A REVIEWOFSPQRTS. Cluus That Miss Some Good Players "Who "Were Ee- leased Last Year. TCOBK OF THE LOCAL TEAM. Features of Mob Rule in the Chicago and Louisville Game. CRUELTY OP PIGEON SHOOTDsG. The Eefnsal of Hall to Fight Fitzsimmons Keit September. MEETING OP li'AULIFFE AND MTEE In many respects the week Just ended has been a very Interesting one, as far as base ball has been concerned. Playing has somewhat improved on the previous week, and the attendance at the games has been remarkably good all week. The various teams are gradually getting settled down, althourii there are two or three still far below the form that they will show before the season is ended or half ended. Considerable surprise has been manifested at the continued defeats of Anson's team. Day after day the veteran and his young men have been worsted until the Chicago crank are about ready for a rebellion. But Just make a note of this. The Chicago team will lav lots of teams low before very long. That team has already shown that they can do excellent work, and it is singular that whenthevhae played in first-class style they have been beaten. This condition of thines cannot last, and it is safe to say that the "Windv City plavers will gie a good ac count of themselves shcrtlv. It is quite true that the absence of Pfefler on the team is a great drawback to them. "Whatever" that young man's vanity may be, nobody can deny bis abilities as a ball player and an extremely good all round coach on the field. Both a a player and as a guide on the field the Chicago team miss Pfefier. It is also worthy of note that two other good clubs that have disposed of good and tried men have been doing badly during the week when opposed to teams in which these plavers are. The New Yorks have, during the last tew dajs, found out that Tim Keefe and Boger Connor are still among the best and it must fill the New York cranks with regret to know this. Bichardson, Connor and Kecle could all have been retained in the Xew York club, and if they had been there now what a difference there would be compared to that which there is. The absence of these men will cost the club thousands of dollars and it is just such cases as this that should make club officials ex tremely careful in releasing good men who mav be temporarily out of form. We have still another example in Von dcr Ahe in allowing Comiskey to go. The Browns are making a most wretched show and there docs not seem to be either head or tail to the team. Already Von der Ahe has commenced to change captains, plavers, etc. "Whether or not the bad state of things is because Comiskey is no longer there in charse, I don't say. but the fact is that there were no such disruptions and defeats among the Browns when Comiskey was in charge. The Eastern teams have commenced in the "West, but wc must wait until they play a few more rames against each other before making any comparisons. ' A Good L.-cal Trim. There is a really good team in Pittsburg. They have plaved games enough to prove this, and as one bf the public I am very much inclined to think that when in form the local term are better than the Louis villes. The three gamos during the week between the teams lead me to this con clusion. We have 'je'terfielders and better hitters, and oubj to have just as good, if not better, pitchers. By all means, the local plavers ought to have won two out of the three gaes plaved against Louisville, but the causes of defeat in the third game ought to wlrve as good lessons in future. The Louisville players watch everv move in the game, and never overlook the most trivial point. This is what all teams should do. and this is just what the local flayers did not do in the last game with Louisville. 'otf this is not fault-finding; but it is merely noting one or more of the causes of defeat and if any of us have to take an in terest in the game at all, surely we have a rjght to sav wl.at in our judgment caused victorv to be taken from us. It the pitchers of the local club could only get steadied down I can't see why the team should tail to hold its own against any other team, with the exception ot the Bostons. "Wc hac always been shaky in our pitching department, and it seems to me that that is likely to be our drawback again. A matter of gi cat interest connected with the local club during the week has been the resignation of President Temple. I am as sured that nothing except a pressure of other busine-s has caused this, and from what I hear the pressure is a very powerful one. Everjbodv connected with" the club regrets Mr. Temple's resolve, and all patrons of the club will regret it. He was in all respects well qualified for the office. He is an enthusiastic and courageous baseball supporter and one of the ablest business men in the Slate. These are excellent qualities for a President of a baseball club to possess. It is indeed a pity that cir cumstances have compelled him to step from the iront when he'was so useful in the position. Mr. W. "W. Kerr will succeed Mr. Temple, and a better man could not be found for the office. He is respected by everybody. Mob Iiule in Chicago. Everybody who takes an interest in the national game would certainly regret the disgraceful proceedings at Chicago yester day week, by which Anson was robbed of a game and the Louisville team was unjustly credited with a victory. I don't think a more disgraceful occurrence has been known in baseball, because it is now generally ad mitted that the w hole business was designed by the inends of Plefier. This fact alone gives it an importance that demands the attention of eery clncial of the League. If there was a question that demanded the attentlou of the Board of Control this is one, because, as lar as is publicly known, the Louiswlle team got a victory contrary to all rules of fair play and contrary to all rules and custom ot sport. The tacts of tne case are ery simple and easy to under stand. The Chicago and Louisville teams weic playing a game, and when it was about finished the Chicagos were in the lead and victory lor them looked a foregone con clusion. To prevent this victory the lrieudt ot Fred Plefier, ,at least his admirers and enemies of Anson, broke from their seats and crowded the Grounds. The game was stopped, and Pfefler went to the umpire and claimed the game, which claim was al lowed. This statement almost leads one to think that the whole allair was cut and dried. I won't go as far as saying that it was, but moit certainly the above facts .are strong enough to cause the Board of 'Control to hae the game played over again. If such a thing were to occur in other branches ot sport the victory would be awarded to the Chicago team, "it must not be forgotten that there are two factions in Chicago. One Is the National League element and the other is made up of those who want to down the League. Ptefier is tirominent mnnnir the latter, and naturally his inends at Chicago would sacrifice anything to see