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base ball work for eleven years, both a PLAYER
and a manager. He tells the truth when be
SAYS that he is but thirty-two years old,
although he realizes that this statement is gen.
erail! received with hesitation, for HIS hair is
quite gray. He SAYS that most folks engaged
in base ball work have two ages, one base ball
age and the other their true age, few years
larger. In his case. he Gays, thirty-two is cor
rect for both purposes. He is a Baltimorean
by birth, but IN his base ball work he is
as much of a WashinRtonian as anything
else. He first started in his career as a dia-
mond figure in 1879 as catcher on the WASH
ingtoE National team of the international
League, which took a close second place. In
80 he played in Boston, deal having sent him
there from here. and in 'Sl-2-S he played in
Detroit on the league team. In "a and IS he
caught in Baltimore, and the next year he did
the same work-and il was good work, too--for
the Newark Eastern League team, which he
now considers one Of the best bali teams ever
put together. The next two seasons, S7-S, he
played in Baltimore and went to Newark at the
beginning of the next season a player, but
before the season was at all well advanced he
was given the position Of manager of the team
and he did this work for that season and the
next, $3.50. Sam is a married man, but he
has no children. He is one of the most popu-
lar men in the base ball business, and his gold
elk 8 head on his lapel proclaims him to be a
member OF the order that includes so many of
the cleverest men in the country. He has a
that managerial ability that is so essential in
handling twelve or thirteen men of the sort
that usually constitute ball teams.
NOTES.
An exhibition game has been arranged for
with the Chicago league team for the 18th of
April.
The new park will have seats for at least 5000
people.
Al Reach refuses to put price on Mulveys
release.
1t is understood that Dunlap will be the captain
of the new team, though Trott says that alt that
Dunlap wants is to have o quiet place where he
can play his best ball without having the re-
sponsibility of taking care of the men.
Beecher, the new outfelder played here two
years ago, and was very well liked. He is a
hard hitter. having an average Of over 800 last
season, but he is little slow in starting for
balls out in the field. He is an easy man to
manage and has very good habits.
1t is said that President Thurman and Al
johnson are talking Of changing the league and
association circuits by transferring Cincinnati
to Indianapolis and the Chicago association
team 70 Cincinnati. Brush is understood to be
behind the scheme, a. he is anxious to get q
team in his own town.
table appears in q reliable source showing
the salaries Of the New York team for 1881, ag-
gregating $50, 900, Is against $3s, 900 in 1889.
before the war was started. An increase of
$4,000 shows that revolution il a costly
pastime to the magnates as well as to the rebels
Ewing will get the highest salary, e5,5OO and
the lowest paid viii be q, 900.
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SADULLAH PASHA.
InhalinR Gas After Trying to strangle Him.
self.

SELF.
The Turkish ambassador at Vienna Sadullah
Pasha, had the habit of assembling the staff of
the embassy at o'clock for what is called ia
lecture when the dispatches were read and
commented upon and orders given ''On
Wednesday, January A." says the London
Daily Ne,cs' correspondent. Councillor Nasri
Bey and the secretaries, Subhi Bey, Mehemet
Bey and Nusret-Sadullsh Bey, were assembled,
and waited much beyond the usual time to be
called by his excellency. At last Nasri Bey
went into the ambassadors study, which had
to be forced open. But Sadullah Pasha was
not there, nor was he in his adjoining bed
room, where signs of disorder and a smell Of
gas were observed. The door to the bath
room was then opened and a shocking spectacle
was evealed.
''On divan reclined the apparently lifeless
body Of Sadullah, his face Of ashy paleness His
lower limbs were covered with green silk quilt,
ing at the side Of the divan and the other was
still grasping india rubber tube, the other end
of which was attached to the gas arm on the
wall. Nasri Bey Immediately sent for Prof
Drasche, who found everything in the position
described. The india rubber tube was quite
new, with the gray dust upon it and must have
been bought by Sadullah himself. as none of
the servants know anything about it. The
apartment was full Of gas The lifeless form
was carried into the adjoining bed room, where
Nasri Bey called the professors attention to q
livid mark upon the neck just under the ear
Prof Drssche ascertained that before inhaling
the gas the ambassador had attempted strangu-
lation, but failed. mark being left all around
the neck After much searching silksn cord
was found in . drawer which might have served
for the purpose, but it il far more likely that
the ambassador threw the string into the
chimney, where there was q fire.
