AN OLD TIME ROMANCI.
Right here, in this v,etrable oak tree's shade,
My grandmother®. other sat one day,
In solemn state and in stiff brocade,
Awaiting a lover, a knight they say.
Down yonder hillside with flashing spur
He came like a vision, o'er field and fen,
fn his satin breeches and gold-laced coat,
And 8 queer old dresser he must have heen,
i do vot think I could have funcied him so,
In his wedding plumes and his vonnet gay—
And Mistress Lucy, if she could know,
Would smile in disdain at'iny choice to-day.
By his side, o'er the stairway her picture
hangs,
A dainty lady, so proud and prim
That more than half of my wayward blood
It ts very plain must have come from him
Here is a letter a century old; ’
For true kuightly sentiment very well,
And a dashing hand, but it must be tld
That my cliarming dl could
not spell:
‘®onered madam
eyes bereft
‘May not dwell on thy form and face so
fair,
“8iill the promise of hope to my poor heart is
left,
‘Avd at dawning of eve I aspire to be
there." ”
and deer, though mine
1 should like to know if at eve he came—
Why, of course he did, for am I not here?
Proudly bearing his ancient name
Aud if on that sofa they sat asunder
Fully two feet, as was proper and right,
Could be ever manage to give her, I wonder,
Half such a kiss as I had last night?
Ah, Lucy, though minuet and spinet,
And curtly manners in grand array,
Tell on, old story, there's something in ft
That reaches the heart just the same to-day
And I wonder when my little day is over,
And my grandchildren flit "neath this ola
tree's shade,
&f they'll say, “She had just such a noble
lover,
And as true and tender a wife she made."
———————l—
HEINE'S FIRST LOVE.
THE DISILLUSIONMENT OF A GREAT
PORT
To those who are acquainted with
the romance of Heiprick Heine's life,
his writings must seem almost repel-
lent. In this age, when optimi-m is
as incontes'ably a fad as was pessim-
ism in the «ays when La Rochefou-
oavull’s bitter maxions secured th: an.
robation of the court of the Grand
oparque, it is customary to hear the
“Reisebilder” disposed
swamp, with hero and therea brilliant,
most to make of Heine the cynical, dis
trustinl man he was
humanity is only half pardonabls. Its
found in the inner nature of
bat there can be no donbt that its la-
tent germs were developed by the at-
tachment which msrred his life, yet
which stands ont lixe an oasis from the
aridity of a misspent, or, at best,
only half well spent.
When this first love began it would
be diffienlt to teil. Molly Heine was
the poet's cousin, and
grew Up in 8 CiO&
which Le writs
ness and rorrow
ote |
fife
companioaship of
finite tende
ne iein yt
reciprocated, and in
thore vears all that wes best and por.
eat in the man's rature wed 1 L.
“f brought her a lily which I bad
plocked,” be says, “and 1 said to her:
‘Be mine, that 1 may | arn to be good
and happy like thee,” ”
But the iiyll could not lest. Hein-
rich w nt to Goettiogen, and Molly
was betrothed to Mr. Friediander, who,
like the Heines, was a Jew. Hein
rich's wonnd was deep, and it gave no
promise of healing. He travelled and
wrote, but he nursed his grief, like
the morbid man he was. “With m
reat sorrow I make my litie songs,
e wrote. From the North sea to the
oaths of Lucca, from the mountains of
the Harz to the canals of Veniee, the
pilgrim wandered, gleauing from each
place a memento in the shape of a
song.
Fleven years pasced before Heine
eould bring himself to wish to see his
cousin. But at last this desire came,
and it was too strong to be resisted.
He was then covered with glory, At
less than thirty years he could faith-
fully say, “When the greatest posts of
Germany are pamed, my nam~ is
smong them!” He was the idol of
Germany, sad his fame in letters was
enhanced by the celebrity of his con.
quests over feminiue hearts, The
cynical, canstic man, whose soul
seemed suffering from a secret disease,
was irresistibly attractive to women.
