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THE TIMES PHILADELPHIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1881. THE RAILWAY MURDER. AN HOUR OF PLAY. AT CRESSON SPRINGS. DANCES AT SARATOGA.

The Racquet and tiio Pulo Quadrille as Danced nt iS. LADIES BETTING ON THE RACES Familiar Faces at the Springs Philadelphia Cuests and Saratoga Personals. been horo this week, aro Mr. W. n.

Vandorhilt and family and the widow of Commodore Van devbilt and her mother, Mrs. Crawford; Kx Minister Btotighton and wife, who came on their way to Windsor, Vt. Ex Senator Stockton and Frelinghuysen nnd their families; the wife of Colonel John Hay, ex Assistant Secretary of Slnto, and bis child (ho haa passed a few days bore lately); Mr. Atuasa Stone, tho Cleveland millionaire, and family; J. Book waiter, the Democratic nominee for Governor ot Ohio Ex Secretary Hrislow, wife and daughter; A.

Wright Sanl'ord, N. Baron Thonifccu, of New York Mrs. Greenway, of lialtimoro Judge Aldis, of tho Franco American Claims Commission tho wifo and child ran of Colonel Bacon, of General Sherman's staff Colonel Nick" Smith and his wife, formerly Ida Greeley, aud Miss Gabriello Greeley. Among the Philadclphlans horo are Mr. Sergeant and Miss Sarah Norris, who are at the United States Hotol; Mr.

Woomflold Wetheroll and his wifo and little girl; G. F. Parker and wile, M. L. Free aud wife, II.

Freo, J. McCul lough and wifo, Ileury S. Ilagert nnd wifo, T. E. James, wife and child F.

E. Vundouburg, Mis. A. Grccnlies, W. Ifolbrook, A.

Horner, W. H. Knight, E. 9. Magomi, A.

J. Wheeler, F. II. Mann and wile, Miss Mann, C. Mann, Mrs.

W. E. and Hon, 0. Kintrsley, F. McDonald, A.

J. Vickers, M. 8. Fell aud wifo, Harry Fell and wife, H. M.

S. Plait, Miss M. Plait, P. H. Cartuian and wife, Miss L.

Cartman, tha Misses Sago, Miss I.izzio Cooper, Miss Cooper, T. Iinyd aud wife, J. Smyth and wife, J. F. ami J.

C. Sullivan, Kov. Dr. James Saul, J. E.

MeaM, L. P. Chit Iwick, II. M. Sibbic, G.

McOowan, Mrs. P. II. Cully, H. W.

1swis and family, J. 0.11, J. H. Lippiucott, F. Uowen, J.

E. Mitcholl, wife and Miss Mitchell. BARATOO A PKRSONAJ.B. Mr. Lapham, who has roulod Mr.

Conkling in tho Senatorial contest at Albauy as a candidate, spent Sunday here and braced himself with llatlioin water to go into the battle with renewed vigor, Ho then felt assured ho would bo elected on Monday. Judge Hilton daily entertains many guest at meals at bis country seal, Woodlawn, just outside this village. Mrs. A. T.

Stewart is staying there, but daily visits the Grand Union Hotel, where her niece, Mrs, lilooiiifield Wetherell, is with hor husband aud infant and bcrsister. Miss Smith. Thero is uol a prettier, daintier little creature lo bo seen anions; all the children horo than littlo Miss Wetbereil. who is not. yet two years old.

On lete occasions sho wears a charming littlo white, muslin short dress, blue kid boots and a hew itching poke bonnet. Sho is tho great groat niece of Mrs. Stewart, her great grandmother. Mm. Clinch, being the sister of the latter.

Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, and hei Grandson havo arrived at the United States Hotel. His friend, Mrs.

Og'o Tayloc, of Washington, who, owing to a nevcro attack of rheumatism, could not, after leaving Newport in October, return to Washington, spout the wiuier wiib relatives in her native place, Troy, and came horo June 1. She is improving iu health. Mrs. Ellen Hardin Wainorth has her cousin, the willow of Ex 'Iovernor Hr.imlette, of Kentucky, with her at hor home here. Mrs.

Brnm lctte is tho sister of Mrs. Joe Binckburu. Miss liramlolte is with hur stepmother. A private letter received from Representative Carlisle, of Kentucky, and his wile, mentions that they expect to arrive in New York by tho Si'iih, ns they sailed on tho Id It. in ihoSevthia, from Liverpool.

They have been in Europe sinco tho hist of April, spending most of their time in Paris. They were in London the first of this month when tho news came of the Presi dent's assassination, and were greatly shocked by tho report on tho 2d that ho was sinking rapidly. Mr. Carl is lo wrote that many Americans in London that the Conkling quarrel had something to do with tho affair, hut that he was reluctant to believe that political animosity conid be carried so far in our country. The Saratoga landiimis aro ouat hematiing Guileau.

Ono of them tells mo ho lnt a ciear by engagements at his hotel being canceled on account of tho attempted assassination of tho President, making every ono tcel unsettled and disposed to remain at, or ko to, their homes until his recovery seemed assured. Tho weather here has been delightful most of the week, so cool that the steam heat has been turned on in the hotels. Miss Grundy, W. D. Tyler, who has so successfully managed the Logan itouse at Altoona and who formerly pro sided over the Minnequa Springs Hotel.

To N. Parker Shortridge, of your city, who is chairman of the building committee and a director of the Pennsylvania Ilailroad Company, the 'credit for this improvement is principally due. It has been his pet scheme for years and he has labored assiduously for its success. Ho has been here for weeks personally suporintendingthewnrk, whieh whs retarded by the lateness of the spring, so that when the uuests arrived at tho beginning of this month, the time fixed for openiug the hotel, they found nothing in readiness except the walls and the roof. Wonderful progress has been made, and although workmen avo still engaged potting on the finishing touches arly nil the rooms are occupied and there are more applicant for August that: can be accommodated.

Colonel McClurc and wife, Mr. Oralis and family, Mr. Price and family, of Philadelphia Major ('onyngham and family, of Wilkesbarre Colonel Gaylord and Mr. Duncan and their families, of Louisville, besides any number of well known Pittsburg and Cincinnati people, aro among the guests already here, (iovernor Ifoyt and family, Attorney Gcn eral Palmer and family, Judge Stanley Woodward and family, of Wilkesbarre, are expected next week and quite a number of well known Pliiladolphians have engaged rooms for August. The season promises to la) the gayest ever known at Cressou in its best days.

Some idea of tho size of this splendid hotel can he formed when you are told that it has KT!) feet, of continuous veranda and that, its dining room is 2 10 feet long. The whole first floor is given up exclusively to the use of the guests, iu parlors, reading rooms, smoking rooms and spacious hall ways. Tho house, being hunted throughout by steam, with low down grates in many of the chambers and in all of the public rooms, thus making ample provision for tho comfort of guests in chilly weather, will revolutionize autumn rusticating among the mountains and make it as popular a resort in the dclhrhtful months of September and October as in the hot months of mid summer. CBKHSON Sl'LNERY. As tho view from the hotel piazzas is not extensive I reluctantly started to walk to what is called "The Summit," a mile and a half distant, expecting to see Huntingdon at my feet, Harris burg plainly visible and possibly Philadelphia itself shining in tho far distance.

