Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — Page 4

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Edwin Booth’s period of retirement \*ust be nearing its end. The tragedian’s name appears very frequently in the papers these days. Mb. Bellamy’s “Looking Backward,” the London Academy violently nays, is “of an ugliness so gross and a vulgarity so pestilent that it deserved the bonfire and the hangman.” A Chicago man has invented an electric drill with which he proposes to bore a hole to the center of the earth. Maybe he will decide to bore clear through the earth and make a whistle •of it. Thebe was one incident in the Emperor William’s visit to London which -shows conclusively that he is a man of -excellent judgment in some respects at least. He got quite badly stuck on an American girl. The Dressmaker in its last issue has this: “We are now assured that the business woman’s dress is to consist of a pair of trousers, a roundabout coat, and a hat.” Then it will be the husbands and brothers’ turn to adopt the cry of “Nothing to wear.” John Camebon, for whose supposed murder John Marion was hanged at Beatrice, Neb., March 25, 1887, has turned up alive and well. Here is some ammunition for the anti-capital punishment folks. Mr. Cameron ought to do the hadsome thing by Mr. Marion’s heirs.

It is pleasant to note a goo I law relating to medical matters, and of this kind is that enacted by the California Legislature, which establishes a State hospital for inebriates, and provides for their commitment under the same conditions as those for the commitment of lunatics. The barbers of Kansas City recently resolved to do no shaving on Sunday. But as that is the only day in the week that the people of that town indulge in such a luxury, the barbers have called a meeting for the purpose of considering the propriety of rescinding the original order. Tob the purpose of demonstrating the laxity of the New Jersey marriage laws a Philadelphia reporter strolled -over into Camden the other evening and was married five times in rapid succession. To make the story complete and symmetrical he should go to Chicago and see how swiftly all five ties can be cut. The summer climate of Liberia, where Uncle Sam maintains a minister, is said to be a trifle warm, and a Chicago man has refused the appointment. Here is an opportunity for come unhappy denizen of sun-baked Manhattan Island to exchange summer climates where the difference will not be worth mentioning. ■ a.. -■ ■ • .

■A New York girl has had a mustache grafted on her upper lip. This is right in the line of the evolution in New York’s society. The dear boys of •Gotham are said to do fancy work and wear bifurcated skirts and use powder, so the girl with the mustache can fairly be accepted as the first example of Mother Nature’s universal reciprocity. The story that a young English lady on a ranch in Montana subdued the rage of a herd of wild bulls, who were about to gore her, by walking boldly up to them singing the soldiers’ chorus from “Faust” is incomplete. The narrator forgot to add that upon recognizing the air the intelligent animals immediately joined in, playing it beautifully upon their horns. The recent terrible railroad accident in France is said to have been intentionally caused by some fiend in human form. It is easy to believe this after reading the account of the mob which gathered to see the recent •executions in Paris. To such people ■causing a railroad accident involving the death of fifty or a hundred people would be little more than a jjastime. Ed Howe, of the Atchison Globe, takes time enough from his literary labors to observe: “It is proper to take fried chicken in your fingers ■when you eat it, and to bite the corn •■off the cob.” It is unnecessary to add that an anxious puhlio will hail with •deepest satisfaction the settlement of these much mooted questions. Heretofore there has been considerable -doubt about what was just the proper .thing to do. i The Salton flood has afforded East•ern space-writers an opportunity for working off upon an unsuspecting -public a lot of weird tales concerning the Colorado desert which in most -oases are the rankest nonsense. Some of the most prominent journals, and those, too, which ought to know bet- ■ ter, have allowed their columns to be filled with matter which bears on its lace the imprint of untruth, outrivaling as it does the fairy tales of the early Spanish explorers in regard to the deserts of the Southwest. ' A man in Boston who was brought -up at the police court for drunkenness did not escape a fine, though it was his first offense within a year he could not have been punished under the new Massachusetts law. The justice fined .Jiim for snoring. The snores which he

