personable mancome of good/family THE PARSON'S HORSE RACE. still, not let the fellers know that they though it was probably an lmproremeEKi KING ALFRED'S LANTERN.. father and gran'ther before him all nunasters wai being watched, and the next Sunday on it for no sooner does one man inverse now this 'ere does beat all! I I* Did you ever try to imagine, wh* you hj was putty up and/dowu and he and the tithingman and tie constable a thing, than another finds away to mak6* 4 wouldn't 'a thought it o' the deacon." weie studying the beginnings of English commandin' inliis ways, and things had they'd ride over and catch 'em in the it better. This, in shape, made me thraKjJ So spoke Sam Lawson. drooping in a history, what kind of people those old to go putty much as he said. He was a railing.1 very act. of a Dird-cage without the tray or discouraged, contemplative attitude in Anglo-Saxons were, and how they lived? good deal sot by, Parson Williams was. "So .next Sunday afternoon Parson It had a kind of cupola like top, and was front of an equally discouraged looking They were our far-off ancestors, and our and his wife was a Derby, and one o' "em Williams and Deacon Popkins and Ben much ornamented: there were bands with horse, that had }ust been biought to him language for the most part was made rich Salem Derbys and brought him a lot Bradley (he was constable that year) bosses on them, looking like mera^ by tlie widow Simpkins for medical from theirs in fact, we are il ed AngloSaxons o' money, and so they lived putty easy they got onto their hosses and rode over around the bottom, the middle, and nexfc treatment. Among Sam's many accomSorhood ourselves so we ought to be interested and comfortable, so far as this world's to Fequot Holler. The doctor's blood to the rocf and there was a pretty arched 1 a very curious, in them. lishnients he was reckoned in the neighan goods goes. Well, now, the Parson wasn't 5 was up, and he meant to come down on door. Altogether, it oracle in all matters of this really what you rail worldly-minded, but They were rude psople in many 'em strong, for that was his way of doin' but a rather clumsy and rather dark Ianfern kind, especially by -women, whose helplessness then he was one o'thorn folks that knows respects, and lived in a rude way, compared n the parish and they were in a sort St Nicholas for Dece/iber. & in meeting such emergencies what good in temporals as well as spirituals, with ours. How would you like o' day o' judgment frame o' mind, and found unfailing solace under his compassionate and liked to have the best that there windows which had no glass in them, jogged along solemn as a hearse, till they SUSANS SHAME.: willingness to attend to any business was goin,' and he allers had an eye to a very small windows, too,but had oiled come to rise the hill above the holle that did "not strictly belong to him, good hoss. paper or sheets of horn instead? Of A Horrible Vase of Infanticide Near Ifar-J they see three or four fellers with their A and from which no pecuniary return course the rooms must have been dark hosses gettin ready to race and tne parson rodsburg, Hy. "Now, there was Parson Adams and could be expected. and dismal, you will say. And what says he, "Let's come on quiet and get [Mt. Vernon Special to Cincinnati Enquire Parson Scranton, and most ot the other The widow Simpkins had bought this would you think of houses without chimneys, behind these bushes, and we'll see what Two homicides, an attempted rape, at ministers, they did"nt know and didn't horse of Deacon Atkins, apparently a fairly or anything we should rail chimneys? they're up to and catch 'em in the act." care what hoss they hed jest jogged three or four minor offenses ought to be su well-appointed brute, and capable as But matters were really not much "But the mischief on it* was that Ike round with these 'ere poundin'. potbellied, ficient to place upon the crime calendar he was good looking. A short, easy drive better, even in king's houses, about ten Sanders see 'em comin' anclne knew Tarn sleepy critturs that ministers mostly Rockcastle county, in one month. But the when the deacon held the reins had shown hundred years ago in a mimtIke knowed Tarn of old, and hes, good enough to crawl round to funerals crimes were not sufficient, it appears, ai off his points to advantage, and the widow's he just tipped the winic to the rest. The most important room in those days and minister's meetin's and associations they fade into insignificance when yon he small stock of ready savings had was called the hall: and it was large 'Wait, boys,' says he, 'let 'em git close and such, but Parson Williams he the details of an atrocity which occurred come lorth freely in pajment for what enough to accommodnte the family, the up and then I'll give the word, and the allers would have a hoss as was a hoss this county last week, and which almost sn she thought was a bargain. When, soon great company of servants, and all the doctor's hoss will be racin' ahead like he looked out lor blood, and vhen these passes belief. after coming into possession, she discovered tl guests who chose to come. They ate thunder.' 