Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1868 — Page 1

EAGLE. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. A. J. HILL, ~ EDITOR, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE— On the west side of Second Street, over Dorwin & Brother's Drug Store. Terms of Subscription. One copy, one year, in advance,, $1 50 If paid within the year, 2 00 If paid after the year, has expired 2 50 Paper's delivered by carrier tweentyflve cents additional will be chaaged. No paper will be discontinued until alFarreragcs are paid; except at the option of the publisher. Rates of Advertising. One eolumn, one year, S6O 00 One-half column, one year, 35 00 One-fourth column, one y4ar, 20 00 Less than one-fourth column, proportional rates will be charged. . -s -a Legal Advertising. One square [the space of ten lines brevier] one insertion, $2 00 Each subsequent insertion, 50 No advertisement will be considered less than one square; over one square ■will be counted and charged as two; over two as three, &c. Local notices fifteen cents a line for each insertion. Religious and Educational notices or advertisements may be contracted for at lower rates, by application at the office. Deaths and Marriages published as news—free. OFFICI AL DI RECTOR Y. District Officers. Hon. Rob't Lowry,Circuit Judge. T. W. Wilson, Circuit Prosecuting Att y. Hon. R S. Taylor, . . Com. Pleas Judge. J. S. Daily, Com. Pleas Prosecut'g Att'y. County Officers. Seymour Worden, Auditor. A. J. Hill, Clerk. Jesse NiblickTreasurer. M. V. B. Simcoke,Recorder. James Stoops, Jr., Sheriff. Henry C. Peterson, Surveyor. Sam. C. Bollman, .... School Examiner. Conrad Reinking, ] Jacob Sarff, 1 L. . Commissioners, i Josiah Crawford, J Town Officers. Henry B. Knoff,Clerk. D. J. Spencer,Treasurer. William Baker,Marshall. John King, Jr., ] David King, LTrustees. David Showers, j Time of Holding Courts. Circuit Court.—On the third Monday in April, and the first Monday in November, of each year. . Common Pleas Court.—On the second Mtmday in January, the second Monday in’Slay and the second Monday in Siptember, of each year. Commissioners Court.—On the first Monday in March, the first Monday in June, the first Monday in September, and the first Monday in December, of each year. CHURCH DIRECTORY. St. Mary's (Catholic). —Services every Sabbath at 8 and 10 o'clock, A. M.; Sabbath School or instruction in Catechism, at 1J o’clock, i*. M.; Vespers at 2 o'clock, P. M. Rev. J. Wemhoff, Pastor. Methodist.—Services every Sabbath at 101 o'clock, A. M., and 7 o'clock, P. M. Sabbath School at 9 o’clock, A. M. Rev. D. N. Shackleford,'Pastor. Presbyterian.—Services at 101 o’clock, A. M., and 7 o'clock, P. M. Sabbath School at 9} o’clock, A. M. Rev. A. B. Lowes, Pastor. DRUGS. DORWIN & BRO., -DEALERS IXDrugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Toilet aud Fancy Articles, Sponger, Brushes, Perfumcru. Coal Oil, Lamps, Patent .'Uedicencs, Sfc. DECA TUR,- INDIANA , Physician’s Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care and dispatch. Farmers and Physicians from the country will find our atock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine, and of the best quality. ▼9n35 ts. HARNESS, &cT SADDLE & HARNESS SHOP. K. BURNS, -MANUFACTURER AND DEALER INSaddles, Harness, Bridles. ... , „ Collars, Halters, HTiipw. Bridle-Bits, Hanies, &.e. Decatur, - * - Indiana. I keep cor.stantly on hand and manufacture to order. Saddles, Harnf«, Bridles Collars, Halters, whips, FlyNets, tc., wkich I will Sell Cheaper Um any other establishment in the 4 county. All Work Warranted to be of good material and put up in a sqbstantial manner Repairing Done to Order on short notice. Call and examine my work and prices. A good itock always on hand. SHOP—On Second street, in Meibers' building. »11n47. R. BURNS

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Vol. 12.

ATTORNEYS.

