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Show x-'V 'V y' J JL tance of on July GUEST of KING EDWARD. M'JTAKE Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson Invited, to Attend the Coronation. Mrs. Harriet I .ace Johnson, who will attend the coronation at the spe- invitauun of King Edward, is the A CHIEF IN SOUTH AFRICA. LAWYER MADE. Recorder Smyth Not the Unjust Judge He Was Reported to Be. r In an speech at a banquet in New York the other day a known lawyer related this story of the late Recorder Sinyth, who was for so long a time a terror to the of the metropolis. A young man came before him upon a grave charge and was accompanied by a lawyer In whose judgment the recorder had little confidence. The moment the accused was called upon to plead he jumped up hastily and said: The recorder Guilty, your honor. knew he had a fair defense and, calling him close to the bar, said to him in a friendly manner; "Now. tell me who told you to plead guilty?" "Me "Why did he lawyer, your honor. "Because he said If tell you that? me case ever came up before that ould hatchet face with the big nose Id be sent up for life sure, and the best I could do was to fall on the mercy of court- Judge Smyth entered a i the ' xs r of "not guilty, ordered the case plea jrt Jy to be heard and at its conclusion the jr, ' man was discharged. niece of the late President Buchanan, young and was the mistress of the white DEAN OF DIPLOMATIC CORPS. house when King Edward, then the youthful Prince of Wales, visited this Dr. Von Holleben, German Ambassa-- 1 country in I860. Mrs. Lane was mardor. Now Holds That Position. ried in 1866 to Henry Elliott JohnDr. Theodore von Holleben, who has lived son of Baltimore, and for a time at Wheatland, but now makes her become dean of the diplomatic corps. home in Washington. The invitation sent her by the king Is in memory of the hospitalities the then Miss Lane extended to the then Prince of Wales in the White House. after-dinne- evil-doer- Is to Be In Command of the British Forces. Gen. Neville Gerald Lyttelton, who will remain In charge of the British forces In South Africa pending the Gen. Lyttelton s BELLE VISITS Her Father Across the Water. army belle who will be a prominent figure at the coronation of King Edward Is Miss Elinor Wilson, the An younger daughter of Gen. J. H. Wilson. The general will croBs as the official representative of Uncle Sams warriors, and his handsome daughter, who, since her mothers death, has shared with her sister Katharine the duties of hostess in his home, and dispensed them with infinite sweetness arrived In Washington Nov. 29, 1897, and grace, will bear him company. as the plenipotentiary from Germany, Miss Elinor's charm and tact have and at once captured everybody who heretofore been of no little aid to her met him. The new dean is a handsome man, somewhat over 50, who has all the dignity of the scholar, and the grace of the elegant man of the world. He studied the arts and the sciences at Bonn and Heidelberg, and nearly thirty years ago he began his diplomatic career at Tokio. He has served in numerous important posts, and Washington people hope he will remain there Indefinitely. NEW HEAD OF PRINCETON. Chosen PresiFamous of dent University. Dr. Woodrow Wilson, who has just been chosen president of Princeton University, in the place of Dr. FranJurist, cis L. Patton, is a historian and man of letters, and at present professor of jurisprudence and politics in Princeton. , He was born at Staunton. Va, Dec. 28, 1856. His father, Joseph R. Wilson, was a prominent divine of the Southern Presbyterian church, and was himself a native of Ohio. Woodrow Wilson studied in the primary schools of Atfathers popularity, and the wardrobe and was later a student in which she is preparing for her cam- lanta, Ga., from which he was graduPrinceton, would paign at the court of St. James ated in 1879. In 1888 he became a prove an able weapon in the hands of a lesser diplomat Dr. Woodrow Wilson well-know- New York's Danger. Comes now Prof. Hamilton of the New York Museum of Natural History and deposes that In his opinion Gotham will be destroyed by volcanic The trouble may not areruption. rive for ages, and then again it may The make its appearance professor says that Manhattan island. Long Island. Staten Island and pretty much all of New Jersey are of vol--1 canic origin, and he says: "They will all be totally destroyed by the same forces. The old lava streams, now solidified rock like the Palisades, are liable to break out again to permit on outlet for the fires now imprisoned by nature. Devil temporary adjustment of the peace, has been in command of the fourth division for the past two years. He entered the army in 1866, and after serving for a time in Canada he be came an aid of Lord Spencer, then viceroy of Ireland.