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] Vienna, Paris ana Dontlon to say I nothins of Madrid. Many believe that * the war will be brief and that a single ! coup d'otat will laud the head of the Bourbons, as Don Carlos styles him- ! self, upon the throne. For some time Don Carlos and his wife have been at Lucerne and all reports from the Swiss retreat indicate unusual activity among his immediate advisors and followers. Ills son, Don Jaime, is now twenty-six years, and according to the Salic law is the heir to the throne. Unlike his ancestors this young man lias never taken the field to win back the throne and the time has come, in the opinion of the restless ones, for him *■' show the world that he has the same blood that forced the original Pretender into the
historical war.
Don Jaime is a military man born and bred. After completing his schooling ho secured admission to u Russian cavalry regiment by express permission of the Czar, and his training in , the great military camps of the Russian army has made of him one of t e
best soldiers in Europe.
Don Carlos, his father, is still a comparatively young man. not having yet reached his ilfeieth birthday. He was married when he was twenty-two and his bride was but seventeen. They have both lived most eventful lives but time has treated them tenderly, and to-day the man who has schemed and plotted almost since the hour of his 'birth to win a throne 's vigorous and strong, with nerves or iron. 1km Carlos was born under circumstances, which he siys. has added to his determination to finally contiuur. In ISIS the feeling againsi She I Bourbons was most Intense through1 "-.i Europe, At that time Don Juan, I father of the present Pretender, and hls wife the Princess Maria Beatrix of Modena, were living at Venice where ! the antipathy to all Bourbons was I most violent. While in a Venetian theI atre one night the royal couple were • attacked by a mob and narrowly es- . caped with their lives. Don Juan im1 mediately decided to (b-e to Austria. | The journey was a tedious one owing | to the precautions which had to be taken against possible attacks, as the feeling in Austria was almost as bitter as in Venice. At a small inn in Leyback the Princess was taken ill and there Don Carlos was born in March 30. his birth being hastened by the exi citing scenes which his mother had
i j ist passed through.
The Emperor Ferdinand of Austria, : took considerable interest in the boy ! and when he became old enough to | understand bis position in the world, I the Emperor selected a Spanish priest as tutor for him, with tho idea that
so l ottld the boy's
: FIELDS OF ADVENTURE. | af ® w JaTS ft « 0 ' They™ ^ , 1 I »»>! were making use of a small
I anchored near the shore.
THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARING Suddenly they discovered
DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.
that is a greater lime than ever be-
I fore, and in a contract to this, Spain l ,riest wo ‘ l, ‘ ;l ® I turbulent History of the Carlist u re -i mi >id us to convince him of the futility tenders. The first was begun in 1833 1°’/ struggling «<> teach the opunish and lasted s-ven years. The second ,hro,UJ - l''stea.l the priest developed
. uprising oe-urred in isvs the third in 1 in!o ,l10 ,,lost > i' ulent of Carlisle and is-.-, ti,.. c. i nothing was left undone bv him to I
j Wilkes, the son of (ieorge Wilkes, out of Daisy B., by Administrator, and she out of a daughter of the imported ( English running horse The Knight of I
! St. George. Gentry’s dam. Dame Wood.
Star Pointer’s Feat Fixes the Side CwlW Uprising Expected Before 1 *»• Skit'S. S.^2i In
wheeler’s Fame Forever. Woodbine, by thoroughbred Woodford. Winter Sets in. I rears and Since then there has never ! life was to continue the war begun by i Ills grandam was the trotter Fancy, j been a favorable opportunity fur sta: . hl8 grandfather. . -ioO. by thoroughbred Wintou. and inn another c, nei-ii M niine/ rum-! The priest treated the boy as if lie
THL CAl F ONCE DESPISE!) E a, ' l; , ol L , '” r ,s the ,rutt i !! » 1i1, ' <m! uf FORCE WELL ORGANIZED po* administered S voralVrushiWde. were really the King of Spain ami Don
Frank Pierce. feats to the forces of the claimants '’a'' 1 '** h «a n«ver failed to conduct Rotiert J., is by the trotting stallion ' and weakened them terribly. hince himself in keeping with the character
Predictions F"reply Made that the '^'‘ s w 'ir. howcviM . a new generation one. high born and set apart tor
0 .. of Carlists has grown up and to-day \ i;1 nRbood.
