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wha. the French like. They vss all

what the French like. They was all
blood bosses; every M that handles
bosses knows what they are. When ]
was in New York I seen the French
working stallion Incroyable, which
Dahlman sold to Vanderbilt. He was
three years old, 16 hands high, gentle
as a kitten, and as fine a horse for his
age as l v e saw iii my life. Good
stations don't amount to much, howev.
er, il you havn't got good mares. A
good many people don't seem to bear
this in mind"
How abont lighter blooded stock? ?"
well, some of the finest Is to 1873
hands high bosses for such vehicles as
T-carts, dog carts, phaetons, etc, come
from Kentucky. They are better than
most Of the others, because they have
the blood. ThatM tell every time.
Some very fair ones of this class, cob
built, come from Maine. Everybody
likes that build of boss if he had good
action. They are an easy kepthoss, sn'
o boss that wears better than these long
legged, loose make bosses. They are
Just the kind for four-in-hands-in
fact they are good anywhere; fine-gen-
eral-purpose bosses. They are worth
from $500 to$2, 500 a pair, according to
style, action, and quality. For a lady's
phaeton you want a boss a little small
or, one about 14t or 15 hands high, o
Morgan built. A fast boss that is toi
small for racing is very good for this
purpose"
"Too small?"
eyes, q good many fast horses are
too small to stand the work of a race
course. You occasionally find very fast
small horses, but where you'll find one
fast one 149 hands high, you'll find ten
q hand higher. They hain't got the
foot to carry EN-; they can't get there
as a bigger loss. Good looks is mighty
important consideration in a lady's
phaeton boss. A lady is sure to want a
boss with a long name an tail, archin'
neck. silky coat, etc., an such bosses is
rare. Maine is a good place to look for
EN- and they'll bring from $500 to $500
apiece.
"How about trotting horses?"
We'll, a man needn't pay SO much
for a t%rotter, unless he wants one that
a 60 better'n 80. If he's satisfied with
one that will trot in the n%eighborhood
of 2:45, he can get one for 500 or less.
When you get below 2 80, there amt no
regular price, it's regulated by the GUS
toner. OF course, you know some OF
the fastest of 'em have brought enor-
nous prices as high as $4,000,
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The Chinese Army.
Blackwood Magazine.

Blackwood Magazine. 4.
When, in the engagement Mt the Pei
no in 1860, the Chinese succeeded in CAP
turing a gunbcat, they determined to
turn their prizet to account. Having, with
this intention, lit the fires, and produced
the amount of smoke from the funnel
which they had been accustomed to see,
they expected the vessel to move, and
We're much astonished to find that it re-
manned m~otionless. We fear that this
is but an illustration of the land and
sea forces at the present time.
They have the best weapons, ships
and ornaments procurable, but they
do not know how to use them. The
mandarins labor under the delusion
that European soldiers and sailors are,
man for man, no better than their own
defenders; and they believe that the
possession of equally good arms would,
In any future war, turn the scale in
favor of their own overwhelmingly
large battallions. They entirely 10
more the fact that the success Of the
weapon depends on the power and the
will of the soldier to turn it
to the best account. Only late
ly we have seen Egyptian soldiers arm
ed with rifles slaughtered like sheep
ny savages carrying only spears.
We do not believe that Chinese SOL
diers would ever present SO abject a
picture OF cowardice as these Egyptian
troops did at Teb; for though they are
not men likely ito snatch bright honor
from the pale faced moon," they are by
no means devoid of courage, and have,
shown on occasions that they can fight
bravely and with determination. But
the Chinese have no liking for the pro-
fession of arms. They despise it, and
regard their soldiers as inferior beings.
and as being fit only to be food for
powder.
1t is obvious, therefore, that a COM
plete change must come over the ma
tional mind on this subject before the
necessary radical reforms in the army
can be thoroughly carried out. But
this is not the only direction in which
there must first be a complete change
OF front. The iron of reform must enter
deeply into the whole corporate life of
the Empire, the public service must be
chastened and purified; the laws must
be Justly administered; and the eyre
gious folly ofdespising everything which
is not Chinese must be given np-be-
fore China will ever be able to place an
army in the field which will face the foe
with the strength and stcadiness of
trained soldiers.
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TEsE WHITES REPLY.
The Details Of the Tragedy on otssgo
Lake,

