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i THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. FEBRUARY 3, 1895. 8 SUNDAY MORNING. AMONG CHESSMEN PLENTY OF IiflW BUT HO -JUSTICE THE TRAVELER'S STRflflGE STORY HOW AN APPEAL FOR AID WAS ANSWERED FROM THE SPIRIT, WORLD. SPORTING GHAT OF Abb KlflDS FITZSIMMONS' EX-MANAGER SAYS MASY UNCOMPLIMENTARY THINGS.

9L De Wolf Hopper Says: USE the genuine 1 Johann Hoff's Malt Extract for that heavy show for which the audience waits, and were it first instead of last on the programme the boose would be empty by 9 o'clock." Mr. Gideon, the probable successor of Raymond as chairman of the L. A. W. Racing Board, is one of the oldest of the old timers, having commenced to ride in 1880, and from then until 1883 he took considerable personal interest in racing, and won the championships at several distances and championships in those days were valued much more highly than tbey are at the present time.

In 1883, finding that business interests interfered, be gave up racing and was immediately appointed chairman of tbe Racine Board, so that if elected to tbe position it will not be altogether new. although the importance of the office then as compared to the present time was very small. After serving one year he gradually drifted out of active connection with the sport, although still continuing to ride, but in 1891 he was again asked to serve. In he retired to mane room for some one more anxious for the office, but when, in 1S93, it was seen to be necessary to put only the most capable men obtainable in charge of this constantly-growing branch of League work, he was for tbe third time asked to serve as representative in Pennsylvania and tbe Southern States. George Lavigne is in GrifTo's class, and the sporting population would like to see the pair matched.

Clever as the Australian is. genuine a signature 0f r-rt)7 il-tttt jZfl W' Wfh 5 A Memento to be Placed in the Mercantile Library Chess Rooms. A memorial chess table, as souvenir of the late tournament, is to be placed in the Mercantile Library chess room. On its surface will be inscribed the name and score of the principal winner of each Mercantile Library tourney, and it will be a perpetual souvenir of these interesting occasions. It was a subject of regret among the subscribers of the preceding library tourney that there was "nothing to show for it in tbe room after the play was over.

This has now happily been remedied, thanks to the chief promoters of chess in the library. Colonel Joseph 31. Bennett, Mr. Harris J. Chilton and other subscribers to the tournament fund.

A SEW KNOCK-OUT. Another knock-out tournament will be held at the Franklin Chess Club on Washington's Birthday. There will be at least sixteen entries and it is expected to be an enjoyable att'air. AT THE FRANKLIN. As foreshadowed in our last, several scores in the Franklin tourney have been shaken up, and now there is not a single clean score in the lists, although Messrs.

Kemeny and A. K. Robinson have still escaped without losses, except in the nature of drawn parties. The leaders at this writing stand Won. Lost.

Dr. RKemenv 10 0 1 A. K. 6 0 3 II. G.

Voigt 8 10 D.Stuart 8 10 S. W. Hampton 7 3 1 HEHR ALBIN'S PLAY. Herr Albin started his series with Mr. M.

Morgan and after a close fight won. Herr however, was indisposed on Tuesday, and could not meet Mr. Voigt on that day, but played the following day. Alby again won, bless bis little heart. HERR LASKER.

Herr Emanuel Lasker has completely recov ered from his late serious attack, and is now put ting on the finishing touches to his health at Brighton. England. He acted as umpire be tween the Sussex and Metropolitan Chess Clubs, at the rooms of the Brighton Chess Club. His next public appearance will be in Liverpool. SCORE OF THE SECOND SECTION.

Score of the second section of the Continental Correspondence tournament: Won. Lost Dr. C. F. Bardorff.

Canada 0 F. A. Dixon, N'ew York 3 W.I. Kennard, Massachusetts 1 G. V.

Lansing, New York 3 G. K. Loudon, Virginia 1 W. K. Lowe, Pennsylvania 5 M.

I. McGrath, Mississippi 3 M. Morgan, Pennsylvania 4 C. W. Phillips, Illinois 9 C.

Kichardson, Pennsylvania 4 F. Smvth, Pennsylvania 5 C. I. Tabor, New'York 3 H. Zellikin, West Virginia 3 A STUDY IN THE SCOTCH.

A study in the Scotch gambit by Dr. Tarrasch. hite Tarrasch. Black 1. to 4.

2. Kt to 3. 3. to 4. 4.

Kt P. 5. Kt to Kt 5. to 4. Ktto B3.

P. to 5. QxP eh. 6. to 2.

to sq, He should move to Kt 5 ch. 7. Castles. to 4. 8.

Kt to 3. to 4. 9. Kt to 5. to 3.

10. to KB 4. to 114. 11. BtoKt4.

QtoKta 12. to 5. to 4. 13. a B.

14. Kt P. And the black queen has nowhere to go, for, if to 4 or Kt 4 then Kt and if to 3, then Kt followed by Kt to 7 ch. THE PLAYERS OK TO-DAY. It is rather hard to classify the big players of to-day, although there's no question about the big four leaders, namely Lasker, Steinitz, Tarrasch and Tsehigorin.

Immediately following would probably come Lipkc, Weiss, Gunsberg and Alapin. Then Blackbume, Mason and the Pillsbury, Sho waiter and Hodges crowd. Mr. Pillsbury has somewhat disaupoiutcd his friends. He does not appear to have that "infinite canacity for taking pains." We still think, however, that he could, if he would become a front-row player.

