Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1894, Page 9

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Guardsmen interested in rifle shooting— and every member of the brigade should be—will be pleased to know that a turkey shoot is to be held in the D street gallery on Wednesday evening next, begin- ning at 7 o'clock. Probably the entire membership of company B, sixth battalion, will participate in the sport, and all others may follow sult if they so desire. It will be necessary, however, for the soldiers en- tertaining hopes of winning a bird or birds for their Thanksgiving dinners to notify Lieut. King, in charge of the rifle gallery, beforehand, in order that he may procure the turkeys. The gallery will remain open until the last gobler is disposed of. Within a few days after this turkey shoot the gallery, which for several years past has been the principal and at times the sole field for practice with a rifle by the District guard, will be dismantled, and all para- phernalia made ready for removal to the new armory. Until that time, however, those desiring to indulge in voluntary prac: tice for the turkey shoot may be accommo- dated by communteating their wishes to Lieut. King, in order that the gallery may be opened when the riflemen arrive. Doings of the Battery. A commissioned officer of light battery A fs authority for the declaration that his or- ganization is to be represented in the artil- lery branch of the Memphis competition by a section that means to return with a prize. The battery is the only organization in the brigade regularly indulging in rifie practice at the present time. Squads of ten mea shoot over the battery’s indoor range for two hours on each Monday evening. Lieut. Griffiths acts as inspector. Before moving into the new armory the battery will give @ “smoker,” to which all commissioned of- Ecers of the guard are to be invited. Discharges, Honorable and Dishonor- able. The following named have been dis- charged from the guard on their own appli- cations: Corporal F. L. Stevens,company C, engineer corps; Private John Bolger, com- pany A, fourth battalion, Privates Charies T. Burns, Samuel Doggett, L. D. Gray, B. B. Harper, J. P. Hubbard, William H. Hun- ter, T. b. Sergeant and Walter V. Smith, company C, sixth battalion, and Quarter- master Sergeant D. P. Syphax, first sepa- te battalion. The following namad have en dishonorably discharged: Privates C. J. Heriey, Geo. N. Hensey, Wm. Kyle, R. O. Taylor and Elliott Wallingsford, company ©, third battalion. Capt. Walsh's Company Booming. It 1s thought that company A, fourth battalion, is about to experience a boom. Captain Walsh states that he has prac- tically eliminated all worthless material fhom the organization and in the near future will begin recruiting from a most @esirable class of men. It is the inten- tion of the company to make an excellent showing at the brigade encampment. It @zpects also to participate in the inter- ate drill at Memphis if permitta so by the powers that be.” oa Notes. The order appointing Arthur FE. Middle- ton acting second lieutenant of company ©, engineer corps, has been revoked aud he has been discharged for the good of the service. It {s within the beunds of probability that the order would not have been revoked had Mr. Middleton refrained from affixing his cutograph to a petition through which a few discontented members of company C expressed to Captain Averill their desire for his resignation. Major Gilbert Thompson, the veteran commander of the engineer corps, has re- turned from his geological survey fled work, and is now ready to take up his duties in connection with the organization of whose existence and achievements he {s so proud. Major Thompson will devote him- self principally to educating such of his men as need instruction for the duties they will have to perform at the brigade camp in June next. The well-known Chickasaw Guards of Memphis, Tenn., on the 15th instant dedi- cated a newly erected club house by giv- ing a ball, which was conducted on a scale of grandeur seldom equaled in the south. The Chickasaws announce that they in- tend to make themselves neard in tite in- terstate drill next June. David Maize, a member of company H, third regiment, National Guard of Penn- sylvania, has been doubly unfortunate in his experience as a militiaman, Last Thursday night he was arrested for non- attendance at drill, and the following morning when he went to his place