Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 May 1897 — Page 2

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dorfully. It would afford a moans of < asy comparison with the yearly results of the Henley regatta, the leading event of the world. A line could then he easily drawn on the comparative merits of the crews ;.t Hanley and In America. Boating n.»*n connected with the N A. A. C. and the sectional rowing associations have been canvassed on the question of changing the racing rules, and with very few exceptions. they favor the plan, it is, therefore possible that the national regatta this \ear will be over a straightaway

course.

The members oi the big college crews are busily engaged in training lor the great race. From present prospects, the race will be the best ever rowed in American waters. It has been finally settled that the Winnipeg lour is to row at Henley, in spite of the piotcsts of some of Hendon’s i.lIcgcd sporting papers. \ t h lei icN.

The base ball season Is open. i Again the* hoarse voice of the coacher Is heard in the* land; the swat of the nat as it comes in contact with the leather sphere, the shouts and roots of the fans, the scraping noise as th*- men slide over the bases, the strident tone s of the umpire. are again common sounds, while above them all are to be heard the demonical shrieks of the small boy with Jhis eye glued to the hole in the fence which winter and his Christmas jackknife have enabled him to make in the Xenee. The base ball season is open. )f 4. _t_ The opening game's of the Western Ceaguo show that the playing in this part of the country is to be good. All of the teams of the league show' up well. Every one is strengthened in some way jand there is no question that Western league cities will s* • good bail this year. Amos Rusie and Freedman have adjusted their differences and Rusie is again a Giant. Anent the special league meeting to consider the matter. Joseph Watson. of the Mail and Kvpre— . says: “The special meeting of the base ball

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was a misguided effort. It is somewhat singular that the dubs which figured most prominently are the weakest in the lengrue Tw o ha\< be n h i * k d it market for months, and the third is known as the cheap club of the league. If these clubs were lead* i s in the record

Kansas CMty had a terrible tussle last week Tuesday to hold all its celebrities. There was Capt. Anson and his Cops. Hob Fitzsimmons and his followers and Jim Corbett and his aggregation. In tie* morning, as the usual •'tough" crowd was hanging around the Coates house watting for Fitz Anson came down in the elevator. Although Anson is one of the best known men in the world this crowd, somehow or other, did not recognize him. and when some one pointed him out as Fitzsimmons the crowd was quickly at his heels It waa not there long, however, for some one “tipped it off" who Anson was. and as the crowd scattered a small boy said in disgust; "VVy, it s only Anson!” Chris von der Abe thus sizes up the Browns:' “After years of experience in the base ball business I have come to the conclusion that best results can l**- 'deained through a playermanager, and for this reason I believe the Browns will give a good account of themselves this season. The browns did fairly well under Joe Quinn's brief administration and braced up when Dow i took charge. Take the New York Giants and see what Joyce did last \ear. and then l«M*k at Cincinnati's record under Buck Kwing’s management. Of course, 1 don’t expect the St. Louis team to win the pennant this season. I think the championship lies between Baltimore and Cincinnati, with New York clcse up.”

1'ug i HmI i<».

The pictures of the (’orbett-Fitzsim-mons tight taken for exhibition by what is called the verascope, are ready for printing, and In a few days the small army of capitalists will know the extent of their sorrow or the measure of their fortune, says the New York Journal. The pictures are not all bad; indeed, some are remarkably good, but the best are those of the least interesting rounds.

or in influence at h gue meetings, it j There is one excellent picture, however,

would be reasonable to expert compliance with th< ir wishes, but the manipulators

of the plan to < all a special mea ling and endeavor to dictate to the N w York officials how the club should be run must have woefully misled other clubs to oh- | tain consent for the meeting. H looks j very much as if it wa* the linal effort, the ■ forlorn hope in the effort lo down Mr. j Freedman, who went Into the league in ; a minority of one. and has succeeded in getting one cluh alter another to side with | him. until New York is to day a leading club in legislation, as well as financially. The alleged prosperous days of base ball in this city were when the club were bankrupt and a hurry c*n was issued for a meeting, fit which tin hat was passed around to save exposure There has been nene of that lusinc^' sine* th • pres, nt mP.i.agemont went into pewer The club

which will cause an almost endless amount of discussion. It is of one moment in tin* fourteenth round following the knockout blow. As it is described by one of the men who have been privileged to see the developed negatives it shows Corbett collapsing, with one Knee upon the floor, his hands down. Fitzsimmons bending over him. and his right glove in conjunction with the point of

Corbett's chin.

This negative is said lo be one of the clearest in the* scries, and lias been examined wiiii gnat interest by William A. Brady, manager for ihe defeated combatant. He is said to have spent two hours carefully examining with a high power class the scries following the

knockout blow.

The verascope is owned by noeh Rector. Dan Stuart. Warren Wheelock. Will-

me.st tn<1 ustrtou* in »!»posln« NV» V..ik ! Brady nirl Jami < .1 Cmhiit Tiro *'' ' " rod mod morn | olovirc \v:r- built under the direction " i tala ties this year than possibly .ill Ihe I Rector, who h .1 civil engineer.

