Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 18, 1880, Page 18

18 THE TURE. Another Michigan Circuit Announces Its Pro- gram. English Races This Week in Which American Horses Are Engaged. The “Yankees” Overweighted, as Usual, but Still Well Up in the Betting. Election of Officers by the Detroit Jockey Club—Notes of the Track and Sta- ble—Items from Abroad. THE MICHIGAN CIRCUITS. The particulars of the war between the rival Michigan clreuits have been given in these columns, as was also the program of the Jgekson-Saginaw-Battle ‘ Creek-Toledo Cireuit, which is in opposition to that com- posed of the Associations at Detroit, Adrian, Pontiac, Ionia, Grand Rapids, and Fort Wayne. The latter circuit, it will be re- inembered, was started by the Detroit and Grana Rapids Associations, the officers of which alleged that they had been unfairly uted by Jackson when the meeting for the organization of the other cireuit was held, The program for the Grand Central Cireuit has finally been arranged, and is as First day—-minute class; 2:19 class. © 5 Sevond day—2:35 elnss; free-to-all class (pac- a ua day—2:45 class; 2:28 class; 2:22 blass i). ae day—2:30 class; open-to-ail, trotting; 223 class. In each of these classes, except those for and free-for-all trotters, the purse 1,004, divided into four moneys: $500, $250, $150, $100, The purse in the 2:22 pacing $ Is S800—$400 to first, $200 to second, to third, $80 to fourth. The free-for-all trotting race is for $1,200—S700 to first, S800 to second, and $200 to third. Why the fourth horse ina purse race should not be given uny part of the money is not exactly clear, but it may be that the Detroit people—who seem to have the manzzement of the entire circuit—anticipate but three entries in that class, and wish to distribute the eutire purse among them. ‘The Detroit meeting is set for June 8 to 11, inclusive, and the progam is the same as that of Adrian, with the addition of a special race between St. Julien and Wopeful (pro- Viding the California horse comes East), and one for butchers’ and drovers’ horses. ‘The Hlupeful-St.° Julien affair is advertised to be for a purse of $3,000, but, as Hickok only asked the Detroit manage ment $1,500 to trot St Julien any style ofrace they chose to_name, itis not sbable that they agreed to give Hopeful a similar amount. “But Tue Trrunx is able to announce that this race will never take place, as the following from last Sunday’s San Francisco Call shows: The backward weather has retarded the regress in training trotters, and very little has bccn done with the burness division up to the present time. St. Julien was taken to San Muteg several weeks ago, but the continued nuns buve kept the track in sucha state that it could uot be driven upon, and the rouds were ulsy too muddy und stippery to afford much nee ty exercise, It will Deas late as the 8th © hefore he essays the task of lowering his revord, and Mr. Hickok has been compelied to canccl his engagement at Detrolt, where be in- tended to open the Eastern eumpaign. ii ‘The butchers’ and drovers’ purse is $500, 1s ed at thé meeting § on . Pontiac's dates are June 15 to 18, inclusive, the program being identical with that of Adrian, ept that the prizes are $800 each, $50 to fourth, . . fhe Tonin meeting is to be held June 22 to r lusive, the Pontiac program being fol- 4 S, and, with the ex. ‘9f the free-for-all pacing pursé being $1,000, divided into four moneys, the prograin is the dame as that of Ionia and Pontiac. At Fort Wayne the meeting will ocearJuly 3,6, % and 8, the total of the purses being 37,200, and ‘their arrangement. the same as u_ Adrian, Pontiac, and Tonia. In every avent except those for free-for-all: trotters dnd pacers, the purse is $700. In the trotting pacing free-for-all races the purse is $800. ‘ow that both cirenits have announced iheir dates and programs, the war between them will be bezun inearnest. Among horse- jien it is kenerally conceded that the Grand Western has the best program, and, as its gacks ure all known to be responsible, the Jetrolt people will find it hard to compete with such a formidable array of talen avaded by the veteran Don Robinson, o:! Jackson, Pan entien YHE DETROIT RUNNING MEETING. The Detroit Jockey Club held its annual meeting last Thursday evening, when the fol- Jowing officers were elected for the ensuing year: PresidentW. G. sh. itive Committee—Geurge Hendrie, Geor Jerome, Willium B. Moran, John V. Moran. B. P. Loms, and ex-ofticio, William G. Thompson and 2.1. Campa, Jr, Manager—Charles Dupont. ‘The running meeting to be given under the auspices of the Club willbe held July 7 3, tions are that it, will even mire successful than that of last peu The program, which was made public y for the first time, is as follows: FIRST DAY. . Opening brush—Purse, $250; second to hare 0: for “ill ages; dash of three-quarters of a Second race—Michigan Derby stakes; for 3- yeur-olds; $50 entrance, half forfeit; $50) ndded by Assoclation; second to have $100; dash 1% miles. ‘Third race~Club purse, $500; second to have ‘$0: for all ages: dash 137 miles. race—Hurdle; purse, $290; second to 52; mile heats over four hurdles; light welter welghts. SECOND DAY. Virst mee—Club purse, $200; second to have ES tor ull ages: dash 14% miles. cond ree: stakes for 2-year-olds; $25 nee, play or pay; $259 d by Associa~ i scond to huve $50; half-mile dash, ‘Third race—Club purse, $250; second to have Sut: for all ages: dash Hy miles. Fourth mee—Club purse, second to have ‘$0U; for all ages; dash 2 miles, . ‘THIRD DAY. Yirst_race—Club purse, $200; second to have $5); for ali ages; one-mile dash. Second ruce—Hotel stakes for 3-year-olds; $50 entrance, half fortcit; $00 added by the hotels of the city; second to have $100; mile beats. Third ru Detroit Cup, for ult ages, $50 en- trance. play or pay; $50added by the mer ints and manufacturers of Detroit; 24 miles h. rth race—Hurdle. Purse $250, second to have $59; two miles over eight hurdles; lignt welter weights; forty pounds added to weight for age. FOURTH DAY. t race—Detroit Ladies’ stake for 2-year- $25 entrance, play or pay: $250 added, sec- to have $0. Winner of Buby stuke to carry pounds extra; three-quarter-mile dash. cond race—Club purse $20, second to have pue and one-cizhth-mile dash, Thir have $5 won during the mecting; borses beaten once, allowed five pounds; beaten twice, eight and three times or more, twelve poun ush. Fourth race—Club purse £600, second to have $109; for all ages; mile beats, three in five; pay. horse having won $200 or over in 1880 at Detroit ty carry seven pounds extrp. ENGLISH EVENTS THIS WEER. ‘The Epsom meeting begins next Tuesday, and of tne events to be decided the American porses are named in four,—the Great Surrey Handicap, the Prince of Wales Handicap, the Great Metropolitan Stakes, and the City and Suburban. The first two of these will be run Tuesaay, In the Surrey Handicap, five fur- Jongs, Parole is in with the top weight, 138 pounds,.Hackthorpe being second with 181, gud Churibert (a last year’s Derby favorit) ;.with Prairie Lily, thira, with 112. Of twent: 0 that have accepted the weights, Mistake and Sly Dance, both of Mr. Lorillard’s stable, aro first and second with 96 and 94 pounds, while Nereid and Wallenstein, the other two “Yankees,” are -imposted at 80 and 91 pounds. At this writing nothing but a guess as to what will start from the American stable can be made, but it Is likely that if Parole is fit he will be saddled, while the performance of Wallenstein last Wednesday should certainly entitle him to another chance for victory, especially as the distance is well suited to him, the son of Waverly and Lady Wallenstein having shown himself a dangerous customer at anything up to a mile and a half. In the Princé of Wales Handicap, Parole and Falsetto are first and second on the list, with 144 and 138 pounds; Japonica (184 pounds) being third. The last named is con- sidered one of the best mares in England, and as she and Falsetto are both in their fourth year the American colt, should he start, ‘ill be given a chance to try conclusions with something that is really first-class, ‘as the last number of Bell’s Life reports Ja- ponica