D. D. HELLER, A.ttorney at Law, INDIANA. Will practice his profession anywhere in Indiana dr Ohio. OFFICE.—In the Recorder’s Office. vlons2tf. JAMES R. 8080, .Attorney at Law, DECATUUR, INDIANA. Draws Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFICE —Opposite the Auditor's Office. v!on6tf. JAS.C. BRANYAN. HOMSB J. RANSOM. . BRANYAN & RANSOM. Attorneys at 3L.aw, Claim & Insurance Agents. Also, Notaries Public, DECATUR, INDIANA, -s References.—Hon. John U. Petitt, Wabash, Ind., Wm. 11. Trammel, Esq., Hon. J.R. Coffroth, First National Bank, Capt. U. D. Cole,'Huntington, Ind., Hon. H. B. Saylerj,Connersville, Ind. BES"J.C.I)UANYANis Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. vllnl9tf. D. STUDABAKER, -Attorney at Law, Claim’ & Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice law in Adams and adjoining counties; secure Pensions and other claims against the Government; buy and sell Real Estate; examine titles and pay taxes, and other business pertaining to Real Estate Agency. He is also a Notary Public, and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments of writing. vlOnlltf. REAL ESTATE AGENTS. JAMES R. 8080, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR, INDIANA, ACRES of good farming ,* y O land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If yon want to buy a good farm dr wild land he will sell it to you. If you want your land sold he will sell it for vou. No sale, no. charge. ' vlOnGtf PHYSICIANS. _ F. A. JEEEEFF, Physician and Surgeon, DFtA T1 11. WDMJW OFFICE—'Oh Second Street, over A. Crabbs & Co’s Hardware Store. vßnlstf. L. CURTISS, Physician & Surgeon. DECATUR, :::::::: INDIANA. : Having permanently located in this place, offers his professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. Office in Houston's Block. Residence nt the Burt House. v11n36 AMDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, oecatcr, lvdia.va. OFFICE—On Seoond Street overSpoucer & Meibers’ Hardware Store. JI. JI. JIcCOiYAKLL, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA. ftiwrgnTK Alli work neatly executed WSyJjqami warranted to give sntisfaction. Call and examine specimens. • OJFFICE —With Dr. Jelleff, over A Crabbs & Co's Hardware store. v11n49 h6tels. MIESSE HOUSE, Third St., Opposite the Court Howie, DECATVR. IJI'D., | I. J, MIESSE, ::::::::::: Proprietor. In connection with this House there ' is a Stage run to and from Decatur and Monroeville, daily, which conpeets with trains running both ways. vlln9tf. MONROE HOUSE. MONROEVIELE, INDIANA. ' L. WALKER,-. Proprietor, This House is prepared to accommodate the travelling public in the best style, and at reasonable rates. nsvlltf. MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor. B*«t Hain Street, near the Public sjunre. FORT 19\1Y.VE, LTD. “* vllnllyl. HEDEKIA IIOITSE On Barr, between Columbia and .Vain Sti. FOR T ir.l YNE, IND. ELI KEARNS, Proprietor. Office of Auburn and Decatur Stage I lines. Also good stabling in connection ] with the House. vllnllyl. MAYER HOUSE. J. LESMAN, Proprietor. Comer Calhoun and Wayne Sti., FORT WAYNE, vllnllyl. Indiana. MONROEVILLE EXCHANGE. NO NR OF VILL B, IND. E. O. COT ER D M.R, Proprietor. Mr. Cwverdale is also a Notary Public, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. vllnllyl. ' '

DECATUR, IXD.. EJUDAY. A.PRIL 10, 1868.