him down Anson, or at least -stop- Anson from downing him. This is an excee lingly bad element in baseball, and one of the most ef fective ways to stop -its development would be for the "Board of Control to order the game to be played over again. If this is not done then there will be every Induce ment for enemies of a team to 'stop them from winning. But there is a vast amount of betting on baseball cames, and, according to the Chicago affair,, men could bet on the result of a game, and money would go a long way, toward exciting a moo sufficiently to bring about a result suitable to the bet. This is a very serious matter. For a long time base ball has been pure and fair to all. Certain ly the affair at Chicago tarnished it consid erably, and that tarnish can only be re moved by the powers that be acting heroi cally in the matter and giving the public to understand that mob rule won't be toler ated. The Notional Gams Booming. And isn't there a wonderful boom in base ball just now? Why, there is scarcely a little community in the country that has not Us league, and there is hardly a hamlet that has not its ball team. The truth is that in some localities the gsme is being boomed" so much that there is great danger of its being boomed out of sight We must not forget that we can turn on water enough to drown the mill, and it our baseball cranks persist in, inundating us with too much baseball some of us will get tired of it It is because of what I have Just said that I have doubts about the wisdom ot bringing a State Leag"ueteam here. Our mutual friend, Frank tforreyson, deserves success in baseball if ever man did, but It may be that his enthusiasm promoted him to reach too far. No person would be more pleased than I were Frank to locate a team in Pitts burg and make a success of it, but there'is so much amateur and semi-amateur baseball here already that it would seem foolish to bring any more. But this desire to have lots of leagues and lots of clubs is a hopeful sign. It proves beyond a doubt that the public admiration ot the national fame is stronger than ever, and that as long as it is kept clear of quar rels and bitter enmities everything will be all right If there is one "thine I have argued more than another during the last two or three years it has been that the pub lic do not like fights and feuds mixed up with their amusements and recreation, and so far this season it has proven the force of my contention. We need go no further than Pittsburg to prove this. Just as soon as everything has been pleasantly arranged and the factions of baseball put to one side the attendance at our local games has been remarkable. I trust they will continue to be so and that the feelings among the vari ous magnates will continue to show to the public that those directly interested are at peace with eaWi other. The New Cricket League, The new cricket league has been thor oughly organized, although it is not as ex tensive as originally intended. There are four chibs in it, and, when everything is considered, that is quite a sufficient number to start out with, because cricket contests are only like themselves. If there were too many of them it is safe to sav that many of the plavers would not be able to attend them nil. The game is more for the "leisure class" than the masses. One of the promi nent local players; during a conversation the other day, made a tew very pertinent remarks to me on the matter. He said: "It will be a long time before we can get our game thoroughly established here. We must wait until the class of leisure gets more numerous, and just as sure as they grow in numbers just as sure will cricket and one or two more good old games become more -popular." There is much truth in the above, but still for those who understand cricket, rich or poor, there is a deal of fun in an after noon's ontest at the end of the week after daily toil has been dispensed with for a short time. Those who have not been in itiated into the fun of a Saturday after noon's cricket contest do not know what they miss I assure you. It is to be hoped that the new League will succeed, and that it will be the means of introducing to this locality some good teams. More About Amateurism, It would seem as if trouble among our amateurs was never going to cease. No sooner is one disputed point settled than up bobs another about 100 per cent more im portant than any of the previous ones. For a long time we had the trouble about train ing expenses. That has at least for a time been smoothed down. But now we have apparently a more important matter than ever, because no less than about 300 boxers have been expelled from amateur ranis for violating the rules of amateurism. This is doing things by wholesale certainly, and the end is probably not jet, because some ot these expelled boxers nae been allowed to perform at various amateur clubs siuce their expulsion, Tnis makes the entertain ments professional if it does anything, and therelore it will be in order to bounce these clubs bodily. It is the A. A. TJ. that has done all this "chucking out," and hi my estimation they have done penectly right The majority of these boxers have for a long time been a disgrace to amateurism and a greater one to the art of boxing. As boxers, as far as I know, there is not one of them worthy the name Some time ago Dominick McCaffrey told me that he never in his life knew or heard of such a collection of boxing frauds as New York and vicinity was stocked with. The standard was so bad that Dominick was forced to turn out and engage profes sionals for the Manhattan Club entertain ments. But bad as these alleged boxers were they were preventing many a tolerablv fair pro fessional boxer from earning a dollar or two. These so-called amateurs were receiving pay clandestinely to contest at amateur and otner athletic entertainments. They were passing as "gentlemen boxers" and receiv ing "cut-rate" pay, while the poor profes sional, who was looked upon as the "bruiser," had to stand by and get nothing. This condition ot things really continued for a long time and all lovers ot tne manly art and of pure amateurism will be glad that the A. A. U. has had the nerve to call a halt Once more I repeat that athletes who nowadays want to remain amateurs need be careful, and particularly the bicyclists. ' Cruelty to Pigeons. During the next few days we will have a number of the best gun shots in the world among us. The three days' tournament promoted by Messrs. E. E. Shaner and "Jim Crow" will take place, and the gun dealers and manufacturers in the East guarantee $1,000 in prizes. This ought to draw out some big entry lists. Pittsburg is a good city for many things, and recently it has been proven that it is a good city for shooting. Of late we have had some of the best and biggest shooting tournaments in the country, and this is to some extent an assurance that the tourna ment next .week will probably be better than any of