Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1895, Page 11

What the Followers of the Gun Are Engaged At. WHISPERINGS OF THE WHIRLING WHEEL Breezy News from Track and Stablo—An Old Timer's Story—The Dog Law Passes — And tho Usual Weekly Grist. ¥red Hoey, the American trap shot, didn't d0 a thing to the foreign shooters at Monte Carlo last Wednesday. In a fleld of fifty- four shooters, for a purse of $1,600, Hoey camo out on top with a clean kil of twenty- three birds, second, with a scoro of twenty-two out of twenty-three. The American Is way ahead on his trip, and he is now the envy of all the celebrated shots on this side. Tho Intense <cold of the last ten days has not been as rsevere on prairle chickens and quall as would naturally be supposed. The fact that there has been but little snow on the . groupd alone proved their salvation, however. With a half foot of snow the de- struction to the birds would have been enor- mous, Such a condition would have ren- dered 1t Impossible for them to have secured feed, and this would have meant death to them by the wholesale. When feed is ob- talnable, the extreme cold s not nearly so destructive, as in this state the cover for the birds In the river and creek bottoms and In the dense plum and hazel thickets, fs #0 dense that they can defy the frigidity of almost ary blast, One of the old time shooters, commenting on the Hardin-Prince bear story of last Sun- day, said last evening to a knot of sports- men gathered around the stove at the Cross company gun store: *Yes, there use to be lots o' funny things happen in those days, and I've got a good one on the irrepressible Colonel Parmolee, One evening in the spring of '87, at the time of the big tournament here, a lot of us, Including Billy Hughes, Goodley Brucker, Charlie Budd, Charlie Lane, old man Den and others wero con- gregated In front of Hardin's gun store down on the corner of Thirteenth and Dodge, talk- ing shooting, when Frank—he: had not been brevetted colonel then—stepped up and said: “‘I can b-b-beat any man in the state, twenty-five pair of live birds, for ea-ea-eight hundred dollars!" “Hardin spoke up In jig time, ‘You're my huckleberry—step in the store and we'll post a forfeit of $260 with Mr. Hughes.’ “‘What's that? demanded Parmelee. *What did'ye think I sald?" * “You sald you would bet $800 you could beat any man in the state twenty-five pairs of live birds,’ answerel Hardin. ““‘Bight hundred hells!” ejaculated the colonel with acerbity, “I said a-a-a-hundred dollars!” ‘Oh, a hundred dollars! rejoined Johnny. ‘Well, that suits me just the same.’ “So they went inside and posted $25 each in Charlle Lane's hands, as a forfeit for $100 to be shot for under the conditions named the next Saturday afternon at 1 o'clock. . The day soon came ’'round and Hardin, with a crowd of friends, was on the grounds on time, but no colonel put in an appearance. They waited impatiently until 2, and Frank not showing up, I told Hardin he had better take Parmelee’s forfeit and look pleased, but Hardin refused. He was in great form and anxious to shoot, but Frank didn't give him the chance. Hardin waited until 6 o'clock in the evening, but the colonel never materialized, and that is the history of the only money “‘splatter” ever gave up without s fight. But it is the gospel, every word of ¢ Dr, Carver will &hoot his third and decid- ing match with Tom Marshall, mayor of Kelthsburg, Ill., at Hot Springs next Tues- ‘day afternoon. The series of three matches at 100-live birds each for $500 a side now stands horse and horse. Clark R. Hutton, Paxton’s crack fleld shot, ‘goes to the Big Horn basin to sattle about ,the middle of March. Hut says Paxton is too quiet for him, and he has to migrate. Expects to subsist on grizzley bear steak for a year or two, then he will be right in it. ‘Well, success, me lad. Remember me with the pelt of a 1,000-pounder when you get one and I'll call it square. Dr. H. G. Caples of Perclval was in the city a few days last week. He declares there ire more prairie chicken in his nelghborhood this winter than he has known there for fif- iteen years, and claims they have been driven in there by the scarcity of feed in the north ‘and west. fil Captain Haskell, from McPherson county, was In with four carloads of cattlo last ‘Wednesday. He told the writer that there had been eight cr nine big mountain wclves “killed near his place within the past two weeeks. The ranchmen all over the county are up In arms against the viclous brutes and are determined to exterminate them. Every man carries a Winchester, and when they strike a wolf track they follow it up until they get his pelt. One ranchman alone has lost twenty-eight head of 2 and 3-year-old steers. Paul Jensen, who is one of the old scouts of the northwest sandhill country, killed four of these big wolves last week. «Jensen is the man who run down and larlated big gray last fall, ‘What's the matter with Reed? Bob Wells says rabbit hunting near Flor- ence is overdone. It 1§ currently reported that Dr. Bryant is the best quall shot in the state. Isn't it about time for Frank Parmelee to shoot a live-bird match with some of the blowhards? J. H., McConnell and Dr. Galbraith will #00n sojourn to sunny Florida and will spend a week at Tampa with their mutual friend, Dr. Couklin, catching tarpon and sheoting alligators, ‘We are rellably informed that Dr. Durrell killéd a deer with a pickax while on a deer and turkey hunt in Arkansas a short time 8O0, W. J. Hawks, the author of the “Badger 8lide, or Who Killed the Antelope?” expeots to make It unpleasant for the ducks and geese in the vicinity of Clarks early next mouth. W. P. McFarlane, the popular president and prize winner of the Bemls Park Gun club, will scour