The Independent Farmer. Let sailors sing of the windy deep, Let soldiers praise their armor, But in my heart this toast will keep— The Independent Farmer. When first the rose in robe of green Unfolds the crimson lining,- 1 And 'round his cottage porch is seen The honey-suckle twining; When banks of gloom their sweetness yield To bees that gather honey, He drives the team across the field, Where skies are soft and sunny. The blackbird clucks behind the plough, The quail pipes loud and clear, Yon orchard hides behind its bough The home he loves so dear; The gray and old barn-doors unfold His ample store in measuie, More rich than heaps of horded gold. A precious, blessed treasure; While yonder in the porch there stands His wife, the lovely charmer, The sweetest rose on all his hand— The Independent Farmer. To him,the Spring comCs dancingly, To him the Summer blushes, The Autumn smiles with mellow ray, His sleep cold Winter hushes, He cares not how Wle world may move, No doubts or fears confound him; His little flock are linked in love, And household angels round him; He trusts in God and loves his wife, Nor grief nor ills may harm her; He's Nature's nobeman in life— The Independent Farmer. Meeting Hotel Expenses! “Air you the keeper of this here taverin ?” inquired a tall, lank individual, belonging to the regiment, North Carolina State troops and therein the Confederate State service. “I am the proprietor of this Hotel,” replied the bustling little Hotel keeper of an establishment between this city and Richmond. — “What can I do for you?" “What you ax for a bed ?” asked the soldier. “Seven dollars, sir,” responded the gentleman addressed. . “Only seven dollars, .yer say.— Well, that is cheap; dog gone es itaint. Here’s a Confederate live and there’s a two; it’s all right aint it mister ?” “Certainly, sir,” replied Boniface, “it is allperfectly correct. “You hearn him, didn't you Jeems ?” said the military gentleman, addressing one of his companions. “I hearn him,” was the response. “And you hearn him, too didn’t yer, Ike ?” inquired he of another. “In course I did,” was the reply. “I speet it's right between you.” “That’s a blessin’, any how,” said the soldier. “And now, mister, es you'd only travelled as far as I hev, you would want to sleep mighty sudden.” “Certainly, sir, all right,” exclaimed the landlord, as he proceeded to direct a servant to show the gentleman his apartment. The soldier evidently slept soundly; but very early in the morning he might have been seen decending the stairs with the mattress upon which he had slept carefully tied up and slung over his shoulder. He had not proceeded far, however, before he was met by the astonished landlord; who indignantly demanded to know what he was doing with that bed. “Gwine to take it out for the regiment,” coolly remarked the soldier. “You are, are you ?” roared the exasperated landlord; “how dare you carry off my property in that manner ?” “Your property! Well, I like that Didn’t I give you seven dollars for this here bed only last night, and didn’t two of our fellows hear the trade ? Your property. eh!” “The seven dollars you paid me was for j our lodging,” said the proprietor growing somewhat irksome as bespoke. ‘Nary lodgin,’ es I know it,” responded the soldier. “I axed you what you axed for a bed and i>aid yer own price, and accordin’ to Hie natur of a trade the bed's mine.” “Well sir," interrupted the angry host’ “and what do you ask for your l»ed! I want it” “Now yer talkin',” repljed the North Carolinian, as he dumped the bed upon the floor and carelessly threw himself upon it “I want to be reasonable, and .being it’s you. I'll let yon have it for fifteen dollars-’’

