Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-12-11

you Is what many people call Calico morse.
Now, I call him genuine piebald. It's a
freak of nature, and may happen anywhere" !"
THE STREAMLET.
A streamlet started forth from spring IN
the side of a mountain, and, after an infancy
of gay leaps in bright cascades, spread out
into more quiet and steady movement. 1t
began then to dream and mediate on the OBJ
iect for which it existed. While in this grave
mood Will.o'.wisp darted out and danced
over its waters.
.,"Ah," cried the streamlet, "this is heaven
ly light sent to tell me what wish to know,
and to guide my course"
But the Will-o'-wisp soon fitted away,
and vanished, leaving the streamlet more
perplexed than before. Its first creed was
gone. Then rosy cloud foated in the sky
and mirrored itself in the bosom of the
stream. a,~
"This,'' it cried, sis token of Paradise p
But wind ruffied the water, and the tinted
cloud was mirrored no more and when the
streamlet became still again the rosy cloud had
passed from the sky. Then water lily
expanded on its waters.
"Beholdw said the streamlet; "to nourish
this beauty is the end and aim of:my life"
But the lily presently folded up and per.
ished. The streamlet moved on. Presently
it came to spot where men had thrown
hard stones in its way, obstructed its course,
turned it aside through narrow channel
and forced it TO rush in q confused, perilous
way over wheel.
"Alas" cried the streamlet; lis it then for
this agony I was bornf"
But after some wild splashes the streamlet
found itself at peace again, and went on
widening. And now glorious moon came
out and showered gold all over it.
"How wealthy am! !" cried the streamlet
The moon waned. But the stars came out,
and the ripple caught them as bright mar
vels they limited deeper steader. glories yet
to be revealed. But the stars set.
At length poet reclinsd on its bank and
sang to it.
"Sweet streamlet What bright life
must have been yours! What flowers must
have fringed your gilded way, what rosy clouds
you must have reflected, what lilies you have
nourished, what stars have risen to tell you
their secrets ere they have set You have
done brave work, too. You have watered
the meadow and made it wave with grain
you have conspired with the sun to ripen the
harvest, and when matured, you have helped
to turn it into bread. Not for one Of these
Joys and uses were you made but for all
So may the stream of life run on, with varied
happiness and helpfulness, not axious about
the unknown sea to which thou and /, fair
stream, are tending"
As the streamlet listened, all the beauties it
had known shone out again, and they all
clustered d-dancing light, rosy cloud, golden
moon and serene stars-around the sorrow it
had encountered, the obstruction which had
ground grain for man !; for that transfgured
in the poets song, seemed the happiest expe-
rience of all.-MoNcURE D. CONWAY, st.
Nicholas for October.
SHOT MAK1Na.-A shot tower is certainly
curious place to Il the ulriniitiated visitor, and
the process of manufacturing the leaden mis-
siles is most interesting. Of course it is nee.
essary that the shot should fall from con.
siderable elevation, and many Of the towers
are over 200 feet. As pure lead will not
make perfect globules, it is necessarily "tem-
pered." This "temper" is prepared by the
addition of ingredients, of which arsenic is
the main property. 1t is run into bars con-
venient for use, and, with pig lead hoisted to
the top of the tower. Here are two small
rooms, one about IL feet below the other, and
each containing two huge kettles in which the
pig lead and "temperS are melted. From
one Of the two kettles in both rooms-as each
room has separate shaft-streams of shot
are constantly flowing. At the bottom Of
each kettle the molten stuff pours into square
pans perforated at one side. These perfora-
tions are large or small according to the size
of shot desired, and separate the mass into
distinct, delicate, cleaning streams, which, in
turn, as they come in contact with the atmos.
phere, separate into globules or shot, which
are cooled in their 200 feet journey and the
water into which they fall below.
Out of the shot pit, up through the water,
an endless belt, with cups attached, carries
the wet shot, depositing it in a huge revolv-
ing heated cylinder, where the globules are
thoroughly dried. From this they pass out
upon descending series of slightly inclined
tables, the lower edge Of each one being
few inches above and distant from the sue.
ceeding table. The perfect globules, from
their specific gravity, 60 bounding over these
spaces but the imperfect shot are gradually
forced along until they reach them, when
they fall into receptacles, and being remolten
20 over the same journey again. From these
sorting tables the shot are carried to a series
of sizing selves, with perforated sheet-brass
bottoms Moved back and forth by machine
ry, the shot of smaller size pass through
these perforations, larger shot of different
sizes, from the motion Of the sieves, and from
their weight, gradually sorting themselves
with absolute perfection. From the sorting
sieves the shot pass into polishing barrels,
containing a preparation, the main constit
uent of which is plumbago, and, emerging
from these, FURNISHED like silver, find their
way into repositories in the story below, to
the mouth Of each of which there is attached
delicately adjusted automatic scale, which
will discharge precisely 25 pounds of shot
into the bags beneath.
Our RECEIPT FOR CURING MEAT.-As
the season has arrived when curing meat is
in order, we republish as Of old, our famous
receipt for curing beef, pork, mutton, hams,
&C., as follows: