The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, November 01, 1888, Image 7

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    Growing Old.
Ah! no. 1 am not old,
I have been young so long;
My hope, 80 young and strong,
1 know cannot grow old.
80 long have I been young,
Companioned with gay youth,
1 would not hear the truth
From time's stern tongue.
1 fain would stay awhile,
And drink in one more day,
And stake, and bave another play,
And thus my hours begulle,
Ne, no; it is not age!
Anew the light will grow,
Ard in its brighter glow
1'11 read a treslier page,
"Tis Lut the change we feel
When He shall train our eyes
To gaze on Paradise,
Aud heaven itself reveal.
Ah! no, 1 am not old;
The rattling leaves that fall
Are only echoes to my call
For more of Life's dear gold.
Yet, list; I hear a voice
Resounding through the night
Making my sad beart light
Aud biding me rejoice!
This tale hath He me told;
If I1but hve in Him,
He fills me to the brim
With life that ne'er grows old.
II SOR
“Oh, Frank, how lovely this alr is!
How 1 pity the people in the city! To
think anvone should live in a city from
choles i
“1 wouldn't damp your enthusiasm,
Kate, but, after all, a man does not see
much of the country; he is only like a
chicken which comes home to roost,
ing the train twice each dayv—I can’t
say I'm quite reconciled to it myself,
But I must be off!
you,”’ and giving his young
little daughter a parting kiss, Mr, Tra-
vis ran for the train, whose warning
shriek could be heard in the distance.
icate Travis lingered on the porch.
It was her first experience of a whole
year in the country, and
brought new delights, She had discov-
ered ‘‘pussy-willows’’ down by
brook. and bad learned how warmly
Dame Nature blankets the
grapevine leaves. She had found the
ing-places, and decked Ler little home
with laurel, and revelled in the delights
of lettuce and raddishes of her “‘own-
This part.cular May worn-
ing was a day in which the mere fact
that one was alive was a joy, and as
the young wife looked at the fleecy
clouds, the hillsides bright with rye,
and orcharil one mass lovely
blossoms, she sighed for very excess of
the of
happiness,
«+I wich I had given Frank a branch
of apple-blossoms—they would have
brightened up that dreary n
thought Mrs. Travis. She, like the
rest often bad these after-im-
pulses, but somehow this oue would
not be shaken off, Kate Travis was
tious woman, yet such a
her husband
blossoms
eared to resist
ing of the next
er, and,
it, having hastily
ur ‘beautiful sprays
he hurried to the
ck Dorset was there—he
1 quite often, Kate
she knew by
at Jack was not
ve to business, not quile
je and manly as be bad been.
On is aicle . watchs d tye bright,
iL came near,
is is o lucky fellow,’”’ he thought,
“After all, what a fool a fellow is to
wasle time or money cards and
theatres!’
Meo
OLCe,
Of us,
t struck h
“3
face as
ou
Te
“| Leg your pardon, Mr, Dor-
wuld you drop into my husband’s
office and give him these blossoms?
Tus brauch is for you.”
Jack had only time to seize the flow-
eis and call out his thanks for his share
before Le was whirled away in that re-
Jess fate—the train,
I'iere were two reasons why Jack
Dorset had taken this later train,
ah even to himself he acknowledg-
ed bu
it w
this
onl
Jack had not been well
that reason became apparent.
“ello! Thought you'd be on this
traiu. Come along in the smoker;
we're just making up a hand,”
“No, thank you,” said Jack, with a
decision that surprised himself quite as
much as Lis comrade.
“Why, what's up? Turned rusty?
Come, you'll have your revenge on me
to-day. 1 shouldn't wonder if you won
enough to have a lark to-night.”
The perfume from the apple-blossoms
had given Jack a wonderful pleasure,
not unmixed with bitterness, and when
his comrade leaned over to whisper the
last sentence confidentially, the odor of
stale tobacco and liquor seemed un-
bearuble. Jack fairly blushed with
manly shame.
“No. nol” be said; “I'll have none
less
set! tA
lent
[#4 $73 1
as
weather. But hidden far
ing
ng
Xprd
f
{
and. with a sudden realization of his
own helplessness and this bad fellow’s
power over hilm, Jack deliberately walk-
ed over to old Deacon Taft and seated
himself by him,
The deacon was surprised. Young
men did not take much to him, Per-
haps he kvew he was, at times, the
mark for their jokes, But the flowers
helped matters.
