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MAKING PLAY OF WORK.
An RnglIsh Firms Plan to Get Children to
Manufacture Its Goods.
1Javv York 9uu

An EnElIsh Firms Plan to Get Children to
Manufacture Its Goods.
New York SUM-
In England company has been formed
for the manufacture of toys. which were
formerly imported into the country at the
almost incredibly large sum of $4,000. 600.
When it was learned that most of the work
of manufacturing the toys was accomplished
by little children, who enjoyed their em-
ployment so much that they preferred it to
play, this company established their manu-
factory in the midst OF a crowded district Of
Birmingham, and advertised to teach child
rem the work free OF cost Assoon as the people
learned of this offer, women and children
besieged the place in such numbers that the
street was literally packed with applicants,
and the police had great difficulty to force
their way through the throng.
The children after learning how to do the
work are allowed to take it to their homes,
and, surrounded by new comforts and luxu-
ries purchased by the proceeds of their fasci-
mating employment, amid the refining in
huences of home hundreds of busy little
hands are employed in delightful work. To
call out the most intelligent workers in the
trade the company issued list CT prizes to
be competed for by the children under IL
years of age and awarded to the child who
shall construct the best outfit Tor the COM
pany's paper doll. The largest prize is e5,
the smallest e3, and other prize Lists are to
follow presently.
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VERY POLITE YOUNG MAN.

He Wears Out a Hat Day and RuIns the
DryEoOds Business.
New York Herald.l
There is said to be young gentleman in
Brooklyn, the son of one of the lately de-
ceased bridge trustees. who is so excessively
polite that he wears out hat day taking
it off to the ladies on Fulton street.
This young man has regular beat or pa
troll, which he takes whenever the weather
is inviting, and as the beat is short and he
is ''excruciating" he has almost ruined the
trade of the merchants on it by taking the
attention of the ladies away from the show
windows.
Not long ago, so the story goes, the mer-
chants held an alarm meeting, and after
canYassing the subject exhaustively deter
mined to organize and to offer HIM salary
of s. day SO long as he would keep away
from Brooklyn. He has not decided yet
whether to accept or scornfully reject the
proposal.
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imploringly, Listen. You said that you
would not marry me because Teu did not
love me. Supposing that you learned to
love me, say in a years time, Beatrice,
would YOU marry me then?"
"I would marry any man whom L loved,
she answered.
"Then if you learn to love me you will
marry me?"
"Oh, this is ridiculous" she said. "It is
not probable, it is hardly possible, that
such a thing should happen. If it had
been going to happen it would have hap
pened before. "'
''It might come about" he answered;
"your heart might soften towards me. Oh,
say yes to this. It is a small request it
costs you nothing and it gives me hope,
without which I cannot live. Say that I
may ask you once more, and that then If
you love me you will marry me-"
Beatrice thought for a moment. Such a
promise could do her nc, harm, and in the
course of six months or a year he might get
used to the idea Of living without her. Also,
it would prevent a scene. 1t was weak of
her, but she dreaded the idea OF her having
refused Owen Davies coming to her tather' S
ears.
"If you wish it, Mr.. Davies, she said.
$50 be it. 0nlyI ask you to understand
this, am in no way tied to you. give
you no hope that nv answer, should you
renew this offer year hence, or at any
other time, will differ from that give you
to-day. do not think there is the slightest
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woman as she must be to become your wife3''
'I don't know I suppose not" he said
doubtfully.
"You suppose not. I know you better
than you know yourself You would rather
never marry at all than to take such a
woman as she would be proved to be, But
it is no good talking such stuff. II you have
rival you may be sure It is some unmar-
ried man"
Owen reflected in his heart that on the
whole he would rather it was a married one,
since married man, at any rate, could not
legally take possession of Beatrice. But
Elizabeth's rigid morality alarmed him, and
he did not say so.
''Do you know I feel little upset, Miss
Elizabeth, he answered. 81 think will be
going. By the way, promised to say moth
ing Of this TO your father. ! hope you will
not do so, either"
'sMost certainly not" said Elizabeth, and
indeed it would be the last thing she would
wish to do. "Well, goodby, Mr.. Davies. Do
not be downhearted; it will all come right in
the end. You will always have me to help
you, remember"
''Thank you, thank yOu," he said earnest
Iy, and went.
Elizabeth watched him around the wall of
rock with cold and ugly smile set upon her
face.
''You fool" she thought "you foolI To
tell me that you love her dearly and want
to marry herr you want to get that sweet
face of hers, do you2 Dear Beatrice, she is
not capable of carrying on a love affair
with a married man-oh, certainly noti
Why, she's in love with him already, and
he is more than half in love with her. If
ha hadn't haan oba houa y,uf ODnn
off? Not she. Give them tine, and we
shall see. They will ruin each other-theY
must ruin each other; it won't be child's
play when two people like that fall in love.
They will not stop at sight, there is too
much human nature about them. It was a
good idea to get him into the house. And
to see her go on with that child Efie, just
as though she was its motheF-it makes me
laugh. All, Beatrice, with all your wits you
are silly woman! And one day, my young
girl, shall have the pleasure of exposing
you to Owen; the idol will be unveiled, and
there will be an end of your chances with
him, for he can't marry you after that. Then
my turn will come. It's question of time
only q question of time"
So brooded Elizabeth in her heart, mad
dened with malicious envy and passionate
jealousy. She loved this man, Owen Davies,
as much as she could love anybody; at the
least, she dearly loved the wealth and station
Of which he was the visible center, and she
hated the sister whom he desired. If she
could only discredit that sister and show
her to be guilty Of woman's worst crime.
misplaced, unlegalIzed affection, surely, she
thought, he would reject her.
She was wrong. She did not know how
entirely he desired to make Beatrice his
wife, or realize how forgiving man can be
who has such an end to gain. 1t is of the
women who already weary them, and of
their infdelity that men are SO ready to
make examples, not of those who do not
belong to them, and whom they long for
night and day. To these they can be very
merciful.
(To be continued nezt Sunddy.)
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GROWING IN FAVOR.
The Game Of Racquet Bids Fair to
Become Popular in America.
A CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST ON.
The Best Players in the World to Meet in
New York Next Month.
RICH MEN ENTHUSIASTIC OVER IT
WRITTEN TOR rH1 D1sPArcH.l


