A Leap Year Madrigal.
If, hiding now my face from thoe,
I should reveal my heart,
And thou therein could’st only see
How dear to ma thon art,
Thou would'st not wantonly disdain
A sanctuary where
Chive image must enthroned remain
The sovereign idol there.
Chen howsoever high thy state,
Mine howsoever low,
[ would not murmur at my fate
Nor weary of its woe;
For 1 should know thy heart had seen
No heart so leal as mine,
And wert thou worshipped of a queen,
Less royalty were thine.
[ would not quench this passion fraught
With tenderness so sweet,
Though I may only lay in thought
Its treasures at thy feet;
For if—conceiling from thy sight
The altar and its flame—
I pass again into the night
As lonely as I came,
Unseen, thy sorrows still to weepy
Unknown, thy joy to share,
One hope would yet survive to keep
My spirit from despair.
Mayhap a fairer day will dawn,
And | may live to see
Thy heart from lighter love withdraws,
Then thon wilt come to mel
EO . N
WHAT CARLOS SAW,
The first situation that I ever got was
with Signor Roger Starbemberg,
‘When he came to Rome, I was chosen
for his guide. Now that I know him
well, I think he chose me because my
hat was shabby and 1 looked as hungry
as I felt. Signor Starhemberg had a
sharp eye of his own. I'd spruced up
as well as 1 could, but my heart sank
when I got to the hotel and found three
other guides, shrewd fellows, waiting
for the chance. No hope for me, I
thought; I might as well go back to my
sick wife,
Just then the door opened and the
gentleman came out. The three old
guides stepped up to ifn at once and
offered their services; but I did not
even try. He listened to them without
saying much foraminute; then, though
1 was looking out of the window, I
saw hun looking at me,
‘*Are you a guide, too?” he asked.
I tried to hide the tears in my eyes as
I turned round to answer him. Icould
not help them, I was so sad. I felt in
an instant that he saw, and was sorry
for me.
“You may come in here and talk
with me,”’ he said, turning back into
his room.
So I followed him, and the end of it
was, I got the place.
Well, Signor Starhemberg staid in
Rome all winter. He went about
much, through the city and all over the
country. Ile got very nice rooms in
Rome, and his valet kept them. Every
fine day for nearly two months I went
up and went out with him,
he would get horses for us, and he was
the finest rider 1 ever saw, He'd go
ap the side of a precipice like a fly
creeping on the wall, He alwavs rode
the same horse, and he made her love
him, too—a little mare he called Patty,
I don’t know how I found out that
Signor Starhemberg was not a happy
man. He handsome and
He was kind
loved Lim,
ed have a ki
noticed, an
was
But those who have suffer-
i! of brothership, I have
i all
his wife.
gone Wrong.
ly think that of him, with his sharp
eyes, and his prompt manner, and his
elegant dress, for Signor Starhemberg
was as particular in his toilet as a lady,
He had beautiful white hands, with a
diamond on one of them: and it seems
very inconsistent, but I think he was a
little vain of them,
And then he would have days that he
would speak to no one—not even to me.
He'd ride, ride, nde all day, as if Luci-
fer were after him, never heeding the
beautiful country we passed over, nor
paying the least attention to anything 1
pointed out. He'd seem under a spell,
and the way I'd call him back to him-
self would be to call attention to his
horse when she got fagged, He was al-
ways merciful to his horse,
talk to hier; and then ride slower, and
seen more natural,
lie would be different — silent, and
gloomy and absent-looking. Enriquez,
bis valet, seemed to understand all his
freaks, but I used to wonder about
them a great deal,
But one day 1 suspected the truth.
berg, and we were walking our horses
through an old orange grove, three or
four miles out of the city, when we saw
a carriage under the shade of the trees
A very old gentleman was asleep on the
back seat, and a lovely lady sat holding
the lines. There was an empty seat be-
side her, and they seemed waiting for
W0me one,
As'we came in sight of these people,
I saw Signor Starhemberg start on his
Gorse as if a knife had pricked his
heart, AL first he drew rein, then he
code straight to the side of the lady,
The blood ebbed out of her face as he
same up. I kept back, of course, but
I saw her cheek turn white as snow.
