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

THE DAILY BAXTER TIMEvS. GREENCASTLE. IXDIANA.

In th#» national league race Baltimore has kept steadily to the fore, and it looks as if the Orioles were »:»x>d lor a season of the work they have put up thus far The two surprises of the «**ason thus far have been the strong shewirg made by Louisville, and th»* losing :c* onl made by Anson and his Chicago Colts. llnse Hall !%otes. Mercer, of the Senat' rs in piti hinsr poorly so far. I-a^t year he won about fourteen out of his f.rst fifteen frames. The best coacher in the business this season Is saM to be Pitcher Johnson, of the Phillies Tom Ixjftus is tryinK hard to bolster up his pPching dciartment. and has claimed Kin.tall, rel-ased by VVaahlnRton Milwaukee is after Pitcher Ashe, let fr<> by the same club. There is a deal in slight by which Columbus may secure one of the pitchers now on Detroit's pay roll, but arranKcments have not been comjdeted as yet. Loftus is anxiously awaiting: th»- return of Moran, who is sick. There is a term in the vernacular of ball players which is comparatively unfamiliar to rooters, says the lietroit Free Press. It is a “high-sky and is regarded with terror by all who play the game. It refers to a clear, blue aky. unbroken by the white, fleet y clouds generally seen In fair weather With these clouds a? a background for the eyes of the players it Is an easy matter to Judge a ball. Without them it is difficult Yachting:. As n rosult of the movement which has for some time been fostered by large numbers of yachtsmen in this country and Canada, looking to the adoption of uniform rules of measurement and classi- • conference of yacht club representatives was held last week in New York. After more than three hours of desultory discussion. the advisability of forming a national union was resolved upon, and a committee was appointed to draw up a plan of organization, bylaws and racing rules. The committee, however, was not expected to deal with the much-debated question of a uniform system of measurement and classification. Altogether. U# clubs were represented at the ' onierence. After considerable discussion the following resolution was adopted: “That a committee of seven be appointed by • and to submit such plan to the different clubs and associations for their consideration. and then be reported back to the said committee, which shall, after due consideration, formulate a final plan of organization to be acted upon at a meeting to be called during October of the present year, the said final plan having first been submitted to the different clubs and organizations, so that they may invest their delegates with power as to the action or position they desire to take.’’ Another prolonged discussion then took place to decide whether in formulating a plan of organization this committee should also present recommendations as to a uniform classification and measurement, but as the majority of those present were of opinion that such a step at the outset would probably defeat the establishment of the i roposed national union, it was decided that the committee* thould confine its report to a plan of constitution and the compilation of racing rules. h—:—§There was more talk about a probable challenger for the America's cup again last week. Every time an English yachtsman gives an order for a yacht, it is said the new boat is to he a challenger. This time the merquis of Diiff**rin was the man credited with having aspirations for international yachting honors. He has however, put a stop to the rumors by denying that he is to challenge. There *eems to be a g mral opinion among yachtsmen in New York, though, that there* will be another race for the famous cup next yeir. The friction between the yachtsmen of the two countries caused by the trouble over Ixjrd Dunraven’s charges is being smoothed over, and those who have been on the other side and who have correspondence with British yachtsmen say that things are shaping themselves for another challenge. Sir George Newnes has said he will challenge, but ho is not a yachtsman, and the yachtsmen of the other side of the Atlantic say it would be foolish for an Inexperienced man to build a yacht and try to win the cup. Sir George could do as the prince of Wales and emperor of Germany do. though, if he wants to have a race—that is. let some yachtsman sail his yacht for him. Tw'o new* big yachts are now being built in England, one for an Italian nobleman and the other for Bir Charles Rose. If either of these should prove to be a fast one, fast enough to beat th< If el that a challenge may be sent. The Turf. Away back in the ’hOs, when Commodore N. W. Kittson had his string of horses at Midway, one of the pets sure to Was Little Brown Jug. This wonderful fx>n of Tom Hal, Jr., was a great favorite with the old commodore, says the Northwestern Horseman, whose ey« s used to glisten as h« would tell Ben Woodmunsee to have the little fellow’ hooked up for a spin on his track. Once a year the commodore would give a reception for his pets, and the elite of the Twin Cities would be invited to Midway to test the wine and see the best stable of gentleman's horses in the land, for the gallant old man would rather hear the plaudits of the ladies than win a bag of gold with his horses. Biackstone, Jr., the Centennial'prise winner. Von Armin, Fanny Witherspoon, Johnston, the king of the turf. Minnie K.. champion at pacing, trotting and running, and all the others were brought out and finally Little Brown Jug. the greatest pacing gelding ever born, with three heats averaging under 2:11% and 2:12^ Friends of the kind old gentleman who represented a school of horsemen fast disappearng will be glad to know that his favorite show horse has found a good home, for when the commodore died his stable was broken up When John Splan had the honest little gelding in Buffalo early in the ’80s there was great rivalry among the knights of the horshoe as to which one of th m should have the honor of attaching nineounce bits of na tal to Little Brown Jus's oiled and carefully pared hoofs. S. E. Bun* 11 got the job. and he never forgot Little Brown Tug. It was on the reputation gained in the contest on the Hartford track, where the* great record tf those* days was made that led to the sale of Little Brown Jug not long afterward for $30,000, H. V. Be mis of Chicago, widely known as the proprietor of the Hotel Richelieu, was the man who sold and the purchaser was Commodore Kittson*. When he died the gelding was sold to a horse man who failed in business and passed from one hand to another for nearly a decade. A few years ago some Jockeys got hold of the once famous pacer and began ringing him on Canadian tracks. Age had lessened Little Brown Jug’s speed to a great degree, and even In the easy classes the horse won little

