The Grant County News.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING AT
CAW YON CITY, OREGON.
S.. H. Shepherd Editor
TELEGEAMS.
EASTERN.
Stocks nnd Money.
v vrtir nor i Thp stock market vereea on
n.'nir but V thn critical moment is held within
X-t.n3a ni'uti ihnan a.-nrfcini for lower Price
Dnring the first hour rates declined to 5 for leading
utockB, but a reaction began, aim in uu pruBivnBi.iB
good part of decline being recovered. Money com
11 n rnmiiim Htdl Ik verv hard to get
Bank facilities have been taxed to the utmost lately
and they cannot help me tigmne. iuc ucmuuu
for money from the Houth and went in very largeand
la felt more than usual jusi nuw . muu uum.
replouiKhmeut chiclly on imports of Hpecie, yrhicb
have 80 far been inadequate. The treasury to-day
begins payment of $2,812,500 inter-ton Ali per cent.
Money IiCfllstntion -.Vunted.
Xew Yobk, Dec. 1. At tho Bullion Club laat even
ing, resolutions were adopted favoring the with
drawal of the small notes, and tho coinage of amall-
to be asked to legislate bo
m to induce 'the banks to keep their legal reserves
In coin Instead of greenoacKS. me reserves oi gum
and silver in the treasury to be increased until there
is a dollar in gold nnd silver for every greenback
dollar issued by the government, the treasury to
lesne gold and silver certificates upon deposit of
bullion, the ratio being that now existing bctwoen
the standard American dollar and gold; a new mint
to be erected iu the city of New York for tho accom
modation of Importers of foreign bullion, who are
now without proper facilities to convert tho same
into American coin.
Mew York StocI8.
New Yohk, Dec. 1. Stocks sold down K to 3?.
iTorthweat speculation feverish.
Big Business at Chicago In Money and
CincAOO, Dec. 1. One million one hundred and
eleven thousand hogs were received here during No
Tomber, the largest receipts ever known for a singlo
month. Their value was $12,250,000,
The clearings of tho Chicago clearing houso for
Kovomber were $182,000,000, the largest recorded.
Gram topend the Winter In Chicago.
OnicAGO, Dec. 1. Grant Is expected in Washing
ton at the opening of congress. He will remain
thore only a few days. Most of tho winter ho will
upend in a house which he has rented in this city.
His son Fred Grant will, it is rumored, soon leavo
ttoo army and engage in railroad businoss.
Take Htm and Welcome.
Brookitm, Dec. 1. Land leaguers last evonlng
appointed a committee to confer with New York
members, In reference to the advisability of sending
Gen. B. F. Butler to Ireland to dofend Parnell and
Abac Indicted members of tho league.
A Slnjralar Bqnett
OiKCixjfxn, Dec. 1. John T. Crawford, an eccen
trio old man with from $30,000 to HOO.OOO, who has
jnct died, left all his property for building a home
for aged colored men on a tract of 18 ft acres at Col
lege Hill. One of tho witnesses Is dead and the
other, John K. French, in absont in the army some
where in tho west, so tho will oannot bo probated
yet.
UadtaBR'a Fall Vt for Garfield amd
Arihnr
Indtxnapous, Doc. 1. The Indiana electors mot
here this morning and cast the full 15 rotes of tho
sUto for Garfield and Arthur.
As Heretofore A-'. mcrd.
OniCAtio, Dec. 1. Reports received from many
states show that electors cast their votes to-day in
accordance with elections herotoforo announced.
Mining and Stock KxchaiftK" Organized at
5t. JLouls
8t. Louis, Doc. 1. Quite a nmnbor of prominent
citizens organizod to-day a mining and stock ux
bango and transacted somo business.
Tho Baltimore Grain Presmrc.
Baltimore, Dec. 1. The Baltimore k Ohio rail
road company met a committee of grnin men in tho
aioit conciliatory spirit, and agreed to operate with
&m to keep the elevators In working condition.
