Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 13, 1890, Page 16

THE SPORTS OF MIDSUMMER. Somethingfor the Loversof the Gun to Think Over, NOTHING NEW IN OUT-DOOR SPORTS. Breezes from the Ball Field-The Range, Trap and Wheel —A Bet- ting Chestnut and Mis- Nancous Gossip. Owana, Neb, July 12, Editor of Trr Ber: Your warning to the local gtn club with reference to the illegal Killing of § chickens was sounded 100 soon, for already the young birds are be ing slaughtered, aud they are hardly lar than quail, But in dealing with this evil it strikes me that the suppression of the market hunter is the only effective way in which anything can ished. To merely shorten the sea- son by an enactment of the legislature will in nowise ameliorate the present con- dition of things o I can see What does the market hunter care upon what date the law opens or closes, — All he cares about is for the coming of the time wen the birds ave big en augh rants and Tc change the that is to the open season, would surely bo vand proper, but it would in no operate upon the mefavious market ‘0 reach him we must have o law hold the dealer and consume And the penalty should b hard, Sportsmen, therefore, advocate such legislation as will render killing game for the market within the boundaries of the state illegal, and the buyer and consumer of such grame killed should be so interdicted that they would not dar n toservea bird under any false title. As this state becomes more thickly settled game can only be er zed by one of two methods, either private preserves or by abolishing the right to market game at any season of the year, and 1 leave it to you and your readers to determine which course would be the more in unison with the spirit of our laws and_constitution. Sportsmen do not seem to realize their own power, their numbers areso vast; and as a rule, they represe seh influcnce and capital, thatunited they could force the en- action of any reasonabl Such an nizition would be avery powerful engine, and one which inits practical aspect would appeal powertully to the better nature of the politicians —especially about election time, That the feeling against the mar! hunter 1, may be seen bythe provisions inthe fish and game laws of ‘many western and southern states, prohibiting the exporta- tion of birds ov fish. Now that this move tated by Tne Bree, 1 siucerdy hope that those who are mterested in the sports of the woods und fields and of luke and river wil| not allow the matter to rest untit the sup. }»wn\sh»u ofthe marvket hunter is effected et the gun clubs all ¢ tlie state take up theslogan and keep 1t sounding until this righteous end is attained, R H. M. Nothing New in Outdoor Sports. A correspondent writes to ask whether there are any new outdoor games this season, and the answeris, there are none Tennis and croquet still continue the popular light outdoor sports, and o fact the former is en joying an unprecedented boom all over the count te tennis parties predominate in Omaha, the regular clubs so far having re- mained comparatively inactive, with the ex- ception possibly of the Y. M. C. A's. Tennis bids fair to even al baseball some dg and yet, of course, it can never hope to sup cede the mnational game. There are no innovations i tho game this smson; the rules remain intact and there is no change in_the rackets, savethat the bulk are strung with ved guat— more for looks than anything else probably. Croquet is a slow and lazy game and has been on the decline for years past, but this season there scemns to be a revival inits - terest, and lawn parties, at which the gamoe predominates, ure wumerous, even in this cll,{; Wheeling is very popular and has extended in a measure to the fair sex; and a lady on a machine is no rare sight on our streetsin the suburbs, There isno change in the former by hay urse, added a few minor improvements, ave being added every year. One of them isespecially useful, though very simple. Safel have an un- ]’Ilulmml way of doubling up and slipping down when leaned against a wall. Now they have a little attachment which, when a screw is given a couple of tums, the Steering appar- atus is so tightened as to make the machine quite rigid. Then if the handle justtouches a wall the muchinestands withoutany danger of its slipping down. In baseball goods the dealers veport a de- cided falling off in their sales, butall pre- dicta big revival next season, as by that time the general expectancy is 'that the cruel warwill be over. 3 In fishing tackle and outfits there are but few new wrinkles, only that a new steel rod has been introduced that is pronounced much superior to the old spljt bamboo, The Rifle Tournament, The rifle tournament opens at 8 o'clock to- morrow morning on the Dunmire grounds across the river and continues to the 16th in- clusive, The attendance, judging from the list of enpries already in, will be quite large. There will be both long and short range shooting, and every arrangementhas been eflected for a most successful competition, The programme First Day—Iirst event, 5 shots at 200 yards, off hand, $1 entry; second event 5 shots at 200 yards, off hand £1.50 entry third event, 6 shots at 200 yards, off hand, entry : fourth event, 10 shots at 200 yards, off hand, §2.50 entry ; fifth event, 10 shots on half rest, or us shooters may decide, & entry. Second Day—First event yards, off hand, £1 entry; scco Bhots at 200 yards, off hand, £ en event,b shots at'200 yards, off hand, entry; fourth event, 10 shots ona 25 ring target, & cutry; fifih event, § shots ona ring target, $1 entry, Third Day—First event, yards, off hand, #2 entry Blots at 200 yards, off 'hand, $.50 entry; third ovent, 10 shots at 200 yards, off hand, & entry; fourthevent, 5 shots on a 2 ring target, mtry, fifth event, 3 shots on & ring target, §1 entry. The Winchester Shoot, The Winchester club's weekly shoot was tield yesterday, twenty-five blue rocks, twen- ty-6no yards rise, with the following resuit: R T ST T FYITRTIT ) UL 0001 TUE T 1 G Pualson 1101 10111 1000 1110 11111~ I Pawlson.. . THIE 01041 11010 THIL OlLL Tar'y Paulsoni0ll 1L 1101 THHE 0011 -2 SOLIL OILLL 00T THOL 01111 | SO0LL UL ILUL 11010 OFE—10 Mluflul Fogg L0 11110 11101 1101 0101018 Ed Leader....0101 00101 00010 11011 0100010 Gearge Jones . 0000 0L (000 0 JaekKnowles. 1111 1011 L. Plekard.. . 