Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1893, Page 18

IN THE, LUGENBEEL MARSIIES An Afternoon with the Grouse and the Incomparable Jack. AN OLD GANDER MEETS AN IGNOBLE FATE Bimoral Shows the World How to Land & Binek Bass and Backs His Boast with A Supper Fit for the Goda—Lulled to Sieep Ly the Coyote's Yelp. VIDENTLY it was a very obvious fact that nothing human could swerve the lawyer from his laudable determina tion to try the fish and as huntors al ways crave fish when they think they are not to be had, Stocky and I were perfectly satis fied that he should In the meantime we would act upon his o Ssugzestion and give et S 2B jacks a whirl, The ducks wili iy no mc until evening, anyway, Stocky,” I remarked, ‘and 1 think we can make a nice bag of the longbills. There are the finest grounds in the world, all around the lnrlll‘:\uvl west sides of the lake “The sooner we are off then the better, for if there ts anyt I am stuck on next to duck shooting it is the jacks,” replied Heth It are the jacks, you mean,” broke in Simeral, as ho busiod himsclf rigging his rod, “where'd you go to college, anyway " “Council Bluffs” and Stocky emptied another box of No. 9s in his outside hunting pocket. Everything was in readiness in a very brief time. Blackstone, rod a-shouldor, had already stacted off through the golden grass 10 the south, and calling Spot. who wa curled up in the hayin theshade of the tont, we started up the little arroyo to the north, intending to skirt that side of the bluffs in tho hopes of knocking ovar a grouse or two before we reached the snipe grounds We were uot disappointed, for we had Nardly traversed a stone's throw from Camp Merganzer when Spot stuck out his nose aud began to suufl delicately. That the autumn atmosphere was tainted by some lurking bird wo both well knew, and we both got ready for a shot. Quickly the dog trottod on several yards, then slackencd his pace to a slow walk, as if treading ou thin ice, and fnally stopped, 2nd with eyes half closed and dripping crimson nostriis expanding and contracting stood as rigid as if carved from stone, Stocky and I had all too little time to enjoy the thrilling picturesqueness of the situa- tion, when an old hen grouse, with that an- gry cluck-cluck-ciuck of hers, arosc from tho grass ana made a futile endeavor to clear the brow of the low sand hill. Crack! ‘The hen struck the sand, with a thud and a flurey of flying particles, well up the uill, then rolled on down until she lanaed against one of those clumps of cactaceons plants so numerous 1 this region. 0N, no, Tean'y kil grouse, can 12" inter- rogatively cxclaimed the waterworks man as ho shipped in another shell, “Nobody suid you couldn't,” T rejoined, breaking my gun and loading the cmpty bar rel, “but had 1 waited another second that bird would have cloared the bill.” “Waited—you—you don’t mean to say you killed that bird, do you?” and he g at mie in biank astonishment. **Why, man, you didn’t shoot ! “Dian't | though? You saw me just put in ashell, didn’t you? Yes. And yousay you shov?" “1 should smile.” ©It's no wonder thenshe came nearly bor- ing a hole through the' sandhill, She gota double dose. We shot toget Chiclken and quail shooters will doubtless all appreciate this oceurrence. It will hap- pen, mayhap, a half dozen times a day Whero Lwo men are shooting, without pre- concerted understanding. over a single dog. It is almost miraculous, however, how you will both peess the trigger at the same time, 80 close that the two reports blend into one, leaving each ignoraut that the other had shot. We tramped on for a quarter of a mile further, meantime killing four move grouse, before we ascended the bluff that over:ooked the snipe grounds, as weil as the whole en- vironing country. We haited for a moment's rest and to get a viewof the beautiful surroundings whe we reached the brow of the hill. The le- gendary Raceoon never looked more entranc- ingly picturesque, with the playful summer breeze—for the weather could not havo been more bland—darting over 1s gloss and the sunlight kissing it into riant smiles. As I gazed enrapt I thought what a splendid wilderness of shining water, glittering sand, waving reed, rush and grass, the wholo scope within our vision n 50 lonely in its encompassing detuils, so imposing in its sweep of grandeur. Sonmiewhat like Thor, it does not require a stupendous Niagara, with 1ts reverberating thunders, u bectling erag, inuceessible peak or wild and majestic canon for me to discover the boautiful . Far to the south, through shimmering haze, loomed the Niobrara bluffs, while between stretehed a very network of dew drops, fragments of the sprawling lake, glittering within rico and cane. ‘To the east. through an em- bouchure of the sandhills, wouna tho lonely Ldim_artery to the core of the wholo region's heart, its wloomy fuptnesses una tenebrious shades, the diurnal home of the skunk and the coyot +Isn't this great. Stocky? T remarked, still pecring ly, us if 1 would penctrate to the greater mysteries boyoud, upon the measureless streteh of pictures before me. W Iwish 1 owned the whole busi- ness, but the snipe, let's got after 'em. Look how Spot is b g to ¢o ahead.” A few moment nd we were in the boggy mire that hemmed the lake in clear around to the tote road leading to now- berry's. The waters of the luke, under the juereasing breeze, were now all a'chop with little white cans.causing it to gleam and cor- ruscate in the yellow sunshine like an ex pansoof shifting gems, The yellow log with a curlew here and there, and hordes o the over restless and incessantly piping lesser waders, still fed undisturbed i the shallows, becauso they were too fur outito be retrieved without a boat, and we knew that 10 shoot them and leave them lay over night was only to make banquet for muskrat and owl. S0 we tramp on, Spot working cautionsly just in the van. A'bunch of green wings rise from i bed of smart weed just out of rango in front, and o whizzing out into the lake; a brown heron spread bis white sails from a livtle mucky islet, while the ved- tail hawlk, always visible here, two, three, four