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Ornamental Shrubs and Trees.

Floral Cabinet.
Where it is desired to vary plain green group
of trees or shrubs with bright spot of color
there are several varieties with bright yellow or
variegated foliage that can be used to produce
the effect. either by planting among the groups
or on the lawn in front with the green for a
background.
Among large shrubs the golden-leayed elder,
spirma syringa, privet and cornell are all a
bright yellow, and hold their color we'll through
out the season.
There is also silver variegated elder, with
leaves broadly edged with white, that is worthy
of place whore variety of color is desired, but
it it not 50 SNOWY as the golden form.
Another variety, with finely divided dark,
glossy, green leaves, is also quite desirable and
pretty. and makes fine contrast with lighter
colcred and coarser-leaved shrubs
The elders will do well in any good soil and
also in very wet SOIL where other plants will not
succeed.
The sweetscented syringe is an old-fashoned
shrub, with punches of very fragrant white
flowers. The golden-leayed var iety has, in ad-
dition to the flowers bright go lden-y yellow foli-
age that is very attractive, and the plant will
take rank as one of the best golden-leaved
shrubs.
The golden privet has recently been in tro-
duced, and will also rank among the best of the
coiored foliage shrubs. Its leaves have a deep
border Of bright golden yellow, and the plant is
regular formed, upright grower, with dense
foliage that holds on very late in the season.
Inc VdfleSatou corner Is also q new INTRODUCTION.
1t is a variety of the red-tinged cornell, and, in
addition to the handsome foliage, has very bright
crimson stems in the winter.
The variegated wegelia, corchorus and euony-
mus are all desirable and well suited for the bor-
ders of shrub groups. The corchorus is a very
delicate little shrub, with slender branches, well
covered with pea-green leaves, edged with white,
giving it a verv pretty silvery tnge.
The euonymus radicans variegatus has a
white variegaton. with very pleasing pink
shade on the new growth; it is quite dwarf. and
is really climber, but makes very pretty low
shrub.
There are two variegated altheas, one with
well-formed single purple flowers. and the other
with quite insignificant, dark purple, button like
flowers, which is often spoken of in catalogues
as double purple lowered variety, as though
the flowers, as well as the foliage, We're attract
ive
The leaves are very much alike in both varie-
ties they have broad edge of white and yellow,
and are very pretty. The plant is not SO bright
as the yellow shrubs. but is a very distinct and
valuable variety. 1t is a neat, upright grower,
and requires very little trimming to keep it in
good shape it does not grow as large as the green
FORMS
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May brought g. ole; August 9.04c; September pose;
October 9.04c: November, $3.50. Futures closed
firm; March, 8.S5c April, $3.50; May, 9.O3c; June
9.13c; July 8. 19c; August 27c; September 9.O9c;
NEW ORLEANS, March 1.--Cotton firm. net re-
ceipts, S13 bales gross, i. 135 bales; exports to
Great Britain 9460 bales to the continent. 7S4
bales; sales, 5000 bales; stock, 362, 481 bales.
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INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS.
A Bright Sun, Good Roads, and Easy Money
Market Favorable to Trade.


