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The horses were Border Ruffian and Rocky Mountain Chief; the purse 05,000 in gold. Rufflan was backed by Tom Hunt, his owner, and Jim Harrison, notorious gamblers, Shortly before Hunt had murdered a prominent Mor- mon, and after a brief trial he was condemned to hang for his crime. The scaftold was erected on the outskirts of Salt Lake, near the overland road, and the murderer was to swing midst all the pomp of Jegal execution. In the excitement attending the prepara- tions on the morning of the expected hanging Harrison entered Ruffian's stable unobserved and spirited the racer away. Mounted on horse and leading Ruflian, Ha rode to the gallows unsuspec slipped two six-shooters into Hunt's hands, and before the officials or mul- titude had recovered from their sur- prise the outlaws were charging down the Webber canyon trail at a speed which defiled capture. One ofa num- ber of parting ritle shots killed Harri- son's horse, and it became necessary for Ruflian to carry both men. The Mormons pursued the desperadoes night and day, but were powerless teo overtake them, so wonderful was the speed and endurance of the stolen bay. Not until 100 miles had been covered did men or beast eat or rest, and on the morning of the tenth day they ar- rived at Denver, 600 miles from the Mormon capital. These facts once cirgulated, Ruflian became the hero of the hour, In the Denver race the Greer ,boys, who owned Chief, backed him. Thousands of men flocked to the track. There was long delay, but at last amid frenzied cheers the horses got a start, Ruftian forging ahead from the start, Chief flew the track, went over a steep embankment, and before he could re- cover the first heat was practically decided in Ruflian’s favor. A yell of disappointment went up from themul- titude, and a rush was made to lynch the man who started Chief. He suc- ceeded in escaping the mob unharmed however. More than $100,000 changed hands on the heat. An even start was obtained in the second heat, the two horses passing into the quarter stretch neck and neck. At the half pole Ruffian, in response to hard whipping, slowly took the lead. All this time Chief had been given a free xein, but had been spared the lash. Charles Ham- ilton, a desperado, who had all his earthly possessions staked on Chief, stood at the back-stretch pole as the horses approached, a navy revolver in either hand. ‘‘Lay the whip to that horse or I'll drop you from the sad- dle,” he shouted to Eugene Teats, Chief’s rider, sighting both of his weapons., Teats knew that Hamilton would keep his word unless the order was obeyed, and, although he was confident that Chief would win the second heat without urging, he lost no time in applying the whip. He drew blood at every stroke, and Chief went under the wire a winner of the heat by 100 feet in 1:42. { Then commenced a riot and turmoil the like of which was never before or since witnessed on a race course. Men pulled their six-shooters and fired madly, indiscriminately, andgold-dust in the quarrel for stakes, was scat- tered recklessly in the sand. Ruffian was completely broken down after this heat, and the gamblers, appre- ciating that they were beaten, became frantic with rage. Con Oram and Charles Switz, who afterwards became noted prize-fighters, stood at the door to the stand and held the mob at bay until the judges had given their de- cision. Chief was ordered on the track, and after making the half mile wire was declared winner of the race The judges had to beescorted from the track to town by an armed escort composed of volunteers from the win- ning side. Mounted on broncho ponies, with pistols and bowieknives drawn, the Greer brothers and a party of friends made their way to the $95,000 nugget and cut it to the ground. It wasload- ed into a wagon and taken to town, a guard accompanying the preeious freight. There was a large number of people stabbed and shot in the melee, but' fortunately none died of their wounds. That night Denver was one blazing revelry, one gorgeous orgie. The immense nugget was cut into smaller and more commercial com- modities. Teats was presented with 85,000 worth of these. The balance of the winnings were equally divided among the brothers, and in less than lfirty-livu hours they had squandered all, Sneezing. “God bless you!” 15 the common ession of BEuropeans when you in their presence; sneezing having been considered in ancient times the result of a demoniac posses sion, to avert the evil influuce they invoke a blessing. But the true phil osophy of a sneeze is sot forth in The Popular Science Monthly for April under the heading ‘*What is a cold?” The whole of it is worth reading, but we have only room to transcribe what relates to sneezing: ‘‘Sneezing in catarrh is a method nature adopts to stimulate the prostratenervous centre, and thus mmbs)u it to reassert its con- trol over the blood supplyto that part; ndeed, it will be found that the ef- focts of being exposed to drafts of cold air are often completely destroyed by a succession of sneezes, OFf course nature does not always immediately succeed in these efforts; but, when she does not, the shock from which the nervous center sulfers gradually passes away, and the blood vessels again come under the control of the little nerves which regulate their cali- ber, and so the catarrh disappears in a few hours, or at most in ugew days. It sometimes happens that the shock from the cold air acting upon the nervous center is of such severity that the consequent inflammationis intense enough to check the secretion of mu- cous altogether, and in consequence the mucous membrane is dry as well as inflamed, and the suffering very much intensified.” "The Commodore " Joseph L. hmue, the commodore, Elgin, 1L, says THoMas' EcLectaic O cured him of sciatica with one application, thor- ..ughlyuyylml. It also cured him of a ol severe cold and cough, He thinks it a very valuable remedy, and will never be without it, 14-1w ART