to be doing exceedingly well in her work. The Great Metropolitan Stakes is sect for Wednesday, and for once an American horse does not have the top, weight, Roehampton being at the head of the list with 128 pounds, and Falsetto second with 124, but as the first named is an aged horse and the American a +year-old, it willbe scen that the visitors have not_been_ given any advantage, espe- clally as Falsetto gives weight tu such nota- bles as Chippendale, Tnyal, Rhidorroch, Pro- logue, and Advance, the last-named horse being the one to whom the iverpool Cup was. wrongly_given after Parole had won it easily. Parole and Falsetto are the only American horses in the Great Metropolitan, and, as both this race and the Prince of Wales Handicap occur the same day, itis probable that in the last-named event Walle! stein will be started for the Americans, lea’ Parole and Falsetto to win the other if th 1. The distance in the Great Metro- politan is about two and a half miles. ‘The great event of the week, however, is. the City and Suburban, to be run Thursday, it being one of those races won by Parole lasi season. ‘The distance is ahout one and a quarter miles, and the now familiar sight of Parole at the head of the list is to be seen, the old horse having been allotted 130 pounds, while Master Kildare is second with 128, and Falsetto third, with 124. As there were sixty-six acceptances, the field of starters is certain to be a large one, and to contain far more quality than has been seen in aay event thus far this season. Rosy Cross, whose vic- tory in the Linconshire Handicap seems in the mind of the public to have completely wiped out her constant defeats as a 3, 4, and 5 year old, has only 115 pounds tocarry, Parole, Master Kildare, Falsetto, Japoniea, Lua Mer- Me, Westbourne, Victor Chief, Advance, Sinton, Caxtonian, Prologue, : Midlothian, winan, and Visconti being xl! above her in. the weights, and, if she be nearly as good as her friends claim, sheshould have no trouble in wining. Besides Parole and Falsetto, Mr. Lorillard has in the race Boreas and Sly Dance, who head the 3-year-olds with ninety-fuur pounds each, Wallenstein ninety-one pounds, and Nereid and Pappoose eighty-nine pounds each. In regard to the English ovinion of this race, it ay be said that Master Kildare is at present a strong first favorit, partly because of his known good form, and partly because he is being trained by Matt Dawson, and to be ridden by Archer. The London sporting papers re- fer fee]ingly to the heavy weight he is asked to carry, but have no words of sympathy or praise for Parole or Falsetto, apparently thinking them out of the race. Archer has already won this race on two previous ocea- sions, and Dawson trained Thunder when that horse was carrying even more than Mas- ter Kildare is asked to run under: Rosy Cross is being wel!l- supported, and of Parole the Sportsman says: Parole’s smart performance in the Liverpool Spring Cup—which he did not get—wiil be kept stoadfastly in view should the Yankee gelding essay a repetition of his last yeur's success on the 2d of next month, but until a lead fs given the public backers are not. likely to be_ too pre- cipitate. The veteran assuredly appears pos- sessed of substantial claims, but. still nothing may be lost by biding a wee, though I much doubt if William Brown can try uny of the eight other City and Suburban candidites he hus under bis charge superior to Parole at the weights. : making the total amount of premiums | — +108 to first, $200 to second, $120 to third, The American 3-vear-olds are not spoken ef atall by the English papers, Toastmaster being thought the best one of that age that has accepted, : ‘ The list of starters and their weight for each of these races will be published in THe ‘TuIBUNE on the morning of the race, © NOTES FROM ABROAD. ss Mask and Brotherhood are looked upon’ as the most dangerous competitors for the Two Thousand Guineas, to be run April 28, The studied attempt on the part of English sporting papers to keep their readers in ig- norance of the doings of the American horses is well illustrated by the following item from: the Sportsman: “Twelve horses belonging to Mr. J.R. Keene, the Kentucky millionaire, arrived at Bedford Lodge, Newmarket, on Saturday.” Bay Final and Saratoga, both taken to En- gland by Mr. Sanford, are being iried at cross-country work, but have thus far been unsuecessful. At Kempton Park. recently Bay Final was unplaced in the Hampton maiden selling hurdie-race, being ridden by his owner, Maj. Bond, whose weight was 163 pounds; while Saratoga was wuiplaced for the Sunbury Welter Handicap Plate, :three- quarters of a mile. At present, the only colts thought by the English critics to have any chance of win- ning the Derby are Bend Or, Robert the Devil, and Beaudesert. ‘The first-named was unbeaten in his 2-year-old form, and on this account has naturally been made first favorit for the greatest of the 3-year-old events. In regard to his present condition, it is reported to be first-class, although thus far his fast work has been confined to distances of a mile and less, with occasional long gallopsat a steady pace, all of which will be needed to fit him for the Derby distance. Beaudesert has fer a tutor Isonomy, who was accounted the best handicap horse in England last year, and the pair have on several occasions gone amile anda halfat a strong pace. Robert the Devil is reported in nice shape, his feet aud legs being particularly admired. Geraldine, Mr. Lorillard’s $-year-old. filly, whose death took place at Newmarket. re- cently, was considered one of the most prom- ising members of the American stable in En- gland, and her loss is therefore a serious one, She was bred by her owner, being by inp. Saxon, out of Girl of the Perio L by Virgil. She was taken -to England in’ the fall of 1878, being then & searling, and began her racing career at Goodwood last year, winning the Levant Stakes, half a mile.” She ‘was then beaten for the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, and the Nursery Stakes at the First October Newmarket. Alceling. A week later, at the same place, Camorra beat her in a half-mile dash, and she closed the season by running third in the Juvenile Handicap. She was engaged this year in the Newmar- ket Handicap, run last Wednesday; the Newmarket International, run last Friday; the Prince of Wales Handicap and the City and Suburban, to be run at Epsom this week; the Two Thousand and One Thousand Guineas, and Prince of Wales Stakes, at Newmarket, April 27, 28, and 30; the Epsom. Oaks, May 23; the Summer Cup, at New- uly 8: and the Select Stakes, the and Great Challenge Stakes, at Newmarket, in October. TRACK TALK, Sleepy Tom; the pacer, has been taken to Dayton, O., by Steve Phillips, and is being prepared for the campaign. Jack Phillips is working a lot of “green” horses at Philadelphia, the only old-timer in his string being Jersey Boy, record 2:22 Among the entries In the Breeders’ Stakes at the Monmouth Park meeting are twin brown fillies, by James A., out of Lurline. Mattie Lyle, record 2:28, has been bred to the Iowa stallion Envoy, same record, now in the hands of John Turner, at Philadelphia. Harry, record 2:26, that was in Splan’s stable last year, will be driven this season by Mike Goodin. He is by Happy Medium, the sire of Brigadier. The 6year-old black gelding (brother to Chicago Maid) that Budd Doble took to Cali- fornia last fall will probably be sent back here with ickok’s stable, * Lucey Pleming: a mare that in Jack Phillips’ hands beat /Emulus a six-heat race at Rochester last summer, acquiring a record of 2:2: Aan Was sold at auction last week in Philadelphia for $2,000, the purchaser being Mr. Charles Lloyd, of Darby. John Splan took Charley Ford and Don Quixote to the kK last week, and is giving them steady work. Frank Van Ness is there with Bonesetter, Silverton, Fred Douglas, Neome, and Col. Dutcher: Peter Johnson with 1 Donald, and” several THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 18, WENTY PAGES. 1880-—" H. Doble, Jr, witha Dunn with ‘Crockett een” ones; \W. stable full; and Jete and three others. very Horse-owner’s Cyclo} Pete of the arent, Mr. D0. 