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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-22

One popularity about NJ. de Cassag-
macs method of firing is that he never
takes aim, or at least not as other ex-
perts do. He guages the line between
his weapon and the mark in some way
as a baseball player aims the q he is
notwithstanding only the mark. The
consequence is that while not capable OF
such wonderful show feats as many
other patrons Of the gallery, such as
hitting a bird on the wing, or shooting
a five franc piece of his toe, Nj. de Cas-
sagnac, when it comes to the pinch al
ways lands his bullet neal enough to
the mark to make 1t exceedingly un-
uleasant for the other fellow, and what
Is of greater moment still he seems TO
shoot better in q duel than at any other
time.
II don't pretend to split hairs with a
pistol BALI" he told a vain-glorIous
marksman one day, hut ! can split
hearts all right when it is necessary"
Such a cynical man is NJ. de Cas-
sagneci
One of the most celebrated pistol shots
in France and a man who w~asNoften seen
at Renette's before his exile to London.
was Henri Rocheiort, the bitter PAM
phleteer who alone is able to dispute
with NJ. de Cassagnac for the palm
non living duelists. When / call Nd.
Roehefort a celebrated pistol shot
mean that be is celebrated for his dar-
ing rather than for his skip, which, as
a matter OF fact, is not Of the highest
order.
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French DUELISTS.
ACADEMY WHERE THEY PRACTICE FOR THE
FIELD.
Most Of Them Shoot Better at Stuffed Figures and
Plaster Images Than They Do At
Their AdvsrssrisS to
Satisfy Honor.

PARIS, January 16.-These days in
which the duel is no longer a thing OF
innocence and joy, and jokes about its
being a salutary exercise before break
fast must be relegated to the blackburn
Der funny books.
The French duel OF to-day as fought
by expert shots and swordsmen as
C%lemenceau, Paul de ~Cassagnac, the
Maronis de Mores, who killed a man
only the other day and is game to kill
more, Henri Rochefort, Aurelian Scholl,
Paul Deroulde and scores OF others, is a
very serious matter. Within the last
ten years Frenehmen have assimilated
many Auglo-Saxon notions; they have
worked up a fondness for horse-raclng,
for coId-water baths, for creased trous-
ers imported from Bond street. They
have also learned to shoot-thanks to
fashion and NJ. Gastinne-Renette.
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the word "Feu," He missed, and the
Marquis swung his weapon up to the
level with the steady, automatic move
ment we had learned from our Western
cowboys. He pressed the trigger at the
word 'sdeux," and the bullet went
straight to the mark. 1t would have
entered NJ. Dreyfus' body on the right
side at about the fifth rib had not the
latter after his own shot dropped his
arm to his side and intercepted the mis-
sile lust above the elbow. That acci-
dent probably saved the deputy's life.
Both men left the field angry and l
remember hearing De Mores complain
bitterly on tn journey back to Paris
that the regulation charge for powder
was too small to kill at the prescribed
distance, that is twenty meters. He en-
| uhasized the fact that the ball had not
even broken the bone OF his adversary's
arm. There is no question but that GER
] tain precautions of this kind have been
approved by general usage in Paris With
the idea of making a duel with pistols
less murderous. But for these and the
fact already noticed that experts In the
gallery often ceas to be much on the
field, there would be a terrible percent
age Of deaths in these encounters.
One Of the favorite exercises at ke-
nette's gallery is the shooting at small
plaster images made to move past at
different rates Of speed. The younger
Dumas who has had so many dueling
experiences is a great adept at this,
though in recent years he has not prac-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-22
LECTURER BILL NYE
He sGYS IT ISN'T 50 EASY As IT
LOOKS
To Start Gut as a Lecturer Is an Up Hill Job
Under the Most Favorable Circumstances.
He Describes BIS First Lecture
and How BE Felt
Copvyiobf. tsgs. by Edoar w. Me.

I've Just been talking with a young
man on the train. BE squirted an hour
of sunshine into my. life. So he imag-
ined. In fact, l wanted TO sleep. being
| short over six weeks OF slumoer and
counting on getting q small collection
Of winks on the way. He sat near me
In the seat and hung his overcoat over
my head so that his smoking tobacco
sifted down the back Of my neck and
tickled the top OF my sensitive head.
He said he would like some day my
| Judgment on a book he was going to
/ publish under the title "Gleanings." l
| said yes, l would look at 1t when | hap
uened to be at his house. He said that
would be unnecessary, as he had 1t with
him. He opened his valise, which con-
tanned the manuscript, a pair of arctics
and a lunch, and took out ~"Gleanings."