The MuMsel Slouch Cases.
Bah Fbaxcisco, Doc. 1. In tho trial of the Mussel
Slough settlers to-day the jury was completed aud
examination of witnesses begun. The prosecution
will endeavor to Bhow that a conspiracy oxistcd
among the settlors to hold on to their lands in any
event, and to euablo it to develop that point tho
court admits evidonce relative to tho original organ
isation of tho settlers' league.
Welcome BhIu.
A splendid rain has prevailed since early morning
with a strong southeast wind. Interior advices show
that the rain extends all over the northern aud cen
tral parts of tho state and as far south as Meiccd,
with snow in the mountains.
Protest from the C. P. nml S. P. Roads.
Loland Stanford, president of the Central Pacific,
and Fred Crocker, vice president of the Southern
Pacific, and various heads of departments of both
railroads, were bforo the railroad commission this
morning in relation to a proposed schedule to bo
fixed for freights of oil railroads in the state. Gov.
Stanford, on behalf of tho Central and Southern Pa
cific roads, objected to tho commission fixing any
tariff for freights for either of the roads, claiming
that both roads were operating under a charter from
tho federal government and that tho law directing
this commission to regulate fares and freights only
applied to railroads operated under charter from
the state. Governor Stanford furthermore intimated
that if the commission undertook to regulate the
schedule of freights for either of tho companies
which he represented that he would sock injunction
from the circuit court. The commission took no ac
tion in t.io premises.
A Los Angeles Lawyer in Trouble.
Loa Axoki.es, Deo. 1. F. P. Ramirez, a prominent
lawyor of this city and late republican candidate for
tho assembly from thiB county, was arrested for
forgery this afternoon and gavc'bail in $1000 for ex
amination. RUIIDER I'i TIIK SOUTH ivK.VS
Outrages on English Veisels by Xnll
of the Solomon Inland.
ves
Sa FnANcisro, Dec. 1. From the Sydney Herald
of tho 4th of November: Tho brigantine Corer.lis,
while seeking harbor at "Win, near Malata, of tho
Solomon group, was attacked by natives. Of the
crew, five whites and one Fijian were killed. Capt.
StoKeuzie, government agent, and a boat's crew, who
were ashore at the time, pulled a distance of 40
miles to procure assistance. Three other vessels re
turned and recaptured the vessel. The names of the
murdered crew are Daniel Creemev, mate; James
Natherwood and Win. Kershaw, seamen; VV. McKen
zic, the captain's son, and William Huntley, appren
tice. The steward, George Ward, was severely
wounded, but managed to conceal himself till tho
vessel was retaken. Two nntive nun. one woman
and a boy, wore captured and taken to Levuka. The
natives of Kewa completely wrecked the residence
of Mrs. Williams at Suiuatis. who narrowly
escnped with her life. Wnile tho eult-r Idaho,
Captain Mi Mi Man, was recruiting inbor nt
the Lslnnd ol Minte natives boarded lit r under the
pretense of inoui: 'in for labor, and in the absence
of a b'jst'rf crw at the shore tmnuhawk-d the cap
tain, nnd the native crew renuiiiingon board ixcept
two, who j.'ol below, obtained Ji'ti-lats and drove
the murderers overboard. T'io beat's crev were at
tacked at the "j.tii' ii u". uji:1 all were killed 1 nt two,
who rea "bed tu cutter and sailed v:iy. Tin si: vot
ing of Mme iih'.ive.s aid nu nirsg down of mmjic e.
noes, about three n..r.ths ago, were the causes of
the attack. Thenalv -s are armed with modern
weapons obtained from Queensland. :inl grow daily
more dangerous : nd ii..oKnt. Traders sirt that
no oneV life is sal'-: annn.,'-! th" i-dands, tn.r will be
.mo until thete is a ndjen! e:r.ne in the absurd
regulations which !nv nourished con.einpt in tlie
native mind for the Eug:i-sh ;ing.
bOOTXl A .TS it. Ill A
The SoutU American War.
