28 TITE OMAnA DALLY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1900. NiCOLL'S DECEMBER STOCK - REDUCING SALE ! IPs Commonly Known thai N i coll the Tailor is the Most Popular Tailor on the American Continent, A great sale begins here in the morning! A value-giving effort that will anchor your trade to us permanently in the future! At the end of every busy season we collect the surplus stock llemnants, Short Ends, etc bunch them together, and cut them to your order, at about cost of making. It's Nicoll's way of cleaning up at end of season, and keeps our tailors busy during the winter months. You'll choose from a bountiful assortment here; not a few ordinary patterns, but you'll make your pick from over two thousand of the choicest Fall and Winter . fabrics. Draped side by side for easy comparison. FABRICS I NEARLY DOUBLE Observe the fabrics and prices in our Windows! They are an index of what you'll find on our tables. FROM FABRICS WORTH NEARLY DOUBLE Trousers 4$5$6 Suits & 15$18$20 Overcoats $15$20$25 S? BEAR IN MIND Every garment is carefully fitted to you before being completed, This insures perfect fitting garments in every respect, 209-211 Sooth I5tli St. YOUR MONEY BACK If we fail to please you, All garments made by the best skilled tailors of Omaha 209-211 Sooth 15th St OMAHA COKES OFFUNSCATHED Leoal Bate Ball Team tho Onlj One to Eccape Official Censure. SHOWING EFFECTUALLY DENIES CHARGES Accusation of HoukIi Play Shown to lluve No IIhmIh MuifiiutcN Deter mine to Fence In Their Dluuionda. In tho light of tho charges hurled so per sistently at Omuliu and tho Omaha hull team by nowapapora and fans In other cities of the circuit last summer about "rowdy ball," "unfair treatment of visiting teams," "intimidation of umpires" und nu merous others, It Is of Interest to note that at the recent annual meeting of tho leugua the Omaha club was tho only one that escaped without a fluo. Every other club in tho circuit was taxed In amounts from 100 to C00 for violations of different sorts, Tho Dos Moines team caiuo In for tho heaviest fine, $600, this bolug because of Its refusal to accept regularly appointed umpires and Us use of tho Chase ball, which was not tho uphero regularly chosen under tho rules of the league. This mooting of tho magnates has cer tainly cleared Omaha's skirts of tho tnlry film unavoidably collected by reason of these baseless llfngs directed at the local club by outsiders. It Is certainly a mat ter of congratulation to local baso ball enthusiasts and, of credit to tho local man agement that the league magnates failed to discover anything for which tho Omaha club should bo hold untenable to the pay ment of a Quo. Manager Itourlto returnod the first of tho woek from Denver, where ho had re mained after tho conclulslon of the meet ing of tho magnates to servo in committee work, Mr. Itourlto was chosen as ono of tho four representatives of tho Wcstorn league to attend tho meeting of tho Na tional league In New York December 11 to confer relative to the circuit question, The other members of the ccromlttce arc Presldont llleltcy, George Tebeau and A 11. Uoall. Neither President Keith nor Manager llourke are saying much Just now about the circuit question. They , arn dl reeling their energies toward the gather ing together of u team for next season that will bo ablo to maka good and place tho pennant In tho city that desorves It. If there, bo merit In baso ball enthusiasm and patronago accorded tho gamo because of Buch enthusiasm Omaha Is certainly en titled to tho pennant next year, provided tho same record-breaking Interest and at tondanee upon games Is continued next season as It wan last. Even though the circuit problem was loft undoclded, at tho Denver meeting tho Importance of the business transacted at that time Is by no means to bo considered lightly. One of tho Important pieces of legislation determined upon was tho udip tlon of a resolution that all diamonds should be fencod In next season. This will prevent anyone's gaining admission to tho field who Is not entitled to be there and will do awny with the Bwarmlng into the dlmaond of disgruntled partisans, wrought up over a disappointing doclslon by the umpire. It was tho frco access obtnlnaMo to the Holds that caused most of tho trouble to the umpires last season. Tho circuit committee, which will go to