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MIDSUMMER Attendance on the Club Runs Good Considering the Weather. GOOD TIME ALWAYS ASSURED, A Trip to the Battlefield of Bull Run. CURRENT LOCAL NOTES. IDSUMMER BICY- cling on the country roads has been kept up with a degree of interest that was not anticipated by even the more enthusias- ing the weather and the number of club- men who have been knickerbockers, light loosely fitting shirts, low shoes and light caps the wheelmen are considerably more comfortable than per- sons in other costume, and they enjoy degree of freedom which renders home under all circumstances. and laundered shirts do not them in their cross-country runs, are just as much at home on lawns by the road side as they would be a social gathering in the winter attired full dress suits. “Indeed they always have a good was the remark made by an onlooker at Gien Echo last Sunday when « party of wheelmen reached the grounds and enjoyed the afternoon concert. Instead of monopo- i A Whistling contests, and in ceeded admirably. While club men are all riders of pneu- matic tired wheels at present there are many riders who now the cushion- tired wheels, because are not s0 apt to give out on the road. Second-hand have been in great demand recently and with some of them paint and enamel cover @ multitude of faults. Light colored paints and enamels are now being used, with good results so far as the dealers are con- cerned for the bright colors prove attract- ive to some customers. ‘colored man who went into # cycle es- tablishment not long ago was shown a line of good second-hand wheels and they seemed to entire satisfaction, but at the end of the line there was a bicycle, the wheels of which were painted a bright color. a4 sir,” he ited when the clerk ex- age the merits of each wheel, “but,” e said,“how’s that wheel?’ pointing to the painted oni He rode off on the steed. "and the ‘next day He came around and had to have the it some paint scraped off for Capital Bi Club. The midsummer runs of the Capital Bt Club have been largely attended. and the trips have been pleasant end interesting. Last Sunday morning a dozen members of the club turned out and went to Ashton, het a Reger yo at Mrs. Ents’. hards and hammocks very inviting, and more than i one mem- ber who was missed from the was found enjoying an after-dinner Bap one Of the large comfortable hammocks. After a day's ent the wheelmen returned home, the club house be- oie tncer breakfast in the morning. ‘Shechnen titi eras — Wheelmen eto ‘where Ristori battle ‘elds will ‘be isteed the day spent in sightseeing. Late in afternoon the homeward trip will be start- ed, and the wheelmen will probably reach here in time to get to the club house before it is necessary to light lamps on wheels. history of the club. The start was made from $24 10:80 o’clock, and the run was made direct to amphitheater, where a meeting the committee in charge of last night's en- tertainment was held, and all members of the club had been requested to assist in completing arrangements for the affair. Upon the adjournment of the meeting the members strolled about the grounds, and then took a ride as far as. Cabin John bridge. At 2:0 o'clock they returned and had dinner in one of the cottages at Glen Echo. ‘The balance of the afternoon was on the Chautauqua grounds, and in @ evening the wheelmen enjoyed the con- cert on the Glen Echo grounds. ‘Tomorrow the Cae will Lageren on their usual weekly outing tour, thor ne point of destination bas yet Seen upon. Carroll Institute Cyclers. Capt. Newman of the Carroll Institute cyclers has returned from a two week: visit to Atlantic City much improved in health and tomorrow he will lead the members of the club on their midsummer tour to the Great Falls. While in Atlantic City Capt. Newman enjoyed many trips long the beach on his pneumatic tired wheel, and his advice to wheelmen going to the seashore is don’t fail to take your wheel along. He rode his wheel to the beach each day at bathing hour and would make the trip along near the board walk, frequently getting in the water and en- Joying a sprinkle. ‘He was not alone on the wheel, for there were many others there on their silent steeds and many of the female bathers wanted to ride the wheels, but were afraid that their appearance on wheels might ‘The trip to the Great Falls tomorrow promises to be @ pleasant one, and the captain has made arrangements for the start to be made at 8:30 o'clock instead of later, as the starts are made in cooler weather. ‘Washington Road Club. As stated in last Saturday’s Star, the regular schedule runs of the Washing- ton Road Club has been abandoned for the summer months, but the club still ap- rs on the road, and their presence on he road has been made known on several occasions recently. The members of the club agreed to have an afternoon or even- ing run every day from G. S. Atwater’s oycle establishment. These short runs have been greatly enjoyed by the mem- bers of the club and their numerous friends. ‘Thursday evening the club turned out large party on the Marshall Hall trip on the steamer Charles Macalester, leaving their wheels at home. Monday evening there was a meeting of the ¥. M. H. A. Bicycle Club and a per- manent organization was effected. The election of officers resulted in the