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The Two Liaikt.1 V hen I'm a 'tlt," the stri nUn,ariw, And strives tie.coturg. ye to acap, 'AI, the I shall bei ong an v e, When um a gaan. 1 "When I was young," the old man sighe, "ltravoly the lark and linnet sung Their carol under sunny skies, When I was young, "When I'm a man I shall do fre 1 1'o guard the right, the truth uphold." "W hen I was young [ bent no knee To power or gold." Then shall I satisfy my soul With yonder prize, when I'm a man." "Too late I found how vain the goal To which I ran." "When I'm a wan these idle toys Aside forever phall be flunu" "Tihere wa ho bolsop iii my joys 'her e boy's bright dream is all before; The man's romance lie far behind, lad we the present and no bmore, b'ato were unkind. iBut, brother, tolling in the night, Will count yourself not all unbles It in the East there gleams a light, Or in the Yest. STOLEN FR0M MTHE FORT. The srn shone as brilliantly on the " parade-ground at Fort Fletcher as though it was an earthly paradise in stead of a bleak and ugly bit of Mon tana prairie, cut off from its parent wilderness only by some rough defenses an:a two rows of sufficiently ill-built quarters. Mabel Ileriot, sitting in a small porch in front of her husband's quar ters, her fingers busy with some huge .darns in a pair of scarlet stockings, turned her pretty, discontented eyes, inore often than was good for. the pro gress of her work, to another pair of -scarlet stockings which flashed in and ,out among the group of children with .an activity which promised her more darning in the near future, for they belonged to her small son, and though Trottie was only three years old, he .had early manifested a positive genius for wear and tear, holding his own In that, as in other boyish attributes, among the elder children with a cheer ftul self-confidence which filled his mothier with mingled admiration and regret. Life had been so easy-no cares, no repiwonsibilities, no anxieties - while everything a girl could desire of lux uty, amusement and admiration had been showered upon her as the adopted daughter of a wealthy and generous, though rather tyrannical, uncle. It hadi all been quite perfect until she hadl danced with Tom hieriot at a West Point ball, and read something in his blue eyes, heard something in his pleasant voice, that stirred her heart with the conviction that, charming as her life had seemed, it would henceforth be very empty and desolate if she must banish thcse eyes and that voice from it-a conviction strong enough to sup. port her through all the stormy scenes which followed her uncle's bitter oppo-. sition to her engagement to a penniless lieutenant; strong enough to make her reply to his final declaration that she must choose between her lover and him .by lputting her hand in Tom Hlerlot's, with the passionate protest that where he went, there must she follow, even thngh it were to tho wnrir.i an Her thoughts came back suddenly to the present at a more uproarious shout than usual from the children, and she saw Trottie cantering toward her astride of a stick, while hal,f the pleats of his kilted skirt trailed behind him. "Oh,. what a boy!" she cried, rising to eat ch him as he passed. An Indian woman, with a basketful of beadwork strapped to her back, stood gaizinig at the mother and child, with a look of yearning sorrow in her eyes, whuieh half touched, half frightened Alabel. "Who do you want?" she aske,.1 quickly. "MeI want nothing white mother can ~' give," the sguaw answered, gravely, liying one brown liand on Trottie's b)right hair. "Him pretty boy," she said( slowly, a hard breath betweeneach seiinence. "Me have pretty boy so - big. White mother very happy. She keep her boy. Great Spirit take my boy." Then tvith a.gesture of despair which all her wonderful savage endur anc~e could not subdue, she clasped bo0th hands before her face and sank on hier knees, shaking :with sobs which she still struggled to sIlence. Th'ie tears filled Mabel's eyes, but she s'tood hesitating what to do, her aver sion to Indians, which was the natural result of four years spent in their