Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 5, 1893, Page 10

-~ 10 CHAT WITH THE BOXERS Tommy Ryan and the Belfast Spider Get in Their Work. AMONG THE HORSEMEN AND THE BYKERS The Ball ¥ ra and the Plgskin Kiekers— Chicken tn the Early Days—tieoso on the Platte and Qamil in the Stubble. That the prize fighter has atlast found himself in the same boat with Othello be- comes more and more apparent as time wanes and the enthusiast who anticipates an early revival of the game isa short- sighted individual indecd, Every available been worked until not a_single uninterdicted spot remains, and by the period when the whir of timo brines around another epoch of the sport many of the present fistic luminaries will be but specks in K vs milky way. Anyway, that is how she looks to 4 man up a tree. The most prolific and versatile of all sport- ing writers, and especially thoso with a bent for the ring, as P J. Donahue and Macon MeCormick, for instance, find them- solves at their wits' ends for substance for theirdmly and weekly grind. From this time henceforward to that sweet-bye-and-byo in- cidentally mentioned above, must their “stuf be of a reminiscent character, but as Dboth are stocked with an almost oxhaustless fund of aneciote and story, it will be many, many moons before they grow stale or unin- teresting. Poter is evon'growing rancorous in his pique and disappointment over the blocking of the great international thumping contest between Charlie Mitchell and Jimmy Cor- bett, and in a recent grist of plaintive ar- raignment he says: hiere scems to be just one chance for & fight between Corbett and Mitchell,and that is an acoidental meeting In o barroom. So, far as the Coney Isiand Athletic club is con- cerned, thematch is dead to the world, and as for New Orleans, it is out of the question. ‘This is not a pleasant prospect. but it is the best we have, and wo must make the best of it. Corbett is specialiy desirous of avenging the insults heaped upon him by Mitchell in August a year ago, and from_ all accounts Mitehell is very much like the famous Barkis in that he “is willin'." 1t may be that the fun of fighting will bo thrown overboard for the privilege of gaining free advertising, but 1 will be greatly disappointed if the meu fail to come together i a real old-fashioned serap before the suow flies Of course, it would be disastrous to the great game of boxing, and it would be cause for all lovers of the sport o become dis- gruntled, but T cannot see how the affair can terminate in any other than a free-for-ail event, Well, that is a game they are both familiar at, und it matters little, as long as it isas unlawful for them to meet one way as an- other, which way they choose. Charlio is as much at nome in a bar room scrap as Jimmy is in the counting room of a bank or drawing room, and as this fact about equal- 1zes things, the quicker theysbump up “‘agin’ one another,the better. When the event does come off, however, alws vear in mind that 1 want the Eoglish end of it. Tbree cards, please, While on this subject, I cannot afford to slight my old friend, Macon, and in his latest digest the following clause appears: ““The big glove contest betwoen Jim Cor- bett and Chavley Mitchell ha been o-fish- fally aeclared “off” by Judge Dick Newton of tho Coney Tsland club, The great E ing club, the “National Sporting,” 1 to have anything to do with it. nd, for the time being at least. From the very first I had my sorious doubts as to the ability of the Coney Island club to pull it off, and its directors now feel thata great blunder was made in having any- hing to do withit. 1t will prove a_costly blunder, too, before the matter is ended, for it has knocked out_the club for the time buing. Whether it will ever vo able to respond to the call of “time™ is something that no fellow can tell with cortainty just now. Its present policy is to lay low, say nothing and wait in hope that the clouds which now lower o'er its club house may ay, and in the deep bosom of the ocean be buried. 1t has made some money, and Newton, it is said, has promised that Corbett and Mitchell snall be reimbursed for their loss of time and the expense they huve been put to. 1t this promise s made good, mapy witl believe that the club hopes o pull off the match in the indefinite here- after. Time alone can tell whether this hope exists. If it does 1t is a very delusive one. I was always dubious out Corbett and Mitchell tigoring as principals in the Coney Island ring and 1 am more 80 now than over.” Mac follows this up with a loug screed on the noble college game of foot ball, in which he shows how innocent and harmless it is compared with the brutal game of boxing, and to clinch his argument he runs the fol- lowing list.of “casunlties” which took placo on the grid-iron ficld the preceding week: Lenigh university's team, six players dis- abled ; condition not known, but so serious as W necessitate the team remaining idle on Saturday. Calumbia’s team, Washington, four players “knocked out” at Pittsburg on Suturday. Allegheny A. A’s team, “Sport” Dounelly of p'ri vocked out,” De 1 alle's team, New York, 12, Irish; epilep- tic fit from injury to the head. Princeton’s team, Brown, left end; head injured in serimmage: compelled to retive; King, quar- ter back, “kuocked out” three times. Allen, fuil back. badly wrenched anile. Cornell's wam, Young, full back, injured iv scrim- mage, compelled to retire. Crescent A, A.'s team, Sheldon, left half back, wrenched knee. Harvard's team, Waters, left half buck, injury to le Dar tham, Jones, captain, injured leg. Yale's team, Sullman, wjury to log; Butterworth, injury w0 log, compelied to use ecrutctes; Arm- strong, injured, in what manner nov stated, Naval cadet's’ team, several men reported injured and unable to play. Beltield's team, several men injured in the first half of the game with the Mount Airy team; stopped in consequence. _“How would 1t do,” he concludes, *“for the Coney Island Athletic club, the Columbian, the Olympic and the New Rockaway 10 change into ‘improved foot ball clubs,' Then Jam Corbett could cantain the Coney Island tenw and Mitchell one of the others. The ‘e’ could be played on Manhattan field under ‘new rules.’ The innovation would be ure to attracy remendous assemblage at 0, $15 and ey a ticket. A dispute could urise over My poiut of play and the referce could refuse te decide 1t other than to call upon the captains to ‘fight it out.’ They gould acquiesce and gloves could be brought o to them and douned in order Bot 10 ‘fracture the luw When the kuotty polut was decided we should all know who ‘was the Iuternatioual champion of the worla,” Tu reply to & correspondent who wants to know who the fellow is who has contributed 0 Tue Bes s0 wany interesting articles on whe riog from North Placte 1 would state that it is nob exactly the newspaper custom 10 “gwive 'wiy" anybody, but us I have en- Joyed these contributions immensely myself, and know that ““the fellow™ hus no need to be ashamed of his identity I take pleasure in aying beforo my readers u brivate letter received from hil some weeks ago: Nowri PLarre, Oct. 8—Sandy G Sporting Bditor of Tus B 1 ast want ;ll Fou that there have been several” Sundys® air tawity, and will wot detuin'you A poment. Fhie most distingulshed oneof that ood @ld Bovttish nawe wis a cousin of mine who went vut asa cadet in the East (ndia eompany's service und suw consideruble ac- o during the mutiny. | had » coutaining his® death some At Lelusters Gardens, Hydo nerul Alexunder K. . M's. Indlan Army (retirod, aged 63, He was .A:".““m‘ Sundy at home. My oldest son SSandy,” Alexsnder K. Cannan, was lately promoted from draughtsman 1o generul for flln of the machine shop on the Rio Grande estern l.‘ullru atSalt Lake. Tho Sandys are in fuck, for his jofant Saudy tool lgu secoud prize at s baby show was pro- nounced Ty fudges to be henomenal kid. indeed. As to myself, was born at Ons irn Mawse, Galloway, Scotland, March 27, 1828, My father was tho minister of the parish and hedied in 1892, Jeaving n widow and eight small children, 1 wasonly 41 years old. I went to England (o 1842 and servid an appronticoshipin a ginchine shon. 1 loft England for this country ber 11, 1550, (o soek my fortn to say T never found it aithough I} ablo to keep ad’ above wa standing having raised a large family, throngh Tng into several legacies throngh the of relatives on the other side of the L am respecttully yours, Jonx K. CANNAN. Can it be trae that the fighting trafMo has shifted to cultured Bosting—the homo of John L. and the delicate bean? It looks that way, anvhow, when you think of the bloodv | and savage battle fought by Ike Weir and | Australian Billy Murphy in_the Cribb club Thursday night last. . That the Spider won surprisod but fow. Tn his dav he was un equivocally the gres feather in the world ¥ Mur, s a oright star on but he has gone back fast, is “nutt and while he continues to fight well, doesn’t seem able to lick any one. He wight pull off a win, however, if through the intorvention of friends he could arrange a match with George 1.a Bl The Marine is now on a “knocking out” tour throuzh the conntry, and 1o matter whom e mects, always woes out—just for beer money. 1 might & id. very properl¢, too, that George has been put out 30 often recently that he is now looked upon as put all the time, Our old friend, Tommy- Ryan, it seoms, won nis fight with Jamison, the Bridgeport heavyweight, last Thursday night, in hollow style, as the hossy boys woutd put it He luiled the big dub into the tand of nod with a punch or two carly in the second round, all of which goes toshow that Tommy ciearly understands the situation when he enters into any of theso matches For Ryan to continue taking chances with men way above his class, but being always unsuecessful in his endeavors to pull of a fight with one of the crackajacks of his own k, always leads his friends to suspect that there is either something wrong with the boy's think tank or that he knws his biz better than_any onc elso—a rave thing witha pug. However, Tommy evidently realizes that the gang who a fow months since would recoil with diszust at an offer to put up his bands for a few thousands, will be lucky from this onout to get a chance togo for a handful of mickels. And then again, thero is a hard winter coming on, and we fighting boys must do something to get our overcouts *‘out,” and to guard against the possibility of a ‘snowball diet. SANDY GRISWOLD. Thanksgiving Day's Great Contedt. The foot ball teams of the Nebraska and Towa State universities are both vracticing hard for their big battle at Young Men's Christian association park, this city, Thankseiving day. Kach captain has issued his orders for the active season, and these include that the pipeand cicarette must be sacrificed, that all vich food be eschewed, and the men subsist only on a plain and substantial diet for the nexv twenty d They are not to in- dulge in ¥ spirituous liquors and are to rly as is computible with Commencing with the last week before the great game still more s ining rutes will be laid down, and rs of this thrilling sportean safely count upon witnessing probably the hardest fought game that has ever been played on the local grounds. The Youug Men's Christian association, under whose mansgement the battle will be ht, are leaving nothing undone that is calculated to enhance the pleasure and ex- citement of the oceasion. knl ce modations will be made for tl field put in absolutely verfect order, everythit ded to that will 1, good play wduce to the enjoym the Spee sursion rates bave been arranged upon_several of the railrond lines running into Omaha_and so great is the in- terest inthe contest throuzhout both states that a big attendance is anticipated from abroad. With good weather Omaha turn out a vast throng of people, there be- ing_a suflicient number of ex-students of cach university to make u respectable crowd by themeelves, Of course they will all be out, asthe interest and rivalry existing within the respective ranksof the noncom- batants is on a par with that which chases the blood through the vi of the twenty-two brawny young athletes who will