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VOL. XIV. |||| w POWDER Absolutely Pure. This pewder never vuric*. A m»rr«l oi purity. strength ami vrholenonienem. Mon economical thun the ordinary kinds, and cannot !«• sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Rovai. Rakixo I’otvnsn On., Mid Wall street, New Vork. uqvl3-ly ruoFESsioyji. cards. jjie. <i. i*. t'Pii , iti:M„ DENTIST, Mt !)o\orc;ii Ga. • Anv ono deFiring work done can Ik* isc- Kt»mmodnlt*d either hycnllinjr on me in per son or nddreaflinj' me through the maila renna cash, unless special arrftngutn*»nl are otherwise made. Geo W. Bryan j W.T. Dick ex. ■UCYAA A UK kIA. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, McDono 'iui, G a . Will practice in the counties cemposlag ihe Flint Judicial Circuit,the Supreme Courl of Georgia and (he United States District Court. api-27-ly JAN. 11. TIIIIAUR, ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing Ihe Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. marl 6-1 v .1. IMMtO.A, ATT’ORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, (J a. Will practice in all the » >urta ot Georgia Special attention given to commercial and •othercollections. Will attend all the Courts at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over ’The Weekly office. j r. waiju ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonouoh, Ga. Will practice in the counties composingttie glint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to collections. octs- 79 A. IIKOIO, * ATTORNEY AT LAW, MoDoxot cm, Ga. Will practice in a’l (lie counties compos in" the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. janl-ly T| A. PRKPI.KS ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hamiton, Ga, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and (lie District Court of Iho United States. Special and prompt atten tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888 Jno. I). Stkwaut. | R.T. Daniei.. NI’I.WART a Itt.HIKI., ATTORNEYS at law, Gkikpin, Ga. j | «*. It. .1. AU\OM>. Hamiton. Ga. I hc rc.,\ tender inr professional service to ■the people of Hampton and surrounding •country. Will attend all cal's night and slav. LA It CARD. (1 nave opened a law office ill Atlanta, licit will continue my practice in Henry county, attending all Couris reguiar’v, as heretofore. Correspondence solicited. Mill lie in Mc- Donough on ali politic (Lvs. Office—Room 26, Gate City Hank Build in’, Alal'amn street, Atlanta, Ga. JOHN L TYE. January Ist. 188.7. ALL Notes and accounts of D. KNOTT & CO.. tmitM l*c settled now. Please call on me nt tie old stand and find out your in dried ness. Wc need the money and know that you cannot censure ufl for giving this, our last warning. M. *\ LOWE, 'i ni Notice - Neraml SCoiiiml. Hampton. Monday Oct. *iS Sixth, Tuesday ** Stockbridg<*. Wednesday “ ‘*o Shake Rag, Tli*ir«dajr. “ -II Hrushy Kuohh, Friday Nov. I Lov-*«**. Saturday “ 2 Tussh haw, Monday ll 4 MclV»P*»ugh. Tuesday “ 5 McMullen’s, Wednesday ** f> Bersheha. Thursday ** 7 Saiidy Hidge, Friday •* H Locust Grove, Saturday “ It Lowes’, Mondays “ 1 I SOLOMON KING, T. C O BIFFIN FOUNDRY AND Machine Works. V; T e announei tn the Puhl'c tlist we ;ire I prepared to niauufaciuii Logise Boil ,rs ; will take orders (dr sit k ! u (s of Boil €r, ’ We are pn-par d to do xtl kinds of repairing on Engines. Boilers s’id Mm-hin ,tv. genera!lv. We keep in rtock Bn«s tittlngs of ail kinds: also Inspi-atorg, In jectors. Safetv Valve*. Steam Guxge*. Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Rm«* l astings of everv Dose .ptiou OMKOUA * WAUDrr. THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. SUCCESS. Afi wo gaze up Ufe's slope, os we g&zn In the morn, ere the dew drojjs :iru dry Wlnit a splendor hangs over those ways. What a glory gleams there in tho sky l What pleasure seems waiting ns high On the peak of that beautiful slope. What rainbow hued colors ot dap*. A b we ga As we climb up tho hill, as wo climb. Our lieurta, our iDuslons, are rent; For Fat<*, who is spouse* of ohl Time, Is jeoiouH of youth and content, With brows that are brooding and bent She shadows our sunlight of gt4d, And the way grows lonely and cold. An we climb As w*» toll on through ti outdo and i*ain, There aiohunds that will shelter and feed; But otu d l«?t as dare to attain. They will bruiso our t*uo hearts till we bleed. "Tin the worst of all crimes to succeed— Xuow th»s as we fast on a crust, Know this in the darkness and dust. Ye who climb! As we stand on the heights of success, ho! success seems as lutnl os defeat, Tn rough the lives we may succor oikl bleaa Alone may it* bitter tnru sweet; And the world, lying there at our feet. With its caviling praise and its sneer. We must pity, condone and not hear. Where w e stand As w e live ou tboMe heights, wo must live With the courage tun 1 pride of u god; For tlie world, It has to