Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 29, 1890, Page 9

P — = — TWENTIETH YEA R. "SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 29 1890 TWELVE PAGES. 11 THE LOCAL WORLD OF SPORT. A Budget of Refreshing Gossip From the Diamond. WHISPERINGS ~ FROM THE WHEEL, Among the Shooters—A Stray Flock of Geese—Searcity of Brain Food —~Are Taking the Fly—Miscel- laneous Local Squibs, “Speaking about ball players’ ages,” sald Dave Rowe to the writer one evening during the Denver's recent, trip here, “who would you say was the oldest player on the diamond today.” “You are no spring chicken yourself Dave,” wus the answer, “but of course there are o score or more older than you.)! “Me,” intercoptod the big first baseman with considerable acerbity, ‘“in heaven's name, who do yon take me for—Methuselahit How old am 11" ““Well David, I saw you play ball about sixteen years ago, and you were as big and as ugly and a good deal bétter ball player then thun you are now, and I should judge that s about, thirty-cight years of age.” y-eight_centuries you might as well putit. sir, I'm only thirty-two. and I am two years older than my brother Jack of the Buffalos,and if you don't believe it we'll send for the family bible and prove it. And you never saw me play ball sixtecn years ago. You refer to the time I suppose when the Peorias played the Cumminsville Blue Stock- Ings at Cincinnati, when Jack and I were both with the Illinofs team ¢ ‘Correct,” “T thought so. Well that was in the fall of 188, 50 you sce you are off your base exactly four years. No sir, Sandy, Ull cross my breast, T won't be thirty-two ‘until next Sep- tember,” and that bland, child-like look came i Dave's face, the look he always wears when talking with the umpire just before he eries “play bull.” Smooth man, that Dave Rowe, and a great general and ball player yet, no difference whatthey say, “But the oldest man in_the diamond today, that is what you usk, is it Daver” “Yes, who'do you thinis is the man? “Either Jack Nelson of the Atlantic league, or Jim White of the Buffalo brotherhood club. T remember when I was yet a barefoot boy of gluing my eye to s knot-hole in the feace at the old ~ Forest City park in Cleve- land and watching the Deacon go through the Highland fling_behind the plate, way back in 70 or 71 Jim White, I would say, isn'ta day under forty-seven, and yet I see his age stated frequently at forty-two.” “Well, 1 think you are wrong. Idon't think Jim is over forty, and he's worth sev- eral years work yet.” ‘ou muke mé weary, Dave; you ballplay- ers are ull alike; you are as fraid as a school girl that somebody will find out y age, and you couldw't teil the truth if y try. The'liste of ball-players ages put in'last week's New York Sporting Tim far as the old veterans are concerned, is simply preposterous, although Editor Caylor gives the alleged date of their births. “Phie brotherhood is full of patriarchs—passe bull players who are now only making a_bluft at ball playing, and it will only require this season to relegate them to the shades eternal, suve where they will occasionally erop out as an umpire. But the oldest active player on the dinmond today is unquestionably Deacon White.” Woes of the Tail-Ender. The tail-end team in a baseball race gener- ally gots it from *‘soda to hock.”” If theve is any ill-luck to be smeared over any team the tail-enders get it. Omaha and St. Paul are stances in the present Western association contest. So far as ndividual strength is con orably with the very best in the race. ha surely is the equal of any of them, either individually or collectively, and still she looses. If rain falls in any city in the circuit during the night before a game in sufficient quantities to flood the vall grounds, it is ten to one that it is in_ the city ‘where the tail-enders “are to play. Of course they always get the worst of the umpiring. That is as certain as death or taxes. One reason for this is that the ur lllm is less afraid of the tail-end team than b s of one well up in the race, and is naturally fnclined toward adherence to the old sav tmever kick a man when he's down, but hit him with a club.” If the regular umpire faits to show up it is invariably upon the ground of the tail-enders, under which civcumstances they are_compelled by the rules ampire from the ranks of the visiting club, who is serupulously careful to gve them the worst of it. If a player gets fined for kicking, it is always one of the tail-end- ers, In fact the tail ender gets the worst of everything, They lose more games by single run than all the other teams combii and then if there is a raileoad wreck within a hundred miles of the city they are to play in that day, of course they ave in'it. Their Star twirlor'is always sick, nobody goes to see them play, they forfeit guarantees on ac count of the inclemency of the weather, have more bats stolen and meet with more general cussed misfortune than ought to fall to the 1ot of & dozen teams, Surely an awful hoo- doo rests forever on the tail-cuder The Cause of Omahas Defeats. There's no use talking, the Black Sox can- not be expected to win with any dogree of regularity until Manager Leonard disco tinues chunging the men about so much. The team contains regular men for regulay positions and they should be played there or notall. There has hardly been two co secutive games this season with the men in the same positions, and itis & wonder tho team has done as well as it has, Today it is Urquahart in the field, tomorrow Moran or Phalen; then Canavan appears on second, then back in the field again; Urquahart on fivst, then behind tho bat; Willis in the middle garden today, and in the box tomor- row, and soit goes. This was Sclee’s fault in 88, The team was played no two days a like, and the consequence was the boys won about every fourgh or fifth game. The personnel st L N0 Omahia team Just now is a strong one, andthe men should “ve played each uccord: ing to his fudividunl qualifications, Kearns, Canavan and Willis should be kept uninte ruptedly in the field, and Urquahart und Moran required only to do the back-stopping. Collins is now in playing form, and there will be no occasion for continued 'experimenting ot & ud, and unless sickness