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Newspaper Page TextI RAWFORPViLLE - - GEORGIA T““ TARGET PRACTICE. How to ItecovM* Hklllfd In Art ol shoot i ii <r* [From the Army aikI Navy Journal. 1 Borne years ago an army officer who visited the pistol gallery of Tr ivia, the celebrated pistol shot mid asked to sec him shoot, was told that Travis was then no shot a match or for exhibition be went, it appears, through a course of exercise similar to that taken by a prize tighter. He walked and ran a certain number ot milea,exercised with the clubs, was bat lied and rubbed down daily ami ate and drank according to rule, tobacco, coffee and everything stronger than heer being forbidden. This regimen was followed for aix or seven weeks, and pistol last prac few tie* was added only during the Tra weeks. After the match was over vis stopped his exerctse and soon fell off in his shooting. to exercise, If neglect of or attention diet, etc., can change an ordinary shot lation between good shooting and the development of proper physical coudi lions is one worthy of more considers lion than it ordinarily receives Indeed, one of the arguments m favor of rifle traction among the Btate troops has >een that its natural tendency, so far as it, went, was to promote lmhits of tem ASs of exercise, ss fere with a regular course might l>e paid but more attention to this. At the ordinary company target practice the officers smoke and the men chew. As tobacco affects the nerves and thus interferes with good shooting, the use of it jnst before practice should 1» stopped. Observations will show that scores made directly after pay day are apt to be poor. An officer who takes considerable in¬ terest in target practice thinks that where iufuutry ami cavalry have had equal all practice the cavalry average better at, short ranges with the carbine than the infantry with the musket. The only difference in the men is in the exercise they take. The length of the musket should give the infantry the advantage at all ranges. Another matter that is receiving attention here, as well as abroad, is the proper shape for targets for military practice. As we have before argued, the object is to teach the soldier to hit a soldier of the enemy; and next, but of leas imixirtanoe, to hit a horse, and finally to hit and blow up the limlier liox of a caisson. The man who scores four eaoli of ten shots is considered a I.ettor shot than a man who scores three for each of ten shots; yet none of the No. 4 shots, if three or nine o’clock, would hit a man, while all the No. 3 shots would, if six o'clock, and shonhl used) should have a vertical stripe ten pTSBBtfub foTEe stripe helgnt would of nve feet about nine n,elies. Thu oovt r all the tallest soldier, in the position of aim, would ex (vise to w enemy’s fire, The highest value should be given to 1 allots in this from the bottom up the thirty inches from tlie next in value should be hits from the thirty-inch point to the top of the stripe. Aiming low should be encouraged. front The object is to drive the enemy’s lines. A bullet is effective even after striking the ground, aud moving near the ground, if it misses the first line, it may pick up a man in the second line; while a bullet traveling high is useless even if it hits a man in the reserves. Furthermore it is greater advantage to wound a man in the legs than to kill him bv hitting in the head or t>ody. Manners and ( ustouis of Utt* l.ast Century. The Philadelphia gentleman of tlie butt century, if lie were a man of fash¬ ion or moans, won* a three cornered cooked hat heavily laced. ilis hair was done up in a cue, and its natural s diminutive cape, marvelously 1 oil g back, and silver buttons engraved with the letters of hi« name, llis small clothes came scarcely to the knees; his hum; stockings were striped, his shoes pointed and adorned with huge buck It's; his vest bad flap pockets, liis cutis were loaded with lead. * * * When ’ be , bowed , i . to .1 the damsels i , that , passed him. he took half tlie sidewalk as he flourinhed his cane and scrapod his foot. Th«> historian proctHMh to oonvineo ua that Uu*droHs uf the lady, asa)u> gravelv ivttirned his salutation aud oourtosod nearly to the earth, would seem no less strange to us. “Those were the days of gorgeous brocades a d taffetas, liixu riantly displayed over cumbrous hoops, tsz n towci-lmilt hats, adorned with tall feathers; of calash and muskmclonlKm note, of high wooden heels fancifully cut; of gowns w thout fronts; of tine satin peltieoats, and of implanted teeth * It appesrs that in J7S4 this envious custom of transferring teeth from one woman's jaw to another had 1 eon lately iateodiuNxl in Philadelphia, J i an advertisement yet extant oue La J faycur aunounees to His fair but pre .