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AFTER THE STAKTEK.
A DEATHBED SCENE DESCRIBED BY
LOUIS HARRISON.
Ba Was a Dylns; Kara Track "Toot,"
and Ha Imagined Ue Had "a Copper
Lined Cinch" to Play on tbe Track
That Day and No Time to Lose.
1 have hesitated about giving to print
the following true story of a deathbed
scene which occurred in this city. I had
the description directly from the doctor
in attendance. He has lately left New
.York to continue his profession else
where, and I am constrained to tell the
atory as he described it, suppressing all
names. . .
The snow and sleet dashed through
the death chilling atmosphere in wild
'waves. The wind, moaned a dirge
among the telegraph wires. A solitary
hackman, driven from his seat by the
t warring elements, had ensconced him
self inside his mournful looking vehicle
and tapped upon the frost covered glass
to attract the attention of belated night
Owls. -Winter in its crudest phase was
upon us. . In a dingy looking house on
Thirtieth street a young man weak and
emaciated tossed restlessly upon a bed.
He was a race track tout, and the great
mental strain he bad been subjected to
for years in naming sure winners had
left him an absolute wreck. His sunken
cheeks, his eyes ablaze with fever and
his corpselike pallor all denoted that he
had but a few short hours to live. A
professional nurse, with that cold, hos
pital stretcher expression they all pos
. seas, sat in a corner of the darkened
room and whiled away the time by
figuring how the undertaker would man
age to get the coffin around that narrow
turn in the stairs.
The doctor had been summoned, and
when he rang the bell the tout waved
his bony arms aloft and shrieked:
'They're off! Tenny in a walkt Tenny
Sets all the money, and Salvator won't
be one, two, eixl"
THE TOUT'S CINCH. .
He fell back on the bed exhausted as
"the doctor entered the room. The phy
sician removed his greatcoat and the
nurse shook the rain and snow from it.
"Doctor, this is a dreadful night. 1
suppose you are wet through?"
The tout regained consciousness and
muttered: "The track will be heavy to
morrow, and I've got a copper riveted,
lead pipe, copyrighted, air tight cinch.
Firenze in. the mud--she swims in it
She can make the pace so hot that the
track will be dry before she does the
first quarter."
The doctor approached the bed, and
touching the patient's pulse said, "How
do you feel?"
"Well, I'll tell you," he replied, "just
how I feel about this. The Dwyers sta
ble is next to ours, and they tell me
- everything. Phil told me this morning
that Blackjack would win in a horrible
canter. You see, the party that owns
him wants to make a hogkilling, and
no one knows that he's out for the dust."
Turning to the nurse the doctor in
quired, "Have you notified his friends of
his condition?" The tout started up and
yelled: "Of course I have! I want to
let 'em all in on the ground floor. Why.
it's a little sure money. I saw him tried
at daylight this morning. He made the
first quarter io 0:21$, the second in 0:07,
fend the third was so fast that it broke
my stop watch and loosened three of.
my teeth. How can he lose it? Why,
it's just like falling through the root of
a mint.'
The doctor looked very serious and
said, "He will be dead in an hour." .
LOST BY A BRKATH.
"Oh, no, he won't," the tout sneered.
"There's hot a dead one in the hunt. If
any of 'em were stiff I'd know it. ,1 tell
you, Blackjack is full of Tabasco sauce,
and he'll leave all them other ' plugs at
the post. ' Why shouldn't he? Do you
know his pedigree? Blackjack is out of
Dark Lantern, by Blackwell's Island,
and he's a born cracker."
The doctor felt his pulse again and
' sighed, "I can do no more; I must be
going." The tout caught his arm and,
drawing his head down close to the pil
. low, whispered: "After the .Blackjack
lace meet me in the paddock. If you
win I've got to give fifty dollars to the
trainer, twenty-five to the jockey and
twenty to the stable boys. Til put what's
left on the next race, and if the horse
Wins, you're in on it. So meet me in the
- paddock and 111 cash your ticket."
