THE HIQHT OF THE TIDE.
BT IU5V. 1TKANK W. OUNBAUMJS.
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This in the bight of the risen tide.
Who knows if a billow shall ever ride
To such a bight and write its name
To tell its tale on the oar of fame ,
In a ripple of sand
Which bounded the land
And fronted the sea ?
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Who knows if the soul winch fmarked as its
own * >
A shore unforscon , silent , unknown ,
In a Plato in Greece or a Cajsar in Borne
Shall rise again with such lofty swell
And leave on the beach its fresh farewell ,
In a ripple of sand
Which bindeth the land
And fronteth the sea ?
Wo know that the ocean hath olden grown ,
And that ere while there rose such waves un
known.
As are not now. Its , reign ia o'er ,
But the soul is young and it hath no shore
Where a ripple of sand
E'er bindeth the land
Or fronteth the sea.
MBS. FRERE'S DIAMONDS.
Mr. Frero was a very rich old gentle
man of somewhat parsimonious habits.
His one extravagance was a love for
young women. He was an xcellenl
example of the elderly lover ; tie was not
satisfied unless he had a 'pretty young
wife , and then he made love to the ses
at large , bargaining only for youth and
beauty.
The first Mrs. Frcre was a lovely gir ]
with blue blood in her veins. She was
poor , and Mr. Frere's wealth tempted
her. She brought with her as her sole
dowry a splendid diamond * necklace ,
which had been preserved as an heir
loom in her family. Mr. Frere was
almost as proud of this as he was of hu
wife , and he , from time to time , added
diamond ornaments , until finally she
possessed one of the finest sets to be
.seen in any London drawing-room. She
altered strangely after her marriage ,
became devoted to dress , amusement
and excitement. But she was quiet and
-amiable with her husband , except that
at first she frequently complained be
cause he would not give her all she
wished. But after awnile she left off
reproaching him. He would not give
her an allowance ; he liked to play the
generous and uxorious _ husband , and
give her a dress when it took his fancy
to do so. There was a dangerous light
in her eyes i-ometinies when she submit
ted to him. But she did submit.
Eventually , however , she lost pa
tience , and dealt him the hardest blow
that lies within a woman's power. She
ran away with a wild young cousin of
.her own whom she had loved before
her marriage. Ho was a spendthrift ,
and had made away with his slender
fortune ; so Mr. Frere had one comfort
. in his uneasy situation he felt sure
that his foolish wife would discover
.now what poverty meant. She had
gone to Paris , and those who met her
thought her looking wretchedly ill ;
"but she always appeared very gay and
dressed magnificenlty.
In six months she died , and left Mr.
Frere free of all but her memory. The
cousin went to America and did not re
appear in England for many years. It
seems he was doing well abroad.
Mr. Frere had disliked the idea of
eetting a divorce , perhaps fearing that
'
Eis bald crown and scant fringe o'f
white hairs might raise alangh in court.
But now that he was so"agreeably set at
liberty he immediately began to pay
-assiduous attention to one pretty.young
lady after another. The number of
young ladies with whom his name was
associated did not arise from his own
changeableness , but from their unani
mous rejection of his addressess. For
poor Mrs. Frere's career was not for
gotten. She had been a favorite in her
time , and most 'of her acquaintances
regarded him the light of an old ogre ,
who had driven her to ruin and death.
SChis was very trying to JUr. Frere , for
he really doted upon youthful beauty ,
and he much wished to appear again in
the society which he feared had been
.sneering at him , with another young
and lovely bride upon his arm.
But his case really seemed desperate.
Most ladies gave him the cold shoulder
as soon as they guessed at his inten
tions ; if any allowed him to propose , it
was only .for the pleasure of , refusing
him. The poor old gentleman got
quite depressed and knew not what to
do. He began to think of traveling and
enticing some innocent young creature
into wedlock who had never heard of
the late Mrs. Frere and her sad end.
It was September , and he was at a
large country home where there were a
number of delicious morsels in the
shape of young women ; _ hecould4not
himself -fromViheir\captiva-
tear t away - -
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tions , yet he dared .norpropose to any
one of them , for his recent experiences
had made him nervous It was humili
ating to be rejected by some girlish
creature fresh" from the schoolroom ,
and then meejb-her every day ; and he
did not want to go away * from the
house , for the girls were not unkind to
him. The teased a"nd pleajfed and' flat ; '
teredhim. , Onlyi vhe noticed. _ thatjie ,
could never be with one of them alone.