up h's rainmaker and hie himself to the sand hills of northwestern Nebrat in early spring to kill a few car- loads of ducks and geese. Did Mac ever tell you his experience at Hotel DeReshaw on the reservation? Dr. ¥. N. Connor, a leading dentist of this olty, recently perfected a turkey call which will no doubt make easy of capture that wary bird. His nelghbors say it makes A fool of even a domestic bird and that they experlence a great deal of trouble in round- IDg up their fowls after the doctor has been practicing on his Invention. Sportsmen de- (Mlring to examine this wonderful instrument may do 0 by calling at Dr. Connor's office In the Continental block. J. A, Fuller, the famous deer hyunter, and the only 1uan on record who has killed & doe possessing & beautitul pair of antlers, Is making great preparations for a duck and Hu’ slaughter this sprin The venerable imrod states that the spring shooting on Pla this year will surpass that of ll;n{ ¥ . For, he argus there will be an abundance of feed, as the corn and grain erop was 8o short in that locality that In many cases It was not harvesty Henry Homan of this city, who Is a t fall kn to be the champion fleld shot of Nebraska, . We are Infc applied for patent on new coyote separator, which, 4 K from the model, promises to be a rud success and will no doubt insure him he blessings of future generations of sports- men. The:purpose of this device is to separate the Jack rabbits from the Increasing inds of coyotes In western Nebraska. M has "&z‘ neither time nor money wseparator, as the experi- Galletti, the French crack, was, ence of himselt and friends has long since proven beyond even the shadow of a doubt that an Invention of this kind would be the only means whereby the festive Nimrod might once more make a decent bag of coyotes, Palavee of the Bail Players. Roger Connor's brother Je has caught on at Wheeling. Tom York, the veteran, Is to handle the Albanys in the New York State league. Charlie Dewald has been released by Cleveland and Manager McVittle 1s after m. T. F. Underwood, who was with the Brook- Iyn National League club last season, has been forwarded an Omaha contract. Work on the Charles Street park grand- stand will begin next week. A commodious reserve department is to be erected on the south end of the south wing, a new reporters’ box bullt and other needed improvements made, There won't be as much rubber in the Western league ball the coming eeason as there was last. It is unnecessary to state that there won't, be as many home runs, three-baggers cr “charley-horsed” outfielders in that organization in 1865 as there was in 1894, “A geod workman is known by the ch'ps under his table,”” and a prospective sucessful base ball season is foretcld by the number of minor leagues in the fleld. If the minors furnish any straw to show what is in store for the magnates, then they can look forward to 1805 with longing eyes. The coming sea- #0n promises to eclipse any season in the mat- ter of minor leagues, The Bastern and West- ern leagues head the minors in point of im- portance, followed by State, Interstate, Cen- tral, Southern, New England and = other leagues of smaller caliber. \ When Jack Doyle returned to Holyoke after the Temple cup series last fall he placed his bank roll in a national bank. Jack had quite a lively winter, sporting and ele tioneering, and found ‘it necessary to dra frequent checks. A week or 80 ago the cashier sent him word that his account had been overdrawn and requested a settlement. The ball player immediately hied himself to the bank and sald that was an impossible state of affalrs, and produced his check book with the triumphant remark: *‘Why. there's thirty-elght of 'em here I haven't used yet."—New York World, Like the pitchers’ averages, the base run- ning figures have aroused the critics. They have a susplclous sort of look, and John B. Foster Yaculates: *“What's this, Dan Brouth- ers among the first twenty? That puts a bad look upon all the statistics. There are too many Baltimore players too well advanced n base running percentages to have the figures look healthy. It strikes a man up a tree that every time a Baltimore player started for second base it was counted a stolen base, whether Le earned it or not. Then, too, there may have been a bushel of stolen bases given on bases made from second to third when the batter rapped cut a base hit just as the runner started from first. There are other ways to swell the percentage column than to feed it dry apples and water." One day recently, says Ren Mulford, Danlel Brouthers, the mayor of Wappinger's Falls, while engaged In a thinking part, had a thought shipped -to Baltimore by canal boat. It was to the effect that maybe Dan wouldn't play this year. Manager Ned Hanlon didn't exclaim: My stars! What shall we do?" and then fall in a fit. Not he. He's tco old a bird He simply reached into the Western league camp and picked Carey off Milwaukee's fence. This first baseman Is a Pennsylvania league re- cruit who did gocd werk for Milwaukee last eeason. He 18 a six-footer and had a batt'ng average of .364 to his credit. Since his seiz- ure Dan'l has changed his mind and declares he will be ready to take his place in Orloles’ Roost when the bell rings. The very players who when in the zenith of their playing glory used to talk about get- ting out of the game and going in other busi- ness about signing time every year, in order to sque:ze more salary out of their clubs, are the very last to get out of harness. Parislan Bob Caruthers and Orator James O'Rourke are two cases in sight. “Parisian” Bobby, who, by the way, is of a wealthy and influ- entlal family, used to spring the business gag every time about signing time, is now signed o