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A GIRLS' CRICKET HATCH.
_ ELEVENS
183 B MSETj2[J^L ,rI * LD ‘
, English Lady Cricket
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erß " v, Them-M 1 " Westbrooke,
w;Blderß ' (CovyriaU.)
7 _as the train from
London, A “ g ' hirled last night toward
H.mpton C- our * )D a fragment of the
tbe Waterl 1 30 ‘ , wo other occuDants
can versation react ,ed my ears. An
A younger
one cnck et is just as femi
“l “!“ nuu* or golph. and, for my part,
E!ne *‘, U nUT I g*t an oppor
-1 mean to P 1 1?
tunity.’ bunting or golph! Shades
As fenno vinaigrette, of Pamela and
of ltsandt " comparison! Truly, the
airlSS f' . before all things else, a race of
their women share to the full
St t>ualeot“ usiasra - Two years ago I
tbeP £rtli Kan eleven of lady crick
reßK' uv against an eleven of young men
eterspia. broomsticks, but last
iTwat Windsor a match of quite
wsek l
U rk er 'o'ries 'of" put lic matches which is
Tb * this summer by the Red and
kf- gi‘ T of the -Original English
Blf ters” arouse a considerable
lldy Wick t usiasiDt both because of the
dei rv vo and bitting and fielding aud because
g Lition of the girls who makeup
0I the posi Daisy Stanley, toe cap
,bs teams e W ß iu_. Eleveu> bas taken the
Jf in rol'eee certificates in music and
T !? Bl !L beDre she went in for cricket,
art ' „ the music gymnasium at South
taught in toe music seyeral times
Ken-miton P*™,*, of Wales
Ure> ca* sthenic display. Miss Violet
w . k the captain of
of*Rds Va handsome girl of 30, wh >
fa “county family,” and Mis* Ella
! Crte/ Misi She file Id, Miss Robinson,
Mass S' and the other crack Dowlers are,
M r h I>c ish sense, “ladies.” who play
cricket m pu-lie not to make a dime show
Select themselves, but partly from
& the sport, as the public school teams
5S or as the great rnaten was played of
IteUiKl agan-sT Australia at Lord’s, and
n„rt v to p pularize the game among
.; n the two teams challenging all
amateur elevens of women and offering
odds to arrange games.
Miss Heather, Miss Moss and Miss Charles
rlaved a giod deal last summer, Mrs
Heather in particular making a reputation
as a capital wicke. keeper, but Miss Stanley
never slaved until the “Original Lady
Cricketers'” organized last autumn. VV hat
ever womsn take up nowadays it is with a
res jive to win, and so the teams went into
practice last September at St. George’s hall,
Wadsworth, not far from the Crvstal Pal
ace South London. Here they were coached
all winter by Mr. Matthews, the Surrey
professional, superintended by Maurice
Heed, of the Surrey County Cricket Club,
a,d George Hearne, of the Kent County
Club, and before their first public
match at Liverpool was played this sum
mer such reports of their proficiency had
been spread abroad that visitors assembled
by thousands to watch the spirited contest
of the girls. They travel with a matron
aud an asristant matron who attend to the
proprieties and look after their comfort, and
making quite a triumphal tour erf the king
dom with their jolly party of two dozen and
more lassies, extra players being carried to
allow for cases of illness, their trainer,
umpire and manager.
The grounds chosen for the exhibition
mate: at Windsor were very pretty, with
magnificent rows of old chestnuts forming
the Background and shading the spectators,
andtbegray, frowning walls of the palaco
castle looking down from their hights and
dominating the scene. It was such a bit as
me could see in no other country than Eng
land, wit,, a pond on the left among the
fives, where fantastic old whity stumps
leaned over the water, contemplating their
own reflection, their gaunt arms twisted
into the most curious shapes and
curves, while shooting out from the
trunks were the young branches, fresh
a,d f a|vivid green, in strong contrast to
the gnarled gravues, they grew from. Un
der fi.e-e trees was grass of the inteusest
emerald, its color (lightened by the black
shadows thrown on it in this black and
grcc-i British island. Coming out from
under the lush foliage that drooped with its
own weight to the ground, one found the
sunshine ali golden, aud the whites and the
pinks and the mauves of the gaylv dressed
assemblage c'intrusting with the great tree
and sky background.
In the siat next me was a young woman
whom I took to be a newspaper reporter—
they re beginning to have women report
e s even here. S.,e protested that women’s
cricket Was no novelty, said she had played
with her brothers constantly until she
was 'JO.
"And why do you stop at that age*”
asked her companion, a broad-snouldered
young Englishman.
b, we lost our money and I had to settle
Q f *n to earn my living.”
