2 aije ftmc0, Nero Bloomficlb, Jcu SELLING A GREENY. t : Blr p. PEtAcy. NEAR tho City Hall Park is a build ing containing a large number of offices, ' and as the upper stories have an entrance from two streets it is a favorite locality fur the operations of the swindlers who live by fleecing " green countrymen." A frequent game is to get some verdant individual to ad vance money for which they give them either a spurious draft or bogus coin as security, and then enter the building above mentioned and leavo by the door on the other sido. A young man well posted in the ways of the city,detcr mincd to see if ho could not swindle one of the sharpers, and having come to this determination, went to tho Park Hotel dressed like a " well to-do" countryman, and entered his namo as Charles T. Charles, of West Geld Mass. The next morning ho passed out of tho hotel at on catly hour for a walk, and as he sauntered up tho street towards Park How, a merry twinkle might have been noticed in his eyes, had the spruce young gentleman who was dogging his footsteps been in front and of a particularly observant na ture. : , This humble follower in the train of the green boy was a distinguished look ing personage. He was apparently somo' twenty-five or thirty years of ago, was dressed in the very height of fashion, and sported a precocious pair of black sido whiskers. Ito wore a very flashy rod necktie, on which sparkled, or tried to sparkle, a very lurgo Alaska diamond, lie was a person to attract attention, but the young man noticed him, not. Ver dant was busily engaged in staring at the massive build inqs that surrounded him on nil sides. ' His eyes opened wide as he gazed, and he took his pipe from his mouth and allowed it to go out, that he might open that, too, in country style. . Tho two had reached the corner of Park row before Greeny became awaro that a stranger was nigh, much less that he was the object of that stranger's special attention. At this point, however, the whiskered gentleman touched him gently on the shoulder. He turned and met tho gaze of that tremendous Alasku. While yet under the influeuco of its dazzling brilliancy, the, ' stranger spoke. He exclaimed with the fervor of an old friend: " Why, ' Charley ! Where ' tho deuce did you come from ?" ' Verdant was astonished, and had not the art to 1 conceal his astonishment. Alaska looked at him for a moment in silence, and then Baid with the politest of airs: ( ', " I beg your pardon,1 sir ; I took you for an old friend of miuo, Charley Charles, of Westficld, Mass." Then, as Greeny was still apparently intent on gathering his bewildered senses, he soliloquised soft ly, " Wonderful resemblance." "Wall, you see," suid Verdant at length, with an unm'iBtnkubly moral ac cent,'" that's me and no mistake." ''But I kinder don't seen to remember you." ' 1 " What 1" quoth Alaska, with a touch of genuine pathos, " not remember me! Why, I spent a wholeday at your 1'athor's houso once. 'Let's see ; it was three years ago, :' You were in the field, mowing, when. I Grift came, but I saw you at din ner and again at supper. , Don't , you .re member ?"..; , ,., t ...... ,j ., . .., , Greeny bethought him. lie did have a sort of faint recollection of .having met a stranger at tho houso some ' time or other. " But by gosh, sir, I would never ha' known ye agin." ' ' ,' '"' ' 'Alaska gushed j " Charlie, I am that stranger. I made your father promise if ever 1 met him iu 'New York that he would make my home his home ." Greeny interrupted him.- - The : two here oame to a cigar storo, and the West field boy wanted a weed. He invited his friend to join hiui. ' ..i i .i The cigars were spread .upon .the counter. Greeny selected one, immedi ately Jit it, puffed a moment, said it ' was a '.' durned good one," and pulling, a ten cent stamp from his pocked, threw it on the counter. -Alaska looked on, with, a placid smile. . '., . j " Thirty cents," said the cigar man. " What!" said Verdant. " " The vender of weeds reiterated his de- inand. ' ' " I never paid more than five cents for a cigar in my life," said Groeny. Do ye think ye can swindle me? I've read too much of this durned old place to be taken in. . n- : . i f, .... A scene was imminent. Alaska came to the. rescue .die saw a . game ahead. Greeny in offering the ten cents, had un consciously unfolded a check fur a hun dred dollars, and the diamond had flashed fur an instant on tho magic figures. Alaska proffered a Ave .dollar bill, received his change, and the two went forth, , ;. .... " And how," said he of tho Bide whis kers, " what are you doing here 1 You've come to stay, of course." "Wall' was the answer,.," that depends, on circumstances, ' Ye see I've got tired of 1 livin' In the couutry, and I thought I'd just come upaud see if I could strike a job." ' ' " - " That's right, my food fellow, there's nothing lite striking out for ; one'i self. Now, what oan you do? Perhaps