Home. Dec. 1. The Duretto publi the follow
ing 'telegram from Valparaiso: 'Ih.iW Chilians,
VW0 cavalry aud lOOecunon left Arica u the r.to. ult.,
"and arrived at Pisco on the 'ioth. A great battle wiis
expected near the end of Novembtr. The Peruvi
ans, it is estimated number nearly twice as many as
the Chilians , . .
The Peruvian Guano company in London had r
teleram Nov. 2Sth, that the Chilians occupied Pisco
3,'ov! U5th, without opposition.
OUR itKD PETS.
nr .rrrtarv of the Interior
iVV U U A. - ..... - ....
Kclattn- to the Indian Policy.
w..mvnTov. Dec. 1. In his annual report, the
secretarj'of the interior gives a reyltw not only of
vnnra nf his administration. The larr p.ixt is d
voted to Indian offairs. In his opeuin -hapter upon
this subject the secretary give.-, m wi ixusuuh ui
an lmuortant change which has i. 'i ilace with
to the reservation Bystem. lit. -aya that al
thounh at first accepting as he found it, the reserva-
tiOIl policy WUlCIl nau so lung ueeu nniuwcn u me
Indian office, more extensive observation and study
of thn matter uradually convinced him that this
was a mistaken policy, and that it would be better
for the Indians and more in accoruance wnn justice,
as well as wise expediency to respect their home at
tachments, to leave them upon the lands they oc
cupied provided such lands were capable of yield
ing a sustenance by agricultural or pastoral pursuits
and begin and follow up the practice of introducing
among them habits and occupations of civilized life
on the ground they inhabited. In view of the fact also
that tho maintenance of a system ot large reserva
tions against the pressure of white immigration and
settlement wounl in the course 01 time become im
practicable, a different policy has been followed,
having for its object settlement of the Indians upon
lauds iu severalty, disposal for their benefit of their
lands not required for this purpose, and gradually
to prepare the way for their final incorporation into
the body politic as independent and selfrelying men
invested with all the rights which other inhabitants
of the country possess. The results already accom
plished in pursuance of this policy and promising
outlook in some other directions aro described in
general terms and illustrated by specific acta of
progress mado by individual tribes.
The secretary does not make any recommendation
of importance in regard to land grant riilroads, but
recapitulate their last annual reports, andjstates as
me result or iuv stigatlon mane by the goernment
auditor, that their property is in good condition.
Their earnings hare largely increased, and although
rates both for frrieht aud passengers have been re
duced, it is believed that there will be with the fill
ing up of the couutry west of tho Missouri, remu
nerative business enough for each of them.
BY A TLA.VrAC t'AULK.
The Oarsmen.
Lokdon, Dec. 1. Lnycock's friends in Sydnev,
Australia, have tent a cablo dispatch announcing
that they have deposited 50 to aid him in making
up his stake in Lis match with Iltulan and that
more money will follow. Hanlan wishes the title to
the championship of the world to bo contested iu
Toronto bay.
. iio"unJp A.botl&hei
London, Dec. 1. The council of judges have re
solved by a large majority to recommend the aboli
tion of fho chief judgeship of commons.
Mtm More Gold
London, Dec. 1. Nearly $-2,000,000 in gold was
withdrawn for Now York to-day.
,orenfc Burned.
DUBLur, Dec. 1. Tho house of the Sisters of Char
ity in Tuam, County Galway, burned to-day.
A Failure,
Loitdon, Dec, 1. A land meeting held at Bally
Castle, county Antrim, yoBterday, was a failuro.
Only two hundred pernoua were present, and tho
speakers were biased.
Vurfey and Greece.
Viritna, Doc. 1. It Is reported that the Turkish
minister at Athens ha mado overtures to Greece in
order to ascertain whether ahe in disposed to enter
into direct negotiations.
