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THE HENRY COUNTY "WEEKLY. V'oL. XIV. pUll tty K IglJ 6 POWDER Absolutely Pure. Iliis powder never varus. A marvel of parity, strength and wholcsnmeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot he sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, short weight nlnm or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Royal Baking Powder Co., 10(5 Wall street, jNew York. novl3-Jy rnoFEssroxA l ca it ns. 1 <i. a*. CANPHiiUi, i? DENTIST, McDosoukh (■ a. Ahv mu- iti-siring work dom- I*llll In* mc- MUiiiiiorintt ri either by <•:» 11iti*: on me in prr .iim or iuMri'ssin" me through the limits. Terms cash, unless speeiul arrangements sire otlierwi.se made. ■Geo W. Brtan j W. T. Dick km. lilt VAX A ItltKIA, AT'IOHNEYS AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. api-27-ly yas. ii. rritxiiK. attorney at law, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing (fee Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of] Georgia, and the United States District Court. marlti-l.v y I! HA WAX, attorney at law. McDonough, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia Special attention given to commercial and othercollcctions. Will attend all the Court® at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over The Weekly office. -J I\ WAI.I, ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in I he count ies composing t he Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention i given to collections. octs-’7 9 A. lutowx. * ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough. Ga. Will practice fn all the counties compos ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. janl-ly Vj A. I'lr.lM.l’S. ATTORNEY AT LAW. H am uton, 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 Jno. D. Stkavakt. j U.T. Daniel, j NTllWAll'll .V IIAXIKI., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Guikein, Ga. j |ll. IC. .5. AKXOMh Hami-ton. Ga. I hereby tender inv professional service to the people of Hampton and surronmling country. Will attend all cal’s night and day. LA II CARD. I have opened a law office in Atlanta, l.ul will continue my practice in Henry county, attending ail Courts regular’v, as heretofore. Correspondence solicited. Wil! he in Mc- Donough on ail public days. Office —Room 2l>. Gate City Bank Build tin", Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga. JOHN L TYE. January Ist. ISB.t. ALL j&n<l accounts of 0. KNOTT A; 00,. mtis< fettled now. Ptcaae call on me at «W *tan<i and find out your in ehred- We need the money and know ll.mt you cannot ceiiauru us forgiving this, our l ist wanting- M. LOW E, Tn\ jlampton. Monday Oct. 28 Sixth, Tuesday Stockhiidp:o. Wednesday “ 30 Shake Raij. Tlrirpdny “ 31 l»rii!*liv Knoiio. Kriday Nov. I 1/iv. ••»*. > iturd iv “ ~ Monday ** 4 , Mcl>oi'«‘U-h. I uenduv “ •> Mullen’s. Wednesday (» llorsheha. Thursday M 7 Sandy Rid*:**, Friday •* 8 1 oeust drove. Saturday “ .0 I n«i s’, Mondav “ 11 ‘ SOLOMON K 1 NO, T. 0. GUI I-FIX FOUXIfIIY AND Machine Works. XAfc annoHiu-e to the Public that we are II prepared to manufacture Engine Boil ers * wid ia&c lor s’* k- —ls of Boil ers- We are ori-nar- d to do all kinds of repairing on Engine*. Boiler* end M.ichin erv. generaUy. We keep in stock Brass fittings of all kind- : also Inspirators. In teriors. Safe tv Valves. Steam Guages. Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass Castings of everv Description ONROUA A WALCOTT, TO AN OLD BALL SLIPPER. r>'v ro worn and frayed, V. ah h« e! forlorn ami bow decayed. How changed since g runny tirst displayed Your pristine glory! You jioor bodragged No. 3, You ure alive at least to me; While lying there 1 seem to se j Your simple story Lkiilght in rahneut white and pure. Your mistress tripped of conquest sure; l or damsels w ho look most demure Are not uncanny Praps grandpa came in garments smart Vast triumph of sartorial art- With valorous words yet trembling heart. To woo our granny Tliose were the days w heu wifo and maid Ingenious lowers of hair displayed. When single lufgncttes strove to aid Defective vision: When beaus wore kerchiefs girt with straps. Ingenious coats with many flaps, VtiJ waisuxxlta which would now |jerha|>s Lxc itc derision Waists low, waists high, coats black orgroen Things now are as they've always tieen Since first our ow n most gracious queen The iliroite ascended Around thee lies full many a to';en That shows the specious word was spoken. And hearts irreparably broken Taut quickly mended Pai in. rs. i Teliaucc. were much the same— Some t.. some dull. some fast, some tame: Soixu* w t<» t.» spurious wit lay claim. Nor mi w i heir error: The men w hose charms were scarcely mental. Ihe yout: Ua'i siiy mid sentimental, Ti»e “fas. itai'-iiig detrimental.'* Giv:..