VOL. XXVIII
]). E. JACKSON.
203 S. Main St. - - Batter, Pa.
liverjbo<'\ Delighted.
Who ate in L of Seasonable
Gof:d«.
llhvicg bcugL. <* large Stock of
Fall and Winter Goods, and owing to
Lad wiatber ar.d worse roads, they
have no; Keen going ont as lilt as
tl < y ouglt to
We hare
CUT PRICES AWAY DOWN,
as we must on acconnt of scarcity of
room close them oot to make room
for Spring Goods.
If von wfiDt a Cloak, Jacket or
Sha«)
new IS YOUR CHANCE.
Or if jou want Blanket*, Comforts
Underwear. Ladies' or Genta', Flan-
RIP'K C» r tcn Fb'.tel or anything in
thtl in .*.
CO WE NOW
!; • jre it- Suck is broken, bat
: ON' rFORGET
;■! i'j ■-i < i.r lurge stock of Dress
Go< <l-, wi ich i!re included in this
CUT,
\] Fer <•'. fci.d Drefs Plashes,
I k ti- a:.d Gros Gruiu Silks,
s ii Marked Down.
Full Again
We mean our wall paper de
j»ai iir.cnt, lull nnd overflowing
with otti immense and choice
stock ol paper hangings. You
help us out, we haven't
room fi.r half our goods, until
you relieve us of some of them.
We have the choisest selec
tion of patternsin every grade
from Brown Blanks at 10 cts
to Gilt* fit fiom 20 eta to $1
per double holt.
Examine our Stock.
J. E. Douglass,
ft ear Postoffice, Butler, Pa.
Clean-up Sale
Now on VViuter goods at big
sacrifice. Fine Camel Hair
underwe ir at $1 worth $1.50.
Lir_ r vj sizes o'.ily.
B. tt.r grades at sl.2s,cheap
at £1,7~>. I ioneer Mills goods
in*col vs at $1 worth $1.50.
A few line all wool scarlets
left which we ofler at 75c,
good value at $1 25
Nice Natural wool gßods
worth $1 we will close out at
G2i tts.
Don't miss it.
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242 S. Main street,
Butler, Pa.
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ts new permanently located at MO South Main
Street- Butler, Pa, In rooms formerly .ccoupled
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Frank's drugstore, Main St.
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Physician and Surgeon.
22 E»*t Ji ffciMiU St., B. tier. Pa.
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ler. Pa.
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A. M. CHRISTLEY,
ATIOBNBY AT LAW.
Office second floor. Anderson Bl k. Main St.,
near Court House, Butler. Pa.
J. W. HUTCHISON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office on second floor of the Huselton block.
Dtemond. Butler, Pa.. Boom No. 1.
JAMES N. MOORE,
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Block, entrance on Diamond.
IRA McJUNKIN.
Attorney at Law. Offlce at No. IT, East Jeffer
son St., Butler, Pa^
W. C. FINDLEY,
Attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent. Of
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of Diamond, Butler, Pa.
H. H. GOUCHER.
Attoroey-at-luw. Offlce on second floor of
Anderson building, near Court Uouse, Butler,
Pa.
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Att'y at Law-Offloe at 8. K. Cor. Main St, aud
Diamond, Butler. Pa.
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Atry at Uw-Offlcion South side ot Diamond
A. £■ GABLE,
V etennary Surgeon.
Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary
College, Toronto, Canada.
Dr. Gable treats all diseases of tbt
domesticated animals, and rnvkes
ridgling, castration and horse den
tistry a specialty. Castration per
formed without clams, and all otner
aurgical operations performed in the
most scientific manner.
Calls to any part of the country
promptly responded to.
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Livery, 132 West Jefferson Street,
Butler, Pa.
