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A HAED CATTLE BETWEEN MIDDLE
WEIGHTS.
Jack Dempsey Pimislics Billy Mc
Carthy Until Compassion Moves
Hiin to Cease.
The Australian Champion PluoMly Ee-
fnses to Acknowledge DefeatTwenty-
eight Bounds Pought.
D8mpsey's Lost Laurels Eetrieved to the
Satisfaction of All Interested An
Important Cronin Conspirator Ar
rested at St Louis, Identified
as Eelley The Crimi.
nal Eecord.
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Signal Office, Wichita. Ivan., Feb.
IS. The highest temperature was 24,
the lowest was 19. and the menu 20,
with colder, partly cloudy weather, brisk
north to light northeast winds and higher
barometer.
Last year on February IS the highest tem
perature was '62, the lowest 2o below
zero (which was the lowest we had last
winter) and the mean 13.
FlttlD L. JoilKSOX, Observer.
Waii DnrAKTMEXT. Washington. D. C,
Feb. IS, S p. ni. Forecast until 8 p. m
Wednesday:
For Kansas Fair, warmer weather,
southeasterly winds.
HEWS PI BRIEF.
Latest News by Telegraph, in Condensed
Porm.
Carl Halergan, director of thegaeat pub
lishing house at Stuttgart, is dead.
Count Andrassy, of "Vienna, is fast sink
ing. Daily inquiries as to his condition
are received from many European sover
eigns. The Hearld, of Pans, reports that Presi
dent Caruot has decided to pardou the
Duke of Orleans and send him under escort
to the frontier.
The Journal des Debates blathes the
the political inactivity of the French gov
ernment for the defeat of the Republican
candidates in Sunday's elections. The
BoulangUts are jubilant and predict a
repetition of the victory in the inuuicipal
elections in M v.
TWENTY-EIGHT EOTODS.
The Nonpareil Knocks Out the Australian
Champion, McCarthy.
SAN FkANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 1R Over 2,000
enthusiastic spectators assembled at tho
gymnasium of the California Athletic club
tonight to witness the great battle of the
middle weights, Jack Dempsey and Billy
McCarthy. Nearly every man who saw
Dempsey go down before LaBlanche last
August was anxious that the Nonpareil
bhould be given an opportunity to retrieve
his lost honors and be placed as nearly as
possible on the same footing ho held when
he was an undefeated man. LaBlanche
would not consent to a return match for
the present and tho most available man,
therefore, to match against Dempsey was
the Australian middle weight champion,
McCarthy, who had recently arrived in this
city and who Had gained some prominence
by his defeat of Killiher.
Hiram Cook of this city was appointed
to referee the match. Tho conditions of
the contest were that the men should
weight under 155 pounds. When they ap
peared in the ring tonight their weights
were anuounced as Dempsey 147, Mc
Carthj 151. Time was called at 9:o0p. m.
Iu the fiist. round the Australian seemed
inclined to force matters, but was able to
accomplish nothiug. Dempsey, on the
other hand, caught his opponent twice in
tho face with savage blows and gave him
one terriffic right-hander on the boddy.
McCarthy landed lightly on Dempsey's
neck. ,
Second round closed decidedly in favor
of the Nonpareil.
Dempsey fought for McCarthy's wind,
throat and neck, and in tho third round
landed repeatedly on those places with
terrific force. The Australian was game,
however, and got in :i good one on Demp
tey's stomach aud two heavy ones on the
ei r.
In tho fifth round McCarthy tried a loft
hand swing aud caught Dempsey on the
no-e.
In the sixth Dempsey lauded on his op
ponent's body heavMy three times. Mc
Carthy fetemed a trifle Hurried at tho ap
plause for Dempsey.
The seventh round closed without much
damage to either, but in the eighth Mc
Carty landed heavily on Dempsey's enr aud
received his opponents right iu the wind,
which canted him ro double over a minute.
Niuth round Dempsey scored on Mc
Cnrty's throat and body and received a
terrific left bander iu the stomach Mc
Carthy gained applause by turning around
quickly mid catching Dempsey a tmart
back hand blow on tho nose. ,
Tenth and eleventh rounds Dempsey
roitiu-n d lo'aammer away for McCarthy's
wi d and brought out a very audible
giuut-from him several times. McCarthy
planted a good left bander ju.st above tho
btomach.
Twelfth round McCarthy repeated his
turning blow in this round and again
caught Demosey on tho nose. He mado
several savage lunges but fell hhort aud
received a short arm smash on the chin.
Thirteenth round Demptey aimed a
wicked blow for McCarthy's ueck but the
latter taved himself by a ueat
duck. Exchanco of short arm blows
and several clinches followed. McCirthy
tried hard to reach Dempsey's neck but
received a hard right bander on his own
j.w in return.
Fourteenth round Dempsey landed a
swinging left bander ou McCartyh's jaw
which he followed with a hard one in the
i'omach aud another in the nock, n second
on the stomach doubled the Australian
over.
