his home in St.-Cloud,-'a', suburb
City.
. siciansf'fear that he cannpt recover. _ '
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France Over - Demonstra-
tive to Her Visitors.
All the Provinces Enthusiastic in
Their “’clcome to the Russians——
The Masses to Take Part- in the
Reception in Paris. ‘
PARIS, Oct. l7.—Preparatlons to receive
the Russians were completed last night.
The Lyons railway statiOn is decorated
profusely with bunting, trophies and
flags, both inside and outside. A platform,
to accomodate 2,500 persons, was erected
so as to conceal the walls of the Mazas
prison. The Rue de Lyon will be ”entered
by the Russians between'the pillars of an
enormous arch. The avenue Ledru-Rol-
lin, the boulevards and main streets are
adorned with Venetian garlands and flags
mm: from the windows of hotels and pri-
vate houses. .
The cabinet arranged the pregramme of
the fetcs in Paris last evening. To-day
President Carnot will receive Admiral Ave-
- Ian at the Elysee and in the evening _ the
public buildings will be illuminated. To-
day, Saturday, Sunday and. Monday will
be hollidays in government Offices.
In consequence of the outcry raised by
Henri Rochefort, Clemenceau and other
radicals, that, at the gala performance,
the opera must not be packed with the
aristocrats of art and society, to the exclu-
sion of the masses, “who pay in taxes the
money now spent and in the event of war
will seal with their blood the Franco-Rus-
sian alliance.”
In view of this agitation the government
has decided that all seats at the gala per—
formance should be free, excepting only
those reserved for the Russians.
lcports from the provinces show that
throughout France the people are showing
unprecedented enthusiasm in decorating
and illuminating their towns and celebra-
ting fetcs.
The corporation of Algiers has pILesented
to Admiral Avelan a solid silver tea ser-
vice. In a speech at a banquet in St.
Maude, a suburb of Paris, ex-Premier
Goblet said last evening:
“The French nation have received the
Russians with frank cordiality, only re-
gretting that they do no not yet know
whether their guests come as alies or
simply friends.”
THE TOULON RECEPTION.
A German Newspaper \Vhich Secs
Much to Regret in the Affair.
BERLIN, Ocn 17,—The Schlesische Zei-
tuug, in Breslau, a. journal often used by
the foreign oifice, says of the Toulou
demonstration:
“We regret the outburst of Chauvinism
in Toulon. It is directed obviously against
Germany and her allies despite Russian
assurances of the czar-’5 desire for pease.
The French manifestations do not
strengthen the hope of an early solutiOn
of the present strained international sit-
uni-Ion.
Toulon for a Repair Station.
BRUSSELS, Oct. 17.—The Paris corre-
spondent of the 'Independance Beige has
had an interview in Toulon with a high
Russian naval ofiicer, who said that the
Russian squadron would visit Toulon
again in November or December. The
Russian squadron in the Mediterranean,
he added, would select Villefrancbe, near
Nice, as a naval station and would go to
rl‘oulon, probably, for any needed repairs.
The Toulon Demonstration.
TOULON, Oct. 17.——The Russian officers
were escorted to the station last evening
by chest of high ofiicmls. The locomo-
tive was covered with the French and Rus-
sinn colors. A band on the station plat-
foorn played the Russian anthem as the
train drew out, and the Russians DOWed
from the windows and shouted: “Viva la
belle Francel”
Cheer-ed Enroutc.
PARIS, Oct. 17 .-—The Russian officers
_ have been cheered by enormous crowds at
every station where their train has stopped.
Monument to American Sailors.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—-Secretary Her-
bert has sent to Senator McPherson and
Representative Amos J. Cummings letters
from Hon. .Thomas D. Porter, United
States minister to Chili, recommending
that congress make provision for a. suita‘
ble monument to be erected in a. cemetery
at Valparaiso over the graves of the sailors
who were killed in the battle between
Capt. Porter’s ship Essex and British men-
of-war in 1814. ,
Gounod Stricken _With Apoplex)’.
Thurs, Oct. 17.—-Charles Francois Gout
nod, the composer‘of the opera Faust,
was stricken with apoplexy yesterday, at'
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, THIRTEEN liIORE VICTIMS.
Further Intelligence of the Work of,
the Storm on the Lakes.
