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THE LEDGER;: GAFFNEY, S. C., AUGUST 13, 1896 3 FROM THE WOODS. People and Things In Qenersl Around Rocky Greek. Andy I.nra« TrlU n “Marvolnoiiie" Stary of “Roan Dick and tho Duiiard” —A Haniple of American roiitics. You maybe mougbt not think It, Rufe, but I do rnley believe that nniinaln and things can talk,” says Andy Lu* cas one day latt week as we rid along the old Jackson Trail Koad on our re turn back from the big free b.M- ( ver ralllflcation down there a t Tucker'n CrosB Hoads. And with that the g o r- gcous and gifted horBe trader went down after his tobacco, put a fresh bundle In the ru« k and went on to any: Itoan Dick a.id the Ituicnrd. "One day lust week I had took r.nd made a pallet in a cool place out on tho back porch and laid rue down to sleep a few stanzas. But alnrut that time I looked oil down in the jwster and there was my roan horse Dick Inylu down broad side in tho shade of a big persim mon tree. J could tell from his general appearance that he was sleopln ns sound and sweet as a baby. At the same time | likewise took notice of a turkey bu*- rard which was snilin round and round (xrer the paster, and swinunln deeper and deeper and nearer and nearer to tho earth with every swoop and circle, You eon laugh if you want to, Itu/e, and ft don't make a continental blame bit of difference with me, but I could hear that buzzard tnlkln low and sayln to himself; " ‘Jf that ain’t somethin dead down there I'll bo blessed if I know a good thing when 1 seo It. By nil the devils at onest I will dip down and see what I can see.' •’So with that the buzzard he swooped flown, he did, and lit In the shade of that same persimmons tree. In the main time roan Dick he didn’t move a muscle nor turn a hair, and naturally, of course, I don't reckon he was even drenmiu about boneyards and buzzards, and the like of that. Now presently the buzzard got up on his tip toes and de- scrilied a circle around the horse, but he stepped tremendius high and hopped tpopstrous light on the first circuit- t? -I do wonder In my sou} if tb®t flnpi horse is dead.’ says the bprsan}, ipehin up 4 .'ittle cjpsernnd talkln to hU fqol self, whilst foau Dick was still alcepln the sleep nf the just, ‘If he ain't (lead there’s nothin In general appear* incuts, but ain’t he fat? And, dud* blame It, I am so soandlous bongry till my skin fits loose. By Jinga, I will try him one barrel If It breaks up the plan of salvation.’ "With that the buzzard waltzed up fciul hauled off and nailed the horse on his ham at a spot where he was fattest and his hair was the thinnest. Well, man sir, roan Dick got up from there, and when he rlz he rlz a buckin and pitchin and r.nortln and klckln to bent nix bits. And in the general shock and COnfusionment he had clamped his tail flown and caught the buzzard by bis head and neck. They went off across the paster like the dark jxith of a cy clone-—roan Dick plungin and pitchin and the buzzard flutterln and floppin for dear life. Presently the buzzard broke loose and tore out and flew off the other way. And as he burnt the wind towards the western hills I pQlild hear him savin to himself; “tTliank the Lord I’m loose and free pnexf more. Bless and praise Ills lioly pap 10 ' The dead is alive and the jost are found.' '•Bonn Dick didn’t break his gait till lio had run way over there to the fur corner of the paster. Then be wheeled luid turned, with head and tail up, looked Lack towards the shade of the persimmon tree, give two or three loud snorts, and I could hear him sayln to himself: “(loshermlghty durn! What In the round created world was that? Snakes or fiends, or man or devil?" “You can say what you please about. It, llufe, and you can laugh till you fall off In It,” Andy went on ns serious and soleineholy ns the head mourner In a funeral procession, “but Win neither blind nor deef I am bound to believe that which I sec and hear for my own native self." A Wonderful Old Man. Down there at the free silver rnlllfiea- tion I met up with one ninn that is a Jivin wonder to me. Old man Jack Beas ley Is now a little turned 70 years In the flesh and he never has voted but onest in his lift;. “I voted one time, Btifus, and only onest," said 1'ncle Jack in glvin me his