sg Eh
Mf ——
Press On.
Press on! surmount the rocky steeps,
Climb boldly o'er the torreut's arch;
He fails alone who feebly creeps,
He wins who dares the hero's march,
Be thou a hero! Let thy might
Tramp on eternal snows its way,
And, through the ebon walls of night,
Hew down a passage unto day.
ress on! if once and twice thy feet
Slip back and stumble, harder try;
From him who never dreads to meet
Danger and death, they're sure to fly.
To coward ranks the bullet speeds,
While on their breast who never quail
Gleams, guardian of chivalric deeds,
Bright courage, like a coat of mail.
Press on | if fortune play thee false
Fo-day, to-morrow she'll be true;
Whom now she sinks, she now exalts
Taking old gifts and granting new.
The wisdom of the present hour
Makes up for follies past and gone;
Fo weakness strength succeeds, and power,
From frailty spring—Press on |
LCherefore, press on! and reach the goal,
Faint not! for to the steadfast soul
Come wealth, and honor, and renown.
To thine own self be true, and keep
Thy mind from sloth, thy heart from soll
on! and thou shalt surely reap
ly harvest for thy toil
RE TI A Ss.
ANTRANGE WOOING.
Te
ress
A beaver
The weather had been very cold,
ven for January. For days nobody
had stirred out, unless compelled by
uecessity, and I've no doubt our dear
mother had longed many times for a
¢ which would allow her
en lo exercise thei
es out of doors,
At last the change came,
Lie forenoon the thermomete
+ rising temperatare, and about
Iay “‘the old woman up in the
egan emptying her feather beds.”
Thick and fast the downy snow-
iakes fell, wrapping every tree and
shrub in a garment of pure white, and
naking even the *‘stake and rider”
fences, the log barns and corn cribs,
things of beauty which were too truly
“Joys not to last forever.”
Hastily we children were clad
coats, cloaks, scarf, mitiens and all
paraphernalia of outer garments which
loving mothers provide and insist on
belng worn, despite the protests of the
Vearers,
At last we were free, and out upon
be hill near by, where there was
grand sport, sliding, snowballing and
making snow men,
The afternoon slipped quickly by,
the snow ceased falling, and the even-
was setthng down clear and cold
when upon the opposite hilitop there
‘ame in sight a farmer's box sleigh,
Irawn by a span of bay horses. Very
hastily we drove our sleds to the foot
of our hill, and we reached 1t just in
time for a hitch.
The driver of this establishment was
not visible,
The hand which guided tha team
seemed not a hand, Lut a huge wad of
buckskin and yarn, and it proceeded
‘from a sort of tower of bed quilts
blankets, buffalo robes, comforters, sur-
mounted by a head-plece enveloped in
green and ed **Bay State” shawl
I'bere was a little crack that was
loubtedly left for the eye, but no eyes
ould be seen by us.
Edging around a
probably as much
would allow, the roll
nquired
Black's?”
plied affirmative
noisy
and
+f lungs
m
During
indicated
mid-
sky
81
in
the
ng
'
ne.
Ail
very little, but
circumsiances
dry goods and
house was
settled
y, and
stranger might be,
When the sled stopped, a commit
f us reported the arrival at the |
while the remrainder watched the t;
and Llanketing of the horses, and then
1 a voluntary escort.
+
formed
In answer to a muflled wrap, father
opened the door,
Srruire B ack, i suppose?”
Yes, sir; coms In. Getting quite
le," said my father, eyeing
his guest curiously.
‘Well, yes, we've had a fearful
weather, and I've been on the
id for the last two days of it. I see
on’t know me, ’'Squire, and
swan, my eyes were so fall rost
hat I hardly knew you; but I reckon
you'll see who I am when | this
gery off.
