Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1881, Page 9

‘ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 1, I881TWENTY PAGES Tords in Chicago. annual purchase of Carpets and Furniture.” conversational proximity to each other: Ty The Housekeepers’ Anniversary Moving Time has come, and all the talk is the “Meanest Landlord in Chicago,” and “Where Here is a quartette dialogue overheard between four Housekeepers whose bacle porches are in - tc; make the Mrs. White: “Mr. Simple is the mednest Iandlord in Chicago. He thinks the world is coming to an end this year, and wants to make hay while the sun shines. "Treated us to a raise of fifteen dq]lars. We vameose the ranch to-morrow. We’ve been down to Smyth’s already,--Smyth’s Fur- niture Palace on West Madison-st.,--getting a few things.” ' John M. Smyth. Mrs. Black: “7Ye think Mr. Worm the champion mean Iandlord. Found we had money in bank,--raised us ten dollars. Going down to Smyth’s to-morrow.” a bank-check last time. Tuesday. My husband paid him with We pull out John M. Smyth. Tirs. Brown: “Mr. Wart is the meanest Jaudlord; he is the meancst landlord in Chieago. You Enow, ladies, my husband walks down town to save car-fare. Wart heard of it; found what it came to; raised the rent $3.00. We dig out about Thursday. X don’t grieve a cent’s worth, how=- ever. Mrs. Green 0 [ My hushand’s going with me to Smytir’s before we ge.” [. Smyth John M. Smyth. ““Now, ladies, we think Mr. Mole the meanest of all the confounded mean land- Ie raised seven dollars and fifty cents on us because we didn’t have any sick- saved in doctor’s bill . We skip the-gutter Wednes- John M. Smyth. Mrs. White: It is the lavgest and most elegant Custom Furniture Stove in the United States.” girs. Black: “‘ "l:hey keep the best goods and the largest variety of all kinds of Furniture.” Mrs. Brown: “That is so, Mrs. Green. It’s equal to fifty nice stores all in one.” 9 Green: “But what makes them eall it the West Side Furniture Palac: John M. Smyth. . Mrs. White: “Becanse it is a great five-story marble-front, and the prettiest business building in the whole city.” . Mrs. Biack: ““Yes, and because the interior is really on the palace order.® Five floors, all shining with new things.” Birs. Brown: “The front and the entrances son-st. and to the city.” © Mrs. Green: I have heard it was a very stylish place. iceable Furniture.” ‘g @ H N M n S MYT H ' | Birs. White: ““Bless you, that’s the place for you. He furnishes more flats and cottages than any other dozen stores,--on time, too.” Mrs. Black: ““Yes, ie makes all his own Furniture, and gnarantees it. His Walnut Sets are so substantial, but so pretty.” Mrs. Brown: “You can place implieit reliance on everything you buy there being .the best-~ the very best made.” Mrs. Green: ‘I guess we’ll go down there. Eve: so well of him, and everyhody seems to go there. They say it is the Best place for good, rel Mrs. are simply gorgeous,--an orngment to West Madi- But we want plain, substantial, sery- -ybofly seems to know him, everybody speaks ble ness this year, and he wants what he thinks v day, I guess. some things, too.” 162 and 164 West Why does everybody go to Smyth’s for Carpets and Furniture? We have to get Carpets in the whole eity. Then, you know, we are not very fiush with mouey, and would like to buy partly on time, anyway. It’s 162 & 164 West Madison-st. Tl write it down, 1 guess.” THE TURE. ‘Foxhall’'s Great Performance in the City and Suburban. Tharlie Ford TFinally Placed in George Saunders’ Hands. Aeeting of the Board of Review i i in Chicago This Week. “Narragansett Brought to Chicago— Other News Concerning Trot- ters and Runners. THE AMERICANS ABROAD. Now that Mistake and Foxhall bave shown by their exploits in the early handicaps that the success of Parole 1wo years ago was not a : » fluke,” as Enrlishmen then tried to muke out, the opinion of American horses among the sport- iz geotry on the other side of the water is rap- 1dly changiug, and at present every one of the ~Yanke as the - Americun borses are sull called, s regard- ed ns dangerous. Mistake’s bold running in all the events for which he has started—the little chestout having: never failed to gain a place, and winning the Newmarket International ‘Handicap with easc—opened the oyes of E glish horsemen to the merits of Mr. Keene's colt Foxhall, whbo ran so well last fall in bis 2-yesr- ©ld form a5 1o cause regret that he was not in tho coming Derby instexd of Barrett, & colt that Mr. Lorillard sent to*Eungland last fall, because .