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TIFK HAS ITS ffUMOROUS SIDE. wmfifSLATrVB BASEBALL REQUIRES 4 QUICK EYE AXD AX ACTIVE BRAT'S. Xlhar-v. March The ft hfflj trorn second to third reading is often accom- lh EUCh vor derfu alacrltj- ry the start Assembly, that It is injurious to the eyes isar.y to try to follow order of bills on the Some members do not try to keep track proceodir-gs. unless they have a pet to move for final passage, or they have to block some bill to their trterests.

When F'-ich a hill comes by. the tries to stop it. much as a batsman strikes wicked eutcun'e. If he succeeds in obtaining of the Speaker. It Is a "fair ball." Q.i-crKis'i.

is struck out. and bill goes sailtrs ty. A pood Dlastmtlon of this legislative kind of was affordc-d last week, -xtien otn gfymo-jr trifd to hold up the Everett till. taxes New- York City at the fall rate on all proton wa-er lands in Putnam ml Westchester pountles. Mr.

Seymour had his calendar one rd and a large- nr wsnaiim in the ready rutch eve of the Speaker when the bill was atrlldnK distance. Along cam- the bill at a The was in the pink of condi- names cf the Mils. he rattled like the reverberation of a Catling ffibtehsrclns or.c thousand a m.nute. Pneaker." cuSdenlv Khoutf.l the in Ux District. with a sweep clerk paused a moment to pet his breath.

-C- comaker brought down his to make the still more impressive, atid replied: t-The centli-man from Nc-w-York." Mr rt object to Mr. Everett's Mil." mW Mr Fej-wour. "I move to out for 'he purpose cf has already been advanced." fllffer with you." again shouted Mr. "I have watched the calendar Intently." "Tre pertleman from New-York is mistaken." thundered back the man with gavel. "The r'f sr.d the Gatlin? pun was goon 22nw acain tt as r.l?h a as before.

said afterward In tellms Ms to Jotham P. Allds. leader of the Repubi4ran msiortv as the two were at to sif? That bill, I felt like a small boy to 'P a little red rae be ile the ra'lroad tr-rk and then hears the Empire State Express go by only two feet away." PAGES ARE WILLJKG EEKATOR DEFINES THEIR kinds cr LiQirnwi Albar.y. March 2 Senator kckett ftopped'Jor a moment in his task of reading his norsir-g ciall last Friday to take notice of a brighteyed, red-headed pace boy. who darted back and forth berween the Senators ar.d the clerk with the activity of that species of fireworks known as "What willlr.g boys these pages are:" remarked Krura.

who sits cheek by jowl on Serator true 1 'replied Ser.atnr frosi "IJTtie Redriy is willing, and all the others to vratch Little Roddy work." irmrs cahf of eyes. riTHEB CF THE "LAP.GE TTPE" EILT, Fol'KD IN THE DARK. Albary. March Assemblyman Wauhope Lyr.r.. who has sought a r.lche In the Hall of Fime t-y the introduction of his traje type" bill, has sper.t considerable time before The committee to which his measure was referred in that r.o books should be ta typo smaller than brevier, for the protection the eyes of the people.

After the Monday session last week had adjourned, Lynn still sat in Ids reat. He was was writir.g so hard and so fast that he did r.ot notice that evrry or.c else had the chamber. Apparently he did not notice that all the lights were tsrned out except a few solitary globes a a distant corner of the room. With his eyes wtti i a few Inrhes of the paper, the member from the Third District of Manhattan wrote oa and on "What are you doing there In the at last fhouted the janitor, dandling his keys. "Trying to put your eyes out, man?" "No." replifd the writer.

"I was only preparing brief on my "large BIRTH GTTES HIM PROIirXEXCF. AESEStELTItAN ADAMS IN THE BELT, WETHER CF THE FLOCK. Albar.y. March Assemblyman Adams ir wether" of the Republican flock in the fewer ho'j'e. is the first man on the roll call.

Adams says on a party the otber "regular" say "aye." When Acijr.s frays "r.o "ro" is burden of the chorus follows. Aasembijrmaa Adarr.s. ss befits the important furcUoa which he has been compelled by birth to KSRZSe. has a loud and sonorous voice. It Is slrr.cst as as the voice of Assemblyman the shepherd of the flock: and even as as that of Mr.

