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close of the business day relaxes his
mind from its perplexities and cares
he grayitates unerringly to the woman
with whom he can sit quietly and talk
| over the scenes enacted during the day
| III the woman is restful and sympa
thetic, he will either do all the talking
himself, or he will want to be perfect
iy quiet to think out the solution of the
problems confronting him.
To be met at home by a discon-
tented, fault-finding woman. who has
no sympathy with his business aspira
tions. who has nothing in common with
his ambitious cravings, save a sordid,
grasping for the wherewith to crafty
her whims, who is, in fact, one contin-
uous crashing discord in every har-
mony to which he endeayors to attune
her life.
The women of the day are too rest
less The so-called emancipation O.
the sex has introduced a thousand and
one influences gonistic to the home
requirements. The ceaseless interchange
of social and club courtesies has much
to do with the discomfort of the woman
at nome. The strain is too great-she
rushes at high pressure gait. and
finds herself fretted and fuming from
the exhaustion of it all.
She Is never satisfied. II the hus-
band comes home worn out by the an
noyances Of the day, she is tired of the
house and wants to go out to some wild
reveI. If the husband wants to live in
town near his business field, she pre-
fers the repose of the country. and is
smothered by the dust and din of the
city. If the husband loves the seaside,
she pines for the mountains. Her home.
her children, her husband, are the COM
ponent parts of her worrying that net
the sum total of her discomfort. II the
husband wants to see play, she hates
hcroics, and prefers the opera II he
proposes supper after the play, she
can't understand why he wants to eat
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Reclaiming Letters from the
Mail Before obey Ere Delivered

by which such letter may be reclaimed
if application is made for it before it Is
delivered. Application must be made in
person. The Government provides q
blank upon which the applicant writes
the address that is given on the letter.
II that letter has not left the postoffice
the superintendent of mails finds it and
compares the address on the envelope
with the address on the applicants slip.
If the addresses are Identical the letter
is returned to the claimant and the au-
thorities keep the slip as receipt.
To reclaim letter sent out of the Of
fee the writer must I'LL out the pre-
scribed blank and deposit 81 for tele-
grams. The superintendent of mails
then teiegraphs the postoffice to which
the letter has been sent and asks him to
return it. When it reaches him he COM
pares the addresses and if they are
alike he returns the letter TO the ap-
plicant. The expense of telegraphing 10
deducted from the deposit ard the oai-
ance IS returned.
This involves u study of handwriting.
If there is noticeable difference in the
little things which are characteristic
the manner OF crossing the ''t's'' or the
dotting of the rs or the peculiar little
fiourishes which are made after name
the letter is not delivered TO the claim
ant. In cases where letters are addressed
by typewriter ii is impossible to identity
the applicant in this way.
Occasionally letters which have been
addressed to foreign countries are asked
to be returned. In such a case a deposit
of s25 is required to cover the expense
OF telegraph and cable tolls. Letters ad-
dressed to points in almost every coun-
try on the face of the earth may be re-
claimed in this way,if application is
made before the missive is delivered TO
the addressee.
Great Britain, however takes the sta, d
that letter when once dropped in a
mail box becomes the property of the
addressee. but makes exception in the
cases of the Cape and the Australian
colonies. Why this exception the lochl
nostal authorities do not know
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go to see its horses, its deer parks, its
stately mansion, its life within itself,
servants and masters, father and son
grandfather and grandson, living on its
broad acres as their forefathers have
before them for a hundred years in peace
and happiness and quiet content.
Closes an Epoch.
So the dispersal of the Belle Meade
horses means more than that 1t marks
the closing of an epoch in Southern life.
The ways. the customs. the life of an
old ante-bellum plantation will be wrest-
ed by the ever-changing current OF time
to newer conditions General Jackson
himself is type of the Southerner of
the old school. and with the passing of
him and few more of his compeers
scattered over the Southern States none
will be left save in song and story.
Perhaps too easy life they led, four
hours afield, and ten abed.
The other time they talked and read,
or else made merry.
with some planter friend to dine, to
drink his health in fine old wine.