-of the high form shown by him in ks races in v v 1his conntry, anda trial with Parole. In the City and Suburban last weeck, Prestonpans started first favorit, but failed toget n place. the irst horse past the Post being Bend Or, tho Derby winner of 1880, be beating Foxhall a head and shoulders only. In writing of this race 2 short time before it was run, the Newmarket correspordent of a Loudon paper suid of the American horses engged: Iroquols 18 suid to be buviug a special preparation 1or the Two ‘Thousand Guiness. fo there 1S only Bar- Teit 1o 1all Lack upon. ime buck a jockey of the same puine was engaged the Jutter. ‘I'be #tahle money, too, was ull right up to the duy the colt ‘was reporwed to have been stupped in Lis work, und even then the recugnired comuiissioner could” not lave Leen acquuinted with the 1act that be liud sprunga curb, Gtherwise ne would not bave thrown Away money i attempling to keep him in nis pluce (o the quotationx. Curby bocks are very tiresome thinge for trutners, Some horses may continue in s:eady work when thus aticcted, but there i always the chance of others being stopped. Barrett is o Tather beavy topped horse with bunging action, und the hard kroond must be nxainst him. Indeed, it itis Stue what 1 hicar about Mis beinx kept at work con- 1o veterinary advice, it s just likely thut he Imay never see the post. A very good jud.e who Eenerally sees him out evers morniag on the beath 0id ;e o few dugs buck that Pincus would never be ablo w get him ready for the City and Suburtan, and therefore 1 feur that the chefry and black 3 Dot likely to pluy such i cousbicuous part fn 1hls ruce 46 was the case 1wo sensony azo, When Pa- Tole worked his way throuzh under tne rails and Wou fu 2 canter. No, 1 like Mr. Keene's chance the best. Frun the first time 1 set e upon Foxhall 1 was delighted with biny, #na | have more than once writien Lt hie displass more quulity than ever 1 saw about one of the Ameriéan bred hurves. Seminole is ais0 engazed at Epsom, but 1 have no faney for his chunce: indeed, as Foxhall is tndoubiedly the Stmon Pare, we way hear of, 12is colt Jawr on. Foxbull will have the assistance of one of our best light-weushits n Greaves. U course Lio has a bl weight to carry, und Mr. Keene must have expected this siier the form ho bowed jast back end. t i«, Dowever, by nu means an fmpossible welght for him 10 carry home success- Tully.” Speculuz won witn J pounas wx a -year-old, and Jack Spaot with thice pounds fess. " Epwom i3 o courve, tou, that heavy weighis uiways run well over, 20d it Amiérica wins it will be by the aid of Foxhall, Buch morning the evlt is o be seen amo: he blue- oated siriug over which Sherrard bas charge, und he dally does a good galiop. One. 1wo, knows miure about Rim than Burret. We ali saw bim show torm of £00d cinss 1ast season- worthy. Indeed, of a Wto 1 chance for a Derby. I have ofien heard folks 8t Newmarket wish tbis colt were engused in our Biue Iiband, und If goud enoukh for e i sis winning the City thus the argument about L e ey and Suburban Is jurther strengthened. Ji estimyte his chances with our borses. In the fist Pluce the cisss_isgood. Therels Hond Or,a Ders winner; Jenny Howleit and Bonnie Marden, first au second inthe Oaks: Petronel, the hero of the’ l'ns‘ 0 Thousand: 2 zood clissed borse calied Petery Prestonpuns, the winner of tho last dutemn Cup ot Liverpool, wnd the gruy thut recently scattered hi fleld ac Lincolu. With ninety-one pounds and Rzningt such u Aispley It i3 without doubt plactug Fox- Ballut the 1op of the tres. Bend Or will be the mount of Archer, butl hear he did not quite do what was Esked bl the other day, Still be bus & Ereat chance, &nd1 fancy bim more than either Jenny Howlett Bonnie Marden. or Ietronel. Stil] doubt whether ke can concede eleven pounds to I’restonpans. Lord Falmouth, whose colors are veldom secn in handi- €aps, wiil'be represented by Ambassadress lllu,!! lightly trestedat uinety-one pounds, und on her3- Jearid Sorta ‘s & prens chince, while 1 know her trainer f; I3 r.—n remark that also apol! Thom A Syear-oid, the properts. of the Duke uf Exmilion. On paper It 100ks s it Mr. Keene's colt ®Quld beat all the 3-year-olds, and in taking au ol and soung one to beat the tield I must couple Foxhall wius Prostangans. s ‘This writer was exactly correct in his cstimate of Foxhall, but, like many 0iers, teeins to huve vastly overrated Prestonpans, SALE OF THOROUGHBREDS. Specsal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. NasoviLLe, Tenn, April 30.—The most suc- cessful sule of thoroughbred yearliugs at Belle Mendo was“that which occurred to-duy, the prices realized for tairty-fouranimals agyregat- Iny 838,540, or an average of a fruction vver £1,133. The weather was lovely, and the crowd numbered over one thousund, #mong the throng being many of the principal turfmen and buy- ers of the Union. The sule was conducted Ly Capt. P. C. Kida. Lunch was partaken of with a3 much relish as usuul. The highest price pald was §7,500, for o chestaut colt, a full brother to Luke Blackburn, hy Dwyer Bros, of New York, and £5,000 for a browa -colt, brother tu Glidelia, by Wiltiam Conuer, of New York. This wadthe tast sule of the produceof Boan.e Scotland. and the first offering of Great Tem's product, henco the spirited bidding. The sales were: Beechen- brook, Jonn J. Carter. Nash: Bridesmaid,Jobn J. Carter, Nashville,Ten: su Barnbam, Canandaigua. N Bric-a-Brac, D. W. Woodmunsee, St. Paul, Minn., $8)0; Bondholder, Miiton Yvuug, Hende