bpanish Ihrone Will Have a there is no doubt that the forces be- When lie was but nineteen, when ,i + L +i C j r hind the Pretender are more numer- hvlng in Venice with bis mother, he INew uccupani oy Uie L.1KI Ot ,his, and better organized than ever be- : f**!! in love with the Princess Margarthe Year. fore, and .in contract to this, : pain ita ' ’he fourteen-year-old daughter of
was never in such a precarious con-, the Duke of Parma. Owing to the ex-
London. —There seems little I ditlon as now for resisting trouble at ] trerae youth of the girl it was arranged doubt that the time is near at hand for . home. ■ tiiat the marriage rhould not take
Prior to 1877 the Lateral Flyer Haro^'ami" j Was Not Tolerated on the Bip chief. The dan
Tracks. The “Big Four” that
'■£. who was a son of
Harold and Judith, by Mambrino Chief. The dam of Robert J. was got
First Broke the Ice.
New York,
has fixed the tame
Rysdyk’s Hambletonian and Lady Sanford. by Seely's American Star, and
—Star Pointer his granddam was by an obscure horse
of the pacer high," 1 thoroughbred ancestry.
in the history of the harness world and | J 0 '-’ Pan-hen s sire is the fashionably tho i-u r i| tt ts to make their perioiiiealef- Drained to ihe last crop by the war! place until the completion of her eduthe men who have been fighting the bred trotting stallion Patchen V\'ilk<s. f ort to capture the throne of Spain and iu Cuba and the rebellion in the Phili-j cation. This consumed three yeai-s
rise of the side-wheeler for the past I —- 9 Mn a son of George Wilkes and the
twenty years, are now knuckling to tho mightiest achievement ever accomplished by a harness horse. Prior to 1877 the pacer was an outcast in the horse world. lie was not tolerated In regular tracks. In these days the horse that moved both feet on the .same side at the same time was regarded as a lit subject for the executioner's bullet. The true blue horsemen despised him with a hearty vigor that could not be understood
these days.
This was the condition of affairs in 1877 when four rackers who had been waging the fiercest kind of split heat war against one another on tin* little tracks of Indiana. Ohio and Pennsyl-
dosely inbred Mambrino Patchen mare Kitty Patchen. His dam. Josle Young, was by the stout old trotting horse Joe Young, who made a record of 3:18 when nineteen years old, and Joe Young was by the trotting horse Star of the West 2:3ii'4. out of Lacy
Gregory, by Green’s Bashaw.
Star Pointer goes back on both sides to the famous pacing tribe of Tennessee, headed by Turn Hal. He is sired 1 ; by Brown Hal, also the sire of Hal , Dillard. Hal Braden, 2:07%: Storm, 2:0S' l .: Iguirei. 2:(31 : Brown j Hal. Jr.. 2:10%; Maxim, 211%; Hal Parker, 2:11^4; Brandon, 2:12%; Pal-' motto, 2:12'>4: Hal Pulaski, 2:14; Prince Hal, 2:14V Hal Pointer.
turn the reigning family adrift. It is twenty-one years since the termination of the last conflict and
pines a mtIouh war at home could not and then the marriage was solemnized be effectively managed. That this war with a« much pomp as if a King had is coining is believed in St. Petersburg, I really taken unto himself a bride..
vania, suddenly obtained n ognition , as been < v nt the more important meets. These 1 stated, a son of Brown Hal. Hal Point-side-wheelers were Sleepy George.; er was sired by Gibson’s Tom Hal. Lucy, Sweetser, and Bay Sally and J Brown Hal is also a son of Gibson’s : they soon became famous as the "Big i Tom Hal. The latter never pared fast J our.” While of plevian blood and ! enough to get his name in the 2:30 steppers of the despised gait these j class, and was a strong, wiry, hardhorses put up the fiercest tights that | muscled, country bred horse of the
had ever been seen and proved them- j Tennessee hills.