Fifteenth round Dempsey led for Mc
carty's neck twice and reached it lightly
both times. McCarthy made a lert hand
swing at Dempsey's head, but Dempsey
was not there. The round closed without
any definite result.
The sixteenth round was the
liveliest round up to that
time and when it closed there
wero loud cheers for Dempsey. He landed
on the Australian's body aud jaw about as
he pieated. The latter's eyes aud cheeks
benari'to show signs of severe punishment
and when the rouud closed he was evi
dently very groggy.
Dempsey repeated the punishment in
the seveuteeuth and though he staggered
McCarthy with the blows he remain ed on
.his feet. 1I was not able to acore a
knock d8'.vn.
The eighteenth round was a repetition
. of the seventeenth.
During the nineteenth, twentieth and
twenty-first rounds but little was accom
plished. Twenty-second round Dempsev's right
ngain fell heavily on the Australian's neck
and ribs. The latter turned completely
around and struck Dempsey heavily on
the atamach, receiving in return a terrific
jabon the chin ivhich almost tent the
Australian off his feet.
Twent y-lbird round-McCarthy continued
to fight stubbornly, but Dempsey by his
quick movements saved himself from
Plows aimed at his face and body aud was
nble to rap his antagonist hard before the
Dempsey agnlu doubled McCarthy over in
the tweutv-fourth round by a tavage right
hand stomach blow, but when McCarthy
recovered he reached tho, back of Demp
sey's neck with a heavy right hand swing.
When the gong sounded for tho twenty
eighth round McCarthy staggered to the
center of the ring and Dempsey implored
him to give up. The wildest excitement
prevailed all over the building, and min
gled cries of "Knock him our, Jack," and
"Give it up McCarthy," were heard every
where. The Australian still refused to ac
knowledse defeat, and Dempsey beat him
in his corner and sent him down in a heap.
Ho rose again and leaned against the ropes
for support. Dempsey walked up
to finish him, but his compas
sion for the pitiable object before
him was too much for the Nonpareil, so he
stepped up to the referee and declared he
had not the heart to punish the man any
further. Just then Paddy Gorman, Mc
Carthy's second. broKe into the ring and
dragged his principal over to his corner
and refused to permit him to fight longer.
Dempsey was accordingly declared winner
amid loud cheers from the 2,000 'men who
admired his compassion for his young
antagonist.
IMPORTANT ARREST.
One of the Cronin Conspirators Taken in
St. Louis,
Chicago, III., Feb. IS. A morning paper
says that Patrick Cooney, the fox, was
captured last night at Hancock, Mich.
Officer John C. Collius, who has known
him for years, will return with him today.
Cooney left tho city the day that Dr.
Cronin's remains were laid in Calvalry,
and has eluded the police ever since. A
call at Officer Collius' homo elicited the
information that he had been called out
suddenly at 11:30. Chief March left his
home immediately after receiving the in
formation and succeeded in keeping out of
the way of reporters. All of the police of
ficials were unusually reticent this morn
ing and refused to say whether or uot tho
man under arrest was the long sought
Cooney or to give any information as to
the capture. However, from a man who
had charge of one branch of the case and
whose information is vouched for as re
liable a reporter succeeded in getting
some facts. "The man," he said,
"is not Cooney but a fellow who
was in the Cronin conspiracy
and whose arrest, if it has been effected,
may be regared as of the highest im
portance. The chief should have heard
from Officer Collins this morning. What
the delay means I can't tell you."
It is nbw said that the man is even more
important a personage so lor as the state
is concerned than Coouey's; that the arrest
was made in fat. Louis at C o'clock last
night by Officer Thomas, of this city, who
has been shadowing the suspect and that
it promises to result in a complete uu
raveliug of the Crouin mystery.
Chief of Police Marsh says that the man
arrested in St. Loui in connection with
the Cronin case is J. B. Kelley, a Chicago
book canvasser, otherwise known as
faimonir' and as "Smith." He has agreed
to come to Chicago without a requsition
and will, it is believed, make a lull con
fession. Lieutenant Clark and Officer Collins, of
the Chicago police department, ai rived
here tonight to identity J. B. Kelley. or
Smith, arrested for complicity in the
Cronin murder. When the latter saw the
prisoner they nodded their heads aud said:
"Yes, he is the man." Kelley denied that
they Knew him or that ho knew them.
Later ho sent a telegram to friends in Lit
tle Keck, notifying them he had been
arrested for complicity in tho Cronin
murder. Ho also signed papers agreeing
to ieturn to Chicago without a requisition.
Accordingly the Chicago detectives with
Kelly in charge will leave here for Chicago
tomorrow morning at 0 o'clock.
A E0LD BURC-LAR.
He Robs a House in Presence of the Mis
tress and Asks the Way Out.
TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 18. A remarkably
bold burglary was perpetrated at the
home of Mi3. B. F. Booker on Quincy
street in this city about 2 o'clock this
morning. Mrs. Booker's husband is a
civil engineer employed by the Santa Fe
railway at Golden, N. M.,and Mrs. Booker
had received from him and cashed yester
day a check for 200. She was awakened
by a light in her room and seeing a mau
rummaging in the bureauasked," What do
you want?" The burglar told her to
keep quiet and proceeded to go through
her dressing case near the bed, securing a
pair of diamond ear rings valued at $400,
another pair of diamond ear rings valued
at $250, a stud with a cluster of nine
diamonds around an onyx setting valued
nfc$150, a ladvs gold watch and chain
valued at $123 and a gentleman's gold
watch chain with a $o gold piece as a
charm valued at $.'50, so that he is about
Sl,lf5 ahead today. He then demanded
her money, informing her that he knew she
had $J00. This she gave up to him
The burglar witli remarkableisang froid
then woke up the servant in the next room
and telling her that her mistress wanted
her, asked how he could get out and
finally left bv the front door. The servant
girl, Hattie Bagan, was arrested as an ac
complice and William Ragan, her brother,
was captured this afternoon and identified
by Mrs. Booker as tho robber, thongh the
valuables stolen have not yet been found.
Hagan is said to bear a bad reputation in
Denver.
PIENDISH ENEMIES,
Vitrol Thrown in a Lady's Pace and Her
Lover Shot.
Emn, Pa.. Feb. IS. Miss Emma Fis
cher, a young lady of prominence and re
spectabilitj', last evening went to the door
in response to a summons, and a man who
stood close by with a masked face threw
a quantity of oil of vitrol into her face and
rati away. Dennis McCarty. the young
lady's accepted lover, hearing of the out
rage, set out to find tho wretch. About
midnight McC.my heard a suppressed
conversation in an old building and on
being satisfied that he was on the right
track, attempted to enter the door. The
men inside fired upon McCarty and sent a
ball through his body. The men escaped,
leaving the evidence of their foul deed be
hind them. McCarty is painfully but not
fatally wounded. Mi.s Fischer's eyes es
caped the fiery liquid, but she will be
s-adly disfigured.
CHARGED WITH INSULTING LADIES
Chicago, 111., Feb. IS. Rev. J. A.
Strechfus, pastor of St. Peters Lutheran
church, was arrested yesterday afternoon
charged with insulting ladies on the street.
Three young girls were returning from
work on Chicago avenue when, as they
claim, Mr. Strechfus accosted them in
sultingly. The girls broke away from
him and informed the police. Mr. Strech
fus repeated his performance and was ar-'
rested. At the station Mr. Strechfus ad
mitted that possibly in his hurry he mighr
have brushed against the girls "but unin
tentionally, he averred. He further iiil
that he had been drinking wine and might
have been somewhat excited.
EVIDENCE AGAINST BRIBERS.
Chicago. III., Feb. IS The tri.il of the
alleged jury bribers wa3 continued in the
criminal court this morning. A number
or witnesses who had been approached
with offers of bribes by defendants man
aged to get themselves on the jury and
hold out for acquittal, gave their evidence
to the same general effect as -was made
public at the time the plot was discovered
Joseph Koncn and Fred W. Smith, both
indicted men who had turned sutes evi
dence, testified alleging that John Graham
and BsiliE Hanks had offered them bribes.
O-'SHEA AUGMENTS HIS CHARGES.
LOXDOX, Feb. IS. Captain O'Shea in
his suit for divorce has filed a suppli
mentary petition which extends the period
within which the alleged acts of adultery
wera.comiuitted In consequence of this
charso the time for filing answers is also
extended. O Shea's solicitor Wootuer
doubts whether the case can be brought to
trial before the autumn.
SILVER QUESTION DISCUSSED.
New York, Feb. IS. A mass meeting
on the silver question was held tonight at
Cooper Union under the auspices of the
committee appointed at the national silver
convention at St. Louis last fall to agitate
the question of free coinage or the placing
of silver on equal value with gold. Gen
eral Edward Curtis, of Sau Francisco,
called the meeting to order and ex-Postmaster
General James was elected chair
man. Mr. James said he had always be
lieved that standard value should be meas
ured by a gold yard stick. He was in
favor of free speech and wished to hear
both sides of the silver question. General
Warner was the first speaker.
Ex-Congressman Fitch followed General
Warner. Several other noted silver men
also spoke.
MR. O'BRIEN ON THE VERDICT.
Dublis, Feb. 18. Mr. O'Brien ha3 writ
ten a letter to the Freeman's Journal in
which he accepts the report of the Parnell
commission as the worst that three
honorable Tories restrained by the
obligations of judicial propriety
can say against the Nationalists.
Yet the Times, he says, ought to ba placed
iu i he pillory of history beside tho mo3t
heinous propogator of falso charges. Mr.
O'Brien denies that he joined the league to
secure the separation of Ireland from Eng
land. Ho was convinced years before the
league was formed that separation was
impossible. He joined it because Mr. Par
nell's action in parliament induced Mr.
Dillon aud himself to believe that the
aims of command could bo obtained by
parliamentary methods.
