Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1881, Page 7

— Mr. Garfield, in the House of Representa- ives, after prayer by Chaplain Boynton, moved to dispense with the reading of the seach, and said: “Mr. Speaker, I desire to move that this House do now adjourn. And before the vote on that motion is en I desire to say a few words. This day, Mr. Speaker, will be sadly memorable 80 long as this Nation shall endure, which God grant may be ‘till the last syllable of recorded time." when the volume of human history shail be sealed up and delivered to the Omnipo- tent Judge. In all future time, on the recur- Tence of this day, I doubt not that the citizens ot ‘this republic will meet in solemn assembly to | on the life and charaeter of Abraham Lin- coln, and the awful tragic event of April 14, 1865—an event unparalleled in the history of nations, certainly unparalleled in our own. It is eminently proper that this House should this | day place upon its records a memorial of that event.” After a brief eulogy upon the late Pre- sident, and a pathetic allusion to the circum- stances of his death, Mr. Garfield concluded: “Sir, there are times in the history of men and nations where they stand so near the veil that separates mortals from immortals, time from eternity and men from their ¢ at | they can almost hear the beatings and pulsations of the h Such 2 time has this nation passed. 000 brave spirits passed from the field of honor that thin yell to the presence of God, and when at last its parting folds admitted the martyr President to mpany of the dead he the nation ie whispers men. Awe- THE PRESIDENTS PHYSICIANS, Doctors Who Have Been Connected With the Case. THE VARIOUS CHANGES AND THE REASONS FOR THEM. Thirteen doctors have had to do with the treatment of the President's case since the morning he was shot. They are Drs. Hamilton, Agnew, Bliss, Reyburn, Barnes, Woodward, Huntington, Norris, Purvis, Townshend, Lin- coln, Patterson, Wales and Ford. The first | physician who had charge of the case was Dr. | Simth Townshend, who administered restora- tives; Dr. Purvis came next; and then Dr. Bliss, followed byothers. Dr. Bliss took hold of thecase as soon as he got to the depot, and has since then had special charge of it. The President was removed to the White House, and a con- | Sultation held in the afternoon. Postmaster General James gaveto THE Staxreporterthen the names of the consulting physicians. They were: Drs. Bi Huntington, U.8. Smith Townshend, Reyburn, Surgeon Gen- Norris, Surgeon General les, U.S.N.; D. C. Patterson and C. B. Pur- | vis. There was trouble from the very first con- | sultation. Surgeon General Wales was present | at the examination and wanted to take charge. | Dr. Bliss says before he knew what Dr: Wales | was about the latter thrust his finger into the President’s wound. That caused some |trouble. It was evident that there were can people too many physicians. Mrs. Garfield and and made a solemn the President both agreed that such was with each other that | the case. They gave Dr. Bliss charge «tbe saved from its enemies, | of the and full power to do ould be restored, a best. The result was that on the the ruins of si: and treason the temples of | afternoon of the 4th Dr. Bliss wrote notes to all freedom and justice should be built and should | of tie physicians, except Drs. Barnes, Wood- survive ferever. It rewains for @s, consecrated | ward and Reyburn, — informin: them, at by that great event and under a covenant with | the request of the President that his God, to keep that faith, to go forward in the | symptoms being then so favorable, any farther great work until it s! be completed. Follow- | consultation was deemed unnecessary. The ing the lead of that great man and obeying the | letter thanked the doctors most cordially for high behests of God, let us remember that their attention snd Kind advice. About this *He 2 never | time Dr. Hammond, of New York, wrote come ae | Secretary Lincoln, ing his services in at- He is sifting out the hearts of men before His | tendance upon the Président. They were not judgment seat. accepted. The doctors who were retained were Be aan we soul, to answer him; be jubilant, | selected by Dr. Bliss. The President and a ass Garfield both toid him, Dr. Bliss says, to sel« wc ad es whom he chose. Dr. Barnes was take2 because of his great knowledge of gun-shot wound: . Woodward, because of his emi- nence as a pathologist, and Dr. Reyburn, as special assistant to Dr. Bliss. Besides the dif- ficulty and little scene with Surgeon General Wales, there was another of the same character the very morning after the shooting. Dr. J. H. axter, who had attended the President and nbers of his famaily, claimed to be the Presi- dent's private medical adviser. He was out of town at the time of the shooting, but came back ‘as soon as he heard of it. He went to the White House the next morning and asked to see the President. Dr. Bliss refused, saying: “I know your sneaking ways. You want to work yourself in to get charge ot the case.” There were