A HAXING SONG.
Over the meadow floats the mist,
Rolling softly away;
Upon the hills the sun has kissed,
rightens the yellow cay.
Falntest breath of the morning breeze
Shakes the dew from the orchard trees,
Sways the bough where robin ia saying,
“Wake, oh, wake! it is time for hayiug!
Cows are lowing in haste to try
Pastures moistened with dew;
Bwallows twitter, and brown bees fly,
Boenting the blossoms new,
Meadow larks, out of sight repeat,
Over and over, “Bweet, oh, Sweet!
Grass, aud clover, and lilies blowing,
Round my nest like a forest growing.”
Through the meadows the mowers tread,
With a sturdy stroke and true;
And oh! for the lilies, so tall and red,
When the gleaming scythe sweeps
through,
Balancing over the grasses light,
Dropping with laughter out of sight,
“Ho, ho, hol” Lear the blackbird singing.
“Give me a day when scythes are
swinging.”
ir fragrant furrows the grass is laid,
The golden sun climbs high;
The mowers sharpen the ringing blade,
And glance at the western sky.
Hark the quail with his warning call
Whistles loud from the mossy wall,
“Mower whet!” while the sun is shining,
Storms may come when the day's de-
clining.
CSR IR,
NELLIE'S ALPENSTOCK.
It was In tLe summer of eighty.
ter Nell and I bad been moping all
Sprinz, when Aunt Hettie came and
carried us off for a change of delicious |
summering. Not to any fashionable |
springs or seaside resort, but here and |
there among the mountains, up and |
down the Hudson. Two months of ro-
mance—a day dream to me. But it was |
Nell I started to tell you about, She |
was a semi-invalid, this spoiled sister of
mine, which was one reason auntie kept
us away from any crowded resort. Neil
loved soclety—gentlemen’s society—Ubut
+ i¢ was 80 capricious, they never got |
along smoothly together long. They |
admired her archness, her beauty; the
petite figure leaning back among the
cushions of her sofa made slaves of |
them, until her caprices, her coqueteries
drove them away, I used to get so im- |
patient with her, for 1 wanted to see her |
settled in life. She was twenly-lwo
now, and I—well, I was a little older,
but felt ten years older at least, and |
always worried over her so much. She
had been paler than usual this Spring, |
and I blessed dear Auntie Hettie as I |
marked her daily improvement. Well, |
we were at Hoosac, Those of you who,
in your summer jaunts, have visited
Hoosac Tunnel, well remember the na- |
tural beauties of the place. We were
stopping at *‘Rice & Jenk’s hotel, at the |
east end—Nell and I, half intoxicated
with the invigorating air, and happy |
from the mere delight of existence.
Before us roared and tumbled the Deer-
field River, while directly behind, the
mountain rose far above; in fact, we
seemed shut in by mountains, Within |
an hour of our arnval, some one was
saying within our hearing, *‘No one
should think of leaving without seeing
the Twin Cascades,” and a glowing
description followed, Catching the lu-1
mmous expression of Neil’s eyes as she
turned to look at the speaker, I knew
she meant mischief, [ looked also, He
continued talking, apparently uncon- |
scious of the two pair of eyes upon bim,
as he turned away with his companion,
Nell said quietly:
“Dolly, I'm going to see the Cascades,
and I'm going to have him for an es-
ecort. He is splendid, and Lis voice is |
something new in my experience.”
“*X ou are not going to de anything of
the kind, Nellie! You heard him say
one ean ride only a part of the way, and
you know you cannot bear the fatigue
of walking any distance. Besides you
don’t know the gentleman.”
“Dolly, I’m not myself at all here, in
this glorious atmosphere! Why, Doll |
dear, I feel as if I only have to stretch
out my wings''-—with a graceful wave
of her arms—‘‘and just fly! And as for
him, I'll take him on trust!”
The two gentlemen, who bad seated
themselves at the open window near
where we stood, at this mome~ut caught
wy attention, They were smiling at
Nellie’s 1ast words. I never saw her
look prettier than at that moment.