STUDIOS. Interview with the Janitor of the New York Art League. Correspondence of Washington Capital Strolling down Fifth avenue the other day T stopped at the corner of Sixteonth street, remembering how in times past I had spent many pleasant hours in the rooms of the Art League. It was a little late and the place empty, all save the janitor, whom I| had nodded to many & time in pass ing. Tegother we walked through the room filled with easels, on which rested half-finished sketches in char- coal of the plaster casts scattered about. Then up stairs into the sketch olass room; but in the evening light it had a ghostly look, with rough out lines here and” there on the walls of some nude studies, the skeleton and flayed figure side by side on the model's plattorm. The last time T had been there the room was full of busy human beings drawing, stopping now and then to critically sight the relative length of nose or limb of the unfortunate model. The surroundings in effect wore little changed. T might have left but yes- terday, only my guide had a streak or two more of gray in his hair, and it was beginning to look suspiciously thin about the temple. He was in a talkative mood, nn(‘ glad to get hold of a listener, ‘‘Yes, yes,” and the old fellow re- flectively stroked his chin; ‘“‘we do have a lot of models, and no mistake. The queer part of itis there don't seem to be any two alike; you see our artists aro mostly young and like variety. Many! I guessif T hada dollar for every one I've seen pass through these doors my fortune would have have been made long ago, and no mean one, either. Inour profes- sion”—here the old janitor straighten- ed himself up, and, Lrushing his hand across his forehead, gazed at the ceil- ing—*“‘we take all kinds. We must, or the public would soon tire of our work and go elsewhere. That, you know, would never do; the approval of that same public means bread and vutter. So, although now and then it goes against the grain to follow their tastes in place of our own, yet we must grin and bear it, and no one is the wiser. “‘Some days it is only a little stroll- ing violin player with his baby sister; but I tell you these street children, young as they are, know a sight more of wickedness and ways of the world than you or I. They look innocent enough, with their big black eyes star- ing at you; but just try to send them off with a quarter, and you will find quick enough they know the value of their time, and will not leave until they get it. ‘It is a sight sometimes to see them posing quietly to a room full of ladies and gentlemen. Oh yes, so long as they are inside they have quietly enough, but once let them get out and they fight like young tigers. Order them off, and they turn on you with such a tide of Billingsgate as shocks even myold ears. That is sayinga great deal, for 1have come across some hard characters. Then again therg is a funny side. One day the class in portrait painting wanted an old wo- man’s face. I concluded my Irish yn;herwomnn might as well have the job. “Yes, indeed; she came quick enough--a dollar an hour was not to be earned every day in the week. Well, the poor old thing thought it quite fine at first to be paid simply for sitting in a comfortable chair and having her ‘picture took by all them people in dirty aprons.’ In a little while the novelty wore off, and she grew restless, beginning to turn about, looking at the pictures and half- finished sketches on the wall. When they told her she must keep quiet or there would be no money, it didn't seem quite 80 much fun. Then she became drowsy and nodded, so it was impossible for the artists to go on with their work. “‘Rouse her? I should think they did, but it was no use; until finally one of them had to stand by poking her up every time she showed signs of sleeping, she growling the while about their being'so hard on a poe¢r woman, aggrevating her in that way, when iv was hard enough being stared at and not allowed to wink in return. Finally they were through with her for thac day, and she left, saying to me as she passed out it was the hard- eat day’s work she had ever had, and avowing never to step foot in again where all them queer artist folk were. “Did she keep her promise? Bless your heart, no; she was there three times that same week. The money kept up her spirits, “We have, as I said, every kind here, from children all the way up to old men and women. And rough ones most of the men are, but they know enough to keep pretty straight while they are aoting as models. A laugh or a look on their part would pretty soon be funished by one of the gentlemen; and they do mnot try It, either, for some of the artists are rather too muscular for one to pick a fight with, Sometimes when the gen- tlemen have a sweetheart you will see their face over and over again in their drawings, Now, there's Walter Shir- law; youremember two ycars or so ago his illustrations for the story of ‘Roxy’ that came out in Scribner? His face for Roxy was taken from real life, a Miss Mansfield, to whom he was engaged, The same face you will sce in every one of his pictures; it just seems to come out the moment his pencil touches the paper. He used to come to all the league receptions with the pretty little soul hanging on his arm, and it would warm your heart to see the way he looked down at her. Where is she now? Oh, the romance has had its proper ending. She has been his wife now for a year? ‘“We are progressing, but the schools abroad are still ahead of us in many things, “‘Dear, dear; racy stories do some- times come from across the water’— and here my friend smiled as at some pleasant recollection. ‘‘One I can vouch for is told by a member of this League who was there at the time, It was at one of those large conservato- ries in Paris, and the class in nude studies had waited long past the usual hour, still no model appeared, till finally the professor, growing impa- tient, went into the dressing-room to inquire into the delay. Still they waited, and neither