"rom the moment our visitor had
stepped inside, he had been engaged
in unwrapping one garment after an
ther, a process for all the world like
peeling an onion,
At least thers slood a young man of
{our-and-iwenly years, a six-footer,
with broad shoulders, face
by exposure to the weather, but
goodly face to look upon, with
ather square jaw, ruddy cheeks, full
smiliog lips, brown hair curling over a
broad forehead, and blue eyes, which
auswered my father’s questioning lock
DY a merry twinkle,
in a moment father extended both
of his hands, and grasped the stranger's
most cordially,
“You areone of Aunt Anna’s boys."
A bea ty laugh preceded the reply.
“1 wasn’t afeered but you'd git it
right, "Squire, if I give you time
enough, 1'm the same little Joe Tolon
you taught long-division to."
We knew Aunt Anna was a former
and-lady of father's when he was a
“hn
Cid outs
¥
£y
{
’
0
apt
Le
y
i
a
ilies from us—a great distance in those
days—and our interest began to flag
and the conversation was continued
about old neighbors, of whose exist.
ence we had been ignorant, We be.
took ourselves to the kitchen, where
mother soon followed.
Presently, while Joe was caring for
his team, father came in, and, all un-
mindful of the old adage about *‘little
pitchers,” said, with an air of one who
oust be very circumspect lest his risi-
bilities would betray hum:
“Ma, what do you suppose Joe has
«owe for?”
“I'm sure I don’t know,” replied
suother, composedly stirring another
faandful of meal into the boiling mush
swhich was to be the piece de resistance
of our evening meal.
**He has come for a wife,”
“A wife?’ I didn't koow he was
acquainted around here.”
**He isn’t, He wan's me to recom-
mend him to some girl who is strong,
able and willing to work, knows how
to run a house, and’ (hesitating a
little as he saw the very contemptuous
curve of my mother’s nose and mouth),
—**‘and—I’ve—spoken—about—Jane,"’
‘*’Squire Black!” exclaimed mother,
emphasizing her words still further by
a dash of the pudding stick which sent
the mush flying over the stove. .
Jane was a farmer's daughter, who
worked for us summers, and went
home winters to help do up the spin-
ning, weaving, and the like,
A mutually satisfactory arrangement,
as Jane's services were needed more at
home in the winter than in summer,
and mother thereby saved the board
and wages of a girl during the winter,
when the work was not so heavy. More-
over, mother often said that Jane put
the work ahend so when she was there,
year round,
Ah, help was help in those
Jut to return to the kitchen.
days!
{ the mush pol, where the beating was
going on vigorously.
After a pause, he bagan again:
“Well, ma, Jane is not bound to
marry Joe unless vants to. But
perhaps she'll never get another chauce
as good. You know yourself that any
one of Aunt Anna's boys is bound to
make a good man and a smart ope.”
‘None too smart if he things to get
a wife this way,’”’ snapped out mother:
* Let him try, ma, if he wants to: let
him It won't hurt him to have
the conceit taken out of him.»
No reply, but the mush was
43 never mush was before,
“You know, ma,
she
Tr
Li J
stirred
been
Jane has
Marey,”
wesn't he marry a girl who
Knows if wants to get mar.
ried??? my mother; but the
pudding-stick relaxed i's vigor, some-
what, and father ventured a
nearer the speaker,
‘*He says the girls up there are
squaws, and down by his mother’s t
have too high notions,’
“Well, it's a heathenish, Frenchified
way of courting a wife” 1
mother, “‘and if Le were to come about
| me that way, if I were Jane, I'd empty
a bucket of
“Mavbe :
chuckled
would have enj
of the affal
he
il
red
all
ali
hey
reg le
water on him.”
e@ will, maybe she will
father, who probably
yed that termination
a3 any one."
