Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1895, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1895-TWELVE PAGE Cup Challenger and Champion Take a Sail. TONING UP FOR THE COMING RACES Trying to ‘Get a Line” on the English Boat. A LIGHT BREEZE BLOWING NEW YORK, August 28.—Valkyrie III end Vigilant went outside of Sandy Hook early today, the first named yacht to take another experimental sail in the waters where she {s to contest for the America’s cup ten days hence, and the American sloop to “get a line” on the Britisher and test her qualities for the benefit of the Byndicate’s yacht Defender. On board Valkyrie’s tender, City of Bridgeport, Sailmaker Ratsey and his as- aigtanta were busy during the morning on the extra sails of the Valkyrie, doing their ‘work on the forward deck. It is quite evi+ dent that the cup challenger has brought Plenty of canvas with her and that every Precaution has been taken to supply her with an extra sail of any description should she need it. People who have seen her big jib and her big mainsail have already started guessing what her balloon jib and spinnaker will turn out to be. The latter, especially, is said to be a marvel of size, strength and lightness. But in this respect the English yacht will have to have something re- markably fine to outclass the similar sails of Defender and Vigilant. ‘The wind was northwest, blowing about seven miles an hour; but boatmen predicted that it would haul southward and that there would be a good breeze blowing dur- ing the afternoon. Shortly before 10 Valkyrie hoisted her @lub topsail, and Vigilant seemed to be Valkyrie. hurrying matters in order to get ready to slip away the moment the cup challenger left her moorings. Soon after 10 o'clock Valkyrie was carry- ing mainsail, staysail, jib and club topsail. The wind had shifted to the west, was blowing about eight miles an hour and the air was still somewhat hazy. In the meantime Vigilant still lay at anchor, with her crew busily engaged in bending another mainsail. ‘The wind had by this time hauled well to the southward, and the haze still hung over the bay as Valkyrie stood out to the cast- ward and southward, close hauled on the Starboard tack. In the light air Valkyrie moved along very rapidly, and it was noticed that she passed the fleet of good-sized sloops and schooners as though they were at anchor, and this in spite of the fact that her suils did not seem to be set very well, on ac- covnt of the breeze being too light to fill them. = ‘The wind gradually fell away, until at 11:30 a.m. there was hardly enough of it to give Valkyrie steerage way, and she event- ually became almost quiet and becalmed off Romer Beacon, and thereupon went atocut and headed up the Swash channel ain, evidently not being able to stem the strong flood tide, with the ight air then blowing from about south-southeast. VALKYRIE’S FIRST SPIN. Quickness Going About Astoni#hed Observers Most. ‘The British cup challenger Valkyrie took her first trial spin in American waters yes- terday and clesrly showed herself a power- ful boat, how powerful it was impossible to Judge under the conditions of the trip, al- though the Vigilant ran beside her for a time. Valkyrié got under way shortly after, 3 o'clock. It was just the breeze said to be best sulted to the English yacht. Only her ™mainsail and jibsail were set, but they were both of enormous size and splendid in their,| setting. Shortly before 4 o'clock Vigilant passed itside of the Hook, and Valkyrie fol- jowed her until off the East Beacon light house, when the eup challenger put about and headed back for the bay. She went Perouen the water fast and stood up re- kably well in the breeze of abgut nine knots an hour; but, the experts said, threw ‘up more water about her bows than De- fender would under like conditions. After reaching a point to the northward of the Southwest Spit, Valkyrie went about for the second time, and in doing so sho astonished all the “cranks.” She simply turned on her heel as though she had been on a pivot. Valkyrie afterward made a couple of tacks inside the Hook, but those who were fFandling her never let her best form be Beer. She returned to her anchorage about @ o'clock, and Vigilant followed soon af- terward. Defender in Good Trim. ‘The Defender will meet the Vigilant in a trial off Sandy Hook again tomorrow. The Defender, in company of the tug Wal- lace B. Flint and her tender, the Hattie Palmer, reached her moorings off Premium Point, New Rochelle, yesterday. Later in the day the Defender took a short spin to the eastward as far as Captain's Island, feturning to her moorings at 6:30 o'clock. Capt. Haff, when seen on board the De- fender last night, said that the wind was Ught and variable, but that the work of the Defender was entirely satisfactory. Capt. Nat Herreshoff is