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■■SARSAPARILLA.”
By MARTHA Mill LL(K'H-WIM.I AMS.
(Copyright, 1890, by S. S. McClure Cos.)
Nature meant Jewett for a social phil
osopher. Fate in eltin despite made him
a racing man. Fate’s instrument was
his uncle, a rich and eccentric bachelor,
to whom breeding horses and running
them afterward had seemed the only
things really worth while in a vacuous
world. When death came a-knocking
at the door he did not think so much
about the Jewett name. It was the
Wynyard stable which weighed upon
his mind—so Jewett inherited his for
tune contingently upon keeping up the
stable.
Jewett did not complain. He had no
consuming desire to keep on working,
though he hod worked with fair success,
and hard enough to give an exquisite
relish to idling, now that idling was, in
a manner, duty. Moreover, he found
himself mightily entertained; the turf
was wholly anew held of observation
to him. Bud Heaton, the trainer, whom
Jewett had inherited along with the sta
ble, was a continuing delight. Bud was
a wiry feilow, six foot at least, given to
dislocating the commonwealth’s Eng
lish and set in his ways as the everlast
ing hills. He knew a horse when he
saw it, alive and having its being, but
nothing living ever moved him to en
thusiasm. That was the prerogative of
the dead. He had a reverence amount
ing almost to awe for pedigree. Nat
urally, to his mind, it was sacrilege of
the worst sort to name a colt or filly ex
cept in such fashion as to at least sug
gest either sire, dam or the bright par
ticular star of the line.
So, when Jewett said of a sleepy,
droop-headed chestnut filly, !ong-wais<ed
to lankiness: ‘‘Call her Sarsaparilla!
Never saw a more palpable case of that
tired feeling!” the trainer protested:
"I tell yer whut—no critter woon't never
earn oats, much less noihin’ more, ef
you call it out o' its name that-a-away.
"Send Out Sassy and Make Her Como In Fir.-t. Whon She Does Give Her One Rod
Apple, One and No More, Understand.”
That thar filly’s bred to run—Hanover
out o' a Great Tom mare—little as she
looks It. You jest as well shoot her
right now, aster go an’ name her some
thin’ that don't mean nothin'. Now I
had thought Tomhanner would be just the
size ”
Jewett shook his head obstinately:
"Heaton, you are ungrateful, and short
sighted,’’ he said. "The name strikes me
as a positive inspiration. You can short
en it either way. In thei stubje it may
be Sassy, or ’Hilly, just as you choose."
Then he strolled oft, laughing, with his
hands in his pockets. Heaton shook a
fist after him, and slapped the filly on
her quarter. It was a quarter full of
power-in fact, here was power every
where. although the creature was mod
eled on lines so ungainly. She had been
highly tried, and Heaton had had great
hope of landing wilh her one of the leg
2-year-old events. Now he said, spiteful
ly: “Win the nursery! Nothin’. You
couldn't win a quarter race, carryin’ thSt
name.” , _ ,
Sarsaparilla drooped her head and look
ed sleepier than ever. Rut that after
noon. she picked up her name and her fi3
pounds, and simply smothered a field that
had the best colts of the season in it.
Still Heaton was ugly. "Walt! The
hoodoo, hadn’t had no time ter work,”
he said. Sure enough. Ihe next week. Sar
saparilla. with her threo-tiound penalty,
rame In a bad last behind half the colts
she had defeated with such ease.
"H-m! Turn her out. and let her grow
up to the name,” Jewett said sagely by
wav of answer to Heaton’s lamentations.
Heaton would not agree to that. He kept
the filly going, and she seemed to thrive
on hard work. She ate lustily, frolicked
and pranced in her exercise, nipped her
rubber if he did not use her exactly to
her liking, and found out that she pos
sessed a fine handy pair of heels. She
also ron beautifully, the day before a
race. Race days were her chosen seasons
of elegant leisure.
After three months of it Jewett sent
her forcibly to grass. He had been
tempted to sell her-but selling except be
tween seasons, was against ynyard
Stable traditions. Besides the filly had
won out more than a season's expenses
that lucky first time. She came hack to
training in her 3-yenr-old form, lankee,
leggier, ungainller than ever. Speedier,
too—when she chose to run. The when
was always an unknown quantity, until
after the race. Sometimes she ran her
rare over night, after her old habit. At
others she simply w'ould not work, but
went away from the post like a lama, and
was never headed until she came to the
wire.
