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New Jersey is said to have spent
SIO,OOO in investigating mosquitoes.
And as frequently happens, tlie inves
tigation lias not been successful to the
extent of devising any means of met
ing out justice to the offenders.
According to American Medicine, the
disinfection of paper money should at
tract the attention of hygienists.
When patients with smallpox or other
contagious diseases are quarantined
they must pay for food, etc., and it is
certain that bills sent by them may be
carriers of contagion. It is almost
impossible for the larger banks to car
ry out thorough disinfection of money
with the present devices, and for the
small stores and working men it is
more difficult. A oimple, clieap and
effective disinfection device is highly
desirable. Banks may lessen the
danger by returning to Washington
for redemption notes that are not only
badly soiled or damaged, but that are
slightly so. It would be well is the
English system of redemption were
also in use in our country. Our Gov
ernment should be more liberal to
banks in this respect.
Some very interesting (lata 011 inter
state migration is given in the Nation
al Magazine. According to this au
thority not one in five native-born Am
ericans lives in the same State in
which he was born. As would natur
ally be expected, the oldest States send
out the greatest number of adven
turers, and of these States New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois are
credited witli a million each, while
Indiana, lowa, Kentucky, Missouri
and Virginia are credited with half a
million each. Vermont, however, pro
portionally to her population, lias
given more emigrants than any other
State of the Union, Vermonters equal
ing in numbers nearly one-halt of the
present native population of the State,
now living in other States. By this
seeking for betterment Illinois lias re
ceived more citizens than any other
State, though Missouri and Texas arc
not very far behind. The States that
show a net gain from -this intermlgra
tion are Massachusetts, lthode Island,
Connecticut, New Jersey, West Vir
ginia and Florida. All tlie other New
England Atlantic Coast and Southern
States show net loss on the exchange.
All the States west oT lire Mississippi
have made gains.
A Fat and Dirty Km:e.
Sir W. Martin Conway, a well known
mountain climber and traveler, who
has circled the globe and gone up and
down if in search of heights that he
might scale, came from England to tint
Albemarle, and told of the I'atagcn
ians. "They are not giants, as some
have supposed, and as the geographies
teach," he snld. "They are large in
comparison with the other Sourii Amer
ican natives—that is all. Everything is
relative, you know. But they are very
fat. That is why they can stand the
cold so well. I have seen Patagonian
men and boys running around unclad,
while 1 was wrapped in warm gar
ments, with the snow tailing upon
them ill quantities and the wind blow
ing bitterly. They are kept warm by
their fat—and dirt. Patagonia is one
of the dirtiest places Imaginable.
Don't go there If you hat* dirt. That
Is my advice to all who contemplate
a Journey to the jumping off place of
South America."—New York Tribune.
Rotation Velocity of Waterspout.
From photographs and measurements
of a waterspout. Professor Blgelow
estimates the rotation at the surface
of the sea as 354 miles per hour, which
would he nearly six miles a minute.
The National Glass Company wll
Improve Its Fairmont factory by thl
addition of three tempering furnaces
and other items.
Wilbur Copen, who shot and killed
Ernest Haines, May, 1900, was found
guilty of murder in the second degree,
at Charleston.
Lonnie Merrick, aged 18, was
killed by a falling limb at Chilton.
THE OPTIMIST.
Old Uncle Finn was a good 010 chap,
but he never seemed fer to care a rap
If the sun forgot
To rise some day,
Just like as not
Ole Finn would say:
"Uncommon dark, this here we're in.
But 'taint so bad as it might 'u been. *
But a big cyclone came 'long one day.
An' the town was wrecked and biowed
away.
When the storm bad passed
We turned around
And thought at last
Ole Finn had found
The state >' thiugs he was buried in
About as bad as it might 'a' been.
So wo dug ira out o' the twisted wreck
And lifted a rafter oil bis neck.
Jie was bruised an' cut,
And a sight to see;
lie was ruined, but
He says, says he,
With a weak look round and a smashed up
grin, •
" 'Taint half so bad as It might V been !''
But after all. it's the likes o Finn
Makes this world fit fer livin' in.
When dues are drear
And ski-s are dark.
It's good to hear
Some old cuss bark,
"Now see here, son !" with a cheerful grin.
" 'Taint half so bad as it might a' been .'"
—Newark News.
J THE PHANTOM VOICE.
