Our Chisdrea,
I look: d at t' & happy children
Who pathered around the hearth;
Fo blithe they were, no children
Could happier be on earth;
“Wirth their merry plays, and their winsom
WAYS,
And the sound of their silvery mirth!
Then I thought of thoss other children,
8. wizenad, and bard, and bold,
Who huddle in slum and cellar,
And shiver with want and cold;
Not. fresh as the dew, or the morning's
hue
But haggard, and lean, and old.
But yet may they still, those children,
He taught to forget their pain;
and gathered in arms that love them.
Their laughter may come again;
And the stare or woe and the cratt may go,
And the spirit be washed of stain.
But it is not in cold-book learning
Those chiliiren’s Liearts to move;
And the stony eye of the serpent
Is death to the stricken dove;
“Tis an angel alone can touch them,
And that angel's name is love.
For whatever the world may faney,
And whatever the wise men say
Of our nineteenth century progress,
Of a new and 2 better way;
81111 it takes a soul to make a soul
Now as in the olden day.
Ee SIRS.
SSTION.
«John Thomas!” Mr. Belknap spoke
in a firm, rather authoritative voice.
It was evident that he anticipated some
reluctance on the boy’s part, and, there-
fore, assumed, in the outset, a very de-
cided manner.
John Thomas, a lad between twelve
and thirteen vears of age, was seated
on the doorstep, reading. A slight
movement of his body indicated that
he heard: but he did not lift his eyes
from the book, nor make any verbal re-
sponse,
“John Thomas!” This time the
voice of Mr. Belknap was loud, sharp
and imperative,
“Sir,” responded the boy, dropping
the volume in his lap, and looking up
with a slightly flushed, but sullen,
face,
“Didn’t vou hear me when 1 first
spoke?” suid Mr. Belknap, angrily.
“*Yes, sir.”
“Then, why didn’t you answer me?
Always respond when you are spoken
to. I’m tired of this ill-mannered, dis-
respectful way of yours.”
The boy stood up, looking,
dogged, as well as sullen.
“Go and get your hat and jacket.”
This was said in a tone of command,
accompanied by a side toss of the head,
by way of enforcing the order.
“What for?” asked John Thomas,
not moving a pace from where be
stood,
“GGo and do what I tell you.
sour hat and jacket.”
The boy moved slowly, and with a
very reluctant air, from the room.
“Now don’t be all day,” Mr, Belk-
jap called after him. “I’m in a hurry.
Move briskly.”
How powerless the father’s words
lied on the'air. The motions of John
I'tomas were not quickened in the
shghtest degree. Like a soulless auto-
naton passed he out into the passage
and up the stairs; while the impatient
now,
Get
strain an impulse to follow after, and
jasten the sulky boy's movements with
blows. He controled himself, however,
and resumed the perusal of his news.
paper.
Jolin Thomas had not yet appeared to
signed to send him, Suddenly Mr.
Belknap dropped his paper, and, going
hastily to the bottom of the stairs, call
ed out:
“You, Join! Johan Thomas!”
voice from one of the chambers,
“Didn't 1 tell you to hurry—say?"’
“1 can’t find my jacket.”
“You don’t want to find it. Where
lid you lay It when you took it off last
ight?”’
“I don’t know. 1 forget.’
“‘1f you’re not down here with your
jacket on, in one minute I'll warm your
shoulders well for you.”
Mr. Belknap was quite in earnest In
this threat, a fact plainly enough ap-
parent to John Thomas in the tone of
his father's voice. Not just wishing to
have matters proceed to this extremity,
the boy opened a closet and, singularly
enough, there hung his jacket in full
view. At the expiration of the min-
turbed father, with bis jacket on, and
buttoned up to the chin.
“WW here's your hat?’ now asked Mr,
Belknap.
“1 don’t know, sir.”
“Well, find it, then.”
“I've looked everywhere.”’
“Look again. Therel What is that
ou the hat rack, just under my coat?”
The boy answered not, but walked
moodily to the rack, and took lus hat
therefrom.
