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V OL. XIV.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
This powder never varies. A marvel of
purity, strength and wholesomeness. More
economical than the ordinary kinds, and
cannot he sold in competition with the mul
titude of low test, short weight alum or
phosphate powders. Sold only in cans.
. Royal Bakino Powder Co., 106 Wall street,
New York. novl3-Jy
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
| |ic. p. c inpiißu,,
DENTIST,
McDonough (la.
Anv one desiring work done can he ac
commodated either hv calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
Gfo W. Bryan j W.T. Dicken.
BRYA.H & DICKIE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
McDokoit.h, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
(he Flint Judicial Circuit,the SuprcmeCourt
of Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-1y
jas. it. r« ie-\r.R, ,
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. marl 6-1 y
P .i. it r.AtJ a>,
•’ 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.
J l\ IVdl.li,
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
a. imowA.
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-lv
\ j ~A7 PEKS-LES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
H ampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court ot the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
Jko. D. Stkavaut. J R.T. Daniel.
STIIWIU r DAYIEE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Ga.
J|R. IS. .1. AIiYOEII.
Hampton. Ga.
I hereby tender my professional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all cal’* night and
day.
LAW CARD.
1 have opened « law office in Atlanta, hut
will continue my practice in Henry county,
attending all Courts regular'v, as heretofore.
Correspondence solicited. Will he in Mc-
Donough on all public days.
Office —Room *J6, Gate City Bank Build
ing, Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
JOHN L TYE.
January Ist. 1885.
A L L
Notts and'account aof l). KNOTT & CO.,
must be settled now. Please call on uie at
ttc old stand and find out your in ebted
eiess. W« need the money and know that
you cannot censure us for giving this, our
btst warning. M. 0. LQWE,
'J ai Police —Second ISoußd.
Hampton, Monday Oct. 28
Sixth, Tue*dav **
Stockbridge, Wednesday “
‘Shake Rag, Thorsdav 44
Brushv Knol.b, Friday Nov. 1
Loves’. Saturday “ ~
Tussa haw,•Monday 4< J
McDonough. Tuesday " *j
McMullen's, Wednesday ’* fi
Bersheba. Thursday 44 7
Sandy Ridge, Friday
Locust Grove, Saturday 44 9
Lowes', Monday 44 11
” SOLOMON KING, T. C.
GRIFFIN FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works.
\\fe jimoiniM la the Pahl'S that we are
\\ prepared to manufacture Engine Boil-
Vt*S ; will i it < iitjcfi flif wii of fiGli
«rs. We »re nrepar. d to do »\l kinds of
repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin
ery. genersMv. We keep in etock Brass
fittings of all kinds; also inspirators, In
jectors, Safety Valves. Steam Guages,
Fipe and Pipe Fittinsr 5 and Iron and Bjrass
Castings of everv Description.
O*HOU.W A. WALCOTT,
liifi iiEJN iti GODJN i'Y WijiEiLLi,
FALLING LEAVLS.
They are dropping, slowly dropping-
Embers from the tlaming tives—
All their radiance and spieodor,
Kindled by the sunshine tender
And the wayward breeze
They are coming, swiftly coming—
Amber, amethyst amt pearl—
With the ties of nature riven, '
Tempest tossed and madly driver
Flashing luster back ro heaven
In their giddy whirl
They are Hitting—gayly tlitiiug
Fledglings of autmnnul light—
From their lofty perches f-traying,
With each passing zephyr playing,
Bough and bush the course delaying
Of their final flight
They nre hovering—gently hovering-
Over vaic and rugged steep;
Covering o’er the uloomlit spaces
Which the early front defaces
Mantling tenderly the placet!
Where our loved ones sleep
Yes, they're falling sadly falling—
It asset, crimson, gold and gray—
Beauteous millions headlong flying,
With Che wind's disc ordant sighing.
At our feet ignobly lying.
Waiting dread decay
They are teaching-fitly teaching—
That which glad dens— that which grieves;
There is naught of earth abiding,
* But, behind all nature hiding.
Is a hand our footsteps guiding
And the fulling leaves.
-N. W Hand in Springfield Union.
Pretty Finger Nails.
“Your nails always look so nice,” I
overheard one damsel remark to the
another not long ago, says a corre
spondent. “Do you go to a manicure
every, day!"
“Oh, no. I have never been to one,
for it is the easiest thing in the world
to take care of one’s own nails—just a
little care every day.”
“Well, I’ve tried and tried, and 1
can't make mine look even decent.
Tell me what you do.”
