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The morning call., 1893-12-03
OLD-TIME GAMES.
Many of the Present Day Sports
Were Borrowed From the Past.

Newcastle Chronicle.
1t Is curious to noie how some Of the
games of the early ages have been handed
down to the present time. The game, for
instance, known 10 most of US as odd
and Even," was also favorite with the
young Egyptian, and many of the little
counters that he used are still preserved in
the British Museum. There is also the
game of draughts. which was played on a
checkered board in the earliest times. The
poor children were content with draughts-
men and boxes made of rough pieces of
clay, but the richer ones usually had beau
tifnlly carved iron-headed draughtsmen
and boxes.
The young Greeks, too. were we'll pro-
Vlded with toys and games for their amuse-
ment. The toys were chiefly dolls made
OF baked clay. the arms and legs being
Jointed with string, and therefore NOV
able. They mad a favorite game called
"Chytrinda." which has been preserved
through many ages, and is now played by
boys OF to-day under the well-known name
of "Puss in the corner" In France the
game is called "Quatre Coins." or four
corners. Both in the old game and in the
modern version FIVE players are required,
one occupying each Of the corners, while
the fifth player stands in the middle. In
ancient Greece he wore an earthen pipkin
on his head. and was called POT; in
France at the present day he is the "Ni-
gaud." or simpletoD, and by us is called
"Puss." To guess the number of
fingers another held up, was also
favorite amusement, and this, too, Is fire.
auently played at the present time. So
you see how carefully the character of the
amusements and the playthngs of the
very early ages has been maintained in
the toys and games in use to-day.
The morning call., 1893-12-03
A DREAM OF POOR CHILDREN.
I had a dream, SO sad, SO sad 1t was

had a dream, SO sad SO sad 1t was
IL hurts my heart to tell that dream again.
thought stood above the life that draws
Its weary breath in crowded street and lane.
Above the hot, rough pavements and the glare
From binding roof and wall and sun-scorched air.
looked. as might a spirit from on high.
:sNot strong. but trembling. and saw-oh, sad:
The children's poor, sweet faces, bold or shy,
ALL all were piteous, none seemed bright nor
glad:
heard their songs and cries. their restless feet,
And their wild. longing hearts that beat and beat
Then. as a spirit might, 1 turned my eyes
ont to the broad blue waters of the bay,
I o ali the widespread loveiiueSs that lies
Within the reaches of Gods glorious day
The hills, the felus, the streams that laugh and
And the kind. happy heaven that smiled above
/ saw fresh daises In the COOL deep grass
And bending boughs that shook their blossoms
down,
1 watched the birds on sun-swept pinions pass,
And then l saw again the crow ed town
The pale young children, where they walked and
slept,
Their eager. pleading faces-and wept
The toilsome streets were round them, every
where;
Discord and greed, and want and shameful sin.
Poor, stainless criminals whose eyes Were fair
The heavenly portals. but their hands were fral,
Their reeL were tired, and their sweet cheeks were
pale.
And some seemed wan and fains, for want Of
And trembling some, with fear of curse or blow.
And some at heavy tasks bent hand and head
Numb with the pain that hopeless toilers know.
And some were girls children no more-O God,
l dared not look to see the path they trod,
Near me white seraphs hung aud muteIy wept.
And Christ. methought. wept TOO above it all,
A broken prayer against my sobbing swept,
And awoke. weep when recall
That dream, so sad, so strange. 1t can but seem
Only a dream, surely it was but a dream!
MARY AINGE DE WERE
The morning call., 1893-12-03

to some parts of the United States, and
the Cincinnati Gazette once made great
fuss about its feat of publishing the
Presidents message within sixty hours
after it had peeu delivered to Congress.
1t ran pony express from Washington to
Cincinnati, and it cost $500 to get the
news.
What becomes of the Presidents mes
sages after they are delivered? The copy
that goes TO the printer Is cut up into
pieces or takes, and it is of little use after
IL is set up. The earlier messages. which
were written by the Presidents them sci yes.
were carefully filed away. and in the crypt
of the Capitol there are several of General
Washington's messages, written in his
peculiar, clear, bold hand. The messages
which are sent to the Senate are stored
away in the State Department vaults,
where all the laws of the Congress of the
United States are put and they form
part of the manuscript history of the conn
try. FRANK G. CARPENTER
The morning call., 1893-12-03

