Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-10

and a big stable, and in its long rows OF
stalls they kept their horses during the day
until they returned from their journey 10
the Hub. Then they would hltch up ana
drive home. Everybody waits on himself IN
these democratic communities. SO they were
in the habit of unhitching their own horses,
hanging the harness on the pegs at the 1901
of the stalls and giving each animal a
measure of oats from the big bin over IN
the corner. The stable was kept very dark,
SO that sometimes on a cloudy day they
had to feel their way around, but Mr.. ray
lor the proprietor, explained Its advantages
that it kept out the flies and other insects.
One day Mr.. Taylor was employed by a
stranger to drive him over to Haverhill.
where shoe factory with all its contents
and appurtenances was to be sold at auc-
going very cheap and Mr.. Taylor bought
several barrels Of shoepegs for almost
nothing When he got home he put them In
the barn without explaining what he was
going to do with them.
1t was something more than coincidence
that about this time Taylor quit buying
oats and the horses that were placed In his
barn while their owners went to Boston al
most unanimously got "off their feed"
The owners unhitched and put them in the
stalls and gave them measure or grain,
as usual. from the bin in the dark corner,
but when they returned at night the feed
lay untouched in the trough. Mr.. Taylor
had some medicine, made of burdock leaves,
which he recommended as an appetite re-
storative, and he sold good many bottles
at % cents each. He told his customers to
give their horses dose before they started
to drive home and another after their ar
rival before feeding, and he thought it
would cure them. And 1t did. 1t worked
like charm and there was great demand
for the burdock remedy.
One day an inquisitive farmer took his
measure of oats to the stable door and
found it full Of shoepegs. For nearly a
year, ever since Taylor went over to that
auction at Haverhll, his customers had
been feeding shoepegs to their horses and
paying Taylor % cents per animal for that
privilege.
AS one might expect. there was good
deal of comment the discovery, and
| Taylor went outSof business
Scene Of a Gold Excitement.
Lisbon was the scene of gold excitement
thirty years ago. Thousands Of prospectors
came there and sunk shafts and hammered
| the rocks on all the neghboring noun
tains There are several mines there still,
! but they do not pay. There is plenty of
gold, but it is imbedded in quartz in such
way that 1t costs more than 1t Is worth to
get 1t.
One Of the biggest factories at Lisbon
miles day, for use in all kinds of cleo
| trical appliances, A funny sort of ma
chine with an intelligence that Is almost
! human, takes a piece of wire ana bfalds
| around II "A coating Oh Sllh ao
| Won braid the cracker of driving whip
| All the way along the road are lumber
mills and factories. The waterpower of
; the brooks and streams that come tumhilng
! out of the mountains is thoroughly utilized.
| The same water is used over and over
| again. Mill follows mill and dam follows
| dam and the same water turns the wheels
| of successive factories without a complaint
| or ever getting tired
Littleton is the commercial metropolis OF
! the White mountains. 1t is quite an &C
| tive and enterprising town, composed OF
| shoe factories. glove factories. hotels and
boarding houses. Sears, Roebuck * Co, the
big mail-order house of Chicago, has a
shoe factory here, and II is curious why
! they should go far away from home for
such a purpose. when there Is so much
| room for shoemakers the prairies OF
| Illinois. Near by them is a factory where
they make the heavy thick buckskin gloves