a $700 centract with the Bay Cify team. There was a time when Bob wanted about twice that much as a bonus for signing a contract. Jim O'Rourke, who used to bluff raises in salary by his talking of practicing law, tried his hand at umpiring, and after his fallure there turned his attention to the minor leagues. Jim is now at the head of the Bridgeport (Conn.) club. “Many queer stories have come out of the writes O. P. Caylor, “‘but none which stubs the toe of credibility so sorely as the statement from Von der Ahe that an orthodox preacher in Missourl umpired a game of ball on Sunday last year. They do things in Missourl which are not lfke the customs of other states, but when we are told that an orthodox minister of the gospel umpired a Sunday game of base ball infidelity s the direct result. To umpire a game of ball even on week days requires an utter disregard of a future life, demands a man who belleves there fs no damnation save that which he finds on earth, necessitates a familiarity Witk the amenities exchanged on such occa- sion by the man who is out, but thinks he Is not, and the man who issues the edict, A preacher who would umpire a base ball game on Sunday s out of his element. He would be a star among the truck drivers on lower Broadway, They have _unique preachers or rare llars in Missourl, Which?" With the Trotters und Pacers. There are seventy-seven trotters in the 2:12 list. Vassar {s counted a sure 2:04 horse if nothing happens to him. Beauchamp & Jarvis, the well known Kansas breeders, have removed from Con- cordia to Holton. Gould & Miller, Fullerton, Neb., have sold Fred K, 2:09%, to B. D. Van Dusen, Rich- mondville, N. Y. Susle G, 2:11%, las a record of sixty-four starts, and n every one of them she has suc- ceeded in getting part of the money. Charley Marvin's record of 103 horses beat- Ing 2:03 and twenty-six in 2:20, including Arlon, Sunol and Palo Altp, is a great one. C. H. Nelson has great hopes for Edna, 2:24, She {s by Dictator Chief out of the dam of Nelson. She goes at the pace and can fly at that gait. The Saratoga Winter Trotting and Pacing assoclation will hold its second annual meet- ing on Woodlawn Oval ice track on February 5 to 7, inclusive. Sons and daughters of the dead Electioneer won 424,172 in purses in Amerlca this year. Expressive, $7,100, and Altivo, $5,232, were the biggest winners, Ttomas F. Miller, owner of Shadeland On- ward, 2:18%, will remove his breeding estai lishment from Fullerton, Neb., to Wab: Ind., about March 1. Jo He, 2:14%, is wintering finely at Fulton, Mo. Jo will be on the war path again this year In company with some good young ones that Lester Sims is handling. There was a big rush to get horses registered under the old rules. The Ameri- an Trotting Register assoclation received about 10,000 applicants during December last, J. P. Stauer, Independence, Ia., who owns Onoqua, 2:11%; has bought from Driver John Hussey the 4-year-old filly Belle Louis, by Sphinx, dam by Louis Napoleon, and her yearling colt by Allerton, 2:09%. Ten of the $5,000 stakes offered by C. W. Willlams of Galesburg, IIl., have filled, being those for yearlings, 2-year-olds, 2:25, 2:20 and 2:10 classes, trottin, nd 2 year-olds, winter, and he will be trained and eam- palgned again next season. James Golden, his trainer, wald last year that it Ralph Wilkes would submit to the useé of an over- draw check he could trot in 2:05 or better. The son of Red Wilkes is now wearing one of these appliances without fighting it as he used to do, and hopes are entertained that he will beat the stallion record of Directum— 2:05%—in 1895, It Is quite clear at this early date that when the stewards of the grand circuit meet at Rochester next May there are several strong assoclations which will apply for ad- mieefon. Saginaw, Mich.,, was admitted last year and opened the circuit. Grand Rapids now proposes to follow Saginaw, and it s hoped that Chicago will take the first week in July. But the latest candidate is the Lansing Driving club, Lansing, Mich.,, which cfters $26,000 in stakes and purses. If admitfed there will be four grand circuit meetings in Michigan. The following is good, but will it be en- forced? The bill against “ringing” in Mis- sourl will contain provisions fcr punish- ment as follows: Imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one year, nor more than three years; or imprisonment In the county Jail of the county in which he is con- victed for any definite period not less than six months or a fine of not less than $100, nor more than $1,000, Trotting sport in Austria and Germany fs growing with giant strides. The track at Baden, a three-quarters of an hour's rido from Vienna, has a fine grandstand which will seat 8,000 people, and at one of the meetings last summer speculation was so lively in the mutuals that before the day was over the tickets were exhausted. There are no books and no pool selling, and all the public betting is done by the mutuals, The two meetings last year made a profit of 460,000, and the management will offer in 1895 $250,000 in stakes and purses. Inside the Squared Circte. Cal McCarthy will meet Joe Cralg in a ten-round bout In Jersey City February 28. Jake Kilrain and Peter Maher will meet In an elght-round go at Boston on March 27. George La Blanche, “The Marine,” is out With a challenge to fight any middlewelght in the world. The proposed bout between Solly Smith and Johnny, the Kentucky Rosebud, has been de- clared off. Owen Zelgler and Jack Hanley have been matched to fight ten rounds in Philadelphia on Friday, February 8. Joe Butler of Philadelphia, who whipped Frank Craig, the Coffee Cooler, is anxous to g0 abroad and fight him again. The *“future of the ring” so glibly discussed by Jim Corbett will be brighter when he betakes himself out of it.