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Standing of the Clubs.
specIaI TO the Indianapolis Journal.

CLEVELAND, o., April 26.-C1eveland
demonstrated her right to a place on the
baseball map to-day by sending out not
less than 1000 people to the first game of
the season at home. II was a noisy,
demonstrative, but thoroughly good-na-
tured crowd, as was forcibly illustrated by
the ovation given Hartsel when he came
in from the field after making a great
catch of Pickering's fly in the seventh. and
by the impartial applause given every bril-
liant play. Goar pitched a steady, con-
sistent game, except in the second, when a
palpable balk cost a run. Toward the end
of the game Flynn took Magoon's place at
second, but did not get a chance to bat.
Heydon was hurt in a hard collision with
Kelly in the fifth. the accident costing a
run as Buelow's fly fell safe and Weaver,
who was on second, scoring. Heydon was
plucky and continued playing.
Cleveland won the game by a run of luck.
In the fourth Vfox muffed Seybold's fly.
Kelly doubled, and second and third were
occupied, with no one out. Buelow then
got into the game and took the awkward
flies sent up by Heydon and Magoon, while
Hickey's savage line fly went straight to
Genins, and the visitors were retired with
out a run. Again in the seventh the Wis
itors had their trouble. Pickering made a
star catch of Goar's liner. Hogriever
doubled and Hartsel hit for a base. Sey-
bold's fly fell safe, scoring Hogriever, but
Hartsel, expecting Genins would take the
ball, waited too long and was nipped at
second. Hartsels home run hit in the ninth
was due to Genins's mixup with a sunray.
Cantillon had but one close decision, and
gave 1t to the visitors.
Before the game there was a street pa
rade, with a big band leading the way.
The crowds on the street gave both teams
a warm reception. At the park Mayor Far
ley was called on to pitch the first ball.
Instead of doing so he came down to the
front OF the stand, put the new white ball
to his lips, and as he tossed it out said:
Here's luck to the American League"
Manager Watkins was g~ratifed at the big
outpouring of people and for the great en-
! thusiasm disnlayed. Score.
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RUNNING RACES.
Track Record for Six FurIongs Low
cred by Highland Lad.

MEMPHIS. Tenn, April 26.-This was the
last day but one of the regular spring
meeting at the new Memphis Jockey Club.
On Saturday the track will be turned over
TO the local organization of Elks, who will
give an afternoons sport for the benefit of
the children of Charles Clark, who was an
innocent victim of a bullet fired into the
throng last year at the track. 1t was a
field day for the bookies, only one favor
ite-Cathedral, in the last race-crossing
the wire first. Easter Card, at long odds.
won the first race easily. In the third race
Highland Lad broke the track record for
six furlongs, winning by a head from Algot
In 1:1415. In the Mississippi handicap Belle
of Memphis, the favorite. finished outside
the money. Nobleman, the extreme out
slider in the betting, won easily. The talent
received its worst upset in the fifth race,
when Joe Bell was almost backed off the
track to win the steeplechase. Third place
was the best he could do.
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teller, delighted, whsen asked out TO dinner
In company with Tom" Appleton to try
and get hold OF Apoleton's latest stories
and tell them at the dinner before Apple
ton got q chance. The anecdote referred to
above goes to show dhat, like a good many
other persons who Fave a seng> Of humor.
DR.. Holmes enjoyed sthat humor best which
was of his own production. An unexpect-
edly clever saying BY any one else In the
company always APPEARED 10 make the au-
tocrat a little uneaty, as though he felt
that his own preserves were being poached
upon. On the occasion In question Holmes
was holding forth st great length on the
subject OF cannibalism, and having wound
himself up to the proper pitch. he turned
suddenly TO Thomas Bailey Aldrich. who
was sitting near hin. and asked: 'Imag-
inc. What would you do If you were
to meet a ~cannibal?f To which Mr.. Aldrich
sweetly replied, ""I; think that i should
stop to pick an acquaintance with him. {"
This rejoinder cast such a gloom over DR..
Holmes that during the rest OF the dinner
his conversation wa limited TO monosyila-
bles.
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TALKS ABoUrs BRIAR PIPES.
Signs by which g Smoker Can Tell u
Good One.

