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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
A Poor Policy.


In one of his letters this week, Mr.. Ward
makes the very significant statement that il
there were no conflicting dates the two base
ball organizations could be successful. This is
exceedingly important coming as it does from
the recognized leader of the Brotherhood. But
after making the admission. Mr.. Ward init
mates that dignity prevents the new League
from making any change of schedule now
The public can well understand now what the
situation is-a quarrel between two parties at
the expense of the public. II MIR. Wards
statement means anything at all, it means if
the public tastes were catered to both the
PLAYERS and National Leagues could get along
all right. This means that the public desires
change, and that being so, why in the name of
common sense is that change not made
Nothing surprises me more than TO hear prom
inent practical baseball authorities like Mr..
Ward talking about 'they don't intend TO weak
on and change the scheule." Nothing could
be more childish and more opposed TO the
promptings of 3 sensible mind. No greater
proof than Mr.. Wards statement is needed 70
show that almost the only object Of the
Players League is to completely exterminate
the National League, II this were not so then
Mr. ward would certainly not make any such
statement az he did. It is not too late TO change
the schedule, and II o change il not effected At
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
Heckcr's Youngsters.
About the PugIlfsts.

There is not much to comment on this week
relating to pugilism. There has been no promi-
nent contest and not as much talking as usual.
In the early part of the week a statement was
published to the effect that John L. Sullivan and
Joe McAuliffe had been matched to fight for
5000 side and the championship declined
TO believe that statement when it was first sent
out, and later news states that the battle will
not take place. There are many things con-
nected with the matter that seem to say Nc
Auliffe and Sullivan won't fight. The latter
certainly could not well afford to fight Nc
Aulife for only 5000 side when he Sullivan,
has refused to fight other men for a purse
as big as $4,000. If Sullivan was
In good condition / don't think that
battle between him and Joe McAuliffe
would be worth seeing. McAuliffe is not in
the same class as sullivan, both men fit and
well. But am inclined TO think that much of
this alleged match making is for advertising
purposes. Each time an alleged match is made
the world is told of it and curiosity is then CEN
tered on the principals. Sullivan is ION the
road" and McAuliffe is also in the show bust
ness. These facts explain deal
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01

Charley Mitchell is not to be caught mapping
IL he knows of it. He is a shrewd man in his
day and generation. and what he does not
know is scarcely worth while botheriug up OF
late Charles has been talking considerably
about fighting anybody. Savin has come to
the front with business-llke challege aimed
particularly at Mitchell The latter has
responded, but only to let Slavin know that he
tMltShedd) 81 od) mas an unknown who will fight him
for 5000 a side. This is a yery nice way of
lodging the issue, but cannot see why slavin
should object He has offered to fight Sullivan.
Jackson or anybody else. There have been
many conjectures as to who the unknoun is
some people say that it is Kilrain. This can
nardIy De- because Mitchell must know that
hhraln VIII have as much chance to defeat
Slavln as parrot has of knocking an elephant
over Win Its tail. However / anticipate that
Siavln Will get match shortly. The best thing
know OF would be an encounter between him
and jackson -
The Republican., 1890-05-24
DOGS AND PICTURES.
Incidents Showing That Animals Can
"Make Out" Painting.

Incidents Showing That Animals Can
"Make Out" d Painting.
1t has long been disputed question
whether animals can be made to per-
ceive the semblance of living creatures
in the fiat surface of picture, and be
deceived into supposing that the paint
ed representation of an animal is really
living thing. Stories of such percep-
tion in dogs, horses and cats are not
very rare, but few of them have been
well authenticated; aid the fact has
often been observed that the most in
telligent animals, though they are eI-
ceedingly curious, and often become ex-
cited over an image in a looking -slsssss,,
regard pictures with Indifference.
The London Spectator, however re.
lates. on the faith of correspondent, an
incident or two which seem to indicate
in certain animals, at least, an ability to
make OUT a picture.
An English painter, the Spectator
says, owned terrier which had very
bad habit of chasing sheep, and was
cured of it by dint of much labor and
care.
One day the dogs master painted a
picture of flock of sheep, guarded by
two dogs, and on being called out of the
studio by some one, he left the picture
leaning against wall.
On his return he was surprised and de-
lighted, for he regarded the fact as a
compliment to his work, to find his ter
rier barking loudly at the picture, his
ears priclsed up, his eyes cleaning with
fire, and his whole manner indicating
excitement
The painter looked upon the incident
as the more remarkable from the fact
that the figures of the sheep were not
painted life-size, but were only about
eight or ten inches long.
But while the dogs illusion regarding
the sheep must have been complete, it
was quite remarkable that he did not
seem to see the pictures of the dogs. and
paid no attention to them whatever.
AS often, afterward, as he was shown
the picture, the terrier became greatly
excited by it, frequently mounting ia
BILE in order to approach nearer to it.
The same journal tells another story
of quite as remarkable a character. A
lady who possessed two dogs had the
portrait of one of them painted by the
artist Chalon. The painter, having fin
ished the picture, left it out of doors a
few minutes to dry. The otheEdegs,
happening to come up, began to bark at
it and to gambol about it precisely as
he would have done if he had met his
companion.
The Republican., 1890-05-24

