Why?
Sometimes how Lear you are,
Sometimes how dear you are;
Then, then, so far, so far,
Like some far star you are,
Sometimes through you, through you,
1 see the gray sky blue,
Aud feel the warmth of May
In the December day.
Sometimes, sometimes I lo
All burdens fall, forget
All cares and every fear
In your sweet atuosphere.
Then, then, alas! alas!
Why does it come 10 Dass,
Before the hour goes by,
Before my dream doth dle,
1 drift and drift away
Out of your light of day,
Out of your warmth and cheer,
Your blessed atmosphere?
Why does it come to pass?
Alas! and still alas!
Why doth the world prevail
Why doth the spirit fail,
And bide itself away
Behind its wall of clay?
Sometime began—alas!
Why doth it come to pass?
TOPE,
SLINKS, THE OUTCAST.
The “enforced emigration” of Shuks
from Prairie City occurred because the
citizens had grown tirea of having him
around. Slinks was a failure at every-
thing but shoking. His walk, his
raiment, his appearance and minimum
of history, all conspired to his degrada-
tion, and had not only robbed him of
respect and credit, but even of an
abiding place. He had slunk into
Prairie City, no person knew exactly
when: but when he slunk out of it,
every person in the settlement who had
arrived at the years of understanding
was appraised of his going.
lowed him.
usually given twenty-four hours in
the county line between himself and
the unappreciative community: Inthe
case ot Sinks, there were no affairs to
settle,
The line was ten miles away, and as
the committee had but littlo faith in
Slinks as a pedestrian, a little proces-
sion of mounted men had left Prairie
City with Slinks, round shouldered and
discouraged looking. riding ahead,
When the line was reached, the dis-
tance to Boomopolis was about a mile
jess than that to Prairie City, and the
keep on, and thus save a clear mile s
yurneying.
“Wal, yere we air,” said I«
Masters, as they reached the lone jack
**I reckon know tae
slinks?”
“Reckon I do.”
Perhaps a previous experience
you
penalty bestowed upon a “runout”
man found within the county conlines
fter the expiration of his time of grace.
When he bad dismounted, Slinks strode
douchingly away.
“Wal, good-by, Slinks,” called Long
1 £58,
“*(ood-by, boys!” the outcast return-
diem,
He looked like
wild flowers
undulating
profusion of
from the soft,
green,
boots were run over, and his garments
seem undecided whether to fall off or
stay on, There was less color
face than usual, and the ruddy scar on
ivs eheek was more marked by the con-
rast,
For a little while the committee
watched him, dragging his feet as if
they were almost
I'ben, just as they turned to ride away,
they saw him stoop as if plucking one
yf the br.ght prairie flowers,
blossoms heard him mutter:
“J, o0ks like the flowers that grew by
the door of the Kitchen at’ ——
He slouched away faster than before.
There was more color in his face now,
ind the scar on his cheek showed
plainly.
“Flowers,
pshaw!” he
argy than he
The committee watched him a littie
longer, but they were galloping toward
Prairie City when he half turned and
gazed after them with a look that was
almost wistful.
None of the horsemen spoke for sev-
eral minutes, Then Cal. Senter, the
self elected wit of the settlement, re-
marked, with a prefatory “wal.”
“(Good riddance to bad rubbish, as I
told em when the blind dog was
stold.
carpet of
and a run out
muttered, with
Mal
more en-
hear,
of the elongated citizen was all the
more depressing to the bumorist be-
cause Jess was usually the first and
loudest to laugh at his efforts,
“When a man's got to go, w'y, he’s
got to,” Jess said, presently. ‘‘An’
when he g'ts 50's he sets around till he
mightly nigh grows fast, an’ sheuks
around till everybody is tired ©’ seein’
him, an’ borrys his tobacco, an’ never
buys nuth’'n’, an’ pays no taxes, an’
won't vote, au’ never does nur says
nuth'n’® to help the boom along, an’
lows it's nuth’n’ to lnm whether the
railroad comes yere or goes to Boom-
opolis—~w’y, when a man gits that fur
gone, [ reckon he’s get to go, or’ ——
*Cr, be buried,” interrupted Cal.
