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7 US' ti- Democracy Our Banner Truth Our Standard. V VOL. III. CARTHAGE, MOORE COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1885. NO. 52. MOORE GAZETTE. k Tfl GLORY OF THE YEAR I CHAIU foOYAL. XVhen Sprii-g tame softly breathing o'er the land, - With warmer sunshine and sweet April shower; -'Bidding the silken willow leaves expand; Calling to hill and meadow, bee and flower, Bright with new life and beauty; on light wing Bringing the. birds again to love and sin?; And waking in the heart its joy amain, With old fond hopes and memories in its train; Childishly glad 'mid universal cheer. How oft we sang the half-forgotten strain : ATotu we behold the glory of the year!" When Smn:r by her gentle breezes twined, With footstep fre-s and proud in restless power, ' tVith plump, round cheek to ruddy beauty tanned, In blooming loveliness came to her bower, !ffer golden trese3 loosely wandering " In wild luxuriance then pretty Spring Seemed but a playful sister, pettish, vaia llow well wu loved ths passionate Sum mer's reign ! How day by day, our empress grew more dear! ' dear! "Beyond,'" we asked, ' what fairer can . . . remain ? Now we behold the glory of the year!" But when grave Autumn's ever bounteous hand Poured round our feet the riches of her dower; The pulpy fruit, the hut's sweet ripened gland, 1 The largess free to glbaner and to plower, And all the .Summer sought in vain to bring; When stood the hills in glorious garmenting, Shadowed by low-hung skies of sober grain, No more could our enobled" thoughts sus :' tain Itfgretful memory eff Summer sere "What of the past!'' we cried in quick disdain ; " Now r behold the glory of the year!"' 'Then before mighty Winter, stern and grand, 'e saw defenceless Autumn shfvering, cowert Changed to Duessa by his potent wand, Shorn of her loveliness, in Fortune's lower Aaked for Winters sting. scourge to smite and Mow godlike came the world's new sceptered t King! He fettered fast her torrents with his chain, Bound with his manacles the moaning main, Yea, wrought his will with all things far and near. - ; " At last," ve said, " what more can Time attain 1 Now we behold the glory of the year!" Neglected Snrin?. desnii initri ,, i oor weakling! came again one April hour. T he tyrant struck his tont at her command; She laughed-down tumbling fell his frosty tower; Aicu light finger-touch his captives fling Their shackles off, an 1 make the valleys ring With praises to the conqueror of pain. All the lost lives that languishing have lam, Leaves, grasses, buds, and birdsagainappear. ' O now!" we cried again and yet again, " JVoio wo behold the glory of the year!" ENVOY. I'rincc, while Spring sports with sunbeam, flower, and rain Whilo wantbn Summer riots on the plain Neath Autumn's calm, or Winter's frown severe, Change only clearer chants the old refrain, "Now we behold the glory of tho year!'' t ruest Whitney, in the Cent Or y. DOWN IN THE WELL. 1!Y ill. Wool) HCKKE. "I tell yc what, Kunnel eh Barton, bi man as ye think ye'so'f, ve're m 1 1. M f ....... I .ji.ii, mini! pwaiOCS II) potatoes in niv opinion. , "j" """ m lic a lib eral man, charitable, to ver pore fellow-cea- es, but Lord bless" me, 'yer heart am t no bigger nor a cider apple, an' its harder'n Hint. Ye'rc seltish an' proud -spirited, Kunnel, but ver pridc'il have a fail one of these days," mark niv words, ef it don't, an' it'll" humble ye to the dust! I Mrs. Hannah Eldiidce tossed her lo.l 11 nil Ull VIT ril'llea vi. ni,,rl. i !,- 1.1. with a scornlul sniif as she stopped Rnenkinr nml 1 : ... ' ' I (-1 - " icsumea m-r irnnmn 1 1 ne subject of her tirade. Colonel Nehciniah Barton -he was the com mander of a regiment of militia dropped the paper he was reading with a gasp of astonishment, and stared over his spectacles at his housekeeper and maid-of-all-ork in speechless wonder at her audacity. -Finally he found speech, enunciating his words with slow and ponderous dis tinctiveness. "Hannah Eldridge," he said, "how dare ye, a miserbul sinner, an' er non professer, set in jedgmen't ergen me who is a deacon uv the church, and Chairman uv the lioard uv eleetmcn?'' "Pooh !" retorted Hannah suspending her hot uon in mid-air, .'-er man thct Urowls ez much ez you do whenever I happen ter give er poor beggar a piece of meat or er slice of bread needn't bra.r 'bout his religion. Ef ye wuz twciuv times er deacon in ther church, hit wouldn't make ye ez charitable toward yerunfortunit fellow creeturs ez ye orter be.". "Tramps is mostly er lazv, shiftier set, an' sted of putten' vittals inter ther .mouths we oner set cm ter work an' "Ther widder Baseomb wuz no tramp but an honest, hard-workin' woman' who wuz abuv' axin' charitv till sickness dnv her to it," interrupted' Hannah, and before the colonel could formulate a suitable reply continued: '-You knew this, an' yet ye let her go tew ther work ue in her old. aire, when er little out ov your plenty would ha helped her alon toward her grave in comfort."' 