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A REVIEW OF SPORTS
Opinions Begarding the First
Pennant Contest of
the Ball Season.
DISAPPOINTING FEATURES.
Trospects of the Second Half and
Its Probable Resnlts.
THE SHOOTING OP LIVE PIGEONS.
local Amateur Athletes Hating a Tery
Timelj Protest
TIIE BTJLLITAX AKD COEBETT FIGHT
With lt good resalti and bad results tbe
first halt of the baseball championship sea
son of the year has gone into the past It
is over and Is a matter of history. "Sobody
can tay that there has been anything re
markable about it cr that it has been char
acterised hy anything of a brilliant kind.
Generally speaking, the quality of ball
playing hat been poor, financial expecta
tions have not been realired and the mig
rates have indulged in the most unfair and
detenselpss method cf reducing the salaries
cf players.
There are facta to bear out all these state
ments and I venture to make another asser
tion, via., that there is not that "kindly"
feeling among the magnates that we were
told so muah about during the League sur
render at Tndlacapolit. There is mora sus
picion existing now among the baseball
magnates than there has been for a very
long time. Altogether it is easy to see that
the more that the baseball business is re
duced to a mcchansnal or uniform and sta
tionary basis the worse it is for everybody
concerned.
The great object of the ruling magnates
during the half of the season fust gone has
been to bring unitormity by reducing
things to a lower level
Instead of n TTIshrr.
There has been more effort made to bring
strong teams to a level with weak ones than
there has been to raise the weak ones to the
power of the strong ones. To prove this
nothing more need be cited than the adop
tion of that very ludicrous "13-rule," as
it is called. That rule certainly places an
embargo on the development of any team.
It gives little or no chance for a club to try
and develop a young player, as the rule
keeps the number of a team so small that
all the players must be ready for harness
every day. "Sow it is quite easy to see
that this is a bad principle and handicaps
those enterprising clubs that are wishful to
lay hold ot young men in hopes of getting
cne or two cood players from among them.
A policy of this kind is simply this: Jones
is not able to keep up a certain pace, and
he and his friends resolve to stop Brown
from doing so. f
Certainly this rule is bad for the players,
as it reduces their chances of employment.
This will, of course, increase competition
among the players for work, and this com
petition will, in turn, benefit the employers.
This may be one of the objects of the rule,
and, if it is, the means ot attaining the ob
ject are not good and cannot but have bad
results. But the' neyw methods and rules
adopted in the first half of the season
prompt considerable curiosity regarding the
second half. It will be interesting to watch
how matters proceed under all these norel
conditions.
. &osne of the Disappointments.
To be sure, there have been many disap
pointments resulting from the contest lor
the first pennant. Just before the first half
commenced I made the remark in these col
umns that there were only two points I
would venture an opinion aDout. une was
that the Boston team would w in the pen
nant and the other was that the Pittsburg
team would finish in the first six. Both
of these expectations hare been realized.
Although tbe local team is sixth on the list,
they are within the limits I predicted.
Ido not hesitate to say now that I really
expected them to finish higher up than
sixth place. Jnst as sure as "eggs is eggs"
the team is capable ot doing much better
than they have done. "Why thev haven't
accomplished better things may be matter
for conjecture and debate, but it is just as
plain as the noses on our laces that thev
should have been much higher than sixth
place. I imagine I hear somebody talking
about "team work. " Yes, team work has
had much to do with it and more so during
the latter part of the contest than during
anv other part. Ot course, there have been
difficulties encountered that no management
could help, but I do argue that many games
have been lost more through lack of man
agement thau anything else.
I am told that Manager Hanlon, of the
Baltimore "team, offered Captain Burns, of
the local team, any pitcher on the Baltimore
team in exchange for Strieker. Burns took
Terry. Herein was a grave mistake, as a
man like McJIahon is worth a dozen
Terrys. I say this out of no disrespect lor
Hr. Terry; he is every inch of him a gen
tleman, but it is apparent that his pitching
days are gone, almost And it is pitchers
we need. Terry may now and then be able
to pitch a good' game, but at this stage of
baseball history he cannot be compared
with a man like "McMahon.
It is also true that Ehret's lack of condi
tion in the early part of the season cost the
team many games. He is now all right, but
as ill luck will have it, Baldwin is now the
only one likely to be able to back him up.
This means that the sooner another good
voung pitcher is secured the better. I still
have considerable confidence in Baldwin,
and I don't hesitate to say that the local
club would mike a big mistake in exchang
ing him for Xiovett Baldwin has un
doubted! v been one of the most unfortunate
pitchers in the League. True, his careless
ness may have cost him a game now and
then, but on very many occasions games in
which he has pitched have been lost by the
most remarkable strokes of bad fortune.
Baldwin is a good pitcher and one of the
most willing in the business. Certainly,
like every player in the business, he has his
shortcomings, but abuse and discouraging
demonstrations will not make matters any
better, neither in his nor anybody else's
case.
Jtmarks About th Kcspccltve Trams.
"Whether or not the Boston team have
been lavorcd by what we call luck during
the contest just ended, I am not going to
stop and argue. They may and may not
have been, but I do claim that they have
won the pennant on their merits. In say
ing this 1 am tree to admit that tbey started
in with an advantage over all other teams
and particularly the Brooklyns, their
closest rivals. Tee Bostons were all right
Irom the start, while the Brooklyns were
not Had the latter started in the race in
as good lonn as they were a lew days ago,
the result might hire, been different. But
what I contend is, that so far both teams
have rotten wht they played for, generally
e;ekiog. It was because the Bostons were
in such good form to start in with that they
hare been able to keep up a winning gait to
tbe end.
