Sab Silentio. Hush! the night is calm and quiet And the crescent moon hangs low; Silence deep and wide hath power, And the sputh wind wanders slow Through a casement, where the curtain Faintly rusties to and fro, Like a spirit softly sighing #lits it all the chamber round; Where the dim lamp fading, dying, Just dispels the gloom profound; Hangs above two happy dreamers, By love's perfect promise crowned. Even through the gates of slumber To the shadowy land of rest, He still clasps his long sought treasure Closely, closely to his breast, With the ardor of a passion Long denied and long repressed. With his lips still warm with kisses Close and clinging as his own, Sighting still in happy dreaming For the joy his heart hath won-— Sweetly, peacefully he slumbers In the arms about him thrown, And she gozes at him, thinking— Not of all her dreary years— Only of this isle of glory, Reached with many doubts and fears Over Love's frail bridge of rainbows Fadipg in a mist of tears, Then sho nestles still more closely So the heart 20 kind and dear, Whispering: ‘Love me, love me, darling; All my hope and rest is here, A nd without thee earth 1s nothing But a desert cold and drear. ‘Oh! that overy night my slumbers Might be so supremely blest, Boupded by the dear embraces, Kissed from passion into rest] would ask no better heaven, . Sheltered thus and thus caressed. Fan them gentlyy odorous south wind, And begone on pinions fleet! Nothing in thy nightly journey Shall thy waudering vision grec Half as perfect in fulfillment, Satisfying and complete. TALK OF THE BORDER. Tombstone, a mining center in south- eastern Arizona, is the grave of more romance and adventure, hair breadth other region in America, perhaps. the Mexican boundary line, and for four or five years was the headquarters west. all; Doc. Halliday, eral gentlemen known at Curly, Slim, Shorty, Texas, Buffalo and streets together, do themselves justice that they would not rely on the ordinary .44 caliber re- cut off to about a foot in length, and, became a part of their personal adorn- ment. There were two factions In southeastern Arizona in 1879, one be- * ing known as the stage robbers and the other as the rustlers. The Earps and Doc Halliday were the recognized chiefs Clanton and Jack Ringo were the ac- knowledged bosses of the rustlers, factions came into frequent conflict, One day the McLowrys and Frank Stillwell rode into town and put up their horses at a corral on Fremont street. Just as they emerged from the corral the Earps and Halliday confront- ed them, and in a minute the two Mec- Lowrys, Billy Clanton and Stillwell were dead. Word was sent to their friends, who were camped in the Hua- chuca mountains, and they prepared to march to Tombstone in force to clean out the Earps. The Earps recruited and fortified in an adobe building in the west end of the town. The rustl- ers, thirty strong, under command of to town and took up headquarters in a The writer of this was the city editor he visited both the camps daily, and wae nade the medium of communica- tion between the leaders, circulated through the town, and the themselves to their camp, Ike Clan- ton, the rustler, leader, sent several messages to Wyatt Earp, the leader of that faction, daring him to come out and show his nose. Earp sent back in- vitatious to Clanton to come and visit him. This thing continued for three days, and at last the Earps began to get tired—in fact, their liquor was ex- pausted and they were on the verge of a thirst famine. Warren Earp, one of the brothers, heeled himself properly with two revolvers and a shotgun, and walked uptown one evening about 8 o'clock. lie went into a saloon, took a drink at the bar and walked back to the faro department in the rear, He hadn't bucked the tiger in five days and his appetite was whetted, He sat down in front of the dealer, pulled out a handful of $20 gold pieces and copper- ed the queen, Just as ha did so a re- port was heard, and Warren Earp fell off his stool dead, A bullet had pene- trated his brain. When the report of his death reached his friends they rallied out in force, They were met by the Clanton party on Allen street, and an exchange of shots took place. The casualties were 1neager, only three killed and two wounded. The Earps retreated and skipped the town, When they had left, and there was no hope of catching them, the sheriff of Cochise county became energetic. He - ized passes to give pursuit that an quently cost the tax payers of the county $7,000. The Earps being ab- sent, sympathy, of course, was against them, and they went to Colorado, where they reruained for scine time and then went to California. The rustlers g HHL in California, They spent the proceeds of their forays in Tombstone. They were a royal set of thieves. When they were flush they scorned to drink any- thing but Roeder or Pommery sec, and the markets were gutted to provide them with luxuries. The leader of the gang, Ike Clanton, was a handsome fel~ low, six feet high, with yellow curling locks, and a complexion, in spite of the Arizona sun and regular exposure, that a belle would envy. He was a ready and straight shooter. He faced death a hundred times and met it at last. He hated the Earp brothers with all the in- tensity of an unbridled passion, and loved their sister with equal force, Jessie Earp was a beautiful girl of 19 at the time. She had the courage and grace of her brothers, and was, of course, a partisan of theirs in the fact- jonal fight, without being in sympathy with their habits of life and career of rapine and murder. lke Clanton and Jessie Earp met at a dance at Tomb- stone. lke and the Earp boys were then at war and carried guns cocked and primed for each other. Between Ike and Jessie it was a case of love at first sight. Hor brothers became furi- ous when they heard it, and Virgil, the oldest of the family and the keeper of the family headquarters, wanted to turn her out of the house and disown her, But Wyatt, the brains of the family, said this would be playing into the hands of the arch enemy, Clanton, He would immediately marry her and both would be happy. This would not suit the Earps, and they resolved to prevent meeting or communication be- tween them if possible. The girl was a heroine, | ueated in a California convent; and | while as full of romance as an egg is of | meat, she had a sense of honor that | made her sustain her family in the | quarrel with the faction of which her lover was chief, It was a marvel to | many people why the Clanton gang did | not attack the Earp headquarters imme- diately after reaching Tombstone to re- venge the death of the McLowry boys | Billy Clanton. The reason was that Jesse was confined in her brothers’ | headquarters, and Clanton would not run the risk of killing her! When ithe Earps retreated from Tomb- {stone there came a young man well do, excessively stingy, pre- to short. he wouldn't foregather with the other students, his ways were not their ways, and young Mr. MacTaggart, of Leith, butt of. MacTaggart had one harped; it was his It was this weakness of the stantly stature, { and at the same time gratify his taste for pratical joking. Cecil Dacre was in He always was in want of five pounds, but the want at this particular time ! was more than usually urgent, | One day the three young men met by | accident in the Cafe Verdi. “That American doctor's a wonderful fellow,” said Dacre, in a loud voice, to his friend Orlando P. Jones, *1 won- der whether he's a humbug?" i Now MacTaggart was sitting at the | next table, consuming a dish of maca- | roni with great gusto, *‘No, I don’t think he’s a humbug," i | ishing or increasing the stature at will, him two or three times, and there was their height. It’s very marvelous.” MacTaggart who had drunk In the conversation with greedy ear, | joined in with manifest interest, The | circumstantial details, | “You ought to try him, MacTaggart, | at any rate,’”’ sald the crafty Dacre, **Auny change In your appearance, my Caledonian Apollo, would be a benefit.”’ | “Iam thinking it would be very expen- sive, and 1 object to extravagance on | principle,’ said the Scotchman, “Well, you might beat him down; at | all events you could try,” said Dacre, “Without a doot, I'll sleep on it,” | said MacTaggart, and he paid for his | breakfast and departed, | to make up his frugal mind, and then | he screwed his courage up to the stick- { ing point and informed Dacre that he should visit the American physician the next day. “Dye Dacre?” “Well, he lives in the same house as I do, on the first floor. He's a benevo. lent old boy; you're sure to like him, Jones here knows him very well; the Yankees are almost as clannish as the Scotch, you know. You are sure to find him at home at 3,’ and then they ken where he dwells, Mr. started off as fast as