Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 4, 1893, Page 2

2 ENTRIES FOR TUE WEEK List of tho Flyers Who Will Compete at the Fair Grounds Track. FINE STRING OF STANDARD BRED RACERS Nebraska's Reputation In the Breeding Line Will o Amply Sustained by Thess Representatives—Some Splendid Sport In Prospect. VIDENTLY this is to be a most enjoy- able woek for the lovers of the horse. Tho Douglas county fair and races will open up today. On the race card thero are but two speciaj events, both of which, however, urg od and o close and exciting contest will be the result. Tomorrow the regular trotting program will be inaugurated, and the best races of tho year may be confidently anticipated. President Walsh, Secretary Engelmann, Starter Swigert and the whole board of managers have labored hard and conselentiously to make this week’s sport the greatest in the history of the local turf, and the prospects are that their efforts are 10 be crowned with ample and abundant suc- cess. An immense field of horses, including some of the most famous in the country, as well a3 all the best known of the west, is on hand to compete for the liberal purses hung up, and with propitious weather the fun will ba both fast and furious. Old race goers un- hesitatingly say that the program is the best ever offered in the west. G. W.Swi- gert as speed ring superintendent, with the sporting editor of Tre Ber as assistant, will spare no pains in rendering averyihing pleasant for the horsemen, and thus ad much to the gereral enjoymont of the five days sport. Mr. Swigert, who has attained an envious reputation for his fairness, will be in the starter's stand, and spectators can oxpect to sce the different ovents pulled off promptly and satistactorily. Program lor the Weok. Thero will be four events each afternoon, with a running race to add dash and spice to the main events, and every contest will bo d no mistake, The racing vrogram, which is an excep- tionally good one, is appended. FirstRezular Dag, Tuosday, Soptembor 6— Stake No. 1, fonls of 1893: Yearling trotting, half milo heats, bost, two in three, distance 160 ards, 8800; purse No. 2, 2:00 cluss, trotting, 500; stake No. 8, fonls of 1890 or under, pc- ing, milo hews, best two In three, eligible to 2:60 class, distance 100 yards, $350; purse No. B, throe-quarter mile dash, running, $100. ‘Second Dy, No. 6, foals milo Koats, best two In thre class, distance 100 yards, & 2:29 ‘clas class, pucing repeat, running, § hird Day, Thursday, September 7-Stake No. 9, fouls” of 1890, “Fhrec-year-old, trot- ing, mile heats, best' three in {ive, eligible to 50 class, 8500; purse No. 10, 2:35 class, trot- , 8500 purso No. 11, 2:19 cluss, trotting, purse No. 12, one ‘mile dash, running, car-old, trotting, eligible to 8:00 )0; purse No. 6, trotting, "8500; purso No. 7, 2:40 #500¢ purso No. 8, half iilo and 8500 6200, Fourth Duy, Friday, Soptembor 8—Purse No. 13, 2:30 class, pacing, 86005 purso No. 14, 2:14 cluss, trotting, #500; purse No. 15, free-for-all, pacing, $500; purse P)n» 16, three-quarter mile and repeat, ranning, $200. This afternoon the two special events will cause i whole lot of rivalry, and a couple of hot chuses aro forthcoming beyond a doubt. The horses will be called promptly at § o'elock today, and on the remaining four days at 1 o'clock sharp. Kntries for the Races. FINST DAY, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. Yearling _stake, trotting, purse, $300: fpoued | van, e A tare * York, Neb.: Copper’ Woodline, E. b. Gnna, Fullorton, “Neb.: Bonnio ' Belle, * William Harrlson, Pawnee, Neb.; Mary Kistusan, J. O, Kisterson, Falrbury, Nob.; Tim Price, J. O, Kl : Fairbury, Neb 2i00 trotting, purse, $500: King Shopherd, W. W. Mace, Omaha: ‘Olarence L., Kinney & Tt Fuy Wilkes, A. W. Simpkins; 1t C M. Gallagher, Fremont, Neb.; Redmont. A. W. 'Everott, Lyons, Nob, Foals of 1890 or under, pacing stuke, $350; Yucht, 8. I1. Sunders, Forest City, Ark.; Valld, Goorgs Tolloth, Fairbury, Neb.; - fteno M., M. A. Martin, Hustings, Neb.; Gus Tuppor, J. B, Btetaon, Silver Oreelc, Neb.; Eathen H., K. B. Latta, Tekamah, Neb, BECOND DAY, SEPTEMBER 6, Foals of 1591 eligible to three minute olass, Stako $400-_Boauty, 0. W. Pool, Tecumseh, )fi«g:; Tow Miller, P. H. Kinney & 'Co., Omaha, e 2:29 trotting, purse $500: McVera, hnson & Perry, Wahoo, Neb.: Major Buford, William Hustin, Omaha; Dr. Gates, Boconk & Proctor, Omuh J, Charles H. Winship, Fro- . Ernost B, J. R, Potts, Mexico, ‘ShadlindAcne, ald, Fullerton, Bluewood, L. Lightfoor. Manning, Tn. " Hill op, Patrick Neat Budd, W.T “Anderson, Alleen, Tho Jucobs, Lincoln, 5‘. D. Olar [ll'upilllll#l, Neb, ros.. Council Bluffs, In. bner taylor, M. W. Whitmor, Omaha. Running, hllt-mile and repent, $200. THIRD DAY, SEPTENDER 7. Fonls 1890, 8.year-olds elogible to 2:50 class, stake $600: Murgarite, P. 'H. Kinney & Oor Omah: Packet, . W, ter, David Ojty, Electricity, H. M. 'Spencor, Creston, Tn Bir Lofty " A.°'W.' Nison, Omuhn: Knoxie Walker, W. H. McKinney, Sedul Harrigan, rge H. Halley, ¥ Chantward, Ed 1. Cook, B D, Morrls, Hasting o 2386 trottin Blockball, John- son & Perry, Wahoo, Neb.; ' Trenton, William Hustin, Oniaba; Dinah, ard, Omaha; Btar Mediun, Hort Harinan, Croston, Tn.; Pro. o |‘UJ. Hlu»r‘nmn, "lll‘lll‘lbkt (L' 2:19 trotting, purso $500: Unfon Medium Relitin & Stealhy, Wayne, Nob.; Guy Sheridun, B €. Miller, Fullorton, Ncb.: ' Bluzeborry, W. Harper, Marshail, Mo.: Kitewood, Boco & Procter, tuus, N. J. Ronfin, Fromout,” Neb.; John 1. . Running, one milo dush, purse 8200, e FOURTH DAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2:80 pacing, purse $500: Captuin Kotcl E-P. Furley, Urali, Neb.:' Urithus g0 1o iray, Hothel, Davy B, Bocock & Pr b 1 Morgan, Thomus Jacobs, Lineoln, 2124 trotting, purse # rink P, Johnson & Porry, Wuhoo, Nob; Kity Sues Brit- ) i Burnoy Allen, (formerly ilier, Fullert .