: vjru, i;:ifi:AtJ:iAt Fill DAY, J tTNE 10. 1883
SIFTING OCEAN. SAND.
BLUE GROTTO OF CAPRI.
IN A GYPSY CAMP.
THE
i
OLD MAN WHO DIG3
EACH FOR GOLO.
TH1
on
not
l.ock of TnMor ftker at Atlantic
J City Tutting the Sahor Sand Through
Sieve, Miovelful bjr Shovelful Tb
Articles Foti nt.
"What in tho name of common tens are
you doing r
Tho long gray haired nnl long whit
bearded olil man thus addresiicd straightened
npaiinucliM lack bent with the weight
. of three score years aid ten would permit.
He rapped tho large coarm sieve in bia lean
and 'sun burn.! hand against one of the
hundred) of pile, that support the bath
Chouse and other structure on tho fine,
smooth l.oaoh. Out fell pieces of clam stalls
flf.'l oyster shell, a riuty nail, and a large
handful of conn gravel, which tho old man
a inonu-nt before had boon turning over care
f ully with hiit fingers and looking at intently
throir;h his silver bowed spe tarles. lie
lookeTl up at his nuentlonvr. rll.l tl, ..:.!
of tolmcco bulging out one of Li checks into
tho other, threw down the sieve on the pile
of slf ted sand, took the shovel leaning against
tho pile, and prepared to thrubt it into the
uoie nair run of water that he hud dug
1110 seaward sid of the pile. Then, and
r mi men, uni tie deign to reply.
( "Siftlu' sand," came from the lips, and the
tobacco juico that trickled gently down on
his old iihiny waistcoat the wind blow
ing upon hid rugged cout exposed to view.
"So I see; but what are you sifting fori"
"Little uv everything," was the laconic and
unenlightening reply.
"Do you find muchf
"Wall, no; not so very much. Tbso ere
piles has been dug to death. Thar ain't a
man in Atlantic City with an hour bangin'
on his bands but what comes down here and
digs round these ere piles. It's a mighty,
lucky feller that finds much of anything
nowadays. I've been diggin' here about all
tho forenoon, and I ha'n't found a durn
thing that's wuth keeping 'ceptin' this ero I
non t know what lis. I never seed
nfore. It looks like some kind
FVhaps you can telL"
Ho drew forth with solemn deliberation a
calfskin pockctbook, block with dirt and use,
ami pulled out a piece of brown paper care
fully folded up. He unwrapped it and held
out in his trembling hand a small, round
" copper colored coin about tho size of a fcilver
throe cent piece, only a little thicker. I took
it in my fingers and, read on one side: "3
pfennigs."
"Oh, that's a small German coin. It isn't
worth much, but it's quite interesting."
I handed it to one of a group of several
ladies that had been attracted to ua Tho
coin passed through the dainty gloved fingers
of each of the ladies. Their enthusiustic cx
rlainutions and endless questions delighted
. tho old man. It made his ryes glitter, the
saliva to run faster and his tongue more
agile.
"Is this what you find by digging here?"
".Not all I find. I told you that we find
everything, and so we do coins, china
dolls, uuils, spectacles, eyeglasses, gold and
silver chains, gold rings and brass rings
end"
one
uv a coin.
Nothing IJke II Clsewher In the World.
An Indeacrlbwbta Scene.
The Inhabitants of Capri say that their
island is built upon grottoes and supported by
natural arches like the structures of men.
This is perhaps an exaggeration, but all
along the rocky shore there are beautiful
grottoes, and in the center oftbo island a do
seeut may be made for hundreds of feet into
the bowels of the earth in the Urotto of the
Stalactite. The sea grottoes we visit l.i
making the "giro," or circuit of the island,
which is an excursion that brings the traveler
into contact with tome of the rarest effect of
natural scenery known. Nowhere in the
world is there aught resembling the famous
Clue grotto of the island of Capri.