near neighborhood, striving wIth her com p)aSsio. for the grief which most ap peals to a woman's sympathy. .Buit no doubt troubled Trottle. Grief * was evident in every line of the bent, trembling figure, and for every griet in his experience there was one remedy sure and unfailing, Hie applied it at "Not cry any morel" lie said in his cheerful little voice, and kissed the <mliy bit of brown cheek which her .clasRped hands left visible. She-iturned as though she would have flung her arms about him, but Mabel had clasped het' boy fast, wilth a sudden terror, sharp though inpleilnalile. The Indian rose slowly, her face re covering its uisual calm as she did so. "Pretty boy very 'good to me; white mothef .not be afraid. me .hurt him," she said, apd Waelked away with a grave dignity whi4h bronght a shamed color to Mabel's face. She stepped forward with an impulse to say -something kind but paused with a smile at herself, Laif shy, halt amused. What could she say of conso lation that an Indian woman would understand, whose religious faith was probably even more vague than her knowledge of English? And shte shrank from offering a grief that was so real aiid so digniied the usual very substan .tial cure.of squaw troubles, . IN . Trot tie hhsOohe,allthabo~l 04e44y!is t show their sympathy. Door soul wht over else she might fai -to ppOh@D t shle had understobd the % tih'dtf~ Withp a kiss that wq ~4 Mdeteni der than usual, Mabel11eriot ook her boy oni. her kneia, and told bU 6 failrf sojr'es until ,dlnner titne, to the utter iieglect or tile unlarned 6tockingsrn the torn skirt. - yAlthdt day Mae et dtrangely xtous and resatles when Trot i was mornin u i gtten:the better ld bLrbed in her ev d fee he owed him to play }t kt tqht1, n on the parade-ground. t 2o'cl the niaid was sent to bring him in to Qinuey?bot la .pg failedto appear pro pt as usu tn Oqua r ari ho ahe retu ulLo ex. Ottement and right and said t,tof linding Trottie on he parade.," . b d gone to the houses of the other omcersi Wohildgn, ny te o T} e, been seen for some time. Then Mabel, a terrible certainty stabbing her h y with a pang that made her fakfd I99, suddenly gray a ily, "That I ehiml My In vain Tom eriot assured her that their ;paugbty boy, " who _was a. groat pet in th6 regimeuot, rohlt dui ely be' found in one of the spldiers' quarters, feasting his eyes and ears *ith strange sights and sounds. "Go and see," she said, lioaftely; :bt y9u will not Oud hin, upless you fnd her.?' When he came back presently, very white and quiet, from his useless search, the alarm had spread, and there were kind faces and mysterious sugges Lions and offers of assistance in Mabel's little drawiug-4ebna, which. studonly, looked so desolate.. Nobody but Mabel gave the Indian woman more than a passing thought, for they were all used to daily, visits from Indians, who had long been per. fectful peaceful, and were believed quite incapable of a bolder oriae than petty dishonesty. Besides, what mo tive could tempt then to steal a ohild, whose discovery in their hands Would be most certainly severely punished, while even his undiscoverea possession could not avail them in any way? It was not long before a soldier was sent, after a whispered consultation to climb down the bluff at the further end of the parade, toward which the mothers in the garrison had been glancing ihudderingly ever since the news of rrottle's disappearance. In a terribly short time lie returned, the tears filling ts kindly Irish eyes, and in his hand i'rottle's little fez, which he had found lialf-way down the' ?luff, just where a rock overhung the' swift Yellowstone, A. great silence fell upon the fort, which had been so fill of excitement, md the voices which had spoken of iope and courage to Mabel were hushed when Tom lerlot, saking down beside uls wife's chair, laid his head on her {nees and sobbed. It was Mabel who spoke, almost at nce, in a strange strained voice that was yet instinct with energy, and ;omething which, if it were not hope, 'et was resolved that it would not be lespair. "Tom, darling, do not give him up. ur boy never went near the bluf. ie romised