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About The Butler herald. (Butler, Ga.) 1875-1962 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1881)
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ALL THROUGH 4 PIOVKHT. HOOK. W. N. BENN.S, JAMES 0. RUSS, editors “XKT T11 (-.H E tJE UG HT.” Volume y. iVwtotrn t'lir ifii ,, r.A. Subscription. $1.50 in Advance. BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. AUGUST 2. 1881. NUMBER 44. Tom and Joo Jic str»tcheil k boy-faah- ion, upon tlio rug before tho. lire, with a very disconsolate look upon tho young, faces the dancing flumea liWqp. It ii a stormy night, W* 1 dtej q«t>, therefore, disappointed of a prtpm^ed treat to which for n week bnpk they have j^eon looking forward. ' Suddenly the dbor oper and gives entrance to a tall,: l»risl^» “Boys, are you here* \ ‘l>oor fellows I its too bad you are < roomed to disap pointment; but what #tjay j ou to a B to r y ? Would it compens ^ the least degree for tho great air ^ Yes, they • • '^ihk it will; and, with a slight but: d' rifled change in* both posi tion and. expression, they wait expect antly, r x>hfldent of being interested, for they are no strangers to their brother- '“'/daw’B graphic stories, And bo JiggUis:. “It was a very cold day, and,'os little IDick stood On the corner : shivering in I the keen blast which pierced relentlessly . through his thin, ragged garments, he ■ said, half aloud: ‘ Oh, dear I this wbftd isn’t mych of-a place. )t I wonder if it's wanner where mother isj I I wish I was there I’ ^ . j .,, ; “ Poor bpy 1 A month ago dqhth bad robbed him of his only friend by taking away his'motheiv and since then he had •'lived os Liionsaiultj aycrywhe^e W picking up what qfiil .jobs, ho;,could in the daytim^,' and sleeping at night in any nook 4 that offered him shelter. Bnt work t^us not always to be found, and f °r 'die post two days his pocketa lyidk ^i6t held even a penny with wgieli t< buy bread, and the boy wi ished. tl10 toars running ctoinj lfs\jii£c$.ed faoepvhen suddenly a great thrill ran, oil through his frame, for the moment! bringing a warpfth it had: but rarely known. Oould it bo, or did his eyes deceive him? There, right befpra him. on the pave ment. was a pocketrbook I “With a hasty glpoce backward the lad, with trembling fingers, lifted and opened’ his prize, and saw what seemed like incalculable, riches .to his unacous- tomed eyes—a roll of crisp bank-notes. “ * Now I can get something fo eat 1' “But something white'attracted his notice; a card, and penciled upon it a name and address. “Diok could read a little, and he •easily picked out the written characters which proclaimed to whom the lost pq^jketbook belonged. “ For a moment the boy hesitated. It was his. He had found it. Had he not a right to it? ' • ' ■ Vf /. “But even as he thonght conscience . rose, and with a loud voice cried: “ «NoJ As ii |bu knowthe ovrn- er’s name it 14 '• * “Just before she died his mother had said to hint: - “‘Dick, my poor boy, I doubt not but that yon may oomo to wear torn, soiled coat, t>ut.tjter^ is no aged # tt^t tt should cover a soiled soul. Be true and honest, no matter what r happens* ,$nd God will care for yc^’. | .m • . . , “A choking sob rose in the bvy’s thre |t as he slowly turned. “ * I will take it to the house that is on tho cntd,’ ; how hungry lain J” y , .. , „ “ He thrust the pocket-book into the breast of hia., jacket, bnt not before it had been seen. , . “ ‘Bee here, Diokey, old fellow, shell out I You’vi go Bhoree, et-book.^ “Diorh l>oyish^'»e were bigger boys than J^a, bqt h^ was no coward. n’t . iV belongs. 1 “‘You can’t oome^that 4w;®.qvpf me. Here, hapd it over, or you’ll wish you had!’ aw}fl*l>#>t of <**i«f* !