PYRAMIDS IN AMERICA. TWO BUILT OF MUD ARE LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES. 11 ll Aitujr In tw Mfilrn-In a Valley nf tin KiM'klrd Fur Vrnm the t'ntli of Travrl strange People Wlm nre t'ltl tens, lint ln 3nt Vote nr Pay Tnsrn. Pyramids in the United Ntntes? Yes, two uf them. Tliey are linilt of mini nnej inhabited. One, says the C'hicajro Time Herald, 1ms six stories nnit the other five, nml ltoth hnve many room". The inhabitants have two names, to reliKion nml two lnn;;nn!res. 'J'liey me Christiana nml pagans nt the same time Catholics nml huh worshiper. 'They hnve one church above urotihil nml several worshiping pbves below ground. They nre citizens of tlie United Htates, Imt neither Vote nor Jiny taxes. They hnve n republic of their own nml lever carry their inter mil disputes outside their ow n pi imi tive court. They owncl their little domain of nix tuiles rqiinrn Ioiih before the t'nited Sinter came into existence, nnd they lease farms to the descend nuts of Inutility r'.uropcans. They urn the renl first families of thn country, for their forefather were living iu these same pyramids when civilization discovered them 2"0 years ago. They nre aborigines hut farmers. They nre semieivilizeil, but they punish with the Mock nml the whipping post, nml until recently Rtoneil w itched to ilenth. In ninny things thisremnrkiiMo peo ple reverses the white innn'n order. The children trace their descent through the mother instenrt of the father. The. wife owns the house nml all it contnins. Fires for linking nre linilt iu the oven instend of under it. In the fireplaces the wood is burned standing on end. The people go into their houses through the roofs, pulling np behind them the lndder used in mounting the building, thus very nearly accomplish ing the fent of going into a hole nnd pulling it in nfter them. The pyrnniids of the American F.Rypt nre tucked nway inn little valley among the Kocky Mountains of northern New Mexico, A few years ago they were 4000 miles from n railrond. To-dnv one can get within thirty-five miles of them hy rail by going north from Hanta I'e to Kmhuilo, but after that the rugged canon of the Rio (irnmlo del Norte and brown, waterless, intcrtnin- nhle mesns make the nppronch a trying journey of dust, jolts ami weariness. The American pyramids nre known ns hi Pueblo ile Taos. It is the north ernmnst settlement of that strange race which has left the American Fgypt strewn with the ruins of ancient cities "ENTRANCE TO AV UXDERfl ROUND TAO.AN CHAPRU. Its people, according to the best an thorities, are descendants of the cliff dwellers, and the pyramidal form of their community houses was nuother devioe to protect themso'.vesirom their hereditary enemies, the Apaches, the Navojoes and the Utes. A captain un der Coronado, who came up from Mexico in search of the fabled seven cities of Cibola, whose people ate from golden di-ihes, discovered these pyra mids in 1540, and they stand to-day ''just as he described them, though one Htory dwellings have sprung up about the foot of the pyramids since the American occupation assured peace. The larger building has ninety-seven rooms and the Buinllcr seventy-two. The inhabitants number abont 400. TIjo walls of these community BIX-STORY PYRAMID Louses are made of these bricks dried iu the sun. The front wall of the eecond story was built hack from the front of the first story, making a broud terrace. The succeeding Btories were constructed in similar manner, and as nil four Bides of the building were ter raced the structure became u pyramid. The roofs were formed by laying sap lings across the walls and ooveriug them with inud. Uutil receutly there were neither doors uor windows in auy of the walls, and even now there are very few. The people climb up the outside on rude ladders, which may be pulled up after them if danger threat ens, and they enter their homes through holes in the roof. Many of the dork rooms near the centre si the pyramids nre in decny, nml others nre. used for storing grain. Home of the living rooms nre whitewashed. Fire places nre made by constructing n mud liood across a corner with a mud Hue running to the roof, nml pinyon