choice of Jos. Abel, captain; Sol. Myer, leuten- ant, and Leon Baum,’ treasurer. ‘The club has about a score of members and dues have been fixed at 25 cents a month. A Tun has been called for at o'clock to- morrow morning to the Maryland Agricul- tural College. It is expected that the full membership of the club will turn out on this run, and Capt. Abel promises to make the trip’an interesting one. The Arlington Wheelmen took a short run up the Conduit road last Sunday and last night they attended the entertain- ment given by the Georgetown Cycle Club. The L. A. W. Refuses Its Sanction, The League of American Wheelmen has decided to refuse a sanction to any college, members of the Inter-Collegiate A. A. A. wishing to run bicycle races. This decision is due to the action tak Collegiate Association ner the ae ae when they refused to apply for a sanction. Notes. Mr. G. F. Suppes of the P. D. Q. Club will leave for Chicago and other points west early next week. He will stop at Cincinnati a couple of days and will rep- resent the club at the L. A. W. meet at Chicago later on. After the meet he will make an extended tour, stopping at Coun- cil Bluffs, Omaha and other plac: eee oaks Fast Pacing by a Two-Year-Old. At Cecilian Park, Danville, Ky., yester- day, Flying Jim, a two-year-oll, by Happy Day, paced an exhibition half mile in the remarkable time of 104 1-2—a 20 galt. This is the fastest public trial ever made by @ two-year-old in harness. CYCLING WON BY GOOD HITTING. The Senators Pounded the Delivery of Busie. Young Stocksdale Made a Creditable Show- ing—Entries of the N. A. A.O. Regatta— General Sports of the Day. The record of the league clubs is as follows: RHE. 1400532x-1613 0 20000000—-8 5 6 and Mullane, REE 0011102x-6 8 0 01110101—5 16 2 Pitchers—Stivetis and Staley; McNabb. BR. H. E. Brooklyn... 02004300x-914 8 iphia. 001000100—210 1 Pitehers—Haddock and Weyhing. ame 00100012716 1 00200000-2 91 and Sullivan, Ra. EL 200120x-5 72 0000000-4 94 ‘arkson and Gleason. R. i. B, 0021200-1115 1 Chicago... 0001000-3 9 6 Pit tton and MeGill. ‘The recent poor showing of the local club he effect of reducing yesterday's at- the season, not the ladies, who were admitted th mari f vite on the right of vi ry on le it side. The local team played a good game, fhe only etror being Radford's fumbie ot anor's hard grounder. Stocksdalo, the Johns Hopkins University pitcher, who Was farmed out to Wilkesburre to get into professional form, pitched, and he pitched creditable game, Only “eight scatter hits were made, and when a hit was need By she visitors the ball, generally twisted in the air. Stocksdale fielded his position Well and cracked out three hits, one being Sullivan made « rattling assist on a hit past second and Wise made a one-hand stop of gy trive that caused the crowd to cheer New York's only run was - sie's ‘triple and Ward's single nt? O? RY Wi nm hard ‘ashi putting opportunely and New York's bunch- throws and muffs. exhibition the visitors reminded one of the old Giants of '$9. Thi Aifferent. ‘Score: pints ‘WASHINGTON. | NEW YORE. xy RH Oa waarsece FTES 1 0106 8 paul 9 Bors 3 8 iio T3F3R 182718 7 Ep o3°8383ekt a ed runs—Washington, 3; New York, ‘Two-base hit—O’ Rourke. ‘Three-base hits ~Stocksdale and Ruste. Double plays—Sul- livan, Stricker and Larkin; Stricker and First base on balls—By Stocksdale. ; by Rusie, 2. Sacrifice hit—Wise. First base on errors—Washington, bases—Washington, 6; New York, 7. Struck out—-By Stock: by Rusle, 4 Stolen ‘Wise, Ward @), and Tiernan. Um- pires—Mesers. McQuaid and Pearce. Time of game—Two hours. Boston-Washington Series. The team from the capital, under the leadership of Capt. Manager James O'Rourke, says the Boston Globe, complet- ed the Boston scheduled games on Wed- nesday last. Six contests toox place, Bos- ton winning three of them. As Washington won two out of three in this city the se- ries now stands five to four in favor of the local team. Three games are yet to Fielding Record. ih | Fay eT “921 be played. CH 0! & be Boston mi plays. Strikeouts, Boston 2). Washington tolen bases, Boston 14, Washington J, on balls, In batting Washington ‘eft Boston far in the rear, leading by 37 points in single base- hard indeed, Sam Wise in particular. In total base average Boston was not “in it,” :—s and Washington 4 double ‘Boston 31, Washington 16.” hit average. Some of the players hit very as the Washington figure was tif and Bos- ton Club. PH TB 2 3 58 78 oY Waatinaiaa 3 8 ie Boston excelled in number of runs scored by six, and in earned runs the home team secured $0, while Washington went one bet- fer. Doubles, Boston 10, Wasiington, § Triples, Boston 4, Washington 1. Home Tuns, Boston 6, Washington 7. Sacrifice hits, Boston 14, Washington 11. Some idea of the hard hittmg may be ob- tained from the following averages: J. O'Rourke .480, Larkin .49, Wise .197, Sutil: Yan lm, Hoy 220 Farrell 238. Wor Bosto leCarthy .820, Duffy .429,"Nash 451, Long ‘er .308, Ganzel .308. Barnte After Southern League Young Blood. Manager Barnie has left Louisville for a tour through the Southern League circuit. He is armed with $10,000 in ready cash.with which he will buy such players as he takes @ fancy to. Mr. Dexter sail that the di- rectors are determined to make the club as strong as any in the league. Base Ball Notes. Boston played both games yesterday with- out an error. The Washington management has an eye on Pitcher Ely of the York, Pa., club. Catcher Grim has been given an increase of salary, and will do all the catching for Louisville. Gaffney thinks that Breitenstien of St. Louis is doing the most effective pitching of any man in the league. The minor league clubs, under the na- tional agreement, will now boom the aver- ages, with an eye to sell releases. me insane writer has started the re- port that the Cincinnat! club is trying to trade Morgan Murphy for Fog Horn Mil- ler. The Cincinnati ‘club will not trade Murphy for any backstop in the league.