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The $75 model “Keatings” are—$s5o. The Sioo model Keatings are—$75. equal wheel value on the face of ‘the ND CYCLE CO., 730 15th yf eecl-16d Columbia Bicycles, $50. STANDARD OF THE WORLD. We have 2 few Model 44 still on hand, and while ahey lyst will sell them at $50 each. These are the best biereles ever built, ex opt mDias, 1897 Colu ——$——— Which are now selling, all medels, at $75. Pope M’f’g Co., 817-819 14th St. a Tandems, $35. port. Hi outlay. these $150 i uy B.A. Ryan & Co., 1238 9th. LARRY S. GAITHER, Sub-agent, 9th and II Sts. ecll- 16d The Grape ¢ Felix Oswald in the Chautauquan. The happiest ard most successful health Id are preb- the Trauben WANTS THE CUP BACK W. C. Temple Dissatisfied With the Boston-Baltimore Contests. WILL DEMAND AN INVESTIGATION Orioles Win Their Fourth Game and the Series Ends. =a CURRENT NOTES OF SPORT PITTSBURG, Pa., October 12.—The Tem- ple cup series in the National League may be contested no more, W. C. Temple of Pittsburg, who presented the magnificent silver trophy to the league, is dissatisfied with this year’s contest. He declares that he will attend the league meeting and re- quest that the cup be returned to its owner. “I will also ask,” Mr. Temple says, “that the league investigate the charges that the Baltimore and Boston players this year agreed to an equal division of the receipts in face of the league’s explicit conditions about 60 per cent to the winner and 40 per cent to the loser. If these rumors are proven true, I will ask that the off2nders be blacklisted. The cup was offered to benefit the game generally and to develop a — series. This year’s has not been such.” CUP MONEY DIVIDED. Each Baltimore Player Gets $310 and Each Bostonian About $207. The Baltimore Sun says: The new and the old champions gathered at the Eutaw House last night about 8 o'clock to divide the Temple cup money. After much figur- ing by Managers Hanlon and Selee and their secretaries they arrived at the fol- lowing result: The total receipts were in the neighbor- hood of $12,000, but the expenses were quite heavy, so that less than $10,000 was left for distribution. Baltimore's share was $5,580 and Bos- ton’s $3,720. Each share was divided into eighteen parts, each Baltimore player re- ceiving $310 and each Boston player a frac- tion less than $207. Besides this, the Baltimore and Boston players divide equally the money from the two exhibition games of last week, each player receiving $47 clear of expenses. The Orioles bad still another sum to di- vide for an exhibition game at Hoboken. Each man got $30 for that, so that the total sum received by the Baltimore play- ers was $387 apiece. All the players came in for a full share except Maul and Kitson. Amole got his full share, although he joined the team late in the season. The scene about the Eutaw House last night was by no means as hilarious or enthusiastic as the year be- fore in Cleveland, when the three-time champions vanquished their old-time an- tagonists, the cohorts of Tebeau. Then the Temple cup was filled with champagne again and again and drained. Although the cup was not on hand last night, the champagne was not lacking. Mr. H. R. Vonderhorst, with characteristic hospitality, insisted that his players and the Bostonians, while waiting for the set- tlement, should join him in a few dozen culd bottles, and his health was drunk by the old and new champions many times and three hearty cheers for Vonderhorst were given several times. ‘Tre members of both clubs were eager to get home, and they scattered just as goon as the distribution was made. Most of the Boston players got away on late trains. Quinn caught a late train for his home in St. Louis, and O'Brien left with him for Pittsburg. Hugh Jennings will leave this morning for Avoca, Pa., where he is to be married to Miss Elizabeth C. Dixon on Thursday at St. Mary’s Church. Rev. George Dixon, brother of the bride, and Father Wilson of St. Bonaventure, will officiate. After a reception at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. Jennings and his bride will leave about midnight to join the Baltimore and All-American teams at Pittsburg, where they play on the 15th. McGraw will play short in Jennings’ place in the game at Frostburg October 14. Stenzel, who lives in Cincinnati, will wait and take Kelley’s place on the team until Cincinnati is reached, where Mr. Kelley, with his bride, will join the team. As is well known, he is to be married on the 14th to Miss Margaret Mahon of Bal- timore. Keeler, who was booked for the trip, will be unable to go on account of a very bad finger, which was hurt some time ago. He continued to play in the closing games, thinking that the Orioles needed him, but his finger kept getting worse. Bowerman will take his place until