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BARNWELL, S. C. f THURSDAY, MAT 14, 1885.
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The Flrft Cloud.
They «tood at th
Ha vowwl flrot
fend her,
•Ir altar on« abort
n the troubles of
ffiTtSE
To hare tier an<i bold her for weal or for woe.
She spoke the responses in accents most ten-
der.
To-nljrht, In a loom, they are sitting apart:
Oh I has all her wlfuly devotion been wasted?
She mopes there in silence, a pain at her
heart;
The lamps arc unltsbtcd, bis supper un-
Their sky, erst, vu cloudless, is now overcast;
For Joy there is sorrow, for gladness dejeo-
The serpent bos entered their Rdcn at last,
And left Its dark trail oil the flowers of af-
fectloa "
Oh, well may tUrre be In her bosom a pain,
A grief that she vainly endeavors to smoth
er;
To-night he has told her, in language quite
plain.
She can’t cosk his meals half as well as his
mot he*.
A SEA-SII)K ROMANCE.
“But how can I help feeling neglect
ed tind miserable, NcaP You scarcely
look at mo when Miss Love’l is near,
and she is your preferred partner in all
things now. You walk with her, you
sing with her, you drive with her, you
dance with her, and it makes me very
wretched.”
“Now, Mollie, if you're going to be
jealous!”
-“I’m not jealous, Ned. If I thought
you didn’t care most for me; if I fan
cied you carod at all for any one else, I
don’t think I’d remonstrate with you
at all. I would just take off tlifs,”
touching thirdiamomlon her hand, “and
hand it Lack to you. I'm not jealous,
but you are not Tory kind to me,
Ned.”
“My little pet, you do not see things
as I see them. One owes something to
society, especially when one is at the
seaside. If you would only remember
that I love you too well to find fault
with anything you can do, and, if you
would become a little more of a society
character yourself, I would bo perfect
ly happy. Why, you scarcely take the
least attention from any one but me,
and so many are willing to offer atten
tions to you. Now. dear, kiss me once;
I must bile off; I am to drive on the
bench "vilh Miss Lovcl. Not jealous,
my pet?”
“Not jealous, Ned, no,” and sho
turned from him, but without giving
the kiss he had asked for.
“She is jealous, though!” the young
fellow thought, smiling as he watched
the pretty, straight figure going away
from the nook in which ho had found
her out to ^he stretch of sand, against
which the 'waves were roiling, reced
ing, leaving now a mass of seaweed on
it, now returning and bearing it away
—a very coquette of an ocean, now
kind and now cold, and always fair in
the sunlight.
Ned Tremaine hurried over the beach,
whistling as ho went, and ho presently
caught up with his affianced, who, in
the pretty dress of cream and black,
with her wide sunhat pushed a little
back on her blonde head, was looking
very beautiful and animated—an3
smiling in the face of Lee Stone, the
most incorrigible male flirt at the
beach.
••\.'herc now, Tremaine?” the latter
called out, as, with a nod, ho pursued
his way.
“For a drive on the beach; will see
you later;” and Ned had gone by, re
suming his whistle.
NJr. Stone smiled a little and spoke a
few —wqrds to Mollie. SJic colored
slightly, followed the tall form of her
lover a moment with her eyes, then
gave a gracious answer, and half an
hour later, when Ned and Miss Lorel
met tie pretty light carriage on the
beach, in which Yvee Stone took his
dai y drive, they received a pleasant
nod from pretty Mollie, who whs his
companion, and who looked as though
she was thoroughly enjoying his so
ciety.
"She certainly lost no time in follow
ing ray suggestion," Ned told himself,
half in surprise; “and sho has evident
ly found the society of Stone anything
but boring.”
“What a handsome couple they
make," Miss Lovel said, with a certain
gleam in her stoadv gray eyes. - Ned
colored suddenly; Lc didn’t quite know
why.
“Perhaps you didn’t know that Misa
Amies is my promised wife,” he said, a
trifle coldly.
“Oh, but so many engagements are
broken in a summer at the seaside, one
never minds that very much,” the lan
guid belle said, indifferently.