202 West Madison street. , Sprague is mee! with great success in’ Renae his book being already full. Among the mares to be bred to him are;Lyla, record 2:15, and May Queen, record 3: . J. I. Case, of Racine, has bought Naot the dam of the wonderful 3-year-old filly Deceit, by Dictator, that Mr. Case. ‘re- cently urchased at the Edge Hill Farm, Kentucky. ea The stallion Scott’s Thomas, record 2:31, has entirely recovered the sight of the only eye he had left upon reaching Chicago, hav- ing been under medical treatment since ar- riving here. é Nettie C,, record 2:28, owned by Morris Martin, will be tratted this year. She is act- ing steadily and promises to go to the front. George Goulet, a member of the same stable, is also in fine fix. Recent visitors to Kentucky tell wonderful tales of the biue-grass trotters, the one which most attracted their attention being a 3-year- old bay stallion by George Wilkes, warranted totrota mile in 2:25, ‘The price asked for him is $10,000, Brown Bess, a 6-year-old sister to Etta Jones (record 2:20), was Tecently purchased. by Maj. Campbell! Brown, of Spring Will, Tennessee, ‘The same gentleman has also uurchased the chestnut mare Bonnie, by Nicholas’ Traveler; dam the dam of the pacing mare Mattie Ttunter, record 2:14, Long Taw (formerly Dave Moore) appears to be the best cup horse of the year thus far, although he has yet to meet the best of the horses against whom he is engaged. Last year he was‘in Jim Murphy’s stable, but is now belng handled by Green Morris, whose success last season with Egypt and ‘Mintzer Was something phenomenal. ‘The Spanish Pond,stud and training farm, near St. Louis, heretofore owned by Mr, R. €, Pate, has deen sold by that gentleman to Charles P. Dawson, who will continue to use it for breeding and training purposes. With the exception of Rigolette, and a yearling filly by Woodford Mambrino, the farm an stock thereon were sold without reserve. Reaver, Cnicago—Please give the pedi- gree of Lucy and Dusey’s Golddust. .Ans.— £ you mean the bay mare Intey, record Si¥, she was sired by George M. Patehen, u by May Day, a son of Sir Henry, the thoroughbred horse. Dusey’s Golddust was by Vermont Morgan, dam ‘by Zilcadi (Ara- bian), granddam by imp. Barefvot, out of a mire said to be thoroughbred, Alden Goldsmith’s trotters.are to be given their preliminary work at Suffolk Park, Phila- delphia, the, iot including Driver, Alley, Powers, Trio, and a couple of green ones. Alley was under penaity of expulsion during the latter part of 1879, but was reinstated at the December meeting of the Board of Re- view. Powers was aid uplast year with a “game” Jeg, but seems to have fully recov- ered from the injury. His record is 2:21, and when right he is one of the best horses in that class, ‘Trio did not trot last year, but in 1876 obtained a record of 3234. The string will be driven by Johnny Goldsmith, his brother James being under penalty of expulsion for pulling Alley at Boston last fall. The National Trotting-Iorse_ Breeders Association announce the following stakes? now open for nominations: ‘The Mali Stakes, for foals of 1877; the Annual Nursery Sta for foals of 1877; a stake for foal of 1875; a stake for foals of a stake for stallions of 2:26 class; a stake tree for all stallions, and_ a stake for stallions of 2:40 class. In addition to the above there are four declaration stakes,—namely, . for 3, 4, and Syear olds, and for mares of the 2:30 class, ‘The Executive Committee also an- nounces the third renewal of the Annual Nursery (Declaration) Stakes, for foals of 1879, to be trotted (when 8 years oll) at the fall meeting of 1882, and the Mali Stakes for foals of 1878, to be trotted in 1881. The date and place of meeting will be announced be- fore the above stakes close,—namely, on May y edia can be Her, at No, Mr. S. 1. Price, of Thornbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, uas 2. horse thatis 41 years. of age. Heisof Morgan stock, and is an animal of wonderful en- durance_as well us longevity. The West Chester Local News says that when ten years of age he trotted a mile in 2:40, and until his age failed was a splendid roadster; and at no time in his life has he had a windgall upon his legs, or any other blemish. Notwith- standing the extreme age of the horse, he last season did all the.raking of the hay on Mr. ‘Price’s large fann, and performed his. work well. ‘The old fellow has during the pastfew months become quite feeble, and is now wn- able to get up, and is fed ina ying position. He still shows a remnant of. his old vim. by snapping with his teeth at those who come to feed him. Mr. Price states that the old horse has, and shall have until he dies a nat- ural death, the kindest treatment at his hands,—whieh is right. . The Spirit of the Times, which reaches here to-morrow, will contain a letter fron Cant. Stone, President of the Cincinnati As- sociation, in which he suggests that Chicago, and the other Associations in the Grand Ceén- tral Circuit, open a stake for 6-year-olds and under; §200 entrance, hale forfeit, with $3,000 added, and_gencrously offers to eiter Maud S., that was given a trial in 2:17}, year-old, in such a stake, she now béing 6. It would doubtless be very pleasant for Capt. Stone and the owner of Maud 5., if such a race were nade, since, according to his own talk, it would simply amount to a walk-over for the mare. During the past winter Capt. Stone has more than once asserted that Maud S. is certain to trot in 2:12 next. sumn- mer, and why he should desire to bar from the honor of competing with her all trotters that were so unfortunate as to be born prior to the year 1874 is not clear, since, aceord- ing to the Cincinnati. theory, it is not possible for any of them to beat her. ‘The suggestion that the Grand Central Associations each ‘offer added money to the extent of $3,000 for the benefit of Maud S.and Capt. Stone is refreshingly cvol, but that it will be favorably acted upon is a mat- ter of some doubt. In case they do not feel able to donate $3,000 apiece to ‘the owner of Maud S., perhaps that gentleman would com- promise on $2,000 or $1,500, provided the As- sociations sent the money now, and did not insist on the mare’s trotting for it, ————— IN A VISION. The rain is beating against the pane, And, over the dim and barren moor, The wind, like 2 grieving child, sobs out. The leaves of Summer are scentless mold, ‘The days of Summer have waxed old- -old, ‘The tale‘of Summer has long been told, And wild winds war without. ry ‘The jealous clouds are hiding the moon, And sullen and bluck the sex rolls in; ‘The storm-wrack 1s drifting overhead. O cold nre the lips that mine have pressed And cold are the hands mine have caressed; But coldest the grave, and cruelest, ‘That holds my Darling, dead. The fire burns low and the room grows chill; Alone with my thoughts I linger still, ‘Till back once more flows the Summer-tide, With Summer's best that was sweet and fair, And echoes of old songs, sweet and clear, As thou, Love, didst sing them fill the air, And thou ar't at my side. well beloved, out under the snows Shrouding the Summer's dead violets, You could not rest when you heard me'call; And the days of Summer are not yet gone, ‘The songs of Summer are not quite done. Love conquereth Death! ‘Thank God, dear one, ‘That dying fe not All! Luo M. W. ——————— A Successful Goose Stalker, Syracuse Courier. During the last two weeks a large flock of wild geese bave been hovering about Onondaga Lake, near the outlet of Nine Mile Creek. ‘These weird birds have successfully defled the cunning of our most ex; ert hunters, until yesterday morning, when the tables were unexpectedly turned upon them. At an early hour Mr. Charics R. Steves discovered the whole flock feeding in the centre of a large wheat-fleld. | Loading his double-barreled shotgun with five drachms of wder and an ounce of “b. b,”’ shot, e started in pursuit of the rare game accom panied by Mr. Bennett. «How to get within Tange was the question, not a tree, shrub; or stump of. any kind being within forty rods of the bi and to add to the ditticulties of approach the ol sentinel, a bird whose long neck reached full four feet into the air, never atea mouthfulof the ten- der wheat, but stood erect ut his post in the cen- tre‘of the Fipek perched upon the highest ground in the tleld. Aslight depression in the soil caused by a dead furrow running from the nearest fence to within a few rods of the geese was the only chance of acover. After abrief counell of warit was decided that Mr. Bennctt, who is much the lighter man, should make the attempt to reach them, lying flat on his face In the bottom of the furrow, with the gun flashed to bis back. Mr. Bennett pushed himself over the slippery, muddy, half-frozen ground with the tf sot his toes, so slowly and steadily as not to ‘m the game although he was never entirely out of their sight. In this manner, after nearly an hour's bard labor of the most exciting kind, he reached the end of the furrow, when, suddenly springing to his fect, he leveled bis weapon and brought down four geese at a single shot, . $$$ . Kuowlea’ Insect Powder Gun Is by far the best, PETROLEUM V. NASBY. 