'ere Vermont fellers would come down Susan Randall is an unmarried whiit that her horse, if driven with any there, sat there, and most of them slept with a drove, the Parson he hed his eyes "Wal, so the doctor and his folks they woman about 26 years old, who has been for haste, panted in a fearful manner, and there, on rough benches, or rolled up in open and knew what was what. Couldn't drew up behind the bushes, and stood, the past year living in the employ of an old that he appeared to be giowing lame, she skins on the floor. It open to every none of 'em cheat him on hoss-flesh: and innocent as could be, and saw 'em gettin' farmer named Wm. Lowrie, on Sknggs* waxed wroth, went to the deacon in anger, chance traveler, to the wandering harpers, so one time when Buel was down with ready to start. Tam,he began to snuffle creek, in this county. Sasan has, during all to be met only with the smooth reminder to beggars, and everybodv else. a drove, the doctor he bought the best and paw, but the doctor never mistrusted this time, been receiving the attentions of a that the animal was all right when The lire was built against a clay or stone hoss in the lot. Zach said he never seen what he was up to tkel il sung out 'go man named Monk, who lives iu the neigh she took bimthat she had seen him arrangement, answering for a ,file-place a parson alore that he couldn't cheat, it boysl' andthe hosises all started, when, borhood. She has been an industrious servant, tried herself. The widow was of a na)ture at one end, or en an immense stone hearth but he said the doctor reelly knew as sure as you live, boys, Tarn give one fly, however, and prudent so far as appear somewhat spicy, and expressed herself in the middle: and the smoke, after floating much as he did, and got the very one ances went. No one suspected that she was and was over the bushes and in among warmly: up overhead, found its way out enciente until about a week agoj when old he'd meant to 'a' kept for himself. 'em, goin' it like chain lightnin', ahead Mrs. Lowrie became suspicions a* usa through an opening or a kind of turret "It's a cheat and a shame, and I'll take of 'em all. "This 'ere hoss was a peeler, I'll tell fJ|n,id was soon to become a mother. jiS in the loof. At dark they heaped high the law on ye." "Deacon Popkins and Ben Bradley jest you. They'd caUed him Tamerlane, nothing about it, however, to anjqnt ,JW the logs and fagots and -nappy was he "What law will you take?'" said the stood and held their breath to see 'em fiom some hethen feller or other the Susan, who indignantly denied tut who on a stormy night could get near the unmoved deacon. "Wasn't it a fair bar- goin' it is so like thunder and the doctor boys called him Tarn, for short. Tarn was a prospect for such an occasion, blaze. When supper-time came, servants gain?" he was took so sudden it was all he could was a great character. All the fellers for Last Thursday evening Sapan *$ stood behind those at table and held I'll take the law of God," said the do to jest hold on any way, so away they miles round knew the doctor's lam and house and wten to the woods torches over their heads till the meal was widow, with impotent indignation, and went, and trees and bushe3 and fences used to come clear o\er from the other whence she returned in a little wW*! i over and when bed-time came, the guests she departed to pour her cares and trials streaked by him like ribbons his hat flew parishes to see him an arm full of wood. After she had who had any other place than the ball to into the ever-ready ear of Sam. Having off oehind him and his wig arter, and he the house a short time she com^ "Wal tms 'ere sot up Cuff's back hi^h, sleep in were lighted to it in the same assumed the care of the animal, he now got catcbed in a tar berry bush, butLordy being sick and faint, and was preb~ I tell you. Cuff was the doctor's nigger wav. sat contemplating it in a sort of trance of massy, he couldn't stop to think o' them. duced to lie down. Mrs. Lowrie sV-p man, and he was nat'lly a dreflul proud melancholy reflections. He just leaned down and caught Tarn As for the king, he was more privileged that something had happened, an^^s-j crittur. The way he would swell