money. So he was neglected and cast off. In a horse trade a few months ago Bunell struck the gelding and recognized the pacer at once. Little Brown Jug was lame then and had been shamefully mistreated. Bunell began to feed the little animal well and to care for it in other • Tr^Jhi and pretty as in the old days. Th«* pacer is a litle stiff in the joints, a trifle larger in girth and has a few gray hairs to show for twenty-tv^p years. The fin* is still there.for hfilf a block Bunell says the brown gelding can still o at any horse in Buffalo. Little Brown Jug was foaled in 1875 in Spring Hill. T* nn., and is a full brother of Brown Hall. It is said that the dam, Lizzie, was the mother of several mules and workhorses before her breeding was discovered. The , wonderful strength and lasting qualities that were in her may account for the staying qualities shown by Little Brown Jug in the twenty-second year of his age. *4- -4- -+- The Southern Minnesota Racing association, through its secretary, F. B. Lynch, St. James. Minn., announces that $4.nun will be given in purses at its June meetings. These begin at Blue Earth June l*i to 17. continuing at Winnebago June 23 to 24. 9t. James June 29 to 30, and conclude at New I’lm July 3 and 4. according to the secretary s dates, but inasmuch as the glorious Fourth comes on Sunday, it is probable that these dates are intended to be July 3 and 5. -f* -4- *4There is now a bright prospect for a few days' racing at the Minnehaha course during the first part of July as heretofore held on the fleet course. The meeting will probably open on Saturday. July 3d, and continue into the next week as both Saturday and Monday will be kent as holidays in the Twin Cities. A fairly good number of races for the medium ( lasses of speed will be given and thus provide a means for the local horses to get into condition and earn a little money at the same time. -4- -4- -4Robert T. Kneebs has returned home from Germany, having served out his time in a G* rman prison for “ringing the horse Bethel under the name of Nellie Kneebs. The fine of 1,U00 marks which was imposed on him was paid by his Sioux City friends. Kneebs was given unusual privileges in prison and returned home in good health. He is bitter against the German horsemen who were instrumental in sending him to prison, and still insists that he was not given a fair trial. He has about seventy-live young colts on his farm at Wakofii Id, Neb., and says that he will devote a year to training i them, when he will return to Germany j with a string of trotters and take away j some Lf the German purses. He says he : will be reinstated to the Apierlcan Trot* ' ting association, and. in fact, contends that he was not legally expelled, and i threatens to sue the Sioux City association for refusing to let him drive on the i track. ■4- -4- -4Kd Geprs has marked thirteen horses in 2:10 or better. Andy McDowell and John Dickerson are Med for second honors, i each having seven to their credit. Collette Attilctlod. The college base ball season is well under way. Last week Yale defeated the strong nine of Brown university which , has been playing with splendid dash, by ' a score of (J to 2. The same afternoon | Princeton defeated Cornell by the same score. Harvard played an exceedingly ! ragged game with Williams, winning on | the errors of the latter team by the score of IT to 1.”