'WoofI"
It was big mans voice that heard
while up on the second floor of the New
York Racquet Club yesterday. I stepped
up TO a baize-covered door and peered
through the glass oval.
"Zipp'
1t was close at hand now and, clutching
the door, started back involuntarily' The
door swung open and revealed a herculean
person in loose, white fannels and weighing
probably about $50 pounds. He was reach
ing for little white ball which slender
athletic young fellow, some 20 feet of. kept
sending up against the wall at the far end
of the court.
"Ouchp'
And the ball came spinning straight for
the door. Just as dueked the fat man
made lunge with his racket that narrowly
missed decapitating me. He stood palpitat-
ing, with perspiratlon trickling down his
face in little rivulets. The slender sinewy
man was as cool as though he had been a
a mere spectator of the sport.
1t was a practice game between Prof.
Robert Moore and a member of the club
that had interrupted. But the Hercules,
who overtopped the young English athlete
by a head and shoulders, had had exercise
enough, and, being pumped out" retired
to shed his hAnnels. The instructor then
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PERILs OF ORTHOGRAPHY.
A Piano Agent Who DOvned a School and
Then Got Dowued.

A Piano Agent Who DOwned SchoOI anS
Then Got Dowued.
From the New York SUM-
Twas riding through the country west Of
Pekin, Ill, with an organ and piano
agent, when we came along to a schoolhouse
one evening and found spelling school in
progress. The agent suggested that we stop
for awhile, adding: ''If I can't spell the
whole school down, then don't want
cent.
There was q big turnout, and the master
at once invited US to take hand 1 had
been there before, and politely de-
cIined. The agent, however, went into
the ranks with great enthusiasm, and,
in the course Of 10 minutes, had
downed all but IL. Then l overheard
growls and threats and mutteriugs from
half dozen young men, and knew that be
was galloping to his doom. Five minutes
later there were only six up, and at the end
of another five the agent and the belle Of the
school stood alone. The mutterlnfs grew
louder and more menacing, and decided
to slip out doors.
1 was unhitching the team when there
came loud cry, followed by a suec ession Of
crashes, and a crowd poured out through
the door. The agent was being Ora gged oy
the hair of the head, and as soon as well out
into the yard they rolled him down bank
into the creek. Igot out with the tea BY the
skin Of nv teeth, and, reaching the town,
sat up all night for the agent. Ha came in
about daylight, clothing in rags, eyes
bunged up, two fingers broken, and going
lame in both legs, and as he fell into
chair be explained:
"Before using and after using I frs.
down the school, and then the school
downed me, and I'll be hanged II ever
spell another word according to Webster n
my nfsP
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may be stronger, he is slower. But
Boaker is still a fine player. although
Latham, of London. is accounted the
best in the world. He has held the
worlds championship for several years,
having won it from Joe Gray, who became
champion after the death of Punch Fairs,
who had held it for seven years. Walter
Gray, the brother of Joe, is also one of the
famous English players, although he has
never been a champion. He competed with
Latham after the latter had defeated his
brother, and was beaten in turn. The Grays
were here about seven years ago, and Joe at
that time played an exhibition match in the
Racquet Club court here with Boaker, in
which the Quebec man won the first three
games and Gray took the last four straight.
Boaker is hard hitter and plays with good
judgment, never losing his head. He is
rather good on the drop. Gray is slashing
player, very brilliant and hard hitter all
the time"
Ten years ago racquet was almost unknown
to Americans, but now it presses tennis very
closely. The New York Club, which Is the
pioneer, has been followed by the organiza-
tion of clubs in number of large cities Bos-
ton has a strong club. The Philadelphia
club expects to move into its own home some
time in February, There are two clubs in
the Quaker City. Three weeks ago sent to
Chicago the first set of racquets ever used
there, and a court has been organized. st.
Paul has good court, and Foxhsll Keene
