TBJS aSCRAlTTOlT TRIBUNE SATtJUD AT MOItlttffa. JtTNE 1. 1805. it
Of and Afooiut the
Makers of Books,
Notices of Recent Interesting Voiumies and
Chats Concerning Literary Men and Women.
TOLSTOY'S LATEST NOVEL.
The laudatory opinions which Will
lam Dean Ho wells expresses concerning
the writings of Count Leo Tolstoy in
his Introduction to the Appletons' neat
translation of the Russian novelist's
latest work, "Master and Man." will
probably not be Bhared by the normal
Individual to whom the Tolstoy cult Is
still a shrouded mystery, and to whom
life has not yet lost the fulness of Its
varied fascination. For "Master and
Man," so far as It can be said to con
vey any Intelligible messuKe, spenks
a philosophy of Intense pessimism,
lighted at the lost by a faint dicker of
accidental altruism for which the
course of the story or the allegory,
If you please supplies no incentive and
for which the author's teaching affords
no sure promise of ultimate reward.
Thus when Mr. Howells confesses to
feeling a "thrill" of wonder whenever
he opens a page of Tolstoy's, we ac
cept tho assertion merely In the light
which It sheds upon the susceptibility
of the chief American prophet of ex
purgated realism to thrills of any kind;
and by no means as indicative of a
probable contagion of emotions. For
"Master and Man," as we Interpret It,
is not likely to cause among the unini
tiated any more profund stirring uf
the dopths of being than arises from
a transient curiosity as to the mental
state of the man to whom life appears
a barren waste of alternate selfishness
and serfdom; and for whom there are
no fit materials save the colIln and the
shroud.
The slender framework of the novel
may be pictured In few words. Vasslll
BrekhunolT is a Kusslan merchant of
the second guild, a church warden and
an intense lover of gain. He has be
gun with little and nursed It Into much;
he is now the chief man of his parish,
avaricious, selfish, yet outwardly re
spectable a fair type of the man in
whose being the finer capabilities are
systematically subordinated to the
great aim of "getting on." It Is -the
day after the winter fete of St. Nicho
las. Vasslll has been entertaining
guests, less out of friendship than out
of a sense of his own Importance.
There is a sharp bargain to be had of
a neighboring 'squire, concerning some
wood which is worth 21.000 roubles, but
which Vasslll expects to get for 7,000.
Vasslll, warmty clad in two fur coats
and stimulated by strong drink, starts
on his sledge for the 'squire's house,
taking Nlklta with him. Nlklta is the
henchman, who serves Vasslll with the
docility of a mastiff, gets drunk peri
odically, is discharged, and afterward
is taken back upon terms which cut
his small annual wage down to a mere
fraction of its nominal amount. Nikita
has only one great coat, and it is
ragged and rent. The weather is In
tensely cold and the rising wind Is
portentous of a storm. Thus equipped,
master and man start forward, against
reason, on their unnecessary Journey
to feed the former's wealth. After re
peated mishaps and oblivious to re
peated warnings, they finally lose their
wajf and give themselves up to the
fury of the storm. Vasslll, however,
rouses himself, deserts the servant In
th moment of Nlklta's stupor because
of the overmastering cold, afterward
by accident wanders back to Nlklta's
side, perceives that Nikita is dying and,
moved by an impulse of remorse,
throws himself upon the servant's
prostrate body in the hope of warm
ing him back to life, and thus himself
perishes, while the henchman survives.
II.
A few Incidental personages are put
before us In the novel for a moment or
two. Nlklta's wife, while not person
ally in evidence. Is commented upon.
It appears that she is Nlklta's banker,
seizing his earnings whenever he gets
any, in fear lest he should squander
them In drink. 6ho does not live with
her husband, however, but cohabits
with another man. Vasslll's wife, who
from her station might be supposed to
possess at least one lovable quality, ia
thus Indicated:
With her head and shoulders smoth
ered In a woolen shawl, so that only her
eyes were visible, Vasslll's wife, a pale
thin woman In an Interesting condition,
stood In the hall to see him off.
"Really you ought to take Nlklta,"
the said timidly,' standing back from
tho door. ,
Vasslll answered nothing, but only
tpat.
"You have money with you," contin
ued his wife. In the same complain
ing voice. "Ah, and the weather Is
none too good. Really you should, in
God's name!"
"What's the matter with me? Don't
I know the road, that I need somebody
to ride with me?" remarked Vasslll
with that unnatural tightening of the
lips with which he usually addressed
sellers and buyers, evidently pleased
wltn his own speech.
