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THE PITTSBURG ' DISPATCH, 'SUNDAY. MARCH , 13, 189a
A REVIEW OF SFQRTS
Teaceful Asiect of the Situation
Among the Kational Ama
teur -Athletes.
FEW "WOBDS. ABOUT LOCAL MEN.
The
KemarkaMe Activity Among
Baseball -Clubs of- the Kew
12-CIub League.
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SCLLITAX AKD MITCHELL TALK.
Vuj the Chunpion Is MaUne Tery Cnreasonable
Demands for i Battle.
The week just endeil has been to a Tery
great extent an important one to amateur
athletes and to those who patronize the
sports of amateurs. For a long time pat
those who seqjs to rule the destinies of
amateurism on this Tost continent of ours
have apparently been living regardless of
the admonition of Dr. Watts contained in
the little verses beginning
Birds in tbeir little nests agree.
Although amateur athletes are more or
less "childien of one family," they have
not been getting along well together for a
long time, as far as the United States is
concerned. Thev have really been aetinsr
like children in fact, and the simple though
useful advice of the late lamented doctor
micht have been profitable to them.
Well, what seemed to be a sure breaking
up of interests is very likely to be averted.
The powers that be in amateurism have
held a meeting, and as a result the horizon
is much clearer and relationships are on a
better looting all round. Mr. Jansien and
his proposed new organization have been re
moved into the remote background, and the
probjbilities are that they will stay there.
For that, all of us who desire to gee ama
teur sports grow and prosper, will be thank
ful, not because of a desire to have a huge
centralization, but because it will tend to
allav trouble.
The Board of Governors of the A. A. U.
have, during the week just ended, decided
that the Manhattan club shall have repre
sentation on the board, and that the quality
and cost of prizes shall be broader and less
limited than during the pat 12 inqntli.
These changes are sure to be adopted gener
ally, aud it is well. When the limit was
so tightlv drawn on prizes I opposed the i
change, because there was nothing to show
that it would be an improvement and there
was much to show that it would be injuri
ous. The trouble in modern amateurism
has never been in tho quality of the prizes
so much as it has been in the clandestine
maintenance of first-class performers by
wealthy people or wealthy clubs. Prize
rules of narrow limits have never stopped
the "unseen" methods of "keeping" good
performers. The truth is that these unseen
luethods have been the caue of almost all
the trouble in amateurism, both in this and
in other countries, and even now, to some
extent, makes amateurism a farce.
Local Features of Amateurism.
Of late I have devoted considerable space
to the discussing of amateur athletics sim
ply because I would like to see them suc
ceed here and at other places. This is the
reason why we feel pleased at the turn
events hate taken during the last few days.
The prospects here are more hopeful than
ever.
There is now a very strong probability of
a championship meeting ot the A A. U.
being held in this city. The statement
made bv -Mr. Wells, and which appeared in
i ?:- i. : if i
thi
iiuucr xrjuay iusi, is ejLcceuiniriv en
couraging on this point, and most certainly
i repeat tnat tne J- A. u. could not do
anvthing better than hold one of their
meetings here. There is everything to gain
by the holding of such a meeting, that is if
it were not held too soon.
The contest at the East End Gvmnasium
underlined for Thursday evening ought also
to keep tne athletic spirit active hereabouts.
I am told that the contests are sure to be of
a good kind and also exciting.
There is another question which is one of
the leading themes of discussiou among
local athletes at present, viz, the proposed
clubhouse for the Allegheny Athletic As
sociation. During the last lew days I have
been greatly surprised at the diversity of
opinion among the members of that organ
ization on the subject The idea generally
has been prevailing to the effect that it was
the unanimous desire of the members to
have a five-story clubhouse. This idea is
not correct, because a few of the principal
members have been telling me that it would
be lolly to undertake such a task in Bitts
burg at present I confess that argument
and business principles are against such an
undertaking and if the Three A's would get
to work and erect a clubhouse adequate lor
tbe needs of their organization and nothing
more, they would find plenty to do and
they v, ouldn't require anything more.
Dodils' Challenge to McLaughlin.
One of the most interesting things of tbe
week has been the challenge of William M.
Dodds, our local billiard player, to Edward
McLaughlin, champion billiard player of
the State. Some time ago McLaughlin
won the title here and the trophy presented
by J. C Stroup. The trophy is a handsome
one, in lact the handsomest in the country.
The time is last approaching for McLaugh
lin to have sole possession of the trophy
and before that time comes the local veteran
means to have another argument with
genial Edward.
McLaughlin has been so long in the van
among State players and Dodds has been so
long before the public that we must all ad
mire the courage of the local man in throw
ing down the gantlet to the champion. Of
course it is useless to deny that the general
opinion will be to the effect that the Phila
delphia player will win, but there is never
a certainty until the "number is up," aud
Dodds has sufficient faith in himself to
tackle the holder of the trophy and back
himself for $150.
Of course McLaughlin must accept, and
it is to be hoped that tbe contest will take
place in Pittsburg. McLaughlin would
probably be the gainer by playing here, and
if he would consent to do so fie would cer
tainly be acknowledging tbe courage ot our
veteran player. The tournament in which
McLaughlin won the trophy here was such
a successful one that the champion ought to
be encouraged to play again here.
General Baseball Allaire.