nnd cedar brought from the mountains a:-e burned standing on end in the corner. The broad terraces nre the playground of the children and the lounging place of the "old folks." When discovered bv the Spanish rontpiintndorcs these people were not only peaceful farmers, but they wore cotton clothing bought from their cousins in the wanner lowlands farther south, n well as the Rkins of wild ani mals. To-day the men wear in mini iner cotton leggings held up by a string and n print shirt fulling loosely outside the loggings. In cold weather thoy a h' moccasins and blankets. The women v. car n skirt of colored cotton, and the wni-t is a piece of cloth wound around the body over the right shoul der nnd under the left linn. For gala TAOS attire they have gayly (lowered cloth ing with a silk shawl for the head nnd white buckskin moccasins with leggings wr.ipped nbout tho legs until they nre ueaviy as big as stove pipes. The good paders who cniiiR into the wonderland of the southwest with the (Spanish explorers and conquerors I Every new born bain: is baptized by grafted the Christian faith on the j tho Catholic priest and characterized pngau religion, and tho world is J by a Spanish name, except in a few presented w ith tho strange spectacle I eases iu which French priests, who of a people w ith two religious, both j have been brought, iu by the present carefully observed nnd held in rever-1 archbishop havo given French names, euce. There is a little Catholic church j lint the pagan shaman also christens in which faithful priests have taught I tho babe. Facing the Fast in the Christian doctrines for many genera- i morning twilight, lie awaits tho mo tions nnd brought the simple natives j luent when the sun shall peep over the to such an understanding that they resent nny intcrfenca w ith their Chris tian rites. At the same tinio they continue their pagan ceremonies in secret except their annual sun dance. They have several covered holes in tho ground, each perhaps twenty-five feet iu diameter and lifteen feet deep. They nre known ns estnfns. Here the pagan priests perform the mystic rites of their sun worship, nnd no while man is permitted to witness them. These people also hnve organizations corresponding to the secret societies of civilized communities, whose members meet and lounge iu the estufas, nnd women are seldom or never allowed to enter them. The entrance to these plnces is hy a ladder through the roof. A hollow iu the middle of the floor serves for a fireplace. At tho bottom of the wall enter small shafts, which permit cold air to come in from the outside. The heated air from the fire flies out nt tho opening above, and thus this primitive people solved tho problem of ventilation centuries before civilized man groped his way out of the darkness of sanitary error. Tho feather is n symbol of prayer with the pyramid dwellers. They tie the downy fenther of an eaglo to a twig, stick it in tho ground in an out of tho wny place where it is not likely to bo dis turbed, nnd so long as it remains there it is a prayer constantly going up to the Trues above. Tiie event of the yenr in the pngau religion is the thanksgiving day of tho sun worshipers. The Christian priests have inaugurated tho day with a ser vice at the church nnd they have stamped the fiesta with the name of the Catholic, saint selected by their foreruuners as tho patron saint of the community. The fiesta is therefore WITH 07 BOOMS. known as St. Geroninio (St. Jerome) Day, and the images from the Chris tian church overlook the pagan per formances from a bower. All but the church service is a survival of the pagan era. Offerings of sheep, grain and fruits are hung up on a pole in thanksgiving to the sun for warm weather aud good crops, and the sun father is pretty sure to be smiling on his worshipers. There is a queer sun dnuoe, in w hich the men, with bodies painted aud decked with feathers, chant praises to the sun, Theu follows a race betweeu the young men, lasting perhaps two hours, in which the contestants run hack and forth in relays. After din ner the chifonetis (priests of the sun) w ith bodies striped in black nnd white, like zebras, nmuse the people with