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llere we are down on Cunningham St. Almost every
body knows where we are, but if .you do not, please IOOK at the
above map. VValk down Cunningham St. on the light hand
side till vou come to 210 and you will iiii'l ny. Here we have
lots of room and pay no rent and mor ■ thu:» d >'ibled our sales
Isst year and expect to increase them as much this )ear. All
who came last }ei»r to .'ee if we had as large a stock and sold
as cheap as we advertised s id we were too modest in our
declarations and said they did not expect to find hall as much,
even after reading our advertisements. You know us now and
of courS'. will continue t:> <« nl here, but we must tell you we
have twice IU laige a ttc-ci: now a.- when jou w«re h**re before
and still cutting prices lower. To those WLWJ have never been
here, we want to come too. We don't advertise to blow.
If you don't find more stock here at lower prices than you
ever expected after reading our advertisement we will pay you
for your time that it takes to walk down here from Main St.
Remember, we keep every thing in our line. Horse col
lars 50c, team work bridles sl, work harness $lB, buggy har
ness $6, wagon single trees, ironed, 2oc, double-trees, shafts,
wheels, poles, shafts, cushions, tops, harness oil, curry combs,
brushes, paint, springs, dashes, lap dusters, robes, blankets,
whips, carts, buggies, spring wagons and everything, and
Kramer wagons,—the best wagons made.
Come and see us. Look over our stock. We want to get
acquainted with you, Remember, it was us who first brought
down the prices of buggies in Butler county for your benefit,
relying on increased sales to make up for small profits, and the
public has stood by us in a way that makes us like everybody.
Yours, etc.,
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ef women wearing away their lives in household drudgery that might be
materially lessened by the use of a fow cakes of SAPOLIO. If an hour
is saved each time a cake is used, if ouo less wrinkle gathers upon the
face because the toil is lightened, she must bo a foolish woman who
would hesitate to make the experiment, and he a churlish husband who
would grudge the few cents which it costs.
BUTLER, PA., FRIDAY, APR IL 1 7. 1 S9l.
DALRYMPLE'S LOST DAY.
Edgar Fawcett's Eooentrio Tale of
a New York Club Man.
All of Ills Family Except Hlsueir Had a
Strange Falling—A Gruesome Tale of
Hypnotism with a Very Satis
factory Termination.
[COPT RIGHT. 1981.1
"My family," John Dalrymple would
say, "have the strange failing (that is,
nearly all of them except myself, on the
paternal side) of —"
And then somebody would always try
to intv rrupt him. At the Gramercy,
that small but charming club, of which
he had been for years an honored mem
ber, they made a point of interrupting
him when he began on his family fail
ing. Not a few of them held to the be
lief that it was a myth of Dalrymple's
imagination. Still, others argued, all
of the clan except John himself had
been a queer lot; there was no real
certainty that they had not done extraor
dinary acts. Meanwhile, apart from
his desire to delve among ancestral
records and repeat tales which had been
told many times before, he was a genu
ine favorite with his friends. But that
series of family anecdotes remained a
standing joke.
They all pitied him when it became
known that his engagement to the
pretty winsome widow, Mrs. Carring
ton, was definitely broken. He was
past forty, now, and had not been
known to pay serious court to any
woman before in at least ten years. Of
course Mrs. Carrington was rich. But
then her money could not have attract
ed Dalrymple, for he was rich himself,
in spite of his plain way of living there
in that small Twenty-second street
basement house.
But the widow's money had doubtless
lured to her side the gentleman who had
cut poor Dalrymple out. A number of
years ago, when this little occurrence
which we are chronicling took place, it
was not so easy as it is now to make
sure of a foreigner's credentials and an
tecedents. The Count do Pommereul, a
reputed French nobleman of high posi
tion, had managed to get into the Gra
mercy as a six months' member, and
had managed, also, to cross the thres
holds of numerous select New York
drawing-rooms. At the very period of
his introduction to Mrs. Carrington her
engagement with Dalrymple had already
become publicly announced. Then, in
a few weeks, society received a shock.
Dalrymple was thrown over, and It
transpired that the brilliant young
widow was betrothed to the count.
