A REM SPOUTS, TVhat an Authority Thinks Anson Is Worth to the Kew York Ball Clnb. LOCAL BASEBALL MATTERS Good Judgment Used in the Proposed Promotion of Buckenberger. THE SLiTIN AND JACKSON FIGHT. A Few of the Leading Foints and Cawes of Defeat Liscussed. JACKSOX ASD EULI.ITAN C01TPAEED If a real close straggle is what is wanted In the contest for the League pennant, patrons of the national game hare nothing to complain about. The first six or seven clubs are remarkably close together, so close that only a few games could make a very big transformation in the positions of these clubs. Thi3 is a very desirable state of affairs, and I trust it will continue to the end. I'm sure nothing could have been more interesting than the see-sawing for positions of the Chicago. Brooklyn, Cin cinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburg teams. They made things very exciting during the wecc just emleil, and it is, indeed, difficult to say how they will finish. But there is another team coming to the first division with c rush; that is the Phila delphia representatives. After struggling auay amid many misfortunes they have made a most brilliant spurt, and irom now on it may be expected that they will make a very stubborn struggle for a place among the first six. It seems to me that they will finish among the first half dozen. The Cincinnati and Cleveland teams are also playing great ball, and it must be very gratifying, indeed, to the patrons of Comiskcy's players to find them holding so well tozcthrr. Most assuredly they were much better last year than their position in the race indicated. Their improvement this year on their work of last year is one more r.rool of what harmony and unity of action can do. Xone of us can overestimate the worth of that clement, and it is beyond all worthy of note that the Cincinnati team have done their best work 6ince the "booz ing" element was taken irom them. Good players no doubt were laid to one side, but the excellent practical knowledge of Comiskey saw that the bad effects of a de bauched player cannot be counterbalanced by his good "work on the field. It no doubt ould require nerve lor Captain Comiskey todrawti.c line tight, but his nerve has uicant success. The Reds are in excellent lnrm sad will make the best of people work lor all they are worth. And the Cleveland team continue to stick to the first division with a tenacity that seems to mean they will star there; or at least they will finish there, they 8re just c energetic a lot of ball players as are in the country. Thev at all times display vizor and their hustling qualities when in a game are remarkable. That's how they keep n well to the irnut The Xew York team continue to cet badly along, and it will surprise many people if there are not tome very important change in tuat club before the summer is over. For some time past a somewbat sen sational rumor has been going the rounds hat Anson is to become manager ot the Aeiv York team. Anson has declared that ne knows nothing about the matter. Ke Jeiring to this matter the other day Sir. Temple, of the local club, said: "It I had the controlling interest in the Sew Ynik club 1 wonld go to Anson and sai: 'What is vour position in Chicago 6rth to you?' It he said about 20,000 a ye.ir I would say come with us and you t-Ur.ll have a five-year contract at 540,000 a ve3r. Anson would be worth that to the ifew York club, because at present the club Is going to ruination." Two or Three Local Features. Misfortune has again laid its hand on the local club 111 the way ot injuring Jimmy Calvin. He has been incapacitated at a time when the team could badly afford it, cad doubtless many people who are chronic cr.akcrs wili blame the management lor Galwn's injury. I am sure it is amusing to liear some or these grumblers. One day this v.eck Ravmond struck out three times md at any time a li't would have won the game. Why, everybody was irothmg at the mouth because ot having such a poor batter theie. On the following day Farrell was at th:rd and Kaymond was on the bench. Fdrrell's big hitting was a mateiial Jactor in winnicg the game, and btrange io say I met a man who actually grumbled because the cna-ige had been made. I mention tins to give the public an idea ol the pleasant surroundings of the club management. Some people are born to grumble at everything and the best way to manage them is 10 let them gruinble. Good, j.racucal men who have been interested in baseball lor very many years emphatically contend that the directors and management ol the local club are doing all that can pos sibly be done to make the team a success. I am suie it anybody will be at the tioublc to investigate matters tacts will be found to bear out the above statement to its fullest extent. Galvin's injury will certainly handicap the team, in fact, already one game at least has been lost by his absence. This is one oJ the misfortunes that nobody is responsi ble for and it is only fair that the results should be looked upon with a generous spirit. If tiie team had another good pitcher it seems to me certain that they would s'and well up in the race. Pitching is the great feature this year and that is Just wiiere the Pittsburgers are weak. Considering the defect it is remarkable that the tejm should be making such a came light ol it. If Euret had not been a disap pointment this year depend upon it the Pittsburg team would have been danger ously near to the top and would have re joined there. rropospcl Prrmotion of Mr. Ttacltenbercer. One of the good baseball features of the treek has been the news rclaiitc.to the pro motion or intended promotion of Manager Buckenberger. Mr. V. C Temple Jias de eded to retire from taking an active part in baseball affairs, lie is a large stockholder n the club and he intends to allow his iu restuicnts to continue there, but as lie has ,ot the time at command to look after them md the club's iutercsts, he has also decided o name Mr. Buckenberger as his successor. In my nay of thinking this is a very wise ,tcp, that is assuming that Mr. Temple in ended to retue under ordinary cir jnnibtaiiecs. To be sure, Mr. Temple has ,ioven himself aierv useful, intelligent aid energetic man in bascball,-and beyond jlt lie has given us all to understand that ie has the courage ol his convictions, when ,e thinks out a course for himself and hinks it u right; most certainly he goes 4bead with it regardless ot the clamonngs mil effusions of those who presume to map iut the course of the club and everybody !oniiected with it. And let me sav that j,is individuality of Mr. Temple is just vhat i" needed in the governing of a Pitts uirg bascbail club. But it is pleasing to :now that while Mr. Temple proposes to tcp down from an official seat he will still ,e connected with the elub, and it is certain hat his counsels will still be given to those rho have the affairs of the club in charge. "Well, it Bccms to me that Mr. Temple ould not have made a better selection than ie has done in securing Mr. Buckenberger. . sttadsWB.. When the latter definitely represents the stock of Mr. Temple most certainly he will become a director, but as far as I am aware Mr. Temple has not said that he will be come President. I don't think that