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Down hill worry me not.
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But the skill in driving a single trotter il
nothing compared with driving two and one
can almost count the artistic team drivers on
bis fingers. Dan Moore was acknowledged the
crack professional when alive. but among gen.
tlemen who only drove for pleasure William
d. Vanderbilt was. without doubt. the best
and, although be was classed as an amateur.
there were few professionals who could equal
him AZ the present day his performance,
driving Maud S. and Aldine a full mile in q 5aI
TO top wagon. lie considered the best by horse
men. John Shepherd, the Boston merchant,
also showed himself an artist behind his crack
team. Mil Boy and Blondine The best double
team driver Of the present day Is c. J. Hsmlin
OF Buffalo. Last season. when in his seventy
seventh year, he drove Belle Hsmlin and
Justina mile in 2l3i..
All these wonderful feats require besides q
perfect reinsman q perfectly matched team
and this is difficult part of the contract A
perfect team, above all things. must be
mouthed alike; they must take hold Of the bit
as one; they must take kindly TO each other,
and II they do this and are not gated alike viii
In short time come to each other. Their dis
positions must be to Guido each other OF YOU
can never have a fast team.
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Iasesestisg Psssssas and Mess Absorbing

iesesestiag PssS,sns and . Meet Absersins
Game
m consideration Of the large number Of chess
players resident In Washington and vicinity
TsE EVENING SrAa has decided 10 publish .
weekly column beginning with the pre.eu,
issue As this column h designed especisll,
IN The interest q the chsss enthusiasts IN this
city shsas cooperation and support 10 re-
osssted
Al eennunieationa 10. must b addressed
'Chess Editor, EVENING STAR
Inc Washington Chess Club meets ever,
evening. Visitoss always welcome. 1918 L
street.
PROBLEM SO. Z
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spseis. Corr-spcndencs Of The Evening star.
TAHLEQrAA, /. T.. August 20. 1891
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DLACK-LEHI0H.

At this point the game was adjourned for the
summer. We give . diagram Of the position,
which u extremely interesting.
HT.ACK-IRuIau
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Tour CLOCKS saw, IL may De, noWery smile Of
his own slavery, and possibly-who knows
memories OF an early love awakened when he
tendcrly touched the clustering heart s-ease. n
Or it may have been the vegetables that smoke
to him in a hoEaely language OF their own.
Whatever sentiment stirred him, the old man
seemed happy in this little garden.
Here hs slipped the leash Of conventionality.
Here neither grammar nor rhetoric wss
needed.
But one evil day Mrs. D. Irving Cutter, driv-
ing in her brougham, beheld, TO her mortifca-
ton, the fnther OF the Cutter household hoe
ing in suburban garden, and nothing but her
salts promptly applied, within the cut glass and
fiagreed gold vinaiSrette, saved her from q
temporary blottiny ont Of q world 90 vile, 90
vulgar rs this world OF ours. wherG some poo-
pie do actually follow the dictates OF tnei
nature.
After that father was az object os survsf.
lance.
The family dignity vas preserved.
Not many months lateR the family dignity
found vent in display Of Grape and fansrsl
pomp.
There were scores on society friends presen.
to see that the trsppings Of woe were sum-
GENTLY costly and correct The hikh-sakried
minister preached an oratorieal sermon and
rare exotics made sickening the air.
But there was only one true uoufnsr-oaly
one re.I tribute OF love.
Mandy had slipped into . servants place 10
nurse her dear old friend In his lass hours.
Mandy humored his flights Of fsney, = In long
years she had learned 70 do. His lasS paur-
INJURED words we're, when Danl cornes," and
Mandy shed bitter tears ~ she closed The
poor old tired eyes.
It was Mandy Who formed With ~ svn
handle the humble doral o6eyinR--ths enly e.
among them al which would lave tpuehcd -
old mans heart
1t was lacking. perhaps, in artistic skill, ~
little pillow Of alyssua With "Dsddy" traced
In tiny hssst'ssass. bat Il vas swsss vtth q ~
dying love.
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among the apparatus, mixing chemicals aud
materials in a cool, deliberate way and scarcely
noticing tho presence Of visitors, arc suggest
i've OF characters in Baron Munchausen or ''Gul-
hver's Travels" They have been at work in the
business for years. and presumably know how
not to be blown up.
Wood pulp, tho material usel rs the absorb.
ent OF nitro-glyccrine looks like sawdust fine as
flour. Sodium nitrate IL also mixed with the
wood pulp In order to counteract tho effect of
excess acid in tho nitro-glycerino. Both are
siftcd before using to guard against tho pres
might cause sparks.
Imagine shallow wooden receptacle about
five fect In diameter, shaped like an immense
saucer with raised center. Within tho recep-
tacle two large wooden wheels travel in circle.
with motion such AZ the front wheels of q
coach would make IL the axle were made to
revolve continuously abous the kingbolt Tho
wheels, which are solid, are about two aud one
half feet In diameter, turning loosely on their
bearings. Tho whole apparatus 10 Of wvod, az
sparks might occur from the use of metal ma
chinery. Tho ingredients are put into the re-
ceptaclc and stirred by. the wheels a. thoy
rovolvc in their circular pathway. Nitro
glyccrino Il used In such quantities a. will pro-
ducc the required strength. varying from
20 to 90 per cent Dynamite marked $50 per
cent N. G.sis, OF course ons-half uitro-glycer-
inc. Forty per cent 10 the kind most used, aud
stronger than Is per cent is not often made.
When the stirring lis completed the resulting
mixture IL fnished dynamite, which 10 scooped
into boxes and hauled away on trucks to be put
into . more convenient form for handling.
POWERFUL INCENTIVE TO be GOOD.
That's where our other nitro factory stood, :"
chserfully remarked tho guide. pointing 70 .
huge excavation nov well ovsrerown with
wssda In responss TO an inquiry eouosrnine
u present. whsesaeouss hs replisd, Over h
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Washington. September, 81.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27
PERSONAL.

