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i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JUNE 22 11 " ASE BALL GOSSIP OF WEEK Rourks Pamily 8till Headed in Wrong Direction for Pennant. HARD LUCK COMES IN HUGE LUMPS Twelve Defeats in Fourteen Games the Reecord for Two Weeks, but Fans Still Look for Better Things. Back up. Somebody has evidently given the Rourke family the wrong steer, for they are not only beaded in the wrong direction, but are going as fast that way as they were traveling the right road a little while back Fourteen games played and twelve lost is & record to be ashamed of, and yet that is what the Rourkites have accomplished in the last two weeks. Several reasons might be given In accounting for this slump. One is bhard luck. Omaha has had #ts full eeason’'s quota of hard luck since the beginning of June and has taken ap- parently the full force of every blow that Al chance has dealt. Game after game that looked safe has been lost by some mie- ehance. Bad umpliring is another. Several games have been registered against Omaha Dbecause ‘of the fact that an incompetent or unfair umpire has decided on plays in such way as to make it impossible for Omaba to wig. Other teams have suffered from.the same causes, but not apparently to the same extent. The season is not over yet, though, and there is pleaty of time for the Omaha team to redeem the ‘work of the last two weeks, and followers of the team's fortunes have ample faith that it will. Denver,_papers are howling agalost. the work of Jud Moran as umpire. Just wait €11 they get a taste of Arlle Latham's work, and If they don't yell for Moran back it will be funny. Omaha hasn't seen Criss, the ome-armed wonder from- Chi- €ago, but he must be pretty near the limit 1f he is bad enough to move Johnny Gon- ding and Podge Alloway to commit every- thing but actual violence toward him. Criss fs directly charged with the loss of two of the games at Colorado Spriv.s. In one Be sought to bave Gonding remoyed from the game and grounds, but even Tom Burns wouldn't stand for this. Criss had already put Genins and Calhoun out of the lot. He must be a wonder in his way. Right here let it be stated for the edifi- eation of the Denver Times young man: He 1s entitled to all the satisfaction he can get out of the three stralght Omaha lost &t Denver. If ‘the result had been the other way he would have been so busy ex- plaining that he wouldn't have had time to feel bad. Omaha people are not worry- ing over the loss of those games and will give Denver a royal welcome when the team comes here in July. But the Times young man, when he gets through gloating over the Omaha series, may learn some- thing by studying the scores piled up by Des Moines against Denver. In fact, that's & nut that will keep the best of the dope makers busy. Owmaba beals Denver two out of three om the home grounds; beats Des Moines three out of four; Des Moines drops two out of three to Denver and two out of thres to Omaha at Des Molnes. Omaha goes to Denver and loses three straight and then Des Moines goes there and wins two out of three in hollow fashion ‘What do you make out of it? Nothing fur- ther than what we all know, that base ball is & mighty uncertain game. In the mean- time Omaha fans are not worrylng. 8o far as statistics are concerned, the Iast week bas made little change in the Omabh showing. Bobby Carter has slumped a little in his record, sticking in two or three unfortunate errors. Frank Genins, despite his playing at third base while Hickey was out of the game, has im- proved his average. Calhoun, Gonding and Btewart have beld their own and Joe Dolan bas fallen but seven points in spite of six hard games on the hardest grounds in the country for a stranger to play on. Bat- ting averages show about the same as last week's and the figures given appear to be about what the team is capable of. The only featurs is that Podge Alloway bas added three more hits to his string. The tables are: BATTING AVERAGES. Last A.B. Runs. Hits. Ave. W'k Btone L1011 8 0 3% 5 18 .40 .2 P 56 .80 5 61 .29 37 Bl 2% 2% 8 265 H ¥ 3 ¥ »®» ™ 2 M 3 T B - | 3 5 1 39 4 102 FIELDING AVERAGES. Artle Hayes was released by Peoria and the bollermakers went on a strike the same week. This leaves Art ith no im- mediate conbection with & pay roll. Me- Closkey of Denver has been awarded to Little Rock, but Packard ls; trylug to buy Bis release. Jack O'Briep, who was turned loose by Dale Gear in order that he might be transferred to Toledo, was snared by Lenton of St. Paul. Hickey wouldn't let O'Brien go to St. Paul and Jack solved the question by signing with Peoria. Now Kid Nichols says O'Brien must pay a fine of $1000 if he plays with Peorla. Kid Nichols is lald up with a sore arm and Duffy is trylng to snare another catcher. | These are the changes of a week in tlc'll caus playing lists of the