Sitting 011 the veranda of his sum
mer residence by an inland lake in
Michigan, surrounded by his family
and guests, the venerable Judge Wat
ties told the strangest story of his
professional career.
"Immediately following my admis
sion to the liar," he said, "I was made
prosecuting attorney, accepting the
honor as a deserved tribute to my
superior abilities. But you must bear
in mind that this was a good many
years ago in a little valley town in
Pennsylvania, where we were hemmed
in by the mountains and had few with
whom to compare in the matter of
intelligence or attainments.
"111 the criminal annals of the county
there were the evidences of a well
disposed community: and it came as a
startling sensation when Farmer Jen
kins, driving home late one night,
was beaten to insensibility and robbed
of a large sum of money. Here was
work for me, and I went at it with the
zeal of an ambitions beginner. Jen
kins insisted that he would be able
to identify his assailant, seen in the
dim moonlight that sifted through the
trees, describing him as a tall, well
dressed young man with a dark mus
tache and an angry red scar across his
left cheek.
" 'Why, I seed that air critter,' de
clared Constable Joe Huskey, '1 kiIT;
on him sudden like yistorday when I
was fishin' at Punkey Holler crick.
Th' feller war ill swimmin' and tola
mc he war jist outen the city fur a
leetle recreation. I'd know him
'mongst a tliousan'.'
"By employing competent assistance
from Philadelphia, we ran down our
man, Jenkins and Huskey both recog
nized him at sight. A few days after
the arrest and while 1 was working on
the ease, a handsome, matronly ap
pearing woman walked into the office,
introducing hersefl as the mother of
the prisoner, who had given the name
of Harry Winter. She bore the unmis
takable marks of refinement, and in a
brief statement, punctuated by con
vulsing sobs, assured me that, a terri
ble mistake had been made. Harry
was her son. her only support, and she
a widow. He was the soul of honor
and had never given her an hour's
anxiety. He was with her the night
of the assault and robbery. They had
walked for an hour in the evening,
after which he read to her, going to
his room at 11. It was a physical
as well as a moral impossibility for
him to have done the great wrong laid
at his door. Her story greatly im
pressed me. but there was the positive
identification by Jenkins and the con
stable.
"Less than a week later I had an
other caller; a well dressed man who
walked with a limp and who said he
had been subpoenaed by the defence
to show Winter's good reputation. But
nothing eould have surprised him
more, for he knew tne accused (o have
a very bad record. He declared that
he had a full confession of that very
crime from thep rlaoner who had re
lied upon the cripple as a loyal friend
simply because they hud met occasion
ally at the mother's house. This
swept uway the doubts that she had
created, convincing 'me that her ding
ing love had overcome her regard for
the truth. I gained a promise. from the
cripple that bo would say nothing till
called to the stand by the other side.
"When tlie prosei utlon had made
his case at the trial t was entirely
satisfied. Just after Jenkins and Hus
key had sworn point blank as 1 knew
they would, word reached me that
there was a private detective In the
court room who wanted Winter for n
crime committed In New York. This
was help from an unexpected source,
and 1 soon had it before the jury that
the ugly scar ON Winter's elieek was
made by a man defending his home
against burglars. There was pot u
weak link in the chain of evidence
that hud been coiled about him.
"On his behalf the testimony of the
weeping mother made a deep [mprcs
sion, but I was confident that the spell
she had pat upon tire 12 men sitting
in Judgment would yield to the cool de
liberations of the jury room. After
several unknown witnesses had given
testimony tending to show that Winter
had led a reputable life, the man wiio
had called upon me linked to the
stand, and 1 must confess that 1 re
joiced at the anticipated confusion of
the defense.
"But there was a most unacrouuta
hie intervention. No sooner was the
oath administered to the witness than
a voice from overhead solemnly
warned ltirn to remember that he had
made the sacred promise before his
I Maker to tell nothing but the trufh.
j Tho prisoner dropped heavily into
! his chair, the jurymen went white as
\ ghosts and the judge east a troubled
j look about the ceiling as if to detect
j the hold offender. 'Order in the
I court' was gruffly demanded and the
case proceeded. The first material
question asked was as to the charac
. ter of the prisoner, and that same
phantom voice this time from the rear
of the judge, called the collapsed wit
ness. by name und said in measured
tones: 'Remember that the pains and
penalties of perjury are not inflicted
j in this world alone, but are imposed
through all eternity.'
| "The court whirled anil gasped with
I a terror that his pride sought vainly
|to conceal. An unknown dread was
upon me and jurymen were stricken
; with fright. Har'dheaded and practi
cal old farmers as they were, the su
| perstition that had lain dormant and
j dying through generations was qitiek
j cued into life. Hut It was the wit
j ness who cringed and stared as
j though in tile presence of death. He
j admitted a bitter enmity toward t lie
; prisoner whose liberty he lmd meant
to swear away, though called in his
behalf, and wound up by not only
swearing, that Winter was a model
young man, but that he was seen
walking with his mother by the wit
ness on the niglit in question.
