Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 11, 1902, Page 11

THE OMAHA DAILY BE BASE BALL GOSSIP OF WEEK Omaha Holds Its Lead Basily and Looks Good at Home, TEAM WORK THE SECRET OF ITS SUCCESS Individaaiity Lost Perteet n Efforts to Make Machine and R i Fine Start in Race Dotng fairly well Five games out of six at home and six yames out of geven abroad is not such a bad record. Ard what a howl the success of the Oaaha team has set up in some quarters. One or two of the dopemakers for w.etern papers, whose eyes are turned tnward, bave shouted a daily chorus of “Wait till Denver gets there!" or “Wait till Kansas City comes!” We are waiting, and will welcome the advent of both the Cowboys and the Grizzlies. Moreover, we'll guarantee them an hour or two of real lively work every day they play in Omaha. It is t00 mach to expect that Omaha will win sl its games, but The Bee stands by what it sald before the season opened, that the team winning from Omaha will have to hustle all the time. No one could be more | anxious than the Omaha fans for a clash | botween Omaha and Kansas City and Omaha and Denver on the home grounds. They know what the Rourkites can do, and are eager to find out what some of the others are capable of. However, the critics of the Omaha team must not rely on the fact that it is all good luck that has given the vic- tories credited to the leaders. Some mighty fine ball playing has entered into that re- euil. For example, in the tie game with | Peoria on the Omaha grounds, the visitors | made twelve hits and got two runs in twelve | Anntgs. In one game at Peorla the Pirates | made fifteen hits and got but three runs. | It takes ball playing of the highest order to | sproduce such results. Batting is not the | strong point of the Omahas, yet they man- | Age to scrape together a few hits just at the right time in each game. It is the fleld- ing of the team, its perfect co-operation, that hae made it the leader. All other | Western league teams have been criticized | for lack of concerted action. Among the Ofnabas this has been developed to a high point. Not a record player has a position n the nine; each member is a hard work- Ang part of a whole. Errors do not come Yrequently, owing to the skill of the indi- vidual players, but when an error does 872 ‘up It 1s generally the result of a hard | try on a ball a record player would have shirked. This is the real secret of Omaha's ey It is ball playing and not luck a8 some of the critics will find out before the summer is ended It la mot impossible that the history of 1900 Wili be repeated. Then Omaha's team | made a strong jump forward in the early part of the season, only to fall back later. One thing 1s absolutely sure, and that is that any slump the team may take this setison will not be due to the cause which | wrought its downfall o 1900. It was an open secret then that dissension in the ranks of the players and flagrant disre- | gard for the ordinary rules of base ball discipline were the contributing causes of Omaha's dreadful slump. No repetition of tbat discouraging experience is likely. Only the best of feeling exists among the vlayers, and each has the interest of the team entirely at heart as much as if it were his own. On these facts the Omaha | ians are bullding their hopes. Konsas City has made a good stand on the home grounds and is holding second | vlace by a nice majority. The series with | Omaba means much to both teams and | ought to prove intensely Interesting to the public. Denver will have opportunity this week to discover the easy spots supposed | to exist at Milwaukee and Peoria. After | Onishing there Omaha will give the Griz- tlles welcome and prepare them for the reception that awaits them at home. Den- ver has not been playing the sort of ball expected from the team, the infleld show- ing eapecially weak. Davis is playing his usual careful game at first, but Delebanty, | Radciiffe and Dundon have been con- oant contributors to the error column. | Parke Wilson is doing his best to steady the boys. Kausas City has beem putting 1D & fast. consistent game. The other ams have been playing erratic ball, Colo- mdo Springs and St. Joseph being the chief sffenders. That Missourl supreme court came just in dme to give Jimmy Manning a lead-pipe sinch on Jakie Weiner. If there ever was “rubber leg” protected by court decision t sct like the old darkey's coon trap, Bouthpaw Jakie is the one. First, he be- Yongs to Manning under the Pennsylvania decislon, bLecause the reserve clause does d good, ‘and then he belongs to Manning der the