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CONTENTMENT.
THR TALE Of A SHIRT.
* Unea *J ll© the h©id that wcaw a crowr.,
Though you or 1, my friend, will scarce bu-
Hera
That he who claims both riches ami renown
Cai have Just oau*e to grumble or to
grieve.
However this may be, the story goer.
That, in the olden time a monarch grand,
Oppressed with real o. ‘D agin* - 1 oos,
fought out the oldest ;u sut * ‘he land.
**Tbou man of science,* said ’• unhappy
King,
“Wbocoujurcs gold tror . sordid biu 01
earth.
Or tells each one what *utur* '©an* wl”
bring.
By planets’ aspect, at his dat> of birth
" With all my fame, iny poser rad wealth,
And
There something lacks, so If vou cun but
say
Where I may buy conteutment, peace of
A princely portion shall be thine this day.
•Sir©,' said the sage, “the boon your high
ness cnivr •
1 altogether foiclgn to mv lore—
**r,t one which m vbe dug from dead nrp *
graves.
Nor wrung bv c rucible rom Mother N
ture’s store
** Nine leagues away, hovever, dwells a wight.
An humble cobl ■*.. but an honest man;
The wondrous tk.r* h<o wears by day and
night,
They say, cor .ains a spell, and he who can
M Secure this ghrjiioat gnius content as wuiW"
At early morn the * i,,g went fmrn alone.
And, when the mellow tihudos of evening
fell.
He aV> > the cobbler s dcor un-
Hesponslve to a knock, the poo: mao < no
And, brief of spo<vb. the bautering mou
arc * ftfthl:
“A magic f hirt, tin > tell in'*. thou dost aim-
My shiri and twenty pouuds TOrtbfei*™>ta t
a trade!'
His coarser vestment here he drew a.-* it
A matchless front of line:- to display,
‘Vhich, kcm-bedecked and well with broid
ery piled.
But filled the humble craftsman with dis
may.
The wondering cobbler stared, then blush
“ ’hjJfc&L most gladly would I do so, wart
Bu; fMafllfeift. kind sir; we Pan not trade.
Because—t> tell th© truth—l httro no
Shirt.'*
TVros Siftinat,
TWO TRIOLETS.
Wt • HR SAII*.
This kis upon your ks 1 press—
iir Salute Nlioiuhc,\ou don’t refuse it?
4 ud uutv it from it soft recess
Tht- kiss upon your tan l press—
Be Mown to you, ashy carves.
d> Uits white down, whene’er you us© it.
This kiss upon your fan I pies*—
Ah, Hainte Nttouelie. you don’t refuse It I
WMA'I xliE THnWIT:
To kiss a fan '
W haSapokv |Hetl
The stm pfd man,
To kiss a fan,
When lie knows that—ha—can—
Or ought to know it—
To ki-*- a /as
What a poky poet
-ffdrmwt Roberts >n, in The t'eidury.
A KERO OK THE FLOODS.
Nowhere throughout the overflowed
river bottoms of the West did the <le
va.tat ug of 1881 eonui upon peo
ple withjgnkti calamitous swiftness, or
••over thdjpnntry to such depths, as in
the virile V4)fthe far-reaching and snow
fed Missouri, l.ono. and h tterly remem
bered by hundreds, whose Homes were
swept awav with scarce a moment’s
warning, will be the icy overflow of that
calami reus season.
From all its numerous tributaries,
from the trickling rills of ttie snow
capped mountains to tho broad and
slugglisli risrl l’latte, the bands of ice.
stnldenlyltwscd, let fxjrth watery torrents
tojwell the mightier river, till it poured
down U> Utv Mississippi with a ilestruo
. life hasre that has never bean witnessed
bcfo“
Many a tired farmer who went to his
re.t after a hard day’s work, and
dreamed tor a time, perchance, of
grow ng crops and abundant harvests a
the result u! his labors, aro-e to find his
farm a watery waste, the angry river
already at life very door, and his live
stock wad tig and swimming distracted
ly about aiuiJV floating masses of ice,
liruahmoott- and the debris of oilier
iruudktt-ri farms above. In vain he
s night to save his horses, his cattle, or
his houselioM goods: it was often all
lie could do to save c on his wife and
little ones.
Upon abroad and well-cultivated farm
on the Nebraska side of the Missouri
there lived a family named Wilson, in a
frame house that stood ill a grove of
large but scattered trees near the bank
oi the stream.
Cultivated fields and well-fenced stock
pastu ;■* extended back across the iuler
ales. The soil was dark and extreme
ly fertile. iH'e land lying but little above .
lugh-w;iter mark, on which account tlav
Spring fre-hets always gassed Mr. Wil
son roimSferable uneasiness. The old
est Matters Sticrenbout*, however, bad
l eveb known tips tract to be entirely
e qured: and liris, with Mr. Wilson's
own exf.e'aerico. had. as the years went
by, cou-iderably lessened his first mit
g rings.
Therefore the great flood of 1881
(mind Mr. Wilson wholly unprepared,
and at th" time of its coming both be
and bis wife were absent from homo,
t hey had felt a little reluctant altout
leaving home, as the river was swollen
nearly u the high-water mark, but
urgent business compelled them to ride
to the nearest railroad town, some thirty
miles away, frbm which they intended
to return on the day following.
