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PITCHER FISHER. A ONE-ARMED EXPERT. I THE DAILY TRIBUHE. BEAUTY THEUt CHARM I SCIATIC RHEUMATISM AliO ITS CUBE. From the Gazette, Burlington, low.

The etory of Mr. Tabor's nearly fatal attack of sciatic rheumatism is familiar -to his large circle of acquaintances, but -for the benefit of others and those similarly afflicted The Gazette has tnvesti- grated the matter for publication. Olive, now' woman-grown almost, anl without the beauty of Elsie Leslie, possesses a charm of which there is no question. Her piquant face reminds one of Mary Cary, in the days of her popularity. It has the same winsome-ness, and the same suggestion of emotion just below the surface of a merry expression.

It will be most interesting to watch the future of these two when they get back into the theater, if thejr ever do. One was a great success, the other not a failure How will the case stand in the future? What a pity it is that beauty and success do not always go together. Of all the women who were added this season to the company of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, none were heralded as great beauties but Frances Sa-ville, who was to sing Nellie Melba's roles until that singer's concert tour ended, and Lola Beeth, for some years a favorite at the Vienna Opera House. Neither woman has excited any enthusiasm as a singer. Saville made her debut as Juliet on the opening night of the season, and Lola Beeth appeared as Elsa in "Lohengrin," December 2, 1895.

Lola Beeth has been successful in Austria and Germany, and is one of the few German singers who have been heard in Paris. The roles in which she is best known in Europe are, Elsa in "Lohengrin," Venus in "Tannhauser," Senta in "The Flying Dutchman'and it was as Venus that she made her great success in Paris. Personally Fraulien Beeth has realized all the tales of her beauty. In New York they declare her a perfect Juno young, graceful and divinely tall. As a singer she has not come up to the hopes aroused.

She has a pretty voice. All the New York critics owned that. "But," said an eminent writer, "if the singer would only refrain from using the vibrato, which in her case is so pronounced that I took it for a tremolo! An eminent laryngologist informed me that it was a vibrato pure and simple, and for reasons it would take columns to tell." Yet, every New York Sketch of a New Star In the National Jagre Constellation. C. B.

Fisher, a pitcher, who was loaned to the Indianapolis team, of the Western league, during the past season, by the Cincinnati club, of the National league and American association, was born Jan. 8, 1872, at Anderson, and learned to play ball at an early age in and around his native place. His first regular engagement was with the professional team that represented Anderson in the Indiana State League during the season of 1890, and his excellent work that season helped his club to win the championship of its league. In 1891 he played with the Appleton team, of the Wisconsin league, and the club fin ished second in the championship race. In 1892 he joined the Oshkosh club, of the same league.

He began the season of 1893 with the Easton club, of the Pennsylvania State league, and out of fifteen games, in which he filled the po sition of pitcher, he won all except one. This record attracted Manager Chapman, who was then in charge of the Buffalo team, of the Eastern league, and he obtained his release from Buffalo in June, and he finished out the season with that club, taking part in thirty- seven championship games, and his ex ceptionally good work for the Bisons justly brought him prominently into the baseball world. The major league man agers, ever on the alert for promising young material, made a bid for his serv ices, Manager Tebeau, of the Cleveland club, being the first to put in a claim for him. Tebeau went to Buffalo and wanted Fisher to go at once to Cleveland, but the pitcher would not do so until he had seen President Franklin and Manager Chapman. After carefully considering the matter, the Buffalo magnates consented to let him go for a monetary consideration.

In 1894 he began the season with the Cleveland club, of the National league and American association, but finished it with the Cincinnati team, of he same league. He was reserved by the Cincinnati club for the season of 1895, but was loaned to the Indianapolis team, of the Western league, taking part during the past season in fifty-two championship contests, and ranking second in official pitching averages of that league. His superb pitching greatly aided the Indianapolis club in winning last year's Western league pennant. Fisher has been credited with a number of noteworthy pitching feats during the past few years. Among the most prominent of these occurred while connected with the Buffalo and Indianapolis teams.

While with the former he prevented three different teams from scoring a run in as many championship games. The last of the three took place on Aug. 31, at Buffalo, N. against the Troy club. It required twelve innings before a result was reached.

Both teams were blanked up to the twelfth inning, when the Buffalos managed to get in the only and winning run. The losers made only three scattering hits off Fisher. C. B. FISHER.