{i”uu hurles Bryan, Mapldton, I ‘rec-{or-ull p: red Cannon, 1 Mo.; Almon frank Burus, 1y Grove, l{n,; a lapp, Marysvillo, Kan.; Dun Tue Ohase, Maland, Mo > Dun T Thice-fourtls wilé and repeat, runnin, $200, Crack Whosiiug ut Kausas Chy, Kaxsas Ciry, Sevt. 8.—J. 8. Johnson, the crack bicyeler from Syracuse, N. Y., broke the two records at the meeting yesterday of the Kunsas City cyclists. He made a quar- ter in flav and throe miles in 7:50, lower- ing the rezord for these distances on a quar- ter-milo track. In the three-mile race his tme was: First mile, 2:32; second mile, hreo miles, 7:50. Summaries: Half mile, 1 A. Grath of St Louls wou, 1. sus City second, ty third. Time! Quaster milo, opon: Johnson won, W. I, Bwe, roan of Helel second, 0. E. Boles of Denver third, Time: 84. handlea) G, A. Maxwell of Maytiold, » Wood of Kansas ond, O, E. Boles of Denver, G .'l‘lmn 4 ‘,‘ ohusor wou, H. C. Wood of g ’E A. Grath of St. Louls, purse $500; Kan, fir N Warren of . Burke ot Coburn of St. i+ 7:87 1-6. Johu- #00, 0 seratc) sixth, but do ‘entire distance in 7:60, brouk ing the record quarter-mile track Wichita, 250 Louls, 100 ya . Park Today, There will be sowe great sport out at Young Men's Christlan Association park this afternoon, beginning at 3 o'clock with & cand of athletic games by mewmbers of the as- soclasion and ending with ths third and last game of base ball between Captain Abbott s rastew and the reorganized Nonpareils. first ovent on the prograw will be a 100-yard sprint, with fivo entries; second, nufmp; third, hiteh and kick; fourth, w0 hops wud & Juwp; fifth, pulling the Pound shot; sixih, one-half mile (oot i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: yMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1893, seventh, tumbling, and eighth a game of basket ball between Jack Sohell's eleven and a picked team. Ta Captain Schell's team will be such clever athletes as Abbott, Buler, Coleman, TufMeld, Bullock, Schell, Volkharidt, \'oun%. Waltemeyer and Den' man. These men have all been thoroughly drilled by Prof. Schell, and in their posi- tions are about invincible. A strong eleven, howover, has Loen selectod to give them battle, The final event of tho day will bo the clos- irg game of the series of games between the base ball team of tho Young Men's Christian association and the Nonpareils. The two games that have been played ro- sulted in victories for the Christian lads, and thoy will make o strenuous effort this afternoon to make it three straight. The positions and batting order follow: Y. M.C.A ons. Nonpareils, Stonay Mahoney Rustin Shanabinn Ca JLawler Lacey Dolan Post S c Kol Wilkins Angel Conner. ford Lowry. ... B ennedy NATIONAL LEAGUE GAMES, lynn Jellon Unk Works on Sundsy and Actaally Comes Out Ahesd. Cnicaao, Sept. 8.—Hard hitting and Bry- ant’s work won the first game in many days for the Colts. Score: Chicago . 20024010 0-9 Baltimore. 02020002 2-8 Hits: Chleago, 12; Baltimore, 11, Errors: Ohicago, 4; Baltimore, 1. Earnod runs: cago, 2i 'Baltimore, 5. Btteries and Kittredgo; Mullano and Robin; Standing of the Teams. WL 76 84 04 43 03 44 07 47 56 49 54 62 PC 70.1|Clnetnnatt. 59.3| Baltimore. W L. 51 65 50 08 Directum’s New Reoord, New Youg, Sept. 8.—Directum yesterday trotted at Floetwood in competition a milo in 2:00%, breaking the record ho made on Wednesday of 2:09%. Ho mado the quarter in 032, tho half in 1:081¢, then uphill to the throo-quarters in 1:80is and the mile in 2:00}¢. This was the third heat of the 2:12 trot, "the first two heats of which he won also in 2:113{ and 2:111¢, respectively, Phebo Wilkes second and Hazel Wilkes third. TLoat on w Foul, Stoux Crry, Ia., Sept. 8.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—Frank Gaston, cham- pion lightweight of Texas, and Joe Clark, the Ohio lightweight, met here today in a finish contest for a $500 purse. Clark had the fight all but won in the fifth, when it was given to Gaston on a foul, Clark striking him after the call of time. Gaston was out- classed at overy point. Lorrilard Will Retire. NEW Youk, Sept. 8.—Mr. Pierre Lorrilard has decided to sell his entire stable of horses in training and to temporarily retire from the turf. Mr. Lorrilard’s retirement is due to continued 1il health. Heo will spend the entire winter in California. Pole Vaulting Record Established. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8.—Theodore Bucholz of this city, broke the world’s record at pole vaulting tor distance, at the fourth annual games of the Bank Clerks Athletic associa- tion yesterday afternoon by clearing twenty- inches. s WEATHER FORECASTS. It Wil Be Falr and Cooler in Nebraska Toduy. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—For Nebraska and Towa—Fair until Tuesday night; slightly cooler in Nebraska; southeasterly winds. For South Dakota—Slightly cooler; north- westerly winds, Local Record, OFrioR OF THE WEATHER BUREAU, OMAIIA, Sept. 3.—Omaha record of temperature and rainfall compared with corresponding day of past four years: 1898, 1892, 1891, 1890, Maximum temperature. 902 742 66O 830 Minlmum temperature.. 562 612 460 692 Average tomperature. 732 682 560 760 Precipitation... 00 .76 .00 .17 Statement showing the condition of tem- perature and precipitation at Omaha for the day and since March 1, 1803 Normal temperaturo.. Deficiency for the da; Deficiency since Ma Normual precipitatios Deficiency for the day. Deticlency since Murch 1 Keports from Other Points at 8 y sTATIONS. 10| Part Cloudy. ‘00| Cloar. -00(Clear. ‘00| Clear, ST Indicates trace. GEORGE E. HUNT, Local Forecast OMefal. —— Duluth's Street Car Strike, ST. PavL, Sept. 8.