the teams reach Pittsburg, where Donovan will take Keeler‘s place permanently on the team. The team will play in Frostburg October Pittsburg 15th, Columbus 16th and Cin- innati 17th. Then they go southward. TEMPLE CU?"’S BALTIMORE’S. Orioles Won the Fifth Game of the Serien. The Temple cup will stay in Baltimore another year. It has been won twice in succession, for the first time in its history, and if the Orioles take it again it is theirs absolutely. The former champions also take 60 per cent of the money paid in at the gates during the three games in Bos- ton and the two played in Baltimore, while the winners of the pennant will get but 40 per cent, unless, as is generally believed, the players have agreed among themselves to divide the spoils equally. __ Yesterday’s game in Baltimore, like all the others of the series, save the first one, was an easy proposition for the Balti- moreans, who won much as they pleased, while the visitors never appeared to think they had any chance whatever. A crowd so small that the management refused to give the exact number, and so utterly de- void of enthusiasm that scarcely a ripple of applause occurred, saw it done, and ap- peared to be glad that the game, which, by the way, was one of the shortest on ri ord, was over, and that the season was over with it. There might heve been a nd persons on the grounds, but a estimate would place the attendance This fact, in view of the pleasaat weather which prevailed, Indicates that Baltimore base bail enthusiasts have had a rds gastos . | surfeit of the sport for the time being, and ae pantl ece, SBE Were tine thay do sat hase ume Temple cup 3 fifty years ago in the | -ame as being anything out of the ord, of Bern, and can now be| nary. The score: vitzerlan: France, the BALTIMOR 5A. zi Bo O.AE 1 co es and so: seas meter es! 1 countries and southern Austria pare fe areas ight bre fast. Weath- 10 o wot. - 1 as 66 o 231 then scatter in, quest es eae e The serious work of 10 12200 at 19 a.m., when the gates a0 2 13-0 rd are opened for the fore- : aan teas ping yourself is the order ete ito ipers stroll up and down | Heft p--- 1 2 0 2 0b8a0 . culling Udbits here and} = = — — __ — = == men gather a good supply | Totals... 91327 17 31528 9 8 reat with a Look to seme shady | Baltimore. ° =e 2k to spice their lunch with a utilitarian | Boston. SR AI oe by- ose. If 4 glutton desires to eat his worth to the last penny the land- ord gives him a fair chance; nobody con- proceedings of the lunch party, ner bell does not ring before 3 p.m. In other words, the grape-cullers wet a five-nours’ opportunity to eat their fill. and experts can get away with fifteen pounds more easily and with infinitely less risk to their hygienic interests than a brewery employe with fifteen. schooners of alcoholized barley swill. Grapes, it is true, are chiefly sweet water with @ subtie flavoring from nature’s own labor- atory; but in no other form can the hu- man organism absorb so large a quantity blood-purifying liquids, with such a wuinimum of distressing effects. The ex- purgative fluid reaches every part of the system, rinsing eut morbid humors and re- storing congested organs to a healthy stata of functional activity, for reasons which, traced to their ultimate significance, mean that man, in a state of nature, ts a fru- giv a8, EOt a carnivorous, nor a herbivor- ous biped. ———_—_+e-+____ Mrs. George Wingfield was accused in a store In Bridgeport, Conn., of stealing a diamond ring, and was seized and chor- oughly searched. Mr. Wingfield is hunting the owner and clerk of the store with a re- volver. ne ~ 1s lledaraneliledeihiechieienneneieenensnostineinibaeesemssaeneemeet—eeiataanesosasienee seen ert Ft Earned itimore, 3; Boston, 3. ‘Two-baso hits—-O' Brien, Clarke, Hoffer, Hickman. Three-base bi s—Stenzel, Yeager. Stolen base—Stenzel. Double playe—McGraw, Reitz and Bowerman; Keltz and Bowerman: Jennings and Bowerman (2). : beses—Baltimore, 7; Boston, 7. First base on balls —Of Hickman, Struck “out—By Hoffer, 1. Passed bail—Yeager. Wild piteh—Hickman. ‘Time 1.20. Unipir-s—Hurst ant’ Emslie. BASE BALL NOTES. By winning the fourth straight game yesterday the Baltimores made those. peo- ple look sheepish who predicted a hippo- drome series of seven games for the Temple cup. The interest in the series has fallen off simply because Baltimore has been in .the games for the past four seasons. Two new clubs like New York and Cincinnati or Washington and Louisville, would draw py - ble telegraphing had been done yesterday between Manager Sel the All-American and Baltimore teams and Robb, looking to a game at National ee _ FOR SICK HEADACHE ‘Tanke Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1897-14 PAGES. Park tomorrow with the two above-named clubs as an attraction, the matter had to be dropped, as