Kelly, the faithful "watch dog." On Important pany have thoroughly threshed out in the Senate and are then Mnt over to the Assembly for debate. Mr. A.darr.s r.ee<js r.o instructions. knows that the ttrpubiican majoriry is to the bill, and aocojdlrgly lparjs off with a stertorous But certain measures certain amendments to are occasionally encountered by the Republican Keener, on which he is at a loss to 'now to vote. At such he looks ar.x-teMly for the shepherd from Chensngo County.

Fortunately is not far distant 'rom tr.at of the shepherd. A or "vote-aye-Adams" soon reassures the foremost so that he not turn tr.to the wrong Pasture. of the iiin in the chamber, which Is so great as to the shepherd's pofee, Ej'stenj of ha? lately been instituted between Messrs. Adarrs and AUds. This never fails to head the "bell wither" in the rizht no matter how loud are war of Tamw'ry r.

WILSOVS RECITAL. Announcement has already made nf the recital to jrivr-n in the Aster Gallery the WaWorT- Astoria by I Marshall Wilson. TUtTeettsJ will on Thursday nfternoon. Sfarcb at 3 o'clock. Mr.

will give selections frca Longfellow, BchXUer. Vincenzo Monti Dick- JBS. Por. Rostand. Kipling and Bar-0212.

LA GRECQUE THE NEW CORSET. It li Isr the up-to-date woman who Rctts the Corset to her own figure Jpport the bust without confining it. giv-2 th a ac ful ar.4 distinctly her own. When gowned over a La Orecque Corset a 1 1 appearance not In evidence. ffsssS Mrw th nly r'lr 1 which a costume ran t- uortT TV'" MOO ur VAN ORDEN '64 Fifth KrsfUf v.

(Formerly MARK TWAIX TALKS ABOUT OSTEOPATHY AXD CHRIST IAX SCIENCE. Albany. March i Mark Twain spoke for forty-five minutes last Wednesday before the Assembly Committee on Public Health in behalf of the Osteopathy .1 of Assemblyman Seymour. His remarks were not devoted to the features of this which leek to legalize and regulate the practice of osteopathy, nor to the technical differences between this "pathy" and other "pathies," as much as they were devoted to the plea that the State should not fetter a man's freedom to choose whatever or cult or school of medicine he desires. After the bearing Mr.

Clemens left the heated Assembly chamber and sought a cool seat In the Assembly lobby, known "Hosran's Corner." where the fruit man of the- lower house keeps hia baskets. "Ah!" exclaimed 'he humorist, stretching himself out on the soft velvet cushions, "it's cooler out here. By the turning to a member of committt-e whe had accompanied him. "what Is your name?" "Fordyce." was the answer: rdyce, of County." exclaimed Mr. Clemens, carefully Ing the feet 4 of the up State member's stature.

'You're a big- fellow to come from that county. Too' re big rnoueh to represent the whole State. Fordyre? So. I'll ember By the way, Assemblyman. wonder what that committee thought of me' I made a perniciously long Epeech.

How long I "About forty-flve minute?" HE FELT APOLOGETIC. "Forty-five minutes? Impossible, and to think I have my speech prepared, like some of learned I must have bored the committee. Really, I oupht to co back and apologize." The Awmhlyman from Cayuca County, who Is generally known as th? Gulliver of the lower house. Unshed so heartily that the humorist's mind appeared to be immediately from all further rr.xiety on that score. After a moment of silence Mark Twain said quietly: "Mr.

Fordyce. my coming here this afternoon makes me think of an experience I ha In San Francisco some years ago. I was staying at the Russ House. Well, the first I was there I strayed for one reason or another into the dining room. Whom should I recognize there but an old friend of mine, whom I hadn't seen for I don't know how lone, sitting at a table with a napkin around his neck like some Boxer about to be beheaded.

My friend was dabbling in some soppy. sloppy milk toast, and the feeblest, most irresponsible lookire- tea I ever had the 111 fortune of seelnj anywhere. 'Sit down and have breakfast with said he. 'Oh, thar.k I said, looking at that noncommittal tea; 'but I've had my breakfast (as In fact I had) nnd I am not at 'Sit down; sit persisted my friend. 'Never mind If you ain't hungry.