Missour! decision because the re. Sent Free 10 Men. #56 THial Package of this New Dis- Mailed to Every Man %N-- and Address— y Restores Strength and Vig EEE R | a8 well serve clause doesn’t hold good, and player may play where he pleases. And still we hear taik of “organized” base ball It 1s about as badly dieorganized just a present as it well could be, and is getting Do better fast the In the major leagues the hurdlers are still in practice. “Dummy” Jack Taylor, the pitcher, jumped from Cleveland to New York, and Clarence Wright, also of Cleve- Iand's pitching staff, leaped to Brookiyn It is reported that a deal is being cooked up whereby Lajole will piay in New York for Freidman, who s willing to pay Colonel Rogers & nice sum fof the release of this cause of litigation. This would doubtless be very welcome to Magnate Shibe, who is coughing up $1,100 per month to see Larry get fac on the bench. There are many other rumors afloat and there is reason to expect other moves among the ‘‘out-for- the-stuff” bunch. One of the unpleasant stories told dur- ing the week is that Byron McKibbon went to Toledo to tamper with Dale Gear's team. 0 statement as to his success has yet been given out, but for the good of the Western league it is hoped that he will fall. So far Jones of Denver and Welmer of Kansa City are the only known hurdlers in the Western and they are two too many for the honesty of the game. St. Joseph prob- ably needs to be strengthened, but why not do it in a legitimate way? Duffy is find- ing new material for his MilwaAukee team in Natlonal and American league cast-offs and it certainly seems that McKibbon could do if he would only try. The affair also has the color of a confession of weak- ness on the pari of the Western league, for in coaxing players away from the Kan- sas Clty American team its superiority is admitted. This course is certain to gain eympathy for the opposition. It was hoped by patrons of the game on both sides of the controversy that the test of strength between the two organizations would be settled fairly and without resort to any underhanded or dishonest practice. In- ducing players to jump contracts is mani- festly unfair and amounts to nothing less | than the encouragement of dishonesty. Omaha patrons need not worry about Pitcher Brown leaving the team. President Sexton's order in his dual capacity merely mvolves the payment of a certain sum of money in event it shall finally be de- clded that Terre Haute is entitled to the same. Manager Rourk: is willing to pay the money If the case is decided against him by the board of arbitration. Terre Haute clalms Brown under a three-year reserve rule. Brown did not sign a con- tract for the current year with the Indiana club, and is in no sense a contract jumper. He is subject to Omaha's draft, though, and if the board holds that Terre Haute had a claim on him, then Rourke will have to pay the draft price. In the meantime Omaha will have the services of one of the coolest, quickest and most effective pitchers who ever stood in the box for the Western league. Papa Bill's Interest In the game is further shown by his allowing Stone to remain at Peoria for another week at least. Stone le doing splendid work, both with the bat and in the field, and is a tower of strength with the Peoria team. His pres- ence would assist Omaha In the batting department, but there is some question as to whether he can be trusted in the fleld | as the tried and tested men who are now there. People at Peoria were loth to part with him, for he is quite popular there, nd so will remain until the Pirates have t least met the Denver and Colorado Springs teams. It is not improbable tha: he will be allowed to finish the season with Hart, One of the really delighttul features of the Western season so far has been the rejuvenation of Willy McGill, Willy Wil- son, Harry Vaughn and Harry Truby at Peoria. There's a quartet whose oom- bined ages would go mighty near 160 years, and they are playing like & lot of colts. The livellest youngster on the team is not a circumstance to that bunch. Bill Wil- son's catching so far has been superd and that old wing of his, which we all thought was dead, seems as good as a new one. Vaughn at first and Truby at eecond are playing like Anson and Pfeffer in their best days, and McGill has pitched some excellent ball. Time works wonders, and one of them Is to furnish ball players occasionally with a second time on earth. The Ofclal Guide of the National As ciation of Professional Base Ball Lepgues for the season of 1902, known as the “Minor League Guide,” which