“Chippie.”
[ And he said **he did n't know why Le
was n't made like other boys’ ]
A little boy in an easy chalr,
With grave brown eyes under sunny balr,
1s sadly thinking it over;
For why are his legs so weak and queer,
And why must he lie on his pillows here
When bees ave abroad iu the clover?
Up in the tall tree over the way
Two rollicking youngsters climb and play,
Its featherly branches shaking;
Their legs strong on their perches high,
While his, he thinks, with a weary sigh,
Were “sadly spoiled in the making."
A bitter thought for an infant brain,
And sad the sound of the minor strain
That darkens the glorious weather,
While we two, three score years apart—
The childish soul and the time-worn heart—
Grew heavy and weep together.
Dear little boy in the easy chair,
With wistful eyes under golden halr,
At war with a question vexing,
We older folk, with our cooler brains,
We, too, sit down in the autumn rains,
Dismayed by a fate perplexing.
Yet, if we could, as the moments fly,
Watch brightening gleams in the western
sky =
1he heralds of fairer weather—
Then, holding thoughts of the summer
fast,
When brave flowers blossomed and smiled
and passed,
We two would be glad together.
CRT TR
THE OLD FLAME.
“Miss Mandeville? Of coarse I
know Miss Mandeville,” said Florian
Fontenel. **There were two sisters of
them, weren't there? One a radiant
blonde with such a profusion of mag-
nificently burnished hair, that they call-
ed her **The Princess with the Golden
Locks’—the other, a little brunette,
with black braids coiled at the back of
her head, and soleman eyes that looked
you through and through. Oh yes, I
remember them very well, They were
great belles in New York—was it the
winter before last, or the winter before
that? And everybody wondered they
didn’t return last season. So they live
here, do they? Well, upon my word,
this is quite an agreeable discovery. I
must make it my business to go and
call directly, for, do yon know, Ariadne,
I was just the least little bit hit by the |
brunette with the great, grave, ques- |
tioning eyes.” {
Mrs. Major Fontenel shock a cloud of |
fragrance from the satin folds of her |
fan, and moved her head a little dis-
dainfully,
Flattering as these brotherly confi-
dences might be, their spirit was not
exactly in unison with the tender rela-
tions which she would have preferred,
Sie had been a widow ten years now,
and in her own opinion was no less |
beautiful than when she had first stood |
at the altar,
And, after, all, what did it matter
that she was flve orsix years older than
her cousin Florian? He suited her,
And she had invited him to Fontenel |
Plains to fall in love with her, not to |
maunder about his old fancies, |
“Yes,” sud she coldly. **I heard |
something of their once being in so-
siety. But it didn’t last long. Old |
Mandeville, their grandfather, had got |
involved in speculations, and when he |
shot himself it was no more than people |
sxpected.”’ i
**And how
selves?” |
“Oh, I don’t know. 1 suppose they |
go out governessing, or take in sewing |
or something, Somehow people always |
10 get provided for in this world.”
“Then you don’t visit them?”’ !
Mrs. Fontenel lifted her brows, |
“Quite impossible!” she said. *“They |
were selling bouquets out of the green
honses until the place was foreclosed, |
Fancy selling bouquets out of one’s |
own greenhouse for a living! And |
Cassie has gone somewhere to
do u
i
learn |
stenography, and Kate goes around in
calico dresses, exactly like a servant |
girl”
Florian smiled to himself. i
“She is better posted as to these two |
zirls than she is willing to admit,” |
thought he,
And the next morning he walked |
over the old stone bridge, and out |
across the fields to the old stone house |
in which Leonidas Mandeville had died,
The upper blinds were all as careful-
ly closed and bolted as if the old man’s |
corpse still lay in the echoing rooms; |
but the basement windows were thrown |
spen to admit the fresh October alr, |
and a round ¢ark face, brilliant as that |
of a Spanish senorita, appeared at the |
door to answer his knock, i
“Ig it the man for the quince jelly?” |
said she. *‘It is not ready yet. 1 told
you to come this evening.”
“i am very fond of quince jelly,”
sald Florian Fountenel gravely, *‘but 1
fear I am not the excellent individual
whom you are expecting. Don’t you
remember me, Miss Kate?”
“it is Mr. Fontenel,” said Kate
Mandeville, the crimson color mount.
ing to her cheek,
“Exactly,” said Florian. ‘May Mr,
Fontenel come in?"