On July 7, at Providence, R. the Providence team made only two safe hits off Fisher, but succeeded in defeating the Buffalos by 4 to 3, although the latter were credited with seven safe hits. One of his best performances during the past season was preventing the St. Paul team from making more than two safe hits off him, June 10, at St. Paul, Minn.

yet the latter won by 2 to 1, although Indianapolis was credited with seven safe hits. On May 25, at Indianapolis, the Milwaukees made only four safe hits off him, Indianapolis winning by a score of 12 to 4. Fisher held the Kansas Citys down to four safe hits July 6, at Indianapolis, the home team winning by a score of 3 to 1. THE DIAMOND. Harvey Watkins has selected the Fair ground at Jacksonville, as the training place for the Giants next spring.

Charley Hoyt admits that he was only in jest when he told the Louisville sports he would buy their club and put Anson in charge. Tom Brown has sold his saloon at Louisville, and thinks of going to Bos- to spend the rest of the winter be fore reporting at Washington. Mr. Freedman says his $10,000 offer for Lange is so little of a bluff, as has been alleged, that the Chicago club dare not call it. The veteran manager, Jack Chapman, and ex-Umpire Betts are said to be numbered among the applicants for the managership of the Virginia league.

Mr. Freedman asks Anson for bread and Anson offers, him a stone. A offer for Lange was simply answered by a proffer of Jimmy Ryan for $6,500. Latham will captain the St. Louis team next season.

With Arlie and the Republican National convention St. Louis should get a good deal of fun out of 1896. The Pittsburg Club has obtained Short Stop Ely's release from the St. 1 Louis team, in exchange for players IHart and Cross and a moneyed consideration. G.

M. DEWEY, Publisher. FRED. P. CONE, Business BTjcr.

CHANUTE, KANSAS. Chief Tall of the Osages was reported to be short in his accounts last week. Says the Wichita Eagle: "We do not like England In anything." How about the bottom 'Of the tureen? Milwaukee editors are talking of fighting a duel. This will doubtless be accomplished by putting shot in their fnk-wells. Hour by hour, fellow-citizens, we ars toeing- remorselessly brought nearer to ihe time when the straw-ballot fiend will have his quadrennial1, attack.

If President Kruger's pictures In the papers are accurate we believe the gold brick operators have overlooked a fine vu awa vpuauuu 111 lilC XiAllSVcLcLl Occasionally there is something in name. A man named Fleod wanted to be put on the water commission in Boston and the mayor would not have it. It Is said that It takes money to get into the United States senate. This may be why Congressman H. D.

Money has been chosen by the Mississippi legislature. A St. Paul typewriter has been sued for $12,575 damages for alienating a husband's affections. The St. Paul key-pounder in action on the affections must be a terror.

1 That Troy paper which thinks that "all will ride bicycles hereafter," perhaps will admit that a large proportion of the riders probably will have to be classed as "scorchers." Bull fighting seems to be a profitable profession. Guerrita, the most famous Spaniard in that line, appeared in seventy-seven fights last year, for which he received $1,200 for each performance. Paderewski has a magnificent touch; there can be no doubt of that. Thirteen thousand five hundred dollars for twc matinee recitals! There's nothing the matter with that sort of box office technique. "First catch your flea." This advice is to the new.

governor-general of Cuba who gives it out that he will proceed at once to crush the insurgents. Campos announced his plans in very much the came language. A man who died in Chicago the other day left a letter to be sent to his sister, whose name he confessed he didn't know. The old adage, that it is a wise man who knows his own father, will have to be brought up to date. A Chicago man was offered $60 to kill a reputable citizen.

Instead of asking the intended victim how much he would give not to be killed, the first man reported the offer to the police. Yet we hear that Chlcagoans are enterprising. I Railway construction in Japan, temporarily interrupted by the is again active. "A sum of $22,000,000 has been voted for the construction of a double line, 37ft miles long, between Tokio and Kobe, passing through the principai commercial and industrial centers of Japan, Yokohama, Kioto and Cs aka." The New York board of health recommends that notices be placed in all public places, in surface and elevated cars, public halls and assem bly rooms, warning everybody against expectoration on the floors. The doctors say that consumption, diphtheria, influenza, and other diseases are easily communicated in this way during certain stages of the disease.

