rsa.
Fold~d Eyes.
1 bave somewhere seen it written,
And have wondered if "tweres trus,
“Folded eyes see brighter colors
Thao the open ever do."
Can {it be the little sleeper
Dreaming on {ts mother’s knee
Really sees what, from its smiling,
We can fancy It must see’
Little lips, oh, open for me,
Tell me if indeed "tis true,
“Folded eyes ses brighter colors
Than the open ever do.”
Happy maiden, idly dreaming,
W here the shadows come and go
Ip among the apple blossoms,
Tell me truly if "tis so;
Is the picture Fancy sketches
Brighter than all else to you—
‘Folded eyes seo brighter colors
Than the open ever do?"
Folded eyes, from which the sunlight
Faded, leaving us in shade,
in the light which fadeth never
1s it true as poet sald,
Still bebolding in unfolding,
{Mories that are ever new,
“Folded eyes see brighter colors
1 han the open ever do?"
EIR
NS ADV
ENTURE.
Puilander’s Uncle Josephus didn’t
approve of circuses, To tell the truth,
he didn’t approve of much of anything
that was a good time for a boy. He
thought that boys ought to work and
study all the time, He thought that
Philander, especially, ought to, because
he wanted him to be, as soon as pos-
sible, a doctor like himself. He longed
for the time when ‘Philander Pillbox,
M. D.."" should adoin the sign above
the office door. (Of course the name
wasn’t really Pillbox, but, if 1 should
tell you what it was, Uncle Josephus |
might sce this story and find out Phil- |
ander went to the circus, which |
wouldn't do at all, }
Philander didn’t want to be a doctor
He had horrified his uncle by declaring
that he meant to join a circus company |
as a sword swallower, or a clown, ora
lion tamer, as soon as he could discov- i
er for which of those three professions |
his talents best fitted him. Uncle Jose-
phus put his foot down then, aud said
Philander should never go to a circus
again!
The circus had come, a
urnphaut Pageant,’ as the bills said, |
was passing through the streets, ana |
“Grand Tri- |
gh
Uncle Josephus had shut Philander up
in his study, with the blinds closed and
the curtains drawn, so that “his head |
needn't be turned by the procession,’ |
and be had told him to Lis mind |
on his algebra lesson.
As if a boy could hear bursts of mu- |
that made his blood th gle in his
veins, and know that such a
as that was going—great glittering |
chariots drawn by wonderful Arabian
tiny il
Keep
Sie
procession i
nut-shell chariots
ponies that
: had come straight out |
hur. es,
drawn by
looked as if
of fairy land, elephants that looked like
walking ts crooked camels
a necked
x} 1 4
Shetland
Hou
and lo
animals stil
1: ob Tel
out
but
said
i Nay compe
Lias passed,
streets,”
it was some-
and sat
to get rid of Lgebra
hopping-block
whistled a
moodily on the ©
3
n door,
3 3 tien?
bas ald iitLie,
n gol ireus this after.
I've got a complimentary tick-
¥ i J
et. bein' acquainted with the clown.
Acquainted with the clown! Phil-|
der looked at ’'Liph'let with increas-
Hie was a very ordinary
was astouishing that be
wwe a distinguished acquaint-
mn
18
i
ar
ed respect.
person; I ung
should |
ance,
“He can
red 117 ie
wo from over our way,’’ con- i
jet. “Ie growed up over !
to Green-«pple Comer. Land sakes!
we never thought he was nothin’ more’n |
COO! [ could beat him all holler
figurin’. Dut if it’s a man's luck to
get up in the world be will, and no mis-
take. Here I be earnin’ my bread by |
the sweat of my brow, and all he’s got
to do is to dress himself up like a pea- !
And what |
$e
cock and make folks laugh.
do you think he says vow? that its the |
hardest work in the whole world!”
