remr! PSgp5?? m3r?&7w . t - - f I 18 A REViEWOFPQRTS. Hr. Abell's Opinion Concerning the Fixing of Salaries for Ball Players. GENERAL AffD LOCAL BASEBALL The Kct Seals of Weight! for end Pugilistic Contest Discussed. Boring 1HATETJR ATHLETES LODMEfO UP. BuUItm lad Ether and Other Uacins rnjfllJtle Ttp'cs cf the Week. The somewhat novel way by -which it is proposed to run the "Western League this year has ag3in brought to the surface the question of fixing a limit to the salaries of ball players. Durin; the last few days sev eral baseball authorities have aired their Tiews on the matter, and it is very singular to find that there are still people who be lieve that salaries can be limited by rule. I say it is singular, because experience has proven to us that among all results human It is about the last to expect. A few seasons a;o readers of this paper will remember that I assailed the rule adopted at that time by the National League which had for its object the limitation of the player's salary. Many very able writers writers argued that the rule would be all right and that it would accomplisn its ob ject satisfactorily. History now tells ns that it did not such,and that it was not only a rank failure, but that it stirred up a feelinc among the players that ended in open revolt. Limitation of salary rules are based on uuso.ind principles and on an im perfect knowledge ot human nature. As ex-Manager Hanlon some time ago re marked, the turnstile fixes the salaries, and rules that are not founded on this notwn will have poor chance ol giving satisfaction. It is interesting to me to find that Mr. Abell, one of the principal directors of the Brooklvn club, has come to the front with opinions which fullv indorse those that have been expressed in this paper on the bubject from time to time. What 31r. Abell Says, Here is what the Brooklyn magnate said a few davs aco: "How" different is the baseball business conducted from that of any ordinary enter prise. Xow. if I was to co down to Mr. Spalding and ask him for an option on 1,000 bicvcles lor a vear at a certain price, and he pave it, I wouldn't ask him for a scratch of a r en, because I know his word would stand. B it if I went to talk to him about a plaver, and he accepted my terms,! would want evervtning down in black and white; not that Ibeli?ve he would lie, but because In baeball nothing goes unless it is signed, sealed, and delivered. It stems strange to me, being accustomed to saying what I mean and do-.ncr just what I say I will do, to find men who collectively, have invested nearly three million? of hard dollars in the business, indulging in all sorts of queer methods. The sport is an honest one, and the games ere always played on their merits. That is the charm about it for those who par to witness the contests. But having invested their money and taken the chances of losing it, some of these man agers deliberately injure their own interests bv queer dealings. ""It is this fact that gives the player his advantage. I sign a man for S3.000, anit along comes the manager of another club and ofiers him 5500 more and encourages him to break his contract with me or tells him to sulk. What's the consequence? The plaver's sense of l.ouor is blunted and in the end the game is injured. Here is a class of men who undoubtedly at their trade, if they have anv, could probably esrn Irom 56UU to ?l,000ayear .and some of them I know did not earn ?G9l), expect irom w,uuu to ?5,000 for a single season, to live at the best hotels and to be carried all over the country without expense. How few men of real talent are able to command such salaries. Baseball, to endure, must be carried on at a lower scale of salaries. I do not advocate a a fixed price or limit. I would pay a man according to his merit, but to pay a man at the rate of S30 a game is a little too much. Therefore I say the scale of salaries must come down to a reasonable limit, or capi talists will allow some other set of fools to pay the shot." Common Sense Notions. The foregoing are certainly sensible notions concerning a very important matter. Doubtless the League magnates are all in clined to deal with or discuss the salary question whenever thev meet, and now that thev are in almost absolute power, their desires may prompt them to some very con servative conclusion. But it cannot be that they will ever think again of trying to establish a system ot uniform salaries by a forced rule,"r that they even contemplate making a limit to salaries by rule. Ex perience with them must indeed have been a very poor schoolmaster if they dream of doing snch a thing again. Of course, no more can be made In the salary matter this year in the new League, but what I mean, is that there should be no thought of entertaining such a question now or at the end of the year. Baseball, like other business, will regulate itself, and players should know the very significant truth. If outrageous salaries are demanded the game will not continue, and these who will suffer most are the players. Almost to a man they are in the business for "bread and butter"" The magnates are not. The players should be the most careful. A Ffir Words A bout the Home Club. Whatever the results of the coming ball season may be it is- worthy of note that a few of the'stockholders of the local club are extremely sanguine as to the successful end ing of it." President Temple, though very j oung in the business, is apparently very certain of the club's financial success, judg ing from the money he is investing in its stock and the responsibility he is shoulder ing. A few other stockholders are just as confident, and all this confidence cannot but have a good effect to start with. Confi dence begets enthusiasm and the latter makes the success. Just so scon as our hopes becin to die just so soon will our un dertakings become less successful. It is well then that there is this hope and this confidence among the stockholders of the local club at present because they have a Tery rocky road to travel this year. We can now, with some kind of safety, state who our team will