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Newspaper Page Textpart two. ■BV YORK'S HOY EDITOR *;5 HEALTH SUFFERING F- O M TOO ■ MANY CARES. e \Vond- rf;;t Career of the "Sunny ■ Hour's” ITr.dir Mayor Chapin'a ■ Baby Wasro’.i Iron Kings and Aqua ■ pura-“01d Hutch" as a Cr.tic. ■ >k\v York, July 18.—Tello lEApery, H. A York's most famous boy editor, is Bes Ding the bitter fruit of success, and Bus been ordered out of the city by his doc ■ Yhis lad, now about 14 yoars old, is a Bitt.e marvel of acute editorial judgment. K, 6eenjs to have beeu born in him. Very Barlv in his eJitoriul career he would bo Bloving with his marbles or his pet cat when Be "would say: “I have ati idea. I will Btr.t- t' 1 d'rince so and so and get an article Brtho Sunny Hour. His ideas always Bare worked. He lias published in his lit- K, monthly articles from more kings and ■perns ai.'d princes and war-worn generals ■tan any tlir-o magazines of grown-up di- Biarsions. Carmen Sylva Bent him two po- Br.is. Osman l'aslm, the defender of I’levna, Brut him an article for which a magazine Bel! or would have given a front tooth, ■prince Roland B aiapa-te has just sent him ■the manuscript of aa unpublished book on Bic.enee with full liberty to use extracts. ■The Princess of Wales sent him a story. A Bmsn publisher he irmg of this concluded ■tint he could i ns much and sent a blank ■check for ttnoi . The check was, of course, ■returned. I S cial leadirs in New York took the boy Itijianl made a pet of him. Their children I wrote for him and he was in demand at re Iceptions and fairs, wliore he was a mo lei of ■ boyish deportment. Hut all this was hard lon a growing boy's vitality. Tello will be I kept at schoi .1 this winter in the country, lout of reach of city excitements. Turee I davs in each month he will have leave of I absence to come down and get his paper I ready for the press. Next year he will go I abroad, ami whether he goes to Laris, Spain, I Greece, Turkey, Africa. South America or I China, he will be able to hobnob with suo- Isoribersand contributors ot the most im | posing and dignified character. The sanctum of this youug editor is a mu seum. There are shelves tilled with curi osities, and rows up m rows of photographs. Most of thj distinguished contributors, aud sine like tjueen Victoria, who have not contributed, have sent him portraits, so that the wall is like a gallery of notables, d’rince Roland Bonaparte is a splendid looking young man with a slight mustache. Gara bed Keshiskian, the publisher of the Con stantinople Illustration, is a handsome middle-aged Turk with a fez and a full brown beard. Osman Pasha’s military' coat is covered with military decorations. Prince Mavrocordato looks out from anoth er photograph. There is another of Gen. Sherman aud a letter, almost the last he ever wrote, and other letters and newspa pers in every language. Mr. Keshiskian’s Turkish paper has a picture of Tello on its last page, which is its first as we would reckon, while the title page is on tho back. The type looks not unlike the Chinese flre oiacker character*. Every number of this youug editor’s magazine has paid from the first. There are few editors who could say as much. The money goes into a ‘’barefoot fund,’’ to buy woes for poor boys. LITTLE RHODY’S NEIGHBOR. ‘You see, the Massachusetts people call us heretics and Anabaptists. They’ve never forgiven us since they drove us out of their slate. In their eyes we are all a lot of free thinkers.” It was a Rhode Island man who said this, snd I rubbed my eyes aud stared at him prepared to hear him next declare him self a chum of Roger Williams. Then it oc curred to me that I really know very little about the Rhode Island of the present except Newport divorces and yaoht raee3, and the fact that it is a small state. So 1 opened my question box then and there. Yes, my informant admitted, it was a cu rious survival of oid prejudices. The old feeling still exists that Bostonians are a sour, dour race, even as they in turn denounce the Rhode Islanders as infidels. On the other hand, the Cape Cod people get alo ig very well with their neighbors. “The Pilgrims nsver persecuted us or drove us out; it was the Furitans,” said he, dropping again into his curious air of familiar experienceof past hardships. “We pride ourselves on our lib eral views. We live to enjoy life and to lot others do tho same. If people start a Con- Fegauuual church down tiere they call i' the