—New York Press. Frank Erne of Buffalo and Jerry Mar- shall havo been matched to fight six rounds before the New Manhattan Athlet'c club, New York, February 12. Slavin has gone to pot In London since his defeat by Jim Hall. He is impecunious, and, what is worse still, badly wrecked phy- sleally. " If this is true the Cooler may do him. Joe Lennon and Peter Maher are going to meet in a limited-round bout in Boston some time this month. The battle will be at catchwelghts, and will be probably for ten rounds. ““Young” Heenan and Jimmy Kavency of Boston, Mass., have been matched to fight THE OMAIIA DAI LY BER: Savannah, Charleston, Augusta, Macon, Co- lumbus, Montgomery, Birm am, Chatta- nooga, Knoxville, Memphig;~Nashville and Loulsville, The last number of the K*rlmn Cyellst has an editorial discussing the tendency of advertisers toward the use of cuts repre- senting women cyclists attired in long stock- ings and short trousers, or. jmickerbockers. 1t Is a t'mely warning agafns '{he increasing practice, which, if contintedle'will, as the American Cyclist says, do far more harm than good. Another unseemly practice Is that of women riding wheels whichjare made for men. A woman who cannit fide a bieyclo made for her sex had better not ride at all— at least not in public Questions and Answers. OMAHA, Feb. 8.—To tha Sporting Bditor of The Bee: Please answer the follow ng in Sunday's Bee to decide a bet: In a game of cribbage, A plays the seven, B plays the elght, makes fifteen-two; C plays the nine, makes twenty-four, with a run of three; D plays th® ceven, mak:s thirty-ons, and claims run of three; A claims that 1) is not entitled to the run. Who is right?—J, B. Rinehart, Subscriber, Ans.—D. WACO, Neb,, Feb. 7.—To the Sporting Bd- Itor cf The Bee: In your sporting c:lumins of next Sunday's Bee please till how to load nitro powders with the best results, and greatly oblige.—Sportsman, Ans.—E ther Parmelee or the Cross gun stere will send you pamphlets giving direc- tions for the Icading of nitros. Write them. ASHTON, Neb., Feb, 4.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: In a game of double high five is the party who names the trump compelled to lead trump or can he play any card he pleases? Please answer in next Sun- day's Bee and oblige.—C. C. C. Ans.—Any card he pleases, OMAHA, Feb. 8.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: To settle a bet please state in Suhday's Bee the coldest snap we had In Omaha In the last twelve years. How many degrees below zero?—A Bee Reader. Ans.—Drop Signal Observer Welzh a card. He will supply you with the correct figures. FREMONT, Feb. 8.—To the Sporting Ed- ftor of The Bee: In the next fssue of your paper will you pleaso answer the following questicns: . (1) Did J. S. Johnson ever beat J. Doncghue skating? (2) It so, where and the'r respective time, (3) age and nationality of each?—A Reader. Ans.—(1) Yes, (2) At Newberg, in_ several heat races—don't kaow time. (2) Johnson, Swede, 22; Donaghue, Irish-American, 27, PAPILLION, Feb. 9.—To the Sporting Ed- itor of The Bee: A and B sit in a game of poker; A opens with two pair, sevens and eights; B comes in, holding jack of diamonds, queen and king of clubs, draws ace of hearts and deuce of diamonds; A draws tray of spades. How does B win, or does he not? is there any rule by which he (B) can take the pot? (2) C and D same; C opens with two palr, fives and sixes; D comes in, holding nine of hearts, ten and jack of diamonds, queen of spades and k'ng of clubs, draws no cards; C draws one card, tray of spades. Who wins the pot? F. H. B. Ans.—(1) B has no claim whatever on the pot on the merits of the hands. (2) If play- ing straights, D wins, EWING, Feb. 2—To the Sporting Editor ten rounds at 114 pounds before the Farragut Athletic club of Boston on Thursday, Feb- ruary 14, Hughey O'Neill, the New York feather- welght boxer, wants to fight a limited-round or finish contest with Marty Mcue. O'Neill offers to bet McCue $500 that he can beat him., A fight to a fin'sh has been arranged to take place In private during the month of February between Eddie Connell of Jersey City and Dicky Connors. The fight will be for a purse of $300, and two-ounce gloves will be used. Sam Fitzpatrick, manager and backer of “Kid” Lavigne, is going to make another at- tempt to match his man against George John- son of England. Sam says that he has been assured by two well known sportsmen of England that if Johnson agrees to fight Lavigne they will see that a nice purse is hung up for a contest. Dick Moore is going to try it again, and Is matched to clash with Tom McCarthy, Bob Fitzsimmons’ ex-sparring partner. They are to meet at Woburn, Mass., February 21. That will be a rattling glove contest at Blum's_hall, South Omaha, next Thursday night, February 14. Fred O'Neil, the clever local *feather, s to go up against George Stout of Sioux City for stakes amounting to $200. Stout is certalnly a ekillitul man, and as spry and hard-hitting as O'Neil is he will have to hustle to retain his laurels. The affair is for blood, and one of the most in- teresting contests’ ever witnessed in this section may be counted upon. Tickets can be had at Ed Rothery’s place and at Pat O'Hern's, Ed Miller's and Pat Horrigan's. After Hiarshman's Scatp. Floyd Harshman Is hereby challenged to wrestle a side hold match for $200 a side and the champlonship of Nebraska, the match to be the best three in five, hip or shoulder to constitute a fall, the wrestle to take place within three weeks after signing articles, at Nebraska City, Omaha or Lincoln. Should Floyd Harshman wish to accept this chal- lenge he may notify me through The Bee which place he may choose for the match; he