• nimbly mature patrons, that lim busi i ess is to trauaplant Dn'tli, and that he 1 as within the six months just preeed i g transplanted 123; and he assures those baring front tex’.h for sale that lie will give two giiHi«a<for even sound o ie brought to him.— McMaslerx’ liis toru. Ihon Shirs. —The works for building iron ships m San Francisco will la*, the lUtllctin says, tlie most extensive of any in the Cuited States. Julia W ard How* says : Poor pao Die caiV Vi'llv N‘*. but Ibex wade u... t s » tl! I.f. rtslite vGiile lli. v *tv i . EDITORIAL NOTES. Benator Ingalls will soon introduce a bill providing that any person who in 'closes an acreage of public, lands to which he has no title shall be liatde su-h inclosureTs to * finu^t $100 a day for the time maintained, and any person who ob¬ structs the passage of another over or through the public domain shall, for every' offense, pay the aggrieved person $500 u HK Mormon church now embrace* a p re8 jj en t twelve apostles, fifty-eight nm •»«»*»■>« w* priests, 11,000 choirs, 1,500 bishops, and 4,400 deacons. In r.zona there is a mem \, er .hi p of 2,262; in Idaho twice ,n d nimloI ,arie8 are at work all .< The Europe and the United TT; , Slotes State*, in over time appears to lie coming when the (j er , t jjes wifi have to hide their women f " lK l{ tht ’> “P 8 ™ . k kee „ eD P uo tl <? their pro* H sent domestic style. __ paper pulp into a substitute for wood is attracting favorable , Mention. It it believed that it will prove mnc h cheaper than wood, equally -.....”• work. The paper board »*%£«” will take the finest polish, as well ns any tint, shads (>r C() j or ‘ j t ma y made water-proof, ,,uu , he marbIeize d an d grained. In the constiuction of . buildings . .... rooting „ in material, in making bridal caskets or for f um jtnre purposes it is believed that pa I- "■”»»'•*. -'««■“»««• era! use. Onr of the largest sheep ranches in America is on Bantu Rosa Island, Cali¬ fornia. On this island of 74,000 a ,r es fully 80,01X1 sheep are kept. Lust June woo dip from these sheep was 415,740 pounds, which sold for 27 cents * jHiund, bringing the owner $212,349.80, a i-lear profit of over $80,000. Even this WRH ft low yield. Four men keep the ranch in order during the year, but in ■hearing time an additional force is, of course, necessary, A shearer is paid five cents a clip, and $4 50 a day is frequently made by a good hand The Banta Bosa sheep require no herding, but two hun¬ dred trained goats run with them, answer¬ ing all the purposes of shepherd dogs. Knurr, the famous manufacturer of heavy ordnance, claims that he has scut forth more than 20;000 of his terrible engines of war. His pre-emim nee is due to the fact that lie first substituted steel for iron in the manufacture of heavy guns. He was also one of the first to por ceivo that breach loading cannon would completely take the p ace of muzzle eyjaw-r ^ ,n ‘ , - fiiiwa are his best custoiners. His largest - , . . K uu 18 ov ' r 1 J 0 ’ said that not single . part of it and it is a could be made in America, ns we have n o means of hammering or working such enormous masses of metal. From all accounts the synchronous multiple telegraph system is I'cstined to inaugurate a marvelous revolution in telegraphy. It is claimed that a syn chroninm has been obtained between distant rotating ayotcmaso absolute ns to secure their rotation for weeks at a time without a variation between the two of 1-600 of a second. The application of this principle will divide an ordinary tele graph wire into a number of electric cir cuits, each of which is entirely indepen dent of the others. The inventor of th i wi M-r.. n-» Yorker, of Irish descent. Th«$ pruu iple carried out in his system is capable of m finite possibilities. It rentiers certain the practicability of telegraphing by sound, j ex-Ms «» photographically s-* r by telegraph may be realized, Thk hamumriess gun is one of the latest fashions in fire-arms, and some i»\tterus are quite expensive. A liand sonic twelve gauge, seveu-aiul-a-luilf