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son, along the middle of 1t, If 1 kept in good
fo rm, the huntsman would raise his cap to
me, probably, and if 1 stood that recognf-
ton without losing my head in any way, a
short while after the master would nod to
me.
II would nod back the proper number Of
degrees sitter than he had nodded, and in
the course of the season I would be honored
with a request to subscribe to the hounds
l would subscribe not less than fifty guineas
Then the club buttons and club facngs
would be sent to me- and by the fourth
year 1 might indulge in an occasional re-
mark to my companions of the chase. You
see, in whatever light you regard it, hunt
ing is serious sport. 1t is not the mere
chasing of a fox that consumes your inter-
est. 1t is the infinite detail of the thing
that makes hunting full of glorious posi-
bihues."
YES" ch.med in the true American,
there is just as much joy to be found in
the line mans back describes in the sad
die as in the line he takes across the coun-
try, and it's possible to measure as much
glory or despair in the length of his stirrap
strap as in the place he occupies at the
DEATH"
English Accent Even in the Stables.
Don't say stirrup strap" interrupted the
cosmopolitan.
Il understand" answered the true Ameri-
can, and he went on to explain to me that
everybody at Chevy Chase is so de-Ameri-
canized, he doesn't have straps about his
harness, but feathers" he calls his stir
rups irons" ard the stable boys never
clean, but muck" the stable.
I went down to the stable to learn for
myself if this violation of the Monroe doc
trfne is actually bad as the American
represented, and 1 found it worse. 1 found
colored help about the stable SO far colon
lied by Great Britain as to talk Afrco-
American with a pronounced English ac-
cent.
The Chevy Chase stables are as illus
trious as the kennels. There is more blue
ribbon stock here than any other hunt
club in the country can boast. Among the
noted horses are Mrs. S. S. Howland's
Ladybird, which is three times winner,
having carried off the first prize at the last
horse show, as you doubtless recall. Other
horses of Mr.. Howland's string are On
tario who once held the worlds record high
jump; Mogul, the well-known steeplechaser;
Erie, the Earl and Billy Claffig, all prize
winners. Mr.. Clarence Moore has several
horses that are we'll known. Mr.. Harry
Earle's hunter Biscuit aud Mr.. Marrow
Surprise have won distinction - indeed,
there is scarcely beast in the stables that
has not been decorated as often as Euro
pean diplomat
Chevy Chase Club has a membership of
two hundred odd men and women, not all
of whom hunt, however. Those most often
| in the field are Mr. Clarence Moore, Mr..
Henry Earle, Mr.. w. E. Earle, Mr.. VIM. c.
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NEGRO HUMOR.
Some Anecdotes Illustrating Thfs
Phase of the COIOred Mans Nature.
From the Chicago Times-Hera

Some Anecdotes Illustrating Thi.
Phase of the COIOred Mans Nature
From the Chicago Times Herald
That the negro has humor goes without
saying; that he has wit some will deny
When Frederick Douglass was asked how
he felt when some ole called him mig
ger" and replied, Il felt that jackass had
kicked and hit nobody he used wit, keen,
biting.
foil with the button.
A few examples of negro humor which
have been collected from steamboat deck,
from cabin and from church are given
Charles Lambs famous bon mot was al
most equaleI by a rough rooster" as
roustabouts are called along the Ohio river
Lamb, 1t will be remembered, sat up all
night playing poker with Miller, who was
very untidy. As daylight streamed into
the room through the shutters Lamb
hands.
Miller" said the wit. if dirt were
trumps what hands you'd holdr'
The negro roustabout, who, of course, had
never heard of Lamb or his famous WITH
cism, was coming along with nail keg on
his shoulder, when he stumbled over the
enormous brogans of another rooster"
who, being off watch, was lying stretched
out on deck taking a sun bath. CHANGING
down al the colossal feet he exclaimed ad-
miringly: EFF feet wuz trumps dat niggah
oar could play high, low, jack an de
gamer
Coming UP the Ohio river last fall from
Cincinnati on one of the steamers that run
In the Pittsburg and Cincinnati trade the
Legro cabin boys We're engaged in a sur
| reptitious game of craps, the great game of
the river negro. Two of the boys were
chatting each other numerically, when one
gave the other a Knockout blow which put
an end to the war of words. "Niggah," he
! said, you needn to talk; Wen you come on
dis boat you done been so long widout
| somepin' to eat dat you des ez light ez UT
| fedder Wy, niggah, You could cut de Mo-
| bile Buck on ur eister crackah an nebbah
bus de crus'!''