some hot words. Dr. Bliss called Dr. Baxter a lobbyist and Dr. Baxter retorted by calling Dr. Bliss a liar. Dr. Bliss in a threat- ening manner advanced toward Dr. Baxter. Ellis Bliss, the doctor’s son, took Dr. Baxter by the shoulders and said he would put him out of thehouse. There was interference which pre- vented personal encounter. Dr. Baxter left the White House and did not afterwards return there. Theré has been no further open disagree- ment among the doctors. Mrs. Dr. Edson, who had attended the President’s children, was employed a8 a nurse and remained in that position until the President reached Long Branch. Dr. Boynton has also been con- nected with the case. He came to Washington atthe request of Mrs. Gartield. He has not been officially connected with the case, but sunk his professional pride and acted simply as a nurse. He was more frank than any of the at- tending physicians in giving information as to the President's real condition. There was on the morning of the 4th of July a farther acces- sion to the corps of medical attendants. Mrs. Garfield became a little anxious about the treat- ment of the President. She spoke of this to Dr. Bliss. The latter requested that two of the most eminent surgeons in the coun- try be brought in as consulting physicians. The result was that Dr. familton of New York, and Dr. Agnew, of Philadelphia, were ielegraphed for. They arrived on the night of the 3d, but did not see the President, it being thought best that the patient, who was then asleep, should not be disturbed. The next morning they were present at the exammation, and for the iirst time signed the bulletin. They also issued an individual bulletin that they approved in every particular of the course of treatment which had been pursued. From thence on Drs. Hamilton and Agnew were the consulting physicians. When the President had s first relapse neither of them were here. Mrs. arfield had them both telegraphed for. At her request, at no time since then were both Drs. Agnew and Hamilton away from the President. They took turns here and at their practice in New York and Philadelphia respectively, when there was astretch of good days; but at every crisis both were sent for. There was no further change inthe medical attendance until the President was removed to Long Branch. He thousht there were too many physicians, and requested that only Drs. Bliss, Hamilton and Agnew attend him. He and Mrs. Garfield wanted the others—Drs. Barnes, Woodward and Reyburn—relieved before the journey to Long Branch was made. Dr. Bliss, however, wanted the responsibility divided around. So they re- mained on duty until Long Branch was reacted, and then retired from the case, not because of any trouble or dissatisfaction as to their services, but because the President did not want so many doctors around When 250,- stricken by His kneit in tea cas At the conclusion of this peroration the House | silently adjournd, ee A Record of the Case. FLUCTUATIONS OF THE PRESIDENTS PULSE, TEM- | PREATURE AND RESPIRATI The followmg table givesa record of the | President's pulse, temperature and respiration | Date and Howr. Reap. Temp. Etat 138 Ue SeEUNE SPREE RBESELRRRE REESE: Gum tim ah oe em to a Squirrel. From the Forest and Stream. One afternoon last summer, when out looking for game, Isat down ona pile of rails to rest. Pretty soon I discovered, in an oak tree, some twenty yards away, ared squirrel stretched at full length on a limb, taking a sun bath. Instead of raising my rifle aud sending a ball through the little fellow (it’s a mighty mean “sportsman” that endeavors to kill all he sees) I decided to give hima little pleasure if I could, so I commenced to _w le theair of the once popular “I love thee, sweet Norah O'Neill.” In a twinkling the squirrel was up on his hind legs, his tail over his back his head cocked to one side, listening to me; a moment of irresolution, and then he scampered down the trunk of the tree to the ground, and started toward me; he came a few yards, stop- ped, sat up on end, and listened again. I was careful not to move and kept on whistling; after waiting a moment the little beauty came on, jumped up on the pile of rails, ran along within four feet of me. halted, went up onend again, made an umbrella of his tail, tipped his head to one side. looked at me with all the gravity of a Justice of the peace at his first trial; and yet, if a @ creature's eyes beamed with pleasure, his I did not move, but after a little! abruptly changed the tune tothe “Sweet by-and-bye.” Chut! Why, with the first note of the different tune, away went the squirrel. I did not move: only I shook with the suppressed laughter, and as well as I could, kept on whistling. In a min- ute or two back came the squirrel, going through all the cunning manceuvers of his first approach, and once more took a seat before me on the rails. I watched him and actually thought he was trying to pucker up his mout! and whistle. Once again I changed the tune, this.time to “Yankee Doodle,” and, as before, with the first note of away scam the