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but he was then bought by the late
Robert Bonner for $36, 900 and at once
retired. Four years later that most
wonderful of all trotting mares, Gold
smith Maid. also driven by Budd
Doble, went in 2:17. From year to
year she cut down her time till, on
Sept. 2, 1874, at Mystic Park, Boston,
when IL years old, she placed the
trotting record at 2:14. In those days
the sulkies weighed seventy-five
pounds, the tracks were not improved
and Doble is firmly of the opinion to-
day that the marvellous Maid, had she
been on the track at the present time,
would have been a champion. Gold
smith Maid was an inbred being
by Abdallah Is, son of Handle
tonian, while her dam was Alb, by
Abdallah 1, the sire of Hambletonian.
While the number of fast horses
steadily increased and the stock farms
were not only increasing their output,
but breeding more inte1ligently for
the great object in view, the record
was not again broken till Aug. 8, 1878,
when John Splan, at Buffalo, trotted
Rarus in 2:13A. He was at once re-
tired, as Mr.. Bonner bought him for
$35, 900 and sent him to his stables,
where he had previously sent Dexter.
These sensational prices gave addi-
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will be of interest to note the develop
ment from the date when the famous
Lady Suffolk first trotted in 2:30 or
better in 1S45 to the present time,
when the record is 1:5S1a. On Oct.
IS, 1915, the little gray mare Lady Suf-
folk, at the Beacon course, Hoboken,
N. j., trotted in 2:291k. Through her
sire, Engineer, and the sire of her
dam, Don Quixote, she traced direct
back to Messenger. In 1849 Pelham,
of unknown pedigree, reduced the rec
ord to 1928. He was a converted
PAGER, which shows that even at that
early period the interchangeability of
the gaits was understood. Highland
Maid, another ex-pacer, in 1853 re-
duced the mark to 2:27. Then came
the remarkable mare, Flora Temple,
who, over the Union course. East New
York, driven by that first great knight
of the sulky, Hiram Woodruff, went
under the wire in 2:241s. Flora Tenn
pie continued her victorious career
till she. at Kalamazoo, Mich, on Oct.
Is, 1859, trotted in 2:19A. being the
first of her race to get below 2:20.
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HOW LAWSON GOT EVEN.
Boston Millionaire Is Bad Man to
Antauonize.