question. His indignant denial would
have had much weight with the consci-
entious farmer had not Ben, the Glib
bons' baby, asserted boldly that he had
seen Jack ''fooling round the desk more
than once"
In the eyes of the parents this proof
was conclusive, besides it accounted for
the many petty thefts that, in the last
few months, had sorely puzzled the
\ worthy couple. The soul of honor him
self, Mr.. Gibbons would not tolerate
any departure from rectit tude, especially
in one for whom he had done so much.
The result of the trouble was that Jack
packed up what few things he needed
for change, and went out from the
home where his happiest days had been
spent.
God will not forget your kindness to
poor, friendless orphan" he said, as
he took mother Gibbons hand at par
ting.
Going directly to recruiting Office,
he enlisted in Il Michigan regiment,
and in less than twenty-four hours he
was on his way to Tennessee, where
General Halleck was just then laying
siege to Corinth. In spite of his youth
and consumptive tendencies Jack made
a good soldier and came out of the
bloody conflict without his fair name
being tarnished.
Instead of returning to the home that
had sheltered his boyhood, he went
West and settled upon claim, taking
up his lonely life as a rightful heritage.
Not so kindly did the four years of
warfare deal with the poor old farmers
lads, for when the boys in blue came
marching home, not one of the stall
wart sons who had gone forth to battle
walked in the ranks. George and Ben
had como home in pine coffins many
days before, while Dan was left sleeping
beneath the bright Southern skies.
After Jack had gone away Ben gained
his fathers consent to become soldier,
but before year had passed he sick
ened and died, but not until he had
taken upon him self the theft that had
sent the orphan boy alone into the world.
More than score of years afterwards
an irresistible desire to look upon the
faces of the friends of his youth sent
Jack back to catch glimpse of the old
familiar walks. 1t was on the 3Oth of
May that he arrived, and the little town
was gay with flowers and banners. Join
ing in the PROCESSION that was vending
its way to the cemetery he passed quiet
ly to the grave of his father, now
marked by marble slab. In the same
row, little to the east, he read the
names of George and Ben Gibbons, and
an old veteran who was scattering flow
ers on the graves of the brothers in
! formed him that Dan closed his life IN q
The Republican., 1890-05-24

likely that tho next great revelation OF
science will be in that direction.
Now in the name Of all the Gods at once,
Upon what meat does this, our Caesar feed
That he has grown so greatT'
may we'll be asked of Mr.. Edison.
AS matter of fact his principal food
is cigars, of which he smokes about TWEEN.
ty day, and the more he works the
more he smokes, and with him work is
religion. He generally gets through
twenty hours of it every day and never
takes more than four hours sleep. Al.
though he often works steadily in his
laboratory for days together without
even taking ''wash up" yet, withal,
the ugh he does everything contrary to
the rules Of health, he has constitution
OF concrete, and is never even under the
weather.
The secret of the Wizards strength
lies in his impenetrability His indi.
viduality is so strong that he might be
called influence incarnate, and in the
company of his fellow-men he appears
rather as giant among pigmies than
as competitor among equals. Yet,
when one gazes at that unwrinkled
face, boyish almost in it's openness, it is
difficult to picture the magician who is
absolutely wrestling the secrets from
nature.
Mr.. Edison indulges in none of the
ordinary dissipations by which the
scientist and the man of letters can un.
bend his bow. In fact he goes in for nc
amusement whatever, and he is above
society. Yet there is nothing of the
leaden-eyed, melancholy-m sa
want about him, and when he once de
scends from the ethereal heights of sci
ence, he is as frolicsome as boy, and ne
has even been known on occasion to per
petrate Joke.
The Republican., 1890-05-24
LIKE A BIG SAFE.
The Queer Mud House Called a Kura, II
Which Japanese Live.