free Congregational, to avoid all sus picion of straight laced ways. Don’t you think we are literal*” I did think so. It was Providence and biaday. It was almost a continental Sun day All the street cars were full. Tho bay ''asfull of excursions, tho river of pleasure boats. The nabobs were off at their coun try scats taking things easy. It was a day Wrest. Then I remembered how I had once been struck by the sternness of a nosten Sunday, and began reflecting °n the curious survival of state differ ences. iron rings and aqua pura. I have discovered absolutely the fattest Miner. now transacted in tho United tales. It is the manufacture of a “mag sticiron ring,” which, when worn on the nper, cures or wards off rheumatism. Of urse tue manufacturer is a Boston man, i ! l ' s rather curious that Bostonians are .• Vla £. the rings in some numbers at $2 I*™, J'elding a profit of 6(1,000 per ceut. ins W 0I ! e of lhese thiQ s;® on the finger of a Yn-t " 10 incautiously visited New mm r n 'i ho tu * ( * a moving talo of being ■ "i ,t *'* to wear it by a maiden aunt who aad him m her will.” It was the first I enn ,*?“ tn New York, but they are common e Mugh In Boston. iron ring cure rheumatism? the ennflj You put il on - vour fioger in are hiJi^? eB v 9 . being healed and you pie 1 6d ‘ * 8 te'tb cure, pure aud sim th'n?s are done in tho healing art w ss 1 liave a frioi,J > a druggist, who He tritTi . , I lresonbe for loss of memory, t. , , t 0 induce the man to go to a Uoc wouldn’t have it. the drii J 1 ®* * ll Y ol * a strong dose,” said ’ >!! d bo made up a harmless withVlim a!e . r—a<l “ a IHlra ’ belled it— mutttaiiv® Coloring matter. “Now you ii sv aY e twelve drops of this four times a before 011 ’ “before each meal and tak tiVi lU^,t 0 u< **. Bur ® and always truss a 8,,, V 0 jP*> and don’t on any account tire wr.i,.,* 0 ! 11 . 1 * 60 or Y ou " ill loose the en one.” L ' ’ts a slow cure, but a sure end!-iiv! r r 1 ?^ lflt “brewdly reasoned that the the pn-hi v! remember taki gthe dosos at ®n a rm, wou l d in itself improve the af tcrthe ?l ry ’ ° ,ul lt did. A few weeks Kreatlv fat lent came in to say that ho was t of oTe, ‘- e hail siin 'y ** ‘bto that hiw remembering, winch was all J° a CHAPIN’S BABY WAGON. roung C , n 5!! day a ta ’*< and saturnine aiorij/a r- T? s wnee ling a haby wagon f ”‘'Ow whoT.s ly ? St ? et Wben a w *Kgish thout happed 'g™/ °° untry relaCive •hka'i 4 * w ‘ th the baby wagon V he * ’ That’s Mayor Chapin.” The morning news. “Sho,” said the stranger. “Fact,” glibly rejoined the wag, “Haven’t you noticed anything in the papers about bow many men wheel perambulators over here?” “Why, yes; I have; in Puck," the visitor admitted. “Well, all that has come about very re cently, aid Mayor Chapin set the fashion. \\ hv, no oven takes his latest baby down to the city hall and”—. “What, every day?” “No, only washdays and every other Thursday, when tho girl has her day out. As I wub saying he wheels the baby down and leaves the carriage in a corner of his ottice in tho city hall. Then he takes the child up once in a while, or perhaps the big policeman play3 with it. Just to give Mrs. Chapin a clear field at home, you know.” "Well, that is what I call real thought ful,” was the comment of toe visitor, who was of the sex that doesn’t always under stand jokes. A NEW VIEW OP TURKEY. A lady who has lived long and had espe cial opportunities for observation in Turkey, h s been inspiring ino with a somewhat novel view of the Turkish character. “1 had always supposed that ‘cruel as a Turk’ meant very cruel, indeed, and that they were absolutely without redeeming features except courage.” “Why, no,” raid the lady. “V ou wrong them. 1 have never known a more gentle, courteous and kindly race. I never saw but one drunken man iu all Turkey, a;d ha was an English doctor. They are ignorant, of coarse, but kind to" their women.” “What?” I said. "How about polyga my ?” “O, of course, they don’t apportion wives quite as we do, but views of morality change with changing skies. They think some of our customs very dreadful, just as wo dis approve of theirs. But Turkey, with all its faults, is very necessary to tne peace of Europe. Better tu have her where she is, even if a trifle dreamy and unprogressive, than to have the Russian hordes overspread all southern Europe and reign undisputed ou the shores of the Black Sea.” AN AFTERNOON CONCERT. Over on tho west side among tho great ships which lie