3 "But, Hanner," began the colonel protestiagly. ' "Don't Hanner me." was the sharp re tort. "I've been here in this house goin' on seventeen ears, and doorin' all thet time I never knowed ye ter doer kind or generous deed." The colonel could stand no more, and With a loud snifl of rage he sprang to his feet. "It's no'use argifyin' with er woman !" he cried savagely, and seizing his hat he jammed it down on his cars and strode from the room. Hannah Eid ridge laughed scornfully, and continued her ironing. I She had nearly finished when the kitchen door opened softly, and a girl with the irate colonel's features repro duced and softened in her round face, sparkling with life and color, sto'e into the room, and slipping up behind the unconscious Hannah pressed her little Irowri hands over the woman's eyes. "Guess'?" cried the girl, and her merry laugh rippled out and filled the room. "Oh. it's voit torment!" said Hannah. jeraovilljf theVarm iands lV- drawing' the girl around in front of her. "Where hcv ye ben: ' - "Down in the orchard." She said th very demurely, but her face flushed, and she dropped her eyes. Hannah's . sharp eves detected the girl's illy-concealed embarrassment and nodded her head knowingly. "Elsie Barton," she siid, "ye needn't try ter deceive mc What wuz ye doin' in ther orchard?" "Hunting summer harvies." i "Anybody help yc, ehl" "Willie Socnce happened to be going along the road and be very kindly vol unteered to shake the big tree for me. : You know, Hann ib, that I'm not strong enough to " explained Elsie. 1 ''Ye needn't say no more," said Han nah, iritcrruptinir l.tr; "I know." "Know what, Hannah?" "That Wiilie Spencer loves you, and that you love him. I spoke ter yer father 'bout it this moraiin'.'' "Oh, Hannah!" erica the girl. "How could you?" "I did it for the best, pet lamb. I've see l hit agoin' on for some time, so I sorter hinted around to him this rnorn , in' ter see how he'd take it." j "And what did he say?" interrupted the girl eagerly. "He blustered orful, an' I know he'll -never consent. He's plumb sot on mar ryin' ye ter Squire Dave Peter-, an' " "The old miser!" cried Elsie, passion ately. "I'd die before I would be his wife! Why, he's old enough to be my grandfather !" "That's what I told yer father," con tinued Hannah, "but he wouldn't listen to no reas n." "Oh, dear!" moaned the girl despair ingly. "What shall I do? I've a mind to do as Willie wants mc to run away and marry in spite of father. After the knot is tied he can't put us apart." "Don't never do nuthin' so foolish," cautioned Hannah. "He'd cut ye oil without a penny, an' though Willie Spencer er likely enough boy, he's got nothin' tew start life with." "Wfl ftnixitt W r r Lr f rr r Vi r r on'l en ma aZ". T "That'd take too long," cried Hannah, sentcntiously. "Your father has er p enty, and by rights it 11 ;;1! come ter you some lay, but he's powerful stub born when he makes up his mind tew be, and ye'd better not anger him." "But" began Elsie. "Leave it all ter me. pet lamb. Ef his can for any mortal soul kin turn him from stubborn ways I kin do re3t easy that I'll do the it, and ye best I can yc." "Oh, thank you, Hannah!" cried Elsie impulsively. "You are always good to me." She threw her arms around the faith ful woman's neck and kissed the thin lips. Hannah's eyes moistened, and she passed her hand softly over the girl's brown curls. "I couldn't love yc better, pet lamb, if ye wus my own," she said. "I've ben er mother tew ve, an' I'll so continner. Marry ve tew the old squire? they shan't!" She returned Elsie's kiss. Not much and then. turning away, began preparations for dinner. . The meal was finally ready, and the table was laid She went out on the porch and blew several leud blasts from the big tin horn which huug from the rafters. Thie was a signal for Colonel Nehe miah, but fifteen mi..utes passed and he did not put in an appearance. Hannah sounded a second alarm, and stood on the porch, shading her eyes with her hand and looking out toward the "far field," where the colonel was supposed to be. She could not see him, and again she raised the horn to her lips. ; lv, u. 1 Know ne s tnar, she said, musing "for I seed him goin' thet-er-wav. Mebbe he's fell down in a lit." She-threw her apron over her head to shield it from the sun, and passing through the' truck garden at the rear of the house, bent her steps toward the "far field." She walked through the enclosure, and finding no traces ol the colonel, was about returning to the house when she heard a faint t ry which seemed to come from the bowels of the earth. She beut her head and listened. The cry was repeated. "Help!'' "He's fell down the old well!" cried Hannah, and turning sharply to the right, she rau toward a little clump of trees in one corner of the field. In the centre of this miniature grove w as an old well which bad been du to water stock. It was ' loose 'y covered with boards, but they were old and rotton, and when Hannah drew nearer, she saw that the covering was broken and