his logs world car- ry him to his lodgings, he zext day Cecil Dacre obtained the Joan of his landlord's first floor for the day, and then he began to busy himself in a very extraordinary mannec, He secured the services of the porter's wife and daughter, the black eyed Pippa; they dusted, they armaged and rearran a screen, and purchased a little bottle of a a a nas w rom a which was constructed in the corner borrowed several of his largest and most professional looking books, which he placed in a row upon the writing table, Two grewsome looking anatom- ical preparations in spirit he also ob- tained from the Italian Bob Sawyer; with these and a human skull, procured from the same source, he decorated the mantel piece, Then he put on the dressing gown, the lorg gray beard, the velvet cap and the spectacles, and he looked a very tremendous specimen of a quack doctor, When the travesti. ment was complete he went to the win- dow and ‘waited pat'ently for young Mr. MacTaggart., He was not kept long in suspense, The great bell of San Giovanni struck 3, and punctual to the hour MacTaggart appeared on the other side of the street, In the meantime Orlando P. Joaes on his part had not been idle, for he called upon at least a dozen of MacTaggart’s friends and acquaintances, had a short interview with each, and as he took his leave each of the people he had so hon. ored with a visit laid his forefinger to the side of his nose and appeared con- siderably amused. As has been said, the bell of San Glovanni struck A rather timid knock sounded upon the outer door of the first floor where Dacre was lying in wait. Dacre allowed it to be repsated, then he flung the door open suddenly, There stood MacTaggart. “‘Have I the honor of addressing the newly arrived American physician?” he said. ‘Enter, my young friend,” said he of the gray beard and green spectacles, “Take a a Oo, You see before you,” he added, *‘the celebrated old Jacob Townsend, a physician of world by his own skill far beyond the ordinary human span, to the amelioration of the condition of the human race.” “I'm afraid I have come to youon a fool's errand,’’ said the patient un- easily, “No man who consults me,” said the doctor, *‘is guilty of an unwise act. I read your thoughts, young man,’ he continued severely; ‘‘my eagle eye de- tects the workings of your puny brain, Y ou are discontented with your stature, Say, is it not so?" The patient nodded, “*Are you ready to youug man? : the submit to Have you “I've every confidence, doctor,” re- MacTaggart uneasily, thought, perhaps, as I'm only an art student, you might consent to make a “do not trifle, exact is but to an indignant tone, paltry honorarium | used in the treatment of such cases; they have been procured from the de- serts of Central Asia, after the expendi- but be assured, young man, that the trifle wrung from your parsimonious clutch will be immediately distributed by me to the deserving poor.” “And you won't “in he said, “There are two means of achieving “The one is purely mechanical; it is gradual exten- considerable physical pain has naturally to be endured. The other course, which is equally efficacious and “I shall be perfectly satisfied, doctor, » “Yery good, young man, very good. business best, bath; then he turned on the hot water till the bath was nearly full cried in a loud voice, the reception room. “I'm quite ready, sir,’ said Mr, Mac- Taggart from behind the screen, *‘I can smell the potent odor of the drugs, even here.” “Don’t trifle, boy,” cried the Amer:- can physician; ‘‘take your watch with you, and proceed to the bath. You will find it very hot, and the odor of the eastern balsams is pungent; but do not Jet that deter you; enter it as speed- ily as possible, for the hotter the bath, the more rapid is the osseous change, Remain extended in that bath, and per- fectly still, and every five minutes by your watch, and not more frequently on any account, let your head disappcar beneath the balsamic film with which the surface of the water iscovered. Do not speak; and breathe only through your nose, I will warn you when the process is complete.” Mr. MacT entered the hath room, wateh in hand. The odor of the Oriental balsams made him sneeze vio- lently, the ‘water was evidently very hot, and was covered by a thick oleag- inous film. But young Mr. MacTag- gart had paid his five guineas and he was determined te have his money's worth. After