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# * -- ■ The Old Home. An old lane, an old gate, an old house by a tree, A wild wood, a wild brook—they will not let me be; ltl In boyhood I knew them, and still they call to me. Doan deep in my heart’s core I hear them, and my eyes Through tea;-mists behold them beneath the old-time skies. ’Mid bee-boom and rose-bloom and or chard lands arise. I hear them, and heartsick with longing is my soul. To walk there, to dream there, beneath the sky's blue bowl; Around me, witnin me, the weary world made whole. To talk with the wild brook of all the long-ago; To whisper t.ie wood-wind of things we used to know When we were old companions, before my htai t knew woe. To walk with the morning and watch Its rase unfold; To drowse with the noontide, lulled on Its heait of gold; To lie with the night-time and dream the dreams of old. To tell to the o’d trees and to each listen ing leaf. The longing, the yearning, as in my boy hood l rief. The old hope, the old love, would ease my heart of grief. The o!d lane, the old gate, the old house by the tree. The wild wood, the wild brook—they will not let pie be; In boyhood I knew them and still they call to me. —Madison Cawein. in the Criterion. COMES OF FIGHTING FAMILY. Baby By Right Took Part in Last Me morial Day Parade. Grandson of a veteran of the civil war, son of a veteran of the civil war, nephew of two veterans of the civil war and the youngest son of a veteran in the country who ever took part in a Memorial day parade is 2-year-old Charles Henry Potter, Jr., of Bridge ton, Me. And pride in these distinc tions is shared by all members of Far ragut Post 27, G- A. R., of that town. With his 35 inches of height and his 2S pounds of weight the little fellow took part in the Memorial day parade. Seated in his mother's lap, in one of the carriages assigned to the Woman’s Relief Corps, Charles Henry, Jr„ waved his flag ard crewed liis ap proval of the marching comrades of his sire and grandsire. Baby Potter is descended from a fighting family. His grandfather, Otis Potter, was the fatbei of fourteen chil dren, all boys and all alive to-day. At the breaking out of the rebellion Pot ter and one son, Frank, enlisted in the Twenty-first Massaclfu setts infantry: another son, Fernando M., took serv ice ia the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts, ard Charles Henry, father of the little fellow, went to the front with company A. Thirty-second Maine. All four men came through the terrible struggle, but to-day Otis Potter is dead, and bis grave is one of those which Charles Henry, Jr., helped to decorate. Three times has Charles Henry Pot ter been married, and he has three sons. Lightly do his 58 years sit upon him. Kale and sturdy, he serves as mail carrier on one of the rural free delivery routes, and never a day, rain or shine, does he fail to make his 25 mile circuit. But Mr. Potter does not look his age, and when he sought admission to a ! Grand Army gathering in Portland, to which he was a delegate, the soldier on guard refused to admit him, saying: “Stand back, sir; stand right back. Don’t flatter yourself that so young a chap as you can play the ‘old vet’ racket on us.” When the day’s work is over Mr. Potter delights to take his baby on his knee and talk of the old days, of the forced marches, of the terrible slaugh ters. of the foraging expeditions, of the little kindnesses shown by the sol diers of both sides to one another, of the five long months he passed in the prison stockade at Saulsbury, N. C., and of his inspection by “Jeff” Davis. And though Charles Henry, Jr., can understand little of what he hears, he listens intently to the stories and ex periences. In the late summer and early fall of 1864 the# 32 Maine was one of the many regiments engaged about Pe tersburg. On the morning of Sept. 30 Potter and some 40 others of his reg iment were sent out foraging. But the success of their raid was spoiled by the sudden appearance of the 4th North Caralinas. who surrounded the men from Maine and made them pris oners. Immediately they were bundled aboard a cattle car, and. with two ! more cattle cars filled with “Yanks” were started on their way to the great ! prison pen at Saulsbury. an enormous stockade, dreaded by the Union sol diers almost as much as the death | hole at Andersorvilie. Fortunately for Potter and his fel lows their car was guarded by a de tail from the men who bad captured them. Constant intercourse for sever al weeks, even though conducted by bullets from behind trenches and bar ricades, had given these foes a whole some respect for one another, which ripened into good feeling when they were brought into such close contact. And before the train had covered much of the distance between Peters burg and Saulsbury the “rebs” were hobnobbing, so far as their, military duty would allow, and were exchang ing tobacco and experiences with their prisoners. Indeed, the southerners seemed to have little relish for their task of guarding captives en route to Sauls