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THE WAYCBOSS HE?ALD, AUGUST 7 1897
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Franklin. Ga., Aug. 4 —Guy Patton. a
notoriously mtan negro, waa killed ou
J. W. Darnel*’ place, three rnilea below
here, Monday night by Gu* Hopson.
The negro went to the house of Mr*.
Matilda Waller, wne three hundred
yard* from Mr. Hopson’* residence. No
one waa at home but Mra Waller aad
her »wo daughters, wueu P.rtton kuocked
at the door aud demanded admittance.
The ladies being frightened remained
quiet and made n<* answer. The negro
called and told them that if they did not
open the dcof he you id break it in. and
he proceeded u» execute hie threat by
putting his armthrmigU a hole under
the door aud attempting to raise it add
the latch.
Mr*. Waller slipped oat of u aide door
and keeping the house between her and
the negro, called Mr. Hopson who got
out of bed and came immediately to see
about the trouble. As he approached
the house he found that the ucgro had
succeeded in effecting an entrauce, and
walking up to the door, be spoke to Pat
ton. The negro ran out and grappled
with Mr. Hopson. Iu the struggle
which followed Mr. Hopson managed to
secure an axe and dealt the negro *eve-
ral blows on the bead, the last proving
fatal. Throughout the whole combat
the negro was matting desperate efforisto
murder Mr. Hopson, and but for the
lucky chance of Mr. Hopson’s securing
the axe. would no doubt have accom
plished his purpose.
There is no doubt but that the negro
went to the woman’s house for the pur
pose of making a criminal assault upon
her or her daughter. He had wrapped
one of hia feet in a sack and placed an
old rubber shoe for the purpose of cov
ering his tracks.
The negro was regarded as nue of the
the meanest variety. He li»ed near the
place where he wa* killed and knew
there were no men at Mrs. Waller’s
house, she being a widow and having
no sons.
Pubiic sentiment hereabouts upholds
Mr. Hopson’s act.
Dipot Burnid at Gordele.
Cordele, Ga., Aug 4.—The Georgia
and Alabama freight depot caught hire
here about two o'clock this morning and
together with one local freight box car
loaded with goods was totally destroyed
by fire. Kata are supposed to have set
it oo fire. The freight bouse was full of
goods and the loss will be considerable.
Millie ulna ci Jrtjl Island.
A new cottage for Joseph Pulitxer, of
New York, to cost $40,000.
A new cottage for David H. King, of
New York, to cost $45,000.
A livery stable to be leased to the
highest bidder for famishing guests, to
cost $10,000.
A private stable of forty stalls, for
the use of members who biing their
stock to the island, to cost $15,000.
The above aie the improvements al
ready planned and contracted for, to be
made on Jekrl Island before the open
ing of the next winter’s season. Work
is to be begun in a few days.
Mr. Pulitzer's cottage will be one
marked by quiet elegpnce; Mr King’s
will be unique in design—a square struc
ture, with a wide, open court in the cen.
tre. These two cottages will undoubted
ly be the finest on the island.
The work will employ a very large
force of men.
Question.—Will you giro me some
information about the diseases omr
farmers call '-back rust" and **rs4
ruse?’ Can they be prevented in a^T
way? #
Answer —Both of these diseases are
doe to physiological causes, and not to
the attacks of any fungus. The •’black
rust" should be called the "yellow leaf
blight." as in the first stages of the dis
ease the leaves assume a decidedly yel
low-spotted or mosaic appearance, and
in this unhealthy condition they are at
tacked b~ various fungus growths,
which gives the leaves a black appear
ance. thus giviug rise to the name
"black rust." The causes of the dis
ease are not well understood as yet. bn:
it has been demonstrated taat the fun
gus organisms do not originate the dis
ease. aud that they only hasten the de
struction of the already diseased piauts.
Trials of various fungicides have proved
that the disease cannot be prevented by
their application. Experiments at the
Alabama Statiou showed a reduction of
the disease where kaimt was used as a
fertilizer This effect is more pro
nounced in seasons of dronth. followed
by copious rains, than wheu rains
freqneut enough to keep the soil *
tiuuaily moist, and is doubtless due tc
the action of the kainit "iu binding
more firmly together the soil particles,
so that it is more retentive of moisture,
or more able to draw it up from below."