Miss Mandeville hesitated a second
shen opened the door with a composad
ymile,
“Yes, walk In,” said she, *‘and see
gow industrious 1 am. I am a working
woman now. [I do up preserves, pickles
sanned fruit and jellies, It isn’t such
aupleasaut work, except when the
weather is warm; and I am very liber.
ally paid for it. Cassie is a worker,
00, She is a member of a stenographic
slass, and is to get twenty dollars a
week when she graduates,”
Kate had spoken all these sentences
with a careless grace, which would lead
au indifferent auditor to infer that it
was all a matter of course, But Flor
fan Fountenel knew her well enough to
bold the truo key to her nature, He
understood how painful it was for her
thus tacitly to acknowledge thio blight
which had passed over fortunes
since last they met.
“] see,” Le said quietly, ‘‘th are
changed, Miss Mandeville, since gave
ou that sprig of sweet verbena in
Eyteeti’s couvervatory that win
night, You were a belle
then ud
star of the even spoke ¢
you a“ the EO Shanvile g
“id they?’
«And I told myself,” Florian addedy
That I had no sort of chance, That it
was best for me to withdraw from the
lists before I had got my poor wings,
moth-fashion, hopelessly scarrcd and
seamed. ’’
“That was so like a man,” sald Kate
with rising color. “You constituted
yourself judge, jury, and executioner
all mm one. Will you be good enough
to step a little aside?”’ I have to puck
these glasses carefully into a box, and
"
m—
“Pardon me,” said Fontenel, with-
out stirring the tenth part of an inch.
“Just a minute more. Well, I left and
went abroad, The next winter, when
I returned, other stars were shining
upon the fashionable horizon, My
planet was gone, 1 am a proud man
by nature, and 1 sald to myself that if
Miss Mandeville had cared for me she
would have sigmfied to me, by some
sign, however slight, that she was still
in existence. She did not,”
“You can see why,” said Kate, with
heightened color. *‘I have received
too many rebuffs from the dear parti-
cular friends of old days to encourage
me to risk any new dangers. But,”
with drooping eyelashes, "1 have got
the sprig of sweet verbena hidden away
in my portfolio yet. I don’t often get
time to look at it, but it is always there
to think of. Now may I goon with the
jelly?”
“Not quite yet,” said Fontenel with
a gravity that was truly laudable,
“Miss Mandeville, if I had followed
out the tirst instincts of my heart the
night I gaye you the sweet verbena—if
I had asked you to be my wife—what
would you have sald?”
“I should have said yes,” Kate an-
swered., Fontenel bit his lip.
“And I was mad enough to throw
away all my chances of happiness,” he
said. **Baut I will not be so rash a sec-
ond time. Will you trust me now,
Miss Mandeville? Will you marry me?
I loved you dearly then; but, as Heaven
is my witness, I love you betier and
more tenderly now. In all my lite I
have never really cared for but one
woman, and she is before me now.
Will you take me, Kate, with all my
faults and eccentricities, and try to
make me more worthy of yourself?"
And Kate put her little hand in his
and answered with innocent frankness:
“Yes?
of
Was one
AMONG THE DUTCH BOERS.
Some Very Queer Costumes-—-Medi-
cine and Quackery-—Dancing.
The traveler (I speak of one who is
supposed to understand Uoer speech
and habits) arrives at a farm house in,
say, the Orange Free state. A farm
house may have one field of forage and
a stone kraal; otherwise the farm is
open country. He will not off saddle
his horse without receiving permission;
this having been asked for and granted,
the farmer leads him through the half
doors into the main apartment, There
is home made furniture, numerous pink
and white paper flowers, sud painted
on the walls vases of fruit like those
seen depicted on the London paves
ments, The visitor will proceed to
shake hands, commencing with the
stout vrauw and ending with the baby
in arms. This is not the English
“handshake,” but a resting of palm
within palm. The coffee, which is
made from sunrise to sunset, is then
brought in in bowls, tobacco pouches
are exchanged, and conversation, which
seldom varies, commences, The visitor
and the farmer answer or reply pretty
much as follows; **The veld Is green,
The clouds are heavy; there will be a
thunderstorm to-morrew. I have a
very fine red horse rgining. Nacht-
maal (communion) will be next month,
My vrauw has a cold, The president is
a fine man, Japie de Villlers (pro-
nounced Vilja and mus the prefix)
has had a ram born with five heads,
The English are thieves’ The hand-
shaking ceremony is thes repeated, the
horse, fed and rested, Worought round;
the traveler mounts, smpcks his 8 Jam-
bock, shows off his steel and proceeds
{ on his journey.