tells me that courts are projected at several
of the leading colleges where athletics is q
prime feature. have no doubt we shall
soon hear OF them in full operation at Har-
yard, Princeton and Yale.
FINE AMATEUR PLAYERS.
"During the last two seasons several very
fine players have come to the front among
the amateurs. B. s. De Garmendia is one
who has secured championship honors. He
is cool player, and rarely makes a mis-
take. One Of the most surprising PLAYERS,
and yet a very clever one, is G. o. Perkins,
of the New York Club. He has an awkward
guard, but is wonderful hitter. He never
gets into position for a ball, and seems
sometimes to reverse all the rules of the
game, but he hits it all the same. His
skill and agility are the means of his sue
cess. Ed Lamontaine, Jr., is another very
hard hitter, and is regarded as, one of the
coming great racqueters of this country.
Foxhall Keene, although novice at the
game, shows up; wonderfully, and will be
able to make things look rather iunny for
Garmendia next year. One Of the best OF
our oldish players is Mr.. Lydig, who may
be said 70 represent the early school Of
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racoueters. These are beyond question the
finest amateurs in the country to-day.
'T am constantly ssked about the cost Of
eouipping clubs in other cities" added
Prof Moore. "If club has a court, the
rest is but trife. Our courts, as you see,
are rather costly afairs-sheathed walls,
markers boxes and the rest of it. But the
mere outfit of balls, racquets, rubber shoes
and fannels is within the reach Of any club.
The balls are all imported, although there is
no reason why they shouldn't be made here
lust as we'll as in England. They cost
cents apiece. The racquets are the very
best and cost 81 each. Shoes are about the
same figure, and suppose club could get
flannel suits at So or SO apiece.
MORE SKILL THAN STRENGTH.
''There is no better exercise for developing
the muscle than racquet. 1t is skill more
than strength that is required to make a
good player. One has to have all the fnesse
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PLAYED a little solitaire. Catching the ball
lightly on his racquet, he sent it spinning
from end to end of the 63-foot court half q
dozen times at lightning speed, never allow
ing it to touch the floor, feat few experts
would care to attempt.
TRAINING FOR A CHAMPIONSHIP.
'You see have to keep my hand in on
nv own account" he explained. "I'm
training for the contest for the champion
ship in March. and hope to win it, too
"Your fat pupil seemed to have plenty Of
running" remarked.
"Yes, probably six yards to my one. It
is the same as handball in that respect, you
see: the server can make the other man do
all the running. But a clever player won't
let himself be used up too quickly. When
the match takes place we will have some Of
the finest racqueters in the world here Tom
Petit, Of the Boston club, who is to
play Al Wright and myself, is world
beaten at tennis. and has held the cham
plonship several years. he has been try
ing to get Saunders, the English champion,
to make match, but has not yet succeeded.
Petit has only been playing racquets
year-since the opening of the Boston club.
Wright and I have been at it over seven
years. The match will be played in this
court about Washington's Birthday, under
the usual conditions-the best of seven
games, for a stake and the championship.
Whoever wins will have to meet Latham,
the English champion. Should Petit be
the victor he will have to play against
Boaker, of Quebec, the present American
champion, before he can meet Latham.
Wright would have to do the same"
"And you, too?"
"No; I played with Boaker twice last
season and beat him. He beat Wright in
1888 and 1889. Boaker's friends say he has
retired. He has held the championship Ii
years, but understand he hasn't really
surrendered his claim, although his friends
in the Quebec club have advised him to
do So"
why do they want to retire him?"
AT THIRTY MAN DECLINES.
'He is getting old. He must be about SO
or 40, and it's the same in racquet as in
other athletic sports-a player is at his best
before reaching his thirtieth year. After
that age he loses in elasticity, and, while he
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ROGER MILLS FIRST HOBBY.
A Flight of EIOQuence About Navigation on
Texas Greek.

