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PROFESSIO A AL V. I RPS.
jyn. I*. CAM I* HWLL,
DENTIST,
McDonough, Ga.
Any one desiring work done can He ac
commodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
Gko V. Bryan j W.T. Diokkn.
BRYAN & IUCKUN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
■he Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the United States District
Court. a P ra7 -Q
j AS. 51. TIiRNRR,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
court. marits-iy
P .5. «»', UIA N,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
McDoNOuon, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of t.eorgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
Thk Weekly olliee.
j F. XV AM.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
given to collections. octs-’79
yy A. BROWN,
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice ii#all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
J| A. PHUPIjUS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court of the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tiongivento Collections, Oet 8, 1888
Jwo. D. Stewart. | It. T. Daniel.
STEWART & DiTiSKI.,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Griffin, Ga.
(|li. It. .1. AltAOl.lt,
Hajuton. Ga.
I hereby tender mv professional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all cal’s night and
day.
LA n VA 111).
I have opened a law office in Atlanta, but
will continue my practice in Henry countv,
attending all Courts regular'y, as heretofore.
Correspondence solicited. Will be in Mc-
Donough on all public days.
Office—Room si(>, Gate City Bank Build
ing, Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
JOHN L TYE.
January Ist, 1885.
ALL
Notes and accounts of 1). KNOTT & CO.,
must be settled now. Please call on me at
ttc old stand and find out your in chted
ness. We need the money and know that
you cannot censure us forgiving this, our
last warning. SI. 0, LOWE,
'fax Notice —Second Round.
Hampton, Monday Oct. 528
Sixth, Tuesday “ :>!)
Stockliridge, Wednesday “ 30
SiTake Rag. Thursday “ 31
Brushy Knobb, Friday Nov. 1
Loves’. Saturday “ 9.
Tussahaw, Monday •* 4
McDonough. Tuesday “ 5
McMullen’s, Wednesday •* <>
Berslieba, Thursday “ 7
Sandy Ridge, Friday •• 8
Locust Grove, Saturday “ 9
Lowes’, Monday “ 11
SOLOMON KING, T. C.
GKIFFIN FOUNMY
AND
Machine Works.
\\Te announce to the Public that we are
i V prepared to manufacture Engine Boil
ers ; will take onh rs for all kind* of Boil
ers. We are prepared to do all kinds of
repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin
ery, generally. We keep in stock Brass
fittings of all kind-: also Inspirators, In
jectors, Safety Valves. Steam Guages,
Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
Castings of every Description.
OS HO UN A WALCOTT.
A RAII.ROAD FIGHT; A
-
Sy Lake Sharp.
Of course everybody knows that in>>\
aud then the giuat railroads fight Ja h
othel The contest is generall krtown
as “cuttlbw rates.” This story of a rail
road struggle and how it ended, war
told to me t>y a railroad man who knew
what he was talking about, and as it
inteiested me I thought perhaps i'
might interest other folks. So hero it is:
The two great railways interested
were the A., B. it C. line and ih« X.,
Y. & Z .roud, both, as everybody know s
running pretty much all over the
try, but with their main terminal pojjjP
at Chicago and New York. Ore-day,
witliout any warning, the X., Y. nPifc.!
railway be, an to cut rates on freight
betweou Chicago at d New Y'ork. The
A., B. & C. liue is n very conservative
road, and never likes to enter into a
fight unless it is r reed into it. and so
fo(t ten daks the president of fiat road
did nothing. But during tluu'i:tne there
came into him reports from his agents
at Chicago and in the west generally,
which showed thar the A., B. A: C. was
really doing no business, except run
ning passenger trains. As it. had not
nfet the cut the freight was going over
the X,Y. & Z. road. The president
}iad to do something. Accordingly ten
days after the X , Y. & Z. railroad bad
made its cut, the A., B. & C. road cut
down to the same price on through
freight as the X., Y. & Z. railway.
Next day the X , Y. & Z. came down
a point further, and so the president of
the A., B. A C. road saw that he was
in for a fight. He called his lieuten
ants together and placed the case be
fore them. He didn’t want to fight, he
said, but it was either fight or lose all
the business. The advice of his lieu
tenants was to fight to the hi ter end.