of em- ployment he was discharged for attending the drill. First Lieutenant Glendie B. Young, the evgineer corps inspector of rifle practice, is to be married to Miss Katharine Vir- ginia Sensner next Wednesday evening at St. Andrew's P. E. Church. Miss Sens is the daughter of Chief Engineer G. W. Sensrer, U. S. navy (retired). Troop A and battery A, light artillery, are completing arrangements for a prac- tice march and field day on Thursday next. The details of the outing are at present under discussion. Company B, second battalion, has issued invitations for a dance to be held in Haines’ Hall, corner of Sth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, on Friday evening, December 14, 1894, at 8 o'clock. oo THOUSANDS HACKED TO PIECES, Corroborntion of the Reports of Out- rages on the Armeninas. M. H. Gueliasam of Boston, of the United Friends of Armenia, has received a letter from a friend dated Sasson, west of Litlis, October 3, in which he gives an account cf the massacre of his fellow countrymen and women, which, in details, corroborates the account cabled to the Associated Press. He states that thousands have been hack- ed to pieces and that in cne instance seven men were covered with kerosene and set on fire. On another eccasion 200 women with their children were in a church with their priest kneeling and imploring the commandant to have mercy on therm. They were informed that if they would renounce the Christian religion and return to Mohammedanism they would not be hermed. They replied that they had no reason to deny Christ, and they were killed. The Boston branch of the United Friends of Armenia are arranging for a mass-meet- ieee be held in Faneuil Hall tomorrow right. WASHINGTON, D. ©., SATU YOUNG MEN IN OPERA| Columbian University Mask and Wig Club Performance. THEY ARE ALREADY HARD AT WORK The Names of Those Who Will Take Part. SOME OF THE PRINCIPALS eas eee HILADELPHIA has its Mask and Wig Club, Baltimore has its Paint and Powder Club and Washington now has an organization of like nature in the Columbian University Mask and Wig Club. The term “mask und wig club,” locally, aply describes the kind of work to be done by the club, At d of directors a recent meeting of the by the question of a permanent name was consider and special meeting was ed to sele! A prominent socie has sugi Players’ Club Columbian Unive * which me general approval and will probably be se- n in- ‘The lected. Although this club is but fant, the r sals have demonstrated, it is believed, that it will take a leading place among local musical. organizations. In fact, no association contined, this is, entirely to the male sex, has ever attempt- ed the production of a standard work like Cloward. ng prepared for the rance of the club. now reached its limit of “N. Dus “Dorothy,” which is by initial public he chorus sixty members; the dancing members num- ber twenty, with five understudics. The cast includes fifteen men, which, with those doing “specialties,” form a company of over one hundred active membei The entire performance, both dramatic and musical, will be under the direction cf. Prof. N. DuShane Cloward, who is naving about an a of fourteen rehearsals each week. Mr. Cloward exp! himself as contident that the coming perfor of “Dorothy” by the Columbian boy be a surprise for everybody. | ‘The been trained to expect that formances of clubs of this nature wi in the form of burlesque. There is, natur- ally, some suggestion of burlesque in tne idea of males playing an opera written for male and female characters; but the club proposes to stand by the results of their efforts to give a straight performance. In plain terms, “Dorothy” is to be produced in the same form as adopted by the profes- sional opera companies. Mr. Cloward’s original idea of singing all four parts of the music, instead of taking the theme in unison, will be carried out, it is thouht, most successfully by this ‘organization. The work of “Dorothy” is one of the prettiest light operas written, the concerted and quartet numbers being very effe The plot 1s not unlike that of “Ermini in fact, it has generally been conceded t “Erminie” is in many respects patterr after “Dorothy.” It has not been played auch in this country on account of the heavy royalty, but in England, when first S. Hazen Bond. produced, it had a run of over 900 aights. The question of royalty required was a serious matter in the consideration of this opera, but as the club was