At certain colored church in West vir-
| ginia the pastor announced that the sacra-
| ment would be administered in the morning
| instead of in the afternoon, as was custom
airy, as he would be called away. Imme-
diately an old elder arose and said: Bred
derin', Use of'n hyahd OBJ de Lawd's sup
psh, but l nebbah urfo' hyahd oh de
Lawd's brakfusr'
The sacrament was administered at the
usual time.
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the chase-hunted fox, pursuing hounds and
horses, all alive to your spirit-could any
body help liking it, do you think?"
But when there is no fox to chase" I
said, when you are after nothing liveEer
than the trail of a rabbit skin soaked in
aniseed, what's the sport in that?''
"All the sport of steeplechase with the
stage setting of hunt to make it pretty.
Listen; that music puts life into you and
the beast under you, whatevers ahead"
The hounds were singing in the distance
music that made me shiver, though the
Pink Coat said he would rather hear 1t
than Calve or De Reske. Il think hounds
study their notes. you know" he said, you
ought to see them in kennel on fine day,
sitting up with their head in the air sing
ing in chorus. Their music seems to be a
sort of religious exercise for them, too. AT
all events, it soothes their savage breasts
so that l never knew them to get into a
fight just after their song service"
The Club Pack.
The hounds had come up for the start
and I went down to see them.
Chevy Chase now has the finest kenne
in this country. Mr. Holloway, huntsmar
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TENANTS OF DEAD BODIES
Quaint SuperxtitiOns About Bees In
Ancient Times and Today.

Quaint SuperstitiOns About Bees I'm
Ancient Times and Today.
From the New York World
Bees have been known to tenant a dead
body. A party of tourists along the Med
iterranean, exploring the quaint old GEM
etery of Algesirias, came across a small,
uncovered coffin that held the remains of a
cffld. The cavity of the chest had become
the home of an Industrious swarm of bees.
and the honeycomb they were at work on
was rapidly increasing.
The Amathusian warriors closed their
NEST brilliant campaign, so Herodotus says,
by the capture and killing of Oneslus the
rebel chief. They cut off his head, and,
after presenting it before King Amatheus,
suspended 1t over the gates of their city,
the city that Onesilus had besieged. The
head hung there for many months, and
when 1t had become hollow a swarm of
bees entered 1t and filled 1t with honey
comb. Thereupon the Amathusians con-
suited the oracle, and the answer was
gwen them that they should take down
the mead and bury 1T, and sacrifice annual
ly the Onesius, to hero; and IL they
did SO, 1T would turn out better for them"
Medieval literature, ard the old-time
chap books especially, is filled with
quaint superstitions regarding bees and
sc me OF them are still held at the present
Tune. In ireland the mere swarming of
peeS is Sald TO 1orete1l death In the fam
lily of their owner. and in western Pennsyl-
Vania 1t is believed that bees will invaria-
bly, sting red-headed persons when they ap-
preach the hive. South Northamptonshire,
ETgland, has a strange theory that bees
VIII not thrive in a Quarrelsome family.
An old superstition has 1t that stolen bees
are poor honey makers.
Whenever the red cloud of war hangs
over Europe, so the common saving goes
the bees will be idle They say in Bishops
bourne, England, that it invariably pays to
go to the hives and inform the bees of any
great public event. Two other odd theories
sold; otherwise neither the giver nor the
taker will have mck;' and that the pay
ment for them should never be made in
money, but in grain some sort of pro-
duce. In Devon the popular custom is
never to remove bees except on Good FRI
day.
Again, according to the custom in some
parts or England, in France, in north Ger
many and in Lithuana there is an old
superstition to the effect that If the master
of the hol Sc dies some one must go to the
The master is dead, the master is dead"
Otherwise the bees will fly away.
One of Whittier's most beautiful poems,
Telling the Bees" refers to this custom
and points to the fact that 1t was recogniz-
ed in New England. AS soon as the bees
were told of their masters death a strip
or black cloth was put around the hives,
or else hung from a stick planted In the
ground near by. The traditional way of
telling the bees" was to whisper the news
of the death to each hive separately In
Lithuania the notice is given by rafting
hives.
