Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 17, 1889, Page 13

WHERE THEY ARE "FORTUNES IN HORSE FLESH. Some of the Fleet-Footed Beautios Now Owned in Omaha, QUARTERED. The Organization of a Jockey Club and What it Would Do for Sporting Mattors in This City. Beautifal and Fleet Steeds. Considering the large number of fine trotting horses there is in Omaha, it is a matter of much surprise why there is not more interest taken in the matter of a summer meeting in this city, It is surely time that Omaha had her Jockey club, and her own course, with regular spring and fall racing sessions. There 15 6 great sporting element in this city, and but little doubt that all this could be brought about if only the right parties took hold of the affair. It would inspire interest in the breeding of fine stock, and give it an impetus in the fine horse line such as no one other thing can, and, within a few years, Omaha’s race course would have a national reputation. In u drive around the city, the past week, a BEE man paid a visit to several of the leading stables owned by private individuals., The result m®re than con- vinced him of the feasibility and advis- ability of the suggestion above made. Dick Wilde's stables are located at the corner of Seventeenth avenue and Jackson streets. He has as handsome and promising a string of horses as can be found anywhere —in the country. They are handled by the veteran trainer, Billy Huston, and ave always in the best fettle. First comes the four-year-old wotting stallion, Trenton, (4152). He came from the Fashion Stud farm, near Trenton, N. J. He is a beautiful by Stranger, dam by Jay Gould; second The dam by Alexander’s Abdullah. strong voint in Trenton’s pedigre that on either side he comes for gener ations back from producing and fash- ionable families. May Clark, sorrel mare, record 2:29%, 18 a splendid animal, and Mr. Wilde's road horse. She has done ing and hard work, but shows not even as much as a ‘“wind-puff.” Annie B., b. f., two-year-old pacer, by Charles Caffrey, out _of May Clark, isa hollyback, neat of lirib, and exceed: ingly promising. Goldie Suturn,s. f., another two-year- old, by Saturn, dam Florence L., by Ladd’s Gold Dust, isalso a bute, ana bound to make her mark on the turf. Bangs, b. b., same age, by Saturn, dam untraced, is much thought of. Bee, 8. ., a_vearling, by Saturn, dam Beatrice, by Charies Caflrey, is of equal merit. Niobe, s. f., same age, by Saturn, dam Dot, by Davenant, by Belmont, pos- sesses all the points judges best like to sec. Queen is another yearling, by Saturn, dam Prairie Queen, matinee record, to top wagon, 2,52 Flora Saturn, yearling s. f., same sire, out of Flora Sherman, by John Sher- man, by Wapsie. Dick Welty, b. c., yearling, by E. B. Woods’ Victor Sprague, by Governor Spra,rue, dam Annie. Annie, by Charles Caffrey, dam un- known, in foal by T'renton. Rhona, b. f., 4 years, sired by Nor- mont by Almont (33), dam Nel- lie Clay by C.M. Clay jr.,in foal to Trenton. Minnie M., b. m.,5 years, by Colo- nel Orr, dam Nelly Clay, in foal to Trenton. Annie Scammerhorn, b. f., four years, a magniflcent creature, by Oriental (1919), dam by Ral, second dam by Vol- unteer Chief, by Volunteer. Magnolia Maid, g. m., pacer, 8 years, record 2.30%; breeding unknown, in foal to Saturn, Bessie, b. m., by California Patchion, record 2.27; dam unknown in foal to Victor Sprague, 2.204. In addition to the above Mr. Huston is handling probably a dozen other vromising youngsters. E. B. Wood’s stables are at 1510 Cali- fornia street. He has from thirty to forty sale horses now on hand. His thoroughbred racing stock includes Victor Sprague, gray stallion, five years old, record 2:20, without question one of the most superb animals in all this western country. Victor was sired by George Sprague, record 2:21, by Governor Sprague, 2:20, by Rhode Is- lanad, 2:23; dam by Swigert, sire of twenty-three in the 2: list; second dam Angeline,record 2:27, by Richara’s Bellfounder, Victor Sprague is as fine a styled stallion as there is in the state; a nobie looker and head always well up on the shoulders, clean and stout in limb, and **with enough brains,” as Mr. Wood remarked, *'to make a congress- nan 2. Dan D., b. g., record 2:15 pacin, ten years old, by Diadem. Dan D, is surely capable of beating his record as he is in better shape to go into races this summer than ever before. Last summer ho paced a trial heat in 2;12. Trinket, b. m., five years, hy Jester, son of Almont, dam Messenger