BE read a lot of it to me.
Now what would your Judgment be
on that?' he said.
NINETY days and COSTS" said / as
quick as a fash.
He said as he reluctantly got of the
car that be was a great student OF Mr..
Riley, the Hoosier poet. II don't be-
Iieve Jim has ever wrote anything that
I can't repeat, and. between you and
me, a heap better than he does 1t. | use
his 'Goodby, Johnnie: see you later In
my lecture"
Speaking of lecturing, / have an ear
nest and sincere letter from a young
man at Raccoon Summit, Tenn, asking
about my own early experience and how
| like 1t.
The history OF the lecture industry OF
America is n of alternate elation and
depression. 1t is a history OF alternate
failure and success, written with the
hearts blood of the lecturer. 1t is a
record of hope and indignation, OF ex-
| hilarating applause and nipping frcsts.
1t is easy in America to say: II will
! be a lecturer. / will train my voice and
warm the cold hearts of my fellows with
my nice new upper register. / will
train myself from an elocutionary point
OF view, and I will write myself a lee
ture to fit the gestures that | have
thought up. I will win for myself a
place in the cold hearts of my country
men at $500 a pop, and committees shall
say, 'Lol indeed be is q corker!' and
the leading people OF the town shall
take me 20 their homes and give me OF
their preserves, and the committee shall
meet me at the depot with a livery
team"
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carried by admiring friends, I was led
to believe from the large number OF
people who came long distances to view
the shattered limb that II I could get 1t
on the stage, together with afew expla-
natory remarks regarding atmospheric
phenomena. / would entertain q IN
struct while possibly detracting atten-
ton from the accused ballet and thus
elevating the stage.
Anew York manager had previously
written me regardinging the possibility
of my lecturing, and l had been just
coy enough to keep him interested.
Thus as / began TO get around on
crutches l could not overcome the
desire 10 appear In public, SO
| that those who had ''read after
me could also "sit under me-" | wrote
to this manager and told him that
be might make fifty dates for me IN de-
sirable cities in December and January
at an enormous price. BE wrote back
to know what printing and press no.
| tees / had.
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ticed as much as formerly. He has
never forgotten the tragic duel in which
his father was concerned when M.
Dnjarier, OF La Presse, was killed.
Another feat, something OF a trick,
however, consists in throwing a coin
into the air and hitting it with a pistol
ball. Dozens of Renette's pupils can do
this three times out of four.
At tae time of his great popularity
Gen. Boulanger used to visit this gal
lery frequently and number OF his car
tons are still on exhibition there, or
we're a few years ago. The "Brave
General" was a better shot than he was
q swordsnan. He used TO practice In a
buff-colored suit with short jacket ana
very tight-ftting trousers.
Boulanger's old adversary, the pres
ent President of the Chamber OF Depu-
ties, M. Charles Floquet. who is in a
fair way to having a new series OF duels
on his hands, is too near-sighted to be-
come q very accurate shot, although ne
has made some fsIr records.
President Carnot himself used to prac-
rlce at Renette's before be was elected
10 Tue ElySee, uuu MS ieOus
to visitors with pride.
Perhaps the most formidable pistol
shot who visits Gastinne-Renette's gal
lery is the tempestuous orator Paul de
Cassagnac, editor of the Imperialist or
gan L'Autorite. M. de Cassagnac Is
formidable to begin with from his very
looks. He stands over six feet, and Is
broad and heavy In proportion. His
swarthy skin and coal black hair and
eyes tell Of the hot Southern blood
that runs in his veins, and those who
attack him or incur his displeasure are
very apt to wish they had done some
thing else. He looks like an Indian,
talks like a flood-tide, and fights like a
cyclone. He has probably taken part In
more duels than any man in France, and
Is absolutely fearless.
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I had one notice which l sent to him
at once, although he never used IT, IL
was as follows:
Last evening Mr.. Nye spoke at the
new rink here on the subject, is or Is
Not the Tariff a Tax?' The speaker ar
rived on the s o'clock stage from Tie
Siding. He was the first one In the hall
and by far the last one out OF II. He
speaks with great difficulty, owing to
the fact that he is unable TO think oil
things TO say. Some think he will I'M
prove. The lecture was free, n sew
eral came in to get warm. Those who
were already warm enough did moi
come In.