at their wharves a strange sight may be witnessed every afternoon. Two great Bound strainers of rival lines be side by side near the foot of Warren street waiting for passengers to Boston. Compe tition for business has become pretty sharp between the two lines and every afternoon one feature of that competition is the play ing of their bauds on the after deck when it is pleasant. The bands cau be heard far up the street, not ala ay* agreeing per fectly. While the loader of one is asserting that Annie Rooney is his sweetheart, the other maybe greeting the announcement with doleful *trai s of “The Heart Bowed Down.” As starting time draws near the music becomes livelier. Then the street urchins from blocks around gather about the wharves and dance rigadoons and pig eon wings to the merry strains. And the passengers sit aft and take it iu with great satisfaction. THE POET OF THE SIERRAS. Joaquin Miller is well remembered at Easton, Pa., where he lived for some time and where his son lies buried. All the Eastonians regard his name and memory in a kindly if rather pitying fashion. Totiieir judgment the poet of the Sierras is a crank, who used to waste his time and white paper writing poetry when he might have been doing something more practical. There is a considerable practical streak in Mr. Miller, however. When the late P. T. Barnum offered a SSOO prize for the best poem on the white elephant Mr. Miller was one of the three who divided the prize. Mr. Miller used, the Eastonians say, to affect slouch hat and mystery. Of late years New York and tho ends of the earth Lave known him better. THE SAFE OLD SEP.VIA. The repairs on the Servia are progressing rapidly, but there is ono thing which can never be quite restored —her reputation for safety and reliability. There have bean a great many people who have stuck to the .Servia in spite of the building of newer and faster boats because of her steadiness. An drew Carnegie has crossed in her dozens of times, up to ns iate as last fall. 1 have my self made three passages on her in all w eathers and have been told bv her officers that lots of people had a superstitious belief in her safe qualities. In time cue comes to have a feeling of personal uffeetion for a steamship and it seems liko personal bad news to hear of her breaking down at sea. The accident shows how valuable the double engine would bo. The City of Paris or Majestic or Furst Bismarck would get along very nicely with an engine disabled. But the Servia is a magnificent improve ment on the first of the name and carries as much freight for B cents as the old Servia did for 35. KEEPING THE TIME OF BOATS. I know a keeper of pleasure boats who has devised a most ingenious scheme to keep ac counts of tho amounts due by those who hire them. Each boat is numbered, and upon an upright screen back of tho wharf are as many rude clock dials as there are boats, and similarly numbered. Above them all is a real clock. As each boat goes out the owner notes the time and sets the hands on the dial bearing the corresponding nuiubor to that hour. When the boat returns a glan -a at the di il and the clock above it is enough to tell just how long it has been out. Borne such contrivance as this is almost necessary to handlo the crowds at boating resorts. Tho old method of bookkeeping was slow and cumbrous iu comparison. SAM BOWLES REPLY. Sam Bowles 11, king of the Springfield Republican, has a rather dry humor. Not long ago a townsman came iuto nis office to complain about a reporter who ha 1 pub lished a legitimate item about his busi ness. “Haven’t l auy redress?” he bawled in a passion finally. “Why, of course,” said Mr. Bowles. "Well, what then?” “Sue the paper or lick the reporter,” said the editor, turning away to his desk. “OLD HUTCH” A8 A CRITIC. "Old Hutch,” as the eccentric grain speculator of Chicago is familiarly known, is no ignoramus, but a man of a rather keen literary as well 89 business judgment. He admires Emerson and can quote him by the hour, but thinks Hawthorne the great est American author. Mr. Hutchinson be lieves Talmage to be Beecher’s successor as the greatest American preacher, and can talk about the future as well as "fu tures.” SUCH IS FAME. A year ago Ward McAllister’s name was in everybody’s mouth. He was the topic of the hour. The other day a New York Journalist, editor-in-chief ot a great paper, turned to his assistant and said: “What's that society chap’s name; the mau who wrote the hook ?” “McAllister,” ventured the assistant after a moment’s hesitation. “ Y’os, that’s the man,” said the editor, "Do you know how he spells it?" Such is fame! Owen Langdon. SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY. JULY 19. 