Echoes,
flest and Unrest—"tis strange that ye,
‘Who He apart as pole from pole,
Should sway with one strong sovereignty
The secret issues of the soul;
Strange that ye both should hold the keys
Of prisoned tender memories.
t may be when the landscape’s rim
1s red and slumberous round the west,
The spirit too grows still and dim,
And turus in half~unconscious quest
To those forggtten lullabies
“That whilam closed the infant's eyes
And maybe, when the city mart
Toars with its fullest, loudest tide,
The spirit loses helm and chart,
And on an instant, terrified,
¥ as fled acroas the space of years
To notes that banished childhood's fears.
We know not—but "tis sweet to know
Dead hours still haunt the living day,
And sweet to hope that, when the slow
Sure message beckons us away,
The past may send some tuneful breath
To echo round the bed of death.
RIE
NAMESAKES.
“Close the shutters, Kitty.
terrible night it is, to be sure,
rain is coming down in floods,”
A barrack ground, stiff and ugly un-
der the most favorable circumstances,
looking like a desert in the wind and
rain, was just visible.
“Why, Aunt Bell,” said the girl,
pausing with one hand on the shutter,
**here is a name scratched on this pane
of glass. I never noticed it tall this
minute.”
“What is the name?’ asked the old
lady, half asleep by the fire.
“Kinloch, Scots Greys, 1816,” read
the young girl, *‘and then ‘Kitty’ writ
ten very badly just below.”
“Kinloch! Kitty!” said Aunt Bell,
starting up with a sudden interest.
“Why, that must be the same man!”
Then she sank back again, murmuring,
“Ah, Kitty, there was love in those
days, and romance, 100.”
What a
The
coming to her aunt’s side and kneeling
down on the hearth rug.
The ruddy flames and glow from the
fire lit up the girl's chestnut hair, fair
complexion, and bright hazel eyes.
Aunt Bell gazed lovingly down at the
piquant little face and said:
right kind, but would you like to hear
the story of that namesake of yours,
Kitty?’
“Very much.”
“Well, fifty years ago, as you know,
spend the summer months with my
aunt, who then had one of the finest
houses in this county of Kildare,
the camp and at a neighboring village,
party and I anticipated a gay time,
Oh, those summer months! I grow
young again as I think of them!
rides across the Curragh in the fresh
morning air, when in parties of ten
or fifteen we would gallop for miles on
the stretches of breezy turf; the band-
and chasing us breathlessly down the
slippery oaken corridors.
and under the trees there would be
songs, flirtations, and whispered confi-
dences, and promises made by the score
and never fulflled, What a mad,
anerry time it was!
handsomest of all was a young Scotch
Lieutenant, Kinloch Kinloch. His
mother was Irish, and had bequeathed
him beauty and propensity
joking.
“And now for Kitty, the heroine.
She was the daughter.of a gardener
who lived about a mile from my aunt’s
house, and of all the distractingly pretty
girls that have made men do silly things
I am sure Kitty was one of the pret-
tiest,
“I can't do her justice; but I can
tell you she had the Irish blue eye; a
compiexion like milk, halr of the silkiest
chestnut, curling in rings all over her
brow, and a slender, upright figure, the
envy of all our girls,
her
the trees, Kitty passed us with a basket
of fruit. Kinloch for the
dumb with amazement.
little distance, and kept his eyes fixed
on her.
moment, and every one noticed It.
basket and began helping themselves,
Said one:
**Sure, Kitty, and you would like us
to have the best, 1’ll be bound.”
Another said:
*Mahone, one kiss from that cheek
with the flush of the peach upon it will
save you from these rascally thieves,
for 1 will fight them all for such a
favor.”
“But Kitty would not be bribed, and
seemed about to resign herself to the
Joss of her fruit, when Kinloch shoul-
dered his way into the group, ana giv-
ing the last speaker a friendly push,
cried:
“Leave the girl alone, Grant, please,”
“Then be turned to Kitty, saying, “It is
wery heavy for your little arms, and
there will come no one stealing the
fruit now, I'm thinking.”