of thea, circle and float and dart over the rice fiolds, bluckbirds twitter und start up with a whir of wing from every clump of reeds, while off there, sweeping over the ling back ground, is a large cagle, the feuthered emblem of Uncle Sam. Presently we rcach a pomt where the gruss, poeping froom out this brackish pool and that, looked us fresh and green as in May, and [ admonished Stocky to be on the quivive. It wasasortaf a wild meadow, spreading awsy clear to tha foot of the northorn sandhills, and was so softened and toned aown with such a rural aspect that I almost caught myself looking for the farm house. As I have frequently remarked before, 1 care noting for a dog for suipe shooting, but it would have been an outrage to have chained old Spot incamp that bright after- noon, when he enjoys the sport so thoroughly, and we were all out for an outing together, nd, of course, | knew he would not come amiss io recovering the killed, for a dead snipe—as all experienced guuncrs will bear me out—is about as difficult a thing to find as that proverbial needle in the haystack. Without the aid of a dog the most extreme punctiliousness must bo exercised in {narking them down the moment they drop, snd then they should be rotrieved as womptly as the nature of circumstauces o made a cir but a wave of the al tussocks tted up to us t gingerly through th and as ho searched grassy cavern with outstrotched picture well calenlated to s At least his ow ¢ of auy true sportsman by his actions that our game was cle coming 10 a stand, wo rus of the galli Skeap! skeap! skoap thero and there white and russe over the eane and others low over the o disconcert us as much as possible. partally suc h our four barrels we got down ago's flushing ¢ 1 away hore and some flying least fiftoen or twenty birds but why Spot hadn't too much for Stocky and | at one 100N SDOTL and leisurely, de termined to make as big a kill as lazy and slugg dropped scatte of bo in our ndvang and in the g . among_tho low ssy sloughs. Spot still stood eyes fastened as quickly busy, and in the shake of a lumb's tail we had our dead birds t it, and as the assistance s now absolutely downright hindran man ordered hen we went of the belton's ke unnecessary, if not a the waterworks but with an abused and entreat- ing look in his human-like ey The change in the sport v Stocky took nd T the south, und we rds until we jumped an Dirds, out of which we got Then I made a clean stot too quick scal-neither barrel dogs should as delightfully the north side of hadu't gone other flurry being sufficient And to muke this more tanta moment Stocky execut to stop him. superh double myself and ad, resolved to rodeer “or the next t industrious, and of our Lefovers was some- v the fashion of a skirm birds were excec as fat and almest as bi In fact 1 never saw the Wilsonii n such fine feather, not even back 1 my old both exceed plentifyl, and the jack gol bigee vlace in the world siasny, « ways in enhancing thd Iy converged togother at the upper end of the patch of bog we had mouth of a 3n a1y half hidden be- aves of the slough, which twisted aw splatterdock. and lurking plac time of batracian, pinkeyo and gar! We both felt confident of finding more able grounds, and together wo in the summer ct was shortly exemphiied, for in less n a quarter of an couldn’t have been less than two dozen of As in the first_instanc up together- in the carly soring whirling aw time —and went inall dicections, some drop- ping down again like ghosts among the nig- ger heads, but the most of them roso right as they could climb, many of theso being probably the ones we nd 1 watched the to see what they and wo were voxed to se they were more specks up into spiace as fast had flushed first birds in the air a moment meant to de still ascending until tho flecce-covered sky. circled and fluttered ana jack’s well known er they went off to the s All about u: we could see whe worms and atic way, until finall suth and disappearcd in the soft, 11 they had been boring for larvie, while crossing and recrossing work, showed that the spot for both fec “Down, Sandy ! dowr wasStocky's iing, aud as if by in- soft mud, trying to sec symmetrical stalkis as pos: flat_upon his stomach, while Spot, who was balf submerged in freshing himself, remained djunct to the wild nt pool, re 1 peered eagerly through the cano withou locating the filled my hearing. of some ten moment I see: neing straight bluffs, not thirty yards high. ng suvagely, though absolutely moy strained positions to the other, uscle, and think of londed with No. 95 1t was o trying situ rapturous one. ontous from over Neither dared nor move self under s cireumstances, but my pardand 1 were equal 1o the task. me, swiltly now u sturdy old veter: ation, TIl bet, was a httle in vance of the main Regularly he sounded bis resonaat honk thit all was well little dre uching in the weeds are now $o clo v eyes and are vibly do on appro: Thore wis no time for further loitering, and any an Artic nsee the whites of regions squaw ing, awestricken, bewildered old ‘pilot my first’ 1 ana as he drops bis piniish logs with i discordant honk and i another ounce and & quarter of half second after another port breaks sharply on the air; itis Stocky's second barrel, und Still he does not let go, but turns and goes off slantingly toward the 1 doublo the time for Stocky our excitement that i would in ordinary time: the shells in and both caliing for Spot to go got hum, we start pell metl through mud and woad and water after the falling zoose. half tumbles, half gander gets it reaches the plunges into its translucent depths, is much confusion and { wings, but he rights hiw ad siuking the bulk of his lavender At the surface, starts off majestically splotelies of froth and bubbl s out into the slime of the shal- lows and as speedily a him, while Stocky and I keep PUMPING Bway At him as fast as wo ¢ fishes up & shell of No 1 bis hip pocket and with it into his gun. aim, a report, o little louder th s NeCK comLes from tho depths of 1 usual, and down on the water like @ string wing viciously, olls over on his buck de convulsively