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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. VOL. XIV. ptBM POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of parity, Rtrcngth and whoN somenees. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot he sold in competition w ith the mul titude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate ponders. Sold only in cans. Uoyal Hakim* Fowijkii Co., loti Wall street, New York. novl3-lv I'R O JFESSIOX A / VA UDS. I|tt. <». **. f t 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 eash, unless special arrangements are otherwise made. Geo W.Bkyan j W.T. Dicken. MRYAiti A IHCKI^i attorneys at raw, McDonough. Ga. Will practice in the counties composing ho Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. apr27-lv | AS. SJ. Ti K>S'.K, attorney at law, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States Distnct Court. marlti - | y P .1. RtIAGAN, attorney at law. McDonough, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia Special attention given to commercial and other collections. Will attend all the Courts at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over The Weekly office. | I'. H lI.Ii, attorney at law, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing l he Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia, i'rompt attention given to collections, octfi- 711 -yy A. BROIVN, * attorney at law, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in all the counties compos ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and ti ■ ■ United States District Com-?. janl-lv JJ A. PEEPLES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hampton, Ga, Will practice in-all the counties jßoniposini: the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supftvme Court of Georgia and the Disirict Court oi the United States. Special • “Prompt atten tion given to ColK-cti..ii ße,ect 't 8, 1888 Jno. D. Stbwart. | R.T. Daniel. RTEWART & DA.XIEL ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Griffin, Ga. r *«. It. .3. iIIAOJ.D. Hampton. Ga. I hereijv tender my professional service to the people of Hampton and suiTonmliii;: country. Will attend all cal’s night and I day. JjA tf CAKI). i have opened a law office in Atlanta, but will continue my practice in Henry county, attending all Courts regular’*-, as heretofore. Correspondence solicited. Will lie in Mc- Donough on all public days. Oilice—Room 20. Gate City Bank Build ing, Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga. JOHN L. TYE. January Ist, 1885. ALL Notes and accounts of D. KNOTT & CO., must he settled now. Please call on me at the old stand and find sut your indebted ness. We need the money and know that vou cannot censure us for giving this, our last warning. M. C. LOWE, Tux Jiufiec —Second lb uml. Hampton, Monday ' Oct. 28 Sixth, Tuesday “ 21) Stockbridge, Wednesday “ 30 Shake Rag, Thursday • “ 31 Brushy Kuobb, Friday Nov. t Loves’. Saturday “ 2 Tussa haw, Monday “ 4 McDonough, Tuesday * “ 5 McMullen’s, Wednesday “ fi Bersheba, Thursday “ 7 Sandy Ridge, Friday “ 8 Locust Grove, Saturday “ !* Lowes’, Mondav “ 11 ' SOLOMON KING, T. C. GRIFFIN FOUNDRY AND Machine Works. 11 Te announce to tV - Public that we are It prepare! to Manufacture Engine Boil ers ; will take or.!, rs lor all kind: of Boil ers. We are prepared to do all kinds ol repairing on Kr • s, Boilers and Machin ery, generally. We keep in stock Brass fittings #f all kinds; also Inspirators, In jectors, Safety Valves, Steam Guages, Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass Castings of evorv Description. OS no UN A WALCOTT. TO BRIDGE Till: I'UA.VXX. A .lew I’l npiisition for Co meet ing England and f ranee. A great steel bridge across the E - glish Channel is projected. The bridge will stretch over the shallowest and narrowest part of the channel between Cape Oiis Nez and Folkestone, and will he supported by columns resting on the bottom of the sea. The amount of metal and machinery to be provide d would represent an aggregate weight of about 1,000,000 tons, the assunip tion being that each country will have to supply oue-haif of this amount. Re- Larding the cost of the work a rough calculation gives, with reasonable cer tainty, 380,000,000 francs for the ma sonry supports and 480,000,000 francs for the metallic superstructure —in all, 800.000,000 f., or £34,400,000. The time