be. It seems cer tain that Kelly will not be here, and it may dc mat it was never lnicnaca to release him from Boston. There seems to be some thing of the Spinlow and Jorkins methods about those Boston magnates. One of them would like to make this or that deal, but "my partners, you see, may be opposed to it," and when spoken to these partners arc very affable, but se afraid that this deal or that deal will not suit "onr partners." This has been exactly the way the Boston club has succeeded in getting Kelly adver tised; in fact, lcsurrccted. Now that he is prominently b'forc the public again, it 4s not very likclj 'that the Boston triumvirate will let him go 1 still hold t'lat Kelly would make a great card iu Pittsbij-g, but.as other teams want great cjrds, it is not probable that we will get him here. If it is true that he has been offered 7,000, it onlyproves what has been contended above, that to secure a inning card, or what proinibcs to be one, a club will not be regulated by any rule in fixing a sal ary. The players of the home clnb are also do ing their best to get into condition. Some have gone to Hot Springs and others are training at their respective homes. All are busy, and this is a very gratifying fact to people interested in the club. If the team can show up in good. condition to start the season there may be some hope for us and themselves. The General Situation. There has been little or nothing going on daring the week among the baseball mag nates in general. The proposed national agreement formulated by Colonel Rogers continues to be criticised principally by those who favor the singular departure of the Western League. Judging from the tone of the criticism it is likely that the agreement will be made to suit the "Western and other minor Leagues. What is known as the schedule meeting is fast approaching, and until it takes place there will be little or nothin? sensational. There will be several bones to pick then.but it is safe to say that no changes will be made. There is little chance of any players being from clubs with which thev are now, so that Lyons will remain with Xew York and Kichardsou with Washington. Pitts burg has been terribly censured for its claim on Lyons by many people, but if Pittsburg has been a little-at fault what in the name ot common sense should be said about Xew York? It would be one of the strangest things in baseball if the New York supporters would just sit down and produce one solid reason why Bich ardson should not remain where the com mittee assigned him. And yet these New Yorkers have been making ten times more noise about Richardson than Pittsburg has been doing about all the men it has lost. There is 5omc reason for Pittsburg's claim ins Lyons, and as far as I know the claim will be pushed though the efforts may be in vain. The clubs generally are getting into line and are making dates' for exhibition games. Many ot the teams are going away from home for preliminary practice while others have arranged games to take place on their own grounds. All this reminds us that the umpire's voice will" soon be heard again throughout the land. A Very tt orthy Magnate. ' During the many recent changes that have taken place in the local ball club it has often occurred to me that there has always been one figure that we could all notice and that while this man was go ing and when that man was com ing we always had the magnate in question before ns. I refer to onr mutual friend, A K. Scandrett, Secretary of the local ciub. Al has remained on deck while many have disappeared, and to day he really is the only connecting link which holds together the new baseball blood and the old. Of the five directors who have the destinies of the club in their hands, the able and genial Secretary is the only old-timer. Here are their names: Messrs. Brown, Herr, McCallin, Temple and Scandrett. Well, now, it is pleasing to note an inci dent of this kind, because it goes to show that we have a Secretary who has the confi dence of all parties. He has weathered many a baseball storm, mostly because he has been a man of deeds rather than of words. I have never known a man in all my experience who took so much pains to look alter his own business and leave other people's alone as Secretary Scandrett. He is likly to have a busy time of it this year, and his integrity and general ability are sure to land him all right, as usual. ' .Oar Hustling Amateur Athletes. Time and time again I have had much to say in praise of the Allegheny Athletic As sociation and time and time "again I have been laughed at for saying it; "aye, even by those who are now dealing out extravagant and rushing praise. Until a day or two ago it had been understood outside the Three A's that they w ould never be anything or have anything. I have always held a con trary view, and months and months ago. when I used to say a fev words about the crand club house they were going to have, I felt certain thai the club houso would come sooner or latei Well, theThrce A's have resolved to have a club house, and one of the best in the United States. They have gotten down to w ork in a way that show s they mean busi ness and business of the most energetic kind. They have resolved to spend nearly 5i!00,000 in erecting and fnrnishing a club house. This is just what Pittsburg has been in need of lor a very long time, and when the proposed building is erected its utility will be appreciated by hundreds who at present may feel little need for it There is no reason to expect that a membership of 1,000 will not oe reached when tne building is com pleted because of all things worthy of the patronage of young and old I "know of nothing worthier than a first-class athletic club house. Depend upon it, its uses can not be told offhand and they can never be fully realized without practically fiuding out for oneself. The Three A's have now a good future, and it is to be hoped that suc cess will attend their efforts in all respects. Among the Leading Pu-Ulsls. There has not been much going on during the week among the leading boxers and pugilists. One somewhat