NOTES. Major Hanhain, as usual, is in the thickest of the fight. The new prodigy, Rauboschek, has won a game from Jagsnogrogsky. at the tender age of 18. St.

Petersburg and Paris have got to their timet move in the correspondence came. Colonel Joseph Bennett and Mr. Chilton intend making the coming third Mercantile Library tourney me greatest one yet. It is whispered that the great ehess maestro, DeadRtiiekonhimselfsky. carries a pocket mirror to view his "masterly" self whenever begets a Mr.

Jacob Elson is actively preparing the third edition of his Handbook of Excuses for Iost Gaines." This work has grown to be a standard authority on the subject. We trust that the next great match will include Tsehigorin in its east. He is the only of tbe living great masters who is not afraid to offer a gambit. A NICE NEW HATE. A nice new 11x7 mate by Mr.

E. S. Maguire, of the home club No. 1,465. fiteg gki W4 WHITE.

"White to play and mate in two moves. SOLUTION'S. No. 1453 yields to Kt 3. In 1,464 the intention is to 5, but is met by to Kt sq.

A black pawn at 2 would remedy it. Found by Coroner, Damon, the Happy, J)r. James Robinson, I. P. Blakemore, F.

W. Doerr, A returns, E. S. Ma guire, Medicus, J. Young, Richard Allen, of Bordentown, N.

A. C. Lowe, George L. Walker, of 836 North Sixth street, Clericus, F. R.

M. Nos. 1461-2 by EdwsrdJ. Lindsay, of Ramblers Club, Media, John M. Graeve, of Lehigh and Howard strret J.

L. Fairbanks, of 113 North Phelps street Herman Mohr, F. H. Milliken, G. E.

Gager, of Columbus, Ga. cook's draw. No. 1,466. black.

Fi ri r'A rz tsJ id QtS WHITE. White to play and draw. He Got There at Last. From the Detroit Frpe Press. The foxy boy applied for a job.

Do you want a boy he asked of the mag nate of the office, standing before him cap in hand. Nobody wants a boy," replied the magnate, eyeing him sharply. "Do you need a boy?" asked the applicant, nowise abashed. Nobody needs a boy," came the discouraging reply. The boy stuck hiscap on the back of his head.

Well, say, mister," he inquired, do you have to have a boy?" The magnate collapsed. "I'm sorry to say we do," he said, "and I guess you're about what we want" John E. McDonough'B Benefit. John K. MfDonough, the popular and obliging treasurer of the Walnut Street Theatre, will take his annual benefit Wednesday evening, March 6, 1895.

On this special occasion. Miss Julia Marlowe will appear as Kosatintl, in "As Vou Like It' Miss Marlowe'scoiupany the present season is the strongest she has ever had in her support, and her engagement at the Walnut promises to be one of the great features of the year. Reserved teats are now on sale at the box office. MACON TAKES THE LAW-GIVERS OF KEW YORK TO TASK. FORCED GOODNESS NO VIRTUE Restrictions Around Any Kind of Sport Are far Better Than the Entire Abolishment Some of the Queer Desires of Those Who Are For and Against the Sport of Kings Interesting Gossip on Other Things.

Special Telegram to Thk Timms, New York. February 2. A very observant man once remarked, There is too much law and not enongh justice in this country." He was right and I commend his aphorism to tbe mongrel crew of Solons now in Albany, many of whom are imbued with tbe insane idea that all that is necessary to prevent anything which they think or imagine is evil is to pass a law against it. All history, religious as well as secular, is full of contrary examples, but these fanatics, like the Bourbons, never learn anything by experience. Tbey blunder on adding useless law to foolish law until our statute books are cumbered with enactments that it it impossible, as well as impolitic, to enforce.

Looking over Weeden's First One Hundred Years" today I was much interested in the chapter on the infamous Blue Laws" which were once vainly attempted to be rigorously enforced, not only in Connecticut, but also in Massachusetts. In the former col- ony "iothecood old days, when George III. was King" and long before them no food could legally be given to a Quaker, an Adamite, a Catholic, or other heretic. No one could run on the Sabbath day or walk idly in his garden, or even on tbe road or street. All outdoor exercise was confined to walk ing reverently to and from meeting." No one could travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cnt hair or shave on the Sabbath day.

No man or woman could kiss his or her child on that day, or, even on a fust day. If a man brought a pack of playing cards (the devil's book) into the colony he was fined 5. No one was allowed by law to read tbe book of Common Prayer, to observe Christmas or keep any saint's day, to dance, to play cards or to play on any musical instrument except the trumpet, drum or jewsharp. Liquor drinking, however, was not considered wholly reprehensible, but its sale and use were regulated by statute. The Solonic saints of those days were greatly worried over tobacco, and they made many laws to eovern its use.

No one under 21 could use it without a physician's certificate that it was necessary. No one could take it in the streets, or even in a field or in a woods unless he or she was on a journey of not less than ten miles. No one could invite another to "Have a cigar" or to "Take a chew" in his own house, for its use by two people at the same time was against the law, A man could not kiss his wife on Sunday, and in Massachusetts there were severe penalties forelling lies. (Tbe newspapers then kept no men to "affidavit" their circulation.) Within my own memory there was a city ordinance in Boston which made it illegal to smoke a cigar or a pipe on the streets. Thoso abominations cigarettes were curiosities then.

