Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 16, 1889, Page 9

W) PART Il | EIGHTEENTH YEAR. THE OMAHA OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING. =" LAST WEEK All New an $100,000 Worth b 10,000 Remnants, best Quality Kid Finish. Tomorrow, Per Ya.raI c Our stock throughout the whole éstablis this sensation will soon follow. SUNDAY BEE. OF THE ¥ T JUNE 16, 18%9.~SIXTEE \ PAGES. lishment must positively be repuced, to make room for an immense cash pu Meantime we offer for Tomorrow, wonderiul bargains throughout the house. Ever, yard of Dry Goods a Special Bargain, and you only do yourself an injury if you fail to 13,000 Yards Bright Color CHEESE GLOTH One Cent a Yard Tomorrow. UMBER 36 TREMENDOUS SLAUGHTER SALE ~®y d Desirable Merchandise! E FAIR"c 502, 504, 506, 508, 510 8. 13th St., Corner Howard. Ic rchase of an entire retail stock. Particulars of article in the store will be a Leader- e on hand Tomorrow. Every DRY GOODS BARGAINS PARASOLS! 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AT 830 La Tosca Fine Safia and Fancy Striped Parasols, hes; former price §2.50; 22inc our price 8 200 Fine SILK UMBRELLAS, 4 Your choice 10 Styles, $2.95 OxydizediSilyer hnindles, This igtest “bar~ain ever price §.50; | offered in Ginaha; foiwmer price 6.00; sale Price §2.05, Ladies’ White Ladies' Fine White INDIA LINEN DRESS With 3deep 1uflies, Swiss embroldered edgings and drapery and basque Waists, $2 9 5 ‘Would be cheap . at $5.00. LADIES' FINES! INDIA LINEN DRESS Three deep flounces of Swiss embroidery, full drapery and embrojdered basque, $7.50 Vi Ladies’ White Dress, 45-inch Swiss Embrotdered Skirt, walst of all over embroidery, $10 “&z.h BoYS’' SUITS! FEARFUL CUT IN PRICE! BOYS' Percale Waists, 25¢ BOYS? 7 5 G French tannel Well made; Waisls, sold for $2.25 480 KNEE PANTS all wool, very goods, worth & S, some at, solid 54 styles KNEE PANT SUITS, very handsome worth 6 Boys’ Long sizes 11 to 18, in plaids, checks and quiet mi tures, true value £5,00; $3|35 our price $8.35. Better Long Punts Suits, dozens of handsome patterns to choose from, worth at lcast § r pric AR ETES : 1] Pant Suits, Choi of 624 Long Pant Suits, strictly all wool,sold 5 5 all overat 8 and §9...... [] Worth 50c. $1,95 NOTIONS } At FPicayune Frices! | - Pack: o Pins, lc Package Dest Pins, | @ @~ Dozen Bost Safety Ping, large or small. ! Q¢ Dozen Pear] Diess Buttons, all sia | 50~lluze|\ Palm Leaf Fans, 2c~(3(>llud Wire Bustle, Oc—anry Curling Tongs, 5c~ Best Hemstitehed Handkerchief, — I Julited Baby Bi | 50 Fine Quiited Baby Bibs sc—llvnmx\m Fine Silk Ribbons, | | Bg—Per box Best Paste Stove Polish. | @@ Childrew's Fine Aprons, | @ 5@ Per pair Stamped Pillow Shams, Q¢ Larse Scolleped Tidies, tape bound. A Manutactury Stock of Ladies’ and Misses? l‘mw‘y Colored Hosiery Worth up to 2ic. All the Ludies' and 8508’ Enti solid o ored i ALl . . { | Allthe Ladics' and Misses’ JERSEY Rihbed Vests, Worth up to b0c. THE LOCAL SPORTING WORLD The Organization of a Polo League on the Tapis. CURSORY BASE BALL REVIEW, The Grand Sweepstakes Race—Rod, Linc and Gun—Echoes From the Diamond, Pugilistic Notes, Mis- cellaneous Sports, Ete, The Pennant Chasers, As the championship races of the various base ball organizations are growing oxceed- ingly sultry, a hasty review of the status of the various teams and thewr prospects, can- not fail to prove interesting. There has been less of a change in the Western associa- tion than any of the other organizations, and the prospect is it will continue on in this way to the end, with maybe a little fluctuation on the part of the tail enders. St. Paul main- tains the strong lead she *‘copped out” carly in the chose, and tnere 1s not the slightest likelihood of her letting go. She has met all the teams of the association now, both upon the bhome grounas and abroad, and the ratio of her loss has; remained aggravatingly the same. This, it i the writer's opinion, has not all been accomplished on account ot any material superiority of ~ the Apostles over tho othar teams, but they have played