The president said that the road had
now a surplus of $1,800,000. That sur
plus had been put away the year be
fore after paying the usual dividend.
As business had been going, a like sur
plus would be put away this year un
less the fight was too protracted, and
so the road had practically about $3,-
000,000 in cash to lose in a railway
fight before its dividends were touched.
It was agreed to go ahead and blow in
the $3,000,000. The president then
had a long consultation with the traffic
manager, and he fouud out exactly
what it cost to move a ton of freight
from Chicago to the sea. The next cut
that the A„ B. & C. made paralyzed
the X., Y. & Z road. They cut down
quite a distance under the actual cost
of carrying a ton of freight from Chi
cago to New Y'ork. Then he sent or
der No. Ito Ins men in Chicago. Or
der No. 1 was, “No freight is to be
taken by the A., B. & C. road except
by the chief of the department.” Or
der No. 2 was to the beads of the de
partments, aud it said substantially this:
“You are given a vacation until fur
ther orders. Keep within telegraphic
communication of your olliee.” One
smart head of a department in Chicago
wrote to the eastern office and said:
“Do you people understand what v u
are doing? Orders Nos. 1 and 2 < oii*
flict with each other. Y'ou say in No.
1 that no freight is to be received ex
cept by me, and in No, 2 you give me
a vacatiou. What’s the matter with
you?”
The answer to this note was suave
»nd mild as milk. It said :
Dear Sir: —The chances are that
we do not know how to run the A., 15.
& C. iailroal, and doubtless the time
will come when the stockholder will
appreciate that and call you to attend
to the management. But meanwhile,
a vacation will do you good. Take
your fishing rod or gun, or paper-bound
novel anil a hammock, but he where
we can call on you when you are want
ed. Thanking you for your advice re
lative to orders Nos. 1 and 2,
We remain.
Yours truly,
J. I’. Eukioiitcak,
Traffic manager.
The young man took Ins vacation
without any further protest.
When people came to send freight
by the A., 15. &0. road they were
met by the unfortunate, dilemma that no
body could lake ireight except the
head of the department, and the head
of the department was »wav and it
wasn’t known postively when he would
return. Business men said this was a
nice state of things and’that they would
take their freight over to the X., Y. A
Z. road. The clerks in the A , 15. A
C. offices were very polite imk <1 ann
very sorry indeed, but they didn’t
know what to do under the circum
stances, and so the freight went over to
the other road.
Meanwhile on the A., 15. & C. rail
road there was a quiet time. Freight
locomotives were sent to round houses
and were thoroughly gone over and
repaired and fixed in good shape for
the time, when freight trains would be
running again. Men were put on the
roadbed and the track was made even
more perfect than it had been before.
There were general repairs all along
the line. No communication had come
to the piesident of the X., Ik & Z.
road from the president of the rival
line, lie had a bad quarter of an hour
with his traffic manager. • tie f .uud
that the road was simply blocked up
with freight, and that on the freight
they were taking they were not only
uot making any profit- but were losing
[on every ton that was carried from
Chicago to the -eaport. while their
great rival- were having a good time in
irepaiiing the rolling stock,
i Then a communication came from
| the president of the X., Y. Cs Z road
to the president oi' the A . B. A C.
road. Uc asked if there rea
sou that the fight should be continued
longer. The jresiden: of the A., B A
C. road blauoly replied that he hadn't
McDonough, ga.. it tssu.
begun it. This was the beginning of
negotiations. The next day freight '
rates went up to their usual figure and
the fight was ended. Not a dollar of
|he $3,000;000 hud been touched. The
railroad which did not begin the fight
was in b< tter condition than ever for
•asrying freight. The road that did
begin it hail lost a'good deal of money,
thrown itself all ont of gear, accumu
lated freight that would take some
weal’s to get jhibped io where it was
intended, audaif all iu all, if anybo v
regretted the fight, it was not the.
president of the A., B. & C. railroad.
Tii-ihoi-iow Yon Die.
