-Tesv ft REVIEW OF SPORTS Reasons Why Football Is Likely to Become a Great Profes sional Game. 'COLLEGE CONTESTS AND BOXING. ' latest Features of the Baseball Situation and the Prouabilitiei of Peace, BULirays late costlt epree. Local Bilhr5 SEi rwl Orattsts-Gtntral Pugilistic rvnls of the "eft Soir that the game of football has become 10 popular in this country the question sug gests itself: "What about its future? "Will the game be taken up and carried on by professional? Tim question lias often been asked during the last few days and be cause of its importance I propose to discuss the matter at some length to-day. But whatever anew er may be given to the ques tion it cannot be other than speculative, as an answer will be merely a matter of opin ion. In my w ay of thinking I cannot avoid the conviction that football playing in this country will be carried on by paid plavers; that i, by bona fide professionals. "Whether or not that is a confirmation devoutly to Te wished I do not say at present, butevery thing tends o prove that iootball -nrill just be as muoh identified with professionalism almost any other sport. "Why do I think so? "Why simply be cause the of money there iiinit. Just a sure a- the public faucy takes hold of foot ball and public iiiocey in vast sums is paid to see it just, as sure will capital be invested in the game and speculators will bite plaj--ers to satisfy that public whim, fancy or whatever it may be. ThN is a sure to nap yen as darkness follows d-tylighu Exper ience prove it to u beyond a doubt, and no other proof need be gi"ii than the history of tawbalL. Of course this professionalism may not com for some time," but if football continues to grow in popularity and if the yublie want to see plenty of it depend upon jt paid teams will come into existence simply becaue amateur will not have the time at on: mand nor as reaaliiiateurs have the money either ro lulllil the public requirements. The development of Iootball in England goes to prove what I am saying. In that country tiie game has grown, or degener atd. which you will, from a sport of the purest kind of amateurism into one of the greatest branches of professionalism iin the country. Tootball players are there signed and receive salaries on the same principle as iio baseball plajers here. It has been found that there is moi.ey in it and it has become a business. "tt ill It Irjore tlie Came? "Well, then, the foregoing suggests another question, viz.. will it te to the advantage of iootball if it gfi into the hands of pro fessionals? 3 fail to tee vliy it will not. 2Concofu can truthfully sa that baseball hat not been immensely benefited bv it Trofcsioiial feature. "Wliy the truth is that almost all thai is now good in baseball liat been put there by professionals, and by the latter 1 ine.m pla.-er and capitalists Then why should no: the same results be attained in football.' Tiieie is no reason why. If football were to become a thor oughly professional vame there is no rejsou why we should not hae better teams by far i In the country than either Yale, Harvard 'sir Princto.i. ard .m t'i's point 1 am san guine enough to preuict that it eer foot ball in thi- country bei'omesa profe-bional frame there v. ill be professional teams just ssmuch superior to the college teams as proiessional baseball teams are superior to the baseball college teams of to-day. "Were it necessary to state theiu, there" are any amount of good reasons for itiis prediction, and one strong one is the fact that the country is bigger than any college, and therelore h&s more good players, or ma terial to make pood pla er. to" offer. It is, therelore, tife to vay that if football plav ing becomes a game tor prof-ssionals the quality of the plaving will he improved. Sow let us sav a few words as to the moral features or probabilities. I am quite aware of the vtrv large number of people who arc continually trying to jump on pro ' fessioi.a'ism. It is blamed for almost all the robberies and frauds that arc committed vithin its eirele.., and henee it i natural to expect that those who so blame it see noth ing but degradation in professional sport. It is quite true that thcie is an alarming tate of rottenness in professional sports of to-day all over the civilized world, but while this is true wc must not foigct the fact that wherever a svort or pastime is popular or anything like national, and where there are vast sums ol monev in ested in it, tne great object of those interested is to mak6 that sport as purely moral and honest as possible. True, there are frauds, aud many of them, in horse racing, but oerything is being done that can be done to prevent them, just as efforts are contin ually being made to prevent frauds and swindles in amateur athletic sports. "Wlio can say that the morality of baseball has not been put on a higher plane by its profes sional development? If this " were not so baseball would collapse in a season as a great sport. And so it will be with foot ball. It money is invested in it because of the public demand for it, that very fact will operate to its moral edvantage, because the public would instantly drop it were it being demoralized; therefore, self-interest would make those who had money invested in it Me that everything was carried on in the most honest and fair-dealing manner. Another Gootl Adantago. "We are talking longer about football than X expected, but there is one more feature that I must discuss and that is the very rough nature oi football. "Were professional teams to play the game I am fully persuaded that almost all of the very rough features would disappear; not because profestionals would have less plnck to get into a scrim mage and pummel each other, but because of the penalties that would be imposed on the paid players who insisted in acting as "sluggers" and rough and tumble fighters. Professionals are just as ready in a contest to face probable injuries as the most enthus JRsticamateurs. "We have seen this in baseball bat it is easier to enforce discipline and systematic play among salaried players than among plaj-ers who arc in the game for pastime or fancy. There may be a little digression in what I'm going to say, but I want to point out that thcie is a glaring inconsistency among many people who arc ardent patrons of what we know as college iootball. During the season in almost every game there are hand-to-hand contests aud collisions that border on the brutal, and the work is cheered by ladies snd gentlemen. But these samept-ople rail and clamor against a lour-round boxing contest between two men with six or seven-oun.ee glotes. This is one of the strangest things that has come to my notice in all my 25 j ears experience in sporting matters. The inconsistency is the most absurd