Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 19 March 1880 — Page 2

DAILY NEW

SEAMAN. LEWIS CO. PtrmuMi Publication Office, 501K Ohio

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Ttie D^Lir Kswp, i* printed every week day Afternoon, and delivered by carriers throughout the city at 10 cento per intxhrrq^^ made weekly. By mml'(^jx by the Publisher) one month JtS cents three months ftJBS six months $2J0 one year $5.00.— MxtQ mbaadptiofe ip, advance, "vs

Tiixdebatc in the Senate cm the Star route postal deficiency bill wm dosed Wednesday by the "withdrawal of the preamble and the striking out of all else that was in the nature of a reflection upon the Postofflce Department, after which the hill wan passed. lilix -U-'i 1! t/i11.JJl"X.'IJ.

Tub people of the United States have already contributed oyer $ 1.800,000 for the relief of the Irish. And John Bull says: "Goon andaend some more." We hare yet to M»e the announcement of the contrlhtrtfoti'of a single shilling by the philanthropists of Ejcetcr Hall.

Twit'famine in the province of Ceara, Brazil, is the most fearful known in civil* ized, countries in modern times. The Irish and Bik'frfans are in some distress, but these wretched' Brazilians are dying by the thousand 500,000 have already perched from actual starvation orfrora di»en«e caused by hunger

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A ucadIno Liverpool grain circular says there is a marked improvement in the de triand for wheat. White, despite a good quantity of California freshly arrived, has been freely taken for consumption, choice realizing one penny advance. Red descriptions maintain extreme prices. Floilr was Hteiidy, with a fair sale.

Tir$s bankers Of New York have requested Secretary Sherman to purchase, more bonds. The money market, they allege, is kept very close by large sums absorbed' for the payment of customs due?. The bankers say the revenue receipts were never ho large as now, and that the surplus ought to be invested in bonds in order to get the money back into circulation. The Secretary will be governed in the matter by the prifle ol bonds. The banks will no doubt keep them down as low as possible so that large purchases will be made by the Secretary.

known practical citizen of Cin­

cinnati has invented and put into use on his premises a device which he claims will completely consume smoke, or rather the constituents of smoke before they "become smoke, and with which he asserts he can effectually do away with all the soot and smoke in any city in the country in three months' time. It is claimed to be applicable to machinery of all kinds, and the cost of applying it to one boiler is placed as low as $ft) in some cases, and in none higher than #50. If thts invention will do what, L? promised for it it will be a great boon to tho world, and one of especial value to those localities where bituminous 6r 30ft coftl is used extensively, _},,

The election next month will afford the people of Harrison township, and of Vigo ounty, an excellent opportunity for ex pressmg their opinion on the importation of North Carolina negroes to this State, for the purpose of stuffing the ballot boxea and subverting the will of the people. It is desirable to know if the people of this community, particularly the poor people, in competition with whom these negroes come, will quietly submit to so wicked and nefarious a •coeme.^fi'astfte.

The above is a very "thin piece of deiriagogism. So thin that the most ignorant and prejudiced tyrd would look upon it with disgust but if it serves the purpose of making a vote or two for the party from which the Gazette gets its bread and butter by virtue of having sold what Httle influence it wields* the object of its publisher isf attained. The creature whose soul is«o little and depraved as to write a paragraph of the purport of the above, Is well fitted to do a wrong of greater magnitude, had he the courage and manhood to do so. To attack the lowly and helpleas or the down-trodden and defenceless, requires little or no courage and is never indulged in by the manly and brave. The idea of a few "North Carolina negroes" stuffing the ballot boxes of Harrison townchip, and ''subverting the will ol the people" of Vigo county at the approaching election is so ridiculous and silly that it could emanate from no other source than a paper of the chariivcl¥r.^e .G«l(®tte, or those controlling it

Anew thing in firs apparatus, says the American Journal of Industry, is the electric hose. A wire runs along in the cotton or robber part of the hose, continuing the connection as each section is attached, and over this passes electricity generated by one of the engine's fly wheels. Connected with the noaatle Is a little contrivance bv which the engineer can be told, although squares from the man who Is playing water on a fire, to "turn her on," "rut her nit,*' "stop," or "go ahead," or anvthing else that can be agreed upon, by a signal which is strut* on a gong on she engine.

