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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1881.
Estcrci at the P:rt:2:e, C:lh:. Kct., ss joccsd
dit: sitter.
Of 'It KIND OF A MAN.
Bio kind or a man Tor you ami mol
Sic faces Uic .rorld iiiillinchinKly,
And smite, ais qk ! the wronjr resists.
With a knuckled faith and force like UsU:
Hi lives the life he i iircahin f.
And loves where imt is the need of love;
His voice is clear to tho deaf man's oars.
And his face sublime through tho blind man's
tears;
The lijjht hhinee out where the clouds wc
dim.
And the w idow's prayer joe3 up for him;
The latch clicked at the hovel door.
And the .-ick man sees the sun mice more.
And out on the barren Held he sees
ftoriujrinu: l)lo-oms and wuviiu? trees,
FeelttiK. a.s wily the dyinjr may,
Tliat 1!m1V own Servant ha-, como that way.
Smoothing the path as it still winds on
Through tucKOldeiifcrJti' where his loved Imvo
gone
II.
The kind of a man for me and you;
However little ol worth we do
He credit h lull, and abides in trust
That time will teach us how more is Just.
He walks abroad, and lie meets all kinds
Ot querulous and unear-y minds.
Ann. sympathizing, he shares the pain
Of the doubts that nick us, heart and brain.;
And, knowing this, as we grasp his hand,
We are surely coming to understand!
He looks tin U with pitying eyes
K'en as the Iord, since l'aradlse
KLie, fhould wc read, though our Sins should
glow
ASPcarlet, they shall lie its white as snow?
And leeling still, with a grief hair clad.
That the bad are as goxl as the food arc bad.
He strikes straight out for the Kight and ho
Is the kind of a man for you and mo.
James W'hUcomtt Ililcy.
TREED BY A BEAK.
One day when we were up at the
cabin in Arusta Gulch, Jimmy O'Brien
.stopped a few moments with us, on Ids
way to Klk Park, whither he was going
to work out an assessment on a mine
belonging to him. lie was on foot,
driving la-fore him his favorite burro
(Mexican jackass) Mike, laden with
tents, blankets, '-grub," cooking outfit,
pick, shovel, aud other impedimenta.
Jimmy and Mike were well known in
that country, for they were inseparable.
It would have been hard to tell which
thought the most of the other. Mike
would follow Jimmy about like a dog,
while Jimmy neer passed his four
footed friendwilhoui stopping to scratch
his rough head, and give him a bit of
old biscuit or some such dainty. In the
golden days of Ml) he had deserted from
an American man-of-war at San Fran
cisco, and had passed the last thirty
years of his life in gold digging in Cal
ifornia, bear hunting with old "Grizzly"
Adams in the Sierras, silver mining in
Nevada, and in leading a wild and ad
venturous life generally from the Colum
bia to the Gila, and from the Golden
Gate to the headwaters of the Missis
sippi. Not knowing what fear was, he
had sense enough to know when "dis
cretion was the better part of valor."
Ho was now alxuit sixty, tough and
weather-beaten, but still strong and
active, one of the jollicst companions
possible to find, and one who. to uso the
expressive We-tern phrcise, "would do
to tie to" in times of trouble or danger.
He stayed with us that day only long
enough to "corral a hunk of grub," and
then pushed on over the dividing ridgo
into Klk l'ark.
Next day. after having wasted the
better part of the morning in a vain at
tempt to find a band of mountain sheep,
which "used" on the peaks at the head
of the gulch. I found myself, about
noon, looking down on Jimmy's tent in
the Park below. As it was but little
out of a direct line homeward, I decided
that I might as well drop in on the old
man and get a cold biscuit to .stay my
hunger till I reached the cabin. 1 took
it for granted he would beat work in the
tunnel, .some live hundred yards up the
mountain side. but. much to my sur
prise, when I pulled aside the tent-llap
Isaw him inside, rolled up in his blanket,
fast asleep. Fearinjr he mirht bo sick
for a nap in daylight was a rare occur
rence with him I shook him, and
asked him if anything w:i. the matter.