They always went . .aboutjrwith , him in
little companies of three or'four. 'In
fact , they had determ'in'ed' that the old
-would-be lady-killer should never get
the chance to make love to any ontf of
them. A new addition to the circle , a
lady who had been the beauty of the
season just over , seemed much amused
at this little arrangement. For her
part , she said , she had no fear of Mr.
Frere ; he was rich enough to be an eli
gible parti ; but he seemed afraid to
speak to her. So ho was ; for she was
the hamlsomest woman he had seen for
many a.day , and experience hadttaught
Him4 that he would falifii'love with her ,
andthat , 'if he proposed she would re
fuse him.
The last days of his stay arrived , and
he was ve'rysadr. In the afternoon he
deserted the-men , who jwere.out shoot
ing , and went int < the drawing room ,
where he found all the young ladies in
a state of gayety which young ladies
sometimes indulge in. .They had been
pulling the men to pieces in .their ab
sence , and laughing at them ; poor old
Mr. Frere , whom any one of them might
have had-for a lover , had just had Ms
turn. He was given to making passion
ate speeches whenever he coulu get the
chance ; and some of the girls on com
paring notes found that he used the
identical words to each. In fact , he
did somewhat lack imagination. This
amused the girls immensely , and they
were laughing over it when he came in.
They immediately began to tease him ,
and while they asked him a hundred
questions all at once , he stood smiling ,
flattered , and perfectly happy in their
midst. Confused by the presence of so
much beauty , he made a speech , which
most of those who heard it regarded as
absolute nonsense.
"Ladies , " he said , "I am going away
to-morrow. It is .dreadful to go and
leave you. I don't think I have the
courage to do it , unless one of you will
consent to console me. Which of. you
ladies will marry me ? My wife , will
have the late Mrs. Frere's diamonds ,
and they are not to he despised. "
He spoke as if purely in a joke , and
laughed as he said it. But his eyes
looked eagerly and anxiously round
the merry circle to see if any face
looked thoughtful.
"I will , Mr. Frere , " said the beauty ,
"diamonds suit me and I adore them. "
The others looked in amazement , and
then burst into peals of laughter. The
idea of the beauty sacrificing herself for
a set of diamonds- who , itwas , sup
posed , might wear a coronet if she
chose ! But Lady Rose knew her own
Eosition better than any one else. She
ad been out several seasons , and.had
had no offer worth accepting , and her
mother would not let her have the man
she loved. A rich old man , who , as
she fully determined , should be her
slave , and a set of" diamonds for her
very own , which were a fortune in
themselves these tiling were well worth
thinking about.
The whole thing was treated as a joke
at the time by every one present. But
in the evening Mr.'Frere came quietly
to Lady Hose and sat down by her.
" Rose " he said "if
"Lady , , you are
willing to hold to the bargain we made
I will of it. "
to-day , keep my part
She raised'her eyes and looked coldly
into his.
"If you meant it , " she said , "so did
I. As I said , diamonds suit'me , and I
have none. "
"I will give you the late Mrs. Freer's
" he answered.
on your wedding-day ,
"The jewel-case which contains them
shall be opened by you for the first time
since she herself shut it. "
In due time the marriage was an-
nouced and the details were settled.
The wedding was fixed for an early
date. Lady Rose , having made the
bargain , was not diffident about fulfill
ing it. She wanted the diamonds ; not
only for their beauty , but because when
they were once in her hands she would
be rich in her own right for the first
time in her life. She was avaricious
because she was unhappy ; and she de
termined that if Mr. Freer proved in
tolerable-and wanted to be her- master
instead of her slave , she would , like the
late Mrs. Frere , run away ; but she
would'not commit the fatal mistake of
leaving the diamonds behind.
At last the wedding-day came , and
there was no doubt about one thing
Lady Rose was the handsomest bride of
the whole year. And yet she was so
pale as to look like the ghost of herself.
The diamonds she wore were ttfe envy
and admiration of her friends. They
were magnificent ; her white neck and
arms "blazed with their beauty.