There is really nothing to grumble at re
garding the outlook for the opening of the
baseball season. Every club of the 12 in the
new League is up and doing, aud, what is
more pleasing still, every one seems very
well pleased with its men. As an illustra
tion of thi I quote a remark Manager Pow
ers, of the 2few Xork Club, made to me the
other day. Somebody was saying that the
Baltimore team looked poor on paper, The
Xew York manager replied: "Well, the
Baltimore oirectors think they have a good
team, I assure you." I suppose this is the
ieeling among all directors, and it is well
that it is so. A feeling ot this kind lends
considerable enthusiasm to the entrance of
the long battle, and if events come at all
lavorable at the beginning that enthusiasm
w ill make things much more successlul all
round.
One remarkable feature of this period of
the year is the fact that so many teams arc
lar away irom Lome practicing. This
means that all are out' to do the very best
possible when the season opens in reality.
It lurther shows that there isgreat hope
amoug the magnates as 'to tbe financial suc
cess of the season. The present practice
trips means a great outlay aiyl no income
and, therefore, good returns must ba ex
pected when the income time arrives. r
There is still another good general feature
at present, viz., that just as everyboy.Ji
getting into lice to work all the talk and-
discussion about this principle and that
principle is ceasing. The time for theory
lias gone for a period and the time for good
honest work is about here. From now on
the talkers wou't be in it; the performers
will have the floor and their deeds will
count. To be sure there are whisperings
about a "Brotherhood" and all that sort of
thing, but schemes and projects must now
take a back seat for a time at, least until our
new and big experiment is tried.
Home Players Dolnc Well.
It must be gratifying to all interested in
the local ball club to learn of the good work
all the players are reported to be doing.
True this is about the time of year that
every player is doing great things and
working hard for the opening time, and it
often occurs that when that time comes
misrepresentations are discovered. But al
lowing all this there is nothing to show that
all the players of the local team are not work
ing hard and working well. Certainly there
cannot be any misrepresentation about
Beckley because "everybody" savs he is in
wonderiul form, and what everybody savs
must be true. If Beckley can regain his
form of a year or two ago he will almost
head the Kational list. As we all know he
had somewhat ot an off season last year, and
there were reasons for it. But all will be as
pleasant as marriage bells if he can just
come back to his old-time form.
Hanlon. too, I am told, is in extra fine
fettle, and if reports dre true Mark Bald
win is in better condition than he was last
year at this time. Buret has been doing
some good work down South, and Galvin is
as haitly and lively as ever. Bierbauer is
in as good condition as any member on the
team, and that means a great deal. In
short, as far as I know, every player is in
good trim.
But still we must await results. We
have so otten been deceived in Pittsburg
that it is dangerous to hazard an opinion.
If Denny comes here in eood playing form
and Farrcll goes to the outheld 1 will pre
diet that wc will have a good outfield. We
are sure to have a good infield, and where I
begin to hesitate is in the pitching force,
simply because we can never tell What the
pitchers are going to do. But
there is one thing sure, and as
the opening of the season approaches the
jruibuurg puuuc miuuiu iiut lorgei iu j.aa&
is the efforts of the club directors to give
the public a good team. More than once I
have drawn attention to this and I do so
again. Their efforts are worthy of recogni
tion. They have expended time, money
aud labor with no lavish hand since last
season closed, and if things do not come as
anticipated the fault will not be theirs.
Thejr deserve good patronage and should
get it
Local Amateur laoes.
Things are not going as pleasantly for
the local amateur baseball leagues as was
expected. But this ought not to ruffle the
serenity of the minds of the leaders of
these leagues, but only ought to make them
work the more earnestly. It may be that
the County League magnates came to con
clusions on some things a little too soon.
Certainly some of the clubs rushed to the
front without counting the cost As
a result we have Chartiers dropping
out, and. another club has to be looked
up to take its place. The inability
of the Chartiers club to carry out its
promises ought to be a lesson to organizers
of these little leagues. Every possible in
vestigation as to the stability of a club
should be made before it is enrolled as a
member. No doubt the Chartiers club or
ganizers ielt sure of getting all the neces
sary backing, but they were too late in
finding out that they couldn't It will be a
nitv if the County League is reduced to four
clubs, as there are plenty of good local
players for six clubs. .
And the City League has been disappoint
ed, but I am informed that matters will be
all right soon. The trouble with this little
organization is that there is a difficulty in
securing suitably grounds for all the clubs.
To get suitable grounds means to have
money, and it is not to be expected that the
City League .members are men of wealth.
This suggests that any help that can be
given them will be welcome.
Maker's Former Friends.
Vic'ory makes many fjiends and defeat
tries them. This is just as true in the pugi
listic world as in the other affairs of life and
Peter Maher knows it very well by this
time. It is worthy of note that those who
had mot to say in praise of Maher before
he met Fitzummons are now his most bit
ter assailants. It is gradually becoming
the custom among certain people who pre
dict this man or that man to win to con
demn him as a cheat, a fraud, a cur and no
good at all if he does not win. These
censors do this I suppose entirely forgetful
that it was their own bad judgment that led
them astray. Maher has been a much
abused man and unfairly abused since his
recent defeat all because he did not fulfill
the expectations of those who predicted him
a winner regardless of some very important
facts.