Philander sauntered moodily out of |
doors, He didn’t want to hear any |
more about the circus or the clown; it |
made him feel worse,
He suddenly caught sight of a boy
Jjeaning over the garden fence, and
veckoned to him. It was Hosy Lam-
son. a boy who had moved from Green-
apple Corner into the pink cottage next
door. ’'Liph’let had said he didn’t
think Philander’s uncle would like to
have him make Hosy's acquaintance;
but it isn’t very easy not to get ac.
quainted with a boy who lives next
door, and as for Uncle Josephus, he
would be glad not to have him know
apy boys at all,
“Going to the circus?” asked Hosy.
“No!"' said Philander, dejectedly.
“But our hired man, 'Liph’let, is ac-
quainted with the clown,” he added
proudly.
“Pooh! that's nothing; the clown is
my second cousin, and I've got a free
pass for all the time and he’s stopping
at my house—only he’s gone over to
Green-apple Corner to see his Aunt
Polly,”
1t struck Philander as being very
queer that a clown should have a sec-
ond cousin just like ordinary people,
but be thought Hosy was certainly a
very fortunate boy.
“He has shown me all the things he
wears in the circus, and they're queer
and handsome, I can tell you. Nome
of them are spread out on his bed. You
can come and look at them if you want
to. it's almost as good as going to the
« gireus.”’
Pinlander did not neal to be urged,
He followed Hosy up into the clown’s
room, and Hosy held up before his de-
lighted eyes the moft astonishing and
fascinating garments that he had ever
seen,
There were some with shining scales,
to make the wearer look like a fish; the
mask to go with those was exactly like
a great codfish’s head, Philander had
been to the circus only once in his life,
and then the clown was dressed in a
gay-colored tunic and tights, and had a
cap and bells on his head, That was
not half as funny and delightful as the
codfish clown must be.
“He's got piles of other suits in his
trunk. some of them funnier than that,”
says Hosy. *‘I say, you might try that
on! You're pretty big and tall, and
he's only a small man, Maybe it
would fit you, over all your clothes!”
The very next thing to being aclown,
Philander thought, would be to have his
clothes on. It did occur to him that it
wasn’t proper to take such liberties
with things that did not belong to him,
but Hosy had given him permission,
and was not Hosy the clown’s second
cousin?
He slipped into the queer clothes
without waiting for second thought,
and put on the mask that was just like
a codfish’s head. He looked In the
mirror and almost thought, for an in-
stant, that he had turned into a cod.
fish. The fish's skin looked a little
people were going wild, Fomething he
must say or do.
“II win’t the clown!’’ he said, with
all the voice he could muster.
“I ouder! louder!” shouted impatient
volces,
But there was a great deal of laugh-
ter. People thought that since the
clown had said something it must be
funny, and it was the proper thing to
laugh,
“I ain’t the elown!”’ shouted Philan-
der, with the courage of desperation,
“He's gone to Green-apple Corner to
see his Aunt Polly!”
Theres was a roar of laughter and ap-
plause. Everybody thought that must
be one of the clown’s best jokes; it was
so very funny about his Aunt Polly.
Just at that moment there came
bounding into the ring, dressed ina
buff and green tunic and pink tights,
with a cap with jingling bells, the clown,
He had a very long horse-whip in his
hand, and he applied it vigorously to
poor Philander’s legs. Around the
ring he chased him — the audience
laughing and cheering and supposing it
all a part of the programme—until
Philander, smarting and breathless, de-
cided that to face the manager could be
no worse than this, and rushed behind
the scenes,
The manager caught him as he was
running out to him,
loose, as if he had been ill and shrunk |
away inside of it, but still it was not as, |
Hosy said, *‘such a very bad fish.*’ |
Philander has scarcely finished ad- |
miring himself in the mirror and pranc-
ed around the room a little, with the
funny codfish’s tail curving out just be-
hind his heels, when Hosey cried:
“Quick, guick! get out of sight!
He's coming!” And he pushed Phil
ander out into a litte dark entry.