That night there was a hop at the ho
tel, and Ned had made up his mind
while dressing to be a little more at
tentive to Mollie; bnt, to his surprise,
he didn’t find Mollie Annes shrinking
under her mother's wing, as had been
her custom. A number of her old
friends had arrived while they were at
dinner, and they were about her; be
sides, Lee Stone was quite pronounced
in his attentions to her, and while she
gave him (Ned) a smile from the dis
tance he found it quite difficult to get
near her; then a light tap on his arm
informed him that Miss Lovel was ask
ing him why he was so preoccupied,
and, as Mollie and Stone went circlin,
by, joining the waltaors, he followed
them with Miss Lovel
“A rather pronounced flirtation,”
Lee laughed, later, when he and Mollis
stood on the hotel terrace watching the
moonlight on the sea and strand and
one solitary couple pacing slowly along
beside the waters. ,. Both knew who
they were, fpr a few moments before
they had seen Ned Tremaine place that
C de-pink scarf about the shoulders of
iss Laura Lovel as he led her across
the terrace, too much engrossed in his
task, it would seem, to notice IfaUie or
tier companion.
“Oh, everybody flirts more or less at
a seaside hotel, one has nothing else to
do, yon know,” Mollie answered Lee,
with a light little ripple of laaghter,
aad he looked down on the pretty face
to which the moonlight was so tender,
his voice sinking to almost a whisper as
he spoke to her.
“it is a cowardly pas time for a man,”
he said, softly, “and for a woman it la
a cruel one.”
Again she laughed, while arranging
the bracelet on her arm. A tooon of
ckery was ia the rippling laugh.
And you—is il pleasant to know
Ijeii are cruel or cowardly?” she
is tempted to he
rn meh remerks
•-? .
that
vOne:
come from pue who is said to count his
conquests with a cruel pride, and to
whom the world gives no higher aim
than to fascinate, and—remain care
less. Am I too plain? Forgive me.”
“I forgive you freely—as I would for
give you all things. Miss Annes; but
neither you nor the world fuUg under
stand me. I may seem a trifler; but,
wore the woman 1 love to love me in
return no smile would be tp me so
sweet as hers, no presence half so
dear.”
Mollie had been watching the oonple
young
with a sort of wondering pity.
“Do we all wrong you, then?” she
asked, gently. "Have you failed in
your wooing? Can yon not win where
you love?"
His face flushed a little at her words,
and she, watching it, was struck by its
strength and beauty. How did U
chance that she had never noticed eith
er before?
“I am not left the chance to woo or
win her,” he said, slowly; “she is an
other’s promised wife.”
“Ah,” she said, pityingly; and she
f jave him her hand in a sweet, woman-
y sympathy, never for an instant con
necting his words with herself. He
lifted tne small hand reverently to his
lips, and, drawing it through his arm,
turned toward the beach. As he did so
he found himself facing Ned Tremaine
and Laura Lovel, who were coming in
from the moonlight, and he noticed
that the young man’s face was quite
white, while there w as a half-scornful
smile on the lips of the fair beile of the
seaside. But the two couples passed
each other in silence, the one going
down to the stretch of glittering samf,
the other going in to (lie dancers.
A week later, and Mollie had just
ime in from a long hour, peaceful
and calm, spent with l>‘e in a quiet
nook among the rocks that overhung
the ocean. Hu had been reading to her
there some of the sweetest poems given
to the world by genius. Her i cart had
thrilled as he read, and new, strange
feel in mb had stirred it. When he clos
ed the book he had looked up ami
found her eyes-idled with tears. And
now in her own room sho was asking
herself how it was that what sho had
but commenced for the purpose of an
noying Ned had in one brief week slain
all her old resentment against Miss
Lovel and made her thoughts turn con
stantly’, not to Nod Tremaine, who was
her affianced husband,but to Lee Stone,
who was termed the greatest male flirt
at the beach. What was changing in
her life? When she now met Ned and
Laura it did not pain her as it used.
Was it because a handsomer face, a
stronger aud nobler face then Nod's
was constantly near, ready to tupn to
her with devotion, ready to light if she
smiled?
