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HARRISON’S QUIET DA\.
BViC SS ATTENDED IN THE
CHAPZL OS' THE HOTEL.
*vu e sermon Taken from tho Parable
o !the Fig Tree-Private Secretary
Halford’s Daughter Singe a Solo-
The President’s Old Law Partners
join Him After the Services- A Long
u-aiic in the Afternoon.
tvkkFahk, Ud., Aug. 18.-The Presi-
® tsne !t tue Sunday quietly. In the
and ‘i' he w .. a t to the little chapel of the
“L w f th ex-Senator Davis and listened to
££?*.**• .~w. <•=
VL The minister spoke of the worthless-
L* o f the lives of those whose aims are sel
flsh and how thev became unhappy, for
gotten and friendless, while those who live
L humanity never lose interest in life.
Private Secretary Halford’s daughter sang
toe solo “Better Land” during the service.
JOINED BY OLD FRIENDS.
The President’s old law partners, Attor
ney General Miller and Lawyer Eiam met
him after the service. After dinner the
President took a two mile w alk in the
mountains enjoying the scenery. Mrs.
Harrison remained at home all day resting
from ier journey from Nantucket. The
President will sleep in Ins private car Tues
day night, and it will be attached to the
Baltimore and Ohio express which leaves
here at 6 o’clock Wednesday morning, and
arrives at Indianapolis at 11 o’clock the
same night.
TAN NEB MOST MAKS TRACKS.
The President Bound to Oust Him
From the Commissionership.
Washington, Aug. 18.—President Harri
son is quoted as saying yesterday before he
left that no whitewashing report would be
accepted from the Tanner commission. It
looks more and more as though Commis
sioner Tanner would have to go unless he is
so broadly and deeply indorsed by the
G. A. K. at the national encamp
ment as to make it impossible. Con
servative men tay he will not be, but Com
missioner Tanner is confident that he can
carry the convention. He leaves
next Saturday with Gov. Rusk,
Col. Dudley, his escort and a brass
Land. Commissioner Tanner’s friends
openly accuse Assistant Secretary Bussey
of plotting to oust Commissioner Tanner, so
as to secure Commi sioner Tanner’s place
for himself. The commissioner of pensi >ns
gets J'i.OOO more than the Assistant Secre
tary of the interior, but they say that even
if Commissioner Tauner has to go they
will prevent Secretary Bussey from suc
ceeding him. Commissioner Tanner waxes
more profane than muni when he talks
about Secretary Bussey. Commissioner
Tanner placed a large portrait of himself,
framed in bra-s,. >n his office wall yesterday.
M’KINLEY FOB SPEAKER.
An Inference That Quay Favors Him
for the Position.
Washington, Aug. 18.—The strenuous
prnteitationsof colored Congre-sman Cheat
ham of North Carolina that he will not take
part in auy independent movement to
coerce the republican majority into giving
southern republicans office, but is for
McKinley for speaker, and will vote for the
calicos nominee, are accounted for bv the
fact that Chairman Quay of the re
publican national committee put the
screws on him. Senator Quay saved
Cheatham's cdection by buying off
sow? 6 ’ T b i ß coloreJ competitor, with
toe’UO. \\ hen Cheatham began to talk
ab ut kicking against the republican caucus
rule Quay sent word to,). J. Mott, boss of
•'orth Carolina, who had the little transac
£?" ?' lth -Mebane, that he must chango
•a_ hatii -• tune. This he promptly did.
r i- , t,lat Cheatham has been talking
TANARUS! IJro ; usi y over since leaifi
KStfaja*”" Q “ w pr,,er *
NEWS OF THE ORIENT.
iheßopcrts About the Earthquake at
Kumamoto Greatly Exaggerated.
h 1 aAXCtsco . Aug. 18.—From news
by t!l ® steamer City Suduev,
V lbh arrlved tn - fiay from Hong Kong and
Yokohama, it would seem that the loss by
t pmkoat Kumamoto in July was
great / exaggerated.
? Üb '! Wod in Ja P an - Nino
awav ~r brokof ty h ? uses were washed
• k ;,ae r™
RIOTERS KLEE.
l'Utiat ’{ ai T learns July
of Chit a had 1,0 Kieu Province
frocks. Before 1 'i'?f° ru th ® Approaching
b raed their b ats I^rK ne ’ however > tiie >’
bckoaChinCWfii 111 ® report ot a;i at ‘
the loss Of , on': 1 ;:" S dla 18 confirmed. For
last year the ri . r4l ' oof their countrymen
Uni.?... w[, " roV r, ged themselves by
tac.ti of i 400 “and 500 inhabi
and children ° vllla 8 es Jacluding women
scluvan.aT^Tncinnati.
I,fke a Dot>ot Gr ao ts Him
teciNNATi n A qUer “ Her °’
ran arrived h ’ l US ' , L. Sulli-
John Sullim el ! to ' al ß |lt - He was met by
thlS city > ’‘"das soon as
f 3 r “I idly Z - l tlK>y beCa,ll ° the hßad
s,ion r/ " lltadln S and encircling pro-
V within the Jr!? a .nd others who hid
h ‘s itclosure ,nclt 'Buro. Outside
L uth P Iwas1 was Packed, and
dlHicuit y that
thr j. e ™ a ‘ d hls “cort made their
ii'-oi out to a onr, l ‘ ie wau ng-rcom, and
cheered aup in g % The enthusiastic
g ? Ven si a of a ‘-‘ trequently, but bo
.°‘o is adnnre the " aduration
review like a
, f . -’ ! with bovs !• S - dnveu rapidly
5uV he farrUe rUWUn * aud yelling
Yorg, i,au let 't on an early train for New
Tv A Mail pouchbtolen.