4A Talk with the Toledo Humorist on the Drama and Politica. “The Widow Bedolt” and Nell Burgess—Mr. Locke’s Two Coming Plays. Ko Political Boom in Ohio for Any One, but a Desire for the Most Available Man. Special Correspondence af The Chicago Tribune, Totzo, O., April 16,—Happening to have an evening in this city, I knew that it could not be better employed than by making a call upon th famous dweller at the “Confedrit X Rouds” and accordingly I wended my way in the early darkness towards tho elegunt residence of D. R. Locke, Esq. Ihnd a former slight acquaintance with Mr. Locko, and he welcomed me cordially. He was seated in the back parlor, with a lap- board across his knevs, busily engaged in the | mysteries of a é PECULIARLY PERPLEXING GAME OF SOLITAIRE. His youngest son—a bright boy of 7—Wwas assiat- ing (?) his father, and ventured the observation, a8 soon us his futher had expressed his fondness for the gamo, that “Papa gets the board every night as soon as he {s through supper, and goes at it’ “TI consider it one of the most mugnificent amusements even invented," said the humorist. “If any one is troubled with sleeplesness he eunnot better employ himself than in the study of the wonderful combinations that may bo brought out of these little slips of pasteboard. Some yeurs ago I was grearly annoyed by insom- nin, and thon it was that I got particular plens- ure out of this. If you want to talk with me, IT can answer your questions and continue the game if you will excuse me." After some minor chat about certain parties ‘with whom we wero both acquainted the eon- versation drifted, by easy stages, to that subject concerning which he was evidently most inter- ested,— . ° THE DRAMA OF TO-DAY. “A newspuper-man or a playwright has business offering an opinion on a play, thou; suid Mr: Locke, after ho had suid that certain “But toon thut is what is always ;and still we newspaper-men continue to attend the theatre, not to be amused ut all, or to give ourselves over to the .enjoyment of the performance, if there, is uny to ad, but simply to pick tlaws with anything and every- thing thatis offered. If 1 could have my way, for instunce, I would have nothing short of the ‘School for Scandal’; but that wouldn't pay the gas-bills, oven when enacted by eminent talent in our best theutres. That is enough to rule it out. In fact, the only rent test of whether a play is good or not is whether it pleases the people or not. It may have no literary merits; it may have too inuch action or too little action; it may be too prosy or too poctic; but, if it pleases the people, it is _good,—there fg no’ doulit ubout it-and_ all the learned criticisms in the world go for naught. The people know what they want, and thoy will have it and pay for it. If they didn’t know what they wanted,—if they were willing to pay for it and get cheuted.—who is going to care? But you may rest assured that, nine cuses out of ten, thut which the people like hus merit in it.” THE “ WIDOW BEDOTT.” “Ts the rumor in regard to the sum you re- ceived for your dramatizution of the ‘ Widow Bedott’ correct?” “It is exuetly correct. I sold the play, after a very successful run, to Jack avery, for $30,- 000. 1t was cheap as dirt at that, too. T wouldn't have sold out for twice that umount if it had not been that I had other business that I was obliged to neglect to attend to it, and the time had come when I must be at home, The play is still run- ning in Now York to crowded bouses and brings in from $6,000 to $8,000 a week.” “When did you’ first conceive the idea of dramatizing the * Bedvtt Papers'?”” “ More than fifteen years ago. I bad the whole thing written and in iis Rent shape ten years ago. Pretty avon after it was finished I encoun- tered the obstucle which prevented my bringing it out for so long.” “What was that?” * | | NETL BURGESS. , “Why, I couldn't find an actor who would or could take thé character of the Widow. No women would take it; and, in fact, no woman could well act it. One night, about a year ago, ldritted into one of our variety theatres bere, and then saw Neil Burgess acting the part of an old woman. I saw in‘aé moment that be had power as un-actor, ant from that my mind turned to my muanuseript of the play. I bronched the subject tobi, and he expressed a willingness to take hol’ef the matter. We tried it here at home, and it took well; and from that WO WENT On A successful four. “You the means of giving Burgess a good thing’ : “Yes; but he was boiind to come out sooner orlater. He had real tulent, and would have succeeded in time despite of almost anything.” NEW HLAYS. ** Are you writing anything now?" “Ishouid say so. Tam full of business, you may judge. 1am writing 2 comedy for a lady in New York; and um engaged on something 2 little more extensive, in the form of a regilar dramn; though not quite that either. It is eomnrning between a drama proper and a melo- rum.” 2 “I suppose you don’t care to give an outline of cither of these pieces?’ t “IT should say not. I wouldn't do it for $10,000. Idon't know how good they may be; they may never bring me half that amount; but.I pro- pose to try them first anyway, and see."* THE PRESIDENCY. “What have you to say on the subject of Politics, Mr. Locke?” “ Very little, Thero is no boom for anybody here, io mutter how inuch may be suid to the contrary. Our peoplo propose to net ns they sec iit, and no one can be their keeper. What every- body wants here is the most available man—tho youn who can be elected, and who has the fewest enemies.” Xou area Grant man, I beliove?” “Yes and no. 1 admire Grant, butI doubt whether he could be elected if he were nomi- puted and I doubt his ability to get the nomina- 01 “Do you think Washburnean available man?” ™ He is us good as or better than any man men- toned, perhaps; but I ‘think the nomiuce xt Chicago will be some one who has not yet been thought of. {am confidentof this, almost, That is the way things go in this country when so much heat is shown before the Convention meets.” “THE GREENBACKERS.” “How do the Greenbackers of this region anu, I hear it claimed that they ere for rant.” “They are for anybody or anything, and for nobody and nothing. f don’t sie any conti- dence in their standing in any way, and the man who buflds on them hus a sandy foundation. They cannot be depended upon. ‘They are just about as rampant us ever, but feel that there is no turther use for thom as a party; and they are anxious to whip around again into the party that has the greatest strength. The Blade bas not come out for any candidate yet in purticulur, but tries to give the news for all.” Thus the conversation ran on to the end,when Tleft the humorist to continue the study of his curds in solitude. Gary, —>__. Sclons of a Fallen Dynasty — Pierre Bonaparte, His Wife and Daughter. Paris Letter. There is a scarcely u day that, if you walk in the Garden of the Luxembourg. writes a Parig correspondent, you may not see an elderly and a young lady walking side by side, one sad as the ather, both In deep mourning, now grown rusty (it hns been nine months since the death of the imperial Prine both bearing all those thou- sand-and-one litile indications