Mr. T. would be so presumptions as to state now what the directors would do or what thev should do. "While nobodv in office has said that Mr. Buckenberger is to become Presi dent of the club, one local writer has stated with a little sourness of temper that there is no possibility of Mr. Buckenberger be coming President of the club. In the name of common sense, why is there no possibility? and what is more, what authority is there for making any such statement? .And let me still sjy further what is the object of such sour remarks about a qualified man as Mr. Buckenberger? If the directors of the club see fit to app"oint Mr. Buckenberger President of their club they would just be proving their good com mon sense. All of them have important business to look after every day and have little or no time to spare to look alter the details ot baseball Mr. Buckenberger has plenty of time. He is intelligent; has a first-class practical knowledge of baseball; is very conservative; is extremely unassum ing; is susceptible to reason and argument; has excellent judgment; is extremely ener getic, and, beyond all, is a gentleman trom top to bottom. Xow, what mistake would the directors make in appointing such a man as that to look after their interests along with such a valuable and tried official as Mr. Scandrett? I'rosprcts of the State t-ue. So far I have had lltrle or nothing to say regarding the Slate League since it has become an existing fact. Before it was definitely organized I questioned the wis dom of putting a State League Club in Pittsburg. So tar results have born out the wisdom of my conjectures. While at other smaller cities the League has been tolerably successful, it has been a failure here as far as patronage is concerned, because there is not and never has been a desire in Pittsburg to support a small professional league team. When I argued this some weeks ago many people would not believe me, but the fact cannot be longer denied. Here we have the leading team of the League; the team are well managed and they are good players, in fact they have put up some first-class ball playing here and still the attendance at the games has been miserably small. Those who have launched the team here deserve much better support, but .when a person does not want a certain article you cannot push it down his throat. "Well, then, it is quite obvious that Pitts burgers do not want State League ball, and it would, therefore, be useless to try and push it down their throats any longer. It is foolish to shut one's eyes with the hope that it will prevent the falling over a preci pice, and it would be just as foolish for any of us to shut our eyes to the fact that there is not a profitable patronage here for a State League club. In many ways this is to be regretted, because those having the club in charge are i.ideed very fine gentlemen. I will not be surprised if the clubis trans ferred shortly to some city further east. A team such as ue have here ought to do very well in Lancaster. Generally speaking, the league, as tar as I am informed, is getting along tolerably well Some of the clubs are paying, and the prospects are good all round. A few of the teams are, ot course, very weak in places, but efforts are being made to have them strengthened. The schedule is only made np to the last of this month, but that does not mean that the sea son will be divided into two sections. There will only be one "race," and it is to be hoped that the various clubs will all hang on to the end. The Snrprislnc Defeat of Slavin. "Well, well, and Slavin was defeated after all What a surprise that Was to most ot us, to be sure. I had thought the result would be different, and had written to that effect in this paper. Last Sunday I said that I "looked tor Slavin to be the winner," for reasons which I had heretofore given in these reviews. Mark you, I gave my reasons for thinking that the colored man would-be defeated, and were the same con dition of things to exist again, most cer tainly I would come to the same conclusion as in the case in question. None of us can be right all the time. I am more than satis fied with the number of times I have hit the nail on the head. Of course, since the contest I have met dozens who "'knew all about it." But be tore the encounter believers in Jackson's ability to win were very, very tew, and even in that small number scarcely a man could be found who could give you a reason for thinking that Jackson would win. When a man tells me that a certain contest ant will wjn this or that and can give no reason for his statement it is no opinion at all; it is merely a guess, and the fact -that so much Slavin money went begging shows that the big majority of those who fancied Jackson were merely guessers. And when the latter class are winners they are,indeed, the noisiest portion of the sporting commu nity. Those who read what I said relative to the chances of Slavin and Jackson will re member I remarked that on public form Slavin had the better of it. I say so still. The public lorm of Slavin was far'ah-ad of that ol Jackson. If we take the Jackson and Corbett contest and the Jackson and McAuIiffe contest and compare them with the Slavin and McAulifle and the'Slavin and Kilrain contest why there should be 2 to 1 on Slavin. It was this summing up of public form that led me to think Slavin would win. Fubllc Form Was Awfully Downed. But once more public form was wofully downed as it has been in the past and will certainly be again. The form displared by Jackson convinces me more than ever that there was something wrong in his contest with Corbett, Before that contest I named Jacksou to win it, and ever since it oc curred I have maintained more or less that he should have won it. He fought like an other man last Monday evening, and, while he may have been in a little better con dition than Slavin was, he proved himself very much Slavin's superior. But Slavin's methods of fighting were just suitable to Jackson and in some respects the contest reminded us cf one of the fights between Mace and King when the former simply won by King's persistence in rushitiz. Many ot us thought tliat Slavin's rushes would "win him the battle and they were just what lost it lor him. I don't say that he should not have "rushed," but his fi-shes were ill-timed. They were done so hur riedly that they as much as anvthing else took the wind out of Slavin. ""Vhy, in the second or third round his best rushes were proving comparatively in effectual and vet he coutin'ued -to do most of the leading. Jackson antici pated the rushing business, and was pre pared for it. He did not indulge in counter rushing, but cleverly broke the force of -the rushes by planting his glove on Slavin's face and stepping to one side. Ol course, Slavin was pounding wind considerably, and that had just as much effect on Sl.tvin as it had on Maber when Fitzsimmons fooled him so much. The strongest man and strongest animal on earth can tire them selves out speedily by wasting their utmost exertion on nothing but air. Slavin says he was soon tired. Why shouldn't he be? He simply rushed into a contest without any judgment, and banged away right and lclt without finding any resting place lor his hands. In the