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BX)E OTJB YOUNG BEADEB&
g LEARNED TO BAKE.
' Oh, I've learned to bake! "
Cried little Mune:
Tve learned to bake.
Don't you soe don'tyou seo?
I've bread-loaves two.
And little pics three,
Don't you ace don't you see?
I've learned to baio to day! "
Did Tmake the dough? ''..
Oh no oh no!
Jlamrua made the dous?b.
Don't you know dou't you know?
And 1 made the cake, and little pies three,
And marked the edjre with a tiny key.
So l'o learned to bake.
Don't you see don't jou see?
1 ve learned to bake to-day 1 "
"Oh. won't you please come
To in v five o'clock tea?
We will have my cake and little pics thrco;
And, when papa comes.
How s'pr sed he wal be
To find his own little dausrntcr 3Iar.'o
H:i6 learned to bake,
Dou't you see don't you see?
Jla learned to bake to-day.""
11. E. llranch. in GK.d Huusclteeplng.
VHAT HE CAUGHT.
Abraham Lincoln Culpepppr Goe nh
iiip auil C'.it Ue Something Which Ilia
"Jlauiuiy" Was oin;f to liuy.
"Mammy," uracil Abraham Lincoln
Culpepper, "gib me a dime to buy
soii!(! fishin'-taekle. I know dere's fish
in dat 'ore pon', an1 I want to ketch
eome."
"I ain't got no dime to spar1 yo
Aby," replied mammy, who was busy
cutting up pumpkin into a huge iron
pei on the ccok-stovo. "1'se been
:t-tnin to sabu up money to buy me a
lea-Kittle r.n a iryer. Take fo' bits
fur "em bof, an' l's got ao dimes to
spar'."
"But I tvant to ketch some fish,"
whined Abraham, persistently.
Ain't no lish in dat 'ere 'pon', no
Lov,'," declared mammy.
But the boy was not to be silenced.
"Dere's ininners," he insisted. "An'
if dare's ininners, wiry moutn't dey be
ent':sh an' pike?"
At last mammy's patience gave way.
Ef ou don't quit a-pesterin' me
an hush your motif, I gwine cuff yo'
year- good, Ab'aham Linkum Culpep
per." she declared, angrily.
And Abraham took himself out of
the way, muttering as he went
Hi! whar 3-011 gwine. Abe?" called
Lis .-i&ter Maria, coming up from the
spring with a long-handled gourd ju
her hand.
Maria's woolly head presented a
strange and startling appearance, plait
ed as it was into innumerable little tails,
which stuck out in all directions, "like
quills upon the fretful porcupine."
-Whar's aou gwine, Abe?" she re
peated, tos'ing the gourd on to a bed
of onions, :llld rushing after her broth
er, who was just opening the broken
liingcd gate leading out into the lane.
'Oh. 1 dunno whar," answered Abe,
sulk ly. "Mammy wouldn't gib me a
dime 10 buy dat 'ere lishiu'-tackle, an'
I jes' a good mind to run away."
"Sho, Abe, don't run away. Les' I
an' you gwi down to de big" road an'
hunt for a dime," advised Maria, hope
fully, "ile be we kin lin' one in de
du't."
But Abe'shook his head doubtfully.
Mammy mout of gimme a dime,"
lie mused. "I'd of eotehod her some
lish fur dinner if she would."
Mammy Culpepper lived with her
'two children in a half-tumbledown little
cabin on the outskirts of a Western
village. A grove of black walnut trees
stretched their great arms above the
humble roof, ami a "sink-hole" pon.l,
common to that section of the country,
showed its stagnant waters a few yards
fiom the house. Mammy had but re
cently moved into tire little cabin,
which she obtained for a merely nom
inal rent, and supported herself and
her offspring by taking in washing and
ironing from the village.
"1 w usht I could of gib him a dime,"
she relledcd, as she stirred the pump
Id n with a long-handled spoon; "do'
1 ain't got it to spar'. Takes a power
ful sight of money to buy vittles, an'
dem chillew ain't got no shoes fur de
winter. Hit' 11 soon be cole weather,
loo. now de frot has come. An der
ain't no lish in dat air pon', nohow,"
she added, consolingly.
