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LEXINGTON WEEKLY BUDGET.
VOL. 2.
LEXINGTON, MOIUIOW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. t), 1890.
NO. IB.
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ORE'iON
JJ P. SINE,
Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public,
LEXINGTON, OREGON.
Attorney for the North American Attorneys
and Tradesmen's Protective Union of Cuunuc
ticut. J1RANK KELLOGO,
Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public,
HEPl'NEK, OREGON.
Money ts loan on improved farms. Oillce in
First Natioual Bunk.
O. BOON,
Constable and Collector,
LEXINGTON, ORKOON.
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JJRS. KATE PAB8ELL,
Notary Public and Conveyancer,
ALPINE, OREGON.
Deeds, Mortgage and all others Legal Instru
ments carefully drawn. Apnlications for riute
aud School Lauds made,auu Pensions obtained.
JiBANK H. SNOW,
Land Agent and Notary Public,
LEXINGTON, OREGON.
Filings taken on government land. Real
estate advertised and sold on commission. New
comers are invited to call and be tilled full of
solid facta about the advantages of Morrow
country, oillce hour '.urn 7 a. v. to midnight,
Bluuet building.
R. LIEUALLEN,
GENERAL . BLACKSMITH
Andll lorseshoer,
TS ALWAYS ON DECK AND PREPARED TO
i do anything in bis line in a neat and work
manlike ineuuer. Horses shod with care aud
accuracy.
Shop on O BU, Lexington, Or.
G. W. BROCK,
A V 1 1 1ALla VUl I Q
REPAIRING DONE.
Arcade Street, Drt. C and D,
Lexington, ... Oregon.
ELKHORN
KELSE MAGNUSON, Proprietor.
LEXINGTON, OR.
HORSES BOARDED BY THE
DAT OR WEEK.
Outfit Furnished for Commercial Men
at Reaaonavbl Rate.
Att
Kisna or TrRNOuts and saddlb
liorae at th disposal 01 patron.
Livery & Feci Stable
Mashed ly a Marchioness.
I've lately irone and Itwt my 'art, und where
you II never (mess;
I'ai rcirularly luaghcii upon a lovely Mai-chio-
nor-s!
Twas at a fancy fulr wo mot, Inside tho Albert
8o affable she smiled at me us I cnino near her
BlUlll
At titles and distinctions oneo I'd Ijrnorantly
SCO If,
As if no bond could be betwixt the tradesman
anil t he Toll I
I held with those whu'dilo uwny with difference
lu ranks.
But that was nil before I met tho Murchlonoss
of Manx I
A home was being Bbirled by sonic kind aristo
crats, Fororplmn kittens, born of poor but well-con-neeteil
cuts.
And on the swells who pluniied a foto this ob
ject to assist,
Tho Marchioness of Manx's naino stood fore
most ou the list.
I never saw a smarter hand at serving in a
shop,
Forovery likely customer Bho caught upon
the 'opl
And from the form her hulyshlp displayed at
that bu.itar,
Vou might have took your oath Bhe'd been
brought up behind a barl
Id vain I tried to kid her that my purso had
been forgot,
Bho spotted me In 'alf a Jiff, and chaffed me
precious iiotl
A sov, for olio regallar slio gammoned mo to
spend,
"You really can't refuse," she-Bald, "I've bit
ten off the end!"
"Do buy my crov-el work," she urged, "It goes
across a chair;
You'll find It conio in useful, as I sco you 'lie
your 'airl"
So I landed over thirty bob, though not a corny
bloke;
I couldn't tell a Marchioness how nearly I was
broke!
A raffle was tlio next concern I put my rhino
In:
The prise a talking parrot, which I didn't wunt
to win.
Then her sister. Lady Tubby, showed a painted
UlllKlllg KIOOI,
And I bought It, though It's not a thing I sit on
as a rule.
The Marquis kept a-fldgctlng and frowning at
ins wno,
For she talked to mo as freo as If she'd known
me all my life!