poured forth from the doorway into which he sank down for a drunken slumber startled the neighborhood and even attracted the attention of the policeman who arrested him. The judge was right. Snoring as many people snore should be a ptmishable offense in every State. Thebe is a kind of a summer girl out here in the West whom you never read of in the papers. Her neighbors do not associate her with cool white dresses, idleness, novels, and hammocks, but they think vastly more of her. She is the kind of a summer girl who puts up fruit in the hot kitchen, who is her mother’s help, and who knows more about the ingredients for making a peach cobbler than she does about the latest style of a lawn-tennis dress. She is the Western man’s ideal of all a summer girl should be, and all wise men of the East agree with him after they have tasted some of her cooking. If a man will let his children be idle, he should not wonder that they get into mischief, and do something to disgrace him before they get through. All the men who ever amounted to anything had to work almost as soon as they could walk. If nine out of ten of the boys and girls of 12 or 15 years had to sum up the work they do through the’ day, it would not amount to more than two hours at the most. The rest of the day is spent in idleness, and idleness is the foundation of trouble. No one ever amounted to anything by having a good time, but that seems to be the greatest hope most parents have for their children. Poob Hippolyte is in a fair way to lose the Presidency of Hayti for sheer lack of the sinews of war. He has been trying to borrow from the merchants of Port au-Prince, but they have refused to lend him any money unless the Haytian Government will assure the redemption of $500,000 in paper issued under Legitime’s administration, which has never been paid, even in part. The adherents of Legitime would probably promise this or anything else just at the present juncture, so they may be able to outbid Hippolyte and get him out of the way. Hayti must be a charming place of residence for people of quiet and domestic tastes. Accobding to a late census bulletin, the number of paupers in the almshouses of this country in 1890 was 73,045, against 66,203 in 1880. There were also about 24,220 out-door poor who were permanently supported at public expense. A hundred thousand paupers is a startling number, and though the census figures apparently show that they are fewer in comparison with the total population than they were ten years ago, no one will be prepared to believe that in reality the per cent, of pauperism has diminished during that time. The rush of people to the cities and the enormous immigration tend in the other direction.

The value of titles in Great Britain is illustrated by the latest that have been conferred. Mr. Harris, a London theatrical manager, is knighted because of the manner in which he entertained the Emperor of Germany during his recent visit; and the Lord Mayor of the little “core” of London called the “City” is made baron for his speech and other flunkyism on the same occasion. But, after all, these origins of title are more creditable than some ancient ones now considered blueblooded. The accomplishments of a theater manager and the bows, scrapes, toggery, and toadyism of a petty magistrate are worthier fountains for honor, such as it is, than the vices of monarchs and the crimes of courtiers which gave life to so many aristocratic roots that flourish like green bays now. As one instance of the way in which men are sometimes entangled in a train of circumstances from which only a Vidocq or a G aboriau could extricate them, the accident v hich recently happened to a traveling man in Milwaukee is in point. Presumably all Gabojpau’s stories are fictions, but this tale comes from a newspaper correspondent and therefore must be true. The traveling man in question represented a champagne house. He did it very diligently, and then went to his hotel, climbed into the bath tub, fell asleep with the water running and was nearly drowned. Had his nose sunk two inches lower the newspapers would have reported a suicide. No power on earth could have proved that he did not drown himself intentionally. No detective could have shown conclusively that death was accidental. There is enough in the incident to make one reflect that it is wise not to judge appearances. In a fight between a man and a set of conspiring circumstances the man has no show whatever. To condemn a dead man for supposed suicide on suspicion is in many cases to commit a slander.

Inspiring.

“That composition of yours is truly Wagnerian. Where did you get the idea ?” “My boy exploded a giant cracker and a pack of ordinary crackers in my upright piano last Fourth of July,”— Epoch.

A Better Scheme.

Minister—Tommy, if a bad boy should dare you to, would you knock the chip off his Tommy—Nop— \1 knock the head offen his shoulder.— Epoch. A turtle four feet across the back is said to have frequented Current Biver in Missouri for the past fifty years.

FOR OUR LITTLE FOLKS.