has been edited by T. H. Murnane of Boston, is out today. This is the first gulde of the National Asso- clation of Professional Base Ball Leagues and contains & complete history of the minor leagues under the national agree- ment, also the new national agreement now governing the minor league organizations. It contains the official playing rules, under which all games must be played, the aver- ages of all the minor leagues the official minor league schedules and much other val- uable information. The book contains the portraits of the officers of the Natlonal as- sociation, principal minor league officla etc. It is published by A. G. Spalding & Bros., New York, Chicago and Denver. CREIGHTON'S BASE BALL TEAM “Omaha's Own" Boys Have Been Mak- & Great Record for Themaselv: The collegiate base ball season is at its zenith. A brief month more and the stu- ts' dlamonds will be deserted and gras and weeds will spring up where bases were. Realizing this fact snd realizing, also, that they have the material to make & champlon team and ba & winning season the Creighton university boys are exertin, every effort to establish themselves one of the cleverest collegiate aggregations in west. The smaller college teams of the state have easily fallen before the Omaha students, and the fast Washburn coll aggregation met its defeat at their hands in a 6 to 2 game. The fact that Nebraska only run up 7 scores to Washburn's 2 shows how good Creighton's feat was and that the games Detween Nebraska and Creighton toward the end of the season will Prove very warm contests. Wisdom has been shown by securing Ed Lawler, the popular Original captain, ws Besides belng shortstop in & manner almost averago professional Lawler is gifted with the best powers for develop- ing rounding out a team. He inspires the players with coolness and nerve, conches them up on the scientific polnts of the game and develops confidence and cer- tainty in every player. In fact, the Orig- inals can thank Lawler for much of their good reputation and standing. Weich, who bar been doiug such great twirll; this season, had his first off day in the game with the Nebraska Indians. It was & surprise to see steady old Harry go up in the air befors a band of these aborigina! sluggers. In batting Welch ieads the team this year with & percentage of .600. This is a surprisingly good record for a pitcher. At present Kehoe, the steady little right- fielder, is his mearest competitor, with an average of 300 great weakness has always been st the stick, is pulling up this year and at present renks fourth in batting averages. Lymel, batting department of the team and they have succeeded in developing one of the strongest hitting teams in college uniforms Bucklin and Colfer are making good show- ings as slab artists. Colfer's fine showing In the Indlan game, where he pitched the last two innings, and Bucklin's work on the eastern trip shows that both are prom- ising young pitchers whose only needs are control and plenty of practice. Callaban the brilliant little foot ball quarterback and last season's shortstop for the base ball team, has not made quite the showing that expected of him this season. The lad is quick, has a powerful arm, but is some- times troubled with “ratties.” This is due, perhaps, to the fact that he has been unwell this spring, and it s not unlikely that he will pull back into his old form before the season closes. Crelghton’s short eastern trip is over and now come heavy home games. On May 19 the swift Highland Park delegation will be taken in hand and it will require the Creighton lads' mightiest efforts to conquer these penmant winning Hawkeyes. Then on Saturday, May 24, comes one of the biggest games of the Creighton schedule. On that fon “Omaba’s Own" will have as ad- ries the champion University of Ne- braska team, and the event will undoubtedly prove the greatest in local amateur sport This will be the first time that Creighton and Nebraska have met In athletics and it is to be hoped that Omaha will hereafter be a frequent witness to contests betweem these two Institutions. By its strong show- ing this season Creighton has demonstrated its right to play in fast company, in fact 18 the only college in the state that can in any way claim a team that has a chance of success in a game with the university, and this opening with Nebraska is a good omen May 30 will conclude Creighton's home schedule by a game with Drake university As yet Drake's strength has not been fully tested, but if it follows its usual custom it will show the fans on the hill a very fine grede of