several of the Baltimore play- ers refused to participate. The long tour of these two Cle oe the atte = of this week, and players want to ake a hurried visit to their homes before starting out. ¥ Emslie and Hurst will «ct as much as the receives losers, for each $50 per game in the Tenrple cup series. Perry Werden, the Loutaville team’s first baseman, will probably be with the Detroits next seasdn. So will Billy Wittrock of Cincinnatt.. Jesse Tannehill of the Pittsburgs, who is at his home in Dayton, Ky., played with the Bellevue Browns yesterday, and didn't do a thing to the Manhattan pitcher. In his first four times at tho bat he made a double, a triple and two home runs. Philadelphia ball t2am disbanded fer the season after Saturday’s game with the ‘Wyoming nine, and few regretted that the end had come. The season has been a most disappointing one, and it wit take good ball Playing next year to win back patrons of the game who deserted when the slump came. The probabilities are that Manager Stallings will again be in charge rext sea- son. He an abundance of materia: from which to make up a team, fourtee: young players having been bought or draft- ed to help out the eighteen reservcd. But it is quality, not quantity, that counts, and if the Philadelphia management is wise, deals will be made at the coming league meeting which will reduce the number of men under engagement fully half. One good seasoned short stop-will be worth a dozen experiments to the team. “We will make at least $1,000 apiece and Probably more on our trip to the coast,” writes Manager Tebeau concerning the trip of the Baltimore and All-American clubs. “The west is. ‘billed’ as thoroughly as if a circus were coming. We expect to play every day until we reach San Francisco, and then play three games a week. I have been all over this circuit before, and know we will draw well. Moreover, we will beat the Baltimores. We wili have Burkett, Lange and Stahl in the outfield; Tebeau, Dahlen, Collins and Duffy in the infield; Powell, Rhines and Dunkle for pitchers and Tim Donahue and A. C. Smith for catch- ers. Such a team ought to win three out of four games from Baltimore without trouble.” Charlie Comiskey of the St. Paul team spent Sunday tn St. Louis. The Post-Dis- patch says: “Comiskey, like ail the other Western League managers, is hustling around after players. There is a man or two on the present St. Louis team that Comiskey. would like to get hold of. As if to pave the way in that direction he rce- leased Fielder Billy George of his St. Paul team to St. Louis. George is a good bats- man, having an average of .340 in the Western League, and is also an excellent fielder. ‘Ten years ago Tommy Corcoran, now rated as among the greatest shortstops in the world, left his home to earn his living as_a ball player. He and a companion drifted away down into Arkansas, and in Little Rock Tommy drew his first moncy as the crack pitcher of that team. Anson has tried twenty-one men this sea- son. The Colonels have tried so many that it takes two or three books in which to Keep their records. During the season Wilson, Dexter, Butler and Schreckengost have been catching for the Colonel: Fra- zer, Hill, Cunningham, Waddell, «McGee, Herman, Hemming, Evans, “Ded” Clarke, Jones, Miller and Dowling have pitched. Werden has had a monopoly on first base. Rogers; W. Clark, Johnson Martin, Dolan and Smith have garrisoned second. Cling- man has been the regular third baseman, Dexter filling in while he was laid up. Do- lan and Stafford have taken turns at short. In the field Clarke, McCreery, Pickering, Holmes, Wagner and Nance have done the best they could. That’s thirty-two men, and a few may have escaped. From all accounts Baltimore will have quite a new crop of pitchers next season, but otherwise Hanion will keep his rine about as it is at preseat. The story that Jack Doyle would be traded for Dahlen of Chicago has already been nailed as a ca- nard. Only the other day Danten signed a contract with the Chicago club to play nowhere but Chicago next season. Doyle has been a valuable man for Baltimore. True, he is a rather hot-headed individual, ‘but a great ball player nev2rtheless. Since “blue Monday” some disagreeable things have been said about Baltimore's pitching corps. As Corbett has been the leading figure in late disasters, he has been made to bear the brunt of rooters’ dis- Pieasure in a manner betokening little fair- ness or recognition of the peerless work he did until the late trip to New York. Previous records must not be lost sight of because upon two occasions opposing bats- men were able to win out, though these occasions unmade the champions. Cor- kett’s work this year has been second to none. In the early spring he started to piteh under discouraging circumstances. He had been subjected to hard