me again this morning that 2e would not, and lie would no more reak a promise than-than you would, rom. That Indian Woman has him. Find her, pnd her quickly, deer--, 3annot wait much longer." More to soothe -her than froni any iope of finding her belief true, 'Tom, with another officer and a few soldiers, ,ode to the little Indian camp about a nile from the fort, only to find the'.t softing was left tof it but some buirned aut fires. Something of his wife's strong conviction seemed to pass into rom Herlot's heart at the sight of that iuddeniy deserted camp, "We must make up several parties and search for them," he said, briefly, to the dilicer with hlim, as .they rode back to the fort, but there was the Light of a new hope in his eyes. Therle Is this much of resemblance to a family in such a small and Isolated sommunity as the garrison at Fort Flietcher., that, howe'ver much they may Inarrel among themselves In prosperity, the touch of a great sorrow on one of is members effaces all asperities for the time in the remembrance of how alose and entire is their mutual de pendence on each other.- From the colonel down to the latest arrived re 3rult there was no heart in the regi muent that did not feel a pang at the Lhoughit of the blue fearless eyes and straight baby figure which, whether Darried away In the rush of the' Yel. lowstone or across the prairie to some Ind-ian hiidng-place, they had JiItltte lhope of seelig him again. There were more volunteers thanm were needed for the searching parties as soon as Tom asked for them, and with the last one to set out Tom went himself, after a sharp struggle between his restless de sire to be doing something toward flading his boy and his sense that he was leaving Miabel to bear the heavlest burden of suspense alone. It was she who sent him away in the end. Before midnight they were all gone, and she was left to wear through the long hours of 'waiting in th4' rooms where all Trottie's life had been spent, and where every chair 'and table grew precious to her In that long watching, because they seemed to assure her, with the dtgmb force of everyvday assoplation' with hiuh, that It was Impfossible he could be really gone forever, All that night and the rieit day she lived through her suspense as women live through suiph,agonies,y ienes on her knees, sostme u n down; ris*drl'u whea h a ApolkEn do so by $he friends who toolcit in-.r not to letave hem'alonid." 'ub Wliateyd~t she .did,-her wh6le heart,'.hoer tihole was one wild pryrgeh prayeds, most'6r prk' p o bf, e ge8d pdd wio basW'eate rebellip:0 againgt what may be ils Will, the 'God who made human loVesbtronj must surely forgive, even 'wh6n 'he does not heogi , t was nearly sadnsee on the tollo.Mng day when.: Mabel rose. .aud4enly from her knees, "Lis.eni'@jIe pidsiarp y. aiross the parade, :grdit 'W'fased through hei heat that. zo one hurries to toil biM OeWh.* 'khe d'or was pushed ppe bya sldir, t ejtoo .eager to herObrlDo & Thesquaw has YO,Ie liadb/ogh4 hmim "back; tp there'see tdd 1hI doorgay, hi g. eyed, 'a#1 euud- ild with her lag tramn ner the nrairie, while out fromn r e wrre.b u ofusta o ss r- half-I 4108 u esand y a o to4ex that her was e au u a4tn, been takeq i i It no'ean , and no 'pg0'Ang will ever thrll Mabel's hears with more perfect rapture than voi as " tbki histh ad dii "lose undbr her cheek and murmured: e does love his own blamma IN d tongue can tell," now," said l, yet wit. 1ion in e a ry. ey frst wor e ii ' fher ap y ' ful women, and as she spoke she turEed gfbt~dbU4g 001'# Voicb sthpped her. *vAkWhy did you bring him back to me?'t she asked, l oldng her loy ,Jghtily 4 ' lif,o @ elat 4 s1obate wonder that any woman having once losses ed; Ahs oou14 give, in up again overomiig all hor elrinking horror. "Him pretty boy, but not mine," ile Indian answered. And then, :laying hno and op her e ast, ' not y ent wht motr to" el ho',eh8re,'likemin feel; sompbing ier, bpy ba6k to 4her ,qrht wy did you ?.ke hW1i then?" cried.one of the ladles, eagerly. "Me not take him," she replied; and very briefly, in her imperfect English, she told them what had happened. On her return