subjecting the spars to a searching and careful inspection, AI! re- ports as to dissension in the crew are de- nied by Capt. Haff, who says that he is somewhat disgusted with various rumors Bet afloat about the Defender. Designer Herreshoff, in speaking of the Defender’s new mast, said that the new spar would weather any wind that would be encountered in either the trial or cup races. He also stated that the Defender's hull was In first-class condition, and that there was nothing the matter with her aluminum plates, all reports to the con- trary notwithstanding. PILLSBURY WINS. Stelnitz Beaten and Tachigorin Draws at Hastings. Tke seventeenth round of the interna- tional chess tournament at Hastings, Eng., yesterday resulted as follows: ‘Tarrasch beat Bird in a Sicilian defense after 23 move Burn beat Vergani in asRuy Lopez ‘after B1 moves. Janowski beat Steinitz in a Ruy Lopez after’ 24 moves. Gunsberg beat Blackburne in a king’s bishops gambit after 32 moves. Pillsbury won against Bardeleben by de- fault, tho latter failing to appear. Teichmann beat Tinsley in a French de- fense after 43 moves. Schlechter beat Schieffers in a Ruy Lo- pez after 48 moves. Mejses beat Pollock in a Ruy Lopez af- ter 55 moves. Tschigorin and Albin drew a French de- fense after 48 moves. The games of Mason against Lasker and Walbrodt against Marco were adjourned. There has been a complete change in the Position of the three leaders in the big chess tournament, inasmuch as - Pillsbury had a walkover, his opponent, Hardeleben, falling to appear, while Tschigotin only drew, and Lasker did not finish against Mason. Fillsbury and Tschigorin ate now the candidates for first houors, Lasker stands third, while Steinitz and Tarrasch, with 2 score of ten each, take the fourth and fifth places. . The game between Mason and Lasker was adjourned in a perfectly even position at 10 o'clock last evening, and play in this and the other games left unfinizhed will be re- sumed tomorrow. Tschigorin had to-play against a French defense adopted by Albin. In spite of the Russian’s repeated attempts to get the ad- vantuge, Albin held his own wonderfully well ail through the game, never allow‘ng his adversary to get an entrance into his stronghold. The game resulted in a draw after forty-eight moves. Bardeleben gave signs of collapsing in health, and he did not appear at the insti. tute at all. He was scheduled to play Pills- bury. At 1 o'clock Bardeleben’s clock was put in motion by the referee, and at 3 o'clock Pillsbury claimed the game, which, as a matter of course, was awarded to him. The American player, however, much re- gretied the circumstance, as he is inuch opposed to a walkover. According to the rules of the tournament, he was, however, obliged to claim a win, because otherwise the game would have been scored against him, too. CANADIAN CRICKETERS HOPEFUL. BelieveOThat They Will Defeat the Americans. The date for the annual international cricket match between Canada and the United States has been changed at the re- quest of the Philadelphia committee, and the contest will now take place at Toronto on the grounds of the Rosedale C. C., on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Septem- ber 2, 3 and 4. The- Canadian team is probably the strongest eleven ever placed in the field by Canada, ard the home players feel confi- dent of breaking the long string of victories scored by the representatives of the United States, who have won every game played since 1886. THE TWENTY-MILE ROAD RACE. List of Entries for This Aftcrnoor’s Content. The following have entered in the twenty- mile handicap road race of the Washington Road Club on the Conduit road this after- noon: C. E. Wood, C. I. Ronsaville, C. E. Gause, J. E. Bischoff, G. E. Smith, A. H. Wall, W. H. Beck, Wm. T. Robertson, Geo. S. Ball and C. M. McClure of the Road Club; L. O. Slack, E. A. Pitkin and W. J. Espey of the Queer Wheelmen; T. N. Mudd, ir, and R. H. Stone of the Arlington Wheelmen; C. M. Jones of the Bultimore and Ohio Railroad Club; H. A. Rhine of the Active Road Club; W. Walcott, E. L. Wilson, T. S. Wood and C. S. Brush of the Dupont Cycle Club; E. C. Yeatman of Charleston, W. Va.; Wright Curtiss, Wood- L. Eckhardt of Ba!ti- more, John Thole, W. R. Mackrille, W. 0. Woodward, F. G. Thompson, H. W. Hardester, E. E. Hannan, J. N. Garrison, S. F. Styles, A. Taylor, D. W. Beach, J. Quinson!, F. W. Moore, R. H. Wheeler, E. E. Wakefield, C. F. Claggett, B. F. Wrenn, J. Moulton and J. J. Fister, unattached. ‘The officials of the race will be: Referee, George W. Cook, chief consul of the Dis- trict of Columbia division of the B. A. W. judges, C. L. Palmer and C. E. Miller; tmers, Prof. John Crossley, Prof. J. W. Simms ard John Woerner, jr.; starter, William Jose; handicapper, Geo. B. French. The race began at 3 o'clock, and the ex- Pectation was that the record made last year by the winner, C. E. Gause, of 59.36, would be substantially reduced. The road is in excellent condition, and the men handicapped so as to make the result ex- ceedingiy interesting. AT THE BAY TRACK. Arrangements Made to Resume Rac- ing. SAN FRANCISCO, August 28.