“Them’s beauties, I do declare,”
sald the deacon, *and I'm glad to see a
young fellow like you think enough of
‘em to carry "em to town. Why, I re-
member when a flower just changed
my hull future,”
“Tell me about it, Mr. Taft,” said
Jack with a sense of having escaped
from imminent peril,
“Wa'al, I don’t know as I've toldja
person about Mary’s rose in years, and
ot ant body bad told me five minutes
ago that 1'd been telling it to you, I'd
ha’ just laughed at ’em, ’t would seem-
ed that ridikerous, But seein’ them
apple-blossoms has brought it all back
mighty strong, and J feel sorter drawn
to you, Jack Dorset, seein’ you with
em,” smn
Jack felt almost as if he ought to
make some disclaimer: yet surely he
deserved some credit for turning from
temptation. After a few moments the
Deacon began:
I was a boy about fourteen—I 8’pose
you think old Deacon Taft has been
country born and bred; but at that
time I'd never seen the country; never
seen grass I could tramp on; never seen
birds ’'cept in cages, never seen any-
thing—1 was goin’ to say-—but misery,
dirt and poverty. But then, that
wouldn't be true, for there was one
lovely thing before my eyes, night and
morning, and that was my sister Mary.
She was a beautiful gul, but she'd
been sick for a long time, and so,
though she did all she could, she could-
n't do much more than keep herself
sweet and clean. Mother had died
when I was a baby, and I suppose it
| was the hard work and father’s drink-
{ing that had sickened the poor girl,
| But I was tellin’ you about that day.
{ It was a het June day.
| th ng he’d done was to gel me a place
| in a drinking-saloon, where there was
| a lot of gambiiug goin’ on, 100.
{up young fellow” (Jack liited
| mass of blossoms to his face, and thelr
{ delicate pink seemed reflected
cheeks), but if you ever knew what 1
| know of the wickdness that cards and
iquor may lead to, you'd not wonder
at the old deacon’s ‘narrowness,’ Well,
as I was a-sayin’, my father d found
| ane the place, and I'd been at it for just
a week. That Friday evenin
| be paid, and I had a great plan in my
head, Mary was just crazy over flow-
ers. A mussionary lady had brought
| ber a bunch once and and the
way she doted en "em was Just surpris-
lin’. Dear, dear, how often I've thought
of Mary when 1 see the youngster pul
lin® flowers and th :
again,
rowin® em awayi”
The deacon paused a moment, Jack
broke off al of the blossoms, and,
with the gentleness of a woman, Iasten-
ed it in the old farmer's coat,
“Thankee! thankeel 1 never yu ld
pick fruit-blossoms myself, but I don't
know but flowers is as much needed as
fruit. Well, as I was a-sayin’, 1 had a
plan. I had
a pot at the « grocery,
to buy that Mary.
twas just twenty-li
watched every day
bought it. Now, 1
to buy IL and Keej
i1'd g
u
seen a lovely rose-bush in
orner
L101
I priced
cents; d
Ye : Al
et of
know’s
COeryiman
ever 1 felt on
was talkin’
lookin’ feliow, but
couldn't wait, and
and said: ‘You
bush?’
“I guess I looked
they both looked at
man said: ‘Yes, 1
teiday allernoon
flowers—this
ine to buy some of |
**Are you so for
vid the strange man.
“I told him I wanted the 1
Li lio was sic)
INan 8
@ do you work Li mang
$1
8 513 big saloos
What
ss And working ina saloon?
say to that?’
does that sisier o' yo
said the big one.
+ She feels migl
She cries and cries, But teil
wouldn't drink, not if they killed me,
nor I won't play cards; and Lo-night
I'll have three dollars for Mary.’
{ “The groceryman had gone to an.
{ other customer. The big stranger
ity bad about
so, and then he laid his hand on my
| shoulder and said: ‘How’d Mary like
| you to live on a farm, sonny?’
*[ told him that that was just what
| made Mary feel so bad, A lady
! told her to pray about everyihing, and
prayed that I
might go to work on a farm—as if there
were farms in New York City!