a little time he entered E five minutes his head: disap- the steaming, oily sur- In the meanwhile Cecil Daore not idle. He rang the bell; Pippa 5 carried 2 g : £F | she finished each, Pippa herself care- fully pressed the newly made seams with the hot flat iron. Then the phy- gician dismissed his two assistants, he flung open the bath room door and ad- dressed the bather, “Come forth, young man,” he sald, “You entered that bath a miserable and puny specimen of humanity; you will leave it, in all human probubility, a well grown youth of prepossessing ap- pearance,’ Mr, MacTaggart did as he was bia, He dried himself to the best of his ability, but the balmy odors of the balsamis of the East still clung to his hair, No sooner was he dressed and had emerged from behind the screen, than the mock doctor addressed him, “Young man,” sald he, and his voice was apparently momentarily choked by emotion, “behold the result of the won- drous bath of Bokhara, There is a considerable change, 1 think,” he said solemnly. : Mr. MacTaggart had evidently grown out of his clothes; his arms and legs protruded in a portentous manner, “Don't thank ma,’’ continued the American physician hurriedly; “don’t thank me, but hasten home to bed to sleep off the powerful effects of my po- tent medicaments,” Mr. MacTaggart bowed as graceful. ly as he could, and left the premises. The very first person he met in the street was his acquaintance Orlando P. Jones, MuacTaguart’s appearance was sufficiently striking, His ordinary straight red bair was curly and ex- tremely odoriferons from the effects of the turpentine, His face and | were the color of a boiled lobster, and | his eyes were bloodshot from the same | cause, “Goodness me,’ said ! shouldn’t have known you. you been doing to yourself?’ “Don’t ask me,” said MacTaggart; Jones, *'I What have | and his scarlet face was illuminated by | a smile of celestial beatitude, { Before he reached his own house he | had met at least twenty of his acquaint. ances. Each one interviewed him with a similar result, { But the cup of happiness was rudely | dashed from his lips when his extreme- ily plain and elderly sister, Miss Flora MacTaggart, on her arrival, addressed { him in these indignant words: “Eh! Donald, man, is 1t fou ye are? making a Merry Andrew of yourself’ by cutting doun yer claithes,” In vain the brother explained his visit to the doctor. Then the secret came out, and Mr, for Rome within the hours, twenty-four es — ——- Colonel Plollet Goes Down, The other evening Colonel Victor E, Piollet was making a speech to the Grangers in the House of Hepresenta- tives and, as usual, was indulging in his annual kick at everything and every- body, He dilated on the petrated on the farmer in the matter of what he called | warming up to his subject, said: { “Why, look at me! Only the other jday I bad to pay school tax and 1 | haven't got a child in school.” Among the auditors was Colonel | Frank Mantor, of Crawford county, an | old-time Republican, with a head as long as the moral law and a penchant | for picking people up when they make absurd public declarations. It happen- ed that the day after Colonel Piollet made his speech he and Colonel Man- tor were introduced in the Lochiel Hotel, “I'm very glad to meet you, Colonel { Piollet,”’ said Colonel Mantor. ee} was in the House last night and sat | under the drippings of the sancluary. | I listened to your speech, and, as I am | a plain-spoken man, I want to tell you | that I differ with you in one part of | your argument *’ “The devil you do,” sald Colonel Piollet, “and what part was that?” | resentation. You said you paid school | tax and badn’t achild inschool. Now, { L am in almost the same situation, but Idon’t kick. I paya poor tax and I | haven't a relation in the poorhouse.” Those who were present fairly shout. {ed with laughter as Colonel Piollet’s broad, good-natured face beamed with i stiles, and he said: *‘Begad, Mantor, { you have me there." A Wise Dog. | Bruno and his master were very fond of each other, and went out together a | great deal. One evening they made a call. Brue | no walked into the kitchen to stay, lay jdown and fell asleep. His master | spent the evening in the parlor. When | it was time to go home, the master for. got his dog and went home without him, But in the morning, almost the first thing be saw was Bruno, safe at home. How do you suppose he got