Iliad even a faint hope of catching a glimpse of the Atlantic Ocean on the horizon line. Siillice it to say 1 was disappointed. I can stand on the top rail of a fence in Moi (g.micry or Chester comity and sec just as lino a view any day. Nothing can bo finer than tho mountain scenery along the railroad from Altoouu, at the eastern, lo Johnstown, at the western ba.se of the mountains, a stance of thirty eight and seven truths miles. But here, on the very top, you 6eem to bo only looking over a succosaion of bills.

The uet is tho Alleghenies are a broad backed range, on top of which are to be found farms and even tow ns, Kbensliurg, for insianoe, lying over 2,000 feet above tide water. Tho walks aro boardwalks and that is all I can say for them, not being much of a mountain climber. The drives are good enough as mountain roads go, but only one of theie interest, me. it is the old Portage road. You will remember that it formed, together with the canal to Pittsburg on the west and to llarris burg on the cast, with the old Columbia Railroad to Philadelphia, the system of public works belonging to the State, which constituted the only mode of transportation lo the Went after the day of the, old lumbering Ooncstoga wagons which used to traverse tho "pike" over the Alleghenies.

You darted along beside tho blue Juniata on your swift canal boat till you reached the eastern base of the mountains, jumped on the cars, were pulled up an inclined plane by wire roK'S to a level, along which you were jerked by a locomotive for a short distance to another inclined plane; up that you were again hauled, and so until the summit was gained then you were lowered down the other side in tnc same manner till you reached the western base, where you again embaikid in another swift "packet" upon the raging canal and sped Into Pittsburg, doing the whole di t.inco fiom Harrisburg in he. incredible short time of three days and three nights. To show hnw the attempt to build a railroad to be traversed by locomotives across themouutains was regard, in that day Mr. Mct.lnre told me of an interview which Jim Burns, of Lewistown, who was Superintendent of Public Works and knew all that was known about transportation iu that day, had with the late J. Edgar Thomson, then the company's engineer in charge of the great work.

The interview was described by Hums himself. 'How do you expect to take your cars across the said "'lly Thomson, and then I saw that the man was a fool; but I thought I'd ask him another question just to find out how big a bad he was." How long do you expect to take to run from Philadelphia to Pittsburg in that way I asked." "'J hvjie to do it in fifteen said he. Then I knew he was a fool, and I left him in disgust." Think of that To day the distance, three hundred and fifty three miles, over a mountain twenty three hundred feet high and thirty eight niilee from base to base, is traversed by express traius daily iu about nine and a half hours. CHKSSON'S CHARMS. Well, you ask, if there is no scenery, no walks, no drives, no bar (there isn't even a back room), no excitement, nothing to do and nothing to see, why do people go there? Why, for the air, of course the "Cressou air." To understand what that is yon must inhale it yourself, on a clear day, remember, for, of course, rainy days at Cressou don't count.

I will not attempt to describe it, for if I should say it is the purest, coolest, freshest, most life giving, most heavenly mountain air in tho world, 1 would still fail to sati: fy Crcsson people. If you want excitement, stay away, by all ineaus. You would probably not find a single fly or mosquito to nuke things liv ly for you and stir you to exertion or provoke you to profanity. The only signs of excitement 1 have noticed are an occasional sleepy game of whist a "summer" game, of course and what promises to be a tenuis lawn devised by some restless people who have not yet learnt the unutterable, bliss of repose. If you want ex I repeat, stay away, or seek a more congenial place where French pools, mint jubps, crowds of excursionists, howling swells, fast men, fascinating women ami late hours most abound, lint if you are worn out in mind jjioily and desire some quiet place where natui tf1i.it kind old mother of us all ho is always so near, shall lay her healing hand open you and bid you be strong again or if you have a child whom you have been watching day after day letting go its hold of earth ami failing away into that darkness out of which it came; or if, happily, you are only a mv.y man, like myself, with a perpetual desire to lie down and rest, to doze away the long bouri of a suuiint day over an unread bock under shady trees, to watch through the smoke of your evoti iug cigar crowds of well dressed people strolling about on the piazna of a great hotel, flirting, talking', laughing; to sit.

under blankets night after night, when you know that the ss fortunate woi Id below you is tossing in unrest and finding a mosquito net and a fan too much covering, lien try Crcsson air" and you may come to und' rsiaud why so many people swear by it and why this new Mountain llouso was a necessity and will he a success. Itd.fcH. MAD PLAYERS. Some famous Actors Wl.o Have Shown la auiitty lpon tlie Stage. Dnttoo Cook Id nclgravla.

There havo bceu mad players. Tlie case of tha Irish actor, Lay field, narrated by O'Keell'e, is perhaps hardly in point. Layfield was struck with incurable madness whilo in the act of playing to tho Othdlo nt Sheridan and died shortly afterwards in an asylum. The I'ust. symptom of his malady is said to have been tlie perversion of the txt of his part and his description of jealousy as a green eyed lobster." And the later eccentricities of tho veteran Mackliu may bo attributed rather to excessive senility than to absolute mental disease.

We arc toi.l that, properly attired us Slijhct; ho entered tho green room, where tha other players were already assembled. He was abont to mako his last appearance upon the stage. What! is there a play to ha inquired. All were amazed no one answered. "Is there a play to night ho repeated.

Tho representative of 1'ortia said to him, Yes, ol course. 'The Merchant of What is the matter with you, Mr. Mackliu "And who ia tho Skylark he asked. Why, you, sir, you aro the Shyloclc." All," he said, aui 1 and he sat down in silence. There Wiw general concern.

However, the curtain went up, thu play begun, aud the agetl actor performed his part to the satisfaction of the audience, if he stopped uow and then and moved to the sitle the la tter to hear tho prompter. Kh, what is it? what do you say ho sometimes demanded audibly, as he lifted up his hair from bis ear and lowered his head besido the prompter's box. But lieddish, the stepfather of George Canning, was decidedly a mad Ho had been dismissed from Covent Garden Theatre because of bis indisposition of mind," when, upon the intervention of certain of his friends, the management granted him a benefit. The play of Cym huline" was accordingly announced with Reddish 1'osthnriins. Ireland in his biography of Henderson relates that an hour before the perform untie he met Reddish with the step of an idiot, his eyo wandering and his whole countenance vacant," Congratulated upon his being sufficiently recovered to appear, Yes, sir," he said, I shall perform, and in the garden scene I shall astonish you 1" "Tim garden scene?" cried Ire hind; I thought you were to play No, sir, I play J'mnto." And all the way to tho theatre ho persisted that be was to appear as Jinmro; ho even recited various of tho Kpncuhesj of that character, and after his arrival in tho green room it was with ox! nunc difficulty he could be persuaded that he bad to play any other part.

When the time came for him to appear upon the rtagc, lie was pushed on, evevyouo fearing thai he. would begin his of l'dftiiumnn with one of llon co's sj i dies. With this expectation," vviiles Ireland, "I stood in tho pit, close to the orchestra, and being so near bad a perfect view of bis face. The instant he caino insight of the audience his recollection seemed lo return, his countenance resumed meaning, bin eye appeared lighted up, he made the bow of modest respect ami went through the scene much better than I had before scon him. On his return to the green room the image of returned to his mind, nor did he lose it till his second ap poaraiioe, when, tho moment ho had tho cue, ho went through the scene, and in this weak and imbecile state of bis understanding performed the whole better than lever saw him before." Ireland even pronounced that the actor's manner in his insane state was "less assuming and more natural" than when he bad "tho full exercise of hi reason." Ki ddish w.ts not seen again UHin the stage, however; he died soon afterwards hopelessly niad, an inmate of York asylum, A JIAU FIGARO.