"Wood ashes aud salt are known to
produce much the same results iu the
soil’’ The “red rust." or "rdd leaf
blight," which is so common on thin
uplands, aud s» rare ou rich or alluvial
soils, is the result simply of impover
ished soil, showing particularly a lack
of nitrogen, and probably of potash aud
phosphoric acid alsa The remedy for
this is by proper rotation of crops, to
111. yonr laud with hnmus or vegetable
matter, and then with proper fertilizing
and cultivation yon will no longer be
troubled with the "red rust." Mach of
our land, by continuous planting in
cotton, is exhausted of all humus, and
only by its restoration first of all oau
proper fertilizing and cultivation be
earn 'd on.—State Agricultural Depart-
nu.it.
Top,,!..*
Question.—Does it par to top cotton?
If so, at what time should it be done?
Answer —This question has been
discussed pro and con foi years aud no
satisfactory conclusions have yet been
reached. In some experiments made at
the Georgia Experiment station the re
sults left the qnestiou as unsettled as it
has always'been. Iu other words, some
rows that were topped showed a slight
loss in yield, while others showed a
slight gaiu over the untopped rows.
The generally accepted theory is that
it does not pay to top cottou. though
under certain conditions it might prove
profitable. It is thought by mauy that
it hastens the maturing of the bolls al
ready set, which would be an advant
age with an early frost Others think
that it tends to check the shedding of
the forms aud yonug bolls, but this
claim I thiuk unfounded. Toppihgcot
tou. wheu considered advisable, is usu-
Lally done when the plant is well fruited
7| aud at the same time growing rapidly.
This condition is usually found about
the first of August, wheu the seasons
have been propitious. As a general
rule. I would advise against the practical
—State Agricultural Department.
FintBaltBritp TuCtits.
Savannah, August tt.-^here
spiritless bidding for the first new bale
of cotton before the Cottou Exchange at
noon today. The bale sold at 10c. per
pound* They are not many cotton buy-
ora iu the city and of the few who are
here all did not attend the sale. The
new bale reached the city anno this
morning over the Plant system and was
at once transferred to the Cotton F.x-
chage, where it remained on exhibition
until the sale. It was shipped to Sav
annah to E. A. Outts by the Georgia
Cotton company o» Albany and sold in
the interior town for exactly what i:
brought here.
Kiig George Win Not ttflHfl.
Athens, August 4.—M. Rxl!, the pre»
snier, denies that King George has
threatened to abdicate.
This is interpreted to mean that Ger
many has probable consented to some
modified control of Greek finances sc-
ceptable to both Greece and to Europe-
The peace conference waa in tension
three hour, today, and unexpected prog
ress waa made with the nrgoutions.
It it said that everything has been an
rangad except the question of evacuation
of Thessaly, which ia to be considered to-
It b hoped that * aolution of the
whole difficulty b now imminent.
Dhl«rte(l«| Stable*. -
Question.—Please give ms directions
for disinfection of stables, where ani
mals with contagious disease have been
kept.
Answer.—Remove all litter and rub
bish of every kiud and burn. Haul out
all manure to the field, scatter and plow
under.
Dissolve two ounces of carbolic acid
iu a gallon of water, heat, and with it
wash thoroughly all feed troughs, wa
tering troughs, fodder racks, and other
woodwork.
Whitewash everywhere, inside and
out, addiug to the wash one pound of
chloride of lime to every four gallons of
water.
Remove and barn all rotten wood
work about the a stable. In cases of
glanders, sll harness, poles and shaft*
should be carefully washed with hoi
water and soap, and theu rubbed with
oil. in which put one part of carbolic
acid to ten of oil. If you have pUuk
fenoe around lot in which the animal
has run at large, whitewash the same
as stable. If you have rail fenoe, re
place with new rails, burning the old
ones. In cases of glanders only the ut
most care will prevent contagion, and
where stables are inexpensive, the safest
plan is to build snew in a different
place, burning np the old premises.—
State Agricultural Department
•renews* In »>eeb Tree*.
Question. — Is there any remedy
known fo* the “yellows” in peach trees?
