Show GENTILITY stop a mend in the street particularly on a very cold day and hold on to his coat button till he gets the chills and ague far the purpose of making a little enquiry about your own affairs which you could have done in some more C comfortable place quite as well we are aware of ef the objections that may be raised against the warm quick tanning of CO 60 or 90 0 days and of the high encomiums which may be passed on the 3 and 7 year cold f rosty frosty bath that some of the fathers have been accustomed to but much as we respect age we have no time at present to listen to a seven years oratorical submerge of ox hide in a frost vat to keep our toes warm next winter any more than we have tune time to send a bushel of corn to mill in one end of the bag and a great stone in the other end to balance it because great grandfather did so a thousand years vears before we were born no we want the leather as quick as it can be made and there is enough time to make it before another foreign importation can be had tanners ers will you furnish it if you will we will pay you for font it let all stick sticklers klers lera for cold tan draw their tea and coffee in cold water and we shall certainly believe them sincere in their tanning philosophy phi loso phy and yet their sincerity would not prove their principles right any more than it did sauls when he stoned the apostles for the tannin must be ext extracted ranted fron from the bark before it enters the skin to form leather as much as M the virtue of the tea and coffee have to be extracted before they constitute a beverage to be drank and so much longer as it takes the colci cold water over the warm to extract that tannin virtue or stimuli so much time is lost in manufacturing the leather and astill greater proportion 0 oe time would be necessary to fil file the pores of the hide in the cold ooze than in the warm for the warm can be made much stronger and there will be about as irrean differ |