Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-02

ioui1, uIdWlns nimseiI up ana setting his head
scrape that am. don't care for myself so
much as for my family; it's a severe blow to
them. One Of my daughters has just been mar.
ried, and IL now In Europe. She win hear 1t,
her husband and her husbands people It's q
hard blow" and the man, once worth millions
brushed tear from his eye on the sleeve of his
coat.
How did you lose your fortunea"
u was crushed out at the time that Jay
Gould and Jim Fisk obtained control of Erie"
=" Are you still In the street 2"
In small way-a very small way. 1t still
possesses fascination that / can't resist"
PALANcA.
The trainers of the mare Palanca are In for a
large share Of public abuse just now. 1t is the
custom OF horsemen to give their racers stimu-
Enthusiastically whlsky-before heat races, so
that they will go for all they are worth from the
start. But Palanca's handlers were too liberal
on Tuesday last and gave the little mare 30
much whisky that she was as drunk as fiddler
ana nearly went crazy. When she was brought
up at the Brighton Beach track that day it took
half dozen men to get her jockey up. When he
got in the saddle Palanca tore around, reeled,
and was so violently drunk that old horsemen
feared she would do herself injury At last she
threw her jockey badly and after much diff
Guilty was controlled. 1t is of course necessary
to wake up slow-blooded horses occasionally
with small dose Of spirits, but it is an outrage
70 dose lively and quick animal as was
Paianca last week. Mr.. Bergh has promised to
send a few of the jockeys who try to craze
horses in this way to the peniteutiary for a
month or two, to see ii he can't break up
the custom. Lovers of true sport cannot but
be pleased at the proposed punishment of these
men, for they are the greatest ofall the enemies
of fair racing.
THE FAITH CURE.
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church. OF which / wrote recently. are still the
subject Of much comment among people who
have tendency towards the supernatural.
very large proportion even of intelligent people
are the physicians say. by nature delusionists
10 CRAFTY my curiosity [ went to meeting
conducted by Mr.. Simpson the other day. The
congregation assembled much as that of any
church would save that there was more of
disposition on the part of the women present to
put their heads together and gossip about the
miraculous cures that had been wrought MANY
OF them had pale faces which bore signs of sick
ness and suffering, and some were so exhausted
on reaching the hall that they could scarcely
make their way to their seats The Rev. Mr.
Simpson came in with a quick STEP laid aside
his overcOat, and after chatting with one or two
members OF the congregation. opened the SER
wees, winch consisted of the singing of HYMNS
and short sermon. The pastor looked ex-
tremely pale and had large dark circles under
health. AT the conclusion of the sermon
invitation was given for those VINO had been
heaied TO bear testimony for the encourage
meAt OF others. score or more women res
ponded, asserting that they had been instan-
taneously cured of various Observation-Disclosures
spinal disease. rheumatism. sciatica paralysis
ana Commissions. Some OF those who said that
thef were III perfect health looked weak enough
to drop over After the congregation was dis
missed. special meeting was held for the
Amounting OF persons seeking to be healed. Mr..
simpson explained his theory to me, in CONVEX
sation, Which is, in short, that the body depends
Tor health on its vitality. as he termed it, and
that the touch Of God restored this and the dis
appearance of disorders and infirmities followed
Gne curious feature. he said. of cures by faith,
was that Ii the person healed did not lead a life
OF obedience, the malady returned. The poor
man could not see that this knocked his whole
theory over.
ACTORS TRIALS.
One of those touching stories about the trials
and tribulati0ns of actors and actresses is going
the rounds. 1t is more pathetic than half fic-
tltious yarns one hears and may yet inspire
some man of poetic fancy to reel off some verses
on the conflict between duty and deYotion.
Lewis Morrison, who supports Salvini. is the
husband of Rose Wood, who is i'm 10 Jetferson's
company. They have baby girl. Both the
parents worship the child and when it became
i'll suddenly last Monday week, they hung over
its cradle all day long. Physicians were called
in, but the little one grew worse as the day
went on. At 2 o'clock the father took the BOs-
ton express and went on to support the Italian
tragediaIl. leaving his child with its mother At
o'clock the mother went to Brooklyn to play
light comedy part with Jefferson. The baby
was LETT with its nurse. l suppose you think it
died. but it didn't 1t lived, and its parents are
happy 1t was an awful situation though, and
one that called for no end of nerve. 1t is said
that it was question of years engagement
didn't dare stay away from the theaters l sup
pose professionals consider playing second
nature, and make sacrifice like the one |
speak OF with more composure than other men
could command.