“Thank you,” said Kitty, gratefully,
and walked along by his side.
**That 1s the first time I have seen
my lady allow any one to fetch and
«carry for her,” my brother said.
“There is no galnsaying Kinloch,
then, for he always gets his own way
in what he wants, Harry,” I said.
* Especially when it bas to do with
pretty girls,” sneered Grant.
“Treason!” we all shouted in a
Hiteuth. “Kinloch is the same to us
"”
“Of course; but are you not all pretty
girls?” said Grant,
“We ed, and did not deny the
soft impeachment; and so the momen-
tary breach was healed,
“That was ithe time we noticed
Kitty coming up to our house with her
fruit. We were quite sure nothing we
could have said o done Mould ind
preven but we were not quite
80 sure about Kinloch, who, ever since
that little episode, had wandered about
like a distressed lover. One day we
met Kitty in a lane, and I sald to her:
How is It you never come our way
now ,
*“The girl blushed.
“Father prefers to take up the
things himself,” she murmured; for
which painfully apparent fib we for-
gave her.
“The days passed on and Kinloch,
who had before been the life of our
expeditions, was now generally absent.
Where he nad been was evident, for
we often caught a glimpse of chestnut
hair shining through the trees, or the
old picturesque red shawl draped over
Kitty's head and shoulders, her round,
dimpled arms appearing just below,
“Kinloch's regiment had been or-
dered away to another part of lreland,
and, one morning, a few days before he
was to go, we begged for his company
to a pieniec we had arranged to have
with one or two other families,
“Thanks, very much,’ but I'm afraid
1 shall be too busy,’ he said,
“Oh, but you must come!
counted upon you,” we said,
“But 1-1 have so many things to do
to-day.”
Here hie stopped and blushed.
“We girls were devoured with curi-
osity, and some of the men had a per-
ceptible sneer on their faces,
“He bas got to say farewell to his
lady-love,”’ suggested Phillip Grant,
“Kinloch turned on him with blazing
eyes, We all kept back. They were
like globes of fire.
“Confound it, sir, and suppose I
have! What is that to you?" he cried.
“We all stared at P’hilip; he was
very white, but he shrugged his shoul-
ders and wisely forbore to answer,
**Kinloch’s temper calmed down as
rapidly as it had risen.
“‘] am sorry to disappoint you, girls,
but I must beg to be excused,’’ he said
gently; and bowing, he walked off.
“we watched his upright, manly lg-
ure striding along till he disappeared,
We all
and sighed.
**A clear case,” said one girl,
“Head over heels.”
“What will he do?”
“*How can he marry her?"?
“Kitty can take care of herself.”
“But I'm sure she is in love;
never has been before,”
“Ie will go away and forget her.”
“He gave h
Said, Adiea
she
“Never!
happen.
I said.
That
3 LAL
Nothing of the kind will
night Kinloch made his way
cottage, IHis
was pale, but he had a determined look
4
lightly along.
**The girl had just set her father’s
rest
of the night,
through the star-spangled course,
Kitty's
candle in the window.
filled with tears.
“Why do you weep, Kitty?" said a
voice at her side,
**The girl buried her face
hands and sobbed afresh,
“*You are going away.’’ she said.
“Yes, Iam going away, but you will
come with me, Kitty, for you love me,"
said Kinloch. .
“Come back in ten years, Kinloch,
[ will be true to you and wait till then.
i and improve myself—make
in her
I will try
myself more worthy of your love,
“*Keep as you are, Kitty; remain un-
changed,” sald the young man jeal-
ously, *'lest when I come back again I
shall not see in you the last look that 1
took away with me, my life, my love!”
he murmured passionately, and then
Kissed her sweet brow and mouth, and
folding her in one last embrace he left
her,
As she went into the cottage a large
moth sailed in before her, flew up into
“Kitty, my girl,” said the old man,
pointing significantly to the insect,
“Don’t be assilly as that thing.
were dazzled, and it had
strength to resist the fatal fascination.”