*y» raised one hand to strike, while he made a snatch at )isi[A iWth thWotilOT. “ The tliin cloth parted, and the ob ject of dispute rolletl upon the pave ment. ii'y he emphasised his words by grasping the rough boy’s shoulder with no gentle hupd. ' He’s a thief; he’s got my pocket- book,* was tho sullen reply, with g vain, glance around for the companion, who. * 'est no time iu putting a good dL’t- betireeh lilikkelf and tho scene of action. ‘That he hasn’t. I have been watching the whole oocurrenoe from the sUtyp juafc over the way. 1 sdpr this lib tie lad find the pooket-book, read the card, and heard what, passed lsatwoen him and you. It is yon who* aw the thief—m intention, if not hi actual doctl; and now you had better go away quiokly, and be thankful you are let off* easily.’ 1 ' Then, taking'DioVslmnd, lie looked, pityingly into the pale face, dil disfig ured 1 by his assailant’s rude fist. “ * Come with me, my little lad,’ he said. ‘ It was my pocket-lxv>k which you fonhd, and l am going to s’bbw you, that, no matter what comf3S, “ hott- csty is the best polioy”; to follow/ “And Diok, going willingly, w.wi Idi to a oozy home,, where a sweet-Avco^] woman with a babe in her arms came to* the door, to greet her husband with the same smile she might have. worn vfhert, hd her lover.' f And there, in thatl homo-nest, blessed by mutual roej^eot and love, the poor orplidri boy found a shelter. His benefactor was » physi cian, and there was many a way inwbfich Dick’s active hands and limbs ccftild make themselves useful: uftl there ho lived until the on-coming yea** brou ght with them a restless, ambitious longing for independence. Then, with tears- iq his eyes, he pressed the kind kfQds- of his friends, and started out in the world to carve his own fortune. “Ho went West, to that letnd whole •topi. hands and nearts ore so muefth needed and “prized. Success docs not come without labor, and’ : Dick worked hard, and his exertions were rewarded. a hff 86lt .When; tep years later, he was e fo' to^efct in SMlafe business quite a little pum—the refuty of his own indus try., Then, yielding to an. irresistible impulse to return and look onoo more upon the faces of hia benefactors, he turned, his steps eastward. . j , i “ It waa lato in tho evening; when Jie f alighted ,at the station and ^nlk«d,^P. the familiar street which led t<y big j ol^ 1 home. But he found a disappointment awaiting him; the house Was Vacant, and a sign 4 To let’ was upon the door. Ho turned away, intending to inspire in m wmen iq adjiic^ttt Home.lwhon a sudden alarm almostfom- r' u 'K niglit air-'Tii-e! fire ! ’ Atonoe tlje j»olte ^ta^»nn?a]m wMi the «4»sual hue' im4 4*°J boys trooped offt’To ’ tlirf rCsdlfte, ®id,’ hmonffthenf, catching'thbir excVfcement, went the traveler. The fire 'Aaa^ only some five blocks awoy, in a iwgi liana- some house, and it must hawo gained great headway before being vliscov^tefl, for already tlie flamks woro licking the windows of the third story. . ,l “ ‘It.is Dr. Ij who livqs hero,’ some one says. * Yes, ’ another answerk • • but he’s away. He's my doctor, and he told me the dttier day that he Was going Into the eoilhtry for a while with his family/ ■ “ The name iscted like a shock of cl^o- tricity upon one hearer in the cr^wd. Throwing off his emt, disregardivig the cries that called hidi book, Dick, *riished straight into the Saass of siyoke and flame which ®nvelo**ed the bffice-door. With superhuman strength he forced it open. All was dark inside, but with tlxe lurid light which glared if.to the win dows Dick saw a moJionJoifl form in the oh air before the. desk, with, hia hsa4 sank upon his breast, and bis ayes, olosod. Seizing the in<A ; t figure in his strong arms, he draggedl rather ,thon carried it from the roam into the ball, and from thence out into the open air. A shout of horror greoU'd him. “ .< We ripped and called- And ho nine answered, and so we thought id was true that he was. a way. Hp must hnwo been OOffboatod'bGfore he conld call tor hgp. PoW rhaof • Leave me alone and attend to your duty/ Diok said, briefly. ‘Ho isn’t 4e*d-^-hte'htert still beats. Bat make fturetborais.nq, other tomato in the bouse.’ ‘ “‘There can’t be. Don’t, you 'see tho wtodqws are all /tout and barred ?• ’ “The bouse was burned to ashes be fore Dick’s efforts, seconded by the xym- puthetic efforts of the orowd of^rlsnd^.