“That's it,” Jess went on, *‘Prairle
Cito Waln't got no use fer that kind o’
people. But, somehow’
“What's that over thar?” interrupt.
ed another committeeman,
A covered wagon, drawn by a pair
of skinny horses, rounded the slope of
a slight “rise” half a mile distant
“Must come middlin’ fur by the way
the team crawls,” sald Jess,
“What air they doin’ out yere, away
off from any road?’
Changing their course, the commit-
tee gal towards the slow moving
vehicle, As they nearned it they made
a discovery, There seemed to be no
driver, und the reins were dragging.
Phe skinny team stopped as the
the tattered curtains and looked into
the wagon.
“Oh, have you found my boy?" a
faint voice quavered, eagerly.
The other members of the committee
peered into the wagon. A woman,
with tangled white hair about her
wrinkled face, that was wan and ghast.
ly, turned her delirium brightened eyes,
full of a pitiful, unreasoning pleading,
slowly from one to another of the
bearded faces as they looked down upon
her where she lay, on a rude bed of
quilts, in the bottom of the wagon
body.
“Have you found my boy yet?’ she
piped, feebly, with eager beseechlng.
*Oh, have you found him?"
“We hain’t’’—Dbegan Carl Senter,
“Hush!” whispered Jess, “We ex-
pect to find him soon, gron'maw. He
kain’t be fur off,’ he added, soothingly.
Oh, I am so glad!” the sick woman
whispered. “I was afraid that some-
thing had happened to him. But you'll
find him, won’t you?” she went on,
anxiously.
“We'll try,” answered Jess,
“She's clost to dyin’, I’m afeard,”
he said, when the committee had with-
drawn a short distance from the wagon
for a consultation. *Out of her head
an’ dyin’!l”
“What air we goin’ to do?’ question-
ed Cal,
“What we kin!" replied Jess,
starvin’, too, I believe!”
Two minutes later one of the emi-
gration committee was hurrying to-
wards Prairie City as fast as his horse
could carry him.
femhe'’s
sted Carl Senter.
“Have you found him?” the faint
| voice quivered, as the bearded faces
| looked into the wagon again,
“What did you say his name was?’
questioned Jess, “It sorto
me,”’
abouts,” sugg:
ly upon the name—*‘Paul Emery.”
The shaggy heads were solemnly
{ shaken, No one knew Paul
Puzzled, they withdrew for
{ consultation,
“I"in afeard she’ll never see her boy,
if he h’ain’t found mighty soon,” said
Loug Jess,
“Wonder if we
him, anyhow,” said Cal
couldn't teil’ ’——ao
‘““Twouldn’t make her no worse,"
spoke Jess, ‘an’ it might"
The others grasped the idea,
the bearded looked
wagon,
“Know him
tioned Jess,
good deal.”
The sick woman babbled on a little
while of how she would know her boy
—lier Paul, Then she produced a bat-
her pillow,
she said,
“Mebby she
faces into
at first ques
“Might have changed a
ster dit w1?
sights
WT
I is Paul, my
eagerly—**Paull”’
The picture dliuly revealed a slender
faced
boy!"
! young fellow, honest
The hea is
shaken,
I'he s¢
shagey were gravely
ar don’t
picture,” the sick wotuaun i
iy. “The doctor said it would aly
remain there, And Dessie sid she
| never wanted it to fade from his cheek,
! because it would always be a reminder
of how he had risked lus life to
{| hers, Dessie’’———-
The commitiee heard no more, They
{ had hastily withdrawn,
“I'll stay yore an’ wait fur Jerry,"
Cal Senter said, after a few moments’
conference was held, “Take my hosa
Wal, I recken’’—e
Tue rest of the commitieemen were
{ galloping away, and he was alone be-
i side the wagon,
“looks like imposin’ on the pore
{ woman,” he muttered, “But, if we
Kain't lind the right son we've got to
do the wpext best thing. He'll look
something like her Panl when the boys
| ev got through with hum.”