His nstare, on the other hand, was too
impressionatle not to reflect the sents
ments which ho caused: but these were
Zz
His |
Te uns
& si
all stood out indelibly the image of his
eat liest love,
those happier pays
Heine went to Hambarg where Fran
their meeting would be Indicrous if it
were not pathetic. Heinrich was led
by an old servant to a room where the
Light of a single lamp diffused itself;
on the threshold, the old woman
stopped and said: “She is bere.”
The poet entered, wondering at his
own composure. On a divan was
seated a woman, dressed ina gown of
soft tinted cashmere. In the dimness
he could not sec her features, and he
faltoringly nsked: ‘Are you?
He stopped, and Molly, rising an-
swerad:
“You, my cousin; it is L"”
He co ald see her now, and the tears
rushed to his eyes; he would have
wished to flee; he cursed himself for
having come. The woman b:fore him
was no longer the Molly he had known.
She was almos! an old woman. on
fous bad sufficed to transform the
y girl whom he had worshipped
into & woman old sand wrinkled, whose
ince Lad lost its animation and whose
form had g own leavy and ungainly.
The negligence of her dress accentnat-
ed these deicets, and the impression
able dreamer saw the goddess of his
fotay irapsformed into a German
“hausfran’ of the most prosaic sort
But Heine, too, had changed, and as
they held each other’s hand, they were
each silently striving to conjure tho like-
ness of the past from the altered feat-
ures before them. It is difficult to sa
from which of the blows which Heine's
love for Molly caused him, he suffered
most, His poetic nature must have
made this last disenchantment the
most acute, for in it he could not even
find the self-pitying consolation of
“little songs.”
His drean. had been twice rudely
shattered, and henceforth he vould
live and love in t e past. :
The man who never, in spite of his
genius, was lovable, was made still less
80 by this circumstance. Yet, for all
his faults, there are few who know his
life and writings who will not echo the
words of Mutthew Arnold, written at
the German poet's grave:
The spirit of the world,
Beh Laing the absardity of men
Their vaunts, their feats—
Let a sardonic smile
For one short moment
Wander o'er his hips,
That smi] - was Heine!
For its earthly hous
Tie strange guest sparkled:
Now "Lis passed away.
1 hat was tielne! and we,
Miyrawds who Live, who have live
What are we all bul a mood,
A singe rood of the lhe
Of the spirit in whom we exist,
Who al ' 12% in one?
I———————— A A»
the Forelgner.
A marrigze ceremony in Algeria 18
an interesting relic of ancient customs
The bridegroom goes to the bride, and
the guests assembled outside the house
will wait for Soon the
from
the summit of some neighboring bill,
and the marrige procession approaches
the bridegroom's house. Tue pipers
ulwuys come first in the procession,
then bride, muffled up in a veil,
tudinz a muie led vy ber lover. Then
comes a bevy of gorgeously dressed
damsels, sparkli with silver orna-
ments, alter which the friends o' the
bride follow. ‘I'he proce-sion slops in
front of bri house, and
the girl's friends line both sides of the
pathw:y. The pipers march off on
one side. while the bridegroom lifts
the girl trom ths mule and holas her
in his srms. I've girl's iriead
upon throw earth at the bridegroom,
when he hurries forward and carries
her over the threshhold of his house
beat him with
much laughter
In the evenings on such occasions the
pipers and drummers are called in, and
his coming.
coming
the
ny
-
the lerronm’s
«HIere-
nor does a desist
g and exhausted
each other;
until pantin
coupis
they step
I'ne
dunce has great energy of movament
though the steps are small and changes
sligi®, the dancers only circling around
occasionally. But they swig thelr
bodies with an astonishing energy and
As {
neflore
80 do they
gunnienass leaves fuller
th
vibrate before the
gale
thoy shake. they shiver and trem-
nivering arms, wave
cam lost in Lhe
pon while
i the pipes and
indlotmont
ial World.
for all
eloquent ind
by a pitil
rnity and poa
EF
gocinty
an who soug
By $b 8
BLO
rouch the dark of suicide A
way
woman of good education, of moral ex
refined
from
starvation to death because no one
oC llence, of honest puronos= . of
sensibilitie she was driven
would give her employment in New
York because she had no ‘references.’