Nobody will for a moment disDute the
statement that the Brooklyn team have
fairly and honorably won their position.
Ward has done well with his team and it
must be admitted that he has-a good one.
His good bitters have pulled him through
and after all there is nothing better than a
team of plavers who can bang the ball all
Yr th field. Tt is not too much to ex
pect thai the Brooklyn team will make I
things very lively for the Bostons dnrmg
the second" contest Indeed I would nofte
surprised if the Boston team are not in the
first to at the end of the season.
The Philadelphia team have done well,
and had thev maie a be'tter start they might
have finished closer to Brooklyn than they
did. But the Cincinnati team deserve as
much praise as any team in the League.
"While a few people expected the Beds to
do'welL a verv larsre number of people
never for a moment thought that they would
make such a hard fight for third place.
They didn't get that position, of course, but
they have done remarkably well; indeed,
the success of the Cincinnati team to a very
great extent shows what able, practical
management can do. It seems quite reason
able to sav that if the Beds had gone along
in the same idiosyncratic style this year
that characterized them last year they would
have been no higher than they finished last
year. This, in my judjment. implies that
to Captain Comiskey belongs the major part
of the credit for the good standing of the
team. He has fully demonstrated that
there is very much indeed in the manage
ment of a ball team, because he took hold
of a team in thorough disrepute and at the
bottom of the list and has landed them al
most at the top of the tree in a few months.
There is a lesson in this for magnates.
Chicago nd w York Failures.
The Cleveland team have, as they always
do, played a rattling and successful game.
They hare won their position fairly, and
they deserve it They have been well man
aged, and that has been one of their ele
ments of success. The Washington team have
finished better than many people expected,
and much of their success is due to the war
in which Arthur Irwin has handled the
team.
But the other disappointments, and, I
may ay, failures of the season so fr have
been 'the Chicago and "Sew York teams. It
is, indeed, a novelty to see Anson and his
colts down to eighth place, and as a result
all kinds of reasons are alleged for the big
drop. "iVe cannot shut our eyes to the fact
that the absence of Plcffcr from the team
has had something to do with the colts',
downfall. 1'fcffer was a greater source ot
strength to the Chicago team than he is to
the Louisville team. But the most serious
drawback Anson has had to contend with
has been the poor condition of his pitchers.
They have had a very poor time of it Be
sides this some of the best fielders and
hitters of the team have been injured orsick
and unable to play. All these drawbacks
have combined to down the Chicago team
and their remarkable manager.
And let uie here express an opinion
that is fast becoming general: Anson is
failing fast He is not the player he was,
and it may be that the sense of his own
waning on the field impairs his judgment
and vigor as a general in the struggle. Be
this as it may, it is a fact that the last time
he was in Pittsburg he showed none of his
former vieor and vim. and played very
poorly. This may be the last season of
Anson as a player.
The'New York team have been worse fail
ures than the Colts, or anybody else. No
body expected the Baltimore team to be
higher than twelfth, and, therefore, nobody
is disappointed in the "Birdlets." But I do
say nobody on earth ever dreamed tnat .Man
ager Powers and his Giants would land in
tenth place. But "there they be," and
there thev are as a sample of the most mis
erable failures that ever were in a League
contest I fail to see a redeeming feature
in the New York team. A more careless,
indolent and dissatisfied lot of players never
came to this city. They have traveled
around the country just as recklessly as if
they were under no management, and had
nobody to whom they were responsible.
Most certainly there are good players among
them, bnt apparently there is nobody in
charge of them to bring the good playing to
the surface. It certainly is very humiliat
ing for a club with the prestige ot the New
Yorks to have a team finish nearly on a
par with the remarkable Birdlets from Bal
timore. Prospects of tho Second Rnoe.
It may be that the contest in the second
half of the season will be a little more ex
citing than in the first half; that is, that
the"fight for first place will be closer. There
cannot be a much closer contest for the posi
tions ranging from second to eighth and
ninth than there was in the first half. It is
to be expected that almost all the teams be
low the first three or fpur will play a little
better, and if this expectation is realized it
will make a great difference to the leaders.
The indications are that the second half
will not be as good financially as the first
halt has been. This mav not be consoling
to nianv, as the first half has not been a
success by any means, and if the balance ot
the year is worse tnere will be troume.
There is nothing to show that the second
half will be as good financially as the first
part of the season has been, but of course
there may be a compromise in store.
But there is one thing that we will all
hope for during the remainder of the sea
son, viz.: a more satisfactory state of things
regarding the umpires. Certainly there has
been a heap of trouble with the umpires so
far this season. Doubtless many teams
have suffered, but in all fairness and with
out any exaggeration I think the Pittsburg
team has suffered most I know that they
have suffered far more than any other
team while playing in Pittsburg. There
has certainly been more unpleasantness on
thelocal grounds this season thau we have
-had for a long time. Much of this has
been encouraged by a lack of firmness on
the part of the umpires. An umpire who
does not firmlv enforce his decisions and
allows back talk will never be a success, be
cause players will persist in calling him
down.
The legality ol lave Pigeon Snooting.