ball. On May 31 Creighton and Nebraska will meet at Lincoln in the clos- ing games of both their schedules WHEELMEN FORMING A CLUB Loeal Bieyele Riders Will Again Have an Orga fon to Con- trol Their Affdirs. So earnest has been the revival In cycling Interest that it 18 now almost assured that Omaha is to have a bona fide wheel club, an expression of athletics which - the city has not possessed in four years. That a | city the size of this, and a city which was once as good a wheel town as this, should be without a bicycle club at any time is a condition that furnishes an excellent ex- ample of how dead this sport became; th the wheelmen will be successful In rein- carnating the organized interest in their game shows plainly how keen the return of loyalty to the “tin horse™ 1s, and how lasting it is likely to grow No name is yet announced for the mew club, nor is its organization completed. Officers will shortly be elected, however, and all the committees essential to its con- duct named. In ite purview the new club will be somewhat different from its pre- decessors here. No track meets will be included in its Intentions, the nearest ap- proach to this being probable road races under the exclusive auspices of the club. Even this competitive feature, however, is to be kept more or less in the background, as the great object of the club is to be for pleasure purely, and road runms, evening rides and picnic wheeling journeys will be the matters upon which most stress will be placed and most attention given from day to day and week to week. People in the small towns about have already awakenod to the fact that the bi- cyclers from Omaha, who a few years ago kept their quiet streets awhir with whiz- 2ing wheels, are again to vieit them. From Blalr comes a standing invitation from hotelkeeper to a corking good dinner for as many as will come whenever the run is turned in that direction. This proposition has made a big hit with the wheelmen and they fntend to put Blair on their schedule very nmear the top of the list. That run from Omaha to Blair and re- turn, by the way, furnishes just about the ideal stunt for a day's wheeling by riders who are in good condition and who have been riding regularly long enough to get into the swing of the action. It is twenty- five miles up and just about as many back, and the road offers about all fn the way of level stretches and hills here and there that can be desired by those who dislike monotonous runs. To take a day for a run of that length, with two or three hours for dinner and loafing at the Blair end, means a degree of speed and a lack of straln ideal from a standpoint of real helptul exercise, pleasure and healthful profit generally. This le the most popular middle distance run about Omaha, and ha been 8o for years. In the heydey of the wheeling sport here many fierce road races were held over it. It means no heartbreak ing, mankilling “‘century” pace to cover it easily in a short day. The rain last Sunday afternoon prohibited the run which had been planned to Cres- cent City, Ia., and return. A crowd of wheelmen the size of which was extremely flattering to the future of the game here, was at the starting point, and the band got away together lke a small army. Before the cyclers were out of the city, however, the rain cut in and the run was cut our til today. This afterncon the start will be made from Seventeenth street and Cap- itol avenue, as usual, the time being 1:30. The exhibition of keen interest in road riding is extremely pleasing to the wheel- men who are leaders In the local revival movement. Every day, too, brings to notice bunch of the oldtimers who are taking & hand. Bven the veteran Jack Kastman is scen again astride the leather, and he seems to enjoy it as much as he did years ago, though in a less violent form. It is expected that organization of the new wheel club will be consummated this week. In that event there will be & sched- ule of evening runs very soon now, for that feature will be one of the first to which the club will give its attention. This will un- doubtedly prov: & most attractive matter this summer, and it would not be surpris- ing if the evening runs, which the long summer evenings will permit to be of som. length, would be even a better drawing card than the weekly Sunday rides. LOCAL HORSE NEWS OF WEEK » from Track, Stable and dock About the Harness Racers. Go. P. H. Halght attended the recent sal W. Chamberlain's borses at Clarks, Neb., and returned with wight head. The pick of the lot is Hopkins, 5-year-old, chestnut gelding, pacer, by Taconnet 