and patched her huaband to the woods. "Why, boys," be broke out, "why around the neck and held on tor dear life, than that though just what they first strut and brag about the doctor and his short search he discovered a new-bo didn't she come to me afore she bought till they come to the stopping place. used for lighes, and just when lamps became folks and his things! The doctor used infant, finely developed, covered wit this crittur 1 Why, I knew all about him! common among the Anglo-Saxons, 'Wal, Tarn was ahead o' them all, sure to give Cuff his cast off clothes, and Cuff and rocks, its head smashed to a jt That 'ere critture was jest ruined a year it is not easy to find out. We se in enough, and was snorting and snuffling would prance round in 'em and seem to its throat torn and bleeding. Stt ago last summer, when Tom, the deacon's some very old pictures a simple little as if he'd got the very old boy| in him thmic he was a doctor of divinity himself, say the child was still hvir. boy there, come home from college. Tom lamp, shaped perhaps like a saucer, hung and was up to racin' some more on the and had the charge of all natur'. carried it to the house, washev driv him over to Sherburn and back that by chains at the side of the room, and spot. o1 dressed it. The little ere) 'Well, Cuff, he reely made an idol 'ere hot Fourth of July. 'Membei it holding, no doubt, a piece of wax or "That 'ere Ike Sanders was the impu lived in great suffering till the ncx that 'ere hoss, a reg'lar graven image, 'cause I saw the ciittnr when he come some kind of oil, with a strip of cloth in dentist feller that ever you see, and he lag. when it died. Just before its df and bowed down and worshiped him home I sot up with Tom taking care of it for a wick. Sometimes, in the royal roared and haw-hawed at the doctor, mother for the first time showed it ar,i~ he didn't think nothin' was too good for Ji him all night that'ere critture had the chambers, for a very long time after King tion. At her request it was given 'Good for you. doctoi,' says he 'you him he washed and brushed and curried thumps all night, and he hasn't never Alfred's day, a light was kept by means and she nursed it for a few moment* beat us all holler,' says he takes a parson him, and rubbed him down till he shone been good for nothing since. I telled of a cake of wa\ in a silver basin. which she pushed it from her, and for that, don't it, boys?" he said. And like a lady's satin dress and he took the deacon he was a gone hoss then, and away her face that she might not look They knew how to make candles, however' then he and Ike and Tom and the two pride in ridm' and drivin' him, 'cause it wouldn't never be good for nothing. Tne it sufferings. but instead of putting one in a candlestick, Hokum boys they just roared and danced was what the doctor wouldn't let nobody deacon he took off his shoes and let him A coroner's inquest was held over th it was put on it. The candlestick round like wiU curturs. do but himself. You see, Tarn warn't no of the infant, and the verdict of the run to pasture all summer, and he's been had a point at the top, cilled a "Wal, now only think of it boys! What lady's hoss. Miss Williams was 'rraid a3 violet1 was that it came to its death from feedin' and nussin' on him up and now spike, and the candle was made hollow a situation that was lor a ministera death of him, and the person he had to at the hands of its mother. She was plac he's put him off on the widder. I wouldn't at the bottom, and slipped down over the man that had come out with the best of git her a sort o' low speritcd crittur that cubiody, but in her present conditiol 'a' thought it o' the deacon. Why, this spike: one so fixed was known as a "prick motives to put a stop to the Sabbath she could drive herself, but he liked to trial cannot take place. 1 hoss'll never be no good to her that et." breaking! There he was, all rumpled up drive Tarn, and he liked to go around 'ere's a used up critture, any fool may There is, among some illustrations of and dusty and his wig hanging the It matters somewhat whether a yo I the country on his back, and a tioo figure see. He'll inabbe do for about a quarter old customs a picture of a candlesticK, bushes, and these 'ere ungodly fellers lady's uncle is a^ millionaire or a missi of man he was on him, too. He didn't ot an hour ou a smooth road, but come the laugh on him, and all acause ou gittin1 which is very queer though very elegant, quest1 ary if her lover's onstacyia in let nobody else back him or handle the to drive him as a body wants to drive, and looks like a little piece of furniture. o' that 'ere hoss. Theie's times, boys, A German officer wiho was suffering reins bu* Cuff, and Cuff was dreadful set why, he'd blow like my bellowsis and It is a tall stem rising from a three-footed, when ministers must be tempted to swear wounds received during the war up about it, anlhe swelled and bragged the deacon knew itmust 'a' known it!" three-cornered stand, very much ornamented if there ain't preventing grace, and this France, was recently seiXt to a viltag about that ar hoss all around the country. 