i, us if b iutended to bite out a mouthful or two for his shar of the work, then those brond Jaws close over nim, and half carey- ing, half drogeing, he brings him in s a grand bird and maybe Stocky and en't clated over this rare bit of fortung, We then resumed oursport with the jacks, but as our pockots are ulrcady bulging with slothes soggy aud steaming from and unsteady, and a achs, we soon tending to swing rouud the luke to where we know we would fad the lawyer engaged in his ichthyological pursuits if ho things liko b swore he would find them. 1t was geuting well along toward evening on' the lake com which, with wade well upon his hips, we found the lawyer, in ud whipping out the fish just about as rapidly as he could handle them. He hadn't been at it very loug, for, us he ox- plaived, he hardly reached the like shore after leaving us at the camp, whea Lo fell in sort of & goncness in OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY; DECEMBER 17. 1893--TWENTY PAGES will peemit, for the iomogeneousness of any | the grass and broke the second splice 1n_his first class snipe ground is source of wonder and | rod square off. He was mad, but strode valiantly back tocamp, mended tho stick, | which took him quito a while, then returned and truly as he declared, found the waters of Raoc ¥ teeming with finny pizes it was the most propitious hour —harring the early morning--just before sunset, for th angler, and Sim was making up for lost time “Look in that clump of grass there to your | vight, you fellows,” ealled out Billy as we roachod the shore, “if you want to see what I've boen doing,” and thers was no mistak- 1ng the exultaut twang in_his voice. We did 8o, and were not only astonished, but highly delighted, to find about as hand- some a lot of fish as yon ever saw. Pickerel, wordon and small mouth black bass, not one or two, bug 4 score or more—some of them reaching as high as four pounds in weight What are you baited with Sim " inquired tocky, as we stepped down close to the water's edge as was advisable. Only the fly -the professor—but watch me kil this fellow. Whew! Il bet he's @ duisy Ile hat a strike! Off weet the stricl fish like a flash, but the lawyer holds nim skiltfully, with rod bendinz, ne tant, Deeper plunges Mr. Pi Mr. Bass; then he changos his course and comes swiftly toward the keen angler, who reols in as swiftly as haud n_act; now he lets again, as the fish < 0ff inanotherdivection : now he goes round, cutting the water into froth as he skims jus benoath tha surface, 1down into the cool depuhis once more, Billy plays him with en viable adroitness, switching him back from this barrier of moss, working him away from the rocas: giving him lineand taking itaway from him, bt all vhis time approaching the bank backwards, gradually, but surely. He is now up in the shatlow water and the fish is fatigued ; theve is one or two more feoble efforts, a flap of the tail on tho surface, o gencral collapse, one more vigorous plunge, askillful jork, and thoe lawyer tosses out three-poutid biss upon the sdgy bank. Stocky and I turn bimoverand over and ad- mive the fading blazonry of nis blackish green sides, and feel that the feat we just saw so cxpertly performed by our legal comrade tully_cqualled_our own achievement with the' big Canada, and we both mentally resolved that there should ba but precious few more sunsets before we took a littlo of it in ours. We remained there and watched Sim uatil he got throush, which was not until the tender tints began to tremblo away into the soft pearl of the deeping twilight, The vushy istands and rice beds inthe woest threw masses of shade on the western rim of the lako; tho sunset sky witll its strageling nebula, was one glitter of light, and the water broke wto a glory of color. Not a fragment of cloud, not a fiying hue, but now found upon its delicate texture its exact imitation. lints indetect- able in the atmosphere kindled its rippling open stretehes, changing its appearanco almost momentarily. W smiled in tenderest azare, thena Lttle breath of wind lizhted upon it and a gleam of silver cut athwart; next some impalpable shade turned it _into purple. inally it settled into softest quict and divinist colors, th vlackened and as tho sun's light waned, lapsed into the dull grey of night; "The gathering darkness around, the black wallof the hills, the murky prairvie; the plaintive singing of the breeze, the hoot of the night owl and the distant moan of the coyote—all made a scene of solitude you would have thought impossible an hour vofore. Man! how far off he appearad, and how near the Master. In the night time, the prairie anil the sand hills and the sloeping lake combines in_one great tongue, speaking unceasingly to our hearts; inciting us to knowledge of ourselves and to love of the Supreme Father. Not in the solitude of the woods, the desert, nor on the objectless bosom of the mighty ocean do we more deeply realize His presence than we do in such a lonely and scemiugly barren waste as the Lugenbeel marshes. ~ Here, with all outdoors for our worshipping temple, our learts expanding and our thoughts welling up unhindered and unfottered, away from all the turmoilsof city life, we seem to stand before Him, face to face! As wo trudged slowly through the grass to camp, each one silently surrendered him- self to the influences of the hour, and 1t was move like a funeral procession than the veturn of a successful and light hearted hunting party. Once within the can walls of Camp Merganzer, however, the fire roaring in the s mps’ lighted, everytinug changed. The day's buuyancy of spivit returned, and cach endeavored to outdo the other in his recountal of the after- noon’s exper The lawyer, of course, was the most volu- abl of us all, The usufructuary jubilance of his fishing achievements was fairly consum- ing him,and the tales he told us—ind he told b would have made Mut.chausen Lide his face in shame.and anovdinary.cvery- ort of asportsman <o bury himselfalive. H16 wasn't a bit tived, so he claimed, and as Stocky anda 1 bad had a_ pretty hard tramp of it all the oon, e insisted getting