Catarrhal affections may be communicated through dried spittle mixing with dust. These germs are likely to be gathered on the feet and on the skirts of women and taken into private houses, where the most perfect ventilation will not stay their evil effects. Reports from various southern points east of the Mississippi show a remarkable tide of immigration from" the northwest to the south since the holidays. A number of minor industries are being located in the south by western people. Representatives of the various professions from the northwest are looking for new locations in the south, and current events seem to favor a close political and industrial alliance of the south and the northwest.

Nc fewer than 500 land agents have gone from the southern states to the northwest since Jan. 1 for the purpose of presenting the advantages of different localities and inducing home-seekers to locate in the south, A large per cent oi the settlers are Grcnd Army men, and this fact will show a heavy increase in the pension payments for the next year in the southern states. David Hammel, of New Jersey, returned to his family the other day after thirty years' absence. In 1866 he supported a republican for governor, quarreled with his wife and left her. He vowed never to return until a republican was governor, an event that happened with the inauguration of Gov.

Griggs some days ago. Hammel, it Is said, has had at times to live on acorns, but he kept his vow. Report says he was received with rejoicings and applejack, but Mrs Hammel is likely to regret that the staU did not remain HILDA MAUDE ITCHING CHAMPION TENNIS PLAYER. Won the Title of Champion at the Recent Tournament and Has Entered for This Tear's A2j Plaj-In last season's tennis tournament in New Zealand one of the players entered was Miss Hilda Maude Hitch-ings. The appearance of her name in the list of contestants caused no particular comment among those out side her circle of immediate acquaintances, but when it came to her turn to play universal astonishment was expressed at the discovery that she had but one arm.

Her first game had hardly been begun, however, before the spectators and all other players saw that Miss Hitchings was a formidable competltor.srwith three fingers of her only hancft she held the racquet, the ball being held with the finger and thumb. A slight toss of the ball, followed by a smart, twisty tap with the racquet results in a fast low service, which the opposing players HILDA HITCHINGS. found anything but easy to take. She was easily victorious in her first game, which was followed by a series of winnings, entitling her to the championship. Her success was a most popular one, and was the subject of much comment in view of her heavy handicap through physical infirmity.

Miss Hitchings is of unusual height for a woman 5 feet 11 inches. This commanding stature and long reach, combined with accurate placing and great activity, enabled Miss Hitchings to land the chief tennis honors of New Zealand. This was accompanied by a handsome cup sent to the players of the colony by a London firm. In the coming annual tournament Miss Hitch-igs will have to contest against a lady well known on English lawns, and great interest is centered in the match. Besides her tennis ability the New Zealand champion is noted for her dexterity in everything she undertakes and especially with her needle.

Her victory jat the tournament last year was nearly as much of a surprise to the winner as to anyone else. Miss Hitchings had, of course, more than held her own among tennis players of her acquaintance, but hardly expected to be "in it" in the finals. SHE IS A TRICK SKATER. Mabel Davidson and Her Way of Earn ins: a Living. Women have danced or sung them selves into the hearts of the public.

Now comes one who has skated herself there. Her name is Mabel Davidson, though most people don't seem to know it, for old and young call her Little Mabel She closed a two weeks' engagement at a New York rink several days ago, but she continues to go there every day to do a few tricks to keep herself in training, and her appearance is the signal for everybody to get out of the way and give her room to work. This the merry skaters are more than will ing to do, for they believe her to be the finest trick skater in the world, and MABEL DAVIDSON. think that every exhibition is different from all that went before. 'What a Genius A genius has invented a contrivance which he calls a tack catcher for bi cycles.

When a pneumatic tire picks up a tack the tack does not penetrate Tery deeply at first, but is forced rather into the fabric with every revolution of the wheel, until the inner tube is punctured. The device to prevent this consists of a curved, comb-like piece of metal armed with pointed teeth and extending backward from the surface of the tire. The teeth are Intended to engage with the tack as soon as it enters the tire, and extract It. rt i ELSIE LESLIE AND LOLA BEETH ARE FASCINATORS. The Former May Return to the Stage After Several Tears' of Private Life The Beautiful Vienna Girl Now in New York.