its predecessors. There are good people behind it Speaking of the tournament reminds me of the charge of cruelty to animals pre ferred recently against" the parties who were interested in the recent live bird shoot at Exposition Park. Live bird shooting has been assailed by a certain diss ot peo ple for more than a quarter of a century that I know of. At times the matter has risen to such importance as to "be the sub ject of animated and instructive discussion in the British House of Commons. Per sonally I remember a time when it was cer tainly necessary for the law to in terfere, because there were human beings fiendish enough to put pigeons through the most awlul tortures before putting them into a trap. This was the kind of crueltv that stirred up the British leelingt, and ' not any si-called cruelty of shootirg the birds. Bat the kind.of cruelty I speak of was only in matches where one side finds and traps -the other side's pigeons. Tour naments are different, and there is certainly the no desire, at least I have seen none on the' part of the promoters, to make one pigeon anv wilder than another by inflicting pain. The day of ill treating pigeons before trapping them is past as far big cities are concerned. It may be found In country places, and that is the only real cruelty, because if wounding ' a bird when on the" wing is cruel then every man who goes hunting and is a good enough shot to hit a live Jbird can be charged -with the crime of cruelty to animals, if there is any logic in the que'stion at all. Regarding the definition of cruelty to pigeons ' Judge" Paxson's opinion is on record. Depend upon it if our philan thropic societies would look a little more beneath the surface for cases instead of making a noise about very small and flimsy matters that are "public, there would be many vicious evils remedied and much good done. A good turn done in obscurity is more creditable than one ddne in public. Those very tnvjal matters in public seem to command much more of the time ofour reformers than the very great and serious matters in obscurity. Is it a desire for .notoriety more than the desire to do good kthat prompts this? Ball and Fitzslmmona Onoe More. Probably no two pugilists of reoent years have had more to say about each other than have James Hall and Eobert Fitzsimmons. They have blackguarded each other almost as much as It is possible for two men to do, but whether oV not this has been for effect I don't know. I assume that both men are in earnest, and on this assumption we will have a little talk about the latest phase of the efforts to get the two men together. Just when we alt thought that a contest between them was sure Hall calls a halt at least, he and his manager do. Here we have another illustration of this scheming method of "managing" boxers and pugilists. Hall, for we must use his name and not that of his manager, declines to fight at the time demanded by the club putting up the purse and agreed to by Fitzsimmons, viz., next September. In this Hall is entirely to blame, and his action will lead many people to believe that he does not want to fight Fitzsimmons at all. and only wants to talk according to thepromptingsof that shrewd man, x'arson uavies. It is easy to see the unreasonable and scheming policy of Davies in this matter. Here is a club offering a purse of no less than $12,000 for two men, one of whom mav be a rank cur. He has not been tried at all since he landed in this country, but, like Maher, has been boomed to the most ex travagant extent, only to get the public dollars at shows. Despite this very im portant fact, this untried man will not con sent to a contest at a time when profit is certain for those who offer the purse. On the contrary, "Hall not only declines to fight when the Olympic wants liim, but insists on going to England before the contest to trade on the fact of his going to fight Fitz for such a big purse as is offered. This is the entire matter in a nutshell, and it says Tery little for Mr. Davies, particularly after the noise he has made about the com parative merits of Hall and Fitzsimmons. If the present efforts to arrange a match between these men fail it is hard to tell when they will ever meet That they have not met in the ring before now is no fault of Fitzsimmons, for I firmly believe that he is courageous enough to meet anybody. Hall's record on this point is not so good. He kicked and squirmed" for' weeks about weight, and now that Fitzsimmons has con ceded him cvervthing and the remarkable purse of 512,000 has been offered, HalI raises another objection. Surely the public ought to get tired ot a lot of these boxersl Thn Lightweight Champions. , Last wek I said something to the effect that-McAulifie and Myer would not meet again. No sooner had I said that than the news comes that they had agreed to fight during the week of the Sullivan-Corbett fight There were good reasons for saying what I did say, and although they have agreed to fight there may still never be a contest But all admirers and patrons of the ring will be glad it a contest does take place be tween these two famous lightweights, al thoueh it would have been much better if they had fought a year or so ago. Interest in the proposed battle greatly depends on the condition of McAuliffe. If he can get into as good a condition as he ever was when he met Austin Gibbons he will surprise me. If he is not his chances will not be very good. Even at this date, so far from the proposed battle, it may safely be said that tne battle will not be a short one. We have seen that Myer can wait and wait with effect He made a draw with McAuliffe the last time they met, and he waited long enough against Jimmy Carroll to defeat him. He is sure to wait against McAuliffe, and the latter will not be as likely to stay next September as he has been in past contests. But it is much, too soon to' arrive at any thing like .a definite conclusion as to the outcome of the contest Johnson and Dixon. After all we are going to have a battle "between Fred Johnson, the English cham pion bantam weight, and George Dixon, the colored youth and champion of the world. Johnson is on his journey to this country now, and arrangements have been made to have the battle take place in the East Without something very unexpected takes place the two little champions rtill firht before long, and their contest is sure to" be an interesting one. I trust that partisans will not be offended if I express the hope that Johnson will get better fair play in the East than did the other English champion who -fought there. viz Jem Carney. That he was robbed of a victory over McAuliffe there is no doi b , but there is every indication that the parties who are promoting the battle wilt see that the stranger has fair play. It is natural to expect that Dixon will be the favorite, but Johnsou will have 'quite 'a number of friends. 