AH these laws became null and void because of their very severity. Properly conducted, horse racing is a sport which benefits farmers and a large number of mechanics more than any other. It is impossible to make it profitable, unless betting ou it is permitted. The Ives pool law was the best regulation on the subject we ever bad, and yet it was sadly defective. It merely suspended tbe penalty for betting when such hetting took place on the grounds of regularly chartered agricultural or racing aasocia- tions.

whoso primary object was 'the im- provement of the breed of horses." Its great defect was that it enabled certain parties to organize themselves into a racing trust which bad no standing in law. The result was a turf war between the would-be monopolistic and the outside gam blers. The hnal result was the passage of an amendment to the Constitution of the State requiring tbe Legislature to pass laws designed to prevent such pool selling or gambling as the Ives law virtually permitted. There is an old adage which says; There are better ways of killing a cat than by chok ing him to death with melted butter." There are better ways of remedying an evil than by passing a law against it so stringent that it cannot be enforced, just now there are two parlies in Albany trying to obtain legislation that will apply to race tracks. One desires tbe passage of a law that will more clearly define what is and what is not gambling.

This party wants a definition that will exempt stake, handicap and purse racing from the stigma of gambling. Tbe other wants a law on the subject so strict that, while it will command the support of the religious element in tbe Legislature, will defeat its object by its very stringency, and soon become a "dead -letter law" in tbe statute book. Assemblyman Wilds, who has introduced two supolementary bills to the one prohibiting pool-selling he presented the other day, may differ and differ honestly with me as to their effect. Tbe first of these supplementary bills amends section 351 of the penal code. Tbe other bill wines out the Ives pool law.

Strictly construed this bill would put an end to the stock exchange. It is a blue law bill, and if it ever becomes a law it will soon be as inoperative as tbey, and a means of bribery and corruption of public officials, who, finding that it cannot be enforced, will use it as a means of blackmail and self-enrichment. At this present moment the penal code provides fines and imprisonment for pool-selling and other gambling, and yet there is plenty of it hero, and ten thousand policeman cannot altogether prevent either. When will Legislators learn that you can control the channel of a stream by proper embanking when you cannot wholly prevent its flow by any dam that can be built, and echo answers, Never." There has been plenty of cold weather lately but very little good skating, owirjg to heavy snowfalls and rain, which converted into slush. This leads me to ask why don't1 some enterprising man, or company, build skating rinks, such as are so plentiful in Canada.

There the cold is often too intense for out-of-door skating to be healthful. In all the large cities there and in many of the smaller towns there are fine rinks, in which skating can be enjoyed daily for several months each year. By the aid of Ice-making machinery it would be possible to establish rinks not only in this city, but yours, and keep a thin sheet of ice, say fonr inches thick, perfect skating condition most of the time between the first of December and tbe first of March each winter. Those who visited the World's Fair at Chicago will remember that there was one place where there was coasting on the ice all the; summer even when the thermometer indicated a 00-degree temperature out of doors. The ice tbe slods slid on was made by machinery, and it would be vastly easier to keep shallow sheet of water, say 150 feet in di ameter, frozen in tbe winter than it was to keep that sled track in condition in summer.

In Canada the rinks are made with their sides in hinged sections. At midnight, after the skaters have gone home, tbe ice is planed smooth and swept clean, an inch of water is run over it. the sides of the rink are opened and Jack Frost allowed to get his fine work in. By morning tbe water has frozen solid and is as glassy an a mirror. Our rinks rould he built in the same manner and when the meteorological conditions were favorable ire coo Id be formed naturally, as in Canada.

When the outside temperature was above the frceziug point the ice machines could be put to work and in a few hours tbey would do the work Jack Frost so well does for the Canadians. I know whereof I speak and I am confident that this scheme is-not only perfectly feasible, but that it would prove a very profitable one as well. MAC02T. feeling, arising fiom ingestion, and I am never without Johann HofFs Malt. then said I am firmly of the belief that the fcpirit of that youns woman came that dark and awtal night to the relief of her in tended husband." The train whiatled for his station, and he gathered np his traveling bags and bade me farewell.

FIGHT OVER BOROUGH OFFICERS A Question Raised Regarding the Terms of Office of Those Elected Last Tear. Special Telegram to The Times. Chester, February 2. There Is to be a big fight as to who shall control the offices of Prospect Park borough. The question is, shall the officers elected on May 29, 1S94.

by a decree of the court, hold office longer than the coming election. Tbe law passed in 1893 says that the voters of boroughs shall elect a Burgess on the third Tuesday of February and every three years thereafter. The question has arisen, will a decree of court allow the officers elected last May to serve the full term? It is claimed by one faction In the borough that tbe terms of the persons now holding office will expire this year, and that a new Burgessand full ticket should be elected at the coming election. With this end in view, nomination papers for a full ticket have been filed and are designed as a Republican and Citizens' ticket. To tert the matter legally, V.

G. Robinson to-day filed a petition of C. H. Jacobs setting forth that there is no vacancy in the office of Chief Burgess, Town Council, Assessors, Borough Auditors. Constable or Collector of Taxes, and that these officers have the right to Serve the full term for which they were elected.