on, Ky., $205); Buzique, V. L. Kirkman, sbviile. “Tenm., $3lu; ~ Baccarat, Milton Young, Henderson, . $1.000 Woodmawsee, St. Paul, Minn., £1. oret, Asa Burnbam, Canandaigua. N Tupelo, by Great Tom, L. G. Diukelspiel, Louis- $i25¢ Touch-Me-Not, A. d. Johnson, Nu rilte, nn., for P Loriltard, 210 Tulirhoma, by Great Tom, G. W. Darde: Nushville, Tean., £675; - Musk. by John Morgs 3. W. Dearden, Nasuville, Tenn., $150; Totsi by Great ‘Tom. Asa_Burnnwm, CAnmudaigua Y., $1%5: Galileo, by Germrntown, J. . Malone, $25; Tomptation, by Great Galiatia, Tenn., aul, M . W. Woodmansee. St. $§2,125: chestnut colt (brother Biackburn), Dwyer iiras., New York, § ), foated brown _colt (brother 10 Glideli April_12, M. M. Connor, New ¥ Trombone, by Great Tom, J. G ) York, $H50; Tamborine, by Great Tow, Willizrm Lakeland, Moblle, Ain.. $573: Tangent, by G 3 ‘en~ “Tom, Milton Youn, Heade: £310; T nyson, by Greap Tom. Asn i, ' Can- nandsizua, ¥Le0: Toplight, by Great Tom. . W. Darden, fnshviile, $LOX: Tomnbuw! Henderson, K by Great Towm.' Milton Youn, 5 eorge Loriilard, $830; Tunie, by Great Tom, I New Yorx, $450; Tea Rose, by Great ‘Fom, _Asn' Burnhum, Canindsirud, N. V. $i5)0; Tete-a-Tete, by George Loriitard, New York, £i00. . by Great Tom, Milton Young, Henderson., Ky, §; o beria. by Great Tom, V. L. Kirkman, Nushville, £450; Bquity, by Bnquire, D. W. Woodmansce, St. Paul, Minn., $420; ‘Tonchstone, by Great Ton, ‘Asa Burnbam, Canandaiguy, N. Y., $30; Me cus, byJohn Morgan, K. Allcock, New York, $300. DEATH OF WAR-DAXNCE. LovisviLLg, Ky., April #).—War-Daoce, a great thoroughbred sire, the property of James A. Grinstead, died at Blue Grass Park to-day from colic, aged 20 yenrs. War-Dance was foaled in 1860, by Lexington. out of Ricd Le- compte’s dam, end was purchused when 2 sears old from Gov. Wells, of Louisinnn, for §2,000. As a sire he was regarded as the est of Lexing- ton's sons, and bis death will be a savere loss to the turf. Awong hik get that rua successtully wore Uns, L'Argentine, Claudin, Sly Duince, Warfield, War_ Jig, Round Dance. Neapotitan, Clemmie G, Bettie I, Troublesome, Simoon, Troubte, Peter Hynes, J. K. Sminney, Mudstone. Fusilade, Mowmentum, Glaszow, Expectation, Tuss Butler. Raumadam, Topic, Briltinnteen, War “Path, Annie Wheaton, Moscow, Cronin, Sun Dance. Wild Oats, Bashi Bazouk, Crossiet, War Banuer, Echio, Monopoly, Frank Lovering, aud Manton. THE BOARD OF REVIEW. Tne Beard of Review of the Natlonul Trotting Assoclation will bold a weeting this week at the Pacific Hotel, commencing Tuesday evening. The sessions of the Board wiil probably continue l'urexsvco or threw duys, and several casea of im- portance will be decided. TRACK TALK. Ten Broeck’s book for tke season i3 full. The well-known race mare Peru has breken down, and been bred to Lever. William L'Anson, the Enslish breeder and trainer, who died recently, left a fortune of e Spl b1 lhl. an's stable this sea- s v en by G £, Whitney. w0 of her last year. He will also have 3‘35’3&“& Coaster, record 2:27, recently pur- chased by Mr. Emory, who formerly owned Pa- rana. 4 Fernclife has a bad back, and_will probably Le missed in the Eastern cups aud all-aged races this renson. i Jewetyhas been eent to Philndelohin, and will trot in tho 2:3 cluss in the coming meetings here. G. 3. Fuller, of Nashville, who develoved Scott’'s Thomas, Lizzie 11, und other well-known trotters, ¥ in the city. Orrin Hickok will bring with bim from Cati- fornia St. Jullen, Santa Claus, Oskland Maid, Overman, aad Sir Guy. Itcan be definitly stated that Springfield is hopelesly amiss, at leasc, so far ds his eurly en- augements are concerned. Jils Johnson I8 bemng very strongly backed in the Brewens’ Cup at St Louis. The oddsagaiast hum siiil remain 40 to 1, however. The suckling calt by Pat Malioy,out of Canary Bird, died recently at the Alexander Farm. He Was & bulf brother to Harry Bussett. : The daw of Robert the Devll, Cast O, threw A tull brotber to that illustrious horse on March 19, but unfortunately be died the next morning. The catries for the Chicago trotting mecting «cloge to-orrow, and_all nominations should be g=ut 10 Mr. L. D. Hall, Secretary, 116 Mouroe street. Jim Dougrey, formerly driver of Joker and otuer trotters, has rerrned (o the turf after an absence of several years, and will have a stable in trainig this season. A running-borse 13 wanted for a running- mate to Charley Ford, Auyone baving such a Lorse to sell may address Mr. Jerry Monroe, at 161 Stato street., this city. Honry Shulvin, former!y of Chleago, but now representing 1saac Dahlman, of New York, bas been buying laree lots ot horses in Kentucky lately snd shipping them East. * Uncle John * De Moss, the well-known De- troit_horseman, was thrown from bis buggs a few days ago and injured to such an extent that be willnot be able o leave his house for some time. All the Detroit drivers are figuring to get the bav gelding Patebien, record £:18%. recently purchased by J. M. Frenels, of that city. George ‘\l'(xlrhees will probably be the