The lirst reply was a grunt, the next a
growl, then a request "not to bother,"
till finally, when I had -shaken him fully
awake (tor I had begun to be seriously
afraid that his uuvvoutcd somnolency
was the stupor of severe illness) I drew
out of him the fact that he was well
enough, but "mizherableshlapy." Why
he should be so sleepy in the middle of
the day puzzled me, till he intimated
that he'd been up all the night before.
The explanation surprised me as much
as the fact. and. suspecting from his
curt sjieeeh and evasive replies some
mystery, 1 plied him with ijucstion.s, till,
finally, silting up and tilling his pipe,
he satisfied my e.irio-ity.
lie had arrived there safely the even
ing before, selected his camp ground,
pitched his tent, and turned Mike out fo
graze. Then, hearing some spruce
grouse calling, he had startd out to
secure a few tor supper and breakfast.
Leaving his rifle behind, as he did not
expect to see any large game, he took
only his long-barrelled :S-calibcr re
volver, with which he could pick oil" a
grouse's head in the top of the tallest
spruce. Having shot four or live, he
started for camp, it having, by this time,
become quite dusk, for darkness comes,
liei-L in the-e hills, almost as suddenly
as in the tropics. On turning the cor
ner of some fallen rocks, at the lower
end of the little glade in whose upper
point his tent was pitched, he canre sud
denly upon a huge gri.zly. busy, as well
as he could see in the gathering dark
ness, in digging up wild parsnip roots
for Ins supper Before he had time to
dodge back under cover of the rocks,
the bear had seen and started for him.
1 will let him tell the rest of the story
in his own words.
Mighty little time had 1 to be thinkin',
for it wan't twinty yarruds he wor frum
me whin I first see him. but I knew
'twau no use thniu to run. an' as fcr
fighrin', me thirty-eight wadn't be a
Hay-bite to the likes av him. As luefc
wad have it. right forninst me was a
majium-sized shpruee, an oop that I
wint like a wavzel, hopin' that av I
didn't shtop to discuss the matter will
Mm, he'd afther re-co-nizing me civil
ity, an' pass on. an lave me. Not he!
Oop he cooms to the fut of the three,
shuuils around it. roobs the dirthy head
av Mm agin it. Inks up at iucsilf,
perched jist bey:.nt his niche, goes off.
cooms back, goes through the same
manavvens. an' afther a while, liudiu'
he didn't dcludher me into any kind of
a disheushm' wid Mm. falls to fayden'
agin. "I'was so darruk lend only jist sec
the big black carcass av Mm. waudherin
around like a navgtir's shpook in a cim
mytairy. but t wasn't niesilf that wor
-cravin' anny nayrcrinshpection avMm,
1 wor aizy enough wher I wor for the
prisint. barrin that a six-inch limb ain't
quite, so comfortable a sate as a pile of
plankcts, and that "twud have bin more
gratify-in' like to me shtunimuck. av I'd
had acould pratie or two alang will me.
-Howiver,' thinks I to mesilf. -whin he's
through atiif, he'll go aft" quiet an'
dacint like, an the ould mau'll git back
to camp in time to git a good shquare
male for himsilf yet." But, blast the
oolv hide av Mm," phwat docs he do,
whun he'd got hiz own dirthy shtuni
muck full, but coom back to the three,
walk round it wanst or twicct, and thin
lie down about tin yarruds from the fut
av it.
-Ah ha!' says I, -'tis that ye're up
to. is it? Goin' to shtarve me out, are
ye? Will, will, av I kape whisht, may
be yel be taking a giuthale afther-din-ner
nap afther a while, an' thin I'll de
ludhcr yc, an' slip down off the three
onbeknownst to ye, an' av I git back to
camp an' can git hold of old Betsey, I'll
be afther poompin' the could lead into
the onrrateful carcass of ye till yez are
at ded as Paddv Burns' pic and then-
yaz'li have rajson to regrit that ye caused
himself. shqusttm' oop a three in this
style, like a hay then monkey on a limb.'
