Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-17

for wife beating and then sass the JUS
tice if he fines you. Shell nag at you
all day about your pipe and then weep
If YOU dictate letters to your typewriter
girl She'll raise sand if you wear holes
in your socks, yet spend six weeks IN
crocheting for you a pair of slippers
which you wouldn't dare not to wear
She'll. she'll, she'll-well. she'll always
do the thing you least expect.
As friend of farmers and poor people
IT, general who may some day assist me
| i'm getting another grip on a public Office,
| 7 frequently print agricultural notes ana
other tid-bits which are supposed 10 be
| more useful than ornamental. Inc loi-
! Loving letter. which was sent by South
| carolina man to the Charleston News
and Courier bears on woOl-raising ana
! sheep-killing dogs. The information II
| contains is worth putting in ones scrap
| hook While the theme would hardy
| inspire a man to write another book IKE
| paradise Lost" or Romeo and juliet
| I. merits Investigation. But read the eN-
tracts from the letter and judge for your
| self. Here they are: "If you put among
flock of sheep from three to four male
! goats the dogs will rarely attack them
! and he adds: "Sheep always run TO the
| goats for protection
| The editor Of the Courier discusses this
| suggestion at length, and speaks so
| frankly and tenderly that HAS" i'0
| quote him in part:
"For private and wholly personal rea-
sons" says he. 1--WE have invariably held
aloof from the male goat, and, conse-
! ouentlv. we make no claim 70 more IMAM
a passing mountaineering with the
numerous admirable traits Of character
which he may possess, but we confess
that the Billy goat in the role OF a sheep-
cog opens before our imagination a Wiue
field for contemplative conjecture Kea-
sons suggest themselves to US when
might account for the desire of even a
sheep-killing dog 10 remain at respect
| ful distance from the male goat espe-
| c;ally on the sea islands, where the
| fresh breeZes from the ocean are Du'-
dened win nothing more pungent tnah
the odor of the brine over which they
have been waited; but thought Is set M
sea again by the additional declaration
| on 1ne part Of our correspondent thd'
"sheep always run 20 the goats hunts
men. whose information is acquired from
a close study of animals and their habits
attribute 10 deer and other mammals
keen olfactory senses Inc sheei
Is however. an excessively timld erea'
ture. and when dominated By fear IT may
doubtless adopt a course from which ~
better instincts would revolt AT anothel
time. The dog. on the other hand, beini
actuated merely by hunger. or Simply
bv the excitement Of the chase, may very
Justly estimate that the game Is no
worth the candle, and refer retreat u
pursuit under such unpleasant ana us
advantageous circumstances.
While do not know that this sub1ee
has ever been considered by the stat
Board OF Agriculture, l think. In Jusuc
: 10 both the sheep and dogs. 1t should
p looked into. Some man with a YER
r large farm ought TO try the experiment.
The editor Of the Albany Law Journa
has recently been tearing his halr owe
the big words which doctors use VINE
they testify as witnesses before jury
Here is a sample Of the evidence give
by a young physician in a certain assAul
case:
~ discovered considerable ecchymosi
under the left orbit. caused by eNiravasa
lion of blood beneath the cuticle
The unlnitiated would infer from TN
that the Injured party was suffering froi
the Bubonic plague, or angina pectofh
or something equally horrible but sue
was not the case. Somebody had SIN
nlv blackened the fellows eye-a thin
that's apt TO happen to most any oil
who talk politics too much.
, AS far as juries are concerned l con
, , care how many big words the doeto.
. use. but I do wish they'd come down
, the earth when they converse WIN us