successtul candi- ate. E Frank Harper's stable this season will consist entireiy of Longtellows. the lot heing us follows: Jils Joknson (515 Freeland oh: Stella (4); Arthilla ;3 Mary Corbet (3); brother to Mary Corbet (2) Lutestring (2. A letter from Caiifornia states that Santa Claus bns the eplzagtic, and it ie possible that he willnot have sutliciently recovered in_time to fill_his eugagemeut in the Stallion Stuke at Lochester, July 4. The owner of Charlie Ford has agnin changod bis mind in regard to the driver ot that horse, and tt is now underatood thai be will be placed in the hands of George Snunders, of Geneseo, IlL, who will nlso handle Alta. Ajax, son of the well-Ecown Whipple's Ham- biewnian (sire of Graves and others), is owned by Mr. E. R. Dean, of New South Wales, and that gentioman reports that bu recently drove the Borse a half mile over u turf truck in 1:10%. The reported accident to Lelex turns out to have been only 2 tempormi ¥ affair, and his back- crs for the Kentucky Derby are’ taking heart weain. Hiwyar and Leles were moved u mile to- gether at Nashvitle lust Tuesday and went well. The latest tip from Kentucky is to back Bow- Hugs Groen for the Louis The person who Sends It adds that “ Blue Eyes is also well thought of.” Uberto, who Is a stable companion of Blue Eyes, is_lvoked upon as dangerous in tho Merchants® Stakes. Mr. Pierre Loriliard bas named the two year- lings I’eccnllé'xuurchused by him in England Siddartha and Rantaka. Siddartbs is a bay coit by Pero Gomez, dam The Penrl, by Newminster. Kantuka is s chestnut colt by Scottish Chief, dum Seclusion, by Tadmore. The Turf, Fidd, and Farm fiuds fault with TRe TRIBUNE becauss it erroucously reported the £ule of Jewett to Mr. Shaw. the owoer of Trin- kett. Inusmuch a8t puper was the first to publish the sule of the horse ro Mr. Schatz, who really bought him, no greut hurm was done. W. H. Wilson, of Cynthiana. Ky., proposes to abollsh the present systewm of drawing for posi- nons in trottiog races, and hereafter have ench driver take 8 numbered ball from a bottie (as is doue At & Dopl-tuble) when be weighs. This would prevent 8oy suspicion of unfatrness, as ench man would do his own drawing. * In addidon to Sweets and Sweetness another of the get of the Amcrican stullion Preakness has been dofwe some good work in England. The bay colt Fiddler, by Preakness, won a sweepstakes for 5-year-olca at Newmarket re- cently, the distauce being a mile. Mr.J. R. Keene started Marshal McDonald, 2 full brother to Mc'Whirter, in thls race, but he waus unplaced. The Loulsville Courfer-Journal has the follow- ing concerning & colt now in the stuble of * Peter V.Johnson, ot this city, and entered in the 4- year stake to be trotted at the July meeting here: * Keep an eye on Col. Pepper’s Barrister when he trotd at Chicago. The driver onthat occasion will not be a nigger, as the man in the “sulky was when Almoit'§ mosCheautif nd perhiaps his chuicest son appesred at Louisvitie, m‘ul Indicated bis capacity evenif he failed 10 win."” Prabably the most notable instances of suc- cess on the turf and failurc in the stud thar, can be adduced is that of the thoroughbred statlion Asteroid. now at the Alexunder Fum, Ken- tucky. During his raciug career he étarted thirteen times and wever lost & race, being a winner at all distances up to four miles and re- peat. In e stud e nay been conspicuous as a ailure. The New York Ierald correspondent at New- market sagely remarks concerning the Amer- fonn norses there, that * o the City aud Suburban Mr. Lorillurd has Uncas,'Nereid, Iroquois, xnd Barrett engaged. The first numed bas a bad tewper and is never mentioned.” Inusmuch as Uneas was shipped back to this country nbout n yedr Ago it is not surprising that he * is never mentioned. brother of Luke Blackbura, ch, c., toaled 1890, by imp, Bonnie Scotlund, dum Nevadn, by Lexington, was shipped from the Kenesaw stud. near Galfatin. Fena., to Beile Meade stud, where he will be sold on - the 30th inst. ‘The colt wus bred on sk and is the joint property of and Capt. Jumes Franklin. ‘The competition fur the brotherto tho Kmg of the Turf will certainly be spirited. There will bo no clash in Michignn. A place has been made in the line for Juckson, and now il Is sercne. The circuit will open at kort Wayue, May 24 _Then come Detroit, June 1 to dackson, June 710 10; Szginnw, June 1 to 17 Grand Rapids, June 21 to=2t: loniy, June 25 to July 1; und Battle Creek, July 4 to 7. The local horses muy enter ull through the cireuit, but the tlyers out " for_educational purposes will not go further than Grand Itapids. The latest fram Lousville Is that Checkmate's owoer bas deculed to pay torfeit for him in tho Cup, and be is receiving a special prepurution for the Merchants' Stukes. It this be true it will be # cuse of unaduiterated business, and the reputed son of Glen Athol will undoubtediy make the race one of the fiercest ever run ut Louisville. Yet, while wonderfully duugerous. heis only so b use of his great turn ef speed, and