Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1894, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1894. Substantial Christmas Gifts like these are what you should buy Father=Son==or Brother. If they don’t fit==we'll make them fit. We'll guarantee you as good a bargain as he could get himself. Men’s Suits. $.5:00 $8:00 Men’s Ulsters. Men’s Overcoats. Men’s Pants. MEN'S WORKING PAY RON SEWED—warranted not to Brand new— Made especially for us— MEN'S ULSTERS—cut long, plaln or check patterns— Brand new— Made especially for $7.50 values at... MEN'S BLUE AND BLACK CHINCHILLA OVERCOATS—cut stylishly long— Brand new—made especially for us $7.00 values at. . Brand new—made especially for us $8.00 value at..... 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Boys’ Ulsters. 83 BOYS' ULSTERS— ages 6 to 15 years, dark colors and good fabrics— & Brand new—made especially for us $6.00 value at ........ creriiiniie . ssraee BOYS' ULSTERS— ages 6 to 14 years—light all wool fur beaver —elegantly made and trimmed— Brand new—made especially for us $.00 value at . BOYS' ULSTERS— § to 12 years—black melton, cut extra long —cassimere lined— Brand new—made especially for us $.00 value at ... . BOYS' ULSTERS— . 14 to 19 years—dark gray Shetland wool, flannel lined, cut extra long— Brand new—made especially for us $10.00 value at. e 2 Se— | $10:00 $12:00 .50 $5:0 $6 0 $7.00 $10.00 value at. MEN'S HEAVY GRAY AND BLACK CHEVIOT ULSTERS— with great big col- s 10 g0 OVer your ears— Brand new-—made especially for us $12.00 value at N'S FINE ALL WOOL FRIEZE TERS-magnificently trimmed, cut long, Brand new— Made especially for us— $15.00 value at. Boys’ Suits. BOYS' HEAVY WINTER WEIGHT LONG PANTS SUITS—ages 14 ta 19 years—all wool dark colors— Brand new—made especially for us $5.00 values at.. BOYS' ALL WOOL LONG PANTS SUITS, single breasted—cut long— Brand new—made especially for us $10.00 value at .. ¥ BOYS' ALL WOOL LONG PANTS SUITS —cut double breasted and made from extra heavy weight cassimere— Brand new—made especially for us $12.00 value at ... 5 BOYS' FINE DRESS SUITS, IN CHEVIOT worsteds and cassimeres—colors, blue,blac gray, ete.—single and double breastedmad and finished cqual to custom worl Brand new— Made especially for us $15.00 value at ..... $6-00 $8:00 $10.00 At .. MEN'S ALL WOOL PANTS-IN PLAIN or striped cassimere or worsted— Brand new— Made especially for us— 880607 vaIuE BE oiiviiiiiiiiiiienisiniiiis et MEN'S FINE DRESS PANTS-IN IM- ported and domestic fabrics—in the latest patterns— Brand new— Made especially for us— $6.00 value at .. Boys’ Overcoats. CHILDREN'S CAPE OVERCOATS—AGES 4 to 8 years—nicely embroldered— Brand new— Made especially for us— $4.00 values at.. CHILDREN'S OVERCOATS—AGES 4 TO 8 years—strictly all wool, cut with capes, embroidered Brand new—made espe $6.00 values at... 1ly for us BOYS' OVERCOATS—AGES 2% TO 11 YRS Boys' Melton Cape Overcoats colors ‘blue and gray— Brand new—made especially for us $7.60 value at ......... BOYS' OVERCOATS—AGES 21; TO 8 YRS Boys' very handsome Cape Overcoats— very fine fabrics— Brand new—made especially for us $0.00 value at........ MEN'S FANCY PERCALE SHIRTS, with collars and cuffs— 75¢ Cor. 18th and Farnam Sts. * full dress and plain— £1.50 value— $1,00 valueat. .. M. H. Cook Clothing Co., S PIN NIGHTS UNTIL 8 0'CLOCK. ¢~ MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. ¢ that Yale had met a worthy foeman. Yale | clation team cannot play foot ball will be very | well, you must make up your mind to take | pipe; B. J. Schorcgge, $L worth of groceries; | scason, among them being Letcher, who was | December 21 fs the shortest day § THE SPORTS OF MID'“INTER won, however, by a score of 12 to 4. ~Prince- | agreeably surprised when they see the Christ- | some ‘time to do it. This Is a _point over | Charles R MeCord and George Il Spear, | with Jacksonville; Purvis of the Peoras, and | year and B bets that It i ot leae o ton, composed of the victorious team of '93, | mas game. On Christmas night there will [ which many owners go wrong. They are in l;i:;r ’]'m;k\;?";,-"“: 2‘“ \.h‘“;‘"l'n“ store, one | McFarland, McVicker, Holmes, Leisler, Mc- | cide who is right.