to their camp the da that she had first seen Trottie, she had told her husband that he reminded her of their dead boy, and her husband, believing that the child would comfort her,. had gone to the fort the next morning, without saying anything to her of his purpose, and had managed to get Trottie under his blanket when he was playing quite alone on the parade, and had persuaded the child, who was as little afraid of an Indian as of a white man, that if he;would keep.quite quiet he would take"him to see a-very wonderful sight. In this way, after having thrown Trottie's fez down the bluff to avert suspicion, they had passed the sentry without dilliculty. When 'he brought the boy to her, and she tried to - make him understand that neither she nor Trottle would be happy together, lie had ordered her to bt silent, torbidding 'her to returu the child to the fort. The camp had been broken up at once, and through all their march that night he had kept such strict watch of her that she could not carry out her plan of escape. But when, having reached a hiding-place he thought safely distant, he left her, to hunt some game, she seized her op portunity, and taking Trottle on her back, set out across the prairie. Short as she made her story, Trottle, tired out with so many griefs and joys, was fast asleep on his mother's breast but when - the Indian paused, and turned again in her swift, silent fash ion to leave the room, Mabel roS and came toward her with him in her arms. "God bless you, you gool woman!" she said, softly. Then with all her voice shaken with tender joy, and the msannero .one wh would fain' .h re it, if ghe could,wlth this other ddsolate mothier, to i*homn no olie would over bring her child again on tis side of heaven: "See how happy lhe looks. You may kiss him; he will not, wake." . *. * , . * * They kept her a few hours; they made her rest and eat a lit,tle. Buit when Tom Heriot, in the irsti joy of his return, would have bestowed upon her all sorts and kinds of rewards, she would take nothing, "Me want nothing white mother can give," she answered, gravely, as she had answered Mabel on tile day she had first. dde~n her. And then, waviag her hand toward the prairie: "Me go back to him out theie. Him very good man to me." And so she left them."' About R1ings. Solemn betrothal by yings were often gone through with in the middle ages between lovers who were about to be separated for a long period, and the ceremony was considered as binding as marriage. It was -a pretty custom long, long ago, for 'lovers to exchange rings. Chaucer- describes a heroine as giving her lover a ring oni which was-engraved suitable- love mottoes,' and receiving a like one in return. In the mid.dle of the .sixteenth cen tury everybpdy had mottoes engraved on theit- ringd 'on the inside.- ' When Dr. John Thonmas, bishop of Lincoln, was married for the fourth time, in 1753 he had engraved on the wedding ring: "If I. sirrvive,o .1ink hr five.'M~te Ages ago thley had a fancy for wea ding rings which was ,very suggestlye, A stone was inserted in one ring on which,was epgrave4, an int,aglio repre satingi a hand pulling att eamr, ovek wich was ssribed one, word "Re pnember." - T1he fourth finge of the loft hay4 hrst been trord adte the neddihg A~ngfnger.'' Ti i6eny belief was tha n y in ge r went II)ol to:rs and oan. believe podaruhl . thls that their phyeiclans terzme it the he#lng, 'orn}ei 1flu r,and salways ?tire bli niecalxtures with it, o T The JTaplegb' 4~O~c tha the comiQter#ia )1l apn baQcwk~ yy~a hae ttt*,n t jeia, ezmpt atoW 4 - .idanc' ,RR Owdwl)f~I1a' bma nd Well . i% g iches. 8 an passing throug the silk-growing C districts, which in very near t .Shapghai end te all around to th I cit of, , aoiow, I could but 1 idedw h the comfort which , rwvalleae'very where, The farmhouses of China, or at any rate in that part of China, were models of what farm. 4ouag, . OOu . 