Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1889, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE LET, YOUR HOME BE A HAPEY O Our actual enjoyments are so few and transient that were we not blessed with homes our lots would be miscrable. Every father and mother should do their utmost to make their surroundin neatness, arrangement and taste. The home should be furnished throughout, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1882~SIXTEEN PAGES. s the most inviting, the scenc as shown below tle singing; System. Nothing, pay us a visit. ) place of affection and love. Tell your good wife of your resolve. and the wife and children happy and smiling in their A\Y were never so well you in both satisfaction and money value. LA —— ' Holiday- Presents, 1 plush parlor suit 1 center table 1 fancy mantl 2 pairlace cur 20 1 Smyran vug .. 4 pictures clock ins. PARLOR ards Brussels carpet. FURNISH YOUR HOME. $24.50 1.50 4.00 2.00 ains des 2 pair lace cu window sh 1200 | 15 yards 1.00 1 toilet set 6.00 1 matty 1 spring #1.00 | 1 comfort SITTING ROOM. 1 oak book case. 11 unge 1 rockeri iiiiie ) yards Brussels 1Smyena rug....... 1 pair lace curtains 2 window shades, $ 5.00 6.00 6.00 1 elegant oak ¢hamb 1 window shade vds mattin 1 toilet sot 1 mattress lad anticipation of the cvening and papa’s arrival, no matter how trifling it may seem to you, is overlooked in our eagerness to supply to do without ncecessary comforts when you can secure them as cheaply as though you had the ready She will aid you all she can, and the plea :pared as this season to cater to the SECOND STORY. FRONT CHAMBER. 1 handsome onk chamber suite. nd make your hom sure of a happy Thome will increasing demands of the housekeepers of-thi F 1 onk cottage cha 1 mattry 15 yavds hemp o 1 toilet sot SECOND STORY. BACK CHAMBER. . $18.00 40 3.60 12 yards he 00 1 mattre 0 1 toilet s suit np en THIRD SERVANT'S ROOM. 1 ok cottage suit. The table will then be ready at the fireside, awaiting the evening meal; Such a home should be yours, with the o ¢ all you could desire. make her STORY. DINI RONT. 16 yards Bru G eane chair amber 1 sidobonrd uite arpet (@ 20¢ 1 dinner set. £19.00 You have never dealt on credit? cash to pay down, simply because you have never dealt on credit ? NG ROOM. 1piere tension tablo Is carpot. prore g T ndow shudos KITCHEN, 1 stove with fixture 1 shade 4 chad rpot. i 1 table 11 yards homp carpet. . Start paying on your Holiday Presents, ex- tra teams engaged to deliver goods Dec. 24th. All goods reserved on receipt ot a small pay- ment. Hanging Lamps, Stand Lamps, Ghefl‘oniers, Hall Racks, Sideboards, Rugs, Art Squares, Cen- ter Tables, Plush Rockers, Reed and Rattan Rockers, Parlor Suits, Pier Extension Tables, Bookcas:s, Desks, Secretaries, Cabinets, etc. R NOTE OUR EASY TER + 10 worih lll.':.l‘i‘l'llll:'!:ll r week " gonds 52 p of goods $3 pe %200 worth of goods Open at night. 50 p q 10 per md rek or =12 pe P.rweek or 8§20 per mon Goods 1d on time payments ana delivered MS. h mo 1 free of charge to South Omaha, Fort Omaha, Florence ana Council B luffs, =~G13-615 N.IG™S T-mz THESPORTS O EARLY WINTER A Brace of B g Shoots Booked for Tuesday. THE BASE BALL SITUATION® The Apollos Redivious— rew and the Geesc—New Players Signed — Rugby Foot Hall — Manager Keller Explains—Miscels laneous Notes, Tuesday's Big Shoots. A couple of the most interesting shooting mutches that have twken place in this vieinity for a number of years will be decided on the Gwin & Dunmire grounds, across the river, next Tuesday afternoon. The first will be between Frank S.Parmelee of this eity and J. A, R. Elliott of Kansas City on oue side and Charlic Budd of Des Moines, the ex-Ameri- can trap shot champion, and Captain R. B. Organ of Chicago on tho other. The match is 1ifty live birds cuch, thirty yards rise,modified English rules, for 250 o side. Tbe referce will be chosen on the grounds. Following this evont will bo a similar mateh between W. E. Nason of this city and Dorscy Bur- gess of St. Joe, for §100 a side, There will bo a delogation of spovtsmon here from Chicago, Des Moines, Kunsas City and St. Joo 10 witness tho contcsts, and Local enthusiasts are much elated over the pros- pects of a grand afternoon’s sport. Prospects ¥or a Sensation. From present indications it looks as if thiere were more scnsations in store for bas ball patrons, and it is not at all improbable