'
my
would have said
3 entrance of Joe,
1 package.
sends these to vy
ments, Mrs, Black.”
ient
ie
d4
ou with her
tint
UIs
i. Was
these presents,
S.e remained rather sulky all the
ning: when Joe filled her
wood-box, piling her sticks as evenly as
aths in a bundle, filled her water pails,
cut the kindling, and did the mili
nging the pan in as clean,
descended to tell him, as
bringing
! or—but did not say
f
R Of
eve even
ing,
she COuL-
she would
erself, ae
Jane,”
party to that
, When he repeats
id correct an
¢ prayers,
“he was
her ups sul close, and
«1
i
i
i
iy.
a likely )
when she the
AS Arranged that
ce Joe's errand to
were wiiiin
¢
thereafter
ins
ing the farm, father
‘aft }
ILL Jt
and they came up
fd held a conference with
while Jane was 1
the best room.
room”
Ho
up the team,
i Ln
HOUSE An
ton i
and the bovs
+1
ton, uliding
of an old-f
‘he “hest seh }
farm-house was dreary enough. T
ne bad a bright yarn carpet
splint-bottomed
pa ch-work ns, a low
rocking-chair, a wooden *‘ast
i table with the Bible, ‘Call to
{ the Unconverted,” an almanac, and a
file of the Christian Era. A few si
houettgs and prints from magazines
were on the walls; but, after all,
oniy ornaments were ihe scrupulous
cleapiiness and 11s big lire-place,
Jane bustied in and out, on house-
hold and hospitable cares intent, being
given by general consent some oppor-
tunity for an acquaintance and a chance
, Several
ind wooden chairs with
cushio ACK
'"
lee, i
Daxter's *
1
I-
its
rand.
You know airendy what
What did Joe see?
Jane was, as father said, undeniably
homely.
She was tall and angular.
and hands were large
she saw,
iler feet
enough for gold,
proper description,
lon was freckled, but her cheeks would
have shamed the roses,
* Carrotty’ is the
i and then, as if wishing to make amends
| for that mishap, had shaped itself into
i a decided pug. Her mouth was large
| and always smiling, and smiling showed
what Jane's only*beauty—a set of as
| regular and white teeth as ever came
{ from a dentist's hands.
| Her dress was of blue flannsl, every
| thread spun and woven by herself.
{ The hour two until dinner was spent
in viewing and discussing the stock, in
telling the scanty news, and In talking
over Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was
then appearing as a serial, in all of
which Joe took his part sensibly and
| modestly,
At noon we were summoned to an
excellent and bountiful farm-dinner.
It was quite evident that by this time
June had been informed of our errand,
for from perfect unconsciousness she
became suddenly preoccupied, nervous
and blushing; Joe enjoyed tis dinner,
and did ample justice to it.
After we were all done, suddenly
there came a break and an awkward
pause in the conversation, Joe cleared
his throat, but without other sign of
embarrassment began:
“Miss Ivlton, I see someb,dy has
A
already told you what I've come for,
and it’s right that I should tell you
something about myself, The squire
here will tell you about my folks,
‘I am 25 years old, and have never
been sick in my life; I don’t drink
whiskey or chew tobacco, I am a mem-
ber of the Baptist Church when I am
where there 18 one.
“I've been raised to work and can
hold up my end with any man. I have
a hundred and sixty acres of land about
halr cleared, there's the papers to show
for it, and Squire Black will tell you
they're all right.
“I've a good log-house, log-stable,
and so on. I own the horses I drove
down here and a yoke of oxen besides,
I don’t owe any man a cent, I shall
wife to take care of em, Now if you
think you can make up your mind to
questions.”
Jane sald nothing, and Joe, evidently
“Did yon cook this dinner?”
Still Jane was silent, and her mother
answered ‘Yes for her.
| Joe smiled. **Well, the squire told
me you were a good gook, or I wouldn't
| have come out here,’
“Can you make good bread?”
he had
face or
Jane, as if
wash her
from
she could
was heard
asked If
comb her hair,
*Can you milk,
utter ar
and to milk,
id cheese ?*?
“Yes a little louder,
**Can you run a house and do all
kinds of housework?’