. This y» ar Yale’s teams have ‘ shown an uncertainty that has never be- 1 fore marked the organization of New Haven aggregations. The reports that come from New Haven indicate little good \ to the Yale crew, and this spirit of disaffection seems to be extending to the ball team. in spite of the defeat at Providence this week Harvard's chances for intercollegiate honors look bright. The team has been putting up a faster and steadier article of ball than has been shown by a nine wearing the crimson since the victorious season of IsiCi. The victories over the strong teams of Georgetown, the I'nlversitles of Virginia and of North Carolina, and the tie game with the Bostons, stamp the "Timers" as probably the most dangerous team on the coll* ge Held. The team has been playing well together and has the confidence of the undergraduate body. In contrast with th*- troubles of a few days ago. the work of the Yale crew tor the lust w* • k his bc« n rather encouraging. There his been some improvement, and th? or w as a whole seems to realize that a big brace must be taken right away if a winrr.g crew s to be turned cut. Mr. Cook now devotes all his attonton to the 'varsity crew, and the freshmen are being coached by Rodgers, 'US. who rowed No. 4 on the Hi t.ley crew. Otj Friday the water In the harbor was unusually smooth, and for the first tim • this year the crew covered the four-mile stretch. The time was kept secret, but it Is known that the result was not at all discreditable. I.nnglord has b? n at stroke regul trlv. ind as it Is eerta'n that Simpain will not go into training again, Rogers has b< « n much improved by his resting sp II. and Is now rowing at bow again. Greenway and Allen, the two freshmen, are still In the beat and Improving slowly. It is i till a question whether the; ought to bo In the bout at all. The rowing older Is as follows: Htiok'. Langford: 7. Griswold: (i. Allen. 5, c.ipt. Bat! *y: 4. Greenway 3, Campbell; 2. Whitney, and bow. Rogers. -f- -f* -4The ordrr of the Harvard crew is practically settled. The college seems to be well satisfied over Mr. Lehmann's excellent methods. Every year th* re* have been such shlftinKH in the makeup of the. crew, even until June, that the already settled arrangement s* me what staggers the students. Barring sickness, the stroke* will be J. F. Perkins; Capt. G< cdrich, at No. 7. is a fixture, as he always was. Mr. Lehmann cor.jidcrs him an unusually fine e arsrn »n. Tfiomasoi at No. 0, is a *Yark oarsman, and is a fixture. At No. 5 the redoubtable “Jim'' Perkins has a sure place. A slight straining of a side muscle has kept birr, from rowing a few days, but he will go back ne xt Tuesday at the latest. Whitb *-k. No. 5 of the sophomore crew, has oeen rowing in ids place. At No. 4 is a mainstay and a powerful stroke, Sprague. Under Mr. Le-hn.» nn his strength counts more than ever before. Mr. Lehmann was i.e>t satisfied with Hollister’s wmrk at No. 3. and lias substituted for him Wrigh*ing*on. who has been at bow. Biddle was drafted from the freshman crew and put in at bow. His work, however. has not shown any improvement, if as good as before. Hollister will undoubtcdly return to No. 3, end Wrightingten will go back to bow. Bull, at No. 2, will not be charged.