one can have forgotten Elsie Leslie. The child actress, whose art was so conspicuous as to make her between the autumn of 18S7 and the summer of 1890 as strong a drawing-card a any star in the held, is easily re called, says a writer in the Nickell Magazine. It was at the conclusion of the great success of "Prince and a dramatization by Abby Sage Richardson of Mark Twain's fascinating children's stories, that Elsie Leslie disappeared, and in a short time her name ceased to be discoved in print. The clever child was somewhat older than, for professional reasons, had been acknowledged, and during the run of "Prince and Pauper" she shot, up in stature, and waxed languid, as girls just emerging from childhood will, and having also waxed rich for a child, managers and doctors agreed that for the sake of the future it was wise that she should retire and devote the next few years to a natural life and her education. She was, as one might say, between grass and hay.

There was no place in the theater for her. It was never for a moment hinted that the retirement was more than temporary, and among players who had acted with her, it was a grave question, often discussed, what turn her mature talents would take. Would she be, as many fancied, a comedienne, or would ELSIE she be an emotional actress? Or, like many a prodigy, would she turn out to be uninteresting when she returned to the theater? This question will interest the public deeply if, as it is rumored, she will soon return to the stage. Her case will be unique. The stage has actresses who, like Ellen Terry, Madge Kendal, Mrs.

Bancroft, Annie Clarke and Minnie Maddern Fiske.have been in the theater from childhood to womanhood, but none of those players were other than rather precocious children, doing very well the little that fell to them. They were not stars of LOLA BEETH. the first magnitude in the way of popularity and financial succeess. This picture of Elsie Leslie Lyde will be studied with deep interest. Is there in its beauty anything more than the sweet charm of young womanhood? Does there lurk any depth of feeling in those big eyes, or in that gentle mouth? Is there a humorous sprite behind that calm, rather elegant beauty? One is afraid to answer.

There is another little player of her time, another relic of the Fauntleroy craze, who Is yet likely to face the footlights again Olive Homans. Little mm the Commercial Printing witn otnecs in ne ueage liiock, ana resides at 417 Bas3t Street, Burlington; Iowa. A Gazette man sought an Inter- view with Mr. Tabor at his place of business to-d'iy, and although he was -busily engaged with Imperative duties, he talked freely and feelingly on the; subject of his recent severe sickness and subsequent wonderful cure. les, saia jut.

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At length under the constant care of a local physician I was enabled to return to my work, but only at inter- -vals. Severe attacks would appear reg ularly in my back and descend into my: leg and foot, and threatened to make me- a permanent cripple. I tried various remedies for rheumatism, but without and haggard, and my family grew alarmed at my -condition. "About eight weeks ago my mother Induced me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and you know the; result.

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The. total mineral production cV the last fiscal year wasS7i.26l.000. LESLIE. writer gets back to the same admision "After all, she is a beauty." THE STAGE. While playing in "The Heart ol Maryland" Mrs.

Leslie Carter accidentally stabbed John Kellard with a bayonet, inflicting a wound in his right side which necessitated several stitches, but which is not considered dangerous. She "What, a real locomotive with a real whistle on the stage? Wasn't the noise deafening? Him "I didn't notice it particulary. I was sitting behind a theater party." Indianapolis Journal. It is Mme. Janauschek's Intention to retire from the stage and devote the remaining years of her life to writing.

She has lately had published a number of "Reminiscences" and "Advices to Young Juliets." It is whispered in New York dramatic circles that Fritz Williams and Katherine Florence are engaged. Both are members of the Lyceum stock company. Sir Arthur Sullivan has decided upon Lord Byron's tragedy, "Sardanapalus," as the subject for his grand ballet to be produced next year in London. Mme. Emma Nevada is singing this winter in Philadelphia, where a season of forty nights and ten matinees of grand opera is being given.

Hoyt's "A Trip to Chinatown' will be shifted to Australia June 1, with Harry Connor and Anna Boyd in th? leading roles. A fair soprano was hear to close the Gloria in a church service lately: "World without men, ah, me." Katherine Kidder is to do Rosalind in "As You Like It" in Washington the last week in January. Modjeska is again playing Rosalind and Viola, with Joseph Ha worth as Orlando. Olga Nethersole is becoming as famous as Emma Abbott for her stage kiss. Jennie Yeamans and her mother may appear together next season.

Patti's farewell concerts are much adieu about nothing. New York World..