meantime Jackson's 'gloves, though not extremely terrific, were visiting Slavin's eyes and stomach, and Slavin was soon as helpless as a boy. Had Slavin been a better boxer, or had he even exercised better judement or been better advised, matters might have been different. He out-fought himself, and alter he did that Jackson had no difficulty in settling him completely. There has been much said about the terrific blows that Jackson delivered at the finish of the fight. I would like to know what big man there is who could not deliver big blows on a beaten man. It Fitzsimmons nad been helpless in liout of Maher and the latter had had noth ing else to do but hit Fitz, Maher would also have been a terrific hitter and punishcr. Jackson has proven himself a very clever boxer, and'a man who can hit hard enough in a glove contest to worry and gradually weaken anybody, but he is not a "terrible punishcr" bv any means. Had Slavin been able to land fairly on Jackson a few times in the early part of the battle Jackson iirtyrfc1 -fc -- frflBfljMggffajflff ff-fciiJ-- .tZK.mmwmsBSBmatmmmim mi THE would have known something about terri ble punishment. " But Slavin fought like the "thoroughly game nrnn that he is. . He was beaten long before he was knocked out, and few men, indeed, would have faced the inevitable as long and as bravely as he did. There is a deal of satisfaction even in losing money on a nia-i like that. He did not once resort to a "dodge" or a trick to prolong the contest or to help his chances. Something About Jackson and Sullivan. Of course, since the Slavin and Jackson contest there has been considerable talk about the relative merits of Jackson and Sullivan. According to Sullivan, they will never meet, as he is determined not to meet a negro. Why he should be so determined I don't know, but his resolve is somewhat re markable. As long as Sullivan sticks to his resolve we will never know definitely who is the better man, and there will always be a di versity of opinion on the matter. What Jackson would do with Sullivan now I am not prepared to say, but most certainly I know of a time when Jackson would have been beaten br Sullivan in less than ten rounds if he (Jackson) had shown as much fight as he did on Monday evening. Tak ing Jackson's defeat of Slavin as his best ef fort in a glove contest I tail to see how Jackson could defeat a man like Sullivan when the latter is in anything like his best form. Sullivan' is a very much cleverer man than Slavin; in fact, there' is no comparison; he is also a much harder hitter and nad he been as near to Jackson and as often as Slavin was Peter Jackson would certainly have Been a beaten man, providing, of course, Sullivan was in good enough condition to fight. Glove fichting is strictly Sullivan's business and when he is in condition, and anybody is prepared to show any reasouable amount of fighting, they will be knocked out, I care not whether it be Jackson or anybody else.. There is only one way to defeat Sullivan and that is to keep him running around the ring. This "business" might be just as injurious to a big man like Jackson as to Sullivan, because Jackson's legs are not of the best. In short, if Jackson and Sullivan never fight, I will always be one who holds the belief that with both men in condition Sullivan was much the superior man of the two. True, Jack son can come here and throw down the gauntlet, and if Sullivan declines, the col ored man can lay claim to all the titles he wants. He may do this, and there is no reason why he should not. This state of things may occur if Sullivan defeats Cor bett. The Australian on Top. Bnt the Slavin and Jackson affair also re minds one that, take pugilism all round, the Australians are far ahead of any country we know of. In all classes they have front rank men, and it may be safe to say that at no time has any country had a greater num ber of ready first-class pugilists than Aus tralia has to-day. If it were to come to a question of averages neither the United States nor England would have a show. The great feature of the Australian pu gilists is their size. They are not only big and powerful men, but thev are lithe and active. Take Jackson and Fitzsimmons as samples and we cannot find anybody here to equal them in build and activity. It is in this respect that the Australians have so "much the best of it, and I firmly believe that they would be equally as good in a prize ring under London rules. In this I may be mistaken, but they have displayed a knowledge of the fistic business sufficient to lead me to think I am right. There are still more contests pending in which Australians are interested. God dard, the bhj slugger from the Barrier, is to be tested here yet, and if he is anything like as good as" what his record makes him out to be he is another good man. In short, the Australians are in such good form all around at present that it seems dangerous to go against them. The American Championship Contest. Everything is apparently going along all right for the proposed big battle between Sullivan and Corbett. Each party has put ud the second deposit and that looks as if business was meant. When the contest was first 'spoken ot, Sullivan and his friends talked very, wildly about Corbett "bluff," but it now looks as if the Califortiian means business just as much as Sullivan does. Heretofore Sullivan's failing has been his underestimation of the abilities of other people. No matter who he has been going to fight he has always talked abont his op ponent in a way that led people to believe that he (Sullivan) would pulverize his man in two or three minutes. And many people are always ready to believe Sullivan no matter what he says. He did not kill Mitchell nor did he pulverize McCaffrey, and these results held his previous ex pressions up in a ridiculous light. It was because of his failure to knock out either of the men named that makes him so bitter toward them now. Well, now and again Sullivan talks simi larly about Corbett. The truth is that John L. has no idea that he will have the least difficulty in defeating James J. He is convincing a big part of the public of this, that were he to only make a draw of the contest it would be as bad as a defeat for him, so great would be the public dis appointment. The date of the battle is a long way off yet, hut even now it is not out of the way to say that Corbett will be much more difficult to down than Sullivan ap parently thinks. While Corbett may not be a really first-class fighter, he may be able to put one of that class into difficul ties. Pbixgle. THE WEIGHT OF A HOEBK. Some Facts Which Will Unable the Average Person to Judge Correctly. Pearson's Weekly. J Many people, even among those who fre quently make use of horses, have little idea what an ordinary horse weighs, and wonld have hard work to guess whether a given animal, standing before their eyes, weighed 500 pounds or 1,500 pounds. Yet they would have no such difficulty with a man, and would probably be able to guess within 10 or 20 pounds of his weight. The Governments of Europe have long been purchasing and weighing horses for the military service, and transferrins them irom carriage or draught employment to the various branches of the