“Now, see here, sonny,” said the
{ Mary had prayed and
| she lives, and I'll go and see her.’
| wagon pretty bvely. It was just full of
| roses—Ilittle pots and big ones. Bat]
hadn't a minute to spare, and 1 pulled
| out a beautiful pink rose that made me
{ think of Mary's cheeks at night, and
| told him where we lived; and then I
just flew around the corner. 1 was
| late, and the man was mighty cross,
| The police had been in the night before,
| and I got hard words and some blows,
{but 1 didn't care—Mary would have
| that rose! I haven’t time to tell you
| how the men took a fancy to make me
drink that evening, and how my own
father, half tipsy as he was, helped ‘em
on; but at last it was time for me to
leave, and 1 asked for my pay. Jack,
keepex told me my father had taken my
pay in liquor! 1 was stiff and sore—I
had been up late for seven nights; and
now I hadn't a cent for Mary!
“Dear, dear! How it all comes back
to mel Well, I got home somehow,
and crept up softly, hoping she was as-
leep but she was sitting up in bed, her
cheeks like the rose by her side and her
eyes shining, I just threw myself on
her bed and cried-—though I was a boy
—gnd she had sense enough to let me,
But pretty soon I began to listen to
what she was saying and she certainly
had news, The big man was coming
for me the next day and I was to live
at his house, He badn’t chick nor
child and his wife would be glad to
have a boy around, besides his needing
help.
Hiell, the long and the short of it
was, I went and I stayed; and when
the dear old man and his wife died
they treated me like an own child and
left me all,”
“And Mary?"
“Mary? Mary was like these here
blossoms-—too. tender and.delicate Lo
last long. Yet perhaps the fruit has
come in place of the blossoms—I would
n't ha’ been much use in this world if
it warn't fer Mary.”
Jack sat silent looking at the blos-
soms, Was not fruit coming from that
far-off life even now? Another life
was changed that day by means of a
flower—only a blossom picked before it
could fructify, but shall we say “What
a pity!”
From that day Jack Dorset dated
two friendships, Before long Deacon
Taft knew the story of another flower,
for Jack confessed to the old farmer
his progress on the downward road, and
how a branch of apple-blossoms had
stopped him, while Kate Travis and
her husband learned to look for Jack's
coming as one of the simple pleasures
of their quiet home, little dreaming
how God-given was the impulse to send
the apple-blossoms to town.
A CAREFUL YOUNG WOMAN.
She Made Sure to Look Before She
Leaped into Matrimony.
These are the days When young
by 1
liver themselves,
As a sample of this let me tell you
a young woinan ju, -
000 miles away from here did in a cer-
f recent date,
She is young, with ex-
pectations of being rich when some of
her relatives are polite epough to go up
higher or down lower, as Lhe Case may
be. Among her
tain stockbroker, who was
Pittsburg to look at nate al gas and so
His. home was s¢newbat in a
jiving not
y lookin:
gOOd-1008INE,
fad |
visiting
Oh.
it
a
one ili
only a
could keep up.
very wealthy nu
his horses and his
graperies, and the
whore this story is
about
and
woinan, of
heard more
13
of talking
green-houses
young
tall vs} ¢
Lod, ROOUS
shi
the pi
IY COM
liked the man, but sh
tures of his home ¥ere {
sree], As her HIKing grew
came the more anxious 1g Knov
er her admirer confined Bin
to the truth, At the sam
tention he paid ber d
pronounced, In fact,
with Eve's insti
that hie was rapidly appro
posal,
she had a large heart; ler l
ever, is by no means smal
She sat down one day sd wrote
fatber's, in wi
tire conlki@ce, an
th
A £1
siness friend of het
possed en
i to wrile for 8 CONENCIC:A
he man who evidently wis
her hand,
She Wal
All In One Pig
2d, § table, 34, a
leather a wasstand, with |
basin. ewer, &c.., comphkie; 5th, a
towel rail: Oth, a looking glass; 7
armchair, &e. There is thing .
in fact. The inventor is § Mr, Zwick-
Of course, the |
udial accessors
is
account books, &c. In the]
rest, the bed is again tranfformed into
a writing table and washitand, table,
&c.. are restored to thek places in a |
few minutes,
Insianiancous I'hotography of Bur
glars,— A Conneticut Y adkes suggests |
the use of flash-iight photigrapby as a
burglars. He says:
camera in a position where it would |
of ten feet square or mom in front of |
the door of the vault, aad have the |
other apparatus so arratged that as
goon as tampering with tts vault door
was attempted the whoe would be
placed in operation. My plan would, |
of course, include retaining the bur.
