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Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-09

no matter how good al man is, he can never
leave his horse for a turn with exactly the
right amount of spring. Sometimes he will
throw himself little too hard, and other
times not hard enough. it depends partly on
now he feels, and partly nn the way the
horse is going. Well!i when he finds him
self in the air, say half way around on the
turn, he feels-that is all good circus riders
do-by a kind of instinct, whether he is
turning too fast or not fast enough, so as
to land right on the horse. Besides that,
he can see most of the way round just where
the horse is and by practice tell whether
anything is wrong. Now, suppose he wants
to slacken his speed little, he simply lifts
his head straight up or even little back,
and that acts like putting on a brake. Then,
If he sees he is too SLOW all he has TO do is
to bend his head down on his chest in the
way l was telling you Of, and his body will
shoot round twice as fast, like bicycle
going down hill"
"And how about swerving to one side
or the other can you correct that, too?'
You can to a certain extent, but not so
much. For instance, II see | am going
to land too far inside the horse | can throw
my body two or three inches out by turning
the shoulders In that direction, In the
same way | can throw my body in by turn
ing my shoulders in the other direction,
You can't count much ON that, though, and
vi the horses body has swerved out from
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-09

situation is hopeless, that he must go down,
his hands shoot for his kness like flash
and he hugs himself up automatically into a
round ball, with nothing exposed that can
break unless possibly it, be a. rib or two in
some very exceptional case Usually striking
in this way, with the muscles all tense and
the body folded up tight and hard, the rider
escapes with a few bruises and a good shak-
ing UP.
HOW A MAN CAN GUIDE HIMSELF.
ITS astonishing how fnanythings you can
think Of" said De Mott, the famous bare
back rider, in a recent falk l had with him
IN the time when you are in the air falling
from your horse. You see we circus riders
have seen so--many accidents and had ii
hammered into us so much ever since we
were children what we~are-to do in such
cases that it all comes rushing through our
heads like a whrlwind. =
II remember the worst fall | ever had as
distinctly as If it were last week. although
really it several years ago. 1t seems
queer, but it happened when I was sitting
astride my horse, walking round the ring
quietly after doing an act. All of a sudden
something made the horse shy and before
knew it | was gone, lifted up in the air and
turning over, half from habit, l suppose, in d
back sOmersault. l heard the ringmastel
yell at me and realized that. unless | could
get round in the turn so as to clear my
head | would break my neck in striking
Between that and my reaching the ground
was only the small part of a second, but il
seemed as if l had oceans of time to argue
out the whole situation. | wondered if the
horse would step on me, decided how l had
better roll to get away; planned just how
would strike the ground with my shoulders
if l managed to save my head, and then
dug my chin down in my breast bone ant
hustled on that turn.
well, it was a close shave. They carried
me out senseless and the doctor said my
neck was broken: but Il wasn't IL was
pretty badly wrenched, though, and l ear
ried my chin pressed against my body fol
weeks afterwards. You can be sure II
hadn't got up some fine speed on that turr
there would have been another dead circus
rider"
"Do you mean that a circus rider can make
himself turn faster or slower after he is il
the air?" | asked.
Certainly l do; that is the most impor
tant part of somersault work. You see
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Copyright 1895. by Maurice Thompson.)

Copyright, 1895, by Maurice Thompson)
You remember no doubt, what | told you
about the skill with which certain birds and
four-footed animals battle the sportsnan's
vision and render themselves almost undis-
coverable even in comparatively open ground;
still, 1t may be somewhat unexpected when
] say that a hare can perform this same
trick in the snow, and that, too, without
covering itself up or really hiding itself at
ALL 1t is this trick Of the hare, or to use
the popular name, gray rabbit, which adds
a keen delight to hunting 1t in winter, when
a fresh fall of snow has whitened the fields
and woods.
Some years ago viii and l were spending
a part Of the winter season at an Isolated
farm house in Indiana. The building stood
near the center Of a large and somewhat
neglected estate, where thickets OF brush
wood and pasture fields grown over with
patches Of blackberry briers afforded just the
sort Of cover attractive to hares. Our host
was whole-soued man, who had but lately
purchased the place, and he was already be
ginning vigorously to overhaul AMI clean II
up; indeed 1t was his operations as a tidy
and progressive farmer that called our at
tention to the almost innumerable hares
Every thcket he destroyed disturbed them
and they were seen scudding forth out OF
brush tangles and brier clumps when the
laborers vent to work with scythe and ak
OF course we could not let slip such chance
as this, so we went for our archery tackle
which was boxed up in distant town.
Meantime a fall Of about three inches o.
snow was followed by zero weather with I
clear sky and a whstling northwest wind
Nothing could have suited us better than thi
state of things for somehow or other hart
shooting never goes off happily unless thu
weather Is cold, and yet 1t is very diifcul
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-09
THE GRAY RABBIT.
Rare Shooting with Bow and Arrow In the
Tickets of Indiana.