-„rauJnms n rror Aud did the cha;>erons then, as now. IxsLitio h.kppi..e-ss uvow While watching with utt aching brow The flitting dancers? Anil did they, gripped in Fashion's vice. Receive a girl w ith looks of ice If she sat out with some one nice— Convenient Lancers? Cut, tiny friend, uow must I flee— A set at tennis waits for me— For, rapt in pleasant reverie. The moments fly by; The hour has come to say adieu, l make my courtesy to you, Now% dear, pathetic little shoe. Go back to “by by” —Vanity Fair. King of All Trees. Fred W. Clough, a well known en gineer of the Comstock, has been spending some weeks in the wilds of the Sierras, about the headwaters of the Kaweah river, Tulare county, Cal ifornia. He was accompanied in his wanderings by Westley Warren, an old Comstocker, who now resides in Tulare valley. About the headwaters of the Kaweah they got into an unex plored and almost impenetrable re gion. In one place they were obliged to cut a trail for almost a mile in or der to get through the chaparral that blockaded the mountain pass. Mr. Clough says that on the trip they dis covered a tree of sequoia species, which he believes to be much the largest on the continent of America. Mr. Warren, who has seen the big trees of Mariposa, those of the big tree grove in Calaveras county, and all the big trees of the coast range, says there is in no place in California a tree which approaches in size that on the Kaweah. The men had with them no rule, tapeline or measure of any kind, but Mr. Warren measured the tree with his rifle, which was four feet in length. He found it to be forty-four lengths of his gun in circumference at a point as high above the ground as he could reach. The top of the tree had been broken off, but it is still of immense height. This monster tree stands in a small basin near the Kaweah, and is surrounded on all sides by a wall of huge, rugged rocks. There is so much brush in the vicinity that the little valley in which the tree stands is al most inaccessible.—Amador Sentinel. Dog* Can Talk. A curious sight was witnessed one afternoon on the wharf at Cincinnati. A gentleman, accompanied by two fine specimens of the water spaniel, went down to the landing of the New port ferry, at the foot of Lawrence street. Somehow he became separated from the canines, or rather they failed to follow him aboard. The boat had got out iu the stream, when the dogs caught sight of their master and dis covered he was fast leaving them. Standing on the edge of the float, they both set up a vigorous yelping, which attracted the attention of the bystand ers. Suddenly the older aud larger dog plunged into the river and began to swim rapidly toward the Kentucky shore. He had gone about 100 yards when he seemed to become aware that his brute companion had not followed. Turningaroiiud, he swam back toward the spot where the younger dog stood. As he drew alongside the float he made no effort to get aboard. The two began to bark at each other —to hold ail animated conversation in the dog tongue, as it were. The older dog, as he floated by the side of the landing, barked encouragement to the more timid animal, and apparently was urg ing the latter to jump into the water. The barking duet lasted some minutes, and then the younger dog, seemingly by his companion's assur ance, grew bold, and suddenly bound ed into the river. The first dog gave a delighted yelp, and, both turning their noses toward Kentucky, began to swim straight across, side by side. Both continued to bark until they reached the shore, aud could be heard on both sides of the river. The people on the ferry and Kentucky shore saw the strange race, and, with people on this side and on the bridge, watched it to the end. The dogs landed opposite to the bar racks, where they were awaited by their owner, who, with several other gentlemen, had hurriedly walked | down the bank. There was no limit to the delight of the two animals as they rushed up to their master. The river at that point is nearly half a mile wide. The action of the dogs seemed to indicate that they had a Win guage of their own, and the paternal manifestations of the elder brute were most interesting to see —Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Injustice to the Porker. Miss Prim—That Mr Ixxlown is a brute. He not only chews and ex pectorates horribly, but he never gives his seat to a lady in a crowded street car. He is simply a pig. Mrs. Yon Juste-My dear, you are really haul upon the pig. Pittsburg Bulletin. McDonough, ga.. Friday. January, it, rsoo. HUNTING THE NICKEL IN THE SLOT. A Peculiarly Honest Tramp Who Lives by Suction, Yet Is No “Sucker” While sitting ,in the Fulton ferry house about 3 o'clock yesterday morn ing, my attention was attracted to a seed v individual who had just entered. I hud no difficulty in establishing his status in life. He was a