•PKat, drink.merry 1” “Van
fffiy of \anhies, awiall is vanity!”
Tne pastes irretrievable, ,and no one
can doubt, that the_ immediate or re
mote future is hWßbruno to ' exequtu
up ii every pne 5r ns the edghtfin
doom of all the sickness,-
disappointment, persecution even,
encroach tnoio and wore ~-s the nays g 6
by upon the always limited hours of
enjoyment, unrill, from natural causes
alone, the zest of the healthful and un
reflecting youth is gradually displaced
by the growing distaste f-r the unsat
isfying iruits and pursuits of the a\or
ago lite. The taste of ashes is already
in the mouth. Yet there have been,
and perhaps still are, many profession
al moralists (by a blasphemous mis
nomer commonly styles divines) who
seem to feel it their special mission,
like the locusts sent upon Egypt, to
swarm over the laud devouring every
gieen thing—whoso morbid enuncia
tions arc calculated to dry up the foun
tains of innocent pleasure, aud to keep
the soul in a fever of pertuubation and
apprehension until the once blooming
gardens of the soul are left parched
and barren like oriental lands swept
by the burning Sirocco.
What wonder then, to escape the
contemplation of the fearful prospect
thus presented, man everywhere turns
to the transient delights and illusive
joys ol the presents as the only refuge?
The pulpit thunders “Thou art dust!
an atom, and thy name is transition !”
And nature confirms it. What shall
I he do ? As the ship goes down will he
not burst into the spirit room and drink
oblivion ? Thus in all ages and all
climes he has sought for Mandragora,
Poppy, Hasheesh —something, anything
to yield 'orgetfuliness of inevitable
fate and produce a present evanescent
bliss.
St Was » IMot.
A stranger entered a well-known
saloon on Woodward avenue the other
day, and after imbibing a weak drink
he said to the proprietor :
“i wffut to wait here a few minutes
| for a man who borrowed some mo cy
i of me.”
He was motioned to a chair, and
j when an hour had passed away he was
iasked :
“Are you a stranger in the city?”
“Y'es, sir.”
“Did you lend money to a stranger
to vou ?”
“1 did.”
“How much?”
“Forty dollart.”
“Humph ! Undei what circum
stances ?”
“.Said he hail a freight bill to t ay
and couldn’t get into the bank - He
gave me this check for S2OO to hold as
security. Said he’d meet me here at
II o’clock.”
“My filend, you have been bam
boozled.”
“No 1”
“Y'es, you have. That is the old
freight bill dodge. That check is
worthless, and you’ll never see the man
again.”
“But I can’t believe that. lit: looked
honest and talked straight.”
“So they all do. Sorry for you, but
you must read the papers.”
“Say ! I don’t pretend to be awfully
smart, but I’ll bet that chap was hon
est.”
“Y'ou will. What’ll you bet ?”
“Even twenty. 1 do honestly believe
he will come here by 11 o’clock and
pay the money.”
Ihe bet was taken, the money put
up, arid the greenhorn sat down to
wait. At live minutes of 11 a man
came iu, handed, him 810, expressed
his thanks, and took the check and
placed it in his wallet.
“1 told you he was honest,” said the
greenhorn as he reached for the stakes.
They were handed over, but half an
hour later, after much serious thought,
the bartender suddenly slapped his leg
aud exclaimed:
“I see throagh it now 1 They c ere
pals, ot course !”
Cork-screws have sunk more people
than cork-jackets will ever save.
IS© lia# Ciplaliicd.
“M y wife, Mr. Perkins,” said the
hnsband across the aisle of the street
car.
“Ah! Glad to see you. Mrs. Win
ters. YVhv, how you have changed in
two w«>eks.”
“Changed? No one else has spoken
of it,” she blankly replied.
“Why, when I saw you with your
husband at the thearer two weeks ago
to-i.ight’you seemed to be a girl of
about 18.”
“At the theater! Y'ou—vou—
yu !”