'It will be seen that the styles of the two champions are very dissimilar in manv re--spects. As taras science is concerned John son, in my estimation, will show up much better than Dixon, but the latter has other advantages that may counterbalance this. One thing Itecl pretty confident of, and that is that Dixon will find Johnson a very difficult customer to hit, but the colored man may have much the better of it so far as strength is concerned. I'usilUts In General. There really has been little going on dur ing the week among the "active" pugilists. Little Van Heest has again demonstrated the fact that he is a good man in his class. Long ago I came to the conclusion that he was of the right material, and the way in which he polished off George Siddons the other day stamps him as one among the best Tommy Hogan, a Pittsburger, by the way, is on his way out to San Francisco, and the two may have a contest They have fought before, "when Van Heest was the victor. But the last time I met Hogan he assured rae-thal.he could defeat Van, I think dif ferent, although Tommy is quite a game piece of humanity. Slavin is still the favorite for his coming battle with Peter Jackson. The last ac count I saw about these two men was that both were doing well and that Jackson was in excellent condition. It this is true the contest should be a good one, but I still fancy Slavin's chances. Sullivan is remaining considerably in the background just now. He ,does now and then step to the front and say a few words about his coming affair with Corbett, but it is only to remind the public that Corbett is 'not in it." Corbett continues his fake "knock outs," aided bv Jack McVey, alias McCarthy, Mc Cann, etc. . Pkikgle. ' librarian Underfed Still In JalL MirWATJKfiiv April 29. The case of A. K. Linderfelf, Public Librarian and self confessed embezzleof public funds, was .continued until next to-day. Linderfelt is in jau. nu uunu was piacea at to,uuu, which he has been' unable to secure. 6tTLTAiri Awitnros, new and very brilliant at ilamaux & Son's, 539 Penu avenue. Thau prrrsBUEG Dispatch, TO BUILD A NEW GYM. The Allegheny Athletics Secure a Good Location and Will ERECT AN ELEGANT CLUBHOUSE. It Promises to Be the Host Complete in This Part of the Country. tfEWS OP INTEEEsI TO THE AMATEURS The Allegheny Athletio Association has secured the Schenley property at the corner of Duquesne was and Third street, and will erect thereon a clubhouse to cost about 575.000. The ground is 96x1X0 feet,.ft good size and in a most splendid location for the purpose for which it is to be used. , It is leased for a long term of years, equiv alent to a purchase. The grounds will come into possession of the club July 1, when work will begin fo. the building, which promises to be one or the finest for gymnasium and social pur poses combined in this part of the country. The gymnasium will occupy the entire first floor, which will probably'occupy the entire lot, giving ample room for the large mem bership to take the necessary exercise to keep mind and body in good working order. There will also be a complete uatatorium in connection, Turkish, Eoman-and tub baths, and probably a swimming bath. In the stories above the gymnasium will be par lors, library, etc., for those who become members more especially for the social ad vantages offered. This class of members will be as well cared for as the athletes. Boatlnc on die Allegheny a Feature. With its excellent location on the river front, the association will be prepared for boating, and will add that to the list of its features. In the membership of the club are quite a number of good oarsmen, men who have been in some of the best college crews in the country, and it will only re quire training to put them into condition to do their old-time work. Among them is Euaene L. Messier, who was on last year's Yale crew. He is now at Yale and is sched uled for the college crew this year. He is not oulv a good oarsman, but is also up in football and baseball. With the good timber oniand and what is yet to come, the association hopes to make up a crew of men which will stand well among amateur oarsmen. They will, prob ably, be sent out to the big amateur rowing events to uphold the club's colors. It is not probable that all this can be donethis Tear, as by the time the clubhouse is finished and everything is ready for the boys, the season will be too far gone; but they will be prepared to train and get in working trim this year, and next season will go into the sport for nil it is worth and pull out with a good record. The Athletic Company to Be Incorporated. The ground has been secured and the building will be erected by the Allegheny Athletic Company. The attorneys of the company are now preparing the papers to incoporate the company, which will have a capital stock of $100,000. Nearly the whole amount has been taken, and within the past few days a large amount of stock has been sold, 'it is slid that a certain wealthy gen tleman, who is much interested in athletics, made a proposition to the association to furnish all the money necessary to erect the clubhouse provided he was guaranteed G per cent interest, but this was refused, the club preferring to hold the property among its members. With the new clubhouse the Allegheny Athletic Association will be prepared for all kinds of indoor sport. A suspended running track will furnish good training facilities for the speedy members the year round. The floor space will admit of a most complete grmnasium outfit, and it will be of the latest and most improved style. Of course, a first-class instructor will be se cured, who will give the members the nec essary attention to keep them on the work that will give them the proper develop ment. The trouble encountered when there is no instruotor is that the members are liable to over-development in some parts and under development in others. A Itljr Boom in the Membership. With the advantages to be offered the club will have a boom in membership. This month 25 names were added to the list and there are CO others known to , be ready to join as soon as the grounds are ready for play. At present there isno initiation fee, but there will be one as soon as the new clubhouse is ready for occupancy. .For this reason it behooves the people who expect to become members to do so at once and save the initiation fee. Work on the grounds continue and they will be ready for business In a very lew days. The big steam roller has been on Recreation Park all last week, and this week will be put to work on the tennis courts. These courts will be ready for play in two weeks, unless something un foreseen occuis. There is no lawn in the old Y. M. C. A. Park and it is too late to make one this seison, but grass seed will be sown and the grounds will be better prepared for play in another year. F. It Coates, who played guard for Lehigh, and who has (he reputation of being the largest and one of the best foot ball men Lehigh ever had, has joined the three A's. He was two years manager ot Lehigh's baseball team and president and vice president of the Inter-Collegiate Ath letic Association governing Eastern col leges. Mr. Coates also holds a good record in a one-mile walk. Al esh-ny Uhlntlo Association Dolnss. 