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fc . lewis m. grist, proprietor.! ^it fnbepenbent ^amilj Hetospjjcr: Jfor % |romoiioit of % $oIttieaI, Social, ^griraltnral anb Commercial Interests of t|e Sont^. |TERMS?$3.00 A TEAE, IN ADVANCE. VOL. 18. YOBKYILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, ATJQTJST 29, 1872. , STO. 35. 1 " * ? t .? a. L, ?bc ftorg Idle*. JUDGE CRANET AN AMUSING STORY. Shortly after the first Republican Constitution of the State of New York was framed, and the judiciary department was established for the civil department of the supreme court, or that branch of it called the "circuit court," there was appointed for one of its circuits in the county of Duchess, the eccentric Judge Crane. Judge Crane was very wealthy, and highly respected for his public virtues, especially for his charitableness to the poor ; but he always dressed in a plain garb, and would hardly .1 .1 !-i.i wear any overcoat, wnatever me weatner uugut be, and it was seldom that he rode when he went abroad, although he owned many valuable horses. On the morning of the day on which the court was to begin, the judge set out before day, and walked gently on, through hail, rain and snow, to the appointed place. On arriving at Poughkeepsie, cold and wet, he walked to a tavern, where he found the landlady and her servants were making large preparations for the entertainment of the | judges, lawyers and other gentlemen whom they expected to attend the circuit court. ? The judge was determined to have some sport, and in a pleasant tone addressed the landla-1 dy: "I have no money, and was obliged to come to court, and I have walked more than twenty miles through this dreadful storm. I am wet and cold, dry and hungry. I want something to eat before the court begins." When the landlady put herself in a majestic posture, and putting on a countenance of contempt, said to the judge, "You say you are wet and cold, dry and hot, how can all that be?" | "No, my dear madam," said the judge, "I j said I was wet and cold; and if you had been | ' t . _ a:. t *u:nl. i out as long as x nave iu una bluiui, x tuiuo. you would likewise be wet and cold. I said that I wanted something to drink and eat." "But you have no money you say," retorted the landlady. "I told the truth, and nothing but the truth," said the judge, "and if I was as rich as Croesus, I would be willing to work for something to eat and drink." "Croesus, who.is Croesus ?" said the landlady. "I never knew him, but I understood he I was very rich. I want something to eat and 1 something to drink, and were las poor as Job I in his utmost calamity, and my health and strength as well as I am now, I would willingly go to work for a little while, if I could get something to drink and a bit of good victuals." "Well, daddy," said she, "how much do ! you want to drink ?" "Half a gill of good brandy," said he. "Very well, says she, "I will give half a gill and some cold victuals, if you will go into the back yard and cut and split three armfuls of wood, and bring into the kitchen, where the servants want to make a good fire to dry the gentlemen's coats when they come, and after you get your victuals I want you to go away." He drank his brandy, went into the woodyard and soon cut and laid by the stove the j required quantity of wood. The landlady placed a cold luncheon before him, remarking that "there it was." "And it is almost as cold as myself," said j the judge, "but not half so wet, for I see neith- j er tea, nor coffee, nor chocolate to wet it." "Beggars must not be choosers," said she. j "My dear madam, I am not begging of! you," said he, "but have paid the full price ! demanded." " "I told you," said she, "I would give you [ cold victuals, and there is cold boiled ham, ! cold pork and beef, cold potatoes, &c., and if I you want it hot, there is mustard and pepper, j and here is good bread, good butter and good j cheese, and all good enough for such an old j ragamuffin as you." "It is all very good, said he, "but madam, j be so good as to let me have some new milk, right from the cow, to wet these good victuals." | "The cows are not milked," says she. "Then let me have a cup of cold milk," i says he. "I will not send the servants in this storm to the spring-house to skim it for you," says she. "Dear madam," said he, with a pleasant smile, "I have a good wife at home, older than you are, who would go out in a worse I storm than this to milk the cows, and bring T the milk to the poorest man on earth at his request; or to bring the milk from the springhouse, cream and all, to feed one of the most abject of the human race." "You have a very good wife at home," says she. "Indeed I have," said he, "and she keeps my clothes whole and clean, and notwithstanding you call me an old ragamuffin, I am not -~i ,1 ? ?rl it-* tlio plntJipa T tusimmcu tu v??v ?? ? wear, in good company." "Well, I must confess," said she, "that when you have your broad-brimmed hat off you look middling well; but I want you to be off, for we want the fire to dry the gentlemen's great coats and umbrellas by, and among the rest we expect Judge Crane." "Judge Crane," says he; "who is Judge Crane?" "The Circuit Judge, one of the supreme judges, you old fool." "Well," said he, "I will bet a goose that Judge Crane has not had, nor will have, a great coat on his back or umbrella over his head to-day ; he would more likely go to the court-house and stay until dinner time. I know something of the old codger, and some say he is a rusty, crusty, fusty old fudge." "Pretty, talk, indeed," says the landlady, "about the supreme judge. Now eat and be off." "I tell you," said he, "Judge Crane is not the supreme judge, and if he were, he is no more fit to be a judge than I am." "Well, now be off with yourself," says she. "Don't be in too great a hurry," said he mildly. "I wish to know who is the landlord here? And to know where he is?" "He is the high sheriff of this county, and won't be home till night, but if he were here you would not stay long." "Well, madam," said he, "give me a cup of cider to wet ray victuals, if you won't give milk." "Not a drop," said her ladyship. The Judge, who had got pretty well warmed and dried, and wishing for his breakfast, put on a stem countenance, and positively declared that he would not leave the room and the fire until he pleased. "But," said he, "if you will grant my request, I will tnen be off." The cider was immediately brought and the judge partook heartily of the collation