It is a great pleasure to more than one to
note that the case ot the Humane Society ;
against Messrs. bhaner, Dixon and others
for shooting at live pigeons has fallen to
the ground. Headers of this paper will re
member that when the misguided humani
tarians of Philadelphia entered a similar
suit against a nnmber of Philadelphia
sportsmen I argued the unreasonableness
and absurdity of such a suit Since then it
has been steadily argued in these columns
that there is less cruelty in the shooting of
pigeons by experts than there is in mem
bers of humane societies or citizens in gen
eral going a hunting and blazing away at
anything that appears in sight
Judge Ewing takes this view of the mat
ter and further than that he reminded the
prosecutors of Messrs. Shaner and Dixon
that tbe basis or American morality
the Bible states that the birds of the air
are lor tbe pleasure of man. Judge Ewing's
remarks cannot fail to be of worth to the
Humane Society members. Depend npon
it, there are numerous other things which
need the attention of the Humane Society
officials far more than live pigeon shooting.
There was never any reason for the prosecu
tion except it may have been to keep the
society's officers busy. If the society's
agents will look round" they will find many
instances that legally and morally demand
interference, anil in so doing they would
certainly be much better employed than
wasting their time isP fighting a Supreme
Court decision.
A Few Words About the Amitcun.
Secretary Page, of the Three A's, tells me
that the association he represents has for
warded a protest to headquarters relative to
the swimming contests at Philadelphia in
which Messrs. Flower and Taylor received
such unfair treatment. Flower states that
even the springboard from which he leaped
into the water had been tampered with. It
had been loosened and when he made his
spring it fell and he struck the water with
his breast
I don't suppose for one moment that the
protest will cause the contest to become
void, but it certainly will give the powers
that be to understand that such unfair treat
ment is not to be tolerated in future.
This Philadelphia affair has caused so
much discussion that Mr. Page is advocat
ing a local swimming tourney, to take place
in the fall. This is a capital idea, and
medals of sufficient worth will be offered to
attract the best amateur swimmers in the
world. Mr. Flower is a member of the
Three A's and John T. Taylor is to become
a member. "With two swimmers like these
two youngsters the Three A's have nothing
to fear. '
' It is worthy of note that the amateurs all
over the country are more active now than
THE
they have ever been before. There is a
greater rivalry existing than ever, and there
will be more contests this year than we
have had since amateur athletics were
known. This is all very encouraging, and
will do good if only the rules of fair play
are enforced all round. An unfair act at
one nlnpe nmtnnin 'rptaliation at another.
and this becomes the source of a trouble
1 that will jeopardize the entire business.
Amatenrism i now nn the highroad to a re'
markable success. Let those interested in
it be careful.
Affairs Among tbi Pugilists.
To use an old phrase, the pugilists and
boxers are at present mending their nets for
future use. All the leading lights of the
pugilistic world tare getting ready tor ap
proaching encounters, and before next fall
is over we will have many important con
tests to talk about
Interest is beginning to grow in the Sul
livan and Corbett battle, and as the time
for its decision gets near it is safe to say
that the public will, hardly notice anything
else. Already there has considerable bet
ting taken place on the result, and as the
third deposit has been put tip by each prin
cipal, everything looks like business. Each
man now has $7,500 up.. A friend of mine
a few days ago bet $300 to $500 on Corbett,
and there will be that odds at least on Sulli
van when the date of the battle comes round.
I do not think the bet a bad one by any
means at this time, because we may rest as
sured that Corbett will be in first-class con
dition, while there is no certainty about
Sullivan in that respect It is mnch too
soon to go into details on the matter yet,
bnt 5 to 3 is very big odds under the cir
cumstances. The Olympic Club has made complete
arrangements for the three big battles and
as announced the other day in this paper
the prices have been fixed. They are pretty
high, but it must be remembered that the
club is giving away a very large amount of
money.
Some More Prospective Battles.
No matter how good a man is there is al
ways somebody ready to tackle him. George
Dixon has never been beaten and yet quite
a nnmber of little fellows want a contest
with him. There is a kind of prospect that
a contest will be arranged between him and
Johnnie Murphy. The latter is quite eager
for a "go" and I cannot see why Dixon
should not be just as eager. Murphy is
quite a handy little fellow, but his eager
ness in this instance may lead him to de
feat There is also a strong probability of a
battle being arranged for Ed Smith. Being
unable to secure a fight in England,
Choynski is about to return to this country
and offers to fieht several men, among the
number being Smith. There has been so
much claimed for Smith by his friends, and
he has done so well in four-round bouts
against the best ot people, that a cood club
might do well to ofler a purse for Smith and
Choynski. While I believe that Smith is
much better than his performance against
Godfrey a showed, I hesitate before I say
that he is likely to be better than Choynski.
But he is worth trying. Pringle.
BN0W IN StJMMEB TIME.
That Is the Reason Prof. Davidson Cannot
Get Long-D'stanes Signals.
San Francisco Bulletin.
It is now three weeks since Prof. David
son, of the Coast Survey, went into camp
on Mount Diablo. He did not go up to that
windy and fog-topped crest for his health,
but to do scientific work. He went to catch
heliotrope signals from Monnt Conness,
over 140 miles away on an air line, but not
a heliotrope has bloomed, so to speak, in
that direction since he got his equipment
ready for action. Those who know the
professor best do not imagine him entirely
calm during this time of forced inactivity.
Heliotroping, or signaling by aid of the
sun and a powerful mirror, is not carried
on often at such long distances as from
Diablo to Conness, but that it can be suc
cessfully experts in such matters do not
question. That is not the present trouble.