Western. Quite a question is raised in the O'Brien case, and one that will have to be settled very woon, for American association players are look- ing about for places to light when ‘the league goes to pleces and any number of them are eager to break into the Western. If the fine is to be made to stick the fact should be made known as 800n as possible While talking about players it is well to note the work Tom Fleming is doing for Colorado Springs with the bat. During the Omaha series he hit at about a .750 clip, while against Denver and Des Moines he batted around .500. And yet when The Bee suggested that Fleming was sulking when he was on the Omaha team he got very wrothy. His batting average at the time he left Omaha was .26 TRACK ATHLETES ARE BUSY Y. M. C. A. Park the Scene of Much Ambitions Work in Way of Training. Though one would expect the advent of summer to reduce athletic interest and participation to a great extent, such a re- sult seems not to have occurred to any noticeable extent at the Young Men's Chris- tian aseoclation so far. Though the num- ber of those enrolled in the various gym- nasium classes is not as great as ft was in the winter time, there is yet & good sized contingent of men and boys who are keeping steadfastly at the work. Most of the athletics centers now at the {park at Twenty-sixth and Ames avenue, where every facility for track and field sports as well as most games is offered. Here may be found on every fair day a horde of men and boys In track attire, doing all of the thirteen prescribed events, from the dashes to the runs through the hurdles and jumps to the pole vault. \Great results from an athletic point of view are sald to have been attained_ al- ready as a result of the early start the out- door men have secured. Though the wet weather has made the ground more or less damp most of the time so far since the temperature was such to allow open- alr training this fact does not seem to have interfered to any great extent with the thoroughness or the constancy of the work. Mudhorses have been the favorites at the park and the numbers of workers out, even on rainy days, has been flattering. One reason for the unusual activity in the face of the unfavorable conditions has been the fact that the big open track and fleld meet scheduled for July 4 is now not 80 far distant. The prizes offered for this affair are handsome throughout, and add to this the no inconsiderable glory at- tached to first places because of the large number of entries expected and the en- thusiasm of athletes in preparation for the event can be understood. This open meet is mot to be confined strictly to track and fleld events, if pres- ent plans are gdhered to. In addition to those there will be games, such as tennls, and in that eport especially there promises to be hot competition brought out. The three courts at the athletic park are busy every atternoon with Young Men's Christian association men training for the games, and others outside of the association re pre- paring on other courts about the city. A feature of the meet will undoubtedly be the match race between two teams se- lected trom the Cross Country club. These people have mow been in active organiza. tion some weeks, and have held many runs. A match between two companies of their best runners should prove a highly Inter- esting affair, especlally as it will offer the novelty of belng a cross-country chase. It must not be imagined, however, that the devotion to outdoor athletics has caused the gymnasium to be entirely deserted. The place is still alive with workers during many hours of the day. At noon and at night the business men's and boy's classes still keep the basket ball bumping around, and this game has much to do with main- taining the interest in indoor sports dur- ing the hot weather. Teams organized in the winter, during the height of the basket ball season, still flourish, and competitjon remains keen between them. Then at night the tumblers can always be found in the gym, and the local associa- tion has some good ones. There is one class of athletes that must of necessity work Indoors, where all the apparatus of springboards and mats and bars is handy, so there is no danger of the gymnasium being entirely deserted as long as the turners and tumblers are on deck. READY FOR OMAHA RACE MEET Horsemen Look Forward to Splendid Sport Beginning on Wednes- day After: Omaha horsemen and love: of horses gen- 4 |erally are now looking forward to four days of unusual joy, for on or about 1:30 next ‘Wednesday afternoon “Billy” Sapp of Coun- O. A E. Tot Ave cfl Bluffs will drop the flag at the Sprague < : |9 lfi -:l Street track for the first race of the best Tgk 8 7 S5 s ow|racing meet that has been held In b2 IS BN TR Omaha for some years past. That may 13 VER sound like rather & brash statement when D18 100 17 302 848 the commencement even of the affair is L83 3 B e still days in the future, but judging from . 