Mrs. Wilson carried her youngest
child. and there remaine I at home Hen
ry, a lad of fifteen, and two little
daughters aged ten and six years, with
the hired man. Rudolph.
Rudolph had relatives living two or
three miles back from '.he river, and
when tho chores were done at night ho
left the house, telling Henry that he
was going ov er to see “his folks." and
would be back at ten o’clock.
The boy and his sisters had been left
alone of an evening before. 1h" were
not afraid, and went to bed by nine
o’clock, to sleep soundly, as such child
ren will.
When the boy awoke the next morn
ing he found the sun peeping in at his
window, and learen" out of bed he
called to Rudolph, as his father was in
the habit of doing. Rut Rudolph did
not answer.
"Rude must be up and doing the
chores.” thought Henry, and' then
speaking aloud, he said: “What a
tremendous roaring the river makes
this morning. It sounds as if it was a ; l
around us.
“Goodness! I b lievs it is,” he add
ed. after listening a moment; and then
he ran to his w indow to look.
Stouter hearts than his might have
quailed at the scene which met hise.es.
Every where was water—a turbid, black,
tumultuous flood dashing up against
the trunks of the great trees, flooding
the stock-yard fences completely out of
sight. Logs, boards and great cold
looking cahes of white ice, even the
bodies of dead cattle, were swept
furiously on. The heads—only the
heads and horns- of some of their own
cattle could be seen here and there, as
the poor creatures swam feebly to aud
fro
Looking down in frightened awe from
the open window, the lad saw that the
delving, guttering current had already
attacked the foundation of the house,
which stood cons derably higher than
the cattle vnrds and that tho door
ivey* below were under water,
£l)c . (Lunette.
\ r OL. X.
.v- the danger of the situation dawned
i him, the lad’s terror grew.
| A ruin and again he shouted to Rudolph;
i .o' there was no response save the
rush and roar of the river.
Then tie ran to the room of little Jen
nie and l/ali, who had already been
awakened by his shouts. With'fright
ened sobs the children clung to their
brother, scarcely daring to look out u]>-
on the fearful scene about them.
“Where is Rudolph? Where is Ru
dolph?” they sobbed.
Henrv soothed them as best he could,
and leaving them at the head of tho
stairway he went below to see how
high the water had risen.
To his increased alarm ho found that
the kitchen floor was already covered,
amt that the muddy water was pouring
in through the cracks about the door.
It was r'sin r fast had risen even since
lie first looked out upon it.
Then lor a few moments the boy’s
courage almost deserted him; he trem
hl -d violently and the tears came into
his eves. “Ofnther! father! why ain’t
you here?” he cried out.
Then the crash of a huge ice cake
against the door aroused him.
Young as he was he realized that the
house m ist soon be swept away if the
water continued to rise. nn I almost
fiercely wiping away h s tears, lie tried
to think of suite means by which ho
might save his little sisters and himself.
Through the kitchen w ndow he saw
the trunk of the great elm beneath
which stood the grindstone, onlv a few
feet from tile broad doorsteps —a hues
tree, four or live fee; in diameter. Tho
waters were dashing against its massive
trunk. Ti at, at least, seemed proof
against their utmost strength.
The old elm' The olil elm!” he cried.
“ !f we could only get up among tho
big limbs!” And then ho formed his
heroic plan and proceeded to put it into
execution
The elm had great outstretching
branches, one of tne largest of which
extended across a corner o the kitchen
roof, which was nearly lilt* and easy of
act ess from a window in tho second
Storv of tlie house. Henry had often
climbed out the h and mounted tho
b such. !r.'in which be could ascend
nearly t • the top of the tree a dizzy
height however, which he seldom at
tempted.
•‘The flood can’t dig the old elm
out,’ lie thought. •‘lt s stood there too
long.”
Rut little 1 all and Jennie! lie feared
for them. It was as much as lie himself
dared do to climb the tree, and lie
feared the little girls would grow dizzy
and fall into the rushing water beneath.
The brave boy thought of ell ih'o, unit
solved the problem in a manner that
speaks well l oth for his courage and
his invention.
Wading through the water on the
kitchen floor, lie reached the wood
shed and there procured his mother’s
clothes-line, also a coil of larger rope
and an old door, besides a number of
loose hoards which stood in a corner.
( arrytng these up stairs, where the lit
tle giris stood crying and calling for
“ put a and mamma, ' he put them out
on tlie kitchen roof.
"Stop crying, girls," he exclaimed,
cheerily: "stop your crying. I'a and
rna wil l be here as soon as they can get a
boat, and i ll take care of ton t il they
come. We’re going to get up in the
big elm and build ns a house up there
and take up victuals. Tho water never
will tako that old tree away, and wo
can live up there like squirrels.'’
The energetic lad nowr sped about the
, house to complete It's preparation for
tlnsr strange change of abode. Even
' little Jennie, tlie younger sister, caught
something of his courage: and both the
girls ran about helping in whatever way
they could.
Some loaves of bread, a bucket of
doughnuts, together with dried bee', a
smoked ham. and several woolen
blankets were laid out on the kitchen
roof.. Then Henry hound the clothes
line about his waist and climbed on tlie
groat branch and thence up to the
large limbs above, to a height of some
twenty feet above the nt-h.ng waters.
