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The Old Mill
Here from the brow of the kill I look
Through = lattice of boughs and leaves
On the old gray mill, with its gambrel
roof,
And the moss on its rotting Caves,
1 hear the clatter that jars its walls,
And the rushing water's sound,
And I see the black floats rise and fall
As the wheel goes slowly round.
1 rode there often when I was young,
With my grist on the horse before,
And talked with Nelle, the millers girl,
As 1 waited my turn at the door.
And while she tossed her ringlets brown,
And flirted and chattered so free,
The wheel might stop the wheel might go—
It was all the same W me,
'Tis twenty years since last I stood
On the spot where I stand to-day,
Aud Nellie is well and the miller is dead,
And the mill and | are gray.
But both, till we fall into rain and wreck,
To our fortune of toil are bound,
And the man goes, and the stream flows,
And the wheel goes slowly round,
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JOHN REYNOLDS’ LESSON.
“What 18 the matter, little woman?”
“Only tired, John.”
Lina Reynoids looked up as she
spoke, 40 smile bravely into the face
bending svxiously over her.
“l'ired, Lina?” he said, lifting the
little figure as he spoke and taking his
wife like a child upon his knee. “What
have you been doing to tire you?”
“Only the day's work, Don’t
worry, John,” for a shade passed over
the kindly face,
“] don't worry; but 1 can’t see what
makes you complain so often of beng
tired. I am sure the house work aint
so much, O:her women do it!”
There was just a little fretfuiness in
be uukind.
“] know they do. Mrs. Harper has
four children aud takes care of them in
addition to housework, besides doing
piles of sewing. Perhaps, John, it 1s
country work and don't manage well.
1 will learn better after awhile. Now,
tell me what you did in town.”
“I did quite well, Sold the whole
crop of wheat at a good price for the
Stanley farm.”
“Your heart 1s
John,”
“Indeed it is! Let me once own that
clear of debt, and I sball be a happy
man. [tis the best land in the coun-
try, and the house is twice as large as
this!”
set on that farm,
more rooms to clean, and additional
sigh that neariy escaped ber.
“John,” she said, rather timidly,
“don't yon think if you spend part of
the momey on thissiouse we might be
very happy here?’
“Spend money on this house?” cried
the astonished John, “Why, what on
earth ails this housel”
“I mean in thiogs in it
parlor looks so stiff, snd is always shut
vp. I was thinking if we bad a pretty
carpet and some curtains of white mus.
lin or luce, and a set of mice furniture,
and-—and-—s ptauo, oh, John, if I could
have a piano!”
John Reynolds looked at his wife as
if she bad proposed to him to buy up
the crown jewels of Russia,
costs?”
“No. Aunt Louise has one, you
know, ever since I can remember, Bat
I think if we had a pretty parior to rest
in the evening I could play for you and
sing. You never heard me play or sing,
John?”
“] have heard you sing, but not
lately,” said John rather gloomily,
“Oh! that sas just humming around
the house. I mesn real singing. I
have lots of music in my trunk.”
“But you are only a farmer's wile,
now, Lina, I thought you nanderstood
when we were married that you were
“So I did, John, I don’t want finery.
I don’t want any pleasure but your love,
John, Don’t scowl up your face so,
I am silly to think of these at all,
There, kiss me and forget it, 1 an
nicely rested now, aud I'll got your tea
in ten minutes,”
John put her down with a very ten-
der kiss, and siraightway fell into a
reverie,
Lina Bsvers had been a district school
teacher in Seotiand just four months,
when John Reynolds offered her his
hand and heart, She was an orphan
from infancy, but her father’s sister had
adopted and educated her in a life of
luxary, and died without altering a
will made years before, leaving her en.
tire fortune to a charity asylum, Lina,
lett alone, had thankfully accepted the
position ot eonutry school teacher pro-
cured for her by some friends, and was
thinking life a hard burden, when John
came to brighten it, She gave her
whole geutle heart into his keeping at
once, appreciating at their full value
his honest, true heart, his frank natare,
his sterling good qualities, and looking
with the most profound admiration
upon his tall, strong rrame and hand-
some face.
It waa a perfect love mateb, for John
fairly worshipped the dainty, refined
little beanty he had marmed. And,
having married her, lie took her to his
home and, in all ignorance, proceeded
to kill her,
There was no blame to be laid upon
him. Living in the old farm house
where he had spent his entire life, the
one smbition of his heart was to own
land, stock barns aud a model farm,
huge dishes of food for the farm hends,
He would have thought it a wicked
waste, if not positive insanity, to draw
from the bank his hard earned savings
to invest them in beautifying his plain,
comfortable home.
