Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1894, Page 11

On TTT ia ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS ‘Happenings of Interest in That Neighboring Virginia City. “Prthians Preparing to Attend the Conelave—A Man Thought Dead ‘Turns Up—Other Items. ‘The engines working on the Knox stable fire in Washington this morning were plain- ly heard in this city, while the blaze was also seen at intervals. The Old Dominions of this city and the Alexandrias will play a game of ball at New Alexandria this afternoon. The Old Dominions will play at Rock- ville, Md., Friday, if the weather is favor- abie, with the crack team of that town. Ernest Boyer was kicked on the leg by @ horse yesterday and quite severely hurt. James W. arrived yesterday on” with a load of lum- The Epworth League of Leesburg, Lou- doun county, accompanied by a number of friends, arrived in Alexandria morn- ing and went to Mt. Vernon by the electric Alexandria Council, acted routine busin par an eS at its meeting last Miss Ida Bertheimer of this elty, accom- panied by Miss Jueles and Mrs. Dr. Wolt of Baltimore, returned from a trip to St. George's Island, yesterday. ‘The members of Grace P. E. Church and their friends went to River View today for @ day's oui Tho: jr., and Miss Ida Lyles will be married this evening at the resi- dence of Mr. Jonas Fisher, on Prince street. Deputy City Sergeant Henry Stanton and Miss Emma Fink will be married tomorrow evening. Sarepta Lodge, I. O. O. F., held an inter- esting meeting last evening. One new member was initiated and two applications Were received and referred to the commit- tee. Several visitors from Washington were present. Several addresses were de- livered that were listened to with delight by those present. Alexandria will have twenty votes and | ‘the county four in the district democratic convention, which meets in this city next | month. Rathbone Division, Uniformed Rank K. of P., held its regular meeting last even- ing. This division is now perfecting Its members of the driti preparatory to attend- ‘ng the Pythian demonstration in Wash- ington in August. Washington meeting. Health Officer Purvis is todry engaged tm a tour of inspection, and those persons maintaining nuisances upon their prem- ises will either have to abate them at once or suffer the consequences. Ellas Pettit, an old man residing near the Richmond and Danville round house, at- tempted suicide last night by swallowing laudsnum. Dr. Purvis rendered the neces- sary medical attention, and the would-be suicide is reported to be out of danger this morning. Four men escaped from the chain ganz yesterday »fternoon. Mavor Strauss was somewhat this morning and Justice L. H. in the police court and of the cases set for trial, the only one of importance being that of Wm. James, col- paige tigen — a with officers ‘harge of their duty. He was as- sessed $2.50. : A little grandchild of Mr. Wm. H. Lam- bert strayed from iis home last evening, but was found and returned to its parents later on. a W. H. Greenweil of this city. wh> has been in at- Professor Crawford has notified his friends ‘in this city by cable of the safe ar- rival of himself and family at Southarpton, J. P. Taylor of Fairfax, attorney for Capt. Josh Ellis, will settle the claims against the tug Eva Belte Cain, now in possession Herman Ptattier, who died in Alabama Yesterday. formerly held the position of chief clerk in the master mechanic’s office of the Riehmend and Danville road in this Contact with {relley wires caused several telephones to burned out in this city yesterday. A dog was run over and kiled by an elec- tric-ear at the corner of King and Columbus Sirecte yostentag. wha “Géhetal Scott has decided the Pinal aha Lait aesctiations sa ene __ There are thirty-eight prisoners in the ee thirty-five of whom are ‘Some oné stole $12 from the vest pocket of Mr. Clark at the novelty works yesterday. rearing apparel was hanging on the wall at the time of the theft. A gold watch tm one of the pockets cen. iiet, has bey. aetontssing tie Daople of el fon! ing tl o1 Ghariottesetilo lately with his perform- ances on the wheel. Mr. Kramer will join Payn’s show at Atlantie City in a few days. The Hydraulion steam fire engine was tested at the river front this morning. The test was satisfactory to those interested. ‘The rd of county supervisors held a meeting Menday, and placed the county 4 levy at thirty-five cents on the $100 for achool purposes. Jefferson district, thirty tents; Arlington district, forty cents; Wash- iegton district, thirty-five cents. The road tax will remain at fifty cents. After the adoption of the following order the board adjourned until Monday next, when they will meet to consider the matter of contract road work: “Ordered. that the governor of the state is urgently and respectfully re- Quested to have the industrial army now camped at Rosslyn sent from this county back to the District of Columbia, as they are without means and a menace to the People of the county, and as the authorities of the county are unable to cope with them, grainy vy section 211 of the code; that board of supervisors view with regret ‘their deplorable condition, and believe that the paralysis of business is due to silver lation, and Is responsible for the con- ition of these men; that suffictent military force of the state is requested to ald the sheriff in sendimg the army back to the District of Columbia.” Judge