About an hour later, Abraham came
rushing back, fairly panting for breath,
hi round, fat face, beaming with im
portance. Mammy, mammy!" he shouted,
cagi-rly. "Me and Marier has foun' a
piuikin in de road a whoppin', bi::,
yallerpunkin, what roll olf'n a wagon,
:m" de man neber stop to pick it up!
"Marier's a standin' over it a-kiverin' it
with her dress, so dey won't nobody
see it till we kin foteh de whcel-bor' an
git it. It's too big to tote"
Mammy caught the infection, and
hastened down the road with the wheel
barrow a relic from her late husband,
who worked in a brick-yard. There
stood Maria, screening the pumpkin
with her skiits. t was a "whopper,"
fciire enough, and took the combined
strength of mammy and the two chil
dren to get it into the wheel-barrow.
"ay, mammy," ventured Abe, after
helping his mother to wheel home the
'wind-fall. ' "You done gib a dime
for dnt air las' punkin you boiurht.
an' hit wasn't nigh so hefty as dis yer'
un."
"An' you want a dime fur a-finding
it hey?" replied mammy, good-nat-urcd'y.
"Well, dar, I s'pese I'd a-had
to gib a dime fur one, anyhow. So
take it an' go, an' don't pester me fur
no mo dimes de longest day you lib."
An I Abraham chuckled with delight,
and drnced a "pigeon-wing." as he re
cei ed the coveted dime, which mam
my took from a long, black stocking
leg, hanging up the chimney. The
fishing-tackle was soon bought, and
the y-'ii". z ful owvro; -Iz.-.ac Walton."
with Maria at his side, sat for at least
an hour beside the pond, in the bright
ftfternoon sunshine, without even tho
encour.igemcnt of a single bite.
Toh you dey wa'n't nary fish in
dat air on," said mammy, coming to
look oi. her fat hands pressed close to
her sides.
"Ki! dar s a bite now," cried Abra
ham, suddenly pulling in with all his
might. "Golly, it's a big feller, too!
MuV !a a whale. Ketch a holt, mam
my, an' he'p me haul him in."
And indeed it required considerable
strength to haul in whatever it was
that IumI caucht onto the hook.
T "took out, noir, he's a-coinin!
Hooray! dar he 13!
And with a last flourish of his pole,
the triumphant hero landed somethins:
heavy and black and round. Not s
fish, certainly; but what was it?
'Clar' to gracious!" cried mammy,
excitedly, "cf it ain't a tea-kittle a
sure enough iron tea-kittle! an1 it's
full ob rocks, which 'tain't ao wonder
'twas so hefty."
But when Abraham and Maria had
with hurried fingers thrown out the
rocks, something else was found, firm
ly imbedded in the sediment at the bot
tom, which on examination proved to
be live tarnished silver dollars.
How they got into the tea-kettle, or
how it got into the pond, was a mys
tery which was never solved. The
former owner of the cabin had drowned
himself, so people said, in a fit of men
tal aberration, in that very pond, but
whether he had thrown in the kettle
and the money was a matter of con
jecture. Mammy Culpepper, however,
scoured up the iron tea-kettle, and de
clared it was "jes' as good as a bran'
new one."
"An' now I kin buy me a fryer," she
added, "an' you an'Marier kin hev a
new pair ob shoes apiece, fur de cole
weather."
But though Abe fished many a time
after that in the "sink-hole pond," he
never caught any tiling more not
even a minnow. Helen Whitney Clark,
in Golden Days.
A FAITHFUL FRIEND.
Why Jet, a Great Dor, Id Known as a
Ileal Ilcro.
Our faithful friend Jet, a powerful
dog, lived with us on the 5avesink
Highlands. This summer we shall find
no Jet on the Highlands, and the place
will hardly seem tiie same place with
out him. Last season there came a
dear little baby, of the third genera
tion, to the old house, and Jet took the
infant under his especial care from tho
lirst. He would watch while it slept,
with untiring patience, jog the cradle
if it stirred, and call the nurs3 if it
cried or needed attention. Nothing
pleased him more than to be left alone
with the little one, and in the course of
the summer his faithful care was re
warded by responsive 0 flection. The
baby learned to love him, and would
crow and coo to him every morning
with unmistakable delight. "To lie on
a blanket under a tree, or on the
piazza, and bury her chubby lists in
his silky coat, to clamber over his
shoulders, to lead him along by the
ear while riding in her little carriage,
to tyrannize over him in a hundred
pretty ways these were the d:ily oc
cupations of which she never tired.