Her husband had been winking and
winking, but near sighted Mr. Perkins
had seen nothing. The wife settled;
back, figured it out that she was home |
alone with the toothache that night,'
and the fiozeu stare she turned on her
husband as they got off, covered the
platform with a glare of ice. Bhe has]
ask for explanation* ere this.
I AII XV FOTYONf ■ YI*\AT.
% MuithAliAllaß Vmmu- I»ii«-
i ii" ('ofton siiJi! W|r Ji-
OUt I.?•*».’ If
||ML «jjjPPljjv
Cn Vi&t-aTON, S. i.
PSpt-cianj^■ v»s comes from
burg, one of the best cotW.i«jti ving
counties of this stfte. of a new sutton
plant, vvhicln ifjj it if as dubne). will
make a wouduiwjj Jovofetfioti Dn the
agricultural and eet'fuji oil inten t* of
the nation. T, Ferguson, mt -J-.peri
enced cotton pi. niter, clwhps to, lave a
cotton plant which will prodm ( noth
ing but cotton seed without tie lint.
His statement is briefly follows:
lie claims that there is-’u rtjl.it! and
female cotton plant—die niaV beiuu
.designated, he thinks by the r« cal 1 s
The seeds are vari colored, Hu shad 's
being generally blue, green anfl white,
ami of-couiSOa cwmol be disrwdy spo
wffled- Given |uUjact, Fwto m com
menecd, syrne to ,/*!.. u' ike
ulfttßprtn 1 vffiii the Sf I ''jpftract
od from them planted mV lift patch
separately . When the crap ms ready
for picking, the male plants p .-re again
selected and the product!th'* <if seeds
planted separately again. Tjrs process
of selecting the male plants was kept
until at last the lint refusud to germi
nate aud nothing is left lit the bolls
save a largo amount ol The
amoaut of seed contained (n the boll
is more than equal to tho|. weight of
the lint and seed found in the average
sized boll of cotton. Fori ik on claim
that ho can produce four lull tired bush
els of seed to the acre by th|> new dis
covery, where only thirty-five bushel*
are now gathered with the l lint. He
has been very careful in producing the
results given above —to obhterate all
vestige of lint from aboil ofc|tton —aud
has succeeded iu a most jemarkable
manner. Other experiences planters
have been shown Ferguson’s* new dis
chvery and are much struck With it.
An expert, who was shown the plant
and bolls, said the boll Ins dm appear
ance, both on the exterior rad the in
terior, of a regular boll of cotton after
the lint lias been picked out. The
seed are a little larger than- the com
mon seed and are perfectly, froe from
any semblance of lint. Thb bolls are
filled with these seed, which are as
numerous as okra seed in a pod of
okra. The revolution that will he ef
footed bv this new cotton plant, if it
can be cultivated successfully, will be
beyond calculation. If Ferguson's cal
culations are correct, the cotton oil bus
iness will he entirely revolutionized.
The planters who now rains cotton are
fortunate if they can make 200 pounds
of lint cotton to the acre. Counting
the virtue of cotton seed at SSO an acre
I F considered a big return planters
iu this state. Ferguson claims that his
new cotton seed plant wiU yield at
least 880 an acre. This amount he
says will hdfebtainod from 400 bushels
of cotton seed at twenty cents per
bushel, that being the present price
paid for the raw seed. The state
agricultural bureau will investigate the
matter.
AS an, a meant of l*rcy.
No, we will not go squirrel hunting
this year. We have been reflecting
on the matter and have concluded that
the destruction of happy, innocent
lives should not be regarded as sport.
The little hearts that beat beneath the
velvet coats of the gay and frisky
denizens of the forest are just as sus
ceptible to joy and pain and terror as
those that throb within our own breasts.
Tney arc all God's creatures, and
have a right to life, liberty and pursuit
of happiness. llow few of us think of
the tens of thousands of animals that
must die daily that man may live.
Man, ilie arch devourer, the murder
ous and remorseless tyrant.