Tbe matter will be brooch before Judge Clayton next week. V. Gr. Robinson will move to strik the names of all the candidates from the nomination papers which have been filed with tbe County Commissioners. TEACHERS HOLD AN INSTITUTE Several Interesting Papers Read Which Were Followed by Discussions.

Special Telegram to The Tim kk. West Chksteb. February 2. A-locsl Teachers' Institute convened here this morning. Professor Addison Jones presiding.

All tho school teachers from West Chester and the surrounding townships were present, besides many others interested in education. Professor J. R. Flickinger delivered an ad dress upon the Formation of Political Parties." and Miss Ricbter read a paper npon Educational PoteB. A discussion upon the History of Education was participated in by Miss Annie Breslin, Miss M.

R. Thorn-bury, Miss Len Strauling. Mrs. C. A.

Adams, Miff Mary McCorkle and William J. Moore. C. W. Talbot delivered an address on "School Law." and Professor A.

T. Smith spoke upon the "Theory of Vertical AU the addresses were followed by discussions. I will avail myself of the authority and privileges of the net of 1885 to appoint, as often as I may think proper or find oc casion, disinterested persons enjoying the confidence and respect of the community to examine each aud every department of the city government, to detect any deficiency or wrong which may therein exist, and to promptly notify the people of the city of any faithlessness on the part of those in whom official confidence has been reposed. PaHison's Letter of Acceptance. Rev M.

A. Zyner's Case Investigated. Reading. February 2. At to-day's con vention of the Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, it was decided to meet in Allentown next year.

Rev. W. B. Mus- selman, of Locust Valley, was re-elected presiding elder. The other officers elected were: Vice presiding cider, Rev.

J. Fidler, of Spring City; secretary, Rev. C. H. Bruner, of Royersford; treasurer, Rev.

Milton Kauft'man, of Coopers-burir. The report of the committee appointed to investigate the' case of Rev. M. A. Zyner, of Centre alley, was received.

Kev. Zyner was charged with working against Presiding Elder 31 usselman and violating the church discipline. After Rev. Zyner has been reprimanded by Presiding Flder Musselman he left the church, und his friends claim that he will not take part iuany further proceedings of the conference. Tbe History of little Tommy's Case.

From the Chicago Record. 6.30 A. M. Tommy arises. 6.35 He complains of a headache.

7 Quite sick, but able to eat a hearty breakfast. 7.30 Getting worse very rapidly. 8 He develops signs of fever. 8.15 Complications of toothache and sore throat. 8.45 He fears he will die.

9 (school time) High fever, aches all over, and sobbing with pain. 9.15 Little Tommy is out in the yard wrestling merrily with the neighbor's boy. The Same Principle. From tbe Washington Star. Dinny," said Mr.

Dolau, phwat do yex mane to do wid all yer school! afther yez get to be a mon 41 I'd like to be a Congressman," replied the younpster." Well, bear in moind phwat Oi tell ye. Groin' to Congress an' worruking successful an job av bricklayin' ginerally depinds on wan t'ing; au' that's moindin' the boas." DON'" Ml! ONLY $2.00 Hats Our Mammoth Sacrifice Sale of Closes Saturday, February 8. I) Beware of imitations. The Johann HofFs Malt Extract has this on neck label. Eisner Mendelson Sole Agents, New York.

to my YOUR ONE YOUNG LOVER'S HOPES DASHED He Was Tel line a Strantrer tho Story of His Love for a Beautiful Young Woman "When a Cras-n Came Pinned Down by a Large Beam, and With the Wrectt on Fire, He Made an Appeal Which Was Responded to In a Startling; Manner. Late in the fall of 1883 I was riding in a sleeping car on tbe Baltimore and Ohio Bail-road through the State of Ohio, on my way from Washington to Chicago. Beside me in tbe smoking apartment sat stylishly dressed Western insurance adjuster, returning home from a trip East As neither of us had any acquaintances on the train we soon became engaged in a pleasant conversation on various topics. My companion was a most agreeable fellow who had traveled a good deal and he related some interesting anecdotes and adventures. As we neared a pretty little town with cosy homes nestling among tbe trees, my companion turned to me and asked if I was a believer in ghosts.

I replied that I wss not and that I did not believe it possible for any human being to return to earth in any form, after having died. "I am not a spiritualist and never have been," said he, "but after 1 relate an incident that once occurred right along here, you will see that my belief that a person cannot exercise a great deal of power and influence in some form or other, after death, been greatly shaken. Tbe adventure which I will tell you is trne and happened to me, otherwise I would not believe it at all, for I was once as sceptical as yon now are." Lighting a fresh cigar and settling down more comfortably in the seat be related to me the following thrilling experience, stating that I could believe it or not, as I pleased, but that he actually saw what occurred with his own eyes "Some years ao I was riding along this 1 road on my return from a trip into Virginia where I had a business mission. On the way, and in fact jnst after we left Pittsburg, I fell in with a young fellow who was on his way to the Kocky Mountains I think Denver was his objective point. Pie was a young Virginia lawyer, who bad been educated at the University of Pennsylvania.