She learned to stand on her feet and
tobk her first steps by clinging to his
neck, and his name was the first word
she ever spoke. It seemed as though
he could hear her piping voice as if oy
magic. If he was on the place at all,
whether he was within hearing or not,
she had only to call "Det! Det!" and
presently he w ould come bounding in.
One evening late in August we were
all assembled, as usual, after supper
on the piazza and the lawn in front of
the house, enjoying the long twilight
The servants weie down-stairs getting
their supper, and Jet was left alone
with the baby in the sitting-room, which
opens on the piazza by long windows.
Baby had gone to sleep in the dark,
and Jet was lying beside her cradle.
It was a very calm night; there w:u
not a breath stirring, but the "fresh
salt" of the sea was in the air, and the
heat of the da was done! The young
folk were singing soltly together some
gentle refrain, when a terrible shriek
broke upon us,, ami nurse girl rushed
out through the hall, hiir clothing in a
blaze, and llame streaming above her
head. To loll her on the grass and
smother the blaze with our coats was
the work of an instant. Then arose
another cr3, never to be forgotten by
those who heard it the agonized
prayer and lament of a mother for her
child. The sitting-room was full of
lire. The girl had brought up a lighted
lamp after supper, and dropped it on
the floor as she entered the room. The
cradle was in the center of the room
farthest from the door. Mr. Warren
dashed in at the window and made one
leap to the cradle. He found Jet
crouched upon it, coveting the baby
with his bou'3".
How the' got out we could'not com
prehend. It was all overin the twink
ling of an eye. ami Mr. Warren and
the dog were lying on the grass beside
the mother, who was :.hnost fainting,
with the bab- safe ami sound in her
lap. The little thing was nearly suffo
cated, but recovered after a few min
utes in the open air, and took no harm
from the lire.
The sitting-room was burned out.
but we succeeded in stopping the
flames there and saving the house.
Mr. Warren's face and hands were
badly burned, and the nurss girl was
seriously but not dangerously injured.
Jet was severely scorched, but after
caring for him as best we could that
night, we thought ho would come
round again in a few days. Next
morning, however, he was" missing,
and even to baby's call: "Det! Det!"
he made no answer. After a long
search we foundiiim under the piazzn.
stone dead. JctF is buried under the
hillside, where the arbutus blooms
early in the spring. We have placed
a water-worn bowlder from the shore
over his grave, anil on the stone are
carved in' deep letters only the words:
"A Faithful Friend." Ar. O. Times
Democrat. Boarding-House Maxims.
Never order eggs.
Never ask to be served twice if yon
owe any back board.
The landlady is generally a widow,
and fiirts accordingly.
Steer clear of the young widows who
are boarding in the house. .
See what kind of a game the board
ers play before you buy any chips.
Never appear to be deeply interested
in the man who is full of schemes.
Beware of the boarder who never has
any change when the wash-woman
calls.
When yon go off on a racket have
the girl leave a pitcher of ice water at
the head of yonr bed.
If you want to be happy make your
self solid with the tiblo'girl asd lt
chamber-maid. Judge,
CAPE COD CHARACTERS. '
Bemarkible Clos-Ftetod Xta'i BUI
Against the Govrrnmat.
Dowr on Capo Cod some years ago
there lived a man named Watson Free-
mam who was famous for his "near
ness," even in a regioawhich has pro
I duccd its full share of close men, as
j well as of generous ones. The cape is
a country that never does any thing by
halves, and when it sets out to make
an economical man it makes no mis
take. The story runs that this Wat
son Freeman once had a couple of
boys employed in connection with his
country variety store, and that he as
tonished them on one third day of July
by calling them up and saying:
"Boys, I'm going to give yc one dol
lar apiece to celebrate with!"
