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Show 1 1 i !ME 1 ISA LEARNED WOMAN AND THE NATURALIST MAN Her Caadltlua la tha l'at l:eaed T a t'ullrgo 1'ijfwor. To study women from a zoological standpoint may seem dlHtasteful, as lacking In aentlmeut, but It la probably the only rational method, snya an exchange. Hr. W. K. llrooks of the Johnz Hopkins university discusses the conditions of woman in the post: Primitive man was, no doubt, an ugly, ferocious brute; but there Is evidence that primitive woman admired hla ferocity and was quite ready to abandon him and follow a more ferocious and even brute with resignation with exultation, if the woman of the heroic age was In constant danger g of slavery under covetous and neighbors, her men-fol- k were, according lo the 'Odyssey," In no less danger of furnishing a bloody meal for dogs. Any delicate and rey would find the fined woman of common life of a woman of the dark ages unendurable. The women of the dark ages were not overrefined nor, for that matter, were those in the time of good Queen Hess, and the life of either of these periods would be misery and wretchedness to the men of the nineteenth century as well as to the women. Those who talk of the subjection of woman to inan'a dominion, and her emancipation from his tyranny, forget that during historical times the whole human race has Improved in the virtues of and humanity and that, even If there has as yet been no material progress In disinterestedness, selfishness has unquestionably become more enlightened and broad-mindeInstead oi being something wrested from man, the improvement of the condition of woman Is only one aspect of that progress which benefits all the young, the mature, the aged, women and men alike. Man has not deliberately worked out bis desHe has been shaped and continy. trolled by Inlluencea of which he has for the most part totally Ignor-a- " b Influences which are purely nature:, shining like the sun on llie evil sal the good and descending like rain oi the Just and unjust; and woman, lll.e man, has had her part in the whole history of our race. editor op the chi- the new CAGO ADVANCE. j I Kt Dr. Thai Bwratlj Chasm ta tha Paaltlaa af Editorial Dlraelor af tha a Dlslla- Congregational FablL-allogaUhad Thaolrglaa. J I I t A. R. haa been made editor of the Advance, the Congregational weekly publiabed In Chicago. Dr. Thaln la one of the moat can pable and EV. DIL Thaln life-lon- able-bodi- best-knof- Congregaminlatera In tional the country. He haa had a long and a happy career in the minlairy, and bid great ability aa a thinker, preacher and minister hna to-da- been recognized wherever he haa lived and worked. The doctor la a native Scotland, and haa all the sturdy, of self-relia- nt and sterling qualities of hia He came to America with hla family when he was 4 years old, and hie father settled on a farm lit Lake County, Illinois. Reared In the open air, working upon the farm when his years warranted the Ihhor from him, he grew in robust and rugged health morally. and physically. He was with Grant and Sherman as a soldier In the Illinois volunteers, and Nlnety-alzt- h did active campaign service for three 'years. After the war Hr. Thaln tried a commercial life, but left that pursuit to turn to the ministry, for whlrb he felt he had a distinct calling. He entered the Chicago Theological Seminary, and when he emerged from hla studies In that Institution he took a pastorate at Turner Junction, III. Thence he went to the' Dundee (111.) race. d. hard-heurle- church, and next to the First Church of Christ at Galesburg. That was In 1877, and Dr. Thaln preached to that charge for twelve years. Whllo at Galesburg he was associated with Knox college, and hie work among the students was gratifying to himself and the members of hla church. He Is now a corporate member of tho American board, an active supporter of all the Congregational aorlelles, and his advice and counsel are much prized. American Hardwood la Europe. The demand fur American hardwoods In Europe Is growing, and onk leads the although tulip, foreign shipments, poplar, ash, gum and black walnut, whenever a good quality ran be secured, are In some demand. European consumers like the quality of American oak, and, since it Is known to be plentl-fhere, it will probably be In Increasing demand. Cottonwood has been ,aklpped to Germany In considerable (quantities, where cheap wood Is required for furniture and other uses. Much of this lumber Is forwarded fronv New Orleans and since a great pa.t of the oak, ash, poplar, cottonwood and other timbers demanded by the foreign market Is In the southern states. It Is not Improbable that lumber for foreign marketa will be largely shipped In future from the Gulf ports. In speaking of this matter the Northwestern Lumberman says that the European market requires lumber cut