1891. WHAT MAKESWN ACTRESS THB AMERICAN ACADEMY DIREC TOR ON THE REQUIREMENTS. Acting Does Not Come Naturally—lt Must Be Taught—Society Women Not a Success Upon the Stage—Some of the Requisites of the Dramatic Profession—Silent Action as an Art. ( Copvright .) New York, July 18.—Acting is an art which must be learned by hard study both on and off the stage. It requires much aud varied preparation. Of course natural gifts are a power within themselves, but it re quires experience to ripen them, and it is only by study that the simplest effects can be properly reached. To be natural on the stage is not a matter of casual mood, but of il trained habit. A young woman may be exceptionally well gifted. Sue may be pretty, have a good facial expression, a fine-speaking voice, a commanding stature and have the nec.ssary physical conditions, aud yet be unable to portray the emotions of the human mind in such a manner as to bo en tertaining and intelligible to others. Lot any one go upon the stage before an audience and say the same things and act the same deeds wmch ordinarily occur in every-day life, and he will appear wholly stupid aud uninteresting. It will he no more entertaining to an onlooker than is any commonplace visit into any ordinary family, such a occurs every day. No one is particularly interested or entertained. People must be taught how they should act, move, walk, speak aud sing, if they are to do these things as perfectly as to please others. Long ago, nature nfight have been so lavish with her children that each man and woman said and did exactly the right thing at tho right time, aud with exactly tho right expression. But all that has passed away. We are taught ia etiquette books and in so ciety to conceal our emotions. A ladylike monotone w ith smooth aud even accent and a voice that never rises or falls beyond a certain pitch, are things ordinarily to be cultivated. Never, in ordinary parlor con versation must the face express extreme emotion. Passion, rage, anger, disgust, contempt, pleasure and surprise, must all i e veiled beneath au out aril mask of serenity. The woman of breeding will never show by the lifting of an eyelid that she thinks a person is bad tempered, unkind or even cruel. At all times a beautiful calm over spreads her features; she walks slowly, speaks deliberately, aud whatever effect sho may wish to produce she does ontirelv by means of little ways and actions that are pretty, rather than affective. In a parlor this may he quite agreeable, but upon tho stage the effect) is lost and the woman would appear inane and lifelong. It is because of this that theatrical man agers dread the society woman who goes upon the s.age. She may, in the first place, have prestige and name as a social leader, and if she is connected with fine family and has gone upon the stage bucauso of domestic or other disturbances, this fact goes far to arouse curiosity iu alvauce from an in— dulgor.t public who, having hoard of he<- proviously, are willing to go once to see her behind the footlights. All this is very well as long as the new ness and freshness and novelty lasts, but there comas a time when the society woman, having been seen o oe by all the world, must sink into oblivion ia the minds of the fair-minded puDiic. They see that, actuated by otuer motives than those which should impel auy one choosing a vo cation, the actress is either frivolous, vain, indolent or incompetent. They notice that she does not imnrove, and that, having seen her once aud gratified their curiosity, they have seen all that there is to be seen. The pretty little mannerisms, sweet voice, style and figure, which in the first place made any lady at tractive upon tho stage, are not suf ficient to keep them interested beyond the first night’s performance. And that is tho reason that high standard schools of acting and theatrical managers hesitate to take a society woman and bring her before the public. Occasionally there will be one that will find that she has chosen tho proper vocation, and will, after a time, de vote herself to study so earnestly that good results are achieved, but more often there is no improvement after the first week, and the manager finds