“Where-
“Go down the back stairs!’ Tlosy |
said, following Philander. “I don’t
know what he’ll do if he catches ual
o touch his clothes or
go gear them. That's the suit he was
going to wear this afternoon. He
spread it out on the bed so 1t would be |
all ready if he was in a hurry, and he |
said it was no matter if he didn’t have |
time to get his trunks carried to the
tent, he could just put that on aml go
a carriage. 1 wish you would
out of the house quick! He'll be
mt”
lently very much fright.
hurried Philander do
get
q sure
He was evi
and he
“But where can 1 go?”
Philander, feeling very strongly th
to be a in
f a chamber, and quite an-
other to face the world In that charac-
ter.
{x0 Into youl
them off,” said Hosy, pushing
a od
of the door.
codfish
OW House
[1.to his own
think bh
meeting Uncle
codfish dress’
ter than t
wl 1 * i 11 hel ge
w hiere the « own onukl See
’
1 +
not wish to get Hosy into
sl § Hh} $id thi
thongh he aia ii
hartitedl OF Fact
SOL RIES ANOS
ss fen ?t hie
ABIL & BS
water
x 3
he
some tried to cale
Philander really thought he should
go crazy. He remembered the prince
in his fairy book, who was turned by a
wicked old fairy into a fish, and put
so bard
prince had a Lime as he was |
having.
He found that it was of no use to try
They
He resign-
as
they evidently expected an 1 wished
him to, toward the great circut tent
They finally pushed him inside the en-
closure and up to the rear entrance,
A man, who was evidently a man- |
were determined to fullow,
the noise,
“Well, you've kept the audience
waiting nearly twenty minutes!’ he ex- |
claimed. *°1 had to send Mademoiselle |
Rosabella in for her bare-back ride,
they were so impatient, I'm glad |
you're all dressed. But why didn’t you |
come in a carriage? though it wasn't a |
bad idea to draw a crowd.” i
He draw Philander inside the tent,
The crowd was shut out, and Philander
drew a long breath of relief. But wers |
not greater troubles in store for him? |
How should he explain to the manager |
that he was not the clown?
While he was trying to summon
courage, the manager was drawing him
along, and before he realized where he
was going, he found himself inside the
ring. There were the people—a sea of
aces turned toward him. They cheer-
ed and stamped, and clapped their
hands at sight of him, They forgot
Mademoiselle Rosabella, who was just
riding out of the ring, poised alrily on
tiptoe on a bare-backed steed; the
clown was evidently a greater atirac-
tion than she.
Poor Philander was in a stage fright;
his Kosh tratuiling $0 be sould SCArce-
ly stand. nd was manager,
who would likely have him arrested and
put into prison if he found out the
truth: before him that dreadful audi-
ence shouting and stamping, expe ting
him to perform tricks and crack jokes
for them.
It was the most trying moment of
Philander’s life. He wished he were
really a fish; a {rying-pan couldn’t be
worse than this, He wished that Hosy
had never moved into the pink cot
or had never had a second co ny
wished he had listened to ’'Liph’let,
who sald that Hosy was not fit for him
to associate with; he wished-—bui the
“1 should like to know
ans?!’ he said,
And Philander, in trembling tones,
him all about it. ‘The manager
was a good-natured man and he laugh-
ed,
“Well you entertained the audience,
and made them laugh, anyway, |
what all this
1
for the business, If you want to stay
your board and
star in the profession.”
