Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 15, Number 27, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 August 1873 — Page 2

General .Miscellany.

QUESTION. T lOCtE ( IUMI.U MOCLTOS. Ixmr andbU-aardthadonea, can you look and lltm , , To the iihing and the nioaulntr down here kx-low t .... , I it make dicor I In the hymn of Heaven JTie diacord that Jau-le ta Uie lite you ued to When we pray our prayer to the great God above you, , IVx h- ebo of our prytDg ever $ lance aside your av t no you know the thin weak for, and wish that vou could rive U, You whte heart ached with wishing in your own little liny t Are your ear. deaf with praise, you blessed ! l of ll.'HT. B, Ami your eye blind with glory, that you canDot tvt our pain ? If you aaw, -f you heard, you would weeoumong tlieuniirl. And the jraiaea and the glory would be for you in vain. Tfthelit.ntoour praying-, the great eiod of Ashelliia witbj'ain the measure of our life's tittle Jar; Could he bear to it and hme there on his white throne in Hraven, Hut thai he aw the end while we only tae vraT f ' The Atlantic. ODER THE SEAT. smoking-car, sir ?" asked the tip-expecting porter, as he bore my rugs ami minor packages along the platform. I said yes. and he made me comfortable, and received his dime. Then the guard tame to look after my well-being, but pot nothing more than Innocent gratitude, which was perhaps all hedesireci. I have no doub that I did him Injustice in attributing hi efforts to induce a fat old gentleman with a cough; a Uan old gentleman who ws mffy; nn a rn'ddle-scred jreutlf man enveloped in wraps, the lower part of whose face was covered up like a female Turk's, an evident window-shutter, to enter mv car, in order to spite aie. Inity to hl employers alone made him endeavor to fill up ; nut the anxiety to get as much room as possible for my money was strong within me, and stirred uncharitable suspicion?. You mny lead a horse to the water or an anti-nicotinlan old gentleman to a smoking-car. but you can't make Mm Kt In ; and when each in turn put his ad into my compartment, he jibbed, for some late ccupants of it had been cigar, not pipe smokers, and it was rather strong. I was apparently lett alone alone with all the comic weeklies, and a modern poem. The doors were banged to, the engine whistled, the trail, oegan to move. It would not stop again till we got to Peterborough, so that I was safe to be undisturbed so far. There were several seats, and I could occupy as many of them as a limited number of members permitted. I almost wished myself an Octopus, to take full advantage of" the situation. Calming down, I hung np my hat, put on a gaudy piece of needle-work won in a bazaar ratlle, lit my pipe, cut my pajers, and began to enjoy myself. 1 sat in the left-hand corner, with my bark tn the engine, absorbed in a big lawsuit. It is great fun to read a cross-ex-amimation, and watch how a clever lawyer will make an honest man perjure himself. 44 It reads almost like a crime," I remarked aloud, 44 but then it Is an honorable, lawful, an l beneficial crime. Soldier kill people' bodies, lawyers kiJ people's reputttions, all for the good of society In th long run." While I was uttering the word 4,run," ray ankle were grasped suddenly and firmly ; then, before I could recover from the shock, they were jerked backwards under the seat with such force that I was thrown forwards sprawling. I tried to rise, but my right w rist was seized, and the arm twisted till I was helpless, and presently I found myself on the floor of the car, fare downward, a sharp knee being scientifically pressed Into the small of my back, both arms fixed behind me. My elbow were tied together, and then the knee was removed, and my ankles were secured. During the latter operation I kicked and struggle. 44 Hum 1" said a deliberate voice, 44that will le awkward. Iefs see; ah, these will do." 44 These" were my sticks and umbrella, which some one proceeded to apply as splints to the backs of my legs, using the strap which had kept them In a bundle to fix them at the ankle and above the knee. When he had done, I was as helpless as a trussed turkey. Then I was turned over carefully and tenderly, and for the first time saw my assailant. He was a gentlemanly looking man, well dressed In black coat and waiteoat, gray trowsers, and neck cloth. His hair and whbker were Just turning grizzly, his chin and upper-lip were clean shaved, llis forehead was high, his eyes prominent and fixed In their expression, his nose aquiline, his mouth a slit. He was of middle height, spare but wiry ; Indeed, bis muscles must have been unexceptlonally elastic and feline, for you would never have thotight, to look at him, that he could stow himself away under the seat of a railway car so completely. He contemplated me with his chin In his right hand, and his right elbow on his left hand, and said thoughtfully : "Just so. All for the good of society In the long run an admirable sentiment, my dear sir; let It be a consolation to you, if 1 should eauseyou any little annoyance." He took a shagreen spectacle-case from his