i! Slinks, oulcast, lay
| face downwards in the shade
| scraggy persimmon trees, near the head
of a little **draw,” two miles beyond
i the spot where the committees had left
| him, There was more of despair in
i his face than any citizen of
{ City had ever seen there,
{aroused by the hoof beats, he
the
stretched
himself again in the hands of the emi-
| gration committee, the old and almost
| expressionless mask fell over his [ace
| again,
He made no comment
“pile on™’
when ordered
| to to Cal’s horse, and the
{ Prairie City, at a headlong speed, Bat
| once, Long Jess, close at hand, heard
{ him mutter:
“It’s all right, anyhow.
carel”
Nobody’ll
troop pass, a quarter of a mile away,
| and grumbled: Blamed imposition on
| her, but it's the best we Kin do,”’
Jerry was passed by the cavalcade,
ten minutes later, on his headlong way
{ ages in his hands and pockets, It was
it’s the best the boys kin do.”
one of mystification and astonishment
soon after Prairie City was reached,
He was hurried into the barber shop
and thrust into achair, and, in espouse
to a stern command from Long Jess,
the knight of the razor trimmed the
outcast’s hair and removed his beard
with a celerity that threatened to rob
him of his cuticle at the same time,
While this was going on several of the
committeemen were rushing about, to
the intense mystilication of the unof-
ficial citizens, who asked a hundred
questions, and were shamefully snub-
bed each time. When the *“‘rushing®’
resulted in the producing of a misfit
sult of clothes, juto which Slinks was
hustled, he was in a state of open
mouthed wonder.
As all hands were mounting, Slinks
heard Old Man Berry inform a neigh.
bor, in a mysterious but very loud
whisper, that it was his belief that the
committee had captured Slinks red
handed in some atrocity, and were ar.
raying him decently that the outcast
might make a preseniable looking
corpse, The neighbor nodded a cone
vinced head, and Slinks, for want of a
more pleasant solu to the
wa foreed Lo seegnt
So great had been the change in the
outeast’s appearance, resulting from
his experience with the committee and
the barber, that when the little troop
reached the wagon Cal professed to be-
lieve that they had added a new and
improved head to Shinks’ acquisitions,
The sick woman did not look so
ghastly, thavks to the kind offices of
Cal and Jerry, who had administered
some of the brandy that the latter had
brought from frairie City, and bad
made a doubtful quality of beef tea
over a little fire down in the hollow,
With awkward gentleness they had
pushed back the gray bair and bad
placed fragrant flowers all about her
head,
“Do you think you will find my boy
soon?” her faint voice piped, as Long
Jess looked into the wagon.
*“He’ll be yere right soon, gran’-
maw," he answered, ‘‘I saw him jest
a little bit ago.”
Her wrinkled face hit up with such
a look of gladness, that for an instant
Jess’ heart smote him at the thought
of the deception they were about to
practice upon the sick woman.
“Put it’s for the best,” he muttered,
as he turned away, ‘‘It’s a shame,
but it’s the best we kin do.”
Every face in the circle that gathered
about the outcast was hard and stern.
In a few pointed words Long Jess told
the story.
“If she don’t
find her boy right
If she thinks for
be able to go on with her search,
Slinks, you look nearest uv any uv us
like her fon's picture,
him, an’ if you don't act like him, we’ll
-wal, you understand!”
Only Long Jess accompanied Slinks,
he outcast, to the wagon,
“Well, yer boy's come, gran'maw,”’
he said, and turned away.
It was evident that the deception
as the outcast bent over her.
“Paul! My boy! my boyl”’
Then the committee Larned
Presently Cal spoke, gravely:
never ‘lowed Slinks had no feel-
wy
“I saw it,” answered IL.ong Jess,
After nearly a quarter of an hour
had passed, Jess went to the wagon.
He was gone a long time, but when he
rejoined the group Slinks remained
the wagon.