member of that profession who looks upon the would as its “oyster," and unceremoni ously opens it upon tfie slightest op portunity. He was a tramp. His clothes were cut—or rather torn —to his calling. Hard times hung from every angle of his laxly. His nose was the only bright spot about him. That had been burnished by whisky until it looked like "a gilded Halo hov ering round decay.” “Watch that man,” said an oflieial to me. “He has got some way of get ting nickels aud pennies out of those ‘nickel-in-the-slot’ machines over there. You see, the machines are often out of order and the money dropped in sticks in the slot. That man comes here regularly every morning and sucks them out. It is none of my busi ness, so I never interfere with him.” I watched. The man approached a tutti-frutti machine, stooped down and placed his mouth over one of the slots. A long-drawn-out suction fol lowed, as if the machine was a delic ious lemon on Katzen jammer day, and then ho straightened up with a penny between his teeth. Down he went again as a kingfisher goes for a smelt, and back again with his prey in his mouth. This was repeated until the slots had yielded up thirteen cents— one nickel and eight pennies. When the tramp went away I fol lowed him outside and engaged "him in conversation. I found him to have more than his share of the grim humor that characterizes the tramp brother hood. He drew himself up with a lu gubrious dignity and said: “The suction idea came to me about three months ago. 1 first had to sat isfy myself that it was a legitimate business. The nickel, I reasoned, does not belong to the person who puts it in the slot, as he took chances with the machine and got left. It did not be long to the machine, because it had rendered nothing for the money re ceived. Having thus satisfied my con science I commenced operations. The business has developed beyond my greatest expectations. The interest on the capital invested is enormous. No expenditures; all receipts. 1 make from $1 to $2 per day. My hours aro long, it is true, and most of my busi ness engagements are at night. But it’s ’way ahead of being on the road. I don’t like the country. The haystacks are too fur apart, and the careless handling of shotguns by farmers has always shocked me. “I am glad to have a metropolitan occupation,” he continued. “Here there is a field for ingenuity. The man with an idea cannot be kept down. My business is almost too much for one man to control. It takes me a long time to get around to all the ferries and depots, and I am thinking of letting out part of my territory." After a pause, he said reflectively: “I hope this won’t get into the papers. The slot machine companies might un dertake to shut me oft’. If thev do, it will be a severe blow to the trade and commerce of the country. lam the inventor of the‘snap, ’ and as such I am entitled to the profits. Recollect, though 1 make my living by suction, lam no ‘sucker.’ And he faded away in the gloom Williamsburgh ferry ward.—New York Herald. Washing In Japan. Washing was and still is done in Japan by getting into a boat and let ting the garments drug after the boat by a long string. It is an economical habit of traveling Japs to get a large amount of washing thus accomplished by a steamboat excursion, and it has given rise to the story that once a year they travel to wash. They ha ve no instinct for laundry work, like the Chinese, and think it complete when the soap is in the garment, and will not wring it out. Salt water washes to their taste just as well us fresh.— Washington Capital. The DtiHt of Travel. If you have been traveling any dis tance on the cars don't wash your face in cold water the moment you reach a washstand. If you want to remove all trace of dust and smoke rub your face well with vaseline or cold cream, and wipe it off on a dry towel. The towel after the wiping will show you where the dirt has gone. Then you may wash your face in hot water if you will. There is nothing like hot. really hot, water for thecomplexion. It keeps not only clean, but clear. - Boston Traveler History of ll»«* A rah Horse. Wilfrid Blunt, a noted English breeder of Arab horses, gives it its his opinion that the Arab belongs to tbe original wild races of Africa rather than of Asia, and was introduced to southern Arabia by way of Abyssinia, whence it is historical that be spread northward, lie was not known in Europe before the Mohammedan con quest, but since then his blood lias spread through all lands visited by communication with Mecca, through the pilgrimage. The Barb of north Africa, the Andalusian horse of Spain, the Turk, the Persian and the Turco man have been all largely infused for centuries with Arab blood. Tbe first Arab blood in England was probably brought through Spain and France, and later from Palestine, by the cru saders.