*‘Father, you may trust me,” said
The dancing of the high-heeled shoes
and the silvery laughter rose higher
than the roar of the wind, and the
tinkling wine cups drowned all sound
of rain. Suddenly there was a lull; we
stopped dancing; a chill blast swept
round us; we turned and saw a silent
figure standing in the doorway.
*‘He was tall and handsome, but his
large black cloak, carelessly thrown
over his shoulder, was dripping with
the ram and making a large puddle on
the floor, Is legs, booted and spurred,
were mud up to the hips,
“Just at that moment the clock
struck 12, and the year 1816 had bro-
ken, Some of the nervous girls
screamed and ran behind their partners,
Was it an apparition? Was it an ill
omen for the coming year?’’
*I seem to frighten you,
Does nobody know me?”’
“Kitty at that moment was bringing
in a jug of iced claret at another door.
She heard the voice and turned round
trembling, with a wild cry:
“Kinloch, Kinloch, I knew you
would come back!” And amidst a
crash of breaking glass-~for she let the
vessel slip from her hands-—she sprang
to his side, and disappeared in the folds
of his great cloak,
“How splendid, Aunt Bell!” said her
niece, drawing a deep breath; *‘but if
she married him then I don’t see why
she should not have done so before,’
“Ah, but she was a wise girl; she
knew it would test his constancy, and
prove if he really loved her, A young
man’s love at 21—as she knew 80 well
would not be his choice at 31."
“What became of them, aunt?”
“Oh, they married and traveled about
a great deal, and finally both dled out
in India within a few months of each
other, There was one son, and I be-
Come,
friends.
Perry's place,”
“The young men are not what they
to be,” sighed the old lady.
Good-night, Chllidie!”
Kitty went down stairs and popured
+1
tii
Kate
Kinloch, She went
undid the shutter.
She pictured to herself the young man
as he came to the window and scratched
¥
the girl's hand in
just below.
his, slowly guiding it
She leaned in the shadow
There,
under that very door, stood the tall,
What! was she dreaming. What
stood there at that moment?
darker than the gloom of the room.
The rain poured in rivers outside, the
wind whistled round the house. The
figure came farther into the room. She
saw by the musty light that he was a
tall man with a dark cloak over his
shoulders, booted and spurred, with
mud up to his hips. She felt as if the
scene was to be played over
pretty girls with their puffed sleeves
and short waists, their flowing curls
and high-heeled shoes, Kitty, where
was she? And here she blushed
herself in the darkness, There was a
Kitty, but not that one.
The man came up to the window,
evidently thinking no one was in the
room. The girl shrank back as
wet cloak brushed against her cheek.
“Kinloch!” she said, half doubting
whether the figure would answer, for
she could hardly tell yet whether she
was dreaming or no,
“Who spoke my
out, glancing round.
“1 did,” sald Kitty, feel
abashed, almost at Lis elbow,
He glanced down, drawing away his
to
the
pame?’’ he called
ng
very
“1 am sure | beg vyour pardon; I
thought the room was empty. I must
have come into the wrong quarters,
Here Aunt Bell stopped.
**Is it interesting?
**Oh, do!
her niece,
“Well, the years passed on, and the
Did he come back?” said
offers of marriage, but she was firm
At last the
fellows grew weary of their
fruitless attempts at love-making, and
the greater part left her alone. A
few, more unkind, would ask when
she expected her young gentleman
home, and taunted her in cutting
**Nine years went by, and then came
the battle of Waterloo when officers and
men went down together in hundreds,
heart, which had pever falled in its
lightness nor her step in its speed, now
sank and faltered for the first time.
**Early in the next year—in fact, on
New Year's night—the officers gave a
ball, and every girl and young man for
miles around was invited. Girls were
in great demand then, and I went down
to my aunt's house especially for that
night. I was anxious to see Kitty my-
self and to find out how the years had
passed over her head.
**You think, perhaps, 20 was rather
old to be called a girl—do yon, Kitty,
Well, I felt almost as young as when I
was 16, and quite as ready to enjoy a
dance or a flirtation, I assure you.
