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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
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''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
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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.
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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.
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