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Hints to Base Ball Players. Don't let your pitcher get full too often. A small man will last longer than a big one, for pitcher. "Little pitchers have long (y) ears." Men who want an advance pay iu;t hfore a match are not "good strikers." Never "sell" a game. Ped dling matches is a small business. It is better to have one of your nine -'out on a foul" than out on a lark. A "boy of the period" docs not necessarilv make a cood short j - stop. Amiable men make the best players; they are not easily "put out." No bottles should be allowed on the trround not even blue C3 bottles for "fly catching." Players should not indulge in vulgar shouts, lest they be class ed with foul bawls. To The North Pole by Balloon, M. Audrce, of Stockholm, Sweden, will shortly go to Paris to oversee the making of the bal loon in which he will attempt to reach the North Pole. The bal loon will be made of double silk, and will be capable of floating in the air for thirty days at a height of two hundred and fifty metres. It will carry three persons, in struments, ballast four months' provisions, a sledge, sail boat, weapons and ammunition. M. Andree hopes to i teer his airship by means of sails, and brake ropes dragging on the earth when necessary. He proposes to start in July, 1896, and hopes to return toward the inhabited parts of America or Siberia. Why She Never Married. When a man tempts fate by reminding a spinster of her con dition his punishment is swift and sudden. In a country of Ireland where the Quakers are numerous the entire body on one occasion gathered together for one of their quarterly meetings. After the exercises of the morn ing a public luncheon was held, at which all the friends attended. The conversation turned to mat rimony. ".Bridget," said an unmannerly youthful member of the society, speaking across the crowded table to a prim, elderly maiden lady, "Wilt thou tell me why thou hast never married?" "Certainly, Friend William," responded the ready Bridget, in a voice audible over the 100111. " 'Tis because I am not so aisy XMeased as thy wife was." Nearly Frooze to Death. While his thermometer fifty feet away registered 100 degrees, Uriah Matthews, of Massillon, O., sat in his cold storage room one day last week, in great danger of freezing to death. He entered the chamber to arrange some supplies, leaving the door open. An employee, not knowing that Mr. Matthews was inside, closed the door and locked it carefully. Mr. Matthews shouted a u d pounded, but in vain. He had grown stiff and numb and was all but unconscious when, occa sion arising for some one to enter, the door was unlocked. He was carried out helpless, but alive. Restoratives were applied and he will recover. The Peary Relitf Expedition. The whale boat Kite has been chartered to carry an expedition of ten persons to Greenland to rescue Lieutenant Peary, the Arctic explorer, Emile Diebitsch. Peary's brother-in-law, will have chanre of the Dart v. Mrs. Pearv x J j will not accompany the party, but will wait for the return of her husband at St. Johns, N. F 1 he Kite is to start about the middle of next month. Fatal Railroad Accident. A special train which left Wheeling, W. Va., with a fire engine for Cameron, lumped the track about two miles east of that place at 12:30 o'clock Mon day morning. The train was running at a rapid rate when the engine jumped the rails, and turned over its side down an eu bankmeut. The cab caught fire and Engineer Duffy was found inside in the midst of the flames. He was crushed in a shocking manner, and must have died al most instantly. Richard Dono hoe, Jr., of Wheeling, was on a gondola next to the tender, and when found under the trucks life was extinct. Charles Litton, of Moundsville, was also on the gondola, and has his breast badly crushed. Frank Ferrell, o f Mouldsville, was found under the gondola dead. All of the occu pants of the caboose, eleven in number, were more or less se riously injured. Cameron, W. Va., has been fire-swept this week. The loss is estimated at 200,000. HOW BURR S BEAUTY DIED The Famous Man's Daughter's Fate Disclosed at Last. .Norfolk 1'uulic Ledger. The story of how Aaron Burr's only child.beautiful young Theo dosia, met her death at'the hands of ocean pirates years ago, and how thatiact was only very re cently established by the discov- rery of a portrait of her. rescued from the schooner from whence she was thrown into the sea, is told in print for the first time. Involving, as it does, the death bed confession of one of the pi rates who drowned the young woman, the tale seems more like liction than verified history; but there are persons living who have verified it in detail,aud who will vouch for its accuracy. Theodosia Purr, a young woman of unusual mental attain ments, was married to the son of Judge Alston, of South Carolina, a relative of Washington Alston, the celebrated historical portrait painter. Mr. and Mrs. Alston resided on their plantation near Charleston. When Aaron Purr contemplated returning from the extended visit he made to Europe after his trial, he wrote Mrs Als ton, to whom he was devotedly attached, asking her to meet him in New York on his arrival there. Mr. Alston, engrossed with the business of his planta tion, found it impossible to ac company his wife There being no railroads in those days, and Mr. Alston, deeming that a sum mer trip from Charleston to New York by sea would be less irk some to his wife than a stage iourney by laud, chartered a coasting schooner. In this Mrs. Alston set out. She took with her as a present to her father, a beautiful painting of herself. Put she never reached New York,aud down to the present day the fate of Aaron Purr's only child has been a matter of speculation among historians, some'eontendr ing that the vessel and all on board were lost at sea, others asserting that Mrs. Alston fell in the hands of some of the pirates who in those days infested the Atlantic Coast. Put the mystery has at last bee 1 cleared up. Its accuracy is vouched for by the former rec tor of Trinity Episcopal Church, Elkton, Md., a clergyman well known throughout Maryland and the Middle States. DISCOVERED DURING A VISIT About five years ago this clergyman was visiting his ua tive State, North Carolina, and for several