startling rumor appeared in Friday's DISPATCH to the elicct that Sullivan had signed articles to fight Peter Maher should the latter defeat Pitzsimmons. If Sullivan even thought of such a thing he?puts himself in a bad light considering his demands on Slavin. He would not fight Slavin until next fall, and yet is willing to fight Maher .in August according to report. And he would not fight Slavin except the latterdefcated Jack sou, yet he will fight Maher, even if the Irish champion only defeats a middle weight. Now, in the name of everything that is fair, I ask this: If Slavin orMitchell were to act like this, wouldn't they cet a "roasting?" Certainly they would. Why, it 13 just as plain as sunlight that amid all the hlowhards who are attracting attention to their respective shows John L. Sullivan is one of the most conspicuous. There is not a man in the boxing or pugilistic world who has had as much to say as John for manv rears and who has done less. Be cause others are like him does not make him any better; what is required is to treat him the same as anybody else. According to reports Slavin and Mitchell have engaged to go to New Orleans and box against two heavy-weights who will be selected by the Olympic Club. Joe Choynski is .mentioned as the man to meet Slavin, and several names have been mentioned relative to the nan who is to face Mitchell. The engagement is a good one for Mitchell and Slavin, and I doubt wbethcr it will amount to anything except a couple of short set-tos and a good sum of dollars f'orM. and S. To be sure the engagement has stirred up the envy of Mr. Corbett and he is very wrathy. He and his friends, of course, continue their cry of "bluflers," etc., and no matter what Slavin or Mitchell do or propose, a certain class of people charge them with cowardice, scheinine, etc Now this is all very well until such like conduct comes home to us. Jack McAuliffe and one or two other American boxers intend to go to England and tour through the country. Now suppose that when they arrive there British scribblers and hoodlums should fol low the example ot the American scribblers and hoodlums and abuse and censure them no matter what thev do. Suppose this were to happen, wouldn't we make a noise? Cer tainly we w ould. But taking into consider ation the treatment that Mitchell and Slavin have received here we never need expect an American athlete to receive any thing like a fair show in England. And let me say that even Sullivan himself, George Dixon and others were never treated so grandly as by the English sporting people. Beyond all we should try and display a spirit of 'airplay on all occasions, and by so doing our iavorites will get none the worst ol it. The Teather-Welglit Championship. There is nothing new regarding a contest for the feather-weight championship, as no match has been made between Cal -McCar-thv and Dixon. As far as I am able to judge it would be useless making n match between them, as Mc Carthy would stand no chance of winning. Dixon defeated him when he, McCarthy, was at his best and I don't think he is as good as lie was then. McCarthy had difficulty in besting Callaghan. although the latter only had one hand, and if the latter carries out his intention of resting his hand for a year, and it gets well, he will defeat McCarthy. The truth is that none of the little fellows have any show of de feating Dixon for some time to come. It is a pity that Dixon did not meet Fred Johnson in the ring when the former was in England. Johnson may never get to this country, and there are many people who be lieve he would have a chance of defeating the Boston hero. I don't, and I have seen them both. If all rumors are correct we mar have Dixon here shortly giving exhibitions of the manly art. He is worth seeing, as he doubtless is the best man at his weight there has been seen for many a year. Plimmer and Kelly have been matched and their battle will likely be a rattling one. It is with hard gloves. It is soon enough yet to discuss its features in detail, but both are good little men and both have proven tnemselves very game ana clever. About the Fpeedy Sprinters. A few days ago Collins, tne American sprinter now in England, wrote alriend in this country relative to the erroneous notions that prevail concerning the speed of American sprinters. He went on to say that in his judgment, with the exception of Steve Farrcll, there is probably not another even-time man in the country. This state ment, coming as it does from" an authority like Collins, is a very important one to those who take an interest in foot racing. Personally, I have taken an interest in sprinting for more than 20 years, and-de-pend upon it, experience has taught me to recognize an "even-timer" as a very fast man, and I have also found that more than 90 per cent of the alleged even-time men were from a half to a whole second slower. While I am not prepared to accept what Collins says as entirely true, I do maintain that there is at least a greatamount of truth in his statement. Of late years we who are on the western side of the Atlantic have been told of Ecore3 of young men who "can run 100 yards in ten seconds." The truth is that so common has this standard become that one hardly dare venture the opinion that there is a mistake somewhere. Time and time again I have had good honest citizens come to me and tell me of a "young wonder who has never rnn for money, and who can run 100 yards in less than ten seconds." I'm not exaggerating in the least And when I have doubted the statement I have been the object of some very cool remarks. I draw attention to this question simply as a means of requesting those who believe they have these "flyers" to p'ondcr over what a man like Collins says on the matter. The Big Football Game. To-morrow week, if all goes well, we will have one of the most important football contests ever played in Pittsbnig. The foot ball .team of the Chicago Cricket Club are to be here to tackle the local team, of course under Association rules. To all intents and purposes, the contest will decide whether the