epecd Is the especial forte of a dozen cundi dates for this prize. Sowe excited person in Indiana writes to say that * Wil Cody can beat any borse In the coun- try, barriog Mdud 3. und St. Julien.” Cody IS cer- wilnly u vers fasttroteer, but there are At least three, outside of those mentioncd, that can give hitn o good ruee. Thronzh bad judzment on the part of bis owner he was not entered ail the way through tho central cireuit last_summer, but cnme her in the [ull to win the 2:19 race, bent Monroe Chicf, and clean up the Chicago Sports renerully. A3 Mooroe Chief wus not i condi- tion-tostart the race wasnot_trotted, but, bad toth horses been in shape, a fine contest would doubtiess bave ensued. The tirst trot of the season took placeat Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia, kst Tuesday,—n couple of exhibition races being gotten up for the benefit of the public. The sturters in tho first - race, 2:20 class, were Midnight, Edwin Thorne, and Bonesetter, Midnight won in straigrht_beats, with Honesetter second. Littie Brown Jug won the free-for-ail ruce, open to pacers and trotters, with Den Hamilton second and Trinket third. Kentuckian captured an event for 2:25 horses. No oflicial time wastaken. RBonesetter and Little Brown Jux are Chicago horses, being owned by Mr. H. V. Bemis, of this city. An adjourned meeting of the Board of Re- view of the National Trotting Association will be beld in Cblcago next Tuesday. The lending cases 1o be considered are those involvinyg the no-time races now under investigntion by the Board. Pate’s application to subject the mewm- bers of the Michigun Grand Lentral Trotting Cir- cuit to penulty for leaving unpaid the premiums at Adrian will also be considercd. and another important matter will be the upplication for re- woval of suspension mposed upon Rarus be- cause he was withdrawn from g race without proper notice. This was at Charter Onk Park, in 1879, and caused ereat disappointweut to thousands who had gathered to witnessthe ruce. Cornelius Sullivan, of Riverside, who is well- known to the Chicngu public by Teason of his success with the stllion Heslog Jr., and other trotters, hus made arrangements with Mr. J. I Case, of Raclne, whereby the celebrated stallion Nurrngansett will muke the coming geason in Mr. Sullivan’s charge at Riverside. Narragun- sett is a very ricnly bred horse, being by Rhode Island (the Sire of Gov. Sprague) out of a_mare by Capt. Blue Jacket: second dam by Davis’ Hambletoninn. ~ All hi3 colts are of fine size and build, and he mtends to train several of them during the coming season in order to show thut Nurragansett is a_sire of trotters. Having dis- posed of Hesing Jr., Mr. Sullivan bas displayed sound judgment in filling his place with so good a horse. Mr. Daniel Swigert, one of the best known and most respected turf men in the country, will have in his string of racers this seasou Cameo, years, by Lever, out of Locket; Malugu. 3 year: by Australien, outof Miranda, by Lexingto Cachuca, 8 years, by King Alfonso, out of Scho! tische, by Alblon; Sunset, 3 years. by Lever, out of Optima (Peru’s aum); Persin, "3 yenrs, by Pinuet, dumn by Sovercign: La Favoritd, § years, by Plafiet. duat Luilome, by Lexington: Macco, an- Byears, by Lever. dam Meggie Stori, by dal; Lydia, 3 years, by Lonszfellow, dam Lena, by Bogwood; Timbuctoo, 3 years, by Lever, dam Evangeline, by Eclipse: Apollo, 2 years. by Lever, out of Mallstick's dam: Hindovstan, 2 years, by Vireil, out of lmxmdl:ll} ington, ~ Atlas, IS Asm, by Australian y 2 dam Hayti, by Austealian: Earl Beverly, 2 years. by Lever,dam Lightfoot, Lexinzton: Qcelot, 2 years, by Lever.dam Bosio, by Echipse; vears, by Virgil, dum Keotucky Belle: 5. 3 yeurs, by Lever, dam - Alix, by Aus- tralinn; Citllno, 5 years, by Planet, dam Butty Wurd; ' Tulisman, 4 years, by Waverly, dam Duchess:, 2 Westminster, 2 dam Miss Crosstund, by Viscount, 2 yenrs, by Virgil, dam by Heartless, © years. by Lever, dum ieartsease, by Phaetou: Arabin,”2 years, by Lever. dam Asia: La Gloria, 2 years, by Lever, dum Allx, by Australinn. THOMAS CARLYLE. Teanslated by T. 0. Russell from the French of G. Val- bert in the Revue des Dewx Mondes of March 1, 1651 SECOND PART. Mysticism declares war on underhand deal- ings, an antique formulas, on worm-eaten Idol it works for the eufranchisement of the buman. mind, butit can procure for it only semi-lib- erty. 1t i3 the enewy of superstition; but it nc- commodates ftself with difficulty to pure rea- son, and it fears science. Science srcks to explain everything Ly bringing everything under the puwer of law: but mysticism has a holy horror of explanations: it sces mystery everywhere, and professes to believe that full knowledge of things is an impossibity. Men of most rigidly ortbolox belief bave excelled in scleuce. They thought that Divine omnipotence had in olden times reserved to itself an insig- wiflennt mountainous country in order to work miracles in it, and ihat the sun did stand ar- rested on Mount Giveou apd the moon