Last Monday morning the great college sprinter of Iowa. John V. Crum, died • at the Mer y hospital at Des Mniftes, appendicitis being the causg of his death. He was twenty-four years old and per- ; haps more- widely known than any colbg** athlet the West has produced. In the spring of IMG he won everythiag on the cinder path in Iowa, and then was sent to the Mott Haven games in the East, and in competition with the crack sprinters of the Eastern universities won the If*) and 22«»-yard dashes. In the luOyard dash his time was 10 secons flat. In the 229-yard da b • w&fl given a record of 22 seconds, hut one timer gave him -1 2-r* and another 21 but the third timer had failed to catch his watch at the ! shot and he was given :22. The lay watches all gave him 21 2-5. At an exhibition race in Uhicago he made a n* w world's record of .21 2 5 for 220 yards on a circular track. He graduated from the state university of Iowa, collegiate dexi tied in Des Moines in the manufacture of a liniment for athletes. He was a young man of good character and habits.

ON Ol'R bk; bug farm

INSECT HUNTERSCONFGONTr?) BY A PROBLEM.

Kitrrnitn.tlnit Miitlin and rtcrtlM— Means to Prevent Their '-pread 1 nrnmeal a Mueli Desired Moeking Bird Dainty.

Pu Kill at it*. Fob Fitzsimmons let fall last week a few remarks about the sixth round of the battle at Carson, which plainly shows that the n< w champion did In this particular round consider himself beaten, and further that a Krimacc or leer by Jim Corbett at Mrs. Fitzsimmons caused the downfall of Corbett later, as Bob stapt-Kf-n <1 to his feet with murder In his heart. Fltx said: “There have been so many stories told al>out my wife at the fight that I want to correct them—all sorts of ugly remarks have been credited to her. and they are all untrue. I have never before told how much she did to help me win that fight, but I'll tell now. Y’ou know that awful sixth round, when I was on my knees and Corbett was fairly standing over me. with a look of the most fiendish exultation I ever saw in a human fare? He was sure he had me. and I suppose most other people there thought the same, but there was one who didn't—that was my wife. As I listened to Siler counting off the seconds I saw Corbett look past me at my wife. I cannot describe the devilish leer or grin )?u gave her. Mrs. Fitzsimmons had not said a word but when she caught the sneer she cried out: 'Oh. you can't lick him!' There was such a world of confidence In the tone which she filing at Corbett that It put new life into me. and as I rose In time I said to Jim: 'No. you can’t lick me, but I'll lick you for that woman's sake, and for that leer you gave her.’ If I hadn't beaten Jim there I would have followed him to the end of the earth to beat him for that look. It Is probable that no words ever spoken at a ringside had more to do with winning a battle than that ‘Oh. you can't lick him" did. "Corbett gave me the hardest fight I ever had In my life, and I want to tell you he Is a good, hard, stiff puncher. I have no unkind words to say about Corbett. and all that 1 ask is for him to leave me alone and not abuse me in the newspapers. "The ‘chance blow' crank Is again at work. It Is claimed Jim did all the fighting. I'm not saying anything about it. Wait until the kinetos* ope pictures come out and that nlil tell you who did the lighting." <- -)—e Kid McCoy, whose real name is said to be Norman Selby, Is touted by the New York World to be the most remarkable lighting man in the world to-day. He is said to be full of new punching theories of his own. and it is predicted that within two or three years he will be champion of the world. He Is twenty-three years old, a shade under five feet, eleven Inches, and weighs Kiii pounds. He learned 'o b*x In the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium at Louisville, and fought his first ring tight when he was seventeen. One of the remarkable things about McCoy Is his read aix inches, which Is greater than Fitzsimmons' reach, although the latter is an Inch taller. -t- -t- -tStevc O’Donnell, the heavyweight pugilist of Australia, has left New York for San Francisco, accompanied by his manager and trainer. B:l!y Madden. O'Donnell will meet Alexander Ureggalns in San Francisco June U In a twenty-round contest for a purse of $2,000. F.n route O'Donnell will stop at Akron. O., where he will meet Gus Ruhlin. the Ohio giant, who was on of Corbett's trainers. In a ten-round contest. Tommy White of Chicago haj posted In Cohoes ?Bhi as a forfeit to bind a match with George Dixon. The deposit is made as a response to a challenge recently isd by Dixon. If the latter fails to come to time White will leave the money on deposit as an invitation to a match with any I'JU-pound man in the world.

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O V E R X M E N T bug hunters have been engaged recently in the study of a new problem. They have organized a sort of insect farm and are raising grubs and beetles of a number of injurious kinds for experimental Washington correBtrston Transcript.

Er.ch colony, representing a single species. is kept in a good-sized glass jar or else in a wooden box and is supplied with the food which it likes best. One jar. for example, contains two ears of corn, and every individual grain on these ears is occupied by one or two unpleasant-looking little worfns. Other receptacles are partly filled with oats, wheat, rice and various dietary preparations. such as housewives oommonly keep on the pantry shelves. They are simply alive with crawling depredators, which are busily engaged in feeding and breeding. Indeed, the conditions are the same as those frequently reproduced most disgustingly in the barrels and boxes of the household commissariat. The appearance of such pests in c?reals and other stored foods is often so mysterious and their propagation is so enormously rapid that the notion that they are generated spontaneously is still widely entertained. Not very many years ago the theory that certain small animals under suitable conditions might be created literally out of nothing, as in manure or in decomposing food substances, was indorsed by science. Now, however, it is known that an egg must be laid by a bug in the corn-starch or hominy-