before him. took his broad-brimmed hat and quietly walked to the court house; he found good fires and clean floors, and during the court, presided with dignity aud propriety. When he withdrew, the landlady looked after him for some time, and as he walked steadily on to the court house, supposing him to be some poor man summoned up to court as a witness, or some culprit, or some ugly vagabond who might give her further trouble in the time of court, and expressed to her servants a desire that they would see that he did not disturb the gentlemen and the judges who might put up there. While some of the girls declared that if he did come, they would use some of his own expressions which he used respecting Judge Crane. "Let me see," said one, "rusty, crusty." "Yes, and fusty old fudge," said another. When the dinner was announced, the court pot being thronged, was immediately ad | journed, and the day being stormy and cold, : the lawyers and judges poured into the sheriff's tavern where they were sure of good fires | and good fare, all except Judge Crane, who i walked to a store and purchased a valuable ' shawl, and put it in his pocket, in the inside j of his coat, and walked quietly to the tavern. ! While he was thus detained, the landlady en! tered the dining-room, and earnestly inquired ' if Judge Crane had come in. The answer 1 was, "not yet, and perhaps he may not come." | The landlady, who was anxious to pay the j highest respect to the supreme judge, retired : to the kitchen, not a little chagrined and disi appointed. In the meantime the judge arrived, and ! being at proper times very sociable, and at all j times fond of cheering the minds of those I present, began by making some pertinent rei marks, and to tell some lively anecdotes, in j teuded to convey good morals, which set the whole company in a roar of laughter. At this instant one of the waiting maids entered I the room to inform them that they might sit | down to dinner. She did her errand and | hastened to her mistress with the tidings that | the old fusty fellow with his broad-brimmed hat on was right in amongst the bare-headed gentlemen, talkjng as hard as he could, and all the judges and lawyers were laughing at | him. "Then, go," said she, "and whisper to i the old man, that I wish him to come into the [ kitchen." J The errand was done accordingly, and the | judge, in a low voice, said to the girl, "Tell your mistress that I have a little business with | some of these lawyers, and when done I will j leave in the course of a few days." The girl returned and faithfully rehearsed I the message, and added that she believed the ; old fellow was drunk or he would not have j said, "as soon as business is done I'll be off in ; a few days." "Well, Betty," said the mistress, "go back, ! and when they sit down, do you stand near [ the head of the table and say I wish a vacant seat left, at the head of the table, for Judge Crane, then do you hasten back and see that John has the cider and other liquors in good order. And Mary, you fill two more tureens with gravy and put one at each end of the table. And Martha, do you see that all the clean plates are ready for a change, and that the tarts and pies, Ac., are in good order." Betty again repaired to her post, and softly informed the gentlemen of her order. "Certainly," said the gentlemen, and Betty hastened back to assist John. The gentlemen now sat down to an excellent repast. A short ejaculatory address to the throne of grace was delivered by Judge Crane, in which he adored the Father of all mercies for feeding all His creatures throughout the immensity of space, invoked a blessing on that portion of earthly bounty then before them, and supplicated divine mercy through the merits of our Redeemer. The gentlemen carved and served round in the usual form. But, as the judge was of a singular turn in almost everything, he had taken a fancy that if a person eats light food and that which is more solid and harder of digestion at the same meal, the light food should be eaten first. He therefore filled his plate with some pudding made of milk, rice and eggs, and placed himself in rather an awkward position, with his left elbow on the table, and his head near the nlace to eat. according to his custom, which was very fast although lie was not a very great eater; and as some of the gentlemen near the I Judge followed his example as to partaking of the pudding before the meat, of course a large deep vessel containing that article was nearly emptied, when Mary approached with two additional tureens of gravy according to the commands of her mistress ; and as she sat down the last near the Judge, he said to her in an austere manner, "Girl, bring me a clean plate to eat some salad on." The abrupt manner in which he addressed her, and her disgust at seeing him in that position, so disconcerted the poor girl she did not observe that any one but the Judge had partaken of the pudding, nor did she know what he meant by salad; but she observed that the large pudding pan was nearly empty and hastened back with the utmost speed to her mistress, and addressed her with, "Dear ; madam, that old fellow's there yet, and he is certainly crazy or drunk, for he is down at the table, and he has eaten more than a skipple of o 1 van /I VT orifl llflfl Vll<3 nnsp. I LIC 1 IUC ?JUliUllJ? U11UUUJ) MUM Mvw? right down into a plateful now, shoveling it like a hog; and told me, as if he were lord of the manor, to briug him a clean plate to j eat salad on. Bless me! where can we get { salad at this time of the year ? The gentleI men are not done carving yet, and not one | has begun to eat meat, much less a tub full of ' pudding." "Aye, he'll get a clean plate," says Martha, , "before the gentlemen want clean plates." "I'll clean him out," says the mistress, and j she started for the dining room burning with ! indignation. The judge was remarkable for not giving j unnecessary trouble to anybody where he put ! up, and generally ate what was put before i him, without any remarks, and seldom made ' use of more than one plate at a meal. But ; at this time he observed near him a dish of j beautiful white cabbage cut up in vinegar, j which the Low Dutch at Poughkeepsie called i "cold slaw," and which he called "salad," and 1 he wished for a separate plate to prepare some ' of it for his own fancy. The carving and ' serving were not yet finished, when the land| lady arrived at the door of the dining-room, determined to drive him out. She advanced ' with a firm step to the door and fixed her keen j eyes sternly on the judge, when he turned his i eye that way, and observing her, mildly said, j "Landlady, can I have a clean plate to eat j some salad on ?" j "A clean plate and salad!" retorted the ' landlady, indignantly. "I wish you would come into the kitchen until the gentlemen j have dined. I reserved that seat lor Judge j Crane." ! After the tumult had subsided a little, the judge mildly said, "Didn't 1 chop wood for ! my breakfast?" "Indeed you did," said she, , "and said you had no money." "I told you j the whole truth," replied the judge, "but I j have a beautiful shawl, worth more than ten j dollars, which I just now bought, and will ! leave it now with you in pawn, if you will ' only let me eat dinner with these gentlemen." | Here the gentlemen were biting their lips to 1 A?