I "I felt the ground slipping from
i under me, but the dramatic climax was
; yet to come. From an open door into
! i.ne of the small adjacent rooms hur
ried an excited man with striking feat
I ares and blazing eyes. He rushed to
i the prisoner, embracing him as a fa
: tlier might have done, and then do
; niandcd, rntlier than requested, that
] his evidence mignt he taken. It was
1 to the effect that be had been a eap
j tain In tile Mexican war, that Winter,
then a mere boy, was a drummer
whom the captain loved as a father;
that when he was shot from his horse
in a charge, the boy gallantly fought
hack the murderous Mexicans till
stronger assistance could come, and
that there lie had received the wound
which left such a ghastly scar. The
impetuous witness even got in a state
meat that there must be some vile
I conspiracy against Winter and wanted
! to confront the private detective. Hut
ihe had disappeared. The jury ae
! quitted without retiring, and I thought
j their verdict a righteous one.
j "One evening some years later, when
south on business, I found time heavy
on my hands and dropped into a place
|of amusement. 1 was indifferently in
terested until unit voice of the court
room, which still haunted my mem
ory, came from an upper corner of the
hull. I felt like running, hut, turning
to the stage, I saw my hero of tho
Mexican war. He tipped me n rec
ognition, and later went with me to
the hotel. There, under pledge of se
crecy, lie gave me the inside facts of
that mysterious trial.
"The alleged mother, the alleged de
tective, the alleged captain, the crip
ple and Winter were all members of
a shrewd gang of crooks operating in
the east. Winter had committed the
robbery and his pals had put "P an
elaborate scheme which saved him.
They enjoyed many a laugh over the
manner in which they had 'done' the
'Rubes' up in my country. Winter
| was then doing a life sentence. The
I mother was dead, the detective fled
from the country and the cripple went
' with him. The captain was one of
i the best ventriloquists of the day. and
! had become a professor who made an
I honest living. It was his voice,
I thrown at will, that left us simple
| folks thinking that we had encottn
] tered tho .supernatural."—Wnverly
I Magazine.
Why Mridgct Droned l'p.
I Her name is Bridget, and she is as
1 green as the shamrock of her native
' heath. Withal, she knows how to
I i cok: lienoc she is a jewel—a priceless
I gent whose value Is properly appreei
; atcil iiy tlie Bander household on the
| West Side. One Thursday evening
| after dinner Mrs. Bander went to
Bridget's room lo make arrangements
1 for the marketing of the next day.
There stood the jewel In iter host
"I ill and tucker" before Iter mirror,
I jubhling pins and hairpins here and
there with reckless abandon.
"Ah. Bridget, why all this ilnery?
| Going to a party?" inquired Mrs. Bun
j tier.
■ "U-u-u-mm," mumbled Bridget, her
' month full of hairpins. Then Mrs.
Bander told the jewel what win want.
1 ed for the next day's dinner,
i When she was done Bridget said
confidentially and with ill suppressed
excitement:
"You see, mum, it's just ihis away.
You know my sister Ann Eliza works
for the JOIIKPS. an' Jennie Jones wtts
married to Jack Carey today. Well,
mum, sez my sister, sez she: 'Now,
Bridget, you just put on your best
duds an' come over this evenin, an'
I'll show you how we can see the hull
pi lception.'"
"Reception, you mean. Bridget,"
corrected Mrs. Bander.
"Well, | don't know, muni, hut that's
what she sez. I'm coin' anyhow."
Klic Hid. - Milwaukee pentjnel.
KelliiK l'p A|>|>out'uii<*.
"Why do you insist so earnestly that
your salary ought to ho raised. You
don't need the money."
"That's true,' answered Senator
Sorghum. "Put you don't imagine I'm
going to be so careless as to let my
j earnest and frugal constituents think
j 1 don't need it, do you?"—-New York
i World.
BIG DEAL IN TREES.
tlllnol. Kallroail to Plant Mils, of Then,
For Tic.