—New York Times. The Length of th<* I>uy. At London, England, and Bremen, Prussia, the longest day has lOJ hours. At Stockholm, Sweden, it is l;-h hours in length. At Hamburg iu Germany and Dautzic in Prussia the longest day has 17 hours. At St. Petersburg, litis sia, and Tobolsk, Siberia, tbe long st is 10 hours ami the shortest 5 hours. At Tornea, Finland, June 21 brings a day nearly 22 hours long, and Christ mas one less than 3 hours in length. At Wardbury. Norway, the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 22 with out interruption, and in Spitsbergen the longest day is 3i months. At St. Louis the longest day is some what less than la hours, and at Mon treal, Canada, it is 10. —St. Louis He miLl i c A BOOD STORY* How a PrettJ Hook Agent Got Ahead of a Newspaper Man. There are more than two newspaper men living in Woodsburg, L. 1., and of one of them the boys told the Ram bler a good story. It seems that the newspaper man in question had been annoyed by a persistent book canvass er. She was young, pretty and talk ativo and hail for sale a gaudily cov ered book entitled “How to Be Good. " The newspaper limn was busy when site first called on him and he told her to drop in when he had more time. She did not succeed in selling the book on the first attempt nor on the second. [ler visits, however, became so fre quent that the newspa|>or uiun told his wife of the matter. Fhe was struck with the title of the Ixiok and told her husband that he ought to buy it, as lie needed instruction on the subject treated. The book agent called the next day, us usual, and the newspav r Ilian said: /i “Well, I'll take your bixik. but 1 would not buy it only uiy wife has taken a fancy to the title.” The lady canvasser had not closed her purse on the $2 which she received for the book before she learned where the newspaper man lived, and that afternoon found her in Woodsburg. she sold a second copy of tin book to the newspaper man s w ili lie reached homo earlier than usual that evening and with lighted pipe was enjoying the comfort derived from roomy slippers which adds to the prospect of dinner when Iu: wili said : “I forgot to tell you I bought that book, 'llow to Be Good.’ “The compositor you did,” said he. “Now we’ve got two copies. I bought one of the book agent today.” “Well," said his wife, “we can” “No, wo can’t. That's selling books on false pretences and I’ll have tliat woman arrested. The train is just getting in, but I have my slippers on. There’s Lyug going to the train now. Say, Lyng, stop that book agent at the station until 1 see her.” “What ilo you want to see her about!” asked Lyng. “Never mind, now. She’ll bo oil' if you don't hurry. You just keep her talking until I get there.” Lyug reached the station as the fail book agent was boarding the outgoing train. “Excuse me,” he said, “but Mr. Dash wants to see you.” “Mr. Dash wants to see me!” saiil the book agent, demurely standing on the car platform. “Oh, yes, he wants to buy one of my liooks. 1 must have cash for it, though. The price is $2.” Mr. Lyng, happy to oblige bis friend Dasb, paid the money, took the book “How to Be Good,” aud the train started as Dash, out of breath, reached the station. “Don’t hurry, old fellow,” said Lyng, “I’ve got the book for you, ‘How to Be Good.’ ” “By thunder,” said Dash, as ho sat on the baggage truck anil sliodic his list at the train. —Brooklyn Eagle. A Historic Old Clock. There is in the establishment ol John McDullic, in Albany, one of the finest specimens of antique clocks ever seen. It was procured at Amsterdam, Hol land, by Mrs. McDuffie. The timepicee was made at Amsterdam in 1680 by Andrian Baghyn and is a marvel of mechanism. It stands twelve feet high. The case is of bird’s eye black walnut and on the top of it stand three golden statuettes. The central figure represents Atlas bending beneath the weight of a miniature globe. The right and left figures are counterparts of Gabriel in the act of blowing his trumpet. When wound the clock runs eight days. It gives the day of the month with the phases of the moon as well as the hour, and strikes every’ quarter. Considering that it has been ticking away tbe hours for over two centuries, it keeps remarkable time ami is in a wonderful state of preser vation. It has an air of past ages about it and is undoubtedly a histori cal landmark of past centuries. —New York Telegram. A Hoimet for it Text. There have been many preachers whose pulpit jokes are the only re membered portionsof their harangues. Michel Menot, reproving the ladies for being late at church, told them that it would take less time to cleanse the Augean stables than to stick in all a woman’s pins. The story is told of Rowland Ilill that lie once began a sermon with the words, “Look at my wife there, with a chest of drawers on her head.’ The congregation stared at the poor lady thus pointed out but only perceived that she wore a new bonnet. “She has sold a chest of drawers and bought a new bonnet with the proceeds.’’ Then he went on to inveigh against female love of dress. San Francisco Argonaut. , Tlws Meanest Man That Kver Lived. A flutter of excitement was created here by the arrival of Obey Grif fin with a large trunk containing the wearing apparel of his dead wife, a very estimable lady, who died several months ago. He immediately mounted a dry goods box in front of the post ofiice, and in a shrill voice urged tho liegrcHsand loungers around to come forward and give him a hid on tho dresses and underelothing of his wife, and the negro women of the demi monde attended in droves, purchased, and arc today Haunting around ar rayed in their second hand dresses, and grinning from ear to ear at tln-ir luck in cheap bargains. Akrpaha (Ga.) Cor. Savannah News. Call Off Your Do*. A tramp was arrested in Woodcoun tv, 0., the other day, for cruelty to animals. In tho course of one week he clubbed thirty-two farmers’ dogs to 1 death without receiving a bite in re } turn, and several loads of buckshot fired at him failed to take effect. He i hails from Michigan, of course.—l>e | troit Free Press. The great crested fly catcher and j several other birds adopt an exceed ingly novel method to frighten away other birds or Lizards that would prey 1 upon their eggs. They wind into their nestioneor more of the old skins which . have been shed by snakes, so that these appear to be live snakes coiled about j the nest*. Nol>le>hf Obn fc «\ An accurate remembrance of names and faces has been called a gift of princes; another gift, showing the no bility of Ixttli heart and good breeding, is that of punctilious courtesy toward the humble as well as toward the great. “Why,” said a rich and vulgar wo man, who was walking with a rela tive who could claim better breeding, “is it possible you bow to your cook !" “I nope I shall always be found worthy,” was the quiet reply; “my cook is a very good woman. “Ah, hut I’d go out of mo way and back ag’iti, to mate wid him,” said an old Irishwoman, enthusiastically, in speaking of the rich man of her town ; “he's the only gintleman that takes oil' his hat to inc." A young Englishman, staying at Fontainebleau in the time ot Napo leon 111, chanced to fall in with the royal party while hunting in the for est, and made a pleasant impression on the emperor, who invited him to dinner. The young inrni tmirred to accept so signal an honor, but he had previously made an engagement to lx> with some oid ladies at Geneva, on the appointed day. Doubtless they would have released him from his engage ment under the plea of dining with the emperor, but lie did not ask tliat grace. The emperor received his ex cuses, and the old ladies his presence. A modest, but exceedingly punctili ous gentleman, an English clergyman, one afternoon took tea with the poet Tennyson, who, as his guest was about to leave, invited him to taken walk. Much as lie desired further con versa lion with his host, the clergyman was obliged to excuse himself and hasten away to meet one of his humblest par ishioners. “I should have been greatly pleased to go with him,” he said, afterward, “hut you see 1 had promised old Thompson to take a wall: with him, and of course he came first." “Why should you thank a servant!” asked a father, who was fond of the Soeratie melhod of teaching, and loved to qm-.-J.ioii liis little son, until (lie lad reached wise conclusions by his own wit. “They are paid for what they do. Do you owe them anything but money!" “I owe them money,” said the lad, somewhat perplexed, in expressing what lie really felt, “and I thank them because—because l owe it to myself to be polite!” lie had learned the meaning of the old, grand motto, “Noblesse oblige.” Youth's Companion. I)aii<'iit£ (iiaiitK of tin' !>i**«»rl. Curious atmospheric conditions of the desert and high plateaus at certain seasons of the year produce strange phenomena hut little understood ex eopt by persons who have long lived in those regions. The dry weather in Nevada has produced a host of giant dancers there. Formerly tln-y ap peared only in the spring, the Peranc gat and Humboldt valleys being their rendezvous. Now they are down in Lyon county, far to the southwest. “These dancing giants, or waltzing sand augers,” said Judge Kelly of Pioche yesterday, “are puzzlers to all scientists. Ilow they brace up and hold together so long is what gets them. On a quiet, sunny day you sue a little handful of sago brush soar aloft on a light breeze. Some more joins it, until it is as big as your hat and then your body, and then the sand and rocks and soil by (lie bushel begin to roll into the mass from the ground, ascending upward