Usually the long strips of film arc fed to the cameras by electric motors regulated to carry sufficient film past the lens for twenty-four pictures per second. Rector substituted a crank tinned by a man,

film in eonse-

other clubs in the league

“Even after the special meeting was adjourned on the first night, it was said by the ever ready spenkeis of the league that they would see that New York sub*

mil tod to the rmiiorlty. One i lull could | y^'d tiio d«iiv..ry (if Ihe Bland nut against eleven the lull could ' q ,| ai . k( .j regularity gO* They were right. I This led to serious def^cls In the spactl 1 * tall coult wag the dog Which j lnR between pictures, which will cause v I whli'.idoK to bcBln with mat- |luBhp|1 of „ Kll , to nprM , ar whcn the ters little, but after Mr l reed man had | ,„ ri ,. ar „ in , l„ lantern (nr the

screen. The standard space between pictures is 1-tJI of an inch; the spacing of i the (’arson City pictures varies from 1-fit j to %. As the pictures are enlarged 200 J times the normal space of inches is ; exaggerated in many instances lo ‘J feet 1 inch—from a scarcely observable Intor- ! niption to a painful break in the contiuu-

j ily of the series.

Three camera?: were used at the ringside in series, not simullaiicously. The reels were freshly painted the day before the fight and the paint was not dry when the j film was put on them. In consequence ! Ihe film is splashed with paint along its 1 edges, arid In some instances across its face. Some negatives were so had that they had to be clipped out and the film ends cemented together This breaks the continuity of the pictures so that import-

ant details are lost.

The taking of pictures began with the camera at the extreme rigid of the arena. The space in front was kept cleat of spectators bv tailings and police, but a few favored persons got in then*—among them Dau Stuart. For seven minutes his derby hat obstructed tin* entire period of the first two rounds—so that Ihe first thousand feet of film bear only pictures of that hat with a penumbra of ringside incidents. Then Stimt moved out of the camera's field, and the taking of pictures

of Ihe light began

The sixth round is obscured in impor tant parts by a log of smoke from the cigars of tin- favored few inside the rails The following rounds are fair down to the fourteenth and last, where the* spacing is at its uorst Efforts have been made to cure this, but with indifferent success 'rite field of the camera, which took Ihe final kinetographs. did not include the space near the ropes, into which Corbett crawled with the hope that he might pull himself up and fare Fitzsimmons before he was counted out The pictures show him painfully crawling out of the camera's field and at the en I his bead, arms

Freed man

stated New York’s position with regard ♦/) Rusie lie had eight i upporters. and the ' tail of two resembled nothing so much as

the bulldog twist.” Itrittc Hull Hrevltlc*

Clevrlnnd will farm I’appaluu ami Powell to

ColumbM-

Bud Hally, fighter-umpire, will be in the

Yk’estrm Irugw

Roaring Rill Hassamer i« stilt In St 1 .onIs Watting for the airship to lift him into a j«»t» Scrappy Joyce ruya ho would not trade Jak* BeckU > for any in i t ba tern.in In In

barring ni ne

At Maul signed n Washington contra't on Batwria\ The lei ms of the «J« iiaienl are

strictly r-rbato

The Minneapolis team wishes to secure Mc-

r '

ffSoc lor him lint no sale 1 probahle Bocl 1 ■ la *1 woftder He will no doubt give the league spot tutors some sutpii Fits

Ciiimtm H ** handles liin

iind l. i r, t trm k his

like yet.

veil ea 'i

ilay wi Ibis \ * a r lit* found lu* •••till! t make h ' m frel" with a lutse l>:.ll t* am, " hr* 1- noe. making barrels for his tut hot lie is a rn Manager Tommy Dowd, of ili<* St. Douls team. I at Kr|e living to Induce l.» 1- Bi.r bauer to chang * Ins mind al "it t> tiring Inun the diamond Manager Dowd mav he j c-$s-ful If a money consideration is held o-jt. Btehl. of the Boston *enni. is one of twentvone d.ddrcn. of whom sesentreu, luel-ah. g •even nous, are living Stahl ranks uiimh. r edght In that oigaui/.ution Stahl or* * tie* best ect f'eldr rs on tlir* Beanea>lei s' nie* Jack Carrev has a hanl row to hoe to Kansas nt\ The\ xf»< el t im tr land th** pen rant If ho does not keep up tn ihe lir t division he can expert m illing hut mm t*" They are boglnnirg to ‘ iap him a litti-- al-

ready

Uncle Ar.son has become fascinated with the position helm,d ti. let It Wuul l n ,* |.- surprising t" Se.* Ihe Fii.awmv (i-U ping that position M'gular He.- 1 u,. Dim'kt sta\ Ing sti*ying at In 1 Tin w i!,l in *i 1 e ihe batting strength of the c..lts oonshJei,it)lv Preshlent Holtus ha< m assin in - th at lie will !*• ah!** tn i4"t llnhn the Phi* 1 lelntmi •hortstop, .is Pln-burg will n t presv 11 - Haim Hulen will make the p.isttlon ««t short field strong. ar.<l will hav- Pariu I.otlwi.-n and Babb to fight tor th* th I l < p. 1 1 j. 1

“Tom" Getrins- , right flehle, on the Grand I ^ Vi* r;*" '1* ‘V.', i;'*'"!* 1 wi 1 appt , 1 * the national board I ‘ shoulders it* out nt the turo only

appei

before he will :n - • pt tie* renditions of a Ha h* Whereby hr is transferred to Newark 11** signed t** play with Giumi ftupids at reduced ■alary, which wouM Iield good tn Nev ark. Sam Gillen has not yet 1 en invited to put on a wreath h> the rjuaker tans Ind-*e*l.

his legs and trunk showing.

I* i U h 1 i 11 tt Vote*.