I'he cat seemed to have gotten Jane
tongue again, and my mother, pityin
her embarrassment, replied with
b
a
&
an
Then, suddenly chieck-
one who had said too
Wrong onus
ti 168i
Lhe qu
as a housewife,
1 F
resell as
said
+
en
ing he
much, or
became si
went on,
"a
in a .
or
»
it
it
bi nin
'
4
ib Nii i
Lt, 8pin, weave, and
“Can You sew, Kni
are you strong and Lealthy?
*Yes.”
ve got to saying ‘Yes,’ I'd
) right on and ask you to have
t I'll go out and feed my horses,
you can talk with your folks and
'e and his wife, and give me
0 the question when I come
want to say first that if you agree
to marry me, I'll try and do the fair
thing LY you, and expect you to do
saline LY me,
“You can always have what you can
make from the butter and eggs and half
the wool for own spending. It
will be very lonesome, for there won't
» another white woman
ive wiles for a while yet, and the work
Ww hard, but may harder
than you're used If you go; we'll
have to start day after to-morrow. The
roads are very rough, and it will take
two—maybe three —days to travel! the
sixty-odd miles,’
took Joe a lon im
and during his absence a good
{ talking was done, When he
raed, Holton tl
looking very
were tears in the eves of all
when
+}
Lil
FOuUr
nearer than
v
i ha
ii i
be no
+
wil.
a to feed his
oO
Mr. stocd by the
and there
Lue women
BODE,
ie
Foon tel»
He said:
*Jane has con 1 she'll
it with you. She's been a good
rl always, and we hope you'll use her
'
of UH
’
chance
or!
well.
“Iwill, Mr. Holton, so help
lemnly answered Joe,
to where Jane sto
nd her and k
there a general
.sr “ts 1
ements
1
s {3 :
IRE
' Walked
Was
Arrang
116%
i
i
his daugh
1 year
e came home
ashe
. because UY Was too lit
! and numerous |
0lons grew up in a regular sy
heads mounting
other like the rounds of a laddar,
Falher regularly asked Jans, when
she made these visita, if she had come
for her divoree,
Jane always replied:
I don't see but what
along as well as those
| time {or their courting.’
And Joe, Yho was always holding
the baby while Jane ‘ undid’ the big-
ger ones, at the time this question was
asked would say approvingly: “That's
| 80, Jane."
-
: n alm
F Years Jan
intervenin
y
i“.
JORS800,
above
their one
*“*Not this time.
Joe and 1 get
who take more
“Dear me,” said Jane, as, leaning on
Dr. Joe Tolan's arm, she threw back
| her widow's veil (she had worn that
nearly ten years now) and wiped her
glasses before ‘The Heart of the
| Wilderness'' in the art gallery last fall
| =*Dear ms, Joa, that looks just like
| the piece otf woods opposite the door of
the house, when your father brought
me home, I've seen the deer browsing
| there many a time. 1 didn’t think that
| It ever would be a city, but your father
| said it would, and mow the cars run
over that very spot. It
have been longer than all the rest,’
a ——————
A Remarkable Needle,
i
| A remarkable needle is owned
| Queen Victoria, Indeed, it 1s likely
| that there is no other needle so won-
| derful in the whole world, 1t repre.
resents the column of Trajan in minia-
ture. This Roman column is wdorned
with many scenes in sculpture, which
tell of the heroic deeds of the Kmperor
Trojan. On the littie needle are pic-
tured scenes from the life of Queen
Victoria, but the pictures are so small
that it is necessary to use a magnifying
glass in order to see them. The needle
can be opened. It contains a number
of needles of smaller size, which also
contain microscopic pictures,
ely, A Bradenburgh, drives a pair
of stallions on the road —a sorrel and
black.