country and the world as remote as Sirius.
The barons who had hundreds of re-
tainers had cough cheer in food, and
plenty Of sport and war, but otherwise
what lifei Their castles had the virtue
Of strength, but little more elegance of in
terror than the caves where mans bones
are dug Il D beside those of the bear and
hyena. Refinements were few. and were
NJ ostly introduced slowly from eivilizing
contact with the Saracens.
What would those who groan at modern
barbarity and vuigarity have? In north
ern countries it is uncomfortable to 60
about in the costume worn in ancient
Greece and Palestine. Those flowing robes
in saturated colors which become the Le-
want, and are effective in stained glass or
painting in the grand style. are scarcely
suited to a plashing, rainy day in gray
IN odern city, where hundreds of th ousands
are rushing TO and fro In mad industry to
sell and buy and heap up riches. Bare
feet or sandals are not ornamental ia city
mud, and If they were people have too
many other things to do to have leisure
for atlutions every time they cross
ti0n, SO delightfully."- studied in the Orient,
have to be reduced to nod and phrase.
The modern stovepipe hat. the swallow
tail coat, the frock coat, the fripperes and
preposterous head gear that women wear,
may require apologies. but when was fash
ion without fault, and why should what
we are familiar with arouse resentment a
inartistic? Surely JUS, as interesting por-
traits are pain ted to-day in modern babili-
ments as by the Dutch masters, including
Vandyke. Rembrandt and Franz Halls.
When the soul is in the face and attitude,
the tailor's share in the man is not con-
spicuous. For anything We know, these
old masters may have depiOred the lack of
beauty in their own time, and had both an
eye on the past and the future for other
styles.
1t is the nature of the esthetic grum bier
to find nothing redeeming in science. Be-
fore science took phenomena In hand the
earth was the playground Of hobgo 5lins
IN legions and distorted fancy wove out of
the su ernatural not beauty but hideOus-
ness and gloom. Instead Of claiming the
imagination. science has given 1t an In.
finite ambit, and has invested the atom
with as profound speculative interest as
myrlads of worlds in the frmament.
Galiieo's telescope opened up to the mind
nothing more wonderful than recent inves-
legations into the constitution and proper
ties OF the atmosphere in passing from the
and Edisoh's discoveries in electricity.
The scientific mind which traced a
drowned continent beneath the waters of
the Pacific. or which has fathomed the
mysteries of germ diseases from germs. or
worked out In the balance Of truth the
experimental proof Of the mechanical
equivalent of heat, may smile at being de-
spIsed by artistic etherealism, even when
anchored to the grossness of life without
beauty by socialistic comparisons.
Ton HJry
The morning call., 1893-12-03

of the Ministry of War, and has at length
been deciphered. In it the King orders
Louvois to arrest General de Burlonde for
having raised the siege of Cont without
permission. to send him to Pignerol and to
conceal bis features under a l0up, or black
velvet mask.
The order was executed and the pre-
SUMPTION Is therefore not violent that
the MAN in the Iron Mask"-it was black
velvet one with iron springs-was General
de Burlonde. The story tallies with the
known fact that the prisoner made re-
peated attempts 10 communicate his name
TO soldiers; that he was treated with re-
sspeet by his military jailers, and that
Lonis XIV, who knew the truth of the
whole affair. declared it to be matter of
no importance. The difficulty is to dis
cover the Kings motive for such prerau-
ton; but he may have feared disconient
among bis great officers or the soldiery.
1t must. however. be possible TO discover
from the lists in the War Office whether
General de Burlonde was recorded as
missing" or ''Gead" about the right time.
The morning call., 1893-12-03
ARCADIA.