As soon as the boys had in a meas
ure recovered from their stupefaction
they pocketed theirdoUaranddeparted
in great glee. Of course they spent
a good deal, having such an extraor
dinary streak of luck, for lire-works,
and, as their employer had the only
store in the place, they bought the lire
works of him. Saturday came around,
and when the bo,js stepped up to get
their weekly pay they found they had
been docked one dollar apiece for ab
sence from work on the fourth.
Watson had a singular reputation for
giving generous measure in molasses.
He always sold the jralion measure
heaped up a little, as molasses can be
heaped up in cold weather, and always
drew rttentjon to it. No one cou'.d ac
count for it until soni2 one got hold of
the empty measure one diy and found
that the bottom had been knocked in
in such a manner as to subtract a good
deal more from the capacity of the ves
sel than the heaping up added to it.
When the triangulation and survey
of the cape b- the Government officials
was being made the lines wore run
across agrcat many estates, of course,
and among them that of Watson Free
man. In the course of the work three
rails were taken from Freeman's fence
to serve as sighting stakes, and when
the work was done the stakes were put
back in their places. I-reeman hove 111
sight just as the rails were being re
placed, and said to the officer in charge:
"See here, I don't see as I ought to
furnish the United States Government
with the use o' them rails for nothing."
The officer laughed. "If you have
suffered any damages through the use
of the rail," he said, "'ou had better
put in a bill in regular form, and 1
will pass it in."
"All right." said Freeman.
He went over to his store and pres
ently came back with the following
bill:
: Tbo United Elates Govt., Dr.. to
; Wnto:i Freeman:
: To the use of .1 rails at 10 cents C0.30
: ltee d i-iVyt.
The bill was sent to Washington as
approved by tho officer in charge of
tiie survey, and went through the cir
cumlocution office, until it was dis
covered that it was infornil in that it
lacked a date, and it was sent back to
Freeman to have the omission sup
plied. All this involved a great deal
of correspondence and red tape, but
in the course of a year or so Watson
Freeman got his thirty cents.
Now, it happened "that there lived
on the cape another Watson Freeman,
a public man. with a reputation for
frec-handedness as decided as his
namesake's for the other thing. This
Watson Freeman was a candidnts for
United States marshal, and had excel
lent assurance of getting the appoint
ment, when some political enemy at
Washington turned up the bill for
thirty cents for rails used by the Gov
ernment. It was a great discover', cf
course, for the joke against a man
that had a reputation for generosity
Mas so good that it might be depended
upon to make him the laughing-stock
of the country. Before two weeks
were over the bill had been scattered
broadcast over Capo Cod and every
body was laughing at it. It took
Freeman all the rest of his time up to
the end of his canvass to oxjjlain the
story, but he managed to pull through
and get the mars haLship.
And when lie got through it was a
question which of the Watson Free
mans was the most famous on Cape
Cod. Boston Record.
THE MORMON BIBLE.
Tho Relief anil Trachi.-i? of the Chnrcn
of Jmim Christ of Latter-Day Sainta.
The Book of Mormon describes the
flight from Jerusalem about COO B. C,
or before the destruction, of Lchi, with
his wife and sens, Ishmael, with his
sons and daughters, and Zoram, many
of whom subsequently intermarried.
Lehi believed in the coming of a
Messiah and was reviled by his coun
trymen and so he set out under God's
guidance to escape from them. Alter
eight years' wandering in a south
southeasterly direction, aiid hardships
and privations, they arrived on the sea
shore. Here there were constructed,
under command, vessels which bore
them across the great sea, finally
reaching this continent, and according
to late Mormon revelation, the coast
of Chili. Early in their wanderings a
schism occurred in Lehi's family, be
tween Nephi, representing the believ
ing faction, and the Lam-an. represent
ing the ungodly. Lehi, who was a
descendant of Joseph, the son of Jacob,
assumed the prophetic role and
predicted the coming of a Messiah
within six hundred years. Upon his"
death Nephi and Laman became ar
rayed in deadly enmity to each other,
and this was entailed upon their pos
terity. The conflict between the Neph
ites and Lamauitcs, as they were
called, endured until the extinc
tion of the former. The Nep'hites
tilled the soiL built cities, temples and
synagogues, and established a line of
Kings and judges, and a code of laws
upon this continent. They were the
Mound Builders. The Lamanites, how
ever, were so wicked that God changed
the color of their skins to black, and
"thev became wild and furions and a
bloodthirsty people, full of idolatry
and fillhincss, feeding upon beasts of
prev, dwelling in tents and wandering
about in the wilderness with a short
skin girdle about their loins." The
Mormons consider the Lamanites the
progenitors ot the American Indians,
who, according to their theory, are
consequently of Jewish extraction.