It was evidently an unexpected meet-
ing.
Well, I don’t Know what he said to
her, of course, but I had never seen
Signor Starhemberg appear as he did
then, in speaking to avy one, His eyes
looked as if they'd drink up her beauti-
ful face. I thought she would faint in
her seat, for a minute, then she spoke
to him—spoke low, but fast, and earn-
estly, and he listened, motionless and
silent, Suddenly he flung up his hand
to Heaven, as if to call down a curse or
a blessing, I couldn’t tell which, but
she caught his arm, and seemed to
lead and expostulate with him, and
hand sunk, and his head with it,
Suddenly there was a crash among
the bushes, and they started and |
back, to see a man coming up to the
carriage with a silver cup of water in
his hand. Then my signor waited no
longer, He lifted his cap, and, with
one sorrowful look at the lady, rode
away. '
He came up to me in a kind of dream,
and stopped,
“Where would signor be pleased to
go?" I asked.
“Home! home!” he answered, and
we wheeled the horses and rode back to
the hotel. And Signor Starhemberg
was seized with brain fever that night,
and never left his room for four weeks,
Well, many a night I went up to
watch with him, for his valet was pret-
ty well worn down with the whole
charge of him, The signor was crazy
nearly the whole time, crying *‘Mary!
Mary!’ as if all his hopes of Heaven
hung on that nams, and I suspect he
thought they did, poor gentleman,
But while he was at the very worst, my
poor wife, Corece, died, and I wus kept
away from his side for many days,
But one night Enriquez came to my
house, and said that Signor Sturhemn-
berg wanted to see me.
‘“Then he is better?" said L
“Yes, yes,” answered Enriquez,
‘And calls no more for Mary?”
““He need never have done that,”
said Enriquez, “for 1 hear that she has
been married for six months, But
master loved her well, I suppose,”
“I will come,” said I.
I found Signor Starhemberg looking
quite white and wan, but he was him-
self again, and welcomed me kindly.
Then it seemed that Euriquez had only
told part of his story, for he wanted to
marry a Roman girl and leave Signor
Starhemberg, and the signor wanted
me to enter his service and return with
him to America, where his home was.
I did not hesitate long; poor Corece
was dead, and I had no kin to claim
me, 1 consented to go.
And shortly we set sail for America.
Sometimes I was stupid—I had not
been trained for a valet, and could
never be skillful like Enriquez, but
Signor Starhemberg was very kind; he
never swore, or threw his boots at me,
when I made a mistake, as some gen-
tlemen do,
His place, near New York, was call-
ed the Firs. It was a fine, stately
house, something like an English man-
sion, with a housekeeper and a little
maid that I fell in love with and mar-
ried a year after I came to America,
I had charge of all Signor Starhem-
berg’s boxes and drawers, and scarcely
a day passed that I did not come across
some token of Mary Vane, Sometimes
it would be an embroidered handker-
chief, then a white ribbon that had
tied her hair or strung a ring—a thou-
sand careless things as if my signor had
been on very familiar terms with her,
There was a large photograph of him
with her laughing face looking over his
shoulder, hung over the mantel, And
at last little Jenny told me that Miss
Mary Vane and her father had once
spent a whole summer at the Firs, and
for a brief time Miss Mary and the
signor had been engaged to be married,
She didn’t know what broke it off, but
she believed that her father had wished
her to marry some one else, and had
told false of Signor Starhem-
berg, and Miss Mary had at last mar-
Dr. Venlero, and had gone
Rome,
Well, Rome or
be nothing to my if
married. 1 knew, and he kuew it, too,
and fought a brave fi not to
cross and peevish with his ill luck. Bu
he would never have the handkerchief
and ribbo: 8,
of his 81; . he
arly among his things,
stories
America, she could
nor
SIENOr,
iit
= bh
al last he
% $
earful in the main, and
much in the city
ou business, and I used to think, some-
that no more
Mary Vane,
But one day signor had business in
Baltimore, aud took me with him, for
he expected to be South three weeks,
he tho at of
be comfortable,
Well, one night I was out walking
by myself, for the signor was with a
party of gentlemen out for the evening,
and wouldu’t be home unt!ll midnight.