—H. L. Raven. failed to make the game interesting, let |be an intercollegiate banquet in hoacr of the | too much of a hurry to increase the [ Pail mon's buek sloves; Johnsen Dryv Goods | Mackin and Fisher of the home team, and | Aps A, alone doubtful, when she met Yale. An Interesting Disquisition on the Affairs of the Gridiron Field, Palaver with the Ball Player—The Horses and Horseme and the Weokly Review of the Local Sporting World. sity The foot ball season of 1594 really closed playing their final game on the following Saturday. The long halr chrysanthemum | (o being the popular fad a few weeks ago|game between either ’'varsity or freshman during the past among college men, has fallen by the wayside, | criticised considerably throughout the coun- However, the accounts of mishaps were | Froot ball, like all games, has | many fine points, of which player is ever willing to avail himself. ing in England defeat for his team are not forgotten. In|instance after a long run, or a number of 4 s years to come, though thousands of miles | quick, aggressive plunges “throush tho e, |\, "G gleioyY TSI O TR R from the scencs of his college days, the true | & Blayer finds that ho is nearly exbausted |guous aquatic event among English-speak- 4 Alieovered & weakness | i people. Tt comprises the Grand Chal- fn thots Getonse. or the hendy player may |lenge cup for elght oars, the Ladies' Chal- ) 15 the captain, | lenge plate for elght oars, the Thames Chal- "The rules provide a certain time that | Challenge cup for four oars, the Wyfold a player is entitled to, 8o that he may recover | Challenge cup for four oars, the Silver Gob- inishap—hence (he long- | 1ets for pair cars and the Diamond Challenge headed player quite naturally felgns an in- | Sculls for single soullers, which Is the prize His comrades gather around him, the |most coveted by oarsmen. captain moves away, and the actor continucs B L e tere eat2e® L oup for elght oars, Whish, s the: prlnsius] pluck | event, and will meet not only the regular two | 'varsity crews of Oxford and Cambridge, but which ho spent as if in mortal agony may |also the crews of many of the colleges that have been the means of winning the game, | comprise the two great English universities. Of course, this 1s not always the case when |In addition to these distinctively is down—seemingly disabled. wvas jacket, The student has directed Lis energetic spirit | {F¥: to the cold printed facts, to be gleaned from | ©X@8gerated. the text book. But the days of victory and American college man will recall these stir- ring conflicts, In this rushing, ever-active age It is but natural that young America should leave a the safety valve through which it may dispose of | place what is to be done? And where, or how, or | tion, its surplus energy. in what manner can our young men gain truer lessons of patriotism, than by learn- ing to love the college wails of their alma mater, by becoming imbued with love for the | jury. success of the varlous teams as they engage in contests with evenly matched opponents? | nis College athletics have an important place in the curriculum of today. and properly so, stands the genuine college game of football. The seed of professional- ism has gs yet ta bring forth its fruit. The game belongs purely to the amateur field of | one sports, and never before did the game prove | ers 80 intensely Interesting. sities and colleges were represented on the grid iron field by beiter teams than ever before duriug the history of the game. The game has developed with each succeeding year, Rules have been perfected which have done much to eliminate the objectionable features that seemed to threaten its progress | gey during past seasons—mass plays and fiylog wedges—proved to be a source of injury. The amended rules did ‘away with the | of objectionable features, and made the game more open, thus requiring more active and sgile players. End runs and interference by well trained guards and halfs, as they circled their opponent's end, added a new charm to the already popular sport, played tended to increase the number of devotees, When Thanksgiviog arrived the enthusiasm had reached its length. The Interest was national, extending throughout the land, seeming as it were to rival the excitement of a natlonal election. With from 40,000 to 50,000 spectators witnessing the games in our eastern cities one might Imagine that time was repeating the scenes 80 common when the great theater of Pom- peli was crowded to its utmost capacity by 80,000 people. Though in a few games there has been some unnecessary roughness, yet on the whole the season has been quite free (rolm this ob- ectiongblg feature. . A few players have coulved brusts sud sprains, for to the uries, which are now probably forgotten y he who suffered for a briet time. With- out doubt the introduction of a third official