like a col limn. It is soon as big as a telegraph ’ pole, and all the time gaining, and ere long its top maybe readies 1,000, may be 5,000 feet. While you are watch ing this one probably three or four others will spring up, or a half dozen will conic waltzing down from the up per end of the valley, having traveled , probably twenty-five miles and torn up the soil like a steam plow in their waltzing anil zig-zagging. “These are some of the things I saw lust week ten miles below Pioche. Horses siiill the air and get wild when they see them. The augers te;u- up the hillsides, smash houses like a cy clone and suck up men like a water spout. Then when they have spent their force, quit sashaying and have ! lost their cohesive powers, they go all to pieces in as strange a way as they j were formed, and there is nothing ; but a pile of sand, sagebrush, stone, loose boards and what not, to tell j what they once were. Strange tilings, these dancing giants.” - San Francisco | Examiner. Tli« l'rogreu c»f The progress of languages sicken by different nations is said to l)c us fol lows: English, which sit the com mencement of tlic century was only spoken by 22,000.000 of people, is now spoken liy 100,000,000. Russian is now spoken by 08,0(0,000, against 30,000,000 at the, beginning of the cen turv. In 1 >OO German was only spolcen by 3r>.*Xß),ooo of js-ople; today over 70.000.000 talk in tl.- same lan guage that \yilliam II does. Spanish is now used by 44,000,000 of people, against 30,000,000 in 1800; Italian by 32,000,000 instead <>f 18,000,000; l’ur tugueseby 13,000,000 instead of 8,000, 000. This is for English an increase of 312 percent.; for Russian, 120 percent.; for German, 70 per cent.; for Span ish, 3t5 [H-r cent.., etc. Ip the case of French the increase has been from 34,000.000 t 040,000,000, or 30 per cent. Boston Tieraid. Somewhat Mortified. A number of book men v.-ro relat ing professional anecdotes tiie other night. “About twenty years ago," said one of them, “I was employed with the lippincot' >. Thornes !i' plies was being lionized very extensively, and when became down to Philadel pliia became to sec the publishing house. After he had ins; sled the whole establishment and expressed his surprise and gratilication the h .id ol the house took him by the: i and said: ‘Now, Mr. Hughes, I want to show you one of our greatest pi. Vi a tions —"Aiiilxme's Diclionaiy. It contains sonic information a' <. • < very authorof any account in England and America. Now, let us sec for example, what it ?a.i • about Thomas Hughes.* So he turned to 11, and lot the name of the authorof "Tom Crown's School Days’ wasn't there.” Philadelphia Press. < 01. Ijfl’”’s Aiirctloto of J>oiu Pedro* He told mo a short but interesting story apre xisof Dom Pedro's enforced retirement from the imperial throne of Brazil. “Dom Pedro,” ho said, “is a thorough democrat, aud I have many reasons for believing that if lie did not .actively connive at liisown re tirement, he was at least aware tliat it was about to be forced upon him, and I took no steps to prevent it. He was I so much of a democrat, in fact, that I can boast, of the fact tliat even when j he was emperor of Brazil he owed me | fifty cents. The maimer in which I this enormous debt wus incurred is | amusing. When the Brazilian cm- ; pel-or visited Egypt, the khedive, in | whoso service 1 was then engaged, ap- i pointed me Dom Pedro’s chief of staff, it was part of my duty to see that the royal chariot, drawn by four mngnifi cent horses, should be every morning at the doorway of the emperor’s hotek Dom Pedro had a deep rooted dislike to this display and evaded the chariot • whvnevw possible. One morning 1 arrived in front of his apartments in time to sec the emperor jump into the most disreputable looking hack in Alexandria. 1 followed him on horse back to liis destination, but he was so desirous of being able to roam about without the companionship of royal ollicials that he sprung from the queer looking conveyance and hastened away without paying the driver his fire. The jelni, unaware of the em peror's identity, was with loud cries, running after him when ] intercepted him and paid the fifty cents which was owing. The incident is interesting simply as showing what a profound contempt Dom Pedro has for ceremo nial form.’' - Philadelphia Inquirer. Steamship Sloker'a I.lff. The stokers on one of the great ocean steamers work four hours at n stretch, in a temperature ranging from 120 to 100 degs. The quarters are close, and they must take care that while fceiling one furnace their urnis are not burned on the one behind them. Ventilation is furnished through a shaft reaching down to the middle of their quarters. Each stoker tends four f'urnuees, spending perhaps two or three minutes at each, then e -lies to the air pipe to take his tc u . t cooling off, anil waits for anolii r call to his furnaces. When thev. tell is over the men go perspiring through long, cold passages to tiic forecastle, where they turn in for eight hours. One man, 28 years old, who was in terviewed by a reporter, had been em ployed at the furnace since he was 11 years old. 110 weighed 180 pounds, and was ruddy and seemingly happy. He confessed that the work was terri bly hard, but “it came hardest on those who didn't follow it regularly. But if wo get plenty to eat,” he sayl, “anil take care of ourselves we are all right. Here’s a mute of mine, nearly 70 years old, who has been a stoker ail liis life, and can do as good work as 1 can.’