- who had by that lime Shored at; tha .pot.-lirwd citato. d,to ,^ouamcmatesj^/rh«b,*' and breathing, though fatotly like a ftfalfcj they bore him to* A! friend’s home, re Dick, as soon as he bed sent # ^nun to-^^ft^ ier husband’s peril 'andr iafety, tol “ And the Wife and daughter came, and Diok waa overwhelmed by their gratitude, but wlmt touohed him most was ^lien the daughter, whom lie re membered a little 10-year-old girl, aow a graceful young woman with all her mother’" beauty and her father’s good ness combined in her lqvely faoe, took liis hand in .her twq fair, onee, and* press- tog it to her soil; red Ups, said: * How can I ever repay you? Bnt for yon I would now be fatherless, and my mother a widow.’” “And he married the daughter, J. suppose,” Tom s^ys, breaking in. “Yes, you are right She found a way to repay him ; and that ends the story,” pooqmnn o* uaaojB ‘^oiq Aoq e^q ioo«f toqi ‘aura ejwq Am ‘ao;—qjus ^pj^),, on4 o s 4 q cans «jmb uoi eon,, .‘dn Butqooi ‘eop sHufl M ‘pj«qofj|; aoipcug; „ now, tells you this story, and his bene factor, the good doctor, is no other than your own noble father, of whom yon are so justly proud; while the daughter is your sister Fan, who, twelve years ago— just one year before you were born- made me one of the happiest of men.” “Wasn’t if. a jolly story,’ Joe?” said Tom, when they were snugly ensoonced under the sheets for tho tiight “ Do you know, it proves one thing. .Yve al- road-^ahh'Sfw/kMw- I’y^ read if?u&appt books—that the fellows -who begitf Wfty down always seem to get up the highest m tijr^d^^FT-fa- route betWCf^^^totf ‘ jnd ‘New Yorktoy, the wof MteriHa veni had gust with ^r.. ; Webeton wheA • thewato- etojip^jd at th* latter city. , -Mr. W^b^er wae not quitej well, and, saying that he thought rrwojUd be prudent to tak^gpmo byanc^y, uskeitme to aoeompany him m> search of it. we accordingly entered a bar-room near fthe station, whnn the order was given. The attendant, without lobbing, at liis enstbmer, menhanieally ‘toot ade- et;nt<jr. from, a shfilf behind hjp\ n.pfl placed it near some glasses on the coun ter. JuftLas Wijibster was about to liolp hinstelf, the bnrteo’der, happening to look up, started as if he hod seen a AM KDITOH’ti DKJIV, In the years agone, when De Witt Olinton county, - was the county seat and a right smart village in the woods, or on the way to be, the editor of its week* ly paper had some subscribers who paid in wood, osiers to produce, other* to fur, jmd others yet who didn’t pay at all. One of these latter class was nnmM Lemon, but to sqneozo anything out of liim was next to impossible. He had excuses at his.tongue’s end for not pay ing, and thq longer the debt stood the more reasonable his exouses seemed to his creditors. One^day tho editor met him on the sttfcet, .end, after a general greeting/hegan-oa litm with! ' -- V “Mr.* ^mbn, -you Jiuve been oyriflg me for twuyears.’o ' s p • \ y “Ye^butiii^ bad luck in mysiigaf- bush.” . ‘ ‘ Butybutolglrt fAtb br6ugl!it , 'Wbofi/ v “So I should, but I broke two new aqother*” offered to tukprit bnt in turnips apdiorn.” S know, bu^lie oro^srite up (fid thoIp^ne. stole all my uowff ” askmltlie editor. I^rst-rate/^ J lave you a go^d run of sugar ? ” lorn doing well ?V ' “fpleiidM.H *> , i SSiwAww'..'. ' . V M*;: Yt'li; if -corn, wheat, potatoes and pa.tWROut good.audyoq k(^p^yell ' ^ ^ ^ mid you have no losses, wiU you pay toe i#tif.!fau!”. ■!!?:" farmer sergtciliqd liis head, apid U frill minute to think over it before rlpaied:) Js ' •-■ Chat’s'an honest debt and ortorbe d but' 1 Won’t positively agree to re up thle fall Until I know wliNfc t rt of a corn season • we: are to have I ” It is noedlesfe to ’aa^ that be. never M jt»u: red.b/i^frblt Pre*i, sidrit. and qried ‘‘Stop!’’ wit}] veliom&MM! . H(, then tho di from WdtstorVj hand, replaced it on the dlielf from whence it came, and disap- ; poured *beri'datt the counter/ Hising from ihetfo depths, he bore to the sur face aq ; ohL-fashibued black* bottlei wb’ihli )te sifbkrituted for* tHA