1101 C. Hunt., i UL 1L d - Hardin Be the Spaniard, John J. Hardin, formerly of this eity, now of Napa City, Cal, shot a match with A. Dalgo, the Spanish champion of the Pacifl coast, on the Fourth, winning by a margin of two birds. The conditions were 10 live rlk«\nu. thivty-one yards rise, English rules, for 250 4 side, Following is the score: Hardin.... AT UL UL UL TH (U TV RUITE T TV ITEORTTIT ot 111 11 one shorte landator way hunte that will amenable, wood _and should has again _ been agi- 4 shots at 200 5 shots at 200 second event, 5§ ot 1L 1000 1111 [ Dalgo.. ... UL 1L 00111 AL i awil o UL 1L I Dir y Ball and Rotten Umpiring, The Weatern assoclation has been freer from exhibitions of dirty ball playing this . Season than any assoclation in the country. This is indeed & commendable feature and spesks volumes in praise of the various managers, However, while there has been such a welcome absence of rowdyism on the mol.plvvn. the same cannot be said of been 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I tors, as mob law has /@ on more than one occas- in more than one city in Theawful aud wonderful um- * slon and ths girouit, To the Sporting | has ans’ life must bo ackno ire been the bane of the this senson, and it vledged that the warlike dem: onstrations on the part of the crowds has in almost every instance been justified, for of all the beastly, measly umpiring ever wit- nessed upon this green footstool, the Wes association has had its fullest measure. With its Bloggs, its Leaches, its Horns, Atwoods, Hendersons, etal., it is no wonder that the spectators have been driven to the verge of mudness, Andof all the sufferers of this in- competency the Omaha team has been the worst, The Black Sox have got it “both ends from the mid from the very outset A Greot Big Horse Chestant, There seems to be considerable gossip on ‘Cormick going ation of the there is little on for all this talk, McCormick will bo in baseball next scason bigger than ever. Itisan indisputable fact, th that the genial magnate is protty sick of his bargain just now, and probubly, if some sucker would happen along and offer him a million dollars for the club and franchise he would give it up, but not without some reluctance even then, ‘The prime cause of this indisposition on the part of Uncle Dick is, in the first place, the fact that the team has been a sore disapy They have failed, so far, to approach anywhoere near the standard their seeminz fudividual strength justified in the spring, atloast on paper, the expectation of their attaining at an rly date in the race. They began to lose ot the very sound- ing"of the gong, and have continued their toboganing with beastly regularity, suven brief spasm or twoof suc up to the present time. The paucity of victories 1o the credit of the team has créated u feeling of discoutent and non-interest among the ors of the gaine, and s a consequence the in at the gate in y th, the attendance has been v emaciated, indeed, oftener fall- ing short of the guarantece than anything clse. Is it any wonder then that Uncle Dick and “Crazy Horse” Brandt are afflicted with griping pains in the abdominal regiont Not abitof it. But they will never throw up the sponge at this Stage of tho game, after they have invested their money and shaped everything for that success and profit, which is certain to come when the clouds, which bave this season so thoroughly obscurated the baseballical sky, roil by, Omaha is a metropolitan city, with a population of nearly 140,000 souls, and well able to suppor u league, and support it well. Stil the club must be a winning one, and this is what will represent the city in another year. Omaha has too few summer attrictions 10 ever give up basebatl as long as_baseball is the reigning popular sport. 1f Mr. McCormick should really de- termine to step down and out, it wouldi't be twenty-four hours before another organiza- tion would be efected. There are at least a dozen parties in Omaha ready to jump into the enterprise at a moment's’ warning, and they are laying quietly waiting for the opportunity, The local fan need borrow no trouble on this score, for it is an_incontro vertible fact that so long as baseball exists s a rage Omaha will have her full quantum of the sport. - With a harmonious adjustment of ! 1e opening of next season, bwds and the profits of the game in the 1801 willexceed those of any year within the annals of the game, The ¢ that Omaha is to lose her ball club is a greaf, big, fut horse cliestnut. And MeCormick will too, He is today one of the best liked bascball magnates in the coun vy club management and every city his nothing but praise for President Mc¢Cormick. out of by present foundat S0a8C Rounding Into the Last Half. ‘Phere has spuin been a shifting of positions in the Western association race. Milwaukee s again jumped into the van, while Denver trus pushed the Cowboys buck to forth place. Sioux City has floundered helpless In the soup during the entire week and has only the fraction of the tof it over Des Moines, Omaba continues to pull hard against the stream, wnd St Paul is yet inthe travail. But the race hos not been “half run yet, and tlere is many a long stride to be made yot be- fove the goul is reached, A rac never over nntilat loast one horse has come in under the wire, neither is a ball game won or lost until the last man is out. While Omaha hasn't u)«ucll{ a cinch on the flag, them is yet asplendid chance for herto retrieve her- self. Aud ono thiug the local cranks should remember, is, that Omeha woa the pennant Iast season, and sho hus it yot. The manage- ment hayen’t had enough get up about them even to run up a pole and give their patrons a squint at it. President MeCormicle offers as a reason that‘‘the thing is too ——long and that it would require apoleas tall as the el tower to kecp it from draggiaog on the ground.” But the wisest thing for one o do toliveand hope, No one can tell when the Fato City nag will makea spuet and vun up on theheelsof Milwaukee and Minneapolis. The teams are just now rounding into the last half, and while several of them are a trifle wobbly, the chase down the stretch promises ing ever expevienced in Walsh's Healy Base Running. Talk about base stealers, Joe Walsh 1s cax- rying off the palm in this line just now, aud playingone of the best shorts at the sune time in the country. There are but few games fu which Joe takes part that he doesn’t “pinch? ut least one base and frequently the s. b, column in the score shows threo and fourand svumetimes as high as six to his crodit. Joe is not uccomplishing ull this by reason of his great speed %0 much ws he is by his gool judgment. He has some of the best throwing catchers in the profession to buck against, but he sems to go down to second on one about as easy us upon another. He doesn't lose much time loitering round first, and the batter must nustle himself, if he strikes out before Joe is off. Ho keeps his eye on the twirler, and the moment his arm goes back, that's the signal and away goes Walsh like's quarter horse, and not once outof o half dozen times is he caught. Oh, What a Roast. “It makes me Lot,” said Dad Clarke, *in fact fighting mad, to be roasted by some nless nincompoopafter having pitehed my very best in a losing game. After the last game [ pitched and lost here two weeks ago, Iremember I was golng in on the cable, and a besushed and cigaretted dude bawled out at the top of his lungs: ‘Say, Dad, what's the matter with you rotten dubs--you play as if you were trying 1 get inthe ninth'hole, ‘Aud just thinlof it, welost the game by a single run, und but two errors were made by the Black Sox. But I turnedon this fellow didn’t even know his name--and gave him that burned the cigavette in his mouth clear up to his lips before he couldspit it out. Itell you | think there ought to be a law puasol prohibiting such things runuing at arge.’" Omaha’s Latest Acquisition. The management demonstrated its good sense when it fastened onto Reddy Hanrahan, He hus infused the team with a renews! of life and energy, and is playing himself as he hasn't played since 15587, The dificulty with Hanrahan for the past two seasons has been o dissatisfaction with the clubs with which he was sounfortunate as to be counected. He has wanted to eome to Omaha for more than @ year, and now that he has finally succeeded in getting here he intends to seo to it that the local patrons shall not be dissatisfled with him, In 887 there wasn't a more promising ball player in the whole country than H anra- han, and a half dozen clubs were after him throughout the whole season, He is still a great player, and again it is repeated here, Omaha was fortuuate in securing him, Hot from the Bat, Swartzel is at last pitching effectively. Jack Messitt is doing fine work for Denver Pitcher Visn has been given the run by St. Paul. 4 Burdick and Duke are both pitchers, Joe Strauss has the spring fever the whole year round. Hart of Des Molaes has been a perfect fail ure this year, Milwaukee's spurt dates from the time that Pettit joined the team, Dave Rowe and his mountaineers this after- noon. The game's as good as our's. 1f Omaha wins half her games on the pres- ent trip she will have done well enough. Billy T isdoing all of Des Moines’ catching and doing it in great shape, too, Coongy of Chicago leads the league shovt dead arm stops, Walsh leads in the West ern tion. Hanrahan is hitting the ball hard, and Wally Andrews is swatting her right and left, Thornton of the Milwaukees has been kit hard and often in the past few games he has pitched . Everybody go out to the ball park this af- ternoon and watch the Black Sox make a mop out of Dave Row Cline is to bereleased by Sionx City. They are paying him more money than is “justified in this asso fon, and he will be let out. All signs point tothe near sounding of a dull thud, The brotherhood is slowly but surely approaching its end and o few more weeks will tell the story, Moran is doing the bulk of O maha's catch- ing and g it well, still he s but 1 superior to Urquahart, Billy, however, is the surest hitter of the two. mer Cleveland must hurry up and knock out a few dozen three sackers and an ocea- sional home run, or his long-hit record will fall far short of last season’s. Milwaikee should never be allowed to wi the pennant, In_ fact it would be a great thing could the Western association drop her from the circuit next season. Sandy MeDermott's umpirir tional league is giving poor satisfaction. He is 00 he aded, 0o quick and altogether too autogratic. His removal is likely, Pitcher Bausewine has been released by St. Pauland has been appointed to umpire in the Western association, St. Paul claims that if his arm s all right withina month that he will return to the team again, Well, the Fourth of July has come and gone, and with it has gone all the excuse some baseball clubs have had for remaining on earth, The firecrackers have about all exploded. Now watch some other things burst. The Denvers and the Black Sox will play at the local park this afternoon and a fine con- test will surcly result. Denver and Omaha are both playing good ball just now and striv- ing hard to better their standing. The game will be called at 4 o'clock sharp, The New York Sporting Times is welcome to all the baseball news it can glean from these columns, but if adit is given at all, it should not be to the Rochester Democrat, cland Leader, Boston Herald and other all papers, Tie Bee only wants what it is entitled to, Sporting Times: Umpire McDarmott seems to be veally a great porson, Ho removed two players from the game at Pittsburg and it was merely his gracions naturo which per- mitted the other sixteen play to go ahead with the game. yme of these days My, Me- Dermott will know “how it is himseif”” to be ‘removed from the game.” associn- in the Na. The Spirit Lake Regatta. The annual regatta of the Towa State Row- ing association will be held at Spirit Lake Tuesday and Wednesday, July 15 and 1 The junior race comes off on the fivst d the senior on the second. 