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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.: TUESDAY, JULY 17 ,1888.-TWELVE PAGES.
AAJ THE RACE TRACK. 1 w „ tk i e k winne T ?* th ®. cll »>npion first turn is made, and then they cease alto- BABES r op June hoses.
Ul' stakes on Bandbox and immediately after getlier until _
Experiences of One of the Old
est American Jockeys.
thirty-five Y *FS AS A
The Excitement and Exultation Attending
the Uefeat of Hauover Uy The Hard
_Hovv Kiclere Get Uld of bur-
plurt Weight.
the race the horse was bought by Mr. Hag-
gin for the sum of $20,000.“ A patnetic in- ! is gained, when th?no£^^ gradually
?! d . e ". t . 0 “ Ur T red :!! ,e _“ a “® year , ln _ the con - : lo uder seldom becomes a good sized
t®j*t for the Lorillard stakes. I was mount- ' one for the jockey’s ears It is-
ed 0n . .u le c h " r ? e ,. 0rator { a,ld , had Jo»t race is over and the victory a
I'riuumi trio nrtiun I mu urunn tlm 1>... .. .1.. • ■ .. *
work was a plagiarism of the novel enti- | glimpses op Matthew aknold.
i Tbe Resurrection Rose which Was Found tied “Mrs. Loriiiror,” written some years
1 ii the Bosom of a Mummy. 1 rgo by Lucas Mulct.
Pnom the New York World. I The lady was asked what she had to eay
when the
crossed the finish line when the ho'r, e ; the” jockey remern be re MlT L "iuTpa^ed
without n moment’s warning, dropped through. The nervous exhaustion occa-
If evert was sur- . sioned by a record-breaking mile is exces-
wilhout
stone dead under me.
?I i ? e r d t il J.“?A i ! f ®.l t _T“ L 0 “. th ? t "““ion, 1 si ve," but'a hath and rub-down soon puts
Edward Everett Hale's Reminiscenses of
the Author.
From. Ilarper’s Bazaar.
HU lather’s portrait hangs opposite me,
as it has bung opposite me in my work for
fifty years. I was twenty-four when
olanley a “Life of Arnold” started me with
uew impulse, as it started all the
William Hayward la the Courier-Journal.
The life of a professional jockey is full
0 f the wildest and moat unrestrained ex
citement. I doubt if its parallel can be
found in any other vocation. Watch even
the casual spectator of a horse raee, as he _
in the graud stand calmly viewing the passed on the track, I am at a loss to select
, Mm ,i.„ i a I what I consider to have been my most no-
and I felt particularly badly because the
horse was one to which I was greatly at
tached. Two years ago my good fortune
deserted me ia one instance, for I met witli
my only fall in my racing career. The ac
cident occurred at Long Branch, and will i has
be remembered by many when Uhico fell - merited,
and threw me so violently to the ground
that my collar bone was broken; but the
broken bone mended so quickly that I was
able to ride again within a fortnight.
THE BAKU BEATS IIANOVEB.
In looking back over the years I have
the jockey in healthy trim for the next
race.
The profession of the race rider is one
which is grea.ly misunderstood by the out
side — L,: - - ' ... . -• ■
l hi in as the linrasa snooJ wnuuuer vo nave oeoa my most no-
■tart, and then see him as the horses speed tab j e vlclory . but [ think ' bout t | 10
uiiud the track; the on-looker becomes ! proudest d .y of my life was on the 15th oi
interested mure and more until, by the last Alay, when, with The Bard, I defeated
* ■ ... ■ . . . . tlm liitKxvntn l.l» LI .1
winner has crossed the line, he U ’ ^ ie invincible Hanover, on the
tinie r " 7 "T i Brooklyn Jockey Club track. What a race
standing in ins chair, madly waving his that w ' sl j 8ba f| Kovct f„ rget every luUe
arms and cheering until his breath is j detail of it from start to finish if I live to
gone. This is the way a closely contested j he a hundred years old. Somehow, after
race affeeis even a passive spectator. To | * L . Wi ?? al ‘ “* er », 1 '? as .,°? t .. sur P r >« d a t the
lees even a pa je peca-.o . Ao j n for j bad a half . dfc i ine( j ftellng that
feverisli excitement, lien, is the Tbe Bard and p would wiu . B|lt I could
what
jockey himself subjected, who, next io
the good mount under the saddle, is the
most active participant in tile contest.
Yet amid it ail, the rider must be as cool
and’clear headed as if he were simply
takings "constitutional” morning canter
on his father’s favorite mare.
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS A JOCKEY.
I believe that l am to day the oldest
professional race-rider in the United
States, and, for more than thirty-five years
have taken part ill some of the most fa
in.ms events in Grew- Britain and this
countrv, having ridden the majority of
the noted runners of the past quarter-cen
tury, and 1 can say that no words of mine
can convey, even in the remotest degree,
the sensations experienced in a hot race
around the course. The story is never
old, though it lias been repeaiedduringmy
life-time so often that I could not count
the number. Sometimes I feel, after a race
is run, that I have never ridden the like be
fore, so new is the excitement and so
all-absorbing the interest with each con
test.