Prof. Davidson has not been able to "pick
up" Conness, as Coast Survey vernacular
has it, because so far as known there is yet
no one there to find. Frank Edmonds
started on the 2d inst to conduct Peter
Johnson and William Argens to Conness,
but a letter from him two weeks since an
nounced that he was blocked by snow at
the foot of the mountain. He had then
made a reconnoissance of over five miles,
but was forced to go'back to Soda Springs
because of snowdrifts ten feet deep or more.
The assumption is that since then they have
been toiling skyward through the snow.
Mr. Edmonds has been over the route be
fore, and consequently little anxiety is
felt It is considered there is no doubt of
his getting up the mountain eventually,
but the delay is trying to scientific nerve's.
Another heliotroping station with Diablo
that works all right when the fog permits
is on Mount Mocho, near Mount Hamilton.
James Van Earger has a solitary camp
there.
A BtJXTAH WITH EDUCATION.
The Bnler or Jolioro With Fall Salts to
Visit tho World' Fair.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Through the solicitation of the Hon.
Bounseville Wildman, United States
Consul and World's Fair Commissioner for
the Straits Settlements and Borneo, His
Highness, Aboukar, Sultan of Johore, has
consented to visit, with his- suite, the
World's Fair and to send over to the Ex
position a complete Malay village. His
Highness is tbe only independent ruler in
the Malay Peninsula, and one of the richest
princes in Eastern Asia,
The Colonial Government declines to
make any appropriation toward the Fair,
yet through personal and commercial
channels a large number of merchants will
co-operate in creating an adequate fund for
the purpose. The Timet of Ceylon, in
speaking of the Sultan Johore in relation
to some local matters in which he was
asked to arbitrate, speaks of him as one
who is mnch in advance of his associate
native princes, many of whom are his
relatives. It is claimed that Aboukar
is a good representative of what a Malay
of; superior caste and education can be
when gifted with the opportunities of
civilized life, and In this respect the
present Sultan of Johore is regarded as one
of the most enlightened princes of the
East The Times, in concluding its sketch
of his personal character, says: He Is
noble in birth, and in impulse of heart; stern
in purpose yet merciful, honorable and
truthful in word and deed, keenly intelli
gent, and a judge of character. Evidently
he is one of the Eastern princes whose
presence would be appreciated at the Fair.
BIVAI.EY AK05G THE HILITABT.
Some Amnslng Phases Daring the Stirring
Times or the Civil Wax.
Touth's Companloi.1
The jealousy which almost always exists
between different arms of the military ser
vice used to be illustrated by the dialogues
which took place between cavalrymen and
infantrymen during the Civil War. It was
a favorite and brutal joke on the part of the
cavalrymen, who affected to despise the
toot soldiers, to shout to some soldiers as
the cavalry were passing the infantry on
the march:
"Are yon tired of walking?"
Whereupon, if the infantryman, suppos
ing that he was going to get a lift, re
sponded "Yes!" the cavalryman would say,
"Well, try running a while!"
The infantrymen, for their part, ridiculed
the cavalrymen unmercifully when they
were in camp, where the cavalrymen were
compelled'to spend-much of their time in
acting as body servants to their horses.
A cavalryman was one day engaged in
laboriously "cleaning down" his rather raw
boned steed. An infantrymen sauntered
up, and with his hands behind his back,
leisurely inspected the operation.
"Hullo, John I" said the cavalryman.
'Think you'd like to be in the cavalry?"
"Oh yes," said the infantryman; "bnt
only as a horiel"
PITTSBTJRG DISPATCH,
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Literary GeninsNow Able to Coje
With Stomachic Cravin?.
BOOK BINDINGS MADE OP TRIPE.
A Correction of a Personal Allusion in a
Swedish Newspaper.
EXHIBITS FOE THE CHICAGO FAIB
rwrnmif for thi dispatch.
Being on the eve, as I may say, of pub
lishing a book, I hail with ill concealed joy
the announcement that a company has been
recently formed with a capital of $100,000,
and located at Newark, N. J., for the man
ufacture of "membranoid" for bookbind
ings. This is a new style of ornamental leather
made from tripe. I get all my information
regarding the matter from the Bxdcheri
Advocate, the acknowledged journalistic
authority on meaty matters. The inventor
claims that membranoid will prove more
serviceable, and at the same time please the
bookworm better, than any other style of
bookbinding. It is also susceptible of more
artistic and gastric possibilities than wany
other substance. The time is coming'when
the author, instead of trying to subsist ona
paltry royalty, will be permitted to carry a
vinegar flask in his hip pocket and board at
the bindery. The unsuccessful lawyer and
graduate of Harvara will not get as thin as
I did while practicing law and banting, con
veyancing and starving, for he can put a
little Halford sauce on his library and feel
pretty well afterward. How much happier
I would have been while practicing law I
surreptitiously it I could have put some I
mustard on a New York decision or given I
myself up to a Simmon's Digest
According to His Friend Bfnckstone.
Law is a rule of action prescribing what is
right and prohibiting what is wrong, accord
ing to my friend Mr. Biackstone, who got
the idea from Justinian, but too often the
student and the solicitor find it poor
grazing and the common law, especially
short commons. (This is a joke which I
used with good effect at the Inns of Court,
in London, where I put up while in
England.) But now with our books
bound in membranoid, the bookworm and
the bott become synonymous, and the day
is not far distant when a hymn book or two
during Lent may prolong one's life.