required for the undertaking may be fixed at about ten years. The whole of the pillars will occupy a little, over one-twelfth of the section of the chan nel. The distance between the piers, fixed at 500 and 300 nieteis lor the large spans, will not he less than 200 and 100 meters respectively for the 1 small ones, and will he sufficient to prevent their proving on obstacle to the free navigation of sailing vessels. As lor tile metallic superstructure, the metal columns firmly placed upon the platforms of the supporting piers of masonry are of a distinctly cylindrical shape, and vary in bight be,ween 40 and 42.78 meters, and on them will he placed the main girders of the bridge. There will thus be between the low er part of the beams and the level of the sea at low watei a free space varying in hight between 61 and 63 78 meters, which hight at high water will be re duced to 54 and 56.78 meters, respec tively. This hight is amply sufficient for the passage of vessels of w hatsoever description or tonnage. Ry placing the flooring upon vertical cylindrical columns the minimum hight of 54 me ters is kept throughout tliejwhole width of the span, a result not achieved in the bridge over the Forth. The girders are to be simple, unlaticed and trussed, so as to insure the proper distribution of all stresses. The level of the perma nent way is 72 meters above the low water level. There will be a double set of rails, and the width of the floor ing proper will be eight meters. The width of the bridge is variable, the greatest distance being between the axes of the main girders, 25 meters, a space necessary to insure the stability of the structure under the action of violent gusts of wind. The roadways are of the ordinary width of 15 meters between the axes and the rails, the lat ser set in grooves to obviate accident. The floor, made of ribbed sheet iron, is lo cover the bridge throughou its length so as to make every part acces sible to the men appointed for its su pervision. Between and outside the roadways pavements are provided for the men to stand on, and thus keep out of the way of passing trains. On the flooring may be set up refuges, stations for the guards, signal-hozes, switches, etc. All these arrangements can he multiplied according - to the require ments ot the traffic, and scattered over any covenient points and spans on the piers. Lighthouses may be erected to indicate obstacles to be avoided. The various kinds of lights used in light houses may also serve to indicate to shippers the distanee from the Oolbart and Varne banks. To meet military ob jections arrangements could he'made for making the span at either end of the bridge unfit for use; the two end spans, notably, which are in contact with the .abutments, might be remova ble or revolve. Reigning cats and dogs.—The pots of the famil.. biu;>ei->. ttin Mikw.oru. . If Moussa Ktfend. Khouri is right, the value of silkworms will soon he very much depreciated. 'I his gentle man is a Syrian and a native of Bey rou e For years lie has been trying to manufacture silk without the aid of silkworms, and now he claims that be has succeeded. He has patented liis invention in the east ami in all the countries of Europe. In this country he ha also filed an application for a patent. After studying fpr a long time the manner iu which silkworms do their work Moussa Efiendi Khouri came to the conclusion tha’ quite a fltg- sill: could be mode out ot the twigs and hark of the mulberry tree, as is made at present from the leaves.. He there fore experimented with the- baik and twigs, discarding the services of the worms altogether, and after years of labor he succeeded in producing a silk which has been pronounced by Europe an experts to be no whit inferior to the article manufactured by silkworms. Uongrafuliilory Telegram. “Is there a Mr. Johti'-on in this car ?” called the conductor, as he en teied a coach on a Lehigh Valley train and held up a telegram to view. “There is 1” replied three men in chorus, as they rose up. “lint this dispatch is for John -loan son. ” “That’s me!” replied two. of them, while the third looked ri ! : v i and sat down. “Which of you is married?” contin ued t e conductor. “I am 1” both answered. “Well, I think this is patch relates to the birth of twins at 'home and is congratulatory.” “That lets me out, t ank heaven !” exclaimed one Johnson, as he sat down to wipe