I . might help you to a place."' ' ' ' ' " 'I Wall,;' said Greeny, "while gratitude at his friend' kind offer beamed forth from his hitherto stolid face J can ci pher pretty fairi I thought if I got a chance I might learn to keep books. You see I've got a good education for coun try boy." ' . " By Jove I" said 1 Alaska, " how for tunate 1 Do you know I want just such a fellow as you myself. I want an office . . . . . , "No." " Yes. The boy I've got now ain't fit to keep tho place. He's never in when I want him and pays'- no - attention ' to business. "But then (thoughtfully) I always require a recommendation of character. You see my boy has the handling of largo sums of money, and 1 have to secure myself. Have, you any references ?" " No," said Greeny. " I don't know nobody in New York. Father does, though. Ho gave me this check," inno cently producing the dooumcnt, "and told mo to see tho president of the bank and he would help me." ' " Alaska took tho check. It was drawn on tho Eighth National Bank, fur $100, payable to C. T. Charles, or bearer, and signed in nn awkward hand Josiah Charles. Apparently all was reg ular, and ho secmod loth to lot tho prec ious dooumcnt leave his hands. He re turned it, however after a careful scruti ny, saying: ...... " Well, Charley, you look honest, and your father did me a good turn oucc.-1 never forget a favor, I'll engage you, and run the risk. Wait hero a moment till I go and see what that boy is doing." , They ha d reached Nassau Street, and wero standing in front of the Scientific American offico directly opposito tho Park hotel. Tho entrance from Nassau street extends through to Park row, at tho " World" office. Greeny stood medi tating whether on tho generous qualities' of his new friend or on other and more worldly thoughts it matters not. Sud denly Alaska cauie bounding down tho stairs again at a break-neck paco. He reached tho bottom aud exclaimed in an indignant tone. , "That d d boy is off again, and I can't get into my office. , He knows I've got to pay fifty dollars at 8 o'clock, and all my greenbacks ore locked in my safe I might givo this gold, (taking a largo handful of coins from his pocket), but I hate to part with it. I Bay Charley just lend me $30 for an hour will you, you can hold this as security." '' Here he tendered a handful of the gold to the dazzled eyes of Greeny. . "Wall," quoth Verdant, "I ain't got nothing but my check, and I've got to pay for my room in advance as soon as the clerk gets up. I promised him I would last night. ' ' "Let me take the check," Baid in on insinuating tone. "I "can cashed." ; Alaska get it ' (' But what will I do for my ' rent? I must leave my check as security. If you can give me fivo dollars, so 1 can pay thut, I'll lend you the check." ' ." You can give the clerk one of those ten-dollar gold pieces till I come back." Greeny was indignant. , Did bis friend who was going to help him to a place, think he was unwilling to trust him '( He wouldn't touch a piece of tho gold. His friend was welcomo to the check if he would only givo him .. the means to re deem his word at the hotel. ' ' Alaska meditated. ; Tho check was regular and good for a hundred dollars. ", How much is your room ?" he said. " Four dollars," said Greeny. ' Alaska produced the ' four dollars received as change in the cigar store. . Said Verdunt I shall want . somo change for breakfast,., you know j let mo have the 70 cents. . , ....,. . . . It was . fust becoming evident that Alaska could deny his friond nothing. The streets were beginning to fill, and if he got the check at all, he must do it at once. Greeny pocketed the '70 cents, ond handed over the check Alaska dashed up the Btnirs, and has been seen by Ver dant no more. 'Imagination pictures his crest-fullon face tas he is informed at the bank that no such name as Josiah Charles is to be found on their books of deposit and he realizes tho fact that instead of selling a greeny he has been badly sold himself. .-, ,.n.. , . . fST Beverly, in Massachusetts, is known as V Bean Town." No virtuous citizen of that town thinks of passing Sunday morning,, without having baked pork and beans for breakfust. Formerly they went to the different bakeries, Sat urday night, each man with his bean-pot. Each pot was numbered with a check as soon as received, and tho number given to the owner', andf crowds would gather round the bakery door, Sundoy morning, each man culling his numbor and receiv ing his pot. But now : thy have a pot tery in the town,' and each householder has his bean-pot made to order, with his name or initials baked into the sides, and tho plan works beautifully. The bakers charge six cents for baking beans, aud it is no mean source, of revenue. ,(, . ' tedT A man who haa been arrested as a vagrant lias protested that he bad a reg ular trade or calling, viz I smoking plana for total eclipses of the sun ; and as these occur only a few times in a century, he was not to blame for being out of em ployment a good deal. ,u , Something" About Antils. 