Day follows day: yea no hing is unchanging.
Only in vanity may all compare;
Oh, for vision from the Land Arcadial
For l. too have been there
Yet of no country we made the freemen
Lovers OF earth. and my kin beior me,
In ways well trodden ever did we fare;
But still my heart turns to the Land Arcadia,
And l, too have been therei
This morning in the wood told of fairies:
The wonder and belief had equal share
In child's eyes, as, dropping wealth of bluebes,
She fell 20 kissing me with sudden care.
Stirring dream memories of the Land Arcadia,
For l, too. have been therei
Vague discomfort with cries OF heavenly yearning.
And life in il thin rs the wide earth may bear,
Have sweiled my heart, and for the moment
speeded
A narrow youth. TIL could all things dare
Filled with rapture from the Land Arcadia,
Because l. too, was there!
And by the layered shades OF the old cedar,
Heavy from roses hung the breathIess air:
When my love gave the answer all awaited,
With slow SMILE to the broad moonlight ra re !;
Give me your hands ye of the Land Arcadia,
For l, too. have been there.
I watched her pass into the raroff country.
Hand in nd she had gone forth to where
Message. voice touch or niue, could never reach
her:
Tumultuous rose ae throning numb despair,
A mighty longing for the Land Arcadia:
Surely the loved are there!
Lost in the days wherein there is n o vision,
But striving. only striving to forbear
Duly crave draught of oesth and slumber,
Deeper than dreams that would my rest impair,
What wonldst thou have OF me, o Land Arcadia ?
All J that once were there!
Sudden. the open secret OF our birrhright,
Thrills through the commonplace all unaware;
Soaring anew at joy. win not gIadness,
But ainpler ether. diviner air.
Where shine the stars guiding to lost Arcadia:
Surely /. too, 60 Ihere
Lo! am here. a stranger and pilgrim.
A sojourner, as all my fathers were:
Nor knew they rest from the Land Arcadia,
IL they had once been therei
Cleveland Leader.
The morning call., 1893-12-03
THE JOKE ON HIM.
A Young Man Has an Interesting
Tussle With a Plate of Jelly.

first glance Is not reassuring at what "Os-
sian Dyed" might term ian animal ed con-
glomerate mass OF quivering edible matter OF a
translucent nature. yclept jelly" but what 10
the classic language OF the hills is known as
~ peth sydd yn siglo." At soiree a young
man was served with jelly OF some kind for
he irst time. and was horrified to observe all
the evidence OF torture ia what see med to be a
part Of some creature not allowed to die before
being eaten. Gradually. however. II seemed TO
die. and when fs life was extinct be put the
knife TO IL. but was shocked TO find that there
wrs ev ry sign of life again.
or course, IL was TO be eaten. even III the act
was a ba. barous one. SO boldly he seized the
knife and detached large portion with one fell
stroke But, as II the shaky thing strOve TO
avoid Its fate, the nearer IL was brought to his
lips the more it wriggled The juggling per-
formance became all the more difficult as th g
tittering increased, aud the hero failed TO see
the fun OF his despair 10 trying 10 get outside
the blamed thing. AT length he threw down
tile knife ana. with the air Of one to whom fate
was cruel. he spoke and SAID, "Duw. duw.
ladies, must give In. You must 'scuse me,
but / am bound 10 use sp0on!"
The morning call., 1893-12-03
FATE OF PROSPECTORS.
Two Unfortunates Saved From Death
by Most Timely Discovery.


a party OF cattlemen out on the Mojave
Desert recently came across the trail of
two men and two burros. The aimless.
zigzag course of the trail showed that
those who had made 1t were lost, and the
cattlemen at once set out to fnd them.
Here and there along the path taken by
the wanderers holes Of from three to FIVE
feet in depth had been dug In the dry
sands. Late in the evening the cattlem
came upon a young man lying under a
mesquite bush. beside hole dug six feet
deep in the sand. murmuring In delirium
and at the point Of death. He had been
without water more than three days aud
had lain down to die.
A mile further on they overlook an old
man, who, delirious, was crawling on
hands and knees toward pool OF brackish
waters beside W hich stood the two hurros.
The burr0s, being released when he gave
up, had found their way to water, and the
old man had folio wed them in a last de-
spairing burst of strength. The two men
were miners, who had lost their way a
week before. Both men recovered after u
few days OF care at the ranch. but num-
mined corpses ana bleached bones often
met with in the desert tell of many travel
ers whose similar experiences have had no
such happy ending.
The morning call., 1893-12-03
A Question of Spelling.