If her owner had not been lucky enough
to back her decently when she lost, and
let her run loose when she won, he would
have come though (he season without a
thread of character. Heaton smek dog
gedly to his antipathy to the name, swear
ing over and over, that as Tomhanner.
the brown mare would have turned out
another Miss Woodford, or at least a
bigger Firenzi. T-lenlon believed in luek.
you see. So did Jim. the brown mare’s
black rubber; so, most of all. did Extry,
her rider, who was Jim’s stepson, the.
Wynyard Stable's second jockey, and an
rear a bundle of whipcord, steel wire and
whalebone as a black lad 18 years old
well could be.
"I done call dat dnr boy Extry ’cause
he sholy Will ih’owed In ter dc mat h I
made. I nuver drenmpt Mriar had 'im ”
Jim explained to Jewett. Jewett liked Ex
try. So did Sarsaparilla—shortened In sua
ble mouths to Sassy, as Jewett had fore
told. She had promoted Extry, Indeed,
from stable boy to jockey: and would run
for him. when she would run at all. bet
ter than for anybody else. Asa conse
quence Extry worshipped her. She rev
eled In long racies. When Extry held her
hard, knowing there was nothing ahead,
ond the winning post a good mile away,
he was In heaven. The wind of her mad
rush might almost blind him. his head
might grow dizzy os the furlong posts
flashed past, and the roar of the grand
stand swell hoarse and angry as the growl
of stormy seas, hut he did noi mind. He
had only one conscious and vital purpose
—to get there first. If he caught the
thunder of hoofs behind he lay n little*
further over her neck ond called almost
In her car:
“Git dar, old 'ooman! Git dar! Git
dar!"
She got there oflen enough to make
the talent respect her, and the le'ilng
ring hate her. She was the unknown
quantity forever disturbing their equa
tions of profit and loss. She whs wholly
without form: a creature of whim and
tricky Impulses, of whom her owner and
trainer both said they could say nothing:
except that the worse her trial showed
her the better her race was apt to prove
her.
So there was rejoSncing keen and sin
cere. when in her 4-year-old form. Sarsa
parilla proved a consistent loser. It appear
ed she c'ould not win. at any weights, nor
in any company. The wise men scored
Jewett for keeping her in training. It was
an insult alike to the turf, and the Wyn
yard stable, they said. The sayings each
and several, were precious in Heaton’s
sight. He collected them religiously—
they were said in print you understand—
and fired them at Jewett in season and
out. Jewett only smiled. Somehow he had
more faith in Extry than in all the wise
men. And Extry said: “No sir-ee! ’Tain’t
nuffiti de matter, ’ceptin dat de ole ’ooman
don’ want ter try—not er little
bit. She savin’ herself fer somp'n. No.
sir! 1 dunno whut hit is. Hut she know.
Eet yo’ la t and liar on dat. An’ when de
time come, she gwine stretch out her
neck, and take h r foot s under ’er—an*
make all e rest whar's a-runnin’ looi:
like er postage stamp ’side er hundred
ddlnr bill.”
Jewett walked around the mare, strok
ed h r glossy sinewy neck, felt, her clean
legs fie** of strain or hi mish, 1 sL.nel
to the firm, equal breathing of her heart,
and the easy deep breathing after a
bruising gallop and agreed with his
jockey. To all Heaton’s remonstrances,
he had one answer:
“She has earned her cats already. You
can surely mike those o;her beggars
earn her entrance money along with
htr own. ’
Partly through sentiment, but more
through whim, J wett r fused to turn her
out. or retire her next season. He en
tered her lib rally in whatever events
were open to aged animals. To the dis
credit of the turf be it said, they are
none too p enty, although the scant num
ber includes prizes well worth winning,
The chit test of them within Jewett’s
purview was the gold challenge cup, a
pretty bit of plaUe. which came to its
winner brimming over with gold coin.
It was a long race—2% miles—over a
course to try to the uttermost breath and
speed, and stay. No mare had ever won,
it, in all th sixty years s nee first it
was offered. It was one of the mighty
few fixtures r> maining from the palmy
days before the war, when gentlemen of
the south country thought nothing of
matching their cracks for $:0,000 a side,
nor of laying twice that sum outside,
upen the pride of their stables.