second to Yale. sumes play. Chief among them, | ana. is of the utmost 4 university, those of this year. Harvard and Princeton, who believed that ‘The Cycling Gossip equal, if not the superior, two such magnificent that they failed to arrange a game. ever, as the foot ball season must of neces- be short, it was but right and proper for the season to close at the regular time | rpe with Thanksglving day, though Yale and|that the students of our universities might Princeton broke the time honored custom by | take up their winter's work. Princeton’s team, tirely of the champion team of 1893, failed develop any additional Harvard and Yale opponents have want to suggest some play. from any injury or perseverance. of the elopment, and the people of our own | American universities that state need look east no longer for an aceount | crews to Henley. The visit of of a foot ball game. the Universities of Nebraska, Missourl and Iowa, Is one of the best leagues in the United States. University of by a score of 24 to 10, of games from the Atlantic coast to our own is quite plain e “nh,,,,‘:"y"‘{",um“ ot be outclassed by | While bringing out the intelligence in a dog, the teams of the great eastern universities Foot Hall for Christmas Day, Foot ball enthusiasts will be glad to know that the Young Men's Christian association Yo el {has arranged to play the Nebraska state | by a judicious course of training. This may % eceive - | university on Christmas afternoon at 8 o'clock. | seem somewhat far fetched to many, as the trained player has received but slight In A lm‘Yo““l of the state university team | expression is often governed by the mould- will be practically the same as 1t was at the The Young Men's Chris- proved to be of great benefit to the game, | Thavksgiving e o degree, loses sight of the im- | At all times the umpire and referee should | tlan association team will be the same that|to a certain 3 Be supparted by one who has the nerve (o|defcated Butte, Mont., on Thanksgiving day | perfoctions of the shape unuhw..w\:r“u(v:‘ call thelr altention to any violation of the | py g score of 46 to 4. It is believed by those | 408' head 1y gdmra unwg Ip Cxppessive conpetent fo Judgé that the game will be a ¢ matched one than roven to be more evenly matched than in|more evenly mate r Yale has without doubt, | Nebraska game was. Under | the Young Men's Christian assoclation team | would not only improve the dog, but also university and was defeated | bind more closely the tie of affection between ime the | him and his master, soclation team was rn} .. P R T « In the east the four leading teams hLave y previous year. however, sustained her superiority, the coacking Rhoades, the glant Heffelnger, Walter | by r in the world—-Ya Towa " played the st of members of the' alumi-- | played the staie univeraity and wa il inkey, Young Men's Christian silent, AN otate, AR3 NI Thaes, iue | K51 Desianiag to play, and It 1s betleved that | ent. branches of education. Nor must you | r had cvery possible | the score will be closcr than at the Nebraska- | expect a dog to learn everythi People who | Nothing is worth much that Christian asso- | easlly, and If yoJd wish to train your dog the o s ale e | Interest to the alumni of Cornell university Pennsylvania, it was quite a disappointment | and to all college circles to know that the How- | navy management and the athletic associa- almost en- | ¢ye The has been the successful For the line, Every one admires his Al wear- | crews there will be entries from all the know | leading amateur boat clubs of Great Britain The great univer- | that there are times in a game of foot ball |and Ireland and the renowned Leander Boat when a_moment’s reflection and consultation | club which has won the Grand Challenge Admirers of |cup for the past few years and which is the game should never imagine that because | composed of the pick of both Oxford and a man stretches out on the ground that he | Cambridge oarsmen and represents the best is serlously hurt. In the west tne game has had a wonderful importance. The league composed | crew to England will be watched with more Kansas, | interest than usual for the reason that Cor- No one need suppose |oars for a mile and a half of 6 minutes and an instant that the eastern teams are |40 seconds for the Childs cup, 1889, and also 50 far superior to our own Nebraska team Y that it would be impossible to compare their Every game | relative merits. Pennsylvania succeeded in defeating Cor- nell by the close score of 6 to 0. university defeated Cornell by a score of 12 ted Kansas university —— at Kansas City by a score of 22 to 12, and ebraska defeated Kansas Following this series Michigan Michigan defea that our own the Iowa- | young dogs as companions to spend a few | the season xa game, when It was 36 to 0. with Harvard clearly showed | think that tho Young Men The program will Cornell in the Henley Regatta, OMAHA, Dec. 20.