Market Favorable to Trade.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 1.
The month begins under favorable auspices
a cheerful sun, solid country roads, and a fairly
easy money market, and best Of all, country
merchants are more free from debts hanging
over them than at any time for many years.
Short credits is more the motto of wholesale
men than in years past. and fortunately ma
jority of their patrons favor such change as the
former are willing to do business on a smaller
margin. So far as prices were concerned, there
were but few changes. There is a stronger tone
in the provision market Coffees and sugars
unchanged, but hardly as firm as last
week. Eggs and poultry, turkeys excepted, are
weaker in price. Trade with the dry goods nen
is steadily enlarging with prices on most lines
of goods strong. Wool prices are not so firm as
they were, as takings light, but prices are as
yet unchanged. AS stocks of common are very
low and the demand for fine fleece is fair it is
believed that manufacturers will take literally
in the near future. thus promising q good
spring trade The Boston Journal of til Q
9th, says: There is no change in the wool
trade. The number of buyers in market has
been more numerous than last week, and fair
that buyers are more Or less Indifferent and do
not take hold with that confidence that
marked the course of the trade some weeks
ago. Now, appears to us. is their opportunity
to purchase before stocks and assortments
become more reduced. Besides. if they postpone
their purchases until later in the season, it will
have its influence on the markets in the interior
at time when the new clip is near at hand and
our advices from the interior lead us to think
that they are already sufficiently excited on that
point, aud look forward to boom in wool, for
which there is no good reason. We advise deal
ers, manufacturers and SPECTATORS to keep cool
and move cautiously. While good range of
prices can reasonably be expected, we see in
dication of any material advance unless compe-
tition forces up prices beyond reasonable
limit Manufacturers are doing very salts
factory business. and will want all available
supplies of wool now hand. The imports of
foreign wool. now and prospectively, do not have
any influence on the market. Fine domestic
wool would no doubt be higher were it not for
these large imports, but the effect on the market
has been discounted"
GRAIN.
There was better tone to the local market
to-day. An increased inquiry Was noticeable,
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Real Estate Transfers.

Instruments fled for record in the Recorders off ce
of Marion county, Indiana for the twenty four hours
ending at 8 o'clock p M, March 1, 1885, fur
nished by Elliot & Butler abstractors Of titles
No 3, Etna Building:
Charles E. Harris and wife to Sarah A.
Reid lots 20 and 80 in the Indianapolis
Car Company's addition TO Indianapolis $4,000
Frank b. Walker to Mary B. Owens, lot
% in Bradbury s. Co. s southeast addi-
ton to indianapolis 10000
Conveyances, 2; consideration. .. 100000
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Eyansville 9 rerre Haute Railroad.

Via yandalia Line)
1--we Indpls. 7:30am Pr loom f400pm s*10:a5rn4
Ar Indpis 3:50am f1000am 3:35pm 4:15paN
Via l. g. st. l.. Ry.}
Live Indpls. *1O50pm t5:30pm *ll:55am 7l0azx
Ar Indplis. 3:45am f10.00am 3;S5pm 6s25pna
Daily, daily except Sunday. parlor car, sleeps
ing car.
These trains carry the magnificent Monarch parlor,
sleeping aud buffet cars the finest run in America
between Indianapolis and Evansville Cars are opax
for passengers at $50 p. m. Train does not leave
until i0:A5 D. M
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CONDITION OF THE MARKETS
Wheat Rallies a Little Under the Infiu-
ence of Unfavorable Reports,
But Speedily Declines and Closes with an
Extremely Weak Feeling-Heavy Trad
ing in Pork at Lower figures.
MONEY, BONDS AND STOCKS.