When Mr. Frere brought her the jew
el case and the key , a sort of a shudder
came upon her at the recollection of
who had last opened it. She felt , for a
moment , sorry for poor , frail Mrs.
Frere , who had left all behind her , her
home , her reputation and her dia
monds.
But before long she made a discovery
which chilled her blood and made .her
face as white as that of a ghost. The
diamonds were paste ! Before her
flight the runaway had had the set of
jewels exactly imitated by a dexterous
dweller in the Palais Royal , and none
but an expert could have told the differ
ence. It was on the proceeds of the sale
of the real stones that , after her flight ,
the lady and her cousin lived luxurious
ly in Paris.
Lady Rose never felt sorry for the
late Mrs. Frcre again. [ London World.
V A Wew Branch , of Industry ;
Kew fork Evening Post , i
A new branch of industry has been
suddenly developed on the other side
of the Alleghanies. It appears , accord
ing to the vigilant correspondents of
the Times' at Erie , Pa. , and Milwaukee ,
Wis.that the * British government jhas
been for.a long time solicitous to buy
up and destroy all the existing accounts
of the bad. < conduct ot George IV.
while he was prince regent , andv , , espe
cially a book , entitled' 'uMemoirs of
George IV. ; ? ' of which two or three
copies are supposed to be still in exist
ence. Fifteen hundreds pounds ster
ling is said to be offered by the chan
cellor of the exchequer for each copy
of this volume extant. It is believed
that the policy of the government is
not to make a great noise about it ,
which would naturally lead holders of
; he book to stand out for higher prices ,
but to carry on "a still hunt. " Thus it
came about that the advertisement for
the book was net published in the Lon
don Times , bnt in an obscure corner of
a newspaper published at Erie so ob
scure , in fact , that it was not noticed at
the time of its first publication , butwas
Discovered accidentally in a bound vol
ume of the newspaper files by some
person ] hunting down a tax sale in the
advertising columns. * The discovery of
the advertisement resulted in the fimd-
ing of a copy of the book itself on the
top shelf of a dust-laden book-case be
longing to a retired merchant in the
city of Erie showing that the chan
cellor of the exchequer knew what ho
was about when he advertised in an
Erie newspaper instead of the London
Times.
The news of this lucky find spread
rapidly , and led to extensive search in
old libraries , bookstalls , Inmber rooms ,
and trunk rooms , far and near. For
tune rewarded the labors of Mr. Edward
Seibert , of Milwaukee , who found
among his own effects a copy of the vol
ume , brought to this country by his
father fifty years ago. The Milwaukee
copy is said to be much better pre
served than the Erie copy. As both
'
contain indisputable proof'that Geprge
IV. was privately married to an obscure
girl before he was publicly married to
Queen Caroline , and that a child was
born of this union , whose "impover
ished descendant" ought to be wearing
the English crown , instead of the pres
ent possessor of that bauble , the anxiety
of the jis'urpers can be readily under
stood. It is stated that Seibert intends
not to claim the 1,500 , but to "open
negotiations with the British govern
ment. "
Doubtless other copies of-this disturb
ing volume will be found , and it would
not astonish us if the new turn given to
American industry should' have a de
pressing effect on the labors of the
wronged neirs who are trying to force
the Bank of England to disgorge the
sum of $100,000,000 , which has accu
mulated in its vaults as the result of a
deposit made by order of the court of
chancery in the suit of Smith against
Tompkins half a century ago. Viewed
as a matter of public interest the dis
coveries of Seibert and of the retired
merchant of Erie eclipse the possible
gains of the he.irs of Smith by as much
as the possession of the crown of Great
Britain transcends the distribution of
§ 100,000,000 among the rightful owners.
if Siebert is the man we take him to
be , we can tell -Chancellor of the
Exchequer that he will never get pos
session of the book for 1500. The
opening of negotiations by Siebert is
only a preliminary step on his part to
opening negotiations with the other
side. The "impoverished descendant"
will have a fair chance to bid , and how
ever impoverished he may be , he will
not be without 'friends to advance the
money for him. Meanwhile , the search
should be vigorously prosecuted. Ru
mor has it that a third copy of the vol
ume was secured by the British govern
ment at Louisville , Ky. , some time ago ,
on private terms. Probably a mean
advantage was taken of the seller , as
there was no great stir about the mat
ter until the beginning of the present
wees. We caution all finders of the
volume not to part with it for the pal
try sum of 1500. It is worth a great
deal more money.