1 . ' , -.,., '-' i IN a deserted shop in PittsGold, Massa chusetts, there rests on . its block an anvil that has done duty for more than throe hundred years. It is as sound to day as it was ' in 1633, when Ellwood Pomoroy, after welding for the Stuarts tho ponderous horse-shoes of tho same stylo and pattern that his ancestors . had. made during many generations for tho Tudors and, Plantagcnets, grew weary of taxos without law and work without wages, and, anvil in hand, sailed for the new world. A deft workman, ho throvo in the sottleroeuts, and loft his. anvil as on heir-loom to his descendants. They show you in tho Tower of Lon don the anvil on which tho sword was forged that Richard Cour tin Linn used in his famous contest with Saladin; and at tho ooilcction of Pompcian excavations in Naples there is an anvil, certainly old er than the Christian centuries, which, of precisely tho shapo wo use, had ovidently done scrvieo for stalwart workmen of many generations beforo the city was buried. But better still, in the Egyptian room of tho British Museum, there is a verita blo anvil of the Pharoahs.. It is older than Home, older than Greece, older than Jerusalem ; as old as the days of Abra ham, and probably in existence when the patriarch " was come into Egypt, and the Egyptians beheld Sarai that she was very fair." It is just liko a modern anvil, mado apparently in the samo way, weigh ing about seventy-five pounds, and sound as it was when first struck by a hammer thirty centuries ago. ':,''.''. Tha old way. of making anvils, and still tho process by which the larger num ber is manufactured, is as follows : Tho business commences by welding a quanti ty of the choicest iron usually scraps that como from broken tools, shafting out of use, steam-boilers worn out, and the liko into a mass which becomes the nu clcs of the anvil. These scraps, brought to a white heat in the furnace, are sub jected to tho heavy blows and crushiug weight of the trip-hammer, under which, twisted and turned, flattened and round ed, the " concrete'' gains a rough npprox mution to the desired form. It is then, in company with another piece of iron, called " second weld," recommitted to the furnace. ' Reaching the necessary heat, both ' nucles" ond " second weld" ore drawn, and placed instantly not this time under the trip-hammer under the blows of forge-hammers in the hands of workmen, one beginning the work, then a second joining in, and so on, until four are pounding upon the two pieces, fast uniting into one, in rapid and regu lar succession, The strikers are guided in their work by the action of their lead er, each man directing his .hammer to that part indicated by the leader's blow.. An on-lookor has no idea of this, and he is naturally surprised to note that under all their apparently reckless blows, the glowing mass gradually assumes form and shapeliness. If the anvil were a ' small article of trifling weight, it might be pos sible to forgo it whole from a single piece of iron, as a farrier does a horse shoe. ' But anvils weigh from three hun dred pounds to a thousand. They are made more than any other article, in good faith.. A i single " put up" ativil might ruin the reputation of. the manu facturers. : In fact, a lurgo anvil is built up of twenty pieces of metal. . Each piece, in company with tho ever-gTowing nucles," has to be subjected to the heat, the drawing, the blows of the sledge hammer, and the shaping ulrcady de scribed.' The corners which project at the base to steady it, the protrusion to ward the beak, the parts of the posterior projection, and the rounded sides, arc all separately shaped and welded on by the rapid blows 'of the workmen. 1 Finally, there is the upper surface, mado of the toughoHt steel, which.must, at the cost of utmost strength of blow and skill of craft, be homologated with the solid iron that the wholo may be ; in, perfect union. , ; , The high temperature to which the workmen are exposed during the twenty " welds" is ; very exacting. To , protect them from tho furnaco fire a curtain of iron is hung up as a screen. I)uriug the process of wolding this screen js almost always red-hot, and yet it furnishes a pro tection of which the men are glud enough to avail themselves. Tho lurger tho mass to be forged, of course the fiercer must be the fire of the furnace to brin g the iron to a welding f condition ; ' and when the iron has to be shaped by blows delivered at hand, the strikers must come into close condition with their work, and may not flinch from any temperature that can possibly bo borne. The professed fire kings, who in public enter heated ovens aud remain during the cooking of bread and meat, do not breathe a hotter air nor endure a higher temperature than the anvil-makers are subjected to during ev ery working day of