And Lina lashed her conscience
| sharply, telling herself she was nograte-
ful, repining and wicked. Was not her
John tender, true and loving? Where
among her city friends was there a
heart like this? Had she not known he
was only a farmer?
And so the loving little woman toiled
and slaved, undertook tasks far beyond
her strength, worked early and late
until just one year after his wedding
day, John Reynolds, coming home to
his tea, found lying upon the kitchen
floor a little senseless figure with a face
like death, and hands that sent a chill
to bis very heart,
‘I'he doctor. hastily summoned, looked
grave, and advised perfect quiet and
rest, a girl was hird and John tenderly
pursed the invalid, but though she
grew better she was pale and weak,
“Take her away awhile,” said the
doctor, *‘“I'ry a change of air. She is
overworked.”
“But,” said honest, puzzled John,
‘she does nothing but the housework
for us two, She has no child, and our
sewing is not mach.”
The doctor looked into the troubled
face.
“You are a great man, John Rey-
polds, and a strong one,” he ssid,
“Will you let me tell youn a few truths?”
“Yes, About Lina?”
“About Lina. You remember, do
you not, about the tiny antelope you
admired so much in the menagerie we
had here last summer?”
| “*Certainly.” said John, looking more
| puzzled than ever,
| oxen to a cart to do the same work?"
| *I'd been a fool,’ said John; *‘that
{ ittle thing conldn't work, It wus just
| made pretty to look at and play.”
| ““I'nat’s 1t, John,
God ever made a woman to look pretry
| and play, but he made some
| heaven by gentle loveliness, Your wife
| is one of the latter, If you were a poor
{ man I would have held my tongue, but
| you are a rich one, Give your wife a
servant; let her bave books, music,
pretty things sround her, Let her rest
{from toil, and you may keep her by
| your side, Put her back in her old
| place and you may order her tombstoue,
{ for she will scum need it. Don't put
your antelope beside your oxen, John,”
“I will not! Thank you! I under.
stand. Poor, Joving, patient heart!
i *Thots right! Take her vow for a
| little pleasure trip, and get bank her
roses.”
Lina clapped her hands when John
asked her if she would like to spend a
week at New York, and really seemed
to draw in new life from the very idea,
It was delicious fun to see
wide open eyes as they eutered the
i parior of the great city hotel, and were
| shown into the bedroom, whose beauties
| were quite as bewildering.
“The best room,” he had told the
Isndiord, anl Lins could not repress a
| sitting room, with
invitingly oven,
“Oh, John!" she said, * ‘won't you go
{ in there and shut the door for five min-
| uten, please?”
| John obeyed, of course. John, she
{ thought, gratefully, refused her nothing
now,
8 pmano standing
iold dresses,” Lina thought. *“‘I have
{ not
| marm. Fancy Mrs. Reynolds scrub.
| bing the floor in this dress!”
{ John rubbed his eyes and pinched
| himself as a litlle figure sailed into the
sitting room, made bim a sweeping
| courtesy and went to the piano,
| The fair hair was fashionably} dressed,
and bands of blue velvet looped the
igolden curls. A dress of blue mek,
| with the softest lace] trimmings, and
| ornaments of pearl, Lad certainly made
{a fine lady of Lina, The piano was
yielding its full bewitching tones to tho
skilled little fingers, and John's bewils
derment was complete when a voice of
exquisite sweetness, though not power-
ful, began to sing.
Only one song, full of trills and quav-
ers, and then Lina rushed from the
piano into John's arms,
“John, darling,” she said, *‘hold me
fast. Dou’t let me slip from you!”
“Oh, Laoal” he grouned. *‘I was not
fit to marry such a dainty bird! But I
loved you, little one.”
*‘And Iloved you, John, rough old
John! Let me sing again. I am very
happy to-day, my husosnd.”
Bat no wonderful trills filled the little
room now, In a clear, pure voice, full
of expression, she sang!
“i know that my Redeemer liveth.”
Every word fell like bot tears on poor
Joha's heart, until, as the last chord
trembled apot the air, Lina turned to
him, stretohing out her arms:
“Take mo in your arms, John!"
He took her tenderly to the room she
had quitted so gayly, and she replaced
hor finery with a white wrapper, whose
Inco trimmings looked like fancy work
to his unaccustomed eyes.