squirrel. Unable to control my risibilitieslonger, I laughed aloud, and after that 1 couldn’t call my little friend to me. Iwonder how many of the so-called “true sportsmen” ever seek or think of any pleasure in connection with such beautiful little crea- tures save the savage and unmanly pleasure of taking away their lives! +o. __ The Lime Kiln-Club. From the Detroit Free Press. Rey. Penstock presented a written appeal from the wife of Kyfustus St. George, statin; that her husband was confined to his bed an she hadn't a cent in the house to get her hat re- trimmed for Sunday. The reverend backed up the appeal in a speech that brought tears to the eyes of Gen. Scott and jammed’ Samuel Shin in between the window and the wood-box so hard that tte took two men to pull him out. ler Penstock, did vestly case?” asked the president.) ‘Westlzate dis Inebber inwestigate, -yolee of datren tigate, sah, when I h’ar de be you know what George?” ails Brudder St. “1 understood dat he 2 ss8e2 £8883; SeesReeeseeeeees fetes siseseeee? Seeeeees= Sa a poem geeeeeeees B28! 82 e that in future all in Russia will be conducted by | The question has long been courts-martial. pending. An Albany mother, being displeased by some- thing that one of her sons had done, ordered another son to shoot him. She was obeyed, but the buNet did not make a dangerous wound. At acattle show at Milan, which was opened by the King of Itaiy, the management attempted to exhibit camels “as well, but their pre- sence so alarmed the horses that they had to be sent away. Ciara Louise Kellogg sald, when asked by a wrt ut American Was seizea wi an’ de arternoon I was in dar his tk <<up to fo’ hundred, an’ he was ont: 4 talkin’ "bout wolves an’ ‘ars. lage =~ “Jis so—I see. Maybe I kin ints on de case. I war out looking Teens joss de odder ebenin’ an’ I passed Brudder St. George's cabin. He an’ his wife war jawin’ as to which owned de @og, an’ ten minutes later, when 1 returned, de dog war runnin’ fur de LAWN TENNIS. TTS SUBSTITUTION FOR CROQUET--GREAT GAIN FOR MORALITY THEREBY — HOW CROQUET WITHERS AND BLASTS WHATEVER IS GOOD IN HUMAN NATURE. Croquet has lost its popularity, and if ts only in remote western towns that one can still hear the click of the mallet as it strikes some bald but youthful head or the wail of the too eager girl who has mashed her own foot. Else- where croquet has not been played for nearly two years. The croquet mallet has been turned intoa Dean-pole, and the balls have been thrown at vagrant dogs, £0 that of the eleven million croquet sets formerly in the possession of pri- vate citizens of the United States, there are now. not more than sixty-three sets which are com- plete and fit for use. The disappearance of this pestilent game is a great gain for the cause of morality and public order. Next to horse-dealing, which, accord- ing to the Westminster Catechism, ‘‘worketh the corruption of the whole nature” of him who sells horses, croquet has a more withering and blasting effect upon whatever is good in human nature than has any other agency. It leads to lying almost as certainly as does trout-fishing. Mr. Herbert Spencer. in his tables of social statistics, asserts that per cent of all ladies who play croquet will systematically claim to have passed hoops that they have not passed, and ninety per cent will insist that they never stirred the ball which received the stroke of the mallet in that peculiar feat called “‘cro- gueting.” Of course, those who habitually in- alge in flights of the imagination—to put it mild!y—such as these must inevitably lose ailre- spect for the truth. They who cheat their lovers at croquet will find it easy to deceive their hus- bands in the game of partied life. From cheat- ing to quarreling is _astep which in croquet is isshortand inevitable. In nine gamesout ofevery ten the recording angel is compelled to take notice that Miss Smith has audibly mentioned that “it is perfectly sickening to see how that Brown girl cheats,” and that Miss Brown has nly called Misa Robinson a “mean, hatefal thing.” In its latter days croquet was charac- terizea not merely by cheating and bad lan- guage, but by assassination. It was so easy for a quick-tempered and indignant girl to hit her partner over the shins as a rebuke for his bad play, orto strike a faithiess lover over the head who had formed a partnership with a hated rival, and perhaps defended her from the ac— cusation of cheating, that mallet outrages be- came fignttally prevalent. In England alone, in the year 1878, seven curates had their skulls |, one hundred and ninety-four were se- riously bruised, either on one or both shins, and six hundred and five young ladies were hit in the region of the shoes by malfets thrown by other young ladies. A like state of things existed about the same time in this country, but in the absence of trust- Lbelord statistics it can only be said that in all probability the proportion of mallet outrages was as great here as in England. It was this terrible feature of the game which caused a general uprising of all