of poverty which strike the observer. The elderly ludy hus grown fat. She had great beauty once. Ske his all wrinkles now, more of them furrowed by care than by timo (though these are not wanting). She was famous once for her grace; she now waddles curvlesly. “Her clegunce was town talk; she is dowdy grown. She hud a paluce and $30,- uv once; she now lives in a miscruble garret, with servants for neighbors, and dependent on charity for ' dail; Mother and daughter both are Princesses: daughter is great-grandddaughter of Letitia Bonuparte; Napoleon L, King Jerome, King Jo- seph, King Murat, King Louis, were her great- uncles; mpress Josephine, Empress Muria Louise, Quecn Hortense, were’ her great-aunts; Napoleon II. was her second cousin—and yet there ure days when It you, 2 stranger though you are, were to offer mother and daughter a live-frane piece they would take it; {f they did* not, they would go to bed breakfastless, dinner- Jess, supperless for that day. ‘A hard fate! Nevertheless, nobody, not even the people who give them alms, pity ‘them. Pity is withheld, Hot s0 much because they enjoyed $30,000 annu- ally for eighteen years without giving one thought to.the rainy days (whose clouds were al- ways visible.ubove the horizon), -but because they had # great share in bringing about. rainy days on France, One is the wife, the other is the daughter of the assasin of Victor Noir— Prinee Vierre Bonaparte. Wife and daughter live ina gurret, Rue de Lille, Princess M. thilde gives monthly, that is, almost every month, $20; occasionally this or that Bonapartist family slip a five-frane or a two-frane piece into their hands, or invite them to. breukfast or to dinner. They have no other income. The daughter, Princess Jeanne Bonaparte, is study- ing sculpture und engraving, with the view of being able to earn bread ‘and board. Her brother, Roland, is a Sub-Lieutenant in the Twenty-sixth Regiment; he gets occasionally 88 @ present from Prince Jerome Napoleon, you know Prince Napoleon has not a generous band. nines, Pierre's Plight is. still “worse swolle scarcely to be recognized, unable.to walk except with crutches, and not. every week even with their aid, be spon; on the charity of an funkeeper in Versailles, an Seo e ang wits. pote Comicans and saoine hapartes. He eats nothing but a biscuit soaked in wine, He never leaves the inn . except to go to mass; whenever he fs able to Fe out he hies to church and communes; he Is daily visited by a Jesuit priest. If he wishes exercise, ho hobblos up and down the ball-room of the His wife and children never go near bim. the wicked never punished on earth? JESSE JAMES’ JOKE. “Charge Three More Suppers to the Government... - St, Louts Globs-Democrat, April 16, ‘The Pullman sleeping-car passengers who ar- rived in the city yesterday morning by the Kan- sas City passenger-train over the Chicago & Alton Road had an interesting experience, and one thut created no little alarm in their midst, a few miles this side of Kansas City, as they were en route here Wednesday night. It was learned by a Globe-Democrat roporter from one of the train-men that tho notorious Jesse James and two of his gang had been part of the human freight for a short distance, and had Im- pressed their fellow-passengers with thoir bravado and {importance in a manner that would not rondily be forgotten, at loast by tho timid and peace-loving ones in the number, Tho railway offiolals knew nothing of the affair whatever, and from the passengers the particu- lars of the sensation were gleaned. The first one found was Mr, J, D. Woodworth, a well-to-do lumber and ‘hardware doaler of Garuott, Kas., who was registered at the Planters’ House. He had just come in from Kunsas City, and corrob- orated the stutement made by the train hand as to pee Presence of the James vang on tho train. Mr. Woodworth said “We left the Kansag City Union Dopot lust night shortly after dusk with a pretty full trato. bad « berth in the rear sleeper, and ed through the cars back to that berth, and did not go forward again after we left the Grand Avenue Depot. As the train was pulling out from that depot, threo men entered the sleeper, and stood just within the door tor several minutes. They did not seem at home, but, on the contrary, ill at case, and appeared to be on the alert for some im- portant development. They were all decently dressed, and one, who appeared be the leader, held a revolver by his side, partially con- ceuled by the folds of his overcoat. I tied they might be officers of the law await the coming through of some oriminul. and, not wishing to offend, turned my gaze in an- othor direction. About ten minutes clapsed ere thoy left their position by the door, and the lender, remarking something xbout supper, the trio pussed on through the sleeper und, into the dining-room car, the lust cur of the train. Supper was shortly afnounced, and sevoral of the sleeping-car passengers and myscif went back to partuke of the incal. ‘The waiters were dying around us if their lives deponded on their alertness and strict uttention to duty, and then down at tho reur I suw the threo men who had acted so strangely in the sleeper. They were sented ut a table cnting, and on the table rested three murderous-looking lurge revolvers at full cock. The mun in churge came up to me and said, in a low voice, not to express any surprise at what I snw, as tho strangers were the notori- ous Jesse Jumes and two of his men. If let alone they would harm no one, but it an attempt at their capture was made some one would as- suredly get burt. “This injunction was cautiously repeated to the other hulf-doz en persons abozrd, and we all fell to eating in silence, and casting occusionul glances at our celebrated companions. The teader, who tallied exactly with the description given of Jesse James, exhibited the utmost sang froid. He laughed and chatted in a rather boisterous manner with his companions, but apparently closely observing everything’ and every one in the car atthe same time. The subject of their conversation was lust to me, but it seemed to amuse them hugely. At the com- pletion of the meal, the leader coolly picked his teeth, and as the ongine whistled for Odessn they all three arose, picked up their revolvers and walked ouc on the rear platform. Nothing wus suid as to payment for the supper by the employés, but us James (if the Ieuder was he) closed the door, he doffed his hat by way of par- tin] sulute,and eried out in a clear, ringing voice, *Chirge three more suppers to the Gov- ernment!’ ” A Mr. Wild, from Springfield, Mo., another one of the passengers, Lore out the statement made by Mr. Woodworth, and stated that the two men aceompanying the leader were unknown to him, but tho leader was none other than the notorious guerrilla and train-robber, Jessa James. He had encountered himon numerous occasions, and could not be mistaken as to his identity. The probabilities are that Jesse James and his companions ure either planning some bold raid, and revealed themselves on Weduesday night in the above manner so that, when the job is com- pleted, at a point removed from Kansas Cit: suspicion will be allayed as to their complicit; or, through e spirit of sheer braggadocio, wis! ing to run down a few miles over the line, adopted that method of Introducing themselves to their fellow-passengers. A COMMONPLACE HISTORY. Insignificant Incidents in Two Lives Some Time Before Their Entirely Ordinary Termination. New York World. In an attic like other attics, ina city liko other cities, lived a young girl; not uncommon after all, though the world may not believe there are such young girls. For she was pretty, she was Poor, she was alone, she hardly found fvod and tire and clothes enough for decency and neat- ness by unceasing labors; and yet she was not a sinner. Her name was Surah, yet nobody called her Sadie. Indeed, nobody called her anything distinguishing or individual. Tho grocer suid, with ill-concealed contempt, “Four cents, miss.” As for the cur-conduciors, “Step lively, Indy.” was their salutation if, after a Jong wulk to the shop that kave out shirts to bo made at li cents she was tired and expended all the button-holeg