that the whole Western association will be reorganized, and some of the cities now in- cluded in the cirouit dropped and new ones supplied in their places, It looks as 1if the American association must g to pieces, The Bultimores are endeavoring to huy Washing- ton's league franchise, and in case of failure in this, will surely go nto one of the castern minor leagues. ‘This would leave tha Ath- letics a lust sad remnant of the once great American nssociation in the east, and Colum- lumbus, Lousville and St. Louis would have 10 alternative but to go into the Waestern, Lhis all teods to show that in thmwe two big leagues, an castern and a westorn, are the inevitable outcome of the whole bascball business. There is noreason why si perous cities as St. Lows, St. Paul wpolis, Milwaukee, Omaha and Kansas City could ot be made oue of the greatest pay- ing basebull organizations ever known in the history of thegame, In the event of such & revolution, of course, such cities as Des Moiues, Sioux City and Deaver (the latter on uccount of its remote situation) could not hope to remain wichin the circuit, The Ap ' Redivivag ‘The club took a little spin to Birmington last Sunday. ‘The weathor was slightly chilly, but not sufliciently 50 as to spoil the pleastire of the run. » Tho boys at last, however, ure safe 1 put- ting vseline upon their wheels us Old Grimp 18 here eviaently to stay. The Apollos have organized a polo team for the proposed juvenile league Mauager Prince is gowg to form, The Apollo team includes Sanshay, Leedor, Wertz, Biendorf, Seifkio, Angel aud Pixley. ‘The Apollos can rlfhlfully boust of the fastest boy team of bykers in America, in Wertz, Pixiey aud Beiudorf, Wil Waiker and Will Pixley haye ar- ravged a ten-mile bieycle race for & hand- some silver cup. ‘The race will come off at the Celiseum on the eveving of the 10tn, Pixley allowing Walker a one mile hands cap. Percy Gibson, the boy chawpion of Illi- nols, passod through Omuhs last Friday en route for San Francisco, whero he goos for & ouple of months' visit. Gibson is one of the young riders in the country, aud out 43 races cawe out victor in 41, ‘His two @re sustained at the hands of M- Donnell, at Buffalo, N Y., and by this city, at Chicago nst June. A meeting of the club has be Wednesday evening next at 5 the club rooms, corner Sixtesnth street and Capitol avenue. McGrew Amboug the Canadas. H. N. McGrew, the genial advertising man, hus the acknowledgoments of the sporting editor for o magnificent Canada goose received per express from the River the night before Thanksgiving, Mac has been up there shooting for the past weoek, and has bad glorious sport, as the fol- lowing note received on the same evening with the goose attests: : Si0u3 , Nov. 2.—Saudy, Old Enclosed find one goose by Amezican s today. I could have sent you a dozen this size, but I knew it would worry YOU o get awa mall. You would enjoy the hunt T am having over my live de- coys ana with my Fuller goose call on the Missouri bars. U will bring you a dozen justv like the one T ship you today when I return Sunduy night. 1 shipped sixty-eight today; killed thirteen this morning and would have ot a8 many more if it hadn't boen for wmy whiskers, "My shoulder is getting sore; am not used to five drachms of nowder and an ounce and a quarter of No. 23, Make a little soup out of this goose and throw Jackson into it. Yours affectionately, McGR P,8.—The geeso here are’ all Canadus; no Hutchins nor white or speckled brant. M. Omaha's New Mon, That Manager Leonard has got a hustle on himseif there 18 no doubt, Besides sign- ing Fanuing, the Buffulo twirler, ho has gatbered in two other new players within the past week. The firstof these is Billy Erquhart, the promising young eatcher, with the Now York stato league during the past season, Leonard says that Billy is u corker, Ho is but twenty-two years of age, is five feev ten inches height and weighs 170 pounds, His catebing uverage for the past souson was 020, and hLis batting average S04 M. P, Hines is the third man, He played with Loweil last season and led the Atlantic league at the bat with an average of .548. He is an outfleider, and in the par- lance of the profession, a *“‘bute,” The Base Bali Situation, The base ball sittuation at present, summed up i few words, is aboutas follows : It looks moro and more, as the days go by, that the brotherbood must