Chichester Monday convened the July term of the Alexandria county court im the county buliding in this city. A_new Methodist Episcopal church will be dedicated at Hamilton, Loudoun county, Sunday, August 5. C. H. Carson, son of Rev. T. E. Carson, is visiting his parents in this city. Miss Kate Hornbaker of Manassas ts the Suest of Miss Florie Miffeton. Rev. K. Nelson of the Theological Sem- trary, accompanied by his family, will sum- mer in Albermarie county. Miss Kate Myers of Leesburg is on a visit to friends in Alexandria. Dr. Johns and family are at Virginia Beach. Mr. J. R. Smoot is spending a short time at Cobb's Isiand. Mr. Noble Lindsay has returned from an eastern trip. Messrs. George and Edgar Warfield have Feturned from New York. Mrs. Jas. L. Pettit and the Misses Pettit are visiting at Geithersburg. Md. - The jury In the case of Mary Benson Qgainst the M jitan Life Insurance ‘Co. awarded the tiff a verdict for $196. Mrs. Mary P. M. Dimitry, mother of Chas. Dimitry, died i: New Orleans on the 5th instant. Mr. was at one time &@ resident of this city, and married a hter of the late Reuben Johnston. Mrs. Mary Allen, wife of Mr. James Allen, the well-known carpenter, died Monday morning at her residence, on South Fair- fax street, from consumption. : Leopold Olszewski, a native of Austria, Spplied for naturalization papers in the eounty court Monday. The county democrats will on August 7 @ect delegates to the congressional con- ¥Yention which meets here on the 16th of that month. ‘Ti:e electoral board of the county yester- Gay Gecided to give Alexandria mechanics opportunity to bid on the new election ths. a Mrs. Fliza G. Hoxton has sold to Mrs. E. ¥. Steiner a house and lot on Columbus between Oronoco and Princess streets. Jackson was brought from Manassas y_to the infirmary tn this city. She able@ with an abscess on her knee. congregation of well wishers at- Royal Arcanum,trans-. THE EVENING STAR. WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1894—-TWELVE PAGXS. 1 tended the farewell reception at the Second Presbyterian Church Monday evening ten- dered Rev. S. R. Gannon, previous to his departure for Brazil to enter upon his mis- stonary course. He was presented with a handsome desk. Electrician Joseph Colvin of the Alexan- dria and Mt. Vernon railroad is ill at his home on South Royal street. Mrs. George P. Pullman, accompanied by Mrs. Wm Mullen, jr., is visiting friends in Maryland. —_ > HISTORICAL PILGRIMAGE. The historical pilgrimage under the aus- Pices of the university extension move- ment will begin on Monday morning. On Saturday the inaugural meeting will be held at Independence Hall, Philadelphia. Hampton L. Carson and Prof. William P. | Trent will speak. Visits will be made ‘o the historic spots in Philadelphia, and in the evening Talcott Williams will give an iMustrated lecture at the University of | Pennsylvania on the significance of Phila- in our history. The pilgrims will, the next day, attend service in the historic Christ-Church, and Monday morning begin the itinerary to Hartford. The itinerary will include Hartford, Boston, Cambridge, Lexington, Concord, -Salem, Plymouth, Newburg, West Point, Tarrytown, Tappan, New York, Trenton and Princeton. About fifty pilgrims have been enrolled from fifteen states. They include doctors, lawyers, professors, clergymen, school teachers and business men. The director, Lyman P. Powell of Phila- delphia, has accepted an invitation from the Twentieth Century Club, at Boston, to the reception given the pilgrims August 3, at Boston. The educational committee of the Old South Church has issued an invita- tion to the leading citizens of Boston to attend a town meeting at the Old Souti Church July 31, to welcome the pilgrims to Boston. The eminent historians, Dr. James Schouler and Charles “arlton Coffin, Lave been added to the lst of cicerones in New England. William C. Endicott, ex-Seere- tary of War, will assist in welcoming the pilgrims to Salem, and among the cicerones at Plymouth will be representatives of the School of Applied Ethies, in sessioa there. ——___—ee- THE WANDERER LOOKS FOR A ROOM. Lost in the Wilderness of Trousers and Awed by the “Private Bawth.” From the New York Tribune. “You have furnished rooms to ren:?" said the Wanderer to the plump, red-faced wo- man who came to the door. es, sir, I ‘ave, answered the woman. “Step right upstairs, sir.” The Wanderer followed wearily, for he | haa oeen up other stairs to see other rooms. | “Now there, sir,” sald the woman, as she threw open tke door of a hal! bed room and waved her hand as if she was exhib- iting Westminster Abbey, “there, sir, is a toom for you; a ‘all room, to be sure, sir, but a roomy, comfortable room, sir—-for a ‘all room.” = “I'm afraid it is hardly big enough,” sug- gested the Wanderer, making a mental note of the fact that it was the twenty-first hall room which sanguine landladies had tried to foist upon him during the afternoon. “La, sir, not big enough, sir? Why, sir, “ow could it be any bigger? The ‘all is only so wide, sir. The last gentleman that ‘ad it, sir, found it big enough, sir. He was very comfortable in it, sir. Of an evening he would sit with his feet on the chest of drawers and sing, he was that ‘appy, sir. He's gone to the country or ne’d be here yet, "appy and comfortable, sir.” “But I'm sure a hall room won't do,” said the Wanderer, in an apologetic tone. “I'm sorry, sir. I have one