that ho has a star who is a white elephant upon his hands, and who cannot keep her placo before the public. In examining candidates for our school of acting, frequently have young women come to me and mention the fact, as a point in their favor, that they are never nervous when appearing before the public. They say that they are always calm, cool, collected aud unimpressionable. When I satisfy myself that this is really the case, and that a young woman cannot be aroused so as to exhibit or at least to feel nervous ness, lat once make up my mind that she is wholly unsuitable for tho stage. A suc cessful actress must be highly nervous; sho must be scared when she goes behind tho footlights, her heart must beat faster as she sees the audience. There must be a state of nervous tromcr and she must feel in sympathy with the audience, or she will he wholly unsuccessful in catching their atten tion and holding their interast throughout the part. One of our first tests in examining candi dates is to put them upon the stage and after picturing a dramatic scene aud locat ing the characters, ask them to say certain lines. 1 say to a young woman, “Suppose that opposite you stands your lover and seeks to estrange you. A woman who is the heavy viilain of the play stauds in the background, scowling and lowering upon you. Your lover says: ‘I was wrong. For give—forgive. Show this woman that yon can forgive.’ How cau you reply and where would you locate your characters?” Now, a young woman with the true dramatic instinct will locate all these char acters, put them in tl eir right positions upon the stage, and, keeping each one in her own mind, will say her lines so vividly that you can see in your minds eye each and every character. Sho may not, being untaught, suy the lines with proper inbect iou, hut you can plainly see that she real izes how many people are upon the stage, where they are and to whom she should look when making an appeal. Another girl, with a good voice, and ap parently the sr.me dramatic properties as the other, will have a vague look in her eyes, and will say the lines looking here and there and yet nowhere in particular, thus robbiug them of all in'erest. What kind of a girl do we like best to train for an actress ? Weill It is hard to tell exactly, because tho subtle element enters iuto the composi tion so largely, that given all the qualities which I am about to enumerate, a young woman might yet come to us and be refused admission. We first consider her nation ality. The French and Irish are the best, as they are the most adaptable and suscept ible. The Germans are next, if we except Americans, who being a mixture of all nationalities, are brightest of all. There are roles upon the variety stage which make Americans invaluable, and their ready wit makes them quick to learn a part* and notice those points which upon a first night take best with an audience. The English, especially Englisb men, are good in society play*. Among the Americans the dowueaiters ] are toe hardest to train. They are brainy I aud smart and have a natural business fac ulty, but they do not do well in roles of sentiment, ft is the southern girl, with her sensitive temperament, emotional nature and dreamy eyes who can move her audi ence and carry her hearers with her through all the varying lights and Yules of j domestic life inwrought with unhappiness and tragedy. As to hight, it is a great disadvantage to he short, because, however arti-stic one may bee me in adding au assumed hight to one’s own stature, tho actor can never quite over come the defect with which nature has handicapped him. If an actress, she will always find that/it is difficult for her to play stately or commanding parts, if she is slight, she cau add to her hight by making conspicuous her litheness and slen derno-s. Vocal quality, vocal expression and pan tomimic action must all be taken in aec uiit in examining the qualifications of aspirants. Some people havo naturally a goo l v. ice, a good walk and an expressive face. Others have to acquire these. The former are fort unate, while the latter are not, but these things are wholly aside from tho dramatic instinct. Without this last an actress is never a success, beautifully gifted though she may be. But give her this instinct aud she is a success from the beginning, because she had that which cannot be ac ;ui:el aud to which oil other things ai e subservient. The brightest girls who ever