As I have said, I have been connected
with the race track for more than thirty-
five years, and I can scarcely remember
tiie time wiien I was not in the saddle, for
I began so young. With that record be
hind me I am naturally, fast approaching
the age when it is almost time to think oi
settling down for good in quiet retirement,
hut 1 find myself in such good bodily
health that I see no reason why I should,
for the present, abandon the calling which
I learned to love long years ago, and
which has done so well by me and mine.
Perhaps in ,re ttian my proper share ot
success has fallen to my lot, but I should
be loath to put aside my chosen profession
until old age actually compelled me to do
so. I should be a jockey were I a million
aire. That is the long and short of it.
When 1 attempt to recall the number of
races I have ridden, I am utterly at a loss,
for their total would probably run into the
thousands. I have often been asked the
question as to the amount of the stakes the
horse, I have ridden to victory have wod,
but I have no means of making even an-
approximate estimate. I should say, how
ever, that the sum would be largely in ex
cess of $1,000,000, which, of course, does
not include anything but the stakes and
purses. My love for horse flesh was born
in me. Even from my earliest
childhood, in England, I was
always lounging about the
stable. While but a mere boy I had the
good fortune of being thrown in with
spirting men of wide repute in that coun
try, among them being “Aleck” Taylor,
the famous trainer. 1 do not know tiie
reason, but somehow, old “Aleck” took a
great liking to me, while I was a mere lad,
and gave me my first lesson in the art of
ridtug for money. It was he who kept a
fatherly eye upon me and the horse I rode
at one of the English country fairs in my
first race, when 1 was but fourteen years
old. I shall never forget how kindly he
praised me after I had leaped to the ground
a winner.
HIS CAREER ON THE RACE TRACK
Thus my career as a jockey began un
der the most favorable auspices and my
good luck generally stood by me, for i
rode in races in all parts of England and
Scotland with considerable success, for
several years. I was for a long time in
the employ of Mr. Merry, the owner of the
turnons stable in England, and it was
while with him that I won the races of the
celebrated horses, Scottish Chief and Don
'“tor. ^ ul I became tired of living in
the old country, and in 1887, just twenty-
one years ago, I came to New York. I
■oundihat I already had some reputation
in the United States, and did not have
long to wait before I became connected
with the American race-track. I made my
debut in tnis city on Loadstone, in a
three-mile race for the Hotel
“takes, at Jerome Park, in the same year,
Jtlanv of the older generation of spotting
men in New York city to-day will re
member the details of that great race
gamst Olward and Gilroy. The success
attending the result of this event proved
an excellent “starter” for me, for I have
not had an opportunity to starve since,
inus, the next ten years of my life were
passed, during all of which time I was
never without occupation, riding the most
noted racers on all the leading tracks, and
•ttaimng whatever of glory there may he
► Horn success on the turt. Among
i horses I rode in that period, which
now come to my recollectiou, perhaps the
nest were Preakncss, Monicus and Matt.
, on Preakness, in the summer of
-o, that I made a dead heat with the
jamous Springbob, in the race for the Sara
toga cup.
June was never more lavish than now to this new charge,
with her Hovers. Ruses bloom in the -She glanced quickly over the introduc-
streets of New York at prices that would fion to the long argument in the so-called
drive florists to desperation in the fashion- journal, and laughingly raid:
a'de season. Nothing in this curious “You know I have decided not to reply
world of to-day is so highly prized in its to any charges what ver. This one ap- , . .. ,.—. — - -—— -... .....
proper season, least of pit a rose. The only pears to me even more absurd than usual.” . tnoughttul young men and women of my
one that has all seasons for its own is the “Then, as might be supposed, there is no , ra . e j T J?, Matthew Arnold how long I
Kose of Jericho, or Kesurrection flower, of shadow of a found ition for the charge?” ,," a “. 8 picture, and he was very
which there are several specimens in the 8a *d tb* correspondent. • pleasant in memories of Bugby and his
""‘• J " . .. - “No. No tbougutof Lucas Malet’s most Hither, With him my acquaintance began
lu a curious way. There had been in the
“Contributors’ Club” of our dear Atlantic
’ thought was rather a snobbish
J ' v-taia OU LUUJ|IW(t muiOGil | 1 lie llrst T(
provided he has any gentlemanly in- 1 mo j C rn :iiues
,1.. - - .* is said to have been found ten to me concerning this story.”
cis, that lie cannot elevate in the spicy folds of the linen cincture of : , “Is it possible?” said the correspondent
his vocation so that it may gain . an Egyptian mummy. Wtronthe tomb of I In so^e surprise."