A servant broke her ponderings by
bringing her two messages—one a bou
quet of white flowers, with a few feath
ery sprays of fern among their white
ness, and one crimson rose gleaming
rod from their center; and in it was a
.note from Lee, asking her to go for a
drive with him by moonlight; the oth
er was a few angry lines from Ned, ask
ing if she remembered that she was be
trothed to him while she allowed ev
ery gossip at the hotel to chatter of her
flirtation with Leo Stone.
*T have been patient, waiting an op
portunity of speaking to you,” he
wrote, ‘drat you will not give me one,
so I write to ask you ifyuu wish our en
gagement broken; to all it would seem
•o.”
She trembled a little as she read, and
her sweet faoe changed color; but she
went to her desk, drew from it every
letter he had over sent her, formed
them and his ring in a package and
wrote him the following note:
“It was I who was first taught pa
tience, while my existence was forgot
ten for one who was what you bade me
become—‘a society character.’’ Why
should I fancy that you wished an in
terview with me of late? It is not so
lopg since you coaid not spare a mo-
m>nt for me from Miss Lovel. Do I
wish our engagement broken? Perhaps
we both wisb it, Nod; at least let us
break it, since I so displease you. I
send you vour letters and ring.”
Then, although a choking sensation
was in her throat, sho penned a brief
note to Lee:
“I will be pleased to go with you;”
that was all; and in the starlight—the
moon rose lato—she went with him out
over the beach and far along the coun-
try.
Was it strange that he noticed she
no longer wore Ned’s ring? Was it
strange that he told her of ills love,and
that sue listened silently, believingly,
with a strange flutter at her heart?
Was it strange that when they drove
back, lingering bosi.le the sobbing
ocean, another ring should deck her
finger and another bond should lie upon
her life? Well, two other? walked up
on the strand, two whom the gossips
called lovers; and yet when it was told
that Mollie Annes was toplaoe her hap
piness in the keeping or “the flirt of
the beach,” one man who heard it
turned white as death and shrank from
the sight of the beautiful woman beside
him, although men called her fair, and
many said she had won him from his
faith; yet Mollie was too happy toj£
gret, although she still sometimes W
members.—liiUadclphia Call.
BUI Nye cn<ho Etiquette of Whist.
There are two kinds of brute verte
brates. One wears hair, and has the
decency to stay out of doors; the other
wears clothes, and makes money, and
insists on coming indoors and. playing
whist and abusing his partner. One
hangs by his .tail to a forest tree, and
behave* himself; the other hangs by his
purse-string to decent society, and
makes himself obnoxious. The blood
of but one banian being is upon my
hands. It is the blood of a man who
played whist against me one evening,
and scolded his partner--antii the tears^
came into her beautiful eyes. He
Maimed he bad a right to do so because
she was bis wife, bat that didn’t make
any diflerenee with the coroner** jury.
She makds a mighty fine-looking wid
ow, and 1 do not regret the part I took
in the tragedy.
The avenge length of human Ule la
thirty-one year?, and is on the '
THE AWFUL TQUPRDO.
What th* Maval BogaganiMit of th*
tut* May Be—An Vueertaln Fight
of Om Agalnot s HrrmtrrU.
The role of the torpedo-boat, reads n
a translation from Figaro an the New
Orleans 'fxm's-Danocral, hr terrible,
and those who direct L* movements
are exposed to the greatest dangers.
A single heavy shot may scatter it to
atoms, and when it approaches the
enemy a hail of balls from the n iirail-
leuscs and rifles will do terrible execu
tion on board. Therefore, fho nacre
fact of embarking on a torpedo-boat, is
a guaranty of bravery. Figure to your
self the situation of the officer in com
mand of such a torpedo-bo.it who is
ordered to sink a ship of the enemy’s
squadron. Ail his surroundings con
stitute one vast danger. The very sea
that hidos and protects hi;n during the
first part of his expedition may in an
other moment toss his corpse hither
and thither upon its waves. His ad
versary will seek to riiUl c iue boat
with a rain of steel, cast-iron and lead.
The torpedo itself, which carries such
terror with it, might be touche,l with a
missile aud explode, bursting the tor
pedo-boat into atoms.