— Cincinnati Enqutrer. “I believe that Pittsburg has a treasure in their new catcher, Sugden,” says Trea: urer Ashley Lloyd of Cincinnati. “1 sa him in two games at Chicago and he re- minded me of Morgan Murphy. He not only caught great ball, but batted well.” Mer will do all of Harrisburg’s catch- Vanted—Nine men who can bat and win @ game once in a while. Apply to Presi- dent Hanion of the Baltimore Club.—Balti- more American. Pearce can hardly be considered a success as an umpire. In two games Keeler went to the bat ht times and made six hits. Manager right of the Philadelphias said yesterday: “I can’t understand why the New York club let this brilliant young player go. He is @ natural hitter and a winner. I wish I had him.” The Brooklyn Unga Particu- larly are much pleased with young Keeler, and pronounce him one of the finest hitters for a young player they have ever seen. The New Yorks and the Washingtons play at the polo grounds this afternoon. German and Wilson are down to pitch and catch for New York. ‘There will be two games between the Brooklyns and Philadelphias at Eastern Park this afternoon, the first one being at Po'clock. One admission will be charged. Brooklyn “fans” are delighted with Keel- er’s work at third, while New York cranks are wondering why Ward let him go. The reason is simple. Keeler did not do work for New York equal to that performed by the present members of the New York team. Washington had a similar case last rear. Donovan did very poor work for Washington, but went to Pittsburg and there struck his gait. get him for $10,000 now. —_—____ Corbett’s Latest Determination. It is announced that Corbett declines to fight Mitchell at Robey, Ind. Corbett leaves for Asbury Park next week, where he will begin training for his contest with Mitchell, with the understand- ing that the fight will be at Coney Island. fie proposes to” Insist on. the orisinal agreement and will present himeelf at the arena of the Coney Island Athletic “lub December 6, regardless of what Mitchell may do. BAv Washington couldn’t —_—__+e+_____ Fx-Minister Hicks Returns. John Hicks, late minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary from the United States to Peru, and Mrs. Hicks w: the passengers who arrived at Cal., yesterday, on the steamer Colema from Panama. They are returning to their home in Oshkosh, Wis. THE AMERICAN TURF. What is Happening in the Racing World. CROOKED RACES ON STRAIGHT TRACKS. Morello's Recent Great Performance. FORM IN BREEDING TROTTERS. One of the most noted breeders in Amer- ica said a few years ago, according to the Chicago Horseman, that the greatest mis- take that trotting horse breeders made was that they “forgot form.” The breeder re- ferred to had never forgotten form. He has owned and used one of the most handsome stallions seen, and he has been distinctly successful in breeding for form. In his ex- perience there is a useful lesson for many men who are trying to breed for profit. It Would seem to be a supererogatory task to try to reinforce the lesson that the one thing in which trotting horse men are most lacking is the matter of judgment of form. This, of course, seems a rather brash state- ment, but it is nevertheless true that, as a rule, the fancier of trotters is less particu- lar as to form than horsemen in other branches. They may, es the saying is, “go in all shapes,” but other things equal the best-shaped ones are the best ones. T! frotter, le essentially a road horse. The main and principal object of breeding totter 13 to bread @ horse that has a util tarlan purpot nence on the track he yet would have a positive value, The markets now demand igh form and quality. The simple lesson, then, it would seem, for breeders who are breeding for profit ‘is to select both the Mare and the stallion with “an eye for form.” Raise the standard of form! ‘The Monmouth Park Association is not ™making money out of its fight against the press. It is certain that the association must lose money with a revenue of less than $5,000 per day from the betting ring, since the attendance is small, and the daily average of gate receipts through six di of the week does not reach figures at all Satisfactory to the association. When the racing at Monmouth Park this year was be- gun, on July 3, over eighty bookmakers: oc- cupied stands, and paid $100 each per day, At the last drawing the number of book- makers fell to forty-three. With only $4,300 daily revenue from the betting ring, and with the scanty attendance of paying spec- tators which ‘now straggles through the lonely gates for five days in each week (the gathering on Saturday half-holidays is still Qf moderate proportions), the Monmouth Park management