tlie respect of the community. Surely, the ^jneww, for luc £ sbe was shown to be ‘'Yes, quite true. All love
tiler** IK nil IllWinuuu in aorisigsla m..ss mnnatr I i T . . ' 1.. I > * ■ .If r. •
which you and I real so many, in
which callow young countrymen of ours,
who have not looked five unless beyond
the nest in the orchard where they were
,i, • - . . mu priuucss, iur such sue was snown io oo ; ...» ...vc monos must, . , , , .— , /
there is no business in which more money l by lhe mlet on her piircbui( .„ t broiVi wa , be as old ns love itself. It is only the dif- burn ' begin to chirp and twitcer aboutthat
® a “ i” 18 noue in which | desecrated by a par ’ ty Americm pleas-; t«rent garb i , which they are dressed that *|', ea J.' l “ e ". c .!..n'V®'“ lvai !“ everything anil
the competition will be everso small, for ; ure-seekers, 'a little * withered ball' dry, nukes them interesting io us."
t """' ‘ u - 1 • dike the head of a dcid popi I . ‘'May l ask. Mrs. Cannier, if
good jockeys are few and far between. 1 brown , notunlike
£ “ not ."W men wh ? are abl . e to ; py, was found in lWi’s girdle,
keep their weight down to the required ( tacbed to a 8 , ender callou ” glein
limit; and many a splendid nd -r has been ' •
attempts everything, and of which these
nest-birds know nothing. Well, I went for
_ A NARROW E8CAFE.
# * llere 18 hardly a jockey who has ridden
■ an ? length of time that has not met
WHIi, at least, occasional falls, but fortune
™, “j 1 ver X tenderly with me in that re-
j?ar.i. I cannot recall that I was ever
,1 u * n “ om »y horse during my younger
“ays in England and Scotland, but I had a
r" y n8 " 0 *: “cape from a serious fall at
ri!n e n P * rk eleTen y*"™ “fto. 1870, while
& Q ? Te ,™°. r Bow”* Be»e in the .ace
l«r the Ladies’ .takes. The race was a
»ery exciting one and upwards of 15,000
5£P .i.*?* f"** 111 - ' Ve were coming
1^3" to®.home stretch when Belle stum-
slightly just enough to dislodge me
from my saddle, but I was lucky enough
»go°d grip on her neck and man-
-be^&r lf b “ k to “ 7 ““ wUh -
“7 •?* ?*■'* 1 w “ *Haehed to the
,f abl *f of **r, August Belmont, and daring
r*y ti,! “ rode Sultana, Susquehanna, Shy-
lock and others. In 1885, at Monmouth
with difficulty realize, as I walked into the
paddock after it was over, leading the
noble anim il, that Victory was ours, even
when I received a handsome floral ofiering,
and was almost crushed with the congratu
lations of friends and strangers.
No one will say .that The Bard and I
did not meet foernen worthy of our steel
in that great day. for there were Hanover,
Favor, Volante, Exile, Fenelon, Ori-
flainme, Boyal Arch, Grover Cleveland,
Saxony and Kaloolali. We had ten oppo
nents, as well trained, finely-bred and met
tlesome horses as were ever seen ou a race
course, and they were all in charge of as
good a corps of jockeys as ever donned a
cap. To this day I can hardly tell how
the race was ran, only I know that the
feeling of confidence 1 had all day did not
desert me. I knew that The Bard was
well in my grip, and felt that he wonld an
swer any hint from me. When we reached
the mile post I knew that the time had
come to do our prettiest, and then the final
tug with Ilauover and Exile, who were
neck and neck with us, began. Down the
home-stretch we came like wild men on
wild horses, so people told me, but I was
cool and collected uutii it was over, aud
The Bard and I had won, with Hanover,
the vanquished, a length behind.
The excitement of that eventful day af
fected me for a long time afterward, and I
can not think of it now without a tremor,
hut lhe jockey is forced, by reason of his
position, to forget victory and defeat alike,
and must start anew on each day, as if
there had been no past.
A jockey’s training.
Iii order io he successful as a jockey oue
must lie necessarily careful in his habits,
and must be in what we might call partial
training, all tiie time. There is no neces
sity for the rigorous diet and abstemious
ness which is considered essentiul to those
whoengage in athletic sports, but the most
extreme c ire is absolutely necessary, that
the weight may be kept down to the prop
er figure, aud for that reason, all food
which has a tendency to increase the
flash must he kvuided. For mr
own part, I may say, that
have always been temperate in my
liabits. I use tobacco to a small extent,
but eat almost anything to which I take a
fancy, altfough sometimes I am obliged to
pay the penalty. It is my purpose al
ways to keep myself down to about 111
pounds in weight. The lowest weight I
have ever attained was 106 pounds, and
the highest 130 pounds; so to reduce my
self to the right avoirdupois, I was once
forced to knock off just 18 pounds of super
Muons flesh, and it was no easy undertak
lost for the track because he has grown
too fat. Think you that I would not rath
er be a jockey, with the nice pile I pull
in every year, with my family in a com
fortable home, than a clerk in a dry goods
store at starvation wages and room on a
top floor of a cheap tenement house? Any
race-rider who is honest and sober cap
gain the regard of his fellow-meu, and
Bavc enough of this world’s goods in a few
years to iiiake him independent for life.