'Why, Sam," we exclaimed, "ain't the it comes to a point at the top, was one o' the times to Parson Williams. the Swiss Canton of Vacid to recruit Nobody couldn't put in a word 'bout any deacon a good man?" and a little way below is a plate to hold They say he got red in the face, and strength. There he'made tfi,e acquainta other hoss without Cuff's feathers would the tallow or wax that might run down. "Wal, now, there's where the shoe looked as if he should burst, but he didn't ot a young lady whose parents reside in be all up stiff as atom turkey's tailand ti. We do not know that King Alfred had becanf1 pinches! In a gin'al way the deacon is say nuthin' he scorned to answei, the same \illage and the coupl* that's how Cuff got the doctor into anything like this but he had what nobody a good manhe's consid'bie more than sons of Zerniah was too hard for him, gaged. 0*ing to the mildnassof the climate trouble. had cvei seen before in that country middlin' good -gin'ally he adorns his and he let 'em have their say, but when the hero soon regainedS ids health, Ye see there nat'lly was others that for he invented it himself, and that was profession. On most p'nt* I don't hev they'd got through, and Ben had brought and betore long an order arrayed from thought they'd got hesses, and didn't a lantern. nothin' a in the deacoi, and this 'ere ain't him his hat and wig, and brushed and head-quarters desiring him to rep?ort himself want to be crowed over. There was Bill a bit like himbut there 'tis I Come to settled him agin, the parson he says within a week at Berlin. At Mrst This good king was a very busy man Atkins, out to the West parish, and Ike hosse, there's where unsanctified natur' letters were filled with protestationsXpf th the people around him might be willing 'Well, boys, ye've had yer say and Sanders, that kep' a stable up to Pequot :die away their days over the fire, lis- comes out. Folks will cheat about hosses enduring nature ot his love, but graV"ally to yer laugh, but I warn you nuw I won't Holler they was down a-lookin' at the when they won't about most nothin' else." as time wore on, they became tessifre-. tening to tne harpers, telling stories, and have this thing going on any more,' says parson's norse, and a bettin' on their'n, And Sam leaned back on his cold forge, quent and much colder in tone, playing with the hounds, but he felt that he, 'so mind yerselves.' and a-darin' Cuff to race with 'em. now empty of coal, and seemed to deliver weeks had elapsed since he had last he had a great woik to do. He wanted "Wal, the boys see that the doctor's "Well, Cuff couldn't stand it, and wnen himselt to a mournful train of general reflection. ten, whan instead of a letter full of to make his subjects more civilized, to blood was up, and tney rode off pretty the doctor's back was turneu he'd be off on proaches, tho Lieutenant received a teach them useful arts, and he had not quiet, and I believe they never rode no the sly, and they'd have their race and gram from his dear Marie, in the follow an hour to waste. He built towns, he "Yis, hosses do seem to be sort o' unregenerate mere on that spot. Tarn, he beat 'em all. Tarn, you see, words :'"Dear Fritz: I have just recer built ships he read, and studied, and critturs,*' he said, "theie's 'But there ain't no telling the talk boy?, was a hoss that couldn't and a letter informing me that my uncle, wrote,and that was wonderful, indeed, suthin' about hosses that deceives the this 'ere thing made. Folks will talk wouldntheva hoss ahead of himbe was a millionaire at Frankbar in the E in those days when there were but few very elect the best o'folks gets tripped you know, and there warn't a house in jest wouldn't. Ef he dropped down dead Indies, is dead, and that I am his sC books, and when even princes could not up when they come to deal in hosses all Billriky, nor in the south parish nor in his tracks the next mini*, he would be heiress.'' The Lieutenant lost no tim' write their own names. He was the best, "Why, Sam is there anything bad in center where it warn't had over and discuseed. ahead, and he always got ahead, and so He set out for the village. The youn^ the wisest, and the most learned king horse*?" we interjected timidly. There