decanter. Webster poured a small quantity into a ././lass, drank it off with great relish, ^rid threw down 50 cents to payment. cp.lmiAlInp • The new-comer was a middle-aged, barkeeper began to fiimblo in a drawer of silver, as if selecting some tsnitllor pieces for change, whereupon (welister waved his hand with dignity, imd with rich and authoritative tones £ onounced these words: “My gbotf end, let mp offer a pieco of advioe. ’Whenever you give that good brandy from under the counter, nnver take the trouble to make change.” As we turned to go out, the dealer to liqnora plaoed ope hand upon the bar, threw himself it, and eanght me by the arm. “ Tell me who that man is I ” he cried, -with genuine emotion. “ He is Daniel 'Webster,” I answered. The man pansed, if to find words adequate to oonvey the impression made upon him, and then exclaimed, in a fervent half whisper: By heaven, sir, that man should be President of the United States! ” The adjuration was stronger than I have written it; but it woo not uttered pro fanely—it was simply the emphasis of an overpowering oonviotion.-r-Qufoup’s Ancodotei. ' flo ydu have saved inf life, Dick, - ,the darfor said, a .dAy lftef. ‘ That was a lucky day for me when I font my *pock- “ Dick * ejee filled—man though no “hd IS& BLKBJP. During every moment of oonsoioua> qcss the brain is to activity. The pe culiar process of cerebration, whatever that may consist of, is taking place; {bought after thought comes forth, nor can we help it It is <»nly when the pe culiar connection or citato of connection of the brain cell with another is brokon and consciousness fades away in the dreamless land of perfect sleep that the brain Is at rest In tliis state it recuper ates its exhausted ewergy and power, and stores them up for future need. The period of wakefrilness is one of con stant wear. Every thought is generated at the expense of brain cells which can be fully replaced only by periods of per fectly regulated repose. If, therefore Uhqse are not secured by (deep—if ;the brain, through over stimukitaou, is pqt |eft to recuperate, its energy becomes jttchsusted; 1 debility/disease^ and A tally 'disintegration -supervene. Hence, the story Ik almost always Hie tune. For E ' and months before the ^ signs of ty appear, the patient has been is, wakeful, worried, not sleeping more than four ov five hours, out of . the twenty-four. The poop brajq, unable to do its constant.,work, begins to waver, to show signs of weakness or aberration - hallucinations or deinstalls hover sronnd like floating shadows in the air; until finally disease comes, and the 1 structure of the body totters to its fslt? ’ > lENphisa printers are requhed'by lai that l h»vA been erubled. to .repay to to ke ^P * °^Py & eveiy job printed, some msasnre the great debt that'I owe] though the <hnp^d to quite «e»era|ly « .3U0T2 TktifR iA0»fe otei1 -:. - - * ” AWTBB nr TICtOMT. Gen. Badeau, in his “life of Gen. Grant,” speaking of the interview be tween Lee and Grant, the day after the surrender, says: “The conversation was protracted, and the restless Sheridan, not used to waiting, at last rode up and asked per mission to cross the lines and visit some of hi* old comrade* in the rebel army. Leave, of oourse, was given, and with him went Gens. Ingalls and Seth Will iams, both men of tho old army, with as many personal friends among the rebel officers Jtetfhfler the national flag. They soun found acquaintances, and, when the interview between Grant and Lee was j»ver, the three returned, bringing with them nearly every officer of high rank in the rebel army to pay their respects to Grant and to thank him for fthe terms he had accorded them the day before. Lee now bade good morning and re- 1 turned to his own headquarters, while tjie national chief and those with him i Bpaired to s farm-house hard by, where I le capitulation had been signed. Ithcr, also, came Longstreet, Gordon, ] [eth, NViloox, Pickett and other rebel officers of fame, splendid soldiers, who liad given their enemies muoh trouble; and