Boston Millionaire Is Bad Man to
Antagonize.
Thomas w. Lawson, Boston's cop
per operator, is a man of very warm
likes and dislikes, especially dislikes,
as many who have come in contact
with him have reason to remember.
Just now they are telling in Boston
how he avenged himself on a florist
who took occasion to press him for
bill at a time when he had his hands
full looking out for the clubs of his en-
emies in the stock market, and Incl
dentally swinging a few clubs of his
own.
The florist in question was one with
whom the millionaire had done great
deal of business in years gone by.
When Amalgamated Copper took its
recent slump someone went to the
florist with a straight tip to the eff
feet that Lawson was in a bad way
financially. The florist straightway
hied himself to Lawson's Office with
a demand for his bill. Lawson told
him to keep cool, adding that he would
send check as soon as the bill was
checked up. The florist, however,
wanted a certified check at once.
The insistence of the man was re-
warded, and he went on his way re-
joicing, his joy being turned to woe a
few days later by the resignation of
his chief lieutenant, who announced
that he was to start a store within a
block of the one in which he had
worked for many years.
And the knowledge that came later
that Mr.. Lawson's money was back of
the magnificent new store did not
make him feel any better. 1t was
Lawson's way of getting square
New York Times.
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Algernon Barkdale Smythe was
known locally as a snob. Some little
sense was credited to his account, but
his debts ran high. A great many
things were unknown to him, but one
fact stood out so clearly in his
feeble brain that what others he
CHANGED to burdened with were quite
overshadowed.
There was woman in AlgernOn'S
town with whom he was well &C
quainted. This woman-well. even her
enemies said she was beautiful. Alger-
non loved her with the unreasoning
love that is the love of fools, and
sometimes of strong men, In her par
ticular circle she was known as fiirt
and coquette. Men who distrusted
their ability, along with having a GER
tain regard for their peace of mind,
fought shy of her witching glances.
To show and emphasize the insin-
certify of her character, and it's unat-
Effectiveness. the case of James was
always brought up. He was one of
those men-quiet, reserved and in
tense-who love not often. He had
met the woman, Leila, some years be-
fore. A service he did for her ce-
mented an incipient friendship, which
more. James was slow and method
ical, and he knew somewhat of wom-
en-. With women of Lelia's type he
was, however, not so familiar. There
fore 1t was that he studied her long
and carefully ere he committed him
SELF
After persuading himself into the
belief that he knew her, he promptly
asked her to marry him. To his sur
prise-and her own as well-she &C
cepted him on condition that he wait
SO long as she might see fit. No lover
could refuse even such qualified &C.
ceptance. so they were engaged.
All went well for a year, SO far as
Leila was concerned. James was very
docile in his obedience to her care
fully yelled commands, and was equal
iy meek in allowing her to do as she
chose Then, one day, the heavens
fell, and James was never the same
man afterwards.
1t came about in a very simple man.
ner. Leila put James off one night,
with but the skeleton of an excuse,
and went to the theater with another
man. James took it all in good part,
and said nothing. That night in re
turning, Leila and her escort passed
a man and a very shabbily dressed
and wanton-faced woman on the
street. The two stroye to pass with
out having their faces seen, but they
failed to accomplish this. One swift
glance revealed it all to Leila. With
a startled little cry, she dragged her
escort after her in frenzied haste, and
when she arrived home she dismissed
him with a curt Good night"
The next day James received very
hot and scornful note, which sent him
about his business without hope of re-
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by Chimes, a grandson of Hamb1eton-
ian, on September 25, 1900, clipped
half a second off the record, and a
few months later, on July 26, 1901, at
Cleveland, o., the mighty Cresceus.
the first stallion to win the world
trotting record, shot under the wire in
2.O2A. A week later, at Columbus, he
cut it to 2.02A.
When the season of 1903 opened even
in the best informed circles there
was not the slightest expectation of
any reduction of the trotting record.
Major Delmar had a record of 2:05A.
but no one saw in him a future cham
p1on. Lou Dillon was an unknown
quantity. Her pedigree goes up to
Hamb1etonian through Sidney Dillon
and Happy Medium, though about so
per cent of her pedigree is unknown
as thoroughbred. At Readville, Mass,
on August "a, she trotted in zoo and
thus realized the dreams of the en-
thusiasts who have predicted that
time as the ultimate limit and perfec-
ton mark of the breed.
This looked like glory enough for
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Great nations produce great horses.
The higher the civilization the purer
are the equine breeds. In the ancient
as well as the modern world this rule
holds true, and the foremost races of
men have always possessed the high
est types of breeds of animal life.
A stranger who witnessed light har-
ness sport, say, for the first time at
Memphis recently, and who saw Lou
Dillon trot in 1:5S1z, Major Delmar in
1:59A, and Dan Patch pace in 1: 56A,
would naturally ask, how are these
horses bred, and how long has it taken
to bring the breed to such perfect
speed perfection? He would be aston
ished to learn that the breed did not
exist half century ago; that in 1915.
2:30 was thought to be the speed
limit, and that trotting races were
rare, while now the continent is
studded with stock farms, with many
millions invested; that about 1900
meetings are held annually, at which
100000 in stakes and purses are
competed for, and that just as all
countries go to England for the thor
oughbred, so all the civilized world
comes to America for the trotter
AS speed is the test of the progress
of the breed, and the record at the
wire the proof of quality and value, it
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record down, to 2:0SA. Mr.. w. H.
Vanderbilt had in the meantime sold
her to Robert Bonner for $4,000, and
she was duly retired. 1t has always
been a universal regret that this great
mare never had a foal- The last of
the old high-wheel sulky- champions
was Sunol, who in 1891 over the kite
track at Stockton, Cal, went in 2:0SA,
and again Mr.. Boomers desire to own
champions was so great that he paid
SAL 600 for her.
The marvellous speed achieved by
bicyclists led horsemen and the manu-
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The record was hailed as the limit
at the gait, while a few Missionaries
talked of a possible 2:10, while here
and there was an enthusiast who
talked of two minutes.
In 1867 the brown gelding Dexter,
by Hambletonian 10, dam Clara, by
American Star, at Buffalo, N. Y, cut
the record to 2:17A. He was driven
by Budd Dob1e, then a young man and
still on the turf in all the vigor of
green old age. Dexter at that time
was nine years old and would in all
probability have reduced his record,
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weeks she was dead. James was most
devoted to her during it all, paid all
the expenses, and had her inferred in
the family burying ground. They say
he tcok it very much to heart
Algernon waited with malicious ex-
pectancy, for he knew what was com
ing.
Leila was too much absorbed in he.
thoughts to observe his manner When
he paused, she asked:
What was she to him that he
should do that, and take it so to heart,
as you say?''
WELL and there was an impress
i've pause, "she was his wife,
His wife," cried Leila, unable to
check the cry of establishment Al
gernon nodded in satisfied manner,
and then said:
Eyes, she was his wife He mar
ried her when he was a young fellow
She had it in her blood. and went to
the bad. Then they parted. Later he
heard that she was dead, and did not
know better until he saw her on the
street. Algernon sank back in his
chair, satisfied that he had done we'll.
For some minutes Leila was silent
The man finally became impatient.
We'll, what do you think of it?
Pretty rough on James, isn't it?'
In reply the woman arose and
opened the door leading to the hall.
Then she turned her great eyes upon
him in dazzling scorn.
.'Therei" she said, pointing to the
door. you had better go home. You
are a mischievous little cur. and if l
were a man 1 would thrash you'll
The man stared in dead consterna-
ton, not believing his ears. Before
he could compose an answer, how
ever, he was left alone in the rom,
and the sound of Lelia's light steps
came back to him as she assembled the
stairs leading to her room.
That night she wrote a very apollo
getic little note to James, begging
him to come to see her next day. And
James came.
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Across the Hills.