I felt that I was iu tho swim, bo wasn't over
awed. But 'ling about aud spent my cash as lavish as
a lordl
Next time T meet tho Marchioness a-rldlng In
tho Itow,
I'll ketch her eye und raiso my 'at, aud up to
her I'll go,
And tell her next my 'art I keep the stump of
that cigar
She sold me on tho 'nppy day we 'ud at her
bazaar 1
Punch.
SHE WANTED TO MARRY.
On a wild mountain road between the
Yadkin river nnd Salisbury, N. C, I cam
npou a humble cablu In which resided tin
Widow Watklua nnd her three children,
the oldest being a boy of 15 and the voting
est a Lirl of 5. I hud heard of the widow
while ten miles away. Her husband was a
Justice of the Pence and something of a
religious exhorter, and what he dldti'l
know about the history of America wasn't
worth looking up. His mule ran away
with htm one day, Buys M. Quad In the
Detroit Free Pre, and fell Into a rnvlne
and both were killed. The widow, as one
of the natives expressed It, was '"tho well
flxedest woman In four counties;" having
a small farm nil clear nnd considerable
personal property. Half a mile from the
house I met Jeremiah, the boy spoken of.
Ho was bareheaded, barefooted, coat less
vestless, nnd so freckled that It wns hard
to sny what his natural complexlou was.
He rose up off a rock as I approached,
made an nwkwnrd bow und said:
"Cribbing, stratiKer."
"Cribbins to you, my boy. And who
may you bc"
"Jerry Watklns."
"Son of the widow, eh!"
Yaas. He you'n he 'uuf"
"Yes."
"From the no'thr"
"Yes."
"Cum to see tun?"
"Yes; I'll stop for dinner."
'"Glad on't. Uwine to hev' chicken. Mn
tent me out to meet you 'tin."
"Many tliunks to both of you."
"Say!" he continued, as he trotted alona
beside me, "I like you 'an; you 'tin wean
white shirts and clothes, and I'll jiKKer
(bet) you 'un know roots from tree-tops,
llev' vou 'un cum to mnrry ma?"
I laughed, nnd lie was much put out foi
a moment. Then he said:
"Wish you 'un would. Then I could
hev' a gun. If you 'un will I'll mind
everything you say."
"Perhaps your mother doesn't want to
marry nguln."
"Muffsl She'd marry you 'un like light
ning. Sny! if you 'un has her, you 'un
will git me a gun, won't you! Say! I saw
b'ar yesterday. Suyl I know whar 1
could shoot a powerful lot o' 'coous. Say'
I'll speak to mam fur ye If you 'un wil)
promise the gun."
The widow was at the door to give me
welcome. The second child, who was a
10-year old girl, was barefooted and freck
led and towheadod, and the younger one
had on only a single garment and was roll
lng in the dirt
"Cum right tn an' squat," said the
widow as we shook hands. "Pete McCoy
was saying last night that you was headed
this way and would stop, Ar' ye thirst
able? May, Jostle him over a gloss of but
termilk. We'll cribbins (eat) iu about ao
hour."
We talked about the weather, the staU
of the roads, etc., as she bustled around to
get dinner, but pretty soon Jerry went
out of doors and called
"Ma! ma! Cum outer yere!"
"Jerry, you shet!" replied the mother.
"Ma! will you 'un marry he 'uuf" con
tinued Jerry.
"Now, Jerry, if yer don't stop yer gu
rum I'll skin yer alivel" she excluimod, ai
he stood in the dwor and flourished a skil
let at him.
Jerry ramie off and sat down on a log,
and tbe widow turned to me to explain
"Don't pay no seriousness to he 'un, sir
Jerry wants a new pop right bad, and I di
ay that I'm dun tired of this yere glttin'
along alone. But I'm not (twine teroffei
myself to anybody."
Just before dinner the oldest girl mali
friends with me, materially assisted by
tome candy, and she suddenly bawled out
"Mat mat irwlna to marry hlinf"
"Now, Molly!" chided the mother.
"Wish yer would!" added the youngest
who went by the linmo of Nnncy.
"Now, Nancy! While I do go fur to saj
he 'tin is the smartest-looking strangei
I've seen fur a year, mebbe he 'un don't
think shucks of me."