A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO THEM. What Ch'ldren Hava Done, What They Are Doing, and What They Should Do to Paes Their Childhood Day*. Do It. If you have a task to do, lad, do It. Do not dally half a day: get through It. Do not mix your work with play, Do not loiter b< the way. Go and do it rlfht away—do it. If a lesson you should learn, then lear.i it. If the grindstone you must turn, then turn it Strike out boldly like a man; ’Tis by far the better plan. Do the very best you can, lad—do it. If the garden you must till, then till it If the woodbox you should fill, then fill it Though the task be not so fine, Do not fret or mope or whine. Do your duty, line on line, lad —do it Should the wood pile need your strength and muscle. Get your coat <«ff with a lively hustle. Every stick that you shall split Is a tribute to your grit, And will harm you not a whit; then do it

Never mind it if your task seems lowly, Never mind if your reward comes slowly. Keep your conscience clean and white. Keep your courage strong and bright, And you’ll surely win the fight; then do it If you’re good for anything you’ll show it Nover fear but that the world will know it Just pursue your quiet way, Make the best of every day, Do your duty while you may, lad—do it. —M. E. Sanford, in Golden Dayi. The Haby King. The anecdotes current about little Don Alfonso are simply innumerable, and, appealing as they do to every mother’s heart, go far toward increasing the popularity of the throne throughout Spain. He is exceedingly frank and unrestrained in the expression of his opinions, especially when they concern the personal appearance of his lieges, and although extremely disconcerting to the parties immediately concerned, they constitute a source of delight to everybody else. It was only with the greatest difficulty that his mother was able to impress upon him the necessity of abstaining from making remarks of this character in an audible tone of voice at church. Her admonishments, however, bore unexpected fruit. The King manifestly took it for granted that the instructions to remain quiet and silent during divine service applied to others as well as to himself, for shortly afterward, when the royal family ana the court attended mass in state at the Attocha Church, little Don Alfono suddenly interrupted the preacher in the midst of his most impassioned and eloquent peroration by commanding him, in a shrill and piping tone of voice, to be still, and not to make “such a noise in the church.” duven la. Little Habold for the first time saw a tame rabbit twitching its lips as it munched a cabbage leaf. “Oh, look, mamma!” he cried; “the rabbit’s winking at me with its nose!”— Kate Fiela’s Washing ton. Mbs. Johnson —You bad boy (whack; an’t yo’ ashamed to decebe your mudder so? (Whack.) Yo’only hab one mudder in this world, sah! (Whack.) Cuffie —One mudder’s ’nuff! —New York Continent. A kind-heabtEd lady found a youngster crying against a wall on Race street. “ What’s the matter, bubby?” she asked. And bubby answered : “How would you like to wear your long-legged brother’s pants cut down so the bag of the knees came out atjyour ankle ?'”— Philadelphia Record.

“Say, Fred.” said a lad, who in spite of his youth takes a good deal of interest in diplomatic matters, “let’s play diplomacy.” “I don’t know how.” “ITI show you. The first thing for you to do is to go into the parlor and I’ll go into the dining-room, and then we’ll write letters to each other.”— Washington Post. Pupils who learn “by ear,” without thought as to the meaning of things, contrive to afford a good deal of amusement to their teachers. Recently a teacher in a grammar-school asked one of her boys: “What is the meaning of ‘topaz’?” “A topaz,” said the boy, “is where the mules walk when they’re drawing a canal-boat.” The Bangor Commercial prints a story of an Auburn girl who is likely to make an excellent newspaper reporter in the natural course of events. She came home from the grammar school and asked her mother to help her with a composition upon a certain assigned topic. She sat down to write and her mother began to dictate the composition word for word. “Oh, that’s not what I want at all!” exclaimed the girl. “You just give me the facts and I will embellish them.”

Rita is a little woman who lives in Brooklyn. She cares faithfully for a nurseryful of dolls, though of them she loves best the rag baby. Rita is only 3, but she looks forward to the days when she may be charged with the responsibility of living dolls. She has made up her mind already what names to give her little people of that faint and far off generation. “I shall have a lot of girls,” she says, “and call ’em A, B. C, D, and so on, right froo the letters.” “And your boys?” “Oh, if I have boys,” says wise Miss Rita, “I’ll just number’em one, two, free; free’s enough for boys.”— New York Recorder. A wonderfully precocious 5-year-old girl listened, apparently taking no notice, the other afternoon, to a conversation between her mother and a visiting friend. The ladies were discussing the financial straits of a young married couple of their acquaintance, and both freely wondered and expressed their displeasure at the conduct of the wife’s parents in the ease. The condition would be so much ameliorated, they decided, if Mr. and Mrs. S , living alone in a wealthy, luxurious home, would bring the young people under their roof, and thus they chatted over the matter. That night little Lida aroused her mother near midnight. She hurried to the crib in the next room to her own to find the

child wide awake and evidently full of absorbing thought. “I can’t sleep, mamma, said the youngster, “because Fm afraid when I grow up and am married you’ll be like that other lady and not let my husband come to live in your house.” The astonished mother quieted her little daughter’s anxiety by promptly promising in any circumstances to receive her future son-in-law, after which young Lida sunk into peaceful slumber. — New York Times.