Comforting myself with the assurance
that they could not possibly know the
subject of our conversation, I drew |
her away, before she had discovered |
them. At dinner they sat just opposite |
al the same table, Oh, that first din-
ner! I can’t help recalling it, if thisisa
love story. If you have been there, I
am sure my experience 18 yours! Did
yon ever taste such food--such fruit?
Did you mark with keen anticipation
each dish beside your plate, and, when
in an mcredibly short space of time the
empty dishes stared you in the face
wonder--with a faint suspicion of foul
play— where it had all gone to?
finding your neighbors in the same fix,
you followed their example, and ordered
more. While Nell was waiting for
“*more” she looked up at her opposite
neighbor, as if she had just discovered
him, z long, steady look, and then turn-
ed to auntie with the faintest little
“Aunt Hettie, do you want to make
“Ie very happy?”
The Strout pathetic voice wasa charm
in ise *
“Why, certainly dear!” said unsus-
piesous anatie,
“ I'hen let me go to the Cascades this
afternoon?”
“Cascades! Where?”
“I heard a gentleman say there are
beautiful cascades not far off, and that
no one should leave without seeing
them; and I know I shall always regret
it if I fall to see them.”
“Well, dear, I'll luguire; and if is not
too far, we'll go.”
“Pardon a stranger’s intrusion, but 1
am going with my friend here, and if
please; we should be most happy to
gompany.
will satisfy you,”
: with thanks for us
ease us our old cronies. I confess to
an uneasy feeling about Nell’s getting
any farther than the wagon went. But
she—she hadn’t a thought beyond that
minute and its enjoyment, «Witty, arch,
and artfully artless; I'must confess she
charmed both gentlemen, while auntie
smilingly divided her attention between
us and the surrounding scenery. The
end of the wagon r reached,
Auntie’s expression was perfectly ap
palling as Mr. Upton politely asked if
he should assist her to alight, adding:
“We have quite a walk before us,
but a very pleasant one.”
“Oh, girls. we ought not to have
come! Why, Nellie what will you
do?”
“Oh, auntie, don't mind me,
I'm a new
mounting.’
And truly, sparkling eves and glow-
ing cheeks attested the fact. To our
surprise she walked to the spot, seem-
ingly as easy as any of us, Auntie
Why
creature up here in the
came dancing and foaming down to
meet at the base, And then those ferns!
I turned to look for mister. She sat
a little way off, very quiet, looking
wistfully toward the mountain top,
where the fall at the left came dashing
Suddenly turning to Mr, Up-
‘I wonder what one could see at the
top there?”
slight variations.”
“Did any nne—ladies,
go up there?’
“1 think so; I know of several who
attempted it last year. One needs to
be sure-footed. though,” as if inter-
preting her wish,
“Dolly please take care of my para-
=o] and gloves,
stock! 1'm going up the casca le, Aunt
Hettiel”
shie had her own way as usual,
““ If you ure really in earnest, ”’
**1I will be your Alpen-
stock.”
It seemed
She passed her
mossy, wet, and slippery |
as if she trod on air,
ahead of him all the way, stopping once
to scream down to us:
* 1 was never 80 happy in my lifel”
The next minute a hittle object came
wumbling down, and splashed into the
It was her Con-
There she was, away up
the rocky height, in one shoel She
had wedged her foot in a cleft in
rodk, and in her frantic endeavers to
release herself before her companion
could overtake her, had slipped her
foot out, and before be could stoop to
pick up the shoe it became duslodged,
and was on its way down to us. Poor
Nell! She sat down and waited, looking
ruefully at the pretty stocking, and at
the distance she had to retrace,
“Well, Alpenstock what am I to do?”
How his laugh rang out as he looked
at the disconsolate little heap on the
rock.
“Pardon me, please, but this isa
situation, isn’t it? You couldn't, by
any possibility, wear’’—and he glanced
at his own substantial understandings,
“‘Let me think; I have it!"
Hastily tearing off strips of birch
thicknesses on the sole of the unfortu-
nate foot, tearing his handkerchief into
strips to bind it on, Then helping her
to her feet, he said politely:
“Shall we go on?"
Wilfulness was all humility now.
“If you please we will solve the prob-
lem of getting down over those horrid
How far off the rest look down
therel”
At the second step she halted; the
tender foot found it difficult. He ap-
parently waited that result.