“Boys,” said Long Jess, “it'll workl
to have seen the gladness 'n
she'll
I have
got Lo
‘fore
reckon
to find her boy ¥it. jut
we'
find
ve
tell—wal, maybe we'll him
that.”
An’ Slinks?"’ questioned Cal.
“He's got feelin's] If 1
aknowed, 1'd a-'lowed he found b
mother, SCar on must
sorto like the one on her boy's,
was a-npoticin’ it, an’ a-sayin’ st
‘bout Bessie's memberin’ how
saved her life at the risk of
When she had said that, 1%
Slinks' eyes were full uv tearsi
got feelin’'s, Slinks has,
3
a ole
sad 5 3
Nis chive De
It was nearly a week later, after the
sick ]
comfortable quarters in Prairie City,
where she was rapidly improving under
the son like ministrations of Slinks, the
outcast, that the emigration commnities
were holding a meeting in the shade of
Murshall's *‘general store.”
“*I believe Siinks is sick,"
was saying. “Not Lut that he works
— works like a redhead to do everything
in the world to make the sick woman
happy. Dut, someway, he acts so
blamed queer! Eyes red like he'd be'n
eryin’, Don't pay po attention
ole lady. She don’t hafto much more
than whisper before he hears her.’
*Sick, I reckon,’ agreed Cal
if 1 could git hands on that thar shore
enough son that stays away an' leaves
his mother to the keer uv Slinks 1'd
make him sicker’n Slinks is!”
“His tracks wouldn't stop this side
uv the state line!” said Long Jess,
“Must a-thought a heap uv him. Her
sally
aut
she sold out what little she bad, an’,
road it took tie best part
idy whur to find him. No
Then the balance Is a blank to her.
(Got out ot her head. Don't know
ar'und, But now she’s happy. thinkin’
at last she's found her boy,
A figure came around the corner,
It was Slinks,
“Maybe he did not know how bad
“Perhaps, when he left, misfortune
had not taken the most of her property.
Perhaps, discouraged, heart-broken, he
hal gone west, where misfortune met
him at every turn, till he sunk-—-sunk-—
well, perhaps the thoughts of home
served still more to disbearten him,
And?”
“Wouldn't thoughts of his mother
an’ of Bessie’
“Bessie died before he left home,”
said Slinks, gravely, ‘She was his
sweetheart in those old, happy days -
Well, he was unlucky, heartsick, dis«
couraged and sank’
“Do you reckon he'd try to Lift him~
self up if he had a ole mother an’ a
gang uv friends, which gang kain’t
juract ly express all their feelin’s,
LL
“He would try," said Slinks earnest-
ly.
Jess put out his hard paw,
Ts a ni al he en
The members of the emigration com.
mittee shook hands with Shinks, the
outcast, lor the fast thie, “Ladi
“Hoy s Long & 13 a We
ed, a little bit that’ Slinks was
hy, 2a AI i a
in
Remember the Birthdays
a ll
Never forget the birthdays, from
papa's down to the baby’s. As a peo-
ple, we pay for too little attention to
birthdays and other family anniver.
saries, Too much can not be done to
make home attractive, so that our
boys and girls will prefer it to all other
places,
The other evenwg a littde toy said
to his mother, “This nas been the
nicest day I ever knew, the birds have
been singing, and the sun has shown
every minute, and everything has been
so lovely, just for your birthday, mam-
ma, and I'm so glad!” and he emphas-
ized his gladness with a hearty hug and
kiss, The boy had been looking for.
ward to this day for weeks, planning
and making a little birthday gift as a
surprise and when the time came his
whole mind was given to making his
mother happy.