The Wynyard stable had won the cup
twice—once in its first year aid again in
ils last under old Hugh Jewett. Naturally
Randall Jewett, the nephew, who had, in
course of five years, found out something
of the sport’s fascination, was eag-u to
win it n third time. He name! three for
it —Himself, a slashing Rack Himyer,
coming four years old; Tenderfoot, a ieng
striding bay, remotely descended from
Lady Beel, and Sarsaparilla, the despised.
Heaton scoffed grimly over the last nom
ination. “Reckon you know the fo-feit's
an even SIOO in this here circus,” he said.
“It’s yer own money—l ain't got nare wo and
to say agin the waste on it —but I do ay,
It’s 'noogh ter make old man Hugh the
u:) and turn over in his coffin—the Idee of
that corntrairyi critter that woon’t beat
a cow exceptin’ jest as she takes the no
tion, runnm’ in his colors. 1 tell you when
he lived evrybody knowed him as they
knowed old John Harper—when they seen
his packet on top o'er hoss, they Knov/'d
it meant er hoes race from eend ter eend.’’
Even Extry’s fai’h seemed to falter a
little. “De old* ooman. she des as' lib< ly
as er cricket,’’ he said. “But—she lett n’
herself git sorter fat. Whut you make
outen dat Marse Jewett? Seem like i r
me, she (sorter got de notion ter quit.’
“We won’t let her quit—not Just yet."
Jewett said. "You tell Sassy for me, Ex
try, that if she really does want to quit,
she must win the Gold Challenge. If sir
will only do that—and I am certain she
can—she sail never look through a bridle
again.”
"Maybe she mought do hit. of she thunk
dat cup will: full er apples,;’ Extry said.
• She do tnos’ anything for er good leg
bail—but L-a-w-d-ee! please suh, don’t
you ti ll Missor Heaton hd’ old man Jim
’bout my savin’ dat—er Sassy wus ter .lie
no matter whut ailded her. dam two would
•olar hit was ’ease I gin her des dem lit
tle tas’es ob fruit.”
“I’ll never tell; never in the world,
Jewett said, promptly. Then he whistled
and added: "Extry, you’re a special prov
idence. You have given me an idea.”
He walked away chewing hard upon
It. Apples! Sarsaparilla! Dared he try
it? Heaton would snort —maybe resign
if he knew. It was against all stable tra
dition—if he did try ii. and the mare lost,
the world would certainly say she had
been trained on purpose to lose. There
tofore he had not cured a great deal
What the foolish world said of the things;
it but half understood. Now he had to
take account of its verdict. He was deep
in love with Constance Eyre, sole daugh
ter of Maj. Eyre of the Bluffs, the great
est stickler for nice points of turf honor
anywhere south of Mason and Dixon’s
line, The major held that a turfman s
reputation was like a woman’s—irretriev
ably stained by even unjust suspicion. He
h a< i raced himself in his younger days
Non- he bred only runners, but that kept
him fully in touch with all matters of
the turf. . „
“It's the stiffost old Hsk going. Be
hanged, though. If I don’t take it,” Jewett
said next morning, as he walked to the
■stabile about daylight. Heaton stared
as though he thought his employer stark
mad. when Jewett said to him:
“Old man, we re going to try an experi
ment. Yes, w>. You have got to be
in it the same as myself. Send out Sassy
this morning to work with the slowest
thing in the stable nnd make her come lii
first—even If the oiher fellow's head has
to lie pulled half off. When she does come
first give her an appie—a ripe red apple,
sweet and juicy. One appie and no more,
understand. To-morrnw do the same
thing—only make it two apples. You must
never get beyond that. Keep tt up all
week, then let her run true. If she
comes first, well and good; she gets the
apples. If she sulks she don't. Stick to
that programme until further orders,
meantime giving her every chance to beat
the best we've got in stall.”
“I understand, sir,” Heaton said with
grim, yet elaborate deference. "But you
understand I'll do it only be use I'm un
der contract, and furder. that I'll b II ev
erybody what I done and how I done It at
your own special order. They'll -e*
straight that as the cussed critter won’t
win. you’re a-tralntn’ of her to lose. May
lie, though, she'll up and die o' wind
colic. Ef only she docs, shan't she have
er fust class fun’rul—rosewood coffin, sil
ver handles, plate glass and all that o'
that—with the rest er the bosses strung
out behind in mournin'?”