I kept fighting shy of the main question
nnd by-und-by we sat down to dinner
The blessing had been senrcely asked whei
Jerry, who had made a tremendous effurl
to wash his face and comb his hairOtsSaed
up nt his mother nnd asked
"Has he 'un asked you yltf" - "-
"Jerry!" she chided.
"Hut don't he 'un want yer!"
"Jerry!"
"But don't I want a now pap and a gun!'
he loudly demanded.
"Don't serious him," she said to me in
she helped me to a leg of a chicken,
"While I will go fur to declare that 1 hav
seventy-six acres of land, three mewls, a
cow, thirty-two hogs, four stacks of hay
and f;J8 in cash, I've alius sorter disagreed
with second marriages. They mayn't be
happy."
"Your husband was a good man, I've
heard," I replied.
"Yes. A pumpkin is good good 'nufl
fur a pumpkin. He knowed considerable,
nnd thur' was considerable he nevei
kuowed. lie was all coodness too murv
of it. Never made a hundred dollars lu
his life."
"You must have been quite a business
woman to have got nloug so well."
"You jigger! 1 klu turn a dollar as well
ns the best of 'cm. While I will go fur tc
say second mnrrlnges are not alius happy,
the man who gits me dou't git no sitter
nor complnlner."
I managed to turn the subject for awhile,
but as soon as dinner was over .lorry took
his mother into the other room for a con
sultation, and Molly ciuno aud sut ilowu
beside me, and nsked
"Do you 'un like ma?"
"Oh, yes."
"And she likes you. Wish you was my
pap. Mebbe you will bo by to-morrer."
1 went out and sat down under a tree tc
smoke a cigar, and pretty soon Jerry came
out. He had a busiuess look all over his
face ns ho said
"I've nxed mn If she would hev' ye."
' Have you? You ure real klud."
"And she says she will."
"Indeed!"
"And how about that gnu? When shall
I git It?"
"Say, Jerry, did you over have dollar
all at once?" I nuked.
"Lor' no nor two bits!"
"If I'll give yon a big silver dollar, will
you let up on that guu until I come
again!"
"Will I? Hoop Buakes and bad fighters,'
f ...lllltl
1 gave him the dollar ami he dashed)'
through the house to show It to his sis
ters, and then started on a run for a neigh
bor's two miles awny. When. I returned
to the house and said I must be going I
was met by such an avalanche of protests
that. I had to agree to stay until next day.
That night I "sut up" with the Widow
Wut kins. I got around to it after awhile
to state that I was living with my third,
and had three sets of children numbering
live in a set, and that I couldn't possibly
see how I could make her my wife. I was
very sorry, but helpless, aud I hoped she
would let me semi her a new glugliuui
dress from Salisbury.
"That's honest mid straight," she said,
in reply. "While I will go fur to say 1
like yer looks, and I believe we could
live happily together, if ye can't marry,
why, ye can't. Yo would if ye could,
wouldn't ye?"
"Quicker'n seal!"
"That's next to It, nnd I'll go fur to say
that I'll wait live years on ye and see how
things turn. Mebbe I'll wait six, but I'll
say live fur sartin. I'd us lief be a fourth
as a second wife."
And she is waiting, while Jerry writes
that "gnus hev got so cheapless that he
kin git one fur II vu dollars."
Marble I'onds of Persia.
The wonders of nature consists o)
pools, where the indolent waters, by a
slow and regular process, stagnate, con
crete, anil petrify, producing that beau
tiful transparent stone, commonly call
ed tiibriss marble, much used in the
burial places of Persia, and in their
best edifices. These ponds ure con
tained within the circumference of half
a mile, and their position is distinguish
ed by heaps of stones which have ac
cumulated as the excavations have in
creased. The process of petrification
may be traced from its commencement
to Us termination, lu one part the
water is clear; In a second it appears
thicker and somewhat stagnant, in a
third stage quite black, contrasting
strongly with the fourth and last stage,
in which it is white as hoar frost. In
the third stage, when the surface is
quite black, it can be indented by toss
ing a stone on the surface; but in walk
ing across it it will no more stick to
your shoes than greased taffy will to the
hands. Such is the constant teudancy
of this water to become stone that when
it exudes from the ground in bubbles
the petrilication assumes a globular
shape, at if the bubbles of a spring, by
a stroke of magic, had been arrested
in their play aud metamorphosed into
stone.