'I,:iad" xpected to e i n ? W etOhledness, and was not prepared for what : beheld. Ex. ceeding good gardening I was prepared a for, for Chinese gardening is synony A Y F hil neat,and rii w t a brrak-bullt an Aeellentr ' 13p liaf-bidden sway; in them, cer taii 11 a ofshd caced to land from my houseboat frequently in ordq: to shoot *oodcock, for it was n winter-time when I passed through the 7 district. To get these birds it was t eessary to scramble over the fields p 6tild thrdugh the tiulberrv orchards of r the district, and I was simply amazed .v to see how beautifully the groves and t trees were .kept. Underneath great p quantities' of vegetables were grown, t not a foot of earth. appearing to be p wMted,,and every inch, was in the most a auperb order. Had the whole country a been a vast karden it' could not have been better tended . and cared for. There Were not thereabouts any hedges 1 or walls; the fields were divided from each-other by deep dikes, which served ' the double purpose of marking out the land and irrigating or draining, as the a case might be, the adjacent soil. The d trees, of 'which there were myriads , were all planted with mathematical exactness and in the greatest order, unlike the trees in many English or- e chards, which seem to have been stuck into the ground with a view of wasting as much space as possible. And as for Q the tops of the trees,,they had all been v carefully trimmed to the same pattern, every little bough having been in- r spected and cut as circumstances f chanced to require. I never saw any- a thipg half so orderly in any other o country in the world; for these were no t ornamental gardens which I was going v through, but mulberry orchards, ex- d tending over hundreds of square miles v of country and owned by thousands of e lifferent husbandmen. Inside the p .iouse again, I was surprised at the r comfort which prevailed. In each one d there were at least two rooms set apart r espeolally for the silk-worms, and r these were kept scrupulously clean. I The other rooms of the house were all furnished, comfortable and warm -m -every case very clean also; and I did not see in any country 'house any of the squalor or misery any one sees in many English, Scotch, and es pecially Irish districts. At the time when I was in,this coun try, too, there was a very general feel ing of increased eQntentment springing up owing to the opening of some large silk-winding' factories at Shanghai by American,amd English firms, Hitherto the winding of the silk from the' docoons had been done: in most. oaset by the silk-growers themselves, and, thQ ;demanc ror the silk thus indiffer ently wound and the prices paid for it were alike small. But with the estab lishment of silli-winding factories filled with steam-machinery at Shangha;i it was hoped and expected by the silk growers that the price of cocoons would go up, and that consequently ~ silk-growing would improve as an in dustry. In any case the entire popula tion seemed to be prosperous and well contented. It. does not. always do. to ~ take the dress of any Ohilnaman as an index to. the wealth lie may possess. He may~ have many reasons-among thetn being a dread of 'attracting the attention of some rapacious mandarinC for not showing more richness 'of attire ~ thapl is absolutely. necessary, and he may prefer to go about in warm, rags rather than run .the risk of being "squeezed" by the local officials, so that many a traveler may mistake this international poverty of attire for want I of money. .I had pojnted out to me in Canton one dag', for examyle, a par ticularly woe-bogone-looking China ihap going up the street. The gen tleman--who was .a resident on the ad Jacant island of'Shamien, said: "Poor? .I wish 1 was as rich as that Chinaman. Why, half the European houses here are in his debt; but if he showed this by his dress the mandarin here would soon borrow a trifle of him," To Sail Under- the Waves. A new idea in submarine boats Is I reported. An Englhsh inventor -has constructed a .boat which is sometimes 00 feet long, and sometimes consider-i able less. In other words, it shuts up and opens out like a telescope, and sinks in the former case and floats in the latter. A boat of this kind, which coulda dive down and hang a torpedo to an1 1adversary's keel would be an awkward customer to deal with ii4 a naval battle. 