i’ve no objection to girls’ cricket,” con
toued he of the shoulders, “if only it’s
So o ? kar .’. but it,g “P 1 t 0 be like
, 'reck, without the accents, and one
tatumf’’ * t 0 668 a buu °* d game cari
b.v,.°im/ l ij^i 0r bere9 ‘ es the scoffers wonld
Raranef 0 f'll Wero lnterru Pted by the ap-
J*ance of the teams. It was a exceX
ElniJ eSt:Dg fP ectaeleas tho Reds and
I the ground. Ido not think
Jot If „, r s< - en a . more exceptionally fine
If g , r ‘ s ' speaking now of their phy-
& d t^ rlDg - Mostof them looked to
avoraß hi B ht . and they were
Rut erect'and vvr h t,oned ’ glrhsbiy slellder ’
aLout them ihi * s uppl6ness and swing
-to s dL-shlf 1 ! ’ ee “ w<i t 0 indicate some
‘Kak ofhf! i m .'if CUlar str9n g ttl and to
luthcr onf! ,Q lbe "P™ am. Indeed, the
the clas, f proceeds wit i
ru k * v English girls who fill up tbe
t,avers thi feramin tennis and cricket
"1 i, l wunder ' i at their nerve
gyiat.e .L, , rQ agni(icently eq upped
to. path ;;i nd ab tb;r feats o 1 tne run-
U.-'.Z ll ,‘. tbo hunting field. The
a: English gentlemen—and, since
L.. .' 16 legally entitled to call
A*' . i e '? an be has an income of
fem in the Til h i Ue .- doMn ’ t work for, the
corum- v sa ‘ lm LtiOii of manners is be-
Lr-'iigr.t , ot) r , or . v f broad one—are fairly
t .'i ° a doo: • I have seen them
ksK.*,u ,{ „ and tramping in
Aur ta ]• ’ nntil I have learned that the
to ,* Vi-. " ,in g ßß their cheeks
! 1 ..k-, rln ‘ the stock of endurance
•”, ' . i ‘V on . an average far more
1 .. 1 , pi 'y°rs than their sisters
. .t .ral inheritance of
Tat I-.,!? f healthful living.
, l ii'' f .’ r . e . “Uor blouses <t white
t v. ith ,i ,Bt ,r "' at and with loose
■*’ •-Ki t, - 'es and short, white
i '•• nr I .f’Hi ug half way between
IL,. A i<!4 and edgtxl about with
''" r “ , j ‘A, d *- , T i e *r cricket boots
‘ i,, .... ' lll4 flat-heeled, and al
v*rv ~f wu* atoc*-
•r , ,'tu f luit they looked In their
* - ‘.E bat *n hand. Tho Reils
, v 11 lu '-' hut showing their
, u: f im,,es.*, 1 here was a little mur
•l, v, ~ 'V “t'-lteinant andt ,en
, U: f’M, r, . ***.?> a Jny decided to
~‘, w hy „ ‘ „i,‘ ol9t Westorook and a
r,,.t , , A r * first for their side.
I* hut n ?,I I ' - ' 1 ‘he cricketing
■ I information as was
, ' efs | 'latrsd from the faoe of
, ! in i r , , uvlghbor, who was
, ‘ '1 ~v,r u' r a bur-eiojus, then
’ ’ sal pref-Uness of tfie gnv
, • v. Vsy*'[‘* w *' l ' l 'd-n1 bU
a, " “'huiveMtii , iu' , k girl
u * r > Jtt kilo*,
k. s said t<j His * oni
panion in comic amazement. Mils Ela :
Heather, a sister of Muss Ada, who is, per
haps, the best girl bowler, was delivering
the balls with an over-arm motion at a :
moderate pace and variable piten. seme ot
them being, as the critic bes.de me pro
nounced in slow wonder, ‘‘very nasty to j
negotiate, ready now.” Another ’ of
his ec. miums was to toe effect
that Miss Heather got a lot of
break on her balls. I hadn’t much
notion what he meant by it, cricket being
about as blind to an outsider as base ball,
but Miss YVestbrcoke hit capitally ani, iu
spile of her small size—she is a glowing
bruntle and about the lightest and slightest :
of the cricketers—proved herself no mean
antigonist. Alt tbe Reds played steadily ;
aud well, contributing to t-e run getting
until Miss Staulev began to bowl. Tne cap
t.in of the Blues is a left-handed, over-arm
bowler and an extremely bright, pretty
looking girl, whose clever work so wrougut
upon tne sympathies of my neighbor t .at
ha fairly went into ecstasies of sympathetic
excitement when she bowled three batsman
in three successive balls. “Bah Jove!” he
said—your true Englishman even when
excited is slow—“if she hasn’t brought off
the hat trick, most wonderful, moat wonder
ful!”
He repeated his “most wonderful” until
his calm, even excitement became aliuo9t
more interesting than tho game. Subsequent
inquiry has taught me that the hat trick
has been brought off by one woman only
before Miss Stanley, a Miss Major accom
plishing the feat in 1886, so that the pretty
captain’s performance was a coming up to
the record, and as such worthy of applause.
There were cheers from the era wd, which
up to this time had divided its approbation
pretty evenly bet ween the Reds and Blues.
In the first Inning the Reds made 114, Miss
Westbiooke herself getting 19. The Blues
then went the bat, the Reds taking the field.
Miss Stanley and Miss Moss started the
batting, and so stanchly did they keep
their wickets up that tbe score ran up to
48 before, in an unlucky moment, Miss
Stanley was bowled. Miss Moss still held
her position and got run after run, securitig
two threes, one two and a long score of
singles, to the admiration of my neighbor
ing cricket barometer, who rose to “fair
weather” and then to “settled fair,” and
allowed the little newspaper reporter to
bask in sunshine aud approval. Miss Moss
he pronounced “de iced plucky,” aid as
to the fielding he allowed that it showed
“coolness” and “nerve.” There began
to be wagers on tho issue, and I judged that
that there were tourists about me, orelse
that Old England was rapidly becoming
Americanized when I heard talk of ices and
bonbons iu room of gloves from the forest
of parasols. They wanted twelve ru .s to
tie and thirteen to win. and there were but
two wickets to fall. Miss Moss was batting,
and she had a score of forty-six to her
credit, the longest string of the day. “Will
she get fifty P’ asked the wilderness of girls
in sailor hat and natty shirts, who had
suddenly exalted her to the pedestal of an
idol.
