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I THE MOK>-IK k NEJVS.^, JEsTiiiuaHW' L ' rI [.L, iTesident. I 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. < CopyriQhted .) 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. I DAILY, *lO A YEAR t ■( S CENTS A COPY. V I WEEKLY, $1.36 A YEAR f SWIMMERS IN SIN’S SEA. HELP MUBT COME QUICK IF SINK ING 16 IMMINENT. 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