Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-09-22
Has WEAKNESS FOR HORSES
Bah Prefers the Kind Vulgarly
Called the "Skate."
BELONGS TO THE GENTLE BREED
That Can be Driven by Women
,ssg or Children.


The FINEST Brandy in the World Would
Not Tempt Him. But a Biushing Apple
or Tender Peach Charms Bim-Never
Passes a Fruit store without stopping.
New York, Sept. l6 Il have always
| had a weakness for hoyses. The kind
| like best is commonly and vulgarly
| known as the ''sKate. He belongs TO
the breed that can be driven by
women, children or the new cook OF
/ Polish origin. He has a few little
weaknesses OF his own, hut you admire
| him Notwithstanding what might he
1 called his nerviness. He never passes
a fruit store without making stop.
| Tho finest brandy in the world would
not tempt him, but particularly nice
apple, hlushing on one SHE, or tender
peach, hooking most too good for TINS
world. charms him, so that he has bHen
known to really enter the shop and de-
maud, 10 horse's way, the fruit that
lie luvaH BEST
| This particular "skate." which |
4 have controllsil during tho summer
months, unfortunately got what was
called by the gentleman who owned
him 20 nobility in his fore leg" Dur
ing this time va drove, 10 our sorrow,
horse, or, rather. mare. titan OF
color, good OF ehane, hut with tenn
per like all the tempera that wers.eser
\ made and then consolidated in one
horse. Lnever drove her but oncB, and
that once was quite enough for me.
She shisd at a rHgman, ran down the
road, dumped me in the grass, sent ny
slippers flyinR through the air, while
my companions we're scratched anu
bruised and accused me of trying to-
i, kill them. while, between you and me. :
l think they were glad, after the first
! ache was better, 10 describe themselves
. as heroines and to tell OF the adventure
after the fashion Of a detective story.
: After this l WIS content with the
: "skate,' and drove mSwith loose
4 H rein and feeling that my heart was
4 true to him eveD II he did wheeze and
? had queer fashion OF going into the
q barnyRrds of people who we're entirely
y UNKNOWN to me-. lie was sociable
= horse. At least that's the way We have
9 workei out his idea, He longsd to get
= acquainted with the neighbors. One
Q afternoon the ''HRate,' whose name
), was Prince and who bad good blood In
9 hla yeins-at least we were told So
9 agreed with me that it would be pleas
q ant to give all the children a drive.
So of We went, little and big, wearing
4 HHlB nun u lIUbu Shtu W u largo ink
y horn aden with white plumes. Prince
wsnt ulonp very wo!l for a short time,
~ but q! the foot OF certain hill he took
l. hia stand ard refused to nudge.
! Primes WINS determined TO 60 up that
bin and | concluded it was Just es
10 we'll to let him CO. and so learn, what
q object be had in view. He piled up
~ fae hill. while tho children hit stray
Y boys will peanuts and fred chewing
?, gum at the dogs, and ut the very top
"a Prince stnou quite still and looked
" round at lis all. as much as to say
"Who among you poor miserable two
legged creatures is worthy of monu
ment like that. You can get hold Of a
u scounurel any day,i you can get hold Of
some respectable man any day, but 1T
b. is only once in a century that Ham
Cd bletonian appeHrs.n And then the
,s- smallest boy, who was in the Second
sr Reader. read out the inscription on the
IN ohelisk OF plain granite. He was prett,
ir- slow about it, Tut he succeeded IL
making even me understand. The in
scription read: 'f
HAMBLEToNIAN,
The Great progenitor of Trotters.
Born Nav 5, 1S4S. tYM
Died March 81 1876.
N. So, you see, after all, good trotter
liks the small child in Sunday
ecnool book, has a monument raised 4
II, his memory, but it's Disgrace, witt
Il, a capital d, that some Ut the numerou
bodies who contributed to Hambleton
ian and who had gained ducats BY hir
do not have the grounds kept in orde
> and the fence painted. Having bee
born a Quaker, / can't bear to 50
things nut quite tidy, but for once i
or. my life, and that's this summer. ha
IN SO much tidiness that turned an
"a fad.
FL Things were arranged this way
M There was an oyster shell on ever
lie mantleshelf to hold dead matches. B
~ dead matches | mean those that hay
M had the breath of lifs burned out (
~ them, In the corner of the room WI
tiny tea chest intended to hold soral
an Of paper. and ii by chance you dfoppe
IN your dead match in your tea chest {
re. your, pieue Of paper IN your shell Il
h a ladies of the family, usually spoken I
nm as "girls," though it's been many
eed day since they clapped hands fl
Az. mamma, came down upon YOU with
,,a. wrath that only boardinghou
lad keeper can exhibit. They were Il
I'm I'm cleanest people ever saw. Cleanlins
mi to them meant Christianity, but
Pm was impossible to be as gone on oleal
NJ linpss as they are and still be Chri
liar tian. They hadn't a pet around Il
In house-they considered pets unladylil
tbs and one OF the family who had th
iii sort Of temper that breaks out like
,doc big Fourth of July cracker and fizz
WIKI and buzzeH would have liked to wa
Ssa. the water in the we'll. The Lord A
and mighty and she couldn't arrange thi
40 they took it AZ it came. Having ne
hare such ultra cleanliness, shall in t
|, of future be charitable to those who !
,des gard dust as the bloom Of time.
min. I've been trotting around good
,aea this summer and been forming 60
ead. many conclusions. and one of them
1eb. tho more man claims to be Chr
- tian the less likely ia he to give y
the anything to sat. He waters the mi
II is ut the expense of his soul. and
rs m takes drink usually Of whisky
l,he his stomach's sake and his infirmitit
vino hut at the expense of the board
M II Then, too. ii has been borne in up
njnn me that the man who prhys the loud
at the Wednesday nesting goes in wi
1 the greatest vigor when kissing gan
are played at the annual picnic
.4lO The women are different in kind. |
her all have one great pain ami grief a
1t that is to pluck every feather of
was hat OF the summer boaruer till (
nd is looks as IL prepared for fricass
has Tbs average woman envies you u
two clothes. no matter how simple Il