"During one of our chats tbe boy for he was scarcely more than a boy, being probably 23 or 24 years of ase took me into his confidence considerably, and showed me a photo graph of a beautiful girl of whom he seemed exceedingly proud, and told me she was his wee th tart, to whom he was engaged, and whom he expected to marry as soon as he beromo established in practice. The fellow seemed so happy and to have such bright hopes of success in his chosen work that I could not help envying him. It didn't occur to me then us we were rushing nloug that the midst of life we are in death. but it was well illustrated before wo had passed tbrouph tbe State we are now in. "Along about live miles bark, where you noticed that old mill down by tho creek, is a smooth piece of track for nearly two miles, and upon reaching that little stretch tho engineer usually pulls his throttle open a little wider and lets the train run at a very lively rate.

It is a very level piece of track, and there is not much danger in fast running there. "Suddenly, however, and without any warning, tbe engine left the rails and tbe long train of coaches followed. There was no embankment, only a flat piece of country, and so it was uot so disastrous as it otherwise would have been. I was so bruised and stunned that I scarcely realized what had occurred. It was after 9 o'clock in tbe evening, and I had scarcely more than extricated myself from the car, which was literally torn to pieces, when tbe wreck caught on fire.

Most of tbe passengers, however, had been rescued, but a few of them were still in the wreck, and so we started in at once to assist tbe trainmen in doing what we could. I lost sight of my companion as toon as the car went over, but after I got out of the car I wondered where be was. "Just then the flames shot into the air, and we heard a shriek. Rushing to the otherside of tbe car I heheld my young friend underneath a heavy beam in tact, the lower half of his body was under the debris of the wreck, and he was jammed in so tieht that we could not possibly remove him without more assistance. We had nothing to work with, only one axe having been taken out of the cars, and that was broken and of little use.

The flames bad already reached bis feet, and his cries io help were heartrending, I can assure you. There was absolutely nothing we could do to help him notathing In which we could get any water, and if there had been there was not a drop nearer than a mite, for the creek at that point was at least that far away. I pulled at the debris until I burned my left band so severely that I have used it but very little since." and the speaker held up his hand, which I saw was badly scarred. We worked try ins to save him until the Are drove us back. His appeals were some- ing terrible to hear, aud he begged us again and again to shoot him.

This, of course, no one would do, although it would have been the thing to put him out of his misery. "But jnst then help came to bim. "From tbe side of tbe track in the darkness, for it was an inky night, appeared a slender figure in white. It came np without a sound. I stood where I could see her very plainly, for the figure was' that of a young woman.

Her face was ashen her features perfect, and I recognized at once in her features the photograph my young friend had shown me on the trajn. She glided up to where the victim lay; we beard tbe sharp report of a pistol and tbe appatition vanished instantly. I just had time to see the poor fellow before the flames closed over htm, and there was a bullet hole itt his forehead. He was dead. The flames rushed over him and I turned away.

"The next day from ont tbe ruins we took bii remains. Theskull was badly charred, but in it was a hole like that made by a ball, and inside of the remains of the skull was a small piece of molten led. I went to the telegraph office, only a few miles down the track, aud telographed to the girl, whose name and address he had fortunately given me. An answer came from the girl's father, stating that steps would at once be taken for the proper care of tbe remains, and that they would be taken back to tbe Old Dominion. From there I went home.

Only a short while after that and I was compelled to make another trip to Virginia. While in the State I chanced to pass through the town where the prospective father-in-law of the young man resided, and so I took the liberty of calling at his home, knowing that they would no donbt like to hear about tbe accident in which the young man met so untimely an end. 1 he old gentleman was at borne and very glad to see me. I told bim all the circumstances of the strange event that had taken place. When I was through he went into ansther room and brought out a small pistol and said be had no donbt that was tbe weapon that put Harry, as he called him, out ot misery.

He said that the night before the accident occurred his daughter, tue lady to whom my young acquaintance was engaged, was taken suddenly ill and died before morning. On the table in her room was this small, ivory-handled pistol, which her fiance had presented to her before he left. It was loaded. The morning after the accident one cartridge was found to have been exploded, and no one could possibly account for the curious happening, as the pistol bad not been touched bv any one after tbe young lady's death. I had the little lump of lcid which I found in the uniortunato young man's skull, and we weighed it aud also ono of tbe pistol balls, and after careful examination they were found to be of exactly tbe same calibre." My companion paused for a moment and CALLS HIM A CUR AND A QUITTER Glori Says Ee is Hot Through With the Champion Middle-weight Yet and Ends Up His Tirade by Accusing Him of Being Henpecked Dixon Describes His Favorite Ways of Boxing What the Leaders Are Doing in the Various Lines of Sports.

Captain Glori. "Fitz's" manager, gave the Australian pugilist quite a going oer to a St. Louis newspaperman. Among other things he said Let me tell yon how this cur Fitz-Biramons treated me. When he came to me last winter in Newark he had not money enough to buy a meal.

I was Captain of the Police at the time. I fed him at my house and allowed him to sleep at the police Btation. "You may think this is an exaggeration, but it's God's own troth. I took the fellow up and put clothes on him. I wrote tho articles of agreement that got him what was ostensibly $4,500 for whipping Creedon.

It will be news to Colonel Hopkins and the general public to know that President Scholl, of the Olympic Club, through my intercession, gave this fellow another $1,000. making his share of the purse $5,600 altogether." "1 also drew up the articles of agreement for the Corbett fight, which pat Fitzsimmons in a position to do what he never did before draw crowds to see his show. On former starring tours he could not draw flies. Why, his last appearance in Milwaukee brought him $2,000 more than the preceding one made last year. He bas sot the big head.