'President Temple and ex-President J. Palmer O'Neill, of the Pittsburg base ball club, are among the new me bers of the club. Mr. O'Neill was once (in one game) a famous pitcher, but it is not likely that he wilt be on the three A's team. W. J. MacConnell, of the Orange Athletic Blub, is another member. He is a famous' rusher in toot ball, is C feet 11 inches in height, and weighs 210 pounds. Jay Cox, ot the Cleveland Athletic Club, at Ann Arbor, Mich., is also newly on the list, and H. H. Rowand, half back, consid ered Washington and Jefferson's best foot ball plaver, is now a three A's man,-as is B. F. McVay, President of the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association and Manager of the Washington-Jefferson base ball team. The Association's champion athletic team is E. V. Paul, J. B. McKennen and George M. Langhlin, Jr., a trio of which any organization might be proud. There are a number ot others who will soon be included among the Association's champions. r. S. Coombs, one of the new members, is a good all-around baseball man. Ross Fiscus, of Indiana, Pa., one of the best football mcu in the Slate, is expected to locate in the city, in which case he will become one of the Three A men and will put the shot and throw the hammer. The Athletic Committee has the club field day1 well under way aud four starters arc guaranteed lor the majority of the events. A great deal of good material has been developed in the Association since last season and a much better showing is ex pected in club events. EAST END GYM BOTES. - The Wheelmen .Elect Officer and Adopt a Constitution The ladles' Glass, , ' The East End Gym Wheelmen have per fected their organization by electing officers and adopting a constitution. '.J. P. Culbert son Jr.. is Captain and' president; Dr. George S. Proctor, First Lieutenant and Secretary, and E. Everett Kehetr, Second Lieutenant and Treasurer, The uniform adopted is a dark blue suit with white cap and club emblem ot crimson. The Captain's badge of office will be -a crimson ribbon on the cap one inch in width; that of the First Lieuteant three-quarters of an inch, and Csundat, mat i, -,189a "LA BATAILLE1 Song of the Anarchists, Recently Suppressed in Paris, the Words by Gerault Richard, Music by Marcel Legay. Tfmpo d marcn. m PE Al Ions, en fanti des fa fa till rou-illes De m w Guerre aux ex- plol tears, noi t f ler res to rangs Four an x ploi tears, cot PPPP lone, de - boat! ier - rex to rangs THE OHIQIMAI, KBKNCH. Comma nos aines de qulnza ana. Qui se battirent en ceants Centre Versailles. Bailies an rouge drapean, lllsqnons hardime nt notre pean Sans la bataille. Nous avons vu vos trols contenns Galvaudef chez lei empereurs De larlpaille; La notre n'a jamais flotte Qu'au souffle de I'Eprallte, Bans la bataille. Notre etendard est flamboyant,' Car 11 fut teint lu noble sang Do la Canaille; Depots nn siccle, ses heros N'ont jamais sn tourner le dot A la bataille. Dans ves estomacs bedonnants Nous ferons, bourgeois ruminants, Plus d'une entallle: Xa lutte sera sans mercl, Nous nurons ic coenr enduret Dans la batalllo. Femmes! lis crevent d'appetlts Pendant que vos panvres petltt Sont sur la paiile; Cjuand-vos enfnnts pleurent de froid, Apjirenz-leur a marcher diolt A la bataille. Assez de dlscuurs, enuormeurst La oolere envahlt nos ccaura Etles tenallle; All on s, debnui! et des demntn, A ceux qui volent notre patu, Ltvions bataille! the Second Lieutenant one-half Inch. The club will begin its career with over 20 mem bers and good prospects for a great many more. The ladles' class of 25 members will begin in the East End Gymnasium May L. Pros pects are good tor an interesting summer programme. The tennis grounds will soon be ready for play, Profi'L. F. Kirchner js in Philadelphia. He attended the meeting of the Philadel phia amateur athletes -last evening. No B. E. G. C men were in attendance. Tom McNuIty, of Braddock, has joined the East End Gyms. He is quite a good amateur boxer. OH TO WASHIHGTOH. Tlttsbors; Cyclers Preparing to Take In the Capital With the L. A. W. There will be a good delegation of Pitts burgers at the L, A. W. meeting in Wash ington in Jrrly. It is already announced that the Keystones will send a' number of men to the meeting, and after the close about a dozen of them will take a week's trip down the Shenandoah Valley. There will also be a number of members of other clubs from the city in attendance. Several members of the Allegheny Cyclers were out on a wheeling trip last Sunday, when Charley Petticord's Victor pneumatie got out of breath. He had forgotten his pneumatic pump and was in a fix. All the cyclers in McKeesport were run down, bnt no pump could be found. At last the boys were helped out by an obliging druggist with an embalmer's" pump. Charley is now afraid to enter any races for fear his machine will run a "head heat." Frank Lenz is busy making preparations for his long trip around the world. The Allegheny Cyclers gave him n pleasant "goodby banquet" Wednesday evening, at their clubhouse on Irwin avenue, Alle gheny. Mr. Lenz expects to have a pleas ant trip, and he goes with the God-speed of all local cyclers. The Allegheny Cyclers will give Mr.Lenz a farewell run out the Butler plank road to day. They will probably go to Butler and return. A VICTIM OF STAGE FRIGHT. Peculiar Experience of a Young and Tal ented Ban Francisco Planlit Utterly Unable to Fhoo a Home Audienoe, After Often Apprarlnc In Brrllu. San .Francisco, April 29. SptciaL Samuel G. Fleischman, a young San Fran cisco pianist, who has just returned from eight ears' sojourn in Europe, was billed to give a piano recital last night in Metro politan Hall, but he had an attack of stage fright, and fled to his home. A large audience waited till 9 o'clock, when the manager announced that an accident had befallen the performer and he could not ap pear. His old mother wa sitting near the front of the house, and fainted when she heard the announcement. The family and friends returned to the Fleischman "residence and it was 11 o'clock before anyone thought of searching the premises for the missing man. ' He was found in the cellar, lying on the floor, in a 3ized state, with flute in hand. When re suscitated, he declared he felt dizzy as he was about to enter the hall and knew noth ing more. Ho evidently walked home, went to an old trunk, got out the flute, which was his favorite instrument when a bov. and attempted to play it. The doctoraid it was an attack of vertigo induced by excitement. Fleischman hasn't recovered" to-day and is' confined to the house. The singular teatnre r tne anair is Hint he has ?ien manv tjerformances in Berlin. He lias composed a symphony and quartet for