"All that can be settled later,” Jewett
said airl y. Then he galloped five miles to
breakfast at the bluffs, and sun himself
In the light of Constance's merry brown
eyes. It was early February, but the stir
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1900.
of new life was in all things. Hard n<
he rode he could glimpse the faint green
ing of the new grass, pushing up through
last year s brown mat, and hear, sofr and
faint, the dove calls from the wood. It
was two months to the cup day—it f. 11
always early in April. That was lktl •
enough time for his experiment, but a
great deal too much for his suspense. He
wanted the cup, he wanted Constance as
he had never wanted anything before.
And he had somehow a sense that he was
to win or lose both upon that fateful,
swift-coming April day.
Three hours later he sat opposite Maj.
Eyre in the library at the Bluffs, smoking
a particularly sothing cigar and toasting
his feet at a snapping open fire. Constance
stood l>eside the south window potteting
over her plants. All morning she hal
shown herself so particularly enchanting
Jewett had been tempted to propose at
once. The Major himself had been unus
ually approachable; he hail, indeed, in
dulged in one or two bursts oIL confidence
which made Jewett certain tie himsel
was coming to be regarded- as one of *h
family. So he took his courage at last in
both hands, and told of the orders h.*
had given his trainer.
The Major heard him in silence, then
turned and said: “Constance, I—it seems
to me you had beet go ami—and write to
your Aunt Maria. Say you will come and
stay a month with her—and ihat—that I
myself may run up, for a week at the
last.”
“Yes. father!’’ Constance said sweet y,
her eyes telegraphing to Jewett a whole
code of danger signals. Jewett was
aghast. He sprang up to open ihe
door for Constance, but the Major got
nimbly between. Still holding it open,
he said dryly: “I am going out to the
stables, Mr. Jewett. Shall I older your
horse? Sorry you can t stay longer—but
engagements must be kept.”
“I wbl go with you.’’ Jewett said; then
a* th* y stepped outside: “Maj. Eyre. I
cannot pretend to misunderstand you—
but please give me in exact words your
reason for this dismissal.”
“I hardly think that is need d.“ the
major stiffly. “Certainly 1 do not
wish to say to any man in my own house
—especially not to one who is the heir
of my dearest friend—that—that a racing
man who gives such orders as you have
done must be either an unheard-of Idiot—
which you are not—or a thorough s roun
drel.”
“So! It is scoundrelism to try to give
yourself an honest chance at the gold
cup!” Jewett said through his teeth.
“Sir, I had rather lose on a horse prop
el ly trained, than win over one running
for arpies—even if such a thing were
possible. The best wish I can mak” you
is that that old brute may die, before this
thing g*ts wind, and ruins the fair name
of the Wynyard stable.”
“Thank you maj9r I will at least keep
that—whate.v<r else I may les?,” Jewett
.‘-aid, bowing very low. He flung himself
into the saddle and sent the horse off at
full run. checking only to open the lawn
gate. There h*> look and hack and saw in
an upper window, faint and uncertainly,
Constance waving him a last goodby.
When at last ti e cup race was called,
all West Side Park was one big guffaw.
Notwithstanding, everybody felt % that ihe
com <:y of Sarsaparilla and the appl s
had ai under-elrment of tiagedy. Jew
ett had backed the mare so heavily a*
to cripple himself sadly if she lost —and
it was certain as anything in ra* inc?
could be, she had not the ghost of a
chance to wdn. Heaton said so openly.
He did net deny, though, that she had
thriven on the apples, nor that some.imes
s e had run for tnem, as f w mares could
run. But she had never held her speed
for th * whole distance and soft as she
must be through such unheard of pam
pering, she could not go the route and
1 ve the pace.
It was sure <o be a killing pace. Him
self had paid forgeit, but Tenderfoot was.
in Heaton’s judgment, fit enough and fast
enough to win the Derby—if only he
could be miraculously set down in his
present fe<tie upon Epsom Downs. “Anti
only to think! Not a dollar of stable
money on him, exceptin’ my lit fie nab!’
Heaton communed with himself. “Jew
ett must be plumb crazy—declarin’ ter
win with hoss and mare, and then pui
tin’ his whole pile on the ongodliesA crit
ter that ever trod a plate.”
Tenderfoot was one of the two even
money favorites. Her owner’s steadfast
support alone kept Sassy as good as 15
io 1. She had got in very well, indeed.