“Kate Daly~~that was her name
went to help the ladies unshawl them-
selves, and to be ready with needle and
thread when the unhappy damsel with
torn skirt or flounce should require her
assistance, She was then 28, and the
young, girlish beauty had developed
into the most lovely of women. Oaly
when her face was at rest, and you saw
the suspicion of an anxious heart upon
it, would you have guessed her age.
She wore a pale, tea rose tinted gown,
with rufiles of lace of her own making
at the neck and sleeves,
“It was a wild and stormy night
without, just such a one as this, but it
only served to enhance the brightness
and animation of the scene within,
the block. I hope you will forgive such
an intrusion.”
“Then you are not Kinloch?" she
“*My name is Kinloch,” he answered
i
i
!
|
“My aunt was telling me about this
Kinloch,’ and Kitty tapped the frame
with her finger *‘I will tell you the
story some day, if you Jlike; but you
into the room just as she said
namesake did, dressed in the
But there!
I suppose you are not even a relation?"
“He was my father.” said the young
something alike.” It was now his turn
to say in a disappointed tone, “But
“Yes, it is," she sald eagerly, then
paused; a sudden rosy flush rushed
over her face, At least, no—Iit ig"
“But she could not deny it, for it
was Kitty,
“These are our namesakes; shall we
write ours below them, Xittyl"
“Some day-perhaps.”’
fi
Our Defenceless Harbors.
The defenseless condition of our sea
ports will be better understood from
observing the great range of modern
guns now in actual use on war ships,
new French gun, weighing thirty.
seven tons, has thrown a projectile
weighing 1,000 pounds over eight miles,
The English 43-ton gun has a maximum
range nearly as great, The English 63.
ton gun is credited with a theoretical
range of over ten miles, It is truethat
these extreme ranges are attained with
elevations which may not be secured in
the turret ports of vessels, and this im-
portant point must not be ignored. But
as our harbors bave no guns approach.
ing these in power, guns brought to at.
tack them may be safely fired without
any appliances of shelter to interfere
with their extreme ranges.
A new cask will long preserve the
tincture and taste of liquor with which
it 1s first impregnated. :
INTERIOR OF MEXICO,
Home Life Among the Peons-—-Thelir
Dwellings and Habits,
children often go naked, and the grown
people wear no more clothing than their
partial civilization demands. The flat
roofed adobe house, the palm-covered
cane hut or a cave in the hillside serves
all the purposes of an earthly habita-
tion for those whose lives are passed
within them. But here in the coolest
part of the Republic—a mile and a half
above the level of the sea-nature has
80 elevated the country and lowered the
temperature that clothing is a necessity
There is sufficient rain to penetrate the
flat roofs and drown out the cave dwel-
lers, hence we find the people living
above ground and under inclined roofs,
Thus they have advanced by the sheer
necessity of thelr external surroundings
but where nature has not acted with a
compulsory force they still remain in a
condition that is scarcely above that of
the lower animals in some respects,
The houses are built of mud, stone and
adobe. They have dirt floors and shed
roofs which are covered with mud mor-
tar about six inches deep. They seldom
have windows or any other prevision
for light and ventilation except the
door, Weoften find a large
living in one of these rooms,
the evening comes a famlly circle is
formed around a few ancient earthen
mugs and jars which are set on the dirt
floor; from these they take their scant
When
of cigarettes are smoked, then the door
fumes of the smoking wick
and almost as sickly and deadly
black-hole of Calcutta,
We see these creatures ont
in his mercy to grant them more bless-
ings, after which they employ what
mental and physical force they
hose have
fools
vi
which
already been granted, ‘‘What
these mortals be,”
Their diet consists of the
fruits of the tropic, with
goat's milk and
made of salt and water. The
goat's meat,
corn cakes)
meal 18
tortilias
to those used by ancients.
stoves and fron cooking
In place of
utensils, they
which are placed over charcoal fires,
The knowledge of cooking among all
classes of women is as meagre
means used, hence the breakfast biscuit
white loaf bread, pies, preserves and
puddings of the United States are never
seen in Mexico.