his brow while the other flushed red and white for a moment amt then received the dispatch. McDonough, ga.. Friday.November,22, ishd. ‘•IIAAU" 11 HIKIN’ ISl* T. For many years “Ilank” Harris held tlie distinguishes! honor of being the oldest conductor on the Michigan Central road. Hu is now on the re tired list, but in his time he played many parts, and has a h st of stories about life on the road at his command. One of these stories he told to the: rotund and smiling •' ini Hitchcock —a man who can n t walk a block in Chi cago without stopping to shake hands ; with a score of friends—and Hitchcock repeats it. It appears that a freight conductor on some road down in south-, era Illinois once boarded Harris’ tiain. lie had neglected to obtain u pass, hut j he thought if lie told the conductor who and what he was he would have no trouble. When lie spoke to Harris the vetetan conductor said he was sorry, but that he must have a pass or he could not travel on his train. The man convinced him that he was really what lie represented himself to be, but Harris said : “1 know you’re all right, my friend, but Brown has given mb pstive orders in such cases.” The Blown he referred to was at that time an official of ibe road, and his will was law'. The jerk water conductor said lie would telegraph Brown, stating the case, and lie did at the next station. Harris received an answer instructing j him to pass the man; and he did so. | The next time he e tiled at Brown’s j office lie was told that he could in the future pass men whom he was con vinced were legitimate railroaders. On a hot and sultry day, not long afterward Harris’ train stopped at Jackson, Mich., and the old-time con ductor was approached on the platform by a poorly-clad trampish looking in dividual who tearfully begged a rids to Chicago. “You look like a good man.” he sard to Harri-, “and. 1 have been trying to get to Chicago to bury my wife, who recemly died there. 1 can’t j get a pass, hut 1 want to see her face I once more before she’s put under the sod.” This appeal touched Harris’ J heart. He was a family man himself. He believed the see fly chap’s story and jhe said to him : “You go forward and ! take a front seat in the smoker, I’ll fix | you all right.” The grateful fellow did as he was bid. When the train ; pulled out of Jackson Harris entered ! the smoker and paid no attention to the seedy chap. As it happened, Brown was in the car. He was enjoy ing a cigar and he noticed that Harris had passed a man wiio had boarded the train at Jackson. When Harris came along he stepped him and pointed the man out. "You didn’t get that fellow’s ticket,” he said, “Oh, he’s all rigi.t. You told me to pass him,” said Harris. Brown was dumbfounded. “I never told you to pass him.” tie protested, “Yes, you did,” said Harris. “At least you told me to pass any railroad man whom I was sure of.” Brown gazed at the seedy chap and asked : “is he a railroad man ?” Harris eai.l he was. “What does he do?” asked Brown. “He’s a conductor,” replied Harris. Brown was incredulous. “You don’t mean to tell »e that that tramp is a conductor,” he exclaimed. “Yes,” said Harris, and then he added : “You see, it’s like this —lie’s trying to dress on his salary. -Chicago Herald. •The "hole village of Poweltoa, Cell ter county, Fa., is advertised for sale. Strange A’l'iciidstiijihi Congrei*. You can look down from the gallery of either House on intimaccs between professed opponents. The ingenuous Air. Pickwick was not more astonished at the amiable relations of the oppos ing counsel in the great case of Burdell vs. Pickwick than is the average thick and thin ] artisan by the person! friendliness shown by the hottest ora tors on the floor for the b Idest leaders of the opposition. After listening to the blood-stiring invectives given and taken for In urs In? is surprised to see liis particular champion cross over the aisle which separates the republicans from the democrats and, leaning on h’s chief opponent’s desk, ask him some questions in a whisper vyhieh makes his bald head blush with laughter. Every body knows of the friendship between Garfield and Randolph Tucker, which even Guiteau’s bullet could not sever. Like tastes drew them together into :i mutual exchange which made both j richer. Each was appreciative of tine j other and both proud of their friend j ship. Everybody, t. o, knows liovy intimite j