supper all by himself. And wi supper he did ger up. Baked pickerel, par nished with wild cress, baked sweet po- tatoes, shriwp salid, corn bread, tomatoe delicious coffec, and tea, too, ‘and fluffy corn bread. with a nip of Jack Wood's peer- less McKibbon fora starter and an_ appe tizer. Afterall the good thmgs bad been eutomed, and the zood things said, and we lay in a row. like the babes in the woods, on our couch of blankets and hay.we must have resembled. so corpulent had we become trio of Henry Vosses outstretched in a line To the mournful sussuration of the south wind, as it toyed with tent flap and grass, und the coyote concert on the distant blufl’s side, we fell into the embrace of natu sweet restorer—slecp. Saxnr Grisworp, The Briggs and Pyle Division., In the division of their stables down at Syracuso last weel, Clinton Briggs got Alamito and Hurlyburly and 14 Pyle Rob- bie P and Charles Caffrey, Alamito and Hurlyburly are royally bred and a paic of splendid_trot while Robbie P is an almost incomparablo follow. Mr. Briggs also got a biz vateh of finely bred fillies und will doubtless soon be in charze of one of tho largest and best breeding farms in the west, for whose mansgement ho is _admir- ably qualified and cquipped. He will vo a big eard in his trainer and driver, vetcran Dicle Tilden, who is not only most popular western remsmen, but one with few equals as to ability. Mr. Briggs' stables will be wintered at Lincoln, © What the Dickey Birds Say John Clarkson has been secured to coach ale next spring. Buckenberger will again manage the Pittsbures noxt season. Watty has already booked exhibition ames with St. Louis for April 14 and 15, Milwaukee has snared Pitcher Jack Luby, and Cushman says ne's got a gem—u regular jom-gem od Roat will be found in the Crescont City next season, but “Kid" Baldwin 1s 10 be turned down. Amos 1tusio has written to Captain Ward sking that Big Jack Milligan be retained o handle his delivory Captain Billy Clingman of the Milwaukees desires to sco’ Will Hart join the Brewers i cover first base, T'hio Minneaolis people are after Intlelder mon of list season’s Johnstown club. hey ouly want 1o squeeze hiw Phil Knell would muke a good left hand piteher for Boston. Just what they want to sandwich in betwoen Nichols and Stivetts. Boston Globe. Gieorge Rottger, who once pitched and won one gamo for Cincinnati and was then fe- leased, hos sigued with Toledo. Lack of control was Rettger's fault, Both of the Camps, Winfield Scott and the “IKangaroo,” aro wintering in this city. Wiatleld zoes to Baltimore next spring,while Lou returns to the Chicago Colt Watkius of Sioux City has lined up George Hogriever, the old *Hoggy" of St. Paul; “Lefty" Marr, the Clocinvati freight car, and “Bumpus” Jones, the mossback, Manager Watkius of the Corn Huskers is talking aboul & serics of games with the Cinciunatis at Jacksonville, Fla., about the time of the big fight. Maybe Watty hasn't got & head on him, Count Campau is_in New Orloans, where he is to act in an official capacity during the winter meeting of tho New Orieans Jock: club. fe denies that he will be one of Gus Schimels's Senators next year, ana says that he expects to manage tho Pelicans, The Young Men's Christian association base ball team has secured a giod man in Frauk Crawford, who caught and played secend base for the Michigan umiversity team last season. CHAT WITH=THE BOXERS The Flowar State Sports Making Big Prep- arations for Qhar'ie and Jim, WHISPERINGS OF THE WHIRLING WHEEL Midwinter Ball Gossip—Olint Briggs Gets Two Great Race, Horses—The Pags Domain and the Usaal Grist of 1 NEW Crinn Arnceric Crens, Bostox, Mass, Doc. 12, -Sandy Griswold, Sporting Editor of Tie BEk: As you sce above, I am in Bean- town—been here over two wooks—and things, 1 think, are coming my way There are lots of boxers here, and any of them who can fight will be given 4 ehance to get to the front. | i teying all 1 kinow how to get on o match with Dan Creedon, und as Dan isn't stopping oven in the same ward whera the Vendomo 15 located, I think betors long woe will - be matehed. Same of the sports here are talking Wbout tehing moe agzainst Mick Dunn. 1 they ean’t do it too quick. He is in New 5w, bt will probiabiy ho hero to box e 2st. Well, Sandy, this s surely a great old pla for sports hic fan'tinit. 1 saw the Dick O'Brien-Tack MceGeo fight a couple of weeks since. 1t was poor o being out- elassed in overy partienlar, but if O'Rreien ever ots Biily Snifth W koodby O'Birlen 1.do not think as w as your friend Hundsome Dan Murphy does, and do not rate him with the wonders” by v means. They think here now that the Corbett-Mitchell tight i3 asure go, and while most of the men with tho coln will want to put it on Jim, Mitehell ha tof fol il will glve them o ran for their stuff. Addross me eare of the Boston Post. Mr. Benton s the sporting cditor and sends regards. Says he will write you In a fow days, and 1 enclose his pieture. 1e's a grent looker, isn't he? Will noiify you if I get nything on worthy of your attention, 1 5 iy Dick Moon That Dick has pulled away from the north- west and landed in the Hub does mot sur- prise me. He made o pot of money on his last threo fights in St. Paul, and for a won- dor has kept the most of it off the high card. Ho nas been coming fast in the last year, s now rankad by such exccllent judges as Captiin Cooke with the best of the mid- dleweights, T eannot lielp but suspect, how- ever, that Dick is aspiri a trifle high when lie eaches for Dan Craedon, But he knows his business, judging from about twenty straight wins in the last sixteen months, and it they ever do meet I'll stake my reputation that he will make the Aus- tralian realize that thero are a couple of ‘e in the ring. The elaborate proparations which are be- ing made by the Jacksonville Athletic club should be a suflicient guarauty that at last 1o interference is apprehen ded ab the hand s of the law. While the bigiight is not yet as sure az death or taxes, thers is more than a tolerable good show for its taking place per the Flovida schedule. The club has secured the big Plant pavilion ron the fair grounds and a large force of workmen have boen hammering and sawing away thero for thing like a week tensive im- provements are in process and when completed, it s i, will constitute the most admirabloe structure for the purpose there is in the country. Corbett 13 alveady located at Mayport, his training quarters, and has cven this eariy bogun light worlk on thargad and in the gymna- sium, The champion, while he professes every confidence dwthe snap before him, is 4100 mercenary and too crafty to over- 100k @ bet. Mitchell has done no veal train- ing, s0 he says, but itis lnown that he is in an nmusually fine condition for him, and that he indulzes in more or less pedestrian and boxes and wrestles rogularly every day. 