Experience proves that nothiDg else so
surely destroys scrofula, as Ayer's Sarsap
arilla. VARRAN'TS SERVED IN PEACE.
Kaxsas City;, Mo., Feb. 18. A special
to the Times from Packardsville, Mo ,
says: Constable Francis, to whom was
entrusted the duty of serving the warrants
upon the crusaders, charging them with
malicious destruction of property, per
formed his task today. He met with no
opposition, tho ladies having determined
to submit quietly to tneir martyrdom, as
they call it. Thirteen ladies and three
men were arrested. All gave boud in the
sum of S50 each for appearance before a
justice next Friday wnen their prelimi
nary examination will occur at Lathrop.
That event will be made the occasion of a
great demonstration by ladies, who will
parade the streets with banners aud trans
parencies. RECEPTION TENDERED RILEY.
Ixdiaxapolis, Ind., Feb. IS. James
Whitcomb Riley was tendered a reception
by the Indianapolis literary club, which is
composed of the leading clergymen,
doctors, lawyers and professional men
generally. Addresses and short talks were
delivered by Rev. Joseph S. SenKs. Hon.
W. P. Fishback, Rev. H. A. Cleveland,
Judge Livingston Howard and others.
Riley recited two poems of his own compo
sition in his peculiar and inimitable style.
The only reference in regard to Mr. Riley's
recent escapade was made by himself. He
said of the affair in substance that he felt
ho did not deserve the encouragement
given him by his friends but that he hoped
that in the future he would deserve it; at
least he would promise to make many
efforts to refrain from his old course.
For purity, strength, economy aud cura
tive power, Hood's Sarsaparilla has no
equal. Try it.
IRISH PAPERS ALONE SUFFER.
London, Feb. IS. Iu the probate divorce
and admiralty division of the high court
of justice today Mr. Justice Butt refused
to grant the application made in behalf of
Captain O'Shea for writs of attachment
against the managers of the' Star and
London editions of the New York Herald
for publishing certain comments relative
to the action for divorce brought by Cap
tain O Shea against his wife in which Mr.
Parnell is named as co-respondent. Iu the
case of the Freeman's Journal, of Dublin,
against the manager of which paper a
similar application was made, the court
imposed a fine of 100 besides compelling
him to pay the costs of the action.
CIS-MISSOURI RATES.
They Will be Adjusted to Conform with
Reductions on the Other Side.
Chicago, 111., Feb. IS. At the meeting
of the Western Freight association today
a committee was appointed to confer with
the freight committee of the Trans-Missouri
association and decide upon a plan
of readjusting rates west of tho Missouri
river to conform with the reduced rates to
Missouri river points. The committee is
instructed to report not later than Satur
day. The reduction will affect through
rates as far west as Colorado and Utah
points.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is acknowledged
the best preparation for euro of lung com
plaints. THE SEVIERSSUIT ENDED.
New Yomc.Fcb. IS. The long contested
suit of John Seviers and others, against
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
comnany, was settled in the United States
circuit court before Judge Ltiscombe to
day, the defendants agreeing to satisfy
the judgment of S31S.390.24, which was
awarded to the plaintiffs in 1SSS.
LOCKOUT OF LEATHER MEN.
Milbuiiy, Mass., Feb. IS. Tho members
of the manufacturers' association at a
meeting last night voted to close every
leather factory represented in the associa
tion tomorrow and keep them closed until
tho men return to work at the factory of
Beggs & Coble. This means tho enforced
idlehesa of 1,300 men.
"Deeper than e'er plummet sounded"
some peoples coughs s-eem to come from,
yet a bottle of Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup wiil
cure them. It goes away down to the
bottom of matters aud works wonders.
Pleasant to take and good for coughs,
croup, bronchitis, etc. Price, 25 cents.
Pure gold always has its base imitation.
It is so with Salvation Oil. which is worth
its weight in gold to all sufferers from
rbeumatiMn, neuralgia or gout. See that
ycu get the genuiue. 23 cents.
THE LOTTERY BIDDING HIGHER.
Bismauck, N. D., Feb. IS. Tho rumor is
current tonight that the friends of the
lottery bill will introduce a new measure
tomorrow. This bill, according to the re
port, will provide for the payment to the
suite of $250,000 per year, instead of $75,
CjO, as in the old one.
BISHOP O'CONNOR'S CASE HOPELESS
Pittsburg, Pa.. Feb. IS. Rev. Father
John Ward, chaplain of Mcrcie hospital
administered the last rites of the Catholic
church to Bishop O'Connor, of Omaha,
Nebraska, who lies ill at that institution.
All hope of the bishop's recovery has been
abandoned.
GOOD POINTS Of- "A HORSE.
Plenty of breadth and fullness between the
eyes.
A short, straight back and a straight
rump.
The eye should bs full, and ia color a hazel
is good.
A small thin ear well thrown forward,
and a straight elegant face.
A square muzzle, with large nostrils to let
in plenty of air to the lungs.