determine to make a hit the matter of expense was waived. The board of directors estimate hot tho expense for one production will exceed $1,200. The estimates for costuming the play range from $500 to $1,400, and the con- tract has been awarded to a ?hilade’phia costumer, who guarantees to make every costume new. Mr. Cloward has selected Mr. E. Stein as his assistant conductor, and given him authority to engage an orchestra of twea- ty-two men, to be picked from among the best players in the city. ‘The members of the cast are as follows: Squire Bantam (of Chanticleer Hall), Harry Hughes; Dorothy Bantam (his daughter), S. Hazen Bond; Lydia Hawthawn (her cousin, M. Le Roy Gough; Goefirey Frjebus, (nephew of the squire), Theodore Friebus, jr.; Harry Sherwood (friend of Wilder's), Melville D. Hensey; Lurcher (@ sheriff's officer), Billy Conley; Tuppett (an inn- keeper), ‘taylor Cronin; Phillis (his daugh- ter), William Grimes; Mrs. Pruitt (friend of the squire), B, B. Cushman; Tom Grass (in love with Phillis), Frank Brown; Lady Beatty, Dr. Willis Pomeroy; John (at- tendant), Horace Wescott; stage manager, Oliver C. Hine; instructor of dancing, Prof. tant musical director, E. Members of choru! Daggett, sinicke, Houghton, Ge: fae art, Kelton, Schmidt, Catlett, Clapp, Dorman, Houghton, K Spene: Hendle Parry, feard, May ttenhow Wilscn, White, Clephine Concklin, Kimba Tullis, take Moore, Huntington. Those who will part in the dance are a : Sheriv Robison, . Wintield, ¢ Clemons, A. Ch . Atlan, Clephane ot. Cloward, the musical and dramatic director ot the club, has been a resident ashington a little over two years, and ed his ability as prominent work wi demonstra ctor. Hts fir to r Damrosch when the 3 ¢ or of Choral So- sing desirous of new fields ef labor the tion and b since ned i ndueted the Capital G organ chub, amateur opera company in | “Chimes,” juvenile company in “Pinafore,” | the ennial chorus, the Washington | nd Wig Club in “Mike ud this. he has been instrumental in start- | Rubenstein Club, composed of | about forty singers. The principal interest in performances | character natur centers about to repr who sracters. The name ot nid, who fs to sing the role in this production, will at nized by who are mterested in He has displayed much ve the presentation of the nur ters In which he has appe the origimator of the Mask the Columbian Univer- | ful preparation of the to MALce such a oR ho is a grad- n Univers r of the bar, 1 n in- | do with the part of Lydia Hawthawn i » coming pre tion, “Mr neh ha been prominen : lis “ow a member of the | ‘apital Glee ¢ Mr. Friebus will sing Wilder, the b: tone of the quartet. He sang the | role in the “Chimes lof Normandy” ASOn, Mr. Me Ne DPD. Hensey ts to sing tenor of the opera. While he hi quently indulged in atiateur theatricals cf a minor nature it may be said that this will be his tir class. ypearance in work of this > RUSSIA AND EN ding Reached Regard- Dardanelles, spondent writes: If information which I have eve to rely upon is not at fault, the 2 nh » how in the Baltic sea, w few months, h e Pp danelles into the Mediterranean firing a hostile shot or the making by En land of even a diplomatic protest. the so-called Angio-Russian rapproch means this, according to my authorit nothing. With less than this Russia, alread long rest satistied, by whatever means she may have to obtain it. No Protest From England. Thus it is sald here that it is clearly to sland’s true interest to make a vir e of what sooner or later must be a necessity, and to grect Russia on her entrance to the Medit jean as a friend rather than as a foe. This was the view taken of the situ- ation by a very high official to whom I spoke today, but who naturally consenied to talk freely only on condition that lus name be not allowed to transpire. teio-Russian Alliance, “Russia,” he satd, “is England's natural ally, for the simple reason that she can, if be her most dangerous rival. i actically signified her inten- tion of entering the Mediterranean, and it is absurd to think that afier giving w as she did , on the point of the Dar- without as pointed out in the Herald, will not lowing a in the Black at all, should forctbly resist this not uni mand. It is to enable he to xive y with grace that so much being diplomatically made of the p rapprochement. ence at Work. “It is, however, true that there is more than mere foreign office diplomacy under- lying it. The new czar is essentially his mother's