In the records of the Theatre Fraucais a vory similar ease may be fouud. Tho actor Munroso, famous at one time for his admirable pcsonatiou of the charac.Vr of l'itjuru, had been for some month in confinement because of the disordered condition of his mind. Ilis success iu lleauuiar chais' comtdy had in truth turned his biain. Ho had so ideiitititd himself with the part of tho Spanish burlier that he coiild not lay it down or bo rid of it. On the stage or off, sleeping or waking, he was always lignro.

He had forgotten his own name, but he answered to that of h'ujnro. In conversation be was absent, apiaared not to bear or not to understand what was said to him: but a quotation from the Uarbier" produced an immediate reply, a merry laugh, a droll gesture. It was resolved that a peiioruiamv should lie given for bis benefit, and that he should appear a Fignta upon the occasion. Tlie house was crowded to excess. Mile.

Rachel and all the leading players of the Fraucais lent their service. Tho representation produced a profit of francs. Dr. Blanche, the leading physician of the asylum in whieh the, actor had been confined, was present throughout the evening, in close attendance upon bis patient, soothing and encouraging him in tho intervals of the performance. The anxiety both of spectators and actors was very great.

Tho scene was described as "exciting in the highest degree." It was dreaded lest the actor's malady should suddenly disclose itself. Tho audience hesitated to applaud lest they should dangerously excite the poor man. Mile. Kachel was so affected that she twice lost recollection of the words sho should sjieak, although she was appearing in ono of her most favorite and familiar characters. The representatives of Hmina and could not disguise their terror; at each word, at each gesture of Fiynro's, they looked for betrayal of his insanity.

It was said, however, that the actor had never played better than on this his last night ii)ioii the stage, when be was released but fur a few hours from the madhouse. He sought to reassure bis friends by his ease of manner, his smiling glances, his air of complete sclf iiosses sion. At one time only did ho seem thoioughly conscions of the painful position in which ho was placed. Towards the close of the third act of the comedy Figaro is required to exclaim three times: II estfou!" We are told hat 6 this ntteranco "every heart beat with terror and here, and here only, did Monrose himself seem to betray that he was aware of tho truth; lit: spoke witli im ceasing vehemence and with an expression of tlie inest poiguunt grief." A THUK In the Memoirs of Mm. Ucllumy, of Covent Garden Theatre, it is told how an insane actress once forced her way 011 to the stage aud represented to iK'rfection the madness of Uihelin but the story is not very credible.

Mrs. Verbruggen she. had been known, too, as Mrs. Moiintforil, and in her honor Gay, it was said, had written his "Black Eyed Susan "hail eii enniined for some time in an asylum her mind hail suffered because of the perfidy of Mr. Ilartoti Knoth, tho tragedian, who had suddenly transferred his affections from her to the beautiful Miss Santlow, the dancer.

Mr. Verbruggen was allowed considerable liberty, however, for her malady had not assumed a violent form, so that she was ablo with little difficulty to elude the watchfulness of her attendants and make her way to the theatre. She li.ul ascertained that "Hamlet" was to bo represented; as Jilnlin she had been wont to receive the most fervent applause. ''Concealing herself till the scene ill which Ophelia maks her appearance in her insane Mate, she pushed on to the stage before her who the character that night anil exhibited a far more perfect representation of madness than tho utmost exeriionsof mimic art could do. Show.

is in truth Oiiu'lin'ii self, to the ainazcinciiti of the jierformcrs as well as of the audience. Nature havinginadc this last ellort, her vital powers failed her." Lefi'oy'a Uesperate Villainy ami tiio Phenomenal hi upidity of the Officials. From a London Letter. Tho body picsentcd a frightful appearanco in the dim glare of the lantern which Jennings carried, and he hurried away to Balcombo without moving it aud gave the alarm. Tho authorities of the railway sunt an engine and brake to the tunnel, and tho corpse and clothing, a few pennies and a bunch of keys were gathered up and taken to Balcombo, whore they were placed In tlie stables of the Railway Iun.

Here the body was thoroughly examined by surgeons and fouud to be literally covered with gaping wounds, which showed how heroically Mr. Gold had fought for his lifo. There was a lacerated wound between the first finger and thumb of the right hand penetrating to the bone, which was evidently mado by a knife, which the dead man probably grasped by the blade in order to wrench it from his assailant. The back of thia baud was covered with scratches, and ou tho let hand there was a clean cut to the bono across the thumb ou tho inside. From this cross cut thero was another down to tho middle of tho ball of tho thumb.

On the head there was a jagged wound Irom tho right ear nntler file chin to the left 6ido of the mouth, apparently made by a knife pawd around tha throat. In the centre of tho chin there was another wound about an inch in length, running obliquely to tho left side of the mouth, and there woro two distinct cuts, ahout two inches iu lenirth, extending to tho middloof tho jaw. These woro about half ail inch in depth. Another deep wound extended from tho left, of tho mouth nearly to the corner jf tho ear, and thero were soveral cuts below tho loft ear and in the middle of the left cheek. Tho man's face was literally hacked to pieces, as though the assassin had struck right and left at tho head of his victim In tho dark without aiming, which was probably tho case, as a great part ol tho struggle was in the Mortshani tunnel, lie low tho rilit ear was a gun shot wound.

This was probably mado at the time when Mr. Gibson beard tho loud reports which ho took for fog signals. The murdoror failing to kill Mr. Gold with his pistol resorted to tho use of the knifo and mangled him almost beyond recognition before ho succeeded iu taking his life. Alter the body of Mr.

Gold had benn hurled from tho compartment the train sped swiftly on its way to Preston Park, bearing the murderer away from tho evidence of li is tcrribio crime. When it arrived thero Letoy pushed his head ont ot tho window and beckoned to Mr. Gibson, tho collector ot thill station. Hie face was covered with bleed, tiicro was blood on his shirt nnd pantaloons and he was without a collar. As Gibson approached hi in he said "Can you get me a medical man? I havo been cruelly treated bj' two men who were with mo here.

They havo shot me and robbed me." Thomas Weston, the guard, know that thero had been but two men in the car and he knew that no person could have lelt between Croydon anil Preston, but he seems to havo lost bis bead at the sight of Leiroy's bloody face and the blood and other evidences of a struggle in tho compartment. Ho advised Lefroy to go straight on to Brighton, where ho conid get medical attendance. Lofrny consented, and as he slopped into the compartment ugain Watson noticed a piece of a watch chain hanging from ono of his shoes. seized the chain and pulled out a gold watch. "How did this get he asked Lefroy, I'm sure 1 don't kuow anything about it," said Lofroy.

"They've been trving to rob mo and murder me on the way." Watson, supposing the watch to be his, placed it on the scat by his side, toid him to take care of it, aud Gibson, the ticket collector, was ordered to go with him to Brighton, This was done, bernuso tho guard came to the conclusion that Lefroy was insnno and bad been trying to commit suicide. Tho fact that Mr. Gold was absent was not noticed by this astute guard, who seems to have done everything in bis power to aid the murderer lo escape. At Brighton Gibson took hiui to tho Sussex County Hospital, where his wounds worn dressed by Dr. Halo.