pound , gun can , be had , , . for _ m,ui $ I DU. The rue barrel f of the finest Damascus steel, . , aud , is tlie artist who eugraves the lock-plates leeeives a salary of $3,500 a year, Tho hammer# are inclosed within the hx - k P Mt , . *’ ,uul , m $ '' rou « ht ‘ H kn in* f iswitiou by the dropping of the barrels in o;xming the gun, an automatic device at the same lime locking the triggers so th ‘' M uuti l the little slide is pnabcti forward. Th»*sc guns are considered quite safe, and it i< predicted that they wll , oomc into gpn(>nil Wl Another «-hacge , the ,, • . m gnn fashions , , . is growing _ „ popularity of smaller gauge and lighter gnus. The American chesp guns ar imprtiving and sell readily over inqiortod guns of the same grade. Fashions iu jewel y are now materialis¬ rather than deem stive. in' designers six k models from ev. rv # >nree. We find pins, vi s(>s, ear-drop. and brooches in the form of saws, bammerg hlow-pipee, w atering pots and shades. Whole scenes reproduced in gold and previous shmes. On a golden roof two swallows in dia mou a„ ^ #hown building their nest; the head of • terrier in bri liant emerges through the crevice of a golden board in pursuit of a silver rat; a couple of kittens in diamonds and emeralds playing with ;l pearl, make s brooch; diamond bora,** galloping through . horse shoe, and poodles leaping (ho*ngh ho>j<e are for buckles a(: and A also in high favor jewelry) brooches. A new idea in is simply a thin spot of gold set irregul irty with precious stones, asif a bit of table motfu abd K old had been dropped on the then strewn over with emeralds silver j«fk- a|d rubies and diamonds. Black eby is also new.' J Every new publication of statistics fe lating to our foreign commerce shoVs that our ocean-carrying trade is 8 ow)y approaching the vanishing point. -Hr, Nimmo shows in his annual report thht during the last fiscal year the tounage of American vessels entering at our porta was less liy nearly 134,000 tons than tl^e year before. The Charrtber of Commerce report shows that of our total foreign commerce only about one-sixth is carried on by American vess Is, while ftiliy five sixths gives employment to the vessels of other countries. Since 1866, the propor¬ tion of tonnage of American vessels trading with American port shasdwindted from 711 per cent, to about 20 per while thatof foreign vessels has increased to nearly 80 per cent Of course the <$. cay of ship-building has kept pace the decline in the use of American ahijv. Iiivst year we built only about forty thou¬ sand tons of iron ships, largely for tb$ protected coast trade, while in Grea; Britain inure than six hundred and fifty ‘housand tons were built. The first attempt to cultivate cranber l ies in this country wns made in 1812 bj Captain Henry Hall, of Barnstable, Mas# Their cultivation has a sumed vast p ru¬ portions ; not less than 50,000 barrel* being annually produced .on Cape tod, and a'still larger amount in New Jersey. The same industry increase yearly in Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin. The est places for cultivating these borrief lie peat bogs, which are near deposits of lean sand. It is a trailing, evergreen, riumi-mpiatic plant which derives its entirely .. . , - substenance almost , , rom air water. It requires no fertilize* and needs no cultivation after a few year*. 4 he vines once in bearing will, by judicious management, p; educe . a good „ , trop y early during a generation if not for a century. A yield of four hundred bushels to the acre is not infrequent, though half that New Jersey. I lie pi ice is ran } * than $10 a barrel, an.l during February, I860, they sold in Philadelphia for $32 a barrel. The cultivation consists in i„ K „lher ilnwu Ol tt» coveyheground, llie demand for these delic irries constantly increases. .a’Alf'faii'tl'o'lthje seen- _ eve tor sunset in the northwest, ‘ the stay A the . only , star . of , the ., near ega, first magn tilde in that vicinity. Through 1 ^ u oofe8 hal{ the giz0 „f the • ,1,<>ou 1 1 . UH , lesuggesio o ' By tlie latter part of Jamir.ry it will drop down to within 70,000,000 miles of the sun, ’ and it wiU be much brighter than when . it .. made its starring tour in 1812. 