/\rv> lonrrKtnr I fwCCJJ 11ULU muguiMii | "How did you buy the shawl worth more than ten dollars, without money ?" i "I bought it on credit," said he. "And where did you find credit to that I amount ?" said she. "I brought it from home," said he. "That's a likely story, and something like | your abuse of Judge Crane, this morning," j said she. i "How could I abuse the judge if lie was | not present ?" asked he. j "You called him a 'rusty, crusty fudge,' ; and an 'old codger,' and said you did not care i a rye-straw more for him than you did for yourself." Here the company burst into a roar of i laughter again. As soon as it had subsided a little, one of the gentlemen asked the landlady how she knew the gentleman she was addressing was not Judge Crane. "He looks more like a snipe than a crane!" j she answered. Here the loud laughter burst forth a third | time, and after a little pause the judge said : "I must confess that I am not a bird of , very fine feathers, but I assure you I am a j Crane, and a crane is often a very useful inI strument. I saw a very good one in your kitchen this morning, and sometimes an instrument called a crane is of invaluable use, 1 madam." Before she had time to reply, some of the gentlemen with whom she was acquainted assured her she was talking with the presiding : judge. Astonished and confused she attempt1 ed some excuse, and hastily asked pardon for ; her rudeness. The judge had, by this time, unobserved, taken from his pocket the beautiful shawl and folded it at length one way, and in a narrow form the other, and it being of very fine texture, it appeared more like an el ! egant sash than a valuable shawl. When he ! arose with a graceful dignity, and with a half ! smile adduced a few steps toward the lanc'i lady, saying: "It is not my province to pavi don, but it is my business to judge; and I 'judge that you will, without hesitation, re! ceive this shawl as a present, if not as a | pawn." So saying he gently laid it over her shouli ders and across her arms. "Take it, madam," ' said the judge, "and do not attempt to return ' it, for it was purchased on purpose for a pres! ent for you." [ She hastily retired in confusion, hardly j knowing what she did, and took with her the i shawl, worth twelve, instead of ten dollars. | And here were three parties who had each 1 good things. The landlady had a good shawl ! and a good lesson to meditate upon; the genj tlemen had a good dinner and a good joke to ! talk over?and thejudge had good intentions in the joke and good will and ability to follow i up the lesson given. l^tstfUattcuus fleMittfl. From the New York Mail. TAMED WILD BEASTS. There are at present in the United States about a dozen so-called menageries. Of them but fhrAP nr fnnr nnssesH reallv <*ood collec v r?~? -*? o tions of animals, and in no single one are ceri tain of tie rarer beasts to be found at all. One solitary specimen of the giraffe is living in this country, and the only hippopotamus ever brought alive to America died ten years ago, and his stuffed skin now ornaments a New York museum. It may be interesting to know that no less than three showmen were made rich by the exhibition of this one huge, unwieldly brute, and so convinced are all men in the business of the sure and certain return of huge profits from an investment in a "Hippo," that for years there has been 8. standing offer for one of these monsters living and in good health, a sum which any one of half a ! dozen responsible men stand ready to pay on the very day that Mr. H. is introduced. It is asserted, however, that with the exception of this individual specimen, all other importations of the more delicate animals have proved disastrous failures. Several hippopotami, a score of giraffes, and hundreds of the more rare and fragile antelopes aud other animals most susceptible to the influences of climate have been brought from their native wilds to this country, but the keen cold of our inhospitable climate has ruthlessly slaughtered them so speedily that it is asserted that no manager ever has got back a full return of his money thus invested. ELEPHANTS. An elephant costs from 85,000 to 88,000 j for what are called small ones, up to 812,000 for a very large one. The price is, however, naturally somewhat affected by the age, docility, and education of the specimen. An animal that has been taught to go through an interesting series of tricks may, though small, be more valuable than a much larger one whose early education has been neglected. A very large one was sold for 85,000 a few years since, but the lowness of the price was in a great measure due to the fact that for certain disabilities of age, etc., he was considered unable to bear the fatigues of constant travel. LIONS. rm l.j n ./ /? 