such buffoonery as may be suggested by the occasion, much the same as the ciown of a circus, making faces, cracking jokes nnd making elaborate attempts nt various feats, only to fail. This in the one ocension of the yenr when Apaches, Utes nnd Nnvajoes are permitted to pitch camp on the reser vation, nnd some of these w ild tribes nre sure to be present to get a share of the good things given awny. The antipathy to the Mexicans is forgotten, nnd Americans u.c prined as guests of honor. The subject races early learned the Spanish language from their conquer ors, and for 200 years or more it hns been the common tongue of south western penples (peaking various lan guages. Even Americans, in ninny parts of the southwest nre forced to learn it iu order to facilitate their nf- fairs. The work of the Catholic Church and the tenacity of the Mexi- IXJHANS. cans havo kept the Cnstillian promi nent even under American rule. The pyramid dwellers, therefore, learn Spanish for communication with the outside world nnd retain their own nncient tongue for home life. Few of them know any English. Taos Mountains, towering lll.OOO feet above tho sea, when ho bestows on the infant a native nnmo by which he is known among his intimates. These people nre divided into clans designa ted ns eagle, corn, etc, and nieinbe.'S of tho same clan nre not permitted to intermarry. They have an admirable family life. The fields nnd the pro ducts of tho chase belong to the hus band. Thn house and the children belong t;i tho wife. The crops are the husband's until they are housed, when they become the wife's. She grinds the corn nnd whent between stones, nnd this rudo mill is known ns a nictate. The courts have decided that the pyramid dwellers nre citizens of tho United States under the trenty of Hidalgo Guadalupe, by which the southwest was acquired from Mexico, but they do not want to be citizens, and the Government has scarcely treated them as snch. The grant of Bin Rl'INS OF I'HTBCII BOMBARDED BT AMERI CAN CANNON IN 1818. six square miles of the fertile, well watered valley of Taos, made by the Spaniards more than a hundred years ago, hns bpen confirmed hy Uncle Hnm, and the people support them selves by farming, They do much of their plowing with sticks dragged through tho soft soil by ponies. The chief crops are corn aud wheat. The whent is thrashed, as in biblical times, by ponies trampling out the grain. It is winnowed by throwing it into the air w ith a pitchfork on a windy day. The grain is then separated from the heavier straw by running it through a sievo made of sheep skin punched full of holes and stretched on a wooden frame. Iu this process considerable dirt clings iu thecreasesof the kernels, and the wheat hits to be washed to be cleaned, though many persons think that too finicky. The married men of the pyramid community elect a set of officers once a year. There are a Governor, a Lieutenant-Governor, an Aleade, a War Captain and several Assistants. The inauguration takes place on New Year's Day iu the church. The old officers gather ou oue side of the room and the new officers on the other. They march iu single file toward the altar, aud, as they meet, the old Goberuador passes to his successor a silver-heudod ebony cane, presented to the pueblo by Abraham Lincoln in 1803. Common wands are transferred by the other re tiring officers. The new officers gen erally insist also ou taking; au oath be for the County Judge, although he ha i no authority iu the matter. The na tives imagine that their action is rati fied by the Government of the United States. They also have a Cacique, who is hereditary and holds his posi tion for life. He is the head of the system of pagan religion, while the Governor is the head of civil affairs, but so great, is the reverence of flis) people for the Cnclqtte that in any con troversy his will is practically law as against the rnle of the Goberuador. The pyramid people ask tin help nf Uncle Sam, and he dops not. interfere in their internal affairs. They have acquired a community title to their farms and transfer these among them selves. They have gone into civilized courts only once or twice, and then because whites