in the luckiest kind of luck from the start. To be sure they area f'ne team, active, enterprising and harmonivus, and deserve the fullest meed of praise for what they have done. O:maha and Sioux City are nip_ and tuck for second honors, with the probabilities almost wholly in favor of the lo- cal team, That Omaha is a bettor team in all details than the Corn Huskers, no one who knows anything about base ball will nlnll:yu. St, Joe has panned out miserably, after all the bragging and blowing that was done down the river in the early part of the season, and is now neck and neck with poor old Grandpa Sutton for tail end glories, with the chances of the Milwaukees coming in un- der the wire first, Charlie Lord, the St* Joe manager, is supposed to be dead—to the ‘world at least, A greet race that in the National league, ond growing warmer and more interestin, every day. 7The Bostons have a slight lead, and have had for weeks, and are playing mfi such @ game as procreates champions, who.cut _the pace for a while, gging, and will probabiy r2' back to her normal position among this string °f thoroughbres which is about fifth place, New York has had an interval of what they call “de toughest kind of luck,” over in Gowanus, but she is rounding to gradually and will soon be running in her 1888 form. The Bean Eaters must keep an oye out for uckk Ewing aod his gang Cleveland owever, is tho greatest surprise thut bas ever been developed in the National league, Just think of it, she now stands second, ahead of auch teams as New York, Puladel- phia, Pattshurg and Chicago, Patsoy Ioli- war Tebean, McAlecr, Old Cub Stricker, Oharlie Snydoer, aud that ilk, ridivg over such monarchs s Anson, George Wright, Hustling Horace Philips, Jim Mutrie and the other moguls of the base ball world. It 1s preposterous, Cleveland is bound to take & w ble, Ehe's \-1 Ay;u{.; out of her form, and soon strike the toboggzan sure. A welcomo change is rapidly taking place in the - American ussociati struggle, and gm is that the Athleties, Brooklyus and altimores nre rapidly overhauling “the St. s Browus, ¥ dack & nofeh or two within @ week, The Athletics are comiog up good aud strong, and will certainly be in the lead before she again starts west. Cin- cinnuti, Colymbus, Kansas Qity and Louis- ;u;‘u. the western contingent, are not in the ght. and threaten to crowd ‘A Bona Fide Race. One week from to-morrow, the 24tb, the great sweepstakies ruce between Jessie Onkes, Jessie Woods, Lottie Stanley and Lily Williams will beginat the Coliseum, and the prospects ar that it will bo the most hotly contested wheel chase that has ever taken vlace in the west. Tho public can rest assured that this is an up and up race, and that the best rider will win. The conaitions of the raca call for four hours a day for six days, and the backers of tha soveral contest- ants have put up 8250 each, all of which goes t0 the winner together with the bulk of the gate receipts, There has been much feeling manifested in arranging the preliminaries for this event, and there is not the slightest question that it will be a fair, square race in the fullest sense of the torm. = A POLO LEAGUE. An Enterprisc of the Coliseum Man- ager. Manager John 8, Prince, of the Coliseum, will take immediate steps toward the organ- ization of a polo league, for the purpose of furnishing the Coliseum with regular sports throughout the fall and winter months. According to & programme has - tily improvised, the leaguo is to embrace six clubs, and an efforv will be made to have these located av Sioux City, St. Joe, Lincoln and Omaha, and for this purpose Manager Prince will visit these points at an early day. After the formation of a league a regular schedule, like that of the base ball association, will be drawn up by a com- mitee appointed for the purpose, and a race for achampionship pennant begun in early autumn, Polo is one of the most excit ing and interesting of all athlevic sports, and throughout the eastern cities, especially in New England, it is second in popular fayor only to base ball. It is a game particularly adapted to such structures as the Coliseum, andjthe announcement that it is to be put on here will be hailed with shouts of approba- tion from all lovers of manly sports. Inasmuch as the game is & new one to this part of the country, & brief idea of its char- acter and rules will not be out of place. 