Gracefulness of Girls.

“A girl who sits ungracefully is a rarity,” said an artist to a New York Sun reporter. “The sex’s poses on a chair' are instinctively and unconsciously sightly. Then why will not girls practice a good carriage? They spend hours of prayer and effort over their hands and make-up, yet everybody knows a fine figure is the most important requisite of all. Any face can be rendered attractive"by expression. Any face for which we care becomes beautiful to us. But even love can only soften dislike to regret over a round-shouldered, hollow-chested form. Good carriage induces a good figure. It at least Grows such lines as you have into an adjustment of harmony. It will make your dresses fit better, last longer, and look finer while they last A head well carried comes soon to be ‘well poised.’ Shoulders well squared back fill up your bodice and improve your silhouette as well as your profile. Hips well balanced make your gowns drape gracefully in spite of your dressmaker. Feet that come dow n to the ground prettily come near to being pretty feet. Even an ugly hand escapes criticism if well used. A short neck is forgotten if one’s head moves well. If women would spend their time bathing, rubbing, and exercising, they would have something to show for it. Instead, thev sit around in ‘masks’ or make themselves hideous over night. They use washes, prescriptions, and oils, and they don’t half wash. Oh, yes, that is true. Many women, especially those addicted to grease i, do not half wash. Absolute cleanliness—sweet, wholesome, dainty cleanliness—is the best and only safe cosmetic in the world.”

Still Lives at the Age of 149.

West Virginia has probably the oldest American living, if not the oldest man in the world, in the person of Jonas Carpenter, who was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1742. He was a teamster in Gen. Braddock’s

JONAS CARPENTER, BORN IN 1742.

army during the Indian wars of that period, and saw V 7 ashington when Braddock was defeated and mortally wounded in an engagement near Pittsburg, Pa. He was well acquainted with Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, and other famous pioneers. Mr. Carpenter has a daughter in Maine 80 years old and his oldest son was 100 when he died, some fifteen years ago. Mr. Carpenter has lived regularly all his life and still walks without a stick. His memory is good, but his eyesight is failing. He weighs over 200 pounds.

The Comet Finder.

The Science News characterizes as one of the most ingenious scientific hoaxes ever perpetrated, the description of an alleged automatic “comet finder” attributed to the inventive fenius of Professor Barnard of the dck Observatory, the action of which was said to be dependent upon the varying electric resistance of the element selenium under the action of light. Originally appearing last spring in a San Francisco daily newspaper, it was written with such skill, and with all the details of the apparatus described in such a plausible manner by one evidently thoroughly familiar with the principles of physics and astronomy, that it was particularly well calculated to deceive—as, in fact, it did—nearly every scientific periodical in the country, although a close examination of the article would have shown at once the absurdity of the story. A letter from Professor Barnard, exposing the hoax, states that he considers it one of the most remarkable ever gotten up on an astronomical subject, and that it was originated by a young man of remarkable ability—as, indeed, he must have been to have succeeded in deceiving so many persons familiar with such matters. Professor Barnard’s “comet finder” will have to be classified hereafter with the “moon hoax” of some half a century ago, and other products of a too livelv and indiscriminating scientific imagition.

An Interesting Census.