cavalry and ar tillery. The animals are ordinarily N as signed according to weight. The French military authorities find that an ordinary light carriage or riding horse weighs from 850 poundsto900 pounds. Such horses as these arc assigned to the light cavalry corps. The next grata above, which in civil life passes as a "coupe horse," or carriage horse ot medium weight, ranges in weight up to 1,050 pounds. This horse goes to serve the purpose of drill for the cav.alry belonging to the reserve military forces. Above these there are still two grades of heavy horses. The first are those ued for ordinary draught purposes and are com monly found drawing the omnibuses of Paris. They" weigh Irom 1,100 pounds to nearly 1,500 pounds. The heaviest horses are the Clydesdales and Percherons, which are oxen in size and strength, and which weigh from 1,300 pounds up to nearly 2,000 pouuds. Hone of these Percherons of the heaviest weight are employed in the military serv ice; but some of the lighter ones are used for draught and artillery purposes. Her Record as a Typewriter. Mr. George Augustus Sala married his pretty typewriter and amanuensis not many years ago, and now she rewards him by giv ing a personal sketch of her erratic and dis tinguished hubby to the journalistic world. It is a funny melange ot familiar experi ence, gentle adoration and knowing patron age, but quite in the new style of up-to-date journalism. How the great Sala likes it may be imagined when it is remembered that Sala is on the high road to 70, and'when a man gets there, everything goesl Diaxoxds, watches, Jewelry, etc.: no fancy prices: quick sales and small profits at if. G. Cohen's, SS Fifth avenue. PITTSBURG DISPATCH. EVENTS OF THE 'DAY. Count Herbert Bismarck's Engage ment to a Hnngarian Beauty. ERRATIC WILLIAM H. EDRLBERT. Prince dear Gets a Title for the Girl He LoTed fc'nongh to Wed. A BREWER'S GIFT TO A BRID3 OP MAT IWBITTKN FOB THE PISPXTCII.l Count Herbert Bismarck has not been half such a big fish since the Iron Chancel lor, his lather, went into en forced retire ment at Fried richsruhe, but he is still important enough lor the 'world to take some interest in his reported en gagement to the daughter ot Count George Hoyos, a Hun garian nobleman Count Herbert Bismarck, who married ft daughter of the English torpedo inventor Mr. Whitehead. There was a time, not many years ago either, when Count Her bert's choice of a wife would have been a matter of concern to all the courts of Europe. That was when Count Herbert was his father's secretary and representa tive in the Foreign Office, with apparently strong claims upon the succession to his father's shoes as soon as the Crown Prince William became Emperor. But time has tripped np father and son, and the latter not having the substantial abilities or. the magnificent past of his father to fallback upon has almost disappeared from the world's view. His love affairs have frequently been in people's mouths before, for Count Herbert is not good-looking and a man of the world for nothing. In the old days he was wont to paint Berlin more than pink with the young Crown Prince, who, now that he is Emperor, will have noth ing to do with him. Several times he was mixed up in scandals, and once he was reported to have married the Countess Car-olath-Beuthen, with whom he eloped in 1881, but apparentlv this story had no truth. Count Herbert's vanity and haughti ness have not endeared him to the masses. It is said that he feels the loss of his lath er's power very bitterly, for he has not the elder Bismarck's philosophic resignation to any fate. Prince Bismarck at the zenith of his glorious career said to M. de Lesseps: "The pavement ot Berlin, whioh formerly I could not tread without the people I met spitting as I passed to show their disgust forme, is now so crowded with friends when I set foot out of doors that I am reduced to showing myself as little as possible. The day may come when there will again be spi'ttiug'in my path. We are all exposed to this." Humbert's Brilliant and Erratic Career. William Henry Hurlbert's retreat into a monastery may or may not be to avoid a compulsory re tirement of a penal character, but it is not the first time this gifted buterratio man has assumed the garb of re ligion. When he was a young man leaving Har vard College ha was fonder of theology than W. H. Hurlbert. the theater, and questionable females with romantic names had no power to win him from the pulpit. He became a Unitarian minister, and the scdnctive sweetness ot his sermons lulled many a Boston man to slumber, it is said, though even then women found the young preacher not amiss. Mr. Hurlbert might still have a reverend handle to his name and have no need to seek sanc tity in the cloisters of a monastery had he not attracted the eye of a Boston million aire, who chose him to be the moral pilot of his sons through Europe. As bear leader and guardian Mr. Hnrl bert appears to have been a success luckily that wicked "Mr. Wilfred Murray" joined the procession later and that tour un doubtedly brought Hurlbert into contact with the men who alterward pushed him into prominence. The transformation of the brilliant editorial writer into the out 'cast fleeing from justice is a more recent chapter in a checkered career. The latter part of Mr. Hurlbert's life testifies to the truth ot the adage that the old fool has no parallel in youth. The Unrest In Australia, The Australian colonies are not only dis satisfied with dependence upon Great Britain, but some ot them are greatly per turbed about internal affairs. The people of Queensland are excited now by the pro posal of the Northern and Central districts to secede and set up as States for them selves. The colony is of such gigantic pro portions that the people of the various set tlements have entirely different interests.and the general complaint is that the represen tatives of Brisbane and the territory tribu tary to that city control legislation and direct it solely for their own benefit. The dissatisfaction is so intense that another cutting up of the colony is considered likely to occur, unless the Parliament, now sitting in Brisbane, takes prompt measures to al lay the discontent. Enormous as i the "territorial extent of Queensland, it was only 33 years ago that it was chopped off from New South Wales and made a separate colony. When the Amer ican continent shall have been overstocked with humanity, doubtless emigration to such unpopulated lands as Queensland will greatly be stimulated. A Brewer's Gift to Humanity. One of the quaint old customs for whioh London is celebrated makes one of May's brides happy ev ery year. This is the dower pro vided by one Henry Baine in the beginning of the eighteenth century lor one of the girls who have been edu cated at the sclfool founded by'tbe same be nevolent brewer. The dowery .is Anne Matilda Engtlrom. ?000 and the can didates draw lots for it The lottery feature is in fine harmony with the matrimonial in stitution. On May Day this year the -lucky young woman waB Miss Anne Matilda Eng strom, and she was the one hundred and sixty-fourth bride who has been given a start in life in this way. She seems to be a representative of the tidy, trim, class of