Railway Bonds Duh, but Strong - Narrow
Fluctuations in Stocks.
NEW YORK, March Money on call was easy
M1A02 per cent
Prime mercantile paper, 405 per cent
Sterling exchange dull. but steady, at
Ms7l for sixty days, and 81. S91 for demand.
The total sales of stocks to-day were 240, 121
shares, including the following: D., L. & W.,
1920; Erie, 1875; Lake Shore, 30,042; North
western, IL, 0l0; New Jersey Central, ITO; New
York Central. $3.50; Pacific Mail. $50; Reading.
10000. st. Paul. SO. 1sG; Union Pacific, $3.50;
Western Union, I0.4sO; Northern Pacific, pre-
9erred. 3,618.
Government bonds were active and strorg
State bonds were dull and heavy
Railroad bonds were dull but strong; sales.
91,547, coo. Chesapeake & Ohio. series A, ad-
vanced 81; Denver South Park, Pacific frsts, q,
and st. Paul consolidated Il.
Although the total share transactions were
about SO, 600 shares more than on Saturday, in
avery other respect the two days markets are
very similar The fluctuations were generally
within range of per cent, and the closing
The losses were slightly in the majority, but
they generally are from to !. Northwestern,
however, Is down :, and Western Union 5.
Nearly 80 per cent of the days business was in
Aackawanna, ST. Paul and Lake Shore There
are good many operators who are disposed to
Hwait the meeting of the trunk-line officers, at
Commissioner Finkis Office, tomorrow, to dis
cover when the trunk lines will maintain SEIZED
uie rates in the face of the pressure that is being
brought TO bear to induce them to cooperate
with their Western transcontinental connections.
The market closed with the following prices
bid:
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Chicago. ST. Louis & Pttsburg.
Depart-Eastern Mail and Express, daily. 400 an<
New York, Philadelphia, Washing
ton, Baltimore and Pttsburg Ex-
press daily, s-.....-.-.-...----- $50 arx
Dayton aud Columbus Express,
except Sunday .II:O0 ann
Richmond Accommodation -.-...- 400 aux
New, York Philadelphia, Washing
ton, Baltimore and Pittsburg Ex-
press daily, s., h.: ..;----..---- 4:5spns
sunday -. .. .......... - s=4osns
New York, Philadelphia Washing
ton, Baltimore and Pittsburg Ex-
press, daily -.-o....-.---. las un4
Columbus and Dayton Express, ex.
cept sunday -. 4s5puz
Western Mail and Express daily. 9:40pmi
New York Philadelphia Washing
ton, Baltimore and Pittsburg Ex-
press. daily. 10:20pRx
CHICAGO DIVISION VIA KoKoMo P O. & ST. L. r. n.
DepaTt-Louisville and Chicago Express /
p. Ills ann
Louisville and Chicago Fast Ex-
press daily, g.. 1:00paN
Arrve-Chicago and Louisville Fast Elk
press. daily. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. LOO ann
Chicago and Louisville Express,
p. c.-.......--............. s;3spns
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popular and simple test to distinguish be-
tween mari and clay is made by placing lump
of the material in basin of water, and leaving
it undisturbed for short time. Ii it is mari it
will crumble down into diffuse mass, but ii
clay ii will be little changed.
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Upon a fair trial find Salvation Oil the best
cure for rheumatism / have ever known. 1t
gives relief quickly, and always does its
work. JOSHUA ZIMMERMAN, Wetheredville Md,
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Indianapolis & st. Louis.
Louisville, New Albany g. Chicago.
6rb;caeyo Short Iinc.)

Depart-Chicago and Michigan City Mall 10 pu1
Frankfort Accommodation. 4:45 pun
Chicago Night Ex., daily, s,--.-.--1l 10 puns
Indianapolis Night Elk, daily, So. S:do aR
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Cincinnati, indianapolis. St. Louis & Chicass-