The withers should be high and the shoul
ders well sat back and broad, but not too
deep, in the chest.
For the under side of the head a gd hcrae
should be well cat under the joi, with jaw
bones bread and Avida apart under the muz
zles. The faro leg should be short, A pretty
straight hind lag with the beck low down,
the passm joint of good length and a medi
um hraad. taatz'Eari. "Worth Gazed
A. A. MEETING.
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largest Inioor AtWetio Games Ever Givan
ia Thus Carantrv, with Two Exceptions.
The largest indoor athletic games held in
the TTnited.Stat.es since the two given in New
York city, January and March, 1859, by the
Amateur Athletic union and National Asso
ciation of Amateur Athletes respectively,
will b those which the Boston Athletic asso
ciation has been making great preparations
for holding on Feb. 15 at Mechanics' hall,
Boston. The great, feature of the Boston
games will bo the handsome prizes which are
offered to attract the best athletes in the
country to the occasion. The prizes consist
of solid silver enps about ten inches high to
first, second and third men, except in the tug
of war, when the prize to each member of
the team taking third place will be a gold
die medal. The members of the teams taking
first and second place will receive silver cups
of a different design from those offered in the
other events.
These games will be the first attempt on the
part of the Boston Athletic association at
holding an open athletic meeting. The clnb
is a little over two years old and it has been
in its beautiful club
house on Exeter
street only a little
over a year. Bos
ton's best people ar
represented on the mem
bership roll, and it is in
every way a representa
tive organization. Oao
advantage it has which
shows itself occasionally
is the many college athletes in its ranks, and
the chairman of the games committee, George
R. Morrison, is a Harvard graduate and onco
was a celebrated running high jumper, hold
ing a record of 5 feet 1 inches at that game,
which even in these days is considered a capi
tal jump,
Tho programme for the games will be notice
able for its great variety of events. It will
include sprinting, middle distance running,
walking, hurdling, running high jumping,
pole vaulting, weight throwing and tug of
war. Games held in doors are, as a rule,
limited in events, but the B. A. A. has made
arrangements for the successful holding of
events which heretofore have been most un
satisfactory when competed in on a board
floor. Any kind of running, walking, hur
dling and tug of war can be taken part in on
a board floor almost as well as on turf or a
cinder path, but jumping and weight throw
ing are different. The trouble with these
ovents isthatthe landing place for the athlete
in the jumps and the weights in weight throw
ing on a board floor generally is m mattress.
It can readily be seen that.tjymark where a
weight lands on a mattress needs much ex
perience, for no break in tho ground, as it is
called, out of doors, is made, and the weight
rolls away without leaving any perceptible
traco where it struckrthe mat. Judges have
to be very quick in determining where tho
missile lands and many disputes have arisen.
Athletes in jumping events also complain of
a lack of confidence in landing on a mattress
from a great height in high jumping or pole
vaulting, although some say they can do as
well under those conditions as if they were
competing out of doors and landing on soft
dirt.
Tho games committee of tho B. A. A. has
overcome the great obstacle in woight throw
ing on a board floor, and in both putting the
10-pound shot and throwing the 56-pound
weight tho missile will land in a box IS feet
square filled to a depth of 8 inches with
dirt. This will bring tho competition down
to a point as fine as when carried on out of
doors. This will bo the first time that the
plan has been tried on a large scale, and the
place assigned for tho weights to land in is
fully largo-enough to enable even inexpert
weight throwers to compete without running"
tho risk of damaging the floor by an inac
curate throw.
Tho programme for the games will be as
follows: 50 yards run, 220 yards run, 440
yards run, 8S0 yards run and 1 mile run, 1
mile walk, 220 yards hurdle race 2 feet (5
inches high, running high jump, pole vault,
putting lG-pourid"sbot, throwing 5G-pound
weight, tug of war teams of four men.
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THK BANXEH.
In addition to the beautiful silver cups
which will be given to tho first three men in
each event, a handsomo silk banner will bo
presented to the club scoring the greatest
number of points. The points-will be scored I
as follows: Firt-t man in each event will count ,
five points for the organization ho represents, '
the second man will score three and the third I
man one. This makes the club rivalry very
intense, and the many large athletic organ
izations in this country are gathering to
gether their best men with tho hopes of cap
turing the banner, which will make a hand
some clnb house interior adornment. All of
the events are handicap, which renders the
picking cf the winners most ascertain. It
would be idle to say what organization will
win the banner, although the chances are
greatly in favor of the New York and Man
hattan Athletic clubs. Harvard college, be
ing so near the scene of action, may make a
better showing than is expected, ana recent
word from there is that they intend muster
ing forty athletes to struggle for points.
The largo majority of entries will repre
sent athletic organisations in tee vicinity of
New York city, and a special train wiU be
put on for tho athletes and frieuds to leave
Boston at 12 midnight and arrive in New
York baring only missed a little oxer half a
day from business on Saturday. The game3
committee hss arranged other little details
for the big affair, and if tfaair efforts do not
result in an athletic meeting second to none
energy and enterprise shall have counted for
nothing. ILuxoLSf W. Fokd.