1SS includes Keokuk, Burlington, Ottumwa, Davenport, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Council Bluffs, and Sioux City, and each will be rep- resented by a crew and @ very interesting occasion 1s anticivated. Hanlon and Hosmer. M. R. Catlen, assistant manager of Ned Hanion, the oarsman, was in Tue Ber office vest y. Hewill visit Council Bluffs to- moveow and endeavor to make arrangements for an exhibition seulling race at Lake Manawa for August 1 between Hanlon and Hosuer. Tre Bk will give full particulars within & fow days. Whisperings From the Wheel, Frauk Bacon has returned from a visit to his old bome in Memphis, Tenn. “The Apollo club run will beto Elk City this morning, the start being made at 6:30, The Apollos won eleven prizes at St. Joe on the Fourth and thiee at Council Bluffs, A pratiy govd showing fora youug club. Four now members were admitted to the Apollo’s ranics Monday, which gives them a total membexship of forty-seven. A number of wheelmen ran over to the Chautauqua meeting Friday to hear Tal- mage, and on Saturday the run to Missouri Valley was made. It would boa good idea for the new owners of the Coliseum, Messrs. Bell & Roeder, to put a little improvement immediately upon the byking track. The turns should be raised very materially. In spite of the crematory weather of Sun- day last, the run to Haney creek was_enjoyed by u lavze number of the Apollos. Wedies duy the same crowd floated upto Florence, and ugain enjoyed tnemselves immensely. The election of Apollo club ofiicers will be held on the fiest Monday in_August, which comes on thedth. There will be the liveliest sort of competition for the presidency, and the boys ave alveady laying the wires for fa- vorites, It seems that the Omaha wheel club is no longer u wheeling organization, and instead is rapidly being metamorphosed into a social club. The members are seldom scen any more ridingin uniform, and_their run to Eremont on the Fourth ' was the only run of any extent they have made this ®season. Captain Emerson wants tobe infused with a litttle more ginger, and keep the boys inter- ested in their machines. Call your regular runs, captain. President Badollet is spending his vacation at Spirit Lake, and Vice President Rhodes is rusticating in the country. Both of these officers being absent from the business meet- ing of the Omaha Wheel club last Tuesday evening, Ed Smith was elocted chaivman. It scemed like old times to seo Ed presiding as in those haloyon days when the club was young and the members did not number eighty-five. Messrs C. N. Deitz, Vance Laneand W. D, Grandjean wer elected tomembership, whilea numberof applications came in too late for the committecto report onthem. A state bicycie tournament for September was discussed anda committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements, There is room for lots of work, and the committee, consisting of Clarke, Mathews and Gibson, will do a great deal in'the right direction, The Fremont, cyclers gave the Omaha Wheel club Boysna pleasant time on the Fourth, and their little city had probably never seen so many wheeimen in line beforve, The people showed every respect and occasionally, during the procession, some icycle enthusiast would raise a cheer for the Omaha Wheel club, Jack Kustman was there in full force, be- ing the first of the overland tourists to arrive, and recounted his adventures of the trip that bristled all over with excitement. Among other exploits, he rode over un embankment, turned a complete summersault, and alighted 'right side up and continued his journey without losing a stroke, Later in the day he swam a swollen stream, with his wheel on his back. The fact that Mittauer says the place was dusty when he passed two hours later does not detract from Juck's story, forall know some western streams have a habit of sinking into the sand and undoubtedly that was what occurred in this case, Those who know Jack best will admit whatever he says about water is all right; he has made a special study of the article and knows it when he meets it. . Prof. Perrigo felt very patriotic and carried the stars and bars tied o a shingle, although Walter Morris claimed he was usurping his office as color-bearer of the club. Those who think that Seth thodes iffaot in condition should have seen him walk away with all the medals in sight. In the two mile road race he was about half a block shead &t the finish with Schnell a strong second. The safeties came in after lunch, as usual. To- ward evening Seth won the 100 yard foot race, just to kill time. Gould Dietz has become quite ahill climber, Dodge street belng his favorite, although other places around town see him guite often. There is troublein camp, and the friends of Rhodes, Matthews and Gibson look wise and hintabout coffins and grave yards. Who knows what it means ¢ Frank Bacon has returned from his trip south. Some of your toad scorchers had bet- ter look to your laurels, for Frank is not slow and intends to do some riding this fall. For the beuefit of skoptics Mr. Townsend is ready, willing and anxious to give an exhibi- tion of riding on the rear seat of a tandem at any time and place you may select, the entire F‘Iw receipts to be dona to some worthy ndividual, Judge Cooley preferred. The Bulletin has a full page picture of F. E. Spooner, who won the hundred mile bi- cyele ruce dt the Chicago tournament, After ding in fiue form and having the race prac- tically in his own hands, what a shame that Peabody should take a header on the lastlap. All who saw the race kuow that Charley would have won easily if it had not been for that frightful fall. The Iowa division “meet” will be at Spencer July 1Sand19. Al who can should go,mn as Spirit Lake is onl eighteen miles away it could be mude o v pleasant trip, Miscellaneoms Local Sports. The reports say that fishing has not been a8 good at Spirit lake in ten years as it is this season, Large numbers of bullfrogs are being shot and captured at Horseshoe lake and adjacent swamps. Dr. H, A. Worlay is having a new ash-pan put in his Winchester in anticipation of his grizzly bear expedition next month Pugilism is as dead as the proverbial mack- erel in this city, and the police are urged to o that the brutal sport undergoes no resur- rection, Jim McTague coursing club that the sc larger ball, The match game of billiards between Prof, Lowther of New York and Beqnette, the St. L nehmin, last Wednesday evening at the Palace billiard rooms, attracted un audience of severul hundred. Will Simeral _is the boss squirrel hunter of this vielnity, He slips out quietly about one afternoon of each week and never fails in making a good kill, His last was thir- teen foxand two grays, all this year's save our. State Fish Commissioner Lew May is ju- bilant over the great success reached ‘at the hatcherics this season. He says that the Nebraska rivers and streams will in the course of time be made to teem with all the species of most edible fish indigenous to this latitud predicts that the fox terrior will prove a big success, and ond coursing meet will attract a crowd thar aSunday game of base- Questions and Answers. Did Jimmy Dullas ever catch for Denver? Was he blacklisted, and if so, for whatt Buack Stop, North Platte. Avs.