Cincinnati, indianapolis. ST. Louis & Chicago
CINCINNATI DIVISION
Depart-CinenAati and Florida Fast Line
daily, S. and c. c...-....---.----. Loo au
Cincinnati, Rushvile and Column.
bus Accommodates. .---...-.1 ]: 33 ann
Cincinnati, Washington and Flor
ida Mail p. c------.---- 3:55 pm
Cincinnati and Louisville Accom-
mediation. daily ...-..-...-.--. 6:40pua
Arrive indianapolis Accommodation, daily1o:5S ana
Chicago and st. Louis Mail D. c.. AZ ann
Indianapolis and Lafayette Accom-. 4:55 pus
Chicago and st. Louis Fast Line,
daily, s. and G. c..-.-..-......-1O:45p m
CHICAGO DIVISION.
Depart-Lafayette and Wabash Ry. Accom-. 7:I0 ann
Indianapolis and Logansport Ex..- 7.1gam
Chicago Mail p. c..---.......-. :05 pm :
Lafayette Accommodation $40 pnzb
Indianapolis and South Bend Elk. 5: 10 pnx,
Chicago, Peoria and Burlington
Fast Line daily, g., II. c......-..1 IL: pm
Arrive-Cincinnat and Florida Fast Line,
daily, 9 O. and s..-...-.. $50 ANN
Lafayette Accommodation. ....-.-11: rs ann
South Bend and indianapolis Elk. -11:1 LIS ann
Cincinnati and Washing n Mail o. 3:45 pra
Cincinnati and Louisville Accom-. 500 pun
Ispgansport and Indianapolis Ex..- $40 pan
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Choice shippers grades ............. 81 sO05.1O
Medium to good shippers -------..-..-. % ID. go
Common to fair shippers -------....-. 3. "a. 90
Feeders. .-.--..-...--...-.---.. 3.7504.20
Stockers. -.-...-......--..-.. 3.0003.50
Good to choice heifers- $40 1880
Good to choice Observation-Disclosures. 3.OO03.5O
Fair to medium and heifers- .-.... 2.2502.75
Common old cows ----.-.....-.......... 1.5OO2.00
Veals common to good 3.5005.50
Bulls, common to good --..-.-.---.-.. LIS 03. 90
Mixers, common to good. &c. 00040. 90
Hoes-Receipts, 300; shipments. -. Quality
good. Market active and shade higher All
sold early.
Heavy packing 250435
Light and mixed packing -...-.-....-.... 40004.15
Select light shipping Observation-Disclosures. 4.00O4.1 10
Pigs and heavy roughs- 1926 03.75
SHEEP-Receipts, so; shipments, -. Hardly
enough here to make market Prices about
the same Saturday.
Good to choice. "a. 3004.75
7 ar TO meolum o.oUU4-UO
Common. ...........2 .2503.25
Suis per mead .IoW1OO
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Indianapolis. Decatur 8 sprinafleld.

Depart-Decatur and Peoria Through Mail. $3.50 ann
Montezuma Accommodation, daily
except Sunday. --.....-...-... 600 pzz
Fast Express daily r. c. and s.. 1850 puR
Arrive Fast Express, daily, c. and So. $50 ann
MontezuIna Accommodation, daily
except Sunday $50 ann
Through Mail ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS $50 pw
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LIVE STOCK.

Cattle Steady for All Grades-Hogs Active
and Shade Higher.
INDIANAPOLIS, March /.
CArTLE-Receipts 100; shipments. -. Light
supply-mostly butcher grades-and market
steady on all grades. Pens well cleared Fancy
grades of shippers, if here. would sell above
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Oils.

OIL CITY. March National Transit certificates
opened 1890; closed at 7sl2c; highest 795sc; low
est 1880; sales To 600 brls; cearances, 700 600
brls; charters 1896 brls; shipments 80 $50 brls.
PITTSBURG, March Petroleum dull but steady;
National Transit certificates opened at 79 and closed
at 78i2c highest price, T9lAc; lowest, 78l4c
NEW YORK, March 1.-Petroleum was dull and
within small fractions of zoe until the last hour when
It yielded, and closed at 1880 bid Sales 753 600
hrls
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Indiana, Bloomington & Western.

Indiana, Bloomington & Western.
PEORIA DIVISION
Depart-Pacifc Elk. and Mail daily andr $50 ans
Kansas and Texas Fast Line r. c. 5:I0puI
Burlington and Rock Island Ex-
press, daily, 7. and 1850 PM
Kansas City Lightning Express. 1900 I'M
Arrive-Eastern and Southern Express,
daily, r. c. and s-.-..-..-.....-. 400 asrz
Cincinnati Special. -----.--....-.--1 0:40 ann
Atlantic Express and Mail r. c.. 3:45 pus
Express and Mail, daily s. and Il Q. $50 psx
EASTERN DIVISION.
Depart-Eastern Express Mail daily ST. r. G. A. 20 ans
Atlantic Express, C. c.----...-..-. 4:05 pzm
Night Express, daily, S. and r. c.. S.00pux
Arrive Pacific Express daily, and c. c.. 7:20 ana
Western Express r.. c------..-...- 4:45 pux
Burlington and Rock Island Elk
press, daily. 8. and r. c.-...-.... 1o:20pnz.
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Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Railway.