“ The whole earth labors and is in
violence because of his cruelties ami
from the amphitheater of sentient na
ture there sounds in fancy’s ear the
bleat of one wide and universal suffer
ing—a dreadful homage to the power
of nature’s constituted L>rd” Man
is pre eminent among the fiercest ani
malsofprey. Not content with satis
fying his luxurious appetite, this most
ferocious, ingenuous and implacable of
the carnivora, who revels hi flesh and
blood with gluttonless glee, also makes
a sport of the destruction of life.
When he wants a day off—a day of
pleasure and rec esti«n—he goes forth
to the woods, and, with the fierceness
of the hyena, watches for his prey.
The savage beasts of the jungle on
ly destroy liie when hunger or fear
drives them to it, hut man, the image
of his maker, kills for -port —for the
mere gratification it affords him to take
life. If animals have souls, as many
good and wise men believe, what must
the departed spirits of the slaughtered
hosts think oi the proud princes of
creation who stalk rampant amid the
blood -md groans and agony of their
fellow creatures.
A good deed is never lost: he who
sows courtesy reaps friendship ami ho
who plants kindness gathers love.
Not Tor tJie Oil) Han.
“Any arsenic ?” softly asked the lit
tle woman as the druggist came forward
with his usual retail smile.
“Ye-’m.”
‘•l’d like to have a quarter’s worth,
please.”
“Yes’m. How are you going to ad
minister it ?”
“Why—why, on cheese or bread, L
suppose. Isn’t that the general way?”
“.Some give it in c iffee.”
“Why, rats don’t drink coffee, do
they ?”
“Oh ! it’s for rats, eh ? Then cheese
is the propel thing. ’ ’
IIK YV.VS A URC.tT NAN.
A man riding along a road carae up
on an old fellow who. loud in voice and
violent in action, w.i endeavoring to
start a balky team. Tho horseback
traveler, amused at tho old fellow’s
productive resources of strong adjec
tives, stopped, threw one leg over the
horn of his saddle, and without saving
anything sat watching the peiformation.
The covered wagon to which the team
was attached was the “mover's” typi
cal vehicle, with two chairs tied behind.
A woman, three children, a mule colt
and a dog belonged to the outfit.
“If l just had enough money to take
us fifty miles' I’d cut your infernal
throats !” the old fellow shouted as he
leaned for a moment’s rest on a piece
of rail with which he had been belabor
ing the horses. ' “You can pull out of
here easy enough, you infernal scoun
drels. Why, n jack rabbit and a sick
cat hitched up together could pull out
of here.”,
••Anderson," said the woman “why
don't v !>« bold some fodder bt’ftfiv
them •?”
“Gontound it, didn’t you seo mo do
that just awhile ago ?"
“Well why don’t you tick a pin in
their flanks ?”
“Haven’t you got any sense at all?
Didn’t vou see me stick ’em wit a darn
in’ needle jest now ? You better go
off somewhere an’uni with the suck
lit* ’ calves.”
“Thar's otic thing 1 know you ain’t
tried.”
“What’s that?”
“Twisting’ their under jaws.”
“I’ll twist your under jaws if you
don’t hush.”
The old fellow, turning about, ad
dressed the man on horseback. “How
long have you been watching me ?” 1m
Risked.
“Dou’r know exactly.” &
“Putty good while ?”
“Y'es.”
“Servin’ your second term, ain’t
you ?”
“Second term at what ?”
“Bein’ Governor of this State.”
*'l’tu not the Governor.”
“No. Wall you must bo' Secretary
of State.”
“I’m not however.”
“But you must be a great man of
some sort?”
“No; I’m simply a country mer
chant.”
“It’s mighty strange then.
“How strange ? 1 don't in the least
understand you. Why do you take me
to be a great man ?”
“Because a fellow what can set an’
watch a balked team and not offer any
suggestions must he great—in fact you
are the first man of that sort I ever did
see. You deserve greatness, anyhow.
I’ll tell yon chut and f letl it my duty
to do somethin' for you. I’ve got a
fine rifle and a good dog, aud they are
yourii if you’ll take them.”
“No, I thank you.”
“Here’s a $o bill, all the money I’ve
got, but you may have it.”
“I won’t take, it.”
“Weil I leel like givin’ you some
thin'. Say, you wouldn’t mind mo
namin’ a Hoy after you, would you ?”