*‘Are you tired, love!” he asked, with
a great apssm of terror at his heart, as
he Jooked at the white, wasted face,
“Yeu, very, vory tired, but happy,
John!” and with a little sigh of entire
content, Lona nestled down against the
warm heart whose every throb she knew
was all her own. The white lids fell
softly over the violet yet, and she
as peacefully as a .
Lina. Central Park was not soon ex-
hausted, and the little guide grew
stronger and rosier every day, in John's
thoughtful care, that provided plenty
of pleasant excitement, but guarded
against fatigue.
It was early in the afternoom of a
sunny day, when the train drew up at
the Scotfield station, and John handed
his wondering wife into a neat little one
horse carriage waiting for them.
“A new purchase, dear!” he ex-
plained. ‘““Weare to have a drive every
afternoon, Dr. Greyson prescribes it.”
The house was where it had always
been, but Lina rubbed her eyes ana
wondered if she had been suddenly car-
ried into fairy land, ‘ne dull little
sitting room had been papered, carpeted
curtained and transformed into a cosy
dining room. The stiff parlor was a
very, bower of beauty, with a fine piano,
the dantiest of farniture, soft muslin
curtains, and a carpet covered with
bouquets of exquisite flowers; the bed-
rooms were carpeted brightly, and re-
joloed in cottage sets, and in the kitchen
the most good natured of stout German
girls fairly shed tears when Lina ad-
dressed her in her own language,
“Bat John!” she cried, ‘‘the Stanley
farm?”
“Is sold, dear. You were right; we
will make this bome so lovely the Stan-
ley farm will never cost me a sigh. Dr,
Greyson and his wife took all the trou-
ble here, and 1 have hired two new
hands, so as to have a little more leis-
ure,”
“Bat, John,” the little wile said
earnestly, *‘I do uot want you to think
I am a fine lady, a doll to wear fine
I want to
“Bo you will be, Lufla. God meant
the world, Yon are not strong, but you
indoor
und directing Gretchen,
arrangements
Anti in our
flud some one poorer than ourselves to
aid. That will be my
thank offering for your life, my little
wife,’
The neighbors stared and wondered,
Comments upon John's folly and im-
providence fell from many lips, and old
Bat John was as much astonished as
be found the farm yielding him a larger
income than ever belore,
“I do believe, Lina,” he said one day
to a matronly little woman, who was
dressing a crowing baby, ‘that your
flower garden last year was worth a
John!"
“Ove book after another erept into
the house, and the time I thought
would be wasted, taken from farm work,
was spent iu reading. Now look at the
See the new stock! My orchard is going
to be the best in the country, too.”
“And my poultry yard, John? It was
the papers and magazines that first gave
What fun we had,
started!”
“Yea, indeed. That New York trip
wad Lhe best investment I ever made,
Lina, I ssw s0 many things there that
I recognized as old friends when I met
them again in print—the threshing
machine, the rotary harrow, the im.
proved plows,”
“And,” said Mrs, Beynolds, mischiev-
John, in getting it
macbiue and the corals for Johunie.”
‘Come, are you ready for your drive?
“As soon as I put on my hat, and get
“It beats me, John,” said his uncle,
one bright day. *‘where you find so
much money for tomfoolery, newfangled
nonsense, and fallals for Lions, and yet
give so much for charity. [ thought
“] was once, but I have somethin
better now than the Stsuley farm.
have learned how to manage my ante
“What?”
Bat to this day John never explained
that riddle to his puzzled relative,
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The New Parliament,
Oxford will be betier represented
thau Cambridge in the new Palisment
in London, amongst the members of
which no fewer thau 137 received more
or less of their education on the banks
of the Isis, as against 89 who hail from
Cambridge. These figures, taken with
the total number of university candi-
dates, give some force to the assertion
that Oxford and Cambridge are the best
schools of polities; for oniy 28 Oxford
snd 19 Cambridge men seem to have
been rejected at the polis, The 226
elected candidates are equally divided
in politics, exactly hail of them belong-
ing to either party; a fact which will
surprise most people; the more so seeing
that the majority of the rejected oandi-
dates from either university were libe.
rals, It is noticeable, too, that ouly 21
of the chosen reprerentatives have held
office at their respective Usion Societies
as compared with the far larger propor
tion of 15 amongst the rejected,
Dividing a Partnership.
