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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30

This is the porter-house, Is it ?" asked
the sad passenger, sitting at the corner
table in the restaurant.
Yes sir, said the waiter, with the
weary air of a man who was tired of hav-
ing to tell the same lie a thousand times a
day, pOrter-hOuse steak, sir; same as you
ordered sir. "
''Do YOU cut porter-house steak from
between the horns this year ?" asked the
sad passenger, with the iutonation of a
man who wanted to know
Sir" said the waiter
eft seemed to be "a trife tenderer last
wear, the sad passenger went on, with
the air of a tired man indulging in pleas
ant "reminiscences of the past: "but / re-
member now; it was cut a tfife lower
down then. Last year You cut your por-
ter-house steaks from the curl in the fore
head and the sirloins from the shin. But
/ think this comes from between the
horns. fused to live in boarding house
where they cut the porter house between
the horns, and this one reminds me of
them Animal dead this steak came
from ?"
dead, " echoed the astonished waiter:
"course, sir. He was butchered, sir,
"Butchered to make a Roman holiday"
sighed the passenger "He would be
more likely to make a Roman swear.
Well, it was time he was killed. He
hadn't many more years to live on this
earth All, here Is the brass tip from one
Of his horns. Dropped into the steak, no
doubt, while You were shcing it of. What
do You do with these steaks when the
guests are through with them ?"
The waiter looked puzzled. "Why, sir, 5"
he SAID, ''they amt nothing left of EN-
when customers gets through with EN-,
sir -
Possible? ?" sad the sad passenger;
what becomes of them?"
The waiter looked nervous. What he
said; "the customers cat them mp.
The sad passenger looked up with an
air of interest. ''mcredible." he ex-
claimed; ''cun not accept your statement
without proof. They may hide them
under their chairs, or secrete them in
their napkins, or they may carry them
away III their pockets to throw at burg
lars, bat / can not believe they eat them
Here. let me see one of them eat this,
aud l viii believe you. Trust me, good
waiter, T.
But the waiter pointed tot placard in
scribed: Positively no trust, and went
10 the cashiers desk to tell the boss TO
look out for that man at the corner table,
as he didn't seem 10 be satisfied with his
steak and had asked for trust Btriing-
ton HGlUkCYc.
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plot OF clay subsoil as hard as the floor
Oh prlcA-yard, from which the surface
mao oeen washed away, but the peculiar
siSnIuG'AiIce OF this habit was not I'M
PieSSeu upon me until during recent
drive over new y made road, ] saw this
SAM az plant growing upon the bare clay
oi 'he ROau-slde, whence the SOIL hau
been scraped In making the roadside,
and where even white clover was making
out scant living although the melilot
was already as tail as the red clover on
the fertile soil of the neiohboring field.
Inc plant-otherwise known rs Bokhara
or sweet-scented clover-has become
naturaIized here at a comparatively re-
cent GATE. but has long been known as
forage plant both for cattle and bees,
being well adapted for soiling, rs it
makes growth of four to six feet dur
ing the season and it is said to bear two
or three cuttings while its sweet-scented
blossoms afford favorite pasture for
the honey gatherers. The German anal
ysls gives to its hay a feeding value of
sl5 per ton, against s16.2S for every
good red clover hay, while its habit OF
growth is such that / sbonld expect it to
yield n much heavier crop than red clio
yer. But without discussing the value
of the melilot rs foliage plant, the OBJ
servahons have noted indicate that we
may possibly find in it a counterpart Of
the Southern cowpen as a recuperator OF
exhausted soils, and at the same time
find it better adapted to our climate and
circumstances than the ccwpen. As 1t
grows much more rapidly than red clo-
yer, whether from the seed or from the
root, and seems to thrive SO well on ster-
lie soils, apparently growing by prefer
ence in such places, it woAA seem well
worthy of trial as ..s,s-ssssssss>manuring
crop. A furtherrzz.- -,-a,aore gen
erai examination Of the merits of the
melilot than has yet been made IN tins
country, is the probable failure Of the
red clover from the depredations of the
European clover beetle, which according
to the statements of Professor Barnard
in the report of the Cornell University
Experiment Station, is already threaten
ing the total destruction of that crop in
some sections of New York.
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ShOe-Pegs.