Dalrymple, calm and self-contained,
had nothing to say on the subject of
why he had received such shabby
treatment, and nobody ventured to in
terrogate him. Some people believed in
the count; others thought that there
was a ring of falsity about him, for all
his frame was so elegantly slender and
supple, for all his mustache was so
glossily dark and his eyes so richly
lustrous. Dalrymple meanwhile hid
his wound, met the count constantly at
the club, though no longer even ex
changing bows with him, and—worked
at his revenge in secret as a beaver
THE AWAKENING.
works at the building of his winter
ranch. He succeeded, too, in getting
superb materials for that revenge.
They surprised even himself when a
few relations and friends in Paris
mailed him appalling documentary
evidence as to what sort of a character
this count really was. There is no
doubt that he now held in bis hand a
thunderbolt, and had only to hurl it
when he pleased.
He did not tell a single soul what he
had learned. The thought of just how
he should act haunte4 him for several
days. One evening he went home from
the club a little earlier than usual, and
tossed restlessly for a good while after
going to bed. When sleep came it found
him still irresolute as to what course ho
should take.
It seemed to him that he had now a
succession of dreams, but he could re
call none of them on awaking. And he
awoke in a peculiar way. There was
yet no hint of dawn in the room, and
only the light from his gas, turned
down to a very dim star. lie was sit
ting bolt upright in bed, and feverish,
fatigued sensations oppressed him.
"What have I been dreaming?" he
asked himself again and again. But as
only a confused jumble of memories
answered him, he sank back upon the
pillows, and was soon buried in slum
ber.
It was past nine o'clock in the morn
ing when he next awoke. He felt de
cidedly better; both the feverishness
and the fatigue had left him. He went
to the club and breakfasted there. It
was almost empty of members, as small
clubs are apt to be at that hour of the
morning. But in the hall he met his old
friend, Langworth, and bowed to him.
Langworth, who was rather near-sight
ed, gave a sudden start nnd a stare.
"How odd," thought Dalrymple, as he
passed on into the reading-room; "I
hope there's nothing unexpected about
my personal appearance." Just at the
doorway of the room he met another
old friend, Summerson, a man extreme
ly strict about all matters of propriety.
Summerson saw him and then plainly
made believe that he had not seen. A«
Ihey moved by one another Dairy in pie
•aid lightly: "Good morning, old chap.
How's your gout?"
Snmmcrson, who was very tall and
excessively dignified, gave a comic
iquirm. Then his eyelids fluttered, and
with the tips of his lips lie murmured
"Better," as he glided along.
"Pooh," said Dalryiuple to himself;
"getting touchy, I suppose, in his old
tge. How longevity disagrees with some
of us mortals."
He nearly always took a bottle ofi
leltzer before breakfast, and this morn-,
Ing old Andrew (a servant who had
l>cen in the club many years) poured it 1
aut for him.
"I hope you're all right again this
mornin', sorr," said Andrew, with his:
Celtic accent and in an affable half
whisper.
"All right, Andrew," was the reply.
"Why, you must bo thinking of some
one else. I haven't been ill. My health
has been excellent for a long time past."
"Yea, sorr," said Andrew, lowering
his eyes and respectfully retiring.
That last "yes, sorr," had a dubious
note about its delivery that almost
made Dalrymple call the faithful old
fellow back and further question him.
"All right again?" as if ever he had
been all wrong—oli, well, poor Andrew
was aging; others had remarked that
fact months ago.
A different servant came to announce
breakfast. There were only al>out fl"ve
men in the dining-room as Dalrymplo
entered it. All oi thconuacd at hiaa iu
an unusual way, or had late events lea
him to think that they did so? At the
table nearest him sat Everdell. one of
the jolliest men in the club, a person
whose face was nearly always wreathed
In smiles.
"Good morning," said Dalrymple, as
he caught Everdell's eye.
"Good morning." The tones were
replete with mild consternation, and the
look that went with them was smileless
to the degree of actual gloom. Then
Everdell, who had just finished his
breakfast, rose and drew near to Dal
rymple.
"Pon my word," he said. "I'm de
lighted to see you all right again so
soon."
"All right again so soon?" was the
reply. "What in mercy's name do you
mean?"
"Oh, my dear old fellow!" began Ev
erdell, fumbling with his watch-chain,
"it was pretty bad, you know, yester
day."