(Over the Bee-line)
Depart-Indien.pnlis and Grand Rapids Elk. 400 arm
Michigan Express -..--------. l. l05 am
Louisville and Wabash Express 800 pm
Arrive ~ Wabash and Indianapolis Express IL so am
Cincinnati and Louisville Express. 1:55 pm
Indianapolis and st. Louis Express 1925 pna
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Cotton.

NEW YORK, March 1.-The Post in its cotton re
view says good business for future deliveries has
advanced prices IS.I00020-l00c At the third call
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NEW YORK, March 1.-The market has been mor
quiet. and though fair quantity of orders are in
buyers holding off, for private reasons. in the wa,
of stronger values
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Cincinnati, Hamilton & indianapolis.

Depart-Cncnnati Dayton and Toledo, dy. LOO am
Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo and
New York. 90 aSN
Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo and
New York Express $50 pnE
Connersville Accommodation. 1890. 6:3Opms
Arrive-Connersvie Accommodation. ..-... $50 ana
Cincinnati Peoria and st. Louis. HAS aux
Cincinnati Accommodation. 5:O0pun
Cincinnati Peoria and st. Louis, d y. O:45 urm
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There was better tone to the local marke
to-day. An increased Inquiry was noticeable
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A Washington &dyl.

Washington Critic.
She was congressman's only child. young
and beautiful, and Reginald de Moriarty loved
her.
This is not unusual in Washington.
They stood in the cleaning, upon the portcullis
of swell boarding house.
They would have sat down. but there were no
chairs.
He bent over her tenderly very tenderly.
He had to do it that way, for he had taken his
first horseback exercise the day previously, and
he was as stiff as hitching post
''And yoa love me, ReginaldP she whispered,
fondly
more than words can tell, he replied, with
mad enthusiasm.
II am so glad" she murmured, $50 glad. be-
cause your love is noble and generous, and not
like it might have been if papa were rich"
Some women have very poor opinion Of some
men.
Indeed" said Reginald, growing suddenly
less madly enthusiastic.
yes, Reginald, papa is poor, and we are
proud of It, very proud, for he is honest"
This was ''fresh news" to the young man.
''And q congressman said Reginald, in re-
Elective tone
Yes. Reginald, but as poor as he is, he will
have glorious record to leave to his child"
Reginald picked up his hat and cane, brushed
the powder off his coat-front, smoothed his
stature.
Celeste" he said, coldy; "Celeste, regret
exceedingly tat ] have been mistaken in you.
/. too am like your father / have record.
Too much record in the family is not beneficial
If you could mortgage your fathers record and
raise-but no, Celeste, shall not worry you
with prosac business matters Let us forget
we have ever met. Farewell, Celeste farewell
And Reginald was gone.
The girl was left.
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inspired by ignorance and needless spite was
angry until reflected that was virtually dead.
Then was consoled What did it matter that
some of my surviving friends spoke lightly Of
me?
But the incident to which refer was the
bringing to me of cnriously carved ivory pa
per-knife. 1t had been one OF the favorite
tribes that lay on my reading-table and with
which / had dawdled many time and Oft
Tristram, sauntering into Takeitt's auction
rooms, one day, while in New York, found that
the effects of 1.-The late Robert Treat Chester"
were being sold. His interest was at once
aroused, and divining that this knife, which was
offered while he loitered there. might be of val
ne to me, bought it and brought it home.
Home did / say?
thought detected slight cloud of disap-
probation on the faces of some of the elders OF
the party who CHANGED to be present when young
Tristram, for whom had taken quite fancy,
gave me the toy. But enjoyed handling it,
and fancying that it was link as it WERE be-
twixt the old life and the new. Not that / had
any hankering for the old. But | was glad to
have this slight souvenir of epoch In my ex-
istence that was closed up forever
Heretofore, have written only in the past
tense AS bring to an end this narration,
feel moved to add to it, by way of postscript
one more incident 1t may explain certain
things to my distant but well-remembered
friends.
The paper-knife, of which have spoken above
has awakened strange emotions. My thoughts,
turned in the direction of my other life by this
trfing object have been disturbed, uneasy. The
placid current that flowed so smoothly after the
first excitement of my arrival subsidized, have
been diverted into devious channels. Tonight,
restless aud vaguely longing for relief, went
alone down to the edge of the bluffs that over
look the.valleys of the Great Kanwayhee. 1t is
misty moonlight in the valley below-mysterious,
vague and shadowy. That way lies the path
back to the other world have known.
| was on the point of taking the faint path
that leads in the direction Of the outer edge OF
the plateau, divining that by that part of the
incline, If anywhere safe descent would be
found just then, Crosby, whom had left play
ing cribbage with two old gentlewomen, emerged
from the shadow of clump of trees ''Hallo'
he cried. II was looking for you We want you
TO help US out at game of whist have been
looking for you everywhere"
II don't care to play, old fellow; thank you"
Crosby made no reply but, coming affection
ately close to me, he linked his arm into mine.
and gently constrained me in the direction Of
the settlement. / made no resistance, but
felt as if l had been arrested in the act of
fight.
Crosby cried, you are taking me back
as If | were deserter"
Never mind, he said ''You arrested by
the best friend you have in the world" looked
in his eyes, and by the struggling moonbeans,
saw that they were moist with a gentle dew.
And so realize, at last, that l have mysteri-
ously disappeared.
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Struck by a Falling Star.
Letter in London Times.