Order anything- you want Just keep me company, can't MARK WAS NOT HUNGRY. "Well, I sat down. By and by he. asked for bill. Come to reckon it up.

his breakfast amounted to 20 cents and mine to $5 23. When saw that 20 spread out In so many figures he said: "Say. Mark, if you weren't hungry this moming. I should n'ver want to see you when you were "That was the way with my talk to-day. If committee got too much of me to-day, when I hadn't prepared a speech, what would they ha thoucht of me if I had prepared or.c?" There w) another hearty laugh from the Cayoga Asseu.blyman, then for a moment.

Finally the remarked, after recrosslng his lees, so that the right member cut off all possible escape for the author of "Innocents "You would have been Interested in the hearing on the Bell bill. Mr. Clemens. About two hundred Christian Scientists, who feared they would be put out cf business by measure, attended bearings before our committee every Wednesday for weeks." "Christian repeated the author, runring his fingers through lion's mane if searching for some fugitive memory. Then, an If his search bad through his pockets and at last pulled out an excessively black cigar.

A tlgnt was offered by Mr. Fordyce, ar.d after a series of vigorous the BBBoke from which nearly FtlSed the Republican. Mr. Clemens pgsln repeated: SCIENCE FAILED HIM. "Christian Science? Yes.

I've tried that, too. I've tried them all, as they come allopathy, homoeopathy, hydropathy, osteopathy and many a pathy besides; and I've trk-d Christian Science, too. But I haven't much use for ir. It didn't do me any more good than getting into telephonic communication with m.self and ye'iirg: 'Hello, Mark Twain! You're, all right. "I trlAd Christian Science for a cold in the head.

I had a savage cold, too. The test was a good or.c. I went to a Christian Scientist, and we prayed toother for some time. He to think I didn't have a Well, trying to follow out his dirwtioriF gave me another headache, twice as tad as the first. No, sir! There's only one way I can cure roli.

and that's to a pood straight drink of pure rye whiskey. The chief drawhark to that however, is that a man is likely rot to wake up for two weeks afterward. "Now. I don't war.t d'-riiie this question of Christian Science for anybody but myself. If other people can find happiness in th.s belief, it wouid be an art of robbery to deprive them of that hapriness.

I know an lady, fur example, a most delightful lady in nany respects, who says pbe is just is Found and solid seventy years as that pilhir over Here Mr. Clemens railed the attention of the Cayuga Assemblyman to great column which bounds Hoean's corner on the south. "Now. whether she is solid or not Is a question which Mttje. if Just so Umg as she thinks is solid "At ore of the on the Bel! bill." interrupted the Gulliver, "a Christian Scientist asked all those who ha of wearing glasses to ctand up.

and hundred and fifty stoo.l up." TITS WONDER AROUSED. hat was wonderful'" snld Mark Twain "So they gave up wr-aring glasses? Yet I think I can understand It People need only think they are cured, and they are cured. If I have, a pain in some part of my. body, and put mv Imagination to work Fon.pwhere else, I don't think of that pain, and the pain away. It gets rfisjfiistpd and leaves.

It doesn't make much difference what I put my mind on. so ion? as it concentrated on one thing. If I road put my mind on a multiplication tat.le Intently enough, multiplication would make me forest my pain. You can't think of two at the Mr. Fordyee." The legislative Gulliver r.odfied approval to this last thought with 11 and, recrosstr his legs, now put his left knee where his right had teen fore show you what power Imagination continued Mr 'lemens.

"I need only recall some experleaces I had leaving this country to co abroad in IW. At thai time I was raising a large family carbuncles. They constituted very lively little colony on my left leg. Well by the time I reached Australia my family had' become a whole tribe, cf which every member was wapintr a South African revolution for dictatorship. ha.l planned, however, to five an extended U-cture tour in Australia, and in spite of my carbuncles I started to carry out my original intention.

Well It proved the best thin? I could do. used' to bring me ro the lecture hnll In an ambulance and carry me up "i the platform In a stretcher and all the while 1t seemed to me that my ajrony would overcome me. But as t-oon as I got on my feet and saw that crowd of fsres lookir.a- at me and began to concentrate my mind on the subject my lecture that trihe on my left leer s'owlv but surely decamped, pulled up pec and pole and migrated. I knew nothing more of those carbuncles until I reached my last sentence and bade my audience good evening. Then that tribe came swooning down on me again like the Goths on old Rome and the pain came and they had to carry me away again In the ambulance.