Across the hills and far beyond. where
daylight dies and yet again is born
There lies country wond'rous fair.
Beyond the purple rim of mist that girds
the valley down below
There lies a land I dreamed about a
land I longed to know;
The stars stood sentinel at dusk and
beckoned,
Yet 1 dared not go.
Across these hills wandering soul came
to child and as it grew
1t sung a promise of return,
Till the life's great hope became a chain
and the spirit knew but bitter pain.
For its tasks undone were letters of lead
and a weary life seemed all in vain.
For the master passion would not be still
Nor the soul at rest again.
1t was out of bounds in a realm unreal.
summer star in silver sea
That counterfeits its light;
Unreal and hopeless and afar. Fate met
ed it out and gave it me
And bid me accept this lonely thing and
smile life and be free
And light of heart and happy-aye-
For all eternity.
And cried aloud in my hour of grief
for comfort in my gloom
To brighten death away.
Across the hills stole kindred soul from
the infinite long ago
And my dream came true at last in you
here in the afterglow,
And you led me away across the blue
Whittier I longed to CO.
Percy F. Montgomery
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Ethan Allen and George NJ Patchen Wagons

one season, but in the meantime q
new star had appeared in the bay
geldfng Major Delmar, who had enter.
ed the ring in fight to finish with
Father Time. Starting the season
with q record of 2-051k in series of
brilliant performances he cut it down
in sections till finally on Sept. rs, at
the Empire City track, he went in zoo
and divided regal honors with Lou
Dillon. Major Delmar belongs to the
Electloneer-Wilkes branch of the
trotting family.
This looked like the climax. but ma
ture rarely stays still. On October
20, at Wichita, Cresceus trotted in
1-59%, and Oct. "a, Lou Dillon regain.
ed her throne by trotting in 1851.
The story of the trotter would be In.
complete without a note as to his
value The highest price ever paid
for trotter was $125,00O, at which
figure ]. Malcolm FORBES bought the
2-year-old trotter Arion, 2.10Z, from
the late Senator Leland Stanford.
While a few thoroughbreds have been
sold at higher figure, this is still
the high water mark for a 2-year-old
of any breed AxteIl, PIP, the cham
pion three-year-old stallion of hfa
time, brought $105,000, and $3.50. 900
was refused for his stable companion.
Allerton, 2,09H- Mr.. Smathers paid
$40, 900 for Major De1mar, a geldfne.
DEXTER" in the New York Sunday
Telegraph.
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Evo1ution Of the Trotter
Brought to Perfec-
IAN Has Yet Produc