The entrance to the Blue grotto, situated in
the rocky cliif which faces the north at the
western extremity of the island, is perLup
three feet in height and not more than five in
width. When the sea is high it cannot be en
tered at alL The marinaro who conducts tho
orty through this 'nurture and there must
be but three In the toat has all that he can
do to effect an entrance without having his
frail craft dashed in pieces. The visitors are
obliged to lie upon their backs in the bottom
of the boat, while the marinaro, taking ad
vantage of the wave as it rises, and holding
on to the rock, guides her by a dexterous
shove into tho cavern. Here for a moment
the eyes are dazzled by a strange light, but
soon they accommodate themselves to it, and
then tho visitor finds himself in a lake of lim
pid water, whose blue is that of the sky, and
wuose sliced is that of molten silver. The ef
fect is indescribable. Objects dipped in the
water, the boat and ours are covered with
this silvery sheen, while the marinaro, who
plunges in for the amusement of visitors,
rises clad in a garment of flashing light. The
whole extent of the grotto is 100 feet by 175,
and the roof of ribbed and groined natural
arches shares the blue effulgence of tho water
beneath.
Besides the Blue grotto of Capri there are
along its coasts a series of others, each of
which seems to take tho bluo waters of the
Mediterranean and convert them into a tint
peculiar to itself. The (Jreeu grotto on tho
south side of tho island, with its waters of the
purest emerald hue, ranks next in beauty to
tho Bluo grotto. It can, however, be entered
without difficulty through a lofty archway,
and tho effect, though grand and beautiful,
is not marvelous. There is the White grotto,
where tho water seems like milk, and the lied
grotto, where the roof is spangled with red
crystals in the limestone rock. There is also
the Grotto of Ferns, and along tho shoro as
well as in tho center of the island are grottoes
where in some places the crystal stalactites
hang like great pointed columns and In
others liko a delicate fringe above tho vis
itor's head. Mary 12. Vaudyne in Harper's
Magazine.
A REPORTER'S ViSIT TO THE "ROM
ANY RYE- OF DETROIT.
Life of a Band of Strolllns Ilorse Trad
ers and Fortune Tellers Tho Quwtn -t
. the Camp Women Who Are Shrewd
Ilora Traders.
The most interesting place in tho Went End
ii the camp of a small band of gypsy horso
traders, in a piece of woods on Lovers lane.
Horses, donkeys, mules, buckbourds, carts
and traveling wagons innumerablo stand
around, the animals hitched to tho various
trees and the vehicles drawn up in a circle
arouud smoky looking tents. Chained to
wheels and under each rig are hungry
canines of different sizes, colors, species and
varieties. The snarls, growls and'yvlps Jet
forth by them upon the approach of a
stranger cannot but remind oue of a small
sized kennel show.
The occupants of tho camp consists of a
smau group or bare footed children, six red
petticoated women and the same number of
men in gray coats, corduroy pants and wido
brimmed hats. With the exception of two old
women, who evidently lost their good looks
at a very early period, tho females of tho
camp are, Indeed, quite prepossessing. They
have a tawny skin, long black hair, largo
black eyes, well shaped mouths, ruddy lips,
teeth of a dazzling whitness, expressive fea
tures and are well projwrtioned.
One elderly women, known as the "queen"
of the camp, was attired in a dress of showy
colors, and adorned with dubious trinkets of
more or less value. The Crown Princess
Minerva was dressed In a flowery patterned
cotton, relieved by a gay colored apron.
rorn her ears hung large hoop earrings, and
her greasy fingers were bedecked with innu
merablo more greasy rings. In her arms sho
held a dark skinned infant, which sho soothed
with a fragment of the ancient gypsy ballad:
There runs a swine down yonder hill,
As fast as o'er he can,
And as he runs, ho crieth still:
"Come steal me, gypsy man."
A sharp west wind seemed to have no im
pression on tho men; nor did the women
guard against it more than by flinging shawls
over their heads, aud so sit on tho ground
around a smoldering camp fire, chattering
and showing their teetlu
MAY DAY SUPERSTITIONS.
strange Heller of Georgia Colored re'o-
! Atlanta trrt feme.