West or East owns the best football team under the rules named. That there will be a considerable amount of rivalry there is no doubt, but it is to be hoped that the rivalry will nt develop any unpleasantness. The probabilities are that the contest will be a good one, and, if the local team are defeated, we will then have some idea as to the comparative merits of the Eastern and Western teams. The Chi cago fellows are a good lot of players, as their record shows, and, if the home players defeat them, then the Pittsburgers need not for a .moment hesitate to meet any team in the country. It is likely that there will be some con troversey between the Thistles and the local clnb. The Thistles were challenged first, but they were so slow in responding that the cricket club eleven stepped to the front and as "champions of the West" offered to play the Pittsburgers. A match was made at once and the game will take place on Washington's Birthday. If the weather is fine the contest should certainly attract a very large attendance, and the enterprise of the local players is worth all the patronage the game can get. Another Warning Given. Those gentlemen who have the welfare of trotting races in their keep, met during the week and once more gave the world to understand that fraud is not to be allowed on the trotting track it they know it The Board of Review resolved to expel Mr. Noble and his horse Alcryon, for all time because of the questionable raee that took place some time ago between the famous stallion Nelson and the horse owned by Mr. Noble. The gentleman has for a Tery long time shown a desire to fight the Board of Review in the courts, and his action has doubtless caused a delay of the sentence imposed upon him by the board. But from the beginning Mr. Noble's doom was scaled and blind, indeed, he must have been if he has not all along seen that ho could not hold out against the board. It will be well for all owners to bear in mind the fate of Mr. Noble and others who have had to face similar charges of late. The American public are brave in backing their opinions on the race tracks, and the Board of Review deserve all credit possible for their efforts in trying to give tho public a lair race for their cash. The Sew Boxing Weights. For a long time there has been a revision of the scale of weights for boxing and pugilistic contests needed, and while there nave been several attempts made to formu lateji satisfactory scale nothing has been definitely done as far as getting a new scale nationally or internationally adopted. The methods and surroundings of pugilistic con tests have so materially changed during the last 15 or 20 years that something must be done, because both in England and in America there are champions at all kinds of weights. During the week a number of prominent sporting men and sporting writers met in New York and formulated a new scale of weights, but it is safe to say that other per sons who were not at the meeting will bo opposed to the scale simply because they had no hand in the business. It is wonder ful how this spirit of envy operates in all walks of life. But whether the new scale is acceptable to everybody or not, it is a step in the right direction. Starting away from 110 pounds it goes up to 1G0 pounds, the latter figure being the middle-weight limit. That increases the limit fonr pounds from the, old P. R. limit and two from the Qucensberry mark. I see no fault to find With the increase, as the welter-weight limit is placad at 145 and the lightweight at 135. All this seems satisfactory, and while it will favor some men in one respect it will go against them in another. I have always held that 154 pounds was too narrow a limit for middle-weights considering there are so many yery big men ia the heavy-weight class. But, as just intimated, although the new scale taay be less free from criticism than any other that could have been formulated, envy and jealousy may, in fact, are sure, to oppose its adoption. If it is not adopted internationally it will be of no use. If there is an opposition to it let all proposed amendments to it be considered, to that everybody may be as nearly satisfied as possible. " PjtnsGij& THE FIEST PH0K0GEAPH. How an English Journal Tells the Story of Edison's Discovery. Pearson's Weekly. Mr. Edison carried in his mind for a long time the idea of the phonograph, turning it over and oyer, and from time to time jot ting down sketches and memoranda con cerning its construction. At length he said to an old German machinist, who made models for him, that he wanted a machine constructed in a certain manner, but of the use of it he gave no hint Now and then, as the work went on, with out seeing the model, Mr. Edison ordered certainVhanges, which, of course, were duly made. Finally the German was told to bring tho machine for examination. Mr. Edison fitted into it a sheet of tinfoil, and turning the crank spoke into the funnel the somewhat familiar verse about Mary and her little lamb. The GermanTegardedhimas if he thought He had gone mad. but when Mr. Edison re versed the motion, and the phonograph pipingly repeated his stanza, the old man threw up his hands and exclaimed, in the utmost astonishment: "Ach, Himmcl, it talk.?' THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY FEBRUARY THE ARTIST'S HEAKT As It Appears Just Now On the Lurid Messengers of Love. VALErJTIfflZS TRUE TO 1UTURI. The Deposition to Cie the Brain in the Hatter of Courtship. SETTIKG DP THH ANT A8 A MODEL pntlTTEN POB TBI DISFATCTt.) And bow would I strike you for a valen tine? Or do yon think Hook like a proper subject to sit for a chromo of a prize to mato, red as the town the night after elec tion, skewered through and through with a Sioux hunting arrrow? I wonder as I stand before the shop windows arid admire the valentines set forth to charm 'the sus ceptible, why it is that the artists of the realistic and accurate school have not been able to correct the generally accepted idea of the anatomical appearance of the human heart They have corrected all things else; they have taken from that