The combat commence*. Th ' ves
sels of the licet have opened lire,
fcshells rain in all dirrelions. Ono of
our cruisers, cannonadinl heavily on
the starboard sidp by a fort mounting
twelve Krupp guns, is simultaneously
attacked on the larboard side by one of
tho enemy’s iron-clads. She has al
ready suffered severely, and her posi
tion becomes critical. A mast signal
from the admiral’s ship is given, and a
torpedo-boat starts. The watchful en
emy has observed tho signal. He
knows the danger, and at once concen
trates his fire upon the little gray speck
which is shooting rapidly toward him.
Three miles separate them, and the
torpodo-boat must make that three
miles in ten minutes. If it is not sunk
before it has traversed (hat distance
the iron-clad is lost. Therefore, the
cannoneers point their guus with the
most scrupulous care. The first shells
pass wide of their mark but tho aim
is rectified, and soon the shells fall so
near the torpedo-boat tlvat they throw
tho water over it. Now one has fallen
right at its prow. A geyser jet of wa
ter thirty feet high conceals tho tor
pedo-boat; the enemy believo it has
been sunk, and utter a tremendous
cheer. But tho projectile has only ri-
cochettcd and passed over it. The wa
ter falls back in rain, aud the brave
little vessel reappears all streaming
with brine, as though it had emerged
from the sea-deeps, and rushing on at
full steam in the face of death.
There are only nine men on the lit
tle vessel, and they are going to attack
a sort of leviathan carrying an immense
crew. It is not the fight of one against
ten. but of one against a hundred.
Not a single word is uttered beyond
the necessary ^orders. Those men,
whom death already touches with his
fingers, are silent and grave. And do
not suppose for a moment that they do
not think of the danger. On tho con
trary, they tiiink of nothing else. But
it is not of their own danger they are
thinking, but of the danger of failure.
It is not a question of tiudr lives, but
of the success of the enterprise. It is
essential that tho torpedo-boat shall
rca h the encujj’s Hank and rescue our
cruisci’. After that, if the torpedo-
boat sinks, so much the worse!
Every nerve is sliaiucd, every eye is
directed toward tho object in view.
Now the boat is only five hundred
yards away from the iron-elad. Tho
lire of the mitrailleuses mingles with
the showers of shells and sweeps the
deck; everything wooden is splintered
to atoms with .grape-shot. An inces
sant tire of repeating lilies from tho
mast lops of ti.c irou-ciad plays over
the torpodo-Oo.it, and the balls, enter
ing through the 1e openings in tho
decks, have already disabled three men.
They lie in a corner, to which they
have been able to drag themselves, for
there is no time now to attend to them.
They may be thought of m two minutes
more—after tho fate of all shall have
been decide I.
The torpedo-boat has almost reached
its enemy, i he success of the expedi
tion is now assured, for tho shell bat
teries are powerless to harm the tor
pedo boat at such short range. The
rifle fire, terrible as it is, can not sink
her. It can only kill some of her
crew; but that is of no great conse
quence. Now is the time when the
captain needs all his surety of eye and
coolness of will; now is the time that
his men must execute orders with the
rapidity of lightning, for if the torpedo
be fired a second too soon it will fail
to do its terrible duty, and yet if there
be a delay of a moment the torpedo-
boat most dash itself to pieces against
the sides of its mighty adversary.
Now tho boat seems almost ready to
touch the enemy’s vessel. Hand-gren
ades flung upon her deck rebound and
burst; one roan is killed; the captain
has received a terrible wound in tho
face, but, summoning all his strength,
he supports himself erect against the
iron wall by a sublime effort of will.
Livid, drenched with blood, but ter
rible in his calm resolve and bravery,
he keeps his eye still upon the enemy.
“Ready! Let her go!”
The awful missilo is launched. An
enormous surge appears in the water,
and a frightful crackling noise is heard,
followed by a terrible cry of distress.
The pigmy has conquered the giant
“Hard a starboara!”
And the little vessel, suddenly wheel
ing around, steams away at full speed,
while the euemy’e iron-clad sinks to
the bottom.
Ten minutes aftsgward die torpedo-
boat has returned to its post beside the
admiral’s vessels. The admiral sends
for the captain in order to congratu
late him. He is carried to him upon a
bier. Meanwhile the fight goes on- A
new expedition may prove necessary.