on record. On Thanksc'uing Day I witnessed a game in which Brown, of the Media team, hid hi face and head covered with a tnab of bandages. He was cut and bruised p.ud had a more battered head than many men who have fought for an hour in a prize ring. Under the disadantage his heroism was remarkable, aud he was cheered. In mother game I saw a player get an awful gash in his 6calp, and another get something like a broken nose, and another an awful .ut in the eye. Now, what I want to know is this: "Whv can all this brutality be toler ated and even cheered and a harmless glove contest between two boxers be vetoed? Two men with big gloves canuot by any means injure, manic and batter each other as do football plavers before thousands of people. If the public want the rough element, all right, but what I contend is this: Let us be fair and throw off this veil of hypocrisy. About the National Game. Baseball reformers, agitators and peace makers continue to plod their weary way and there are to all intents and purposes as busy to-day as they evcrw ere. Everything is in just as topsy-turvey conditional ever and those who, as outsiders, take an interest in these matters are just as bewildered as ever. During the week we have had state ments and counter-statements. President Byrne has told us that the 12-club scheme is a sure go; Mr. Abell lias told us it is not; Voa der Ahe has declared that the Associa tion will have eight clubs and President Phelps has just as emphatically stated that it will have ten. Now where "are we? If onjbody can divine a solution from the above statements let us ha e it. But tbcre is a great amount of bluff in these public utterances of the magnates; and after we wade through this bluff we'll find much to convince us that there is a strong probability of a 12-club Iieague, or rather a 12-club monopoly. One by one the leading magnates are declaring themselves on the subject, and among the League mag nates particularly there is a feeling favor able to a consolidation, that is a 12-club League. But I will never believe there will be a 12-club League until we have it. The scheme has many plausible features connected with it, but many serious ob jections. For a season, if it could hold together that long, it would be exceedingly profitable because of its novelty, and this makes one wonder why it is not adopted without delay. But if there is no consolidation, what then? "Why, the merry war will go on and the National League, as usual, will come out ahead. Beally in the absence of con solidation there is no reason why there should not be a settlement arrived at. "Why not allow the Association to have teams in Chicago and Boston and have a national agreement adorned? The League can cer tainly stand all this if the Association can. Depend upon it, these self-same magnates arc ruining the prospects of the game, and the longer they continue flourishing their daggers at each other the more disgusted will the public become. Xew g of the League Clubs. So far the various clubs in the National League are doing or have done very satis factory work preparatory for next season. Chicago may probably be excepted, and it is because of this exception that I think the baseball trouble will soon be ended. "We must not forget that when it was war to the knife between the League and the late P. I, Anson was not out with his lighting clothes on at the first sound of the tocsin. In this instance he is taking mntters ex tremely easy, notwithstanding the state ments of the enemy that they are capturing his best men. The fact of Anson's passive nes is ery significant indeed. But the New a ork clnb has done well, extraordinarily well, consideriug the diffi culties the club has had to cope with since last season. AVhile I fail to see how Pow ers is the equal of Mutric as a money maker, it must be admitted that the former has done exceedingly well in getting new and good plajers for the club. It is quite safe to predict that in King and Boyle New York will have one of the finest batteres that will be before the world next season. The truth is that the chances are in favor of the Now York team next year being far t.head ot the cw York team "of this year in all lespects. And when this fact is demon strate'! then will such plavers as Kusie, J Bicbardson, Connor and Glasscock tumble to the fact of their lia mg a big mistake. Prom what 1 hear John M. "Ward is gettniff togetheran excellent team. He has signed .1 oyce. This is not a rumor, but a lact. Hchas Brout hers as good as signed and he has lladdoek. Ward will play second base himself aud Joyce will play at abort and Pinckney at third. Ot course Griffin will be in the outfield. The Cleve land team is getting along in first class style and not saying a w ord. 'Boston is all right and so is Philadelphia and Cincinnati. Aftnirs of tlie JLocal Club. It is, indeed, a great pity that the local club did not secure Boyle. He might have been caught, but now that he is lost it is useless to say that this man or that man was to blame. There is one thine about the matter, that is, if the local efforts to get Bojietbat have been made during the last few days had been made weeks ago, Boyla would hat e at present bceu signed by the Pittsburg club. 3Iost certainly the club needs another catcher as Murphy, according to repoits, is no use at all. Why not try and set Donahoe? If another good catcher was secured it is not likely tliat any more hustiing for more players will take place. On Tuesday the stockholders' meeting will be held at Jersey City. I dare say there will not be much of importance" done, although I would not be surprised at any thing. Certainly fexr people will be sur prised if a new manager is appointed. The probability is that Mr. Kerr will De made President of the club and that Mr. Temple will be made a director. They are worthy gentlemen, and Mr. Temple is heart and soul in the business, lie has lots of enthu siasm, and as a director he will doubtless do good. A Boom In Billiard Plajlng. Local billiard players are coming to the front again, and to-morrow a tournament among what may be termed the local nov ices will be commenced at Davis' rooms on Fifth avenue. It is pleasing to see such a tine and admirable game as billiards make progress, and without hesitation 1 say that nobody has done more to popularize the game "in Pittsburg than Harry Davis, and his efforts have been of the purest and most honorable kind. In this instance he has placed his costly and spacious rooms at the disposal of the local players until their touincy is ended. That the tourney will be successful is almost a certainty, and it may be that it will introduce to the public a fu ture champion. At any rate the tournament is wortliy of encouragement, as its object is not