As i happen to think of It, I must have talked some of those poor Australians blind, because I knew the longer I talked the longer I would be free from my pain." FAILURES NOT COUNTED. "These Christian Scientists told of other wonderful cures at the hearings," again ejaculated the Cayuga Assemblyman, to give his companion an opportunity to puff at the dying embers of his cigar. "They didn't tell of the cases the) lost, did they?" at last responded Mark Twain, enveloping the looming form of the Assemblyman In a nimbus of nmoke. "No, they generally don't do that The doctor doesn't stay up nights ceiling you of the cases he turns over to the undertaker, but he will keep you awake for weeks relating to you the cures he has effected. Now, as I was about to the Imagination is at the bottom of all these so-called miracles of healing.

It is through imagination that the Christian Scientist, as I understand it la able to give up his glasses and to forget his pains as he does forget, without any doubt whatsoever And in same way it is through imagination In many Instances that pilgrims to shrines, after perhaps bathing In the waters of the place and going through certain formal rites. believe themselves NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUXE. SUXDAY. AfARCH 3. 1901.

cured of their ailments and leave their crutches or canes or umbrellas, as the case may be. and go away with a light step. There Is, for instance, a place In Canada where multitudes go to be cured by a sacred relic, v. bone from the mother of the Virgin Mary, md thousands forget their sicknes3 and pains. "As I said at the hearing when I talked fortyflve minutes before that committee, I am a born experimentalist.

I want to try every new disease and every new remedy that comes along. That's how I came to know of osteopathy. That's the reason I don't believe it should be driven from this State. I believe that every man should be at liberty to experiment on his body with whatever kind of treatment he pleases. But as for laws limiting the practice of Christian Science, I can't say.

because it may be, in some cases, that the public is imperilled through some ons treating disease, who knows nothing whatever of the character of the disease, whether It be contagious or not." At this point Mr. Seymour, the introducer of the osteopathy bill, came striding through the lobby that rapidity of movement which characterizes the representative of the XlXth District. "Ah. here la our friend. Mr.

Seymour." remarked Mark Twain. "Tes. I was looking for you." said Assembly- PORTIONS OP GAMBLING OTTTnTS CAPTURED IN TITF: RAIDS nr THE COMSIITTEE OP FIFTEEN. man. "Tour train In about three minutes." "Is that to?" s-iid Mr.

Clemens. "I hai forgotten all about the train." A half minute later and Hogan's corner was empty. CAPTURED GAUBCrSQ IMPLEMEXTS. POME CF THEM FITTED WITH rEVICES TO FREVENT THE "HOUSE" rROSI LOSINO. gamblfr.sr Implements captured In houses on which rails made week by the Committee of Fifteen were chiefly tables, a few of which are shown In the accompanying Most of the, tables were marked games of roulette, faro, red and Mark, klonriike and chuck-a-luck.

number of roulette tables capture! indicates that jr.any (ramblers to take their money on a turn of the wheel. Chuck-a-lurk Is played with on the table Bhown at the picture. The tables rot expensive. The most costly used in gimhUrg houses are roul tte wheels, the prices of whli-h rar.irn from to jyo. acconlintc to It Is believed to be Impossible for a piml Uz to at roulette when the l.est Wheels are used.

Thn of a rubber t'lte, from the of the to a bulb at the edse of table, noticed In of the captured tables, has Indicated that the gamblers have tried the of a Jrt of air to prevent the ball from falling dangerous when tbf wheel was in motion. Defectives In employ of the of Fifteen h.ive said that many of the gambling Tnr: sv.w steel viaduct at xinety-ptxtii-st. and riverside drive. the rooked" because the gamnes and pay the la lout ling Loaded to te of the aamea (t la ioi the prisoners brought to tr! ii will be. Inter es of the methoi the it THE mnrrT AT NIXETY-SIXTB ST.

THE WOrtK 1-- PROCEEDING RAPIPT.T ON THIS IMPORTANT UNDERTAKING. Th? work on the new viaduct at Xinety-sixthbl and Riverside Drive, which was begun last autumn, now assuming definite form. This point of the Drive has always been a dangerous one for carriages and pedestrians, for the street. at the foot of the two hills, leads to the piers and Is used largely for trucking. This has made the crossing a scene of great confusion.

For the purpose of avoiding any further danger to traffic and of adding to the public comfort the viaduct is now beinpr constructed. is proposed to have the viaduct extend two blocks, that from Ninety-fifth to Ninetypeventh st. The approaches are to be of masonry work, connected by steel spans over the street. There Is still much to be done, but the rapidity with which the work Is advancing promt an early completion. PREJI DICE AND THE BOLDBS RULE.