“Tom Sharkey talks enough to be a rhnm-

. .....o, ...v.ttc.., . Plnn." sagelv remarks a Buffalo exchange

Herat e I * u*l pla\ .1 -u! • 1 'Vein I • t> tt * I Pr'dlar Palmer Intend- 1 re 'ing until next fall, dead mat* I: by predhtirm it is sale t** a / j when he mav p *ssihlv light S<illv Srnllh. 1 ' ‘ »<•- (Tiurlry Mllrhrll haa wrlllrn a I.-ii.t to lh» janepi ' M-a will Ue |,Iu)Iti|{ ahorlxtop let th« , S|v,rllM K l.if,- „iuun« lhal a pre-

* part-d 10 Itahi M.-Cu)

• of hat ln« tha | Ti.ntmj v hue ih ■ Chi m

flame I rude pr* t!xed his patronyinieal | a rhallenge to meet any 120 |)ou?ui man in the

utH) to |fi.(N)0

Kid McCoy declares that if Tommy I;,van Is anxious to meet him he will live him a

boxer, has Issued

- ,,,B u"*»v»n.» tin*.m ■ a ctTiiiienge to iueei onv )2ti-pot

f 0 * r L‘ 4 . U ''. ' : " 1 ' " lr ' •"* «•• •!•! ■ ' >tn. iino,1 hi from $1 t

height ot ' i ' n "te hiding the latest style ©f kid gloves, ami n • , u quite a dash

•• ;■ „. \

Eddie Connolly s Boston friends are very

California clubs have begun to secede from the Amateur Athletic union. The Olympic club, the largest and most powerful in the far West, has withdrawn, and similar action, it is expected, will he taken by Falifornia and Hanford universities and the R dianee Club of Oakl t id, at on early day. The wrangle oxer the Olympic-Butte toot ball game is tie direct cause of the Olympic's secession. It is proposed to organize a state association, which will affiliate with similar organizations which it is expected * will be formed In other Western states. -f- -r- -fIt is said that picked athletes from the Stanford university will compete at the I great military carnival at me Chicago t'oliseum in May. The ti n k team of the University ot Michigan will take rart in the carnival, as also will a record team 1 from the Center College of Kentucky. '■4- + A dispatch from Champaign. III., says that on April ifi Manager Walkers, of | the University of Illinois foot oall team. 1 signed a contract with the Carlisle Indians providing for a game to be played in Chicago on Nov. lin. the Saturday before Thanksgiving. The game will not he played under the auspices of outside management Although the financial arrangements are not yet fully settled, It is generally expected that .he tw'o teams wifi divide the the gate receipts, afte. allowing a certain sum for expenses. -f- -T- -7R. Edgren. the college nammer-thrower of the Pacific coast, is about to tak*» up his residence in New York city, and will join one of the prominent athletic clubs, it is reported. With Flanagan. Mitchel and Edgren in this vicinity, hammerthrowing contests this var hould be pat t'cului ly interesting. It is said that James Hnthrop. Ihe Har\ai 1 trainer, has no loss than forty men who can run a quarter-mile in Hollister. I ;iidrop's halt-mile runner, will try again for the half-mile this year, and unh ss Burke decides lo eomp a ;o in the half, it look- though ilollis.er would have an easy thing of it. HHEELKt *S \\ KITING. Tough Sforx Xhoiit the Ecccntrie Old Editor » < li i rog rn ph > . There was onlv on** printer who could read Greeley's writirn; well enough to put it in type. I to used to boast that he could read the great editor's won Irons scraw l a mile away, says Hu* Journal of Education. One night the boys tn the Tribune composIrg room "put up a job" on the old man. They took two roosters. made them walk around on a newly Inked for rnnnd then run nil over ten sheets of copy paper. The foreman wrote over It In Greeley's well known scrawl, “The Plain Duty of Congress” and put it on old nyin Lawton’s hook. ] think his name was Lawton, but if it was not it does not matter much. The old printer picked it up. swore a little, remarked that the\ had to shove the stuff mi the old man. as usual, adjusted his special i i and begn n st U king type The other printers watched him for a few minutes, hut beyond a muttered oath or two lie gave no sign. l.awton want on setting type until about half way throu&h the “copy." Then he was stuck. Be took the copy over to the foreman and asked ■Jack, what is that word " “I don't know. " replied Ihe foreman. "You know I never could read the stuff.' Lawton took the -heH down to Greeley and pointed out to him a parth ularlv av/Cul scrawl of tin* rooster's loot. asking what word that

was.

Greeley looked at it a moment and replied, with a frown: ■■ ’Unconstitutional.* of course." Lawton went back to the fOmposinR room and finished his task with the utmost sang

I roid.

The old man never knew how the “copy**

was produced.

!\unicM of Dishes.