come to us are those who have beo i on the variety stage. They have been before tho public for a year or two and nave decided to learn those things which will onable thorn to take part in the legitimate drama. Nothing ever disconcerts them; no audience can ever throw them out of countmanco. They come to us to receive tho finishing touches. We have only to prune and to refine— to teach them little olegances of manner and speech which they have not learned. They are our best pupils. Ordinarily, with people who lack train ing or stage experience, expression is c on veyed by the face. At best, the hands are brought into use, but rarely is the rest of the body called upon to perform any office other than that of a vehicle to hold the head and arms. Now this is entirely wrong. The body must talk, and one should bo able to show by the movements of the body whether one is pleased or unhappy, and whether one is agreeing with the speaker or disagreeing. Take the sipiple sentence, “It is not so.” Think of how many ways there are of say ing that without uttering a sound. Let us leave out all except the one sequence that comes with emphasis. To begin with, sup pose you wish to say simply and ns quietly as possible, “It is not so." Without speak ing a word, a closing pf the eyelids and a slight drooping of tne mouth expresses this sentence. Wo repeat the thought more em phatically. This time the eves are closed, the mouth droops, the nose contracts slightly, very slightly, and the head is turned to one side. There is a slight closing of the hand. Again, “It is not so.” The right hand sweeps across the body with a negative gest ure toward the rignt, the back of the hand is uppermost aud the head moves toward the left with a negative turn that is almost a shake. Once more, “It is not so.” And now. th whole body moves. The hip, shoul ders and head seem to be turning violently away as if in utter abhorrence of the idea, while the hand sweeps away as if it were brushing all thought of the object from the mind. But one more way remains, without actual speech, and that is, to*rise with all these negative gestures, to rush from the room with the long stride that indicates grief, disgust, denial and despair. Lifting tho shoulders and lifting the chin are both strong expressions. They are rare aud should only be used when abandonment and iute. so emotion are indicated. A youugiwoman or a young ms i wishing to judge of eligibility to a school of acting cannot be his own critic as to points of ex pres ion. The only thing that can bo self detormined is a natural fondness for the work and the knowledge that one has the ordinary requisites for the stage, to-wlt: a fair education, sensitive temperament, and no serious physical defect. As to age, we prefer scholars from ti-l to ID. For special roles (character parts) they are eligi ble beyond those years. An actor should possess many accom p ishtnents. Ho should be a! le to sing, danca and fence, have an eye for color and form, as in costuming, au ear for every shade of dialect, much business f culty and a mind well stored bv observation, study nnd experience. The la: ger t e Knowledge of other aria, the better. In the old days beginners in acting were simply apprentices in their dramatic work shops. Now there are schools. Such has been the educational advance in the study of ucting that the dramatic vocation has become a profession ns well as a trade, de manding knowledge as well as skill. Dramatic training flrt strengthens and tunes the actor’s instruments—the body and the voice. It educates the nuud to a fuller realization of the power and qualities of action, diction nnd stago effect than the ex perience of real life afford. Careful train-, ing helps and develops not only the tech nique of the smge and dramatic effect, but also the very spirit of the different parts iu the play. I would say to every one who wishes to go upon the s age: Abandon all hopes of sudden success and devote yourself hon estly, earnestly nnd thoughtfully to sys tematic drill and training. Franklin H. Sargent, Director of the American Academy of the Dramatic Arts. ALL HEADY FOR NEWPORT. Polo Players In Readiness for tho Next Meeting. (Covwiaht, 1891 i Newport, H, 1., July 18.