good citizens against it, ane led to thesubstitution of lawn-tennis in its Place. The peculiar feature of lawn-tennis is the net which is stretched between the players with the view of ecrentng adversaries from assaulting one another. The players use a light ball, with which it is impossible to inflict. any serious in- Jury, and instead of clubs they play with instru- ments somewhat resembling the battledore of the last generation, and unfit for offensive pur- poses except, perhaps, in connection with very young ch dren. The game has commended itself to parents and peaceable people by its ap- Parent safety, and so far it has certainly been unstained by any murderous affrays. Still, it must be evident to every one that the net com- monly used is far too frail. It could be broken down by the rush of an infuriated and heavy girl, and it would be easy for an agile girl to climb over it. If lawn-tennis is to maintain its reputation as a safeand peaceable game, the net should be made of wire instead of twine; it should be at least a foot hicher, and the upper edge of it should be strewn with broken glass set in cement, or furnished with sharp iron spikes. Sooner or later some mild but imbe- cile player will madden his adversary to such an extent that nothing but personal violence will be any comfort to her, and she will get over or through the frail twine net with a sudden- ness that will dazzle the unhappy victim. Accidents on lawn-tennis grounds have oc- curred, though not during the progress of the game. In places where the net is left in po- sition over night it sometimes catches the heed- less or intoxicated wayfaring man, and on the grounds of one of the Moosehead lake hotels, the early riser can often find a local greenback statesman caught by the ears in the lawn-ten- nis net and neerly unable to extricate himself. The catch of small boys and colored servants atthe Lake George hotels is also very large, but has never attracted the attention which the Beant fate of a leading citizen of Greenfield, Jonn., secured last July. The citizen in question had a marriageable daughter who was fond of lawn-tennis, and who was serenaded one evening by a young druggist with an accor- dion. While the serenader was under her win- dow, and in the act of singing “Baby Mine” and | accompanying himself on the accordion, the leading citizen, with the best intentio ued from the house with a club and let looseg both | the dogs. The druggist, with great pr ce of minds ran round the house and entered the front door, while the ang ather rushed wildly ss the lawn in search. of him and came in nt collision with the lawn-tennis n He carried it completely away. and in falling to the ground entangled himself hopel in its meshes. In these circumstances he was set upon by the well-meaning but too impulsive dogs, and it was not until he haa been severely gnawed and denuded of most of his garments that he could convince them that their zeal was not according to knowledze. Still, in spite of the incidental troubles to which the lawn-tennis net may give rise, the game is certainly a vast improvement pon croquet, and its gencrai adoption in place of the former pernicious game wiil doubtless arrest the flood of immorality and crime which found its origin in croquet... ¥. Ti The Communicating Power of Ants, From the Popular Science Monthly. Huber, Forel, Kirby and Spence, Dujardin, Purmeister, Franklin and other observers have all expressed themselves as holding the opinion that ants are able to communicate information to one another by some system of language or signs. The facts, however, onwhichthe opinion THE AVIARY. + SUGGESTIONS ON THE SELECTION OF BIRDS. The sight of a well-stocked aviary to those who have none of their own is well calculated to cause a feeling of envy in the breast of every lover of birds, and a very strong wish that it were possible for them to possess such a source of pleasure. And yet there is hardly a house so constructed but that an aviarv can be built in it at a trifling expense. and with but little outlay in the matter of space. A window with a moderately deep ledce around which a cage can be made is the place. and the expense of space is hardly more than two or three feet, measuring from the side of the wall. At any wire-worker’s can be found.or ordered, the wire net-work, which can be put in place In a short time, and the aviary is an ac- complished fact. But it is rather out of the province of the bird-fancier to suggest as-to the nter’s or wire-worker's trade, and he will con- tent himself with the statement that an aviary five feet high, ‘fonr feet wide, and two and a halt feet deep, has been built in one apartment-house in New York city fe acost not exceeding $5, including cups and rays. ‘0 make such aselection of birds as shall thrive well together, live without discord and not require such a vafiety of food as is neces- sary for one and injurious to others is far more difficult than to build the aviary, however defi- cient in space the house may be. In making the selection the question of