facturers of sulkies to conceive the
idea that the small tire wheel wouIo
get round turn quicker. and that
there would be far less resistance
than with the old high wheels, Win
steel tires. They were introduced IN
1892, and there was at once startling
reduction in time Nancy Hanks,
who in 1891 had trotted in 2.0S with
the old wheels, in 1892 in grand
series of performances successfully
reduced her record to 2.04. She is by
Happy Medium. dam Nancy Lee, by
Dictator, both of Hambletonian. Two
years elapsed before there was any
reduction and then came to the front
the beautiful and symmetrical mare
Alix, by long odds the greatest COM
bination of speed, proportion, style
and quality which had yet appeared
upon the trotting turf. After grand
racing career, in which she defeated
all comersy at Galesburg, Ill, Sept.
10, 1894, she trotted in 2.O3A.
For six years the battle was waged
against time and every assault was
failure until the priests of fnality
declared that the time limit had been
reached at last. The mares had GER
tainly had a long reign, but with the
new century the records began to go
with startling rapidity. The Abbot,
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AN ERROR OF JUDGMENT
By 'KINNIS GOUCHE.-
Copyrighted By The AUTHORS Publishing Company

her laugh was not to be understood.
Algernon himself attempted to look
wise when a friend told him, but it
was a dismal failure. He was rich,
fair looking, descended of a family
content to spell it's name Smith and
of average character; therefore, it is
not strange that the rumor was cur
rently credited.
Il was during a call that A1gernon
made on her when the heavens fell
for him. He. poor fool, unconscionsly
knocked out the props himself.
That day he had come upon an ex-
PLANTATION of James behavior the night
on the street. 1t savored enough of
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SMOKING competition.

At a smoking club" in Thai1ingen
(South Germany a competition was
held, the object of which was to smoke
a cigar as long as possible without let
ting it go out. The prize-winner
smoked his cigar 741a minutes, while
none of the other competitors records
was over one hour.
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Golden Sands.

IN twelve months Yarmouth, Eng,
derived a revenue of about E2,S59
from its beach The sale of sand and
single produced e504. and payments
for the right to place stalls on the
beach G700-
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NffOWH tUCdfIy as d S1Op.
call. He saw how it was, and made
every effort to gain admittance to her
presence; but he was denied. Then
Leila left the city and was gone for
months. James continued the dreary
routine of his life, and strove to for
get that all the light and gladness of
it was no more.
When she returned James CHANGED
to pass her on the street She was
with Algernon, and he spoke to them,
but they cut him dead A great rage
and sorrow filed his heart, so he
passed on without further ado.
Meantime the gossips of Lelia's set
had 1t that she and Algernon were to
be married In the spring She
laughed when it came to her ears. but
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compuIsorv Vaccination.

Three vaccinations are now compul-
sorry in France The first must be
made during the first year of infancy.
the second in the eleventh year, and
the third in the twenty-nrst yeanA
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Dexter. With sudd pebis in the Saddle.
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Cream PuHs.

Stir half-cupful of butter into q
cup of boiling water. When boiling,
add cup and half of -four and cook,
stirring constantly for two minutes;
take from the fire and pour into a
bowl to cool. When cold, beat in the
whipped yolks of four eggs, lastly the
stiffened whites. Line a baking pan
with buttered paper, drop the batter
by the large spoonful upon it and bake
in quick oven. The puffs should bs
done in fifteen minutes.
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srATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, :.
LUCAS COUNTY So'


FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the
doing business in the City of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each h
and every case OF Catarrh that cannot be cured
BY the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK ]. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day Vi December, "a. D. 1856.
A. w. GLEASON,
t-~} Notary Public,
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system. Send for testimonials, free.
f. J. CHENEY q CO., Toledo, O.
Bold by druggists, Toe.
Halls Family Pills are the best
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Orange Marin a lade.