—The option of Mr. Williams and his associates on the purchase of the Bay District track will ex- Pire on Friday next. Mr. Williams and his friends have been in consultation during the week on the proposition, and he said last night that all arrangements had been completed to secure the track on the day set by the contract. Mr. Williams said: “We will be running on that track after the state fair, and the races at Bay District will continue into the summer of 1896, the season probably clos- ing on July 4. We do not at present con- template running the track during the sum- mer months next year, as we have done this year. There will be two meetings at the Oakland track for trotters and pacers. There may be also some running races there. There is no truth whatever in the Tumors that I have joined forces with Mr. Corrigan or have made any arrangements with him.” Interstate Shooting Tourncy. The Frederick, Md., Gun Club has com- pleted arrangements for thelr two days’ Interstate shooting tournament to begin today. Shooters will be present from Baltimore, Baltimore county, Washington, York and Hanover, Pa., Staunton, Va., Shepherds- town, Shenandoah Junction and Charles- town, W. Va. Road Records Allowed. The following road records have been al- lowed by the Century road committee of America: J. Ackerman, 6,791 miles dur- ing 1894, Maryland state record; W. 8S. Furman, 25 miles, 1h.9m.42 2-5s., May 30, Ohio state record; A. B. Goehler, 25 miles, th.9m.26s., June 4, New York state record; A. E. Smith, Chicago to Cleveland, Ida. 21h.55m., June 80 and July 3; Chicago to Buffalo, 2da.22h.45m., June 30-July_ 3; Cleveland to Buffalo, 2da.22h.15m., July 2-3; Chicago to New York, 3da.3h.5m., June 30-July 6. Five hundred miles, 2 da. 16h.13m., June 30, July 2, American record. Jockey Guest Ruled Off. The executive committee of the Old Do- minion Jockey Club has ruled Jockey Guest off the track for not trying to win with Odd Socks in the one-mile-and-a-sixteenth race. They also suspended Jockey Wash- burn indefinitely for his style of riding on the horse Irish Pat last Saturday. The officials at the time did not take much notice of his work in the saddie, while the public cried “Fraud.” After Irish Pat won the sixth race at St. Asaph on Monday in easy fashion the Alexander Island officials took action in the case. Both races will be thoroughly investigate Yale’s Foot Ball Plans. Capt. Thorne of the Yale foot ball eleven has created a surprise for the candidates for the team. He has just notified them that the plan of not practicing before the opening of the next college year at Yale, on September 26, has been practically aban- doned, and that the prominent members of the eleven will be called together in New Haven on Saturday, September 14. Sporting Notes. Dixon was given the decision over Griffin in the twenty-fifth round at Boston last night. Mr. James C. Ives, the well-known cycle racer, defeated the trotting horse Dukes at the electric light racing at the Baltimore Driving Club Monday night. A sensation was created at the Windsor, Ont., track yesterday. The horseman, Frank Ireland, was remonstrating with Delaney (Starter Caldwell’s assistant) for whipping the boy on Hanban while the horses were at the pest. Caldwell took up the quarrel, and stepped out of the stand. He and Ireland clinched and exchanged several blows. The executive committee, after the races, promptly cancéled their engagement with Caldwell and fined Ire- land $500. Leigh wants to match Ben Brush, the westerner, against Requital. August Belmont bought the wrong horse at Gideon & Daly's sale. He could have had Requital for half what he paid for Hastings. The sorrel gelding mare bred by A. C. Daggett from his trotting mare Maud D., and sired by Code, 2.20'3, a son of the great Dictator, died yesterday irom a4n internal rupture. Charles Kemmick of St. Paul, once fa- mous as the champion welter weight pugi- list of the northwest, died in Denver of consumption, aged twenty-five years. He has a record of thirty-three fights in which he was victorious. The Futurity stakes were (nominally) worth $69,250, of which the winner is sup- posed to receive $53,750; second horse, $5,333; third horse, $2,667; winner's breeder, 34,000; second’s breeded, $2,500, and third’s breeder, $1,000. HOVEY’S GREAT WORK His Game Modeled on That of Pim, the Irish Expert. AUTHORITY 0 STOP THE FIGHT Senators and Colts Play Another Tie Game. MANLY SPORT IN GENERAL As telegraphed to The Star exclusively yesterday, Wrenn fell before Hovey’s great