In letter left in miserable
garret where she lived she wrote:
“Woman who were so ignorant that |
felt sorry for them would not take me
into their kitchen because I could not
show ‘city references.” | tried to ex
plain that I had never had to work:
and because I was not born and bred
in the gutter I presume | must starve.”
She might however, have found
easy employment in comfortable
homes. There was plenty of steady
work within her grasp. She confess
ed as much hersell. These are
words: “‘Widowers who advertise for
housakeepers, and then gently losinu-
ate that you add wifely duties to do-
mestic arrangements, are very plenty
in this city, but 1 do not approve of
such economy.” She preferred starv-
the the
streets from house to house, in all
sorts of weather, seeking ‘‘any honest
But she
So she
finally dashed out her brains by a leap
from a fourth-story window, leaving
behind on the bureau a ‘‘reference’
Paradise while many a ‘‘charitable”
grand lady knocks in vain at their bar.
This is one of the saddest cases in the
list of sad suicides, sand is a mournful
commentary upon the charity aad
There is no harder condition imposed
by life than that to which the “gene
teol poor” are subjected when reduced
to destitution. here seems to be
literally no hope for them. They
have neither the assurance to take op-
portunity by the throat and demand
relief, nor the miserable obsequious-
ness to beg for alms where they
should have the right to earn their
support. They too fi have
but one or two alternatives as solu-
tion of their iife probl shame and
death. This woman in New York pre-
fers the headlong Junge into the
terrors of death to a onorable life.
Happily one can be buried without
re "
And the Little Woman Knew the
Cateman'’s Weaknass,
Now and then one finds a person
who understands railroad human na-
ture, as exhibited by the gatemen in
the depots. Thelr orders are to pass
no ene in without a ticket, and it is
the easiest thing in the world for
them to wave back old age, youth,
beauty and anybody else who wants
to pass in to meet a friend expected
on that train. One of the surliest
officials I ever saw, says tha New York
Sun, has a gate in the lL. & N. depot
in Cincinnati, and I have seen him
turn stiflly away from desperate men,
weeping women and howling children.
I'o every protestation he hud but one
answer:
“Can't pass’ thout a ticket.”
The other day, while | wus watching
him, a little, syed woman came
gliding into the throng waiting at the
gutes. OF the twotenders she selected
this one Jo oper. te on, although any
one could have seen that the other had
the biggest heart. Aftor several peo-
ple had been turned away she slid for-
ward in a graceful way and inquired
“Beg pardon, sir, but am | speaking
to tye president of the road?”
“Neo, ma'sm!’ he stammered,
thrown on his beam ends by the query.
“Ah! you look so much like him!
Are you the superintendent?’
“No, ma'am n
“I'nen, you must be the manager?”
“Hardly, m am.”
“Dear me! but how could the peopls
ken?” she went on. “Hull
were one of
the high officials, and I am so dis-
to find are not. Per-
ugh, you have the general
powers when he 1s not
blue
not exactly.
be s0 mist
em said you
appointed
haps, the
managers
here?
“What is it, ma'am?
“My sister will be in on the 6.30,
end | so want Ww go inside the gutes
and help her with the children. As
you must have the authority the
manager in his absence, I make bold
to "
you
"
’
Of
“Certainly, ma'am; walk right jn"
he interrupted.
“You are #0 kind™
“Don’t mention it."
“But all leadiog railroad
ever cour euus,'’
vit of tally, und
line down the de
We turned to
mea nre
sin said us a purtiog
thon she male bee
prt
look at the ga‘eman,
and the change was surpri-ing He
bad braced ualil his hsight was in-
creased by four inc his ft was
thrown out. and he was sand ng as
stiff as a crowbar, while a man pound-
ed him on the back and oTerad to lick
the him if he would
come off the perch. Tae little womaa
of all bud found his weak spot
up
104, can
stuffing out of
A woMax, driven by the vicissitudes
of life to throw her home open to
board. re, finds the experience, as most
other women who try it do, difliealt, to
say the least. But she says, philo-
sophically: “I am learning human na-
ture. I have discovered that the soft.
voiced, refined-looking woman often
carries tigerish claws beneath her vel.
vet, and that the frank looking, well-
| dressed man may develop into a ‘Med-
dlesome Matty’ before my eves I
| don't know why humanity should be
| come brutal when it essays boarding,
{but it seems to. A woman called re
cently, liked my apartments, and
re-
'
aging =mile
abe ssid, wit Len
3s 3 series of aes
iors eat: on.
