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wrote it. Probably this man had sup
ported him when he ran for office last fail,
and now he had paid the debt by giving
him letter of introduction to me.
1aklng him by the hand, said: "Sir,
You are my guest. letter from my
protner Will be honored at ali times, never
nina what | happen TO be doing at the
time. The letter seems TO be genuine, and
my brother has failed 10 put in the cipher
winch means 10 do you up So l judge
that he means for me to throw myself.
1ou are now my guest. Come with me
ana VIII show you where they are going
TO build the new bridge across Craig-y-N os
creek"
He rose and we went away together.
As we passed the store / invited him in
and We got some seegars. AT our store
here we have nice, smooth seegar, with
manila wrapper. which is free smoker,
and IL Kept well tipped up so that the filler
VIII not sift ont affords much pleasure to
the user. We lighted these Seegars, which
are called the Belle of Tailholt, Indiana,
ana as we pulled them along the road we
seemed somehow to warm toward each
other, and told him that I knew where
we could get some calamus root, if he liked
1t, and some mushrooms-at least they
looked like mushrooms. He said he was
passionately fond of calaruus root but still
more so OF mushrooms. So we gathered
some of each and had the latter for dinner.
None of the rest of the family would eat
any OF these mushrooms, for never gath
cred any before, and To- be a GOOD nush-
room gatherer one should have killed off a
camping party or two for the experience.
But my guest ate heartily of them. He
ate them all. My wife winked hopefully
at me as my doppeiqdager ate the last one
and CarelesSly ran slice OF bread around
over the platter and breathed a long, de-
liclous sigh
After dinner / said "Come on; we will
go up on the top of Mount Busbee. From
there We can see almost to AsheviHe"
Really, my object was to get him off the
place before he died I hate to have
guest die in the house, and if | can help it
L Will see that il never occurs. especially
some one know.
We climbed the hill through the swell
terlng heat, and he seemed to hold up I'M
der 1t quite well. All at once, like clap of
thunder from q clear sky, came the terri
bic thought, ''Oh, heavensl Oh. heavens
After all, perhaps, they were really rnush-
rooms
The thought maddened me so that as |
pushed my way through the underbrush
ahead OF my guest pulled back hickory
sapling and let it fly back with such force
as To knock him across the gothic oat farm
OF General West. of this place. But my
guest did not mind it ut all. for he came
up later with q glad smile and humming a
bit of an old love song.
That evening he took from his valise
puzzle and gave il to my children. They
tried to do it, but could not. We were
smoking couple of store cigars and the
butler was burning rag. Finally the
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children brought the puzzle TO me. 1t
looked simple, and as | am great hand
to work out difficult things, like mathe-
NAUTICAL sums and social problems, / told
my colored amanuensis to keep my cigar
going for a few moments and | would
show the children how TO do it.
1t consisted of circular box with a
glass cover, and inside were five brass
pins with five little brass rings lying on
the bottom of the box. All there is to do,
as may say, is 10 flip this little box so as
To hang the five rings on the five pins.
That was week ago | have not done
it vet. Neither have done anything else.
The children's voices are no longer heard
rs they romp and play. Each one is try
ing TO do this fool puzzle. That is not ali.
| am away behind on my autographs.
Hundreds of such letters remain unan-
swered, aside from those answered by my
colored man, Mr.. De Fuyster Smathers.
Eight letters asking me to write what
know on a patchwork block of silk for n
rattle remain on my desk, and the day of
the rattle is almost here.
am all broken up by this man. and
haven't written anything in my diary for
ten days. Possibly may never write in it
again. When | try to think now my mind
creaks. My mirror shows me great dark
circles under my eyes.
If this man comes again | am prepared
for him. / know a bank whereon the
mushroom ~ grows, the little - IT.
mushroom. The Weeping Willow mush-
room, the kind that creates a panic south
west of the liver and west of the watch
pocket.
] have also selected plot in the prime
val forest where he can be at rest. A
place where the trailing arbutus and the
woodtick may wander DER his cute little
tomb.
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Blame. for instance, man who could
easily score a deathhed success at any time,
while | am timid and feel almos: certain
that in any forensic effort of that kind
would probably cork myself and say some
thing which | would afterward bitterly re-
greet. What can be more pitiful than
a bad break in grammar or the
frequent use of tautOlOgy in dying
speech? Ii is for this reason that | have
decided TO keen q diary. to be published
when | am gone. 1t will be good thing.
1t will show me in my serious moods and
also. here and there, have little trlCklets OF
nlre merriment in it. thing | could not
introduce into q dying speech with credit
to myself. | will also thus have chance
to rectify the Erammars IN II and have 1t
punctuated as | go along.
As | saw. we move along quietly here
from day to day, with little to excite or
overstiinulate the brain. Last Saturday
man with a dreamy look IN his pale blue
eyes came here and sat down on my porch
t. look at my view. | have good view
here. and keep nv horses in deserted
sawmill. He sat there with his hat of,
drinking IN the view and tanning hts hlgn,
smooth brow with his hat. A. urst took
him 10 he nay doppclg5nqer- ne had the
same Ben Davis style OF Adam, s apple, and
his high forward indicated that he was
lust as orainy as he could be.
For q time | let him sit there. Then |
stepped out and passed the time of day
with him He answered rather in brief
and distracted way. but finally asked my
name. | told him what ii was and he took
my hand. He said he had been frequently
taken for me. / was glad OF II. | did not
care If he had been taken for me, only
Wbv did those authorities who took him
for me let him go again?
Finally he said he knew some Of my
folks. I said that might be. My folks
never did seem 10 learn ANYTHING by ex~
T,erience. Some OF them, said. We're 80
kind hearted that they couldn't be I'M
kind even to a bunko man. lie laughed
q sad laugh ike one who breakfasts
with the president OF the United States on
the LIST day OF April and cuts into Canton
flannel cake -
Bat al last he interested me in himself.
He was here for his health, ne said He
had AIR cells in his lungs, think, or some
thing of that kind. He also had letter
from NV brother. II was letter OF intro
duction from my brother. As read II L
could almost Sc how he suffered as he
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NEW YEARS EVE 1889.