food for the different birds should first be taken into consideration for hard-billed birds. if they get the opportunity, will eat food prepared for soft bill, thereby working themaélyes much injury. Although it 1s done in some aviaries, it is if- advised to put together the two classes of birds known as hard and soft bills! since the food for each class is so widely different. It is better to have a smaller assortment of birds, if itis not possible to have two aviaries, rather than ran the risk of allowing some of the inmates to kill themselves with that which is necessary to sus- tain life in others. Hard-billed birds Stat oe known as those. whose bills are especially adapted for the cragit- ing of food, such as the numerous family of finches, linnets, siskins, canaries, Java sparrows, bobolinks. nonpareils—known by some as the inted finch—bluebirds, redbirds, and gros- ks, thrushes, larks, warblern, and starlings ney be classed under the head of soft-billed To keep these two classes of birds together, where ‘the food for each ts necessarily ‘within reach ef all, is an attempt in which very few are successful, and when it is possible by careful watching to keep ail in a state nearly approach- ing perfect health, injary is done to their song, if in no other way. It is both the safest an pleasantest course to keep the classes separate. Some very beautifu! collections may be made of either; there is really no necessity of making them inmates of ihe same home. A very pretty collection on a small scale, with alarge amount of music, is one made up of the following hard-billed birds, and that it is a suc- cessful one is evident from the fact that no death has occurred among them during the two years they have been together. A pair of wax-bill finches, and two of their cousins, amandavas; two red-breasted gros- beaks, two nonpareils, one blue bird, and two love-birds; two male and four female canaries, and a pair of yellow birds. The cost of such a collection, if bought at the proper season, is from thirty to forty dollars, and from no music-box that was ever made can such @ liberal amount of happy melody be ob- tained. The care of them is very light. A dish of Tape, one of canary and one of millet seed is all that is necessary in the way of food, with perhaps the exception of a lettuce leaf each day during the summer. Four cups for bathing purposes, and two for drinking water, the contents to be changed night and morning, make up the list of their modest wants, in return for which they sing all the day, while the grosbeaks continue the melody until far into the night. If one has space for a larger aviary, a very beautiful collection of hard-billed birds may be made as follows: two cardinal and two red- breasted grosbeake, a pair each of the wax-bill, paradise and amandava finches, two siskins, two linnets and a goldfinch. For the more common birds add two Java sparrows, two nonpareils, two bluebirds, a pair of yellowbirds, three male and six female canaries. The cost of such a col- lection should be about double that of the one previously mentioned. It is not well to put the, bullfinch into an aviary, unless he be an unedutated, stupid bird, and even then the collection 1s better without him. If he is able to whistle a tune, it is quite liable to be injured by placing him with a num- ber of other birds. and all that is most pleasing veut 1 is best shown when he is in a cage by himself. ¥ Avoid the purple finch, as he is a very quarrel- some feilow, atid will breed trouble in the best- regulated aviary. The tomtit belongs to an- other class of bad citizens, and to let him loose among well-behaved birds is to introduce them toa murderer, since he will often kill his cage- mates. iz will birds, one night- two yellow- robins, and For such a col- iz-bird food, one of and then a little y dollars or less, the followi thrive well togettier: ck ingale, three Bal! breasted chats, a ¢: one South American troopi lection two cups of mock’ chopped raisins, with no plenty of water and gravel, are all thatis ne- cessary. If one prefers to make the food himself rather than use the prepared mocking-bird food, a paste, made fresh each day, is thus described oe ne of the oldest bird dealers in New York city: “Take of stale flour bread two-fifths: soak well in water, and then press the greater por- tion of the moisture out; two-fifths of barley or oat meal, and one-fifth of hard-boiled egg chop- ped fine. Mix with milk and water to the con- sistency of a paste. : Meal-worms should also be given occasion- ally, with plenty of green food, and such fruit as sweet apples, cherries, and berries, ‘A large and expensive collection of this class of birds can be made after the style ofone now in the possession of a bird-fancier in Philadel- phia. It consists of two nightingales, two blackbirds, and three wood-larks; four Baiti- more orioles, two yellow-breasted chats, two South American troopials, two cat-birds, and of these earlier observers rested, have not been stated with that degree of caution and detail which the acceptance