Tine Republican parly demands fair whJTe thg®emocand njilection.

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more county farmers, Commissioner of

.feasibility ol manufacturing sugar from corn staiksaad sorghum. Wem|M% confer tlAtlie pwpti^yalu* of o^Q^afexperiments and recopsmffeda^^s, but the testimony of many practical men fa different parts of the country^onfirmp his theory that the United Statesman manufacture all the sugar needed for their own consumption. The inoney annually expended for sugars in this country ft stated by Gen LeLhic to bfe nearly equal to what feB paid for bread-stuffs. By far the greater portion of this sttm goes out of the country, the consumption of Louisiana sugars being inconsiderable ifcB compared with the consumption of foreign sugars. The announcement, therefore that "in five years frxranjo* .enough sugar can be made (from corn stalks and sorghum) in this country for home consumption. and that in six years we canexport sugar instead of importing it" i» one of the greatest interest and importance. Gen LeDuc also stated in his remarks the other day that 960 pounds of sugar td the aere bad been made from the corn stalks after the corn was gathered, and. that it is possible to make in this way twice as much money out of the stalks as can be derived from the corn. Good merchantable sugar had, he said, been made in varipus States at less than three cents a pound* If these statements and predictions are, verified an enormous impetus will foe giv^Uo Aincrican agriculture, while the flddtfioa to the wealth of the Nation wUl be almost incalculable. That the extraction ^f .sugar from corn stalks and sorghum can bq made to realize a profit does apt *eem td admit of much doubt,Jn view of the very general testimony to tliaf affect on the part of those who have made the experiment, but whether Gen LeDuc's enthusiastic predictions can be realized of not remains to be seen. There is every prospect that the question will be speedily and fully tested, as a number of practical tneiv are now occupied in its investigation, with view of engaging in tlie manufacture should it prove to be'feasible,'

How to Help th( Children tirow Erect and Mtately. New York Tribune: William Blaikle, the author of "How to Get Strong and How to stay So," spokebefore the Brooklyn Teachers' Association recently on ''Physical Education.", ''I, want," said he,

see if in ap informal, talk we can't

hit upon some way in whichjwe can bring, the physical education of school children, down to a practical basis. Our children,, who are healthy and buxom when they begin school-work* come out pale, sickly ana with round shoulder*. If you require the children under you to sit.far back on a chair and to hold their chins up, you wfll cure them of beinjg round-shouldered, and the lungs and other vital orgnns will have free and healthy play. Another, simple plan is to have the children bend over backward until they can, see the ceiling. This exercise for a few minutes each day will work a wonderful transforation. If a well-qualified teacher could be employed to superintend the physical development of the children the1 best results would be seen. Dr Sargent now the Superintendent of the Harvard Gymnasium, who formerly had charge of a gyrfinasitrm in New York, has Ho eotreylas a teach,ef of Bimple, efficacious rnefcns ov1 which the weak parts of one's bodvmay be developed. I think it would be well for you to send some competent physJcia'ii to nitn to take lessons, and then' the e*ertiSeS! could l»e tatight to your teachersl The first step should be simple and economical E*er-rI ciscs of the simplest kind c*n be begun it an a a a

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"A cat, my dear children, /ell love wltli a handsome young man, an' intreiat,-. ed the gods to change her into ]the for^ uv a woman, in order that she might make what society nowadays caU a .'niash,' The gods, at a special ^meeting of the board, Jupiter in th© chair, granted hur request, an' transformed, her into a coun-ter-hopperess in a millinery'store. It wuz enough. The young man saw the beauti.-. ful damsel, flirted with her, an.' it wuz not many days until she gobbled h,im up for keeps. The happy eouple liyed tj(gother quite happily unUl one evonin' when tliey, were slttin' together in their room, a. mouse happened to run over the floor. The fair young bride* who had -not forgotten her old habiti uv Hfe. immtediately darted after it an'give it a Hvely wMrl Aroun' the room. The moose escaped by the skin uv its teeth, an' *hll«tbe husband wu* marvellin' at the courage uv a woman that led her to taeklo a lirin', breathin' mouse, hts better half ottered a sorrowful, disappointed sort uv a *meowf an' jumped out uv the winder. Here she Waltzed up an'down the back fenoei curved her spine an' catterwauled 0utra|^0HS. Because her husband did not respond to her lovin* call an' jine her in a moonlight

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Ivorce. allegin' incompatibility uv tem perament. flulure to provide, extreme cruelty an' intemperance. A decree wu* granted her with 110.000 alimony. Matrimony, my dear children, is a risky business.