A provisory captain is at once appoint
ed, and four men to complete the deci
mated crew; and the torpedo-boat is
ready to fulfill another mission; it has
another band of heroes to direct it
Until lately it was the general belief
that chewing the splinters of a tree
struck by lightning won Id cure the
toothache, end that such splinters
would not bum whoa thrown .into the
Tree-Planting.
f* 1
In a recent address. Prof. B. G Nor
throp, of Connecticut, said: “A brief
history of Arbor day will show its aistis
and results. Tho plan originated with
ex-Governor J. Stirling Morion, the pi
oneer tree-planter of Nebraska. He
secured tho eo-operatiou of tho state
board of agrteuiur,-.* m-hv- twelve years
ago, when tho governor w.<m thus in
duced to appoint the >reo:nl Wednes
day in April as a day to be devoted to
tho economic tree-p’n Ming. The old
theory that trees won! 1 not thrive in
the HJreaiV American I)*** Tt” had
formerly discouraged tr.-o-pi nit ling. By
pen and tongue, witi nrgv: me'it; from
theory and facts from h.s ow n practice,
Mr. Morton sucdficdi-d cre-i ling great
popular intere-t in tills work, in which
no was ably seconded by cx-Govcrnor
Furnas, who has long served the United
States department of agr!eul:nro in the
interest of forestry. Hat ly c;. ” mined the
groves on Mr. Morton’s is'ate.in which
black walnut abounds, growing from
nuts planted by him in 1&3S and I860.
The circumference of ono of those
planted twenty rears ago, three feet
above the ground, is four net and three
inches, anu the girt of one eighteen
years old Is two feet and three inshes
four feet from the earth, and its height
is twenty-five feet.
As an experiment I have just planted
personally and by proxy in Ulinton and
vicinity about 150 nuts grown on these
trees tins year. The experience of tree-
planters in Nebraska lavors planting
the nuts and the seeds of all tap-root
trees where lh< y arc to grow. For
forest planting in that state, tho black
walnnt takes the lead of ail hard woods.
A general and remarkable interest was
awakened in Nebraska in the observ
ance of her first Arbor day, and it is
said that over 12,000,000 trees were
planted on that day. This enthusiasm
was not a temporary effervescence.
Each successive governor has continued
thus to recognize this day. The inter
est has been sustained and increased.
Tho State board ot agriculture annuM-
ly awards liberal prizes for tho greatest
number of trees planted by any one
person on that day, as well as prizes
to those who plant the largest number
during tho year. Hence. Nebraska is
the banner state of America for eco
nomical tree-planting, having, accord
ing to the reports from the several
counties, as 1 am .informed by ex-Gov
ernor FUrnas, 244,356 acres of culti
vated woodland, or more than twice
that of any other state.
It is not strange that tho originator
of arbor day should bo recognized as a
public benefactor, nor that, during the
last campaign, when party linos were
so closely drawn, as a candidate for
Governor he ran some three thousand
ahead of his party ticket. Though at
first aiming at economic tree-planting,
Nebraska now observes "Arbor day in
schools,” and the schools were last
)'car invited to plant “memorial trees. ”
1 ho example of Nebraska was soon
followed by Kansas, which claims over
119,000 acres of planted Woodland.
The governors of that state issue annu
al proclamations for Arbor day, and it
is now observed by teachers and schol
ars in adorning school-grounds and
•ncs.
The Book-Store Keeper.
A book-store ought, in a sense, to be
a public library. It ought to be a sort
of intellectual headquarters and start
ing point. It shouid bestow its bene
fits upon the community in which it
stands, and that community should re
gard it as something worthy ot pride
as well as of support Its proprietor
is, of course a business man,who wants
to make money. But the higher his
idea of his functions, tho more money
he ought to make. More intelligence is
needed in the reading of books than in
cobbling shoes or weighing sugar. He
should be the right-huOd man to the
minister, the editor, the school-teacher,
the lawyer, the physician. He should
take couusel of the educated and well-
to-do classes in the community; and
should pqf on his shelves the books
they want, and should welcome them
to his place of business. He is himself
a teacher and preacher, whoso moral
and intellectual influence makes his
business an ethical as well os a com
mercial ono. He has a “high calling”
and ought to take a becoming pride
in it. If he sells paper-hangings, sta
tionery, bronzes and knick-knacks ho
should remember that these, however
remunerative, are but side-shows. If
he covers hU windows with flash, il-.