of their opinion would re- quire. But the more recent observations of Bates, Belt, Moggridge, Hague, Lincecum, Mc- Cook and Lubbock, leave no doubt upon the subject. Two or three instances will be enough to select in order to prove the generai fact. Hague, the geologist, kept upon his mantel-shelf a vase of flowers, and he noticed a file of small red ants on the wall above the shelf passing upward and downward between the latter and a small hole near the ceiling. The ants, whose object was to get at the flowers. were at first few; but they increased in number during several successive days, until an un- broken succession was formed all the way down the wall. To get ridof the ants Hague then ied frequently brushing them off the wall trpon the floor in great numbers; but the only Uesult was that another train was formed to The flowers ascending from the floor. He, therefore, took more severe measures, and ttruck the end of his fing er lightly upon the de- Scending train near the flower-vase, so killing Ssome and disabling others. ‘The effect of this was immediate and unexpected. As soon as those ants which were approaching arrived near to where their fellows lay dead and suffering they turned and fied with all possible haste, and in half an hour the wall above the mantel-shelf was cleared of ants.” The stream from below continued to ascend for an hour or two, the ants advancing ‘“hesitatingly just to the edge of the shelf, when, extending their antenne and stretching their necks, they seemed to ee cautiously over the edge until beholding their suffering companions, when they, too, turned. expressing by theie behavior great excitement and terror.” Both columns of ants thus entirely disappeared. For several days there was a com- plete absence of ants; then a few to re- appear; ‘but, instead of visiting the vase which had been the scene of the disaster they avoided it altogether,” and made for another vessel con- Sania flowers at the other end oe oe ens lague here repeated the same experiment, wi exactly the same result. After this for several days no ants re-appeared, and during the next three months it was only when fresh and partic~ ularly fragrant flowers were put into the vases that a few of the more daring ants ventured to straggle toward them. ~~“ ___ The gens eager of the London Times at Beavers, oom to the great military manceu- vers ETERS says nothing is more re- Tuarkable, somehow, than the total invisibility of German infantry before it opens fire. You know you are in the immediate neighborhood of nearly 20,000 men, but perceive no sign of thelr existence save a few scatt stationary and Boston reporter abo girls going abroad to study musie: “It is next door to utter | woods. Kyfustus war lyin’ on de grass broke up, and his wife war sittin’ on de suckin’ alemon. After man has been knock. intode middie of ee wid an ole bat. he am apt to hab an’ talk animals. I shal dismiss de appeal moving objects which the you to recognize as uhlans with lances peeing round the corner of a farm jusears and three blue robins; two black-caps, two fau- yettes, one babillard, two starlings, and two skylarks. fo -mocking-bird should be put into the aviary, unless one has more than he can con- venjently keep separate, since the immediate companionship of other birds is liableto make him dull, and careless as to his singing. The thrush family are objectionable birds in an aviary, despite the volume of song the great majority of them have, because of their slovenly habits. If his food be where a thrush can get at it readily, he will soil his house morein five minutes than a dozen other birds would in a week, and he sets a very bad example to the others. Itis far better to keep most of the thrushes in cages by themselves, and then they can not teach the other boarders bad habits. Of course there are some members of the family less objectionable than others in this respect, but they are all gluttons to a greater or less de- gree, although in such cases as that of the American robin their affectionate ways cover a multitude of sins of uncleanliness. The cat- bird, which has been recommended for the aviary, isa member of the same family, to be sure, but he is rather more cleanly than the ma- jority of his cousins; and, despite the hard name some give im, is an agreeable ad to one's collection. Of course it is posslble, and very easy if one’s purse-strings are opeged wide enough, to make such a collection of cidner of these two classes of birds as-would put to blush those named; but to those who are so fortunate as to be able to gather a collection of any size or cost these sug- gestions are not made.