Extry weighed a hundred and ten pounds
even, so he had neither to make weight
nor lose if. He was luckier than Bruce,
the weazened head jockey, who had to
make good with lead Tenderfoot’s hun
dred and twenty. Lustral, the other fav
orite, carried a hundred and twenty-two.
Whips, conceded to be the best horse in
the race, had he top weight, a hundred
and thirty. Everybody knew he was as
good as anchored by it, so the books laid
8 to 1 against him.
Nobody took seriously any of the half
a dozen other horses. They W’ere su
pers—simply part of the procession, yet
well worth looking at, as they paraded
past the stand, necks arching, hoofs
dancing, the soft sunshine playing On th*
gay coiors in saddle so it seemed as if
rainbows had been spilled over the broad
strstch. For each there were cheers and
hand-clappings—strongest of all for
Whips, who the public felt, was ill used.
Even those w’ho had put their hopes and
their money on the other horses gave him
a cheery hail.
It was otherwise with Sassy. She came
last, and headed the other way: “She’s
a procession all to herself,” one grinning
fellow said to his elbow neighbor. The
neighbor chuckled hard: “Yes!” he said;
“an apple-cart Reside, with some sugges
tion of an almanac.”
“Hush! There’s Jewett—the man who
owns her,” the grinning man said. The
other looked hard, and answered under
bis breath: “Say,, hasn’t he got any
friends? They might have sent him to
the lunatic asylum, and saved him. From
all I hear he’ll hardly own a coat to his
back when this business is over—hair an
hour or so from now.”
“I don’t know about that,” another
man paid, edging in, and speaking very
low; "I’m just from the ring. X tell you
those fellows are shaking In their shoes.
Strange man has been up and down the
line, putting hundred-dollar bets on Sessy
—and b’jacks, all but two bookies have
turned their slates—and those two have
cut the price for her in threes."
So many others were about, saying the
same thing there was a general craning
of necks to watch the big ungainly brown.
She held her head iow, and went meekly
along as though oppressed with a con
sciousness of her own many sins, and the
futility of her owner's hopes. He met her
at the post, patted her lean neck, and
said: ’’Remember, old woman, you are go
ing to make or break me,” then to Extry:
“Go to the front, stay there—and keep
“Make er chalk mark on de saddle cf
you wanter, den whup me ef I rubs hit
out,” Extry answered. “Dats how I hear
um say dee done boys when dls yere gold
cup was fust started. I’m de* gwine hang
on, keep dee ole ooman's head up, an’ let
her run her own set.”
The start was tedious. There were halt
a dozen breaks with one or two left stand
ing. Sassy always moved quickly, ami
checked at the recall as though she were
a machine. "The brute has no more life
than one of Ihe rail posts,” Maj. Eyre
said w rathlully aside to the starter. The
major had come to see them off, leaving
Constance snug on a coachiop in the In-
Acid. He ha*l given Jewett only a freezing
nod. Now his heart softened a little at
thought of the younger man's Inevitable
ruin, but regard for turf proprieties for
bade a kindlier glance. Jewett ought to
know without telling how dishonorable It
was to start a horse unfit. It was Inviting
Ihe public to disaster, and all' the more
reprehensible from the fact that the In
vlter himself was certain to share In it.
Again the dozen mettled beasts drew
Up in line flrty yards behind the flag.
Sassy was third upon the outside. That
would take her very wide at the turn,
hut Jewett was glad. His heart elmost
stood still as he saw the line begin to
move keeping abreast. Twinkling feet
grew faster, faster, faster—the line flash
ed past, the flag dipped—a roar s of a
whirlwind went up from the packed field,
end was caught and echoed In the stand.
A few tried to say, “They're olT," but the
word* were drowned In a sort of droning
cheer. The start was half way around
the mile track. The racers would come
past it twice ere the race was won and
lost.
“Come? You must see this finish,” tho
starter **aid, dragging Jewett iway with
him. Jewett stood up in ihe break .is
it raced across the infield, his ev* s glut l
to the glass. And thus he saw Sassy
settle down to running in an easy, dille
tante fashion that hardly swayed Ex
try, standing in stirrups. He set his
teeth hard. He had never known how
great and lively his hope ivu<. until now
when he was fin.ling out that all hope
was vain The field had swept past be
fore he reached the stand. It would com
again, and yet again—with who knew
what leading.