—A Duluth special to the Pioncer Press says thero has been little change in the street railway strike today. Both sides stand firm and are not disposed to yield. A citizens committoo will attempt arbitra- tion tomorrow. A number of non-union men arrived today, but on learning the situation left inmediately. An attempt to run cars will probably be made tomorrow, D AMUSEMENTS, ‘‘Turkish Bath,” groatly strengthened by a number of new specialty people, began a week’s engagement at the Farnam Street vlace of amusemement yesterday, blaying to large audiences both matines and night. While Marie Heath continues the bright particular star of the farce, she is surround ed by a well balancea singing ana dancing company headed by Miss Amy Leslie, who made so lasting aff impression last season at the same place in opera with the Calhoun company. Miss i Urline,Starra Kimball, Richard Brown, Harry Dull, Stewart Burnes and Miss Clara Hinto. A numberof new speculties were pleasing features of the performance, the medley bringing the curtain down on' the second act. standing out promiuently as one of the best ensemble bits of the season. While here und there a judicious cut might be made, particularly iu'the ancient form of taking the audience into one's confidence, which the vomedians work industriously throughout the threo degrees. the farce goes well, and, Judging from the very liberal ap- plause given the several ‘“turns,” made pronounced hit. ———— PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS, Ed Furay has one to the World's fair. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Manniug left for the the World’s fair yesterduy afternoou. Civizen Train was schedulod o leavo for Chicago yesterday, aftera week's engage. ment at Hoyd. At the Mercer: W. 1. Johuson, Daven- Br quet. Norton, Kan.; L. Mobry, O. W. Cody, St.Joo; R. H Foster, city; Colonel D. W. Benhaw, U, §. A.; G.N. White, Chicago; H. W. l.uebke, Yankton, 5. D.: W, K. Martin, Chi ago; E M. Ashley, Schuyler; Mr. and' Mrs. George Jackson, "Chicago: L. B. Fuller and wife, Detroit; J. K. Neugie, Chicago; H. J. Abraha:s and wife, Omah % Erbarin ugo; A McLees, C. M, McElroy, Da ughlin, Moline, 11 L Lake; Howard Crill Clar] . A, Sives and wif Frauas Dana, R L Fischer,city'; Swenode. Fremont; ¥, L. 'Combs, Central City; Miss Floreuce Winters, city: J. O. Lavi, J Fdmundsos, kremont; J. G. ik Euerice, Nov STARTLED BY FIRE ALARMS Fromont Receives Two Visitations Within Twenty-four Hours, ' PROMPT WORK OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT S Both Wlazes Squelched Before Much Dam- #ge Was bone, Althoagh a High Gale Was Flercely Blowing at the Time—Other Fires, FremoNT, Sept. 5.—[Special to Trr Bee.]— Two alarms of fire have startled the city during the past twenty-four hours, the first oceurring about 10 p. m. yesterday in a shod at the rear of Kloes' tobacco store, and the other at about 10:80 a. m. today in an ico house at the rear of the butter and egg depot. The alarm today caused great conster- nation, as a flerce gale was blowing and its locaticn isamong a long row of wooden struc- tures. The prompt action of the fire dopart- ment prevented great loss in each case, Niue stacks of grain on the Franklin farm, noriheast of the city, were consumed by fire on Friday afternoon. Pawsgk Crry, Neb., Sept. 8.—|Special Tole- gram to Te Ber.]—-Av 8 o'clock this morn-. ing fire partially destroyed a double two story frame building belonging to Mrs, J. F. Ryburn of Connersville, Ind., and L. A. Stebbins of this city. The upper story was used for sleeping rooms by the Shannon hotel adjoining, and tfor houschold purposes by Mrs. Ryan. The occupants barely had time to escape in their night clothes. I'he loss of bedding, wearing apparel and house- hold furniture will exceed $00. The lower room was used as a carpenter shop by k. Duuton and as a storage room by T. J. Cong- don for the finished lumber of the new college building. The building and the property on the first floors were insured. Estimated damage, $1,500. Origin of the fire unknown. Fonr NIoBRARA, Sept. 8.—[Special Tele- gram to Tng Ber. |—The temperaturo here today was 107 © in the shade. A small fire occurred at the post black- smith shop today. The quarters of troops A, Gand H were slightly damaged. The loss will amount to about 0. MOURNED BY FREMONT, Death in Chlcago of Benjamin Hershoy— . Looal Happenings. FREMONT, Sept. 8.—[Special to Tug Bre.] —The death of Benjamin Hershey, founder and proprietor of vhe famed Hershey ranch, near North Bend, is reported from Chicago, ho having met a violent death by being knocked down und ran over in the streot. His death is greatly regrotted by all classes of citizens, as he had been a lead- ing spirit in developing tho re- sources of western. Dodgo county and had done more toward perfecting a system of country roads than any other agency, the county board not excepted. Every road leading from and thiough his great farm was thoroughly turnpiked, he maintaining one of the latest and best road graders for that purpose. He furnished a market for very much of the grain of his township, and always paid a liberal price, generally more than could bo obtained at the railrond centers. He was erratic and often considered visionary, but he pursued u_liberal policy toward his em- ployes and his farmer neighbors who patron- ized him. It is not yet known whether nis great farm will be sustuained in a body or be divided up and sold. Some fields of winter wheat are averag- ing fluely, eight acres owned by W. Me- Mullin averaging twenty-five bushels to the acre, and is very fine. Officers Noe and Lydick captured two toughs from the “limited” train on tho Union Pacific road yesterday afternoon and are holding them, at the requestof Grand Island authoritiés, for depredations com- mitted in that city. Their offense is having broken open freight cars and rified thoir