'This 1s cortain to reawaken the keenest interest 1 tho affair, for whilo it is true but few men have taken anything but small stock in Chavlic and Jim’s ever meet- ing, it will be unquestionably the most im- portant battle sinca that in which John L. 1ost his crown. T must acknowledge it finally looks some- what like a fight even to e, but yet | am exceedingly uncertawn. The ouly question which now obtrudes itself is, will the men come to time? That Corbett means business beyond quibble orargument I do not pretend to doubt. I ought to be ready to fight any mau living at the drop of the hat, providing there was enough init. But the Inglish- man, docs e want to fight? If so 1 cannot seo why. There is no particular call for him to take any such_chances, only for the glo there s init. o has plenty of money much more than Corbett—and 1s mal more of 1t as fast as he can. He is eating pie threeor four timesaday and once or twice a night, has lots of swell clothes and 18 a handsome fellow That comes ? nearly being the proper thing, 2 Now what in- ducement is there for him to take chanc on losing a whole lot of stuff, getting mussed up 2ud his good looks destroyed, for e cor tainly knows that this is at least highly probabic if he ever does mix up with the American champion. Do not think that I want to disparago’ Mitchell's abilities to take cave of himself in the least, for [ do not. Tonly hope he will discern suflicient inducement to influence him in keeping his contract, and that in fulfilling it he will give Jimmy stich a lambasting as will send him back to the slope as second cluss matte Without qualification I can’t see how Charlie can do this, though, and I am honest enough to acknowledge it 1 think Corbett the wonder of the modern ring, to say noth- ing of the big job it would be to find any pare with him in tho past. But Mitcaell, s undeniably clever, quick und strong, if he enters tho ring will y be in form to fight for his life, and must muke & good showing, The indications already point to the fact that Corbett wiil be an overwhelming fa- vorite, simply for the reason that most sporting people of any considerable note b lieveas 1do. In his mecting with Sullivan, which from the standpoint of fight shouid not bo taken as & criterion, ne thoroughly demonstrated, however, that he was the acme of science and agility, and a man of almost exhuustless endurance His maneu- vers in the ring that night were a revalation to te oldest lovers of the art present. Whilo the almost uvanimous verdict was that he could nov bitus hard us many other men in the samo business, it was patent to all that he could hit often enough and hard anough for all practical purposes, and at tho ame time keep from getting hit himself, Such qualities must triumph. Again, be has uatural advantage over the lnglish- man, youth, height and reach and an i sistible incentive to do his best. He hates Mitehell cordially, and Mitehell reciprocates. So tiere you You it will be the natural advantages Corbett posscsses over the Briton that will cause the big bet tors to play their coin on bim. 1t may e all mistake, und I hope it will, to mike an odds-on fayorite of the Californian, bur that 15 what he will bo long before the day of tho fight In referring a week or so ago to the al: leged estranzemeut botween Mitehell and MeAuliffe, in a discarded notebook 1 find the substauce'of a conversation I had with Jack in the St. Charles the morning after tho Sullivan-Corbett light, when the press down there were blackguarding Mitchell because ho had presumed 10 telegraph a chalienye to Corbett just before tho battle was on that memorable September night. It wasn't so much the challenge that made the Molusscs City people unhappy, as it was the fact that through the shortsightedness of Roferce Duffy or some of the other ¢lub officials, this challengo was read in the r Tnoy were hot to think that the clever Britisher had succecded in getting in his advertising work 80 beautifully before the biggest crowd of Auwerican sporting vepresentatives ever con- gregated together. flis toll about Mitehell” sald M- uliffe, *'makes me sick, *'he has his faults s the rest of us, but at that they aro not serious. ‘I'hero is oue thing about him that 1 cauuot help but admive, anyway, and that is that he is exactly what ho ppetends w be. He is mno slob or par- venu, either, aud yet you haven't heard of his prattling about being a bauk cashier or & geutleman, have you Butif blood counts for anythivg' he comes from far better stock than Corbett ever dreamed about. His father is what is known in England as a ‘geutleman,’ sure enough Charllo was ostracised by certain cliques because ho took 10 .0ghts end fighters, and when he did that he surrendered all claims on gentility, as that classgoes. Let any man sit down and talk with Mitcholl and ho will think vastly different of him than what he does by reading of his exploits in common life. Of course it is only his questionable doings that gots to the public. Anybody whd has been close to Charlie cannot help but like him and any theatrical manag who has ever had him on his list will tell of the numerous delicatoly superseribed and porfumed messages that ho has returned un. opened. The domesiie side of Mitcheil's life is someting about which the American public knows but little. e has a lovely wife in Lneland and four lovely children, and he thinks