result in u fizzle, It is ex- ceedingly doubtful whether a ganf is ever played under such a management. Mauy of the old league players are quietly sivging with the old clubs and going back on their promises to the brotherhood. The players are gradually haviog the dust blown out of their eyes, To be sure the brotherhood lead- ers are still making a stubvorn fight to do something, but their chances of succeeding are ubout one in ten, ‘The league is quictly formulating itsp lans for the coming seasou, ‘They will tuke back as maay of their old players as they cun get, but in any event they will open upu uew éra for the young blood. The treachery of the wen whom they have fostered and made rich has bad a mar- velous developing effect upon their caution- ary bump. ‘The American association is a dead ¢ock in the pit, and as a lastdesperate resort may link its fortunes with the pirati- cal brotherhood, The miuor leagues ure all on uettles, but the formation of a powerful Western association to include St, Louis, Louisville, Columbus, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kunsus Cily, Omaha and’ either Milwaukes or Denver is' not improbable, Still Has His Nerve. , Dad Clarke telegraphed to President Mc- Cormick & day or two ago, that he wouid sign with the Brotherhood unless McCor- mick remitted to bim the $500 he claims was promised him if the Omahas won *he pen- naut. No attention was paid to the young geutleman's threat, The San Fraucisco Chronicle has the fols lowing to say of Dad in bis iast gawe with the Oaklands on Tuesday last: The main trouble with the boys from over the bay was their inability to connect with the eurves of Clarke, The litle man from Omaba was in e 0 A R o ARt BT ' ke splendid form a cent zame of bail: ~ His speed was at timos terrific and his* command ull but perfect. Four scattering hits were all the hewvs hitting colonels could bang out, though time and again did they have splendid opportuni- ties to send in a run if they could have even sacrificed. Will the O wome in? Season after season St. Louis has had the greatest bull team ii the country, and al- though the ity received thousands ana thousands of dollars worth of advertising out of the fawe of its represeutative ball club, yet at such a low ebb has enthusinsm and interest m the game run at the Mound City that for three s past the team has been accorded but niggapdly patronage. Now that the American ussociation has beo shipwrecked by the desortiou of Cincinuati, Brooklyn ana Kunsas City, thero is nothing vetter in base ball left for St. Louis than 1o Joiu a minor league, and this sho must do ero the spring arrives or give up all but ama- teur g mes. Jt need surprise no one to hear of St. Louis knocking for admission at the doors of the Westorn ussociation befora many wecks elapse, and it 18 to be hoped that she will. With St. Louis in Des Moines' place the Western association would leap to second placo so far as noportance is concerned of all the base ball organizations in the couutry. 10 Younzster tv H ve a Sha It is clearly the intention of the National leaguo magnates to encourage young ball vlayers, and by this move they hopa to have the country flooded with brilliant players in the course of a couple of years, At presont less than one hundred men comprise the great ball playevs of the conntry. There are plenty mare where the presont ones came from, say the men who have handled the business in the past. This is very true, and the ouly difficulty 1s in finding the men to bring these youngsters out. In a long, hard race for the championship the tried old horse will display his staying nowers, and the one great drawback to the yuung player will be his inabulity to it the ball. - As far as floiders and base ruuners go, the woods are full of them, but good batters are scarce and it wil require many years to graduate such another school ‘as Brouthers, Kelly, Apson, Ewing, O'RRourke, Richards Thowpson and the other men who have u held tne National league as the strongest playing body in the country for tho past dozen years, 1 pitched most magnifi- Manager Keler Explains, Bostox, Mass,, Nov. 21.