of exact thickness and of accurate length, trimmed so as to have the butts square and true. Space for piling in the yards of tha old world is an object, so that random, uneven lengths are objectionable, and. since the foreign bnyer insists that he shall have Just what he bargains for, quality should bn strictly attended to. Garden and Forest hl , A rrophellr (Irani! Ylilrr, When the present sultan of Turkey ascended the throne Ruchdl Dacha, the grand vizier, resigned and refused to listen to any appeal from the sultan to remain In office, lie gave to a confidant the following explanation: It took me ten years to get to the bottom of the character of Abdul Aziz. Ten days have sufllrvd for the penetraSince the tion o' Abdal llamld'a. foundation of tha Turkish empire no man ao atrociously dangerous has ever mounted the throne; the calamities which will overtake Turkey during this reign will far exceed all that are recorded in our country' history. Insist no longer on the withdrawal of my resignation. 1 will not have my asms mixed up with the history of tho demolition of the great empire." Tha Won.!- - (lil, Pruilartloa. The director of the Lulled State Bint estimates the production of gold lor 1896 at $220,000,000. which is seventeen millions larger than last year. There haa been a ateady annual increase since IS'JO, when the output was The I'nlied Stales only $118,848,700. alone expects to contribute worth of gold to the world's supply faring the present year. t ed d Ilnalilful Klnry of Sydney Smith. I.i his "Monographs, Personal and Social, Ixrd Houghton given an anecdote of the Rev. Sydney Smith, for Lht authenticity of which, he says, he will not vouch, but which seems to good enough to be true. On being settled in bis small living In Yorkshire Sydney willingly aaslsted bis neighbour In their clerical duties. On an occas'ou of this kind he dined with the Incumbent on the preceding Saturday and the evening passed In hilarity, the squire, by name Kershaw, being eonsplcuoue for hla loud' enjoyment of the stranger's jokes. "1 am very glad that 1 have amused you," said Mr. Sydney Smith at parting, "but you must not "1 laugh at uy sermon should hope 1 know the difference between here and at church, remarked I aa the gentleman with sharpness. not so sure of that," replied the visitor. T'll bet you a guinea on It," said 'be quire. "Take you. replied the divine. Next day the preacher ascended 1 steps of the pulpit, apparently suffering from a severe cold, wllh hla handkerchief to his face, and at one sueesed" out the name Ker-aha- w several times In various Intonatiooa Till's Ingenious assumption of the readiness with which a man would recog-n't- e hla own name In sounds Imperceptible to the anrs of others proved accurate. The poor gent'etnan burst Into guffaw, to the scandal of the congregation, and the minister, after looking at him with stern reproach, proceeded with hla discourse and won the beL Want to Ho Puhllr Printer. ,To become public printer at Washington Is a laudlble ambition, and with every change of administration candidates for the position appear from many states. Mr. Frellng C. Foster, FUELING C. duet, and "The Interferifig Parrot." Dorothy Morton, who haa .a dear, sweet voffe, makes an attractive geisha, Miss Violet Lloyd, a stranger to New York audiences, acts with much THEATRICAL LETTER. kissing CURRENT SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF STAGE FOLK. freshness, humor and grace, and haa Jumped Into Immediate popularity. The Tbs Prank l pm of Mr. Klrbard Xur part of the Chinaman is cleverly playrir .Nw Play May Baa la ed by Mr. William Sampson. Hla Wow Turk AU Winter Tliu Maryky's "make-up- " la splendid, and he haa considerable humorous talenL Various Kulr - Stags Uimlp. fl.lil-Ulll- . 57 -- jT 7 i 1 Jrk aad tha Hraaatalk. T IS SAID OF The story for Jack and tbe BeanHKhard Mansfield that bis fashion of stalk," Klaw A Erlangers new extravamaking fun spares gance, baa been snatched from various himself least of alL nursery- tales and verses. Jack's sweetOn the walla of Ur. heart was tbe "quite contray Mary," Mane field's house a daughter of Old King Cole, but he In New York are waa not so wholly a merry old soul two large pictures, as not to frown upon the girl's marp b otogrephlc riage to a penniless fellow. So Jack - RJ Tbe first sold Mother Hubbard's cow In order to Mr. get money to buy the magic bean to Mansfield, a book In hand, with a smile plant. When he climbed the stalk In of biles on hie face, sitting In the midst quest of fortune be had Slnbad tbe of an apparently absorbed group of Sailor for a comrade, and tbey found Tbe other the giant married to tbe Old Woman gentlemen and ladies. shows him with an expression of. If Who Lived in a Shoe. possible, even greater delight than heft re, but the entire assemblage about heat of tha Mighty. him