The doctor took the dying man's hand
and said, "My poor boy, are you pre
pared .to meet the Great Judge?" The
tout gasped, "I don't want to meet the
judge: the man I'm after is the starter."
The physician pressed his attenuated
hand, and, as the moisture gathered in
his sympathetic eyes, said, "Now turn
your face to the wall, my boy, and go to
sleep." "I will," the tout muttered.
...'IH get next to the rail, so that when I
J turn the corner they can't foul me.
. Here's a telegram I just received from
the owner. There's 60 to 1 on Blackjack;
get it quick before they cut it down.
Ill win"
But he didn't. He quit in the stretch
and lost by a breath. Louts Harrison in
New York Advertiser.
The Sparrow's Bath. .
Have yon ever noticed the pugnacious
little English sparrow perform his morn
ing ablution? He hunts up a street
sprinkling cart, takes his ' position in
front of it and stands there like a drum
major close to the wheel as the cart goes
by. After receiving the full force of the
water, he again . takes his place in front
and again awaits the on coming of the
cart. This is repeated until the little
fellow is satisfied with his cleanliness.
The English sparrow is nothing if not
metropolitan. Detroit Free Press, j
She Was Ready. '
Pater (emphatically) Come eow! No
prevarication. That young noodle has
proposed to you. You may as well ac
knowledge the corn.
Daughter (bravely) I do. It is true.
I acknowledge the popcorn. Pittsburg
Bulletin.
BEAR HUNTiNG IN THE P.CJCKIE&
it Is feather Slow Work Now Because
tbe Animal Are So Cautious.
Bear hunting, as a rule, I do not think
would appeal to most sportsmen. . It is
rather slow work, and one is often very
inadequately rewarded for the amount
of time and trouble spent in hunting up
bruin. There is hardly a portion of the
mountains where there are not evidences
of bear, but 1 do not believe that in any
locality they are especially abundant.
They have been hunted and trapped so
long that those who survive are extreme
ly cautious. In my experience there is
no animal gifted with a greater amount
of intelligence, and, in this region, the
hunter's chief virtue, patience to wait
and stay in one spot, is Bure to be re
warded sooner or later with a good shot.
Let me say now that the danger and
ferocity of the bear is, I think, very much
overstated, yet there is just enough ele
ment pf danger to make the pursuit of
this animal exciting. Naturalists do not
now apparently recognize more than two
varieties of bear in the Rocky mountains.
That is, they class the cinnamon, silver
tip and grizzly, as grizzly bear. The
other -variety, of course, is the black
bear. I am by no means sure that the
grizzly bear will not be further subdi
vided after careful comparisons of col
lections of skulls.
Much has been said and written about
the size and weight of the grizzly bear,,
and in most instances this has been mere
gness work. Lewis and Clark made fre
quent mention of this animal and yet
their estimate, of the weight falls far
below that of other writers. Only a few
instances have come to my knowledge
where the weight has been ascertained
absolutely.
A good sized grizzly killed in Yellow
stone park by Wilson, the government
scout, weighed 600 pounds. Colonel
Pickett, who has a neighboring ranch to
mine and who has killed more bear than
any man I know of, weighed his largest,
which, if I remember rightly, weighed
800 pounds. Archibald Rogers in Scrib
ner's. Lowell aa a Poet.
As a poet, whatever comparisons may
be made with his predecessors or con
temporaries, at home or abroad, what
ever just criticisms may be recorded, we
believe it will be found at the end that a
large part of Lowell's verse has passed
into literature, there to remain. The
originality, vitality, Intensity and beauty
of the best of it are self evident. Al
though a true, spontaneous poet, his life
had other strong interests and engross
ing occupations, and the volume of his
verse does not equal that of others
whose careers have extended beside his
own; his impression as a poet upon his
time has not equaled that of others.
It may, indeed, be said that if as
strongly poetic in nature as they, he
would have been dominated as exclu
sively as were they by the poetic mood.