William Hayward.
mg.
When f find myself accumulating flesh
too rapidly I take long walks, wearing
sweaters and tbe heaviest winter clothing,
which is not especially enjovable in hot
summer weather. A walk of from eight to
ten miles, dressed in tiie condition de
scribed, will usually dispose of from one to
two pounds of extra flesh. These walks
are indulged in only when the necessity
requires, aud are by no means of dailv oc
currence, for which I am duly thankful.
THE ONE ALL IMPORTANT REQUISITE
for a successful jockey is to keep a cool
head and to possess an unerring judgment,
for if lie loses one and fails of having the
other at a critical moment, he will never
overcome the many obstacles that meet
his way with every turn of the track, and
never win a race unless he is mounted
upon a horse that will carry him through
in spite of himself. There is much strat
egy and finesse to be exercised on tho race
course as on lhe battle field. One must
know his enemy thoroughly, aud
must be alive to take instunt advantage of
any errors his opponents may melee. He
must endeavor to make his rivals use up
all their strength before tiie critical mo
ment comes and must reserve for himself
sufficient force to carry him safely through
the final struggle. But above all, lie
should be very intimately acquainted
with the capabilities of Ins own horse,
and must be thoroughly conversant
with ail its points of weakness, as well as
its elements of strength, for the former may
often lie taken advantage of if they are
not known to its opponents. There is a
certain knack of ridipg which it is difficult
to explain, but which has a substantial
existence just the same, that enables one
to almost lift his horse along, especially in
passing under Hie wire, when a torlunate
BISHOP iVILUEltFoaCR.
An Epigrammatic Conversationist — His
Kindness of Heart.
From Temple Bar.
A lady, an enthusiastic teetotaler, was
airing her theories on tho non use of all
intoxicating drinks. “But, my dear
madam,” argued Wilberforce, “you must
admit that they are all the gift of God,
uuititw viJCtv llicj «IC an VI 1C guv Ul uuu.
slid to he used with mod ration.” “Would
you say that,” said the ladv, with marked
emphasis on the, to her, dreadful mono
syllable “of gin?” “ies, was the reply,
“if it was good gin.” He was seated by a
parson’s wife who was helping him for the
Bccond time to a particular nice salad. So
he said to her: “Your husband must
be a happy man to have such a ca
terer as you ” Now, as it happened, the
parson himself was a bookworm who did
not even know what was set before him,
ana there he sat prosing on, quite oblivi
ous of the unreplenished plates of his
guests. The lady looked across the table.
"My husband,” said she; “why lie never
knows what he eats; he would never know
the difference if that aalad was dressed
with castor oil.” “What, never?" said the
Bishop, looking her in the face. Another
lady, rather noted for tier little exaggera
tions, was relating some of her experiences
—real or imaginary. His reply was equal
ly concise—"Beaiiy ?” The French Duke's
“Est il possible?” was nothing to it.
constant guest at Wilberforce’s table tells
me that lie never but once saw him “taken
aback.” He had keen telling one of his
best stories when some ono from
the end of the t?ble called out
“Ha! ha! ha! we’ve heard that
tale so often.” It was hard to say who was
more distressed, the host or tiie gnests.
W'OiSMVU. IUV UWB1 V* U1V gUCSlS.
Here is one of innumerable instances of
liU pleasant way of doing tilings. He was
finishing up a hard day’s wort of preach
ing and confirming by taking refreshments
at a country house, surrounded by numer
ous guests, when he hnppened to catch
sight of a young married lady, cheaply,
but very gracefully dressed, seated at the
further end of tiie room. He asked who
she was, and on being told that she was the
wife of a poor curate in the neighborhood,
he made his way to her as soon as be en
tered the drawing room and drew her into
conversation. “What do yon do to help
your husband?” “I teach in the schools,
my lord.” “Anything else?” “Yes, I
help him to look after the sick and poor.”
“Anything else?” "Yes, I make my own
clothes and mend him.” “Anything else?”
"Yes,. I get up his linen and iron his
neckties.” Wilberforce said nothing at
the time, but he made special inquiries as
to both the parson and his wife, and a
week or two after a letter arrived from
him addressed to the lady: “My dear Mrs.
: The living of is vacant, and
from what I hear of you and your good
husband I think it is just the place for you.
Will jrou ask him to do me the favor to
accept it, and tell him for me he is in
debted to you for it. Y’onrs faithfully.