wrapped In slumber, and relaxed In Parker's "Seats of uie Gilbert all manner of curios attitudes. a In five acts, aa follows: I., A picture of me reading one of my Mighty" is room at Versailles the Pompadour own. plays to my own company," exis a sort of prologue); II., Court(whiclt Mr. Mansfield. plains yard of tbe Citadel at Quebec; III., Council Chamber at Quebec, and AcL " Muplcatoa end Opera. IV. taken place In the same room, while Col. Henry Maplesun, whose picturAct V. ia In the Treasure Chamber, temesque failure is tbe table talk of music transformed Into a chapel. lovers In all parts of the country, la porarily perhaps tbe most notable of Impressa-rio- e. Hilliards Btorv. The colonel has given tbe people Bob Hilliard tells a good story he of America and England some of the very best opera that they have heard. heard In London last summer. It seems Maplcson Is an English gentleman. Hla that the management of a London groups. represents and you often hear of the onerous duties Imposed on a Brat baseman, yet I notice the old-tiplayers cast an SOME NOTES AND REVIEWS OF envloua eye on that base, and are anxious to locate there when they are skatCURRENT EVENTS. ing around the sere and yellow. A first baseman haa on the whole the softest RWoet of tho (haago la Pltchort Kola snap in the team, providing he Is a aa tha Butting Avorugoo Tha Shot good batsman. 1 regard Doyle, of the Maa Aro tha Bast Button Mow Uaorgo Baltimore team, as almost an Ideal In Tabooa' Ml urn Chadwick Haaorad. hla position, aa he is a splendid bate-ma- n and. base runner, and an aggressive been HERE have player." pjj two radical changes L. I In the rulee of base Honoring Ghadwlrk. ball that have had At the recent meeting of the National a curious effect on League, In Chicago, the delegates I The the game. stopped long enough in their war makt changes In question ing to pass a resolution offered by Mr. the abplitlon Charles 1, 4 were Byrne, of Brooklyn, providing IviJBi of the distinction for a for Mr. Henry Chadwick, pension between the high the nestor of base ball journalism. and low ball, mak- President Young was Instructed to offing any ball good icially apprise the veteran of the between the knee and shoulder, and re- League's action, which he did In the moving the pitchers' position farther following graceful letter: from the batter. Tbe result Is curious Dear Mr. Chadwick: Republics may because It seems to have exactly re- be but the representative versed the former order as to the bat- menungrateful, of our great American game can leadthe all be to used that tery. It prove by their many kind and manly ing batters were big men. Under the acta that they are truly aa great as tha smaller are rules mostly they present of which men. Formerly we expected aa a mat- manly and honorable sport At are the champions. they recognized ter of course to see aoiue big man at offered the head of the list, and for years An- our annual meeting Mr. Byrne a motion, that, in view of your long son, Brouthers, Connor, Kelly, Gore, services In advancing the best interest Dalrymple, Hines and men of that aixe of the game with your ready and able hkd It al ltheir own way. But in recent for such services aa you may and pen, years the smaller men have gone to the front. Burkett, who haa led the hereafter be able to render the PlayRulee Committee, of which Mr. league the past two years with re- ing ia Hart chairman, that the treasurer hi markable averages, Is a small man. authorized and directed to pay you a a who waa poor Jennings, formerly of (50) dollars per month fifty alary batter, and whom Manager Barnle had to release from Louisville for that rea- during the balance of your natural life. me to add son, la now a wonderful batter, though It is hardly necessary for that I heartily supported Mr. Byrne's LitIn else no larger than Burkett tle Billy Keeler, who Is but little big- motion, and It goes without saying that ger than "Tot" Murphy, la one of the It waa unanimously adopted. I can only add that It waa a well hardest hitters In the game. And so aa you examine the records you will 'merited recognition of your long aad see that the majority of the big hitare medium-size- d ters In the game to-dor small men. And this la so, apparently, not because the big men have gone back, for Delehanty, Anson, Thompson, Connor, and such others are till good stickers, but because the mailer men have come forward. The between abolition of the distinction high and low balls affects short men less than the taller, because the former have leu space to guard. THE NATIONAL GAME. 1 y ' ay Player a Miner. Pat Tebeau has Just received a letter from his brother George, who Is hunting gold with third baseman Bill Everett in Colorado. George Tebeau and Everett have located four claims between Creede and Denver. They are known aa the Chief, Old Anse, Crab and