Their Dress. — The
shawls over their heads in place of hats
and bonnets and the fashion never
changes. Their feet are small and they
wear tight shoes with very high
women wear
red dresses are often worn, but among
the higher classes a combination of
The men of every class bave a pas-
sionate fondness for dressed-sheep,
goat, or deer skin suits, These are of-
ten fringed, painted and embroidered
with silver, The pautaloons are often
striped down the side with rows of but-
tons and buckles and the wide-brimmed
f adorned with silver
stars, tass«ls and a few rounds of heavy
silver cord around the crown. The
wear very low-crowned, wide-
brimmed straw-hats, and in place
coats they wear heavy woolen blankets
winter and summer, Though 1 am
now in the torrid zone and to-day 1s
midsummer, yet | see the natives passing
or sunning themselves with their blank-
peons
of
Mothers are passing with their babies
boots,
A few are dressed as we find them in
the United States, Thus it is the old
and the new, the high and the low are
RA —_———_
The Flying Fish.
There discussion
fish really
Engi-
navy, throws light
much
flying
been
the
has
ence, He assures us that this curious
bird-fish really does beat its wings,
and that it can change its direction in
that its
jumping than a
Engineer Baird's observation
In the Cape Verd island region there
are numbers of a very large flying fish,
visible. A
school of flying fish will keep together
nearly as well as a flock of ducks,
The fish usually starts to windward
in 1ts flight, and then changes is direc-
tion. It can be observed most advan-
tageously from on board a ship, and 1t
was here that Engineer Baird made his
observations, The light in the air
seemed to dazzle the fishes’ eyes. When
alarmed they dart quickly forward by
wagging the tail fin, If, then, a scoop-
net be placed 1n front of them they will
jump Into it
in AIR SAN.
A Pauper's Death and Prince's Burial,
Marius Moustier, the celebrated ex-
plorer who discovered the sources of
the great African river Niger, commit-
ted suicide recently by drowning hime
self in a small pond in the neighbor.
hood of Marseilles, His body was found
after four days’ immersion, and a letter
in one of the pockets stated that he had
been driven thereto by absolute want
and starvation, He was still in the
prime of life, and during the past six
months had been seeking in vain for
any kind of employment, no matter
how humble, The geographical society
of France have now arranged to give
him a magnificent funeral, whish will
almost appear a mockery when his
friendless death is taken into consider-
ation,
The narrow-minded ask: **1s this one
of our tribe, or is he a stranger?” But
to those who jie GLI Doble ispostuion,
the whole world is but one family,
FASHION NOTES.
~Shades of gray are very stylish for
gloves to wear on all ordinary occa
sions as well as with demi-tollet,
- Joyal red is seen in the new leather
goods, both in card-cases, pocket-books
and other useful articles,
—Materials for tenms costumes, with
figures of the accessories of the game,
have ribbons to correspond,
~—Dull leather will supersede patent
leather for walking boots. Heels are
low and the toes less pointed.
Slippers for evening wear are of
Buede leather, and are elaborately em-
broidered with beads and silk.
— English erapes In all colors are seen
on bonuets and plastrons, Small capotes
are made of this crape in green, ruby
and gray. White bonnets are much
worn by young ladies with full-dress
toilets. They are trimmed with cream,
beige or light pink. Small capotes are
the style for full-dress purposes, Some-
times they have no strings, and form a
small puffed piece on the head no larger
than a flower, Hats grow larger and
larger, and the apparent size 18 in-
creased by tulle puffs and flounces of
lace falling from the edge all around.
When to a hat thus adorned is added a
mass of flowers or ribbon veiled with
lace, the size of the whole is enormous,
By a sort of compensation the bonnets
are unusually small, They are made, by
preference, of crape, to match the rest
Gray kid gloves, with
or black stitching, are
in hot weather long silk
ones matching the costume are more
worn, and as the thermometer nses
these will give way to mitts where com-
Bray
— A peculiarity of the present
ion is that while the neutral
seen, such as undecided greens,
blues, and reds, that look
colors enjoy, nevertheless,
share of favor, These varying styles
admirably handled by
dressmakers that it is difficult to decide
which will be preferred,
both are adopted, and ladies of fashion
ferent occasions, according to fancy.