Answer.—Very mauy efforts have
been made to cure this apparently mys
terious and most destructive disease,
but all without avail. Even the cause
of the disease has not yet been deter
mined with certainty. We do know
that it is highly contagions, and liable
to attack the most vigorous trees of any
age. especially when iu bloom. It is
also known to be hereditary. The only
plan so far used suooess fully for fighting
this disease is to cut-down and burn the
tree, root and branch. By this heroic
treatment the disease may at least be
held in check. Good care aud thorough
cultivation appear to render the trees
less liable to attack, though they by no
means secure imv smity from it. This
disease is very ooruaoa in the orchards
of the east and north, but as yet has
done but little barm in Georgia. Want
of proper cultivation, and the work of
will frequently cause
as though they
bed the ••yellows," but the disease is as
yet rare with as. and it should not be
permitted by any carelessness to obtain
a firm foothold.—State Agricultural D*
Question.—Is August too early to
put in fall oats? Please give me some
directions for managing this crop. Is
iu feeding veins equal to corn, and
would you advise sowing largely of
oau or would you depend on the oar*
crop for stock feed?
Answer.—There is no good reason
for the opinion so generally entertained
that oorn is better than oats as a stock
food. Oats, pound for pound, is actually
superior as a feed for both horses and
cattle. August is too early to sow the
crop, bat it ia none too early to prepare
for it The mistake so often made in
managing an oat crop is that we at
tempt to grow this crop on laud too
poor to predace a profitable crop of any
thing else. It will pay to give thorough
preparation and heavy manure. Plow
deep aud concentrate the seed, the labor
aud the fertiliser ou a limited area,
rather thau weaken the chances of suc
cess ou extended fields. If the laud is
deficient in humus, cottonseed or cot-
touseed meal will help *o supply the
deficiency, and if. duriug the winter,
even a light top dressing of farm yard
manure can be used, the yield will be
wonderfully increased. For fall oats it
is important to plant winter grown
6eed. Sow from to 2 bushels to the
acre, and cover from 2 to 3 inches deep.
They should be sown as early in Sep
tember as the laud can be gotten ready.
The object is to give them a good start
before the early frosts. If the planting
is delayed the crop is often severely in
jured by the first freezes.—State Ag
ricultural Department
Winter Or*,. Tor Hay.
Question.—Please give me some in
formation iu regard to the best winter
grass to sow for hay. Something that
will not injure the laud. How to pre
pare aud plant My laud is fresh, should
I take out the stumps aud "grubs?"
Answer.—There are several grasses
which might be sown for hay, but tak
ing everything into consideration I
should prefer to sow one of the legumi
nous plants, such as crimson clover.
Yon nos only get from it a good crop of
hay. bat yoa enrich yoar soil at the
same time, and the clover is ready for
cutting in time to make a crop of
corn or cotton on tho same land.
It is somewhat difficult to care, as it
"lffatnres in April, bat that is the only
objection.. Break yonr land as deep os
possible and harrow until it is thor
oughly pulverized. Apply and plow in
200 ponuds cotton seed meal, 100
pounds muriate of potash aud 100
pounds acid phosphate. Sow 15 to 20
pounds of seed about the middle of
September in yonr county (Carroll) and
harrow in lightly. By all means take
ont the stumps and "grabs” before at
tempting to prepare the land. By fol
lowing directions yon should take off a
good crop of clover in April, leaving
tho_ground in excellent condition to
make a fine crop of cotton.—State Agri
cultural Department.
Nitrogen In NuarM.
Question.—Please give me iu pounds
the amount of nitrogen, potash and
phosphoric acid in a ton of chiocen ma
nure. aud also a ton of stable manure.
Answer. —In a ton of chicken manure
there are 67 pounds of nitrogen, 41
pounds of potash, and 48.60 pounds of
phosphoric acid. A ton of well rotted
stable manure contains 11 pounds of.
nitrogen, 10 pounds of potash, and 6
pounds phosporic acid. Thus yon see that
the chicken manure contains six times
as much nitrogen, four times ss much
potash, and eight times ss much phos
phoric acid ss does well rotted hone
manure. Chicken manure being so
valuable, more care should be taken to
save" it—State Agricultural Depart
ment
raHlag Union.d r«a VInn Hay.
Question.—Is there any great risk in
feeding damaged pea vine hay? I have
known cases where it has been fed
without any apparent injury.