Windsor Magazine
1t is strange, and. yet it is a fact, that
the English workman is of no use In tie
manufacture of pipes. The most skilled ar
tisans are either the Austrians or the
French. The pipemTkers are a very select,
to prevent their trade being learned by
outsiders. The wokkmen are clever n
they earn high wagts.
Speaking OF the cost OF a pipe, a sue
cessful manufacturer remarks: When the
blocks arrive over aere they are at once
sorted. Out OF one gross of blocks 1 rarely
ever get more than three or four pieces OF
wood good enough or the very finest class
of pipes, about a dozen good briars Tor nne
quality pipes, and perhaps as many as four
dozen pieces of void for the ordinary
everyday pipe. The remaining seven dozen
pieces of wood are thrown into the furnace.
and, l might mentiol, help considerably TO
generate the necessary steam power for the
machinery. Thus fully 66 per cent. OF the
material 1 purchase is of no use whatever.
and il is this extraordinary amount or
waste that causes the briar pipe to be so
expensive.
.'The prevailing defect, I may mention by
the way, is generally in the form OF a crack
In. the. wood. i usedl TO sell these defective
blocks of briar at a penny apiece, AND have
sent away as many as 10000 condemnei
briars at n time, bus now L burn theta all.
The. briars were lent abroad ana the
ohacks and flaws stopped with putty or
some other composition. and then STEPPED
i'm a strong s~olutioS of p-ermanganate OF
potash, which deepl. colored the wood and
made the defect insisible except on close
inspection. All thosf briars you see OF a
very deep color haze passed through the
permanganate OF Totash bath, and you
may rest assured isiat there Is a defect
somewhere-they would not be that color
If Ii were not so. because natural hriar Ia
of a medium light Eue.
LAS to the average life of a briar pipe.
you may take IL fog granted that n pipe
will last you as mssnN years as IL costs
you shillings. That is to say. " you pay six
shillings for a pipe. IF you are a moderate
smoker. IL viii lasg you six years. The
style OF briar pipe that is mostly IN demand
is that with a bowl Out tire straigh. way of
the grain. This is nos the most reliable kind
Of pipe, as the sudden expansion by the
heat and contraction Of the wood when
you stop smoking cause IL TO split in a
short time. The best pattern % bria- IS
that with a bowl telegram " which is very
notified in appeara. ICE. or. as the troce
call IL, the birds seye grain This VIII
pavar sniff
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ShOrt-Measure Bottles,
New Orleans Times-Democrat.

81 recently took possession Of a room in
a North Side business block said the
bachelor book-keeper of a Canal street
wholesale house. and had the place thor
oughly overhauled before moving in. The
Of rather convivial habits, for In cleaning
out a large closet in one corner we discov-
cred an extraordinary collection OF TASKS
and bottles on the dark upper shelf. Be-
fore the glass mine was exhausted we had
taken out over a hundred pint and half
pint TASKS and several dozen quart bottles.
and in looking over the assortment as IL
stood ranged in serted ranks on the floor
| was struck by the fact that hardly any
two of the lot were the same size. That
suggested an interesting little experiment,
which / proceeded TO try. | sent down 10
a drug store and secured three bottles,
standard quarts, pints and half pints,
which | filled with water and used as a
test for the assortment from the closet.
The half-pint TASKS were the most numer-
Gus and were all way below the standard.
the majority of them holding barely three
gills. L noticed that some of those that
were the largest externally held the least.
the sides being so blown that they were
Unfortunately thick in the middle. Flasks
OF that kind appear perfectly honest on
the outside and the bottoms, where one
usually looks for a swindle. are noticeably
thin. 1t Is only when they are filled by
measure that their true inwardness comes
to Light. The pints were almost as bad,
and only one came within q gill OF the
standard. AS for the quarts. they were all
frauds-dve to the gallon The labeis or
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Hawthorne and Harlem Dates.

CHICAGO, April 26.-Secretary Nathan
son and President Fitzgerald, representing
the Harlem and Hawthorne racing asso-
Citations, held a meeting to-day and agreed
upon a division of the racing dates follow
ing the close of the meeting at Lake Side
May 20 TO 26. The schedules:
Hawthorne-May IS to Tune s, inclusive.
Harlem-June 8 to %, inclusive.
Hawthorne-Ju1y % to Aug. 4, inclusive.
Harlem-Aug 6 to is, inclusive.
Hawthorne-Aug. - to Sept. /, inclusive.
Harlem-Sept. 3 to Sept. s. inclusive.
Hawthorne-Sept IL to Oct. 6, inclusive.
Harlem-Oct. Is TO 20, inclusive.
The interval between June % and July %
will be filled by the Washington Park
Club. Lakeside has claimed for it's fall
meeting the dates from Oct. so to Nov. Is.
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The Rental Agent.