A Flight of EIoQuence About Navigation on
Texas Greek.
New York Tribune.1
The Hon. Roger @. Mills has not always
made the tariff question his hobby. When
he was elected to Congress IS years ago he
was greatly interested in the glorious sub
ject of the navigation Of the great American
rivers. In fact, he acknowledges that he
owes his first election to his views on that
subject. Corsicana, his native city, is on
the banks of the brawling Brazos, and Mr..
Mills in the heated campaign that pre-
ceded his first election pledged himself
when he should sit in the halls Of Congress
to get a corpulent appropriation for the
opening of that famous stream 10 navigation.
In one oratorieal fight from which he rarely
quotes now, he said:
"There will come time when the Texan
will stand proudly on the banks of the
broad Brazos, and mark the on
sailing of stately ship which has passed
from New York harbor down the deep blue
Atlantic, into our royal Gulf and thence
through q channel, deep. broad and well
dredged, into the very heart Of our WELL
loved Texas"
That sentence brought him an overvheIm-
ing majority and he did not forget 1t. One
Of the first bills he introduced was for the
appropriation of something like $500, 900 to
aid the navigation of the Brazos to its
source. Instead of$5OO. 900 he got 81, 900 to
to be used for surveying the course OF the
stream. The following summer he was at
his home in Corsicsna. when two polite
strangers called and introduced themselves
as United States Surveyors.
''We have been sent down, Mr.. Mills"
said one, ''to survey the Brazos river to its
source. Will you oblige Us by telling rs
wet in some places"
The astute free trader realized too late
that he had forgotten that the Brazos dried
up completely in the summer. He never
sought another appropriation for river naVi-
CATION.
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needed at billiards, and at the same time to
have muscles strong enough to bear the
modicum of fatigue involved in match. 1t
makes the player quick in all his move
ments, sure of eye and firm of hand. The
exercise is neither too gentle nor too severe,
and can be modified as much as the player
pleases. The rules of the game are SIM
pie enough; yet no one could possibly
gather what they are from the books
published on the subject any more than
you can learn to box or play chess from the
printed rules. The regulation court is
sixty-three feet by about thirty-ons and a
half feet. Bad service, failure to return,
and too low service, or too low return are
what count in the game as points. Missing
the ball while it is in the air, or on the first
rebound, also counts against either player.
There is wooden board twenty inches high
at the service end Of the court close to the
floor, and il the ball strikes it the sound is
heard at once. This board is called the
steIl-tale,' and to strike it counts failure.
After the opening service. the players are
free to serve or return from any point where
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LENGTH OF THE GAME.