And so anxious was | to examine the bird
that in walking briskly along / almost
stepped on hare, which went away from me
at mad rate. VIII was quick as a flash,
and then and there made the most wonderful
shot which | meant to describe.
He saw the hare going like a bouncing
ball Offering him what sportsmen call a
"quartering" shot. With single compound
motion he whipped an arrow from his
culver, set 1t on the string and drew his
bow. At the highest point Of a long jump
the well sent missile caught the hare in the
neck and whired it through a double
sommersaut. No matter how many poor
shots the archer may make, one or two like
that will always be remembered.
We killed more than a dozen hares that
morning, but we probably shot a hundred
times to do it, the game was so wild and
ran so recklessly. 1t is not the bag, how
ever, which affords the archer his chief de-
light, but rather the freedom the action the
pursuit. What can be so good as pure air
vigorous exercise and the ancient liberty Of
the hunter?
MAIrpIrE TJnMpCnN
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more with some hesitation)-I think shall
not vote at all, Grumpkins I'm all right on
the question myself, but IL expect to be
paired of at high noon next Wednesday with
free-silver girl.
The engagement OF Miss Edith Rockefeller
and Mr.. Harold Mccormick was announced
in New York last week. Miss Edith Rookie
feller is frequently spoken OF as one Of the
two wealthiest heiresses in America THE
other is her sister, Miss Alta Rockefeller
They are the daughters Of Mr.. and Mrs. John
ID. Rockefeller of No. 4 West Fifty-fourth
street 1t is estimated that they will each
come into s35, 700, 600.
La Grange. H. had a double wedding, a
family reunion and meeting of Baptist
ministers all in one night and in the same
house. Last Wednesday night two young
Baptist ministers welded two daughters Of
a clergyman OF that sect in the presence Of
brothers of the bride who are divines OF the
same denomination. The brides were Arrieta
| Anita Morrill, and Jennie S. Morrill, and the
respective grooms are Rev. Homer Martien
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Cooke and Rev. julien Avery Herrick The
father OF the brides, Rev, II. T. Morrill,.
cousin TO Senator Morrill, Of Vermont, was
one OF the best known Baptist preachers In
northern Illinois.
While on the Knights ot Pythlas trip to
Washington encampment last year Tom Nc
Collough. deputy postmaster Of Anderson.
Ind. refused a cigar and as the result the
box, which was afterward empted, was
thrown over to him and carelessly he began
to write on the lid with his pencil. He
wrote his name and address among other
things and at last he thoughtlessly threw the
box out Of the car window He got a letter
two weeks after he returned home In which
young lady, the writer, stated that she had
found the box and saw his name on II. She
had thought II a good chance to have some
fun and wrote to him. The correspondence
has been going on ever since and the result
is that he went to Mount Union, Pa, last
night, announcing that when he returned he
would not be alone. The romance has at
tracted a great deal Of attention.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-09
PR4TTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS.

A woman residing in a New York fiat or
dered a piece of ice from the grocery. The
youth who brought it was a German. He
put it on the dumb waiter in the basement
to be hoisted up. She pulled away.
"Graciousw she exclaimed; ''how heavy
this ice is. The grocer must have given me
good weight"
BY great exertion she succeeded in getting
the dumb waiter up. TO her astonishment
she found the boy seated on the ice, With
what breath she had left, she demanded:
what did you make me pull you up here
for?"
why" replied the boy, 81 thought the
cake would be too heavy for you to lift, so
came up to help you off with it,"
Johnny, dear" said his mother, who was
trying to inculcate a lesson in industry,
what do you suppose mamma would do for
you IL you should come to her some day and
tell her that you loved your studies?"
Lick me for telling a falsehood," said
dear little Johnny, with the sweet frankness
OF youth.
The small boy was playing cowboy more
to his own satisfaction than that of his
nervous father
81 am the Wild Wolf of Bitter Creek" he
yelled,
"And this is your night to howl" said the
exasperated parent, appearing with a strap.
And Willie howled.
TOMMY think / am better at eating
than | am at studying.
Mamma-Why do you think that, Tommy ?
Tommy-Why, because l often miss my
lessons, but l never miss my meals,
I'm very much afraid" his mother said,
that this pie needs more shortening. "
Mamma" said the boy in an audible un-
dertone, that isn't what my piece needs. 1"
Isn't it?" "No'm. My piece needs length
ening.' L. I----..-.. - .-----.--- 80
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to handle bows and arrows with accuracy
when your eyes are stinging, your ears stiff
and your fingers numb, to say nothing Of
Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-09
CONNUBI.4LITIES.