bravely battle for their colors on the field. Tho game has become extremely fashionable, and Omahians will not lag in a matter tnat so affects their pride as a struggle between the intellectual 2nd muscuiar youth of the two siates certainly does. The Omihn Attrletic Academy, The Omuha Athletic acadewmy is a new wstitution here, but promises to bo a, It is condncted by Profs. Guiwits instructor, aud Denis, fencing Prof. Guiy 4 nearly acher of the I qualitied for the work. s formerly master-at-urms my and 15 an_expert with the foils, broadsword or single stick. Public exhibitions of boxing and Jencing will be i other Friday evening av the Mo & Joe Walsh has been restored to his old winter job with the PacHic Express com- pan Winfield Scott Camp has received a fair offer to again try his lack in vhe big league, and if he is wise will o PL without waiting for something better. ‘aptain Ldsle Abbott of the Young Men's on ball team isalready & ou the campaign for next season. His team will be materially strengthened and an attempt made 1o effect a regular weekly schedule with the strongest teams in the state, John S. Barn apolis was in Omauha on T 1p_the situa- tion with th Omaha into the new Western league, Barnes met with absolutely no encouragement and the Gate C chances for professionsl base bail in 150 sxceedingly attenuated. Judging from the outlook the consumma- tiou of the scheme to reorginize the West- ern league with Detroit, Toledo, Indianapolis and Columbus in it is an exceedingly prob- lematical quantity. A bona. B league composed of Kunsus Civy, Dos Mones, ©oux City, Omaha, Lincoln, Minneapoiis, St. Paul And possibly Milwaukee might vos- sibly be successfully organized Jumes 1. Canavan, Cincinnati's left fielder, will be in good trim next spring. He | is one of the sensible young bull players who do not spend the winter months in - idleness and tiking on flesh, The England Polo league has given the Worcester franchise to Canayan, and he will have full charge of that team. Jesse Burkett, the Cleveland player, has been named as one of the ref- wrees of tho league. Manager W. H., Mo- Gunnigle, the oid Brookiyn director, has charge of the Providence club, Dad” Clarke has been sizned by New York for 1804, §500 being the prico Krie re- ceived for hia release. Jimmy Peoples, who recommended Dad to the Giants, has this to say of bim: “Clarke is the best pitcher in he Fastern league. He outclusses Fisher, whom Cleveland seoured from Buffalo, and is the superior of Nicol of Krie, who goes to Pittsburg. Hoisa rizht-hunder. has greay speed und a most deceptive drop ball, He is no spring. chicken, as he pitched for the Omatus some time ago with Kid Nichols of the Bostons as his partuer and Seleo of the Bostons as manager, Since then he has becn improving steadily and is now, in my u:)tlmmuun‘ oue of the best pitchers avail- abler The Sportsmen's Gudget. ‘The geese have begun to arrive aloug the upper Platte aud Missouri in something like their ol e numbers, and it is quite likely that local gunners will make some fine bags within the next fortnight. Johu J. Hardin, who has been recognized as one of Omaha's most skiliful field shots for years, stuck a few additional plumes in his hat in the revent gua club hunt. His score far exceeded that of all o r SE0N the other con. Judge Ogden's handsome and valuable St. Boruand was stolon from bis kensel on, the judge’s premises & night or iwo since. This akes Lhe second time the animal has beeu stolea. “Tho Judgo thinks & Ereat deal of tho dog und it will go hard with the thief if happens Lo rul‘lzul of him. 2 - The bauquet given ‘the 1 ide of the Omana Guo club llzt ut m:' last Wednesday ews was one of the kind ever achievad by this thne-honored assoctntion. The hotel people outdid thomsel ves, partic- ularly the chef do cuisine. The tablo was a dream of loveliness, with its fragramt blossoms.and teafling vinos. while the ban- quet itsell was a foast fit for the gods. The reports that wero rife during the summer season as Lo tho prospects foran un- precedented quail crop this fall have all held good, as there are more of these royal little game oirds 10 this vicinity this season than has been known for possibly fifteen jears. Kvery wheat stubblo. every plum thicket or sploteh of favorablo cover, scems to hold its covey, ana it is no trick at all to o out in almost any direction with a zood dog and find as fine sport as one could ask In his very pleasing and instructive ro- marks at the Me te’ banquet the other ovening Judge B. 5. B. Kennedy said that tho first prairie chicken he ever saw was shot on Farnam street in front of the old piorecr block which stood where Goodmian's drug stor now stands, The bird came flying over, and a convenient man with a shotzun brought it down, ‘The judg told how in the old days it wis a common thing for him to pick up his gun forlh, « short ways ous Harney Kill his ton or a dozen birds before fast, and many and manyn one he had dropped in his own bick about the wild fowl and sure diminishment, he said he could woll remember the time when the gecso would sottle on the numerous buvs in the Missouri between this point and Florence in countless thousands and it was s easy an old honkers as it would be toany of English sparrows, The judge was in one of those felivitous reminisvent moods that is tho old- time sportsman's chief delight, and wkile he told many good tiitugs, ho did not tell half enough, if the applause of his assem- vled brethren indicated anything. Whisperings of the Wheel. Whisperings are exceedingly taint today owing to the searcity of vlub news. M. O. Daxon is moving his bicycle store to Sixteenth and Chicago, his business demand- ing larger quarters, Mr. and Mys, Lous Flescher left for Min neapolis and St, Paul Friday evening to spend their honeymoon. Hapny Jack Kastman of the Omaha Wheel club hias packed his whoeland hied himself Oak, la., where he has accepted a po- sition. The different wheeling orgapizations are not as eager to “get into the saddle and away® these cool mornings 18 of yore. Few club runs are indulged in and fewer