“1f you will allow me--"'
And without finishing the sentence,
and grasping everything that cawe in
with his burden from oue foot
hold to another,
a moment to rest, he released her, say-
jog:
**1 can echo what I heard you saying
a few minutes ago.”
“What was iL?"
‘1 was never so ! appy in my hfe!”
sald no more, and soon deposited his
burden down al auntie's feet,
Poor auntie!
resignediy on a stump, with her back to
the climbers, lest she shonld see them
fall. Very slowly on Nell's account,
we came back to the wagon, Nell was
very quiet during the ride back, but we
attributed 1t to fatigue, until, when
alone at last, she laid ber head in my
lap, and sobbed :
“I don’t know what ails me, Dolly! 1
away from here as soon as possible!
what I am afraid of.”
breakfast,
watching the effect on Nell:
“Auntie would you mind leaving
ride over the mountain with that Col.
lossus of a driver.”
But Nell, who was herself again,
said sharply:
“What do you mean Doll? I could
stay here forever, auntie, {f—1f-—it was
always summer!’
We did not ses the two gentlemen at
breakfast, and Nellie drooped a little.
I began to wish we had never seen
either of ther, and yet
They met us afterward on the piazza,
They had been toa marble Burt: of
something of the kind. The ajor
gave me a glowing description of the
wonderful mosses and ferns he bad seen,
and proposed we should for them,
Auntie went with us, We left Nell and
Mr, Upton behind, both faces looking
radiant as two full moons, Og our re-
turn ‘we suddenly came n an old
friend of auntie’s just
bis way to North Adams,
Be
escort for us, You have just an hour
mn which to eat dinner and get ready!
Why, what's the matter? Y ou look per-
fectly blank at the ideal”
I felt blank, and I guess Nell did,
An hour later, however, found us on
our way. We left a note of thanks, and
a “good bye" for the gentlemen, and
regretfully left them behind, But in
spite of our regrets we enjoyed the trip
hugely. You who have n over the
mountain on the outside of the coach on
a perfect summer day, know just the
delight of it. At North Adams we
parted with auntie’s friend, and went
off, continuing down to Pittsfield, Four
weeks later found us among the Cats-
kills, We had been there about a week,
when returning from a day’s jaunt we
heard the exclamatian, Dolly Brayton!
est, noisiest of my old school friends,
In five minutes she knew all my sum-
ing to join the party.
my—What am I saying? W
| next day we all went climbing off as
time we met ata certain table-rock,
and then we missed her. Josie Parton
| had seen her last climbing off alone.
| We started for a general search, and
half an hour later we discovered the
gypsy sitting in the shadow of a rock,
with Fred Upton stretched out in lazy
| grace beside her,
He had arrived that morning, and
finding our names on the register, start-
ed in pursuit.
ing along alone, and shestopped to rest,
his voice broke the stillness:
“Wouldn't your Alpenstock be agiee-
able just now?"
With a start of joyful surprise, she
turned to find the subject of
stant thoughts close by her
“1 was just wishing for it,” said she,
frankly with a blush, *“*When did you
come, and how did you happen Lo cross
our path again?"
“1 suppose it was fate!”
mock solemnity; then in a changed
voice he continued, still holding the
hand he had taken: ‘‘My little Nell, 1
would have followed you to the world’s
end, just to ask you one question: Will
you let me lead you, be your gulde
Ahrough the long *up-hill’ of life? The
road winds upward all the way, you
know. You will need a strong arm and
a true heart; here it is! You need not
fear to trust yovrself to me!”
Happy sister Nell! for she "ved him,
Of course we scolded her for the fright
she had caused, and she
said he, with
could blame her?
seventh heaven of
welcomed the new-comer, both for his
own sake, and
to know, viz., that he had left the Ma-
jor at the hotel with =ome relatives —
“Sanders, I believe.! So. that was
Sadie’s “Cousin John!’
Probably, the after love-making of
those two young people wi: 80 much
like your own, reader, that i needs no
repetition. Auntie gave L onsent,
as she was our nearest relative, and
Nell and her Alpenstock were married
in the autumn,
Fred afterward laughingly referred
to their short acquaintance previous to
their engagement and added that at
first sight he concinded to do as she an-
nounced her intention of doing by him,
and take her on trust. But the Major?