Colorado mine owner has been sued for
$500 900 for breach Of promise The size OF
mans bank account appears to be what
gives value TO his word.
Miss Mary McTague disappeared from her
home In Newark, n. j., last week TO avoid
marriage with the man TO whom she was
engaged. The young woman seemed to have
a peculiar dread OF marriage.
Grumpkins-Spoonamo how are you
going TO vote on the silver question: Spoona,
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to handle bows and arrows with accuracy
when your eyes are singing, your ears stf
and your fingers numb, to say nothing OF
your nose.
We were up and out before sunrise on the
first morning after our bows arrived, no mat
ter If the air was gray with frost crystals.
Under our feet the snow crunched ana
squeaked, as 1t always does when the ther-
mometer reminds 1t Of its duty, and the
farmers cattle looked at us forlornly as II
they blamed us for winters pinching mean
ness. But what we wanted to know was
whether or not the hares had run during
the night just past; for If they had we should
be sure to get some shooting, and our first
move was toward the thickets to see If there
were any fresh tracks in the snow.
hare has four good feet, but its tracks
form a triangle, as If 1t were three-legged,
and by this form the hunter never fails tc
know at glance the footprints of "Bre'r
Rabbit" from those of every other animal
We soon found plenty Of them on the mar
gin of buttonwood thicket, and each Of us
had quickly chosen one to follow.
ance to track hare in the snow and find it
sitting, or rather crouching, in Its bed but
you have much to learn before you can do
this simple thing. When a hare runs all
alone you may follow it in open ground
without much trouble. This, however, 1t
very rarely does. AS rule the track will
lead to other tracks and get all mixed up
with them, SO that you must be an expert
running in the open ground, as an accommo-
dating hare should, the frisky game chooses
to go through every patch of briers and into
and around every/tuft of old weeds and tan
gled vines that II can find. Sometimes the
tracks will suddenly come to an end. Here
is the last one You look in vain for an
other.
But where Is your hare? Surely he must
be at the end Of his run With searching
gaze you cover every inch of snow for yards
around. Not track or a sign. 1t looks
as II the hare might have evaporated on the
spot; or mayhap he suddenly sprouted wings
and flew away! But while you are stand
ing there in bewilderment out bounds your
game from neat form in a weed tuft ant
scurries off at racehorse speed, his white
cotton ball tail bobbing and twinklng as hC
goes
For shooting in the snowy season we use
scaret-feathered arrows which, when they
strike into the ground, look like tulips bloom
ing in the snow drifts and are consequently
very easy to find. A broad, heavy stee
point is best for hare-shooting and the shat
should be stout and made of tough, we'll
seasoned hickory. As a rule the game Il
rarely seen at long range, your shots no
often being over thirty yards, usually les
than twenty,
win and had become very expert II
tracking the hare and finding II in its form
but frequently enough 1t would see or heal
us first. sometimes the mare when II II
startled out OF Its hiding place Will ruI
hfteen or twenty yards ana stop suddenly
sitting down upon lts hauhches WIN lts loIl
ears erect ana us rouhu pisck eyes wiz
open rms is the molheht LOT peautltq u
shot; out you must KNOW now 10 uo II.
YOU ann uirettls az tne @ nare zen Sen " uHe SE'
WIN noe M ~ tor "nem Srt ea Uum nd en- arrnr m
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horses back gets slippery a1ter ne DeBlnS 10
sweat and when a riders pumps have
touched the sand and got damp they are
liable to slip off like a piece Of glass"
IMPROVEMENTS IN CIRCUS RIDING.
| asked Mr.. O'Bren IL there had been much
progress in circus riding during his time,
much advance in the difflculty Of feats per
formed.
Undoubtedly there has" he replied. 81
have an old circus program dating about
twenty-five years ago, which reads like this
Levy j. North, the champion rider Of the
world, will actually stand on one foot and
ride three times around the ring without a
REIN OF course today any beginner at circus
riding would do trek like that, which was
then considered very wonderful"
HAS any rider dared to try a double
sommersault on a horses back?"
II don't think so, and am very sure no
one has ever succeeded. You know, a single
sommersault on a horses back is no joke and
was done for the first time by the merest
accident. The rider was the great-grand-
father OF our present champion, De Mott, and
when he did 1t he intended to throw q
sommersault so as to land on the ground, bu
he made a wrong calculation and struck tht
horses back on his knees. After that he die
the same thing on purpose and finally sue
ceeded in landing Oh his feet The only pos
sble way OF doing a double sommersault
mounted would be for the rider to stand well
back on the horse facing the tail and then
do what we call a double backward back
You know, a back sommersault is always
easier than a forward one. But even so,
should hate to be the man to try double OF
a horse" CLEVELAND MOFFETT
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-07-16
IHs WAR M cusA.