A Richfeld Springs, N. T., dispatch
says:-The guests and residents here
were startled this morning on learning
that Edward @. Steers, u young society
man, son of Schuyler B. Steers, the
richest man in Louisiana, who has
an income Of $4,000 a year, had COM
mitted suicide on the dock at Hyde hall,
on account of the refusal of Miss Tese
White to marry him. Miss White is
q tall and pretty girl, 81 years of
age, and above all a cousin of
Pell Clarke and Hyde Clark, who
inherited 10000 acres of land
from George Clark, who receivedit from
George III. through his fathers wife,
who was a countess. The Clarkes go
in the very best society here. They arc
courted and invite dozens of people to
their mansions on Otsego lake. Hyde
hall is a stately old mansion nesting in
a nook and surrounded with forests of
fruit and shade trees. Miss Tese White
has been q frequent visitor at her
cousins. Steers has been furnished
with everything he wished by his father.
The suicide was dramatic in the ex-
IRENE. Yesterday was the twenty-frst
birthday of young Steers, and inviting
Wilson Curtis, son of Judge Curtis of
Cooperstown, they visited Miss White.
With her and two ladycompanions they
went across the lace to enjoy a picnic in
the grove opposite Hyde hall, with the
subsequent intention of taking tea at
Hyde Clnrk's. After their meal Steers
got into his boat with Miss White, while
Curtis took the other two young ladies'.
Steers hurried across the bay and lump
ing or the dock assisted Miss White to
alight. He then said:
"Tese White, 1 ask you once for all
will you marry me?"
"You know I cannot" she replied.
"Then l will shoot myself" and pull
ing a revolver from his pocket he shot
himself under the right eye, the ball
passing out the top of his skull, death
being instantaneous.
The lady rushed up to Hyde hall for
help and Curtis jumped to the dock.
The body was covered with leaves and
evergreens and left lying on the dock
nearly all the afternoon as it fell with
pistol in hand until the coroner from
Cooperstown could be summoned by
boat eight miles distant. Steers
mother is Frustrated with grief. He
was her only child.
All the above facts We're furnished
by Miss Whites mother to-day. Miss
White lies in a critical condition.
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Disease and Filth.