pocket, wiped the glasses carefully with a silk handkerchief, and adjusted them on his nose. Then ne produced an oblong box, wich he unlocked, tnd placeel on one of the seats. A Iter which he sat down quickly in the place I had occupied a few minutes In fore, a position whlcn brought him close over my head and chest, a I lay supinely and helpless at his feet. 44 Do you know anything of anatomy?" he asked. I was as completely In his power as a witness In the cross-examining counsel's, and prudence dictated that I should be equally ready to answer the most frivolous and Impertinent questions with politeness. I said that I di! not 44 Ah!" said he, "well, perhaps jou have heard of the spleen? Exactly. Now, science has never as yet been able to find out the use of that organ, and the man who hcueaths that knowledge to posterity, would rank with the discoverr r of the circulation of the blood, and confer

an Inestimable benefit on humanity for the remainder of the world' lease. I propose to dissect you." 44 Vou will not get much glory by that," I said, forcing myself to se-vm to take this outrageous practical Joke in good part. 4,Au ungrateful generation may or may not profit by your discoveries, but it will Infallibly hang you." 44 Not so," ho bluntly replied. 44 1 am a surgeon, who once had a very considerable practice, but 1 had to stand my trial for au experiment, which proved fatal, on one of u.y patients. The jury, unablo to understand the sacrifices which an earnest Inquirer Is ever ready to offer at the shrlue of science, declared mo mad, and I -was placed In confinement. Vou see that 1 can act with Impunity." And he opened the box. 1 broke out In a cold sweat. Was it all ral ? ( 'ould the man be in earnest? 44 Hut," said I, 44 surely you can get dead bodies to dissect without having recourse to a crime? And again, if generations of anatomist have failed, In twenty thousand Investigations, to discover the use of the spleen if you yourself have always failed hitherto, why should you suppose that thU one attempt should be more suueessful than th others?" 44 Because, my dear sir," said the man, with the smile of one who has caught a bright Idea, "all former investigations, Including my own, have been made on dead subjects, while I propose to examine your vital organs with a powerful magnifying glass, while they are exercising their normal functions." 44 What !' I gasped. 44 You will never have the barbarity " And here my voice choked. 44 O yes, I have conquered that prejudice against lnfiicting suffering which Is natural to the mind enfeebled by civilization. For many years, I secretly practiced vivisection upon animals; I once had a cat, an animal very tenacious of life, under my scalpel for a week. But we have no time to waste in conversation. Yeu will not be put to any needless suffering; these instruments are not my own, blunted for want of use; 1 took the precaution of borrowing the case of the gentleman under whose care I have been placed, before making my escape." While speaking thus, he took the hideous little glittering Instruments, and examl!:ed them one by one. They were of various appalling shapes, and I gazed upon them with Uie horrible fascination of a bird under Uie power of a snake. Of one only could I tell the use; a thin, trenchant blade, which cut you almost to look at it. He knelt across me, arranged his implements on the scat at Lis right ; laid a note-book, pencil, and his watch on that to his left, and took off my neckcloth and collar, murmuring: 44 The clothes are very much In my way ; I wish that you were properly prepared for the operation." It flashed across me, In my despair, that I had heard of madmen being foiled by an apparent aequiesence In thtir murderous Intentions. 44 After all," I forced myself to say, 44 what Is one life to the leneflt of the human race? Since mine is demanded by science, let me aid you. Iiemove these bonds, and allow me to take off my coat and waistcoat." He smiled, and shook his head. 44 Life Is sweet ; I will not trust you," he said, unfastening my waistcoat, and turning back the lapels as far as he could. Then taking a pair of scissors, he proceeded to cut my shirt front away, so that presently my chest was bared to his experiments. Whether 1 closed my eyes, or was seized with vertigo, 1 do not know, but for a moment or two I lost sight of everything, and had visions; a sort of grotesque nightmare It was, the figures in which I recall but very Indistinctly, but I remember that the most prominent of them was a pig, or rather a pork, hanging up outside of a butcher' shop, the appearance of which bore mysterious resemblance to myself. These delirious fantasies were dispelled by a sharp pang ; the anatomist had made a first slight incision. I saw his calm face leaning over me ; the cruel blade with which he was about to make another and a deeper cut ; his fingers, already crimson with my blood ; and I struggled frantically. My operator Immediately withdrew his armed hand, and stood erect. Then, watchlnv his opportunity, he placed his right foot on the lower part of my breast-bone, so that by pressure he could suffocate me. 44 Listen, my friend," he said ; 44 1 will endeavor not to Injure any sltal organ, but If you wriggle about, I shall not be able to avoid doing so. Another thing, it you " He was Interrupted by three sharp whistles from the engine, so shrill and piercing as to drown his voice. 