Senator Cameron and Senator Butler, of Sou:! •aid;- , arc. How li.ey j talk together in the Senate, lunch to- I getber, drive together, and hunt and j fish together, in closer lionds than either is witli any party friend. Alli | son’s friendship with Beck, and Reed’s with Randall, are perhaps, not so gen j orally known. Hawley has many friends on the democratic side, and so i have Sherman, Morrill, John P. Jones, Evarts, Aldrich, Hale. Sawyer, Spoon er and Maderson, while Wade Hamp* j ton, Vance, Colquitt, Payne and Mc- Pherson are equally as popular on the : republic an sider Even Edmunds and j Hoar have had their friends among the democrats. Hoar still keeps his, but Edmunds seems to grow more resever e! continually. He raisse- Thurman from the democratic side They were great cronies. J Jin D. Long was the most popular republican oti the derao j cratic side of he Housei McKinley • and Reed are both liked there, and so ;is Butterworth. Carlisle is, of cour.->c, the most popular democrat on the re-’ publican side, and then come the Breckinridges anti Mills—yes, .Mills, | th<- particnlar target of every republi i eat speaker. .Leopold Morse, Patrick ! < ollins and John E. Russel, three very ’ different Massachusetts democrats, will 1 all be missed on the republican side 1 this year. mi. Aftjytn v kicker. )lnelt Wsney hi It, llm it Umal H al of (Honor. We extract the following items from the last issue »f the Arizona Kicker : Another Ci t. —Wb desire to an nounce to the readers of the Kicker that we have made another cut in tlie price of bar soap, and for the next two weeks shall offer six liars for a quarter. This is one bar ahead of anything yet oiTerod wtat of Chicago, and, while it brings the prof as w*y down to zero, we expect to reap some little honor from our cut uprise. The gioceiy which we ruu ini connection with the Kicker is coming rapidly to the fr nt, and it is only a question of a few weeks when it will atam.l at the head Our goods are frcfhJv, wanted full weight, and prices lowoflpsi ttnj.wljero #l»o. Hk Was wtdfVhn siderable astoiinTChient exhibited by our people the jjfjef (Iff*' when the Governor of Ariscma shook hands with us in front of the j^st,office, and we noticed considerable change in the de meanor of certain people towards us ever since. The Governor was correct. We are no e.lnm shell hidden in the drifts, and he appreciates the fact. He knows and respects the power of the press. He know -that a great paper like the Kicker, having behind it, but under one and the same roof, a grocery, feed store, butcher shop, crockery store and gent’s furnishings, must wield a mighty influence for good. The people in this burg who have been looking upon us as one-mule pow er had better get? their eyes open. Came to Gat2k.—The suit of the Widow Gibbs av.ainst us for breech of promise, damages $15,000, came up in court las’ Friday. This suit was insti tuted six months ago by the court house ring, which has sought our downfall ever since the first issue of this paper. That is, they put the widow up to sue us, and have advanced the money as it was needed. When tlie wi/'thv was put on stand she testified that on.tin night of Febru ary 21, 1887, we asked her to marry us. She insisted i hat the date was cor rect, ami that nothing could change her i mind about it. We then exhih'ted the records of tlie jail to prove that on that day and nigfit, and on all next day and night, we were a prisoner, having, as some of readers mav remember, depar ted from tlie line of virtue and gone on a bender, The- exhibit knocked the widow out in the first lournl, and con founded her supporters, and we don’t believe they will tackle us again after that fashion. As for the widop, she yyas only a i cat's-paw, fifnt we to her | house a basket of groceries, a clothes j line, a set of cups and saucers to prove ; that wo have no malice. , It Will Be Very Quiet. — Our city election, which takes placo next Tuesday, wili be a veiy quiet one, and the singular spectacle of two tickets al most without candidates will be presen ted. As Toth tickets were made up of ring candidates we felt it our duty to publish, as far as we could secure it, a history of each. Our biographies in clu-ieil thirteen out of the sixteen can didates, and the publication was only three days old when most of them were limiting other localities. They averag ed all the way from murderers