4Utt °Been 8 R laim That “ Has
St. i 0 . ' en Rec °vereci.
that the f ist ’nA w' ls -~ lt is claimed hero
’ L "U-s last rv‘n, rain ’ which arrived in
robbed jo f * ° V6r the Vandalia line,
?‘ er hs and train Haute while mail
Htb -t SS >Wereat SUpper ’ 11
t : :,; s ; bl i®' 81 ?'"* registered
r -.‘‘ f n About *lO 000 P Tmr Waa , s ' a PPGsed
it I,'. 4 *'i Semico,,iir, • i>>hgent inquiry
bra] c ah an d
Co "iSstion. * - a to-day of cere-
Jin filing Jtai£.
BOULANGER MAKES A SPEECH.
He Would Have Gone Back if Tried
by a Regular Court.
London, Aug. 18. —Five hundred French I
residents of London visited Gen. Boulanger
iu a body to-day and presented him with an ]
address of sympathy and confidence. The
general, in a speech, said that he had never
used money belonging to France except
when trying to secure her against her
enemies. It he had been tried by a regu
larly constituted court of assizes, he
and his colleagues would have taken
the S’-st boa - for France to face the
trial. The French government did not
dare to avail themselves of the ordinary
courts, but formed a special tribunal com
posed of his political enemies, which had
virtually condemned him before it met.
It conclusion, he said ho only asked good
faith from the French people, and the
triumph of the present rulers would soon
be a thing of tho past.
EUROPE’3 BIG ALLIANCE.
The Auatro-German Treaty Made Still
More Far-Heachlng.
Berlin, Aug. 18. —The National Zeitung
commenting on Emperor W illiam’s recent
trip to England, says: “The entente ob
tained by his visit to Osborne assuros an
identity of policy on the part of England
and the triple alliance, and makes pro
vision for all the remits of that common
policy.”
THE AUSTE.O-QERMAN TREATY.
It is reported that the recent interviews
between Prince Bismarck and Emperor
Francis Joseph and Count Kaluoky re
sulted in a modification of the Austro-
German treaty whereby a casus foederis is
established whenever tho vital interests of
either nation are t hreatened. Hitherto only
an open attack has constituted a cause for
joint action.
FRANCE’S SOLIDARITY.
Carnot at a Banquet of 13,000 Mayors
and Communal Delegates.
Paris, Aug. 18. —President Carnot de
livered an address at a banquet given to
day to 13,000 mayors and communal dele
gates. He said that the demonstration
proved the national solidarity. The
French people, though crushed
for a time, had shown it3 power
to recover and make its sovereign voice
heard by removing parties still aiming to
undermine the edifice raised by the fathers
of the republic. Tho nation would soon
cast into oblivion all passing discords and
combine the forces of the republic by recon
ciling all persons iu the name of a common
country.
Granada's Alhambra Not Damaged.
Madrid, Aug. 18.—The report that tho
Alhambra had been damaged by the hurri
cane that visited Granada yesterday is de
nied. The gardens surrounding the palaca
were devastated by the storm, but the
building itself escaped damage.
Plans of the Czar’s Trip.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 18.—The czar
will go to Copenhagen prior to his visit to
Potsdam. He will probably meet Emperor
William at Potsdam, on Bept. 18.
RICHMOND ITSELF AGAIN.
Gov. Ross and a Military Company
on the Scene.
Richmond, Tex.,Aug. 18.—The situation
is quiet here since tho terrible riot in
which Sheriff Garvey and ex-Sheriff
Blakely lost their lives and several promi
nent citizens wore wounded. Gov.
Ross arrived yesterday accompanied
by the Bren'aam Light Guard. It is
thought that the militaryjwill not be needed,
at least for the present. As the sheriff has
been killed and his deputy wounded, no
arrests have been made, nor has any inquest
been held to investigate tho causa of death,
though the parties have been buried. It is
thought that all will be laft to the grand
jury for settlement.
A TRUCE PATCHED UP.
The governor had a conference to-day
with leading citizens of both political fac
tions, and all agreed to the appointment of
a trustworthy man for sheriff, regardless of
politics. The Houston Light Guard is the
only company now here. The funeral of
H. Frost, the Jaybird leader, o curred
to-diy, and- was largely attended. The
bodies of the slain will be exhumed and an
Inquest held there on. There is no prospect
of a renewal of the trouble.
A COTTON CONVENTION.
The New Orleans Exchange Takes Up
the Tare Question.
New Orleans, Aug. 18.—The board of
directors of the cotton exchange
have sent to all the exchanges
and boards of trade an invitation
to a convention of the cotton interest, to
take place in this city on Sept. 11, to agree
on an uniform method for adjustment of
the difference in the tare between cotton
and jute bagging. The proposition is that
from a certain date ail cotton shall be sold
by net weight, allowing 5 per cent, of the
gross weight for jute and 3}/ 2 per cent, for
cotton bagging.
A BRAKE OPENS A SWITCH.
Two Cars Derailed and Eighteen Per
sons Injured by the Accident.
Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 18.—Eighteen per
sons were injured by a wreck on the Bur
lington and Missouri railroad near here
early this morning. A brake beam broke,
forcing open a switch into which the smok
ing car aud a coach in the rear rushed and
were derailed. O. A. Jones of Lincoln is in
serious condition, but it is not believed that
any of the injured will die.
Hobbed of $5,000 in Jewelry.
New York, Aug. 18.—Mrs. John P.
Richardson of Chattanooga, arrived here a
few days ago, and upon opening her bag
gage found that she had been robbed of
FSJJOO worth of jewelry, probably on the
railroad. There is no clew to the robbery.
A New Feeder For Savannah.