So afther a bit whin I thought the line
shuppcr he'd been atin' had put him to!
schlapc, 1 begins to lit mesilt uown
aizy, but aforcYd shlipped down a fut,
oop gits the murthern blaggard, an'
stharts towards me. 'Twas wonderful
how quick I changed me mind, an' con
cluded it wasn't so very' uncomfortable in
the three Hither all. 'Twas only playin'
'possum he waz, or may be I'd been too
precipitous like, so whin lie lay down
agin, I made up me (mind I'd giyo
Mm plenty of time this time, afore I
thryed Mm agin. So I waited an' wait
ed.'till inv whole back was that sore wid
the limbs'a cuttin into it. that I cudu't
shtand it no longer, so I repayted tho
the exshperiment. but 'twas not the lasto
use in the worruld, he was at the fut av
the three agin, afore I shlid down a
yarmd. So I makes up me mind to -ac-cipt
the inevitayble,' as 1 hear ye say
wanst, an' so I rcshoomed me original
position, trustin' that, when daylight
came, and he saw how lane and tough I
waz, he'd abandon the sayge an' layvo
me in payee. So there 1 sits asthradle
av that limb all that blissid night, till
the ligs av me was so cramped they had
no faylins lift, an' tho teeth av me was
broke, be raison av me jaws chatterin'
bo wid tho could, an' 1 was that stiff
Avid the frosht I was afraid I'd
shnap in two like an ishickle, an' I was
gittin' so hungry I could almost ate mo
loots; an' was thinkin' sayriously of
takin' an early breakfast on could
grouse. Will, " when I was almosht
ready to dhrop aff me perch wid
fatigue, an' hunger an' could, it bejran
to lighten
nine
. . i
in the ayste, an'
pretty soon 'twas light enough for mo
to see the forrum of my cogler jailer,
plainly, lyin' close to tho foot av the
three.'' "Hero he paused, re-lit his pipe,
which had gone out in the heat of his
narration, and p"uffcd away quietly with
the air of one who has just finished a
good story.
"Well.how did you get away?"
"On me ligs, av course."
"Did the bear leave you when day
came?"
"Not a bit av it."
"You don't mean to say you came
down the tree and walked off. while the
bear stood and looked at you?"
"Av coorse not."
"You certainly didn't kill him?"
"Wid a thirty-eight? Har-r-dly!"
"Well, how did you do it?"
"Will yez shware that yez'll niver
till, av I disclose to you the saocct av
me escape?"
"What, secret can there be about it?"
"Niver you moind; not another wor
rud do yez git from Jimmy O'Brien till
ye promise yez'll niver ay a worrmt to
the bovs consarnin the houl thraiisac
tion."" "Well, well, all right; drive on."
"Will, thin, 'twas no bear at all, at
all. but that naygur of a burro, Mickey."
Forest i7ul Stream.
A Beautiful Sinner.
Nearly on the western limits of Balti
more is "the first house instituted by the
Sisters of the Good Shepherd in the
United Slates, writes a Baltimore cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Press.
The purpose of tho order is the rescue
and preservation of fallen women, and of
the homeless and destitute female chil
dren who are exposed to temptations. Tho
Baltimore House of the Good Shepherd
was originally the MacTavish mansion,
the home of a family that derived its
blood from the Carrolls, the Calverts
and tint Catons, ami during its entire
existence it has been noted for its devo
tion to the Catholic Church.
Mrs. Emily MacTavish, who donated
the house and grounds to the Sisters of
the Good Shepherd died some twelve
years ago. Her grandmother was the
daughter of Lady Georgian:!, Duchess
of Leeds, one of Ue three famous Balti-
uious beauties of the Caton family who
married in Kngland, and were so closely
related by wedhckto the Duke of Wel
lington and the Marquis of Wcllesley.
The old mansion is still a part of the
modern institution, and its broad front,
wide porch and angled wings look out
upon the garden planted in the last cen
tury by the dead and gone beauties of
the MacTavish family.
It was recently that I had occasion to
visit the House of tho Good Shepherd
and became possessed of the reasons
why the devout Catholics of the Mac
Tavish family have surrendered to the
Church so much of their money and
lands. Miss Kinily MacTavish. a woman
of great beauty and a leader of the
highest social circles of Maryland,
had just then taken the black veil in the
Convent of the Visitation, and hail pro
fesssd her wish to become one of tho
Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Her
abandonment of the worl l of society
had created a sensation that was the
most immediate aud prominent topic of
conversation aud even of newspaper
discussion.