5 ’g i ‘2 83 the preparations for this event the predic- e BT O tlon will be more than fulfilled. la \: g l.': ‘This is the first meet for the season of the Nebraska Speed assoclation, the circuit commencing 1o Omaha, and if the rest of the stopping places bring off their respec- tive portions of it with as much success as Omaha hopes to do the association will achieve stability and renown at the start. Nothing is now worrylng she promoters of the Omaba meet, not even the rain, for it is known that the half-mile track out on North Twenty-second street is the best rain track in the country. No amount of flooding seems to put this track out of service. Local horsemen remember an occa- sion when it hatled all one day and rained the next three days solid here and then races were held on the track the day follow- fog that. With such a record behind it the track The liniment bottle and flannel strip are fam- {liarobjects in nearly every household. They are the weapons that have been used for generations to fight old Rheumatism, and are about as effective in the battle with this giant disease as the blunder- buss of our forefathers would be in modern warfare. Rheumatism is caused by an acid, sour con- dition of the blood. 1t is filled with acrid, irritating matter that settles in the joints, muscles and nerves, and liniments and oils nor anything else applied externally can dislodge these gritt They were deposited there by the blood and can be reac ticles. , corroding par- ed only through the blood. Rubbing with liniments sometimes relieves temporarily the aches and blood and s mently cu thoroughly and promptly as S. S. S. SSS S. perfect , but these are only symptoms; the real disease lies stream of rich, strong blood to thie affected dissolves and washes out all forei sufferer obtains happy relief from . 8. 8. contains no The are infected. ~ Rheumatism cannot be radically and perma- uantil the blood has been purified, and no runzdyyd::u this :o It neutralizes the acids and sends a , which materials, and the torturing pains. potash or other mineral, is a vegetable blood purifier and most exhilarating tomic. It nlnv!‘-"fiun and builds up the exhausted vital forces at the same time. Our physicians ‘we will scad free our special book on ill advise, without charge, all who write about their case, and Rheumatism and its treatment. g THE SWIFT SPECIFIC C0., Atiasta, Ga. no worry because of the per- sistent rains, and as one man is being kept busy just to keep it In shape its com- dition seems assured. Other things In the way of equipment are also well arranged for. There is comfortable stabling for ex- actly efghty-five horses and there is falr oaddock room. Meanwhile the place is assuming an air of unprecedented activity. By actual count forty-five horses are now in headquarte &t the track, and such a bunch of animals gives a fine little fleld for workouts. Every day as many as eight and ten can be seen out together, so that there is regular racing to be had all the time, while the paddock is always crowded with others waiting to get the track. Thus most of the horses to compete are here now, and the others are coming in every day. In all sixty-eight horses are entered for the meet, and as a few of them are In for two events the total noumber of animals on hand will be about fifty-five. The schedule of races is a good one. Om Wednesday there are four, three on Thurs- day and Friday, and four on Saturday. Horses will be called at 1 o’clock each day, and the game started at 1:30. All races will be run in mile beats, best three out of five, save the amateur races and the one 3-year-old event scheduled. This last comes on the first day, and in that the best two out of three heats will decide the event. The amateur races are occasioning keen interest in Omaha, for many local horses will start. There is one each day, and they are cleverly arranged so as to give everyone a chance. On the first day comes a consolation amateur trot for those who did pot finish first, second, third or fourth on the first day. On the t day comes a consolation amateur pace for those who did not finish one, two, three, four on the second day. All amateur races will be run in balf- mile heats, the best two out of three to de- cide. The prizes will be very handsome, a road cart golng to first horse, a harness to 6ecopd, a laprobe to third and a whip to fourth in all four amateur races For those who imagine that there will be no time worth seeing during the meet it 1s sufficient to refer to ome little per- formance in practice which occurred the other day. Harry Dunn has his littls mare, Jessica, on the track in the hands of Pat McAvoy, a clever -trainer who 1Is handling a big string out there. On this particular day Jessica did a mile In 2:20%, not bad at all for a half-mile