stiings, Doth highly praised by critics. He has also written a symphony poem based on Schiller's "Hero and Lean"- Ucr, WHICH AUIUU uciuci jimuui-cii W1WJ great success. Those who know him best sav he suffers from stage frighj precisely as F? chter did when playing a new part lor the first time. Back to the OTd Horns. The Department of Charities has returned Mrs! Bertha Frank and her three children to New York, whence they will he shipped to their home in Berlin, Germany. Mrs. Frank's husband died while they were on .their way to this country, three months ago, ana nis Doay was cast overooaru. one came to relatives in this city, but found them too poor to help her, and having friends in Berlin returned to them by the aid of the authorities. E fa sil-les, Met tei dans lean g mi trail la. 3E H V ' ty-ransl Al Ions, da bout I ' pressez. !, ! "y ' n I la ba - tail - - le. Guerre zc ransl. Al. P sr Pour la ba tail - U. LITEEAL TF.AHSLATIOHJ Come children of tin slaughtered. Load the gnns they wore, now rusted. Freely with Krape shot. War on the corrnptlonist, our tyrants! -Cornel Awakel Close your ranks ' To battle! As our boys of fifteen, Who like giants fouzht fiercely Against Versailles. Rallied round the red fla? Let us risk our lives bravely In battle. We have seen your tri-color Floating with the emperors ' At their feasts. Ours has never been unfurled But at tho rallv cry of Equality In battle. Our standard is flamina- For it has been stained with the noble blood Oi the canaille. For a century Hs 1 eroes Have never learned how to run From battle. In your Dig barrel bellies , We will make, O cow like bourgeois! More than one sword thrust. ' The struggle will be without mercy; Our hearts will bo quite hardened In battle! Women! They gorged themselves WhUe your poor little ones Starved to death. When your children cry from cold Teach them to march in line To battle. Enough of this talk, apathlstst Anger Invades our hearts And cliitches them. Come, arise, and henceforth To those who rob us of onr bread Let us give battle! A WOBLD-FAMOUS SCIENTIST. - Prof, itllry, of-Uncle Jerry's Department, Is Known All Over the "World. At the head of modern economic ento mology stands Prof. C. V. Biley, the Gov ernment Entomologist of the United States. Wherever, in the civilized world, this science is stndied, wherever intelligent farmers endeavor to control the insect ene mies of their crops, his name is known and his writings studied. While holding high rank as a scientist, he is eminently practi cal. Not long ago the "fluted scale" was doing immense injury to the citrus fruit in Southern California. Prof. Kiley learned that in its native home in Australia it was kept in check by its natural enemy, the "lady bird" or "lady bug." So after great efiort Prof Kiley introduced into California hundreds of Australia's lady birds; and now the pest is being speedily reduced to harm lessness. His studies of the Hessian fly and hop fly in England had a direct bearing on Prof. C. V. KUey. English agricultural prosperity, and he was elected an honorary member of the Eoyal Agricultural Society and also of the Ento mological Societv of London. For his ser vices the French Government presented him whh a gold mednl, and honored him with the Crqss ol the Legion of Honor. Piofessor Riley was born in Chelsea, England, and educated in England. France, and later at Bonn in Germaiv. Two pas sions characterized his early life one was his love of natural historv, the other of drawing and piinting A love of travel led him to the United States,-and he settled on a farm near Chicago. Here his attention as directed to the injuries to crops by in sects, and he soon became absorbed in the studv of practical entomology. Some yedrs asro Professor Eilev presented the National Museum with his privatP collection of 113,000 pinned specimens the labor of 25 years, and he has since built up around, that nucleus a collection that is unsurpassed in America. A BATCH OF HORRORS. Overcrowded Japan a Great Source for Hair-Raining. News. Yokohama, April 29. A tempest raged along the coast of Nunoyospinimia, Awagun and Chiba April 1, and of 30 fishing boats out at the time, eight were wrecked and the others had not been heard from to April 12. Nine bodies had been washed ashore from the wrecked craft. The steamer Idzumo Mam, which was engaged in trading be tween Csemulpo and Fusan, struck a rock at the entrance to an island in the Korean Archipelago April 4 and sank. Of 50 per sons on board 13 were saved. Ic is sup posed the others were all drowned. An explosion of firedamp occurred at Floronai colliery Marc'i 18. One hundred and Gf ty convicts and TOO miners were cm ployed in the sollicry, ot whom a number were killed and several fatally wounded. Smallpox is raging in Yokohama, and it is said that several hundred cases have re sulted fatally. Three Qtiuicse junks making for Wen chow were attacked and boarded by pirates. The captain and chief officer of one junk were beheaded and all three vessels looted. MKTmnnfAwjnaGS Sage green, warranted not to run. at Mamaax & bon's, 539 Penn avenue. Tel. 1972. Tnsa v lyv MARRYING A GENIUS. Bessie Bramble Agrees With'Andrew Lang That It's Dans-erons. MOST FAMOUS HEN ARE IHSANE. The Women TOio Are Chained Up to Them Eee Their Seamr bide. INSTANCES FDRNISHED BI HIST0EI vwoitiix roa xns disfatcu.1 Mr. Andrew Lang, the English essayist, strongly advises young women not to marry literary men. "If the majority of girls were ever disposed to aceept good advice in the matter of marriage it is likely they would take thought of the general belief that there is something akiu in what the world calls genius and insanity. But no people receive more of admiration aud indulgence for their faults than those known as men of genius. Their eccentricities are overlooked and excused on the score of their gifts of intellect and power of expression. What are sins in other men are in them simply the errors supposed to ba the natural ac companiments to high-strung sensitive people- of more than 'common intellectual ability. Women who marry such men usually do so through admiration of their talents and blind unreasoning sentiment. The tragedy of an unhappy marriage very often follows. A poet, an artist, a famous writer, whatever may be his failings, appeals to the vanity and soft side of sentimental women, td they fail to see how men inspired by genius, and the producers of such beautiful words and noble works can be aught but lovely in the every-day businss of domestic life. Hilton, one of the greatest of English poets, fell suddenly in love with Mary Powell at the age of 35. TVhat ItSl ton's Honeymoon Revealed. She may have been attracted by his fame as a writer, or his brautv as a man, or by the mysterious illusion of love which so often impels women to marry the men least suited to them, or it may have been the blind chance which brings to so many a blank in the lottery cf marriaze. But the