encroached on their lands. They lease some of their land to Mexican neighbors nt the rate of 91 for ns much ns enn be seeded w ith a fnnegn of grain. A fanegn of wheat is nboitt two bushels, and it will seed nbout two acres, making the rent about fifty cents an acre. ' An authority has said that nowhere else on earth hns the aborigine built many-storied homes, and these two pyramids nre the only ones of their kind remaining iu the Fgypt of Amer ica. CREAT FEATHERED CREATURE. liiMiinlns nf n tllril Hint Was Twelve feet HIkIi IHm-oviM-pd In Australia. "Dr. F.. C. Stirling announces that he discovered, during a visit to Aus tralia, from which he has just re turned, the remains of an extinct bird which in life measured twelve feet in height. The bird, as Dr. Stirling de scribes it, is unknown to history. In some respects, it resembles the ele-plinut-footed moa, and in others the emu of the present day. It differs from all iu so great a degree, however, ns to prove it to have been of a class by itself. Large quantities of the re mains were discovered, showing that centuries ago this great-feathered crea ture was a common sight ou the Aus tralian plains. . The place of discovery is called Lake Callnbonua nnd in located in South Australia. If it has nt any time been visited by other than the natives, Dr. Stirling found no trace of the fact. Lake Callabonnn is oue of those basins which nre dignified with the name of lake, but only become such during those tremendous downpours of water which transform the seeming Aus trnlinn desert into the verdure-clad plniu. While Dr. Stirling visited it, T1U8 BIRD WAS TWELVE FEET UIOIT. it was really a hard clay salt pan, cov ered with glittering crystals of gypsum and salt. It is salt that preserved the bones. Salt accomplishes this, al though it renders the bones exceed ingly brittle. The remains of the big bird were found associated with those of the other extinct marsupials. Owing to the fact of the extreme brittleness caused by the salt, the task of recover ing nnd preserving them was one of exceeding difficulty. It was, however, accomplished safely, aud so far as can be determined, all that was necessary to make up a perfect specimen of tho bird secured. A Three-Foot HnlMIng, At the corner of Gold ami Flatt streets, New York, is one of the oldest and most interesting buildings in that city. It is three stories high, 120 feet deep and only three feet wide. Ac cording to the World, the building was put np over forty years ago by James Thompson. When the city laid out NARROWEST HOUSE IN TUB WORLD. Plntt street little attention was paid to the division of lots, and the result was this queerly shaped strip of hind was left over aud somehow came into the possession of Mr. Thompson, Here Van Huron once entertained his friends. The building is now occu pied as a saloon, while the upper floors are given over to living purposes. It is probubly the narrowest house iu the world. Picture stealing in galleries seems to be epidemio in Europe. Two cases have recently been reported from Far is, two from Budapest and oue from Madrid, SI iC bIT KE3T0NE STATE NEWS CONDENSEa TO ADD BOUROUGHS. MomWUlt nd Coopuridsti wsr.t to bseoms part tf Johnitown. The board of trade of Johnstown In structed the Municipal committee to rolled fncts concernlnit the annexa tion to this clly of Morrellvllle nnd f'oopersilnle, so the board may he nhle to place the matter IntelllKcntly liefore city councils. This move In the ill rectlon nf a greater Johnstown Is the result of many iltlxeiis of these bor cimht beliis; anxious to come Into the illy. The following; pensions hnve beii granted William Kvans, I'ltlshurgh; Alexander J. Kwam-y, Fnlrehnnce; Thomas Nolan, (iswnyo; Patrick Hurk, Hollldiiysliurg; Hohcrt U. Wamplr, Larimer; .Michael Flchtcr. Mnnnrvllt-; Andrew J. Putnam, Stony Fork; AUKiist Fecvey, l-Ilkhnrn: Matilda J. Wetsel, Orhisntila; t'ethnrlne Kimel, Johns town; Harriet .M-Ivln, Plttslinm; Bntn uel H. i'rnyle, Jeannelte; Christoplvr Cramer, Warren; John Moore. Hcott Haven; David K. Kdwards, Johnstown; Horatio Itockwood, Colon City; Uporg V. Currle, liavton, Armstrong county: William U. Bcrlock. North Hop", ami Moses