private opinion in regards to polities, “I was a youngster then and didn't have no better sense, but I bad a hand in the ruination of one good man, and I prom ised myself if j only got forgiveness for that I nev'T would east another vote so help me (iod, and I uevenhnve; "In them days Dave Crittenden— which you understand, Hufe, he was the grandfather of our (ins Chitten den mm a jam-up good farmer, and I reckon about the best fixed man iu the county. But all < >f a suddent Dave he too!, tip a fool notion that he would love 1.) W the next eouuty judge, where as he pulled olT atid pitched into the lace. Then 1 was two more Candida I es In the field Wat Ashby and Lum liar dy and It uns pull Dlek, pull devil, who should nnd who shouldn't as be tween the three. As for me, I was a Hcreamin democrat and a Crittenden man from Ihe jump. We lit in, we did, and fought over every inch of the ground. We burnt the wind and sifted he a-du s for Crittenden votes, and we pit I'a c in by a sernteh, as it were - with a majority of only seventeen vote*. Then in tho general jubilation which followed I was the lead dog of the pack. I throwed my hat up higher than anybody and hollered till for a lit- i Ho tie I would of split my throat wide open. "So far It seemed so good, Rufus, but ! In that campaign I east my first and Inst and onlyest vote. Cause why? Well, that election turned out to be the total ruination of Dave Crittenden— which up to then there want a better man than him In 40 miles around— and I was the malnestman in the gang that pulled him through and put him in. Everything went on smooth and all right for the first, few months, but by-and-by Dave took to race horses and fightin chickens, and whisky and cards and the like of that. He went on from bad to worse, and more and more of it, till it was a plum disgrace and scan- dalntion on the county. Before his time was out by gracious the ]>eople had to go and take out papers of compell- ment and make him give up the job and toke out and quit. After that poor Dave Crittenden he took the broad and easy rood and kept on the down grade till finally at Inst he went to the dogs and died the natural death of n mint man. “Ro yon can see for yourself, Rufus, where I helped ’em to ruin one good man," snvs Cnelc Jack, n.s he took the knuckles of his left hand and mopp-d out the salt water which by this time had backed up in bis eyes, “hut I’ll be eternally gonned up if they will ever git me to take n hand in the ruination of another one, Ro fur n.s I am consumed the eat can jump any way she durn pleaoes, and they eon make money out of gold or silver or pewter or lead il they want to. But a man don’t have to vote only when It suits him, and your I nele Jack Bensly laid down his hand and jumped the game years and years and years ago,” Bank Weatherford the Winner. When It cornea to makln a stump speech llttie Bunk Weatherford ain’t very many. In fact, h© is only a very few. But on the still hunt, for votes— when It comes togangin with the hoys and settin up the pegs—he is way yon der the most smoothest and slickest card In tho deck—hot stnlT and a whole pnosle of It. By some hook or mereroolf I forgot ♦o tell you that little Bunk Is now high constable of Rocky Creek. And the way In which he whipped his light and win the race, hands down, jest simply goes on to show that American jKditics have always l>ecn and always will be—Amer ican polities. "YtU! n 00 there was three good men ouf. for the sfimp place, and between the ptber twq they did make the road tremendlpB hot and dusty for me," says little Bupk to me (he next day after the election. '’But Will Tom Pickens he was a candidate from over in the hill country, whilst Dud Newton he was runnlu from down In the Flat Woods. Will Tom he had worked up a scottdlous strong backln from the l>oys in t he hills, whilst Bud he never was In the fight scarcely any to speak of. “Now In a flat-footed scrub race I could l>eat Bud Newton every day in the year, but it. is a whole lot different with Will Tom Pickens, which there alnt n better man in the settlement than him. Well, finally, at last I put tn and figgered the thing out in this way. If Bud don’t git nervious and run up Ihe white feather and jump the game I am a hot, favorite and Isjuud to