selves game from the rose to the hind- , star Pointer’s dam Is Sweepstakes, most hoof. ! k v Knight’s Snow Heels. She wr.t al- : It was in this notable year of 1877. : S o the dam of Hal Pointer, 2:04%. for | that th* Cleveland Driving Park hung many years tho greatest racehorse on up the first purse ever offered for the harness turf. I pacers on the Grand Circuit, it was I in Tennessee the Tom Hal stock has 51.000, and Sleepy George who was far , Jong been regarded as world boaters and away the best of the entries, was although it remained for Star Pointer handieaped by being made to drag a j to prove to the best of the contrary wagon while the others were hitched to that the blood could actually carry the sulkies. George was an blind as a bat j harness record :l 4 of u second inside but he was only beaten a nose by . the two minute mark, and to pace the Sweetser in the first heat in Hi" rat-I third quarter of the mile at a 1:37 tling time of 2:18. a half second slower I gait. In this quarter he covered than the champion record of Poca- j t.-, : i28 feet each second. The second hontas which had stood since 1853. , quarter is usually the fastest, but Star , That race was the beginning of the pointer demonstrated his wonderful fame of the pacer and the lateral gait- courage and endurance by going the cd horse has steadily grown in popu- third faster than the second, althougli iarity ever since. I his has l>ecn par- the latter was paced in the marvelous tlcuUrly the «lfo during the past half time of 29% seconds, or 14:369 feet dozen years when many trainers have j oaoh second. The first quarter in 3D taught fashionably bred trotters the i seconds fiat, or 43 feet ouch second side gait, getting Increased speed and W as almost equalled by the last quargrenter earning capacity. ter which was negotitated in 30% secNatural gaited pacers who had been onds, or 42:809 feet each second forced by artificial appliances to trot. As a yearling Star Pointer was sold i have been permitted to return to the by his breeder. H. H. Pointer, of pace, a notable case being the mare Spring Hill, Ton., ’o J. T. TRley of
Minnie II . who had been tai ght to chicora, Penn, for $1 COO.
trot in 2:79, but when she was allowed to pace she clipped many seconds from
this record.
It has been estimated that ninetylive |>er cent of the pacers In training to-day are the product of trotting-bred
Star Pointer is a bay with peculiar white markings, sixteen hands high, sure footed, intelligent and kind, strong about the foreshoulders, with finely veniod. wiry legs and a heavily muscled neck. He is eight years old
stock. This shows the tendency of the and if all goes well he win have oceans times better than anything else. The „f speed for several years to come few old-timers who have always been the friend of the pacer can find The snuff used by the Pope is made"* dar.J'xuae for Joy in fact that i n America. The- particular snuff goei
direct from Baltimore to the Vatican. 1
Star Pointer is the only free-for-all pacer of orthodox blood < n the turf to-day. John R. Gentry, Joe Patchen,
It is the highest priced sni ff in the world, and its value Is increased sev-
ar.d Robert J.. hls Hire" most danger- oral times above the original cost after oua competitors, have not an ounce of the customs duties have been paid
genuine pacing blood in their veins Take John R. Gentry for instance. Hls sire. Vshiand Wilkes, trotted to a re«ord of 2:17’i.. and he was by Red
to |
the Italian Government. His Holiness
likes dainty, pleasing odors, and be-; fore it is packed the snuff is liberally 1
sprinkled with attar of roses.
| In a Terrible filtiiAtlon, “Juke” Kennett feaveil tho Life of IIin Sergrant in I’reference to Hl» Own—\«*rv«*-SI»utterla|; Kxperienco of a Foreman i:i u Aline. “Jake” Bennett was about nineteen [ years old, and was probably the most i awkward man I ever saw, writes an ex-Oonfederato soldier in tho Louisville Courier-Journal. He was long and angular, and had a bony head with strong jaws. His great white teeth were always shown when he smiled, and he always smiled when he was in a fight. In camp Bennett was a alonohy, unprepossessing fellow, and hia feet, win -h were unusually large.were always in somebody’s way. Ho was ehy and never intruded himself, but when it came to riding and shooting he was in his glory. I have seen him many times on the hack of a fust horse, with the bridle rein in his teeth and a pistol in each hand, charging like mad ami shooting with remarkable accuracy. He had the reputation of killing three or four men every time there was a chance. He was then in charge of a detail on foraging expeditions and got in many skirmishes along the road. Later he was unanimously chosen captain on account of his bravery. Indeed, he was like unchained lightning in a hand-to-hand light, and it was in one of these that Bennett distinguished himself. There were about 1500 soldiers lying between Alexandria and Liberty. Wo had no chance on the field, and had to content ourselves with harassing the enemy and in cutting oft' their wagon trains and making it difiieult for them to forage. The two armies lay confronting each other before the engagement at Murfreesboro, and i was sent with a detail of scouts to waylay any that I
could.