coutents, charges of which have already been filed by Union Pacific detectives. The night watchman at Nve & Schneider’s elovator was held up by a footpad last night and his pockets searched at the point of a revolver. No arrests have yet been made. Dan Allen, Fremont's champion at the In- diananolis “go-as-you-please" race, left with the Grand Army of the Republic head- quarters train confident of success and the £,000. Hohas covered tho five miles in thirty-five minutes several times and has often, during his lute drill, made throe miles in eightoen minutes, which for a man of 50, is considered tall stepping. The Union Pacific excursion today for Omaba and Council Biuffs took aloug about 200 of Fremont’s citizens, Miss Wilde Dodge of Fremont was married to Willism_Myer of Sioux Falls, 10 newly wedded pair left for Chi’ cago to enjoy their honeymoon, Thayer Connty Mortgages. HesroN, Neb., Sept. 3.—[Special to Tur BEee. | —The recorded mortgage indebtedness for Thayer county for the mouth of August is as follows* Farm mortgages filed... Farm mortgages released. Filing ovor roleasing. y wortgages filed Oty mortgages released. Chitttel mortgages Chattel mortgages released Increase over releasing. .. The mortgege indebteduess for the pust month increased oy Furms. The Second Regiment from the encampment at Grand Island and reports hospitable treatment. Graxp IsLaxp, Sept. Bre.]—The independents of Hall county* yesterday afternoon selected and instructed W. 4. Burger of Doniphan, J. H. Randall, th ward; John O'Neill, Jackson; E. Whitehead, weron; Ed Searson, Second ward: J. B. Roys, ond ward ; Jumes Can- non, Wood River; I2. 8. Lee, Cameron; J, D, Hanng, Lako; Jool Thompson, Aldw, und William Thompson, Alda, as delegates to the state convention to be held at Lincoln next week. There was quite a squabble over the instructions, but the majority finally went for a man who had allied" him- self with the independent party in the past and not, directly speaking, for Judge Max- well, who was referred to in soveral speeches s 4 ‘“discarded republican.” Maxwell's supporters were in the minority, but they were enthuslastic in their defense of him. Agninst the Colored Man. LiNcoLN, Sept. 8.--[Special Telegram to Tur Bee.]—lu the case against the proprie- tors of the sanitarium, charged with ing the civil rights bill by refusing George Flippin, a negro, the privileges of their bath house, the jury, after o few minutes deliber- ation, returned a verdict finding the de- fendant not guilty. The case has created considerable interest and excitea the colored people generally. Valentine Teuohiors Meot. Vaesring, Neb., Sept. 2.—[Special Tele- gram Lo Tik Bee,)—Tho Teachers'institute, which lasted two weeke, closed hero yeser- day. About fifty teachers were in constant attendance, this beiug the Lirgest and most successtul instituto ever held in the county. In this county thirty schools will commence their full terms Monday, o be followed by thirty more as the season progresses, e —— LOCAL BREVITIES, About sixty excursion cars arrived at the depot yesterday over the Union Pacific sys- tem from different poiuts in the state, the low fare having attracted quite a number of People Lo this city. Johu Coffmun, alias Bubser, who was ar- rested Saturday night for 'stealing bed clothes frow the Cunningham block, served a one year's term in the “tate penitentiary for stealing a wagon. e Howe Taleut Wins. There was a swimwmiog contest under water 8¢ Courtlaud beach yesterday after noon betwoon J. M. ( mark, the high di The contest was Wwas witnessed by ynore and Leuven n imteresting one and 4,000 people. Gaynore covered 130 feet, $hilo Louvenmark only swam eighty foet. I'The winner, who is an Omaban, was hearflly cheored. '8 POSITION, The Narrow Escape of a Steople Climbor from an Awfal Denth, Townstolk of Plainficld, N. have terrificd themselves during the last week looking at Harry Watson, a tinner, while he was at work at the top of the steeple of the Crescent avenue church. Watson is a daring fellow who makes a living doing jobs where he has to climb dangerous nheights without protection, He has climbed factory chimneys and scaled edifices of all sorts, until he has become so familiarized with the work that he mounts a stack of brick work with the same ease that he would drink aglass of boer. Watson was busy at work Tuesday afternoon, white a crowa of curious " persons stood in the street below ~ waiting for him. to drop. He hung suspended from a rig composed of a chair at- tached to a couple of ropes. Around his waist he had taken the precaution to secure another rope. In removing the paint and other material from the tin roof Watson had used acids that had somehow got sprinkled on the ropes, The acid burned through the ropes, and without the slightest warning one of them gave'way. The crowd yelled, and scarcely had their shouts died away when the other ropo, on which such a sudden strain had been imposed, also Rave way. The chair tumbled to the street below. Watson dangled from the rope that had been passed around his waist. He swung to and fro in the air as he cried to the excited crowd below to help him. He had fallen a few feet until the slack of the rope had been paid out, but he preserved his com- posure. He shouted instructions to the crowd, but it was only when some men climbed up inside the steeple that his voice could reach them. As he swayed back and forth, 190 feot from the ground, the wd in the street looked on in e; pectation of seeing him drop every in- stant. Finally a ladder was taken to the top window of the steeple and pushed out and up toward him. Ho managed to reach it with his feet, and while pairs of hands steadied it below he loosened the rope about him and de- scended amid the cheers of the crowd. e ey CALIFORNIA