'.Evsrything was dope to revive the stiffened
body and after time the heart began to beat
again and breathing commenced. But although
nfty-six hours have elapsed since the un-
fortunate gentleman was found. consciousness
has not returned and Prof. Drasche despairs Of
saving his life"
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for denominational supremacy is the Roman
Catholic church. The extent Of the work has
been considerable, but figures were not within
reach, Father Jutz being absent when rode
over to the mission. Agreat many Indians and
half-breeds have embraced the Catholic faith
and seemingly remain faithful
The churches have undoubtedly done great
deal Of good work. but they were Handicapped
by the not unnatural restlessness Of the half.
starved material out Of which converts had to
be made.
have sent You a few pictures Of Indians who
are now in Washington for the purpose Of tell
ing the Great Father how the government has
failed to keep its solemn treaty obligations.
GEO H HARRIra.
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Scattered all over the reservation of which this
ia the Official center are not less than 900 log
huts-little one-stOried 'shacks." In these a
thousand families reside, not because they want
TO. but because the government says they must.
or. at least. irtimates that they ought TO. These
TOoms-for there is but one apartment in each
hOuse-are heated BY a largo cook stove and
the heat is generally Of the most intense de-
scription. II does no. take much of fire to
make the place unhealthy warm. Here the
family resides for five or six DAYS At & time and
then it locks the place up ard moves toward
the agency in search of rations. While en-
route and at the agency thew live in tepee,
canvas structure that almost invariably fails
10 shut ont the wind when it is even only ordi-
narily keen. Years ago the buffalo hide tepee
was common. and in that a comfortable degree
of warmth possible. but the buffalo have
gone and the buffalo hide tepees are worn out.
The effect of such Acknowledgment condi-
tons can easily be imagined. and especially are
the variations felt by the little children.
More prevalent than any other form of dis
ease is that Of scrofula. So universal is the
disorder that one might well be excused il he
were TO declare that 80 per cent of the Ogallala
tribe is unsOund from this cause. Aggravation
NAV be found in the frequent feasts of dog
meat AMI the consumption of poor bacon. The
former line of victuals the Indians provide for
themselves: the latter they get from the gov
eminent OF the two. as they are here. would
much prefer the dog meat. healthy and
cleanly-cooked dog would not damage me very
materially and some portions of the animal
know to be even enjoyable when you are real
hungry. but the bacon which / saw issued to
the Indians a couple of weeks ago might well
be regarded as the foundation Of any disease
provided for in the pharmacopeia- Ii would be
q novel and somewhat cruel campaign but il
the government really wants to get rid of its
wards there Can be no more effective way than
the issuing Of unlimited quantities of such
bacon as l examined last issue day.
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staf corrsspondence Of The Evening Star.

PINE RIDGE, s. D., Jan. 81.
No specimen Of the sadly degenerated image
OF God is more careless in matters Of hygiene
than the Indian and none Of the peoples among
whom civilized en3eavor has been acti We have
received less scientific and healt hful care than
the great Sioux nation. Thousands of mis-
sionaries have given up the comforts of home
and broken the CLOSETS ties Of relat ionship in
order that the savage might be happy in the
future state, but you can count on the fingers
of one hand the men and women whose iabors
have been directed to the Indians physical
well-being in this life. The truly good Indian
who has phthisis dies and goes to heaven; he
has been prepared for the journey. But sup
pose the same amount of attention had been
paid to his body that was given his soul, ia it
not probable that he would have been with his
earthly family and friends few years longer?