other room right here, sir,” and she pushed open the door of the adjoining large room. “This is @ fine room, sir, and it has, this room has, sir, a—private—bawth!” She threw open the door leading to this institution as if she were wrenching the slab from the tomb of all the Capulets. “You see, sir—a —private—bawth. I am an Englishwoman, sir, and I'm sure you won't care, sir, when I say that we English know what comfort is. I try to make my house comfortable, sir. But,” and she turned to the large room, “this is rented to a young gentleman. He has been here some time, but ke is going 2wzy soon to the country.” ‘The Wan- derer glanced around. There were four pairs of trousers spread out on the bed with im- maculate smoothness, two pairs on the couch and one pair on a table. “Pe " he ventured, “this young gen- tleman is getting ready.to pack up now.” “La, no; he spread ‘em out so they won't He's a very. parttcular young seems—er—tie appears to bé well sup- plied,” went on the Wanderer, to take his mind from the remarkable exhibi- tion. “And these are not all, sir; indeed, no. Seven spread, sir." She pulled open a dra’ er of the bureau. “Two in here—nine, sir. She went into the closet and opened a ward- Tobe. “Three ‘ere—tweive, sir.” She turned and swept her eye around the hooks. “One ;—thirteen, sir. He's a fine young gentleman, sir, and hie father is rich.” “No doubt. Thirteen, you say? But the young gentleman ts out, I take it?” suid the Wanderer. “Oh, yes; gone to a wedding.’ “Er, then, of course—he’s—you see—being out and at a wedding, I mean, of course—" “Oh, yes, sir; certainly, sir. Fourteen al- together, sir. And perhaps some at the tailor’s being pressed—you can’t tell, sir.” “Well,” said the Wanderer, turning from the wilderness of trousers, “If he goes away let me know and I will see you again about the rvom. It doesn’t require a van to move my trousers; but I think I'd like the room.” “Very pleasant, sir. And cool, sir. And the best of mattresses, sir. And the pri- vate bawth, sir. You don't get private bawths everywhere, sir. Good day, sir. On the steps he met a tailor’s boy carry- ing a box which apparently contained trousers. —_—__+ e+ PATRIOTIC, And Proposed to Make the Canadians Recognize the Day. From the Detroit Free Press. A red-headed man, with blue eyes and a white skin, stood on a ferryloat looking over toward Windsor yesterday afternoon. “How fer is it acrost there?” he said to @ man near him, as he nodded across the river. “A mile or such-a matter,” responded the party carelessly. in’t it Canady over there?" foreign shore, ain't it?" es. hey don’t keer a hooter about this glo- rious republic of ours, do they?” “No.” “Star and stripes don’t amount to shucks to ‘em, does it?” “No.” “They wouldn't keer whether the Ameri- can eagle screamed or not, would they?” “Of course not.” “And this is the glorious Fourth of July, ain't it?” ‘ “That's what.” “And they ain't celebratin’ over there no more’n any other day?” “Hardly.” = they don’t give a darn?” “No.” He sald no more for a time, but looked to- ward the other shore intently. Then he turned to the other man. “Well, you jest walt a bit,"-he sald with a glitter in his eye. “I'll go up town and git forty-four beers and thirteen whiskies in- of me, and I'll go over there and you bet they'll think the Declaration of Inde- [een has struck the ce and busted ito a million pieces.” he went up town, but never cante back. — ———_+e+_____ What He is Interested In. From the Chicago Post. “Dees your husband favor the ballot for woman?" asked the little woman. “Well,” replied the tall woman, “he does rot actually oppose it, but sometimes I think he is more futerested in the ballet for men.” a +o<--_____ Meddling With Edged Tools. From the Chicago Tribune, “Your words are unnecessarily cutting, Miss Benderby,” said the youth, stung by her scornful sejection. “They come from a ebarper tongue than I thought you pos- sessed.” “And yet,” res) the maiden, dream- Hy, “how you ve spoken of my finely chiseled lips!” oe The steamers Trinidad and Mount Stew- art were in collision at 8: y' oft tton@, The Mount Stewart was sunk, but the @rew was saved. ye LATE SPORTING NEWS NO GAME YESTERDAY. The Events in the League Contest Throughout the Country. Hundreds of people were disappointed on reaching National Park yesterday after- noon to learn that no game would be play- ed. This decision was the result of what appeared to be a cloud burst shortly before 4 o'clock, which completely flooded the grounds. Two games, however, will be played this afternoon, the first being called at 2:15 o'clock and the second at 4:30 o'clock. One admission covers both con- tetts, and ladies will have free entry. A plichers’ battle ensued between Rusie and McMahon, and as Rusie came out ahead the Baltimores dropped the game to New York. The excitement throughout Was intense. The batteries wera Rusie and Farrell, McMahon and Robinson. ae 90010000 x-142 900000000060 Stupid base running by Louisville lost the game to Cincinnati by one run. Hemming and Grim, Parrott and Murphy were the batteries. .. REILE Louisville 000003008 11 Cincinnati . 