Durock, second dam thoroughbred, no mark. Trinket has the right material iu her for a winner, Adam Thompson’s stables are at the fair grounds; Fred Ellis, foreman. Fol- l.)wi“m is his finest stock: Ethan Allen, a bright bay stallion, ten years, record 2:37% is a grandson of old Ethan Allen by King Phillip, Jack Sheppard, jr., a mahogany stal- lion, by Jack Sheppard, very fast but lius never been tracked to amount to anything. Prinee, b, g. pacer, six years, by Mon- mont by Almont; first dam Kato F, by Lourbon Chief; second dam by Alex- ander’s Norman, sire of TLulu, record 2:15, Prince is o hal brother to Fuller- ton D, 2:10%. Joe Dandy, b, s., a son of Ethan Allen, r., dum Maggie Wallace, she by Sir William Wallace, Has never been tracked, but is a comer, Also a fine two-year-old stallion, un- named, by Jack Sheppard, dam said to be by Blue Bull. Regarded as a horse of mueh promise. Mary Sheppar¢, b, m., four years, sired by Jack Sheppard, guited like the pray stallion a exceedingly . well thought of by My, Thompson. Betsey Baker, ch. m., record 2:361, by Little Crow. Betsey is a great road mare, and can go right out and trot in A0 any day n the week with any handling ot all. Lady Shul)pnnl. b, ¢., by Sir William Wallace. A splendid one for a two- year-old, Mr, Thompson also has charge of J. F. Paul’s Bay Frank, record, 2:42i, by old Commodore Vanderbilt, and he is cxxeuwd to beat :80 this sumuer. chustuut filly owned by D, T. Mount, by Jack Sheppard, jr., dam Mollie, is a graceful and speedy young- ster. Bolivar, g. g. owned by Joseph Gar- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY MARCH 17. 1880, —SIXTEEN PAGES. neau. Said to be a paragon as a rond horse and that he ean go farther in less time than any horse in tho state. J. H. McShane's Joseph D., a spotted pacer, white and black; record 2:24F as a groen horse. Robert Garlick's b. m.. Folly, s very speedy. She is used exclusively on the road. Folly would make a greéat cam- pmigner, il it were not for extreme nervousness s stylish bay isanother fine rondster, well gaited and quite speedy. Newt Chamberlain’s stables are also at the fair grounds, and subjoined is a partial list of his string: Kate, b. m., five years, sired by Joe Bassett: trotted a heat in :32 and is con- sidered by judges to be a rare good one. Ben, a handsome bay, is promising. He is owned by Fred Fowler. st. John, g. g. pacer, record 2.25, owned by Nat Brown. St. John is exght years old, and will develop great speed, snys Chamberlain, Also a rond team. Ensign and True- man I, record 2:324. A toppy pair. Hon. John A. McShane heads the list for pole teams. He drives Will Tler and John A., and generally leads the procession. S. P. Morse handles a well-matched and very showy team of bay geldings like a man to the manor born. Dr. Mercer's team of brown® geldings is the finest-looking span in the city. They came from ‘‘ole Kaintuck,” and the doctor paid o high price for them. Hal McCord takes in the city o’ even- ing behind pretty Daisy Graham a half- sister of Dan D., vecord 2:15, by Diadem., Mr. McCord also owns the most and speediest rond mare in the eity in Captain Hunt, racord trinl 2:18, And again a perfectly matched team of sorrel mares which he uses for family driving. Charles Metz drives a toppy bay geld- ing, white face ana four white feet up tothe knee and hough. This fellow has shown his ability to trot in forty. Dr. McMenawmy takes his airing be- hind Burkholder, a fast and game cor. Fred Fowler is the proud owner of Muggins Muggins, Mug has no wings, but never fails to get to the front just the same. (aptain Marsh has a_handsome team 1% sorrel gelding and bay mare. This team is quite speedy, but the captain drives them more for pleasure than show. Ben Wood has a beautifully matched team of bays which the boys ave com- pelled toacknowledge when it comes to a brush down the road. Then nobody must_overiook Oid Gold Nate, record 2:244. He 10oks alittle the worse for wear, but when Mr. Briggs turns him loose someone is bound to get left. Charlie Green hasa very rangy team of boys and if looks and actions go for aught they will be a hard pair to veat. Kimer Frank, with his grey and black, tackles anything on the road, and when he throws the silk into them —~Oh, my! TLem Hill has achrysanthemum in his high-strung brown gelding, by Prince Alcerno. When Lem isout for a race give him the road, because if he can't out-trot you he’li run over you, that's all! Fin Gridley is a hard man tooverhaul when he is