Sbe "Kni-ied It.
He I am thinking of embracing at literary
life.
She I do not donbt that tha life Trill be a
Terr happy one if yon if too. should treat it
the ray yon spoke eL Exchange.,
The Woman of It
I kissed her lips :be Tardea'" crted;
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"The kiss I rfet fears perdosei sfa rrpifcd.
"nt nercr. nw yww apoJoy-"
Caxlrks gsiih la Harper's S-2r.
It ITa All Elcit-
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do you meair by referrics-to tbs Eer. Dr.
Thirdly as a locssmsthl
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A KUSSM CARNIVAL
A WEEK CONSECRATED TO WILD
HILARITY.
The Tremendous Nomber of Badrtrheat
Cakes Devoured on Wagers Troika Driy
ins and the Steep Coasting Slasqaerad
in of Tounjj People "Butter Week."
Carnival week is a very peculiar time
throughout the empire of the tsars. People
high and low, rich and poor, without distinc
tion of age or sex, give themselves np en
tirely to frolic and good cheer for the whole of
the week preceding Lent, which is strictly
observed by at least SO per cent of the
tsars' subjects. Many are the queer observ-
CAESTVAL ITASKEnS.
ances connected with this time, called in the
popular parlance "Maslianitza," which means
"Butter Week." This appellation is derived
from the fact that, according to the rules of
the Gresk church, carnival week is to be set
apart as preparatory to the black fast kept
up throughout tho seven weeks that Lent
lasts. Already meat Is prohibited from use
during carnival week, though butter, milk
and eggs (all of which are also forbidden to
the orthodox dnring Lent) are allowed to be
eaten.
Well do I remember a young Englishman,
who assured me, in all earnestness, that car
nival is called "Butter Week" in Russia, bo
caase tha natives are in tho habit of suspend
ing a large piece of butter on a string from
the ceiling of the dining room of each house,
every member of the household coming up
and taking a bite at it now and then. Now,
this is a very funny conception, but still I
must beg leave to repudiate such a base re
flection on the good namo and sense of my
countrymen. Butter is eaten in large quan
tities, it is true, but not in the manner sug
gested by my smart British friend. It i3
served melted hot at every meal of the car
nival week, to bo eaten with buckwheat
cakes, called "bliny," of which there are con
sumed enormous quantities, many a young
fellow making wagers to oat as many as
twenty-five cakes at one sitting. These buck
wheat cakes tho same as are used through
out tho States are served as hot as possiblo;
often, for variety's sake, chopped eggs aro
mixed with the dough, or elso a peculiar land
of diminntive fish, an inch or so in length,
which is called "snetky."
CAKNTVAt. COASTING.
Notwithstanding the abstinence enjoined
by the church, gluttony reigns supreme dur
ing the week in question; all classes of tho
people eat buckwheat cakes and drink more
than is good for them in hovels as well as in
tho palaces. Among well to do people "bliny"
parties are organized on all sides tho menu
generally consisting of cups of clear "bouil
lon," several courses of hot "bliny" or buck
wheat cakes, some game and a Ught kind of
pastry, nothing but champagne-being drunk
at such a meaL Ifasquerado balls, dancing
and theatre parties prevail among the rich,
but neither are the lower classes of the cities
forgotten at that time. Tho municipality of
every city causes largo barracks to be erected
on tho best available open space insido the
city limits, and in thoso barracks cheap com
edy is enacted, all kinds of curiosities and
freaks are exposed, panoramas are displayed,
and last, but by no means least, "Punch and
Judy" are shown in all their glory ia Russia
just as in England, the clubbingof the police
man being tho most popular f eaturo of the
show.
Elsewhere on tho same space great swings
are eected, and thoso are almost as well pa
tronised by the lower classes as are the ice i
mountains near by. Theso mountains, some i
sixty and even seventy feet high, are built in
wood, with ice frozen down on their sloping j
sides. People ascend tho mountain by a stair- j
case at tne Dacit ot it, tane a seat ca one ot
the sleighs that are on hire and fiiido down to
their utmost satisfaction. All around the
placa extends an oblong track, on which the
rich merchants with their families parade in
their best turnouts. In Rusran it is an undis
puted fact that the richest appointed turn
outs and the best trotting horses are owned '
by rich merchants; very few people among J
the nobility care aboat having blooded hosEes,
escc-pt renin persons belonging to too rather
fat Ests of the capitals, or else young gtiarda
mcs. rax TAisACZ.