down to barn-burners, and we are not likely to be troubled with them any more this year. What is left of the two tickets is fair ly clean and honest. We are sorry we had to interfere, and thus place the par ties in such a queer fix, hut we left it a duty wo owed to the public. A Waste ok Money. —Some person who lias a grievance againt The Kick er left an infernal machine on our door step one night last week. It was a starch box filled with giant powder and two pounds of bullets, and was so ar ranged as to explode when the cover was lif ed. We took it in and started to open it, supposing some modest ad mirer had left us a box of fruit or con fectionary, but on second thought con cluded to soak it for a while. Tins ac tion saved our life. Not only that, hut it prevented the destruction of our institution.and probably of much sur- I rounding propeity. We have made every effort to trace the fiend who put up this job, but so | far without success. We realize that there are many men in this community who banker for our life, but we hope to disappoint them. If they feel that i they must have it, why not fire buek ; shod into our bedroom window, ambush |us at night or pick a quarrel on the (street? This plotting to scatter our bloody fragments over onr large and excellent stock of groceries is both un kind and unreasonable.' Died—ln'this city, October 28, iB - Pete I'liumaker. aged 54 years, 6 months and 14 days. Pete was the iu | dividual who attacked us on the 21, in front of the postofiice with a cavalrj saber, being offended at an editorial criticising the poiicv of the Czar of Russia towards Turkey. Wo let day light into him in four places, and wo paid his doctor bill and funeral expen ses. He sleeps weli. He is better off. Death loves a shining mark. Eastern pu[>ers please copy. Knows What'* Coining. A New York paper contains an ad vertisement of “forty five gentlemen’s i dre.-ing gowns for sale cheap.” Tin to 'in. • mini.-'er, of cour--< . ai*- i ■ f course they were given him last : Christmas, and be is gening rid of them preparatory to laying in a new stock. WA l I’IIHSOA S 111. AMI * HM.’K. In a recent speech delivered by Hen ry Watteraon before the National Board of Trade in Louisville, wo make the following excerpt. Mr. Watterson is nt all times a brilliant and fluent talk er, and liis eloquent words upon that, question that is agiiating the public mind, the race problem, will find a res ponsive echo in the hearts of Southern ers : “Gentlemen—You are at this mo ment standing in the gateway that leads to the South. Tho wealth that is there, hidden no longer from human eyo, flushes in your very faces. You can smell the roses of new hope that fill the air. You can hear iho heart beats of progress that come upon the wings of heaven. You can reach forth yoor hands nod almost clutch the gold that the sun rains down with his beams as he takes his daily journey between cotton field and tho coni mine, the highlands of wood and iron, of marble and granite, tlie lowlands of tobacco, sugar and rice, of corn an I cane, of ‘wine, milk and honey.’ But what is riic value ol a!! this if wo have not or der and law, regulated by intelligent and responsible government ? How shall it profit you or us, or anybody, if it he not brought under tho spell of that wizard’s wand which wo call civil ization ? And to whom shall this wand he committed lo the Anglo-Saxon with centuries of enlightened freedom behind him, or to tho African just emerged from slavery ? Through and through this cldorado there winds, deep and dark, a stream which, when undisturbed, moves in lim pid and beneficent tranquility from the mountains to tho sea, carrying in safe ty the rich fruitions of tho South, but which, when agitated, heeomus a terror to all that is embarked upon its tempes tuous bosom, to property and life, to • üblic policy and domestic peace, to so ciety itself. No one can comprehend the meaning of this great menace to the prosperity of the South who has not been there, who doe - not live there Nor is it possible for it to ho treated with wisdom by any other than local agencies. Cannot the thinking people of imagine, if they are nna Ido to see this? Can they not feel that they must trust the intelligence, the humanity, the Christianity of tho (South ami the testimony of truly North ern men who have gone South to deal with a disease which outside pressure i has always aggravated and will always aggravate ? “1 speak waimly and confidentially. On this point, at least, l can afford to speak. 