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THE PlTTSBUKGr DISPATCH, SUNDAY, JULY 10, 189&
1.
ft REVIEWQFSPORTS.
Bemarks About the "Wind Up
of the First Half of the
Baseball Season.
THE SALAEY CUTTINGPLAN
Unfair Dealings With Good Players
on the Part of Magnates.
THAT PRIZE PACKAGE SYSTEM.
PfcDuielpM Amateur, and Their Trtaf
Kent of These Who Help Then.
TALE ABOUT THI LIADIira PUGILISTS
On "Wednesday next the Xjeague pennant
for the first hall of the season trill hare
been iron. The first race ends that day and
two days later the second contest starts.
There is comparatively littlo enthusiasm
concerning the first race, certainly not as
xnnch as was anticipated and not as mnch as
there shonld be.
The first contest has been a good one, al
though the Boston team have had the best
of It all along. Had they been just a little
-weaker the argument would hare been a
very exciting one. Besides their being
rery strong they haye been extremely fort
unate and I renture to say that had the
Brooklyn and Philadelphia teams been as
fortunate as the Bostons from first to last
the Bostons would not now have been in first
place. But altogether the race has been a
rery good one, and the finish will be ex
ceedingly Interesting. "We cannot say for
Of rtain how the clubs will stand at the fin
ish and this shows that in some respects the
contest has been a good one.
To be sure, almost every club intends to
do better in the second half, particularly
those clubs whose team are below the first
four or five in the race. This is very
cheering but I qucstionvery much whether
the second half will be as good as the first
half has been, in the way of enthusiasm. It
seems to me that the public has nearly
had enough of this over-grown thing, the
12-clnb league, and the second half of the
season may be so devoid of enthusiasm as to
cause several of the clubs to drop more
money than has been anticipated. One
thing is quite apparent, viz, that the
magnates should, by all means, see that the
Baltimore team is made into something
like a ball team or else it will be dimcult to,
hire gate keepers to officiate when they a:
playing.
And would it not be better to abandoj
that very foolish and arbitrary rule confi:
leg eaoh club to 13 players during the si
ond nairr l imagine it would, xnis ri
of limitation is simplr an undue curt:
ment of individual right and a decided e
bargo on individual enterprise. If a cl
can afford to carrv 15 men eo as to be
pared tor emergencies and give the pulllic
a eood article as much as possible, w hv
ehould that club be confined to 13 mfcn?
This system is dragging the standard down
to the lowest instead of trving to lift 'the
lowest to the highest. This is very .bad
policy indeed. f
Troubles of the Western Iaarja.
Those people who have heel all along
trying to bolster up the "Western League
and have been from time to time misrepre
senting the state of affair concerning it
must now change their tnne. The present
condition of thiags prevents any further
misrepresentation of facts. The Western
League and its very, childish prize-package
system ol organizing clubs is doomed.
At tEe beginning of the season there ap
peared in The Dispatch an interview
with Manager Cushman, of the Milwaukee
team, regarding the system of casting lots
lor players or teams, ilr. Cushman, at the
time, strongly opposed this method of run
ning the baseball business, and expressed
opinions regarding it similar to those that
1 ad been advocated in this paper on many
occasions. As a manager, he contended
that it simply made him powerless in the
selection of his players. Outsiders gave
him ins team, the iate of a lottery bag
was the principal agent and the players
were made into teams according to the ca
prices of men who were not to manage them.
The leading principle of the system will
not bar the slightest investigation. Its
most direct aim is to kill all individual
effort and originality in the formation of a
ball team; indeed, it would be just as if the
lottery ha; was held out daily to see
what teams were to have the victories.
Baseball must be run on principles of
hone&ty and lair competition and if this
cannotbe done it will never be run by the
infantine and mechanical method of a lot
tery bas.
It is quite true that other factors have
more or less entered into the troubles of the
"Western League, but I hold that the prime
cause lias been the system on which the or
ganization is built. Rainy weather has re
duced the attendance on many occasions
certainly, but on the finest days and with
no counter attractions games have been
played to less than 109 people. Lack of
enthusiasm is alone responsible for this
and I claim that the mechanical method of
making up teams and assigning players to
this or that city has been the death of en
thusiasm in the Western League to a very
great extent.
Baseball magnates must know that public
sentiment has almost everything to do with
their business. There are many occasions
on which that sentiment desires a certain
player, and ii that sentiment is pandered to
and big successful eflort made to secure that
player, depend upon it the public will re
spond with a great patronage. No further
5 roof of this need be cited than the case of
Ir. J. Palmer O'Neil in getting a team to
gether the hrst season after the collapse of
the Brotherhood League. These elements
must not be lost sisht of. Beyond all, any
baseball organization that has to last must
be built on solid principles and not on
wrong-working notions that are only attrac
tive as little nursery room theories, and
which vanish entirely" when investigated by
matured common sense.
"1 he Salary Cn line Method.
The magnates have finally hit upon what
Eeems to be a verv eflective plan ot cutting
down the salaries ot the ball players, and.
they are putting this plan into operation
with a determination that looks like busi
ness. Players whose salaries are too high
to suit their employers are notified that
they must submit to' a reduction. If the
players refuse, they are given ten days'
notice of release, and when the ten days
have expired their names are put into what
is called the "pool." Clubs that want
players put iu application to President
Young, who assigns players from the "pool"
tn the mcniriivF rlnh. Tint the clllh that
have released the good players because of
their salaries being too big apply to the
'pool" for the same players, and of course
they, the players, are assigned to these
clubs at a much lower salary. If these
players still refuse to accept the reduced
salary they are, to put it mildly, boycotted,
as uone ot the other clubs are allowed to
en?aze them.