-N*ow that the bouts are settled at Rockaway, Westbury, Morristown, and other country club centers, the polo-players of the entire country are looking forward to tho great series of games to be played in this city by the sea on the grouuds of the Westchester Polo Cluh, August 17 and 19 One of these contests will decide the possession of the Newport cups for the teams of four, an event of special interest, as it is played without handicap, and will be won by the strongest team in America. If there is any misinformed individual who really think* that the rich young meu of the country are going to the dogs for lack of courage and physical vigor he ought to see a few polo games. It would do him good. Polo is the rich man's game. A poor man can’t stand tho expense of the ponies aud the traveling. Tho heirs of many mil lions meet and cavort and wheel aud plunge and scuffle on the spongy turf of the polo ground. Now and again one of them is thrown In tho heat of the turmoil, but no body minds that in the least. If a pony steps on him the others console themselves by reflecting that the little beast doesn’t weigh much and press on for the coveted gcal. The quick swinging of niallet3 in a scrimmage, the smashing of their long and slender bandies, the shock of men and ponies and hurry of hoofs make a spectacle rather more interesting than a base ball match. Polo playing is a very exclusive sport. The onlookers are always comparatively few and altogether select. The American Polo Association include* fifteen clubs, probably ail that exist in the country. How many individual members this may repre sent is hurd to say. some of the clubs being much larger than others; but it is certain that the number of active players is far be low 500. They are much loss than the fox hunters Fat and elderly gentlemen cau follow the hounds with a reasonable degree of circumspection, but they have uo business iu the polo field. So tho number of players is few, but they make up for that fact by the display of a surprising amount of energy. Everybody knows that Theodore Roose velt, civil service commissioner and ex-polo player and fox hunter, broke his arm at a Long Island fence following the onise seed rail, and that Stanley Mortimer, a more re cent participant, has only just recovered from a broken leg at the same rough sport. Perhaps polo is less provocative of serious fractures than hunting, though Dallett, of the Essax County Club, has just boon laid up for a month, but more ignoble knocks and bruises must certainly bo received. Take the long season from June 8 to Oct. 10—more than four mouths —and in the almost continuous games of the different series a very large number of minor accidents are expected as a matter of course. I remember very vveil a furious rally in the games at the Meadow Brook Club’s grounds, when two out of tho eight players, Mr. Cowden and Mr. Beeck man, were down almost at the same mo ment. But, however much theso accidents might frighten the timid, tho polo players will probably live longer than dry goods clerks, besides enjoying themselves much belter while they do live. Of all the other players Foxhall Keene, or “Foxy,” as lie is better known, is tho most and iring and fertile of resource, as well as the best known to the public. Youug Keene has made a fine record as a “gentleman joo .ey” in steeple chases, and is known on the race track as the owner of Tournament aud other crack horses. Keene is light and athletic in build, a per foot devil on horseback for daring, and can dispute tho decision of the umpire— “referee” they cull him in polo—with os much vigor as big Capt. Af'Sod, of the Chioagos. He is handicapped at ten goals in playing inntoh games. Keene belongs to the Rockaway Polo Club, which is perhaps a9 strong an organization os any in the coun try. He is ably seconded in it by John F. Cowden, handicapped at eight goals, Jack Cheever aud William Rutherford, with L. J. Frank* l , J. 8. Stevens, A. C. Tower and W. La Mon tague as clever and aspiring seconds. The Westchester club is distinctly inferior to tho Rockawava. Its crack player is R. L. Beekman of the old Knickerbocker stock. A young player of the Westche .ters who is showiug in surprisingly good form this year is C. 8. Bates. Theodore A. Havemeyer, Jr., son of the great sugar trust magnate, is another crack player, and E. C. Potter usually makes with these a team of four who play well together. August Belmont of the Meadowbrooks, is another crack, officially handicapped at six goals. Old August Belmont had two sons —one we it in politics, tho other for sport. Both were cases of inheritance, as Mr. Bel* mont, Hr., wis active both in political