playing at Newpert on the Casino courts, and Hovey, after four tries at the finals and two at the championship, has finally reath- ed the pinnacle of tennis fame. His game was modeled after that of Pim, the great Ir‘eh expert, and Hovey claims that the les- sors he learned from the Irishman con- tributed greatly to his overwhelming vic- tory in straight sets. Wrenn played about the same game that he has put up in previous tournaments this Season, but that wa3 not anywhere good enough. Stifl, the little Harvard man was nervy in the face of defeat, and fought gamely until the iast point. Hovey played far more steadily than ever before. His control of the ball was very good, and he scored over, half of his points by placing. Over threé thousand people sew the game. Campbell was referee, and ter: experts act- ed as linesmen. “Ex-Champion Sears watched the game Hovey led from the word go in each set. In the first set Wrenn made a slight effort to brace, but the second set was almost a walkover. Only in the last set did Wrenn trouble his opponent at all. The Harvard crack pulled up nervily from 2—5, end though Hovey hac four chances to win the champlonship by a single stroke in the eighth game, Wrenn managed to make the score 4—5. Though Wrenn started in well in the tenth game, Hovey was not to be deceiv>d, and in spite of the fact that the crowd was all with his opponent, he ran four points in succession, a shot into the net placing Wrenn in the ex-champion class. Hovey scored 96 points to Wrenn's 74. Sands won the consolation prize easily. AGAIN DARKNESS WAS KIND. ‘The Washingtons Saved From Another Defeat. The Senators deserve credit for the plucky game which they put up yesterday against the Chicagos. They lost the first only after eleven innings of good ball had been fought through, and tied the second after seven innings of the same kind of playing had been served up to the specta- ters. : Anderson pitched the first game and did remarkably well, and although both he and Hutchison were hit hard and often, the gilt-edged fielding which both teams put up cut off runs by the wholesale. The game was won in the eleventh, when Lange put the ball over the right-fleld bleacher's: fence, sending in the winning run ahead of him. Selbach, Abbey, Mer- cer, Wilmot and Ryan did some beautiful werk in the field and Scheibeck played short for all that there was in it, taking ten chances in the first game without an error. The second game was a tle. and Corbett made his bew to the local public in the ox. Dolan was the opposing pitcher, and it may be fairly said that he got the worst end of it. The right-fileld bleachers’ fence again did the business for Washington, as Anson made a home run over it that tied the score in the seventh inning. The vis- itors scored two runs in the eighth, but Umpire Keefe deemed it too dark to play and called the game, despite Anson's pro- test. First Game. WASHINGTON. 1 CHICAGO, R.H.O.A.E.| R..0.AE. Schetbeck,ss 01 5 6 O|Kverett.3b.. 11 3 0 0 Abbey,cf... 2 2 3 0 0 Wilmot,if.. 1 25 0 0 20 1 OjLangecf....0 3100 131 ibe 14501 113 0 00520 830 11200 181 01210 110 110 83 0 1065 1030 Totale.... 418 31 13 433 9 1 One out when winning run Washington. -1001001010 0-4 Chicago. 70000011200 1-5 ‘ashingtcn, 1; Chicago, 4. Two-base Sel MeGuit,"Witmot, Home’ run Kittredge. Stolen bases—Abbey, Joyce. Sacrifice hits—MeGuire,- Anson, Wilmot. Double play-— Scheibeck to Cartwright. Anderson, 4; off Hutchison, 6. Hit by pitched ball—Dahlen. Left on bases—Washington, 9; Chi- cago, 10. Struck out-—By Anderson, 3; by Hutel son, 7, Passed ball—Kittredge. Wild pi Time—2:45. Umpire—Keefe. Second Game, First base on balls—Om Nal CHICAGO. -H.0. A.B. R-H.0.4.B. °o 1 Everett,3b..0 101 0 2 © Witmotiif... 11 50 0 23501 ; 528410 Oo120 Selbach, If 10011 Mercer,rt. o140F O1120 00110 8] Totals... 61021 8 3 95010006 11008 0-1-6 Earned runs—Washington, 4; Chicago, 4. Two- it—Everett. “Home run—Anson. Stolen nge, Ryan, Cartwright, Anson. Double Abbey and J First base on balils—On” 4; off Dolan, 3. Hit by pitched ball— *s—Washington, 3; Chicago, 10. Passed ball—McGuire. Umpire—Keefe. Other Lengue Games. At Boston—Pitchers. Boston... Stivetts Pittsburg ..........Hart... At Philadelphia— Cleveland.......Knell-Cuffy.... Brooklyn. ....Gumbert-Cronin... St. Louts..Kissinger-Ehret-Otien. At Baltimore— Baltimore. Cincinnatt. At New York— Louisville. -567 New York. E -506 Washington. Brooklyn. ... 57 559 Philadelphia. 