w. d. Nesbitt, in BTltimore-Ame-ican-
Consider the rental agent; how he toiIeth
with the reluctant renter. and ~spinneth the
wondrous yarn;
How he telleth the man that the house ~
just what he wantech;
That ii is hot in winter and cold In sum-
mer:
That II hath perfect ventilation. even %
that IL should be used as a health resort.
And the man renterh the house.
For he Is a foolisht man ard one who be-
lieveth all that is toll unto him.
Yea. he is a good hing and a cinch.
And he causeth thr rental agent TO smile
IN his sleeve. even ur to the elbow thereof.
And in due seasob he indeth that the
agent hath gotten his dates mixed when he
spake of the hotnesr OF the house in the
winter season and the coldness thereof In
the summer.
For. verify, in the time OF winter II n
colder than the smile OF the maiden who
sayeth II will be a SISTER unto you"
And in the summer IL Is hotter than out
doors.
But IL Is ventilated, well, yea. SO well that
the cold wave doth come into the parlor
and bring its friendsiand hold a social ses-
sion all the winter.
And when he goeta unto the agent and
asketh that he maSe some repairs the
agent sayeth:
Verify. 1 Will hava a man up there this
afternoon"
And the man comesh week after next and
sayeth:
10. L came with sny tools and ye were
not at home. OF a sifrtey / did pound upon
the door with all tie might and rapidlty
OF the man who care.seth the bass drum In
the German band"
Yet again he goetb into the agent and
complainant.
But in no wise can.he cause the agent 20
move hurriedly or With any hastiness In
the matter OF repair.
And is there no hime that the agent
causeth himself 10 gyt a move on?
Yea. verify. and moist assEredly.
When rent day coEleth around he gocth
after the man with a speed like unto the
British army leaving Spion kop.
Consider the rental agent. hat you may
gather unto yourself knowledge and n
struction and Wisdoat1,
And oxuor{@ucn
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NEW YORK, April eth Ozone stakes
for two-year-olds was the feature of the
card at Aqueduct to-day as far as money
value went, but the handicap was the fea-
ture from a racing standpoint. Outlander
won the stake easily. after making most Of
the running, with Scurry ridden out. Only
five horses faced the starter in the handi-
cap, but 1t furnished a fine race. Blueaway
was a hot ~favorite at s to 5, while Wait
Not, because of his impost Of 126 pounds,
went begging at 3 to L. The favorite made
the running for the first half mile, with the
others we'll bunched and Wait Not trailing.
-V1e stretch Wait Not was still last,
but as soon as Maher let him down he went
right through his field and won cleverly by
half a length.
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Earned Runs-Cleveland, 4; I~ndianapO-
lis, 3.
First Base on Errors-Cleveland, 1; In
dianapolis, 2.
Left on Bases-Cleveland, 4; Indianapo-
lis, s.
Bases on Balls-On Wilson, 8; off Goar, 2.
Struck Out-By Wilson: Kelly CD, .Madi-
son, Hickey; by Goar: Buelow. Spies, Will
son, Pickering.
Home
Three-base Hit-Hogr,ever.
Two-base Hits-Wilson, Weaver. Buelow,
Lachance, Kelly. Hogriever, Seybold.
Sacrifice Hits-Weaver, Spies.
Stolen Bases-Magoon, Flynn. Hickey.
Double Plays-Hickey to Kelly; Madison.
Flynn to Kelly
Balk-By Goar, l.
Passed Balls-Heydon, /.
Characterization.
Time Of Game-1:50.
Attendance-7,00.
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LEXINGTON, KY, April 26.-The Fasig-
Upton Company, of New York, the trot-
ting-horse sale firm, and the Easton Com
pany. of New York, also selling thorough
bred horses, have consolidated. These are
the largest two horse firms in the country,
and they will control the greater part of
the selling of runners and ~trotters. The
first is composed of William B. Fasig, for
merly of Cleveland, o., Ed A. Upton, for
merly of Lexington, and William Easton,
of New York, the great auctioneer. The
consolidation will lave sales in New York,
Cleveland, Lexington and elsewhere.
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National League Standing.

PITTSBURG, Pa, April 26.-Pittsburg
opened the season before a record-break-
ing crowd, but disappointed her friends
by permitting the Cincinnatis to win. The
home club was not in the game until the
ninth inning, when seven runs were made,
coming within one of a tie. The vigorous
roofing of the crowd put Hahn in the air
for a time in this inning and he forced
two runs over the plate. Waddell was re-
lieved in the sixth inning after twelve clean
hits had been made Attendance, 1900.
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George steevens's Charity.