000010014 72 Neither Pitcher Ehret nor Gumbert could fool Uncle Anson and his frisky Colts, who batted as they pleased. Hutchinson was also batted hard. The batteries were Hutc! inson and Kittredge, Gumbert, Ehret, Mer. ritt and Mack. H.E. R.H.E. Chicago ....0 8 0 6 1 43 0 1-i8 2 6 Pittsburg ..3 0101 1 0 1 4-11 17 5 Cleveland and St.Louts played two games, both resulting in victories for the Spiders. Mullane made his first appearance with Cleveland, and with the exception of the first inning the Browns could do nothing with him. The second game was won be- cause Cuppy received the better support. The batterizs were: First game—Mullan and Zimmer, Breitenstein and Peltz. Sec- ond game—Cuppy and Zimmer, Hawley and Peitz. First game— R.H.E. Cleveland o1 St. Louts. v0 Second game— R.H.E. Cleveland - St. Louis B A very close game was played by the teams from the District Commissioners’ of- fice and the city pest office yesterday after- noon at Capitol Park. Pitcher Hamacher was batted hard at the opening and Win- kleman took his place. Fuller and Dickin- son, Hamacher, Winkleman and Bishop did the pitching and catching. R.H.LE. DC. 0...6 010261 0 x10 0 7T Cc P.O....100000260-9 8 10 4 Notes. Umpire Stage has tendered h': resigna- tion as a member of the league staff. His reason for resigning is stated to be ill health. : ‘Boston has released Catcher Ganzel be- cause of his recent unjustifiable assault up- on a newspaper man. The Turf. There was a fair attendance at tle /lex- ander Island track yesterday, and the talent again had the best of the argument. The track was slow but safe, and very fair time was made. Summary: First race—Seven furlongs. Duke of Fief won; Needmore second, and Aunt Jane thi Time, 1.30 1-: Second race—Four and a half furlongs. Trixey Gardner won; Jim Fagin second, and Penjamin third. Time, 0.56. Third race—Six furlongs. Keime won; Ronald second, and Gonzales third. Time, 1.20 1-2. Fourth race—Five furlongs. Leon won; Varuna second, third. Time, 1.02 1-2. Fifth race—Seven furlongs. Quartermas- ter won; Tioga second, and Lum third. Time, 1.35. Racing at other points resulted as follow Brightwood Beach: First race—Selling; five furlongs. Nick, 8 to 5, won; Panway, 8 to 1, second, and R. Harf third. ‘Time, 1.02. Second race—One mile. Dutch Skater, 8 to 5, won; Harrington, 5 to 2, second; Stone- nellie third. Time, 1.43 3-4. Third race—Two-year-old: selling, five furlongs. Belle of Stonewall, 3 to 1, won; St. Pauline, 3 to 1, second, and True Penny third. Time, 2. Fourth race—Selling; one mile. Little Matt, 16 to 5, won; Reiff, 7 to 2, second, and Bolero third. Time, 1.43 3-4. Fifth race—Seven furlongs. Charade; 8 to 5, won; Hardy Fox, 20 to 1, second, and Tom Tough third. Time, 1.30. Sixth race—Steeplechase; Anthony, 4 to I, won; But second, and Summer Breeze third, Time, 3.09 1-2. Ponce De and Senator “At East St. Louls: First race—Five-cighths of a mile; selling. Starlight wom; Blacké- more and Prince Priton third. ‘lime, 1.06 1-2. Nellie H. third. Tim . Third race—Nine-sixteenths of a mile. Annie E. wort; Provoco second, and Republic third. Time, 0.58 1-2. Fourth race—One mile. Vida won;Rocque- fort second, and George Hakes third. Time, 1.0 1-2. Fifth race—Five-eighths of a mile. Robert Latta won; Maria Star second, and The iron Wonder third. Time, 1.06 1-2. At Hamline: First race—Half a mile. Mary Talbert won; Message second, and Bessie T. third. Time, 0.50 1-2. Second race—Six furlongs. Tom Kelly won; Kimberly second, and Ban cupt third. ‘Time, 1.16. Third race—Seven furlongs; selling. Crev- asse won; Mollie B. second, and Susie B. third. ‘Time, 1.29 Fourth race—One mile. Mountain Quail Emma Me. second, and Oxford third. Time, 1.44. Fifth race—One mile and seventy yards. Lasco won; King Star second, and Excelsior third. Time, 1.49. At Hawthorne: First race+Five-cighths of a inile. Neutral, 17 to,5, won; Nona, 7 to 5, second, and Dick Behan third, Time, 1.04, Second race—Seven-eighths of a mile. Flora Thornton, 1 to 2, won; Shuttle, 6 to 1, second, and Amelia third. ‘Time, 1.30. ‘Third race—Five-eighths of a mile. Lin- sced, 3 to 1, won; Diggs, 1 to 3, second, and Dante third. Time, 1.03 3-4. Fourth race—Three-quarters of a mile. Bellguard, 8 to 1, won; The Reaper, 9 to 5, second, and Nance third. Time, 1.17. Fifth race—One mile. Captain Rees, even, wen; Patrick, 9 to 10, second, and Mockahi third. Tine, ‘1.43 1-2. Sixth race—Three-quarters of a mile. Lucky Dog, 4 to 1, won; Insie O., 4 to 5, sec- ond, and Little Nell third. Time, 1.16 3-4. At Cleveland (trotting): First race, 2.3— Expressive, Limoneer, Mayflower, Chide ‘Time. 217 1-4, 2.18 1-4, 2.17 3-4, 2.18, 2.21 3-4. Second race, 2.25—Sallle Simmons, Nettie Wilkes, Lovelace. Why Not, Red Bird, Miss Rachel, Mambrino Swift, Cornelia Howard and Cantlivre Wilkes also started. Time, 2.19 8-4, 2.23 1-2, 2.18 1-2. ‘Third race, 2.17—Miss Nelson, Brown Dick 2, James L. 3. Com. Porter, Judge Austin, Edith R., Alonta, Maud C., Gray Don, Pe: cival, Happy Promise, Glycera and Amora Prince also started. Time, 2.15, 2.17, 217 34, 2.18. Horse Tampered With. At Brighton Beach yesterday the stew- aris, after investigating the running of Logan on Monday, decided that the horse bad been tampered with and that some of the bookmakers knew it. The evidence against Treiner Alexander Shields was slight. It was decided to repert the case to the Jockey Club without prejudice, and, pending that d , to suspend Mr Shields and his entire stable from either running or being trained on any of the tracks under the supervision of the Jockey Club. As re- gards the running of W. C. Daly's mare Lizzie. the stewards instructed the secretary of the Brighton Beach Association not to accept her entry again during the