behind his roan gelding,Mo- dock. The latter has a record of Fred Nash drives a very stylish b and can be seen out almostany pleasant afternoon. P. B ller is Prnud of a highly bred matched team of blacks. They can pole together in about 2:50. E. W. Nash sports a team of magnifi- cent bays. Jim Stephenson never fails to attract attention when he appears with his su- peb team—a bay and a black. It is one of the finest turnouts in the city. George Canfield drives a very toppy team of sorrels, and is always ready to give anyone a brush who comes along. Dr. Coffman generally has the best n the market, but he doesn’t keep a eam long enough toenable the efficient reporter to collar a description of them. ['red Davis speeds along behind a nicely matched team of blacks, for which he puid a bushel of money. P A Boy Should Learn To saw. Tochop. To write. To figure. To build fires. To respect old age. To save his money. To study economy. To support himsef. To tell a good story. To be at fiome nights. To black his own shoes. To keep out of politics: To live within his means. To think naught of Cauada. To encourage his better half. To sew buttons on his clothes. ‘To court not the employer’s funds. To eat his wife’s pres without a mur- mur. To indorse for nobody, especially rel- atives. To look out for a wife with a bank account. To got up nights for baby’s medicine with asnile on his face, To give up hisseat in the street car w0 homely as well as pretty women.— Cincinnati Enquirer, ——— Busters. ; The favorite key of the sailor's songs s C. The prevailing culler is the ragman. One of the most obnoxious relatives one can entertain—a carb-uucle. A ‘“duck of a bonnet” is sometimes worn by a goose of a woman. The man who is lynched will ind no- tice in the noose column, The flower of the family frequently happens to be a sun-flower. The matter of rents annoys both the professional tramp and the land baron. Some realize after marriage that the “apple of their eye” is u crab-apple. Should ‘this country be involved in war we have sufficient reserve force in the *‘killing” dudes that abound. The favorite gait of the inebriate is the de-canter. With a bear of a husband theve is al- ways trouble bruin. A silo is where green feed is kept. A solo is where a conceited musician feeds his greenness. Although not a student of astronomy, the chicese-maker is able to tell some- thing of the milky whey. James Koil, of Iowa, hanged himself because a Miss Shoefling refused to marry h This is a case of Shoefling off this mortal Koil with a vengeance. One of the leading features of a blind mendicant’s life is the little dog. A woman’s sphere—a mouse, 'he ‘‘chip of the old block” is often “splintered” for copying after his sire. Figures don’t lie—they recline, “*Breeches of trust,” remarked the young man as the dog disgorged a greater portion of his pantaloons, A bone of contention—the trombone. “Straws” show which way the bloats wind. The beer-drinker’s hopes are in Hops, and thev hop rapidly to the bier. As o last vesort, & woman adminis- tered horse-radish to cure the night- mure. IN THE FIELD OF SPORT. A Proposition to Form a BState League. A TALK WITH JACK CROOKS. The Bench—Dog and Gan—The Shoot- ing Tournament, Miscellancous Notes, Questions Answered and General Sporting Gossip. The Approaching Season. It is only the incurable cranks who fully appreciato the approach of the base ball sea son of 1| Before this month will have faded away, evory team in the Western asso- ciation will be in active practice, and most of them will have played_exhibition games. The schedules of all the larger associations have been announced and the *“fans” have pleaty to talk about. Manager Selee aad Jack Crooks, of tha local team, are already on hand, while sevoral of the St. Joo and Dos Moines players have reported. The Milwankees go into practice at Louisville, Ky., next Thursday, and the Sioux City, St. Paul and Minneapolis teams will report be- tween this and the 23th. Dave Rowo has notified his men to roport at the carliest pos- sible moment. It will thus be seen that o very short time yet remains before the dis- easp breaks out in all its virulency. Prospective Stats League. The Grand Isiand Base Ball association is making a big effort to get up a state, or interstate loague for the coming season. They have already succeeded in raisiog a subscription of §5,000 to run their ctub, and have begun the erection of new buildings and a club house on their grounds., Grand Tsland is an enterprising