“Take all de room you wants old ’oo
man,’’ Extry sang out to Sassy, as he
found the others bunching and crowding
for the rail. “LTs don’ want no pockets
—not ontel de money's won Us wants ter
git dar—an’ us wants daylight ter git dar
in.”
Still Sassy ran as though she were out
for a play-spin. Once she mumbled the
bit. and Extry's heart gave u great leap:
,“Ef you's memberin’ dem apples, dee
is ba’ls ub urn fer ye. in dat dar
cup,” he said. Extry had a sublime
faith in Sassy’s intelligence. He was cer
tain she understood every word.
She was almost last—just level with
\\ hips, in fact, hut none of the others
were so near as to make her feel uncom
fortably out of it. Extry leaned farther
along her neck, saying: “Ole ’ooman, dis
ain't no time fer foolishness. Fust t’ing
you know, you gwine Jose yourself—an’
all de rest whar Marse Jewett is got.”
They were coming to the stand for the
second time. Tenderfoot led the field a
length clear of everything, but Taistral,
who hung at his throat latch. The su
pers were trailing, the worst of them a
dozen lengths behind Sassy, who was
lr-si of the real contenders. Whips even
flaunted his silky flag ahead. Jewe.t
shut his eyes, smothering a groan. Sas
sy had never won unless she won a’.l the
way. It was but a mile now to victory
and the gold cup. Already the air was
rent with shouts from the partisans of
Tenderfoot and Lustra].
Another cry. faint, amazed, half-whim
pering, made Jewett open his eyes quick
ly. He saw a long brown, moving blur,
with a faint red dot on top of it. stream
out, collar the leaders and shape itself
into a racer against the whitey brown
of the course Sassy was running at
last, running so swiftly the eye unaided
could not mark stretch or gather. She
ran low', with a long, stealing stride,
stomach almost to earth, neck extended,
eyes aflame. After the first cry, stun
ned silence held the crowd. It had known
Jewett’s crazy niare could run—
the question was. could she stay?
Sassy answered it In her own way. Dik**
the wind hut swifter, she swept the out
stretch, heeling on the turn so as not to
lose way. She might have taken the rail
there, but Extry disdained it. Straight
down the middle he came, his lips work
ing, tears rolling down his nshy face.
“OOp-ee! De oie 'ooman done waked
up!" he cried, "but nobody heard him:
ihe course had broken suddenly into a
babel of cries. They were in the back
stretch now—but half a mile away from
the gold cup. In less than a minute —
but what was that! Tenderfoot was out
of it for good, but Lustral had come
again. Like an arrow he shot beside th*-
brown mare, hugging the rail, and run
ning well in hand.
His flanks were red and reeking—foam
flew from the bit as he ran. Extry ha I
flung awety his whip. He wore sputs, but
Sassy had never felt their pricking. It liy
wholly with her to win or lose the rac .
"You see dat dar Mister Luster?" h
shouted in her ear. "Ole ooman, you tell
him not ter come borderin’ you.”
Stride for stride the hots“ and mare
went through the backstre.ch, side by
side they sprang for heme and the cup
Lustral's jockey. Penny, eat down to ride
with all his might. Extry half sighed a*
he caught the swish of catgut and w
the gallant black forge holf a lei gih
a heed. Sassy saw it, too. She laid her ea-s
flatter than ever, poked her nose forward,
gathered herself and sprang even in two
bound*. At the furlong poie she w s a
neck to ihe good and running strong and
free. Extry gulped a great sob of triumph
He had follow* *1 Marse Jewett’s lead, au 1
by the hand of his mother risked $lO on
hla pet. He remembered that only din lv
ns one faint Ingredient in his cup of bliss
He dared not look over his shoulder, bat
shouts and cries told him Tenderfoot was
creeping up.
“I don’t keer ef us does run fue >n 1
second—des so us two is fus," he shouted
to Sassy. Then, lor a breath, 1 e giew bl nd
and sick. Right in front of him .* lift e
child, a laughing toddler, four years old,
had, while its mother, a trainer's -.'if',
was absorbed In watching, crept through
the rail, and stood crying uncertainly in
the middle of the course. It was in no
danger from Lustral—the other horse
might also pass it unscathed. Si-s.
must swerve or check or run over It. The
alternative was murder or defeat.