To a massachusetts, man. Josph Wal
ker, is due the credit Of invefing the
snoe-Pe9g. Previous to the yea 1918 its
use had not been known, and ae inven-
ton gave new start to the mnufacture
OF boots and shoes. Up to that date
such articles had been sewel, and the
peg, made at first by hand, came in to
revolunonize the trade. 1t WIS, however,
the custom Of shoemakers who lived
away from the manufacturing centers to
make Their oFn pegs by haad even down
TO recent tines, out the machine-manu-
featured pes has now superseded all
such slow work, just as the horseshoe
nail manufacture Is now almost wholly in
the hands q establishments that make
them by Iachinery The usual story
comes withhe Introduction of the shoe
peg, to the fleet that some INSCRIPTIONS
parties the to swindle the unsuspectiug
by endeavcing to sell shOe-pegs as a
new KIND oats. But this tale is like
many othes, to be read and then ''taben
under advisment."
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1rnm Hnonf ne Dog.

As n matter Of fact, the dog has all
seasons for his own, and goes mad Just
when he pleases. It is mistake to
confine his suppression and limit the
bounty on him to any month IN the
wear. With very few and rare excep-
tions he Is useless. There should be
bounty on him al the year round. Out
side the sausage be serves 40 purpose,
and in the belief Of many he Is not al
together digestible there. He does not
even catch his own heas. He radlates
them rather OF course, they catch
birds. bat the bird doesa't bite or 90
mad why not keep the birds and abol-
ish the dog Occasionally dog saves
somebody from drowning, but II figures
could be had we would venture % say
they never saved anybody from drown
ing who did not turn ont 70 BE- 2 ede5-
tined t. some other death. No doubt
the St Bernard dogs have saved some
people from per.sling in the snow, but
history furnishes no record of anything
in particular that has been done for the
benCti, of the race 10y tine persons SAVED,
and IL is more than likely that they
would have had an easier exit if the res
cuing dogs had left them alone than they
did have finally We DO not II call an
reason for being. The friendly dog is
always too demonstrative the uIlfriendlv
dog Is a dangerous nuisance, and the dog
that Is neither one nor the other only
occupies space and generates Heas.
There are persons who keep blunt-Dosed
dogs that Sit on the piazzas or crouch III
front of you III the path looking unutter-
able things and emitting low growls that
white teeth only too easily translate
and they tell You, "Oh, he's a good
dog: perfectly humless minds me
whenever ] speak 10 him" Shall we
tell you what to do with such dog
Shun his owner. They're both danger
ous the owner more than the dog.
But good dogs, like good Indians, are
dead Not to invite controversy, we
make spe .ial exception Of each particu-
lar dog whose owner feels called upon to
take issue with us. And we do believe
that the quaint Connecticut philosopher,
Mr.. Elias Cottrell. was more than halt
right when he said, There are more
than five hundred dogs in this town, and
two hundred and fifty could do oil the
business. ~ y. Irib,uts.
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Conductors and Bsgus Coin.

"Some of ems made of lead, Won
know, said street-car conductor, ap1l-
ogetically, as he pOcketed a silver half
dollar, after giving 1t vigorous scrape
with his steel punch. Some of EN-
lead and some of EN- brass so we have
TO look sharp. It's easy enough to tell
the lead half-dollars by scraping EN-
with the punch, but you never know "a
brass coin until the silver is worn of
from the outside
''Where do the bad coins come from 2"
was asked.
"That's more'n I know-where they
/ come from III the first place. It's mostly
/ women that give EN- to Us. You see
when man gets hold of a bad half
dollar, he don't feel Just like passing it
off himself, so he just gives it to his
wife aud don't say anything about it,
And even if she does know the piece Is
bad, 1t doesn't make a mite of difference
4 woman, young man, Is one of the
the qIecrcst things 10 the world-oue of
the quee-e-e-reSt things in the world /
often stop and say to myself: We'll
now, what in thunder did she do that
fOr| A woman has no idea of other
peoples rights at ALL So, when she gets
hold of a bad half-dollar, she just
naturally passes it off again. Dishonest?
Why, bless you, no. she doesn't mean
TO do anything dishonest; it's Just her
na:ur; she can't help it. She done
want the halfdollar r. of course she
don t-so there Is Just one thing to do.
and that Is 10 pass il off ON someone
cl c. But you have to be powerful care
tul how Won treat a woman. Some Of
EN- want yoU to help EN- on the car,
now, and others won't let you touch EN-
So either way You do, you are sure to
make half of EN- mad. | stopped the
cart was only yesterday mOrnlng-to
'et a woman get of; gave her plenty of
time, and she got both feet on the
ground, then the car started: but she
wanted 1t to wait until she was yard
away, so what does she do but Jump ON
again, and make the car come t. a dead
stop. There Is no accountn' for EN- 10
way"
"Most of them go by the elevated
road now, do they not ?"
" Yes, good many of 'em DO. Before
the elevated road was built [ used to
carry the girls to the Normal School
every morning They used to come all
at once, so many of them they had to SIT
in one another's laps. That made
four rows. and I just tell You they
looked as fresh and sweet as a basket Of
peaches all ranged in rows. But 1 don't
see much of 'em now"
" You regret that, suppose? ?"
We'll, now, L don't know. I'd rather
carry car full of men any day. They
know what a conductors business is,
and don't get mad for nothing. They
give us fewer counterfeits, too. Why, |
have a glass dollar up at the house now
that woman gave me. was a fool to
take it, but I'll pass 1t off on some man
again. When the car is pretty dark
they won't notice it. You see they're
not used to it, as am.-NelO York Tci-
bune.
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Wild Roses in Britain.