give But thorcoiirgc of the Llsli und the rod. Our thoughts must be noble and brood. Our must cltallengo men's g:ize, While wo seek not their blame nor their praise. As we li v«. Lila Wlieoler Wilcox. A Fortune Just Mfoituri. Quincy Roljison related an incident of tiic early history of the oil regions recently which inav give the children of tho present generation n vague idea of the magnitude of the transactions which took place when oil was $S and $9 a barrel, and poor people gained a competency bv scooping it oil' the surface of creeks or gathered it front pools around the tanks which had overflowed. The story, as told by Mr. Robison, was as follows: “Within a month after Col. Drake had struck the first petroleum ever brought to the surface in America by means of drilling, my father and the father of my relatives here bought a tract of land, comprising 1,280 acres, adjoining the farm on which the Drake well was located, for £350,000. Not long afterward I was sitting in their othce one clay—l remember it as distinctly as though it happened only yesteiday-—when an agent for an eastern syndicate walked in and offered 1500,000 for the 1,280 acres. The owners looked at him rather in credulously for a moment, but before they could speak he had counted out on the table $500,000 in casli and drafts, which he offered for a deed of the tract. I was appalled by the sight of the pile, but my father and the father of these gentlemen retired for consultation, anil decided that if the property was worth $500,000 it was worth $1,000,000, and the offer was refused. Their heirs still own the land, and now it is valued at about $20,000. Where they could have got dollars we could scarcely get nickels. Thus you can see what seemingly fairy stories could be told of those days. They are almost- incomprehen sible to tho present generation, but they were red hot facts.” And a igh of regret that the offer had not been accepted went around the circle.— Pittsburg Dispatch. King: Sham lUtigni. This is an era of shams, and shams in dress, about which so much is said and written, are particularly notice able. It no longer pays to purchase “good things,” because good things go out of date os fast as poor things, and their extra cost is dead loss, hence expedients of all sorts mark the ap parel, the furniture, the houses even, of this now almost defunct Nineteenth century. A very expensive cheapness has been substituted for enduring in vestments. There are some few old fogies yet remaining who demujid sub stanco rather than style, and who trust they are getting an A 1 article by paying an A 1 price for it. Let ’em still hope! Do not disturb their cre dulity in advance. But. it is none tho less true that sham ri king, precisely as shoddy ruled Lite world in post hel ium duys. Tho source of this condition of affairs is not far to seek; the in creasing populations, the greed for money, tlie struggle to live, ail com bine to father sjiams and nurture pre tense. Make believes are the order of the day. Uoslon Herald. Army Life Im Not un Fit*»y One. The suj)|«jsition that army life is ati easy one is a civilian's delusion. No occujiation on earth is more exacting. The reveille is sounded at daylight, and the soldier must be up and ready. Be tween reveille in tne morning and “taps,” at 9:30 at night, he lms to at tend the majority of thirty three bu gle calls, unu lie is on bis feet most of the time till “retreat" at sunset. The officers are busy at nearly ail times over new military problems. They arc called to mount and manage new artillery that would have struck dire dismay into armies like those of (Ae sar, Ilaunibal or Alexander. Today war is a science, requiring all the skill of the best navigators, the most able engineers and tlte finest electri cians. All tlie known means of defense and destruction arc availed of, even down to the last electric triumph, the telephone.—Baltimore American. English Opinion of Tuj>jM*r. As a poet Mr. Tapper enjoyed more favor with the general public than with the critics. His peculiar verse has been a frequent theme for the sa tirists. aud yet tlie attacks upon him only seemed to confirm bis hold over the masses. He lacked genius and in spiration, but there v. as a kind of orac ular air about his utterances which greatly impressed those who did not examine beneath Lie surface. As a moral essayist be tt- et ved praise, and occasionally be reamed a |s* licstrain when animated by the fervor of pa triotism. That lit- enjoyed a strange and unique position in literature is be yond question. This Ls a tribute to tlie British heart rather lluin to its intel lect. Personally, Mr. Tapper was a genial, warm hearted titan, a close friend, and a good I later of cant and superstition, as well ns of the enemies of Britain. —London Hines. McDonough, ga.. Friday. January, 24,1800. Ilia Uist Concort, One of the most pathetic