Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-04-08

The striker must be credited with degree
of skill, hardly less than that of his principal
and with an equal amount Of endurance.
The mode Of operation was to complete the
shoe one-half the way round at each heat.
The hundred shoes were thus half turn
ed, creased and nail-holes punched-the
half side completely formed-which finish
ed the first round, SO to speak. The last
round Mr.. Dunn occupied himself in shap-
ing and perfecting the remaining half of
each horseshoe, and when the last blow
had been struck on the hundredth shoe his
task was completed.
While the helpers were getting the three
fires hot and distributing the iron, j. B.
Wilkinson and Joseph E. Greusel were ap-
pointed time-keepers. Everything being
in readiness Mr.. Dunn stepped up to the
anvil with broad smile on his face, and
waited for the word. Itshould be said that
not engaged in any warming up he conse-
quently was not at the beginning in condi-
ton to exert his best powers. Horsemen
understand perfectly the advantage which
such preliminary gives in race. Mr..
Dunn received the word at twenty-three
minutes to and Immediately his blows
began to fall thick upon the anvil, which
gave forth one continuous ring throughout
the trial. Fifteen half shoes were made in
the first ten minntes, both men steaming
through their thin woolen shirts like trot-
ter in June. Fifty shoes were made in the
first hour and twelve minutes. Three shoes
had dropped to the floor and some time was
lost in picking them up. The spectators
looked on with intensest interest. An idea
of the rapidity with which the shoes were
made may be gained from the fact that five
shoes lay on the floor red hot while the
sixth shoe was receiving the last stroke on
the anvil At times when Dunn made a
squirt it was hard to tell whether machine
or human being was at work, so fast were
the strokes of the hammer. AS the one
hundredth shoe was thrown on the floor
completed, the watches stopped at exactly
four minutes past 8. Martin j. Dunn had
accomplished the wonderful feat Of turning
100 horseshoes correctly shaped, creased,
nail-holes punched, properly completed, ev-
cry one of which will stand examination,
in the remarkable time of two hours and
twenty-seven minutes, beating the record
of John P. Silk by six minutes and one
half.
Mr.. Dunn is 35 years of age, well proper
toned, weighing 1S5 pounds, modest and
with no desire for notoriety. He was ap-
parently none the worse for the long-con-
tinued struggle, and explained afterward
that he could lower his record if necessary.
His friends congratulated him most heartily
and expressed their opinion that no one in
in the world can excel him as a shoe-smith.
By the scale of the Blacksmith's Union,
six dozen, or seventy-two shoes, is consid-
cred days labor Mr.. Dunn accomplished
the work of over day and half in two
hours and twenty-seven minutes.
WHAT TRIPE Is.-Occasionally you see
man order tripe, but he always looks
hard, as though he hated himself and ev-
erybody else. He tries to look as though
he enjoyed it, but he does not. Tripe is
indigestible, and looks like an India-rubber
apron. When it is picked it looks like dir
ty clothes put to soak, and when it is cook
ing it looks as though the cook was boiling
dish-cloth. On the table it looks like
glue and tastes like piece of oil-silk UNI
brela cover. A stomach that is not lined
with corrugated iron would be turned wrong
side out by the smell of tripe.' A man eat
ing at q hotel table looks like an Arctic ex-
plorer dining on his boots or eating pieces
of frozen dog. You cannot look at man
eating tripe but he will blush, and look as
though he wanted to apologize and con-
vince you he is taking it to tone up his sys-
tenn. a woman never eats tripe. There is
not money enough in the world to hire a
woman to take corner of sheet of tripe in
her teeth and try to pull off piece. Those
who eat tripe are men who have had their
stomachs play mean tricks on them, and
they eat tripe to get even with their st0m-
achs, and then they go and take Turkish
bath and sweat it out of the system. Tripe
is an article handed down from a former
generation of butchers, who sold all the
meat and kept the tripe for themselves and
the dogs, but the dogs of the present Gay
will not eat tripe. You throw piece of
tripe down in front of a dog and see if he
does not put his tail between his legs and 60
off and hate you. Tripe may have value,
but it is not as food. 1t may be good
to fill in burglar-proof safe, with the ce-
ment and chilled STEEL or it might answer
to use as breastplate in the time of war, or
it would be good to use for bumpers between
cars, or it would make good face for the
weight of a pile-driver, but when you come
to slnuggle it into the stomach you do very
wrong. Tripe! Bah! A piece of Turkish
towel cooked in axle-grease would be pie
compared with tripe.-BW Nye.
EVILS OF SoLITUDE.-Said physician,
noted for his skill in curing nerve diseases:
'There is certain healthy, helpful intlu-
ence which naturally comes from human
beings to each other One of my patients
drained all which her friends had to give
years ago. We need occasionally fresh
moral and mental atmosphere, just as much
as fresh material air to breathe" Another
physician, visiting in country house where
the mother, delicate, affectionate, selfsac-
rifcing woman, who lived but for her hus-
band and children, lay ill, with no disease
apparently, but extreme weakness and wea-
riness, ordered her to 60 to the city alone
spend a month in absolute idleness, mixing
as often as possible with crowds of people
who were interested and excited, at church,
at concerts, even in public meetings. The
patient, shy, diffident woman, obeyed,
a and ~ mo home with new color in her cheeks |