.’. Stokers never have the eon ' sumption, and rarely catch cold.— New York Journal. T!io Man In No. «. One night when three or four of us boys boarded a sleeper on the L. und N. road going south from Cincinnati, a passenger in lower 7 began to snore us soon as wo were in bed. He hud a terrible snore for a human being, and after several of in had called to him and failed to stop it one of our crowd sliil out of bed, reached into No. 7, and with great deftness affixed a spring clothespin to the sloopor’s nose. It was, of course, expected that he would wake up in a few seconds, but, to our surprise, ho did not, while at the same time he suddenly ceased to snore. , By and by all of ns dropped off to sleep, and every on iu the car was up before No. 7. in fact, he slept so late that the porter part d (lie curtains to arouse him. After one look he jumped back with a yell, and when we hurried uj) wo found the man cold and dead, lie was lying on liis back, hands locked under his neck, and the clothes pin had -pinched his nose all out of shape. The body was taken to Cincin iiati, and most of us bail to attend the inquest. It was there testified to by the doctors that the man had died of heart disease, but 1 tell you wo didn’t hanker to do anv more joking fora full year.—New York Hun. T<*ii Hindoo Com maud muni*. There are ten commandments hung on the walls of the Hindoo theological college in Madras. Homeward Mail reproduces them: “(1) Pray to God as soon as you rise from your bed — 5-5:10 l a. in. (2) Wash your body and keep your surroundings clean 5:10-5:30 a. iii. (3; Prostrate yourselves before ! your parents or guardians, and take ! good exercise- 5:3d to 0:30 a. m. (4) i Prepare well your school lesson — C:3O -a. m. (5) Attend school regularly and punctually, and do the school work properly. fC) Obey and respect your teacher and the teachers of the other classes, and other respectable persons. (7) Read till 8 p. m. at home. (-J Pray to God and go to bed—9 p. in. to 5 m. (9) Keep good company and avoid bad company. (10) Practice righteousness at all times.”—London j Standard. Nt w Outdoor (.aim; for J.Hdies. Ringoal is a new English out of door game for ladies It is played with gracp hoops and sticks and two neks eight fi-et high and toil feet square. It is proposed to make it rival and rule out tennis, if possible, as it exercises both arms, both shoulders, both hands and the whole body in the running and turning necessary to catch the hoojs before they reach tho goals or nets. —Washington Star. A Needed Precaution. Little Ethel—Please, Mr. Tooscore, why didn’t you have suspenders to your hair! Tooscore (bearded, but bald; —What dix s my little friend mean? Little Ethel—’Cause, you see, your hair has nearly all slipix-d right (Town round your neck.—Pittsburg Bulletin. Preaching Venom Practicing:. "Upon my soul!" exclaimed Mrs. Flyuround, “I never saw such a gad der in ail my life as that Mrs. Never hoine 13! Actually, yesterday I seven times at her house and couldn't get In once! ’—Epoch. * GRAY HAIR. The ClHlin Tliat It Is Canned by Hut Four Things—The Frenintitrely Cray. One groat question which the men of the present day ask, which has been propounded frequently, is how can tho hair be prevented from becoming white. The case is generally urged that the' inquirer is too young to yet havo gray hair and wishes only to have hair in accordance with his age and facial appearance. To quote from one letter verbatim will give a clear view of the disturbing matter: “There arc a great many men in St. Louis who note with dismay an abun dant amount of hair and even the mustache or beard becoming gray, when tho fnce is yet youthful. A nat ural desire, with nothing of vanity in it, would lead most of tho men to dye or color the hair were it not that they are afraid to use the dyes generally known, bceuuse usually they contain i substances of a poisonous nature.” Why a person Lwming gray prema ■ turcly should dosiro jto change the hair seems an enigma. Silver hair with a young and fresh face is only nn added beauty, especially if the eyes are dark. Novelists have chosen their i favorite