' noticeable. They are constantly looking for the foods in which they desire to lay their egg«. in order that their voting may have plenty to eat. and eternal vigilance is the prices of safety from their depredations. Even so, the housekeeper cannot be sure that the eornmeal, the rice and the flour bought at the grrc*r'8 is not already infested: in fact, it is very likely to be so, and i only quick use will prevent the hatching cf the eggs. On his part the grocer has no guaranty that the cereals'and other stuff which he buys have not liecome infested at the mills, and the , miller has no insurance against the in- ' festation of the grain before it reaches | him. even while it is ripening in the fields. Not long ago a vessel arrived at i San Francisco from Calcutta with a | cargo of rice. When the hatches were taken off for the purpose of unloading winged insects in clouds emerged; they were grain moths and the ric? was found to be literally alive with their larvae. Of such moths there are many - kinds, the worst of them all being the angoumois moth, which gets its name from a province of France, where it appeared in 1736. It looks very much ! like an ordinary clothes moth. In this ‘ country it is vulgarly known as the | "fly weevil.” having been introduced in North Carolina and Virginia as early as 1728. Thence it spread all over the south, where it does vast damage. It attacks grain in the field, as well as in the bln, infesting all the cereals. In six months grain infested by it loses 40 per cent in weight and 75 per cent of starchy matter- The moth deposits her eggs in standing grain and in the bin, the minute grubs hatched from them feeding on the starch of the kernels, into which they burrow. On attaining maturity the little cuterpillar spins within the kernel a silken cocoon, the moth emerging a few days later. The dreaded "rice weevil" Is derived from India, whence it has been diffused by commerce until now it is established in most of the grain-growing countries of the world. It occurs In every state in the union and ccasionally invades Canada and Alaska. It is a small snout beetle, closely resembling the granary weevil already described. It feeds on rice, wheat, corn, barley, rye, hulled

ACROSS THE FUNCA ON A TIGHT ROPE.

The plain of Bogota is sixty miles long from north to south and thirty miles from east to west. The river Funga, formed by numerous mountain streams which take their rise one hundred miles north of 4he city, traverses the plain in a southwesterly direction to Tequendama, where, through a gap not over 3C feet in width, it leaps over a rocky ledge upward of 600 feet high, forming one of the most magnificent cataracts on the globe, and thence rushes down to join the Magdalena. The height of this precipice is so great that the inhabitants of Bogota were terrified by the daring and audacious act of the Canadian equilibrist, Mr. Warner, who

doubtless gave rise to more tnan one story of fantastic apparitions. If history has preserved for us through five centuries the tradition of this descent from the towers of Notre Dame to the Pont de Change as a marvelous feat, what can we say of Blcndin and his im-

As soon as Kal McCoy learned that Col. Hopkins, the backer of Dan Oreedon, had posted It.oOO in Cincinnati to make a match he deposited the same amount at the Police Gazette uftUe in New York u'Vd authorized Sam Austin to arrange a meeting to sign articles. Word was s<nt to Hopkins In Chicago. Creedon Is In England, but will return If a match Is made. Fisti unit U:\nie. If the state list, and game commisrions of the states of Wisconsin, Michigan. Mlnesota. Iowa und Illinois, or committees appointed by the governor of each of those rtaUs. will get together and construct a uniform game law. u feat will b? accomplished that should have been done years ago. says the Field. We believe the sportsmen of all these states favor such a movement, and that in two or three of the states the matter has received some attention, and now all that Is needed to bring about the desired end is for a committee from some one of the states to take the initiative step. These states should have uniform laws for the protection of game, and the sooner these laws are agreed upon the better for the i game and the sportsmen, too. We hope ] the matter will not t>*- deferred unnecessarily, but that the committees will be appointed and ret together at an early day and agree upon a code of laws that will meet the approval of sportsmen and protect our fast disappearing game. -r* *4- -fIn the new fish law of Wisconsin the open season for brook trout, California or rainbow trout, mountain or brown trout, or any other variety of trout. Is from April !'i to Sept. 1 of «ach year. The season for catching black bass. Osw« go bass, or yellow bass Is May 25 to March 1 following. Rush Lake In Fond du Lac county being exempted: and in Hig Green Lake and Devil's Lake, from I July 1 to March 1. In section 5. which prohibits nets and all other snares * r devices In Inland waters, at the end of the rlause permitting the use of dip nets | in streams not inhabited by trout, the law says, "but spears may be used during the daytime." This clause seems to lie most unlucky, for thore Is no protection afforded any fish save trout. If spears may be used In the streams uninhabited by trout, and the law certainly reads m that way. and invalidates the succeeding section, that prohibits all methods of taking fish save angling and trolling, I “except ns otherwise provided for by I law.” Or. pickerel, wall-eyed pike, mns- | calonge and whitellsh there is In this law i no season closed against hook and line | fishing, a strange omission; but It Is pmable the closed seasons of the law formerly In force. In iv.i.'l. will partially stop 1 that gap. It made the open season on wall-eyed pike June 1 to Jan. 1; masealonge May 1 to Feb. 1: pickerel and whitefish were not mentioned.