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: It will be a topic of keen tion of Cornell have decided to send the ‘varsity eight to the next Henley regatta. expense of this undertaking will be $10,000, but the esprit de corps of the alumni and undergraduate body has provided for sum. The Cornell crews have the most enviable record of having won thirty-one races since 1875 and of having lost no race— ten years, Courtney, the famous oarsman and coach of the Cornell crews announced that the material for the eight is excellent this year and expects to make a good show- The Henley-on-Thames Royal regatta which Cornell will enter for the Grand Challenge llegiate of all England. Cornell and Columbla are the only two have ever sent the Cornell nell now holds the world's record for eight the unequalled record for eight oars of three miles in 14 minutes and 27% seconds, made in 1891 over the course at New London on the Thames. JOHN WILSON BATTIN, Cornell '90. How to Educate Your Dog. To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: A well trained dog Is not only a far better and more useful companion, but the act of training improves his looks. I have always noticed that the best trained dogs are the most in- | telligent, and consequently best looking, and | I think that a young dog, with a heavy, stupld expression, may be vastly improved ing of the features, but a well trained dog has always bright, intelligent eyes, and in looking at this most important feature one, gacious and Speaking erefore 1 would advise all those who have to do with | hours fn educating them. Such training Of course different dogs will want differ- straight off. be obtained Nebraska team. College men from ail col- | repertoire of their dog's performance, and The Quakers, representing the University |leges and universities are invited. This ban- of Pennsylvania, arc entitled to stand a close | quet will also be under the auspices of the For years past Pennsyl- |Young Men's Christian association. It will vania has labored incessantly to rank fore- | be strictly a college affair. most In the foot ball world. Though Penn- | consist of speaking, reminiscences of college sylvania defeated Princeton two years ago, | days and college songs. ON THE LAKE AND IN ‘THE FIELD| BiveRs, oS on snch magnificent victories as Having defeated both there were many Pennsylvania begin a new lesson before the preceding one is half learned. Do not attempt the second trick before the first s thoroughly mastered and practiced. Be sure and control your temper. This is the true secret to success. Some people begin by shouting out com- mands to him, and, without thinking that the poor animal cannot understand what is said to him, thrash him for not doing what he does not know how to do. Speak kindly and gently, get the dog to love you, and to understand’ that you want him to learn, and he will do his best to do so. If there is a natural love for the business the lesson will be easier to both. I have seen very ugly looking brutes otherwise, make themselv very entertaining. The majority of perform- ing dogs with shows are but hailf bred dogs, or more properly called, mongrels. It must not be inferred that they are more easily taught, however, the contrary is the case. 1 will try and answer your correspondent Thoroughbred” of last Sunday’s Bee in my next. RICHARD FRANCIS, Forest, Field and Stream. The mecting at Parmelee's gun store Wednesday evening in the interests of Ne- braska’s game and fish was a most encour- aging one. While a large majority of the sportsmen who have been clamoring for just such a meeting were not present, the qual- ity of those who were in attendance made up in a measure for this discrepancy. Among the famillar faces were those of George A. Hoagland, that veteran of the hammerless, W. H. 8. Hughes, William Preston, W. P. McFarlane, A. C. Claflin, J. B. Melkle, Louis F. Leeder, J. P. Smeed, M. C. Peters, Fred Montmorency, Frank S, Parmelee, S, 'G. V. Griswold and others. W. P. McFarlane was called to the chair, while S. G. V. Griswold was chosen secretary. Mr. McFarlane in