BUFFALO, Oct. l7.-—Thirte‘en more vic-
tims have been added to the already long
list of fatalities resulting from the terrific
nOrthWest gale that swept the great lakes
Saturday and Sunday last. 'It is now defi-
nitely known that the steamer VVocoken'
from Cleveland fou'udered in ten fathoms
of water just above Long Point on the
northen coast of Lake Erie carrying down
mm her all but three of her crew of 16
80qu
' The last few weeks of the navigation
weevil C(1893avill live, long in the mem-
ory of the lake mariners, for no such awful
list of fatalities has been knewn in ship-
ping circles for a. decade as the one to
which additions are being made daily, as
reports comein gigging details of the mrrié'
fic gale that swept-the inland seas steadily
for more than 48 hours at the close of last
week. ~' - ‘
The story of the fate of the Dean- Rich-r
mend in Lake Erie and the. Minnehaha.~ in
Lake Michigan is supplemented by the
news of the loss of one or two lives from a
number of vessels composing the lake fleet,
and now comes the loss of the Wocoken
with its cargo of human souls. It is
two early to attempt to estimate
the money‘ loss. by the Sinkng of small
craft at various points in the chain of the
great lakes from Duluth to the mouth of
the St. Lawrence. All incoming vessels
are minus part of their rigging, are badly
stove in or otherwise show marks of their
terrible experience with the wind and
heavy seas. '
STORI‘I AT SARANAG LAKE.
.‘Maliy Houses and Barns Blown Down.
Snow on the lilountaius.
SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., Oct. 17,—The
greatest wind storm of the decade ended
last night.
Many houses and barns were blown
down, also telegraph lines. Snow, which
followed, covered the m ountains.
Drowned Wh ilc Searching for Bodies.
DUNKIRK, N.Y., Oct. 17. -—While search-
ing for bodies from the wrecked propeller
Dean Richmond . the boat capsized and
George Thurber, Frank Cahoon and George
Mann were drowned.
Steamer Johnson Still llIissing‘.
MANISTEL, Mich, Oct. 17.—Nothing
has been heard of the steamer Henry J.
Josnson, which had the lost schooner
Munchaha in tow on Lake Michigan Sat-
urday night.
\VIPED OUT BY DYNAMITE.
Property and Lives Lost By an Ex-
plosionat Emington, Ill.
EMINGTON, 111., Oct. 17.-—The entire
business portion of Emington was wrecked
last night by .a premature explosion of
dynamite. Five people Were killed and
five were injured, two of whom cannot
live. " .
Others received bruises by the awful
shock. Two men were digging a well and
to further their work they filled a. gas-
pipe two feet long and one and a quarter
inches in diameter with dynamite, and
were tapping it when it exploded, throw-
ing the men and landing them over 50
feet from the spot where they were work-
ing. All of kiled were horribly mangled.
Hats, shoes and pieces of cloth were scat-
tered around the‘streets.
Every windowlight in the town was
shattered by the shock. Curious people
were attracted to the town by the shock,
which was felt at a distance of five miles.
Y. I’. C. U. Convention.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. —- The Young
Peoples’ Christian Union, an organiza-
tion started four years ago in the city of
Lynn, Mass, by representatives of about
50 var-.ous young people’s societies con-
nected With the Universalist church, but
'which now number over 12,000 members,
is now holding, in this city, its fourth an-
nual convention with an attendance in-
cluding delegates from nearly all its 253
organizations. "
“There Fine Art “’01).
BRUSSELS, Oct. 17.——Camille Le Monnier,
a. conspicuous Belgizin critic and novelist,
was tried yesterday behind closed doors for
having committed an ofiense against
morality in publishing a psychological
study of Jack the Ripper. Le Monnier’s
deieuse was that his motives were purely
artistic and that his work was within the
range of fine art. Le Monnier was ac—
quitted.
A Cure for Typhus.
BERLIN, Oct. 17.—Prof. Dr. Fraenkel
has announced that he has discovered the
typhus bacillus. By using this bacil-
lus in vaccination, he says, he has pro-
duced a rapid benign course of the fever.
Prof. Dr. Rump has cultivated an .anti—
fever bacillus which, he says, will cure
typhus in eight days.
For Mayor of Newport.
NEWPORT, R. 1., Oct. 1'7.——The republi-
can convention met last evening and re-
ceived the declination of ex-Mayor Powell,
and at once, after an informal ballot,
unanimously voted to nominate Hon. J. P.
Sanborn for mayor. Mr. Sanborn is pro-
prietor of the Newport Mercury, which
claims to be the oldest paper in America.
For Offending Caprivi.
BERLIN, Oct. 17.—Chancellor von Ca-
privi has ordered that Maximilian Harden,
editor of the Bismarckian periodical Die.
Zukunft be prosecuted for publishing an
offensive article entitled “Caprivi’s Monu-
ment.”
Out Again \Vith the Czar.