protessor nor model put in an appearance. Just as they were giving up in despair the pair entered, The model, cool and collected, walked to the stand and as- T KY 17, 1bbs. | sumed her pose, but it was some mo- ments bef th 1 fellow counid | over his ombarrassment sufticiently to direct his pupils, It aftorward leaked out that the unlucky cause of delay was owing to a pot of green paint which the model; in sitting down to | take off her shoes and stockines, had inadvertently knocked over. And | even with the profossor's hlp it took somo little time to get her looking ship-shape again.” Hore tho old fel low broke into a series of chuckles; then wiping his eyes, went on: “*A ridiculous thing happened over here at Cooper Union mnot long ago. You know old Peter Cooper is horri- fied at the very idea of the human form divine being copied in its un draped simplicity. One of the teach ors told a poor girl from the neigh- borhood she was to come on a certain dl\i' and pose for the young damscl Iadies. At tho appointed time the {unuu damsel came, but being over- ong of relieving herself of cloak and hat, the teacher went out to remon- strate for the loss of time, and was met with confused blushes by the guileless young creature, who ex- plained: *T am most ready now; just wait until T take this off—pr ng to divest horsolf of her sole remaining garment, It took some little while to explain the situation and make the girl underatand that there were models and models. “I've seen some of our swellest- looking young fellows start out in search of a new subject for the sketch class, and come back triumphantly leading & miserable, filthy old rag- picker, with his great long iron hook rukmg around in the corners of the andings and stairs as he came up. I keep a_pretty sharp lookout on all such when they pass out, or those nimble fingers would be put to other uses than poking after rags. Occa- sionally things have been stolen, but not very often; there are too many of us about. ‘‘There is one model who is a favor- ite here—a pretty little slim thing about 12 years old. You see, she has been a long time in the business, and is deft and quick in her ways. The beauty of these young models is you can change them around, altering their pose often as you like, which is more than you can with some of the professionals get so sometimes when they are with any of our. big artists that they think they can dictate terms to them. Especially if a picture for which they have been sitting as a queen or some great dame becomes popular, they will say, when asked to pose as a peasant or servant girl, that 1t will be impossible; their manners are too lady-like or their hands and feet would betray them. They are vain creatures, and do not scruple to say that without their aid success could not have been attained. But these artists are generally an oasy- going set, and indulge them in their little vanities, content if by so doing they are kept in good humor. ‘There is a story that comes to us from the other side, of a jolly young peasant girl who had run away from home in Brittany and came up to Paris to do whatever fell in her way. It fell in her way to sit as a model for a celebrated painter, and during her sittings she would amuse herself sing- ing all the quaint old songs of her country-folk, occasionally varying this by picking up a chair by its back with her teeth and carrying it about the room. She was too great a beauty to remain in quietness, and finally a rich Italian count married and carried her off. Not long after she returned, at the request of her husband, and sat as a countess for her portrait in the same room where formerly she had danced and sung as a model.” Household Words James Pearson, 28 Sixth street, Buffalo, says: “I have used your Spring Blossom for myself and family, and think it, inval- uable as o household ‘remedy, for regula- ting the bowels,liver and Ridneys, I shall never be without it.” Price 0 cents, trial bottls 10 cents. 141w UNDE;R THE SUNFLOWEKR. ‘What Boston Followers of wilde Call an Zsthetic Costume Party. Boston Post. An wsthetic costumo party was giv- en at Parker Fraternity Hall on Fri- day evening and proved a grand suc- cess, The reception commiteemen were decorated with badges of blue and gold, while the floor managers were radiant in gold and scarlet. Most of the guests were in costumes suited to the utterly utter occasion, and the sunflower reigned supreme, casting its golden radiance over the modest lity, which appeared in its own quite fashion, Among the stunning costumes were the twenty rapturous maidens arrayed in draperies of dainty colorings, which caught the light most charmingly in the classic folds that were allowed to fall gracefully from the shoulders; the sunflower was their bad ze of honor and tower of strength, while folly in all her prettiness busk- ed beneath the shade of wsthecic sun- flowers, Gypsies were Mull of be- witching grace, while Pomona scattor- ed her fruits with lavish hand, crown- ing all with lilics. Night was glorious with the added splendor of the sun- flower, and the picturesque group of Swiss peasants were also wsthetically crowned, Sir Walter Raleigh, with Romeo, wandered about caressing beautiful fairies, and German students were numerous with colored gowns and square-top hats, Oxford was re- presented by black-robed students, who wore square hats also. Alsthetic shams were scattered about the hall, serving an admirable back-ground to the gay moving figures who had re- sponded so fully to the requests of the invitations. No 7 in the rupiln‘ repertoire was & German with bon- bon scarf, puss in the corner and chal- lenge figures, The party was delight- ful and thoroughly enjoyable, and will probably be repeated by re- quest, A Cross Baby. Nothing is 8o conducive to 8 man’s remaining a bachelor as stopping for one night at the house of a married friend and being kept awake for five or six hours by the crying of a cross baby. 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