Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1894, Page 13

ALL READY TO PLAY The League Season to Open Next Thursday. SCHMELZ HAS BEEN EXPERIMENTING President Young Has an Approving Word. & TEAM OF HUSTLERS _ ECAUSE I HAVE designated one team of our players as reg- ulars in the present series of practice games,” said Man- ager Gus Schmelz of the Washington Base Ball Club, “that does not mean that those men are to consti- tute the permanent nine by any means. i, It is merely an ex- periment. We are aot going to release many of the men, but ‘will keep eighteen or nineteen throughout the season. Mr. Wagner is equally as satisfied as I am that that is the proper course to pursue. We shal! retain an extra infielder and also an outfielder, three catch- ers will hold places on the team, as will a sufficient number of pitchers to do away with the possibility of having to chase through the country in the middle of the secson for twirlers not as good as those we might release now. In the opening game on Thursday next it is more than likely that Esper will occupy the box, as he prov- ed very effective against the Philadelphias last season. McGuire will catch.” “If the pitchers hold up their end Wash- *fmgton this season will have the best hus- tling baii club in its history,” says Presi- dent N. H. Young of the National League. “If Mr. Schmelz had nine men like Joyce the Senators would be a winning team. Compared with some of the other organiza- tions the local club is not possessed of the | utmost individual strength, but collective- ly the men play together, which is the secret of success. “I am delighted with the base ball out- look for Washington, especially as I have great confidence in Mr. Schmelz. The first time I met hin. I sized him up as a good, ¢lean, straightforward, manly, honorable fellow, and I have never changed that opinion. During the season of 1895 he will ave a better team than during the pres- nt summer. I am confident that the Wash- ingtons will pull out of last place and the public ts to be congratulated on its ball ¢lub and its bright prospects.” “Scrappy” Joyce is to captain the Wash- fmgtons this season. George Hard Gall Tebeau will be his first lieutenant. Maybe Gus Schmelz won't have a pair to look after his interests this season. Some wiseacres have picked the Phila- @elphias to win the pennant, others have picked the Washingtons for tail-enders. Neither of these propositions is of the lead-pipe cinch order. Here is one, how- ever, that belongs in t= cast-iron class. Bet your money that the Philadelphias will have a blamed sight more trouble winning the pennant than the Washingtons will have in staying out of the last piace, and you will come pretty near getting the “candy.” Joe Murphy, In an article sizing up all the pitching talent in the league, has this to say of the Cincinnati team: Cincinnati bas two good men in Chamberlain and Dwyer, a good old has-been in Charley » King, two new men—Cross and Killeen— and that singular freak, Tom Parrott. Supposing King to get back his old-time skill and Dwyer and Chamberlain to do their best, with Parrott pitching at the game pace as last fall, the Cincinnati team ‘Would be a match for a club in the league, but the chances are not favorable for any such surprising good fortune. Of the Chicago team Joe says: “His dis- tinguished and oft-defeated highness, Adrian C. Anson, has seven pitchers enlist- ed—Camp, Griffith, Hutchison, Donnelly, Abbey, Clausen and McGill—and really seems to be better fixed for twirlers than since the days of Clarkson and McCormick. Camp may be set aside as too light, but a choice among the other six would puzzle the best judge of pitchers that ever existed. Hutchison, if he can get back his skill of three years ago, as he is expected to do, Tanks up alongside of Rusie and Nichols; McGill has wonderful curves, great speed apd a fairly good head; Abbey did not re- ceive a fair tria! last fall, but, neverthele: stowed much abiiity; Clausen had things | Pretty much his own way in what games he pitched, and was especially successful against New York; Griffith is recognized by his feilow-players as being the coolest and shrewdest of the seven, and Donnelly, who never even saw @ league game before last September, lost put one game out of the five in which he pitched. The Orioles have at last struck warm weather and hot suns, under the genial in- fluence of which they are thriving and are Iimbering up in great shape, according to a Baltimore paper. The team arrived in New Orleans on the 2d instant and is comfort- ably quartered at the famous old St. Charles Hotel. Every morning the boys at 1 o'clock go out to the ball park and put in a couple of hours of good, hard work. Then they come back to the hotel, dress and take dinner, and at 4 o'clock start on the game with the local club. The base ball grounds are rather peculiarly located Fight in the midst of the cemeteries. One of these cities of the dead lies along the left Bide of the balt field, and oftea a foul ball goes over the wall rattling among the tombs. It is the fashion here in such a ease to call “Dead ball, dead ball.” The weak point of the team at present fs base running. The men are rather slew on bases. Hanion recognizes this fact and working hard on that point. He Is men daily instruction in the art g bases and is making them prac- gorously. Waltz, the genial treasurer of the whe is in the west on «$ Manager Hanlon has cot pennani-winning