there? He did not wake till late in the night, when the house was still; but then when he found that nobody came to let him out, he jumped through the win- dow and broke out all the Some weeks after, the gentleman called again on the same family Bruno with him. He went into the parlor as before, and sent Bruno into Sf was tine 0 go me when it was time to go the master’s hat and cane were missing. He looked and looked, but could not find them anywhere. FASHION NOTES, rene ~In self-colored materials there are extremely pretty crepons, veilings, both plain and brocaded, Indian cash- meres and muslin delalnes, ~The latest novelty in gloves is the Carmen glove of tan-colored unglazed kid, very long, rippling over the arm, without any buttons, and finished with a deep cuff embroidered with silk. ~There is also an elegant material which shows a small checked pattern formed of sllken threads of a lighter color upon a woolen ground in tHe basket-work style, ~T0or the street the cloth costume 1s the most ladylike, Gray or a mixture of seal-brown and beige are fashioable shades. The tunic /s draped on the right side with one large flat plalt, which is covered with a handsome pat- tern in braiding. The same pattern is worked round the foot of the over- skirt, ~ Another consists of a redingots of nut brown cashmere, slit open on the nght-hand side over a robing of beige armure silk, The right side of the bodice is of plaited cashmere and is crossed over the left side, which is of armure silk and quite plain, The plaits are fastened down under a sliver clasp. ~A very elegant walking dress is of gray sicilienne in the shape of a redin. gote, crossed shawl fashion over the chest, and remaining open, with two Darrow revers over & plastron of { plaited white crepe; from the waist it remains entirely open, showing an un- | derskirt of med with fine pinked oul ruches. ~ Among the novelties latest i droguet, which has narrow stripes {two or three shades of color over a | beige or gray ground. very pretty stripes in shaded silks over {8 cashmere ground. They look markably well in several slate blue silk over a ground, also in shades of and gray. dark heliotrope demand again for both gold and sliver beads which are worn about the neck of festooned strands, The first row than its predecessor, falls beneath it, and when there are five or six strands the effect is that of a very rich and elaborate necklace, j always in demand by refined women of | conservative taste, Mixtures in black | bars promise to be in special demand. | who are taking off mourning and to | dress to some combination of black, | white or gray. - Fashion is Ly no means exclusive this year, and it is dificult to say | which style of dress 1s most in vogue, | I eaked bodiees have by no means been | laid aside, and yet in new costumes for | the early spring we see a great many {round waists; not short under the Empire, but just at the proper place and encircled by a skilifully draped sash of faille, moire or surah, With round waists, scarf-sash and semi. trained skirt are coming in again; but this style is by no means exclusively adopted, and the peaked bodice is still much worn, especially for evening dresses, — Lyons silks are used for fashion able visiting and reception dresses, Taffetas and bengaline will be the fa- vorite silk materials this spring. Tuere is no saying which color is most in vogue in these materials, for the fash- jonable style is a combination of sev- eral shades mn glace silks. There are exquisite mixtures of the most lovely | novelty. Over some of the beautiful steel silks there are fine streaks of Pekin stripes of satin. Pompadour stripes, with pretty floral patlerns over a moire ground, are also very fashion- able, —Mouse-gray seems to be the favor. ite shade this season. A very tasteful dress of this color recently noticed was made quite simply. The material was French faille, silver galloous described a fichu upon the bodice, slanting down to the waist, which it made appear slighter, Again, in cloth costumes as well as silk wo find the mouse-gray shade prevailing. A very preity cos- tume of that color was bralded with black, It consisted of a double skirt, bodice and jacket to match, Let us note that braiding is as fashionable as ever, but that it is considered more stylish to braid in black over colored cloth than to match the braid with the material, —For dinner-toilet we