with verandas, when I heard a scream,
wild and terrible; and as I stopped,
staring and with my blood chilling in
every limb, I saw a woman spring out
of this house and come running wildly
across the street, She screamed with
man with a loaded
It was not strange
She was
changed with suffering, and he was
drunk with rage. After the flying
figure of the woman he bounded, shriek-
ing the most frightful oaths, and ina
second I stepped in his way, shouting:
“Stop! stop!”
I meant to do him no harm, only to
keep hun away from the woman, But
when he found his pathway blocked, he
seized his revolver, and fired every one
of those six barrels at me, as fast as he
could fire, I don’t know what saved
me from death. Instantly he was sur-
rounded, for people appeared from all
quarters at the sound of the shots, and
I found that I was bleeding—that’s all,
a flesh-wound in my foreatm. But my
cap had two holes through it, and the
skirt of my coat another, and there was
a line, as straight as a foot rule, cut
right through my thick hair, just over
the temple, That devilish Dr, Veniero
went to prison for that, you believe,
my friends! He got a sentence of five
years,
Well, Mary Vane married Signor
Starhemberg, for I carried her to the
carriage that night, and he took care of
her, She looked ten years older than in
the phot ph, but when she had got
divorced from her husband, and was
engaged to marry signor, it was curious
to ses how her beauty came back, It
was as if all the years of suffering with
her dreadful husband “ad been but a
dream, which she had forgotten, He
bad married her for her money, and
spent it, and led a dreadful life wander.
ing over the world, a regular guach ad-
venturer., Her father was , and
the wonder was that she didn't die,
100.
But she lived to be very happy, On
his wedding day Bignor Starhemberg
gave me a fine gold watch, But for
me, he says, he might never have found
hia Jas, My luck bas turned, I
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ANCIENT CANALS,
What the Old Kings did Forty Con.
turies Ago.
Babylonia was indeed a land of rivers,
owt its existence to the two streams
which flowed through it, year by year
adding to its growth by the deposit of
rich alluvial soil. The early occupants
of the land recognized their debt to
these fertilizing waters, and their grati-
tude found expression in the names
which they gave to some of them, The
slow Euphrates, which year by year
rose to spread its broad floods of water
over the fields, was called the “Life of
the Land,” the sister stream derived its
name of “The Rusher” from its nar-
row and more rapid course. To other
rivers which can not now be identified
such names as **The Mother of Canals,’
“The River Flowing with Abundance,’
*“The Crystal River,’’ and other such
names were given. Ea, the old culture
god of Eridhu, the god of the ocean,
became *The God of the Rivers,’ and
especially of the Euphrates, and Rim-
man, the ram-god, bore the title of
“The One Who Causes the Floods to
Flow in the Canals,”
By these canals a network of fertiliz-
ing streams was spread through town
and village, garden and field, How
early this work commenced we do not
know, but it must have been in prehis-
torie days, for among the most ancient
of the cuneiform characters we find the
ideographic sign for the canal, and in
the hymns of the primitive religious
schools of Eridhu, which reach back
beyond the fourth millennium before
the Christian era, canalsare mentioned,
Indeed, like the rivers, they were sac-
red, and prayers were offered to them
as to the greater Tigris and Euphrates,
A portion of one of these hymns is pre-
served in a fragmentary tablet discov-
ered by Prof. Sayce. ‘*‘Lhou canal, 1
have made theel In the day when I
dug thee, then the great gods were be-
side thy bank, and Ea, the king of the
deep, had created blessings within thy
heart, and he presented his flood before
thee. O thou mighty river, supreme
are thy members, (streams), That
which is evil in my body, in thy chan-
nel erase it and bear it with thy stream.