Ex-senator Hereford, OF West Virginia. whose death
has recently been reported, was one OF nhe eariet
emigrants TO California In The gold fever, days lie
n lawyer at the time. and having settled I'm Sacra
mento, became District Attorney and took an active
share In politics
Walter Crane. the artist addressed the Twentieth
Century Club In Chicago last week ON cart and
Modern Lhe'
Mr. Redmond the Panelllte who was elected I,
Parliament from Waterford City last week. is the older
son OF former member, being himself thirty -fvo
years OF age. Until last October. when he resigned
his seat TO declare himself the leader OF the Parneo
party, he had been In Parliament continuously for
ten years, ut first represe ng cwRoss and laterly
tho North division Of Wexford.
Colonel Charles II. Taylor. proprietor OF "The Bos-
ton Globe,' will honor his mothers memory with a
handsome window in the church In which she used
10 worship in Charlestown.
The Czarcvitch OF Russia has been appointed chair.
man OF the commission recently appointed by tho
Emperor TO consider means for eviating tho condition
of tho taaving people In the provinces Among
mcmbers OF the eommissjsQ Is General AnnekoR. the
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

to that cause while Parnell was alive and un-
tainted in reputation, so would 1T also have been
after his death. If Mr.. Redmond had been de-
feated in constituency where Paniellism was
exceptionally strong, faction fight would have
ended and Mr.. Davitt, the best organizer on the
Irish side, would have become by virtue oil hs
victory the real leader of united party. This
would have been great gain to the Home kule
cause, since it would have assured to Mr.. Glad
stone the hearty support of the Irish members
of the next Parliament. In that sense his de-
feat is distinct loss TO the cause and source
of embarrassment to the English Liberals. The
Unionists are naturally content with the sitn-
tion. An alliance between a united Irish dele
cation and the Liberals would be a pledge TO
the country that Mr.. Gladstone was destined to
succeed in reconciling the two races. The
Unionists for their own political purposes prefer
30 have faction of ITecOncilables in Ireland
and to trade upon the future menace OF Fenian-
ism and dynamite outrages.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27
SIR EDWIN ARNOLDS PROJECT.