burg and is entitlea to the best base ball in the market for the good work she has already done toward fos- tering and promoting this most popular of out-door sports. With Beatrice. Lincoln, Hastings, Kearney and Fremont a very good cireuit could be established and one that could hardly fail of success. The prospects are that these towns will join in with Grand Island and constitufe a state league, as a representative of the Grand Islands is now malking a tour of these cities with this object in view. FLASHES FROM THE DIAMOND In the spring the young man’s fancy Lightly turns to bats and balls, And the umpire's life's endangered as He shouts the judgment calls: “One “Two strikes!” ““Three ! the signal for a kick, And the batsmun's eyes glare fiercely As he wields a murderous stick. And the umpire’s vision peers forth on The season just ahead : And the prospect makes him weary, And he wishes he were dead. Snoot the anagramatical fiend. Phil Reccius goes to Evansville. “Tub” Welch woes to Galveston. Omaha has released catcher Dallas. Leech Maskrey goes to Des Moines. Broughton will caprain the St. Pauls. Whitney will probably captain St. Joe. 1 is to have the finest grounds in the Minneapolis has seventeen men under con- tract. “Ducky” Hemp has signed with ville. Mioneapolis has not yet given up pitcher Sprague. The Des Momes club wants to buy Ted Kennedy. Billy Annis goes to Worcester instead of Manchester. ~ Ed Fuzzelback will play in New Haven the coming season, . The Sioyx City. club has a star base rutner in Eddy Glent. “Red” Ebret has been sold by City to Louisville, Nash, of the Milwaukees, recently sprinted 100 yards in 11 seconds. The Omaha club has a first class hustler in Secretary E. O. Brandt. Cushman has beeu released by Des Moines and bas signed with Toledo. Swartzel is considered one of the most promising pitchers in the country. Sioux City has two good batteries in Crotty and Siebel,‘and Heliman and Hungle Juck O'Conuer has been traded by Colum- bus to St. Louis for Short-Stop Will White. Minneapolis and St. Phul will inaugurat the season with games between themselves. Manager Powell will not report at Sioux City until April 1 and tho players on’ tho 15th. Juke weils has returned from Florida, and will join the Detroits at Richmond, Va., this week. Little Tommy Mulvehill will dispense the circus lemonade at the ball grounds again this summer. 1t the race for the pennant in the Western association is close this year, all the clubs will make money. . MoCabe, who was with Milwaukee last season, will play second and captain the Day- enport team tuis year. R Jim McLaughlin is in the city and still unsigned. He would make a good man for some of the minor leagues. ‘The exhibition season will open here April 3 with the Kansas City American team, They will also play again on the 3d, oux City hs signed Glenn, of last sca- son’s Boston club. _He is & great batter and a good flelder und bise runne The Union electric street railway line will be in operation clear to the St. Joseph grounds by the middleof April Von der Ahe has not yet decided whether he will visit Omaha' with the champion Browns this spring or not. Hobe so. Hart, of Des Moines, has signed Fielder Fred Tilden, an old Harvay boy, and Pitcher Lunt, of last year's Racine colloge team. Ed Mullen & Co. will have the score cards this year. It cost them just 8525, as much as theprivilege costs in the Boston grounds. St. Joe may not win the pennaut, or even anything better than eighth place, but down there they claim the Lord is on their side. Willis, one of Omaha’s pitchers, had a bat- ting averagein 1357 of .305. He is yet a handy man with the stick, and a great sprinter. St. Joe says she doesn’t, care a rap for the penuant, just so she 15 enabled to knock out Omaba. Now what has this anclent village against the Gate City? “Tiik Ber base ball men 15 in receipt of ane invitation to attend a banquet to be given the §paulding tourists by tho Sporting Life on their arrival in Philadeiphia. Charlies Krohmeyer, an old Omaha bac stop, together with “Trick” McSorley and Lew Sylvester, bave signed with the Sacra- mento clob and gone to California. In conscquen® of the salary lmit, the teams in the Western associution are more evenly matched than ever before, and a suc- cessful season may be confidently' looked fo It is the general opinion that the coming season is going to be an unusually successful one in the Western association cities. O this prospect,all the clubs are making exte