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 17. —-It is reported
here that M. de Giers, Russian minister of
foreign afiairs, is again out of favor with
the czar and has received another long
leave of absence. .
In the Sheriff’s Hands. .
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa, Oct. 17.—C. V.
Burkes’ large installment furniture estab-
lishment in Altoona has passed into the
hands of the sheriff on an execution for
$13,000.
Present for the New York.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-——The ,_ United
States cruiser New York has just been
presented with a handsome. silver punch-
bowl by theNew York yacht club. 7, ‘
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NEW YORK, Oct. l7.——The great inter-
national pool contest between John Rob-
erts, champion of Great Britain, at pyramid
pool, and Alfredo De Oro, champion of the
world, at continuous pool, opened with a
rush at Madison Square concert hall last
night. The contest is for 1,00) points up,
six night’s play. Blocks of 15.0 points
will be played during five nights, with 250
points on the final night.
‘ Mammoth Steel Casting.
NEW YORK, Oct. l7.—-The biggest steel
casting that ever came to this country ar-
rived on the steamer Nomadic from Liver-
pool. It weighs 65 tons, and is part of
the new hydraulic ferging plant which
Carnegie & Co. are importing to manufac-
ture armor plates. It was made by Sir
Joseph \Vhitworth & Co., of Manchester,
the firm that built the 125—ton hammer
for the Bethlehem iron works.
London Money Market. ‘
LONDON, Oct. 17,—Ninety-five thousand»
sovereigns went out to Egypt yesterday,
and 34,000 to Holland. Bar gold is still ,
wanted for the continent. Silver has risen
to 33 11-16 pence.
Celebrated an Historic Event.
KINGSTON, N. Y., Oct. 17."—'-The Daugh-
ters of the Revolution yesterday celebrated
the 115th anniversary of the burning oi
Kingston by the British.
Congress of Agriculture.
CHICAGO, Oct. 17. —-Over 500 delegates
participated in the opening sessions of tho
World’s congress of agriculture at the Art
institute.
Local \l’cather Forecast. '
Slightly warmer, light variable winds
English Mine Strikers Firm. ‘
LONDON, Oct. 17. —-Most of the collieries
iaLancashier, Derbyshire and Yorkshire
swere reopened yesterday for the men wil-‘
ling to accept 15 per cent. ,reduétion in
wages. , The 'men made no response. Only-
thecollieries where the Old wage-sure paid
are working. _ ' ' .- U ‘
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another, and thu‘s'l had a" gOod opporm
.little“ horse don’t.
lievehc never done nothing wrong in'
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' [Copyright 1893, by
the Author.)
HOROU GHBR ED
from your nose
* to your tail, and
_ w it h l c g s a. e
\‘ _ _ sound to all out-
ward appearance as a bell of brass; as
quite as- a sheep, toe, apparently. I
~wonderhow the deuce you came to be
harnessed to a. hansom cab!"
These were'i‘the - thoughts that. ran
through my mind one fine October after-
noon, as, having just finished luncheon
at the Navy and Military, lfound my-
self in Piccadilly. strolling-aimlessly
along, and gazing. at a remarkably
good-looking, little brown horse be-
tween the shafts of: a. veryi‘s’mar’t han-
_. 7 som, who walked past me ifn'the easy,
,_ dignified way that onlyathorOug‘hber
.j jcan.
. Elite, and flattered myself Ik'new a goOd
.- one when I saw him. ‘ ' ’ t
I had been among horsesall my
f “And unless you are very much mis-
taken, my boy," thought I to myself,
. ; 'g‘you’re looking at one now.”
sight of the little brown horsequite
The
fascinated me, in fact.
- The leabman, a smart-looking chap,
attired Ina very “down-the-road?’ box
Coat. seeing melook his way,'pulle(l up
with the inquiry: » “Ilansom, sir?” ;
‘I jumped. in without a word; not that
I wanted to go anywhere in partiCular,
but because 'I'~‘conld not tear myself
away from the little brown h0rsc.- It
ended in my driving about the whole of
afternoon T from"; one place to
tunity of seeing what th’cdittle nag
wasimade of. Ilis trotting action was
likefithat of many thoroughbred ones,
net’p'articularly good, but he "was a. de-
lightful horse. _to Sit behind, for. he
never looked tothe right uOr 'left, but
went steadily on in as "old-fashioned, a
wayas it was possible to conceive; I
don’t believe a traction engine'fi'even‘
would have rufilcd his serenity of tem-
peramcnt. ” ,' - 11'
“That’s a. nice horse of yours,”_said
I, addressing the cabman on alighting
at my rooms in Bury street.
his fault?
hasn’t he?“
and “patting the little brown horse af-
fectionately. “Fault? Why, bless yer,
he. don’t know how to spell it, this ‘
I don't werily be-_
drove ’im,” continued cabby, “gettin’ on
now for six weeks, and he’s never be-'
’aved any different to wot you’ve seen‘
’im.' ”lie looked wery different, though,
when I fust ’ad ’im. Where did _I get
"inf? Why, I bought ’im of a pal who
was ’ard up and couldn’t afford to keep
’im properly, and he was a; reg’lar bag.