Ali, yes, Well, we were not idle while
they were love-making, and-—1 may as
well consess—there was a double wed-
ding in autumn,
University of CGalru,
A mosque is to a Moslem nol merely
a place of prayer; it is a home to the
homeless, a retreat for the idle und a
centre of trade for the induastrions., In
the porticoes barbers ply their razors,
Unders the arches beggars sleep and
eat; yet the ioner place of prayer is
The Mosque of
El Azhar is the great univerdsy of
Cairo, with 11,000 siadents refistered
yearly on its roll, Its interior presents
# scence which would drive to insanity
the entire fsenity of am American
Oross-legged upon the floor
its immense court are sealed the
students—gray-bearded men, gayly-
| dressed youths and ragged boys, All
college,
‘
| rolled in their mantles; others are break-
fasting. The water-selior walks about,
jingling his brass
columns. Law, jurisprudence, theology
and medicine are being acquired by
these turbulent students, yet the single
text book is the Koran,
The September Mars,
who wish to see the quick little dodger
of the solar system must look for him
an hour before sunrise, Saturn, out.
shining the other planets, is a morning
star also, and so, too, Mars and Nep-
tune are morning stars. Uranus, Supt
ter and Venus are evening stars’ e~
nus is the gem of the Western sky.
A I
eaid the lover as he
stood upon the stoop with his girl,
“just onel” one,” said the
mother, putting ber head out of the
bedroom window above; “Well, I guess
it aint so late as that, but its pretty near
twelve, and you'd betier be going
her father will be down.” And
"”
A Wasmxorox lady was much sur
prised recently upon
from her dusky cook that she was about
a Ho
The Shattered V olin.
msm
One night, about a dozen years ago,
when the cream of a “first night” au-
dience m Paris flowed into the Salle 4’
Athenee, where the great Joachim was
advertised ty wield his magic bow,
among the uw of first vio’ ns in Pasde-
loup’s famous orchestra, 3 rouped upon
the stage, «ut Gustave Thorez, a gentle
old enthus ast, smartly but: ned up In
a well-brusi.ed black coat, w: “1 a trim,
gray mustacie, and the inevit: ble bit of
red ribbon in his button-hole,
On his final withdrawal, aft¢ repeat-
ed calls to the front, Joachim. i; thread-
ing his way throughout the «crowded
musicians, their instruments nd racks,
passed close enough to old Threz to be
arrested by the look of rare un | dreamy
delight upon his wrinkled face.
| “Thank you, mon ami,” the great
| artist said, kindly laying his band on
| Gustave’s violin. ‘‘May your instru-
than it has rendered me to-night!”
To Gustave his sprech was like an
accolade. Thenceforward the violin,
| always dear, would be sacred to him,
| love, His comrades siniled, when, the
concert over, they saw vieur mustache,
: face,
Mounting the five flights of an inrermi-
able stone staircase, he gayly hummed
the verse of a popular song.
**Sha will have reached home by this,
and the supper will be ready,
mouth waters for the thigh of that cold
{ roast fowl I saw her put away, Bup-
posing that I don’t tell her at once
about my grand event? That will give
zest to the salad and the cheese, It
will cheer up my pretty Gabrielle, for
she has been a trifle triste of late, I've
fancied. Pretty, willful, little Gabrielle!
I have sometimes feared that taking
Mademoiselle Cheri's place in the Cen-
drillon has turned her little head. Tiens/
but I can feel beforehand the rose leaf
touch of her lips when she shall stand
i ——_—
jon ward called old Gustave in to try
his skill upon a refractory stove-pipe in
her department,
Close by where he was set to work, a
séreen surrounded one of the beds, and
a litter stationed there told too plainly
that the “feet of the dead” were about
to be carried out,
“Here, Thorez, lend a hand, will
you?’’ said his friend, the nurse, com-
ing from behind the screen.