meeting. Canadian Cricketers Defeated. With ten wickets to the good the gentle- men of Philadelphia defeated the Rosedales at Toronto in a two-day cricket match. In their two innings Rosedale secured only 147, and two of Etting’s hard hits made the seven runs that the Quakers needed before a wicket had fallen. After winning the game the Philadelphias continued to bat, making 143 additional runs for four wickets. Hosmer-Plaisted Race. Articles of agreement were yesterd signed by George H. Hosmer of Boston ar4 Fred A. Plaisted of Gorham, Me., fcr a single-scull race om Aggust 6, to be rowed on some course tobe agreed spon later for $20 a side and umder“the rules of the Na- tional Association of, Amateur Oarsmen. Edgerton-§mith Fight. Walter Edgerton, the Kentucky Rosebud, signed articles of agreement last night to fight twenty rounds;,with Solly Smith of California before thé? Twin City Athletic Club of Minneapolfs pst August 9. The men are to weigh at sringside 122 pounds. Smith had already signed. peri Robert J.nad Mascott. BUFFALO, N. %, Jyly 25.—Robert J. and Mascot have been matched for a special race next week, best three in five, for $2,500, This arrangement: was made because the free-for-all race did not fill. Son of a Gun Wins. LIVERPOOL, July 25.—The race for the Liverpool cup of 1,200 sovereigns, part in plate or whole in specie, second horse to re- ceive 130 sovereigns and the third 70 sover- eigns from the stakes, a handicap for three years old and upward, cup course one mile and three furlongs, was run today and was won by Mr. F. Alexander's four-year-old Son of a Gun, carrying seven stone three pourtds. Bushey Park, five years old, carrying seven stone eleven pounds, the property of Mr. J. H. Houldsworth, was second and Mr. P. Buchanan’s New Court, six years old, carrying nine stone, was third. SS THE TURTLES WERE FIGHTERS. They Hated Ench Other So Mach That It Made the Deacon Sad. From the New York Sun. “In 1840,” said Deacon Seth Gregg of old Steuben, “I was crossing one of my father's fields on my way to the Cohocton for a day's fishing—for there were trout in those days. Bill Spicer was with me, and we came upon a couple of land turtles that were having the ugliest kind of a scrap. 1 don’t know what started the fight between the turtles, but from what I know it must | have been something serious. The turtles bit and tumbled and clawed each other for | a spell and then Bill and I separted them and put them a long distance apart. They turned as soon as they were down and came toward each other again as fast they could, which was at the rate of about | a mile an hour, but there was fire in both their eyes, and when they got together they pitched in again as flerce as ever. We hadn’t time to stay there and watch them, and so we went on and left them fighting. When we came back that way late in the afternoon there were those two turtles yet, fighting as ugly as ever, and neither one of them seemed to have the best of It. Then we broke up the fight. I took one of the turties home with me and Bill took the other one home with him. I cut my name on the bottom of my turtle’s shell, with the date, and Bill cut his name and date the same way on his turtle. “My folks were getting ready about then to move out to Illinois, and Bill's were going back somewhere in Massachusetts, where they came from. When we went away I took my turtle with me, just for the fun of the thing, and Bill took his along to Massachusetts. We settled out in Sangamon county, and Peter—that was my turtle’s name—didn’t seem to like it out there. Anyway, he disappeared before we had been there a week, and I couldn't find him, high nor low, We lived in Illinois twenty years, and then the old folks hav- ing died I moved back to old Steuben, bought the farm we moved, off of in 1siW and have lived there ever since. Of course I forgot all about Peter, the turtle, fitty years or more ago. ‘They Were the Same. “On> dzy last week I was going over mz farm, and not more than three rods from where Bill Spicer and I surprised the tur- tless at their scrapping match fifty-four years ago last spring I came on to two turtles having it put {vith one another in exactly the same way. I@ brought back the ofl days like flash, and I lay down in the grass and watched those turtles fight for a quarter'of an hour. Then I wot up and took ope of them by the tall and turned him over:on his back. His un- der shell was cut aid carved Ike a beech tree in a country school house yard. 1 went to deciphering the carvings, when the first one I looked at nearly made me drop in my tracks. And good reason. There it was, plain as day: “Seth Gregg, 1840!” The very turtle I had caught more than half a century ago, and which had got away from me three months later, ‘way sut In Ilinols! » “As soon as I could get over my sur- prise and wonder I began scanning the ether inscriptions on the turtle. Thay dated all the way from 1848 down to 1802, and the names of places carved now and then showed in chronological orJer that ol! Peter was steadily and unswer#ingly trav- eling east. “All the time I was examining Peter the other turtle stood on guard, glaring at Peter, and evidently impatient to resume the fight. So I put Peter down and picked up the other one. I know you will belfeve me when I say that my first sight at the under shell of this turtle actually sent me to grass. It had carvings, too, and the very first one was ‘W. Spicer, 