fasted, seeing no game he could reach, when to his delight he saw a walrus and,arming himself with his spear, hecrept up to slay it, but only disap pointment awaited him, for the walrus es caped, and again he went to bed supperless, still hoping to save his dogs by killing game. He hardly closed his eyes when be heard a great noise of his dogs barking and snarling at something. Grasping, his spear, he rushed out and found the dogs had brought to bay a fair sized Polar bear. The bear had scented the camp, and was investi gating when he woke up the dogs. Undaunted, Shoo Koke attacked bim, and after being nearly killed by a ferocious charge from the creature, he got a thrust in his neck thit ended him. So the subject of food was settled for a long time. While he was cutting up the first bear, he happened to look around, and saw his sledge and snow house had disappeared, and he built another one on his new floe. Many a day he sat perched on top ot his little snow house watching for land, and at last he was sur prised and gladdened to see it to the east ward, although he had been watching in the direction of his old home toward tbe north, and when morning broke he was not over 50 yards from land. Landed in a Strange Country. He had been over a moon at sea, as they reckon time from one full moon to another. It did not take him long to reach the shore, and shortly afterward he met an Eskimo with whom he could speak, but still with difficulty underotand. He found he was on the great island of Sed-luk (Southampton), of which his tribe had a half-fabled knowl edge. The natives treated him kindly, but as the ice was breaking up and these new friends had no good boats, ne was compelled to wait'until the next winter to cross the ice to his home, two or three hundred miles to tLe northward. When he reached home his friends were frightened almost to death by his appear ance, for he had been giren up long sinee as dead. He had been gone within a month or two of a yeBr, and his return was re garded as little short of a miracle, and is still regarded bv the natives of North Hud son's Bay as one of the most wonderful escapes of the many they have from drifting to sea on ice lakes. Fkederick Sohwatka. The Trade In Easels. Upholster. You wouldn't believe how many easels are made in this country, We estimate it's over 250,000. One New York firm alone placed an order recently for 12,000 easels of a certain special pattern, and it has got so now that you can buy them all the way from SO cents to -$30 an indication of the way things are going in matters decorative. m- .;.i - "SlllisisWfTOrtfflPMlMI JrftC?fflsflMiPcS3333 at y- BtBw - PITTSBURG DISPATCH, GENTLE SIDE OF WEBSTEB. When Off Duty He Wa Always Planning Pleasures for Others. rWBITTZJf rO TOTS DISPATCH. But nobody ever made Daniel Webster ashamed of gentle acts; that splendid, gigan tic American was always doing these "soft" things. It' was the war he rested himself, or recreated himself when he was fatigued with a big law case, a great speech in Con gress, or a magnificent tilt with a political foeman. At such a time he particularly liked to retire into private life, to plan pleasures and surprises for the household, perhaps a visit to his New Hampshire farm, ordering himself the details of the meals, and seeing that provisions of all manner of comforts were sent up from Boston. In Washington it was his habit to rise early and go to the markets to buy fresh flowers to send to the breakfast tables of his friends, and an- Scene in Webiter't Some. other of his pleasures was to surprise the ladies of his iamily with bonnets ot his own selection; Daniel Webster had good taste both in ribbons and bonnets. When William Henry Harrison was elected President and came on to Washing ton a great public dinner was given and all the distinguished Whigs in the city took Iiart You have read that Harrison's was a og cabin camp ign: well, chief of the table ornaments at that dinner was a beautiful log cabin of rock candy standing on a plateau or yard of nougat about 18 inches square, and around this ran a fence of white and red stick candies and a small American flag located from tte roof. When the dinner was over Mr. Webster begged this wonder ful log cabin for a child that he knew, and he curried it to her, and it stood in her home the delight of all the children in the vicinity until a month later, when the Presi dent died, and then the sugar candy cabin was draped in black. Now these gentle deeds did not make Daniel Webster a "softy" we all know; nor Arill any ot the kindness or politeness that you do, stand in the way of your becoming the