'urry to get this poor creature out of
the ‘ward at once, I’m all hupset with
16 night she’s given me, and 1 can
truly say a more pitiful case never fell
hunder my hobservation at ome or "ere,
Since she took the bad turn yesterday
she’s done nothing but jabber French
and call papal papa!’ She ain’t got a
friend on earth that hever I see, and
she such a reg’lar beauty! Heart disease
Hit’s all ready, now; you
take the feet, will you?”
Gustave obeyed, and mechanically did
shrouded form,
Then Gustave saw again
Gabrielle, When dismissed from
the face of
the
g, where for charily’s sake, the
wople gave him shelter for a night,
Until nearly morning he leaned in
stupor over the table, resting his check
lodgin
Just before dawn he lifted the instru.
ment and tried to play, It was a faint
and tunpeless echo of
Bach
the concert of the Athenee,
Gu
a fire-iron from the hearth, stn
all his foree upon the violin,
forever the sweet spirit it enshrined,
Bs
Iu wy of
3
DONS
baisers upon the cheeks!”
Gustave had reached the Luasl
and was fumbling at his door.
“Gabrielle!” he called aloud, on open-
ing it.
No answer and his face {
“She will have been detained to sup,
| no doubt, with our good neighbor, Mad-
ame Blanchett,’ he soliloquized, stum-
ling about in the dark find his
matches, “What! no table spread for
the hungry viewz papa’ Careless, petite
Gabrielle!”
No light, no tempting little feast, no
kiss of welcome, no voice!
Not then, nor evermore!
People who cared to join m the mad
ell
$
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answering
Fort Hamilton shore.
wreck of
French opera hat, making a dusty and
rehearsal of the Philharmonic Soclety
of New York, during that period of
| time before the society fell into its long
and trance-like torpor, may have obser.
ved ar the violins upon the plat
form at » Academy of Music a blur.
red and sketchy oatline of the ola Tho
rez who | 1 upon the occasion
of Joachim’s debut atthe Athenee, The
warlike mustache flopped drearily; the
eye had lost its power to gleam or soften;
the red ribbon on the worn old coat
drooped like the banner upon a forsaken
citadel.
Gustave had traced Gabrielle
America, and had come in search of
her, but in the city of New York-that
great and pitiless receiver of all unlaw-
ful foreign merchandise—the clew was
lost, Obtaining a place in the orches-
tra of a reputable society, he had fallen
into the groove of a solitary and un-
f.lended life. Among the few who no-
ticed him at all, Gustave passed for an
honest old artist, whose harmless mania
was the worship of his own violin,
One Friday afternoon of a bleak De-
cember day, at the close of the Philhar-
monic rehearsal, Gustave passed out of
Fourteenth street into Broadway,
where, sauntering aimlessly down the
sunny side of the block, be saw a lady
decend from a carriage in frontofl a
fashionable shop He did pot recognize
the costly wrapping of sealskin, half
shrouding a slender form, nor yet the
air of languid luxury. But whose wag
that beautiful veiled face, that tress of
escaping golden hair, if not his Ga
brielle’s?
Gasping for breath, Gustave held his
violin against his breast and waited.
W tien she came out of the shop on her
way io the carriage he intercepted her,
Without a glance she waved him impa-
tiently aside.
“Gabrielle!” cried Thorez, with all
his broken heart in that single word,
The girl started, looked him in the
face and caught her breath,
“You are mistaken my good man, or
mad. Do you want charity, or shall I
| have to ask the aid of a policeman to
help me to my carriage?’’
ul appeared
tered the dead
mouse
remnant of
which a
Imnusician s
violin, in WAS rearing
her brood,
————— i ——
African Sige f.angnage,
The language of signs employed in
trade in Arabia and Eastern Africa
appears to have been inverted to ena-
ble sellers and buyers to arrange their
baness undisturbed by the host of
loafers who interfere in transactions
carrie on in open markels
and it enables people iE
clude their business without the by-
standers knowing the prices wanled or
offered. It is especially in use in the
Red Sea, and its characteristic is that
beneath a cloth, or more generally part
irban, the hands of
, and by an arrange
Jer.