An Unexpected Question Popped.
"Miss M , may I ask you a very
important question ? " said a bashful
young man to a young lady to whom he
had been paying attention for some
time , and he spoke in the most uneasy ,
sepulchral voice imaginable.
"Why , " said the young lady , some
what startled at the solemn turn of
affairs , "I don't know "that there would
be any serious objection if you have an
important question to ask. " '
"Well,1' drawing a little closer and
in a more confidential whisper , " do you
think this a propitious time ? "
"There's no one near to hinder that I
see , " was the coquettish answer , as the
young lady glanced about the room. .
. "And do you do you think that
that you could grant the request ? "
"Why , really , Mr. B , how can
you expect me to answer before I know
the question ? "
"Yes true really well I well "
"Well , what ? " with just the slightest
impatience in her voice.
"Well , you see , I had been thinking
for some time that if if there was
really no objection , I would like to ask
you with what what sort of powder
ygu clean your your teeth. 1 had
had noticed how nicely "
But the slamming of a door as the
young lady whiskea out of the room
broke short his sentence , and , after
awaiting her return for fifteen minutes ,
he took his hat and in mild surprise
wandered homeward. The next day
he told his most intimate friend that
Miss M"was "a little off" the night
before , but couldn't think of anything
lie had said or done to offend her.
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The American Limburg.
The Dairy. '
Green county , Wisconsin , is the Amer
ican Limburg and the adopted home of
of the Limburger. In that county there
are forty-eight Limburger cheese fac
tories , using nearly 200,000 pounds of
milk daily , the produce of 7,355 cows ,
and making 21,183 pounds of cheese
each day.Sixty thousand pounds of
milk is also used in twenty Swiss cheese
factories , which make 6,700 pounds of
cheese. There are also seven Ameri
can .cheese factories , using 2,300 cows
ahd'70,000 pounds of milk and making
daily 6,660 pounds of cheese. It is
a hopeful indication for ihe cheese man-
ufactirre that other localities are begin
ning to compete in this fancy cheese
business , for we have no doubt when
the taste for these kinds of cheese is
awakened there will be a very general
and extensive demand for them.
THE FRONT GATE DT OCTOBEB
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This is the front gate. The shivering
moonlight played
Upon its twisted hinges , and the gaunt
Night wind creeps walling through the bara
Where erst the spooning lovers clung am
kissed
With a long three-ply kiss that made the
house-dog howl.
Now all deserted , with a broken catch ,
It trails and scoops a furrow in the path ,
And hoarsely screams unto the screaming
wind.
Alas ! what transient things are human
loves
A little season of short nights and perfumed
airs
And gentle moonlight ; then Euroclydon
Comes howling fronu the seaj romance is
oe'r ,
And to the stuffy parlor we adjourn ,
And mindful of the arras , sit apart
And wistful list the wailing of the gate.
[ Burlington Free Press.
PECK'S BAD BOY AND B3S PA
The "Boys Play "Wild West" Show The
Old Man Lassos a Cow and Gets
Fulled Around.
Sun.
"Well , how is my little angel without
wings , to-day ? " asked the grocery man
of the bad boy , as he came in with red
paint sticking to his ears , and blue
paint around his eyes and nose , which
looked as though a feeble attempt had
been made to wash it off , while a roost
er feather stuck through his hat , and a
bead moccasin was on one foot and a
rubber shoe on the other.
"O , I am all bushoo. Bushoo , that
is Indian. I am on the war-path , and I
am no angel this week. This is my
week off. It beats all , don't it , how
different a fellow feels at different times.
For the last two weeks I have been so
good that it made me fairly ache , and
since that Buffalo Bill show was here ,
with the Indians , and buffaloes , and
cow-boys and steers , I am all broke up.
Wo have had the worst time over to our
house that ever was. You sec , all of us
boys hi the neighborhood wanted to
have a Buffalo Bill show , and pa gave
us permission to use the back yard , and
he said he would come out and help us.