"May day seems to be a day for jieculiar
superstitions," said one of Atlanta's charm
ing young ladies to a reporter. "Last May
uay i was passing along Spring street when
I noticed a crowd of negroes standing arouud
an old well. As some of them were rushing
arounu uio yura in an excited maimer, and
ono woman hud her apron up to her face,
crying, mid a mun was holding a looking
glass so as to throw the light into tho well, I
iiaiuruny supjosed that some of the ituuicr
ous pickaninnies had fcUlPii in. Upon investi
gation 1 found that they were only hnving a
nine innoiviii run, though they seemed to he
enjoying it in a very grim sort of way.
They were using tho glass with the firm bo
lief that tho imago they saw reflected would
ie a likeness of their future wife or husband,
as the case might bo.
"All seemed to lelieve implicitly that
something strange and stijK-rimtui ul was go
ing to take place, mid they worked them
selves up to a very high state of excitement.
Presently an old woman, a regular old crone,
exclaimed: 'Look! look! I 'clar fo do Lord
I 6ee a 'oman laid out and two men kuceliu"
ou each side of do coihn, and hit looks like
my Maudy what died last spring.' Tho
negroes all seemed uweslruck and proceeded
to go into hysterics. A mulatto girl nest
took tho glass ai-d after patient waiting on
her part and anxious silence from the others
she declared sho saw tun lxt. loot-;..- fli.i
gemin she ever sot her eyes on, an' he had on
a white vest and a blue neckti. .Sho was so
entranced that she did not want to give up
the glass to the many who now grabbed
ior ic
ell, a big, burly man got it. Presently
a Droua grin illuminated the surrounding
.1 I . .
uiuitucss oi ins swanny countenance, aud
with a loud guffaw he declared that ho saw
'stripes broad, black aud white stripes and
them's for that nigger Tom, there, what
stoio Uem chickens last night' But when
they all exclaimed with ono voice that w hut-
tic u oreu umi, u us meaiii ior tho one
holding the glass, ho turned ns pale as he
knew now, aropjxHl the glass and hurriedly
leis me turong who had so adroitly turned
the joko on him." Atlanta Constitution.
DON'T RiilAD THIS
Unl
ess
you want to know where to get the Ict
"Ciibh"
J'urgai
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BOOTS ABTB SSSOEi
are now oilering Sjtoial
Pri
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And tho ino.-it wo pride oursclvet) on i our excellent lino of
Ladies' Hand-Turned Shoes
At their Present Low Prices.
Ladies looking
for
Mich a
Shoe should not fail to call on
W- A.
EGIK lb C,
At this point the old man, who had taken
his shovel in hand again wid had set it deep
in tho hole, was stopped in his sentence by
tho great exertion required to lift up the
shovel, held down by the suction of the
water and its burden of sand, lie did not
rcctumohis sentence. He turned his whole
attention and strength to the work before
him. He finally got the shovel out of the
water and emptied its contents into the sieve.
Kojxjtitions of the operation soon filled the
Bievc, which he lifted np and began to shake
j ith what strength a lojig life of hard work
and disappointment had left him. The fine
eand fell out and left refuse such as I had be
fore noticed. Placing one side of the sieve
on tho little pile of sand, he ran bis fingers
tlirough it carefully, picking up between his
thumb and forefinger any particle that prom
ised to be something of value and bringing it
closer to his eyes, to make sure that he was
not throwing away anything that he should
keep. Just as a was about to give up the
search and empty the sievo, his fingers
snatched quickly at a glittering piece of gold
that lay half buried among the Laser mate
rials. "And watch charms," exclaimed the old
man with glee, holding up a round piece of
jewelry, in the center of which was a small
comjiass.
"Well, that isn't so bad," he ad Jed, stoop
ing over to wash the sand off Hi the water.