Xow I do not for one moment blame
Maher. I blame those who urged him to
meet a first-class man before he had even
proven himself a good third-rate. This was
the cause of the whole trouble. Because
the inexperienced Irishman knocked a few
men down who did not get out of the way of
a blow people very foolishly rushed to the
conclusion that he was a great man, and in
their gusto even offered to match him
against Sullivan. Maher really was per
suaded that he was good enough to meet
anybody. The talk of his friends and the
expressions of newspaper writers had a
great effect on his docile and unsophisticated
mind. He couldn't be expected to know
netter; out sometning Detter snonld nave
been expected from those who profess to
have been taught by the lessons of experi
ence. History repeated itself, and skill
and science trinmphed over strength and
inexperience. Those who "favored Maher
forgot all about this being likely to.happen.
They did not know that Maher only boxed
two rounds against Jackson, and because
they made errors of judgment they continue
to abuse a man who, with little or no ex
perience, was expected to defeat one of the
cleverest ring fighters before, the world to
day. Those "Extraordinary Talkers.
It is safe to say that never in the history
of pugilism, never since the father of the
fistic arena, Mr. Figg, downed an opponent,
has there been so much talk, blow and
muster in one week: among the pugilists
and boxers as there has been during the
week just ended. Each party must have
had scores of typewriters engaged and all
kinds of catching "devices" have been
resorted to in order to gain favor in the
public mind. Amid all the long effusions
and harangues one feature has been
notable, viz.: That the respective shows
of the parties were being advertised. An
other feature has been more or less promi
nent during the controversey between
Sullivan and Mitchelk Whenever Mitchell
has had anything to say it has been termed
"bluff," aud everything that Sullivan has
had to nay has been accepted as if it were
gospel. I intend to talk very plainly on
this matter and I trust also airly.
Just as sure as we live the great object of
all the talk made by Messrs. Sullivan and
Harrison is to boom their very bad and
profitless show. "Jhe leading theme of what
they have sent to the public has been the
abuse of foreigners. "Foreign blow hards"
aud "English bluffers" have been remarks
used on every occasion. Emphatically I
say this is a degraded method of pandering
to the prejudices ot a certain portion of the
public so as to boom one's own wares and to
bring into disgust the wares of a rival. Ho
gentleman would resort to such a low de
gree of subterfuge.
I have read the "ultimatum" of the great
boxers from, end to end, and while I Tiave
had on many occasions much to say against
Mitchell, I "do maintain that he has in this
instance the best of the argument I am
not going to discuss the relative fighting
merits ol the two men, but only their prop
ositions of matchmaking. Mitchell offered
vto fight Sullivan for a purse of $25,000j bet
mm w.ouu on tne result, aud put up a lor
feit of 52,500 as a guarantee tnat he would
be on hand to fight Mitchell allowed Sul
livan his choice of rules. "Now, I submit
that, there never was a fairer offer than that
Most'certalnly I have never known of one.
But Sullivan, in reply, demands his only
particular time to fight, viz., in August
or September, aad also insists that the bet
be $10,000 instead of $2,900. I here make
another statement: There is not on record
a demand pf this kind that has been made
by either a champion or anybody else of
prominence. Good gracious, just think of
ltl Here is -a club that offers' $25,000
to the winner, and a bet of $2,500
more will yield the winner $27,500
clear money, and John L Sullivan deems
it too small. Why, the thing is prepos
terous. The idea of anybody retaining a
championship titlfcunder such conditions is
absurd, to say the least of it I question
very much whether Mitchell can get $10,000,
and" even if he could I don't think he would
risk it on an almost sure thing. If there is
any real method of "blowing' it is that of
trying to down an opponent by demanding
big stakes.
Sure About the Bis People.
We should not forget that the proposition
made by Mitchell, if acted upon, would
rield the winner more money than has ever
been obtained in stakes or a purse in the
history of the prize ring. Supposing it
took the extraordinary sum of $2,500 to
train Sullivan three months, he would get
$25,000 clear if he won, and why should he
or Duncan Harrison have the nerve to sav
that $25,000 is too little? In all fairness",
there is neither rule, nor custom in favor of
the extraordinary demands of Sullivan.
And Sullivan's career has not been of so
wonderful a kind as to warrant any such
demands. I have often said that as a prize
ring champion he has one of the worst of
records, and I am glad to find that he him
self indorses my views on that point. Here
is what he said during the week:
"I want to get this man Mitchell into a
ring, and I want him to fight under rules
under which he cannot run away from me.
I met him in France in a mud lot, and I
would have had him down and out in ten
rounds if he had stood up and fought like a
man. ijui ne iook advantage oi tne nues,
like the coward that he is, and I was unable
to get near enough to him to whip him."
.This is the most remarkable admission
ever made by a champion pugilist, 'and it
comes from one who is termed "the greatest
pugilist ever born." Oh, tell me, some of
you well-informed people of the champion,
outside of John L., who would have ever
confessed of his utter inability to fight
under the recognizedrules of the prize ring?
In the long list there cannot be iound one,
except Sullivan. We know now, and on
the admission of John L. Sullivan himself,
that he cannot defeat Mitchell in a 24-foot
ring under the time-honored championship
rules.
The Foot-Kacine Excuse Doesn't Go.