glar-alarm connected with police head-
quarters. As soon as the burglars had
begun operations the police would be |
alarmed, and at the same instant a pic.
ture of the men would beé made by the
camera and fash-light tombined; so
that even if the men escaped the police
they would leave behind them evidence
which would, very probably, eventually
result in their detection.
wily
Secretary Fasig, of lhe Cleveland
Driving Park, bas a nove enterprise in
contemplation for the dming winter,
With a Pennsylvania horseman as
partner, he proposes to fake a shipload
of American trotters to Buenos Ayres,
Argentine Republic, and after a three
or four days trotting meeting in the
great South American téwn to sell the
horses at public auction, There is a
good inclosed track in the town, not
fast, but ready for busintss, and a doz
be
Four or five divers will also
to drive in the races, Our
horses will consist of trotters, espec-
ially stallions with recerds, well-bred
fillies and mares, and syme good road-
stern,’
«Dress this antums and winfer
promises to be as much an artistic
study as It has been In the past.
API,
If you travel through the country of
the blind, be blind yourself,
JOHN CHINAMAN,
———— A —————
Some Things 1a Which The Heathen
is Peculiar,
There Is probably no country or peo-
ple about whom so many popular mis-
representations exist as the Chinese,
This singular state of things Is due to
two chief causes, In the first place,
most newspaper writers on the subject
write first impressions from very super-
ficial data, and without understanding
the subjects upon which they write,
Then again, the Chinese themselves in
this country are not disposed to lose
pot, Then many books have been
written by people with political or
other kinds of axes to grind, and have
tion of facts as tended to accomplish
thelr purposes,
dom which have been ignored In both
book and newspaper articles,
STREET CLEANING PRODLEM,
I am
their cities clean,
solution of the street cleaning problem
The conditions are so different
and Liere as to tender comparison
In the first place,
118~
I refer to
sources of “dirt.?’ There are no
carts or other vehicles, What few
horses are seen are ridden by officials or
The government all
horses, Freight is transported by men,
either upon their shoulders or on wheel-
barrows, The streets are not over six
to ten feet wide, and the sidewalk is in
The
{o the street
line on either side, and each shopkeep-
er cleans the to the center in
{front of his shop. This 1s all the pro-
vision for street sweeping. Nogarbage
is thrown into the streels,
barrels’ unknown;
dix
owns
slores and shops are open
street
and “ash
hence the chilef
cities are
are
our un-
There are no underground
and need for them,
dences me provided wilh other means
ing of filth
ing or draining
E
Prov
stoneware vat
of t In
known.
Ilesi-
sewers, LG
fun is » . >
than either dump-
into rivers,
ver humble,
14rs
JATH,
ence, Bowie is
1
iarge
very 1e
ided with earthen Of
nts of these **
jars,’ !
people fertilize
h an exten
reales a ready
nn sewers and pol
:
rit
HNOn
“lamily
NO
"13 ns
i
in
one saunters thro
, his eyes are greeted
ay the
: £1 : Tut
i8 Mie p
r in sewerage, 4
. hardly. Have you ever
be uniformly small nose of
als in his country? if you
will accept my solution of
the smelling or-
the deale
pure? W
observed
the Orient
i
t
i
$i
1
5
street odors of China. One thing can
the sewerage of cities, viz: Ii does
vital to health than the air,
than water, and, taken on the whole, it
than the air from impurities,
true that no poison is so malignant as
sewer poison, and that is unknown in
Have you ever figured the commer-
ers, which is daily and hourly, like
Tennyson's brook, flowing on forever
to pollute our own Niagara river? If
80 you have been surprised that some
method of utilizing this source of
wealth has not been devised, It is not
statistics on the value of an article
soil of the surrounding country is suf-
fering. Under the existing regulations
the Chinese farmer is able to harvest
every year, In no other way could
such a population be fed. Winter
wheat rotates with either rice or cot-
ton. During winter, when the wheat
is getting its start, radishes or turnips
are grown on the same soil. Then
around the margin of the ground seed-
ed to wheat, beans Or peas are grown.
As soon as the wheat is harvested, if
rice is to succeed it, the ground is irri-
gated and planted with rice. If cotton
is to rotate with the wheat, the seeds
are planted before the wheat matures,
by digging between the drills of wheat,
and when the latter is harvested, the
cotton plants are well under growth,
Then the space between the cotton
plants is dug up, and the succeeding
crop is sole tenant. When these sum-
mer crops are gathered, wheat is again
sown. Not a foot of soil is left non
productive. The state of affairs could
not last, but for the rich fertilizin
methods, and sewerage 18 the princi
and almost exclusive source of 1i-
sors. ‘The “Benighted (sic) heathen
bas learned lessons in economy and
cleanliness from which the American
people might learn a thing or two.
