R9 jqFr xWT&.'ryT , "K's A 2 THE PETTSBURG . DISPATCH, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1890. "Bestiary," tells the story of the lamia with existed on earth, in the air or in the sea, the season begins racing goes on in some part at the different occasions of "clearances." much the same machinery as that which was would require, as Mr. Ashton has demou-- HORSES OF ENGLAND; of England almost continuously. The result HOW CROFTERS LIVE. there is little of interest aave the nnyarying THE PASTEUR CDRE. CURIOUS CREATURES used by Keats, but Topsell, being a plain is we do not get the best possible results out desolation of environment and every-da- y man, is little disposed to linger over such of the horses. We should have only a few life. This class of crofters are the most moonshine as the tale of the young man of A Chat With the Dnko of Beaufort, prominent meetings during the year, and Outside Employments That Add to smileless, voiceless people that live. Fring- A Great Medical Discovery That Koch i Corinith, the beautiful wandering woman, every energy should be bent toward getting ing the entire northeastern, northern and 'ir Fantastic Being3 That in the Days of and the cynical philosopher. "To leave, the 'Famous Sportsman. the very best conditions of the turf. So the Income of the Croft. northwestern coasts of Scotland may be Proposes to Eclipse. therefore, these fables," he says, with great many meetings mean the introduction of in- found hamlets of this class. There is not Mythology Peopled the Earth dignity, "and coiue to the true description of ferior horses into mostof them that they'may the sonnd of mirth, the tone content, or the hinder-part- s npon look of hope to be heard or seen in one. The the lamia. The AMERICA LOSING IN ENDURANCE. or may not be run their merits. A tew SHALL LANDH0LDINGS THE ROLE. TALKS WITH DRS. 110TT AKD GIBIER and Sea and Air. of the beast are like unto a goate, his meetings and a few tine courses would land is barren, the seacoast is grew some and forelegs like a beare's, his upper parts to a freat better for the turf than these many in- dreary, the habitations arc wretched, fishing precarious these woman, the body scaled all over like a Tha Finest Animals Bred From Cart ferior ones. Acres That Might Peed the Ilnngry Pre- is and the entire life of The Inoculation of Babbits bj Which thi dragon, some ob- went to the first Derby in 1840, people is n ceaseless, sunless effort to live. THE TAILED MEN OF AGES GONE. as have affirmed 'by the Arabians. "I and servation of their bodies, when Probur, the Horses and have seen, with some rare exceptions, every served for Sportsmen. It is only in the glens, on the mountain Yirns is Secured. Emperor, brought them iorth unto publike one from that day to this. There is much sides, within tbe straths, clustered in tbe spectacle; also is reported of them that sameness in all these contests, and there are upland comes or hollows, or here and there it TURF AND SAND BUNKING HOPE, BDT Kaleidoscope of Monstrosities in the Zoolojy they devoure their own young ones, and MERITS OF othei meetings which I prefer to Derby THERE'S IT IS FAE AWAY nestled by the side of mountain lochs and MDR0PH0B1A IS TUB IUAG15ATI05 of Fancy and the History therefore they derive their name lamia, of day. I had quite a novel experience going rivers, where the "removals" and "clear- Lamiando; and thus much for this beast." down there this year. was, to be my fifty-fift- h ances," like some wild mountain tempest, CCOBBISFQIXDEXCS Ot TBI DISPATCH. It -- of the Impossible. A less terrible combination of man and or sixth journey to the famous racecourse rCOItBtSPONDKNCE OT THE DISPATCH.' swept over the old Highlanders without The great expectations aroused by J)r. animal was the centaur, a creature so old IiOKDOjr, Ifovember 13. The Duke of and did not like the uncertainty of eithsr LekWICK, Shetland, November 8. annihilating all their homes, that the crofter Koch's new cure for consumption giva most eminent sportsman of I tliat the first record we have of him is As- Beaufort is the getting down or back in the crowded trains. Whatever may' be tbe average tourist's of old, the crofter of song and story and special pertinence at this time to sum- UXICORN. a TALUE OF THE HORX OF A syrian. The centaur is, perhaps, one of the the world. This head of a great house So I concluded that I would ride down on impressions from passing' glimpses ot tourists' tales, may yet be found. He is mary of tbe results secured by the Pasteur most attractive of