New York Sun 'i he practice of conferring m-w names upon dishes of long established lame has assumed fuK h.il pr *,• >rti ms. This « UMlnm is peculiar to the United States and Gieul Britain. Classical dishes or sauces known under a sp ■citic and appropriate title are frequently made to masquerade In a disguise suggested l»> the momentary whim of the cook or maker of the menu. Dr. Thudl-c-urn, in 'l lie Spirit of Gjokery. gives the proper designations of dishes, each significant of hs oiigln or ciualily A I Anglalse means i bat il is roasted or boiled In the plainest manlier, "i prepared in .1 form pecullai t" that country wiilio.it necessarily being plain. A Mtulicnue indicates that a dish is garnished w.th suvmy inac:ir**ni or ravioli, or lhal I’arma i.lacse is use cl as an ingrediott A ia provenc ale is a di-h ti nt is < 00Red In olive oil and fiaxored with ga he \ Sa Po'lgord is applied to < ne in which tiunies at * largely used, a la Nc-rmande to a fish ragout or to one tn which apples* entei as an ingredient; a la Dauphin* cim• to one braised, covered w ith a thick cause, rolled in bread crumbs, and fried; a la Bourgmguotte tn *n** ciinkccl with the addition of red wine while a la Bordelaise means one pared with white wine. Those titles w should Ih* specially retained are a ia jardin a typical collection of cooked vegetables in soups, ragouts and removes; a la prtntar one of cooked early vegetables with a, s what wider application. A lu macedoine is applied tn green vegetables in white sauce; also t" a salad made of a variety of cooked vegetables or fruits. A la faitre d'holel gererally signifies >1 dish prepared in a homely manner or to a sauce of melted butter. A la SOUblse is generally applied to dishes which contain onions in quantity or are largely garnished or fiaxored with them. A lu t’recy is similarly connected with carrots. 1 articulnrly tn the torm of putee. A r.\lleniunde is In allusion to tiermen provincial peculiarities of the preparation of feed, to Banishes of sauerkrri't. or a sweet sauce nf verii-on A ia polomiue is employed where beets or red cahnages ate used, as in Hie Iona I el i‘h railed borsch. A la (’hippo is applied to dishes which contain strong

rections of Hathm

Regarding th* Kusi- matter, Jim Hart, of

V i < ,n 1 • idlly see

egai

the < hi * 1 'fill,. aid Low hummiis 1 am lor a

mipromiso when you

remernb* 1 that all Itusl** hid to do was to throw h - ■ nlrt into tin* diamond when (.laving ■KainH Chi* ago and w»• were beaten This

fight must Ih* •.•ttfi,J

Every ball club has to have a name Some- ■ , , , . .

I nomra I, I f?' 1 * 4 " r,,r : lhe »'••'•'* " k - P 1 **™ <1 >**•*'«

■ves t b»* G' Id Bugs I < -1

iind i, w It

>*1 > iobo'

invent new names It •Mr for Grand alt phis

11

links

rosed

the nam,* - ' .'«* i t,*** m •• ih n:.me- of the two own, i • hi l. d. Tin- ;i little lar-

Cetche*!. but it K<,e- Ml Gr md Hafrlds Am tit tin i i\ that I .1ball players are

feet ton a * ! i.'rt* - ot g! ••■im ■ . Manager liatil* n -ays he bcli"\* - it wc. 1 "uk**.’ s*i

far as his 1 wn plaxors w**r*- concerned, tie said

confident that lie will beat Kid Luvigne when they roine together next month, and ate wag

ering $Kimi to $1 immi on his chances

Arthur Lwrnley has cabled tn England that Kid M< Part land w ill meet Dick Burge before the National Sporting Flub of London lor SU.Viu a sid“ un*l the? amo purs»* Lavigne

ingl '

Derby week

Billy Madden, manager of Steve O'Donnell, has made arrangements whereby his man will ho matched for twentv rounds with either .1 J Jeffries or Alex Greggains. Hie contest to come off In San Framtsiu some time in June,

for a purse of $2.f>O0

Hilly Smith has Issued a challenge to fight Geoige Green for the welterweight chiimi

K,> ( 'ie**n tor tin* xx iterwelgtit chaminon fie km xx »f none of th*in who had gii**van"es I * be world Billx says that 11 Gre**f

“'** ‘ * leas

playm

lion.

w»*re disKntiHfh d. The Baltimore tfer.y l;nux\ b dg** . d ■ u, b an « rgani/at

STin* 'hi ag< T'rn*" Ibiald ••-ctlrnat*'- the |n-

r •

lows ' Ideagc 12 pa r cent Glnclntiai, 20 per cent. Boston. L‘> per ru J'ut-hiirg 8 per cent: Brooklyn. 2" per cent; Phllu l-lphia. :ir> cent: New York. 2 per cent; Louisville, 1 per cent; St. Louis, no estimate made it edicts the following finish Baltimore. Gin-

cinnati. Boston. < bxeland, Ghlcagn Fhlladel■hla Pittsburg ington, Nc*xx Y< rk and St J^ouis. Joyce has made the announcement that every New York player will be* In the breakfast room of the hotel at * o'clock while on the road this >ar “Then,” said he, "when II o'clock, night, comes they'll be ready to go to bed without urging That old system which some of them practiced in former seasons of getting up to breakfast at 11 o'clock and eating a lun< h two hours later, wll not 'go' with m** We're not in it for our ideas.ire this year, but ur» out f 1 the Temple Cun. anyhow If we fail o* get there no one will be able to say that we lost by lafilness or fiMloatian "

epts ihe date* must he at least two months j off. as otherwise his arm would not be strong

enough to stand the strain

I Joe Goddard writes from South Africa ihM j he will meet Peter Maher in England and give him another chance, or he will come to America He writes that he was robbed out of a big stake tn his fight with Mick Dooley Be ! cause the latter was not able to fight the bout j was dcr hired “no contest" by Hie committee.

A <1 un I §«•■.