l I STWftolRG Ctf 0ME FeCT 500 FgET ABOVE TWE. SROm

In November crossed the abyss of the Tequendama in imitation of the act of Bloadin at Niagara. This feat is shown in the accompanying cuts, which are reproductions of photographs taken on the spot by A. Esperm, of the city of Bogota. From the remotest antiquity there have always been equilibrists, many of whom were extraordinarily daring and skillful, and have astounded the spectators by their deeds of prowess. History tells us that in 1385, upon the entrance of Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, a Genoese allowed himself to slide, singing, from the tops of the towers of Notre Dame to the Pont de Change, over which the queen passed and entered through an opening in the blue taffeta sown with golden fleur de lis, with which the bridge was covered. After having placed a crown on young Isabel's head, the equilibrist continued his aerial Journey. When it was nearly night, the Genoese ascended to the towers carrying a lighted torch in each hand, w hich must have caused a singular appearance from a distance and

itators, especially of Warner, who has dared not only on a wire to cross the cataract of Niagara, but has just performed the wonderful feat of crossing the terrible abyss of Tequendama on a rope. The crossing of Niagara gave Blondin a universal reputation, he being the first to try this daring act; but if considered conscientiously, that is nothing compared with the crossing of Tequendama, for the conditions of ♦ he two cataracts ere quite different. At Niagara an acrobat who became dizzy and lost his equilibrium would fall into waters that are perfectly tranquil ami very deep—circumstances which taken in connection with the fact that the fall would not be more than about one hundred feet, would give the equilibrist the assurance of salvation, for he would not encounter rocks, and if ho knew something of swimming he would rise to the surface and swim to one of the banks or to a boat, which would pick him up and land him safely. At Tequendama all the conditions of the abyss are against the equilibrist who, in case he experiences the slightest dizziness and falls, would be v*ry certain of breaking his neck, for he would fall into a raging torrent from the terrible height of 479 feet! What would be the size of the largest fragment of the acrobat that could be picked up at the bottom of such an abyss?—Scientific American.

Any Olti<*r Mnn AYoiilrf. Detroit Free Press: He—I must have ■ kiss for every caramel, dear. Slie—Some men would have heught s w hole liox. instead u£ that measl: y littls | paper bag full.

grits before a single insect can occur In such articles of diet in storage. Given just a few eggs for a start, and within a few days there will be thousands of breeding insects; for the detemdants of a single pair will constitute a great swarm in the course of one season. The simplest plan which the housewife can adopt to prevent groceries from getting ‘•lively" is to avoid exposing them unnecessarily. The flour barrel, for example, should be kept tightly closed. The insects that do the damage are everywhere, and some of them are so minute as to be scarcely

oats, buckwheat, etc. Frequently it invades boxes of crackets, cakes and other breadstuffs, barrels of flour and bags of meal i** grocery shops. Both the larvae and the adult beetles feed on the grain or other food.

About Half Way. Visitor—"We are at the end of the bridge, are we?” Brooklynite—"Not at all This is only where the cars stop." —Brooklyn Life. Schrader, the "Divine Healer," Is in j a dime museum In Alleghany Pa.

BY A FRECKLE CURE.

TWO COUNTRY GIRLS SAVED BY UNUSUAL MEANS.