organization Billy Baltimore a son. aid in Cinefmnati recently: “ more never has had a team near as ¢: the one we have this season. There wiil be any number teams forced to take cur dust this year. Hanlon made a ten-strike when he signed Brouth 1 consic the greatest batter that e pitcher. He will do some tall batting this weason. See if he doesn’t. Last season he Was under cow. His surroundings in, Brookiyn Club were not congenial. F @id not make it very pleasant for him. new right fielder, is said to be n the bat. He has been putting at of the business all through the mner, our new shortstop, Is also @ cracker jack. My advices from Hanion &re to the effect that Mullane and Mc- Mahon are pitching greater ball than ever. Keeler, Kelly and Brodie make up an out- field that can't be beat. We will give the Reds somet? ut When we get Keeler, o @ terror w' Pitchers south. B meeting with Patsy Tebeau lands should prove a red letter Ward wants to bet a hat that Joyce rty games this season, event. Wa will be put out of forty says an exchange, and Joyce replies that if ‘Ward had his just deserts that gentleman out of every game, because use of profanity. Caught on the Fly. Each of the New York players must pay $0 for 2 uniform. Ward says that Dad Clark is in the best condition now of all the New York Van Haltren may do some pite year. Ward thinks Van would do well at ffered from an attack of malaria all winter, and that he was in the care of three doctor: de of the N goes gloved. are mot ‘n desiva- e nearly a, The Baltimore pitcners e shape. It is high time they were in con- Gition to earn their salary. Washington has four second basemen. What a pity they can’t be rolled into one. Manager Barnie of the Louisvilles has been in Chicago trying to effect an ex- change of Pitcher Stratton of his team, for either Schriver or Lange. Tom Brown will not lead off in batting | for the Louisvilles this year. He will follow | Tim O'Rourke, who will be the first man to face the pitcher. Cincinnati is already wild over the work of Hoy. There is no doubt that the diminn- tive deaf mute wili add greatly to the strength of the Porkopolitans. Each club in the New England League will pay $75 for protection under the nation- al agreement, $50 for the president's salary and for incidental expenses, a total of $150. President Kerr of Pittsburg made a shrewd play in allowing Coxey and his army to camp back of the bleachers in the bali park. Over 1,300 people paid to see the game on Tuesday last. Pitcher Petty is showing up very poorly with the Washingtons. The “Kids” have found his curves easy to gauge. Joe Mulvey is captaining the “Vets” in place of Sam Wise, according to an outside writer. In Joyce, Ward, Tebeau, Dugdale and Selback the Washingtons have the largest ccllection of noisy coachers on the ball field. | Carter showed in his game against the | Bostons Saturday that he can pitch gocd ball under the additional five feet handicap. Senator Irby of South Carolina at one time played first base for a team in his native state. He is a great base ball crank. Says an exchange: “Hassamaear, one of Manager Schmelz’s ‘young bloods,’ has made a great hit with the Washington spectators. They cheer him every time he goes to the bat.” Catcher Dick Buckley says he will not put a uniform on for the salary St. Louis has offered him. The Pittsburgs received a terrible guying from the smoky city enthusiasts for being beaten by the Sioux Citys, 4 to 1. Hart held the heavy Pittsburg sluggers down to two hits. Pitcher McGinnis has been released by Philadelphia. He is the youngster who held the Chicagos down to seven hits in two games late last year, and who was signed by Harry Wright with the expecta- tion that he would be a phenomenon this year. The advisability of taking southern trips will be exemplified in fhe playing of the Baltimore team. Hanlon has his men in a Warmer clime, and their work will be close- ly watched. Sioux City was south, and j when the team came north it played great A story is told about Hoy that {llustrates the mute’s business sense. When he reached Cincinnati he had a big bundle of money, and wanted to deposit it in a local bank. He was given the name of one, and in a few days a friend found out that Hoy had taken his money to a bank other than the one that he was referred to. Hoy was asked the reason for the change, and pointed out the-fact that the stock of the back that he had placed his money in was | Quoted at a very much higher figure than the one he was advised to put the money in. Kennedy, the young catcher who played with the New Yorks last year for a few games, is in daily practice at the Polo grounds and fs In excellent trim. He would ia @ good man for an Eastern ub. Ex-President John B. Day of the New York club is reported to be very {ll at his home in Orange, N. J. The New England League is an assured Success with the eight clubs now in the cir- cuit. Who carried Farrell's bats is the leading Question at present. “Pat” Murphy, the old New York catcher, will manage the Worcester club this year. team. ‘The official bulletin issued by the New York club yesterday was to the effect that the New York players would wear leather instead of canvas belts this season. Catcher Clements of the Phillies, it ts said, has taken on so much fat, flesh and fustian since last fall that “Dasher” Troy would appear consumptive standing alongside. Vaughn has signed with Cincinnati and Parrott and Connie Murphy