may also choose what bank he may wish to hold contract and forfeit, and through any notice from him I will forward $100 as a for- feit, including a contract to be signed. Hop- ing to hear from Floyd Harshman scon, I am yours truly, JOHN GOSNEY, Benkelman, Neb. The Dog Law Passes. The bill making the dog personal property in Nebrsska passed, much to the elation of sportsmen and doggy men. It will not be such a funny thing to walk off with a man’s dog nowadays. It means petit or grand lar- ceny, as the case may be. Whisperings of the Wheel. St. Joseph, Mo., has a new club In the Milo ‘Wheelmen. Bald, Macdonald and Sims will constitute the Columbia team. Neil Matterson and Chris Nellson, the Aus- trallan scullers, have taken to bicycling. Marinette, Wis., promises fifty new league members If the division meet is held there, Four men will constitute the Spalding tcam, but the last man has not yet been selected. At hustling and general activity John S, Johnson Is the champlon athelete of the world The Cal'fornia roads are so bad now that it requires fifteen hours to complete a cen- tury. Bruce has decided not to start out on a hunt for Lenz. It is eaid his backers didn’'t come to time. Billy Murphy of Brooklyn is the latest can- didate for the position cf official referee of the League of American Wheelmen, Chairman Raymond says that all wheelmen seeking reinstatement must file their ap- plications with him not later than Febru- ary 16, It is sald that the mother cf Frank G. Lenz, the missing world girder, will receive $10,000 insurance when the fact of her son's death s established. T. W. Eck has signed a contract to con- tinue as trainer for the Stearns team this summer. John 8. Johnson will remain in this country and ride in cl B. 2:30, 2:20, 2:15 and 2:10 classes, pacing, The fastest dead heat ever trotted was made by the chestnut Nightingale and Phoebe Wilkes in 2:12 in the third heat of the free-for-all at Washington park, Ohi- cago, August 25, 1894. The fastest ever paced was the heat declared dead between Rabert J and John R. Gentry In 2:03%, in the first heat of the match race at Nashville, Tenn., October 18, 1894, Durlng the season of 1804 the get of Director, 2:17, thirteen in number, won $22,180, of which amount over one-half, or $11,600, was won by his greatest son, Directum, 2:06%. One of the get of Wilkes Boy, 2:24%, the 8-year-old mare, Nellle A, won $18,000 of the $24,788 credited to that sire by sixteen performers. Allerton, 2:09%, s to be tralned next season with a view to beating the stallion record. His present record was made before the pneumatic sulky came into use, and if the claim Is true that six seconds is a fair measure of the difference betwen the old and the new style vehicles, the son of Jay Bird ought to wipe out Directum's 'Y providing he stands training. Ralph Wilkes is belng jogged dally this Waller, the long distance rider, 1s now training for an attempt to lower the outdoor twenty-four-hour record. He already holds the indoor record. The match race between Fournier, the champlon cyclist of France, and Pontecchi, the fastest racing man in Italy, will take place in Paris on February 15. The officials of the League of Amerlcan Wheelmen are talking of instituting proceed- ings against the owners of the Indlana pike roads, who are Imposing excessive charges on bieycie riders. It ls sald that the League of American Wheelmen will give each division racing board chalrman power to appoint one or two divisicn referees, allow'ng them no salary, but providing them with expense money, Several of the gravel road companies of northern Indiana have issued notices that all cyclists travellng over their roads will here- after be charged 1 cent a mile toll. Evidently the Hooslers haven't read the declsion in the Reading, Pa., case, M. J. Fleck, the Loulsville cyclist, Is try- Ing to arrange a southern racing circult, to comprise the following cities: Jacksonyille, of The Bee: Is it possible for three kings in the center of a checker board to beat two kings, one in each double corner? I mean it no errors are made in moving the two kings.—J. W. E. Ans.—It is. | HUMBOLDT, Neb,, Feb. 8+To the Sport- ing Ed'tor of The Bee: IPlease answer the following in next Sunday'd paper: In a game of high five, the bidder bids fourteen, has he the right to d'scard the dévcsjitray and four? And if so, what fs low?—A: Reader. Ans.—(1) He has. (2) The five. OMAHA, Feb., 4.—To_ the, Sporting Editor of The Bee: I noticed in Sunday’s Bee of the 3d inst. a note from eome party regarding istemper in dogs. About a year ago I had a fine setter pup that had the distemper so bad that his eyes turned,the color of m'lk, and I thought we would Jose him, or that he would lose his- sight. I.was in the same shape as the party’ that -wrote you regarding the disease; that fs, T camid.not learn what to do for the dog, but finaliy,E wade up my mind to doiwhat I coulditormelieve him or Kill him. I 'went to a-drugsstere and bought a dime's worth of compound eathartic pills. I gave him, I think, three at a dose. I may have repcated the dose of two pills. Anyway, they acted on him as they would on a pereon, and inside of a few days he regained his appetite and by the end of a_week his eyes turned thelr natural color. I am eatisfied that as s2on as you get the bowels to working the distemper o broken. The pills can do no harm.