1t is not unlike the old-fashioned game of “shinny,” in fact is but an im- provement on that old-time rough and tumble sport. Each team consists of seven players, designated as follows: One goal tend, two half-backs, one cover-point, one point, and two rushers, ‘The ball, a reg- ular polo ball, in size is similar to a tennis ball, only solid, and the sticks are from three to four feet in leugth, and must not exceed fourteen ounces in weight. The goals are two upright posts, three feet high and two inches in diameter, in blocks not over ten inchesin dismeter and two inches thick. They are placed in line, six feet upart, meas- uring from the posts, and not less than ten feet from the end of the surface. There is a roieic® Lwo judges on each side, and time-keoper. ia 2tartinz the game the ball is placed at the middle of u straight line drawn through the center of each ;2al, und at the whistle of the referee shall be chargod upon by & player from each team. To con- stitute a championship game two out of five goals must be won by one of the competing teams, unless tho captains in the presence of tho referces come to some other agreement. A goal is wou by the passage of the ball from the front, botween the goal posta bolow the top of the'same. It is a very enthusiastic and lnvigorating game, and in hg east in the winter seasou, creates u per- fect imwore. It canuot fail to cateh on big in this live and-nzogressive city, and it 1s to be hoped that Mangzer Prince will succeed in hus laudable effort in orgaaizing the league. Among the Amateur Bykers, Luamson won the second race of the series with Percy Stone ¢f St. Louis in 9:44. The Missouri diyision weets at Seduli Mo., July 8 and 4. vergl league members of Omaha are goiug to attend. Lieutenant Porterfield had charge of the morning run last week, and will make a good road officer, kuowing just what pace to set. That long looked for American Rambler safety has got here gt last, aud the owner is as proud as » boy with red top boots, even if it is geared 10 sixty inches. Lothrop, Fraucisco and Morris are again moviug about and ave almost over the inju- ries received on the 100 mile ride, and want to go on another as soon as one 1 called. The American Athlete of May 81 nasa whole column by & correspondent dubbed ““Mac,” and was very cagerly sought by the boys. Now the next question will be, *Who is Mac?” 9 The run to Blair last week was abandoned on account of bad roads, the club, however, took a pleasent run over the Council Blufls road and Hanscom park, where vhey listened to part of the concert. To-day a run is called to Springfleld, Neb., and return, forty miles, going via South Omaha and Papillion, the last ten miles are over very nearly lovel roads and have been ridden in an hour. Start promptly at 8:30 a. m. _Will Windle, ot Millsbury, Mass., cham- plon amateur bioyclist, has been suspended y the racing committee of the League of American Wheelmen on the charge that he derives money from bicycling. The racing committee this year seems to be more strin= gent in applying the rules than ever before. This is a8 it should be. The holder of the Coombe Florence medal wishes it understood that if his record be broken he would not feel bad about it, and would hand over the medal most cheorfully, 80 run boys and beat 57:20, that was made over the old hills and just whon grading was being done, It should be ridden now in 55 minutes, Mr. F. f. Roborts, of Collinsville, Ill., was a visitor at the club room part of this week. Mr. Roberts has toured a wheel from his home, and is now on his way to Denver, He claims that the O. W. C. is the most sociable club he has met so far, and he promised to let them hear from him en