I exalt thy spring.”
that in Babylonia, as in China
2gypt, the construction of canals was
regarded as a pious act, and under the
protection and blessing of the gods
Proof of this in historic times is afford.
ed by inscriptions discovered by Mr,
Hormuzd Rassam during his excava-
tions in Babylonia. In about the year
Babylon was
who, during his
succeeded, as he
in “building
i together the
jient States |
Babylon as capital,
. like Urbahu (B., C. 4000
him and the i
not only
directed his atten
ruined temples,
named Khammurabi,
his
Says In
the land”
inscriptions
~-that is,
indepen
Wil
great
rebuilt the empire, but
tion to the repair of
palaces and public
records are found in
inscriptions of this mon-
i f Mr. Bassam is one of
hh we have five copies—two written
Among the
arc
ound by
itic dialect of North
was fast bec g the national tongue,
These were found in
ruins of the sun-god and relate to the
King’s restoration of the temple and
other public works, In the text the
King says: “I am Khammurabi,
mighty king, king of Babylon, king of
the four quarters, builder of the land,
inscriptions
the glory of Shamas and
The tower (observatory)
with heaps of earth like (unto) the high
{1
many inscriptions to prove,
Thus in contrast we have the “old
canal of Cutha’’ spoken of in contradis-
tinction to the new canal of Cutha,
which was of more recent construction,
The Babylonian canals were splendid
pleces of work, and displayed great en.
gineering skill; many which were made
centuries before the Christian era have
been in use to the present day. The
canal of Khammurabi is probably the
modern XY ussifieh, which passes close to
SBippara, and joining other canals,
reaches across to the Tigris, The
canal of Cutha is probably the Hube
Ibrahim, still called the Nar Kute, or
‘River of Cutha;” while the Hub! es.
Sook, the Shat-el-Hie, the Hindiyeh
canal, are all inland waterways, still
partially in use, which had their origin
long is the days of Nebuchadnez-
zar, The provinces of Baghdad and
Busra are still rich under the rule of
the Turk; but were that rule relaxed
and the taxes on irrigation and cultiva-
tion removed the old brick-lined canals
might soon be cleared of the debris
which fill them, and once more the
‘waters of Babylon” might transform
the whole region into the *‘garden’’ of
the gods.”
Anciont Egyptian Gowus.
Under the old empire in ancient
Egypt, both queen and peasant wore,
as a rule, the same close-fitting robe,
which reached from the shoulders to
the ankle; this was either supported by
two straps somewhat like the modern
braces worn by men, or it covered the
shoulders and opened on the chest in V
form, These dresses were made of
linen, sometimes of an unbleached yel-
low hue, though white was preferred as
the coolest and most cleanly,
When, later, the great conquests of
the Egyptians opened out the country
to foreign influences and customs, we
find a great change in the fashion of
dress; then it was that both men and
than useful; these are found represent.
ed most perfectly in the sculptures of
ori
Museum give
good idea of their beauty, The outer
B }
ting garment, descended in graceful
with long bows; at other times the lett
arm only was put through a sleeve, and
be two sleeves either almost
ting to the arms, or hanging down near
ly as far as the knees, These dresses
were capable of artistic draping
ing to the taste of the individual, but
woman fol.
lowed the beautiful lines of her figure,
and were never forced: like
the men’s clothes in ancient Egypt and
sone of the modern dresses of
country, to represent an
shape which could belong to no human
being. The dress simply clothed the
figure; the woman, too unconscious of
her beauty to try to hide it,
lines to be seen, until
Greeks taught them those beautiful,
elaborate foids of drapery which won
the admiration of the world, The ma-
terial found in such quantities in
tombs is never “made up’
because such dresses
mak Js
perhaps, because the living friends and
relations thought that the fashions
might alter so much in the
years, that the lady who was gone to
the Hidden Land would rather
her trousseau in such form that she
could use it as she liked, This ma-
accord-
t bia
a
long sweeping
As
1igtl
iba
brown. Notwithstanding their love
for white, we often find the Egyptians
Sippara I dug, and with double banks I
regulated it,’
In closing this inscription he says:
“Since far distant days that which each
them, These dresses are somelimes
yellow with red sashes tied in front, the
long ends reaching to the bottom of the
robe; sometimes red, covered with yel-
cently 1 did.”
as that described on the clay tablet in
the Louvre, which is somewhat longer
The king there says: “The river of
Kbhammurabla, the benefactor of men,
pouring out the waters of fertility for
the men of Sumir and Akkad, I dug.