—Yes, He was suspended for insub- ordination. Please state in Sunday’s sporting columns when chicken shooting commences under the Nebraska game law i—Telber, vity. Ans.—September 1, Inafield trial should a dog make a point ona bunch of bird feathers, should he be or is he penalized fora false pointt—Lord Laverick, St. Paul, Minn, Ans,—No. Itis nota false point. Pointing fur, feather, reptile or scent of game, if the judges deem the same excusable, shall not be considered a false point In atrap shoot of ten birds cach A bets B that he will by him, Each score their ten birds straight. B claims the bet. Is he cor- rectf—Trap, Nebraska City. Ans.—Heis not. The tie must be shot off todetermine who wins, or the betis a draw It is the same old chestnut that has been an- swered over and over from time immemorial. And here it is again: To decide a bet will you kindly answer_in Sunday’s Bk the following: A bets Ba horse will win n cortain heat and a dead heat 18 theresult. Who wins the money {—F. L. D., Beatrice, Neb, Ans.—Noone. Ttis a draw. And once more for the cigars: Jack and Jill are throwing dice, using two, and ace is high OWS two ac steps up and beats you,” 11 throws two aces, making ita tie. Who winsi—Doctor, city Ans,—Itis a draw. This question has been answered a score of times in Tue Bee, and is a wormy old chestput. But to elucidate. This same question has appeared in overy form of dispute known to man which almits of wager. The decisions from authorities are practically unanimous that contests of such a nature are ties, and the principle of this is justificd by the fundamental idea of betting, and it is required if one would guard against the most disagreeable feature of awager, and that is a misunderstanding. T cannot say that the original of all bets was on a horse race, but it certainly was a con- test of some description, in which each man backed his horse or himself squarely and evenly and without undue advantages as against his compotitors. Since that period the tradition has been handed down that when a man proposes to back one of two horses his friend, if the latter takes him up, is understood to back the other. Or, in other words, neither has the advantage of the other by possessing two out of the three chances incident to every trial; either one sid® must win or the other, or neither. To make a bet, unless it is specially stipulated that one party gives odds, each can have one chance of win- ning only and by general consent that is all either has ever made. Therefore if A backed his weight against B, it is to be presumed that B backed his in a like manner; and no quib- ble can be allowed in B's favor on the ground that A made use of the word ‘‘more.” Al- though B did not express it, it was unde stood that he made the same statement. This is absolutely the only rule under whizh no misunderstanding to the unfair advantage of one as against the other is possible. This question arises every day, and that very fact constitutes a strong argument that the universally accepted rule for the determina- tion is the propor rule. If A therefore ‘wishes to take his wager out of the class which makes it a tie under the circumstances of this case, he would have been obliged to use some specific terms expressly forbidding the ordinary understanding of such a wager, and to say explicitly that by ‘more” he meant that the number 150 should count in favor of his opponent. -— cures catarrh, ML e DEATH OF A HERO. Jack th “Jac Dr. Birney Bee bldg. A Noted Colored Preacher with a Gal- lant History. The Rev. Benjamin Whipper, a noted colored prencher, with a remarkable his- died in Norristown, Pa., recently, aged cighty-two, He wag at one time o slave, but in 1838, at the age of twent five, contrived to make his escape over the Maryland border line and went to Canada, suys a New York dispatchto the Globe-Democ There he secured ser- vice in an indulgent English famil and, making good use of his opportunit learned to read and write, and later studied for the ministry. During his theological studies in 1840 Whipper hap- pened to be at Atglen, in Chester county, and while there distinguished himself by rescuing in @ heroic manner a run- away slave girke who was being taken back south intoslavery. The girl, who as a child lived on the plantation where Whipper; had served, had es caped a few months before, and was liv- ing with a familyat Atglen. Her owner, with civil authorities from Maryland, apprehended hergand was about t0 take her to Lancaster and thence south. ‘Whipper learnedsof the girl’s capture and immediatelyplanned a rescue, With a party of fourdmiends, all mounted, he attacked the southern cavalcade on the roadside just enstief Lancaster. A num- ber of shots were exchanged on both sides, and one of the horses of the rescu- ing party was kifled, but Whipper su ceeded in rescuing the girl, and bove her to a pliace of safesy on horseback behind him, Some years afterward Whipper was licensed " to preach, and assumed charge of u congregation in Simcoe, Canada, Ten years ngo he was sum- moned suddenly to attend a sick woman, on her death-bed. He arrvived before the death of the invalid, an old colored woman, but before he left he had the happy satisfaction of knowing that this woman was none other than the colored girl whom he had delivered from her captors forty years bofore near Lancas ter. Recently the patrinrchal preacher resided at West Chester, Pa. He had two duughters, One of them lives in West Chester and the other in Norris- town, S Dr, Birney positively ¢ hay fever. Bee building. Merchants’ hotel Omaha. $2to #3 per day. Nat. Brown.wropr,lva P.Higby,mar SIXTEENTH, LOOKING NORTH. A View of the Busiest Thoroughfare in Any Western City, AN INTENSELY BUSY, BUSTLING SCENE. Thirteen Small & Seven Thous .nd People Enen a Livelihood and Many Thou- sand do Business, nares in Which No business thoroughfare fn ail Omaha pro- sents & more metropolitan appearance of the thoroughly modern kind than does Sixteenth street looking north from Farnam, It is not surpassed in this particular in any eity be- tween Chicago and San Francis ow Orleans und the north limit line of Minne- apolis. One glance at obtained ~ from the and the stranger remembers the scene long after he has traversed the most imposing business marts in all America. Not that this street contains the building product of any colossal aggregation of wed that its business blocks are all twely