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Show THEATRICAL LETTER. players Is happily a folly of the past, and audiences have become educated THE NATIONAL (JAME up to the point of preferring, flrst-raacting from strangers rather than medN NOTES OP TH& iocre acting by favorites. NATIONAL GAME. Eugene 1resbrey, an accomplished stage manager, lately said: "1 do not Mauser Hanlon la Agnln r.vMriii tjrr lament the abolition of stock compatba longue ( hnuiplwushlp llualr May nies. Once 1 did, but 1 was young. No Row (in to Law l'ruuil. ag Ciajar sir, the stock system is d ad -- and dead Qalla Other Rotations. forever. The demand of the time Is for the perfect pictorial realization of a work of stage fiction. Hence the neHANANACER actors. In every LON bus waited cessity for one-pa- rt personal and physical way an actor another bsae ball must be the thing he represents. Todeal which will add day them are as much care and disto his already wide cretion exercised in the choice of an repututlun as "the actor who baa two linea to Keak as In the shrewdest there used to be over fitting an actor He baa business. for j with a atsr part. Take Trilby, been after a hardinstance. No stock company on earth j outfielder hitting could do justice to it. The leading for a year to take juvenile would say: Whata the leadKrodlo's place. A ing juvenile part? Little Billee? Oh, few days ago Hanlon heard that a Rll-lee. very well; then I shall play Little alight friction existed In the Pittsburg But you dont look the part, the club, and he slipped over there to see stage manager might remonstrate. Patsy Dunovau, Pittsburg's new manYoure six feet, and the illustrations ager. The conference resulted In a deal make him a foot ehorter. And youre whereby Baltimore purls with center-fieldstout, old man, and Little Blllee was Rroule and third baseman DonIs Remonstrance only a stripling. and nelly gets In exchange the Pirates vain! My contract says I shall play stir outfielder, Jake Sienzel; Horton, all leading Juveniles, and I Intend to a prii.iiisitg young piiener; Trilby, who play Little Hillee. Now, how, may I played second base for Ohlciigo part of ask, could you cast a play satisfactor- tne season of '95, and Ilryan, an outily under the regime of the slock? Once fielder of the Toronto team of tblB year. In a while, of course, chance brought Of course Sienzel was Hanlon's objeca play to a stock company that precisetive point, and the others were put In memly suited the personalities of Its to make weight. In Stcnzel Baltimore bers. But, as a rule, a homogenous secures one of the best outfielders in whole can only be attained by the deft the League and one of the leading batsfitting together of the right men of the country. He has been with Pittsburg since 1893, and has never fulled to lie among the premier batters of the League. In addition to his prowess with the stick Sienzel Is one of the fastest men in the country on bases, and has ulwuys ranked among the first half dozen of the league's base stealers. He Is strong where IJnidie was weak. If the champions are not split up through a St. combination they will have the l nut field of the business next Kelly and Stenzel; the fourth, fifth and sixth sluggers of the ta CURRENT SAYINGS AND DOINGS OP STAGE FOLK. Sin r York I Rich With Kew rod lie tloai Mrs. I'uttrr line Kltrlrlllnl the Aiutralliias Pretty Maria llultoa la Aaierlra Again. EW YORK HAS never been richer In new stage productions than dur-th- e past thirty la day. What moye, an unusual number of the offerings of the theaters have been favorably received. The moat positive of the seasons successes Is "Rosemary,- et the Empire, played by John Drew, Maude Adams, and Mr. Charles Frohmans admirably chosen company. In this connection It may be stated that Maude Adams is In her final season as a member of a company not her own. Next autumn she will start out as a star under Mr. Frohmana direction. By the freshness, originality, and delicacy of her work, and her Infinite charm of manner, she has won a large following wherever Mr. Drew and hls professional companions have been seen. She is still very young, so tfeat her career as the principal feature of her own company promises not alone to begin unusually early, but to endure for a period far beyond the ordlaary limitations of theatrical star- - PAST-SEASO- er