“Fifteen dollars!” gasped the landlord. “Jest so,” quietly remarked the soldier, “if a man don’t make one hundred per cent, durn me es he can pay hotel expenses.” The landlord paid the money, and probably avoided speculating in furniture with any of the North Carolina troops. The Mysteries of Paris. The Paris correspondent of the New York Evening Mail gives, in his last letter, the following interesting sketch thathappened at one of the famous masked balls of the Grand Opera: At the last ball a gentleman from Marseilles was most rudely shaken in his illusions by an adventure of anything but a pleasant character. The gentleman, Monsieur R , was accosted by a domino. He replied ; a conversa tion ensued, in which the lady showed tact and wit. She declares herself a lady in the best of society but unhappy in her marriage, and seeking amusement. Monsieur R , after an hour's pleasant chat with his companion, requests the pleasure of her companj’ to' supper after the ball. The lady refuses; fearing discovery by some of her friends, but ijivites Monsieur R ,togo to her villa, near Paris, where she expects to see a party of friends, exacting one condition —that he allow himself to be blindfolded. The gentleman, confident of the good faith pf his charming acquaintance, accepts. They leave the opera, get into a private carriage. Mr. R, allows his eyes to be covered. The coachman drives rapidly for an hour, but finally stops. The lady guides her new friend through a court, up a flight of stairs, into a room, takes the bindage from his ■ eyes, and our young seeker after I adventures finds himself in the 1 presence of three stalwart fellows | I who present revolvers to his head, and request him, politely, to leave ■ his purse, watch, and other jewels in their hands. Os course Mr. R. ! finds nothing better to do than to 1 submit very meekly, whereupon ihe is blindfolded, led to the earI riage, in which he mounts, and menaced with being stabbed to the i heart, if he stirred, was driven around for anothet hour. At the end of this time he was informed that he might descend. The car- ; riage drove off rapidly and the . gentleman found himself in the | Place du Pantheon, at rive o'clock in the morning, Mr. made his j report to the police and returned j to his province a sadder and a wi-1 ; ser man. The police, however, did not remain idle, and finally have laid hands on these Parisian brigands. They were aided in their researches by another circumstance occurring a few days later. A young man was passing along the Rue Sorfflot, near the Pantheon, when a young girl just before him. slipped and fell. He started forward to assist the girl, whom he found had sprained her foot so badly as to be unable to move without assistance. The young man kindly aided the girl to reach her home, and then to ascend three flights of stairs to her lodgings.— As soon as they entered the room, the young man found himself entrapped by three armed men—revolvers. poignards,—all ready for use. After taking watch aud money they had allowed the young man to go, swearing that if he revealed their existence he would be assassinated the same day. “We are a vast association, and upon the slightest indiscretion you may consider yourself a dead man.”— Their manaces did not frighten the young man, who made his report and it is through his information that a band of twelve individuals of the most dangerous kind have [ been arrested. In tlieir company i are several women, trained as de I coys, who frequent all the public l places—theaters, cases, etc. AI warning to unwary youths on their : first visit to the French metropo ! Us. - - - A manufacturer in New York city is filling an order for 200,000 thimbles at eighteen cents per dozen, for managers of a popular gift enterprise. “No blanks! Every , ticket entitles the holder to a present!” _ Turkish baths, it is announced, have been introduced into the Insane Asylum of Ireland with great benefit to the patients. The effect of a bath is said to be very, soothing. Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence—the other from pride or; fear

I Recruiting. Prior to the election of 1860, in I a village of one of our neighboring counties, a company of “Wide Awakes” was organized, and dike i hese organization’s generally, took?! an active part in thenanvass. Thfr; leader, Captain A ,was very ; zealous, and he lost no opporyin:- 1 ty to inform the citizens of. LZ and “the rest of mankind” that if the South seceeded, rebeUed, or committed any overt act of treason he was bound to lead his Identical company of “Wide A waives” upon them, and inflict exemplary punishment on the “tyrannical and cowardly nigger driver^ 7 Well as all remember, the South did, as they haa threatened—they seceded and began to .do business “outside of thc\ Constitution.” — President Lincoln called for troops and it became the duty of the village of L to enlist and organ i ize a company, a public meeting was held. This meeting consisted largely of those who remembered the doughty Captain's boast, and ! many of them without distinction ! of party, determined to test his . courage, now that the war had act-1 ually come. A wag addressed the audience, j explaining the necessitj’ ofprorapt action in each and every locallitv, ■ j “to sustain the government.” He remarked that their success in raising the company would depend much in a brave and determined leader. Then he called cn Captain A to put himself at the head of the movement and redeem the pledges he had so often made. This brought the Captain to his feet. .He assured them that his zeal and courage had not abated in the least, but his judgement was, that the volunteers should at first consist of the •‘single men,” and then they would recruit from the “married men.” “As fo.r myself,” said he, “I have g._wife and five childi ren, aud the oldest is not as high as this table.'” “Better go, then,” cried one of the audience, “and Ze-' your wife rccrml!" —Geneva Gazette. Strange and Hellish Deed by Young Women—They Strip a Man Naked and Burn Him with Red-hot Irons. He Expires in Agony. We have received accounts from the neighboring Township of Cobdon. which purport to be the particulars of a deed that surpasses in cold-blooded atrocity and fiendish malignity everything we remember in the annals of Canada. A short 1 time ago, a shoemaker was in a I tavern at the village of Alton, along with six wouieu—including a mother and her daughter and other Misses—and four young men. The names of all these persons are known to us. A kind of party was got up, and they arrived at the inn in a body. The unfortunate Wright had been about the place two or three days, under the influence of liquor. . It does not appear whether any previous enmity existed between , them, or that it was a tipsy frolic ; I but soon after their finding him the ladies took hold, and deliberately proceeded to undress him.— He was naturally, a strong man, but whiskey had such a power over him that they accomplished their purpose with tolerable ease. They stripped him stark naked, and then amused themselves tickling, pinching, scratching, and | otherwise ill-treating him. We I have not heard what part the four men took in the affair, or who ' first proposed the useoffireThe girls, however, soon armed | themselves with hot irons, burn- | ing sticks, coals, etc., and began ’ to sear and roast him in the most frightful and diabolical manner. — The poor wretch struggled and groaned piteously ibr his re- • 1 lease, but they would not desist I ‘ until they had tortured him to the , | utmost and literally covered his 1 I body with wounds. He lingered ; I tor several days in unuterable ag-1 ony, till death stepped into his re-1 I lief. The deceased was unmarri- ■ ■ ed. We have not yet heard the I I result of die coroner's inquest, but surely the jury can find nothing in : the ease to excuse such ruthless barbarity. We laugh heartily to see a whole i flock of sheep jump because one ; I did so; but the multitude make themselves equally ridculous by slavishly following every new I fashion, and by doing just as the leaders of fashion do. . A friend says he knows of but one branch of business which is very profitable and but little folowed, and that is “Mind your own I business ” There is an incredible story of a New Yorker who got a bill through the Albany Legislature at an expense of only thirty seven cents