campaigns and on the turf. T. Hitchcock, haudJNtpped at eight goals, is anotner of the Menilowbrook team. O. W. Bird, a di rector of the national association, handi capped at six goals, is the third and R. D. Wi tbrop the fourth. PJayiug without handicaps the Rockaway temn, headed by Keene and Cowden, is probably the best in the country. Two other experts about New York are N. P. Farr of the Essex club and L. Turnure, Jr., of Rockaway. Philadel phia looks with pride upon H. C. Groom and H. P. McKean among other*. The geographical distribution of polo is not very wide. The New \ r ork vicinity has, besides the three which have been named, the Oyster Bay Folo Club, the Essex County (N. J.) Polo Club, the Morris County (S’. YU) Country Club and the Tux edo c lib, all of which were founded by New York men at their different summer homes. Philadelphia has a country club named by its honorable name, with a suburban re treat. Boston has the Hingtnan and Har vard clubs and the incredibly named Myo pia—that really is its title, tjiough it is usually difficult to convince people of the fact. They always think it is a poor joke on the Bostonian spectacles. These aro the clubs which will contest here at Newport for the Westcheiter Polo Club cups, handicap, and the Newport cups without handicap. If preponderance of numbers goes for anything, some of the New Y'orkers ought to win the honors of the coming meet. After the Newport games the polo players will go to the Myopia grounds, near Boston, in early Septe nb r, and to the Hingham grounds m the middle of the month. The Philadelphia Country Club will have its games the last ten days of September. The last series of matches will be played on the Morris countv grounds in early October, but the Meadowbrook club’s autumn cud will lie fought for and awarded' even later, at a date not yet detiniltely fixed. Play began in June, practice much earlier. The couutry season iu America is certainly extending in length. It is not known that there was such a thing in colo nial times, but of late it has extended very rapidly from two months to six with those who can afford it. The business of breeding and selling polo ponies has developed with the game. The I points of a polo pony are so different from those required of nny other specks of ani mal that he is a kind apart. Speed is not required, but the pony must be quick at turning. Size is a disadvantage, as it puts the rider farther from the ball. Be-ides, almost any man would rather have a little .horse fall on his leg than a big one. The pony must be sagacious, perfectly docile, capable of enjoying the game on his own account. All these qualifications are com bined in the best panie*, who readily sell at from S3OO to S7OO. A crack player must have more than one to be sure of a mount always. Polo is in no great danger of becoming the national game, for reasons obvious. But for the development and exhibition of pluck there is no sport which surpasses it. I have a very high appreciation of the pluck of the young men who engage iu it, and quite agree with the lovers of the game in the belief that it is better for young men of leisure to chase each other about a polo Held wnacking a ball with a long handled mallet than to pursue the more usual amusements of dudes and “Johnnies" when in town. Of course polo came to us from England, but England sends us nothing but blessings when we ! borrow from her thousand years of leisure an out game or two. Indeed, if one con siders base ball a direct descendant of the English “rounders,” America has had time, so far, to develop no original athletic ex ercise whatever except chewing tobacco, aud that might well be dispensed with. David Wechsler. G. M. Carter, Ches er, S. C\, writes: “A negro boy here had a bad case of scrofula. The doctor said it would kill him. I got him to use Botanic Blood Balm. He took a dozen bottles and is now well. He has not used any of it for four months and continues well." — Ad. SI 00. $1 00, SI 00. $1 OO For children’s gingham kilt suits at Appel & Schaul’s, one-price clothiers, 159 Broughton street. — Ad. DRY GOOD!.. OCEANS OF BARGAINS THIS WEEK For Close, Shrewd Buyers MORRISON,FOYEtfCO/S. M-l Weatlier Hero in. DRESS FOR THE COMFORTS OE LIFE. Lawns, Ghallies, Organ dies, Batistes, Dimities, Striped, Piaid and Plain Fast Black Lawns, Seersuckers, Zephyrs, Ginghams and Other Hot Weather Specialties. 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