son, resembling the Duke of York in temperament as well as physically, a1 in the case of so autocratic a ruler this personal equation must have an important bearing upon international events. The entrance of the Russian fieet into the Med- iterranean, supposing! her to be ad's ally,will not affect the latter's interests ore whit, but should she come as the ally of any other continental power the situation would be materially altered. ‘The Porte Passive. “As to-mny active intervention cn the part of the porte, I think I can safely say that this does not enter into the realm cf possibilitles. The Dardanelles, I need hard- ly point out, will be kept merely as a channel of passage, and the fleet will be allowed to concentrate itself in Turkish waters. On the ether hand, her main ob- ject of free access t@ the waters of the Mediterranean being. gained, Russia will probably cease to appear as a menace to the Ottoman empire, which she will allow to pursue peacefully its own aims. “I may add that in some quarters the presence of Woods Pacha of the ish navy in London at the present time is construed as having a direct bearing on the question. On the other hand, I have Woods Pacha’s direct assurance of the contrary. He assures me that he is merely here on sick leave, and that he is taking no active part in public affairs.” see Munictpal R@formers to Meet. Mr. Charles J. Bonaparte, chairmen of the executive cummittee of the National Municipal League, has issued a call to the reform organizations of the country, in- viting them to send delegates to the second conference for good city government to begin at Minneapolis. on Saturday, Decem- ber 8. The gathering promises to be one of the most important of its character ever held in this country and to exceed greatly in point of numbers and interest the first conference, which was held in Philadelphia last January. The municipal league meeting will irimediately precede the National Civil Service Reform League convention, which will meet in Chicago on December 12 and 13, RDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. from fBe office of pubfication. WOMEN ON BICYCLES! Pauline Pry Goes to a School and Takes Some. Lessons. THE WHEEL PROVES 10 BE MASTERFUL When Mrs. Grundy Leads the Way the Sex Follows. EXPERIENCES THRILLING Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. Te ARE 208 bones ‘n my body,and every one of them's broken, There are 130 pounds of flesh on my bones, and every ounce is black and blue. 1 spert yesterday morning learning to ride a bicycle. It seems odd that 80 much human mi ery as I contain can be summed up in one that. [am fairly reek- my ankles, my legs, my arms, and iny shoulders ache until I’m sure I'm growing a bump where my wings ought to be. But wings, why speak of wings? Do you fancy there'll be any more wings, now angels are going around on wheels? ; There are 200 women learning to ride bi- cycles at the school where I took my first short senten ing with mi lesson, are in the ring by 7 o'clock in the morning and until 10 o'clock at night. I dare say it's like most other misery, you rather like it, once you get ured to it, But whether you like it or not, you have simply got to rid ep up with the procession present. Our summer girls came back from Newport, Narragan- sett, Lennox, where-not, this fall with the rudiments of eycling in their legs, the love of it in their hearts, and—hush! bloomers in their trunks, What's inevitable? Why, of Course, a boom in bicycles and wheels in strange 1 A Di You can't mnt what gu along our w midway plaisance the oth ay. A foreign r-a nobleman, with a title a yard hinister plenipotentiary, envoy ex- traordinary from a most dignified, cere- monious European power, come rolling down on a wheel— mably his wheel (L n of his rank renting one) at the house where Ambassador Bay- ard was visiting, chain his “bike” to a tr and, with bicycle clamps ound his courtly gs, in he went to pay his ts to our ambassador to England. I marveled at the cle to a member of the diplomatic corps, who told me this minister now does all his calling on a bicycle. But that isn’t the whole of cycling in high life. I have seen a titled lady, the immediate tion of a foreign ‘minister, on a afety.” I have also seen the handsome attache of an embassy, a man you have beheld on state occasions in gold lace and the fine frippertes of foreign courts—I have seen this distinguished gentleman mingle himself and a bicycle with the