New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-18
AS THE WORLD WAGS.
RANDOM REMARKS OF A RAMBLER HERE
AND THERE.


afcctonate, one Calculating warmly. How are you,
John p and the other " Jim I'm glad 10 see you.
Holding each others hands, they stood apart Io"
the throng of sporting and talked earnestly loI
several minutes. One was well dressed and wen
kept, OF siocky build and heavy features. with kndy
eyes under bushy brows. and iron-g gray msiscne'
neany trimmed. Prosperity shone in every detall III
his dress. His careless mods TO passing acqualh'-
ances betrayed the polished man OF the world. Inc
other slight person, poorly dressed, with sharp
features that seemed plnched by poverty, illness anu
His eyes heavy and bloodshot Ike thos7
Of who has suffered much, whose Ines piho"
has been hari, whose bed has been OF thorh'.
John Hoey and JIM McGowan. What coh'ras''
What picture for the moralZer Though So ls
apart now IN their different spheres, these Two were
as brothers once. Some fifty years ago they SUI"
newspapers together the streets Young ho0''
frd with ambition became wholesale dealer a' -,
early age buying old papers at fifteen cents pou'
and selling them at forty. Paper SUN
dear in those DAYS The youth prospered entered
the employ OF the Adams Express Company, then
small affair and grew up with IT 70 become the heau
OF one Of the richest corporations in all the land 10
dav his wealth is counted by millions JIM NC
Gowan IS secretary for two small racing associations
aud tolls hard for a living When he STOOD WIN MS
hand casped I'm that Of his partner OF long ago nc hS
scarcely money enough in his pocket 10 pay ior
wholesome meal
the mashed-ln face who comes smiling down the OCT
rider ~ the Hoffman House. stopping at every stride
to shake hands with acquaintance is John chamber
lin Who has not heard of Chsmberlns as his
famous clubhouse in Washington IS called The
former owner Of Monmouth Park looks as well ana
steps as lightly as he did years ago when he raced
True Blue and backed him against the world. WHATS
going 10 win to-day, John?7 the query that As
sailed him at every turn in days, and the stereo
Me hat alu
a little on True Blue Chamberlin says he IS hap
pier now than he was them but his friends refuse 10
believe f.
Several New Yorkers, Pierre Lorillard among them,
have been invited to old-faSbicned sonth Carolina
deer hunt, which IS TO take place in few weeks
among the thckly wooded foothills not many miles
from Charleston. A deer hunt In Dixie IS generally
as unsportsmanlike diversion as the famous shoot
ing expeditions Of the aged grandfather Of the young
German Emperor. The sport consists IN hfst uiSFV
uting the ambitious shots Of the hunting party at In
teryas OF half mile along the forest trails, with in
sructons 10 hide behind trees and keep sharp watch
with finger on trigger Then the hounds sent into
the thickes TO start the game. Up springs fine buck
with snort and of he leaps through the underbrush,
the pack following in full cry. Striking trail the
animal takes IT, and runs up against the muzzle Of a
gun. which makes end Of him. This may be mag
nihcent but Is not sport. The fun comes In when
buck sgue. an aiment which physically incapscitaies
him for twenty four hours and allows the game 10
cane TIL some other day. Sometimes patient sports
man stands guard beside trail from dawn TIL dusk
without being rewarded By single yelp or the rusfihg
Of twtg. Worn out CT last, he picks bis toIlsome
way 10 camp where he finds the rest Of the parry
feasting venison.
The quickest people in the world to catch on as
the saying goes. advertisers In one OF her re
cent works Marion Harland. inadvertently or with
malice afore hought referred 10 certain patent med!-
cine that had been before the public for twenty years
bnt the popularity of which was on the wane The
hook was hardly off the press before half the newspa
pers and magazines in the country were announcing
in bold type-at from 10 cents 10 Sc per agate line
that the proprietary article mentioned was recon-
mended by Marion Harland a universal panacea.
The sales Increased enormously. Another shle"d
is now taking commercial advantage of
the correct and widely published statement that Mrs
Anna Dc GIuot Of Mllbury, Mass gave birth to four
girl babies on November Q. The average advertiser
draws the line at nothing. Give him a prominent
name associated with unusual incident and he VIII
delight you with charming bit Of felton, having at lis
tail end an acute electric shock. Love laughs locks,
bars and bulldogs. Trade laughs at cOnventonatles
Don't be surprised learn any day that ,Grant was
elected Mayor because he used six bottles OF Dcwitrs
Extract Of Tsmmany Bark, that Lord sackville got
The sack because he refused to cry for westoria.
As class the publishers in this city are feeling
about as good over result of the election any
of their neiShbors change of admins
tratlon the precipitate retirement
of Henry r. Harris to the backwoods
of Georgia. where he properly belongs. As thrl
assistant Postmaster General Mr.. Harris has ben
one Of the most cons picuous mscar1sges Of This
four years devilto-pay interregnum. Under his
tha IL
control of all mall mater of the second class has
caused publishers vast amount OF trouble A change
is. indeed, most welcome. No man IS more pleased
with the prospect than Patrick Farrclly, general
manager Of the American News Company
All this talk about establishing the Manhattan
Magazine which fell dead By the wayslde several
years ago viii probably amount to nothing moro
than gentle agitation Of the atmosphere. The cost
Of starting new or rebuilding old publication
In proper manner is enormous. and the undertaking
Is attended with great hazard Of conscience, time
and money The latest snccesS 10 this line is monthly
Of sixteen pages. which j. sold 10 SUD
scrbers for twenty FIVE cents year lis circulation
bona fde. affidavit, honor bdght-is $1,000 copies
month, and is advertising rate is 80 % al agate
line. Before the matter for he first number was
sent the printer The propretois expended $1,000
in announcing the appearance of their infant
The distinguished generals and colonies who have
gone down 10 Georgia explore the battlefield OF
will iud many objects Of interest be-
tween the Jagged backbone OF Mission Ridge and the
home OF Judson G. Clements member OF Congress from
the With District. | wonder II they will run across
any walking sticks like those THAI were sold by The
carload at the Centennial Twelve years ago II! An
aged woOdhauler, who lived near Rome, Ca, wanted
~ cap the climax OF miserable existence by going
TO the big show, and 1t occurred TO him that he
might pay all his expenses by forwarding nscel
laneous assortment Of dogwood, hickory, ash and
sevenbark walking sticks 10 Paramount Park and sell
ing them there to sightseers and curiosity hunters a
having been cut of the famous battlefield where Bragg
and Rosecrans wrestled in 1853 He was cutting ana
hauling saplngs from his lot, situated some
thirty miles south Of ChcEamauga- for several weeks
and eventually landed them in Philadelphia, where
they went like hot cakes at ~ apiece.