Sheridan, Ord, Griffin and the men On Grant’s staff met them cordially. I'irst, of conrso, the rebels were pre rented to Grant, who greeted them with kindness. Most of them he knew per- tonally. Longstreet had been at hi* J edding; Cadmus Wilcox was his grooms- an; Heth was a subaltern with him in is Mexican war. Others he had served ^ith in garrison or on the Pacific coast. They all expressed their appreciation of tin mnftnnntMiUv . iPrt k. allnM.n.1 converted into animal black and glue, Tho first arc calainod in cylinders, and the vapors wheii\condensed foxtn the chiof soaibo of "carbonate of auimollla, which constitutes the base of nearly all qmmoniool. sAts.Vi is an ahimal oil yieldecT Vrtuoh makes a capital insect icide and a vermifuge. To make glue, the bones areffilifclved in muriatic acid, cast into square* and dried on nets. The phosphate of lime, acted upon by snlph- uric acid and ealcined with aarbon, pro duces phosphorus for luoifer matches. The flesh is distilled to obtain the car bonate of ammonia; the resulting mass is poilnded np with potash, then mixed with old nails and old iron of evoyy de scription; the whole to calcined and yield/ magnificent ydlow crystals, prtu- giato of potash, with which tissues are dyed a Prussian bine, and iron trans ferred into steel; it also forms the basis of cyanide of potassium and prussic acid, the two most terrific poisons known in chemistry. HHOWING UKJt TUX rOOM, Thomas was a carpenter; but, owing to dullness in trade, he engaged as foot man at the “ big hoose” in ties village. On the day of his fpgfgetient his mis tress, having a lady ttotior m Has draw ing-room, rang tbs bell for the iootonsn. “ Yon will show, this lad] to til efront door, Thomas,” sha told. . Yes, mem,” reptisd litotes, told, bowing to the lady, ko requested kid to follow him. On oottling^ci tki doto lie 4 TtKAIt HOUSE. Ill Franco, wliep u fioree baa reached ige,q)j ; it>, d^sjgpe4for a clio riqal factory; it is first relieved of its 1 air, whioh serves to stuff cushicms and sa^ifcai ' tlieq it is *ki fined; , the boo ^fo. tyiabif, Nfext thp cart As; -to, in ® Cylinder and cool ed/tq* steam, at a pressure of threo atm w. all° m te m 1 off »then the re-, ruai Ur nsb'oat up, the■ leg bunea <are splil tq ^ke,luiire, Jifeidles,- eta, and.the fROMKMUONAL letteh - WRiriyo. Ais magnanimity. To be allowed not dnly their lives and liberty, bnt their t ords, had touohed them deeply. One id to him in iqy hearing, ‘ General, o have come to congratulate you on laving wound us*up.’ * I hope, replied rant, * it Will be for the good of us all.’ ion the other national officers took ieir turn, shaking hnnds cordially with ten whom they hud mf t in many a bat- with whom they had earlier shared it or blanket on the Indian trail or lexicon frontier; w’th classmates of r est Point and Aworn friends of boy- iood. Some shed tears as they hugged ih other after years of separation and Countrymen all they felt them- ow, and not a few of the rebels colored that tliey were glad, the war in the triumph of the nation.” Prtoerod PotatoK. The gxiai drawbaok id the past in the way of an extended export trade of po tatoes from this country has lain in the fact that in ocean voyages the vegetable to susoeptible to sweat and rot, and on arrival the losses from this cause are often found to counterbalance the profit made am the intact, aartof the cargo. This inoonvenienoa seems to be over come by the reoent invention .of * ma chine for pressing and preserving pota toes in such a manner that they may be dried and kept fat a nwnbet of y any elimaU. [ yean in Nnw Tobx to declared to be the wont* pared city in the world. CLAY, WEBSTER AMD TAYLOR. The lost time Henry Olay was the candidate of the old Whig party for President, Daniel Webster was strongly averse to the nomination, and in differ ent ways made his aversion felt. When iqvited to address the Young Men’s Olay Olnb in Boston he sneered at the unmeaningness and absurdity of, its name. The committee appointed to tender him the invitation reported the