: new pet
fere my stairs snd
somewhat cleaner
day? Were
to Kinds
6 CRTIN
than they anpes ed
ny bedfclean? Did
of meat for dinner? Jmwe-made
bread entirely? and, nally, Did
| maid open the froat door as a rule? This
| was a gratnitons impertinence. I was
| taking the letters from the postman as
she came up the steps, and naturally
| received ber. And then she went away,
after taking tiiree names as references
I insisted in tarn that she should give
me one, that of a lormer landlady, and
it was one of the small compensations
i of my lot, when she wrote me a week
| later taat she found my references sat-
isfaotory and would take the rooms, to
reply thet I had found ber reference
most unsatisfactory and was sure |
could not tolerate her exactions,
“A man came to me the other night,
| and after forcing my price down as low
as he could, asked me if my husband
was a Christian, if my family attended
| church and Sunday School, if my other
| boarders were Uod-fearing people,
‘and if Bunday was observed with re-
higions quiet by everybody in the
house,
“People ask me to take them cheaply
be rause they are saving to buy a house
or because the husband has extra office
expenses, or, as ong gushing creature
told me, ‘becanse we want to go tv
Europe next Summer.’ The more the
want the less they want to pay. Loo
at the adivartisotisents for hoszd
wanted,’ ‘everything unexceptionable,’
anl ‘terms moderate.’ Would those
people think of going into a shop and
saying, ‘I want your most ex ive
goods at a low price? Yet they do pre-
cisely that with me. Barroundings,
appointments and service that mean a
serions outlay they demand and are
not willing to pay for. They cannot
afford to keep up an establishment to
their liking, and they ask me to doit for
them without adequate compensation,
The average man or woman seems to
part with his courtesy, sense of justice
and humanity when he starts out to be-
come a boarder,”
that
I bias
Ve
5 3
i
Us §
A Crusade Against Klsabug.
A preacher in a peighoring town haa
just undertaken a violent crusade
agulug kissing at church fairs Be
n the most perem manner
hus forbidden the Don of his
flock to engage in games which end i»
osoul rewards
a ay
veto, curiously
all come from unmarried
| certain age. New York Journal.
WIIHOUT RELIGION,
Mr. James Knssell Lowell, our late
Minister to England, recently, in aa
aiter-d noer speech, replied to some
skeptica: diners out, as fol ows:
+‘ fear that when we indulge onr-
out a religion, we are not perhaps |
awaré how much we are sustained at
present by an enormous mass all about |
us of religious feeling and religious |
convictions, so that whatever it may be |
safe for us to think—for us who have!
had great advantages and have been |
brought up in such a way that such a
charaeter—I do not know what would
mankind if they undertook to play the
same game,
may attach to a few points of the doe-
which was simply what all Christians
believe— t will be
ism, or ary other ‘“ism” which
and nsen Christ, is infinitely
the degenerate sons of heroic ancestors,
founda-
men of
the
by
and edaeated in schools,
tions of which were laid
down the lad ier by which they have
climbed up, and persuade men to live
withont (God and leave them to die
without hope,
“The worst kind of religion is no
religion st all, and these men living in
juxnry and ease, indulging thems lves
in “the amusement of going wituout re-
ligion,' may be thankful they live in
lands where the they neglect
hus tamed the beast in ss snd ferocity
Gospel
might long ago have eaten their ¢.r-
cuss 8 like the Bont Bea Island rs, or
ent off their heads and tanned
| hides like the monsters of the French
| revolntion, When the mieroscopic
search of skepticism, which had tinnted
tive heavens al sonnp led tae
disprove the ex stenoe of a Crestor, has
found a place oo
decancy, comiort and sconrity s 1p-
ip ot ng and eduestiug hiseinl ren,
gooiled and nupolluted; a place where
! age reverevemd, iufacoy respected,
wanhood respected; womanhood bou-
ored, snd human hfe beid in die re-
gnrtd—when skeptics ean flod soch a
place ten miles square on tins glo e,
where the Gosoel of Curist hss not
cleared the way and laid the founda-
tion and made decency and secariny
possible, 18 will then be in order for
the skeptical literati to move thither
and there ventilate thar views, But so
long as these men are dependent npon
the religion which they discard for
every privilege they enjoy,
well hesi ate a little before they seek
to rob the Christian of his hope and
in
who alone has given to man that hope
of life eternal which makes life tolera-
of its terrors and the
glooms.”