New York this month, was given to under stand that It should make every offort to get the league In class A and obtain there by tho same kind of protection that Is glren the American league, the principal point of which Is the two-year draft rule with a drafting price of $1,000. Tho prominence which tho now Western league has attained In the baso ball world Is In nowise better Illustrated than In tho frequent editorial mention given It by tho different baso ball Journals of tho coun try. The Bportlng News, published at St. Louis, devotes much of Its current week's spaco to the affairs of tho lengue and re ports of tho Denver meeting and says of the meeting editorially: 'I no Western league magnates hnvo ad ustud their differences und aro as a unit on ho eJCDanslon Question. President IllrWev was re-eleatcd for four years and u sinking iwiu esiaunsneu to provide airalnst emor EOUCleg. One of the heat fputurrH nf thn eventful meeting was the disciplining of five ul lilts Bix cuius xnr niTAnnPH nviiinnr mid constitutional laws. Tho Omaha club nlono escaped a penalty. Tho lines ranged from JHW to I6w. the Des Moines club being mulcted in tho Inst named sum for rtfusitie to accept regularly appointed umpires and for using ii Chase ball in games on its grounds. Expansion was agreed on and St. i-uui was lormany aainiueu. Tno ailml.i slon of other cities Mlnnennolls nml Kun bus City wuo referred to a committee. This committee will report at a meeting to bo neia in January, uy wnicn time it is ex DCCted the American lonrun will linvn re. Ilnqulshed claim on thepe two cities. Tho program of President Illckoy is said to bo the dropping Of Sioux City and tho addition of St. Paul. MlnneunollH and Kansas (.'lis- This will Rive the leaguo eight cities. Presl- uent ucall or the Hloux City club will be Biven me aunneuDoiis irancnise. l'uoiiio 13 not certain to retain Its club, but for geographical reasons tho magnates would like to have a club In that city, so as to pair ii huh ueiiver. iney correctly argue tnat uiey cunnoi nnora trips to ana from Colo rado to oluv nrilv mm Rerinn nf mme. Manager lluloii Is trvtnfc to cct a lease of a more conveniently located park and If ho succeedii there Is every reason to believe iimi i-ucoio win oe given n trial lor nn Other year lit least. President Ilfeknv tin. Joyed a personal nnd otllclal triumph over his opponents and all old scores have been wipea out. The western lengue executive will enforce the laws of the leaguo more encreetlcnllv than he. did In ISO) nnrl will hold the club owners to strict accountability ior ineir ircuimoni oi umpires. Me ex ptnlns that ho peunitted irregularities last suason because many of the men In control of the clubs were inexperienced In baso ball and unfamiliar with their duties and reuulrementB. Lust season wns laruolv ex perimental and ho did not feel warranted In adopting severo measures. Next year he will enforco tho constitution to the letter and ho feels certain that the club owners, Individually and collectively, will give him nearly suppon anu co-operation. IN THE WHEELING WORLD. Cycling amateurs aro demanding raoro room In the racing game, nnd their claims will form tho chief subject for dlscusMon at next month's meeting of tho National Cycling association In New York. Track promoters aro backing tho demands of tho amateurs, believing that if treated with greater liberality they will materially In crease tho popularity of tho Bport. According to the rules of the National Cycling association, amateurs rany'bo paced by motors ridden by professionals. Noxt year tho speed of tho motors will not de pend upon the leg power of tho men rid ing, and the skill of the professionals In steering and managing the machines will minimize tho chances of serious accidents whlU the ruacblno will develop no greater speed than If expert amateurs should be In control. This rule tends to develop local talent, a branch of the sport much restricted by tho League of American Wheelmen rules In most cities thero are many licet amateurs who, with proper training and pacemaktng, would devolop the speed of professionals It Is the purpose of track managers to bring out this talent so as to odd strong local color and partisanship to the .races. It is peculiar that the winner of the sea son In both the sprinting and paced profes sional classes should