Very L3t drirlny is cttea. indulged m hj
tho rjcbutS7 in. the coarse o the Tinier, and
mesti'y to at carsdTsd, bes tfcea regular driy
m2 parties aro organized by yeans pp'
"Wis sWghs ara hired, each tkia stzaz
driven sfc & farica rai cf spaed by thxr
bcrss, calksl "traDta Merchants of tn
higbisc. meet educated .etaw . do aot ci
erany onv oat on tb above menttcaed
piazza, piTca np to the esjoyroeet cf the
populace. There are rapar mfllioaaire mer
chant; to" be nt in the paz2a drives on
parade," but thesa are aH uneducated, dd
time people, trbo mostly bring ca their
fcerdjonje 3Terrrc5?-d cjku jhters to Eby off
tfa z?rW beauty a trrfl as the latter" di
EOTda, and her it w aJn ten! tbc seJectJca
of future hridfts sxd bu.bacE is ceoerally
asada, yoanc ppl of hot& em "cepsjj
tbsir eyes WdV open and try icz to nsabe ifeeir
cheKe.
La?t vristc, ia aicitloa toiber aane
nwnbr, there wat a larj; icecanle- built Jn Si.
fetcrsbcrz br tbeLOTTEer of tha. AssarHua.
r aLtWB
Wuvvx ir 4inw iTr
aSKKT
a palace that is said to be as beautiful in its
outlines; of as large proportions and splendid
appointments as any ice palace ever built in
Canada for the frolic set up for carnival
week. This is seemingly a new departure in
St. Petersburg, an imitation, of the success
ful feature of the Canada carnival, yet in
fact it is only a revival of a very old inven
tion. As far back as in the winter of 1730-10
the Russian empress, Anna Ioaanovna, bad
a mansion of solid bricks of ice erected. In
that mansion was celebrated the wedding of
two ugly dwarfs, holding at that time posi
tions of court jesters to the empress, and the
highest and mightiest Russian magnates
danced then in the ice mansion at the ball
given by the empress in honor of the newly
wedded pair.
Of course, in country places all such pop
ular amusements are carried on on a smaller
scale, there being no benevolent municipali
ties there, and, in fact, no public funds avail
able to make any appropriations from. Yet
buckwheat cake eating and fast sleighing are
indulged on every side the cheapest and
most popular mode of amusement among the
young people being masquerading. The
girls put on men's clothing, blackening their
eyebrows with burnt cork, pasting beards of
tow on their fresh young faces, while tfca
COASTCTG WITH SXOW SHOES,
fellows put on fur coats wrong side out and
occasionally walk, grumblingly, on all fours
personifying bears, while others again make
up as goats and spin round on stilts. Par
ties of young village pcoplo parade tho
streets in uch disguises to the accompani
ment of a harmonium or a guitar and the wild
yells of tho deb'ghted wnall boy.
How very widespread aro tho modes of cele
brating carnival obtaining in Russia proper is
shown by the fact that even tho Cvetins, in
tho faraway mountainous Caucasus, eagerly
avail themselves of the least fall of snow in
order to organize a kind of tobogganing in
their own fashion.
Many observances pertaining to tho pagan
period of Russian history are revived in the
popular customs prevailing at carnival, tho
most curious among such being the "Burn
ing of tho Carnival in Effigy." This custom
is upheld mostly in the provincial places dis
tant from the capital, and quite a curious
and significant custom it Is of indisputably
pagan origin. A largo effigy of the Carnival
or, more properly speaking, of the Winter
is made out of straw and rags tied with ropes.
This effigy is seated in a sleigh, a broom is
stuck in its hand and an old wheel set on a
pole at its back.
The villagers, young and old, walk by tho
sleigh, laughing, joking, dancing and sing
ing, while a young fellow tho readiest wit
the community affords is sooted on tho edge
of tho sleigh and, holding a sheet of whito
paper iu his hand, is pretending to read from
it tho decree of capital jwnalty against the
Carnival. Tho j'onng fellow's improvisation
runs smoothly as he proceeds to tell why it is
that Carnival has incurred condemnation,
who were tho peoplo it led into temptation,
and what are the means for them to reform
foremost among which is to burn the naughty
Carnival. This last rito is performed amidst
much frolic and jollity in the first field outeida
tho village.
Serious investigators of Russian folk lore
and national customs aro mo&t positive in
their assertions that the burning of the Car
nival is but a survival of the olden time
pagan burning of tho Winter. With the car
nival tho winter amurements aro at an end,
as well as the winter frosts, and tho effigy oi
Winter is burned then by way cf emphasizing
tho fact that it has to make way for spring
and warmth, which latter, in the burning
of tho Carnival, ia represented by tho wheel
set on a polo against tho effigy's back, a
wheel being tho symbolic personification ol
tho sun, and that not only among tho Slavii,
but likewise among tho nations of Germanic
origin. ilas. B. MacGaixax.
George Auctutrift Sola.