—Joseph Alle; . e THE NEW CLIFF HOUSE. Castle to Be Bullt on the Rocks at the Gold Gate. A castle in French or Norman Gothic style, with rather more elaborate detail than is customary in bulldings of that design, Is to be erected on the site of the old CIiff house, says the San Francisco Examiner. The plain, square, wooden building which was a landmark, succumbed to the flames on the evening of Christmas day, and nothing but memories of the familiar place were left. Its successor will be a much more imposing modern structure, but it will lack those memories which hovered around the simple house on the edge of the ocean. Adolph Sutro has decided upon the form and arrangement of the new building. The building 18 to cost In round figures $50,000. 1t will be built entirely of wood, as no other materlal is so well calculated to withstand the corrosive effect of the salt sea air. It will be 140 feet in length from east to west and ninety-two feet from north to south. Unlike the old building, it will profect far over the edge of the cliffs, The main part will be toward the east, facing on Point Lobos ayenue. The other three parts will be characterized by belng virtually balconies projecting from each of the four stories. The French character of the building will be displayed principally in the main part and the round Norman towers with their conical and pyramidal spires. The detall of ornamentation will be essen- tlally French, Two of the stories will be above the street level and two below it on the sloping face of the cliffs, The verandas on the ocean side will all be twenty feet wide, those on the north and south end and on the east side of the bullding each sixteen feet in width. The four corners of the building will be clrcular and crowned with steeples, each fitted with rooms reached by passage in the attic floor, - The attic will have two floors. The parlor, main dining room and bar- room will be provided with handsome open fireplaces. A large square tower will rise from the center of the building, crowned with a steeple, and a fine room will be provided In the upper portion of the tower. The exterlor of the room is to be orhamentd with colonnades and arches. This room will be used for an ob- servatory, and will present ome of the finest possible marine views of the Pacific. From the balconles the fresh sea breeze can be enjoyed, while the bisking seals will afford diversion for many." Those who so desire may cast a line from the balconfes, and the new CIIff house “wfif ‘unquestionably be a great gathering place'for'San Franciscans and visitors from every olimis ———— A Kentucky Hoodoo, Students of the mysterious, who imagine that hypnotism may be used to make crim- inals of perscns who are.really innocent, should investigate the of Edgar Bell agalnst the commonwealth of Kentucky, now In the court of appeals'in’ Krankfort, The appellant, Edgar Bell, 'negro, convicted of murder, and In his behalf there has been filed at the clerk’s office of {he court of ap- “hocdoo bag, contains dice, er article that he was hoodooed by th bag, and that under the circumstances it was simply im- possible for him to do anything else than commit the murder for which he is now In the law's clutches. To the insanity and hyp- notism pleas s now added the hoodoo defense, —— Cook’s Imperial. World's fair “highest award, excellent champagne; good efferves- cence, agreeable bouquet, delicious flavor." Chicago Tribune: Mr, McS8wat went home late from a club dinner the other night, and in his haste he forgot to remove his gloves when he went to bed. About 3 o'clock 4. m. he aroused Mrs. MeSwat with the agonizing cry: “Lofelial “Lobaliat 1 belleve on my soul SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1895 GOSSIP AROUT MEN. 1 understand that his holiness Leo XIfI, says a writer In Chicago Vanity Fair, has turned toward Omaha the radiance of his fatherly countenance and blessed it in the person of one of its best and most generously inclined citizens, Mr. John A. Creighton; as a result, America has one more geniune no- bleman within its borders, a count of the Roman empire, 11 Signor Conte Giavanni Creighton. 1 am sure 1 am delighted to see added one more fllustrious name in this Libro a'Oro, that includes already Duc Pullman, Marquis Murphy, Count. Onahan and a few more of the same excellent merit. It s decidedly truo that If we are to have a titled aris- tocracy of our own, Mr. Crelghton is un- doubtedly one of the most desirable men to figure in its ranks, and his benefactions have been 8o lavish that the reward is, after all, cut of proportion to the capital donated or invested. That reminds me that we are al- ways making fun—in those papers that con- sider mother-in-law jokes and the like bril- llant wit—of the facility with which titles are bought “over the counter” in old no- bility-ridden Europe. 1 did mot notice a repetition of the said venerable joke when Conte Crelghton was promoted to an empty peerage of the vanished Roman empire, which proves once more that thers are al vays two ways of looking at things. 1 was recently introduced,” eald Albert H Steele of Portland, Ore., to the Chicago Times, “to a legisiator who, I believe, has the record for making the longest continuous speech ever delivered, He is a_member of the legislature of British Columbia, in which there is no such thing as senatorial courtesy, 50 that a long speaker cannot get a few min- utes' rest for refreshments, as he generally can In the upper house of this country. The record breaker, who s of French descent, is an old college athlete, and on one occasion last gession he was put up by the opposition to talk a bill to death. The majority saw through the device at once and put every ob- stacle in_the way of the speaker. “Not deterred by objections and polnts of order, the old athlete husbanded his strength and spoke steadily, without any longer pauses than were necessary to moisten his parchéd throat with an occasional innocent drink, twice around the clock. He started at 10 o'clock In the morning, kept steadily at his work all the afternoon, evening and night, and dll not even