a few well chosen words stated the cbject of the meeting, the preservation, propagation and protection of Nebraska’s game and fish, and the devising of ways and means to bring about this desirable end. The question was telligently and thoroughly discussed, every gentleman present participating, and as a re- sult the mecting was one of great interest and profit to all concerncd. After a two nours talk, on a motion by W. H. S. Hughes, a committee consisting of Messrs. J. B. Meikle, B. E. B. Kennedy, Fred Monimor- ency and §. G, V. Griswold was appointed to draft a new game law, based upon the pald game warden basis, with instructions to submit the same to a meeting of the state sportsmen, to be held at Parmelee's store Saturday night next. On motion of Mr. Peters the gentlemen present were ap- pointed a committee of the whole on attend- ance for the coming meeting, and all sports- men and gunners interested in this vital and momentous question are respectfully urged to be present on this occasion. NORFOLK, Neb., Dec. 16.—To the Sport- ing Editor of The Bee: Enclosed please find a copy of the program of our shooting tourna- ment, which from all that we can learn is going to be a grand success, and I want you to be in attendance by all means, and as an inducement I extend to you my personal in- vitation to accept the hospilality of the Oxnard, and hope to have you accept the same. Please accept our sincere thanks, Mr. Griswold, for the nice write-up we had in last Sunday's Bee. Yours truly, GEORGE H. SPEAR. Mr. Spear and the Norfolk Gun club has the sporting editor's sincere thanks for their Kindly consideration. With favorable weather nothing could afford me mord pleasure than 1o be a spectator at your trials at the trap. The program is a good one, providing as it does for twelve shoots each day, six at tar- gets and six at live birds, with the following special prizes: | angwemis © e s box Wedding Boquet one 88-caliber bulldog M. hols, one box clgars; My one pants pattern; C. F. W. Marquardt, ‘one napkin ring; Albért Degner, one O, V. B.'" pocket knife; Bessions & Bell, taxidermist's work, good any time; 3. H. Logeman, one water set; Asa K. Leon- rd, one photo album; J. J.' Clements, 100 loaded shells; A. B. Brown, fifty “San Remo" clgars; F. H. Garrett,'fifty” “Hotel Brunswick” cigars; Albert Wilde, one briar company, two suits underwear; McDonald Bros., 100 loaded shells; Adolph Kochman, one ‘hat; Norfolk Trading company, oné rocker (cak); Kethledge & Tolliver, one-half dozen men's’ wool hose; Fair store, one pair shoes; L. Council, one ton of his celebrated coal; 'E."H. Tracy, one plush jewel ca 3 J. Blrdick, one box candy; Davenport Bros., one pair leggings; Oscar Uhle, one butt chewing tobaceo; Freeland & Winter, one buggy whip; Charles R. McCord, one’ pair English hunting boots, The tournament will be held on Thursday and Friday next, December 27 and 28, and a delegation of shots from this city will go up to take part in the sport. George E. Specht spent several days last week in the sand hills, He bagged a large number of grouse, three ge: r Jack Smith and Jack Stribling, while hunt- ing near Fremont the other day, killed a big gray wolf. There will be trap shooting galore on the Bemis Parlc Gun club grounds across the river, good weather permitting, on Christmas day. There should be a large attendance of sportsmen at the meeting at Parmelec’s gun t Saturday evening. The Battlo of the I The Omaha Whist club tournament closes Wednesday evening. . The contest has been stubbornly fought and the vanquished had the satisfaction of dylng game and seeing the leaders most unmercitully wholloped by a lot of pilgrims from Council Bluffs on Sat- urday ‘evening last. The standing: ed. Won. Lost, Wheeler and Small, Wilber and- Allee. Melkie and ilawks, ana_7 Lienn and Ludiow Tilson and Stebbin Reed and Rinehar dan and Mu: ger Scannell Eaeaneecnuan Teets and Harkness. . Heth and McCague. . Marsh and Pease Abner Powell will manage a team at Little Rock next year. Gus Klopf has been signed as general utility man of Milwauk:e's Western League club, Manager Selee of the Bostons has signed Daniels and Donahue of Manning's Kansas Citys for next year. Washington has signed a clever catcher in Martin Bergen, from New England, This will let Dugdale out. Manager Watkins has our acknowledge- ments for aa excellent photograph of the champion Sloax Citys. Charley Dewld is selling coal up In Cleve- land this winte® and says if it were cold all the time he woull try to play no