Now as to the physical condition of the In
dams at this agency. There was necessarily
much investigation before anything like a rea-
sonable conclusion could be reached. and now
am satisfied that the great majority of these
Ogaiiaia Indians are sufferers from one or more
OF three forms of disease-phthisis. scrofula
and indigestion. Consumption has not always
been part Of the Indians physical history
the followers of Pontiac and Tecumseh knew
nothing OF the scourge-but the Sioux nation
OF today suffers from il to an unnecessary ex-
tent, and that which should be a helping hand
Is nothing more than finger and little finger
at that The growth of consumption has been
very marked during the past two generations
and Its seal Is already on the brow OF a great
many Of the younger people at Pine Ridge. Poor
food food that was distasteful because X lacked
variety, provided the germs which were devel-
oped by irregular living and excessive ex-
posture, and now the work il being efficiently
Carried on IN the name of civilization.
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counts for everything: bat IL q possible 10 es>-
ceive anything more Osf,r Tor an occasion -
the sort Or. did the giver OF the feast intebd
the eagle 60 symbolise the slertness and ~
paeity Of one OF his distinguished guests. sod
the terrapin 90 stand for mental and physis.l
inactivity in the other? II %. 20 Be IL
Both on secoun, Of the number Of paintings -
be sold and because Of the fac, that there is net
hkeiy to be another important sale this season.
the dispersion Of the seney collection. vhias
takes place on Wednesday. Thursday and Fri-
DAY evenings OF next week, is pretty certain 10
be largely attended, with bidders or orders fros
al parts Of the country, and particularly fros
the prosperous cities Of the northwest, hsR-
pears 10 be the impression, too. that prices WI
be high; for, curious ~ IL may seem. in view %
the late stringency in financial AffAirs. and Coz
trary 90 the general notion. money has not fer
long time been 90 plenty nor 20 cheap In Nss
York ss now. From this state Of things libsrsi
bidding may be expected.
As 20 the collection itself, those vhoss e.
pectAtions are based On the catslog or whss
they have read about II, can hardly fail 20 Be Q
trihe disappointed when they come face 10 fsss
with H. Not that Il does not contain many
good things; for il does But there 10 nothing
that touches the very summit OF achievement
II is true that the catalog embraces the names
OF q number Of famous modern artists bot
few il any Of these are shown AZ their vsrr
best, while one cannot help wondering hoe
some Of the paintings included in the collection
got there at all. Yet the general result noted
should not excite surprise. The colleetios
which numbers over three hundred wss
made up IN about three years. Now, n
Is well nigh impossible 20 get together
that number Of masterpieces in 90 short time.
no matter how judicious in his selections o.
liberal in his expenditures the collector mag
be. Even the greatest painters can no, always
touch their supreme height, and masterpieces
do not come into the market with regularity
cultural or mechanical products. He that want.
the best must needs wait He can neither give
inspiration 20 artists nor compel holdsrs q
what be wants TO let go Mt bis beck.
The man who came nearest achie,ine a sues
cess in the direction last named Was the late
William II. Vanderbilt, and he accomplished "a
only by the sheer force Of money. he was
able TO send expert agents everywhere-for he
neither knew nor pretended 10 know anything
about art, himself, with power to make sucs
tempting offers 20 owners Of choice works here
and there that they really could not afford O.
refuse them, and he was thus enabled 10 collect
the largest number OF high-class paintings thai
was ever brought together in the same length
OF time. But men with Nanderbilts wealth
and Nsnderbilts ambition in this direction srs
very scarce.
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ender, for he has seen
the absolute necessity
Of making up a club
that can win more than
forty per cent Of the
games it plays. He is
still oscillating between
here and Baltimore. his
home, but he intends to
move here before the
season opens so as to be
on deck all the time in
his management of the
team. A brief sketch of
him will be interesting
at this period of his
hustling, although TO a
majority Of the old-time
base ball folks OF Wash
ington he is very well
known. He has haep in
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Now come the questions; What is being done
70 advance the physical welfare of the Indian?