Bainbridge, Ga„ Aug. 17.—Three bales
of new cotton reached here yesterday en
route for Savannah from Dothan, Ala., via
the Alabama Midland. Chief Contractors
J. M. Brown at Cos., say they will have the
road ready in time to move the entire
crop along the road’s routo this way when
ready for market.
Hoboken’s Murder.
Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 18. —Further in
formation in regard to the killing at Hobo
ken yesterday is hard to procure, but from
what can be learned the murderer has been
captured and delivered to the sheriff of
Pierce county. This is not positively kuown
here, however.
Killed by a Train.
Jonesboro, Ga., Aug. 18.—Lewis Bar
ton (colored), was run over and killed by a
train in Jonesboro last night. He was seen
drunk a short time before the accident oc
curred.
SAVANNAH, GA., MON DAY, AUGUST 19, 1889.
RUMORS of a rice riot.
four NBOROB3 REPORTED KILLED
AT LUMBER CITY.
-he Whites Said to Have Escaped
Fatalities—The Killing Caused by
an Attempt by a Posse to Arrest
Fugitive Murderers—Another Negro
Reported Mortally Wounded.
Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 18. —Ttiero are
rumors here of a riot between whites and
blacks at Lumber City last night, in which
four uogroes were killed outriglit and one
mortally wounded. From passengers on a
down-coming train it was learned that the
trouble originated from the killing at
Mcßae lately. The negroes who were impli
cated in it in some way left Mcßae and fled to
Lumber City. Yesterday eleven men
formed a posse that left Mcßae, bound for
Lumber City, with the intention of arrest
ing and bringing back the negroes wanted.
They found tho men, but met with resist
ance in making arrests. Firearms were re
sorted to, and when thesmokecleiredaway
two negroes were found dead near the s;a
tion and two near tho water tank. One was
injured, but escaped. No white men are
reported hurt.
LATEST DR2S3 WRINKLES.
tiV hat the Girls and Tliair Msmmes
Are Wearing.
New York, Aug. 17.—The grip of con
ventionality succumbs to 90® in the shade.
In the hot and heavy air people lounge and
yawn, perspire and wilt, theu get them
down to the sea or up to the mountains
where they may have a chance to escape
from the thralldom of law and order, and
run riot in freedom, ease and comfort. The
society woman, owing to her environment,
has the advantage In coolness and comfort
over the rest of her sisters less fortunate in
means, and all of her brothers less fortunate
in the attribute of sex—at least in summer.
.Starch and buckram are relegated to
winter quarters, while filmy stuffs and scaut
draperies from the gazy silken vest to the
diaphanous silken g >wu, afford ample room
for winds be they gentle or stroug to cool
and strengthen every inch of flesh and
bone. Fashion is the niagic name for the
summer’s doings, and from the ball-room
gown to the mountain suit it was never so
near art as now; nor, whether intended or
not, since the days when the Geeks held the
body as only less than divine, has this same
body so nearly reached freedom as under
the present reign. Granted the artistic aim
of fashion to find its highest realization in
dress, we must follow society to the sea.
Grand toiletios and the blaze of jewels have
no )■luce here, but simplicity obtains more
than ever based on fitness of material and
occasion, flowing lines aud Uariuouy of
color. As fitting the season, Redfern sands
gowns of simple style, and Howard and
White say they make only "’little airy noth
ings.”
Here is a batch of gowns, all for New
Yorkers who ore content to sunnuor on the
Yankee side of the Atlantic this year. For
Mrs. Austin Corbin is an afternoon gown
of pals green crena de Chine and rosebuds
in gold beads. Tue long drapery with
Greek border in gold and deep fringe of
silk aud gold falls iu straight folds at the
back over the plaiting of too
short silk petticoat, and is caught
by rosettes" above the right kuee
aud high on the left side, where
the border falls iu cascades to the bottom.
Folds of wlnto crepe soften the outlines of
the iow-cut round corsage, and form the
puffed elbow sleeves, while a green crepe
scarf adjusted around tho armholes and
waist falls in ends at the back. O ily a
diamond spray and earrings are worn with
this pretty thing. An evening gown for
Mrs. Russel Henderson, a handsome
brunette, and wife of the steamboat mag
nate, was worn at a private dinner. It
was of black net studded with gold and
amber beads and edged with a deep Greek
border in gold. The back was on deini-train
over black silk; tho front pleated, over
which was carried the border to tho right
hip in form of a Greek apron. The sleeve
less low-cut Greek corsage was draped with
black tulle, and a harmonizing pink crepe
scarf from right shoulder across bust aud
back, with loops and ends at the left side.
Mrs. Henderson wore with this a narrow
circlet of diamonds aroundjtlie throat.
Another exquisite little affair is a dancing
frock for a beautiful girl, ouo of the “Four
Hundred” summering at Long Branen.
This is a cream net bordered with old rose
gariands in a lace setting over cream silk.
The draping is similar to the green crepe
described, aud the rosy garlands form the
puffed baby sleeves and tho flutiug across
the low bust. A wide cream ribbon with
the effect of a Spanish waist in front ties at
the back in loops and ends. A ruby clasps
the back velvet throat baud, another burns
iu the low loop of brown hair and the
pretty creature floats off in her rose gar
lands to the sound of delicious music.
But there is something besides dining and
dancing by the sea. A promenade suit for
a young lady is of white serge, accordion
pleated, with a white silk sairt. Over this
is w-oru a bright blue cloth Zuave jacket,
silver braided and edged with small silver
bullet butt ms. A blue surrah sash is knot
ted below the hip, and a white felt sumbrero
heavy with rich and ragged chrysanthe
mums hill sof the fall. Another charming
promenade costume for a married lady
was a polonaise of pal reseda figured crepe
de Chine, with pointed girdle confining tue
draped front, girdle, collar and long elbow
cuffs of tho full sleoves being closely braided
with gold. A sleeveless wrap of reseda
cloth and gold, closely fitting behind, with
loose rounded fronts, aud a fancy chip hat
with shaded plumes in the same tone com
pleted tnis pretty effect. Truly a sprig of
mignonette.