wheel- men_attend these. The club house hearth catches the festive biker theso days. The wheelmen were well represented at church last Sabbath evening. A goodly turnout from each W club swelled the congregation at Rev. Odell's church consid- crably. The reveres gentleman gave the boys good welcome and a pleasing sermon The members of the Tourist Wheclmen clib will plunge themselves into the mad whirl of a “‘club smoker™ next ‘fnesduy eve., the 7thinst. The Orion Flute guarteite and Omaha Zither club, assisted by severa other musicians and the club's ente mont committee, will endeavor tosce that everyone has a good i Light rofresh- mentis, pipes and ¢ will be plentiful. A fonture of the evening's catertainment will be u guessing contest, and the reading of the election retuns. s fow players who sat down to the th set of high five games for the upionship of the Tourist club were happily surrised to find that one of the clubmen haa provided a_light lunch with “liquid ac py” for their especial atten- tion. Louis sher, one of the prominent became a benedict while his club ore feasting at his exvense. and the tousts and well wishes tossed off to him and his “bonnie bride.” The card party broke up at 11 o'clock, each icipant feeling that he had had a good Henry Fredrickson and and John tied for highest average durin Jut of the 100 seneduled have now been played—every game missed by o player after last night's play counts as lost. Talk of the Hoss Men. The Nebraska pacer, Captain "Payne, was named after the Oklahoma boomer. He nhas a mark of , und is*the property of Eon. E W Lewis, Cambriage. Per Simmons, the biack borse owned by W. P. McCreary, Hastings, Neb., in 1800, was sold Berry Chicago sale, October 4, to Py Wood, Chicago, for §250. Woodline, with a record of rling and 2:231¢ as a 2-yer E. D. Goul of Fullerton to the well- known Lexington, Ky., horseman, Johu Moden. J. M. Rice, Sterling, Neb., owns a haund- *some colt by the d stallion race king, Lo- basco, 2:1037, out of a mare rich in Nutwood George Wilkes, Volunteer and Satellite blood, and should be a trotter and sire of wstest fifth heat of last year was Uin 2:1117, and the honors rested be- acing queen, each trotted a fifth h 14 und Rex 2:221 by Breckenridge. —Western Resources. Pawnee City, Neb., is making an_effort to build a mile track. Ben Johuson, the prin- cipal trainer at that point, has g public confidence in the 1adustry through his gentlemanly and busi ike' manner of conducting bis business. nk and Pat Kinney of this city have a Peur: K., that is destined to rank amoug the great brood wares in the course of another year. She is 8 years oid ana has four ioals, all by the same sire, the oldest of which is 3 years old, and all show remark- able speed. Marguerite has taken a 8-year- okt record of and m Miller a 2-year- old record of 2 '{. both in_races over the half-mile track at Lincoln, Neb. The year- 1i nd weanling are fillies, and show speed. Tuey ure sived by Witliams, 2:20%5, Quesiions an Coucir, BLUFFS, Tn., 30.~To tho Sporting Editor of Tue fiEe: Please answer the following questions und oblige a constant reador: (1) 15 th W aainst shooting rabbits in 7 V] the best ord o safely bicyele and by whom made \\'huhllll‘l'lmlu&)lull wrestler? (4. Who won more games, the Boston Baso Ball club or ALl Americast (5. s & bittern 50od to ent or notr (6. Who 15 the ehampion wine Shot of the world and of Omaha?—A. K. P, Ans.—(1.) No. (%) J. 5. Johnson, 1:56 (3,) Lvan Lewis. (4) Boston. (5.) It is wood to eat. (6.) Captuin John L. Brower; Frauk Parmelee. St Josgrn, Ma., Oct. 81.—Te the Sporting Edifor of T BEi: Please state tn Sunduy Worning's piper who Is the cateli-i wresil 1€ this is BV s ) wnd so readers of ~T. Lewis is the undisputed ch-can wrestier of the world. He was born near Madison, Wis., May 24, 1862, and is accordiugly in 'his 82 year. His caveer as a wrestier commenced on his 20th birthday, when he was induced to enter a Cornish tournament, and was beaten by the local champion, Edward Edwards, after stling eleven bouts. Lewis afterward succeeded in defeating Edwards in a match for £250 a side. He hLas competed in tourna- ments Loo numerous to mention and met and dofeated all_the best men in tne world among them the following: James Gallatin, Frank Whitmore, Michael 'O Hara, James Faulkner, Charies Moth, Andie Christol. John Loon, Greek George, Tom Canuon, Matsada Sorakichi the Jap,” Edwin Bibbs, Juck Carkeek, Joe Acton, Bob Wright, Den- wis Gallagber, Jack Wannop of Euglaud, Charles Green, English - champion, and Froest Roeber. Tewis' height is 5 feol 9 inches. aaud weighs in condition 180 pounds. Smatvonn, Ta., Oct. 28.-To the Sporting Editor of Tik BEE: Ta decido o bot in & gamo of draw poker: A jack pot Is made, A opons it for 10 conts, B raises him 0 25 cénts. They draw cards: who bets first, the sman wh opens or the mun who ralses the opener? Pllase answor tu next Sunday’s Bak,--Sport. Aus.—The 8bove question Was crroneously answered in last Suuday's paper. As tho ame is played here, the opener takes Lhe itiative after a ruise. OmasA, Nov. 8.—To the Sporting Editor of Tuk Bee: 1o coutinuous such as was played ut Foley's last week betwosn Johnson i Puay (on, 18 A€ not the rulo thit the seriker on Pd.lu ivtue ol forfelia s ball to i, (hhlc? soibo blayer pye s pounity by Geduetion feuse the ctio $rom uis score, Which 1s corrott-Tool Ad- wirer. Aus. —B. ’ Omana, Oct. 80.—To the Bporting Editor of THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1893-TWENTY PAGES. Tre BEe: <To dectde o bot plonse nswer the following queson: In a gnme of deaw poker, liere stralghts are barred, A holds the five, #ix, seven, ciiht and nine spots of hearts, | holds tho aco Musen, nine, clght and seven of I wind takes the “pot” ander Fugono Foley. To the Sporting Editor of ! jwe decide the following and oblige o ten-y8Rt reador of THE Bux. A bots 1 810 that ho @n throw a base hall 153 yards, but since the made he persistently refuses to make the trinl, although frequently urged to do so by 1, who finally informed hin shat he must make the throw next Sunday or Tose tho bet. 1 @ the stukeholder, and it A does not mik vf trial what am I to do with the money? g Ans.