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Tcothplcks Tabooed.
Whether or net the final course at a
meal shall be toothpicks is a mooted
question. Many say no. and have
gcod reasons for their decision. A
handsome woman and her young
daughter entered a swell place one
day ?t;d ordered an elegant luncheon.
They were tastefully gowned and
money ceenW plentiful with them,
and the waiter in attendance was unremitting
in his attention. Finally he
placed a small stand of toothpicks on
the table. "Remove those instantly,"
said the elder woman, "it's a vulgarity
I cannot tolerate. I would just as
soon clean my teeth at a table as use
a toothpick publicly.""What
a crank that woman was."
sneered a pretty girl at a table close
i by. "maybe she was something like J
the honest country youth when offered
a finger bowl and napkin, replied.
'Thank you. but I done washed befo'
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1 cum. ?l.Oilis* Ji:*.- i iu.>.u.
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Thfe Fourth of .Inly Celebration.
Tho Founh of July, the day on which
every true American celebrates the signing
of the Declaration of Independence,will soon
>e here, but in order to celebrate it in a becoming
manner it will be necessary for us to
g;T- ^ >e in good health. If you are troubled with
E? tausca, sick headache, heartburn, belching,
indigestion or constipation, try Hosteiter's
ttomaeh Bitter*. It will stimulate and
strengthen the stomach and bowels and cure
r.- .hese ailments.
The present law in Germany limits women's
labor to eleven hours, with a midday
B .^est of an hour and a half.
I A Doctor's Testimonial.
Dr. C. I. Cawtiion, of Andalusia, Ala.,
writes: "Tetterine is superior to udv remedj
known to me for Eczema and stubborn skin
liseases/'^ 50c. a box by mail from J. T.
Shuptrine "Savannah. Ga*., if your druggist
? don t keep it.
? The chronic borrower, like death, loves
a shining mark.
The Little Orphan Home.
Mrs. Sego, care of the trustees of the yewOrleans
Orphan Home, gives Dr. Biggefs'
Huckleberry Cordial for the relief <_>f all
bowel troubles. She never suffers herself
' to be without it.
Sold by all Druggists, 25 and 50e. bottle.
Fresh paint, unlike fresh people, should
not be sat upon.
U?e Allen's Foot-Fane.
? * *% cwnllnn
It IS tile omy uaxu ;vi tj. i,
I Tired, Aching," Hot. Sweating Feet,Coras and
* Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder
to be shaken into the shoes. Cures while you
walk. At ail Druggists r.nd Shoe Stores, 25c.
Don't accept any substitute. Sample sent
F&xe. Address, Alien S. Olmsted, Lelioy, N.l\
?v;- A square meal is one that will go round.
k- ? ~ wiShe. -drawbacks of literature ? return
fgVjQg postage
??--v FITS permanently cured. No fits ornervons.
ness alter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
NerveBestorer.?2trial bottle and treatisefree
Dr.B. H. Suss, Ltd., SSI ArchSt.,Philn.,Pa.
" * Gratuitous advice often acts like a boomerang.
A SI. Priest, Druggist, Shelbyviile, Ind..
says: "Hall's Catarrh Cure gives the best of
S?;"'. satisfaction. Can get plenty of testimonials,
j^- it cures even* one who t'akes it." Druggists
sell it, 75c.
?% "* The fellow who depends upon lusk never
gets there.
??? ' Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
? teething, soften the gums, re'ducesinflamm*?
B|?". ticp,alleys pain,cures wind colic. 25c. a bottl_v
The people who act like fools generally
do so because they can't help it
jf^ I do not believe Piso's Cure for ConsumpEg*
tion has an equal for coughs aud colds?Johs
g F Botes, Trinity Springs, Ind.. Feb. 15,1900.
II ' When a belle marries she expects the
|f- man to ring her.
Summer Tours By Land and Sea?Ei&
cursion Tickets at Very Low Kates.