pause when the lights wero turned out the following morning. Eye wit- nesses tell me that as the morning wore on his volce was little more than a whisper and his eyes were bloodshot. He bore up man- fully, however, and did not sit down till the clock struck 12, when the bill became dead by lapse of time, and he secured a respite, which was well earned, even If his cause was not a very noble one. He speaks of his twenty- six-hour effort with a shudder, and says he would rather walk 100 miles than go through the ordeal again.” When Secretary of the Navy Herbert war a confederate colonel his life was saved at the battle of Seven Pines by a Maine soldier, who prevented a comrade from running hie bayonet through the Alabama officer, who had been wounded. When Mr. Herbert was a member of congress he endeavored unsuccess- tully to learn from the Maine delegation the name of his preserver. After he became sec- retary of the navy he received a letter from California asking if he was the Colonel Her- bert captured at the battle of Seven Pines. The writer was Jonathan Newcome, and he stated that he was one of the Maine soldiers who had participated in the capture. Some time after this the secretary went to Cali- fornia and there met the Maine soldier, but it was not the man who had saved his life. His preserver, the sergeant, had been killed at Gettysburg. He was deprived of the op- portunity of showing his gratitude to the principal, but he did the néxt best thing by extending it to one survivor. The man wae a ship calker, out of work, and the secretary suspended the civil service rules long enough to give this man work in the yard, and he gave directions that as long as there was a ship or boat in the navy yard to be calked the old Maine soldier should have work. When the term of Senator Manderson of Nebraska expires, says the Philadelphia Press, the senate will not only lose an' orator of more than ordinary ability, but also a superior entertainer. No other man in public life can manipulate a chafing dish and get o much good cheer out of it as Senator Man- derson. One afternoon recently a prominent citizen of Philadelphia was in the marble room of the senate, chatting with a news- paper correspondent, when he expressed a desire to see Senator Hawley of Connectlcut. The younger man immediately started out to find Senator Hawley and located him in the senate restaurant at a table where Senator Manderson was preparing a royal oyster stew. I'm getting paralyzed! is0't & bl feeling hmfilxsfl" SRAD W't & o Senator Hawley said: ‘‘Please tell my friend that I will come to him as soon as possible, but that I cannot get away from Mlndersnn's chafing dish until I have had my oysters.” ‘When this message was delivered the Phila- delphian smiled and said he knew how capti- vating Manderson always is and particularly when he is handling a chafing dish, and so he cheerfully waited until the little feast was over. The heirs of the latz Benjamin F. Butler are to establish in New Mexico the largest sanitarfum for consumptives in the country, and, moreover, it is to be free. It will be in readiness in a few months. The general left an interesting family, the members of which are held in the highest esteem by the people of Lowell, Mass. The eldest son died very suddenly while on a yachting trip. That was some years ago, before yaching had its present vogue, and when the good ship America was the king pin among yachts. General Butler felt the 10ss of this son keen- ly. The young man had finished his course as a cadet at West Point, we believe, An- other son is Paul, who has won many lau- rels as a canoelst. One of the most unas- suming men, he has a heart as big as his head is sensible. The daughter, probably the most popular young woman in Lowell at the time, married General Ames, Who was lieu- tenant governor of Mississippl in reconstruc- tion days. Count Castellane, the dainty little French- man who is rumored to be engaged. to Miss Anna Gould, is a far better catch than most members of the ‘“effete aristocracy” of Europe. In appearance he Is the ideal fairy prince of the pantomime, lender, graceful, straight as a reed, blond as a Norweglan, with a pink and white complexion. He is young and an athlete, bears a fine old French name, and has enough money to satisfy any French girl that he was a desirable parti, cr, for that matter, most American girls, considering a title is thrown in, He dresses well, rides like graduates of St. Cyr always ride, and “dances like an angel,” according to those lucky damsels who lead cotillons with him, and flirts In a manner which even comes up to the approval of the American girl. He speaks very little, but very piquant, English, but he “makes himself understand,” as he himself says, with extraordinary success, The pretty and accomplished wife of Con- gressman Bryan did not accompany him dur- ing the short term, says a Washington cor- respondent. Mr, Bryan's devotion to his wife and her affection for him s a matter of com- ment in congressional circles, so everybody laughed and thought it & good joke on the member from the First Nebraska district when it was rumored the other day that he had received a letter from his wife inclosing a fine portrait of John M. Thurston, senator- elect from Nebraska, agalnst whom Mr. Bryan made the race as the candidate date of the fusion party. The portrait was arranged in the form of a badge, and on it were written these significant words, in Mrs, Bryan's handwriting: “Worn by your wife,” Mrs. Bryan was one of the committee which superintended the public reception of Mr. Thurston at Lincoln. The receipt of the let- ter seemed to afford Mr. Bryan considerable amusement, There is a pretty story connected with the courtship and