or injury inter poses it 1s pretty safe to say that the team will be played froin this on as it ought to be played. If the manugement is desirous of curtailing expensos they should decide upon Hines or Phalen as their general utility man andlet the other go, without hesitation or sentiment. That's the wuy to run o ball tewm, New Ground Next Season, Unquestionably this is the last season the gamo wiil bo played ut the present park, as resident McCormick has unalterably made up his mind to sccure grounds within & shorter distance of the center of the city at a cost, This is @ wiso determination, for were the grounds located but half the distance from the corner of Fifteenth and Fuarnam that they now are, the attendance would be doubled. Such's change would do away with all danger of fuilure in taking in the guaran- tee at ull weel-day games, in fact, base ball in Omaha would then be an enterprise that would attract the nost liberal investment, McCormick has not yet relinquised all hopo of securing the grounds on Nicholas street, between Nineteenth and Twentioth streats, just north of the Omaha stroet railway coms l-nn)"sm'\v power house. The fittiug up of hese grounds would require the demolition of 9 building or two, wud entall a vast rned both of these teams compare fay- deal of expense, but the revenue ! derived by remson of their increased accessibility would _be of such a character a8 would offset all this at a very eason. Big erowds enhance Il game, just like they do a horse race, atrical performance or any other amuse- ment, and the patrons of the game are all anxious to have the management succeed in securing grounds nearer the center of the city. Gossip About the Team. Walley Andrews hasn't got his good eye with him to any very considerable extent yet this season. With men on bases he can bo counted n sure out. 'This is tough, but true. Just wait, however, he will get his optics on the ball before long, and then the fences will quiver. Have you noticed wit an elogant bunt big Mike Hfues makes! He gets it down well, about half way between home and third, closo along the line, and has but little difleuity in beating the ball to first. A bunted ball is really and truly the only sacrifice hit there 1s, Praise from Cisar is praise indecd. An- son says that *Omuaha is u regular fuctory for short-5tops. Last fall I pulled Jimmy Cooney, the greatest of them all, with perhaps the e: ception of Herman Long and Jack Glas cock, from out their ranks, but they are mak- ing another out there this year in Joe Walsh, He's a treasure,” Tom Kearns, whilo ho ranks head and shoulders above any outficlder in the West- ern association, is a sure hitter with men on the bags, and he never smashes her for much less than a three-sacker. Kearns is the life of the team, Dud Clarke has not been in real prime con- e dition yet this season, but ke is working hard to get there. Probubly Dad's misfortune can be accounted for by the fact that he met a wagon load of empty barrels on his way to the opening championship game at Denver this spring, and yet the Omahas lost. Clarke, you kuow, rates a load of empty barrels go od Tor o win under any circamstances, uad to pass a funeral means defeat. anavan is_ growing bigger and bigger iy, and will s00n be a real man. And 1 Jimmy is putting up a better game, t0o, additional day. He is almost dead sure to rap out a sufe when he steps to the bat in the opening inning. Everybody likes tosea Tit Willis on the buses. ~ He's full of ginger all the time and never gets giued to the bags. Tit's third base steals are great. Cleveland has been playing in rotten luck all during the spring months, but he is get- ting down to form now and wiil soon be glor- od as greatly as he has been excerated. So far as ability is concerned, when in condition, he has it with any player on the team. Moré miraculous pickups or swifter, more accur- ate throws than some of his, were never seen on the diamond. it secms, With every Billy Movan and Cor two of yoar The; ius Urquahart ,are right-minded young p) are hard students and promising pla; nd intend to allow no opportunity to pass offers a chance of improvement, ~ Neither man has any bad habits and | keep good hours. The; model ball Vers, Pitcher Martin is tho Sphinx of the team. He y spoken onee or twic ho joined the Omahas, and somo say he can hold his br Enough of Kittle and Collin's pl: not been scen yet to justify any comme The Omaha's Woekly Shoot. The Omaha gun club’s weekly shoot, which vas held on the Dunmire groands across the follows T L L 00109 0101018 L0101 11100 THLE 161 10)HL—16 CLOOLL OOLEL THEEE 1L H010—19 i LOLL OIUL 10 1101 11010 Bedford.. . UUIHL UL (L L 010 W—21 Pownsend. AL OO ELIL LU 00LLL Huy 0011 10001 10101 0110 1111 Graves 00001 01060 ITLLC 00111 1THL Hargravi LA 00411 11010 10161 00111—17 The conditions were 28 standard targets, 18 yards rise, 5 unlmown trap ‘Whisperings From ‘the Wheel. Soldier Reading, the byker, has located in St. Joseph. Chester R. Olmstead, one of Chicago's best. riders, will summer in Omaha. C. C. Candy of Boston is here assisting > o in booming the Victor. Stillman G. Whittaker has returned from England. While in Europe he made a mile in I Young Schill, of this city, beat Charlic Ashinger, the Oklahoma farmer, in a fifty- mile race'down at St. Joe last weel. Belt has returned and is at wsrk again, The semi-weckly runs by Perrigo’s three-mau team will now be resumed it is presumed. The weather 15 getting a trifle too incinera- ting for long weekly club runs and the Apollos will discontinue theirs until after dog days. Captain Emerson has issued a v card with the runs called for Ju viates all excuse on the score of iznorance of time or place. The Omaha clubs could oces ble agitation by a grand road v prominent clubs in the country sion considera- All of the holding them this season. T'his afternoon the run will be made to Lake Manawa, when e boys will fish and disport themselves in the limpid wate limpid mud, to thewr hearts content. Several members of the local wheel clubs will probably uttend the national meet of th League of American Wheelmen, which will be lield at Niagara Falls in Augis The lawn'party given by the Omaha wheel club last Wedncsday evening