route as regards mileage, condition of roads, ete., daily. If a certain member of the O. W. C. was half as musical as he thinks he is, it is be- lieved the members who happen to be in con- versation when he begins playing the piano withene finger could bear with him. There is a rumor afloat that he will be waited upon by a committee of White Caps and be asked 1o either forget he can play the piano or leave the city between two days, At the last regular meeting of the O, W, C. Messrs, Gasman and Gooaman were elected members and the following road offi- cers appointed by the executive commit- tee: William Emerson, secoud lieutenant; B. E. Porterfield, third lieutenant; W, J. Morris, color bearer; H. H. Rhodes, D. M. Lewis and Perry Badollet, buglers. The runs having been so well attended necessi- tating'the additional licutenants. Line, od and'Gun, H. A. Penro: formerly of this city, now of Corey, Pa., was one of the field managers at the St. Lous tournament last week. W. G. Albright is In California and on his return will spend a week with line and rod among the streums and lakes of the North park, Carl Dupwmire, of Dunn & Gwyn's gun store, is doing good work with his littie Le- jeyre at the clubshoots this season, He has set a pace for the medal, From the light attendance at the two last weekly shoots of the Ginaha Gun club, it 100ks @s if tho old reliables wore growing ukewarm in the cause, Several good catches of pickercl and bass nave been made in the lakes out along the Elktorn durng the past week, while fair paskets have also been taken at Horseshoe and Honey creelk, Frank Parmalee, now in Cincinnati, writes the sporting editor of Tue BEE thut’ among tho erack shots who will be here at the Budd- Darmalee shooting tournsment next Septem- ker, are J. R. Stice, C. E. Willard, Doc Roira-Hy Smith, Rolla C. Heikes, Al Ban- dle, . v, McMurehy, S. A. Tucker, C, E. Strawn, G. J, Wilet, H. A, > Hugzhes, J. A. Rouble, Frod-Erb, Abe Kleinz, Dick Irwin, Will Mussey, I'red Lord, and a host of others. The tournament will LT one of the largest ever held in the west. Flashes From the Diamond. Catcher Harter has been released by Quiney. . Joe Quinn is playing & great game at short for Boston, Jack Messitt has enturely recovered from e e— his recent injury and 16 ready to take the fleld again. Denver has signed a new fielder named Ed Shay. Rudolph Kemmler 18 again back-stopping for the Apostles, . Doran has been let out by Jersey. City, and signed by New Haven. Duke, of Minneapolis, is one of the best pitchers in the Western association. The Garneaus play the Missouri Valley team at Manawa park next Sunday after- noon, Andrews, it seems, has plugged up the holes in his bat. He is hitting very nicely just now. St. Paul has secired young Murnane to fill Sowders place, aud it looks as if he is quite able to do it. 0ld Grandpa Sutton is accused of trying to male a record for himself at the expense of tho other members of the Milwaukee team. Klusman is now playing sccond for Des Moines. If ho keeps on he will probably go through the whole Western association, The first triple play of the season in the Western association ~was made by Walsh, Crooks and Andrews at Miuncapolis Thurs- ay. Jack Crooks' great record of seventeen bases out of five times at tho bat, made at St. Paul last week, wont be equalled in many a long day. “Chippey” McGarr has been loaned by Kansas City to St. Joe, but 1t will require more than this little bird to help the Charhe Lords out of the soup. * Neither Pickett nor Sowders have as yot cuta very wide swath with the Cowboys. Pickett is’ playing third, and while he has flelded tolerably well, his bitting hus been light. 