FIT
HCE
i
sf the lingers the 8 Un
{ outstretched forelin
10 or 100;
Oe BITES |
of the t means 1, 1
the two first fingers together mean 2,
or 200; the t first, 3,
the four, 4, 40 or 400, the
be A the J
G00; the third 8
the middie finger alone,
first finger alone and bent, 90, 900,
while the thumb signifies 1000, If the
forefinger of one of the parties be touch-
ed in the middle joint with the thumb
of other it signifies }, and if the
same finger is rubbed with tb
from the to the knuckle i
more, but if the movement Ww the
thumb be upward to the top instead of
downward to the knuckle 1 means |
less, An eighth more is marked by
catching the whole nafl of the forefinger
with the thumb and finger, while the
symbol for an eighth Jess is cal
the flesh above the nail-—4 e, the ex.
treme tip of the finger—in same
WAY. it will thus be seen that, by
t $ oY
ger other
Hy hree 33 or 300;
whole, 5, 50
Ar 6, 60 or
alone, 7, 70, 700;
8 80
> ’
9,
#8! fis ¥ al
Or ittie er alone,
nger
800; the
$3
Laie
yoint
the
i
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i
1
i
falling back as if he had been shot,
At this juncture an interposing police-
men took Gustave in charge, and with-
out elaborate inquiry consigned him,
with his violin, to a night's lodgings in
the station house.
| downfall of us self-respect. His habits,
| before respectable, lapsed through every
| stage from bad to worse worst.
| Losing his standing with musical socie-
ties of the higher rank, Gustave at the
| outset did not lind it hard to earn a live-
{ lihood, Upon the first occasion when
| he was e to play for dancing at a
| second-rate ball. Gustave fiddled like a
{ madman through the night, then went
| home to shed tears upon his desecrated
| violin, After work in the orchestras
| of petty theaters came music halls, then
| lower drinking dens, When once the
old musician came out of one of these
haunts to slink homeward in the gray
of .morning, he fell upon the ley side-
| walk, and in trying to save his violin,
{received a severe concussion of the
brain, r
ging up from his or po Bellevu
atter many days prostra-
etn ing of Gustave’s belter na-
ture came back to him, The nurses in
his ward, finding the old fellow expert
and bidable, made quite a pet of
of
and buyer a large range figures cin
be represented, [It is, of course, under-
stood that the average market value of
the article is roughly known and that
can be no confusion beiween 1,
10, 100 and 1000. This language of
symbols in universal use among
European, Indian, Arab and Persian
traders on the Red Sea coasts, as well
there
rior, such as Abyssinians, Gallis, Som-
alis, Bedoulins, ete. It isacquired very
parties from the interruption of meddle-
some bystanders, who in the East are
always ready to give their advice,
Duke of Cambriage.
The Duke of Cambridge has left
London for his annual visit to Ham.
burg for relief of gout, and questions
are asked if the people are to pay in fu-
ture for his trips. Two hundred dollars
were charged in the last estimates for
his conveyance from Dover to Calais,
public pocket, and a first-class passage
from Dover to Calias is only $5; bat his
Grace of Cambridge preferred that the
public should pay. There is a feeling
growing up agalnst the outrageous
demands of these serene highnesses and
others who have descended like locusts
on the land because they are the
Queen’s cousins, uncles and aunts.
A ¥aluable Find,
More than 350.000 fragments of an-
sient records have been dug up from
the sands of where they have
rested embal or nine centuries, not
very much the woise for their inter.
ment. The history of thess venerable
documents 18 hy Professor
Karabacek that they must at
part of the public ar
chives of El Fayoum, and that the bulk
mS
HORSE NOTES.
~-Punbar has returned to Cleveland
with Clingstone, Guy, Clemmaie (G, and
Nobby.
~There will be a fall meeting at
Island Park on September 22 to 25.
The purses aggregaate $5000,
~Wilham France's horses Albert
France, Sister Wilkes and Harry
Wilkes are now quartered at Fleet
wood,
~KEva, the California-bred mare,
ruptured a biood-vessel in her head at
Springfield, and was distanced in the
2.23 clans,
~The trotter Iron Age dropped dead
! while trotting in the free-for all race at
| the Gentlemen’s Driving Park, Bridge.
port, Conn, on the 10th,
~The free-for-all trotting and pacing
{ class at Mystic and Beacon Parks did
| not Gill, and a purse of $500 for the 2.50
| class, pacing, has been substituted,
— Albany Boy, the pacer, and run-
ming mate are credited with going a
quarter of a mile in ssconds, at
Beacon Park, recently, The time of
{ the mile was 2.254.