for financial gain, but simply to compare the merits of the local players. Each con testant, I think, posts up a certain amount as a guarantee, which is a very good arrange ment. Aud while I am speaking of billiards let me say a word or two about the big pool contest that is to take place in the East Eud Thursday, Friday aud Saturday evenings. Two such players as Powers and Clearwater ought to attract good audiences. It is to be hoped that both contestants will play to win, and if they do, there will certainly be. some remarkable pool playing. The Trotting Track Frauds. It is pleasing to note that the gentlemen whose duty it is to hear and pronounce on charges of fraud among trotting horse owners aud drivers are bent on punishing the guilty. D uring the week the Board of Be'view have made an example of the owner and driver of the famous horse Temple Bar. It will be remembered that the horse last summer was heavily backed by the public to win a race at Cleveland. He lost tho first three heats in a way that aroused sus picion and the judges took down Driver Spears and put up another man. Then Temple Bar went aw ay and won the next three heats. The Cleveland track au thorities there and then expelled Dr. Savles, the owner ot the horse, and Spears hisdrher. The former appealed, but the expulsion stands. The public generally will hail with delight all efforts that are be ing made to purge the trotting track for dis honesty. Trotting is making remarkable strides in this country, but it will cease to do so if the public contests arc to be tainted with fraud and dishonesty. Jobn X SiilllTan's last Break. If all reports are true John L. Sullivan is no longer an actor. Dispatches from San Francisco tell us that John has once more "broken his pledge" and imbibed the rosy to a very great extent. In short, the pugilist actor has been on another drunk, and this has so disgusted his theatrical THE ''boss" that John has been fired from the temple of Thespis, as it were, and he is once more a pugilist oulv. Reports from the "West have told us all this, but I would not be surprised if the case has been very much exaiigeraled. But if it is true that the famous pugilist has been cast adrift by his theatrical pals there is probably more reasons than the one assigned. A mere drunk would not have caused his discharge, because he has had many of them since he joined "Honest Hearts and "Willing Hands." It is likely thst the public lias become weary of such absurdities as worthless plays, trash in fact, being boomed from city to city because of prizefighters and such 'like being connected with it "Well, whatever may have been the cause of the tumble, it is to be regretted that Sullivan has once more resorted to the rum bottle. It only makes a battle between himself and Slavin all the more impossible, and even if they were to fight it will make the contest all "the more uninteresting be cause it will generally be considered that Sullivan cannot b"e in good con dition. If he is to fight Slavin he must be in the best possible condition to win. There is no doubt on this point, and if he is not at his best he will be defeated. But I say this, and I say it with regret, that John L. Sullivan may never fight aeain, and it may be that in a short time he will be penniless and deserted by all his alleged friends. Men more famous in the prize ring than Sullivan, and just as robust and as affluent, have suddenly collapsed in money, in credit and in physique. Old Bacchus has knocked them, and he is smiling just as alluringly to-day as he did when he floored such men as Cribb and Belcher. Every year will now tell sadly on Sullivan. He will pet heavier and have less energy to reduce him self in weight. Time and drink are now his greatest opponents, and they will knock him clean out just as sure as sunrise. About Pllmrner and Kelly. There has really been little doing during the week among the pugilists, and talking has been the chief feature. The proposed battle between Plimmer and "Spider" Kelly is off, and that is to be regretted. Kelly has, on account of sickness, declined to go on with the fiu'ht. lam ready to be lies that Kelly is sick, but it is certain that had Plimmer declined to fight because of a similar cause almost every Eastern sporting writer would hae been saying that Plimmer was afraid. It is a pity the con test is off, as manv people wore desirous to see what the little Englishman could do. That he is a good one is certain, because of the wav in which the Kelly party estimate him. riimmer has challenged the world at 110 pounds and he may be accommodated. Of I'ngillsm la General. The latest information from England is that Fred Johnson is coming here to fight Dixon. I am not surprised at that, because last year Johnson told me that he was ready at any time to come to America if it was made "worth his while." He is a gentleman ly little fellow, but I cannot help thinking lie is coming to meet defeat. "Whether he wins or loses against Dixon, I think he will do well in this country, because he is a spleniid little boxer. A definite offer has been made for a battle between Corbett and Maher, Corbett and Jackson, and Corbett and Mitchell. Now I ask where is Corbett? Surely if he wants to show the world that he is a first-rater he has plenty of opportunity. Next w'eek Woods and Choynski meet. and both men are training well. They are in good condition, and at present the man with the Polish name is favorite. He will have to fight to win. Peikgle. A BTEAHGE EACE TYPE. Girls of cro and Chinese Parentage In 3?ew York's Chinatown. The strange race types which result from the intermingling of the Chinese and Cau casians are numerous. Perhaps the most curious and interesting is the Afro-Chinese, of which the type is well shown in the illus tration. Th?se young girls of Chinese and African parentage are numerous in the Chi nese quarters of New York. "Nigger chinks," they are called in the simple lan guage ol the slums. J.ne color ot tne type Hon jroft'Tn rmtl A Mean . is something like that of an Indian, with a strangely transparent yellow tinge. The in fluence of the Chinese blood is seen espe cially in the hair which is straight and in the slantiug eyes. The negro characteris tics survive in the mouth and nose. The type is on the whole a rather pleasing one and might afford an interesting race study to some student like Kecus, the Frenchman. A Portrait or Mr. Dana. The picture of Mr. Dana, the famous edi tor of the New York Sun. which is printed with this will give some idea ot how he looks now to those who have hitherto relied upon Charles A. Dana. humorous artists for their conception of his personality. The sketch is especially in teresting from the fact that it is made from Mr. Dana's latest and best