1Perhaps thie seafiglts of the future are1 going to bie decidedl under water, as th.e land .war~s may be decided .by baloons i mid-air. 3 . Thentew idea, however, Is only lb its infancy. yet:azd may not be.practically developed, for a slong While. The tele- - scoping boat. to which we. referred Is said to work'sattsfactotily, but it has only been tried, s'"fat' in the shall9w, amd placid Waters ot the Lobidoa doCks, -A t Macey Bros.', V'ersailles, Ky., Laura Thompson, by Dictator, dam an6 bea 11 pn 4t'14, b essn ger Chief and a'ttabidughbred taare by Bay DIk dropped a colt on -the 18th, by RiondLPfatt the'hib6ety of George A. sIngerly, -..illiat Sidgerly's b. m. ie K., by Messenger Chief, dropped ,t Slarge bay foal on April 14th, by Ilieti; at Macey Bros.', Versailes, Ky. -hina silks-white, black, le&d, serpent: eyellow, rose pink,- blue mauve and all intermediate shades ok colot Artist10. epough for the "three lttle fiapds-are seon'ii~ profusion on retail dry goods coungters FASI1ON NOTES. .-luo ateel1rimminds of all kinds re griatly In favor, and no won ier; hby ate' bright; 'id- shw off nearly 11' 'dolo to' advBntage. Panels of jressgs, long V-shaped pieced for Odices, epaulets and galons are all to e had in.this fine steel'work. It looks roll. with revers of mousse velvet on a rvl$e satin dress. -summer dresses will be' made of tuch Swiss embroidery in ecru and white on net, and there' is an evident aclination to use this class of work in ,lace of lace. There is.a new lace Lquitaiue--vith a clear,.silky ground ad a thick pattern in silk, like coral; nd colored silk laces, which can be ad now in every shade, are employed or all kinds of purposes. Striped ulles are new, and there are some ovel makes of crepe, which is a most ashlonablo material for ball gowns. -Materials for spring add summr oillinery are unusually rich and varied. 'here are black and tinted silk nets, eaded in jet, pearl, heliLtrope yellow, ale blue and pale pink beads in fine ew patterns, embroidered velvets in ery . elegant designs, Oriental em roidered nets in great variety, Nea olitan crapes in exquisite summer lute, embroidered crepe de chine, lain and embroidered gren; dines, and n endless variety of silk tissues, laces, urabs, etamines and fancy silk scrims. -Bands of fancy ribbons are used n tea and evening gowns as trim nings, but the clo,th appliques are Lever worked with gold and other netallic threads and beads. Fringes re much worn, many of them having ivisible ring -headings, worked in eads. Detachable ornaments are In ashion; these are economical and con enlent, for you need buy only" the zact quantity required, and can apply b in various ways. Some of the fringes how ornaments made of cork balls overed with beads and silk. They are 'ery light. -Nearly, if not quite, all the new ibbons have picot edges, and the old. ashioned glace ribbons are coming In gain with the thick rope edge. -Edges f contrasting color, crepe gauze rib ons in somewhat bright colorings, vith tiny motifs in brocade, stipes in ,igerent colors and materials, such as 'elvet or silk, with sometimes chenille dges, Chine velvet ribbons, and frise atterns, are the features in the newest ibbons of the spring, and an immense eal of narrow satin ribbon is being sed for rosettes, which are applied. in aillinery and on gowns in various vays. -The colors of the spring in mili ery goods will be on a subdued order; r, if any rich colors be used, the aim rill be to blend them so carefully that here -will be nothing pronounced or Pizarre in the effect. There are many ose tints among the new colors which rill probably take the place of the rilliant' cardinal and - red shades of revious seasons. These rose shades re shown.