Centrnl of Georgia Railway and connee.
ti">ns are now se ling Summer Tourist
Tickets from all coupon stations to New
/ York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore
via Savannah and steamship lines. Tickets
, Include meals and stateroom : erth aboard
I" sbip: much less than all mil. For full pj;rSff""*
ticulars, berth reservations, etc.. apply to
> our nearest railroad agent. F. .T. Robinson,
r. sAsst. Gen'l. Pass. Agent, Savannah, Ga.: J.
C. Haile. Gen'l. Pass. Agent, Savannah, Ga.
Draugbon's Business College.
< Elsewhere In th:s 1-sue will be found nn
advertisement of Draughon's Practical Busli
ness Colleges Prof. Draugnon Is proprietor of
- eight Business Colleges, located at Nashville,
fe Atlanta. Montgomery, St. Louis. Shreveport,
| Ft. Worth, Gaiveston and Little ltock. Those
Colleges have h sup-rior course of instruction,
pS and have special facilities for securing po>igjif.'
v tlona. '1 hey are now offering special hu mnet
pF~v rates to ail who enter soon For eatalosue, AU^
dresi, Draughon's Collego, either place
?*?-* On a hot day the animals in the Union
Stockyards of Chicago have been known to
. drink *7,009.000 gallons of water.
v. I "My hair was falling out and R
Kip I turning gray very fast. But your |
I(| Hair Vigor stopped the falling and B
| restored the natural color."?Mrs. |
I E. Z. Benomme, Cohoes, N. Y. f.
It s impossible for you j
not to look old, with the j
color of seventy years in
your hair! 4 a erhaps you j
are seventy, and you like
| your gray hair! If not,
_ use Ayer's Hair Vigor.
In less than a month your j
gray hair will have all the
dark, rich color of youth.
$1.00 a bottle. All dra&tsts.
If your druggist cannot supply you,~j
___ % 8 send *us one dollar and we will express f
| you a bottle, lie sure and jrive tbe namo I
of your nearest express ollice. Address, \
J J. C. AYER CO., Ix)well, Mass. |
Ml i II I
j LIBBY Luncheons !
Q WeMai the product in key-opening cans. Tnra Y
Y a key and you find the meat exactly a* it left V
<t> ns. We pat them up in this way A
L ^ Potted Ham. Beet aad Tongue, v
Ox Tongue (whole), Veal Loaf, x
X Deviled Ham, Brisket Beet,
^ Sliced Smoked Beet. '*
X All Natural Flavor foods. Palatable aad X
wholesome. Your grocer should ha70 them. V
% Llbby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago
4> "How to Make Good Things to Eat" will Y
w be sent free if you ask us. w
_
E (aacaMto
^^CANDY CATHASTIC
to. An
Si*. 50fc Brafflsta
Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold fa balk.
Beware of the dealer who tries to sell
"something just as good."
WISDOM'S CHOICE.
'Martha can brew and stew and bake;
What a good wifo for some man she'll make."
Thus spoke uDCle, who thought to tease
Mary, who made no boast in these.
But Mary smiled and softly said:
'* Though good and great, no man I'd wed
Who would not want me for his own
If I should be at work a drone.
Helpless I might become for years.
Then would it not bring bitter tears
To know that with my strength to do,
Ilis love had gone and left mo too?
No ! for myself : '0:1" must be
The love a mau would give to me." <
?Lucy Burt, in Good Housekeeping.
J WHEN THE HUNTERS }!
t WERE HUNTED. i|
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? By C. A. Stephens. i |
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About thirty years ago a notion had
gained belief that turtle oil was a
potent remedy for rheumatism; and
a self-styled doctor, living in my native
town, who knew how to trim
5iis sails to catch the popular breeze,
had offered a number of the boys of
the village a dollar a quart for all the
turtle oil that they could procure for
him.
For remedial purposes turtle oil !
is probably no better than goose oil, j
lard or tallow; but for the time being j
laith in it had sprung up, and that was :
enough for this empiric doctor.