in riding buck. “Is thore not a wilderness somewhere,” Sarah used to say to her looking-glass, “where I could go and make aequaintances?” It secms she bud x looking- glass. But though the looking-yluas told her much that she cared nothing to know, it dfd not answer her that, = There continued one day to be inanotherroom. in the atric a young mun namvud Edward. Such things in such places have no perceptible begin- ning They were not, and they are; like a rim of grime on 4 shirt-cuff. So with Edward. Sarah dit bot know when ho came or that he came, but shu began to perceive that he was there. In fact, she met him on the stairs. He was neither tail nor short, neither handsome nor plain. When he was in his room he whistled and some- thnes tramped up and down. Sarah begun to be interested, not in the young man’ probably, but in the fuct that there was u young man, Well, such neighborhuuds nlways lead to cer- tain results. When Edwitrd bad passed. ber cighty- seven times on the stairs he met ber for the eight: ciehth time and bowed slightly, but distinctly, Sarah smiled. Three weeks liter he had said “ Good morning,” and Sarah murmured to her- self, “Ishull have an acquaintance—l shall have an acquaintance.” By and by winter one day bocame spring. Winter always suggests spring much as a hurd- boiled egg sugsests chicken pie. But suddenly one day it is in the winter sir that spring is coming—is coming nearer—is happening. It inust be with never-ending wonder that we be- hold this recurring miracie of the resurrection; a miruele, however, that heaven does not appar: ently consider it worth while to work in the cuse of the hard-boiled egg. The heathen would have said that this is fate. But perhaps another wari sit set it Fights ‘The spring had not gone when Sarah be; to call Edward Edward and Edward to cull ran Saruh, ‘This is always an interesting formative period in the acquaintance of a young man and . Here it came about in ull simple- evening, was combing out ber long but thin yel- Jow hair and_tyin; oR, the cotbings, with the ends all one way, ina bunch against a'rainy day, There was it knock on the luth and paper parti- ton wall, which bad seemed to her as thick as the Chinese wall ond which to Edward had seemed as wonderful and saered a thing as if it had been built of twelve kinds of precious stones r thirteen kinds, for tho tuatter of thit. jas the partition wall between thoir rooms. Saruh finished tying up tho savings with which she was occupied, took off her short print suck | and then, wiping her bands, clasped them over molded bosom and cried: my little neighbor?" the young man from the her hat is it?’ “What is your namo, said the caim voice of other side ae the spall: ‘© answer the knock, turned back to look in her glass a moment befor replying, and then caught up a shawl and mufted her shoulders in it. Then she blushed, Then she smiled a little. a woman's smile may be an unwilling winter thaw or Beary summer fervor of sunshine. Here it wus neither, Pe silling a little, Sarah said: “My name ‘arab. is S: * My name is Edward,” said Edward. “ Fon would tet mg‘call you Sarab.” Ewieh “Very well, ward,” said Sarah, blushin; again. “She did not know why she blushed. zs Then there was‘n delicious pause of a few mo- ments. It was not the woman, you may be sure, who broke so sweet u silence. A woman may abe. ee at in mess but she knows when olding ber tongue. - ode she execly al inea, gue. In this knowl- “Sarah.” said Edwi resently; wi make such a clatter on the stairsrs "PY C050U e young girl burst into musical laughter; -“ Tam going to bed, Edward, and you had Settee go, t Edward,” ‘was her only answer. Iu fact she presently blew out her cee and fell into a sweet sleep. Edward was Do you know what the young girl said gelf when sue laughed? Perhaps shes boean (9 sister or an like fan acquaintance, mareseto;Basgrd ays passed and this pair became more inti- mate. An acquaintance grows at the Start not likea jump of sugar dissolving in tea but like a crystal of Glauber’s salts forming ina saturated solution. That ia, from a gmail beginning it be- :gomes larger. | It may fall away afterwards, but there always fsa point at which it is greater than before the beginniig. ‘This is a sencral Sarah, before guing to bed one. Sarah, who had turned. law of acquaintances und one. case of - Edwar and Sarah was not an exception. ‘ ‘They had never been in cuch other's rooms. w Tellme your Distarys said Edward to Sarah Wows ean | toll it here?” she satd, smiling. “If you will come into my room and sit down— + dward started and plunged a deep separa in- oie ere the young girl. He was obliged to give to Bimaelt yest esaw nothing whatever. “Twill come,” he said. ie se Arrived at the little’ room, he was rexssured by its bareness. ‘This’ simplicity,” said be to Aimself, “arises out of innocence.” Then he looked at the solitary chair with some embarrass- ment, “That is for you, Edward,” said the young girl. “1 can siton the bed.” : we “No, I thank you, Sarah; I prefer to stand,’ said Edward, severely. and handed her the chair with a gesture of determination. She took it Meith a bie Bey sults jnugh. “Then I will make my history short,” said she. All life-historios are hitched at intervals on to the infinit. To make a life-story short, therefore, is necessarily to muke it incomplete. Sarah knew this, but she would ‘not ask Edward to sit onthe bureau. So she made her history very short indeed. - - ie “I know nothing about mysolf,": said she, “except that I was born in an hospital, brought up in an almshouse, and support myself by muking shirts.’ atin is noble,” said Edward, and his eyes sparkled. “I do not know my name,” she continued. “I don't know mine,” f{nterrupted Edward, yin terse Enthusiasm is a voleano,run- ning sympathy. = “tne. only. Clow I have to my parents,” tho youns, girl continued, “is a broken agate singu- larly caryed.”” 5 2 “A broken agate!” stammered Edward, fecl- ing inuil hls pockets with one sudden unpuise. The young girl regarded him astonished. A sudden ae gon otne mie ni malnd: Sua hs clon is the mother and daughter _ trust. ‘The world bad been bard with Edward, -ulthough he whistled. For a moment he sus- pected that Suruh had been rummaging his room. By some mysterious instinct sho divined his thoughts. “Wait,” sald she, imperiously, Pushing away impatiently horsiusple diese: she pperires avery prettily rounded but plain, gray stocking. Edward turned, embarrassed and uneasy, to- wards the window. The young girl nade a movemont, of abso- luto shinplicity, “Do not be ashamed,” she said, “this is my wooden leg.” Edward started, and approached her with tears in his oyes. “Surah,” he said, “you are ador- able, and I—I was a donkeys She smiled a little, and gave him her hand. Then she unscrewed the wooden leg, and from a recess in the top took out the broken te. “I think lam your sister,” said she softly, “and this, you sce, is why I clatter on the stairs. It was an indescribable moment. Full of tonder love and brotherly respect, Edward yet could not properly embrace bis sister without a well-grounded fear of upsetting her frailchatr. And she—she could not rise to throw berself upon hisneck. With the air of one sacrificing at an altar he knelt, gently lifted the wooden supple- ment of his sister's personality and screwed it carefully into its socket. Then both rose, gazed into the new worlds of each other's eyes, and melted into one figuro, sobbing and smiling. So when the commonest water-bucket 13 up- sotin the snow and the thin, solid-looking ice across its face is broken, pours out the wealth of that wondrous fluid it runs round the world—barring the salt. One thing we can ouly guess at blindly. We do not know why Edward's first allusion to her infirmity should have flashed fnto Sarah’s mind tho thought that he washer brother. It was, perhaps, the working of a beautiful instinct—a new sensitiveness—bestowed on her by Nature as a compensation for the loss of her leg. Butwe it was this or it was that. Wo donot Knowledge is the agreemont in consciousness of an object with its ideal. This being tha case, how should we know? Or how should we know we know? Being a sister was a new experience to Sarah. “But,” she reflected, after tho first blissful moments, “since 1 have ouly one wooden leg I cannot be everybody's: sister.” It was the ork iog of the mind of a beginner in anew field. Perhaps she should have said, “ Although Lhave a wooden leg.” However ‘her longing foran acquaintance returned. “Edward,” she said, “you must have friends. Make me ac- quainted with them.” He made her acquainted with a man named John whose hair was red and-whom she married. John used her ley as a medium of reproach and reproof and ‘finally: cut her head off and threw it outof the window. John was executed. Ed- ward became a blear-eyed drunkard. and wus killed by an Italian in a street fight. The Italian took poison. .NEGRO VOUDOUISH. Falling under the “Spell ~A Marvel« ous Curc—Tho Firm Belief of South- ern Negroes in “ Charms»—Voudou Men and Women and Vondou Doc tors. Correspondence Philadelphia Times. RICHMOND, Va., April 10.