S. O.” Dean Burg-n’a sketch is full o*
lively anecdotes which I hope he may re
produce in his projected “Lile.” It w'ould
be a rich boon, nnu the more so because in
spite of his unbounded admiration for his
subject he is alive to his real defects—his
too great persuasiveness, his too great fer
tility in expedients, his too great fondness
for being all things to all men.
leaves, and to all appearances
when placed on her fresh young corpse
thousand.years and more ago.
Psurai’s mummy, like most of the treas
ures of antiquarian Egypt, was after a
while carted away to the British M useum.
The rose that had bloomed on her ki<-r aud
then withered away for a t«o-lhousnnd-
year nap was taken by the American tour
ists to their hotel in Cairn. One of them
sat at the window on a June night some
years ago and idly toyed with tne llortfl
relic of < Id as the big yellow moon came
slanting along over the sands. In a mo
ment of romantic trifling the Kose of Jeri
cho, still unknown by its true name and in
its true splendor of beauty, was dropped
jnto a water jar which was rapidly cooling
its conteuts by the tremendous evaporative
nnwer of the peculiar wind from the Delta.
The poetical ‘tourist drowsed away for a
few minutes longer and rose to go trom the
moonlit realm of the Pharaohs to a prosaic
Cairene bed, when his eye fell on the water
jar. Supported by the top rim of the neck
of the porrone, the stem daogling down in
the cool liquid beneath, bloomed a strauge,
star-like flower, not unlike an aBter in gen
eral appearance. Its fibres still quivered
with nascent life. A moment more and its
petals bent backwards still further and
displayed a glowing irredcacent heart of
unknown and striking hues and bewilder,
ing pattern.
The “Besurreclion Flower” had made
itself known to the modern world. Thrilled
by the sight the poetical youth—no other
than Bedloe himself—rushed away to call
his companions to the marvellous sight.
They were asleep, worn out by the day’s
fatigues, and hard to get out of bed. When
iney came with their ugitaied guide to tiie
window where his etone jar rested with its
marvelous freight, behold, the drv brown
bait was itself again, the hidden beauties
sealed once more with the mummy’s curse
and shut back beyond sun or moon light in
their withered envelope. The Bose of
Jericho blooms in this way sometimes but
half an hour a year.
Gov. Curtin's specimen of this mystical
plant was sent him by Dr. James F. Love,
dentist to the Khedive, who secured it at
Df. lie Aloe's request from Irani i Pasha.
Sami is the guide who attended Gen. Grant
on his tour through Egypt. He performed
like offices for King Kaiakaua and for
Bobert Garrett. When the Khedive made
Bedloe a Bey in payment of a dentist’s bill
Sami showed him around Alexandria and
oven became Americanized to the extent of
allowing Bedloe tocall him “Sammy.”
Dr. Love is said to be the cnly real live
American resident in Alexandria. Love is
bound up in tbe story of the Boee of Jeri
cho, however, in more ways than one. By
it the wonderful octogenarian Do Lesseps
won his present wife, a beautiful young
woman, who was one of five blooming sis
ters in a Parisian family thegreat engineer
used to visit. He had been left at sixty-
eight a widower with a whole troop of
sons and daughters. He had a Jericho
rose and carried it in hit vest pocket one
day when he went to call on the five beau
ties. _ The prettiest of them, who asked
him in the most iogenuous manner why he
did not marry again, received the Resur
rection flower as a gift.
When De Lesseps made his next visit
the yonng girl ran to him with the won
derful rots. It was in full bloom. “See,”
said she, “what a miracle the water has
effected. It is like the blossoming of Love
in old age."
The old man did not need more than one
such suggestion, innocent though it was.
He proposed, or rather finished the pro
posal, and their nuptials were soon sol
emnized.
Webster defines the Rose of Jericho as
“a plant growing on the plain of Jericho
—the anasiatica hierochunlina.” It is evi
dently not the Resurrection flower which
has become familiar.y known of late by
this romantic name.
or the Dsad’ does not seem to have been ‘ ftiends, Mr. ’llowells and Mr. James
quite recoguiz-d, even by my kiadest ru- ® l, “ ,u 8 ^J e r< ' 8, > * ,M J by w:l y of being quite
viewers, it is to id(lrw that a woman loves j ff lr > to,Mr. Arnold, rather mildly.JJJI told
her husband’s soul, his *go, rather than j that America was rather a large
his body. If this were not so Barbara ] *“ h Jf ct >thatnefure they wrote much
would have given herself unquisdunably
to Deering, who was physically the exact
reproduction of her d -ail husband.”
LIGHTNING’S L \ I'EsT J1IHACLK.
Clipper Wire Transmits the I’ower of a
; more about it, tii *y had better know it
' much lieiter Ilian they did.
Well, somebody, I do not know who.
Bent my little article to Mr. Arnold, ana
be honored it with an elaborate reply in
the Nineteenth Century, I believe. Tho
article was published when I was in Lon
don aud I bought it. I paid a good half-
nterfnll to Machinery Miles Awnj.