An oarsman who once was champion think'* that the National Association or Amateur Oarsmen should return 10 Its old method of straight-away races. Races with a turn that have been held for several years have not been successful. The sugg stlon was made to Fred Fortmeyer. I resident of the national association, that his association adopt the Henley distance (one mile and five-sixteenths). It is believed that such a step would raise the standard of American oarsmanshlo won-

rational dish «.ille! borsch A la Chlppolata I piled 10 dishes which contain strongly fiaxond Italian sausages or the mince with which th *>• ore fill <1 A la Flamande is a name given to dishes containing Brussels rproids. a I'Espngnole to those made savory wiiii the brown typical rnuHc, and a la Viennciae to thise typical of Viennese cookety. Opening of I Im* Big llriilgc, Lcgnlljr

lint Informally

West Superior. Wls.. Special. April 24.— The big I)uluth-Superior bridge was in a legal sense*, formally opened to-day, the last day under the company's charter when it could ho “completed." The mayor and common council of this city were present by invitation. The approach on the Duluth side being completed the aldermen w - re taken In carriages by the bridge company and driven across the structure. The procession was headed by a load of lumber and the end was brought up by an antiquated cart drawn by oxen. There will he a formal opening when the bridge is thrown open to traffic. Uapt. Joseph Kidd, of the American Steel Barge company, has resigned and will open an office as consulting marine engineer. Ever since Its organization, Uapt. Kidd has acted In the capacity of superintendent of the yards for the barge company and under his supervision all of the whalebacks and other vessels turned out here have been built.

Mod re 11 Fairy Tale*.

A party of vegetarians, while tak-

he fields, were attacked by a

Tit Bits: A part

tng a walk in the _ bullock, which chased them furiously out" of

his pasture.

“That's your gratitude. Ip It, you thanklom benst?" exclaimed one of the party, panting with fright After thl» I'll eat beef three

timei a day!”

IS SORRY FOR IT ALL.

PEOEBE COUSINS SAYS XVOMAN NEEDS NO •■RIGHTS.” Their ri.M-e I, at Home “Suffer Tittle Children to Come Cnto Me For of Such I. the Kingdom of Heaven”— Dying at St. I.ouU.

(St. Ixmis Lettetr.) HOEBE COUSINS, the first woman lawyer of America, the first woman to become a United States marshal, and for many years known over the length and bredth of the country as an ardent, uncompromising public advocate of woman's rights, is now seriously ill in this city. Disease has laid low the woman whose stalwart will carried her through a successful career in the face of opposition and obstacles of every sort. Few careers have been more romantic. A beautiful girl, she was besieged with admirers, and might have made many brilliant marriages. At one time a vice president of the United States and two United States senators sought her hand. But she disdained all offers. She had her mission to fulfill, and inexorably pursued it until misfortune and illness finally showed her the fallacy of her course. For Phoebe Cousins now believes that she has been mistaken all her life, and that the true aim of womanhood is not civil equality with man. but home and motherhood. Her parents were originally from the East. Her father, who was among the most prominent Unionists of St. Louis, received the appointment of chief of police and provost marshal of the city during the war. Her mother was the head of the St. Louis branch of the sanitary commission, and had charge of the city hospitals. As a girl Phoebe Cousins was as brilliant as she was beautiful. She very early showed her disinclination, or rather her contempt, for social life. For several years she was the belle of St. Louis. But none of her admirers could make headway with her. It was her favorite theme that women had a higher mission in life, than marriage. When it was known that Phoebe Cousins had entered the law department of the XX'ashington University there was no surprise. St. Louis had become fully acquainted with her bent. Her friends knew that her years of reigning bellehood had been from her point of view most unprofitable, and that from them she had derived but moderate pleasure. Her beauty had won many admirers and suitors quite as many, but so plainly did she show her preference for men of years and wisdom that one by one they left her side. Miss Phoebe did not appear to even notice their desertion. She was in the zenith of her beauty then, tall, r,lender, supple, with delicate patrician features, brilliant black eyes and raven hair. Her complexion was olive, with a rich shifting crimson in her cheeks. Then, as until extreme adversity overtook her, she was noted for the tasteful elegance of her dress. She lacked something of the softness of manner of most Southern women. More in evidence was a certain self-assertiveness, tempered by good breeding. She secured entrance into the law department with some difficulty, was graduated from it with honor, and then began the career which, so far as human insight goes, is nearly at an end. She made a few strong woman suffrage speeches one at a Presbyterian Sunday school convention In Jefferson city, where she startled her staid audience by asserting that “Paul’s words to women amounted to nothing, for Paul was simply a crusty old bachelor, with no authority to lay commands upon womankind," and another at the banquet of the Mercantile Library Association. where she was toasted as “our own Phoebe Cousins.” Then she spread her ambitious wings and flew away to Washington. There

MISS PHOEBE COUSIN’S. she was entertained by prominent famille.-, and lectured before various auditucis on the cause she had espoused. She became a protege of Susan B. Anthony. and the little circle of agitators hoped much from this promising addition to their number. Young, handsome. talented, she would reach the ears of many who cared not to listen to the equally earnest but less favored. She was as logical as any of them; she wrote gracefully and forcibly, and If her manner on the platform was a little forced, that would wear away in time. Men high in the councils of the nation were curious about the brilliant young woman from St. Louis, and then became her slaves. During one winter XTce President Wilson was a frequent caller. So also were a senator and congressman. ‘‘Phoebe,” her hostess often said, "do decide which of these gentlemen you prefer, and let him have a hint of your preference. All of this game Is anxj lous to be bagged.” But Phoebe never decided. Instead she bored the magi nates with- long, argumentative conver-