was a flattering success, thanks to the untiring efforts of the committce, Messrs, Head, Morris and I The wheel dlub's first summer fete last Wednesday evening was a charming affair. The grounds were ornate with Chinesc lanterns, the music by the Mandolin elub de- licious and the refreshments ditto: The first annual club race of the Apollos will take place today over the Omana-Council Blufts course. ‘The prize is a handsome gold medal offered by W, Bohl of the Acwe iron and wire works. Juci Prince and Lily Willlams compete in a twenty-five mile race at St. Joseph this afternoon, Prince to give the Lily a handica of amileand a half, Of course they will Loth break the vecord. On the Missouri Valley road the train leaves at5p.m. and 8 a. m. on the Fourth, and on the Union Pacific at 6:15 a. m. on the 8d. All riders taking wheels by rail should remove the pedals at the depot. The punch bowl, embedded in & mammoth cake of fce, and_embowered in smilax und Majesto roses, was not the least pleasing ture of the banquet hall, The club 15 tting very swagzer, and theso evening fetes will be kept up through the summer. The club run to Calhoun was well attended and greatly enjoyed. The run to Lake Man- or awa, however, carried off the pulm, being the b attended run yet called At the laké the boy one giving y Captain Em- : hud a great time, imself up to the hour, : nd the Jmont as guests of the I'remont There will be a grand parade, and the ha contingent has been honoved with the A large number of members will leave here on the #d via the old militury road. Tney will depart at 8 p. m., lunch at Elk City about 6 and a at Fremont shortly after 8. . The bicycle pipo is thelatest. The patenteo is un old ‘oyelist, and knowing the incony nience of having a quiet smoke on a bicyele, he hes dovised this attachment. It is made to fit on the handle-bar, the pipe being se- cured by a nickel-plated clip and spring, and is counécted to the rider by u flexible tube with mouthpiece. Al vibration to the teeth is doue away with, aud the danger of sparks ery The Omaha Wheel club will sps Fourth at k' club, and tobacco-ash lodging in the eyes is entire ly averted. The rider can mount and, dis- mount without detaching the pipe. When not riding, the pipe can be used as an ordin- any one, and a very handsome pipc it makes, Master Will Pixlay of Omabha deserves more credit and gaiued more applause than any starter at Chicago's greatest tournament, Though but sixteen years of , ho demon- streated the fuct that'howas not to be handi- capped by s some of our older riders can verify, and several expressed the opinion that he wis without doubt the coming man, Pix- ley, in ali of his races wus well up at the finfsh, and with another ycar's strength and growth will surely hustle our fliers, He 15 & wonder for his age and size and kuows all the tricks of,the track. Peabody is a worthy lwyn:a\.umu\'o of the same city, aod gavi ) Spooner a much closer rub_for the 100 miles than_he did a year ago. Taggar, also from Omaha, did_not appear to great advantage. All of the Omaha men have a habit of riding “on the head of their wheels,” and it was this that caused Tagwar to take a header over nothing and throw himself, Barrett and Masi out of the race.~Chicago Sporting Review. Miscellaneous Local Sports. Tt is reported that woodduck are nestin around the sloughs at Horseshoe lake an Whiting in unusual numbers, Adyices from Missouri Valléy report the waters having subsided and that bass and pickerel are again taking the lure very well. Next Tuesday afternoon there will be a match shoot for the shells and birds between two teams, five men cach, from the Omaha und WincHester clubs. The pool rooms in this city, and_there are four of them, all flourishing like cedars of I banon, are the greatest existing facto cutting down the attendance at the ball gam Some whaling channel cats have been tiken on trot liues from the Missouri, off Florence, within the past few dags. One monster; iighing seventy-eight pounds, was captured Tnesday night last. Pickard’s Grove, southwest of the city, will be the scene of considerable sport on the Fourth, including a slow mule race for a purse of £10, amateur foot race, fat man's ruce, greased pole and greased pii, bascball, and & match pacing race fo de. The uncommon at this time of year —of nincteen wild geese, were seen flying north over ahe city last Thursday atternoon. Where these birds huve been it would be difficult to surmise, but it is auite prabable they have been waiting down at Kar fo see Dave Rowe's shocmakers ball, % Phil Davies, the so-called champion light- weight of Colorado, is in_ the city panting for @ fight with_any 130-pound_man who can be scared up. Davis would look a vast deal bet- ter in a brick yard or boiler factory than any place else that can_be thought of just now. Omaha will from this on give pugilists and pugilism a very cold deal, k The Lincoln gun club will hold a grand sweepstake tournament July 4 and b, and Messrs. Hughes, k co, Parmelee Gwin, Musselman, Latchaw, Clurke and Townsend will_go' down froi_ this city and tako u fow armfuls of the laurels. The tou nament will be conducted under the Ameri- ean association rules and the shooters will be classified by a committec into Aand B grades. The Grand Island gun club has challenged the Omaha gun club for a mateh team shoot, ten men to each team, for from $10 to #50 a side per cach man. The challenge has been aceepted and arcangements are beivg made tohaye the shoot come off in this city imme- diately after the Fourth. If Grand Island can congreg together ten men who can hold a tallow candle to the ten crucks from the Omuha club she can win the carth, The Towa State Sportsmen's assoc ation have clected the following officers for the cur- ident, J. G. Smith, Alzona co president, A. 4. Selwart, Des second vice president, W. B. Loffing- sceretary, Nelson Royal, Des Perkins, Des 3 w0 George Conve S. Youug, Burlington] N. Charles Grim, Clear Luke 0. Davis, Davenport. The American Shooting association has made a much demanded change in its rules. It formerl, 2 limited the chargo of shot in a ge gun to 11y ounces, which was the cau: of much dissatisfaction wi portsmen, s regarding oting, hud provid olves