photograph, and one which v as taken by his son Paul. Napoleon Ives Back Front Elba. A picturesque figure which is gradually coming once more into prominence in this town is that of Eugene S. Ptes, late Na poleon of finance. Like his namesake, Mr. Ives apparently has no idea of remaining in banishment. He is seen again in hansoms, in the Murray Hill Cafe and elsewhere. He has been written about lately as one much infatuated with a certain op-ra singer, although that is a very old story indeed, and soon his quick young eyes behind the old-fashioned gold "spectacles will be as familiar a sight as in olden times. Mr. Ives proves the theory that the American public is too busy to remember little details. Lonz Distance Telephones. Electricity. It is expected that telephonic communica tion between Berlin, Dantzic and Konigs berg will be established in the early part of next year. At present the longest telephone lines in Germany are those from Berlin to Breslau, 220 miles, and Berlin to Hamburg 180 miles, but when completed, the above mentioned line will have a total length of 377 miles, the distance from Berlin to Dantzic being 2C5 miles and from Dantzic to Konigsberg 102 miles. PTTTSFIJRG- DISPATCH, FALL OF AN ARTIST. Sarah Bernhardt's Latest Style of Keelimf Over Is Her Best. THE SONGS IT. PAULTJS SINGS. Financial Eesnlts of Patting With Brush and Oil on Canvas. Br-CULOEIDE OP GOLD AMOXG JOKERS rCORRTSrOXDKKCE OF THE DTsTATCIM New York, Dec. 5. Bernhardt, the great, who pays more attention to dcteils than an average person with a reputation yet to be made, has honored this town by inventing a new fall to amuse it Falls are very important things to tragic actresses One woman here won some smiles by rolling all the wry down a flight of steps, but no actress has equaled Barnhardt's marvelous methods of keeling over. This new fall, of which the cut gives but a faint idea, eclipses all of her previous efforts. Hitherto the great actress, like others, has been obliged to fall in such a way as to make it possible for her to go on living and acting immedi ately afterward, and that was found to take out some of the reality. In "Camille" she avoids that necessity, and when in the last act she falls over dead BernharaTs Latest Fait. everyone believes that she will strike the back of her head with full force and receive serious injury. The actor who plays the part of Armani, however, is trained to catch her outstretched hand at the critical mo ment and save her head. The thing as Bernhardt has arranged it is as much of a circus act as the fall of a woman in tights from one trapeza to another, and it pro duced much the same effect on the specta tors. Should the actor fail to catch her hand the great Bernhardt would probably have to go to bed for some time. Also, as anyone will believe who knows the gteat woman's temper, it is safe to say that the actor making the mistake would not feel exactly up to his work forsome time either. Monileur Paulas In Town. This M. Paulus.who has come from Paris, will interest New York tor some "time. He himself is an interesting creature, and if he succeeds in making a genuine American success, it will prove that we have grown to be more cosmopolitan than we were when Judic came over here. The resemblance be tween the methods of Judic and Paulus is genuine, for both depend for their success, not on what they say or sing, but on their way of saying it. Judic has a fine horror of America, which she considers a bad place for talent to go to. The Boulauger march, by which Paulus is chiefly known to Americans and which he called "Cominc back from the Eevuc" was onl.y one of a number of his half pathetic, half comic songs, until Boulanger's popu larity gave him the idea of inserting in one place the words "Le brave General Boulan- One of Jf. Pcntlvs' Altitudes. ger." Those words damaged such meter as there was to the composition, but they made Paulus known all over the world, and caused him to be honored by a request from the Government to stop his song. The Boulanger inarch and "others of his songs are spoken of as the actual compositions of Paulus, but it is probable that somewhere in the background there is a tame composer who does the work for him. Boulanger's failure and death hurt Paulus, although he has long since ceased to sing the Boulanger March. "While the ambitious General was someone with a fut ure, Paulus was spoken of as the man who was destined to overthrow a republic with a song. That was flattering and it drew. American Artists Atb Unhappy. The exhibition of pictures has stirred up art and art talk. Artists in America, espe cially the struggling ones, have very much to say about the doleful state of aflairs. One young artist who some day will be rich and who then will think art is on a very fine footing, related tills week with much bittrness the sad tale of Emile Franzen. Mr. Franzen, called by his humorous fellow students Sweeney The Sweed, when he lived in the little 'Hotel de la Touielle in the L3tin Quarter, worked hard for three years and turned out many pictures. They were sufficiently modern, realistic and dif ferent from old masters to please almost anybody. Mr. Franzen had an ofler of iS.OOO lor the lot of several hundred, but he said no, he would auction off those pictures in their fine frames and get 510,000 or 12, 000. He auctioned them off aud got 54,000 for all. That left him about 5400 to the bad, as the frames cost him that amount more than was realized by the auction. The rising artist uho told this harrowing tale of unappreciated art declared that he would strive in his next great work to strike the morbid fancy of some prosperous saloon keeper. 9 . American artists believe that American would not be so very anxious to get French names on their walls if they knew how many French painters look upon American buvers. "Oh, don't look at those things," says the Paris artist when you enter his studio. "My picture is in the other room; I'm doing those to sell to Americans." The Paris artist of a certain stamp, like the intelli gent Japanese, turns out such trash as he thinks will appeal to barbarous America. The French Bay Whistler's Mother. An interesting piece of art news is the purchase by the French Government of T.mo. mTsTm1 Whistler's famous nnrtrait (,;. Tnnthrr. It is nrobable that the inter esting little American-Londoner, who has 2 1 SUNDAY, DECEMBER offered to thrash so many of England's tall men, will now feel bigger than ever. The picture of his mother is the wonderful crea tion the marveloiisly flat picture, with some things out of drawing to make it flatter, which has been more talked about and done more to advertise the artist than anything except his famous peacock room. The story as it comes fiom London says that the paint