—As no tive was fixed upon when tho throw should be wade, as I infer from your letter, and there is no law which will compol Ato make the trial, [ see nothi you todo but to hold on to the stakes until tho two men come to an understanding whe tho rial shall be made. OMANA, Nov To the Sporting Editor of Tuw B When is the Iaw for prairie chicken and grouse up in Minnesota? today's paper and oblige.—11. L. 1 Aus —The open season expired on Wednes - day last. it CHRONICLES OF A COURTING. Cincinnati Commereial. If my wife's feelings were the only consideration in the case 1 shouldn’t tell the story I'm going to tell. She doesn't enjoy any reference to the very peeuliar acted and the lies she told. , lies, though heaven knows I've forgiwven her, and I have not the siightestdoubt the Father in heaven will forgive her, too. But she declared point blank a dozen times she did not love me, never would or ¢nmld love me: indeed, was perfeetly indifferont and uncon- corned in the whole matter one way or the other. Yet, if I had known femi- nine human nature I might have known all the time that she would have given her very eyes for me. Tdidn't, and con- sequently she worried me a good deal. But I am going to tell the story, so that the generations now growing up and the generations yet unborn—generations of young men, [ mean—may have some in- struction in the way women act and by save both themselves and the en from much strife and unhappi- ness during courtship—and after. Women are not ail alike, T know. Notevery man has as stormy a courtship as 1 had. But if the conflict doesn’t come belore marriage it is sure to come after mar- riage, and amounts to0 just the same thing. Some live a few weeks in an im- aginary paradise, and see what appears a perfectly glorious future through an atmosphere of rose leaves, and in that state get married. Then, after the honeymoon, comes the doubt of love, and all that unhappy struggle of the heart against fteelf which all women, however good they are, must fight out sooner or later, They can't help it. God bless therg! 1t has been the custom of us men to”blame them bitterly and tell what lives they lead us. But that is all wrong, for we are guite as much to blame as thdy ave, and in this wa At this late staze of the world's history we ought to haveafully developed sci or manual of the various actions and re- actions of the fgminine nature as man sees it; we ought to understand the causes of their wretchedness and unhap- piness and givg them sympathy and con- solation wher@now we argue with them and blume th@u biggerly for swhat, poor dears, they ca®'t help, 1t is to do some- thing toward assidting humanity to stablish this sciel or manual of the actions and reactions of the feminine heart that 1 am going to relate the inci- dents of my courtship. 1t may bea lit- tle humiliating to the ladies, and espe- cially to my wife, at the first, but after it is all over T trust that great good will be reaped {rom it by all concerndd. My wife, of course, will have to console her- self with the knowledge that her fellow creaturcs may be benefited, for the hum- bling it will give her pride. I don't I do not believe in humbling women's pride, but I know Ethel to be a very unseltish woman at heart, and if any good is to be accomplished by this 1 feel sure she will acquesce. I met Ethelin a country village where I went toliveand where she lived., I knew the same people she knew and in the narrow limits of a country village we became quite intimate almost at once. [ thought hera very beautiful and attractive woman. She was not large, but v g 1l and she had light brown bair, a light complexion full of color and health, and gray I'may say of myselfl that lama shad darker than she, with dark brown hair and beard, and mild, brownish eyes. not much more than gray. Ethel’s lips were very good, and her eyes sparkled and danced, and she cut up a good many girl’s capers, though she was 23 year’ old. Soon after making each othe acquaintance both of us became very young indeed. [ searcely know why. It was in the summer time and [ went to see her about five times 1 week in the early ovening. We usually played togother out on the lawn. Somotiines v in the hammock while | mad for her and gave her good advie or else we both occupied the hammock, very innocently, and talked a great deal of nonsense that I am sure was not at all bud, but which did not mean much of anything to any one but ourselves, To us it was fraught with the deepest and most satisfying meaning. Ethel was something of a musician, and played and sang. | sang, too, and many an evenir wo enjoyed together at “the piano, Those weeks were the happiest of my life, I can say with perfect hLonesty, I hope happier ones will come some time in the future, but I fear they will not. At the end of three months or so 1 was suddenly called away on business for nearly & month, and during that time 1 discovered that I was in love with Ethel, Before I had never had an opportunity to think about it, such a blissful time was I having. But as soon as [ got faivly settled in New York city, in the month of August, knowing no one in the whole region except the clerks in the store, and having my evenings and Sundays on my hands with nothing to do, then it was that I had plenty of opportunity to think, to analyze myself, to find out without & doubt that I was head over ears in love with Ethel. Oh, what would Inot have given to have had ber with me then! If the preceding three months had been the happiest of my life this month was the most wretched. I was vonscious of growing thinand pale. | nearly got sick, and if it had lasted more than one month 1 feel certain I should have had to go to the hospital, Well, I had no dificulty in making up my mind what to do about Ethel. 