Miss Moss, as she faced the bowling, was
a fine oxample of a wholesome English girl,
with heavy yellow hair, rather long face,
rounded cheeks flushed with pink, and long
heavy lidded eyes with the flash of excite
ment in them. She looked as if she had
staying powers. It was Miss Westbrooke
who began to bowl. Her first ball was a
“rignt-hand, over-arm, with break-to-leg,”
quoting the broad-shouldered Oracle’s de
scription, and it looked as if it might be, as
he called it. quite “deadly;” but Miss M iss
hit it to tbe boundary, aud her forty-six was
made forty-eight amid thrills of excitement
that the parasols seemed to fi and at once
tense and delightful. Miss Westbrooke’s
second ball was a slow one; I think tho
oracle called it a “lob,” but Miss Moss
seamed to discern some latent viciousness in
it, for sue “blocked” it without attempting
a run.
The third ball she stepped out to boldly,
and tbe parasol fringes ceased to flutter In
their anxiety, but here the fortune of war
deserted tho fair contestant, the glorious
uncertainty of cricket manifested itself aud
she skyed the ball “slap into midwioket’s
hands,” cl uing the match with a little anti
climax, which spoils my story for dramatic
effect, and which so disgusted the oracle
that he railed again at “girls’ cricket,” soon
recovering himself sufficiently, however, to
acknowledge that in the main the game bad
been played with intelligent regard to its
technique and with uncommon grace and
no little strength and skill. Warming with
the recollection of a bril iant passage, ho
went so far as to aver that oven as to tbe
fiasco he bad “seen plenty of fellows ordi
narily good for two figures make a mess of
it” in precisely tho same way.
The oracle having gone off for luncheon,
I looked up the two captains. Miss Stanley,
though somewhat downcast by defeat,
assured me that the exercise, though un
doubtedly somewhat seve e, had thus far
proved decidedly beneficial to both teams.
They wore ail in good health and enjoying
their play. The design of the picturesque
costumes was, she said, the gift of an ariist
to tho teams. There wore light skeleton
pads for prot cting the iegs, and a special
make of wicket gloves which they liked
better than the patterns offered to men. It
is early in tho day to venture a prediction,
but it looks as if cricket for women had come
to stay. There is already a paper pub
lished in Its iuteresl. giving records, etc., of
the matches. Miss Stanley is the editor. It
is not likely that thare will be many mere
mixed matches, for girls cannot play
seriously against men, but they are learning
something better than the “little cricket” of
the burlesque matches, in play against their
own sex, and amateur elevens are springing
up on every side. I have heard of the
organization of four withm a fortnight.
Whether this new element added to the
athletic life of woman is likely to prove a
good thiug or not the extreme optimists
aud pessimists will, no doubt, spend much
time in di-cussing.
Eliza Putnam Heaton.
LIFE IN GAY SARATOGA.
i
’Bab” Among the Aristocrata and
Millionaires.
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 14.—1
have always understood the clerical gentle
man who believed that Saratoga was the
richest place where the gentlemen in black
and red ruled, because—there’s beauty in
the reason—everybody seemed to be having
such a good time! It is at once true and
clerical—a combination so seldom found
that it ought to evoke wbat the and irkies call
“a deal of delight.” Saratoga is of the
world, worldly. There are all sorts and
conditions of men—especially women.
There are women who are painted ud to their
eyes, and inside them: there are those
who triumphantly announce that they can
take a wet towel, wlpo it over their faces,
aud still retain the same brilliant color, as
if we all did not know that there are rouges
that do not fade out. There are ladies pow
dered a pale blue, who wonder how women
can use rouge; but, above all, there is the
girl who has gone in for “making up,” and
defies anybody to discover just how she
does it.
PARISIAN IMITATORS.
Fin de sieple! We are back to the days
of Lady Betty Modish anil the prince
regent, and a clean face would be quite out
of the common, most certainly not to be
found among tbe gentlefolk.
What is the matter with the women!
T eir one aim seems to be to look like the
women they ought not to he, and to fiebave
like them a- well. In this they think they
Imitate the Parisfenne, but they do nothing
of the sort. Hhe may lmitati their gowns,
but she never looks conscious, and always
up. ears in absolute ignorance if their ex
istence. But the woman at Haratoga al
ways knows who they are. has a little of
their histories at her fingers’ end*, and will
d;u’us* them. Madame, or mad •moiselle
'for some times it is tlu> latter), you would
I be wiser in your generation If you only
l realized that there are so many tilings that
bad liefer tie left mis ad.
rtruumii women oAUMi.EitM.
If you have* drop of geuitMpig blood iu
you you will be happy he, e. Bet ween the
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST IT, 1890—TWELVE PAGES.
races and tbe club houses your opportuni
ties are many, for who knows, among so
many, when you drop in to plav that seduc
tive game, roule.te, and who can say nay
wtiea clergymen are reported as being win
ners at c. e races?
S’ mething fuany happpened tbe other
evening at a roulette table. A young man
came in and list $75; then he said, in a
quiet way, to himself, “Now it’s sister's
turn.” “Sister’s money” was put on 1,3,
31, and 13 aud black, and won in such a wav
th it even tue gamblers wtth great interest.
When the last of toe four numbers had
t een played the winnings were gotten, aud
the girl who played on Lena Despard’s num
bers and oolors was richer by a deal than
when the day began.