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stage Of my knowledge of the hunt world
have said that the man wore besides the
pink coat, white corduroy breeches and
top boots. Now l am able to technically
describe him as being in white "couIds"
and "tops.' He also wore spurs, and
around his neck white stock. What was
under the stock / know also. for I have
since been told 1t was a flannel shirt,
which Is concealed from view, and at the
wrists has the appearance of being boil
ed" inasmuch the usual starched cuffs
are attached to the sleeves. The hat the
man had in his hand, apparently a mere
side with steel frame, to protect his head
in event of "cropper," which is an An
glo-maniacal term for a fall.
Men and the Hunt.
There are tender souls who object to
hunting because of its cruelty to beasts. l
think myself it's worth the sacrifice of a
few beasts for the effect it seems to have
upon the character of a man. This man,
and every other lover of the hunt with
whom l came in contact, was marked by a
certain strength of pose, alertneSs of bear
ing, directness of speech and movement
in a word, by a certain self astery that
men to hunt, if l had to ask why they like
it.
Like it, said the Pink Coat, Il can't
tell why like 1t any more than l can tell
why l like living. It's the best thing l
know, that's all With the hounds at full
cry, your horse running straight after them,
over bitches and fences, your body SO in
harmony with his movements he seems a
very part of you, and the whole spirit of
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They manage most of the banking business
of the Turkish capital and the large lner-
camille establishments there belong to Them
When the riots occurred in STEAMBOAT a few
weeks ago nearly all the stores were closed
their Armenian owners fearing they would
be looted by the mob. When l visited the
government departments of the sultan
found that, though the chief officers We're
Turks, the clerks were, in most cases, Ar
menians, and the brightest man whom 1
met in Turkey was one of the sultans sec
retaries, who was of Armenian birth. He
spoke half dozen different languages and
was man of great influence. There are
Armenian engineers, architects and doc
tors in Constantinople, and when 1 got
Armenian clerk who figured up the ex-
change, and an Armenian cashier who
handed out the money. The Armenians of
Armenia proper are almost all farmers
and the exorbitant taxes of the sultan have
made the most of them poor.
The Armeninns and Their Patriarch.
1 saw a large number of Armenian pill
grlms during one Easter that 1 spent at
Jerusalem. They had come from all parts
of Asia Minor to pray at the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre. They have a patri-
arch at Jerusalem who leads them in these
celebrations. He is a tall, thin man with
long gray beard, and a face not unlike
that of the typical Georgia cracker. He
usually wears long gown, and has a lit
tie skull cap on the crown of his head.
During the Easter celebration his head was
covered with a tiara, which bazed with
diamonds, and his gown was a gorgeous
silk robe, which was decorated with dia-
monds. The Armenians are you know,
Christians, and their customs are much
like those of the Greek Church. They have
monastaries and churches scattered
throughout Asia Minor, and they claim to
be the Oldest of all Christian people.
The Garden of Eden and Mrs. Noah's
Grave.
The Armenians assert that their country
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contributed at the start, and she says that
effective work will require an expenditure
of millions. The Red Cross Society has no
funds of it's own. 1t has not appealed to the
people for money, but, at the request of the
religious bodies of the United States, has
merely announced Its willingness to dis
tribute such funds as the people may raise
for the purpose. The amounts required for
such relief are enormous. l was in Russia
during the last famine, and the people there
ate up between two and three million dol
lars worth of food every day. This was
kept up for months, and was told that the
famine had cost very nearly half billion
dollars. The private gifts of the Russians
amounted to s1S0,GO,OOO. The government
gave early much, and the present car,
head CT the relief fund. Our gifts to Russia
in food and money amounted to less than a
million dollars. They We're merely drop in
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the bucket in comparison to what was given
by the Russians themselves. In Russia 1t
was estimated that one person could be fed
for five cents a day. 1t will probably cost
more than this in Armenia, as all of the food
will have to be brought in from Europe.