was the deacon and Ben his name got up and fellows kep' comin' hadrHe 'ady was overwhelmed -with joy on seeing that the Saxons had ever "Tatnjt the hosses, boys," said Sam, Bradley was there to witness and show to try then* hosses, and Cuff 'ud take her lover once moie, but reproached hini with solemnity. "Lordy massy, the hosses jest how the thing was, and that the used to carry in his bosom "memorandum Tarn out to race with fust one and then for his long silence Don't let us talk oi is all right enoughhosses is scriptooral doctor was jest in the way ot his duty leaves, in which he made collections another till this 'ere got to be a reg'lar it, dear Mane," he replied: "there is now animals Elijah went up to heaven in a but folks said it made a great scandal, from his studies," and ttus journal thing and began to be talked about. no obsticle to our u-uon. The unexpected char with Bosses and then all them lots that a minister had no business 'o hev he was in the habit of examining so much good fortune which Providence has "Folks sort o' wondered if the doctor hand-book.'1'' And, o' hosses in the. Ravelations, black and that kind o' hoss, and that he'd give the that "he called it his sent us ha& removed the objections of my knew, but Cuff wns sly as a weasel, and white and red and all sorts of colors! enemy occasion to speak repioachfully. perhaps^ .that is where the word "handbook parents to our marriage, for a fortune so allers had a story ready tor every turn. That 'ere shows hisses go to heaven but It reelv did seem as if Tarn's sms was 'came from. Of course he real far great, so colossal" At these words, Curl was one of them fellers that could it's more'n the folks that hev 'em is likely imputed to the doctor* and folks said into the night, but he soon found two Marie took his hand, sail. "Fritz, do not talk a bird off a treemaster hand he to, et they don't look out.". he ought to sell Tarn right away and get troubles,there was no way to mark the make fun of mo." The lover drew Out of was to slick things over. "Ministers, now." continued Sam, in a a sober minister's hoss. time, for there were no clocks nor watches his pocket the telegram, asking her "There was folks as said they believed soliloquizing vein "folks allers thinicsit's then, and he could not keep a steady "But others said it was Cuff that had whether she had not written the words, the doctor was knowm' to it, and that he suthin' sort o' shaky in a minister to have light, because the houses were so open got Tarn in bad ways, and they do say "My uncle has just died a millionaire at felt a sort o' carnal pride, buch as a minister anythm' to do with hosses--snre to get that the wind came in from every quarter. that Cuff had to catch it pretty lively Frankbai." Ucterly astonished, Marie oughtn't fer to hev, and so shet his 'em into trouble. There was\old Parson He had noon-marks, but those when the doctor come to sett with him. dropped his hand, and her eyes filling eyes to what was agoin' on. Au^t Sallv Williams, o' North Billriky, fept into a amounted to nothing on rainy days and Cuff thought his time had come sine with tears, exclaimed, "Dear Fritz, there NicKerson said she was sure on 't 'twas dreflul mess about a hoss. Lordy massy, everybody knows what a country England enough, and was so scared that he turned is a mistake in the telegram. Whaj I wrote all talked over down to old Miss Bumminger's he warn't to blame, either, but he got is for rain. blacker'n ever he got enough to cure was. 'My uncle has just dieda missionaire funeral, and Aunt Sally saidthe into the dreffulest scrape you ever heard However, when such a man &s Alfred him o' hoss racing for one while. But in the East Indies, and the amount church ought to look into it. But everybody ncome nigh to onsettlin' him." makes up his mind to do a thing, he is Cuff got over it arter a while, and o did he has left me is 196 trancs 45 centimes.' knew Aunt Sally, she was afters "Ob, Sam, tell us all about it," we almost sure to find a way. So he had a the doctor: there was a rumpus and a watchin' folks' haltings, and settin' on i boys shouted, delighted with the prospect quantity of wax prepared, took enough fuss, and folks talked and talked and herself up to judge her neighbors. 