15 INQUISITIVE
2h ELYIR ANT,
i'd
A Btory of an Infatuated You:l and
his priceless Cane,
form was tightly encased in a horsey
check suit, apd who, in spite of the
fact that the thermometer was at some-
is galt suggested that be has nowhere
him to the arena where, apparently un-
conscious of the fact that they were
being ardently gazed at, the sportive
elephants frolicked in the sunshine,
wieldy gambols of the drab beasts, and
the silver-headed rattan was COmpara-
tively unrecognized,
He stood slightly apart from the
democratic crowd, and as he was taller
than most of the people he looked se-
renely over their heads. A casual ob-
server might have supposed that he
was regarding the elephants with as
much interest as anybody else, It was
4 mistake, The eyes of the leisurely
outh were fixed with a peculiarly ex-
ressive ardor upon a comely damsel of
some 18 summers who was gazing into
arena from the other side. There
was not the least doubt that the come
damsel was amused at the
costume of the
but he evidently
smiles to mean that sl!
his fascing Though
warm he y elbowed
self through three rows of people, and
tood next to the railings,
Th he considered the eleph
no curiosity they apparently the
was one, They stared
yu lit
1
1 1
X i |
Lough
would ha ea ii
3
I
iy
ultra-met-
n
i
iil
§
ugh
as
Ol 8 1S
Lid OU
ig ntenance, and they
bo
came close he railing, as though
make sure he was alive. The leisurely
however, was
ted in h
His neighbors, however,
ailve lo the fun of the situation,
youth twirled his sparse hirs
tions, set his lig!
from his perspiris
self
inal
OF
too much interes-
yok about him.
ome
The
Youth
JOULE,
foxes
i 1 og ’ 1
18 Hirlation Lo k«
soon bed
iw
ig
an
[8 eves
in a graceful
‘rawed up atl the
whose face was now wreathed
mny smiles, and invo
Liis cane thraug!
waved {t ]
damse)
with
+
*
LUCK
the damsel, who was now a few
tes § aft
{0 the left.
phants had vigorously moved hi
and struck th urely youth’
from his has
e lel
companion
the arena,
’
I'he ber
inti hn nt
_— :
0a vig
iiction, r
iis afl K
looked rour
ny cane.” he
Calne
rive me
to Pass,
1
ne spoke, **(
A shriek of
omely damsel, ir
Os. 0
JAAS, 18
laught
oblized
“»
cemed Lo see t)
nt he had
-——
Sea Water as a Pre
ihe capability
servative is
among the
the hs
have be
logwood a
wading their
L In
there
ns of
notwithst
nersion, are in the most |
state of preservation. Dyers who
experience with the logwood stale that
i even better for dying
than the wood now imported, The
mahogany, too, is very fine and solid.
og twelve long and twenty-
two-Ly thirty-two It
subsequently worked up in the shape
of furniture and walking as
mementoes. The chief object of inter
est, however, is an ancient pulley block
¥
iiave
it 18 purposes
{
a
one {eet
ft
ches square being
sticks
fr
feet broad, with four solid copper
sheaves eighteen inches in diameter,
It is of solid oak, and was probably
used in hoisting heavy articles of mer-
chandise or the anchors. The wood is
preserved, but an iron band is com.
pletely corroded away, while the cop-
per-wheels are but slightly oxidized,
-——-
Collisions at Sea.
Collision will and must remain the
great and really almost the one danger
which the North Atlantic traveler need
le can rarely hope to cross in
riencing a run of some hundreds of
So long as
the Gulf stream and the cold in-lying
current from the north move In juxta-
position as they do, so long will the
fog be almost always present upon the
borderland dividing them. How easy
it is for a great ship to be sunk wag i
blow from a pigmy schooner not more
than one-tenth her size, and a hole was
opened throagh her side which unfor-
tunate circumstances combined to make
fatal, and the great vessel, a triumph
of human skill in hull and machinery,
id lying in a few hours upon the bottom
of the sea, with a million daysof skilled
labor, as represented by ship and cargo,’
in this moment made valueless. Who
can overestimate the care and responsi
bility upon the man who commands
such a ship? In what other calling
are they found as such a constant part
of dally life? And how ily they are
paid for it.
FASIIION NOTES.