marriage of Speaker Crisp and his wife. It seems that when the then young Charlie Crisp came a-wooing daughter of a wealthy and aristocratic southern planter her father thought she should look higher, forgetting that ‘“love, like death, levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook beside the scepter.” He forbade young Crisp the house, and sent the young lady out of the way, traveling, think- ing that absence would break the bond. Thereupon the young man fell ill of typhold fever, and his sweetheart, hearing of his iliness, returned suddenly and married him, nursed him back to life and health, coaxed her father into a good humor and’ got his blessing, “and they llved happlly ever after.” A great deal of Champ Clark's interest in life is centered in bis boy, who is now 8 years old, The congressman has an en- “The smallest bird seeks a mest of it ore: Don' bo afraid think you must h you marry and snug little Housel pay for it gradual and_ '3 little wifo road to success. Mrs. A.—Oh, what a lovely hotv Mrs. B.—Y Mrs. A.—How could you afford afford it. Mrs, B.—1 know my husband m: learned a seoret. Mrs. A.—What! A Secret? Pr learn anything to better our surroun completo our home. Mrs. B —The Secret is thi the New Partial Payment plan by Tk C charge us_any interest, and the pric where. This is our Sceret and the would have been an impossibility. vinced— hey cannot possibly be cheaper. OUR TERMS Holled down are s follows, and 1t {s all the same to us_ which plan’ you ndopts only one thing be sure of, “our coous areull wirkanted, both a8 to auality and value, Our salesmen are courteous. our_shipments are prompt, and your Tronwie 18 | Iy Wpprevinte, ther you puy cash OF uceept our easy payment pla FIRST—\With Cash, SECOND—With part THIRD—WIith h andso much per mon h, part cash and so much per week, Young Man Take a Hint. sottlo keeping Outfit for very small amoun —and then we don't want the money either. A Secret! Between Mrs. A and Mrs. B, to see you are so beautifully furnished. s, we have a very nice home, and are evor 80 happy, now that we are housekeeping and so eomfortably situated. husband makes only about half as much salur) We had our entire house furnishad on The_greatest House Furnishers in the west. down and from $1.00 to $2.50 per week, as we can_afford. Remember, we give you the BEST of everything— Best in value. Best in service. Bestin terms. Also remember that goods were never so CHEAP as NOW, and that. Send 10: for Our Mammoth Illustrated Catalogue. Open Saturday Evenings Until ro O'clock. o to start in at the bottom. Don't ave evorything “‘spit and span”whon down. We can give youa You cay ly. Witha little home, partly Alled well willed,” you are on the high me you have. [ am really surprisod to furnish so luxuriously when your as my husband. T ean't ukes vory little salary, but wo have ray, tell it to me, as I am anxious to pdings and furnish what we need to 1E PEOPLE'S Furniturp & Carpot Wo paid them $10.09 They do not s aro lower than we can buy elso- way we nccomplish what otherwise Go and sce for yourself aad be con- CASH, Or 810 worth of goods, 81 nor week; Or hou th, #25 worth of goody, ® « 00 n month, r week! 00 w month, por weok, ©month, weekj 12 per month .50 per woek 14 p month 84 por woek; e ®10 per month 8200 worth of goods, 8 Or B $125 worth of goods, or 8150 worth of good ki 0 per month 8250 worth of goads, W6 per weeki Or #21 or month o 1s boln marrio MOLE JUNIPER Der bottle. If your druggist docs not have it 821 $2. used by i o 1ady™s friend It frrogular from any eause: slibie, never fails, guarantee with every bottle, sure to day. T vy botila laneiled And never loges it strenith: S0id b thousands of ladies monthly. It {8 the 1t in saf his medieine 18 far_superior to ading drugsists. Price, $2.00 00 aad “we will forward youa bottie by expross CAMOLE JUNIPER CO, ‘Western Office. Omaha, Nebraska, dowment insurance policy of $10,000 which falls due on the day the boy attains his ma- jority. “I intend to give that money to him,” says Champ, “and start him around the world. He shall never go to school a day until he is old enough and advanced enough to enter the junior class of the best college in America. I used to be a school teacher, and I shall teach him all I know.! Senator Squire of Washington is the sar- torial wonder of congress, No other man in elther house enchants the galleries with such a continuous succession of brilliant and un- heard of effects in dress. One day it Is a red tie and white vest, another it is striped trousers of striking hues, another it is patent leather shoes of resplendent polish. But the most effective combination is a lemon col- ored vest of tremendous expanse, setting off a bright blue tie and a striped shirt. —_—— Saved His Stamp. He slowly appropched the stamp clerk's window af the postoffice, with a letter in his hand, and said: “Do you trust?" “Not in any one on earth,” replied the clerk. “It T should frank this envelope, same as congressmen, would it go?" “No, sli “Isn’t this government a paternal cne, and willing to furnish a stamp to a needy person, and collect later on?” ‘No, sir. “But there must be a way I can send this letter to Washington?" “Yes; post it without a stamp, and it will 80 to the dead letter office there,” “Ah! 1 see. It's to a friend of mine In that same office, and, of course, he'll get it ‘Scuse me, sir, but I'm a bit off this morn- ing, and not as clear headed ag I might be. You have saved me a stamp, sir—a 2-cent stamp—and I feel grateful, and will always remember you. That's the way, of course, and here she goes. What could I have been thinking of to stamp a letter going to the dead letter office?” §300.00 for an Idea. 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