bury, and even the color bearer de clared that he was serving in the Con federate army against his wish. As the train rolled up to the station at Goldsboro and stopped the prison ers noticed a great cfowd and many officers of high rank. Having made stops at ail the towns through which they had passed, the Union soldiers thought nothing of the stop at Golds boro till one of them called attention to the length of time they were held. And they wondered at the cause. But of a sudden word was sent down the line that “Jeff” Davis was coming to look them over. The news caused a commotion, for the men were all eager to see the president of the Confederacy. It chanced that Mr. Davis had delivered a political ad dress in Goldsboro and had arrived at the station with several members of his cabinet and escort just as the prison train had pulled in. And the obliging railroad officials had held the train that their president might see, without danger, some of the “Yankee hirelings.” With his escort at his heels the southerner, clad all in gray, an old fashioned sack coat, a high collar wound with the black stock cravat affected by the gentlemen of that time, and a gray felt hat, went from car to car. As the side door of the car in which were Potter and his compan ions was slid back the men crowded forward, craning their necks to catch sight of the terrible “Jeff.” And before they realized it they were gazing into his eyes. From one man to another th > southerner shifted his sharp eyes, taking each one in from head to foot. In the moment they looked the prison ers saw the dignity, the kindly expres sion of face of the man who had to~n the nation asunder, and marvelled at the well built, firmly knit, lithe figure and the thin face, with its sharp, pierging eyes. And the Confederate leader saw the determination, the strength, the grit in the eyes of his northern foemen. Both were im pressed. “Suddenly an arrogant southerner cried: “Here, ‘Yanks,’ give three cheers for President Davis.” The Union soldiers drew back as though struck in the face. Then one of them shouted: “If you'll give three cheers for Gen. Grant, we’ll give three cheers for Mr. Davis.” And there was no mistaking the significance of the accent placed on the mister. But the dignity of the famous “reb” stood him in good stead, and, taking no notice of the incident, he walked along to the other cars, a smile on his face. The inspection finished, Mr. Davis and his party walked briskly back to the station, and the prison train was sent on its way. But as the train pufled out several “Yanks,” still smart ing under the memory of the cheers asked'for President Davis, gave voice to their feelings by shouting, “We’ll hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree.’1 Arrived at the stockade at Sauls bury, the prisoners were turned in with the 10,000 others already there. Horrible were the sufferings and pri vations of the men confined in that pen. Op some days they were given a few ounces of bread, on others a lit tle meal mixed with cold water, but without salt, and on still others they received nothing at all. When at the end of the five long, weary months, Mr. Potter was released, his weight had dropped from 140 to 80 pounds. To-day it is his fondest hope that little Charles will grow up, serve his country, if need there be, and be the father of sons who will uphold the record of the faipily. Col. Corcoran’s Career. Near Fairfax Court House, Va., Dec 22, 1863, Col. Michael Corcoran mel his death by the fall of his horse upon him while riding with Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher. He was born in Carrowkeel, County Sligo, Sept. 21 1827, the son of a captain in the Brit ish army. Appointed to the Irish con stabulary when 18, he resigned in 1849 from motives of patriotism and came to New York, where he became a clerk in the postoffice and later held a clerkship under the city register. En tering the Sixty-ninth regiment as a private he rose from grade to grade and became its colonel in August, 1859. For refusal to parade his regi ment in 1860 in honor of the Prince oi Wales he was brought before a court martial, which was still trying him when the outbreak of the civil wai convinced the military authorities thal the nation had better uses for a fight ing Irishman than to try him. On the first call for troops the Sixty-ninth went to the front, possibly a little In front of that, and at Bull Run Col Corcoran was captured and kept in close confinement for more than a year, and to add to the discomforts ol prison life he was one of the officer? reserved for execution in case the Federal government should carry out its announced purpose of executing the crews of privateers. Released on exchange Aug. 15, 1862, he was com missioned Brigadier General of Volun teers and organized the Corcoran Le gion. After checking the advance ol the enemy upon Norfolk in the spring of 1863. tbe Legion was assigned tc the Army of the Potomac in August of the same year, and was a portion thereof at the time Gen. Corcoran met his