1! I mere are dui iew specimens ui une nuns iu the country, probably the largest pair being two that were at one time said to be the finest in all Europe, but which were secured by an ! American manager and brought to this coun- j try. The price was 87,500 in gold. Single ! animals bring from 81,200 to 82,500 each, I according to age, size, and education. Those born in the cage have formerly been considered more docile and tractable than those reclaimed from their native plains, but certain occurrences of late years have led showmen to distrust them as being almost beyond belief false and treacherous. In the case of Massartee, the wretched man who, a few months ago, was literally torn to pieces and almost devoured alive in the very presence of an audience in England by his own troupe of "tamed and trained animals," the original attack was made on him and the first blood drawn by a lion that had beeu born in the show, "brought up by hand," and fed from the day of its birth i i... 1 jx j ii.? uy nit? very iuuu wuom 11 win? unerwuiu iuc I first to strike and slay. THE RHINOCEROS. ; A rhinoceros costs from 88,000 to 810,000, | and is always a most attractive feature of the ; exhibition. At the Zoological Gardens, Loni don, has lately been received what is known as the "double-horned Sumatran" rhinoceros, ; the great peculiarity of which is that it is cov! ered with hair instead of having the usual j sole-leather trunk look of the more familiar : species. This particular specimen, the like of ! which was never seen before in England, cost | in Calcutta ?1,000, or 85,000 in gold, to which 1 must be added the cost of transportation, at! tendants, food on shipboard, before the sum at which the ugly beast is valued can be arrived at. OTHER ANIMALS. A fine pair of royal Bengal tigers, fresh ! from the Indian jungle, were sold lately for 87,000. The royal tiger, be it known, is a | very rare and beautiful animal, always advertised, though seldom seen, some inferior i one of the huge felines, generally a panther, : being made to personate the noblest beast. A panther, young and healthy, will com1 mand about 82,500 to 83,000, and a pair, ! male and female, if they agree, and can be i exhibited in the same cage, are worth probably 80,000. j. Leopards, though very beautiful and grace; ful, have not the large size and formidable ; look of the larger confreres, the lion and the i tiger, and consequently not so attractive a fnntnro in tVin fivhihitirm nnn hp hnnnrhf fnr ; much less money, being worth about ?2,500 j to S3,000 a pair. I Ordinary camels are worth about ?600 each, | if young, strong, and in good health. Four 1 years ago a pair of very fine white camels ; were imported, being the first of that breed ' ever seen in this country. After having travelled through the country for a single season, they were purchased for the manager to whom : they now belong for the handsome sum of ' ?6,000. i The smaller animals, especially the mon: keys, are very expensive. Monkeys from ! Africa are by far the most valuable, those i from South America not bearing acclimatizaA.1 11 l.._i. J ? i uun wen, uul soon uyiug ui cuusumpuoii. j Monkeys have no fixed price, but cost accord: ing to the species (of which there are many,) J the age, size, state of health, and scarcity of j them in the market. Hundreds of them are, j like parrots, brought from foreign lande by l sailors as forecastle pets. Others of the smaller animals, such as opos! sums, raccoons, squirrels, peccaries, marmets, j and ant eaters, together with paroquets, cranes, | ibises, owls, eagles, vultures, hawks, etc., have no fixed market price, but are usually picked up singly as chance bargains, or "thrown in | as boot," or raake weight in some agreement i for other and more costly animals. OSTRICHES. Ostriches are considered worth $300 to $800 ! a pair. These are usually hatched from the eggs under the domestic goose, or other tame ! bird, and then reared with the greatest care j to maturity. It is almost impossible to cap; ture a full-grown ostrich without inflicting injuries so severe that it soon dies. These huge birds do not bear with hardihood our climate and the necessary confinement of exhibition, but in a few months, or years at most, pine, grow emaciated, and die. In traveling, they ! linuo tn Via wnlAhed continiiftllv. with the most unremitting care, to see that the inquiring country boy in his thirst for knowledge does not feed the bird with nice little lunches of railroad spikes or dainty repasts of old horseshoes and tenpenny nails. The eiger bump kin dispenses to the ostrich these dainties with j a liberal hand in accordance with certain ! travelers' stories he has read, which inform i him that delicacies of the metallic sort are his J favorite food. The truth is that the ostrich I is a very foolish, as well as an exceedingly ! greedy bird,and really will snap up and swal low down stones, bits of iron, or almost any[ thing else that is given it, but it can no more i digest such things than a human stomach can i digest a blacksmith's anvil or a 20 inch cannon. So, if the stupid bird is not carefully watched and saved from the kindness of his horseshoe-bestowing friends, he will speedily die of a surfeit of old iron, india-rubber shoes, wornout hoopskirts, rusty telegraph wire, and such similar sweet morsels, as suggest themselves to the liberal rustic mind as being appropriate gastronomic gifts. Their proper food is meat. A HUNGRY GORILLA. This difficulty of procuring proper food in the great quantity called for by the inordinate appetite of the gorilla has, it seems, been the great obstacle to the transportation of that estimable simian safely from Africa to Europe. Du Chaillu, or one of his agents, having secured an unusually amiable specimen, whose alimentiveness was so much more fully developed than his corabativeness that he thought more of eating than of fighting other people or pounding himself to death, he was put oh shipboard with what was considered a proper supply of sugar-cane, tender branches of various succulent plants, certain roots and fruits suited to his most fastidious taste, and was started for Liverpool. Being deprived of congenial society, however, and having nothing to do other than to attend to his gastronomic desires, Mr. Gorilla soon commenced such a tremendous onslaught on the food provided for him that ere he was literally "half seas over" his entire stock of provisions was consumed. Beans, potatoes, hard-tack and salt-horse were tried by the sailors, while the entire cabin commissariat was ransacked for acceptable grub. Even plum duff failed to please his dainty stomach, and be soon succumbed, and died nineteen days out of port. No Buch promising specimen has since been captured, and s- living gorilla is a gentleman as yet uninterviewed by any white men save Du Chaillu, Gordon Cumming, and other mighty hunters of similar African aspirations and experiences. HOW THEY EAT. Of course the lions, tigers, leopards, and all that are known as the "cat animals" must be fed with raw meat. A first-class menagerie will consume from 300 to 500 pounds of beef per day for this class of animals. Elephants eat from 50ft to 700 pounds of lmy each, per day. It being a universal pasttime with sight-seeing people, to feed the elephants, they are generally kept busy during exhibition hours munching apples, gingerbread, and