track. As the horses for the opening meeting of the Nebraska circuit, which begins in Omaha next Wednesday, arrive at the track, the stable boys gather around each new arrival and discuss the animal's chances. Two races are now attracting the most attention, the 3-year-old trot and the 2:12 pace, and there are Omaha entries in both. In the 3-year-old trot The Critic, a 3-year- old son of The Conqueror, will make his first start. = This young stallion is entered in the Terre Haute stakes and the Lexing- ton and Hartford futurities. He is aleo en- tered in the Horse Review futurity, to be trotted at Brighton Beach, and the Read- ville futurity at Boston, but on account of the location of the track, near the sea, he will not be started. Ollie Miller, owned by C. C. Miller of Pecan Gap, Tex., and Fred Dillon, owned by A. J. Freeman of Parsons, Kan., two othgr starters in the 3-year-old race, are now at Omal In the 2:12 pace the fast pacer, George Castle, owned by A. L. Thomas of the Key- stone farm, s a likely prospect. He has been shaving miles around 2:20 and fast quarte: Jeska, H. W. Dunn’s little bay mare, another entry, recently turned the track in 2:20 and a fraction. Selden Wilkes comes from Colorado Springs, where he won the free-for-all. The next fastest pace, the 2:17 class, will be decided Thursday. Among the entrles are Jessle Kling, owned by P. B. Halght of Omaha; Dalsy Egmont of Padora, Kan., and Trilby S. and Dulce S, two mares that have been racing together in the Cedar Valley circuit in Iowa this spring. The fastest trot is the 2:18 class, which is also on Thursday's program. One of the entries in this class is Durodo, the fast horse owned by Tom Dennison. Tony W. and Spottie M, two Hastings horses that bave been stationed at Omaha all spring are In the same race. These three have been working out together on the tracik and with Infelice and Little Raven, two other horses that have jumped over from the Cedar Valley circuit, the 2:18 trot will make a horse race. The largest bill of starters will score for the word in the Millard hotel stake for 2:35 pacer: Local horses in this race will be May Bell, belonging to P. B. Halght, that has been worki: around 2:30; The Kid, with a trial of 5, belonging to Tom Dennison; Blackstrath, a half brother to Online, 2:04, owned by John Northcott, and Arthur, owned by J. J. Engell. Rubber- neck and Josie Paterson, two other entries in this class, are now on the track. In addition to the races, Ella Range, a guldeless wonder, owned by Ed Fitzsim- mons of Fremont, will give daily exhibi- tions. One thing can be sald of the Omaha races, and that is that while the classes are not crowded the horses are exceptionally evenly matched. LABOR AND INDUST! Since 1572 4,000 miles of raliroads have been lald in the Japanese empire, Mayor Hayes of Baltimore has signed the ordinance requiring that only competent and first-class workmen shall be employed on city contract work. The Massachusetts legislature has adopted a bill to compel the manufactur- ing companies in the state to pay their employes in cash Instead of by checks. The value of collars and cufts produced in the United Btates was $0.077,000, and shirts $5,864,67.. There were 121,082,540 collars and cuffs produced and 10,306,416 shirts, The Edgar Thompson Steel works, at Braddock, Pa., broke its own best world's record last month by turning out the enor- mous aggregate of 61,45 tons of finished steel rails The Eight-Hour League of America will hold an important national convention in Minneapolis September 22 to 26. Employes and employers both have been invited to attend the meetings The last number of the “Four Track News,” published by the passenger depart- ment ‘of the New York Central, says that upward of $260,000,000 has been appropriated for large extensions by leading railronds of the country for improvements durin 1502 and 193, The Union Pacific will spend from $25.000.000 to $30.000,000, chiefly on the Oregon Short Line. The New York Central has Increased its capital stock $17,250,00) for contemplated improvements. The Santa Fe will put $13,000,000 into new equipment alone. The Pennsylvania's plans embrace $25,000,000 for new rolling stock, not to men- tion several millions for tunnel work and road improvements. The Baltimore & Ohlo has plans perfected which involve the ex: penditure of something like $0,000,000. It will_require $6,000.000 for the double track which the Bt. Paul road will build durin the next year. The Northern Pacific an other roads in the Hill syndicate will put $20,000,000 into substantial immprovements. President Buffiington of the Illinols Steel company declares that the day of pelty economfcs has pagsed. “A man advertises for an office boy,” he says. “His cholce finally rests between two bright youngsters, and as the supreme test he asks ‘hat they open some packages lying on a table. This