lustrated journals or staring litho
graphs he shows that he has no confl
uence in the intellectual part of the
town and no power to make himself
attractive to it Is it all a mere mat
ter of profit? By no means; but if it
were more money as well as more rep
utation is to be got by working
for the best and wisest and well-to-do
classes than for the Saturday night pur
chasers of the story papers.
Outdoor Life.
Man seems planned for ontdoor Ufa
in a mild climate, with just a leaf or
two of shelter for a rainy day. Hie
nature will bend for a time to the con
ventional burdens of an artificial civili
zation, bnt replant him on first princi-
C les in the outdoor garden of life and
is recuperative forces will rebound
with the elastic energy of steel springs
relieved. Our fashionable friends
would lose oaste were they to use their
neighbor’s second-hand olothing, but
they will daily try to purify their own
blood with their neighbor’s second
hand or ten-times used breath, poisoned
as it always is, even when exhslbd by
young qnd healthy persons. Man, in
common with other warm blooded
creatures, generates a surplus of heat
within his body. Outdoor sleepers find
that no matter how cold the surround
ing air may be, if dry, enough of the
outflowing'heat may be dammed back
and retained by suitable clothing to sus
tain the vital functions in health and
comfort Until domestic art can supply
oar longs with cool, first-mortgaged
air, in warm rooms, its votaries will
have an important problem to solve.
In the meantime out-campers, and
horsl dwellers will wear the best
sarated blood in the land. —Am encan
Home.
A Severely, Mess., men, has a pom-
leap alleged to be 3,000 jeers
sr
mm
MAKING TYPE.
Am Kaur Among tH* Skill**
e Type-Foundry.
In e walk through a type-foundry
yesterday morning by a JHmet reporter
the following words from Motley's
“Rise ot Ahe Dutch Reput
quoted by the founder, who
nied the reporter through his establish
ment, in referring to the art of print
ing:
“At the very epoch when the great
ness of Burgundy was most swiftly
ripening, another weapon was secretly
forging, more potent in tho great
struggle for freedom then any Which
the wit or hand of man has ever de
vised or wielded.”
“It may not be generally kbown,”
said the type-fonjuler, “that the first
quarto biblo printed in America was
tho work of dmstopbor Sauer, of Ger
mantown, who there in 17S5 estab
lished a typo foundry, but it is to see
how type is made that you come.”
"Let us begin with tne metal room.”
About the place where tho amalgam
of which typo is made were piled hun
dreds of bar of the metal. At the fur
ther end of the room a master work
man threw into tho great kettle cer
tain proportions of .copper, antimony,
lead, and tin. This is the amalgam,
the exact proportions of which produce
the useful metal that must bo hard
without being brittle, ductile but tough,
flowing freely and hardening rapidly.
A bar was broken in two. and the
beautiful, sparkling grain of the metal
shown. About the apartment were
ca^ks of glittering antimony, bars of
yellow copper, dull bricks of lead, and
blocks of tin.
As the composition melted the man
at the kettle stirred the molten mass,
and when the proper degree of heat
was reached ladled it out on the molds
that lay on tho brick floor at his feet.
Above tho metal-room the bars wore
fitted for the printer’s use. Before a
machine known as a punch-cutter sat a
man surrounded by a bewildering ar
ray of delicate tools and guages.
"There are very few men of note for
this part of work in the UnitedStaU-s,”
whispered tho reporter’s companion.
“It requires a delicacy of touch and
perception that is not easily acquired.”
Ou tho end of a niece of steel the work
man at tho punch-cutter was forming a
letter. He worked rapidly yet with
caution, frequently testing his gauges
until tho letter was complete. Then
other letters of the alphabet were
formed tinis(iing the series.
Ono by ono the dies were placed In a
stamping-machine, an oblong piece of
copper put under them, and then the
great lever was brought (town. The
impression was left deep in tho copper.