sive preparations for increased patronage. Tho team batting average of the St. Paul club, excenting Farmer, who has no record, according to last season’s work is .237, and the team fielding average 005, - Last seasoun’s team record was, batting, .234, and fielding Evans- Kansas A Minneapolis correspondent places tshe teams at the end of the coming season as f ol- lows: Micneapolis or St. Paul, first and s ec- ond ; Omaha, third: Milwaukee, fourth; Den - ver, fifth; Des Moines, sixth; St. Joe, ev- euth, and Sioux City last. 1f Earle lands in America with sound hands, he will have a claim on being the e durance catcher of the profession. He h &I‘: t (:l;uno llll\l Healy, two annogbnl ers, in nearly every game they h av played since they left *Frisco. ‘fhe Minueapolis rs declare that Joe Miller is the best third baseman in the W est- likely to do better work than ever this year. Generalship they: add, is one of Joe's chie! ‘The following ldst season's averages fully demonstratos St. Paul bas a powerful team (uuu‘ura“m Here they are: Batting — ‘redway, .208; Mains, .250; Piokett, . 250 Hawes, 2887 Broughton® . phy. .223: Tuckerman, A157; Sowders, 0%, 938; Werrick, 210, Team average, .. 84, Fielding —Tradway, left field, .803; Main: pitcher, .S1M okeo! short stop, ,883; Ca roll, right §elysuS; Hawes, first base, .050; Broughton, * her, 952; Murphy, contre fleld, .908; ' Tuckerman, pitcher, 007 S ders, pitcher,-#04; Reilly, third bas: Werrick, Gifffbase, 533, ~Team average, 055 last 's team. 018, _'ih, Dog d Gun, Judee SHialds has challenged Jack Prince for another shot. There was a large exit of duck hunters from the city fast night, OUR SPRING STOCK SURPASSES ANYTHING IN OMAHA. The Platte i¥said to be fairly swarming with ducks, geese and brant. Tywenty-eight red-tieads fell to one gun at Horseshoe lake yesterday afternoon, Reports of good red-head and mallard shooting come from Waubuncey lake. “Airhole” Billy Townsend claims to be the owner of the best red setter in the state, Dr, Cruttenden, of Des Moines, has e tered his colebrated Llewellyn setter “Don. in the coming bench show. All true sportsmen are pleased with the now game law now before the legislature, Hon. Dick Berlin writes that it will go through like oil. . The one-hundred-live-bird mateh for £100 a side, between Colonel Frank Parmalve, of this city, and Champion C. W. Budd. of Des Moines, has fallen througk that thoso t o rival crack and Major Petty, will indulge in a 100 live bird shoot at the coming tournament. Tne Omaha Rifle club has decided to aban- don 1ts range northeast of the city. It wi probably join with the Omaha Gun club and arrange for a range acro The fifteenth annual touggament of the State's Sportsmen association will be beld at Norfolk i May next. thousand pigeons have been engaged, aud the i cotiug, is thought, will be a highly successtul one. J. R. Stice, of vacksonwille, 111, and C. W. Budd, of Des Moines, the latter the holderof the Ame n flold champion pigeon shoot- ing cup, shot for the trophy at Jacksonvilie, Fla., recently. It was 50 birds, 30 yards rise, and resulted in a tie, each man killing 37. Max Meyer & Bro. will furnish a mag- nificent badge, emblematic of the state’s championship, to be shot for at fitty single Standurd targets, National rul The holder must win 1t five successive times be- fore it becomes his individusl propert, The first shoot for this elegant trophy will take place on the third day of the Hardin tournament, on the 19th of April, which will be held on the Omaha Gun club's new grounds just across the river. All challenges for the badge must be sent to the following committec; W, H. 5. _Hughes, of the Omaha Gun club; V. Ketchum, of the Lefevres, and John Zeller, of the Gate Citys. Any member of any gun ciub iv the state is eligible to compete. Miscellaneous Sporting Notes, Tommy Miller, formes this city, now i Wt George Siddons, to branch out here in the publication of the stern Horsoman, a journul devoted to the trotting horse. Manager Tigram has reccived two wolves, a large timber wolf and a coyote, two foxe and nine jack. rubbits, to be used in his grand coursing mcet at the Coliseum, Satur- -day night, April 20, “Sonator” Morgan has made partial a rangements for, a six-day race in Denver, and_for a big out-door tournument in Sau Francisco, under tue auspices of the *k'r base ball association, Charhie McCprmick, the well known turf- man and horse_breeder, yesterday shipped the famoys Westmont Able and Little Willie to