6’ bones, bless yer, in consekence. Be
seen picked up, though, as yer see, and
'I . Wouldn’t take fifty of anybody’s
money for ’im now.”
Well. the upshot of the whole busi-H
ness was that after a. quarter of an
hour’s haggling and bargaining the
little broy'vn nag became my property
for .the consideration of fifty-two
poimds, ten shillings, an old hat and a
. bottle Of whisky.
. The very next day I clapped a. saddle
on the back of my new purchase and
rode him in the Row—whiclr celebrated
ride I need scarcely say I had nearly to
myself—the verdict after I had put him’
through all his paces being that he Was
one of the very best hacks that I had»
ever ridden. " __ .
“If you can only jump, my beauty,’.’_
I thought to myself as I gave the little
nag an approving slaponthe neck—a
Compliment he seemed quite to appre-
ciate—~“we’ll bustle some of . fi’em up
between the flags as soon as ‘- Steeple
chasing sets in in earnest, See if we 3
don’t." , .- , -7
That night I dreamtgli'wrn‘r the Grand
National on'him. ‘j ' '_
I was not happy; now until I had,
“Come by Chance," as I had christened-E
him, down inthe country.
Accordingly a. few days afterwardsl
took lIi’m‘ along with me to a hunting?
be‘xu‘l rented down in Buckingham-
shire. . :7 .
I no. large field behind the house Were
several artificial jumps of all sorts for
my horse to practice over, andihither
the morning after my arrival I brought
“Come by Chance” to see what he was
made of. :5 ‘
With my groom on my best hunter to
give him a. lead awayfwe went, now
over the gorsed hurdles, next. the post
and rails and then the -w_a.ter jump—
not a big one, certainly, but-"a. water
jump for all that. '
“Come by Cha nce,” to my delight
liked the fun just as much as I did, and,
never put a. foot wrong, thereby caus-
ing my man, who had had a. good deal
of experience with ateeplcchascrs
when he saw how the little horse
pricked his ears and laid down his bit
in approaching his fences, to remark
that in his Opinion "the little brown
'oss had been at the game before, or he
was much mistook.”
“So much the better,” thought I, as I
rode him triumphantly back to the
stables. '
Long was the cOnfab betwixt myself
and the groom that afternoOn as to
the future career of “Come by Chance,”
- with the result that we decided at last
to give the little nag a fortnight’s rest
or so and then put him in training with
a. view to winning the Tally-ho steeple-
Chase at Sandown in‘Dccember, acon-
tingency'my groom was pleased to say
was a. moral if the horse only kept
'well.
The programme we had mapped out
for my new purchase in hprsefiesh was
carried out to the letter, the result be-
ing that when the day arrived for him
to be boxed for Sandown it found
“Come by Chance" fit to run for a king-
dom, and myself and groom brimful‘ 9‘
confidence. ' - _
‘ ‘What’s .. .
I suppose he’s got one,
°iug, “Come hyphen...» (aged),ipedigree
unknown, the handicapper had; let him
first-rate jockey engaged to ride,’ I
might as well be excused for looking
upon the Tally-ho steeplechase as al-
horse, too, and trained privately, and
nothing consequently being known
about him, I should doubtless be
enabled to get good odds about him at
the post; another advantage I was look»
ing forward to with ' a good deal of
pleasure, you may depend. '
Yes, I was a. proud man, I can tell
you, that December morning, when ac-'
companied by a. few chosen friends, all
in the “know," and in high spirits at
getting on a. real “good thing," as they
termed it, at along price, we started
from the club in a. succession of cabs
bound to Waterloo station en route to
Sundown.
When I thought, too, of the open-
hearted way I had imparted the secret
to everybody I knew, from my own per-
sonal friends down to the landlord at
my lodging-s and the servants at the
club, I felt quite a philanthropist.
. There should be no coming up to me
with reproachful looks, and “I say, old
chappic, I do thInk you might have put
an old friend on to the ‘good thing,‘
’pon my soul I (10.“ Of that I was de-
termined. There is nothing mean or
selfish about me, thank gOOdnessl Oh
dear, no.