are the only ones left out in the cold who are desired by Comiskey. Charley Radbourn has?applied to six dif- ferent league managers for engagement, but without avail. There is some talk of his playing with Chicago. A Philadelphia paper announces that un- less Stafford can play short stop to suit Ward he will be released. But they some- times get things mixed in Philadelphia. “Jimmy” will not be released unless he falls away most wonderfully in his playing. The Louisvilles were the first league team |to be beaten, the Sioux Citys being their vietors. Since then the St. Louis Browns were beaten by the Kansas City team, the | “Phillies” by the University of Pennsylva- ria team and the Bostons by the Yales. The annual pase ball game between Phil- ips Exeter and Phillips Andover academies ll not take place this year. Each team claims that the other is supporting pro- |fessionals. Both Yale and Harvard obtain jmany of their best athletes from these acad- jemies. The annual base ball game in the spring and the annual foot ball game in the jfall serve to develop the candidates and |point them out to the Yale and Harvard | captains. The Cleveland and Chicago teams have not been able to de any out-of-door prac- | tice this week on account of the weather. |The Washingtons have released “Sam” \ Wise, ahd Von der Ahe got jealous of Jack Crooks‘ personal beauty, and let him go. On the first day of each series at Wash- ington the watches will be held on the boys |as they endeavor to lower Harry Berth- jong’s great base running record of 14 3-5 ‘seconds, made in Washington in 1868. On |the second day the 100-yard straightaway }dash will be run. On the third day the hrowing contests will take place. “Farrell Thrown Down,” “Forced to Sign at New York's Terms or Quit the Business,” are the sensational headlines a Boston paper has over the story of Farrell agreeing to New York's terms. Roger Connor says it took a photographer two hours to take Dad Clark’s picture, and that Dad had to go without his dinner. Clark says the camera man penciled Rog- er's eyebrows and rouged his cheeks, be- sides using a curling iron on the big fel- low’s mustache. It is bad policy to have a member of any club umpire games where his own team is a contestant. Sam Wise has been released by Washing- ton at his own request, says a writer. There is lots of usefulness in Sam yet, all ideas te the contrary notwithstanding. Third Baseman Shindle reported to the Brooklyn club nearly a week ago, but as yet has not received a trial. Shindle looks well, and fs anxtfous to play ball. Catcher Dick Buckley never tn all his base ball career has played ball weighing under 295 pounds. He is down to 190. Tommy Dowd and Chris Von der Ahe j have settled their differences. Jobn Irwin is fast filling up his Haverhill team with good men. The people of that city are delighted to have genial John at the head of affairs there. No player ever stood better with the New York public, when he was in his prime, than smiling Mickey Welch. The New York Sun is paving the way to make Dad Clark a red- hot favorite in Gotham by the statement that Dad, tn size, facial expression, walk and method of handling the ball, is a dead ringer for “The Smiler.” Jim O'Rourke has accepted a league um- pireship, with the understanding that should he be offered a satisfactory contract to play ball in a league team, President Young will release him. With certain clubs he would rather play than be an umpire, and his re- turn to the league diamond ts probable. Manager Ward has secured Anerson, the left-handed pitcher who made such a good showing against the New Yorks in the game with the Metropolitans on Saturday. He will practice with the Giants until the opening of the season. The big batsmen on the local team are ail left-hand batters, and Ward thinks it an excellent idea to have a good “south-paw” to twirl against the boys. Capt. Miller is confident that the Browns will make a creditable showing in the race. Miller evidently forgets that Christopher | Columbus Von der Ahe is to manage the team. When Frank de Hass Robison returned to Cleveland from Indiana he found Pitcher John Clarkson waiting to fly to his arms. | John immediotely signed a contract, which ended his annual bluf. Pitcher “Jack'’ Horner of the Baltimores is suffering from a sore arm, and his work has, therefore, been unsatisfactory. | Pitcher Stratton has been offered $1,600 by Louisville, but he is holding out for $2,- Clements of the Phillies is almost es fat as the corpulent member of the celebrated firm of “Me and Him.” He is fifteen pounds over weight. The first triple play of the season was made by Smith, Latham and McPhee of the Cincinnatis last Friday. Catcher Grim is made of the right kind of stuff. When he found out that Le could not get the salary he wanted from Louisville, and signed at the club’s terms, he sald: he fact that I didn’t get what I wanted will have no effect on my play. Whether I get $1,200 or $12,000, I would do everything I could for the success of the team.” Connor delights in having Tiernan knock hot liners and grounders at him. Mike en- tertained Roger for an hour yesterday, and he crawled to the club house more dead an alive the big first baseman said to “You didn’t put any speed Into those They were too easy n Haitren gives Anson this shot: “The man has received credit for a" “Ed” Crane may pitch for the Haverhill| %. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. kicks on technical points in the rules, which he would never have done if it hadn’t been for Tom Burns. Burns was one of the quickest players to see a loophole, and to | him Anson owed many a good suggestion. Nowadays there are many points that ‘Cap’ doesn’t see.” Dan Brouthers is hitting the ball at a Pretty lively rate down south. The Orioies = ee to show up well as sluggers, evi- ently. Tom Brown is Louisville’s first victim. He has a nice fat finger, the result of an injury in practice. Manager Barnie of Louisville is trying to trade Pitcher Scott Stratton for one of the Chicago catchers. The Brooklyn players are more sanguine of beating New York than any other team. This must make John Ward weary. Catcher McMahon played his first game in Washington last week and at once jump- ed into public favor. An exchange says his fielding was superb and he made two hits just when they were needed. Three of the Cleveland's six games with the Pittsburgs, scheduled to be played in Cleveland, have been transferred to Pitts- burg by general consent, because they con- flicted with the grand circuit races. Hawke is the one Baltimore player who has refused to sign. = In their exhibition games “Mat” Kilroy is the Louisvilles’ winning pitcher. Daub’s pitching for the Brooklyns is be- ing hit very hard in the practice games. The “Phillies’” new catcher, Grady, made the first home run on the Philadelphia's ground, Von der Ahe absolutely refuses to release Pitcher Gleason to the Philadelphias at any price. Gienalvin has asked for his release from Chicago, so as to join the Detroits. Presl- @ent Hart has turned the matter over to Anson, with the recommendation that he be released, provided the Detroit club pledge itself at the end of the season to turn over to Chicago any member of its team Anson may want. 8 A special train will carry the New York enthusiasts to Baltimore next Thursday, when the Giants open the season there. This ts the first instance in the history of the New York club that a special train has been used to carry New York patrons near- ly two hundred miles to see the Giants play a game of ball. It is an indication cf the great interest which is being felt in the im- proved team. Harry Weldon thinks it would be funny if Washington should beat out New York in the race after selling its $7,500 battery. He Says stranger things have happened. Connaughton, the Boston catcher, is no bigger than Duffy. Lampe, the new Boston pitcher, something like Westervelt. Jouett Meekin is one of the quietest of the New York players. He even rivals Mike Tiernan. ‘The Milwaukees defeated the Clevelands on Monday 7 to 2, and “Patsy” Tebeau used a few more selections from his choice vo- cabulary of untained words, Cross has signed a Philadelphia contract, Clarkson a Cleveland contract, Scott Strat- ton a Louisville contract, and the only man now outside the league breastworks is Pitcher “Tom” Parrott of the Cincinnatis. Hardy Henderson, the ex-pitcher of Balti- more and other clubs, has been appointed an umpire in the Pennsylvania State League. Tommy Esterbrook thinks of playing ball under Mike Kelly at Allentown. The “Dude” ts able to play hard ball yet. The Toledos of the Western League are accounted by many to be the strongest team outside of the National League. Learning that Gastright had been re- leased by the Bostons, the Springfields lost no time in putting in a claim for him, as far as the Eastern e was concerned. Jim Mutrie is said to be suffering from a ae a of paralysis in a hospita! in Corning, looks Judge Cullom is preparing an oration to be delivered from the club house balcony the first day that Tim Hurst umpires at the polo grounds. Tim says the judge is a Jonah and a balloon. The judge says Tim is the “worst umpire on earth.’’"—New York Herald. Van Haltren and Farrell still retain in their possession the celebrated claw-hammer dress coats which they, as members of the Chicago team, wore in this city in 18x8, At one time yesterday there was just $7,- 500 in the New York dressing room, with no one there to grab it. Meekin and Farrell were there alone.—Exchange. The opening game in Cincinnati attracted 8,500 people, despite the fact that the Weatuec was very cold. This is a base ball year. “Pat” Murphy, the old New York catcher, who is now managing the Worcesters, is a bit behind the times. In a letter to Man- ager Ward he asked whether his team could play in New York on April 19, the date set for the opening of the league championship season. The first triple play of the season was made in Cincinnati Saturday. The bases were full of Milwaukee players, when Shori- stop Smith caught a line fly, threw it to Latham, and Latham got it to McPhee in time to catch the third man. The play saved the game to the Cincinnatis, Boston’s deteat by Yale was the second time the Beaneaters have ever lost to the New Haven boys. The first defeat was in 1887, when Stagg and Dann did the honors for Yale. Kelly had then just been pur- chased by Boston, and caught. Stagg struck him out, much to the crowd's ielight. Big Stemmyer pitched for Boston. The score was 3 to 2. Manager Selee says he never managed a ball nine which showed up in such perfect physical condition as the Bostons are this spring. “Mike Kelly is beginning to think ere this of the old axiom, ‘How soon we are forgot- ten, says George Munson. “Mike is not dead, but he’s burled with his one-night- stand ball team in Allentown, Pa. riomage has turned to ridicule tn his