Lexington, Ky., to be disposed in next montt's gales there. The six-dayirace, horses "against bic. ovens at tha Colisseum Monday, April 1. Lord Booth Wejtes Tug Buk froui Huffalo Bill's ranch that the broncos are being put in fine tri will surely win, The race is $1,000 3 sl he recent. bieycle. race in Philadelphia, participated in by the lady wheelers who start in the six day race at the Coliseum to- norrow, resulted as follows: Jesso Woods, 374: Hattie Lews, 3243 Helen Baldwin, 204 Kittie Brown, 284, At 10 0'clock Miss Louise Armaindo entered the track and ran five miles against time, covering the distance in in 18m, 3. The first mile was dond in 5. A lot of fine gymnasium apparatus has boen put in at the rooms of the local Cribb club, aud many of the members exercise there daily. ~The club is composed of prominent gentlemen who desire_the pro- motion of all athletic sports; men who de- sire to familiarize themselves with the iu- tricacies of the Delsartean movement, both for its healthful exercise and the ability to def end themselves in case of un emergency. No professor has us yet been engaged. Questions and Answers. Please state in your sporting columns Sun- day next who won ia the great fight between Jack McAulifte ana Jim Carney ; where did the mill take place and how long did it last? —“Red"_ Burlington. Ans.—It was a draw. ‘Mass., November 4, 1857. 58 minutes. To decide a.bet will you inform us what a spaniel is? H. T. Smith and Etmer Mool Lancoln. Ans.—There is a breed called field spaniel, a long, low dog, and another, the cocker, which differs in shape trom the fieid species, being shorter in the body. The cog must be under twenty-eight pounds for benci purposes. Can you furnish me with the averages of Alvord. Van Swmith and Sneea.—Harry Moines Ans.—Alvoord, batting 262 fielding .88 Dyke. Sage, . 3 Smith) At Revere Beach, Four hours and last year's Dyke, ‘Suge, Lemon, Des the piteber's position for next season? Ans.—Unrestrained as regards position and delivery while in the box. .. Who are the players so far signed by the different Western association clubs! C. B. Martin, Omaha, Ans.—Why don’t you read Tue Bee and keep posted! We published the complete rosters of the teams last Sunday. To decide who pays for & new Dunlap, pléase state in Sunday’s sporting department who has the record for the longest throw with a base bull! Twin Crank Mary's avenue, Ans.—John Hat fleld, 133 yards, 1 foot 7i¢ inches, What horse, pacer or trotter, has made the fastest time on record! Breeder, Fullertoa. Ans. Bombs for Baseballists, New York World: ‘‘Base hits,"— Whucks below the belt. “Never muffs a ‘ball.’ "—A toper. **Makes a home run.”—A good hus- band. “A regular sky-scraper. **Safe hitters."—Burglars. “Caught napping.”—Policemen, *“*Lines 'er out.”—Fishermen’s, “*Daisy-eutters.’—Catule. “*Out on strikes, "—Dissatisfied work- men. **A scrateh bit.”—Lighting a match. **A mau of,sighs.”—The umpire. “Heavy hitters,”—Lucky investors, “On the fly.”"—Hotel beats. A fowl tip.”—The t: “A double play,” pay a 85 debt. “Often ‘caught at it.””" **Rounds many a curve.”—Pitchers, “Resembles the comma. "—Shortstops, “Lays them all out,”—The under- taker. “Makes the circuit.”—A garter. “An old ringer.”—0, *Familiar figures on the diamond.”— 000000000. e He Lived High. New York World: She (at ball)— How extravagantly young Mr, Swellby dresses! He lives h{ h, does he not? He (a rival)=Well, yes. I believe hhwrloom is on the eighth floor of the otel. A comet, owing 85 to . ATTRACTIYE Spring Opening! OF OUR NEW IMPORTATIONS. Monday, We will display all the late novelties of Cassimeres, Worsteds, Cheviots, Serges, Tweeds, Fancy Silk Vestings, in all late designs. OUR PRICES ARE THE LOWEST. Our fit and workmanship will surely gain your approval. Yours truly, THE AMERICAN TAILORS WE SHOW OVER 1200 Differant Styles of TROUSERINGS. Famous Names Carved Over Doug- las County Rocks. STORY OF A PRAIRIE SCHOONER. The Song of thé Waters and What Went into the Music—Scenes of the Wifties—A Ro- mantic Glen. An Historic Spring. Seven or eight miles west of Omaha on the farm owned by Mr. James Me- Avdle, through which flows the Big Papillion river is one of the finest ngsin the country. It is only a spring, however, and the diamond-like sparkle of its pure cold wuters, the merry musicof its liquid gurgling, the delicious fragrance of the wild flowers and the masses of vines and mosses which cling to the precipitous rocks around it, the dark, cool freshness of the foliage-roofed