She had bequeathed the larger por
tion of her money to the Church, and
those who saw the ceremony of her en
trance into tho nunnery will never for
get the solemnity. When she came to
the front of the altar, clad in her white
satin robes, there were many regrets
expressed that sho was thenceforth to
bo dead to the world. But, if thero is
solid truth in tho idea of vicarious sacri
fice, sho was an offering and an atone
ment for tho sins of one of her ances
tors. Passing through the hallway of the
House of the Good Shepherd 1 entered
the audience or reception room, just
beyond which the Sisters were moving
about in their white flannel garments. On
the wall of this rtom is an oil painting
a life-size picture of a lovely woman
in the bloom of youth. Her abundant
black hair is combed and puffed at the
sides in consonance with tho style of
fortv years ago.
"Who," I asked Rev. Father John
Foley, President of the Institution, "is
that "woman?"
The picture is that of Margaret
MacTavish, and Margaret Mac
Tavisii became the famous Mrs.
Howard, the mistress of tho Em
peror Napoleon III., and the only
woman of whom the Empress Eugenie
was ever jealous. Margaret MacTavish
went with some members of her family
to Eugland about the year 1850 and
married there a Captain Howard, an
officer in the English army and a con
nection of tho Howards of Norfolk.
She was in Paris at the time of the
coup d'etat, and engaged the attention
of Napoleon. It is not known where or
when site died, and perhaps tho solo
relic of her splendid and guilty life is
the picture upon the wall of the House
of the Good Shepherd in Baltimore.
"And now," a Catholic priest asked
me, "can you wonder that the MacTav
ish family arc still doing penance for
the guilt of Margaret?" In their view
her sm was all the greater because it
was so nearly associated with an im
perial throne. Napoleon undoubtedly
loved the woman, and her affection for
him is not subject to questioning. Tho
family have given thousands upon
thousands of dollars to Catholic benevo
lent purposes, but their interest still
centers upon this refuge for tho
wretched and fallen, and which might
be given their name if the rules of the
Church pcrmittnl it Baltimore Cor.
Philadelphia Press.
Several years ago George Erland
bought a farm near Astoria, N. Y., from
John Andraise, a wealthy German. Ono
day recently, when Mr. Erland went to
the barn, he found the old man hanging
from a cross-beam. He and his wifo
.have never lived happily together sinco
he sold out, and, as he stated in a note,
he "just came back to the old place to
die;" Troy Time.
HOME AND FARM.
Orchard grass sometimes runs to
clumps, because toj little seed has bees
used.
An inventive woman advises when
you dnvo a nail into a clothes-press oi
closet to hang clothes upon, to drite it
through an empty spool up to the lead,
t-elect a spool with a hole large enough
so that the nail will not split it. Al
bany Journal.
In the Western New York Agricul
tural Society it was recently stated that
tho phmtingof new vineyards was never
so generally' undertaken as at the pres
ent time. People are learning iiow to
use grapes, and finding out, too, how
licalth-promotingi!i their frco use.
Poultry should not be allowed to
run on the same plots of ground year
a.teryear. without pi opt-r "precautious
for renewing, refreshing or disinfecting.
It is a mistake to neglect these things,
and to allow the accumulation of drop
pings for weeks aud mouths without re
moval. Poultry-keeping without pains
taking is profitless. N. 1'. 'Jitucs.
Salsify is a haruy winter plant, and
is cultivated like carrots and parsnips.
V hen you have secured a crop you will
have a good substitute for oysters.
Chop finely, and put in soup, or slico
iuto small pieces, mix with batter and
fry. There are several ways of cook
ing, but this vegetoblc may be cooked
in any manner d rected for oyaters.
White nut cake: Whites of twelve
eggs beaten to a froth, one cup of but
ter, two cups -ugar, three and one half
cups flour, tcispoonful yeast powder.