Within live or six years tnere will
probably be several rows of catalpa
trees stretching from Chicago to New
Orleans, a distance of about 800 miles.
They are to be planted by the Illinois
Central Railroad to provide the com
pany with lumber for cross tics in the
future. Over 200,000 of tile trees will
he planted.
At iirst it was thought to set aside
one or two tracts on which to plant the
trees, but it lias now been decided la
string the forest over the entire system,
placing hundreds of trees on every
spot where there is any considerable
room. They will not be set out after
any pattern or design, hut will be
dropped into tlie ground around sta
tions, along the right of way in the
country, around warehouses, and every
place where they may grow and at tlic
same time add to the surroundings
with their shade.
The contract for planting this im
mense longitudinal forest lias been let
to u private iirm. Agents of this com
pany are now in tile field locating the
ilaces where tlic larger number of trees
are to be planted. .
Scarcity of timber for ties is tho
cause of the planting of llioso trees
by tho railroad. During the last two or
three years much difficulty lias been
sxperienced by railroad officials iu ob
:aining the proper timber for ties.—Chi
cago Chronicle.
"Bugeye" Buy Craft.
A Crisfield, Mil., correspondent writes
to the Baltimore Sun: Stephen G. Me
l.'ready, of C'risfleld, gives the follow
ing history of the bout known as the
bugeye. He has acquaintance with all
kinds of Chesapeake Bay craft for tliu
past fifty years, and says: "Captain
Clement R. Sterling built the first hug
aye that sailed on the Chesapeake Bay.
Captain Sterling was building a canoe
from three logs, and as lie had plenty
af time, it occurred lo him to use two
more logs and put on a deck. On liis
first trip to Baltimore with iliis pern
liar craff he was bailed many times by
passing vessels, whose captains invari
ably asked what was the name of the
queer vessel. To each inquiry Captain
Sterling replied: 'lt's a bug's eye.' if
Captain Sterling were living at tha
present time it is doubtful if he could
give an explanation of his answer, be
youg saying Hint it was pleasantry.
The name stuck lo the craft, and il
lias been known over since as tho bug
eye. The first vessel of this class was
called a punt, and was made from olio
log hollowed out; then came tlie canoe,
and, finally, the most complete vessel
of all—the bugeye.
"The bugeye Is now tlie most popular
vessel among oystermen in Somerset
County, and at least 1(10 new vessels
of tills type are built every year. Sonic
of them are of at least ten feet beam,
find cost SI2OO. Tliey are very strong,
boiug built of the best logs."
LOTH His Fellow Men.
"Along* with 'Pencils,' 'Evening SI.IT
Mary' anil tlie other street characters
noted in your paper recently," said a
gentleman the other day, "you should
have spoken of a man over six feet
tall, ■with a long, fnil-grown heard,
large, kind, blue eyes and a still larger
pair of spectacles who can be found
on tlie streets every night, lie de
served particular mention because he
isn't grinding his own axe. From
about 10 o'clock until after 1 he moves
about down town here Pboking watch
fully after unfortunates under the in
fluence of liquor or homeless chaps
with 110 place to sleep. When lie
linds them he feeds tliem, takes them
to his room at the Central Union .Mis
sion, cares for them and helps them
find work. His name is Carl Herman
Braatz. hut his proteges call him the
'Good Samaritan.' For nearly twenty
years he was George Bancroft's but
ler. When tlie historian died lie re
membered the old man with an an
nuity of about S4OO, I believe, and fully
half of that sum goes every year tc
help the poor. Braatz is a German,
lie fought bravely in the Franco
Prussian war. To-day he continues
his war customs by sleeping on tlie
floor iu order that some one elso may
have a comfortable night's rest."—
Washington Star.
Have No lie For Clock*.
"No human being ran know tho time
of day as well as the sun. since with
out him there would be no time, and
I hat is why we look to him whenevei
we desire to know what o'clock it is."
That is what the shepherds of Beam
pay to tourists and others when they
ask them why they still use the anti
quated timepiece of their forefathers
and never think of buying an up-to
date watch or clock.
Each of these primitive timepieces
consists manily of a pillar, in which
the various hours of tlie day an
marked by grooves. The sun, as it
ascends and descends in tlie heavens,
casts a shadow on one division after
another, and thus these simple rustics
are always able to form an approxi
mate idea as to the time of day. They
admit themselves that tliey are unable
to tell it to 1 lie minute or second, but
they claim that, for nil practical pur
poses their solar clocks are all that
they need.