havo been amateur champions of last seuson. Frank Kramer the National Cycling association amateur champion, came out tho largest winner among tho sprinters and Johnny Nelson, the Leaguo of American Wheelmen paced amateur champion of last season, finished the largest winner in tho paced ranks. Major Taylor, tho League of American Wheelmen professional champion of last seuson, won tho sprinting championship on tho National Cycling association circuit. The professionals, who by tho steadfast pur pose to succoed, forced the League of American Wheelmen to give up racing, finished well up In tho lists. About fifty pace followers gained honors and 'money and about 1C0 professionals took down money. Tho winnings this season thus far havo amounted to $94,000 and the rolddle dlstanco men havo won J58.000 of this. Kramer, tho leading sprinter, has won fourteen firsts and Nelson, the leading pace follower, has won twenty-three, firsts. When William C. Btlnson placed the world's one-hour record at 40 miles 330 yards at Brockton, Mass., late last month, ho rodo a dlstanco almost twenty-five miles greater than that covered in sixty minutes by P. L. Dodds, who established tho record In 1876, twenty-five years ago. Btinson added more than twenty miles to the best record of twenty years ago, nearly twenty miles to tho best record of fifteen years ago,- nearly eighteen miles to tho best record of ten years ago, and 11 miles 2Sj yards to tho best record of 1S95, five years ago. Thus tho hour record nas ocen length ened out on an avorage of a mllo a year. Slinson's new record is 20 miles 670 yards greater than that made by tho first rocord- holdcr to follow pace Cortls, who covered 19 miles 1,420 yards in tho hour. The first hour record on a safety bicycle, equipped with pnoumatlo tires, was 21 miles i:6 yards, by H. B. Laurie, In 1888, and this record was Improved on by Stlnson to tho dlstanco of 19 miles 205 yards. The ilrat motor-paced hour record was made only a year ago by Edward Taylor, who covered 35 miles 698.7 yards, on which figures Stin son Improved to tho extent of 4 miles 1,391 yards. In tho last twenty years there havo been but two Instances in which the gain mado by any new record rider was more than a mllo. In 1898, when Elkes covered 34 miles 1,220 yards, the last world's hour record behind human pace, ho made a gain of one mile and about 300 yards on the provlous record. And this stood as the greatest single gain, oven after tho Introduction of motor pace, until Edward Taylor, on April 29 of tho present year, broke his own record, established earlier In tho same month, by riding a distance one and three- quarters grcator than before. It is evident from tho names already In the entry list for tho six-day cycle race at Madison Square Garden next month that tho event this year will be far better than It has been In past years. Heretofore, the sprinter has not entered for the long con test, tho lino between them and the middle distance and long-distance men being very sharply drawn. In the last year the sprint ers havo been riding in the distances more than UBual. A number of them have on tered for tho Blx-day race. It has been proved tlmo and again that a man who is built for the distance cannot make a sprinter. That takes a peculiar nervous energy. On the other hand, a man who Is a sprinter, by training can make himself Into a distance rtdor, Tho riders seom Just to have discovered this fact, and that they are acting upon Its suggestion Is shown by the recent entry for the six-day races of some of our best sprinters. These men will be new In tho distance game, and If they win they will bring about a revolution In the racing game. Sprinting will remain popu lar among them because the power Is something of a gift, and the purses In those oenta are earned more easily than in other events. Dut with the sprinters, as well with the old distance men In the distant ' races, competition must be keener, tho purees larger and the wholo gamo consid erably benefited thereby. This will bo an Interesting feature of the noxt cycle racing season. President It. Lindsay Coleman of tho American Bicycle company, In his recent report of tho doings of tho company for tho year, said that the demand for bicycles had decreased In tho last year very materially. He said that golf and tho automobile craze had causod