If ow, I don't for a moment contend that
salaries have not been too high, but I do
contend that there bas been no la.tr com
pelling magnates to pay high salaries. Only
the expectation of realizing profitable re
turns lor the big salaries paid have prompt
ed club officials to pay these high figures.
And the magnates have just as much right
to refuse to pay high salaries, but I ques
tion their fairness in dealing with the ball
player as they are doing now.
players were signed at certain salaries the I
latter to obtain for the season. This condi- I
a.1 me Beginning ox tuo season oeriu
tlon has been violated by the magnates and
violated In a very questionable way. Let
us take the cue of Tony Mullane as an ex
ample. His case will illustrate others.
Mullane was signed to pitch ball for the
Cleveland club at a certain salary. He
commenced to work and has done his work
well, so well that there is no fault at all
about his work. The plea is made that the
club is not making sufficient money to pay
the salary bargained for aud a reduction is
claimed. Mullane objects and he has a per
fect right to object because his employers
have so arranged matters that not only will
they not.pay him the salary contracted tor
but'no other club will. This kind of thing
occurring in the middle ot a season is cer
tainly getting matters down to a despotic
point with a vengeance.
Another View of the Matter.
But there is still another very interesting
feature in this salary cutting business. The
magnates may deem themselves right in
violating contracts by slashing salaries in
the middle of the season because of poor re
ceipts, but let me ask did they ever in
crease salaries systematically in the middle
of the season when receipts were gocd?
There are many poorly paid men in the
League at present and good players at that.
"Well, if the clubs had been making money
would the magnates have gone to New York
in the middle of the season and agreed to
increase the salaries of all their poorly paid
players? Most certainly tbey would not.
The truth is that good League plavers are
going to have to pay for the awful blunder
of adding imnecunious cities to the League
circuit. A huge and a rotten-at-the-core
baseball monopoly has been formed which is
directly injuring good baseball cities and
wrecking the prospects of good players.
Temporary success to a greater or less de
gree may attend these monopolistic efforts,
but most assuredly there will be a collapse
in the long run. By all means, let mag
nates reduce salaries if they wantto but
let them do so honorably and on principles
ot justice and fair play. To say the very
least, It would only be fair to allow a
player to try and get his salary contracted
tor from some other club if his own cannot
pay it in the middle of a season. No player
would, by any means, be allowed to leave a
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object of increasing a verypoor salary into
a good one.
Baseball magnates ought to be very care
ful in formulating these new and very
strange plans ot theirs. Unfairness begets
discontent and nothing flourishes more rap
idly than discontent when it once gets fairly
rooted. "We have seen that already as far
as baseball is concerned and in wielding
their present monopolistic power the wise
acres of the Leagueshould be very, very
careful lest a mineis suddenly sprung be
neath their feet, s There is nothing to fear if
fair dealing is the order of the day.
Courtesies? or Philadelphia Amateurs.
A week ago yesterday three or four Pitts
burg anuhur swimmers went to Philadel
phia tcf compete in the swimming contests
there. ji They had hopes of winning a medal
or two, because they are good swimmers,
and that fact will be fully understood when
itris stated that Messrs. Flower and J. T.
I laylor were two of the Pittsburgers. But
Whey did not get any medals, "and, according
f Ia t-Annrro narav rien tna rrnncf nf o iIiaw f
getting any medals, simply because the
Sromoters of the swimming contests were
etermiued that no medals should come to
Pittsburg. ,
A Philadelphia correspondent has written
me on the subject, and if what he fays is
true, and I have no reason to doubt his
word, the contests were simply a disgrace
to those people who managed them. The
contests were held, I suppose, under the
auspices of the A. A. S. N., and certainly
that organization ought to be called to
question on the matter.
An eyewitness states that Mr. i lower, or
Pittsburg, who was conceding a handicap of
14 seconds in the 100-yard race could cer
tainly have won if he had received anything
like fair play. As soon as Mr. Flower
caught his men he was crowded by his
opponents, some of them pushing their feet
in his face. To be sure, a man is sure to
keep in front of his competitor to get a foot
hold on his opponent's face. That method
of swimming may be the common method
in Philadelphia, but it is not known here or
any place where fair play is guaranteed. To
be sure, Mr. Flower claimed foul but the
officials couldn't see where the foul came in.
Mr. Taylor was also ruled out and he and
his friends are entirely at a loss to under
stand what for, except it be that he was
swimming too fast.
It is, indeed, a very great pity that such
unpleasantness should characterize amateur
contests. Such conduct as is charged to the
Philadelphia amateurs v as, I had thought,
only to be found among the lowest grade of
professionals. If honor, fair play and gen
erosity do not characterize amateur athletic
contests of all kinds they will sobn lose
their popularity, and if there is anything in
the charges relative to the Philadelphia
contests, for the cake ot the sport generally
they ought to be investigated. Mr. Flower
is a member of the Three A's, aud that or
ganization should make inquiries regarding
the matter. The report of the contests, as
published in one Philadelphia paper, fully
bears out the charges.
Ilom-wood Parle Summer Knees.
Next week our annual summer race meet
ing will round again, and doubtless if
fine weather prevails there will be thou
sands of people out at Homewood Park
every day ot the meeting. As far as the
entries are concerned. Secretary Mc
Cracken states that the meeting promises to
be a great one; indeed one of the best.