Effect of a I’alr of Housebreaker!— Caught at Their Evil Work by Two Ghost I.ike Creatures A Narrow Escape.

Y sister Kate and were nearly of an age. but we were not alike in auy way except that we were both tall and both had—freckles! These troubled us, many were the experiments we triel to remove from our faces the objectionable effects of the open air life w led, says a writer In the London News. Father was a farmer, and we lived nine mfies from the county town. Mother was a systematic and careful housekeeper and so engrosed In her kitchen and dairy duties that she seldom made calls on her neighbors and never went to town unless she was obliged to. She was. therefore, a little annoyed when father said after hrsakfast one morning that she must accompany him to W that day. Nevertheless, she got ready, after a little demur, and took her seat in the dog cart an hour later with an air of resignation that made us all smile. We had the beds to make, the breakfast dishes to wash and the whole house to put in order; so we were as busy as bees until 12 o'clock and had no time to think of be'ng lonely. But we found the afternoon go slowly and I was beginning to feel that it would be pleasant to see mother's face again when a newspaper that l had placed behind the clock on the kitchen mantel caught my eye. This turned my thoughts into a different

channel.

"Kate,” I said, "suppose we make some of that complexion compound wc read about the other day? We ‘*hal! never get a better opportunity. Mother may not be away again for weeks

Here it is:

“ ‘Ladies who are troubled v/ith free kies will be glad to learn that a few applications of a mixture of glycerine, cascarllla powder, tar, lemon juice and olive oil will effectually remove them and leave the skin soft, smooth and

tinted like an infant's.' ”

"I'm willing to try," said Kate. "Hut we haven’t the ingredients." "Yes, we have,” I answered, for, tinknown to her, I had one day during the previous week, when father had taken me to town, obtained them from the druggist and the grocer. We were soon at the kitchen stove diligently mixing and Stirling the decoction and it was a sorry-looking mess when at last we took it from the stove. We had, however, faith in its efficacy, and with great satisfaction we poured it into a large bottle, which we hid behind the wardrobe in our room to await use at bedtime. While we were getting supper we were startled by a terrific appeal of thunder, the forerunner of one of the most violent storms that ever raged In our district. For two hours the rain poured in sheets, flooding the yard from the house to the stable and turning the liule brook by the barn into a roaring river. The clock struck 9. "Don't you think we had better go to bed?” said Kate, folding up her apron. "I do not think there is any use in our sitting up.” With much laughter we go- our big bottle of "eomplexio* varnish,” as Kate called it. Taking a piece of rag we gave to our faces a thick coating which resembled nothing else I had ever seen

before, or have seen since.

"I'm too tired to sit up,” said Kate. "Why can't we make cloth masks? Where's that old pique cloth you were

cutting up yesterday?”

The masks were soon made. They were simply long pieces of white cloth reaching from the tops of our foreheads to the collars of our night dresses, with small holes for the eyes and nostrils. We attached strings to them and tied them on. Wc soon fell asleep. It must have been near midnight when I was awakened by a noise in the dining room, which was directly below the one we occupied. It sound ed as if some one was moving about stealthily—or something, rather, for I decided at once that it was the dog. Kate, I said, we must have shut old Tige up in the dining room. Very likely he hid in the cupboard when the storm came on and fell asleep there. We must go down and let him out." We did not stop to put on our shoes or light a candle, but stole down jui" as we were entering the sitting room which communicated with the dining room by a folding door. What was our surprise and horror to see the hack of one man in the cupboard directly opposite us and another busily engaged by the light of a lantern in preparing to take the silver and linen from the dining table in what seemed to b" a stout canvas bag. The sound made by the opening of the door caused the man at the table to look up. For one instant he gazed at us. with dropped jiw and eyes almost starting from their sockets, then with a yell which might have been heard half a mile off, he let fall the silver he was holding and with one bound was out of the opening window. His companion, startled by his outcry, rushed out of the cupboard in alarm. Pen could not describe his -hJect terror as his eyes fell on us, and his yell as he sprang toward the window was even louder than that which had been given by his companion For a moment I was at a loss to account for their strange terror, but a glance at Kate made It clear. In our long white night dresses and white masks wo certainly looked like verTtablo ghosts. We spent the rest of the night in a state of nervons terror, which

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; we heard the sound of wheels and saw | our parents driving up to the door. Owj ing to the washing away of a bridge ! they had been unable to get home the | previous night and had accepted th: hospitality of a farmer named W _ who had provided them with supper and a bed. Then, with shuddering and i t;>*rs, we told our story and were alternately kissed and cried over by mother, who declared that never, never would she leave us alone again. As to that “complexion varnish,” one application showed no favorable results and we never felt like trying it again.