Herts I listened for the prescription,
which in sum and substance was as
follows:
In order to keep the skin back from
the nail 1 use a nail brush freely—us
ing it on the nails particularly. Then,
in drying my hands, I work the towel
from the point of the nail back toward
the finger. I cut my nails often and
don’t let them get too long. By cut
ting the nails in such a way that the
corners do not adhere to the skin, hang
nails can be avoided and the shape of
the nails changed. Where the nails are
thin and inclined to break, frequent
oiling is necessary, and the nails
.should never be polished, except when
some oily substance is used beside the
powder. This keeps the nails more
pliable, and no matter how thin they
are, if properly treated they are no
more liable to break than thicker ones.
Another thing that is bad for the nails
is polishing them too roughly. They
should be lightly touched and not
rubbed until they become heated. This
is one cause of white spots coming on
the nail and marring its beauty.' A
little attention every day will make
any hand look nice.”
To this conversation which 1 over
heard let me add a word or two about
the hands. To make them white they'
should bo occasionally rubbed with
lemon juice and water. The hands
should never be allowed to remain
long soiled with anything that will
stain them. But unless there is some
reason for it, it is better not to wash
the bands too often. They should be
dried with a soft towel. —Chicago Her
ROMANCE OF A BUG.
An Inn«ct Imini{p*Riit Tlmt Im Srvl«u Cttli*
forniiA Orang« Imluntry.
An entomological romance! You
never heard of such a thing, perhaps.
And yet the bug bureau in trie depart
ment of agriculture has one to tell.
Just listen, and see if you ik> not find
it awfully interesting.
“F»r some years past,” said Mr.
Howard, of the bureau, "the great or
ange industry of California has been
threatened with destruction by an in
sect that sticks its beak into the tree
bark and sucks the vital sap, giving
forth a sort of exudation which has
procured for the pest the name of
'white scale.’ It attacks not only or
anges and lemons, but all the citrus
tribe, trees of many other kinds and
even weeds, hence die hopelessness of
the complaint since, though the fruit
trees were cleansed of it, the scale
would immediately infest an orchard
again from neighboring plants or
grasses. So bad was it in California
UAt orange growers there within a
year have been digging up their or
chards and going into other sorts of
fanning. Twelve months ago it looked
seriously as though the state would
shortly cease altogether to produce
oranges. It was high tint o that some
thing should be done.”
“And what was done?” asked the re
porter, interested.
"Something entirely new to science
and human knowledge. It was no
ticed that when the scale first appear
ed, a few years ago. it tackled, to be
gin with, 'the acacia tree, imported
from Australia. Naturally, the in
ference was that the scale had come
from Auxtradu with* tha acacia, and
the most distinguished Entomologists
of the island continent were written
to about the matter. They all said
that the white scale was plentiful in
Australia, but that it did not amount
to a pest. The orange orchards were
attacked by it. but did not suffer.
Why I Of course there must be some
good reason for this, and to an ento
mologist it was VPry plain. Clearly,
the scale Insect jn Australia had an
enemy that preyed upon it and kept it
down, and this enemy had not been
imported with the scale itself into
California. May be, being more deli
cate than the scale insect, it had not
survived the voyage. So much hav
ing been determined, the next thing
was to find the enemy. The Austra
lian entomologists were asked about it,
hut they all said that they had never
heard of such a thing, save one ex
pert. This man replied that he had
found a very small Jty that was a para
site of the white scale. Kureka!”
“Do tell!” echoed the newspaper
man.
“So then we sent an expert of our
own from this bureau to Australia,
who made a study of the scale in that
country and found the fly as represent
ed. It was a very good sort of a fly
omj it fed on the scale for all it was
worth, but the trouble was tliat it did
not breed fast enough to he of much,
practical use. However, our agent
;o)iadAßpnvber of other insect* that
McDonough, ga., Friday, January, ; usdo.
i. ere also parasnes oi uie scales, among
them several kinds of ladybird beetle,
closely resembling the ‘ladybug,’ so
called in America. Hundreds of these
parasites of Various sorts were shipped
by him to California in wooden boxes,
on ice, every steamer foicfour months
carrying a consignment of them.
Meanwhile other agents of ours at Los
Angeles, in the midst of the infested
district, had made preparations, inclos
ing a number of orange trees under
gauze tents, and on receipt of the boxes
the insects that had survived the voy
age were liberated under the tents. The
drawback about the little fly, which
does not multiply its species with suf
ficient rapidity, was soon found to ren
der that small friend unavailable for
ihe purpose in view, but one species of
ladybird beetle, on the other hand, was
discovered to be astonishing]}' prolific.