However this may be, the quality of his
genius, a shown in his best work, was,
we believe, quite as fine as that of any
poet writing English in his day. No
one can read his last volume of versa
without being impressed anew by the
vigor, variety and spontaneous charac
ter of Lowell's poetic gift. Even his
literary faults are of such a nature as to
testify to the keenness of his thought
and the abundance of his intellectual
equipment. Century.
How to Hake Money.
A man who is wise, careful and con
servative, energetic, persevering and
tireless, need have no fear of his future.
But there is one .other thing. He must
have a steady head, one that can weather
the rough sea of reverses from which no
life is altogether free, and one that will
not become too big when successes at
tends his efforts. Keep out of the way
of speculators. Take your money,
whether it be much or little, to one
whose reputation will insure yon good
counsel. Invest your money where the
principal is safe and you will get along.
But don't forget the acorns. It is from
little acorns that great oaks grow. See
that yon begin aright early in life. Save
your money with regularity. By so do
ing, you will more than save your
money; you will make money. Henry
Clews in Ladies' Home Journal. -
- The Professional Inventor.
The professional inventor has a pe
culiar calling. His stock in trade is his
brains, and no one can map out his work
for him. He must study the needs of
mankind, and try to anticipate their
wants. To the outsider it would seem
that all the patents and inventions need
ed were made, . and that there was no
longer any need of . professional in
ventors. But so long as machinery is
used there will be some improvements
possible, and every new invention opens
up a field for a dozen more. George
E. Walsh in Mew York Epoch. ' .
- Clever Jletro poll tan Beggars.
' Between 6 and 12 o'clock in the even
ing it is impossible to walk half a block
anywhere on Broadway between Union
square and Thirty-third street without
being stopped by a pitiful appeal for
alms. The less deserving the applicant
the more pitiful the appeal. An old but
still a favorite trick with the professional
beggars is to bind np an arm or a leg
and pretend to be crippled. Some of
them are extremely clever in making np
and a careful examination would be
necessary to detect the deception. New
York Cor. Chicago Herald. -.
Erery Man to Hit Trade.
Jinks (at a variety entertainment)
That fellow in front of ns was about the
only one who didn't applaud that good
old song, "Don't Despise a Man Because
He Wears a Bagged Coat." He must be
a regular aristocrat, isn't he?
Blinks Well, I dunno. Maybe he's a
tailor. Good News.
Above the Reach of Danser.
Tenor It is singular, when I have a
cold it destroys my low notes aud not at
all my high ones, which would seem
more sensitive.
Lady Perhaps; but then they are the
most difficult to attack. Harper's Bazar.
' swallows and Ci'otri.
Among the courageous small birds may
bo counted the family of swallows. The
writer has often seen barn swallows fly
downward and peck at the cat and dog,
and more than once a sharp twitter, a
whir of wings and a peck on the hat has
rein cded her wbett standing in the barn
door, that c'ae was intruding on swal
lows precincts. v
Abotit a hali mile from, the house is a
high bo.uk which is the home of a colony
of bunk swallows. , - The earth for some
distance is thickly perforated with the
roundish holes leading into their nests.
.... Not far from this bank a quantity of
corn was one day scattered by accident
upon the ground. The crows were quick
to discover What had happened, and
swooped down and began to devour the
windfall. ,
Some of the swallows spied them at
once and gave the alarm. 1 chanced to
be sitting beneath a. tree in full . view of
the scene. . In less than a minute after
the crows had settled to feeding,, more
than a hundred of the bank swallows
had darted from their holes, and. with
angry, twitters fell upon the intruders.
The attack was a complete surprise to
the big black fellows, and as if realizing
the futility of trying to cope with their
small assailants, they rose from the
ground in a body and took flight. .
The swallows pursued them, darting,
diving, striking at them above, below and
from both sides. The crows were routed
completely; and took refuge in a dense
piece of woods a quarter of a mile away.