We have altogether some five true
wild roses in Britain. The cOmmonest
is the dog-rose. which everybody knows
we'll and next comes the almost equally
familiar sweet-briar, with its dellcately-
scented glandular leaves. The burnett
rose is the parent of our cultivated
Scotch roses, and the two other native
kinds are comparatively rare. DouDIe
garden roses are produced from the SIN
gle ffve-petalled wild varieties by making
the stamens (Which are the organs Tor
manufacturing pollen turn into bright
colored petals There is always more or
less Of a tendency for stamens thus TO
alter their character but in wild state
it never comes to any good, because
such plants can never set seed, Tor want
of pollen, and so die ont IN a single gen
Grafton. Oar gardeners, however, care
fully select these distorted individuals,
and so at length produce the large, hand
some, barren flowers with which we are
so familiar. The cabbage and moss
roses are monstrous forms thus bred
from the common wild French roses Of
the Mediterranean region; the CHINA
roses are cultivated abortions from an
Asiatic species and most Of the other
garden varieties are artificial crosses
between these or various other kinds,
obtained by fertilizing the seed vessels
OF one bush with pollen taken from the
blossoms of another Of a different sort.
To botanical eye, double flowers, how
ever large and fine, are never really
beautiful, because they lack the order
and symmetry which appear so con
spicuOuSly III the fine petals, the clust-
cred stamens and the regular stigmas of
the natural form BcLOTdUid.
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4 Visit 10 Henry Claws Tomb.

Here we visited Ashland Farm, the
home Of the " Great Harry of the West. "
All of that once magnificent farm Except
a portion owned by James Clay and on
which he now resides) was bought by
the State of Kentucky. A portion has
been set apart for an Agricultural and
Mechanical School. The old residence,
on account of its dilapidated condition,
has been rebuilt by one of his sons on
the same model. A good many of the
trees planted by the hands of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clay as ornaments to the grounds
have been cut down and carried away.
He is buried in one of the most elevated
spots in the Lexington Cemetery. The
State of Kentucky has erected over his
remains very imposing monument of
granite and marble, cut from its own
quarries. In the basement of the mon
ument, through glass door, is seen his
tomb, on which is inscribed one of those
eloquent sentences, taken from one of
his speeches in Congress, in which he
calls on God to bear him witness to the
purity of his motives and the absence of
any desire for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT that
prompted his advocacy of the pending
measure before Congress.
(Ry.) Cor. Macon Telegraph.
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tough.

After all his lifelong work upon the
platform, md with the high fees his
fame and abilities justly coEmand, John
3. Cough not a rich man. His private
charitiesse as large and numerousas they
are unostetatious, for this great-hearted
man does not let his left hand know what
his right land does. He has met with
frequent and heavy losses on account OF
the tender.hearted Willingness with
which he puts his valuable autograph on
the back of friends album for ninety
days, and the almost infallible certainty
with which he Is compelled to get 1t back
again for himself when the three short
months have flown Mr.. Cough ought to
be worth $500, 600, but like most men
vhoss%-feaT1s IRE wrapped up in. and
whose lives are consecTated, to some great
work of ref rm, he Is not good bust
ness man, and impecunious friends and
suffering humanity have got most of the
money the great apostle Of temperance
has earned by hard platform work.
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HOW 70 Wake Labor Cheerrnl.