LENGTH OF THE GAME.
Two, three or four can play in the same
game. An average game lasts about a quar-
ter of an hour, and seven games constitute a
match, which can easily be finished in two
hours To play the game well you have to be
in frst-class condition, just as though you
were to play billiards. 1t is in this respect
totally unlike boxing and some other ath-
letic sports, which a man can go into when
he is feeling dull for the purpose of waking
up and enlivening himself by the exercise. i"
There are many hundreds of racqueters
among the young business men of New
York, and the roll of the racquet club has
on it the names of not few millionaires-
men whose time is largely taken up in Wall
street and with banks and railroads. They
drop in at the club, put on the 1annels for
an hour or so, and after bout or two with
an instructor or some member, get rubbed
down and 90 to business feeling strong
enough to face any amount of ordinary ia
tigue. The present quarters at Thirty-fourth
street and Sixth avenue are too small
BIG MONEY FOB ATHLETES.
Five lots have been secured in the neigh
borhood of Forty-third street and Sixth
avenue. The new clubhouse will be fin
ished, it is said, before the lease of the pres
ent building expires, in May 1891. 1t will
be the finest structure of Its kind in the
country.
An estimate of the amount that is spent
annually by the wealthy business men of
the metropolis on physical development
alone would seem like gross exaggeration.
1t reaches away up in the millions. Fenc-
ing. boxing, riding, rowing. tennis, racquet
all have their deVotees among the rich.
Unlike boating and horse racing, they are
sports that require personal participation
and cannot be done by proxy. A single de-
cade has started the movement that is to
make US a nation of athletes.
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ChiLh,a LIE snund

On recent visit to Iowa Mr.. K. Dalton,
of Lursy, Kan, called at the laboratory OF
Chamberlain & Co., .Des Moines, to show
them his g. year-old boy. whose life was saved
by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. 1t cured
him OF very severe attack of the Group.
Mr.. Dalton -is certain the remedy saved his
boys life, and is enthusiastic in praise of it.
vicinity; that farmers come 10 miles to his
store for it. and that many OF them, like him
self, are never without it in their homes.
wSu
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TIE LATEST IN SWEETS.
Cream Strawberries and ChoeOlats Candies
Are Having n Run.

Cream Strawberries and ChocOlats Candies
Are Having n Run.
New York World.1
Cream strawberries are the newest and
sweetest things in the candy market. The
luscious red berry is first dipped in cold
water and then plunged into cream bath
of rose, lemon, vanilla, orange or pistache
favor, the stem and little green leaf remain
ing. When dry the fruit bon bon is put
into little cap or bonnet Of huted paper
and offered tor sale at the modest rate Of 50
per pound.
Another innovation of sweetness is the
chocolate candle, beautiful brown stick,
three inches long, with tuft Of hard silk to
represent the wick. Set in a papier ma
chine candlestick of white, pink or blue the
connection is at once table ornament, q
favor and a delicious morsel of dessert.
Judging from The display Of sweetmeats and
the various designs that are coming into the
Broadway, Madison and Fifth avenue shops
chocolate is the choice Of fashion.
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RebuIted the Waiter. Inpsruinsnce.

Rebnked the WaIter's ImperIInence.
American Grocer.
waiter-champagne? Eessir, right of,
sir--dry, sir?
Hiram Hayseed( with his best girl )-Never
you mind whether we're dry or not. Just
get that champaginy and don't ask no fool
ish questionsI
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BLA1R's PTLLs-0reas English gout and
rheumatic remedy. Sure. prompt and effect
i've. At druggists. zTsu
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SAINT MARTINS LANE.

ST. Martins Lane winds
up the hill
And trends q devious
way;
1walk therein amid the
din
OF busy London day
1waIk where wealth and
sQualor meet,
And think upon a time
When others trod this
sanity sod
And heard st. Martins
chime.
But when those solemn
bells invoke
The midnight's Slum-
brous grace,
The ghosts of men come
back again
To haunt that curious
place;
The ghosts Of sages,
poets, wits
Come back in goodly
train,
And all night long with
mirth and song
They walk st. Martins
Lane.
There's Jerrold paired
with Thackeray-
Maginn and Thomas
Moore.