1 de- cided that I would make her my wife. That she would make any trouble about it [ never for one moment suspected During the preceding thres months she had evidently been as fond of we as [ was of her. Neither of us, I am suve, | had contemplated matrimony, because we were enjoying the present 100 well to think of the future, But when I consid- ered that I mightbe taken away from Ethel and spend the whole remaining part of my life as I was spending that month of August in New York. I did not hesitate one moment in deciding to ask ber in warvisge immediately on wy re- acknowledged from the city spenc the country with herdur v were even handsomer loss somowhat mo arts of playing upon the v ! ladies she was much entor! and quite indiffe Her letters 1o me. ! much of a letter write keely disappointed. tho month of my absenco was rejected sjected. city A cousins of hers, who flattered her vanity | #nswer to this note, but dt last the fol- 1ot quite ooy | 10Wing was handed' to me at the oftic She had a very hi knew perfect] no 1o any but the Ain that none conld | o anyboly than 1, and You ask ,if there said that | 1 care. 1 can frankly say there is not. i hat, of hers were fickle | however, does no or my feeling toward Jrotty sure that | ¥0u and 1 do not think I can give any re But I was cor theso city things, and I also felt Jf them should propose he would was, for at the final moment she would consider that sineo 1 had b jected, too. to thoe pleasant down to the tra to her father's house. the slightest reference pagsed in our correspondonce. news, to which quietly, but gladly, and then sho b budinage and nonsen: we had before found so much deli felt almost hap she couidn’t have meant what time, and my chee flushed, for hers were flushed, ilent as 1 was. tionate handshake »on and tell her all had seen and done in What did it mean? after the very affec had given her the next even s sitting on the piazza, apparently iting for me, and she welcomed Ethel immediate] e with flushed and thought 5 were unsteady thel sat in 3 and_excited. thing setiled now as any it would keep going down in he ] have told you 1 do not lc don't see that it is necessary to g ason for it. ings are who we might be {1 I met you as 1 did yeste to think that she actions at that “If you wish to be friends rou went | offer you my | sips, and I knew Ethel would soon know, if you cave to'take it | too. [ had a little malicious feeling in 3ut this other matter 1 think to drop now feelings may change, but away, well and Ilooked at her and trembling all over. word shoe said; 100 unsteady thing that 1 done that all 1d there, But we shook hands vy formaily and bade cach other good When T got and quite as ar ‘mined never to go near er again as long as [ and put the thought of her out of my mind forever. "The next day I plunged into business afresh, joined a club of young men from which T had nervous sort of enjo; need: but it answeres I didn't go near Ethel fora At the end of that time my had copled: 1 began to wonder ba friends after all, and who was a very dis- woman and unde perfectly, met me on the street and asked me o tea that evening, nyitation and went. 1 had seme doubts as to how th uld pass, but I was delig Iithel was ver than I had ev t that [ experi I accepted her sparkled, and her manner was exceed- ly deferential and meek. \ad repented of her ness, and permitted h weak heart back entirely. was prosent the whole evening, prevented any embarassment, and Kthel played and sung, and both sang together. I didn’t permit my self to epjoy the evening quite as much as I would have liked wasn't quite previous lofti- : t0 gain my poor, My, Burton sure whether ought to det me or not. Butonthe whole it was & very happy evening, and E bude mo an effectionate good night in ence of her mother, taking my hand and pressing it warmly. 1 aidn't go to see her the next eveniu, but the evening after I called soon afier Mys. Burton was away, making a call of sbme sort, and Ethel was alone in her hammock on the la chair and sat down be time we chatted subjects. But i began to th hing else, and she bogan o think \ing else, and thought, whick was not mentioned, but which we bota knew was in mind, cherked our specch and gave rise weided embarrassment. showed nerself obstinate, aud 1 showed 1 brought a de her, and for a the common the other's nd 1 came mear writing to her | my desire. T reforred incidentally to about it then and there, The difficulty that came later, T think, e, saying: Y the ocorrespondence which resorted to b that timo overburdened Ethol long and affectionato lettors. all but told her that 1 cussed eternal fri dospost rolations | the old susject, but she hastily put it 1] Jon't let us gquarrel tonight," a rvelief to | Finally the sitvation became so une wrote | comfortable that [ took my hat to icave. I | She looked at me with a very coquottish 1 dis- | light in her eves and she gave me her L analyzed the | hand in adieu: it was a very provoking of our hearts in those | ilight that made me angry. She said general terms which people who are not | she hoped we would not cease to bo But | friends, and | very coolly assented. But Ethel had three gay young men cousins | I determined not to go there again. 1 ng their vacation in | went home and wrote her the following r that month, | lette than | Dear Bthel—You that you do not love polished | e, Tt that is so, there is some reason for finished in the | it. If youare Nonest and my friend. you pity of young | Will tell me what itis. If you would e ined, much | hovest and open with me, ‘wo might bo fricnds, even if you could uever love me. Tell me, atleast, if thereis notsome one else tor whom you care more. 1f the j X not | il willingly give you up to him who ¢ I was | make you happiest. ‘But if you have no b ame | ter friend than I, then give me the confl cooler 1 became more ardent; and bofore | dence and trust ‘that your best friend de- ac- | Serves, and T will patiently wait for things 1 | to work themsei ves out clearly to both of us Most sincerely yours N Y. YaTrs It was two days before I received an My Dear Mr. Yates—Pardoa me for not answering your note sooner. Mother has been ill and 1 have hadto work in the Kitchen, so have not had the time to write yone else for whom why I do not love Uinust reque once and for to drop this subjeet yare 10 coninue to b ould was | friends. 