ing has been bought for "the Louvre, but that is a mistake, as artists do not see their pictures in the Louvre. Theyare put there only when the artistsare dead. The dumpy 'little yellow-haired woman who manages the cafe in the Bue Gragnon and who has a picture of herself by Sargent, hangs on to the painting in the face of liberal offers because she hopes to see herself hanging up in the Louvre when Sargentis dead. Mr. "Whistler's mother will probably hang in the Luxembourg for the present. A Very Remarkable Actress. The Strand Jlagazine has recently printed good pictures of the celebrated Mrs. Keeley. Two of them are given here, one presenting the remarkable actress, as she is now, aged Mrs. Keeley at Si. 84, and one showing her at 16 years of age. These pictures should interest everyone, but they are printed more particularly for the benefit of Senator Farwell, of Chicago, and his brother. It was from Senator Far well that Mrs. Keeley got, quite recently, her first lesson in poker playing. She saw the beauties of that noble game, for in spite of her years she is very young and appre ciative. Mr. Farwell'a brother, who, like everydhe else, was much impressed with MrsKeclev's wit and vivacity, confided to her his belief that she ought to have gone on the stage. This was considered good in view of the fact that Mrs. Keeley was acting in 1823 and is as well known in England as Ellen Terry. Mrs. Keeley, CS Tears Ago. It will interest Mr. Farwell to see how Mrs. Keeley looked at 16, when she antici pated his ad ice about going on the stage, some 60 years belore they met. An'Artlst Does Not 3Ilnd a Stabbing. Here's a short tale which shows that some artists really are different from ordin ary men, even jn these days: Mr. K. O. Anthony, who has a good picture called "The Spanish Desert" in the Academy, was walking" along Thirteenth street, near Third avenue, late one night of this week, when a beggar asked him for money. With a view to taking the edge off his refusal Mr. Anthony remarked, in friendly tones: "I'm working this side of the street myself." The beggar made an irrelevant" remark to the effect that some men would not give 2 cents to their own mothers, stabbed Mr. Anthony three times in the chest, then turned and ran. localizing that it was more important to have his chest fixed up than to get revenge, the wonnded man aimed an in accurate kick at the beggar and went to his rooms. He called in Dr. Higgins, of East Seventeenth street, who Bewcd up a cut three inches wide, just over his heart, which might have demanded a funeral, and took care of two smaller cuts also well aimed for the heart. Next day found Mr. Anthony gay and festive nt his" work with never a thought of bothering the police, and rather proud than otherwise of having a stitched up chest to show to callers. A Real live Prince In Town. New York just at present enjoys the pleas ing sensation of having a Prince in her midst His name is Iturbide, pronounced "Itterbiddy," for reasons doubtless satis factory to the pronouncers. As seen in Delmonico's cafe, this young man, who has languished in Mexican dungeons for polit ical reasons, looks rather more aFrancaisL sort of a person than the modern prince idea. He is remarkably big, which is not ex pected of princes, has a yellow beard, broad shoulders, and, in fact, might, if occasion aiose, even make a good Broadway police man. Like all princes and great men gen erally, he wears frock coats and double breasted waistcoats. Delmonico's Has a Place In Politics. It is curious, and wise men with time to spare have commented on the part which Delmonico seems to play in politics. The rule beems to be that men who went to Del monico's before they entered politics stop going there as soon as they become states men with a vague idea that such a course will appeal to their constituents, while those who did not go to the one fashionable eating place before, take up the habit when political success has proved their greatness. ' Mr. Bourke Cochran, for instance, with his bushy head so closely imitating the American bison, may be seen there at any time. Another face which goes in and out of Delmonico's constantly just now is that of Senator Brice, of Ohio. This week, and for weeks past, his curly hair has been a feature of both rooms. Those who recognize seem interested in him and wonder why he is so much'alone. Bl-Chlorllo Has the Call. Bi-chloride of gold continues to make many minds happy by the opportunities which it offers for pure high wit. It is al together customary now for the brilliant young man who is asked what he will have to answer "Bi-chloride." Avoungman of this town, whose disposition and occupation are even more than serious, has made the bi chloride hit ot the week. or each man at a dinner which he gave he had a bottle of that peculiar, almost transparent liqueur which has particles of gold floating through it, and on each bottle a bi-chloride of gold label. Football the National Game. The football talk which has filled up the time since the great game, and the tremen dous interest taken in the contest outside of college circles, makes it plain that football has been definitely adopted by the public at large. Those directly interested in the game are especially impressed and gratified by the change in tone on the part of news papers. Conscientious and accurate report ers still describe all rough play, but denun ciation of the game has been almost entirely confined this year to police weeklies, grieved that football should be so much more leniently treated than prize fighting. Abthub Beisbank. V -if 6, 189L THE SPIRE HEAVENS. Marvelous Things Told in a New Book Devoted to Spook Lore. TELEGRAPHING FROM THE SKIES. The Realms of Ghosts Are Real and There Are 18 or More of Them. OF COURSE THE SEVENTH IS THE BEST WalTTE?r KOR THE DIsPATCK.I The knocks and tippings in the old house of the Fox family, not many years ago, were the ushers of the new faith of spirit ualism. As the story goes, these raps and the upsetting of tables, and knocking about of things "are produced by spirits through a medium" who utters only what the "con trol" dictates. The revelation of the spirit world by means of spirits, is, as presented in a late book, something that wilL tax the credulity of even Spiritualists. It makes claim td such knowledge of the here after as will make the world turn tip its eyes and stand agog. How this revelation came down from heaven is a story as marvelous as the find ing of the golden plates of Mormonism. The author of the book claims to have been in daily communication for eight years with two really-good-and-true Indian spirits. These have exclusive control of a medium named Kenney, whom he pronounces "a truthful, honest man, and a reliable and gifted