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VOL. XIV.
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This powder never varies. A marvel of
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economical than the ordinary kinds, and
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titude of low test, short weight alum or
phosphate powders. Sold only in cans.
Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall street,
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GRIFFIN FOUNDRY
, AND
Machine Works.
lire announce to the Public that we arc
tY prepared to manufacPhro Engine Boil
ers ; will takeworders for all kinds of'Boil
ers. We are to do all kinds of
repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin
ery, generally. We keep in stock Brass
fittings ef all kinds ; also Inspirators, In
jectors, Safety Valves, Steam Guages,
Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
Castings of every Description.
OSItOLO * IV IMO IT,
rilOl ESSIOSA I, VA lU>S.
| |ie. «. P. rtiii'BKM,
DENTI ST,
McDonough (la.
Any one desiring work done can be ac
eommodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms caHh, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
* Gf.o W. Bryan j W.T. Dicken.
UK VAN & WH’KO,
attorneys at law,
McDonough, Cl a.
Will practice in the counties comporting
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the United States District
Court. ftP 1 ' 27 - 1 ?
j \S. 11. riIBIUK,
attorney at i.avv,
McDonouoh, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
C ourt. marlti-Iy
itiAtJAi,
J ' attorney at law.
MoDonoioh, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts ol Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
otkercollections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The: Weekly office.
j » Will-,
attorney at law,
McDosouuh, 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. intoWA.
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDosouon, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit*, the Supreme Court of
Georgia ami . the United States District
Court. janl-lv
A. PKEWJS,
I ’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice irt all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court of the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oet 8, 1888
Jno. D. Stkwaut. | K.T. Danikl.
HTKWART A ItASIKL
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Guifsin, Ga. ’
I I it. ie. a. AitMii.it.
Hampton. Ga.
( hereby tender tny professional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all eal’s night and
day.
j on a i.. tv
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Rank building,
Atlanta. Ga,
Practices in tlie State and Federal Courts,
For Sale or Kent,
"IVfEhavea splendid farm of Ifiti acres
*t lying 4 miles from Stockhridge, Ga.,
near Flat Rock, known as the Nancy E.
Cnimldey place, foi sale or rent. Will sell
for $1,200, one tenth cash, and the balance
in ten equal annual installments, 8% inter
est on deferred payments, payable annuallv;
or will rent for third and fourth to good
parties. Apply at once to C. M. Si kfb,
McDonough.Ga.
VOTK E TO ItEiriOIIS.
All persons indebted to Dr. .1 C. Ternip
sccd. late deceased, will take notice that all
the notes and accounts due him are placed
in our hands lor collect'on, and unless set
tlements aie made at once, we will lie com
pel led to institute legal proceedings for col
lection. BRYAN A DICKKN.
THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
CUN. SUTLER FIGURES.
Ce Static. Astounding Statements Con
cerning Mortgaged Farms.
At the recent meeting of the Butler
club, of Boston, Gen. B. F. Butler made
an address on the condition of the Amer
ican farmers, from the report of which
in The Boston Globe the following is
excerpted:
How does the farmer lose his lands?
Let us now turn to the second proposi
tion which illustrates the facts that we
have set forth in the first as to the re
wards of farm labor which I present, as
well ns an illustration of the condition
of farming interests as a warning to
those who are seeking even the pittances
of the laboring men and women deposit
ed for their future in the savings banks
in other states in New England, except
ing Massachusetts. Taking simply the
agricultural lands, the farms of the west
ern states, exclusive of city, county and
town property, there will be found to be
invested in farm mortgages the stupend
ous sum of $8,450,000,000, at a rate of in
terest averaging from 7 to 9 per cent., to
say nothing of costs and the commissions
of agent-, which have been taken from
the farmers for procuring the loans of
the money, which may be safely said to
be not less, on the average, thun 7 per
cent. The human mind at once does not
take in the results of these vast sums.