But even at cents person 1t will require
$4,000 day, or more than half million
dollars a month for the food alone of those
who are now starving. In addition money
will be needed for clothes and shelter during
the winter. The farmers will have to be
aided in planting their crops, and 1T Is hard
to see how the people can be kept from now
until harvest for less than $5,O0O,OOO. In
this relief every cent will have to come from
the outside, and If the other nations of ELL
rope do not unite with us it is doubtful
whether enough funds can be raised to do
effective work. The rich Armenians living
outside of Turkey will probably help, and
considerable aid may be expected from
them.
The Yankees of the Orient.
The Armenians are the Yankees of the
orient They are the brightest, brainiest
and smartest of all the people of Asia
Minor. j met the Armenians every
where during my travels in Asia Minor
and 1 found them acting at the heads
of all kinds of businesses. There are many
rich Armenians in India. 1 travelled with
one coming from Singapore to Calcutta,
who told me he was on his way back from
Hong Kong. where he had gone to sell
pearls to the Chinese. 1 found the con-
ductors on the Egyptian railroads to he
Armenians, and when l travelled over the
transcontinental railway to Paris the
guards on the train and the men who took
up my ticket were Armenians who spoke
English and French. There are hundreds
of thousands of Armenians in Europe.
There are large number in Persia, and
those who live in different parts of Turkey
are said to number about one million.
There are a number in Constantnople.
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HERE'S A QUEER ARGUMENT.
How an English Rector Defends His
Visit to n Theater.

Visit to Theater.
From the St. James Gazette.
A travelling theatrical company recently
arrived on an extended visit to killamarsh,
an important colliery center in Derbyshire.
The rector, the Rev. F. ]. Metcalfe, a we'll
known al highly popular clergyman, visit
ed the theater. For this he was criticised
by some of his Pensioners. He has, there
fore. issued the following letter to his flock:
My Dear People: AS some concern has
been expressed by some of you because 1
have patronized and attended the Queens
Theater now staying in this village, it may
be well for me to give an explanation of my
so doing. l am responsible before God for
doing all can and giving every opportunity
to all in this parish to be brought under the
influence of the Holy Spirit. A theatrical
company comes into this place with every
probability of staying some time. They do
rot come here to break either the laws of
God or man; their profession is quite law
full one. Now, If every one who is respect
able keeps away from these places, what
will they become? Centers of SIM Whose
fault Is it. then, that this is the case? Is it
the fault of the company who come here to
smuse the people? l say it is not 1t is the
fault of those persons who think themselves
too respectable to "go to such a place" The
proprietor of a company like this here now
is only too thankful to have the help of good
people to raise his performance and make it
of a more refined and improved character.
What a pity it Is that some of our people are
such towards that they must set upon our
young men and boys instead of coming to
me. If 1 am doing wrong, why don't they
come and tell me and teach me better, in
stead of throwing their sneers out at those
who can't help what do? Hes a nice sort
of leader" they say; but those who say
these things are not those who would be led
anywhere better. Another thing they say
is, He would not do It, only he wants some
money out of them" This is one of those
humping lies that people like to say about
parson. Well, let them say it; 1t won't
hurt the parson and It pleasss them.
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ORIGIN OF JINGO,
How 1t Came to Apply to Advocates
of War Policy.

How 1t Came to Apply to Advocates
of n War Policy.
From the Pttsburg Dispatch.
The origin of the word lingo is inter-
esting at this time, when one is confronted
with 1t so often. At the time of the close of
the Russo-Turkish war, which, as all
readers of history know, terminated so
disastrously for the Turks, and caused a
feeling of apprehension in England that
the Russians were bent on taking Con-
stantinople and the ultimate dismember-
ment of the Turkish empire, a change
which could not be tolerated, the public
feeling found expression in England upon
the stage in pantomimes and in the music
halls by numerous patriotic songs. One of
these was as follows:
The dogs of war are loose, and the rugged Russian
bear,
Full bent blood and robbery, has crawled out of
1t seems thrashing now and then will help
to tame
That brute, and so he's out upon the same old
game
The lion did his best to give him some excuse
10 crawl back to his den aga1n-au efforts We're no
use
He hungered fol his victim he's pleased when blood
But let hope his sins may all recoil on his own
CHORUS:
We don't want to fight, but, by lingo, If we do.
We've got the men. We've got the ships; We've got
We fought the bear before, and while we're Britons
true
The Russians shall not have Constantinople."