recent Chicago dispatch credits Sir Edwin
Arnold with plan tending to the revival OF
Buddhism in India which, ii successfully carried
ont may produce interesting and perhaps I'M
portant results. lie believes it possible to pro-
cure the restoration of the Buddha-Gaya Temple
long in the possession of the Brahmans, to the
Buddhists, and he thinks that by then placing
the temple in the hands of Buddhist commit
tee, it may be made centre OF religious interest
as it was two thousand years ago, when, accord
ing to tradition, it was built by King Asoka, the
Constantine of Buddhism. 1t is known from the
travels of the Chinese pilgrims, Fabian and Hinen
Tsiang, in the seventh century, that the temple
was then floulishing, and had not ceased to be
an object OF pilgrimage. Later, with the virtual
disappearance of Buddhism from the soil OF In
da. it fell into ruins, but still later was partially
restored. What it looked like when perfect may
be ascertained from a drawing in DR.. Gustave
e Bon's "Les Civilizations de rInde." One of
the Chinese pilgrims described the edifice as it
appeared in the seventh century. He says ::
"To the east Of the Dodhi tree there is n
'yihara about 1G0 or ITO feet high. It's lower
foundation wall is twenty or more PAGES in its
face. The building is of blue bricks, covered
with chunam Qime) all the inches in the differ
ent stories hold golden figures. The four sides
of the building are covered with wonderful Orna-
mental work in one place figures OF stringed
pearls (gailandS). in another figures of heavenly
Rishis. The whole is surmounted by gilded
COPPER Amalaka fruit. The eastern face adjoins
a stored pavilion, the projecting caves of which
rise one above the other to the height of three
distinct chambers its projecting caves, its pill
lars, beams, doors and windows are decorated
with gold and silver ornamental work, with
pearls and gems let in to fill interStices. Its
sombre chambers and mysterious halls have
doors in each of the three stories. To the right
and left of the outside gate are inches like cham
bcls in the left is figure Of Ava!okitesvara
Bodhisattva, and in the right figure of Maitreya
Bodhisattva They are made of white silver, and
are about 10 feet high"
An inscription was found at Buddha Gaya by
Sir Charles Wilkins some years ago. in which
the building of the temple is attributed to Amara
Kooha one of the mine gems" OF the court Of
King Vikramaditya. Some of the popular ac-
counts of the temple are curiousiy incorrect. For
example, an encyclopaedia OF high reputation
states that Buddha Gaya commentaries the
birthplace of Gotama; though it should be well
known that the temple is supposed to have been
erected close to the site of the Bodh tree, be-
meath which the Buddha sat when he gained
enlightenment" The sacred Bodh tree was
endowed with miraculous powers of sef-prescr-
yation by bhe Buddhist mythmkers. According
to Hinen Tsiang, it was cut down in the reign
Of King Asoka by malignant scepic, but it
grew again. and an attempt to burn it resulted
in the same way. Deyout Buddhists claim than
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1891
TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

Foreiru-The French Senate passed the COM
mercial treaties bill 80 Grand Duke oeisiU'
Coye,nor of Moscow. is said 10 be in disgrace
on account of alleged plotting against MS pro'"ei
the Gar. - The German Socialls's VIII SUI"
hold a series of Congresses; the influence vi eno
marty is declining - The French Ampassouo'
assured the Pope Of the frendly leeAhs Vi lis
Government toward the Vatican
Douastsc.-Tbe cornerstone of the Trenton Bat
,e Nonument was laid by Governor ALBEIT WIN
;r,,os;no ceremonies - Hiram Sawtele. the
New. w.IIampshire fratricide, died in prison. =
Judoc Uugc of Camden; n. j., fined a. a. HoiU'
an editor of that city, 81 900 and sent him 10
;ail for contempt of court - The cruiser San
Francisco sailed from San Francisco under sealeu
orders. 80 Fire destroyed the women's depart
mept of the State Insane Asylum at Pontiac,
Mich: il is believed that all the inmates were
GOT out in safety - fire in Chattanooga de-
s,royed property Worth more than $5OOOOO =-
The Navy Department will furnish warshlp Tor
the transportation to Russia Of breadstuils con-
tributed for the famine sufferers.
City and Suburban.-Another victim of the
wreck on the New-YorlS Central Railroad near
Hastings died, making twelve deaths thus far
- Professional boxing bouts were held at the
Ncw-York Athletic Clubhouse. - mikman
was killed in the street at Orange, y. j., by an
Electric light wire - Justice Cullen in Brook
lyn granted an order for the State Board OF Can
yassers to show cause why they should not can
vass the corrected Dutchess County returns; under
another order Emans, the County Clerk OF
Dutcbess must show cause why he should not
be punished for contempt.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