"Because of foot racing" I think I hear
somebody say. But like all other good
men why does the "greatest fighter on
earth" not ston the racing? Fitzsimmons
stopped the racing of that very clever man
Dempsey. And we must not forget that
prize ring rnles demand tbe contestants to
toe the scratch at the beginning of every
round. But even under Queen sberrv rules
Sullivan did not stop Dominick McCaffrey
from "racing," and a slow man like Kil
rain "raced" in front of John for more than
two hours. Hut tbe loot-racing excuse is
too flimsy to discuss. There have been too
many good men aud true beaten in the ring
for the excuse to have any force.
For the time being the friends of Sullivan
are in. favor of brutality, not scientific pugil
ism. If Sullivan and his opponent could be
gotten into a four-foot ring it might suit the
big man's friends best But that style of
fighting has gone generations ago, and a
more scientific style has been evolved by
men like Randall, Jem Ward and Jem
Mace. This style aids a little man to cope
with brute strength, and at the same time
can combine' strength, activity and skill.
Champions like O'Baldwin have all three
qualities, and if Sullivan has them why
does he refuse to do what neither O'Bald
win nor any other champion who has pre
ceded Sullivan would have declined to do?
If a match is made between Sullivan and
Mitchell under Queensberry rules of course
the chances would be very mnch in favor ot
Sullivan. But Mitchell is willing to fight
him under these rules for the largest amount
of money ever fought for. The question is a
very plain one, indeed.
Sullivan and Corbetr.
Sullivan's reply to Slavin is such that the
latter cannot possibly accept John L's
challenge. The latter cannot fight later
than the second week in September and not
before August And what is more, he de
clines to meet Slavin until the latter defeats
Jackson. All this is trickery, deoend upon
it But although our champion declines to
fight a colored roan, he is willing to meet
a man who could not defeat a colored man.
Sullivan is willing to fight Corbett and the
latter is willing to fight the big man. Each
of these boxers are in charge of show man
agers, bear in mind, and at best the pfttposed
contest looks very fishy to me.
If they should meet and everything be
all right I wouldn't be surprised if Corbett
cave Sullivan the chase of his life. I use
the word chase because when it conies
down to foot racing in the ring Corbett is a
champion, as we saw in his contest with
Jackson. If Corbett conld move about in
front of Sullivan as he did in front of Jack
son, why Sullivan would be beaten, and
that's ail there's about it He would beat
himselX He has never been a suc
cess in "chasing" a man in a
ring and , only been a terror
when men were foolish enough to stand up
against him to "be knocked down. His
record bears me out in this. Corbett, who
is not a fighter, may by his active style of
boxing be able to weary the very life out of
Sullivan. But if there is no contest result
ing from the vast amount of talk that has
been going on, one thing is certain, and that
is Mitchell, Sullivan, Corbett and Slavin
will all be benefited by it, as they are all in
the show business. Probably that is all
that any of them wants.
An Old-Time Battle.
A correspondent from Venetia asks for a
short account of the battle between Tom
Savers and Aaron Jones to "decide abet"
In this instance the request will be granted,
but we cannot make a practice of retelling
the stories of old fights. Some day we may,
when it is more opportune, discuss one a
weeK ot tne lamous old-time contests.
Sayers and' Jones met in January, 1857.
Jones was 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighed
172 pounds and was 26 years old. Sayers
was 5 feet 8y$ inches tall, weighed 148
pounds and was 31 years old. They fonght
62 rounds, lasting about 3 hours, when dark
ness stopped the fight Jones injured his
hand badly early in the battle, and in con
sequence tbe fight was n6t resumed until
about five weeks later, when Sayers won in
85 rounds, lasting about two hours. In the
first fight Jones looked like a sure winner
in the first hour, but he was noted for lack
of staying qualities. That was Jones' last
fight in England and he came to this country
hi 1858 to train Heenan to fight Morrissey.
In 1867, when Jones was nearly blind, he
lought Mike McCoole and was beaten.
Pjjingle.
TOTAL ABSLNENCE NEWS.
Three months until the Seottdale conven
tion. The Labor Bureau will meet next Sunday
at St Mary's, Forty-sixth street
Ikstead of bavin - a rally.Father Lamblnsr
of Seottdale. will send a total abstinence
circular to his parishioners.
Tas Father Siathew Association will send
in a protest to the court against increasing
the number of saloons in the First ward.
The pledges for Catholic schoolchildren
are now ready. Et. Key. Bishop Fhelan is
In hearty accord with the work aimed at
through ihein.
, Miss Coreiqah, Secretary of 8t. John's,
Seottdale, reports an enthusiastic meeting
last Sunday, lit which several new members
were received.
The March bulletin speaks of a general In
crease in total abstinence sentiment It
calls for n census of the membership of the
union. Each secretary should respond
promptly.
The Board of Government of the .union
met lost Sunday. It was decided to abandon
the field day proposed. As a substitute for
raising funds, each society will be asked for
a donation.
We pack, haul, ship, alter, repair, re
finish and reupholster furniture.
Hauqh & Keeitan, 33 Water st-v
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A CROSS OF COPPER
That Binds the Mound Builders to
the Races of Old Mexico.
VALUE OF CHILLICOTHE FINDS.
One Article Settles a Point Archaeologist
Long Differed On.
EVIDENCE OP AN INDIAN LEGEND
tWBITTEW FOE THE DISPATCH.!