Bates. The Chief was named after Chief Zimmer, the big catcher of the Cleveland club; the Crab after Jesse g Burkett, the Cleveland's outfielder, who was nicknamed the "Crab" by hie clubmates, and the Bates after the, well-knoCleveland correspondent of Sporting Life. Tebeau and Everett have a gang of miners working the Bates, the ore from which Is paying $1.90 per ton. Everett and Tebeau will not get rich at this gait, but they have not yet begun to work their three other claims There Is no telling but that they may yet strike It rich, and If tbey do George Tebeau promises to buy a National for his brother. league franchise George Tebeau is a North SL Louis boy. He has been partial to Denver and Colorado ever since he first played ball with the Denver team, years ago. Pat Tebeau had him on the Cleveland club's payroll until October. He didnt play with the regular team, though, having been placed In charge of the FL Wayne aggregation, Cleveland farm. Blake played with the same club early In the season. Although not generally known, it Is a fact, nevertheless, that George Tebeau could have succeeded Dave Foutx as manager of Abel and Byrne the Brooklyn rlub. wanted him to take the job, and George was willing, but the Brooklyn management would not meet hie salary dehard-hittin- father before him was famous, and when the sou came to New York It was easy for him to marry a rich glfl, which he promptly did. That was twenty-on- e years ago, and the Impressario has been trying since then lo beat the wife of Hath in the number of spouses. Chaud heroine bad five cer's husbands. Colonel Mapleson has had four wives. He took bis first bride to Europe, and she returned without him in Just eighteen months to sue for and seeure a divorce. The colonel, nothing daunted, next married the beautiful Marie Haze, and became her manager. Marie Roze sang Mapleson into fame, and made him a great impreaaarlo. In 1890, when she brought suit for divorce, the colonel declared that ' they had never been married, and acting on that assumption, he waa married In 1891 to lAura Schirmer Ryron, another singer. This marriage took plaee at the British embassy In Paris. Colonel Mapleson brought the Byron over. to America in 1S91, and organized around ber a company that failed a year later. She died of pneumonia at Pittsburg In 1894. Free again, the colonel sought chains, and was married to Mrs. Robert Mllten-berge- r, at the Mairie, In the sixth In Paris. Ills operatic ventures.have not always been successful, but bis friends know how elastic be is, end have faith that it will not be long before he has another company on the road. multi-marrie- actor theater assigned to a a part that required a very distasteful well-kno- make-u- p. The actor growled awhile, Next thing you will and then aald: be wanting me to do is to come around here made up as an Idiot." "Perhaps so, replied the manager, but it will only be a stand off for the collection of idlota that come around here made up ia actors." A Maa of Many Parts. Tim Murpby haa made one of tbe startling successes of tbe New York season. In this of specialists, day versatility la rare an& refreshing, and this young actor la possessed of It to a remarkable degree. In one evening he portrays many and utterly different characters, ranging from light eccentric comedy to Intense and forceful tragedy. This la all tbe more astonishing, when It le known that Mr. well-defin- ed Murphy baa made an enviable reputation as a one-pa- rt actor, hla Maverick Brander ranking among the great character! of the American stage. FOSTER. French Sulmlillt. of the printing firm of Foster A Co., The subsid.es granted in addition to of Chicago, baa commenced a spirited the salaries of the directors by the campaign, so Washington dispatches French government to tbe principal say, with enthusiastic endorsements. of the republic are as folMr. Foster was born in Ilrewster, Mass., opera houses nnd Opera Cotaique, The lows: Opera 40 years ago. For twenty years ha haa 900.000 and 360,000 francs; been Identified with the printing and of Paris, 890,000 ftar.es; Marseilles, 240,-0publishing business In Chicago, and to Lyons. Nsntrs. 100,000 francs; Borfrancs; the craft Is probably as well known aa 120.000 francs. Lille, 80,000, deaux, In the man country. any 0 Rouen, 120.000 and Rennes, franca. In all the cities except In Anmthrtlrs. Vro;ren Paris the subsidies are said to be given Tbe next great advance In anesthesia by the different municipalities, but In an line bo of the will probably agent they are under the direction and mads which will be capable of producing Inst the command of the state. sensibility to pain without destruction To a extent certain of consciousness. Tha (Irinka In Vrar York. inethyllc ether will produce Insensi"The conGeisha, the Japanese musical a with of retaining pain bility sciousness. It has the curious and comedy, haa scored aa great a sucre most desirable faculty or destroying at Daly's In New York as it did In sensibility before it destroys couacloui-nes- s, London. The scene Is laid In the land of the Mikado, and the surroundings and recovery from it Is exceedremark-ah- y ingly rapid. It may also be considered and costumes the latter being Oriental. are. of course. pretty the safest of anesthetics. Unfortunate There are good voices, and soms vary ly it Is a gas and is troublesome lo sd .Le light, pretty songs, particularly minister. 