Jackson, Olaile Mills, Putter co; Phllllpp Faivver, Oriental, Juniata county; Andrew J. Htumpf, Hlg Kun, and James C. Leatihni t. Lindsay, Jeffer son county; Alfred Ordway, Mil" drove, ami (leorge W. McComber, At hlon. Krle county; William A. Altemus, Hrusli valley, Indiana county; Andrew J. Young, Jefferson, Oreene county. At I.elsenrlng No. 3 Henry O. Knight, coke worker enployed at the H. C. Prick Coke company, was mourning at the wake over the remains of James Durkln, a friend who was killed at a railroad crossing In New Haven. At midnight he left the room In which the corpse was. Knight appeared In per fect health, but he walked only as far ns the door when he dropped to the threshold. The remains were brought to this place to the home of his mother. Knight was 3(1 years old and single. Dr. tleorge K. Kdwards, of New Castle, died In the room at Princeton College he hail occupied during his college course. Dr. Kdwards was a favorite with undergraduates, and his devotion to his alma mater Is shown hy the fact that while III he traveled here from California In order to die In the town where he had spent the most enjoyable days of his life. In the absence of his parents. Karl Falnefroi k, the 4-year-old son of Da vid M. Falnefriiek. of Conperstown, ob tained his father's revolver and was toying with the deadly weapon. While looking Into the barrel of the pistol the weapon was discharged. The bullet entered the unfortunate little fellow's mouth. He will surely die. An Intoxicated brnkenmn named Michael Mann on the Ht. Marys road forcibly ejected the engineer and flre man from the cab of the engine, and an the train several miles to the sta tion of Hraudy Cnnip, near Itldgwny, where he stopped for more Intoxicants, nnd was caught by his pursuers. .kdin Keer, Fred Miller and "Mug ger" Hanan are In the lock-up for In juries they Indicted on James Wilson, track boss at Perry coke works, t'nlon town. The three fell on Wilson, struck him on the head with a brick. Jumped on htm nnd kicked him into Insensi bility. His skull is thought to be fractured. Harry AV. Wilson, surviving mem ber of the firm of A. W. Wilson & Hon, at Indiana, mnde an assignment, be ing unable to continue business since his father died. The assignee is lieorge U. Stewart, Mr. Wilson's brother-in-law. Creditors are said to he nu merous In the sin rounding country. olga, the three-mnnths-old child of Mr. ami Mrs. Joseph Herman, of Johnstown, was found dead in bed when its parents returned home after being out a short time. It had rolled to one side from a pillow, which fell across its face, smothering It. Illam he, aged 13, daughter of Jacob Kllbl'lt.. of Conemaugh. used kero sene with which to start a tire. She w III die. She ran wildly to a rain bar rel and jumped Into it. Thus she was able to put out the llames, but not un til she had been fatally burned. At Jackson w aid. the dress of Mrs. Mary Stelnmets, a widow, caught fire while she was at the bake oven. She was literally roasted to death. At Heading, the dress of Mrs. Florence Miller, aged 23 years, caught Are w hile she was preparing dinner. She died. James (. Path, aged 19, on Manor Hill. Huntingdon county. Jumped from a. freight train at Petersburg and fell under ihe wheels, lloth legs were crushed. He was brought to tho Al tnona Hospital, where his legs were amputated. Despondent because of the Inability of her husband to find employment, Mrs. C. Miller, of Pittsburg, adminis tered poison to her child and then at tempted to commit suicide by taking Paris green. The child will recover. Herman P. Schuls, convicted of mur dering his wife, and awaiting sentence of death at Milford, attempted to an ticipate the execution by strangling himself. He did not succeod. He says he will starve himself. While bathing In the Attegheny river at Pittsburg, John Collins had an at tack of cramps and was nearly drown ed. When he returned to conscious ness he took a hemorrhage, and died. A boy named McCreary, aged 12 years, was run over and almost In stantly killed near Sheridan station. His home Is at Perry, and ho was here on a visit to his uncle, Joseph Ager. Dr. W. M. Swingle, for the past sev en years principal