"Really, you ought to take him. I
beg you, for God's sake, do!" repeated
the woman, twisting her shawl over to
the other side.
"Bother! She Is as bad as a leech,"
was Vasslll's final reply.
On the fatal journey on the sledge,
the flrert person encountered by Vasslll
and Nlklta is described as a "first-class
horse-stealer" whose breath is offen
sively laden with vodky fumes. They
pass a house, and from certain out
ward evidences of untidiness, Vasslll
concludes that the housewife "must be
a lasy slut." Further on, they come to
a sledge load of Asiatic peasants, and
these Tolstoy cheerfully represents as
beastly drunk. Finally, at a wayside
village where the two pause awhile to
get warm, we are treated to the spec
tacle of an old man, with one leg In
. his grave, quarreling with a houseful
of undutlful sons over the division of
his small property. With one excep
tion, this exhausts the dramatis per
onae. The exception Is Vasslll's cook,
who la at least decent and good-natured
enough to help Nlklta Into his
apology for an overcoat and thus do a
little something toward relieving the
atmosphere of the story from its al
most unbroken gloom.
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It Is at such company of sorry dls
reputables a this that Mr. Howells is
made aware of the 'Hhrlll and glow of
wonder," and feels something like the
"clasp of a great warm hand, with the
beat of a friendly heart in it." It
Is tlita "paltry picture of ' drunkards,
adulterers, horse-thieves and vcnsoal
irts that he holds before us as "a mas
terpiece, even a story," a "drama
of tho race," a brt of "sublime divina
tion." ft Is here,. In.. the- society of
these coarse knaves and lewd or
slovenly women, that Tolstoy "teaches
. . , v- V
that no one can be happy to or for him
self, but only In serving another at his
need! not helping him with foolish ben
efits and mischievous pleasures, but
In befriending him In his trouble." It
Is from this motley aggregation of sod
den cheats that ho. deduces a terrible
arraignment of the present Industrial
relation of the "hireling and him that
hires;" and decides that tho one great
obstacle to the realization of an
earthly mlllenlum Is the fact that men
nowadays work for pay, and not for
love.
But, as the New York Tribune point
edly says in Its admirable review of
this work, "this Is a perverse genera
tion, and there are some who persist
In believing that life Is worth living,
that there Is more good than evil In the
world, that it is possible for nn em
ployer to bo Just and generous and for
on employe to be nranly and self-respecting,
and that noble living Is better
than sneaking In the hitur of death.
Such, If they read It.wlll turn from this
latest book by Count Tolstoy with feel
ings of revulsion and disgust. They
will see in it a none too llfe-llke pic
ture of that which Is worst In the
world, most eordld, most degrading,
which the author and his admirers
would hold up ns a true portrait of all
the race. They will deem the whole
tendency and punxirt of the bonk to
be unwholsome; not with the abnor
mality of the hothouse, but of the
sewer; and they will reckon that, while
It contains nothing to make the world
brighter, life happier nnd men better,
it Is filled with that which would in
crease gloom, aggravate discontent,
and drng men down to cynicism and de
spair." It was Nordau, we believe, who Inti
mated that the author of tho "Kreutzer
Sonata" was perchance 1? uncon
scious victim, by Jieredity, of a fanatl
cil sect in a certain part of Russia
which, believing that all mischief came
Into the world because of woman s
presence there, abjured the sight of
women nnd. to make their repugnance
stronger, submitted to mutilation.
This may be a harsh Judgment: but it
strikes us as a noteworthy fact that
in none of Tolstoy's novels, the latest
one least of all. is there the Picture of
a decent nnd normal woman. To laua
as the greatest , writer of his genera
tion, a novelist incapable of under
standing womankind is to wu" Jhe
public intelligence.
L. S. R.
BOOKS AND AUTHORS' NOTES:
The scene of Anthony Hope's new novel
In London Idler is laid in Greece.
Frledrich Spielhagen's new romance Is
entitled "Susl, a Tale of Court Life."
Coventry Fatmore's next offering will be
"The Rod, the Root, and the Flower."
The modest title of Sir Edwin Arnold's
forthcoming book is to be "The Tenth
Muse."
Captain Mahan, the author of "The In
fluence of Sea Power," has almost finished
a new work.
Richard Garnett has finished a book of
translations from Dante, Petrarch and
other Italian sonneteers.
H. Rider Haggard's forthcoming novel
Is name. "Heart of the World." It is a
tale of Mexican adventure.
Stone and Kimball now announce for
publication a new volume by Kenneth
Grahame, "The Golden Age."
Gilbert Parker's series of "Tales from
the Voshtl Hills' is to be continued for
several months in the Chap-Book.