1610." there were carvings on Bill's turtle show- ing that he had been as unswervingly head- ed west during the past fifty-four years as my turtle had been pointed east. Had these turtles been governed by some mysterious Instinct that drew them back to the old home for love of it, or had they been nursing undying animosity toward each other for half a century and traveled back with the hope of wreaking vengeance each on his foe? From the way they glared at each other and waited for a new chance to get even I made up my mind that the tur- tles had journeyed all those years toward the old home simply with the intention of having that fight out, and so I got up and left them by themselves. Two days after- ward I went that way again. The turtles lay in a ditch. Peter had his jaws fast on Bil’s turtle’s throat and Bill's had Peter foul in the tender spot under the left shoulder. Both were dead. I buried them right where they lay, and it saddened me to know that any living thing could carry hate so long and so far. kD WORKED. COSTLY AND Circus Horses Cost Lots of Money and Have No Easy Snap. From I: :son's Magazine. “A good circus horse ts a most expensive purchase,” said a trainer to a writer, “as you may judge when I tell you that I fre- quently pay as much as $1,500 for a single animal before it has been trained. I have one black horse now in my posse:sion which I would not part with for $2,000, although it is only employed in the ring. Last year, when I was exhibiting near New York city, a New York millionaire and his family vis- ited my exhibition and were so much#im- pressed with the beauty and grace of this noble animal that he offered me $1,800 for her, but I declined the; offer. An ordinary thoroughbred Kentucky horse bought for $1,500 1s worth ‘fe when thoroughly trained for the ct ‘Sing anywhere from $2,500 to $5,000.) American thoroughbred horses, although they are more dificult to train, by reason of their fine organizations and excitability, are far and away the est antmals for per- forming purposes. ,They stand work and are fit to be put in ess soon after go- ing through their tricks. I am the owner of 300 horses, and 4 guarantee that every- one of them Is sound afd perfect. Remem- ber, a horse for my purpose has to be sa- gacious, and I reject, an endless number before fixing on a clever one. Horses differ entirely as regards intellect. As an in- stance. I may tell you that two and one-half years is in training some horses, while two or three months may suf- fice for the thorough tuition of others. I took nine months, by the way, to teach a horse to catch a ball in his mouth, but by far the hardest task ts to induce a big horse to jump over a pony. I expect to give this act during the coming season. —roo— In Love at Last. From the New York Weekly. Mother—“We must make some inquiries ebout the young man who is calling on Clara.” Father—“We have ‘inquired about forty different young men, and that’s all the good it did. Sooner or later she gives them the mitten.” “She is tn earnest about thie one.” “Think so?" “I know When they start out for a teozlight walk she directs their steps up town toward the park instead of down town tcward the tce cream saloons.” IN HOTEL CORRIDORS —_—_ “It wouldn’t do to mention any names,” said a prominent club men, who was one of a pleasant party at Wormley’s last night; “but I caromed up against a poker story today that is being eagerly retailed in every boudoir from here to Bar Harbor. Of course, you all are aware of the poker playing that has been indulged in here for the past few seasons by a bevy of well- known society women. They began in the usual way with penny ante, but pretty soon the bridle was loosened, and during the past season ‘three Kentuck,’ with white chips at 50 cents and table stakes as the limit, has been the rule. The fact is, the ladies who have been indulging in the se- | ductive charms of bluff have grown to be | inveterate gamblers, as almost every day until hot weather came they met at the house of this or that one, and not only played the morning hours away, but took off a pretty good slice of the afternoon as well. The result has been that a scandal is brewing that may break forth any mo- ment that two husbands happen to meet. A story which I can almost swear to the truth of is something like this. Early in the spring one of the aMicted with the mania I have descri! got shy in her account with another member of the group and a demand was made for a settlement. The loser’s husband is a very careful and methodical! man, who kept his eye open, so far as his substantial possessions were concerned, so his wife dismissed the idea of pawning her diamonds, and went to a dressmaker and ordered four fine gowns. The garments were sent home accompanied by a bill something over $300, and the hus- band cheerfully handed the amount to his wife in order that it might be liquidated. The latter took the funds, which were sufi- clent to settle her poker debt and leave her a good stake remaining, settled with her adversary and began to plunge. With the natural hopefuiness of a gambler she was sure that she could recoup her losses, | pay her dressmaker and let no one be the | wiser. But you fellows know kow that is The lady I am speaking of was not defi- cient in luck, but she didn’t know the value | of a poker hand, while two cr three of the | other players were as shrewd at the busi- ness as a politician from