Dr. George van Mayr, who was at one time an under secretary of state, lately read a paper before the Anthropological Society of Munich, Germany, upon the variations shown by the census returns of the various countries in the proportionate numbers of persons living at each age of life. Limiting the periods of life to three, namely 1 to 15 years, 16 to 60 years, and 70 years and upward, the number of persons of those ages per 1,000 inhabitants were in the undermentioned countries as follows: 70 year*. Cen- Ito IS 16ti60 and bus. jears, ye r». upward. Germanylßßs 355 618 28 ' F anoe ..1886 270 682 48 Great Britain and Irelandlßßl 363 608 29 Italvlßßl 322 647 81 Austrialßßo 340 637 23 ’ Hungary....;. ....1880 353 629 18 Spainlß77 325 651 24 Swedenlßßo 326 641 81 Norwa?lß7s 347 613 40 . Switzerlandlßßo 321 C 49 30 ' United Stateslßßo 381 .'93 20 AU trail® 1381 396 592 12

Geographical Names.

There has lately been established, by order of President Harrison, a “Board on Geographic Names” of the United States, made up of several officers of departments and bureaus of the Government. It is charged with the duty of decidingall unsettled questions concerning geographic names which arise in the departments. The decisions of this board on all disputed points connected with the spelling of the names of places, rivers, mountains, and so forth, and of the names themselves, will henceforth be accepted as authority by the departments of the Government, and eventually, no doubt, by the publishers of maps and text-books. The way in which this new board works may be illustrated by a single case. Most of the text-books spell the name of the great arm of the Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Siberia Behring or Behring's Sea. It has always been known, however, since the sea bore this name, that it was derived from the Danish navigator, Vitus Jonassen Bering, who, while in the Russian naval service, first explored this sea early in the eighteenth century. Bering Russianized his Danish name into Ivan Ivanovitch Bering. Although the Russians have always spelled the name of the sea Bering, the Germans introduced an h into the name, and their spelling has been followed by English and American map-makers. The board, to which the matter was referred, has corrected the spelling, and in all Government documents henceforth it will be Bering Sea, not Behring Sea. Among the other disputed points of spelling the following may be noted: It is Chile, not Chili; Fiji Islands, not Feejee: Governors Island, New York, not Governor’s; Hudson River, New York, and Hudson Bay, Canada, not Hudson’s; Kongo River, Africa, not Congo; Hongkong, China, not Hong Kong; Puerto Rico, West Indies, not Porto Rico; Mount Rainier, Washington, not Mount Tacoma. The principles adopted by the board require the adoption in general of the spelling and pronunciation that are sanctioned by local usage. The possessive case is avoided wherever possible. The decisions respecting foreign names are in accordance with the English official svstem of geographical naming and spelling. In these foreign names the vowels are pronounced as in the Italian language, and the consonants as in the English. For instance, in Java, Banana, Somali, and Bari the a is pronounced as in father; in Fiji and Hindi the i is like English ee in beet; au is like ow in cow, so that we have Fuchau, not Foochow. The hard c is rejected for k, and we have Korea, not Corea.

How to Read the Tongue.

The perfectly healthy tongue is clean, moist, lies loosely in the mouth, is round at the edge, and has no prominent papillae. The tongue may be furred from local causes, or from sympathy with the stomach, intestines, or liver. The dry tongue occurs most frequently in fever, and indicates a nervous prostration or depression. A white tongue is diagnostic simply of the feverish condition, with perhaps a sour stomach. When it is moist and yellowish-brown it shows disordered digestion. Dry and brown indicates a low state of the system, possibly typhoid. When the tongue is. dry and red and smooth, look out ’ for inflammation, gastric or intestinal. When the papillae on the end of the tongue are raised and very red, we call it a strawberry tongue, and that means scarlet fever. Sharp - pointed, red tongue will hint of brain irritation or inflammation, and a yellow coating indicates liver derangement. When so much can be gained from an examination of the tongue, how important it is that the youngest child should be taught to put it out so that it can be visible to the uttermost point in the throat.— Dr. Julia H. Smith.

Half a Million Immigrants in 1890.

According to Bradstreet’s, during 1890 the total number of immigrants arriving in the United States from foreign countries was 491,026, a gain over the preceding year of 65,000, or 15 per cent. The bulk of the increase was found in arrivals from three countries in Central and Southern Europe—Aus-tria-Hungary, Poland, Italy—and, in fact, these three countries may be credited alone with supplying more than the entire increase noted, as their total gain over 1889 was 69,000, or 4,000 more than the total net gain. The arrivals of British immigrants showed a heavy falling off. German arrivals gained slightly, and Russian immigrants were also more numerous thin in 1889. The total number of British immigrants was 120,567, a decrease from 1889 of 12 per cent. The statistics of arrivals at leading ports show that New York received 398,396, or nearly 81 per cent, of the total; Boston received 30,971, or 6.3 per cent.; Baltimore, 29,125, or 6 per cent.; and Philadelphia, 23,434, or 4.7 per cent.