The farmers have traked ponies to a
special pace called a *ripple,”’ and a
good *‘trippler’’ is alway prized, With
this pace no *‘porting’’ © the saddle is
required, and on a lai journey the
trippler will arrive each night without
turning a hair, while thetrotting horse,
his companion, may be one up, Dis-
tance is reckoned by tigp—six miles to
the hour. If an Englisman near the
hour of sunset asks a Dschman where |
such a village lies, he wi be answered
by a raised hand and “‘§ittle way over
that hill,” You then ade ten miles |
and sleep out in a thuntic storm, per-
Mrs. Major Fontenel
those fer
gencies of the situation, and she called
congratulated her, in the pretliest way
in the world, upon her engagement,
“But really,” she added, with an art-
less laugh, **I had grown to believe that
Florian was a fore-ordained old bache-
lor. You don't know, Miss
ville, what a victory you
achieved!”
And she enacted her part so perfect.
ly that Florian Fontenel, in spite of his
own senses, was almost convinced that
she had never cared for him at all,
But to her French maid, Jeanne, she
said angrily, when at last she returned
home and flung her elegant wrappings
recklessly on the sofa:
“There bursts the brightest bubble of
my future! I could have held my own
against any new fancy, I solemnly be-
lieve, but thesa old flames are too much
for anyone to contend against.”
And Jeanne clasped her hands and
answered tragically.
“Ah, madame, it 1s very much heart
breaking!”
have
COURTING IN OLD TIMES,
Interesting Correspondence Between
a Lover and a Father,
Of the following letters one Is from
Mr. John Wise, father of the late gen.
eral Henry A. Wise, written to Gen-
eral John Cooper, seeking permission to
address his daughter, and the other is
General Cooper's reply. In Mr, Wises
letter be says:
“Feeling myself irresistibly impelled
by inclination, and prompted by a sense
of propriety, I have presumed now to
address you upon a sabject of 1mport-
ance and delicacy, Having conceived
an affection for your daughter (Miss
Saliy), I beg leave to solicit your per-
mission to make addresses to her, and
at the same time let me express the
hope that, should I be so fortunate as
to succeed in gaining her affections,
my first wishes may not be frustrated
by your disapprobation. I have thought
proper to make this application to you
on the subject in this manner, rather
than in person, because my character
(if I had acquired any), my condidon,
and my situation in life, are not aito-
gether unknown to you, and if object-
ions are made they can be more freely
communicated in this than in any other
way. 1 have hitherto proceeded no
obtain her pérmission to make this ap-
plication; amd, sir,
the honor of a gentleman that, in cuse
you have ag objection of an insupera-
ble nature to the proposed union,
whatever may be the chagrin, regret
and mortification which I may feel on
the occasion, 1 will not disturb the
quiet of a parent extremely solicitous,
no doubt, for the happiness of a beloved
daughter, by persisting any further
with her.”
Under date of May 11, 1707, Gen,
Cooper responded, saying:
“Although the application made by
your letter of this day was unexpected,
yet iy reflections heretofore on the
subject have prepared me to answer:
That however solicitous I may be for
the temporal felicity of my daughter
and the future respectability of my
dagighter, she is the only proper judge
of he person best calculated to make
h . Respect avd impartiality
ought to be shown by me to any gentle-
that might make his addresses to
daughter, and I confide in your can-
r and judgment,”
| MsTAKEN IDENTITY. —Young wife
dinner, sobbing)-~I think you-you-
OU-BFe Just AS MEAD As-as-you can be.
I made that-that apple dumpling as a
pleasant surprise to you, and-and-now-
you-wans me to bring a bandsaw to
cut 1t in two with.
Young husband — Good heavens,
Marial Is that a dumpling? I took it
for a cocoanut. {With firtn-
“tliat it was useless to hope to win th
wives of ong so courted and flattered
desperate fir
Maria, If i kills
me."”
haps. You reach the Silage the fol- |
lowing midday. Supession and fear
| of contagious diseases & great among |
| this people.