Being only 180 men all tvU, we determined to take advantage of the hilly road and tho rocky hillside, which were thickly covered with cedars. Aoross tho road were a number of felled trees, and while we were all mounted it was comparatively easy to keep out of sight. While we were thus ambushed a Federal wagon came slowly along the road, guarded by three files of infantry. Thero were eight wagons iu the train, and we attacked them suddenly and boldly, realizing tho necessity of quick v.crk. I The tight was close and hot for a few minutes, but when the infantry came rushing up wo saw Hint the conflict would now ha between pistols and
guns.
At this point Bennett’s sergeant was nnhorsed and had fallen to the ground. Just as he jumped up, however, a Federal soldier plunged at him '-ith a bayonet. At the same instant another another soldier raised his gun to kill Bennett. In this terrible situation the alertness and courageous generosity of “Jake’’ Bennett prompted him to shoot first the man who was attacking his sergeant ami then the man who was threatening his own life. I consider that this instance, where a man could so suddenly conceive the idea to defend his.fellow soldier before | himself, illustrates the innate nobility and generosity of the man. The great soul of awkward “Jake” Bennett responded to tho impulse, and his selfsacrificing act was tho highest example ] of heroism that I witnessed during the
war.
A Mine Foreman’* Onlonl. John Kendall, who was recently the foreman of a mine at Bo Hand, ll. iti h • ohimbia, lately underwent an expi onoo that has left him a physical u r >k. His nerves were shattered and it will ho months before he regains hia former
strength.
It was about three weeks ago that Kendall and four other men lighted the short fuses under eight charges of giant powder iu the True Blue mine and then jumped into the basket to be hauled to tho surface and out of harm’s way. Tho basket raised a few feet and then stopped. Soon it began settling, i and it looked ns though the live men ] would lie blown to atoms when the | tremendous charges of powder were | exploded. When the basket was with- ! in four feet of the bottom of the shaft ! the fuses could ho heard sputtering, and the men knew that only a few seconds would elapse before the blasts
were discharged.
Kendall jumped from the basket and began pulling the fuses from the primers, which were to explode the pow-
; der.
j Kendall had extinguished five of I the fuses nearest the bottom of the j when he heard the preliminary | sputtering that betokened an iinmediI ate explosion several feet away. He j stumbled towards them and fell, ex- : tinguishiiig his light. Then there was : nothing but the spitting tire to guide
I him.
“Fortunately,” he says in describing his actions, •■(lie two ihots had been put down (dose together. I v as j al,le seize a fuse in either baud. | Providence was with me again, for neither blast exploded as I drew th.. fuse from Ihe primers. What happened after that I do not know of my
A great darkness
raft was adrift and had carried 1 1 ^ far beyond their depth. It had calm under the lee of the bluff, R ut ‘‘ soon ns the raft began to drift th* strength of the wind was apparent )! was driving the raft straight offshore and tho girls saw death waiting for them on the wide expanse of th e They screamed for help, and fhoff cries were heard by three young men Charles Surplus, William Murray ami Frank Anderson, the last named heinl a brother of onoof the imperilled girls Tho three men rushed to the sk'ire Xo boat was available. There w w nothing to do but swim to the Ter,cue Fortunately, all three were powerful swimmers. They plunged in, a , 1( i gained the raft without much trouble But getting the clumsy structure back to the shore was another matter The wind was pulling hard, and tho waves began to be high. A fearful struggle ensued, the three youu" rescuers pushing and pulling at the raft, ami seeming to gain not a-u inch Just as their task seemed hopeless a lull in tho wind favored them. They began to make progress, and before another strong gust came they were near enough to he somewhat shielded They worked hard under the stimulus of hope, and at last had the raft in shallow water. All throe were utterlv exhausted, and the girls were fainting
from cold and terror.
DON CARLOS AND HIS WIFE. FROM THEIR MOST RECENT PHOTOGRAPH MADE AT LUCERNB.
Man Was Shaken lake a H a f.