01 a story. A fashionable young miss was taken by of it to weigh down seventy-two silver advised everybody had their say, but "Wall, wait now till I get off this crithit's her mother to the eccentric and'celebrated "Wall, I never believed nothin' agin pennies, and of it had six candles made, the doctor kep' right straight on, and shoes, and we'll take him up to pas,ture twelve Dr. Aoernethy for treatment. The doctor Parton Williams it was all Cuffs contrivance, all weighing the same, and each kep' his hoss all the same. and then we can kind o' set by the knifc under her belt in the presence run a but the fact was the fellers all inches long, and marked off into twelve "The ministers they took it up in the river and fish. Hepsey wanted a mess o' of her mother, instantly severing it, and got their blood up an' there was hoss divisions. He planned so nicely that association, but come to tell the story it fish for supper, and I wuz cal'latm to get exclaiming, "Why madame, don't you racin' in all the parishes, and it got so these six would burn twenty-four hours set them all laughing, so they couldn't some for hw. You boys go and be digjjin' know that there are upwards of thirty they'd even have hoss races on Sunday. and he always kept one lighted day and be very hard on the doctor. bait and mt yer lines." yards of bowels .squeezed under that night before some holy relics and images "Wall, of course, they never got'the "The doctor telt sort o' streaked at tust rdle. Go home, eive nature fair play, tJ-. And so as wexwere sitting tranquilly ot saints whi he had, and which, being doctor's hoss out a Sunday. Cuff wouldn't when they told the story on him he beside the Charlex Kiver, watching our and you'll have no need of a preecnrp a verv pious man, he carried aoout with durst do that, Lord massy, no! fle was didn't just like it, but he got used tc it, lines, Sam's narrative began: tion?" his luggage wherever he went. allers there in church sittm' up in the and finally when he got twisted on it. he "Ye see, boys, Parson Williams,he's doctor's clothes, rollin' up his eyes and He would now have had not only tolerble would sort o' smile and say, Any way A gentleman, being threatened with dead now,but when I was a boy he was lookin* a3 pious as ef he never thought of light, but a vary go way of marking Tam beat 'em, that's one comfort." an infectious lever, said to his little son one of the great men around here. %e racin' hosses he was an awful solemn the hours, if the candles had always who, in an affectionate mood wished to writ books. He writ a tract agin tne looking nigger in church, Cuff was. been sure of burning a given time. But embrace him, "You mustn't hug me'. Opera and theatre bonnets are very Armenians and put 'em down, and he "But there was a lot o* them fellers up if the wind blew, the flame wo-Id flare, you'll catch the fever." V\ illie, standing small size, in the form of toques of white, writ a big book oh the millonninm (I've Un Pequot HollerBill Atkins and Ike and perhaps go out: and the king made heNwas a back, looked in amazement upon his papa, pearl and cream .felt, art trimmed with got that 'ere book now) and Sanders and Tom Peters and them Hokum up his mind fiat th^re could be something who, by the way, is a pattern of propriety, white and pale tinted ostrich plumes and --smart preacher folks said he had invitabt boysused to go out arter meetin' done to remedy this,and he did and quickly asked, "Whv, papa, tips, a dash of colors in the form of some tions to settle in Boston, and there aink unday afternoons and race hosses. Ye it. He made a irame-work, and fixed into who did you hug?" ,7 fancy mixed feathers of red and peacock 4^x0 doubt he might 'a' hed a Boston parv.ef se it was close to the State linei and it it little plates or windows of horn, green and blue, or white grebe leathers, he'd ben 'a' min' to take it, but s'lectmen was to come down on 'em, scraped so thin that the light could shm The Directorie bonnet is a leading Parisian and sometimes a heron's aigrette, but no ^t a good, settlement anct ahandin theYcould just whip over the line, and through, set bis candle inside, and shut novelty. It is high above'the lorehead, flowers North Allnky, and didn't they fepiddn't take 'em. iaj it in,and the thing was done. He had narrow on the sides, the strings cover ?t wdjtf ye thought, I s'pose,fhat a lantern, sure in all weathers. A very "Wal, i^ot to be a great scandal the the ears, tying under the chin, and the ber one in a little pir 1 and small affair it may seem to you but it was fellers talkecbaboutit up to the tavern, and cordsf Cloth circulars have heavy trimmings are a mixture of feathers, fur a great one to him. big^f^jway, the deacons ami tithingman they took it tassels fastening the garment in front, ribbon and ornaments. The whole affair wtero h' and went to Larson Williams about knotted loosely and then thi own over the i once saw a picture of a rude Saxon is frightfully ugly, but it is the rage at Irtsrafy **4,^* Parson hevtold 'em to keep shoulders. lantern somewhat like his, perhaps, the moment in the French capital. if*'