The Duteh are accor@ijished herbal-
’
v
| ists, doubtless oblainingiie knowledge |
{ of the Hottentots and Jshmen;
| have herb brandies for olics and plants |
| for sores, They are olen the prey of
| quack doclors; the mre as genuine
| practitioners, who bhaveto go long dis- |
| tances, charge heavily, A Dutchman
| is satisfied with the tralment so Jong
{as his medical advise: briogs to the |
house a quart bottle ¢ physic; if he
| present him with a smd vial be doubts
{ his skill and sends fc another man,
| The dead are buried othe farms, and |
over them traveling masons erect
| mausoleums of brick. Dutch women
lare enormous in size, good cooks in
| their style, gobble swes and cakes all |
| day and take little exesise. But now
{and then a Dutch wifand her daugh- |
| ters may be seen Kraalig the sheep at
evening. A Boer likehis wife's com- |
| pany, and will leave pssengers by his
| wagon stuck in the mu and balf starve |
I'S Fag
Ley
| ed while he tracks offifty miles with |
{ another vehicle to pa a visit to the |
| vrauw, Feather bedsre greatly prized
| by this people; theygenerally carry |
| their beds with them ¢ journeys,
| The trekkings of t3 Doers are re-
| markable., Annually ie farmliouse on
{the “low veld” is shit up, and the
sheep and cattle are taln scores of miles |
jup to the “high veld for mountain |
| pasture.
Besides som rushing stream |
| the wagons are camix, perhaps tents
| are pitched, and domsic life goes on i
| as usual. Fowls cluciamong the wild |
| grasses, and the cow are milked be-
neath the shadows ¢ mighty moun-
| tains, The general Hief in the excel-
lence of Boer shootings no delusion.
The people are excsively fond of
| music and dancing; cecertina, harmo- |
nium and fiddle are jeir delight. A
withered Hottentot durf will draw a |
strain from the solexf an old shoe
strung with sinew, an men and maid-
ens will vigorously daze to it for hours,
For dancing there isao touching the
English Afrikander, ad his measures |
seem quite original, “he Boers have a |
bad character for pilfring. When the
men and the women eter an up coun- |
try store they are alleved to carry off |
small goods like swets or ribbons, |
which they unconsciosly pay for in the
bill. ‘The farmers ar not often rich in |
money, their wool cops being mort- |
gaged sometimes to tie stres for two |
seasons ahead, *“Y aing bloods” are |
impudent and wild, A Boart curvet-
ing borse and hat yith Yhite ostrich |
plume usually dendte Sis species, |
When a Boer drinks he's an entire |
fool. In order to keep 3 firm band |
over the young men ridily transport, |
the elders of the free $hte recently |
passed a bill prohibiting he sale of
liquor at wayside cantectund thereby
lost a large revenue. Hoever, there
are smugglers,
The Boers are great religious forma-
lists; and at certain tings they and
their families ride into the villuges
from great distances to elebrate the
Nachtmaal (night meal glcommunion)
their wagons loaded with Foduce—pres.
ents for the parsons, A#fhis time busi-
ness is brisk and the stréts are like a
fair. Yet, where native and land are
concerned, the Boer’s @nstant viola
tion of the Command
need pointing out, Th
no means modest, and t
versations are at times R
decent. Household ar
on rich farms, are n
and the traveler must
sleep on the floor in the
five sisters and their
brothers, all grown up,
couple snore on an elev
ous feather bed in a cu
the room. When sleep
Transvaal farmhouse,
amine the mattress; it
skins, throw the skins
nb
Slander 1s a slime whith envious peo-
ple throw on others béter than them
selves, i
A pretty combinatitm box for hold
idst of four or
three or four
vhile the head
ata superior
15 well to ex
rests on sheep.
t.
Constitutional Changes Proposed.
Political history is repeating itself
this year as it does every Presidential
year with the ending of the campaign;
the old proposition to the effect, first,
that the term of the President shall be
extended to either six or eight years,
and that no incumbent of the Presi-
dential office shall be eligible for ve-
election, 18 again being discussed by
the newspaper press of the country of
both parties with unusual energy and
unanimity.