grave of its
AD I
nized by "Harper's Magazine.”
Shortly after the death of Cwmsar's
!
daughter Julia, who had married Pom-
pey, the latter grew very distast to-
Canar and before much time
the two had become thorough-
ly estranged. Bratus having remark-
Pou pay
ireatine h
hearing that
piatake in
wd, Cassar observed:
m He
ough i were fis mother
’ x. i . 9
iis lathernin-law. i
thut Brutus
foolish siake
tara] if
naland of
l
tliat evening Joine
:
Oliver Goldemith's modesty has be-
come proverbial, but he was by no
be is sometimes represented. David
Garrick, who fond of his little joke,
once asked Goldsmith before a
party of gay Londoners: “Why does
an uss bray when he can argue so e.o-
quently with his hind hoofs?” “Why
do ye ask me?’ asked Goldsmith.
“Boca. you are an ass.” replied Gar-
rick, with a smile. Quick as a wink
came the reply; You'reanother.” It
is vot likely that Garrick after this
trified much with dear old Noll.
On another occasion, Bosworth hav-
ing sald in Goldsmith's hearing that
the “Vicar of Wakefield” should have
been called the Vicar o! Sleepfleld,”
modest Noll turned toward him and
without a moment's hefitation eried:
“Shut up your mouth!” Dr. Johanson
nearly laughed himself into an apo-
ploces fit over this when Sir Joshua
Reynolds told him about it next day.
“WIL" said Bacon one day to
Shakespeare ‘thoy say | wrote your
playa” Shakespeare laughed. “Why
doy augh my William?”
my , they think you are the swan
of Avon. You're a devil of » swan,
you are,”
Ben Johnson said it took one of Ba-
con's strongest essays to keep him
from striking the poet. —New York
Sun.
EE iC ——
Thought He Could Bait
Father (to editor). “1 would like
you to give my son & chance in your
printing office.
Editor. “What can the bey do?”
Father. Well, at first he couldn't
do anything more than edit your pa-
mechanical department, but later on,
when he learns sense, he'll be handy
t¢ have around to wash windows, keep
lamp chimneys clean and sift ashes.
~ Norwalk Record.
You can tell what kind of a spirit
there is In a man by the way he treats
FOOD FOR THOUGIULI
Riches lie in self-sacrifice,
“J serve,” is a truly moral moto.
True freedom stands In meekness,
Ignorance never settles a question.
In nature here is no blemish but the
mind.
None can be ealled deformed but the
unkind,
Every man is some kind of a cow-
No
| proud,
{| Any work is bard work to a lary
| man,
The cross can only be seen from a
Cross,
Every good man
monuments,
He who knows most grieves most for
wasted time,
I'ride, generally, is at the botiom of
all great mistakes,
man is who knows himself
bullds his own
Even vinegar has to work in orGer io
be worth anything.
Thou must be true to thyself, if thou
the truth would teach,
Lvil sha'l hunt the violent man, to
overthrow him.
There is nothing sadder on earth
than an unhappy child,
have always
The arp'e you musn’t
looks the swe. $ast,
Peware of
child ren and fowers,
people who do not lova
Troubles will run when you look
them squarely in the face,
People do pot grow into grace by
looking at the faults of others,
No mao is so worthy of envy as he
that can be cheerful in want,
No [ife 18 wasted unis It
sloth, dist ous §y Or ¢ war lice,
ends in
Til’ me whom you live with, and ]
{ will tell you wao you are,
Life, likeeve y other blessing derives
ils value [row 118 wee a one,
A Wotnan ean nur dange ois
on u b.e.cle than wien sie thows
Lens,
te
al
i deal of shin‘ng
belore there was Lnyboldy bere Lo notion
it.