death. Captured Gen. Lee’s Son. It was considerable of a surprise to his neighbors when David D. Whfte, of the little village of Charlemont a few miles from North Adams, Mass., just over the mountains, where he has lived for thirty years, said he w-as go ing to make a trip to North Adams to attend the circus. He had always remained close at home. He made the trip, and It did the old man lots of good. White served with the Thlrty-sev enth Massachusetts all through the civil war, and he recalls with delight an experience he had after the battle of Sailor’s Creek, near Appomattox April 6, 1865. He got out beyond the lines, when he noticed a Confederate who was also alone and who was mak ing for the woods. WTiite called upfin the Confederate to halt, but the lattei refused until White threatened to shoot. White marched his prisoner tc camp, where he was found to be no other than Gen. Custis E. Lee, son ol the commander-in-chief, Robert E Lee. The prisoner was paroled, and three days later his father surrender ed to Gen. Grant, and the war was over. We are not here to have facilities found us for doing the work we like, I but to make them.—Matthew Arnold. GOWNS Of THE MOMENT Mock Turtle Soup. Take a scalded calf’s head, boil it In hot water for twenty minutes, drain and put in cold water, then place it in a saucepan with three quarts of water, a carrot, an onion, four cloves, a few branches of parsley, a table spoonful of flour in a little water, which add to the other ingredients and boil gently for an hour and a half. Drain, $nd when cold cut the calf’s head into small pieces, then add three pints of Spanish sauce, boil gently twenty minutes, and just before serv ing also add one good glass of sherry, a little red pepper and two hard boiled eggs, chopped up, the yolks and whites separately, and the peel of a lemon cut in small pieces. Advice for Mothers. When making baby’s short clothes, mothers will find it a great saving if they will do the following two simple things: Make the neckbands of the little dresses a trifle larger than necessary, then draw very narrow tapes through, and when making the sleeves cut them a little longer than required, and sew two horizontal tucks below the elbow. If this is done, as baby grows and his little arms lengthen, the tucks can be let out, and the string round his neck need not be tied so tightly. In this way the little dresses will last much longer without being outgrown. For the Traveler. --.. Traveling costume of mixed cloth trimmed with dark red braid. How to Fix Silk Stockings. Who dances must pay the piper, and who wears fine cloth* must go to trouble. And the purport of this is that if you will wear silk stock ings and can’t afford a maid to wash them for you, you’d better do it your self, rather than send them out with the ordinary wash. Some experts say that delicate silk and lace stockings should always be cleaned with benzine, but benzine is so odorous that it should be used only when absolutely necessary, and here it is not. The most cobwebby quali ty will come out whole and unstreaked if they are washed in bran water. Buy the bran at a drug store, and, if one is going away for the summer, take a quantity of it. Put a handful of it into a basin of tepid water, souse and squeeze the stockings in it and rinse in the same way. Do not wring, and if the stockings are colored, be sure to dry in the shade and, what is better still, in the dark, that they may not fade. If washed in the afternoon and hung near a window, they will dry over night. In Laundered Materials. Freshly cleaned or laundered mulls, laces and linens appeal to every woman of refinement far more than richer materials and accessories that can not be cleaned, and so it is more than probable that the present reign of lingerie accessories for run-about shopping, traveling and gowns for other than ceremonies or evening wear will continue. Short skirts—and they seem to grow shorter every week—with short Etons having elbow sleeves and cut away around the neck to a V-shaped section of the white underblouse, or else bodices gathered into a belt and with elbow sleeve and deep V’s designed to meet the new guimpe and under sleeves fad, are seen on many fash ioanble women. Sometimes these guimpes and sleeves are of rich crochet over some thin material. In this case the undersleeves are tight cuffs from the elhpws to the wrists and the stock attached to the guimpe is high and is feather-boned. Suspender Frock. The suspender frock is pretty and practical enough to hold its own throughout the season. One costume of this sort is a trifle less Infantile than the regulation suspender models. It is made of soft-finish taffeta in “Alice” blue and has a skirt with small box plaits all around flaring from knee depth. A short, jaunty bo lero with wide collar and straps gives an exceedingly chic effect; these are embroidered in self-tone silk. The tops of sleeves are silk and the deep cuff matches the lingerie blouse worn under the jacket. Meddling With the Posies. A new and popular fad is to have