Tiiey were comparatively slight, but wero not sneh, in Dr. Hale's opinion, as could have been intlictel by himself. The doctor advised him to remain in the hospital for a time, but he said that he had an engagement in town which ho must keep, and tha doe tor then sent ConstaMo Holmes, of tho railway service, to take him to Wallinfton, where ho said that be had relatives. Holmes look i iu to tho house of Thomas Graham Clayton, the husband of his second cousin, aud left him there, freo to make bis escape. Lefroy, as soon as Holmes was out of sight, told Clavton that be was going out to seo Dr.

Cressy, left the bouse and was not seen again until his arrest last night. The stupidity of therailwav officials in thus allowing him to Blip through their bands and placing the county to so much expense and trouble to secure him has caused almost as much comment as thu terribie murder itself. It is not probable that he secured much from Mr. Gold except his watch, as that gentleman seldom carried much money with him, and the condition of Lefroy when arrested indicates that ho'was suffering from lack of sufficient food. What ho has done with tho watch is still a mystery.

Nothing lo V.nt Except Dog. From the lleuton (Montana) Record, Ouo hundred and titty lodges of Crees aro now camped near the mouth of the Muscleshell and nro in a ino.it pitianlo condition. Father Heollen found them on their nay North from this side of the line and they were starving. For two weeks or more they bad had nothing to cat except their dos, everyone of whieh they had killed and devoured. They were comptetely demoralized, wandering aimlessly on tbn pnt'rie, and hoping for denlh as a relief to their suffering.

They are itrilish Indians who hnve heremfuro refused to enter into treaty. Their principal chiefs are Uiu Uear and Little Pine. Father Heoltc piloted them to their present camping ground, near which some game is lo bo found. Sheriff llealy ami Jeff Talbert stopped oim liij lit at their camniui; plneo last weeh, and every niau, woman nnd cnild of Ihem seemed to be sick from having (rortted hitusolf or herself with minted buffalo meal, which their hunters, sent out to forage, hud procured but wero uuuhlo to keep fresh until they reached the home lodge on Recount of bot weulber. An Orgaii Crimlcr's Sleeping Child, From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

For some time past an Italian woman, holding in her lap A small hoy nnd frr'ntllng nwny nt an old oriran, hits been stationed al Iho comer of Sixth and Vine streets. It was noticed by Olllecrs ltoylo nud Lussman thnt the woinnn made the little fellow keep asleep nil the time, and whenever lie woke up slit, would slap his face and make him close his eyes Last night the officers nrrested the woman and took her to the Central Station ntong with Iho child. She acknowledged thst the boy was not her own, but pretended alio couid uol understand Itsh and therefore uo satisfactory account of tier self or the child. Polico Surgeon Arm.tronir examined the hoy snd found him to bo in a weak condition, evidently sutlerinc; from the effects of some preparation given hiui to nutko bini sleep. How He Caught a Little Cougar.

From the Albany (Oregon) Pemocrat. Audrew Wiley, of Linn county, who baa lot so tunny sheep from attacks by coiixiirs, is now beginning to get even. A week or so ago hu put soute pulsou on the carcases of several sticcp whicti had been killed by a cougar and bo has not lost a sheep sttiec. Another matter whieh entisea bim to believe tluit ho has succeeded in kliling the old sheep eaier is that a lot of young cougars hnve been running around there since, making a living for themselves, lie ha captured two of them and Jackson has taken one and killed another. Mr treed one of thein Willi his dogi, mid then fastening; steel trap ou a pole ho climbed tho tree with it, Ul on getting up closo to the allium! he stuck the trup up against one of lis paws and caught it.

To My Dog Illnnco." My dear, dumb friend, low lyitig there, A williiiir vassal at my teet, Gind partner of my home nnd fare, My shadow in the street. I look Into your great brown eyes. Where Ittvc and loyal ltoinsKe ahine, Ami wonder where the difference be Between your aoul nd niiue I For all of good that I hnve found Within myself or human kind, Until royally informed and nrowned Yotirgeutle heart and nund. I scan the whole broad earth around For that ono heart, which, leal and (rue, Bears friendship without end or bound, And Uud the prize lu you, 1 trust you as I trust the stars Nor orucl loan, nor Hull of pride, Nor bcgicnry, nor dungeon bars, Can move you from my side 1 As patient under Injury As any Christian saint of old. An gentle its a la nib with mo.

But with your brothers bold; Mere playful tlinn a frollo boy. More walehful than a sentinel, By dny and night your oonslaul joy To guard and please nio well, I clasp your head upon my breast Thu wlnlo you whins and licit my hand And thus our friendahip is confeaaad, And thus we understand I Ah, Bianco did I worship Ood As truly ns you worship me. Or follow where my Master trod Willi your humility, Did I sit fondly at His feet, As you, iliur Hlunco, lit nt mine, And wnleli Hun with a love a awcet, My life would grow divine 1 Q. llMand in Strlbntr, Fan for the Cliiltlren A Story That Uncle Kemus Skipped Puzzles. In the ttoi ics by that dear old Georgia darkey, Uuolo Reams," the rabbit always figures as the cunning animal and the fox as tho silly animal.

Very likely the children who have read tho stories havo wondered bow the dull rabbit got to be so smart and tho smart fox so dnll. Thero is something curious about it, but, nevertheless, in all the traditions kept alive by the colored poople of the country the rabbit is the leadiug chaactor. Down in Maryland, not fifty miles from Philadelphia, an Bgcd colored niau once told the writer the following story, which he has never seen in print: de NtaoAH 'en be hahhit. Kndnrin dein days do rabbit wuz wuss on de kebbegge patch dan be am endurin dees times w'eu thickets am skcorser. Dar wins cr olo nig gah liben obor dar longside do branch, 'en 'bout squash time ouect lie gun tor feol snrtain dat his kobbogges wuz a walkin off 'twixt midnight en foah or clock in de mo'iiiu.

t)e olo nlggah sez ter hiesolf: "G'waylrorn hcah mo'll ketch ye en sen ye tor jail, kase roe's sartain ob de stealer." Spite od dis wa'nin do rabbit kep a cumin', en bimeby de ole darkey cotchod de rabbit in a box. 0, Moss do rabbit, senze. ah, yah, yah, Moo8 tiabbitt," 8cz do niggah, sezzo, Lemmo go dis time, Moss Niggah," sez de rabbit, sezzo, cn me'll nebbe steal yo' kebbege again. Jess dis time." "1'se gwino fur ter kill ye, slio's ycr do darkey, en do rabbit let on like cz ho wuz skeernd ter dcf. Den de rabbit erz: "Am ye gwino fur ter shoot me, er ter hang uiu up, erlcr dround lue?" sezze.

Ncbbcr min' dat, dat am my look out," scz de darkey, eczze. Es dey uz passin' long neah wliaro do rabbit kno'd dar wuz a briar patch, ho up en sez: Mess Niggah, do'an trow mo inter do briar patch Do'an do dat. Moss Niggah. Put me ter def enny way but dat. Shoot nio, cr hang me, er dround nm, but do'an frow me iulor briar batch.

Dat's de wuss fo'm ob dcf; enny dof 'cent dat Den do niggah scz, sezzo: Dat's jess wa't Pso gwino fur ter do me wan' no inoah ob dein kebhegges toted off en he an cu frowa de rabbit inter do briar paleb. 'Coase dat's jus3 w'at do rabbit am a hungerin' fur, en es soon cs ho strikes do briars lie kicks up him heels en off he runs. En dat's du way do rabbit fool do niggah some ruzzt.Es. An enigma easy enough for auy bright girl or boy to catch the meaning of is sent by Josio A. linzin am composed of 8 letters.