Answer.—As a role it is dangerous
to use stock food of any kind which is
not perfectly sound, particularly in the
case of horses and mules. In the case
of pea vine hay, it has been demon
strated that where it has fermented or
become moist after being stored, salt
petre is formed in sufficient quantities
to produoe violent irritation of the kid
neys, and if the feeding is persisted in.
death often results. Mouldy hay is also
regarded by experienced feeders as ex
tremely dangerous.—State Agricultural
Department.
urs, and thereby, enabling them tne
better to withstand dronth. Loose,
nndy soils are rendered more compact
by humus, and are thus rendered more
capable of retaining moisture, as well
as available plant food. Humus serves
several other good purposes in nature’s
laboratory. It has been proved to be a
•oaroe of nitrogen. It is known to be
in a measure destructive to insect life,
because of the carbonic acid gas which
is generated by its presence, and by
darkening the soil it adds to its heat
absorbing power. Now that you un
derstand the value of humus, you read
ily see why such serious results follow
its disappearance from the soil. A rem
edy can only be had in a proper rota
tion of the crops, sowing peas. etc.
Whenever our people will abandon the
all cotton style of farming (and they
are fast doing it j, then will yon cease
to hear about exhausted aud worn ont
land. Ou the contrary, oar lands will
then be gradually brought up to a state
of fertility, surpassing that that they
possessed when first cleared by onr fore
fathers. —Stats Agricultural Depart
ment.
Wild Flowers of the California Alps.
There are a number of roadside
and pasture plants known by farm
ers as "weeds” which nevertheless
seem to have imbibed the very
spirit of midsummer. Among them
are included the dainty evening
primrose (Enotbera biennis), the
clematis, or virgin’s bower, fes
tooning itself gracefully from tree
to tree with the wild grape and ivy;
the milkweed (asclepias), with its
dull pink flowers and big oval seed
pods filled with brown seeds and
silky white down; the yellow sun
flower ; the flame colored castelleia,
or Indian’s paint brush; the gold-
enrod, three to six feet in height;
the aster dandelion and the bright
eyed little hypericum or St. Jo! u‘i*
wort, formerly used in certain j arts
of Europe as a charm against evil
spirits. In sandy places on the edge
of the woods grows the curious
horsetail dr telescope retd some
times known as file grass, as the
rough furrowed stalks were once
used for polishing purposes. Being
without true or visible blossoms
this plant belongs with the ferns,
mosses and other cryptogams and
is said to have deteriorated from
tho coal ages.—Popular Science
Monthly.
John's String.
The etudents of one of our well
known colleges for women are ac
customed to do their shopping in
town through the medium of a cer
tain John who, lacking intellectual
gifts, has a faculty for doing er
rands. John writes down his orders
himself. One day his list closed
with, "Tub roz madder 1," "choc
cream lp," "git a string." John
pondered: "Get it where? What
kind? Who had ordered it? Was it
for an eyeglass, picture cord, corset
lacing?" He couldn’t remember and
Went back without any. But the
moment he saw Jenny Peters tuning
her guitar at the window and heard
her call out, "Oh, John, did you do
my errand?" he remembered all
about it and said to himself: "There
now. Why couldn’t I ’a’ thought of
her gita’ string—and written out sc
plain too!"—San Francisco Argo
naut.
St Paul, which was founded by
French Canadians in 1842, is still
under their sway to a large extent.
That the city is in great measure
Canadian may be inferred from the
fact that it has avenues named Win
nipeg, Montreal, Manitoba and To
ronto in one of the suburbs inside
the city limits.
STAG HUNTING IN ENGLAND.
mm\
•/ r*Ja,
Jwn X Introduced French Customs or th«
CkSM.
In The Century W. A. Baillie-
Grohman has an article on "Sports
In the Seventeenth Century." He
says:
With the beginning of the seven
teenth century stag hunting in the
French fashion suddenly became
popular at the court of James I.
Physically unfit as that monarch
was for feats of endurance or for
hard riding, this sport appealed to
the love of pomp and to the vanity
of a sovereign who was folly per.
suadeii of ii king’s divine rights,
among which was not least the royal
prerogative of hunting where he
liked in the forests of his subjects.
James constituted himself a patron
of venery, and one of his first acts
after his accession to the throne was
to beg his ally, Henry IV of France,
to send him the most skillful of his
huntsmen in order that "he might
henceforth hunt iu the forests of his
realm rather than in inclosures aud
parks, sueli as was hitherto the
fashion, where one hunted the stag
only as long as he was in sight."
The Marquis de Yitry, one of the
French king’s most renowned
neurs, was immediately dispatched
to England, and soon afterward De
Beaumont and De Moustier, two of
Henry’s officers of the hunt, with
several valets de chiens, or kennel
men, and presently also the Sieur de
St. Ravy, followed the marquis
across the channel. St. Ravy be
came permanently attached to the
English court in tho character of
grand veneur, or master of the hunt,
to James’ Danish queen. Other
sportsmen of renown followed suit.
