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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. NO. 87