1 struggled earnestly and long to establish the black man in his rights under tho constitution and its amend mi nts, to strike the black laws out of j the statue books, to spread the’ gospel i of God’s love into a duty of man to wards tho education arid elevation of these poor emancipated slaves ; and if ■ the opportunity and need should arise, j I would gladly constitute myself their Moses and ask no nobler title to im mortality, But 1 am filled with no vain allusions, horn of sympathy and j ignorance. I atn blind to none of the dangers that lurk amid the shadows o! j ibis great cross, which, for some myste rious reason— I know not what—lias j been put upon tho South, hut wtiieii, I j do know, the South alone can .break,; as the South alone has borne it.” IS Ml* :m<i Carbuncle* Cured. p’or years I have been constantly troubled with humors in tho blood, which caused the breaking out of boils and carbuncles all over rny body, that when bruised would make u lasting ugly sore. I consulted many eminent physicians and took a great deal ot medicine without any perceptible bene tit. Nothing helped, but Swift’s Spe cific («. S. S.) That im-dicine cured me! I am’ ,fc now enjoying excellent health, and there is not a blemish of any kind on my body. Michael Mull ale, Rule, Nebraska. 1 Nil KK IT El) SCItOt U LA. Swiit’s Specific (S. S. S.) cured my little boy of hereditary scrofula, which broke out all over h's face, hor a vear he had suffered, and I had given up all hopes of his recovery, when at length l was induced to use S. S. S. After using a few bottles ho was en tirely cured. Not a sympton now re mains of the disease. This was three ago. Mrs. T. L. Mathers, Mather ville, Miss. A SEXTON 81'EAKS. Mr, John A. Cleary, sexton of Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas, says: “Swift’s Specific CS. S. S.) is a suie cure for any description of bbod poison! About a year ago I contract ed a poisonous blood disease, and I tried a number of remedies without avail. I was about to become disheart ened, when a friend induced me to try S. S. S. After taking a part of one bottle I was a sound man. and no syicptona of the fell disease have ever returned. r ! reatisc on blood and "kin diseases mailed free. Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. Children who aie troubled with worms may be quickly relieved hv giv ing them Dr. J. H. McLean’s Liquid Vermifuge. It kills and expels worms. Sipokcn lot in Advance. Miss Aubnrndale —“Of course we have cooking les ons at Llssell this year ; that’s no novelty. The most or iginal feature is that they teach us the value and practical use of money .” Mr DoiChester—“The value and use of money, eh ? When do you grad uate ?” “Next June.” “VY ill you marry me in July?”— Boston Times. Woe to the guileful man. TOIK (((!>( N4AD rn uniix The Itiiniarkuiils N|H*ctai'le !*re- M'utctl <»tt si I’eruvliit ltiittle , Tletd. The bark Edwin Reed, at Pier No. 84, Philadelphia, recently discharged a cur ro of nitrate o f soda brought from !’isag;i;i, Pi ru, * ’neb was gathered i from tho I attlo field of Tanpaea, where j the ho lies of 1,000 Peruvian soldiers I have lain unbone, for ten years. The battle was fought 1 ‘tween the Peruvi ans and Chilians on November 17, IS- V.i, and the heavy losses sustained by the Peruvians forced them to retreat, leaving their dead lying on the field. Tho nitrate of soda was gathered aniang tho corpses, loaded on the hacks of mules and carried down to the port of Pisa* ua, where, it was transferred on lighters to the har)t. It will be mnnu factored into gunpowder. Tho bodice of the soldiers have tens ed imp mummies, strange as it may I sedni, after lying on that desert plain ill these years, In any other country they would have been reduced to skele tons iu a short time between tlie ravag es of wild beasts and the to tho elu ments. For over 199 miles on either side of the battlefield not a blado of grass can bo seou, owing to tho uaturo of the soil. The absence of grass and water accounts for the absence of wild boasts. Tlie earth is so filled with ni trate of soda that this, iu connection with tlio hot, dry atm 'sphere, has pro 'Orved tho boriicf of tho men aud horses from decay. The scene is a strange ouc, indeed, u'id wlicii the