om Ajolon. They confined and bounded miracles to a certain space of time, and a certain part of the earth; they gave mirucles their place, but they admitted that in the rest of the universeall Is governed by eternal luws in accord with com- mon sense. Newton believcl in Revelaton with his whole soul, und it did not prevent him from discoverims the law of universal attraction, or from inveuting the calculus. Carlyle main- tuined that nuture Is supernaturnl, and that when it is not Divine (t is dinbolical. No chem- ist ever found either God or Satan in his eruci- ble; Carisle therefore distiked tho chemists as much as the utilitarians; he speaks with disdain about their alamvics and reactives, thelr presumptuous ignorance, Which hnopes to solve the mystory of Life by expiana- tions whick explain - notning. _*-Thou pretendist,” suys in Surtor Resartus, * to go through the world by means of that pale Inwioary which thou callest Truth, or of that pocket-lantern which 1 eall attorney’s logic, and xpluin_everyihing, give an account of thing, and believe nothing but what thou secst. Whoever bows down betore the unfathomable realm of Mystery, which is everywhere undec our feet,and which we can touch with our fingers; whoever allows himself to believe that the universe is an oracle and a temple, us well us # kitchen and a stable, thou treatest bim nsa delirious mystie. Does ot thy cow bring forth? and thou thyseil, art thou not born,and must thou not die? Explain all this to ne, or, I not, do either Of two things: go buck 1o 'thy bouse, and keep thy foolish babbling to thyself, or re- nounce thy folly, repent for baving sail that the reizn of ~mirncie i3 past. and thac God's world is changed Into vile prose, and know that thou hast been until to-duy nothing but & dilettante and o dim-sighted pedint.” He adds: “The man who cannot wouder, the man who i3 not in the hebit of wondering. were he President of innumerable Royul Societies, were be to car- ry In his head tne whole of * Laplace’s Mechun- 1im of the Heavens,' all the philusophy of Hegel, and a_summary of all the discoveries that are made in all the laboratories und in alt the. obscrvittorics on earth. is ouly & pair_of spectacles, benind which there are no eyes. Let bim consent to borrow eyes from those who can sve, und we will find means to make use of his les.” P istotié bas said that wonder 18 the first word of science, Carlyle wished it to be the last. He ndemns us to perpetusl admiration. If La- Volsler hud been sutistied to wonder and _admire chemistry would not buve been discovered. Oue £ees how true it i3 to say that this geniul Scorch- man ouly procured for bis disciples a setl-lib- erty, which could not sutlice them lonz. It is salil that 1 poor monk was sosccustomer to per- Yorm miracles that the Prior was vbliged to rep- rimand him for his indiscreet zeal, and forbid him the exeruse of his talent. The monk cbeyed. not without chagrin, Lut secing a poor ter fall from the top of & roof, he found bim- golf in a dilema between a desire to save the 1nan's life and obedience to the commands of his superior. Inorder to conciliate every one. he suspended the slater §n the nir until be'could refer to the Prior, who it appears permitted him 10 sccoinplish bis miracle ou tbe condition that 1o pever would perform any more. If Eogland had bad no guide but the author of * Sartor Resartus*' she should have always been sus- pended between dogma and sclence, between tradition and doubt. e would bave no injunc- tion that he deomed suflicient to ask the Priors ve_to. finish his miracle. The slater .would found bimself in the air. and Carl would thought thut it was the most agreenble po- sition possible, and would have liked it himsaif. Bt the slater would not bave agreed with hiw, and without waiting to know whether he wus permitted or not, b would have tried to regnin the ground even at tho risk of njury to bim- gelf. Mysticlsm ia u torment to those who have nota mystie temperament, and ubove ull peo- ple the English are those who cannat without difficulty muke up toeir minds to pass their lives between heaven and earth. There ure two 0ris of mystics. Oue sort are as simple as doves and very respectable, the otners are a little more refined: they delizht in voluntary obsenrities, and cannot resist the temptation of mingiing some charlatenism with their spiritunilties. The type of hanest mystics wus the Germun shoemuker. Jacob Boebeme, of whom Charles the First of Englund bud such aa exaited idea thut he sent & suvant to Woerlitz for the express purpose of examining and ques- tionfng bim. Henry Heine remurks that the English savunt was ‘more bappy than his Royal master, for whils Charles lost his head by Cromi- well's ax at Waitabatl, the suvant only lost bis reason by questioning Bovheme at Woerlitz, A short time previous there lived another mystic calied Paracelse, who was much better educated 1ban Boehme. but a little more of a charlutan. He made resl discoveries in chemistry: he studied mereury, nrsenic, and untimony; he wore 1 searlet cont and a red bat; he invented a panaceu and un elixir of life; he made it a point to render his disciples imwortal: be pigued him- seit on iving on an intimate fouting with the iuvisible spirits that animate nuture, and boasted of belng able to muke -every part of a lwmoncule Carlyle was not a charletan; no one was more honest thyu be, and ho never munufactured homoncudes. Besides, be was much better edu- uuted than Bocheme or Paracel he had read wuch, and bad wn open and cultivated mind; be understood the age in which he lived; he be- longed to it by his cuiture, while at the ssmc time he belonged to the past in_his mode of thinking.