with the lighter and more sp <0 weapon. ‘Phe limitation to 115 ounces w sarded as a hardship, and i response to the general de- mand the associution now permits the use of Lig ounces in guns of any calibre. As a fish market Omah: s to be a fail- ure. It is a difficult matter to procure fresh fish here, although it is on the borders of a great fish country. Miunesotw's lakes and streams téem with the gamey black bass and rout, the delicate pike and ‘pickerel, tho de- licious croppie and savory muskallonge, and yet but smull quantitics of these midsummer luxuries find their way into tne local market. It is un unaccountable fact Omaha tish-eating communit 3 ing, it is one of the braiuiest citie country, Questions and Answers. C. B. X., Council Blufts—Your question is wholly unintelligible, Try again, Will you please state in oudpopalar, Wostern aso te: wan, who died & ye z0 last win died from the cffects of an injury recsivel from a foul-tip or not—dJohn T. Cross, Mir- shalltown, Ia. Ans.—Stephen B. Hazan died fi blood poisoning, consequent upon buinz strack by a wildly pitched ball, He dicd January 3, 1580, and was injured the previous season, . To decide a wa; Il you pleise publish in Sunday’s BeeJack Ceooks’ famous batt record inone of the St. Paul games 1 H, HL, city On June 8, 1839, Crooks, in a gama with the Apostles on the St. Panl grounds, in five times at the bat made > successive hits, th Ju wimpi v, including four home runs. Please state in Sunda iuning game the y's Bei the longest natias played last scason and its principal f 5. I bat that the St. Joe fourteen inning gam» was tha lon, Do I win?—S8, O. L, South Omaha, Ane.—You lose. Omahn and Milwaukee, at Milwauke ved fifteen innings on Au- gust 4, Milwaukee winuing by a score of 7 to 6. Nichols and Strauss were Omaha’s bat- tery. The Brewers made thirteen hits off of Kid and earned six of their seven runs, Alex- ender and Hurley were Milwauke batt and Omaha made twelve hits, carning five their run The score by inuings follow: Milwaukee. .2 1001000000000 3—7 Omaha . 021001000000002—4 Will you please state in Sunday’s sporting department whether the forty-eight houv, six hours a day, record of 740 1-5 miies held by ator Morgan is bona fide or not!— Currey C., St. Joe, Mo. Ans,—Itis. It was made at Minneapolis Novewber 8 to 13, 1586, Please oblige a subscribar and one intes ested in wheeling by publishing the nam of the officers of the Omaba Wheel club. — Byke, Fre mont, Neb. Aus.—Perry Badollet, president; H. H. Rhodes, vice pres arsole, sec- retary, and William Emerson, captain, Horace, City.—The speeimen you sent hero Thursday, is @ turnstone, (Arenaria inte pres). Never heard of one being shot at Cat Off lake before, or anywhere in this region, for that matter. Natural history suys they are cosmopolitan in their habits, but the fact is, they scldom leave the salt water shores, Please give a list of all the players signed by the Omaha management thi on. Also state where Collins and Kittle played pre- vious to coming to Omuba.—C. M., Missouri Valley. Au Andrews, Collins, Walsh, Cleveland, Canavan, Kearns, Willis, Hines, Phale Urquahart, Moran, Kittle, Clarke and Thayer, McConunell, Sommer, Bays and Fnaning. The latter five have been let out. Will you please state in Sunday's Bee the of fastest time made by a hose team for 500 yards and couplei—Subscriber, Kearney, Neb. Ans.—The fastest tume made by a hose teamn previous to that made by the K team at Plattsmouth lust week was 39 se onds, made by the J. I, iss team of Ams- terdum, N.Y. Kearney's recent perform 4-5, beats the re ase state in Sunday’s Beg the best thing d a norse to regain his fleshi—A Daily Reader, Omaha, Ans.—Ico cream and White mountain cake at this season of the year; suow balls and scrap iron iu the winte ot In the decline of life, infirmities beset us to which our youth and maturity were strang- ers, our kidneys and liver are subje rangement, but nothing equals Br. 5 H. McLean’s Liver and Kiduey Balw us & rogu- lator of these organs, "HOW ORIENTALS ‘KEEP COOL. | Bome Ideas by Which'Sweltering Humanity in America May Profit, DRESS SPARINGLY AND BATHE OFTEN. Japan's Hot Baths and the Burmese Water Feast-Wearing Bustles to Get the Breezes—Adam and ive Costumes, [Copyrioht, 1890, by Frank G, Carpenter.] WasHiNGtoy, June 26.—[Specwl to T Bre.)—Washington is sweltering under a mid-summer sun. The' statesmen at the cap- itol are in their summer clothes und every man has his recipe for keeping cool. I know of a senator who takes twelve baths a week at the government expense and there are fif- girls go out with buckets and the boys have squirt guns and for three days there is nothing but water-splashing. The for- cigners of Rangoon also engage in this and the Chinese celobrato tho feast with the rest. One Chinamon rigged up a hydrant with @ two inch pipe during the ast feast and as his house was on the main street he had the bulge, as it were on overy one else, He engaged a coolic to work the machine all day and as he was soliing waterworks he had a good advertisement in addition to his fun. A swell Englishman arrived in Burmah last year during this feast. He went to call on one of the leading men of Rangoon in tall silk hat and black clothes and was met at the door by @ girl with a bucket of water, The girl asked him in Burmese as to whether he was observing the water feast and he sup- posing that she wanted to kuow whether he had come to see her fathe Nooded His Head and with that nod this whole bucket of water went over his silk hat and down the back of his collar, completely drenching him. Dur- ing the same time anothe ¢ of English- teen members of the lower house who wear scersucker coats and flannel shivts, I visited the National museum today to s ances which the people of the tropies have to keep themselves cool. The Korean gentle- man has a wickerwork shivt which keeps his clothes away from the body and acts as a sort of ventilator lying between his abdomen and his gown. He has wicker cuffs which run from his wrist to his elbow and which are made of the tinest of stiff straw. These keep the sleeves away from the person and the Korean embassy at Washington is the coolest of all the legations. It 'is from these wieker bustles