“Ileady at last. I declare I'm out of
patience with your slow movements
and sulky manner. What do you stand
there for, knitting your brows and
pouting your lips? Straighten out your
face, sir! I won't have a boy of mine
put on such a countenance.”
The lad, thus angrily and insultingly
rated, made a feeble effort to throw a
few rays of sunshine into his face, But
the effort died, fruitless. All was too
dark, sullen, and rebellions within his
bosom,
“See here!” Mr, Belknap still spoke
in that pecullar tone of command
which always stifles self-respect in the
one to whom it is addressed. *‘Do you
go down to Leslie's and tell him to
send mea good claw hammer and three
pounds of eight-penny pails, And go
quickly.”
The boy turned off without a word
ol reply, and was slowly moving away,
when his father said, sharply:
“Look here, sir!”
John Tuomas paused and looked
pack.
“Did you hear me?’
“Yes, sir." r
“What did I tell you to do?”
“To get you a claw hammer and
three pounds of eightpenuy nails,”
“Very well, hy didn’t you indi-
cate, in some way, that you heard me?
Haven't 1 already, this morning, read
fou a lecture ubout this very thing?
ow, go quickly, I'm ina hurry.”
For all this impatience and autkority
on the part of Mr, Belknap, John
Thomas moved away at a snail's pace;
and us the former, in a state of consid-
erable irritability, gazed after the boy,
he felt strongly tempted to call him
back, and give him a good flogging in
order that he might clearly comprehend
the fact of him being in earnest. But,
as thus flogging was an unpleasant kind
of business, and had, on all previous
occasions, been succeeded by a repent-
ant and self-accusing state, Mr, Belk-
nap restrained his indignant impulses.
“If that stubborn, incorrigible boy
returns in half an hour, it will bea
wonder,’’ muttered Nir, Belknap, as he
came back into the sitting room. “I
wish I knew what to do with him,
There 1s no respect or obedience in him.
I never saw such a boy. He knows
that I'm in a hurry: and yet, he goes
creeping along like a tortoise, and, ten
chances to one, if he doesn’t forget his
errand altogether before he is half-way
to Leslie's. What is to be done with
him, Aunt Mary?”
And Mr. Belknap turned, as he
spoke, to an elderly lady, with a mild,
open face, and clear blue eyes from
which goodness looked forth as from an
angel. She was a valued relative, who
was paying him a brief visit,
Aunt Mary let her knitting rest in
her lap, and turned her mild, thought
ful eyes upon the speaker,
“What is to be done with that boy,
Aunt Mary?” Mr. Belknap repeated
his words, “I've tried everything
with him; but he remains incorrigi-
ble”?
“Ilave you tried— "
in doubt whether it were best to give
utterance to what was in her mind,
“Tried what?" asked Mr. Belknap,
“May I speak plainly?’ sald Aunt
Mary.
“To me?
the better.”’
“Have you tried a kind, affectionate,
unimpassioned manner with the boy?
Since I have been here, I notice that
you speak to him in a cold, indifferent
or authoritative tone, Under such
treatment, some natures, that soften
quickly in the sunshine of affection,
grow hard and stubborn.”
The blood mounted to
and brow of Mr, Belknap
“Forgive we if 1 have spoken too
plainly,” said Aunt Mary.
Mr. Belknap did not make any re-
Why, The plainer
yes,
the cheeks
eyes upon the floor in hurried self-ex-
amination.
“No, Aunt Mary, not too plamly,”’
bered face. *‘l needed the suggestion,
and thank you for having made it,”
“Mrs. Howitt has a line which beau-
tifully expresses what I mean,” said
Aunt Mary, in her gentle, earnest way.
*]t is:
“For love hath readier will than fear.’
| Ah, if we could all apprehend the won-
derful power of love! It is the fire that
melts; while fear only smites,
strokes hardening, or breaking its un-
gightly fragments, John Thomas has
many good qualities, that ought to be
made as active as possible.
like goodly flowers growing in a care-
fully tilled garden, will absorb the la-
tent vitality in his mind, and thus
leave nothing from which inherent evil
tendencies can draw nutrition.”