Which Japanese Live.
The combustible nature of Japanese
houses renders large fires frequent
and disastrous calamity; hence since 3
a long time ago the more wealthy Ja'
panese merchants as we'll as farmers
have been in the habit of building a
kura or fre-proof mud house contiguous
to their shops and dwellings, yet gener'
ally entirely isolated.
Into these are hurried at the first
alarm which indicates fire approach.
ing the premises the portable property,
household stuffs, merchandise, etc, and
the kura is then closed, and if time per.
mits, the joints of windows and doors
are sealed with fresh mud. A fire pass.
ing around and over such structure will
leave it's contents unharmed.
1t is q very common thing to see in
Yokohama, in the streets of the native
town, many of these kura built with
much attention to architectural effect.
They resemble very closely gigantic
fire-proof safes, which may be one, two
and even three stories high. They have
heavy projecting roofs, concavely
curved, covered with extremely heavy
tiles of black terra Gotta.
The gable end always faces the street
In each story is windowlike opening
heavily barred with iron for lighting
the interior. These are closed at night
and in case of fire by heavy-lookina
The Republican., 1890-05-24
THE PAY OF AUTHORS,
Facts for Persons Who Think That Liter
ature Is Bed of Roses.

ature Is a Bed of Roses.
caught one of our best known au-
thOrs in confidential mood recently,
and his comments on the revenue of au-
thorship, which he gave me permission
afterwards to print, carry interest with
them. / may add that the name of this
author is one of the most widely known
in American literature to-day. 'Seven
years ago | chose between law and lit
erature. | had every opportunity to
succeed at the bar, for, through hard
study and my connections, lucrative
practice seemed opened to me. But
turned to authorship. To-day l am
what the world calls successful au-
thor. My last novel was bid for by
three publishers, and my royalties, am
told by my publishers, are higher than
those of the majority of their writer's. L
have the pleasure of hearing my books
and name hawked on the trains when l
am travelling, the newspapers give me
from quarter of column to q column
and half reviews. But what has lit
erature brought me in money? Let me
open my vest-pocket book to you. Here
is my actual revenue for 1889, and in
cludes, as you see, royalties on six of
my novels, magazine articles, etc, and
every thing is collected. Hero is the
total 80, 170.40 Compare these actual
figures to the paragraph recently
circulated, in which l am reputed to
earn $4,000 from my pen. Is
it any wonder that the unsophisticated
enter literature with false hopes? Yes,
print these facts if you wish; only of
course, withhold my name and iden-
tity." l reproduce here the facts and
figures as they were given to me.
ouly wish it were possible, for the sake
of those who think that literature issa
bed Of roses, to give this authors name.
However, the facts in general must be
sufficient
am constantly asked by literary be-
ginners as to the prices generally paid
by magazines for literary work. OF
course, in my answer, / must be under
stood as only referring to beginners, not
those who have, by constant practice,
become experienced with tho pen and
know what is most desired by editors.
1t is safe, think, for beginners to de-
pend upon the following prices: Poems
are the least marketable, but where a
poem of average length is accepted
say four verses of eight lines each-the
price is from S. to SIS each. A short
story of 3, 900 words commands SIS to S35
at the lowest, $50 to 500 at the highest,
every thing depending on tho strength
of the story and the magazine to which
it is sold, Prose articles of any merit
whatever range from 81 to $40 per thou
sands words, the average being about Sc.
OF course, prices for literary work, as
prices for dry goods or any thing else,
vary according to the quality of the
goods, but those l have quoted are, L
think, safe for beginners to depend upon,
provided, Of course, that they fall into
the hands of reputable magazines. As a
rule the good magazines pay upon ac-
ceptance of a manuscript.-E w.
Box, in Chicago Journal.
The Republican., 1890-05-24