little ravine in which it rises, can by no means atone fov its great offense in having at- tracted its owner from the site of six a few mileseast. Unhapp) ug! No doubt, if its gur- could have been translated, glings awav back in the fifties,when daily, the parched lips of the Culifornia pilgrims kissed its crystal surface, it would have turned back to the bank of the Mis- souri many a weary traveler whose bones huve years ngo'crumbled away in the mountains or on the plains. In 1854 Mr. McArdle with his brothers and parents camo over from Iowa on the ferry, which was then the only means of transportation, and journeyed west- ward in search of a home. Theymight haye pre-empted the site of the metrop- olid if they had liked the *‘lay of the land,” but they didn’t, so they went on and camped at night above the spring. Morning revealed a beautiful valley, & sinuous little river rippling over a stony bed and fringed with trees, and, t of all, bubbling out from beneath a v ledge of soft rock, walled in by ss-covered banks, where only little flecks of sunlight filtering through the leafy dome above could kiss its glassy surface, a nover-failing spring of cold, sparkling water. In theic own lan- guage it was “the prettiest spot in the country,” and there they pitched their tents. Many a story of early days the waters could tell if their murmurings could only be understood. The long train which started its weary tramp toward the setting sun in 40, halte here and cooled their parched lips in the water. Cutinto the soft rock above it. there are now faint traces of what was a few years agoa maze of names and dates. Scraping away the moss one could decipher among them, ““John C. Fremont, '45,” “George Francis Traiu, 66, and scores of Pats and Sullf's. Petes and Marys. The dates run all the way from '45 down to some time in the 70's, when the old trail was abandoned for the new road some distance south and the spring was 1éft to gurgle alone and wonder what had become of its many visitors. One beautiful spring morning a lonely emigrant’s van with its white canopy glluwninf in the sun came winding over the hills and halted at the spring. The driver, tall, bearded, hard-handed and muscular, clambered listlessly down from his seat, unyoked his oxen and turned them 1oose to feed. Then he're- turned to the wagon and, taking from it a bundle which had lain beside,him un- rolled alittle babe and sat down on a ledge of rock. e sun rose higher and hlfher in the sky; hundreds of birds chirruped 13 OUR SELECTIONS OF SUITINGS } IS MATCHLESS, March 1Sth, OUR TRIMMING THE BEST. "WE HAVE OVER BO Different " Styles of SPRING OVERGOATINGS and sang in the troes above him; the spring laughed and rippledand gurgled unheeded: the baby alternately cooed and wailed and tugged with its chubby hands at his beard; all nature exulted at the approach of summer and still this lonely figure sat there gazing, with wide open eyes, into vacancy. By and bye the settlers came in from their plowing for dinner. **Goin’ out to the diggin’s, neighbor?” they queried. Then he started as if from a dream. “Eh? Goin’ to the diggin’s? No, I guess not—not now.” “Paken up a claim maybe?” *‘No; goin’ back home. Got to take her back,” and waving his hand toward the wagon he resumed his listless atti- tude. Suspecting something, they hardly knew what, some of them raised the curtain of the wagon and lopked in. There were the usual furnishings: a little stove, some dishes, & woman’s dresses and wraps, bedding and two or three boxes. On the wagon bottom lay a young woman of about twenty-six, her hands folded on her breast—dead. They had been on their way to the gold fields and when a few miles west the young wife had taken sickand he was compelled to stop on the prairie and watch her die. Kind hands and hearts cared for them that night, and in the morning he was escorted to Council Bluffs, whence, after burying his wife, he and his baby started on their sud, lonely journey back to Ohio,and the pathos of his shat- tored dream went into the music of the spring. Others came with their yearnings for the homes they were leaving behind, and whispered their homesickness to the waters; young men and maidens told their love stories; middle-aged men told of their hopes'of .the new lifo in the far west, their joys, sorrows, dis- appointments; Fremont’s soldiers camo with their taies of battles aud blood- shed, and later, when the country had begun to fill up parties of merry-makers came with their jokes and