Twelve oranges. Peel and parboil
the skins in three waters, allow them
to boil in the last water until tender,
drain and chop very fine. (Reject as
much as possible of the tough white
skin in peeling the oranges.) To the
pulp and juice Of the orange add the
chopped peel, then weigh all Allow
as much sugar as you have of the fruit
mixture. Cook all until thick, adding
before it boils about a gill of water.
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Short Suggestions.

To keep milk sweet for several days
add teaspoonful of fine salt to each
quart of new milk.
Mix blacking with cold tea rather
than with water, for thus better pol
ish is obtained on the boots.
To clean tinware use powdered whit
ing moistened with little paraffin.
Polish with leather or with a pad
of old newspaper.
Match marks on a polished or tar
nished surface may be removed by
being first rubbed with cut lemon
and then with a rag dipped in clean
water.
When cleaning wall paper do so with
lump of dough made Of -four mixed
with little soda water. The soda
will not injure the paper and the work
will be done more rapidly with II.
II ink be spilled on the carpet It may
be taken up without leaving a stain
II dry salt be applied Immediately. AS
the salt becomes discolored brush II
off and apply more> Wet slightly
Continue till the ink has disappeared.
A useful cement for earthenware
vessels is found in white lead. Spread
It ON strips of calico and secure with
bands Of twine. This method Is only
suitable for earthenware pans, etc,
which are intended for service and NOT
] for ornament
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Harket Price.

One day little baby brother arrived
at Hamiln's house. and being of prac-
tical turn of mind, he asked his moth
er how much she had to pay for him.
"How much do you think he is
worth?" returned his mother.
"Well," Hamlin reflected, she only
weighs ten pounds, so should think
ten dollars would be enough, because
beefsteak is only 20 cents pound.
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capon and Mushroom saIsd.

Cook fresh mushrooms in little but
ter, then cover with white stock, and
let them simmer gently till very ten
der. Lift out and drain as well as pos
sible from all liquid. Add to them
twice their quantity OF cold cooked
capon cut in small pieces and cover
with mayonnaise. Garnish with let.
tuce hearts.
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Misplaced Affection.

Ihe Eskimos were very angry with
the active explorer.
what did he do?" asked the mem.
Der OF the relief expedition.
HE petted our dogs" explained
the native.
dogs?" "
Yes; their tails were frozen stiff,
and when they went to wag them thew
broke off. STRAY Stories.
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The City Mans Advantage.

Jake (the hired man)-That city
ooarder's the biggest fool ever seen
wy he don't even know enough tew
hitch up boss.
sllas-He may not know enough to
hitch up boss, Jake, but l notice he
can hitch up clusser tew your best girl
IN i've minutes than yew kin in hull
evenin' Judge.
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"Reisedilder."

"How long has this thing been build.
ing?" asked the American tourist, as
he looked at Cologn cathedral.
"About 500 years." answered the
guide.
Five hundred years! Why, over in
Chicago we could put up a building like
that and bave it all to pieces all within
five years. ."-London Tit.Bits.
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Poverty In Denmark.

Denmark makes a clear distinction
between the thriftless and the respecta-
Bile poor. The former are treated like
English paupers. The latter never
cross workhouse threshold. IF desti-
tute, they receive pension ranging
from three pounds to seventeen pounds
a year or, if too feeble to look after
themselves, they are placed in an old
age home.
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Plum Butter.

To every pound Of plums allow three
quarters of pound Of sugar. Wash
the plums and put them, still wet, into
the preserving kettle. Cover, bring
slowly to boil and cook until the
fruit is broken to pieces and is very
soft. Rub through colander to re-
move stones and skins; return the
Juice and pulp to the fire, add the
sugar and boil until the mixture 10
very thick. Put up In jars.
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Hoods J0rSdpdriLl0
and Pills

Remove all humors, overcome all
their effects, strengthen, tone and
,nvigorate the whole system.
NJ had salt rheum on my hands so that I
.ould not work. I took Hoods Sarsaparilla
and it drove out the humor. continued
n. use till the sores disappeared" MRS.
Ina O. BROWN, Rumford Falls, Me. O.
Hoods SarsapariIla promises to
cure and keeps the promise,