Most assuredly the races will be interesting
because the meeting is the first of the Grand
Circuit, and a number of horses not very
well known will be introduced to the
have been very busy for a long
time getting the track into first-class con
dition. As a result of this labor the trotters
will have Just as 'fine a regulation track as
there is in the country to travel on next
week. The stake races promise to be ex
tremely exciting, as the entries are good
and of excellent quality.
That the meeting will be a successful one
every admirer ot horse racing and out-door
sport has little doubt. The directors of the
association have worked hard for success,
and it the weather keeps fine doubtless
they will be rewarded by a successful week.
The Blc Local Field Oar.
A word or two about the recent big field day
of the Three A's may not be out of place.
"With all others who like to see this kind of
sport, 1 was extremely glad to note the big
success of the day's proceedings. The con
tests were good ones, and many of the per
formers were front rank men. In some in
stances the handicapping was not as
fine at it might have been, but in the 100
yard race the handicapper was not very far
out of the way. "When a scratch Vnau, as
Jewettwas, is handicapped to run second in
the'final he hasn't much to complain of, and
it may have been that Stage, who won the
final, 'was just a trifle better than the handi
capper expected. Taking everything into
consideration the contest was very good,
and the Three A'a ought to feel very proud
of them. That organization is rapidly sc
oring some very good athletes, and I ex
pect to see the Three A's besoming one of
tne leading organizations ot the country
some day if they only keep up their pres
ent encrey.
In McKennan the Three A's have a really
good man. It is a pity that his victories
in the recent sports are protested by the
E - E. Gyms.
There is notbing to gain by
such protests except the gratification of
a personal whim, which will certainly
perpetuate feelings of bitterness between
the organizations. The Gyms ought to be
above such a protest. But, as I was just
saying, McKennan is a "comer" as an
athlete if ever there was one, and before the
year closes I will not be surprised to find
him with a new record.
Quint wk Imon; the rngillsts.
There has been very little going on
among the pugilists during the .week.
Everything that has been done has been
confined to talk. One more or less impor
tant fact is that the officials ot the Olympic
Club are now sure that they will have their
three big battles in one week. As matters
look at present it would seem that their ex
pectations will be fulfilled. Jack McAulifle
and Billy Myer are going along all right
and interest in their encounter is growing
every day. McAulifle will have to work
Terr hard to get into trim and he will
need to be in the best possible condition to
win. Hla battle with Jimmy Carroll
gives ns to understand that he haa nothing
to spare when compared with liver. Car
roll was fust as near defeating MoAuliSe
as 9 Is jo 10, and McAulifle very frankly
admitted that tp me one day. Myer later
on defeated Carroll in a very good contest,
so that taking everything into considera
tion the contest between McAulifle and
Myer onght to be a very good one, and it is
also to be thoroughly understood that both
men will have to get into first-class condi
tion. There is sure to be some heavy bet
ting on the result, although speculation on
it will not begin until it is definitely known
what condition McAulifle is likely to be in.
The proposed contest between Fitzsim
mons and O'Brien will be another interest
ing affair, mostly because so little is known
of O'Brien. I cannot help thinking that
there will be big odds on the Australian.
It seems to me that O'Brien is considerably
inferior to Pritchard, because if the former's
backers had not thought so some arrange
ments would have been made for them to
meet This indicates that the Olvmpio
Club directors are making a very bold ven
ture in offering ' a purse of f 12,000 for a
battle between two men, one of whom is so
little known. True, the Olympic people
may haye made careful inquiries about
O'Brien, bnt the fact of his battle with
Pritchard falling through is very significant.
Challenges Among the Little Fellows.
Quite a number of the little fellows want
to have a try at George Dixon, and among
the lot is Plimmer, the little Englishman.
Plimmer wants to fight Dixon at 112 pounds
to weigh in at the ring side. This is fair
enough from Plimmer's point of view, bqt
seems to be a little severe on Dixon. Still,
the colored champion has been talking of
getting down to 110 pounds, ancLthat being
so he ought to reach 112 without being ex
tremely weakened. If Dixon can get down
to that weight without losing much power
he will easily defeat Plimmer.
Van Heest,, quite a plucky little fellow
with tolerably fair science, wants to fight
Dixon at ,120 pounds. This would be a good
thing for Dixon and in my judgment John
pnr either. Out of all the challenges we
are sure tohave another contest in which
the prominent little men will figure.
More About Slavin ar.d Jackson.
It is very interesting to observe the news
paper talk there is going on between F. P.
Slavin and Peter Jackson. I mean the talk
in the English newspapers. Slavin and his
immediate friends are anxious for him to
have another try at Jackson, while many of
the London sporting authorities think that
Slavin would be foolish to meet Jackson
again. Personally Jackson does not want
to face anybody until after the Corbett end
buiiivan contest, and tnen it Uorbett is the
winner he (Jackson) will challenge Corbett.
But it is quite likely that Corbett will not
be the winner.
Should Sullivan defeat Corbett Jackson
will be in a singular position. He will de
mand a battle for the championship, and
Sullivan will decline to fight him on ac
count of his color. In that event Jackson
will have perfeot right to claim the title,
and I suppose he will do so. Assuming
that Jackson's contest with Slavin was "on
the square," it does not seem that anybody
except the winner of the Sullivan and Cor
bett event would haye any chance of defeat
ing Jackson. But I'm "sure that if we
measure Slavin and Jackson by the Mc
Aulifle and Goddard contest matters
become more complicated than ever.