■‘No.”
“All right, what's your name?”
“Worthington P. Billingsham.”
“Good enough. Becky!” he called.
“Y'es.” a woman answered.”
“Where’s the baby ?”
“In the wagon asleep.”
“Wall, wake him up an’ name him
after this man. Good-day, if you are
gone, mister. Don’t care if you don’t
held no office, you are the greatest man
I ever saw.”
From I'l'cmiiiit, >i- liruska.
1 had scrofula until it made my life
a burden, 1 was inexpressably misera
ble, sick, weak, sleepless, and unhappy;
desiring that the short time which
seemed to have been allotted to me on
this earth would hasten to an end. I
tried doctor’s treatment and medicine,
and travel, hut none of these did any
good, for the scrofula gradually grew
worse. One physurau, who 1
traveled far to see, and to whom I paid
$l5O, gave up the case as hopeless af
ter three weeks of treatment, and other
as prominent physicians tried hard to
cure it, but were equally as unsuc
cessful. I ’hen gave up all other med
icines, and took only Swift's Specific
(S. S. S.) Four bottles of that medi
cine cured me, and for the past four
■ years f have had as excellent health
and cm as free from disease us any
body living. Words are inadequate to
express toy gratitude and favorable
opinion of Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.)”
The above is an extract from a letter
wiitteu under date ef July 18, 1880,
by Mr. F. Z. Nelson, a prominent and
wealthy citizen of Fremont, Nebras
ka.
BK!\ ERUPTION CUR*I>.
One of my customers, a highly res
! peeled and influential citizen, but who
ji3 now absent fiom the city, has used
j Swift’* Specific, with excellent result,
i He says it cured him of a skin eruption
! that he had been tormented with for
! thirty years, and l ad resisted the cura
tive qualities of manv otln-r medicines.
Robert Glegg, Druggist, Falls city,
Neb.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
Swift Specifiic Co., Atlanta, Ga.
It W«iw 4* I-'uiiure.
A young and well-dressed man made
his exit from a Michagan avenue saloon
in such a singular fashion the other day
that a pedestrian halted to inquire:
••What are you trying te do ?”
Something that no one will ever Ire
able to successful!' accomplish, 1 fear
1 tried to get out on the toe of the bar
keeper’s boot without lettttig the out
side public into the secret, but you
caught on at a glance.
Metmton* Who "Inji'il Tonttli
looker.
Year ago Senators Jones, Vest,
Stow art and Cnnmrou wore playing a
game of poker one evening, and al
though the stake* were not high, the
company was good and it ran until long
after midnight. A few days afterward
Vest remarked to Jones;
“1 say, Jones, wasn’t that a nice
game tho other evening? Everything
went along so well and no one at the
game had to watch tho other three. I
like ft gentleman's game like that,
where you don’t, have to cut the cards
for a square deal.
Jones, wl-o is an incorrigible wag,
suddenly eonceivod the idea of having
some fun with Vest, so he manufactur
ed a story to Ta the occaaion.
“I'm glad you think so,” he said, but
Bill Stewart doesn’t have that idea of
it.” ,
“What!" said Vest quite seriously,
“do you mean to tell nm that Stewart
ihih'L ' there was cheating in that
game ?”
“That’s the idea lie conveyed to Ins
wife when ho reached home. She
spoke to me about it dav before yoster
day.”
“I’m real sorry to hear that,” said
Vest. -I feel hurt to hear ho felt that
he hadn’t lost his money on the square
thing.”
“1 feel the same way,” replied Jones.
“1 feel as if a thunder clap hud struck
tne ”
“Wlmt did he really say about it ask
ed Vest.
“Well, ho camo home about 3 o’clock
an. 1 , his wife noticed that his beard was
all covered with tobacco juice—a very
unusual thing for him—and she took
him to task for it. He said ho had
bean >‘u a senatorial poker game.
“ ‘Were there no enspidores in the
room ?’
“ 'Yes, plenty of ’em.’
“ ‘Couldn’t you turn from the cards
long enough to use them ?’