My 1, 2. 3, 4, 5 is a llind. My 6, 4, 3 is to allow. My 1, 2, 5 is not peace. My 0, 2.

3, 4 is Ions: delayed. My 3, 8, 7, 6 is an implement. My 1, 7, 8 is the decce, of sheep. My 5, 2, 3 is a bothersome animal. My whole is tho name of a gtcat battle.

Another enigma, by Jessie Powell, is just as easy I am composed of 12 letters. My 4, 5. 12, 3 is to wound. My 7, 1, 2, 10 is a kind of lish. My 9, 11, 8, 0 is a fruit tree.

My whole is a Times puzzle cor.tr'bntor. Next comes a charade by John Underbill: My 8, 50, 11, 17, 1, 21, 6, tC a command, My 14, 3, 15 is lo lie silent. Mv 7, 12, 10, 1. 13, 19 a reflection. My 4, 19, 13.

20, 17, 9 is lo rednca. My 2. 9, hi, 5, 1, 13, 19 is eouiin inicalion. My whole is one of Shitkespv'Hre'B ptsys. Figures and material for tho construction of two right angiod triangles are appended Material First 1, a wild animal 2, fruit of Ibo oak 3, dress 4, vessel 5, ouo of the articles 6, a consonant.

Second 1, plural of South American animal 2, a former religious soot 3, bearing 4, itnportiuit animal; 6, one of the nicies 6, a convonnut, AX ODD PtF.CK OF VKK8E. Onco there was a lover whoso letters to his sweetheart had to pass through tho hands o1 the lady's fiuher. Now, the father didn't like the lover, aud so the lover wrote as follows 1. Piiilontele. when you are tiear, 2.

Lite is a burden hard to bear. 3. am as httppy as can be 4. Waeu you are miles nwny from me. 5.

So. if you love me, littlo one, 6. Hefuse my suit, bid lue begone 7. Teil tue Ibitt you will be my wife, 8. You'll bliKht my ev'ry bope in life.

But the lady was shrewd enough to seo that the lines contained some other meaning than that conveyed on the surface. Sho therefore searched for the key. found itand saw that what nnpenred to be all wrong was really all right. What as the key mid what did the lover intend that his girl should understand 1 Finally, hero is a diamond by Jules E. Pore yra: Material: Centrnl, anumerAl adjective; 1, nlctter; 2, to fasten 3, relating to t'ao earth's poles 4, central; 6, lutreuuuu; 6, tho spawn of fishes; 7, a consonant.

Good pnzzles onn'rihptrd by Buzz, Arthur Capper, Yigdo and Tom will bo ued hercalter. KCUOKS FKOM LtKT WKKK. J.mie.s Cooko Simpson" lathe answer to tho first enigma presented last week, tho answer being the nniuo of tho contributor. The answer to John Underbill's charade is: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Solutions to Arthur Capper's diamonds and J. K.

Percy ra's double diagonal aro herewith placed iu a row SALVE RAT 8 1 I BACON II A It SCALP TOP A It 1 ELK TENON The answers to J. transpositions are: 1, (ace, cape; 2, kite, tiko; 3, emit, time. To tho reversions: 1, nap, pan; 2, mar, ram. To tiio decapitations: 1, triad, read; 2, trap, rap, par; 3, tear, ear; 4, trend, rend. Tho last of tho puzzles last week was a diamond, by Paratus, and hero is the auswer to it: I ACT a ACCLAIM ICELANDIC it A (' BIDET MID Those who made correct folntions were: J.

1. H't kiiMii. Heriie I. De Ynung, ilnrry Jay, Oinriooii. Powell, HazMi, A.

t'linriea Wood, (tiiRiltlor. Jonn t'lulerhul, JoleH IC P.reyra, Ibtrry Vviiiard, Susie Pin khursl and H. Milhkeil. OLD ALPK'8 RATTLER. A Snake That Contained as Many Articles a a Variety Store, From the Columbus (Oa.) Times.

A coi respondent writing from Gcnova, under date of June 28, says: Tho largest rat tie Miake of tho season was killed near hero this Week by Alph Brown, an old freetlinan. It measured four lect and seven Inches in length and had eleven rattles. Alph says ho has known tho snake to be in hi premises for fiveyears, but for two year he has been missing until last work. He was discovered under his dwelling house by his wifo. Ho says sho was preparing dinner and had noticed her pet cat about half way through a burned bolo iu the floor, which was his way of entering the room, ami in a few moments his mowing caused her to think ho wan in distress.

She called Toniinie, but still he did not mako hi entrance, and the second timo she took him by tho neck to pull him through, and behold the monster had swallowed Tom's tail nnd sho came near pulling both through. She immediately left for the fiold to find Alph to help her conquer tho enemy. Alph rame with his spade, but bis house being woll planked around the pillow ho decided to try bis luck with hot water. Ho scalded at him for two hours without success. Ho then went two and a half miles and borrowed a gun, raised a plunk in his floor aud gave him a cliurgo of fifteen buckshot, which put an end to his rattling music.

After examining him for sonic time decided to see what he had been feasting upon, and to his surprise ho louurt within him a pipe, a small pair of pcinsoi, two obi knilo handles, fntutocn rats and a portion of hi wife's snap gourd. Alph says ho in satisfied be planked him up fully two year ago. Ho has sniellcd him often, but could not find hlui. This Is tho seventeenth one ho ha killed on hi place In three year. Hop Bittkiis has restored to sobriety and health purleut wrcelti, from liilonpejautN, Mttr, New Improvements Bring New Lifo lo a Favorite Mcuiifaifl RcscrL 1 MODEL SUMMER HOTEL Whera Comfort and Elegance are Combined on the Top of the Alleghenies.

tpcclul Correspondence of Thk Tim. Chkksos Sprinox, July 20. Those of your reader who remember Crcsson as it was in forim seasons would wholly liiil to recognise it lo diiy. Tho old Mountain Ilmi'to, Ehahhy, dilapidated anl of lato years half deserted in Iho hist of times, hits lt: srod uud in its place hus arisen, like an exhalation," a new Mountain House, which is ono of the largest and most splendid summer hotels on this eouti lient, and that is equivalent to saying in the. World.

Something like tweuty flvo years ago the Crcs son. Hotel Company bought a largo tract of hind on tho line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, on top of the Alleghenies and two miles went of tho groat tunnel, whir.h was justly regarded at tho timo of its completion as one of tho modem won dors of the world, hut which has now dwindled into insignificance when compared with the Mont Cenis and other creator tunnels, whieh it demon st rated could he dug tluough miles of solid rock by human industry and engineering Tho company laid out this tract in walks and drives, discovered a number of mineral springs then greatly in demand, built what was at that timo eoiiBulcrcd a largo hotel and few collages ami then invited the overworked, the sitk, tlie weary, the lazy and those happy butterflies of society who neither toil nor spin to eonie up from tho overheated and dusty cities of the plain for rest, recreation and tho renewal of their exhausted energies. The attractions held put to them were the coolest and finest mountain breezes, which had wandered from the surrounding clouds to play hide and seek among the tall pines and oaks ami chestnuts and beech trees that grew on the mountain top, feet above the sea; mineral springs containing iron and magnesia and alum and sulphur forthe healing ol tin sick, and fresh water sprint's, pure as dew new ly caught from the clouds and inicotitaimnafed by the earth, ami the scenery along the line, of the first railroad that ever attempted to climb over a lofty mountain at an altitude of feet. The.se were rare at I ructions and Crcsson Springs soon ranked us a watering place with Saratoga, in tho North, and nite Sulphur, in the South. OI.D TIMK W.VTKHINU Watering places twenty years ago were not what they are new.