1Q1 „ The Bar lioldi statue is madeof copper strengthened by on inner skeleton of iron. For each piece a center or mold was made of wood, on which the copper could be worked and fitted. The sheet copper epidermis of the figure is made of 800 piece*, and weighs 178,000 pounds, w | 1 j] e the iron frame weighs 264,000 poua s. When finally erected, the nlol( j (>< | s i lef q e c f ct) ppe r will be riveted t thor hy Copper l>0 i ta and the iron **« itawMQ by twelve great foundation bolts. The variations due to temperature are pro Tided for by elasticity in every part, and corroding will be checked by painting with red lead wherever iron and copper arc in‘contact. It is reckoned that the pressure of wind upon the statue, which will be 150 feet high, may go as high as 190,0(H) pounds. James A. Gart, proprietor of the Al herton Mills, on the Putapsco, who is largely , , interested . . . , m . the ., Laurel T , , i fills, r;l . B;iid : Tha South for the past five or ten years has had a mania for putting up cotton mills. Then the improvements La machinery are such that each spindle will produce three times as many goods ns it could fifteen years ago. With tlie exception of the skilled operatives, who were drawn from the Maryland mills, the wages there are 25, 30, and even 50 per cent lower than we pay, and the hours of labor are longer. Their operatives live cheaply, and know n thing of tho domes¬ tic comforts which nnrs have. The Southern mills are among the best in point of construction. The Southern railroads make tariffs by which the mill product* are carried North as sixth-class goods, while they charge the same goods made North and seut South first-class. Cotton goods from the mills at Augusta and Columbus, ';..i,. Georgia, are carried v -. 1 , ‘ ‘ 1 indred * pounds, but the same goo .s sent from the North must pay $1.25. This is pro tection of tlie South sgainst Northern competition. The railroads claim that they make low rates on North-bound freight rather than sen 1 car# back from years of my business experience J think the onu.wk at present is the least satis factory I have known, 1 ho warehoiues an* foil of 9 ^hIs, lor which tliere is uo market, except at prices that either would siiuw a loss or no profit. M ary land co$* ton manufacturers.have lost mote by the ^petition of Southern mi Is than those of any other State. We make the co 'tea goods which the South is nukmftand feel the over-production most Ther¬ are too many Spindles, and the spindles increase more rapidly than the popula¬ tion which is to consume the manufae tured products. Tot’ure Sleeplessness. Druggists tell us that there is a growing demand for various medicines and preparations containing opiates in one shape or another. People wreck their nervous systems by injudicious habits of life, and the result is unsound sleep, dyspepkii and countless other evils. Alittl ■ ilviee to .such persons may not be out of place. abandon They should, of course, bs c in fill to that method of life which brings them into physical disorder. Their Complaint may be fed by tobacco; narcotics should be avoided. One cause of their trouble mar be that thov take insuf¬ ficient exercise. Perhaps they drink too much tea or coffee, or eat too much flesli meat. There are a thousand practices allowed by convention which are in themselves harmful and prejudi¬ cial to health. The quantity of sleep may be im¬ proved by diminishing the length of time spent in lied. A hot shower bath at bed time cleanses the skit and pre¬ dispose# to sleep. Many a toiling business or literary man goes to bed tired and worn out, only to toss from one side to another. His brain is hot •nd full of blood, while his feet are cold. He thinks over again the thoughts that iiave lieen engaging his attention during the day, or does over again the business that has called forth his en¬ ergies for twelve or sixteen hours past. His night is a round of tossing to and fro. Is there anv wonder that, failing to find out what is the true and natural remedy for his pains, he resorts him to opiates, which he knows will give temporary relief? There is one sure and safe way to remedy "he liis pains. If, after leaving -work, won Id take a brisk walk of a mile or txvo before go ; ng to bed, and then, after the. walk, hold his head un ,jer a stream of cold water, he would find —that, is, suppo ing he does this when he is first troubled wdth sleepless nights. But, no; if he lives a half a or more from lus work he takes a , off his clothes L, ^ Mirowjng , oes to be(1 a8 „ u j ok iv a8 possible. The want of balance between mental physical