Extry drew long breith. then cl a*
across the babel h< hoard Jew tt shout:
“Pull up! Pull up! Save the child! No
matter about the race!”
Extrv pulled to the outside, those be
hind him to the rail. The whirlwind
hoofs went past the toddler, and Sas.-y
had lost her lead. She was n length be
hind Lustral, even with Tenderfoot-an!
clearly disgusted with the way she had
been used. The wire was just a hundred
yards ahead. Extry groaned a.oud.
"Must be de Lawd; he’s ngin us, ole o>*
man." he said. "But-but do try. des er
little bit mo’!”
The wind was blowing down the stretch.
It brought to him a tine and familiar fr<*
grance-the scent of full-ripe mellow ap
ples. As he sniffed It he shouted: "Glor.* !
Glpry! Go on, ole ooman!” Sassy answer
ed him by such a burst of tipped as th-
West Side park had never seen. Like
the whirlwind, the devouring flame, sh
ore along, passer! Lustral, let in day
light between herself and him, and went
under the wire at a rate that smashed
alike the track record and the racer's
sex tradition.
And as she .-aught the Judge's eye thin
men who had crow-ded to the rail just
beyond the winning post flung their ha*-
up wildly, thereby scattering red apples
over the grass ht their feet. They tool
other apples from bulging pockets and
sent them volleying all over the shouting
crowil. When the volleying was finished
they joined hands, and executed anew
pattern of war dance. In course of whl* !i
they hugged themselves impartially and
shook hands with each other at least
a dozen times.
“How did it all happen?” one of them
said to Impatient Inquirers. "O. we've
had our eyes open all along. We watch* I
Sassy at work—wo knew she'd go htr
death for apples— anil thnt If she’d run
her best, there was just her one in the
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cup race. We didn’t do a thing to the
bookies! O. dear, no! They didn’t know
we were loaded —with apples. But we’ll
let m down pretty easy.”
Until Extry had weighed in and Sassy
was parading w ith the big hor**< shoe of
flowers about her neck. Jewett was ns
white as a dead man.
He had accepted defeat, which meant
ruin—and hero was victory snatched
from the very jaws of it. He had“pulled
off the brill* before he lei up Sissy to
receive l.cr floral price, “i’ll k* ep my
word old woman—you shall never put n
a* other” he said, as he tossed too bridle
far away. Th’ er w 1 par e i b fore him
as he came ba k, aud close 1 behind him
like a refluent wave. Everybody was
anxious ‘ro look at *t!n wonder- Jewett
walked bareheaded, as (hough in ;*r* s no
cf a sovere*gn princess He knew <’on
stai ce was looking at him with her heart
i:i her eyes. 11 hal pass *1 bar mote
than once that da\. but had not dared
to approach her.
At the paddock gate Maj. Kyr- met him.
The major was almost apopl otic cf o un
ttnance “I have c ine to ap logize. Mr.
Jewett. " he said. “1 owe you more than
apboH s. You have enlighten* and mo
have enlightened us all, indeed. You
have shown us that there is something
more o a horse than w< knew. Pedigree,
conformation a: and all that have I een our
s andards. and routine our fitich. You
have shown us that the horse has—what
do you cafl it ?—idlosv nerasl* ■ -especially
when the horse is a mar**. By the way,
if you could think cf sellli g the mir *
that won to-day I gbould like to make
an offer. ”
“Thank you very much, ms jot*," Jew
ett said heartily. shaking the majors
hand. *My 1 rand of Sarsaparilla is not
for silo—still 1 don’t say you may not
l ave her In ihe way of exchange that is
not at all fair.”
“O,” the major said more apoplectic
than **ver, then Irrelevantly. “Constance
is with the Bruet s— I know sho wants a
chan* e to congratulate y* u— ’*
“Not so badly as I want her.’’ Jewett
said, very low. The major answered
l earning ly.
"My do;r fellow there is no counting
on qtiything f n.ii in* . but I wi h you
th** lu k to get her. an b trictly in cm
fi lence, 1 believe you will.”
LEOPOLD ADLER. c. 8 ELLIS.
President. Vice President.
W. F. M’CATTLEY. Cashier.
TH&GHfITHfIM BANK
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rtua i auk u.itid .is scrvl ea to corpora
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Great Britain and Ireland and on tbs
Continent.