After the butter is well mixed add .ne
largo cocoanut, grated; one large tum
bler full of the Kernels of pecans and
one tumbler full of blanched almomls,
the almonds to be slightly niashed in
a mortar. Exchange.
A delicious pudding is made by ad
ding grated cocoanut to the common
corn-starch blanc-manc, The cocoa
nut shculd be fresh. Stir it into tho
pudding only two or three minutes bo
lorn taking that from tin lire. Put it
info a mould which has been d'ppcd In
t cold water. 1 o not use an egg in
this pudding, but make a boiled cus
tard for a sauce. Pour it over the pud
ding, or serv in a fancy bowl, letting
each one "hcp himself" to it- N. 1.
Post.
Vinegar is better than ice for keep
ing lish over night Housekeepers w ho
are obliged to be economical should
have their lish sent home toward night,
and then, by putting a little vinegar
ou the lish, keep it perfectly well evi-n
in very hot weather! Fish "is really im
proved in flavor under this treatment.
Fish which has been kept in
ice during the night, and been
exposed on the shop board during the
day, being frequently watered to 'make
it "look lass stale, undergoes changes
which destroy b;h ilavor and nourish
ment. The household.
Pastures.
That portion of tho farm devoted to
pasturage is no less important than the
cultivated fields, yet it is often totally
neglected from one year's end to an
other, excepting the work of keeping
the fences in repair. Where smooth,
well sodded ground is used for pasture,
no great amount of work is needed to
keep it up hi goodshapo; but such land
seldom gets into pasture, especially in
timber countries. On most farms there
U a rough piece that has n -vcr been
thorougldy cleared, and that is tho
piece that" is fixed upon for a pasture;
and it is a very good plan to pasture
such land, for there is nothing that will
tubdiic the toughness and put it 'n
(shape to plow as well as close pastur
ing. But our whole duty to the pas
cure and stock confined demands that
jome further work be done. While
cattle sheep and horses will pick a
living from among the sticks, stones,
brush and logs that encumber tho
lands, it will be found a piece of eco
nomical management to render all the
xurfaee available by picking up aud
.-learing away such rubbish from ofl
the ground. A third more feed may
oltcn be gained in this way, and tho
stock enabled to jet about with
out danger to life aud limbs.
Many a valuable colt has been
lost by breaking a leg among tho
snags and logs in a rough pasture.
The loss of feed alone in one season
would often equal the cost of cleaning
up the field. 1-armors don't seem to
figure on this so long as the land is
pastured, but jusl as soon as they get
ready to put the field tosomeotheru.se,
you will see how quickly it is picked
up, logged and stumped. Is not the
pastur of as much importance as the
wheat field? To be sure we don't have
to run machinery over its sulfate, but
there is certainly no use in allowing
a third or half its surface to run to
waste. .sheep may have admirable
natural ualil'cations for nibbling their
food from almost inaccessible places,
but I fancy they don't lay on wool or
fat very fast if they are obliged to ex
ercise their faculties to gain a liveli
hood. If the farnior prefers picking
his wool from the bushes instead of
sluaring from the sheep s back, it may
be a very good p!an to encourage the
growth of brush and briers in the
fiasture, but I must say that it doesn't
ook very well to find a crop of wool on
tho bushes, somewhat resembling a
cotton crop of the South. A farmer
that allows such a state of things in
his pasture year after year can safely
be put down as a bad manager, in that
pa ticular line at least.
If poss'blc, water should be furnished
within the limits of the pasture; for if
they have to depend upon being taken
out to water they will go thirsty a good
share of the time. During the long,
hot days ot summer stock should have
access "to water several times each day.
A well may be sunk in the pasture at
no great expense. Cheap planks, hem
lock is the best, can be used lor the
curb. I know of many wells in which
hemlock curbing was used that remain
in good condition after twenty years'
use, with the water pure and tasteless.
If pino timber is put into tho well-curb
the water will tasto and smell bad for a
year or so.
A pasture should also bo provided
with a shelter that will protect tho
stock from sun and storms. Shadt
trees in the pasture might serve the
lirst purpose, excepting in fly time.