mo Englishman viii need be reminded of the
date on which Westminster Abbey was hon
ored by the funeral OF Robert Browning.l
All the west whercon the sunset sealed the
dead wears glorious grave
Fast with seas o. light and fire and cloud that
light and fire ilium!ne.
CLOVIS al heart and Eindles earth and heaven
with Joyous blush and bloom
Warm and wide as IiIe and glad OF death which
only Stays tosaFe.
AS tide-reconq uered a-rock lies afush with
the iuflueut wave
Lies the light aiush with darkness, Tapped
about with lustroUs gloom,
Even IS life Hi .sth and time with fame,
and memory with the tomb
Where q dead man hath for yssSals Fame the sert
and Time the slave
Far from earth as heaven, the steadfast light
withdrawn, superb, sgsPsfke,
Burns in dumb divine expansion ofillimltable
flower:
Moonrise whets the shadows edges Keen as
noontide; hence aud thence
CLOVIS the presence from Us passing, SHINES
and passes no, the power
Souls arise whose word remembered Is as spirit
within the sense;
All tie hours are theirs of all the seasons;
death has but his hour.
-fiQ~lfS AaCerNOa SsrfnbuTHe
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the preceding year. Governor Stanford
thinks that she would also have made
very fast mile as q 4-year-old but for the
fact that she was carted about the country
too rapidly TO give her a chance to do her
best. lt takes some time for horse To re-
cover from long journey on the cars and
get thoroughly aeclimated She is now S
years old and has recently made quarter
at 90 gait, which shows that she is in
irst-class condition"
How about Sunols feet?''
"One OF them was not properly balanced
when bought her, but the fault has been
remedied, and do not think that she will
be troubled any more with lameness. The
foot IS an all important part Of horse, and
II should be watched with the most Jealous
and intelligent care. When / bought
Maud ,. her feet were not properly bal
auced, as result of bad shoeinp' Nv
brother David advised me against buying
her. as he said he did not think she would
stand training. When | saw what was the
matter, knew that it would only take a
few moments to set her right The Joint in
the foot of horse has but one articula-
non, and If the hoof is too high or too low
on any side, there will be a strain upon this
joint which will sooner or later cause
iameness. Unless this Joint is balanced
with absolute precision the horse is GER
tam to go lame. There is no such thing as
r chest foundered horse. The sunken
chest is the result of feet that have been
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AFTERMATHS.

