Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1880 — Accuracy. [ARTICLE]

Accuracy.

Never make an assertion unless yon are positively certain that you are exactly right Let yonr reputation be snch. among your neighbors that they can depend on anything yon say as just precisely a®yon state it If yon sell a pound of sugar, don’t give yonr customer fifteen ounces or seventeen, Dut just exactly sixteen. We remember in our own experience a man who was not prepossessing either in appearance or manners, who had built up a trade which was excelled by none in the town in which he was* situated. We wondered at it, and finally asked a friend who traded with the man referred to if he could tell us the secret “The whole thing,” says he, “is that when yon buy a pound of meat or a pound of coffee of B yon are certain of getting just exactly what you pay for,” and that was the whole secret of his success. Make it a habit of being accurate in everything you do. Never make a single step until you are sme mat is jnst what yon want Be accurate in your writing. Dot yonr i’S and cross your t’s, is what our school teacher used to ding in our ears in our boyhood days, and it taught ns habits of accuracy which we have never had cause -toregret In sending orders to yonr jobbers be accurate in them; put down just what yon want and how yon want it, in such plain language that yon can’t be misunderstood. Be very ,careful to have your address right, street, number, town, county and State, and you will save a great deal of profanity at the office where yonr order is received. A greater part of the misery in this world is caused by inaccuracy of word or deed.

, Hobskshokh.—The date at which horses were first shod with metal has never been satisfactorily determined. It has been contended that passages in Homer prove that the art of shoeing horses was in practical use in his days but the phrases supposed to indicate this are metaphorical. Fleming, a scholarly English veterinary surgeon, has made it clear that the daring experiment of driving a nail into the foot of a horse was not ventured upon in classic times. Different coverings were in use from a remote period, both in Greece and Italy, to protect the hoof. These were not generally adopted. They were awkward and clumsy in construction; and they were only used from sheer necessity, upon hard and stony ground, or in cases of footsoreness. When it is said that Popps or Commodua shod their bones with gold, this must mean that some sort of sock or sandal was drawn over and fastened to the hoof, plated, perhaps, with metal on the sole. At Pompen, Homan stables have been excavated, and m them have been discovered bones of borsea, and the very ring-bolts to which they were tied, but no trace of an iron shoe. There is nothing in ancient literature or relic* to prove that iron plates were attached to the hooft of horse* in Greece or Italy before the fall of the Western Empire. The first mention of “iron shoes and their nails” occurs in the “Tacita” of the Emperor Leo v 1., where they are set down as among the articles requisite in the equipment of a cavalry soldier. Horseshoe* were doubt- }*%* th * t iim * (A.D.900); bat this is the first known mention made of them. From the remains discovered in tnaiaJi, it has been‘established that the Celtic nations need metal honeehoes fastereil wi A nails at a much earlier date; bat the date L only co^jectual.

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