as much of them any man on the face of the carth thinks of wife and kids. Ho uls) atways keops her in mind and loves and respects her and her children just as much when tho Atlantic saparates them as ho does when at home. Ho seldom speaks of his peoplo or own home among his assoc ates of the town, And then, too, ho is a polished, well read foilow, and could hold his own in y cvirele of society At the time he entered pugiiistics he was a promis ing medical student. Thatis what kind of a man this illiterate and vicious tough 1s." The little scrap George Middloton had th Scotty Gordon the other evening ised George immensely in the estimation of the red-hots. From his two long drawn out draws with Joe McElroy the genoral opinion was that heonly went into “‘understood™ affairs und that he wasn't much good any way. Those who know the little print, howover, knew differently all along. He loves fighting for fighting's sako and has over boen willing to meet any man, at any time or place, for mud, money or mush, no matter what their reputation, size or weight might be. If he could affo tho gang a livtle sport ho was ouly too willing. When the match with Scotty was mac about every ninety-nine out of 100 spo who knew the two men looked to ses Scotty sweeb him into oblivion ina round or two. But he fooled ‘em all, and Scotty was fortunate mn not taking ' nap himsclf. I tho first round.in oneof his devastating rushos, Scotty got such a Stiff ono in the mouth that hie was leary for tho balanco of the evening. And i tho fifth, when the typo-operatic-pugilist put him on his beam's end with a solid crack i tho jaw, he thought ho was up against it and no mistake. George improved measur- ably, and, in an_ equal match, is capable of putting up quite a fight. SANDY GRISWOLD. KASK L LoUT, Iow the Speckled Beauties Have Thrived In Cartiln Strenms Nrwton, Neb., Dae. 10.—Sandy Griswold, Sporting 1iditor of Tur Bee: Outdoor sports are about over for a few months. Only a few more days with tho quail, and then the gun must be laid away to keep company with rod and hue until winter releases bis icy fetters from marsh and lake. A retrospect of tho past season in this section and the indications for the future might not be unintorestiug. Chicken shoot- ing the past summer has been much above theaverage. and there are still fully as many, if not more, old birds left over than common, Qauil have been more plentiful than ever known, but_strange to say no excessively larze bags have been reported. This is due to the fact that they are to te found in the very thick second growth timber along the river ana canuot be induced to leave the heavy cover where the gunner can get an open” show at them. Theyare plentiful cnough, however, that a fair bag can be se- cured most any time. Duck shooting neveramounts to much here and it has becn even poorer than common this fall, owing to the dry weather. When' I last saw you we were talking of the experiments in stocking Nobraska streams witl that gamest of all fish, the trout. 1 have inyestigated more fully the results of the worlcin that lino in this sec- tion since returning, and ‘give you the re- sults. Some experiments in this section, as well as many other parts of Nobraska, failed for the s: on. The parties who made the experiments were possessed with the idea that the only iequisite was a clear stream of soft wates most cases they overiooked a very important factor, iem perature. From my own observation and what I glean from othiers it appears reasona- bly certain that trout will not live in water above 60=. Very few Nebraska streams come up 10 this requirement, and none of which ‘T have any knowledge do, except towerd thewr source, where tney arc fed by spring Numerous smail streaws in tlis county wor “planted” to trout, but m only one of them mave the speckiod beauties thrived. The Verdegris, in the northwest part of the county, is un ideal trout streag for several wiles Trom the head of the vafious branches down stream, The stream is clear as erys- 1al, running in shallows and deep pools, and being spring fed exclusively the tempera- ture of the water varies but o few degrees winter or summer. Here they have thrived ana lam informed by various parties who live on the cast branch that in the early summer months they have all the trout they want. Iregrou to say, however, they are caught with the very unsportsmanlike bait of worms. 1t wou't do you any good to have a fit when you read this statcment, for when the average granger wants flesh, fowl or fish he is very apt to adopt the most convenient method of obtaining it re wardiess of what sportsmen may think of it. Besides, spht bamboo rods and fly hooks dou't grow to any alarming oxtent on the volling prairics of Nebraska. [ have never fished the stream myself, but my informa tion is a religbic person who hus lived in a country where trout abounds before comin here, wnd certainly knows u trout when he sees one. Please call the svorting man of the Chi- cago Inter Ocean down for me. Inalate 1ssuo he records the cateli of a seven-pound twoand & half-sunce bass in u Wisconsin lake and states it is the latgest fish of the Ikind on record. 1t may be the largest caught in those particular waters, bnt fails short of bewg a record breaker by numerous pounds, in fact, it many of the waters it would not be considered & phenominally large fish. Bro karen. As Bug Eater truly says the Inter: Ocean's pass falls fav short of the record. | black bass weighing nd quarter pounds taken from the waters of Licking lake, in Ohio, and seven ana ight-pounders were common, - rowTING Kniton. Whisp ¥ of tho Wheo! When all th o leafloss and ficlds aro brow h And the rabbit haints the woodland and Bounds 5o chisiig hare; Whon the sky bs dult aud ladén and the airis crisp wnd Shut And tne wiod blows 'through tho treetops—a big Kollun hurp, And the mountuins il are snow capped and the brooks ave bound with fee; When the ronds e frozen solid in @ grasp just Tike a vice And your breath all freezes on your 1ip as 'long the 1o you Ko, Why, there's 10ts o' fin a ridin’ When Winds O winter Blow. 1t may be kinder coidish