Eric Mackey's new volume of poems has
been christened "A Song to tho Sea. My
Lnly of Dreams, and other Poems."
W. D. Howells' essays on his "Literary
rasslon" have been put Into book form by
the Harpers and the work will soon be
brought out.
The "Adventures of Captain Horn." in
Frank It. Stockton's forthcoming novel,
extend from Patagonia to Maine and from
San Francisco to France.
An unpublished drama by Robert Louis
Stevenson and William E. Henley, entitled
Macalre," will see the light of print in
the June issues of the Chap Hook.
The new edition of Balzac's novels,
which Geonro Salntsbury Is editing for
Macmlllan & Co., Is to make a beginning
immediately with "The Wild Ass's Skin"
(La Peau ile Chagrin.)
R. D. Blackmore has written a tragic
story In which several striking characters
introduced In "Lorna Doone" will reap
pear. This tale Is to be called "Slain by
the Dooncs: A Record of Exmoor.
It appears that tho authorship of tho
Jonn of Arc serial now. running In Har
per's is not to remain a secret very long.
The work will appear In book form In a
twelvemonth or so from the date of its
beginning In the magazine, and the name
of the writer will be attached to It.
F. Frankfort Moore, the novelist, like
most other novelists, has been trying his
hand nt a play. "Kitty Cllve" Its tltlo
Is, and It In a dramatization of a magazine
story published not long ago by the au
thor. Mr. Moore Is a quick writer. His
new book, "Tho Sale of a Soul," was writ
ton In eight days.
Rudyard Kipling's next volume of poems
will consist wholly of sca-son?s, a striking
change of setting from that of his ballads
of the barnujk-room, but one that will
give even greater opiortunltles for a ntlr-
r'ng lyrical treatment.. Ills "Walking
Delegate" will he reserves for a book on
American queur life, so to spoak. A
An Immense "boom" Is reported for
Anthony Hope. It Is reported that tho
extent of his popularity has Justified his
publisher In getting out an edition of one
of his early works, which Is thus rescued
from oblivion. The demand for his newer
work Is rnld to be so strong that he cannot
supply It, although he is already over
working, Gilbert Parker's last story Is announced
for Immediate publication by Stone and
Kimball. It Is called' "When Valmond
Camo to Pontlac: tho Story of a Lost Na
poleon." Pontlac Is a tiny Can ail' an vil
lage, and the. story Is of the arrival thero
of a mysterious stranger and of tho ever
present power of tho, Nnpoleonlc namo to
rouse French blood. ?
Science brought down to common com
prehension Is tho keynote of the work of
Sir Robert Ball, and It Is good to learn that
his studies In popular astronomy will
shortly be continued by tho Llppincott's
In a volume to be called "The Great As
tronomers." These are: Ptolemy, Coper
nicus, Tycho-Brahr, Galileo, Kepler, Hor
rox Huyghens, Newton Flamsteed, Hal ley
Rradley, John Hernchnl, William Herschel,
Laplace, Rose Hamilton, Adams, and
Schwabe.
Herman Budcrmnnn's ' famous novel,
"Frau Horge," has been translated un'der
the title of "Dnme Cure" (Appleton & Co.)
It Is without doubt the most artistic of his
long stories and tho most deeply Impreg
nated with the peculiar spirit of the East
Prussian landscape.- Paul, the hero, is
born Just at the moment when hts father' a
difficulties. make it necessary for Mm to
sell his house and land; this gloomy clr
icumstancn overshadows the whole of
Paul's life;1 HIS 'Spirit becomes crushed,
alrhdst extinguished. After long years of
tolling, struggling and suffering, ho is re
deemed through the love of a woman, but
only when he has sacrificed to "Dnms
Care" all he held most precious, and when i
the capacity In him for Joy and hope has
been well-nigh destroyed. Paul is a well
sketched type of tho patient victim of
German Imperialism, but he could never
be naturalized In democratic America.
In the June 1 Issue of the Chap-Book will
appear the first Installment of "Macalre, A
Mulodramatlo Farce," by Robort Louis
Stevenson and William Ernoat Henley.
The few who know the other plays done
in collaboration by these two need not be
told whnt to expect In literary deftness,
In whimsicality of humor and In sudden
touches of drnmailo powr. The old story
of Robert Macalre, which most poople
now-a-imys nave learned at the theater,
from "Ermlnlc," Is rotold with all the
added charm whleh Stevenson could so
well give It. The farce will be published
In book form In the autumn by Stone and
Kimball, but Is first to bo run through two
numbers of the Chap-Hook.