LOnoOn Letter.
II Ruskin and Blackmore had ended
their literary lives before death claimed
them George Stevens had hardly begun
his He had merely shown what he could
do, and of this, indeed, he had merely
given a hint. Personally. he was delightful
though inclined TO be taciturn. His keen
sense OF humor made him a charming COM
panion. and he and his wife were welcome
guests whenever they could be induced
10 leave their delightful old country house,
where they raised chickens and ducks for
the market and on a small scale bred cat
tie, In order TO join their literary friends I'm
London. They were practical philanthropy
lists. too, In their way. and there are al
ways on the farm at least a dozen London
street waits, six boys n six girls. whom
they trained 10 become honest men and
women and then sent out into the world
with q good start. AS one left another
would take his or her place. so there were
always twelve boys and girls at Merton
Abbey. who otherwise would have had ia
ind a home at one OF Her Majesty prisons
or a workhouse. Perhaps this was even a
better work than writing With Kitchener
TO Khartum" or "The Land OF the Dol
lar"
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WOULD BORE HOLES.
Cleveland Letter in washington Times.

Cleveland Letter in Washington Times.
Frank Hooley. a farmers son, has con-
fessed to being the individual who filled the
little hamlet of Montville, Gaeuga cOunt3,
full of holes. and in so doing surfeited that
section of Ohio Will mystery and no end of
superstitious fright, incidentally causing
the suicide OF one man, to whom circum-
stantial evidence pointed as the perpetrator
of the deed. Hooley, who is nineteen years
old. appeared before Justice Case and
swore to the following strange story:
About one year ago / began TO be trou-
bled with insomnia Later the trouble be-
came worse, and 1 passed night after night
without sleep. When / shut my eyes |
could see augers to the right, augers to
the left-nothing but augers. L felt an I'M
comfortable desire to bore holes, and was
so nervous that / thought i should go
crazy. One night. after trying in vain for
several hours 10 get asleep, | arose, went
to the barn, and bored a hole In one of
the doors. 1 Immediately experienced a
change OF feeling and my nervousness dis
appeared. 1 went to bed and slept soundly
all night.
'I had found a panaca for all my ills,
but, alas! Ii did not last long, and I soon
not bring sleep. / felt that / must try
houses, and l did. Neighbors' houses were
perforated. About one hole to each house
and the virtue was gone / make this con-
fession because 1 am sick of the business
and / wish TO be taken where L can be
treated for this nameless disease"
The statement has created a sensation.
second only 10 the old query about the
holes. For weeks after the startling dis
covery was made the little settlement was
in a fever of excitement. Residents were
utterly at a loss 10 explain the purpose of
the borinEs. The sleeping apartments were
changed 10 the upper rooms of the houses,
and at night presented a formidable array
or shotguns. clubs and other weapons. A
hole had been bored through the outside
wall of every dwelling In the village except
two, and i'm q few houses two holes were
bored. Hocley's general appearance is de-
scribed as very strange. He Is fully six
feet high and unduly thin. His shoulders
are bent and his eyes sunken. giving him a
singularly uncanny appearance.
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Made a Garrison Finish.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH. Ind. April 26.-Wabash made
a Garrison finish in the ninth this after
noon. With the score 10 to 4 against them
they got five runs after two were out in
the eighth, and in the next inning, Rich
mond going to pieces, added six. Shortstop
Bateman assaulted Umpire Quinn in the
ninth. The score:
R.H.E.
Wabash .......0 2 2 0 0 5 6-15 IL s
Richmond .....5 o 2 1 o o 2 o do 3 s
Batteries-Scanlan, Wagner II Fuller;
Wayne and Earle.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, April 20
The Danville Qn.) team of the Central
League defeated the Wabash College team
here to-day i'm a one-sided and uninterest-
ing game by a score of rs TO 8. The fea-
ture was the heavy hitting of the league
team.
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FRENCHMEN AND ITALIANS.
Impressions of an American After
Living with Both Races.
New York Evening Post
~

The railroads in France are perfectly soul
less. They share the penny-wise, pound
foolish ideas that dominate in France, and
they control things politically. They are all
being absorbed by the state-a process
which worked wonders in Hungary, 1 was
told down here, but which | do not expect
will improve matters here. The great lack
of France and Italy-aad IL prevails, to a
certain extent. in Germany also-is the abb
sence of public opinion as a great factor.
They grin and bear things over here that
he settled bv n,h,,c oninsan s,,asd,Iv p on,
IL is my Impression that only one-half of
the voters go to the polls here, and less
than that I'm Italy.
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Chicago 80.

Score by innings.