displaced. "Hullo, Kunnel!" she cried, bendin" over the well. "Hanner!" was the colonel's faint an swer. t nrow me er rope. Git er Run for help. I'm drownin' !" ladder "Am t water enuff for that, Kunnel How did ye fall in?" "alkin across plank broke, me out." Help "Hez it cooled ye off eny, "Yes. Git me "out. I'm tew ther bone." . Kunnel?" near chilled "Look here, Kunnel!" cried Hannah, and she smile 1 triumphantly, "I've got e right where I've been wantin' ter git ye. Nobody knows that yer here, an' unless ye promise ter let Elsie marry llhe s-pencer an' set 'era up with ther ymK tarm. ye air likely ter stav here. If ye don't I'll kiver ther well again, an' let J .py" he imprisoned man, up to bis neck in water, stormed, raved, threatened, begged and prayed. Hannah remained i obdurate. Finally she began to lay the broken . planks back across the welh" The fright ; ened colonel begged her to delist. !. "Git me out, Hanner!" he said, "an I'll promise." ' Promise now!" j "Yes!" "Ye'll let Elsie and Willie Spencer marry an' giv 'em ther Oak Farm?" "es'." "I never knowed ye ter break a promise, kunnel, au' now I'll help ye out. "I'll be b.ack in er j.ffy." She ran toward the housebut meet ing Elsie and one of the frrm hands Come in search of her half way, she hur riedly acquainted them with the acci dent which hoi befaifcjn the coloneWand the man procured a ladder which was lowered to the submerged deacon. "Y'e took an onfair edvantage uv me, Hanner," he Baid, as he clambered out, "but I'll stand by my promise. Elsie, ye can marry Willie Spencer, an' I'll giv' ye a deed ,ov ther Oak Farm ther day yer married." "Thank you, father!" cried the de lighted girl. ' 'You have made me very happy '" "Don't thank me," grumbled the col onel, returning her kiss. "If it hadn't been for that pesky well an' Hanner,, I'd never consented!" Chicago Ledger. Historic Pets. Semiramis, queen of Assyria.had a pet vulture. Virgil, the poet, was fond of feeding a butterfly. Emperor Nero loved a starling as well as a fiddle. Frederick the Great was a great dog fancier. Commndus, the Roman emperor, found congenial fellowship with an ape. lleiiogabalus, Roman emperor, con versed famili uiy with a sparrow. Moljaiumed's dove is one of the most famous of pets. The Emperor Dominican occupied his leisure in catching flies. Cardinal U'chelieu amused himself with his collection of cats. Cowper was at no time so happy as when feeding his tame hares. Cardinal Mazarin employed his leisure in playing with an ape. Altieri. the Jtaiian poet, was proud of his horses aud took great delight in fondling and caressing them. Emperor Augustus was exceedingly fond of a parrot, but still more so of a quail, the loss, of which made him, sad. Charles I., of England, was very fond of spaniels, and the breed of his dogs is still famous in this country. Tiberius, Roman, emperor, made an intimate compauion of a serpent, which he trained to take food out of his hand. Goethe rarely passed a day without bruising out.Xi'ocitl:-j chimney corner a li- e snake which he kept there and caressed. Henry HI., of France, was so fond of spaniels that he used to carry a litter of them in a basket suspended, round his neck when giving his audiences. Louis XL, when ill in Plessis-le-Tours, only found pleasure in an exhibition of dancing pigs, oddly dressed up, which were trained for his special-entertainment. Honorius, Roman emperor, was so grieved at the loss of a favorite hen named Roma that he would willingly have given Rome itself to bring it back, but Alaric had taken Rome. The Maiijuis de Moutespan amused himself with mice when occupying the gilded apartments of Versailles. The mice were white, and had been brought to him all the way from Siberia. Lat'ude, confined in the Bastile, made companions of six-and-twenty rats who inhabited his cell. He gave each of them a name, and they learned to come to him at his call. He fed them, played with them, and they thus greatly re lieved the ennui of his captivity. Pelissen, confined in the Bastile, made a friend of a spider, which he tamed. The jailer, one day, seeing Pelissen take pleasure in contemplating the insect, crushed it under hisjoot.and left the prisoner distressed and melan choly at the loss of his frica'd. General Grant's Reticence. He was never a secretive mas until the positions of responsibility in which he was placed compelled him to be chary of giving expression to his opinions. He then learned the force of the philoso pher's maxim that the unspoken word is a sword in the scabbard, while the spoken word is a sword in the hands of : one's enemy. j In the field there were constant vis itors in camp ready to circulate any in , tiraations of the commander's move ! ments, at the risk of having such val i uable information reach the enemy; in J the White House, every encouraging ex- pression to an applicant for favors was apt to be tortured into a promise, and j the President naturally became guarded in ms intercourse wnn general visitors. When questioned beyond the bounds of