their lives. " The last operation in the forging of an anvil is the welding of the steel that forms its surface. If this is not perfect, the whole result, is a failure. Prompt energetic, and skillful action, not an' in stant too early or ioolato, is - requUite.r Every hammer man must be ready. .An instant's pause would be fatal. . One care less stroke would spoil the labor of a whole vsecV.Jearth und Hotnr. SUNDAY READING ; The Red Spot. " 'C.J. .. No more striking subject for a painter Could be imagined than Mr. Vallanding ham, as described in the newspaper re ports gazing with fixed eye, set teeth nnd deathly paleness at the little red spot in the skin, which had been bo inadvertently caused by drawing a pistol from his pocket. The wound was quite incidental, if wo may so Jspcak,. and it appeared a small matter. Little blood and less pain accompanied it, ond as tho wounded man felt around for the bull it might have been hoped that he would squcczo it out and attend to his business again in a day or two. But to the practiced examination of the surgeon that little red spot indicat ed death. All tho wealth of tho United States and all the strength of the great farty of which he was the chief might mvo been spent in vain to save the leader who a few moments before was sound and whole, and full of Hfu aud vigor. Tho spot became largor, and blood flowed more freely, both inwardly and outwardly mid in a few hours death closed tho sceno. Thero arc other ways in which a mo ment's inadvertence may leave a fatal wound. The boy who first steals from his employer, or looks into a lacivious picture book, has made the red spot. The youth who takes lifo in a fit of drunkeness or passion, has consigned himself to the gallows. The man of business who is tempted into forgery, has inflicted the incurablo red spot on his character. , ... Aud wo need not, add that the other sox are oven moro liublo to bo irretriev able ruined by a moment's iuudvertenco. It is true, however, and it is a glorious truth, that thero is a Divine physician, who can and will heal tho most fatal wounds of a truly penitent soul, and pres ent it without spot to tho Judgo of all the earth j but 83' fur as this world is concern ed, the injury inflicted on character, in the ways to which wo have . alluded, are like the wound of Mr. Vallandighom, very easily caused, but hopeless of cure. N. Y. Daily Witnvst. . Failure not a Failure. The secret of happiness is to make tho best of everything; no matter what hop pens to annoy, let it nil glido along" os easily, and with as few, words of com plaint and faultrfinding as possible. Little inconveniences will intrude upon the most fortunate pcoplo, so the only way to be master of every situation, is to make up your mind not to notice small annoyances. Pcoplo may keep themselves in constant broil over what amounts to nothing; nnd, without accomplishing tho least good, may ruin tho peaco and quiet of a houshold. We 'cannot have every thing just as we want it in this world, and the sooner a porson understands the fact, tho sooner he may have a true basis for happiness. It is the greatest folly to sot tho heart upon i uncertainties, and then il ' disap pointed, refuse to be comforted or recon ciled. Do tho very best you can, and then take things as they come. If a man strive with his best knowledge, energy and un tiring lubor or accomplish a.certain objoct, work with skill and patience, he is a bucccss, whether the scheme fails or suc ceeds, and ho ought to reconcile himself to failure if it was inevitable If his labors have been of brain and hand, he is the better fitted to auccccd in other un dertakings. ,... . . I l. aT" Evory person should cultivate a nice souse of honor. In a hundred differ ent ways, this most adjunct of tho true ludy or gcutlcmun is ofton tried. For instance, one is a guest of a family, where perhaps, the domcstio machinery docs not run smoothly. There is a sorrow in the houso unsuspected by the outer world. Sometimes it is a dissipated son, whose conduct is a shame and grief to his pa rents; sometimes a rclativo whose eccou tricities and peculiarities are a cloud on the home. , Or, worst of all, husband and wifo may not be in accord, and there. may be often bitter words spoken, and harsh recriminations. In any of these Cases the guest in horror bound to be blind and deaf, so far as pcoplo ore concerned. If a gentle word within can do any good, it may woll be said ; but to go forth and reveal tho shadow of' nn unhappy secret to any one, even your, nearest friend, is an act of indelicacy aud meanness almost unparalleled. : Once in the precincts of any homo, admitted to its privacy, sharing its life, ill you hear and see is u sacred trust. It is a really contemptible to gos sip of such thir.gs, as it would be to steal the silver, or borrow the books aud for get to return them home. ,. 8?" 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