tho slump. In regard to this, a well known cycle dealer says: "The blcyclo is Just as useful and JUBt as enjoyable as It ever was to thoae who regard It rationally. Persons who rodo only because it was the thing to do stopped tho tad, of course. Heal enthusiasts who used to buy a wheel every year, and two or three If they were racers, now ride their old wheels. Models havo been changed so little In four years that thero Is no longer tho odium connected with riding last year's wheel that formerly drove so many persons to buy now ones each year. Men who used to ride only for exercise havo taken up golf Instead, with the Idea that It gives a better all-around development" J, Prank Starbuck, the Philadelphia cyclist, in the very first Clght among fol lowers of tho motor pace, will neyer bo able to ride a wbeol again, and for a year at least will be unable to do any manual labor. He has Just left the Philadelphia hospital, whero he had been confined ever slnco be broke his leg in three places and toro tho flesh from tho limb from tho thigh to tho knee In an accident on the Baltimore track lans summer. Whllo ho has been ablo to leave the hospital and return to his home, ho Ib expected to return there frequently to have his leg operated on. Tho surgeons have saved the limb, but It will be two Inches shorter than the other and will prevent tho crack cyclist from ever mounting a wheel again, let alone competing In a race. East ern admirers of the former cyclist are rals lng a purse for him, and he will probably reap a nice sum for a Christmas gift as a result. A manufacturer of automobile ha recently offered to submit to the War de partment at Washington a war automobile. He guarantees his machine to carry 1,000 rounds of ammunition, four riflemen, four rifles, two intrenching shovels, food for four men for throe days, four pairs of blankets, two rubber shelters and enough oil to carry the machine 200 miles. Tho machine Is also Guaranteed to cover 100 miles between sun rise and sunset over country roads of tho averugo roughness or tho unbroken prairie Several army ofllcers havo Inspected the machine nnd havo reported that It was worth considering, but the department has not ac ceptcd tho offer as yet. Whist Scorea. The following score wub recorded Wed' ncsday night by tho Omaha Whist club: NORTH AND SOUTH. Alice and A. W. Scribner 240 Jordan anu Houuer. Comstock and Melkle Sumney nna iiurreu Rndlck and Morsmiui Smith and Rlnehart EAST AND WEST, Salmon and Itockfeltow Rogers and Hurness Anthes and Rushman C'rummer ana uoe. 231 234 225 11 1 1 1 -10 242 238 236 230 229 9 6 3 3 4 Drill and Hnmaen - ' White and Miller 1 plus. minus, For the month of November A. W. Scribner won tho honors, with llogers a good second. Tho following are the high players for the montn: Plus. A. W. Scribner 39 Rogers j Humrss 3J Allre Comstock Molkle 24 Ilurrell M Sumney Games Played, 6 6 6 GOOD SHORT STORIES. 1 Tho carefully reared young man had left his nntlvo vlllago and gone to the city to find a situation and a career, rotates the Now York Sun. His acquaintance was small and becauso of that ho simply went about from place to place Becking whatever fate might throw In his way. Ho wanted to get Into a wholesaio grocory house, and of courso ho only visited houses In that lino. He was almost rudely turned away from tho first three or four places, but ho finally found ono where tho proprietor hlmsolf ro celved him with courtesy. He stated his case briefly and clearly, as ho read in a guide-book to young men starting out In llfo, and tho merchant looked hlra over. "Um," he said, thoughtfully, "you havo had no experience In this business?" "No, Blr," responded the applicant, "but I want to learn It." "Yes, I seet Do you chew tobacco ?' "No, sir," "Do you smoke?" "No. sir," "Do you play poker?" "No, sir," "Do you bet on the races?" "No, sir," "Do you drink?" "No, sir," "Do you run around at night?" "No, sir," "tlm-er," hesitated the merchant, "and you havo had no experience In this business." "No, sir, but as I said, I want very much to learn It." "I'm sorry," said the merchant, shaking his hoad, "but I'm afraid you won't do. You see, your early education has been negleotel, and you ore handcapped now with so much to learn that the Lord only knows when the buslnoss would have a chance. Stay In town a year, and then come In