Another sweet young thing was playing
poker at a private house aud flirting, with a
nice young man at the same time. She
frivoled and laughed, and the real earnest
poker players were disgusted with her, but
were t o polite to say so. In a flippant
fashion she announced that she did not want
a single card, and everybody believed she
had a straight. She giggled aud kept rais
ing the bet, and then giggled with the
young man, and said: “Hasn't it awfully
nice?” And he giggled, “Awfully
nice.” The old stagers had
dropped out, and the oue left, who
had tour nines, kept raising the bet, aa she
did. At that time he thought she was a
fool—later on he changed his mind. At
last he called her—she laid down the most
beau iful royal fiusa in diamond* that you
ever saw. The frivolous look disappeared
from her face, and she took in that pot with
an air of triumph that was iuteresiiug, if it
was not lovely. Sweet woman does not
shine well at the card table if there is any
money in the question, and if she had an
idea how greedy and grasping she appeared,
she would not indulge even in a “little
ante.”
THE RACE TRACK’S DEVOTEES.
Out at the race track she is not quite so
bad, fur her adoration of the horses is a
real reasou. But she makes such —well, I
might as well say it —a holy show of her
self, that you wish her piety had been
greater and she had stayed at home. She
overdresses here —a something that she does
not commit at Sheepshead or Monmouth,
aud there is a sort of hard line about her
mouth that you would not like to see about
that of any one you loved.
“BAB” ON VARIOUS CRANKS.
Societies of all kinds are prevalent here.
They come here because of the waters, be
cause they find the air delightful, and for
overv other reason than tho real one, which
is because they like to see the people. Most
of the societies are composed of cranks
pure and simple. I say that, but I never
saw a crank overwhelming either with
purity or simplicity. If they come to be
temperate, they take the youngest lamb of
the flock, and drink the waters with her un
til "bus ation” seems likely. If they are
courso-of-study cranks, they take off the
girl who nas gone in for Italian literature,
and find out from her what she considers
the real stories of the Decameron. If
it’s a scientific crank, he is trotting
around showing how, jf the world be
gan round, like an apple, it was afterward
changed by a pair. Then he is so delighted
at bis attempt at a joke that he yearns to
see his name in a comic paper. If ho is here
to discuss whether dear little babies shall
ever know what heaven is, I hate him so
that I put on my best scowl, assisted by my
lorgnette and a lemonade with a stick in it,
chat Mr. Adams has given, and I firmly
announce that in the fortress about which he
talks so much, and knows so little, he will
pass his time among mongrels and bats. By
tlie-by, what is a crank ? A crank is a man
who does not agree with you or me.
A crank is a man who, while you apurove
of a John Collius, does not approve of you.
A crank is a man who believes that tho
world was arranged for his idsas, and those
alone.
A crank is a man who worries you with
fish stories, with his valorous deeds before
and during the war, and announces his
greut conquests among the fair sex.
A crank is a man who dotes on a special
patent medieiue, and wauts to experiment
on you as a dog, with it.
A crank is a man who wants to run all
the important incidents of life—marrying,
burying, and the times.
A crank is a man who is a source of much
woe to bis household, whose love he has, by
his crankiness, turned into fear and tremb
ling.
Woman cranks? There are none. As
soon as they become cranks they cease to
be women. Isn’t that the golden truth *
Bab.
THE RBDFERN COACHING COATS.
New York, Aug. 16 —Now that the dog
days are over, and with them all dread of
excessive aud prolonged heat, there is a re
nenewal of interest in all outdoor pursuits,
and especially in driving. Not the leisurely
plensure drive of an hour or two, in a pro
cession of fashionable turnouts, but tho
long excursion or the coaching trip, which
will be an affair of several days. And oue
of the requisites for comfort aud enjoyment
on such occasions is a coat which will not
only protect from dust and rain, but which
will prove a screen against too sharp
breezes, and will be in every way conven
ient and becoming. Such a one from the
newest model is here given, and it will be
seen that it is :o large and all enveloping
that it is in itself almost a complete cos
tume.
READY FOR THE COACHING TRIP.
It is made of fawn-colored storm serge,
and Is fitted to the figure in tho back, but
ha* a double breisted, loose front, fastened
with two row* of large horn buttons. A
high rolled col la ■ and wide revers com
plete the top, and there is ais • a removable
triple cape, which ha* strii* to button it
across the C"eat. The hat is a square-crowned
brown -trow derby, with whip aud
; horse shies painted on the band.
: This coat will serve another purposs
1 when its ownor rsUirns to the city, by m-
OMilUg br rid I ' K habit as she goes to and
from lb riding S'-’hool, or from her home to
lhe livery • able where Iter horse is sent.
Many young wone-u walk through the
st eets or tike the cart, io their habits,
without any omsk. bet they always Invite
notice and critlcMnn by so doing, besides
risking a cold, after tbe exercise of riding.
So this stylish wrap should be recom
mended to them.
THE DRIVING COAT,
or jacket, as it should more properly be
termed, is of the short variety. This also
has the straight, double-breasted front,with
large pearl buttons, and convenient patch
pockets on breast and hips. Its only deco
ration is several rows of tailor stitching.
BLAYEBB OF THE SEAL.
How the Blaine Bomshell le Regarded
In Alaska.
(Copyright 1890.)
Sitka, Aug. 2.—The thunder from the
state department at Washington falls with
a peculiar charm upon Sitkan ears. It
comes just at the right time to allay a
little special inflammation. Long ago
Alaskans learned to look upon the foreign
office correspondence as a mere polite inter
change at diplomatic civilities. That the
transmission of au official letter fro n
one capital to the other really
meant anything no one here be
lieved. For a score of years
it has been taken for grautol iu Alaska
that while marauders <nig.it violate every
fishery law upon the United States sta’u'e
book no state department offlejr would
dream of insisting upon anything or of say
ing a wo. and calculated to offend refined Eng
lish ears. As always happens in such cases,
our fishermen have had to defend tbeir
own rights. It must be confessed that
Blaine’s sturdy utterances have taken us
agreeably by surprise. We had long since
ceased to expect anything but the most
harmless and courteous official common
places. These utterances happen to be most
opportune. Alaska fishermen are in an es
pecially ugly frame of mind just now, not
because they find their field invaded, for
they are accustomed to that, but because of
a passage at arm* which caused much in
dignati u here, and a few monger details of
which has just leaked out. Tho st >rv had,
perhaps, better ba told in the language of
tho inau to whom I am indebted for my in
formation.