. It has since been estimated that one of
these beetles of the proper sex will be
come grandmother within six months
to seventy-live billions of her kind, all
of them surprisingly voracious; so
much so, in fact, that a single individ
ual will destroy on an average 100 of
the scales.”
“And what did they do next?”
“Well, a few of tne ladybirds es
caped from the tents to neighboring
orange orchards, and going right to
work had several hundred trees
eleansed entirely from the scales by
the time that our agents were ready
to send around specimens to the or
ange growers. They sent a few to
each one of a large number of orange
farmers in various parts of the state
in little boxes, and the farmers nut
them on the limbs of the trees and left
them to multiply by themselves. This
they did with such speed that orchards
of 3,000 trees were altogether freed
from the scale within six months.
Already the state of California is
practically freed from the pest and the
orange and lemon growers can once
more look to the future of their indus
try with confidence in its superb pros
pects.”
“But what will become of the ever
multiplying vedalias?”
“When they have destroyed the
scales, on which they are having so
glorious a feast at present, they will
turn and feed upon each other until
all are destroyed, save only the few
necessary to keep the scale from be
coming a nuisance again. This is a
pleasing little provision of nature. It
is worth mentioning that the credit of j
this wonderful achievement is due to
Professor C. V. Riley, the chief of the
entomological division of this depart
ment. ” —Washington Star.
Another Mathematical Puzzle.
A friend asks me to multiply $5 by
$5. Ido so and announce the result as
$25. Now multiply 600 cents, give the
answer in cents, pure and simple, not
as fractional parts of a dollar. Ido so
and am surprised to see the figures
climb up to 250,000 cents, which is
$2,500. As $5 and 500 cents are equiva
lent, the result is puzzling. It cannot be
urged that decimal marks should bo
used. A cent, as such, is as distinct a
unit as a dollar, and as the result is to
be announced in cents the decimal.can
not be pleaded in extenuation of the
rather surprising result. But there is
clearly something wrong. What is it?
TOBACCO LAW IN FRANCE.
The State Owns the Business There mid
Kina It Itself.
Visitors to France have noticed how
careful the customs officers are to see
that no one is smuggling in matches
or tobacco. The importation of matches
is prohibited and there is a very heavy
duty on tobacco. Any one who bus
made the acquaintance of the French
match will not readily forget it. Its
peculiarity is that it is very reluctant
to ignite, and is no sooner alight than
it proceeds to extinguish itself.
Matches have hitherto been made solo <
ly by one company, which paid the
government u large sum every year
for the privilege of supplying French
men with bad matches. As a proposal
to continue this system threatened to
overthrow the Tirat'd ministry, the
government decided to take themanu
facture of bad matches into its own
hands. The tobacco is made to suit
the matches. It is also bad and dear.
The tobacco business lias long been a
state monopoly, and is one of theprin I
cipul sources of revenue. The latest
report on the subject shows that last
year’s crop tvfls 2d, 176,000 kilogram
tnes, which was valued tit 10,423.000
francs, or £3,284.003. This was a poor
year, giving only francs worth
per hectare, while in 1887 the vfllue
per hectare was 1,811 francs. This
was the home ptoducijon, but the gov
eminent imports a gi-eqt deal of Arner
lean tobacco, in leaf, and liiailufacturcs
it in France. The government sells
it after it is made, and lite smallest to
bacco store in France is part of this
huge state monopoly.
The stan. gives the privilege of
growing tne weed to planters, and
looks alter them with motherly care.
It lixes :n what di puHments tobacco
may be grown. Il marks oil' the mini
!x‘r of acres to Is-planted. It selects
the variety of plant and settles what
number may lie grown on each acre.
Mot only so, but the army of official?;,
who are always prowling about on Ire
half of the state, count the plants it)
each acre and the number of leaves
on each plant. Should a planter have
less than the inventoried number of
leaves when ti e harvest comes the
officials will be down on him. A much
graver offense, however, is to luivo j
too nnniy leaves. This is regarded as f
an attempt to defraud the stale, and
unless satisfactorily explained is fol- j
lowed by tints and imprisonment.