"Pretty—bad—yesterday?"
"I saw you in the morning and for an
hour or so in the afternoon. Perhaps
no one would have noticed it if you
hadn't staid here all day and poured
those confidences into people's ears
about De Pommereul. You didn't ap
pear to have drank a drop in the club;
there's the funny part of it. Yon went
out several times, though, and came
back again. All that you had to drink
(except some wine here at dinner, you
remember,) you must have got outside.
I wasn't here at ten o'olock when De
Pommereul came in. I'm glad I wasn't.
You must have been drcadftd. If Sum
merson and Joyce hadn't rushed in be
tween you and the count Heaven knows
what would have happened. As it
is—"
At this point Dalrymple broke in with
cold harshness: "Look here, Everdell,
I always disliked practical jokes, and
I've known for a number of years that
you're given to them. You've never at
tempted to make me your butt before,
however, and you'll have the kindness
to discontinue any such proceeding
now."
Everdell drew back for a moment,
frowned, shrugged his shoulders, and
then muttering: "Oh, if you're going
to put it that way!" strode quickly out
of the dining-room.
Dalrymple scarcely ate a morsel of
breakfast. After he had gulped down
some hot coffee he repaired to the
reading-room. As he reentered it a
waiter handed him several letters.
One, which he opened first, was marked
"immediate," and had been sent liirn
from his own house by an intelligent
and devoted woman servant there who
had been for a long period in his em
ploy. This letter made poor Dal
rymple's head swim as he read it.
Written and signed by Mr. Summerson
himself as chairman of the house com
mittee of the club, it ordered him to ap
pear that same evening before a meet
ing of the governors and answer to a
charge of disorderly conduct on the
previous night. Then it went on to
state that he (Dalrymple) had been
seen throughout the previous day at
the club iu a state of evident intoxica
tion, and had finally, between the
hours of ten and eleven o'clock p. m.,
accosted and grossly insulted Count
de Pommereul in the main drawing
room of the Gramercy.
"Disorderly conduct;" "evident in
toxication" "grossly insulted Count
dc Pommereul." These words were
trembling on Dalrymple's lips as he
presently approached Summerson him
self, the very gentleman who had signed
the letter, and who stood in the hall ar
rayed for the street.
"What —what does it all mean?"
gasped Dalrymple. "I—l never was
intoxicated in my life, Lawrence Sum
merson; you ought to know that! I
played euchre, last night, up in the
card-room, from nine o'clock to twelve
with Ogden and Folsom and yourself.
If there's any practical joke being got
up against mc, for God's sake—"
"Wait a minute, please," said Sum
merson. lie went back into the coat
room, disarrayed himself of his street
wraps, and finally joined Dalrymple.
Ilis first words, low and grave, ran
thus: "Can it be possible j-ou don't
recollect that our game of euchre was
played the night before last and not la»t
niijhf' —Then he went with Dalrymple
into a corner of the reading-room, and
they talked together for a good while.
Dalrymple went back to his home,
that day, in a mental whirl. It still
wanted a number of hours before the
governing committee would meet. He
had lost a day out of his life—there
could be no doubt of that. If he had
moved about the club all of yesterday
with a drunken manner, reviling De
Pommereul to everybody who would
lend him an ear—if he had afterward
met De Pommereml in the club and
iirected toward him. In loud and
furious tones, a perfect torrent of ac-'
susation—he himself was completely,"
blankly ignorant.
For a good whjle he sat quite still and •
thought. Then ho summoned Ann, the
elderly and very trustworthy Ann, who
had l>een his dear mother's maid and
was now his housekeeper. He ques
tioned Ann, and after dismissing her he
pondered her answers. Three times
yesterday she had seen him, and re
garding his appearance Ann had her
distinct opinions. <
Suddenly a light flashed upon Dal
rymple while he sat alone and brooded.
He sprang up, and a cry, half of awe,
half of gladness, left his lips—The
baffling problem had been solved!