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lumberman tip north. Irat whose t»d habits of drinking molted as they often do, though he has since reformed and is try-" ing to do better. ^•How are ymr mM T. Orn "Pretty well, thank too, but Tvt? just leen to a doctor, to htm look at my, thfOSt-** -Whartitheinatterr^ xWellt the doctor couldn ^ve me any ericotrragemcnt. AX least he couldn't find what I wwited Wm to find, "'What too eacpect Wtn to indr "I a^ced him to look down my throat for the saw mill and farm that had gone down there." "And dBd he sec anything of CbttnT

No, but he advised me If I ever got another mtU to run It by water."

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OoodHty«,«w«tdayi Good-bye. sweet soocWqrel ric^ itftrnqpfnteM taut mMffltea, The wtatle I watch thy sunset's amoaldmn* «n»let» .•• Die in the west beneath the twn%Jitgi*y

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ff't XlMia———W The Good Old Times. It BOundH~Vffry ]^tTair £o"~s iy the good old times/' but if we would' be strictly truthful, having au eye upon the actual ratherttfHn npOT ItnTSeiiti mental pafat, we should be more inclined to designate them as the "mean old times," especially if by gome powerftrl freak of natore, we should be'takeij. up iind^BGt back among the dayd thatfeil the lot of those who were old men and women when our grandparents were little ehil* dren. It ia no wonder that Benjamin Franklin, -with hia prophetic vision, wished it had bOen his! de^fiuy to^bo born two or thpree centuries later. Think of the journoye Uieu requiriftgtlays that may now be accomplishetl in as ma»vy hours, and wit^, mr more comfort, Think ofl-aitting in-ehurelt winter after winter without the cheerful preeence of afire save that which, was kindled in, the imnginadfon by of the preac)»er as he described th© tor* mentaof fJie "danmed." Tliink pf paying' forty or fifty dollars a year for a newspaper, and think, also, of the beg* garly littR wi85f and^Uts meagre qualit!66 Thmk of living without a frictiou match in the house, or alObth-bhish, or a carpet, or gasliglit, or a sewing-ma-chine, or doing wrthont overshoes and umbrellas, and a thousand other thirigff that we call neceasities. It is startling to consider the multitude of tilings, small andgreatr^kafc-we-iJOBeeBS which contribute to our, comfort, our welfare^ our ease, our enjoyment, that were utterly unknown to our innocent grandfathers,, and never could Jaa.Y.e„eutered their' dreatns. The. spirit oi. progress consults our convenience ana multiplies advantages in every dilution, enhancing the charm of life, diminishing its paihs, and inviting^ iIS t5 welWffTOTil^'^iiJby ita innumerable jfllts.

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Chest Development and Consumption. It is etateOIiE"3uHng theTast( tweai-tjf-nVe yeare not & single singer has died of consamjptton at St. Pefcehibiirg although this disease hiss outstripped all others and~now holds the first place among tne causes of death in the Ktisflian capital. From this and other facts Dr. Yasilieff draws an inferencv^ in favor of the wtereise-involved in singing, as a preventative measure against consumption. There .would seem to be room for question as to the relation of cause and effeck__ltj»ay-jaitjier happen that singers, ^ure not consumptive because they can use their chest and throat freely, or that consumptive pOrsbris are riot singers because th0 weakness which precedes disfiSSTifi^^citates tKe^"chest and throat fbr Exertion. Both of these KypbtheSes are true up td a certain point, DUt neither hokto good- in ail coses. A very littl^"«baervation~-wttt~ snfiice to show that it good singing wice may coexist with a weak oc dimaed chest, whereas the perfectly healthy may be unable ta aing.