Minister i Ting-fang, the Rev. Dr. R. Heher Newton, the i Dr. Joseph Bllverman, the Rev.

H. the Rev. Thomas BUcer, Rabbi liulman, the Rev. Dr. Donald S.

K'lwin Markham and others will speak on Eradication of Radal Prejudice by Means of the en ileT at a public mooting In CaK try Church on the evening of March 26. The meeting i- to be held under the auspices of the Barofl and nsmneas de Hirsch Monument Association. As one means of turning public attention In this direction, the clergymen of New-York will be asked to preach on Urn OoMen Kule on March H. CONNECTICUT TOPICS. TROLLEY COMPANIES COMBINE TO FIGHT THE CONSOLIDATED ROAD.

TEACHERS WANT CO.OOO FOR PENSION'S- THE SCHOOL PLAN FOR A. WOILOTS REFORMA.TOR.T FAVORED. Hartford. March 3 The sensation of the week the legislature has been Ism sudden outburst of the trolley movement under a. combination agralnst the Consolidated road.

Several petitions for extensions of time for construction of street railway lines by the companies In the southwestern part of the State were brought before the legislative road committee, and the extensions were asked in behalf of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company, which has. in fact, absorbed the six Traction. Mllford Street Railway. Westport Saugatuck, Shelton Street Railway. Norwalk Tramway and the Stamford Street Railway.

The attorneys for the Consolidated Insisted that the fheme was unlawful, and was an attempt to get the State to validate certain acts of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company in trying to N'corne successor of the separate companies. If the resolution wed the new company could Issue stocks and bonds to any amount, whereas now It was restricted to one-half the cost of construction. The fact was brought out that the fight between the combination and the Consolidated would be much fiercer than if the companies had advances Individually. The woman's reformatory plan has been by authorities of the courts and police of the State and many citizens; and It seems likely that the will successful. measure la Intended to be made effectual by the enactment of the Indeterminate sentence.

It Is to erect a reformatory on a site where the Influence of country life and surroundings may be to advan'ape, and there will be no qvestlon as to an urban site, which defeated the reformatory of four years ago, friends are. horeful of Its passage. A petition from the Connecticut Annuity Guild asking for $10,000 to ad to Its fund has attracted considerable attention. The guild Is an organization of teachers in the State which provides pensions on retirement for members who are. obliged to give up their work on account of poor health or old age.

It has a large membership, and has a fund which has been got together by payment of dues and by several entertainments In thelarger cities. The school enumeration of the State, which has Just been completed, shows 199,032 children of school age, an increase of 4.3.'7 over last year The interest in the enumeration, aside from the fact of the census, is that each child gets $2 25 from the State for Its education each year, the income of the fund acquired by sale of the lands of the Western Reserve many years asm. Til- Association of Municipal Judges, which met In this city on Thursday, did not take action on the whipping post bill, but authorized a committee to appear before the legislative committee in favor of woman's reformatory. The association also discussed measures for the better protection of the community from professional tramps, and the injustice of the law which sends a boy under sixteen to the reform school during his minority for a small offence. High license is to be advocated by the temperance men, who desire the rate to lie fixed at $1,000 for a full $300 for a beer license and $500 for a license to sell liquors not to be drunk upon the premises, druggists to be exempt from the provisions of the proposed law.

and only one license for selling liquor to he permitted for each one thousand population. This is radical legislation, and involves a complete change of method. The county commissioners now have freedom to fix licenses within limits, but by common agreement they are the same throughout the State. One of the best known ordnance experts of the State, Major A. C.

Howard, known familiarly as "Catling Gun" Howard, was killed in South Africa on February 17, while serving a3 a major of a Canadian battery. Howard was formerly connected with the Winchester Arms Company In New-Haven, whore be was employed as an expert. Governor McLean has gone to Washington as a private citizen to be present at the inauguration ceremonies. As he Intends to represent the State with his staff and the companies of the Governor's guard at the Buffalo Exposition in the summer, he did not ask legislature for an appropriation for the Washington trip. His decision has been commended.

The deal of the Hartford Carpet Company and the K. S. Higfflaa Company has been completed. The corporations have been united under the name of the Hartford Carpet Corporation. The new president is Robert P.

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