Vihnna, Dec. 1. The overtures of tho Turkish
minister at Athens have not been rejected; but as a
condition for opening regular negotiations, Greece
has asked Turkey to make a positive proposal. Fhm
conciliatory attitude is the effect of unwillingness
of tho powers to resort to force the articles in the
troaty in favor of Greece and the Kruall response on
the part of the inhabitants of Thessuly aud I'pirus
to tho Greek attempt to form a volunteer corps.
Sherc All.
London, Dec. 1. - Shero All, who governed Canda-
dar under the British th roughout the war, has ob
tained the viceroy s pormisiion to retire to India
with his family.
The t-senn Customs Union.
Berlin, Doc. 1. There is busy agitation afoot in
the Uanz citle.s for their inclusion in the Zollverofn.
At a meeting in Bremen a resolution in favor of that
course was almost unanimously adopted.
THIS flJOHTUiflR?! PATlFiC.
Moro about the Now Syndicate--The Koad
tl Ov hunliml UM All UIVlFlidail.
Nkw Yobk, Dec. 1. A Philadelphia special fur
nishes additional facts concerning tho Northern Pa
cific syndicate. From the engineer's estimate it is
thought that $40,000,000 will prove more than
enough to complete all tho lines. The syndicate
tako this amount in first mortgage G per cent, bonds,
which are to be issued at tho rate of $.5,000 a mile.
As the entire linr will be over 20lX) miles in length,
it will be noticed that the issue will be exhausted
before this limit is reached; but of the total issue,
an amount equal to the bonds on tho Pun d'Oreillo
division, which is bonded at the rate of $25,000 a
miloj and the bonds of tho Missouri division which
is bonded at half that amount, will be reserved to
retire thoso bonds at maturity. The syndi
cate agree to take $10,000,000 of the issue during the
coming year, and this is thought to be all that can
be expended with advantage by the company.
Tho Northern Pacific is to build the road
itself, dealing directly with the contractors
who do tho work and without the intervening of a
construction company. As the company has now
completed road enough upon which to issue the en
tire amount of the bonds that are to be sold during
the first yoar, work on threo divisions of the line
will begin simultaneously. The advance guard is
now grubbing the line on the Montana division.
Tho surveyors are locating the lino on the Yellow
stone division of 420 miles, and work will soon be
gin on the Cas-ade division on the Pacific coast.
Tho expectation now is that tho company will bo
able to complete u mile a day at least, during tho
oming year.
THIS WH1PPI.VO POST
Recommended by Henry lierfch In Forcl-
b e Terms.
Nkw YonK. Dec. 1. At a nieetins in Coouer Inhti-
tiw 1 ah! nlt'lit of frimiils of orison refnrni Tli.tirv
Bergh astonished the assemblage by declaring him
self utterly opposed to the sentiment of the mi eting.
TT 11 T 1 - t 1L 1 f f . . ...
ne saiu: i iiruevo m:u ii a man cannot live witn
out murdering somebud-y, he must be got out of the
way. I say kill him. A great deal has been said
about ImoroviiiL' criminals. Let me tell von how
I would abolish all penitentiaries in tin; land and
save all expeuso of running. In their place I would
have whipping posts everywhere, and to make sure
that the lash was laid fairly on. I would offer a re
ward for the invention of a Hteum mncliinn t'nii
could not be hritvd with oilers of political place or
money. No mm has had a better opportunity to see
what criminals are made of than I have had, and 1
tell vou that hundreds of them commit crhn
sent to place wiu.-h you provide for their comfort.
mi .
iuey aro warm aim clean inert. They get good
SOU1 and wotui-je- ,i'd everything which" h"n1. work
ing honost men uiul women can not gut in your tono-
i i
in em nouses.