fourteen stories high and gilded with the pro- fit of fifty vears of world-wide trade. But because it is the model of as intensely bus bustling, and in v way lifeful cial steeet as one desires t us an example of nineteenth century enterprise, The glance first tuke: oup of half a dozen massive and towering business palaces, all of white stone and forming an fmposing crown for this commercial highway on amid the labyrinth of 220 which with theiroft recur poles soon blur upon the lengthening vision and shut out from sight the long rows of stores, the eye discovers .he now long bundle-like line of wires sceming to meet at a point marked by a huge e ol dense which, uninterruptedly, has been forth 'in mighty serpent-like form fc and marks the first of one of Omaha's inany great clusters of manufacturing districts, A distance of thirteen squares has been traversed by the cye and whether the time be forenoon or afternoon fuily 5,000 people have passed within the = range of vision plainly discernable or otherwise, A thousand teams of horses and fifty street cars propelled by electricity have all con- tributed to the scene, harmony in which is discovered to be kept by ascore of hand- somely uniformed vigilant and gentlemanly police offic Board one of the passing cars and ride up through this avwry of trade. Nearness will play no trick of disenchantmen As the <ar starts, if some one were to hand you a tablet of paper and pencil und offe you $1,000 in gold if you would muke simply @ mark of uny kind for every store you passed—the getting of the moncy to de- pend upon your haviug an absolutely correct count when the thirt blocks were passed vou would probably consider that 1,000 asnap pick up. Four of the brightest young business men in Omaha tried it one day last week for an equally contributed purse of &100, the man whose pencil marks came neavest to tallying with the number of stores to take the mou And they all took their chances as to ome one or more of them having made the count on foot. When the count had been made, and com@red with the result of a leisurely saunter up one side of the streetand down the otherit was found that the man who hud come nearest to the actual number of stoers had made thirty-two marks less than the real number, which’ was 3 In addition to these stores .there are four banks, three Lotels, twenty: boarding houses and a scoreof saloons, together with fully two score of peanut and lemonade stands. And yet the entire thirteen squares are not solidly built up, though nearly so. The two exceptions worthy of note, or that would arrest the eye, are mnotable points. One of these is a glory of the street—dJefferson park, recently beautified by the skillful expend: iture of large amounts of city funds. The other notable exception is the block now marked by the ruins of a big conflagration. It is here that Omaha's new postofiice to cost $1,500,000 as ordered by con a short short time ago, is to be built, Nearly seven thousand people—from banker to bootblack—earn their daily bread within this thirteen squares on North Sixteenth street. What do they all dot Almnost, if not quite, every kind of work imaginable, for, in noting the number of places of business than one might notice riding along this street in a car, nothing has been said of the bee hives of labor upon upper floors which swarm with men, women, girls and boys Was the forecast given in the introductory to this glance at thirteen blocks on North Sixteenth street overdrawn? And yot but a l:orflrn of the street has been described. More than a million of dol- lars of mercantile activity possessed by this street has been untouched. And any well posted business resident of Omaha will tell you that the tnirteen blocks in question represent not a twentieth of the city's commercial life, and that there are several handsomer business streets in Omuha today than this one. And they will not be exaggerating the matter a particle. Yet they are all very proud of the picture pre- sented to the eye looking north on Sixteenth from Farnam. the perspective point designated smoke pouring e HONEY FORTHE LADIES. Gowns for summer evenings, dinner par- ties and receptions are most effective made of black India silk printed with pompadour nosegays. Cricket is becoming a popular pastime among English women, who defend them- selves from any charge of oddity by refer to women cricketers in Enghsh literature and history. Miss Austen, for instance, played ericket and made the heroine of *‘Northanger Abbey” play it. The German Empress Frederick loves lit- tle ¢ She never fails to notice eve , and will often stop in her walks and speak to them. Even grubbiness will not deter her from taking a particularly fine baby in her urms, though, of course, she prefers them clean, Fashion is the most fickle thing in life next to romantic love, and the womon who war ¢ to get the worth of her mvestment out of her new hat, her point d'esprit sunshade, her plaid or sprigged dress and her Stanley jacket must put them on and wear them whenever the occasion of uppearance will permit. The empress of Germany is something of an autocrat herself, Her autocratic ideas hap- pen to run in the direction of d reform, and she has formed a society for the suppres. sion of finery, or something of that sort. The empress has given out the intimation that any lady who values royal favor will make haste t0 join ths society “and proceed at once to subdue her vauitingambition for fine clothes, An exquisitely soft and summery robe is u pale gray surah, made with aflat band of vel- vet round the skirt and cut in bars so as to let the gray silk show through. The bodice trimmming makes a pretty contrast. The hat is of black velvet, trimmed with bows of white ribbon, and the sunshade is of white silk; all in all a very artistic_arrangement of black and white, novel and effective. Really, the only mode or article of dress ancient or prehistoric that is not duplicated in fashionable modern costumes is the winm- ple of Chaucer’s time, seen in the habit of the religieuse toduy. Why cannot some de- mure, nun-faced maiden adopt this becoming accessory and make it fashionable. It is very becoming. Folds of gauzy white material should form u_dainty coif and encircle the dainty throat from ear to shoulder. Just imagine, girls, anything more enchanting Miss Harriet Pullman, the younger duugh- ter of Sir_Geovge M. Pullmin, is going the