flowers of peculiar colors, different from that which nature gives them. To effect a change in the color of a flower, pour a little ether into a small I glass, and to it add one-tenth of its quantity of strong ammonia water. With this simple and easily made mlx , ture you may change to a bright green any flower that Is red or violet. All you have to do is to dip the flower into the mixture, and the change will at once take place. Yellow flowers are not changed by this process, but white ones usually turn to a yellow or a deep orange tone. The action of the fluid is almost in stantaneous, and you may vary the experiment by sprinkling some flowers, instead of dipping them, which will give a spotted effect. Somewhat similar results may be produced by using ammonia only, but the process is a longer one. Don’t dry the face with a rough towel if you want to keep the skin smooth; instead use a fine damask one, and “dab” the face with it. This preserves the delicate apeparance of the skin. For dry hair an effective wash is one part glycerine to three parts rose water, with five grains of salt of tartar to about one-half pint of the lotion. All lotions must be well shaken before using. Clean windows in damp weather with a little methylated spirit, and you will have no difficulty in polishing them. \ Stains on the hands can be removed by rubbing with salt moistened with lemon juice. A grease spot can be removed from leather by applying a little benzine. It may make the surface dull, but you can restore the polish with the white of an egg. Preparing for September. If a woman is choosing a serviceable fabric for an early September gown, she could do no better than to pick up some bargains of fine French voile. We have gotten bomewhat tired of these in America, for few are worn here, yet the women who are coming back from Paris are bringing one or two in their trunks. Of all these, the prettiest are the Rob Roy plaids in Alice blue and cream and magenta and white. These are made with box-plaited skirts and surpliced blouses with round chemisette and long tight sleevelets of fine white batiste and Valenciennes and Mechlin insertions, all done by hand. With them are worn high soft belts of crushed leather in ivory white. Pickled Cherries. Pickled cherries are the most de licious of relishes, and one that can not be purchased for love or money. For this purpose select large, rather tart, cherries with the stems on, wash and pack into fruit jars, making them about three-quarters full. Bring to a scald one quart of cider vinegar, one cupful of white sugar, two dozen wrhole cloves and twelve blades of mace, with a few pieces of stick cin namon. Cool and pour over the cher ries, screw the tops on tightly and keep in a cool, dark place. oudoir <§j|^ nSidences Sleeves keep up an interesting va riety. Get ready to wear a polonaise. Some body 6ays they’re coming. Particularly is velvet ribbon for trimming in high esteem. Blue, dark or light, is perhaps the favorite of all colors for bathing 6uits. In a light flowered material the three-flounce skirt is most attractive. A stick pin has a French poodle for the head, the eyes being of diamonds. Many of the shops will make silk girdles to order for a not exorbitant price. The funny, little old-fashioned tight basque is threatened again, for our sins. One needs a whole assortment of colored handbags to be always prop erly equipped. Shirring is used even on the wash fabrics, with a fine scorn of the nec essary laundering. Tailored Linen Suit. A tailored coat and skirt of linen is a practical thing if thoroughly shrunk before making and well tailored, though the cheap cotton and skirt suits of linen are likely to be distress ing objects after their first tubbing. Tailors who cater to exclusive trade are making up severely tailored suits of linen with rather short reeferlike coats, semi-fitting in the back, straight in front and finished with plain coat collar and coat sleeves. These coats usually button In double-breasted fash ion, with large pearl buttons, and are strapped and heavily stitched. The skirt i3 gored and strapped or plaited in some severe way, but any plaited skirt drives the ordinary laundress to despair and failure, and the plain gored skirts look better in the long run. Delicious Supper Dish. Pressed chicken is a delicious sup per dish and an admirable device foi masking a fowl’s age. Singe and draw a chicken, but do not cut it up. Boh until tender in just enough water to keep It cookLng. When it is almost ready to fall to pieces, remove from the pot and slip out all the bones Chop or cut the meat very fine, season with salt, pepper and melted butter Add the liquor in which the chicken was boiled, which should now be re duced about half, and one cup of soft ened bread crumbs, i. e., bread crumbs which have been soaked in hot water and then squeezed dry. Heat all to gether, press into a square mold and serve cold with a garnish of jelly an<? parsley. White Pique Waist. Blouse of white pique plaited at the top to a yoke which is cut in one