Goddard fought a draw with Jack
son and Slavin settled McAulifle
in about three minutes. Yet God
dard requires IS rounds, and fighting
desperately all the time, to defeat McAu
lifle. The truth is that every comparison
that can be made, outside of the Jackson
and Slavin contest itself, shows Slavin to
be mnch the better man. It is, therefore,
no surprise if Slavin insists on meeting
Jackson again. Pbtngle.
POmiEBS 05 CHEAP XENTJ1,
A ZTew Jersey "Woman Tells Bow to IAva
on Less Than SIO a Week.
Ladles1 Home Journal.
A New Jersey woman writes: "My fam
ily consists of five grown people requiring
two meals a day, as they all support them
selves. It is a necessity, if possible, for me
to keep my table on less than $10 per week.
As you are ao practical in your ways, I
thought perhaps I might be one of the Jour
nal sisters and receive the benefit of your
instructions."
Even with $2 per week for each person
the cost of each meal per person would be
only about 14 cents; not a large sum for a
working man or woman. Nothing is said
as to the third meal, which is probably
taken near the place of employment. If
this meal be a substantial one the
supper can be light, but if, on
the contrary, it be a light lunch
eon, then the breakfast and supper
should be nutritious and substantial. Of
course, with such small, means the choicer
cuts of fresh meats are out of the question.
but the toueher and cheaper parts can be
used braized, "stewed, made into soups, or
used in any of the savory dishes that only
require long, slow cooking to make them
tender and appetizing. Eggs, when the
price is reasonable, are a most satisfactory
and economical kind of food. "When there
is no objection to pork, on the score of
creed or health, it can be used in combina
tion with many kinds of fish, vegetable and
cereals to give them savor! n ess and the
element they lack fat Macaroni, when
cooked and "served with a sauce, is nutri
tions, healthful and cheap. Peas, barley
and beans, when made into stews, purees
and soups, make highly nutritious and verv
cheap food; and beans are good and sub
stantial when baked. Home-made bread is
essential to healthful and cheap living.
Chocolate and cocoa, made with milk, and
served with good bread, are a nutritious and
pleasing combination. Simple desserts are
economical and healthful. Stewed fruits,
with good bread, are, much to be preferred,
both on the score of economy and health, to
pastry, an article both unhealthful and ex
pensive. WHY BAILS WILL CHID.
The Western One on Worth and
South
Line Bound to Do So.
Sdratlno Americas.
The creeping of rails .haa attracted tome
attention of late, and while we do not
attempt to explain it we offer a point on
the fact that on lines running North and
South the western rail "creeps" faster
than the eastern rail; that is, this strange
movement of the rail toward the South
is more marked in one rail than the other
on the same track. Furthermore, it has
been noticed that on such a line the eastern
rails wear ont the fastest. Both ot these
points, we think, can be explained by the
motion of the earth as it turns from the
west toward the east Motion tends'to over
come gravitation. A rapid skater flies over
the thin ice without breaking through, and
a train at high speed has been known to leap
a broken bridge unharmed.
Momentum overcomes cravitation. and
the greater the speed the less weight on the
rails. Everything that has free motion is
dragged after the whirling globe, every
wind that blows and every tid that moves
feels the influence, and our train going
north or south is pulled over
toward the east, and naturally presses
the eastern rail most heavily;- The
western rail, being relieved of its share of
weight, "creeps" more freely and quickly.
It is also noticed that the whhels that run
on the eastern rail wear out first, and we
can bnt think that this earth motion is the
trne cause. The practical side of this is,
that the eastern rail and wheels should be
stronger.
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family against any bad results from an
attack ot bowel complaint during the sum
mer. One or two doses of Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Bemedy will
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I CO cents per bottle by druggist wrhsn, I
ADVICE TO WKITERS.
Howard Fielding Thinks W. D.
Hoirells Is Off on a Few Points.
ABILITY TO BELL COMES JIR8T
In tho Lirt of Attributes of tie Successful
literary Geniu,
INDIA .RUBBER CONSCIENCES GOOD
rwBrmir roa th DisrxTOH.
A writer who desires to win or to hold the
favor of the public and to payshls board
with reasonable regularity should confine
himself to such themes as all the people
understand. Some of my great predeoessori
neglected this principle and are now unable
to afford. anything better than plain granite
monuments, whereas I live in a 13-story flat
house with a front that looks like Parian
marble except where the frosting is scraped
ofE The "front," which I personally put
on, is an even better imitation than that.
The thought which is concealed in the
paragraphebove came to me a few days ago
after I had read an interview in The Dis
PATCBT with Mr. Howells, in which there
was .much good advice to young writers. I
felt a stroug impulse to attack the subject
ana, mciaenisiiy, iur. no wens, xnis aia
Shed a Few Tears Upon it
not strike me as presumptuous. If I wished
to learn how it feels to be rnn over by a
mowing machine I would rather have a few
earnest words, from a man who is being
chopped up than the sober afterthought of a
much better man who escaped with only the
loss of his overalls.
Woes of the Tonne Writer.