As boys, we did not rouble our- |
selves with the medical question. It j
was an attractive offer, and our indi- :
vided attention was fixed on the dol- j
lar.
The only draw back was that the of- j
fer came in November, so late in the j
fall that the turtles at the lake had all |
gone into winter quarters in the mud j
of the bog, and could no longer be j
captured sunning on the logs, or by !
night upon the long sand-bank where
they laid their eggs. We had a homely
knowledge of their habits, how- j
ever, and knew about how deep they |
burrowed while hibernating; and on i
the afternoon of my story three of us
had gone to the lake, or rather to the
wide, muddy bog that bordered it,
hortt r?n rnntnrina a hoat-load of big !
turtles. An old bayonet affixed to the
end of a short pole, and a spade with
a long handle made up my equipment ;
lor turtle hunting; tut in addition to
shades, my two fellow hunters, Alfred j
and Willis, were provided, one with j
a strong hay-fork, the other with a ;
grapnel hook lashed to the end of a j
stout ash sapling.
For safety's sake, too, we had each j
an old pair of 'snow-shoes. For although
the mud of the bog was now
slightly frozen over, tne deep sloughs
beneath, were still dangerous. The lake
itself had not yet fiozen. We were
therefore able to cross over from our
shore to the bog in boat?an old craft
that had long been common property
among the boys for fishing excursions.
Our modus operandi can be coujec- j
tured from our outfit. Having put on I
our snow-shoes, we began searching j
for turtle signs, and prodding deep
into the muu with the bayonet. When
touched with the point of -he sharp
weapon, under such circumstances, the
burrowing turtle would stir slightly, [
thus differentiating itself from a sunk- \
en log or root. When the reptile was
located, the task of unearthing it was i
begun with spade and grapnel.
D,,* nftni-nnnnc oro chfirt in ^JOVPTY)
JJUt ail^IUVVUC Ui V w<?v* v , V
ter. We had secured no more than j
three turtles, if I remember right? j
big, muddy, semitorpid creatures that !
lay in the bottom of the boar, hardly i
stirring?when the approach of sunset ;
warned us to set oil for home. We |
were rowing back across the upper |
reach of the lake, when directly in
front of us we saw a flock of four
loons, which we had already noticed,
sailing to and fro, several times that
afternoon.
"It's queer they haven't gone yet,"
said Alfred. "They always leave here
earlier, before it gets so cold."
All four of the loons were swimming
down across our course,?great,
handsome birds,?and one of them,
turning its head toward us, uttered the i
short, singular laugh characteristic of !
icons. We noticed, however, That two j
of them were much smaller than the 1
others, and that one of the two lag- '
ged about fifty feet behind the rest j
as they swam.
"Those two are this year's young
ones," said Willis. "Perhaps they
were late hatched and aren't large
t rt fltf fo?* VOf M
fUUU&ll IA/ IIJ AC41 JV/V.
"Oh, yes, they are," said Alfred. !
"A loon can fly, if only there is room j
to rise from the water, by the time j
they are half-grown."
We had come up quite near the lag- :
ging one by this time, and wondered I
why it did not diver Instead, it seem- |
ed to be making frantic attempts to !
swim, yet did not progress fast, and !
the others were as evidently swim- j
ming slowly to allow it to keep near j
them.
"Why, I believe something's the mat- !
ter with that young loon!" said Wil- j
lis. "He cannot swim much. Let's !
catch him."
Thereupon Alfred and I olied the j
oars smartly, while Willis steered the j
boat, and after pulling for two or three J
hundred yards we came close upon the j
lagging loon, wondering all the while !
ihat it did not dive.
It continued struggling ahead on the
surface till Willis steered the boat close
alongside, calling out to Alfred to
vhu ii 11. i nt rutins iuu!i maue a i
great effort to rise, but Alfred, drop- j
ping his oar, seized it by one wing
and pulled it into the boat.