Whether infectious epidemics are di-
rectly due tovegetable germs, or to vari.
GUS inorganic poisons, they depend
largely on bad sanitary conditions. Facts
OF constant occurrence prove this.
The cholera which, over half a cen
fury ago, started from the unutterable
filthof India-its native home-and fol
lowing the track Of trade and commerce,
swept around the shores of the Caspian
Sea into Russia. and thence into Eng.
land, and, in 1882, sped from nation to
nation in Europe, and thence the same
year to u W land, everywhere
sought out and rioted in filth. No spot
was so signal an illustration of this as
New Orleans. The city is built on al
luyial soil two or three feet thick, rest
ing on q tough, blue clay, that let's moth
ing pass through it. Miles and miles
OF streets were often inundated by over.
flows, which left behind slime to putre-
fy in the hot sum-.
The climate was exceedingly moist,
The city was without drainage. From
generation to generation the soil be-
meath it had become loaded with the
excreta Of man and beast. Nearly ali
the dead Of the city we're buried above
ground-the tombs often being left in
q state OF utter neglect and decay.
On the 18th of October, 1882, the
cholera reaehedN New Orleans. The city
then had q population of some forty-s ia
thousand. Eleven thousand Of these
sought safety in flight after the disease
appeared. OF the remainder, six thous-
and died Of the pestilence in twenty
days-on some days at the rate af five
hundred a day.
The cemeteries were too small for the
victims, and they were dumped into
trenches by the cart. load while large
numbers weighted with stone, were
thrown into the Mississippi. At the
same rate Of mortality there now would
be thirteen Thousand deaths a week.
Essentially the same has been true Of
yellow fever. Between 1887 and 1S43,
five thousand five hundred died of it in
New Orleans; in 1847, two Thousand
eight hundred; in 1863 and the two fol-
lowing years, the deaths numbered thir.
ty-aeven thousand. Five dollars o day
failed to secure grave-diggers enough.
Vice and crime became rampant.
The people Of. New Orleans have since
become convinced of the value of sani-
tation. Says the Century, Measures
are growing and bearing fruit day by
day which have already reduced the in
salubrity Of New Orleans to a point
whore it may be compared with that Of
other great cities, and which promise
before long to make it really and EN-.
~phatically the home of health, comfort
and safety. -Youthis Companion.
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fully is this realized that no one is sur
prised to hear how this or that great re-
former received his strongest inspirs-
ton from a good wife or mother, Of
whom the world knows nothing further.
Indeed there seems to be no reason
able doubt that the greater part OF the
purifying influences exerted upon d
world springs from comparatively OBJ
scure wives, mothers and sisters who
have learned to noble duties of thu
positions. And their vocation cannot
be too highly exalted; it demands the
exercise OF heart and brain, it asks for
the highest qualities a woman can pos
sess, but success in it means the greatest
reward obtainable-a pure home, a
world made better, power and influence
a queen might envy, and eternal happi-
ness assured.-Mary E. Caldwell IN the
Current.
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You married her whom she was /
blithe young girl said the figure
tsAnd you made her An old woman be.
fore her time. She toiled YEARLY from
morning until night. She lived OF
coarse and common food
$50 did II said Richard.
"She knew il" said the being. "She
hardly blamed you. She loved you.
You miss her now, sometimes? p
God knows I do, said Richard.
Yet you thought wine to dear to buy,
and let her die for want Of it" said the
stranger.
enc, no!s cried Richard. Who told
You that? III had thought that, Tt
IT is true" said the stranger. "Yet
she died loving yon. II she could come
from heaven now, and ask q boon oil
you, would You grant it,"
God knows would,n said Richard.
But the dead never return And then
80 he afterward averred-the figure
arose slowly, and all the gray drapery
dropped away, and he saw, robed in
white, more beautiful than when he
wooed her in her girlhood, and with a
shining halo round her head, his wife
herself, and no other. He could not
speak,
She looked upon him with a gentle
smile.
They said you would not entertain
me; but / made you,"' she said, softly.
II knew you better than they. Prom
use me-, before I leave.you, to do just
what / say"
Richard could only gasp:
Twill"
"A year from this night you will die, y
said the spirit. "You can take nothing
with You whittier you must go. There
are poor creatures dying Of want hard
by succor tlem.n
- will" said Richard.
Give your gold to those who will use
IT for the poor" said the spirit, land
blot out the long, selfish years by one
of utter generosity. At its end / will
meet you. Richard, good-by.n
The clock struck 10 as she spoke; he
saw her fade, as the rainbow fades from
the skies. He stroye to clutch her
robe, but it eluded his grasp, and he
fell fainting to the floor.
From that hour Richard Rock was q
changed man. His gifts to the poor
We're countless, and the will was full OF
wise and charitable requests. The
honseless learned that under his roof
they might find food and rest.
He died, as the spirit had foretold, a
year from the night Gifts visitation, and
on his death bed revealed the story to
the venerable clergyman on whose au-
thority it is repeated.
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On the 22d Of July, 1896, General
Moses Cleaveland arrived OF the mouth
Of uyahoga River, and assembled the
eastern bank, where he beheld an ele-
waited country Of rare beauty spread
out before him. So impressed was he
with the locality that he ordered a sur
yey for lots. When he looked for q
name. the surveyors baptized the in
FAINT city and named it C~leaveland, in
honor Of their chief. In 1900 its pop
ulation was seven, and in 1884 the
population exceeds two hundred thous-
aud.
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Woman az a Helpmeet.
ga perfect woman nobly planned