has every reason to ex- pect a melancholy deficit as the result of this season's racing. ‘The contemplated three months’ winter race meeting at Hot Springs, Ark., seems to be favorably received by the local busi- ness people of that Place, and is sald to be assured. The hotel keepers have signi- fied their intention to contribute $10,000 to- ward the success of the enterprise, and the railway companies will also donate suffi- cient money to make up several good urses. A mile track will be built; and rac- ing is expected to be inaugurated there in January next. Cole Ulman is the pr.me mover in the scheme, and W. 5. Apple- fate. the well-known ‘western ‘bookmaker, become interested in the company which will control the track. The eyes of the entire racing world are upon America, and the tongues of turfmen in England are wi about American enterprise. Ormonde, the greatest race horse of his day and sire of the phenome- nal Orme winner, of the Derby last year, and twice winner of the Eclipse stakes, conquering the renowned La Fleche, is due in New York at any moment, and Meddler, considered by many English rac- ing men as the superior of Isinglass,, win- ner of this year’s Derby, will shortly fol- low the mighty son of Ben d'Or. Mr. W. QB, Macdonough of California and | Mr. W. H. Forbes of Massachusetts are deserv- ing of the thanks of the horse lovers of America.Ormonde cost the former $150,000 in his South American home, and Mr. Forbes’ agent paid over $75,00 for St. Gatien's son at public auction in England. rr. J. . Day speal of the colt trotters he saw in ery favorably France. Writ- ing of the great annual trotting meeting at Rouen, he says: “I also saw a great three-year-old race, eighteen starters, trot- ting under saddle. I should like to have had some of our breeders look at that string of colts. It would have made some of em ashamed of their breedings at home. Bighteen. larger, finer, handsomer colts "I never saw, and they ‘trotted that Face nearly all n'a bunch, two miles and a quarter, at a 2.3) gait. i doubt if thei are elghtcen colts in America in any. one state that could have been got together and have trotted such a race over that kind of a track.” ‘The board of pardons of the state of New Jersey have granted pardons to William A. Engeman, John J. Engeman, George Engeman, A. H. Batterby and Charles V. Sass, proprietors and officers of the Clifton Face track. ‘The parties were convicted and sentenced each to imprisohment for one year and to pay a fine of $500 and costs, The pardons do not revoke the fines and costs. ‘The defendants were indicted for keeping @ disorderly place for maintaining @ race track, Robert Bonner’s great mare Sunol, whose time, 2.08 1-4, Is the record for any track, to the old-style sulky, has been taken from his stable in West ith street and sent to Mr. Bonner’s farm near Tarrytown. Mr. Robert Edwin Bonner saw the mare safely to her destination. It 1s probable that Sunol Will'be placed in training to race against time, ‘but she may not be speeded for @ record until next year, as her owner will go slowly with her. It is claimed by some that true races are only Tun over the long straight tracks, Where no one can watch what is golng on or see what the jockeys are dbing. The fact is that there was never devised any means for ‘swindling racegoers—assuming that such a thing as swindling 1s done on race tracks for the sake of stating what muSt be apparent to every one—equal to the long stretches where nothing can be seen of the racing or the antics of the jock. eys. With these there 1s little wonder that there are changes in the form of race horses from week to week that simply put backers ina state of frenzy. Track and Paddock. At Chicago a few days ago John Huff- man offered to trade Yo Tambien and Maid Marian for the California two-year-old Peter the Great. Chris. Smith also offered Charley Boots $15,000 for the great Callfor- nia colt, but it was not accepted. He will be seen east this summer, probably starting at Saratoga. He will get ready for an eastern fall campaign, and it is probable that he wili meet Domino and other eastern cracks. There is some talk of Mr. Foxhall Keene riding Domino in the Futurity. As the colt's weight is 130 pounds, Mr. Keene could easily do so, and, as he is an expert horseman, interest in the great race would be augmented thereby. At the same time he could ride the colt far better than many professional jockeys seen almost daily in the saddle. ‘The place of superiority in the ranks of the three-year-olds is conceded to Morello. His performance on Saturday stamps him as one of the greatest, if not the greatest. horse ever seen on the turf. He covered one and one-quarter with 117 pounds on his back in over a circular mile track. In the list Electioneer has 124, with rejected; George Wilkes 78, with 1 rejected Nutwood 92, with 1 rejected; Alcantara 52, with. 1 rejected. According to the Year Book, adding newcomers for 1888, Election- cer has 124, Nutwood 92, Happy Medium 83, Red Wilkes 79, George Wilkes 78, Onward 68. It is generally understood that the Ciif- ton race track will be opened so soon as the Brighton Beach meeting closes, as a licen: has been proniised the Passaic County A; ricultural Society. ‘The number of home-bred horses that are winning this year greatly encourages the local breeders. Pierre Lorillard intends to race a stable Ge almost entirely of Rancocas-bred horses. ‘Thirteen head, the property of Mr. Frea- erick Gebhard, were sold yesterday at Mon- mouth Park.’ The highest price realized was $625 for the two-year-old filly Fiction, by Ben Ali—Prose. The remainder went for a song; in fact, the entire lot only brought $1,775. uropean market for American trot- tents much depressed Just now, owing In great measure to the excessive cost of Keep. Very little rain has fallen, and hay in France and Germany is selling at $50 a ton. ber of horses, the property of Sen- ator Hearst, were sold at auction at San Francisco last Wednesday. Among the lot was the $38,000 King Thomas, who on this realized Sour hundred and. twenty-three trotters and pacers have entered the 2.30 list since the beginning of the present season. Messrs. Lorillard, Belmont and Keene are making nominations for the English Der- by of 189. Yan offer, of $%5,00 was refused by Plerre Lorillard for Lamplighter, Morello, the greatest of American three- r-olds, will run at Saratoga. Bailiff Hooe of the Police Court fell off the portico in front of the court yesterday and sprained his wrist. SIAM AND SIAMESE. The Oountry Which is Now a Bone of Contention. Causes of the Difficulty Between France and Siam—Extent of the Siamese Empire— ‘Its Great Natural Wealth—Its Capital. From the Pittsbure Commercial Gazette. ‘The trouble between Siam and France is only another phase of the ever-recurring and never-ending eastern question, the dif- ference between this and former appear- ances being. that in this case the trouble has broken out a little further east than usual. For over 200 years the French have been longing for an eastern empire. In the time of Louis XIV the dream of empire seemed about to be realized, and but for the almost accidental formation of @ company of English traders the empire of India might have been French instead of of English. The marvelous growth of the East India Company, the equally marvelous success of its armed agents in Hindostan, put an end to the French hopes, and until the present generation little or nothing was ‘accomplished. About 1787 the French, however, estab- shed a foothold in the Indo-Chinese penin- sula, and, by treaty with the government of Cochin China, acquired the Islands of Pulo Condula and the right to establish a station on the main land. The right, how- ever, was never exercised until 1815, ‘when, @ dispute arising between the government of Cochin China, Saigon, the capital, was gecupled and the whole of Cochin China became a French province. In 1862 further gonquests began and the surrounding coun- Ri in fer. e following year the kingdom of Cambodia was formally taken under the Protection of France, which then began to extend its dominions still further to the north. In 18% trouble broke out, or w: rovoked, it matters not which,” betwee Rhe people of Tong King and the French, ond, after a bloody struggle, this country, en a dependency of China, was made a French province. ‘This left the two French Possessions in this part of Asia widely Separated, and, in order to consolidate them, the coast territory lying between them and known as Annam was taken pos- session of. ‘To the west of this territory lies the val- ley of the great river Menong, or Mekon which, rising in Thibet, over 2,000 miles away, flows with many windings in a gen- eral southeastern course through Thibet, a portion of China, a part of British Burmah and Siam, passing through the French do- minions just before entering the sea. The Menong is the greatest river n that part of Asia, both In the length of its course and the Volume of its waters, comparing favo! ably with the Ganges, the Indus or Bra- mah-Pootra. The French found that the possession of the coast lying to the east of the river was of little value without the riv- er valley and, according to of this valui tory, have laid claim to the east bank of the Menong and all its islands. As through a large part of its lower course the river flows through Siamese ter- ritory, this claim was equivalent to 2 de- mand’on Stam to give up about one-third to one-fourth of its best territory. This, in brief, is an explanation of the difficulty at_ present existing between France and Siam, and so many posstbili- tles of trouble are present that it is no easy matter to foretell the end. Extent of Siam, The limits of Siam on the north and east have always been rather indefinite, for to the north, adjoining British Burmah, there lay @ number of semi-independent states, which sometimes owed allegiance to Siam, and sometimes to Burmah, as the influence of one or the other preponderated. The game difficulty existed in the east, where the Annamites sometimes id tribute to China, and sometimes to Siam. Slam it- self has in times past been a dependency of the Chinese empire, and even now a sort of allegiance is acknowledged and a tribute pal So far as the Siamese territory can be es- timated, its utmost limits at the time of its greatest extent were about 1,20) miles from north to south, and 700 miles in width, or very nearly one-third the size of the United States. That, however, was before the English conquests in Burmah, which con- siderably reduced the nominai size of the empire. Its present area is estimated at So.b00 square