The substance thus produced is brit
tle, transparent, and sometimes richly
streaked with green, red, and copper
colored veins. It admits of being cut
iuto very large slabs, and takes a good
polish. So much do the people in the
laud of the shah look upou this stone
an article of luxury that none but the
shah, his sons, and persons privileged
by special edicts are permitted to use
i
I A Wadsworth, O., man has a pumkin
which is almost cubic in form and is as
large as a soap box. Ho will exhibit
11 at the county fair.
' Samuoi Kauffuian.a York County Pi
tobacco grower, ban some leaven oval
, live feel long.
History of Forks.
A silver plater says. "Iu only one
mediieval record is there any men
tion of tho use of a fork after the
fashion of modern times. Thu hero
ine of this record is a Byzantine
woman, who married a Doge of Venice
many centuries ago. lu Venice this
Byzantine woman continued to cat as
sho ate at home. Slio cut her meats in
ven small bits on her latu ami car
rier each bit to her mouth on a two
tiimd fork. Tho people of Vcnico re
garded this unusual manner of ealing
as a symptom of morbid luxury.
"In all probability, as this incident
Indicates, tho modern uso of the fork
originated ut the cultivated Bvzanlino
court, and spread gradually to the West.
Tlui Western people did not tako kind
ly, however, to this instrument of new
fangled Eastern table manners. Many
centuries were required for its general
introduction and adoption. The
famous By.antino who ale with her
fork in Venice lived in the eleventh
century. Not till tho seventeenth cen
tury did the great folk of Eurjipo begin
to follow her example.
"in 10.52 the use of forks, according
to modern ideas, was general Iv known
but not generally adopted. iJeylin, an
English writer, mentioned it then as
the custom among dandies. In a
French bonk printed in 1073 are these
words: 'When a person helps himself
from the platter he should take care not
to take his piece before the most dis
tinguished persons have taken fneirs.
A person should take all he wants at
onetime, and not keep slicking his
lingers iuto the dish to pull out piece
after piece.' Earlier in the century a
princess of Conde was still eating with
her lingers. Louis XIII. ate with a
fork, but his wife, Anna of Austria, who
was educated at the Spanish court, ale
with her lingers, although she was very
proud of her beautiful hands."
A Remarkable Timepiece.
On the desk of Edson B. Braco, In
the navy department, is a little rose
wood casu writes a Washington corre
spondent. It is in the form of a cube,
and eoutiiins a chronometer nieh as is
used on all naval vessels. This little
instrument has quite a tragic history
and is held of considerable value. i
was the ship's chronometer of the un
fortunate Polaris that was sent out on
an Arctic expedition in 1H71. When the
Polaris was nipped in the ice Captain
Hall saved this iiislriniont and some
other things from the vessel. As long
a Captain Hall survived he kept the
chronometer w ith him. When he
perished it was buried in the Arctic
snows und abandoned. This was some
time in 1472. For four winters it lay
buried in thu snow and ice.
In 1876 Captain Nares, of the British
navy, now Sir tieorge Nares, dis
covered this chronometer at Newman's
Bav. He dug it out of tiie snow and
took it to England witli him on his re
turn. It hail then been buried in the
snow for four years in a region where
the mercury sinks to 104 degrees below
freezing point. It was found to be in
perfect order, ami was wound and ran
all right, as soon as laken from ils cold
bed. On returning to England Cap
tain Nares turned the instrument over
to the British admiralty olliee, from
whence it was sent to this government.
With all this experience it loses only a
single second iu twenty-four hours.
Wine at $2,000,000 a 1 Initio.
Wine nt 2,(KM),(KM) a bottle is a drink
that in expense would rival thu luxu
rious taste of barbaric splendor, when
priceless pearls were thrown into the
wine-cup to give a rich flavor to its con
tents; yet in the city of Bremen just
such a costly beverage may be found.
