The Washington critic., 1886-09-29

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outer garments flung of for comfort.
they frequently outlined party policy
III friendly cooperation, for In those
meetings all jealousy aud rivalrics were
laid aside. When Thurman gave way.
TO be succeeded by Garfield, the first
break in the chain was made. Then
Conkling dropped out, by reason of the
only foolish public act he was ever
known 10 commit, and later Bayard
and Garland went into Cleveland S Cab.
met. OF that illustrious group only
Edmunds now remains, and he Ia in.
consolable In his mourning for those
whom he really loved and missed. To
hunt up Garland and entice him into
his committee. a difficult
task, by the way--aph there recount
the splendors Of that departed time is
now one of the very few pleasures Of
the eminent Senator from Vermont,
so
visited Tattcrslll's noted horse sale
yesterday, says Carpenter in his late
London letter to the Cleveland Letier,
and saw several hundred horses
knocked down to the highest bidder.
Tattersall's has for one hundred years
been the great horse market in Lon.
don. Here every week some Of the
best horses of the nobility and others
arc brought Tor sale, aud the sons aud
grandsons of the great Tattersall of
IL past still manage the business.
The stables are within stones throw
OF Hyde Park, and not far away from
Piccadilly. They are in the centre of
fashionable London, and when en-.
tered them yesterday | found the sale
going briskly on. Imagine great
square court, with dirt floor. around
which Is high wall Of stables. and
over which perhaps sixty feet above
you Is vaultcd roof of glass. This
wall Of stables which surrounds the
court is Of brick, ana midway between
the floor and roof gallery filled with
carriages of every description runs
around it. This gallery looks down upon
the court through many columns, and
leaning upon its railing to day were n
number of ladies who were present,
looking down upon the sale going on
below. In The square court perhaps
200 men were standing. They were OF
all classes of horse f0nciers, from the
weazcned faced. wrinkled Jockey and
| the gentleman groom in livery to
young lords dressed in the latest Lon
don fashion, and old fellows who
| looked us though they might stand for
| pictures of Sam Weller's father. The
auctioneer was one of the young Tat.
tersalls, q slight man, looking much
like highly respectable merchant.
He stood in box like pulpit In one
corner of the court, with q clerk beside
him, and ledger in front of him on
the desk. Just below him, back of a
board rail, as high asa mans waist,
were the bidders, and on the other side
of this rail, along the wall, was a road
about nine or ten feet wide,
were trotted by jockeys when
were made very fast, none of them |
saw taking more than five minutes.
The auctioneer talked quietly, did not
praise the horse, but merely read the
catalogue account of him, and looked
about for bids. He did not wait long
for bids, and when the bidding ceased
he knocked down the horse to the
highest bidder by striking q round
headed block mnllet on the desk in
front of him. The horses sold very
cheap. the highest during my stay
bringing only $3.50. They sold for
half they would have brought in
America, and, as rule. fine spirited,
well.shaped horses, which would have
easily brought $500 in America. went
off for 1925. This is, perhaps, the
greatest horse auction anywhere, and
the guarantee of Tattersall is said to be
as good as that of the London bank.
~
| But for ali its scarcity of young men,
says Fred Mussey, the truthful chroni.
cler of the Cincinnati Commercial Gu.
getto, Deer Park is not without its ro.
manccs. All, no, indeed. 1t is rather
cool weather up here for the young
man clad only in a quiyer and bow,
but he gets here just the same. Two
years ago n young man shot him
self here because his inamorata, n
pretty Washington belle, went to n
party at Senator Davis cottage to
which he was not invited. That Is, he
would have shot himself If he had
pointed the pistol at his head instead
of in the air, and breaking the appall.
ing silence Of Deer Park at ? o clock in
the morning, with no further result
than to scare the whole community out
of their beds and get himself bounced
from the hotel. But there was more
pathetic case this year. 1t began in
part at Oakland. Both were young
and one was beautiful" The course
of true love jolted on after its usual
fashion, never running quite smooth,
for several weeks, and finally there
seemed to be u complete estrangement,
and the gossips decided the matter was
"off." The young lady appeared to be
in very high spirits. The young man
hung around gloomily for a day o,
two and departed on night train. II
was noticed that the young lady was
not as vivacious the next day. Thc
sorrowing young man left behind him
for her some verses, copied in fair
hands of the mother. Here are tn,
verses, and If the young lady ever see,
this Letter she will see tor the first timt
what her disconsolate lover left for her
and as they live in cities only forty
minutes apart by rail they may bu
happy yet;
oh. was II |, or was 1t you
That broke the subtle chain that ran
Between us two, between us two;
Oh! was Ii |, or was IL your
Not very strong the chain at best
Not quite complete from span To span:
| never thought 'twould stand the test
OF settled commonplace, at best.
But oh, how sweet, how sweet you were
When things We're at their first aud best
And We were friends without demur
Shut out from all the sound and stir
The little, petty, worldly race!
Why couldn't we have stood the test 80
The little test of commonplace
At,l E.a, tI.. s,l,tR audi tl.af