At tennis the girls lave discarded the
brilliant strines and contrasts in vogue in
the early season and wears only white and
pale tints. A sweet thing, though I for a
millionaire’s daughter, was simple enough
for a rosy-cbeeked milkmaid. This was
only a piuk pique with pleated skirt aud
apron front turned up to hold the balls, and
a blouse waist with leg of-mutton sleeves
and a rolling collar turned back to the bolt
with which was worn a white silk shirt
front and undersleeves. Pink corded rib
bon with a pearl uuckle furnished the baud
for both the waist and white sailor hat.
Simplicity does not in the least lessen the
cost of a gown. All of these in vulgar par
lance cost money. On the other hand, they
wore coined by trained artists. Each one
can be duplicated in any of the soft silks
and wools in vogue, or even in French
organdy w ith its lovely designs and colors.
It should be remembered, however, that
dress must be adapted to the wearer and her
circumstances. No one studies this more
thoroughly than the women of fashion.
If one cannot wear the empirejgown with
its short waist and long skirt, then she
may adopt wrinkles and ruffs and broken
lines; another finds the diroctoire too
severe, and softens harsh outlines by dra
peries. A woman with the beauty and
temperament of Cleopatra, while she will
not be likely to adopt the startling gauso
effects of Mrs. Potter's stage representation,
may yet indulge her caprice for oriental
richness. A New England Priseella would
burn to death in such trappings.
Another requisite in the art of dress, j
well understood by women of the world, is
never to look old. She may grow old. but j
look old, never! Said a fam us modiste: 1
“Ten years slip from the life of a woman
when she stands in one of my gowns.” This
is why so many ladies past the prime of
life are wearing those stringless things be
tween a dress capote and a hat, which,
without a touch of youth or coquetry, turn
back the years.
Speaking of Individuality in dress reminds
me of the laughing remark of the above
mentioned modiste that she was making
nothing hut China silks as her cbiutilo
sleep, eat, drink and live only in China silk.
In tho morning madam flings otf the night
gown of white China silk, cools her pearly
skin in a marble bath, throws over
a lace petticoat a breakfast cown of pink
China silks and laces, slips her silken
toes into white canvas slippers and lolls
into breakfast as fresh as a dew drop.
She drives in a cool gray China silk and
black laces, dines iu a Greek costume
of white China silk and gold and ap
pears at the dance iu a delight of green
China silk and silver. Now, can any
man match this for beauty and comfort
iu his summer dresl Only iu his silk
“nightee" aud bath-gown, iu neither of
which is lie pretty or presentable. Half
the possibilities of this delightful eastern
stuff have not been told, from tho coil
white night robe to tho superb rods and
yellows if its classic draper: s for evening
wear. Who that has seen Modjaska as
“Juliette’’ iu that striking yellow Lidia silk
in tho garden scone, can ever forget its
mallow radiance, flowing lines and sinuous
undulations as they followed every motion
of the graceful body and limbs* It was
the Greek artists who first revealed the
human b >dy beneath the painted gar
ments. We are just beginning to learn
the same thing, aud by and by there
will be a tremondous revolt from vanity if
for no other reason, against everything,
cloth, wire, or wtialebone that conceals tho
beauty of the human form aud restricts its
freedom and grace of motion. This saino
rare material with its surprising adapt
ability is fortunately within tha reach of
everyone. But it is aristocrat ic and, while
serving for traveling, street and homo wear,
never descends into the kitchen or the work
room.
One of tho pretty accessories of the sum
mer toilaUe is a white lace fichu with a
ruff half a yard deep, pleated on a lo .g
i arrow oval of not. Thrown over tie
shoulders during a drive or walk, the effect
is very soft aud lightens up tho plainest
dross.
As to the vexed question of foot wear, it
is conceded that the most becoming and
suitable is a black silk stocking and black
shoes, but fashion step3 in with her love of
color and fitness and slaps down a white
canvas slipper for breakfast, a soft tan
or great Suede Oxford tie, or low shoe for
all times at home, for carriage, f r seaside
and country wear. A well-known literary
woman, who, by the way, is a cousin of
Amalie Rives, and as brilliant a sho is
sensible, appeared at one of her afternoons
in this city iu a violat gown end red Turk
ish slippers. As she ha 1 the foot of at’airv
she could well bear the scrutiny that fol
lowed the red shoe.
I have a groat esteem for the yellow shoe,
as wo soe it in the streets. Somehow It
always seems larger than the foot aud for
that reason must i.e good for corns. Any
way, it is comfortable and dies not requi o
any vicious blacking. If any one wants to
wear it on Broadway why shouldn’t he
without ever v one else turning round to
measure its size* It is much nicer looking
than a dusty black shoo, aud, like a pretty
woman, never looks old.
Apropos of shoes and stockings, the yel
low garter s;ill fascinates, and, with its
settings aud velvet case, is as eagerly sought
after us any other jeweled bauble. “See
here," said a society swell the other day to
a friend, “this is Jim’s last present,” and
flinging aside her silken skirts she disclosed
a yellow coil with a snake’s green, enameled
head and guttering, diamond eyes, clasping
her black silk stocking just above tho
rounded knee. "Hi has never seen it
since,” she added with a sigh, as it disap
peared beneath the ruffles.
For the fall, it has been decreed in the
court of the great queen, wherever that
may be, that tho direetturo style is passe.