Here was Philander's heart's desire
He had an opportunity
to join a circus company. What did
He shook his head decidedly,
ged, but he
didn’t think he should like it at all,
He took off the codfish ¢ostume, and
and then he ran home,
“across lots,
on i
Revolutionary Houses in New Jersey.
mo
The September 18sue of the Magazine
of American History contained a letter
of General Nathaniel Greene, from
Somerset County, New Jersey, dated
in the spring of 1779, in which he tells
us that Washington danced at his quar-
tors for three hours with Mrs, Greene
without sitting down, and writes fur-
ther, that ‘upon the whole he had a
pretty little frisk.” It is interesting to
note that the old dwelling in which
these distinguished people danced, is
still in existence and mm a good state of
preservation, It stands on the left
bank of the Raritan river, about two
miles below Somerville, and but a short
distance north of the Finderne railway
station. It was built by Derrick Van
Veghten early in the last century, who
was born in 1699, in an adjoining stone
house that was erected some years
earlier by his father, Michael Van
Veghten, who came here from the up-
per Hudson, and who was among the
earliest of the Dutch ploneers of the
Raritan valley, Although bearing
many marks of age, this old two story
Holland brick house still stands firmly,
and unimpaired, upon its solid founda-
tion, and its hearthstone continues to
attract visitors and cement family ties.
At the time of Greene's occupancy of
it Derrick Van Veghten was nearly
eighty years of age; he was very strong
in his sympathy with the patriot cause,
and did much to add to the comfort of
the rank and file of the army, as well as
of its officers. His homestead, which
even then was an aged dwelling, was
the headquarters of Greene, who was
then Quartermaster-General, the pres-
i
ence of Mrs. Greene proved a potent
and drew many to this old
Duteh farm-house. She was
about twenty-five years of age, Is sald
acter. and was possessed of such bril-
soclety and
by the best peo-
causing her
friendship to be sought
no hat, Finding Asnt Ch
alone he told her his adveniure.
She didn’t scold him-—Aun
couldn't scold if she tried
thw
ALLY
get
through that sl wWriaj
ets, and gave him b
When Uncle Josephus ca
that has C
not to be a circus performer, but
be qui
$A
ie
he
he should
doctor.
“You see now,
WAS Sit cessful
sephns fu
hands joyfully.
away from the circu
1
all bis silly fondness
¢ Philander Pillbox
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ef ote
oie i
cps »
A Cargo of Moni
ant in Marseilles
“ t
wet
to a correspondent on
Africa asking him seng 1
convenience or three m
the and most valipble species.
have it ofr merchant,
number, Wrote
#0
+O
two siikeys of
rarest
in stating the the ou
i
:
great events may issue [from smnall
causes will appear from the sequel, A
inform the merchant that Its menagerie
had landed. “My menagete!’ was the
astonished reply. “Yes, 8 menageries
Somerset County in
peculiarly rich in Revolutionary houses,
and it quite extraordinary that so
those in which the leading
generals of the army quartered during
the encampment of the winter
1779 should still be extant,
A notable example is one
pled by Was ]
yr able to find a
Brook
Bound
the main body
ho i
~gmple enough for his
{ation, established his hea qt
ie Wallace house, then bare)
It is still
is
£34 §
wz of
ill use,
Was ofcu
¢
ol
where
ANY ay
ta De
from
that highway
the Central
This most
sjons opene
leading
where
of
Nommaersel’s mas
ie portals that
inguished 1
nner was an affai
x toy
Wills
(ist WA
vite daily t
The artillery was stationed
at I'l
ith his wife,
Jacobus Var
now 1 How
church,
somewhat
ikem
Geran
e Jud
AS
f
beri {
EEF IN OUR
ill retaining many of its old
characteristics; few passers-by, lu
would suspect that iL was
the year From December,
until 1770. it was by far
se in Bedmin-
point of
Serres
mouet
st -Lilne
ywever,
% © ted Pane
1760,
June,
ster township, and rallying
both military and social affairs.
of people came and went each
General Steuben made his headquarters
nearly a mile south of the Raritan, at a
house located at the end of a grassy
lane, running from the New
It was then the residence
day.
of
i
The meghant could
the man untila letter was
come for you.”
not believe
Africa, a person of the mo& scrupulous
exactness, in which he gravdy apologized
for his having been unabls, nothwithe
standing all his efforts, to procure more
dered, but promised to sen the remain-
der as soon as possible, Imagine the
feelings of the merchant os going down
to the port to convince hingself with his
own eyes of the existen¢s of his 160
monkeys, which were all comfortably
housed and which grinded at him
through the bars of their cages. It was
one of those moments «f a lifetime
laugh or © weep,
se ———————
Small Hands and Fect.