I suppose tho animals have a good rea-
son, but whv they should leave the tim
ber in a blistering, hot day and stand
and fight the horse-flies in an open
fence corner, is a question that I could
never solve to my own satisfaction. U
there is an old building of any descrip
tion in the pasture you will see them
huddle into ihat A shed with the
sides nearly all open oilers just the
retreat needed in fly time, and
also as a refuge in case of a sudden
hail-storm or driving rain. Every pas
ture should be supplied with some sucfj
shelter, no matter how cheaply built,
if it but offer the necessary protection.
Posts set in the ground with a board
roof laid over makes a very fair shel
ter, and the cost of such a one is very
slight indeed.
Another way of increasing the value
of a pasture is" by dividing it into two
parts and giving the stock a part at a
time. This prevents them from foul
ing over the who'.e constantly, as they
certainly will do if allowed the wholo
range at once. A part is kept fresh and
given a chance to get a start while the
other portion is being fed. In this way
a, change of pasture is thus provided
every few days, and animals relish this
immensely. Of course this plan in
volves the construction of an extra
division fence, but it will be found a
profitable outlay, especially where tho
pasture is a litilv scan' for the number
of head pastured tin:; con. If. I). Boy,
ton. in Utdern Jloitmuii.
FOREIGN GOSSIl.
The most rancorous bitterness pre
ra'ls in Belgium now in regard to re
ligion. It finds reflection in very
paper.
A memorial window has been
pla-ed in the Haworth Church, Eng
land inscribed w th these words: "'lo
the GI iry of God. In memory of Char
lotte I route. 1'y an American c.tizen."
-The other dav a pet't'on w:i; pre
sented by certain distressed weavers of
Madras.! ndia, to the iiowrnor of that
province addrcs-ed "To Almighty God,
care of his Exceilen.-v th Governor ot"
Madras."
Wh.'ii Archer, th first joek:y of
England, recenth writ to Thrisk. in
York-hire. t- rid-, t!io town erier
marched through the streets announc
ing that "Fred Archer, tlu wonder of
the world, would eeit-iinly ride at tho
mees."
..ust before a Hindoo woman dies a
cow is bmu :ht in, so that she ma;, hold
its ta;l as her sou1 leaves the body.
They believe in the transmigration of
souls, and th'-so women prefer to dwell
in tl.e bodies of cows to any other ani
mals. The ability of ants to tunnel under
a river is almost ineiviiible, but a Brazil
ban naturalist once found a colony
which had ellcctcd the feat. Mitoku
was forced from one end of the tunnel
to tho other, and m-u-ked ants were
seen to o in on one sale ami come out
on tho other.
-At Monte Carlo it is the custom to
fill the pockets of siiie des with bank
notes so that it may be seen that they
dhl not kill themselves on aceount of
losses. They tried ths trick on a pre
sumably dead Jri-hmau a short time
ago. but he w:is not ilea I at all, and
skipped o X with tho money iu the most
lively style.
The body of the late l-mpre-s is tho
111th laid iu tho imperial crypt at Vi
enna. The first was that of Empress
Anna, the wife of jhe l ini'erorMattliias,
who d.ed iu lti.j:. l-.leven Emperors
and liiteen Empresses already repo-e in
th s venerable spot, together with nu
merous members of the imperial fam'ly
anil other princely peisonagO'.
A new outdoor game for ladies and
gentlemen called enchantment is be
coming fashionable iu i-ngland. It is
played w th small, light hoops, thrown
with wands, someth.ng arter the man
ner of grace hoop-5, though the wand is
of a novel construe: ion, involving a pe
culiar ini'i hod of :isting the hoop. A
moderately largo piece of ground is
suitable.
It is a curious statistical fact that
17: marriages were advertised in tho
Tiiin.i in -een dax. and out of this
number eighty brides were fatherless.
This. I presume, means that bride
grooms are looking more and more to
the main chance, and only marry girls
who have cash in hand. Prospects,
nowadays, -ire not considered enough.
Mothers-iii-Jaw have long been at ft dis
count, but it would seem that young
men have now come to the conclusion
that naiiy c:isit is a better ass-t than a
father iu-Iav. Luirlon Truth.