Two men began busines: as carters
last spring at Pslmyra, N. J. Ther
assets consisted of a horse, cart and
set of harness, Dusiness was good until
last week, when the horse, alter a short
illness, died. The partners, being uo-
able to buy another animal, agreed to
close out ther business, They conld
find no customer for the cart and har-
ness, however, aud were also unable to
upon a price which the surviving
should pay to the one who re-
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The Flying Telegraph.
We have probably seen in the news
papers from time to time some rather
vague allusions to a new telegraphing
scheme which is to enable people who
are stationary to communicates with
friends who are traveling on rmlway
trains while they are i motion, I had
been regarding this scheme as rather
epbemeral, and even visionary, until
recently, when a friend of mune, to
whom it was mentioned, broke out
most enthusiastically concerning it, and
he finally induced me to go up town to
where the concern is in active operation,
The company which is undertaking
to introduce this flying telegraph has a
number of lines laid down to {illustrate
the workings of the machine, and nearly
every day some railway magnate or
other personage of influence in the com-
munity is shown the results of these
experiments. The scheme is worked
simply enough. A wire is laid down
along the ground between the tracks on
which the cars run, and underneath the
floor of each vehicle is a ooil of wire
which takes up the sound as it is sent
along the ground. The coil does not
touch the other wire at all, but picks
up the sound through the air, no matter
at what speed the train may be going.
| The value of the scheme, according to
accommodation which
| railway passengers, and partly in the
| chance it would give the people in eon-
off the track,
can be sent in each direction the full
following on,
chinery ean communicate with
shore,
| four or five cables would be laid, sepa-
| rated from esch other at a considerable
| distance and daly loested in this chart,
| This would not only give an opportunity
| steamers, but would enable passengers
| to communicate with friends on shore
on any important matter, The scheme
| and will undoubtedly be in operation
| before long on each one of the big rail-
| ways ranning out of New York,
{The same people have struck another
| still an unanswered question,
of the wire, the other end of which is in
Worcester or Springfield, your mgnature
| will be exactly roproduced st whichever
one of these points msy be determined.
There is no immediate means of deter
| mining the utility of
| time being, to some magician, whe may
mystify hus auditors by the devices,
London, through the Strand, about 1
o'clock one morning, and
reached the street in which my botel is
situated, when I saw a woman not far
in front of me apparently stumble ana
| fail to the mudewalk. She was alone.
my steps and ran to her assistance. 1
of great pain in her ankle, and couid
hardly stand, She began to cry bitterly
and said she didn’t see how she was to
| get home, I asked her where she lived;
more than a mile away.
she would have 10 take a oab and that
I would call one, Btull
| complaining that she was severely hurt,
she had no money to pay for it, My
sympathies were aroused, and [ said
‘that I would give her enough to pay
| the cab fare. 1 put my Land mu my
At the same time I stepped toward a
{ gas lamp 10 order to pick out the right
| amount,
“Quick as a flash the woman seized
my wrist, and some of the coins went
rattling down om the pavemeni, At
this moment three other women ap.
ed, 1 had seen nothing of them
fore, They seized me by the arms
and around the waist, I instantly com-
prehended the situation, I was the
victim of a confidence game and was
being robbed-—or would be in a moment
unless | made a vigorous resistance,
I had my umbrellas in my hand, I
struggled violently with the four women,
and at length managed to bresk away
from them. I started ou a run at full
speed for my hotel, only a few rods
sway, All the women were in hos pur
suit, You know all these streets run-
ning from the Strand down to the river
descend pretty rapidly, and as I was
going down I got under such headway
1 could not stop when I resched my
house, I stopped just below it, how-
ever, and tried to turn, when the
women seized me again, They pounded
and kicked me viciously, but did not
get anything out of my pockets. 1
used my hands and feet and ombrella
as best I could, but 1 sm afraid they
would bave been more Shan a matoh for
me
“By good fortue, however, while the
the landlord appeared in it, 1 told him
I needed help, and he esme out, The
women then set npon him, ay taking
advantage of the op nity I broke
per at full speed
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FASHION NOTES,
-"I'he new millinery laces are woolen
enriched with chenille embrodiery,
~Young misses’ dresses are to be
very modest and quiet in styles and
colors this winter,
—Sleeves are long and close, as a
rule, yet a few are shown with puffs at
the shoulders and elbows,
~Many of the rough surfaced cloths
are rendered more comfortable by lin-
ings of China silk and satin surah,
—If the body of your dress is of
fancy woolen goods, then plain velvet
makes a more appropriate trimming,
Bead trimming is more popular
than ever, and while such variety and
exquisite combinations can be had it is
entirely unsafe to predict an early
downfall to the fashion,
fine cloth to be combined with silk and
velvet, velvet plush, gauze, tulle, crepe
de chine and satin finished failles,
Walking skirts are as long as pos-
sible without touching the ground. A
few demi-trains are seen on ordinary
dresses, but the best taste does not
commend them, neither do the best-
dressed ladies wear them,
—Sets of very deep Vandyke collars
and cuffs, made severally in different
cameo or other clasps, are very pretty
worn in turn they give quite a new look
~The changeable bonnets have stiff,
upstanding loops of velvet, through
which a roll of orange, pink or pale
blue velvet is drawn to suit differest
costumes, The color of the bonnet
self must be black, white or gray.