Some mothers will say; “But It is so
much trouble to celebrate birthdays,
and they come so often in large fam-
ilies.” Yes, it 18 some trouble, but in
after years, when your children are
grown up, you will be repaid for your
trouble by seeing them better mes and
women for their happy cluldhood, One
of the pleasantest recollections of my
childbood is the birthday parties. My
mother always gave me one; sometimes,
as it comes in the beautdful month of
June, we would have the party ina
beaut ful grove near by, instead
home The children would be invited
just tie same as for *‘at home,”
of staying there we would go to
spris
Hil
{ cool sparkling water, and eat
sper which had been prepared by
the mammas,
I'ry to celebrate the birthdays
, and see if it does not ‘pay,”’
«njoyment of the whole family
ne of the little playmates,
Let «0 one be forgotten, and try to
one Interested, in all the
fn the
each
No matter how simple
be, the love and
thoughtfulness which go with it will
make it precious,
There are many ways of celebrating
rding to the season
location of the home,
of time which can be
If you do not care to invite
friends of the children, and
the
and the amount
will sometimes suffice, or an excursion;
or, perhaps, the family may
or
some concert entertainment
from other davs
table, and he opens the packages while
in
by tl
and he sees
worning,
them for the
usir.ess of the day
r
prise and appreciation.
i we bed of
the favored one, tl
first thing in the
Sone JTeserve
when the b is
It is always pleasant to have on
dinner favorite
Over.
%.1 " articl
tae some Ars
almost always
Even if very lit
member of the
special lreadl
is apprecial
tae can be done,
i have
household
the anniversary of his
On
ed with gratitude, There are many
for parents and each other.
well spent in planning and sontriving
these love gifts, which bring happiness
to both giver and receiver
———
American Respect for Women.
A distinguished foreign traveler pays
the following tribute to the American
respect for women:
“Muchas I had read of the polite
ness and deference shown to women by
all classes of Americans,
Any means,
chivalry with
every where
which the
defers to
mingle together in this
country is a scource of almost perpetual
wonder to a stranger from Europe.
Such a freedom would be impossible,
but for the strength and reality of that
chivalrous sentiment of deference to
woman as woman, which is found
have any knowledge.”
American women should bear in
mind that this is a tribute to American
American women, Whether this sen-
tween the sexes is a question which
should be carefully considered, espec!-
If women should
by enfrancinsement, wholly or in part,
forsake the sphere for which she has
ben regarded in all ages and countries
as best fitted, would she not be subject.
ment eriticisms with which public men
It is certainly worth
they can afford to lose such a sentiment
of respect and reverence for any sub-
stantial good which they would be like-
ly to derive from enfranchisement,
>
BU OONSS,
Success in any undertaking depends
upon efforts, There is no luck about
it. Every one who will employ the
means can control the result,
Success is always the result of pa.
tient, steady perseverance In a judicious
course. No one can succeed unless he
takes the right course, and then only
with continued effort. Every one can
work out a course of life proper for
himself. Every one can pursue this
course. All who will do these two
things will succeed,
After a great snow storm a little boy
began to shovel a path through a large
snow bank before his mother’s door.
He had only a small shovel todo it
with,
“Do you expect to get through that
drift?" asked a man passing by.
“Certainly,” replied the boy.
‘How?’ asked the man,
“By keeping at It,” was the reply.
AS WI MI
~Diack milk gowns for wear
FASHION NOTES,
—~Paris milliners are slready sending
out bonnets made entirely of silk mus-
lin in small puffs round and round.
~The newest grenadine veils are
black or dark brown, and have fancy
Roman stripes of satin along one edge.
~The newest La Tosca sticks have
handles of onyx, wrought in various
forms representative of the brute crea
tion.
— Among the newest queen chain
charms are balls of dull gold, upon
which are traced a map of the United
States.
—A dainty fabric for young girls’
exening gowns is batiste de L.’Opera,
which 18 the sheerest of sheer white
muss,
~—Silk Indian mull, in all the deli-
cate pale shades, is a popular material
for evening dresses for very young
ladles.
~The other day we strolled in that
wonderful establishment, Wana-
maker's, Thirteenth and Market
streets, and among the many beautiful
things we saw, we mention a few
which especlally attracted our atlen~
tion. Among the latest novelties in
tea gowns we noticed one which was
made of very fine figured challls, with
imght ground, tritnmed with terra cotta
There was a pointed
on which was gathered the
surah, which fell straight to the floor.
point below the waist line,
fell straight aod full
were challis with French puff of surah,
A
of the salesladie’s kindly
on for my inspection, Was a
checked camel's hair. The skirt
plain and full at the back,
side the material was plaited at the
walst, forming
panel, the other sxe was merely a little
full,
of checked goods, with jacket back of
plain navy blue,
slashed at peck and waist, and laced
with blue silk cord.