When he reaps his crop the planter
has not the privilege of asking a price
for it. The price is fixed by the state. |
Tobacco is now grown in twenty-eight j
departs neats, ‘lhero are 62,284 plant 1
era, and 16,507 hectares of plantations, j
There are twenty-seven stores for the I
reception of indigenous tobacco, and
stores at .Bordeaux, Dieppe, Dun- j
kerque, Havre and Marseilles for ini- j
ported tobacco. The state has twenty
one manufactories. The largest is that j
at Lille, which turus out 6,000,000
kilogrammes of tobacco a year. There !
are 20,871 employes iq the factories,
of whom 2,560 arc men and 18,311
women. This does not include ofli
cials and agent 3. The government
does not treat its employes very well,
find strikes in tobacco factories are fre
quent,
tobacco stores in France be
U'Tg to the state. '£fn>re are oyer 4U,-
000 of them. 1 lie stoic-does not sell to
bacco at -retail o' copt to three stores.
All the othjjs are gtjo widows St offi
cers, government ‘>u*ials, and
times to the widows <3 senators, deptf
tiesnnd prefects. They take the place
of pensions. If the government
grants a pension to the wife of somo.
man who has died -in tike service of
his country, that generally means that
she gets a tobacco store, or bureau, as
it is called. As the social position of
the pensioners will Wit allow them to
run the bureaus ijSreetly, they let
them. The dealer is allowed io per
cent, profit by the government uncus
prohibited from selling any tobacco
except that supplied and priced by tlio
state. Neither must they make cigar
ettes out of the government tobacco.
Every cigarette must bear the official
stamp. The state has three bureaus in
Paris where the best quality of cigars
can.bc obtained. These arc either im
ported or made out o' imported to
bacco.
It was Napoleon \vfio%.lstbiishcd this
monopoly in tobacco. The weed had
been introduced into France by a
Frenchman named Je«»> N’icot, audits
manufacture was fee < n 1621. A
monopoly was establisSgL n 1674, but
was abolished ibeforeFlm revolution.
Tobacco proved a pd&fitabla business
when the culture was free. Napoleon
was attracted at a bit{Sin the Tuileries
by a lady gorgeously arrived with
diamonds and jewels. ’Who is that
princess?” he inquired When told
that she was only a tobacco manu
facturer’s wife, he "at once resolved
to take charge of this means of acquir
ing wealth.—New York Bun.
The Office Uoy Expniji■ eg the Marriage*
Nowadays a mart has got to keep a
pretty close tab on the rules of eti
quette, or he is liable to get left. Not
long ago a well known iocal railroader
quietly informed a few intimates that
ho was to marry the la< y of his choice
on Dec. 11. lie was duly congrat
ulated. Desiring to allow bis friends
all over the countrjFjo know of his
happiness, he had prepared the reg
ulation announcement curds, which
are usually mailed on the day of tho
wedding. He prepa*#d his list of
friends, anti handed it/togetber with
the announcements, to jiis office boy,
saying: “I want these Jnailed on the
11th sure, an chi want you to look
after them. ” Thep ho leit the office.
Of course the boy'misunderstood the
order. He thought he had been told to
lie sure and mail the Announcements
before 11 o'clock that night, and he
worked hard to got them into thoi>ost
oliice at that hour. He succeeded in
his efforts, and-on Dec. 4 the rail
roader’s friends received announce
ments that he had• been married
Dec. 11* He was -rtmd. To his in
timates he said: “l ean explain tho
office boy’s blunder to you ducks, but
what do you suppose my New York
and St. Louis and Cincinnati and
Ixiuisville friends will think when
they learn that"l was married a. wee It
from today?- 1 wish that boy was in-
St. Louis?”—Chicago Herald.
THE VALUE OF MINUTES.
Different Ylews Regarding tlio Interesting
Oiiofttion of Wasted Time.
There are many different and more
or less conflicting views as to wjiat
constitutes a waste of time. Severe
people consider every moment wasted
that is not devoted to productive work
or necessary sleep or rest. They would
make of man a mere machine, lobe fed
to maintain his energies, to he allowed
to sleep a limited number of hours to
prevent wearing out, but would have
him devote all his other hours to work
of some kind.
Other people, a little broader in their
1 views, recognize the need of intellec
tual culture and would permit a cer
tain amount of time to be given to
reading and study without counting it
a waste. The literals recoffnize an
other need of humanity, and allow
some hours for recreation and amuse
merit. But there may be waste of
time under any of these limitations,
and they may te to some extent vio
lated without waste. Time is wasted
that does not produce benefit of some
kind to the individual, but the kinds
of beneiit to which he is susceptible
are so many and the needs of different
men so various that thene is an almost
infinite variety of ways in which time
may te usefully employed. The test
as to whether time is being wasted
must, therefore, be applied in individ
ual cases, and the only question is
whether it is being beneficially em
ployed.