dust, and a pretty American who had essayed to teach him to ride stand by giggling af his discom- fiture, ‘The secretary of still another embassy 1s such a devoted knight of the bicycle that I have known him to represent failure to cultivate the cycling habit a more serious solecism than the Wearing of a last year's hat or shirt with a collar that buttons on. It will not be for want of his earnest ap- peals to his associates to follow in his tracks it you don’t see every man of the fringe of Washington's 100 file into the President's next reception with bicycle clamps around his ankles. Moreover, I can tell you right now that our manual of court i » is to be revised to regulate the use ycle clamps in society nts making a briet call will wear their clamps in the drawing room. For a more protracted visit the clamps may be removed in the hall “For state functions and all occasions where full dress is en regle, it is per- missible for gents to wear silver clamps bearing a chaste design. The right to wear gcld cl mps 4s reserved for cabinet officers, the diplomatic corps, the President and Private Secretary Thurber." Her First Lesson, At the same time there will be bloomers. This is no idle statement, though it was not bloomers, but tights, equestrienne tights, that were visible for three-quarters of a yard above the boot tops of a horsy- looking giri who was wheeling around the ring as 1 entered the bicycle school for my trst lesson. I have alw wore I would never mount a bicycle Ull every other chance in life was gone. When a woman has lost all hope of longer being attractive, it's well enough to secure attention by bet conspicuous. Un- ul then—but bicycles are nothing to moral- ize on, They are to wheel on—when Mrs. Grundy is leading the way “'Tain't goin’ to hurt you, miss—deed it ain't,” said William, and 1 confess this en- couraged me. Wilk n is # man having authority. At the t time he proba- bly has more authority than any other man in Washington, and his responsibilities are greater. The perfect trust, the beseeching ccntidence, the loveliness—yes, the lives of all the shionable woman cyclists in town William holds in the hollow of his hand. He is the muscular colored man who trains wemen on wheels, ‘The school is conducted in a large open lot, in the center of which is a beaten track, Along the wall on the sunny side seats are ranged, where you may rest, waiting your turn, Sitting along the wall were four pretty girls in trim tailor-made gowns, and kick- ed their heels together to keep warm. Their ankles were very prefty and their short skirts not a bit too short either, for artistic or cycling purposes. A couple of splendid Amazons, beneath whose skirts showed the hem of riding trowsers, were pacing “up and down. “br. Mary Walker did,” one was say- ing. m: plied the other, “but how do you know she didn't have’ to get permis- ion from the police?” Well, what if she did? I dare say papa has sufficient ‘pull’ to get as much. Cer- tainly peticoats were never meant for and I'm sure I can’t see why eys aren't every bit as modest.” et I heard William say they arrested a woman somewhere for wheeling in them in tow The Fiquancy of It All. “Oh, bloomers are perfectly safe in Washington,” said the horsy girl in tights, who had dismounted from her wheel, and joined the other two. “I went to police headquarters myself yesterday and found ou Then their further talk revealed that while Washington girls are wearing bloom- ers on their bicycles after dark, they haven't yet dared to repeat thelr summer successes in them by daylight. But really all this indicates great possibilities for the bicycle. Fancy donning mannish attire that you're a little bit afraid of, mounting a machine that you are very much afraid of, with @ man that you're a little bit in love with—why, It’s almost as piquant as if it was absolutely wrong. Still the pleasure has its real menace. Chaperones are learning to ride, Several rried women were at th school. Were masquerading their youthful enthusiasm behind a mater: front of riding just to p » the childr Two professed to be adopting the bicy solely because their doctors d ordered it—cne, to ke her thin; the other, to make her “You better teke a turn now,” liam to me for the third or fourth time. “"Deed. you need not be afraid. I ain't goin’ to let you fall.” “No, William never lets you fall,” went up in a chorus from the assembled te- mules. “When we fall it’s because we're not minding William.” And William stood beaming down upon me as powerful and nt as a sultan in the midst of his glio. Truly, it was inspiring. 