He thinks that it is Fitzsimmons that brings the crowds, and hasn't sense enough to know that he owes his present prominence solely to the fact that he is matched with Corbett. Corbett' name is what attracts the people. I tell you this fellow is a rank quitter, that imposes upon the public by linking his name with that of an hones" fighter like Corbett. But I'll teach the hound manners. I'll run him out of this country.

He will learn before he is through with me that be cannot break laws of tho United States as he does Marquis of Queens-berry rules. He may use uniair blows with impunity, bnt he will and must respect bis cod met with me. Whatever little popularity he may possess ho owes entirely to my efforts in his behalf. I worked for his interests like a slave. I got him out of the Riordan trouble, for which, to tell the truth, be was not altogether to blame.

Yon may say that Mrs. Fitzsimmons may be able to dominate her her husband, but she cannot run me. She is the prime cause of all this trouble. She thinks Fitzsimmons is a great drawing card, and wants to manage his company. But she will have to wait until I get through with him." "My favorite blow is a swinging left for the kidneys," says Champion George E.

Dixon, "as most men are weak at that point. and if you land properly the man is sure to weaken, and that will lower bis bands and leave bis jow exposed, and you may be ablo to laud the knock-out properly without dan-gerof hurting yonr hands. My rushes have a tendency to worry my opponent, as he does not know when I will make them, so I change my tactics according to the way my opponent meets me. I stand at guard, my left extended and feint with my left. At the same time I draw my left foot back to my Tight, which increases the distance between my opponent and me, and my opponent thinks I am about to retreat and will generally follow.

That is tbe time I stop in with my left foot generally, swinging my left, and if my opponent is not steady and clever I generally land on his kidneys and follow either with a right cross-counter or swinging right, and is sure to land." "Of course, the right has not tbe same speed as if a man led to yon and you crossed him, I would prefer to land on a man's body, especially about the kidneys or in tbe pit of the stomach. It does not matter whether a man has his back to me or not, his kidneys are exposed. I prefer to play for the body, unless, as I said, the jaw is exposed. I prefer a man that will come and fight and make play, and not one who fights on the defensive or who runs away. I like a rusher, us I am sure to whip him quick, as I I can outpunch any man my weight or twenty pounds heavier.

The only rusher I ever met was Willis, of Australia. He was my own weight. 115 pounds, and I beat him in five rounds. It took Griffo thirty rounds to whip him. It does not matter to me whether a man fights at long range or close quarters, as I feel at home in both.

My best weight at present would bo 116 pounds, but it depends on the weather, as on a cIobo day I could weight 114 and retain my strength. I have bad forty flhisb fights and have always knocked my man out" Lawn tennis promises to take high rank as au outdoor Bport tbe coming season. The game boomed from Maine to California last year, and the interest thus awakened has ap parently revived national as well as local in terest in the pretty outdoor pastime. The great revival of interest may be ascribed in part to the shaking up administered to Ameri can players last year by M. F.

Goodbody, the player, who led our cracks a merry'; 'dance. The attendance last season was phenomenally large. Already matches are being talked of. and the summer promises to be a memorable one in the history of the sport. The ranking of the players for the season has been made according to a now system, and the first ten is a thing of the past.

The National Lawn Tennis Association has decided to adopt the English system of dividing the stronger players into classes. Tbe champion and five other players are placed in the scratch class, and the other prominent men are placed in "quarter-fifteen." half-fifteen, three-quarterB-fifteen and lower classes, thd idea being to show the relative strength of the players more clearly than the old system of individual ranking could do. Tesans are funny people. The Galveston Athletic Club has just pulled off a finish fifight between Dan Creedon and Herman Bernau. in which his Lone Star slob was put to sleep in two rounds.

Over at Fort Worth, where the same law is in force, Kid Lewis has been sent to jail for sixty days and fined $500 for scrapping, while two other pugs are awaiting their turn for trial "Reddy" Gallagher and Henry Bohanan. In Galveston a boxer is permitted to walk on the crust of so'iety and at Foit Worth he is lucky if he escapes tbe workhouse. Consistency is a jewel that bas been picked out of Texas' crown by somebody who used a crow-bar. Fitzsimmons recently gave an exhibition at Quincy, and a local word painter drew this picture of the Australian "Professor Robert de Fitz Simmons, the eminent fin virtuoso, appeared to a big audience at the Empire last night. The professor has ears like tbe wings on Reuben's cherubs.

It looks as if it would be an easy task for Professor Corbett to take his ears in hand and bold him against the wall while he hammers his face till it looks like an autopsy. He has joints like a stouepipe and arms like dray stakes. He wears at tbe south end of each arm a hand which resembles a porter-bouse roast in arena and form. He would never do to pose as a physical model before tbe academy be looks as if be slept in a folding bed. "As a bug-puncher he isBomewhatof a success.