Though the cares incident to being a
young writer have made me older than my
own father, while Mr. Howells (who raised
a mustache before I was born) is still in the
vigor of yonth, I am qualified, at least by
the records in the family Bible, to speak for
the boys. But at this point comes the
thought already mentioned which I intend
to stick to. because I may not have another
in all summer. This is it: "Who cares for
the young writer, anyhow? Or the old one,
either? Isn't the writer pretty nearly the
most uninteresting object on the face of the
earth? He cannot appear in his own work
without violence to his art. and. in my
opinion, this same judicious principle
shouMapply to him generally. His toils
and disappointments are not understood by
the public, and there is no need that they
should be.
One of the cleverest young writers I
know has tried in vain to make his land
lady understand them; but she would
rather discuss the value of his baggage
Oetlina Solid With Pus PullUJier.
as collateral security. Hence, by the prin
ciple which I enunciated in the beginning,
I should never have written this letter, but
I shall finish it, just the same, for I need
the money. And this brings me naturally
to my advice to young writers.
jGoIde Into Training to Succeed.
Training should begin at an early age.
One of the most successful young literary
men ot my acquaintance began at the early
age of 6 years to play marbles "for keeps."
At 7 he pitched pennies, and though the
other fellow's coin was oftener nearer the
mark,-our young friend nearly always won
because he had a way of representing a case
which left nobody in it but himself. His
business ability attracted the attention of
his father, who made an honorable com
petency by trading horses. The son soon
surpassed the father to such an extent that
he spent the last five years of his minority
in a reformatory institution, where he was
associated with several youths who had
even better business heads than his own. In
short, when he came to New York at the
age of 21 he was thoroughly well fitted to
succeed.
And this is what I wish to impress npon
the mind of any youth who would gain
money by literary work in the metropolis:
Be a business man. Don't waste your time
with Eerl's common school grammar; you
ean hire a typewriter girl who will make
your verbs agree with their subjects, if nec
essary. The printer will afterward make
them disagree again, anyhow; that is, un
less you throw your work away upon the
first-class publications. Don't wrestle with
the sequence of tenses. The proofreader
Knows all about that, or, if he doesn't, he
will fix it to suit himself in spite of you.
Look for the markets, my boy, for that's
business, and let the Queen's English take
its chances between the case and the proof
room.
What Succeeds In Literature
"Why, I know a man who can't call a dog
without offending the animal's grammatical
instincts, and yet that man can write a de
tective storv half as long ana nearly twice
as dull as "Robert Elsmere" in a week and
sell it for (200. And I know another man
who has written fonr first-rate novels, one
of which he published with $400 borrowed
money, and yesterday he took a position as
assistant bookkeeper in a brewery at $12 a
week in order to lay by money enough to
pay his debts. That man had no head tor
business. It he had been better equipped
that way for literary work I could have se
cured him a position as poet for the Staten
Island Quinine Pill Company, where he
could have made a name for himself.
I think that it is a great mistake to tell a
young man that he should enter the career
of letters with no thought of money. He
will never succeed in that way. I know two
men who wrote stories that were rejected by
the Century magazine. One of them spent a
month revising his production and then sent
it to the Earperi, alter which he put it into
a little box, shed a few tears upon it and
abandoned his ambition. The other simnly
dedicated his storv to the memory of Jake
Kilrain and sold it to the Folia GazstU. He
jj no w 1 Btnff tnK 0di . d t
jg'',,1. 1 1 -I.
posterity, In the interests of the manufac
turer ot the $2 pocket gymnasium.
Thefrime a Writer Puts In.
It la this power to make everything avail
able which marks the dawn ot a new and
happy era in American literature. The in
dustry of this rushing age has taken hold
upon the writer also, and he is not the
loafer he used to be. Mr. .Howells errs, I
am sure, in saying that literary labor occu
pies fewer hours in the day than any other
kind except that which is'done in the Gov-
Bagghgt at Collateral Security.
ernment departments at Washington. I
have seen one of our successful young liter
ary men dictating to tour stenographers at
once, and it took them till 2 o'clock the
next morning to find out what he had been
talking about in orderthat it might be put
into typewritten copy. There we'have over
60 hours of work in a single day put into
tue productions or one great literary brain
He errs, too, in saying that moods have
been credited with too much influence in
literature. It is impossible., "Why, I know
a publisher who would no more buy an
article when he's in a bad mood than he
would give a dime to a starving man. But
just lure that fellow out of his office and let
him beat you at a couple of games of bill
iards and he'll buy almost any old thing
that happens to be lying around in your
pockets. I can't say how important that
man's moods have been to me. If I hadn't
discovered the secret of them I mieht now
be full of ambitious literary designs and
empty of dinner. '
Cheatlnc the Pub'lsher With Delicacy.
But, taking moods more seriously and
more nearly in the way intended by Mr.
Howells, and still I disagree. There are
days when I can't write my name with
marking ink on a celluloid collar and im
part any literary flavor to it, aud there are
other days when I can dash oft a few lines
for the wrapper of a new soap and make
them so clean and pure and wholesome that
the purchaser will not need to see the soap
for several days.
Yet I hold that proper methods of literary
production will come to a man naturally,
or, if they do not, he need not grieve. But
the thing he really does require, the ability
to sell anything from a green goods circular
down to a poem, must be obtained by hard
studyand diligent copying of successful
practices. And if I have done anything
here, or can do anything in the future, to
teach the young writer how he may cheat a
publisher to-day in such a delicate manner
that he can cheat him twice as hard to-morrow,!
shall feel that I have not been wholly
untrue to those high literary ideals which
are cherished by the men about me who are
making the most money. The men whom I
BDeak of are not working, as I honestly and
gratefully believe that Mr. Howells is, for
the good ot literature and the pleasure of
posterity, but for things that are more last
ing for bank accounts and real estate in
those districts which a new system ot rapid
transit will open up to the speculator.