heroines and heroes with the prematurely gray hair as tho most 1 pronounced and distinguished in ap pearance. “Vashti"iu her first youth with silver hair was supposed to win all hearts, and to become very local and practical some of the very best looking men in St. I/ans, as well as women, have their faces crowned by silver hair. There are three things which cause gray hair; they are brains, neuralgia and old age—oh! and a fourth, too; fear or distress. One of the brightest, sweetest faces in this eity is that of a gifted woman whose wealth of hair turned white in one single night. She was to have been married;‘the guests arrived, tho beautiful girl, in her bridal robes, awaited the coining of the bridegroom; hours passed by and the bridegroom eiuno not. Tho guests de parted and the brideshut herself ill her room alone. In the morning her dark hair had become perfectly white. Such a strange, strange sight; the beautiful girlish face with its wealth of spotless hair. Sho has never since that night mentioned tho subject. Whether she lias heard from her delinquent fiance cannot lie ascertained, at least outside her il lative*, but she is brave and beautiful and took up her burden of lifo fearlessly. There is no way of intercepting gruy hair except from tho absence, as before said, of brains, neuralgia, fear or old age. When it does come, only an ar tificial means can change it to the former hue, and dyes are mostly dan gerous. 4 Gray hair at least is not tho sign of decreasing energy, uud tho gray huired beaux of society aro usually the most active and often tho greatest favorites. } Another feature of gray hair is that ‘ it is generally fine hair, and a silver , head of hair is generally an abundant - one. —Bt. Louis Post-Dispatch. j A (iold Slug W orlt*r. “This thing of trying to crowd big j gold pieces onto street car conduc-J tors by people who hope to ride freo because the conductors can't always] give tho proper change reminds me] how that kind of a game used to ho worked in early days," said Capt. (Jeorgo 11. Mcßride, of Portland, to a Han Francisco Examiner man. "Old man Applegate lived on tho road between Oregon and California in those days, and just for accommo dation he would provide meals and lodgings for such travelers as chanced to travel his wuy. It was an annoying custom with a certain class of spick dealers who frequently went over tho road to offer a SSO slug in payment for a night’s entertainment, and if the change could not lie given they would settle in full the next time they stop ped. “One day u fellow whom Undo Ap plegate hud spotted otFered a slug in the usual way, saying ho was sorry, but really that was the smallest com ho had about him. “ Ttn sorry, too,’ said the host, ‘for l haven't u hit of clianro in the house.’ “ ‘Oil, never mind,’ replied tho guest, I'll bund it to you as I come hack.’ “ ‘But may lie I’ll never see you again,’ suggested Applegate, ignoring the hand outstretched for the eight cornered coin. " ‘Yes, you will. 11l Ixo ulong here in about a week,’ said the other. “ ‘Oh, well, in that case I’ll just keep the slug, and when you come back I’ll have the change for you,’ replied the old gentleman, nnd put ting the piece in his pocket he bade the stranger good morning, with best wishes for a prosperous journey and safe return. “That man didn’t try to fool with old man Applegate any more.” lUf« Swindled. Several years ago Miss Kate Field, the authoress, visited Atchison, says The St. Joseph Herald. While there sho made the acquaintance of a promi nent business man, who believing that sho had some ready money, portrayed to her the profit she would reach by buying a lot in that city. He induced her to purchase, the price being $3,000. She paid SI,OOO down and the balance was to come in payments. It turned out afterward that the lot really be longed to the man V. ho induced her to buy, although lie had represented dif ferently. The editor of The Herald met Miss Field in Sun Diego nearly two years ago. when she related tho story of her Atchison purchase, de scribed tho location of tho property, and said she had received a letter from a friend not to meet the second pay ment, as the pr< >pertv was not then and never had been worth more than SI,OOO, the amount she had already (>aid. We were requested to investi gate the matter for her and did so. We had fivo of the best reliable men in Atchison value the property. One placed the value less than $1,000; the other thought it might be worth $1,200. We advised Miss Field to lose tho SI,OOO she had paid down rather than pay the $2,0u0 yet due. ’Hus is the true story of Miss Field's real estate deal in Atchison. The deal was a clear swindle for which the city of Atchison was in no way- responsible, but perpe trated by a man of prominence who claimed respectability. NO- 3 8