"The janitor tells US that the lecture
lasted over an hour. he thinks that II
our people here had begun In time II
could have been averted. He Is going
to resign as %janitor II the owners OF the
building do not treat him with more
consideration"
There were other notices that were
better than the above-notices that
had written myself-for / was more
careful not to wound my feelings than
the man who wrote that one.
After a few weeks, greatly to the
surprise OF those who knew me, | got a
telegram asking me my price for lectur'
ing. The telegram came from a small
but very active and thrifty place. ]
was not ready with my lecture yet, and
my clothes were not done, so | wired
back that | would charge $500 and ex-
penses. The answer by red message
was that my terms were accepted With
pleasure. -,
This only gave me two days In which
to study my piece and finish my clothes.
1t was very annoying, but l could not
honorably get out OF II. Also by this
time l had grown very tired OF studying
the lecture. 1t did not improve on &C.
auaintance. / wondered how l could
have seen anything smart In 1t In the
start. Oh, how very trite and tart and
tough 1t seemed as / studied II walking
up and down in the granary, and how 1
wished that | had not beaten down the
price of the young man who wanted u
write n good lecture for mel
Why did / try TO economic by writ
ing my own lecture? Here was a Young
man who had written lectures for all the
prominent lecturers OF the country, and
eight dollars was all he asked. Why
did / try to save eight dollars and
thereby humiliate myself before the
people?
finally the Job was done. The lecture
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-22

San Francisco has probably more wo-
men who take flyers" on stocks and
races than any other American city.
Recently the directors OF a track de-
cided that the woman should not be ad-
mitted to the betting paddock. but one
woman insisted on the privilege, and
after being twice elected and once ar
rested has won the sanction Of the court
TO pursue her favOrite occupation at the
pools.
Then San Francisco has another nov
city in the shape OF a woman doctor
who literally wears the trousers under a
p~rincesse dress reaching a few inches be-
low the knee. Because she is q woman,
and the woman instinct dies hard, the
trousers are pinned on with safety pins
instead Of being supported in the regular
way. With the trousers is worn q union
undergarment Of wool with no bands,
over this a health waist, and then the
princesse, WHICH just covers the knees
as she sits down.
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1t is easy to say all this, but 1t is not
easy to do 1t. Before all this can hap
pen the long dusty road that leads to
public approval must be sprinkled with
tears. The amateur lecturer must con-
tribute many sobs and three sheet pos
tiers, and many an amateur manager
must meet with reverses Of his fortunes
while the lecturers cuffs are going
through the same process.
Our best lecturers are too wealthy to
lecture, and so the field is occupied
pretty exclusively by those whose fame
is superior to their lectures, or whose
lectures are superior to their fame. So
too often it Is either ga small but de-
lighted audience" or "a large and dis
appointed one"
Sometimes the lecturer entirely es-
| capes criticism, while the audience gets
a terrible roasting for its apparent en-
ioyment. This is one Of the saddest
sights l have ever witnessed. A bright
| Young critic, who has had sometimes as
high as a year and q half OF experience
! as a thought molder, takes an audience
of more or less mature people across his
knee and gives IL a well merited rebuke.
I have known an audience after such an
experience to change its name and go
somewhere else. No n who has ever
been an audience under such circum-
stances can imagine its chagrla when 1t
finds by the paper that it has enjoyed a
lecture which was a bitter disappoint-
ment to a blase young critic.
Judicious advertising twenty-five
1 80 .vo.1d houa m oHQ a N lQNffFQ
a financial success, but now IL will not.
II is a queer combination Of fame
ability TO entertain and business
sagacity-which together make up the
sum of success from a box Office stand
point now, and that has to be the test
at least, for lecture committees and
| local mage do not love one who can
not draw. You are therefore to COM
blne your talents as a tAlker and as a
craftsman.
To start out as a lecturer and win
wealth and fame In this way Is an NJ
| hill Job, even though your lecture was
written by some one in whom you have
the utmost confidence. Generally orig
inallty of thought and expression, which
through the medium Of the public press
have attrhcteu ~dtttutlODY arc Tue uIst
and strongest elements Of success In the
makeup Of a lecture our. Then should
follow q complete study Of the average
audience and an effort 10 please It's Pc
culiar taste.
In the autumn Of the year 1884 / met
with a severe accident in the northern
woods Of Wisconsin, by which my leg
was very much broken at the knee. The
accident was due largely TO an error in
judgment by which my own ecliptic bi-
sected the organ Of a grownup cyclone
at a time when the cyclones orbit was
in use. stepping on a bright, new
peal Of thunder" to quote from, myself,
| fell quite a long distance with very
little obstruction uatiI ! reached the
earth, when l was shocked to find that
1 could proceed no farther.