Aunt Mary said no more, and Mr,
Belknap’s thoughts were soon Loo busy
with a new train of ideas, to leave him
in any mood for conversation,
Time moved steadily on.
| half an hour had elasped, in
twice to Leslie's store, and
| yet he was still absent. Mr. Belknap
| was particularly in want of a hammer
| and nails, and the delay chafed him
| considerably; the more particularly as |
it evidenced the indifference of his son |
| to his wishes and commands, Some- |
| times he would yield to a momentary
| blinding flash of anger, and resolve to |
| punish the boy severely the moment he |
{could get his hands on him, jut |
| quickly would come in Aunt Mary's |
suggestion, and he would again resolve |
| to try the power of kind words, He |
was als a great deal strengthened in his ;
| eyes would be upon him at the return
of John Thomas. After her sugges-
| tion, and his acknowledgment of its
| value, it would hardly do for him to Jet
| passion so rule him, as to act in open
| violation of what was right—to wrong
| hus son by harsh treatment, when he
| professed to desire only his good,
| The fact is, Mr. Delkuap had already
| made the discovery that, if he would
| govern his hoy, he must first govern
| himself. This was not an easy task,
| Yet, he felt that it must be done,
“There comes that boy now,’ said
he, as he glanced forth, and saw Jobn
Thomas coming homeward at a very
deliberate pace. There was more of
impatience in his tone of voice than he
wished to betray to Aunt Mary, who
let her beautiful, angel-like eyes rest
for a moment or two, penetratingly,
upon him. The balancing power of
that look was needed; and it perform-
ed its work,
Soon after, the loitering boy came ln,
He had a package of nails io his hand
which he reached, half-indifferently, to
his father.
“The hammer!’ John started with
a half-frightened air. “Indeed, father,
I forgot all about!” said he, looking
with a flushed countenance, in which
genuine regret was plainly visible,
“I’m sorry,” said Mr, Belknap, in a
disappointed, but not angry or rebuk-
ing, voice. “I’ve been waiting a lo
time for you to come back, and now
must go to the store without nailing up
that trellis for your mother's honey-
suckle and wisteria, as I promised,”
The boy looked at his falher a mo-
ment or two with an air of bewilder-
mou and surprise; then le saul, earn.
estly:
“Just wait a little longer. I'll run
down to the store and get it for you in
8) minute. I’ very sorry that I forget
wiser saying. ‘For love hath readier
will than fear.'”’
Quicker than ever Aunt Mary, whos
faith in kind words was very strotif,
had expected, John came in with
hammer, a ht glow on his cheeks
and a sparkle in his eves that strongly
contrasted with the utter want of inter-
est displayed in his manver a little
while before,
“Thank you, my fon,” said Mr. Bel
knap, as he took the hammer, *‘I could
not have asked a prompter service.”
Hao spoke very kind, and in a voice
ot approvaly ‘‘And now, John,” he
added, with the manner of one who re-
quests, rather than commands, *'if you
will go over to Frank Wilson’s and tell
him to come and work for two or three
days in our garden, you will oblige me
very much. I was gong to call there
as I went to the store this morning; but
it 18 too late now."
“Oh, I'll go, father—I’ll go,” re-
plied the boy, quickly and cheerfully.
“111 run right over at once.”’
“Do, If you please,” sald Mr. Del-
knap, now speaking from an impulse of
real kindness, for a thorough change
had come over his feelings, A grate-
ful look was cast, by John Thomas,
into his father’s face, und then he went
off to do his errand. Mr. Belknap saw
and understood the meaning of that
look.
*Yes— yes — yes,” thus he talked
with himself as he took his way to the
store—**Aunt Mary and Mrs, Howitt
are right. Love hath a readier will. I
ought to have learned this lesson ear-
lier. Al! how much that is deformed
in this self-willed boy, might now be
growing in beauty.”
sna I As
Girls as Typewriters.