The reasons given for extending the
Presidential term, and for making the
inenmbent ineligible for re-election,
are, first, the disturbing influences upon
the business of the country by protract-
ed campaigns; second, the great cost,
direct and indirect, of them, and third,
that the eligibility of a President to re-
election renders him rather the servant
of the practical politicians than of the
people, and thas so long asa second
term seéms possible of acquisition by a
President any real reform of the civil
service will be impracticable of realiza~
tion, as the Federal offices, will always
be considered as pawns to be exchanged
for votes in National Conventions,
Regarding the cost of Presidential
elections, it is variously and unauthori-
tatively given out that Lhe enormous
sum of from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000
was spent in election expeuses-—for
campaign documents, speakers, literary
bureaus, music, torches, uniforms,
tickets and incidentals, the latter being
mysterious and comprising the bulk of
the whole. These are but the direct
expenses,
The indirect cost of a Presidential
campaign, growing out of interference
with and disturbance of the country’s
business, Mr. Chauncy M. Depew sums
up as follows: *‘There are frequent
suspensions of various industries and a
general check upon expansion and én-
terprise. Mill owners and merchants
keep close within necessary demands,
waiting for the policy which the result
may determine. New enterprises halt,
and partially completed ones go slowly.
The internal business of the country
be done in the four
months of the Presidential campaign
under normal conditions, Ten per
This is the estimate of a man of
practical value. Estimating the conse.
quential election losses of 65,000,000 of
people, scattered over the vast area
from Maine to New Mexico, is not
the work of a man rather more
familiar than the mass of men with the
Ac-
ported electioneering expenses for no
than they are actually worth,
Hone
mitted that the costs, direct and in-
so enormous as to render it desirable
that they should not be too frequently
fnflicted upon the country.
When the constitution of the late
Southern Confederacy was promulgated
President was to
ed no man could say, as the opportunity
FASHION NOTES,
—Following the very popular
method of applying black wo colors, we
see all sorts of black fur used on
cloaks, jackets; redingotes, tea gowns
and bonnets of Roman red, moss
green, reseda, terra-cotta, dark blue
and mahogany cloth, Astrakhan, black
fox, black bear. monkey, black martin
and the darkest wolverine furs are
each and all used for this purpose,
—A pretty way to make an after-
noon dress is to form the overskirt of
three widths of cashmere, this as long
as the underskirt. Shirr or plait this
to a belt, but open it the entire length
of the front, and wear a petticoat
beneath of watered silk. Let most of
the fullness of the overdress be massed
at the back, Make a Hussian jacket
of the cashmere or for more dressy
use, velvet, this open over a vest or
blouse of the moire.
~ White toilets are likely fo be more
than ever the rage in the fashionable
world this winter, Or white dress
fabrics there is an elegant, and almost
endless varlety-—brocade, velvet both
plain and striped, watered silk, benga-
line, Ottoman silk, failie, Irish poplin,
velvet, embossed satin. India casb-
mere, Henrletta cloth, tailor cloths of
various grades, French and English
vellings, China crepe lisse, tulle and
gold embroidered white India silk
muslins being equally in vogue.
—Russian blue, a superb dark shade
greatly favored by the Princess of
Wales, is one of the very popular eol-
ors of the season, The universal be-
comingness of this particular tone in
blue renders it an exceptional favorite
with women either of falr or clear
olive complexion, Blue is never ob-
trusive in its deep tints. It does not
fade In silk or all-wool fabrics, aad it
is agreeably relieved In gold, certain
shades of red, ecru, tan and silver.
The shade above designated appears in
fabrics of broadcloth, fallle, cashmere,
camel's balr, vigogne, velvet, Lricot,
fancy silk and velvet combinations,
woolen armure and English serge,
Winter fashions are now well de-
fined, and the redingote or polonaise,
seems to be the prevalling mode for
making up very handsome materials,
Very little drapery is admissible in the
getting up of this garment, and If the
material is elegant and heavy much
draping tends to take from the eflect.
And so the polonaise meets every re-
quirement, For making up the mag-
nificent brocades of the season it is
really the only style that could be used
and bring about a really perfect effect.
The polonatse is just as invaluable for
velvet, plush or any heavy, handsome
material,
~An exquisite dinner dress was of
pale pink silk brocaded with bouquels
of multi colored flowers and wreaths of
the same arranged so as to form the
trimming of the dress, The bodice is
cul low and round, but the upper part is
filled in with lace chewmisefte, gathered
Confederacy going to pieces In
But the presumption
than one of eight years, and it is yet to
be satisfactorily established that one of
four years is not beter than either.
