A Trick Of The Turf

Men of the highest repute and of the nicest sense of honor get their notions of right and wrong sadly confused under the temptations of the raoe-oourse. A more chivalric, high-toned, and gallant gentleman than General Jackson did not live among his contemporaries. And yet a story was current in Tennessee some fifty years ago which goes to show that ,evenhe was shrwdly suspocted of playing his game with the " advantages," in the dainty phraseology of sporting men. The story ran in ihis wise: The General becaine discontented with a mulatto boy, who had been his favorite rider, and sold him to a noighbor, who was his great rival on the turf. The boy was to ride in a very important race against a favorite horse of the General's. Jackson had a heav} bet pending on the race, and he was overheard remonstrating. with his late rider. " You black rascal, mincl what you are about. None of your old tricks with ruo. If I catch you squirting your tobáceo juk:, in ïuy boy's eyns 1'íl cut your hoart out." This may have heen a pnro fabrication ; but if' sharp practice on the turf has nol been the rule rather tlian the exception, an anocdote of this description could not have obtftined currency as applied to General Jackson. - Harpa ilonlhly for Jane. Dio Lowis is adveitisiug through the country that bo can teil ariy one how to prow fat ou r. dollar por week. Wo won't charge a cent for telling how to live ou half that sum - live on your relatives. Hvtndreda of peoplo wbo havo tried it can testify tD the soundness of tho above recipo. Ml Chase was tho laat of his lino. Although he had six or aoven brothcrs none of thum had malo issue, aiul íiíl, died hpfore tho Chief-Jusiio. And as he died loaving no son, it follows that tho line fnd name of Ohase, so fsr as his father's itumediate branch of tho family is conjernd, böcaoi wlmct with bis dguth.