Its complete course of fertilization I re-
stored, the two banks I prolonged, and
perennial streams for the people of
Sumir and Akkad I appointed, and for
imgation and drinking waters I ap-
pointed them.” Although in the first
inscription Khammurabi claims to be
the founder of the canal, it seems from
the second text that he was only the re-
storer of a work which had been in ex-
Istence in former times, Clearly, how-
ever it indicates a shifting of the bed of
the Euphrates westward, for at one
time that river had washed the walls of
the city of Sippara of the Sun, and was
itself called the river of Sippara.. That
such shiftingsof the river's bed did take
lace we have clear testimony, for Mr,
Re has found an inscription reiat-
ing to this canal which mentions such a
change. More than fifteen centuries
later on, between the years B, C, 625-
608, thers was_placed in the temple a
cylinder inscription written by order of
Nabupalassar, the Assyrio-Babylonian
general (who had usu the throne of
Babylon and founded new Babylon.
ian empire), recording his restoration of
the temple and the city.
Regarding the canal he makes the
following statement: “From Sip
the holy city beloved of Samas a
great gods, the
and bottom. This coloring may seem
to us crude and harsh, and, indeed, it
is quite unsuitable for our dull climate,
but in the atmosphere of Egypt the
brilliancy of the sunshine takes out all
vivid coloring and blends it into the
softness and harmony of a rainbow,
sn YS
A Drink of Water.
A little five-year-old boy left his seat
in church one Sabbath morning, and
walked up the pulpit steps, and stood
by the side of the minister,
“What do you want, my little man?"
said the pastor, stopping in the midst of
his sermon.
“A drink of water," the child inno-
cently replied,
The good man poured out a glass of
water, the child drank it and jeft the
platform, but seeing the amused faces
of the andience, he thought some mis.
take had been made, and remembered
he had not expressed his thanks; so
turning to the minister he made a bow
and said, ‘Thank you, sir,” and went
to his seat, perfectly satisfied that all
was right,
Banging Horses' Tails.
The docking of horses tails is a mere
method of fashion, Just now, In and
about New York city, one sees banged
tails on all the saddle horses. There is
a fashion too in some sections of bang-
ing the tails of carriage horses—cutting
the hair irregularly-—just beyond
end of the bone of the tail, tails
FASHION NOTES,
~-A very pretty stylish jacket of
gray princess cloth was trimmed with
crescents of rich passementeris.
~The woman who dares now wears
a skirt of bright red silk with a black
lace blouse waist by way of offset,
~-In directolre sashes a new effect is
obtained by making them of two shades
of a color with four ends and & rosette
OW.
~-Very new bracelets and necklaces
are the thinnest possible hoops of gold
or silver in numbers from fifteen to
fifty,
-~A very pretty jacket of marine
blue cloth, lined with plaid silk, was
trimmed all around with a narrow gold
passementerie,
Among new fabrics corded silk,
with a thread of gold running through
it, is one of the richest, and indescriba-
bly handsome,
~If a silk petticot is worn it must
mateh the gown in Lue quite as strictly
as the stockings and much more so
than the gloves.
~Morning gowns cut low in the
neck at the front fasten over a fichu of
folded mull, and have cuffs of folded
mull about the wrist,
~The looses sallor or Garabalal
blouses are good wear for growing
girls, as they give room for develop
ment and hide undesirable angles,
—Low shoes of patent leather with
ribbons that tied in a bow on the instep
are no end stylish, but must not ap-
pear outdoors excent at the seaside,
Another was of black armure silk,
| This was trimmed with a pretty fancy
braid in colors. It was put in close to
the edge and formed a very stylish and
coquettish trimming.