The monetary cost of a Presidential
contest is important, but it is similarly
important that the people of the coun-
i
with the practical workings of their
long intervals be made to feel that they
A Presidential con-
interest in great
fairs; it is a great teacher of policies—
an incentive to patriotism,
once in four years,
indifferent; and all
scale against the cost of a Presidential
campaign.
As for the second half of the proposi-
tion, which makes an incumbent of the
Presidential office ineligible for re-elec-
tion, there is a good deal to be said on
upon the side of a longer tral of the
present plan. It is not at all certain
that if a President were prohibited be-
ing his own successor he would, in con-
sequence, regard and bestow all offices
as public trusts, and so effect the de-
sired reform of the civil service, as,
shut out himself, he would be subject
to the great temptation of using the
patronage to elect some one selected by
him as his desired successor, And it is
to be considered that, as was the case
in 1864, it might be greatly desirable
that a President should succeed him-
self, as Mr. Lincoln did, under condi-
tions that would render his succession
not only desirable, but imperative, If
a President fails to meet the general
expectation, a single term of four years
is long enough; if he wholly satisfies
the people, and they wish for a con-
tinuance of so satisfactory an adminis-
tration, they should have the privilege
of realizing their wish, Whether it be
wise or otherwise to make the proposed
changes can best be determined by the
fullest consideration and discussion of
them, No change is likely to be made
in a hurry, nor until the a
sense of the nation demands that they
shall be made.
A King in Pawn
1t is asserted that King Milan of
via has been Silged 1» remain at
baths of Gleichan for the
sufficient reason that he has g
money with which to get away.
eraditors are holding bim for debt
his noble relatives, the Em
ing stamps and match is of gold.
i
i
:
comes down on each side, and 1s con-
bottom of the skirt.
—A handsome walking costame of
gray cloth has the front of the skirt
is put on over a plated silk one, Ii 1s
also plaited, In full double plaits, at
the back; but in front it is merely
gathered, and very slightly draped on
the left side with three handsome
sgrafes of gray passementerie. The
bodice, which is cut all in one piece,
princess fashion at the bark, i8 sepa
rate from it and peaked In freot; the
fronts are braided on each sige and
slightly opened, to show a peaked plas-
tron of plaited gray silk, Agrafes of
passementerie are placed upon the
~A magnificent dinper gown re-
cently shown was of iron gray faille and
brocaded with large purple pansies.
There is a foundation skirt of thin silk,
which is invisible, A skirt front of
faillie, put on almost plain over this
foundation skirt, is finished at the fool
with three narrow flounces, slightly
gathered about two inches deep. A
redingote of the brocaded silk re-
mains open to show this skirt front.
This redingote is composed of a back
plece cut princess fashion and forming,
from the wast, two treble plats. The
side preces next the back are also fin-
ished each by an ample plait over the
skirt. The fronts aad front side pieces
terminate at the waist under a wide
scarf, which is draped across the front
ani fastened on the left side with &
small puff, with one large lappel
edged with fringe falling down to the
foot of the skirt, The fronts of the
bodice opens with revers over =a
chemisette of the plain faille, coat
sleaves of the faille, with open faciugs
ornamented with two bultons,
—ax0ld embroidery is extremely fash.
jonable this winter, and is seen, but in
discreet fashion only, even in young
ladies’ toilets. The very elegant even-
ing dress for a young lady we are
about to describe is in the best style, it
isa white cape dress, piaited at the
back, very slightly draped in front,
and falling over an undardress of white
is high at the back, and opens in front
over a low . peaked down to
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HORSE NOTES,
—The bay colt Fairlawn, 2 years old,
by Nutwood, dam BStreawlet, by
Almont, has been bought by G. Lyset,
of Philadsiphia, of General e
Withers, Fairlawn Stud, for $3000,
~The feature of Captain Brown's
stable last season was the success of his
2 year olds, in which he falrly rivaled
r, Withers, He started twelve 2 year
olds, of which five were winners.
~Matt Stories has reached Califor
nia mn safety, and has about recovered
from the effects of the rallroad acel-
deut In which he was ipjured and
Fred Gebhard’s horses were killed.
~R. C. Outealt, of Lincoln, Neb.,
was at Stony Ford on the day that Mr,
Allen made his great purchase, and he
paid $1500 for Industry, bay colt, 2
Juits old, by Mansfield, out of Integ-~
nty.