44 Impede me by these absurd convulsive movements, I shall be compelled to sever those muscles which " He never completed his sentence. There was a mighty shock, a crash as If all the world had rushed together. I was shot under the scat, where I lay uninjured, and In safety, amidst Uie most horrible din breaking, tearing, shrieking, cries for help, and the roar of escaping steam. I had strained the bonds which secured my elbows In my struggles, and the Jerk of the collision snapped them; so that when I began to get my wits together, I found my hands free. To liberate my legs was then an easy matter, but not so to extricate myself, the next thing I set about. The whole top of the car, from where the stuffed cushion part ends, was carried sheer away ; and amidst the debris which encumbered my movements, lay the mangled and decapitated body of the madman w ho, intending to assail my life, had, by keeping mo down at the bottom of the car, saved It. English Magazine.

The Inspiration of 'ature. In good health the air Is a cordial of Incredible virtue. Crossing a nare common In snow-pthMIcs at twilight under a clouded Kky, without having In my thoughts any occurrence of good fortune, 1 have enjoyed a perfect exhiliration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years as a snake his slough, and at what period of life soever, is always a child. In the woods Is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctlty reign, a perennial festival I dressed, and the guest sec not how he should tire of them In a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason ami faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes) which nature cannot repair.

A Mutable Example. Besides providing for his own family, and bequeathing a munificent sum lor tuirposes of general charity, the late Mr, Castburn, of Boston, w ho acquired a fortune bv the prin'ing business, did a remarkable thing in making a large number of bequest to deserving workinginen, about whom he knew but little more than the fact that they would thereby be benefited. Ills will Ik a document which ought to le studied by all rich men who are thinkiug how to dispose of their property. In it, he be-quta'h to three printers, whom ho had employed for a long time, his extensive print ing-ofilee with all its tyjve, presses, and other material. He then remembers every person working in It at the time of his death giving $100 to each of those over eighteen years old, and

$.V) to each of those under that age. He then makes a large number of bequests to persons who had formerly been his apprentices, and to the faithful servants of his household, In sums varying from $200 to $;t.000. He then liequeath $i 000 to an old friend, and $1,000 apiece to eleven other friends among whom are Mr.ShillatnT (the ancient "Mrs. ParUngton") and the editor of the Boston W. He then provide a legacy of $5,000 for poor and ulsablvd printers; and next leaves $2,000 to purchase a perjetual free bed in the hospital for any suffering printer. He then makes bequests to a number of his wife's relatives, to the heir of his mother' brother, and to several other parties. We do not know that we have ever seen a will made by a ricli man which pleased us more than this one does. By remeinU'ring all the workmen, and even the boys, whom he had employed during his lifetime, and who had assisted in building up his fortune, Mr. Kastburn showed himself to te a just, thoughtful, far-seeing, and generous man. lie had always displayed these traits towards those In his employment, and lie gave them a new and notable application when he came to dispose of his property. We feel verv sure that his noble action will be fertile of good results. It will help many a man to self-help. It will encourage them in their struggle through life. It will cause his memory to be blessed. It has already produced other fruits after it kind. A Boston paper tells of a rich m m who remarked that, as soon as he had read tbis will, he made his own, and then he added : 44 1 have selected the names of 200 needy and deserving men and women, to whom I have given $100 apiece, amounting to $20,000, to gladden thtir sad hearts bftcr 1 havu parsed away ; and, possibly, I may not let them wait lor that event." We can ouly commend these interesting examples to the attention of all other rich men In making their wills. The Graphic. Sud Ending to a Girl Romance. On Wednesday night, Julv23, a woman by the name of Mrs. Lotta Warner committed suicide at Sierra City, by taking poison. The history of her case is a sad one, and the moral it points to is not obscure. The deceased was the wife of a man uy the name of Warner, clown in the circus which passed through here a few weeks ago. At Sierra City she was taken sick and was necessarily left behind. From