noble animal, the horse, all beauty and grace and vigor of movement, and present him to ns now a caparisoned trestle with a McClellan sad dle and a curb bit If he is galloping easily, one hind leg is wrenched a little out of place and" sticks out an angle that would worry the heart of a carpenter who had to saw anything on that horse. If he rushing madly over the plain after a fleeting herd of cows, or charging with fire in his eyes and fury in his strength into the heart of battle, the two forward legs are rooted firmly to the ground, so that no enemy could "rastle" Go to the Ant, Thou Sluggard. the charger off his feet, firm planted like King James' celebrated rock, and both hind legs, lifted some little distonce from the earth, are glued by some occult power in the atmosphere, never again to be brought down, save by the backward repetition of the charm which has fixed them there. Sending s True Picture or the Heart. But since the artists to whose wisdom and correctness I bow have have given us the proper conception ot the horse, which I stand ready to declare always did gallop on two feet, standing perfectly still, and never had but one joint in each leg why don't they give to the love-lorn world that still send3 valentines a correct representation.pf the human heart? Just fancy a lover send ing a valentine to a blue-eyed divinity whom he loves and worships, "which should present to her horified vision tha correct drawing of his throbbinp; heart, the right auricle and ventricle laid open, theante-rior-walls of both being removed, that she might see how its every throb was athonght of her. And an arrow thrust right through both flaps of the tricuspid valve. I trow that would be the last valentine he would ever send anybody after her .big brother got through with him. All of which merely goes to show that that there are some reforms not even the most progressive artist who ever caught our awkward rigidity of posture and clumsiness of movement with instantaneous photography dares not touch. He dare not go to the butcher sliop to stndy designs for his valen tines. Even the good 'Philistines would lie in wait for him and smite him when he came down to Gath to sharpen his coulter and mattock. t Decoyed Into Wasting Time. I was once led f stray, in a moment of weakness, and induced, by a man ot power ful will, who had a strong influence over me, to go into a church where a minister had been advertised to preach on "Love, Courtship and Marriage." Two things al ways bored me there may be others lec tures or sermons on just such topics as the above, and juvenile acting. Love makine ,is something which 500 or 2,000 people can't enjoy in a crowd, and wnile I love beyond almost anv other pleasure to watch children playing, I have a great dislike to their act ing. But this man whom I could not resist dragged me to church, and if a preacher 57 years old didn't get up, and after selecting his text from something he had read in a When I Die. newspaper which is just where a preacher is likely to look for his text for that kind of a sermon begin by saying that "people didn't fall in love any more." He said: "There is nothing ,in what they ndw call love, but silly, sickly sentimentality." You see what ailed him; they didn't fall- in love witn mm any more. And the poor old duffer, with no more meat bn him than there is on the slIeton of an umbrella, his blood as thin as vinegar, his old jaws creaking as he scolded he thought because he didn't fall in love any more that nobody did. "The palaver of lovers to-day," he said, "is like the purring of so many cats." Wl-y the Preacher Didn't Pnrr. Well, he was correct It is the happy, tranquil, contended cat that purrs; the cat whose fur is stroked the right wav; whose heart is at peace; whose "life is happy' as the sunshine. It was the preacher who probably had to buy shoes for eight boys and bonnets for three girls, and had to move every four or five years, who wasn't purring. He was on the rldga of the wood shed, yowling at the purring world basking (fa)) Vvr fl IP by the glow of the parlor fire, in the dim religious light of a lamp that turned down. "What you call courting," he declared, "is senseless twaddle, disgusting and nau seating to a man or womamof sense." And fully one-half of his congregation, who had sense enough to call him to be their pastqr and he was a good man, and a sensible man, 'save when on this one idea, whereon he was a hopeless lunatic fully one-half of his congregation liked it Not his sermon, but the "twaddle" he was denouncing. And the other half used to like it If there had been a baptistry in the church I would have assisted the Bexton to hold the man's head under water .about the length of his sermon. But it was a pacdo-Baptist church and there wasn t enough water in it to periorm tne cure, so we had to let him go on, which he did. He wanted people "to use their brains and have their wits about them; their judg ment cool and their eyes wide open,"hesaid, "when they went courting." In the Market Place. Ah, well beloved, that's what we do when we go to buy a horse; that's the time to keep your head cool and vour eyes wide open. That's the timo for shrewdness and cunning and sharpness. And if a man. is going to buy a wife if he is going to pay spot casn lor ficr and get a receipt in tun, why, then, the parson was right. But does a man fall in love with his head? What has a fellow's brains to do with the selec tion of a sweetheart? Out on such foolishness! Why,.to look at the wives some men heavy accent on the "some" some men whom we know have won, the fellow with the fewest brains al ways gets the besj wife. You ask vour wile if that isn't so. She'll say yes. "And the fellow who got the girl whom you wanted the worst way, won't yon make an affidavit that lie hasn't sense "enough to go in when it rains? Indeed you will. And we can prove by your letters to her that she was the gem ot womanhood; in beauty, in intellect, in all the qualities of mind and heart that go to the endowment of a perfect woman, she stood alone among her envying sisters. You said that