1 have answered und 1 think that better than this city dude after all, and | ought to be enough. Hastily yours, son rejected ho must be re- This, 1 was et Briroy s in- is note I. made tho following formed, actually happened two or theee | angry repl days bafore my return shades of old-fashioned Pemworth. When I had returned T saw that glad to sce me. 1 to meet e, as country s have the right to do, and took m s and kept it there for a 1 3 tle time as she led me off up the strect | ©Xchanged distant bow L was not at She made not | 811 happy. though much absorbed in iy had | Work, but Ethel grew yellow and pecked. She told | We managed togeta glimpse of each I listencd | Other about once a fortnight, to see how an | the other took things: but that was ch 1| Now, from my subsequent experience again, for 1 felt sure | I sce what my grave mistake was. | she had | thought Ethel cither a great coquette I grew silent thinking of my | or very Lard hearted and unkind, or de . which had. become very fierce by | liberately lying in regard to her feel- 1 knew, grew | ings. 1 fancied she did care for me and | & great deal, though why she wouldn't to look unhappy and to be [ own it T did not understand. 1 do un- She gave me a very af- | derstand now. Al might have been her, | prevented had T been cool and collected, howover, and asked me to come and see | #nd gone to her in the fivst place in a 1| free and friendly wa en her w York. 1 prom- | hands and petted her and teased her a 'd and went away in a brown study. | little. She was afraid 1 didn't lov " Did she really mean | She did love me with all her hear believe thay | she persuaced herself she didn't by onate reception she | reasoning us this: *“He doesn't love me. feelings were so | I never could love a man who didn'tlove wrought up that 1 couldn’t let the mat- ter rest, as it seemed she wished r Miss Burton—1 _don't think the \dship you offer is worth neeepting. Un- thel | 1ess you can give mo your confidence and She oamo | trust, L want nothing, Very respectfully yours, JoIN Yousu Yares. After that it wasopen war botween us. When we met on the street we simply about all. Therefore, I am altogether indif- do. | ferent to him. He must be a bud man s Ldidn't | to treat me as he does, so harshly, so unkindly, It would be impossible for 1o, | me to love such a man.” The poor thing daved not trust, her own heart and 1 did me | not understand it well enough to quict out- | it for her. [ know she must have suf- I took them both, and on the | fered. She struggled with all her spur of the moment raised the left one { might to suppress her natural affection, snatched | though in vain, She had made a mis- t though she didn't fora moment | suspect it. She needed a kind and help- steps gloomily | ful friend at that time more than she in silence. has cver needed one sinee. 1 ought to head | have been that friend, but T didn’t know lonce, too, flushed | enough to be. For a few months T held my affections I, “"we might as well | in reserve, hoping that Fihel would ime. | change in some w you. You ought to know that1do. | winter had come and spring had fol- 1 think you have been very unkind to | lowed winter without any lessening of wish you would give me some | the embarrassment and feeling of an- reasons for acting as you do.” But when the tagonism between us when we met once a voice she | a fortnight at church or on the street, had great difficultyin managing, because | 1 decided to try aund find a little throat. | relief in the society of some other I{ young lady. uelp a friend I ve any | found in the person of Miss Angic My feel- | French, a bright, intellectual girl, full 1 thought | of fun and good ure, and not at all That is why Iy [ smiled | she had introduced me. that her | spending my Sunday evenings with her', { sentimental, a friend of Ethel's to whom Then I went once or twice duri In a_small village such veported very quickly by the for I half thought it would My yor jealous, in spite of [ do not think wed that she was utterly indifferent to me. But when [ saw that she was | met her on the strect or at church she believe a | looked just the same. only paler and didn’t know what My own fe to say or do any shed [ had T ought to have taken her in my soothed her and petted her and teased her a little, and bullied her into letting me kiss her lips. been cool chough to hav would have been over ther I did not yet know but she might mean more unhappy. if anything. | was sorry for her, but I thought it was her own fault, and she could simply blame her- self. 1t was early in June that the end came at last. It was Sunday evening, nearly 11 o'clock. T had been” spending three hours in empty diseussion with Miss French, staying simply because | knew not what clse to do.” 1 did not care f or Angie, nor did Angie care for me, but we amused each other, and that was why 1 liked togo to see he 1 bade her a lazy tionate good night while she stood in the door with the lamp and saw me down the path to the gate. Then as I closed the gate she withdrew inside and the door was shut. [ wan- dered slowly along, looking up at th stars, kicking the dust with my feet, fecling very dissatisfied with mysclf, though not knowing what I ought io do or what [ could do.” T wondered if. afte all, there were not some way of winning Ethel. 