Repeated engagements occurred be
tween the Nephites and the Lainanites,
and many minor episodes are intro
duced. The moral of the story is that
as long as the Nephites were obedient
to God's commandments, like the
Israelites of old, thev were successful at
arms, bnt when they got astray, as fre
quently happened, defeat and punish
ment were visited upon them. The
rule of Kings at first instituted gave
way to judges whose duties were to
administer the established laws and
customs of the people.
Although the'Book of Mormon is in
general a common-place record of the
superstitions, experiences and conten
tions oi the Nephites and Lamanitas,
one episide is extremely bold and sen
sational. This is the description of
Christ's visits to the Nephites on this
continent. This event and tho phys
ical phenomena which were to precede
it are foretold in the earlier pages.
Intense darkness fell unon the land
before the supreme moment of Christ's
appearance here and after his resur
rection in Judea. A terrible tempest
arose, accompanied by vivid lightning,
and the cities were destroyed by earth
quake, fire and inundation.
Heralded by a voice from out tho
Heavens, Christ descended before the
assembled multitudes clothed in a
white robe. He selected twelve apos
tles, upon whom he conferred the pow
er to preach and baptize by immersion,
and was borne away to reajipcar
twice thereafter.
Temporarily peace was restored be
tween the warring Nephites and La
manites, and they adopted communal
rights to property. This finally gave
way to private ownership, and the old
feuds were revived, leading finally,
about 420 A. D., to a desperate engage
ment near the hill Cumorah, where
luO.009 Nephites were slain, only
twenty-four escaping. Two of these
survivors were Mormon and his sonMo-
, roni. llie gold plates wiiicli bore tins
rocord were deposited by Moroni in the
hill Cumorah, where Joseph Smith, Jr.,
found them 1,400 year later.
The latter portion of tho Bool: of
Mormon describes the settlement of
this continent b- a colon- of Jews,
headed by Jared, who migrated hither
at the time of the confounding ot the
tongues at Babel, llemains of their
occupation of this country. were found
by tiie Nephites, and .plates that wete
found and translated by them furnish
material for this valuable historical
contribution.
The doctrines taught by the Book of
Mormon are the natural depravity of
man, the doctrine of the Trinity,
atonement and salvation through
Christ, the laying on of hands and
baptism by immersion. It purports to
be a strickly American revelation; not
contradictory to the Bible nor a substi
tute for it, but merely a supplementary
record not known to the authors of the
books of the Bible. X. Y. World.
NOT EASIL? FOOLED.
A Policeman Who Knows Something
About the Ills Th it Hoys Are Heir To.
An old policeman seldom gets fooled
on a street gamin. Yesterday, when
a woman ran out of her house on Fifth
street and informed a passing officer
that a boy was lying dead in the alley,
the officer didn't hurry any. If the
boy was dead hurrying wouldn't do
any good. If dying the officer couldn't
save him. He walked slowly around
and found the boy stretched out on the
ground, very much alive but still mak
ing no effort to get up.
"Somebody run over him. and the
wretch ought to be discovered and pun
ished!" exclaimed ona of tho crowd.
"He may have shot him-self," added
a second.
"I think he fell from that shed," put
in a third.
"Or some larger boy has almost
killed him," chinned a woman.
The ofiiecr paid no attention to these
remarks, but aft jr a look up and down
tiie alloy he bent over the boy and in
quired: "How lornr have you had it?"
"Half an hour.""
"How many did you eat?"
"Two."