worn over the belly that the Kore et their reputation of being such They are fat, but not half so fat asis sup- posed. It is this wicker arrangement that in- creases their apparent avoirdupoise, and as s in Korea is a sign of weulth, there is no hesituncy,shown by a thin man in trying to make himself look like the fat man in the dime museum. The Korean has the lightest summer hat known to the world. It is of the ~loaf variety, is made of horsehair and ehs but a few ounces, The fan collection of the museum represents all the countries of the east. Even the Sand- wich islanders have fansand some of the South sea maidens hide their nudity behind a fun made of fragrant grass and not move than six inches in diameter. The palm-leaf funs of this country and Europe are all made at Can- ton in Chiua and the Chincso are among the fine fad-makers of the world. During my trip around the world I other sited Chi Peking and_ o number of nese cities, and I found whole streets devoted to the sale of fans and lan- terns, Swatow ¥ lying on the coast between Shanghai und Hong Kong, which is noted for line fans. ‘Those funs f fine paper stretehed ou a frame which curves at the top and which thus produces a sort of bow catching the wind and Making Them Delightfally Cooling. The funs ave beautifully painted and the pictures on them are tha best exhibition of Chincse fan art. Every Japancse man and woman carvies a fan, and the fans which we get from Japan ave of the cheapost variety. In Japan the gentlemen usually use folding fans, and the; them in their bosoms, under their collars v stuck into their givdle, It is the ladies who use the flat fans, and it would Le contrary to ctiquette for a man to appear on the street with a fan that would not fold up. Japan has its fan etiquette, and there is us much & language of the fan as a Innguage of flowers, The pretty Yum Yums of Tokio und Kiota express through ranning what American lovers convey by kissing, for the hot osculation of America is unknown among the Japunese cither in the summer or in the winter. ‘The Japancse h: autograph fans as we have, and many of the young peo- ple make fan collections containing the si tures of their friends or verses of poctry w ten on them, One of the most striking char- acters of Tokio is an old fan seller. She is woman of about eighty who goes around with fans and brooms and who cries Ler wares from house to hous An important cooling recipe of the far cast is the bath und the hot: bath is taken by the Japane ceral times a dav. The bathing done in the public bath rooms orin the private tub and no sca) is used. Many Jap- anese are now parboiling themselves in water raised to 120° Fahrenheit and the whole family bathe in the same tub. Thereis a model of one of these tubs at the National museum and the average Japanese bath tub is ubout three feet high, oval in shape, and it has u little furnace a stovepipe running up above the top of the tub set into one end ofit. A board keeps this stovepipe from touching the skin and a few moments will heat the bath to boiling. The Japanese have no false modesty as to the showing of their person und it is not an imeommon thing in w Jupanese house to see alady at her bath, or if you bo a guest to have one of the female servants come in and Offer to Rub You hov Carter Harrvison of Chicago was much sur- prised at this during his stay in Japan and he Ided the flesh off his fat calve: Jumping into the tub to get out of the way of the ul- mond-eyed beauty who came in to assist him. I know a wealthy man in Washington who was traveling in Jupan the same time that I was who could not get enough of these hot baths and who made & number of trips into the interior of the country in order that he might have them with all their old Japanese flavor. In many of the public bath houses of Japan both sexes bathe together and on a hot day of Juky or August they splash und play with one another as innocent us our parents were before the Tall. In Tokio and the other large cities of the empire the for- elgn influence has produced an order aguinst this common bathing of the sexes, but in the villages where such an ovder has been made ¢l the people have done 18 to draw a string through the center of the bath vat and the women and children arg on the one side while the men ure on the other. At a famous hot springs in the Japanese mountains I saw both sexes hopping awousd together in the water, splashing each other aud enjoying the sulphurous fumes without a thought that there was anything indecent about their ac- tions, The Siamese are so near the equator tha they have about the same hot weather the year around. Every man, woman and child in Bangkok takes a plunge into the r at least three times a day. Of the 700,000 peo- ple in the city at least 500,000 live in floating houses and inasmuch as the summer costumes of the lower classes consists of a garment about the size of & Turkish towel, it is not much trouble for them to go in bathing, 'y bathe on the stéps of their houses and stand up to the waist in the water grunting delightfully as they pour bucket after buck- etful over themselves and their neighbors. The Burmese man and woman take a bath ivery Night After Dinner. This bath is merely pouring water over the person. Soap is meyer usedand particular carg is taken not to wet the hair, At New Year's, when the weather is as hot as our summer, these people have what they call a water feast, aud at this time the whole nation thurow water upon one another, Al the pretty men were told that some girls were coming to throw water on them. had the se vants bring out the bath tub and put it on the veranda and when the girls came they got possession of the tub and splashed the Eng- lishmen until one of them rushing in seized one of the maidens and lifting her up dropped her into the tub. This was considered very impolite and the young man who did it suf- fered by receiving no further attentions from the Burmese beautics. Along the Ganges in Tndia it is a saered duty of the Hindoos to bathe once every day and they can wash mway their sins while they are washing their bodies, I have scen ten thousand bathing at the same tirie at th holy bath steps of Benares. There is, how- ever, no fun about