cas: President Hart of Chicago says that he thought Glenaivin’s release would be given him. “But it wi'l be with the understanding that Detroit will give us our pick of its men at the end of the coming season,”’he declared. “Glenalvin cost us a neat bit of money, but I am opposed to his remaining with us if he is dissatisfied. We have twenty-two men under contract, but, of course, some of them will be weeded out before the season is very old. We cannot tell how many we will carry all through the season, but it will be many less than we have now. The team will not be weakened in any way.” John Clarkson, who is on the verze of be- ing @ good old “has been,” is on the outs with the Cleveland club. Clarkson claims his salary has been cut, but President Rob- isan says this is not the fact. It is gener- ally believed that Clarkson feels piqued be- cause Young's salary was raised equal with his own, and that it is in this fact that he considers his own salary reduced. Presi- dent Robison says: “We will employ Mr, Clarkson to play ball if he wants to accept our terms, and, If he does not, we might find a better man for less money. Bug Holliday is one of the boys who will step up to the cashier's desk on the 15th with a broad-gauge smile on his face. Bug has been looking forward to the first pay day of the season for a long time now. He hasn’t even had a car fare to and from the grounds for over a week.—Cincinnati En- quirer. Treasurer Abell of the Brooklyn Club, who, by the way, has not resigned yet, met Ward recently on Broadway. “Ah, (ap- tain!” said the Brooklyn magnate, “we're waiting for you out at Eastern Park, and we think you may be surprised at our showing!” “That's right,” returned John- ny, “I shall be very much surprised if Brooklyn is heard of at all. Why, if your team should beat New York out this year I'd go off somewhere and die. But there’s no danger of that!” Mike Kelly has two more men signed, George Wood and Catcher Moran. But the team is far from complete. A careful estimate snows that there are already in existence for 1894 three times as many professional base ball clubs in the United States as there were at any time last year. E, C, Stedman, the poet, was a caller at the New York Club headquarters Saturday. Mr. Stedman is quite a base ball crank and declared that there are no such models for sculptors and painters as can be found among ball player: “Buck” Ewing claims to be as agile as a spring lamb. Ex-Manager McGunnigle has secured no engagement for the scason. The professional foot ball league projected at the league annual meet is likely to die prematurely. Westervelt is the best-dressed, best-look- ing pitcher in the National League. “Dad” Clark isn't. “Charley” Dooley, who once played with the New Yorks for a few weeks, will cap- tain the Nashville team this year. It,is expected Gov. McKinley will be the honored guest of the Cincinnati club on the 1gth instant, and that he will make a short speech and then throw the ball to the um- pire. Mike Kelly will quit the stage for the sea- son today, and on Monday he will take charge of the Allentown Base Ball Club, Catcher Milligan is the only man Kelly has signed as yet, and he says if he can secure Mark Baldwin to do the pitching he will have no trouble in making up a team which will hold its own in State League company. John Stricker, Peter Browning, Geo. Wood, Samuel Wise, Harry Stovey, Edward Crane, James Galvin and other old-timers may be secured. Pitcher Schmidt, the loud coacher, who was a member of the Baltimore team for a time last year, !s playing with the Grand -Rapids team. “Jack” Crooks, released by Von der Ahe. has signed to play second base for the Min- neapolis team of the Western League. 12 ‘| for his country. SCHOLARS IN PUBLIC The Most Learned Men Should Be the Best Politicians. DUTY T0 ONE'S COUNTRY The Nation Needs Men of Brains and Learning. A VITAL TOPIC DISCUSSED Written for The Evening Star. (Copyrighted by the Irving Syndicate.) In a republic each man must live, in part, It is sufficient in a despot- ism if the king is a great statesman. At least all merit away from the king is in- effectual. When William, the Conquerer, lay dead there was no visible reason why the learned men of the land should read principles and teach them. They ran and barred their homes against thiev and the attendants of the monarch ran away from the palace carrying in all directions clothes, bedding, furniture and plate, for at the death of each absolute monarch came chaos. Only a few nabobs were interested | in the successor. In a republic the palace, | the plate, the furniture, the national wealth and the succession in office are the property of the majority. In order to bring chaos it | would be necessary, not for a President to die, but-for the people to go crazy or perish. | To steal from the nation would be to break | into one’s own residence and run off with ——- majority. the contents. In addition to the duties of his trade, pur- suit or profession, each American ‘must | make his nation an aim and a task, for he is a piece of its king. A republic is a joint | stock company in whose profits each citi- | zen has the same interest. Each voter holds | a bond and must see to it that it is always as good as gold. The Work of Scholars. The scholar is assumed to be @ person of learning, mental sensibility and of high morals. He may be a most polished crimi- nal, but the laws of the human intellect compel the best morality