HE recent'discov
eries among the
works of the Ohio
' Mound Builders
will lead to consid
erable enlighten
ment in regard to
that' most interest
ing race. The finds
will also help to
complete the ex
hibit now being
prepared by Prof.
Harvard, for the
Typical Square Mound.
F. W. Putnam, of
World's Fair, in the
Ethnology, of which
Department of
he is super-
inteudent The exhibit is in good hands, A
for since the time of Squier and Davis Prof.
Putnam has done more than anyone else in
the exploration of earthworks. Through
his influence Harvard purchased the colos
sal serpent effigy in Adams county, Ohio,
and he has written a masterly description
of it .
The recent Ohio discoveries were made
through the efforts of Prof. Putnam anL
Mr. Warren It. Moorhead. The expense or
the excavation was borne by the World's
Columbian Exposition Survey and Mr.
Moorhead and Dr. H. G. Cresson super
intended it The peculiarities of the arti
cles found indicate mo re clearly and defi
nitely than any before laid bare the iden
tity of the Mound Builders with one of the
ancient Mexican races, probably the
"Nahuas. This theory of identity was gen
erally entertained by the earlier investiga
tors, but of late years scientists have
leaned to the belief that the Mound Build
ers were tho fore-fathers of the American
Indians.
The King r the ilonnd Builder..
The former theory is supported by the un
earthings at the great effigy mound near
Chillicothe, O. There the skeletons of a
man and woman were found, the skeleton of
the former so covered with copper plates as to
be practically enclosed in armor. There
were vestiges of woven garments in which
had been enmeshed great quantities of
1earls while all about the crumbling bones
ay a great prolusion of copper, agate,
pearl and stone ornaments, pipes, axes
and gorgets, exceeding in quantity
and variety and in fineness of workmanship
all previous finds. The head was surmount
ed and enclosed by a copper helmet, irom
which arose widespreading deer antlers, not
of the natural material, but formed of wood,
very true in shape to nature, and covered
with closely fitting hammered copper
sheathing.
So tar did the pomp of sepulture ex
ceed that revealed by all former exhuma
tions that, when archaeologists were satis
fied of the authenticity of the wonderful re
ports that came from Chillicothe, they said:
"The Mound Builder King is found- at
last" Great, from an archaeological stand-
Eoint, as was this buried treasure, it was,
owever, only the preliminary of a far
more important discovery in the same
mound. A few weeks later only a month
or two ago the same explorers, delving
deeper in the mound, came upon three
more skeletons buried at its base, thus in
dicating that they were the personages in
whose honor the tumulus was originally
built personages greater in prestige and
power, if the honor paid them in mortuary
rites are any evidence, than the supposed
"King" himself. Here was greater geld of
art objects than in the first grave, pearls by
thousands, copper -galore, in a hundred
forms.
The Cross In Ohio and-Mexico.
But the most important article of all was
the form of the cross, what is known as the
Swatiska crpss, very similar to the early
Greek cross, and like that which is found in
the ancient works of Mexico and 'Yucatan,
Great Mound at Marietta.
and which occurs on the Palenque tablet. It
was this which has caused the Ohio earth
work to be called "The Copper Cross Mound, "
and which makes the discovery significant
and unique among all the exhumations of
ancient remains in the Northern States. It
is this which forms the most positive piece
of evidence yet secured that the Mound
Builders were identical with some one of the
early Mexican races. This is, so far, the
climax in the line of corroborating evidence
to that conclusion; and it will be accepted
by a majority of archaeologists and Ameri
canists as satisfactory.
The cross has been nowhere else found, in
unequivocal form, among the art objects of
tliA Afrti,ir? TltiiTiln' .annl.l.... At...!. ..
mound of that form appears in Pickaway
county, Ohio, and here it occurs in an in
contestibly "original burial" (as distin
guished from an "intrusive" burial, such as
the Indians sometimes made in the mounds).
The cross of the Swatiska type occurs several
times cut from hammered sheet copper, the
design being most clearly defined and worked
with delicacy and precision of a higher
artistic order than those heretofore revealed
outside of the Mexican and Central Amer
ican antiquities. The other copper objects,
considerably more than 100 in number, ex
hibit a greater variety of forms and better
execution than any "of .former "finds,"
though few of them are unique, and, of
course, none compare in scientific value
with the crosses.
The Other Finds In the Mound.
They include discs, breast plates or
gorgets, totems, forms of fishes and leaves,
bracelets and anklets, pipes and objects
which are conjectured to be combs for the
hair. Large discs of copper as big as dinner
plates were found having inner decorations
in the form of leaves and the conventional
heart shape, the metals between the designs
and tbe outer rim, supporting or framing
them, being cut away, as in stencil plates.
A flooring of sheet copper covered the skel
etons, and about the latter were traces
of woven fabrics such as enveloped the
crumbling bones of the "King." Pearls
were here too in profusion the fresh water
pearls probably such as are found to this
day in the clam shells of the Miami and
various other streams in Ohio aud the
West
"The Copper Cross Mound" is one of a
group of more than two score mounds lying
within a space of a few acres. More prop
erly, it is, or was originally probably, a
collection of three mounds merged in one
(and with possible significance as in
dicating a relationship) or equality
of rank of the personages en
tombed there). Considering it as
a unit, it measured about '500 feet in length,.
200 in breadth and was 28 feet high. Work
is still progressing upon its excavation, but
it is probable that its greatest treasures have
now been laid bare.