You know that Boston girl that was vis
iting at our house , with the glasses on ?
Wefl , she went home the next day. She
says this climate is too wild for her.
\ You see , we boys all fixed up as In
dians , and we laid for some one
to come out of the house , to scalp ,
the way they doin the show. We
heard a rustle of female garments , and
we all hid , and when the Boston girl
came out to pick some pansier in ma's
flower-bed , we captured her. You
never see a girl so astonished as
she was. We yelled 'yip-yip' and I
took hold of one of her hands and my
chum took hold of the olhcr , and her
bangs raised right up , and her glasses
fell off and she said 'O , you howwid
things. ' We took her to our lair in the
hen house and tied her to a tin rain wa
ter conductor that came down by the
corner of the barn , and then we danced
i a war dance around her ,
and ' ' until she .
yelled 'ki-yi , perspired.
I took my tomahawk and lifted her
hair and hung it on the chicken roost ,
and then I made a" speech to her in In
dian. I said , 'The pale face maiden
from the rising sun is in the hands of
the Apaches , and they yearn for gore.
Her brothers and fathers and uncles ,
the Indian agents , have robbed the
children of the forest of their army
blankets ana canned lobster , and the
red man must be avenged. But we
will not harm the pretty white maiden ,
except to burn her to the stake. What
has she to say ? Will she give the red
men taffy , or will she burn. ' Just
then pa came out with a cistern
pole , and he rescued the white
maiden , and said we must'nt be so
rough. Then the girl said she would
give us all the taffy we wanted , and she
went in and she and ma watched us
from the back window. Pa watched us
rob a coach , and he said it was first
rate The man that collects the ashes
from the alley , with a horse and wagon ,
had just loaded up and got on the wag
on , when two of my Indians took the
horse by the bit , and four of us mounted
the wagon and robbed the driver of a
clay pipe , and a pocket comb , and a
knife , but he saved his ashes by prom
ising never to reveal the names of the
robbers. Pa just laughed , when we
gave the ash man back his knife and
thinsg , and said he hadn't had so much
fun for a long time. Then we were go
ing to lasso a wild Texas steer and ride
it the way they did in the show , ar.d pa
s-iid that was where he came in handy.
He said ho could throw a lasso just like
a cowboy. We got my chum's pa's cow
out of the barn , and drove her up the
alley , and pa stood there with a close
line , with a big noose in the end , and
he headed off the cow and threw the
lasso. Well , you'd dide to see pa sweep
things out of the alley with his" ' pants.
The cow was sorter scared when we
drove her up the alley , cause I
guess she thought it was time
she was milked , and when pa
stepped- out from' behind the
barrel and throwed the rope around her
neck , I guess she thought1 it was all day
With her , for-she 'turned and galloped
and kicked up and bellowed , and pa
did npt know enough to let go of the
rope. ' First pa followed the cow down
the alley sitting down , and about a
bushel of ashes got up his trousers'
legs , and the tomato cans and old oyster
cans flew around like a cyclone was
blowing. Us Injins climbed up on the
fences to get out of the way , and that
scared the cow more , and she snatched
pa along too quick. I yelled to pa to
let go of the rope , and just as the
cow drawed him under a wagon pa let
go , and the cow took the clothes line
homo. Pa got up and shook the ashes
out of his trousers' legs and picked up
a piece of board and started back. You
never saw a tribe of Indians get scared
so quick as we did. As I went in the
hen coop and got. under a barrel I
heard pa say , That busts up'the Buffalo
Bill business. No more wild western
steer lassoing for your uncle Ike. '
Well , no one was to blame but pa. He
thinks ho can do everything , and when
he gets tangled he lays it to me. We
went out on the street with our toma
hawks , when pa went to brush himself ,
and went on to our reservation and dis
banded , and peace reigns again ; and
the Boston girl has gone home with
the idea that wo are all heathens out
west.
"I should think your pa would learn ,
after awhile , that he is too old to fool
around as he did when he was a boy , "
said the grocery man , as he got away
from the boy for fear he would be
scalped.