most tremendous man possible. English as She Is Spoka. ommys eyes "were bier as'saucerst" A WIFE AND MOTHER SPEAKS. WORDS OF YAZTJE TO AIX AND FAMILIES. PARENTS A Family Safeguard From Coughs, Colds, Catarrh, Influenza, La Grlppo and All Diseases ol Winter. TS TIMB SAVES NINE. Mrs. J. W. Beynolds, of Elkton, bos 46, Columbiana county, O., says that she has, suffered with congestion of the lungs, ca tarrh in the head and was troubled with a bad cough. She had tried a number of phy sicians, but they all failed to cure her. She was induced to try Pe-ru-na, and immedi ately a marked change took place. After using Pe-ru-na her cough ceased, and in a short time her other ailments were cured. She is now completely restored to health, and gives all the credit to Pe-ru-na. At least two people out of three some time during the winter months have a cold more or less severe. Very few indeed es cape entirely. Although a cold is not often directly fatal, yet it is the most productive source of incurable diseases that is known to the medical profession. At least one third of the deaths in the United States are easily traced to the effeots of cold. Croup, bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, consumption, pleurisy, diphteria, pneumonia, rheuma tism, acute heart disease, Bright's disease of the kidneys, neuralziaand paralysis, are, in a thousand instances, directly traceable to a cold. A cold is the most frequent, the most dangerous, and the most neglected ill of life. The treatment of colds ought to begin with the appearance of the first symptoms. Many years' observation has convinced thoughtful people that hot drops. Quinine. hot slings, Dover powders, ginger diinks, and a host of similar remedies, are not only unreliable, but often injurious, as they all alike have the effect of causing unnatural perspiration, which is liable to be checked by the slightest exposure, and the cold in creased therebv. Since a cold has the in variable effect of producing congestion of some mucous surface, the remedy for it ought to operate there also. The compound Pe-ru-na was devised with especial refer ence to this effect It operates by increas ing the circulation in the mucous mem branes of tbei whole body, and, no matter where th cold may have settled whether in the head, throat, lungs, kidneys or urinary organs Pe-ru-na will immediately relieve the congested membrane and stop the discharge. Whether the cold has settled in the head and produced catarrh or deafness, or settled in tne throat aud produced enlarged tonsils or hoarseness, or settled in the bronchial tubes aud lungs.producingcoueh or asthma, or settled in the kidneys or bladder, pro ducing Bright's disease or gravelPe-ru-na is the remedy to be invariably relied upon for the treatment of. these cases. Thousands of cases of colds, in all stages and phases, are treated every year with Pe-ru-na, and the combined experience and testimony is, that Pe-ru-na is the most sneedy and permanent cure yet discovered. Pe-ru-na is equally valuable to prevent, to cure, and to entirely remove the effects of a cold. No family, especially at this season of the year, ought to be without this ex cellent preventive and cure for that most insidious, ever-present, disease-breedine malady called a cold. For treatise on Catarrh, Coughs, Colds, Consumption and all climatio diseases of winter, send for Family Physician No. 2. Address Peruna Medicine Company, Co lumbus, O. Colonel W. H. Beechbb, son of the late Henry Ward Beecher, fa said to have formed the novel plan under which tbe rail way casualty insurance companies operate, whereby railroads are indemnified for losses by any sort of accident One company, or panlredtwovearsago, witha capital of $1,. SOO.OOO, serves 100 railways in this capacity. mm, CSS L TITCII SUNDAY, 'NOVEMBER' FOOTBALL TEAM WORK. There Is a Science in the Game Careless Spectators Do Not See Stratagem and Signals of Beeent Development How to Break Through the Bush Eine. 'W.ttbit ron tite dispatch, i EVEEAL of mv friend. 