En passant it may be said that mound ex-
ploration is costly work. In this case (300
was expended before there was found any
thing justifying the expenditure of a single
dollar, and the totaTexpense to the finish
will, in this case, probably amount to a
round $1,000.
i Nearly all of the mounds,' except those
which cover altars or those obviously built
as "signal" mounds, or, as is evident occa
sionally, as the foundations of strnctures
which have long perished contain human
skeletons, accompanied by a few simple ob
jects, but so many of the latter have been
exhumed that they are now practically
without value.
The Problems of Arcbteolocy.
Contemplation of such vast work as this,
the complicated system at Newark, O., and
the profusion of varied remains in the re
gion like the Scioto.Valley, provokes ir
resistibly the queries, who were this great
serai-civilizedpeople? Whence came they?
Whither did they vanish?
Unanswerable, all I The last less so than
the others. Evidence accumulates that
they emigrated from the country in which
their multitudinous remains are found,
into Mexico. But before referring to
that can we obtain even a fleeting
glimpse of the Mound Builders,
while inhabiting the North? A little is re
vealed by a lezeud of the Indians, and a
little more, perhaps, by the traditions of
the "Nahuas. The only Indian tradition
touching the Mound Builder race in a gen
eral way, gives indeed a scant, and of course,
not perfectly trustworthy, account of the
ancient race, but it is the earliest informa
tion we have and is very plausible. It is
notable that this tradition does not claim
The Great Serpent, Adams County, O.
ihe Mound Builders to have been the In
dians' projenitors, but on the contrary pro
nounces them a distinct people.
The tradition is handed down by the Lenni
Lenape, or Delawares, who at the begin
ning of the historic period occupied a region
about coextensive with the present Statu
of Pennsylvania and some contiguous terri
tory in New Jersey and Delaware. They
claimed that they were not aborigines of
thjs region, but that ages before they had
been created and dwelt upon the shores of
that great sea in which the sun sank at
night the Pacific That many centuries
before the whits man came they had jour
neyed eastward in search of a favored land
of which their wise men told them, and at
or near tne Jjatner oi Waters they had come
in contact with the Iroquois, destined to be
for ages their chief enemy. The Iroquois,
like themselves, were journeying eastward.
A Battle nt the Mississippi.
Upon the eastern side of the Mississippi
they came upon a powerful race, who con
tested their crossing that stream. But by
joining forces with their future enemies, the
Lenni Lenape battled successfully with the
strange people and passed through their
country to the promised land of the Lenape,
the shores of the Delawere. The ancient
tradition of the Delaware j says that their
enemy were a great nation and had many
lorts aud temples, and they called them
selves Allegewi. So the Lenape gave to
the stream which marked the easternmost
boundary 'of the strange race the name
Allegewi sipu (stream) or Allegewi hanne
(h.iuue also meauing stream and being gen
erally applied to the lesser ones while sipu
was reserved for the greater, as the Missis
sippi, of which name it indeed forms a part.
And iUlegewi haune becoming by easy
linguistic evolution Allegheny, we have to
day, perpetuated in the name of one ol our
most romantic rivers, the name of the mys
terious race and perhaps the oldest of
American words.
The destiny of the Mound Builder race-its-ultimate
outcome with the other nations
into the clear daylight ot history perhaps
we may never know with absolute certainty,
and still there are many Americanists who
believe that we already do know.
That the Mound Builders journeyed
southward and finally into Mexico, gaining
power and civilization as they went, is indi
cated by many details, among others by a
marked and constant increase in the size
and conformation ot the crania iound by the
explorers as they pass southward. Then
the character of the earth and art works
which remaining alike in kind, steadily im
prove in quality going to the south, indicate
development. JuSt as the simple tumuli
of the North became the teocalli oi the
South, and finally appear temple crowned
in Mexico, the race reached the zenith of
its civilization there.
, Conclusion of Close Student.
To such evidence as this (and there is a
vast deal of it which cannot be here ad
duced) is added much in the way of con
firmation by the books of lifelong
students of Mexican antiquities, like Lord
Kingsborough. His work, of which the
present writer has seen a cdfr in a Phila
delphia private library, and which, by the
way, cost its wealthy author his life, and
was otherwise one of the costliest books
ever issued, the expense of its publication
being not lar from 1300,000 throws
a vast deal of light on the general
subject. It perpetuates copies of mysteri
ous Mexican hieroglyphics, which may yet
be deciphered, and throws immeasurably
greater illumination upon the ' early
history of the people who he
thinks were ,tbe descendants of the
Ohio Mound Builders. Among those
who regard as already demonstrated the
identity of the Mound Builders with one of
the Mexican races, are the learned Dr. PtTster
(in his "Prehistoric Baces of the United
States."), and the late Key. John T. Short,
of the Ohio State University, of Columbus.
O. Both point to the Nahuas as being the
particular race into which the ancient
Mound Builders-developed, and they ad
duce evidence from Mexican history to show
that this people who became incorporated
with the more ancient Mayas, lived
long in a land to the north
ward which tkey called "Hue-hue-Tlap-alan."
Prof. Short going further
than some other writers says, that he found
ground lor believing that this region in
which they had traditionally dwelt was the
country of the Mound Builders aud even
sets down on the authority ol Nahua his
tory and a comparison of their calendars,
the year of the Mound Builder exodus from
"Hue-hiie-Tlapalan," as A D. 241 or six
teen and a halt centuries ago.