To give you an illustration—the whole
national debt of this country in 1865, at
the close of the war, was $2,800,000,000,
very nearly one-quarter less than this
mortgage debt. But there is another
fact or two to be taken into considera
tion. This country has been tweuty-five
years, with all its immense resource, en
gaged in paying—some time anticipating
its payment—the national debt, and has
reduced it only to $1,000,000,000, or 57
per cent. And the national debt has
had a much lower rate of interest, and
may be refunded any day at 8 per cent.
There is no way of refunding or reduc
ing this fabulous mortgage debt, with
its oppressive and destructive rates of
interest. To redeem it, if done within
the same time that the national debt lias
been canceled so far as it has been can
celed, would require the payment of
considerably more than double the
amount of the national debt at the end
of our war. So that the payment of
these mortgages is simply impossible.
Tlie payment of the interest upon them
is also impossible, because, as we have
seen, they caii for from 7 to 9 per cent.,
and all statistics show that the average
profits on fanning industries are be
tween 4 and 5 per cent, only—hardly
over 4. These mortgages never will lie
paid, if for no other reason, because
they never can be paid if the debtors
were ever so much disposed to pay them.
But they will not bo disposed to pay
them, for by reason of the deductions of
the commissions and costs at the rate of
7 per cent., there was left a burden upon
the mortgagors of over $241,000,000 of
debt, for which they never have received
any value, which therefore diminishes so
much their ability to pay, and which
they look upon as having been a cheat
upon them.
Wo have the silver bill now on the
tapis in congress, which It to be the pan
acea of all financial difficulties certainly
in tlie views of some western men. But
it would take jdl the silver that the mints
of the United States can coin, at tho rate
of four and a half millions a month, and
all the silver that the silver mines can
produce in that time, to pay one year's
interest on these mortgages, supposing
that no more money is borrowed.
A senator, to put himself in accord
with the Farmers’ Alliance, introduced a
bill providing that the government of
the United States should loan the farmers
$3,000,000 to relieve them from their finan
cial difliculties. When I saw the report
of that bill, as telegraphed by the Asso
ciated Press, 1 made a little calculation
of results, as I not infrequently’ do, and
I found that if it passed at once, and the
western farmers should get the full
amount of the money, without any’ toll
or discount, they would be able to pay
their debts to the extent of about two
thirds of a mill on the dollar, on these
farm mortgage debts only. Or, in other
words, so as to get rid of remembering
calculations, it would pay the interest on
these farm mortgages for five days.
When It Began.
in a letter to The California National
ist J. S. Barbee says: “The Farmers’ Al
liance originated in the county of Lam
pasas, Texas, in 1874, It was got up by
five hard working farmers as a home
protection against the large cattle syndi
cates of west Texas, who made their
grand round up every spring, and it was
not regarded then as stealing to brand
all the unbranded calves that unfortu
tunately fell into tho round np, no mat
ter whose cow the calf claimed as its
mother.
“The man who had the best cowboys
and worked the earliest,hardest and latest
generally got the most calves branded.
These five men called themselves ‘The
Farmers’Alliance.’ Their first step was
to organize, and then to co-operate, and
this first attempt at co-operation was in
the form of a compact, which provided
that first one and then the other of
the five members should be in his
saddle day and night as long as the
round np lasted, and sec to it that their
calves escaped or received their own
brands.”
The .Un*ori« uitl (Miifftitj in New Jersey.
The Fto-;' Alliance and Knights of
Labor are pulling together in Now Jer
sey, their main object just now being to
further ballot reform. They have what
they call “the industrial senate, repre
senting 40,000 wage workers of the state
of New Jersey,” and are trying to make
it very unpleasant for politicians who do
not help them in that matter.
All petitions or memorials to the
United States congress for alliances and
unions should be mailed direct to the
national secretary, J. H. Turner, No. 511
Ninth street, Washington, D. C.
During the months of February and
March 435 alliances, subordinate to the
Nebraska State Farmers' Alliance, were
organized.
MCDONOUGH, GA., FRIDAY. MAY 30, 1890.
Silver and Wheat.