Arrived at Sundown, we first of all
proceeded in a body to the paddock,
‘ where I introduced my friends to,“Comc
by Chance," who, with a. stable boy on
his back and led by my groom, vas
walking round and round in his accus-
tomed, old-fashioned manner. We then
made tracks for the stand.
The Tally-ho steeplcchase stood third
on the card, and it‘looked “healthy"
for our luck. as one of my friends re
marked when we Spotted the successive
winners of the two preceding events, a.
selling steeplcchasc and a. hunters’
hurdle. ‘
. We went in a body to the paddock to
see our horse saddled, in higher spirits
than ever. Alas! we little thought, as
chattering and laughing we passed
through the paddock gate, how uncere-
moniously our mirth was abdut to be
dispelled, and our joy turned to woe.
we were met the moment we set foot
3 into the inclosure by little C apt. Coper'
(qUIte the best of the soldiers), who
was to ride “Come by Chance," with a.
:gfface as white nearly as the. cap he
wore. .
1 .. “I say, old fellcr,” he exclaimed,
“Fault?" exclaimed my charioteer,~ “rushing up, theres the deVIl to pay
scornfully, descending from his ,perch‘
’over yonder,” pointing, as he spoke,
”with his whip to the far end of the pad-
‘_;dock-.'whcre my horse was.
" “There’s a bucolic party,” he went
Z'On, “"8wearing the horse is his, and so
7far from being a. maiden he’s won half
{the steeplechases in England He was
stolen? from his place .six months ago,
.sO he says, and—but there, for heaven’s
:sake, come and see the cove yourself.
I don’t-understand it, dashed if I do!”
As pale in the face 'by this time as
.my poor little friend, Coper, I hurried
ofl, best pace, to learn the worst. Sure
enOugh‘, .when I elbowed my way
through the crowd collected round my
horse, there was a. stout, red-faced per-
son of horsey appearance. evidently in
a rabid state of excitement, haranguing
the lockers-on generally and my unhap-
py groomyin particular in most aggres-
sive fashion.
“Ohl here you be at last then, be
you?” was his insolent greeting as I
camefup‘. 7
“I. am Mr. Somerfield, if that’s what
you mean,” said I,- loftily. “What
might'you want?” .. ..
“Wot-might Invent? Haw—haw—
.haw, that’s a good ’un, too, ~thatisl"
{roared- red face. “Wot might I want,
Z-rindeed? Why, I want my ’05s, to be
: sure—my ’05s, as Was stolen- ‘s’ix‘months
? ago, from my place near Barnet, where
_ he was turned out to grass—and wot’s
more, I mean to have him.”
“ ‘Come by Chanée’ your horse?” I
stemmered. , ‘ .
“To be sure he is,” was the confident
reply-réffat least Barnaclcs is—that’s his
prgper name. Here’s his description——
“MY ’oss as was STOLEN SIX MONTHS
AGO." .
see (pulling a. handbill from his pocket)
and if you don’t choose to believe me,
9.le any of The jockeys on we course;
they all knows him, bless you, as well
'as they knows their own fathers.
“ ‘Come by Chance.’ indeed!” shouted
red-face, contemptuously. “It’s me as
should be called ‘Come by Chance,’ I
fancy, for it was only at the last minute
I made up my mind to come ’ere.”
Alasl -it was all true that he said,
and “Come by Chance,” late Barnacles,
was, of course, to the infinite chagrin
of all of us, ineligible to compete for
the Tally-ho steeplechase. I cOuld not
Make up my mind, however, to part
with the little horse, and I therefore
made. overtures with the rough dia-
mond who owned him for his purchase.
It was only after a lavish use of all the
persuasive powers I had about-meand-
cha'mpagne, with one or tWO glasses of
brandy and water thrown in, that I at
Though I paid what seemed a lot of
money for him, the little horse turned
out a. real bargain in the long'run, for
not only did he win me, ridden by my
friend Tommy Coper, no end of races,
but he succeeded last year in running
into a place for the Grand N atlonal. If
my sporting readers see “Come by
Chance, late Barnacles,” amongst the:
entries for the Liverpool next March,
a don’t forgetj‘to back him—tore 'bhomfl:
. ._ .t alloyentF V p
. - l .?hey.‘o0:read.thgqm"ITm‘ .
in ‘with only .10 st. 7 lbs, and, within J
ready in my pocket. Mine being a. dark -
the consumption of several bottles of '
last succeeded in effecting a. deal. '
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