•‘Well, all there was about it was that
they hadthroo more men than we nail, and
we naturally got the worst of it. When
did it happen? Oh, not very long ago. Yiu
see, it was this way: They weren’t within
fifty miles of where they ought to be, and
our cap’ntold ’em so. The Ka iuck skipper
had lots o’ heart, I must say, but he got a
good lickin’ for it. He challenged our cap.
to a fair stand-up fight, and they weut at
it. You see, our Cup’n ain’t no slouch
with his fists, and it was as pretty a set-to
as you ever saw. Wtien they saw thei
mau getting used up tiiey went at us. It
didn’t last very long. They was too strong
for us, and they drove us off, but it lasted
long enough for two of our hands aud for a
couple of theirs, I can tell you.”
This rather simple statement of what
hapDened does not apparently describe an
affair sufficiently serious to justify auv
great amount of Sitkan inflammation, but
as a matter of fact it was an encounter
worthy of portrayal in strong colors.
Two of the Alaskans lookod as
if a butcher had beau operating upon
them. They survive only because they
clung to life with extraordinary te
nacity. The chances are that; tho Canadian
has one or two empty be thsat his disposal.
This is only one variety of what is con
tinually happening. Nothing but really
threatening friction between tue two gov
ernments directly concerned in th) eo itro
versy will ring down tvo cartain on tbe
everlasting wrangle.
To a degree which can scarcely be com
prehended east of California we are stirred
up by the possibilities of the situation. For
many years before the famous ukase of
Alexander of Russia was issued the Behring
sea bugbear stalked through the corridors
of Washington and stirred up British bile.
Up to this timo the people of the Unit sd
State* have, in a sort of a general way,
understood it to be a matter over which
the British lion roared occa ioually, while
the Russian bear growled sulkily aud
the American eagle screamed with its
customary harshness. With the details
involved they have a superficial acquaint
ance. The popular conclusion wa* that the
whole affair wo ild ultimately drop into an
amicable settlement, and that io the mean
time it was scarcely worthy of close scrutin v
by any one not connected with the state
departments of the nations engaged in
the discussions. Blaine’s determined stand
and the English premier’s shadowy
claims have changed all this. Now
tea; a faint possibility of war looms up, it
will bring with it a thorough understanding
of the issues at stake. It is hardly neces
sary to say that tbe publication of the cor
respondence created a profound sensation
here. We are not worked up to such a
fever heat that we believe there is danger of
serious complications, but we do ap
preciate the fact that the begin
ning of the end has come and that
the musty ghost of tbe Behring
sea contention is to be laid at rest at last.
Those who tbink, however, that tho English
lion will submissively wag his tail and sub
side, take a somewhat optimistic view of the
case.
There is plenty of material for a lively
row. All Sitka is rejoicing at the dexterity
and nerve with wtiioa our side of the
affair has been handled. Whatever be
the outcome, there is no doubt that ii
the near future our fisheries will be safe
from the intruders wno have threatened
the extermination of the seal. This <le
voutediy to-be-wished consummation will
be brought about without bombardment.
When Russia aud England came to blows
in the Crimea we escaped shot and shell by
a sort of tacit agreement between the two
nations, and the conviction is general here
that, however much bluster mav
precede tbe final settlement, it will,
whoa it comes, be amicable, perma
nent and conclusive. Since tbe Behring sea
disputes began to worry foreign secretaries
on both sides of the Atlantic hundreds of
other international pro Jems have bad tueir
birth and burial. It teally began to look as
though this one would be a sort of diplo
matic Wandering Jew, always searching
for a grave, and yet a! wavs turning up
with uuilluiinisheil vitality, and now at last
Alaska congratulates its -If tout these fruit
ful sources of bitterne** and itritstiou are
to to be Interred, quietly it is hoped, but in
any event, interred.
A change began to come over the spirit
of Hitka’s dreams the moment the Ameri
can flag Peg a i to fl at <>vsr it. Secretary
Seward b ught Ale.ka in IHO7 ani (ion
that Urns Him rue >rd h been one of pusu,
eueigy, activity aud achievnuissit. The
stiiuuiou* of tue transfer was felt Pumedi
eteiy. lucreskl vaiuvs warn po < pub e
everywhere. 1 need say nothin: about the
rank Alaska has since taken as a commer- j
cial factor.
Now that the eyes of the people of the 1
L nited States are turned in a northerly j
direction with the idea of discovering what
sort of a place may possibly embroil them j
with the Britishers, it is safe to sav they
will know a good deal about Alaska before 1
the diplomatic atmosphere is eventually !
cleared up. They will fiud much to interest I
tnem beside the material resources of Secre- j
tary S - ward’s purchase. The races which are J
indigenous to the soil are by no means pre- ;
possessing. They share mast of tbe true |
Indian cnaracteristics. Cleanliness is an !
obsolete word wita them, if it ever had any
existence in tbeir vernacular, and a blan
ket suffices for their summer wardrobes.