How much + the government doing to alleviate
Indian suffering? am referring to the Ogal-
lAla Sioux. The answer Is not far away. The
United States pays one doctor a very meager
salary for trying 10 attend To nearly 5000 In
dams. more than one-third OF whom ought to
be under treatment AT this time These 6. 900
eryation. and yet the government chains the
doctor down to the agency by refusing him
even the Of a horse on which he might do
necessary travelling. The physician nov on
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Extensive preparations had been made fos
the marriage Of Charles Gordon and Miss Mary
Ksphart, in Huntington, Pa, Thursday night
The presents were arriving and honeymoon
trip WAS projected. In the afternoon the groom
secured ea5o from the bride-slsct and hsr
nothsr 70 make additional purchases, and tax
ing the drst train west left for parts unknown.
Mr.. Gordon, who IL twenty-five years old, had
been on . three month"; leave Of absence from
the regular army, and II y thought that he ID
sreon his track
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But to return to the question of medical at
tendance for the red man and the equally red
woman in time of peace. At the Santee agency
there are 200 Indians and one physician. At
the Sisseton agency there are 1.400 In
dams and one physician. At Pine Ridge there
is one physician and his patients number nearly
six thousand. What sort of a rule is ii which
binds the Indian bureau down to one physician
on each reservation, no matter how many In
dams may belong thereto? Why. there are In
dams enough living right at Pine Ridge, to say
nothing of the white employees and the halt
breeds, to keep the most active kind of doctor
busy ten hours day. There should be at
least three physicians on the Ogallala res
ervation, one Of them on duty at the
agency. the others in the field. These
should be decently paid and they should be
provided with means Of transportation. Sew
eral instances could be cited where Indians
have repeatedly sent for a doctor and failing
TO get him because he was engaged In some far
away corner Of the reservation have called in
the medicine man with his herbs and rude mas
sage and wild incantations. The preference
was for the physician, but the physician was
not AVAILABLE
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KNEE.
Indian would rather die than be the central
figure in precedent And while the hospital
is being mentioned / may as well voice the pro-
test of nearly every patient that recovered.
None Of them got enough to eat. To my GER
tain knowledge every one of them had what Or
binary American citizens would call an ample
supply of "vittles." but to the Indian the meals
were always unsatisfactory, because they had q
limit. With a proper regard for the safety Of
the patients the surgeons dieted them
and the result was continuous grewl
DR.. Eastman SAYS that dieting an Indian
involves unnecessary care on the part of the
nurse and causes the Indian unnecessary dis
comfort. One Of the remarkable things about
an Indian is his or her appetite. A single and
not abnormal specimen will eat twice as much
as the average white man without experiencing
the slightest discomfort One of them may be
at the point of death. but he will devour food
with startling avidity. Had the hospital au-
thorities given the wounded ones as much to
eat as the wounded ones thought they ought to
have been provided with there would have
been more harmony in the hospital proceed
ings.
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Feasting today and fasting tomorrow would
upset the proyerbially tough digestion Of an
ostrich That is how the Indian damaged his
stomach. In order that there be no misunder-
standing on the subject. il may be well 10 state
right here that the tasts were always involun-
tary. Feasts are always in order, but no sane
Indian ever fasts unless absence Of food makes
abstinence compulsory. Years ago. when the
savage stomach was distended beyond the limits
Of what most white people would call comfort
the daily life Of an Indian had in il much more
Of muscular effort than it now has, SO that
stomachic troubles were infreQuent. Today
the noble red man swallows mis- food at top
speed. hes down TO sleep in a superheated log
structure and wakes up next day imagining
that some one had been taking plaster cast OF
his interior department. and had left the cast
IN the matrix- Exercise is ont of the question
In winter time. unless there happens to be a
war on somewhere in the gorged Indians
vicinity. Then he may sally forth and whoop
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the savage, but II has been quite
successful Nowhere could there have
been greater loyalty to the government than
was found among the great majority Of those
Indians who had fully accepted the Christian
belief. They retained their Christianity under
circumstances that would have upset . good
many folks religion. for the hostiles picked
out their property and seemed 70 take espe-
ciai pleasure in pulvsrizing II more thoroughly
than that Of anybody else.