win. But If he pulls out and leaves the field to Will Tom and me, then the man and the eellin must meet and I will have I to bo the man. "So, consequentially, you can see at onest, Rufus, that the mu I nest tiling with me was to keep Dud Newton in the race and hold out the votes which lie would bring up from the Flat Woods. Bright and early the next mornlu I saddled up and lit. out for the Flat Woods, and I didn't let nuy grass grow till I rid up to the Newton pltier and called Bud out for a private confabula tion, I then up nnij. told hirq I was thlnkin right serious about pullin out of the race since It looked like the old hep was bound to lay a New ton egg before she quit the nest. 1 likewise went on to tell him how m.v votes were ftillln out and floekin to the Newton column. “ 'Will Toni Pickens is like the label on a I Kit t le,’ says I to Bud- ‘all mound it but not in it any tit nil scarcely— and I would love to be your first deputy In ease the cards keep nn runnin your way.’ “I spread it on and piled it up in tlint war, Rufus, till Bud was tiekh'd most to death and I knowed he would stay In the race till the cvi nin of the last day. “Next then on try return back home I rid around through the hill country and give out the news free and promis- ctis that Bud Newton was at least three lengths ahead in the nice and gain ground at evt ry jump. There Is many and many a man in this great country, Rufus, that would a whole lot ruthcr run with tli< i biggest crowd ami holler for the whin'ii ticket, what I was after over there In the h'il country was to start a grand rush and stampede some Pick* n’li voter, into the New tou column. In the mu in time I didn’t have nothin else to do but. to puss the word around amongst my friends to hold steady and stand still and wait for the eat to jump. “And man, sir. the general machin ery worked an slick and smoc'Ii as yon ever saw never missed a lick nor jumped a cog. Bud N’ewton stayed In the nice, lie held his own and got some reatterin xotes which I had stnm|ieded out of Hie lull country ami away from Will Tom Picker*. And then finally at, last when the old cat bunched her feet she Jumped my way like shot out of a shovel.” Human nntiiru 1h most In generally always liuimin. Mortal mail, born of woman, is of few days and no teeth, but full of Ids tricks. BTgrn BANDERS. —Rboea were not made “rights and letta” till the year 1472. ARP SAYS IT IS HOT. Llvos In n Lively Village and Should Know. Olrt Chap* of CsrteniTlIlc — Tho Major Grown Krmlnliirent ami Writes In Itotronpeet Ivr Ksuhlon —OUI- Tline l*»llt I cm. lover—not a transient.one, who, like the butterfly, sijxs the honey from one flow er and then seeks another, but a true, fond lover who chooses a willing mate and sticks. The true, confiding love of a young couple who are mated, as well ns married, is the most beautiful thing In life.—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitu tion. f LOAFERS. Sam Jonos Divides Mrnklnd Into Flvo Clansos. A STRANGE PEOPLE OF OLD. Confidence is a plant of slow grow th in nn aged bosom. The republicansaic making much ado alxmtsomething that Mr. Bryan said about the supreme courts and even some of the (leornia , lawyers criticised him severely and de fended the court, as the best bulwark of our lil)ortles, and spoke of it as the high tribunal that stood like a wall to pro- I feet the people against the assaults of passion and prejudice. All that is very pretty to a young man, but old men have mere memory and less confidence, i There was a time, a good long timer' when that court had the respect and the , reverence of the nation, especially of i the south, when John Marshall and 1 Roger B. Taney, two southerners, were , the chief justices for a period of nearly 60 years; but soon after Taney died part I an n ]>olities and sectional preju dices crept into the court and it is there yet. It has been only 20 years since i members of that court ruled Mr. Tilden j out of the presidency and seated Hayes, j ns clear an act of legal fraud as was ex or perpetrated by the most unscrupulous | jxolitieinns. Law Is said to be the per- \ fectlon of human reason. Then how Is It that In such great questions rrpub- , lican judges decide one way and demo- | erats the other? It is right melancholy