Forest Kicltc* of tlic l'liili|i|iinc*.
In many places the great forests of
tho Philippines, which are estimated
to cover at least 20,000,000 and per
haps 40,000.000 acres, are at present in*
accessible through lack of roads. In
these forests more than 000 species of
trees have already been enumerated.
Some of the trees attain a height of
350 feet. They produce gum, rubber,
gutta-percha, dyes, oils, tan-hark, tex
tile substauces, medicines and timber.
j Slav Peasants Bathe in the •
I Sacred Waters of the Jordan j
The traveler in the Holy Land will
witness few sights which will interest
him more than that of the Russian pil
grims at the annual Epiphany cere
monies on the banks of the River
Jordan.
A week before the festival itself
crowds of these Slav peasants are seen
trudging along the Jericho road, with
every imaginable kind of haversack
and carry-all on their backs. Some of
tho pilgrims are old and weather-worn,
others young and cheerful, while'a few,
overcome by sleep and fatigue, are ly
ing prone along the roadside. But
somehow the whole lot, young and old,
manage to l'eacli the hanks of the river
in good time for the ceremony. They
spend the night, perhaps, in the Rus
sian hospice at Jericho, where they
simply huddle together like a flock of
sheep. Before dawn the rooms are
empty, and the whole crowd has gath
ered oil the hank, where Greek priests,
who will presently drive a most lu
crative trade await them.
The principal articles sold are
branches of trees from various sacred
spots, stones from the Mountain of
Temptation hard by, plants from the
wilderness and rosaries with olive
stones for heads. To whatever reli
gious value is claimed for these ar
ticles tlie Russian peasants implicitly
give credence, and they willingly pay
their money to obtain them.
During the hours Immediately pre
ceding the ceremony tlie motley crowd
Story of the Killing
of the Last
Big Buffalo Bull
*The following account of the killing
of the lu.-it big buffalo bull appears in
the Macleod Gazette in the form of a
letter signed "Wyoming Bill":
Early in November, 1887. John Nolan
and other half-breeds were near the
forks of tin- Red Deer and South
Saskatchewan when tliey came across
a bunch of eleven buffalo, one of the
hunch being a very large bull.
They killed the big bull, two rows
and a calf and brought tliem into
Swift Current. J. Grant got the head
of the bull and Curry Bros., got the
two cows' heads and hide and the calf.
No doubt alterward the half-breeds
cleaned out the rest of the bunch, for
they were never heard of again.
lline of Winnipeg mounted the bull's
head und in 3893 It was loaned to the
government and was sent to the
World's Fair at Chicago, where it was
much admired.
It is still in the hands of John
Grant, taxidermist, of Red Deer, Al
berta, and any person passing through
Red Deer would do well to go and see
the head, it being one of the largest
and handsomest 1 ever saw, and 1 be
Kill Superfluous Girls
j> Hindus of High Rank Thus Rid Themselves ol Their Daughters. @
A Capuchin monk engaged in mis
sionary work in Nepanl, writing ot
Hindu family life, remarks that it is
very dilllciilt for parents to make ad
vantageous matches for their daugh
ters. The Hindus therefore find a
means of ridding themselves of too
many daughters by murdering them,
it is a well known fact that Hindus, of
high birth, those who are called
Rajputs, caused their daughters to be
put to death after their birth by men
specially engaged to do so. 'l itis crim
inal custom had become so universal
that in IS4O in the seventy-three vil
lages of the Allahabad district there
were only three girls under 12 years
of age, and three years later in the
town of Agra there was not one to be
found under that age. All had been
put to death, says the London Pall
Mall Cazette.
The English government lias very
naturally passed very severe laws
against this abominable crime, but to
evade them the Hindus allow their
girls to live until the age of 12. after
which they do away with them by ad
ministering poison in small doses.
WASHINGTON'S SIX-IN-HAND.
HI. rourtocQ Miles or Driving In Man
liiittan.
George Washington, when he was
President of the United States, rode in
a coach drawn h.v six horses. This
coach was made in England and it ar
rived in New York in 1780. The body
and wheels were of a cream color, with
gilt relief, and part of the sides and
fronts were shaded by green Venetian
blinds. Upon each of Ihe four panels
was a picture emblematic of one of the
four seasons. The original Indian
name of New York was Manhattan. In
January. 1785. Congress met In Federal
Hall, at the corner of Wall and Nassau
streets, and this city was the national
capital for five years, says the Brook
lyn Eagle.