From’the Mail ami Express. . _ |
“ lhe development of electricity^ as a ’ crown for that number of the journal and
moie of transmitting motive power is still | laid it on my Gladstone. But I found
One of the SiRuera.
[Read at the Dedication of the Statue of Gov*
ernor Joslah Bartlett at Amesbury.]
O storied vale of Merrimac!
Rejoice through all thy shade and shine,
And from his century's sleep call back:
A brave and honored son of thine!
Unveil his effigy between
The living and tbe dead to-day:
The fathers of the Old Thirteen
tihall witness bear as spirits may.
Unseen, unheard, his gray compeers,
The shades of Lee and Jeflrerson:
Be thine henceforth a pride of place
Beyond thy namesake’s over sea.
Where scarce a stone is left to trace
The Holy House of Amesbury,
A nrmnlnr msrnmrv llnmn
The birthplace df thy true man here
leap will carry you to the front even by a .Than that which haunt, the refugeiound
nose. Many a lucky #in of mine has been By Arthur’s mythic Uwenevere.
made in that wav, noticeably in tbe recent
race where Tea-Tray and Tristan were at
the fore, and Tristan won by so small a
fraction that it is said that no one on the
track saw the true result, excepting the
judges. In that race, which was one of
the most exciting in which I have eyer
been engaged, I was able to lift Tristan al
most by main strength, when I felt that I
had surely lost, just enough to win.
The sensations which a jockey expe
riences in speeding around the track are
many and varied, and there is always the
utmost exhilaration of mind, and ever,
muscle of his body is drawn to a tension
approaching the breaking point. He has
little time to view tbe landscape within
tbe inclosure, or to see the mad crowd that
is cheering him on from the grand stand,
or at the fences close by the track, even if
his eyes are not blinded by the showers of
mud or tbe clouds of dust with which the
enemy in front delights to greet-him. But
he knows instinctively that the landscape
and the crowd are there, and he hears the
cheereof tbe mob Jfaintlr above the clat
tering of the bone*’ hoofs. These are
quiet and subdued sounds at the start
which are completely lost tbe moment the
The plain deal table, where he amt
Ami signed a nation'll title deed,
Is dearer now to fame than that
Which bore the scroll of Runnymede.
Long a*, on freedom's natal morn,
Shall ring the Independence bill*,
Thy chlhlrea s children yet unborn
shall besr the tala his image tells.”
In that great hour of destiny
Whieh tried the souls of sturdiest stock:
n ho knew the end alone must be
A free land or a traitor’- block.
Amidst thou picked and choun men,
Than his who here first drew bU breath,
No firmer linger, held the pen
That wrote for liberty or death.
Not fo. their heart, and hnm M -Isa-
But for the world, the deed waa'done-
On all the winiU their thoughts has ttown,
of the sun.
Through all the circuit of
We trace Its flight by broken chains.
By song, of grateful labor still.
To-day lu all ber holy fanes.
It rings tbe bells of freed Brazil!
O hills that watched bis boyhood’s home
O earth ami air that nursed him. give
la this memorial semblance, room*
To him who shall Its bronze outllre!
in its infancy,” said a gentleman engaged
in the manufacture .of electrical appli
ances, "hut i is a mighty vigorous infant,
and grows with a rapidity th t is amazing.
The most surprising thing just now is the
rapid multiplication of orders for electric
plants for driving stationary machinery.”
The importance of this application of
science pan easily be seen when it is ex
plained that by the use of topper wire and
a current of electricity a waterfall can he
made to drive machinery at a distance of
many miles.
“Is there a limit to jc at
which this may be applied advantage
ously?” asked the writer.
'lhe expert smiled, “You can hardly
expect a man in my bc-’oes- *o think
there is any limit to anything in the mat
ter of applied science,” he « :“As a
matter of experience it has not, I believe,
bee” tt’-T ' J --.-lions involving
distances, but there seems to be
no reason why it should not connect ma
chinery with the nearest water power, no
matter how far off that might be. I be
lieve the Falla of Niagara could be made
to drive machinery in every titute in the
Union.”
“THE QUICK OB ‘yiE DEAD,”
Amelia Hlre.-dinnler 1 . Explanation of
Her Atm In the Story.