It was some forty years: ago a common, practice to give consumptive par tienfea specially arrAhgedtubO to breathe through with fiitiew to exercising the chest. We venture toiiope the experiment will Jipt be repeated. Chest dev^lophierit can ohly be ad^omplishfed in a manner consistent with health daring' the growing state of childhood^ and ttien the most netural and convenient methods of exercise are the best. Later on in life great mischief may be done by, unduly straining the ipuscles of the thorax and those of the throat, besides, the peril of injuring the smaller tube? and, air ve&els oTChe'Tungs^by .violent exertion, for which the organs of the Voice have not been early trained1 1 1 I Female Dt^s Befonni

A corr^jwndeHt writes" from Leip^a. that a society composed of fashionable women hiur been- formed there with ft view to discouraging extravagance of dress and any and all supermtous ex* penditure-for- -ftdorumeut or "display. The members sre pledgM not to weis* jewels, false hair, trains, double akirta, or anything not required by consideration of decency and self-respect Patterns of «n^e:goffM,^ith very little trimming nave been devised, ^nd tain mactua-makers have agreed to follow those pattern# rigoroosly, whenever they are asked -to. The members are persuaded that they will be able to work a thorough-reform, and do great good by c*ttsing irate& of eoo&taiy to be widely adopted in. that city. As many of them are rich and of high social position, the/ think tHsJt their influence will be feit and their example followed throughout Bavaria. We hope that they may be justified iB"tJ!HTl^ImdS7Tui we ham. ahfcdderhig doubts. Something of ifio* sort has taken place ftt mi Ohio town though there the motive Is theologic. A oi umber of young women have organixed themselves into a Circle the have discarded gems and garniture of every ktiflL Betettflr one of theta wai found in thaatroet lit th« todf morning in heir n%htrgcfwn, and not iong aitar in astiU wosae state of wardrobe. She was arrested, property draped, uoproxumnced Insane. Prob^jyahfi MjsflL.Wiien young women or even tolerably old women h*ve diseased wruuaaent orsurrender^l the poa of dothee, there is good re» son to qaeetion their mental uoondram Sane wonxaa are not ia that line.—A'. X* TEsms.

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When *6DuufltiU6eJ*fc.p: a journevnedoes not fill his trunk with trlittle siiablij linen and a gfuatt Uiiny

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i» reawiiiabte juffligarr%53 of serviceable gmneQtsJft^xcellent re pair, andgoes forth n^dt, wholesome and of an equal mind, appropriatelyifitted|bft his journey and his work. goes on Ms j«Q^rneyvand Bis children stay behind, for the famous public school of their ward or district demand their presence^ and the absent father's orders are strict, thev must be prepared for tho^ grehtei'^a&niey bf lffe and its business. Week after week their young heads are stuflfed with a little Information and a great number of subject nomjr nli ydiolog^, drai "r

ireajrBcafi^pins ana slippers. «Tne sturdy, every-day needs of senTiceablearithmetic (not glib memorized sets of figures), of accurate arid brightly intelb-: gerit reading,of easy writing and corn rect speech, fare badly among such a host of studies. They are brushed over, hastilv and by rote, like all the others and afiabby enough they are as they are packed away among the scarf-pins for that long and busy journey. The prerise &nd intimate knowledge of comtuou branches witliout which no man con Ik decently equipped for work of anv sort^ is discarded for what Mr. Charles Francis Adams aptly Calls "veneer arid sham."

The experiment of "sumtier" has been sufficiently tried in American public® schools. It is a sort of dfecotaflve art, of, which we have had a great deal too.muchr

There is in most of 01# city schools a, va.-t expenditure to little purpose. Whito

resonable desire to see all this money, used, with common t-ense. and houost discretion. There is something too much of drawing and vocal music, of 'ology, about the.school course. The frantic On-\ thusiaam about drawing which animate ed -eehool- board0-aml «npen irtendents" •several years agqj Is/getting cooler and cooler in many places the number of

lar teachers to the work asm unfortunate! |ias cost a of taoneyVarid £lie clnef*practi has been tlint a number of feti were exhibited at the Otfnten bration at Philadelphia. A^ha in tho way of handiwork thie our schools ^tas accomplished.. been brought abottt in a wisac Va! "training of the eye and "cull the tastes" so much talked ab' some of the people wfi ingTy teaching drawing Iri these nub1 i6 BCho^s#:J1 rtfe*»iW alt frtlM ness, never ye been discerned., Tq rise tho language of coiriirion sense! this is trash. The training to read with intelligence and appreciative understanding one famous masterpiece of, tho English language would be worth in way of cul tivation a thousand of these drawing leet sons.