In the wonderful wine-cellar under the
Hotel de Ville, in the Rnse apartment.
there are twelve cases of holy wine,
each case inseii led with the name of
one of the apostles. This ancient wine
was deposited in lis present resting
place in the year 1024, 26; years ago.
One case of this wine, consisting of live
exhofts of 204 bottles, cost ,000 rix
dollars in 1024. Including the ex
pense of keeping up the cellar, interest
ou the original outlay, nnd interests
upon interests, one of I hose oxhofts
would to-'!ay cost bhh.w.it .h 10 nx-dnl-lars;
a single bottle, 2.72:1.812 rix-dol-iars;
a glass, or the eighth part of a
hoi tie, is worth 310,476 rix-dollurs, or
272,:W0; or at the rate of 640 rix-dol-
lars, or 272, per drop.
A Novel Kcfrlgcrntor.
A young friend of mine, who lias for
several years each summer gone with
his father on a camping trip on the
south shore of Lake Superior, tells me
of a novel expedient Limy often em
ployed tor preserving their venison iu
warm weather, lu that country some
of the streams are Hanked by long row
of sandhills, whose composition is so
loose that they shut about continually
under a wind of any force. In the win
ter time tint high w inds often blow the
sand over the great snow banks which
lie upon the north side of the sand
dunes, covering up the snow to a depth
of several feet, lhe snow is thus kept
umncltcd, and even in the middle ol
Slimmer one can dig down through the
sand to it and find the best imaginable
sort of a natural refrigerator. In this
way, said my young friend, they buried
their dec! and trout, and found they
kept entirely fresh so long as they cared
to leave them. This is certainly a new
instance of nature's Ixiuntiluluess with
flio sportsman. I'uratl ami Stream.
A lawyer, while arguing a case in n
Louisville court, was attacked with
rheumatism of the heart, ami calling
out, "What, am 1 deadr"' fell lifeless to
the floor.
PRECIOUS STONES.
Gems Only 1'rlzcd for Their Vulvar Worth,
Not for Their Natural Itcauty.
Tim very small catalogue of precious
stones popular with us may be one
cause of our poverty iu design; another
in our few forms, says the Vuntemjtorary
llt'.view. A brooch, ear-rings, linger
rings many people have no idea beyond
those a locket, rows of something
round the neck, studs, stars for the
hair voila tout! These orthodox "set"
cast and polished and machine engrav
ed, are its deadening as bad Taws.
Where there is no liberty there is no
enjoyment, and what becomes of the
joyau, the joyous guild? It seems there
are only n certain number of thingsonc
can do with diamonds. After the dia
mond coma some half-dozen well
kuowu mimes down to the dismal gar
net. Perhaps tho eminent lapidary nnd
mineralogist, liryee Wright, has done
more than anyone in the present dav to
increase the catalogue of our possible
ornaments, as he has materially aided
seienco by introducing a number ol
hitherto unknown minerals. At his
museum in Suville row, a haunt of evor
inereaslng splendor and interest, speci
mens of extraordinary beauty may be
seen not only the largest diamonds
and sapphires, the purest crystals and
lapis in the world, and other things
that delight the merely rich, hut curi
ositieswhite sapphires, colored dia
monds, black pearls, pink emeralds,
and exquisite specimens of novelties,
such as hiddeinde, Australian opals,
anil scores of beautiful materials which
most of us only know from the ltevela
tion of St. John; fabulous glories such
as lire children's dreams iu Mine.
d'Aulnoy's fairy tales where entire ta
bles of emerald, miniatures covered
with a sheet of diamond, and bracelets
cut in a single ruby are quite common
just such exquisite and rare objects
may be seen at Bryee Wright's, along
with many beautiful historical unliqiii
lies, worth any length of journey tc
view.