The "Bead and Eeturn" volumes on the
train will then have to be chained to the
seat, and eminent but unprosperous authors
can subsist for a time on tbe autograph
albums sent to them, using the return
stamps for Chile sauce. In addition to the
use of tripe as a bookbinding, it will be
used and utilized in the manufacture of
slippers for the pastors, and the time is
coming when the Christmas tree will yield
to the hungry and weary one, not a promise
to the eye to be broken to the heart, but no
doubt as many slippers as at present; yet
each one capable ot making a man a.meaL
In the onward march of membranoid I am
told also that the company will not confine
itself entirely to tripe, but will roam about
scientifically among the other organs, and
In the matter of medical works, to use the
membrane of the organ on which the work
treats, as, for instance, a meningeal binding
for works on the brain and spine, a pleural
binding for a treatise on the diseases ot tne
chest and lungs, and so on as to diseases of
the bones, peritonitis, etc
A Bit of Campaign Literature.
This leads us on to speak of other literary
efforts, among them a sort of delayed boom
or the fragment of a nominating speech
which was not accepted by the candidate,
and having been returned to the author, the
editor ot a Winston paper, as being unavail
able, was used by him in his paper and
adapted to the use of a gentleman who had
doubtless paid up his subscription or sent
in a bit of bridal cake i. e., a bridal bit as
tt. , Below Iirive the paragraph as it
is printed, for it is a gem of forensic beauty i
A Panacea for the Book Worm's Hunger.
which would have jarred the rock ribbed
dam at St Anthony's Falls or shaken the
wet cotton domestic roof of the Chicago
4-m (pronounced "forum"). I shall utilize
it in a school speaker which I am about to
issue, to be used in advanced classes of
rhetoric:
He stands to-day most grandly panoplied
and most magnlfloently equipped and most
luxuriantly robed witli those splendid at
tainments, which most admirably flt htm
for that high arena of brilliant usefulness,
where his grand powers shine forth with all
the undlnimed splendor and matchless bril
liancy of the kniglitllest grace and dignity,
and which emit at all times those rare
waves of luster that lend and Impart ad
ditional glory to the rich andglitterlng tiara
of American manhood and American states
manship. In the fortitude of his purpose,
and the strength of his character, and tho
tenderness of Ills sympathies, and the wom
anly gentleness of nU heart" he lemindsus
of some grand and lofty towering oat,
beautifully and symmetrically developed and
richly and luxuriously foliaged with the
graceful garniture of a vernal woven gar
land of opulent splendor, capable of defying
and withstanding the raging blasts ot the
wildest storms, and yet offering, within the
tender and gentle recesses and its leafy
bowers, a nestling place for mother birds to
safely nurse their tender brood.
The Man Who Keiosed It Is Icy.
If Mr. Harrison sent that back he richly
deserves the charge of being the great
American ice machine. Cold as my own
heart is at times, I cannot read the above
without a quickened pulse, and over and
over again as I read it I promise myself I
will never again do so without providing
myself with a handkerchief. If Mr Cleve
land returned this inflamed encomium it is
no wonder that Bepnblican newspapers
charge him with trying -to drive over little
children with a mowing machine. Mr.
Cleveland is a keen critic of beautiful word
picturing, and if he sent this graham gem
Sack to North Carolina it must have been
owing to his vulgar haste and hisanxiity to
get away with Joseph Jefferson and catch
tomcods in Buzzard's bay.
In my mind now I see Mr. Cleveland
with a new tiara made specially for him bv
Xyon & Healy, of Chicago, and quietly
learning to piay on it in Mr. jeuerson s
studio, while Mr. Van Winkle is painting a
life size picture of Buzzard's Bay. Then,
again, I see him at the close of a busy day
taking off his panoply and hanging it on a
chair as he retires to rest, or mayhap in the
morning, equipping himself for that high
arena of brilliant usefulness where Iris go
and powers shine forth with all the undim
med splendor and matchless brilliancy of
the knightliest grace and dignity! which
emit at all times those rare wares of luster
that lend and impart additional glory to the I
jf J B&lll j
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SUNDAY. JULY 17.
rich and glittering tiara of American man
hood and statesmanship.
News Via the North Star.
I find-the following paragraphia one ot
my Swedish exchanges, and hardly know
whether the reference is friendly or not I
quote from the Nordttjernan, of New York.
The Nordttjernan goes on to say as follows:
Bill nye.var bekante humorist,sloggacKen
los 1 Torsdags morgon vid stortbaden i Sara
toga, da bans fot slant pa marmorgnllvet
ocU nan foil rakt pa .en porslinsspottback
och erholl ratt svara sar pa ryggen och t
sldan. Han bier ford till sitt rum 1 Congress
Hall, der en doktor sydde Ihopaaret Han
mastenu halla sig I sang en vecka och
mojllgenlangre.
I am not so fluent in the Swedish lan
guage as I should be after havingbad a
Swedish cook lor years, but if I understand
the above paragraph it errs in some of its
statements. I was never in Saratoga in my
life, either on Torsdaes morgon or else
where, and the allusion to "rum i Congress
Hall" is purely gratuitous, and most every
one knows how I abhor rum when I see
what it has done for everyone but Mr.
Keeley, and how I turn from it, especially
when I remember how many other things
An Exhibit for the lt'oiW Fait-.
there are that taste better and come at the
same price. Moreover, when a paper says
that "i sang en vecka och majligen" or
elsewhere it makes a mistake.
Explaining Away thn Libel.
I am led to believe, however, that the
authoritv for the item is a paragraph re
cently printed in some of the American
papers in which a man who has assumed my
name and gone to Saratoga for jag'ing pur
poses only fell over a pet cinnamon bear at
Congress Hall and cut his brow open on the
sharp edge of a porcelain cuspador or
"spot back." He lay unconscious until
some one detected a ga's leak and following
up the odor discovered the gash in his head.