Possibly one pupil in live hundred haa Borno impulse given to his hand in draw-, ing whicn may make 'him in after life a better mechanic. The other 499 have meanwhile acquired i»o l©ftn«wr which \fUl assist tii^i,0nl4xejl«r»5iiirvthe^dbmitT ing-room, or 111 the, ki^en^Why should all these be wroiigfy "Busied'for the ^ake pf 0ne?)

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tionoitihemucliKliscnseed probjfeW of. industrial edttcatioii lies iti tlie establishmerit of well-equipped and thoroughlytaught free technical' school? in «rerV city and large town. ThO cuttii^g: 0ft -Of the Sripe)fflt{itibS which now only lead to "Veneer and slutm" would savet large

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Tfiere L» rio danger tliat children can sleep too much. The old p«rverb, "WJUff Bleeps, sats," is mnsteated Jri^tlipsB ^tUI ones who sleep most. WajceftM .children ore alwaysj^eevish, lifitaWeand lean. If1 they can be Induced to sleep athjndantly they are quit© likely to become good natural and {dump. Th^ir-sleep should be as much during Uve hours ^f darknes»#c possible, and Uierefore iti# oett«r that they should go to bed before sunset to have their sle^p. out, tli£n to, lie Ipog after sunrise in the moriuugr. It ia well to let any healthful, growing child or ioung person sleep, unul ha wakes himself, and then give him Such varied and amo«ftt of out-doorelercUte as flhitH make liim iHad whea bedtime returns,

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s—Curioos Weddings. Inner, the other night,M curious were under dicussion at a are some great travelers were aid it was hoped that they, tvor the company with some of theii experi«w» iu that line. One

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treati^Xl^rti^w^^at o^savel«r will seldom open, I114 woutt^—to any ijpLte^tiug extent at icast-r-iu. tlie gj encd of another, Ibr wlucji, doubt Uiey have their rwsona. ,, "it is a pity," wh 1 spered. a .great navigator to me, the anoth ^r grea4, navigator was venturing upop au experieuce," that a man who ha^reaJly done great things should teN%«oh^ry Ttrange adventures/teeoatistr Ihey OT%adtehredit on even what? be haS dane/'

Upou this occasion sn old*^eittIbnH«i beit'att the explortraby relatrogt©\i§*i*B nuptials Of Miss Biffin, Xvhioh took jSla^r not so far axilraiy, indeetl, but:«otlong_aco U»t-thedetai£s irore iteyoad the r^Hcii of criticism, '^Plris hidy Wlte wSnaspietioufc' in her time for the absence of her Iifftte -rrbut for aU tUat shtp ntt^ndted the •fitshionablarwssetabUe.H.'i OdO niglit she W*» foiyoUen^by ^her^frtoiuls^imtt left^ih^th^

by her cries, the heaid Htiter rushed into the room, and inquired who was there. From the datk depts of tlio. assembly' room, a female voice replied 1-t is I.' I want "to go home.0

Then step this way, ma'ar^ yoif dttt' surely see the door Alas 11 have 110 legs."

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The waiter vasa4vindly man. and veuitiired into the darknescu If you will hold out your hand, ma'am, I will pick 'yon up and carry yoa out.",,

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which co^ld be put! to, bettef ^se,' V,Tp these schools could be sent UiosQi chii* dren who fey natural bent- belong therein. There is rio klnnt^f,^ut thiit suft,-' cidttttiriie could befotiridboyi foranlinproved public-school course and a tecli-' nical sohool course. TlifeE '^irtrig^ no the way to "be iriade in, States. As our readers are. aware, rthe door is ajar in the Boston primary, schools^-iri that Boston, tried all the "new ideas'? ki,education,** now Settlrng upon that most excellent* onei, the "Quiricy plan." Hertafter th'( little people of that great oily are to le. "taught," instead of being made tomemorise arid gabble by platoons. They ard •to acquire not a glittering varnish, but a nimble intelligence which will tak* them out into titer world ingoodcase, and give to thoif minds the sairio eomfort atid readiness which stoht arid clothes give to their bodies,