Selecting a spot where two limbs
branched o V parallel with each other,
he now lowered one end of his rope to
the sisters, tor the old door and boards.
Before climbing up he hail instructed
them what to do and liow to do it; and
in a very short time the boards, the
door and the coils of rope were hauled
up one after another, and securely
fastened.
The door and boards were then placed
on the parallel branches and tied with
tlie rone; and in this manner a small
floor, or platform, six or eight feet,
square, was laid, large enough for all
three to sit or lie on.
It and and not tako long now to draw up
the food and blankets; but there still re
mained for the lad the harder aud more
perilous task of hoisting up the little
girls to his airy nlat orm.
I le had reserved the longest and strong
est rope for this purpose, and looping
it in the middle over a limb and letting
tlie two ends :all to the roof, he de
scended and tied an end firmly beneath
the arms of both Izah and Jennie in
turn.
To climb back to his old position was
but the work of a moment. Then came
the real work. Jzah was a plump little
girl, and Jennie was still heavier,
though not as old. They were fright
ened and screamed rons derably, hut he
hauled them up, one after the other,
safelv on to tlie rdaform.
Meanwhile tlie wild rushing waters
were steaddy rising and had now nearly
reached the kitchen window-sills. Still
larger cakes of ice were driving ponder
ously along among the trees; occasion
ally one ground against the elm, giving
it a heavy, jarring bump, or struck the
walls of the house with a force that
made the timbers crack.
The little girls trembled with tear:
I and now that the excitement of cl mb
j ing into the tree was over, despair
: agltin seized upon them. In vam Henry
S tned to quiet their fears. Great sobs
would we’l up in spite of their childish
; efforts to be brave.
| It was in truth an appalling situation.
■ Faster poured the ever-rising flood: and
! now the ice-cakes and great drift-Jogs
were smashing in the lower windows,
i Nothing was left of the stock-yards,
aud bnn but bars and tbm*
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14. ISB3.
florae of tho. wretched cattle still kept
their lu*:\ds above water; and nioro and s
heart(*nm£ than ftverythintr fllflo vrfero
tin* poor creatures’ mournful lowing.
There was no help for them. Their
drowning was but tlu* question of an
hour or two; everything was goinss
down beneath tin* blank rolling torrent.
And well might the children teel thank
ful if even the grefit elm withstood fh *
battering of the ponderous ice-cakes
which came grinding in among tho
seatU'red ta'etsfd |ho gruve •
Hulirv'synjnrt |lr&ojt ’faiU , t| him. /R
required his best efforts to keep from
breaking completely down and giving
wav to his fright and grief. Hut mas
tering these terrors at length, lie
earnestly sot to work to make every
th ng upon the platform secure, no
felt, too. that he ought to save the bed
ding and tho most, valuable of the>
household furniture; for he saw that tlie
most of it might be hung upon thelim’s
of the elm, if only In* had dared to de
scend after it into the shattered aud
rocking building.
Hut the creaking and groaning of tlm
timbers* commingling with the hoarso
gurglings of the water, appalled him.
The house seemed on the point of being
swept away; and sadly he watched it
heave and sway as each fresh mass of
icecHttiH plunging against iL
Fearing to trust the little sisters upon
the trail platform unsupported, lie tied
them securely to limbs above, leavin©*
tin* rope* slack enough to aliow o then*
moving about. Once, for a moment,
he almost made them smile by calling
them his ‘T.ttld ponies picketed out to
grass.” IL* even tried to tell them
stories, and kept courage in their little
hearts bv the assurance that “pa and
mu” would soon come and take them
awav in a big boat.
Thus the bouts wore on. The house
still stood, but the waters crept higher
and higher, till at noon the river ran
nearly even with the tops of the win
dows. Still the old tree gave no evi
dence of yielding; ami at length the
pangs of hunger making them solves
felt. the\ ate a hearty meal in spile of
their strange and almost desperate situ
ation.
The afternoon passed- Once they
thought they heard distant shouts: but
the tops of the trees prevented them
from looking off clearly. Night drew
on; aud .--till the house ptood, wonder
full . as it seemed to Henry.
As night closed darkly in. the little
g rls cried themselves to sleep, pillow
ing their heads in the lad’s lap; and
thus through all that long and tedious
night, never once dosing his own eyes
in sleep, he sat and held them.
Not long after dark Henry heard a
temlio tiwiclt, aiul indistinctly saw tho
house melt away amidst the mad vvdters
beneath him.
When at lasi day dawned there was
not a familiar landmark to be seen save
the trees; an I many of the smallest ol
these had been broken down by the
masses of ice. It was a bitt r awaken
ing for little I/ah and .Icnnie; and it
was long be uro Henry could again ac
custom them,to the terrible dreariness
of their situation.
Hut help came shortly after da . break.
Even before tlie pangs oi hunger had
brought to* in io thin o* nreßicmst,
cheery voices were.beard slipu'iug from
tie* river above. The n ighbors had
espied them on their platform, through
th” lea less branches-
It win a strang * sight an 1 one that
would have inspired less resolute hearts
to attempt their rescue. The young,
anxious face expectantly looked out
over the dreary waters, and watched
with hope and delight the efforts mak
ing to save them. Ii was .an lyour that
they never would forgel.