Iu my opinion there is no material f-c
beautiful as opal for cameo-ciilting, an
art revived by Bryee Wright with ex
traordinary success. I have a speci
men of its native matrix treated with
antique grace and ingenuity by Elser, u
well-known gem-culler. Ils color is at
vivid as I have seen in opal it glow
like a blue Hume; on close inspection
Venus and Cupid start out from tin
mouth of a gleamy cave with pillars ol
ivory. This is in the true spirit of the
old designers. 1 have an ancient corai
pendant curved iu a.gr.ieeful liguro ol
Our Lady stirroiiniliM by cherubim, and
ununited in arabesques of blue ami
while enamel. All s. Alma-1 ailetna h:u
a graceful sevciiteontii-oenliiry necklet
ol line blue enamel, an iiiterlaccry ol
true-love knots probably Italian.
These are jewels as opposed to the vul
gar, "noisy," concatenations of dia
monds dislinguisliahle from glass only
by the dichroseope, though costing a
fortune which we conned wilh women
of wealth but no training.
How Johnnie Caught Haulers.
A little boy was very fond of ramb
ling in the woods in southern Georgia,
and every time he went out ho would
capture a rattlesnake and bring it home
alive.
"How do you catch them, JolinnioP"
said the mother.
"Jos' so," said the hoy, and be
showed her the operation. He would
take a large candy jar and place the
month of the jar iu front of the 'rat
tler. Then he would lirmlv tix his
gaze upon the snake and hold him
spell IhhiihI. ilo would then punch
the snake's tail with long stick and
shove him along until lie had him
secure in the bottle.
In this manner ho captured thirty
rattlers, anil placed them ou shelves in
tlie kitchen.
The curious colled ion remained there
for some time. One morning the
mother missed the snakes and also the
boy. She looked around the house and
found them nowhere. Finally she
heard laughter iu the front yard. She
went out and beheld a fantastic
spectacle. The young kid wasdancing
Hioiiiiil the front yard, while the thirty
snakes were twisting around flowers
and hushes, and had converted the
llower yard into a regular Hiiakcdoin.
Atluiim t'hriminte.
A Jewel In Great Demand.
It is doubtful whether Shaksnearo'l
toad,
tlirly ami venomous,
Wears yd a precious Jewel In his head,
but there is a belief current in all parts
of India that a certain variety of snake,
called Shesh Nag, when it attains tho
age of 1,000 years has a precious jewel
formed iu its head. This jewel, it is
allirined, possesses the quality of suck
ing up the poison of the deadliest snake
if applied to the wounded part.
Strangely enough, a Parsee gentleman
is reputed to possess this invaluable
jewel, according to a correspondent ol
a Gujarati weekly published at Wadhaii,
in Gujarat.
The correspondent says that when
the present owner, who by the way is
now C.'l, was 2:) years old ho found a
snake of the above-mentioned variety,
which he killed. Then he found the
jewel in its head. It has already saved
several lives. Last year when Mr.
Vidal, the collector of the district, was
there it was shown to him. The jewel
is said to contain a thin crescent-liko
liber, which unceasingly oscillates in
the center. His Highness the Galkwar
of B.roda, his Highness the Maharajah
of Kolliapur, and several other native
priuoes are said to have offered more
than 100,000 rupees for this unique
jewel. The name and address of the
owner iru Kraiuji Ladahhal Govekar,
Tarapur, Bombay l'resideucv. JcwtU
r' Werlriu
BORING A BREECH-LOADING CANNON
At last tho cannon is turned down,
and is ready to be bored inside. In
this operation it must be bored so
straight and true that the boring tool,
entering at the exact center of the small
end of the cannon, will come out pre
cisely at tho center of the large end,
seventeen feet nway. Those of you
who have tried to bore a straight
hole lengthwise through even a short
bit of wood will know that this work
requires not a little skill and care.
When any of you boys have a job of
boring to do at your work-bench, you
make fast the article to be bored ami
turn the lairing tool. It is just the
other way iu boring a cannon. The
boring tool or "bit," is held linn and
motionless, while thu great mass of
steel to be bored turns around. This
plan is found to insure steadiness of t lie
"hit." It would be almost impossible
to make this bit iirm and solid enough
to do its dillicult work, and yet free to
turn around in the cannon. So if you
had been at the side of this gun-lathe
when the work was begun you would
have seen that the bit was motionless
except for a slow advance iuto the
gun.