of sights was that s- en in the Boston music hall at the last concert given by Mario, the once famous tenor, lie was poor, and the hall was tilled with persons who had been ardent udmirens of /his won derful art, and now that he had lost his art were willing to put money in his purse. The tenor tried oue of his great songs, but his decayed voice refused to sing the notes. Again he tried, and again he failed. Then, with a sad smile, and a slow-, mournful move ment of his head, he suffered tho or chestra to play through the air, and retired from the stage amid the silence of the pitying audience. Another pathetic story is told of Bottesini, a famous violinist, concern ing his last concert at Parma: It was a rainy evening and the man agers had forgotten to send a carriage for the veteran, who set out on foot, and had gone some distance before a passing friend jx-reeived him and mudo him enter his carriage. Arrived tit the concv'rt room. Hot-’ tesini tutted his instrument and began to rub his bow with rosin. The rosin crumbled in bis hands, and, turning to his friends witii a sad half smile, he said, “Son, it is so that Bottesini, too, will break up." Then lie grasped his loved instru ment and drew -the bow across the strings, hut instantly slopped with a wondering look, for lie fel't something strange in the tone; his touch was an swered less readily and certainly than of old. Once more he tried, and once more stilt)pod, this time with a simile, saying only, “It answers no more.” llis au dienco perceived nothing unusual itt the performance, which they applaud ed us warmly its ever, hut Bottesini seemed to feel the shadow of death. On the following day lie was stricken with illness, and soon alter the won derful hand was stilled forever. — Youth’s Companion. How Gold Are Made. Gold rings are made from bars nine to fifteen inches long. One of these bars, fifteen inches long, two inches wide and 3-16 of an inch thick, is worth SI,OOO, and will make -100 four pennyweight rings. A dozen processes and twenty minutes’ time are required to convert this bar into merchantable rings. First a pair of shears cuts tho bar into strips. Then by the turn of a wheel ;i guillotine like blade attached to tho machine cuts the bar into slices, one, two or three sixteenths of tut inch wide. A rolling machine next presses out the slices and makes thorn either flat or groovod. Each strip is then put under a blow pipe and annealed. The oxide of copper comes to tho sur face and is put into a pickle of sul phuric ticid, after which the gold is stamped “11 k,” “16 k” or “18 k,” ac cording to quality. Next it is put through a machine which bends it into the shape of a ring of the size re quired. The ends are then soldered with an alloy of inferior fineness to the quality of the ring. Many jteople think that rings are molded because they can’t see where they are soldered. The ring spins through the turning lathe, is rounded, pared and polished, first with steel filings, then with tripoli and rouge.—Rehoboth Herald. How Sl»« Foiled tho Tlilof. * Some years ago one of the present congressman from New York state and his brother were examining the stock of a pawnshop in London with the hope of picking up some curiosities. They came across a necklace of green glass beads, which the New York man purchased for $2.50, intending to bring it home to his little daughter. The bro ther was surprised to find in the shop a counterpart of this necklace, which he brought homo to his little girl Two months later the latter showed her gift to a jeweler, who pronounced tho glass beads to be emeralds, and who sold them afterwards for several thousand dollats. The member of con gress, upon hearing this, took liis necklace to the same dealer, who pro nounced it to he composed of glass beads. The London pawn dealer bad purchased them of a thief, who had stolen them from a wealthy woman. The latter kept the emeralds in a safe, und wore their glass counterparts. Of course no one could tell the difference when the necklace encircled bel li i rout. Ex change. Kricßgoii’n Three I‘ur|»«HK*A. Setting iiside minor inventions, three distinct purposes arc apparent in Hricssoh’s labors; first, to improve UK steam engine and scope of its applica tion; next, to discover some more eco nominal and efficient method for changing the mode of motion we call Heat into the mode of motion wo call Bower; third, to enforce the great maritime nations into calling the ocean neutral ground, by making naval war fare too destructive a pastime to be in dulged in, and equalizing the struggle between the greater mid lesser states. On the accomplishment of this last purpose depended, in Ericsson V judgment, the future of hi< native Sweden. Too weak to hold her own in a contest with any great power, un der existing conditions, her only sure hope of defense is in neutralizing the dominating factors