training in working with his brother, was completely tired out in body and mind, and was twen- ty-five pounds underweight. Game after game he won, nevertheless, until he had rolled up an unbroken list of victories nev- er before equaled in the league. The sea- son had far advanced before he lost a sin- gle game, and not until his shoulder was kurt during the first western trip did he slack his pace. In that first Boston game Corbett went in to win or perish. No one coult have done better than he did in the earlier stages of the game, but in doing it he hurt his arm. Every ball he pitched after the fourth inning was with set teeth to keep down a cry of pain. What physi- cal pain it cost him to remain in the box at all will never be known, but through it all he was as effective as one need usually be to win. There are not many pitchers who would run the risk of throwing away their means of making a livelihood for the empty honor of piloting their comrades to one victory, yet this is what Corbett used his best efforts to accomplish. That he failed is not due to inferior work on his part.— Baltimore News. FINALS IN DOUBLES. Goodfellow and Wilson Defeat Wimer and Waggaman, The final matches in the tournament of the Bachelors’ Tennis Club were played yesterday, bringing the interesting series to a close. Goodfellow and Wilson defeated Wimer and Waggaman in the finals in dcubles, and Wimer won the prize in the ecnsolation singles from, Waggaman. The dcuble match was interesting, and but for a slight weakness in Wilson's play at the start-off, Goodfellow and Wilson would have won three straight sets. As it was, Wimer and Waggaman secured the first set, but went to pieces on the next one. Waggaman’'s work in the consolation sin- gles was poor, and Wimer had no trouble in defeating him in straight sets. The scores follow: Doubles—Goodfellow and Wilson defeated Wimer and Waggaman, 4—6, 6—2, 6—4, and 6—2. Score by games—Goodfellow and Wil- son, 1, 3, 6, 9; 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8; 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 10; 1, 2,3, 5,6, 8. Wimer and Waggaman, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10; 2, 6; 3, 4, 6, 7; 4, 7. Consolations—Wimer defeated Wagga- man, 6-1 and 6-2. The Raedy-Buriey Fight. _ All arrangements are complete for the twenty-round contest between Pat Raedy of this city and Nick Burley.of California at the Spa Athletic Club on the Bladlons- berg pike tonight. There is no chance of a fluke, as each man has posted a forfeit to insure his presence in the ring, and the articles of agreement prescribe particularly the rules under which the fight shall be conducted. Burley is slightly the favorite in the betting. : —_ Artificially Cooled Houses. Says Edgar Saltus: In Rome this sumnier the heat has been extraordinarily intense. Nevertheless, the pope is reported to en- dure it better than winter weather. He now passes the day in a tower specially prepared for him, where, by reason of the thickness of the walls, the temperature is always fresh. In winter, however, the Vat- ican is very cold. The apartments are im- mense, and the arrangements for warming them inadequate. Barring Russia, it is the same thing pretty much all over Europe. The difference between winters there and here is that there you can’t keep warm and here you can’t keep cool. Our houses and offices are superheated. In houses and offices abroad you shiver. It is only in the most recent .buildings that comfort has been considered. But with time it is per- BLIND CHESS PLAYER i Exhibition by QW, L. Campbell of Youngstown, Ohio. _ FINE INSIGHT AI) THE GAME A Novel Contest ‘May Be Brought THE DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP One of the features of a day at the Wash- ington Chess Club is the chess playing of Walter L. Campbell of Youngstown, Ohio. Mr. Campbell ts ‘entirely blind, having lost his sight when four or five years of age. Since that misfortune befell him he learned to play chess. Considering that there are sixty-four squares on the board, and that the pieces have different powers and movements, it ts remarkable how he could have learned the game. Mr. Campbell has been here some time, and has played almost daily against one or another member of the club. He seats himself at the board opposite his adversary, and calls out his move, say P to K4. The adversary or a spectator moves the pawn, as indi- cated, and when he has made his move, say P to K4, announces it aloud. The game proceeds, eich player announcing his move ahead. During these games Mr. Campbell engages in conversation with those about him, and seems to be very lit- tle disturbed thereby. Occasionally he finds it necessary to inquire the location of a man. He has splendid insight into the game, and some of his combinations are exceedingly