They blacke i their faces, with the Oeauti
ful conception that this enhance*
their ;er*otial attractions, ar.d then,
lest ibis cheerful lout ensemble
should not be considered complete,
they daub themselves with red
and blue stripes and pa: dies. An Alaska
Indian on full dress parade is therefore an
edifying spectacle. H-> is in his Judgment
most artis ic when he has succeeded in mak
ing hi n-elf most grotesque and fe ocious in
appearance, the main point evidently being
to entirely obscure wbat little physical
charms nature has been good enough to en
dow him with. Perhaps in a higher degree
than any other noble rod man he possi sses
the universal prejudice against anything
like industry. His soul, in other words, is
above work.
This is perhaps due to the fact that when
he was lord of all he surveyed he earned a
living quite easily. Of dee:* and bear meat
he could secure any quantity, and the fact
that fishing was good was proved by salmon
exports, which the Russiau-Amencan Com
pany soon ran up to colossal figures, not
ie-s thin 150,000 salmon being sent to
the Sandwich Islands annually. Thev
were in a.lvance of the American day
and generation to the extent that they
cremated their dead, their tombs containing
only tbe ashes of their dear departed- The
tomb was a box on which savage and
grotesauo-looking faces were daubed with
the idea, it would seem, of pernetuating tbe
uglines* of the deceased. If the gentleman
who had been unfortunately or otherwise
transferred to the happy hunting grounds
happened to boa warrior of achieve
ment, then the faces of his victims
were portrayed on the box, which
was also adorned with long tresses of the
human hair which he had tenderly torn
from tlie scalps of hisconquered foes. When
an Alaska Indian a*k* you for “Petnaehit
Copia,” which, literally interpreted, means
“fifteen drop*,” you may know that lie is
begging, not for fifteen drops, but for half a
tumblerful of chain lightning. Less than
half a tumblerful would not reach the dig
nity of a “nip.”
Times have changed here since what are
now alluded to as the good old Russian
days, when they had only ISO church holi
days out of every 385 days. We have
finally simmered down to the regulation
Fourth of July aud Washington’s birthday
festivities, with Christmas and New Year’s
thrown iu as consolation for the departed
ecclesiastical revelries. The remnant of
the orthodox Greek church still remaining
here cherish a tradition to the effect that
wneu the stars and stripes were ready
for their first hoisting in Alaska
the Russian flag displayed great
reluctance to come down and "clung
tenaciously and patriot.cally to the* staff.
An irreverent aud unconverted American
climbed up aud persuaded it to descend.
Something has been said about tbe native
artistic tendency a* di:,pla\ed in a black
background aud red and blue stripes and
patches. It is but fair to add that their
efforts do uot represent the limit of devel
opment.
I hope to hairo the privilege a little later
on of keeping you informed of the events
uow actually transpiring here and of giving
you clear ideas of the movements among
the violators and enforcers of United States
laws which provoke tho agitation. For the
benefit of those to whom this is virtually an
unknown land, it may not be out of place
to say that tbe sea which figures iu tho
pending diplomatic disturbances is named
after Vitus Behring, lie was a Dane, who
entered the servica of Russia because he
ardently admired Peter the Great.
Peter was organizing an expedition to
Kam sehatka when death vacated tho
throne, but the Empress Catherine took up
the enterprise, and Behring started from
St. Petersburg iu 1725. It wo* years later,
however, when ho undertook his most ad
venturous and momentous trip, lie dis
covered many of tue island* near the
American coast, aud died of scurvy, living
just long enough to be taken ashore in a
handbarrow. Muller gives this accouut of
his demise:
“Ho may have been said to have boen half
buried alive, for tho sand rolling continually
from down from the sideof the ditch where
ho lay, he at last would uut suffer it to be
removed, so that after his decease they
wore obliged to scrape him out of the
ground in order to inter him in iho proper
manner.”
Those who survived underwent many
hardships. Their vessel was lost and thev
subsisted on whales that iu the storm had
been driven ashore. Few of them lived to
see Russia again. Sitkan.
SHE GOT THE RE.
Kow a Chicago Girl Won Hor Way
Among English Aristocrats.
The close of the London season, says the
New York San’s Sunday cable letter from
London, has been made moderately lively
by the profound interest taken Py a num
ber of young Englishman cf mere rank
than wealth in the gifts and grace* of tue
latest American heiress, Mis* Leitor of
Chicago, who arrived here ahout six weeks
ago with her mother, simultaneously with
a report crediting her father with an an
nual income of $1,000,000 and the daughter
with $200,000 in her own right. This young
lady, who is a most quiet aud charming
person in herself, has attracted great
attention and developed au unusual
amount of spite and ill-nature among her
fair compatriots already established here.
Hhe owes her introduction into French
society chiefly to Sir Charles Hall, who. It
will ba remembered, was British delegate to
tho m trine conference hold in Washington
last spring. As the foreign members of:
that conference were treated with great J
neglect by the government, the British rep- i
rosentative. then plain .Ur. Hill, wa* pro- |
portionately grateful to those Americans in i
private life who trate 1 him with politeness |
and uospitality. Promineut among these
were Mrs. Lei ter in Wastilngton j
and Mrs. Edward Cooper iu JVew j
York. On the advice of Mrs.
Cooper, Mrs. Leiter an ) her daughter, In- j
stead of spending the summer in Newport,
decided late in the season to go to Kngla and.
They reached Loudon just before the Prince
of Wales’ last garden p arty at Marlborough
house, and Sir Charles Hall, who is not only
a clever lawyer and one of the most agree
able u.en in London, but a particular
friend of the heir to the tnroue, immedi
ately called upo i the Chicago ladies and
secured them the lofty honor of an invita
tion to the garden party. This put the n
in tho swim, and tr.e rumor of the
immense wealth of tho young lady
and her father made them really tbe
feature of the closing weeks of tho season.