is easy for Charlle takes up a package, unties four hard knots, unwinds the string. rolls it up nd his' fingers, ties it info & loop and lays the string in p! Then, unwrapping the package, he fclds the paper up neatly and’ lays jt on & shelf By that time Willle, with his pocket knife, has slashed the sirings on seven packages ripped the paper off and plied the whol mass of rubbish In the wastepaper basket Forty years ago, of course, Charlie would have got now, however, Willie 18 business manager for the house Small economies. safe place. ] MAKING MUSCLE FOR FALL High Scheol Feot Ball Players Go In for Hard Outdoor Werk. WORKING AS LINEMEN DURING SUMMER New Scheme for Hardening Daring the V Gen- erally Adopted by the Am- ters. ation Season fous Youn Fired with an ambition to become strong and enduring, balf a dozen, at least, of the Omaba boys who hope to play football next year have plunged into a summer of the hardest kind of manual labor, and the pros- pects are that their ranks will soon be joined by others. As soon as school was out these boys took immediate stepe to carry into effect plans which they had laid during the winter and spring months following their last season on the gridiron. Whatever kind of a job each chanced to wish he applied for, and so far each one has had success. So that's how it comes that “Billy” En- glebart, who was captain and star of the Omaha High school team last fall, and who has been a mainstay on this eleven for many years, is now working in a lumber camp In Oregon. He went there as soon as school closed, and he had received the diploma that lets him into the next stage of his education, literary and athletic, a university. It is with the University of Mich- igan team that “Billy" hopes to play next year, and when he goee to Ann Arbor in September he does not wish any doubt to exist about making that first team. He has been a mighty good back for the High school, but he realizes that with the Wol erines he will be up against a different class of stuff. The record that Coach Yost's team made last season would indicate that it will take not only a big man but also a power- fully athletic and clever one to take a job on that team in 1902. Englehart is already a big man, but he wants a more effective bunch of muscles and even a little more beef, and he has gone up against the lumber camp proposition to get them. With Englehart in Oregon is Griffiths, who was such a valuable man on the High school eleven till his injury. Griffiths was also manager of the team last year, and carried the squad through a smooth little schedule. He is now entirely recovered from his injury, and hopes to be in bet- ter shape than ever next year for the game. He will play one more season with the High school. Earl Marsh, the little halfback, whose shock of blonde hair has been so conspicu- ous in High school scrimmages for the last few years, is another laboring man, for the time being. Marsh, also, has completed his course at the High school and will now eeek a prominence as marked in 'varsity circles as it has been interscholastically. But Marsh will not desert the Cornhusker ate. He asks no wider flelds for his grid- fron ambitions than he can find right in Nebraska, and the State university wiil therefore count him among its freshmen and among its candidates for foot ball places next fall. Marsh's sole drawback Is his size, but he hopes to remedy this dur- ing the summer months by laying on a lot of beef at the arduous toll of digging post- holes, for that is the occupation he has chosen as a body-builder. Even now Marsh is out near Oakland, Neb., with a line gang of the Nebraska Telephone company, and he hopes to wax so strong that he will make a flerce fighting quarterback, or even f, for the Cornhuskers when the ‘With Marsh is Robinson, who will not, however, leave Omaha after his term of post-hole work ie completed. Instead he will remain in this city and play again on the High school squad. Robinson has not been In the game so long as the others mentioned, but he is a promising candl- date for future honors. He believes that handling the pick, spade and augur will give him a back of steel springs and arms and legs of leather. Two more High school lads are to become laborers for the once. They are Earl Ster- ricker and Hayee, and both of them will be back with the team again in the fall. These boys are also with the telephone company, but in a different location, They are near Norfolk, Neb., and are engaged in setting poles with a line gang. Both are already young fellows of good frame and consld- erable strength, but they are set on im- proving it possible, and think the heavy work in the outdoor air which they are now getting will do it. Although they bave made public no such intentions, it may be that they plan to get In such shape that they can plant their opponents point down into the