~The Czar, the 2 year old brother to
Emperor of Norfolk, sigonalized his
debut on the turf by wmning the
Equity stakes at San Francisco on
November 13, in 1.16, after running a
dead heat with Wander, mn 1.164.
—W. F. Todd, Oak Point Farm, St,
Stephen, X. B., owner of Lumps, 2.21,
has sold to J. J. Clancy, of Lexington,
Ky., the weanling chestaut filly, by; Pan-
coast, out ot Adele Gould, 2.19, The
price is reported to be $3000,
~It is said that Papcoast is himself
again, and were it not for the blindness
of his left eye a visitor would not know
| that he bad in June last a narrow es-
| cape from death by lightning. He will
| be able to perform stud duties next
| season,
~The Dwyer Brothers have thirty
very promising yearlings, There are
full brothers to almost every horse of
note. Among those thought to be the
best are the Billet Mundane colt, the
Sir Modred-Martan colt, the Ononda-
ga, Beatrice colt, the King, Ban-Puz-
tle colt, the Spendthrift-Kapanga coll,
the brother of Hanover, the Glenelg
Peru colt, the King Alfouso-Lily
Duke filly, and the sister to Tremout.
~The 4 month old filly Marguerite
1. sister to Jack, 2.19}, and Knight,
2.204, vy Pilot Medium out of Carrie
Russell, has been purchased by Uihleim
Brothers, Truesdale, Wis., for $1000,
from Mrs, FF. L, Warren, of Cold water
Michigan.
{ =—The bay horse Launcelot,
{ 1968, by Hambletonian, dam Lady
| Rochafellow, by BSeely's American
{ Siar, died at Salem, N. J., on Tuesday
{| November 13th, from a rupture of the
| intestines. He was bred by J. M,
| Mills, of Ballville, Orange county, N.
| Y., and owned for many years by €,
| H, Kerner, of New York.
| «A Kentucky Blue Grass Circait
| was formed at Lexington recently,
| with the Harrodsburg, Danville,
Sharpsburg, Maysville, Lexington,
! Paris, Cynthiana and Eminence Fair
| Associations being the members. It
{ will open at Harrodsburg on July 30,
{ and close at Eminence on September
17, each of the seven clubs giving a
five-day meeting.
~*Pittsburg Phil,” who last season
| won a small fortune on the turf, bat
' who this year did nol come out even,
will turn bookmaker himself pext
| spring. He will spend the winter in
| California, returning East in time to
start in with the Mewphis meeting.
| He will not begin his bookmaking pro-
| fession, however, until the commence-
| ment of the Brooklyn meeting, in
Mav,
— A regular meeting of the Board of
| Review of the National Trolling As-
{ sociation will be beld at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York, on Decem-
jberd, at 7 P. M. Either an adjourned
| or a special meeting of the Board will
| be held at Chicago. on May 14, 1889,
| and parties wishing their cases acted on
at the meeting in May must immed
lately notify Secretary Morse to that
effect.
— Flora Gardiner, the dam of Guy,
was pearly thoroughbred, She died in
1852 in foal to Kentucky Pricce. The
entire list of her produce is as follows:
1875, b. f. Atalanta, by Messenger
Duroes; 1876, bik. ¢. Refuse, by Mes.
senger Duroc; 1877, b. c., by Messenger
Duroc; 1878, barren; 1879, blk. f. Les-
lia, by Kentucky Prince; 1880, bik. ec.
Guy, by Kentucky Prince; 1881, b. ¢.
Fred Folger, by Kentucky Prince.
— William Lakeland, with five run-
ners, won $30,078 the past season,
Exile alone contributing $13,912, Peg
Woffington came next with $5630,
Then came Ernest with $4073, Tat-
tler with $4813 and Littlefellow with
$750, In 1880 Lakeland had 10 head,
which be =tarted in 126 races, winning
88 and $16,027. In 1887 he bought out
13 bead, which sported silk 139 times,
won 33 races and $19,000.
~The trotting stallion Alexander,
son of George M. Patchen, Jr. (Cali-
fornia Patchen), was shot recently at
his owner's ranch, near Petalu
Cal. Alexander was foaled 18064, an
was the sire of Alexander Button,
2.264, sire of the pacer Yolo Maud;
Neils Patchen, Reliance,
foaled
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