It was then learned that he had registered
under my name, and the gladsome news
flashed over the wires that I bad fallen on a
"spott back." He is the same dappel
gauger of mine who three years ago stole a
carload of watermelons" in Ohio, using noth
ing but an iron bar and a pseudonym.
But even other people are talked about
Here is what the Nordntjernan says ot the
Democratic Convention:
Jag har lvckat fa rum pa Grand Pacific
Hotell, der Cleveland demokraterna hafva
sitt bufvudqvarter redan ordnadt under
ledning af Colonel John Tracy, hvadan Jag
saledes blir tlllfalle att fa se asm 1 full verk
samhet. Hitting Pretty Near thn Ball's Eye.
Here it will be noticed that rum and its
jag, as well as the demokraterna, are c'osely
associated, and yet those who know the
Democracy best know that its prohibition
plank is the proudest moment of its life.
Speaking ot Chicago reminds me of an
exhibition I am getting up for the great
World's Columbian Exposition of roads and
road beds, to be shown in the furniture ex
hibit, Class D, No. 309 The exhibition
will consist of a talk, with illustrations of
same, regarding the great national question
of the "Use and Abuse of Wagon Boads,"
treating it not as a local question, but as a
national and international question, and
showing by personal reminiscences how I
found the wagon roads of our own country
when I was thrown in contact with them a
great deal, treating same under the title of
"Wagon Eoads With Whom I Have Met
TJp With." I append one of the illustra
tions. Bill Nye.
A CAT THEIB F03TES-HOTHEE,
Four Sbye Terrier Fnpples Which Are
Being Brought Up 'Nicely.
New York Recorder.
Enoch Edwards is a colored man, who
lives at 239 West One Hundred and Twenty
fourth street, and is janitor of two large
fiat houses in Harlem. Mr. Edwards con
siders himself somewhat of a dog fancier.
At present, in his flat on the second floor,
there is the very unusual spectacle of a
large, fine-looking black cat nursing four
little skye terrier puppies.
How Edwards happened to become
possessed of this singular combination is
not without interest Up to last week Ed
wards owned a skye terrier, but she was
stricken with apoplexy and died. Edwards
was much moved, for he had a kindly re
gard for the old girl, as he called her, 'and,
in the interest of science,and incidentally his
own finances, he decided that the pups
would have to be saved at any cost The
mystery of the Cxsarian operation was to
Edwards a blank, but he tried it and suc
cessfully. The noses of the artificially born pups
were stuck into a saucer of warm milk, but
it seemed to almost ,suffocate them. Ed
wards was about to reconcile himself to the
fact that after all his trouble his puppies
would die, when he thought of his old black
cat When the old mother cat got home
that night she found the tour young skyes
occupying her kittens' quarters. "She acted
a little queer-like tor a while." explained
Edwards, "but just as soon as she found out
she could be of use she went to work nurs
ing the youngsters just the same as if she
were their own mother."
The puppies are about the normal "size
and perfectly healthy.
WILL SHAVE FOB 10 CENTS.
A Windy City Barber Who Believes lfi
Cents Is Too High it Price.
Chicago Newf-Rccord.
Ten-cent shaves will not become obsolete
on the West Side. A number of the bar
bers will not join the 15-cent movement
They will not enter into any combination to
raise the price of the West Side man's
toilet
"I and several others have not joined or
agreed, and do not intend to extort from
our customers and iriends the unreasonable
and exorbitant price of IScentsfor a share,"
said a West Side barber yesterday. "In
my 15 years' experience I have Deen satis
fied and glad to get customers at 10 cents,
and do not intend now to put on war-time,
prices aud rob my friends. Along cross'
streets and Halstead can be found many
barber shops charging 10 cents a shave and
15 cents hair cut So all barbers are not in
the unreasonable and foolish combine. It
is an extortion and the public will not
stand it In tact, I have had an increase of
five men coming from other shops with
their cups, etc., declaring they would not be
swindled, and a 15-cent charge was an out
rageous imposition.
"While in favor of the closing on Sun
day, we, with the public, object to the rob
bery charge of 15 cents."
An Enterprising Newspaper.
The Petit Journal, in Paris, according to
the latest report, bos reached the enormous
circulation of -1,250,000. It is printed on
.wood pulp paper, the raw .material the fir
being brought from Norway and Austria.
The little journal consumes in a 12-month
120,000 fir trees, each having an estimated
height of 66 feet, equal.to the annual clear
ing of a forest having an area of 25,000
acres.
1892.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Some of the Holidays and Holy Days
That Have Been Forgotten.
THE ST0BT OF THE ISLE OF MAN.
An Explanation of the Fractional Totes at
National Conventions.
WHY COMMENCEMENTS ARE 80 CALLED
rWBlTTIN TOB THlt DISPATCH. I
Our Independence Day casts into oblivion
in this country some famous old holidays
and holy days that ought not to be forgot
ten. Who that speaks familiarly of the
"dog days" remembers that the third of the
month is the first of these famous days the
day on which Sirins, the dog star, first
comes into conjunction with the sun. July
6 was the old midsummer day; it has lost
that honor now, however, Jnne 24 having
received it instead, although that is St
John's Day, and only three days later than
tbe summer solstice, which marks the scien
tific beginning of summer. The 7th of this
month is the feast day of St Thomas
Becket, who though a famous saint for years
is now remembered chiefly as the cause of
the pilgrimage to Canterbury, which Chau
cer has immortalized.