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- The Hanover Agricultural Society
holds 148 annual fair at Hanover, Pa.,
on beptember 30 and October 1 and 2,
| The premiums for speed exhibitions
amount to $1500,
— William Disston’s bay team Ches-
| ter and mate have been placed in John
Murphy's hands at Fleetwood Park for
{ training. Frank Work has been drive
| lng the pair for a couple of weeks,
- Biersan, by winning the Twin City
Handicap, has incurred a penalty of
seven pounds for the New York Han-
dicap, making his weight 117 pounds,
— The National Horse SBhow Associa-
tion of America will bold its third an.
nual exhibition at Madison Square
| Garden, on November 3-7. The pre-
mium list will amount to over $19,000,
{and entries will close on Saturday, Oc-
tober 10,
- 1 here is still
| talk of Miss Wood.
{ ford and
Freeland meeting again, but
80 far it has amounted to nothing. The
Washington Park Club, of Chicago,
has offered $5000 added money to any
race made belween the two (0 be deci-
led on its track, and $1000 additional
{ Pontiac shoul
~Green B, Morris talks of taking
his stable to California to winder, as
the early success of Messrs, Haggin,
Baldwin and others has convineed him
that not only is the climate beneficial,
horses wintered there can be
for spring racing much earli-
y the mild winters of the
meeting of the
al
Lose
Media on
IX races,
Gentlemen
— The regular
Tree Hant will l
September 24, There wi
and the conditions are
riders in all races, U or more horses,
two of which are the property of dif-
ferent owners, io Or BDO race,
Marviand Jockey Club rules to govern
rales.
except were mi «a by club
wr held
rid
appearance atl Sheeps-
head Bay, after an absence of two years
was tl} occasion of a great popular
t Parole looked quite high in
ficsh His change of color, 100, Was
the subject of general remark. Prom
a brown be bas quite a bay.
ut most horses become lighter in their
coat with age. Ten years ago Parole
was almost black; two years ago he
was a “‘burnt brown,”
we
Ova
ou
become
— Up to September 3, the jockey Mc
Carty has a grand total of 205 monnts,
This is the greatest number ever at-
tained by an American Jockey in a like
period, and speaks weil for the ambi-
tion and energy of the yous
His suspension by the Saratogi
ciation was most unfortunate,
as up to that date he had a great lead
in the winning mounts, since which,
owing to his being debarred from the
prac: ice of his profession at Monmouth
or Sheeprhead, Mclaughlin has passed
him, His suspension was for dwsobadi-
ence, and it 18 the general opinion it
was rather severe, not only upon hum-
self, but upon Commdore Kittson, who
s compelled to pay him without being
able to avail himself of his services,
— With the close of the present sea-
son, James Lee, will sever his connec-
tion with Mr. Walton's stable, and as.
sume charge of that of ex-Mayor No.
lan, of Albany. This position was of
fered him a year ago, when Lee parted
with the Erdenheim Stable, but he was
unwilling to supersede his old friend
Pat Maney, who recently resigned the
(post, It will be a most congenial one
| to Lee, being best suited to has tastes,
| a8 it is exclusively a steeplechase stable,
| a field in which Lee won his spurs as
the trainer of Trouble, Disturbance,
Dispute, Day Star, Waller, ete, and
besides Mayor Nolan races at Saratoga,
which is Lee’s home, he having some
opertv there It is likely that Mayor
Nolan will add largely to his staule,
He has long cherished the desire to
take Bourke Cockran to England and
start him in the Grand National, at
Aintree, but the horse has shown poor
form this season, and unless he should
mend this will have to be abandoned.
— When eight or more horses start
a race the distance is increased, and
when ten or more start every horse is
allowed to continue until the deciding
heat is over, provided he is not dis
tanoed, fields crowd the Lrack
winner of the first heat may be 80 tired
as to prefer the stable, but he is com-
lied to go on and run the risk of being
istanced; whereas a horse which has
been second twice is allowed to rest in
the stable, with no fear of losing fourth