~ A WACK Satin Yuchesss teilst bas
| a jetted panel upou each sife of the
skirt, shown between double revers.
| and long, straight train is represented
In a striping of velyet and Duchesse,
The fancy material is also used for the
sleeves correspond.
ers which will send to the background
and summer hats and boanets,. Every
These ma-
plushes, changeable satins, crape,
tinted-silk muslin, etamine, grenadine
~1t I8 predicted that gray will be a
leading color during the spring and
summer, This is a shade always popu-
with French women, and it is a color
pre-eminently becoming to fair women
with roseate complexions, Dark wo-
men can likewise wear gray with ad-
vantage, This color, like brown, is
found almost universally becoming, if
pains only be taken to select the shade
that harmonizes best with the intended
wearer's complexion, ‘Fender smoke”
wuch worn, and, made up with
of velvet sgiriped with
R TI 1011
usef
it eleg:
is now
panels
blue, or
ful and
trusive bi
i Win
$
an-red, |
il afternoon
ant.
taste-
There
terns
wich
many Pompadour
vel
are
in 3} real rived
in ihe ye ugured
will
where
be chosen for
a display of color is
aste, 5
tunes
Lames,
: Of §
ou
1 woolens
dron velvet and
i composed
ft, primrose-
re
3 th
i ia
cross-barred wi
striped with wide
OLlher
bands of
are
tangular bloc
Duds,
4
other
recom-
wink $e .
Wisi 0 re-
model children’s
Inst
last
itLie
Year
iced
goods may seer
four yards
in monochror
“tive
ric will
skirt,
the fo
bodice
ordinary occ
- Among the
immer bonnets
n gauze and
th a narrow sat
ifed picot eo
all the new sl
ming o1
ming
1 '
GATS
ial way, and
terial i siretl
over ti
”~”
Tex
gure
gives a bias
the fronts that
when the goods
As many of
Waste are m
will permit, and
#0 that even a
ied.
80
IS AVol
" :
Fine gold
iar for evening wear on
occasions. Very elegant are
shown set in jewels, and are
some pretty styles set In fine gold and
a handsome pendant in
“Cleveland” necklace is
necklaces are again
pop full dress
ones
th Tv
Loere
enamel, with
front. The
chain, with a diamond cross attached,
Although these necklaces will be very
popular, there will be a choice betwern
the fine thread of gold about the throat
and the massive dog-collars of gold or
silver. set with gems of various kinds,
Another fancy 18 a velvet band, edged
on each side with Roman pearls, This
1s fastened mn front by a white daisy,
formed wholly
drop being a diamond *‘of purest ray
serene,’
~The dust cloaks brought from
Paris are all made on quite a new plan,
One of fawn woolen, brocaded In
brown, was after the loug coat order,
from the neck to the waist, and show.
ing a limnglof shot red silk; sleeves of
back and fastening diagonally in front,
with revers and silk pockels; another,
in brown, had no sleeves, but the arms
came {rom beneath the cape-like upper
portion, having wide stole ends of two-
inch wide braxd of bullion gold, rows
of the same covering the back, The
mantelettes were sleevelsss bodices,
with lace epaunlettes and magnificent
jet trimmings mingling with lace. The
bonnets are pointed, many of them
back and front, richly embroidered,
One of the newest was the old vieux
rcse shade, covered with embroidery in
Oriental beads and silks, with sequins
here and there, an upstanding tuft of
roses and marguerites at the top.
—————
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Ea g
he
120 NCTES
ba OUesty is likely to Us es rood this
asou a she ever was .
-~Nous of the Palo-Alto trotters will
come Kast this season,
~—Mr, Baldwin says that Gellah will
bs a starter in the Chicago Derby,
~The Arab-Majolica race will
me
pe
ob
est,
It is sald that Tommy Dunbar wil
son,
~ Bonnie McGregor has been let ug
in the season.