—in bis sorrows and in his drexms. He wus thus @ mass of contradictions, and we must not be astonished to find that bis, thoughts as well as bis uiterances were often bazy and con- . He was at the sume time libernl and potie. and ulternately preached independeuce and submission. He bonsted of the great eman- ciputors. the overthrowers of idols, the futhers and the Knoxes; and although he bated the eiglitecnth century as the age of incredulity and snecring. Although he reconized in the French Revoluton the task or the band of the “devil, be did not hesitate to declare that the eightcenth century had its mission, and that suns culitlam had Its cause of existence and u divine work to perform., But democrucy in- sprred bim with no entbusiasm; he saw in it only n provisionnl régime, 1 transition to some- tbing betrer. He boped that the anarchy in wkich we live would end, und thut & pew divinity would turn men’s minds to obedience. To serve with dignity and with the sentiments of a_f) mar was bis matto, and he hoped tbat the reliz- fon be invented would bring munkind to_their duty. and regulate thelr desires and conduct. He muinwined that if God reveals Himself iu the strsand in the towers He inunitests flimseif stilf hore clearly in_great men. He preuched hero-wumship even [rom the house-tops. = The worship of - herves,” suys he, ™ is the only one that exist ' amongst the ruins with which the tempest of itevolution has cov- ered the “world: it s the onls stone which can be sived out of the ruln, or rather It i3 the corner-stone which the Kevolutiou has not tumbled down, and upon_which we can rebulld. Nature {5 ever divine, heroes are xiwnys wortb; of worship. That Is il that isleft us of relizion. ‘Whea Carlyic speaks of heroes he Is aever cool; it s thenindeed that he mounts tho rost- rum, that he breaks out into fyric transports and bosannas. It i3 then be trumpets. He ro- duced e history of the world to a certain num- ber of blographies pliced side by side, and he de- clares that we must despair of buwmanity If it produces no more ticroes, or If it could do witn- out thew, or f It refused its homage and venera~ tion tu those it has already brought forth. It must be udimitted that in tais he s not entirely wrong. We cun ugree with him that these for- midabie and troublesome guests called sreat men are indispensublehings for humanity, that if It were necessary to choose bets state of soclety troubied by the dreams of xenius. and a_tranquil ane in which ooe das wuuld be the same a8 anogher, in which one hexd would be us hizh s another, In which every one would enjox with pleasure the literty of “mediocrity, the true philosopher would g0on make his choice. * Lbave seen, sald the sage, “banks of oysters on. the beach of tho aceans 1 way sensible of_thelr bappioess, but I did not envy them.” We can agree with him #ls0 that those who slander berpes ure generally stupid people, and thut, If nobody Is a hero to his valet, we ust conciude, not that the beroes are not_herves, but that the valetaare valets. Hegel had said it betorc Carlyle. und had laughed at those schoolmasters wiy taught their pupils that Alexander and Ciesar were mere ambitious mey without morality, worked on by evil passions, from which it foliowed thut the schoolmnster was a great deal better man thun Ciesar or Alexander, because he was ex- ewpt from nll evil pussions, and proved & inus- much s he had not_tried to conquer Asis, or win the battie of Pharsalia. Hegel had- miso said that Thersites, the terrible despiser and in- 'Homoacale, litezally s manikin or dwast. sulter of Kings, is an eternol type of men, and that if pe received no cudueiing durings the Iapse of centurles he can be left to _the punish~ mentof the jenlousy that devours him, and of the never-dymng worm thut Faaws him. But Hewel wus o philosoptier: he did not pre- tend to found u religion, and did not_desire to canonize great meu. who, arter all, are made of the samo clus that we are: the biood thur runs in their veins is ours; there is nothing super- natural about them, and if they prepare the furure they are a benent to the age. Whut dis- tinguishes them is having Stronger wills than ordinary men, better disciplined minds, thoughts that hiow 50 fast that it takes nway our breath to follow them, u quickness of action that be- wilders th slow ones, and possessing