AS gentleman, wellknown public official,
was passing from St. James Park into Pail Mall
by the garden wall of Marlborough House, on
Saturday last, at 4:45 in the afternoon. he sud
denly received on the right shoulder a violent
blow, accompanied by loud cracking noise,
which caused him great pain and to stumble for
ward as he walked. On recovering his footing,
and turning round to see who had so unceremo-
niously struck him, he found that there was no
one Oh the pavement but himself and the police
men on duty at the park end of It, On reaching
home the shoulder was submitted to examina-
ton bat nothing was at first discovered to ac-
count for the pain in IL. But in little while the
servant who had taken away the coat to brush
brought it back to point out that over the right
shoulder the nap was pressed down fat in long,
straight line. exactly as if hot wire had been
sharply drawn across the cloth. The accident
is therefore explained as having been caused by
the explosion of minute falling star meteor.
It is an unprecedented and most interesting oc-
currence. and deserves, | think, to be placed on
public record.
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Thaa stevens as q Surgeon.


Talking recently with relative of Thaddeus
Stevens. learned of an act In his youth which
resembled the stoical herosm that was taught to
the youths of ancient Greece. He was born with
a club-foot which was not only malformed but
was twisted on one side. His brother, who af-
terward sat on the bench in Vermont was SINH
larly disfgured in both of his feet Thaddeus
was lame and sickly up to his sixteenth or seven
teenth year. His twisted foot was always q great
eyesore to him, and one day while his family was
living at Peacham, Caledonia county, where he
was born, his mother heard him grooming and
talking to himself just outside the door of the
house Going out she had found that he had
taken his club-foot in his lap and with his PEN
knife had deliberately severed the short tendons
and was forcing the foot straight. where he
bound it with splints the side. tieipg them on
with his handkerchief which he had torn into
shreds, saying meanwhile to himself IN fix
you if have to cut yOn clear off" When his
foot healed the linn had been somewhat straight
ened, bur the club-foot remained as deformity
up to his death.