They bring into use the various tones
Nile
low, such
groan,
quil and the different tones of lemon,
they are as much worn as red.
Suits in yellow are usually covered
or seal brown, or with beaded net-work,
The parts of the dress that are not cov-
ered with lace or net-work have ara-
ous shades of reddish brown.
mauve is unquestionably gaining
ground, both for dresses and bonnets,
For skirts and waists it is employed
work.
- Among
toilets
of light
Parisian ladies, These have either
The
bows,
under
ribbons
“ery } 4
Embroid-
shades,
ribbon
fastened
dark
skirts are draped with
which are
fancy metal clasps. Bows of
are again in constant use,
ered and beaded trimmings are usually
in panel style. They are worked on the
underskirt, and 8 opened on
side Work. The
side bh ic is raised
full small plaits,
falis either straight or ia
Many aprons are also to be
Some of these form part of the
tunic, and are raised very high in the
sides, Others are square and trimmed
with either galloon or lace.
sometimes
either to sh the
other
and then
Waves,
See.
with the skirt falling straight down the
back. Another way of arranging a
dress 18
the tunic. This tunic opens over the
back puffing, and is fastended to it by
cordings or flaps. If cordings are em
ployed then there are also drooping or-
naments, and with the flaps there are
Great importance
is at present attached to these buttons,
as they give a stamp of onginality to
many costumes,
They are very prominent
this summer in linen and foulard suits
Some summer dresses of cotton
goods and foulards are in Pompadour
and Indian designs, A number of these
A variety of white dresses are made for
There are also
Sailor suits
Dress.
makers are always seeking novelties for
bridal toilets. Among the many styles
seen at various French establishments
the simplest are the most graceful
They are of the most elegant fabrics,
Ottoman, faille and gros-grain silk are
the goods most favored by bndal
dresses. Many of these tollets are of
satin and “satin mervellleanx.” A
combination of satin and gauze without
any lace is made in the following man-
ner: The satin skirt has a square silk-
gauze apron plaited lengthwise, The
skirt is separated from the train by a
narrow panel of plaited gauze. Be.
tween this panel and the apron is a
space to show the underskirt. On one
side of this panel are satin-ribbon bows
with flowers intermixed, and the other
side of the plaiting is of satin. Over
the satin train is a gauze scarf fastened
in several places by orange blossoms,
The waist has no basque. A plaited
ganze Marie Antoinette fichu is crossed
under the belt, The gauze sleeves are
plaited lengthwise and trimmed with
nds of satin, Another toilet is much
simpler, but of more costly fabric. It
is trimmed with three shawls of old
point lace. One of these is draped in
front in apron style, over a round skirt;
the others fall in two points over the
train. The waist has a fichu of lace, with
the point downward. Itisd from
one shoulder to the other, ulets
of flowers fall over the sleeves,
pongo won Bap Bugis
or very gauze
with “brillantine’ 1s most suitabla,
HORSE NOTES.
— in
~Billet, the noted thoroughbred
stallion, although totally blind and over
30 years of age, is as vigorous as ever,
and exercises four miles every day.
— Toy, the dam of Belle Hamlin, is
now sterile, and 18 hacked about Vil-
lage Farm in the hope that gentle work
will restore her to a fruitful condition.
-— Mike Bowerman wore a pea-green
cap driving “Bob's Jug” on Wednes-
day, at Rochester, The horse is blind,
and so was Mike, at times, with dust.
- Ascender, one of the prominent
Kentucky Derby horses of 1883, has
gone hopelessly in one of his forelegs,
and will hereafter be used as a buggy
horse.
~The first time that 2.20 was ever
beaten for three consecutive heats was
in 1869, when Goldsmith Mad won
the free-for all purse at Buffalo,
2.19%, 2-194. 2.193.