It will no doubt he used with some modifi
cations, for it is, notwithstanding its ole
gance, too convenient and comfortable a
dress to be wholly cast aside, even at tho
nodding of a queen. The empire gown will
remain in favor. Pointed waists: much em
broidered or braided, cuffs to the elbows,
and very full sleeves are to appear. Some
of tho fall jackets in cloth are close fltt ing
and much longer than usual. They will be
becoming to some, but must be avoided by
others for a other style batter adapted to
their figure.
The new dress goods will show fine soft
woolens in large plaids and stripes, and
plain serges elabo ately braided in shades
of the ; nine color nr contrasted tones. The
now colors are old capper, which has the
glow of dying embers, old rose, soft greens
and gray3. Avery rich effect is produced
in these plaids by three or four shadrs of
one color harmonizing with shades of
another, as: shaded gray with black, which
will be very popular, or shaded olive green
with old rose. The stylo of making must
follow the prevailing mods of long lines,
though it is said dranerios will be suorter.
Emma Polk Harris.
A CHINESE LEPER
Wishes to be Sent as a Missionary to
His Afflicted Countrymen.
New York, Aug. 10.—Ah Tson Sene, an
undersized Chinaman, about 30 years old,
has been a patient in tho King county
chanty hospital at Fiatbush since June 8,
1888, suffering from wha t is alleged to be a
genuine case of leprosy. Arrangements are
now under way to have him sent back to
China as a missionary to one of the leper
settlements near Canton, for Sene professes
Christianity and wifnta to be an evangelist.
He has been in this country two years, aud
just before hi3 admission to the hospital
was employed in a laundry on Gold street,
Brooklyn. While there lie began attending
the Chinese Sunday school on Atlantic avel
nue, which is conducted chiefly by ladies.
At this time the malady from which he is
suffering appeared on the fare and neck and
in a discoloration of the hands, symptoms
like those of leprosy. He grew worse, and,
his teachers becoming alarmed, sent a physi
cian to him. The doctor, it is said, after
consultation with other physicians, pro
nounced the case one of genuine leprosy,
but this did not seem to scare the teachers,
and Sene continual to attend their Sunday
school. He did not improve, and the next
heard of him was when he was found in the
hospital. How he obtained admission there
is not known.
Under skillful medioal treatment he has
been mending slightly, and bis return to
China has been decided upon. Dr. Osgood,
the house surgeon at the hospital, does not
think that Hene’s disease is leprosy. Sene
has not been Isolated since he has been in
the hospital.
Afraid of the Elixir.
Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 18.—To-day was
named for the trial of Brown-Sequard’s
elixir in Brunswick. Tbs lamb was secured
and the preparations completed, but at the
eleventh hour the patient failed to arrive,
and the test was ceceesarily postponed.
THE REIGN OF THE COR.
CHUNKY BUILT HORSES CROWD
ING OUT THE THOROUGHBREDS.
Expert La Fetra Telle What Kind of a
Horse to Buy for a Coupe, Dog Cart,
Village Cart, Carriage Team, Tan
dem, Four In Hand and Saddle—How
to Buy a Good Horse from His
Points—Why tho Cob Has Become
So Popular.
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New York, Aug. 17. —“A perfect horse
is like a perfect diamond,” said Cnarloi La
Petra, of East Thirteenth street, one of the
keenest experts iu equine values iu New
York. “It is just as difficult to fiud tho one
as the other.”
For tho last tin years Mr. La Fetra has
handled mure fine horses fur private use
than any other man in this city. There
are really only about half a dozen men who
are recognized by the large buyers of native
and imported stock as possessing all-round
sound judgment upon which they can de
pend. The best of these are Ike Daldmati,
Oakland Smith, Frank Durr, So! Mobrbaoh
and Mr. La Fetra.
“I don’t know a single perfect team in
Now York,” resumed tha expert. “I go to
the park and I see the thousands of hand
some rigs drive past, and 1 have yet. 1
repeat, to see the first perfect horse. Home
are badly colored; others are irregular in
action or awkward m stylo. Sometimes I
see a beautiful rig sweep by, and 1 say to
myself; ‘Well, now, that’s a nice pair:’
but if 1 hapjion to see them at close quarters
their imperfections immediately appear,
and I say: ’No, I must look furtner lor the
perfect horse. They are either over on
their knees or up in the ankles, and some
of the prettiest teams, driven by tho best
people in town to-day, are very far from
being sound.
“Your statement is a strange one, is it
not, in view of the fact that so much money
is spent by wealthy New Yorkers in horse
flesh?”
S“it’s true, though,” insisted the expert.
“Of course I have reference to horses kept
for private use and not to thoroughbreds
trained for tho turf. Now, a horse, like
other animals, has so many points that
must appear before he can be ranked as per
fect. The neck must be of good length; the
forehead broad, with full eyes, as promi
nent as thoso.of a crab; the head must be
well cut under tiie jaws. Then tho legs
must be flat and broad, and the body should
be long, from the hips to the hoes, so as to
give a good action behind. He must have
a good, round foot, not too tint, and the
knee must be short to the fetlock. Ho
should be short-backed, too, and smooih
hipped, and the tail should be long and full.
The color is important also in cl loos
ing your perfect horse It is not so mate
rial ns to the actual shade, provided the
color he a good one—a dark chestnut, a
good hay, or a dark steel gray; those are
the best. Now, if you get an animal that
fulfills all these conditions, you will have
something that approximates very near to
the perfect horse,”
“What style or build of horse is most in
vogue nt the present time?” Mr Lt Fetra
was asked.