We then saw that something was j
wrong with its feet. They were not i
properly webbed, but looked like club- !
feet, little deformed masses of red
flesh and bone.
The instant it felt Alfred's grip i? !
uttered a wild, harsh cry; and that cry
cf distress affected deeply the two !
old loons. They were fully fifty yards '
ahead, but they turned instantly, with j
similar wild cries, and seeming to !
stand erect in the water, they flap- !
ped their powerful \%ings and came
directly toward the boat.
So far from being alarmed, however, j
we thought it rather a good joke at
first, and made ready to strike them,
j But the loons had a mode of attack
j which we had not leckoned on. They
j came near the boat, and with the ir
; wings threw water over us and
; straight in our faces, as boys, while
swimming, sometimes dash water at
' one another, striking it with the palms
of their hands. One who has never
seen loons throw water with their
uings can have little idea of the force
with which they propel it. or the quan;
tily they can throw. We were quite
j blinded and drenched by it. and they
i kept a constant stream of it coming.
! making the whole lake resound to their
j loud outcries.
On a warm summer day this would
have been a mere 'ark; but on that
cold November night such a drenchj
ing was really a seiious matter. To
' add to our discomfiture, too. while
dodging about in the boat trying to
fend the cold douches from our faces,
A'fred had his foot gripped by one of
our captive turtles. The reptile held
fast, despite vigorous kicks, and altogether
we were in a bad way.
Willis and I had seized hay-fork and
bayonet to repel the attack, but the
Icons seemed to know their advantage.
They did not come within reach,
but continued drenching us, driving
whole bucketfuls of that cold water
over us. We were soaked to the skin.
I do not believe there remained a
dry thread in the clothing of any one
of us. and our assailants kept bombarding
us till Alfred threw the young
Icon out on the lake. Then he had
all he could do to free his boot too
from the turtle. Willis and I secured
the oars and paddled away. We had
been fairly worsted; and I remember
that we were so cold and our teeth
chattered so badly that we left our
turtles in the boat overnight, and ran
home as fast as we could to get
warm.
Tlrni-n lrtr>r>e rnmairorl in tllf>
X IIC^C IUU1 ivuuo * v lauuivu
Like that fall till the evening of the
hist day of December. On the morning
of the next day the club-footed
young loon was seen in a small millpond
a quarter of a mile south of the
lake. The other three loons had gone.
The lake Iroce over for tbo winter
that night.?Youth's Companion.
AN INTERNATIONAL TOWN.
Nogales on llie Mexican IJorder?How I lie
l,?w? Are Enforced. I
It would be incorrect to date a
letter from either Nogales, Arizona,
or Nogales, Mexico, alone, for the
town belongs so thoroughly and completely
to both that neither half is a I
town at all. It is the most completely
and curiously international place that
can be conceived of. There os no
separation ot the two parts visible
as you look down on the town from
the hills, and the life and the ordinary
traffic of the place flow back and
forth with no one, apparently, to say
them nay. However, it must not be
supposed that there is free trade
across the thoroughfare, which on 0110
side is called International street and
on the other the Calle International.
In the middle of the street, where
the .Callc Elias, or main business
street, crosses the international avenue,
stands a stone obelisk about 12
feet high, and in the vicinity of t7iis
are always one or two guards in civilian
dress, who pay no attention to
empty-handed passers-by, but will stop
any carriage or any person who offers
- - ?+V<oJ- ini v'nt
iG CTUSb Witii <x uuiucu umi
contain dutiable material. Occasionally.
on the Mexican side, one seems
a Mexican soldier in uniform, but
the cuartel near by is too small to
hold more than a small detachment,
and neither soldiers nor uniformed
customs guard's are ever in evidence
along the border.
The Americans live apart from one
another in individual houses of all
grades, most of which are very neat,
and some of which are quite fine and
must have been costly. Their streets
run up the sides cf the mountain
glen in which the town is situated.