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on deposits In the Saving Department.
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.... CAPITAL $500,000.
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Collection* handled with safety,
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Accounts ui hooks, luanksia. Merchants
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end upwards
JOHN FLANNERY. President.
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DIRECTORS:
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E. A. WEIL. W. W. GORDON, Jr.
H A. CRANE. JOHN M. EGAN.
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H P. SMART CHARLES ELLia
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iiillil
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safe and cons rvatlve banking.
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•AVANNAII, UA.
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Jt| n h Thiels to certify that X have been afflicted
wa I with Scrofula 01 Blood Poison for a number of
FI ) u|n years. The best physician* of Mobile and thi*
SBr city aaid nothing could be done for me. I took
El - ;; v.V large quantities * • * but no relief,
t** r ,< -'v 4 '. fr My limbs were a mass of ulcers, and when I
jl rVJ was eent to a physician in Mobile my entire
LJ > 4 / tJr l \ body was a mass of sores. I had given up all
Fa fe \ v hope, and as a last resort tried P. P. P., and
l! ‘f'ar $ J, : y ,, \ alter using four bottles (small size), the soree
Jv P‘ £ >r7' Jr' m have entirely disappeared, and mv _ |
U-. fir**'' Jl health was never better than at t ,>rese..
S mO: time, and people that know me thin da won-
V -W-yjffj feA dcrtal cure. ELIZA TODD, Milton, Fla.
J ft-J.uT' ’V*a’ 1 IlSfiS- What can be worse j
- A," | BBS* ■ yonan than an other- Fj |
■ r JBl / • < ■'. ■ ‘v*., pwjp wise beautiful skin cov- w* $
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// / / fciiy the humiliation of disfigurement, the itching
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'S All women ought to knowthat all facial and
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nd are curable. P. P. P. will purify the
blood, and when the blood becomes pure all
skin diseases vanish.
w P. P. P. is a harmless vegetable compound,
and never fails to eradicate from the system
all traces of Blood Poison, Scrof* Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia and Catarrhal
affections.
FROM ONE OF SAVANNAH’S PROHINENT MERCHANTS.
TO TIIE PUBTtfICi
I herewith recommend to the sufferer* of Rheumatism and rheumatic palaa,
Llpptnan’s P. P. P., as 1 have carefully tested it ami found permanent relief. Also my
•on, who, for years, has suffered from Rheumatism, has used it for the last year wita
Sood results, and has not suffered since, and is still usiug it. Would not do without it
it cost double, or at any price. Yours truly, CUAS. bRIULR.
Lippman Brothers, Proprietors,
Wholesale Druggists. Lirrrnan Block. Savannah, Gft.
Scotch and Irisf) Whiskies.
We are agents for the most celebrated Scotch and
Irish whiskies, imported direct from the distilleries of
Scotland and Ireland. •
These Scotch whiskies are the blend of the finest
Highland whiskey matured many years in wood before
bottled. The expert Analyist describes this Scotch whis
key as the perfection of Highland whiskey, and is special
O. V. H., selected Old Vatted Highland whiskey from
Glasgow, Scotland, The latest novelty in Scotch whiskey
is distilled by Rutherford of Leith, Scotland, and is called
Scotch Cherry Whiskey, and very palatable indeed. We
are also agets for the famous old Irish whiskev, imported
bv us from Wheeler, Belfast. Ireland.
LIPPMAN BROS.,
i Agents for Scotch and Irish Distilleries.
1 speaks (or Ml.
480 Caurtland Av<*.,
Atlanta, Ga., April 26th, 1900
Columbia Drug Company, Savannah,
Gentlemen—-It gives me pleasure o
heartily recommend “In fan (•Friend
Powder,” and to give to you a singu
lar little coincidence connected with
it.
During the Uotton States and Inter
national Exposition I was presented
with a little box of this powder, and
w as so pleased with it that l was ex
ceedingiy anxious to get mote, but on
looking at the box I found nothing
but Savannah. Go., no other address.
I have often wished I knew where
to get it. This morning’s mail brought
your circular with unclosed sample. I
Immediately referred to my box. and
found it was the “Infant-Friend Pow
der.” Tt is without doubt the best
powder I have ever used.
Respectfully,
MBS. YVm. KING.
For sale by all Druggists.
Manufactured by
COLUMBIA DRUG COMPANY.
Savannah, Go.
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