"‘No, my dear; notin such a game
as that.’ ”
A **l« Hi-Ulhli YFnr-Mhlp.
I’he new British war-ship, Royal
Sovereign, work upon which lias begun
at Portsmouth dock yard, will, it is
said, be tho largest war-ship the
world. The v- s-1 ts to be completed
for sea, with all guns and stores cn
board, by 1898. The Royal Sover
eign is one of the four armoured battle
ships of 14,000 toiiH burden which are
to he built under the special programme.
She is to carry four 67-lon guns of
thirteen and one half-inch caliber, ar
ranged in two barbettes and supported
by a powerful batiory of six inch and
quick firing guns.
The Royal Sovereign will be 380
feet in lengrTi, 7f> lent in beam, and
twenty seven and one fiaif feet in
draught, with a displacement of 14,150
tons. She will far exceed in weight
any ship hitherto built for the British
navy. At the waterline she will be
protected by an armor belt eight and
one-half feet broad, extendingovor two
thirds of her length, and having a max
imum thickness of eighteen inches. The
armor on tho barbettes will he seven
teen inches thick, while tho protection
of tho guns and their crews in the aux
iliary armament as well as the ammuni
tion supply has been devised to meet
the development in high explosives and
quick-firing guns. Tho ship’s engines
will have a maximum power of 13,000
horses under forced draught aud 9,000
under natuial draught. Tho speed
with closed stokeholes is estimated at
seventeen knots an hour; with open
stokeholes at sixteen knots an hour;
The coal supply of the Roy
al Sovereign will be 900 tons, enabling
her torcruiso 5,000 miles at the rate of
ten knots an hour.
ISiiiiit-l AVi-bsler’s Advice In His
Nl-pllr w .
Daniel Webster was an uncle by
marrrmge to the late Albert Living
ston Kelly, one of the first lawycn
who practiced in Waldo county. The
great statesman always took an inter
est in his nephew and visited him when
ho came to Maine. A correspondent
oi the Bang r Historical Magazine says
that a remark which Mr. Webster
made on a visit m 1835, left an abiding
interest in the rtlind of Mr. Kelly, and
perhaps largely influenced him never
to accept political office. One evening
Mr. Webster said, “Albert, do you
huv ■ any concern with politics?’’
■ No,” he replied, 'iny time is wholly
absorbed iu my professional practice
and private business.” “1 am glad to
hear you say that,” replied Mr. Web
ster, “arid I advise you not to. If I
were to live my life over again, I would
have nothing to do with politics, for
however successful you may be, you
will encounter a fire in front from your
palitical enemies, snd in the rear from
your political friends.” This language
was the more remarkable from the fact
that Mr. Webster was then at the bight
of his fame as an orator and states
man.
The worst feature about catarrh is
its dangerous tendency to consumption.
Hood'B Sarsaparilla cures catarrh by
purifying the blood.
<»!vr Him 4x1,111
The Indiana husband who walked
away from borne twenty-six years ago
aud returned the other day to see his
wife re-married, and to raise a row'
about it, should be given a lift out ol
the country on the too of a boot. A
wife may let her husband roam around
for five or ten years without asking any
questions, but if left much longer than
that she has a legal right to look out
for herself.
THE MAI* KIHU OTTO.
One of tho saddest spectacles wliick
is possible to couceive is that
presented by the prisoner of
Furstenried, the mad King of Bavaria.
Tall and almost as gigantic in stature
as his brother, the Into King Ludwig,
his appearance is sufficient to startle
any one whQ sees him for the first time.
11 is hair is long and uukempt, and his
bushy brown beard reaches down be
low his waist. There is a kind of wierd
wild look in his eyes, the gaze of which
remains steadfastly fixed straight ahead
into empty space.
For hours he will stand, gesticulate
wildly and talk to tho imaginary per
sons created by his fantasy, and then
again, for days together, he will remain
in such a state of lothargy and lifeless
ness that his physicians become afraid
that ho will pass awsy without even
their becoming aware of it. All day
long, except when overcome by one of
his hi weekly or tri-weekly flti of
apathy, ho will puff away at cigarettes,
of which he smokes almost 100 a day.