21845, dam Sally Hopklas by Casstus M. Clay, Jr., 2. Hop- kins is considered one of the best green pacers in the state. Another purchase was Unlon, & bay paciag gelding by Taconnet, dam Thernanine, out of the dam of Thorn- less, 3:16%; Little Thorne, 2:28%, and others, by Venture 1973, a son of Aristos 771 FitsJames, another purchase, is & yearling roan colt, pacer, by Taconnet, dam Queen, dam of Tom Lee, 2:16%, by Captain Walker, son of Major Edsall. A yearling flly, full sister to Hopkios, was purchased 2nd looks promising. Another yearling pur- chase is the chestnut fllly Babette, by Ta- connet, dam Paynetta, out of the dam of Don Payne, 2:18, and Chanoiug, %, by Joha ¥. Payne 1779 Another ome of the lot | & summer one-man tenpin is a bay yearling fily , by Tacon- net, dam Alcanine, by Alcantarus, 2 20% sire of Altro, 2:11%, and others. The only aged animal bought w the mare Song stress, by Protector 1 ®ton of Mambrino Patchen 58, dam Louette by Kentucky Prince 2470, sire of forty-one; granddam The Smith Mare by Strideaway 1055, sire of Pratt, 2:25, and others, by Princeps. Last Sunday, although a chilly day, foun L. F. Crofoot at the track, and his pacer which he then speeded for the first time | this spring, made a remarkable showing. | He was taken right out of a buggy and | hitched to a cart and driven a half-mile in 1:18, the laet quarter in 3% seconds. After less than fitteen minutes’ cooling out Mr. Crofoot drove him a quarter in 361 seconds & 2:25 gait. Mr. Crofoot's horse is a black gelding without a record and is called Gov- ernor Taylor W. A. Paxton in the next few days will be driving for the first time his new car- riage team. One of the horses is a coach horse which he has owned for some time: | the otbeg is Con, a full brother to Polly | Fox, 2.20%, by The Conqueror, 2:12%, dam Senator's Maid, with a record of 2:30, by Hi Belden (thoroughbred), granddam Hattle Brown by Dan Brown, 11 Three horses arrived at week from Hastings. The best known of the two is Tony W. 2:18%, by E. W. M 19852, son of Red Wing, 2:30, dam Trinket by Young Princeps, grandson of Princeps; granddam, Don Belta by a grandson of Hambletonlan, 10. Tony W. is owned by W. H. Crow, who has accompanied him to Omaha, where he will make his first start After a fow weeks in the Nebraska circult he will go east, probably as far as Cincin- natl. George M. Babbitt has also accom- panied an animal by Graham's Mambrino, dam, Maggie M. by Blue Buck. The third horse is a 4-vear-old pacer called Billy the Kid, the property of a Mr. Comstock of Hastings. the track last H. J. Root has sold his trotter, St. Pet- ersburg, 2:18, by Russia, 2.29%, a son of | Nutwood; dam, Neppy, by William Rysdyck. | Clinton Brigg's horses now stationed in Omaba are what is left of a ten years' ex- perience In breeding trotters. Mr. Briggs bought a half interest in the horses of Ed Pyle of Syracuse, Neb., in 1892. One of | the horses in the lot was a dun gelding that has since become famous and is now | used on the Brooklyn speedway by a prom- inent eastern business man. The gelding is Newsboy, by Brentwood, a grandson of | Hambletonian, 10. Newsboy has a pacing | record of 2:12%, a trotting record of 2:201, | beslde a running and jumping record and a | proud liet of victories in horse shows in different parts of the country. Another fast one at this time was Goldnote, a well known fast, cream-colored pacer. Still an- other “fast one was the gelding Falrywood who won the Minneapolis trotting derby | three times in succession. This derby Is a | three-mile event and Fairywood got & three-mile record of 7:30%. He is now be- ing used for ice racing in Toronto, Canada The two stallions at the head of the Alam- ito stock farm at that time were Hurly Burly and Alamito. These two stallions were both raised at the Fashion Stud in Trenton, N. J., the once famous breeding establishment of the east, and have not ben parted since they left Mr. Briggs' hands. Although they were sold at dif- ferent times, they were both purchased by the same man in Austria and they are now at Vienna. Alamito, 2:13%, wae sired by Eagle Bird, 2:21, son of Jay Bird; dam, Aurania, by General Washington, 1161. Hurly Burly had a record of 2:16%, but it was no measure of his speed. He was sired by Rumor, 2:20; dam, Lucia, by Jay | Gould, 197, granddam by George M. Patchen. From these two stallions has come some | of the fast trotters of Nebraska and their blood still runs through a number of horses etill owned in Omaha. BOWLERS MAKE SUMMER PLANS Post-Season Turneys at Ten Pins and e Pins on the Books at Present. Again bhave the local bowlers altered their plans. First they fixed it up to have tourney as a windup affair. 