Cold and hungry, tut safe and hap
py. the gallant boy and his Jittle
charges were taken aboard a boat
manned by tho fai hful Rudolph and
several other young men, who had
worked with energ y but in vain, on
Account- of the floating lee, to reach
them the day before.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were dclaved
longer than they had expected and not
returning till evening of that day, they
learned nothing of the danger to Which
the children had been exposed till after
they had seen them safe at the house of
a kind neighbor. Franklin Calki/id, in
YonHCB Companion.
Farmers and Dog*.
If the farmers of tlie countr who own
worthless dog- could be imbu ed I" de
stroy them and -übstitute one well-bred
shepherd pup, not more, to each farm,
the wealth of every farming community
would be vastly increased in many ways.
Farmers, with a little tact in Letting
a lon<* with a dog, would soon find the
colly saving them many a step. E iger
and anxious to learn, willing to do ev
erything within his power, the young
dog needs onlv a wise and patient re
fitrTiint, an intelligent direction, to be
come the most useful hand on the plaee.
The colly is an alert and discriminative
watch dog, answering ior this purpose
far better than the heav'y, sleeping,
stupid, savage bull or mas till, who i*.
liable to a* tack his best friends or eat up
n child. Asa colly acquires aye and
dignity, if he has been well taught, he
imagines that the whole bus* He -s o. tlie
farm hinges upon the per:ormam e of
his duties, and he becomes as p ivlnal
and regular a- the fun. Canines com
pan ion ship, if at liberty* has a bad 0.-
feet upon the colly in most instance-.
Where an old and wise and g i nod to
tut r youngster by good example while
at work, it will and > to have two or m re
I together. The duties of the oily are
I practical and mean work; eompanion
| ship means play and is demoraliz-ng.
Especially is this tru • of companion
ship with a hunting dog. The -hep
herd dog his en rraou percepth es. and
is very imitative: he quickly goe wild
over game when led by a hunting do/,
con equently neglect* anfl s irks bis
: work, and is spoiled.—Breeder’s Gazette.
—A aatnty way to prepare an egg tor
an invalid is to lira beat it till very
light, then season w:tb a little pepper.
1 salt, and a t'nv lump of butter: then
; pour it over a slice o: dry buttered toast,
land set the plito containing it in the
! steamer: cover closcl and let it steam
for two or thrt-o minute* An egg pre-
I iirctl thus will not bo likely to distress
(hr weakesttowayu, —(Jitmao Jgurmlt
Her Great Mistake.
At an ri\riy hom-Tltesdiiy
ooy about twelve years of ftge entered a
IVoodwiii-d a enuc store hugging a h g
-oeking-horse in his arms, ;is, .by
dared ii on the floor lie said to on ■ o'
die clerks:
••Cot that in nn Christmas stock n
T'guess it \vS< bought hdrf”
“Yes, that was sold by in,"
"All old woman abou sixty years old
odittjlitjt, di'bi'l slur •” ,
•t 1- think t •
“Kind o' a motherly-looking woman
who looked as if site didn't know wliat
a ooy wanted no more than pigs c:m
fly?"
•'1 didn't n > iee about fiat : Y\i' ■
tho matter wit n tlin horse ? *
“The horse is all right but tlie idea
of ■ bo\ as-.iiig as iuc looiin; nroan I
with a hobby horse! Grandma must,
have been erazv. 1 threw out about a
dozen hints, but shewn - ben' on getting
tins hor.-ei’
" And what do you want?"
“ Want to trade it. of course.”
“For whn ?”
“Well, l want a seven shooter re
volver.”
"Don't keep ’em.”
“1 hen 1 want three or four pistols to
shoot rent bullets.'
“We haxe none.”
" Any bowie-knives or •lung-shot#??,’
“Not one.”
“ Am shot-guns?”
“No."
'•(lot any cannons?”
“ None.”
"Haven’t you got nothing that'll
shoot or slab or blow up or mash
tbinc's:’”
"The only artie'-s we havo are tin
swords and toy engines.”
"Then i’ll lake about six -words and
the rest in engines. 1 guess I know
txlu-re r can trade the swords for a toy
pistol, and then I’ll be fixed to make
things lively, i lint’s just like an od
grandma. Slic’d go and pay lour dol
lars for a thing like this when twenty
shillings Would have bought a pistol anil
enough powder and bullets to pepper
mi!rj pane ol glas out ol tlie barn." -
JJrlriii i'nc /Vis .
DEFACED COINS.
*imm-lliini; About lliitllfttcl Hu,triers,
mill Who Are It (-spoil,,! Il le.
There is a lot of mutilated Coin in cir
culation just now which most pimple
have a vague idea is not worth face
value. The people are correct in this,
but very little attention is paid to it, and
very few people ever refuse a dime with
t a bole in it, or a quarter, (be pieces
which Buil't-r the most, probably be
cause of their small value, Many per
sons, indeed, will eagerly secure and
keep a dime which has been bdred by
some mischievous party, having beard
somewhere, at. some time, that it is
lucky. The <|uarter-ol’-a-dollar piece,
on ae,count, of its size, is frequently util
ized by ingenious parties for sleeve but
tons or pins. One side is worn down
smooth, and an initial engraved on it,
while a shank m affixed to Die other side.