There was at that time no Coney Island, llockaway and Long Beach within a few 11111111(1' ride of New York, and no Sea bright, no Monmouth lieiieh, uo Atlantiovillo, no Asbury 1'ark, no Ocean drove, no Ocean Reach, no Spring Luke, no Sea dirt, no Point Pleasant, no Uiiy's Head, no Peach Haven, no Kea Island City, no Ilrigantino Ileaeh, making the whole coast of New Jersey, from Sandy Hook to Cajie May, one continuous n.ibroken line of seaside re forts for the ovet healed, ocerilowing populations of New York and Philadelphia, Newport was then in its aristocratic, swaddling clotnes. Nar ruganselt l'ier, the favorite resort of callow youths who wear their front hair hanged and Bimperiug misses just emancipated from boarding school, had not yet been discovered by tho youthful fnshionulde world, l.nng llrnnch was known only to a oelect few of the l)cst jiooplo of Philadelphia, who were willing (as, indeed, they still are) to travel all day to reach a spot so secluded that they could feed upon pedigree pap and intoxicate themselves thinking of their own cxclusivcm without far of intiusion from the common herd. Alas a f. of them at this laio day still wander, like well bred ghosts, about, the piazzas of the llowland Hotel laiueiiuug the days, now gone forever, when their favorite resort was not overrun with polit.cians and Then it took you by rail six hours to reach Cape May and over four hours to reach Atlantic City now only ninety minutes from Philadelphia tho dustiest, dirtiest, dreariest rides ever taken by mortal in pursuit of earthly pleasure. Then, too, the old Columbia, even smaller than it is to day, w.us the "swell" hotel of Cape May; and Atlantic City, now an 'Uimense summer suburb of Philadelphia, consisted of the old Surf the United States lintel, half a dozen insignificant taverns and hoarding houses and two or three dozen unsightly cottages.

The watering places of that day were so few and so uninviting that in selecting a place to go for tho summer you had little better than Hobson's choice. Besides, going out of town was a very different thing from what it is now. Few people except the rich, the idle and the sick knew anything of that which was a luxury then, hut which we have come to regard as a necessity of city life. No wonder that Cressou soon beguile one of the most jmpular and fashionable summer resorts in the country and left its sioepy and unprogressive neighbor Bedford Springs far behind. ltOTF.r.8 MAKING MONEY.

But, notwithstanding the tearful protestations that he is beggaring himself to please you with which the summer hotel proprietor has from time immemorial endeavored to shut up your eyo while reaching for the last penny in your pocket, the summer hotel is a vastly paying institution. Else, why are they here and constantly increasing in number, size and siimptuousness? I happen to know of one of medium size which charges only medium rates and which has, on an investment of paid and respectively during the past three or an average of nearly thirty per cent, clear profit. How is that for high, with government onds paying three and a half per Consequently, of late rs 'resscai has been left in the lurch by reason of the almost innumerable newer, larger, handsomer, more inviting hotels which have sprung up all over tlie country, fiom Colorado Springs ami Waukesha, in the West, to the Stockton at Capo. May, the West Knd at Long Branch, the. lii ie iilon, Manhattan and Oriental at (Utm Island and those gigantic hotels at Saratoga, the United Stales and Grand Union.

And so Cressou lor a number of seasons has been patronized mainly by Pitt. burgers, by reason of its accessibility, and by occasional strangers who Would stop otr, secure rooms, eat dinner and finding nothing to sec and still less to do, would settle their bills anil disappear on the first departing train damning the place for tho stupidest in the world. So it came to pass that the cottagers were about the only people who held on to Crcsson and they held on mainly for the same reason which induced the man to hold on to the Is ar'stail, because he cnuid not well let im. A number of wealthy Pitlsburg ers have built for themselves on the company's grounds cosy private cottages, some of which cost bifh asl.i,i)'JO, on leases foruinety niiie years', counilioned upon their hoarding at the hotel at fixed rates in lien of rent. Among these were Mr.

William Tha.v, a director of the Pennsylvania Railroad and one of the richest, most liberal uud best known citizens of the Smoky City; the Painters, the mghlilis, the ,7 mcscs, the VVat. oiis, all owners of huge iron mills; the Paiks, the ljcechs, the Itai lingloiis and others equally well known. These cottages form ill itc a pretty and picturesque littlo village in the woods, and tho cottagers themselves constilutea society, select, exclusive, fashionably dressed and just iho least bit inclined to snub the transient guests of the hotel and boss things generally about the place. As they furnished to the hot. 1 about one Jiuiolrod of its permanent and regular boarders, and attracted to it from time to limn a good many of their friends, they felt they had a right to dictate how the hotel ought to be run; and when a director of the company, with some taste for landscape gardening ami hss knowledge of the rights of tenants, took it upon himself to cut down some, of the trees in front of their cottages, they declared war upon him and threatened to make him pay, out of his own pocket, a good round sum by way of damages for the destruction of their shade trees.

This ended his experiments at landscape gardening before his genius bad an npiorluiiity to exhaust itself upon the forest planted by the greatest of all gardeners. THK SKW CltKSSCUt. For years the cottagers have been urging tho company to tear down the dilapidate old house, which threatened to settle the question in itsown way by falling down, and lo build a new one in its place. And for yeais the ctnipuny it is now the Keystone Hotel Company, a corporation within the Pennsylvania Jiuiiroiid Company which owns thu Biyu Mawr Hotel and the liogun at Alloona has lieen promising to erect a new house, such as might hope to compete with the fashionable watering places of tho day and pay a profit Into the treasury of the corjioratioii. At last the promise has been kept, and right well kept, too, and the result Is a stately pleasure houso like that which Kubla Khun decreed, built in tho modern style of hotel architecture, painted in gorgeous colors, with minarets mid towers lifted high imumg the clouds, with vast piazzas and broad halls and Imposing stairways and luxuriously furnished parlors and sleeping rooms ami every modern convenience to render the condition of the most civilized mid Christianized sybarite of our day more than comfortable in any kind of weather.

The hotel and its appointments have cost already a quarter of a million of dollar and the Investment promise to bo a hand lomely paying one. Tho supotiutotideut is Mr, Special Correspondence of The Timhs. Sakatooa, July 22. The hops here have been unusually lively for so early a stage of the season. It must be remembered that the Saratoga season does not begin as early as at Newport aud Long Branch.

The United Slates Hotel hud its first Imp on the evening of tho Kith, which was especially lively, and another on Tuesday evening of tiiis week, and will have thcia on Tuesdays aud Saturdays through tho season. The dressing on these occasions has been even moro than usually rich and elegant. Congress Hall also began its series of bi weekly hops last week, which were productive of great enjoyment to all who attended. Mondays and Fridays are the hop nights thoro. The Grand Union will have its hops on Tuesdays, Thursdays aud Saturdays through the season.

The Clarendon, I understand, will also have hops this summer for tho first time iu several years. The "rncqtiet" seems to bo moro universally danced hero than it was last year, though it is neither a pretty or becoming dancu. That which is danced this season is a modification of the extreme style of stooping and kicking which at first characterized this dance. The "Polo Quadrille" was first introduced here at the hop at the States ou tho 16lh when eight couples forming two sets, directed by Mr. l'rothingham, tho master of ceremonies, who tuok part iu the dance himself, ent through tho pleasing figures of this new sipiaro dance.