office:« and somo of tho p i isengers of tho lurk visited the place they were astonished. Tlie fumes ar ising from Uio nitrate of soda have pro vented the uniforms of tho soldiers from hucoiniiig rotten and dropping off. On a bright m non light night tlie scone is said to sugg. t the idea tbut the bat tle had only been fought a few days. Tho Peruvian Government has not made any effort to bury the dead. Tho country is so poor since its defeat by Chili that it is as much as it can do to pay tho tributes levied by Chili. The demand for nitrate for use in the manfacture of gunpowder has be come so great, though there is no im mediate sign ot war anywhere, tlmt thousands of tons of the article are brought io this country annually from Peru by a syndicate of which Ox-Mayor Grace, of New York, is Iho head. Pe ru pays a tax to Chili ou every ton of nitrate shipped fiom that country. — Philadelphia Record. <-'•■!« I. “Mrs. B. B.”—Wo are pleased to welcome you as a contributor. “San bouci”—We certainly would Ibe glad to see vou with usagain. Your 1 bright and interesting' letters were al- I ways much appreciated by “Tho House hold.” “Sally Lunn”—That, promised letter is a long time on the way. “Gwendolena”—Articles ou Christ mas work should bo sent in at onco. Wc should ho glad lo heat from any of the readers on the subject. “Hope Dare” and Kentucky Ann" are members who have been inquired for several times. Will “Keystone” favor us with an other batch of her cooking recipes ? “Mrs. Ludwig”—Come and visit with us again. Your articles on knit ting work are of much practical worth. Ui ddiiig in l>(*imtn<l. • There ir a demand just now for wed ding maids at the very select intelli gence offices. A maid who can make herself a necessity can command her own price She shops, looks after tho linen arid bedding, which she marks, tics in sets and packs away in sachels of lavender or sweet clover ; goves over the bride's dimity, shortens skirts, tightens bands arid yokes, touches up bodices and ; uts comets into a flutter of ribbons, She gets samples of lace, trimmings and stuffs, sews the buttons on new gloves, stretches them with an ivory ami breaks in slippers and shoes without soiling them. She trims hand kerchiefs and frills all sorts of things, from o trav cloth to a pillow-sham. She yets the effect of hats, bonnets and wraps, and hints at the changes that would make the wearer just a little prettier. Pierre, tho capital city of South Da kota, is now on the biggest boom ever known. .Hot Hus)' I'icked oil' Why i f it that ninety nine men in a hundred feel an irresistible impulse j to — Prescribe for aco'd, Advise the editor, Bet on base ball. Murder the umpire, Holler at a fire, •rid pb ’. a thread off anotb r man’s coat ? Nob' dy knows, no one is ready to give any more of an answer than “hu man nature. But such are facts. A member of an uptown club stood con templating the open fire. On his shoul der nestled a white thread, “I say, Charlie.” A club man picked up the raveling. It seemed to he threaded iu the cloth. He pulled out about a yard, when Charlie dived into bis breast pocket and drew out a spool ol white thread. “Here, Jack, sake all the thread you wau’t.” “That’s a bottle on me, Charlie,” said Jack as he fell back into the small group who bad watched the operation. Then < barite set his trap for tho next victim. In half an hour ho caught ten. lie had run the thiead through his coat, instead of being a raveling It was one end of a 200-yard spool.— Washington Host co rro* I> HCMNIA- Priv.nte advices from tho Trans- Caucasian districts of Russia, says the Boston Journal of Commerce, bring in formation of the extensive and profita ble growth of cotton in that region. Erivan, a country lying north of Per sia and east of the Black aea, and whoso location in respect of latitude corresponds, therefore, very nearly with that, of New Jersey, is particular ly mentioned as being very largely devoted to tho cultivation of cotton.