“If that question had been put to me a
few years ago I should have found it a more
difficult one to answer, as then every ve
hicle had its own style of horse, but just
now everything is ‘cobby; why, even the
truckmen want cob horses. Hut, joking
apart, the cob has the call and has fairly
driven the long, rangy, Kentucky bred
lu rsi'S out, for the latter aro no longer fash
ionable. When you buy a cob, you should
get one that is fancy-colored, cross-matched
and about 15.2 high. The horse should he
cobby built at both ends to be a true cob.
in choosing a team, particular attention
should be given to the knee action, which
should be perfect, and the flocks should be
gracefully curved. A good cob would
weigh from 1,050 to 1,200 pounds. A team
would cost all the way from SSOO to (1,500 ;
but a really good, service ilile and stylish
pair might be bought for S7OO or SBOO. It
is when they have the knee action specially
fine that they cost from SI,OOO up.
“High action is inherited in certain
breeds, of course; but it can be developed
by training. When you want to get the
kuee action, you use a curb bit, and it is a
good plan to put the horse into a yard
c ivered deep witn straw, which will c impel
him to lift his feet high to shake clear of it.
Pretty soon he gets into the habit of lifting
them, and he never forgots it. Teach a
horse once and it is taught for good. Or
you may teach him by putting him in
harness with a high action horse.
“Tho best cobs came from France, and
the finest I ever saw was the horse Fashion,
which is now owned in Connecticut. It
cost SIO,OOO or $12,000, and while hare took
some thirty or forty premiums for fine ac
tion and shape.”
“What is the best horse for a coupe?”
“Well, it’s ail the same, whether you
want them for a coupe or a four-in-hand;
tho cob is first choice. Your coupe horse
should be about 1(1 hands high, chunky and
square built, aud the nearer it is to cob
shaoed the better. For a good, sound,
young horse of that character, yon should
pay all the way from S3OO up.' You can
gut a very good one indeod for S6OO. For a
village cart, I would select a good size, say
14)4 to 15)4 hands high. Fifteen is a good
size, it ought to be iiad for about the same
price as a good coupe horse. It should bn
a good goer and there is no build that can
go like the cob.
“For tandem, your wheel horse should
be on inch aud a half taller than your
leader, because it makes them work be ter
together. The wheeler has the big end of
the draught and needs weight and hight to
help him; while the leader needs to bo very
quick on bis mouth aud on tho rein, other
wise the shafts would go right on to the
leader, and you would ! e doubled up. It's
the easiest thing in tno world to drive with
a well-mated wheeler and leader. Each
knows his own share of the work, and tho
leader responds just quickly enough - > suit
the wheelor. A good tandem team —all
sound and flue, and well-behaved—shouldn’t
cost more than SBOO or S9XI. You can buy
for le-is, but they would not be first-class,
by any means.
“There are some good old-fashioned folks
who wouldn’t drive cobs in a carriage team
and they stand by the old style still, 16)4
hands, long and rangy horses, like Cleve
land bavs. The younger generation, how
ever, have caught the English idea, which
is the cob. A good carriage team comes all
the way from $1,200 to sl,soo,and vou can go
down the scale if you wish, and probably
even do well at SI,OOO. Again, if it is a
road horse you want for a light wagon
there are a hundred things to be considered
in making a choice. The build, the breed,
the style and the speed are all to be taken
into account. Your animal should be sound,
well-bred, and absolutely free from imper
fections, if you mean to have any satisfac
tion out of It ou the road. Remember that
the same description, as far as words are
concerned, might truthfully be applied to
two different horses and yet the values
might bo widely apart. A perfect horse ia
invaluable and nothing tries the real quali
ties of a horse like the road. A fairly good
road horse can be bought for from $225 to
SBSO, but these are only figures to begin
on; the ascending scale runs away op to
four figures, but for oniinary uso on coun
try roads, Ptho price I have mentioned
should secure a good, chunky-built horse
that will bo found very serviceable.
“If I were buying a horse for a friend
aud he had asked mo to use my own ju ltj
merit in the mat er—the animal being for
use on good suburban or oountry roods,
and to be occasionally driven by his wife or
daughters—l would choose one about 8 years
old, sound and chunky, about 15.8 high,
and New York state bred. If ou the other
hand, he asked me to buy him a saddle
horse, I would select a western bred animal
from the blue grass country, probably. We
get a great many good horses from tho
vest for tho use of private stables. The
best broke horses in the country are those
from Indiana. Ohio raises more horses for
business and draught purp >ses than any
other state. Kentucky horses are better
adapted to tho saddle than any of the oth
ors, being light, showy, graceful and more
mixed with the thoroughbred. Our best
saddle horses come from there. But now
such is the craze for cobs that even tho
west is given the go-by aud its hones are
not in demand for the saddle except to a
limited extent. You can’t sell gaitod
saddle-horses—that Is horses that will
single-foot, canter and fox trot; there is no
demand for them among the fashionable
owners of private stables in tho cast.”
“What is tho causo of the iguoring of
western horses?”
"Well, saddle horses are used differently
here. You seo, when a man here has a
saddle-horse, lie takes it nut, or lias some
body else taka it out for the mere sake of
giving it exercise. He uses it very little, as
a general thing; whoroas, in the west, tho
saddle-horse is forever on the go. It cov
ers a groat deal of ground ami is a capital
auimal for adapting its gait to every
variety of road. Such accomplishments
are of little us > here, where almost all the
roads are tho very best that could be
wished for the saddle.”
Ike Dahlman and Oakland Smith con
curred in the opinions expressed by Mr. La
Fetra with respect to tho prevalent mania
for cob-built horses. The cob they consid
ered a loss showy but moro serviceable ani
mal than his predecessor in public favor.
It is unquestioned that the cob has tho call
just now, as far as tho show of horse-flesh
on tho avenue or in tho park is concerned.