FASHION NOTES,
— What can be more becoming than
the Letitim bodice of silver gray bro-
caded silk, open in front, with revers
of pale blue faille and with creves of
the same 10 the upper part of the bro-
caded sleeves,
— Lace scarfs and bows are a favor.
ite accessory of the costume for demi-
saison and a scarf arranged in this
manner furnishes a dressy addition for
any season. A width of any kind of
“piece” lace, about two yards long or
longer, is edged on the ends with wide
trimming lace to match, and is then
doubled lengthwise and shirred just
above the ends to bring 1t In to about
half its width, or a little parrower.
This can then be loosely notted abont
—A favorite redingote is the Direc-
toire, It is tightfitting, and fastens
| with large revers over the chest, It is
| cut square at the waist in front, re
dress,
| quite plain. The sleeves are Light
coat sleeves, coming well up over the
| shoulders,
up in black or dark eolored
trimmed with velvet or galloon
very large fancy buttons,
—A very stylish
chocolate brown diagonal
was made with a long point in front
| It was double-breasted. The skirt
| opened very much to the
| of plush of the same shade as the cloth,
| The collar band, one side
pointed bodice and points on the coal
sleeves were also trimmed with
plush,
about five inches round the botitom of
the skirt, ou the opening of the bodice
and on each sleeve,
puff, with golden beaver border, and a
| rich rosette on top, was to go with this
garment,
ally pretty. Young giris are weariog
them in bright colored striped soft
radzemir and striped surah, Ope hand-
some dinner gown for a married lady
was of blue faille and brocade, Lhe
front covered with tulle, having lny
in gold at the
the bodice is
and handsome design
front. A new style for
that the back should
for
colors, and
in black,
soft silk skirts are worn
dinpers in cream and light
theses are dainlily smocked
or black, exactly like Lhe smocking.
There are many new makes, and the
slesves are some elbow Jength, olhers
to the wrist, and all more or
puffed.
—Dlack sparse floral
conventional designs, with the Empire
laurel on greens, grays and new pinks,
are novel, and
coats. some of the newest appearing on
a Burgundy red ground, with all the
warm Dbrilliancy of lle de vin,
paliterns are
with peau de sole
black satin siripes with 3
winkie gra) most
while on some of the satin
tached sprays of ¢
are freely wrought,
royales, which are 8o
biended with broad velvel stripes,
special attention bas been given lo the
and broad
peri
grounds,
neh
are
nal
$1
vig
wari tig
nvensi
in
tied. The black and white velvet and
have to be woven in sunlight in
summer and late spring, or the whites
are affected by the light,
—There are some leading noveities
in trimmings, A fine silk cord, set in
mantles and jackets. Woolen materials
of many kinds are embroidered in col-
ors with fOoral designs, and
holed or piuked at the edge. The same
class of materials have been worked in
an open guipure pattern of leaves and
| lowers, the flowers wadded, so that
the pattern stands out in boid rellef:
| Then there 1s a large variety of open
trimmings worked in silk, with leaves
in satin stitch. and holes sewn over
like masiin embroidery. This Is th
same at both edges, which follow the
| outline of the design. Perhaps the
most original of all 18 apparently a
plaited gailoon, some twe inches wide
| made of narrow cloth, pinked wilh fine
{ tooth points on either side, and inter
| lace! with holes like those which occur
| in cave-seated chairs—indeed, the pat-
| tern seems to have been borrowed from
this source. The edges are almost
| loon 18 to be had to mateh most of the
| new cloths, though the material of
which the galloon 18 made is in trade
; called “felt.” Beaded galloons and
| edgings are to be had in every variety,
| but, save in the pattern, there is noth-
ing very new, Tinsel threads are still
much used, and give great additional
brightness.
~We have just been examining a
complete series of new winter Wraps,
They are nearly all long, hiding the
dress completely, so that hats are worn
to match the wrap instead of the dress
as formerly.