Englishwomen who adorn domestic service and raise cooking, scrubbing and waiting at table to the level of fine arts. Such schools as that founded by Henry Baine, brewer ot good English ale, are among the best safeguards ot a nation. The training given there is thorough though plain, as outlined in the inscription above the gateway which runs as follows: "Come in and learn your duty to God and man." A Title for Prince Oscar. Prince Oscar of Sweden has been having (n. ""y"jdis MM SUNDAY, JUNE 5. trouble with his name for years, in fact ever since he kicked over the traces of royal pro priety and mar ried the 'girl he loved best, a Miss Mnnck, who wasn't related to so much as a German duke or an Italian count. When he shocked his patrician papa, who claims a glorious de scent from a Zbba Huncl:. French provincial lawyer and a grocer's daughter and owes his royal job to his grandfather, Marshall Bernadotte, one of Napoleon's generals, Prince Oscar willingly gave up all possible claims Xo the throne and assumed the title of Lieutenant Berna dotte, which he has worn since. As a mat ter of fact Lieutenant Bernadotte has bet ter blood, if royal blood be better, in his veins than the King, his father, for his mother was Sophia, daughter of the Duke of Nassau. Miss Munck, whom Prince Oscar was wise enough to marry, was de scribed at the time of the wedding as a typical Northern beauty, worthy to be sung about in any saga and a fit mate physically for Oscar, who really is a superb specimen of manhood, being 6 feet 6 inches tall and broad in proportion. They say the marriage has proved more than commonly happy, but the question of title seems never to have ceased annoying Oscar. Bernadotte is a nice enough name, commemorating a brave soldier and a shrewd monarch, but is not good enough for Oscar. Now he has induced the Grand Duke ot Luxemburg to confer upon him the title of Count Wisborg. His wife, the lovely Ebba Mnnck, i's to share the dis tinction and will be henceforth, or till Oscar gets tired of the name, known as Countess of Wisborg. A Uttln Shootlnz- Down In Mexico. The usually peaceful Maya Indians have evidently grown tired of their placid career. A temporarily successful uprising of their neighbors, the average Yaquis of Southern Mexico, has emboldened them to make war on their own hook. The civil authorities who do not mind such trifles as the rebel lion ot a village or two, draw the line on entire tribes, and have, therefore, notified the excited Mayas to lay down their arms or be exterminated. As Indians are not in the habit of burying the hatchet under such conditions, it is more than likely that a clash between Mexican military and the Mavas will ensue. The result ot such an atiair can hardly be considered problemati cal, it the Mexicans really mean business, as the Mayas are quite lew in numbers at present, at least in Mexico. But there was a time when the Maya population was spread over nearly all of that country and Central America. Al though, as previously intimated, they are unusually quiet and peaceful, their history since the conquest in 1547 has not been en tirely uneventful. For more than 200 years they maintained a passive resistance to Spanish rule, and then in 1761 engaged in a general revolt Since that time there have been several revolutions, the most import ant of which occurring in 1846. during the Mexican War with the United States. The revolutions were each time suppressed, but not without considerable trouble. At the conclusion of each affair the Maya territory has been divided and the different tribes separated until now they retain but little of their old power excepting on the coastlands of the Sierra Alta in Yucatan, to which the greater number withdrew after their last difficulty. The tribes at present in trouble are isolated on the Miya river. JOnNS-KATJTSULNir. IACT8 ABOUT DIVISION. Bales That Will Be ot Use to Those Who Bo Sluch Flgnrlnc;. A friend of The Dispath writes as fol lows: One who does a great deal of figur ing often feels the need of some systematic method of arriving at a conclnsion without spending o much time. Here are a few simple rules that will be of aid in division. A number is divisible by 3 when the sum of the figures in it is divisible by 3; thus 1,131 is divisible by 3, from the fact that the sum of the figures In the number (1 plus 1 plus 3 plus 1), which is 6, is di visible by 3. Four will divide a number only when the number formed by the last two figures in the number is divisible by 4; thus 4 will di vide 924 owing to the tact that 4 will divide 24, the number formed by the last two figures. Five will divide a number when it ends in 5 or 0. Six will divide an even number if it is divisible by 3. There is no short way of ascertaining whether 7 will divide a number exactly or not. Two rules must be followed for 8 as a di visor. It will divide a number when the number formed by the last two figures is divisible by 8 and these two figures are pre ceded by an even number. For instance, take the number 624; 8 will divide 24 and 24 is preceded by the even number 6. Eight will also divide a number when the number formed by the last two figures is divisible by 4 and not by eight and these two fignres are prece-'ed bv an odd number; thus in the number 728, 4 will divide 28 while 8 will not and 28 is preceded by the odd num ber 7. Ten of course will exactly divide a num ber only when it ends with a cipher. There is no rule lor 11, excepting that we can tell that 11 will divide a number when there is an even number of figures in it and thev are all alike thus, 77 or 2222, etc., or if there is an even number ot figures, and the first and second are alike and the third and fourth are alike, etc: thus 1,122 or 339,922. Of course anyone would see, this at a glance, so there is no need to use this as a rule. Twelve will divide a number if It is divisible by both 3 and 4. There is no short way of determin ing whether 13 is an exact divisor or not Tf 7 is an exact divisor of an even number, 14 will also divide it. If a number ends in 5 or 0, and is divisi- i ble by 3; 15 will also divide it There is no snort way oi ascertaining directly whether 16 will exactly divide a number or not, the best way being to divide the number by 4 it possible and then by 4 again, if possible. With 17, it is the same as with 7, 11 and 19; there is no short way of ascertaining. .Eighteen will divide an even number if 9 will. With number 9 the same rule applies as with number 3; i.e., 9 will dividea number it the sum of the fieures in it is divisible by 9: thus 113,247 is divisible by 9, from the iact that the sum of the figures in it (1 plus 1 plus 3 plus 2 plus 4 plus 7), which is 18, is divisible by 9. All Want to Be Blonde. Boston Globe. It is Interesting to know that an intelli gent hairdresser claims that blondes cannot be done away with; that blondes are essen tially the beauties of civilization, and that they cannot be driven away. He says that the blonde can dress more effectively, and that a well-kept blonde hasten years' ad vantage in the point of youthful looks. You cannot expunge her in favor of the brunette even in literature, for in the novels turned out during the past year there have been 382 blondes to 82 brunettes. Natural Hlstorjr Plates on ihs Doors. The difficulty experienced in European travel of finding one's railway carriage after leaving it to enter the station has been met experimentally on the Paris and Lyons route. A "natural history plate".is put conspicuously on every door, presenting the figure of some bird, beast, reptile or insect Bcqixe Is a safe, sure and absolute de stroyer or roaches, bedbuss and all insects. 