A dozen or SO years ago the wife of
President Garfield wrote her husband a
letter. in which the following passage
occurs:
u am glad to tell that, ont of all the
toll and disappointmeuts of the summer
just ended, / have risen up 10 d victory;
that the silence of thought since you
have been away las won for my spirit q
triumph. / read something like this
the other day There is no healthy
Thought without labor, and thought
makes the laborer happy. Perhaps
tins Is the way | have been able TO climb
up higher 1t came to me one morning
when [ was making bread. / said to
myself: Here i am, compelled by au
inevitable necessity TO make our bread
tins summer Why not consider II
pleasant occupation, and make 1t so by
trying To see what perfect bread ] can
makeY 1t seemed like au inspiration,
and the whole of life grew brighter.
The very sunshine seemed flowing down
through my spirit into the white ioayes,
and now / believe my table is furnished
with better bread than ever before, aud
this truth, old as creation, seems Just
now 20 have become fully mine, that |
need not be the Sinking slave to toll,
but its regal master, making whatever l
10 Weld me its best fruits You have
been king OF your work so long maybe
Won VIII laugh at me for having lived so
long without my crown, but 1 am too
glad to have found it at all to be entire
" disconnected, even by your merri-
ment Now I wonder if right here does
not lie the terrible wrong, or, at least,
some Of it, of which the woman suffrag-
lists complain. The wrongly-educated
woman thinks her duties disgrace and
frets under them, or shirks them if she
can. She sees man triumphantly pur-
suing his vacations, and thinks 1t Is the
kind of work he does which makes him
grand and regnant; whereas. it Is not
the kind of work ut all, but the way in
which, and the spirit with which, he
1oao -
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4 Colorado Sunset.

Standing upon the margin of a lovely
lake In the DO ON of the nesting mount
aims above the beautiful Village of
Georgetown, in Colorado, one can see a
sunset more brilliant and beautiful than
was ever looked upon in the East, and
which is only equaled by the virgin reach
of reddening light which mellows into
twilight shadows on the plains. / saw it
on a summer evening when all nature was
hushed in stiffness The firetiies shot
through the growing dusk like sparkling
louries in Egyptian night. Overhanging
forest and swart and blackened crag were
reflected In the green waters of the lake
The sun lowered, as in q fascinated spell,
above the mountain tops, while rays of
gol len light, flushed with crimson peak
and turret on natures battlements. 1t
seemed to glow and expand like an open
ing rose, until 1t became full-blOwn, and
cast its arrowy pencihngs for miles across
the sky like a mighty flame. Then, as II
ashamed of its boldness, it drew a veil of
grayish mist about its face and blushed
beneath il. The mist changed into a
cloud shaped like a crescent, with ragged
fr1nges fecked with gold, and in its
wonderful aspect recalled the legends of
Mohammed's banner, red and lurld be
meath Asian skies. Even as L looked 1t
changed. The darkening scarlet was
transformed to ruby brilliancy. Long
lines of pallOr whitened on the parti-col-
ored surface, side by side with golden
.lances. which seemed to fash from the
glowing orb like dissolving rays. The
enamored sky for one feyerish instant
caught and mirrored all the colors of the
rainbow. Then again it darkened-
flushed and paled-and drawing the
lowering draperies of the night about it,
sank out of sight. The stars came out.
The night-hawk poised on swOoping
1inion. shrieked above the forest solitude.
The leafy murmur of the moaning pines
took up the refrain and awoke the spell
bound senses into life and action. The
charm was gone, but the beauty fingered
on the fancy like beautiful memory.
omaha Herald
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Stock-Raising in the West