"ftiat evening he presented himself
before the governing committee. All
assembled were sorry for him. Of
course punishment must bo dealt, but
for an old and popular member liko
Dalrymple it must not be expulsion.
The general feeling of the club had in
deed already been guaged, and it was
in favor of suspension for six months—
or a year at the farthest. -d
Dalrymple, however, was determined |
that he should be visited with no pun-,
ishinent at all. And he meant to state
why.
His judges, as he faced them, all
looked politely grim. The president,
after a few suave preliminaries, asked
Dalrymple if he had anything to say
concerning the charges preferred
against him. Dalrymple then proceeded
to speak, with a clear voice and com
posed demeanor.
His first sentences electrified his hear
ers. "I have no possible recollection of
yesterday," ho began, "and it Is pre
cisely as much of a lost day to me as
though I had lain chloroformed for
twenty-four hours. On Wednesday night
I returned home from this club and went
to rest. I never really woke until Fri
day, possibly a little while after mid
night, and then within my own bed. On
Thursday morning I must have risen in
a state of somnambulism, hypnotism,
mental aberration, whatever you please,
and not come to myself until Thursday
had passed and I had once more re
tired. Of what yesterday occurred I
therefore claim to have been the irre
sponsible agent, and to have become so
through no fault of my own. lam com
pletely Innocent of the misdemeanors
charged against me, and I now solemn
ly swear this, on my word of honor as a
gentleman."
Here Dalrymple paused. The mem
bers of the committee interchanged
glances, amid profound silence. On
some faces doubt could be read, but on
others its varied opposite. The Intense
stillness had become painful when Dal
rymple spoke again:
"I had hoped that I should escape
throughout my own lifetime all visita
tions of this distressing kind. My
grandfather and two of my uncles not
only walked in their sleep to an alarm
ing degree but were each subject to
stranjrc of qnltjri in which
or-"
MV DEAR OLD FELLOW, IT WAS PRKTTT
BAD."
aets were performed oy them that toey
could not possibly remember after
ward." Here the speaker paused, soon
continuing, however, in a lower and
more reflective tone:
"Yes, my family have had the strange
failing (that is, nearly all of them ex
cept myself, on the paternal side) of—"
But he said no more. The tension
was loosened, and a great roar of laugh
ter rose from the whole committee.
How often every man there had joked
him about that marvelous budget of
stories which he infallibly began one
way and one way only! And when the
familiar formula sounded forth it was
all the funnier to those who heard it
because of the solemn judicial circum
stances in which it again met their
hearing.
The plaintiff was honorably acquit
ted. As for De Pommereul, as every
wort! that Dalrymple ha'l said concern
ing his past life in France happened to
be perfectly true, the count never reap
peared at the Gramercy. His engage
ment with Mrs. Carrington was soon
afterward broken off by the lady her
self, and for a good while it was
rumored that this lady had repentantly
made it optional with Dalrymple wheth
er he should once more become her ac
cepted sweetheart.
But Dalrymple remained a bachelor.
He is quite an old man now, yet he still
may be found in the card-room of the
Gramercy nearly every evening. He is
very willing to tell you the story of his
"lost day" if you ask him courteously
for it and not in any strain of fun-pok
ing; but he attempts no more voluntary
recitals on the subject of his "family's"
maladies and mishaps.
EDGAR FAWCETT.
Seven CalU-r*.
Mistress—Did anyone call while 1
was out?
New Girl —Yis, mum, foive leddies an
two gintlemen.
Mistress — Where are their cards?
New Girl —There was no need o* thim
lavin' any.
Mistress —Why not, I should like to
know?
New Girl—Oi was ut home.
Mistress—You?
New Girl—Yin, mum. They called on
me, mum. —Good Nowa.
ANGELS REVERSED.
Biddy—Bed ad, that must be an Injfc*
chafe or m naygrdiviL
What Biddy saw.—Judge
A He Ont Somowliere.
First Little Bootblack Please, sir,
gimme the job; I've got a little sick
brother who is a cripple and Is blind.