"That oughi to be worth $3, and it isn't every
old codger like filri as can make $3 in two
hours. If this were IU3T7 jt would bring $5
or f 0, but seeiu' it's been woru and lct, I
don't exjwet to get as much for it a'Sl .would
if it had como out of the jewelry store bi alT
new." -
"You're not having such bad luck, after
all."
so, not tociay. iuc I tell you, young
mnu, since this business was taken up by
everybody that could handle a shoveL it
ain't what it used to be," he said, with a sigh.
' U hen I first cum here and begun digging
I had great luck. I didn't JjaV ter do much
cf anything else to get a IiTjn'. I've found
a good manv pieces of money, silver aud
gold," ho continued, taking off his old slouch
Lat, which let the wind blow his white locks
over his wrinkled forehead. He turned up
. tho leather band and drew out a piece of
preasy brown paper. He unfolded it as
though it wero of priceless value, and laying
it out in tho palm cf his hand placed the
watch charm in it, and folding it as neatly
as his palsied lingers would permit, be drew
forth his calfskin pocketbook and put bis
' latest find in with the two pfenning piece.
The departure of tho good old time seemed
to have made the old digger doubly careful of
bis treasures, and he guarded them against
loss with a vigilance that increased with
their insignificance.
K "I've found more gold and silver dollars
than any other coin; some of them have
been pocket pieces, I suppose. But I've
found a good many old eagles and half
eilea. Once I found a leather strap filled
with ibpamsii gold coins. I think it must
have belonged to some Spanish sailor, or
somebody elJO who had been shipwrecked.
You know we have shipwrecks off tho coast
here sometimes. The sand bars hereabouts
are dangerous in bad weather, and you can't
alters st tee lighthouse over tlxar," be said,
pointing to the Absecom light not far away.
'l"ve never licard of th wreck of any Span
ish vessel, but I suppose there must have
been one, or else this belt full of coins would
never come ashore here. It had been iq the
water for some time, for the leatbssMwis rotten
and would harcSy hang together. There were
a good many of them; 1 took Vm over to
rhel'delphy and sold em. How much did I
gitfur'emf Five hundred dollars. That's a
good deal of iZtoncy, and I ort to have bought
lire of them ere lots here. I cou!d have
bought two of them then for the 500. To
day they'd be worth $4, (XXI Cut I didn't
buy thum, and I ha'n't got the money now.
It's ell gone, and me and ty old woman
tLa'n't get but mighty littlo to ht-ep us outeu
ibo pour boo. Atlantic City Cor. .N'aw
York Sun.
rrlcesTaltrfor Magazine Work.
Speaking a few evenings ago with tho ed
itor of one of tho great New York magazines,
I chanced to ask him as to the present rates
paid to authors for their work. His answer
was not uninteresting.
"The present average rata for magazine
work is $10 per thousand words. This is now
paid to a large number of what is termed
average writers that is, writers whose repu
tations have yet to be made. Of course, this
price does not apply to known and tried
writers. Where articles are solicited they
always command higher prices. Work of
ramous writers commands different prices;
some come very high. For example, wo havo
paid as high as $1,000 for a single poem.
How long was itf Five pages of our maga
zine. For a single story as high as (000 has
been paid, although usually $100 Is a good
price for a good short story. Those which
mw tuiuiunou e.sjxx;iaiiy meritorious com
mand as high as $20.
"But rates fluctuate, and I am frank to
confess that a great deal depends upon repu
tation. This must, of necessity, be so, for
tho public will read a story or poem very
often because of the name attached to it,
where the same story might go unread in
many cases if an unknown name is signed to
it. From my experience, women write the
best short stories. They are better equipped
to meet the demands of the age. Mosi
stories sent to the magazines by men em
body some attempt at a plot. Kow, almost
every conceivable plot has been invented,
and it is almost a miracle when anything
strikingly original comes to us. Women, on
the other hand, are more apt to employ situ
ations which admit of a portrayal of subtle
shades of feeling. Theso are the successful
story writers of tho present day." Willianj
J. Bok in 2s'ew York UrapLjo, '
nOW THE TI1IE IS SPENT.