mil ile it has a popula- tion of 2,000,000 Siamese, 2,000,000 Luosians, and 1,000,000 each of Chinese or Malays. government of Siam is in some re- ‘spe much like that of other countries having a limited monarchy, while in one particular it is curlously different.There are two Kings, a first and a second, each of whom has a state establishment, but only one is honored as a sovereign, the other acting as a sort of prime minister. The whole country is divided into districts, the government of each being administered by @ local official, who 1s Siamese, or Luosian, or Malay, according to the prominence of People of’ these nationalities In the popula- jon. The reigning king ts Chulalong Kom I, known also as Somdetch Phra Paraminde Maha, who ascended the throne in 1808, and Who governs by means of a council o: ix princes and from ten to twenty mem- bers appointed by himself. Nominally a limited monarchy, there are so many ways of setting aside the established laws of the Kingdom that althou the Siamese call themselves the Thai, “the free,” and thelr kingdom the Muung Thal, “the free king- dom,” they are practically under the same kind of government as most other Asiatics. The King of Siam is, comparatively speaking, a rich monarch, having an an- nual revenue somewhat exceeding £2,000,000, of which sum_ £287,000 come from the land taxes, £65,000 from the taxes on fruit trees, £100,000 from the spirit tax, £120,000 from the opium tax, £100,000 from the gambling tax, £148,000 from the customs duties, £90,- 0v0 from the tin tax, £27,000 from the tax on edible birds’ nests, .d about the same amount from the fisheries tax. The fertility of the cultivated land in the Menong valley is described by travelcrs 48 something wonderful. The Siamese have been given a bad repu- tation by travelers as being turbu‘ent, quarrelsome and destitute of go>4 qualities, but apparently they do not deserve it, for the best authority describes them as a peaceable, polite and kindly people. They are not particularly good looking, having @ Mongollan aspect, with large heals, broad faces, wide mouths, short noses, low fore- heads and the teeth, in accordance with the prevailing fashion, stained a repulsive lack, Bangkok, the Capital. Bangkok, the capital, is in many respects a singular city. Its population is estiinated all the way from 600,000 to 10.00, and is curiously mixed and cosmopolitan. Siamese and Chinese predominate in its streets, though the Malays are also very numerous, and frequent Europeans demonstrate the Presence of western civilization and inter- esta. The army Is officered by Europeans, chie ly English and Danes, the navy is com- manded by Europeans, and of the many business enterprises in Siam, mort uf those which connect it with the’ outsile world are superintended by Europeans. Bangkok is the eastern Venice, ly alll its houses were built on thy the Former- land, but revalence of cholera many years £g0 so alarmed the government that it ordered the houses on the banks to Le abandoned and directed the people to live on the river Thousands upon thousands of houses were consequently built on rafts and moor- ed to the banks of the river, and although the policy of river houses has been to some extent modified by the government, no in- considerable part of the capital is ‘still on the waters of the Menam. The houses are of slight materials, constructed on bamboo rafts, each attended by a canoe, for to the river resident of Bangkok a skiff is as in- dispensable as a street car to the suburban resident in an American city. Palaces and Temples. ‘The most striking features of the city are the palaces and the temples. The former are located in a citadel securely fortified against sudden attack and pro- longed siege, and comprise the palaces of the two kings and a variety of temples and other structures pertaining to the court. Prominent among the attendants are the amazon guards of the harem: They are women trained to the use of arms and employed to guard the king's wives, and whenever a lady of the harem appears in public, she is attended by a retinue of these female soldiers, who answer with their lives for her seclusion. WIFT'S SPECIFIC ¢¢ For ren the entire system, Ciiminating afl Poisons from. the Blood, whether of scrofulous ox origin, this preparation has no equal. Be SSS om “For eighteen months I had an eating sore on my tongue. I was treated by best local physicians, but obtained no relief rf sore coe Eon worse. I finally took 8. S. S., and was entirely cured after using a few bottles.” C. B. MoLEMone, Henderson, Tex. Se ‘Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis- eases mailed free. Several very ifieent are within the limits of the palace walls, the most remarkable being that of the Sleeping Idol and that of the Emerald Idol. The Sleeping Idol te = statue 150 feet or from head to foot with plate in many places covered with an ntations of the transmigrations fotki otal the andes of white elephant, wi y a ee “oe throughout Siam is reverenced = The Emerald Idol's temple is a wonder- ful structure, of the utmost magnificence, the doors and much of the wall t= ed with gold. The idol itself is Dt. & solid emerald 12 inches by 8 wide, the hair and dress of the rude figure being made of gold studded with precious In spite of ther barbarous ifieence, howgver, the pagodas of Bangkok present a wonderfully impressive appearance, as situated in large parks and covered with porcelain plates and decorated with bells which sway to and fro chiming with every breeze, they gleam through the ical foliage and suggest that a people wi hot be designated as savages, for atheoes not est as sa: tor, their civilization may be different from ours, it is nevertheless of a kind that per- haps suits them quite as well. WILL ROW AT DETROIT. Entries to the National Amateur Oarsmen Regatta. The following are the entries to the ra- tional regatta to be held on the Detroit river at Detroit, Mich., by the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen August 9 and 10, as received by secretary Oscar P. Schmiat: Junior single sculls.