propriety, his lips closed like a vice, and the obtruding party was left to supply ! all the subsequent conversation. These ; circumstances proclaimed him a man j who studied to be . uncommunicative, and gave him a reputation for reserve i which could not fairly be attributed to : him. He was called the . "American Sphynx" and "Ulysses the Silent," and j he was popularly supposed to move j about with sealed; lips. I When accompanying him through New : England the summer after the close of i the war, it was soon seen that the stor ies of his reticence had preceded him. ; The trip was the first of those grand ova ! tions with which he was always greeted , by the people through w hose communi I ties he traveled. The train stopped for ; a few minutes at a small town in Maine, i and the people, as usual, took the op ! portunity of extending a greeting and j delivering their words of welcome. As j the ceneral stood in the doorway of the I rear-car, a tall, gaunt looking woman elbowed her way through the crowd till she got near the platform. Here she ' stopped, and put on a pair of spectacles with glasses in them that looked about as big as the lenses in large telescopes, and taking a good look at the general, said, gasping for breath as she spoke, "Well, I've come down hyere a-runnin' rinrbf nn the rlpn iumn nicrb on tn few mile, just to git a look at the man that lets the women do all the Ulkm'." , General Horace Porter, in Harper's. rOPULAE AMERICAN SffXGS. ' IVhat They Are and Who Wr" Them Origin ! "Yankee DoJdl. "John Brown's Body," is an old Methodist camp meeting tunernd the words, were adapted to it by ? 'j$ee club )f B.3ton. It was first published at Charlestown, Mass. Captain James 5reehleaf, an organist of the Harvard :hurch,set the notes for music, and a Mas sachusetts regiment made them first ooted by singing them in Fort Warren in 1861. The author of "Maryland, My Mary land," lives here at Washington, and, ,-ou may see him in the press galleries of Jongress almost any day durii ; the ses-T uon. He writes gossipy letters to the Atlanta Chronide. His name is James !i. RandalLand he-is a mdeiiooking, lark-omplexioned man o? ly. He nust have been very young when he vrote that beautiful poem. "America" was written by the Rev. Samuel Franc'u Smith in 1M, and it ivas first sung in Boston on th,e 4th of luly of that year. Like tho "Battle Hymn of the Republic," it was inspired oy a great tune viz: "God Save the ting." This tune is in use in nearly BVery country, and it has been ascribed to Handel. " Tha writer of the words Jtill lives in Massachusetts, and he" says ae wrote the song at a sitting He is aow seventy-five years old, 'and he Efraduated at Harvard in the 'me class with Oliver Wendell Holmes John Howard Payne's "Hoi5y Sweet Home.'! was written for an of 'ra, and he never got anything for H but his tombstone in Oak Hid cemetery., It was first sung in the Covent Garden theatre in London, and made a b'g hit. One hundred thousand copies were sold the first year, and by the end of tliCf ' second its publishers cleared $10,000 frtm it. Foster got $15,000 for wriLirfg "Old Polks at Home." Charles Didbin netted several weeks' board for writing "Poor Jack," while his publishers made $15, 000 out of it. Crouch, the wjiter of "Kathleen Mavoureen," receivcd;425 for the production, and afterward became a begging tramp, while his p.rhlishers could have . built a brow lift stone front out of its sales, eorge P.. Morris wrote ' "VVc)clman, Spare That Tree," because the purchaser of a friend's estate wanted to cut down a tree which his grandfather had planted. His friend paid the purchaser $10 to spare it. Morris ' was touched Aby the itory and wrote the song. "Hail Columbia" was written Jjy Jo seph Hopkinson in the summer 6 1798, and it was first called tne "President's March." It was always sung wherf Wash- ' ington came into the the.itre, and one of the objects of its writing was the culti vation of a patriotic spirit amocg the people of the republic. Joseph Hopkin son was twenty-eight yee old when he wrote it. An autograph cony ja8,aed in 1823 was shown at tiie CeLieu.kl i 1 was first set to music by a German mu sic teacher at Philadelphia named Roth. "The Star Spangled Banner" was written by Francis Scott Key while watching the bou bardment of Fort Mc Heury. He was in a small vessel among the British ships and he saw his coun trymen win the victory. All through the fight he watched anxiously to see if the flag-was still standing, looking for it at night by the flash of the bombshells and anwiously awaiting the dawning. The song was printed in the Baltimore American eight days after the battle under the title of "The Defense of Fort McHenry. Many people will be surprised to know that "Yankee Doodle" is not of , Ameri can origin. Even the words date back bepnd the days of Queen Anne, and the tune is still older. In the wars of the Roundheads, says Commodore Preble in his book on the flag of the United States, to which, by the way, I Am indebted for much of this