Equestrians of both soxes can be seen dash
i g through the elliptic riding path on the
stoutest of chunky-built horses, while,
along the drive young ladies of fashion and
their esoorts sit behind their cobby-built
bays, little larger than ponies, and sweep
past easy-going dowagers in coaoheß drawn
by tall, showy chestnuts, that look sadly
out of place beside tho swift and mattly
cobs. Still, the old families cling to the
traditional style, and the Bronsons, the
Delaflelds, the Griswolds and tho Howlands
are slow to yield the showy, gaited horses
to which they have boon accustomed for tho
homelier but speedier favorite.
The cost of keeping a horse in New York,
unless a man has a private stable of his
own, is considerable. To keep a good road
horse aud carriage in a first-class stable
moans an outlay of #3O to S4O per mouth,
the latter liguers including shoeing and all
extras. The hoc st ibles feed a horse all he
can oat, but not to the extent of overfeed
ing. lie is never neglected, the principle
being that ho mast bo kept clean ami with his
appetite on odgo to be in good health. His
bill of faro is oats, with a sprinkling of corn
and somo good timothy hay. Ho is kept
where he can go to wator at any timo he
fneis thirsty, and he is nevor stinted in it.
For the rest, a capable groom and plenty of
exercise keep him in prime condition for
any sort of work his master mnv require of
him. David W echsler,
MAY KELP LOME OF THEM SOBER.
Affect of the Minnesota Law Making
Drunkenness a ( rimo.
St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 18.—Tho first ex
periment in any non-prohibition state of
making drunkenness a crime has now beon
in effect two months in Minnesota. The
act known as the Boheffor la.v, because in
troduced in the lost legislature and cham
pioned by Senator Albert Scheffer, went
into effect Juuo 1, and makes it compulsory
upon the police mu gist rate to im
pose tho penalty of thirty day-.’
imprisonment upon any ouo
found guilty of drunkenness for tho third
time. While the law of Maine is much
more rigid regarding drunkenness, Min
nesota is supposod to he the fir.it state to im
pose such severe penalties on the drinker of
liquor, the end of the law being u ;ually to
punish the seller. For this reason the result
of the law is of great, importance, as its
champions in tho legislature claimed it
would materially reduce the number of
cases of drunkenness,
jjjliuring the two months of Juno and July,
1888, the number of prisoners arraigned at
the bar of the municipal court for drunken
ness, or for “drunk and disorderly” com
bined, was 235 for Juuo and 351? for July,
a total of 481. During tho same months of
this year, since the Scheffer law has boo i
in effect, the total number of such cases id
the same court wao 4-Pi, there being I ( J9 in
Juno and 347 in Julv. These figures show a
decrease of thirty-eight cases, as compared
with last year, and whether this is a direct
rosult of the Bchelfer law or simply acci
dent it is certain that tho admirors of the
law earnestly claim the former. For the
last few years the prohibitionists of Min
nesota have been active, but the only result
on the statute books is the high license law
SI,OOO in largo citios and SSOO in towns—
which was enacted by the republicans as a
counter-irritant.
While Senator Scheffer is by no moans a
prohibitionist, being a champion of Gor
man liberality ai regards drinking liquor,
yet the prohibitionists wore highly pleased
at the stand he took In procuring the enact
ment of the new law. He says that while
ho has no objections to any one drinking
liquor he thinks it an offonse to public
morals anil decency for one to be
seen intoxicated, aud for this reason
ho sanctioned tho new law. Judge
Burr, who presides in the court hav
ing jurisdiction in this class of cases, says
he is bee ,mmg impressed with the idea that
the Bcheffer law is a good one a id acts as a
deterrent in many cases. He explains that
there are pie :ty of men who do not fear
a trial in the municipal court, where they
give falso names and make light of a fine
for drunkenness, but shudder at the idea of
the penalty attached to tie third offense,
imprisonment in the workhouse for thirty
days. Thus far only two cases of the tLird
olfense have been before Judge Burr.
English barcaam.
From Texat Siftingi.
“Do you think that American institutions are
progressive?" inquired a New York gentleman
of au English tourist, who is at present Iu this
city. "Indeed I do,” replied the Englishman
heartily. “The classical education of even the
guards on your elevated railroads makes them
far superior to the guards on our English roads.
I notice when your guards open the car doors,
that they call out the names of the stations in
an unknown tongue. lam familiar with seven
distinct languages, but the guards on your
elevated roads are a gulf of learning compared
to our most learned scholars. I am surprised
that the companies can afford to employ
such men, for their salaries must be enormous,
as their erudition is so vast and un
fathomable. ” ,
“I hear that Harry has left bis wife. What
was the mutter, I wonder* Oouldn’t he sup
port her*”
“No; ahe was insupportable.”—-Boston Tran
script.
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SWIMMERS IN SIN’S SEA.
HELP MUBT COME QUICK IF SINK
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Power of Christ’s Strong: Arm to Sava
Those About to Be Drowned In tha
Whirlpool of Damnation—All Caa
Bo Saved by Laying Hold of Christ.
Seattle, W. TANARUS., Aug. 18.—The Rev. TANARUS,
De Witt Talmago, D. D., of Brooklyn
preached here to-day. His text was Isaiah
xxv. 11; “He shall spread forth hts hands
in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth
spreadeth forth his bauds to swim.” The
preacher said:
At this season of tho year multitudes of
people wade into tho ponds and lakes and
rivers and sous. At first putting out
cautiously from the shore, but having
learned tho right stroke of arm and foot,
they let the waters roll over them, aud in
wild glee dive or float or swim. So tha
text will be very suggestive: “He shall
spread forth his hand in tho midst of them,
as he that swimuieth spreadeth forth his
hands to swim.”