The chief feature of each liaurois "hands all around." The figure which used to characterize the basket quadrille is also introduced and a cross hands figure representing the loiter X. Short, dresses aro almost universally worn iu tho ball rooms here; few ladies wear gloves and no gentlemuu do. No dress coat order has buen ismod yet. THE OAr.DKM PAKTY. No more favorable day for a fete cliampctre could have been made to order than that which perfected all tho arrangements for making tho first gard'iii party of tho season at tho Grand Union Hotel a success.

Tlie weathur yesterday was just warm enough to lender being out of doors agreeable in tho evening as well as by day. Tho choicest society at Saratoga, both resident and transient, is always only too pleased lo cooperate with Mr. Clair, tho lessee of thu Union, when bo gives those costly fetes, by adding interest to thetn by their prosienoo. Not only the guests of his own hotel, but a number of those le.sidiug at her hotels and in tho he.t boarding houses hero aro invited without any charge. Yet.

these garden parties cost several thousand each, and at least two are given every season. The invitations alono aro very expensive, for tiny are among tiio best ivorksoi iho engraver's art, ami tho illuminated programmes tor dancing aro the most beautiful oi the kind I have ever seen. Ail have palatums on each side of the covers and each piciura is diircrcut. Light thousand invitations were issued, sonic being sent elsewhere. Tho spacious pardon at ho Union, shaded by arching elms, doited with fiowcr heds ami having two fountains as pi ritiancut ornaments, was farther adorned by flag, banner and streamers with Iho national colors.

The dancing floor, as perfect as in tho best ball room a city can afford, measures ono hundred and ten feet by sixty feet, id was laid ucai the centre of the garden, in lull view of the hotel's pioius and porches and those of tho cottages. Py night tho gaidcn was illuminated by livo largo electric lights, ono immediately over the dancing floor, innumerable gas lamps and ono thousand Chinese lanterns. The latter hung on the balconies of the coitages and depended tioni iho trees along the many arched avenues formed by the magnificent old elms. Tho lanterns depending from tho latter wero so arranged on hoops, stars and crosses which swung high overhead as to resemble mammoth chandeliers with superb'y decorated globes. Coiorcd lights thrown from the fountains made them seem showers of gems.

The children I. ad the dancing floor to themselves from 4 to 7 P. and their ciders from 9 to li. As the dressing by day and eveniug was in full harmony with tho other features of the scene, white and light colored thiu dresses being in tho majority, the fascinations ot Iho spcctaclo can well bu imagined. Geutieuien in dress suits only were admitted to the dancing flour at night, and most of tho ladies who were upon it woro toilets as resplendent ns auy seen at an in door ball iu a city.

Diamonds, tiatins, embroidered in glittering beads, and velvets of gorgeous patterns, wero seen by night. MCSIC EVERYWHERE. The old nursery rhyme With rtiiDrs on her fingers, Aud bells on her toes, Slid shall have music Wherever she goes, literally applies to the Ictniniuo visitor to Saratoga now. She begins bur day with a walk in Congress Park listening to its lino baud, and after breakfast can divide the morning botweon the open air Concerts at four of the hotels: tho United the Union, the Clarendon and Congress Hall, at each of which there is a fitio the two lirst named having the largest orchestras. On the evenings when there are no hops at those hotels (hero aro balcony concerts given as in the mornings, except on Sundays, but every evening, Sundays included, concerts aro given iu Congress Park, which is now illuminated with a dozcu largo electric lights.

On Sundays its piograunne consists of sacred music. On Tuesday cveuing Mnio. llano Selika sang there and the orchestra also gave an attractive programme. A grand display of fireworks occurs here once a week. Owing to the great crowds often seated drinking the waters and listening to tho music in Congress Spring Park last season an annex has been built to its colonnade pavilion, nearly doubling its width, immediately iu lrontof tho spring.

This addition extends out into tho park. Tho flower beds near this scarcely show moie variety in coloring or brighter hues than arc observed in tho attire of the ladies who quuu" tho Congress water aud take healthful cxeicistt by a stroll in tho ground. Tho parasols look lika mammoth blossoms, so bright aro their colors. The red ones predominate, as they have lor several years past. Tho overworked and abused adjectives splendid, brilliant, glittering can be applied with all tho force of their original significance of each to tho spcctaclo offered by lite at Saratoga.

The electric lights dazzle, the fireworks bl.no, the diamonds glitter, tho bead trimmings, in such countless varieties, sparklo as docs the bubbling spring water, and thu silk and satin dieses shiuiiuor. BEAUTY AT THE RACKS. In addition to tho almost incessant choice mnsio there are races every day and always a good attendance, so ono never laid; amnscmcnt. The management at tho conrso is so excellent that ludies iu couples, without tho escort of gen tlonicu, go to it as freely as they do to a matinee at a first class tbeatro. They drive directly to the entrance of the grand stand and have nothing to do but go up one flight of stair ami select seals.

Tho scenes ou the ladies' stand are, as usual, very animated. Dresses of the brightest hue aro seen. Ouo is entirely clad iu brie lit red and carries a red parasol; another wears thin white muslin and laco another a sky blue ilk gaiizo with wliito laco alcoves; others appear in black silks or satins covered with glittering steel ornaments or iridescent beads. Men wearing on their coats white satin badge insoribed "French pools bought" aro going about tho stand constantly between Iho races, and the mere laut of their presence proves how anxious ladies are to take an active part iu the sport of tho day, for did no ladies care to buy pools tho occupation of those men would be gone, for men of course can go lo the pool seller's box to buy lor themselves. The satin badge men receive many beckoning from ladies to hasten to them, aud their advice about "the lavorito" ia eagerly sought by some to whom butting is a new pastime.

Once they have begun investing in tho pools, my sex become very eager in their interest, and their bodies sway and heads move back and forth with every motion of the horse on whom they have bought a pool ticket, FAMTMAR FACE AT TIIF. SFRINQ. I am glad to find, as usual, many familiar faces hero. People once attacked with the Saratoga fever never Becm to recover, but every summer the craving for the pleasures and comforts it offers return. It Is the pulley of some of the hotels hero (though not of all) to encourage tho same set of people to return year after year, whether other desiro to fill their places or not.

At the United State Mr. Marvin, who opened that hotel fllly onc year ago, annually welcome some of those who visited hi house before tho war for many successive summer. Ho ha had many of the foremost men of the nation as inmates ol his hotol In the course ot his long experience. Ho Is in excellent health thi summer and attend a usual to business, although seventy two years old. Among tboso uow at Saratoga, or who hav WHAT YVHITE8.UT IS.

The Dainty IKi of Mlutstei ial Dinners Only Utile Herrings. From Helnrnvia. It is still a matter of much dispute ns to what the so called whitebait really is, ninny contending that itis the young of the shad, others of the sprat. Mr. Yarrell, however, the eminent naturalist, has contended with great plausibility that both these theories are wrong pointing out, as an argument in favor of his assertion, that the young of tho shad is partly spitted.