3 Minneapolis” is proving the banner ball town in the western circuit. Theattendance up there seldom falls short of 1,000, and thero is always a liberal attendance of the fair sex. After an absencoe of three weeks the Omahas are azain upon their own stamping grounds, T'no whole tewm is in fine shupe, and this afternoon, when they meet tho Minneapolis team, expsct to inaugurate a long serics of victorics, The game will be called promptly at 8:30. Miscellangous Sports, A. H, Hamm, the well-known Canadian oarsman, is at the Millard. Dave Bennett, the Toronto runner, sails from New York for Liverpool, July 10. Lottie Stanley and' Lily Williams ride a twenty-five-mile race s Manawa park this afternoon, ‘I'wo large timber wolves were killed by a party of men and boys theisl and ut Cut- Off lake one day this weelk. Dog Show Billy Ingramn managed the athletic tournament the Bluffs’ fair grounds yesterday afternoon, The meeting at Grand Island begins next Tuesday. ‘The list of entries is quite large, and a very suceessful meet is assurod. Tom Kck and “Senator” Morgan have made arcangements fora week’s racing by the lady bykers at Minneapolis in July, Judge Dundy, Elmer Frank and others are aieady talking of beir annual deer and bear bunt off & the mountains of Coloragdo. The American Datby will be run &t Chicago next Saturday, June 2. There will be quite a delegation to go over from this city. Jimwy Canavan, Omaha's clever left flelder, is ulso a fine polo player, and an effort will ve made to sign bhim for Omaha's prospective polo teany for the couupg winter, Junmy Lindsay, it is said, has gone into training near Kansas City for his fight with Danny Needham of St. Paul, It s o be a finish fight, two-ounca gloves, for a purse of 1,000, s The Western seman, 8_small sheet de- voted to horse H‘:E Lu:[n‘ affairs, whig) has been publiskied in this city for the past'three wounths, proved a loser and has been sent to the stable. The spring races at Lincoln next Wednes- day and Thursday promise 1e.be quite inter- csting, Sowe of the best business men of the city are back of the enterprise,and purses aggregating $1,500 will be hung up. At the spring trials of the St. Louis Athletic club in the Mound city, this weel, George Kendall of this city won the one- milo foot-race, aganst nine starters, in 4:34}¢, and the half-mile race in 2:11. oux City wheelmen are after the national meeting for their city next year. What's the matter with Omaha securing the conven- tion?! There is as much nterest in wheeling in the Gate City as in all the rest of the west combined. The death of N. I D. Solomon, pro- prietor of the Spring Valley stock farm, just west, of the city, it'is said, will necessi- tate the cancelling of the engagements of the promising trotter, Ed Rosewater, and others of Mr. Solomon’s string. Mike Conley, the Ithaca Giant, and Jack Burgess have been matched to fight toa finish somewhere between this city.and St. Louis. IBurgess has gone into training in Illincis for the event, which is to come off about the middle of July. It is evidently another of Burgess' fakes. Beauty Baldwin, Kittie Brown, Jessie Woods, Louise Armaindo and Jessie Oakes, the lady bykers, will return from Denver to-morrow evening, Oakes and Brown,how- ever, are the only two of this combization who will ride against Stanley and Williams in next week's sweepstake race at the Coli- seum. Reports are coming in from all over the state of a tremendous chicken crop. Th birds wintered well, and unprecedented sport is predicted for next September and October, The Dbirds were never known to be more plentiful about North Platte _than they are this soason, and roundabout Fair Oakes and Ban- croft, they are thicker than ever. Will Pixley, of this city, is probably the champion boy bicycle rider of America, and if he takes care of himself and “trains judic- iously there is a great future for him, Heo is anxious now to ride any fifteen-year-old boy in the world for a_bicycle uniform or some such prize. With the experience of a fow more additional years, young Pixley will be able to give the bulls of” the so-called professional chumpions points on how to ride the muchine, There is a well-grounded suspicion that Jack McAuliffo has had enough of Billy Myers. It may be that McAuliffe does not lack sufficient sand, but that his manager, Billy Madaden, sees 'easier money in another direction, At all ovents, there is no pros- pect of & second meeting between the two ladiators, and the blame lies wholly 1n the ffchuHflo cawmp, Perhaps McAuliffe will consider a proposition to give Jimmy Lind- say, of this city, & go for a §1,000 purse, of- tered by a coterie of local sporting men, Questions and Answers. Will you please kindly send me by letter the age of John L. Sullivan, tne pugilist, who 18 to meet Jake Kilram, July 8, Itisto decide o bet.