gre-iles- year--Keele- r, League. The Most helllsli. The rvcord-piuyiicatcher, with an oye to No. 1, is the most selfish of the record-makin- g players iu any other position on the nimx The back-siu- p who is anxious to play star roles in the average figures Is generally the r. who in hls desire to make a clean showing, imposes on the young and unseasoned pitchers. When, for xuniple,-theris a men o:i first base .our selfish backstop will signal for a nail. The pitcher who is feeding the batsman may be wild, anil the victim of an but hls backstop cares not. The secret of effective pitching lies, after all, in getting the ball over the base. Though it Is the proper thing to purposely deliver a ball when one or mure of the bases are occupied, there Is such a thing as overdoing it One ball 1b a handicap to a pitcher, and another places him deeper In the hole, catcher though the record-playin- g doesn't figure on this handicap so long as he is given a chance to throw out a base runner. Touching on this point Theodore Breltensteln of the St. Louis Browns, once said to the writer: When 1 began pitching in the major league I had the misfortune to work with catchers who were stuck on signaling for & ball with a view to catching a base runner. I was green at the busi-ni-and pitched as they signaled me. and the result was I often got myself In a hole by giving bases on halls. Obi Dick Buckley, to whom I owe so much of my success as a pitcher, and who brought me out, soon cured me of this WMkness by advising me to use more judgment end not allow the catchers to Impose on me. ig off-da- y, t In the "Geisha (pronounced "Gaysha) Mr. Daly has Imported a stage property that is likely to exceed In popularity any work that has been brought across the water In many seasons. Nothing more dainty or delicious has graced the theater in this town since The Mikado, to which the "Geisha Is a companion picture. Its scenes and many of Its personages are Japanese, and It la delightfully quaint In theme and treatment. Dorothy Morton and Violet Lloyd are the principal female members of the cast, and both have made unusually pronounced aucceeves. hood. Miirlf llaltniio Marie Halton was born In New York city, and while yet very young made her professional debut with J. C. Duff's Opera company, as Phyllis, in "DorShe remained with that comothy. pany for ulinut two seasons, when she Joined Rudolph Aronsons company, a, the Casino, appearing as Claudine, la On leaving the The Drum Major. Casino she went to London. Eng., where, under the direction of Ilorae In "La Cigala Sedger, she opening April 2, lSl, at the Lyr!" theater. The London press hlghl: praised the young American singer and her stticcfis was emphatic. Th following year she went to Australia Annkin in Australis. American artists In Australia have where she opened Jan. 15 (also in L been meeting with varying success. Clgale), at the Princess theater. Me bourne, afterward playing In Sydney She duplicated her success, ano during her stay in Australia she sarf On her return to Bizets "Carmen. England she engaged the Shaftsbury theater, Loudon, and on Jan. 14. 1893. In conjunction with llnrry Monk-houshe produced "I a Itosicre. The venture proved uns'icccssful. and she went to the Prince of Wales' theater, where she appeared In The Magic Ring, "Claude Duval and other operas. Later she appeared In The Shop Girl, at the Gaiety theater. She afterward went to Paris, Fran re, where she appeared Jan. 21. 1896, at the Theatre des Folles Marignv, in the Champs Klysees. In s Dernier des Marlgny," performing in French. The Parisian critics were unanimous in their praise of her performance, and she was again successful. She arrived In this country early In August of the current year, and was then engaged hy Oscar MRS. POTTER. to create the role of Princess Nat C. Goodwin has been the recipient Thereee de Savoy, In his opera, "Santa ef eulogistic newspaper notices, hut which o(ened Sept. 21, at has not drawn overflowing audiences Marla, and In Olympia theater, as a rule. He has added Bob Acres which she is now appearing. to hls repertoire, and his critics, while admitting hla brilliant acting, aseall Chevalier. him severely for mutilating the original play. Airs. Totter appears to have Chevalier Is nut old, nor Is he a electrified Australia with her gowns, Frenchman, as