the Hindoo bath. It is all religion and the bather prays during tho whole time. Both sexes bathe in the river at the sanit time but they keep their clothes on and they do mot m together. The finest bath houses of India are those belonging to the rajahs, The Mo- hammedans have perhaps the finest baths of the far east and the Mohammedans of India Spend Fortunes on ‘t h ir Baths, The most costly baths of all Asia were those of the Mohammedan kings at Agraand Delhi. In the great palace of Akbar at Agra ther a vast bath room down under ground, walls of which are mao colored glass set with mivrors as big around as your thumb nail. These mirrors a um- bered by the tens of thousands and the whole brilliantly lighted must have been dazzling in the spray of the fountains. Heve Akbar used to bathe with his harem and he reminds mo of t khedive of vpt who cooled himself by riding around the lukes in his palace grounds with his faivest beauties and nov aud then giving one, a shove overboard to see if she could swim. I saw at Dolhiin oneof the paluces of Shah Jehan the man who made the peacock throne which cost £30,000,000, a buth which cost a fortune. 1t had room after room of marble and there were hot pipes and cold fountains and it id that one of this man's_suceessors when he suspected one of his w to be unfaithful was wont to lock her up in this bath, turn the hot water and forget ali about he The result was that she awoke in heaven, The Tu of Egyptand of Turkey spend a preat part of their time in the bath and the Tarkish bath is too well known in the United States to need descrip- tion. - The rajuhs of India have got tho art of keeping cool down to a s finest cities of the far e: 3 It is the capital of a nutive state. All of its rose-colored and they were all one style of architecture. The ;o of Yhe rajuh s in vast gavdens through horivers of water flow in marble beds and in which the luxuriant flowers and teoes of the tropies bloom. Tho harem of the rajah of Jeypore looks out upon this garden and its fair ladies Kept Cool By Fanning Mills turned by hand. It takes a score of men to turn the cranks to keep these maidens cool and man-power has much to do with the re- frigerators of the east. There are thousands of forcigners, Amevicans, English, Germans and French now at work in Asia, and each of these does his Lookkeeping under the broeze of the punkah. The punkah is a long fan-like strip of cloth fastened to a beam which is hung by ropes from the ceiling over the man's head. To the middle of this beam a rope is fustened and this rope is put through a pulley and so arcanged that a man sitting out of doors and pulling at it will make the fan go backward und forward over the bookkeeper's head. The native pulls aw: 1 day long and most foreigners huve such a rigging put up over their beds and keep the bred blowing in this y ull night. You can get a China- man to do this for about fifteen cents a day and your servant in India will work cven cheaper. Now and then your punkah man goes to slecp and you uotice the stoppage of the ai All you have to do in this case is to lift up a bucket of wator and throw it out of the window. A good drenching wakes up the punkahwalla and he goes to work again. I have seen thirty of these punkahs at work in a church while the Episcopalian minister was reading the ice, and the breeze added to the sermon was decidedly soporifie. This church was at Singapore, just eighty miles from the equator, where the sun rises and sets the same hour the year around. Here Isaw a lawn tennis match, The par- ticipants were forei gners, the ladies dressed in linen costume and the men in white flannel suits, Each player had a servant to run after the ball for him when it happened to go outside the bounds, aud they did not take u bit more exercise than was necessary. The modes of exercise in the far east ave of inter- est to people who want to keep cool and still maintain a healthy condition in hot weather, Foreiguers in Asia get up at daybreak, take a good ride across the country or a walk be- fore the sun gets up. They take a sleep in the middle of the duy and work on into the evening. They drink A Great Deal of Whisky, but whether this has a cooling influence or not I do not know. A great part of the hard work of the east is doue at night, and this is especially 0 in the great government depart- ments. The king of Korea holds all his andi- ences at night and the emperor of China takes all his sleep in the daytvime, his is s0 with the king of Siam, and the sultun of Turks ¢ goes to sleep until 1 o'clock in the morniv The question of water in the far importunt one and the water form oneof the largest castes of India. Both here and in India they c their water in skins upon their backs and shoy Sell It by the C and by the skinful, made of hog skins or L sking and the ordi nary skin will hold ten gallons. Water is worth about a cent a skin and the strcets of the c of many picces of ast is an P Theso skin-bags are Calcutta are watered by these men, who sprinkle the water from the skin upon the dust. T'he strect waterworks of Korea con sists of & set of men who go arouna with buckets of water on their buacks, and in Jupan the streets are kept cool by a man who carries two buckets of water fastened W a pole over his shoulders and lets the water out | wall lume | would by this time j through little holes in th in Korea and Japan the water used for this purpose is taken from the gutters, which form to a large extent the sewers of the city, and the cooling of the air is by no means a purification of it. The question of keeping cool is largely a matter of dross, Mr. Rockhill, the American who pushed his way into Thibet last year, wore a Ciiineso costume during the journey nd he tells me it is far cooler than the Ameri- All of the natious of the east much better in this re- spect than we do. The Japanese during the summer has practically nothing but a cotton gown to cover his person and his legs are bare. If he is a working man or of ono of the poorer classes he takes off every stitch of clothing with tne exception of a cloth around the lomns and trusts to the tattooed marks on his back and logs to cover his nakedness, This mode of dressing is now prohibited in the