We judge from present indications
| that the time is not far distant when
| the typewriter will come Into general
use in all offices and business houses;
and girls who have acquired skill in
shorthand and in the use of the type-
writer, and possess the requsite literary
qualifications, will never find it diffi-
cult to obtain employment. To per-
sons who are preparing themselves for
this pursuit, as well as to those who are
already engaged in it, it may be a mat.
ter of interest to know what about the
average speed of Stenographers and
Typewriters is in actual business em-
ployment. And here at the outset we
wish to say that we can not depend
upon the statements of the the so-call-
ed experts, who delight to parade in
newspapers their wonderful feats at
prize contests, There is always so
much humbuggery connected with such
contests that we can learn nothing
from them that is of any practical
value in business, unless, indeed, it be
the importance of being constantly on
| the guard against havifiz the wool
{ pulled over our eyes Jusiness letters
do not on an ayerage
than 125 words, and persons
who can
| writer at an averuge speed of 25 to 30
| ed among the best typewriters known
{ to the business circles of Philadelphia
| and New York. We have made pretty
extensive inquiry into this matter, and
{ we know whereo! we affirm.
| the typewriter is by far
i on it, on account of the compactness
and legibility of the work, The time
usually gamed in writing rapidly with
the pen, is lost in reading
count of its illegibility,
an extract from an address of Geoeral
Wingate, delivered to a class of girl
stenographers, and published in the
Penman’s Art Journal of New York:
I can honestly say that the introduc-
tion of women into offices has done
much to improve their character. The
general tone, the gentlemanly conduct
| greatly improved, owing, as 1 believe,
to the presence ot ladies,
Those in the offices where they are, |
have ceased to use objectionable lan- |
guage, as men are apt to do when left :
to themselyes, and even the heads of |
establishment are compelled to
keep a control over their longues and |
temper, which is a wholesome disci |
pline, and in all ways the moral and in- |
tellectual tone of the office has been im. |
proved, i
and as thorough as they might be in
| lower than men.
Their greatest drawback is their
| carelessness, or, I may say, lack of at-
| tention,
| They do not put down exactly what
{is told them, and when they come to
| transcribe their notes, they are too apt
to write anything that comes in their
heads, without using the commonsense
that a male stenographer is expected to
use, The man seems to have a clearer
apprehension of what is required, and
what the writer desires to convey, and
transcribes his notes accordingly. -
The average girl is too apt to write a
letter contalning a clause or word
which means nothing, although she
must be fully aware that the person
who dictated it did not dictate non-
sense,
I speak of this deficiency on the part
of girls, not because I doubt their
ability, but to impress upon them that
if they would really succeed and take
the places that men are glad to give
them, they must not neglect these Im-
portant considerations, and must cultis
vate accuracy and reliability.
They must regard their occupation as
men do, as a business to be followed for
life, and which, therefore, must be thor-
oughly mastered and pursued daily with
all ths attention diligence that 1s
possible, until attention aud diligence
become mechanical, not as a temporary
makeshift, to be followed for a short
time or until they get married,
And I know that what I ask of giris
is no impossible thing, for 1 have had
in my employment for several years a
lady who is, altogether, the most cap-
able and trustworthy clerk I have, She
is a typewriter, I trost her as I
trust nobody else. When I tell ber to
have a thing done at a certain hour and
day, I never stop to think
I Simply know
The Growth of the English Language.