your self, and swore to it with lovers' oaths. And just look at the loon she married. So what's the use of talking about falling in love with your brains? Your brains aren't good for much, anyhow, until they are lried. A Matter of Finance. I see by the reliable palladium of the peo ple's liberties, the free and untrammeled press, that a man died in New York a few weeks ago, at the age of 72, worth 57,000, 000. That is, he was worth that much just before he died. I don't suppose he would fetch more than $25 now. What is remark able about this case is that all the papi rs speak in the highest terms of his rare abili ties as a financier and a manof business. Now, 1 don't know about that Nobody ever praised my commercial genius; not where I could hear the flattery, at any rate. I have even been pitied which is a mild form of contempt, kindly expressed by peo ple whom you consider far beneath you because it was charged against me that I neither knew how to earn nor keep a dollar. ' And yet I am willing to put up dollars to doughnuts that in one-halt the time this merchant lived I could have spent his seven millions without a btruggle. That's what I call financiering. This man died with a lot of property on hand that he could neither take with him nor dispose of as he wished. You say, "But just see what he left to his children." Yes, that's just what they will get left According to the latest accounts, they are liable to get about 500 apiece. I am no financier, nor com mercial Napoleon, but I can do as well as that, at a thousand times less expense. I can't see anything particularly brilliant in my deceased neighbor's methods. When I die and, simply for your sakes, I hope the day may be far, far away; I'm sure I don't see how you are going to get along without me I may not, in all probability I will notjhave three, possibly not more than two, millions to leave you; but what I have at that time the lawyers won't get (Notabene: They've got it now; that's the reason I won't leave any.) Teaching Children to Hoard. But I don't believe a great deal in tha principle of hoarding. I think it is a bad thing to give children little money banks and teach them that it is wrong to spend money, but right to save it, and put it away The ArtisCe Hartee. until the bank is full, and then get a bigger bank and fill that. You teach a child that he must be always "adding to his store," like the blooming little ant; teach him that always he must strive to get more, and as he grows older, it will be more of other peo ple's that he strives to get In all my own money and business matters, as I look back oyer the past, I have but one regret; that is that ever I saved anything, or tried to. I wish I had made it fly as fast as I got it Then I'd have it Now the other lel low has it And the ant Solomon didn't know onr kind ot ant The ant is industrious and frugal, and all that And last summer I spent 55 in labor, and as much more in various destructive agents, killing about 53 worth of ants that had destroyed nearly $15' worth of flowering plants in my garden. Go to the ant, indeed; I went "for him. The ant may be all right as an illustration, but as an frritant of pansy and carnation beds, a pack of dogs is less destructive, and a herd of the things that went down the steep place with the swine is to be preferred to the dogs. Saving at Others' Expense. Be as industrious and as frngal and pains taking as the ant, if you will, my son, but do not, like him, lay np your store of sav ings out of the things which the rest of us want to enjoy now. I am beginning to think that the fellow who lays up corner lots in the village, year after year, who won't sell, and won't build, and "won't im prove, but just simply saves and lays up, is a little bit like the ant He is laying up at the expense of our pansy bed. Where fields of com half ripened waved, Their tasseled banners in the air, And summer brooks, half sleeping, laved Tho bank-side pebbles, brigllt and fair, In vacrant mood he loitered Ion To catch the incense of the corn, To list the wood-dovo's plaintive song On wings of passing zephyrs borne. Ho smiled to see the busy ants As to rebnko his idle mood Drag helpless insects from the plants And cure them for their winter's food. Ho smiled to see them snako a worm. And tug and wrestle, bite and ttraln; To see tho victim writhe and squirm, With neverpity for its pain. "A thousand thanks, sweet ant," he cries, "Grand is the truth thou dost declare. That man " ho shrieks, and wildly tries To lift both feet at once, in air. "With slaps and jumps ho loud upbraids Tho swarmimr antt; for mercv begs; Then swiftly seeks the forest shades To scourge them from his trousers' lefjs., ROBEET J. BURDETTX , Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Mr. G P. Davis, editor of the Bloomfield. Ia.. Farmer, says: "I can recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to all suffer ers witn coids and croup. J. nave used it in my family for the past two years, and have found it the best I ever used for the' purposes for which it is intended." 60-cent bottles for sale by druggists, v ttssu 14, 1892. FOGS OF FLORENCE. Marat Halstead Has a Surprise In a Fair City of Suriny Italy. IT WAS A REGULAR LONDONER, TOO. Tha Cool Stone Ilonses an linprovement OTer, Our Overheated Ones. A TISIT TO THE OPERA H0TJSE I tWaiTTEU POE THI DISrATCH.) I have had hesitancy in telling on Fair Florence in one particular. The tact in the case seems so out of character as to be wholly unreasonable. During the afternoon of my appearance in the city I noticed that there was a mistiness in the air. We took a drive into the country to find a hill from which the city could be seen in its whole extent, and when we got there the city did not show up exactly as expected. To be sure, there was the Duomo, and the Cam panile, and the huge old tower of the town hall, and half a dozen domes and spires that one may forget to name without a demand for the infliction of capital, panishment. I would have remarked, if at home and show ing a stranger the beauties of a city, that one of our fogs was