builder OF the trans Caspian ralr al At the requsr
- sba Car the Czarevitch will hcnceforth taxa a
,norc acsiye part In tho administration Of the Epre
Xmong other things be will attend the sessions Of tho
Ieichsrath, or Imperial Council, reguhly In The
future
Secretary EIkns has large family 10 house ia
Washington. lie has six children with him all tha
time the eldest being a daughter BY his FIRST wife:
INT there aIso Is still older daughter, who Is married
that makes long visits with her parents
4The Dolgevie HERALD reports that the fory-third
,rtbdav anniver sary OF Alfred Dolge duly eeIs
brated last Tuesday. Mr.. Dodge, who Is well known
az n successful manufacturer and @ practical SUP
norter OF the Republican economical policy, has i'm.
nroved the recent theory OF proftsharing. He has
Established tire system OF distribution Of earings,
which has allowed him to give his workmen still moe,
enuitble compensation for their labor besides their
reoIar wages and to create the prosperity OF Dolge
viiIe the Adirondack metropolis, which was named
after him upon the petition OF its nlhaDitane.
The Grand Duke OF Meckenburg schwern, according
10 foreign papers, is gradually recovering his health a.
Cannes where he has been lying I'll for several months.
His ROYAL Hlghness however, is still very sick man
Although the paralysis Of the arms and legs has been
overcome his feet still trouble him greatly, and he IL
.h,e N walk only q few steps at trial. The Grand
Duke is young man, comparatively speaking, and bic
death would cause serious trouble 10 the Grand Duchy
over which he rules. His heir Is not yet ten years oA
II is reported that sigDor Cspi, exPremer Of Italy
will visit Prince Bismarck this spring at FrieAschs
be As has been the Italians custom for number OF
ars be sent the ex Chancellor three kegs Of fine syra
Sa wine few days ago. CriSpi's wine Is fafnoua
and Prince Bismarck is always glad TO get 1t.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

the tree now at Buddha Gaya is the ldenucal
Bodhi tree under which Gotania gained enhgn'en'
ment. but the legend does not meet gener'ii ao-
ceptance. After the attempts to destroy IT, hi"s
Asola caused it to be surrounded Dy u s'ono
wall % feet high, and this wall was still stand
ing whom the Chinese pilgrims were at Buddna
Gaya. .,;..
All the steps Of Gotama's temptation, medita-
ton and enlightenment were commemorated oy
the erection of "stupas'' or "vihafas' on the
s,mnosed sites near Gaya Most OF these nave
long since disappeared, but mass OF legend
which grew I'D about them has remained, ana
this has been gathered together and pun m ac-
oessbo form by Western scholarship. Inc
great tcmple of Buddha Gaya was once the centre
of Indian devotion. 1t may be tco much 70
imagine that it can ever again occupy that po-
sition. hut in the hands of the Buddhists ac-
cording 70 Sir Edwin Arnold's project, it would
undoubtedly become once more an object Oh
piprimage aud devotion, and should the piesehV
ATTEMPT to revive Indian Buddhism be in any
measure successful, the possession OF this vener-
able monument, about which legend and tlad-
tion have woven a whole literature might be
expected to stimulate the movement and attract
greater attention to it. BY what means the au-
thor of "The Light of ASIA expects to persuade
the Brahmans to surrender the old temple no
does not say, but it may be surmised that his
plan is-as periphrastic writers would put 1t
not wholly unconnected with the idea OF pecunl-
ary compensation. Should he succeed, the new
movement will be followed with interest by the
Western World.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

A revolver is by no means an ideal Christmas
presea,t, s.noe it is suggestive Of war and
ill-will and not at all suggestive OF the peace
and goodwill Of which the great holiday OF the
year is the unrivaled exponent. They are doubt
less taking that view of the revolver just now
down in Birmingham Ala. For telegram from
hat promising city states that one of the young
xomeh residing therein made present Friday
If a revolver to he man to whom she was en-
ragged, and that yesterday he ended quarrel
with his sweetheart by shooting her with
aer own Christmas present. For the sake
of human nature and of Christmas one would
gladly lean to the theory that he didn't know
il was loaded. But the telegram does not ap-
pear TO warrant lenient judgment.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

Those able amateur scientists who last sum-
ner predicted that Salton Lake was permanent
arm of the sea, would modify the climate OF
Southern California and work other wonders,
ought to be discouraged now. They are again
making salt in the bed of Salton Lake. The
only thing that can again bring back the lake
will be another overflow of the Colorado River,
sys our California correspondent. 1t Is not
probable that the lake would have modified the
climate to any great extent had it remained.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27
SOhETHING NEW IN CHRISTMAS TREES