and see me. Good morning." The story comes from New York, but Its application Is country-wide: "You aro the plaintiff In this case, I be Hove?" said the counsel for the defense to Mr. Ferry. "I am." "And you are suing Mr. Train for ten feet of ground more than you own7" "But I do own It. That's why I am suing for possession." "You think your lnnd extends ten feet east on what Mr. Train claims as his?" "Yes." "How long have you claimed this ten feet?" "Ever since I had It surveyed two yoars ago." "Why did you not bring suit for It sooner?" "I was trying to obtain It amicably with out going to law." "Mr. Ferry, so recently as last December you laid claim to this ten feet now In dls- puto?" "What's that?" "Did you not ono day last December tell Mr. Train that your ground only camo to tho point which ho claims, and remember you nro under oath, Tho occasion I refer to was on Tuesday afternoon and Mr, Mad- dox wa present?" "W-o-1-1," replied Ferry after a thought ful pause, "that was when wo were shovel ing the snow off our pavement." President McKlnley has a record of pur chasing 37,000 cigars of one brand In tho fourteen years he was In congress. While this is a very large number, yet It Is no more than a great many men smoke In the same penoa, as ti averages nut seven cigars a day, Mr. McKlnley had a peculiar custom In handling hln cigars. During his service in congress he always bought them by the box, leaving tho box at tho stand from which all his purchases wero made. It was a convenient placo for him to call by to get a bundle of cigars, either In the morning or the evening. Ho had no ten dency toward making changes in tho brand ho smoked. He chose a good ono and stuck to it, though slnco he left congress and while ho has been In the White House ho has not patronized the same cigar, prob ably Blmply because It was not as conven ient to buy It. Senator Blackburn of Kentucky tells the following good story of a case In a Ken tucky court: A horse from a livery stable died soon after being returned, and the person who tilled It was sued for damages. The question turned largely upon tho reputation of the. defendant as a hard rider. A witness was called a long, lank stable boy. "How does the defendant usually ride?" "Astraddle, sir." "No, no," said the lawyer. "I mean does he usually walk, trot or gallop?" "Well," said the witness, apparently soarchlng In the depths of his memory for facts, "when he rides a wnlkln' horse, he walks; when bo rides a trot tin' horse, he trots; and when be rides a gallopln' horse, he gallops; when " The lawyer was now angry, "I want to know at what paco the defendant usually goes fast or slow?" "Well," said the witness, "when his com pany rides fast ho rides fast, and when Ills company rides slow he rides slow." "Now, I want to know sir," the lawyer said, much exasperated, and by now very stern, "how tho defendant rides when ho In alone." "Well," said tho witness, slowly, and more meditatively than over, "when be wsb alone I weren't thero, so I don't know." out op tiik onniNAnr. During the fiscal year ended June 80, 199. wo used 268,808,281 bushels of wheat for bread-making purposes, The mania for combinations has struck jyen the fraternity which caters to New York's lovo for fancy dancing. IOvery pro fessional cakewalkor has coat his lot with tho new organization, which has raised tho price of "walking" and caused managers to wax meditative. A'conflrmed toper of Franklin, Pa,, mado a bet previous to the election Unit If Mc Klnley was successful he would subsist entirely on whisky for six months. He esuayod to fulfill his obllgntlon, but after a few clays his stomach revolted and he found It physically Impossible to continue drink ing. He has now become a strict tcetotar. Tho city of Charleston, 8. C, was con templating having a "carnival" this year, but tho subscriptions by tho merchanto wero meagor una Its promoters, disregard ing that false prldo which aflllcts most cities in such circumstances, huve aban doned tho project. Hut tho merchants In tond that tho exposition in Charleston next year shall bo a Dig success, Tho medical faculty of the University of Heidelberg has made a very Interesting r port on the effect of Incandescent light on the eyes. After having carofully weighed all tho pros and cons of tho question tho verdict is that the Incandescent