The boy grieved over his uncle's heart
less command, until the kind farmer
and his good wife agreed to give him
home among their own noisy boys and
girls.
The neighbors shook their heads
wisely, doubling the wisdom OF the
step, but when they demonstrated with
Mr.. Gibbons and pointed out the dan
ger of trusting to one of whose ancestors
he knew nothing, he replied: Il am only
doing for this strange lad what would
wish others to do for my boys, were they
cast frien6less upon the world"
IF we do our duty we can trust con-
sequences with God" added the moth
erly voice of his wife, who had CHANGED
to overhear the conversation.
The years passed on and Jack became
a real farme boy-toiling in the fields
in the fruitful season and tramping
across the woods to school in the winter.
Jack Shepherd is a good boy, and well
worth the raising" his benefactor would
say, proudly, whenever the boys capa-
bilities were called in question.
When the news of the fall of Fort
Sumter was flashed over the North that
sad April day in 1861, Farmer Gibbons
could scarcely be persuaded that he was
too old a man to shoulder musket and
march to the defense of his country, and
when it was told him that his Oldest
boy had headed the list of volunteers,
he said, with tears streaming down his
sunburnt checks: God bless you, Dan.
You would be no son of mine if you
tried to skirk from duty now"
The next day a letter from George,
the student, came, telling that he, too,
had donned the blue. Il could not help
it, father. All the students are volun-
teering," he wrote.
Never mind, mother" said the farm
er, at sight of his wife's wet eyes. "We
gave them to God when they were
babes, and if He chooses to use them in
helping to save the country, His will be
done"
Jacks patriotic heart would have
tempted him to follow the example of
Dan and George, but Mr.. Gibbons said:
''Wait a bit and see how times 60 Old
men like me and slips of boys like you
are not worth much on long marches, so
for the present we had better stay at
home and raise something upon which
to feed our soldiers
Jack listened quietly, and then with
out word went back to the plow he had
left standing in the furrow.
A year passed away, and with it
poor Jacks bright hopes of the future.
A hundred dollars that Mr.. Gibbons
had placed in the desk in the room ad-
joining his disappeared mysteriously,
and circumstances pointed suspiciously
towards him as the thief. Though obe-
dent and tractable, the boy was high
spirited, and resented, as base, any in
situations that called his honesty in
The Republican., 1890-05-24
THE PENITENTES.


Harbarous Performances of Fanatics I'm
New Mexico.
The Penitcntes seem to new conner
in the country to be a strange order of
superStitious fanatics, the old tlagellants
of the dark ages, who have come down
by some ecclesiastical legerdemain,
landing in this corner of the terrestrial
foot-stool. Their performances are a
touch of baptized barbarism clutching
at the skirts of this nineteenth century.
The horribleness of seeing them at work
flagellating themselves on Good Friday
is akin in the recollection to the heart
rending means of the wounded and
dying in terrible calamity. They COM
pose secret organization that is fast
dying out, and is not now sanctioned by
the dominant church, and the worst of
their doings are supposed to take place
in their lodge rooms. They are seen to
outsiders only when marching in pro-
cession, carrying each rough wooden
cross, nearly heavy enough to crush
them under it's weight. Their backs aro
usually bare, and as they stagger along
as best they can, weighted down by
their burdensome load in body and their
sins in mind, their brethren beat them
with clubs and prick them with cacti
till, in many instances, there isn't
an inch of the flesh that isn't
torn and bleeding. Not infrequently
they die from the effects of the terrible
punishment inflicted. A doleful chant
ing, in which they specify the particular
sins they are trying to expiate is con-
tinually kept up. And yet this very
class is usually composed of the rabble
element of the community. Often, when
they get through their penances, they
go straight off and get drunk and run up
another score of evil deeds done in the
body greater than the last. They seem
to hold implicitly to the belief that
every sin committed must be paid for in
suffering, and the moro pain one en-
dures here, the less he will have here
after. These poor, deluded penitentes
are not attempting any moral improve
ments They are merely endeavoring
to shorten their stay in purgatory, and
horrid work they mako of it, Any one
who was ever so unfortunate as to be
locked into ono of their lodges must
admit that feeling of uneasiness and
uncertainty crept over him while there.
Perchance dim light, as tho scene may
be described, made awfully indistinct
and CHASTITY the rude form of Christ on
the cross; the men stretched out full
length on the ground, more like corpses
than living beings, and the wretched
objects who piled the scourges on them
selves and the others, making the blood
squirt at every stroke, while the yells,
walls and howls were indescribably ter
rible.
But such barbarous practices will soon
have become obsolete in New Mexico.
Even now it is only the well-informed
who can point out their hiding places
when engaged in their tiagellations.-
Las Vegas Optic.
Social economy-Mrs. Scroogge--
'1'm writing to ask the Browns to meet
the Joneses here at dinner, and to the
Joneses to meet tho Browns. We owe
them both you know" Mr.. Scroogge-
But I've heard they've just quarreled
and don't speak," Mrs. Scroogge-'I
know. They'll refuse, and we needn't
give dinner party at all."-Punch.
The Republican., 1890-05-24
THE WIZARD OF MENLO PARK.
A Short but Interestin. Sketch of Amer
ica's Greatest Inventor,