labor is a fruitful cause of would improve liis health a great jj- ] le x V ,,j. e to fit up his attic as a carpenter shop and spend an hour there after supper. This, of course, would £ > 'q q n( | i,j s oceujiation afforded him iteut. ‘nlfefc-Iffiii iygntal j*ccp«Vition and .. c oper pro ^ rifril-.. .... Ths Curfew Bell. The curfew is commonly said to have been introduced iu England by Wt'liam, the Conqueror. By that moi M sh it was ordained, muter severe p'Eilties, eight that w hen the curfew bell rang at o’clock in the evening all lighU aud Ares rfiould be extinguished. There are those who hold thut this was merely the enforcing of an existing and very com motl police regulation to that effect. The absolute prohibition of lights after the ringing of the enrfew bell was abol¬ ished by Henry I. in the year 1100, but the practice of tolling a bell at a fixed hour in the evening was continued, and (bis, whioh is still extant in some places, is the survival of the curfew of mediaeval times. At first the common hour was seven o’clock, then it was gradually ad vanced to eight, aud in some places to uine o’clock; indeed, in Scotland, ten °’ c, ' )ck not “ ymusual hour. The tom to place the fire in a hole in the middle of the floor under an opening in tlie r°° f . to aUow lhe ““‘P* vt tbe gneke. When the family retired for fhe night the fire wns extinguished by Covering it up; hence the term convre . eu, or curfew. The regulation people was also tervioeable in obliging the to keep in their houses, and thus prevent¬ ing night brawls iu the streets. It i* believed that there is no histories authority for the popular tradition thai tbe severity exhibited by the Conqueror in enforcing obedience to the curfew was more particularly nssemiding designed to preva it the j'ygjjg), from in sec it to p j an H chemes of rebellion against their Noiman lords, laisses in Battle. In the days of hand-to-hand fighting, when missile weapons were employed by a comparatively small vanquished portion of the combatants, the were gen¬ erally almost annihilated and the vic¬ tors suffered enormouslv. At Canine 40,000 Romans out of 80,(k)0 were killed. At Hastings the Normans, though the victors, lost 10,000 out of 60,000; and at Crecy 30,000 Frenchmen out- of 100, 000 were, it is asserted, killed, without reckoning the wounded. When the flint-lock reigned the average of the proportion of the killed and wounded in ten battles, beginning with Zonidorf in 1758 and ending with Waterloo, was from one-fourth to one-fifth of the troops present on both sides. The heaviest loss was at Zorndorf, where 32,916 men out of 82,000 were killed or wounded. It was also very heavy at Eylau. being 55,000 casualties out of men. In the campaign in Italy to 1859, rifles were used on both sides, and we find that the proportion of eas unities to combatants was at Magenta *nd Solferino one-eleventh. In tJie Fran co-Prussian war of 1870-71. when both sides were armed with breech loading rifles, the average proportion Spich killed and wounded at Worth, wte^it ~ ‘ , , • , , Athenaeum* fe. L». NlLESP FRaNK TBYpN kius &#i®m -Jsk. n ! ^nccesscjrsHEAD <& O0 —WHOLESALE AND retail dealers in— Dors, Sash, Binds, Hardware, Mixed Parnls 14 36 DECATUR SlIhfiET, ATLANTA, GA. The CHEAPEST House in Georgia. We keep always on band a full line of Builders’ Material of all kinds. We are headquarters for everything in om line and sell at R ,ck B ittom Prices. We solicit the trade of Taliaferro coun ty and Middle Georgia. If you need anything in the building tine write U us for prices. & TRYON, NILES >ep28 mh ATLANTA, GEORGIA. W. N. MERCIER. COTTON FACTOR .. ..ja.axr3D COMJIIgglQjf MM&KT. No. 3 Warren Block, A.TJOTJSTA. GEORGIA. ter Personal attention given to business. Liberal cash advances made on^ Consignments. Close attention to Weights, Prompt biles and Remittances. A FURNITURE BOOM! JOHN NEAL & CO. —WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS JN— FURNITURE! .Atlanta, Qeoi'gia, Constantly have in stock and are receiving daily, everything in their lute, Bed steads, Bnreausof all kinds. Parlor Sets Bed-room and Chamber Sets, Wa nut, Mahogany Chairs, Tables, and Imitation Sideboird-, Woods Looking Mattrasses, Glasses, aud Spring Beds, mention. other things FURNITURE, too numerous and to it good an! cheap c*o When you want any aricle of warn on us. We keep the best goods and se 1 at class margins. CO. JOHN NEAL & 28 -om Broad Street. Atlanta. Ga ep M. BURDELL. CHAS. F. BAKER J. J. m.buhdell&co. CiMism hitkiffl Cotti Factors a»i —Continue Business as Heretofore at the Iqhfge ^ No?