this sickness she had nearly recovered. She appears, however, to have been tired of the life she waa leading and the bad treatment of the man she had forsaken home and friends to follow. During her stay at the city she to!d the following story : When but 1G year old. she forsook her home and friends In Cincinnati, O., and was married to William Warner, the clown In th Paris circus, since whicli time she had followed his fortunes. She states that at times he bad abuMil her, even going so far as to knock her dawn. In her delirious moments, during her sickness, she imagined that her husband was with her and begged and pleaded of him not to beat her any more. During her convalescence she often expressed her determination never to live with him again, and expressed a desire to find some employment whereby she might earn her own living. At the time she ran away from home, lured by the gaud and tinsel, the spangle and glitter of circus trappings, she was a mere child of 10. Four years only have passed, and now, still out a child In years, she Is ready for the grave older In suffering, if her own statements le true, than many of her more favored sister whose locks are frosted iy the hand of time. She died at Bush's hotel, where she had bee n during her illness, anil where she had been the recipient of every attention w hich the kind hearted rumple among whom she was could bestow. She stafedthat she had relatives by the name of Watson living In Cincinnati. Doxenietille (Cal.) Menenger, July 2f The Hecent Kallroad Accident In England. The London papers contain full details of the railroad disaster at Wlgan, Kngland, on the London and Northwestern railroad, on tho morning of Saturday, August 2d, of the leading features of which the cable gave a summary, and In which Sir John Anson lost his life. The number almost Instantly killed, or taken out dead in the course of the forenoon, was ten ; the number wounded, twenty-six, of which one died the same day, and another the next Monday night. A little boy died Monday afternoon. At eighteen minutes past 1 a tourist train, speeding northward, came dashing onward, drawn by two engines, at a rate not much less than forty miles an hour, when a sudden wrench shook all the carriages from tho first to the last, and while eighteen of the number kept the rails, the others In the rear, with three vans, parted suddenly from the foremost portion ol the train and took the siding at the point where tho down line is crossed obliquely. The ditched carri ages veered over against that portion of the platform which abuts on tho siding, and plowed flags and earth up for the distance of twenty or thirty yards. The leading c irtlage, w hich was of composite construction, learnl the rails and hounded upon the platform, throwing Itself up In mid-air. and alighting bottom uppermost. The carriage was smashed into a thousand splinters. The two succeeding carriages sprang from the rails to the platform, and fell over with a terrible crash upon their sides, and one or two turned almost completely over a few yards lieyond, bkxking the siding, and smashing themselves Into Indescribable wrecks.

A Little Inconsistent. The ltcpubllean managers who concocted the machine resolutions which were first passed by Ohio and then reK'ated parrot-like by Maine, Iowa ami innesota, do not seem to think consistency much of a jewel. In their haste to protest too much they overlooked the alsiird predicament in which they placed themselves by first commending and then condemning the same Congress. This contradiction Is made more ludicrous and refreshing by its juxtaposition, for the resolutions, which in their substance are as fir apart as the poles, are la the order of adoption joined together like Siamese twin. Here Are the Illustrations which have so edified the minds of Christian statesmen

and back-pay grabber : RrtolveJ, That we htartily applaud the active lut-UMures ol the lute Vomjrtu tor lcrrclliiK out und -iiining corruption." Considering the facts that resolution may be called strong, but still quite worthy of the convention which adopted It. They gave to the late Congress all the honor of exposing the Credit Mohilier, wheu that exposure disgraced and ruined everv leader of that Congress. These patriots did not appear to remember that they were handling a boomerang, which came back with a little more force than it was projected The next declaration Is good in Its way: " Hetolvtd, That we condemn without renervt the voting for or receiving of Increased pay for services already rendered, and demand that the riviitionx af tlie ie ai l of Comim liy which the ralariea were tnorea-'ed ulioulil be promptly ami unconditionally repealed." In one resolution they 44 heartily aplaud " the late Congress for an act which t did not do, and In Uie very next they pretend to condemn wnnoui reserve another act w hich it did do, and then combine to shield the authors of these Iniquities from punishment. They approve In the concrete what they eennre In the abstract. That Is to say, the Credit Mobtlier, the Increase of salaries and the back-pay grab, are each and