of the Ureensburg seminary, has resigned to accept tho superintendence of the Railway (N. J.) schools, at a large salary. At Hutler, Wnlel Kvans got four months to the, workhouse for malici ous mischief. J. W. McKee of Saxon burg, for Illegal liUor selling, was fined $50 and 30 days to Jail. John Orlner of Altoona started for Germany with SfOO and :i00 belonging to friends, was robbed in New York of all but his ticket and went craxy on reaching the Fatherland. David Stauffer, aged D5 years, com mitted suicide by taking strychnine at his home near Pleasurevllle, York county. I'Mnanclal reverses were the cause. While making a connection with a gas main at Ureenvllle, James O'Neal and his helper were overcome and tak en out unconscious. They will re cover. James Canon and William Wee, painters, full from a scaffold at Ty rone, lloth are at Altoona hospital with broken bones. W. A. Keller, proprietor of a board ing house In Urove City, was arrested and held for court on a charge of sell ing liquor illegally. Diocletian Shipley, general contrac tor, Tniontown, hus assigned to J. B. Douglass. Assets and liabilities about 3,600 each. At Bethlehem, Amos F. Bigendsll, carpenter, fired four shots at his wife, missing her, and then put a bullet In Ills heart. John Lepko was killed hy a fall of slate at the Dunlo mines, Cambria county. The barn of Bamuel Clark, of Homer City, was struck by lightning, one horse being killed and two Injured. Maker llebnut of West Washington was badly Injured by an explosion of gas In his bakery. He will recover. William Little of Washington round burglars In his house and fired at thnn. They got away with a watch. o. M. Francis, SRed 70. a farmer of Wayne township, Lawrence county, was killed by a train near Moravia. The Wolford Oas Company, Bmeth port, has been granted a charter. Capital. $1(1.000. James O'Toole, aged H, lost his life at Johnstown, while attempting to board a freight trHlm PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. June H. House. Mr. Necblt of North umberland, offered the following reso lution, "That the Committee of Publlo Putldlnrrs nml Orounds he nnd Is here by requested to lay before the House the bills, or copies of the bills, that heve been rendered and approved by the committee or under lis direction, covering claims for pi-isonnl service, labor, materials or furnishings of nny kind used In the filling up of drain church for the use of the Legislature. The hill Introduced by Mr. llogcr, Philadelphia. Increasing the penalty for repeating to five years Imprison ment, passed. The bill to tax bicycles, tricycles, pleasure enrrlages and trac-tlot- engines passed third reading after amendments had been defeated ex empting bicycles and tricycles owned by persons under 14 years old. In the Senate, by a unanimous vote, the defeat of the Clarency building so ciety bill, upon motion of Mr. Osbourn, was reconsidered and It wns theu agreed to postpone further considera tion of the measure for the present. The dovernor sent to the Senate a veto of the local Cambria tax collector act. These appointments were confirmed: John P. lams, tlreene, manager of Morganza, Heform school; John Mc Dowell, superintendent of National load: John D. Bhafer. judge of the Fifth district. Allegheny county. June 15, The bill to levy tl n year on pleasure carriages, bicycles end tri cycles, and 13 on traction engines was defeated. The money that was to have been raised In this manner was to have gone toward the Improvement of roads. Mr. Haldwln, who had the bill In charge, said It would have netted the slate St'iOO.OM). The bill wan defeated. The Inheritance tax came up for third reading. There Is not much hope for the passage of this bill. The striking out of the I'l.ann exemption clause ha caused much dissatisfaction, and the bill Is regarded by many an Iniquitous. Another cause for opposition Is the failure of the senate to ad on the Bliss hill taxing beer. The proposition to tnx beer has many friends In the house, and they propose to Juggle with the di rect Inheritance tax bill until they can force the senate to pass the beer bills, which have already passed the house. The direct Inheritance