56 45 Standing of the clubs August 28, 1894: PC.) Clubs. WwW. i. 660 Pittsburg O44 jes sesseaa St. Louis at Wi Chicago at Philadelphia. Cleveland at Boston. . Louisville at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at New York. Pittsburg at Baltimore. Ward May Manage the Phillies. There is little probability of Arthur Irwin managing the Phillies next year. Col.Rogers has been dickering with John Montgomery Ward to take charge of his team next year, and expects to sign him before the season is over. Base Ball Notes. Tom Brown takes Abbey’s place in cen- ter today. Abbey will move over to right field. Crooks will resume his place at second. Breitenstein will go in the box for the Browns, who maie their appearance today. President Young says that Tim Hurst will umpire here today. The cry of “robbed by the umpire” will be heard no more. President Young is not the one who has kept Hurst off the staff. When the kickers growl about “Nick Young's incompetents,” they should re- member they are really criticising the mag- nates who recommended those same um- pires. ‘The Senators are not doing as well as last year, according to the comparative records. Time for a brace. Hessamer has bought an interest in a | semblage and saloon and intends to stirk. He wants some of that purchase money before going to Louisville. = The erroneous statement'‘has been pub- ished that Tom Brown has been two years with St. Louis. He was secured from Louis- seg last spring, Shugart being traded for a 4 Brown fs a good man to jead off—he ts a good waiter. od McMahon is doing great pftching for Bal- timore. He has shut out three tearns. The Baltimores are stronger i#f the box than the Bostons, and their work is as good. They should win out: The Phillies, who are\ the only dangerdas rivals, lack team work. © Scarcely 850 persons saw ‘the Colonels de- feat the Giants at the Polo unds, New York, yesterday. The New! Yorks played poor ball, und Meekin’s pitehing- was not of the best. The tail-ender's never draw well. ‘Umpire Gaffney was hit ‘by a foul tip the other day ang had two ribs Hroken. The Baltimores have four games to play with Pittsburg. They have also four to play with Cleveland. One of the Cleveland games was to have been flayed in Cleve- lant, but the management in that city has agreed to play it off here.—Baltimore Sun. altimore’s fourteen straight victories is far in advance of the season's record. ‘Thompson leads the league in total bases carned with his bat. He has 246 to his credit. Burkett is second, with 221; Mc- Kean third, with 219; and Keeler fourth, with 217; Kelley is sixth, with 211; Lange coming fifth, with 213; Jennings is ninth, with 201. It’s too bad about that man Carey of Bal- timore. Hanlon has been hunting for some one who could bat to play the bag. Carey had only three hits yesterday, says the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. The Y. M. C. A. and Washington Athletic teams will play at Capitol Park tomorrow at 4:45 p.m. MAY SHOOT IF NECESSARY. Instructions to the Sheriff Regarding the Big Fight. AUSTIN, Tex., August 28.—Attorney Gen- eral Crane has given out his second opinion anent the Corbett-Fitzsimmons prize fight at Dallas, in October. This opinion was called for by an interrogatory propounded by Sheriff Cabell of Dallas county, as to whether, in suppressing the fight, he was legally empowered to shoot and kill those who interfered with him. The matter was referred to the attorney general by the governor, and he handed down his opinion, holding that in the line of the discharge of his duty, the sheriff certainly had the right to use firearms if the emergency demands. The attorney gen- eral bases his opinion on the statutes gov- erning riots, etc. He holds that the par- ticipants in the fight, their seconds, referee, etc., will comprise more than three people, and inasmuch as they are assembled for the purpose of violating one of the stat- utes they are an unlawful or riotous as- lay themselves Hable to summary dealings if the emergency arise. The attorney general argues that these fighters with all those in attendance will certainly be a gathering in violation of the law, and that under the law the sheriff or any sworn peace officer is bound to disperse said assemblage at any cost. As to the question of killing those who interfere with him, the attorney general cites article 66 of the penal code, which says: “Homicide is justifiable when necessary to suppress a riot, when the same is at- tempted to be suppressed in the manner pointed out in the code of crime procedure and can in no way be suppressed except by taking life.” The attorney general also adds at the close of his opinion that Whe he does not think there will be afty*ccasion for the sheriff to shoot any sne!im a peaceable city like Dallas, that if the emergency does arise and it will necessi@ate< his shooting and killing those who interfere with his duties, he will in no wise<be held re- sponsible for murder. 