Since tho arrival of the band the men have
been engaged trading horses, tho women tell
ing fortunes to tho people who flock to the
camp from all parts of the city an.l even
from tho surrounding townships, aud the
chUdreu vainly endeavoring to dispose of the
dogs, fight or wrestle, sing, danco or whistle
for a consideration.
Three young chaps had their futures re
vealed tho other afternoon during the visit
of a reporter. They presented quite an im
posing picture, each faultlessly attired, seated
on a stump with outstretched palm. Upon
the conclusion, ono of the chars
at what had been disclosed to lum that he
gave a young gypsy half a dollar to turn a
handspring. Two more offered to fight each
other for a quarter, but the dodo's finances
were exhausted.
1 he women aro as well up in horse matters
as their husbands, and occasionaUy make a
deal which could not be eclipsed even by tho
sterner sex. During the progress of a dicker
one of them approached an animal a brick
manufacturer was anxious to dispose of, whip
in hand. After scrutinizing it closely and
punching it in the ribs, she suddenly grubbed
it by tho throat, shutting off its wind. The
animal backed away. The woman adva v.i
aud under tho influence of a few smart cracks
oim&iiig wnip, it soon began to
sneeze and cough as if it had the quick con
sumption. The brick manufacturer scowled
but the woman laughed and said: "Old man
your horse has got the jimjams; we don't
want him." Pointing to ono of her animals
tied to a tree, sho resumed rapidly: "There is
a fine, rangy, big, toppy mare, just in off the
grass, neither lame nor lazy, fine mane and
uiu, a mgn noouer and a good looker, hook
on either side of the pole and a fin fvw
See n as it s you and I'm a leetlo hard up for land as in any
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Servants lu German Families.
Tn . St. . I 1 ,w
iiiu.ujr ib iiuh.es no timerence to a
nobleman whether you own a shop or are
merely empio3'eu m one. In both cases ou
work, and that is sullicient. The effect of
this is that tho German shopkeeper and
man of middle class does not keep his
clerks and servants at half the distance
that his American confrere does. An Ameri
can shopkeeper lives in a fine houso and walks
about hi3 "emporium of fashion" as haugh
tily as a czar. If his wife or daughter honor
me place at an it is when they want a new
dress or a check from papa. In Franco or
Germany the same class of shopkeeper lives
in mo room over ins shop, and m all proba
bility has his wife keep his books and his
daughter wait at the counter. At night,
when tho houso is put to rights, tho house-
mam win come into the family sitting room,
ana wnue Knitting listen to her employer
read his papers or chat with the family. She
is not Kept in a back room in the attic nor
thrown entirely on her own resources for
amusement.
Hence tho Germans and French do not ex
perience that difficulty in securing capable
domestic help which most American house
wives too often encounter. They bring their
customs, more or less, to this country; aud
in American cities tlie lirst to get good house
servants and tho last to loso them are not
American but derman and French families.
Time was, in New England at any rate
when house girls were not called servants
and wero not treated as machines out of
which was to be gotten all tho work riossible.
They used to say "help" in New England!
and when the "help" had finished hr duties
sho not seldom rolled down her sleeves am'
took her seat at the tabla along with the fam
ily. That custom is no longer in vogue, ex
cept perhaps now and then in the country,
or in very smull towns, and as a result it is
now as hard to set houso heln in Now
other part of tho countrv.-
gton Post.
The Plattsmo uth Herald
Is
enjoying a -Boom in both, its
AND WESKLY
EDITIONS.
The
1888
Women as Rome Decorators.