A veracious and amusing Foreign Office
anecdote was-writes a correspondent-
brought to ones mind yesterday by the
numerous newspaper boards all over Lon
don announcing the result of the Cesare-
witch stakes. The Queen. whose accuracy
is proverbial, very rightly objects to the
customary manner OF spelling Tsar and
Tsarevitch in Englsh-i. e.. Car and
Cz,revitch-as giving a totally incorrect
rendering of the hard-sounding Russian z.
More than once had her Majesty's wishes
Tending Foreign Office clerk: at length
Sir henry Ponsonby wrote Ia despair: 81
really do not kno how the word is written
myself: perhaps you might discover by
sending to the Newmarket TO inquire -
Unfortunately the sporting world, to judge
from the orth0graphy, appears TO labor
under the impression that the Cesarewitch
stakes are Connected not with the Russian
Tsars but with the Roman Caesars.
The morning call., 1893-12-03
A Friend of Ruskin.
London Globe,


The death of Miss Susanna Beever OF
Coniston, one Of the % ost intimate of Mr..
Ruskin's small circle of frisnds there, is
announced to-day. She was 81 years old,
and had spent nearly all her life at Con-
iston. in works of .friendliness and charity
Ruskin settled at Coniston, in 1873,
she made the book of extracts from
Modern Painters" which is now known
as "Frondes Agresses." The West
moreland Gazette OF to-day, in making
the aDnoun cement OF the death. states
that the only lines that Mr.. Ruskin has
written since ''Praeterita" took the form
of letter TO Miss Beever. few days be-
fore she died, to assure her OF his con slant
regard. She retained to the end the spirit
and wit which had made her delightful
companion, and whled away the tedious
hours of seeplessness by repeating old
English ballads. with which her memory
was stored.
The morning call., 1893-12-03
His Four-Pound six.Ounce Potato
Daily Evening Argus.

Our recent remarks about big potatoes from
the eastern part of the State have stirred up
Mr.. +. X. HOlmrs. He brought in yesterday a
paper from GrangeviIe, Idaho, which gives an
our big ones. They are the White Elephant
variety and were grown In the highest and
dryest part of he town. without irriga tion. ALI
exceeded two pounds, several weighed three
pounds each, aud the largest weighed four
pounds and six ounces. and was not whole
potato, as part OF it grew outside his line and
he dared not dig the fruits Of his neighbor's
soil. This is no exaggeration but fact.
The morning call., 1893-12-03
Dreams and Smelling.
London Spectator.

l should be obliged to You and to your
readers if they can throw any light upon
a subject which has much engaged. my at
tention Of late. Why is it that one never
certain perfumes (say that of cooklng)
might produce a dream, say, of delicious
dinner? I have mentioned this subject to
a number of my friends. who all acknow-
ledge that my statement is true, but,
without advancing any theory on the su b.
ject. they agree that one dreams of eating,
talking, walking. flying, hearing both con-
versation ami musical sounds, but never
of smelling. / spoke to couple of
doctors, who also said. "How interesting
and perfectly trne! Odd it should never
have struck US beforew / asked. Where
are the olfactory nerves?" "ln closer
connection with the brain than any
others"
The morning call., 1893-12-03
The Honest Man.
Chicago Record.

The Shade of Dogenes Glowing out his
lantern and dancing gayly out of Midway
Plaisance)-Hey, I've got him.
The Shade of Aristophanes-How'd You
find him, DIP
The Shade OF Diogenes-Asked him IL
he'd seen the Midwas dances, and he said
he'd seen every one half dozen times.
The morning call., 1893-12-03

Among the multifarious duties which
demand the attention of the Calcutta po-
lice. the capture of sharks in the Hooghly
finds place. During the past twenty
wears rewards have been paid for the de-
struction Of those marine maneaters. and
recently the Bengal Governments laid down
scale for these payments.
The morning call., 1893-12-03
The Man in the Iron flask.

Satur0ay hevIeW.
A letter to Louvois by Louis XIV. writ
ten in cipher, has been long in the archives
The morning call., 1893-12-03

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The morning call., 1893-12-03

suddenly BUSINESS hdc9
home on the outses OF ton
s0e READS
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The morning call., 1893-12-03