pretty. He has made a credit- able score against those whom he has met, and has usually held his own against the local players. Fer instance, with Captain O'Farrell he played four games the other evening, each securing two. He came out a little ahead with James E. Camp- bell, while Messrs. L. Tharp and W. H. Smith each won one game played with him, but by a narrow margin, so to speak. He plays rapidly, and there is little delay on his part. Another peculiarity is that he comes and goes to the rooms unat- tended. He tells time without assistance by feeling of the face of his watch, on which there is no crystal. Mr. Campbell will remain in the city during the winter. He has joined the club, and will be there frequently. Eaouier acquisition to the Washington club is Mr. Allen Prender, younger brother of the Prender who has taken part in the tournaments at the club the past year. Young Mr. Prender has been playing the game but a comparatively short time, yet has shown considerable ability, and is even giving attention to blindfold playing. With practice he will make a good player. ‘The presence of Mr. Campbell at the club has stimulated blindfold chess. Two or three. members are practicing it, and some of the best players of the club have played blindfold on a small seale for several years. It would not be surprising if one of these ergaged in a game with Mr. Campbell, nelther party seeing the board. District Championship. _ The fifth game in the' District champlon- ship between Messrs. Walker and Gwyer, resulted in a draw, Thé opening was ir- regular, and Mr. Gwyer showed superior play early in the game, and was a pawn ahead when the midgame stage was reached. Later he made a faulty calcula- tion and lost the exchange and a pawn, but escaped defeat by a perpetual check after forty-eight moves. The present score is: Walkey, 4; Gwyer, 0; drawn 1. Mr. A. EA Hodges of Staten Island, N. Y., will be the guest of the’ Washington Chess Club on Saturday, October 23, and on the eveniug of that day will give a simul tanedus exhibition, playing against all comers. - The president Of ‘the Capital Bicycle Club has appointed Messrs. Usina and Pe- louzé and Dr. Bunmemeyer a committeel on chess for the coming year. Mr. Usina has not been playing much chess for the last two years, but formerly ranked among the best players in the city. His engagements will prevent him from giving much atten- tion to the game this winter. There is a large and steadily growing chess contin- gent at the club, and there is promise of exceHent sport this winter. Mr. Pelouze makes the inquiry why can- not the local chess players get together and have a tournament, the same as the croquet players did recently? There does not seem to be any good reason why they cannot. Interclub contests have been held here, and a tournament participated in by players from all the clubs, and players un- attached to any club, would be very inter- esting. The croquet tournament is held in the fall, at the close of a summer's season of practice. The time to hold a chess tourna- ment here would be in the spring, after the usual winter practice. If a sufficient num- ber of players can be induced to enter such a tournament it can be h In the cro- quet tournament each player meets every other player in his division. The players are divided into divisions, players of recog- nized first-rate ability going into the first division, those slightly lower in strength into the second division, and others who are believed to be less skilful entering the third division. Players continue in one di- vision until it appears that they belong in another division. By thus dividing the play- ers there would not be over six or eight in a class, and it could be terminated within a reasonable length of time. The inquiry of Mr. Pelouze is worthy of consideration. The Berlin Tournament. The Berlin international masters’ tourna- ment came to a close last week. The following is the score of the leading players who have taken part in two or more of the recent masters’ tournament: Hastings, eon 8. Buda Pest. ae Charousek. o. +7 Walbrodt. 10 10% 6% 14 * Fit 7 iy 1 . te eee 12 8 % 11% 10% 7 11% ey 8% 10% Sebiffers..1012 12 91g . 