note the Bal. garian corselet of peau de sole, glove. fitting. low in front and at the back HORSE NOTES, —Jockey Burke was thrown and badly hurt by the horse Claude Bran. non in & race at New Orleans on March 15. The sensational item sent out from Lexington, Kv., that a stock company was being formed there for the pur- chases of the noted California horse Guy Wilkes (2.154) for $100.000 is a canard, ~The price paid E. Pyle, of Hum- boldt, N. C., by A. J. Alexander, of Woodburn stud Farm, Kentucky, for the b, m. Juha, full sister to Maxey Cobb, was $5001, not $1001, as tele- graphed recently, ~ Norma, the dam of Lucy Cuyler, and Norval, sire of the famous year. ling Norlaine, 2.314, dropped a black colt on February 17 to Electricity, a son of Electioneer and Midnight, dam of Jay-Eye-See, 2.10, ~The Buffolk Course programme ak the spring meeting will include races for the 3-minute, 2,50, 2,40, 2,35, 2.27, and 2.10 classes and 2.24 and 2.28 pa. cers, The 33-minute and 2.50 classes will be best two in three, -The bay borse General IHateh 2.47, foaled 1861, by Strader’s Cassius M. Clay, Jr., dam by imp. Envoy, died near Muscatine, Ia., on February 24. He was the sire of Fleta and Eovoy, both with records of 2.28. ~The three Woodburn mares, Miss Russell, dam of Mand B,, Lady Rus- sell and Russia, both sisters to the lat. ter and Tripket, 2.14, are the only | mares not owned at alo Alto that will be bred w Electioneer this season, { ——Charles Wood, the English jockey, | whose license was refused by the Eng. | lish Jockey Club principally on account | of alleged in-and-out running of a sel. | ling plater called Success, has made a { strong appeal for a reopening of the | case, —In February the private sales of | trotting stock in the “Blue Grass'’ sec. | tion of Kzntucky aggregated $75,000, | From present prospects the sales of | such stock this year In Kentucky wil | foot up somewhere in the neighborhood { of $2,000,000. —The Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders’ Association has decided to offer at its meeting next fall a purse of | $5000 for the fres-for-all class, This 1s the largest amount ever offered for a race between trotting horses not only in Kentucky but south of Mason and | Dixon's line, —J. E. Simmons has moved all his stock over to the new farm he recently purchased on the old Frankford pike, On this road, within five miles of Lex- | inglon, Ky, there are now four great trotting establishments — Plainview, Ash Grove, Highland, and the place | first mentioned. ~—A singular accident occurred in Sussex, Eogland., last December. A | fox huntress was out with the fox | hounds, when her horse picked up a | flint rock in its fore foot, and while | galloping threw it back with such force | against the shank of the hind leg that {the bone was broken just above the | fetlock, and the animal had to be de- | stroyed. ~1n the Blue Grass region of Ken- { tucky there are no less than 130 finely | improved farms devoted to the breeding | and rearing of thoroughbreds and trot- | ters. The farms are within a radius of | thirty-five miles of lexington, in the | counties of Bourbon, Garrard, Mer- | cer, Boyle, Jessamine, Franklin, Wood- ford, Fayette, Montgomery, Clark, Harrison and Scott. On the 130 farms | there are at least 6500 horses of the av- | erage value of $300—or nearly $2,000, { 000, | -—Reports from the headquariers of | Hour (2.193) and Susis S, (2.20) are to | the effect that both of these flying fil. {lies have wintered well and promise | this summer to have a renewal of their | famous duel at St. Louis last fall. Al- | though Sasie S, is yel 10 be beaten, the | owner of Houri says that filly will elip | her wings this summer, while on the | other hand, Susie 8.'s owner says he fears no rival and believes his filly will gis year wipe out all 4-year-old reec- ords. -The Atlantic City Turf Associa. tion grounds comprise nearly eighty- five acres, A mile track, 70 feet wids (80 feet on the homestretch), has been laid out. The plans for improvements include two great stands-—one 216x76 feet, and the other 350x560 feet. The combined seating and standing - ity will be about 20,000, Much of the lumber for the already on the ground. ~— Woodburn still has number of producing mares of any in Kentucky, 14 of her bLrood-ma ies sEliazpil I | iis § " : - i £ : i ref tr : E g i ? i < Fl
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