It. is funny how these relics turn up gen
erally in bar-rooms. The shank is
knocked off the best,, or unpolished,
side, placed upward on the counter, mid
the relic, goes into the till unpereeiv. il,
for a drink. Then, in the course of bus
iness, it passes into the hands of some
body who w onders who O. ]’. Q, is who
lias hi# name engraved on it. it is not
felony here to deface the coins of tho
realm. The, defacer or tho mun who
takes tlie coin simply loses on it, if he
takes it to a bank. The result is, lie
doesn’t tako it to a bank, but passes it
on Did first, citizen he can. When de
faced I'oins do real'll headquarters, the
pre-i’titer is “ docked.” A dollar with a
note ill it or otherwise slightly dMaccki
is vuji tii about 70 cent#; off hull
and quarter dollars a discount of SO per
ceiit. is taken, and off dimes and half
dimes 40 per cent. There is no mean#
ot estimating with any degree of uccu
racy the amount, of defaced coin afloat.
Whatever reaches tho Government is
reiiielti'd for cash, blit the large propor
tion which goes into the hands of brok
ers goes to jewelers and watch-case ■
manufacturers,
An Interesting Story.
The sforv of Rev. George A. Gor
don, ft t reenwieh, Gonn., who lues
just been called to the pastoixdu of tlie
old South Church, Boston,, at a salary
of §B,OOO with a piu'somygc, exec ds in
interest many of Die creations of ro
mance. Ho is not quite thirty years
of age, and ten year,; n o he went to
Boston to learn tho trade of a
mechanic. While there he was induced
to tuni his attention to the min stry,
ami was ns-ist'-d in the preparatory
studies. While pursuing the usual
course of studios lie supported himself
by preaching, end after Ids graduation
i in 1875 In- .preached for a year in
I Maine, and Du n went to Greenwich at
Ia salary of §2,80(1 a year. He is prob
ably tlie best paid minister of his age
j in Lbe world.
Canal Rents.
The cost of a good Erie canal boat is
from §4,500 to SI,OOO. Seven round
trips a season is about an average. In
winter time the mules arc boarded on
hay atsl a week. The average business
life of canal mules is from twelve to
fifteen years.
The >• ipaeity of an average grain boat
is considerably greater than run be
: utilized in the present'canal. The ordi
nary size is ninety-six feet long by sev
enteen feet eight inches wide and eleven
1 feet deep. They are built blunt-headed,
and without reference to rapid or easy
; passage t hrough the water. The lengt n
: is limited by the length of the locks
j through which they have to pass, and
the depth by the depth of water they
are allowed to draw, which is six feet. —
i Exchange.
—I), the 40,0)0 envelopes sent out by
the managers of the Baltimore Home for
i the Friendless, for Christmas offerings,
I bufl.Olfi were returned, I' l those re
turned were three §!5 b 1 Is, seven $2 h IK
\ and forty seven 81 bills: th rty.five 50-
! cent pie es, one hundred and seventy
! seven 25-cont pieces, ire r hundred and
j th Tty-three 10-cent p eers, three hun
! dn and mid fifty-six 5-eent pieces, tlflrtv
| nine 3-eunt pieces, tutd seven hundred
ud tortY two oents—ln all S<W7,W.
Corns.
This very common falling in th#
lmrse is so well known, that any de
scription of them is quite unnecessary.
I t would, however, be absurd to say that
th 'v are of little consequence, but just
us absurd to reject such a horse because
ho had them, lie may have very ex
tensive corns, and yet lie always sound
on them: or vcr, minute ones to tho
eve, yet be seriously inconvenienced
and lamed by them. Hundreds of
Jiov.e, lin e corns without any one sus
pect dig it. and as long as n horse re
mained sound, or nearly so, the fact
might never he known. If he boco ios
lame, anil his feet a e inemise plena) of
il r.'iiviulh examined, the searching
kni e lei ■ the owner or sum body into
the secret. That hemming known, the
fool properly put to rights, and with a
proper shoe put on, tho horse probably
goes sounder than lie has for months
past. If a lior-e lias corps, the princi
pal thing to he id iked at is not so much
tho soreness oi them, or how far he may
even go lame on them, but the kind of
food he has. G |n> fia# a good wide, or.
in move stab'e phrase, open heels and
the wall or eni-t is strong, s > as to af
ford good nail hold, wo have von little
tear o corns, f, r such a loot will al
low tin' means o' taking off prossuor
from them. They will often, in such a
ease hold out a pros cot of cure, or, if
not, of such palliative u-s amounts to
hourly us good uu ello.et; that is, feeling
*hq meonVi nienee front them, if, liow
e\cr. Die heels are narrow, it is aim st
im: ossihle to proven; ihe great aggra
vation i 1 the disease, namely, pressure.