sations on "advancement" and the “elevation of humanity." Affection is a tender plant, and cannot withstand the frosts of Indifference. It was but natural that this distinguished trio, severally and collectively, relinquished its suit. Then came bluff, ruddy Senator Fair, with his millions and his quaint idioms. He sauntered into a meeting of women suffragists while the young woman from Missouri was speaking. He noted her bright eyes and brilliant complexion, her trim, slender figure and handsome gown, and before he retired that night wrote a check hearing her name. The next morning it was brought to her while she was sipping her coffee. It was for $jO. There was no word of explanation. She enclosed it in a note, thanking him for his kindness, but saying she did not think it proper to accept it. It came back by return post. “Don't be foolish,” he wrote. ‘‘Keep the money and get a new spring bonnet with it.” Miss Cousins continued lecturing in behalf of her sex, winning fame if not dollars. XX’hen the receipts from her lectures were not equal to her needs, there was always a reserve fund to draw upon at the later family home, in XVashington, and she drew upon It without stint, for the luxurious tastes developed by the circumstances of her early life were never lost. When J. D. Cousins became United States marshal he appointed his daughter deputy. She returned to St. I/ouis and assumed her duties in her father’s office. Hers were chiefly clerical duties, but they enabled her to gain an insight into the requirements of the official life of her chief, and when her father died she was appointed to fill the vacancy during the unexplred term. She did this satisfactorily, although she limited her efforts to office supervision of the labors of the depu.

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ties. When her term ended she made a vigorous attempt to secure reappointment. but failed. One wintry morning during her brief stay in the Mormon capital Miss Cousins told me her story. “I was engaged to Senator Fair,” she I said, “and I loved him. He came to me in Chicago and asked me to be his wife. XX’e were to have been married there soon. He was summoned to California on business, and left promising to return for me soon. I never heard from him again, and here is the notice of bis death.” “It's all a mistake,” wrote Miss Cousins. from California, to a St. Louis friend. “Don't, dear friend, try to reform the world. It doesn't want to be reformed. Live quietly and happily in your home. It was so decreed for women. I believe they should all be pensioned, and that bachelors should be taxed to provide their pension.” “Do you remember where we met, Mis Phoebe?” asked one of the visitors to her bedside the other day. It was the venerable Judge Seymour D. Thompson. “No, Judge,” said Miss Cousins, as she lifted her hand above the coverlet. “It was on a train en route to Chicago from St. Louis. Y’ou were talking of the mission of woman. I had the temerity to say, ‘The mission of woman is motherhood.' Y’ou disdained to reply except by a scornful flash of your blight eyes, which awed and silenced me.” “You were right, Judge,” she said. “The last time I listened to a Sunday school exercise I learned that. The Pupils were repeating the golden text, ‘Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.’ I knew then that this philosophy of yours was right and that mine was wrong, for I realized that no little children could ever come unto me, and I am not ashamed to say that I wept at the thought."

Character from llatul Clanpn. The latest fad of fashionable people is telling the character by clasped hands. A clasped hands character specialist says that this means of reading character is easier ( and more correct than all other ways. "A woman,” he says, “who is frivolous will clasp her hands together with the first linger of the right hand between the thumb and first finger of the left, but the first finger of the right hand lies between the second and third on the left when constancy prevails. Those people who place two fingers of one hand between the thumb and fingers of the other are deceitful, and not to be trusted.” It is said that in a married couple the one who in clasping hands and Interlacing fingers brings the right thumb nearest the body, with the right fingers correspondingly placed in relation to the left fingers, will be the dominant member of that couple.— Odds.

A ‘‘bicycle wedding” was recently witnessed in London. The bridal couple rode on a tandem to the church, and they were followed by the guests twenty-four of them on twelve tandems, and sixteen on single bicycles.