ACTORS IN PRIVATE LIFE. One of Them Criticises Their Dress ami Conversation. A well-known actor is quoted thus by the New York Advertiser: "I don’t know why an actor should think it necessary to dress in such a makin p r as to proclaim his profecsioa to all who pass him on the street. We often hear 'He looks like an actor,' but rarely 'He looks like an electrician,' or 'He looks like a banker.’ Now. it seems to me that, first and foremost, a man ought to try to look like a gentleman. His business should not be stamped upon his face. There is no reason why an actor or an artist should be a walking advertisement of his profession. Artists do not think a velvet coat and loag hair necessary to produce a canvas of merit, nor should enormous plaids and flashy jewels be part of the stock in trade of the rising young actor. “An actor should endeavor as much as possible to avoid things pertaining to the theater when his work is over, just as the lianker turns from his business as he leaves his office. He should mix as much as possible with people of other professions and with men of business and society. In this way he broadens his life, gets an idea of more than one phase of it and takes the rest from his work that he cannot get if surounded by others of his own profession. How cm a man play a part in life of which he knows nothing? To put on a wig and speak the lines of the author is not sufficient. The Rialto lias been the ruin of many a prominent actor. Let him go cut into the side streets cf the city or anywhere that he can study life—rather than mix constantly with those that can tell him only what he already knows. “Many of our most successful painters are men who chose for their intimate friends writers, musicians and actors in preference to men who. like themselves, earn their living by their brush. They realize that by so doing they come in contact with people whose interests in life are different and who are often of the greatest possible assistance to them. An actor or a writer may suggest to a painter an idc* -out of which grows the picture that will make his reputation. "All this is, of course, simply my opinion, and, like other Individual opinions, may be entirely wrong; but it is an opinion that is shared by many prominent actors, both here and abroad. The life of the English actor Is In many cases a great Improvement on ours. Many of the best profe-i.-qon-als in London, an hour after the falling of the curtain, are miles away in the country. During the day they are gentlemen farmers, and spend their time surrounded by their horses and dogs, only taking the train to the city at the latest possible minute, just as any other man does who is in business In this country, on the other hand, the roving life that is a necessity forbids a domestic life during the sea son, although there are a few well- 9 known actors that have quiet little homes within half an hour's ride ol | New \ ork, where they are always to ■ he found during the day when playin; I engagements in the city.”

Antlrl|ii«tn(!. Mr. Cavort—"Good-by, love. In cas I am really prevented from comin home to dinner I will send you a tele gtam. Mrs. C.—“You need not troubl to send It. I have already taken it ci; of your pocket."—Tit-Bits.

heartily glad when at 8 o’clock j

ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. Anybody can ride in a hack at s election or a funeral. The smaller the town the more t! editors abuse each other. Every time a woman picks up a unbecoming hat, her milliner gets a unfavorable advertisement. By the time a man has learnf enough sense to go to bed early, bi wife begins to sit up late for her so: Medical men agree on this statemco: T be man who works away In spite o age will live longer and enjoy bette health than the man who retires. Judging from the manner in whir! the women are rushing around to-day you would think there was a lot d sickness in town instead of an election A man wastes a lot of time every da.' talking foolishness, and in listening! 1 ' foolishness as it is talked by othf men. No wonder his business suffer* We have always noticed that a woman Is not interesting in her convert; tion when she has just returned fro® a meeting of her church sewing s ' ciety. The only difference between being ' swell society and out of It, is that i» one case you bear gossip in a well f« r 'j nished room, and that in the other ci'* the same gossip is told over the ha** fence. When a woman wants to buy a q |ia ter of a yard of silk to make a "do 1 He,” she calls at every store, exa® !l nvery piece of silk, and then mutF' that she can never get anything this store.” When the merchant of' ders that particular silk, she buys ^ quarter's worth, and he has tbo ^ mainder left on his hands for the re* a of his life.