in & wiy unknown to common pevple that mysterious fuculty called instinct. which is the seutiment of destiny. " Wha their fellow-men seek for with- out finding they divine at once and utter aloud, and while workin:r out their own happiness they open up a new career for mankind. But they are not fofallible: the ideas they hold may be chimeras. This *trife between funtasy and In- stinet, between Ctopisn kleas and their missfon, furms the trugs,c ppase of their existenco: they retaliate after the muaner of the little men they bumilinte, and after having held their ground AEISE every one, every une hulds his sround agaiust them, and they often end badiy: and this Is what consules vauiets and schoolmnasters, the Thersites included. Ilegelanys that nothimg great is done in this world without passion: that pussion is alwiss egotistical: and thut most ut men are intensely personal. ** Grent men ™ S ¢ the Instruments and tools o thag search power which governs the world; by a divine artifice they employ theirzeul 1o nccom= plish their designs o Lumawity, und bumusmity ugrees topuy them il the cost of the Hrst eifort. It was not thus that Cariyle understood the matter. Great men are nut: uecordinz to him, people of their own uge or time, but wirnewlous creations, gratuitous mazmicent presents from Divine bounty: Lhut they are not the greatest us, bUL ** beimgy upart, ewanuting trom the beart of toings, a visible representunion of the invisible world, celestinl ambassudors, charged with 8 messugze ot life. and (o reveal to eurth the secrets of eternal Stlence.” fle does not even auit thut we should uccept those only for whut they are worth, but that we nust u cept them Just us they ure with all their belong- ings. Those sovereixns by the gruce of Gud ire sent frowm above o be obeyed by men. Nelther does Carlyle admt that there 18 apny alloy in them, or ihat they seek iheir own bappiness in mukllg mankind buppy- They are Aposiles, and wear on their brows the crowDS oOf mArLyTs, It is fulse that Luther bad sumetimes socriticed his conscience to hisdesizns; 1t i3 taise nlso what Voltaire says, that 1o the prent gume of life we commence 3y fovls and end as knaves, and that Cromwell was an_enthusiust thut made even his fanuticism a belp to bis greatness. 10 it be tia the terrestrial Jupiters’ have their weuknesses and defects, they will cense to be udoruble, and to whoms we shall raise nitars? Lt no ratter with what sthairstion tney inspire us, und 0o matier what Cuiyle euys, we should 00’ wronz 1o worship herocs. There Is nottin) really adorable but nbeolutely disintereste charity, and very often it IS not recognizubie, it bides ftselt; suints are conspiraturs who & the protection of mystery. UF u truth, it is bet- £ the worshin Of stirs to the worsbip of geniug, for it is cusier to believe in the disine terestedness of 2 etar than in that of a hero. Lel themm call Luther or Cromwell 88 great ns they please, they both mixed ealculation with their enthusinsm and sought their own glory in thelr works. At one time or another, und in thelr own way, they both have sald with one of Shakspenre's churucters, *The world's mnloe oyster, which I with sword will open.™ in spite of bis glowing eloquence, in spite of hiy strong and picturesque langunge, Curlyle did not succeed in converting bis countrymen either to mysticism or hero-worship. England bus, officinily, remained true to her formulasy and the thinking part of the Eoglish huve fol lowed a very different path from that traced for 1hein by Carlyle. He lived tov long, oot for his fume, but for bis buppinese. He was respected and admired, but listened t6 no more. He suw his power over mind fuiling and pussing into other hands, and bis autbority supplanted by Fival influences which unmercitully destroyed everything be ndored. The incrensing Intluence of Darwin and Herbert Spencer caused him great aunoyance, it was a thorn in his Hesh. The " new empiricism which they started was contrary o all his desires, wounded bitn 10 the henrt, witd _he ussisted sudly i its triumpb. —That * philosophy, the * earth-to- doctrines and croelties of which be anathematized, pluyed bavoe not ouly with theosophy und mysticism but, with metapbyslcs,. and consigacd them to the aomuin of chimeras; 1tinds in” Inevitable und graduul’ evolution, in ipscnsible progress, in derived qualities, fu the ™ adaptation of the fittest, a sullicieat cause for all things. It denies . prophets, dissects berves, 2ud upplies to moral science the mothod of nat- urul sciences; it briogs buck. cveryiding to pure - Dature: und therefore It OUghL 0 Mmuke Dro- digious etfort of reusoniog to expiluin potuvoly . the genlusof agreat man, but asimple nct of bonesty. or the most «ommon of virtuous ac- tlons, nGthing belng more cuntrary to pure nut- ure toun uot o take from one’s nelxhvor either his ox or bis ase, his wife ur his purse, when we can do so without risking anything. g Young and feeble mothers with frail children ;I:'l. both become strong by the use of Hop Bit-