cities but it is not at all uncommon in the country, aud in going through Japan you sce both women and men clad in a dress not much more extensive than that Worn by Adam and Eve in the garden. A woman who is washing clothes thinks nothing of pulling her dress down to her walst and the man who pulls your jinriksha into the country frequently takes off his clothes and runs naked with the exception of his loin cloth, Oneof the nicest old forcign ladies in Japan duriug the past fow yeurs has been the wife of our consul- gencral at Yokohama., She came from Ken- tucky and she could not get reconciled to this nakedness of the people. Whenever a jin- ik<ha man attempted to takg oft s coat or shirt when he was pulling Ler carriage, she decidedly objected, and when she first came” to Japan I am told that she often stopped the pretty little Jap girls on the streets and pinned their dresses close up to the throat, telling them that it was immodest to show so much of their bosoms. : The Chinese pantaloons are very full and no one wears drawers, The Kortan has pants so baggy that they will reach clear up to his neck, though he fastons them about his waist, apd the IKorcan woman wraps her skirt around her bosom just undgr the arms, and there is often six inches of brown skin showing between this and the little sacquo which covers her shoulder. A Siamese work- ing woman frequently wears nothing over her shoulders and breasts, and she wraps the cloth about her waist and pulls it in through the legs, tucking it in at the back in such a way that her limbs are bave to the koce. It S the same with the Malay women as far as the upper part of the dress is concerned, and over in Borneo you will see plump round girls with little morc than a breceh clout to cover nakedness, The Burmese woman s in the finest of silks, but her dress sts of one long picce which she wraps stoand lets fall to her feet. atthe front, and the opening is but the girls bave from long con around he at th 1ce practice acquired A Graceful Kicking with the feet, by which they are enabled to oy keep their gowns posure of the p sther and avoid any . They wear sacques and ave the brizhitest and prottiest women of the cast. A greater part of the Indians, both men and women,dress in white cotton sheets, and the common peoplo of Bxypt wear blue cotton gowns. As to children those of the Orient wear pr lly nothing, and I have seon girls of ten on the streets of Bangiolk as naked as when_they were born, You see | pot-bellied youngsters waddling around in the attire of Cupid throughout the streets . and country roads of Korea, and though Jupenese childven wear like their parents when the w all cold, they often shed them when itis hot. There are a great many mosquitoes in Siam, and the amese have a yellow powder which they rub over the bodies of their children to keep Off the insects, 1t turns the babies to a rich ehrome color, and under the sun makes them she like gold, The houses of the far adapted to the weather than ou The Japanese house is formed of sliding walls of paper so made that he can take them out, throw his whole home into one room,or make his house consist of a roof and fioor. His floors ave usually some distance apove the ground and there is a draught of air under them. They are covered with matting and clutered up with furniture. . The nese house of the vetter cluss has a 0of, but_it has none of the sanitary liences of the Japanes Voue of the S houses have windows, and those which ure on the water have breczes Blowing Continually Through Them. The land hcuses are built high up on piles and the is trucof the houses in Burmah, The Bgyptian houses have very thick walls, i 1 thick and their in- east are better Juy heay. couv their roofs are flat and IS Al nderfully cool. In most of the ptian villages and the business is don 1 the bazurs aud the streets ure covered with matting which is stretched from roof to roof from the houses on each side so that the customers never get in the sun in going from store to another, T'he bazars of Rangoon roof and the le up of onc und Burmah are all under one s d st business of Constantinople es of little booths arranged in streets one vast roof. Among tho coolest Jf the far cast aro those of Jerusa ‘Phe people here live in places that look and their houses are 1n the shape “The roofs are very thick and each lem, like cave of caves has a little dome built in thetop of it. The roofs are flat and wany of the people during the hot weather bring out their beds and sleep on the house tops. Fraxk G, Canresten, —— Rather Embarrassed. Atkinson (Neb.) Graphic: A good story on @ neighboring editor is going the rounds; and we huve it on the best authority that it happened at Stu: Itis to the cffect that the pencil pusher went out to report a party the other evening where the home had re- cently been blessed with a new baby. Ac- companied by his best girl he met the hostc at the door, and after the ususl salutations, asked after the baby's health. The lady, who was quite deaf and suffering with the grippe, thought he was asking about her cold, and told him that although she usually had one every spring, this was the worst one shoe ever had; it kept her awake nights a good deal at fivst and confined her to her bed. 1, noticing that the scribe was getting pale und nervous, she said that she could tell by his looks that he was going to have one just like hers, and asked him to go in and sit down, The paper was out us usual the next weok, but the editor has quit inquiring about babies, A Crushed “Jou Seattle Pre Colonel Lycuvges Ochiltop met the town crier yesterday and said: Do you know, sah, that'T, sah, was once a news- puper roporters sul( " But Lonly worle for aday, sah, It was after the wab, sah, and being hard up, sab, T accepted a position on a ah, ut Columbid, sah, The editor, Major hiner, sent me to 'the capitol to interview the gavernor, sah, on the political issues of the day, sah. ‘T had bogan the article, sab. as nalist," follows i ‘Colonel Lycurges Ochiltop, late of the Tweltth South Caroling, O. 8.'A., and now reporter of the Columbia Gusher, ac companied by the g rnor of South lina, proceeded to the Southern hotel, and the former interviewed the latter as follows ho