23 eta. 189a 75 SLEEK BEAUTIES. Murray Goes to Indian Lake and Poses as a Trout Fisherman, AND HE HAS GRATIFYING LUCK. A Terr Ead ITabit of Hooking" Them in the a ail, but He Gets There. THE S0ENEET AND AN OLD PULP MILL tronRXRPOJtnEii ce or the dispaich.i Mountain View House, Adieoit dacks, June. 3. The trout captnred hy the amateur sportsman1 usually come high. Mine have generally run from 55 to $10 per pound. On special occasions I have in vested even that much per ounce avoirdu pois. That is the reason trout have gold spots on them. They are as illusive as gold dollars drawing men afar off into by and hidden paths of the wilderness to un dergo all sorts of privations and dangers and downright, vulgar hard work work which you couldn't be induced to perform on a salary. You can buy a silver mine of the first curbstone broker in Wall street with more certainty of its panning out a fortune than you can 'find trout in paying quantities when you invest your time and money in piscatorial researches. It is a good deal easier to find men who have caught hun dreds of trout and know all about them. My experience has taught me to avoid tips on trout with the same cautious firmness to be observed as to tips on the winning horse. And above all things, in this connection, be ware of "trout river," "trout lake," "trout pond," "trout run," etc. Avoid the Name of Trout. I have fished in American waters from Trout river on Lake Huron, above Mack inac, to the Oulf of Mexico, and have never yet caught a trout in any stream, lake, pond or other water bearing the name of "Trout" I don't say there is neither truth nor trout in any of them but merely that I tried and failed to catch any. It is true 1 have had lots of fun trying, and have no tears to shed now. But, measured Irom the point of view of so many and such a weight of trout, my efforts in such so-called trout waters have been so many miserable failures. Had I not almost invariably been accompanied on these expensive and, in a certain sense, ex haustive investigations by more experienced and expert handlers ot the rod, I would modestly put it down to gross incapacity. In the face of this personal experience, however, 6trongly reinforced by the pri vately expressed opinion of other unfortu nates,. I may be pardoned for disregarding the testimony of those who have seen per sons who knew a man who had a distant relative who coaxed fabulous numbers of trout from so designated waters. Having thus relieved my conscience by an honest confession of the burden which has worn some holes in it, I approach the subject of trout fishing in a more gladsome spirit. If I could convey in words the spirit of this scene I am sure every lover of the rod and reel would share that spirit with me. A Day's Catch of Seventy Five. For only such a lover can appreciate the joy of a successful day on the water. With the day s catch ot vo sleet and golden beau ties to my credit, the all-day swish of the rob and splash ot the glistening game still in my ears, the soulful comforts of this simple mountain inn, the internal satisfac tion of a royal supper of fresh trout, baked potatoes, home-made bread, fresh butter and eggs and rich milk, curds of cream and pre serves, tea, coflee, etc., followed by a good cigar on the porch overlooking the lake, whence 17 verdure-clad mountain peaks can be counted, I am at peace with all the world. The day is closing. The sun creeps slowly down behind the western range. The un caught myriads of the speckled tribe over in Indian Lake may rest safely till the mor row. The picturesque looking guides are lolling about their end of the porch laugh ing harmoniously at our jokes. The sub dued sound of voices from within indicates a lively discussion of various forms of roy alty. We can only hear now and then something about "three queens," "no good," "pair of kings," etc., but do not follow the debate. The impressive solitude of the expanse ot forests that skirt the waters and climb the rugged mountain slopes weighs solemnly upon the outer scene, but the fascination ot the society of a certain Jack Potts is too much for the average sportsman. The mountains and forests and solitude are not in it beside a pair of aces in hand and two in the bush, Indian Lake Fall of Trout. To the difficulties of access this lake prob ably owes its wealth of trout. In a few months this difficulty will disappear, and gradually the trout will disappear also; for Dr. Webb's Adirondack Rill road runs di rectly past the plaee, within 100 tret of this honse. Mountain View. With these things will come "society," and the piscatorial pleasures of the solitary lake buried in the mountain-bound forests will have forever vanished. The natural scenic beauty of the Salmon river has few counterparts. The river is a succession of falls and rapids tor the entire distance. Here and there it plunges down the gorge, a mighty cataract, with a rush and a roar and clouds of spray, to seethe and boil and ripple over the stones for a minute, then to take another tumble of 20 to 30 feet, or a succession of hop-skip-and-jumps. The broken water is of a peculiar salmon tint, and as it flows over a dam in the sun light exhibits brilliant hues of amber and gold. It is, you may well imagine, beauti ful to behold. This is spring water,and is as cold as ice the year round. Beneath'these dams and rocky talis, in the dark shadows, lurk the speckled trout. From the foot hills can be seen the St. Lawrence river shining in the sun 50 miles away; the spires of Malone bristle in the foreground below together one of the loveliest visions I ever beheld. To Dellcht the Artist Soul. At the foot of one ol the lower falls is an old pulp mill, half shyly concealed in the canon; the high, rude wooden flume carry ing the water into the top of the mill, the surplus pouring over the natural dam in a smooth cylindrical and beautifully tinted sheet. The whole, in itsdarkgreen setting, forms a picture that would gladden the ar tistic soul. There are two or three small sawmills on the Salmon river between Ma lone and the State dam, but the splendid re sources of that grand water power are prac tically undeveloped. Some distance above the pulp mill, and running within 1,000 feet, are Chasm Falls, giving a drop ot 112 feet and 90 leet respectively, which, I am told, will aflord 2,500 to 3,500 horse-power eight months in the year. There is a popu lar impression that the Adirondacks have been denuded of wood. It is a great mis take. There are several thousand acres of spiucc timber within a mile to four miles ot Salmon river. With judicious cutting the supply of papermaking wooTl is prac tically inexhaustible. It could be delivered at Chasm Falls lor trom 1 50 to 53 00 per cord, whereas it costs in Maine from $3 75 to 54 00 delivered, and in Denver 56 