1 would mount. “What do you want me to do with that,” I asked. William was extending to me a stout leather strap, having a buckle on one end and slung along its length what looked like a couple of trunk handles. id Wil- “You jes’ wants to buckle this around your waist,” said William, “and I holds you by it, sec? Now come around on this side,” William was holding a wheel ready for me to mount. “Put your right foot over on that treadle and » the Power of the ¥ Spring? I'd like to see me do anything so Kittenish. “You jest drags up,” said William, in tones of such serious disapproval, 1 can ine the way my dignity is bound to be ficed on the next mount. William, William, go ea You w let me fall, will you? Put my feet on th treadles—where On earth are they? Wait a minute till L unwind my skirt. Where are those foot pieces? “Now, William, d-don’t, don’t let go. Never, since I have attained years of | understanding, did I supp 4 man could stand for so much of this world and all of women who triumph on wheels are heros | ines or monsters, I am not sure which. ; When it was ‘my turn to mount again I gave up. My legs felt as silly as the | front legs of a kangaroo. They c| | turn a wheel, and they wouldn't. V said I had done mighty ner, and I suppose Will ‘ whatever else I did, I know this for @ fact, I did myself up, and if anybody hag a certain cure for broken bones, bruises, selatica, rheumatism, inflammation and neuralgia—in a word, for bicycling, a sam ple bottle would be gratefully rived by, PAULINE PRY. THE CITY'S BIG GAME Thanksgiving Day’s Foot Ball Game Be- tween Columbia and Georgetown. Probable Make Up of the Teams= Characteristics Displayed in This Season's Games, Interest in the athletic world will be cene tered, until Thanksgiving day is ever, in the great struggle Letween the Columbia | Athletic Club and Georgetown University | foot ball teams,ny Thursday at clock | at the ational Base Ball Park. An agi ment w between the two t When negotiations were be! m | which each contestant had to sul list of twenty of her members, from v the teams were to be se d eleven has had this year a many n games to play as in former 8, and so | it is hard to judge of their relative merits. | On the part of the Columbias, some of the the next as William now stood to me. I | players are new to the club, though not even thought of © = 5 hem serio ae to foot ball. Another factor in the work of Din coming aah ins heart and insure | Practice to be taken into consideration is his firm clutch on my belt and steady grip | the fact that the scrub team h hown ‘on the handle of my wheel—no, not my | UP as well as it might, thoug’ of its wheel. T relentlessly revolving. thing | @¢mbers have done brilliant work at times, was not mine. I was its. It carried me | nd the lack of mz z round and round—it and Wiliam knew |@ decided drawback to where. I knew nothing except that I was | Wa8 not until “House on a bicycle, 1 that | was a fool. Now Princetc ‘ my feet connected with a treadle; more « that Colum! didn’t. I managed to n_ they Connection with nd. Im- aroy » and down in ay n bumpirg mi the saddle with the movement of phant on a can’ What you said William, “Well, you ought to know,” I answered to. hump y'self with some asy “Deed 1 didn’t te! like that. You jes’ push the treadles up and down like youse was work- a sewin’ machine. You don’t want to rise up in your seat and stand up in ‘em all the way around. You'll kill y’rself that deed you will.” i awful suspicion suddenly seized me. e had a man try to teach me how to ke hold of my belt and get me ater, then let go. 1 sh ‘you wouldn't for thout my know- ld you?” he wouldn't, but this dreadful ite unnerves me, and I want io > says thought qui How? “Bring your right foot around to the ground in front of your left one,” says William. That's all there is to it. There's appar- ently no other way. I can’t do it. But neither can my palpitating flesh stride that bicycle another minute. “There!” I was on the ground, and everybody drew a breath of relief. “Lil never learn how to ride one of those machines in this world,” I declare. “Fancy being alone on one of them, nobody holding your belt, and to hegr the snort of @ pur- suing horse or clang of a defiant cable car. I'd die on the spot.” “Oh, 1 goes on the street with you the first_ time you goes,” says