Second Little Bootblack Let me
ahine 'em up. I'm that sick little
brother he is talking about, who is
blind. I don't want to be under no ob
ligations to such a liar as he is, and I
can see better than he can, and he ain't
got no brother in the fust place.—Texaa
Sittings.
At th* Delsurte ( las*.
Instructress-—Now, young ladies, sit
like this. Relax all your muscles, but
keep j our thoughts on yourself and en
deavor to feel that you are breathing
[through every pore iu your body. Feel
juat like a great big sponge gradually
absorbing moisture.
Ethel (to friend)—Do you feel like "a
great big sponge," Nellie? I'm sure you
Dught to, for yon let me pay all the
fear fares this morning.—Munsey's
rocketed the Insult.
First Waiter —Dar's some mighty
mean folks In Boston. You noticed dat
hatchet-faced man what I'se been wait-
In' on.
Second Waiter —What's de matter wid
htm?
"He insulted me wid a dime."
"What did ycr do?''
"I accepted it wid indignashun."—
Texas Siftings.
A Woman of Duslaeu.
Husband —Did you write to your aunt
about that proposed visit?
Wife—No, I telegraphed.
"Telegraphed?"
"Yes, and I told the operators t« be
sure and got it off this week because it
was Important."—Good News.
Repartee In the Hnnt.
"You are very much run down," re
marked the foxhound to the anise-seed
bag.
"I don't care a scent," was the flip
pant reply of the bag as the man who
was dragging it yanked It over a stone
wall. —Munsey's Weekly.
Tale* of Two Cltle*.
Omaha Man (proudly)— Thousands of
Nebraska cows have to be milked twioe
• day to supply Omaha alone.
Chicago Man (loftily)— Pooh! Thou
sands of Illinois cows have to be milked
four limes a day to supply Chicago.—N. |
THE BASEBALL OUTLOOK.
The Authorities Say 1891 Will Bo
n Great Year.
The Old Interest Returns with the Reor
ganised Lnn* and the rroapeeta of
a Great Fight—What Slutrie,
ftodea and Other* Say.
[COPYRIGHT. 1831.1
H %ILL 1891 be an
to J old time year
trfc. Mr for baseball,
with crowds
/J} W of howling cn
VUB? thusiusts out
fJFJv at every game
and tremend
ous excite
mentovcr the
, distribution of
championship
jL 1 | It looks very
much like it
/ U now. The
V struggle for
(1 the champion
» ship bids fair
!!' AIWLJW to be memora
ble All the
leading clubs are in the best possible
condition and there will be fine playing
at nearly every game. The exhibition
games of April arc rapidly getting the
men into excellent shape.
Already, more than two weeks before
the games are called, there is the keen
est public interest in the championship.
Here is what some of the principal base
ball men in the league say about it and
their own ambitions—beginning with
John I. Kogers, treasurer of the Phila
delphia league club and member of the
national board of professional baseball
clubs:
TREASURER ROGERS OF THE "PHII.LIEB"
TALKS.
We expect either to win the pennant
or come very close to it, because we
will continue the policy that has always
characterized our club to get the best
possible team work, as a whole, out of
our men. rather than individual spurts
of "star" playing.
Some years ago we followed the plan
of engaging tea or twelve extra young
players every spring, keeping them for
one or twt> months of the season in the
hope of getting one first-class player
out of the experiments. It was by
that method that we discovered men
like the late Charles J. Ferguson, James
G. Fogarty and others of equal or ap
proximate excellence. Our team has,
under the guidance of Mr. Wright, our
manages, been a harmonious aggrega
taion, and with rare exceptions as gen
tlemanly a set of players as appears on
the "diamond." In practice they are
taught to study each other's manner
isms and peculiarities, and the proof of
the value of such instruction was mani
fested last season when left without a
manager by the great affliction
that occurred to Mr. Wright
in the month of May. They,
under the direction of Mr. Allen, our
shortstop, who became manager pro
tcm., behaved and conducted them
selves, both as players and gentlemen,
as well as if under the personal direc
tion of Manager Wright. Despite these
drawbacks we certainly would have
won the pennant, (the lead for which
we held for four weeks in the month of
June) if Mr. Myers, our second base
man, had not been stricken down with
malarial fever for five weeks, and Mr.