coming np; but I did not think of accusing Florence of a fog. That I should have regarded as profane recklessness. The next morning the appearance of day light was delayed in a manner that was for a time a puzzle. I struck a match and lit a 'candle, and there was something wrong if the clock was not ahead of time. I pulled aside the voluminous curtains, and there was such a fog it was impossible to see across a small square in front of our house. A statue in the center of the square could be seen like a ghost, but the further houses were undiscoverable. I was so astonished that I came near ordering three eggs for break fast, and as fwo are the regular allowance, I might have had to reproach myself for the needless invitation of serious consequences. Where Were Italy's innny Sklc? But who would have thought of finding a London fog in Florence? It is proper to say that the man who took it hardest was from London, and he was so discouraged as to begin the day with brandy and soda. My view of duty when the two eggs were con sumed and I had the courage to order a chop in addition and partake of that also was that it was a good morning to see a few churches and study the frescoes that one must see, and that are so indistinct when the sun is shining that it is a vanity and vexation to throw oneself into the attitude of doing them. We entered the Baptistry a second time, and the guide repeated an offensive sentence this: "Here is where you say Dante Tras baptized," and thus sought to shake my faith in my local knowl edge. I shouldn't be surprised if the man did not believe that Dante ever was bap tized or ever was in Florence. The next thing he will be denying that there was any Dante. What would you think of a guide at Stratford-on-tne-Avon with doubts about Shakespeare and springing his skepticism on strangers? I desire to' say, and miy as well say it here as anywhere, a good word for an Ital ian institution or shall I call it a custom, habit,fashion ornecessity? much abused and misunderstood the low temperature of their houses in winter. It has been im pressed upon me many times that Italy was a dreadful country in the winter time, be cause the old stone houses were so cold, and there were no fires, and the Italian people have been most disrespectfully spoken of in that connection. Where Italy Is Ahead of TJs. I want to say, with full understanding of the breadth of the impudence and the height of the audacity of the assertion, that the Italians are far wiser about the temperature of their houses than are tie people of the United States of America. I do" not know the public building, from any one of the departments in Washington to the hotels, great and small, West and East, that is not horribly over-heated, and the remark may be safely extended to the majority of the private houses. We use fuel with frightful and wasteful profusion that is one of the most scandalous, profligacies in the uni verse. We steam-heat ourselves at home, in the chur.ches (when they are not red-hot air furnaces)," in the cars, day and night, in our offices, until we are fast in the fierce clutches of the pneumonix Overheating everytmng is one ol our national abominations. We should live in a temperature not to exceed by artificial means 65, and we are not content with less thau from 70 to 75. The comfortable, luxurious coolness of the Italian hotels struck me at once. When you wanted a fire you did not summon a fierce lurnace. When you entered a hall you did not have to face a withering blast Neither at Geno3, Pisa, Rome nor Florence did I require a fire. Fire That 60 Cents Will Bay. Those who did paid 60 cents for a box of fuel a rare assortment of the crookedest sticks and the most complicated knots that ever grew where trees are taught to yield crops, of branches, and resent the harvest by twisting themselves into marvelous shapes. Sixty cents worth of knots and twigs will make a fine fire for several hours; indeed, it will cover two days with due attention and decent economy. People who talk of shivering in the old palaces are those who have liyed in overheated apartments until they are demoralized, and their very hides are unwholesome. They do not have many coal fires in the Vatican for instance, for the artists who are copying pictures to work by but the braziers of coals are com forting. I would recommend His Holiness to put in electric lights, but not steam heating apparatus or superheated furnaces. The continenal Europeans have strange notions about the breadth of beds. It is funny to see two thrones erected in a do mestic apartment, but the grand old En glishman understands a thing or two. There is room for him in the world night and day, and his bed is as broad as it is long. If he goes to Ijed along he can lie crosswise, and kick without exposing nis toes, ne snows how to eat, too, and as for drinking, he does as the pupils of the singing masters are instructed to do he opens his mouth and there is freedom in the flow of the beverage, whether it is brandy and soda or bitter beer, or dry champagne. Overdoing the Celling Decoration. I haye not as yet heard any of my Amer ican lello.w citizens and travelers complain ing of the absence of patent rope ladders at the windows of their rooms in the Italian hotels. They all had to say they felt a reasonable assurance of safety in houses .wjiose inner as well as outer walls and stair ways were stone "rocks that resist the bil lows and the sky." I did, though, hear a reasonable complaint in 'a Florence'hotel by an American citizen. While at table d'hote he glanced upward, and crowing pensive said he had seen enough ceilings decorated bv old masters during the day without be iiijf called upon to dine under one that com bined the zodiac with zoology, mythology and somewhat flagrant physiology. The ceiling was excessive for a hotel. The Italian troops make an impression, stronger than I bad anticipated, that they are fighting men, who may some day give an account of themselves that will revive the military" prestige of the people. The men in the ranks are, ai a rule, very young, and the