of numbers und wealth by the efforts of genius stim ulated by patriotism. Love of country was with Ericsson a supreme passion. In this control ling sentiment, in the traits of char acter derived from hi» -turdy Norse ancestry, and in the training and expe rience received in the twenty-three years spent in his Scandinavian home, we lind the secret of that exceptional development of specialized faculties which has placed hint itt the very front rank of constructive engineers. —“John Ericsson the Engineer,” by Col. W. C. Church in Scribtier. A Very Valuable Flogging. A Hogging which Jolm James Mayo, the Guatemalan millionaire, re ceived some years ago laid the foun dation for Ins fortune. He was a col lector of insects and also acted as Brit ish vice consul at Han Juan, where the local commandant one day gave him 100 lashes for some fancied slight. Ihe British government took up the matter and Mayo was paid $50,- COO for the indignity. Judicious in vestment* have since swelled this sum to $5.000,009. Harper’s Weekly, A TRENCH DUDE FISHING. Tlie Gallic I«toa of Sport TjplOco In a I'lirliiiili IMsootor. I shall never forget a fellow I saw one day last summer, just outside of Baris, itshing in the Seine. To prelude, the laws are very strict over there itt regard to fishing and shooting. The seasons open und shut like a jack knife with a snap, and woe to the transgressor. On.a certain day in July, I think, the season opens, and long 'before daylight of the day the banks of the river all along the Bois de Boulogne are lined with fisher men sitting side by side, almost elbow to ellxiw. 1 strolled down to the river one day and witnessed the sport. Tak ing out a cigar I paid a woman two sous for a chair, ami sat down to get a wrinkle in French fishing. For half an hour nil sat in silence with not a movement. Bresently one fellow had a nibble. Immediately every eye was turned on the little rial lloaj oil his line. Tiie Hunt moved jjjpf’f'eptibly. "Hie -1111111.' with every nerve strainM and eyes riveted on the flout, breath less with excitement, watched. The float dipped again. The man pulled, and the cork came to the surface, but no fish. All along the line of fisher men there was tin ejaculation of “Ah!” The disappointed fisherman put on afresh piece of bait and waited. Bresently the fislt took hold again; and this time he luul him. Carefully he worked him itt to the bank, and an attendant slipped a delicate landing net under the fish and carried him up the bank. There was a cry ali along the line of fifty or more fishermen of “Bon, bon, trosjoii."Several laid down their rods and gathered around the basket, lined with leaves, in which the fish was carefully placed. He was a monster, nearly six inches long, and must have weighed about tout-ounces. Then all went at it again with renewed hope and courage. Bresently a cab drove up and there descended from it a dude in an elabo rate sporting costume eyeglasses und a broad brimmed bat. Walking leis- i urely to the bank, a man who had ev idently been sent ahead to secure a [«>- sition vacated. A servant brought from the cab a folding stisil und placed it on the bank; returning to the cab lie produced a delicate rod and satchel. The rial was put together; the satchel was opened and a small sil ver bait box, it towel, a piece of soap • and a bowl were placed ou another | stool alongside. The servant opened an umbrella and held it over the fisherman’s head to screen hint from the sun and the fish ing began. It was a long wait for a bite. Finally there was a nibble and miss; several more nibbles and misses, and presently there was a fish, sure enough. The excitement all along the bank was intense. With the aid of the landing net the fish was se cured. The servant essayed to take it off the hook, but the fisherman an ticipated hint and held it up in tri umph. But this operation wet the dude’s gloves, and he took them off and threw them away. Things wete getting interesting and exciting, and blank the expense. Presently another fish, which, being i secured, the servant dimied up water" l from the river and handed the dude the soap and towel; and he washed his hands. This was repeated every time he caught a fish. All this time a gen darme had been walking up and down, and approaching the lucky fish erttian there followed tin animated conversation with much gesticulating, seemingly a protest against such indis criminate slaughter. The dude waxed indignant and quit. The servant unjointed the rod, gath ered up the stools, umbrella and fish busket and placed them in the cab, which had been wailing. The dude entered and was driven off with his catch, numbering about six, the ag gregate weight of which might have been two pounds—an immense suc cess. I have no doubt this great catch made an item in next morning’s ]ia|ier, with the usual lie about the weight of the string and the big