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Epspish seuress. !.
HAVANA, July 1s-Ths column Of Gem
sral Navarro fought band Of Insurgents
near Cobrs, in which the latter lost three
killed aud two prisoners.
Insurgents have burned the coffee plan
tatiens Of Magdalena and Nucvo Songo.
A considerable number Of young laborers
who had been without work on tho plan
tations have Joined the Insurgents.
News from Santiago de Cuba 10 to the
effect that Captain pslgado, Of the ciyil
guard, found In the swamps near Carde-
mas lo4 rifles and ammunition. Two per-
sons have been arrested as O result.
Major Arminan, of tho civil guard,
with fifty infantry and fifty cavalry at
lnvista Hermoso, district Of Ssncti Spir-
titus, provinces Of Santa Clara. was at.
tackled by the insurgents forming the
bands OF zayas. Logon and Toledo, and
numbering 500. After an hours fighting
the Insurgents were obliged TO retire.
Upon dispensing they left twenty killed
and forty wounded on the field.
A band Of insurgents numbering 400
entered the village of Provincial, in the
province Of Santa Clara, and tried to burn
tho barracks Of the civil guard. Seven
soldiers made . va1erous defense and
killed ten Of the insurgents. The ipsur-
gents proved unable TO take the detach-
ment Of troops and burned the village.
The barracks took fire and obliged the
garrison to leave They opened their way
to another house, sustaining fire from
the insurgents, who found 1t impossible to
take the house. The insurgents then re-
tired to Mount Escambrai, and the troops
went In pursuit. It Is reported that the
insurgents carried with them twenty
woundad
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-07-16

search was made by the two officers. A
photograph of Holmes was shown to
Frank N. Nudel, of the educational de-
partment, owner of No. 10, and without
any hesitation he identified IL as that of
his tenant. When they reached the cellar
1t appeared to the detectives that some
thing had disturbed the cellar floor. A
short distance below the surface they
came across the arm and portion Of the
head of one of the little murdered girls
Further work soon revealed the entire
body, not only of the first, but of her Sis
ter. Both bodies wore naked and uncof-
fined and had lain ere in all probability
since last October.
There were no traces of violence on the
bodies, and 1t is thought that Holmes de-
coyed the children into a trunk under
some pretext and took them to the house.
Then gas was inserted by means Of tube
through a small hole. The trunk, with a
hole in 1t, neatly covered over with strap
tackled down was found in one Of Holmes
rooms. The little girls when found were
naked and had been buried without q
coffin Of any kind.
No trace of the boy Howard, o lad of 8,
had been found but he is thought to be
undoubtedly dead.
As the crime WAS evidently committed
In this country 1t will be necessary to ex-
tradite Holmes and put him ON trial for
murder here.
The last trace the officers had Of the
children was at Detroit. They were taken
there from Chicago, where they had been
attending school, They boarded on Con-
gross street, west, one week in 1894.
Holmes secured possession of Alice,
hged IS, first taking her to Phila-
delphia to identify her fathers body.
Then he went to st. Louis, and told the
mother that he would put Howard and
Nellie In q good school in Indianapolis.
This was on Sept. 28, 1894. Mrs. Pitezel
received two letters from Holmes in In
dianapolis, and acting on his advice she
went to her parents home In Illinois.
Becoming worried about the children, she
went to Chicago, where she received word
from Holmes to go back to Detroit. She
met him in that city and demanded the
children, but was induced to 60 with him
TO Toronto, and then to Burlington, Vt.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-07-16
A MYSTERY NO LONGER
Bodies Of the Pitsssl Children
Found In Toronto.
THEY WERE BURIED IN A CELLAR.