information, "Yankee Doo dle" was applied in derision to Crom well, and Professor Rimbault, a promi nent physician of London, wrote the song directed at Cromwell under this title. The jingle of these two songs are about the same, and the words are not much different. Dr. Schuchburg first introduced the song into this country in 1775, and this was also in contempt of the ragged colonial soldiers. At Con cord and Lexington the British, when advancing to fight, bravely played "God Save the" King," and after they were defeated the Yankees, as they watched their retreat, struck up "Y'ankee Doodle." "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," "was written by Thomas A. Becket, an English actor, who in 178'J was a teacher of music at Philadelphia. "The Blue and the Gray" was written by Francis Miles Finch, and delivered before a reunion of the Army of the Potomac. It was drawn out by the fact that the women of Columbus, Miss., strewed flowers on the graves of Confederate and Union soldiers alike. It was published in the Atlantic 'Monthly, September, 1867. Cleteland Leader. Life Saved hj Hanging Upside Down. A singular affair occurred in one of the pleasantest homes in the suburbs ol our city on- Friday, the relation of which may not only be of some ihterest, but also of some use to .-the reader. A few days ago the family physician vis ited the same residence, and in the course of conversation mentioned that while attending a sick child the child had. suddedly begun to suffo cate, owing to a quantity of mucus get ting into "its windpipe, and he had turned the child upside down in order to relieve it. This story passed almost unnoticed, except by .the sister of the lady of the house On Friday the fam ily." consisting of husband, wife and wife's sister, were at the table eating. Suddenly the wife began to show sisns of suffocation. Her husband resorted to the familiar remedy, of patting her smartly on the back; but it was unavail ing. She could not speak : her face be came of a purple hue and sh"? was evi dently at the point of death. At this moment her sister, remembering the doctor's story, seized her by the ankles. The husband caught the idea instantly, and the lady was soon in an inverted j position, whereupon she immediately j coughed up the food which had nearly I caused her death. The husband blesse? i himself for the story which the doetoi j so casually told, without any thought j that it might help to save a life. Provi dence Journal. When pity moves your hand to youi pocket don't let avarice withdraw it. POPULAR SCIENCE. A French scientist who says he has in vestigated 5,400 shocks of earthquakes, attributes them, like the tides, to the influence of the sun and moon. The in terior sea of fire, he argues, is subject to the same laws as the surface -sea of water. It has been shown experimentally that seed corn is rendered more valuable by being slowly kiln dried at a high tem perature, the corn so treated germinat ing in much colder weather than would otherwise be the case, while, on the other hand it may be exposed tl much greater heat without losing its germinat ing power. An interesting estimate of the amount in weight of one inch of rainfall on one ' acre of ground is thus given : An acre of ( ground contains 15,272, 648 inches square. I Rain one inch deep would give that many square inches; 1,728 cubic inches make one cubic foot. Rain one inch 1 deep would give :5,G:!0 cubic feet. A cubic foot of water weighs 02 J pounds; 2,000 makes a ton. This will give 226, 875 pounds, or 113 tons and 875 pound3, to the acre, of rain one inch deep. The age at which running can be prac tised, ah eminent physician says, by a healthy miia in training is f torn twenty to thirty. Boys and girls also of ten or twelve can run with no apparent fatigue. In boys' races, for those under fourteen years, no previous training should be inflicted. .No one should train for run ning until he is eighteen, but twenty would be the safer. Between thirty and forty a wise man will think twice before undergoing training for race running. Older men should run on no pretence whatever. Fahrenheit supposed the absolute zero of temperature to Le thirty-two degiees of the scale below the fieezing point of Water. Later physicists have found that It must be 492 degrees below freezing-point, or 400 degrees below Fahren heit's zero. The temperature of the globe is known to fall in polar regions as low as 75 degrees below the Fahren heit zero, and in recent experiments in liquefaction of gases two Russian chem ists have produced an artificial cold of 346 degrees below zero. The latlertem perature 114 degrees above the theoret ical zero point is the lowest which has fallen under the observation of man. Mr. W. Martein Williams remarks that the popular notion that mos-piitoes are chiefly resident in tropical and sub tropical countries is quite a mistake, the home of their mightiest legions being within and about the Arctic circle. On coasting trips to tue North Cape even, vessels are invaded