one that was lost. 1 hail learned how the French do it. Evidently a little fishing goes a long way with a Frenchman. No doubt my little man went home, took a rose water bath and lay down for a rest after such a fatiguing and exciting episode. I though to myself how 1 would (ike to get that chap out in the Rockies on a thorn bush ert-ek, of allot day, ami make him wade the stream, w it h an occasional stumble over a slip pery bowlder and a s<mse under. What a power of good it would do: him, and what f'mj f<*r mol- -Forest and Stream. Early Wise. “ ‘Ho made a feeble and impotent gesture,read tlie father of the fam ily from his newspaper; and then, see ing that liiscliildn n were listening, ho added, “Kitty, what is an ‘impotent gesture’ V' “I guess it’s when you snap your fingers in somebody’s face,” returned Kitty, wisely. Truly,'an excellent illustration of an impudent gesture. It is the same Kitty who is constant Iv asked by her younger brothel's to define hard words because she is never at a loss for an answer, and can al ways find reasons, sometimes more in genious than true. “What is it to have versatility!" asked Teddy one day. “It’s to lie a poet,” returned Kitty, without hesitation. "To make verses, you know.”—Youth's Companion. I)ofttli of the Dinner Hell. The dinner la-11 has long since suf fered a decadence, and it is rarely now that it sends its merry tinkle through the corridors of aristocratic houses. It has been the custom to have meals an nounced by the butler, or by neat aproned and capped “Phyllises.” But the latest is the Japanese gong. It is a succession of three bronze hemis pheres. graduated sizes, connected by chains. The gong is suspended usu ally in a convenient turveof the stair way; and. when dinner is served, the family is musically summoned to the banquet hall by strokes ii(k>o the gong with a small hammer. One artistic wife I know of has succeeded in teach ing her maid the notes of the sister s call from “Die Walkure,” and three times daily do the Wagnerian tones fcho through the house. —Table Talk. A Uit liter Shot at for a Scat. Oao day last week films. Wolf, of Bath, was down tho Kennebec in his flout after ducks or shelldrako, and, having spied one of tlie lutlei- birds in the water near Lee’s island, started for a shot. He luul sculled almost within shot, and was anticipating securing tho game when ping I came a rifle bullet and struck the ice cakes on tho bow of the lloat, the ico being used to deceive the birds, llad Mr. Wolf had a com panion with him in the bow, the bullet would have struck his gun barrel ns it layover tlte front of the lloat. Tho hunter was somewhat disturbed by tlie shot, which ho presumed was, of course, accidental, but continued scul ling toward the pbelldrako. In a lum ping! came a second shot, this time di rectly over his bead, and Wolf, glanc ing in thodiroction of the shot, discov ered a man with a rifle on tlie Bhips but'g shore. The rifleman was shoot- ing purposely at the float. Immediately Wolf stood up in his boat, ami waved his hand at tho shoot er. at flic same time, of course, frightening the shelldrako and losing the bird. The man on shore, who hails from Barker’s head, was visiting friends in Phipsburg, aud had brought his rifle along with which to ; hoot seals. Seeing Wolf's lloat, which, covered with ice, looked like an ice floe, and, noticing Wolf lying on the stern, he inferred that the sportsman was a seal taking u sail on the ice and so blazed away. When, however, Wolf stood uji the rifleman discovered his mistake, and feared that he had wounded Ins hu man game. Running to the shore, he jumped into a (mat anil rowed out to the float, and was greatly rejoiced to find his supjMssed victim uninjured, but naturally annoyed toloso his bird. —Portland Argus. 1 mlcxliiK IbxLniortlluary. A work on tlte “Origin of tho Hu man Reason,” by St. George Mivart, has been subjected to some very ab surd indexing. Tho London Daily News gives a sample as follows: Mr. Mivart had referred on page 130 of his book to some articulate ut terances of a certain parrot which sounded remarkably like replies to questions. This anecdote gives the in dexer his great opportunity. He in dexes this twice under A, and tliereaf- j ter under twelve other letters with va riation* of perfectly fascinating ingc-1 unity thus; Absurd tale about a cockatoo, 136. Anecdote, absurd one, about acock al< m. 136 Bathiis and u cockatoo, 136. Cockatoo, absurd tale concerning one. 136. Discourse held with a cockatoo, 136. Incredibly absurd tale of a cockatoo, 136. Invalid cockatoo, absurd fide about. 