Clements, our great catcher and captain,
had not been laid up for ten days with
Injuries at a critical period. As it was
we finished a good third. Our nine lost
year gave as beautiful an exhibition of
the game as any in the country and
demonstrated that it possessed the
best shortstop (Allen) and the
best base runner (Hamilton) in
the business. This year, in addition
to these gentlemen, we have se
cured Mr. William Shlndle as third
baseman, as good as exists; he is also a
fine batsman and base runner. Dele
hanty has come back to his old club and
will appear on first base, adding greatly
to the batting and base-running strength
of the team. Mr. will preserve
•the same stone wall at second as here
tofore. Thompson and Hamilton will
guard right and left fields, and Mayer,
a natural born outfielder, who
last year was obliged to play at
third base and who did it well,
will astonish our patrons by some ex
cellent fielding and throwing. He is
also a timely batter. Clements will do
the most of the catching, assisted by
young Gray whe showed up so well
last year as a substitute. We will very
likely need another catcher in case of
accident and have already our lines out
to secure one. In the pitching departr
mcnt we think wo are very strong.
Gleasou can hold his own anywhere and
Thornton, (whom we secured from the
Milwaukee club in exchange for
Vickery and Schriver), is a
pitcher whom we will be sur
prised to find lower than in
the first set. Esper, left-handed twirler,
bids fair to do his share, and young
Schultz Is as yet only an experiment,
but a most promising one. With the
addition of another battery we would
feel very confident of winning the pen
nant. As we are very likely to get
thcin we put in our claims for that
coveted symbol of victory. In batting
and fielding we think we are very
strong, our only doubt being in the
pitcher's box, which doubt we think will
be dissipated before the champion sea
son gets fairly inaugurated.
J. I. ROGERS.
MR. SODEN DOESN'T SAY MUCH BUT HE
HAS A BTRONO TEAM.
I have never stated either publicly or
privately that I thought our team
would win the championship, and con
sequently can give no reasons why they
should. The leaguo teams seem to be
more evenly matched than usual, and
the struggle for supremacy should Us a
very close one. A. 11. SODKN.
WIIAT MR. MtTRIE SAYS.
I am asked why I think the New York
baseball club will win the pennant of
the National league again this year.
I think we shall win, President l>ay
thinks we shall win, and every man in
the club Is certain of viotory, becanss
the New York club is the strongest in
the land. It is stronger than it was last
year. All the old giants are back with
us. in splendid condition physically and
fit to play ball with uny men who ever
trod the diamond We have a stronger
shortstop than last year. They think
they have a better one over in Brook
lyn, but I don't believe it. The best of
good feeling prevails among the men
and they aro all going to work together
for the success of the club. There isn't
a man in the club who will not work for
the championship, and let his individual
record take care of itself. We arc in
the game to win.
Of course there are strong clubs In
the field against us. I wouldn't like to
say whether Brooklyn or Boston is the
stronger, but we are not afraid of either
of them.
There Is ffo'ng to be a great revival
of int«T<'st in huseball this season. The
old National league stands practically
alone in the fiehl and championship
honors arc going to mean more than
they did last year, or ever before in
fact The presence of two leagues last
year called into notice a ({Test many
good baseball players and the very best
of them will play in the league this
year. There will 1*! better, sharper
and closer playing than ever before, and
keener interest on the part of the pub
lic. If there are not fifteen thousand
people here at the opening game of the
scries with the Bofitous, I shall be very
much mistaken. \Ve are goigg to 4«-
>CO .24
serve aua reward me confidence of the
public, and to justify the keenest Inter*
est. So far ns the New York* are con
cerned, there will be few "off days,"
and every one who comes to the park
will see a good, hotly fought game.
One thing which I would like to say
is that the "stars" of the club, the rery
strongest men, must positively appear
at every exhibition game that It plays.