*19 fVe-TVoof A6hnmrc^sssa^mjtiuifi-i, WhM\on^. V J "T Strict Attention to all Consignments aud Prompt Remittances.' su|8-3m THE BEST WAGON ON WHEELS 18 MANUFACTURED BY FISH BROS. & CO., RACINE, WIS., WE MAKE EVERY VARIETY OF Farm, Freight and Spring Wagons, / rti bv uirfifiniu!; oursolvei strictly to one class of work; by employing none but the V H oiiii. »IE>, using nothing but P*(RST-CLASS IMPROVED MACHINERY awl the \ EliY To( > ti.LOOTED TxxMBu.lt, aud by a THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE of the buehieM, we have iiist’y earned tbe reputation of mukiug WHEELS.” « ti THE BEST WAGON ON Maanfactnrers have abolished the warranty, hnt Agents may, on iheii own responsibility, give the (ollowio.- warranty wilh each wajron, if so airree.l: We Hereby Warrant the FISH BROS. WAGON No.........to he weli made in every partic¬ ular ami ol good materia', and that lhe strength <’f the same is sufficient for all worx with fair usage. Should any h r eaRagc* occur within one year from this date by reason of defective material or workmanship, repairs for the same will be furnished at place of sals, free of charge, or the rrice rumple of of said the repairs, broken as per defective agent's price list, evidence. will he paig in cash by 'he purchaser prod^'ug a or parts an Send * Knowing we .an suit yon, we solicit patronage from every section of tlie United States. for Prices anil Terms, sad for a copy of THE RACINE AGRICULTURIST, to Wl* FISH BUOb A Haclue, Could Jiot Expect Her To, Two ladies entered a Fort street car one day recently and took seats beside a lady well known to one of them. She gave her friend an introduction, and directly “I this one remarked: the-Street think I saw you at Church one Sunday, several weeks ago.” ‘Yes.” “Ycsj seemed to be as mnch disgusted with the sermon as I was, for I saw yon were “Yes, terribly uneasy.” ’ again. “Did yem ever hear a worse preacher in all your life?” “Well, perhaps.” “ I never did, and I haven’t been there since. ” The conversation then rattled off on some other subject, and by and by tbe two ladies got off. “I wonder why she didn’t agree with me about that preacher ?” queried the one who lisd blasted him. “Why, how conld you expect her to? She’s that very minister's wife !”— De¬ troit Dree Press. Bamong.—A chief cause of dogs ‘ 'bay- la ing the moon” and barking at nothing dissomfort Many unfortunate animals are from pure carelessness consigned to cold and oomfortless kennels. It was found on investigating the kennel of a dog which had night^ rendered life a burden to a neighborhood that tne ken uel was so small that the poor creature could only lie partly in it, was kept awake by oold and misery, and not un exercise. S th ni are rendered restless, and consequently howl at night. A Nicknames by States. The residents of all States have “nicknames” applied to them by public , speakers and others. Most of the names have become historical. Tlie nicknames are as follows: Alabama, lizards: Arkansas, toothpicks; Califor¬ nia, gold-hunters; Colorado, rovers; * Connecticut, v opden-untmegs: Dela¬ ware, blue lien’s chickens; Florida, fly up-the-creeks; Georgia, crackers: Il¬ linois, snekers; Indiana, lioosiers; Iowa, hawk-eyes; Kansas jay-hawkers; Kentucky, corn crackers; Louisiana, creoles: Maine, foxes; Maryland, eraw tliumpers: Michigan, wolverines; Min¬ nesota, gophers; Mississippi, tadjidlos; Missouri, pukes; Nebraska, bug-eaters; Nevada, sage bens: New Hampshire, granite boys; New Jersey, blues or clam-catchers; New York. Knicker¬ bockers; North Carolina, buckeyes tar-boilers and tuckoes; Ohio, ; Oregon, welrfeet and hard cases: Pennsylvania, leatbcrlieads and Pennauites; Rhode Island, gun flints: South Carolina, weasels; Tennessee, whelps: Texas, beef-heads; Vermont, Green Mountain I*nvs: Virginia. l>eadles: and Wisconsin, I iadger». “Yotib „ September , gas biff is$8, said the collector. “Thats the best joko I’ve heard in a long time, saidtherate- in rw^ckness “Well, you see, August I had sickness in in the tue fsafiv family, and «id we burned gas all night and the bifi was onfy $4. In September, my family ™ m the eotuitov, the house was of laughter. -Yea.” said the collector, “it’s a good joke, but whos it ou?