— Panther ribbon of plush or velvet,
imitates in design and coloring the fur
of the animal after which it
This ribbon is made in cockades and
loops arranged in various ways and
forms the sole trimming of the bonnet
or hat,
iar,
on velvet and bordered with a row of
falling pear-shaped pearls,
lets are made in gray, jet, garnet and
golden-brown pearls, and are worn with
high dresses, Dog collars are also made
in striped ribbon of pretty shades, and
with a
of the same,
— Hoods, practical and impractical,
are added to jackets and mantles, with
bright linings. The circular Irish cioak,
generally dark blue cloth, lined with
High velvet
collars, stiff and all round, are a fea-
ture. Jackets are small and close iit-
ting, except one variety, which has
butions; and is
transformed, button
revers,
richly braided,
Www Lhe figure
being
ing diag i
he els
are fashionabls
to ad vantage.
Feit come in all
shades, as well as pale bine, corn color,
red and china pink. They are usually
given a heavy band of jet beads as a
border, with a stiff velvet bow and
some jetted bird top. The felt is
in a basket
plait; it bas not the lustre of the pold
and silver basket braids, but 183 newer
quite as elegant. The studded
TONRIY BDG 1 ie
bonnets sober
on
pale tan felt colored bonnets is also
-The most desirable gloves are in
the long, soft, plain, Mousquetaire style
of the wrist, In answer to the inquiry
length of the sleeve and the taste of the
wearer, For evening wear, they should
dress is without sleeves, and if there
are sleeves should nearly or most quite
mended, who, although fashion permits
them to do so, never leave a space be-
buttons in length is considered the
shortest glove admissible for full dress,
~The fashionable colors in dress
goods are heliotrope, chrysanthemum,
light and dark’ petunia, a gamut of
greens—-the darkest emerald, grass
green, linden aud intervening shades;
seal browns and the redder tints—for
example, lynx, the color of Suede
gloves, and Alezan, richer and redder,
the more fire and flame therein the bet.
ter. The contrasts in one material are
vivid; red blends with blue or with
green, amber is flecked with brown or
blue, blue with canary; grass green is
pear: cardinal and smoke, lettuce and
myrtle, fawn and moss, fawn and
brown-these are fashionable combina
tions. Plain silks are corded, and so
well woven they no longer puil apart,
and on corded grounds appear gigantic
leaves in loose upstanding plush,
bright in contrast. Stripes, frise de
signs and large flowered brocades in
self tones are Interwoven with corded
and watered silks,
— A new mantle called the Floren.
tine, has the straight gathered fronts
cut like a blouse. They reach below
the waist to cover a third of the skirt,
These {ront pieces are fastened to a flat
lining. and tnmmed with a rich pe
sementerie of wooden beads,
sleeves are a kind of pelerine, rounded
over the shoulders. They form the
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HORSE NOTES,
~Staith McCann offers for sale Red
Wilkes, the sire of Phil Thompson.
*Young Dick” Pryor is to open a
public traluing stable at Lexington,
Ky. ’
_~—Joe Cotton, the most successful of
King Alfouso’s get last season, won
$22,425,
—~Klizur Smith, Highlawn Farm, de-
nies having purchased the stallion Sul.
tan for £15,000,
~The four best Australian race
horses are : Barb, Malua, Grand Flan.
eur and Commotion.
~The death of H. 1. Dousman, a
well known Western turfman, was re-
ported on January 14, from Prairie du
Chien.