136. Mr. Ii and tale about a cockatoo, 136. Brejjosterous tale about a cockatoo, 130. Questions answered by a cockatoo, 136. R—, Mi 1 ., and talc about a cocka too, 136. Rational cockatoo as asserted, 136. Tale about a rational cockatoo, as as serted, 136. Very absurd fide ulxiut u cockatoo, ; 136. Wonderfully foolish talc about a cockatoo, 136. This is all the more astonishing as ! the book is a very dull one. Milk ami Liumry. • The public analyst of Halifax, York shire, Mr. Ackroyd, thinks that men tal aberrution may sometimes l>o ns cribed to tlie use of weak milk. In The Brovincial Medical Journal, undet the title of “The Miik Supply and Lu ttttcy,” he draws attention to some sfit tistics of admissions to lunatic estab lishments in Scotland. While thf average monthly number of adniis sions for the eight years is 1,699, in the months of May, June and July the number is 628 above the average, and 462 lie low it for the. months of Oc tober, November, December and Jan uary. Moreover, the rise and fall arc ’ gradual; the number going up in Feb ruary, March and April, and down ini July, August and (September. Such variations, Mr. Ackroyd believes, have i been correlated with a number of other phenomena, and lie desires tr add one more to the list, viz., the sou sonal variation in the quality of milk. He has been at the pains to plot a curve for the years 1886 86, based on over 33,000 samples of milk analyzed for the Aylesbury Dairy compauy, and tho result of his investigations goes to show tliut there is a curious corre spondence between the rate of admis sions to lunatic asylums and the qual ity of milk, the former rising as the percentage of solids in milk is ob served to fall. A Sort «f Joint l'roponat* A short time since, ut a wedding in South Carolina, u lawyer moved that one man should Is- elected as presi dent; that this president should lx; duly sworn to keep seeret all the com munications that should be forwarded to him in bis official capacity that night; that each unmarried gentle man or lady should write bis or her name on a piece of paper, and under it place the name of the jx;rson they wished to marry, then hand it to the president for inspection, and if any lady anti gentleman had reciprocally chosen each other, tlte president was to infoi-m each of the result, and the names of (nose who had not been re ciproeal in their choice were to lx kept entirely secret. After the appoint ment of the president, communica tions were accordingly handed up to the chair. It was found that twelve young ladies and gentlemen had iiutdu reciprocal choices, and eleven of the twelve matches were solem uized. lii tl»« Ptnoiiage. “Henry," cried Mrs. Bmitheil, “thera ar<- burglars in the house! Get right up, and go downstairs.” “No, my dear,” returned the rever end gentleman “I hear them in the study now. Bct-haps they will get away with a few of those dressing gowusand pieces of knitted brie-ti-brac we have received. 1 don't know what else to do with them.”—Harper's lit zur. HE* AJ E THE HASH. ▲ West Tcnnciirutn TeisuadMi a V)u<Le * Drummer to Fat Supper. “Speaking of Hash,” sajd tho drum mer, helping himself Ixutnlifully and ! hitching his napkin above his ample vest, •■reminds me of an incident 1 saw I in West Tennessee. I have made u good i many trips in those j it-ts and always i have some rich experiences. . “The first time 1 went to N the j train slowed tip at t'-6 station just ; about dark, and I was hungry as a ljun ter. I its iked out m bioufdy on the 1 two or three dim lights twinkling among the trees on either side tlie | t rack. ‘Looks like a po’ shoin’ fur a nun grv titan out there,’ said the i«>rter, as 1 handed him bis quarter. “ ‘Tlist s what,' said I, as I stepped down ami the train pulled out. “/Hotel, boss'd said n voice on the platform beaule mo. “ ‘Yes, since,’ 1 answered as a negro boy held out lint hand for want \ good -un, and 1 want it quick.’ “ jj.-ss di" l sir,’ stud the negro. “1 stumbled on after tho boy,’ stump ing my toes over every root und stump in tlie road, and finally camo to a lit ' tie, new, whitewashed house inside a yard, whose gateway was empty. “ ‘One gen’ltnan,' said the negro to the man who came out on the little porch ns we stepped up. “‘Hungry (’ said two man giving u jerk to his suspenders and jamming his bands in bis breeches pockets. “ ‘As the mischief I’ 1 answered. “ 'Well, jess keep er walkin' an’ ycr'll strike the dinin’ room.' “Supper was on the table and smok ing hot. I think 1 ute about a quart of hash and it peek of bu. i-uits. The old man eyed me pretty closely. He was a goisl eater, but 1 phased him. I He got through, leant hia coat less el bo; , upon the table aud watched me. “ ‘Blague take the <1 rummer,'he said after uwltile, ‘1 b lievo he'll eat up all tho butter. Joe, move the plate.’ “1 calmly helped myself to Ihe last ! quarter of a pound of butter and j shoved the empty plntu across to the I grinning negro, who was both porter and waiter. “After that visit the old fellow and 1 ; wore side partners. With a little sub stantial urging i used to induce him to j kill game for me. Ho was u famous hunter, and told me wonderful talcs about bis exploits with 'ole meat in tho-pot,’ as he called his gun, which j hung tiixm two pegs over the fireplace ] m the dining room. “As I got off the train one night a young fellow got out of another coach and came up to me ou the platform, lie was a little hit of a fellow, diked out in a suit, wearing a crush hat and a pair of eyeglasses, und car rying a brand new grip. 1 sized his pile ut once. He was a dude, a green horn drummer, ou his first trip out. “ ‘Bay, can you tell a mutt where to find a hotel in this God forsaken ! place?’ lte said. “‘Just keep your eye on me and follow our nose,’ I answered. “The old man was expecting me, und had a stowed squirrel rctuiy for my supper. The dtitlc wutchod me as 1 helped myself to some. " ‘Buid ex try for it,” said the old man, eying him. “Ile’p yerse'f ter the hash; that's public property.’ “ ‘Thanks, awfully, ’ said the (hide; hut I never eat li.e-.lia.way from home. One wants to know the prehistoric ex istence of hash,’ he added, with a laugh. “ ‘Don’t eat hush, eh?’said the old man, straightening himself up. “ ‘Not much,’ Haiti the dude. ‘I sttp txise you’ve heard lhat you can take u horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.’ “ ‘Don’t cat hash? Gimme olctneat in-tbe-pot, Joe, an’ we’ll flavor tho hash to his taste.’ "The fellow turned white around the gills as the old man took the gun and cocked it. “He looked at mo helplessly, but I only helped myself to the last morsel of squirrel aud said nothing. “ ‘He’)) yerse’f to the hash, stranger ’ said tlie old man, pushing the dish across the table with the rifle. “Nuf said; ho ate hash.”—Bhiladel phia Tithes. ITia neat G!rl*s K«w>* In Gold. A new industry has made its ap pearance in the hotel corridors which, fmm the satisfied expression of tho proprietor's face, scents to pay hand some profits. The man does not con fine himself to any one locality, but is now found in one familiar corridor, now in another. His business* has a certain amount of sentiment in it, for but of thin sheet gold he manufactures pretty lace pins, tlte design of which is the signature of tiny fair one to whom lit-, customer desires to present his offering. The signature, which, singularly enough, is almost without exception tile first name of the maiden, is clipixsl front the end of a letter aud handed to the artist. After looking at it closely through a magnifying glass he get i a thorough idea of tlie propor tion of i‘ , .shading anil all of its char acteristics. Then with the thin sheet of gold in iiis lingers und u delicate pair of finely tcuqx-red scissors and u hair file he ri produces the signature in the precious metal itt an incredibly | short time. The w ork of soldering a pin to the signature and packing it in a box tilled with tinted and perfumed cotton i; a matter of a few moments. It is said that bridegrooms are this man’s chief patrons. New York Times. Minor* und Jury I>uty. One day this week I made the as tounding discovery that in order to bo eligible to jury duty it is not accessary that tlie party summoned on a panel should be 21 years of age. The name of ray son, who is not 20 years of age, was given in a list of young men, in the house where ho is employed, sup posed to lie eligible for jury duty, when I went to see Judge Withrow on tho boy’s behalf, I stated the fact of his minority, but the judge said tliat made no difference; that if he was but if y ears of age and possessed of the requisite intelligence he would be obliged to serve, and that failure to appear would lay him liable to attach ment aud fine. Ttiis was news to me. It seems under tlie law that a man may be too old for jury service, but not too young.—lnterviewioSt. l»qis Globe-liemocrat. ~><tnUlew #f tlie Tlm« of Clmrlen L When Villiers, James Is and diaries Ts favorite, went on his mis sion to Paris iu lGiki he had no fewer than sevon qpd-tweuty suits of clothes made, the richest that embroidery, lace, silk, velvet, gold and g«mii could contribute, one of which was a white uncut velvet, “set all over, both suit and cloak, with diamonds valued at four score thousand rounds, besides a great feather, stuck nil over with dia monds." “It was common with him,” says a contemporary, “at an ordinary dancing to have his clothes trimmed with ureal diamond button, and to have diamond hat bands, cockades and oarrilies; to be yoked with great and manifold ro] mm and knots of pearl: ill short, to be manacled, fettered and imprisoned in jewels.” To the (n-ovniliug extravagance in dress the satirists again allude in the severest terms. "1 have much won dered," says lleiity Penchant, “why our English, above other nations, should so much dole u|ioii new fttsh ! ions, but more 1 wonder at our wuut ! of wit that we cannot invent them j ourselves, but, when one is grown stale, send presently over into Franco 1 to seek a new, making that noble ami flourishing