piece with the bands on each side of the center box plait. The latter and the yoke are ornamented with but tons, as are also the sleeves where they are slashed open over undercuffs of the pique. With the Walking Suit. While the small tip-tilted hat is the height of fashion, many women real ize they cannot wear them and the milliners have been compelled to mod ify some of the models. A face hat of medium size and one in high favor for walking suits is black chip with white crown trimmed with a wreath of pink roses and a bunch of same under brim at back. Pretty Vogue in Chains. Neck chains of the finest gold links, connecting tiny stones, are displayed everywhere now, and are really mar vels of daintiness. Then there are chains which come under the class of barbaric jewelry, from which depend large turquoise matrices, amethysts or pearls. Transparent Waists. The one dominant thing about shirt waists, wThether for wear at 9 o’clock in the morning or 4 o’clock in the afternoon, is their transparency. From 12%-eent lawn to |1 Korean silk, the fabric must be transparent. Old Fabric Is Revived. White serge is restored to the high est favor and some of the most at tractive suits are made of it. The short coat, elaborately trimmed with braid, is preferred. Pale blue linen gown trimmed with pale' blue cord Plain white linen tucked skirt will* white linen coat in es'elet hole em broidery. Plain white vest. au ^ ^ p^Q3 ^u"6i5 Eight relays of carrier pigeons car ried a message from St. Louis to Bos ton, a distance of 1,200 miles, in an air line in exactly eight days. In the tennis doubles championship at London, England, the Doherty brothers beat S. H. Smith and Frank L. Rlseley, 6—2, 6—2, 6—8, 6—3. Word has been received at Milwau kee of the death of Pete Dowling, the one time noted left hand pitcher, at La Granada, Ore., who was killed by being run over by a train. Fred Ross, who was knocked out by Jack Donnelly in the sixteenth round of a prize fight at Aberdeen, Wash., is dead. His neck was dislocated and a blood clot gathered on the brain. Frank Gotch, after defeating Sam uelson, the Swedish champion, in a wrestling match, challenged Marvin Hart for a finish fight for $5,000 side bet. Gotch will give up wrestling, for fighting. Philadelphia Jack O’Brien an* Jack (Twin) Sullivan have been matched to engage in another twenty round bout at SkBgway, Alaska, on August 8. They fought at Dawson City on the night of July 4. According to the present arrange ments the Queen’s Westminster rifle team will visit the United States dur ing r.cy.t summer to compete for the Vincent shield. Afterwards the win ner will held it against a challenge. At the athletic sports at Birming ham, Eng., H. A. Hyman of Pennsyl vania university beat the English rec ord for the 300 yard run. Hyman's time was 31 seconds. The previous record, 31 2-5 seconds, was held by C. D. Wood. At Newmarket, England, July 6, the Princess of Wales stakes were won by St. Denis, ridden by Maher, the Amer ican jockey. Exchequer was second, and Lancashire third. Nine horses started. Martin, American, rode Ex chequer. At London, England, July 7, the Westminster volunteers won the Sir Howard Vincent shield, defeating the Seventh regiment team of New York by the narrow margin of ten points after the closest competition ever seen at Bisley. Secretary Holt of the Indianapolis Racing Association has announced that the harness meeting which was to have been held here the week of Aug. 8 had been abandoned because of the attitude of the authorities rela tive to bookmaking. Word was received from Manager Parker of the Corinthian football team of London, who is now in New York, that the team would leave Liverpool on August 3 for Quebec. The tourists will be strong, having five interna tional players in the lineup. The Leanders, who defeated the Vespers of Philadelphia by a length, won the final heat in the contest for the Grand Challenge cup, defeating the Belgian crew bv two and a half lengths in the splendid time of 6:56. This is only five seconds outside the record. Martin J. Sheridan of the New York Irish-American Athletic Association, is the American champion all-round amateur athlete. He won the title on Brookline field at Boston July 8, when he made a total of 6.820*4 points, which incidentally breaks the record of Harry Gill of Toronto of 6,360*4 points, made in 1900. Miss May Sutton of California Is the woman lawn tennis champion of Great Britain, the title coming to her when at London, Eng., July 8, she de feated Miss Douglas, the holder of the title, in a challenge match, 6—3, 6—4. Miss Sutton's win virtually makes her the world’s champion and tops a career which is wonderful. Guy Vaughan, the youngster of 22 years, who drove an automobile 1,015% miles in twenty-four hours, do ing 1,000 miles in twenty-three hours YANKEE RUNNER IS BEST. Harry A. Hyman. Of the American athletes who com peted last week in the English cham pionships only one, Hyman, proved a winner. Hyman is a Pennsylvania collegian and in the 220-yard race de feated