.aai ui mis is arfivcu at uot oy any wild
plunge in the dark, but by careful, labori
ous comparative studies and computation
upon the basis of ancient Mexican data and
dates. If this be fact, as there seems the
best and most substantial reason to believe it
elevates the Mound Builder race to a high
plane of civilization for the Nahuas, as they
came to be called in their Southern home,
were so well advanced in astronomical
science as to approximate the true length
of the year within two minutes and nine
seconds at the time Cortez came among
them, thus closely rivaling the astroiiomers
of Europe. Alfsed Mathews, i
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A CENTURY BEHIND.
Bessie Bramble Discovers a Preacher
Who Just Suits Ber.
HI GIVES HER A CHANCE TO ARGUE.
Woman's Progress (straw Threshed
' igain With a Yengeance.
Orer
SIDE LIGHTS ON MATRIMONIAL WOE
rwHrrTEjr fob the dispatcr.1
The illusions concerning love and mar
riage that are so strong in young people are
doubtless due in large measure to the influ
ence of poetry, plays and novels. These
deal in romance to such an extent that they
convey false ideas of life and too exalted
views of happiness. "Experience is a dear
school, but fools will learn in no other," is
true with regard to most of the world, and
especially as to .women. A woman usually
gives more play to her imagination than a
man. She pictures pleasure as something
that is surely to be grasped when the demi
god set apart by high heaven for her soul's
mate comes along and with her enters the
bonds of matrimony.
In the novels, that is the end of trouble
and the beginning of bliss. All through
the exciting scenes are crosses, vicissitudes,
threatening tragedies, misunderstandings,
and troubles of all sorts and sizes. If cruel
parents do not frown and threaten, and
make the course of love as rough as possi
ble, false friends, mean rivals, heavy vil
lains can always be counted upon to inter
fere and cnt up rough, and make things
look dark for awhile. Bat in the end the
obstacles have all been surmounted, the op
posing circumstances have all been
smoothed out, tbe cruel father gives way,
the treacherous rival is removed, the ma
neuvering mother is beaten at her own game,
and the lovers enter upon marriage as a
haven of bliss to be happy forevermore.
Tbe Ideal Is Set Too High.
Bnt then comes the dissolution of the
ideal. After the pleasure of the courtship,
the excitement of the wedding has passed
and the lovers have settled down to the re
alities of life, they will likely agree with
Pliny when he says: "No mortal is happy,
for even if there is no other cause for dis
content there is at least the fear of possible
misfortune."
There would be less disappointment and
less of the bitterness of shattered hopes
perhaps if men and women knew a little
more of philosophy and were able to Itarn
something from the experience of others. The
troubles of life come to each and to all
in some shape or other, and they cannot, be
dodged. Those blessed with fortune, love
and friends have their trials as. well as those
less fortunate. A little of the doctrine of
Epicnrus would not be a bad thing to teach
and preach to the people of to-day. He
was a pagan philosopher, who held that
pleasure was the chief good in life, but that
was to be obtained only by simplicity in
living, morality, temperance and the exer
cise of the virtues.' He taugbt his scholars
that to enjoy all there was in life required
a cultivation of calm repose, cheerfulness
or mind, and health of body. His diet and,
that of his followers was bread and water,
with an occasional bit of cheese and glass
of wine to celebrate and emphasize high
holidays aud fast days. What a load of car
and worry would be taken out of the world
by the adoption pf such simple living, to
say nothing of the banishment of the pains
of indigestion caused by rich food add over
eating! Prudence was his prime virtue,
temperance in all things his rule of life, a
quiet mind and peace with all men a ruling
desire.
Hot Shot for Poor Preacher.
In one of his sermons for Lent, a clergy
man makes bold to say that, for 'all the
reckless extravagance, the rage for wealth,'
the lack of serious views, the degradation
of marriage made so plainly manifest in
this age,' women are to be held responsible.
He declares they are lowering themselves
to the baser level of men. They are "ab
dicating their thrones and going down into
the ring, acting unseemly parts, and laying
their honor in the dust." The chief sin of
women at present married women, of
course is the habit of gadding neglecting
the home. The mothers in fashionable life
are full of a desire to be conspicuous. They
train their daughters to be debutantes and
to achieve success in society bv marriage.
They hold markets for them and teach them
the art of leading a vain and empty life.
The reverend brottfcr says he doesn't
want to throw stones at women that men
are bad enough, heaven knows their sins
are rank, - their follies without nnmber.
But after this admission, he proceeds to
throw stones with a vengeance. After
piling reproache upon the fashionable
mothers and their heartless daughters, he
goes for those he calls the "humbler
classes." These he says are full of a fatal,
ambition.' and are straining every nerve and
power of mind to help their children to a
higher social rank than that they were born
to. Poor fond mothers whose hopes are
bound up in their daughters how roundly
they are abused for the endeavor to make
happiness tangible for those they love I
"My dauehter shall never drudge and slave
as I have done if I can help it," is their
thought, never dreaming that, according to
the reverend brother, they are thus inspir
ing hopes that can only end in bitterness.
The Old Fasbloned Sort of Wonun.