CONDOR. ured by a Hunter on the of the Desert. Archibald Campbell, writing to the San Diego Sun from Luaguna, on the edge of the desert, under date of August 1, says: Today as Henry E. Clark was riding near the lacuna he noticed a large bird among some carrion crows, eating at a steer which had died from a rattlesnake bite. It flew up into a tree, whoro he shot it with a rifle, and the shot broke its thigh. It then flew away among some rocks, when he threw his riata over it and caught it, and it tried to get away and it nearly unhorsed him. He gave it anothof shot through the wing and disabled §t. He brought it home and it measunkd 9 feet 3 inches across the wings and 4 feet 44 inches long from the beak to the end of its tail. Valentine, the captain of the Indians, says it is a female and not near so large as the males. The males have the under part snow, white, while this is pretty dark. I think it is the cathertes vulturinus, also calied,the California vulture, which approaches the condor in size and, has.wings even longer in proportion. ' Tt is yery litule inferior to the condor ‘in spread-$f. wings, which natural history says often spread to more than ten feet. Last Sunday, as a party of us were outon the high peaks overlooking™ the desert, three of the birds kept circling around overhead, and now and again by far of the biggest of the birds would swoop down suddenly toward us and make such ugly demon- strations that the ladies got scared and we all left on that account. Ithink their young were in the cliffs above us and they wanted to scare us away. The biggest was whiter underneath than the other two, and I think that it was one of the smaller birds that was shot. Mrs. Wieger from San Diego, who is up here on a visit, skinned the bird, and on her return will take it with her and put it on exhibition at the Chamber of Com- merce. They are very rare here now. Valentine says they used to be very numerous here when he was youn Two years ago we used to see a solitar vulture every now and again, but he disappeared, and now these three are to be seen near the same place. This one, I think, could have easily carried off a spotted fawn, a young calf or a baby. —_— Back from the Diad Letter Oftice, The average citizen is prono to de- nounce the Postoffice department and everybody connected with it upon gen- eral principles until he encounters a case of dead letter office ingenuity and attention in which he is personally in- terested, after which he is thoroughly convinced that the Postoffice department is the only really good estab- lishment conducted ~ by Uncle Sam- uel. Qne of these fellows mailed a photograph to a lady at Wilkesbarre some weeks ago, and, when it wus not delivered to he damning the ho recer epartment. Last weok ly worded request to call at room 20, Postoflice building, for “'a valuable letter.,” He called and a most polite young woman handed him the missing” photograph, which he nad misdirected, “*How in the world did youlocate me?" he asked. *“Oh, the photographer, who was fur- nished with the number of your nega- tive, supplied your name and address to the dead lottor offigy, and the photo- graph was forwardgd, hiere for delivery.” s L The Torrld Reglon, The ancient philogophers were of the opinion that the infeynal regions were at an equal distaneg away from all parts of the earth's swrface, which may bo the foundation of,the modern idea of hell being in the center of the earth. The ancient Jews also located the place of torment at the jgenter of our little sphere. According w,them there were three passages Jeading to it: The wilderness, by which route Dathan, Korah and Abfram descended; the sea, because it is written m‘. Jonah cried to God out of the belly¥of hell; the third passage is at Jerusslem, because it fs said: “The fire of $ht' Lord is in Zion, and his furnace is' H''Jerusalem.” Mo- hammed said that hell had seven gates —the first for the Mussulmans, the seconda for the Cristians, the third for the Jews, the fourth for the Sabeans, the fifth for the Magians, the sixth for the Pagans, and the seventh for the hypoerites of all religions. Whiston, the English astronomer, believed that hell is situated on a comet, and that bne moment the damned will be in the blis- tering heat of the sun and the next in a region of terrible cold. e The Womau Who Dared. A story is going the rounds about a little woman who, the other night, was seated 8t the theater behind a gorgeously dressed beauty whose balloon sleeyes completely hid the stage from the yie tim in the rea". She sat first on one foot aud then the | the plag | as far down as they would go. | prisoners ave set free again. other, but all in vain: not a glimpse of could she got. Aftor a whispered conversation with her husband came the tragedy. Without a word of warning that weo bit of woman quietly rose, vently but firmly laid her hands upon the winged shoulders of her obtrusive neighbor, and pressod her greon and violet ruflles who saw the operation gasped at tho transformation. The victim easily ac- copted the situation, and rems subjugation uniil the end of the p iy - WILD RIDE ON A BULL. A Snake Had Bitten Him and the Case Whas Urgon Lem Lawson of Seabury, N. Y., is somothing of a backwoods naturalist. For instance, at times ho watches the bugs under a treo in proference to fish- ing for trout, even whon trout rise read- ily to the fly. He carries small turtles about in his pockets and leads mice around with threads about their necks, He isaprime favorite with the dogs about the settlement, because he often gives them a squirrel, a bird or a fish, but most remarkablo of all to many backwoodmen was his fomer fondness for snakes. There is no more fondness for snakes 1n Lem's mind now. He had an eaperionce with one last week to remember which is to make Lem shud- der. In the pasture at the lower end of town, says a correspondent of the New York Sun, is a long, lank and very quick bull, owned by Ike Frazier, and the bull had a very important part in Lem's ex- perience.” This bull is of a mild dispo- sition. All the young peoplo of the vil- lage like the beast, which they call Gangsy,” for ho allows thom to pull his horns and &_half-dozen or more get on his back while ho gallops around the lot much swifter than any of the horses here, being guided by ‘‘gecs”. and “haws” quite as readily as a horse is by reins.’ Lem was going up the trail to the old Frazier clearing on last Thursday with three of his boy friends, when he saw a snake of brownish back and a pinkish belly. He picked it up, and with his customary disregard for other people's feelings sbook its head toward the boys, making them run and shout with fear. He amused himself for some: minutes in this manner, and then, just as two men who are boarding at the postmaster’s came around a bend, he took the snake by the tail and, lifting it high in the air, with a_quick motion snapped it. The head of the snake fell on the disengaged hand, where two of the teoth tore two scratches a half inch long on Lem's wrist, Lem was about to langh at the mis- hap, when on» of the men raised his hand and said: “Good God! Tt's a copperhead!” Lem’s face turned pale and he stood heipless & moment gazing at his scratched hand and then asked for whisky. One of the men brought out a half-pint flask a third full. Lem drank it at one pull, and then started down the trail on a run, ‘When he disappeared the men and boys looked again at the smake and found it was only an unusually light- aolored garter snako. Then they thought of Lem running for life, and concluded that he would stop at the set- tlement and get hilariously drunlc. But they were mistaken about his stopping there. He asked at two places for a horse, but found the horses were back in the woods skidding logs. Then he came to Ike Frazier's, where, hear- ing shouts of boys'and girls’ laughtor, he thought of the bull, long, lank, but, above all, swift. Lem wa$ going to Black Lake village, where he could get a doctor—two doctors if he wanted them. Rushing up to the door he gasped to lke, who sut mending a broken fish rod: “Lemme take your bull—copperhead bite—goin’ ter die—I reckon.” Ike mumbled something in his excitemen which Lem thought was ““‘Yes,” and with that rushed out of the house, leaped the garden fence into_the pasture, snatched a paling from the fence, and with his best speed ran to the bars. Tearing them down, he rushed to the bull, sur- rounded by children, swept two girls from the bult’s buck, and then, leaping up himself, he began to pound the buil with the paling. The bull was headed toward the bars, while beyond was the trail to Black Lake. The ten miles to that town, except for 4 fow slight knolls, is all down grade and in some placesvery steop. Down this trauil Lem and the bull dashed, leaving the childven gaping in wonder. Ten rods from the bars his hat blew off and settled in the trail, while a flock of chickens feeding near by ran with tlap- ping wings and screaming cackle. Ike, the bull's owner, came to the door, with fishpole in oné handand jack- plane in the other, and shouted to Lem not to “‘run thav critter so, you blamed fool.” But Lem neither heard nor cared. To his mind it was a race for life, with the “odds ag'in me.” About 1 o'clock that aftornoon people Black Luke village saw a foam- th a tall man astride, ¢ sometimes striking the and sometimes spread horizontal, with one hand on the bull’s horn and the other waving in the air The combination was Lem Lawson -and Tke Frazier's bull. He rode up to Dr. Longside's door, and tumbling off the bull, staggered up the steps and into the office, What troutment ho received isa matter of inference, About 10 w'clock the next day the two city men came into Black Lake and inquired for a wild- eyed man on a long, lank bull. As they askod this of the first man they met, a figure on a red and white bull” rounded the corner and with shouts of drunken glee, pounded and gored the bull on 4ill he ognized the two men on the buck- board, when, with a whoop, he said.” ‘“I'har ain’t a (hic) darn snake in the country can kill Lem Lawson. Not by a ght.” Then with his elub pounding the un- fortunate bull, Lem raced again through the street, this time koaded toward the settlement, in covered bull w whoso legs w pull’s belly t almost e An Interesting Afriean People. At the Berlin Anthropologieal socioty Mr. Mereusky has given some curious particulars about the Konaeh people in the Germun district on Lake Nyassa. Theiteountry is bordered on the north by the Livingstone mountains and on the south by the lake, and this favorable geo- graphical position has enabled the people to develop in a peculiar manner and attain a relatively high state of civi tion, “Thei aflections are largely developed, Friendship is es- &s(!iully valued among them, and love tween the sexes strong and firm, as well as the domestic affections. Suicide, causod by grief for the loss of a wife, & child or even a favorite animal, is not infrequent. ‘I'he favorite form of suicide is to enter the water and allow one’s self to be de- voured by a crocodile. In wartime all unnecessary eruelty is avoided, and wo- men and children who have been made “The posi- tion of woman among the Kondehs is unusually high. Women are on a pe foct equality with wen in the eyes of the law, and-offenses against women are en more several punished than of- A Oluster of Opinions Based on Obssrvation and Experience, WOMEN IN THE POLITICS OF ENGLAND The Oratory of Dantel Wabstor—Irving's Lear and Satvinl's Othello—-Queer Things About Frogs—Women on the Western Fress. Tnan instructive article on English politics in Harper's Richard Harding Davis contends that “the part women play in the eloction is one of the things which no Awmerican can accept as an im- provement over our methods. 