Maurice Grau said on Wednesday thai Mme. Melba had promised him to make no contracts before he saw her In Fans during the coming summer: mvertheless he believes that she has agreed to become a member of Walter Damroseh s company, says the New York Sun. Her introduction to the public was due to Air. Grau and Henry 1C. Abbey, and tor some time during her first season here she drew a large salary, although the audiences that gathered to hear her were pitifully small and apathetic. Within recent years she has been one of the most popular singers in the company. Merely as regards business arrangements the prima donna is nt liberty to do what she chooses. A keen appreciation of past favors has never b-en considered a striking characteristic of Ihe artistic temperament, so Mme. Melba in deserting Mr. Grau at a critical moment is guilty of no particular breach ol operatic ethics. She is one of the singers who have reason to know that all the money in the United States is not in New York. Her concert tours through the country have been highly profitable and she has for that reason a very kindly feeling toward a much larger section of the Hnlti d States than the heart of the foreign artist is usually supposed to embrace. Under the able direction of Charles Kills, Mme. Melba's tours have invariably earned a small fortune for her. and tor several seasons Mr. Kills has practically been her manager rather than Mr. Grau. The Damrosch-Kllis combine Is looked upon as a very powerful one. and by the engagement of Mjne. Melba the younger impressario puts himself into direct rivalry with Air. Grau. If Mr. Damrosch does not engage Mme. Lehmann he will most probably secure Mme. Nordlca for the dramatic roles. His company will still have to be Improved and strengthened. and. above all, there must be a better supply of scene'y provided. The last series he gave were, in the general quality of the performances, was in no respect to be compared with the produc- < lions of the regular season. The houses j were not often large, and even with th“ 1 difficulties wfh which lie had to contend ' it cannot he said that the productions I were at all of the class usual In the regu- i lar season But with the engagement of Mme. M'llia Mr. Damrosch has shown an Intciiti >n to go in for the most famous i singers of the operatic stage, and lie Is ! therefore a factor to be considered in New York'* future seasons of opera. -t- "f- -rIt is a tnounccd that the Bostonians will present “The Sere i tde" it. London next j season. They have already sold the French rights to I’oi Planeon, who. it is said, will i>r.)d*i •<? the oi cretta in France. Miss Alice Neilson. the young prima donna who has made a decided hit in the piece, will study under the direction of Marches! in Paris this summer Miss Neilson alternates with Miss Hilda Clark in the role of Yoonne. —sThe announcement of the marriage of Miss Sophie Traubmann, of the Metropolitan Opera company, to t’harlcs Potzowsky. a member of the firm of Meyer, Jonasson & Co., has caused much surprise in theatrical and musical circles. The couple w**re m i t ried Monday, Fefr. ir». by Justice Wuuhope Lynn, in New York. -r* -r* *4The feet that .rand open Is a luxury that ho public does not crave sutliriently to support lias been demonstrated over and over again, says the Mirror. Its contlnuance at the Metropolitan depends solely upon the willingrcss of a few wealthy men to put their hands into their pockets. The outcome of the rc 'ont operatic Ironlies is another d'-aI. The Metropolitan is to be leased from .luce 1 for three years, nt an annual rental of Z.V.’.OOO. to a new company, of which Mr Oran is to bo the manager. Several men have subscribed various sums toward litis new company, but the headway made thus far is not gnat. There will be no opera tinder Mr. Gran's management next winter, but there may be a short German opera season. Mcanwl ile the new company will have time to pet on Its feet and prepare for a vigorous campaign in 18'.)S-!l!t. *4- -H -fMinnie Ilattk. who was one of the passengers on the Furst Bismarck on the Oriental excursion, sang at Cairo during the ship's stay at Alexandri t. The Kgyptian papers pronounce her concert the leading artistic and fashionable event of the season. The programme contained songs of Schumann. Brahms, Wagner and. of course, by desfre, the "Habanna” from "Carmen.” and Minnie Hank had to repeat every number. At another concert given by iter on board the ship for the bet efit of the sailors' fi nd, a silver lattiel wreath was presented to her by the passengers. -t- -t- -tAt his recent historic concert In I,on- ! don. given to illustrate the development j of the overture, Felix'Mottl conducted th ■ follow tug-ten overtures: Handels "Agrippina." Gluck’s "tphigenia In Aulldo," Mozart's “Magic Flute.' Beethoven's "le onora" No. it. Weber’s “Frpischutz, Men- i dcissohn's “Hebrides." Berlioz's “King Lear.' and Wagner's "Dutchman.” “Tannheuser," and "Mcistersinger" overtures. -J— -f- -4A marble bust of the late Hans von Bulow. so closely associated with the musical life of Hamburg, was unveiled In file foyer of the Studt theater on Kel). Li, the anniversary of the death of the artist, the ceremony including the performance of the funeral dirge from "Gotterdammerung," under the direction of Herr Mahler. The bust, modelled bv the sculptor Hermann liars, is the gift of a distinguished amateur, Dr. H. Beltn. "T* -4- -fFrau Sehroedcr-Hanfstaengl, the wellknown prima donna, formerly of the Baris theater Lyrlque, and for the last fifteen years the leading soprano at the Sladt theatep at Frankfurt, has Just retired from the operatic stage. The lady, who was one of the most distinguished pupils ot Madame Viradot-Cnrcia, will, however continue lo exercise her profession us a teacluM’. ■4- •+■ -fGoldmark's “Queen of Sheba" recentlr ' had its hundred performances at Buda- i pest. There was a most enthusiastic au- I d ence: the composer, a Hungarian by I until, was pn.su.t and was made the* r**« ipient of a scrie s of ovations on the part of hb. countrymen. Herr Krkel con<1 i i< -1it. I

his o’- ii. with music by Dave Brabant, called "Sergeant Hickey." ■4- -4Mrs. John Drew, the mother of John and Sidney Drew, will do a thirty minute version of "The Rivals" In the* vaudeville houses. The hketch has been arranged so us to introduce nearly all the* Rood lines which Mrs. Mala prop lias in the play. Mrs. Drew has been on the stag** since 182(1. making her first appearance at the age of six years. —v- **4- ~4— Holy xveek has been a long series of mystery plays at the various thc*aters. all more or less mere paraphrases of the scenes of the Passion. or incidents either fictitious or historical taken from the life of Christ, says a Paris letter.

