Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-09-06
HORSE WEN BITTEN.
The Old Dodge Played Again at New
Eaveu.

saven.
The New Haven papers tell OF man with
used-up looking horse who worked the old game
OF getting bets against his animal with great
success. The race came off Monday and the
Register gives the following account of that
part Of the performance: Yesterday afternoon
the chief parties in interest were al Hamilton
park The stranger as ne drew in with his ped
dlers wagon rolled unsteadly in his seat He
asked if there wasn't some place round there
! where he could borrow buggy. The horse
men all laughed. knowing OF course. that what
lie wanted was sulky. Finally, 4 good-natured
member OF the party volunteered to 20 of and
get Sulky II the stranger would first put up
525 as security against possible damages. The
money was forthcoming from the still! bulky
roll: the suiky arrived few minutes later
aad Old Whitley. vino had been wandering
! about and eagerly cropping grass i'll the
meantime, was hitched IN front Of it. The
couutrIDan, nov so drunk. to ali appearances
as to he almost perfectly helpless. managed 10y
! dint OF much climbing and falling, 10 get into
his seat. Some one asked him if he didn't want
whip No. he guessed he didn't. IL he did
hecOuid stop tine first time round and get one
This answer provoked roars Of laughter. 1t was
generally felt to he g shame that a man so dumb
and green should De imposed upon. Soiae ore
fralIy got whip. cut Just before starting he
handed 1t 10 boy. Mr. O'keeie drove his or n
( horse, o!t Whitley showed some little SIGNS ~
animation when driven Oh the track and when
the word 20 was given went off like fash. Nj
okeete came on at handsome gait out i.e
was in the rear. He whipped the mare and
urged her 10 Eer best efforts. but somehow he
couldn't head the ungainly animal in advance
The mare never got nearer 20 Whitley than half
q length. and finished the mile lust that much
behind The time was suInew here bel " cen =: 50
AMI lot The result of the first heat nearly par
alyzed MO heefe and the handful Ofspectators
as we'll. with asi Onsbment. Il also mat er of
wOnderment that a man drunk a. the
stranger could eyer have managed to keep his
seat. The spectators also found it difficult TO
analyze Old Whitley gait Ii was not strictly q
trotting. pacing. or racing gat. but appeared o
be combination of all three. However. it was
agreed that Mr.. Okeeie mad a goOd show of
winning the second heat because the strangers
horse only just maintained his lead and prota-
Oily did not have bottom TO go a second mile Ut
such fast pace. IN this. however. they were
all wrong. Old Whitley Won second heat. and
the race as easily as the first but with more of a
lead BY this time all hands knew that the
stranger who had considerably sobered up had
played them. as they generally expressed it. for
"a parcel of suckers. All Of them enioyed it.
however with the exception of O'keefe. Mr.
Hart d;dn I seem very much cast down and If
the report that he is the real owner of Old
Whitley is true. there is no reason why he should
nave been. 1t is said the horse can easily pace
mile in 2:30. and has figured around the coun-
try in several such affairs as that of yesterday
with no little profit to her owner 1t was OBJ
served that after the race the stranger did not
repeat his offer to Sell the animal for SEQ. All
the horsemen in town. except the bitten one are
talking and laughing to-day about the match at
Hamilton park yesterday.
Absentcei.m in the House Of Lords.
H. D. Trail in Contemporary Review
The real reason in a word why so many mod
crate minded and not otherwise unfriendly OBJ
servers regard the action of the lords in such
cases as this with no antecedent confidence in
its discretion. but rather if anything with pre-
sumption against it. is to be sought not in the
qualification OF the upper house. but in its COM
position and mode of transactng business No
one who compares its average attendance with
the numbers collected for great division can
wonder for a moment at its want of authority
Inc influx OF peers summoned to decide en- a
question which they have not heard discussed ia
scandal comparable Only TO whip of coun-
try parsons brought up to reject liberal sta
tute at Oxford. Lord Salisbury put in rlea
the other day for the competency of absentee
peers on the ground that the skillful admins
tratiOn OF an estate in the country was as good
training as another for the faculties of the
polite an and did not in the meantime disable
the absentee from Keeping abreast bv means of
the newspaper with the politics of the day. Lord
Salisbury, however would hardly say as much.
sort. The race course. the yacht the cricket
held, continental lOunging. the pursuit of
big game" in remote countries the riyalries of
the ''Inasher" at home-there is nothing in these
scenes and occupations to develop political "a
pacity. and one should know what proportion
they engage of the habitual absentees brought
up for great divisions. before the value OF Lord
Salisbury's plea can be estimated The general
public it is to be feared, will not rate it highly
They are apt to suspect that too many of the re-
crutts resemble the hero of that stOry-be1. t,o-
rito 81 non rern-in which young peer unable
on one OF these occasions to bring his unfamiliar
face to the recollections OF an officer in the
house, Was compelled at last to use this lone
plain argument" to Convince him. DO YOU
think" asked his lordship in halt humorous re-
sentiment at the recollection of the more con-
genial scenes from which he had torn himself at
the call OF duty. do you think should be such
- fool to come to this place If | were not a
peer:" UnQucstiOnably this Young man should
Obtain the dlspensaton which he evidently de-
sres. Both the house Of lords and himself
would be the gamers Ov his being relieved from
attendance. 1t is here. undoubtedly that the
much talked Of reform of the house of lords will
have to begin. whatever other improvements
if any. it may be found advisable or possible to
introduce.