The New rMlii-ci m,his Trying to it a
Havana. Dee. I. C'itv of Mexico i:dvie; of the
23d: The inniointiin ;lt of (Jen. Vnviim m ni-i-n-Krv
of v ar is all thd is kno.vn of the formation of the
new cabinet. (Vm i - lon-in ..v -..ir.; (..r. v..u.
iUCtOn. WasillHlriL't'-diotriVetlii.TiMiicirv of tV.. irr.
relations, but il is not known whether be has Rccint
ed. Capt. Ends bus arrived and intends asking for a
subsidy to buiM h..s eciiteinph-ied .Ino canal across
theisthmu.- of T imant.-p c. The governia nt is
less interested iu cau.tls than in railromb-, nor do
the p-ople Mreiu to realize tLe dir-et advantage of
the pi poscd canal, and subsidies are out of tlu ques
tion. French residents are ml-
lions to rr ceive their minister The government is
also giving unusual attention t the oce.tsiop.
S nor Znmacoru I about t. return to Wasliingtou
probably only to finish his late mission
WASHINGTON CITY.
Morton Chungee Ills Game.
WAsmsarOK, Dec. 1. It is raid authoritatively
here that Levi P. Morton of ew York will no longer
consent to the use of his name in connection with
the secretaryship of the treasury under Garfield aud
hns gono back to Tu'ew York to enter upon a canvass
for the senatorf-liip. Under section :M3 of the re
vised statutes Mr. Morton is ineligible.
The national council of the Union League of Amer.
eca holds its annual session in Philadelphia Dec. 9.
Hond Pnrchasa.
Tlie secretary of the treasury Is now paying $1 02-
ai ior w s zor me sinking iiinu. n was lucorrectlv
reported to-day that Fisk i Hatch had Bold the gov"
eminent $0,000,000 0's at $1 03?4.
ftcvr Reportor Tackles a New Vessel.
"Go down to pier -18," said the editor
to the new repoater, and write up the
new English steamer just arrived. Give
a thorough account of her from stem to
stern.
'Troni what?" said the young man re
cently arrived from a far interior State,
and to whom a vessel of any sort was a
mTstory, and a wonder.
"From stem to stern," said the editor,
fixing a suspicious and threatening eye
upon him, "and tell how many feet of
water she draws, her breadth of beam,
her tonnage and all that sort of thing."
This was the young man's first mission.
He was eager to distinguish himself. He
had already done so on his villago paper
in a series of essays on "The Ceainogyn
of the University." But that little town
was a thousand miles away. He wanted
a wider field for his aspirations, and had
come to New York.
Yet he went out of ike ollice anxious
and doubting. "I will go to the cap
tain," said he, "ho will explain to me the
ship and its uses. He will tell mo all."
"Captain," said ho, "I am sent to
write up your ship. Obligo mo with
stating how many masts she has?"
"Eighteen," promptly answered the
oaptain.
"Where are they?"
"We have sent them on shore to be
painted."
"How much water does your vessel
draw?"
Three inches."
"How do you draw it?"
"liy steam power from tho well."
"Where you ever in a storm at sea?"
"Novor," said tho captain.
"Are you eror sea-sick?"
"Awfully; can't leave my berth from
the time we leava New York till we ar
riye ia LiYcrpool."
"Are the rest of your officers aad orw
sea-sick?"
"Always; we're oly oa deck aid
about in xort."
"Why, who swera tha vessel at aoar
"Thtcook: he's tha only well man on
feoftrd."
"Do you sail nights when out of sight
of land?"
"Nerer; wo anchor."
"What, in mid-ocean?"
"Of course, you land lubber. There's
docks to tie up to at regular distances all
the way across.
"What is that hole for?" pointing to an
open hatchway on deck.
"That s where an iceberg ran into us
last trip."
Good gracious: How do you see to
sail dark nights?"
"Wo seed our boats ahead with lan
terns, who light up the road."
"Are they there now
"Yes; anchored in a lino all the way
across the Atlantic ocean."