other free gifts of the many headed people. j Camels are fed on hay, oats and corn, of which the allowance for one camel is about as much grain as for a horse. Giraffes receive hay, oats and com, and also are allowed, when feasible, to help themselves to the tender twigs of certain trees. I Bears are given bread and vegetables, very 1 seldom or never receiving meat. p opp linnu will pqpVi rlpvnnr nnp hunrlrpd pounds of fish per day. The seal and otters i are also fed with fish, which should be from the salt sea, inasmuch as even a few days' diet on fresh-water fish will cause these dainty animals to grow thin and pine away. In the winter the entire menagerie is always housed in convenient and comfortable quarters, generally near some city where the attendants can procure proper food, and in every other way look after the health and comfort of their valuable charges. The entire amount of capital invested in menagerie property in the United States, including not only the animals, but all the apparatus and material requisite for their transportation and exhibition, may be fairly estimated at over 82,000,000. LEARN A TRADE. If we could gain the ear of every boy in the land, there is one thing we should say to 4-1 T ? J J - TA_ 4-? I meni : ijvu.ru u truue. uv nut tiuat tu gcti ting a living by your wits, or by your smartj ness, or by that uncertain thing we call "luck." ; Acquire the skill which will enable you to ! render some substantial service to the community. There is no luck to be compared with ; the possession of skill. If you can make shoes, or build houses, or rivet boilers, or tan hides, you can always get a respectable living. If you have wit, smartness, and luck besides, i you may become the employer of others?you 1 may get rich?you may be President of the I United States. There is no limit in this j country. But if you cannot do anything, | your luck is a poor dependence. You will have to go down. There is such a foolish preference for various occupations which do not require any particular dexterity or knowledge. Boys want to get into stores. They seek openings ; in offices and agencies?things that require no i patient application, and that anybody can do without elfort?and, the consequence is, at ' manhood they find themselves with no regular business, no means of support, no power of doing anything their fellow-men want. ' Many a man becomes a scoundrel, a cheat, a sharper, for no other reason than that he must get a living by knavery, or beg. A trade is the surest protection against ad1 versity. The man who does not know how to do anything is always an inferior?he is always at a disadvantage. He never gets the | same wages that the skilled artisan commands. Unskilled labor is always cheap labor. It belongs to those who have had no advantages, or no mind, or else no foresight or indus! try. The commonest classes of emigrants, j | from countries accross the water where it costs 1 ; quite a sum to have a chance to learn a trade, : even the miserable Chinamen?is on a level with the man who has learned no art, if he ; happens to find himself without mon^y or friends. Nay, these classes are, in reality, better able to take care of themselves; for ! they have a greater degree of muscle, on which I the mere labor of digging depends, and they are inured to the privations incident to very limited means. i The man who has spent four or five years : of his youth in learning some useful art, has 1 possession of processes and methods which i neither fire, nor loss of money, nor loss of : friends, nor any other disaster can deprive ! him of. Wherever he goes, he carries with him, in the expertness of his hands, the means ; of surrounding himself with comforts, supi porting his wife, and rearing his family in re! spectability. Society needs him, and is alI ways ready to pay well for his services. There are a good many silly, weak-minded fellows, who look upon it as beneath them to become shop boys or apprentices. They think they are cut out for something better. Work hardens the hands?it dirties the hands. You cannot be a machinist, a carpenter, a harnessmaker, and wear fines clothes all the time, and these foolish fellows cannot give up their flashy notions. And what is the result ? Why, they get into bad ways and very soon they have no fine clothes even to wear on Sundays. They become shabby, curb-stone politicians. Too many of them gravitate into the business of keeping low rum-holes, or worse. Years run on; they grow from boyhood to manhood; those who supported them drove them off to take care of themselves, and, from indulging a false pride about being above work, they have to come down to what is really unworthy of them. Because, while the time is spent in waiting for some opening that will be sufficiently genteel or easy to suit them, the years are running away, and you cannot call them back. You are becoming each year more and more lnni*n!?rp anvtVllTlfT T^mnlrtV | uigvjuauucu iui iuuujuj^ muj vu<ug. ? I era will not undertake to teach boys who have j got so old that they think they know everything, and ought to be their own masters. Go beyond twenty, and few men can find the beginning place?and there must always be a beginning. We must begin as boys, and get through with the blundering stages before manhood comes. In a country like this, particularly, it "stands a man in hand," as the saying is, to be on hi& guard agairst changes. Your father may be well off; but, when nis means are divided up among nis ha'.f a dozen children, there may not b j enough to go round and you may come out "at the little end of the horn" j (as the saying is again.) Besides, there is no ' telling how lung money will last, or what will become of it. It takes wings. Here, among us, the property is continually passing into new hands. This characteristic of change stamps everything belonging to us, and makes fluctuation to be the chief element of our condition. Some men say, "Oh! this is a free country, everybody can live here!" But it is a great . i . iL.t i:i 1. iL-* -11 mistane 10 suppose mat iiueny xueaus iu?i uu men are to have the same fortune. No system could secure that, and it is not desirable, for all do not deserve the same rewards. Libertr and equality mean equal advantages and equal chances for all. It is then left for each one to seize his chances and improve his opportunities as best he can. Liberty means that no legal obstacle shall be thrown in the way of any man's rising and getting ahead, if he chooses