The morning news., 1890-12-20
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and uncharitab bleness of womankind one toward
the other, are scandalously false, and yet there
are women to whom anothers physical love-
huess Is q criminal Offense. Honestly ugly girls
ar invariably generous in according the full
beauty OF their rivals, but it is the tepidly,
vaguely pretty creatures who rebel against sIl-
perior attractions and cannot tolerate TO heer a
belle spoken of kindly.
A TELEeRAM from Boerne, a mountain town
northwest of San Antonio, Tex, tells of the
death there of ]. J. Bayard The death of
Bayard reveals @ romantic and weird story of
life. He came to this section of Texas a quar-
ter OF century ago selected an isolated spot
IN the mountains of Kenall county for his home
cut himself OF entirely from all comrnunica
tlon with men and women except in case of
sickness, when he volun arily rninistered to
them. He claimed to be a doctor by education
ana compounded strange drugs out OF the native
herbs of his mountain home which proved very
efhcacious in nearly all forms Of disease When
forced 20 talk be conversed in monosylables
and preferred to use child interpreter be-
tween himself and the persons with whom he
conversed. He built little log hut with his own
hands, feeling the trees himself and in front of
the door of his house be dug cave fifty feet
deep, In the entrance OF which he would sun
himself. In this cave he was buried, according
to provision Of his will. He claimed to be
brother Of ex-Secretary of State Thomas F.
Bayard and to have been on the personal staff
of Gen. TAYLOR during tue Mexican war He also
claimed to have seen rough service in the
Crimean and modern wars of Europe. In his
will he bequeathed bis property TO the Catholic
church with the request that on it be built a
home for the aged poor.
some IDEA Of the enormous value of real
estate in New York can be gathered from the
fact that single plat Of ground on the north
west corner of Thirty-1rsE street aud Broadway
has been the subject of sharp bidding for nearly
two years on the basis OF $500 oOO There is
building on the premises, but as it somewhat
antique structure 1t does not enter into the
negotiations for the sale of the land. It Is said
Faft LAST tort INf
The enormous value of property along upper
Broadway is the main cause of the somewhat
diiapipeted and ragged APPEARANCE of the
buildings on that thoroughfnre. Many of
the tumble-down three story brick build
ings pay their owners $1,000 and
Ss,O a year in rents 1t is more profitable to
keep them in their present condition than IL
would be to pull them down and put up more
pretentious structures. The wedge-shaped lot
at the junction of Fifth avenue, Broadway and
Twentythird street, which is covered by a ram
bling lot of twO-story buildings, has been the
subject of exhaustive figuring by every builder
aud real estate speculatOr OF consequence in
New York. None OF them can figure out higher
returns on the capital invested than the ram
shackle little buildings now pay. II the owner
were TO take them down and put up ten-story
building bis loss in the way Of interest on the
capital invested in the new building and the net
loss on rents during the construction Of the
building would be equivalent to good-szed
fortune; hence one Of the most important bits
Of ground In America is slated under the head
CT unimproved real estate.
WHEN went to the war in 1861" said Sena-
tor Wade Hampton, Il took with me three
thoroughbred stations that were worth
Princes ransom. One was black as night.
one was dark chestnut, and che other a
chestnnt-sorrel. You are perhaps aware that
my father was not only noted importer of
running horses. but famous breeder of the
sscS sadD at s tB. ws first E 0S9 R5s tine
battle, where | commanded the Hampton
Legion, comprised of infantry, cavalry. and
artillery. AT the famous cavalry fight at
Brandy Station with Pleasanton in 1883 | rode
the chestnut. He was a hard horse to control
in a charge, and he nearly carried me into the
enemy's lines on that day twice. / rode the
chestnut sorrel at the great cavalry fight in the
rear of Meade's army on the third day at Get
tysburg, and came near meeting the same fat9
as that escaped from at Brandy Station a few
weeks pre- siOus. My experience with thorough
breds is in time OF war that they safer horses
C. get away from the enemy with than
when you are going toward them especially
when on gallop. But when it
three cold blooded horses in a campaign. They
will 60 further with less food, go faster and
show more courage in the face of danger.
have ridden the stalliops l mention into federal
batteries, and they never once hinched. All OF
them were wounded three or four times but
they pulled through. ] think body of men
mounted on entire boOded horses would prove
much more formidable I'm a charge than the
same force mounted on geldings of the same
blood. Our ancestors in ancient times always
went to war ON entire horses, and Ia order that
their presence might not be betrayed to the
enemy their nostrls were slitted 30 that they
could not neigh The Arabs in their journeys
prefer entire horses, as they seem to have more
courage, sense, strength and endurance than
mares or geldings The late John Morgan owed
his success in the late war to the fact that in his
raids his men were mounted on Kentucky
thcrou2hbredS.
FOXES is curious critters" said Andrew the
other night, after gazing thoughtfully for some
time at the picture of fox wbioh adorped an
the Lewiston Journal. "Yes. they are. I've
lived right among EN-. ye might say. ever since
was bs5, and kalkeriate that know about
all theIe is to know about en- and their
pecEIiarities. Why, / hunted em when was
81 little that had to rest my gun over fence
a stump, an shot EN- too. One funny thing
about 'em Is their tai. Now fox sets dret-
full sight by his tail, an he can no more get
along without it than you can raise chicksns
'thout settin' the eggs. How do know; Why,
'sperence o. course. / most allus speak from
'sperence." And he paused to Felight his pipe.
which had gene out during the lecture
plished this. he resumed. "Gentisfuen. :" he
said you all know where the old Peacock
| tavern Is. o course, way out there by the pond
| on the Brunswick road-used 60 De an old stage
| tavern. Well. me and Bill we're oJt round there
| gunnin' one day, an start d a fox on them hfils
shat lead down 70 The pond. 1t WAS pretty near
| Christmas, but there wasn't no snow on the
| ground tho the pond was frozen over. That
| fox made for the pond for all he was worth.
and ses that If something wasn't done pooty
/ quick wed Jose him; 70 says 10 Bili, Let him
| have ~" bat Biil was 10 excited that be
/ couldn't DO anythin' but boiler. And there
| was that fox Zoin' a mile minute for the Ice.
He was B much ~ 150 yards
/ away, but Id tried him IL bed
bssR 800. Just then be went sailing Ovsr a
stone wall, s1 ~ be rose above n / took
quick aim an fired SOn9stbn dropped. We
| both saw II, an blD turned 70 lBs ap sad: An.
drew, thai was dsvillsl good s5Otr When We
/ got - tue wah there gas LAat for tai cut -
cleaD Oh ~ ~ = F0zoT had done n, but the fox
Want nowhere round. We hunted every
where, but couldn't nBl h3in, Hllen Bil lap.
/ pepse " i0ek Out cD thc p3ps an SO = red hail
| eRpiy over fbe ice Ike = streak. ~ pAe s3at
| fox he cgulqg Z rue siF4glt without BIS tail,
| DH kept Tgillr over 90, eyff Ike : cart silsri
We afant Nant ~ ioss hAsn, ~ 80 folAgoed %,
/ eu9 found kial AFAf ~ ou WisfefpP ~ Afiii
vhsfe hs had eFoNnea kifiasff a. A. ar ilyie, he
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