This, he argues, is not so with the whitebait, which never exhibits a spot nt any age it color being a uniform silvery white. There, is moreover, too, a specific distinction between tho shad and whitvhait, which consists in the number of small bones extending from the backbone. Thus Mr. Yarrell informs us that iu the case of the slintl the number of vertebra; or small bone of whatever sie the siieci men may be, is invariably fifty five, while iu tho whitebait it is always lifty six. Even in a fish, he tells us, of two inches, thcirexact number may be distinctly made out with the assistance of a lens.

A writer in the Daily A'w of September ISMfl, speaking of whitebait, says: It varies very much in sizo and quality, according to the seawm of the year. Thus, in February and March considerable numbers of yearlings are caught. These aro without doubt 'yearling' herrings. In June and July thu bait run very small and head.) and eyes apjiear in the nets. These are very minute, gelatinous littlo creatures, so transparent that the bright silvery eye is the most noticeable portion of them." Ac nrd ing also to Professor Huxley tho whitebait is not a distinct specie of lish, but only the young of herrings.

In a lecture recently delivered at tint National Fishery Exhibition at Norwich (April 21. ISM 'i he said as follows: "The well known whitebait of the Thames consists, so far as I have seen, almost exclusively of herrings under six months old, and as the. average size of whitebait increases from March and April onwards, until they become suspiciously like sprats in the late summer, it may be cone! tided that they are tho progeny of herrings which spaw ned early in the year in tlie neighborhood of the estuary of tho Thames, up which these dainty little fish have wandered.1' A WEASELS WISDOM. The Successful Trap Ho Laid for Very Largo ltut. From tlie Santa Harhara Press.

Tho remarkable sagacity of the weasel was well illustrated tho other day by an iiieident which actually occurred in the suburbs of Santa Barbara. A Ketitlemnn's baru was inlestctl with rats and he was greatly annoyed by their depredations. Thuy havobcon gradually disappearing, however, during Iho past few weeks. Thu gentleman finally discovered tho causo of their piolublu dUtppeaiaiicu in a very wido.aw.iko weasel, which was engaged at tho time iu a vigorous combat with an unusually largo sized rat. The latter ptoved too much for bis adversary and Anally chased his wo.nclslih) out of tho bai n.

A few mornings later tho gentleman uiraiu found the same animals engaged in a. similar battle. Tho weasel at lust ran away, ns bt fore, and tho rat followed in hot pursuit. This timo, however, the weasel ran into a hole it had furrowed through a pilo of hardened compost. This ho'c was quite laige at the entrance, but the outlet was scarcely largo enough tondniit the passage of tho weasel's body.

Tho weasel dartc.l into tho hole, with tho rat at his heels. A moment later the weasel emerged lrom the other side, ran quickly around tlie compost pile and again entered tho hole, this timo in the enemy' rear. The gentleman, in terc'tcd in the proceedings watched the place some time and found that only the weasel came nut. Digging into thu comnost he found the rat quite dead and partly rateu. The weasel had arranged his trap so that the rat could untur, but, becoming closely wedged iu tho narrow portion of tho hole, could be attacked at a disadvantage and easily killed.

Aphorisms from the Otiili ters. from Bcrlbner. It tlou't tuke no prophet to rickcrlcc bad luck. I'ley don't bb no loafer In de mttrtin box. De wire ifrasa tubs a Iney nigger.

Dtir'srlkiit ttmsrt 'liirioti In a piow liandto. Twelve orolock nebbor is in hurry. Nebher 'pend loo inuuli on de blackberry blossoms. Don't bot on a 'titter hill liofo' da grtibblin lime. Heap o' good ootlon aialk gfta chopped up from 'aoeintln' witl de weed.

Many a nice corn silk winds up wid a nubbin in de full. A chlcken roos' la do dcbbul'l steel trap an' a grassy corn row ia hi flower garden. Do inorniu' glorias aiiil perlUkiet lubly to a man wld de baekitohe. Virtuous reniisylviinlans Astonished, From the Lancaster Intel. lKCitcer.

Every Pennsylvania visitor in Philadelphia bns been astonished nt tho open violation of State Inw which be Is accustomed lo see rigidly enforced nt liorua and whieh he (eels should not bo thus spat upon In the chief city of the Slate. Hit Is not a good law It ahottld be repealed but whilo it Is on the mat me book coy aa well a country nhnitld lie held to It. Wo are In lull ayiiipntliy voh Mayor King In Ilia enforcement of the law In matte 'if aliooiliiK Irons and wbl tl' Uitilr place, but Uiuae No Smoking. To the Kditor ol Tuk 1 imkh; I would ask through your valuable paper if smoking is hoc in tho horse curs. Why is it allowed on the llertiic? I rorte up lust cvt'iiinir in one of the small conches ho.din cljjlit nod a Kt llllt aol In with a oiKUrand putted il in but blast, linieii to the distsui.tb of Ino Indies who lioid toe lientls toward tlie window until ho (tot out.

1 nciilt iii'il lo take the uuiulH of the coach, but the driver bnf bun but did not make miy coiu mt nt on bis action. If ihu proprietors of IheHti If cs nibh ladies in pnirmiiKe llicm hould, by all means, prohibit binokiiig. Yours, A Constant Header. l'hilntlflpliln a Slimmer Resort, From tlie I.antatpr Kxnmlner ontl Fxpres. It is reuinrkablo that, although for the last fortniKhl the temperature In Philadelphia linn been nearly ns logh ns in liny other section of tho country, the inorlnluy fn.in turotliekeit nnd lieat will nut reach" baiter's ilor.cn." Bill iu Cincinnati, wilha population les by ttvo lhinis tliun that of Philadelphia, literal have been, diirinir July, two liuntlrud and sii'y fonr deaths front pon lrelte and one hundred nnd flfly fiom Hie effects of the excessive lienl.

Why there phonal benuch a rcmnrknble difference between the effi els the sun and bent In the two chics la a problem for iulciitisls. Hairy lloltollnk'i Cradle, Woven nf arnseb dry ami blown, Wiib sprite of clover here and there, A ctvy lining of thistle down And a fcnlhcr dropped from a bird In air Till I he cradle, dainty nnd floe, InUt'ti amny in the uieatiow nweet, Dunn, deep tlown, and never nign lo tempt too near little wayward feet, Ilown, deep down iu the blossoming gratia, That rustiei dreamily all thty long And only the yrilow buiiciflies And IheRrceu.gold bcea with their humdrum sou. Golden buttercup lenn Above, And Oh hoc while with lienrln all gold, Ooiilen lilyMIn nod their love, And the gulden miuxbliie alldolli fold. What wonder yoimg Bobolink aprhiKi to air. With fleck ol light in bin pluninge cuiiKlit, What vender hiawna'a medley rar Of all thiitu Roldati mid free and fair, And a aong with eontney frniiKlilt L.

Q. Warner, A Murder by shaking a Kope. From the Vinjti.iii City (Nev.) Knicrprise. A mini who lately arrived at Gtiaynins from Alamo, xico. lu cribca the dentil uf Dr.

the dentist, wlio death was reeorted aotne timo as caused by falline; down a dee 1, well, to foul play, lie fuys the hotel keeper bhook the roie to cause Furtt, lo fttlt tlotvu, hi order to oh.nin bin chattels, as Farie intended to leave lor Culiitcait the next, day Absolutely Pure. Made from flrapa Cream Tartar, No other preparation makes r.iica iiclit, llaky hoi hn ads or hixurluONuiv. t'nii be cirttii by dpepiic wulioiu It ttr ot the 111 Itimr liool ticHvy, lUdHvatihii. lood. Bold only In all trfoeei.

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