1t may eithor amuse him or shock him, but ho would not care to see itadopted at home. The canvassing in the country from oot tage to cottage he can undorstand; that seems possible enough. It takes the form of a polite visit to the tenants and the real object is cloaked with a fow vague inquiries about the health of the children or the condition of the crovs, and the tractlike distribution of cam- paign documents, But in town it is different. The invasion of bachelor apartments by young Primrose dames Is embarrassing and unnice, and is the sort of thing we would not allow our sisters to do; and the house-to-house canvass in the alleys of Whitechapel or among the savages of Lambeth, which results in insult and personal abuse, is, to our way of thinking, a simple impos- sibility, The English, as a rule, think we .allow our women to do preity much as they please, and it is true that they do in_many things enjoy more freedom than their British cousins, but the men in our country ave not so anxious to get into offico, greedy as they are after it, as to allow their wives, in order to attain that end, to bo even sub- ject to annoyance, certainly not to bu stoned and hustled off their feet or splattered with the mud of the Mile-End road. Any one in England who followed the election last year knows to the wife of which distinguished candidate and to the daugnters of which cabinet minister I refer. “I have scen women of .the best class struck by stones and eggs and dead fish, and the game did not secem to me to be worth the candle. T confess that at the time I was so intent in admi ing their pluck that it appeared to me as rather fine than otherwise, but from this calmer distance I can see nothing in the active work of the English woman in politics which justifies the risks she volunta: runs of insult and indignity and bodily injury. A seat inthe house would hardly hay a candidate for the loss of one of wife's eyos, or of allof his sister's nt teoth, and, though that is putting it brutally, it is putting it fairly. ‘Tt would not be fair, however, if T left the idea in the reader’s mind that the women go into this work unwillingly; on the contrary, they delight in it, and some of them ‘are as clever at it as the men, and go to as great lengths, from Mrs. Langtry, who plastered her house from pavement to roof with red and white posters for the conservative can- didate, to the duchesses who sat at the side of tho member for Westminster and regretted that it threatened to be an orderly meeting. Tt is also only fair to add that many of the most prominent Englishmen in politics are as much op- posed to what thoy call the interferen of women in matters political as they are to briberv and corruption, and re- gard both elements of an clectoral cam- pui?vn with pronounced disfavor. The reply which the present president of the United States made to those enthu- siastic and nodoubt well-meaning women ! who wished to form leagues and name | them af his wifo, illustrates the spirit with which the interference of women in politics is regarded in this country. But then it is a new thing with us, and it is only right to remember that from the days of the duchess of Devonshire's sentimental canvass to the present, Eng- lish women have taken a part in gener elections; that therce is a perfec cedent for it, and when you have said | that of anything Eaglish, you have jus- tified it for all time to ‘come. The young Awmerican girl who would noy think it proper to addvess men from a platform und give them a chance to throw things at her, must remember that the English girl would not give the man she knew a cup of tea in the after. noor unless her mother were in the room to take care of her. AndIam sure the women in my candidate’s cam- paign almost persuaded me that they, as the political agent declared, did mo than himself to win the election.” The Oratory of Daniel Webster, Lord Chatham is accounted the most consummate of English orators, says a writer in the Century. Inmy youth I greatly admired that passago 'in his speech on the address to the king in 1777, in which, referring to Lord Suffolk, who had defended the employmeat of the Indians in the war against the colonies, he exclaimed, “From the tapestry that adorns these walls the immortal ancestor of this noble lord frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.” Itisa very striking passage, but [ once heard Webster say grander words. 1t was cn the 17th of June, 1843, when I was ono of that vast throng gathered at Bunker Hill, which saw Webster raise his outstretehed arm up to the newly completed moaument and heard him say: It is not from my ips—it could not be from any human that that stream of ologuence is this day o flow, most competent to move and excite this vast multitude around me. The powerful speaker stands motionless before us.” 1 felt the thrill which ran through that vast audienc and I saw th uplifted blanched cheeks, and joined in that re sponsive shout which wld, as no words could tell, that we had heard one of the most perfect passages in all oratory. Webster could also be dull—ia his later yeurs, very dull. Those who heard him in his prime ave quite angry when one doubts whether he ever could have been as popular an orator as Everett or Choateor Philtips, Fow now live who heard him in those early days, when he wae at his best. I, who™ heard him often between 1850 and 1850, never heard him at his best but once, and then only for a few minutes. The cireum- stances were these: At the festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, gathered