00. The purity of the water makes the matter of filtering a very simple process, as I ob served In the present mill. There is ample storage room and natural reservoirs. With a great water power going to waste, an im mense forest of paper, wood, cheap labor and direct transportation paper could be manufactured here half a cent a pound cheaper that it is now being made. Bow Pulp Is Manufactured. A pulp mill is probably a novelty to most people. It is a verv siinple concern. The spruce logs are delivered green about ten feet long, placed on a circular saw frame and cut into two-foot lengths, or therea bouts. These pieces are stood on end at the exposed side of rapidly revolving- "barker," and pressed against it by hand. This takes the bark off as slick as a razor eould cut butter, and the shavings are blown out in the rear in clouds. When the feeder has revolved the stick around against the wheel so as to trim the outside of completely, the wood is placed in a square box at the foot of another machine. This box is a sliding, or telescopic one, and within it a powerful hydraulic power presses the wood up against a big grindstone revolving horizontally like a millstone, and this stone reduces the wood to fine pulp in a twinkling. Filtered water is run through the machine steadily, and the pulp flows off with it and is pumned up through a tube ami falls from the latter into a vat. From this point the process is that ot a paper mill,' the pulp flowing upon a carrier at first and then between rollers. When enough of it is gathered upon the last roller to form a sheet about a quarter of an inch thick the workman runs liis fintrer rapidly along the roller and cuts the soft blanket, strip ping it off in an instant, and folds it np and thus it is packed away. In this shape it goes to the paper mill, and, eventually, on your breakfast table in the shape of a daily paper. There are hundreds of thousands of millions of newspapers growing in the Adi rondack forests, to sav nothing of dime novels, Sunday school books and other va rieties of literature. The pulp is delivered to the paper mill containing a large per centage ot moisture, and this iact makes heavy freight charges. A Red Hot Stove In June. We arrived at the State dura in the heaviest ulsters and winter garments and fonnd a cluster of half a dozen others round a red hot stove. The last two or three miles of road were about as bad as anything could be, which is to say that the road is some thing like other mountain roads a suc cession of unfathomable ruts cut into a black sticky soil and liberally povided with unsuspected stones and rootsa com bination calculated to stimulate a torpid liver. From a fisherman's point of view I hailed these evidences of natural savagery with secret satisfaction. It was not, how ever, until I got in here, splashed with black mud and thoroughly shaken up, that I wai happily reassured that no conventional watering-place young man would suddenly obtrudo himself' and his clothes. I really don't think I could have stood it just then. Lounging about the porch, waiting for their prey, were half a dozen guides in rough woo'dsman attire one in a Garibaldi blazer and knickerbockers, tor all the world like a Swiss guide in the Alps. The faces of three or four pretty domestics appeared around the corner of the old-fashioned log house only to vanish when their curiosity was returned. This mountain house is neat ness itself, and the eight or ten rag-carpeted rooms with spotless beds and hangings un der the roof please the eye and give marvel ous comfort to the weary body. There are fishing and hunting scenes hung upon the walls, and photographs of camp anil- boat galore, while antlered heads and oars and guns and fishing tackle and landing nets and other paraphernalia of the ohase and the stream serve as tangible reminders oi our present purpose. Snow on the Mountain Top. There are 12 bodies of water within easy reach of this spot said to abound with trout I have no reason to disbelieve this state ment after a day upon Indian Lake. The State dam was built at the head of Salmon river by the State of New York to store this water and 'has the effect to raise the level of the lake some five or six feet The bottom is hard sand and the water is pure, clear and cold from its spring sources. The morning after our arrival in the cold rain saw the surrounding mountain peaks white with a, light snow. Indeed, the 'just blossoming shrubs and the first squirrel-ear leaves indicate the early season and the early worm. But the mountain clouds had a trout lin ing; the sun came out to kiss away the snow and light the shaggy forests into emerald beanty glistening with diamonds. When five boats pulled away one after another the ulsters lay open at the throat and the limpid waters flashed from the oars in sil very sheen. Each man had a guide, and my guide was the first man ont His name is Adam. The last man was called Dennis, though he got as many fish as Adam. Adam is small and dark-skinned and tough and wore rubber boots that came up to his thighs and a summer suit of bine flannel. Adam bad a lovely trout rod and reel care fully encased in a wooden overcoat, ana my rod was an ordinary hoop-pole our bait the vulgar angle worm'and usual flat bottle. Piscatorial Dudes Are a Failure. Adam is an expert and companionable fisherman, and can pass the bait on the end of a paddle with exceeding celerity and grace. I once thought it beneath my dig nity and the dignity of a trout to tender the latter anything short of very expen sive and wonderfully constructed flies, with a silver-plated 510 outfit; but I have gotten bravely over that, having observed that a man with-worms at the end of a tow string usually gets more fish than the piscatorial dude. Adam has the correct idea he says the main thing is to get trout It doesn't matter how yon get them in the boat This remark was evidently made to soften my humility at having 'caught my first trout somewhere In the vicinity of the tail. Adam was somewhat surprised but so was the trout The fact that I hooked my game, however, was indisputable. But when in the course of the day I had hooked two or three more in various parts of their anatomy other than the mouth, Adam said I must have learned trout hslung in Fulton market, which I liberally interpreted as equivalent to what is known on the Eastside ot New York as having a "lead pipe cinch." A little later I pulled in two at a time, a trick performed repeatedly in our boat and four times by myself. Breaking the Mountain Man's Spirit. Then I got a nice big fellow that had swallowed both hooks, which caused a smile of contempt to flit acro'ss Adam's brown face. He didn't say much, but I noticed when he returned the bait from his end of the boat on his paddle immediately after ward the contents had fallen away about half an inch. Then I knew the intensity of his feelings. However, between hooking them in the tail and letting them roam around for a few minutes with a couple of hooks In their stomachs crying to be pulled in, and yanking them in two at a time, I trot 32 trbut before noon. As I ascertained at dinner that this was better than any one man had taken I felt very much flattered at my results if I didn't brag