I am determined upon this not only'
to keep the men in practice, but to'
increase the popularity of baseb&& 1
The season of 1891 la going to be a
great one for the national game and for
the New York club. JAVTCS MI-TRIE.
CLEVELAND IX GOOD TRIM, TOO, SATS
SECRETARY IIAWLEY.
We think our club will stand well In
the league nice because there are no
experiments in it. All our players have
made reputations in first-class company.
All are good br. tiers, runners and field
ers.
Our pitchers finished up the season
last year in very good shape, and ire
have good reason to believe the most of
them will start in well this season.
Every man on the team is strong and
in good condition. We firmly believe
in Cleveland that this IS9I will be a
firstclass baseball year.
IXvvis IIAWI.ey, Secretary.
THE PITTSBURG US GET THEIR OBIT UP.
The Pittsburgh club, which brought
up last season with a ridiculous record
of one hundred and thirteen punts lost,
is in much better shape now. Manager
Hanlon says: "We are determined this
year that, come what may, we will not
again be found at the tail of the pro
cession. The club is stronger in num
bers than last year, the pitcher's bo*
will be much better fitted than then,
when Baker was so badly overworked,
and the whole club is going to play with
the one Idea of landing as near the win
ning post as possible.
"Yes, it is going to be a great year
for baseball. The league clubs will
play a surprisingly strong game and
will have the field largely to them
selves. Public interest will bo keen,
and the new rule giving forty per cent,
of net receipts to the visiting olub is a
good thing for the representatives of
the smaller league cities."
THE CHAMPIONS IX GREAT FORM.
In sharp contrast with the courtesy at
other baseball magnates is the careless
ness of President Byrne, of the, Brook
lyn a, in neglecting to take any notice of
two requests, each accompanied by a'
properly stamped and directed "return
envelope," for either a letter or an in
terview regarding the condition of the
Brooklyns.
Mr. Byrne is a shrewd man, however,
and the writer may say for him that he
has no reason to be ashamed of his dub.
It is in splendid condition. All the old
stars are back, and, with Griffin an seo
ond base and John M. Ward as short
stop and captain, the team is undoubt
edly stronger than ever. It has a mag
nificent group of pitchers, and catchers
enough to take care of them behind the
bat aqd there is a fine confidence in the
champions that will carry them welL
Assuredly the Brooklyns are to be reck
oned with.
AND OTHERS.
The Chicago club, which has six
times won the championship Since 1876,
and twice held second plaoe before last
year, is out for a high plaoe again.
Capt. Anson is one of the beat baseball
generals in the country and Us club to
keyed up to concert pitch for IWL
The Cincinnatis have been in such. a
mixed up condition that it ispretty har4
to say what sort of a front they will op
pose to the foe when they cross i*is
with the Clevelands on May l,»wt "to
the credit of basclxiil everybody hopes
they will make a good showing.
The prospect for 1891 is, on the whole,
one to fill the cranks with undiluted Joy.
There will be great baseball. Jon X.
"BPHINO, SPUING, - AND
OLD WINTER 18 REMOVED FROM THE
FACE OF THE EARTH
A DKCIDKD SRTBACK.
I —THE IMPENDING DISASTER.
II.—TO* IMPACT.
111. —THE REBt/UND
—Munaey's Weekly.
How She Qot Him.
He—Here come the new countess and
her husband. She bought him at the
Wooley matrimonial bureau.
She—Dear me! he's evidently a job
lot—Judge.
Not u Heavyweight.
Cholly —Awthur is badly hurt; do you
know what accident befell him?
Bessie —The poor thing was blown
up; he stepped on a parlor matchl —
Munsey's Weekly.
And Mho Named th«
He (swkwardly)—Ah, Miss Mabel, I
hope you understand my feelingsl
She—l'm sure I'm quite in the dork!
He—Then (desperately) suppose we
strike a match!— Life.
The Milk supply.
"Dairymen don't get much milk from
their cows in the winter, do they?"
"No; they get most of it in the
spring."—Jury.
No Harm Don*,
Guest— Walter, your finger is in th*
soup. i
Waiter— No matter, sir* I can wash
It.—Jury.