- in various tones of color rem a faded4apestry pink, known as 'old rose,, to the brilliant Charles X O1Qrs, which repeat, the shades and Ints of the wild-rose and are usually alled "eglantine" colors, Other pink hades are variously.known - as "cru tacea" and' "veron Japan," wilich in ta palest- tint approaches in color the rillian~t hue of the Japanese minnow, nd .in the darkest shades becomes a urplish magenta. The "tiammant" hades of a red are a brilliant scarlet olor. -The tiny checks, in shades of tan, Eanden grays and browns, have many f them a large crossbar taken over heir surface by means of a narrow ine in bright colors, such as blue, car tinal and gold. There are many gowns nade entirely of these mixtures. In thers the closely fitting habit bodice nd petticoat are or the check, the verdrapery, cuffs and collar 'of plain loth. In the skirts, wich are often lain In front and full behind, the rent drapery takes the form of a long quare tabler, divided from the back olds either by a panel or by a simula Ion of one, due to plaited folds of the heck, In the -habit bodices made of his goods the lapels round the neck Ike a gentlemka's coat fastened with a ouple of buttons -at the neck, Instead lif descending to the chest. The under vaist Is also on a new model, and -in tead of being carried high into' the ieck, is cut somewhat low to. leave oom for the folded cravat which comn letes the costume, Other models have be skirt drapery all cut in one piece nd so arranged as to suggest an un ierskirt on the right side while it is ooped over -a kilt on the left. The weompanying bodices to these have bhrown back revers, displaying in ierted waistcoats of pale blue or wvhite, with the centre of the throatiet to sorrespond, and .the sleeves closing with three buttons over an undercuff hichiel matches the waistcoat. --Tailor-made gowns have taken a iew departure. -Heretofore they have een so painfully.plain as to cause one ao wish they had never been created. Es eoialIy was this the case when they were worn by fat and ill.shaped people. And ~or some inexplicable reason 'the aboth nentioned alway's insist upon- wearing ~hem. It is most surpi-ising that women will.'not see for -themselves what they hould wear and what they should let lone. One cannot imagine.a more ~rying costume for one's tigiure than a Milormade costume, unless -It be 'a atinug dress after being in the water, mnd o1nly Women -with:a" perf'ect shape ihould ever affect one. "However4 here is a obange for the better,- and while toe r u severe in outline and gene arldsg,still there Is an improves lni$ for the bte..Velvet,, ls And silk( are being introduced as waist ioats, qoliars and revers upon those set riceable looking materials, with which ili ornamentation has hitherto been lissooiated, and panels,'of contrasting sop and more delicate substa:nce are t: frequently introduced. Large squase plaids. in neutral tints are lised bo1th as loose draperies and bo;rplalted panels, while some in bright colors are rised as loose draperies on plain skirts of velvet, plush or faille. Stripes are iao, used In the same manner. 'A mnan inust become wise at his own -August Belmont's of co ugtfd rtce mare Sultana dropl Apr l 84, a chestnut colt, by St. Blaise, the . lish Derby winner. -j. N. Wilson, of Easton, has so d a brown gelding, 7 years old, by Ha - bletonian Bashaw, to George Lester, f New York, for $1400. -The Volante-The Bard match ra will probably fall through since M. 'Baldwin declines to make a mate until after his Chicago engage men in July. -There are at least six superior . year-olds now at the Memphis course, namely, Montana Regent, Jim Gray, Elkwood, Sir Joseph, Free Knight and Climax. -El Monte and Goliah, two of Bald win's Derby colts, were given a trial of a mile and a half just before leaving California, and El Monte won by more than alength. -The Aberdeen Trotting and Run ning Association is the name of a new turf club just organized in one of the principal towns of Mississippi. A mixed meeting will be given in May. -Robert Steel's stallion Epaulet, 2.19, is nearly it not quite blind. This will keep him from the turf, but it should not hurt him for the stud. The. greatest successes of Lexington were scored after he had lost his sight. -The Cleveland Association has tenddred the use of Its track and grounds gratis to the National Breed ers' Association for the purpose of holding its 1887 meeting, and has also made it a. definite proposition for its stakes. -Russell Railey, of Versailles, Ky., has sold the saddle stallion. Markham to