'have insisted to me that they could not see any thing wonderful about the game of football; that it looked to them like a big squabble in which everybody was pushing and wrestling in one tangled mass. That, in part, may des cribe the game as it was played a few years ago and as it is now played by the boys on the vacant lots, in some of the smaller colleges, but it does not take a verv observant eye nowadays to sea that there is combination and concentration shown at different points in the game. That means team play. I suppose that a large percentage of the spectators at every football game knows scarcely anything about the points of tho game; would be surprised to learn that every play from a scrimmage is made at a given signal which indicates the direction the runner is to take; that the hole through wnicn ne is to run or tbe way be is to go is prepared for him bv the men in the line; that the ronner is still further assisted by the rest of the players, each one of whom helps by a definite actiou which varies with different play3; that the eleven as a whole is Drilled like a Regiment to perform certain movements at a given signal with quickness and exactness, which movements differ for different players, but are combined in such a way that the desired result, namely, the advance of the runner with the ball is brought about Beferring to a picture pf the rush lines as they stand in a scrimmage, we notice that there are eight spaces through which a run can be made: 1 2I4SS7 8 Two of these, 1 and 8, are outside the end men, and extend from them to tbe boundary lines. These two spaces are constantly changing according to where the ball is down for a scrimmage. If the scrimmage is midwav between the side lines they are equal, but as it approaches one or the other side lines the space next the line decreases while the other increases? Thus opportu nities are constantly given for making what is termed an "end play," and generally speaking the chances are best on the side where the space is larger. Playing around the ends has come to be one of the most popular plays, because, if successful, it usually results in a long gain. In this part of the rush line there is less protection, for experience has taught that it is better to strengthen the center by keeping the men close together in that place, and trust to the distance a runner with the ball would have to go to reach the end to give time to send assistance to the spot. It Catches the Spectators. An end play is the most interesting of all the plays to the spectators because of the open running and dodging which al ways takes place; the fine blocking off. and then the brilliant tackle which is likely to follow on this play, but to the. careless ob server what sometimes seems like a long run on this play is merely a run across the field with little or no gain. In 1889 the end play was perfected by the system of interference then originated. Be fore this the half-back making the play had to depend largely on his own end man for bis assistance, but in that year Princeton, by skillfully running their two half-backs and quarter-back ahead of the full-back or tackle with the ball, were able to get around tbe ends more irequently and to mate longer gains. I happened to see the Harvard-Princeton game of that year where the new system was put into use and with ter rible effect against Harvard. Time and again "Snake" Ames ran around the Har vard ends, being beautifully guarded, and made touchdown after touchdown after brilliantly covering 30, 40 or 50 yards. The most common way ib for one of tho half-backs to take the ball and to run around the opposite end preceded by his inter ferers. Through the Other Spaces. Spaces 2 and 7, between end and tackle. are the next largest in size. Plays through these holes have become more and more frequent. Systems of interference have been originated which make this opening one of the best for playing. Last year this spot in the line was frequent place of attack by both Harvard and Yale, and this year it is being used even more frequently. In this play the end man is shoved out toward the side of the field, while the tackle is shoved in toward the center. Spaces 3 and 6 have to be made by the tackle and guard pushing their opponents out and in, respectively, as the players stand close together in this part of the line. These are used a great deal in advancing the ball, not only by the backs, but also by the tackles and gnards when the latter run around and take the ball from the quart er- bacK. JL thins: tnat these spaces are more than any other pair, especially for plunging for short gains. I remember very sorrow fully the way Pnnceten plowed for sixty j-ards straight down the field through this spot in our Yale rush line after Billy Bhodes was put off in the Berkeley Oval game of 1889. Spaces 4 and 5 are not quits so vul nerable as 3 and 6, although they can be made very effective for playing when the center rusher and guards thoroughly understand their work. A remarkable in stance of this occurred in the Yale-Prince ton game of 1885, which contest was also notable for Lamar's famous run of over two-thirds of the length of the field, thereby winning the game after Yale had it well