—To the Sporting Editor of THE ONaHA BEg: My Dear Sir— In reference to the national trap shooting contests that will take place botweed teams representing the east and west, I wish to ex- plain to you. The scheme was conceived by Charles W, Dimick, president uf the Amer- Jcan shooting associution, and offered to u certain cartridge company, but they thought the expense of & trip of this character too much to undertake at present. So the United States cartridge compauy of Lowell, Mass., will back tho enterprise. T'he route will be a8 follows: Opening at Cincinnati, about the middie of January; thenve to Lonisville, St. Lovis, Memphis, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Sav Autonlo, El Paso, Los Angelés, San Francisco, Stockton, Sacra- mento, Portiand, Tacoma, Seattle, Ogden, Salt Lake City, Denver, Leadville, Kansas City, Omaha, Des Moines, St. Paul, Minune- apolis, Milweaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Tolado, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Syracuse, Al- bany, New York and Boston. The coutests will be at 200 Blue Rock targets a side, each man to shoot at thirty singlesuad tive pairs. One of the finest notel cars in the Pullman service hus been churtered to couvey the purty over the entire trip, and will be Atted up with every convenience for the comfort of the travelers. Possibly I can arrauge for some exbibitions at live birds, It is & great disappointment that Mr, Parmelee is unable to be oue of the western team, aud Mr. Stice will take bis place, Yours truly, [, H. KeLLes, An Important Meeting. Oxaua, Neb, Nov. 80.—An important meeting of the Gate City Atbletic club will be held Tuesday evening, December 8, and all mewbers desiring to see the orgunization put on a firmer and more reliable basis are urged to be present. . MsayrR, Secretary. Flashes Jack chis. Bardick is managing the gymnasium at Minneapolis, Mai Hackett will report at Kansas City Janvary 1. anavan sa) catcher i the countr; London signed Jack T.eighton, with Omaha a shorv time Sea8oN, Bell, the youug Cincmnati pitcher, has signed with Kansas City for next year. “i3ug” Holliday considérs Gasiright of Columbus the coming pitcher of the country. John J. Hurdin writes that the kid giove society men of Irisco have gone daft over base ball. Manager Selee says that the Bostons will have a big team next season, brotheranod or no brotherhood. Kausas City has some of the coming play- ors of the profession. They ure all youns and full of ginger. Van Dyke, Des Moines old left sielder, is putting i the winter trapping and hunting in northern Michigan, Ciuclnnati_is after the Cowboys’ great short stop, Herman Long, and the chances are that the Queen city will get him. Bob Lowe is reported to be in Milwaukes endeavoriug to purchase three of the club's infielders for Boston's League club, Dan Stearns has left, Comiskey’s combina- tion and returned to Kansas City, where he is employed with a chattel mortgage firm, There will be any number of base ball sur- prises yet tois winter, umong which the col- lapse of the brotherhood may be looked for, Ted Sullivan says that the association ought to secure Milwaukee, He thinks that town abead of eithor Detroit, Toledo or Rochester, Sioux City cranks are placing all the con- fidence in the world in Jim Powell, their popular manager, and already have peunant aspirations, Lowe, the flelder purchased by JBoston from Milwaukee, 18 oue of the most provi- dent men in the profession. Every scason he plante the bulk of his salary, ‘I'ne Des Moines managoment declare they will play next season out if thoy sink the en - tire amount of the stock subscribed. They expect, however, o make money, Managor Leonard of the Omahas has signed two more new men, Bily Erquhart, catcher, of Seneca Falls, N, X%, and M. P. Hines, the hard hitting outflelder with the Lowells last season. St, Joe is makinga futile effort to organize a leugue to be composed of that city, Lin- coln, Topeka, Leavenworth, Hastings, Hutchinson, Wichitaund Sedalia, Manager W. H. Watkios of the K 908 City team has concluded that Kansas City is a good placeto live in and has settled down there for the prescut. He has bought an interest io o feed business ana is doing well. Comparatively fow changes were made in the pluying rules by the Joint Kules commit- toe, una_these few were 8o ubimportant =s not to affect the gawe wmaterially, 80 that playing oext year will be the same as it was this season. Some of the Kansas City ball cranks are sorry that it has been nécessary for their representative team 1o take refuge in the Western association, but no one censures President Speas rom cutting away trom the crowd in which the desertion of Cincinuati left him., Herman Long, the rom th Sneed is spending the winter in Mem- that Tom Naglo 1s the best henomenal short stop of the KKansas Citys, ecems to be in great de- mand. Ho is a wonderful tielder, a good bit- ter and base runuver, and is a young man of excellent promise. 