They have attended all the smart bal!s of
tho last fortnight, with the exception of that
of the Duchess of Bucclougb, to which, os a
cynical Englishman remarked, no Jews or
Americans were invited. Miss Loiter, how
ever, was the center of interest at the ball
given by Mrs. Marshal! O. Roberts at
Bpencer house, in spite of the circumstance
that an E iglisli beauty wa* heard
to observe that it would have beeu a really
beautiful ball if Mrs. Roberts bad not
spoiled ft by inviting her own friends.
What tbe eventual fate of Miss Leifor may
be cannot be foretold She has, however,
beeu already given a way in polite society
to the heirs or two peerages. As stio is at
present, after spending a week at Wilton
House, the mugtdffee.it Wiltshire seat of
the nobie family of Herb-rt, represented
now in America by Michael Herbert of tin
lint.a i legation, brut or of Lord Pem
broke, up her way to tbe Die of Wight iu
t bat noble (jororiii’i yacht, the orius of her
destiny may lie at hand.
LEMON ELIXIR.
A Pleasant Lemon Drinlc.
For biliousness an<l constipation, take
Lemon Elixir.
For indigestion and foul stomach, take
Lemon Elixir.
For sick and nervous headaches, take
Lemon Elixir.
For sloei'lessness and nervousness, take
Lemon Elixir.
For loss of appetite and debility, take
Lemon Elixir.
For fevers, chills, and malaria, take
Lemon Elixi r .
Dr. Motley’s Lemon Elixir will not fail
you in any of the above named diseases, all
of which arise from a toroid or diseased
liver, stomach, kidneys, or bowels.
Prepared only by Dr. H. MoztlJ,
Atlanta, Ga.
Fifty cents and $1 per bottle at druggists.
A Prominent Minister Writes:
After ten 5 ears of great suffering from
Indigestion, with great nervous prostration,
biliousness, disordered kidneys, and consti
pation, I have been oured by Dr. Mozley’s
Lemon E ixir, and am now a well man.
Rkv. C. C. Davis,
Elder M. E. Church (South),
No. J 8 Tatnall St., Atlanta, Oi.
From a Prominent Lady.
I have not been able in two years to walk
or st ind withi at suffering groat pain.
Since taking Dr. Mozley’s Lemon Elixir I
can walk half a mile without suffering the
least inconvenience.
Mbs. R. IT. Bi-oodwohth,
Giiflßi, Ga. —A do.
FOB SALE.
A BUSINESS
FOR SALE.
Desiring to change ray
business, I have decided to
sell ray Fire-Arms, Ammu
nition and Sporting Goods’
Business, and offer a splendid
opportunity to any one wish
ing to carry on an established
business.
For terms, etc., apply to
G. S. McALPIN,
~~ FLO I It."
“Tb Isabel and Trade Mark of a well-known
and responsible manufacturer is the best pro
tection the public can have.”
L>r. MOTT, Government Chemist.
BEWARE
OF IMITATIONS.
The popularity and high reputation for uni
formity and excellence of quality which our
Self liaising Flour has attained during the part
THIRTY YE \RS have induced other parties to
put up imitations
OF
our Pa kagos and Trade Marks, same of them
so nearly like our own in general appearance
that many have been deceived and have had
inferior preparations imposed unon them. Wo
therefore caution our customers to be sure that
I PECKER'S
SEEF-R A USING
FLOUR
is on each package. Take uo other.
FOR SALE BY ALL FIBST-CLASS GROCEItS.
GEORGE V. HE' KER & COMPANY.
Llgl'lJ) GOLD.
Vc :
Ready for Instant Use.
WILLIAMS’ LIQUID GOLD insures the
splendid effect of Solid Gold, no matter where
applied, and it can be used by the most inexpe
rienced amateur. It was amploved to decorate
the magnificent homes of W. H.VAN DriKBILT
JAY GOULD, JUDGE HILTON, and many
other wealthy and distinguished New Yorkers.
It Giles Frames, Wood, Silk, Mftal. Paper,
etc., equal to Gobi Leaf, and I *AL>I can
find no more charming Art Work than gilding
with Williams’ Liqrin Gold.
Camels' Hair Brush in every box. PRICE sl.
Avoid trashy imitations. Sent by If AIL on kk
ceipt of the price. Circular free.
Niw York Chemical Mfo Cos., 3 E. 4th st.. N Y.
Sold by DRUGGISTS and ART DEALERS.
LUMBER.
J. J. WALL,
manufacturer of
YELLOW PINE LUMBER
Flooring. Ceiling, Weather-Boarding,
Mouldings of all Kinds.
Scroll Sawing and Turning in all Varieties,
LATHS, SHINGLES, ETC.
estimates furnished—prompt de
livery guaranteed.
Office at Y’ard 204 to 230 East Broad street, foot
of New Houston. Telephone 311.
SAVANNAH. - GEORGIA
IIAHOW ARK.
HOSE.
REELS,
SPRINKLERS.
STICKS,
TROWELS,
HOES AND RAKE3.
TILE.
FOR SALE BY
GARDEN
Edward Lovell’s Sons
155 lIKOUGHTOfJ ST.
COTTON FACTORS,.
Thomas F. Stubbs. W illiam S. Tison.
STUBBSJ& TISON,
Cotton Factors,
86 BA Y STREET.
SAVANNAH. - GEORGIA.
Liberal advaucoe made on of
cotton.