This oblong bit of copper is termed the
matrix.
From the punch-cutter the taatricet
were carried to an adjoining room,
where the greatest care ia exercised in
their fitting up for the mold. The
slightest variation or irregularity was
said to be fatal to tho appearance of
the type cast in them.
Perhaps tho most interesting things
about the foundry are the tiny casting-
machines that pour out an endless
stream of type as long os they work.
“These snug little fellows'^ said the
type-founder, patting with his hand
the odd little mass of machinery Sefore
which ho stood, “can throw out more
type in ono day than a man, working
teu hours a day, can count in m
month.” The casting-machine is the
invention of David Bruce, Jr., of New
York.
The metal is kept fluid by a little
furnace underneath the machine and Is
projected into The mold by a pump.
The mold is movable, and at every
revolution of the crank is brought to
the spout, where it receives a fresh
charge of the metal. A spring in frost
of the mold bolds close to- it a copper
matrix, and the stomp of the letter on
the matrix is directly opposite the
aperture of the mold which meets the
spout of the pomp. - '
In boxes the new-made type is car
ried to the dressing-room, where
around large stones the boys are kept
busy rubbing away the rough edges on
the typo. Tne lads wear leather glove
fingers for protection. As the type Is
rubbed smooth each letter is set ap in
tong lines. \
From the nimble-fingered boys the
lines of type pass into the hands of the
dresser, who nos,beside him a powerful
magnifying-glass. The dresser deftly
slips a line of type into a long stick
similar in shape to that used by print
ers, face downward, screws them ap
tight, and with two rapid movements
of planing-tool cats the grove in the
bottom of the type. This operation is
known as giving the type legs.
“They mast have something to stood
ling
on,” said the good-natured looking
dresser. After that, with the magnify
ing glass, the face of the line is criti-
caTly Inspected and imperfect ones
thrown aside to be returned to the
melting-pot
“Thu ofto-ation practically ends the
makin" of type,” sold the founder.
“ALu. ward the different letters an
put ap in what we osJl ‘pagM,’ and
ore ready to be sent out” The ma
trices and mold, of whiok the foundry
has a collection numbering many thous-
ands, ore kept, when not in nse, in
fireproof vault They are very i
able, representing, as they do, the
lection of many years ot labor.
A complete font of type may be com
prised under nine beads, aa follows:
Capitols A, small capitals b, lower
case c, figures, points, spaces, cm and
en quadrates, two and threw em quad
rates, and accents.
. Printers divide a font of letters into
two classes—upper-ease and lower
case sqrti. The upper-case are capi
tals, small capital letters, aad refer
ences; the lower-case consists of small
letters, double letters, figures, points,
and quadrates.—PKUadelpkim Times.
valu-
AoL
■i
How
As numerous references Juret been
mode lately to stud-botoe poker, the
following description of thi msniiiiilii;
game, token from an exchange, is re
produced. It was evidently written by
some fellow who had ran up malty
hard against tho buried card.
SEtftUbbrse poker is
cause it has toe air of to
fair play. Five cards are dealt, ton
some as to other poker, with this ex
bat one
the
ception—that all'
posed, and ft is
arses-
upon toe strength, or
weakness of this hidden cord that the
players win or lose their mosey, as the
esse may be. For instance, one player
may have an ace in sight, another a
king, and so on. Should any one of
these pair the “down card” ft would
constitute the strongest band. The
players can only judge from the cards
thrown around oy the dealer as to
what pairs are out The highest card
or pair in sight must do the betting.
This gives the player holding a strong
pair, one of the cards of which is ex
posed, the other hidden, a decided ad
vantage, os tho others may not be play
ing him for a pair. The tobies form a
semi-circle, and are so arranged that
ten or a dozen men ean play at one
time. The dealer, with his chips, sits
in the center, and requires each man to
“anto" ono chip, which entitles him to
draw two cards, tho first one of which
is dealt face down, the second bein
exposed. The betting then begins on
continues until the cuds ore all drawn
out. This looks like a very fair game,
and probably would be were it not for
the “rake-off,” or percentage, and oth
er little points which are kept a secret
among the favorites of the green-cloth
circle.