00 100,-00- TIM MURPltY. Among Mr. Murphys Imitation! are tbe best known characters of Barrett, Raymond, Robson, Irving, Jefferson and RuaselL GUlatta's Great Play May Ran All Winter comedy-dram- a, William Gillette's "Secret Service, which was played for tbe first time In New York at tbe Garrick theater, Oct. 5. will continue without interruption far Into the season at that theater. Genevieve Ward, an American actress. will play Margaret of Anjou In Sir Henry Irvlrg'e revival of "Richard III " mands Harry Tebeau, tbe young of the HENRY CHADWICK. it a champion and advocate of clean, honest base ball, and express the hope that a kind Provl-dfne- e will grant me the pleasure of sending you a monthly check for many long years to come. faithful service Western League Fines. of the Western League magnates In Chicago adjourned a resolution was passed that no fines hereafter imposed by the umpires should be paid by the clubi, excepting those assessed on the captains. The effect of this resolution will be to do away with a great deal of senselcsi and tiresome "kicking by the players. It has been the custom when a player waa fined hy the umpire for objecting to a decision for the club to which he belonged to pay his fine. The money thus collected went into a general fund, which, after helping defray the expenses of running the League, was divided on the per cent plan among tha magnates. The player, although fined for his conduct, bore the lose cheerfully and usually persisted in his tactics, as he was nothing out of pocket himself. But the new rule to collect the fine from the players la a vastly different proposition. It was mads with the object of keeping down as far ae possible one of tne most objectionable elements of the game. Just before the meeting na Kuggratlna Already. President Hart, of the Chicago team, who waa made permanent chairman of the Rules Committee at the recent meeting, hna already had a number of suggestions made to him about the changes In the rules, to be made at the spring meeting of the League. Walter Wilmot, manager of team, was the first to file an objection wllh Mr. Hart about the present rules. "I will make a kick right now, and when I get time I will put it into writing and send it to you," he said, "The first thing that should be changed la the present style of having nothing but a piece of rubber for the pitcher to stand back of. There le nothing said In the rules which prohibits the pitcher stepping off to one side of the he keeps one foot rubber so long GEORGE TEBEAU. on it while In the act of delivering Tebeau family in the base ball busiI he bail. Any pitcher will tell yon ness, waa a member of the Terre Haute what an advuntage It la to do thaL team last season, playing under the What the game needs is a return to the name of Huff. He Is a cousin of Pat old pitchers' box Instead of the present aad George. slab. Let him deliver the ball from any part of the box and he will not have eo much the beat of the batter as Young on Inneltlom. Nick Young gives his estimate of he has at the present time." third sad first basemen aa follows: A An Knnilry Hll Tntm. weak hitter who covers third will earn hla salary provided he la a valuable Says a New York writer: "Albert fielder. The number of failures he Moll's references to the good behavior makes In hie effort to hit the ball are of the Orioles on the road are In good offset by the hits he cute off by hie goo.! order, as all will ndmit who have mat fleMlng, on the same principle lhaL a Hanlon's toys." Tbe Orioles behave hit saved la a hit earned. Billy Nash well bernnse Ned Hanlon will not counwaa never an exceptionally strong batstenance anything else. One or bis best man, but aa a fielder he saved many a men will be released this spring simphlL Big Jack StlvetU will bat about ly Iterance Neil hna discovered (hat he .390 in the official averages. Wbeu 1 a thorough loafer and will not pay Jack's arm refuses to send 'em over, at tent loti to admonition, while he haa the big fellow will receive almost us rrpeatedly broken the Oriole discipline much money as a first baseman as he and the In (lupnee It exerted upon other Is now paid for pitching. He Is built members was disastrous. The w'itr for an Idea' guardian of the first bag. has this from Mr. Hanlon himself 4 |