— Thirteen organized companies, whose capital ispiesumed to be derived from Moscow, are conducting the industry, and iifty-sevou out of sixty-one villiages arc engaged in it. Two of the companies, says the Journal of Commerce, have recently imported from tho United States fifty tgns of upland cotton seed for planting j ,u««i have gratuitously distributed the* 1 whole amount to tho growers, who j have agreed to deliver t,o tho compa nies tho harvested cotton at tho prico of ihe Krivan market. On similarcon ditions, sixteen American cotton gins have been imported and delivered to planters,-and baling presses have been ,ot up by the side of warehouses in anticipation of a large business. It is estimated that tho average Jyield of cotton will bo about ono hundred and ninety pounds of lint to the acre, and will be produced at a cost of a frillo less than 5A cents per pound. These are low estimates, both of production and price; but, l<Jw as they are, tho appear to bo satisfactory to the Rus sian cotton producers. The application which our Boston contcmpoary makes of the information it prints lias regardsoley to tho inter ests of cotton gin manufacturers in tho United States, whom it recommends to “advertise their machines to the Rus sian trado,” as it believes that “some thing of advantage can bo derived from such a course.” There is no particu lar objection to be urged to this course, we believe. If tho Russians must buy cotton gins from some country, we should sell them gins by all means, if wo ca,u. It is not so npparent, howev er, what advantage wo can hope to derive from sending abroad ship loads of American cottui seed to help build up a foreign market, for our gin makers. American cotton brings the highest price in the World's markets because of its superior quality. It is a losing business, manifestly, for the southern farmer* to eupply their com petitors in Russia or Persia, or any other country, with eoed which will produce u grade of cotton that is equal, or nearly equal, in quality to Ameri can cotton, and that oau l>e produced at less than 5.1 cents a pound. Wilt* and tho Court*. No man can be certain that his es tate will bo distributed in accordance with the provisions of his will. The courts frequently place an interpreta tion upon tho laws relating to wills very different from that placed upou jt by lawyers. If a man, therefore, wants his estate to bo dritiibuted in a certain way he will mako the distribution be fore bo dies is ho is wise. Oar dispatch es mentioned yesterday that Catbarino Donovan had given SIOO,OOO to Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore. She stated that she had provided for her relatives and wanted to give something to tho cause of education. She has the satisfaction of knowing that her money will bo applied to the purposo for which she intended it. A day or two ago tho supremo court of New York decided that Air. Tiden's will was invalid. Ho had willed that the greater portion of his vast fortune should bo used in founding a library in the city of New York. There is no doubt tlm he was a very able lawyer, but he could not draw a will, it seems, that would stand iu the courts. He left too much to the discretion of the executors and trustees named in his will, the court said. Tho chances are that his relations will get his millions, and there will be no library to keep bis memory fresh in tho minds of the people. There is no fruitful source of disease than vitiated blood. It involves every organ and function of the body, and if not immediately corrected by the use of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, sooner or later leads to fatal results. Be warned in time. The Pulpit and ihcWlnge. Be.v. F. M. Shrout, pastor United Brethren Church, Blue Mound, Kan., says : “I feel it my duty to tell what wonders Ur. King’s New Discovery has done for me. My lungs were bad !ly diseased, and my parisbiouers thought I could live only a few weeks. I took five bottle? of Dr. King’s New J Discovery and am sound and well, gaining *27 lbs. iu weight.” Arthur Love, Manager Love’s Funny Folks Combination, writes : “After a thorough trial aud convincing evidence lam confident Dr. King’s New Dis covery for Consumption, beats ’email, and cures when everything else fails. The greatest kindness I can do my u.any thousand friends is to urge them to try it.” Fres trial bottles at C. D. McDonald’s Drug Store. Regular sizes 50c. and SI.OO. Snportitiice of a Hyphen. Official-Looking Caller (with copy of daily paper in his hand, sternly)—“ls this your odvertisement ?” Member of Firm of Junk, Secenhand • & Co. (looking it over) —“Y'es, sir.” “You have ‘cast off clothing of all kind.’ have you ?” “We have, my friend. What can I do for von ?" “You can come along with me, sir! My name is Anthony Comstock.” NO- 30.