medium." In addition to the Indian spirits, the author also had communications daily from his deceased father, and from Kobert Dale Owen and other spirit friends concerning the spirit world and its affairs. The author assures his readers that he has tested these parties on many occasions as to their identity, and with always satisfactory results. Comes From Katia King's Victim. Just before passing the boundaries of an other world Owen had promised the author that he would communicate with him as soon as possible through his medium, and that he would assist him in his labors by his knowl edge of matters and things on the other side. From this it mav be inferred that "The Spirit "World: Its Inhabitants, Nature and Philosophy" is a work mainly inspired by the spirit of Kobert Dale Owen, who some years ago was so egregiously imposed upon " by that wicked little fraud, Katie King. The seances where the writer cot all his information he describes thus: "My spirit friends being present and seated in chairs so that I shall face them, the principal Indian controller takes possession of the medium; then the second Indian psychol izes the first, and thus insures a state of insensibility and passivity. Thus the chan nel of communication between the two worlds is kept open, and the spirits can talk all they want to by, as it were, a spiritual telephone." To outsiders it would seem somewhat strange and perhaps suspicions that since Mr. Owen had begun to come as a spirit no earthly friend was permitted to be present at any of those remarkable seances. This, Owen assured the author of the book, was by imperative order from the higher powers though he gave no reason for such strict and arbitrary rule. Spirits Fly Through Windows. According, then,to this knowledge brought down from heaven by the spirits, "Death is the birth of the spirit. The entire spiritual person emerges from the head of the body, when the great change comes; The moment n spirit has left the body a window should be opened to facilitate its departure." Tpon this point Mr. Owen gave the opin ion that new born spirits cannot as a rule, even when conscious, immediately pass through solid walls, and their spirit friends convey them to their spirit homes, lie urges "that in all cases a window should be opened. The spirit, as we are told, is born naked, but ministering spirits save in cases of sudden death, are always present provided with garments for the emancipated spirits. Where sudden death occurs, there are spirits especially assigned, who immediately provitle what orthodoxy believes to be "robes of virgin white." The question as to 'hall we know each other there" is answered in this bookby the statement that at the first meeting in the New Jerusalem, the spirit friends and rela tives have power at will to show themselves as they appeared upon earth, so that they shall be recognized, but soon after they re sume their proper spiritual appearance. This means that if a man had a wooden leg, or a humped back, upon earth, or a woman had a waist pinched in bv a corset, or had lost the proportions of a Venus by any de formity, they could at will for a short time resume such appearance to friends newly arrived. Devotion to the Dead. Another piece of information may come handy for some people, which is that spirits are gratified with every mark of love and affection on the part of their earth friends, and many times feel wounded and hurt when such sentiments are not manifested. But only weak. vain,frivolous spirits approve of lavish expenditure upon tombs or monu ments to their memory, and sensible spirits grieve when the friends they left behind show themselves to be silly and extrava gant. A wife, for instance, in the spfrit land, will feel grieved when her husband weighs his hat down with crape and figura tively exists in a state of sack cloth and ashes for a while, and then goes courting inside three months. If these tales of the spirits be true, then mothers in the "great beyond" will sorrow over the griefs of their children when subjected to the cold mercies of a step mother; parents will be grieved over the misfortunes of their children, and sweet an gelic spirts will mourn over the hard-heart-edness and stnbborn-mindedneas of their earthly friends in not accepting rappings, slate-writings, materialized ghosts, and all such mysteries as proofs ot their immor tality and the truth of Spiritualism. In this book: founded upon information from the spirits the location of the spirit world has been definitely ascertained by the author. "It 13 a series of heavens one above the other encircling the earth par allel to the equator, and in width extending about 60 or 70 north and south of the latter." Kven the Seventh Heavrn Located. The first heaven is distant from the earth 550 miles The second is distant from the first 100 miles. Above that certainly as high as the eighteenth heaven the distance between each is 50 miles. The seventh heaven which everyone knows is a "mighty nice place," is therefore within 1,000 miles of this wicked world. Robert Dale Owen when on earth as a capable newspaper man, so it is doubtless owingto his investigations that the author is in debted for the facts in the case. An inquiry as to the temperature of the heavens above resulted, after careful observations by the spirit reporters, in the final statement that it was "mild and delightful," after a spirit journey through polar regions. The spiritual reporters were positive and emphatic in the declaration that the world they now live in was a real one, and its in habitants are those who have left this earth ly sphere, with all their instiucts.affections, passions, vices and virtues. There they congregate in heavenly cities, or dwell apart in the blessed c"ountry as they for merly did here. None of them are worse than many of them existing in this transi tory life, nut the majority are better and are" constantly progressing to higher heavens. In the spirit world the people who have "passed on" live real and active lives, dwell in bona fide houses and work with btains and skill and tools for use and beauty. By this it will be seen that con trary to orthodox teachings the angels are not doomed to play upon golden harps ior- ever more, or to sing hosannas so everlastingly-as has hitherto been supposed. Pleasures for Scenery lovers. It is something to know that in the spirit world there are all the diversities of rocks and rivers, mountains and rivers, towns and cities, forests, mineral deposits, precious stones and all the work which they im ply. Fleas, mosquitos, allieatorr,snakesand all of tlie hatelul things that infest our Edens are not represented, but the higher forms ot animals are found there the same as on earth. The qualities of matter at traction, repulsion, gravity