honey moon destroyed the illusion, made the blank a reality,and emphasized the fact that poets, as a rule, are not fitted tor genial, pleas ant companions. They have little or no taste for the sweetness and happiness of domestic life. MiltOn may have chosen his wife through vanity or caprice, as they say most men do. He may have supposed, in the plenitude of his brain power, that his condescension in marrying her and his love, such as he could feel for an inferior being, would be duly appreciated by her in the way of a return ot deferer.ee to his whims and entire submission to his will in all things. He proposed to rule in all matters. He intended to allow no impediment whatever to interfere with his chosen pursuits. His dignity did not suffer him to come down to the small affairs of life. He soared to the sublime and lived upon the heights, while he expected her to dig and delve to secure his daily comfort As a wife, she resented his neglect. She grew weary of his harsh ness. She had no taste for being snubbed. She found that a poet in domestic life was more of an inspired tyrant than an agree able companion. At the end of a month she went home to her people, refused to return, or to send any answers to his demands. Then hb poured out his soul and vented his rage in his writings upon di vorce. Experience Made Him No Wiser. After some time they became reconciled, and aceepted their lot in life as husband and wife. The marriage was not a hanpy one, but after this first wife's death Milton showed himself no wiser by virtue of this experience than before, since he married two others afterward without any happier results. He entertained a low opin ion of the intellect of women, and Dr. Johnson is authority for the statement that he would not permit his daughters to learn to write. However this may be, the fact seems to be that his judgment belied his brains, and that his wives and daughters hated him and complained much of his cruelty. One of his daughters, it is said, on hearing that he was to be married the third time, said that "his marriage was no news; the best news would be his death." His domestic life was unhappv all the way through, which shows that Milton in his choice of wives exercised neither wisdom nor common sense and that the wives in ac cepting a poet, with all his genius and fame, did not consider the character of the man, or else were deficient in the faculty of managing him. The justly celebrated poet, Eobert Burns, with his fitful flashes or poetic fire, his in tensity of passion and vividness of imagina tion, was not a husband to make a wife happy. His "Bonnie Jean" had much to be patient with, much to forgive and much to suffer. Domestic trouble ot his own making cast a cloud over both their lives. The glow and fervor of his brilliant genius were only equaled by the intensity of his disgust with the straits of poverty, and the disappointment of his most cherished hopes. Th- Case of Lord Byron. Poor Byron's story is well known. He was stern, Btoical and revengeful. He mar ried more through motives ot revenge than love. Dutv, self-control, respectability were English virtues he relused to recos nize. Morbid, quarrelsome, cynical, he poured out his wrath upon his wffe without stint. Their tempers were incompatible. He rebelled with all the passionate tury of a great genius against the restraints of domestic life and the conventionalities of society. All the miseries nt a mad mar riage were realized to the full by bcth of them. At the end of a year they Jtpar ated never to meet again. What she saw in him beyond the poet, who can tell? Shellev made a blunder in his first mar riage. Poets, they say, fall in love with the ideal womau, not the real one, hence comes the ott repeated statement that 'great poets who marry are uniformly un happy in domestic life." Women who marry men of genius do so through senti ment, and soon find the end of their illu sions. No man, says Madame de Sevigne, is a hero to his valet, and no poet or genius is a demigod to his wile alter she has dis covered how he can grumble over his din ner, aad make himself generally disagree able as a crank full of tantrums. There is hardly a marriage made Jhat the Mrs. Grun dics do not hold up their hands and wag their tongues to ask what on earth the-nian taw iu that woman to attract him. A beau tiiul woman never weds that there are not hundreds of the brethren to wonderand ask what possessed her to waste her loveliness on that "stupid chump." Jehu W-ley' Unhappy Marriage. What did Johu Wesley with all his gifts of grace aud genius and powers ot judgment see in the Widow Vizelle? That he made an awful blunder is shown bv the fact that they could not live together in peace, aud that their imelicitous marriage was followed by a separation that in those days was con sidered a deep diszracc Somebody says that it is doubttul it a man ever exercises his brain power in his choice of a wife. He mav be an adept in reading men, but a total failure when it comes to women. He may be attr.vcted by beauiy of form or tacs, but when it comes to applying his judgment to discerning character he most frequently proves himself to be a blunderhead. The same incapacity ami lack of faculty is noted as a peculiarity in mcu of genius in the management of 'business. It would seem as if they could not bring their lofty souls down to the everyday details of liv ing. Oliver Goldsmith, with his knowledge ot life, his wealth of intellectual attain mentsof whom Dr. Johnson said: "Whether we take him as a poet, a comic writer or a historian he stands in the first olass was described by Walpole as 15 an "inspired idiot" ?A11 manner of stories is told of his ridiculous blunders, and hs was set down as an "incurable fool" for his inability to manage his own affairs, or to succeed iu keeping out ot debt Banyan Married Improvldently. Bunyan, although he did not make so bad a marriage as some other men of letters, yet relates, that when he and his wife were married, "they had not so much household stuff as a dish or a spoon between them." Her sole portion was two books entitled "The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven," and "The Practice ot Piety." It was a most improvident marriage as the world would judge it. In his opposition to the prayer book, he was willing to give up wife, chil dren, friends and libertv. He did not ex ercise his mind enough to realize that the worst that could happen to him was exile to Americand that preaching dissent was of less importance than the care of his family. K Carl7le confesses in his "Keminiscenses"' that he was a "miserable egotist" in his home and with his wife. She was a wonder fully gifted woman who, for his sake and her pride in him, sacrificed her own ambi tion and became a veritable household mar tyr. He did lull credit to her courage, her talents, her devotion after she was dead in the manner of most men though too vain and selfish, by his own