in hand and with only six minutes more to play. Story of a Famous Play. Princeton bad forced Yale down to her five or ten-yard line amid tremendous cheer ing on the part of her supporters, who thought that a touchdown must follow. But Yale here made a grand rally and secured the ball, and then began that memorable series of short plunges through the center by Ben Morrison and Watkinson, carrying the ball from near their own goal line well into Princeton's territory, a feat only sur passed in the large eames bv that of Yale in last year's game at Springfield, when the ball was carried from the center of the field fora touchdown without once losing it No member of an eleven is debarred from running with the ball from a scrimmaee it he conforms with the rule that no one can run forward with the ball until it has touched a third man. This, then, wculd al low everybody except the center-rusher, who puts it in play, and the quarter-back, who receives it, to run with the ball, but it would be unwise to run every player. Up to 1888 the center-rusher sometimes put the ball into play by making a bunt kick, and then picking it up and running with it In the Yale-Harvard game of that year Corbin, Yale's center-rusher, distinguished himself by doing this twice for long gains, one of them netting s; touch-down. The quarter back also was moTe irequently used lot run ning through the line than now, but tbe ball used to be handed to him by one of the guards, who picked it out from under the snapper-back's foot Men Who Were Good at It - Han7 Beecber, Yale's famous little quarter-back, used to make this play to perfec tion, scarcely ever failing to make a good ga",n" ?rank Peters, who was captain of Yale when Beecher first played quarter back, had the curious signal of spitting on the ground for this play, and then little Beecher would be 'seen emerging from a hole-in the opposing null .line and go dodg ''P 1 L' B 29, 189L ing down the field. I said that everybody except the center-rusher can run with the ball from a scrimmage, but that it is unwise to run some on account of the disadvantage of their position. The players most used in rnnning are the backs, the tackle and the guards. ' Team, plav in any large degree as we now see it dates'back only a very few years. But with the development of tne running game grew up a system of movements in which every member of the team performed a cer tain definite work. As a natural sequence to the performance of these movements. signals indicating the play about to take place came to be used. At first such words as naturally fell from the captain's lips, such as "play carefully," "steady work," "hold your men," "get down on a kick," "block bard," "break through," "play fast," etc, were used starting from sin gle words, then using phrases or whole sen tences, then a particular word or phrase iu a sentence, then signs, and last of all the present system of figures. Yale, I believe, is responsible for the introduction of word signals in 1887, and Princeton, in the fol lowing year, gave to the game the system of numbers. A. A. Stagg. A HOVEL EVENING GAME. It Is Suggested by the Wonderful Feats of , Conjurer Robert Hondln. tWBITTElf rOB TBS DISFATCn. Somewhat less than half a century ago there flourished in France a conjurer by the name'oi Bobert Houdin, whose skill was so great that the Government sought his assist ance in bringing to terms the fierce and warlike natives of Algeria. One of his most remarkable feats was the de cribing ot the contents of sealed packets containing various small articles which would be placed in his hands for a space of time apparently altogether too brief to permit of his making any examination of their contents. In his Autobiography he explains how the feat was performed. With a fingernail kept espec ially long for the purpose, he made a slit in- the packet, and while the specta tors' attention was momentarily di verted took a swift glance inside. That one glance was sufficient, for by care- Just" One Steijt Giant. ful training he had brought himself to a wonderful pitch of perfection. This was tbe way he trained himself: Walking rap idly past one of the great shops in Paris whose broad windows were crowded with a multitude of objects, he would cast his eye over them all. Then passing beyond the shop he would jot down on a bit of card everything he could recall. In course of time he reached the point when after run ning at full speed past a window he could jot down every single object on exhibition In it The game of observation is based upon this very idea. The players are seated in a circle, and each provided