Alter getting much other information
which the Captain said he was only too
happy to impart to such an interesting
young gentleman, the reporter returned
and wrote as follows:
The steamer Crusader is a splendid
1 11L fT
specimen oi navai arcuiteocure. ner
kneel revolves on hinges, so as to be
readily unshipped in a storm when it is
not wanted The rudder, also, by a
patent contrivance, can bo drawn from
its socket and deported on deck during
the night and in hurricanes, The Cru
sader has folding decks, which can be
doubled up when she has but little car
go, and her tonnage in this way can be
decreased from 4000 to 2000 tons. The
mainsail can, if nacesaary, be used as a
skysail or windsail, aud the saving of
cauvas3 effected in this manner reduces
the woar and tear of her running rig
ging one half. The main brace passes
from tne end oi tne Dowspric over uie
foro, main and roTal masts, thence down
aud ovor the spanker boom to the tailrail
and into the cabin windows, where it is
secured by a doublo banked sheepshank
to tho head of the Captain's berth. She
has compound engines, which boil water
at an extremely low temperature. Hor
screw revolves at the rate of 10,000 times
a minute, and can, , if necessary, be
brought forward and used as paodle
wheels. The Crusader is also con
structed on the crab principle, and, by
bracing up every thing sharp on tho
wind, and wearing ship frequently, she
can go as fast sideways as any other way.
The engines are furnished with con
densers, which condense milk as well as
water. Her cabins are constiucted on
the French flat principle, there being six
storios with Kitchens, etc., for each fam
ily of passengers. Tho Crusader also
carries her own docks, and thus saves all
the expense of wharfage when in port.
She olso carries her own quarantine, and
so can K0ei' be detained it thero is any
malaria or measles on board. The pilot
pilots her all tlie way across the Atlantic,
aud comes back with the ruiip each. time.
Her compasses in the barnacle give each
day the direction of the wind. The
Captain's cow is milked by tlie boatswain
in tho i'oretop.
Of the genuine pohU-ncss of the na
tivos of Epypt we have nerer enter
rained but one opinion. That view has
been strengthened after hearing of what
took place not long since at a village in
the Delta. One of our countrymen,
well known in Alexandria as the most
successful of athletes, was training for
athletic sports. While running at
speed he came across a gray-bearded
Arab riding on a donkey in the opposite
direction, The Arab hastily dismount
ed and begged tho "Howago," as ho was
in such a hurry, to avail himself of his
donkey for the rest of the journey.
London Truth.
The Torments of Office.
General Hancock is having his re
venge on Garfiold now. He can rest
in peace in his homo on Governor's
Island, and think how the life of
Gurfleld is being worn out of him by
an army of tramp office-seekers. An
endless procession of would-be post
masters, Indian agents, port collect
ors, cousuls and tho Lord knows
what all, are making their waj' to
.Men tor, and all have letters or docu
ments which must be read, and all
must be well treated, and tin's, if tho
man lives that long, must be borne
with every day lor lour years to
come. It must be a sorry thought to
a man, after having climbed to the
top of gloiy's stairs, to ii nd that even
there be is not secure against tho
herd that acramble lor, and fight
over the bones that it is in his power
to toss to them. And how jolly it
must be for Hancock to sit iu his
quiet ollice into which none intrude
except his friends and, to fool that
he is master of nil around him. and
that his ollice docs not give any por
tion of the people a ri;lit to annoy
and bullirag iiim. The ollice of
President is very glorious to look
forward to; it is no doubt a pleasure,
for those who survive it to look back
to; out while it lasts it must bo full
of more annoyances that tho storm
ing of a yellow-jacket's nest. And
this leads back to tho thought of the
niisorablo lives of the thousands who
depend upon getting ollices or ap
pointments under the Government
for a living. As a rule it is tho most
unsatisfactory life that any man can
lead. The salaries aro no moro than
can be obtained in tho other walks
of life, and when a change comoa,
the unfortunate man has to begin
life anew with his mind unfitted tor
the work before him. In th De
partments at Washington are thou-
ands of clerks who havo held offico
thero from two to twenty years.