by maddening swarms at every stopping place. It is reported that in Alaska they form clouds so dense that it is impossible for sportsmen to aim at objects beyond. Native dogs are sometimes killed bv them, and even the great grizzly bear is said to be occa f'on&Wy Minded bv their attacks and finally starved in conseouence. The directors of the Paris observatory remark that the heavens may be com pletely photographed in 6,000 sections similar to a section of the Milky Way shown in a chart presented to the French academy of sciences. The whole work might be done at six or eight well situ ated observatories in five or six years. It is declared tuat such a work, contain ing the photographs of over 20,000,000 stars down to the fourteenth or fifteenth magnitude, aud bequeathing to future astronomers an exact picture of the starry regions at the close of the nine teenth century, would certainly be the greatest astronomic undertaking ever carried out Sympathetic Bruises. At the last meeting of the French Academy of Medicine, Dr. Brown-Se-quard related a very remarkable instance of the power of sympathy which came within his recent observation. A little girl was looking out of a window in a house in the Batignolles a few days ago. The lower sash was raised, and the child had placed her arms on the sill. Sud denly the support on which the sash rested gave way and the window fell with- considerable force on the little girl's arms, inflicting a severe bruise. Her mother, who was in the room at the time, happened to look toward the win dow at the moment of the accident, and witnessed it. She fainted with fri'ght, "and remained insensible for a minute or two. When she recovered she was con scious of a severe pain in both arms; and on examining the seat of it she was amazed to find on each arm a bruise cor responding in position to that left by the accident on the child's, though more extensive. Coming from a less accred ited source such a story would only pro voke a smile of incredulity; but Dr. Brown-Sequard's position in the world of science does not permit of this sum mary mode of disposing of a statement for which he vouches. St. James's Ga zette. Fishing by a Hen. Joseph T. Favinger. of Lawrenceville, East Coventry township, is the owner of a Plymouth Rock hen which is possessed of the peculiar trait of seeking in the water for a portion of its livelihood. Pigeon creek empties into the Schuylkill river at Mr. Favinger's machine shops, just after furnishing the power for that industry, and before doiDg so flows over a shallow, pebbly bottomed bed in which numerous minnows are at all times to be seen. Lately the hen referred to, which probably first discovered the spot in seeking a place for water, has gotten in the habit of visiting this place daily and soending some time in wading about the shallow water and catching live minnows. whi:h, as it catches them in its bill, carries them to shore and after pecking them until they make no more movements swallow thera whole. The hen's method of catching the fish is to go in among a school of small fish and drive them toward a spot where the water is so shallow that they are scarcely able to sw m. when it will plunge in among them and is almot certain of capturing one at each effort. Wtst thuter (I'enii.) VtUa-je lie&srJ. Creditable to the Mannfaelnrer. Landlady, handing bill to Ixiarder: "This is the forty-seventh time, Mr. Jones, I have presented this bill.'' Boarder, taking it from her bands and examining it cr.tically: "Is ihat so, Mrs. Sweet? Well, it don't 6how thl wear and tear at all. Have you any idea who manufactures this paper" Cincin nati Merchant' Traveler. ARTIFICIAL LEGS AND ARMS. II 9 w They At TIade.and Their Pecu liarities ef ntechaniam. " 'Cork' limb3, did you siy my friend,' replied a Denver dealer in these lovelv subtitutes for nature's original gift, in-reply to a Tribune-Repvblinan re- j porter inquiry for information. "It is j 'ork'.now only by courtesy, in a 'trans ferred! sense,' as the classical grammari- i anstcllus. Artificially lctrs and arms were originally made of cork to secure lightness, but both the material and the models were clumsy beyond endurance when compared . wfth the perfected model and material of to-day?" "What material is used now?" "Willow and maple; because of their rightly proportioned weight, durability, I strength, and just surrietent elasticity. J This was found out after much labor and j expense in experimenting, ana nas re sulted of late in such perfect substitutes for the natural article that the children may be said to cry for them. Take be-low-the knee amputations; in a short time the patient can walk just as well as anybody else. Why, a man can skate or run with these things on, though it seems at first like a stretcher. But when above the knee it is quite different. A tnan who loses his knee-joint is in bad shape, though the present subs'itutesare so excellent that only a light limp is no ticeable." "Do you make to order or are supplies kept in stock to suit