| jtfT Three thousand Mississippi ; negroes, thinking that this counI try is not fit for them to live in, I have petitioned Congress to send 1 them to that superior region across the ocean, the land of their fathers. j-Thgy represent that they can not i get enough to eat. Having sto- ' len and eaten up every eatable ■' thing except human flesh within their reach, they want to go to Africa, where they can indulge, like their ancestors, in the luxury of eating each other. But what would be the expense of sending them where.they could enjoy such delicious black diet? Os course there is very little for either white or black men to eat in the South, but the negroes there, if they were willing to work for a living, would go to the vast region of the Northwest and find both work and food in abundance. They don’t want work, however. They abhor it. They want to go where it is to be had. The greater portion of them deserve starva i lion. They needn't expect that the rad- ■ icals will help them across the waiter. The radicals want them to | stay where they are. They want I their votes. They have no thought I of aiding or encouraging or even ! permitting them to run away and ; abandon their right of suffrage.— 1 Louisville Journal. - _ r w i A Permanent Home.—To have a home which a man has himself reared or purchased—a home indeed. which, with honest pride and natural love, he calls his own—is and additional security for any man’s virtue. Such a home he leaves with regret; to it he gladly returns. There he finds innocent and satisfying pleasures. There his wife and little ones are happy and safe: and there all his best affections take root and grow, To such a pair, as time advances, the i abode of their early and middle I life, whence they have, perhaps, all •i departed, becomes constantly more dear; for it is now a sense of precious memories—the undisturbed declining years. And say—what ■ lapse of time, what varied experi- • ence of prosperity, or sorrow, can 1 ever efface, the good impression ’ made by such a home in childhood? Td the tempted youth, to the wanderer from virtue', to the sad victim of misfortune, such remembrance has often proved a strengthening monitor or ahealI ing balm. Nor can this kindly influence Wholly fail so long as the dear object of that familiar scene retains a place, in memory, connected, as they inseparably are, with thoughts of a father's counsels, a mother's tenderness, a sisters’s purity and a brother's love. We Fade as a Leaf. As the trials of life thicken, and the dreams of other days fade, one by one, in the deep vista of disI appointed hope, the heart grows I weary of the struggle, and we begin to realize our insignificance. Those who have climbed to the pinnacle of fame or revel in luxury and wealth, go tp the grave at last I with the poor mendicant who begs ; pennies bs the wayside, and like I him are soon forgotien. Genera- * tion after generation, says an elo-1 1 quent modern writer, have felt as , j we feel, and their fellows were as I active in life as ours are now. They | I passed away as a vapor, while ' : nature wore the same aspect of beauty as when her Creator comI manded her to be. And so, likewise. shall it be when we are gone. The heavens will be as bright over our graves as they are now around our path ; the world will have the I same attraction for offspring yet unborn that she had once for our ! children. Yet a little while and i all this will have happened ! Days | will continue to move on. and laughter and song will be heard in ' i the very chamber in which we died; I i and the eye that mourned for us I J will be dry and glisten with joy; j ■ and even our children will cease I I to think of us. and will not remember to lisp our name. I “OVTSIDE OF THE CONSTITUTION. I —Thad Stevens the leSder of the i Radicals in Congress, has openly avowed thakthe House of Reprei sentativesfwas acting “outside of the Constitution. " And yet. while that lw>dy has constantly violated the organic law, they have the ' effrontery to arraign the President j of their choice for high crimes and | because he exerI vised the powers accorded to all of his predecessors, iiow consistent ! . _ » A little girl was lately reproved for playing out doors with boys, and informed that, being seven k I years old. she was too big for that now. “Why. grandma, the bigj cor we grow, the better we like ■ ’em.” was th* truthful reply. _