Jupp, the English champion, by three yards in 0:22 3-5. Hyman’s best distance, however, is the quarter mile. thirty-three minutes and twenty sec onds will be called upon shortly to defend his record, inasmuch as there are at least five people in the field who are anxious to secure this mark. Jack Root has been forced to take to his bed. He claim* his injuries were not the result of his meeting in Reno July 4 with Marvin Hart, but were received while he was training for the fight with Mike Schreck at Ogden, Utah. Root is not seriously hurt, but claims his training injuries caused his defeat at the hands of Hart. C. K. G. Billings drove his mare Ixm Dillon, the queen of trotters, a mile in 2:06 at the Glenville track, July 8, the fastest mile yet made on any track by any horse this year. The mare jogged along as smoothly as clockwork, making the first quarter in : 33, the half in 1:04, the three quarters in l:35r/., and the mile in 2:06. Manager Jim Coffroth, handler of big glove fights, has made a startling offer to Jimmy Britt and Battling Nel son, rival claimants of the lightweight championship title. He stated he would give the boys a purse of $20,000 for a fifty-round battle to be decided at Colma, Cal., at a time to be mutu AFTER A BOUT WITH HART. Mike Schreck. This Cincinnati boxer has posted a forfeit of $1,000 and announced his willingness to meet Marvin Hart, the new champion, in a glove fight for the title. Hart undoubtedly will be will ing to give Mike a chance at an early date, as he says he is in the game head and heels and will box any one who might prove a drawing card. ally agreed upon and in a new big building that is said to be in process of building. Jack O’Brien, the Philadelphia fighter, sends word his twenty-round contest with Jack (“Twin”) Sullivan at Dawson City the 4th of July result ed in a draw'. O’Brien says Sullivan would cot go on unless a draw was de clared if bofli men were on their feet at the finish. He claims to have up set Sullivan eight times. A large crowd saw the battle, the receipts amounting to $20,000. J. Barton King of the Belmont Cricket club of Philadelphia broke the United States individual record for the largest number of runs scored in a cricket match. With the exception of the intermission for lunch, King was at bat from 11 a. m. until 5:30 p. m., when he was caught out, and in that time he scored 315 runs. The best previous performance was made by A. M. Wood, one of King's team mates, some years ago, when he scored 275 runs. Is the United States to have a na tional golf course and are the links to be located at Long Island, adjacent to New York City? C. B. Macdonald, the former national amateur champion, has for two months or more been quietly soliciting subscriptions for such a unique project. His idea is to get 100 men to subscribe $1,000 each, others to come in for lesser amounts, and buy a fine tract of land in Long Island, w'here a splendid course and club house will be provided. One world’s record was broken at the games of the Sheepshead Bay Athletic Club at New York. In the seventy-flve-yard dash for club mem bers F. Engelhart covered the distance in 7 1-5 seconds. This beat the best previous record of 7 2-5 seconds, made several years ago, and held jointly by more than three of the prominent sprinters. As only two timers officiat ed it is not likely that the record will ^tand, as the rules necessitate three timers for any record performance. The Vespers oi Philadelphia could not quite repeat on July 5 the victory they won on Independence day on the Thames, but they rowed a brilliant race and had the whole British rowing world gathered along the course nerv ous until the Leanders finally met the last desperate spurt of the American boat and crossed the finish line a rc.ant length in front. The time was 7:01. The Leanders took a lead of half a length early in the race and were never headed by the Philadel phians. Announcement is made that Lou Dil lin and Major Delmar, the only two minute t-otters in the world, will be seen in a match race during the blue ribbon meeting at Detroit, Mich., at the opening of the grand circuit, July 24 to £*. The Detroit Driving Club will give a gold cup to the winner. C. K. G. Billings, who owns both horses, will drive Lou Dillon, and Ma jor Delmar, who defeated Lou Dillon last fall at Memphis for the $5,000 gold championship cup, will be driven by Harry K. Devereaux. Beals C. Wright and/ Holcombe Ward retired from the All England doubles tennis championship only after what was conceded to be the most magnificent exhibition of lawn tennis ever seen at Wimbledon. S. H. Smith, the Welsh champion, and Frank L. Riseley, one of the best ex ponents of tennis in England, were the Amsjricans’ opponents, and played at the top of their form, Smith's driv ing being especially brilliant. The Americans won the first four games, with the Britishers contesting every point, but in the fast play, which con tinued to the end, the Britishers final ly got the upper hand and won. The scores were 2—6, 6—3, 6—2, 9—7.