The bit attends strictly to business,
and steadily bores its way through the
steel. Most of you have been to thu
country and have seen a pig "rooting"
intheground. Imagine, then, the pig
to be standing still and the ground to
be slowly passing under the pig's snout
and being "rooted," and yon will havo
a case much Ike that of the bit and the
cannon. In fact, the boring tool is
called a "hog-nosed" bit, ami it roots
tip thai in as if it enjoyed the
operation. No long, graceful curls
come from this boring, hut small, crisp
shavings that are removed as fast as
thev accumulate in order that the bor
ing loot's work shall not be interfered
Willi. The bit is going into the steel
at the rale of throe-eighths of an incii
for every turn of thu cannon, and it is
making a round hole almost largo
enough for a boy to put his head in
live aud three-quarter inches in di
ameter. As tho round hole grows
deeper, the heavy liar, on which thu
bit is fastened, advances' into the can
non steadily, moved by a i her of
wheels and screws that form part of
the lathe.
1 must not lose sight of the shavings,
the little ones that come from the in
side, anil the long, spirally twisted
ones that are turned from the outside
of the cannon. A military-looking
man, standing near the, table, does not
lose sight of those shavings or trim
mings, either. For this man's busi
ness is In carefully inspect the borings
and trimmings. I bat is what he is
paid to do. Uncle Sam pavs him.
and expects him to earn his salary.
The cannon Is being made for 1,'m-le
Sam, and he intends to lind out all its
qualities, whether good or bad. So
the man eyes the boring carefully.
Now, if Willi a plane, or your kuilu-
blatle, you will cut a thin shaving I rum
a bit of wood, it will show any little
Haw existing in lhe wood from which
it was sliced. The) tiniest, knot-hole or
crack will show in the shaving much
more plainly than in the wood Hsell.
So it is wilh a cannon's shaving. It is
a dreadful tell-tale, and the fault-lind-
ing man beside the gun knows this per
fectly well. He examines the spiral
turning, or the little piece of boring,
and linds no evidence of a Haw or
crack. Tint long spiral strip is as
smooth as glass ami glossy as your sis
ter s cut is.
Into the solid steel tho hog-nosed bit
roots ils way, tiutij it is in so far that if
little electric light must, bear it com
pany, to show the workmen how matr
tors am progressing in the heart of thu
cannon. Alter eighteen days of steady
poring, lint nil lets daylight into thu
bore ol the cannon by emerging at tin)
other (or larger) end seventeen feet
away. (1. K Mutter, in HI. Meliulim.
Economy In Shoes.
A woman who understands the econo
my of dress will never buy a cheap
pair of shoes. No poorer investment
can bo made, for besides giving out lu
shorter time than a iirst-class article,
it will look shabby and worn long !)
fore it should do so. But any shoe, no
matter how costly or well-abuped iu thu
beginning.will lose its freshness speedi
ly if not properly cared for. This is
especially applicable to those made of
French kill, which every little bruiso
and touch turns purple. A rule ob
served by many women, and a good
one it proves, too, is never to wear a
street shoe in tho house. It receives
harder treatment, strange to say, from
numerous inevitable collisions with
articles of furniture than it would iu
double the amount of street wear.
Another sensible custom is to reserve
a pair of Units for wet weather wear,
leaving them to rest in a comfortable
bag between times. Nothing tells
against the beauty of footwear so much
as getting it wet, and even with rub
bers no amount of diligence will pre
vent thu dampness of the skirls reach
ing the ankles. Shoes should he re
moved immediately on arriving at
home, the dust ami soil wiped away
with a clean, soft rag, and then they
should be placed together in a scparuto
pocket of the shoe bag until wanted
again. If this course is invariably pur
sued a considerable saving of money,
time and temper will be added to the
increased service derived from even nil
iiiferiorqiialilyof leather. JJelruit t'ret
Press.
Young lady (in great store) "I-t
me see a bonnet suitable for an old
lady." Salesgirl "For your mother?"
loung La'ly "Jo; for myself. I don't
expect to gel the change from my pur
chase until I'm old enough to Is) a
grandmother, so 1 shall bu prepared."
-A. JT. JJtraid.