Madeira that twice had crossed the line.
and gold leaf sherry"
This is the type. But it was an age
that bred men. General Harding is said
to have regretted deeply the decline in
manners and customs which made it
necessary to take mans note, or en-
ter into written contract 1t was the
type that possessed and clung to the
old notions of honor, personal courage,
personal integrity. seclusion and dignity
ern gentleman. Is it any wonder that
the people Of Nashville. Tenn. and the
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Women are inherently jealous of ono
another, and the desire to outshine is
deeply rooted and tenderly nurtured in
ering is in progress the feminine soul is
racked with weighty agonizing throes
as to how a striking appearance may
best be accomplished, and many women
will not patronize a modiste in common
with friend, being always suspicious
that the latter will be favored at her
expense. And If woman cannot make
as brilliant show on such occasions as
her friends may, she is apt to make her.
self very miserable over it.
In the case of extreme wealth this has
little significance. but where people are
but comfortably financed it assumes
larger proportions. In many instances
women's clubs are the incubators from
which this spirit fiourishes.
There is such a one in New York city,
where the women take pride in the fiat
terinS distinction OF being the best
groomed club OF the metropolis. The
meetings are little less than show win
dow fashion exhibits, where woman
would feel herself disgraced were she
to appear in second wearing of the
same gown.
1t would seem that women's clubs
have a disturbing influence on women S
dispositions. One woman member of
this club was as delightful companion
as ever blessed a mans home until the
club fad struck her with demoralizing
force. Her husband enjoys a substan-
tial income out of which he has always
allowed her generous installment for
personal and household needs Since
her club affiliations she seems to cherish
but the one idea that she must have a
whole new outfit every time she makes
an appearance at the gatherings. l do
not hesitate to say that her home Is
completely wrecked. The allowance
heretofore deemed ample now seems in
significant. Visits to modistes. the fret
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| ting and fuming. and the self-torturt
because others have many things thai
she has not. Her husband, at one time
whim. has been taught by her complain
ings to avoid his home as much as prac-
ticable. The spirit of discomfort has
permeated every nook and Granny. and
from bright, lovely, lovable little
woman she has evolved into fault
finding envious shrew, and yet she
boasts that club life has broadened her
ideas! Yes! to the extent Of venturinG
out beyond her reach and drifting be-
yond her husbands love.
Why one should care how much an
other may have. or why make herself
unhappy because of the prosperity of
others is more than l can understand.
II one cannot have dainty belongings
they could at least enjoy seeing them on
others.
resourceful woman, with little in
genuity and more energy, can often make
a dollar do double duty. 1t needs no
tricks of legerdemain, only certain
amount of taste and the skill that is
often a greater blessing than a we'll
filled purse.
There are enough real troubles in this
heartachy old world that come into the
everyday life, fill the eyes with tears and
throw pail Of sorrow and grief over
all. Yet the spirit of discomfort accen-
tuates real trials and multiplies imagl-
nary ones.
A bright, happy disposition that sees
only the kindly intent. that rejoices over
the prosperity of others. that has no
room in the heart for envy and suspicion
that makes the best of the little things
of life, gladly sharing its munificence,
or, where it cannot give substantial aid
can lend the tear of sympathy and ex-
tend the hand of friendship, is the wom-
an who has no room in her heart for
the demon of discomfort that not only
embitters her own life, but poisons the
Of all about her.
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~ NE glance betrays her.sThe deep,
narrow burrows between her
~ brows, the long line beginning
at the cleft of the nostrils and
running down to the chin is the index to
the fretful fuming. worrying that keeps
the nerves on edge, and everybody else
at narrowing expectation tension.
She Is the embodiment of objective
points. and a moral storehouse of bat
tering rams, ready to demolish every
suggestion based on the desire to give
pleasure.
She makes II study to clash and op-
pose. Life is attuned to dank, green
music. and the slow lights that bar the
beautiful sunshine from her own and
other lives. And what iimsy excuses
she makes the basis of her own unhap-
piness and that which she exudes
around her.
The most persistently discontented wo-
men l ever knew were the favorites of
fortune. who. with no real grievances
against fate, wpve chain of fancied
wrongs. welding them more tightly from
day to day, until the shadowy mist crys-
tallized into the bitter tears of awak-
ened heart burnings.
The woman who discovers in every
trifing act of husband or sweetheart
some slight against herself or some mo-
tif for resentment will find ample cause
for both.