Starting up, however, ] was Mortified
to find before / had proceeded tHoisteps
that my choicest leg Had been b<oken
lust below the knee. After We = OF
suffering at > village. 10 whici was
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fFa#-un, deux, trois," the words
conf with the beat Of the seconds.
kytns dred almost Instantly with
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strange Freak.

The wife Of our esteemed citizen, Mr..
John Rowell, while suffering under a Sc
we're attack Of the blues, tried to commit
the crime Of intanticids, but was prevented
by the opportune arrival Of a neighbor.
Her case has been considered by the pest
doctors ~incurable, but her husband was
highly pleased, after using a course OF Sui
phur Bitters, to find that she was entirely
cured.-Kn0StOB Herald.
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Mickey "a newsboy)-.'Say Petey, de
pape wot Im readin' says dey x9,000,000
kids slowed every year in Nance 70
make kid gloves wild"
Petey This pal)--"Tm dand glad We
Amt livin' in France, Mickey.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-27
L1RNEU DEFEATED Ri HOBfRT
\ BRILLIANT CONTEST ~ THE ALL CONEES'
TENNIS ToCRNN MENT-M >LCoIN
CIACE NGNIN BEATEN.

Newport Il. l.. Aug 25 GpcciaD.-Four players
were left by the waysidc this morning in the MI
Corners tennis tournament. ". 4. Larn"d OF Cor
nell University. the intercollegiate champion
one. Clarence Hobart. of Ncw-York city. being
responsible for his defeat. This the event Of
the day. Wrcnn. Hovcy and Chacc winning with
out trouble Larned and Hobart had met four times
this season. While the victories credited TO Ho-
bart gained early in the season. at
Southampton larned won three sets TO one 6-S,
60 ca. 81 The query this morning was. could
he do 1t again? He came dangerously
near it. Hobart to-day In matchh-
less form against the Hobart drives and
the Hobart smashes the champion himself would
have been powerless. II was not 80 much that
Larned played poor tennis AZ that Hobart played
better. The Cornell man put up great game. but
failed to last the deciding set and the New
Yorker won the match Hobart will meet Hovcy
on Monday. and ought to score another victory.
Hovcy to-day won from V g. Hall three sets to
one The Worlds Fair champion played in poor form
but managed to beat Han For the intcrschoastic
championship Budlong. OF Providence. who rep
resens the Harvard School. did UP young
Parker. the Columbian champion. in straight sets
The surprise Of the day was the defeat OF Mai
COIN ChaCc by John Rowland Tor the consolation
prize The summary:
Fourth rouud-Claicncc Hobart beat w. A. Larnrd,
G-3 O. 3-G -. g. Il D. wrcun beat T. Steven.
Cd G., 20. g.; f. H. ilo,cy beat V. g. I,al Go
- Sc GO. :. chasc beat Duncan GAMBLER. e. G-3
G-f
CON ,oation matches preliminary roundI. Clcws, IT,,
beat H. Brucn, 60. G..
First rouI1-.Iohn Iuwsnd beat j. {. DaN idson G-l
90: j. $ Thompson beat J. :. Morris. GJ, 60; II.
Clcws jr beat Chczel. @, SO; H. d. Cleveland
beat X. =. Green by default.
Second round-t odnan beat Pigott, Go, 81, C.
Dckey beat Frazer 6-3 90 J. Rowland beat \. W.
Cobb CO 90; n. Chace beat Barton G-l. -; :. d.
Reed beat A. b. Emmon- o., G-3; s. Z" Thompson beat
II. u. Cleveland. CO 6-I.
Third round-John Rowland beat NJ. Chacc. O.. 81.
InteTscholastc chan plonshipC a. Budlong beat w. g.
Parker, G-l, Ct, ID.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-27
THE TRIBUNE FRESH-AIR FUND.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
REpUBLICAY CHANCES ~ ONO AND IOWA

Andrew y. Humphreys. secretary OF The Na'lonhi
League of Republican Clubs. has Just returned to TINS
city from the West. bringing encouraging news or
the prospect Of Republican success In ono ana
Iowa. the only Western states which eject Govcrnor7
This fall lie SAID Yesterday that hc did not see
how Governor Mckinley could possibly be defeated
The Ohio Republicans appeared TO be absolutely sure
OF Success. The only danger which could be seen
in OHIO Mr.. Humphreys said was over-confdence on
the part OF the Republicans. II they should make a
careful canvass nothing could possibly defeat their
candidates. a spent last Sunday with Governor
Mckinley. lie Is I'm excellent health and spirits
Mr.. Humphreys said.