10 Possible scores 21.0 BB ‘19 Charousek commenced as _a master at Nuremburg, where ‘he finished ninth, but at Budapest he tied with Tschigorin: for first place, and defeated the latter in playing off the tie, He is but twenty-five years of age, tnd has risen-so rapidly and shown such ability that already the European papers are talking about a match between him and Lasker for the championship of the world. Fall Checker Tourney. The checker contingent of the Washing- ton Chess, Checkeb’and- Whist Club is ar- ranging for a fdj\' ciitcker tournament. Messrs. W. B. Mundelley Jas. Collins, Ivan Powers, W. E. Méore‘%nd Wendell have already entered their :mames. The September fumber of the American Chess Magazine contains a criticism of the nativity clause of! thd ‘conditions. of the eable match between the British and the Brooklyn chess clibs, As has been before mentioned, only nativgs of the country they represent can take_part in that match. The magazine is im:faver of citizenship as a test of eligibility; andipoints out natural- ized citizens of this cowhtry who are repre- senting it abroad and at home. It points to Philipp Richardson,~Max Judd, Stern- berg, Lipschutz, Kemeny and others of for- eign birth, who are leading players, but disqualified, becauge of, their birthplace, to play on the team,, ‘There is no doubt forte in all this. But the cup was given to be played for under certain. conditions,-and one of these is the nativity of the players. It was expressly stipulated in the deed of gift. This coun- try is not the only’ one which contains strong players of foreign birth. In London there are Lasker, the world’s champion, of German birth; James Mason, of American birth, it is believed; Gunsberg and others, na defeated Mr. Wright by to 2. A match between him and the pres- ent m would prove very interesting, but it will be several months before Mr. Hanna engages in a serious contest. —.>__. SHIPS’ MASTS. From the Lofty Sticks of Solid Wood to the Modern Tabes of Iron. From the Philadelphia Telegraph. Ships’ masts were originally made with the several parts, the lower, mast, the top- mast and the topgallant mast, each of a solid stick. Big timber was required for’ the large lower masts, and when the suita- ble and accessible trees had been culled out from eastern forests mast timber was brought from Oregon. The expense of bringing the logs around from the Pacific, of course, added greatly to the cost of the mast, and sparmakers began making built-up masts, made of a considerable number of pieces. The built- up mast has one advantage in the material used; it is always difficult to get a solid stick of suitable size for a mast that is absolutely free from blemish. In making the built-up mast, composed of a number of snualler pieces, it is easily possible to select only perfectly sound material. The built-up masts were usually made with a spindle, a big, square timber forming the center or heart, the round of the mast be- ing formed by slabs laid on the sides of the spindie. And these parts were not always each of a single piece; sometimes the spin- dle, in its length, was composed of two or three pieces scarved, or spliced, together; and the slabs also might be scarved; the scarves in the slabs, however, not being brought opposite those in the spindle. The finished stick was banded with hoops of iron. The built-up mast stovd the service well; it was subject only, as a solid stick might be, to decay. Built-up masts have been made in varlous ways. There have been made, for example, masts in which the round was formed of three pieces of timber, instead of a spindle and slabs. When the great modern American schooncr came out with its three and four and sometimes more lofty masts—for some of these vessels sticks eighty to ninety feet in length were required—the demand for mast timber was greatly increased. With the extensive demand prices went up, and built-up masts were made for the big schooners; masts were made not hooped, but bolted together, and such masts proved perfectly serviceable. x Most of the deep-water ships built nowa- days, however, have lower masts of iron. The ships themselves are made of iron and of steel, and their masts are made of the same material. Iron masts are, of course, not indestructible, but they are longer- lived than masts of wood. There is now lying at a South street pier a fine, big American wooden ship whose three lower masts are all different, and this came about in the simplest way in the world. When she came from the Maine shipyard in which she was built her threo lower masts were of wood, built up. In the course of time her foremast showed signs of decay, and it was condemned and taken out. She was at that time in the port of New York, and there was found here a handsome stick of Oregon pine, out of which a foremast was made for her. Later decay appeared in the mainmast. She was in a British port then, where it was cheap- er to get an iron mast, and she was fitted with an iron mainmast. So now her fore- mast is a solid stick of timber from Oregon, her mainmast fs of iron from England and ber mizzenmast of wood, built up, is from the state of Maine. ——_+-e+_____ BOYS LEARN TO COOK. Novel Departure in the Cincinnati High School. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. One of the most unique features in edu- cation that has ever been tried in this city is a cheap cooking class for boys, which was started at Hughes High School yester- day. Seven young gentlemen out of an en- rollment of ten were present and were in- itlated by Miss Hull, the teacher, into the first mysterles of that science, which their sisters have hitherto claimed as their al- most exclusive prerogative. Judging from the enthusiasm with which the boys went at the work, and the skill which they dis- played under the careful guidance of Miss Hull, the young disciples of Epicurus will soon be competent to do the family cook- ing, and thus dispense with the overbearing Bridgets and Honorahs who have held sway in the culinary regions. The class as- sembled in the cooking rooms in the base- ment of Hughes and put on the regulation cap and apron. Then Miss Hull, in a ten- minute talk, proceeded to expiain to them the simpler processes of chemistry which” are involved in the art of cooking. After this a few practical illustrations were given of the cooking which they were to perform. The boys, who are all of the D grade, were Joseph Shaw, Calvin-Vos, William Dough- ty, Freman Hussy, George Hoffman, Chas. Jones and William Simpson. A row of gas burners was lighted, and each boy was fur- nished with an egg and egg poache resulting poached eggs would hay credit to the cafe of any of the sw taurants or hotels. Potatoes were then started roasting and bread was toas:ed. The value of bread crumbs and the prop>r preparation and preservation was then elu- cldated to the young students, and a whole jarful was prepared by them and set aside for the next recitation. The menu thus prepared was served on a table by the boys, and they proceeded to regale themselves on the fruits of their work. The skill dis- played by the boys was very noticeabk there being no accident, save a burne finger sustained by Master Shaw in his eagerness to toast a piece of bread. Miss Hull expects to make a very go0d !ot of cooks from the present raw material, and from the enthusiasm they displayed the boys are not a whit less eager to become proficient in the art. SS Contest With an Eagle. From the Baltimore Sun. On Knobley mountain, seven miles from Cumberland, Mr. Thomas Sutton had an exciting exqperience with an eagle. He was with a party who had gone to the Fauble farm to lock over some mineral lands. He saw an immense bird hovering in the air over the place, and, procuring a gun, fired at the bird and brought it to the ground, apparently dead. He seized the bird, which proved to be an enormous gray eagle, but it was not dead, having only been struck under the wing and stunned. As soon as it was seized it revived and showed fight. It buried its talons in Mr. Sutton’s wrist and leg below the knee. Then a fierce battle began. The cagle flut- tered and sparred, as it were, for an open- ing to drive in its beak. Sutton warded off its blows at the expense of badly eut hands. Constable Robert Couters, the only mem- ber of the party near, heard the noise of the affray, seized the eagle by the head and choked it, finally tearing it loose from its victim. The eagle is now on exhibition in a cage at Frank Hartel and William Con- way’s place, in South Cumberland. It has @ Tavenous appetite and does not seem to be jhe least injured. It weighs about twenty-five pounds, and measures seven and one-half feet from tip to tip. Messrs. Hartel, anf Conway will offer the eagle to Schenley Park, Pittsburg, where there is a “zoo.” Mr. Sutton’s arm and leg were badly torn, and are greatly swollen. ———_+o+—____. ‘Try This Before Going Home. From the Boston Journal. If your tongue is in godd condition for fill fi The Man Who is at the Right Hand of Henry George. ‘Tom L. Johnson, the man wi engineered the nomination of Henry George for mayor of New York city, and who is at present his right-hand political advisor, is well remembered in Washington. He served two terms in the House of Representatives beginning with the Fifty-second session. “Tom” Johnson, as he was known and familiarly t2rmed in Washington, soon brought himself before the public eye after his entry into Congress. He was known to be a millionaire, the owner of several systems of st-cet railways in various cities, manufacturer of iron and steel rails upon an extensive scale, and with all this to be an advocate of free trade and the single tax. More than this, howsaver, he was the first man of the House of Representatives to ride a bicycle upon the public strects of Washington. When Mr. Mills of Texas ran for Speaker of the House of Representatives Tom John- son managed his campaign. Although the distinguished Texan was defeated for the speakership by Judge Crisp of Georgia, the canvass brought Tom Johnson to the front immediately, although he was cnly a brand-new member of the House. The greatest sensation which Tom Johnson cre- ated in Congress was during the discussion of a tariff bill which was under