with pencil and paper. Then one comes in bearing a shallow tray or salver containing a number of small articles, so arranged that all are distinctly visible. For instance, a pair of scissors, a thimble, a button-hook, a big nail, a picture hook, a visiting card, a penholder, a tooth- 5ick, a penknife, a ring, a scarf pin, etc. he tray is placed for one moment where all may have a good look at it It is then whisked away and three minutes allowed for the players to write down as much as they can recollect of its contents. CHICAGO'S EOTTVENrB SPOON. A Unique Little Affair Typical of the Windy City's Chief Industry. Chicago Dsilf News.J Of all the souvenir spoons we hare seen there is none other that pleases us so much as does the Chicago souvenir spoon. This delicate and graceful instrument was de signed by Miss Birdie McMurtrie, a gradu ate of our School of Design. It seems that six months ago the Academy of Arts of fered a cash prize of 200 for the best de sign for a Chicago souvenir spoon a de sign illustrating ar tistically and subtly the enterprise and feeling of this pro gressive community. The competition was thrown open to every body living in Cook connty, and a com mittee consisting of Prof. Agassir Bagby, of the West Side: Dr. W. H. Blynkarn, of Cicero; Mrs. Seraph ina Hall, of Lake View; Profi Cyrus Williams, of the Amalgamated Sons of Homer, and Prof. D. Ed Broke, of the Boutbside Intern o Club, was appointed to inspect the designs and make the award. The number of com petitors exceeded 8,000, but the committee had no difficulty in determining whom the prize should be given to. Miss McMurtrie's design was at once so simple, yet so appro priate, so abundant of suggestion and so fertile in feeling that it carried the commit tee by storm, so to speak, and the gifted young lady was presented With tho prize at once. Connoisseurs are in doubt whether the spoon does not exceed in beauty the best work of the old European masters. Assuredly nothing could be more graceful than tbe treatment of the handle of the machine, which is, as will be observed, an elaborate extension ot tne terminal ap pendage ot the figure constituting the bowl of the spoon; this handle, treated in a series of delicate, dreamy convolutions, is surmounted by a process in the verisimili tude of a ham in miniature. The Chicago Society of Silversmiths has awarded Miss McMurtrie a laurel wreath in token of that distinguished body's appreciation of the young artist's genius. A Tale Worthy of Mnlhatton. An interesting yarn comes from Asia which you can ' believe or not as you see fit that a party of explorers in an interior range of hills recently found an immense cave which they penetrated for a long dis tance and suddenly came upon tbe ruins of an ancient city of beautiful aspect Gold and silver coins found indicated that the inhabitants had flourished about" 200 years before the Chnstian era. It was farther stated that the city bad been laid out with no particular attention to regularity or system. The houses generally were two and three stories high and contained urns, vases and implements of a good quality of workmanship. It is not known whether it it is Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth," or that anonymous prodnc- tion. "A estrange MannseriDt Jfonna In a 'A estrange Manuscript irounain Copper Cylinder" that is being. pirated by I the Asiatics. I 'IJBgy iSM' B9SP Pfw gPf IF W KITTEN TOE THE DISPATCH BIT TjTDG-JJR FA"WOETT, Author of "The House at High Bridge," "Romance and Reverie," "The Adventures of a Widow," numerous song3 and poems and several plays. CHAPTER XTX. At this time, as it happened, Alonzo Lis penard was crossing the threshold of a small apartment, full of books, busts and a few very rare pictures, where Erio Thaxter had passed many an hour of artistic musing. Alonzo held a paper in his band. "You sec," he said, after handing the paper to Eric and throwing himself into a chair at his friend's side, "my royal command for the state ball has actually come." Eric glanced at the paper. "Mine has come, too," he said. "What?" queried Alonzo. "Were you not invited till now?" "No. It was that horrible Princess. Clarimond has been letting her have her head, but the other night he pulled her up with a short rein. I hear that she is now humility itself. I am natuially delighted. I've seen it coming, Lonz; but, of course, I could say nothing to the King." "And you will go to tho ball?" said Alonzo, slowly. "Go? Yes. It will be great fun to see She haugbtv old Brindisi dame deposed, tobe'll be obliged to bear on us. We will go gether, be beamed on in duo!" T1 cannot go, Eric!" "Not go, Lonz? But yon must I" "Must 1" "You will insult the King. And-remem-ber, you are bis " "Servant," struck In Alonzo, bitterly. "Ab3urdl Me, of all men, would hate that word of yours. Listen: I know every thing that passed between you. I think, on the whole, that you behaved very well!" .aaonzo gave a narsb little laugh. 