IS A WEARY WORLD.
Extraet from JIux Norduu's Now Book
"Degeneration."
"The 18,000 new publications, the 6.800
newspapers In Gormnny, desire to be
read, although many of them desire In
vain: the 2,709,000,000 of letters must be
written; the larger commercial trans.
actions, tho numerous Journeys, tho In
creased marine intercourse, Imply a
correspondingly greater activity In In
dlvldunls. The humblest village in
habitant has today a wider geogra
phical horizon, more numerous nnd
complex Intellectual Interests than the
prime minister of a petty or even a
second rate state a century ngo. If
he do but read his paper, let It be the
most Innocent provincial rag, he takes
part, certnlnly not by active Inter
ference and Inlliicnce, but by a con-Ma
uous and receptive curiosity. In the
thousand events which take place In all
parts of the globe, nnd he interests
himself simultaneously In -the Issue of
a revolution In Chill, In a bush war
In East Africa, a massacre In North
China, a famine In Russia, a street row
In Hpitin nnd an International exhibition
In North America. A cook receives nnd
sends more letters than n university
professor did formerly, and a petty
trndesmnn travels more nnd sees more
countries nnd people than did tho
reigning prince of other times.
"All these activities, however, even
the simplest, Involve an effort of the
nervous system nnd a wenrlng or tissue
Kvery line we rend or write, every hu
man face we see, every conversation wc
carry on, every scene we perceive
through tho window of tho flying ex
press, sets In activity our sensory
nerves and our brain centers. Kven
the little shocks of railway travelln
not perceived by consciousness, the
perpetual noises, and the various sights
In the streets of a largo town, our sus
pense pending the sequel of progressing
events, the constant expectation of the
newspaper, of the postman, of visitors,
cost our brain wear and tear. In the
last fifty years the population of Ku-
rope has not doubled, ( whereas the sum
of its labors has Increased tenfold, in
part even fifty-fold. Every civilized
man furnishes at the present time from
flvo to twenty-five times as much work
ns was demanded of him half a cen
tury ago. This enormous Increase In
organic expenditure has not, and cannot
have, a corresponding Increase of sup'
ply."
HEALTH HINTS.
Half the dyspepsia and lndegestlon and
eeneral debility from which so many peo
pie seem to be suffering is due to nothing
In the world except a lacicoi exercise.
The daily use of phosphate of sodium
(a teaspoonful in a teacupful of hot water
before breakfast every day for six months)
will prevent the formation of. gall stones
Used for the same length of time It will
permanently cure Indigestion, bilious atom
ach. Intestinal catarrh and bilious sick
headache.
Dr. Vadeboncoeur, of Syracuse, thinks
that the principal cause of infection In
the various forms of tubercular disease
is found to reside in the dessicated germ
laden sputa of a tuberculous patient,
whose dally expectoration in the last
stages of the disease. It has been esti
mated, may contain something like seven
hundred millions of bacilli, and which are
capable of contaminating the atmosphere
of our dwellings and public highways
when they are not promptly destroyed by
efficient snnltary measures. Fortunately
this source of Infection may be reduced to
a minimum by Instructing patients In tho
use of suitable receptacles In which to re
celvo the sputa and In rendorlng the same
Inert by sterilization. The time Is near at
hand when It will be unlawful for nnyonn
to expectorate In any place, other than In
such suitable receptacles.
Naturo publishes an article that proves
tho virtue of cleanliness to be more than
aesthetic. Tho sudoriferous glands per
form the Important function of throwing
off the moisture, produced during the
combustion of waste tissue by the oxygon
of tho blood, nnd secrete about twenty
threo ounces of perspiration In twenty-
four hours. This evaporates without pro
duclng any sensible molsturo of tho skin
and Is a process for regulating the tem
perature of tho body. The conversion of
perspiration Into vapor renders latent an
enormous amount of heat and keeps tho
body In a slato of comparative coolness.
Water at 120 decrees Is almost unbearable;
but heat In nn oven to the extent of
degrees may be borne for a time. In the
twenty-three ounces of perspiration se
creted dally there Is about one ounce of
animal matter. This Is left behind on
evaporation. Sebaceous glands also se
crete oily and resinous substances. This,
mixing with tho solid matter und dirt.
forms a compound which tends to clog
the pores of the skin. Tho removal of this
compound Is largely the souree of tho
feeling of refreshment following a vigor
ous mornlug buth.
A SONG OF SHIPS. 1 "
Tho sky made a whip o' the winds and
lashed the sea Into fonm.