confession, to take thought of her patience, her grace aad nobleness while living. Their marriage was not a happv one. Carlyle lived in his books and studies, leaving "all of the disa greeables and contrivings of poverty to her, that could have been made so much less trying by his sympathy and appreciation, to save him discomfort. Nor did he spars ber the sight of his devotion to other wo men who flattered his vanity, but who, save for his fame, would never have noticed him. What Charles Dickens saw in his wife to do credit to his brains is not known. It 'is very certain that after marriage she saw very little in him for people to make a fuss over. While the world was sounding his praises she discounted them at home bv de preciation. She mortified him in public by saying she did not understarM "whanhey" .. saw in his books to admire so much. To her they were tiresome. As they gre older they grew apart, and finally became so unhappy they had to separate. Dickens found more congenial friends, who flattered him and ministered to his variity, while at home his greatness was not recognized. His wife had full knowledge of his fautts and the seamy side of the"idoI of the public. Behind the scenes it is likely his creative genius was overtopped by bis intolerance as a husband and his neglect of the mother of his children, upon whose good name no cloud had ever rested save that brought upon it by the repudiation of the man who had solemnly promised to love, honor and cherish her until death did them part. The Case of Conat Tolstoi. But the man of letters now, it would ap pear, who most distinguishes himself for queernes aod fanaticism is Tolstoi. Ar rayed in the ordinary dress of a peasant, he works in the fields 23 a day laborer, and de votes his leisure hours nhile entertaining friends in his wife's drawing room to cob bling and making shoes, and as a friend takes occasion to remark vervpoor shoes at that. As related by George Kennan, he has rather a contempt for his earlier novels, which first brought him into fame, and is now engaged iu the promotion of his re ligious ideas, which he bases upon a literal acceptance of the Sermon on the Mount. He ardently upholds that much talked-of, but so little practiced, doctrine of the "brotherhood of man," and finds fault with the United States for crushing the Mormons with oppressive laws, and for forbidding Chinese immigration. He stoutly main tains that the Chinese have as much right in this country as Americans themselves, even it they should come over in such num bers as to completely enslave the country. He also professes complete disbelief in Cal vinistic total depravity, and also Darwinian development, which he describes as a "great deception." That his peculiar views are not shared br his wife and part of his family is well known. It ran well be believed that a wife who is the mother of his 15 children can hardly do other than resent his sentiments as expressed In the "Kreutzer Sonata" on the subject of love and marriage. He seems to share the old ascetic idea thai women are a "painted evil," and that they beautify and adorn themselves, not for lovs ot men, but to lure and ensnare to thein de struction the innocent brethren. How He Ilnml lates His Wife. Like John Bunvan, who was prepared to give up wife and children and reduce them to poverty rather than stop denouncing the established church and a prayer-book clergy, Tolstoi does not scruple to bring unhappi nesx into his home by promulgating the ab surd idea that women are responsible for all the evil in the world that moral disintegra tion, causing materialism, is entirely their) fault. He announces that "99 per cent oi married people have a hell upon earth and this hell cannot be improved" that "nur riase nowadays is a deceit a compulsion" , that by this method ot the marriage of to day troman is "a slave that is being mar keted, and that she is out ever hunting tor a man." What wife would not feel herself, insulted by such sentiments held by her' husband and publicly expressed. Before Tolstoi was married "he declared he had outlived all illusions and had come to the dregs of life." Then he tried marriage. With every year says, a friend, of the family, be becomes more extremeNa,his views". He maintains supremacy In "his house and has reduced all the living to the utmost simplicity. "All refinements of speech and manner," cays this writer, "have become sinful in bis eyes. Every morning he arises with new maggots in his brain." Not long ago he announced that as his works were to benefit humanity, he would no longer take money for them. With a family of 15 children', such lass of means would be serions, so Madame Tolstoi bad to consult friends and lawyers who advised her to take all of the business afiairs into her own hands as much as possible. His writings, alter the fashion of the "Kreutzer Sonta" have grown vulvar, and adapted mainly to the lowest minds. Some ot his children have fallen in with bis fanatical views, but the others repudiate them and li tie wonder. What is the strangest about him is that his "Kreutzer Sonata" written to support the teachings of Christ, as he savs, was yet ruled out of the mails by Mr. Wanamaker, and of the book: counters by, the censor of morals in New York, while most of his later works are under the ban in Russia, much to his regret, as through them he hoped to do much for the regeneration of that country. Sincere and honest as he seems to be, Tol stoi in himself gives strength to the state ment that genius and insanity are nearly allied. A woman therefore should be as careful about marrying a genius as she should in uniting her life and fortune with a German Baron, a French Count, or a for eign nobleman of any description. Bessie Beambxb. CANADIANS 1IU3T PA7 TOLL. Retaliatory Measure to Be Taken for the IVelland Canal Imposition. DnLxrrrr.April 29. Private advices from Washlngton.wbere several Duluth men have been at work in the interest of the great lake channels headwater navigation from Ddluth to the sea, indicate that there is a, strong probability that retaliatory measdres will be taken against Canada beca ise of the imposition ot tolls on American vessels passing the Welland and St. Lawrence canals. When this spring the Canadian Govern ment reimposed tolls on American vessels passing these canals, the attention of Secre tary Bl line was brought to the matter by Secretary Thompson, of the Duluth Cham ber of Commerce, and by-a representative ot the Oswego Board of Trade, and retalia tory measures by charging toil on all Cana dian vess4s passing the Great Sault canal into Lake Superior were proposed. Secre tary Blaine was at once interested in the matter, and altera, number of conferences has come to the conclusion to at once take steps toward inaugurating a system of tolls. In a fewdays the matter will probably bo made public in Washington, X 1 -U- t- !tXS " - 'J -
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