The percentage taken by the house
absorbs at least one-half, and is no
groat that old and experienced gam
blers will not play their money against
the game. Where the greatest evil ex
ists U the cheapness of the game. The
chips in the majority of the houses are
sold at the rate of two for 6 cents, the
player being required to buy 60 cents'
worth at n time, or as many more as he
desires. Should luck run in his favor
he may make a good winning off a half-
dollar. In nine coses out.of ten it goes
the other way.
This, then, is whore the faqeination
comes in. Each player imagines that
he can play the gome better man somo-
one else, and that there is a fortune to
■tore for him if he only has nerve and
follows it up. Young men who could
not bo induced to play their money
against other games of chanoe are
daily being caught in the meshes at
“stud-poker, ” and onee in, they find ft
hard to extricate themselves.
“Fifty oehts’ worth, just for amuse
ment,” says the smiling tempter; and
the half-dollar is exchanged for a small
stock of Ivories. The cords are dealt,
and the beginner, at the end of several
plays, finds that his capital has been in
creased fourfold. ‘Great game!” <
the novice. “No good, growls the
capper, who has been losing. “Tty
again,” suggests the dealer; “perhaps
J on will have better look next time. ”
le does try again, md the role invari
ably is that either he or the dealer hah
all the chips when the gome oloeee.
These, then, ore the reontittof-poeta
for the gambling-hoosear Let a max
once become a victim to “stud-poker,”
and. it wlll oinch him like the Old Man
of toe Ska. Th* best friend that oomae
to the rescue of theoe pom
the law. It is the only thing tost
save them from otter ruin.—Firpioia
Enterprise.
■ ^ r | m « S.
A Thoweend Pouffe t
Nearly every om who has played
whist much most have had at tones a
Yarborough band—that is, a hand h»
which there is no cord above a ai
Pern bridge says he bee held three ei
these hands in the course of two hoars;
bat this is. oohree. altogether a
noL The name'given to n hand of
sort is derived from a oertotoLocdTaP
borough, who used to offer the attrao-
tire oat realty rear safe wager of
£1,000 to £1 that a hand of this cost
would not be dealt. If Lord Yap*
borough had not calculated the ehaneea,
(or had them calculated far him.) he
toted with little wisdom fa betting at
all on such n matter; bnt if he knew
them he acted with little
offering the odds he did. It
found that one bud to about I.8M
Yarborough, so that Lord Yi
ought to hare wagered £1.8f7 to
instead of £1,000 to £1. It is laid that
he laid thin wager many thoosands of
times. Supposing be offered £1,000 to
£1 to each member of a whist
K
for 10 deals, on about 91 or 99
to each of 10 yean, making to all
80,660 wagers—4. #., 90 tones 1,898—
he would nave loot about 90 tones, or
£90,000, end won about £86,600, mi ~
>nt £16.500.
'it'io
dear profit of aboat
to -
system of
per annum, by this
rt&
There has been discovered near Yu
ba Dam a fugitive sheep, whieh, to
swimming through, the muddy water,
had become thoroughly covered with
“slickeiu.” to which much grafes seed}
hod been mixed. A thick cropof green
C ss is now growing upon toe sheep’s
k. Both the sheep and gross ore
being carefully guarded, and when the
latter bee reached its full growth ft
will he harvested teureku* Into
as tne of ft
stance, lastly. Is on record of ahead
containing four twos, four three#, four
foura, and one Are. Any
such e head might well believe
especiolly selected for punishment by
ton deities or demons, whoever they
may be, who preside over the fortunes
of whist players. Yet snob a hand le
bound to odour from time to time,when
so many play whist. The chance at
holding such a hand is, to
tho same as too nhtnes
the trumps, via., ena fa
For there are only four poasibto ways to
whieh soeh a head ean ha made um
It must hold the 19 lowest oerds fa tha
pack, aad on# Are, which mar ha of
any of the four suits; ‘
four hands hw ‘
a Are out of ww»wMF l amr ( i
chanoe of soeh a hand ia 168,716,889,
000. Yet I hare ae maaaer of doubt
so foolish ore
if a Lord Yarborough of
to offer £10,000 to £1 i
£168,768,889,000 to £1)
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