when you start out Tast or siow, But your face soon gets all reddish and you blood bogins to glow, And your oars may tingle for a while; a rut y throw you down [ tho tavern an’ & dinner v soothes you—and all troubles disappear Tho comfory that steals o're you, only hardy ryclists know For thvre's lota o' fun a ridin When Winds O wintor Blow. From The Whe “Tho famous Irvington-Milburn course will s00n be only & memory of the past. An elec- tric railroad will be buily over the course, 2 11,524 persous given employment in the Knglish bicycle factories. The capi: tal invested in the business will exceed 25,000,000, The following item will be of interest to the mauy readers of “*Whisperings,” as it is an authenticated list of the new short dis- tance records Lo date Whist tournaments, football gates, turkey grabs, rafllles, social sessious, club smokers and atnual banquets ave the features of the wheelman's club Life now Bliss and Dirnberger, the “Rambler” flyers, areclippiug the short distance records in great shapo with the aid of runniug horses down in the south, The retail cycle dealers are agitating & sort of protective union, after the wanner of other trades ussocintions, The agitation is a movement doubtless extend One hundred and twenty-five dollars seoms factories have an- | . thoir detormination of putting out | LIFTEENTH STREET THEATER OMATA, Dec, 15, their 1504 stock at this price. further and come under since Juno 18, wheel and a sot of light man of fourteen yelists afirm that will be built with commodious t ampitheater, capacity of 5,000 divisions will a with o seating | atrentio B meted, " \Woatery | Attention, and they secured the highest Denver meet suraly afford once in the history of the league Fredrickson, s of tho Tourist Wheelmen and also | OmamA, Nob., Dae road mon, has | 1tor of the e ind him and has taken up his | Sunday issus of the Beg 1 the Fourth of where he takes | 138 "National” hollday, to decide & wager?—= ment of A big de ated by the Moody Bros, | Ans. -Itis both of whom are wheelmen and woll known PHELPS CrTy, Mo, Dec. 18, -To the Sporting Henry's club mates of success in his now Position and regret his departure from their | take the sturdiest of charge of the shoe d partment store ope local eyeling ¢ cle plays havo style With tho theator to judge from the followir the Theater de la +The Cyclists" Tho hero is a champion, who, under certain, entitled toa great in | torof Tk Brr In seven beiutiful pping: In the | agreed to leave 1t roceives the while coming home of weakly tendencies, pt the following recor One-quarter of a mile, flying start, 20s., and flymg start, 35s.; made W. W. Windle one-third of a mile, at Hartford, Ooven One-half mile, E ono mile, flymg start, tm. 56 4-5s 13s., made Oc Harry C. Tylor standing start, 20 mile, standing 11; poth at McDuflio and J. Clark S ’ threo miles, fiying star ALl at Springfield —Oue-quarter of a mile, D made October Springficld One mile tandem, ade at Springtield, Sohnson—One flying start, 2m. 1 1-5s. IPorousPlasten onc-eighth of N IS THE BEST., @ a mile. flying, 123557 one eighth of a mile, standing, 17 1-5s. ; one-qu ; one-half mile, flying, .3 two-thirds of a mile, standing, lm. 21s.; flying, Im. 16s, The made with the TEREER e | GONSUMPTION Billy Paxton reports that his stables are all wintering in splendid shape. Frod K is undoubtedly one of the gamest | To iz Eprror—Please inform your read. ce horses on the turfand is of the Shade- | ers that T have a positive remedy for the land Onward got. two-thirds of a board threw out all aid of horses. The Norses hovseman of Tipton, I Rapids, in the same state le raciug queen, is being win- She' is by a horse = AT and out of & mare unknown to record. lie Ashinge byker, beat Jack 5 twenty-tive milo at Madison Square Garden list week Acton, 2:20 s & I'he yearling record of Belle world's records. braska hors John Ellinger of Senator Dovse; They ought to give Fremont ono of the best meetings in the west Baldwin of Ott | ling colt, Jolly Time. by Mark Tir f ) 2119, to Georg / la,, has s sent v is doubtiess well pleased with hin was probably tho fastest Mr. Briges drove him s of miles and in 2:10 or better.—Western | = Piis, IISTUCA AND RE AL ULCErs 'cural priviages of ; may hold a sensational next spring and if the Council could, as Editor alisbury to stop and havo some of the fast g R . oraew I the tountry cust of tho Rockios meos | SPECIAL OFFER 3 FOR XVAS, him, the natives of four states would turn out en masse, 4 i) K i "I'was but a couplo of weeks ago that 10 - anai Bruen, Burlington, Ia., visited Beatvice, from tho farm of n 1o his_ho to Mr. Brien in such as to lauidato any and all indebtedness held B ML uen on the purchase Dird scems to be a fa- Als between the two Lobasco died last spring and Re [ty a week arter Geislor's Bird Store, on his way east agaiust him_by Mr. I of Lobasco, % tality connected With d n lived but ab Bits Wil Do Pompadour Jim Corbett teain at May has decided to At the wouth of St. Jofin's L' | PRESERVE YOUR EVE SIGAT, Corbett will be likely to be 1 or the hox receipts stedding since ho arrived a of big purses has siderable shrinkag Daly, who was , 1L, to three undergone a con (PEPA sentenced at_1d A At for his part in the Crosby-Sharpe mill, ¢ made his eseape from the oficers and is now ) He cannop be ' catragited and l‘p he headquarters of - - % will be at the stor sorga V. Bur EYECLASSES bidge in Jacksonville ° good eseats for the Corbett-Mitehell fight VA VRYER & DRO, 00, Charley Mitchell has nothing but money Sole Agents for Omaha. Those wishing and ne will sec that Cleveland and M. | LOST O FALING WANNODD wanted to bot $,000 that Corbett will do the y first sprinting at Jacksouville, 5,000 that he would scol sion and help out Mr. “Bantam,” writing doings, 54y ing are making o Way iu the courts of this city to be allowed to hepalrons of glove fight Mind, Effects of Auswers, To the Sporting Editor of explanation and proofs malled (sealed) froe, Pleuse g1v0 i the addross of tho best Dird dog traluer and oblige “f1. P. Hubbard, Broken Bow, Neb. To the Sporting [us Bes: Ploase wille me the ad: enstern cities | dress of some reliable dealor In Grent Dane from ocoast to | ogs mos t convenlent to Deadwood.