" Well, you'd better get up and keep
moving and it will go away the
sooner."
"What is it?" asked five or six
voices.
The officer crossed the alley and
picked up a half-eaten turnip and held
it up to view. Every body nodded and
said "Um!" and the crowd quietly
dispersed. Detroit Free Press.
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Harmony Restored.
Mrs. Simpcrton, a recently married
New York lady, rebuked her maid for
her slowness.
"You are the most trilling servant
girl I ever had. Are you ever going
to get through with your work? You
can go on the first. I have no more
use lor you. You have not got one re
deeming quality."
"No wonder I never got through
with my work," replied the shrewd
menial. "You sing and play at the
piano so beautiful, and I ha e to stop
my work to listen to you. 1 can't help
loving good music."
"I was only joking about your leav
ing. If you keep on being such a good
girl, I'll get you a now dress on the lirst
of the month." Texas Sifliugs.
m
A cavern of considerable magni
tude has been partially explored near
Newville, Pa. So far as examined, the
openings, though obstructed with
stumps and mud, have revealed very
interesting stalactites and other forma
tions. Philadelphia Frest.
An English paper makes the ex
cuse for loss of fame on the water by
the craze for bicycling. It says:
'Those who would under the old con
ditions have sought reputation on the
water now follow after fame on
wheels."
m
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
goes to a different hotel each time he
visits New York. He says that by do
ing this he finds that he receives better
treatment
Miss Ada Sweet is spoken of m "the
leading poetes3 of America'' bj forcigv
papers.
, . HOME, FARMAK'D GARDEN:
Never give a horse which U usnftl
ly fed oats'a full feed of corn or cern
meal in place of the oats. Better let
it go without San Francisco Chron
icle. Soft-wooded plants, should be
placed nearest the light in the window
garden, and the hard or smooth-leaved
plants occupy the back -ground. De
troit 'inbuiv,
The fat from chickens is delicate,
and may b used for any cooking pur
pose where butter is required, for
moistening croquettes, or even in cake
or pastry. A little added to the stuffing
of fowls enriches it Chicago Journal.
An accommodating cake without
butter or milk: Beat six eggs very light
with a Dover, add a cup and a half of
sugar and beat again; then lightly stir
in a cup and a half of sifted Hour. A
teaspoon baking powder in the Hour,
and a tablespoon vinegar may be used,
but neither are essential. Exchange.
ricsiea Unions: After pouring
toiling water on them, peel; put them
in a weak brine, changing it every day
for five days; then dra.n dry. Take
vinegar to cover, add pepper, cinna
mon, a few cloves, some pieces horse
radish; boil all in the vinegar; pour on
when cold Toledo Blade.
One of the first plants to change
from green to scarlet is the poison ivy.
Beware of it. Remember, the poison
vino has three leaves in a cluster; the
leaves of the harmless woodbine are in
clusters of live. Another gray-hued
plant of the early autumn is the poison
sumac or the poison oak. X. Y. Tel
egram. When a piece of meat is boiled the
kettle should always be set aside for
the liquor to cool, then the fat can be
remove:! from the top in a solid cake.
Remnants of fat beef, steak or roast
with the pot skimmings should be
"tried out" in an iron kettle orspidtvr,
skimmed carefully, strained through a
fine strainer, and it will then be excel
lent shortening for bread or biscuit, or
with part lard answers well for com
mon pastry. Boston Post.
A carpet can be brightened and
cleaned by scattering corn-meal or
salt over it and giving a second sweep
ing. It should be thoroughly swept
lust, however. It will also look clean
much longer if a tabljspoonful of
pearlinc be dissolved in a pail of warm
water, and the carpet be wiped with fi
flannel cloth wrung out of this. Change
the water as often as it gets much
soiled. If oilcloth be occasionally
rubbed with a mixture of beeswax and
turpentine, it will last longer. The
Household.
A writer in Gardeners' Magazine
says: It is admitted that in the act of
crowing a bird stands up, and then
stretches his neck to its full extent. A
small lath, loosely suspended about
eighteen inches above the perch, will
obviate this. It in no way inter
feres with the bird's roosting, but the
moment chanticleer contemplates a
nuisance the swinging lath conies gent
ly into contact with his comb and ef
fectually stops him. 1 have a dozen
birds, and none of them presume to
crow till the hour that I let them out.