We pun even in sueli a case put away
super pressure, that is, pressure from
tlie sh e n the ullei'led jiarls; hut thim
there will remain What is termed Inti ral
P"' which wi I he between the bars
and ihe heels , r , riot ■ f tho foot. Those
bars are Intended bv nature to act as
prop., keeping the heels tit. their proper
and stance apart, amt are usually loft, say
all eighth of an inch, or more, al) vctlio
Sur lice of tie sole if the lout. When
we say cut away the bars, which In corn
e: so is ottrn done, it only means they
are so min h lo .lived as to boon a level
with, the so'e; but fw the corn i -paled
below thi . it w II become cv dent we
'cannot, < rat east dare n t. cut the bars
away deep enough to prevent pro sure
he. ween them and the heel, which, if in
close affinity (which is the ease in nar
row heels) is very great; in fact, the
corn is in a kind of natural vice, who-e
almo t a’cuto angle presses it on either
side. A lurrse with corns and such
heels should not be bought by any one
I ok ing tor a good lmrse; lie will rarely
ho sound three days together: he will
he more or less lame if he is networks I
at all, and work will lame him further
from the soreness and inflammation it
occasions. lint should the foot he good
and cool, the horse in work, and sound,
he limy safely he hpuglil, however ox
tewivo the appearance of the corns
may he; for should even a little tcmlor
ne-s or son ness be perceived after un
usual work on hard roads.* keeping Die
fuel n warn wajer a few horns or a
day or two, and a small dose of physic,
\v ll sol all right again.
in e ses where soreness comes on
from corns, it the feci, are good, w#
genet ally know the worst, and its rem
edy. S'i li lameness is m*t, like tail ng
nl the sinews, I kely to l e permanent,
nr end in helplessness. Oil tho con
trary, w.the,ire there is no su Udanger;
lint every prospect of that care being
re onipcn.se I by a eomparat vo or total
soundness of the horse or. to say tli#
least. Ills freedom from lateness,
i'orus, he they of a heller or wor-e du
-cri| lion, will he found to atlect a hors#
more or less in aeeordance with the pur
pose he s wanted for. -I’rainr 1 arnu r.
Making Money With Money.
Tie was it slisrp-featiirrcd, shrew-eyed
old gentleman, and he Hat in one of Die
Boston police stations recently, listening
at tentively to a select assortment of yarns
about counterfeiters, suggested by tlie
newspaper mention of the numerous
petty cases of fill i nature pending before
the United States District Court. “Well,
well,” bo remarked dually, with a half
sigh for tho degeneracy of these times,
“roguery isn't what, it used to be. 1 can
remember when it took some brains to
make a good rascal. To work off' tho
bogus half-dollars, one dollars, fives and
so on for tlie genuine thing is all very
well in its way, blit what do you think
of a fellow who gavo away square money
as counterfeit and made a little, torture
out of tlie business? Impossible? Oh,
no. When I was a detective, and that
not so many years ago, I name in contact
with just sueii a chap. You'll find tire
facts of the case iu the court
records. And tlie way he did it
was tliis : He first sent out to country
postmasters and others an ingeniously
gotten up circular, in which lie offered
to supply them with a remarkably accu
rate counterfeit §1 bill, merely us a
curiosity. This would be rent to be
paid for when received by a good SI
bill, in case the receiver cared to keep
it; otherwise it was to be returned.
There were a good many responses to
this circular, but tho young man, in
stead of sending out bad bills, inclosed
genuine ones in his letters, anil also a
notice that he would be pleased to sup
ply tlie same at #3O per hundred. Now
the susceptible postmaster carefully ex
amined the bill ho had received, showed
itto his friends, and, perhaps, thoeasliier
of thotownbank, andeveryono,of course,
pronounoed it genuine. So not a few
rural parties thought that 100 of them
would be very handy in hard times, ami
the requisite' .*.‘lo was forwarded. And
that was always tlie last heard of the S3O
To be sure, some of the bait money was
lost, but not much. The victims could
not bring a complaint against the swin
dlcr without criminating themselves,Jnd
so ho flourished for some time. But a;
length tlie United States authorities got
hold of the matter and arrested the prom
i-ing young scoundrel on an indi* tnci,
for counterfeiting. What was hi. de
fense? Why, he merely called attention
to the fact that ho had not counterf. ib and
at all; he had dealt only ill eeuninn bills.
The court could not hold him. Subxo
! qitently, however. I believe that lie wn
arrested and convicted, but on an entir -
ly different indict:: ixnt,"
—Shrimp intended for salad should
be mo ed n vinegar and water for an
J hour before being usech
NO. 4.
Table Cutlery.
In ordinary British households the
■itcel knife still holds its own, excepting
>r tho eating of fish or fruit, for which
mrposes silver or plated knives are
ixpressly made and in universal use. In
lermany tho inferior quality of tho
able cutlery is a source of constant
vunoyance, while in France competition
vith' English manufactures has long
men keen. Tho cutlery of Great Brit
•Jn carried away most of the prizes for
u[jorior workmanship and finish, and
n-oii yot tho “Rodgers” and other
poeial makes command the highest
n ices, but within the last forty years
peat progress has been made in the
United Slates in this Industry. And
while tho lino.t ami most expensive
mtlerv is still imported from Sheffield
xnd other centers of English manufac
ture an immense trade in domestic
sutlery lias sprung up, and American
knives are found upon many European
aides. There are various reasons for
(his, foremost among them the fact
that in this country machinery enters
far more largoly into tlie manufacture
of cutlery than in England, where
the finest stool blades are forged,
ground, and polished by hand,
each blade receiving a share of
minute and individual attention wli ch
is impossible where hundreds are turned
out at one time. This individual ma
nipulation enables a workman to do
ted tlm very smallest irregularity in tho
warn of the steel, and to bestow upon
eacli separate piece that passes through
his hands the amount of care that is
necessary to tiring it to tho very highest
state of perfection. For this reason the
trade iu English cutlery still shows an
increase as far as tho finest goods are
concerned, and the Sheffield manufac
turer stands unrivaled in the highest
branches of his art. And again, in turn
ing out very cheat) goods, such, for ex
ample, as are found at tho flve-oent
stores, the English factories can still
compete satisfactorily with those of this
country, owing to tho greater cheapness
of labor; but it is in tho vast interme
diate field of gonerat supply for ordinary
uso that we must seek the results of
American enterprise. And in this field
tho British confess themselves out
rivaled. Of the numberless houses which
a few years ago were represented in this
country for middle-class cutlery goods,
not one in ten remains, and not only is
the home demand supplied by cutlery
of domestic make, but very large ex
ports are made to different parts of tho
world, notably to Africa, Australia,
Germany, and Spain. In addition to
the great, advantages which the use of
machinery gives the American manu
facturer of middle class goods, he de
rives still further facility from the va
riety of the materials now used for han
dles.