What a Sew Hampshire Republican Saw and Learned In the South. A young man from New Hampshire, who weut South to spend the winter, for his health—a Republican when he went away—gives the following account of what he saw, and the impression it made upon him, in a letter which he wrote back to a relative. He left home full of party prejudice, but he had the candor and honesty to use his eyes and ears for himself, and judge according to the facts which presented themselvesdo his observation. Thejresult is, that he is thoroughl/cured of the political disease wiiKwhicjr-he left home, and we hope heTias been equally fortunate in respect to that for which it was his object to obtain a cure in going South. Uncle, I’m a good Democrat now. Not because I’m South, and yet it is the reason. I came here expecting to find the Southern people ready to kill me the first chance they had. So I found a Northern man, a negro lover, a professed Christian, one ready to die at any time for a negro. He kept a boarding house, and I thought I would be safe with him. I soon found him out, and he is like the rest of them. They don’t care one straw for the negro, only I to get all his money. He had a gang of Northern office-seekers m his house all the time ; one New Hampshire man by the name of Bilfinger he was once a Unitarian i minister in Concord, New HampI shire he has but one eye. and it is said was found in bed with another man’s wife, and he dug his ei/e out. This man is the leader ofthe radical party here, and is chairman of a committee to form a constitution for this State. He is a low lived dog, has not beeu here but a few mouths, yet the negroes elected him to this important office, and he expects to be Governor.

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When I heard him lie to the negros and tell them things about the North and Northern, men, how they all would fight for them’, <fcc., telling them if they did not vote for him they all would be staves, I made up my mind I was on the wrong side. 1 never, in ail my life saw so mean a class of men as those who have come from the North and lived a short time. The old critter I first boarded with kept a neuro in his house to steal for him, lam now boarding with a Southern lady, and never was j used bettor in my life. M e talk i about the war. and they are will- ’ ing I should think we were right; 1 and they want the same privilege. The negroes are a poor worthless class; they will not work; a man told me yesterday he had been all over town to hire two negros to work on his farm, he would pay them 825 a month and board; he could not-get a man, and I can count five hundred any day lying in the sun. They have a Freedman’s Bureau to go to at any time and get all they want to eat, and money to get whiskey. And I saw a poor blind woman a few days ago. She has seven children —husband dead. The children had not a rag on them, and were starving; and the big fat negroes live all around here and have all , they want, and it is furnished by the United States Government I think it is a shame; you can’t g<* them to work; and who could expect them to when all their weats are supplied ? Popular Fallacies* That you can receive a dollar a day, spend two and get rich. That to do a man a fevor and then refuse another won't make him twice as mad as if you had refused him at first. That when a man presents you a hound pup that the gift will cost you nothing. That when you buy on credit, knowing very well you will not be able to pay. it is not stealing. That next year th® taxes are to be lighter. That every other man is bound to die except you. That if you have a good case in love, war, or law, pitch in, you are bound to win. That you can play draw-poker and lose just so much and no more. ThaUhere is one way known onlv to yourself,- to break a faro bank. That when yon buy a horse he will be certain to turn out as represented. That when you undertake to sell one you are not going to lie about his quailties. That if you always say what you think you win regard .of the entire eommunitay. The following is an explanation of ” tinker’s dim” : The tinkers used to tramp about England, mending pots and kettles. They - masticated and moistened a bit of bread and used it as a dam around the hole to be repaired. to prevent the solder from running off. After ! being thus employed, what the ral'ue remained in the •‘dam’' ? Can ; anything be imagined more worthi less ? Hence the proverb.