beastly editor objected to that, and ‘Colonel, you ave a bigger man than the governor of South Caroling, and, therefo 100 large to work on the Gusher.' Your ser vices v, therefore, no longer be required, s o the r lled th for' the and h aucy fellow out, sah winged mo, safi, aid that 1y I'm in Seattle today, sab, and sub. But for this episode, s ah, sab, bave been s grea sab," Journalis bottoms, Both | THOUGHTS IV LIGHTER VEIN, A Sheaf of Grain Gleaned From tho Harvess of Wit and Humor, BREEZY BITS FOR THE SUMMER, Her Bathing Suit in an Envelopo- Why He Wanted a Pension—A Nebraska Ed — Kaw His Las Birmingham Post has fallen down a b you shouldn't ever cd can I have your bull litor's Mistake City Dirt. t Chance, (to his friend, whe wlo) I say, Tominy, if omo out of there pupt Willing to Accommodate. New York Herald: “I'll have the word shricked an an wife scolding her husband, “though I shoul for it “Pray take ive lns! who was d die , Iy dear, on your own terms, and welcome,” was his quiot but irrle tating roply. Not Un New Moon: Mollio pression “an Harry (with a tend body noticed that it b Used Munsey wouldn't W You may get s Weekly : g the clothes casonable. 1 wonder how th or look) hugged the shore. 1 to e, Mistress on hocked. Bridge o exe rm of the sea’ originatedt Porhinps somes ot, £ that electrio Bridget—Sure mum, I've scen ‘em all bos fore. Not Withe Terre Haute Expre: nt Parallel. S8 ¢ Mr. Peck I thinl if any ono is entitled to a pension it's me, Mudgo—You were never in tho war, were you? Mr. Peck--Nog but the fellow my wife wag engaged to got killed at Shiloh. Standing Up Chicago Tr 81" for Her Friend. Mr. Hankinson (at the party)—What a dainty cater Miss Kajones Miss Kersmith (bosom friend of Miss Kere Jjones) a 'l injustice, cake at a banque ““Tudeed, Mr. Hankinson, you do the After her tea and angel like this you have never scen her at home in front of a plate of cold sausage,” At the Harper's Bazar: sion). class in sese Visitor—Is that Eleanor Larkin over there with those girls? Miss Parianthrust—Yes; she comes here frequent], Visitc Miss Parianthrust Does the ex: 1 reise do her good? don’t know how thas is; but she has a stunning fencing suit thad does Lier a great d 1 good A Clew, New York Tribune: Detective (to coune try grocer who had been robbed)—\What kind of goods did the Storckeeper—No g even touch my Detective burglar taket Jods; only money ; didn's, been somebody who knows the place. Pretty Chicago Tribune: est some choi “What the capitali suburban ‘Well Out. The Kansas City 1 lots, for these? ing ““T'wenty-five dollars a front foot.” “I can get them clicaper than that,” was the deci Al, there's a clow; must Lave real uired od rejoinder. A Wichita real estate > agent was showing to the capitalist’ wan offered me these same lots lust week ag “Pu Mrs. boys says the way to 0 do two dollars’ wo e Circumstantial Evide Munsey's Weekly mum, the master's gi Mistress— Yes, but Bridgot . The Modern Woy. Cottonback—T11is book for succeed in this wol rth of work for $1. nce. : Bridget—Is it ve up drinkin’t why do you ask? be goin’ faster thin iver! Mixed on Puck: Count alway: Miss Philly el réally ought to go in the Accent, Homperheim — Vill loa{ me* mine Well, Heinrich, T will foe aror two, but after that I 'think yow leedie von to the business. At the Criticism Club, Life: “C Shakespearo,” “Perfectly thing about’ understand.” “What was that?? “How with leave untouched so 1 arvel ous, ld is thru, Nuthin’ mum, ownly the cloves you onsider the range of subjects in but there is one hakespeare that I never could his dramatic power he could magficent an opportune ity as that afforded by Charles and Crome welL" P Innocen Abroad. Life: Ned Bun (accosting Timothy Clover on the street) —iow-dy, sir; you seem to be quite famihar with the city. Will you be good enough to inform me where I can find the McGinty statue! lama strauger here. Timothy Clover—Kain't allus go by th* looks, fricnd. self! Ned Bunco—Yon don't say so? Timothy Clover—Yep. For a fac', After Munsey's Weekly too soft for an; she left the th “Don’t know I'm su absent mindedly. “I Sure Sign Herald: Rochester hing,” the Play. I be astranger in town' mye “Really her Juliet {s said "M I 1 » roplied M n of Death, or squeezed her, Fangle as “Don’t you think sof’® ngzio, “On five successive nights last weel, as T was on my way home at about midnight, a black cat’ crossed m, path,” said a west a representative pstel it is a sure sign of d At am not superstitious whout anything e T tell you this sign never fails,” pears to ha of news, stitious man. the cat with night, sur No, sign of death, An Enfa ds Mercury boy to u Lo little *inquired the newspaper man. venuo lay. man to u H “Well, wh Wy b was tho reply. “But rible in Church. ently o lady tool h in Leods. Ho w cral ;ul, r;t \y, it Rl . but it ap= > failed this time,” said the man it hasn’t,”'said the supers “Itheld good, because I killed chunk of coul on the fifth A black cat crossing your path is & k hew WiLs & vory little boy und it was his fivst visit to church. The organ child turncd to his loud whisper: ) beg moth n to pay o T and *What's that, mamma?" “Hush, dear, it's the organ,” “An organ in ch small h”i impressed reh whispered evidently much astonished and (d the wsked 1n @ the Then a pause of expectation, and a clergys man, small of stat; gorgeous vestments, Y0, look, mammal’ tervible in clear monkey Th New York V don’t see wh The garden erops is o fruit is all spoiled by La k ain't fit to drink any more, und eve we've got has gone dry—won't haye milk for three months, Cheerful He Nover mind, Joshua, summer boarder The Moders Boston Coy I e, Mab, or ' brilliant openin engagements, Mab man hasn't nuL me I guess IUs coming ne ot B, T.—Yes; th coming up the ayenue New Contes H Absolutely five pros hotel In Kansas Cily, | polutmenta, ved in ure, appe: called ¢ uceents, the e 5t RoesC ly: Farme 11 rotted by t the frost, th ai W we'll get along ) Bathing Suit, 3rother Tom—The packed ; and 1 the play of se Yes, but that 0y bathing suit, B M.—Do you S 0 messenger ith un envelope. ouse, Kan, Oity of., Finest L'm.x( ’ Acorn t we're goin’ ter do, Mirander, very ntant ‘is that the 1 n, the 1l watew cow p o pmate— Il tuke s you now uside horrid