more ball. John 8. Barnes or Minneapolis now claims to have signed Werden and Crooks, in utter disregard of the fact that they are on De- troit's reserve list, It looks very much as If Freddy Pfeffer had sliced off his big German nose to spite his face He got fresh and the league re fused to reinstate him Henry F. Hines, who played in the outfield for Minneapolis last season, has been signed by Brooklyn. Grorge Shoch is the tenth man to send his autograph to Colonel Byrne. According to Harry Quinn, the Milwaukee Western League club is $10,000 in the hole and owes everybody. And yet it poses as one of the pillars of the Western League and as a dispenser of franchises. Local baseball affairs are particularly qulet President Rowe and Manager McVittie are casting about for new men, and feel assured from negotiations under way that they will be able to secure a much better team than that which represented the Gate City last season. Manager Traffley has already signed several of next year's team and is in correspondence with several more, and promis:s to give Des Moines & team of which she will be proud. Those who have already been secured show that he intends to make good the promise, as they are all among Ahe crackerjucks of last among those with whom he is negotiating are Mohler and Hollingsworth of St. Joseph; Strauss of Jacksonville and McKibbon of Lincoln. Several improvements in the ball park are contemplated. The grounds are to be enlarged to a considerable extent and an | addition of cighty feet to the grandstand will be erected. The new section will be seated with chairs and will be for the exclusive use of lady patrons and their escorts. This new arrangement, it is believed, will be the means | of considerably increasing the attendance and at present the outlook for a most successful season Is very favorable, Questions and Answors. EARLING, la., Dee. 14.—To the Sporting Bditor of The Bee: Pleasc answer in sport- ing column of Sunday Bee address of Ameri- can Trotting register.—A Subscrib:r, Ans.—S. D. Bruce, 251 Broadway, N. Y. SOUTH OMAHA, Dec, 16.—To the Sporting r of The Bee: Please state in Sun- s Bee who won when Sullivan and Ryan met the first time? Also when was Garfield elected ?—Dr. T. Ans.—Sullivan, (2) 1880. UPLAND, Neb., Dec. 17.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Please answer in your next Sunday {ssue where I can obtain pointers on and rules governing cock fights.—H. C. E. Ans,—Order Merrill's “Fighting Birds" of your book dealer. BURR, Ncb, Dec. 15.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Will you please to pub- lish in your Sunday edition where the fol- lowing citles receive their names from: New Orleans as the Crescent City; Omaha, the Gate City, and Chicago, the Garden City. One of your readers.—I, H. Goerhe, Ans.—(1) The river front forms a crescent. (2) The natural gateway to the great west (3) From its numerous public gardens and parks. AUBURN, Dec. 17.—To the Sporting Edi- tor of The Dee: Pleasc state In Sunday Bee if there has been any change in the Americais Shooting association rules for live birds since revised January 1, 1893, and if where 1 can get a copy of the same, Please explain what “T" and “H" in Forest and Stream trap score type.—~A Folley. Ans.—(1) (2) Forest and Stream, 318 Broadway, N. Y. T, “towerer;” H, “hoverer."” RED OAK, Ia, Dec. 15.—To the Sport- ing Editor of The Bee: Pleate let me know in next Sunday's Dee the best and most accuiate shooting revolyer made and what caliber and length of barrel s gen- erally used by the snap shots.—Reader of The Bee. Ans.—Smith & Wesson, ome use one, some another, OMAHA, Dec. 18.—To the Sporting Edi- tor of The Bee: I wrote you some few days ago regarding a bet 1 am a stake- holder for. I have looked for the answer in The Bee's query column, but have failed to find same, If agreeable to you would you kindly publish answer in next Sunday's’ is- sue and oblige one who wishes to be re- lieved of holding the stak SK bets there was $1,000,000,000 in gre:nbacks burned or destroyed by the Treasury department after the year 1866, YR bets there was no such sum destroyed nor anything near it The argument was in relation to the United States financial affair G W Kenney. Ans.—R wins, OMAHA, Dec. 20.—To the Sporting Eai tor of The Bec: Pleass answer in Sun day's Bee what points go cut first in play- ing casino.—J. T. E Ans.—Great and ltle casino, spades and the ace BEATRICH, Dec. 10.—To the Sporiing Editor of The Bee In cutting for deal in euchre which deals, high or low, and what card is lowest?