'With ordinary luck he will make the greatest short stop on the dia- mond. Mr. Speas expects to realize no less thau $15,000 from the sale of the releases of his Kausas City players, whom he shrewdly sigued before the crash came, and It can be depended upon that he fully appreciates the situation of the National ‘league clubs, and has valued his players noue wo low. Obio State Journal: Kansas City's move in gomng into the Western association was a Kood thing for them, for they can draw fully many people with the Western association teams aud With wmuch less raveling ex- penses. Better not weaken thel much though, ‘fne public will never trust a crowd of bail players to trust themselves, as must be the case with the brotherhood. icr to0 zreat an_ophortunity for crooked- n ‘I'he Nationsl league has maintained honestv in the game always and the public realize that. But with the players themselyes ruuning everything, no matter how honestly, the people won't believe that the games are not fixed. In permitting the introduction of any re u- lar substitute atany period of adopting the double umpire sysiem, the Nutional lengue has placed n advance of the National league with the public demand on at 4 one important particulsr. The double \pire system is the inevitable system of the future, and in first adonting it, the Brotherhood men scored u clever point. Sweeny, whose mug is a perfect ac-simile of that'of the famous comedian, sive the Gulway's, is in New York city, and is anxious to sign. Manager Leonard of the Omaha's, might communicate with bim, as the local team basn't a catcher left. Rooney has quit lushing, and when ut himself he is a stone-wail behind the bat. Roouoy is all right now ana_if Omaha can get him they will get a man who will fill the bil us fully and satisfactorily as a Naglo or a Cooney or any one else. At @ meeting of base ball_enthusinsts held at Des Moiucs one day last week 1t was de- cided to organize i league to bo knownas the Towa State Base Ball association, and to in- vite tho following cities to join it:—Clinton Davenport, Keokul, Ottumwa, Marshall- town, Ledar Rupids, Councit Bluffs, Fort Madison, Burlington' and Dubuque. 1t was decided that the salary limit should be 87,500 for ten men, each club to put up a cash gua antee of $500. - May 15 to May 17 is to be the limit of the season, each elub to play fifty gumes ut homo and fifty abrond, the lcague not to exceed eight or go below six cities, the visiting club to he guaranteed €50 per game played, or825 in cuse of rain. A scheduly for tho season will bo presented at the next moeting, which wiil bo beld at Cedar Rap- ids, President Speas has this w say regarding bis Western association toam for nexv sea- son: “Elmer Smith, the Cineinaati twirler, will be retained, Hoaley and Conway will be released, and besides Elmer Smith the pitching department will consist of Swart- 26, Sowders and Pears, These pitchers out- class uny in the Western association, and while I do not know exactly what players we will secure, I can promise # winning team. “Tho catchers will be Gunson and either Don- ohue or Hoover, und at least one more out- fielder will bo signed, 1 have been in the business for the fun of it for the last two years, and with a good club nextyear I think e can do what we have never done before— make money, I'he Western association has been strengthened by tho admission of Kan- sas City, und it wiil furnish just as good ball playing as the Awmerican assoc.ation,” Mi.cellancous L cul £ports. The Continentals are being backed in the pool rooms for the chumpionship of the city polo league, ‘Tom Conners and Alf Griener, the wrest lers, are in Partland, Ore., where thoy wil €ive o series of fako watches inthe Mechan les' pavilion. Helen Baldwin and Jesse Oakes are to ride a forty-eight hour bicyele race for §230 o side in the Mechanies’ pavilion, Portland, Ore,, beginning to-morrow evening. The Parmeiee-Kiliowt and Budd-Organ live bird shoot on the Gwin & Dunmire grounds next ‘duesday will certainly attract a large crowd of