The lovely youqg authoress of “The
Quick or the Dead and many other nota-
blo brilliant stories, now Mrs. Ameiie
Kives-t-hanler, was called upon at her
beautiful home, Castle Hill, by a New
York Herald correspondent a day or two
ago. She was found walking across the
lawn, wearing a fleecy gowh of white ma-
terfal, » wiao-hrimmtd hat, ani swinging
a parasol in her hand. Accompanying her
were several of hci' pot-, inclmii'ig a huge
(jouihinstion of ma-ti’l and hull, called
’Turk, the terror of tramps; a noble look
ing «nd intotltn..... f , u
double coiled tail and excessively puggy
face, and a “little tecney bit” of a black
and tan which lould be put in one’s pocket,
lhe dogs weie racing and jumping arouud
their young mistress in the-highest slate of
animal £le«. The cool mountain breezes,
laden with the fragrance of (lowers, rustled
the leaves t>f the trees, the birds carolled
delightful melody in their branches, and
thedainiy prominent figure in the scene
gayly chatting and’laughing merrily
with somebody not visible at the instant,
but who immediately turned out to be Mr.
Cbanler.
They are spending the honeymoon here,
and let it be said to the bride’s credit that
•he has sensibly and intelligently selected
"* r . own charming home, where, surround.
«1 by every condition of happiness, she i.
thoroughly and quietly enjoying that
honeymoon after her quiet and unostenta
tious marriage.
\\ ith an apology for the intrusion, the
correspondent broke in on the morning
ramble of this young couple. Beginning
With a few more anolneies. lhe visitor
And thou, oh land he loved rejoice
That. In the countless years to oome.
Whenever freedom needs e voice
TbeK sculptured libs shall not be dumb!
-John Green Itef WbltUtr
.. - - -pologies, the visitor
called the attention of tiro authoress to a
twO'COlunm contribution in an alleged Near
York newspaper charging her with pla-
Some instances in which ihio application
has already boon made have recently been
cited in the Engineering end Mining
Journal. It f«, of course, entirely a differ
ent matter from the electric tramway plan
that is here spoken of.
On the Big Bend of Feather river, in
California, one electric motor company is
under contract to furnish what is called an
“eighteen-mile installation” for pumjiing
and hoisting.
In Arizona an installation is pioposed,
to bring some 150-horse power from a
waterfall to a large mine and smelling
works eight mites away. In this case the
estimate of the copper needed is eight tons
to a mile, and the fact shows what nature
was providing for in furnishing the im
mense quantities of copper that now are
me: ely surplus.
The new Nevsda mill on the Comstock
is to be run at least in part by electric
transmission. At present it is run by an
impact water wheel, eleven feet in diame
ter, using water under a head of about 050
feet.
A mine in Silver City, Idaho, is putting
in an electric plant which will drive a fifty
stamp mill four miles - from the waterfall
that supplies the power. And an iron
company in Alabama is preparing for a
similar investment.
Paris and Seville and Madrid and the Al
hambra more attractive, and I had never
cut a page of the magazine nor read a word
oi it when, ntGuthn after, this same dear
Bowker asked me in London if I saw what
Arnold said of America, and I Minted at
the bottom of the bag and there was the
reply. Simply that he knew much more
o’ Am; ' . th in I did, or anybody else
could. But thiB was said very nicely and
well.
When he came here, two years after,
and I met him personally, I told him that
it was I who had advised him, and that I
gave him the same advice Mill. He was
wholly rro«n to it now and quite willing to
confess, as they all are, that, as poor Lord
Salisbury says, they have not a big enough
man when they read of America; and loy
ally and sedulously lie set himself to learn
what he now saw he did not know before.
In the first place, lie did not know hqvr to
speak in public when he cam* here. The
first night he was in Publio he found he
did not knowhow, » n ,j , B |;wntly, narefnl-
’ j and Miooessfuily he set hiinsolf to learn,
told him then that if I could send him
to 250 colleges to deliver in each of them
the firat lecture, which is practically a ser
mon fruu tils text, “lhe wisdom from above
is first pure,” I would do so. I wish I
could have done it. As it happened, I fal
lowed close upon him in one lecturing
tour—I Bpoke the week after he did—and
I had many a chance to see how rightly
and well he affected many a hearer who
will remember his presence and his word*
forever.
Tiie other Arnold, Edwin Arnold, I do
not know, though I believe I was of coun
sel about the first American reprint of
“The Light of Asia,” by our good friends,
Roberts Bros. This is one of those books
which made its fame in America, and
which America taught England how to
enjoy. For the encouragement of journal
ists, as we are all of their craft, let me say
that Arnold’s father-iu-law, Mr. Chan-
ning, told me that Arnold wrote that mar
vellous poem in one summer, while hn
was doing his regular daily work on the
Daily News. 1 am bold enough to say
The Engineering and Mining Journal
says: “Mining machinery, drills, coal cut
ters, pumps and hoisting engines will be
driven in many places by what is now the
waste power of neighboring waterfalls, aud
before long we shall have few waste water
falls. Nor is it true of this country alone.
Foreign countries, especially those that are
ill provided with cheap fuel, will, through
the aid of American el-ctrical machinery,
share the benefits which we expect to reap
in at home.”
Protection*
From the Chicago Herald.
“Blessed is the man,” said Sancho Panza.
“who invented sleep. It covers a man all
over like a cloak.”