—L. H. Lurch Ans.—Low The ace, OMAHA, Dee. 20 the Sporting £di tor of The Bee anewer following in next Sunday's A and B playing casino; A stands 17 and B 16. D deals and [0 second hand A makes three nces and little casino and calls out. B bets that A cannot call out beforc the end of the de Who wins? Ans.—A, OMAHA, Dec. 21.—To the Sporiiug Editor of The Bée: Kindly decide the followi bet: A and B make » bit. A ets L OMAHA, Dec. 20.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Will you kindly decide a bet? We want to know what year and month and day of the month the Nebraska blizzard was When Minnie Freeman, the school teacher, came so0 nearly perishing, and oblige. Dee cide in next Sunday's Bee.—H. V, Ans.—January 12, 1888, SMART CYCLING, Where and How Fashionable Women Learn to Ride the W A good-looking and respectable young col- ored man, Ike Johnston, who is the recog- nized cycling authority of New York City, makes some interesting assertions concerning women on the wheel, It will be remembered that Johnston was leader of the “400” at Newport last summer in all that related to the gentle art of Wheeling. As he taught the fashionable set there how to manage their machines, his opin- fons are entitled to unusual consideration, Now, Johnston says that petticoats in no way interferc with swift, safe and graceful cycling, He does not believe in bloomers or bifurcated skirts. He pronounced the con- ventional costume “all right,” simply request- Ing his pupils to wear plain walking dressesy when learning to ride. He teaches in two big academies, where smart women are to ba found every morning struggling with the problems of mounting, guiding and pedaling according to correct rules. There is never a knickerbocker to be seen about the place. Popular pictures showing girls and matrons in trousers are a libel upon the genuine so- ciety woman. She has never for an instant contemplated such garb, and would scorn to bo seen without her wide French skirt—un- trimmed, 1t is true, but with a silk petticoat beneath—and ready at & moment’s notice to step down and out upon Broadway. The idea that a bicycle Is to revolutionize female attire Is an utterly exploded fidea. Unless women of wealth and position agree to adopt a dress reform there 1s not the smallest chance of its winning ruccess. Just at first theso recognized eartorfal leaders were uns certain as to what the cycle might demand of them; but having masiered the whecl they unhesitatingly pronounce ‘“reform” as both ungraceful and unneccessary. Another thing Tke Johnston afirms is that tumbles and falls when learning to ride are solely the fault of indolent instructors, He says there is no necessity of a single bruise it the teacher Is willing to do his duty; and, moreover, that the women onc sees coming croppers ‘on public thoroughfares are those who refuse to take the necessary lessons. Johnston 18 himself a born fustructor, and it fs worth one's while to see the infinite pains he takes with his pupils. He first makes the novice buckle around her walst a broad canvas belt that has a sort of handla, at one side; this bar he grasps firmly after helping his pupil on the machine and sets oft trotting at her side. The gait s slow at first, but as the lady becomes accustomed to the motion he quickens his pace, and steadying her o the saddle all the time'is soon off at smart run, Johuston often covers three miles in a single le:son, and until his pupil is expert he refuges to trust her alone When he finds the new rider is beginning to learn how to distribute hes weight he ties a rope to the Landle bar and gives Lis instruction at a dis- tance, but all the while moving beside the machine. It requires fust five lessons of an hour each to win one's eredentials as an expert bicyellst, with knowledge of how to mount, distribute the weight and to keep the wheels flylng without straining down upon the pedals Bxecpt at sunrise in the park one seldom #6808 a farhionable woman on her wheel In New York City. As a rule they avold all publicity. and depend upon country lanes and high roads for eycling. [he clubs now form ing propose to wheel in u ring, after the meth~ ods of the smart bieycling clubs, where musis cal duills. tew and gos:lp will #dd to the aimusement of meeting M. L B Intho Atlenta Conatitutlon: John, bave you made the fire?" “Yes, dear.” And m'lked the cow?" “Yes, dear.” “And dreseed he ol “Yes, dear.” CWell, you can put the colfee co wod then @it for chureh.” drea?™