the southwest. She lost her stake money, went deeper into debt and put off the dressmaker from time to Ume until the latter got tired. The other day her lord and master was sent a bill for the four gowns for which he had given | his wife the money a long time previous. When he demanded an explanation from | his erring spouse she broke Into tears and | confessed everything, and then had the | hysterics. She told him in the lucid inter- vals the names of the other women she had played poker with, only ore of whom | happened to have a husband living. The ; Iudignant gentieman wrote each one of the poker players demanding the immediate return of the money won from his wife, ac- companied by the threat that failure to | comply with the demand would result in publicity of the entire affair. The other | husband in the case is not in town, but | he ts a fiery Individual, who knew that his | wife played poker, and didn’t object to it, | and there ts liable to be proceedings of in- terest when he meets the stronger half of the loser at the game. The unprotected females are waiting to see what the outcome is before they disgorge. “The officers and crews of ocean-going steamships fairly hate to see a passenger come aboard with a pet in the shape of a bird or beast,” said N. F. Sidney of Phila- delphia at the Arlington this morning. “They krow the individual will be forever in the fidgets about his animated posses- sion, and from captain to cabin boy a groan goes up when a dog or a parrot comes over the side. Many of the companies charge heavy fure for pets, and the French line that runs to Havre demands $10 passage for a-dog or a monkey, and $4 for a parrot. If the pet possesses any striking physical Ppeculiaritfes ‘the sailors are pretty apt to endeavor to bring it to grief before the Voyage is fairly begun, for they are sure that the animai fs a harbinger of bad luck. Several years ago I was a passenger on the Arizona, and an English serio-comic singer aboard had an ugly cross-eyed pug dog with her. The second day out a big piece of lifting tackle accidentally fell on the dog and broke its back. The singer was in hysterics over her dariing’s death, but the cther men in the crew clubbed together and bought & month’s supply of tobacco for their shrewd companion who engineered the | eceldent.” “I am inelined to believe that ff the House of Representatives agrees to the Senate amendment to the agricultural ap- ‘propriation bill giving $1,000,000 for the ex- termination of the Russian thistle from the Dakotas’ and other northwestern states that -@ new crep industry will begin to flourish in our section,” said Charles R. Lovett of Sioux Falls at the Riggs House last night. “The Russian thistle is a terrible pest un- doubtedly, but fts increase is due entirely to the carelessness of the farmers them- selves. It ls really a terrible weed and ts an animal. The first time it was Leard of im this country was out near Yankton early in the ‘80's, and a decade later it had spread through both Dakotas, 2s well as portions of Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa. The Treason for this was because the farmers allowed the infernal things to grow in patches instead of plowing them under, or mowing them down and burning them dur- ing their growing season. They don’t be- gin to have seeds before the iniddle of August, and either of the means [ have in- dicated would have done away with them long ago if the farmers had acted im unison, for they are very easily killed. “The time the Russian thistle gets in its work of distribution is in the fall. The plants, which range in size from two to twenty pounds, die in the cutumn and break off close to the ground. Then the wind blows them to great distances, and every time they move they scatter seed. A smail thistle will contain 20,000 seeds, while the big ones will sift out 200,000 before they get through. The crop will get a good deal bigger if the government begins appropri- ating money for its extinction, as a million do!lars will prévide a mighty big per-capita for the populaticn in the thistle districts, who will get the work of removing ihem.” “Nothing will build up a broken-down stem better than a good sea voyage,” sald S. Randall Price of Boston at the Ebbitt yesterday, “and for the wearied and worried business man such a trip affords absolute nepenthe. There is another quality about such an experience that may not be gener- ally known. If Job had lived in these mod- ern days he could have gotten rid of his awful malady in short order by taking pass- age in a steamer for a transatlantic jour- rey. Several years cgo I was worked down to reck bottom and my biood got in such a terrible condition that I became a sufferer from boils. No sooner would cne leave me than another would appear. All the medi- cine I took did not appear to do me the slightest god, so I made up my mind to go abroad and seek relief at some of the nu- mcrous springs. I did not feel the necessity for treatment when I reached the other side. The both I had sailed with had dis- appeared and none had come to replace it. I spoke of my experience to Sir Edward Hart, the London physician, and he in- formed me that it was rot at all singular, saying that he almost always recommended an immediate sea voyage to patients who were undergoing the torments of Job.” a y Soulless, From the Detroit Free Press. The unsophisticated child of the west had been east for the