Saint- Swithin's Day came on the 15th of
the month; it it rains then, it will rain on
the 40 days following. -Swithin was
Bishop of Winchester, and died July 2, 862,
leaving direction that he should be buried
in the churchyard of his cathedral, so that
the rain might fall on his grave. Some
years afterward tbe monks desired to move
the remains into the cathedral and fixed on
July 15 for the translation, but tor 40 days
it rained steadily, so that they could not
open tbe grave; and at the end of the
fortieth day they decided that the saint
preferred to stay ont in the wet St
Margaret's Day is celebrated oa the 20th.
She was a maiden of Antioch, loved by
Olybius; but she refused bim because he
was a pagan. He tried to put her to death
with cruel torments; but an earthquake
prevented tbe tortures, and a dove from
heaven set a crown of gold upon her fore
head, whereat 5,000 spectators were con
verted to Christianity. Bnt Olybius ex
ecuted her jnst tbe same. She is the
patroness of women in childbirth, succeed
ing Juno, who, under the name of Lucina,
was prayed to by the Boman mothers. St
James and St Christopher share July 25
between them. In some parts of England
tbe apple trees are blessed on this day,
which is said also to mark the success or
failure of the hop crop.
St Anne, the mother of the Virgin
Mary, is worshipped on July 26; she was
the third daughter of Matthew, a priest,
and Mary his wife, and was married to
Joachim in Galilee. Their wedding ring
was kept by the nnns of St Anne in Borne,
and worked miracles. It was stolen during
the sacking ot the city in 1524; but was
brought back by a crow, which laid it upon
a stone where the nuns found it The last
day of the month is the feast of St Ignatius
Loyola, the founder of the wonderful So
ciety of Jesus, who died on this day in
1556. Certainly this month ends nobly,
with the holy day of one of the most re
markable of theological and religions lead
ers that the world has ever known.
Ton spoke of tho kingdoms of England,
Scotland, Ireland and Man; was there really
a kingdom of Man? If so, Is it the same as
the Isle of Man? Giktrdde Booth.
That is it, exactly. Man was a part of
the possessions of the Norwegian and
Welsh EZings until early in the tenth
century. Then Orry became King of Man;
his descendants ruled until 1077, when the
kingdom was conquered by the Icelanders.
The line of Orry was restored about 1100,
and lasted until 1265, when Magnus died
without issue. Then Magnus VL, of Nor
way, who claimed the throne, ceded his
rights to Alexander III. of' Scotland.
There were wars over the island for some
years, and at one time Edward L, of Eng
land, seized it Finally, in 1344, William,
Earl of Salisbury, a great-grand nephew
ot King Magnus, was crowned King of
Man. A successor sold the island
and the kingship to the Earl of
Wiltshire in 1393; and Henry
IV. gave it to Sir John Stanley on the at
tainder for treason of the Earl. The house
of Stanley was governed by lieutenants.
Thomas Stanley was created Earl of Derbv
in 1485; in 1736 the lordship of Man the
second Earl of Derby had given up the
title of King went to the Dnke of Athole,
a descendant of one of the Earls of Derby;
he held on to the island and the title until
1765, when the Duke sold the sovereignty
and its revenues for 70,000 and an annuity
of 2,000. His son sold the manorial rights,
etc., for 417,000 and a further annuity of
3,000, so that now the Kingdom of Man is
hard and fast attached to Great Britain.
The island has a Parliament of its own, the
House ot Keys, one of the most ancient
legislative assemblies in the world; it
makes its own laws, and acts of Parliament
do not apply to the Isle of Man unless it is
especially named in them.
I have heard the question raised recently.
Who Dacked Dred Scott In his legal fight for
liberty. Who did back him? Marcus.
In the first case, tried in Missouri, it is
said that he was backodby some politicians,
who hoped that Scott might be defeated and
a precedent established which would be of
use to them later. After the case got up to
the Supreme Court ot the United States,
Montgomery Blair, Dred Scott's counsel,
paid the necessary fees and expenses, and
contributed his services without charge.
So, too, did Mr. George Ticknor Curtis, of
New York City. These lawyers acted sim-
ly from a desire to have an important case
ecided by the highest court
There were fractional votes at the Minne
apolis and Chicago Conventions; will yon
tell me how they originated?
W. A. CALLAlf Air.
In some cases there were more delegates
than there were votes. Thus Maryland had
16 votes at Chicago and 17 delegates were
present; so to 15 of them 15 votes were
given, and the sixteenth vote was divided
between the sixteenth and seventeenth dele
gates, giving each one-half ot a vote. Some
votes were divided in quarters, end some
in thirds; bnt the principle is the same in
either case.
Was Delaware a slave State? If so, when
did slavery cease to exist within its bound
aries? a L T.
Vermont is the only older State that never
numbered slaves among its inhabitants.
Delaware was a slave State, and remained
one until the proclamation of President
Andrew Johnson, December 18, 1865, de
claring the acceptance of the fifteenth
amendment,'which put an end to slavery
in the United States. Nearly 2,000 slaves
1,798, to be exact were emancipated at that
time. Lincoln's emancipation proclama
tion, it must be remembered, applied only
to those States and parts ot States which
were in rebellion. Several parishes of
Louisiana and counties ot Virginia, were
excepted from the operation of that procla
mation, and so slaves living therein re
mained slaves until the end of the war.
Why, are the exercises held at the end
of the college year called commencement
exercises? JL. O. K.