Jackson for Governor Of Iowa Il popular one He
IS "A Young man. president OF the State League. and
hustler. There Is cry Tor cnlnSc III io"a
louder than there WAS last November"
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lgnatiuss Protestant Episcopal Church. this city.
On the same day Miss Emma Gertrude Ainsworth.
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. William Ainsworth, will
be married to William Ring Gray. at Cape Vincent.
y. y. MIR. and Mrs. Gray will be at home on
october at their home in Elizabeth ~ j.
The announcement is made OF the engagement
OF Miss susanna Wheeler daughter OF George
Minor Wheeler. OF Scarsdale, y. Y. to Or. Edwin
Judson Pratt. The wedding will take place in the
fall pretty wedding took place last Wednes-
when the rector of the church. the Rev George
Clarke Cox, married Miss Alice Naude
Chapman. daughter of Charles f. Chapman. The
church was crowded with the friends of the couple.
this city. performed the ceremony Miss Ellen
Chapman was the maid of honor and Miss Lenore
Patty Miss Hannah levien, and Miss Patty Hanes
were the bridesmaids. Howard Walton, William
Greer, Frederick Houston and John Halves were
ushers. There was reception later at the home
or the brides father. After trip in the North
bride TO Poughkeepsie. where ne has accepted a
call 20 st. Paus Church.
The many friends Of Mrs. Ed Cooper will be
pleased to learn that since her arrival In the
Adirondacks where she and her family are occli-
pyng the Arson Phelps Stokes place Birch
Island, her condition has greatly improved. and
self. General and Mrs. Lloyd Bryce. who have
been with Mrs. Cooper In the North Woods, were
IN town Tor a few days last week. but returned
on Friday evening Mrs. Cooper with ner family
middle of September, when she will probably go
to Tuxedo
a private letter from London says that the
riage Of Miss Jaffray. daughter Of Mrs William
Jaffray. to Captain Jaffray. formerly OF the British
Army. will take place in this city about the mid
die OF November Miss Jaffray and her mother
friends. will sail from Liverpool in the steamship
Majestic about October |.
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CANOE RACES ON THE PASsAIC RIVER


The Labor Day meet the raSsaic River and
the rrgatts Of the Orangc Arlington and Ianhc Canoe
clubs. which will be- held the Tassaic River. At
Newark. September . and 4. ncNt the Atlantic
Division the most important yearly occurrences In
canocdom these waters. Tn. Passac River men are
better p,ddlcrs than they sailors, and these fall
gattas the padding occurrences OF the just cs
the rcgatas Of the NcwYork Club and the Marine
Field club the important sailing meeting,
The II tho series, that of the Orange Canoe
club on SATURDAY afternoon viii consist OF the following
races Padding any canoe sailing. seniors sailing.
juniors: padding decked padding. club four,
sailing and padding combined sailing manocu\ ring and
uI.et padding. seniors padding ladies' tandem Pudding.
Juniors, padding tandem hurry skurry and upset; ladies'
sailing. On Monday morning the Arlington CANOE Club
will hold it, regatta including padding. club ours
0idlmg. tandem. decked canoes padding open ctnocs
padding dcckcd canoc> padding. tandem open canoes
stindlng padding; hurry and upset swimming.
The Ianhc Canoe Club regatti, Monday afternoon,
will finish the series. The races To be contested are
Sailing sailing Juniors sailing, upset and man
overheard; padding open canoes; padding juniors,
dcckd canoes Pudding seniors decked canoes; padding
tan lem opcn canoes padding. tandem, deckcd
plddDg club f0urs padding, any canoe hurry skurfy
and upset tournament.
or most Interest Will be the ladies' races OF the orange
Canoe Cub the club and the tournament Tho
three club four will be holly contested but will
probably be won by the Ianthe team which has
lost race Of this kind which IL has entered. The
Ianthe Club always makes strong card OF IT, tourna.
nent the entries for IL promise that will be no less
amusing this year than at former fegatas The ladies
races while not an Innovation Will doubt be interest
Ing
The officers OF the combined egattas will be- Referee.
Robert j. wIlkln Brooklyn Canoe Club announcer, Nor
" Brokaw Brooklyn Canoe Club clerk OF the course
T.. b. Bocgs. Ianthc Canoe Club.