foot to the olnb, and tho indignation of 1 tho Whigs toward Mr. Webster soon be came ao intense that he thought it expe dient to revise his opinion of the name of the elub, which he ultimately, with great good nature, pronounced not only appropriate, but the most appropriate that oould have been selected I At a subsequent eleotion Gen. Taylor became the Whig candidate, and Mr. Webster’s opposition was still more out spoken. In a public speech *he pro nounced it a nomination “ not fit to be made.” Still he gave it his adhesion, and zealously supported the ticket There was a good story at tho time, to the effect that Mr. Webster rent Gen* TayloY a oopy of his first speech, to which po answer was received during the campaign. After the election Gen. Taylor wrote him an extremely cordial and complimentary letter, beginning something like this: “My Dear Bib: I received, some time ago, from your hand, a oopy of a speech you had just delivered, in which yon pronounced the opinion that my nomination was a nomination not fit to be made. I folly concurred in that opinion. You only gave expression to tlie sentiment which I myself enter tained. But, by the result of the eleo tion, it appears that a majority of the people differ with us both on that sub ject, and, as their choice has impose* upon me the duty of selecting a Cabinet, FARM Aim HOME. Charred Corn.—Charred oorn, fed in limited quantities, is excellent for laying hens. Boiled Potatoes.—Bofled potatoes are said to be a cure for diarrhea in cat tle. Feed warn and give as much as the cattle will eat. Cubrakt , Wobm8.—Break off the young spronta or suckers that start from ^ke roots of currapt bushes and there vpll seldom be any trouble from the our* raat-Worm.' •' » •• • ■» LnffBED Meat, rob Pros.—Suffolk and Berkshire pigs maybe profitably fed, tq be sphl at nine or ten months, npon clover, oorn nfeal, linseed meal, or oorn and oat m6al.‘ Half a pound of linseed meal per day on the average, to 6-inonths-old pigs, would be sufficient. Bowing Wheat,—Recent experiment'* In England show that ihin Sowing o wheat in drills is more productive than thick sowing. By special culture on ■mall plots, a single grain tq the hill has given a yield of 100 to 162 bushels to the acre, according to the Experiment Record. Tomatoes.—If yon would have a full crop of good tomatoes, water the young . plants twice each week with rich liquid manure. Nip off many of the new shootag ’ and tie the heavy stems np so as to ex pose the fruit to the snn. Mulch thick ly around the main stem and thin out where the fruit grows too closely. To Tell the Age of a Hobse.—The following is the method of an Alabama gentleman : “After the horse is 6 years old a wrinkle comes in the eyelid at the upper oorner of the lower lid, and every year thereafter he has one Well-de fined wrinkle for each year of his ago over 0. If, for instance, a horse has three wrinkles, ho is 12; if fonr, 18. I cordially invito you to accept the De- | Add lho na “ bor °* wriokle * “*“<> “<1 partment of State." I J ou g«‘ ,he *g®-" Brittle Hoove.—Among the causes A JAPANESE BRONZE WORKER. , , TTT , . . , ’ which produce brittle hoofs in horses Tho inOBt Bkillful living bronze worker ^ catUe lho NaHonal Ltm ^ in Japan, and one of the moot Bkillful of . JmnM mention , tlle fce t 8tandin workers in metal that Japuu baa 71 . fitota.WQ .1 A reporter of a journal xn a Western city interviewed a lady who earns a comfortable living by the novel occupa tion of writing letters for other people. “ What is the character of patrons?” asked the reporter. “They are of all stations of life, bnt really cah be divided into two classes— those who cannot write and those who aro educated, bnt desire to frame their which takas a*^y\hApliosphato oMijae,, | thoughts in languugo with which they the softi^klue. retainhJg the pfiape are not capable of clothing it, or else tlie bone, dissolved in ooiliog\ water, aro particularly an nous to be absolutely opened it, and the lady the shoulder, rem arked, ( door, mem; good pitob-j framed