The growth of the English language
within one tiird of 4 century past has
been truly wonderful, It is sald that
our vocabulary within that time has
been practically doubled. Prof, Whit-
ney, of Yale College, is now engaged
on a new dictionary which will contain
about 200,000 words, all devoted to
sound, profitable and well defined uses,
In this number useless compounds are
not included. Prof. Whitney is assisted
in his great work by fifty experts. Iv
will be called the Century Dictionary
and will represent a measure of enter-
prise and progress unknown in any pre-
ceding age of the world, One third of
a century ago, the English language
contained only 100,000 words; and with
the derivatives excluded only about 40,-
000. This rapid accumulation of new
words is not the result of mere accident
but of certain laws of demand and
supply. The English speaking people
have made unparalleled progress in the
arts and sciences since the first edition
ot Websters dictionary was published,
and the number of inventions and dis
coveries made since that time is simply
astounding, So many new things have
been done and discovered, and so many
old things have been done in new and
different way that there has been a con-
stant demand for new words to define
and illustrate these new things and
methods, Many of these new words of
cause, have a mere technical use, and
others are more or Jess provincial. We
do not really require the fiftieth part of
the words in the English language for
ordinary, social and business purposes,
It is said on good authority that Shake-
speare produced all his wonderful plays
with a stock of about 13,000 words; that
Milton uses only 8,000 and that the
whole of the Old Testament comprises
less than 5,000, Educated people can
get along well in conversation with
three or four thousand words, while the
uneducated generally do not use more
than six or seven bundred, Words are
the signs of ideas, and with the increase
of knowledge there is a corresponding
increase in the demand for new words
to represent the new ideas, while other
existing languages have made but little
progress, or have been stationary or de
caying, the English has advanced with
resistless energy, making gigantic
strides until it has become the most
powerful and influential language of
the earth,
True Love in Boston.
“Yes,” said the young man as he
{ threw himself at the feet of the pretty
teacher. “I love you and
would go to the world’s end for you.”
“You could not go to the end of the
world for me, James, The world, or
he earth, as it is called, is round like a
ball, slightly flattened at the poles, One
| of the first lessons in elementary geo-
| graphy is devoted to the shape of the
| globe, You must have studied it when
| & boy."
“Of course I did, but--"*
“And it is no longer a theory.
cumnavigators have established
fact.”
“] know, but what I meant, was that
I would do anything to please you. Ohl
| Minerva, if you only knew the aching
i void"
“There is no such thing as a void,
James,
| admitting that
the
there could be such a
| be a void if there was an ache in it?"
“I mean to say that my life will be
daily thoughts and my nightly dream,
north pole 1 would fly to you, I—"
! fore men can fy.
are successfully over-
come there will still remain, says a late
scientific authority, the
maintaining a balance-—"’
“Well at all events,’’ exclaimed the
bank and I want you to be my wife,
“Well, James, since you put it in
Let the curtain fall. — Boston Courier
Book Markers,
Pretty bookmarkers can be made, to
| remember our friends on
I stead of cards, A beautiful
| made by taking an oblong piece of cel-
{ luloid and painting some Howers on,
| or figures and in gilt and fancy letters
| put “Easter’’ on one corner, and a lit-
| tle quotation on another ; for instance,
11f you paint pansies on, you can say,
| “Pansies, that is food for thoughts’
You take a piece of satin ribbon the
width of your celluloid and long enough
to have 18 fringed out, extending over
the celluloid as far as you may wish,
and have some very narrow ribbon the
same shade as the other, and after
placing celluloid on the ribbon you
draw the narrow ribbon through two
holes one each end, made on celluloid
and satin, fastening them together with
a number of little Joops, It is a bean-
tiful thing when finished. Any color
ribbon can be used,
Another one is made of white water-
color paper. Cut a strip of paper six
inches long by three inches wide, and
fold the ends toward the centre, lacing
them together with daisy ribbon, finish-
ed with a bow, If you r you can
lace the marker at the side, with white
or pale blue ribbon, The word ‘'Eas-
ter" is written in letters of gold
paint and a bunch of Sowers jpainved
on, beginning at the centre and he
ing on both A dainty little Eas.
ter poem could be put on, if desired
making the gift both appropriate and
beautiful, *
AAA I AV 5151-5 HD 300.
A Care For Low Spirits.
Exercise for the body, occupation
FASHION NOTES,
SPRING PASHIONS,
—Some of the cloaks for spring are
very beautiful and odd, I strolled in
Strawbridge’s store the other day, and
they kindly showed me & number of
very fine ones, some of which I will
endeavor to describe. One a Cona-
mara Cloak was of ecru broadcloth,
and was smocked all around the
shoulders, the depth of an ordinary
shoulder cape. At a little distance it
looked like a cape. In the back it was
shirred in at the waist line with a band
fastened in front under the cloak,
making it fit close at the back. In the
front it hangs straight to the floor.