spectators. Puv Killen I8 in the east challenging everybody and everything within hearing. Nobody, howaver, thus far has paid any at- tention 10 the Duluth Slasher’s bloviatiog. Manager Prince has already begun to lay his plans for & grand bicycle tournament at the Coliseum early in February, when the whole aggregation of bicyclists aud bicyeli- eunes t0o, may be expected back hes ‘I'ne second game of the Polo league will take place at the Coliseum Tuesday eveung between the 8. I Morse and the Council Bluffs teaws. The Friday eveniug following the Gate Citys and Millards will try conclu- sions. The Owaha Schutzenverein will hold their fnal shoot of the season on Friday, Decem- ber 27, when the best averages for the club's prizes will be determined. Ired Fuller uow team too ‘There is alto- | ) wame, sn lin | New | knocked out, ( sing out Stoves the cups and saucers awaiting supplies; the ket pportunities and liberal inducements of vur Special Credit Well, now, do you think it sensible ) Do not be foolish in this respect, but resolve to step lighter and her hand more willing, and youwr hearthstone will be the rallying growing “City of Homes,” and can postively assure you that a visit will repay HOW TO FURNISH YOUR e All Stoves being sold regardless of former brices. $10 Heaters now selling at §5. §10 Heaters now selling for $9. §20 Heaters now selling for $12.50. §20 Heaters now selling for $16. $40 Heaters now selling for $27.50. 916 Cooks now selling for $9.50. $20 Cooks now selling for $12.50. §40 Ranges now selling for $28. Ads for first houors, and can ©on in the next thrée shoot: rly in the new year the e club will offer a purse of the Sereater, 11, ¢ =L Jimmy Lindsiy, of this > et @ side betof anoth that he can not do, n ten rounds, Junmy Gritin has written “Count” Gun- s of this city, from 'krico, asking him to WEILe 10 the papers there aud sy that 1t was not hie, but some fellow under his cownomen, whom Jimumy 1 iffn did not say, howey anythiog about having sold out tho fight. te City Athletic club, owing to the unsatisfactor in which some of their gone off, which account of the lax X > rules and regulations of the club were observed, are contemplat- ing a thorongh reorganization curly in the New Year, At the late tournament of the Amerjcan Coursing club held at Great Bend. Kan., the handsomest prize competed for can Iieid cup, was won by eler,” from the kennel of 5. L. Br Missouri Pacific conductor who resi Pueblo, Colo., beating Bessie Loo, the win- ner of the cup last y Mr. Branch is n brother of Chiarlie Branch of this city, and besides Arkansas Traveler he is the own of the famous dogs War Cloud, Don and Faucet. hardly be o City Ath- 1,000 for 13l one, to the Omaba Questions and Answers. Can you state in what year it was that Goldsuith Maid accomplished what was then considered the most. wonderfut feat of e of trotting a mile i 2:14!—Hoof . Omaha, fteon yoars ago last month; 2:14 is hardly regardod as _wonderful in tois duy of fast horse flesh. Tho great gain in speed, however, has scarcely been gradual, as fou years elapsed before 2:14 was be: aten, Rarus being the flyer to lower the record in 1578, During the prosent year no less than six horses have beaten 2:14: Guy 2:10%7, Axtell 2:12, Belle Hamlir ', Bounie McGregor 3, Palo Alto 2:134{ and Sunol 2:1317, Wil you please inform ms through 3. day's BEe who Jimmy Grifiin ever whipped, How many fights has Jack Dempsoy won and losti—T. K. K., North Platte, Aus,—Kuow of no one Grifiin over whipped. Dempsey has won fifty ring battles and lost one, To decide a bet please answer tho follow- ing in next Sunday’s paper. A bets B that he cau husk more corn in a day than B. In the contest they husk exactly the same num- ber of bushels, Who wins{-—-Fo Mo, Brom- tield, Neb. Ans.