all strongly repudiated, so far as political car.t will pass muster. But Vice President Wilson, ex-Vice President Colfax, Mr. Dawes, Chairman of the Way and Mean; Mr. (tarfield. Chairman t the Appropriations; Mr. Bingham, Chairman of the Judiciary; Mr. Seofield, Chairman of Naval Attains ; Mr. Ames, cf the Committee on Manufactures : Mr. Kelley, leader of the protective policy, Senator Patterson, Chairman of the District of Columbia; Senator Allison, member of the Appropriation Worn mittee : Senator Harlan, Chairman of 'Indian Affairs; and Mr. J. F. Wilson, ex-member of Congress and Director of the Pacific Railroad, and other? disgnvced with CrediV-Mobilier jobbery, must be sustained. Not one of these? jobU-rs has been even rebuked by name; and of the whole tribe of plunderers who raise! the salaries and voted their selves the Increase lor a whole term, for which they had previously reccived full pay to the last hour, not a single man I called to account so that he can be recognized. The President did his part too in the same direction, but with nujre reckless contempt of conseejuences. lie promptly rewarded John A. Bingham, who openly defended the Credit Mohilier and advocated the grab, with the mission to Japan ; and now he is supporting Ben. Butler as the Administration candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, in recognition of his services in proposing and carrying an Iniquitous measure by which he will be enriched by one hundred thousand dollars. N. Y. fun. (Jrant and the Salary-Grab. The Republican party having hitherto denounced the salarv-grab, it will not Inlong before they will vindicate and defend it. The logic of events will force them to this conclusion. Gen. Grant ride that party like the old man of the sea. He is in the saddle, booted and spurred, laying the wire for another election. It Is officially announcenl by his fugleman, Cameron, a man whose un soilod loveliness of character is like the snow. If it be supposed that Gen. (irant will dee-line being a candidate for a third term, it Is only necessary to remember that, from feelings of modesty and self-distrust, Washington did. The antithesis show how ridiiculous the supiosition Is. With this Presidential leader In IMG, will It be possible for the Republican party to repudiate the sularygrab? If Grant was not the original author and Instigator of the measure, heat least was the one roan who could have prevented it. It could net have passed over his veto. But the $100,000 was too strong an Inducement for an official whose sole principle ofacUon is to take care of himself and friends. It, therefore, requires no particular sagacity to predict that when the great Republican party falls Into line, at the heels of their Illustrious warrior, they will train under the banner upon which he has already Inscribed his appropriate device. Senator Carpenter has indicated the policy to bo pursued. He openly dek-tids not only the salary-steal. but par nobile. Credit Mohilier likewise. The rest of them will come to the rescue, when their notions of prudence permit. Cincinnati Commercial. Grant at Long Branch. A Wall street operator, who ha been to Long Branch, thus expressed himself to a writer in the World: 44 Well, the President's all well enough In a way, and he's got lots of friends regular third U'rm friends, too Tom Murphy, Henry Clew and others; but it's a mystery to me why some of these good friends of his don't tell him afew things he ought to know, for, you see. this must be the biggest and greate-st ami best government in the world,and the most peace ful and prosperous, as all the big officials are down at Ixng Branch washing their toes and e'ating soft-shell crabs, while the Administration Just naturally runs itself, which couldn't otherwise le the case, only that, as I say, somebody ought to Just tell the President that driving four scraggly bay horse-s with white driving reins strung all over 'em and yel low lead burs and hitched up to a big, awkward barouche, with two niggers In Shack Nasty Jim colored liveries, is a display rf bad taste which Is shot king to the cultivated American and horrifying to the most ordinary ministers plenipotentiary and envoys ami such like; and then after the barouche he comes driving a trotter, with w hite gloves and more white reins,

that might probably go In about tlm-e minutes if well pushed, ami he lays hack and hauls In on the riblMins and breaks up every now und then, and lie can tell you his pe-dlgree from away back by Click out of Government and will take you to his stable and show you his scrawny colts and te ll you their pedigrees and all that. But then what sticks in mv crop Is the bay horse with gold harness and white reins and the yellow lead bars just like Jim Fisk and the t.lggcr In Modoc livery, for it's all so vulgar and in such bad taste1, and some day or other, say about day alter to-morrow, you might make a pleasant paragraph in your paer about this, though 1 think really it ought to !e told him by some of his friends like Tom Murphy und Henry Clews and hut may be yeut U tte r not mention his name."