to recall that, stupendous farce—se^en democrats and eight republicans nil un der oath to do Justice in this great ques tion, and yet they drew the party lines to a man. That. Tilden was elected all parties now admit and history has so recorded. lie was cheated out of the high office by three members of that su preme court.. Tills is the same court that decided that Income tax to be un constitutional. Why, I wouldn’t trust such a court with any ease that involves great corporations, or sectional ques tions. Ever since Joe Bradley was a young man and up to 1S70 he was pres- idi nt or director of two railroads and several great insurance companies. He couldn't tote fair with them on one ride and the people on the other to rave his life. No, I am like Bryan. I’ve lost confidence in the integrity of that court. I will not say that its members can be bought with money, but their w ills are molded by undue Influence and ought, to be broken. Thai income tax was a fair and just measure and would have pm. Into the treasury near $40,00<!,- 000 and no doubt saved the government from the disgrace of that bond business. But I didn’t start, to write cn polities. The weather Is too hot to think about nnvtbing that excites indignation. We old chnjxs here In Cartersville have liecn going to school every night for a week, prejHirlng fer the doestriet sknle show that was to come off. The ladles got It up and then levied on ns and put the oldest men and women In nn infant class, and wo had to toe a chalk mark and learn our a b e on a blackboard, and be taught, to sing “I want to l>e nn angel,” and we had to spook a speech like we used to speak it axvay back In tho no's and ‘trt’s. Rome of us Ivnd to walk op and he licked for our rnselijef, and xve had a recess and played many, many stars with the girls and 1 got kissed several times and so forth. The r ights were hot. but xve had fun. lots of fun—old-fashioned. Innocent fun. Old people are never so happy ns when re calling the memories of the old school days. That Is about as far ba'-k n« we eon go, and it Is a big landmark in life’s history. Shakespeare telis of the whin ing schoolboy creeping unwillingly Into school. That was a true picture sometimes, but, as a general thing, we were glad to go. Chorlcs Lamb writes of his joyful school days. It was n most delightful mixture. With a moth er to help us get our lessons and a fa ther to encourage nud a teacher to praise ns when we did well, the daily task was not hard, and then the sur roundings, the frolics, the recess; the dinner bucket, the good time going home in the evening, the pretty branches we had to cross, the rod gul lies where we got chalk, the walnut trees over in the field and the chv«t»ut trees on the hill, and then there were persimmons and blnckhnwks and may- pop* not far away. We had townball nt noon, glorious old townball that has been debased and degraded into base ball. We used to give good balls to the batter and wanted him to hit it nud knock It a mile if he could. Then there was our old-fashioned shinny that was akin to tho modern golf. It was a hard game and kept us with bruised shins and bloody toes, and gradually fell into a state of innocuous desuetude. And there wore some pretty girls to look on and admire, and xvix had our sweethearts, and loved to stand by them nt the Friday evening spelling. rm\ someth non ventured to hold their hands on the sly, and would purjioeely misspell tho word to let them get above. That was chivalry, pure and simple, Tli*n come Saturday, a long, long, happy day, when we gathered rlitnquu- pins or chestnut*, or went to the mill and went In washing while waiting for the grist. Sometimes we didn’t wait for the grist, hut ran pony rn< - e« home and went buck In the afternoon for an other frolic. It is still nieriory':. delight to recall those delightful days, and it is no won der that the |>oot.s hove written about them; and one of them says: "How dear to my heart are tin* seenes of my chiidliood.” The next era that stands out most prominently is that of the lover, fihake- f,|»e»re knew all about that, too, and drew the picture, no doubt, from his oxvn experience when he was dying for pretty Ann HtiHidwny. Every mail and xvoiniin could write a story of love’* young dream if