They have, of course, one large and
one public school building and one or
two smaller ones; churches they
seem to have little use for. In among
their houses are the adobe cabins of
the Mexicans, who are their hewers
of wood and drawers cf water, these
terms being literally correct here, for
the fuel of the country is knotted and
gnarled wood brought from the hills
cn donkeys' backs, and the town wa
tor won't run up to the higher elevations.
The air. either with the scent of
the burning wcod or without, is delicious
and exhilating. The sunlight
gilds the Santa Rita peaks, the outpost
of Arizona facing toward Mexico.
The climate at this season is perfection
itself; the nights and mornings
cool?almost cold, yet without any
chill at all?the day from ten o'clock
on till sunset hot in the sun, yet cool
enough indoors and conductive to siestas.
The place seems to have exactly
the climate for a winter and spring
resort.?New York Post.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Mercy is often egotism dressed in
white.
Real virtue is a breastplate; sham
virtue a cloak.
A woman with the explanation habit
is the terror of man.
There never was a dissension that
diplomacy could not modify.
Attitudes and platitudes are the
stock in trade of the stupid.
To be consoled the mind must be
touched first, the heart follows.
A neglected child of affluence is
poorer, than a beloved little beggar.
Scratch a cynic and you find a
fraud; scratch a snob and you find?
nobody.
There never was a genius who had a
perfectly poised temperament, else
were he not a genius.
The courtesy of rejection might be
studied without loss of profit. To decline,
yet keep a friend is a fine artPhiladelphia
Record.
She relieved in Witclie*.
Superstition is not yet dead. A few
days ago a lady living in Cornwall received
a letter from a woman dwelling
twenty miles away in a lonely coast
village in whose house she had frequently
spent some months of the summer.
The letter was not well written,
but the woman can hardly be old
enough to have escaped compulsory
education altogether. Yet she wrote to
say that there was somebody in that
coast village who had been "ill-wished,"
and was in consequence likely to die.
She had heard that in the town to
which she had addressed her letter
there was a skillful white witch wno,
for a consideration, would be willing to
provide the sufferer with a charm
which would be a sovereign cure. She
! asked the lady to endeavor to discover
the name and address of the
| benefactor. That such a letter should
j be written in these civilized days is
I not specially surprising, but the in,
stances are not worth noting, for those
! who have had most experience in the
stiic*/ of the superstitious beliefs of the
j peasantry know well that for one
: which gets written down in this way
there are generally two or three vastly
i/ore interesting which are never disclosed
except in moments of extreme
emotion and panic-.?London Post.
H?- Whs Nrxt to the C.'ame.
"Put not your trust in riches," sale
the clerical-looking man in the rust}
j coat.
"I don't." replied the prosperouslooking
individual. "I put my riches in
trusts."?Chicago News.
j
The
j A mother's slipper has s avert manv
j n boy from a jailor's handcuffs.?New
j York Press.
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irritation, and
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ri cleanse the
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A Single Set, price $1, is olten
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I suffered from a difficulty about
breathing, a sort of breathlessness
which was very distressing. It was
always worse on just rising. I
thought these spells proceeded
from something wrong with the
heart, but I believe now it is connected
with the stomach, for I find
Ripans Tabules do me good, and
my breathing is better already. I
do not have that miserable, depressed
feeling and can eat and
sleep well.
At druggists.
The Five-Cent packet Is enough for an
ordinary occasion. The family bottle,
u ?-ents. contain< i 11??:?Iy !or i ve.tr.
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expenses. Once used, always used. Address,
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I BALL TEAM ON THE ROAD I
1 vtwincing round the circuit with
a professional nine;
I
; innoyHttce* Tl.^t Confront the Ball Toilfer
? DTHffiiijj for Berths ? A Fecnllar
< las* of Men W ho Eateem it h Great
j I'rivilejje to Entertain the Flayers.