And the keen blowing gales tore the flags
nnd thn sails of tho ships that were
plunging homo;
Of the ships that were tossing homo on thn
black nnd billowy deep,
Hut who shall reach to the wrecks, th
wrecks where the ships and their
captains Bleep?
Oh, wreeks by tho black sens toMod,
In tho desolate oeeun nights!
Lost, lost In tho darkness! Ixst
In sight o' the harbor lights.
Tho sky made a veil o'er tho clouds and a
scourge of tho lightning red,
And the blasts bowed the masts of tho
ships that fared whoro lovo and the
sea gulls led;
Of the ships that were faring home with
lovo for the waiting breast,
Hut where Is the lovo that can reach to
the wroeks where tho ships and
thoir captains rest?
Oh, ship of love,, wave-tossed, .
In the fathomless ocean nlulitsl
Lost, lost In the blackness! Lost
In sight o' the harbor llghtsl
There was ones a ship of my soul that
tossed on a stormy sea,
And this was my prayer when the nights
gloomed drear: "Send my soul's ship
safe to mo!
Bend my soul's ship snfely home from bil
lows and blackened skies!" 1
Hut where Is the soul that can reach to tho
' . depths, the depths where my soul'n
ship lies?
; Oh, ship bf my soul, storm-tossed
" V In the far nnd fcarles nlghtsl
'Lost, lost In the blackness I Lost .
, In the sight o' the harbor lights! V
F. L, Stanton.
In the" World of
Omtdoor Sports.
Current Gossip of Baseball, Cycling, he Track
And Various Other Popular Pastimes.
CASEY AT THE BAT:
It looked extremely rocky for the Boston
nine that day;
The scoro stood two to four, with but an
inning left to pluy.
So. when Cooney died at second, and Bur
rows did tho same, I
A pallor wreathed the features of the pa
tronB of the game,
A straggling fow got up to go, leaving
there the rest.
With that hope that springs eternal within
the human breast,
For they thought: "if only Casey could
get a whack at that,"
They'd put up even money now, with
Casey at tho bat.
Hut Flynn preceded Co-toy, and likewise
so did lllake,
And the former wns a pudd'n', and the
latter wns a fake,
So on thnt stricken multitude a deathlike
silence sat,
For there seemed but little chance of
Casey's getting to the bat.
Hut Flynn let drive a "single," to the won
derment of all.
And the much-despised Wakey "tore the
cover off tho ball."
And when the dust had lifted, and they
saw whnt hud occurred.
There was Hlakey snfe lit second and
Flynn a-huggln' third.
Then, from the gladdened multitude went
up a Joyous yell.
It rumbled In the mountain tops. It rattled
In the dell;
It struck upon the hlllsldo and rebounded
on the flat;
For Cusey, mighty Casey, was advancing
to the but.
Thero wns easo In Casoy's manner as he
stepped Into his place.
There wus pride In Casey's bearing and a
smile on Casey's fuce;
And when responding to the cheers he
lightly defied his hat.
No stranger In the crowd could doubt
'twas Casey at tho bat.
Ten thousand eyes wero on him as he
rubbed his hands with dirt;
Five thousand tongues applauded when he
wiped them on his shirt;
Then when tho writhing pitcher ground
the ball Into his hip,
Defiance glanced In Casey's eye, a sneer
curled Casey's lip.
And now tho leather-covered sphere came
hurling through tho air.
An' Casey stood a-watchln' it In haughty
grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball un
heeded sped:
"That ain't my style," said Casey. "Strike
one," the unplro sold.
From the benches, black with people, there
went up a mutlled roar.
Like the beating of storm waves on the
stern and distant shore;
"Kill him! kill tho umpire!" shouted some
one on the stand;
And it's likely they'd have killed him had
not Casey raised his hand.
With a smile of Christian charity great
Casey's vlage shono;
He stilled the rising tumult, he made tho
game go on;
Ho signalled to tho pitcher, and once more
the spheroid flew.
But Casey still Ignored It, and the umpire
said "Strike two."
"Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands,
and tho echo answered "Fraud!"
But one scornful look from Casey and the
audience was awed;
They saw his face grow stern and cold,
they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Casey wouldn't let
the ball go by again.
Tho sneer Is gone from Casey's llpa, his
teeth are clenched In hate,
Ho pounds with cruel vengeance his bat
upon the plate;
And now tho pitcher holds the ball, and
now ho lets It go,
And now the nlr Is shattered by the force
of Cusey's blow.
Oh, somewhere In this favored land tho
sun Is shining brluht.
The band Is playing somewhere, and some-
wnero hearts are light;
And somewhero men are laughing, and
somewhere children shout.