Why has the price of wheat, cotton
turd other farm products in the United
States "declined 85 per cent., while the
burdens of mortgages and other obliga
tions have continued to increase? The
answer Is plain, and easy of demonstra
tion. Take, for example, the article of
wheat. Its price has been two rupees in
silver for more than twenty-five years
without any material change, except
slight fluctuations depending upon the’
crop in particular years. Silver in the
silver standard countries has the same
purchasing power which it possessed be
fore it was rejected as a money metal by
the western world. Before silver was
demonetized a rujiee of silver was equiv
alent to forty-eight cents in gold, and
two rupees to ninety-six cents. A rupee
of silver is now worth but thirty-two
cents, and two rupees sixty-four cents.
In all the silver standard countries
wheat is produced on a silver basis for
the same quantity of silver money as
formerly, whilo in the United States and
the Australian colonies wheat is pro
duced on a gold liasis. The result is
that neither the United States nor Aus
tralia cau compete with the silver stand
ard countries in the production of wheat.
To supply the deficiency in her home
production Europe obtains wheat from
the United States, Russia, India, the
Argentine Republic and the Anstralian
colonies.
In 1880 tho United States contributed
69 j>er cent, of the aggregate .furnished
by the countries named; since which
time the proportion furnished by
the United States has been constantly
declining, until in tho year 1889 the
United States contributed less than 28
per cent, of the total from tho countries
named, whilo the exports from India,
Russia and the Argentine Republic, the
silver standard countries, were vastly in
creased. The export from the Austra
lian colonies in 1880 was bush
els, while in 1889 it was only four aud
one-half million bushels. So long as the
United States adheres to tho gold stand
ard, and produces wheat with dear
money to sell in competition with Russia,
India and the Argentine Republic, which
maintain the silver standard, our farm
ers must sell in Europe for the price of
Indian wheut—two rupees, or sixty-four
cents in gold.—Senator W. M. Stewart
in Belford’s.
i'amittiV Mutual Benefit Artrtoclatlon.
The association was formed for the
purpose of redressing the wrongs of
farmers. Our organization is not in
tended to interfere with any legitimate
business, nor injure in any way those
connected with other industries. For
the intelligence of the fanners is such as
to cause them to understand to the fullest
extent that all interests of the common
wealth are to some degree allied ami de
pendent on each other. We have no
grievance against the original manufac
turer of such articles as we use, but we
do complain iigainst that great class who,
like leeches, extort from tho farmers tho
profits that by hurd lalxir they have dug
from the ground.
I mean the middle men. We as an or
ganization believe that it would be bet
ter for the manufacturers and more sat
isfactory to our class if we could con
trive some means by which we conld
deal directly with the producer and
thereby lessen the cost that is necessarily
imposed by these men, who live for no
other puri»se than to add to tho original
price of articles used by tho agricultural
class. This organization has for its pur
pose the advantages gained by exchang
ing ideas, experiences anil sympathy and
by mutual council, disseminating timely
and inqwrtant information. By thus
uniting ourselves we can unify onr in
terests and combine our strenglii.— C. J.
Lindly, President Illinois F. M. B. A
Depredation of Pennsylvanlr Farm*.
Many farmers luive become bankrupt
lately in Lfincaster county, Pa. The
Philadelphia .Record says that much of
this is due to speculation nisi careless
ness, and adds: Yet, putting aside those
special causes of trouble, which go to
show tliat fanners are pretty apt to make
a botch of it when they turn aside from
the plow to speculate and dabble in other
matters, there is no denying that fann
ing is much less profitable than it was
some years ago. Within the past decade
the value of farm lamia and products in
this county has fallen off millions of dol
lars. Some t wenty-five years ago a farm
near this city was sold for SBO,OOO, of
which $20,000 was paid in cash and $40,-
000 remained ofa a mortgage. It was
sold a while ago for $36,000, and the
farmer who had imagined himself worth
$20,000 was really a bankrupt, with his
liabilities SI,OOO greater than his assets.