The law is always written on stone,
DULL graCe cotties Ww us through a loviuyg
heart,
The man who an ler takes to get rich
at th» expouse of bis couscicuce will
fiva that he can’t ao it.
i he sun did a goad
Commonplace people see nodiflerence
belween one man aud another,
Cultivate not only the corc-fields of
your mind, but the p easure-ground also,
Resignation is the name of the angel
wii h carries the most of our soul’s
{ burden,
A skeplic is one who knows too
| much to be a good fool, and too little
| to be wise,
One bird in the bush
charms for the natural man
in the hand,
He who can take no icterest in what
is small will take false Inteiest In what
is great.
bas more
than two
is race in this
nes he 8 oul of
When aman has ran b
world and tie end ¢
breath,
There is a great des] of good
ind
lazioens,
dinrer
ws TF £ a
= for a regu-
Never 28k the devil to
you are willing to take Li
lar boarder.
Frui less is sorrow for having dons
! amiss if it issues not in a resolution Ww
do 80 no more,
{ It is distressing to see that human
| genius has limitations, and human stu-
| pidity bas none.
{| Families are a good deal 1. ke clocks.
Too much regulation may easily make
| them go wrong.
A hypocrite is a counterfeit, A coun-
| terfeit is one of the strongest proofs
{ that there Is a genuine.
The nearer a man gels to his battle
field the smaller the reason grows that
there should be a battle at all
Among the “rights” an individual
may claim of society, room for the de-
velopment of the individuality stands
foremost.
Tt is just as easy to pull up a weed
by its roots as it is to cut it off; so it
is as easy 10 remove & vice as to correci
it.
I know no friends more faithful and
| inseparable than bard-heartedness and
| pride, humility and love, lies and impu-
dence.
Two-thirds of the pily in this world
is nothing more than a secret ratisfac-
tion that somebody 1s worse off than we
are,
The man who is “generous toa fault”
is mostly generous to Lis own faults
He treats them well and they stay with
him,
Before you start out to atiain a seat
on the highest pinnacle of fame, bear in
mind that it rons up to a pretty sharp
poling,
The young woman who declares she
| 18 just as mad as she cau be doesa’t be
gin to be as mad as she 18 when she says
nothing about it. '
We have prefessors who leach the
art of talking correctly. Why can’t we
have some who will teach the art of
listening patiently.
The woild will be neaver right when
& man bas Jearned to Jaugh a little jess
at his neighbor's troubles, and a little
more at his own.
Somebody asks for a definition
of a philosopher. A ph is a
man who earns §9 5 week and is con.
tented with his income.
nk So A eae
wor
somes elie him a ng spots
on a :
HURSE NOTES
~The Iowa Centr: Btock Fw
Butler county, ons of the larvest
Lona, was reported sold recently, by
desars. Stout, of Dubuque, to Joh®
Lush, of Accley, 14, who will cut #8
up slo smal farws,
~dJudge P. P. Johi ston has positive.
ly declined to serve another year a8
President of the Kentucky Associaton
of Trotting Horse Breeders, and Mr,
John E. Green will probably become his
BUCCessor,
~Mr. Jacob Ruppert lost by death
recen’' ly the weaning chestnut filly, by
imported St. Blaise, dam 1mpoi ted Po-
lenta, which he recently purchased at
the Belmont sale, paying $2500 for
mother and foal.
—There were three 2-year-olds to
beat 2.20 at vanesr Park, Mair, Ky.,
during its meeting:
Thistle Dew, by Sentinel Wilkes,
295; lady Prinecton by Princeton,
230; and Lakewood, by Norwood,
27%.