hls name might Indiher physical charms, and her new man- cate. He was born in 1862 at Nottlng ner of dressing her hair. She parts Hall, England, of French and Welsh her tresses on the side, and has prac- parentage, which contained within its tically set the fashion In that part of ancestry a dash of Irish blood. He was the world. destined for a Catholic priest, but even wben he was in hls teens It was eviIt t'srd to Re. dent that he was not intended for a The Stock Company walk of life. Before he was 16 That the day of the stock company la practically done, and years of age he made a public appearthat better results are obtained by the ance in the Prince of Wales theater, newer system of special easts gives giving Imitations cf music hall celebrithe Raw York Sun a passing spasm ties, and subswinently made a tour ef at consolation. The hero worship of England Wth the ICendals. ' app-.-are- sa M lamps to Quit. One of the finds of the past season was young pitrber McJames, of the Washington club. As a pitcher he is "I-e- Ham-merstei- ln Intermittent Training. The addition of another victim of consumption by the recent decease o! Curt Welch to the already long list ol base ball players who have died from the fell disease bas once more raised the query. Does a bull player's life invite the greatest scourge of mankind? A good proportion of these cases can be traced Indirectly to Intemperance in the use of liquors, irregularity of their manner of living and iudulgenca In excesses of all kinds. But the fact cannot be controverted that the yearly training which a base ball player requires to get Into form has a good deal to do with It. Anson has been held up as a living argument against this theory, but it is not a fitting examAnson requires training, as well ple. ns every large bodied ball player, but I have the veteran's own words for It that he never really goes out of training. All through the fall and winter he keeps nctive, never fails to Indulge in long walks, a spin mi his wheel i hour or two at billiards or a hunting trip now and then to the woods of the Thus In the spring he has northweat. very little superfluous flesh to train off. Thirie who are injured hy the proeesa are the inactive mem hers of the profession, who fatten during the winter like a hog. by Inactivity nnd good living and then get rid nf their excessive pounds In the spring hy a month oi violent exercise. pun-lehme- nt old-fas- Master nf Speeil and t'nrrtm. llusle waa "thrown down again by at tlieii the Mugnets League boys stood "All-ri- ght, acknowledged by all players to be a wonder. lie sprang into prominence suddenly, and bis brilliancy was all the more dazzling on that account. This young man of 25 years is a typical southerner. Ills home Is at Charleston, where his father Is a medical practitioner of renown. Jimmy began hls ball playing on the nine of the University of South Carolina, of which be it a graduate. In 1895 he was with the Petersburg team of the Virginia league, from which be was drafted py the Washingtons in the fall. Young speaks with the delightful drawling rless dialect of the south. He is most Intellectual and entertaining and popular with all who know him. He is an especial favorite of Washington young ladies. The young southerner Is ready at all Hines to dls-ruthe free coinage of silver at 16 In 1. of which he la a strong advocate, and on which topic he ran give arguments and figures by the yard. Ills here politically is Senator Tillman. YVmi hr knows personally and whom Mc-Jam- es ss aghast. sir, stammered one. Tbe professor settled back on the cushions, resinned the book which be had been quietly reading when the ton began, and the boys proceeded to drag the coach back to the grounds. How they worked! Tbe bill wus never before half so long nor half so steep, but after almost an hour of puffing and perspiration the job was done. Then Prof Harrison opened tbe eoacb door, and, descending, said, with I thank you for my marked courtesy: ride; I hope you have enjoyed It aa much as 1 have. "Yes, sir," answered one of the boys wbo knew not what else to say, and felt that some response was called for. AMOS RUSIE. There the matter ended, so far as session In Chlengo. They oec.d-e- the professor was concerned, for he pi'ch-er- s never alluded to it again. The culprits the against great Presito voted