—Corrigan’s Lizzie Dwyer will bs the
best horse in the West, barring F ree-
land, next season. At least 80 an en-
| thusiast says,
Jeaconsfield, the crack racer of the
Pacific Slope, is all right again, and
bears no trace of his recent encounter
{ with a breaking cart.
~T, J. Dunbar's contract with H,
N. South, Fashion Stud Farm, Tren-
ton, N. J., is for five years, with a
commission on sales and winnings,
— There were sold at public sale dur-
ing 1885, in this country, 374 yearlings,
188 colts and 186 fillies, The 374 head
brought $201,202, an average of $698, -
40 per head.
—Russia is credited with having
{ more horses than any other country in
{ the world. The number is placed at
{ 14,000,000. The United States come
| next with 11,000,000,
| —Peter V, Johnson, the well-known
driver, has made an engagement with
| R, 8B, Veech, of Indian Hill Stock
| Farm, Louisville, Ky., to take charge
of and develop his young trotting stock.
— The only surviving colts of Goid-
| smith Maid are the stallion Stranger
| and the filly Rosebud, the latter being
named after the daughter of Budd
{ Doble, who trained and drove the mare
during her turf career,
~— Edward Amer’s old horse dropped
dead in the West Park last week. The
cause is said to have been heart disease.
The horse was to a sleigh and coming
from the Gentleman's Driving Course.
The animal was 25 :
-Los Angelos advices say that E. J.
Baldwin, the well-known California
| turfman, has sold 24 acres of his
great Santa Amita ranch in Los Ange-
les county. A new town called Bald-
win has been laid out. Mr. Baldwin is
sald to have offered the San Gabriel
Valley Kailroad $10,000 if it would
build to the town by the middle of
February.
— Dexter B, G
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ff has sold, for Sire
to John Cogswell, Staten Island,
the bay stallion Abdallah Boy (2 241),
by Abdallah Messenger, dam Motto, by
Corbeau ; price $3000 Thomas
MeMunas, the bay gelding Harry, trial
2.25, by Happy Medium ; price, $2500
and to C. Russell, Eaglewood, N. J..
the chestnut gelding Steve, by Stephen
A, Dougl price, $1500,
-W. C. France is said to be
for a mate for Harry Wilkes,
2.15, with a view of beating
team trotting record.
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He may buy the
Be 2.213, Ly Panic,
dam Maid of the Mist, owned by E, G.
| Sutheriand, of Michigan. Mr, France
has recently purchased of E. A, Wood-
ward, of Norwalk, Conn., the ch. g.
John Hines, foaled 1878, by Woody, be
by Fisher's Rattler, dam the dam of
Hattie Woodward, 2.154.
— Last summer the races at the dif-
ferent resorts were attended By thou-
sands, and the money that changed
hands ran up into seven figures, The
Futurity stakes, announced for 1888,
at Sheepshead Bay, for two-year olds,
{has already 603 entries, and several
prominent breeders have not vel been
heard from. It is also expected by the
Coney Island Jockey Club that several
entries from France and England will
| be made. The siakes will be worth
| about $50 000, one of the biggest prizes
ever run for, and far more valuable
{ than the famous English Derby.
Another famous match, negotiations
{ of which are now under way, will be
| between Miss Woodford and Freeland,
Michael Dwyer was in Kentucky the
| other week, and so pleased was he with
| Mise Woodford's improvement since
{ turped out there, that he authorized
| Mr. Barnes to try to arrange a match
| with Freeland for anything from §5,00¢
up. The distance will be one and a
| quarter miles, the same as inthe match
races of last year, unless the owners of
| Freeland desire to have it longer, The
| only objection to the race is that one
| party wants it in the east and the other
| in the west.
One of the Dwyer brothers in speak.
| jng of the match to-day, said: “We
| desire to have the race in the east, as
| it 1s not our intention to go to Chicago
| or any other place in the west to mace
| Miss Woodford against so good a horse
{as Freeland. If Mr, Corrigan wants
the match he must come here, Wecan
make £5,000 to $10,000 here with the
mare, without the risk of losing that
amount while we are going back and
forth. Last year Freeland was Lhe bet-
ter horse, but Miss Woodford was not
at her best, She is doing so nicely now
down in Kentucky that 1 have every
hope for her in the coming racing Sea-
It was a wise thing in sending
soteh,
«3d turfmen are familiar with the
name of W. Nelson. He died
at Baltimore Jan. 15th, aged 62 years.
@ was noted as a toainer and jockey,
and had driven Flora Temple and Dex-