We infer from some of the letters re.
ceived by us from our young readers
that a number of them cherish the rid-
have small
hands and feet is a sign of noble descent
and high breeding. We can assure
these deluded damsels that race and
breeding have nothing io do with the
size of the extremities, The biggest
hand we ever saw attached to a human
arm was that of a young officer, the
scion of a family ennobled six centuries
ago, and we bave scet hands of the
most delicate size and texture belong;
ing to persons of the lowest origin.
Witness, also, the chubby paw of her
most gracious Majesty Queen Vietorla,
whose race has been of royal rank for
fifteen hundred years. Nature propor-
tions the hands and feet with the ut
most exactness to the other parts of the
body. Consequently, the hand and feet
are always just right. To change them
would be to destroy the harmony of the
frame. To be dissatisfied with them
argues a real vulgarity of mind, a want
of good sense, and, we may add, a
thankless impiety.—Nwo York Ledger.
A aooD foree pump, with which the
orchardist may apply insecticides early
at oo uh aque of the
remunerative fruit tary
|
by a descendant of ils Rovolutionary
owner. Since that time two wings have
been added
but the central portion remains as it
:
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sides speak of times long bygone, but it
is still modern in the sense of its pictur-
esque homeliness, being 1a full accord
with its turfy setting, and iis tree-em-
surroundings. The
was
ficers and this Staats house has witness
ed many scenes of conviviality. On
in an adjoining grove sixty guests gath-
erexl about the table, among
Washington, M. Gerard,
minister, and Don Juan
Another building that has a Revolu-
tionary story to tell is the large house
to be seen on the right of the turnpike,
Middlebrook stream,
as “Phil's Hill,” and was the dwelling
of Philip Van Horn, the father of five
handsome and well-bred daughters
who were the much admired toasts of
both armies, These bright-eyed young
women welcomed alike friend and foe,
and, it is said, were often the means of
mitigating the ferocities of war, They
had their reward—they all obtained
husbands, Here, with a number of
other young army officers, quartered
one of the most popular men in the
vicinity of Camp Middlebrook. He
was a swarthy faced, graceful youth of
twenty-three—brave Light Horse Harry
Lee—the pet of the army and after.
wards the father of Robert E. Lee who
gave up his sword at Appomattox.
Another interesting building, but a
short distance from the Van Horn
house, is the old Middlebrook tavern,
When it was erected cannot be learned,
but it was certainly before 1750. Its
nt occupant and owner is fully
alive to the value of its old time asso-
ciations, and is careful to yreserve ine
tact all that testities of ancient days,
In its quaint bar-room many marks of
Revolutionary bayonets are to be seen
upon the heavy beams of its low-stud-
ded ceiling,
———————— A —————
's winnings for the year
2,945.
——
took up
FASHION NOTES,
— Panel effects are especially fash.
1onable, but differ from those of former
seasons in being almost Invariably
made to appear like an underskirt,
showing between openings in the drap-
ery, which is dispoted in plaits that lap
over the panel or panels, or front as
the case may be,
—A very handsome gown was of
geranium red armure silk, striped with
jetted black lace and gauze. The
draped front of the bodice was fast
ened slantwise on the left mde, The
back of the skirt and the paniers were
of the plain armure, From the right
side panier, which was shorter than
the opposite one, fell a fringe of jetted
pendants,
— Variety in the style of the coliars
naturally necessitates more elaborate
neck dressing, and dainty arrangements
of lace and ribbon are devised to meet
the special need of the design. which
are usually, but not always, accompa-
med by a short jabot. The popular
and convenient folds and narrow rib-
bons remain the popular finish for all
ordinary purposes,
~ Young girls may have very simple
gowns of soit heliotrope woolen goods,
draped with a deep frilling at the
waist, or book muslin tucked at the
back, embroidered in the front, and
scalloped at the edge, trimmed with a
bordering of lace. Other thicker em-
broldered mouslins have wide sashes
carried about the figure below the
walst, forming almost an upper drap-
ery.