And on their part resolved never to menuphold appeal dent Freedman's stand, as a matter ol tion It, but it was too good a atory to discipline. The New York managekeep. Youths Companion. ment has, howevef, settled the case, Rusle gets $4,000 and one years salary KHctImI Krrlpfts as a result. Pickling Nasturtiums 8d much referable capers, both In flavor and the mode of pickling, as to be frequently Pfeifer's Kerord. Fred Pfeifer, the great second base- used In the same manner; the seeds man, probably bolds all records for should be allowed to get ripe after the ball games. Indoor and out, ibrougb buda and flowers have gone off. Gather two consecutive seasons. In the fall them upon a dry day, and keep them d for a few days after they have been of 18S8, after a long and season with Chicago, Fred went on gathered; put them Into a Jar, and pour tbe famous trip arouud tbe world and boiling vinegar, upon played ball In every land. Immediate- them; when cold, rover the jar. They ly on returning he resumed work with will not be fit for use for some months, Anson. As soon as the summer ol but will be finely flavored after keeping 18S9 was over he went to playing inand are sometimes preferred to capers, door ball with the La$allR club on Chi- for which they are an excellent substicago's West Bide. A moderate estimate tute. of the number of ball games, Indoor Yankee Apple Butter Boll elder and down f; and out, in America, Australia put in as many apples other countries played by Fred Pfeffcr as the liquor will coulaln; slew them between April, 1888. and April, 1SK9, soft; then take them out and put in would be 450 a record far surpassing fresh apples. When they are cold boll any other player's hardest efforts. them again In the rider till they are Fred was a good Indoor ball player, pulpy and thick. Add different kinds loo, and just as much of a swell on the of spice a little before It Is done. Keep floor as on tbe soil. Many other.out-doo- r in covered Jars. players have tried their hands at Unfermented Grape Wine The Juice tbe gaslit ame and have done well. is squeezed from fully ripe grapes, Is Old Uncle Adrian, tbe mossback, bptled slowly until reduced one-hal- f. who takColt hasn't tbe Add a pint of granulated sugar to each only probably en a hand In an indoor game. quart of liquor, 10 minutes before removing from the fire. Then bottle, Hplkes I'nnrfNMiT- inserting the corks after cooling. Pitcher Terry, of the Chicago team, Feminine New Zealand Is credited in recently speaking against the wearing of spikes by ball players during with being in a rerunning mood. At I really cannot set gpy rate, it Is tolerably advanced on a game, said: a number of topics. Women voters of the use of the spike In a shoe, and I long for the day when It tjte colony, at a convention of Christ will be done uway with. You might Church, expressed u desire to abolish ns well arm a man with a pitchfork Capital punishment, to nationalize the when he goes out to play the game. land, to create a system of oldrage Tbe pitchfork would not be more deadpensions and to make Judicial senths tences reformative as well as punitive. ly. I have always argued that spikes were altogether unnecessary In Evidently these ladies are of a base ball playing. They dont usa disposition. Nut satisfied with them In foot ball on account of their so ambitious a programme, they go deadliness, and why should they .be still further in asserting the right of used In --base ball? A rubber shoe, women to sit on juries and be elected Men are only too grooved or roughened like those used to tbe legislature. In foot ball would, to my mind, do anxious to abrogate the former right. just oa well as the spikes, and there It would be a distinct advantage if a they could send their wives to serve would be less chance of laming man for life. I have been spiked many In their stead. Another resolution was times In my life, accidentally usually, passed that Is worth setting forth in but sometimes Intentionally perhaps. I full: "in all cases where a woman tell you tbose spikes cut like knives elects to superintend a household, and to be ths mother of children, there They are useless and dangerous. shall be a law attaching a certain On of llo rut's (Soml Ones. just share of her husband's earnings Tim Ilurst was in the dressing room or Income for her separate