- - In the several Egyptian campaigns he won distinguished honor on the field, and has al- e ways been regarded as a most ca-abl- officer. Just before his departure for South Africa In 1900 he was In command of the Second Infantry at Aldershot. LONDON. Miss Elinor Wilson Accompanies n -- nies, which yield to the sway of King Edward by accepting peace terms shown by. heavy lines. They have an area of 170,000 square miles. Unde the terms granted the burghers, South Africa will have practically the measure of independence that Australia has. member of the faculty of Wesleyan University of Middletown, Conn., and twelve years ago was called to the Making a Chain. chair of Jurisprudence here. Dr. Wilson has published The State Elements of Historical and Practical Politics, "An Old Master and Other Mere Literature, Political Essays, and George Washington," a historical and biographical study of the In making a chain short ban are first American president The new fastened head of Princeton is a fine scholar cured, then, the link and eminently qualified for the post-- 1 while soft, and the whole welded lnto tlon he is about to assume. a solid chain. rites. peculiar masks In their religious I 4 chances In a without an dnubla-kcafle- r r. Value of Vieterans. "There is no place cn a team where a veteran is more useful than behind the hat. said l'atsy Donovan. "The old fellows may not have as much steam behind their throws and may ha little slower on the bases, but for these drawbacks they show many advantages behind the bat They do a let of effeetive work that the people ia the stands never see nor hear of. Tnese wise boys know every weak point of the uprising batsman and give tbeir own pitchers valuable advice. Then they work the umpire for decisions that a younger cateher would nut think of asking for. Good In Any Position. William E. Friels. the utility man League of the St. Iamls American on Club, was born at Renovo, Pa., his 1877. profesHe began April 1, sional career as a pitcher with the Providence Club in 1896, remaining ha with it until June, 1897, when joined the Cortland Club of the New He returned to that York League. club in 1898, but in June he severed his connection with it, finishing lut La-jol-e Peculiar Currency. The currency of Abyssinia is somewhat varied, to judge by an account given of it by Count Glelchen in his story of the mission to Menellk. For standard money the people of Abyssinia use the Marla Theresa 1780 dollars, but for small change a very different coin is resorted to. This is no other than - bar of hard crystalised salt, about ten inches long and two and a half broad and thick, slightly tapering toward the end. Five of these bars go for a dollar at the capl tal. People are very particular about the standard of fineness of the currency. Affairs at Pittsburg. If it does not ring like metal when Pittsburg has been rpoken of as the struck with the finger nail, or if it Is cracked or chipped, they will not take town that Ban Johnson expects to it. It is a token of affection when annex to the American league, it befriends meet to give each other a lick ing maintained by some writers that of their respective amolls, and in this by taking thla club he hopes to deal bar is decreased. the blow that he has threatened. If way the value of he has Pittsburg in view he does not T expect to do any business in the deNEW SOUTH AFRICAN MAP. molishing line this season. The club owners have a team that will get a Boers Gallant Territory Which the good bit of money during the earlier Have Yielded to the British. part of the season at least, and that ColoRiver and Transvaal Orange will take it in all season if the race lm- proves any. In addition, the club and the town are so smitten with the idea of winning a pennant by the biggest percentage ever piled up 'in the National League that its ownership wouldnt think of a change before fall, even If shown an advantageous proposition in the American. Mr. Dreyfus la getting back at his old friends in the National this season, and nobody Anygrudges him this satisfaction. body that admires a man with sand must applaud his refusal to turn over to his associates any of the players whom he has secured and retained by fair dealing and good treatment. fS v... prediction as to the team that will off the pennant in the National League. Wonderful changes may occur between now ami the close of the season, but, in the opinion of the big majority of base ball followers, it will require a change little less than miraculous for the Plttshurgs to he displaced from the first position. The club starts off the race like a pennant winner and unless injuries lay low a large uumber of the star players on the team it is hard to figure where it can be beaten. On paper, at least, it has the strongest aggregation of players in the league, .tone of the other clubs comparing with it. with the possible exception of Brooklyn. The American league has made sail inroads into the other National League teams, badly crippling the majority of them, But not so with Pittsburg. The Bplendid aggregation of players that captured the pennant for the Smoky City last years remains intact, it is the one prominent National league base ball club that nas put up a stone wall front against Ban Johnson's organization. Its players seem to he well satisfied with the treatment they