A Miser 'm Career. A millionaire miser, John Passmore Hanbest, who died in Philadelphia recently, at the age of fifty-seven, was one of those rare men who, in real life, lived squarely up to the conventional type vt his class. A huckster of oysters and farm produce In his boyhood, he early liegan to practice self-denial and to manifest an absorbing desire to be rich. He studie'd law in leisure moments, and had a long and bard struggle for admission to the bar, which he Is said to have gal net I at last by a stratagem, in spite of the law examiners and all the objections which they and the bench had urged against his moral character. He then became a pettifogger of the lowest class, his ulients ImIng chiefly Kor people whom he handled fo his own profit, regardless of their interests. He took no case without prepayment of fees, and would sometimes exact as a guarantee for compensation lor setvices and expenses, a judgment bond which he would enter against their property without rendering service. Monev, iiis.de InaM sort of mysterious and cruel ways, he invested in real estate, never parting with a dime that was not absolutely necessary to keen life in his lwdy and clothe on his back. In one of the large buildings which he let to tenants, he reserved a small ill-furnished apartment which served him tor office, bedroom, and kitchen. In this dismal and noisiune place-, respectable members of the bar who sought him on business would find him at a tabic where his papers were mingled with the horns and crusts he had gnawed. He lost the use of his limbs about three years ai,'o from paralysis, jut continued to transact business until he was removed u'terly helpless to another bare, but more wholesome, chamber. Here for three months he lingered with but few friends to see him and with none of the comforts and consolations which should soothe the last days of an old hard -worked man. But his ruling passion hail triumphed; the object of nis whole lite had been attained ; his soul seemed to leMt.-tio!, and it would be a bold assumption to uy that nature vould have afforded him a happier death. The Sund.ey before he died he said: I started out with the idea ff becoming the richest nun at the bar who had made his own money. I Ulieve I have, and that Idea is realized. " No compunctions as to hwn he had made it ! No regrets that he had amasc! it but to leave it be hind with no good deeds to live after him as witnesses of the power it had conferred upon him! And yet, though he could not part with it in the way of charity while he lived, he did undertake to divide the bulk of his estate by w ill among various charitable institutions. His ruling passion, however, cheated him at last. A law in Pennsylvania rendersnull and void the public bcqnetsof a will executed within one calendar mouth of the terstator' deccaie. His reluctance to all the forms ef giving, made him put off the making of a will too long, and no his estate-, valued at near 1.nK),ihmi, will lie divided contrary to his w ish, among the children of two deceased hrothers, whom he had cut off with a shilling, and a living brother and two si-ters, to whom he had bequeathed only life estates In portions of his property. Exchange. Ashes la the Orchard. I). W. Kauffman, of Pes Moines, Iowa, writes to the a llomtnteod that allies are worth one dollar per bushel to put atiout fruit trees, ami that he would not sell his ashes at that price, and do without their use in the orchard. He has iiM-d ashes about fruit trees for fifte-n year, and during that time has never wen a borer where ashes were used. The borer is a terrible pest to the fruit-grower, and if all other impediments to successful grow ing were as -nily overcome and completely controlled as the tiorer, then fruit-growing would be very .ucees.-fully practiced. . At there-cent meeting of the t nutgrowers' Association of Ontario, Mr. Moodie stated that he had ! n in the habit of using unleached ashes as a manure tr his fruit trees, and that be value tin m more highly for this purpo-e than barnyard manure. If our farmers knew the value ef wood ashws for the tardciiand orchard and farm, they would not m-U them for a few cents per bu-hel. 1 bahea they barter for a f w pounds of soap would. If applied to the soil, fo increase their crops of fruit and grain as to yield ten times the value they now get h"" them. Canada Farmer. An Anatomical Hlnl for Shoemakers. Dr. Hermann Meyer, of Zurich, averts that a shoemaker ought not only to produce a shoe that doc not pinch, but a shoe so constructed that it w ill wive to a foot distorted by the pinching it has lorne already, a fair chance of a return to its right shape, and full possession of its power as a means of carrying the body onward. He says that, In measuring a foot for a shoe or boot, the first tiling to be considered Is the place of the great toe. bp"n this toe, In walking, the weight of the whole body turns at every step; in natural loot, therefore, itlsln astralg.it line with the heel. A central straight line drawn from the point of the grcu toe to the middle of its root. U cont nued. would pass very exactly to the midd e i the heel. But, by the mlHttlng boot usually worn, the point t U'V vrt pressed Inward, the root outwards. V last or model of a foot already injured by wearing 111-lltting boots or shoes sho id ever be made of the exact fizc of sm.li a foot.