winter, among the ultra fashionable folks of New York and Wash- ington, and when he came home his friends were anxious to know how he had enjoyed himself. “Well,” was the first inquiry, “did you meet many nice people?” “I didn’t meet a soul,” he replied, gravely. “Didn't meet anybody?” was the startied inquiry. “Why, weren't midst of the giddy throng’ He was graver than ever. - “Of course,” he responded, “that’s why I didn’t, I suppose,” and later they learned from hfs sermons on society just what he meant. ———-+ oe Fifty-Six Living Descendants. From the London Vanity Fair. The birth of the tenth great-grandson cf the queen-empress makes the number of her living descendants fifty-six. There have been born during her majesty’s reign four sons, five daughters, seventeen grandsons, twenty-three granddaughters, ten great grandsona, and six great-grand- daughters; grand total, sixty-five. Nine have died. No English monarch has been blessed with such a royal family. 7 ee the Interest- ing Series of Tests. ‘The trial board, under Capt. Sperry, which has been testing machine guns at the Washington navy yard, went to Indian Head yesterday and submitted some of the guns to further tests. The guns tested Mon- day were the Skoda, Gatling, Maxim, Nor- denfelt and Robertson. The rain beat down upon the exhibitors and examiners too much yesterday for them to carry out the full program, but some features were of interest to those under cover. For extreme elevation 200 rounds were fired from each gun, with its muzzle pointed skyward. The muazles were reversed, and almost dipping in the water, 200 more rounds were fired, after which a number of the exhibitors on the little tug which stood out from the wharf began plying a smail drag net, and gathered in a number of dead fish, Follow- ing this the gun was kept moving, both in train and elevation, and the action noted mentally by the board. The test for en- durance and for extreme rapidity at 100 and 500-yard targets will take place to- morrow. Yesterday the postponed test of the Ac- cles gun took place at the Washington yard. The following is the result: The firing of 100 rounds deliberately and 100 rounds rapidly was recorded all right; then followed firing into the butt for - ity, the gun (:amped, 100 rounds were in twenty and six-tenths seconds, 200 rounds in thirty-eight and six-tenths sec- onds, 300 rounds in two minutes and two- tenths seconds, and a charge of 25 rounds in one minute and twenty-one seconds. The last two numbers of the above resulted not so satisfactorily, because of defective am- munition. ¥ An army target at a distance of twenty- five yards was then fired at with the gun clamped and-crank at the side of the gun, resulting as follows: 50 rounds, eleven and four-tenths seconds; 75 rounds, fifteen and two-tenths seconds; 100 rounds, twenty and four-tenths seconds. The crank was shipped to the rear and the trial repeated, as fol- jows: 50 rounds in six seconds, 75 rounds in thirty-three and four-tenths seconds, an- other bad cartridge causing some trouble, and 100 rounds in fourteen and one-half seconds. The gun was unclamped and directed as in service, with crank stili at rear, with a result of 30 rounds in seven and eight-tenths seconds; a hang fire was here apparent. Seventy-five rounds were then fired in eleven and nine-tenths seconds, and 10 rounds in fifteen and eight-tenths seconds. Tie crank Was shipped to the side, and 50 fired in eleven and four-tenths seconds, 75 in fifteen seconds, and 125 tn twenty-five seconds, this last event being an excellent record. With the gun still un- clamped the gun was fired for one-half a minute, 125 shots being fired in that tim The trial of 109 rounds fired deliberately, every fifth cartridge being a dummy, to test effect of misfires upon the action, prov very satisfactory. The trial as to time to replace a disabled lock resulted in it being accomplished in twenty-six seconds, and the replacing of a broken extractor in thirty-three seconds and two-tenths. ——_—— London's Low Death Rate. From -the London Daily Telegraph. London's general health during the past week has been remarkably good, the death rate—15.8—being much below the average. Nearly all the maladies to which modern flesh is heir to show a diminution, but one entry In the return of the general not been seen in it for a long time— the death of a child from English cholera. The demise of a dock clerk’s widow, whose age was stated to be one hundred and two years, wae registered trict, the assigned cause death “decay of nature.” Croydon's death rate was being the lowest of any of the thirty-three great towns in England, and Brighton's was exactly the same as Lon- don’s. ———_~+02____ In the divorce division of the high court of justice, London, yesterday it was an- nounced that in the case of John R. Rogers against Minnie Rogers, better known as Minnie Palmer, the well-known American actress, the parties concerned had agreed to a general stay of proceedings, including the divorce. {fT SEEMS 100 SMALL look ts ater be. Pierve's Pellete.. But Cheap does not mean poor in quality. It means a great deal for the money paid. | In this sense, and in this only Murray & LANMAN’s FLoriwa Water is the cheapest perfume, as it is also the most delightful. Low priced substitutes are dear at any price. Insist ‘on having the GENUINE Murray & Lanman’s FLORIDA WATER. DR. 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