The song became most popular and was
heard on every street corner. from every
organ grinder, and was whistled by every
bootblack. Shortly after this the election
campaign began, in which Gladstone, the
head of the liberals, attacked the tory
party, then led by the Earl of Beacons-
field, who was in power. The tory foreign
policy was ridiculed, and they were stig-
matized by the liberals as 1.-The party of
bloodshed, glory and jingo."
From the time of this election campaign,
which resulted in the defeat CT the tories
and the accession of the peace party"
Gladstone's 1850 administration. the word
lingo has been used to denote an indi-
vidual or section of a party ready to rush,
without mature consideration, into all the
horrors of war.
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Marrow. Baron Kettler, Baron Grip, Capt.
Heese, Mr.. Parker, Mr.. Wallach, Mr.. Hit,
Mr.. Dunn. Mr. Murphy, Lieut.. Short, Mr..
Padilia, Mr.. Stone, Mr.. Lindsay, Mr..
Broome, Mr.. Langhorne, Miss Newlands.
Miss Davis, Miss Langhorne and Miss Hal
loway.
Miss Holloway is a famous equestrienne.
She received ovation for her riding at
the New York horse show. and gained
glory as hunter at the fall meet in the
Genesee valley. At the Thanksgiving hunt
at Chevy Chase she kept at the head of the
field, and would have been in at the death
had not her horse given out.
l stayed at the club to see the horses
put up after the hunt. They were fed hot
cruel, and massaged, and coddled gener-
ally, being in the end all done up in fan
rel, with hero a plaster on a scratch, and
there bandage on tender spot, until they
looked like sick babies or hypochondriacal
octogenarians. 1 said that it wouldn't be
half bad to be reincarnated a horse, but
the true American answered:
NAY, there'll be no horses then. When
you are an angel ready to return to earth,
We'll ride to hounds on bicycles" which
may not be so much of a prophecy con-
corning the future of the hunt doubt
cast upon the probable angelhood of
PAULINE PRY.
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this and every other hunt inflict upon the
American eagle.
The matter of fact is, If President Cleve-
land Is really in earnest about enforcing
the doctrine Of America for Americans, -
to be consistent, he ought to declare war
on the Chevy Chase Hunt Club. 1 attend
ed a meet at the club myself last week,
and 1 found here, not only British rule es-
tablished upon American soil, but Ameri-
cans themselves bowling down in "supine
submission to British authority. While
war talk everywhere fills the air with
smoke and smell of powder, our very
strength in time of war, United States
cabinet officials, United States Senators and
Representatives, United States army and
navy officers, as members of this club, are
bound to maintain allegiance not to any
thing or anybody in the United States, but
to the Duke of Beaufort
Who Is the Duke of Beaufort?
l did not know myself prior to the hunt
I attended last week. Now, however. there
is little, If anything, about this gentleman
or anything else connected with hunting
that / have not learned. and in event OF
the Venezuelan commission desiring to take
a kindergarten course in international af-
fairs at Chevy Chase before venturing upon
their duties in South America, 1 may be
able to serve the interests of my country
by telling all know.
Plain and HOme-Like.
To begin with, there Is an elusive En-
glish charm about the club house at Chevy
Chase. A broad hall opens on one side into q
pretty room, that is the especial domain of
ladies, and on the other side are a small
dining room and coy den for men. At
the end Of the hall is the great ball room,
which is also used as d reception room
upon occasion, and at other times is the
scene of the hunt dinners. Logs were
swapping and blazing In the immense fire.
place the other day, and, everything con-
sidered, it only wanted the entrance of a
pink coat and a pretty girl to make the
proper beginning of an English novel. Pres
emily the pink coat entered and-I blush to
confess it-instantly my own stanch Amer
lean spirit was bowed before the British
power of its shape and style. At that
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is the hottest land upon earth. 1t lies in
Asia Minor, southeast of the Black sea
and between 1t and Persia. Mount Ararat
is situated in it, not far from the locality
in which these outrages are now taking
place, and some of the monasteries claim
to have pieces of the identical ark in which
Noah landed upon this mountain, and there
is a ravine near it which is pointed out as
the site of Noah's vineyard. The vineyard
has monastery connected with it, and the
monks show a withered old vine. which
they assert is the very one from which was
made the wine which made Noah drunk.