Because the graduates "commence bache
lors" commence their lives as learned,
diplomaed men. Then again, commence
ment used to be held at the beginning oi
the college year. In 1642 the first com
mencement of Harvard College was held ia
October. It is only within a comparatively
few years that commencements have been
held at the end of the year. Originally the
summer vacation was short, and the winter
vacation long to allow the students to
teach the winter schools so that the gradu
ates would return to their college to "com
mence bachelors" and the freshmen would
come up to begin their college life.
Can the President and the Vice President
be Inhabitants or the same State. S. P. P.
No; article XH of the amendments to
the Constitntion provides that the electors
"shall meet in their respective States and
vote by ballot for President and Vice Presi
dent, one of whom, at least, shall not be an
inhabitant of the same State with them
selves," etc. Suppose that the candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency
were inhabitants of the same State, the
electors of that State could not vote for
them, under this clause in the Constitution.
This is the only clause in the Constitution
bearing on the question. Presumably the
candidates might both come from one State;
then the votes of the electoral college of that
State might be thrown out as having been
cast unlawfully and the votes of the other
colleges might elect those candidates. Such
a proceeding would be within the letter of
the law.
Which Is the largest the earth, the planet
liars, or the moon? Which is nearer to the
earth, Mars or the moon?
Da axd Phujt.
The earth is the largest of the three, being
Z times as large as the moon, and nearly
twice as large as Mars; Mars is nearly twice
as large as the moon. The moon Is, on the
average, 238,000 miles ' from the earth,
while Mars is on the average 48,000,000 of
miles from the earth. At times the moon
is much nearer to the earth, and at times
much farther; so also is Mars, their orbits
being not circular, but elliptical.
Does universal suffrage exist In Spain or
In any other Enropean country. F. P.
Universal suffrage does not exist in
Spain by any means. Only the largest tax
payers and certain corporate bodies have
votes. In Denmark, France and the Em
pire of Germany there is universal suffrage;
in all other countries suffrage is more or
less restricted.
Who were the "Nine Worthies?"
A.G.T.
They were worthy lighters, three He
brews, three Christians and three Pazans.
The Hebrews were Joshua, David and
Jndas Maccabeus; the Christians, King
Arthur, Charlemagne and Godfrey de
Bouillon; the Pagans, Hector, Alexander
and Julius Cxsar. B. G.
IHTELLIGENCE Iff MULES.
Having Been Bart by Fenov They Still
Thought It Was There.
A friend recently told me of an incident
which occurred on a farm near Topeka,
Kan., which illustrates the intelligence of
the mule, says a writer in the St Louis
Globe-Democrat. He owned a number of
these animals, and kept them in a pasture
surrounded by an ordinary plank fence. In
the next inclosure was a field of growing
oats, and the mules, not being able to un
derstand why they should be kept away
from the oats, repeatedly broke down the
barrier and feasted. He finally put up a
barbed wire fence, and the mules, trying to
get into the oat field, seventy scratched
themselves with the barbs. They gave up
the effort, and he considered the victory
won. Bo it was, but tbe mules had learned
more than he gave them credit for. A tew
months later he found it necessary to divide
his pasture, and ran a line of posts through
the center ot it, Intending to put the wires
in position the next day. But the wire did
not come, and he was advised that it would
not arrive for several days.
He let the posts stay, but going out one
day to drive his mules from one side of the
pasture to the other, he found it impossible
to drive them through the line of posts.
They wonld run up and down the line, but
not a mule, would venture through. Thev
could not see any wires, but that was evi
dently not sufficient evidence to the mulish
mind that no wires were there, and the
animals were too much afraid of getting
scratched to take any risks.
AN OPINION 07 WEB3TZB.
The Old Statesman Did Not Think That
IlsJlroads Would B a Success.
Youth's Companion. i
In the year 1840 the locomotive was a
small, weak machine that was employed to
drag a few coach-like cars at a speed of
about ten miles an hour. Then tbe directors
and stockholders of railroads constituted
the meekest class of citizens, very differ
ent from the dictatorial, influential class of
the present
Daniel Webster, in describing the Amer
ican railroad of that time, said: "They are
made of two stringers of scantling, notched
into ties that often get loose in the ground.
Upon the stringers two straps of iron, the
width and thickness of wagon-tires, are
nailed.
"These straps of iron frequently get de
tached at the ends, which turn up like
snakes' heads, and pierce the floors of the
cars." Snch an accident actuallv happened
to a car between Elizabeth and New York.
"Then," said Webster, "the wheels slip
on the iron straps, in winter especially so
mnch that no dependence can be placed
npon the time of arrival, and many people
think that it is not certain that railroads
will be a success."
Ballet Girls In Japan.
The Japanese dancing girls are rosy
lipped and black-eyed, with comely and
delicate features, tiny hands and feet and
possessing an air of graceful modesty and
Innocence rarely seen on any stage. As for
their coiffure, it is a miracle of Japanese
hairdressers' skill. Their costumes are
aglow with scarlet, light bine, white and
gold, in robes of great length, adorned with
lowers and coral. Fans, of coarse, play a
prominent part in the intricate gestures of
the maiko.
The Moilo of an Encine.
Engineers Judge of the condition of ft
machineryiby the tone it gives out wb
running. Every engine, whether station,
or locomotive, has a particular tone of
own; the engineer becomes -accustomed
that, and any departure from it at once
cites a suspicion that all is not right '.
engineer may not know what is tbe matt
he may have no ear for music, but
change in tone of his machine will be
stantly perceptible, will be instantly rea
nized, and will start him on an immedi
investigation.
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