From the moment that the profesj
sional ball player finishes a series of
! games on his home groands until he
! has completed the trip around the cir;
cuit that is provided by the league
| schedule ne is harassed by two fears.
! The first and the gi eater is that he
| may be allotted the upper berth in
; sieeping-cars, and the second the
! diead of losing his playing form by
| lack of exercise.
! A third annoyance, notwithstanding
! the fact that the best of hotels are
j provided for the players by the club
owners, is the occasional lack of sufficient
food. That is, these strong,
i healthy ball piayers insist that they
i do not always obtain what their ap*
j pctitcs demand. And there is a rea
son for tneir complaint, although it
i is not the owner's fault;
It is the sleeping car berth; how!
ever, that is really the bane of the
j professional player's existence. He
j will endure almost anything in the
: way of discomfort without a eomplaint,
j but will grumble during the tliouI
sand and five hundred miles of travel,
| giumbie and complain like a spoiled
j child, if he is compelled to sleep, as
he describes it, "under the car roof."
Very frequently when the ball clubs
make long jumps, :ike the trip from
New York to St. Louis, a special car
; is furnished to the club. It is given
exclusively to the players for the trip.
There they live, a happy, laughing,
good-r.atured crowd, until it is time to
! retire on the first night out.
j If there be a young player or two
young players on the team, woe to
j them! They get the upper berths with!
out any consideration. It is part of
! their initiation into the business, and
: proud indeed is the beginner the first
! time he is allowed to draw for the
; chance of a lower berth. He knows
j he is no longer considered a novice.
; In the uiawing, the manager of the
i team first reserves a lower berth for
| himself, another for the captain, one
! for the business mansger, if there be
i c-ne, and lower berths for as many
! newspaper representatives as happen
to be traveling with the club. All the
other sleeping-car tickets are put into
envelopes and sealed. Then the players
are permitted to draw, beginning
! rs a rule with the man who has been
j longest with the club
After the; drawing has been made,
j some of the players who are thrifty,
i 3D(1 who are willing to submit to a
j "room in the attic," now and then sell
j their lower berths to companions,
j who are ready to advance half a dollar,
! sometimes less, for the privilege of
j sleeping "downstairs.''
j In some of the clubs an arrangement
1 is in vogue whereby the pitchers are
j given the lower berths. This is es|
pecially true of the teams where the
! pitcher also happens to be the man!
ager. He insists that good pitching
j is the most important part of he game,
+V.O+ rUtr>V)or<s should he 2T1V
(IUU IUUU l.ilV [/UVMV4M w
en every opportunity to rest in order
that the team may he successful in
its games on the roaa. The other players,
on the contrary, maintain that
the pitchers work only once in three
i or four games, and have ample time to
I recu perate.
The feud between the pitchers and
I the other piavers of a professional
j baseball'nine is almost as old as the
I game, and it has yet to be settled in
j a manner satisfactory to both sides.
Long experience h.is taught the proj
fcssional ball player how to take life
! easy in travel. Almost all of his jouri
neying is cone in the hottest months
j of the year and very wisely in his
| dress he adapts himself to prevailing
j conditions. Loose shirts, low collars.
J thin lounging coats and airy caps make
; him the envy of men who swelter and
j fume in apparel more dignified but far
more distressing, when the dust is flying
in clouds that threaten to suffocate
the rassengen, and when heat
waves, radiating fiom embankments
J and level stretches, undulate contin!
nrmslv throueh the car.
Dominoes are popular with the ball
players. It is easy to carry the box
of pieces around an 1 there are always
candidates for the pastime. On some
! teams two men who are fond of crib|
ha.ge will begin on the very first trip
! to play a series o.: games, aud will
! prolong :.t indefinitely. Two players
I of the Boston club once played more
than two thousand games of cribbage
, in a season. The other members of the
: team insisted that this pair counted
j "fifteen two, fifteei four" in their
sleep.