The amateur's work in decoration has
chiefly found its way to store windows where
it seems to plead for purchasers, while it
shunned criticism. China painting, figures
on silk and satin, and useless articles of
finery, for e Jou time were the limit of the
resources of women who. cpuld paint and
desired to turn their skill to value. Jt was a
poor field because overcrowded. ' A new out
let has beep opened to them; namely, home
decoration, and I hope it may prove sufficient
ly iride in range to drive the crude, immature
paintings and decorations placed in the art
stores aud shops in the chance hope of sale.
. r . . , f .
Jiany wno iiave eiegant noines nave found
the advantage of soma decoration which will
last longer than the paper hangers' ai t, and
are haviug heir houses brightened with
pretty or quaint wotk. Panels, walls and
ceilings are being painted, and the nuat work
for wliieh women are noted is chiefly desired.
I know of feovarsl houses in which the marble
stationery washstanas decorated with
flowers aud plants, so that when Ci.'eu with
water the daprs seem to be reaL Others of
the new houses have the panejs of the doors
covered with pret ry designs, and I know a
young lady who has received an order fo
decorasa a screen. The demand for such
work is growing, and I think it will i&crejisp.
Artist in ulobe-Demotrat.
A Plea for the Musquito.
Mr. II. Sullivan Thomas, who has been
lecturing on the musquito before the Liter
ary society of Madras, India, is ungallant
enougu to say that t s only the female mus
qaito that does the biting. popsiders the
musquito a most usef ul pest, seven-eighths of
its existence being devoted to $he service of
man and only one-eighth to his annoyance.
It exists in the larval state twenty-one days.
and during that period enjracres in sanitarr
work with ardor and thoroughness. Wher
ever iLaro is dirty water, wherever there is a
filthy drain, there tha musquito larva? are to
be found, voraciously devouring thfl contami
nating matter.
And in clarifying the water of India.
which needs the process so badly, the mus
quito is performing a public benefaction and
atoning to some extent for the bloodthirsty
appetite he develops during the three days
ue eisis ia iue more iamkmr form. Mr.
Thomas tells us be never yet found a case
where a bite was inflicted by any other than a
female musquito, and though be suggested aa
a possible explanation that the male had
quicker ears and might be more on his guard
against being caucht. this was obvionslv
rarlier a concession to the feeing of the femi
nize portion of his audience than the expres
sion of scientific conviction. Scientific
American.. i
A Floorwalker's Exociuova Tvntft-
"It is very rare that mistakes are mado in
arresting women for shoplifting who are not
nctually guilty of it; it is altogether too
dangerous. The most notable case of this
kind which I remember occurred in Brooklyn
somo years ago. Tho wife of a Kings county
official bought a quantity of goods in tho
store of ono of the Brooklyn dry goods firms.
An over officious floorwalker thought she had
taken something that sho had not paid for
and bo directed her to go to the office. She
indignantly refused, whereupon the man
secured assistance and carried her there,
where she was searched by threo female at
tendants, but nothing was found on her for
which she had not a receipted memorandum.
Then she was told she could go. but Dositivelv
refused and said:
" 'I desire to have my husband sent for,
and ie will inquire more particularly into
his outrage,'
"She wrote a note and directed it to hnr
husbap4 ju hig official capacity. A piembcr
of the firm, who appreciated the gravity of
tho mistake, begged hard that the lady would
say no more about the matter, saying that he
would indemnify her for the outrage which
he acknowledged had been perpetrated, but
she was obdurate and refuser.
"When the husban'd arrived thq overtures
for settlement' were' renewed and again re
fused. The floorwalker, the men who assisted
him and the women whq made rho search
were arrested for assault The matter was
gjven the widest publicity in the newspapers,
amj fhe result pf it alj was that so strong was
the feeling against ftp firm because of it that
it had o retire from business. This was a
salutary warning which dry goods men have
liOt forgotten." New York Press.
The Tailor's Swindling Scheme.