—W, Tn Jones No_questions answorod hy mail, a high grade cite to W. J. Estes, managor Palace stables, Omatia Some go even | 510 the Sporting Editor of Tie BEk: ' State in Sorue g9 Sunduy’s sporting columns the first time the Higuro consid- | Niazara was crossed on a ropo and by whom. = Avofal of Chicago's veteran Ans.—June 80, 1850; Blondin twonty-elght centuries record to date. | Editor of tho Ris! 1 A twonty-six pound | the bost shotgun loaded Shell racing tires. Holis | €1V0 me somo information co ' constant rid- | Fefever and L. C.Smith guns. Wl look for Bascrorr, Nob, Doc, 18.-To the Sporting dase g1ve me address o factory: nlso rniig tho fuformation In Sunday's Ber. -1 should $he ' The Potors Cartridee Quoon City, a | beon duplicated Cincinnati, turns out the best_and cheap loaded shelt in the market. You need go Ll el | furthor than the Lefover gun if you want one that is 0. k. every way. Tho Lefever' aining Uit | oxhibit at the World's faie attracted great medals and awards.” Their ejoctor gun is & model, and was the only ono in America that was on exhibition. ‘Iho iofevor Arms com. pany is builaing a higher grade of guns than over bofore. and theiroutput is equal to all other gun manufacturers in the country 14.-To the Sporting Bd- Will you plonso state I your Tuly innumerablo 10 g0 wes the staunch Reader, Union Pacific Headquarters. Editor Bey A wishes to rafMle a lady's and gent's watch by throwing high dice.” High Tndy's. B, C and D irow thres ::w:n\\*l.v“-y, :I r|m WS one throw, getting on' in great f antitiod 1o the Indy's witeht e i dias gay Paree, | huto on this mutier and all parties hay to you. Please answor | A play callod IXUSunday's Bk 10080 ruu Auns.— Ho s, IKANSAS 011y, Do, 18, To the Sporting B To docido @ small wager by abloux it is [ n big disputo ploase publish in Sunday's Hee, ave fulfilied | 1f possibie, the exaet e of Joo Cloynekl, nls favorablo news | A% matter of Information give s rocord a8 the winner_ of a great | U fsht QROTHIUN QUISION T A Ans.—Ho was born Novomber 8, 1568, Ho hown ; also aco and many other featuros of 1 | Mickie Dooloy, Billy Woods, Jack Falion, Cr is something | C. Smith, Joo Butlor, Georgeo Godfroy. Was American farco. | beaten by Joo Goddard twico and Jim Co “Cupid’s Chariot™ of last season Ledagalii Tt is'a mistaken idea that the at somo time | HOFOLTIE BER: Ploase say in nevt Sunday’s aflicted with the “racing fevor” —about one | WEE who fn Omaha breeds Black Sumat out of overy 100 is the average rule, and | & imed eeeiivo) o inea Pirehuse or trado tor bout one oit of every 100 of theso succeed. | iy 75 800t CoCURONS 16 LradeLinr. TosteR The great army of cyclists, which is now on: ot Faeda! 5 ’ campod upon this 1itblo pAnot ot ours nums | tran it gy 10 breeder of Black Sumas thousands of persons of ropresentatives of avery whkin | QAL ISGARD: Neb D, 10Ty tho Sport life, as hardy, healthy, active and robust a the oxciting | has defoated Frank Glover, Jim Fozarty, verage pe CrLAToNTA, Nob,, Doc. 0. Ta the Sportine B Vo Lo good ¢ 15 10 teade. L)L Fostor, s in this city ing Editor of TWe BEE: Ploase inform HOXUSunday’s BEE the hest paper for a farm wish to sc to takoe and the adiress, and oblige a reader of Statistics show that tnere are fewer, people [ THE iR AT ( ysically and intel- | Aus. — T WeEkLY Dee, Omuha, Nob in the cyclists ranks than inany | OMAUA, Dec. 12 To the Sporting | other body of people who could be brought [ THE Bx: To decide a wigoer the exercise au- | S in Sunday's Bee whit monthand days swers overy purpose to build up and make | o Uy month wis the republican nati con litr of Wil you pleaso Vntion was held in Minneapolis, alyo on whit | day they nominated “the candidato?—A Sub Racing board, at | seriboer Cloveland, accepted | Ans, A Zimmerman— | il June 7,8 and 9. Nominated on the #-5s., made N\ ™ RELIEVES PROMPTLY and s /53 rter of am ) S A of u mile, standing o CUNES QUICKEST, 39/ 2835 one-third ot a mile, flyi d of u mile, standing mile, standing. 50 2 . & L 5.3 O 3 o one-half SURELY CURED. above named discase. By its timely nso plans are being formulated | thousands of hopeless cases have heen per- for a big trotting and running meeting to be | manently cured. 1 shall bo glad to_send held here in June, two bottles of my remedy free to any of your »wn trotting | readers who have consimption if they will . hus moved to Cedar | gend me their express and post office address. 1. A. Slocum, M. C., 183 Pearl St., Now York. Matyr, N, I of Fremont sy vorrTsa enterprising /) Chronic Nervous /il rivats and JCUREY Special 4 3685( e, D. TREATVMENT BY ML, vies Caffrey, that dropped | Consnitation 1 last summe ouro Catarrh, AlLDI onsos of t1 thateato el voat, Uaost Stomaoh, Give N very fist | Blood, Skin and Kilney Disaasos, Fet alo Woakng 5 0 anhoorl oture, dydrossioe, Verl oy, £bo without piinor dotention from businoss. Call on or addross with stamp for cirsulars. fr3y the M wnd roceipts, licat stalevay #outh of Dosk Blufs track, and | ofice. room over that | n Searles & Searlss, 150Ut Bkt Tnnorted German_ Canaries, \ed rollers aach gelvcted roliors §1,60 Vour Mexiean PArrows, war anted talkers, $10 10§12 ¢ Ladd took Ite i e Kilvor Ladd, no_doubt, Jupncie Fantail 7 Jhes Be upw A & mannor naments 2 Jitic (o §30. Wi : Nindsome Xmas prosent Wik 16th St ~USE~ Abbott are ateied to box either for a purse H,H“’f?v"- 4RGg" Abbott has had hard b EAHON AN States and s SPECIACL the Florida Avhletic . XETED g w1t in at Wash and another : irst kuock General and Nervous Debility, et ar, Wenkngss of Body and rron or Excessos in Old o in a quiet Young. Robust, Nobl They want Manhood fully Restored hittle amuse- How to Enlarge anc ment with the mittens, and in truth it must Btrengthen Weak, Un T T o ’ veloped Orgaus’ and opinion wade m the coutest of the State vs the Olympic Parts of Body Ao lutely unfailin Home Treatment L I\“l"' inm ay, 0 Btates and Forclgn Coltrion “Wrilo themm. Desoriptive Tooks Sunduy BEK aitandchtavest | ERIE MEDICAL ©O0., Buffalo, N.Y. BIRNEY’S Qi s aat ™