—Hbrper’s Bazar. boiled lean beef chopped tine, and of course | Ve greater endurance than they used to have. ACHAT WITH UNCLE JOHN DECKER, WHO RAISED THE FAMOUS TROTTING MARE—HOW SHE USED TO KICK—HER PROPENSITIES IN HER YOUNG DAYS—A VERY HANDSOME SISTER. Deckertown, N. J.. Cor. Philadelphia Times. About four miles from this place, on one of the | finest farms in thts wonderfully fine section, lives John B. Decker, the founder of the village of Deckertown, and known familiarly as “Uncle | Johnny B.” Mr. Decker is the man who raised ‘who was at one time the fastest trotting horse in the worid and who not long ago gave birth | to a fine colt at the Fashion Stud farm, near | Trenton, this state. | pleasant oid man, seventy-eizht years old, and |told many stories of the Maid’s performances when a young colt. “That mare,” said he, ‘was one of the wildest and wickedest pieces of horrefiesh that ever I | @ six-rail fence, gallop up and down tlie bir | Meadow and make a clean circuit of the whole | farm, Jumping every fence as she went without a bit of trouble ane rest of the horses. She was terribly wild in har- | alight wagon in the four years I owned ner, though one of my workmen ploughed cor with her once for half a day.” “The data of the Maid,” continued the old farmer, ‘twas an ‘Abdallah’ mare and an awfrt good one at that. She was a halfsiste: to ‘Old Ham- bietonian,’ and could trot her 2:40 to an old- fort. I bought her of ay. old hat peddier named good horses and wag forever trading. The sire of ‘Goldsmith Mai.’ was a Hambletonian stal- lion owned by Sceley Edsall, of Goshen, Orange county, N. y He was afterwards sold to a man name? Alexander, in Kentucky, where he was kept solely for stock purposes. The ‘Maid’ ‘was foaled during the last week of June,.1857, and was always as wild as a hawk. I never con- sidered her fast until one day I went outin the field witha measure fall of salt to feed the horses. The ‘Maid’ would net come near me to get any salt and I got mad and set the dog on her. ie way she trotted around that field then convinced me there was speed in her. 1 enjoyed seeing her trot so much that I frequently re- the experiment. She was an awfully fast running mare, too. On moonlight nights the workmen used to steal out and catch the horses and race across the meadow flats. I never knew of this tilllong afterwards, but the men said that the ‘Maid’ invariably distanced had on the farm. That was running, under- stand, and not trotting. John H. Decker, a butcher, from Newburg, and Tom Bingham, of the same ‘city, came to take dinner with me, and wanted to see some of my horses. We started for the field with some sait and the dog, and I set the dog on the maid the Ler first thing. She went off like the wind, and they were so struck with her gait they of- fered me €300 cash for her. I refused, but they said they were bound to have the horse, and told me to name my price. Finally I said I'd take #350. and they handed me the money. I hated to sell the mare, and yet concluded to let |her go because she was so ugly. They | caught her and tied her behind the wagon and started home. When they arrived at De Wm. Denton, known then as “Jersey Bill,” who kept a hotel there, tried to buy her. but they would not sell her. A short time afterward they found she was so ugly that they sold her to * Jersey Bill” for $600. The next spring “Bill” sold her to Alden Goldsmith for ‘9 and a wagon. Goldsmith named her “Goldsmith Maid,” and hired Bill Bodine, the great horseman, of Middletown. N. Y., to handle her. Then she was awful wild, and came near killing Bodine several times. It used to take four men to hitch her up and she'd bite and kick quicker than lightning. This made Goldsmith verv sick of his bargain, and, for a month or two, she could have been bought very cheap. Finally Bodine conquered her and she soon became very popular. It was not long, as you know, before she was known allover the country. Goldsmith told me he soid her toa man named Jackman. of Philadelphia, and Budd Doble for $15,000 cash. After she had made her best time Doble and Jackman sold her to Henry Smith, a New York broker, who still owns her, for an even $30,000, which was al- most one hundred times the figure I sold her for. She is now, I believe, on the Fashion Stud Farm, near Trenton, which is owned by Smith.” “Yes,” said the old man, mournfully, “I did let a fortune slip through my fingers when I sold | the Maid, but I think I let a bigger one go when I sent her half sister, one of the finest and swift- | st mares I ever came across, to General Kilpat- rick while he was in Chili. She was a handsome black, fully as fast as the Maid, and just the re- | verse of the latter in disposition and temper. In those days there were no railroads in this sec- tion,and when we used to carry our produce and do our trading at Newburg, forty milesaway,we used to do some . I've frequently n eighteen miles to Newton in an houranda er: took tea, fed the horse and then drove on to Middletown, forty-nine miles further, the | same evening. I always had fifteen to twenty | blooded horses and never aliowed a man to pass me on the road. One day my father was taken ick, and at four p. m. I left home, drove to Newburg and back, eighty miles, in six hours and a half actual driving time. They may do it, but somehow I neyer hear of such drives now- a-days, and yet they claim blooded horses now But for all that I must confess they heats down fine of late. Well, ger