use, payat National Park last summer, and one able, If she desires, into her separate of the carpenters employed on tbe neir account grand stand was engaged In aawing a Concerning the successful preparaplank near the dressing room door. tion of croquettes Mrs. lloror says: The noise Interrupted one of Tims faIn covering nroqiiotlee. or anything for vorite stories. "Little louder, please, frying, bread rrurabs should always be Tim. What'B the noise outside there? used, aa the Shortening used In makqueried a player, who was one of ing the crackers attracts the grease. "I auditors. thats Hunt's guess Then boiling fat must not be used. Scrappy filing an objection to one of It should be smoking hut and fully that. Too hot fat burns tbe rroquette my decisions, responded Tim. before It can fry, and too cool fat usualDavid IJelasco Is wriing a new play ly bursts the rovering. Another cause Carter. He expects to for the burnt tug is that the article to for Mrs. be fried bas not lieen entirely covered have It ready for production next by the egg aa well as the brood crumbs. son. He says it will be dlatlnoA'jr Great care should be taken that American in thought and action. very part should be entirely covered. d well-fille- well-spice- d, one-hal- hall-playe- -- Ham-merste- The Prufrsiuir's Klile Tbe late Prof. W. II. Harrison, who fur many years was at the bead of a popular boys school In Amelia Comiy, Va., was much loved aud respected by bis many pupila, and bad a rare faculty for managing them, "lie wasnt forever nagging us, but, as some of us learned by exiivrienre, be let tbe fit tbe rrime. So said one of bis former pupils, now a prominent lawyer In Richmond; aud then be related tbe following atory: The professor was accustomed to take a drive every sunny afternoon In a h lotted coarb drawn by a heavy, large gray horse. One day, shortly after be had returned from hla drive, half a dozen of the boys espied a coach standing In the driveway, where it had been left temporarily, and were seised with the Idea that it would he groat sport to secrete it Chuckling softly among themselves, they stole near to make aure that the colored driver was busied with tbe horses Inside the stable. Then they took bold of tbe thills, three on one side and three on the other, and drew the coach out of the grounds and down a long hill Into a pine grove. "Won't tbe Old Goat be puzzled to know where hls coach Is? said one fellow, with a laugh In which the others Joined. "Old Goat waa a term of affectionate familiarity which the boys applied to the professor behind hls back, and which really savored nothing of disrespect. The roguish youths Indulged In jokes and merriment as they tugged the coach Into a position out of which It would be difficult to remove it. This they had Just accomplished when, to their consternation. Prof. Harrison put hls head out of the coach window, hls eyes twinkling, and said, In hla dignified, slow way: Well, boys, youve bad the fun of hauling me down here, and now I must request you to haul me back again. Smiles fled, faces grew long, and the he never tires of praising and defend lie ll.iS eulult'i in . itlg. Med leal College and huhoui'.i'cm his Intention of abandoning professional baseball. ' TflHtPlIR Fit- - The new mirror for the great Parts telescope is the largest ever made. It was cast at Jeumoiit. a manufacturing place, and the last French station on the line to Liege, tclugne and Berlin. This splendid blo.k of homogeneous crystal weighs S.otrj kilogrammes. Its diameter !h 2.'5 meters, be'ng ronrider-abl- y larger tha.i the greut reflector of Lord Riisse, and In is present nearly rough suite It coat $2),0U0. Of course It was conveyed to Paris in a special train. It was wrapped up In heavy felt blankets, prote :ted by hoops of soft wood, with metal tires, mounted on pivots. Thus packed, the mirror was fighlly'wedRcd in a case that was placed In the wagon on a bed of hurdles and layers of hay. For greater safety the train stopped only once at Tergnier, and went at as slow a pace as a royal train, escorted by a railway Inspector. It was Insured to Its fall value. The same afternoon It wus removed from the northern terminus to the workshop. Tho mirror before leaving Jeumont went through a second grinding of its faces, being as smooth as a fine plate glass. But for tbe telescopi.' purposes