to attach itself te an education that knows good paths to good ends and that creates a sensibility in favor of the best path. While many a good scholar has been hung and many others should be at a rope’s end or behind bars, yet it remains a most grand and evident truth that the whole globe has been created aud made beautiful by its scholars. History is very incomplete and does not lead us very far back, but it always finds great epochs to start in some group of minds emi- nent for a local intellectual greatness. From Moses to Pericies and from Pericles to Augustus the flag of the state was al- Ways related to the education of the times. it is absurd to suppose that the old consti- tutional monarchies or republics like those of the Hebrews, Greeks and Komans could have emerged from the most ignorant classes. They came from the most advane- ed thought of each place and time. Out of dense ignorance despotisms are born. Each Greek scholar was enamored of his state. His poetry, his prose, his elo- quence, hs physical powe>, pointed to the | beloved nation.- Alcaeus said that “Walls, theaters, porches and equipage will not make a state, but only great men can create such a result.” To this definition Aristides and others added this thought: “Where great men are who know how to take care of themselves, there is the state.” This is that old wisdom that Sir William Jones rendered into the English poem, “What Constitutes a State?” The Work of Scholars. It should impress the modern mind deep- ly that those two nations whose names are worn out by everlasting allusion never became so degraded as to elect a blockhead for a national leader, Scholars ruled for a thousand years. Vice conquered at last, but the scholars compelled the evil day to defer its coming. When Caesar feil he was the leading student, writer and orator of his age. The writings of Homer demon- strate that the Greek state began in a superior scholarship, those poems being abundant evidence that Homer came up out of an Aryan civilization as great as his songs. The law that something comes from something applies to Homer. So great, those poems came from something great. We are bound, therefore, to think of all the space between Homer and Caesar as being dominated by the highest educa- tion of the entire ten centuries. The Roman civilization died in the death of the Mterary spirit, and when, in the fourteenth century, national Ife and beauty reappeared, it first presented itself at the doors o* the universities. It came restudy- ing the wide learning by neglect of which it died. Before Protestantism had being, scholarship had reappeared in the Roman church and had created men like Dante, and all that new thought that was destined to run on to Bacon and Shakespeare. Luther was himself created by the new mental beauty Romanism had assumed. ‘The church had grown weary of the senseless literature of the fanatics and had compelled the old classic masters to return to the desk ef the schoolmaster and the studio of the thinker. This great return created the Luthers and Melancthons and made the fifteenth and six- teenth centuries, The classical awakening that created a group of Luthers made aiso a group of Bossueto and Fenelons inside of the old sanctuary. Whoever shall read the Telemachus of Fenelon will perceive that the Catholic church had gone back toward the scholarly power of old Athens. The Pot-House Po! cian, The pot-house politician is named after the alehouse in which he passed his waking hours. In our land the word “saloon” dis- places the term “pothouse,”” but leaves un- changed the kind of statesman that is cre- ated and sustained by the friends of the jug and the sawdust. The pot-house states- man can often read and write; and he has at his tongue’s end some words of more or less import. He relies more upon profanity than upon argument, because to affirm something by the devil or the Almighty is a shorter cut to a conclusion than the path followed by a logician. What a scholarly statesman would study over for years, a pot-house politician can determine in a few seconds, when he and his audience are as full of ale as they are empty of intelligence. To the intellect of this form of mental ruin a city or a nation is as inconceivable as eternity r the beginning of time. The word “city” or “nation” implies only a mass of money to be gotten. This pile of money is not in a mire, to be dug out with a pick; nor in the field, to be coaxed out with a plow. It is heaped upon a table covered with green boize, and is to be se- cured by means of marked cards or loaded dice. The saloon politician has the intel- lect that can see the pile of money and can load dice or mark cards. Humble as the pot-house politician may be, he is a great favorite in large cities, and being an en- larged thief, he is clothed at the ballot box with an opportunity as large as his desire. Old-Time Scholars and Politicians. Cicero, perhaps the broadest scholar of the pagan age, says in his essay on the re- public “that at no point of thought and feeling does man’s nature resemble more the divine nature than when the statesman is founding and caring for the common- weaith.”"