Washington was here Inaugurated as
President April 20, 178!). Manhattan
Island then presented one of the most
beautiful drives In the world and
Washington frequently made the four
toen-mllo circuit in bis coach. This
drive led up to what is now the Bow
ery and Third avenue, then culled tbe
is occupied in prayer and silent devo
tion. To many pilgrims this occasion
is one of the greatest life can bring
—namely, to bo permitted not only to
visit the Jordan, but actually to batho
in its sacred waters. Suddenly chant
ing is heard, and the crowd quickly
opens to let a procession of purple
clad ecclesiastics pass to tne water,
then the pilgrims close in again, and
station themselves along the banks,
eager and watchful. And now, quite
reverently, a jeweled cross is laid by
tho patriarch on the surfaco of the
stream to bless it, and no sooner does
the sacred symbol touch the water
than a dive is made into it by the
enthusiastic crowd, which splashes and
prays and wallows and dips —alto-
gether a strange scene.
Such is the baptism, and the longer
it lasts the greater the merit the pil
grim will enjoy. All dripping with
water, each shroud is now wrung out
and stowed away to serve as the cere
cloth when the pilgrimage of life is
over, and the body is ready for the
grave. As the traveler rides away tlic
next day to Jerusalem, he will see
these childlike peasants, bedraggled
with mud. and fatigued by constant
sleeplessness, plodding along toward
the Holy City, chanting and singing as
they go, and leaning on their sticks
of reed. But there is now a smile
on their faces, and joy in their hearts,
for have they not bathed in the waters
of the Jordan?—London Traveler.
Old Scout Tells
of the Disappear
ance of the Game
in the West.
lieve the last buffalo killed in the ter
ritories.
One of the other heads is in the pos
session of Dr. George of Innisfail, who
is much interested in natural history.
The country l>ing between the South
Saskatchewan and tlie Cypress hills
and Old Wives creek and lakes and the
Vermillion Bills was famous for buf
falo and even now the old buffalo trails
and wallows are to be seen from Moose
Jaw to Medicine Hat.
But most of the game, both hair and
feathers, is gone now. The last time
I crossed the plains from the Red river
to Rocky mountains overland some of
the favorite resorts of water fowl and
wading bird?* were nearly deserted.
Rush lake, once tlie breeding place of
many kinds of water fowl—pelicans,
geese and ducks, besides small birds—
was half dry and only a few ducks
there.
Other lake s were the same, but along
some of the streams north of the
Cypres3- hills, especially IM-a-Pot
creek, there were quite a few prairie
wolves, foxes and badgers and ante
lope on the middle plainx
Orientals are past masters in the art
ot poisdning, and after some minute
inquiries it transpires that in many
districts twenty-live out of every 100
girls have been got rid of in this
manner. Those girls who have been
spared marry very early, generally be
tween 14 and 15 years, and that not
according to their own choice, but by
the will of their parents, which is de
cisive. An Indian family of high rank
could not keep an unmarried daugh
ter.
It would not only he a public shame,
but also a. public crime against reli
gion. To procure husbands for those
who have not already found them,
there are a number of Brahmis, old
and decrepit, called Kulin Brahmins,
who go about with the one object of
going through the ceremony of the
"seven steps" with as many young
girls as they can upon receipt of a
large sum of money, hut afterward to
leave the country and perhaps never
to see llicm again.
Obtrusive silence or whispering in
a sickroom is disturbing to the nerves.
Boston road, aeross the upper part of
the island and down the Bloomlngdaio
road, now famous as Broadway. The
view took in the prosperous farms, ele
gant country seats and broad stretches
of living water. In the city the Presi
dent was usually content with four
horses, but when lie started on the
long drive from Mount Vernon six
horses pranced in front of the coach
Fifteen years after the death of Gen
oral Washington this cateli became the
property of Bishop Bead of Virginia
Our first President was a good horse
man and lie was none the less devoted
to the interests of the people because
lie rode in stale. Should lie revisit the
scenes of ids former gl ory he .
find it difficult to trace the old four
teen-mile drive and lie would meet in
the glad .springtime up in Central Park
and 011 the roads beyond four-in.
hands that would make lilin tu-n green
with envy. Manhattan has radically
changed since the first day of tho re-
What is mayonnaise for the goose la
sometimes tabasco for the gander.