WHO KNOWS BEST?
ignorant Itlarksmlth Who Attempt to
Improve tiie Work t Xuture.
It is, and long has been, our belief
that horses are too much and too con
stantly shod. Much of the lameness in
horses is due to their wearing an in
flexible bar of iron or steel on the feet,
which prevents the parts of the foot so
admirably formed and adapted for use
from performing their functions.
A study of the structure and material
of a horse's foot can but fill one with
admiration at its adaptability for use
under varied conditions; but when we
see how confidingly the horse owner
will turn over his faithful servant to
the manipulations of the bungling
blacksmith who knows nothing of
what a horse needs in the way
of a foot, who sees no use in the
frog or any other part, except ng so
much of the hoof as is necessary to
nail the shoe to, who would laugh at
the idea of studying the anatomy of a
horse's foot for the purpose of belter
understanding how best to shoe, it
would seem as though the average
horse owner thought that the average
blacksmith knew more about what
kind of feet a horse needs than does
the Creator of the horse.
Man, with arrogance born of ignor
ance, adds to the "hoof that has been
made as light as possible, consistent
with strength and durability, a pound
or so of iron to each foot for the hot so
to lift up each time he lifts his foot.
The amount of strength and vitality
used in lifting and carrying this dead
weight of four pounds through a jour
ney of one hundred miles is certainly
worth considering.
In other ways does man manifest
that he thinks he knows more how a
horse's foot should be than does the
Designer and Maker of that foot The
wall of the hoof was made very strong,
but the horse shoer knows that it docs
not need to be so strong, so he cuts
away a part to weaken it This wall is
made very hard, but the man, wiser
than God, softens it by making the
horse stand in a mixture of cow dung
and clay.
The Maker having provided for the
foot an elastic cushion or pad in the
"frog," for the purpose of removing
the jar and keeping the horse from
slipping, man shows his superiority by
cutting away this pad and putting on
an inflexible ring of iron to catch the
horse's weight solidly.
And thus does man, in his wisdom,
continue to improve on the work of the
Creator of the Universe by cutting
away the material out of which Nature
has fashioned the hoof, and put
ting in its stead other material
fashioned into shape according to
his notion; to pare, rasp and
barn the hoof isto a form which
conforms to his idea of what a horse's
hoof should look like; to improve the
texture by soaking, "stopping," tar
ring, eta And yet with au his wisdom
and skill he sees that ordinarily "one
horse can wear out four sets of legs,'
and is more thoroughly convinced than
ever that had he had the job in the
first place he woald have done better
than did the Creator.-
Coleman's Rural
World,
PERSONAL .AND LITERARY."
James A. Garfieli. - Jr.". and his
brother Henry are stndyi.: "aw "
the Columbia Law School. ?: -Tribune.
William Page, of Ncwbnryport,
'Mass., sends out a little periodical
known as the Card, written in his own
hand.
Tho oldest boatman on the Hud
son river is said to be Captain W. W.
Wood, of the Alida, which piles be
tween Rondout and Troy. He has
navigated the waters or" the Upper
Hudson for sixty-three years. Troy
Times.
When Victor Hugo carried his first
manuscript of poetry to a publisher it
was handed back to him unread, "be
cause poetry was a drag on the mar
Kct" It proved to bo a sorry blunder
for the publisher.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton will
pass the winter with her daughter.
She will continue her work on tho
"Woman's Version of the Bible," in
which she has been engaged for soma
time.
Mrs. F. Groton ("Ida Glenwood"),
the lecturer and serial writer, though
blind and sixty years of age, uses a
type-writer for" much of her work,
equalling an ordinary person in neat
ness and accuracy of the writing.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Glendower Evans Brown, of
Campobcllo, N. B., has not only a fine
name, but a fine lot of living ancestors.
His father's father and mother and
grandfather and grandmother aro
alive, and so are his mother's father
and mother and grandmother and her
father and mother.