But there Is no Joy In Hoston: mighty
lasey nas struck out.
Something Is going to be done to
change the losing streak of the Scran
ton club. Manager liarnle refrains
from discussing the matter further
than saying that the club will be made
to win. He soys that. If necessary,
there will be a complete shake-up on
the team, but when asked to specify tho
proposed changes he declined to do so
for many reasons.
Rumor snys lhat the directorate real
Izcs that the club's lost games have
been due to poor batting and only fair
pitching, and that the team will be al
most completely reorganized If a change
for the bettor doesn't appear soon. The
players have fielded sufficiently well to
be safely among tho leaders, and It
seems hard to believe thnt such good
ones as ltrady, Johnson, Ward, Wliltc-
head, Radford, Clark and Rogers will
bo replaced by new matorlnl. Yet, If
there is anything In rumors these play
ers, or some of them, are to be included
In the shake-up. Rumor, however.
should take notleu that there is such a
thing ns luclc In base bull as In other
things, and In this particular Scrnnton
may have got the worse of it. A week's
time will tell. If the club Is not then
playing winning ball a sweeping change
In the make-up of tho team may be ex
pected. e
A Scranton pitcher who has not had
an opportunity to Bhow his best puces
THOMAS G. JOHNSON,
One of Bcrnnton's Pitchers.
Is Thomas Q. Johnson, who, with
Clnrk, Is the youngest member of tho
team. Three weeks ago he stopped a
hot bounder and split his pitching
hand. In the meanwhile he has trained
carefully and gives promise of appear
ing in good form in this morning's
gnmo against Wllkcs-Rarre. Smith
-will catch 'him. On the coaching
lines he is a horror to nervous players,
and equals the lamented Hodson in the
art of putting fun and spirit into a
game. He was born and reared In San
Francisco, whero he works at boiler
making during the winter. He pitched
tho shortest M-innlng grame on record
for Oakland against San Frnncisco In
1893; tho score was 1-0 In favor of Oak.
lund, nnd lasted only forty-three min
utes. He pitched for the Marlnettes of
the Wisconsin leaguo In 1K92; for the
Snlems (Oregon), 1.S93; for the Lincoln
(Nob.), 1894.
a e a
Probably tho most reliable outfielder
in the Eastern league Is William F.
Johnson, the flcrnnton center fielder,
and, excepting Radford, the oldest
player on the club. Johnson has a
style of scooping In a fly that gives
nervous cranks the "flutters," nnd
which differs from most fielders.
Whether running or standing he re
ceives the ball with his hands at the
side of him and below the hip. He has
a quick return, und as recently as
Thursday sent the bull to the plate In
time to cut off an Alligator, who tried
to beat the throw-In. II has been
dubbed "Weepy" Johnson becnuse of
his quiet disposition. Ho Is married
and lives In Chester, where ho was
born In 1HG3. Base ball Is his only oc
cupation, and, unlike many players, he
Is provident nnd able to rest during the
winter months. A line has never been
recorded nguliiHt him. His first pro
fessional engagement -wnis with tho
Wilmington In 1HH5, since when he has
played left -or right field until he cov
ered center garden for Troy In 1893.
WILLIAM F. JOHNSON,
Scranton's Center Fielder.
Following Is his record: Wilmington,
18S5; Hartford, 1886-7; Newark, 18S8-9;
Newark and Baltimore, 1890; Baltimore,
1891; Troy, 1S92-8; Troy and Scranton
1894.
In the following list of nicknames of
Dase ban players win be louna tne
names of manv well-known to Scranton
cranks: "Cub" Strieker, "Move-up"
joe uebnardt, papa Lyons, "Baby
and "Uncle" Anson" Anson, "Dude"
Latham, "Sleepy" Johnson, "Hick" Car
penter, "Pop" Coikhlll, "Farmer"
Weaver, "Pop" Smith, "Lefty" Marr,
"Gladiator" or "Pete" Browning,
Thomas "Toad" Ramsey, "Scrappy"
Joyce. "Kid!', Baldwin. "Cupid" Chllds,
"Callope" Miller, "Jersey" Bakely, "Cy
clone" Duryea, "Old Cy" Young,
"Chippie" McGarr, "Orator" or "Coun
sellor" O'Rourke, "Buck" Ewlng,
"King" Kelly, "Doe" Bushong,-"Midget"
-Miller, "Bug" Holliday, "Dusty"
Miller, "Silver" King, "Hub" Collins,
"Chub" Collins, "Long John" Rellly,
"Jocko" Fields, "Shorty" Fuller, "Home
Run" Breckinridge, "Count" Mullane,
"Moxle" Hengle, "Moxle" McSuery,
"Reddy" Mack, "Monk" Cllne, "Peek-a-boo"
Veach, "Good Eye" Shlnnlck, "Lit
tle Phil" Tomney, "Home Run" Fos
ter, "Black Jack" Burdock, "Ubbo"
Hornung, "Chief Roseman, "Parlsan
Bob" Caruthers, "Scissors" Froutz,
"Kid" Cross, "Fog Horn" Bradley,
"Roaring Bill" Harbldge, "Long John"
Ewlng, "Yank" Robinson, "Count"
Campnu, "Tip" O'Neill, "Tub" Welch,
"Smiling Mickey" Welch, "Grasshop
per Jim" Whitney, "Texas" McNabb,
"Alamnzoo" Jennings, "Bid" McPhee,
"Fritz" PfefTer, "Cinders" O'Brien,
"Darby" O'Brien, "Little Willie" Mains,
"Big Dnve" Orr, "Policeman" Roecher.