rounds of Washington society under the chaperonage of Mrs. General Logan. Miss Pullman is a pretty girl of the brunette tyve, with the dreamy eyes and tip-tilted chin that Ada Rehan has so successfully affected. She dresses in exquisite taste, plays @ couple of stringed instruments nicely and has perbaps the best prospeets of any girl in Chicago. L Paradise Ahead for Street Car Users. An improved motor car truck for motor cars is said to prevent, or greatly lessen, the oscillating motions of curs with short wheel-base, such as all four- wheeled street cars must of necessity be. Itis built on the contilever principle and is equipped with elustic wheels, the parts of which they are composed being nterchangeable, so that worn or dam- aged parts may be readily and cheaply renlaced. The wheels have malleable fron hubs, whieh are for by hyraulic presses at a prossure of thirty-five tons to the squave inch, so that there is no possibility of their ever working loose. Rubber cushions are in« serted between the hub and the web, supporting the axles and motors and re- lieving them them from shocks, and les- sening the tendency to crystalization of the iron, ol on the axles THOUGHIS O JUCATION. Suggested by the Recent Exhibi jon in The Bee Building, Written for The Bee, The rocont exhibit in Tar B building of the products of manual training in the city schools of Omaha was not only very pleasing in its arrangement and effect, but was sur- prising in its real merit, and demonstrated the practicability of the instruction which Omaha children roceive, T enjoyed the pri iloge of visi ny schools during the sch may say that Omaha schools are exceptional e training, I am led to remark that schools generally throughout the country not what they ought tobe. Forwithall the advantages of the free and liberal education which has been lavished from early life upon the youth of this country, there should result a more rational peopld, capable of under- standing great truths and able to lift them- selves from the boudage of popular prejudice, Instead of having such a people, we find among the massof the population ‘the same accoptance of old gricvances and the same hesitaney in the_adoption of purer principles which marlked those anc luys when pa- tience and forbearance were vivties of ne ity on the of misgoverned humanit om this land, at least, that period should As a matter of fac e, and wo ) demand a reason for harmony between cause and result. Great and “good people, with every gift ofnature and_of grace, aré con- stantly employed in holding before the peo- pled communities the beauties of kindness, of temperauce, of healthfulness and of peace, But year by year the crowd gocs on,deaf and blind alike'to_counsel and warning. They seem to have drawn a line between theory and practice, and even where their under- standing is obliged to acknowiedge the truth ud force of the ureuments offered the iner- tia of long habit holds them back silent and veliel becomes move some other. But wher difference checks expre vauce are made slowly justice retarde this defe fon, which Is not a huphuzard procedure, since “all develop- ments must proceed in’ nccordance with somo gencral planor order.”” The plant grows in obedience to thelaws of vegetable life; and the growth and development of the mind is volled by the laws of its own being, A 2ot sysiem of cducation s, therefore, d upon cergain principles, which express the laws of human life and_ development. Thesc prineiples ave not only the foundation upon which the systein rests, but they give shape and characte: 0 the entire superstructure. And from a careful survey of different educational schemes, an examination of the problem of education itself and o thorough exaumination of the works of Aristotle, Pestalozi, Frocbel aud oth ent educators, we et those principles which make a firm founda- tion for a system of education, It is n generally accepted fact that the odu- cator should understand the object for which he labors; for the object determines the method to be employed in the work. “A cor- rect end in view will lead to correct meth- ods; u false object will vitiute both the means and metnods of using them.” Tn edu- cation, especially, the end aimed at crowns the work with dxcellence. Horace Mann said that “the true_object of education is the perfection of the individual” This porfec- tion is attained only by a harmonious devel- opment of all man's powers—mental, moral and physical -l of which _contribute’ to his dignity, wellbeing and happiness. These powers develop naturally and in a cortain or- der, which must” be followed in education. Intéllectual life begins in the senses; th child awakens into knowledge through’ po coption and sensusion. Then follows the a tion of the memory a8 4 retaining und recall- ing power, accompanied by imugination us the power of representation. After this come judgment and rewsoning and the power of abstraction, gencralization aud clussifica- tion, Still later we became conscious of ideas and truths, and learn 1o work them up into new truths by the power of thought. Last of all themind awakens tothe consiousness of man as amoral and religious belug, beaving relations to the material world, to his fellow- man, and to his God. Finding in mun_such a relation of faculties and forces, we should learn the order of their growth aud follow that order in our work. The memory should be called into activity, means shouid be af- forded for the culture of the imagination, the mind should be led gradually from things to thoughts, and activity given to judgement and reasoning, and_also to the powers above mentioned, Desires should be awakened md directed, the affections untolded, and the will subordinated to the ideas of frufb and duty. The basis of this development is the seif- activity of the child mind, which is composed of two distinct phases—tho receptive and the productive. These. two. phases go hand in hand in the work of true education, There should be objective realities to supply the condition for the self-activity of the mind. The mind cannot act upon itself alone: there must be food for the mental appetite. There should be an external knowledge to meet the wants of the internal knowing subject. Education s not creative; it only assists in developing existing possibilities into living realities, and should bemadified by tho diffe: ent tastes and talents of the learner. While all should