He has an inflated pigskin on which is painted tbe features of Pompadour Jim. This is strung up by a rope, and Fitzsimmons slugs it until it is flickering through I the air with the animated movement of a i Waterbury watch. This bag-pounding business is the only feature of the Fitzsimmons I HAVE YOU READ THIS MORNING? MAKING A GENTLEMAN OF HIM That Was All Right for the Boy, But His Mother Was Mad. From tbe New York Press. The stout woman in furs and diamond earringsof course, diamond earrings are the height of bad form just now plumped into one of the crosswise seats on the Sixth avenue elevated train which left Fourteenth street at 4.35 P.

M. yesterday, and pushed a small boy into the seat opposite her and next to me. A shop girl with a bundle had expected to take that seat, but the indulgent mother was too swift for her. Perhaps men who have children of their own don't meddle with those belonging to other people, but I put my arm around the small boy's waist and lifter him off the seat and said Now, take off your hat and offer your seat to that young lady." The small boy promptly ran between his mother's knees, the young girl crimsoned and hesitated and the stout woman flushed ourple. The experiment seemed to be a failure, but the irl was clearlv entitled to the seat, and so I looked at her and smiled encouragingly and she sat down.

Then the stout woman abused me to my great mortification and the amusement of the whole crowd. "And let me tell yon, sir," she finished, don't you ever meddle with other people's children again." Madame," said I firmly, "if mothers don't train their sons to grow up as gentlemen some one else ought to. How do you expect that boy to respect his mother's sex when his mother sets him the example of despising women's claims to courtesy." The College-Bred Sister. She has just returned from college, where she studied each improvement which has ben achieved in learning and in scientific lore. She has stored her mind with knowledge vast enough to start a college, but she cannot carve a cmcjten without mussing up the floor.

She writes philippics and stories, and in thoughts poetic glories, and talks "universal suffrage in a way that strikes one dumb With undisguised admiration at her learned in Bpi ration, but she cannot darn her stockings without boring through her thumb. She's a crank on household neatness and will frown with pouting sweetness should my shoes mud splashes scatter on the polished hallway floor. But she thinks not of demurring when her pet cat comes a-purrinjr, and with arched back rubs the varnish on" the panels of the door. She will frown if I say "ain't he," and on grammar lecture to me until my poor head is swimming with the strict rules of syntax. But she'll listen with great relish when her beau talks baby English, and get mad should I hint gently that his Ferris wheel is lax.

she is a pearl, a treasure, this sweet sis, with eyes of azure, and I'm sure she'll make a record as a happy mortal's wife. But I warn the swain aspiring that she'll boss with sway untiring, and will make him walk a chalked line for the balance of his life. New Orleans Picayune. A Knock-Down Argument. From the JCew York Weeklv.

Skeptic You have given me many messages from departed friends, but not one of them boa told me anything I didn't know." Medium (with dignity) I would have you understand, sir, that the spirits of the dead have something better to do than to come back to earth and teach school." A Model Baby. From the Lewlston Journal. An exchange tells of a 3-year-old Newport cherub who, after keeping "assttll as a mouse" during the good pastor's last Sunday sermon, which continued for something over an hour, looked up in his mother's face with an earnest yet hopeful look, and exclaimed Is ha all done, mamma?" Even the minister smiled. The Longest Words. From the Student.

Below are the nine longest words in the English language at the present writing Subconstitutionalist. Incomprehensibility. Philoprogenitivenens. Honorificihilitudinity. Anthrojiophagenarian.

lisproportionableness. Velocipedestrianistical. Transubstantiationahleness. Proantitransubstantiationist A Changed Programme. From Good News.

First Foot-Bailer Did Halfback go around and wallop that editor who wrote about The Brutality of Foot-Ball Second Foot-Bnller "No." First Foot-Bailer" Why not?" Second Foot-Baller Halfback is in the hospital." Satiated. From Good News. First Boy" Did yeh have plenty of nice things eat at that party?" Second Boy" Did we? We had such loads of everything that w'en Mrs. Goodsoul gave me some iced cake to take to my mother I didn't even lick it going home." Johnny's Theory. From Good News.

Bobby. Our dog's name is Cicero, but since brother has been to college he calls it Kick- Johnny" I a1 pose that's the way they pronounce it at college. They're all crazy on the Saginaw boy has a host of friends who i would play him to defeat tbe Antipodean. Although probably not so scientific a boxer, Lavigne is a much harder bitter than Grifib, and be has a constitution that enables him to go through a long-drawn grueling mill. His recuperative powers are marvelous, and, as the Australian does not punch Hard enougn to put him out, the American would ultimately wear out his opponent and win.

I will require the members of the police, the fire and every other department of the city government abstention from all display of party feeling or interest and from every manner of interference in political affairs. I will require of them constant, impartial and fearless exercise of their duties to the public. Paulson's Letter of Acceptance. HOW TO GET A PIN CHEAP Put Yourself Into the Hads of a Bowery Thief and Fiiid Out. From tbe New York Hun.

"If ever an opal brings hard luck that one ought to," said the slim youth as he touched the opal pin, Bet with four email diamonds, that showed its changing colors in his white scarf. for it was given to me by a thief, who bought it from a cross-eyed clerk in a Bowery store, and I committed a felony to get it." By dint of listening attentively to all the slim youth's stories, the little circle at the concert liall table had succeeded in imbibing several rounds of drinks at his expense, and it was with the hope of getting another round that they eagerly assured him of their keen impatience to hear all about it. It's a cinch to get what you want in this line down there on the Bowery," continued the owner of the opal oracularly. "All you've got to do is to wear a SI. 50 scarf-pin half out of your tie and look into the show window until come crook comes along and pinches it.