T hat time devoted to recreation or
amusement is not wasted is expressed
iu the old proverb: “All work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy.” A
cheerful disposition is such an impor
taut factor in energetic work that to de
prive a inan of the enjoyments of life
is to curtail his working power. If,
however, a due proportion is not
maintained between work and play
there is a waste of time in the opposite
direction. Too much amusement pro
motes a distaste for work.
The hours devoted to reading and
study are beneficially employed, not
wasted, when the line of study is such
as to promoto the welfare of the in
dividual, but time may l>e wasted in
reading that which is or no benefit or
that which distracts one’s thoughts
from necessary occupations. Time j
may even te wasted in productive
work if it should te of a kind that de
grades or that is less beneficial than
other available kinds of work. But j
by far the greatest waste of time comes j
from want of method. It is constant;
hour by hour, and like the constant
dropping of water on a stone, produces 1
an effect apparently out of all propor ]
tioh to the cause.
Every one has noticed that in a well I
ordered household or' shop every tool
has its place and work proceeds sys- j
tematically. One thing is no sooner
done than another is ready at hand, 1
and 4hc tools are always in order ana
ready to be taken up. On the other .
hand, in a disorderly household or
shop, working without method, there
are frequent interruptions or delays |
while the question is being considered
what to do next, or while search is be
ing made for teols that when found
have to be put in order before the main
work can te tegun. A few minutes
out of an hour may be pasted in such
delays, but in the aggregate they
anvjjjnt to u totiil that snows this tote
otto ot~ mo most common ana almost
unnoted sources of the waste of time.
In largo establishments employing
thousands of men the employer has to
look after the possible waste of time.
Jbyas many imhvidualsas he employs,
and his prosperity or failure mav tirru
Upon this simple question of a Waste of !
limp:. In such a case the loss bv tho
individual is so greatly multiplied that
in a single day it may amount to
enough to offset tho profits of a close
business. This is the reason for tho
Attention given in manufacturing es
toblishmenlp to, v methods of doing
yfbrk and for Lite strict rules govern
ing the and departure of
Workingmen. A*
I'd the ind i vidua l*it kdmetimes seems
umwjfcossarv to close the doors at 7
o'clock and compel a man who is one
minute latulo toso a quardp nf a day,
but a littlolfcilchlatiou shows "Tho ne
cessity for such a rule, ft js pot only
the individual who Would lose time* if
such rules did not exist. The whole
establishment would bo demoralized if
they were not "festebtMhed and en
forced, thousands of dollars’ worthed
machinery Would he idlß, along with
the workmen, and it would he impossi
ble to keep tho work moving from de
partment to department sous to avoid
further waste of time.
! In a workshop employing 3,000 men
Five minutes’ wasted time by each man
i in a day would mean the loss of the la
bor of twenty-five men for a day of
ten hours, besides the incidental losses
duo to idle machinery and the diffi
culty of keeping the whole establish
ment constantly employed if there
should be uncertainty as to tho out
put from any department. The ex- j
treme case of a large establishment
only serves to point out what
takes place on a smaller scale in small
er factories and workshops where there
is lack of method or disregard of rules
as to the hours of labor.
Tbe particular ways in which time
should be employed (always assuming
they are not positively harmful) are
really of less importance than that j
there should be method in the use of 1
time and avoidance of the smaller
items of waste that result from care
lessness iu preparation, thoughtless
ness and a neglect of system. —Balti
more Bun.
Clone to the Truth.
A buy with a sled on Cass avenue
was waiting for a “hitch” on a car
nage, when tho driver of the vehicle
called out:
"Boy, you keep away!"
“Can’t I hitfch?”
“No, sir.”
“Just a block?”
“No, sir."
“Ten feet?”
“No, sir.”
“Say! I know what’s tjio matter!”
shouted tlie lad. “You’re afraid the
boss will die aud fall over on me,
and you’ll have to pay pa $1 for dam
ages!” -Detroit Free Press.
t ‘ 'll HUNTERS OF TODAY.
How They Hhv* Improved Upon the Old
Muzzle Loading Molliods.
This is nn ago of progress and of ease
and luxury. And tlrtb bear hunter is
keeping up with the procession, falling
not a bit behind. The old fogies who
used to poso as bear hunters, what a
laborious and fussy and clumsy tiling
they made of it! First there was the
muzzleloader, and then the lull let
pouch, and the powder horn, and the
wadding, and the ramrod, and the (Up
—they thought it was a tremendous
step ahead when they discarded the
flint and invented the percussion cap.