days was the guest of tne widow of the late Dr. W il liam Poole, near Elizabeth City. Above the mantlepiece in Mrs. Poole's parlor was an old-fashioned painting, exquisitely exe cuted, of a beautiful young wo man dressed in white. It so interested the clergyman that he asked Mrs. Poole whom it was intended to represent. She then gave the following story ot it : Eight years previously, she said, Dr. Poole had taken his family to pass the summer at the little coast town of Nag's Head, N. C, where the United States man-of-war Huron came to grief. The place is largely populated by "bankers" gener ally a rough class of men who mainly earn a livelihood by pick ing up all species of flotsam and Jetsam along the coast. One of these "bankers," however, was a very respectable and very old fellow, named Mann. His wife was suffering Jfrcm a complica tion of diseases, and Dr. Poole took great interest in her case. Under his treatment she recover ed, and as a token ofgratitudeitol the doctor presented him with the painting which so greatly interested the clergyman. Mrs. Mann said her husband had re covered it from a wreck. When quite a young man he was walk ing along the shore one morning. His attention was then called to a coasting schooner under full sail, bearing swiftly down upon the dangerous bar which in later years occasioned the loss of the Huron. With other "bankers" Maun put out to her assistance rhey boarded the schooner, 1 . . C . . . . ,1 1 1 A. A. 1 .1 1 uul juiuiu mm uie oniv nvino- thing aboard was a little black and tan dog. Careiul inspection ot the sohoouer proved nothine as to her antecedents. Even her name was not ascertainable. Put one of the cabins had evidently been very recently occupied by a woman, and in this cabin was the painting whicn Mrs. Mann gave Dr. Poole, and which Mann appropriated in his share of the salvage. The schooner shortly alter went to pieces. Dr. Poole was an enthusiastic student of national matters. He felt certain that the picture had a very valuable history, and formed a suspicion that it might have represented the mysterious ly lost daughter of Aaron Purr. He put himself in communica tion with several historical so cieties on the matter, but his theory found little weight, in spite of a family likeness being admitted. As the clergymen upon whose authority this story is given was returning from a recent visit to Mrs. Ppole, while driving from that lady's house to Elizabeth City to take the cars ghome, he met a young man, whom he knew to be very bashful and much afraid of the gentler sex, driving a strange v;oin:.:i in a buggy towards Mrs. Poole's resi dence. In a letter written to Mrs. Poole shortly afterward he good-naturedly referred to the incident and to the young fel low's evident embarrassment. THE STORY OF THE PORTRAIT. This brought from Mrs. Poole another chapter in the history of the beautiful picture. The strange woman was a descendant of the Purr family, who resides in Detroit, Mich. Her name has temporarily escaped the clergy man's memory. She had been visiting at Virginia Peach, Va., where she had first heard oi' Mrs Poole's mysterious painting from a North Carolina ireutleman. Her visit to Elizabeth City was sole ly for the purpose of seeing the painting:, and no sooner had she set eyes on it than she offered Mrs. Poole $300 spot cash for the same, besio.es any other addition al sum she might require. Mrs Poole refused to part with the treasure. She told the visitor that there was a strong family likeness between the latter and the subject of the picture, who ever that subject might have been; and further informed her of the facts, already given here, as to how the painting came into her possession. This elicited from the Detroit woman another remarkable re miniscence, and one which, taken in connection with the foregoing facts, proves that the painting is that of Aaron Purr's daughter the one destined as a present to her father and that the unfortunate young woman was drowned by pirates. This, in substance is the Detroit's woman's story: With her mother, in Detroit, formerly resided her mother's aged aunt, a humane woman, who gave up much time to visit ing the poor and sick. One evening, in one of the wards of the Marine Hospital, of that city, was a dying sailor, who seemed 11 j. 11 . I terrioiy starnea as tne aunt, in company with others, approach ed his bedside. He beckoned her to him, however, and after begging that she alone of the visitors might hear what he had to say a request which the others granted by retiring to the next ward he stated that as a young man he had one Summer been 011 a pirate vessel off the North Carolina coast. He then went on to say that he had then helped to overhaul a north-bound coasting schooner. FACED HER DEATH CALMI.Y. On the vessel was a beautiful young feminine passenger, dressed all in white. He had as sisted in dragging her from her cabin, in which was hanging up a painting of herself. While the pirates were engaged in throw ing the crew overboard he stated that this beautiful vounr ladv paced the deck, with magnificent courage and dignity, ijer hands folded on her breast and her eyes raised to heaven. She made no remonstrance whatever, and he steadied the plank upon which she walked to the vessel's side, thence to be plunged headlong into the ocean. He wanted to take away her picture and her dog a little black-and-tau fel low but dreaded to touch eith er. After the pirates had plun dered the schooner of money and other treasures thev abandoned the vessel, having set it under full sail, to drift to its doom with the picture and the dog- aboard. The dying sailor said that the young woman's sweet face had haunted him throughout life, and his confession was prompted by a striking resemblance between her and his elderly listener. Mrs. Poole's visitor stated that the sailor's story had been for years a current tradition of the descendants of Purr's family, though they had hitherto paid very little attention to it. Its ex traordinary corroboration by the accidental meeting of these two women appears to settle forever the recent mystery as to the death of Mrs. Alston. ' The Detroit woman says that the subject of the painting is beyond doubt Aaron Purr's daughter a state- ... 1 . . 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