—It is a draw. This question been answered a score of times in Tr and 18 a wormy old chestnut. But to eluci- date. This same question has appeared in every form of dispute kuown to man which admits of wager. The decisions from au- thorities are pracucally unauimous that con- tests of such & uature are ties, and the prin- ciple of this is justified by the fundamental idea of bettiug, and it is required if one one would guard against the most disagrecable feature of a wager, and that isa misunderstanding. J cannot say that the original of all bets was on @ horse race, but it certaiuly was a cou tost of some deseription, 1 which each man backed his horse or himself uarely and ovenly and without undue adwgptages as against lis cowpetitors, Since that veriod the tradition hus been handed down that when a man proposes to back one of two borses nis friend, if the latter takes him up, is understood to back the other, Or, in other words, either has the advantage of the oth by possessing two out of the three chances incident to every trial; either one side must win or the other, or neither, To make a bet, unless 1t is spocifically stipulated that one party gives odds, each can have one chance of winning only, und by gen- eral consent that 18 all either has ever made. Therefore if A backed hi Weight against B, it is 10 be presumed that 1 bacled bis in & like manuer; sod 0o quib has Bex, wvor on the g that A wude use of the word *more.”’ Ale though I3 did not express it, 1t was under- stood that he made the same statement, This is absolutely tho only rale under whicn no wisundorstanding to the unfair advantage of one ns against the ot possible, Th question arises o und that very onstitutes u strong aricument that the universally aceepted rale for the deterunna- tion is the proper rule, If A therefore wishes to take his wager out of the class, which males 1t a tie under the cireumsi of this case, he wouid have been oblige us© som; fic terms expressiy forvidding the ordinary understanding of su and to say explicitly that by meunt that the uumber 150 should ¢ favor of his opponent. * Will you please state in your questions and answers column, what a hand, horse =B, L. K., Whidsor. Ans.—Four mches. To decide u bet will you publish tue of the killing of Junuy Kiliote Dunn~Eleventh and Hurncy. Ans,—Merch 1, 1583, Please answer through Tue Ber and oblike muny readers, Lu u game of double high-five, fifty-two points being game, A and 13" have forty-five voints and C and 1) forty nine; 8pades ure trumps; A and B make five of clubs and bigh and low; C and D the five of spades and Jack, g Which wing!-- Bradshaw, Braasbiaw Aus,—C aud D, us the five of trumps, spades, counts before the five of clubs, yund date by Jere The vegota say what thoy but Adam was fond of spare ribs, “Why, no man,” explained the speaker over brought down the house as he did.” Love's labor lost—muking Ch pers for a Chicago minister two sizes lurger than his fo An advert announces please, soment in u Colorado newspaver ‘o grand sacred dog fight for Sunday.” This is entirely o thppant a way of referring o a Wagner cono A bright littlo four-year old St. Paul girl the other flay shockeid her Sunday schuol teacher, in respouding to a roproot with, **L'm not stuck on being un angel,” “After al)," remurked ‘the student of Samson was the greatest dra- y who ever lived.” “How do you muko that out” queried the listener. History does not lead us to conjecture that Adam, especially after the fall, was an un- qualifiedly happy individual, but he cortainly was spared the affliction of fitting vp the sparo room for bis mother-in-law, A momber of & suburban Browning club was found reading the bible industriously day after day. Her daughter commented on ner new habit, und she said: *'Yes, dear, 1 find it necessary to read the biblo uow. Browniug quotes so much from it.’ A smull, seven-yoar old was ono day in- forwed of the udvent of 4 uew brother, the soventh son, Much Lo his mother's dismay th t, & suj voning prayer was: | 4O sond us twins the next time. You know b takes nine to pluy buscball, und we've only got seven. Willie was on a visit to his country, 1t was bedtime, und he had ge up £Lairs to the little room set apurt for Auntie,” Lo called out, ‘*where prayor-rugt? “The prayer rug, Wiliiel good enoughy” “Not by @ jugful, prayer rugs. [ you ligvou't ko uuy | be dogoned if I'm golug 10 say my prijer tonight, that's all 1 Tho Philadelphia church which recently decided 0 have thirty candidates preacn in succossion aud then call the best of the ot is reported to be having a great deal more fun than the candidates. The men who preached first fear that their good powts will be tiroly forgotten before the match is ende and they tnink they ouxht to have a littie extra show. The apoctucle of thirty al conteslants preuching to @ fnish, with a church as & stuke, is somewhat unusal e A rare opportunity to make £00 before Christmus. Address wita ref, Gast, 5t Louis. lsu't the ¢ Tho bost people all use 1just o