con- sideration in the House. Notwithstanding the fact that Tom Johnson was a manufac- turer of steel rails, he boldly advocated free trade in steel rails, as well as in other articles. He had a controversy with Mr. Daizell of Pennsylvania, who stood for a high duty upon steel rails, and in the debate which followed Tom Johnson manifested his familiarity with tecanical features of the steel rail business and held his own to the satisfaction of the free traders. On the other hand, however, it was charged that his method of manufac- turing steel rails was patented, and that free trade would not hurt him. During this debate Tom Johnson and five other members of the House delivered as speeches six sections of Henry George's book, ‘Protection or Free Trade.” Thus the bcok was incorporated in the Con- gressional Record. In 1892 more than a million copies of it were circulated. It is said that when Tom Jonnson read Henry George's “Progress and Poverty” be was astounded at its arguments, yet fearful of accepting them., He turned his book over to his lawyer and demanded an unbiased opinion on it. The lawyer was converted to Henry George's theories upon the sirgle tax, reported favorably on the book, and from that time Tom Jonnson has been an established ally to Henry George. While in the House Tom Johnson at- tempt to secure the exemption of real «s- tate improvements from taxation in the District of Columbia. He secured the passage of a resolution authorizing the eppointment of a special committee to in- vestigate real estate values and the assess- ment of land and improvements gin the District of Columbia, and for several weeks the committee examined property owners and others. The committee made a report, but no action was taken upon it by the House. Tom Johnson was born in Scott county, Ky., July 18, 1854, and after a common school education entered the employ of the Central Passenger railroad of Louis- ville. With marvelous rapidity he rose to be secretary and superintendent and mastered the minutest details of railroad management. He invented a rail when eighteen years old that is now used all over the country. Gradually he amassed wealth, and in 1876 obtained control of a street railway in In- dianapolis. Three years later he bought a small line in Cleveland, but by his extra- ordinary energy and ability in a short time effected a consolidation of all the roads in that city, his home. He is the street rail- way king of Cleveland, and one of its most popular citizens, his equitable treatment of his employes being at the bottom of this reputation. His street car rail developed rapidly, ard in 1884 he formed the Johnson Company of Johnstown, Pa., one of the largest steel plants in Pennsylvania, and outside of the steel trust. He also controls now an im- mense plant near Cleveland. Tom Johnson is sald to employ twenty thousand men in his various enterprises. In nis marner he is democratic to the fur- thest extreme. Though several times a millionaire he delights to mingle with la- boring men and discuss the theories of sin- gle tax, populism and socialism, and the conditions affecting the workingmen. —_>__ A Cart Driver's Politeness. From the Springfield Republican. A homely bit of gallantry was enacted in this city a few days ago by a driver of an ordinary, every-day watering cart. A wo- man had a fall from her bicycle, just in front of the street sprinkler, and, although not at all hurt, her hands were considerably the worse for contact with the dirt of the road. The driver watched her from his high seat, and then called out cheerily: “Want to wash yer hands, miss?” She ad- mitted that it would be a desirable thing, so the man turned on a small stream from his cart and held his horses still while the woman washed her dirt-covered hands. Then, acknowledging her “Thank you” with a smile and a bow, he drove on, and the woman resumed her ride, The driver's action was as true gallantry as ever knight performed in olden time—and such as Parisians would never think of. ———_+ e+ ____ The jury in the Rosen-Schappiro breach of promise case in Baltimore found that Mr. Rosen should give the girl $1,775 for re- fusing to marry her because her foot was deformed. lilinois- winter wheat is generally killed by drought. Lightning killed Mrs. Huntman Sunday night as she was driving up to the church door at Winston, N. C. The iwenty-third annual meeting of the National Wholesale Druggists’ Association and the Proprietary Association is in ses- sion in Richmond. Verbal or oral assault was established as @ ground of divorce in the Fitzgerald case, decided this week by Judge Pryor of the New York supreme court. William Johnson of West Chester, Pa., has been hiccoughing for a week, the doc- tors being unable to give him relief. 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