they would, and some of them would be sad, very sad. 1 w ish that every lad and Inseie had a Uor>r4 and Doss Can Ho Cinsoiaod t.lko Manner—Work for NoWiInjc Kathor Than Do Nothing for I'aj. la Marco Polo Describes One of the People* He Met In Ills Travel*. Hadnshan is u province inhabited by people who worship* Mahommet, ami have a peculiar language. It forms a very great kingdom and the royalty is hereditary. All those of the royal blood are descended from Kink Alexander and tho daughter of King Darina, who was lord of the vast empire of Persia. And all these kings mil themselves in the Rarnccn tongue Zulenrninin, which is ns much ns to sny "Alexander;” and this out of regard for Alexander the Or on t. It is in this province that those fine and valuable gems, the Hulas rubies, are found. They are got in certain rocks among the mountains, and in the search for them the people dig gnat eaves underground, just ns Is done by miners for silver. There is but one special mountain that produces them, and it Is called fiygh'mnn. The stones are dug on the king's account, and no one else dares dig in that mountain on pain of forfeiture of life as well as goods; nor may anyone carry t he stones out of the kingdom. But the king amasses them all, and sends them to other kings when lie has tribute to render, or when he. desires to offer a friendly present; mid such only as he pleases lie causes to bo sold. Thus he nets in order to keep the Bnlnsntn high value; for if he were to allow everyliody to dig they would extract so tunny that the xvorld would lie. glutted with them and they would cease to l>enr any value. Hence it is that, he a flows so few to lx- taken out, and is so strict, in the mat ter. There is also in the same, country an other mountain iu whieb azure is found; ’tis the finest in the w orld, and is got in a vein like silver. There, are also other mountains which contain a great amount of silver ore, so that the coun try is a very rich one; but it is a.!so (it must lie said) n. very cold one. It pro- duces numbers of excellent, horses, re markable for their sjiecd. They me not shod at all, although constantly used in j mountainous country, and on very lod roads. They go at a gnat pace evi'n l down steep descents, where of her horses neither would nor could do the like. A ml M esser Marco wn s told thotnotlong ogo they possessed iu that province a breed of horses descended from Alexan der’s liorse Bucephalus, nil of which had from their birth a particular mark in the forehead. This breed was entire ly in the hands of an unde of the king's; and in consequence of his refusing to let the king have any of them, the kitter put him to death. The widow then In despite destroyed the whole breed, and it Is now extinct. In the mountains there are vast nnm hers of sheep—400, 500 or 600 in a singlr flock, and ail of them wild; and though many of them are taken, they never seem to get might the scarcer. Those mountains are so lofty that Mis a hard day’s work, from morning till evening, to get to the top of them. On getting tip, you find an extensive plain, with great, abundance of grass and trees, and copious springs of pure water running do\vn through rocks and ravines. In those brooks are found trout and many other fish of (Inipty kinds; nud the qir In those regions is no pure, and res’nh'noe there so health* ful, that when the men who dwell be low iu tin* tow ns, and In the valley*and plains, find themselves attacked by any kind of fever or other ailment thot may hup, they lose no time in going to the hills; and after abiding there txvo or three days, they quite recover their health through the excellence of that air. And Messer Marco said he IkkI proved this by experience; for when in those parts he hod lieen ill for about a year, but. n.s soon as he was advised to visit that mountain, he did so and got well nt once. In this kingdom there are many st raight and perilous passes, no difficult to force that tb s people have no fear of invasion. Their townsnrfl village s also are on lofty hills, and in very strong positions. They are excellent archers, and much given to the chase; indeed, most of them are dependent for clothing on the skins of beasts, for stuffs are very dear among them. The great lneT?e*s, however, nrenrraycd In stuff*, and I will le-ll you the stylcof their dress. They all wear trousers made of evil ton eloth.anel into tho making of tfiesi* some w ill put CO, 80 or even 100 ells e>f stuff.