The suspicious woman, who notes ev-
cry delay in the homecoming, and ac-
cepts an apology or explanation with
. sneer and an expression of absolute
unbelief of it's truthfulness is the woman
who will soon find that man ceases to
care whether he is truthful or not in his
statements, knowing from experience
that legitimate excuse will be doubted
or ridiculed, consequently he refrains
from Offering it, meanwhile his love, sub
Jectel to this chilling atmosphere, grows
cold.
A man naturally inclines to be con-
0dential with a woman. When the
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whole South feel that in the sale of the
Belle Meade horses a peculiar South
ern Institution is passing away forever
Cleveland and Roosevelt.
Here in the immediate post-bellum
days Confederate generals and leaders
wereS wont to come to talk of the bat
ties they had fought and of the yet
sterner battles ahead of them-those to
be waged for the upbuilding of the
country that had been laid waste. When
President Cleveland and his beautiful
wife, then bride. visited Nashville in
the fall of 1856 it was at Belle Meade
that he was domiciled. and within its
walls learned much of the life and the
aspirations of the Southern people. Mr.
Roosevelt, long before he was President,
was a guest at the historic mansion
He and General Jackson are g.eat cron-
les, both hunters of big game, and were
the organizers of the Boone and Crock
EFT Club a requisite for membership
in which is that one must have killed
one of the three big game of America
the bear. the buffalo or the elk. Years
ago before Roosevelt became a national
figure General Jackson spoke of him as
a man of grit and promise. 1t is said
Mr.. Cleveland often refers to his stay at
Belle Meade, short though It was. He
and Mrs. Cleveland saw deer drive,
and were charmed with the quietude
and freedom and genuine hospitality Of
their guests.
One Hundred Years.
For 100 years, lacking one, Belle
Meade has been in the same family and
has been q stock farm. In 1909 John
Harding, descendant of an old Hugue-
not family, came from Virginia, pur-
chased some 1000 acres on the banks of
Richland Creek, which clear and spark
ling stream waters Belle Meade, and
soon after he began to raise stock. Its
rich blue grass, it's limpid waters, ard
the salubrious and invigorating air of
its oak. chestnut and hickory groves,
soon demonstrated that here nature had
combined its forces for the perfect do
velopment of the most useful of ami
mails. But it was his son. Gen. William
6. Harding. who brought the farm into
national reputation as breeding estab-
lishment. He owned the mighty Priam
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FEW days ago young woman
hurried into the postofiice and
L stated at the bureau OF infor-

| ~ hurried into the postoffice and
| \ stated at the bureau OF infor
nation that she wished to with
draw a letter from the mails. She had
| posted it an hour previously, she said
and since then mad learned something
+; about Mr.. Blank that incensed her,
therefore she did not want to keep the
appointment she had consented TO in
| the letter. She wanted 20 know could
she reclaim the missive before it reach
ed the addressee?
She was referred to the superinten-
dent OF mails in the same room, and
within half an hour the letter was pick
ed out from among thousands of its
mates and restored to the claimant. who
tore it into bits and walked out OF the
postoffice.
The authorities of the postoffice have
made every provision for abse.t and
fIcEie minded patrons of the mails.
Among the most interesting and valua-
BILE is the process by which a letter may
be reclaimed after it has been posted
Comparatively few people know that
this can be done. and fewer care to take
the trouble of going through the forms
WHICH Hd'e Deeu pTeScFipeu-loliS
which are to degree cumbersome and
time-consuming. but which, neverthe-
less, are necessary to prevent deception
and fraud.
Occasions arise when the writer of an
important letter desires to withdraw it
before it reaches it's destination. Often
times additional knowledge of a pro-
posed transaction is acquired after a
letter has been sent to the postoffice.
making it highly desirable that the facts
related in the letter do not reach the
person for whom they were originally
intended. In case, too, where knowl-
edge Of the failure of a mercantile firm
or banking house reaches person
who has mailed check or draft to that
concern. it Is sometimes wise to with
draw the letter before it is delivered.
The postal authorities have svstam
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agement that he made an offer to buy
a half interest in its horses and their
get, which was accepted. That year
the colts sold for sS5 900, but in this
sale Croker had no interest. He paid
something over s25o,CO for his half in
terest Four years later General jack
son met him by chance in Europe and
falling to talking of their horses. di-
vision was proposed and the general
bought him out.