the purchaser like clothing and foot-wear?" "Invariably to order, as it would be Impossible to keep a sufficiently large stock on hand to suit all comers. We measure for the necessary limb, and in two weeks it is ready for the cripple. Measurements are taken thus," said the doctor, spreading out a large sheet of manilaon the floor, on which was drawn a right arm and hind,' while a stump ap peared along side in pencil. "Hee, here is the way we do. The man wants an arm or a leg. He lays out the whole and the amputated member side . by side on paper where I make a drawing of both. lhis is sent with specifications as to style and cost of goo Is to the manufac turer, who can tell from the drawing just what is wanted every time." "What if the limb doesn't fit?" "Then the manufacturer is out two express charges and the cost of making things all right. Some eastern makers in fitting a limb, if they find a false thigh too long they saw it in two, slice off half an inch or so. glue the parts to gether again, and refit tiil satisfactory. If too short, a piece is set in. but of course such work as this below the knee is impossible, because of the ligament? or tendons by which the lower leg ia worked. With thigh amputations the upper leg is kept in place on the stump by suspenders, the stump being protected flf'oni galling by a silk or worsted sack. 1 inow a man with but six inches of thiah. rtsi ne gets a.ouiiii cm.-- fibough, of course, he has to throw tins leg and cuts an ungainly figure, but UV a deal sight better than flinging one's self around on crutches. i "Now, with amputation at the knee and below, a laced bearing of leather is worn on the thigh, connecting with the main leg below by iron side-straps, which move backward and forward on screw axis joints at the knee. It is in tin; leather setting that he thigh shank rests, and w hich sustains t ie direct weight of the body, llcie ii the knee-jo-ut incclian'sm. A short rod from the t'ni-h pare ends of the knee center-point iu a branch, the ends of the axis turning in truuion, supports reaching from the upper sides of the lower leg. "That makes the knee joint, and by a spring attachment the leg is thrown intj posi tion. One model has a steel pin for the knoe to work on, but I don't think much of it beside this. Now, here are tendon? running down through the hollow calf into the foot so that the foot works on the ankle joint, ahd its movements bea the proper relation to those of the calf and upper leg. But the best thing in the way of false feet is the-lndia rubber foo. See how the toes and heel work exactly like the natural footj It has a block of wooU for the core, to give it solidity and iniike a suitable base for calf construction. No tendons, no foot ma chinery of any kind; they are finding a ready market." "What one thing more than another causes the loss of legs and arms?" "Rai road accidents, as far as legs are concerned, and thev come to us in all shapes. Arms are lost mostly among the miners, from premature explosions or from falls and rocks flying from blasts. The railroads also contribute their share. "A false arm put on above the dhow is of precious little use except for show. But with a good elbow-joint agreatdeal can be accomplished. See this false arm how freely and naturally the wrist joint moves, while as for the fingers, they will stay in any position you place them, so that one can write, drive a horse, work in the fields, and do lots of things. Some people have a hook inserted in the palm, to have a firmer hold. It often comes in very handily. A laced leather gauntlet on the upper arm secures false arms firmly to the stump, as with the leg. but where the elbow joint is amputated a false upper arm fits onto the stump, and the elbow connection has a universal bearing, so that the arm can be placed in any position desired." "Are there many people in Denver with false limbs?" "All of fifty men have false limbs, mostly legs, and three women have false legs. Had one miner from Montana for two new hands not long since. There was a man in town named Tinwlale, with both eyes about gone and both hands wanting, but he has left without getting new hands, and he'll be sorry for it. Littleton has a cowboy with both legs g'ne below the knee from freezing. He was fitted out here, and now rides his mustang just as well as ever. It is surprising to see how quickly a man will learn to wa it, even where there is an mputat :on above both knees. In New York or Chicago a Denver man will pay 150 to 200 for a leg, while here in town their'cost Is $ 10'J; only, the price is the saihe whether the leg is off above or below-the knee. Ad arm above the elbo costs $75: below, $40. Thy cost to the manufacturer is, for a leg. not over ; for an arm.about ?1". s you see there is a tremendous profit. i"tt like the poor druggists who buv acetic acid in 1 rge lots for two cents per pou: d and sell it here for fifteen cents an ounce." St UMZR CClirAXIOMS. 