The fisherman seeks out unfrequented
nooks. You stand all day on the bank of a
river in the broiling sun, and fling outyour
line, and oatoh nothing, while the expert)
angler breaks through the jungle and goes
by tho shadow of the solitary rock, ana irx
a place where no fisherman has beon for
ten years, throws out his line and comes
homo at night, his face shining and his has-,
ket full. Ido not know why we ministers
of the gospel need always I e fishing in th
•nine stream, and preaching from tha
same text that other people preach from.
1 cannot understand the policy of the min
ister who, in Black friars London,
England, every weok for tlilrtv years
preached from the epistle to the Hebrews.
It is an exhilaration t<> me when I o m
aoross a theme which I?fuel no one el-e liaat
treated, and my text is one of that kind.
There are paths in God’s word that are welL
beaten by Christian feet. Whan men want*
to quote scripture, they quote tho old pas—
signs that evory one has heard When
they wnut a chapter road, ihoy read a chap
tar that all tha other people have beau
reading, so that the church t '-day is*
ignorant of three-fourths of the Bible.
You go into the Louvre at Baris.
You confine yourself to one corridor
of that opulent gallery of painting. As
you come out vour friend nays to you, “Did
you see that Rembrandt?” “No.” “Did.
you see that Rubens?” “No.” “Did you
see that Titian?" “No.” “Did you seo that
Raphael?” “No.” “Well,” says vour
friend, “then you didn’t see tho Louvre.”
No.v, my friends, I think we are too much
apt to confine ourselves to one of tho great
corridors of this scripture iru'h, ami so
much mo that there is not ono person out of
a million who his evor noticed tho all sug
gestive and poworful picture iu the words
of my text.
This text represents God as a strong
I swimmer, striking out to push down iniq
uity oinl save tho souls of tuon. “He shall
spread forth his bauds in the midst of them,
as he ihat swimmeth spreadeth forth his
hands to swim.” The figure is bold
and many sided. Most of you know how
to swim. Some of you learned it in the
city school, where this art is taught; some
of you in boyhood, iu the river near your
father’s house; so.no of you since you came
to manhood or w manhood, while summer
ing on tho lieach of the sea. You step down in
the wave, you throw your head back, yon
bring vour elbows to tha chest, you put the
palms of your hands downward end the
soles of your feot outward, and you push
through the water us though you had been
horn aquatic. It iu a grand thing to know
how to swim, not only for yourself, but bo
cause you will after a wi lie, perhaps, have
to help others. I do not know anything
more stirring or sublime than to see” some
man like Norman McKenzie leaping from
tho ship Madras into tho sea to save
Charles Turner, who hail dripped from
the royal yard while trying to loosen the
sail, bringing him back to tho deck, amid
the huzzas o (the passengers atid crew. If
a man has not enthusiasm enough to cheer
in such circumstances he deserves himself
to drop into the sea and have no one help
him. The Royal Humane Society of Eng
land wa3 established in 1774, its object to
applaud and reward those who pluck up life
from the deep. Anyone wno has per
formed such a deed of daring has all the
particulars of that bravery recorded in a
public record, and on his breast a medal
done in blue, aud gald, and bronze; anchor,
and monogram, and inscription, tolling to
future gemmations the bravery of the man
or woman who saved someone frdm
drowning. But, my friends, if it is such
a worthy thing to save a body from the
deep, 1 ask you if it is not a worthier thing
to save an immortal soul? And you shall
see this hour the Bon of God step forth for
this achievement. “He shall spread forth,
his hand in the midst of them, as he that
swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to
swim.”
In order to understand the full force of
this figure, you need to realize, first of all,
that our raco is in a sinking condition. You
sometimes hear people talking of what
they consider the most beautiful word iu
our language. One man says it is “home.”
and another man says it is the word
“mother,” another says it is t.he word
“Jesus,” but I will tell you the bitteresl
word iu all our language, the word most
angry and baleful, the word saturated
with the most trou i le,the word that account!
for all the loath* mien ss, aud the pang,
and the outrage,and the harrowing.and that
word is “sin.” You spell it with three
letters, and yet those three letters describe
the circumference and pierce the diamer o*
everything bad in the uni verso. Sin! it is s
sibilant word. You cannot pronounce if
without giving the sis3 of the fl une or tin
hiss of the serpent. Sin I And then if you
add three letters to that word it descnon
every one of us by nature—sinner. We
have outraged the law of God, not occasion
ally, or now and then, but perpetually.
Tho Bible declares it. Hark 1 It thunden
two claps: “The heart is deceitful above
all things and desperatelr wicked.” “The
soul that sinnoth, it shall die.” What th
Biblo sayß our own conscience
affirms. After Judge Morgan had sen
tenced Lady Jane Grey to death
his conscience troubled him so much for
the deed that he became insane, and all
through his insanity he kept saying: “Take
her away from me! Lady Jane Grey. Take
her away 1 Lady Jane Grey.” It was the
voice of "his conscience. Aud no man ever
dees anything wrong, however great oi
small, but his conscience brings that matte*
before him, and at every stop of his misbe
havior it says: “Wrong, wrong.” Sic is a
leprosy, sin is a paralysis, sin is a con
sumption, sin is pollution, sin is death. Give
it a fair chance aud it will swamp you.
body, uiiDd and soul forever. In this world
it only gives a faint intimation of its
virulence. You see a patient in the first
stages of typhoid fever. The cheek is some
what flushed; the bands somewhat hot,
preceded by a slight chill. “Why," you
say, “typhoid fever does not seem to be
much of a disease.” But wait until the
patient has been six weeks under it, and all
nis energies have been wrung out, and he is
too weak to lift bis little finger,
and his intellect is gone, then you
gee the full havoc of the disease.
Now, sin in this world is an ailment
which is only in its vary first stagey; but