— Black hats are allowable with any
colored costume, and are more and
more trimmed with green ribbon in
variety, while in Paris they add short
| green plumes as well,
—Polonaises approach the direc-
| toire shape when of thick material, but
{of thin are gathered fully in the
| shoulders, lapped to the left, and very
| much draped In the skirt,
—White Henrietta cloth and white
{ camels’ hair are far and away the
| choicest of the season's light wool tex-
{ tures, while striped Scotch cheviots
bear off the palm for use,
| appear on the newest hats, and if the
bows look as though they were de
signed by a lunatic and had been
has been attained.
~The braces which are sometimes
| used to trim bodices are varied by be-
| Ing differently arranged, or made of
different materials, They are invaria-
{ bly tapered toward the walst, however,
both back and front,
—Bodicss of Henrietta cloth
shades, close
way fronts over a vest of pleated silk
| Or crepe, may be worn with any sort of
| skirt, and are well-nigh as useful as
the ever faithful blouse,
tight-fitting jacket,
in light
The molding
It does not absolutely exclude
jacket with loose fronts, so much the
fashion last year, but as it is more co-
| quetiish and youthful-looking it soon
| will,
| =An effective variation in the ever
popular walsteoatl consists of a chemi
settle which is very much like a gentle.
{man's shirt front.
buttons,
| waist with
dress fabric.
| =~The newest striped materials for
| summer wear show shadings of color
| from the deepest to the palest shades,
| 88, for lustance, dark blue shaded to
| pale gray, or garnet to pale pink. Gowns
| made of such fabrics do not need any
| other trimming.
~—There are two distinct styles of
this jacket—one 13 open and the other
close. The close jacket is perfect fit-
ting and has a short basque. The open
Jackel has fronts very much pinched
in, molding the bust, but not joining
each other, neither hooked nor but.
toned, but made on purpose to remain
apart; they are always lined with silk of
anothsr color. There is a small straight
collar, not like a man’s collar, but
merely a straight band,
Brooches grow larger and larger,
and from a single flower or cluster of
one sort have risen to a bouquet in
which the pansy, violet and daisy en-
twine their stems of gold, or else it is
three Parma violets tied with gold
thread and shining with diamond dew,
bands of velvet or of the
or now and again a realistic edelweis
in dull esamel,
~Very handrome white muslin
gowns have a scallop at the foot of the
skirt and small embroidered sprigs
powdered all over it are made very full
with single seam at back, shirred
deeply to form a yoke at top, looped
high at one side to let a scalloped
flounce be seen, have a round waist of
the sprigged stuff, and are finished by
a wide empire sash of soft silk at the
waist and one or two small bows of
very good ribboa here and there about
them,
~A very pretty trimming for very
thin materials is moire ribbon, set on
in plain bands, one above another. A
skirt with three flounces of fine Brus-
trimmed with wider bands of Hbhan
set on perpendicularly. These ribbons
are either turned in loops at the
tom or turned to a point and finished
with a covered drop, W
HORSE NOTES,
Captain Brown’s colt Defaulter Is
a8 good as ever he was, which Is saying
a great deal,
~The Chicago special will probably
be a race between Clingstone and
Prince Wilkes,
~It i8 not true that the pacer
Georgetown has gone to South
America with Endymion,
~ Arrow and Johnston are barred
from the Kansas City Fair Associa-
tion, free for all pacing races,
~Bride & Armstrong pad $8,500 for
the pooling privileges at Detroit, and
the sales aggregated $120,000,
~The pacer Rowdy Boy, 2.13}, re-
ported dead some time ago, is cam-
paigning through New Jersey, :
~Clingstone and Belle Hamlin will
meet in a special at Buffalo. The best
two in three, free for all, did not fill,
— Peter V. Johnston has sent his
stable of trotters, which contains ten
head, to Washington Park, Chicago.
— Barnes, with 08, heads the list of
winning jockies. Covington is second,
with 75, and Mclaughlin third, with
43.