—De Rep., chap. 1, 7. This luminous sentence is verified when the modern student reads the history of the modern great nations, and finds them made and guided by the most profound men of the whole world. Hamilton, Burke, Pitt, Jeffer- son, Washington, Cavour, Castelar and Gladstone are only specimens of the names that underlie the modern state. In common speech a scholar is not a person who is an expert among languages and among the forms of grammar and rhetoric. The term is equivalent to the word “philosopher” or “wise man.” The history of his race lies outspread’ before him. He knows, at least in great outline, the careers pursued by the great races of our planet and by what paths they came to their ruin or success. He is familiar with the laws and duties that spring from the relations of man to man. He can see in the forest of life the paths that lead to the most happiness for the greatest number. He is not a critic of style and speech only, but he is somewhat familiar with the needs and capavilities of the human family. What the Nation Depends On. All this wide survey of the human wants and conditions must be expressed by the mind, which at the same time possesses this rich wisdom and lives in a republic. Be the individual a lawyer or physician or clergyman or writer or merchant, he must his scholarship to bear upon the na government, because the nation de peuds upon the culture and sense of th ‘There can be no division of labor by which one scholar can preach or teach or write books and leave to some other scholar the task of caring for the common- wealth. There is no security that the ig- morance and vice of a continent will ask scme one distinguished for ignorance and vice to represent them at the local and na- tional electio! If ignorance and fraud move in bulk, so must all the cotemporary | education and morality move in their total- ity. When an educated man avows himself to be neutral in politics he confesses that his education is very defective in the de- partment of principles. He may be able to compose a sonnet or to speak his native | tongue with propriety, but it would be an | insult to Milton and Join Stuart Mill and all the greatest men of all times to call him a student or a wise man. A man’s vision would be thought defective if he could not see the sky or the ocean; defective is the American scholarship that cannot see that oceanic object loved and died for as the na- tion, Scholars the highest and most sincere will differ as to the best path to the best end, but out of the long and earnest ex- change of opinion greater truth will come than can be hoped for from an age of ig- norance and inaction. The differences of scholars are a matter of regret and are a delay of progress, but in vice and ignor- ance there is no hope whatever. An age of intellectual activity is always evolving great principles. When our nation began, slavery was not seen in its true light. The scholars differed as to the moral quality of the bondage of black to white, but out of educated reflection came at last a gen- eral acceptance of the equality of all hu: man rights. The truth may come slowly from scholarship, but that is the only source from which it has been known to come. Scholars Must Stand Near the People. Each nation with its many millions of veople presents all the vicissitudes pos- sible to human life. All scholars must Stand near to the people that they may utter the eloquence and write the essays and poems of the people’s sorrows and joys. All the old Hebrew writers were students and scholars for the commonwealth. The best education of that period went to the rulers of the republic and afterward to the throne. The classic states also were pre- sided over by their scholars. All the American scaolars from the poets like Whittier to the ollege presidents like Woolsey and Hopk'us should keep go near to the daily needs of the republic that the Congress at Washington should see them taking seats in tie House or the Senate to help make wisdom and integrity assume a high place in tue laws and deeds of the country. If there be any meaning in learn- ing or wisdom vur nation should be seen sending to its central legislature and Su- preme bench and presidential chair only its best men in all the senses of that signifi- cant phrase, but by scholar we must not mean some graduate of some college, but the man who by some means has reached a wealth of information, a symmetry of intellect, a habit of reflection and a purity of heart. DAVID SWING. ——___ ++ — The Effects of a Shower. From Life. DISEASE POWERLESS! Pain Relieved, Disense Arrested, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Deafness, Caterrh, Spinal Diseases, Paraly and Other Maladies Radically Cured. The spacious parlor offices of Dr. Damon, at 608 12th street northwest, continue to be crowded with anxious people. The fame of the doctor's wonder ful success has gone abroad far and near,, and the afflicted are availing themse!ves of what has proven to be their only reliable means of cure. Here may be seen the deaf, the rheumatic, the palsied and the blind sitting side by s'de with the dyspeptic;the sufferer from catarrh, at the unfortunate whose Ufe has been sapped by th: lingering torments of spinal curvature. In shor:, there is no varlety of disease which does not find its way to the offices of these gifted inagnetic healers. These men are possessed of a power that belongs to no other men in the curing of disease. It is a power which the doctors have been conscious of since early life, and combining with !t a thorough training in the science of medicine and the treatment of disease, they bave been able to obtain results unequaled by other practitioners. Dr. Damon cures all forms of female complaints without the use of