General Jackson in Europe.
On this and other trips to Europe
General Jackson was welcomed as
person of distinction. Both in England
and France soldier and breeder of
racehorses are alike highly considered
by the nobility and gentry. and conse-
quently the general would go from nne
country house to another. a welcome
guest. His great fund of stories and
anecdotes of the lifs>cf the plains when
he was young soldier just cut OF West
Point and took part in thrilling expedi-
tions against the Indians-Comanches
Kiowas. Apaches. AMI Arrapahoes-in
company with Kit Carson and the noted
French guide. La Rue, in the days when
buffalo and antelope, sometimes as
many as 5.cC0 head in a drove. roamed
the plains; his stories of the great war,
his fine sense of humor. his speech SO
pat and direct make him one of the
most companionable and delightful OF
men
While separating with regret from his
in arms, he did not hesitate
to which side he should give his qllegi-
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Kings and Queens of the American Turf Who
Have Gone From It's Paddock to the Race
Track to Win First Laure1s Bones of Eoquois,
the Only American Winner of an English Derby,
Inferred Under Its Sod--Stock Farm IN One
Family for Nearly One Hundred Years---Entre
Stock to Be Sold Shortly y - x :. y
Turf Who

ance when The shock of war came iii 81.
He engaged in the service of the South
from a sense OF imperative duty. His
training and experience in the art OF
war made him at once the useful soldier
and the chivalrous foe. Early in the war
while leading an infantry charge he was
wounded in the side with minnie ball.
For gallantry at the taking of Eoily
Springs ne was promoted to be brig
adler general. and in command of caval-.
ry took part in all the various move-s
ments of Generals Hardee, Polk and Joe
Johnston, commanding cavalry on the
left wing in the memorable Georgia
campaign. Among his other military
services was his engagement with the
dashing Kilpu.rick at Lovejoy's Station,
leading with Forrest the Confederate adj
vance into Tennessee and covering the
retreat of Hood. For this he was recon-
mended for promotion to a division and
was assigned to the command of For
rests old division with the Texas bril-
sade added.
His Character.
Like General Harding. General jack
son does not regard the race track as
necessarily irreligious. He believes
every man should identity himself with
the church. 1t is his opinion that if re-
ligious men would recognize the useful
ness of the race track, as is the case in
England. they would do much to elimi-
nate all the Objectionable features. On
agricultural subjects the general is an
advanced thinker and has done USE
full service for Southern farmers.
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GEN. W. h. JACKSON,
Master of Belle Meade.

and other horses. who thundered over
the turf from Charleston to New York
in the days long before the war, and
then in his declining years his son-in-
law, Gen. w. H. Jackson, took the man.
agement of the place and still further
advanced its reputation as the most ia
nous American nursery for thorough
bred colts.
Foreign Opinions.
When the representatives of the
French government were here in the late
Sos inspecting the studs of America they
stated in the report made to their gov
ernment that the best specimens OF
thoroughbred stock were to be found ut
Belle Meade. Indeed, they asserted the
crop OF yearlings they found there sur
passed any they had seen in Fra, ce or
England.
Here In the early days were found
such horses as Priem, winner of the
English Derby, and the imported stall
lions Eagle and Buster Here, too, the
great vandsl. Jack Malone, Sir Rich
ard, Highlander, Childe Harold, Bonnie
Scotland. John Morgan, Enquirer, Great
Tom, fremont, and Iroquois held court
in their respective days.
Some Great Horses.
This was the home of the great gray
mare. Gramma, queen of the turf sixty
years ago, and in the present genera
tion the prestige of the breeding estab-
performance of Proctor Knott. Bram-
bic, Clifford, Cayuga, Egmont. Getaway,
Rancocas, G. W. johnson, Helen Mich
OILS, Inspector b., Uncle Bob, TulIa
Blackburn, Tammany, Gotham, Maid
Marian, Falsetto. Red Banner, and a
as famous.
| The winnings Of the horses were fa-
bulous. In one season Proctor Knott
won s69,S65; Tammany, s72,S0O; Inspec-
to- b., $3S.375 Helen Nichols. S20.775;
Bella B., $4,000; Uncle Bob. s20,S60; G.