But to load up with all these was not
tho whole of it, nor a half of it; for
when armed aud equipped, they must
go into the woods and limit for the
bear. Terribly slow that was, and
downright Ipird work, too. Then,
when they hud found tho bear, and
one shot did not do for him. name the
process of reloading; first powder,
then the wadding, then the bullet,
then more wadding, and all driven
home and thumped down with a ram
rod. And after all, the, bearmight get
away, if indeed it might not set to und
do for the hunter himself.
This lias changed; the bear hunter is
up with tho times. For the muzzle
loader there is the breechloader, for
the bullet pouch and powder horn and
wadding and ramrod we have tho ma
chine loaded cartridges, which can be
pumped out faster than Bruin can
wink. And as for hunting for your
bear, taking tho chances of finding !
him, or being found by him, a New j
York genius has changed that.
Bear hunting is today an exact
science; its pursuit is unattended by
hazard or hardship or possibility of
failure. The metropolitan “Nimrod” I
has shown how to do it. He is the pi
oneer in tho art of bear hunting as it is
hunted. He went up to Union soci
ety, a Catskill mountain summer
boarder resort, whefe they had a young
pet bear chained up in the yard, doing
time in amusing the guests and serving
as a stoolpigeon or decoy for other
boarders with sporting proclivities.
This was the bear the New Yorker had
been looking for. He bought and paid
for it on tho spot sso—a bear on the
chain is worth two in the woods.
Then the gallant sportsman, after
schooling his nerves to stand the
shock of the exploding rifle, bravely
did the brute to death, paid the cook to
skin the carcass and bore homo in tri
umph the skin as a trophy of his
prowess. Today it adorns his resi
dence, and le is rapidly coming, by
frequent repetition, to tell to admiring
guests his thrilling “bear yarn” by
rote.
This style of bear killing is certainly
progressive; it is, in fact, decidedly in
advance of the spirit of the times; and
the great body of sportsmen, with their
old fashioned notions and prejudices j
and sentiment, may lx; depended on to !
write down the New Yorker as a blood- j
thirsty noodle. His exploit of shoot
ing a bear on chain is not likely to be j
emulated.—Forest and Stream.
"Mlnnthaba** in Corn.
An art work of a queer and novel
sort, in mosaic, is to be seen just now ]
in the office of the assistant secretary
of agriculture, Mr, Willits. 11 L-i about
4 feet high hv 3i feet in width and rep
resents an Indian maiden named
“Minnehaha.” The picture—for-such
it looks at a little distance—is found
when one scrutinizes it very closely to
lie composed entirely of different spe
cies of corn. •It is, in fact, an exhi
bition ip small compass of , gll the va-
rietiesf or corn grbwri in tne state oi
Missouri, and is thus described in The
Washington Star : Tbe frame of the
picture is made of largo black corn,
each kernel nailed to the wooden sur
face, which tho thickly set grains en
tirely cover, by a single tiny brad.
Indeed, all tho kernels composing
the mosaic— and there are many thou
sands of them- art istened on indi
vidually iu tho same manner. The
sky in picture is made of white
corn and two or thro-' trees of red and
black corn, so judicioi ly combined as
to give the effect of b, inches and foli
age a little way off. Beneath tho tree
sUuids tbo Indian maiden, her head
dress of brown and yellow corn, her
frock of brown and dark red corn with
an ornamental edging of yellow and
white corn, her stockings of red corn
with yellow coru stripes. Her flesh
tints are well represented by a pinkish
corn with tho grain setup on edge in
stead of laid flat, the brads being
driven through edgewise so us to hold
Uieui up 141 that posttiou very dose to
gether, 'ho result being a smoother ef
fect. The how upon which Minneha
ha leans is made ot\ kernels set up on
edge also, and the same device is used
for most of the more elaborate feat
ures of the design, making a contrast
that greatly assists tho chiaroscuro.
Tlie ground is made to shade off from
foreground to background by uu artful
arrangement of variegated corns in
different tin Us. It is a superb exhibit
altogether of Missouri’s wealth in
corns, though it is probable that no
ludian young lady in real life ever
had so many.
First Grade at Sixty.
, “What are you doing with those
books, auntie?”
The remark was addressed by an At
lanta Constitution reporter to an aged
negress who was cliuibiug the lull in
tho direction of Spellman seminary
with a slate and a lot of school books
nnder her arm. .
"Gwine to school, chile.”
“To school, at your age?*
“Oh, 1 ain’t quito 60 yet,” she said,
her eyes twinkling through a pair of
steel rimmed glasses and her gray hair
clustering around her wrinkled brow
iu a regular Undo Remus looking
manner.