to try. It depends entirely upon the degree of energy in the man. He will find non-legal obstacles enough. Others will shoulder him aside unless he has some merit, some skill, some talent that they recognize. The best places are for the best men, as a rule. You may be President, if you have the ability; but you must handle the pick if you cannot do any better. But this result is always sure: The man who has a trade, and can do something that people want, will always find a market, and always get good pay. SOMETHING ABOUT THE HORSE. The Romans had horses taught to run full speed, side by side, without bridle or saddle, so that the Roman gentlemen, armed at all points, would shift and throw themselves from one to the other. The Nuraidan men at arms had always a 111 I J | 2 J xl j. i.l_? leaa norse in one nuuu, uemues tuat tnejr juuc on, for change in hej? of battle, to vault from a tired one to a fresn one, so active were the men and 30 docile the horses. Horses were trained so as to help their masters in fight, falling with teeth and heels on those who opposed them. Charles V, at the battle of Formona, had a beautiful horse, named Savoy, who, when his master was hard pressed, did, by his kicks and plunges, disengage him. The Mameluke's horse would fall foul of the enemy with teeth and heels; also gather up, with their teeth, darts and lances scattered on the field, and present them to their ! riders as they would order. Ctesar, in his youth, would ride bare back, without saddle or bridle, and his hands tied behind him, make the horse run, stop and ! turn. Alexander's horse, Bucephalus, would suffer himself to be mounted or encountered by none but his master. Cresar also had one none but himself could ride. The Parthians were wont to perform on horseback all offices and ceremonies, whether public or private, make bargains, confer, entertain, etc. The Swabians taught their horses?while in battle the rider threw himself off to fight on foot?not to stir from their place, and they ' rode without saddle or pad. The Messalians, who also rode without sadj die or bridle, made their horses perform all i tiia oira with flip nwiteh nnlv. the reins udod his neck. Cyrus, a great master of the horse, made his horses pay their shot, and never suffered them to have anything until they had first earned it by the sweat of some kind of work. The Scythians, when in the field, in time of scarcity, used to let their horses' blood and drink it, and sustained themselves by that diet?Turks, Muscovites and Tartars, did so too. Montaigne tells of a man he saw ride with both feet upon the saddle, unloose the saddle, disengage his feet, cast the saddle to the ground, continue his course, and on his return take the saddle up again, refit and mount it, riding all the while at full speed, having galloped over a cap, would make at it very good i shots backward with his bow, or take up any I thing from the ground, setting one foot down I and the other in thestirruD. with twentv Other ape's tricks, which he got his living by. Also, there has been seen in my time, at I Constantinople, two men upon a horse who in ! the height of his speed, would throw them! selves off and into the saddle again by turns. And one who bridled and saddled his horse with nothing but his teeth. Another who, betwixt two horses, one foot upon one saddle and one foot on the other saddle, carrying a man on his shoulders, riding at full speed. The other standing bolt upright, making excellent shots with his bow. Several would ride full speed, with their heels upward and their heads upon the saddle, betwixt the rows of scimitars fixed in the harness. Montaigne finds more difference between such a man and such a man, than between such a man and such a horse. We have some tolerable apprehension of the meaning of an ; animal from its voice, or look, or actions ; animals have the same of us. The horse will know by his master's voice whether he be angry or pleased. What is this faculty beasts have, of calling to one another, complaining, rejoicing, calling for help, inviting to love, etc., if it be not voice ? Horses have their likes, dislikes and loves; their preferences I i --J I lor certain colors, ana meir umuura ?uu I Horace tells how the horse will mourn for his master. "And the big tears run rolling down Ida face." In fine, the horse has a great deal of the man in him?in sleep, he will dream, neigh, kick, start, stretch himself out?and,waking, I he will feign sleep, death, lameness, ecstacy, | and so on. Arabia, in the opinion of the naturalist, says Gibbon, is the genuine and original country of the horse; the climate most congenial to his spirit and usefulness. The Arabs preserve, with superstitious care, the honors and memory of the purest races. The males are sold at a high price; the fe males are seldom alienated, and the birth of a foal is a subject of joy and mutual congratulation. They are educated in the tents among the children, with a tender familiarity which trains them in habits of gentleness and attachment. They are not trained by the use of spur or whip; at the touch of hand or stirrup they are off. If their friend be dismounted, they instantly stop for him to recover his seat ?- . Alcohol in Disease.?The question of the use of alcohol in medical practice is having a fresh discussion in England, where a strong medical declaration has been published in which the names of greatest worth in the profession authorize the statement that in the rtMaonf .low fho vol hp of alcohol as an article I"wvu?""; ?