The dear brother has the old-fashioned
patient Griselda sort of wife stuck in his
mind. He holds by the old ideals and
despises the march ol progress. He hankers
after the old style that has gone out. He is
of the sort of men who hung on to wigs and
shoe buckles and ruffled shirts when fashion
had given them the go by. But he should
know that eighteenth century girls and
wives have given place to their successors
of the nineteenth. His great regret is that
the women of to-dayare not like their grandmothers.-
We may pause here and tell
him they never will be.
But oh, how he does go for the women of
society. He throws stones at them with
what would seem to be the courage of
desperation. They marry for an estab
lishment, for freedom, to do as they
please, for anything but the prope?
motive. If their venture in matrimony
turns out to be unfortunate they simply get
a divorce and go on as before. This he
deems one of the darkest evils ot the times,
and his great horror is, that disregarding it,
reoDle desire to trad in the sunshine, to for
get the dark side of life, and to enjoy all
there is going. He evidently takes no stock
in the philosophy of Epicurus.
It is somewhat hard to know what the
dear brother wants to get at in the way of a
remedy for this shocking state of affairs.
He seems to want to iam women back into
the old grooves at all hazards. To them he
imputes the march of socialism and com
munism, the growth of nihilism and the or
ganization of dynamite fiends. If such
talks were not the fashion it would seem as
If he were terribly alarmed at the idea of
woman's advancement. It is a comfort to
assure him that nothing dreadful is going to
happen. ' The home is not in jeopardy.
ITomen Have Better Chances Than Men.
It seems to be a grievance to the reverend
brother that "women with much more time
to read and -study are actually gaining on
men." Thrown together, he tells us, that it
is often found that the sisters know more
than the men, they are more cultivated, bet
ter read, better informed. Men are behind
them because they are grinding everlasting
ly in the mill of business, read nothint- but
the newspapers, and know hardly anything
beyond tne range oi monotonous mechanical
existence. "Much might be said," he con
tinues, "in proof ot the rapid advance, the
actually achieved intellectual superiority of
the womsu ot to-day."
Whether this is the reason he throws
stones at them is left to inference. What
1 he asks in mournful numbers is: Why do
they sin as they do? Why do they desire
to live in pleasure, and enjoy the world?
Why do they aspire to freedom? Why do
they kick against the restraints which were
humbly accepted by their grandmothers.
Why do they want to go to colleges set
apart for men and mix and meddle with his
affairs? Why should they assnme to write
books, or edit papers, or serye as doctors or
lawyers when men can do such work better?
Such things are shocking for the dear
brother to contemplate. He sees no end
for such doings save "destruction and un
happiness." He, moreover, announces that
the Church and the Bible are, and always
will be, dead set against free thought and
equal rights for women.
The Minister's Gloomy Picture.
It will be sad for many to know that by
the testimony of thereverend brother the
devil has a double propaganda at work in
America to-day. Owing to his handiwork
the condition of the country is alarmingly
depressing. Mark yon, this is what he see's
in America:
"The public journals pandering to an un
wholesome appetite by feeding tbe public
mind with the filthy details of criminal
and licentious ..deeds. We see a popular
school of fiction, the plots ot whose books
are mostly adultery, murder, seduction and
suicide; whose heroes and heroines lead
immoral lives and make a jest of purity.
We. see a poetry which seductively stim
ulates animal passion; dramas which whet a
sensual appetite and glorify murder and
shame; -salacious, and licentious figures
used on every hand as advertisements, and
pictures imported from a foreign school and
produced by a growing native school. I am
ashamed to say, of a shockingly lascivious
character.
That is a picture of the state of affairs, as
the reverend brother sees them, in this
country. The papers and books and poetry
he reads gives a startling view of his .taste
in literature. The dramas and pictures and
posters he sees exhibit a mea&ire of his
mind that rather suggests the old story of
the garter at the bottom of the proverb,
"Evil to him who evil thinks." He talks
like a regular old Blue Law bogie man.
What concerns all of us is that the woman
is to blame for all of the miseries and hor
rors of this life in his oninion. Mark the
consistency: The chief sin of the woman
of to-day is to, gad about instead of staying
at home. Then he tells us that she reads
and studies so much that she is actually
gaining upon man. What he seems to want
her to do is to stay at home continually and
let books and papers alone.
To Him All Things Are Bine.
His mind is evidentry a survival of the
dark ages. He does not like women ho
are inspired bv the spirit of the age. He
says he sees all about him th "wrecks of
homes," the "shadows and ghosts of homes,"
the "parodiesof homes." Slowly are dying
out the home life, the home influence, the
home training, the home religion." Melan
choly indeed if it were true. But to a
Blue Law man all things are blue. He
wants to make the whole people conform to
his narrow notions, and announces blur fire,
the fagot and stake, death and destruction if
they don't. The reverend brother wants
women to be trained to his pattern. He
wants them hammered down into eighteenth
century holes. He wonts them to remain in
silence and subjection, as of old.
But bless his innocent soul he does not
know that he is too late in the dav with his
talk. He does not realize that the sisters
propose to settle these matters for them
selves. They know all about the serious
ness of the bonds of matrimony. Marriage
to them is as desirable and as sacred an in
stitution as ever, but they propose to have
something to say in the matter hereafter
themselves. What women need is to grow
in wisdom, and they are "getting there," as
the boys say, with nineteenth century
smartness. Bessie Bramble.
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