The freedom 10 pasture cattle on ev-
cellent grazing land, together with AN
accessible market, are the main reason
why at present s6ock-farming is particn-
larly profitable. The first of these CON
ditions is precariOus, and it is evidant
that in ten years there viii not be mncb
good free range left east of the. Missouri
river When immigration to that extent
shall have shut him off from free pastnr-
age, the stock man can either sell his
farm at probably four times its present
value, and move to Dakota or Montana
or else turn his attention to fattenin9
stock on grain for other parties
For instance, as practical case, there
is a cattle man of Council Bluffs who Is
said to own 100, 600 head of cattle in
Idaho. He has a range of Sixty square
miles of land not worth a cent to the
acre for agriculture, yet atfording excel
lent pasture for cattle. He has ten men
employed at wages varying from S24 To
$40 per month to look after the stock
These men require 200 ponies to handle
the cattle. An overseer is hired at
81, 200 a year. During the winter how
ever. four men can do all the work re-
qured, which is mainly breaking the ice
in the streams that the cattle may have
water. Streams serve as the great checks
upon the cattle straying away, for they
never viii so far from water In the
spring OF the year the cattle men of the
plains have a grand "round up las it
is called), the stock Is picked ont bv
means of the brand. and those cattle
that are meant for the Eastern market
are started for Omaha. They travel
about ten miles day, and gen
orally take the whole season in
the journey from the winter
ground to the Missouri bottom. -
Omaha the cattle are put on tine train
and shipped nominally to Chicago. but
really to different points along the road,
to be handed over to farmers for tatten-
ing. Mr.. Stewart delivered over 300
head to farmers last fall, and OF these
only eight were lost during the Wlnlef.
The parties who receive the cattle agree
to fatten them at the rate Of cents i"i
every extra pouud of weight they ada 10
the animal. This seems small at hrSt
sight, but when cattle put on 200 extra
pounds during a winter, and where Nv"
hogs are fed from the refuse of each OK,
the farmer finds that the result TO nm Is
equivalent to selling his corn nj 100 per
cent. profit. The large cattle-raisers, OF
course, have their inspectors, who travel
from farm TO farm to look after their
property, and gather it together IN tie
spring for shipment to Chicago, where
thew are either slaughtered or shipped
to Europe The cattle men have a great
advantage over mere farmers, IN that
they are to a great extent independent
Of railways If they are badly treated
bv one corporation, they have simple
remedy IN driving their stocka few miles
10 the next road. -HaIpcr'S Magazine.
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The general term used to designate an
actor is " fakir, a word which originally
meant a magician From it is coined
the verb " flake, which means to initiate
or sham. Few actors are willing to
acknowledge that other actors are good;
hence the slang of the theater is used to
designate bad actors. Of these the most
frequent are "duffer," "snide actor"
and bum actor" The variety" play
er is looked down upon by the legiti-
mate actor, and is called ham"
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The use of sawdust in mortar is recon-
mended as superior even to hair for the
prevention of cracking and subsequent
pealing off of rough casing under the
action of storms and frost. A house. ex-
posed to long storms on the seacoast. had
pieces of mortar to be renewed each
spring, and after trying without effect a
number of substances to prevent it, the
owner found sawdust perfectly satisfac-
tory. 1t was first thoroughly dried and
sifted through an ordinary grain sieve.
to remove the large particles The NOR.
tar was made by mixing one part of ce-
ment, two of lime, two of sawdust. and
five of sharp sand, the sawdust being
first well mixed dry with the cement and
snnd
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A GRAND STEEPLE CHASE.

As if there were not sufficient excitement
at the usual horse-race, these meetings on
the turf nearly always close with grand
steeple chase. This kind of race combines
all the excitement of the regular race, with
the super-added element OF danger which
seems to give further zest to the sport
Horses. and good ones at that, often receive
severe injuries, which render them practi-
cally useless for long periods. At least
this was the state Of affairs until owners
and breeders of fine stock began TO freely
use ST. JACOBS on, the Great German
Remedy for man and beast. This invalu-
able article to horsemen has so grown into
favor on account OF its phenomenal efficacy
in diseases Of domestic animals, especially
the horse, that it would be difficult indeed
10 discover a horsemen unacquainted with
its magical potency. The Philadelphia
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NV mother was afflicted long time with
Neuralgia and dull, heavy, inactive condition
If the whole system headache, nervous pros
tration. and was almost helpless. No physi-
Clans or medicines did her any good. Three
sI,ch GOOD effect tina she seems aud feels young
aoain. although over seventy years old We
Fink there is no other medicine 1T to use IN
tine family"-A Lady in Providence, Il. l.
Journal