~ -- of diet is immensely exaggerated; that its prescription in disease is not to be interpreted as a sanction for the continuance of its use when the occasion is past, and that they will gladly support any wise legislation tending to promote temperance among the working classes, and undoubtedly among all classes. It is observed in England, as it has been here that the medical prescription of wine or spirits is made an excuse for indulgence in the same after the necessity has passed, the patient being ready to assume that this "medicine" is needed as a tonic. Of all the drugs administered in disease alcohol is the only one which is adopted in daily use afterward, and the cheerful resignation with which it is taken for "medicinal purposes" is a tribute to the unwavering confidence which men come to Zse in Uieir medical advisers. The Pall \ Gazette notices that the habits induced by our "fashionable medical patronage of alcohol" have spread into the drawing-room and nursery. Wine is ordered for the little folks as well as for the grown ones. As the Gazette remarks, "port wine has been a great panacea for paleness and lassitude in the nuraorv nnd in t.hfl Bp.hnol room. Fashionable boarding schools keep an approved cellar, and indulgent mothers are apt to think well of the considerate doctor who agrees that the child would be all the better for a little wine at dinner." Now, however, the fashion is to change, and that there is a "fashion" in medicine is well known to all observers. The English protest cannot fail to have a powerful influence, not only there but here. It is not only that liquors are impure or drugged that the really nourishing element in them is overlaid by adulterations which may do positive harm, but the very fundamental question of the "food and fuel" qualities of alcohol is agitated. The result will certainly be a reform in a practice which has in it the elements of pernicious mischief. New York Commercial. Heavy Shoes for Ladies.?Dry feet are warm feet, generally, if the system is healthy. To keep the system healthy, the circulation must be good. The circulation is not good without exercise?and exercise can only be really valuable when gotten up by walking. Riding in a carriage is not exercisa at all; it is merely inhaling the air. This is very well as far as it goes, but the lungs are not in full play without the individual is walking. Horseback exercise is very good, and is an improvement on carriage riding, but is not the kind f *_ 1 c i.1 1_? oi neaun creating piay ui me wusuiea uatuic demands. It is action?action of the entire body?and walking only will procure it. Now, the ladies of Europe, particularly those of England, understand this thing. They walk miles per day, and if any of our pale beauties desire to know how the English ladies keep up their color, clear complexion and superb busts, we tell them that it is outdoor exercise ; walking in the open air; filling the lungs with pure oxygen, by rapid movement on a sharp October day, when the sun shines brightly and the clear blue sky is above. This is the secret of the rich blood of the English women and their almost universally fine looks and matronly beauty at fifty, when at that age our American women are pale, sallow and wrinkled. To enjoy a walk, thick soles are needed. Stout, well-fitting, calf-skin, high gaiters, neatly laced, will always set off a pretty foot and I improve a homely one. To guard that sensitive portion of the human frame (for the sole of the foot is keenly sensitive to the changes from heat to cold, or dryness to dampness,) the boot sole should be thick and as well made as human ingenuity can do it. Then, even in moist weather, or in a rain storm, the foot can be protected; that insured, all is well with the body. ? Debts for the Purchase of Slaves.? It will be remembered that the Supreme Court of the United States decided at the last session, in the cases of White vs. Hart and Osborne vs. Nicholson, that notes onven fnr the nurchaae of slaves could still be enforced. Chief Justice Chase has directed a dissent to be entered for him from such a judgment, on the grounds : 1. That contracts for the purchase and sale of slaves were and are against sound morals and natural justice, and without support, except in positive law. 2. That the laws of the several States, by v/Lich alone slavery and slave contracts could be supported, were annulled by the thirteenth amendment of the Constitution, which abol, ished slavery. 3. That thenceforward the common law of all the States was restored to its original principles of liberty, justice and right, in conformity with which some of the highest courts of the late slave States, notably that of Louisiana, have decided, and all might, on the same principle, decide contracts to be invalid, as inconsistent with their jurisprudence, and this Court has properly refused to interfere with those decisions. 4. That the clause in the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution, vhich forbids com pensation for slaves emancipated by the thirteenth, can be vindicated only on "these principles. 5. That clauses in State Constitutions, acts of State Legislatures, and decisions of State Courts, warranted by the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments, cannot be held void as in violation of the original Constitution, which forbids the States to pass any law violating the obligation of contracts. ? ? Best Food for Horses.?A Connecticut clergyman, after careful estimates and experiments, gives the following tables for feeding horses ; "For flesh, Indian meal six quarts a day, sprinkled on hay, cut from four to six inches long; feed three times a day. For speed, long hay sprinkled with water; oats twelve quarts, always dry ; feed three times a day. A Taunton (Massachusetts) stableman, who I iias naa cnarge 01 some very uue uoraee, feeds as follows: "First, feed thera with dry feed if they are sound. A horse should moisten his food with the secretions of the glands of the mouth, \?hich will be more abundant with dry than wet food. But if a horse has the heaves or is wind-broke, he should on no account be fed with dry food. Oats form the most natural and nutritious food for the horse. My regular feed is : Oats, three quarts; cracked corn, one quart in the morning and at noon; at six P. M., three quarts shorts, which is a simple nourishment, and serves to keep the bowels regular and in good condition. Of course the quantity should be varied, according to the degree of exercise taken by the horse. "As often as once a week a change of food should be made?one feed of cut hay and meal, or cut hay with shorts will do. "Carrots given occasionally will give a fine, silky appearance to the coat. Musty hay or 1 oats should never De given. un\. bUC 1UVU IAJ the best of the kind; it is in the end the cbeaPe9t" Beauty op Old Women.?Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Lord Lytton alludes in one of his works, to a man "who was uglier than he had any business to beand if he could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work. Beauty is not the monopoly of blooming young men and of white and pink maidens. There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age. Grace belongs to no period of life, and goodness improves the longer it exists. I have seen sweeter smiles from a lip of seventy than upon a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth and the beauty of holiness?a beauty much more seldom met, and more frequently found in the srm-cbair by the fire with grand-children around its knee than in the ball-room or promenade. J wIia Uatta fYio trrvrlrl uusuauu auu nii*jy nuu uavotvuguv vuv nvuvt side by side, who have made common stock of joy or sorrow, and aged together, are not unfrequently found curiously suike in personal appearance and in pitch and tone of voice, just as twin pebbles on the beach, exposed to thesame tidal influences, are each other's second self. He has gained a feminine something, which brings his manhood into full relief. She has gained a masculine something which acts as a foil to her womanhood. Curing the Stings op Bees and Wasps. The sting of a bee is usually more virulent than that of a wasp, and with some persons is attended with fatal effects. The sting of the bee is barbed at the end like a fish-hook, and consequently is always left in the wound; but that of a wasp is pointed, so that it can sting more than once, but a bee cannot. When a person is stung by a bee, let the sting be instantly pulled out, for the longer it remains -- j u ?m ^ a. iu nit) utsiu but) ueejjci il niu potM) *uu mo more poisonous it will become. The sting is hollow, and the poison flows through it, which is the cause of the pain and the inflammation. The extracting of the sting requires a steady hand, for if it breaks in the wound, the pain will continue for a long time. When the sting is extracted, suck the puncture, and thus prevent inflammation. Spirits of hartshorn, if applied to the affected part, will more fully complete the cure. The poison is acid, and the alkali will neutralize it If hartshorn is not at hand, saleratus can be wet and laid upon the place; and soft soap will often ease the acute pain. On some people the stings of bees and wasps have little effect, but it greatly depends upon the state of the blood whether it will prove injurious, and these simple remedies, if applied at once, will soon effect a cure. The Sewing-Machine Monopoly.?The various patents owned by the Howe, Wheeler & Wilson and other leading sewing-machine manufacturers expire next year, and great efforts will be made to renew these patents, and thus perpetuate a monopoly tnat has wrung its millions from the poor sewing women of the country. It is estimated that six hundred thousand sewing machines are annually sold in the country, and at prices averaging full four times their cost to the manufacturers. It is safe to say that these corporations have grown richer by their investments than any other class of manufacturers in the country. They have enjoyed a vast monopoly and made immense fortunes. Now let the nnnrRfiwinor crirln and widows have the bene fits of &q invention that legitimately belong to the public. These patents have been renewed repeatedly?we trust the Patent Office Department think sufficiently?and that this great monopoly must cease.? Woonsocket Patriot ? A Shrewd Old Man.?The Kingston, N. Y., Freeman says the death of an old man at Wappinger's Falls, a few days ago, famished the conclusion of a novel bargain, in which parties paid more than they calculated. About twenty-five years ago, when the old man was eighty years old, he was a partner in a manufacturing establishment, which he had started and built up, subsequently taking in two other partners. These latter, after they had got the hang of the business, wanted to shove the old man out, but didn't succeed until they guaranteed him $1,000 a year until he died. In course of time the younger partners died. Their sons succeeded them, and they, too, died before the old man, but he continued in the enjoyment of his $1,000 income for years after they were buried, and died 104 years old. ? | Character in a Hat.?The shape of a hat and the mode of wearing it give considerable insight into the heart and mind. He that cocks his hat on one side, is a poltroon, assuming an air of bravery. He that wears it off his forehead is a baby. He that wears it slouched over his eyes, and raised up behind is a sailor. He that rams it down perpendicularly over his brow is a blunt, ill-natured fellow. He that walks with it in his hand is a coxcomb. The man that always wears a new, shiny hat, possesses the spirit of order? he is a man of method. He that wears a peaked hat, with a large rim and a broad riband?in a word, he that wears a hat as they are never worn, is a false-minded, conceited mannerist > i Too Good to be Lost.?At a literary din ner in London, where Thackeray and Angus B. Reach were vis a vis at table, Mr. Thackeray?who bad never before met Mr. Reach? addressed him as Mr. Reach, pronouncing the name as its orthography would naturally indicate. "Re-ack, sir?Re-ack, if you please," said Mr. Reach who is punctilious upon having his name pronounced in two syllables, as if spelled Re-ack. Thackeray of course apologized, and corrected his pronunciation; but in the course of the dessert he took occasion to hand a plate of fine peaches across the table, saying, in a tone which only he possesses, "Mr. Re-ack, will you take a pe-a^k ?" Cures for Cancer.?A gentleman of this city who had a large sized cancer on his face, having heard of the following remedy, used it with perfect suocess: A yolk of an egg, mixed with fine salt, until it is made a thick paste, appplied three times a day. After a few days all the cancerous flesh had been eaten out leaving a considerable hole in his face. The application of a little salve healed it up and he is now well. We publish this, a very simple and certainly harmless remedy, for the benefit of those similarly affected.?Eufaula News, Decision and Truth.?Whatever you think proper to grant a child let it be granted at the first word, without entreaty or prayer; and above all without making conditions. Grant with pleasure, refuse with reluctance, but let your refusal be irrevocable; let not importunity shake your resolution, let the narticle "no." when once nronounred. b? a wall of brass, which a child after he has tried his strength against it half a dozen times, shall never more endeavor to shake. 9SF A promise should be given with caution and kept with care. A promise should be made by the heart and remembered by the head. A promise is the offering of the intentions, and should be nurtured by recollection. A promise and its performance should like the scales of a balance, always present a mutual adjustment A promise delayed is justice deferred. A promise neglected is an untruth told. A promise attended to is a debt settled.