officers look thoroughly up to their work. The clothing of the men is simple, strong and neat. The officialism ot Italy is all-pervading,- and especially prominent in the cities and along the railroads. Ameri cans are deterred from going to Italy by the fear that the lack ot the language wfll be found a disability, distressing at every step, and subject them to extortion. English is spoken in nearly all the hotels, and the prices are not extravagant. They count money in Italy as' in France, and the franc goes a little further in Italy than in France. The general use ot the telephone struck me as among the things I should not have ex pected to find. If anyone wants to know something at a hotel that is going on at a theater or railroad station, what so easy as telephoning? and 'the telphone comes in accordingly. The newspapers have tele- fihone news, and the newsboys are nearly as oud in Italy as in England. The European boys are not up to the American standard in proclaiming their extras. The Lifts and the Street Cars. The Italian "lift" in the hotels b a jaunty affair. It is regarded as a matter of the utmost importance, and treated with the greatest respect. The car is light, almost fantastic. There ore two seats facing each other. You enter, and expect .the small boy who is anxious to know at what story to discharge you to get on with you, but he does not ascend. It is his part to turn an iron crank that applies th find yourself "going it alo the power, and you done." at a rate that is not alarming, but you wonder what has Become ot tnit boy witn tne red Dana around his cap and the buttons. He turns the crank and yon do the rest When your story is reached, the boy touches a spring or a string, there is a sharp click, as if some body had cocscd a gun. the car stops, you 1 step off, opening the gate, and, as it closes, tne car most deliberately begins tne descent In some American cities there are preju dices that reach alarms a?ainst the use of the trolley system of electrical cars; but they are net afraid in Florence, and I think they must use lightning, when they have it, extravagantly. The amount of fire flashing from the wheels of a car would terrify an American settlement; but the Italians did not seem to mind it. Whero Michael Angelo Worked. One of the authenticities of Florence is the workshop ot Michael Angelo. He had commodious quarters, and his rooms have been converted into a museum relating to him. On the table near the door is a copy of the drawings of Michael Angelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, and it is a great im provement on the original farmore intelli gible, with brighter colors and in a better light and you have the advantage of look ing down upon it. Jam glad, coming tosee this, that Michael did not waste his time entirely in that old chapel. There arc some letters the great artist wrote with his own hand, and some of his original drawings rude sketches and these I much enjoyed, until referring to the red-backed book which all travelers are not ashamed carry in their hands, and make themselves known as in a hurry. The book said the drawings are doubtful. You see, however, unquestioned models of some of the famous works and there is no lack of likenesses. A partition shuts off the desk at which Angelo labored. His Bible is there, but under lock and key; and I presume nothing short oa franc would find the key. Over the desk are two long walking sticks that have seen service and belonged to the great master. It was necessary to attend the opera in the evening. The piece was "The Rnstie Chevalier," and the Florentines are raving over the music. The orchestra and the music were splendid, and the tenor, who was in love, as is usual in such cases, with another man's wife, and in much trouble, had a delicious voice. The audience inter ested me more than the opera. The general public were in the pit. In an Italian Opera House. The populace, in the sense, of those not carefully dressed, or particular about any thing but the music, were in the upper gal leries. Select person's occupied the lower row of boxes. The aristocracy uniforms, gold braid, buttons, dress coats, big shirt fronts, dazzlins ties, carnations or roses in buttonholes were in the second row of boxes. You can judge of the proportions of the orchestra from the fact that there were 32 violins. The conductor flung himself into his work, and his body followed his baton every time. The chorus was a multi tude, and appeared to have been marched in from the streets with the certainty that all were singers. The yoices of the men were memorable, and' I wondered whether some of them might be of the persons I bad noticed practicing at very late or early hours. There must be some inducement to sing after midnizht, in chilly and foggy streets, not brilliantly lighted; and I sus pect the Italian "boys" boys, as we apply the word at home get drunk too late or too early. Surely it is a wearing, tearing and every way a bad habit to be opening one's throat for drinking and singing between the hours of midnight and dawn. The great deficiency in Italian houses seems to me to be not in warmth, but in light. This was remedied in the Opera House by a chandelier, that I have no doubt is the pride of Florence and it did shed a considerable illumination; but these people should see the Madison Square Garden aud itorium, the Tabernacle di" Talmage, or Carnegie Hall. From Florence to "Venice, we have first the prevalent Apennines, and the tunnels in full supply, bits ot savage scenery, mount ain sides terraced, olive orchards, clusters of houses clinging to steep'places, many towns, each with little domes and bell towers, all made on th same pattern; littl streams, all with histories; then two celebrated cities, Bologna and Padua, at which p'eople with a reasonable margin of. time always stop. But I did not stop," and I am just glad I did not MURAT HATSTEAD. A SLIGHT cold. If neglected, often sttaelu the langs. Brown's BrouchUt Troches Rive sure and immediate relief. Sold only in boxes. 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