“Oh, y#s, I’sc gitten do hang er doso
books right erlong. W’y, w’en I
started tor do school I didn't know
nary letter, but now since I been
gwine ter dat lady up dar I’so done got
so 1 can put dese Letters tergedder ties
us onto. But I urns’ keep erjlodgin’,
ca’se tier bell rung and I’ll fie tardy
and git er black mu'k I ’specs.”
Saying this the old lady trugded on
up tho hill like any school girl. Even
at her advanced age she is determined
to get an education.
! lit- Governor e».tv«Hl li. r,
In one tif the ludiitua prisons is a
eon vie j who is serving a life sentence
for tho commission of one of the most
! horrible of crimes. It Ims been said
! that no nmn is so bud that he has not
friends. The friends of this man from
i the beginning of his sentence lmve
never ceased to work for Lis pardon.
Influential citizens and public officials
have been induced to write personal
letters to all tbe governors who liuvo
held office since the term of confine
ment began. Petition after jietition
has been prepared and lmnflredsof sig
natures secured.
It is related that ut one time a gov
ernor was almost persuaded to pardon
the man. The sentiment in his favor
seemed fairly overwhelming. As a
last precaution be sunt for bis private
secretary to talk over the whole case
with tlio prisoner himself. The pris
oner told his story forcibly, but so
glibly us to indicate that lie bail care
fully prepared it and committed it to
memory. As bis i-ecitel closed be drew
a photograph of a I . itifti 1 young wo
man from his pocket*
“The first thing J k'm'l ! > when I am
released will bo to many this girl,” he
said.
“Who is she'” a; lied the visitor.
“She is Miss M ," lie replied,
“aud she is tho daughter of one of the
richest and proudest families in tho
city of - She will marry mo tlie
minute I uni set free,”
“How do you happen Pi know her?"
“Oh. that sail right. She visited tlie
prison one time and I got acquainted
with her. title fell iu love with me at
first sight. Don’t worry about me; I’m
solid with her."
The secretary looked at the photo
graph again. The face shown there
was delicate and retiued, and every
line indicated the confiding truthful
ne-oiof innocent girlhood. Ho looked
at the prisoner. In his eye was a
wicked leer of triumph, livil and sin
were stamp! d upon every feature.
When the secretory made report to the
governor he told tin: story of the pho
togruph. The chit f executive pondered
over it awhile, then bringing his fist
down upon his desk with u force that
set nil its light furniture to rattling, he
said:
“The photograph settles it. That
sweet girl and tiie happiness of her
home and friends must not be ruined
by any act of mine. The prisoner must
serve his time.”- Indianapolis News.
*<»uti£ Yarciaiutoi’tf.
Two young a sistant city physicians
paid a visit to tin; Washington school
tiie other morning which they will
n eiemberto the long, tday they live,
tin will sixteen young misses who
rank nearly or quite as young ladies.
I’l'ofc ..vor Ridgeway had a hand in the
affair, and, keenly appreciative of a
good joke, he enjoys the telling of
tliis one.
There is some sort of a law about
the vaccination of children, and the
young medicos called at tho school
with tlie request that a number of
the pupils be brought out for examina
tion as to whether their scars were of
a recent enough date. Their pockets
were stuffed with {mintsready for use,
and they were eager and anxious to
experiment. Professor Ridgeway, the
obliging principal, told them they
should have all the subjects they
wanted, aud, stepping into a recitation
i ' ■ : ■ in" pupils of |,liu sev
enth grade. Then they filed into the
hull —sixteen as l'uir young ladies as
ouo could wish to see.
The doctors stood aghast, while the
young ladies stood up ill line with
wondering interest.
Professor Ridgeway introduced the
young specialists, and tersely explain*
ui.tneiE.Yist, The yaune
fiitfieS bids Li Ml and hesitated. mo
young men blushed and looked for u
means of escape. One bright young
miss with a convenient pair of scissors
quietly cut a slit in the left sleeve of
her dress, aud this 1 rought tho young
ladies to tho giggling stage, which
threatened to become hysterical as a
companion whispered:
“Don’t start that fashion! Mine isn’t
on my •arm.”
Then the young medicos fled wildly,
the girls went into convulsions, and
Professor Ridgeway erased every black
mark against every hotly for tho day.
—Kansas City Times.
The Karth til-owing.
The earth, traveling in its orbit
around the sun and onwurd with lire
entire solar system around some un
known and still gi- ater center of at
traction, says The American Geolo
gist, is constantly traversing new re
gions of space, which if depletes
of meteoric dust and meteorites,
thus steadily—no matter how slow
ly-increasing in diameter. Now
tet this growth continue till the earth
mis just twice the attractive iiower
which it now posses 4.-S; we would then
have twice the number of meteorites
and double thequa.nity of dust falling
annually upon it than'now.