—Newh Brooks, In Rt. Nicholas. I.l Hung ('hang** Mournful Itoncinet. A funny little story pomes to us from Russia iu connection with the fote$ for the pzar’es eurouation. A niomlier of tho American mlsAion, qn army officer, wan calling evn LI Hung Cluing. It bo happened that tld* member had a very pretty mid charming daughter, whom LI Hung Chang so greatly admired that he asked the father’s jiernilssion to send some flower* to her, which of course was granted. Imagine the Amer ican officer'* feelings, however, when Li Hung Chang had carried down to the carriage an enormous wreath of white heliotrope, with nn appropriate '.nonruing inscription. White heliotrope wn* the only flower that a Chinainan could offer to a young girl, the Chinese statesman explained. There was no place to dis|Kise of the flowws except on the top of the carriage, and as the American was on the way to join a procession to spend t he day going about to ceremonies and to functions, there was nothing to do hut to carry the wreath with him.—Harper'* Bazar. f.04ik«il l.lhe It. First Dentist-Are you going to make any money Uiia year? Second Dentist—1 giics* *o. I •cepi to be pulling out all right.—N. V. World. Mankind is divided into perhaps these five classes: loafers, tramps, Sport*, business men and laboring men. There seem* to lie room in America for each of these classes. There are t w o classes of loafers: those who sit still and those who tramp, with the odds in favor of the fellow who will walk. And I be lieve the class known as loafers are mul tiplying. I know men in my toxvn who have not st ruck a lick of work at any thing in years. I can remember the day when we hod only one of that sort; and I think I know a dozen or more to-day. We frequently hear the remark that So- and-so is getting along all right and he don't seem to lie doing any tiling. Never theless the fact remains that every bite a loafer eats and every garment he wears costs somebody something. Nature seems to have endowed some men and specially equipped them for Ix'ing loafers. Sometimes thev inherit a little money. I have knoxvn them to earn a good prize In a lottery or w in a big lx*t. on an election. I have known many of them endowed with a patient, toiling, economical wife who will either keep boarders or take in sewing, and who pride:! herself upon the fact that she could not only take care of her hus band, but his children besides. It Is n very hard matter for an over worked man to have any patience with loafers and tramps and vngalxonds. The Bible says: “If a man will not work neither shall be eat," and whoever lives xvit.hoiit work is Ixeiiting his way through this world whether he be rich er poor, a loafer on a goods l>o\, a dude In society, or an old bum. I believe I have more respect, for the ‘.ild bum Mayl>e he xvas of some account before he was a drunkard; hut I have no re- speet for the constitutional loafer who prides himself on the fact that he can do three things nt once—whittle, xx histle and rest. I see the same dispo sition in horses and dogs. Tho horse that has the disposition of a loafer lags behind and lets the other horse do the pulling. The dog that has the disposi tion is lying always quietly near the kitchen door waiting patiently for tlu- rrumbs, while the other dog stands on guard,i nns 1h<> pigs out of the yard, and earns the living the other old fat, lazy dog Is filching from him. There is one peculiarity about a loafer: he is always looking for work. He has been doing his l>est to get a job for mont hs and years; like the one-eyed tramp whom the good lady was giving hi* breakfast and sympathizing with him in his cadaverous look*; and she asked him how he lost his other eye. fie nnid that he lost it looking for work. Anybody who wants a job bad enough can get# a Job. I never saw the day In my life when I could not find something to do, soon or late, drunk or sol>er; though T have spent many nn idle day ostensibly looking for a job. I have seen a loafing doctor, a loafing lawyer, a loafing preacher, n loafing dentist, a loafing farmer loaf themselves