-4- -+- -4Most dop!Daily impressive was “La Snmaritaine.'" produced for the first time on Maundy Thursday at the Renaissance, with Sarah Bernhard in tin* principal role. Edmond Rostand. the author of the work, has made a singularly artistic* play out of the story of the woman of Samaria, but the dreamy charm of the work itself was only an effective bac’kground for Mme. Bernhardt's talent. She surrounded her role with un atmosphere of poetry that even she lias not surpassed,while the staging of the work was exquisite. Janies S Mafilt died Friday nt his 'arm in Maryland, not far from Baltimore, nt ihe ad van***! age ..f seventy-two. Mr. Mafflt was one of the old-fashioned race of pantomimeists ami hud appeared in nearly every great pantomimic production on the American stage during th* past quarter of a century. In the minds of the present generation of playgoers, hoxvever. Mr Mafilt is Identified with hut onrole that of the Lone* Fisherman in “Evangeline." which he enacted during a number of seasons in nearly every great city in tha Union. -4- -f- -4Yernona Jarheac is making preparations for a starring tour in a nsw musk .ti comedy next season under the direction of 11 R. .Ia jhs. T M. Barrie’s dramatization of “The Little Minister" will be seen at the London Haymarket theater soon. Tic* annual tour of Ada Behai and Augustin Daly’s stock company will com me nee this week at Philadelphia Boston and Ghioago will b** visited. The English tour Is ann.iinc*! to )egin at Stratford-on-Avon, on Aug. 27, when As You Like It" will be presented. In the eight weeks then 'ollowing appearances will he n ade at Manchester, Liverpool, Nexvcastl *, Edinburgh. Glt-goxv and the Grind theater. Islington. London. The repertoire used will include “The Last Word," “Live on Crutches.'' Twelfth Night” and “As You Like It." The next NVxv York season will open in December, after a Southern tour. -4- *4— -4A It hough Kathryn Kidder ha*- bought Augustus Pi.‘oil's interest In “Madame Sa-is Gone*,'’ it is probable that she will engage another actress to appear in the titi- 1 part next season. Marion Abbott Is mentioned for this position. Miss Abbott was formerly in \V. H. Crane's company, and also attracte*d favorable attention in “My Friend From India." -4- -4— *4— Ji soph Jefferson said to an Interviewer at Richmond. Va.: “I never expect to retire from the stage. As long as the American people want to see me. they can have mo." Mr. .]*• ferson will deliver au address on “The Drama" befere the members of the Union League club in th.ls city this (Tuesday) evening. -4- -f- -4Nell Burgess, who presented “The County Fair" at the Brixton theater. Lond-Mi, on April 12. cabled to Edwin II. Low. "Big hit. Papers divided " -T- -4- -!— Auguste Van Blene ailed last Wednesday for England. After a summer provincial to-ir in "The Broken Melody” he will return to America in September to present “The German Bandmaster," a nexv comedy written fer him by Clay M. Greene. Arthur Lewis, xvho is the brother of Julia Arthur, and from whom the actress took the name of Arthur, her ‘stage pseudonym, has cabled Napier Lothian of his arrival in London last week, whither he has gone to confer v ith Ills sister regarding the forthcoming production of “A Lady of Quality, ' by Mrs. Burnett. The attraction will be under Mr. Lewis* M anagement. Fro'l_*iick De B*llevl!le will originate the role of Duke Osmond in “A Lady of Quality.” -5- -4- *4— “Baroness" Bln no has now been booked to appear lu vaudeville. She will be sothi in a little sketch by Fred Solomon, entitled "Tha Debutante," enacting a young widow, a Japanese maiden and a circus girl. George H. Forteseue, of “Evangeline" fame. Is having i vaudeville sketch written ariunl him. Although his sketch is to lust but twenty minutes, in order to accommodate his personality it will have to he over six yards in circumference. It is to be called “The (Till From Hoboken.” and Waller Howe, a young Australian actor, is to play the role of the villain from Nexv York. *4- -4- — Joseph Herbert will go to Daly’s theater winter in th** place of Edwin Stevens, ns a possible successor of the late Janies Lewis. -4- -5- -4— Isabelle T’rquhart. who began at Daly's years ago with Isabel Evesson and H**len Bancroft, is going to act at the “continuous" th*‘;iters.

*4- -4- - ? ^Sarah Bernhardt will not play the usual French version • f “Hamlet." but will have a nexv arrangement made for her use next winter. -4- -f- -4A Ilounianiar theater 1ms already produced a play called “The War in Crete,’’ and the result wav a licit in the house that brought about a prohibition of the play.

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Mjiil Box Stiifllna « Waste of Pnpor, Ink a n cl Stamps. Chicago Chronicle: A word with the advertiser who stuffs the mall boxes of houses and apartment buildinss full of printed mutte'r. It doesn't pay. Tt repels trade instead of attracting it. The householder or the flatholdcr who sees through the glass darkly what appears to he a mail letter and opens his box only to find an eulogium of Smith’s soap, or Jones' baking powder, or Robinson’s $:! pants. Is absolutely certain to pass Smith. Jones or Robinson by when he is In need of soap or baking powder or pants. He has been fool* d. and it is only hum.in nature that he should "get even" it' he can. As for the brigand who not only stuffs his circular Into the* mail box. but rings th<* bell to attract attention to it retribution is coming his way in seven-league boots. It will take the form of a muscular servant girl, goaded into active hostility by fruitless tramps down four flights of stairs in response to a fraudulent postman's ring and armed with a broom or a kettle of hot water as an expression of resentment. The mail-box advertiser will do well to leave opr his nefarious practices. He is defeating his own object and Is courting reprisals. The mail box is provocative of enough worriment without being made the targe t for obtuse persons who don't know enough to advertise in the proper way — that is to say. in the newspapers.

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■4— -4- -fHans Richter was the recipient of numerous felicitations on the occasion of his conducting his two hundredth concert of the' Viennese Philharmonic society, on Teh. Ji, when a banquet was also given In his honor. Th** latrst and perhaps the most important eeptur** for the xaucievllle ranks t- Edward /iarrlgan, whom Robert Grau has Induced to piuy a season of eight we*ks in m sketch of

London Tit-Bits: A strolling player onee took refuge for a night in a village hostelry His boots were In the last stage of decay, and the landlady—a kindly, old-fashioned, soul—on viewing them, exclaimed to her guest: "Eh. but time’s an axvfu’ pair o’ bulls to gang wi’ this w’ather." "Madame*.’’ responded the broken down tragedian. drawing himself up to his full height, 'I have a soul above boota." "I ken naething aboot hoo mony soles ye bae abune yer bulls; a’ I ken is, ye hae nane ia beil<*-: them," was the reply.