Labor and Cotton.

The 8,000,000 bales of cotton grown in 1890 were the most valuable cotton crop ever produced in this country. Ever since slavery was abolished the cotton crop has been increasing, and though cotton has been low, it probably affords more profit per acre than any other crop grown on so large a scale in this country. There are two or three facts about the present cotton crop of great importance. The use of commercial fertilizers in the older States has fully maintained their old ascendency in growing cotton. Savannah, Ga., this year sold above 1,000,000 bales of cotton, a larger amount than any other cotton market in the world excepting Noav Orleans. At the close of the war all the labor in cotton-grow-ing was performed by negroes. But the profit of the crop has led white men to cultivate it, and both black and white are now seen working together in the cotton field. The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but they scratch gravel a bit faster when they are pursued just the same.

UNCLE TOM’S) CABIN.

Lewis Clarke, the Prototype of Its FamousCharacter, “George Harris.” f No book of modern times has enjoyed a wider popularity or more largely, affected the moral or political thought of the world than Uncle Tom’s Cabin, says a writer in Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper. And no character in that book awakened profounder interest than its hero, George Harris,

LEWIS CLAUSE. (The original of “George Harris,” the her* of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”)

the handsome, stalwart and intelligent young mulatto, the down-trodden victim of the slavery system in the South, who subsequently escaped. George Harris’ prototype is Lewis Clarke, now., quietly living with his family in Kentucky. Clarke was born a slave in Madison County, Ky., in 1815. He was sold at auction sale when 16 years old. 11l treatment and a desire for learning impelled him to essay his escape to Canada, the bondsman’s Mecca. After several years of slow progress northward he found his way to Cambridgeport, Mass., where he was kindly received by Dr. Lyman Beecher, remaining in the family for six years. From him Dr. Beecher’s daughter, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, received much of the material for her famous novel, and Lewis Clarke, the real, became George Harris, the ideal. Mr. Clarke is now 76 years old, with a refined face, silken snow-white locks that curl about his head, and a skin of Caucasian fairness.

TWIN TREES.

A Remarkab e Freak of Nature in New Jersey. Ocean City, N. J., boasts of a natural wonder, almost as unique as our continent is broad. This freak of nature consists of twin trees, or rather trees united by a ligature, like the celebrated Siamese twins were joined together in life.

OCEAN CITY’S SIAMESE TREES.

With the exception of these twins of Ocean City, only one other pair like them are known the world over. The other pair were recently discovered in California and are of much larger size than those which grow here. The seashore twins are the “Holly Tree.” They are about thirty feet in height and six inches in diameter. At four and a half feet from the ground they are joined by a branch growing from one tree into the other. This branch is two inches through the middle, and grows larger as it approaches the trunks of both trees, which are fifteen inches apart from each other. This freak in living wood is a puzzle to the botanist and scientist almost as great as the Siamese twins in their day were to the anatomist and .physiologist.

Summary Execution.

A despotic government has its advantages, and among them is the easy collection of a debt, provided the ruler is friendly to the creditor. Ahmed Vefyk Pasha, a Turkish statesman, was once Governor of Broussa, and this story is told of his paternal rule: A rich man had judgment pronounced against him in favor of a poor man. The latter, owing to the bribes of the rich man, could not obtain execution, and complained to Ahmed Vefyk. After hearing the case, Ahmed saw, the debtor riding up to the Konak upon a beautiful Arab horse. He ordered the creditor to sit down, called a messenger, and whispered to him. The debtor entered the room, and was surprised at the exceptional cordiality of the pasha, who invfted to sit down, to take coHee, and to verse. Presently, when he rose t® leave, the pasha pressed him to remain, and kept him more than an hour, until, indeed, a messenger entered the room and placed a small bag on the table before Ahmed. When the debtor next rose, Ahmed; took the bag from the table and gave it to him, stating, “This is yours. You owed so much to this poor man, I have sold your horse, paid him, and this 14 the balance belonging to you,”