CHAS. A. COX
4CBAIINAHD ST., SAVANNAiI. (iA
—MAJfUFACTVRER OF—
GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES
AND
TIN ROOFING IN All ITS BRANCHES
LsUinate* for dty or country work promptly
(urakhal
A tcent fur Use celebrated Bw*Uab Metal la
flint
Aent for Walter'! I’eteot Tin bblmflM.
LOTTERY.
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTIOnT
OVER A MILLION OISTRIB’JTEO.
L.S.L.
Louisiana Stale Lottery Company.
Incorporated by the Degialature. for Eduea.
tvma! and < Tiarl'.sble purpose*, and it* fra a
ct. Ls- made a part of the pres-nt State Consti
tution, iu 1879, by an overwhelming popular vote,
an i
o continue until
January Ist, 1895.
It. MAMMOTH OKA’.VIAt.b lak e place
Annually ‘June and December} and it*
O*A!D '>LI.K NUMBER DRAWJYGa
lake place in each of the other ten months
of the year, and are all drawn In public, at
the Academy of Music. New Orleans La
f-AMED FOR TWENTY YEARS
For Integrity of Its Drawings and Prompt
Pavment of Prizes.
r -_ Attested aa follows:
We do hereby certify that me miner vfse th 4
arrangements for alt the Monthly ZZdfrmt
nJ ’?! Th ' FktuiAiana .state Lot
!Zz nd ** person manage and con
trol the Drawings themselves, ant that the
mine are conducted „.“i h.mestv, fairness.
'nsa‘lwrtisernfntf' 3UT , * ncUur “ and
fom m 1 Mlon e r*.
We the undersigned Banks and Bankers reOl
all rW*w drawn in The Louisiana State
Lotteries which may be presented at our coun
ters
K.‘.V’ WALRfSLBY. Prrt. Louisiana \at. Blu
I IKK HE l.miH. Pre. hiaie Kat’l ilk]
Grand Monthly Drawing
At the Academy of Music,
Tuesday, September 9, 1890.
Capital Prize $300,000.
100,000 Ticket* at #l*o each; Halves £10;
Muarter. £5; Tenth* £2; Twentieth. £l.
LIST or PRIZES.
1 PRIZE OF 1,000 is fLiDO rm
1 PRIZE OF 100,000 is
1 PRIZE OF 60,000 1* m’oS
1 PRIZE OF Sf.UA) I* SgnSl
2 PRIZES OF 10,000 am ...
6 PRIZES OF 6,000 am
26 PHIZES OF 1,000 are .
100 PHIZES OF 600 are ......
200 PHIZES OF 800 are mail
600 PHIZES OF 200 are . lai aU
„ JPPPOXIMJTIOX PRIZM."**
100 Prize* of *6OO are ayn <yn
100 Prixeaof 300 are V.'."’" so’ooo
100 Prize* of 200 are „ 20 000
TKRHINAL PRIZES.
800 Prizes of 100 are M onn
900 Prizes of 100 are 90,900
3,1.14 Prizes, amounting to tl 064.900
AGENTS WANTED.
CfT” For Club Rates, or any further In
formation desired, write legibly to the uuder
sigtiod, clearly stating your residence, with
state. County Street and Number. More rapid
return mail delivery will be assured by your
enclosing an Envelope bearing your full address,
IMPORTANT.
Address M. A. UACPHI4,
Aew Urleaua, La.,
or M. A. DAUPHIN, *
Wa.hiuglon, D. C.
Ity ordinary letter containing Money Order
Issued by all Express Coinpauies, New York Ex
ebauge, Draft or Postal Note.
Address Registered Letters Contain
incr Currency to
NEW ORLEANS .NATION AL BANK,
New Orleans. La.
••REMEMBER, that the payment of Prizes
Is GUARANTEED BY FOUR NATIONAL
RANKS of New Orleans, aud the Tickets are
signed by the President of an Institution whose
chartered riglits are recognized in the hiehert
Courts; therefore, beware of all imitations or
anonymous schemes.”
REMEMBER ihat the present charter o
the Louisiana State Lottery Company which
tile SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES has decided to be a CONTRACT
with the State of Louisiana, and part of the
constitution of the Slate, ROES NOT EX.
IMRE UNTIL THE FIRST of JANUARY.
18#5.
The Legidaturc of Louisiana, which ad
journed on the litt'u of July of this year, has
ordered an AMENDMENT to the Constitution
of the State, to be submitted to the People at
an election in 1892, which will carty the charter
of THE LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY
COMPANY up to the vear NINETEEN HUN
DRED AND NINETEEN,
BASKETS.
B ASKETSi
-jjAt Strauss Bros.’ _
0 LUNCH, D
A MARKET,
WORK, A
§ FLOWER, J
I# BABY ’ u
fl STAND. ft
E DELIVERY, r
LAUNDRY, t
J COAL, J
0 VEGETABLE. D
s'Strauss Bros., 3
j *2*2 and 22U Tlarnard Ntreet.
’ —a —— ii iin in— ii in pm —i
Ti zV S K ETS!
Ji.WI.LU i.
ffliiii
HAS A FINE SELECTION OF
Diamonds, Earrings, Finger
Rings and Unmounted
Diamonds,
Which He Sells at Very Close Figures.
Also, FINE STERLING - SILVER WARE in
elegant eases, and FINE TEA TABLES, p-enu
in** Yernift Martin, a beautiful thiug for a wed
ding present.
Ib-KAKAT PLAIN RING a specialty.
21 BULL ST.
PLUMBER.
lT a. McCarthy,
44 HARNABD HTHEET,
(Under KulghU of Pythias' Hall).
PLUMBING AND CAS MIISE.
STEAM HEATING A SPEOALTf.
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