Blessed, also, say the Sancho Panzas of
high taxes, is the man who invented the
word protection. It has such a comforta
ble sound. It enables a man to talk so
pleasingly of horns, and particularly of
home. It is full of the sweet images of
repose, of contentment, of Arcadian sim
plicity, and of a condition of life when
every one shall eat under his own vine
that which he plants and sing the merry
songs of peace U> all his neighbors.
A man who is protected has no enemies
to fear, no foes to fight. Serene and com
posed, he can let the battle of life rage as
it will, for ail is well with him. This is
the ideal condition in whicli the American
workingman is supposed to be, through
the beneficent influences of a high tariff.
The farmers, the merchants, the tradesmen
of the land have been itersuaded that if
they would only submit to high taxes, if
they would each give up a little of their
own superfluous wealth, it wonid make
many thousands of workingmen happy by
increasing their wages and supplying with
the comforts of life; that it would throw
around them the a-gis of protection, and
that the highest duty of American citizens
is to protect the labor of the country.
With this view a high and higher tariff
has oeen .voted from time to time, and
taxes have been laid and cheerfully paid
on alt tiro neee sarieeof life under the sup-
josition that somehow and some way the
a boring classes were being benelited. But
it looks now n» if the workingman did not
get his fair share of tliece taxes; in fact,
gets no part of them. The manufacturers
ike the money and then give the workman
o more than his day’s wages, no more
than the market rate.
that the poem probably owes its “go”—
they call its plan—Io being
wlmt I believe I .... .
written in this fashion, though that is
horrible thing to say to young authors.
Mr. Hoir, of Bibb.
From the Augusts News.
Capt. W. A. Huff, of Macon, is an
nounced by his ntlmerous friends as a can
didate for the 'Legislature. Mr. Huff was
one of the leading men in the last general
assembly, and Macon and the State at
large cannot afford to miss his services in
nMJkfptaffA ■ff° duct t lo 1 n ol “Th 8 Qjddt 1 ft* »»«*- He is one of the best men in
°. r .^*-Pr~r m ' r> to ykjn was a windy this State or in any other State. Send
attempt to | rove t„zt Miss Ameiie Rives l Huff to the Legislature by all means.
TIIE 1IKITISH EDITOR
Begins His Work on the Political Situation
In America.
From the London Dally Universe.
The news is received this morning of the
nomination for tbe Presidency by the
Democrats of Mr. Harrison. This places
him in opposition to Gen. Cleveland, nomi
nated by the Republicans at Buffalo, Ohio.
It is understood that a crisis is imminent,
and that Gen. Hayes, the present incum
bent of tbe office, will retire to his farm in
Boston.
It seems that two other men have also
been nominated as substitutes, in case the
regular nominees should be killed during
t e campaign, which will be carried on
with vigor. On tbe Republican ticket it
is Professor Morton, of Alaska, but at pres
ent living in Florida, though it is said that
he claims to be a resident of tbe great ag
ricultural Htate of Pennsylvania. On the
Demrcratic ticket is Dr. Thurman, a die
ting!! ished Italian, born near Rome in the
early part of 1783. He at present conducts
a gymnasium in the city 01 Kentucky find
has a large personal following, who refer
to him affectionately as the old Roman.
It is predicted that these nominations
will call out a full vote. Mr. Harrison
will make a tkor. ugh canvass, speaking at
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Lake Erie.
Mammoth Cave and Oshkosh. He will
then come East and address the people of
San Francisco. Gen. Cleveland, who is
especially strong with tbe soldier vote,
having a brilliant army record, gained by
the gallant capture of a large number of
Confederate flags, will speak at Dismal
Swamp, Montreal and other places. An
Cp^iuMaliuu Maipt-i mCutiuaU iXH bLudlwa
which he will deliver later in the season
st a place called Sait Kive., but we know
nothing of it.
Mr. Harrison favors tree trade and &
strong prohibitive duty on all exports.
Gen. Cleveland's enemies charge him with
trying to influence votes by favoring a
pension for every man who was in the
army. Mr. Harrison has been in the Leg
islature of New Orleans, and in 1878 was
mayor of Oregon. Much talk ia heard
about the bloody shirt, dead issues, the red
banana (a new variety recently propat ated
in Dakota) grangers, wsr tax. baPls,
planks, dark colored horses, tbe solid South,
carpet baggers, the Electoral University,
etc., none of which is very clear at this
distance, bnt which our correspond
ent is investigating. ‘ The
old Mugwump jiarty, founded
by Noah Webater, of Tennessee, is said tc
have joined with the Greenback party, the
Know-Nothing party and the Federalist
party, and if snen is the case and it piita
forward a candidate, it will complicate
matters still further. Tin's party would
control (he undivided Chinese vote.
The report that Mr. Blaine has declared
bis intention of deserting the Mugwump
party is shown to be premature by
special telegram published on our nfi
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telegram published on
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