—French parties, through George
Vorhees, are after Mambrino Sparkie,
and offer $6000 for her. Mr. Gordon's
price is $10,000.
~ Edward and Dick Bwiveller are
i now 10 and 18 years old respectively,
but Frank Work occasionally speeds
them on the road.
~Bueckra, the well-known cross.
country horse, broke down in the
steeplechase at Monmouth Park, on
Saturday, July 28th,
~—Splan drove Fred Folger a mile in
2,18 at Cleveland on the 4th, Wilcox
worked a mile in 2.16; Grover C, in
2.19, and Ella P. in 2.194.
--A match race between the colts
Messenger Golddust and Horace
Wilkes will be trotted at the Nashville
(Teun.) Fair io September,
~Jockey Freeman was kicked on
the leg by Hypocrite just before the
start In one of the Saratoga races,
Freeman’s leg was fractured.
—reorge Barbee, the jockey, owns a
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fine farm on the Johnston turnpike
| near Mount Holly, N. J., where he
| spends what little time he has,
| Frank McLaughlin was ruled off
| the track at Yonkers on Tuesday, July
| 31st, for striking a spectator with a
{ whip who had accused bum of riding a
| “stiff.”
{ =—~The Kinloch stand, comprising
seventy-five head of thoroughbreds, in-
{ cluding the stallions Aristides and
{ Uhlan, the property of the late J.
| Lucas Turner, of St. Louis, will be
sold at auction on November 21.
—Budd Doble is preparing Johnston
| to pace a mile under saddle faster than
| it was ever paced before. Then he will
hook him up with running mate and
{ beat the time of Westmont, If suc-
| cessful, Johnston will bold at the end
| of this season all the pacing records
| in single harness, to wagon, under sad-
{ die and in double harness,
~Budd Doble will ship Oliver K.
{ home from Cleveland, The old trou-
| ble in the foreleg was cured, and then
| the sheath of a tendon lower down
{ was slightly ruptured. Had it not been
{ for this he is satisfied that he would
{ have driven the gelding in 2.12 or bet-
| ter. The horse will be turned out, and
{ not worked again until next spring.
~Crit Davis has the following hor-
ises in his stable now at Cleveland:
| Prince Wilkes, 2.10; McLeod, 2.214;
| Jeremiah, 2.254; Bessie C., 2.30;
{ Hynight, by Red Wilkes, Catherine S,,
| by Messenger Chief, and Zadle Wilkes,
| a 2 year old, by Gambetta Wilkes,
| Commodore N. W. Kittson’s heirs
| have decided to sell off the peerless col-
{lection of broodmares and stallions
| which have helped to make Erdenheim
| famous the world over, and after this
year no more foals will be reared on
the historic ground. The yearlings of
1889 wll be sold next June or July.
— Two clesely contested races were
trotted over the half-mile track at
Waverly, N. J., on Saturday July
28th. The match race between O,
B., and Frank M. proved a five-heat
race, Both horses entered the 2.30 list
0, 8, B, getting a mark of 2.27, and
Frank M., who is by Sweepstakes, a
record of 2.24}. The 2.37 class had six
starters and was won by Valdine,
which reduced his record to 2.383.
--The following new records were
made at the Detroit meeting:
Budd Doble (pacer), b. g., by Indianapolis... 2.90
Daireen, gr. m., by Harold ~A31%
| Jack Carey (pacer), gr. | .e
Kit Curry, br. ma. © TROL. . «ou 8,18
One b. { hy are mses vane
White SUSCKIng, £., bresding unknown 2.15%
—At Detroit the last week in July
there were twenty-five heats trotted
and thirteen paced on the three days
there was racing. Twelve of the heals
in the trotting events were finishee be-
low 2.20, and five in the pacing races
were recorded below that mark. The
best on record were made during the
meeting. Guy reducing the best record
ever made in a 3 minute race to 2.164,
and Arrow pacing the 5 year old pacing
record at 2.14}. The aystaje time
made by the trotters du meet.
ing the aver.
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