- Lockhart, 2 14}, is up to the present
time, the fastest trotting representative
of the Nutwood family, Hs dam,
lapidan, by Dictator, was bred by
aptain B. J. Tracy, Lexington, and
she 18 now owned by W. A Mec
Afee,
~The Jewett Farm has another great
yearling pacer in a filly by Bonnie Boy,
son of Vatchen Wilkes, that, it is said,
ca make a wile in. 28), Bhe is cut of
a mare by Rochester, and her second
dam is Lady Delmont, the dam of SlLer
9 9
man, < 259
— Althoigh Director, 2.17, was a
game racehorse, and is well bred, he
was despig~d by Kentucky breeders bee
fore Balisbury bought Lim, His sno
cess In Cuiforna bas Lesa wobe
ferful, and he vw iH now be
brought back to Kentucky to euler ser-
Vice,
2.
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dd. G. Davis, for many ye ri Supers
Highlawnu Farm, lias pure
chased uli th stock belmgin to the
volte nit tas ees! Lhe Loam for a
teri of vests, lle will sell at an early
doy ali the brosd-wares nl
slozk, res evrg ouly Aleant r
tur stud » TV. 00
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2.23,
— Ben 16, Keuney, who ha hal charge
of Majcus 1 a's rotlers thi year, Las
Laken Lis back to Ih versie,
Mout. fle recei ty vol i addy
Winon, 2 1}. R« Cleary (2), 2 20%;
Fautasie 2 4} «ud Winel, 3-eai-vd
ully, Uy Wi kes Boy; Mieiry Will, 2-;ear-
uid colt, by Willen,
~—Mr Simmons. of New Douglass,
LiL, not outy wm 8 x horses with glao-
siers recen iv, bit bis own life as well
Whenever Lure 8 Lhe slightest sus)
vou of glanders in a stalls a competent
veterinary surgeon should Le sent for
at once. It is ove of the most inf.c-
tious of diseases and incurable,
—F. 8 Gorton, * hicagn, has soid to
Sisson & Lilley, Grand Rapids, Mich,
a half interest in the bay horse Pleasan-
ton, 18 £2, foaled 1888, by Director, re-
cord 2.17, dam May Day record 2.30.
This horse is full brother to Margaret
S., 4-year-old record 2.124, and May
Day is also the dam of 1. cas, record
2 144.
~=J, Malcolm Forbes, Boston, Masa,
has recently purchased from. A. J.
Alexan ler, VW oodburn, Kv, bay filly
hh rvs
le
n:
i foaled May 20, 1:01, by K W likes,
| Wavelet («ster to Viking, 2}; Was
te. Fairy Bele and
nt. Also a bey Cliy
1-91, by King Wilkes,
“ 29 Uy a roid.
{ dam Puen;
| ——Atthe t ack of the Iowa Driving
| Park, recent y, A. L. Sardy drove Joe
| Jefferson aoaiust the four-mile pacing
| record, 108°}, lowering it to 10.10
{ The old r cord was made by Longfel
{ low at ran Fiancisco, in 1861, and has
stood for thirty years, Joe Jefferson
now holds the work's pacing records
for thres miles and four miles.
—It is said of Manette, the dam of
Arion, that she would never trot a little
bit. Her gait is the run, and she was
frequently used as a runner to acoom-
pany and and stimulate trotters. With
ber inheritance of trotting blood this is
strange, and stranger still it 1s that she
should pe the one to prodace the won-
der of wonders,
#= The body of the Arab stallion Kis.
met, which died recently from poeum-
onia, contracted on the voyage from
England, will be brought from New
York to Philadelphia. Mr. Randoiph
Huntington has presented the body to
Dr. R. 8. Huldekoper, who will use the
skeleton in his lectures on the anatomy
of the horse.
~The brown stallion St. Valentine,
2.20, by Westwood, son of Diack
dam Laura Logan by Americin Clay
trotted in 2.174, over his owner's new
kite shaped track near La Belle, Mo,
recently, He went to the half in 1.07.
St. Valentine !s said to be the largest
horse in the 2.20 list. He weighs 1408
pounds in racing condition,
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Hams Por Your Serap Beek.
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cold starch will make clothes stiffer
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poses one tablespoonful to about a
quart of water is about the ordinary
proportion.
It you dip the wicks of lamps in
strong hot vinegar and then dry them
it will do away with much of the dis
agreeable smell
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cover them with hot water and led
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