obliged to you for your patience, and if you'll step inside I'll give you a drop of applejack made forty years ago,” and with this renfirk ended the reminiscences of Goldsmith Maid. FAMILY SUPPLIES. T :AS THAT WILL DELIGHT YOUR SOUL! Our choicest MOYUNE GUNPOWDER TEA at $1.20 per pound and finest IMPORTED OOLONG and ENG- LISH BREAKFAST at$lper peund are just grand goods. Will excite the appetite, raise your drooping spirits and cause you pleasant and delightful dreams. ‘Will go much further than the low priced. Don't fail to try them. pl WIIMER’S, s 1918 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. PALACE MARKET, the famous trotting mare, “Goldsmith Maid.” | Mr. Decker is a) very | saw. Just for alittle exercize she'd often jump | finally get back with the , ness, and I never drove her, single or double io | fashioned road wagon without any apparent ef- | Vernue, from Plainfiell, N.J., who always kept | the fifteen or twenty fine blooded horses I then | . | his cri | cireutation of any daily paper published south of RELIGIOUS NOTES. —The Christian Register remarks that Peter | Ought to be the patron saint during vacation | days, for it was he who. ina period of depres- sion, said to his fellows, “I go a fishing, and they said to him, we also go with thee.” —The charges of heresy against Lev. Dr. | | Thomas, of the Methodist church, were voted | | “sustained” by the jury Sept. 9 But of the nine jurors there seems to liave been a unani- mous vote on no one of the three specifications The first specification changes Dr. T. with deny- ing the inspiration ofsome portions of scripture. The second arraigns his views of the atonement, making him denytitat Christ bore the penalty of | the law, and that God needed to be reconciled to man. The third accuses him of teaching a Trobation after death. One was sustained by six to three, and another by cuiy five to four. The case now goes over for trial at the Rock river annual conference, vext mouth. —It is a significant historical parallel that Wesleyanism was born in the midst ofa very dreary sceptical tine, and that its first Pan con- ference ts held while a new and more vigorous School of doubt commands general attention. Ail the historians are agreed that Methodism ar- march of unbelief in the last cen- Every new study of Wesley's age in- ee the estimates of his value as a reactive ‘ce: he grows larger in this aspect the more closely the condition ef religion and the down- | Ward train of speculation are examined.—N. Y¥. Tritrme, |, —The Rey. W. L. Davidson, ina paper on the revised New Testament read at the last monthly meeting of the Clevelaud pastors of all denominations, remarked: “When God wants His et ai word remodelled He will Speak in unmistakable accents, as He did in those years surrounding 1611. He has not thus spoken in reference to the present work. Thg authorized | version has not lost influence; téMay its doe- trines rule the world. It had not gained a repu- | tation for inaccuracy that rendered it unreliable. | It was trusted and believed by millions, and the | number multiplying every day. I may be charged with pedantry, but in the light of all I have adduced Tam forced to the conclusion that | the work of the revision has been ten years and a half of unnecessary and unprofitable toil. 1 | am reminded of the Disciples fishing upon the Sea of Galilee, who, it is said, toiled al! night and took nothing.” The Congregationclist is authority for the | statement that a western pastor, who was | Prostrated with intermittent fever while attend- ding the Sunday school Assembly at Chautau- qua, is enthusiastic over its literary and relig- ious advantages, but does not recommend it as | for a place for either mental or physical rest. —A minister rather ziven to such exercises in a sermon had been severely castigating his con- gregation, when an old man asked him on go- ing out if he would not preach from the text Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest at love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Beat my sheep.” “No, no!” said the pastor; “y jmistaken, my brother. He said, “Fee | sheep.” “Ah, did he!” said the old mz @ searching look into the pastor's fu thought mebbe you read it ‘Beat my sheep’ | The pastor saw’ the point, and the Baptist teacher, which tells the story, adds that the | mmister threw away the cudzel and filled up There is ahint in that for teachers who are “under” pastors. — Dissenters from all denominations to the | number of 320, residing in the vicinity of Char- | lotte, Michigan, have organized what they call “The Living Church of God.” Their church | service ciosely resembles the Episcopalian. | They have appointed twelve of their number to prepare a select Bible, not to be given to any outside of their own number. They are very ba up in their dress and mode of lif 1881s THE NEwsrarers = 1 89) OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL THE EVENING STAR, THE WEEKLY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. 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