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As further proof that the month of May is yet to be the hotbed of more bowling than any period of the whole year comes the news that the Omaha league team, which won the league champlonship this season, has finally completed all arrang ments for its matches with the Nebraska City champlon team. There will be four meetings of these teams, two at Nebraska City first, then two here. Three games of ten frames will be played at each contest In order to avold making two trips each way or staying over two nights it has been suggested that the teams play in the after- noon, and again the same night. This wilt probably be done. The games in Omaha will be on Clark's alleys. It is said that the matches will commence next week Charles French has the last week rolled up twenty-eight points straight at ninepins, denouement for the season just ending. The latest now is to have two tournaments, & one-man tenpin affair and a one-man ninepin contest. For these events full arrangements have been completed and the ninepin tourney, at least, is now a cinch. It will begin this week, probably Tuesday night, and twenty men will play. Four prizes are up and the | entrance fee is §1. The tourney will con- | slst of a total of eighteen games of ten frames each. These will be played off three at & whirl, on Clark's alleys, the contest thus consuming six weeks. Ten men each will play on two nights a week, thus get- ting through the list. The entries to date are: J. J. Berger, Charles French, George Chatelain, H. Beselin, 1. S. Hunter, C. B. | Grifiths, C. H. Mullin, L. O. Shrader, | George Forgan, W. W. Whittaker, W. H. | Emery, M. R. Huntington, W. J. Little, J. R. Soyder, James A. Clark and B. B Davis. These men are all ninepin experts, many of them caring more for this game than for teripins itself. Some of them never play amything else. The competition In the tourney will be keen, the rivalry hot from the start, and the contest will be further interesting because of its being the first ninepin tourney to be held in Omaba. For the one-man tenpin tournament things do not look quite so bright yet, ana it wili probably not be commenced till next week. For this, again, twenty entries are desired. This will also continue six weeks and there are six prizes announced. The first is a gold medal, the others, in turnm, $10, $7, 86, $3 and $2. There will be two nights of play a week, always on alleys Nos. 2 and 3 at Clark’s. Ten men will play & night, and each will play all evening on the same alley, changing to the other alley | the mext night he plays. The entries to date are: C. J. Francisco, M. R. Hunting. which is the best job at this game ever done in Omaha, and supposedly in Ne- braska, as no record of a mark as good as that is known to local followers of the game. It is certainly a wonderful record and was made in three games, not in four. French dropped the last two points out of thirty frames. Bowlers have been interested in the breaking of the world's record for team tenpins, two men, thirty frames each, at Providence, R. 1., last week. The Provi- dence team in winning from the Fall River team bowled 1,507, beating the record by two plns. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. A strange case is that of Mrs M, Elvira Gillespie, who at_the age of 8 just been admitted to a hospital in Denver. Bhe 15 the mother of thirty-seven childre including fifteen sets of twins. but all have drifted away from her and she knows not the address of one of them A New York paper tells how the little daughter of a multimillionaire—name not given—is taken for & walk every pleasant morning. The child is accompanied by two malds, one walking on either side, and be- hind these come two men servants, burl of build, of determined aspect and both armed with revolvers. All this because the parents fear their darling may be kid- naped The nine Wirtz brothers of Forest Grove, Ore., have formed themselves into a base ball team and stand ready to cross bats with any family nine in the world. The boys, all stalwart and athletic, are sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Wirts, 'who lived near Waukesha, Wis., from 1848 to 1875 conducting_a tavern. Then the family moved to Forest Grove, where Mr. Wirtz died ten years ago. The young men are all sound democrats, like their late father. George C. Carrie, a 8t. Louisan 2 years of age. has what promises to become a great lyric tenor voice. He s a member of