In a battle with a vicious stallion near Petaluma recently, Cornelius Frederickson, a young man employed on the ranch of W. A. Lewis, at San Antonio Creek, came near losing his life. At the Lewis ranch there are several San Francisco horses, among them being the running stallion Zim liu, now owned by Jules (damage, Mr. Lewis’ son-in-law. The animal appeared as gentle as a kitten, but the owner had warned the farm hands that he was subject to vicious spells. However, ho appeared so docile that the warning was forgotten. Friday morning Frederickson saddled the animal and took him out on the road for an exercise gallop, another farm employe named C. Meyer riding another horse. Frederickson returned to the ranch first, and, blanketing the horse, led him around to cool him off. Just as Meyer rode up Zuelin reared and his blanket slipped. As Frederickson reached to adjust it the horse plunged at him, caught his arm, and, shaking as a terrier shakes a rat, threw him to the ground. Then the vicious bea-t commenced to paw the prostrate man with his front feet, keeping a good hold on tho arm with his teeth, endeavoring to kick him and biting him fearfully, lacerating the flesh in n shocking manner. Tho cries of the victim attracted Meyer, who drove the animal away.—Healdsburg (L’al.j En-
terprise.
In tlie .Tan-* of an Allluntor.
While A. M. Nicholson was preparing to ship some alligators to a Northern customer he became the victim of a painful bite from one of the largest saurians, tho reptile beingabont seven feet iu length. He got into the cage and in some way the ’gator got him by the foot and drove one of his large tusks nearly through it. The circumstances which led up to and attended the accident were quite exciting. As usual, Mr. Nicholson had tied the ‘gator s mouth, ais a precautionary moaure, but when he went into the den to drag him out the saurian w rithed and twisted about until he slipped his InHi, at which juncture the infuriated gator was between his keeper anti the only exit from the den, so Mr. Nicholson climbed up the side wall and watched his chance to put his foot on the saurian’s mouth, but as he attempted to do so the huge jaws flewopen and closed on his foot, the high side tusk penetrating the shoe and sinking deep into the flesh. Nidiolson had the presence of mind to stand perfectly still until the jaws gradually relaxed their vice-like grasp, when he suddenly jerked his foot nwav and skipped out of the den. Had Nicholson forcibly attempted to release his foot the reptile would doubtless have rolled and floundered abont until lie broke or dismembered the limb. -
Orlando (Fla.) Reporter. Hale Oil l:un-ly Now,
‘Tt is a rare thing nowadays for a customer to ask for hair oil,” remarked a barber to a Star reporter, “though twenty or thirty years ago it wan equally rare if a customer did uot. there were hundreds of oil preparations or hair tonics, us they were called, in old-fashioned days, though I think bear’s grease or bear's oil was most in demand. Pomatums were also much used and sold, for in those days barbers sold all the hair preparalions. As time passed along this trade, which was very profitable, went to the drug stores. In all hair- preparations castor oil was the grease used. For the so-called tonics it was cut with alcohol and colored with alkanet or cochineal and perfumed. In latter days about the only grease called for or used by customers is
- , . , - -oy vaseline. To tell the truth, after own knowledge. A great darknes, forty years’experience in the barber T, r i ,n0 ' 1 be y say they found buMUess, [ don’t know of anything me doubled np at the bottom of the 1 ’bat will make the hair grow, i know shaft with the luses of the hist two ’his, though, when harhers controlled hd« s clinched tightly hi my hands.” ; the hair tonic and hairdressing preit^w as afterw ards discovered that 1'arations trade, there was more money
in the business than thero is now, for many is the week I made good wage-
eoek« in i- i "<*«■«- Axing up and selling hair tonic. We nueneo t n p ,U,ler . H - au,1 “ H “ ''"“He- "ften sold a gallon of it in a day. Now would net " e VaWcs cbokei1 ,l1111 ' you '■ au ’ t a" 11 a gallon in six months."
act \ —Washington Star.
I-xciting l»utliiii£ Incident. ' " One of the most thrilling oxperi- , Js™ v*i«e. cnees uf the bathing season was that witl, - 1S my foltunc , sLe Hal '’
of two voulie I .. . with enthusiasm.
the stopping of the ascending basket was due to the engineer's carelessness lie had forgotten to open the water-
two young women named Carrie ibew and Mary Anderson, off th,
No doubt of it,” said the manager, as he signed n contract with the Beard*
.hor, „ I,„koBlue, on Uk,iliohinan. 3
turn