UXCL1S JOB'S PLAN.
Uncle Job Foivstrr ww li!;o n grrnt
ninny otlirr Aiiii'iieuu jnuvnts ho luul
jK'iTi'Pt cliililivn.
"Thorn hoys." ho wns wont to nay,
"wouldn't marry nry woman in tlie
county j nut but what tlu-y's li'iily gixnl
tnou;;li nu' better, but they have other
rlaii8 an' projec's!''
A pretty si-hool teacher hnimlcit at the
Forester's, and it was her apparently in
nocent self that was making all this trou
ble. Lew Forester, the younger of the
boys, was hopelesnly in love with her,
and as he wrw young, with his life's work
Beaivt'ly mapped out, and ns 5Iny Horn
ing was pwr, with an abundance of ioor
relatives, the marriage was deemed highly
inexpedient Uucle Job rumiuntod upon
the subject as he followed his luzy, fat
team along the corn rows,
"Seems to mo," he soliloquized, "ef I'd
jes' speak to her father drut the weeds!
I do wisli I'd a check rowed this! Tho
cocklolmrn is a goiu' to jus' plum teeto
tally take hit he'd stop hit, being so poor
nn' high minded. But like' not Iev'd
git mad at my interfering, an marry her
unyhow, jes' to teach me a lesson, nn' not
a aimin' to marry her at all, before. I've
knowed parents to put they foot in it
mightily afore this, an' I've often won
dered if Muhaly Ann Hriggs would a ben
a better chance than Mary Ann, though
I wouldn't have nuther one of 'em a
sposiu' that I rlcleck anything about
them times. No, I rectin I'd better not
call on her pap for any help, seeing as I
spilt his prospec'g in our young days. Oh,
you git up there, you lazy heifer! Looks
like the more you feed em' the lazier they
git! No, but ef I can't hatch up some
thing 'thout showin' my hand, why, I'll
jes' let 'em marry for beiu' a fool. "
"Low," said Uncle Job, the following
Saturday morning, "I want you to take
the one seated gig an' go to Chillicothe on
business, an' I want you to not pick up
any passengers either goiu' or comiu', for
that left wheel ain't any too strong, 'n
watch an' don't go iuto any ruts. I'd
like for that gig to lost till I feel able to
get another one. "
"Can't Dan go ?" Lew asked petulantly.
"I do hate to ride to town nil by myself
over the hills an' through the red bresh.
I'd rather plow hard ull day. "
"Well, plow, then," Uucle Job an
swered, with a merry twinkle in his eye.
"That medder piece needs plowin' mon
strous bad. You and I can plow, an'
1'an'l can go jes' as well as not. "
"If I was him I wouldn't drive no gig,"
Lew remarked, uttering the words beforo
reflecting upon what might follow.
"I ain't ngoiu' to," Dan answered,
with the confidence of a young mau who
owns a good team of his own. "I'm
agoiu' to drive Stell and Grace tho
buggy needs a little flxiu' up. "
Lew hitched up his team and went to
work. He despaired of having a chat
with May so early in the morning, but
he could come in at half past 11; alio
was not busy then.
"See here, Dan'l," Uncle Job began, as
soon as Lew was out of earshot, "any.
body can see that Lew is soft on the
teacher, and the ijit will marry her ef he
ain't stopped ; not but what she's plenty
good enough for him, an' too good, ns to
that, but you know we've alius had other
plans for Lew. I nover saw sich a hard
hearted creetur as he is. He can cut an'
slash on live animals, an' I think he'd
make a good doctor. That's what me an'
your maw wants, an' of course, ef he mar
ries the school teacher he can't never be
nothing but a farmer, for you know he
can't more'n write his name now, though
he's learnin' considerable from her, tlort
bless her! She's a good little thing. Well,
what I was going to say is this : you
make up to her. You've got your new
horses and buggy and lots of nice clothes,
an' you can cut him out quick as wink."
"Then s'pose I take her to town to
day," Dansuggosted, not at all displeased
at the prospect of a 24 mile ride with so
pleasant a companion.
"Yes, yes! You hitch up an' I will go
tell her. I'll fix it."
With that he hurried to tho house,
elated at the working of his plan.
"Miss May," he said in a low whisper,
from the front door, "you come here a
minute. "
" In a moment, uncle, " a pleasant voice
answered.