Thus Ligniville, the author of a
well known work on venery, was
sent from Lorraine to the English
court to co-operate with the others
in the introduction of the French
chasse a courre on English soil, and
there is no doubt that in consequence
of the pronounced favor shown by
James for French hunting institu
tions a considerable number of
French nobles came over to England
to sun themselves in the favor of
the vaiu monarch. To snch ex
tremes did James drive his predilec
tion that he imported red deer from
France, and wo are told that St.
Ravy annually visited France for
this purpose, collecting on a single
occasion as many as 40 and 50 in the
forests of Fontainebleau. These
stags, according to Maricourt, only
the king hunted.
The sport does not seem to have
long retained its French features in
their entirety, for Ligniville already
complains that the English were in
troducing the custom of killing the
stag with an arquebus when the
hounds had at last succeeded in
bringing him to bay, while the
French continued much longer to
consider it a point of honor to dis
patch the stag with the hanger, a
proceeding to which, of course, con
siderable danger to the unskillful or
careless was attached.
No
Patchwork!
One of the most encouraging features
of a cure made b7 S.S.S. (Swift’s Specific)
is its permanency. Of all diseases, it is
well known that those of the blood are
the most obstinate, and therefore the
most difficult to cure. The medical
profession, in fact, have virtually ad
mitted that a real, deepseated blood
disease is beyond their skill.
Of course, their admission is not made
in so many words, but actions speak
louder than words, and their inability to
cure, after months aud often years of
treatment, is sufficient evidence that dis
eases of the blood cannot be cured by
doctors. Their mercurial mixtures, al
though taken faithfully, only cover up
the symptoms of the disease, inducing
the patient to feel that he is being curea;
but when he is sooner or later seized
with stiff joints, pain in the bones, etc.,
the evidence of the doctor’s patchwork
is conclusive. SucH results cannot be ex
pected from the use of S. S. S. Being
purely vegetable, containing no harm
ful mineral ingredients, it is the only
blood remedy which act9 on the true
principle of forcing the disease from
the system, building up rather than
tearing down the health. No loss of
hair, no stiff joints, no decrepit mercu
rial wrecks result from the use of S.S.S.
Cm* of Ton Mash Cotton.
Question.—I live in one of the best
couuties of Middie Georgia—a county
that has been noted tor producing cot
ton. Now the yield of cotton .per acre
is falling off, much of the land seems
dead and lifeless, the ground when
plowed has a tendency to clod, and a
very moderate drouth produces serious
results. What is the matter?
Answer. —Th « trouble arises from the
all cotton nlauting. in whicn too many
of onr farmers still persist This re
sults ia fUe entire exhaustion of the
"humus.” or vegetable matter ia the
soil, an element that is absolutely es
sential in keeping up the fertility, of
our lands, and one that cannot be re
placed by any amount of commercial
fertilisers. Most soils have the mineral
elements of plant .food in more or less
abundance, but in the absence of "hu
mus" these elements cannot be made
available for plant food. The vegeta
ble matter, decomposing, generates car
bonic acid, which then dissolves the
mineral elements of plant food, render
ing them available for plant growth.
Hnmus also loosens np stiff clay soil a,
rendering them more friable and in-
^Thousands of
women are
troubled at
monthly inter
vals with pains
in the bead,
back, breasts,
shoulders,sides
hips and limbs.
Bat they need
not suffer.
These pains are symptoms of
dangerous derangements that
can be corrected. The men
strual function should operate
painlessly.
Wine®*
makes menstruation painless,
and regal ar. It puts the del i-
• cate menstrual organs in condi
tion to do their work properly.
And that stops all this pain.
Why will any woman suffer
month after month when Wine
of Cardni will relieve her? It
costs £i.oo at the drug store.
Why don’t you get a bottle
For advice, ia cuoes requiring
special directions, address, giv-
3 ; symptoms, "The Ladies* ■
visory Department," The
Chattanooga Medicine Co.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Grant’s Aversion to Liar*.
In The Century General Horace
Porter, in his "Campaigning With
Grant," dwells upon Grant’s aver
Bion to liars. He quotes the follow
ing remarks from General Rawlins:
"The general always likes to tell
an anecdote that points a moral on
the subject of lying. He hates only
two kinds of people—liars and cow
ards. He has no patience with them
and never fails to show his aversion
for them." Ingalls added: "Such
traits are eo foreign to his own na
ture that it is not surprising that be
should not tolerate them in others.