William. “No matter; I'll never learn anyhow,” I reply, to which one of the chaperones’ re- Joins: “But that was your first. mount. Think of me; I have been taking lessons three months, and 4 am still an under- graduate. But, you see, I weigh 180 pounds. Some say I never can learn, but 1 won't give up.” ‘Then this persevering woman tightens her extra-sized belt, and says she will show what she can do, just to give me courage. William manfully braces up her machine until she is ail on, runs half-way around the track with her, and then she is off by herself, She ploughs around and around; her teeth are set and she doesn’t wink once. Talk about Columbus. You would never mention him again in connection with a fixed determination to succeed if you could see thls woman, When she calls out that she is ready to stop, William gives chase. You know how, in a circus, when a ba back rider has finished her act, a super breaks into the ring and runs around till he catches her horse. So did William catch the large lady by the belt on the fly, slow her up and hold her machine while she dis- mounted. Everybody agrees that she does beaut!- fully, and she admits that she would be all right if she could oniy learn how to stop herselt. The Question of Feet. A very pretty girl now mounts, and, though it is only her fourth lesson, she goes alone after the first reund. Her wheel, how- ever, has a will of its own, and while she intends and really yearns to travel all the way around the circle, exactly midway each time around, her wheel heads across the infield, confining her course to a semi- civele. Bravo! This Ume she 3 passed the critical point, and will go straight into a big box a rod from the track. There is a flash of legs and lingerie, and when the girl is untangled from her bicycle and both extricated from the box, the horsy girl comes up warbling, “She'll never go there any more.” It's my turn to mount again. William is telling me about one woman who wears bloomers and rides a bicycle up and down Pennsylvania avenue as an advertisement for a certain brand of bicycle, when the yell of a wild Commanche breaks upon the crisp November air. It's my yell, though I would scarcely believe it| but for the ex- pression of stern disapproval with which a chaperone is looking at me. I don't care. I did yell, and I will yell every time Will- jam takes advantage of my trusting, g03- sipy nature and removes his grip from the handle of my wheel. i “You gives up so easy,” says William. “You never wants to give up. Keep your feet going whatever you do.” When 1 was again resting the manager of the school drew a triangle, A, B, C, ard from this demonstrated that the way to keep from falling when you lose your bal- ance is always to guide your wheel to- ward—not as is one’s impulse, to guide it away from—the direction in which the Lody swerves. This beautiful theory seemed all there is of failing, when, following a des- perate pitch and a rescue by Wiillam, the girl in riding trousers complicates matters with the conundrum, “William, when I go to fall what shall I do with my feet?” “Put "em on the ground,” says William, who further explains: “There ain't nothin’ so good fer you as a fall if you don’t kill yourself. You ain't never sure of your bicycle till you've had a big fall and found that there's nothing to it.” My third time around I begin to feel a bit gay. I sit up very straight, and upon my word, it’s almost a realization of my youthful ambition to be a circus rid Round and round, round and round, faster and faster. If the band would only play and a clown make a few jokes I might throw kisses with airy grace and—I didn't have a chance to yell this time. I was simply struck by lightning, and when I came to my senses I was keiking In mid- air, head down, heels up, William, noble William, holding me suspended by the feet over the deep gorge of eternity and a prostrate bicycle. When my head and heels were restored to their original order the glamor of sawdust and spangles over bicycling was gone. Bicycling was a tragedy—a rebellion against nature, und htened. Th Maryland we ultural nd it is day with showed the | safe to say that unc ful supervision they the contest come tions have not been ful it will not be until after Many of the y decided the & afternoon with the Carlisle Indian that the mem rs of the team will be ne men trying for the Wade and Gapir ly selected | rious positic Ada’ m Johnson, Dickinson and ap, guards; Frank Johnson, Well: | Saunders, tackles; Leet, Sefton, | and Carter, ends; M: any ters; Lewi uart Johnson, Pa Maupin, halfs; Shields and ‘Clark, indications the following’ pl compose the team: Ri fion; right tackle, Pat We d, Dickinson; Wade; left guard, ap; left t i left end, Al ; quarter, Ha ight half, Lewis; t Johnson, and full back, The team vim that augurs well for its suce The backs get under way quickly and fol- low their interference strongly pecially, is quick and is always on lookout to slip through any hoie. Shields has shown a deciied improvement in the way he tries for goul, and his punting ia up to his usual good form. For a line- breaker he is the equal of any full back in the city, and whether it is a hole through the cen or a dash around the ends, he can always be depended upon in getting started. “Harder, at quarter, is rather slow in the way he handles the leather, but seldom fumbles. The ends this year are very strong, and in the special Leet cannct only hold his own, but is ready to carry the pigskin for a good game when- ever wanted. In the line such old vets, as Capt. Wells, Wade and Dickinson are always ready to hold their own and can be depended upon to open up a hole when wanted. Last Tuesday evening the members and candidates of the first and second teams weighed_in, with the following result: Wells, 170 pounds, height, 6 feet 97 pounds, height, 6 feet 1 in 169 pounds, height, 5 fe 171 pounds, 5 feet 10 1-2 inches; Davis, 1 | pounds, 5’ feet 9 inches; Dickinson,’ 1 pounds, 6 feet 4 Inches; Gapen, 170 pound! 5 feet li inches; Harder, 142 pounds, 5 feet |4 inches; Hooker, 1 pounds, feet 9 inches; A. W. Johnson, 200 pounds, 6 feed 1 inch; F. M. Johnson, 180 pounds, 6 fee | Stuart C. Johnson, 145 pounds, 5 jinches; A. B. Leet, 150 pounds, inches; Lewis, 171 pounds, 5 feet 11 inches; MeGee, 140 pounds, feet 51-2 inc | Maupin, 145 pounds, 5 feet $1-2 inche: rsons, 140 pounds, feet 51-2 inche. Sefton, 143 pounds, 5'feet 8 Inches; Shields, 185 pounds, 6 feet 11-2 inches; ‘W r 144 pounds, 5 feet 91-2 inches; Wade, 103 pounds, 6 feet 1-2 inch. The Georgetown Team. The students over in Georgetown thig year have not been doing much t about what they intend to do Thur but are sawing wood to good advantage. Different tactics have been adopted in the training and make up of this year’s and, in addition, all of its members played together in the same pla: the beginning of the season eleven pounds lighter than last year and play a snappier, quicker game, and, with | the change in the play: nis style of work ts decidedly to their advan The backs are all fast runners end to! their interference in good sbape. “Mike” Mahoney will be seen in the © on Thanksgiving day as one of the ! instead of in the line, as in former He is, if anything, better than eve it will be a good teckler that will br’ him to earth when he once gets un way with the pigskin. Murphy is the ry ner of the eleven, and Js a good line bu er. Carmody and Bahen are well knows to all the lovers of the game in thts city, and it will suffice to say that Ul re up to their usual form. Davis, the left guard, is a new man to Georgetown, but was a captain and full back of the Notre Dame team of ‘Y1-'02, and is a good alle around athlete. The team will line up at National Park Thursday as follow Players. Positions, Wt. Harley. -left end. 172. Callahan ...left tackle. Davis cleft guard Bryant .....center Sullivan. ight guard Nelson... Boyle Bahen Mahon Carmody. - tight tackle. wright end..... right half cleft half, quarter ft. 9 in. Murphy.....full back bstitutes. 5 Ene . 6 ft. 1 1-2 in, Smith. pounds. 5 ft. 3 1-4 in, Average height of the team, 5 feet ¥ 1-4 incverage welght of the team, 169 and 0-13 poundtemburg, the coach of tho Naval Academy cadets, is putting on the finishing fouches, and thinks the men could hot play, better than they do, as a team, da They Stilled His Tongee. ‘A special from Charleston, W. Va., say: on November 15 Dr. A. B, Aultz of A gomery was called from his bed to see # patient on the other side of the creck. The following morning the doctor's boc was discovered on the rocks fifty feet beneath the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad bridge. His head was terribly crushed and his neck en. viele believed that he has fallen a victim to the gang of miners who killed Dr. Davis in August, because he kuew too much of thelr being implicated in the Eagle affaig of February last. Dr. Aults knew as much 2s Dr. Davis.