4- yonng pnan who read, haw certain board
ing house mistresses are said tq practice a
system of bunco on ypung men by showing
them finely furnished rooms and after the
ppntract is niade replacing he gorgecusness
with battered household goods, says that cer
tain obscure tailors in the crowded districts
practice a sort of bunco deceit on transient
customers. The swindle is ia trousers order
ed and which must be paid for before the
customer can have them. Certain particular
young men like to try on ordered garments
before taking them. When these particular
ones start for the dressing room in the
tailor's shop the wife or some woman ac
quaintance suddenly believes it to be her
boundeu duty to rush into tho room,, plank
herself down in a chair, and sew.
The ease with which a man can be swindled
is perfectly manifest on these occasions. A
well bred customer is too modest to suggest
the woman's retirement, the tailor doesn't
vouchsafe the slightest assistance, and the
trousers are wrapped up and at home are
found to be of execrable quality, a poor fit,
and every way a swindle. But that tailor
has his money, and what's to be doner In the
majority of cases the value of the trousers
isn t worth fighting over. New York Sua.
A Queer Savings Hank.
i uere is a certain young student ct tho
lioston School of Technology whose method
of regulating his personal expenditures is sc
strikingly original as to bo worthy of de
scription. Like mauy another youth of salad
age, he findj it impossible to refrain fron
squandering his money. It simply burns a
hole in his pocket No matter bow much he
is supplied with, it is all expended infrivol
ousness as soon as he trets it. This weak .,
of his has given much pain to tho youn
gentleman's relatives, and to himself hi
been a source of no little embarrassment.
So, to get over the difficulty, ho has hie upon
the following plan:
Upon receiving the check for a fortnight's
allowance, intended to cover his livin ex
penses, he first liquidates any indebtedness
that may be outstanding to his lodging house
keeper and. washerwoman and converts tho
whole of the balance into 50 cent silver
pieces. Then going to his room and closing
the door, be takes the coins by handfuls and
scatters them broadcast about the floor. A
few of those which remain in plain sight ho
puts into his pockets. When they are spent
he picks up a few more, and so on, as neces
sity requires. After a week or so has passed
he is compelled to hunt about pretty sharply
for the cash, and the last days of tho forf
uight find, him grubbing under the wash
stand and the bureau, poking henoath the
bed and squinting down the rgister in tha
hope of discovering a stray half dollar that
has eluded previous search. Bn, though
occasionally impoverished., hois seldom re
dueed to absolute pennilessness. The landlady i
looks out for bis money, lest a dishonest
charnbej-maid absorb the current two weeks'
allowance, and thus his pecuniary affairs ad
minister themselves on a thoroughly sys
tematic basts. Chicago Tribune.
Will be one during which the subjects of
national interest and importance will be
strongly agitated and the election of a
President will take place. Ihe people of
Cass County who would like to learn of
Political, Commercial
and Social Transactions
of this year and would keep apace
the times should
with
fok kitiiki: Tin;
Daily or Weekly Herald.
Now while we have the subject before the
people we will venture to speak ot our
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A Profession for Vouns Men.
The profession of veterinary surgeon is an
excellent one for young men. It is a proles
sion that is not overcrowded, and the young
man who has tha nsnpssnrv r-nrvil.nit-; nn7
the requisite amount of push needed in any
vocation will almost always find plenty to
da Our government is, however, slower
than it should be in recognizing the value of
this class of professional men. In the regu
lar army veterinary surgeons aro classcdas
farriers and taken in the ranks as eniisted
men. Their pay is from $75 to $100 a month?
In private practice the rates of the veteri
nary surgeon are. the same as those of tho.
medical practitioner. The need of skillful
men who know how to treat intelligently th
disease of animals is shown by a few statis
tics giving the number and value of some of
the domestic animals in the United States
These statistics were taken four years ago.
There were then in the United States lO.StiS,
111 horses, valued at 75d,041,30!j; !,ST1,079
mules, valued at $l-tS,732,:0; 13,125,065
milch cows, valued at $uyu,55,403, and
23,040,077 oxen and other cattle, valued at
$oll,54y,lG'J. From 1ST8 to 1SS2 the esti
mated loss from pleuro-pneumonia alone was
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