"Come out into the yard," he mur
mured. "I want you to do a favor for
me. I want to get the old lady two new
gingham dresses, an' I want 'em to bo
nice an' look nice an' fit nice, aud I want
you to pick them out an' pay for them.
I'll give you the money. I want you to
go with Dan'l."
"Yes, certainly," May answered with
a suspicious pink mantling her cheeks.
"Could you tell me anything about what
Jfinil of gingham you want?"
"You jest use your own judgment get
something becomin' to old women and
you cut it an' make it an' I'll knock oil a
week's board for one, au' another week
for another. We like to have mother
look nice. "
i At about 10 o'clock Mr. Forester went
over to see how Lew was progressing
with his work. He found him busy, and
cheerily whistling "Marble Halls."
"It's a plum shame to tease the boy,"
his father soliloquized, as he approached
the grassy turning row. "But all the
evils of lifo must be keoved with some
suffering. I know I'd better keep him
free to go on an' make something out of
hisaclf titan to have him tied down to
hard work with a wife and a passel o
little children. I see you've been a
humpin' yerself," he said as Lew ap
proached. "No need to kill yerself and
the team too. "
"We've taken it easy- nice dirt this
never seen belter wish you'd givo ma
my shur on this side when you divide
up."
" May be but you'll be a-selling yourn, "
his father answered, looking with prido
upon his various fields stretching away
in the distance, some with wheat, some
with oats, beside small patches of castor
boaus, flax, cane, millet, und pasture,
and meadow,
"No, I'm thinking of bulldin' an' set
tlin' right hero," Low replied, while
boyish Mush ilyod his downy cliouk.
IVe boon a-thinking that ef you and
rnaw was willin' "
" Yes, n mentionln' of your maw puts
nio in mind that I sent by May this
morning to got her a couple, o' new
drosses. Sooms to me we don't lay
cnou?;h slore by the way she looks. "
" Whcre'd May go?" Low Bsked with a
sinking of the heart.
"Sho went with Dan'l," looking over
his fields and mercifully turning his back.
Without a word Low turned his team
Into tho corn und begau to plow. His
father noticed that he was unusually
gentle with tho horses, and his conscience
troubled him not a little lis ho walked
townrd the house.
"Kf I hadn't n-tole him." he said, con
templating the variegated sod with un
noting eye, "he would a-como in at
'leven, and when ho found sho want
here, he'd n-went out agin jes 's quick's
ho could get his dinner an' n-plowed till
dark, an' Hint's too much on the horses. "
Lew came in at a quarter past twelve,
ate his dinner in silence, and was for
starting buck to the field.
"You musn't take the horses nut till
two, Lewie," his father said. "You go
lio down and sleep under a shade tree
you'll feel lots better. "
"I don't want to sleep," Lew growled.
"Ef you don't tho homes does,"Baid
his father. "But ef you aiu't sleepy, let's
no out here under the trees. I feel kinder
restless an' lonesome with Dan an' May
gone, ami I know mother don't like to
have men folks around till she gits her
work done. You an Dan'l is young and
free, an' I jest saw Jim Lucos puss, nn' I
couldn't help a contrasting ye. Jim was
young about 10 years back, an' so wag
Sallie, and they had ambitions. Jim was
a purty good sohollard for this county,
nn' he wanted to be a congressman or
somethin'. Sallie was purty and sweet,
an' most any man in his senses would
ha' loved her, an' he did, an' they married,
an' now they have six children, and Jim
can't do nothin' but jes' dig for them.
He ain't able to hire a hand, an' ho rents,
and lie don't get no richer every year,
even ef Rullio does contrive an' save. It
looks purty hard, but Jim's got to dig an'
save an' scrimp until he's old, and maybo
longer. "
"I suppose he loves Sallie," Low sug
gested. "Oh, yes, kinder sorter; but his life
ain't what he bargained for. Married life
lacks a good deal of beiu' a picnic when
people looks high ami is poor. This ever
lasting grind for somethin' to eat is awful
hnrd on a feller with ambitions. Your
maw an' me want you to be a doctor, ai'
I was a thinkin' "
"Paw, I don't know enoughr" Lew sat
up and looked reRolute. " You kuow I
never was fond of books, an' I don't lik
nothing but turning up dirt an' handling
stock. I'll never make a doctor nor u
congressman, nor nothing buta. plain far
mer, and JI want to marry May an' go
to housekeeping as soon as I'm of age,
which will be in 10 months aud 17 days.