Were they to lose their places to
morrow, thoy would be utterly help
less. Going up higher, to thoso of
fices to which honors and emolu
ments attach, and they are almost as
barren of results. Tako the honor
able position of Member of Congress,
for instance, and no poor man can
afford to accept it. There is a scram
ble aud and an expense to reach it
in the first place; then, if a man is
as truo as the stars, and as pure as
chastity itself, thero will boa throng
of strikers forever after him and
ready at ill times .o assail him if in
the interest of tho country ho de
nies their requests. xVnd then if ho
serves his constituents faithfully tho
chances aio fifty to ono that at the
next election ho will bo beaten. If
for no other reason, enough envious
ones of his own party, who foar he
is making for himself an honorable
name, will scratch him. Then he
will havo to gather up tho broken
strands of his business and start
anew. Tho thouirht above all oth-
ers should bo impressed upon the
mind of tho youth of America, that
the life of tho politician is the hard
est that any man can choose, and
the struggle to make a living out of
obtaining and holding office is at
once the most unsatisfactory and
the most demoralizing that can be
chosen.
Slioclng Ilorsos.
A writer in the New York Herald
states some facts abouthow horses should
be shod, which aro worthy of the consid
eration of blacksmiths, and farmers as
well:
Most of tho horse-shoers of tho coun
try prepare the foot, lit a shoe, and se
cure it to tho hoof in the same manner
that a wood butcher tits a shoo to an
old ox-sled. The mechanism of a
hoof is one of tlie most ingenious struc
tures that can be found in all the works
of the Creator. 33oneath and in thenrear
of every hoof there is a frog, which is a
tough and elastic pad for injury to the
animal whenever he plants his foot sud
denly noon any hard substance. Large
rolls of cylinders of India-rubber are
placed beneath railroad cars to prevent
injury fo any part of the car or cargo
with which it is loaded. The frog be
neath the foot of a horse is designed to
subserve a similar purpose. But the
manner iu which most horses are shod
lifts Ihcm up, as if it were, on short
stilts, so that the frog cannot perform its
apnropriatc functions. If we look care
fully at the young horse when he is trot
ting'or running, it will be perceived that
every foot is brought to tho. ground m
such a manner that the frog receives the
powerful blow. By this means til injury
to the anira:l is prevented. Science
teaches us to permit tho irog to develop
and expand downward. But most black
smiths seem to think that the all-wise
Creator made a great mistake when he
formed the hoofs of horses. Hence they
fall at tho frogs with red-hot burning
irons, "with edged tools, and with any
other aipliancc3 that will enable them to
remove the extraneous excroaonee. H
lustrious ninnies! Wliy not shave and
burn away all the tough callous adipose
tissue beneath their own heels, and allow
the bare bones to rest on a plate of iron
inside their own bootB and shoes ?
The Tramp's Story.
"Say, pard you've stood by mo through
thick and thin, you have. It'll be one
white spot on yer book in tho next
world, that will. Eaise my head up,
there, that'll do, old pard. You and 1,
we've been a long time on.the same
road." "Aye, that we have, Joe."
"Do you know, pard, I'm going on a
long tramp in a little while?"
"You? why, where, Joe? You and I
can't give irp the road now?"
"Ah, yes, pard, we must; you'll stay
hero. Those rains the cold, wet gar
mentsthey've done the job for me,
pard. I'm going to apply at a new door
in a short while."
"Why, you're sick, Joe. You'll have
to rest here in this old barn till I can
brace up your tired body a bit."
"Ah, friend, I've no need for bodily
rest now. It is the soul, the uiiud mar
is heavy. I've kept up as long as I could,
pard. But I didn't want to give out
till I reached this spot."