out of house and home, decency and respecta bility. Nearly every laboring man is keep- big up some loafer connected with his own family or related to his wife. We do not need any more loafers. We have got tihout a* many now as we can carry till we get the free and unlimited coinage, of silver. And most, of them are for the free, and unlimited coinage of silver and a radical change In out' financial policy. If positions were hatched out like chickens the loafers could furnish the world with positions, for they nre setting—but like, the old hen setting on porcelain door knob*. The only thing she does in her setting is to set a IkuI example without special in jury to the door knobs. If the negro had the correct way he would call all these loafers lawyers; for w hen a lawyer was questioning a negro on the witness stand he repented the question to him, saying: “Tom, xx hat kind of a dog did you sny that vna?" "Boss, I’ze done told you three times; he w as a ynller dog.” “Oh, I know you did; but I mean what xx as the character of the dog?" “He didn’t have no character. He just laid 'round and cat all de t ime and staid fat.. He. xx-ouldn't run rabbits, he xx-ouldn’t stand guard, he. xvouldn’t do nothing; and dut ere is xvhat made ’em call Mm xvhat dey did.” “What did they call him, Tom?" “Lawyer, sir,” replied the darky,* Most men xx ho nre much account are over-xvorked. A pi an xvho can enjoy 1 icing a vagabond or a loafer Is a consti tutionally good-for-nothing, stnml-up- to-be-knoeked-doxvn mscnl. To we the farmers In toxvn every day, or n Inxcyer on the street all the time, a mechanic sitting doxvn iu front of bis shop play ing checkers, a merchant out playing hnselxill and tennis and a little scrub clerk running his business, Is evidence that the sheriff or a receiver xx ill soon take possession of xvhat is left. Dili gence, fidelity, industry, honesty are the bn*ie principles of a true man. To shirk and querk, to He out and lay out, to eat other jieople’* grub and enjoy the toll of their sweat without return to fliem ought to lie a penitentiary offense, if we had penitentiaries enough to take care of the numbers that xvould go there. A man xvho enjoy* loafing, hi* constitution is gone and his by-law* nei'd amending badly. I had rather 1m* a doodle digger than a loafer. I had rather be a dead man than n living nuiti xx Iloec only job teemed to be the gath ering of tin* hloHsoiii* off of a century plant tv job that lusted for only three seconds and that only recurred once exory hundred year*. I had rather do like the fellow did and take a Job of clerking nt ten dollar* a month nud x hat I oun pick up, than to loaf. I hud •ither xxork for nothing than to do | i ©thing for pay. The Bible teaches us to lx* contented. St. Baul said: “I havo learned in xvhatsoevcr state I am there* with to Ixj content.” I am satisfied St. Baul xx a* not advising or counseling i vagabonds or loafers at that time. There is xvork enough for all, and the fact that xve have »o many over- xvorked men is but a demonstration that | xve have too many under-xvorked men. Wc need to let up if xve are working too | hard, and to get up and go at it if xve ! nre xvorking too little. Cornelius Van- I derbilt xvas reported by the papers | a fexv days ago us being a seriously ill ; man; and they tell us that the stock In the railroads which he controls de- I predated to the amount of a million j of dollars in a single day* on the »n- j nounoement that Mr. Vanderbilt xvas nn 111 man. W. K. Vanderbilt is hi* brother and is equal oxvner with him in these railroads, and yet if it had been reported that \Y. K. had died it xvould not hnx-c affected the stocks in their roads to the amount of a dollar, I dare sny. Cornelius Vanderbilt is a laborious man xvho stands for some thing, xvho does something, xvho is something; his death xx’ottkl lx? a calam ity; his life is a benediction to the xvorld. \Y. K. Vondorbilt is a society man, a yr.ehtman, a gentleman of lei sure. The difference of the txxo men makes the odds. Take a laborious man cut of his community and you miss him like you xvould one of the big xvheels out of the old family clock or the ever faithful steady pulling mule of your tram xvhen he lies doxvn and dies. The man xvho lives to purpose nud