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'sHsrs, my dear fellow, give you back the
I've marx. which you were 90 good a. 70 lend
about t." ssThs dsucsl Why ala you not TN
- tAaA bsesssF' xlM1w.
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Quidnunc--"whas makes your hair - much
grsyer than your whiskers?'
Enthusiastically, my hairis great deal older
than NY WhiaksSS. "-1psoW oeUrtw.
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Presbyterianism has as its chief apostle on
this reservation the Rev. c. G. Stirling. The
congregation at Pine Ridge is not large one,
but it is apparently in earnest. The Presbyte-
rian mission stations are two in number. One
of them is at Porcupine creek, twenty-five
miles from the agency. Miss Dixon and
Miss McCreight are the missionaries, and they
had excellent congregations until the ghost
dance became a superior attraction. About
fifty Indians were regular attendants at the
services and the field was a particularly prom
Using one. The other station is at Wounded
Knee, right on the battle ground. This
latter church has never been occupied. 1t wat
ready for use when the troubles commenced
There was a third mission on White Clay about
eighteen miles from the agency, in charge of q
native minister, the Rev. Louis Iron Thunder.
He had good congregation until the hostilei
charge. The church was burned.
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HOW INDIANS LIVE.
More Solicitude for Their Future
State Than for the Present.
THEIR STOMACHS ABUSED.

One Doctor for Six Thousand Indlans-A
Total Disregard of Laws of Hygiene
feasting One Day, Fasting the Next-Oser-
heated Huts.
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A.s Ne. usoos.shi,s Zoe q. wss>s.

Ma Tondih-'whas - yss se1ak q ~
new bonnety'
Tondik-..Isn,t q s.sAsr snnxlY"
Ma Tomdik--s'0h, -; but - osn'e -
ssnd noing 70 ths thssesr eng uaoo - -
tsr."-0ASalgo lnis~oosA
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Tho Kansas houss recently passsd bin pro-
ployinS arlisd forces vhils astriks = pending.
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II there was ever Q doubt in any human
breast about the ability Of Bernhard az an
actress. that doubt ought to be dispelled by
the fact that she brought over with her from
Paris last week one hundred and seven trunks
and two or three dogs. This is q long way
ahead Of being robbed of jewelry.
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The decorations Of the table for The dinner
which brought the two democratic aspiranA
to the presidency together at The Nanhsttan
Club in New York last week, are thus do
scribed by New York paper: Gan oval table
had been made expressly for the occasion.
Eighteen inches of its outer edge was covered
with linen cloth. The oval space inside Of
this was made TO represent tangled swamp.
An sorts Of Wild growth was scattered about
profusely. In the center was Q gnaxlsd oak.
On the top of this oak was an eagles
nest, in which were thirteen ezra.
Suspended by . cord from the ceiling. and
towering over this nest, was Q stufled eagle.
Four live terrapin rested on inverted soblsts
on The four sides Of the swamp" This w
doubtlee thought wonderfully nne for New
York, where cost u not considsrsd, aad nonsy
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The water colorists Of Washington are fairly
well represented, and appear to have ct least
average good fortune in the matter Of sales
in the exhibition Of the American Water Color
Society, now open in New York. Gill has three
drawings hung; Holmes, two; Moser, four;
Miss Perrie, two: Miss Smith, one, and Uhl one.
Two Of Gin's were marked ''soid" almost Of
once, and one Of Holmes has likewise found Q
purchaser. Possibly some Of the other WASH
ington exhibitors have been equally fortunate
in that respect but up 10 this writing no ntelli-
gence 10 that effect has been received.
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The Gridiron Club has been entertained by
the Clover Club, by the Senators and Repre-
sentatives who had been its guests up to 1883,
by Gen. Felix Agnus at his country place,
.'Nacirema," near Baltimore, and through
its representatives by Rear Admiral Bal
thazar de Silviera, at the dinner he gave in
return for all the courtesies extended him, and
it has received other invitations which II has
been unable to accept