As man and boy he has always been
the most absolutely truthful pezson
in th? whole range of my acquaint
ance. I never knew him to run into
the slightest exaggeration or to bor
row in the least degree from his im
agination in relating an occur
rence." —
One of the party remarked, "I
was amused one day to hear an offi
cer say that the general was ‘te
diously truthful.* He explained
that what be meant by that was
that the general, - in mentioning
something that had taken place,
would direct his mind so earnestly
to stating unimportant details with
entire accuracy that he would mar
the interest of the story. For in
stance, after returning from a walk
around camp he would say, ‘I was
told so and so about the wounded by
Dr. while we were talking this
morning inside of his tent, * and a
half hour afterward he would take
the trouble to come bock and say,
as if it were a matter of thegreateet
importance: *1 was mistaken when
I told you that my conversation
with Dr. —— occurred inside his
tent. That was not correct. It
took place while we were standing
in front of his tent.* " There waa
much truth in this comment. No
one who had served any time with
the general could fail to be struck
with his excellent memory and the
pains he invariably took to state
occurrences with positive accuracy,
even in the most unimportant par
ticulars.
H. L. MYERS.
Mr. H. L. Myers,of roo Mulberry street,
Newark, N.J., made the mistake of re
lying upon remedies based upon mineral
ingredients, and for the hundreds of
dollars which he invested received only
disappointment in return. He says:
*‘I was afflicted with a terrible blood
disease, which was in spots at first, but
afterwards spread all over my body.
These soon broke ont into sores, and it
is easy to imagine the suffering I en
dured.
" Before I became convinced that
the doctors could do no good I had
spent a hundred dollars, which was
really thrown away. I then tried vari
ous patent medicines, bat they did not
reach the disease. When I had finished
my first bottle of S.S.S., I waa greatly
improved and was delighted with the
result. The large red splotches on my
chest began to grow paler and smaller,
and before long disappeared entirely. I
regained my lost weight, became strong
er, and my appetite greatly improved.
I was soon entirely well, and my skin as
clear as a piece of glass."
S.S.S. is a snre cure for all manner
of blood diseases, and disappointment
never results from its use. It is
Purely Vegetable
and one thousand dollars will be paid
for proof that it contains a particle of
mercury, potash, or other mineral. S.S.S.
ii sold by all druggists;
Valuable books on blood and skin dis
eases will be mailed free to all who ad
dress Swift Specific Co., Atlanta. Ga.
GEORGIA. f
Ware County, t
Whereas. Leon A. Wilson. Administrator
of j. II. Mitchell, represents to the court in
his petition, duly tiled and entered on re
cord, tlmt he has fully adminu-tcred J. If.
Mitchell's estate. This is therefore to cite
all persons concerned, kindred and credit
or*. to show cause, if any they can. why
*nid administrator should not be discharged
ip>:u his administration, and receive letter*
of di.xmiHsion on the find Monday in Octo
ber. 1*07.
(iiveu under my hand and official signa
ture this 5th day of July. 18t*7
7-5 3m «Varrk» Lott. Ordinary.
“Xot Worth a Cane.**
Curse, anything worthless. Cor
ruption of the old English word
kerse, a small, sour wild cherry;
French, cerise; (rerman, kirsch.
"Vision of Piers Plowman:"
Wisdom and witt nowe ia not worth a kerse.
But if it be carded with cootie as clothen»
Kemba their wools.
The expression "not worth a
curse" used frequently nowadays ia
therefore not properly profane,
though it is frequently intensified
by a profane expletive. Horne
Tooke says from kerse or cress. The
expression "not worth a tinker’s
curse" may or may not have arisen
from misapplication of the word’s
origin, though as now used it cer
tainly means curse in its usual sense.
Tinkers do curse, unfortunately,
and it will take a good deal of school
board work to educate them out ot
it as well as a fair amount of time.
The phrase "not worth a tinker’s
damn" is evidently a variation ot
this, unless, indeed, it should be
spelled "dam” and ueed as a refer
ence to the general worthlessness of
the wives and mothers of tinkers.
The latter is merely offered to those
who are speculative in such matters
and is not advanced as an opinion.—
Slang Dictionary.
Bildeck—I saw the doctor’s car
riage at yonr house yesterday. Any
thing serious?
Gasser—I should say so. He
wanted to collect his bilL—London
Tit-Bits.