"Big Dan" Brouthers, "Eagle Eye"
Becklcy, "Cannonball" Crane, "Patsy
Bolivar" or "Hard Gall" Tebenu,
"White Wings" Tebenu, "Sandy" Grif
fin, "Deacon" White, "Jocko"
Halllgan, "Farmer" Vaughn, "Count"
Keuhnc, "Lady" Baldwin, "Pud"
Galvln, "Chinese" Weyhlng, "Llng
Chlng" Lowee, "Handsome Char
lie" Snyder, "Wllllo Bill" McGIll,
"Chicken" Wolf. "Peach Tie" O'Con
nor, "Blondle" Purcoll, "Dummy" Hoy,
"Orator" Rhafor, "Lefty" Wright,
"Shorty" Fuller, "Parson" Nicholson,
"Honest Joe" Sommers, "Iceberg"
Chamberlain, "Egyptian" Henly, "Phe
nomenal" Bmlth. "Dude" Esterbrook,
"Scrappy" McGraw, "Link" Lowe,
"Fatly" Brady, "Little" John MeMa
hon, "Wlznrd" Plmw, "Pig" alias "Rod
Jacket" Ward, "Puffy" Vl'kery, "Red"
Khret, "Dusty" Rhodes, "Adonis" Lal
ly, "Montana Kid" Smith, "Germany"
Burger. "Dad" Clnrk, "lllg Rp Honv.
or, "Monkey" Murphy, "Yellow Weeds"
Conley, "Doc" Kcnnedv. "L,.riv"
oH "GImlot-eye" Clausen, "Ace" Stew
art, "Hnnp" Lang. "Chick" IlofTne
'OyBter" Burns. "Tot" nllnn IInU"
Murphy, "Adonis" Terry, "Germany"
i-oni-in, "tiunter" Hurrell, "Frenchy"
Fournler. "Old Hnss"
Payne, "Silver" Flint, "Brudller Bill"
uienson, - hick" carpenter, "Cherokee"
Fisher. "Bumnim" .l,nn ci
Houck, "Tug" Arundel, "Dustier" Troy
"Bald Eagle" Barnlu, "Only" Nolan,
"Juice" Lntham, and "Trick" McSorley.
Some of these aro of nliivBi-a i.iut t
sight but to memory dear, and the men-
nun ui mem will recall to the older fans
many recollections that have been In
musk for years.
ON THE DIAMOND:
From early In tho evening to the midnight
hour or more
There comes from all directions o'er the
'phone a mighty roar
It's tlng-a-llng from cranks all over no
wunuer w ar sore
'I say: Hollo I Tho Tribune? Say, Trib
une, what's the score?"
When these cranks got their Just deserts
and land nn If iliImm- ihn
They'll find old Satan waiting' thero with
puuiiB on B4 gators,
He'll umpire while they're shoveling coal
and laying up a store -To
keep them warm while waiting till
umjr ug gui "wnayi me tcorer
- -- - ,.i hi ma uuuil
vllle club, has been sedured by tho Lan
caster State league club.
The Orioles returned ome at the .GOO
percentage mark, a record with which Mr.
Hanlon said he would be satisfied before
the club loft.
"Blllle Barnle's Scranton club Is having
hard luck on its trip, and Scranton people
are getting sour on the olub." Ex. It's
too early in the season to got sour on tho
club.
"Big Bill Clark, first baseman of the
Scranton club, Is the best In the Eastern
league. BUI will be In the National league
before long." Philadelphia Exchange.
Yes, Bill Is all right, but Indiscreet.