Day follows day: yea MOI hing is unchanging.
Only in vanity may all compare:
oh, for vision from the Land Arcadia!
For /, too. have been there.
The morning call., 1893-12-03

every morning paper In New York, but
through some bungling in the delivery sus-
picion was aroused In the offices Of the
Times and Tribune, and they would not
use it. The Herald had struck off an edi-
fion OF 25. ZOO copies. believing the message
to be genuine, but when they did not see
1t in the Times and Tribune they investi-
gated it's source, and finding IL bogus they
suppressed the entire edition. Among the
papers who used it were the Journal of
Commerce and the World. The publica-
ton created great sensation, and PreSl-
dent Lincoln ordered the editors of the
papers who used the matter TO be i'm
prisoned in Fort Lafayette, but finding
they were innocent If any intention 10 do
wrong, he afterward couptermanded the
order. The correspondent who got up the
scheme was next arrested. He made full
confession. and he was imprisoned in
Fort Lafayette. he was not kept long.
but, by the intercession of powerful
friends, Sc cured his release.
The message will be taken from the
White House to the Capitol by the execu-
tive clerk. There is good deal of red
tape about the matter, and though the
cable-cars run directly from the White
House TO the Capitol Presidents message
is always taken in carriage, and usually
behind spanking two-horse team. The
carriage is the office turnout Of the White
House. 1t trots out of the yard of the
~ ys
then along the west side of Fifteenth
street and down the south side OF the
avenue. At the bottom of the avenue Il
skirts the Peace monument and goes up to
the Senate. Here Mr.. Pruden gets out.
carrying a big official envelope ia his
hand. This contains the message. He
carries it up to the front door of the Sem
ate, where he is usually met by old Mr..
Bassett or the clerk of the Senate, who
announces that there is a message from
the President of the United States. 1t Is
then carried up to the clerks desk and is
there read. The words in which the mes
sage is delivered to the Senate are uttered
by Mr. Prnden as follows: II am directed
by the President of the United States to
present message in writing"
Copies of the message are given to the
newspaper correspondents and they are
sent out by the Associated Press to all the
papers IN the country. 1t used TO be that
manifold copies were handed over to the
newspaper men and they rusned for the
telegraph offices in order to send the news
to their papers. Atthis time correspondents
kept carriages and fast horses at the Capt.
tol during such times and made races to get
possession of the telegraph wires. Before
the telegraph came into existence it took
tho mail a week or so to give the message
, 1893-11-24
GefegraphiH&e Oeper&en.
Rabinetkrifis lit Stalieu.
Perbei9efihrt ourd sic 9eftri9en
Observation-Disclosures iber
Ole 8anfI fanoale.
premiermtniter 6iolitti aueenfdeinIi9 farf
fompromtttirt.
Sc 0 nj, "a. Sob.


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benz idmmtli6e Wtniiter beiipobnten. Die
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oeS O~fft5telen 8ericbts iiber Die 8arf=
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uno man fam gu Dem @ntiAluiie, benz &0s
nt9e ben Jtltdtritt oeS %geiammten &abinets
an5ubieten, mas aucb gelhab.
8aS &abtnet iDar 3ulammengeieBt, tpie
tolgt: @toDanni @iolittt, &abinetsprGiioent
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@rimaIOt, 6inan3ntiniiter Si9nor Santas
maria, Suitt5z unb &ultusminiiter @enc>
ral Sut9t 8elIour, &riegSmltniiter Qt0mtz
raj &accbta, Warinemtniiter /; 9ictro Qacapa,
6anoelS@ Observation-Disclosures Serbinonbo
Wtarttnt, llnterrtbtSminiiter; Srancesco
9enala, 8autenminiiter; Camille Stno7
6taro@Qprtle, Serfebrsminiiter.
Die ra6ifalen 9eputirten tperoen beute
etne 8cipre6utg abbalten, nm baritber
idlliiig 81 tperOen, ob ite ben Nntrag
itelen ipoaen, baS &abinet in Mnfla9ez
3ultano 81 Derieben, pber nicbt.
Der 8eri6t iiber bic 8anflfon6aLe ents
bdlt uttter an6erem au6 Die 8emerfltng,
oaB Bic bon etni9en 3eitungen 9egcn 9rez
mtermtntfter @iolitti erbobene 8elAulotz
gun9, 6aB ct BET ser lebten @abI @el6er
Der 8ant bon Gom inn Sntcrelie ietner
Yartei neriDen6et bate, nicbt erpieien fct.
Oas nnteriu6un9S> Gomite biitete 1tb aber
tpobl 3u iagen, oaB Die 8ei9ulbtgun9en
fall3 ieien.