9! Racing at Harlem Stopped. All racing at the Harlerh t¥ack, Chicago, has been declared off. The ‘track officials, after a conference yagtergay, decided that the injunction issued :against them last Saturday makes a further attempt at running the track impossible, ‘and all stakes were accordingly declared’ off: The injunc- tion was obtained by the civic federation from Judge Gibbons, and while permitting racing, forbade gambling! ’ ! To Improve Collegiate:Athletics. The authorities of St. John's College at Annapolis will take the initiative in an effort to have the different Maryland col- leges take some steps to confine the mem- bers of the college teams to bona fide stu- dents, and also to remedy some of the notabl> abuses ef the game. The students of the colleges have heretofore attempted to regulate this matter, with poor success. Regardless of the other institutions, St. John’s will confine the members of all fu- ture teains to strictly college men. —_—__+e+____ The Pretticat English Princess. From St. Paul's. A new excitement has been provided for these interested in court news in the re- port that there is a possibility of a mar- riage being arranged between the Princess Maud of Wales and the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the im- perial throne of Austria. St. Paul’s does not attach much importance to the rumor, as the difficulties with regard to religion would appear, at the first glimpse, to be insuperable. The dislike, also, of the princess to settle in any place which would remove her far from her mother is well knewn. 6till, any suggestion as to the marriage of the royal lady in question is wcrthy of notice, as Princess Maud is one of the prettiest and most fascinating mem- bers of the courts of Europe. She is far better looking now than when she first came out, and, as one of the Marlborough Hovse party remarked lately, she grows more charming every day. She is bright and clever, and, without being really witty, is most amusing in corversation. Although it would not be fair to say the prince prefers her to his two more quiet daughters, he certainly finds more pleasure in her society, and whenever he rejoins his family at Sand- ringham it is Princess Maud to whom he at once turns to learn all that has been going on, and she may be seen for an hour at a time hanging on her father’s arm as they stroll up and down the terrace. eS A Terrible Danger Avoided. From the Westuinster Gazette. The ominous number thirteen, which is still the cause of so much anxious pertur- bation from end to end of christendom, has been “disenchanted by a happy provi- dence,” says the Freie Rhatier, in a village of the Hinterrheinthal, The brave mother of a family of twelve children found her- self about to become the mother of a thir- teenth. The new baby, whether boy or girl, was destined, beyond all doubt, to a life of ill luck. The parents eagerly consulted all the wise persons in the neighborhood as to the possibility of averting the disasters of a “thirteenth child” from the expected new citizen of the world. They found miserable comforters in all their friends, when the mother suddenly gave birth to— twins, The joy of the pdrents in the pos- session of fourteen children instead of the dreaded thirteen was exuberant, and the happy father invited all his neighbors to a generous christening feast, where the fam- ily and the commune were both congratu- lated on their deliverance from the mis- fortune of possessing “Ein Dreizehntes.”” The Widow Had Her Way. From the Portland (Me.) Preag. The following story is told,about Super- tendent Flord of Evergreen: cemetery in Deering: It wasn’t long ago that a certain Portland citizen died, anf hig widow pur- chased a lot in the cemetery, but did not pay for it. Mr. Floyd told her that it was contrary to the rules to ‘bury a person in the cemetery until the f6t Was paid for. This made no difference to the widow: She went ahead with the funeral, had her husband's body carried to the cemetery, and the coffin left on top of the lot, where, of course, no grave had been dug. Then she went to Mr. Floyd, and, with tears running down her cheeks, said: “Mr. Floyd, there is S—’ you can bury him or leave him on top, just as you've a mind to,” and away she went. Qf course, Mr. Floyd had to bury the abandoned coffin. There was no way out of it. —__-e-__ The Extempore Pianist. From the Boston Transcript. “Can you tell me, professor,” asked Grigs- by, “what an ‘extempore pianist’ is? I see that the performances of such a. pianist are advertised.” “Certainly,” said the professor. Ex, out of; tempo, time; an extempore pianist is one that plays out of time.” EQUINE BAD HABITS Various Methods of Curing Horses of Kick- ing, Biting and Balking, Some Interesting and Queer Informa- tion From a Number of Experts— The Horse’s Weakest Points. ‘New York Corr. St. Louts Globe-Demoorat. The other day I happened to be in a circle of men who were all lovers of hersege and were posted on many pecu- Harities of the equine nature. “Do any of you gentlemen know a sure way to cure a horge of kicking?” sald