xvalksto- xxnrds definite ends xx ill not live so long ns the vagabond or loafer, perhaps, measured by days and months and years; but in usefulness and conquest be lives more in a single day tt’ian n loafer will lix-e in a hundred years. If you nre overxvorked xvhen'your eye runs over these lines, sloxv up. If you nre a loafer, get up or get out; hustle, or evaporate until there xvill be no evjM*nse connected xx ith your funer al. Be n dog rather than lx? a loafer nnd then lM*g the pardon of ex-ery dog you meet for being a dog and bringing reproach upon his kind. BAM P. JONES. PERILS OF "HAIR BALLS.' A New Horne Dlseane Discovered In Dela ware. A nexv trouble assails the mush-afflict ed farmer. From various parts of the country, but most particularly from Delaxvare, comes the xxail of the “hair ball.” It is a killer of horse*, and those animals are dying of it in considerable numbers. The department of agriculture has received recently a good many “hair balls.” They are the queerest looking things imaginable. You could scarce ly realize that they xvero not manufac tured articles. Picture to yourself a perfectly spherical ball, alxmt the size of a baseball, of a yellowish browf* ccJor. It is very Ijard, so that one xvould supixwe it to l>e heavy; but it is very much lighter than an equal huljlc o< cork. Such a txill four Inches in diam eter weighs less than fixe ounces. It *iH*nm to Ixx made of felt, ami xvheq cut open it is found to 1m* solid and tq consist of the same felt-like material throughout. Upon examination unde* a microscope, the mass proves ?o be composed of minute stiff hairs, pointed at one end, and about one-tenth of an inch in length. Such is the new plague that has at tacked the horse. Tin* balls are found iu the stomach of the animal. Thirty of them, of greater or less size, an* said to be taken from one horse that died, a short time ngonenr Mil ford, Del. These balls plug up the intestines, thus nrc~ venting the onward movement of the- food. Peritonitis ensue*, followed by gangrene, and the unfortunate beast dies after a fexr hours of intense suf fering. It is not surprising that farm ers should have Ixvn greatly puzr'feil as to the nature and formation of tho bulls. However, the explanation iai simple enough. The introduction of crimson clox’er os a foragi* plant into the l uited States is comparatively re< , ent. As is the easo xvith many ot her specie* of plants, parts of it nre hairy—notably the calyxes of the flowera and the stalks of the flower heads. In the early life of the crlm.oon elover these hairs are soft, but Inter on they become hard and bristly, and the microscope show’s that their surface is covered xvith barb*. If a horse is fed xvith hay that is mudo from the fully matured crimson Hover* there is pretty sure to be formed on accumulation of the little hairs in tho stomach of the animal. They hang to gether by the barbs, and the sphere thus formed is steadily increased in size i>y the subsequent additions. Eventually It stop* up the int stine, interfering with the vital functions. Hence the trouble of which the farmers of DHa- xvurc and Hsexxhere are complaining just noxv. Tho occurrence cf hair halls in tho stomach or intestine* of horses, and more commonly of cattle or sheep, in familiar to xeterinury surgeon*. Usual ly such bulls an* composed of liniro taken into the stomach little by littki xvhen the animal* are licking their coat*. These finally become matted Into spherical concretion*. In the neu ter of tin* hall Is frequently found ana.il or some other hard ob ject, nround xvhich the first hairs xvrapped thcmsHvea. Riteh hair ball* nometimcfi consist ot the so-called "lM*nr'l*,’’ or axx n«, of oat*, barley or other grain. The department of agriculture rjrt* vise* the farmers never to feed crimson Hover to their stock after the plants have ceased floxvcring, and especially never to 11*0 for fodder t he straw of criin- wm Hover raised and threshed as a seed crop. The dangerous hairs do not lx*come stiff until Hie plant has passed the flowering stage, tmd has liogun U» ripen.- St. l*mi* (.ilobe-lVmoorut. Ileaillnz Her Off. ^ I “Julia’sxveddlngl*deferred until fall. ,, j “Ye*, the young man xvho is to marrjft her wn* afraid Julia xvould wear a «hir| vxaiat.”—Chicago Record.