light Is not harmful. For lighting largo hulls or places of entortnlnment cloctriclty Is especially recommended from hygienic points of view, Under tho headline, "Rounco tho Blub bers," a Cedar Ruplds paper makes vigor ous protest against tho chatterers who disturb theater and lecture audiences, it offers a reward of A to tho first uhr who will "go after such Idiots in the proper manner" and refers to one of them on hav ing a mouth that "would bo a profitable ontorprlse If turned into a windmill." A largo Dublin manufacturer luxe a room entirely furnished with Irish peat. The carpets on the lioor. the curtains at tho windows and paper rfn tho walls nra mado from this fubfitanco. For yearH he has experimented with tho material, which Is now very largely exported as fuel, and he lias discovered that from It It Is posslblo to procure, almost any kind of fabric, Tho other morning when a teacher opened her schoolroom In Westboro, Mass., slio found a partrldsro there. A broken window pono showed now the bird got Into tho room. When an attempt was mado to capture the partridge It fluttered around the room and finally crashed out through another window. Tho holes in tho rIush nro clean-cut, as If mado by u lieavy object thrown through tho g!asB. Scioucc, prompted and urged by tho com mercial Instinct, has demonstrated that casein, from ordinary cows' milk, l qulto as good for baking uh tho finest htn ttfgu and a company with J0.CO0.OW) capital has been formed to manufacture out of it a substitute for tho "fresh" and "strlctlv freBh" product of tho poultry ynrii. Ono pound of casein Is tqual to six dozens of egga. A $5 bill Issued according to an net of tho continental congress In 17"fi is a valuable relic in tho hands of O. IS. Palmer of Oconomowoc, Wis. The bill, which mens uren 29ix3i Inches, was given to tho pres ent owner by his grandfather. Tho follow ing1 words also appear on tho face: "Tills bill entitle tho bearer to recclvo llvo Spanish milled dollars, or tho valun thereof in goM or sliver, according to a resolution of congress, passed at Philadelphia Febru ary 17. 1776." A wnr by tho farmers nnd dairymen of Now York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania against tho Associated Milk exchange, com monly known na tho milk trust, will soon bogln. Milk counters nro to be opened In nil of tho cut-rate grocery Htorvtt through out the city and the department stores iui ii beginning, which plan of selling will in tlmo bo extended to ovcry district of tho city, in tills way tho farmer will get a hotter prico for tho milk und thu consumer will save at least 2 cents on each quurt. but this means death to tho milk trust and Its arbitrary and selfish practices and tho utter abolishing of tho milk can system. Each of theeo cans Is supposed to havo a regulation legal cnpnclty of forty qunrtH to tho cun, but In most Instance!) they nro mado to hold forty-seven quarts, tho utir suspecting dulryman being buncoed out of seven quarts of milk at each filling through tho present method of the milk trust. DEATH ti thi girms means hialth It humanity. The irerms which cause Catarrh and Bronchitis and the Grip prepare the way for those which cause Pneu monia and Con sumption. Dr. Geo, Lelntnger'a Formaldehyde Inhtlsr kills all these germs even when they hare lodged and btguu their, work In the deep-teat-ed air passages of the lungs thomselrei. Oeo. T. nawley, M. D., Protestor of Lung Dd Throat Diseases, Chicago Clinical Dchool the largest Clinical School In the world, says, In writing to Dr. Geo. Lelnlngeri "I bave betn using your ,PoraaMhy4 Inhaler for Catarrh, Asthma, llronchltls, Ceughs, Cold and other Nose and Throat sod Lung diseases, I have ftund It tupertor t any rsmeay far discovered." Sold on ruartnU t nil drnrrWU H ct. or direct. TIIK lilt. OEO. LKININOKn CHKMCAI, CO, cmetf o, 111. Booklet mailed tree. DR. CIO. LRININOIR'a For-mal-do-hyd KIDNEY TABLETS Is new wcnd.rful antidote I" the term of Xldner, IAtit end liled.ler dtieate. and the onlr renedjr of the kind atrr tntrndiired. Sold at airdrutftsts el S6 and V) reiiti a paRkex. McConnell Drug Co., IJcuton-McOInn Drug Co., Merrltt-Oruham Drug Co., H. H. Gra ham, Chas. Bchaefer, Max Ilccht, Hans com Park Pharmacy, QladUh Pharmacy, King Pharmacy, Peyton Pharmacy, Oeo. H. Davis, Council Rluffs, la., M. A. Dillon's Drug Store South Omaha.