instruments or ex- posure. In fact, no disease in the whole category of human ailments is proof against the doctor's magnetic power. Take no one’s word except that of a cured pa- tient. Let no prejudice stand tn the way of reason, but whatever your complaint may be, it will be to your interest to consult him. Magnetism is the greatest boon of this age, and it is fast supplant- ing the old-fashioned and obsolete methods of our grandfathers by making permanent and lasting cures when all other systems have utterly fuiled.it te sublimate water. Pro..uces s healthy color. Be sure to obtain the Gelson Co., Agents, N. ¥,," on every bottle. ‘ormous eu ‘ear by American women fcr cosmetics, face powde"s, washes { all kinds, most of which ere made of oxide of zine, corrosive This salt, which is produced by effective in all stections it is without equal. It clears the complexion and wenuine article, Price, bottle $1, Cosmetics Do Not Beautify But Often Destroy a Healthy Complexion. Field bas made the remarkable statement that the of sixty-two million dollars are spent every and other poisonous substances which, instead of beautifying the complexion, destroy even a healthy skin. A ‘natural rosy and bealthy complexion cannot be ed by the use of , these cosmetics, but only throuch the health of the body in gen- era’, and nothing is better to-ecure this resui: than the genuine im- ~ Ported Carisbal Sprudel Salt, when taken cari) in themorning be- ore breakfast, sbout half © teaspoonful, dissolved in a tumblerful of the City of Carlsbad by the evapors- disorders of the stomach, liver ant kidneys. which has the signature of *"Eisner.& Men- RUPTURE ! Many unprogressive physicians and people still believe ruptures incurable, except by operations, and thus they cling to the deadly truss and recom: mend it as the only meaus of relief for the rup- tured. These unphilosophical physicians and citizens have rot investigated the new method for curing hernia, and thus they know nothing whatever of its principles, and 2s a consequence thelr opinions ve no value, and yet they assume the responsibil- Aly of advising th curable, and thus frequently prevent persons who permit others to do their thinking for them from seeking @ means of cure. It is such ignorant people as these who clog the wheels of human progress and make it difficult for new and valuable ideas to preva’ If you sre ruptured, and desire a cure, gate for yourself. Don't permit any gentleman with long ears to mislead you. I cure raptures without operations, pain, medicines or detention frou business. Trusses kill 25,000 people yearly in America alone, and they entail painful diseases | upon thousands more. To obtain an intelligent idea my system of cure @ personal consultation It will cost you nothing for examina tion. Hours, week day», from 10 to 6 o'clock and from 6 to 7:30. Sunday, 10 to 8. Dr. Parker, 114 G St. N. W. neighbors that ruptures are in- | investi | VARICOGELE! You may be afflicted with a varicocele and yet have no conception of the terrible cousequences that it ts almost sure to entail upon you if you meglect its cure. The sense of dchility, soreness, down feelings, enlargement in the lower part of abdomen, together with the nervousness, loss of power and meatal depression that usually aecom- panies varicocele, may have led you to consult some physician, who, knowing be bad no cure te offer, tried to quict your fears regarding ite ser- Jous nature by telling you it was of little com sequence, to apply a bandage and you would ont- Srow it. Bandages have never cured a varicocele, neither has medicine nor operations afforded more than temporary relief. I have discovered @ process for the radical cure of varicocele, and I can éo it Without operations, medicine, pain or detention from business. Examinations free by Dr. Parker, 114 G St. N. W. Hours: Week days, 10 to § apd 6 to 7:30. Sum days, 10 to 8 o'clock. apll&ls-2r* ula! Doz. Fine Black | $1 Corsets Largest stock, finest establishment, uly best variety, lowest prices, all Cor- sets fitted free; sutisfuction or money returned without question. | —_ | M.C. Whelan { | i i S. & B. S. & B. ‘All first-class deaters sell the “Reversible Mat- tress."" Accept no substitute, It Costs No. More than the “one-sided” mattress and has joet twice the a << oes it, a ‘See that “ . = each corner of the ee else it's uot the genuine. & B. Ss. & B. 1S Wi SP i MRE Ss. ap Gas Ranges. We do not aim to make @ profit on Gas Ranges, but sell them sim- ply that you may get the best and have them set up properly. While we have Ranges for more ‘and for less we can sell you 2-burner Ranges, $13. 3-burner Ranges, $18. A-burner Kauges, $22. —there prices include setting up. ‘Wash. Gaslight Co., 413 roth St. N. W. apo Sesoooee Destroys Moths Coal Tar Camphor, roc. Ib. You cannot buy a cheaper or mére effective moth testroyer than Coal Tar Camphor, at 10c. fall Warm enough to use it now to your win- ter wraps, suits and 0c. per’ pound package here only. W. S. Thompson’s Pharmacy, 703 1sth St. ap! We Have 95,000 Negatives —instend of 9,500, as the types made us say. Can you realize the enormity of such a number? Yet every one is im the best condition, and if yours is in the lot we can “strike off” as many Photographs as you wish. CoM. Belly. a 463-465 Pa. ave. eeeeee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Importations. Just received an elegant line of THEO. 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