There are stiff games at caids now
j and then, tut if it comes to the manj
agfr's ear that the stakes are high
j there is sure to follow a little private
! hearing :in the morning, at which the
player is cautioned not to repeat any
mere "five-dollar-lmiit games."
j At the more important stations along
I the railroad the small boy, by some
| ii.luition that is all his own, invariably
| manages ro pick out not only uVe train
, on which the ball players are travel
ling, but the car in which they ride.
If, among the gaping urchins, there
happens to be one who, at some time
in his life, has been taken to the metropolis
and has seen a game of "real
league hall," it devolves upon him to
1 pcint out the celebrities to his more
! unlearned ompanions.
j "There's Mathewson!" shouts a
j tow headed, freckle-faced lad, and in
a moment Mathev/son, the pitching
| wonder of the baseball world for a
year, is the centre of two score inquisitive
eyes.
"Say, he only looks like a great big
! boy himself," say s one youngster, who
1 ct <vmc; rfit.her disaDbointed not to find
j ar. aged individual with streaks of gray
! in his hair.
i "So much the better," declares an
other. "It just shows wnat a boy can
; do if you give him a chance. Hey,
j Matty, show us haw to throw an outcurve,
will you?"
j Not infrequently 1 have seen the big
pitcher of the New Yorks condescend
to give the urchins a demonstration
j or curve ball pitching. Ana rest as.:
sured that the next time the "Eagle
; Eyes" of the village played tne "Young
Rrsies" of the adjoining hamlet, they
1 had for :heir pitcher the youngster
who by that time enjoyed the reputation
of having been "one of Mathewr.on's
boys." With that prestige to
start with any team would go into
the game with the battle half wen.
But if there arc small boys to watch
for the ball players along the railroads
there ate larger boys to entertain
them when they reach the various
? -c /?achip>.finn Thorp is
ClllCS IJ I. litouuuuvii, . uv..
. ?. peculiar class of men in every city
of the United Slates where a professional
baseball is played who spend a
: ?'e?t per ion of their time and no
I ' final* portion of their money entertainI
! "is the player
They get nothing in return for It,
i und expect nothing more than to hare
: tt generally known that they ine
fliends of Davis, Lajoie, Dowle, Coliiris,
and one hundred and one men .
who have made baseball famous. If j
the player wants to smoke, the cigars
j are his. If he warns to drink, there
' are drinks so long as he wants them.
If he desires to go to the theatre, his
accommodating patron will secure the
tickets, even though he be obliged to
pay a premium for them.
When the players are on the road
they seldom get morning practice, and
that affords them no little worry. Conslant
exercise is- necessary once the
season has fairly begun. A ball player
does not train to the fineness Of d.
college athlete competing, for example,
in a rowing crew, but even then he
stiffens up quickly and his playing
I form vanishes if ha does tiot iieep his
[ muscles/ in proper trinl. Strange to
say, with the knowledge of this truth,
there are few of the players who exert
themselves further thaii tO walk
around the block how and theri: They
are always willing to take the chftnceS;
Thefe are not many of the players
who are early risers. It is true, too.
that there are few who ai^e in any great
haste to get to bed. The tendency of
many of them, who have graduated
from minor leagues, where they have
not been fed 011 pate de foie gras and
a few similar delicacies, is to eat all
j there is on the bill of fare when they
! first sit at table in a first class hotel.
The veteran knows better. Experi!
ence has taught him a lesson. In fact
the veteran ball player is something
of an epicure, and he is inclined to
be rather abstemious than otherwise.
A hearty breakfast is perhaps the
best meal of the aay. At luncheon a
little soup, perhaps a vegetable or two
some ice cream, and slice of watermelon
in season. That's all before the
game?a queer combination, but a
ball player with an overloaded stomach
is an abomination to his manager.
At night, and here is where the professional
player grumbles, and really has
a grievance, the dinner is often cold.