J. K. Emmet, the actor, for $2500; also the b. g. Hamlet for $1500. Both horses were sold from description, Mr. Emmet not having seen either until de livered. -E. J. Baldwin's racing team of twenty-two horses have left their home, at the Santa Anita Ranch. Los Angeles, Cal., for Louisville. Volante heads the string. Laredo, one of the Kentucky Derby entries, being- amiss, was left at home. -Crit Davis has first.rate tools for the campaign near at hand. He re ports Phil Thompson as in tip-top shape. Maudo Messenger is doing well. Prince Wilkes is rat as a bear, and Crit looks for a first-rate report from him. -At a special meeting of the New Jersey Association of Trotting Horse Breeders, held at Elizabeth on April 15th, J. C. Shaw, of Finderne, was elected President, vice E. A. Wilkin son, resigned. Mr. Shaw is the pro prietor of trie Mount Pleasant stock farm. -'-President Grant and other promi. nent officers of the National Trotting Association. favor a cheap class, for struggling associations the coming sea son.. The Board of Review will ..care fully consider this question at Chicago. A cheap fee will bring into the 'fold scores of Fair associations. -Nathan-Straus, the owner of Ma jolica, In reply to 3. H. Temple's chal lenge, says: "I will trot his horse 3. Q. (or any other horse he owns), and will be most happy to accommodate him in a match race, to be trotted over the track of the Driving Club of New York, at Morrisania, on Wednesday, June 8th, providing it is a good day and track, the match to be for $1250 a side, half forfeit, winner to take w4at- : ever the traOk Will offet In the shape of gate money or a purse. 'I am a mem ber of the Executive Committee of ' the Driving Clul), and would .like Mr. Temple to make all the arrangements as to phe 'gate money."' Mi'. Tem~ple's challenge to match a horse against Ma jolica was generally supposed to have been on behalf of J. Q , , but . Arab, it Is now said, was' the horse meant. --The sensation of the weok has been Treimont's being stopped in his work, and those who have backed him for the Suburban and Withdrs are at their wit's end to know what to do. It is said that the trouble is sore heels, and that the Dwyers have let. him' up, p'ut him In physic and will slo wly pre. pare him for the Subur ban. We have, during the week, had an interview with a practical trainer, Who saw Tre mont work, and who says thai,, in his judgment, the col4 is in a bad way, and that he fears his tendon is involved. lHe moved a half mile with Hia'nover in 58 seconds, and the trouble began from that time. The trainer in question says he doubts if Tremont will stand a strong preparation, and- thinks it likely his usefulness as a first-class horse is at an end, it may ha that Tremont's trouble is exclusively .In his feet and that his legs, are sound. -Some of the gentlemen who have entries in the race at i3uffolk Course for road horses that have no records better than 2.80.are professedly dissat isfled and disheartened~ becauise one of the horses named is reported to have 'gone a mile to a skeleton walgon in 2.81*. The complaining ones not wish to make a distinction between a track and a road horse on the slender grQund that some of the owners have paced 'their horses in the hands of ptofessional ! ~ drivers for track preparation, so that the trotters may be.In condiljon for the taice.o Iiutsali,the 'others have the same privilege, Nearly all of the" horses named have trotted public taces, and some have records. 1I5 would have given greater general satisfaction if this race had been made only for non. profsssinal drivers. . Whpso who have paid their entrance 'money should not -lose heart. Do not win or lot. the race before it is trotted. Some horses that can go a good ellp to harness will go hack from six to ten seconds in pulling a wagon.Thiere'are others that can trot - one heat fast, but will go -the rest of the heatis slower. Agamn, there are hOrses that are'gd64 wehght-.pullers and can go three fast:h6ats. Try, and w n -the hartess, and.-yous may take hom~e the wagon. The public are eelying op Mr. Phillips for ttrict and fair jde and good order. J