—C. E. Hennen, 218 North Eighteenth street. Ans.—No questions 1n this department are answered by mail. Sullivan was born Octo- ber 15, 1858; Kilrain was born February 9, 1850, Has Kansas City ever had a team in the National league, if #0, in what yeart—H, ¥, W., Omaha. Ans,—In 1836, 1 have a_ colt which I wish to enter in the Omaha, Lincoln and Topeka ras of the Kansas and Nebraska trotting circuit, who shall I write to for information on this bead!—D, S. Giles, Irving, Kan. s, Ans.—Adrian H. Gibbs, this city, Was a record kept of the strike-outs, bases on bulls pnd double plays last season ~—'ine Point, St. Joe, Mo, Ans.—There was not, With Ned Williamson fn_his old position, how would the Chicago infield ranki If & foul tip is Gropped by the cateher is it scored as an errorj—J. W, Waller, Omaba. Ans.—All-round, the best m the league, Of course not; foul tips cut no figure what- soever this season. Where can I got & book on training and breeding buntiog dogs by a first-class authort —Charles N. N., Blair, Ans,—Of the Forest and Stream Publish- ing company, New York., Breaking,” by 8. T. Hammend, Who is the secretary of the Gate City Ath- letic club, and will he furnish me with a copy of the constitution and by-laws.—Harry Hor- ton, Des Moines. Ans.—W. E. Maguer. Yes, Can you inform me what has become of Birchall, Blakiston and “Cientific” Bill Hague, the old Philadelphia ball tossers{—- Old Philadelphian, the Murray, Omahia. Ans.—Birchall is dead, I ton is in Cal- ifornia; don't knoaw what has become of Hague. Tn a game of ball, men on first_and sccond base, batter hits a foul iy which is caught aining vs. by catcher; base runners hold _their bases until 'ball is thrown to pitcher; before cntering his box he throws wild to second base, base runners run home; ball is returned to second and first bases; what is the correct decisioni What would be the decision in a similar case if the foul had not been caught or hac it been a foul tip, either caught or missedi—M. A. V. Davis, Beaver Crossing, Neb. Ans.—The base runners, touching the base after a toul fly has been caught,can run, and 1f they get home, their runs certainly count, a8 in the case you cite, If the foul fly was muffed, then the ball is not in play again until the pitcher receives the ball and 18 in his position inthe box. This latter rule also covers the foul tip, whether caught ormnot. A foul ball caught by catcher or fielder does not necessarily have to go to the pitcher; 1tis in play the same as at any other stage of the gume. Not a Prig as a Boy. Emerson was no prig of a boy. He played hookey—1. e., ran away from school—every day for a weck, and was 50 much of a boy that when he was obliged in the role of teacher to say grace at the boarding house table he was at his “*wits’ end, He laughed, he looked grave, he said something, no- body knew what, and laughed agadn, as if to indemnify himself with the boys for assuming for one moment the cant of a man, And yetat home, perhaps, Robin, (for he tells the story of himself under this alias) had often said grace at dinner,” There is a fine sense of huwor in this—a vein that runs all through his speech and ways asa man, and which one would hardly suspect from the depth of his seriousness as a writer. He is witty ut the oxpense of the New England nose, and no droller bit of writing on the subject of sneezing has ever been written than this, think, considered as a part of the service—a “'service of the Lord with horns in the sanctuary,” The old school of Boston ¢itizens whom I remem- ber had great vigor, great noisy bodies; I think a certain sternutatory vigor the: like whereof