—A very pretty gown for a young
lady was of white tulle over white
satin, The tulle skirt was draped with
a wide garland of ivy.
| was of plain tulle, and the wide white
{silk sash was tied in one loop with
long ends, The full tulle, both in the
| back and front of the bodice, was
| mented the left shoulder,
—Evening gowns are most varied,
| with rich gold guipure round the hem
an applique
| leaves in
of velvet gladioll
natural colors,
and
some dresses, A blue electric brocade
and velvet opens over a white crepe de
chine from and fringed sash
sashes of wide width are placed at the
| left side.
—A very striking and umque even-
ing gown was of straw colored satin
and white China crepe, trimmed with
fringe, having a netted heading. The
satin skirt opened at the leit side,
where it was bordered with an
broidery and a crepe plaiting The
double crepe tunie was trimmed with
fringe, and the crepe drapery was fast
eued on the Jeft shoulder in the back.
Low pointed bodice, with an embroid-
ered plastron and folds of cross cul
Crepe,
—Many fancy tulies are brought
but none keep any lasting hold
fashion. The plain tulles dyed in
prevailing tones always wot.
Tulle gowns with large wafer spols are
made in cream over a light green or
maize color, and in black over red. A
pink ulle with graduated circles
{formed of chenille spots, forming an
empire design at the hem, 1s newer. it
has three rows of pink watered ribbon
on each sid The bodices are of vei-
vet, fallle or moire— lhe wore substan-
tial the better,
ny
Us,
on
the
ale
.
v
*
Braid io all its varieties is the ac-
cepted garniture for woolen fabrics,
but this statement does not exhaust the
subject or describe the garniture LY
any means, There are braids and
braids; *he most frequenliy seen are
the flat, ribbon like braid in black or
colored silk or worsted, or gilt or silver
tinsel, in various widths, put on in a
succession of parallel rows, either ver-
tically or horizontally, and in equal
or graduated widths, or the fine slar
HORSE NOTES,
—Jim Gray is in traifiing once roore,
and may race at the Clifton track the
coming winter,
Frank Buford, 2.20 has been turned
out on the farm of his owner near
Nashville, Tenn.
John Condon of Philadelphia, has
purchased in Kentucky the 6 year old
stallion Gettysburg.
—Robert Steel has sold to C, IH.
Chatfield, of New York, the b. g. El-
land, 7 years old, by Frank Elhs,
—Uharles Clarke, of Pittsburg, Pa.,
is driving Lena Swallow, 2.19, and
Bella Lexington, 2.264, to the pole.
—Tzz1e, dam of Little Brown Jug,
2.11}, and Brown Hal, 2,13, died re-
cently at My, Valentine’s ranch, near
Pleasonton, Cal
A. J. Cassats’s 3 year olds Tara.
gon and Marauder ran first and second
in both the Dixle and Breckinridge
stakes at Baltimore.
IL. H. Hurd hassold to T. Logh-
ran, of New York, for §1000 the brown
mare Mollie, 6 years, out of Jessie,
2.21, by Vernol’s Black Hawk,
~The gray gelding Steve Maxwell,
2.214, one of the best-known perform-
ers in the Grand Circuit of 1830, died
of spasmodic colic on October 11.
—W. 8. Barnes, propristor of the
Melbourne Btable, announcks his retire
ment from the turf. He will sell his
extensive stud at Lexing this
month.
~~ Epaulet, 2.19, together with four
of his get and two of the get of Nut-
wood, 2.184, and one of the get of
Enn, 2.27, are Robert bteel’s entries
# rien
wri
—1In a match race for $500 a side at
Ieavy’s blk.