Earned runs-Chicago, 3: Minneapolis, 6.
Left on bases-Chicago. s; Minneapolis,
10. Two-base hits-Grim. Werden. Smith,
Ehret. Home Sacrifice hits
Wilmot. Abbatticchio Stolen bases-Mc-
Farland, Fisher. Double play-Abbattic-
Tho. smith and Werden. Struck out-By
Denzer, s; by Ehret. 2. Bases on balls-Off
Denzer. 2: off Ehret. s. Hit by pitched
ball-Hcy. Padden. Time hours. Umpire
Sheridan. Attendance. LAO.
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Earned runs-Brooklyn, 1; Philadelphia,
4. Two-base hits-Kitson, Delehanty, La
joie, Flick. Three-base hit-Kelley. Home
Sacrifice hits-Keeler, Thomas
and Cross. Stolen bases-Sheckard, Keller,
Jennings, Slagle. Douglass. Myers. Double
gle and Douglass. Base on balls
Off Kitson, 3; off Bernhard, 3. Hit by
pitched ball-Lajoie. Struck out-By Kit
son, L; by Bernhard. 3. Left on bases
Brooklyn. 8; Philadelphia, i. Balk-Bern-
Attendance. b156.
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Earned runs-New York, 2; Boston, 5.
First base on errors-New York, l; Boston,
2. Left on bases-New York. 8: Boston. S.
Struck out-By Baily, 2; by P~ettinger: 2;
by Hawley, 8. Bases on balls-Off Bailey,
4; off Pettinger, 8. Home run-Selbach.
Three-base Hickman. Two
base hits-Hailman, Freeman, Sullivan,
Van Haltren. Sacrifice hits-Collins, Free
man. Stolen ~bases-Lowe, Long, Gleason.
Double play-Doyle (unassisted.) Hit by
pitched ball--By Pettinger, l. Passed balls
Sullivan CD Wild pitch-Bailey. Umpire
Connolly. Time-2:55. Attendance-4,00.
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NEW YORK, April 2s.-The New Yorks
made another grand rally in the ninth in
ming to-day. scoring five runs and tying
the score. 1t was too dark to play. but
Umpire Connolly refused to call the game.
The Bostons went in and made three runs
in the tenth. The New Yorks. in their
half. delayed matters at every opportunity.
Finally Umpire Connolly weakened and
called the game. The game reverted back
to the ninth inning. with the score a tie.
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Mayor Pitched First Ball.

BUFFALO. n. Y. April 0.-The baseball
opening in this city was a grand success in
every way. Mayor Conrad Diehl pitched
the first ball across the plate. The game
required ten innings, the home club scoring
the winning run in that inning. with no one
out. Score:
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CHICAGO, April 26.-Ehret's wildness. to-
gether with two errors and five hits. gave
Chicago a lead in the fourth. Minneapo-
lis then by hard hitting tied the score in
the eighth. An error, a hit and two bases
On balls gave Chicago the game in the
ninth. the last a gift. forcing in the win
Ling r1n ScCra.
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NOTICE OF SALE OF BONDS.

Monroe county will receive sealed bids up to
the hour OF I O'Clock p. m, on the Sth day of
May, 1900, at Bloomington. Ind. ON the following
bonds to be sold by me: Turnpike bonds for
Richland township in the sum of SIS. sos. 10; turn
pike bonds for Indian Greek township in the sum
OF SO, 440.
No bid will be considered unless accompanied
by a certified check for the sum OF five hundred
dollars $500 for the bonds TO be sold for each
township. Said check to be a guarantee OF good
faith and to be forfeited I'm case OF failure to
take bonds at the accompanied bid. Successful
bidder to furnish bonds with coupons attached.
JOHN L.
Traalrrrar ~ Annrnn cnrrnfr
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Two-base hits-Hallman Knoll. Gettman,
Stallings. Stolen -bases-Speer, Flood, Gett-
man. Bay. Bases on balls-Of Amole. l;
off Friske, 2. Hit by pitched ball-By
Amole, /. Struck out-By Amole, 1; by
Friske, 2. Passed ball-Shaw. Time-2:10
Umpire-Frank Dwyer. Attendance-i,0OO.
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Earned JURISPRUDENCE, 2; Cincinnati, T.
Two-base hits-McCreery, Wagner. Three
base ~hits-Smith. Beckley. Sacrifice hit
Steinfeldt. Stolen bases-Smith C0, Beck
ley, Steinfeldt. Double plays-Zimmer and
Bases on balls-Off Waddell, 1; off Ches-
bro, Il: off Hahn. 5. Struck out-By Wad-
dell, 4; by Chesbro. 8; by Hahn, 4. Passed
ball-Peitz. Wild pitch-Waddell. Time
2:45. Umpire-Swartwood.