this sort of smoothness is roughness itself. The finishing process will take two years aud six months, and by more expeditious processes Ihau auy hitherto in use, whlcb, moreover, will give greater accuracy than anything known. Hitherto astronomical mirrors and lenses have been polished by hand by slowly rubbing the glass with the naked hand, some! imps, but not always, moistened with oil, albumen and other substances, which arc the maker's secret The drawback of this process is that the mere heat of the band may cause tbe surface to warp. Tbe new mechanical process will produce a surface approaching a true plane, within one part of a millimeter. Even this marvelous finish will have a margin, astronomers tell ns, for errors. The whole finishing process will cost Uti.eO'J. The silvering will not cost anything to speak of. The mirror will be mounted on two arms ten meters long, and will be set in motion by machinery of the usual sort Tbe rays gathered from planetary space will be reflected horizontally through a mammoth tube 60 meters long, laid on piles of masonry. Tba lens of flint aud crown glass will be one meter twenty-fiv- e centimeters, the largest In the world, and tbe images enlarged 6, noth times, will be thrown on to a screen which thousands of people will view at a time. Taught tlic Yankee. Discussing the late Oliver Wendell Holmes, un eminent Front hinun once said that It was he who hud taught the Yankees to laugh. The poets wit was such as put every one around him In the best of humor, says an exchange. It was Holmes who said that although it waa Eve who tempted man to eat he had an idea that she bad nothing to do with bis drinking, for be undoubtedly took to that ou bis own account Then the poet removed hla cigar from his lips and remarked; . I really must noi smoke to persistently. I liiust turn over a new leaf a tobacco leaf and have a cigar only after each and as most of those present Imagined he woe about to say after each cimeal," lie rontinued gar. Leaning buck In hls chair, he added: A foreigner Is un nllcn; a foreigner who ill inks too much is an acchuhhin; and why should not a foreigner who suin:; s too much be called a tobHeconnllan?'' When dining with Lord Coleridge the subject of l:tvyira rum? mi and, referring to toe Aiiicriniii man nf the bar. Holmes said that the poverty of the American luwyer and the wealth of his rlin.t was his glory. On another occasion, Mrs. SIddons was being dieetissed and soul? one said that the state;; man Fox nad been smitten by the great urtnvs. To this the poet replied by Buying that from all he had ever heard of her he rould not understand a man falling In love with her. Hls reason was Hint she wus so grand that a man might as well fall In She might love with the pyramids. have been loved by the worshijrful company of coachinukers or a board cf aldcnnt n but It was beyond the range of possibility that one man could ever love her. After he had been lionized by a dele-gion of westerners, bo me one asked him liow Le liked it. "Like It? he said, "1 fell like the small elephant at the Zoo with a cheap excursion party on bia back. ut Two Ilmira I'rmu Treo to I a pel. One day last April a rowspuper was printed In a German town on paper which about two hours before was in tbe form of a growing tree. This remarkable record was the result of an experiment to find out the shortest time In which the wood of a standing tree could be converted into a newspaper. At 7:35 o'cle-- k in the morning the workmen fclleu the trees and carried The logs them to the manufactory. were quickly cut Into short pieces and split and ground Into pulp. Afier the various cheiiiicnls had been added this pulp went to the paper machines, and at 9:34 o'clock the first sheet of paper was finished. The entire manufacture had thus consumed but one hour and. fifty-nin- e minutes. The owners of the manufactory then took a few or the sheets to a printing office situated at a distance of about two and a half miles from the works. At 10 o'clock a copy of the printed Journal was In the hands of the parly; so that It had taken two hours and minutes to cuuvert the twenty-fiv- e wood of a standing tree Into a newspaper ready for delivery. Bo will a box to receive ail the bags and pleres of brown paier that come to hnnd and may be needed later for various household affairs. |