1 half believed that she did love me after all, even more deeply than | now loved her. Why wouldn't she yield her stubborn little pride and let us be happy when wo might be so happy? As I walked along 1 saw a figure in front of me, and as I overtook it the per- son, evidently a girl, drew aside to let me pass, As 1did so I looked sharply to see who it might be taking a walk av that time of night, and what was my surprise to find Kthel “Why, Ethel! cried 1 in amazement, “what in the world are you doing away off heze, and barebeaded, o, a mile from hom She hardly answered me, but her voice showed that she had been crying, and as she pushed me from her she fell into a sitting posture on the grass. “Go away, you false thing,” she eriec faintly between ber sobs. **Let me alone I can take care of myself. Don't toucl me."” She drew up her knees and buried her face on them, sobbing 0 violently thal her small form shook and trembled in the starlight. All my hurd feelings and anger disappeared in & _moment, over- come by my pity and affection. But 1 was amazed and totally at a loss to guess what could be the matter. Sinking on the grass beside her 1 put my arm about her tenderly, aud bending my head near to hers, | asked as sympathotically as I could — “What is the matter, Don't you know that 1 am Let me help you. 1 promise I won't tell anybady."” “Oh, yes you will” she answered faintly with 8 hysterical laugh; “you will go and tell your Angie just as soon a8 you can get me uom(or!uhlly disposed of.” You had bevter go und tell her now, and 1 can wait for you “Tell Angie!” I ‘cried in amazement. matter was. Kthel was jesious of Angie, and had come o watch me. How my heart bounded. A girl who was jenlous must first be in love. No more ocertain sign of love could I receive than this. [ drew her little limp form closer in my arms, with a cortain energy and decision that she made no attempt to resist, while L eried, half laughing “Ethel, you ¢ swoet girl! S) you are jealous of Angie! Well, you needn' be, for 1 don't care a fig for her. 1 love you and you alone, and now you needn't deny any longer that you ‘love me as much as 1 love you.” She was trying to hide her tear-wot face in her hands and the folds of her dress, but I managed to get mine down near enotgh 10 kiss her car and part of her forehead, and then I drew hor quite closo info my arms and kissed her lips “You mean thing!” she cried, in & voice that tried to be very pottish, but did not sucoeed at all well w've been doing this to trick m she went, on. “If 1 had only guessed what you wero up to!” 2 But by this timo she was walking peacefully by my side, her arm linked in mine, though' she turnod her face away and tfied to conceal the tears that now and then showed in the varying light. ey “If 1 had only known it would have had this effeet on you 1 should have ked tho trick long ago,” said 1 mayly. “But what made you lie to me all the time and say vou didn't care?™ “Lodidn't lie," " protested she with at spirit now. didn't know it m)- I dian't think you cared for me and if T had leton that T caved for yor and it had turned out t you didn'y care for mo just imagine my position! 1 should hiwve been diseraced.” “Well, don't you think you run the same risk now?’ L asked ina toasing haps 1do,” she admitted, “but T couldu’t help it this time. 1 think it was awfully mean of you to come along just then.” I meant'to getdown thab other street there before you overtook me. But it would have been undignitied for me to run.” *Of conrse, you eowddn't have run,” suid I in great good humo Sinee that night 1 have never had any trouble with Ethel. Taever argue with her nor ask questions. 1 always do just what T think is wisest and bost for her, waiting for her to to protest if she dis- agrees with me and in the end we almost, always come tobe of the same mind, If she shows herself obstinate or pettish [ do not blume hor, but conclude that the poor thing is tired or unwell, and rather coddle her o little and treat her a3 zently as 1 can, and she soon comes out of her dis able mood. 1t is the o tthing in the world to manage a woman 1f you know how. But il you don’t knoW how it is tike trying to manage the devil. 5 the quality if paid Vi t DeWitt's Witch Huzel Sulve is the best salve that e produce, or that:money can buy. A GRAND OLD SOLDIER. Mazshal Conrobert Sull Lougs for Youtk and the Do f Batt Although past 85, Marshal Conrobart, the last surviving mavshal of France, beavs his years lightl He was con- spicuous at the funeral of Marshal N Mahon, and expeossed 1o the Italian ropresentative the hope that Italy would cut loose from the triple alliance und join hands with France. His hair I wn o snowy white, but his eyes arc as blue and brilliant as cver, and but for a little rheumatism he would have nothing to complain of. *You have come,” he said to a reporter, re- cently, “to learn my impressions on tho past and present. Alas! I have not much to tell you. All T desire now is repose—a_ repose closed against all tho noise and bother from without, reposo in which I ean remain alone with my vemembrance of former times. 1 have withdrawn from ‘the world since the death of my devoted and tender wife, and 1 live only in the past, which is particu y dear to me, for I fecl that during my long carcer I have done my duty simply and honestly, You talk of ‘my younger ys. Alas! I beran by | hever cease to think of them, and only wish the eon ain to en- able me to serve my conntry on the fieid of battle should war br out, which heaven forbid, for war is a terrible thing. But to hear the sound of cannon and not be able to ta wt in the fire, what an exeruciating tort and the marshal, overcome by his foelings, roso from his seat ana paced the room. Aftera fow minutes the fiery vetoran calmed down and resumed the ¢onve - tion. “What, in reality, can I tell you?" he asked. I am not a learned man, [ | am not a writer; 1am only a man of war. 1knowof nothing but wmilitary expeditions, fields of battle and tho shock of arms. From my youth 1 was fond of the army. 1 have passad my lifo on horseback throughout Europo and Afr [ have fought everywhere and all for the greatness and ory of onr dear tatherland. Today perhaps | am used up, but I think if France nceded my sword tomorrow I should have suffi- cient strength left to rush to her reseue, Ah! the life of a soldier is the finest of '0 become asoldier again, wha a cam! To recommence the cam- ns of other days and follow one's to the end without feur of r.o- proachy, like the valiunt Blaise de Mont- lue, whose enitaph should bsthat of all warriors—*‘H ies Montlue,who never reposed but in his grave'—to live is over again, what a bewutiful dream, 1 illusion DOCTORS Searles & Searles Medica) & Surgical Disnensary. 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