—Cleveland’s fall trotting mesting,
September 14 to 17, will include the
2.40, 2.35, 2.30, 2.25, 2.20 and free-for-
all trots, and the 2.17 pacing class—all
for purses of §600 each,
—~—f[mcy Fry is in slings at the Veter-
inary Hospital, and it is an even chance
that the compound fracture will be
iy
iid
the part of a brood mare,
— Henry Chambers, the “rubber®’ of
Prince Wilkes, is quite a banjo player,
and as the Prince stands in his box-
stall he listens attentively to the old
Kentucky airs which Henry plays.
~— William Arthur cast a shoe and
finished outside the flag in the first heat
class at Buffalo, but the
judges permitted him to start again,
hd
iid
ome Turner,
~Jogion, the full brother of Belle
Hamlin, promises to have more size
than his sister, and he Is purely gaited,
going close to the ground. He will not
be handled until next season, when he
will be 4 years old,
-~ After
the 2,10 class at
yh
Yan
the race between h
Juffalo it was
Ness did
srses of
insinu-
ated that not labor
have
and on the following morning the
of this point grew so warm
has won seven races this
including the forfeit received in
match with Tyrant, and been
va
— Volante
by a stable companion. The
of the Champion stakes was
$4750, and his gross earnings thus far
won
—Jacobs, driver of the pacer Dan D.,
$1000 and Johnson $1000, and we will
over Chicago, Cleveland, or
Minneapolis tracks, whichever will add
the most, and let the second save
the first to take the balance.
I mean pace, and my money is ready at
any time,
—The entries for the Grand Pnx de
Paris, to be run for in 1888, were made
same as for the
Derby Oaks, and it is
somewhat to find that the
entnes than were this
vear. The total is 330, and out of this
number 218 French-bred animals,
thers 105 are English, 7
§ Hungarians and 2 Germans.
the time
t x
it those
English and
surprising
« 3 i oy
are less they
are
Willis of the
Russians,
's Jug, rather a queer name
't it? said one of the
boys in Bowerman Drothers’ stable thus
““He was sired by George
3, and receive initiatory les-
SONS the turf on Colonel R. G.
Stoners stock farm, down in old Ken-
tucky. Bob Jones was the first man to
hold the ribbons behind the little fel-
low. The stable boys could not think
his
on
Bob's Jug, because Bob
always kept his jug of bourbon in his
stall, The nickname is now genuine.
Rather a laughable incident wasn’t it?”
called him
~The Saratoga correspondent of the
of the Tunes has this to say of a
Pailade:phia turfman: “Young Gratz,
whos » Elkwood captured the
Sequel on the 7th inst., won enough in
the stake and otherwise to pay for the
colt nearly twice over, He recently
K fF rf ko
DPIT A ie
cot
Gratz, who isa modest, boyish-
looking young fellow, and is compar-
3
as well asa fine racing stable,
view—t0 run to win under any and all
circumstances,
~The Junior Champion stake was
worth $0050, and it made Tremont’s
thirteenth consecutive success, leaving
him just three behind The Bard's great
2-.year-old récord in England last year.
His total gross winnings now foot up
the handsome sum of $40,435, a larger
sum than was ever won by a colt of his
age in ttis country, and he has now
placed to his credit more races than any
of the same age in the history of the
American turf. When will be stop?
It is hard to say. Perhaps he will not
stop, though rumor is commencing to
whisper about one of his forelegs. He
sud Hanover left for Saratoga on Tues-
ay.
~In the 2.21 class (at Buffalo)
Bonnie MoGregor was a hot favorite
over the field, composed of Alert, Char-
ley Hilton, Longfellow Whip, Nobby,
Belle F., Judge Lindsay and Judge
Davis. Crawford drove Alert and
Hickok, Hilton. Doble was at first in-
clined to enter a protest on the ground
that Crawford bad an interest in Hil.
ton, but when Hickok showed a writ.
ten transfer the objection was with
drawn. A little bad blood, however,
remained. In the first heat, around
the upper turn, Crawford had what he
called a quiet agreement with Doble,
The sulkies ded, and spokes were
shattered. Bonnie McGregor