"That's what I told -him when he
wanted to try my bicycle , " said the
boy , as he broke out laughing. "He
saw me riding tjie bicycle , ana said he
could do it as well as I could , if he
could once get on , but he couldn't
spring up on it quite as spry as he used
to , and he wanted me and my chum to
hold it while he got on. I told him he
would get hurt , but he said there
couldn't no boy tell him anything about
riding , and so we got the bicycle up
against a shade tree , and he put his feet
on the treadles and told us to turn her
loose. Well , honest , I shut my eyes
'cause I didn't want to see pa get tied
up in a knot. But he did. He pushed
with one foot , and the bicycle turned
sideways , then'he ' pushed with the other
foot , and it began to wiggle , and then
he pushed with both feet and pulled on
the handles , and the front wheel struck
an iron fence , and as pa went on top of
the fence the hind wheel seemed to rear
up and kick him , and pa ? hung to the
fence and the bicycle hung to him , and
they both went down on the sidewalk ,
the big wheel on pa's stomach , one han
dle up his trousers' leg , the other handle
down his coat collar , and the other
wheel rolling around , back and forth
over his fingers , and lie yelling to us to
take it off. I never saw two people
ple tangled up the way pa and the
bicycle was , and we haa to take it
apart , and take pa's coat off and roll up
his pants to get him out. And when he
got up and shook himself to see if he
was all there , andlookea at it as though
he didn't know it was loaded , and look
ed at me and then at my chuin in a sort
of a nervous way , and looked around
and scringed as though he expected the
bicycle was going to sneak up behind
him and kick him again , he wanted mete
to go arid get the axe to break the bi
cycle up with , and when I laughed he
was going to take me by the neck and
maul the bicycle , but I reasoned him
out of it. I wasn't to blame for his
trying to gallop over an iron picket
fence with a bicycle , 'cause I told him
he better keep off of it. I think if men
would take advice from boys oftener
they wouldn't be so apt to get their sus
penders caught on an iron picket fence
and have to be picked up jn a basket.
But there is no use of us boys telling a
grown person anything , and by keeping
still and letting them break their bones ,
we save getting kicked. It would do
some men good to be boys all their
lives , then they wouldn't have to imi
tate. Hello , there goes the police patrol
wagon , and I am going to see how it
rides on the back step , " ana the boy
went out and jumped on the hind end
of the wagon , and then picked himself
up out of the mud and felt of his head
where the policeman's club dropped on
it.
A Colored Samson.
Charlotte Journal-Observer.
One of the cases before the mayor yes
terday morning of more than ordinary
interest was that of Rufus Reed , colored ,
who was charged -with an affray with
Sell's little elephant , and the facts
brought out at the trial proved that the
fight between the elephant and the man
was a severe one , and furthermore , that
the man whipped the elephant. Reed ,
who is a tall , muscular colored man ,
had been giving the elephant a few ap
ples , handing it all except one , which
he put in his vest poeket. While his at
tention was turned the elephantreached
out his trunk , and getting hold of Ru
fus' pocket , tried to pull the apple out.
tearing the vest nearly off before the
wearer's attention was turned to the
elephant's prank.
Seizing the elephant's trunk ( "snoot"
Reed called it ) he tried to wrench his
vest and the apple awayfrom it , but the
elephant drew his trunk from Reed's
hands , and swinging it around , gave
Reed a terrible blow on the side of the
head. Reed drew back and felled the
elephant to the ground with a blow ef
his fist , delivered over 'the eye. The
elephant s keeper then attacked Reed ,
and Reed knocked him down. In the
meantime the elehpant had regained its
legs and gave Reed another blow on the
side. Reed was now thoroughly ex
asperated , and actually knocked the
elephant over on its back , and then left
the tent. As the elephant had left the
city and could not appear in court yes
terday , the mayor took Reed's state
ment and let him off lightly , feeling
that the'elephant deserved the floggino- .
Reed is a powerfully built man , andls
something of a giant in proportions.
He is the same who had the fight with
the bear , in which the ) ) ear was killed ,
at Lowell , some month ago. Hiss fight
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with the elephant was 'witnessed by a
number of our citizens.
It is asserted that "powdered zinc , "
the granulated metal , it is presumed ,
can be applied as a paint with oil and a
drier , and protect iron surfaces against
rust. A good mixture is eight zinc ,
seventy-one oil and two drier.