Howabd PiELrinra
A KAHBIAGE OF DWAEIi
A Dainty Little Fair Which Was In the
Servloe of Charles L "
St. Nicholas.
Little Gibson was at the christening, and
saw the small Anne decked out in great
splendor; and, although he was still rather
young to think of matrimony, he fell in
love with her then and there. His affec
tion was returned, and in due course the
King and Queen gave their consent to the
marriage of the two dwarfs.
Great preparations were made for this
wedding, which was celebrated in the
ehapel of the Palace of St- James; and
everybody who was anybody at all waa bid
den to the ceremony. Henrietta Maria,
who, in more senses than one, was the
reigning beauty of the British court, took
great interest in the festivities, and ar
rayed herself in all her splendor and love
liness to bestow her blessing on the little
pair.
The little bride looked charming in a
white satin dress with a very long train,
and the tinv groom wore a white satin
waistcoat with trimmings of satin. His
hose and breeches were of white silk, and
diamond buckles sparkled in his tiny shoes.
The dwarfs were a dainty pair, and created
a sensation as they stood before the clergy
man exchanging their vows. King Charles,
very handsome, very graceful, and looking
every inch a king, gave away the bride.
I0KE ODDITIES OF FI8H.
Differences Between Those That Swim Rear
Shore or in Deep Sea.
St. Louis Republic.
Though no sharp line of separation ean
be drawn, marine fish are roughly divided
for convenience into three categories.
Shore fish, those which habitually frequent
coast lines, and rarely, if ever, descend to
a greater depth than 300 fathoms; pelagic
fishes, those which inhabit the open sea;
and the curious deep-sea forms, which live
at an euormous depth and sport aronnd
where the influence of light and surface
temperature are never felt Heilprin tells
ns that the first-class, the shore fishes, is
composed of about 3,600 species. Their
northern range extends to or even beyond
the eighty-third parallel of latitude. Even
this is a strange and unaccountable freak
in the finny denizens of the deep, for in the
southern hemisphere they are not known to
go beyond the sixtieth parallel In the dif
ferent zones these fishes are largely identi
cal in both the Atlantic and the Facifio
basins, as well as on the opposite sides of
these great "ocean sinks."
Tropical waters, as one would naturally
suppose, produce a greater abundance and
wider range of forms than those of temper
ate regions. The same may also be said of
the reels in the Indian ooean, in the near
vicinity of which may be found a greater
number of species ana a wider diversity In
form than in the whole of the Atlantic,
basin.
His Rqust Not Heeded,
Even a prince's wish is not always law in
effete monarchies. Prince Alexis, of Russia,
was anxious to see the derby run, but ar
rived at the railroad station too late to
catch the last train that would have brought
him to the track in time for the race. He
thereupon telezraphed to the stewards of
the jocky club: "Have missed train.
Kindly postpone derby till 4 o'clock." But
the request went unheeded aud the race was
run on schedule time.
Those Other Da? a,
Detroit Tree Press.
Oh. give us back those other days,
Wben life was full of youth.
When all the birds sang merry lays,
And what was truth was truth.
Those witching, welcome, wlldwood daya,
Tnose days when pent up joys
Broao forth in fifty thousand ways.
Each best to all us boys.
Those days when every growing Held,
And every creek and tree.
Some fresh delight was made to yield,
Some new felicity.
Oh, give us back those other daya,
These days are not the thing
Those other days when circuses
Csmn onlT with one Tins.
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
t
Cnrlois Facts About Political Parties
and Their Candidates.
DISCUSSIONS OF THE SUEZ CANAL.
Ho the Telocity of the Cannon Sail If
Accurately Measured.
nmtoDiiCTioir op irish potatoes
prxrrnar tob the dispxtcb.
A list of nearly 80 political parties in
this country has been published; some of
these parties, of course, were merely local,
while others -were wholly temporary; but
the list shows how completely we vote as
we choose, and how often party ties have
been found weak. At the last Presidental
election more parties presented candidates
than ever before, no fewer than six men
offering themselves as objects for the Presi
dental lightning to strike. The parties
were the Republican, which was successful,
the Democratic, the Prohibition, the Amer
ican, the United Labor and the Union
Labor.
In the old days, before nominating con
ventions were heard of, there used some
times to be more candidates, but many of
them came from a single party. In 1789 12
men received votes for the Presidency,
seven of them being Federalists. In spite
of the choice actually lying between two
parties only at seven elections have there
been fewer than three candidates: in 1804,
when only Jaekson (Republican, now
Democratic) and Pinckney (Federalist)
aaa 1U1 iUOUIIUU yieOpUUllUIUy oMU
Clinton (Federalist); 1816, Monroe (Repub
lican) and King (Federalist); 1820, Monroe
(Republican) and J. Q. Adams (Opposi
tion): 1828, Jackson (Democratic) and J..
y. Adams (National Republican); 1864,
Lincoln and McGIellan; 1868, Grant 'and
Seymour. "We must give the little parties
the courage of their eonvietions, even
though we have nevergiventhem the Presi
dency. What are the dimensions of the Snez
Canal? D. B.