—The belief in Vou- douism is deep and widespread among the ne- Rroes of the Southern States. To say that ali of them have faith in it would be to overstate the case, still in most country neighborhoods there may be found at least one Voudou man or woman, and the profession of Voudou doctor or dealer in counter charms for the mys- terious maladies which baffle the skill of regular physicians is by no means a sinecure. Like other black arts its practice is secret. Its votaries and victims alike guard it jealously from the whites, among whom it forms a stock subject for ridicule. Now and then a wide- awake newspaper correspondent unearths some fresh story of witchcraft, or the hand of justice, groping for a criminal, finds the mesh of Vou- douism woven into the tangled web of crime; and the local newspapers cry out with one ace cord that the negro race is relapsing into bar- ay and is given over to the worship of the evil. Exactly what this African shadow is probably no white nian knows, but the negro who believes in it places no limits to its power. Let him once be persuaded that he hus tallen under its spell, that, as the Virginia darkies sxy, he is * tricked,” and he is doomed to death unless he can find some Enysicing his confidence in whose skill ex- ceeds his dread of hisenemy. No other magic works so subtly; the fruit of a tree, nuy, the very waters of a spring, may be poisoned for the destined victim alone, while all other men eat and drink with impunity. The Voudou cbarm buried bencath his doorstepshall nail him to his chair with paralysis, while his wife and children puss over it with perfect safety. An ointment rubbed secretly on the handle of his hoe or tho helve of hisax shall poison his life blood by slow de es; or the evil cye cast upon. him suet bring all his purposes and plans to naug That the negroes poison each other no one who has lived among them cun doubt; indeed, cases of conviction of snck crimes are not rare. ‘The poisons thoy use ure rarely those of the chemist, howover, and many an old crone among then is famillur with every berb and root found in field and forest of tho Southern States. But apart rom this deaths often occur from sheer force of imagination. He who is convinced that ihe death angel is on his track bas short leaso of C. The writer has scen a strong man in the prime of youth dying by inches from no disease that the doctors could classify or eure: with paralysis slowly creeping from limb to limb until at last he could only move his eyes, After he died his colored nurse told, in a whisper uuder rontise of secrecy, the cause of his sickness: A Voudou man inthe neighborhood had made an image of him, and, wrapping it in a garment stolen from him, had buried it, As the image decayed so the victim hud wasted away until both had Sonped to Brisk; qi colored woman, of considerable intelligen and atle to read alittle, came tome one day, witha marvelous story of’ disease and cure. Another woman had sulfered for weeks with a “inisery in her inside," and, on application to a Voudou doctor of high repute, had been fur- nisbed with n lotion to be rubbed on tho seat of the pain and a drink to be taken internally. The use Of the prescription had been persevered in foraday or two, when the patient vomited a uart of hairy, worms, and was instantly re- Heved. “Now,” suid the narrator, **; worms git thar if somebody didn't put "eu SM." [said mildly, “do your believe t? © Well, my mistis,” was the answer, = can’t clare to ‘it, cause Iwarn't thar, but’ the wotnan that tole'me is a meinberof the chuck an’ Iknow eho wanter gwine to tell me no lie *bout it.” The Voudou doctors must not be confound with the Voudou men and women whose me chief it is their mission to counteruct, The two trades are tg e combined in one person, and the doctor muy be x respectable member of society, while onthe other hand the Voudou man is accursed, an outcast, as were the witches spoken of inthe Bible. They are regarded as given over to the devil, and fearful stories are told of how the flend has come in person to seize the soul of hissertants. Only People emi- nent for picty dare watch by the death-bed of much & one: Bad FERS. is ulways haunted by spirit which cannot Invahotber 5 A iri ‘annot hope for peace physician residing in gn adjacent coi who like most of his Brethren hemes mee extensive charity practice among the colored People, on visiting a colored woman afflicted witn dropsy, a short time ‘since, found that a Voudou doctor had been eulted in. Ho was in- yited tostay and witness the ceremonies, and through strong carioalty, did so. The quack Pperforn:ed some mysterious mummeries, and then ripping epen the pillows on which the sick woman ay producod some odd-shaped knots of feathers. These, he suid, were the © trick” which bad caused all the mischief, and he Pro- feet fe Suen, sem, making @ nauseous smell smoke. lone, he cure certain. ‘The patient died in’a few wees late, a art of the trade of locto} consists in tho sale of charms te bees coors rotection ugainst diseases caused > moe against Ill Inck produced ra: Aree These charms are of various Sorts,—snake- bones, “eye of newt and toc of frog,” snake. er feneca root, which last many regular practh mysterious pow sition of which no man Knowent the compo. gathered at midnight, some on the ne Nets the moon, some on its decrease, and one the moon's at the full. Since patiag circles aro often healed by bread-pills oy yatet teary and even of nervous imag. 4 singular inconsistenc; in thi: duration is that while the very waters ot 18 ct fal spring inay be potsoned for ona perp for no one else, still the * trick” may sae ame go astray and ‘light on an uninteniensotitet ‘or Instance, 1 orice knew a colored wea Was an incurable cripple, lamed for Wea R20 attack of white swelling when she was by an guild, Tag negroes in the neighborhood sit Heved firly that this aftietion was seed Be curclesness of her mother, onde Woman, who, after mixing some ot 4, jures,” failed to wash her bande eters tari, the child, and so maimed it beyona yor’ taking heal. For, strangely enough, in most 2 these witchos are believed to be whol os get undo tho tnischict thoy cause and hay eee to dotes for thelr poisons; survansof the detent are powerful only for evil. Nor iy it poseitfen every one who wishes to attain this page the gift is for the few, and he who deshes tobe witch an enemy and bus not tho porec’, sec some one who has, Todo so isa sin with tho pale of forgiveness: here at tear et ceiver of stolen goods is less guilty than 3s thief—the Voudou mun belongs bested demption to the master he serves = ‘The question of fetich worship among then, roes {s one which has been tuck weet ossibly, nay probably, it exists to Some exten; among the blacks in the rice swamps and rane brakes of tho iar South; but in: Vingmacs: lenst, it is wholly unknown. and the Vocic chartns or “conjure-baxs.” worn by suse Hous negroes, are no moro worshiped by the than is some patent medicine by the chron valid, who pins his hopes of hoalth on tts a2 tues. If he loses the bag he buys unother for 50 cents or tess, and is none the worse there! oe for the pecuniary loss. oe ie negroes are, 23 a rule, ver much of each other, and this fear is often a sousee annoyance to Southern housekeepers. "That unwillingness to take each other's places soe times renders it dificult to ret rid of ‘a sera who doos not wish to Jone, since another wit not come in her place until it is understood that she must go under any circumstances. 