The player, after finishing the game,
changing his uniform, and preparing
himself?for the evening, arrives in the |
dining room when the dishes are beginning
to cool and the waiters are
impatient to get through. But there
is misery in store for the waiter who
shows it.
Not a moment that the player is not
under the watchful eye of the manager. ,
Sometimes he believes that he is not,
and when he should have been in bed
at 11 o'clock he fixes up a dummy ;
in the bed, which the manager may
see if he peeps throughout the keyhole
to ascertain whether everything
is all rignt.
Next salary day, however, he discovers
that that dummy has cost him
a fine of ten dollars. If he is wise he
lakes it gracefully. He knows that
if he does his duty on the field and
plays excellent ball in the next few
weeks he is likely to find the ten dollars
returned to him.
Professional ball players, notwithstanding
their yeare of discretion, are
a great deal like overgrown boys, and
they have to be treated as such. They
may get a little boisterous in public
now and then, but almost never are intentionally
offensive. Each year finds
them growling about the hard work
that falls to their lot to travel around
the country and have a good time, and
each year they declare will be their
last.
But they are around next spring
hunting up the old trials and tribulations,
including the lower berths, as
of they had never gone through them
before.?John B. Foster, in Collier's
Weekly.
WEAPONS OF THE CHINES:.
How Tlieir Arms Were Evolvesl-Me'liod
of 1 esijjn.it iiij llank.
The prominent part played by
China in the world's p.ffairs during the
past seven years aroused the interest
of collectors who have brought to
this country many specimens of wares
and goods peculiar to that part of the
far East. None among these are of
greater historical value than the weapons
which are in use in all provinces
of the empire, even in the districts
where the imperial armies are
equipped with European firearms.
One of the best collections was shown
in this city not long ago, and is now
in the possession of the commercial
museum at Philadelphia. Single specimens
of value are to be found in the
Chinese clubrooms in Chinatown, and
in many of the bric-a-brac stores scattered
about ihe city.
A careful siudy of the weapons
shows that most of them are naught
tut industrial appliances suddenly
employed for purposes of offence. One
spear is a pitchfork and another a trident
similar to the eel-spear employed
by our own fishermen. Another
whactiv wpannn when examined care
.. r
fully proves to be a scythe-blade- fastened
to ihe end of a strong pole. The
halberds are hatchets, axe heads,
adzes, and cleavers wired or tied
with throngs to stout staves. Evc-n
the spears and lances show an agricultural
or domestic rather than a '
military origin.
These weapons may be viewed as historical
souvenirs which are preserved
as testimonials of the bravery of the
Manchu conquerors. The Tartars take
great pride in their conquest of the
Middle Kingdom. Before they came
from the north they were savages in
comparison with the civilized Chinese.
They preserve this fact in their Jaws
and customs. The cuff of every official's
coat is made in the form of a
horse' hoof to indicate that the Manj
churian armies were cavalry, not ini
fantry. The official footwear is a cavalry
boot, which, though made of satin
with kid-covered soles, is in cut
and general appearance the same as
the heavy leather articles worn by
their ancestral troopers 300 years ago.
When they conquered Chinse they experienced
the strongest resistance
from the farmers and shermen who
armed themselves with whatever came
to hand and attacked the invaders
with fierce irtrepiditv.
In honor 01 these victories they re|
tained the primitive weapons of their
j captives and used them as trophies of
I their battles. Each Mancku officer
| employed a lot of Chinese captives
j anJ armed them with their own
j spears, tridents, and axes as the case
j might be. The practice has been kept
j up ever since. When a Mandarin
i goes calling he has one or more guards
! in his retinue who are armed with
! these simple contrivances. So far ha^
j the idea been pushed that in nearly |
all the temples there are weapons
j which belong to the God of the temj
pie, and these are usually of the same
i agricultural character as those em|
ployed by the guards of civil and mili
ilary officials.
Two of three great British battle
snips to be laid down this year are to
be named Commonwealth and Dominion.
in compliment to Australia and
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