the down easter, addressing the others defer- entially, “Wh; answered the New York horse dealer, “I always do it by tying part of the horse’s tail to the shaft, That usually fixes him.” “Yes,” remarked the man from the plains, “that’s one way, but I know a better one.” ~ ° “Hold on a minute,” I interrupted. “I want to understand why tying a horse’s tail to the shaft will prevent him from Kicking.” = “That easy enough,” said the New Yorker. ‘You see, a horse can’t kick until he gets his head down and his tail up. Isn’t that so, gentlemen?” The others all assented. “But why can’t he?” I persisted. “Simply because he can’t. No horse ever did. Consequently, when you tle his tail down you upset his calculations. My idea is that he gets so distracted studying what's the matter with his tail and trying to lift it when he can’t that he forgets to kick.” Very likely,” said the down easter. “Now, what's your way?” “Why,” answered the man from the plains, “the way we fix a kicking horse is to tie one of his forelegs with a rope to the hind leg on the other side. Then, as soon as he starts to kick he jerks his front leg off the ground and goes down in a heap. Two or three doses of that treat- ment will cure the worst case you can find.” “But suppose,” I suggested, “your horse Kicks with the foot that is not tied?” “That's not the way a bad kicker acts. Once in a while a horse will let out side- ways with one hind foot alone, but as a general thing the ones you have trouble with kick with both hind feet at the same time, and my rope brings ‘em down every clip.” Balky Horses. The talk ran along for a little while, and Fresently came to the best method of deal- ing with a balky horse. Various old-fash- foned ways were suggested, and finally the down easter went them all one better with the following system, which he claimed as his own. He prefaced his re- marks with a little story. “The iast time I was down in Boston I happened to see two fine, black horses standing in front of a store. There was a private coach behind them, and a coach- man on the seat who was trying to start up the team, but he couldn’t do it. As fast as one of the horses would start ahead the other wou'd pull back, and there was no budging them. I joined the crowd standing around and found out that the team had been there over half an hour and nobody had been able to start the balky horse. “I looked on for awhile, and pretty soon the owner came along, very mad, because he was in a hurry to go somewhere. He told the coachman to get a move on those horses pretty blamed quick or he’d make things lively. The coachman said he'd dcne his best and didn’t know any other was, so I stepped up and asked the man if he would like to see the horses go. ‘Would I,” he said, very red in the face. ‘I'll just make it worth your while if you get 'em oft.’ ““All right,’ said I, ‘I'll make "em go.” So I walked up to the balky horse and patted his neck a little and talked to him, and the first thing anybody knew that team was, going down the street so fast the coachman could hardly hold ‘em. “How did you do it?” said I. “That's what the man wanted to know and all the other people. As far as they could see, I hadn’t done anything, but I had, just the same. It’s a nice little trick. You walk up to a horse's head and pre- tend to fool around a little, and then, as quick as you can, run a pin through the tip of one of his ears, and let it stay there. You know the ears are a horse's tenderest point; he can’t do anything without his ears; he can’t think without his ears. Well, as soon as the pin goes through his ear you can make up your mind that he knows St, because it hurts. He probably thinks it is some new kind of a fly that won't shake off, and the whole force of his mind is centered on getting away from that fly, so he does the only thing there is left, that is, tear away at full speed. I don’t believe that scheme ever failed. There are balky horses that'll let you build a fire under them without moving, but there ain’t any that'll stand still and let you stick a pin through one of their ears.” “Do you mean to say that there ever was a balky horse that would stand still when there was a fire burning under him?” I asked incredulously. “Certainly, I do. They won't let the fire burn ‘em, though; they simply kick it away with their hind legs as fast as you ‘can build it up.”” The Biting Habit. “What is your way of making a horse stop biting?” asked the New York man. “Why, the pin'll answer there just as well as before. When a horse snaps at you, catch him by the nose and run a pin right through between the nostrils. He'll stop biting fast enough. If he begins again do the same thing once more, and before long you will have him cured for life. No, it isn’t cruel; it’s the kindest way in the lorg run, because it's the quickest.” “it’s