There is a sort of lapel on each side
all the way down the front of surah
the same shade as the cloth. Another
cloak was tight fitting in the back, and
cut In a point below the waist line,
on which was shirred the back full
ness. The front was smocked as & yoke
and belted in at the waist from bands
fastened in the side seams, Atl the
peck there was a large bow of satin
ribbon the same shade as the goods.
Another one was made just like theabove
only it was made of fancy cloth and
was shirred mstead of smocked, and
tied with heavy cord. A very pretty
one was a combination of plaid and
plain goods. It was smocked in a nar-
row strip in the back from the neck to
the waist and falling full from there.
The front was smocked as a yoke. A
Pheasant cloak was very much the
same, with rose trimming down each
side in front. Shirred at waist in front
and back. A handsome travelling
garment—have them all colors—was
very much like the others, but had
beautiful net trimming on cape sleeve.
DRESSES,
—A very pretty dress was made of
black alpaca made in the accordion
skirt. The walst was Directoirs style
with side panels falling to bottom of
skirt. A pretty suit was a steel color
of striped flannel. The skirt was plain
full mn the back, and a plaiting of
surah down the front. Directoire waist
with side panels falling to the bottom
of skirt. Another one was of light
pordered goods. The skirt was accor-
dion front, and the walst had the
jacket effect. A very odd one was of
plaid cloth, The skirt was plaited in
side plaits all around, and were feather
stitched half way down with silk.
There was a large terra cotta surah
gash on the side. The waist was Em-
pire style with cream and terra cola
surah as vest and belt, ete. A very
pretty tea gown was made of French
flannel colored red with a light figu-
red stripe. It was tight fitting in
the back, cut in a point below the
waist line with the back drapery
ghirred on the point, The front was
HORSE NOTES,
—Sore mouths among the horses at
Sheepshead Bay are not uncommon of
late.
—J. Otto Donner, owner of the
Ramapo Stud of New Jersey, was a
visitor at the New Orleans races,
—A. H, Boyer, of Bridesburg, lost a
$400 horse recently. - The animal frac-
tured a knee in its stall and had to be
killed.
—Pell Brasfleld, 2.20, foaled March
10, a large bay filly, by Sultas, 2.24,
and the produce was sold to a Kalama-
z00, Mich., man for $2500,
“pod” Irwin will take his string of
horses, numbering twelve or thirteen,
to Belmont Course. Irwin is a8 care-
ful trainer and a good driver,
—, Haines, of Philadelphia, hat
purchased the 5 year old black gelding
Raven, by General George H. Thomas,
dam by Mambrino Patchen,
~Frank Bower, Presmdent of Bel
mont Driving Ciub, has presented B,
A. Tanner, the new lessee of the track,
with a handsome silver pitcher for the
bar.
—A number of shareholders in the
Belmont Driving Club—t"ose who
have already paid ap in full—are anx-
fous to subscribe for another allotment
of stock,
~The 4 year old bay colt McCurdy
Enterprise, by MeCurdy’s Hambleto-
pian, has been purchased by Georgia
parties from N. C. Maney, of Mur-
freesboro, Tenn.
—At the international horse Fair,
which will be held by the South Brant
Agricultural Society at Brantford,
Ont.. Canada, on May 23 and 24, the
prizes will amount to $2600,
—It is reported that a number of
horse “‘gyps’’ have located at Lexing-
ton, Ky., aud vicinity, aod that they
are interfering much with the reputa-
ble and reliable Kentuckians,
~The 7 year old bay horse Young
Lambert, by Jubilee Lambert, 2.25,
out of the dam of Tony Newell, 2,194,
died recently, He was owned by Dr.
Campbell & Bro., of Paris, Ky.
—Jmported Glengarry, now in his
26th year, has been alling for some
time, and it is not expected that he
will live much longer.
—There is great joy at Mr. J. B.
Haggin’s stud at Rancho del Paso. A
full sister to the famous Dew Drop
was recently foaled there, The filly ie
by Falsetto, dam Explosion.