A rosebud SWING in the mellow air,
Agd b6thed in the glad saus hlne;
And the crimson flush OF Efe was there,
That promised growth divine;
But chill wind came from frozen cline;
And the rosebud blanched ana Tel,
Now only thoughts OF the bloom sublime
In lingering menu Ies dwell.
song WAS born in an angel brain,
And sung by an angel tongue;
And ca-th-born children caught the strain
The earth-born airs among;
But the worlds harsh notes proved all too strong
For the soft tones from above;
And we 1egrd but half the tender song
That told OF God and His love.
4 young life lived thr0 the golden days
OF Youth and Love and Beauty;
And sunny JOY shed It's tinted rays
Der the Op ming path OF Duty;
But q deadly blast with sorrow rife
Blew lis keen and searching breath,
Aud the red, red rose OF warm. sweet lie
Was the " hlIe, white rose OF Death.
But the bud will blow on the other side,
By angel fingers tended;
And the song viii swell on the rushing tide,
Where the angel choirs ara blended;
And the fair young life Will live once more
Ia the realms Of Love supreme;
And we shail know on the Wonder shore
Why she crossed 80 soon the stream.
-HibiGm Norris
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do you think she can beat Maud 5. on
areeulation tracl2" asked.
well, +" said he, thoughtfully. II am i'll
the position of the pious old Scotch lady
who had concluded that all her fellow
church members were doomed to perdi-
ton One OF them said to her, Il suppose
you think that nobody will be saved but
yon and the minister No, said she. L haze
NE doots ABBOTT tn meenister. | can only
say that hae me doots ABBOTT it, When
your horse trotS in PIP every second be-
comes very long space of time and it
iengthens tremendously as you approach
the phenomenal record of Maud :. Doyou
know that horse going at the rate OF 2:l5
makes 81 feet in second2 Think what
every second means in distance when a
horse is going at a > 10 clip or better. No
enc appreciates what a wonderful gap
there is between 2:l0 and 2:0S34 so keenly
IS the man who has owned horses that
have tried In cover it. The owner of Jay
kye-See said To me on one occasion, in
Speaking of the efforts that had been made
10 beat the record OF Maud s, Let them
try IL, then they'll know what it means.
The kite-shaped track does not afford
2r trial of speed. Cutting oil one end of
he eclipse reduces the curvature in the
tack and SO makes straighter and faster
course. Then. too, ii is possible to give it
continuous down grade over which n
horse would have no weight To pull. A
grade for any portion of the distance 10 be
covered gives the horse q decided aGyan-
tage, as ii shifts the strains on the muscles
and rests him.
Il may say. however. that Governor
stanford has no doubt OF SunoHs ability
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Two without showing any sign OF lameness.
7 SAT beside him on big sofa in the front
n.rior of his house on West Fifty-sixth
street while he talked about the great turf
,r;ncess and of her effort to wrest the inn
rerial crown from Maud S.
look at herl' said he, holding large
photograph Of Sunol to the light. What
tremendous driving power she gets from
the sharp backward slope of her hips. She
l. two inches higher ut the peak of the
bins than she is at the wethers. From
This greyhound formation she gets stride
the ike of which no man has ever seen.
She goes like the wind with little apparent
effort. remember how she deceived me the
first time saw her tried at Palo Alto. Ny
brother and some excellent judges of speed
were With me. | watched her closely as
she strobe around the track. She did not
seem to be moving fast. What time is
she making2' somebody asked me. she
will do this quarter in about 371z,' was my
repy. was amazed to see that she actu-
ally trotted the quarter in 30 seconds. She
is longer than Maud 5, and one inch
higher behind. The measurements of each
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Watching him drive every nail, and look
ing after the shaping of the shoes"
'Wiu you put Maud 5. on the track
again in case Sunol beats her record ?''
Il cannot say at present" replied Mr..
Bonner. Il have been breeding her for
the past three seasons. / was looking at
her yesterday in the paddoCks. She is in
splendid conditions as sprightly
and supple as she ever was. | think that
breeding has renewed her youth"
DO you think L affects the speed of a
mare to breed herr" asked.
That. too, Is a question regarding which
few horSemen agree" Mr. Bonner replied.
The weight of authority would probably
he against breeding a mare from which
great speed was expected"
What principles are 70 be observed in
the successful breeding of trotters?"
There Is one general principle which
all successful breeders observe. No great
trottiug horse can ever be developed from
stock that is purely thoroughbred. The
thoroughbred strain must be mixed with
what is called coid-blooded stock. Only
the grand dams of Maud :. Sunoi and J.
I. {. We're absolutely thoroughbred. by
thoroughbred horse | mean runner, and
no pure thoroughbred ever trotted mile
faster than 80 "
Are the great horses of the future likely
to be bred in the East or the West ?
THAT question is hard 10 answer" Mr..
Bonner said. ''All the great trotiers that
have been developed in California and Ken
lucky are out of stock that came from
orange county in this state. Eiectioneer,
Harold, Dictator. and other horses from
which have sprung the great colts OF CALI
foruja and kentucky stock farms came
from Orange county. The West will un-
doubtedly produce magnificent stock. but
the horses from Eastern stock farms will
be an important factor in its produc-
ton
SunoI will reach her final destination in
Mr. Bonutr'S stable about the middle OF
October. II she fails - win the crown
before that time this distinguished lover OF
the horse VIII think none the less or her.
She will have a fair chance 10 reveal her
powers in the future. and horsemen agree
that she will handle her boots with even
greater success after Mr.. Bonner gets fall
control of them.
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hoofs. The SPAWN is invariably caused by
the improper treatment of the horses feet,
and bad support OF the bone column. 1t
is strange, isn't it. that the shoeing of
horses, which is an all important thing,
should be almost entirely left To the iudg-
ment of blacksmiths, who are, as a rule,
the most ignorant men in the world. | al
ways superintend the shocing of every
horse in my stable. | have been sitting
nearly all day in blacksmith's shop
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tbs EVER THUS.