icd INVENTOR
"Some men," says Shakespeare, 'are
born great, some achieve greatness and
some have greatness thrust upon tnem ="
Mr.. Edison belongs to the second class.
He is essentially and above every body
slse a self-made man, having by sheer
force of intellect won his spurs and at.
tanned to the highest pinnacle of fame.
1t was an uphill fight, too, from the
first, and those who had watched his
long and lonely struggle for ''his own
hand" were glad when he carried off the
prize at last.
AS great men go, Edison is mere
boy. He is only forty-two, having been
born in Eric County, o., on the 1lth OF
February, 1S47. His father was OF
Dutch and his mother of Scotch descent,
and his early years were spent in Port
Huron, Mich. Although two months
schooling was all he had, he was per.
feet glutton for reading, and, at the age
of twelve became a newsboy on the
Grand Trunk railroad of Canada. While
yet holding this position he began to
experiment in chemistry, and purchas-
ing with what little pocket-money he
had somo old type, printed and issued
the Grand Trunk Herald, the first news,
paper ever published in a railroad train.
A station-master on the line, in graft,
tude for his having saved his little
daughter from the front of an advancing
car, taught him telegraphy, and thence
forth the youth who was destined to be.
come tho first scientist of his age gave
up his life to the study of electricity.
After few failures in furthering his
inventions, two telegraph companies in
The Republican., 1890-05-24

doors exactly resembling those of our
fire-proof office safes at home in ap-
pearance. The whole structure is
smoothly succeed and painted black.
The entrance is placed wherc most con-
venient to the owner.
The kura is built of light frame.
work of wood, between the openings o.
which is securely fastened open wicker
work of bamboo, writes correspondent
of the Detroit Free Press. Then the
whole wall surface inside and out is
solidly filled with stiff plastic mud
taken from the bottom of the river, and
when thoroughly dried is smoothly GOV
cred with stucco, often treated orna'
mentally. No wood or other COM
bustible material appears on the surface
anywhere, and except for the color the
kura would form quite an ornamental
feature among the houses.
The Republican., 1890-05-24
RODDYS MORAL HEROlSM.


ship of Two Chums.
''Roddy's coming down tho street,"
said Cumso to Fangle. 81 hear that he
has caught bass alleged to have
weighed twelve pounds. Let's stop hin,
and quiz him about it."
"All right" said Fangle. "Hello,
Roddy; l hear you have been fishing"
Eyes"
"Much sport?"
"Fair!
"Only fair! Why, some one was tell.
ing mo that you caught fish so large
that when you pulled it out of the water
the river fell two inches"
I'm afraid that's an exaggcration,"
protested Roddy.
"Yes; so it is" added Cumso.
''The fish was big enough, in all rea-
son, without making it out that large"
"You gentlemen surprise mo very
any thing very big"
"Well," said Cumso, 81 think a
twelve-pound bass is pretty good-sized
fish"
"Who says I caught a bass of that
weight"
why, it's all over town."
"You don't say! Why, my useful
ness as Sunday-school superintendent
will be ruined if it is thought tell such
whoppers as that. Why, gentlemen, |
assure you that the largest fish 1 caught
weighed only two pounds and quar-
ter"
With low, incredulous and stimuli.
taneous whistle, Cumso and Fangle
sncaked away.
They could not endure the presence
of man who told tho truth about his
catch of fsh.-William Ii. Sivitcr, in
Jury.