S
To warn, to comfort and commando"
The high vocation of women as mon
itors of the family circle seems never to
have received the attention it deserves,
Advice so commonly given to women in
regard to the physical comforts of their
household is, for the most part N
necessary. A true womanly instinct
prevents the majority from neglecting
these minor matters. 1t is their higher
duties which they often fail to appreci-
ate and for which they are so lily pre-
pared. "To warm" to keep bright the
moral armor of husband, son, father or
brother, is q work worthy of the noblest
women. 1t is a work, the influence of
which is wide and ever increasing, and
which is seen in it's fullness when some
great social reform is ACCOMPLISHED.
And this grand work is the special duty
and privilege of women whose interests
are confined chiefly to their own homes.
Working women, so called, like all 9th
er bread winners, are compelled to think
much about sordid things and are them
selves constantly exposed to multi
farious and subtle temptations. The fact
that frequent contract with evil tends to
blunt human sensibilities makes a
strong counteracting influence a neces-
sity. This can only be provided in
the pure and noble atmosphere of true
home. So trite a statement would
hardly bear repeating, were there not
so many family circles IN which the
moral influence is by no means the
strongest. Few women doubt their
capacity for home-making and home
keeping. They learn how to sew and
to cook. They prepare themselves
carefully for teaching and other occu-
pations, and they seek to become ac-
complished, culturedand refined, that
they may shine in society. But God
and nature seem to be expected to pre-
pare woman, without her knowledge or
interference, for tho most important
duties of home life. The truth is, this
field of labor, more than all others re-
quires skilfully trained laborers. To
really succeed here women must know
how to observe. to consider, and to act.
sense %thorongbly oro1sad h,,t n.p,at
keen e in conetant cn1t;net;o, Du Al nius 81
thep ara IN tha h;aIast ~ anu II
sive ;f thew ooh immoos su, piosres-
ance nf ;nte,1set,,o1 nn1t,,ra an1 ASSIST
ment, they may lead the van of reform
modest rat;romant 81 n. . u1in 'he
T. ia thai sanarat;nn - wv honles.
tha wnrId H. m;moa - aam sense, IRON
a ne",Ii;ar1u sarare5,a nnnrtun Women
moral culture Ther .1nna - n ior
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The extent of some Of the vast ranches

The extent of some ofthe vast ranches
in Los Angeles County is ever beyond
the imagination. Baldw1n's Santa AMI
ia Ranch is situated in that county, and
is probably the largest. Its natural
decorations are marvellous. and the i'm
mense amount of different products al
most fabulous. The farm comprises
1900 acres in grapes, 16 900 orange and
lemon trees, 1000 p~omeganates, 5000
English walnut trees, 1000 almond trees,
$500 peach trees, 1000 pear trees, 1000
apricot trees, 1000 fig trees, and sub
sistence is furnished for %, 900 head Of
sheep, 1000 COWS and pigs, and several
hundred horses and mules, and this
year can be seen y, 900 acres of golden
grain.
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An orchardist at Santa Barbara, Cal.
according to the Independent Of that
place, has over 10000 fruit trees under
cultivation ingRssingle fruit ranch, in
Guiding 1000 olive trees, 1000 orange,
500 lemon, 500 lime. 1000 almond,
1000 walnut, $500 apricot, apple,
peach, pear, cherry, nectarine, and plum
with 200 Japanese persimmon; besides
figs, loquats, and plums.
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The act Of Congress to relieve certain
soldiers from the charge of desertion
will prove o yeritable. bonanza to the
deserters. The removal of these
charges will involve an expense Of from
3$11,0 900 to $4,000 900.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-29

John Smith has gone and tied a
knot in my horses tall" complained q
stock yardsman to a lawyer this morn
ing. "Now, what can I do about it?"
You can go and unite it," laconical-
y replied the lawyer, "and pay me So
for legal advice.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-29

We'll, my young gentleman, andhow
would You like your hair cut? aOh,
like papa's, please; with . little round
hole at the top"
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Matthew Arnold hates to die because
he will then have to go to the majority.
He1wonI always rather be q remnant
National Republican., 1884-04-01
The Fair or the Veteran cadets.

The Veteran Cadet corps fair az the Masonic
temple was formally opened last night by
Gen. A. Logan. After the Cadet corps had
been presented by Capt. Thomson on be.
half of the Union Veteran corps with q
handsome silk flag, Capt. Hammer, of the
Veteran Cadet corps, responded to the pre-
sentation speech of Capt. Thomson.
The hall is tastefully decorated with flags.
There are six booths, tent shaped, for the
sale Of fancy articles, one for the sale OF
artificial flowers, confectionery table, a
cigar stand, u floral bower, a gypsy tent. and
an Easter tree. The latter has beautifully
decorated eggs suspended from its branches
Within tho eggs are contections and notices
for telling fortunes The tree is in charge OF
Mrs. j. H. Wilmot, assisted by the Misses
Emma and Anna Walmsley.
Numerous contributions have been made
to the fair, including service of silver from
the Washington Light Infantry CORDS and
two handsome gold medals by Messrs. Voigt
~ Haas, jewellers. The medalsa arc to be voted
to tho most popular cadet and the NEST popu-
lar page in the senate.
An attractive feature at the fair is an ex-
hibition Of German woodcock and an Irish
bat small admission fee is charged to
enter the tent and SEQ the show There was
an excellent attendance last night, and during
the evening dancing was INDUCED in, the
orchestra of Prof. Schneider furnishing
the music.
The names of the ladies having charge of
the booths, tables, &C., have heretofore been
published in The REPUBLICAN,. The fair,
which is for the purpose of raising funds for
the procuring of new uniforms for the Vet
Gran Cadet corps, will last for one week, and
from indications last evening it will prove
grand SUCCESS
National Republican., 1884-04-01
Card from MIR. Lynch.