A very pretty suit, and one of the
very latest importations was a navy
blue cashmere made with the Accor-
fell
Waist
blue surah
floor.
of
the
down the
A beautiful spring costume
pea green camel’s hair trimmed with
white striped robe, waist was smocked
Drapery in front was bias,
A handsome Directoire suit was
heavy camel's hair with blue ground
colored stripes. A shirred
vest of coffee colored surah in front,
of
ab waist, Skirt bad froatl widlh
material,
One can
Wanamaker’s
always be suited at
in this department, be-
that the
be satisfied.
Our readers will do well to eall before
Awong a number of the summer
predominate; there are the Wattean
matinee gowns of pink silk striped
black watered ribbon set on In a point
the flor,
leaves, or flow.
ers. Some of the theatre gowns have
turned
skirt of
shoulders and gleeves, with
down plaited collar, and a
waist by a wide black moire sash.
~Just what fashion will decree in
determine. They are
slashed, and puffed, and crimped,
and plaited, and draped, in almost
every iunaginable style. Some of them
appear as though rolled up over
wrinkled sleeves of a different ma-
terial, Others are almost open to the
shoulders on the inside of the arm;
others have points thal hang almost to
the floor, and so caprice goes on, each
designer evidently bent on planning
the most striking and eccentric fash
ion, oftentimes regardiess of sym-
metry, appropriateness or grace,
SPRING MILLINERY.
—Small bonnets of fancy straw, to-
ques, and large low-crowned round hats
are being prepared for the spring. The
trimming 1s to be arranged low, and
will consist of very full rosetis made
of exceedingly narrow ribbons.
Bunches of violets, now so fashionable,
wiil be the flower most generally used
for trimming spring hata, Thick aigrette
bows will be made of ribbon and tulle,
with leaves, grasses, or wheat spikes in
their midst, Cloth toques of the light
spring woollens of the dresses with
which they are to be worn have their
st crown shirred behind to form a ruf-
fle or cape, while their brim is banded
with veivet and the front trimming is
a velvet bow of two slender points
drooping on the sides, and called
horss’s ears,
— Combination suits will be in great
favor this spring. It isa very desira-
ble style too, because one can take two
old dresses and make a comparatively
new one. Dark wool serge for the
strest, will be very popular, with light
cloth of contrasting color to go with
them, Thus a dark blue serge will have
a light tan colored cloth with it, The
full straight skirt o serge has
breadths
il
giz:
2
HORSE NOTES,
—Jockey MeLaughiiu declares that
T.uke Blackburn is the greatest horse
tuat ever he rode,
—A. J, Feek, who is now in Califor-
ula, has purchased Rosy Mac, 2.20%,
by Alexander Button,
—Henry Simon, of Louisville, Xy.,
has sold Belle Vara, recond 2.88, by
Vatican, dam by Erle.
—Dan Honlg has purchased Couns
selor, 5, by Ten Broeck, dam Ueld
Bug, from J. D, Pation,
~The report that Dwyer Brothers
are to have second call on the services
of Jockey Barnes is confirmed.
—~Madge Medium (2.123) is dead.
She was owned by F. C. Barlow, of
Newark, and was valued at $5,000.
~The pacing mare Ellwood , sister to
Arrow, 2.13}, reduced her reco*d ‘0
2.173% at Los Angeles, Cal., recently.
~The scarlet jacket of J. W. and A,
H. Morris is likely to be seen often in
the van during the coming season.