—Albany R. R., Ar- gonaut R. C., Aquacknock R. C., Gray's Ferry R. C., Kansas City R. C., Pawtucket B. and A. C., Toronto R. C. @), Wolverine Senior single sculls.—Albany R. C. @), Argonaut R. C. @), Hartford B. and A. C., Iroquois B. C., Laureate B. 7, Millstream B. C., Passaic B. C., Sunnyside B, C., Tor- onto . Wachusett B. C., Western R.C. Double sculls.—Argonaut R. C., Toronto; Columbia B. C., Allegheny; Pawtucket B. A. C., Pawtucket; Star R. C., Buffalo; Ves- per B. C., Philadelphia. Pair oars.—Atalanta 5 3 atpomene B. C. New York; C., Toronto; Detroit B. C., petrolt; Tone B." C., Philaelptiay Troauois Toronto RC, ieee ° lunlor four-cared shelis.—; c. Toronto; Detroit B. C., Det SMtutusi C.. Detroit; Toronto R. C., Toronto; Wyan- oh. Special international ir-oared loc R. C., St. Loules Adantic Bet Hoboken; Argonaut R. C., T Detroit Paranal phd A. C., Ne York Woanaine, B.C. Detroit; Wyaidotte B.C. Intermediate eight-oared shell.—Atalanta . CN : Nt Fork” NeW York; Dauntless RC. New The Trolley in Washington. wi From the Philadelphia Ledger. ‘The report from Washington that trolley interesting themselves in getting is sion for the erection of trolley lines tn thet city 1s not so incredible as it might at first appear to be. Congress has tried to make Washington a model city. It has banished overhead wires of all kinds, and has sought to do away with horse cars, compelling the railway companies to adopt some other sys- tem of car propulsion. In juance of this policy it has prohibited the erection of trolley lines. One of the companies has Sauipped its line with a model cable oan, nother Dut down an undergroun: electrical conduit system in the city, which is used in connection with a Soli ine running through the suburbs. The Metro- litan began experiments with the storage attery system, and had the time for aban- Goning the use of lorses extended one year that it might continue its 4 NEW PUBLICATIONS. THE WILDERNESS HUNTER. An ac- count of the big game of the United States and its chase with horse, hound and rifle. By Theodore Roosevelt, author of “Hunt- ing Trips of a Ranchman.” “Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail,” = t of the Boone and Crockett Clas member of the London e Illustrated. New York: G. P. Put- nam’s Sons. Washington: Brentano's. Few men who are on intimate fighting terms with America’s big game could hope to tell their experiences in the interesting fashion common to Mr. Roosevelt, and none of those who have essayed the literature of the chase on this continent have reached that degree of excellence which makes comparison possible. Mr. Roosevelt's ex- him opportunities not afforded the casual Nimrod. He has, to use his own words, “hunted much, among the mountains and on the plains, both as a pastime and Procure hides, meat and robes for use the ranch and it was my very good lick kill all the various kinds of large game can properly be considered to belong to temperate North America.” Mr. velt’s descriptive talent has been given swing in a field where his pre-eminence is universally conceded nd the amateur seeker after the great game of the North American continent will find in this volume ‘an overflowing store of valuable informa- tion and advice. The work of an enthusi- ast 1s always delightful and that Mr. Roose- velt is enthusiastic must be evident to those who read him where he writes of the hunter in lonely lands that “for him is the Joy of the horse well-ridden and the rife well-held; for him the long days of toil and hardship, resolutely endured, and crowned at the end with triumph. In after years there shall come forever to his-mind the memory of endless prairies shimmering in the bright sun; of vast snow-clad wastes lying desolate under gray skies; of the melancholy marshes; of the rush of mighty rivers; of the breath of the evergreen forest in summer; of the croon- ing of ice-armored pines the touch of the winds of winter; of cataracts roaring between hoary mountain masses; of all the innumerable sights and sounds of the wild- erness; of its immensity and mystery; and of the silences that bréod in its still depths.” THE EMPIRE OF THE TSARS AND THE RUSSIANS. By Anatole -Beau- leu, member of the Institute of ce. Transiated from the third French edition Boge il with annotations by Zenaide A. in, member of the jerican Oriental, =, ciety,” of the “Societe ologique”’ Paris, of the “Victoria Institute,’ ‘London, &c., author of “The Si of’ Chaldea, ’ “The Story of Assyria,” &c. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. ‘Washington: Bren- tano’s. How such an eminently fair statement of fact as is the spinal cord of this book could be forbidden circulation in Russia is one of those things not easily to be understood by people who are not on terms of reason- able intimacy with Russia's governmental condition. Truthful and absolutely equita- ble in its premises the argument leads up to conclusions that would be irresistibly logical to the minds of all save those whose selfinterest binds them to the czar and his methods. The principles of autocracy are cleverly and honestly discussed, and that alone is the reason why the official censor has set upon the volume the seal of his dis- approval. The author insists that Russia, while a Christian state is not @ state of our time; that it belongs to the Europe of long ago; that to imagine, on the faith of the almanacs, that Russia as she is and the Emperor Alexander III belong to the end of the ninteenth century is, in spite of all chronological tables, a gross anachronism, and on such a base as this he founds his criticism. He holds that “the Tsar Alex- ander Alexandrovitch, crowned in the ‘experimen ‘The time allotted has now expired, and is still experimenting, with the evident pur- Pose of forcing Congress to permit them to adopt the trolley, because it is the ch Git, method of car propulsion. There however, no need of such surrender. If storage batteries will not work, if electrical conductors in underground conduits are un- satisfactory, there still remains the cable system, which would preserve the streets of Washington from overhead wires, and the company should be forced to adopt one or the other of devices. There is less excuse for the in Washington than in any other city of the Union, for ton's st free trom the "defacement “of, overhead wires, whereas the streets of other cities are already encumbered with them, and in those cities the trolley only adds to an ex- traliey jes in other cities are rolley ‘companies in anxious to break down the opposition to the trolley in Wi n_for a substan- tial business reason. If Congress should remain firm, necessity, the mother of in- Yention, (will force see Memrepeenn coe com- pany to devise an a of car propulsion, and the, immediate ef. fect of the adoption of su item al Washington, and its successful operation on a large scale, will be a refusal to grant trolley privileges in other cities and a demand that the trolley shall be aban- doned where it is already in use. The suc- cess of any rival system at Washington would doom the trolleys elsewhere. For that reason it is not improbable that trol- ley companies elsewhere will try to influ- ence con: jonal action, and for that reason Congressmen should stand firm against the trolley and persist in their efforts to make Washington a model city. Municipal authorities from all parts of the Union should be able to turn to Washington for evidence of what can be done in the way of freeing the streets of nuisances. Not many years ago the tele- graph and telephone and electric light companies declared that it was imposst to put their wires under ground and op- erate them successfully. But Washington, in’ New York, in ‘Patladel: phia and Chicago there are hundreds or thousands of miles of electrical con- ductors laid under ground and used for telegraphing, for telephoning and for both kinds of electric lghting. The experts who explained by theory why the under. ground conductors could not be operated could not be answered a few years ago; now they can be referred to the works in actual use. So also the railway experts who declare that nothing will serve to propel cars except the trolley system may answered by reference to other systems in use at Washington, provided Congress shall persist in its opposition to horses and to the trolley. Pressure is required to force the adop- tion of systems that benefit the public companies. The latter but not the railway can heat cars with steam in New York, where they are required to do so, but are still “experimenting” in Pennsylvania, where they may do as they please. We shall soon have a better system than the trolley if Washington and New York sist in standing out against it, and when these cities get the better system others ill demand’ that the poles shall come lown. puny, ulous chi or in brace tp ih area’ afer = Grape’ peramern nothing can the * a ‘You pay for the good you get. Hurry =. Shoes, —This ASSIGNEE’S SALE won't last for- ever—but while it does you may have twice the worth of your money. 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Leroy-Beauliew will have it that neither the emperor nor his people live in the same intellectual at- mosphere with ourselves, that “all that has been done in Europe or America for the last four centuries, since the time of Co- lumbus and Luther, Washington an@ Mira- beau is, as far as Russia is concerned, non- existent.” Feeling thus and willing’ to give the Slav a chance to win for himself a place in civilization the author proceeds to furnish information as to the Russian character such as 1s not provided by any other writer on the people of that enormous empire. “The Empire of the Tsars” ts en- Joyable food for thoughtful men and wo- men. FOUR CENTURIES AFTER; OR HOW I DISCOVERED EUROPE. By Ben Holt. New York and Washington: Brentano's. 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