"Why. Joe, what do you mean havo
vou ever been here before?"
"Before! Come, pard! I'll toll you
something. Do you see those beams up
there? Yes; well," when I was a boy I've
played many a time tag up there on tho
same beams. Thoso holes cut in the
clap-boards up there under the eaves I
cut for my doves. Opon the barn door
there, that'll do. Do you see that little
red house there at the further end of the
lot? I was bom in that house yes, I
was. I've felt this body growing weaker
every day, pard; but I kept up I
wanted to die near the old home."
"Old home, Joe?"
Yes, this was the homo of my boy
hood. Here in this barn I've helped my
father thresh many & bushel of wheat.
I've pulled the wagon out of tho corner
many a Sunday morning, hitched the
team to it, and took tho old folks to
church. It was too good to bust long,
pard. I must go to the city, I thought.
When I left tke dear old home I was
honest; yes, honest and would wrong
o man of a cet, knowingly."
"Wll, I went to tht city. I went in
to ways of Captation, and I fell. The
oU folks at hoe grw worried and I,
God help me, went from bad to worse.
I forged my employer's nanie to the
check was deotected, and seat up for
four years. They told me of my moth
er's death after she had heard of my fall.
I served the term out; I could get no
work .you know how that is. To-day,
when we came past tho graveyard,
you'll remember I stopped at two graves
mother and father both gone. That's
all I'm h-happy now. I can seo the
old home and and dark mother
keep your poor b-boy, for "
Joe, the tramp, was dead dead with
his eyes fixed upon his old home -and
his pard went out into the world
alone.
Heroism of Lighthouse Eeepers.
It was a grand and heroic concei)tioa
to build a lighthouse on tho Eddystone,
but what shall be said of the men who
first of all tried the experiment of dwell
ing in tho horrible isolation of that
storm beaten edifice, cut off from the'rost
of the world, uncertain whether the
building would stand tho test of the
storm, deafened by the roar of the wa
ters which sometimes would shoot right
over tho lantern, or dash headlong
against the lighthouse with fearful vio
lence, causing every part to vibrato as
though the whole fabric were instan
taneously going to pieces? It is recorded
that only two men attended the light
house built by Eudyard, and that one of
them was seized with suddeu illness and
died. It was in the roughest timo of
year, and although tho survivor hoisted
a signal of distress, no boat could reach
the rock. What to do with the dead
body he did not know. At first
he thought ho would throw it
into tho sea, but ho was
hindered by the fear lest the friends of
tho deceased might charge him with tho
crime of murder. For a whole month
tho weather oontinued boisterous, and
for that whole suonth the solitary survi
TJr kept thn light all night now that his
comrade could no longer share tku duty,
watch by watch with him, and for that
whole month he kept tho body of the
body of the dead man, although it had
fallen into horrible corruption. Can
any more terrible r.trait bo conceived
than that in which the brave fellow was
placed? Yet we do not even know his
namo. All we know is that in almost
every great work of public utility in
volving hazardous labor, if one or two
men have como to tho front and left
their names for the admiration of pos
terity, there have always been a hundred
obscure heroes who have lived and died
aud left no sign, but without whose
strong nerves and great hearts those
works would never have been accom
plished. Saba Bernhardt is now able to
converse in French with several
New York citizens, who say to her,
in tho Ollendorf method, "How is
tho good health of our sister?" Sho
replies, "How aro the bright trade
dollars of the Secretary and the ver
dant greenbacks of the grandmoth
ers?" A citizen, after glancing at
his Ollendorf behind tho curtain,
says: "lou have not seen tho island
of Coney, not the beach of our chow
dered Manhattan, nor tho foam on
the beach called our Brighton ?"
Then sho suys (looking at Ollen
dorff code of signals), "but I've
heard of tho foam on the laser and
the flavor of mollusks and biscuits."
Petroleum has been proved to bo verv
deadly to oysters and other shell fish.