Fortunately for our heads the earth
lias not as yet attained very formida
ble dimensions, hut we may look u|>on
it as an established fact that it eon
stantly gains in weight, and that in
proportion to such gain its attractive
power steadily increases.
The attractive force of the sun is so
enormous that a perpetual hail of me
teorite and a torrent of dust particles
must rush upon it from all directions,
and some of the foremost observers are
now of the opinion that these falling
bodies are the sole cause of the sun’s
beat.
In the light of this theory our earth
is a voung and grn ving, not an old
and dying planet, a j lanet with a fu
ture, ought to be cheerful news
to all of us, although we shall not live
to reap the benefit of it; and the sun,
far from being on its last legs as an
expiring luminary, is steadily gaining
in boat and lighting < apacity.
Curried Up by n Kite.
A club at Terryvillo lias built a kite
sixteen feet. It wai sent up in the
strong wind, and as t started a man
holding it was caught by tho tail of
the kilo and carried about fifty feet
into the top of a tree. lie escaped
with no serious injury. The kite is
supposed tw be tho largest ever flown.
With the lu-rt a und.
The bank clerks arts so often called
upon for directions that they fall into
the habit of giving them in a hurried
and mechanical consequent
ly they are frequent ly misunderstood.
The usual formula when a stranger is
called upon to sign his name is: "‘Sign
there—pen and ink at your left hand.”
One day not long ago a stranger en
ter A one of the lurgi banks aud asked
for a certificate of deposit for a
considerable roll 'of money which
he handed over. The clerk count
ed tho money, found tho amount
to be as stated, and luftriedly
said: “Sign there, sir—pen and
ink at your left hand.” It appeared
to the clerk that it took tho stranger a
long time to sign his name, but he
thought nothing morn of it and issued
the certificate of deposit About a
week later the same mail reappeared
and presented the certificate. As tho
clerk sees so many faces each day he
did iiot remember this man when he
askeiMiim to sign his name. He dashed
off an ornate signature which tho
elerk proceeded to compare with the
first signature. The two were vastly
different, itsj.be first one was appar
ently tho labored effort of an old
man. “I can’t pay you this money,
sir,” said the clerk. "Why not?”
tfffked the astonished stranger. “Be
cause this is not the signature of the
man to whom I issued tho certificate
of deposit,” was the reply. “Is lie
your father or grandfatficr?” The
stranger was dumfounded. “When I
was here you told me to write my
name with iny left hand, and I did so,
but I can’t write that way." Alight
dawned in upon the clerk now. “Will
you write your name with your left
hand now?” he asked. The man la
bored bard and produced a fac-simile
of his first signature, and the clerk
apologized and mid him his money.!
—Chicago Herald. ?!
A I'alr of Pant* In fteven Team.
Ignorant foreigners who open bunkl
accounts probably give bank clerks!
more trouble than any other class of|
depositors. These people all seem to
have an idea that thei. - money is filed
away in a pigeon bole for them, and
is kept there until they want it They
often drop in and ink the receiving
tellers if their funds are all right, to
be on the safe side. Ono of trie big
nutional banks nas a large line of
Chinese deposits on Hand, and some
of the celestials anxiously watch their
deposits grow until they accumulate
sufficient funds to enable them to re
turn to China and pass the remainder
of their days in affluence.
A certain Chicago Chinaman has
quite a deposit at the bank in question,
and he knows the receiving teller so
well that he ventures to call him by
his first name. About twice a month
the Chinaman calls on his friend and
says: “Halloo, Challie—my money all
yitc?” The teller always replies that
it is intact. “Can I see it?” asks tho
celestial. “Just put it back in the
vault this moment, Wing,” is the re
ply. “I get no intlestf” inquires
vY ing. “If you leave it here seven
years you get a pa ir of pants,” says
the teller. Then Wing grins and goes
out, satisfied that his funds are in
good bauds.—Chicago Herald. *
W list the I'l ain 'Vret Celle It.
A good deal of interest has apparent- ;
ly been excited in the east by a yoting
man to whole fingers various metallic
articles stick. They caM it animal
magnetism there, but here m thewuu
and*uncultivated west it is called petit
larceny.—San Francisso Post.
an Unexpected Calamity.
Fond Husband —My dear, you know
I promised you a diamond necklace
this year”
Helpful Wife —I know you did, but
let it go—the water pipes burst last
night,—New York Weekly.
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