Senor Don Jose Manuel Balccmcda,
the new President of Chili, was born
in 1840 and belongs to one of tho
highest and wealthiest families of tha
republic. He has been for fifteen
years a member of the Chamber of
Deputies and enjoys a high reputation
as an orator and debater.
Hawthorne's home was a shifting
one. Ho lived some years in Salem
and Boston, and then wandered away
to Lenox among Uc Berkshire hills,
then llittcd to Concord near Emerson
and Alcott, then to Europe, and then
back aga"n to his pleasant dwelling,
"The Wayside." Boston Budget.
The final numberof the Siam Weekly
Advertiser was published on the 7th of
August, the issue of the paper being
stopped for the usual cause of news
paper suspension it didn't pay. Tho
Advertiser has been published for
seventeen years. It was established
by the American Board of Foreign
Missions, but for the last ten years it
has been the private enterprise of an
American missionary. Mr. S. J. Smith,
a native of New Hampshire. Mr.
Smith and his wife have been hard
working and earnest missionaries and
educators in Siam for nearly thirty
years. X. Y. Tribune.
HUMOROUS
The sporting department of nj
newspaper generally contains, somo
racy reading matter. Merchant Trav
eler. Mrs. Gubbins says she never al
lows her boy, J.im, to eat any jam, for
her husband died of the jim-jams, and
she don't propose to run any chances
with the boy. (
Eyes yet they see not potatoes.
Ears yet they hear net corn. Mouths
yet they speak not rivers. Handsyet
thev feel not clocks. Brains yet they
think not dudes. Xew Haven Xews.
The Old Man's Shoes.
A!i, Anpelliie,
Yoursr:iIc's'rono
Is dearer far tl;au life to roc.
Hut unto jou
1 lud lid-on
Ycur d.ul wears number tens, you sco.
"You know something about mtisir.
don't you, Joggins?" "A little, Snoop
er." "Then what docs this paper mean
when it speaks of the 'higher kinds of
music?' " "Must mean upper-attic, I
think. " Pittsburgh 'Telegram.
Brown "I thought von hated
J0110-." Smith "So I do" Why do
you ask?" Brown "I heard you gave
him a iive-hundred-dollar piano tho
other day. That don't look as though
you hated him much." Smith "That
shows what you know about it. His
wife thinks " she can sing." N. TL
Graphic.
"Oh, lions don't trouble me much,""
remarked a courageous Frenchman.
"I met one once in the desert, a splen
did fellow, and what lo you think I
did? Simply whipped out my pen
knife and cut offhK tail!'" "And why
not his head?" 'Oh! a hunter had
saved me that trouble by doing it the
day before." French Fun.
Grandma "Clara, do you think
your mother would approve of your
sitting up so late?" Clara "Why,
grandma, it was only half-past ten
when Frank left last evening." Grand
ma "Clara, your grandma happened
to be awake just as Frank was leav
ing, and didn't she hear him say:
Now, Clara, just one?' " Boston Bea
con. "How are you coming on, old boy?"
"I'm not corning on at all. I'm goinjr
on." "Hold up! l'vo got a fearful
headache, and an awful taste in my
mouth. Don't you know some remedy
for the misery I'm suffering from this
morning?" ""Yes. I know a good
cure for it Don't sret drunk last
night Good-bye.' Texas Siftwgtt.
At a second-class restaurant a gen
tleman was hastily called out of tho
room, as an acquaintance wished to
speak to him. To keep' off intruders
he placed a scrap of paper over his
plate and glass of beer, with tha
words: "I have touched all this with,
my fingers." On returning he found
every tning as he had left it only the
paper had these words added in pencil:
So have I!" N. Y. Telegram.
"Ah, those autumn leaves. Farmer
Robinson," sighed the city guest
"What lovely tints of color, and what
an addition they are to the charming
scenery you must so enjoy." "Yea,
miss. The leaves are gettin' a good,
deal olyaller and red "onto 'em, that's
a fact It's about time to gather"
"Than you really find time to gather
autumn leaves?" "O, yes, indeed.
We rake up a few cart-loads eery
year for beddin' for the hosses:" An
other aesthetic dream mashed. Hfui
ford Post.
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