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Kheep need freedom of action and variety of food more than any 01 our domestic animals. In winter they reqdffe shelter only against 'tstktf^tsdvm and melting snows, as even a cold storm better than a neated baru, at least- for Cotswoltls. A rough shed, facing the south and capable of teing cloaed dttring the rain and snow is quite sufficient. They ai»ould y»eft be kept ia small flocks, have spuciooa yards to roun in, and at all Umes, exwpt doriagrtorma, fed in rsdcH oat of doofti in ordinary weather. Where cold *tora*i are rare, and the ground isfree from heavy snow, artificial shelter is hardly necessary, for Cotowolds at any rate. ,f ?.^n

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Alas! I have ueitherhands norarrii*? On which the waiter tied, under tlie JimpresSion that it was the ^evij.,

Our old gentlemih avw, ot B^ua this ladv married—she was married, poor Icreature, to a vile adventurer, who ran jthrough her money and JeR her to starve 1 described thefiromnstauces^ I "But where did her husband put the Ting?" asked one of the audience,^a mail that is never satisfied with what is suaV icient fbr other people, and who haa no respect for age. bnrold gehtlemtinremained silent, deW |irig ih the rhiiis of his memory for U# immaterial circumstance.

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her rippe. ,-i -aaiiK ui I The most striking marriago of modern timestoolrplnce iustrnfter tmroverthroxr* bf the Commune in Btfrist: ilt was a double one, and each bridegroom had for his {best men twb gendarmes, and each lady*, for her bridemaids, two female prison wardens, The happy pairs parted at the chtirch door, to meet again in the convict settlement of Now Calodonitv. Tho. men were lifers." and would have been debarred tho solaceof matrimony forpver but for the circiimstanco that theif 1 Sweethearts possessed certain secrets of great Value to the police A bargrtin wasj struck with thb State*, by which tho two paiysofiovem-were-thua mod^happy-at the expense of tho, ^riqainal classes. It is therefore possible, it seems, to combine a love match with a marriago of con* veriSjfence." ,u,,

Carelessness wltli Plre-Arms. I am remuidt^d every once in a while, 1 Upon reading some tragedy caused by* r^pklestf "foonng" with gun# and pistol*?, how near I onoe came to taking the life of aifellow-beingi and it has been a coiftl stant warning to me never to ftoint agnn at anybody, unless in self-defense, A't the time referred to, .which was ahot^ij

in the Fall thefts IfiithdOt^ce concluded to have a trip to the Calumet after ducks. $£$0 „_jn (and still a wellof tho City, riow verinhisnjcoj

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ferent luck, but of course had a good time* with:tho usual accompaniment of Small mishaps, such as capsizes, break-

day. Those of the. boys who liad bor-ma^^ra»t«d-guns4eft them at tUa— Office until the nextday- should have been stated before, however, that previous to getting into the• wagon to•/oturtr

fiext day at noonrwhileI was washing op, Fordham's gun, which was standing

Fordhain was working the old Buggies press at thafblhar««d^)f the office, distant, perhaps, fifty feet. I cocked the gun, both barren, several times, as everybody does Who gets hold of a gun to examine it«H»daew»fr»hafr*4heie were explodedcaps on both nij»#l«», had. DO doubt but that the gun won empty. Then asking Fofdhaawf ^he^an wafl h*d«I, afdreoeiving a negative reply, boy-like, I said:

"Yes,* said he, without taking his eyes frbm bW workr"flreawsy1" I had some caps in my pocket, and thinking to startle him, I pfsckl one on Uieri^i hAhd flipble, took good aun at his head, and was wxtit to pull the trtggery when a suddew Innwilsg '^""0" me to turn and aim at aMftd*hdl hanging about ten feet from him.

A loud report, a tattered band-bill, a scared pressman, and a wyy^Jgyy^"^ drridoai holding a gun hattda was the wswilt*

X« it auy wonder thatJtli «j»blverl 'never to fooi wl under any rircomstancew?--! in Odmgo