'Mid the flowers and the brake, In the run, in the shower. One with insect and bird, Children born for an hourt They pitched their white tent On my wi'd bloontios sward, Contentel with summer And nature unbarred. One morning when storm-wind Swept over the land. And the fog-bell was tolling: Blind ships from the straud, I sought uiy green pasture And Mil-sheltered birds; There was silenca for laughter. And sadness for words. For again with the season When soft Vive? fettsrn. Go I s sweetness of sunshine. And lilies that burn, Do they pitch on my greensward "their white-winged te'it. Nor dance in cool sunshine When clover is bunt. Then come, mighty storm-wind. Companion thou me. For in dark and in terapesi r My spirit is free ! The summer may go. And the flowers they may die. On thy w ing to my dearest Ever nearer 1 fly. -!lttpcr's Magazine. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.. Loafing is doing nothing laboriously. The craw fish is very forward about 'oiim backward. Merchant- TntieWr. Misery a girl with a new dress on and to place to go. Marathon Independent. The Finnish language ought to be .aught at all boarding-schools. Pica tunc "Women dentists are gaining ground a (ierman," says a Boston paper. Achera )f it, hef doubt. Liicell Couriir. More than $:!0, 000,000 is invested' in ielephones in the I nited States, and yet lome people say talk is cheap. Derrick. A demist in a Western city is named Leggo. As a usual thing, however, he iv ill not do so until it is out. Bontoa Vot. Perhaps nothing has more of a ten dency to sour the milk of human kind ness "than a suring man in a sleeping ;ar. Ch icago l.e Iyer. A felon is a bad thing to havij, but there is one yood point aoout it. It is llwavs on hand when you want it and when you don't. Tcxi Si fling. "Oh, where does beauty linger?" is the query of a Quaker City poetess. If Deauty has any senvc te speak of she's lingering iu the shade. BLz&ird. A shrewd pirl hurried up things won 3erfuTly By assTrrtttg!-3tti that ihe despise 1 those females whoSiontinue to eat ire cream after they ure married. "This world is all a fleeting how. A circus, quite complete; And he who had the fattest purse Will have the linest seat." Philadelphia World. A school journal advises, "Make the Ichool intensely interesting." That's what the small boy triei to do to the bet of his ability. Jiurlingtoii Free Preen. "Wilt thou;" he asked a maiden fajr, Who oft ha 1 lovers jilted. I She gazed at t:e tlienn euetair. And then the weakly wbtu.l. S w York Journal. There is a Chinese laundryinan in Cali fornia who has uo chin, which leads us to remark that we wi-hour washerwoman were alllictcd in a similar way." She has too much chin altogether. Lowell UUi icn. There arc times in a man's life when the whole sky seems rose colored, and this old, dull world a paradise. One of these is when be has discovered a quar ter in the lining of his old vest. Boston Post. "I rathcrl marry a yallcr dog than, rou," wrote a California girl td a suitor. She afterward reconsidered her determi nation and married him. He-now wishes he had taken her at her word. Neat York Graphic. Roots are seldom worn in the evening ind undrcsed kid is the favorite ma terial for slippers, says a fashion jour nal. It may be added that slippcra are not a favorite material with the un dressed kid. The Hatchet. A shipmaster who his returned from Samoa sas that the English residents there make as much e.s $20,000 a year by Kqueezincr the natives. Gracious. We tlid n't know there was as much money is that in hugging. Graphic. Because Mis LulA Hurst has retired from the stage it does not follow that she bas lost any of her magnetic quali ties. Indeed, it is not unlikely that tbe neat little fortune which she has gath ered during her tour will prove-more ol an attraction to strongmenMhan the um brella which they found so hard to let go. Indianapolis Journal. A PICXir: PHA5TAHT. Come let ua jump aboard th train! Oh, hear the whistle blow! All nature sems to smile on us, Let's to the picnic go. We'll drink the sparkling lemonade, . The san iwiehc we'll munch. Baseball we'd p ay. likewi- croquet, And daily witn tbe lunch. Oh. what a jolly time I've had! I danee and lauh with glee, A beetle hat crawled down my back, I feel him round my knee. A bumb!e-bee has toyed with me, And in my shoes are auta. I gat u;on a lemon pie. And spoiled my Sunday pants. Man and Horse. A friend who was at Saratoga last sea son when MrVanderbilt was there with his famous horse, Maud S.. which ht then owned, informs us that the mare held receptions at certain hours, duriog w hich thousands of people of both sexes and all ages paid their respects to her. Each one would give Miss Maud S. couple of pats on the nozzle, and would then retire as having been permitted to enjoy a DriVilege which they never had anticipated, while right by the mars stood Vanderbilt, who though worth 200. 000,000. was parsed by appaiently unworthy of the least notice. This is tiwelGermanUntn (Pmn.) Telegraph. r
Moore Gazette (Carthage, N.C.)
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