about my new methods. We marked our spot on the lake with a couple of pine chips anchored by a string and returned to it later to do a great deal better in the afternoon. This luck continued until evening, when the catfish began to trouble us. Having at the last moment taken several big cats and innumer able kittens, we gave it up, and, like a good Sunday school class, pulled for the shore. Thrj Are the Real Trout. I never caught trout before. That is to say, what trout I have landed heretofore were relics of what had been they were few and far between, compared to this catch bard to get at and difficult to inveigle. And yet this is really not a trout season. In the trout season I presume the trout of In dian Lake will rise at a red nose and jump into the boat to get it Usually it is im possible to get fish enough to eat At Malone, 13 miles away, we got last year's blue fish. I never before got the fish ot the neighborhood at any fishing resort The fish invariably came from abroad. Here we live on trout Trout tor break fast, trout for dinner, trout for supper: Metaphorically speaking, we are just satu rated with trout. If any man could not here satisfy his hand, head and stomach within a week he i3 no lover of worms that's all I have to say. Ciiahles Theodore Mtjekat. Origin of the Liberty Caps. NewOrleansricaynne. When the Romans manumitted a slave his head was adorned with a small red cloth cap. As soon as this was done he was known as a libertinns, or frcedman, and his name was registered among others of the city's "tribes." .In the year 263, when Saturninus invaded the capital, he hoisted a cap on the point of his spear to indicate that all slaves who rallied around this standard should be free. This was the origin of the liberty cap, still used in art as a symbol. IB GROUPS OF STATUARY For the World's Fair, Representing the Forces of Civilization. THEY WILL BE OF HEROIC SIZE. Cesigns in Detail to Eeautifj- the Admin istration Building-. FIGDEES WHICH BYMOLIZB PIM rWltlTTIlT TOE THE DISPATCH. 1 The Administration building, designed by Richard M. Hunt, is likely to be the most interesting and beautiful of all the build ings at the World's Fair. The directors have decided to increase the vast exterior attractions by means of symbolical groups ot figures, which wiil be placed around the base of the dome, on the npper rotunda and in front of the entrance on the gronnd sur face. The groups will be placed in pairs, and will cleverly symbolize the great forces of civilization in the progress of man. The figures at the base of the dome will be eight in number, typifying Art, Industry, Peace, War, Theology, Justice, Science and Commerce, while the figures at the base of the upper rotunda will embody the attributes of civilized man as distinguished from the savase. These are to be arranged in 12 different groups, 18 feet in height They wilt portray Abund ance, Strength, Liberty, the Chase, Agri culture, Unity, Beligiou, Amusement, Charily, Patriotism, Tradition and Truth. Preparing the Allegoric il Fl:ures. Mr. Carl Bitter, the sculptor, has engaged an extra force of workmen in his studio, who will be kept busy until the day of open ing. All of the clay models are to be made in New York, where every attention can be given to the work by both architect and sculptor. The fignres are all mol'jed one sixth ot the required size when thev ara sent to Chicago and enlarged for the build ins:. The eight groups around the entrance will be 32 feet high, typifying the forces of nature in their wild state und as subdued and made useful by the genius of man. Tho subjects illustrated wiil be Fire, Earth, Land and Water. One of the most important ot the fisures around the dome is Justice, represented by a female figure, fully draped and seated upon a throne. In her left hand she holds the sword and scales and in her right a floral wreath. The outspread wings indicate swiftness and full preparation for flight at a call lor justice. The effect is completed by two cherubs with trumpets on either side. As these figures are 150 feet above tho ground it was necessary to make them prom inent, and they were designed 22 feet high, with a distance between the outspread wings oi 24 feet War ii suggested in a group of three fig ures. Bellona sils upon a cannon, holding in her ontstretched hands a laurel wreath and furled banner. There are two minor figures on bended knees with trumpets raised, ready to resent an insult by defend ing honor with arms. Peace is quietly resting on partially folded wings. Tho Spirit of Commerce. Commerce is represented br a figure seated upon a pile of corded bales Bud" boxes, the fruits that her sister Industry has reaped. An anchor rests upon the bale at her right from which a chain has fallen to her feet. With one hand she holds a laurel while the other grasps a wand of Mercury. The cherubs common to these groups are here blowing their trumpets to urge forward trade. Science, draped, is surrounded by her instruments, globes, books, etc., while the expression por trayed is one of intense earnestness. In Art the female figure is nearly nude, with, outspread wings, as ii about to fly. Dtl'gonca. The expression of the male figure Is the ak legorical grouping representing "Strentth, is stern. A lion rests beside him, and he Is surrounded by shields and trophies that ha is supposed to have captured in war. Tha female fisuro in "Amusement" Is seated upon a chair covered by a panther rnj;. Vine leaves and grapes are entwined abont her head and she holds a wine cup in her1 hand. A nude boy is at her feet playing a flute. The old man typifying "Tradition' is seated in a chair, surrounded by books, globes and a raven, but he is apparently ab sorbed in the boy at his feet, to whom he is relating stories ol olden times. "Dili gence" will become a prominent subject. The female figure here is fully draped, and ber feet are covered by sandals, which rest upon the Uni'y. fiedestaL Her attention ha been called rom the wheel at her left by tbo youth ful figure at herright,who is unsuccessful in his efforts to induce her to abandon her task. The two male figures in Unity ara clad in armor, and furnish material for careful study. The father bids god-speed to the yonth kneeling at his left, resting upon a shield. Fire is portrayed by a series of allegor ical figures. In the first. the element in its native, unrestrained fury is typified by a figure. A fireman ignites a pile of wood at the base, irom which another figure arises with a serpent coiled about her arm. The look of anguish is in strong contrast to the furious expression depicted on the face of the one who lights the pile. The wind, shown by a male figure at the left, raises his head'to the fire, giving it force and di rection by blowintr. The scene changes in the accompanying group, showing fire as governed by man, when the wind lies help less at the bottom of the pile, with the hammer of the blacksmith resting npon his breast The figure before a flame is now shown with a torch the best gift front light in its various forms. K. T. Bconra will banian roaches, bedbugs, eta, from jour .house forever, is cents.. V-'LN- i I fc ""At! vy h y i 'V AM9.:
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