the cholr of the Grand Avenue Presby- terian church and sings two octaves and a half tone and goes to high C twenty times It has been : | statue { which | priatea fatigue. His range is a full tone than that of Jean de Reszke, the world's most eminent lyric tenor. Recently Mme. Lilllan Nordica, hearing him sing, sald “The young man has one of the most re markable voices 1 have ever heard.” Thirty artists entered into competition for designing and executing the equestrian General George B. McClellan, for congress at its last session appro. $60,000. The competition 18 now clored and for two_weeks all the model will be on view in Washington. It is pr vided that the statue must represent character and individuality of the sut The commission having the matter in charge will select four models which are st meritorious. For each of tuese a prize of $00 will be awarded, and final selection will be made from that set Miss eenup, who is alding her father, V. Greenup, in his race for congress in_the First congressional district ~of Kentucky, by playing on the violin and singing rag-time songs, says of her experience: “L have quit count- ing my offers of marriage. One fellow out west wants me to ‘Come out to play the fiddle while he milks the cows.’ He was sure that if I played they would give twice as much milk and then he would get rich in a short time through’ college, and then make us both comfortable. The spark of love for each other slum- bered forty years in the breasts of Dr. Harry H. Price of 42 West Chelton_av nue, Germantown, and Miss Susan Trum- ball' of Worcester, Mass.. who were mar- ried ) y in Philadelphia. Dr. Trumball met_forty ago at a summer resort on the Maine coast It was & case of love at first sight, and their friends looked for a speedy marriage. But when the doctor, who had fallen into A comfortable fortune, attained his ma- jority, he found he had spent a good por- tion of It. Before entering matrimony he determined to win another fortune, and this was slow work. Dr. Price was seriously {1l last January, and in his delirilum he kept calling for Miss Trumball. She was sent for, hastened to his bedside, and nursed him back to health. Then they determined to get married. The postmaster general has issued a fraud order denying the use of the mails to Lizzie Coffee of Burnips Corners, Mich., who ad- vertised herself extensively throughout the country as a_candidate for matrimony, stating that she had 360,000 in cash, and wanted a “‘congenlal ((vmrfilllnn and part- ner” to help her spend it According to letters received at the postoffice at Burnips Corners, about 200 people a day discovered that they loved Mise Coffee and could be as ‘“‘congenial’ tions named. inspectors, who investigated the case, that Miss Coffee had one husband and no money except that received from her dally visitors, A copy of the t‘hn'!;' was forw: the postmaster at Burnips Corners, who returned the papers with the comment that Mies Coffee had left for parts unknown with a man other than her husband. About 500 proposals remained uncalled for at Bur- nips Corners. Anyone would readily believe that a Philadelphia watchman would be likely to €0 to sleep on duty, but few will be pre- pared for the ingenuity recently displayed by a drowsy guardian in the City of Rroth- erly Love. He is employed In a large mill at night and required to make a certain number of rounds while on watch. Be- tween times it is, of course, natural for him to go to sleep, but in order to avoid missing his rounds he fixes up & plan worthy of a Chicago man. He balances a wide plank across a trestle, and on one pail filled with water. his law would It was found by postoffice A a 1 hofe has been punctured in the | bottom of the which to run out his _round n f the pla nd ix soon snoring the water has trickled out of the pall for twenty minutes his welght counterbalances that of the pail and he falls to the ground, wide awake, and in time to start on his rounds again. es the water he finishes the other end When Beauty’sr Blood Deep How untrue the old adage Beauty's Skin Deep.”” How many women of beautiful features marred by impure blood try in vain to get & pure complexion b doctoring the skin. The quickest, surest, only way to beauty is to cleanse the blood. an. 8. English, la. complaxion of botls great deal of good for R g famhy, # “ltfas Florence book. Webster ity In. How many, many young women are anaemic, pale, sickly-looking, with pimples on face and neck, owing to 7 testimontal o your eh trouble. nger Effees. New York. 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