The stable counts upwards of fifty
horses,
~The National Cross-Country Con-
| vention will hold a special meeling at
the Grand Union Hotel, New York, at
8 o'clock om the evening of Monday
next,
~Seven 2 year old thoroughbreds
won amounts over $10,000 during last
884800. Mr. Withers’ Sensation-
Mavordale colt, headed the list wilh
£20,910,
—It has been decided to hold a two-
| weeks meeting at Lexington this
| sprimg—{rom April 24 to May 8. Lex-
| ton will thus clash with both Memphis
i and Nashville,
~The American Horse Bhow A#8So-
| elation of Chicago will hold its first
anpuasl exhibition at the Exposition
juliding fn that city from October 30
| to November 9, 1880,
—Pontiac has not been sold, The
Dwyer Brothers refused to take the
| $6000 offered for him by Milton
Young, and MMs. Young wil not pay
$10,000, the price asked.
~The Southern Hotel Guarantee
| stake of £10.000, 5 per cent. to enter
| and start, 10 be trotted at St. Louis in
| the latter part of September, will
probably be made a 2.20 class,
—Robert Bonner lately has twice
| been asked to put up a price on Nut-
| bourne, by Belmont, out of Miss Rus-
sell, dam of Maud 8., and he has re.
| plied that the horse is not for sale,
—A $3000 guarantee stake for the
228 class has been opened by the
Union Park Association of Saginaw,
Mich., for its summer meeting which
will be held July 16 to 19 inclusive,
i
— Budd D bie purchased the 4 year
old filly Marie Jansen, by Betterton,
out of Dame Tonsey, from W, L. Sim-
mons for Major 8. N. Dickenson, who
{also owns Ed. Anpan, now with
Doble’s horses at Los Angeles, Cal
~The Detroit (Mich.) Association
has decided to give a $10,000 guaran-
tead purse for the 2.24 class, horses to
be named in July. In addition $20,000
will be given in purses for the meet-
ing which will be held on July 22, 24,
20 and 26.
~Uharles Reed bas purchased at
Lexington, Ky.. the Broodmare Mary
Anderson, by Voltiguer out of Marian,
for $4000. She isin foal to Forrester.
He has also purchased the brood mare
Altair, by King Alfonso, out of Mollie
Wood, in foal to Alexander.
—Charles Rowell, the once noted six
| day pedestrian, has blossomed forth as
| an owner of steeplechasers in England.
At the recent meeting at Four Oaks
Park his horse Earl Homan came near
winning the Selling Hunters’ Sleeple-
chase, but stumbled at the last wall
—A novel trotting race has been ar-
ranged to take place at the Red Lion
Track, South River, N. J., some Lime
| next month between Jack Whitebead's
stalbon Honest Alion and Edward
| Whitehead'’s Kitty B., for a purse of
| $250, The race will be best six out of
| eleven heals,
| Milton Young has sought to repair
the visitations of outrageous fortune,
| caused by the deaths of Pi. rro and
QOssory within a year, by leasing Lhe
services of imported Rapture, who is a
ison of the Two Thousasd winner,
| Diophantus, and Margery, by Wild
| Dayreil.
~The horse watchers declare that
| Dave Gideon's crack Fremch Dark
| pulls up slightly lamed after exercising.
As the horse 18 “'big" as yel it 1s likely
enough that he is only ‘‘leg weary.”
He is likely to run for the Withers
stakes at Jerome Park if he Keeps
well, :
—~Stamboul has been sold by Hon.
I. J. Rose to Mr. W. 8 Hobart, of
San Francisco, for $50.000. Large
offers were made for the horse by
Eastern parties, but Mr. Rose pre.
ferred to sell him to an owner in Cal.
fornia,
~The Eoglish horse, Galore, re-
cently arrived whose illness was repor-
ted is doing very well. His case was
strangles, hut the abcess has been
opened, and he is on the high road to
complete recovery.
~Jockey McLaughlin says that Ben
Ali was the meanest brute he was ever
astride of. “When that horse wanted
to win,” said he, ‘*he was usually the
best one in the race, but if he took a
potion to sulk I don’t believe prodding
him with a red-hot iron would have
induced him to strike & winning gait,
ide was the only horse that I ever saw
that really had a mind of hisown. He
couldn’t and wouldn't be to
do his duty. War Eagle was anther
hard borse to ride.”