"Wait till you'ro 21, and then, ef you
want to marry her, why, all right; but
I'll tell you now that the day'll come
when you will wish you hadn't. May's
as good a girl as ever lived, but I'm
afraid you'll be overrun by her kin.
They're great folks to come an' stay all
night an' bring the whole family."
That afternoon lie confided his doubt,
and misgivings to his wife, aud receiveii
some very sharp advice about the advisa
bility of attending to his own business.
'Well, my heart jes' bleeds for other
people's boys," Mr. Forester asseverated,
"an' when it comes to my own, it 'pear
like I would do anything to keep 'em from
a running their heads in nooses that'll
keep 'em down the rest of their days. "
" You'll see, paw, " Mrs. Forester replied
with the confidence of nn observing
mind. "I've knowed and heerd of a
good many matches a beiu' broke oiT,
and very few of 'em evor come to any
good."
"Stuff!" scornfully replied Undo Job.
"You know the girls in this country avr
engaged lots of times 'fore they marry.
Why, I know a young feller that'd jes'
cet down an' write to a girl an' ast her U
nwrry him, an' ho didn't have the leasi.
intentions that way. Don't you think
that engagement ought to be broken off!"
"I'm not talkin' about that kind I'm
a talking about where they love an' want
to marry. "
"Well, we won't quarrel." And they
didn't.
During the rest of the term Dan paid
May the most marked attention. Scarce
ly a day passed that he did not take her
driving or horseback riding, and she sat
a horso with the utmost grace. May
brightened and looked her prettiest dur
ing these happy days, while Iw at first
sulked and then became genuinely indif
ferent. He kept to his work iu all weath
ers, and it began to be noticed that bin
part of the crop looked much better tha
Dan's, although Low had helped hiai
more than once.
"I will plow this afternoon, " he would
say, "and you may help mother and
May with theryard." Or, "I'll go after
the cattle and you and May can drive
down to Springhill and get the mail."
At first this indifference was ansumed
to hide his wounded pride, but it soon
camo to pass that ho found himself hap
pier aud nearer real contentment than
over Ixifore.
Not so with Uncle Job. At first ho
rubhed his hands complacently, and
smiled to think how easy it was to man
ige boys so well brought up as his were,
llut Dan was continuing his attentions
too long, and they wero too marked and
too ardent. He resolved to speak to him,
"Look here, Dan!" ho began one day,
when they were building ilia new rail
fence around the pasture. "Don't you
think you are carrying this thing too far?
May might fall in love with you. "
"I hope she has, paw," Dau replied
with a Bheopish laugh, "for we aro going
to marry when her school is out, and if
you'll let me I'd like to build on tho
west 80. "
"Yw, Dau'l, jes' at you like, meekly,
"May's a mighty fine girl, an' I've got
everything to be proud of. Thaukeo,
Dan'l, for bringin' us scch a nice darter. "
He turned away for some rails, and
p:iusod a moment looking at their splint
ery cleanliness.
"Out of tho frying pau Into tho I'.ro,"
he muttered, "an' I done it, shore' fate!"
Asa Ulauval.
THIS YAMil H ftKKYl'Kll.
Our IJrllUh Cnu.lli. 1.IW It llrcnn.r It
Uoriii'l KjilliHfl- on.
Englishmen have some reason to feel
aggrieved nt the fact that nn necessary nn
item of tho domesticity nsskewcrs should
bo sent every year in immense quantities
from America; and the advocates of fair
trade may hold that the circumstance of
our being mainly indebted for our sup
ply of skewers to foreign imiorts, admit
ted, free, is an additional argument in
favor of some degree of protection, l'ut
ing, however, fiscal questions altogether
on one side, it would seem to be entirely
within the lilnessof thing that the Amer
icans should be exceptionally skillful
fabricators of skewers. It is not only
that they have an abundant variety of
hard woods in their forests ; that one of
their recent 1'residonts dwelt originally in
a log cabin, and thnt Abraham Lincoln,
the most illustrious of their Chief Magis
trates since Washington, originally fol
lowed the useful but unpretending occu
pation of a rail spli'tcr.
They can do something else besides
hewing, chopping, and splitting timWr,
or polishing planks of butternut or bird's
rye maple into handsome, panels for tho
embellishment of s'eeping cars'. They can
"whittle." They have taken tho noun
substantive desoriptivo of the knife used
by (Jul th, the son of Beowulf, and turned
it into a verb. When tho "smart"
American needs a little mental repose he
bestows himself in a rocking chair, ele
vates his heels, if practicable, to an anglo
of 4.) degrees above his head, lights a
cigar, orders a mint julep or a brandy
smash, according to tho seasou, produces
Ids clasp knife, aud liegius to "whittle."