The ( .arowitz. who has reached
his majority amid g eat rejoicing and
state i etvinony at t. Petersburg, is
twenty-six years old the time of the
legal coming of age in Russia. His
mother's betrothal was somewhat pe
culiar. Pagmar, the so oml daughter
of the King of Denmark, w:is engaged
to the brother of the present Czar. Be
fore his death he expressed a wish that
his younger brother, who would inherit
the crown, should also accept Daginar
as his prospective (Jueen. After a
proper season of mourning she agreed
to the arrangement, and m due time
became the Empress mo. Iter of the fu
ture Nicholas If. of Bus-ia.
Nails.
A large dealer in builders' hardware
said rceentlv that the demand for
clinch or elout nails and for chisel
po'nted nails had largely increased
within a year, as compared with that
for the ordinal' cut nails, and that
flooring nails with the wedge-shaped
heads were also used in place of tho
nails with the fiat upset heads, llis
reasons were that better work resulted
from the better nails, and thero was far
less waste. For the coarsest purposes
the le-s lirst cost of the ordinary cut
nails with the fiat head induced builders
t- continue the r use; but he believes
the improved form and better material
of the tough wire and clinch nails
would, in time, drive out the inferior
material and defective form. The
principal advantage of the wedge
shaped head, as in lloor nails, is that
the h ad never break- oil" in dri ing. as it
is only a gradual enlargement of the
body of the na'l. instead of an upset
across the. nail, l'ut the chisel point of
the wire nail is its especial merit, as it
cuts a clean passage through the fibers
of tho woo 1 for the following of tho
Ik 'y of the nail, instead of "stunting"
and mutilating the fibers, as the blunt
pointed nails d .
The common cut nails will not usual
ly clinch, even when the clinch is
turned in the direction of the grain of
the wood- but they may be con
siderably toughened by heating to a
red. and gradual cooling. A hardware
establishment was burned a few years
ago, and among the stores Avere nearly
a hundred kegs of cut nails of various
sizes. The remains from the fire were
sold to another dealer, and as soon as
the value of the burned nail became
known he eould sell no others until
they wero gone. Hnailific American,
luiiucm-c of the Sun.
""Mrs. Nailor noticed that every time
old Bill came around the setting hens
made noises, and that the eggs, not to
speak of tfie chickens, were scarcer.
took here. Bill,' said the lady,
"how is it that whenever you come
here the eff"s and chickens become
scarcer?
"I oan know, lady, lessen it am de
weather.'
"I didn't know that the weather had
anything to do with the reduction of
chickens."
Oh, yas, bless yer innercent souL
De hot sunshine dries up chickens jes
de same as it does de dew "
"What has become of thatdoniinecker
hen, Uncle Bill?"
"She's dun dried up. lady. I seed do
sun erstrikin' at her. day afore yistidy,
an' I knowd dat her days wuz num
bered. An' lemme tell yer, ef yer
wanster raise any o' dese heah chick
ens, ver's got ter keep 'em outec do
sun.'
"I don't see why the sim should have
such an effect on them.'"
"J doan" neither, la ly, but de smart
men Mows dat it's bercause 1 hain't
studteu llosofy. Izyesse'f a putty ap'
llosofy scholar, lady?"
"No, I don't know that 1 am."
"Well, da's tie reason. Now, dat
white pullet what loostcd up dar in de
tree is dun gone, an' I reckons it am
bercause o' de sun."
"But the sun did not shine on her
when she was roosting at nighr, Undo
Bill."
"Ter be sho' not, honey, but sho
fooled erroun' in de sun 'fore she went
ter roos'. Go an' get ono o' dem books
o' llosofy. lady," and as Mrs. Nailor
turned "away" the old man added:
"Hardes matter in de worl' ter make
dese folks unnerstau.' Ob course dasa
chickens had too much heat." Arkai
saw Travcl'cr.
A Stratford (Conn.) woman dreamed
that she saw her husband kissing s
no'ghbor's wife. Sho awoke and struck
him iu the face, breaking his uom.
Hartford Pmt.
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the extremely large number ot machines we sold, as well as in the rierfect operation of each ma-
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