Evidently Killed by Insurance swindIer
Holmes. who Wanted to be Relieved Of
Their Cars-He WIN Undoubtedly be
Taken to Canada ON Murder Charge.
TORONTO. Ont, July 1e-Found buried
In the cellar Of the house No. 10 st. Vim
cent street were the bodies Of Alice and
Nellie, the two missing daughters of Ben
iamin u. Pitezel. Detectives Cuddy, Of
Toronto, and Geyer, of Philadelphia, made
the discovery, and all the doubts Is to
their fate have been set at rest. II 10 now
> matter almost beyond doubt that II. H.
Holmes, when here last October, deliber-
ately murdered the pair and thus rid him
self Of two troublesome young beings
after he had murdered their father In
Philadelphia. zznzsai
The inquiries begun by the police led to
the knowledge that Holmes and the chill
drsn lived at the house in question, and q
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-07-16

BALTIMORE, July i6.-Stephen Webb.
oolored, shot and fatally wounded Emma
Harris, also oolored, In front Of Webb's
homo on Preston street. Webb accused
the girl Of caring more for another man
than she did for him, and threatened to
kill her. The woman screamed and started
to run away. when Webb drew..a revolver.
Holding her at arms length the negro
fred, the bullet entering the girls stom.
ach. Aroused to frenzy, Webb again
the left shoulder as she lay on the pave
in time to prevent Webb from commit
ting suicide, and then the negro slashed
the officer on the head with a razor. He
was finally overpowered. Ryan's wound
10 slight, but the woman will die.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-07-16

DALLAS, Tex, July 16.-The adverse
opinion Of Attorney General Crane to the
legality of the Corbett- Fitzsimmons con-
test created no surprise at the fight head
quarters. 1t will BIO claimed that the
license law requiring the payment of $500
has never been repealed. Manager Dan
Stuart is going ahead with his prepare
tions for the fight Today the contract
for the erection of the great Texas Col
lseum will be let to the lowest responsible
bidder, and in q few days the ground will
be staked and operations begun.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-07-16

CHICAGO, July 18.-Peter Hazel, plan.
Ing mill proprietor at Fifty-ninth street
and Wabash avenue, in fit of drunken
ragc, killed his wife and himself. Hazel
had been drinking heavily and had made
frequent threats Of taking his life. His
wife demonstrated with him, and, becom-
ing furious Hazel seized butcher knife
and, throwing Mrs. Hazel upon table,
cut her throat from ear to ear, finishing
the work by driving the bloody blade into
his own neck.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-07-16

PITTsBURG, July 1e-The national con-
vention of the Window Glass Workers of
America yesterday put up the bars against
foreign glass blowers by adopting a reso-
luton increasing the Initiation fee from
$500 to $500. 1t is further provided that
the applicant for membership must have
been resident Of this country for Eve
years prior to his application, that during
that time he shall not have worked In any
glass house. and that he shall DO a natu-
ralized citizen OF the United states.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-07-16

MONTREAL, July 16.-The affairs of La
Banque du Peuple, with which rumor was
busy for weeks, came to crisis last even
ing when the directors decided to sus-
pend payment for ninety days. That time
Is allowed by the Canadian banking act.
The bank, of which ex-Mayor Jacques
Grcenier is president, is the Oldest French
Canadian banking Institution in the
Dominion. ]. s. Bousquet, who until
two weeks ago was cashier, is said to be
largely responsible for the banks diff
rrnltiaa
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-07-16

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, July 10
News has been received here that a fill
clustering expedition safely landed at
Pointe De Maysi, Cuba, June 81. The re-
port further states that a portion of the
party was fromKey West, while others were
from Brunswick, Ga. A member Of the
party from Key West wrote his brother
hero stating that all arrived safely, and
that the small party Joined larger one
at Nassau, N. p, and also at Porto Rico,
one of the East Indies.