in the ball of the L‘Au:hhury railroad in 1849, Mp. Webster presided with admirable grace, and spoke of his native state as her sons would like to hear her spoken of. His specch, though interesting, was not par- ticularly striking until, passing from our own affairs to those of Hungary, then in her struggle for liberty, he said “I see that the emperor of Russia de- mands of Turkey that the noble Kossuth | and his companions shall be gi up to be dealt with at nis pleasure. And [ that this demand is made in deri- on of the established ¢laws of nations, Gentlemen, there is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power, but there is something among men more capable of shaking despolic power than the fnsus against men.” lightuing, the whirlwind or the :nrthi | and Uncompahgr quake, and that is the excited and arovsed indignation of the whole ofvil- izod world.” Beforo we wore aware of what was coming his majostio form began to tower and his oyes to kindle, and his voice soon caught the keynote of the vast building till in an illusion of the sensos the lightning fashed and the whirlwind shook the place where we were sitting, aud the firm foundation rocked as with an earthquako. iminal Eye. yos aro the most certain revealers of the criminal nature, says a writer in Donahoe's. Many an export detective tells a minal by just one glance—not at him, but from him. The eriminal oyo varies greatly in sotting, but not so much in color. Sometimes it is deeply placed in the head as if it tried to hide, earing the result of its own involuntary revelations. Sometimes it is bulgy, pro- trusive like a frog's and heavy lidded. Such eyes, taken in connection with some other signs, denote treachery, lechery, loquacity, mendacity and gen- oral cruelty, with just onough cowardice to prevent the criminal from doing mur- der excopt insiduously or through othors, Of the eriminal oye there remarkable ancedotes. Francesconi, had little dicate the fe are many The murderer, about him to in' ity that ambushed in his breast. His forehead was high and smooth, his board was plentiful. To most people he rendered himself rathor companionable, by & cortain cheap tac tionsness that often masquerades as wit, and on account of this social qualit Francesconi's conceit was tolerated, ang his huge egotism did not have its full chance’ to repel people. But years bo- foro his crime, a young girl—afterwards the Countess della Roocea—who had never left home and who lacked experi- ence of life, recoiled from him violently when introduced. and refused to erdurs his presenca. When quostioned why she behaved thus towards one who stood 80 high sccially, she answered : **If that man has nov al people, he will do so. h provhoec very s0on camo true, and when Lombroso inquired by what sign she foretold, sho replied, “The eyes—I saw him in his eyes.” E o Indinns, The Southern Ute tribe was formed b the union of three tribes or clans, v The Weeminuchees, the Moaches and tho Capotas, writes Vernon Z. Reed in the Californian. The Weeminuchees have always lived on or ne the land now comprised in the reservation; the other tribes or clans were removed there about sixteen yeurs ago. The government of the tribo is graded as follows: Head chief of the tribe, chiefs of clans or subtribes, head mon of bands At the prosent time Ignacio, “the ly- ing good Indian,”" is head chief of tho tribe and also chief of the Weeminu- chee clan, the t of the subtribes. Buckskin Charley, whose original name Horned Toad, is the chief of the Moache clun, and Sevaro is the chief of tho Capota clan. The clans are sabdi- vided into bands, euch band numbering from four to ten men, and being gov- erned by a head man or subehiof. It will thus be seen that a common citizen in Uteland owes allegiance first to the head chief of the tribe, then to the chief of his clan, and lastly and leastly to the n of his band. There is also a war chiel, whose authority in time of war would transcend that ~ of the head »f. Buckskin Charley, who did hard hting with other tribes before th days of vailroads and white settlers, i war chief of the tribe, and it is bel that in the event of ous cmergency be would also hold that office over the two othor main Ute tribos, the Uintahs of Utah. Salvini’s Model tor Othello, At Gibraltar (in 1871) I spent my time studying the Moors, writes Tomas) Sul- vini'in the Century. I was much struck by one very fine figure, majestic in walk and Roman in face, except for a slight projection of the lower lip. The man's color was between copper and coffee, not very dark, and he hada slender mus- and scanty curled hair on his Up to that time I had alway made up Othello simply with my tache, but after seeing that superb Moor Ladded the hair on the chin and sought to copy his_gestures, movements and car- riage. Had I been able I should have imitated his voice also, so ciosely did that splendid Moor nt to me tho type of the Shakesperian her 1o must have been a son of Mau ia if wo can avgue from Tago's words to Rode 1o goes into Mauritani for what else could the author have in- tended to imply but that the Moor was returning to his native land? The “richina: fo sometimes o nun Master Oassell Purcell “As tho result of a fall, sovero inflammation sppeared in my boys eyes, We had to Mieep him in o Dark Boom, and wo fearcd he would loso his sight entirely, Hood's Sarsapa- rilia worked like m charm, Whilo tnking two bottles the inflammation gradually disap appeared, his eyes grow strongcr so that he uld bear tho light. “Ho was soon completely eured. 1 cheerfully recommend Hood’s Sarsaparilla 1 diseases arising from impure blood.” My, St e o Hontn B , Piqua, O, Hood's Pills Curo all Liver 11s. 2bc. AMUSIAMISNTS, FARHAM ST, THEATER, "0iFiA! 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