About 88 miles long; of this 66 miles are
actual canal, formed by cuttings; 14 miles
are made by dredging through Lake Mensa
leh, Lake Timsan and the Bitter lakes,
and eight miles required no work. The
canal has a width at the bottom of 72 feet;
until 1883 it was 26 feet deep; at the surface
its width varies. At El Gnisa, where the
canal passes through hills from 30 to 85 feet
high, the width is 197 feet; through Lake
Mensaleh the width of the channel is 250
feet at the surface, but the water extends
some distance on either side of the buoys
which mark the navigable canal. In 1883
the operation of deepening it was begun,
lasting nntil the end of 1888, when
the canal had a depth of about 33
feet; vessels drawing 25 feet 7 inches
have been allowed to pass through it since
April 15, 1880; before that only those draw
ing less than 24 feet 7 inches were allowed.
On March 1, 1887, the electric light was in
troduced along the canal, and vessels paving
extra tolls were allowed to pass through by
night Steamers traveling by day only take
a lew minutes over 29 hours, while those
using the electne light get through in 22
hours. The lastest passsge was made in
1891, and took 14 hours 15 minutes. Of
course, steamers cannot pass while both are
in motion, so turnouts are provided every
five or six miles; it is the time spent in
waiting in these turn outs for other vessels
to pass that makes the passage take so long.
In 1890 3,389 vessels passed through the
eanah
What waa the "Original Package" caset
KiTHranr Wiilm.
The case was that of Leisy and others
against Hardin, arising out of some Iowa
State laws against the sale of liquor. Suit
had been brought to recover certain fines
imposed by the State laws, and the defense
was that those laws violated the Constitu
tional provision that Congress alone had
power to legislate upon inter-State com
merce.and that, so Iongas goods were in their
original packages, tbey could be imported
into a State even in defiance of the laws of
that State. The case went up to the Su
preme Court of the United States, and on
April 28, 1880, the court sustained the de
fense. The Court, in rendering itsdecision,
said that Congress conld call the State laws
into effect by passing an act, and such an
act was signed August 8, 1890. It provided
that State laws should be applicable to arti
cles in transit from one State to another as
soon as those articles entered that State.'
What is meant by the expression "the
Court of St. James:" At. J. J.
The British Court. Its headquarters on
official occasions is the palace of St. James
in London. In Great Britain, as the Court
has no executive power, the Government is
really meant; but in other countries to
which a similar expression is applied, the
courtis really meant, because the court in
those cases is the Government "We speak
of the Quirinal, meaning the Italian court
aud Government; of the Vatican, meaning
the Pope; we used to speak of the Tuleries
interfering here and there, meaning tnat
Napoleon III was meddling; and we still
speak of the sublime Porte or the Porte be
coming restive at the aggressions ot Rnssia.
I do notknow where the custom come froms;
but it may be mentioned that the Scotch
have a way of calling a man by the name of
his estate, so that it wonld seem to be possi-
Dio wat mc cusiom oau a ocoiusu origin.
What Is the trajectory of a thlngf D.E.L.
It Is the path of a bullet :or of anything
else passing through the air from the gun
to the place where it strikes. Generally
the word is applied only to bullets and
cannon balls. In shooting at an object near
at hand you aim point blank, because
the ballet practically reaches the target
before it falls at alL But when you fire at
a distant object you must aim above it, so
that the bullet may have room to fall and
yet hit the object The desire of every
marksman is to get a trajectory as flat as
possible, so that the bullet shall have
bo need of falling very far. 'A flat trajec
tory is obtained br increasing the speed of
the bullets, by diminishing their size add
increasing the powder charge. The new
Lebel and Mannlicher rifles used in France
and Austria are said to give very flat tra
jectories. The trajectories of our American
Springfield and Remington rifles are very
high, and at 1,000 yards the ballet passes
many feet above the ground at the highest
point of its projectory.
What is the power represented by the
term borse-powerT Q. W.
One horse-power is the unit in terms of
which engineers measure the power of
steam engines, water wheels aud other
prime movers. It is the power required to
lift 33,000 pounds weight one foot in one
minute. This number was adopted thus:
The first steam engines were employed to
drive mills, pumps, eta, previously driven
by horses, so that it was natural t6 express
their power in terms of the number of horses
whose work they accomplished. Experi
ments naturally were made to ascertain
what the average working power of a horse
really was. Boulton and Watts made ex
periments with the strong dray horses at
London breweries.. They found that a horse
was able to go at the rate of 24 miles an
hour, and at the same time raise 150 pounds
by a rope led over a pulley; this was found
equal to 33,000 pounds raised one foot in one
minute.
How la the Telocity of rifle bullets, eannon
balls, eta, measured, and now Is the powder
pressure on the gun determined? A. T. Z.
The velocity is ascertained by means of
electricity, A wire U stretched acroMtae
muzzle of the gun, and a second wire across
the path of the bullet CO feet distant, which
are connected electrically with a fine chro
nometer. The bullet breaks the first wire
and starts the chronometer instantly: it
breaks the second wire and stops it The
time occupied by the bullet in traveling 50
feet is thus ascertained and from that can
be calculated the rapidity of the bullet's
flight To obtain the pressureon the gun a
pressure-gauge is used, a heavy cylinder, in
which a piston works through a block upon
apiece of copper. The cylinder is loaded
and fired as if it were a gun, the powder
drives the piston into the copper, and the
pressure is calculated from the indentation
therein.
Where Is the greatest railway In the world?
In this country, I suppose. H. 8. E.