tw. an’ » half i mined moldings; vrad «prt! poond ton* Btem.” ble »ud » pot cd flower* in she vrindow. even from lnxuriooB Home. doBolattOi Bv oommnoud pnnioB. Ao » 1 mnttor ob i MdWK I hkv« ra»:v»d m - ‘ kperican in- for . InHtr cl •‘•fcac of ’ American in- •**»t B.I «Btal iy HI AT MB OV ALMBUOUMMB. There i» n prevalent idj'ft that the t ihouBOB, for tho most part, shelter unhappy and gufltleBB poor, whom onmeroiful disaster h« follcrved fast suit followed fester until it has uliaeod them to this Jsst refuge—people who hsve corns from vine-coverod |ottsgee, or tidy rooms up one flight of stairs in ten ement houses, with » big Bible on s to-, ..#ip<ut in(».yW rW would pronqunoo u correct both grammatically and rhetori cally. Of course, ono of tho first requi sites is to write an elegant and a very varied style of hand. Tho first is abso lutely necessary, while the great need of tlie second quality will soon suggest itself to any one adopting this queer mode of malting a living.” “Do you dovoto your time exclusively to letter-writing?” “ Yes. When I first began this work, about five years ago, I also did inscrip tion work, writing cards, formal invita tions, family records in Bibles alW in scriptions in books, albnms and similar presents. Since tlion I have found am ple remuneration in letter-writing.” “ What do you charge for writing an ordinary letter ?” “ Well, there is no market price regu lating the sale, and I might say that I charge from nothing at all for some work, and np to what you would consid er a fabulons price for more. The class of work yon speak of is always done at bed-rock prioe, of course, for the usual customers for this are poor and nnodu- catcd*persons. For theso no great care is required, and I will give them a letter for nothing ; or, if they are anxious to pay and are capable of doing so, I charge them 25 cents, or some nominal amount. Yon will readily conceive that this class of customers are not greatly solicited, though X must say that I have worked hours in this way with the utmost pleas ure. Much of the work I do is- for young men and shop-girls, and it is needless to say that the correspondence in these cases is all of the lovely stamp. I soon comprehended the necessity of writing a bold mole hand when I em barked in this calling, and ean dash off an aoflUtetely-worded epistle or write s jteil, fcitefcJoveJetter in a hanA-that no letters are paid tor. in the ability of the ons- xhnch os $25 * Ascription, and uaUy oh**0» ft* wfasn, oA any length. Bet'll *•*•**%"*'SMJ* prices rfti^ge, though,^ss lj soul, I frequently receive for work.' buj&totw- 1 - lit hjjJj.« po-sensed, is said by the Japan Mail to be a Kiyoto artisan named Zoroku. His upecialty is inlaying with silver and gold, au art which he carries to such perfection that his pieces are scarcely distinguisha ble from tlie chefs-d’oeuvre of the Min period. What one sees on going into his atelier is a very old man—some 65 or 70—peering through a pair of huge horn spectacles at a tiny incense-burner or still tinier flower vase, from whose frets and diapers he is paring away, With marvelous patience, on almost imper ceptible roughness or oxoresoenoe. Be side him, winter and summer alike, stands a brazier with a slow charcoal fire, over wliich on iron netting supports two bronze vessels similar to that he holds in his hand. Plainly these bronzes are being subjected to a slow process of baking, and if you watch for a moment, marveling at the purpose of a proceeding whioh seems only calculated to mar the fair surface of the metal, seems yon shall presently see the old man dip a feather into a vessel filled with greenish liquor, and touoh the heated bronze here and there with the most delicate and dexterous care. This liquid is acetate of (topper, and this patient process, which you see repeated perhaps twenty or thirty times during a visit of twice as many minutes, will be continued in the untiring fashion for half a year to oome, alter which a month’s rubbing and polishing will turn out a bronze rioh