Pitcher Vlckery, of the Buffalo club, Is
a glovcmakor betwocn October and May,
and generally puts In the time in tho Phil
adelphia factory of A. J. Reach, One of
his proud boasts Is that he made tho glove
that covered the hand that struck the
blow thut knocked out Mitchell, whom
Corbctt fought at Jacksonville. Buffalo
Times.
THE BICYCLE WORLD:
The majority of the lady riders in New
Jersey are wearing bloomers this season.
Albert Sehoch, tho champion long-distance
cyclist, has opened a riding acudemy
In Now York.
An average pace of twelve miles an
hour will be maintained on the Manhat
tan Hlcycle club's blue-ribbon eentury run
to Philadelphia June 22.
The Green Ridge wheelmen will run an
excursion to Lake Ariel on June 20, and
challenge any bicycle club In the county to
a game of base ball on the lake grounds
that day.
Roy Fnye, of Cambridge, Mass., won
the 12-mlle Llnscott road race In 45 min
utes 22 seconds. H. C. Caldwell, of Man
chester, N. ., won tha time prize In 84
minutes 3 seconds.
"Eddie" Bald gave out a hint in New
York Hatunlay that It would not require
much persuasion to Induce him to tuke
Johnson's pluce against Hanger in the pro
posed aeries of match races.
Tho board of directors of the American
league of Racing Cyclists will be held at
Albany Juno 5 to consider a plan to take
the ruclng interests out of the hands of the
League of American Wheelmen.
Those big guns of the racing patch
"Zim," Murphy, Sanger, Tltug and com
pany, with salaries ranging from 110,000 to
J2i,0W must have felt a great relief when
the Income tax law was declared uncon
stitutional.
Ray McDonald, the New York class B
crnek, has entirely recovered from his
Illness recently contracted In California.
Mc-Donuld will completo his preparatory
worg ror tno national circuit at Hampden
parK, Hpringneld.
It Is said that Harry Tyler, this season,
will rido under the colors of ths Albany
county wneeimen, and not for the Sorlne.
field Hlcycle club. Tyler's home Is in
Pluttsburg, and he is anxious to ropresent
a ciut in nis own state.
Tho Carbondalo Bicycle club visited the
Orcen Ridge wheelmen last Tuesday even
Ing. A brief entertainment was given,
tho features being a tenor solo by Emil
Sehlmpft and a comet solo by Harold
Hunting. Both gentlemen are artists in
their line and are becoming favorites at
the club smokers and entertainments.
Refreshments were served at midnight.
Frederick Burns, of the Varuna Boat
club, of Brooklyn, has been In corre
sp'ondence with Vice President Frank
Thompson, of the Pennsylvania rail
road, In the Interest of Charles Murphy,
the crack New York bicyclist. Burns
and a number of Metropolitan bicycling
enthusiasts are of the opinion that
Murphy, paced by a locomotive, can
ride a mile on his wheel in one minute.
Vice President Thompson has been
asked to grant permission to Murphy's
friends for a public trial on any of the
divisions of the Pennsylvania railroad,
the New York division preferred, allow
ing one of the railroad's fast locomo
tives to pace the rider. The Idea is to
lay a board track within two steel rails
on which Murphy will run his wheel
following In wake of the locomotive.
He will encounter no wind resistance.
the suction from the engine being an
assistance. He Is confident of his abil
ity to acompllsh the feat, and Is eager
to prove that the limit of speed of a
bicycle has not yet been reached.
.
AMONG THE PUGS:
A match between Dan Creedon and Joe
Butler, of Philadelphia, has been ar
ranged.
Jack Fogarty, of Philadelphia, wants
to box Dan Creedon either six or eight
rounds.
James Judge, of this city, and "Mike"
Leonard, of Brooklyn, are In active train
ing for the go June 17.
John L. Mitchell, of this city, and "Jer
sey" Gordon, of Philadelphia, middle
weights, will meet In a bout of six rounds
or more next Thursday night.
John J. Qulnn, who looks after tho in
terests of Peter Maher, says the articles
had been signed for a 25-round contest
between Muher and Steve O'Donnell, the
affair to take place some time this month.
N. Y. Sun.
The match between "Joe" Walcott and
"Tom" Trncey has been declared oft on
account of the fact that Walcott's hand
Is so severely injured that It will bo Im
possible for him to light again for many
months, If ever.
Sam Austin will be tho referee of the
new Sea lieach Athletic club. Sam will
wear patent leathers and skin-tight kids
while In action, but any fighter who gets
tho worst of It from him and tries to get
mm where Ills hair is short will get fooled,
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