With exquisite neatness and dexterity ho
will pnre and round and sharwn any
thing ligneous which is handy, from an
oakeu cudgel to an ofHco ruler, from a
lied post to a bootjack, to tho required
form.
There was a champion wood attenu
ntoroticeat Oshkosh, Wis., who would
back himself heavily with a given num
ber of minutes to whittle a walking stick
down to a tooth pick. Such nn achieve
ment, however, must bo looked upon ns
only a "fancy" one, and would iuvolvo
tho loss of much valuable timber. The
majority of the wooden splints whittled
by the Americans iu their leisure mo
ments intimately tvscmblo those abom
inable little imple nents of boyish pas
time and mischief employed in the popu
lar but perilous English street game
known as "tipcat." The transition from
the diminutive projectile used as tip cat
tor a butcher's of poulterer skewer is
very easy, and may lm extremely rapid,
and it is far from improbable that sonio
cutely speculative dealer in notions,
struck with the large number of whittled
Bpliiita which were produced and the few
uses to which they wore turned, deter
mined to send a cargo of them as skewers
to tho British Isles. London Telegraph,
The Country's Wood ProdtirU.
Among the special reports of the Cen
sus Bureau ono of tho latest is devoted to
statistics of tho wood production of tho
United States in 1890. The bulletin in
question embraces nearly all tho indus
tries in which wood is tho principal ni!V.
terial. Of these industries there are 171
shingle factories, 80 cooperage establish
ments, and 1G8 in which materials for
wagons and agricultural implemeuU,
chair legs, axles, chests, and other articles
of wood are produced. Of tho planing
mills only such are, included in this buH
letin as come in connection with the saw
mills. Within this limitation the statis
tics show that of the wood products of
tho mills the valuo was $115,009,000; of
wood products not worked in the mills,
030,426,194, and of products in more fin
ished forms. $21,112,018 making a grand
total of $107,237,81(1.
For the production of these value? a
capital of $270,152 102 is omployed, with
an army of 05,253 men n, 104 women
and children cutting timber in the woods,
and aided by 33,491 draught animals. In
the mills is required the labor of 87,939
men and 1.299 women and children. Tho
bulletin gives full statistics of the stoam
and water power, machinery, and me
chunical apparatus, railroads, and tram
ways employed in these industries. For
wages and salaries the expenditure last
year was $99,0SH,258. Tho report shows
the growing tendency to concentration
of the wood industries nnd economy of
production by working the raw material
into finished forms at points located as
nearly as possible to the foroata in which
the lumber may be cut.
In tho three grentest lumber States tho
increase of production within the last 10
years was : Wisconsin, 170 jier cent ; for
Minnesota, 159.0 jor cent, and for Michi
gan, 80 per cent. In iortions of Michigan
the forest supply of timlier has been al
most completely exhausted, while in
other portions different kinds of timber
in placo of the vanished pines is worked
into a great variety of products. Tho
city of Menominee, in Michigan, shows
the greatest increase in woo I production
in tho last 10 years.
A Illatoriv Stnns Wrmlng Out.
There is danger that the historic slab
of brownstono which lies nt tho foot of
tho big statue of Washington in front of
tlie subtreasury building iu Wall street
will bo worn out unless an iron railing is
put around it. Scores of ponplo stand
on it nnd walk over it almost every day.
This particular slab formed u part of tho
stone baluony of tho old Federal Hall
where Washington took his first oath of
olfico as President. The present location
of tho stono is supposed to mark the
p'ace where Washington stood on that
memorable occasion.
A large proportion of thn hundreds of
oightseekers who visit Wall street very
naturally pause in front of the groat
bronze figure on the subtreasury steps.
They read tho inscription on the front of
the pedestal which informs thom of the
character and significance of the statue.
Then they climb upon the pedestal and
stand on the slab of brownstono in order
that in after years they may be able to
relate to their children and their chil
dren's children how they once "stood 00
exactly the same spot that Washington
occupied when he took the oath as th
first President of the United States.
New York Times.
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for only a little less than the genu
ine it isn't worth one-half as much.
The fact that Horse Blankets
are copied is strong evidence
that they arc THE STANDARD,
and every buyer should see that
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