Georgo Augustas Henry Sola, whoso re
cent mnrriage to his amanuemss, Miss Be&sic
Stannard, has attracted attention aaovr to
him, is by no means tho greatest of living
journalists, but ho certainly ha3 had tfao most
remarkablo experience in tho way of hap
pening at a placo just before a greab event
occurred. Ho mado a little visit to Pans in
1831, got into the city just as Napoleon ED
Tvas inaugurating tho coup d'etat and eatr th.
worst of it. Ho went to Mexico, gut caught
in the disputed zsno between tfao bandita and
the French, and escaped to tha capital just
before Bozaino's army entered it. He u
tho triumphal en
try of tha French
into A'giers, Al
phonso's entry into
Madrid, Grant's en
tertainment in
London, some of
tho most exciting
rasa
Ft.
evenbvot the Amer- JjA
ican civil war and $?awYX
many of thoso in (? f kix
virA
the rranco-rrus-aan
-war.
Physically, he is
verr sfraixr. vet in
t
l
childhood ne was c' - HAiJU
for &omo time totally blind, end his educa
tion abandoned. Before bis p-ircsts kiwn
that bis right was yet f.cf3cent for rtady h j
taught tnmscli to "write by copying ienpi i
letters from sins and large circular. Hi
mother Tras a favorite English singer and j
actress and hU father an Italian, and iv; was j
educated with a view to becoming an artist j
in short, his career has tees merit rornas tic j
than anything ho could write. H vras-born j
in London in 1S28, and at an emiy ng b-gaa
to imte for CfcarJea mcnm' tuovJioM
IVcTtis. About 13I he formed th connec
tion with Tho London Teiegraph whWi b
continued ver wnce. nTiltj thoUzited
StAtcs in lira, 167? and 1SZ
The American cattk? recently skipped
to Germany scta to bo resenting any
undue familiarity on the part of tbegwJ
naiured Tcotottn. in niauang stat
taint comes frotn Mr. Smfth, UnrKd
Stated commercial igent at JfayeEcr,
Germany: "Xcat ia high ia price, and
German butchers hare been importini?
Kve cattle from America. But tbe im
porters hare beea greatly atonishid by
the wild and ferocious aspect of th
American fSiten, as compared with that
cf their crura, railder tempera! cattle, and
it is feared that the ails ot the axtu
from the Ictt "Wat Id will oe injured
thereby.
An obituary notfc of Jo, caM vi tist
ilobzn lra!ar.c wfe died r!ly, ba ;
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yceti baksced beod of jtjj hair wt sra
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rxrd icr truth -ars prrrrerbtaJ he se-rcr
isddltd itixt is. After lifVs fbfel feTer
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BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
See Landscape Trade-mark on
Buff Wrapper.
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Now York and London.
He Ought to Be Axhamol at Illmaclf.
llrs. Unnuner (wakuijj and hcartnfr a nuhn
in the hallwuT) Is that you. Brimmer!
Brlnjmer Yrh'm I
llrs. B. Wbnt time is IU
Brimmer ilu' panh twol
Mrs. B. Huh past two? Yon onght to bf,
ashamed of yourself, sir I
Brimmer Qui' riRht, ma'am I oni' nha
When one bol tnak'sh man drunk bo orrci
be shamo shef. Exchange.
It it Bald that if ten American nove!fU
Trhoso books sell readily are selected and tea
J mechanics, who earn Jl'.iO a day, at tha end
of ten years tho mechanics will havo corned
the most money. Exchange.
T -
Ucwarc ot Imitations, there is Only One
no Gursie with Delight.
Wo notice from our eastern exchanges
that 3omo of tho popular uhadcH in drcait
goods this winter ore described tut dra
goon'B blood," "elephant breath" and palo
pint, called "utifk-d agha.1'
"We just gurgled with delight when
we licard this, because all Uumo colors
are bo unique. Wo were real glad with
a rpguiar Pan-America gladness for ha
dear girls, for a girl Ioven to bo unique,
don't you know, uvea If eho has to wear
it under her wrapper. A girl droMMd ia
elephant's breath, bang in graceful folds
aud looped up and fastened at the cor
ners with stilled sighs, with a coraago of
old gold, BuWMfd with dragoon's gore,
would bo jub too lovely for anything
We bas-e b"n Bi'ghing for just cuch a
girl for years, but our tilgU had hardly
stille enough in it to match tlw new
color. We have ecnt for a remnant of
Btifled nigh to maiui a necktie of iis It
appears to us that elephant) breath
would be rather strong for real cetufcrt
In the summer time, especially if the tl
phant was inclined to In dbietpalctL
Dragon's blood ishoald oaty bo worn In
epnla, a la polka dot, as it wrrc, and
fchouii never be yfvm without? bciajf, -well
bprirtlclcd with aebea of roi-n t bene it
down. In tb absence of rce6, wood
ahes or cigar ahe would anawer a
well. But ther is a f alines ada.patho.
aixxzt the stifled wgh wfaicfa will aoaka it
rani: favorite the toenwet &dHycjrrak
it. It is MdeUcat and ret far reach
ing. A lagh at any tiaw is a dear thin
to look at, but vba H k BtifJed and
worn fall tn the back with box plaiting
don th. uie-3 and caogbt wp with -rer
buckles into a douUo ciiscfee about
the watgt, it i aunpiy a dream.-Lassvcs
Advocate.
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