Tho expense of a knifo depends very
greatly upon the handle, in first-class
goods almost entirely so, the same
quality of steel being invariably used
for the blades, and the price of imported
cutlery has increased largely within tho
last few years upon this account. The
handles of the best English knives are
invariably made of ivory, and in this
article there has been a formidable ad
vance of no less than from S3UO to $ 100
a ton, and there is a prospect of a still
further rise in price. The value of a
ton of ivory is about $6,000, and the
estimate of material used is one pound
to one dozen small knives. In this
country, on the contrary, ivory is now
comparatively little used, other inatori
ois being emnloyed for handles even
for the finest knives. Of these celluloid
is tho most remarkable. The English
claim to have been the inventors of this
or of a precisely similar material, which
is known as xlomite, and a large trade
lias here carried on by them in
celluloid-haudle knives, but nothing in
comparison to the extent to which they
are manufactured in this country. The
basi sof celluloid is tissuo paper, and
camphor enters largely into its compo
sition, together with a pigment of white
zinc load, which gives the necessary
hardness. It is almost impossible to
break it, and there is no danger of the
unsightly cracks in a celluloid knifo
handle which are the pernetual torment
of the mistresses of Irish servants.
Besides celluloid various materials are
pressed into the service by American
Ingenuity. Cheap knives have handles
of cocoa bola wood, which is imuortud
from the isthmus, and in spite of diffi
culty of transport is very much cheaper
than bone. Then wo have the ebony
handles, the material for which is im
ported from Zanzibar, carried from the
interior of Africa upon the backs of
natives and shipped in immenso quan
titias to America. Rubber handles again
play an important part, tho royalty upon
the patent, which is an old German one
and lias now lapsed, having amounted
to 810,000 a year. Many varieties of
bone, too, are used, and horn is stiff in
demand for the handles of carving
knives and forks. An immense trails is
(Amo in the solid steel knives, of which
handle and blade are made in one piece.
Those,which are of Brit ish manufacture,
arc imported here and plated for the
American market. Elated table cutlery,
as we have seen, is popular here and
immense quantities of it are supplied to
the .Southern States. Tho appearance
of American cutlery is much in its
favor. In the oheaper knives metal is
used in the handles, and servos both as
ornament and rivets, and great atten
tion is paid lo tho shape both of handle
Rnd blade. Some of the more expensive
knives and plated forks have pearl
handles curiously cut and twisted. The
pearl itself is imported from India and
Manilla, and cut in - New York city,
where pearl-cutting forms a distinct
branoh of trade. A finely-finished knife
passes through fifty different hands.—
N. Y. 'limes.
—ln a town not many mites trom
80-ton a man stepped into a neighbor s
house, where ho saw the head of the
liiniilv lying upon his back ou tho floor,
and his wife standing oscr him, as ho
thought, with a threatening air. He
was about to withdraw when tho pros
fftio man shouted: “Como along in,
' Steve: she is only chalking me out a
j i*r of nants.”
The number of farms in the United
States has increased titty-one per cent
in tho past ton years.
HUMOROUS.
“And what do you call that?”
asked tho inquisitive visitor, pointing to
a mutilated statue "That is a torso,”
replied tho sculptor. “ Il'm," mut
tered the i. v., “but how did it bccom*
torso?” Ho was tenderly kicked out.
—Au article entitled “Howto Wash
the lialiy” Is going tho rounds of the
press. Persons who read it will bo sur
pr sod to learn that the infant s washed
with water, but is not run through a
wringing machine and hung out on the
line to dry. Norristown Herald.
—"1 aui sorry to inform you,” said
a man to an Arkansas gentleman, “that
your son lias been killed in a balloon
ascension.” “How?” asked the gen
tleman. “Well, yon soe, he went up
with the professor and the balloon
dropped suddenly and killed both of
them ” “So it was the deseension that
killed him? My friend, when you com*
into this neighborhood with a piece of
information, give it straight.”—tirnan
s'is Trimeter.
—Wee Johnnie was riding on the
ears with his mother and dropped on
I Ixi floor one of the peanuts he was eat
ing. After he hail finished tho othoM
he began lo climb down to got the one
en the lloor, but his mother stopped
him, saying that he could nut have it.