The longest railroad is in this country, or
rather in Canada the Canadian Pacific, the
main line of which is nearly 3,000 miles
long. The company controlling the largest
mileage is the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe; it controls 7,384 miles. But the com
pany having the largest capital, and doing
the largest business, is the Loudon and
North Western Railway Company of Eng
land. In 1890 it operated 1,877 miles of
line; the Great Western road operated 2,481
miles however. It owned 2,600 engines,
7,198 passenger cars, and 57,429 freight cars;
the Midland Company, owning 98,668, and
the North Eastern Company, with 81,310
freight cars, 'surpassed it The North
Western's capital, however, is 104,000,000,
amounting to about $520,000,000; and- its
train mileage was 41,899,000 in 189a
When and try whom was the common or
"Irish" potato introduced Into Europe?
L. G. TjacrusTO.
It is believed generally that Sir Walter
Raleigh introduced them. But he did not
What he did waa to give some of the
tubers to a gentleman named Southwell,
who took them to Ireland in 1586. But it
is not certain that Mr. Southwell was the
first to introduce the potato there; for Han
kins, a slave trader of the time, is said to
have brousht the vegetable to Dublin in
1565, and Sir Francis Drake is said to have
done so in 1586. As between these two
claimants no one can decide. R. G. B.
An Aristocratic Salvationist
Wilhelm Von Puttkamer, who Is vari
ously known as "Prince Von Puttkamer"
and "Fritz, the Free Lance," is looking for
employment Heisamemberof the Salva
tion Army, and has recently been employed
at the army shelter in Bedford street,
Brooklyn. Wilhelm is of noble birth. He
is descended from Prince Jesko Von Putt
kamer. who went to Pomerania, Germany,
from Poland in 1240. Wilhelm's father is
Governor of Pomerania, and when he dies
Wilhelm will be wealthy. Prince Otto
Von Bismarck is his nncle, he says. He has
been all over the world, has been shot three
times and carries two saber scars. He was
converted.
CHILDHOOD.
Childhood Is the spring of existence
Life's mnrninsr and its Slay
When trouble U far in the distance,
And all the world Is gay.
'Tls then that sweet voices sing gladly
In chorus through forest and dale;
Tis then that no mortal sinzs sadly
And mirth sounds through valley and vale.
But solemn more solemn and sober
We grow with the flowing of years.
Till at last In the eve or October
We sadly gaze back throngb our tears,
For Time In a manner pa hetfo.
Has shivered the idols of yonth,
Bas banished fond Action, poetlo.
And lelt onb commonplace truth.
Oh, back In deep shadows lined dimly,
Lurk ghosts of the hopes that are dead,
And peer through the somber shades
.grimly
Once oJeanres ere grasped they werefled.
Pittsburg, 1892. Williax Scott.
Discipline.
Chicago Herald.
Uv life Is full ot scented rrutts;
My irarden blooms with stocks and cloves;
Tet o'er the wall my lancy shoots
And hankers after harsher loves.
Ahf why, tny foolish heart repines:
Was I not Housed within a waster
These velvet flowers and syrup wines
Are sweet, but a-e not to my taste.
A howling moor, a wattled hnt,
Aplercinz smoke of sodden peat;
The savor of a russet nut
Would make my weary pulses beat.
O stupid brain that blindly swerved
O heart that strives not, nor endures!
Since flowers are hardbip-i to your nerves,
Thank heaven a garden lot U yours!
Edmund Qotu.
A Hard-Working Woman.
Kansas City Journal.
All day she hurried to get through,
The same as lots of nimmen do.
Sometimes at night lier husband said:
"Ma, ain't von irotn' to come to bed?"
And then she'd kinder give a hitch.
And pause 1ml fway hetween-a stitch.
And sorter sigh, and say that she
Was ready as she'd ever be.
She reckoned.
And so the years went by one.
An' some tow she was never donet
An' when the a lgel paid us how
"Jits' 8mith,lt'i time you rested now,"
She sorter raised her eyes to look
A second, a a stitch she took;
.. "All riaht, I'm coiuiu' now," says she,
"I'm ready as I'll ever be,
I reckon."
Slay Lore Song.
Charlotte Tlske Bates in Harpers Bazaar.
I.
Tltal is all the earth with green,
Trembling with whlteMs every spray
And bene with birds who-e singing
Through air and soul is ringing.
Oh! sach the slory of the heard and seen
That ear and eye want naught beyond to
day. IT
JfOT lo! Iiove comes and takes my hand.
And presses close with word aud kiss
Bis heart and mine in meeting
Feel Nature's heait a-beating.
We sum the eternal in the moment's sand.
And ask what lies between God's heaven
and this.
tittle F oS) Letter.
The following lines were found amonr
Murderer Dseming's property, written in
his own handwriting :
Dearjod. the baby you sent us
Iswfly nice and sweet,
But 'cause you lorcoc his tootles,
The poor little thin? can't eat;
That s why I'm writing this letter,
On purpose to let yon know:
Please come and finish the baby.
That's all, from little Flo.
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An interesting snake has just been add)
to the collection of the Zoological Societj
This creature lives exclusively upon a dli
of eggs, which its small teeth permit j
to swallow unbroken. But there is a ri
markable mechanism for extracting the eoa
tents of the egg quite unique ia the animj
kingdom.
The spines of some of the vertebra pre
ject through the wall of the gullet and as
tipped with enamel, so that they ars Teri
table teeth. With the help of these tH
eggshell is cracked and the content iib.j
ated into the sesophagus, where there Is n(
risk of any waste: the shell is then rejectel
by the mouth. This singular serpent i
named Dasypeltis and comes from Sontj
Africa.
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