W. johnson, $4,000. and Egmont, 1864
The list 5f stations now standing at
Belle Meade includes The Commoner,
Inspector b., the sire of number of
good winners, including the great Endur-
ance by Right; imp. Loyalist, the sire
of numerous winners of stake class, in
cluding the brilliant Lissak, now one of
William c. Whitneys stations.
Grand old Luke Blackburn is another
that will pass under the hammer. Imp.
Tithonus. some of whose get are Ema-
thion, Avoid. Memnon and Adine. Madi-
son is another sire whose success al
ready is assured.
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Entrance Belle Meade Park.

Including the winnings of the get OF
winnings of the get of Belle Meade stall
| lions amounted to upward of $500, coo
from 1870 to 1893. In the past nine years
| several hundred thousand dollars have
been added to this total
Judge Howell E. Jackson.
| Until 1890 the horses and their pro-
duct were the joint property of General
Jackson, his brother, Judge Howell z.
, Jackson, who also married a daughter
Of General Harding. and John Harding,
who had conducted one of his fathers
plantations near Nashville, on the
Stones River, in the neighborhood OF
the Hermitage, the home of Gen. An
drew Jackson. In March of that year
there was division sale. Judge Jack
son and General Jackson buying out Mr.
Harding's interest, and a few months
later Judge Jackson, owing, probably.
to his permanent residence in Wash
ington, sold his interest privately to
his brother Judge Jackson was as ar
dent lover of fine horses as the gen
eral. He was, too, great fox hunter,
and while holding United States Court at
Nashville would sometimes as court
was adjourning, and while he still sat
on the bench, call to his friend. Colonel
Malone, distinguished member of the
bar, and country neighbor, that there
would be a meet of his hounds that af-
ternoon. He saw nothing incompatible
with supreme judge raising thorough
bred horses.
A Tennessee Trait.
Like the general, he never bet penny
on a race. Their pleasure was in wit
Messing the contest between the gallant
animals. Tennesseans of high and low
degree have ever loved fine horses. An
drew Jackson bred and raced them. as
did the gifted and versatile Bale Pey-
ton. And in Tennessee the PAGER, too
the ambling palfrey of Scotts .Ivanhoe''
is still the best reared and gated. The
first horse to go a mile in harness il
less than two minutes was a Tennessee
PAGER
In March, 1893, Richard Croker came
to Nashville and was so attracted by
Belle Meade, its horses and its man
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Retirement Of General w. H. Jackson, as Master
of the Estate Celebrated for the Production of
Thoroughbred Horses, Puts an End to One Of
the Last Type Of Ante-Be11um Plantations
Place Made Historic for Having Sheltered
Presidents, Soldiers, Philanthropists, and Other
Men OF Affairs X X " ~ :. * "
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-23

has opal eyes, which glare out at you
weird and uncanny as the obsidian eyes
OF royal mummy in the British mu-
scum. Another of these odd, beautiful
creations shows a monkey standing
upon the handle of pitcher and scold-
ing vigorously at a wolf below. The
creatures are so natural you can mag
Inc you hear the monkey jabber
This. then. is what has been occupy
ing Mrs. Bellamy Storer all the years
when she seemed to be doing nothing
in the art field. She was simply Gre
ating new path for herself. In Spain
she has been delving deeply into the
intricacies and mysteries of art metal
work. She could have had no better
school of learning in the metal working
art, for the ancient perfect touch of the
Moor is still visible in the exquisite
steel. iron and brass work found to this
day in old Spain. This American wo-
man has revived in way some of that
wonderful work and adapted it to free
designs of her own.
Mrs. Storer has been from the begin
ming a successful and fortunate wo-
man-fortunate in having, first, artistic
gift of high order: fortunate, again.
in possessing the means to train 1T and
to crafty her desires; fortunate, again.
in the successful accomplishment of her
undertakings. lockwood pottery, her
first important venture. now occupies a
commodious new building on Mount Ad-
ans, above the Ohio river at Cincinna-
IT, We must not overlook, either, the
fine force of character that kept the
artist from succumbing to her social
conditions and becoming a mere leader
of fashion. MARILLA WEAVER.