'It's a wonder vou're willing to admit that!" "Oh, I'm willing to fight for you, dear boy, when I think you're in the right Clari mond, however.apologized." "Yes; a king's apology." "My dear Lonz, you're sulky." KATHLEEN, HE SAID, Alonzo repeated his laugh. "What a queerly wrong kind of word from you, Eric, who usually pride yourself on the mot juste!" talk about the right word in the right place, hut it has alwavs seemed to me that there Should be in all cases, at least five words to choose from; otherwise language becomes a pauper, and expression a mere joiner's mechanicism." Alonzo tossed his head. "This burst of brilliancv," he said somberly, "leads to "Another word in which to define yonr present mood jealous." Alonzo gave s great start Then he tried to laugh, for the third time, and lamely failed. "Oh, that's cruel of you" Here his brow clouded. "And if I am jealous of a man like that!" "A very noble and exceptional man, remember." "Oh, yes. But a man whose immense rank compromises Kathleen by the fact of hia being in love with herl" Eric played for a moment with an ivory paper-cutter which had lain on tbe desk near which his friend had discovered him while deep in the solution of some new architectural problem. "How do you know the king is in love with her? He snddenly asked. "Bah!" grumbled Alonzo. "How do I know I am I, you are you." "Well, granted that he is. come now, Lonz, you have known him long enough to feel, if not also to know, that he is a man who would scorn to treat any pure woman well," "Eric went on, after a pause and a gesture," "to treat any pure woman as kings have too often done." Alonzo gnawed his lips. "What on earth will he do, then, Eric? He is in lore with her ." "Every man is. I am. I've only seen her the least little bit and yet 1 " "Oh, seriously! He can t marry her! .."Can't hel" "What do yon mean?' Cried Alonzo, jumping up from I113 chair as though eometbmg had stung him. "Ah, said Eric, with voice cool and in cisive, "I thought you had forever broken with her. How then, can it wake your wrath if she should become tha Queen of Saltravia?" "It wouldn't, it wouldn't," muttered Alonzo, pale and visibly distressed. "But if anything happens, Lonz, I pledge vou my word that will happenl The King has done far more audacious things already than marry an American girl. As for a morganatic marriage " "Confound a morganatic marriage!" cried Alonzo. "If he tried that and she con sented, I'd put a bullet through his brain, though they hanged me ten minutes after ward." "They don't hang here; they guillotine," said Eric, calmly. "It's much neater, in a way. But you needn't egret any such poetic fate. Clarimond loathes morganatic unions, as more than once told me. ... Lonz, Lonz! you know him too well by this time for such kind of talk. Here you are, rich, through his generosity, and you talk of him as if he were some common cad." "I'll resign my position!" quavered Alonzo, with both hands clenched at his side. "I'll go to starvation, if you please "Don't Go to the ball first" "I'll send him mv resignation this very Wait until the ball is over." "Confound the ball!" "You're confounding everything, It strikes me, in the most promiscuous man i zjl Me 1M f vitiJ "Excuse me, Eric, but I can't help it" I Monsieur Lispenard?" "Von-nan't nlPty.lw.y". wfA 7frl; g" ".M. hajjaaaa tkara fe ner. 17 1 "because your heart is almost breaking In your breast" He got up from his chair and went straight to his friend, putting his arms about his neck and kissing him on the fore head It was a very sweet and simple act, and it was also one that brimmed with a beautiful, spontaneous fraternity. Alonzo threw back his head, stared forlornly at his companion, and then flung his bead ou Erie's brood, virile shoulder. A great, pas sionate turmoil of tears followed the tears that men shed and so tellingly seldom, and that are wrung, when shed at all, fromdeep caverned wells of their spirits. Eric held him in his arms, not speaking a word, only throbbing with tie most humane sympathy. But meanwhile his brain worked, and he thought, with the bitterness and irony that certain stern freaks of life will too often wrench from us, whether we are optimists, pessimists, or only part of that huge throng which neither think nor feel too