Coe of the models which seems des-
tined to be very popular is a modifica
tion of the Fremch mantle, bonne-
femme, cape, which has already been
worn y as a traveling cloak,
For winter this is being made of plain
cloth, or of plain black fallle.
r case itis lined with wad.
HORSE NOTES.
Deck Wright, 2.107, lias been sold
for $1200 to Bouthern parties.
—The Breeders’ Association made
about $1000 above expenses at the Lex.
ington meeting.
—~An English gentleman of means
is about to lay out a half-mile trotting
track at Aintree, near Liverpool,
~—LGiuy will be started to reduce his
record of 2.124 over the Cleveland
track before the season shall close,
—Budd Doble showed up a grand
young horse in Bethlehem Star, by
Volunteer Star, inthe 2.40 class race at
Lexington,
—Lady Bunker, dam of Guy Wilkes,
2.15}, sold for $6500 at Lexington, the
third week in October.
—8an Mateo made a record of 2.28%
at the Trenton meeting. She 1s the
A —
— Budd Doble will send Jack (2.191)
‘The horses are full
brothe:s.
—W. R. Armstrong, the poolsener,
was recently stricken with paralysis at
home at Almont, Mich., bul is
slowly recovering.
—F. de Cernea has sold to Colonel
Lawrence Kip, for $3000, the bay mare
dam by Country Gentleman,
~—Littie Brown Jug will be sold at
shortly. Bince Commodore
Kittson’s death Miss Isabelle has used
the great pacer for a road horse,
Steve Maxwell died of spasmodic
colic at Boston on October 11. Ex-
amination proved that inflammation
set in, and the intestines had be-
come knotled,
year old son of Wil.
ham L.. reduced his record to 2.23 at
Lexington meeting. Budd Doble
will try to beat Wildflower’s 2.21 with
Axtell tls fall
—Of Glidella’s five foals the first
three are now dead. Her bay colt by
Reform, owned vy J. T. Stewart &
Son, Council Biuffs, la, died re.
-— Axtell, the 2
string have been
he year, and
wear and tear.
yw both man
—Ed. Corrigan’s
campaigning nearly ail
they are the worse for
A little rest is essential [
and beast,
—Two hundred and eighty-two hor.
ses started during the Latonia meeting
just closed, and the amount won by
them aggregated $36540. Sam DBry-
ant captured two stake races worth
$2545, with Come to Taw, and heads
— Longfellow Leaded the list of win.
son, Long Taw, following with $2545.
37 starts, and is followed by Overlon
with 10 wins and 7 seconds out of 44
mounts,
—Lillie Stanley reduced her record
This is the fastest mile ever trotted in
California by a mare bred in the
State, She is a brown mare, by Whip-
pleton, and trotted in 2.203, Iasi sea-
SOD.
yuld
and
and
then have been permitted at the City
the same track three
—It 18 odd that pool selling sh
weeks later,
~The winners of the English Cham-
pion stakes have been Springfield, Jan-
uette, Rayon d'Or, Robert the Devil,
Bend Or, Tristan (three times. Para-
dox, Ormonde, Dendigo, and pow
Friar's Balsam.
—A weanling colt by St. Bel (2.243),
out of Nubia, by Harold, 2d dam Lady
the Prospect Hill Farm, Fraoklia,
Pa. , for $2500.
— Harry Glimore, of Versailles, Ky.,
has sold to Captain John P. Withers,
on April 15, 1888, by Messenger Chief,
dam Linpehan, by Pacing Abdallah.
— Another reduction bas been mado
the season opened it was held by Dodd
Peet. Gold Leal was the first to
change it, and was soon credited with
a mile in 2.18, Yolo Mald then ap-
peared on the scene. She paced a mile
in 2.164, and repeated in the same
time. The following week saw Goid
race with Arab she won the 6rst heat
Yolo Mad has now, how-
the figures to 2,14 over the Bay Dis-
trict track. This new wonder is a
daughter of Alexander Button, 2.29.
~The Coney Island Jockey Club
has opened a new stake called the dou-
ble event, for 2 year olds, to be run at
the June meeting of 1822, It is vir-
tually a double race, the first to take
place on the opening day of the meet-
ing, five and a ball furlongs, the sec-
ond six furlongs, both over the straight
futurity eoursa. Ji, single subscription
entitles a horse to start for both
events, the club adding $4000, in the
on of $2500 to the first event
in the
tains the services of Jockey McLaugh-
ntil January 1, 1890, and has the
famous colt Galen for