~The report that the Dwyers had
purchased Egmont for $15,000 prover
to have been untrue,
—A new half-mile track is being
buill at Hopkinsville, Ky., by the newly
organized Christian C ty Driving
Park Association,
Jit Gore seems
around again, Much
of his trainer the colt
lameness the other day,
— Jose pl Battell,
Vti., brings evidence t
dam of } len
Robin, a son of
- Fo:
2.40 class
make a good race
rel gelding, J
un
to be coming
to the surprise
worked without
0 show that the
was by fed
Woodbury Morgrn.
than
race for
wou d
the next road-horse
following horses
John Condon
istice’s
the
Ie
tional Asso
Breeders to
tember 13 to 15
-—Roval Bounce, tl
Charles Newhall
won od race
Jt
f Mr.
cReler
1 still 2
val e pr
the gre
wile grea
at Sufl
a Ri JK AI
be one at ut, getting a rec
He is evidently in the hand
year Mr, New.
er
4
beim i
4
driver. ILast
races
each
branches of
al K. has
New York Legisls
and it now awaits the si
Hill, } }
nor wiil
law, under
ue
al Albany, i
ture of Grovernor
that the
Cone a
without his signat
trottis and
OLDE al
xOVer
and
bright,
— The nominations
ruarantee stakes, offe
ter Oak Driving Associati
ollows: George A. Singerly, Philad
phia, 'a.: H. C. Woodnutt
1.; Frederick Wiles,
George T. Cogswell
Wagner, Marshall
Kaul, Mary's
Carthy, Lexington,
ble, Newburg, N. Y.
Louisville, Ky.
have a
~$
Deen
Buffal
{
rrand L
~— Dates ready
De’ roit, leveland,
is presumed,
r dates would fall ¢
Dany a: next in line
ng weex,
+
+
¥ ¥
alii, UY
Win
he direct line
the week after
that we
Oak
a week lat
immateri
this arrange-
¢ would fall on
Mystic Park has
but an amica-
$s
Li
Wants
6
. i
be 1
nade
in
he classes
r
ry
HR
nal rot
sre made atl the meeting
of Review. There are
membership, but it
was agreed to assess the fiith class on a
basis which would prove satisfactory to
weak and ling clubs, If
member shall do a business for the sea-
son not execead ing $2000 the assessment
shall be 825. If do a business
of only $1500 the assessment shall be
820; of $1000 15, and of $500, §10
This rebate £5 on every $500 under
2000 to be credited 10 the member
on its renewal of membership. To
lustrate: If a member pays $25 in dues
this season and shall do business
amounting to not more than $500, it
will be credited be assessment ac-
count for next year with $15. The
fifth class is practically cut up into
four classes 825, $20, $15 and $10.
~The French racing societies have
been experimenting on new systems of
betting under the late compromise
arrangement with the Government.
latest instrument for recordiag
bets on the Paris mutual svstem Is
named the *“*Tolalisateur.” and a
French journal says of it: “The Tota -
isateur is the lion of the day. Installed
in haste in a most rudimentary form, it
bas clearly conquered the favor of the
public in spite of the many deficiencies
i The best proof of its
fF hu
Lae
it shall
.
¢
Of
is
is
on
ply the demand. At the races at Long-
amounted to more than 270,000 francs,
At the main stand 160,000 francs, on
the lawn 86,000 francs, and at the pa-
villion 34.500 were sold, A commis-
gion of & per cent. was deducted, of
which 2 per cent is reserved for “‘pud-
lic assistance,” and 3 per cent. is re
in
d’' Encouragement has decided to ree
duce the percentage previously deduce
ted to, possibly, 2 per cent. Another
mode of betting will be tried at St,
Germain, on the occasion of the meel«
ing of the Societe de Sport de France,
In this way the best method will soon
be arrived at.’’ The price of tickets
was 20 frances at the main stand, 10
francs on the lawn and 5 (rancs at the
vilion; 1270 tickets were sold on the
Prix de Viroflay, of whith only mix
were on the winner, paying 201 for 1.