Al Astra. he Proiundis.
Keats. Bacchus. SOphoclss;
ATs Tonga. Euthauasla,
spring, The Eumeuides.
Dead Leaves. MesemTsychosis,
Mating. TheocriIUs;
Tani a. tauItaiuUn.
NJ ship, De Guslbus.
DUN Fivimus NiyaIaus,
Sleep, PalinEencs,s:
salvini. -ursuTn COrda.
At Nj Desert To Mss -.
These sre parts OF the contents
OF "Fiolets Of song"
The first poetic volume
vi susan Mary strong.
r. 4. HrsHklltrick
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% - -sIlArEn rRAck.

SHat the record on regulation track. :"
eol,ssSsy you advise hard work for a young
MR. as' Is point on which horsemen dis
phenn,. sad Mr.. Bonner. "Sunol did
oil ana ,ghal work both at and years
At2ys,stao not think it has hurt her any.
sis. W., OF age she made 4 record of
AM iiec animai. The fsr "a thar ,9 she made
claS;S.ih 2lol. as 3-year-oI6 IN nroyes com
harn that her earlier work did her no
lA2lS men she made a half mile in
hat shs fyear-old, which also proves
ad not suffered any detrimept
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No visitor 10 Seattle should fall 70 take a trip
on Lac Washington. Take the feslsg avenue
able cars and the steamer Kirkland
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Not one in twenty are free from some little all
rnent caused by inactlon OF the liver. Use Car
ter's Little Liver Pills. The result viii be q
pleasant surprise They give positive TeIiei
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SUNOL AND MAUD S.
Bonner Discusses Merits OF His
Two Great Mares.
suNoL's WONDERFUL STRIDE.
uav II Deceives the Experts-UniikeIy
That She VIII Beat Maud s.-How to
Breed Trotters-Care OF the Hoof.
NEW YoRK. Sent. Il. 1891.