frozen earth next fall without the preliminary of any digging. This list of boys who are seekirg tho hardeet kind of work in order to make good foot ball condition does not Include all those who are preparing fur the fall to come. There are others who are crazy to do similar things, but are kept at home by the restraining word of pareats. And there are still others who hunted jobs in Omaba at once, and who are working here as hard the boys out with the gangs. The whole thing is intensely interesting as showing how the spirit of the sport is growing every year. Five years ago such & thing as summer preparation for foot ball fn the fall was unknown in Nebraska, even at the State university, and It was not so long before that when it was most impossible to get the players to train consclentiously even while the actual play- ing season was on. But gradually the rigid | rules of the castern schools and the in- creasing popularity of the game spread west, and now we have boys in the high schools even working all the year round for that one short seasoa of foot ball. And to show how really keeu the boys are after the real old labor itself an incident which occurred in conpection with the giving of oe of these six his job will serve. This youth approached an official of the tele- phone company and applied for work “Well, 1 think I can give you sowething bere in'the office at once, as I happen to have a vacancy,” replied the telephone . replied the student. “T want no office job. I'm looking for some work. Give me an outdoor job handiing something heavy.” 8o that boy went on the line gang as a common laborer, and will sleep in a tent all summer and do the hardest kind of work when he might as well have been sitiing all day in a cool office and living at home. Those who are Interested In these boys are wondering if they will persevere in thelr chosen lines of summer work, or whether they will be glven their fill in & short time and return home. This possi- bility recalls the similar end which came to a llke adventure on the part of some University of Nebraska athletes In 1398. These young men wanted to get sirong and stay so, and they took advactage of & demand for laborers along the Burlington system up in Montana. The rallroad provle hauled the students up free from Lincoln and they were put in a grading gang. Of the four men who made the trip one mercly looked at the mules and scraper he would bave to drive, and then resigned. Another worked one day, another three and the fourth stuck all summer, but it was te- cause they made him timekeeper on the second day. The (hree who came back sald Mother Always Keeps It Handy concludes L. W. Spaldiag, of Verona, Mich., after describing the manner in which Kodol recently cured his aged mother of chronic indigestion. “‘She had suffered from indigestion and stomach trouble for years,’’ he says, “Finally I induced her to try Kodol and she got better at once, Now, at the age of seventy-six, she eats anything she wants, remarking that she fears no bad effects as she has a bottle of Kodol always handy."”’ If women understood that t.hc diseases to which so many of them are subject are due to indigestion there would be fewer invalids among them. The trouble is, so many people persist in doctoring the symptoms and not the disease. nds of ill health, Strengthen the stomach and you regulate every organ of the body. Weak stomachs are responsible for most Cathartics and purgatives don’t help. They may temporarily clear the decay- ing, undigested food from the system, but the next meal makes matters as bad as before. sary to diet. In stich cases a preparation like Kodol is needed, which, by digesting what you eat, keeps the body properly nourished while the stomach rests. Kodol digests any good food you may eat. It is not neces- After illness the stomach is weak and run down and Kodol relieves it of work, while permitting a full allowance of food to be eaten to repair the damage done by disease, If you have no organic disease but only an occasional feeling of fullness with flatulence and belching after meals a dose of Kodol will set you right at once. Weak, puny children thrive on it. not necessary that they should suffer. stomachs are to weak to digest it. They often have indigestion, too. They need good, wholesome food but their Kodol digests it for them without the stomach . This plan is much better than feeding them any of the many predigested foods, It is which usually cause considerable fermentation and result in excessive acidity or what is commonly called sour stomach. they would rather hold the weight of the flercest opposing rush line than stanl at the top of a dump with your arms and back straining with the weight of a scraper full of dirt that was halt dumped, and that a balky pair of mules refused to pull the inch or two farther necessary to tip it clear over and relieve you