laughter, and | |~ it all went into the music of the waters. S0 1t happens, perhaps, that whatever be the mood of the listener, joyous. de- spondent, exultant, merry or sad, there isan undertone in the murmuring of the spring which chords with iv. Of late years the romantic liitle ra- vine in h the spring rises, has been seldom visited, and except on the part of the old residents of the city, nearly alt of whom have drunk the waters it 15 forgotten. The great ledge of rock, from beneath which it bubbles out, and which was in its way an interesting his- torical record, with its inscriptions cut in the forties and fifties by hands, many of which were years ago folded -~ ix; Q;Puir long xi-fw't, hlnn gradually crum- 2 ) bled away, till only a few dates and initials can be deciphered, The old ., SATISFAQTION, wagon trail has been blocked by section | || /1% Ne wans 1o give to overy person that, lines and wire fences; a b gu{m» been | || purcanse an article that does not’ prase built a linlfi; bn‘:ilow. and the clack of u Jr:_:’;fl::g"_‘e,x uzmx::é:’i‘n'xlnflump'(','rfl‘;fi,"d water mil rowns the music of || ¥ o s A the water. The incidents and logonds | || Siaak 15 Arriving daly. e have tu Hoans which ulloulld hu\'([) made the place his- ,:Jgglgtxlmd “nd stocked with- first class toric are almost forgotten, but it does | || E204* not require a very vivid imagination to picture in the grove avove the ||| tepees of the Iudian with the painted forms of the savages gliding through ||| the shrubbery: the bivousc of the biue | || coats on their long wramp to the Pacifi | or the camp of the emigrant or gold- | |! hunter with the smoke of the camp fire i EDUOATIONAL. The Yale law faculty “has requested Chauncey M. Depew to give the commenc- ment oration before the law school in June. Yale has' just received $25,000 from Dr. Alvan Talcott, of, Guilford, who stipulatos that the money shall be used to endow & pro- fessorship ol Greelk. The endowment of Rutgers collego has been increased by $160,000 during the past year. This amount has been used in tho construction of a laboratory and dormitory. Last fall, in view of the need of additional rooms for students, Mrs. Susan D, Brown,of Frinfluwn. gavo ‘5:;1,000 ol Pr‘lm'umn college or a_new dormitory, and she has recent| added §25,000 more. i The majority of the Wellesloy faculty is believed to be in favor of nbulhhln:vflu present examination system. This test is now applied only to the three under classes, the senior presenting theses as an equivalent. Dr. Austin Scott, of Rutgers college, has made an interestiog aiscovery rolating to the huwrly of the institntion, By looking over the old records he learned that the ooua‘ charter was granted in 1706, instead of 1770, as the date is commonly given. The alumni of Williams ocell have raised 75,000 for & monument %o late Mark Hopkins. The monument is to the shape of a building at Willisms, and & is suggested that the sum be in b $100,000, and the building be made of stone, as lyrlrnx of the study of character of the grand old teacher and theologian. American education will be represented at the coming Paris exposition by au im collective exhibit now preparing un the direction of Prof. C. Wellman Parks, of ti Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, Troy, N.¥. Prof. Parks has sccured a campruxeluln display of school and college methods and appliances by selecting a typical institution of each ciass, and obtaining a very full exhi- bition of its equipment, progress, and results Superintendent Seavey, of the Boston public schools, said in & recent.address: *To wiiat extent and how can manual training be introduced into city graded schools, M{ answer is: Organize mechanic arts h schools either us separato schools or as de- partments of existing nigh schools. To this extent, at least, amf; by this means, a now neglected educational field cun be occupied to great advantage. curling up through the trees. What strange languages these bluifs must have echoed: What savage war whoops, shouts of laughter, tales of love and war, sobs and sighs! The stairway which years ago was cut in the bank is filled up with rotting leaves, the old camping grounds are overgrown with underbrush, year after year the May flowers fill the ravine with beauty and fragrance and wither away unseen, but the spring bubbles and gurgles away just as clear and bright and sparklingas when Fremont and his soldiers drank at its brink. e e e g PATRONIZE Home - Made Cigars, TRA D MAR “RED LABEL%