keenly. "And I brought him here for thisl It's too badl In a way he was happy enough till he'd seen her again, and now it's all a tumult with him, a madness, a torture. But he'll stay for the ball. He'll stay, just to see her again. And then God knows with what reckless force he'll fly straight in the face of his present pros perity." Erie is right On the evening of the ball be and Alonzo sought the palace together. The entered the great room a little before 10 o'clock. Here the entire assembled court were waiting.and presently to a golden clash of music from the orchestra on an upper balcony muffled in choice living flowers, the King entered with the Princess of Brindisi on bis arm. It was a sight of ex treme splendor. The enormous room, tapes tried in gold and white and hung with mir rors of huge size that reduplicated the chandeliers in endless glittering vistas, had been profusely adorned with roses, lilies and orchids from the royal hot-houses. The Saltravian nobles all wore their uniforms, HAT I SPEAK TO YOU? and between the many beautiful ladies who were their wives, a sumptuous kind of rival ry was to-night manifest, each one wishing, as it would seem, to eclipse the other in the glory of her jewels. But there were two ladies preseut who outshone them all, and these were the Princess herself and her cherished ward. Bianca d'Este. The mother of Clarimond was literally mailed ingems. Her stomacher and corselet of mingled rubies and diamonds blazed, as the light caught them, with vivid and luxu rious fires. Her hair was oversprinkled with brilliants nnd her neck and arms were aflame wiih them. Possessing so muoh natural presence and carriage, she looked more than merely regal. Her worst foea (and there were two or three of those who now gazed at her with the most amiable de meanors) must have granted that she was altogether magnificent With Bianca d'Este it was quite an oppo site affair. 8he, too, was magnificent, but in a way that became her maidenhood and her youth. A collar of pearls five rows deep engirt her throat, and these, with a cluster at her breast of sapphires, diamonds and other stones, in imitation of a spray of flowers, were the only jewels that she wore. But the pearls bad belonged to her ances tress, Mary of Modeno, Queen of England, and hence were not only superb but heroio besides. As for the matchless bouquet, it was owned by her mother, was famous throughout Europe and worth a handsome fortune in itself. The Princess having begged Bianca's mother by letter to per mit the girl to wear it on this special occa sion, it had been sent from Italy,under the guardianship of five trusted men, who now waited in one of the halls of the palace and would receive the glorious bauble from the hands of its wearer the moment she quitted the ballroom. Shortly after the entrance of Clarimond and his mother the royal quadrille was danced, and to some conservative watchers when they beheld the King lead forth Kath leen as his partner, the sight was one of absolute horror. Everybody else in the quadrille was of the blood royal except this upstart young American. Beautiful? Yes, amazingly so. Her beauty, in its perfect plainness of apparel, dimmed the fire of all those necklaces, bracelets and tiaras. With such eyes, with such a heavenly look about the brows, with such a slope of the arm and shoulder, and with that imperial kind of daintiness in her motion she made every other woman look artificial, got up for the occasion, endiman- chee. But what (que diable !) bad that to do with the King's behavior? Whether she were hagor houn, why should he make her an excuse for smashing etiquette and then dancing on its debris? The thing was too idiotia. Did he mean to marry her? Was this to be his latest daring deed of uncon ventionalism? "Look at him now," whispered a lady of highest rank to a gentlemau equally lofty, after a pause had followed the first general dance. "He has those two Americans at his side, Erio Thaxter and Monsieur Lis penard; what a revolution he has wrought in his mother! The Princess is talking to them both and smiling her blandest 1" "Oh, that poor old Princess 1" giggled the gentleman. "Was there ever such an overthrow? They say that he gave her her choice the other night after he had sent us all adrift like a pack of school children and treated poor Philibert so awfully. Either she had to pull down her flag and fold It discreetly away, just as she's doing now, or leave the country inside of 21 hours." "But ia it sure," asked the lady, "that tbis American girl was once betrothed to $ -TLTtU.
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