He know that his mother would not
change her mind, and ho sat still in si
lence for several minutes. Rut he could
endure it no longer, and syou a piti
ful little voce piped out: “Mother,
can’t 1 getd wn on the lloor and look
at that peanut?"
—Rev. George T. Rider, in his North
Ameiican Review article ou journalism,
says: “A latter day parvenue, its ephem
eral flutter, its perpetual coming and
going, its very irridescenee transeioney
and unresting flux constitute its ration
and ctri'. * * * Its illumination is
cold, auroral, spectral, as of tho cere
brum.’ Of eourso; to be sure; eer
tainly. We never said it wasn’t —and
wo sliall anxiously look for a solution of
Mr. Rider's puzzle in the next n unbor
of the liccieic. Wc could never guess
it, ■— Norristown Herald.
—Charley B: Do wc need a correspond-.
ent at Des Moines? No, ( barley, wo
do not l)es Moines is ihe only place
where we do not need a correspondent.
We joyfully wallow in correspondence
from every other place on this broad
continent, but wo ennnot have a corre
spondent at Des Moines. An early
flame of ours lives in Des Moines. Wo
are parted now forever. It was not
that our love cooled, or that she died
umng. No, Charles, tho trouble wo
had with that love affair was not that
she died young, but that her father
didn’t. The bull dog likewise, was not
at a'l tired. You sec now why we have
hallowed associations with Do- Moines
which makes it painful to us to read
correspondence from that place.—
Puck. __________
That Abominable Ladies’ Hat.
A great deal of space has been taken
up in the papers denouncing the stylo
of ladies’ hat that shuts out so mu h
landscape ’They are, indeed, a tirst
class nuisance, particularly in churches,
theaters, and other places of popular
amusement. These hats, besides being
adorned with enough plumes anu
feathers to lit out a hearse, are loaded
down with a largo bird. After awhile
wc suppose the ladies will wear dead
eats, or a second-hand rat. fora change.
To the theater goer the big ladies’ hat,
or rather, the big hat of the ladv, is a
perpetual source hf rage, particularly
II the hat is just'in trout of hm. til
order to see what is being perpetrated
on the stage ho must crane liis neck to
the right, and just abo t the time he s
becoming interested she leans over to
whisper something very important lo
her right-hand neighbor, and once
more the unfortunate man thinks he is
looking at an ostrich. He gets a crick
in his neck trying to soe tlie stage over
her left shoulder, so She has noo casion
to shut off his view fro n that side, for
he sinks back in despair and into his re
served seat, for which he mulcted him
self in a dollar and a quarter. After the
pain in his neck has tied, the applause
of the audience arouses Inn to the fact
that ho is not getting the worth o his
money, so he assumes an almost erect
position to look over the a'oresaid os
trich, and just about the time he obn ni
a glimpse ot the hero taking lie scalp
of the victim, or pressing Ihe form of
tho rescued maiden to his shirt-bosom,
a dozen men behind him yell out:
•‘Down in ront " He drops into his
dollar and a quarter reserved seat, and
ho is more reserved than the scat during
the rest of the performance. There
should be a regulation by which all tlie
women with b g hats be placed in seats,
one behind the olher, so they may learn
to appreciate how pleasant it is to pay
a dollar and a quarter of hard earned
lucre for the privilege oi looking at tho
remains of an ostrich for two or three
mortal hours.
Wij Ivavc never heard of but one in
stance where a man who was sitting be
hind one of those abominable lad es’
hats evec got the advantage of the wear
er of said hat. She wore a hat that was
almost as large as the national debt.
The unfortunate man might have as
well been down in a cellar, as fa as see
ing tho performance ou the stage was
concerned. Tho gentleman caned over
and informed the ady that her hat pro
vented several persons in the rear from
witnessing the performati o, and asked
her to pie sc remove her hat. She told
him snappishly to mind his own affairs.
She was not a very nr e lady, anvhow.
Tlie gentleman did not reply, but lie
put on his own hat. At this outrage on
tlie audience, a dozen gentlemen called
out, “takeoff that hat.” The wearer
of the vast lint supposed her hat was
meant, so she got up and indignantly
flounced out or the i uilding. The gen
tleman had removed his hat in the mean
time. and had a clear view of the stage
during the entire performance. Texas
Siftings.
An Old Contention Bone.
Gibraltar is constantly being strength
ened, both by new works and by im
proved guns in place of the old ones. A
100-ton Armstrong breech-loader was
brought hero from Woolwich two days
ago, aud another iB expected before the
end of the month. From 5,000 to 6,000
men are constantly stationed here. At
present the force consists of four regi
ments of infantry and one ot artillery,
and as much vigilance is displayed by
the military as if a state of war existed
with their easy-going neighbors of Spain.
Between the possessions of the two coun
tries is a piece of flat, sandy soil, about
1,500 yards iu loDgtb and the same in
width, known as the “Deutral ground,”
on either side of which the English and
Spanish sentries have been at their iiosts
within sight of each other ever aince the
year 1704 !—W. Y. Tribune.
—A car factory in Georgia is alleged
to have paid twenty-live per cent cash
dividend and passed twelve per cent, cash
to a reserve fund the first year of its oper
at’on. It built six hundred cars lat
\ ear. and has a eapac'ty of over twelve
In mire I per annum. This year it M
doing even better,