His consumption of matches is still
greater, for whenever he lights a fresh
cigarette ho delights in bnrning op the
entire box of lncifers, and in seeing the
whole bundle blaze op at once.
Tho apartments which he inhabits
are all situated on the gronnd floor and
arc magnificently lurnished, and the
strictest orders prevail ta the effect that
all doors should he loft wide open
throughout tho day. If King Otto
happens by any chance to coma across
a closed door he immediately falls into
a kind of epileptic and maniac fury,
and seeks to dash it down with his still
powerful fists. It is, moreover, im
possible to indnee him to permit him
self to ho bathed, and he displays an
almost hydrophobic antipathy for
water. 110 likewise absolutely refuses
to enter any cariiago, and displays
signs of terror whenever any efforts
are made to indnee him to enter one
for the purpose of taking a drive.
It is impossible to predict bow much
longer he may live. lie may drag on
his prosont miserable existence for
years ; while, on tho other hand, it is
likely that tho failure of tho natural
functions of the body may bring on a
malady which will eauj him off in a
few days. As his madness is of an al
together incurable nature, his death can
only bo regarded in the light of a hap
py release.
Hear NhoeriwK >■ <■*!*•
I was once present at a great fair at
the capital town. While at its height
a hear was viewed on the neighboring
hillside. I hurried np with my rifle
and shot him from above betwson the
shoulders, hut, instead of dropping, he
rushed headlong into tho middle of the
fair and squatted in a bush. The peo
ple foolishly crowded round ami so pre
vented my getting a shot. Presently
he rushed forth, and, passing a giain
dealer’s shop, he gavo tho owner a slap
on tho face and passed on, but that slap
took out a semicircle of his jaw with
seven teeth attached. The man’s ner
ves were so little affected that ho pros-,
on ly hold np the pieco of jaw for our
inspection when we visited him at the
hospital, and he was at his work again
in a fow days.
Too hear was soon dispatched after
he left the poor grain dealor. Though
tho deadly wound 1 gave the bear fail
ed to stop him. I was more fortunate
with another bear which I got a shot at
going at full gallop, and I rolled him
over at one shot, so that ho nevor mov
ed again. Tie was a big one, but doub
led up just like a rabbit.
Stalking bear* is just a trifle tame,
as they are so easily approached and
afford so largo a mark, but driving them
is more exciting. T here is all the ex
citement of noiso and numbers, and it
is more difficult, of course, to hit them.
In the Himalayas we had some wonder
ful spots for bear driving. In one
drive ten bears were secured.
A quaint old plantar nsod to join ns
in these battlos. Fie had a perfect ar
mory of gans and rifles, bnt none of
them modern or precise. Fl# used to
take his blacksmith out With him, who
would, or. the spot, adjust the bullets
to the required gauge, and hammsr
them homo when a tight fit! His
many and erratic weapons caused us
more anxiety than tho bears. Ho had
a way as claiming as his trophies all
that wwe shot. He could not tell, I
suppose, what he had not hit 1
An Irish corporal, who now and
then indulged in a noggin of right po
teen, was thus accosted by his captain,
whilst standing at ease : -Pat, what
makes your nose so red ?” “Please
yer honour,” said Pat, “I always blush
when I spakes to an officer man.
Just Hhat Ho Feared.
A Cinciunati la ly who found herself
forty-two calls behind hand, and being
in despair of ever being able to pay
them up, took laudauunrhnd died. We
feared this sort of thing long ago. In
this case she should have had her hus
band die and invited all her creditors
to the funeral. That would, according
to etiquette, have squared all accounts.
A wise colored man is quoted as say
ing : “Pears to mo like dar was some
kind of misdecomposition in all dis talk
about babies cuttin’ de teef. Do way
I look at it, it’s de teef cuttin’ de ba
bies.”
Xio Nmoklng Car Heeded.
It was noticed by msny who jour
neyed to Philadelphia to attend the
late convention of tho United Society
of Christian Endeavor that no smoking
cars were called for on the longest
trains.
NO- 29.