We suppose that there is no place in the United
States where more real culture exists in proportion
to the total population than in Ruskin
Centre, Maine. Perhaps its name has
had something to do with it; certain it
is, at least, that the people of Ruskin Centre
have drunK deep of the writings Of the great
art critic for whom their hamlet Is named. Nor
have the other masters in art science ard literature
been neglected. Ruskin Centre boasts
Browning Club, and it was resident of this
place who in letter to The Tribune first un-
ravelled the difficulties in connection with
Shakespeare's CXXVIth sonnet. Alter this hint
at the character Of the people of Ruskn Centre
we need scarcely say that nothing ofends them
so deeply as the conventional and the commonplace
They demand az least certain amount Of
originality in everything. Even in so humble
and practically speaking unimportant thing as
a Christmas tree this spirit shows itself. Ruskin
Centre is the Boston Of Maine.
As usual, a Christmas tree was set up In
the First Congregational Church at Ruskin Centre
on Christmas Eve When it first began to be
talked about two weeks ago. there was a general
if some what vague, longing expressed on all
sides for something new in the Christmas tree
line Some one proposed that tree be dispensed
with; and that all should hang up their stockings
on a clothes line strung entirely around the church
This met with but little favor, especially among
the elderly youig ladies for which Ruskin Centre.
in common with Boston, Is famed, and was
promptly voted down. 1t was then suggested
that instead of the ordinary slender and
symmetrical pine tree usually chosen an old
and picturesque tree be selected-one in which
the trunk had been broken of by some storm ff
teen or twenty feet from the ground. and which,
IL possible. leaned far to side, and was hollow
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

The hundred and fifteenth anniversary Of the
Battle of Trenton, which may be regarded az
having constituted the turning-point of oar
struggle for independence was celebrated yes
terday al Trenton by the laying OF the corner
stone of magnificent memorial of the battle.
The monument is to consist of a granite column
1875 feet high, crowned by colossal bronze
statue of Washington represented as if scanning
the battlefield through feld-glass. The cere-
nsony was performed by the Governor OF the
State, and was attended by large delegations Of
tho Society Of the Cincinnati and Of other aSso-
Citations formed for the PURPOSE Of commemo-
rating Revolutionary times The entire amount
Of the $4,000 esrmated as the total cost of
the memorial Is already in the hands Of the COM
mittee intrusted with its erection.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

The Central Office police officials give sound
advice to people who are annoyed by cranks with
all sorts of demands, accompanied by threats.
The latter should be arrested promptly and with
ont parleying and turned over to the courts; II
sane they will be fttingly punished; If insane
they will be consigned to the asylums where they
belong. The police are right in saying that they
cannot be expected to give special protection to
men who have simply driven the cranks away and
expect that they may return at any time. There
is an epidemic of cranks, many of the dangerous
kind, and rigid measures should be adopted in
dealing with them.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

The Waterford election is the subject Of one
OF our special cable letters, in which every as
pect OF the struggle is discussed We consider
the defeat of Mr.. Davitt misfortune to the
Home Rule cause since il prolongs indefinitely
lacsdonsi warfare h, the Irish camp. II unity OF
~s1wship and action was great advantage
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

railway smash-up, which might have been
prevented by the exercise of a moderate degree Of
common7sense, cannot be regarded as an accident
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

We believe we violate no confidence in stating
that 1.-THE piece lie resistance" at the farewell
dinner to Governor Hill will be cooked returns
la Dutchess.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The manufacturer OF certain brand OF pills in Eng
,ond-we will call them Smiths pills-has advertised
them extensively as really worth a guinea box on
account OF their efficacy Recently chemist received
bill for 90 shings from the Pill which 10
did not feel like paying At last brilliant Idea struck
him and he sent the creditor box o. MS own ps and
sbInes in cash, with tho explanation that the pills
he,nu worth a guinea the debt was cancelled. To HE
utter surprise he received by return mail receipt 10
fpII with the words Cash only in future John Smiths
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

Who can blame the dealers in skates and sleighs
il they take pessimistic views Of life these winter
days?
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

It did not need the pardon of Welch to demon
strate that David b. Hill was in thorough sympa-
thy with any and all frauds upon the ballot-box
devised in the interest of the Democratic party.
But the pardon serves to lend emphasis to the
damOnst ration