receive u courseof general culture, opportunity should be given for the develop: meut of special tastes and gifts, Itis these that onrich art_ and_ sclencs and add tothe sum of human knowledge; and the progres of art and science demands that genius shall have the most abundant opportunities, Edu- cation, in brief, should attain the triune re- sult—development, learning and _eficien Itis not enough that the mind has well devel: oped powers and is richly furnished with knowledge. There should be power to make use of this culture and knowledge. The edu- cated man or woman of today must be able to @0 as well 4s to think and kr If results of education b ment, the responsibility fathers made the great mach itto our care, and we must watch its work- ing—must wateh it even if farm and d and office be neglected; for the dearest fute est of this nation, or any other for that mat- ter, is the education of its children, a_power to idity or in- on, the steps in ad- hiress of remedy ng_disappoint- withus. Our wcund entrusted J. C. WHINNERY, D. .S, DENTIST Comer 16th and Douglas Sts., Omaha, Neb, Rooms 212-213, Entrance 207 S. 16th St lephone 484, Artificial Teeth on rubber, as cheap as atany first class offic lined plates, for beauty and strength they take the lead of all. A POSI- TIVELY PAINLESS AND BSAFE METHOD OF EXTRACTING TE DR. GLUCK, Eye and Ear, Barker Bloek, 15th and Furnaw. Telephone 658 FOR LADIES ON Dr. Leducs Periodical Pilll the French remedy, act on the mensteual wystom cure suppression’ from whateves menstruation. These pills should not ba taken Ing pregnancy. Am. Pill Co, Royaity Pr cer, Ciny Co., In. Genilne by Sherman & Mol Dodge st., néar . C., Omabia: Melcher, South Omaha; M. P, Ellis, Councll Blufs. 82.0r 3 for 8. 1 KR, Address or sall o B, Tho figure © (n our dates w No man or woman now living will over date & Jocument without ueing the figure 0. Tt stands In the third place In 1890, where It will remain ten years and then move up to second place In 1900 where 1t will rest for one hundred yoars, There is another *9" which hias also como to stagh It is unlike the Hgure 0 in our dates in the respect that It has alzeady moved up to first place, where it will permanently remain. It Is cailed the ““No, 9" High Arm Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine, The *“No. 9" was endorsed for first place by the experts of Eutope at the Parls Exposition of 1680, erocontest with the leading m chines of the world, it was awarded the onl Graud Prize given to family sewing machines, others on exhibit having recelved lower awa of gold medais, el Tho Fronch Governrent also recognized its superiority by thedecoration ot Mr. Nathaniel Wheele dentof the company, with the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Tho “No. 9" is not an old machine improved ugon, but 1s an_ entirely new machine, and the Grahd Prizo st Paris wus awarded it as the grands estadyance in sewing maohine meotianism of the nge. Those who buy it can rest assured, therer fore, of baving the very latest and beet, WHEELER & WILSON MFG 00, 185 and 187 Wabnsh Ave., Chicagdy ~=e . B, FLODM 220 North Sixte N & CO. snth Street DR. J. E. McAREW, The Doctor {8 unsurpassed in the trentment of all forms of Private Discusce. has hiad stronger endorse- meat. A cureis guarauteed in the very woret cases Those who have been MU uoder hia treatment for 4 Stricture or difficulty o relieving the bladder, pronounce it a most wonder- ful success. A compicto cure In a few duys wihous oslr “‘"Ho Andallweak, sexiinl organg timidity or nervoueness, In their worat forms and most dreadfal_results are abeolntely cured. DISEASES cared at homo without instruments. A wonderful remedy. HOURS for ladies from 2 to 4 ONLY. neys and Bladder cured. sYPHILIs Ciired in 80 to 80 days. Tho fve trentment known to the medical prof . Every frace of the d For ‘im , each 100 . Treastment By corres ndence. Stamp for reply. . Co. tdtu Axp FaRxax S5, 3 Open [rom 8 A. M. to 9 P. M. Entrance on Farnam or 1th 8t., OMAHA, NFB ONE OF THE GREAT FIVE. THE SPECIALIST. Notreatment has ever bes Infrom3tob duyawithout the 1088 of an hour's time. pain, ins*ruments or | time. uees of the B‘BHENNES And all FEMALR and all Discases of the Skin, Blood, Heart, Liver, Kidt most rupid, eafo and effeets imoved from the bicod: a complete ouro s SALT LAKE CITY. New York, Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City and - San Francisco. Midway betwoen I miles from R krom commerciul certer +Famous Summer and Mountain Health nmr/ Altitude over 4,000 feet, yet fi by breex great Inland Saitfen. * Finest Salt Water In Grent Sa . onopencd Muy 20. Gook Hotels, Fishing, Hunting snd Camping. Dross Pas rade und Military Bund Concerts daily ut Fork and San Francisco; 108 d Lo become one of the A Mighty Inflow of the Best American Blood in recent years has doubled tho population, now 80,000, doveloped resurcerbuilt ap strong churches fosteréd public tehools, created Charming social conditions. A delightfui bome city. Business Opportunities are lurge I Real Estate. Investments, & and 10 per cont Mortgagos, I Lund Si1ver Mining Woo oo Mills, ke homical Works, i . Slute, As Luin, Biono Qi Fuctorie Wholesnlo b Our peopls will ay Manufactu and ulso by guds. investioation of the grandest alt Lake ity ed Pamphiets,Special Toure ot specific in formation desired, nailed froe. REAL KSTATK KXCHANGK, Ball Lake Cy, Ulahe per Mills, MOASTUATIARELIANS ehico st itea, D LAND IS ViGN & ko City. Ul "BOISE CITY, CAPITAL OF IDAHO, Metropolix and by provision of con stitntion Per manent Capital. Unusual opportunity for investl ment and business, Capital needed. Morlgnges not [ Saw wllls, brick kilns, nitle v Unlimited [ h Po 5 Fleld croy Mountain,” state. Third in precious minerals £17,000,000.00. Combine business with pleasure nnd vislt us. Excursion rates. lllustrated pamphlets malled froe. BOARD OF TRADE. Botse City, ldaho A. J. SIMPSON, Output Iast year Slde spring attachment. No horse motion. The oldest and largest carriage fuctory n Omaha for flue work, using the celee brated spring washer axle, Drafts and estimates furnished. Fine repairing 8 specialty, 1409 and 1411 Dodge St., Omahn. What Makes Home More Pleasan e THAN Ao Talking Parrot. 1 ofter for sale this week a 1ot of very nice large greed Parrotw, as 01lows, 5 ench, | A'u-ui of 1 I gusrantee all parrots Lo talk, Lo be perfec Jull satisfaction ETSTER, 417 S, 18th St., Omaha,