re ceive from Barney Dreyfuss. Pittsburg will place great reliance upon her star player, liana Wagner, this year, as she has the past two seasons. Wagner is acknowledged to be one of the greatest ball players in the profession, some ranking him with and others as but a notch below Napoleon. He can play most any position on the team, and play it well. As a batter he has few equals. In 1900 he led the league with .380 and last year was fifth with .352. Wagner is also a fine base runner and probably takes more desperate chances than any other man In the league. As a thrower he cannot be excelled. year Pittsburg found him an invaluable man at shortstop, which position threatened at one time to be a serious weakness in the team. Wagner was brought In from the outfield and liis work at shortstop was of the star order. Wag ner is about 28 years of age and is a native of Carnegie, Pa. Indiana Man's Rise to Wealth. Daniel G. Reid, the Wall street magnate, who la Bald to be worth about $25,000,000, Is building a splendid residence at his old home, Richmond, Ind., In which place he was born some forty-fou- r year ago. He began life as a grocery boy in the store of a man whose son, W. B. Leeds, Is now his partner in numerous vast enterpriser About 1892 they went Into the manufacture of tin plate. Six years later the tin plate Industries were consolidated Into a trust, with loiter that corReid as president. poration was absorbed by the steel trust, of which Reid and Leeds are both directors. Dancer's Mask. the National League. carry I ARMY In It is a little early yet to make any 19 the year with the Pawtucket, R. I., and Springfield, Mass., teams. In 1890 he played the outfield for the New Haven Club and was switched to second. Ha was secured by Milwaukee for the sear son of 1901 and when Burke was re- leased. became that team's regular third baseman. Friel Is a reliable utility player and McAleer expects him new to be of great value to the Browns. Base Ball Veterans. When good old Rip Van Haltren was carried off the field at Smoketown with a broken log the dean of the College of league Play ceased to make baseball history. Van Is the sage of the big class. He made his league debut with Chicago back in '87, and he came from California as a southpaw, pitcher. There is but one break in his record of continuous service of 15 years the season he went with the Players' League. This marked' his sixteenth season In major league harness. There are several American leaguers who antedate Van, for the National veterans was a youngster in knee trousers and full of California prunes long after Deacon Jim McGuire, Tom Daly and Jimmy Ryan had cut their eye teeth in fast company. With George Van Haltren out of it there are four players In the National in line to succeed him, four who began their major careers In '88 one year after Old Rip Van first woke 'em up in Windtown. Three of that quartette are in Cincinnati and two wear the red. St. Jacob Beckley. Billy Hoy and Pitta-burCharley Farrell, who started In and respecChicago Washington tively, and Billy Hollman. who began In the Quaker city and Is once more with his old love, comprise the four, and it would be a question of day and Crack Eastern Ballplayer. the Charles (Chic) Cargo, shortstop month to determine who, after Van. of the champion Albany club, of the is entitled to the rank of patriarch of New York State league, and now a the big family. resident of the Empire State's capital Says LaJoie Will Join Blues. city, was born at Pittsburg, Pa., on Bh wed 1879. He While both LaJoie and Bernhard ability as August 14, were sphlnxllke In their attitude when asked as to the outcome of the final Somerfi, conference with Charles Cleveland's emissary, It has developed from a reliable source that the deal was clinched and the players are tor join the blues. LaJoie Js to play seo--' ond base and captain the team, for which be is to be paid $24,000 for three years. Bernhard's salary li to ' be close to $3,000 per season. I g. a ball player while a student at Holy Ghost College of that city, and in 1897 made his professional debut with the Washington, Ind., Club, of the Central League. He played with Dayton in .1898, Oswego in 1899, Springfield in 1900 and Albany In 1901. Xait season he batted .296 and fielded .908 in 116 games. Hla most notable performance were five hits in one game and four la each of two others and the accep- Battere Of This Year. Jimmy Collins, the popular third baseman of the Boston American League team, led the American League In batting up to this week with u.e splendid average of .425. Many o! the sluggers of this organization have not yet struck their gait, as, for instance. Jesse Burkett, who stands below .300. Jesse led the National League In batting last year. Company Was Too Fast. George Merritt, the New York 8tate League pitcher whom Pittsburg purchased from the Utica team the latter part of last season. Is not fast enough for the National League. Utica an effort to secure him from the Pitta-burg- s, but the Worcester team, of the Eastern League, succeeded, in him. |