mythological beings. In J!, pushed himself back from the breakfast horseback. I had a splendid mount, and crofters' communities, crolters' homes and grave and silent in bis loneliness; but about method of curing hydrophobia sculpture he subject of the thought to make a pleasant day of the jour- this child'of the mist lingers nearly all that in tha was a favorite table racrning, and talked of the past Brown-Sequar- this crofters themselves, believe one who passes United States. When Dr. d Th XiLtietcraWith the DetSly Ttil sad Othsr Sight! Greeks, and those imaginary portraits of ney circling around through Bichmond I remains Highland tradition, folk-lor- e and and present of high-clas- s sports with a vim by of him, whieh Athenian whieh made the distance longer, some time among them, cannot turn from pictnresqueness of environment. single, announced that he bad discovered what Sesn by Old Traders. survive from the he only is capable. Park, hut The wreck, show that he was always conceived and interest of which gave me a delightful route. them to his own world of brightness and lonely, isolated croft is too dreary for might prove the elixir of life, doctors all He has turned CG, and is yet young in head as a model of muscular development. The FORTY-FOU- R progress without a gennine sense of saduess But you will now and then come over this conntry got out their syringes and Tlie Hairy dirt. bones of a pheasant before MILES IN SADDLE. an I WRITTEN rOBTUK DISrATCH. ! torso was noble, and in the whole body there and heart. Tiie for their permanent, hopeless condition. upon old "clachan" where three or four, began jabbing injections of veal tea into him, to say nothing of the other good things "But as I had pleasant companions I did or perhaps half a dozen, crofts nestle in a "And jour young wen shall see visions strated, a pretty large book. "Within the not mind. reached course in good It is unquestionably true that the anybody who would permit it. few morning meal, told the We the corrie together, are huddled under the and your old men stall dream dreams." limits of a newspaper article only a of provided for our time, saw the wonderful crowd and the race. "Crofter's act" of 188G" was a just and Bnt the Pasteur treatment for hydro- the monstrous creations can be described. story an appetite which means good friendly protection of some precipitous crasr, This scriptural paraphrase might have been of We then started homeward, and I pulled beneficent measure. "Fair rents" have are grouped like brown Gipsy tents beneath phobia by injection is a slow and scientific But enough has been said to prove that we health. All ihe surroundings were fitted rein at my house in London early in the chosen with admirable fitness as a motto by live in a world which has seen some pasiing been almost universally fixed; arrears tbe strong arms of primeval trees; and here cure, beyond the reach of empirics and pro- all tribe of chroniclers, stretching from for repose and a chat upon any phase of evening, having covered 44 miles on horse- impossible of liquidation have been life and customs are in many respects very ductive of almost unerring results. One that strange things. ' t back, after having had a pleasant day in human life agieeable. primitive indeed. Brown-Sequar- Pliny to Sir John Mandevilie, who ven- WlLKIE WELLERMAN. celebrating either wholly canceled or largely reduced; hears little now of the d A good breakfast at midday, with all the my half century experiences freedom tured into the tangled thickets of zoology. with tbe Derby, even if I was drenched to and personal as a man, STORY OF A TVORD. "elixir," the hasty injection of which led in they the conditions of interesting association, both subject and voter has been es- un- a number of cases to death a year or two For surely the monstrosities saw, STANLEY AND THE SIOUX. the skin by a brisk shower which overtook Crofters' The "auld clachan," aside from so have traditional and practical, makes life warm us on our way home." tablished. The Commission has iversity being the hamlet home ago. But tbe following testimony of Br sirens who sane to them, could only in its hinges and yanks the fur off the righted countless wrongs to of the all was the most exciting event you, already which crofter, is worthy of attention on Paul Gibier and Dr. Valentine Mott, its been seen or heard with the eye or the ear of J How the Explorer Once Helped Disrobe a cat of indigestion, melancholy and all other "What been subjected for its own saw the the crofter had nearly a account.