in green and russet tints that might, and indeed must, yon would fancy, have been produced by centuries of slowly toiling time. l AMERICAN GEOGRATBY IN EN GLAND. This is a digression, and we return to our anecdotes. Here are two—both were told to the writer by the son of an American statesman of the highest rank: A score of years ago in England they dined with a lady of very high : birth, wearing nobly a very high title* and, in the oourse of conversation, the. English woman asked tho wife of the American statesman if she had traveled muoh in the United State, following this np with the further question : “ Then 1 suppose you have seen, haven't yon, the famous waterfall of Nicaragua?” On another occasion, an English lady of almost equal rank said to her Atneri- can sister : “I do wish you would tel] what are the great lakes of America. Of course,” she added, after a pause, “ of course I know Wenharn lake; but what are the others ?” 1 11 How, many persons in America know Wenham lake—a little pond in Massa chusetts, which owed its English fa»n* to the fact that a oertaui “Wonham Lake Ice Company" 'Was engaged in peddling comfort to the tliifsty BriUXtd. 11 --Philadelphia Arnorioan. f* '*/ • A story is told of a doctor in ***** field who asShred a woman that he bad in rotting dang heaps or in pools of de composing liquid manure. In tho dung heap there is not only the moisture and •team soaking' and softening tlie hoof, bat there is abundauoe of umniouiA gas, which is especially calculated to sdfteti, dissolve and destroy the horn. Stand ing in sttch decomposing organic matter, is still mpre injurious when the •uMif., confined to a box or stal}, for lien the Injurious effect of inactivity is aided to the other conditions. 1 •'//! ' The Currant Caterpillar. — The gooseberry and currant caterpillars ore great pests to American fruit growers. The following recipe for dealing with these pests is given by a County Down subscriber to the Garden, and whioh he states he had used there thirty, yeera and never failed with it until 1879, when the daily rain washed the salt off the leaves before it had time to dry or act on the young caterpillars: Mix one poond of common salt with eight gallons of cold wuter; but be careful hot to ex ceed that quantity. About the second week in May or as soon as perforated leave^ure observed choose a dry day and syringe the bushes with this mixture. Kepeat the syringing in a week or ton days should more perforated leaves ap pear. This mixture, though destructive to young caterpillars, will not kill old ones; these most bo hand picked. — Farmer's Advocate. Melon Culture.—An/Ohio fanner ■ays : “ Daring the winter and ipring I gather together all the fine, manure I can, snoh as hog manure with the oobs raked out, hen manure, barnyard scrap ings, etc. After the melons are planted 1 load this mixture on the wagon, and if not wet enough ! throw a lew pails of water on it, drive into tho field and straddle one roW, and with another hand take two rowW' one on one side of the Wagon, and p^t a small shovelful of this J mixture on /each hill. By soaking the seed befoiy planting over night it will tje neoawy then to examine a few hills ih bottrMfof flvo days, U| see if they are malHny their way through the inch qf dirt ti^b was first covered on seed,; ifjo, then/lie manure should be shoved to one ude with the bask of a rake. Aiter^ the melons are beginning to get the r d leaf I take • mixture cl twt>-thirds • Blacked lim*, one-third plaster, ana rdose each hill with about a half a spdbn* fill, getting die greater part on the <&rt around tho plants. With this method I get 1,000 good salable melons per afore,, and always get a prejginxp atour oounfty^ TOUGH TEAR ON ) Old Uno^e^Mose 'Atore, < Schaumbnrg’i to bay a silk ham most MSaSm mm *1 \ { ,1s - — - •Uic.$ driven her diseaee into one ot,h*r,g>V*t! toes, whioh theretae ought to he smpu- “ Tru ■*’**- ' teted. She submitted to th. operation. Arran tliirtj yw’ stance, Robert Iriek Over a tomjwtaie erected to his •sr»7Kr«W«iWM«o»