Algiers in stiaight heals. Time,
2.314.
—Teddie Cooke, the jockey who rode
ber 20, was 80 seriously injured that it
— The becoming lace boas divide
feather flues, which are very fashion.
in white, cream, black, dark
— The woolen materials most worn
the shade vert serpent (a pale greenish
old gold or rouge garance which is the
name of a shade of red used in the
French iwilitary uniforms In the
volutions of a “braiding pattern.”
These are the simplest modes of braid
trimming,
ean be varied indefinitely.
—Red in all tones up to the most
vivid scarlet is more than ever the
fashion.
dark Roman red costumes, braided
same shade.
| are sent over for evening wear, either
| red throughout or in combination with
| Jet Leaded draperies, Pompadour bro-
ieads in
net,
| broad stripes of satin, is very superb.
{and draped on a petlicoat of cream
| colored Renaissance lace, wrought with
gold.
~The fashion of a distinct material
| for the underskirt affords an opporiu.
| nity for the exercise of economy, but
it must not be supposed that any skirt
will do for the purpose; for while the
popular fancy for the use of black with
any color permits the weanng of a
| black skirt with almost any medium or
dark shade, and some light colors,
when a color is used for the purpose it
must either be in contrast or harmo-
nize with the material or materials of
the remainder of the costume, and it
is often a potent factor in producing
the “toned’’ effects that are so notice-
able in all departments of dress. The
separate skirts are most uently worn
with polonaises, or with draperies ar-
ranged in polonaise effects,
—A very stylish evening gown in
black was of a soft make of faille. It
had a double frill of silk at the hem of
the full skirt, Over this fell
black silk net, covered with wafer sized
This was turned under,
hemmed at the edge, and was ex-
tremely At the back was a sash
of black velvet, put on like panels and
cut in one continuous piece on either
side of the centre of the back. It was
worn with a low velvet bodice.
that trotted in 2.30
the past season also
entered the 2.20 list, They are as fol-
lows:
—even borses
~The breaking up of Commodore
Rittson’s will brit upon the
market one of the choicest selections of
stallions and successful brood-mares
from the best and most noled racing
families in America or the world. The
sale will be held at the Erdenheim
Stud Farm, Chestnut Hill, Philadel.
phia, Pa, on Thursday, November
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~The winnings of August Del
mont’s Nursery Stable the past season
foot up $30,162, Prince loyal heading
the list with $34,415. Hacelapd and
George Oyster, for which Mr. Belmont
paid $27.5600 last fall, won between
them $25,505, to which amount Race-
land contributed $20.3 Gearge Oys-
ter was a big disappoinlment.
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—Matt Storms, the California trainer,
Cleveland in the
rast during the past season, and who
narrowly escaped death in the raliway
disaster at Shobola Glen, which killed
toward recovery, and
—It is by no means certain that the
New York on November 14. The
Presidents of the Kentucky AssoCia-
tion of the Latonia Jockey Club object
to coming to New York unless the
Esstern racing association show a dis-
and Latonia 1s
true of Chicago, Louisville and St,
Louis. The Congress will meet in
New Orleans if it does not come 0
—A decision of interest to bookmak-
ers as well as speculators was rendered
by the judges at Lexington. After the
race won by Van Trim a man presen-
ted 8 ticket to a bookmaker marked
“Van,” calling for 15 to 1 win
and 5 to 1 a place. The book-
maker refused to psy ii, say-
mg the ticket was on Ireland instead of
van Trim, as was shown by his record
ing sheet. ‘the owner of the ticket
a: to the judges, stating posi-
tive that he had bet on Van Trim, as
his ticket showed, although the book
maker's sheet might show otherwise.
The judges, after consultation and
hearing both sides, decided that the
ticket was the best evidence io favor of
the speculator, and the bookmaker
was required to pay it at its face
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