1 hess myself been obliged to assure an incompetent cook that if the choice lay between herself ang nobody I should still discharge her. ‘Even thes her successor came reluctantly, and when she arrived there was liberal use in'the kitchen of salt and red peper, potent charms against Tore douism, and the back gato was kept locked with unwonted care. “I don’t believe in trleking myself, ma'am," said the new cook: “but'L don’t like the looks of that coman, and wé arg all pore creeters, you know, ma‘am,”” STARVING TO DEATH, Pathetic Case of a Child Perishing from Being Unable to Swallow, Dispatch to Cincinnats Enquirer. WAYNESVILLE, O., April 15.—Mr. Frank P, Williamson arrived here last Monday trom Ellfawood, Barton County, Kas., bringing with bim his little son Eugene, aged 25 months, .Sey. en wecks ago on that day, while in the kitchen of his father’s house, playing about, he spled a can of concentrated lye upon a shelf, and, with childish curiosity, he reached and obtained possession of it, instantly putting the, can to his lips and swallowing with unas countable avidity a portion . of - tht fiery liquid before its _movements could be arrested. Immediately fis gums and tongue toners recommend us Preventive against ma- began toswell. He lay in Bpasms, and in a fey minutes not a tooth in his mouth was discern ible. Eversthing that inexperienced ming could suggest was done as quickly as possible ry neutralize the effects of the burning draught} and medical assistance supplemented the efforty of father and mother. In time the swelling. subsided, and apparent the soreness of the throat disappeared; but still the poor child poe are nourishment in liquid form alone, mild béef-tea, &c., being his regular diet. When anything solid was introduced it would descead apparently only to the entrance of the stomach, where, finding an obstruction, it would atone be thrown up. Ten days ago the State Bfedical Convention was in session at Topekn,and Mr. Wiltlamsoa determined to take his child before this confed- erution of medical talent, For hours the best skill and learning of this body were directed t the child’s case, terminating in a recommends tion to apply to Dr. Wood, of Kansas (ity, There the father and his little suffering chert betook themselves. Dr. Wood examined the case, and said: “Go home with your childs, and let Nature alone. She is the best andmot. * competent physician in this case. I think tha boy will get well.” Belen ie 89 jut the father was not satisfied, especialy he had been advised to come to De Mose. ae of Cincinnati, and ‘to this practitioner’ 3 Williamson applied on Monday Mussey made an examination of th after subjecting the patient to the of chloroform, introducing an instrument which failed to penetrate through a strictureix the esophagus, which is the chief. cause of: trouble. Dr. Mussey then desisted from fur, _ ther treatment, instructing the poe in casa, tho child should improve'by Fridus (to-morrow), tobring him for un operation. But since Mon-. day the poor little fellow. instead of improving, has not been able to swallow even fluids as w as before. Afterlong and frantic efforts, be succeeded yesterday morning at 5 o'clock. io swallowing 2 quantity of milk, and that was all until this morning aguin at 8 To witness the child's efforts to take sufficient nourishment to. keep him alive isthe most pathetic scene any, one can behold. He calls for miik, water, nice cookies, or anything his fancy suggests or he’ has been accustomed to, and although the In- stant after he drinks or ents it all comes up: again, yet he is so plucky and frantic from bun+ ger that he does not desist until completely, worn out. ~ The little stomach is all right, and the blood seems tn a healthy state. It is the cicatrix, formed at the mouth of the sorta, or at the em of the cesophugus, by Nature's effort to heal the_ damage done by the lye, which is now Jeoparda- ing the little one’s life. Perhaps his chancesfor recovery are as one in a thousand. Thooaly hope is thought to lie in the pliability of youth, the repairing force of Nature, and the other wise healthy condition of the child and his inhe- rent power of resist disease. But Drs. Mas. sey and Dawson re, ‘Ais death as only a mat ter of a little time. Mr. Williamson, the father, who does not leave his boy's side day or night, is a son of the late Dr. Francis Williamson, who died here two years since, and the son and dson are now at the home of Dr. W.’sywidow, in this town. In all probability, fear of results’ will deter the father trom submitting his child to an operation b- morrow. The case is g most melancholy one,—& little child, bright and full of life when for time forgotting the excruciating pangs of hun~ fers starving to death by inches,—and one whlch is entirely unique in cause and circumstance. A PARABLE, 5 ‘The Sea had been wild all day, and his wrath Had only haif died with the Sun, $ ‘When down to his breast, on a silvery path, , A beautiful Moon-Sprite run. A beautiful, pale-fuced Muid of the Moon, In her shimmering raiment of white, ry ; Caressed the wild Sea—when jo! the night's nood, Found the giant usleep in her light. @ Avrnicase Hare, April 12, 1890. a The Railway Up Vesuvius, Naples Correspondence London News. | At the foot of the cone of Vesuvius there If Tow to be seen the new station of the railws? Mhich ascends to tho summit of the old crater andinfuture will spare the lover of nal ‘t phenomena # wearisome climb. The station situated on alevel spot on the west side of ae mountain, about half-an-hour’s walk from the Observatory. As before, the traveler reach the Observatory from Resina by ‘9 or on horseback, but he need no longer dismours or leave his vehicle until he hes arrived st new stution, to which the broad road bas beed continued. " The constructors of the railway have adopted the American double fron-rope system. There are two lines of rails, each Pro Yided with a carriage divided into two- com: partinents and capuble of holding sx Per sons. While one carriage goes Up other comes down, thus establishing a countee Polso which considerably economizes Re steam of tho stationary traction engine. The incline is extremely steep, commencing # ‘degrees, increasing to 63 degrees and continulng at 60 degrees to ‘the summit. Every possi Precaution has been taken against accidesh, und tho railway itself is protected against Past ble flows of fava ns an enormous wall. toh ascent will be made in cight to ten minutes While before it required from one to two hours. ; To obtain the necessary supply of water, large govered cisterns have been constructed, whlch , in winter will be tilled with the snow that oft falls heavily on Vesuvius. ‘This snow will BS. guickly melted by the internal heat, and, De. sides the water thus obtained, the rete rainfall will also be conducted into the elsterne - “An elegant café-restaurant capable of corey ad. modatiug a hundred persons-will be atts’ to the station. Above the entrance bd latter 1s an ample terrace sup} tained columns, whence an enchanting view is obtain, not only of the Gulf of Naples, but alzo on : of Baic and Gaeta, euch dotted with fslane, Wile to the north spreads the luxuriant plala 2 Caserta, bordered by the distant Apen! of ‘Though the iron road may take away some &° the poetry and adventure connected with we toe cent of the flery mountain, it must not cirely « agined that the charm of risk will be en! 10” lost. On reaching the top there is still the. ager and stnaller cone to be ascended, and find Azo than last Sunday an acquaintance of TE Was there nearly struck down by 2 large DES of glowing lava, which fell at his side with 810 rible noise, With a very lttle extra exertion te his strength the ‘Titan Vesuvius cin at Cod d an end to all our puny attempts at congue rene destroy in un hour tho labor of months. | FORey sake of the enterprising originators of A 1nd nulway let us hope that this may never beh cuse. 2