funny what a fool a horse is about some things,” broke in the man from the plains. “Now, our bronchos out there, take one that’s been bred on the prairies. If you come in from a ride and get off, leaving the reins over his neck, he will start away on a dead run, because he knows he’s not hitched, but 1f you pull the reins over his head and let them hang down from the bit, why, you can leave him standing all day, and ‘he won't run, be- cause he thinks he fs held by a lariat. He may walk away, slowly, eating grass, but you couldn’t make him run until you pulled up the bridle.” “What you were just saying about a horse's ears,” spoke up a stableman who had joined the group, “reminds me of a trick the circus riders have. I heard it from one of the performers in the Barnum show. He claims that a horse can’t shy or balk or rear until he throws his ears for- ward.” “He can’t kick until he throws his ears back; I know that,” said the down easter. “Well, I am talking especially about shy- ing. This circus rider told me that all the men in the ring, whenever they think a horse is going to shy, just tuck his ears back under the bridle band, and then they know they’re all right. The horse is so surprised to find his ears won’t come for- werd when he wants to do any deviltry that he forgets to do it, and just keeps thinking about his ears. Queer, ain’t it?” ———— The Curfew Law in the West. From the Indianapolis Journal. One or two Indiana towns have recently made unsuccessful attempts to introduce what is known as the curfew'law. The idea is borrowed-from Minnesota, where it has been applied in quite a number of towns, with alleged good results. The rea- son assigned for its enactment in many Minnesota towns is the growing incorrigi- bility of children and the belief that it is promoted by the habit of “running the streets” at night. There is reason to fear there may be some ground for the main allegation, not only as to the children of Minnesota, wut as to those of Indiana as well, but the remedy is not to be found in curfew la The true remedy for juvenile incorrigibility is better home training and parental restraint. ae gg Simplicity of Science. From the New York Weekly. Student;"I learn that there are cases in which peopie have had from childhood an uncontrollable desire to eat soap. What is the cause of that?” Learned Professor—“They are victims of sappessomania.”” Student—"“Um—what does sappessomania mean?” 5 Learned Professor—“A desire to eat woap.”” LIFE OF A HIGHWAYMAN. Some Kentucky Heminiscences of the James Brothers, P From the Louisville Courier-Journal. “Where I live, in southern Kentucky,” said the doctor, “the uncle of the famous outlaws, Frank and Jesse James, lives also on a big farm, and here, when pursuit of them becarie too fierce, these bandits used to come, while detectives scoured the coun- try and state officers dreamed of the price set on their heads. “Of course, we more than guessed who the gentlemanly looking strangers were who appeared every now and then, and after—ncridents—had happened to some amateur detectives who tried to arrest them we let them come and go undisturbed. “On one of these visits Jesse James, tired of a life that had lost its charms, worn out with being hunted from place to place like a badgered animal, perhaps remorseful for his many crimes, tried to commit suicide by taking an immense dose of morphine. “I was sent for and-held a prisoner in the house for three days. When I arrived he was almost dead. I tried every anti- dote for morphine poisoning, but without success, and I finally said to his brother, ‘Is there no way to frighten him? Rouse him any way you can.’ Frank took Jesse's pis- tols, unloaded them, buckled the belt eround the collapsed form, and rushing in the room cried, ‘Jesse, we are surrounded; caught like rats in a trap; fight for your ” In an instant the outlaw sprang to his feet, his eyes flashed and he stood with a pistol cocked in each hand. After a while he collapsed again, but time after time when he was practically dead we called him back to life with that cry, ‘You are caught.’ “Think what a fear such as that must be like. The horror of it was so great that he responded to it when dead to every other sensation in this world. Can you imagine what it must be to have that torturing fear of something dogging your footsteps, walk- ing in your shadow, haunting your dreams, and waking you up in the dead hours of the night with a cold sweat on your forehead? *You are caught! Fight for a life red with crime and black with the shadow of the gallows What wonder such a fear went beyond life into death itself. “And that,” said the doctor, “is one of the romantic and delightful experiences of the gay life of the highwayman.” ——— Bringing Up Children. From an Exchange. 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