of the load. .Maybe some Omaha boys won't iast long as loggers or as pole setters. ENTRIES FOR FREMONT RACES Fine Bunch of Horses Will Start on the Driving Park Track Next Week. Preparations are now In full swing at Fremont Driving park, Fremont, Neb., for the three days' racing to occur there July 2, 3 and 4, in the regular circuit of the Nebraska Speed assoctation. For this meeting nine races have been framed up, five trotting and four pecing, and the entry lists show a good class of competition and considerable of it. The Fremont meet follows shortly after the one in Omaha this week, and many of the horses now gathered at the local track in such swarms will be found at Fremont the next week. Secretary Ronin Announces that one race, & pacing event, 2:12 class, failed to draw enough entries, 80 the soclation has decided to make a 2:27 pace in its place, with a purse of $300. Ths entries for this will close July 1. Entries in the other elght races are: Trotting, 2:18 Class—Tom Well, br. g., by Quarrels W. Bradenberg & Wall, !:‘l'e mont; The Merchant, ch. g, by The Co queror, Keystone Stock farm, Omahs Tony W, br. h,, by E W M, W_H. Cro Omaha; Spottie M, b. m., by Mambrin George M. Babbett, Omaha; Lord Tital blk. h., by Bow Bells, J. C. Graves, Guthri (i_\' M, b. m., by Prince Medlum, Kan. Class—Abigall Leland, b. m., y Cedar Hill Stock farn 5 Bluff, Neb.; Colonel Woodline, ch. h. by Woodline, J. T. Wright, David City, Neb.; Tom Well, br. g., by Qunfl'flels W, Braden- berg & Wall, Fremont; Lord Titan, blk. h., by Bow Bells, J. C. Graves, Guthrie, [3) Lucky Jim, br. g, by George Ban- croft, Thomas Dennison, Omaha; Infelice, b. m._ by Fairthorn, Mrs. Samuel Bruen, Fort Madison, Ia.; Little Raven, blk. m., by Aladdin, John 'Raynor, Parsons, Kan.; Vanity 8, Willlam Sherlock, Fredonia, Kan Trotting, 2:30 Class. b. m. by Taconet, P. B. Halght, Bachelor Mald, b. m.. by Red Heart, Keystone Stock farm, Omaha; Jim Beatty, ch, g, by H. R Hart, 8. D, Miller, Fecan Gap, Tex.; Oma Downing, b. m., by Hershon, A. Down- ing, Kansas City, Mo.; Emma 8, Willlam Sherlock, Fredonia, Kan.; Swift Wing, br. m., by Swift Bird, Henry Smith, Cedar Blufts, Neb. Trotting, 3-Year-Old 2:40 Class—The Critic, ch. g., by The Conqueror, Keystone Stock farm, Omaha; Ollie Miller, blk. m., by Guy Prince, Charles C. Miller, Pecan Gap, Tex.; Fred Dillon, blk. h., by Rush Strong, A. J. Freeman, Parsons, Kan. Trotting, Class—8wift Wing, br. m., by Swift Bird, Henry Bmith, Cedar Biuffs. Nel Alcarmo, b. h., by Alcamo, P. B. t, Omaha: Jim Underwood, b. &. by Willlam_ Underwood, Council Bertha ont, b, m. by Eg- t, Fort Madison, Ia mont, Dr. E. L. Hershon, A. B. Lady Downing, Downing, Kan: Pacing, 2:17 City, Mo, ass—Dr. Tom, br. g, by Prince Golddust, E. M. Berry, Bt. Joseph, Mo.; Jessie Kling, blk. m., by Taconet, P. B. Halght, Omaha; Haroul, ch. h., ola Jr. George M. Byram, Decatur, Neb.; Trilby '8, gr. m., by Comet Allen, Otto Tiege, Parsons, Kan. Pacing, 2:2 Class—Dalsy Egmont, b. m., by Egmont Chief, Earl H. Ingenbull, Pa- donia, Kan.; Lina K, br. m., by Tom Brooks, W.' W. Tarry, Hampton, Okl; Dulcle '8, b m.. by Tribune, J. 8. Linell Oquawka, Iil.; Billy the Kid, br. g., by Kid Davis, J. P. Comstock, Hastings, gleb. Pacing, 2:3 Class—Miss Young, blk. m. by Thaddeus K, Mrs. J. C. Clark, Stanton, eb.; Star Oneida J, bik. h.'by Star Oneida, C. J. Grunke, Fremont, Neb.; Rub- ber Neck, ch. g, J. T. Slusher, Bern,'Kan Guy Caton, b. by Parker, A. B. Rol inson, Mapleton, ' Ia.; Carrie Nation, by Ben Battle, John McDonald,” Fairbury, Neb.: Lena Lockheart, br. m., by Harry Lockheart, M. L. Byram, Decatur, Neb.; by Redford, J. J. Antler, b. » Engel, Omaha; Josle Patterson, ch. m., by Ratler Brooks, 8. D. Miller, Pecan Gap, Jex.; The Kid, by Director, P. McAvoy, Omah QUAINT FEATURES OF LIFE, Workmen building a new house at Colum- bus, O., have been worried over & nolse they have heard in the plastered wall of the structure. They became nervous and tore the wall out to ascartain the cause. Here they found a cat, stiil alivs, but worn to a skeleton, and the strange part of the affair was that the cat had eaten her tall off bit by bit to sustain life during the three weeks she had been a prisoner. The feline had evidently strayed into the space between the plastering the night be- fore the flooring was nalled on, and had been there until discoverod by tearing out the wall. At Lord Rothschild's beautiful house in Piceadilly, at his country seat at Tring and in all the other Rothschild residences, either in England or on the continent, there is always in a cousplcuous place, often among the cornices, a plece of stome or marble left in & rough and unfinishad state which lnvariably catches the eye, so strong- ly does it contrast with its surroundings. This is in obedience to the rule among orthodox Jews that they should have no permanent abiding place until they return to the holy land, and this bit of unfinished stone is a token thai the bullding is tem- porary and incomplete. A woman in’ Summerville who was the PALPITATION Nervous fluttering or severe heart throb- bing is an indicatio of disorder in the digestion. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS 1s & valuable remedy oin such cases. It cleanses and strength- ens the stomach, liver and bowels, removes the cause of the heart symptoms, promotes digestion, bullds up a strong and vigorous body. Sold at Druggists. Price, $1.00. possessor of a solitary plece of statuary, relates Lippincott'’s Magazine, was one evening giving a party. Shortly before the guests arrived ehe looked through the rooms to see that everything was in order. Missing the Venus from its accustomed place, “‘Lee,”” she asked of the old butler, “where's my plece of statuary?”’ “Miss Weeny, you mean, ma'am swered Lee, looking obstinate. Yes, the Venus. Where is it?" ‘Well, Miss Margrit, ma'am, I jes’ thought as gemmens was espected dis evenin' I'd better set Miss Weeny under de stahs.” In Russia no man may enter a govern- ment establishment without removing his hat, a rule which has caused some trouble, it appears, since the establishment of the government spirit shops. There have been disputes between the officials behind the bars and the customers as to the removal of the headgear, with the result that the question was submitted to the minister of finance. That official has caused notices to be issudd warning the public agalnst any disrespectful Gemeanor while in the state public houses, frequenters of which must in the future remove thelr hats. Colncldents of a ludicrous character are liable to occur on the most solemn ocea- elons. As an {llustration, the New York Christian Advocate relates that Rev. C. R. Moses of Virginia, a Baptist preacher of considerable renown, once spent a Sunday in Richmond, soon after he had visited the beautiful reglons around Mountain lake, in Giles county, Virginia. Belng fovited by one of the city pastors to preach, toward the close of the sermon he gave an \llus- tration & vivid description of the wonderful landecape scenes which he had just beheld and as he closed called on the choir to sing something of thalr own selection. They struck up the old hymn beginning, “There 1s a land of pure delight,”” but when they reached the fourth stanza these words con- fronted them: Could we but stand where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er. They tried to sing, but broke down. The congregation followed thelr example and the service closed in general merriment. Notwithstanding the delightful harmony spparent at school commencements and the lovely boquets tossed about on such occa- slons, one doubting Thomas among the edit- ors of lowa refuses to belleve all that is sald and dowe and pours out his opinion in this style: “The valedictory is counted a badge of best scholarship. But it is a bore, the tail- end of it, because it is silly and never sin- cere. “Why bid the class ‘farewell’ when most of 'em will stay right here and plug round and marry and ten years hence they will not care who their clussmates were? *“And why gush over the teachers, when, if they spoke truly, they would call ‘em ‘that old crosspatch’ or ‘that poky old ekezik? “And ‘why let on that the class Is dead in love with the school directors, wheo Dot one in the class would swap a box of /DR. McGREW (Aps 6D SPECIALIST. VARICOUELE S5, o Hot Springs Treatment for Syphills et that T more vy Yoes thas anent for life. OVER 20,000 S5zt s, < and @l lee! ture, CHARGES LOW. CONSULTATION Fi SRl A v i CBD RAL Chicago=Return July 16th, 17th, 2Ist, 22nd, Return Sept. (5th, (linois Central City Ticket Office 1402 Farnam St. OMAHA, NE Clark’s Bowling Alleys 1313-15 Harney St. Biggest-Brightest-Best L _ ] strawberries for the whole shooting-mateh of 'em. ““We have to do enough lylng as we go thro' this vale of tears, to avold lickings and other disagreeabla thin, without golng out of our way to lie gratuitously and when it can do mo good at commencement. If w. don't make lylng pay, what's the use in lylng? Better tell the truth or say moth- ing and saw wood. In colleges the valedictory is an oration just like the rest and all that nonsense to class, teachers, directors is left out. Why not drop it in bhigh school and academy? It is an awful bore and too silly for any use.” His Subject. Baltimore American: “Well," says the pessimistic person to the young man who 1s about to graduate, suppose you fne tend to orate a whole lot about how tg run the world.” “No,”” responds the young man. “I sm going to point out the rank errors in the advice to that effect given by the mis« gulded young men who graduated last year. By correcting their mistakes I hope to see some good results by this time neat —————

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