Then, if you're fly, you're fixed. I was fly, and that opal is what I got out of it. You see, 1 was down the Hoivery one night looking out to piek up anything good I might fee in the hock whops. If you're fly you can very often get pood bargains there. Veil, I had a cheap gold pin in my tie.

Might have cost 2.50 imiybe and I suppose it must Juive worked loose, for i while I was looking in at a window an arm clipped over my shoulder and a hand pinched out the pin. I might never have noticed It, but the crook's arm brushed my neck and I was on in a minute, lie set out up the ISowery as fast as he could work his legs, with me after him. When it comes to a sprint I'm right in it and I nailed him before we'd run a hundred yards. I jumped on him from behind and we both went down and there was a pretty lively little scrap rielit there on the sidewalk, when up came a con and hauled us apart By good luck I knew tle cop and 1 said: 'This chap pinched my scarf-pin, Andy, while I was standing looking in at a Andy looked at the crook and said Oh, It's you, i it, Dorsey Doyle? I heard you were on the lav around here. Come, now, where's the I give it de the crook said.

'You won't never get We'i: nail yon, said the cop. 'This is a State's prison job for you, Dorsey. Come along to the station house, he said to me, 'and make a complaint against It was a straight ease against the crook, and he hadn't a show on earth. He knew it, too, and before we got far he weakened and said to me: 'Hay, young feller, I'm up against it here, see? An' 1 wan ter square it, see? If yer go against me it's de cold, oold stones fer Dorsey fer a couple sure, but if yer pull oft' th' case it's only a sixer on the Island, Why should I let up on you when you lost me a good pin I asked him. "'That's just he said.

'Yer don't lose nothin', see? If yer pull off, me fren's gits in th' game, an' they puts up any sticker you find on th' Bowery, see? Yer gits it now, too, if th' Captain here'll on'y walk us back to th' Bowery. Anyt'ing yer wants in th' line is your' if yer won't go up Against Well, of course I was fly enough to know what that meant. It was simply a case of my not appearing against him in the police court, so that instead of getting a Slate prison sentence he would only be sent to the Island as a professional crook, and for that I was to pick out any pin I wanted on the Bowery. That was compounding; a felony, and I knew it; but my conscience wasn't very active just then, and Andy the cop said to me 'That's about the best thing yoxt can do, Bill. Yon can get a good pin out of it, and any other way it's a dean "So we turned back Into the Bowery atd walked along until Dorsey Doyle found a couple of pals of his.

They had a minute's talk, and then told me to to come with them. We went to a pawn shop on the Bowery, while Andy took his prisoner to the station. The two pals of Doyle told the pawnbroker to bring out some scarf-pins. Trot out de real stuff, they said. Dis am no cinch.

It a dead straight "The pawnbroker, who was the most crosseyed man I ever saw, brought out a lot of good pins, and I picked out the pin you see me wearing now. It was $45. I thought the two crooks would kick on that, but one of them brought out a foil and paid without a murmur. they left me one of them said Now, young feller, we've been on de dead wld An we want de same game from youse. If you go up against Dorsey we'll do yer, sure, if it takes ten year.

Dat's all. An' say, if yer was gimme de Bowery Bank an' evcryt'ing in it I wouldn't wear a opal dat a cross-eyed mug sold t' me. See But the opal never brought me any bad luck. Dorsey Doyle got his six months and served out his time on the Island. I haven't seen him since, nor his pals either.

But I tell you what, if a man's fly he falls into all sorts of soft snaps." And the slim young man, after ordering another round, paid a reckoning of S3. 60 for drinks, and went away still thinking that he whs as fly as ever, in blissful unconsciousness of the broad grin that went around the table on his departure. Ice Yachts Race for the Pennant. Special Telegram to Thk Timics. Red Bank, N.

February 2. The Georgie and Daisy, third-class yachts of the North Shrewsbury Ice Yacht Club, sailed a race this afternoon for the challenge pennant in their class. The distance sailed was eight miles over the regular elub course. The wind blew hard from the north. The river is covered by about three inches of snow, and the yachts were almost invisible, caused by the flying of the white flakes.

The Georgie won easily in 37 minutes, beating the Daisy so badly that she did not finish. The Georgie is probably the fastest yacht in this country for her size, and for eleven years has held the pennant. A Happy Fellow. From the meadow where I sit, See a sky o' blue God was six days paintin' it Jest fer mo an' you. Every time it strikes my eye Ikeepsayin': There's your sky! Blue an' bendin' An' unendin' So I sing, an' never sigh.

Sunshine over bills an' glen-Birds in every tree; When God made the country, ten Acres came to me I Every time it blossoms fair 1 keep savin': That's your share! Koses growin', Itivers flowfnM" So, I'm happy everywhere! Spring or winter, rain or shine Don't keer where I'm at, So much o' the country's mine Praise the Lord fer that! Sky an' meadow high or low, 1 keep savin' as I go There's your birthright!" Got the earth right That's why I'm a-singing so Frank tfianton in Truth, a is OPPORTUNITY! MORE WEEK at $1.00 FINE DERBY AND SOFT HATS At $1.00 Each 8,000 sold, 2,000 yet to sell. WELLS, 9191323 MARKET ST..