Then the triumphant swallows turned
about and sailed homeward, uttering
many chirps and twitters of satisfaction
as they flew.
For the hour or more that I remained
in the field not a crow was to be seen
near the corn. The swallows were mas
ters of the field. Cor. Youth's Compan
ion. .
We An Not t Military People.
We Americans are not a military peo
ple. - In view of our having carved our
way into the wilderness with sword as
well as with ax, of our having won our
independence by arms, of our having
come with abundant credit out, of all
our wars, of having carried through one
of the most gigantic struggles of modern
days, in . which were fought battles al
most nnequaled in tenacity, this may
appear to be an unwarranted statement.
But it is true. It requires more than
courage, more than ability to raise, to
equip, to , ration, to move and to com
mand armies to make a military people.
The most splendid conduct in war for
an all absorbing cause does not suffice.
Having many of the essential qualities,
we yet fall short of what the Romans
were, the Germans are. . Some sections
of the country approach nearer to the
military standard; but taken as a whole
our lack of interest in army and navy,
our thoroughly unbusinesslike way of
handling our national problems of attack
and defense, stamp us as the least mili
tary in our instincts of all the great peo
ples of the earth. Colonel T. A. Dodge
in t orum.
She Had Improved. . '
The Princess Charlotte, daughter of
George IV, was a young woman of great
spirit and originality. One day one of
her teachers chanced" to enter the room
when the princess was reviling one of
her attendant ladies, in great wrath, and,
after giving her a lector on -hasty
speech, he presented her with a book on
the subject. A few days later he found
her still more furious and using lan
guage even more violent. "I am sorry
to find your royal highness in such a
passion," said he; "your royal highness
has not read the book I gave you." "I
did, my lord!" cried she tempestuously;
"I both read it and profited by it. Oth
erwise I should have scratched her eyes
out!" San Francisco Argonaut.
Some Xotable Wag-era.
Of single bets made on American
horse races the following instances are
taken from the records: Haughton bet
Walton $14,000 to $1,000 against Girofle.
Haughton bet Kelly $20,000 to $5,000
against Henlopen. Appleby & John
son bet P. Lorillard $11,000 to $10,000
against Pizarro, and $35,000 to $5,000
against Leo in the same race. In each
of .these cases it is probable that the
owners risked ten times these amounts
on each of the races, as the bets above
stated were only made with one book
maker. W. B. Curtiss in Forum. V
Row Parctameat Came to Be Used.
- When the literary jealousy of the
Egyptians caused them to stop the. sup
ply of papyrus the king of Pergamos, a
city in Asia Minor, introduced the use
of sheepskin in a form called from the
place ' of its invention, - pergamona,
w.hence our word "parchment" 'is be
lieved to be derived. Vellum, a finer
article made from calfskin, was also
used. Many of the books 'done on vel
lum in the Middle Ages were transcribed
by monks, and often it took years -to
complete a single copy. C. A. Lynde in
St. Nicholas. ' -
Like Shooting Ghosts.
The impression when hunting paddy
melons is of shooting at ghosts, what
with the dim, mysterious light of the
"bush," and the strange appearance and
swift movement of the game. Paddymel
ons, like all the kangaroo tribe, are use
less for food, except so far as their tails
are concerned, which, being largely of
glutinous texture, furnish material for
capital soup, very like oxtail, but with
a peculiar and agreeable "gamy" flavor.
Boston Journal. ' i .
. Surprised His Friend.
Girdler (a returned traveler) How
did young Wesley ever turn out? '
Speakman Oh! he has made a' splen
did name for himself. ' He was sent to
prison and has surprised everybody by
the talent he displays in pegging shoes.
New York Epoch. . r
She Knows Ue Will Come Back.
. An Atchison woman has dismissed her
cook and commenced to take in sewing.
Her husband joined the boomers twbo
rushed into the new Oklahama"country
the other day, and she is saving up money
tD pay his fare back. Atchison Globe.'
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it offered for tale." . '
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