In your notice of the case of Brooke Mack
all, tried ,on Saturday in the police court ON
the charge of perjury. you (no doubt uninten-
tionalIy) msstate the grounds upon which
the case was dismissed. The charge was not
dismissed without any hesitation, the judge
saying there was no foundation for it,"
If such were the case | should feel that
had been myself guilty of crime in bringing
tine case before the court. l made the com :
plaint on tho advice Of eminent counsel, that
the case was clearly one Of perjury, and that
the outrage perpetrated upon me was that
ought to prosecute it. Everything charged
by Inc was clearly proven on the trial. but
the judge dismissed tho case on the ground
that 1t did not constitute the crime of per-
jury (under the laws of this districtj. /
regret exceedingly that my name has become
associated with that OF Mr.. Mackall in the
newspapers and the courts through no fault
of mine, and / trust and believe that all the
legal questions in which have become in
volved with that gentleman will soon be set.
tied by the proper tribunals
JOHN LYNCH
National Republican., 1884-04-01
A TERRIRLE FIGHT.
A Fcrocious Bengal Tiger Asssiis It's
Keeper and Chcws UP an Iron Bar.

Fcrocious Bengal Tiger AsssiIs Its
Keeper and Chcws Up an Iron Bar.
fierce fight took place yesterday after.
noon between the keeper of animals at the
museum and large Bengal tiger The
keeper had just thrown chunk of raw beef
into the cage, when the animal, infuratod by
the smell of blood, spr sng toward the man,
who of course was on the outside of the
cage. With flashing eyes and loud
snarls and growls the animal struck
the iron bars n tremendous blow with
its paws, in an effort to get out Failing
in this the beast sprang upon tho hunk Of
beef much like q cat would upon u mouse
The keeper seized long iron bar, and by o
quick movement showed it against the tigers
ribs with roboundinR force. This brought
tho tiger to the bars again, and for fully
ton minutes savage battle ensued
the man pounding away with The
iron bar and the breast gripping
the bar in its massive jaws and springing
viciously against the bars with blood. .curdling
Erowls and walls. The tiger was finally
conquered, but not until it had made. a terri
bic fight against great odds. In fact the ami
NAL was so thoroughly exhausted after the
struggle that it fell prone upon the oage
floor, regardless. of the presence of It's mjddey
feed Of raw beef -IS'I
National Republican., 1884-04-01
What the District Chemist Is Doing.

Out of thirty-two tests made by Prof. Dc
smedt of tho quality of butter sold by the
local dealers twenty-five of them proved to
be genuine. Tho other ten. as has been stated
at different times, were "bogus." The health
officer sent the professor several samples yes
terday for analysis
THE next examination shall make aftor
! finish testing butter will be milk" said the
professor. 81 have no doubt that half tho
milk sold is adulterated and injurious, and
there is no article of food so important as
milk"
In conversation with several prominent
dealers and grocers, all expressed the opin-
ion that there were great quantities Of bad
milk sold, and that ii was the duty of tho
health officer and the police to bring the vic.
lators of the law governing the subject to JUS
figo.
National Republican., 1884-04-01
The Opening OF Cedar street.

In 1871 petition signed by thirty promi.
ncut residents in the county was presented to
the district authorities to have Cedar street
from Seventh to Fourteenth street extended
and opened through part of the Holmead
estate, and to have a road leading northward
from Cedar street cut through. Mr.. G. If.
Rheese yesterday presented the petition to
the commissioners, and asked that some
action be taken in the matter, as the resi-.
dents in the county would be benefited by
the Improvement