Jenny McFarland has been bred to
Jim Gray. The latter has been retired
to the stud, where he should get race
horses for he was a first class one him-
salir when right,
~The horses of the Virginia contin-
gent at Gettysburg are in good form,
but thelr owners seem to be in hard
Whenever they back their hor-
puff at the elbow of the plain goods,
WAST SILKS,
—An entirely uew line of goods Is
shown under the name of wash silks
These are twilled fabrics, somewhat
resembling surah, but as soft
pliable as the finest India silk. They
sp cially for wash
laundering process without injary.
pretty. They are almost without ex-
colors—pale pink, blue,
pearl, very
for misses and girls, Babies’ slips,
wrappers and night-gowns are made
from thm, and ladles will have entire
sets of underwear made from the more
delicate colors. The fabric Is very
wide, almost double the widths of the
ordinary surah, aud as it costs but
$1.25 to $1.50 per yard is not particu-
larly expensive, AS a summer dress
able,
GLOY ES,
—Dressed kid gloves with corded
back—not widely embroldered—are
gray or black, For afternoon visits
and receptions Suede mousquetaire
gloves are worn in eight button
lengths, quite plain on the back, and
these also are in tan and gray shades.
Dress gloves are very similar to Suede
mousquetaires, but are of twelve to
thirty button lengths, reaching up to the
slesves of the evening gown, and may
be tan colored, gray, white, or black,
All dress gloves are quite plain on the
back, The sac gloves, loose wristed
without buttons, are very convenient
as they draw on and off easily, and they
are chosen guile largely for the coun-
try, for travelling and for steamer use,
they come in Suede, in glace kid, and
in heavy doeskin, tan chamois color,
gray, and black sac gloves are for gen-
eral and white sac gloves are
especially liked with yachting gowns.
Riding and driving gloves of heavy
kid are now made short like men’s
gloves to fasten with only one large
button, and are also worn Jonger with
four buttons at the wrists. There are
also tilburied driving gloves of heavy
doeskin faced inside the hand with kid
to prevent the reins from slipping.
start.
—James Rowe, Augns; Belmont’s
trainer, is now bard al work, paying
promises to be one of the best of the
“Snapper’’ Garrison is now at the
track, devoting most of his time to the
two year olds, seme of which will be
ready to start at the Brooklyn Jockey
Club’s races.
—Jim Guest’s two year old colt, Dr.
Nave, by Prince Charlie, out of Cres
cent, by Australian, has been sent to
Lee Paul, at Lexington, to be trained.
He is said to be a wonder, and is well
engaged.
—{lengary, the sire of many good
racers and now in his twenty sixth
year, has been ailing for some time and
is not expected to live much longer.
He is the property of Captain James
Fraoklin, of the Kenesaw Stud.
Entries for the Merchants and
Manufacturers’ guaranteed stake of
$10,000, to be trotted at Detroit next
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July, close on April 15. The stakes
are open to all trotting horses that
have not beaten 2.24 on the day the
entries close.
~The Charter Oak Driving Park, of
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guaranteed stake races, open Lo all
subscribers, to be decided at the meet.
ing Juns 25 to 28. The classes are 2.19,
2.22 2.95 2.28, 2.31, 2.34, 2.37, 2.45,
trotting; 2.20 and 2.30 pacing.
—The Long Island Live Stock Fair
Association of Huntingdon, N. Y.,
has opened the Suffolk county stake
for 3.30 trotters, and the Queen’s
County stakes for 3 minute trotlers,
each $2500, and to be trotted on Sep-
tember 10 and 12 over the Huntington
mile track; entrance 10 per cent.
—R. W. Uarter, Jobstown, N. J.,
has sold to R. W. Neilson, Glenburnie
Stud, Warrenton, Va, the bay mare
Fanny Peyton, foaled 1882, Ly impor.
ted Kyrle Daly, dam Emily Peyton, by
Lexington, and the bay filly Melody,
foaled 1886, by Duke of Magenta, dam
Nirvana, by Saxon.
—At Highland Farm on March 26
W. C. France’s Rose Chief, by Brown
Chief, the dam of Prince Wilkes, 2.148,
foaled a bay filly to Red Wilkes. This
in which has received the name
of large formed,