kingdom the magazine of our fooleries, and for this purpose many of our tailors lie legor (i. e. reside) there, and ladies jest over their gen tlemen ushers, to accouter them and themselves as you sec. Hence came your slashed doublets (as if the wear ers were cut out to be carbonadoed upon the coals) and your half shirts, piecadillies (now out of request), your long breeches, narrow toward the knees like a jiair of smith’s bellows, tlio spangled garters pendant to the shoe, your perfumed perukes or peri wigs, to show us that lost hair may be had again for money with a thousand such fooleries unknown to our manly forefathers." The reader may find it a pleasant change to turn to the rhyming moral ists. Here to the fore comes John Taylor, the so called water poet, launching his shafts- not too sharply' pointed -at the excess of those who wear: A form in nhot*ntrln;'M ed with gold. And HpaiigWxi guririd worth a copyhold; A ho«te and doublet with a lordship cotit, A gundy eJ«iuk (thru* manor’s pri« o uliuout,) A iwav<*r band ami feather for the head, lYi/ed nt the churbli'u tithe, the [«x>r mati't bread. —Ot'ntlomun’B Magazine. An Unknown l.nnd. Washington Ims her great unknown laud, like the interior of Africa, says The Seattle Press. Tho eountry shut in by the Olympic mountains, which includes an area of about a,500 miles square, bus never, to the positive knowledge of old residents of the ter ritory, been trodden by the foot of man, white or Indian. These moun tains rise from tho level country, within ten or lificen miles of the Straits of San Juuu de Fuca in the north, the Pacific ocean in the west, Hood’s canal in the east, and the basin of the lake in the south, ami, rising to the height of 11,000 to 8,001) feet, shut in a vast unexplored area. Tho Indians have never penetrated it, for their traditions say it is iiiliqb ited by a very tierce tribe, which none of the coast tribes dated molest. Though it is improbable that such u tribe could have existed in this moun tain country without I heir presence be coming known to (he white men, tni man has ever ascertained that it did notexist. White men, too, have only vaguo accounts of any white man buy ing ever passed through this country, for investigation of all the claims of travelers has invariubly proved that they have only traversed its outer edges. The most generally accept/si theory in re parti to this country is that it con sisted of great valleys, stretching from the inward slopes of the mountains to a great central basin. This theory is supported by the fact that, although the eountry uround bus abundant nun and clouds constantly hang over the mountain tops, ull the streams Mowing toward the four points of tho compass are insignificant and rise only on the outward siojies of the range, none ojr pearing to drain the great lukes shut iu by the mountains. This fuel appears to support the theory that streams flowing from the inner slopes of the mountains feed a great interior lake, but what drains this lake? It must have ail outlet somewhere, and, as ail the streams pouring from the moun tains rise on their outward slopes, it must have a subterranean outlet to the ocean, the straits or the sound. There are great discoveries in store for some of Washington’s explorers.—Ex change. A Nnmeroii* Family. There are some good sized families in Maine today, but probably none so large u?t one mentioned in the histories of old colonial days. It is told on the authority of Cotton Mather that the llrst royal governor of Boston was one of a fftiniiv of twenty six children, and was born in the woods of Maine near the mouth of the Kennebec in 165 L His mother was left a widow when he was n child, and is said to have had all she could do to provide for the wants of her family. It is hoped that when the governor got SIOO,OOO, a knight hood and a goblet valued at $5,000 as a reward for finding a Spanish treas ure ship that had gone to the bottom half a century before, he remembered iiis mother and made her last days eas ier than her earlier ones had been.— Exchange. Two Remarkable Inventions. Some of the monasteries of Italy and France sent curious inventions to the Paris exposition. One from a friar in Florence was a watch but the fourth of an inch in diameter, having three hands, minute hour and second, be sides an indicator which points out the day of the week, mouth and year. A monastery in Brittany, France, con tributed a plain looking mahogany table, with an iulaid chess board on its surface. The inventor, or any one who desires, sets the pieces for a game and sits alone on one side of the board. He plays cautiously, and the opposite pieces move automatically anu quite frequently come out the victor, no odds how scientifically the player plays. There is no mechanism appar ent" beneath the table top, which seems to be a solid mahogany board. —tit. Louis Republic. NO. 39