'hs Gtpts H. lODl-
as not SUI
mol willlower the
record at h err
forthcoming trial
o n { h e X e :
shaped track"
said Mr.. Bonner.
T h e grea t
horseman was in
the best of spir-
its. A telegram
had just come
fro IN NJ arvin
stating that the
mare had logged
a mile in twenty
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Il hands 8 inches for
ward.
Is hands 0 inches be-
hind
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MAUD $.
suNoI..

orse are as follows" SAID he, debating
be figures while wrote them down:
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Is hands 3 inches Tor
ward.
Is hands | inch be
hind.
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The Man Who Waits.

We all know him, and the more intimate
the knowledge the deeper the pain attend
ing it.
He is the individual who has delayed send
ing in his advertisement until the last mo-
ment, and appears at a quarter past the
eleventh hour with the imperious demand
that the matter be crushed right through, so
as to get in to-morrow's edition"
You probably receive these instructions
with pleasant and winning smile, and as
sure him in the blandest of tones that his
will is mighty and shall be done; but the
chances are that, after the patent door
spring has clicked after his exit, the record
ing angel has to work overtime that even
ing in order to jot down the Anglo-Saxon in
which you have expressed yourself regard
ing your customers business methods.
For some unexplained reason there seems
to exist regular system of procrastination
with some men in regard to their adver-
tising.
Your friend alluded to above is probably
in other matters the most exact and method
ical of beings. His orders for goods are all
given we'll in advance of needs; not want
or possible want but has been foreseen and
provided for; but when his advertising is in
question, behold the diferencei For week
past he has known perfectly that in certain
issues of certain publications an announce
ment must appear. The matter for that an
nouncement has for that week been pigeon
holed in his desk; but not until the last pos
sible moment has the copy and order been
given to his agents, and then only by super
human efforts and the lowering of the moral
tone of the entire staff is it possible to get
that advertisement inserted
The fact that when copy and list of papers
is delivered the real work has Just com
menced does not seem to dawn upon an ad-
vertiser of this class, for if it did it is
scarcely possible that he would be so blind
to his own interests as to cause his business
to be railroaded through at an express
speed, which leaves no time for the best re-
suits as to display and position to be
secured, but sacrifices every minor detail to
the one great necessity of getting insertion
anyhow, anywhere, in the issues ordered,
often under that nondescript heading, ''Too
Late for Classification. From Printers
Ink
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he LOST HIS VOICE!

But IT WAS RESTORED BY Dr. BYERs' SKTrE-
FUL AND SYSTEMATIC TREATYEET-HAPPT
RESULTS WHICH FOLLOWED Mr. PETER
BYERs' PLUcKY PERSEVERANCE.
"I had been troubled with the usual ca
tarrhal symptoms, such as pain over the
eyes, clogging up of the nostrils and drop
ping of tough, tenacious mucus into the
throat, causing considerable hawking and
splitting to raise, for several years." says Mr.
Byers, "but the most annoying trouble was
q severe hoarseness which developed later.
1t was for this trouble 1 consulted DR.. Byers,
as had heard him so highly spoken of in
throat affections. After carefully examining
my nostrils and throat by means of artificial
light reflected by mirror, he informed me-
that my trouble was due to an ulceratiye
condition of the back part of my nostrils and
throat which extended to the larynx. pro-
ducing thickening of the vocal cords, and
consequent partial loss of voice,
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THE BLIND CAE SEE.
An Intuition That Enables Them to Know
What Things Look Like,

An Intuition That Enables Them to Know
What Things Look Like.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.1
1t seems paradoxical to talk of q blind
man seeing, but as fact, blind man who
has lost his sight after attaining maturity,
sees good deal more than is commonly
supposed. Not that he gains any impress
sion OF light, but before losing his eye
sight, he had become accustomed to asso-
ciate voices with various phenomena of ap-
pearance, and so forms pretty fair idea of
how man looks from hearing the tone and
words of his conversation.
A loud voice, for instance, is always in
variably associated with robust physique,
and horse talk with plug hat and suit of
plaid clothes. But aside from the power of
association, blind people often acquire sort
of brain sensitiveness which enables them
intuitively to perceive much Of their sur
roundings. A blind man can often perceive
the proximity of wall, for examp pie, and
can tell whether it is of stone or brick, and
even when standing in shadow, can perceive
the passage of cloud over the sun.