I have not heard again, When Major B, or old Mr. S, H. wok out his handkerchief at church it meant business; he would snort and roar through his nose like the lowing of an ox,and make all ring againj it takes a North elder to do that. It was in this same church that the young miud experimented with itself, Emerson describes himself as seeking amusement by ‘‘saying over common words as black, white, board, ete., twenty or thirty times, until they lost all meaning and fixedness, and I began to doubt which was the right name of the thing when I saw that neither haa any natural relation, hut were all arbi- trary. It was a child’s first lesson in idealism.” These anecdotes meun much to those of us who have noted the work- ings of the mind during those long Sunday morning sorvices in New Eng- land churches. Never afterward in life are there such chances for observing wental instincts and natural tendencies, because in the whirl of living there is rarely the opportunity for long weekly meditations. Tke man educated in New England should know himself mentally as no other man can. The New [England Yunkee backs ground is everywhere. Iach allusion to Bmerson contains the homely sotting of an interior as partof the neutral picture or the stern yet gracious land=- scape. The little Ralph mounted on'a. sugar barrel in Deucon White’s store, reciting Milton to the frequenters of the grocery, is perhups the most char- acteristic, though ‘the walks with Thoreau in Walden Woods are more voetic and endearing. - BURIED BY BEETLES. How Two of These® Inscots Disposed: of a Three-¥oot Snake. On Sunday last Charles Meeker, jr., son of ex-Justice Meeker, bf South Ny- ack, took a pleasant stroll over to the. Balanced Rock, and during the walk killed a snake gbme three fect in length, says the Nyack Journal. Being quite {n'oud of his achievement, Charley brought the dead reptile down to his home that others might see 1t; He left it lying near the house, and the next. duy o member of the family suggested that the dead snake be removed or buried. Larly on Tuesday morning Mrs, Meeker called the attention of her son to an objeet which appeared to be movs ing in the grass, and said to him that. the snake which he had kijlled on Sun= day was alive again. An examination of the premises. proved that the snuke, at a point about fifty feet from where it was originally lying, was moving, but it was not alive, A strange and interesting revelation was made. With the snake were two “burying beetles” prosecuting their work with vigor. It appenrs to be one of the duties of this particular order of ins to bury carrion, and these twor uctive membérs of the fumily were performing their labor in a praise- worthy manner. They had moved the snake on their backs for about fifty feet, and were taking it to a spot still further away which thoy had selected for the place of burial. Mr. Meeker and his family, as well as several neighbors becawe intently inter ested in the task undertaken by the beetles, and watched the process “of in- terment. 'The place selected by the in= sects was between an apple and a pear tree, and there the beetles dug a grave and deposited the snake in it, When this was accomplished the dilligent. beetles covered the grave over with dirt, and all that was scen of the snake was the tip end of its tail, which was. lelt sticking out u{im ground, rh Iroubadour, Kute § )d in Post-Dispateh. With a jaunty cloak and swagger, And a Jewel-hilted dagger, A guitar s:vung frow his sioulders by a eibe bon-—blu6 at that; And his brocoies never bigger Than would show his shipely figure, Ana a fuscinating feather in his fuany vilted. hat— 80 hie wandered forth, a-warring, And a rbyming and guitariag, Andin attitudes artistic tnkled wavy s tricksy air: ull adored him, ncored hum, ¢ legal tender for bis wel Thus a bumming and a strummiug, And a-wooing and a-coolng, Drohing ditties by the dozen, Lisping sonnets by the score, Went the hero of our story Purough its glumor und its glory, Ah! 50 wellow and so merry was the gallaok Troubadour,