operate as usual, but there are no impurities, nor offen sive gases, nor foul odors. In short, the heavens, above the third, are pretty much like the old earth, save that all things are more beautiful, nearer perfection, and bet ter adapted for happiness by reason of hay ing the bores and nuisances, and thorns: and hornets nests subtracted. It will be mystisying to many, after what has been toId,that"the spirit world envelops the earth, and that it forms, the sphere of degraded, disembodied spirits who continue to hang around for various periods of time, but who will eventually enter the paths of progression, and get above their degradation. Some of these depraved and debased spirits dwell in the lowest sphere for generations and some times centuries. These mean spirits, says the author, "infest our public conveyances, they frequent low dance houses, liquor saloons, gambling houses and 'the slums.' They subsist on the emanations from earthly food and particularly enjoy those found in dirty restaurants and unclean kitchens. They hang around a gluttonous person, and if he has medial powers they impel hiin to eat for two himself and the invisible spirit beside him, who thus gets a meal without paying for it. Barrooms are full of bad spirits loafing around, waiting for an oppor tunity to 'obsess' men who drink, and urge them'to indulge more and more until both the men and the spirits become helpless." Bad Spirits and Matrimony. These degraded spirits, who hang aronnd the "earth sphere," because not good enough to go to the first he.iven, also take a fiendish delight in marring marriages. They are at the bottom of the mistakes "that un happy men and unfortunate women make in selecting their partners for life. They in fluence people into evil courses and cause them to commit the most wicked deeds. Orthodoxy holds that this is the work of the devil, but the new revelation is to the effect that earth-bound spirits, who havnH got enougTi "get-up" about them to reach the third heaven, keep themselves busy bysuch "goings on." It is a comfort to know that the spirits in the higher heavens exercise a restraining and corrective authority over these villain ous low-down ghosts and that they will, sooner or later, succeed in elevating them to higher moral and intellectual planes. "Progression is the grand law of the spirit world." The first step higher may not be taken for ages, but, we are assured, it is done eventually. In connection with this piece of news, it is something of a solace to hear that missionaries from the upper and shining htavens come down to the low er spheres to convert the uanghtv and de graded spirits, just as earthly missionaries go to Asia, or Africa, or the Cannibal Isl ands. The sufferings of the less guilty these are the great majority, we are told are rather negative than positive, and they are generally advanced to the third heaven in a short time. ' Tlie Assassin of Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth, as relates Bobert Dale Owen, is now advanced into the higher heavens because, as it was clearly under stood, he was "obsessed" by a malignant se cession spirit when he murdered Lincoln, and therefore was not morally responsible. When a spirit gets a bad name below, he has the privilege of changing it when he reaches the third heaven, but Booth holds on to his, which shows he thinks he has no reason to blush for it. Mr. Owen, who fre quently meets Lincoln and Booth in the heavens, does not tell whether they speak as they pass by. This book would be more interesting if the author would let the world know some thing about Horace Greelev at present wnether lie eaits a paper up mere, ana what are his yiews upon silver, and upon the tariff and free trade It wonld be pleasant to know that Andrew Jackson and his be loved Eachel were happily keeping house above the stars, and that he and Henrv Clay had settled their difference, and had little games together. However, succeeding chapters of the rev elations msy give us knowledge of these and other things that most people desire to know concerning the "great beyond. " At any rate we are to learn in what section of the heavens the bigoted sectarians live, something about the Irish heavens, the American heavens, and so on but this is enough for one time. Bessie Bramble. More Trouble. Chicago Trtbnne.J "Since you think yourself so smart," said the exchange editor, glancing back ward over his shoulder, "perhaps you can tell why the letter 't' is like Lord Byron. " "I don't believe it is," retorted the finan cial editor belligerently. "The letter 't' is tike Lord Byron," said the exchange editor, raising his voice, "because it gives to immorality immortal ity." And the other man, with a hunted look in his eye. raised the window and stuck his head out to get fresh air. Torco of Habit. Chicago Trtbnne. Keporter "He struck yon, madam? What then?" Injured wife "I wept, sir. I wept copi ously.',' Reporter (busily jotting it down) "Tea, About how copiously, madam, did you weep-.'" A BUNDLE OP WISE SAYINGS. IAN ACROSTIC Patience Is the key of content, riving well is the best revenge. All noble thoughts are prayers. Common sense Is the sift f heaven. Every man's life Is a plan of God. Youth is the seed time of Ufa. Oblivion: a remedy for human misery. Utter no thought that demands resret. Keprove not a scorner lest he hate thee. A penny saved Is a penny earned. Depend on conduct, not on fortune. Vanity rail's more women than love. Every man is some kind of a coward. Keilnemcnt is superior to beauty. Time is generally the best doctor. Industry is Fortune's right, hand. Soft words scald not the tongue. Idleness i tne parent of many vices. Nothing excellent is wrought suddenly. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Industry conquers all enemies. Ifo man is proud who knows himself. To be over polite is to be rude. He serves all who dares be trne. Evil communications corrupt good manners. Prosperity's tho very bond of love. Idleness is the nurie of naughtiness. Thought is the lightning of the soul. The less men think, the more they talk. Suspect suspicion, and doubt only doubt. Be slow to promise and quick to perform. Unblemished let mo live or die unknown. Rule the appetite and temper the tongue. Good words are worth much and cost little. Scandal ever improves by opposition. Under God's protection men stand secure. Nothing is impossible to a witling mind. Deceive success and you shall command It. Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself. Your sayer of smart things has a bad heart. Deep rivers run with silent majesty. Indolence is often taken for patience. Small and steady gains give competency. Passionate expressions are no arguments. A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. The power of gentleness is irresistiDle. Constant occupation prevents temptation. He that gets out of debt grows rich. WILDER IN BOSTON. ftot Snch a Bad Place as the Comic Papers Try to Make It Ont A PARROT IN AN EXPLOSION. The Irreverent Small Boy Explains Daniel's Escape From the Liom. LONG AXD SITOET OF IT IN LONDON rWT.ITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. I I've been sojourning in Boston for about a week and I enjoyed myself so much that I wanted to buy the town. Boston people aren't a,bit like the. stories that are told about them; they're always looking for chances to spend money instead of saving it. They don't offer a guest baked beans, nor ask him to climb Bunker Hill monu ment with them, and on Sunday they stay home from church as easily as if they had been born and brought up in New York as a good many of them were. As for Boston girls and women, they can't be beat, in which respect they are very much like their sex all over our glorious country. Prom what I had read in some of the funny papers I supposed that all of the Boston girls wore glasses, carried big books under their arms, and wore blue stockings, with all that the word implies, but yon may see more eyeglasses in the neighborhood of a female seminary in Xew York than in a dozen candy shops full of Boston girls; most of the books they carry are paper cov ered novels, and I didn't see a single bine stocking on a Boston clothesline, though I was in the city on washday. Why One Man Woa'dn't ICeform. Boston people are different from all other Americans in one respect; they are so satis fied with their city that they never want to leave home. They tell over there of a hoary headed sinner for there are such beings even in Boston, who expressed a sincere de sire to turn from the error of his ways, but didn't do any turning. A good old minis ter, who had'mucn experience in such cases, studied the sinner for a while and then went to him and said: "My friend, I hear that you wi3h to lead a new life, but don't seem to begin. Wh3t's the trouble?" "Oh, Dominie," was the reply, "there's something awful on my mind." "My poor brother. It's your fear of the bottomless pit, I suppose?" "Not a bit of it. 1 was brought up aTJni versalist." "Indeed? Then what is the cause of your trouble? Kemorse over some great sin of your early life, I suppose." "'Tisn't that, either; I never injured any body but myself. The fact is, Dominie, if I reform I'll have to go to heaven when I die, but if X stick to my old ways and die I can stay right on Boston soil to the end of eter nity, and that's just what I want to do." A Tale From the ?iavy. Among the best fellows with whom I swap storie3 are the officers of our anny and navy. They are a splendid set of fellows who never tiilkabout themselves, and always speak well of other people, and they move lrom place to place so much that they hear all the good stories that are goinir. One of them gave me a yarn which I wish conld be worked into the heads of some of the people who sometimes sit near me in the theater and spoil the show by telling each other, loud enough for everybody to hear, that they wonder what is coming next. The story was that two Yankee sailors strolled into" a show in Guatemala where aprestidig itatenr was entertaining the audience. A parrot perched on the back of the bench where they rat. After every surprising fiat one sailor wonld turn to the other with the Tpmirk: "That was pretty good. I wonder what will come nevtV" This was repeated until it made the parrot tired. Presently one of the sailors threw a burning match with which he had lighted his pipe; it fell through a crack in the floor and into the powder magazine. Biff went the whole building, people and all. and nothing was leTt but a hole in the ground and the parrot, who was uninjured though bidlv shaken np. The bird pulled itself to gether, straightened out its feathers, flapped its way to a. heap of ruins, and croaked: Bnllng Passion of tho Banker. "That was pretty good. I wonder what will come next?" When T got back from Boston I went to see one of my bankers. Some men can get along with a single banker, but the leu money a man has the more people he is likely to worry about it. I found a good man suffering with a slight cold, and he was so depressed by it that he said he feared he had not long to live. "Pshaw," said I. "Brace up, old man. Why. yon're only CO years old, and I'll bet you'll "live to be a hundred." "Ah, no," he sighed. "You don't take a business view of such things. Do you sup pose the Lord is going to wait and take me at a hundred when he" knows he can get m now at 60?" One of the greatest comforts in telling stories is in the different ways in which some people take them. One evening at a London party where I had been reciting, Oscar Wilde chanced to stand alone and t w ent over to speak to him. Oscar is about the tallest thing in all England, next to the top of St. Paul's Cathedral, and I im so short that I can scarcely reach the lowest button of his swallow-tailed coat he wears one now. "Say," drawled a British wit who stood in a irrouD near us. "What's the difference between Oscar and the little fellow who has been entertaining us this evening?" Everybody gave it up. "Why," said the wit, "one is Wilde, and the other is just a little Wilder." When the laugh ended, a grave old chap grunted "Uraph ! I should say the difference was just about four feet." Wiry Daniel Wasnt Eaten. It takes the children, though, to get unex pected points out of stories. A religious mother was tellin? her only son the story of Daniel, and how that gcod young man was thrown into a den full of lions, yet C3ma out in the morning entirely unhurt, al though the lions ate a lot of bad men who were thrown in immediately afterward. "Now, mv dear," said the mother in con clusion, as she put on her most earnest face, "I'll tell you why the lions didn't eat Daniel." "I know already, "said the young hopefnL "Precious boy," murmured the mother. "Why was it?" '"Twas because Daniel would have made only a mouthful apiece for such a crowd, but when a lot of fellers was chucked in they get their hungry on." Merrily yours, Marshall P. Wilder. Mary Anderson and Lord Ljlton. Among those who will mourn Lord Lyt ton's death most sincerely is Mrs. Mary Anderson-Navarro. Lord Lytton admired her greatly and when in London often figured at Miss Anderson's receptions with such men as Gladstone, ProC Max Muller, Alma Tadema and others to keep him com pany. Mrs. Navarro visited Lord Lytton at tiie embassy in Paris shortly before her marriage. jftOipiJiGEl? 'Si I RCQHICRi Cat Glass; T wT- ir W FCRTHETASLb rAm marlr IS Perfection. label ilMWWVWWmWttMMlW ezxw-sa A
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