bill is now In shape to be called up at any time, but It Is certain that the advocates of the measure will tnke great care. In the senate the prison bill limiting the number of Inmates of state prisons, penitentiaries and other penal Institu tions to be employed In manufacturing goods therein to 20 per cent, and pro hibiting the use of machinery In such manufacture was passed. The bill pro viding that licensed brewers shall sell to licensed dealers not less than a dos en pints or In pneknges of not less than an eighth of a barrel, nnd further than one person or association can own or control two breweries upon the pay ment of $1,000 license for each, pass"d dually. June 17. The Senate made more progress with the tariff hill to-day than on nny 'lay since Its debute opened. The schedules on spirits und wines and on manufactured cotton goods were completed. A new paragraph wns add ed to compensate the cotton manufac turers for the placing of raw cotton on the dutiable list. It provides that on all cotton yarns liner than No. 10 sin gle, nnd the goods manufactured thereof, the duty shall be 10 per cent. In addition to the rates of tho cotton schedule. The House was In session nn hour nnd n half, most of the time being tak en up with roll calls. Mr. Bulxer, Dem ocrat, New York, succeeded In Inject ing Into the proceedings a brief speech in favor of Cuba, In which he denounc ed Weyler as a "thief" ami "murderer." The bill for the relief of the residents of ('.leer county, Oklahoma, was passed. The House adjourned till Monday. THE NATIONAL CAME. The St. Louis reorganised Ilrowns an playing a much Improved gatno of hall. Illtehny, of the Clnclanntls, Is a strict Tcgetarlr.n. He bos not tasted moat sines early childhood. Judged by the Roekalexls standard what would be the matter with a teum that was all Indians? Nothing much, apparently. Thn Clnciunatls would rather beat Pitts burg than any other team la the League, yet they Invariably play their worst guinns against the "Pirates." It Is a plnosure to see Demontrevllle, o Washington, play short. He belongs to the "Little Olant" class as a ball pluyer, with Keelur, Duffy and Oelnr. Jennings's hitting Is way below last sea son's form, and unless the Baltimore short stop takes a big brace ha won't figure raong tho top-notch batsmen. No far I'anlon's judgment In setting adrift Hemming, Usper anil MoMalioa has been vindicated. They haven't sut Ilia world allre with tholr new clubs. Thero are nine married men nn the Louisville team. They are Wen len, Wilson, Clingman, ltogera, Fniser, McFarloa, Staf ford, Pickering and Cunningham. Eealer. of tho Baltlmoros, Is considered the most scientlllo bntsman to-day la the League, He stand close to the pinto and tries to plane every ball that ha hits at. That pitchers' bugbear, the "costly baso on balls," Is playing as prominent a part Iu the game as ever tills season. Many a game Is lost through Just one free puis to first given at tho wrong time. The old Leaguers who were drafted back from the minor organizations this season are cluing well ra lost company, notably Huilly, Warden, C'annvau, llurtuiau, Hchrivur, Hutchison and Wilson. The Australians who came to Amerlaa in thn hope that they could pat up presenta ble baseball saw the Baltimore and Chicago teams. They were rendered speechless by the sight of men capturing hot-shot liners and grounders and, by the way the fielders lnvsriubly eaugbt high flies. What astonished them gmatiy was that no applause followed a fly catch In the out Held, Horaoe B. Fogol says: "That Cincinnati team Is a puszlu. Made up almost entirely of 'pick-up players 'cast off by other clubs vide Burke, Hoy, Irwin, Vaughn, Ewlng, Sohriver, Buret, Dwyer and several others, not to mention lthiues, who was resurrected last year, and Mol'hee, who has beea play ing almost a quarter ot a century this combination, nevertheless, pats up a game almost Impossible to beat, and promUes to be a strong oompetltor for this year's) championship." The Rev. Henry Hupp, the oldest ae tlve clergyman In Illinois, now In his fd year, la still strong and vigorous, and preaches every Sunday,
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