Dun & Co. report the number of fail
ures every week of the “business men”
of the United Stab's —tluft is, of men in
villages and cities who are in trade or
manufacturing. Suppose they report the
uumber of farmers who fail every week
in the United States, how would it sound?
If a farmer is sold out on a mortgage, it
is reported among Iris friends that he has
lost his farm: but if the same man were
doing business in a village with half the
capital invested that he had in his farm
and should fail, then it is reported as a
“failure.” —Cor. Chicago Sentinel.
W. F. Loomis, of Missouri, writes: “I
was out in Kansas the first of the present
month. I saw houses vacated and large
orchards destroyed by horses and rabbits
where I stayed all night. I wanted to
know what was the trouble. They can’t
pay their interest; com 15 cents per
bushel. They prefer to let their stock
destroy the improvements than let tho
money changers have them.”—Chicago
Sentinel.
The convention of the Ohio Farmers'
Alliance passed temperance resolutions
to the effect that “the saloon is a place
that every decent citizen is ashamed to
defend,” but did not actually declare for
prohibition.
The Nebraska Alliance men petition
congress against the Windom bill and re
funding of bonds, and for free coinage
of silver and currency np to SSO per
capita.
WHO OWNS THE FARM?
Th« Story of an A or# of C«fu Which
Settles “the Eitaonce of Ownemhlp."
Loland Stanford says the essence of
ownership is control. He apfthed this
statement to railroads, and intended to
say that whoever controlled and admin
istered the revenues of the roads was
practically their owner. We suppose
that is as applicable to farms a* it is to
railroads. Whoever controls and ad
ministers their revenues possesses the es
sence of ownership. If one cau control
revenues without the bother of nomiual
ownership—without tho trouble of re
pairs, taxes, insurance, and without the
expense and labor of cultivation, certain
ly he has found the essence of ownership
—in fact, the oil of it, the soul of it. Has
any natural or artificial jierson found
this? In trying to solve this question
we publish the following acconrtl
sales of one acre of "corn:
SAUSS.
Cue car com, 074 hush. 83 lbs., at SStJc,
per bush $l4O 08
CBAJIOES.
kYeight, S‘S.BB; Inspection, 40c.; comnils
skin,s4.B7 (i: 83
Total net product IST BS
It will be seen that tho freight on
above car of corn amounts to a little
over 8$ cents per bushel. This is the
gross share tho railroad company gets.
Its net share is about half that amount,
or 4$ cents per bushel. Now, let us see
how much the farmer gets out of it.
This com was raised in ('ass county,
and it is fair to supiioso that the land it
was raised on was worth SBO -per aero.
It was raised in a good corn yoar, and it
is fuir to suppose the yield was about
fifty bushels per aero. The account then
would stand thus:
Hunt per aora $8 SO
Plowing; 1 00
Harrowing OS
Planting SO
Becd 10
Plowing throe times 1 SO
Picking £ 00
Shelling 80
Hauling 1 00
Total . xpemto of acre. 85
Income fifty bushels com at 180 0 SO
Loss $2 86
The above is a fair estimute of the cost
of raising an acre of corn in Cass county,
and tho yield given is a good one. In
order to come out without any loss the
exjx'nse must l>o reduced $2.86 per acre,
and it cannot be done. But on that same
com on which the fanner loses In uurec
ouiponsed labor nearly five cents per
bushel, the railroad makes a net gain of
4f cents per bushel.
Now you know who owns the farm.
The railroad owns it, and owns it by vir
tue of the laws the people have made
and the laws the people have neglected
to make. Without any investment, with
out any (fixes, repairs, insurance, with
out any bother of any sort from nominal
ownership, the roads take a not income
of $2.75 to $8.50 per acre on every fifty
bushels of com shipped over their lines.
This is what Stanford called “the essence
of ownership,” and he knew what he
was talking about. —Fanners’ Alliance.
Worrii*, Not Doeda.
Every one of the members of the trans
portation board of this state at one time
denounced the charges.as robbery, and
then turned in their well paid positions
and went to sleep. Within a few weeks
the same Ixiard assured railroad mana
gers of the destitution of the people; that
bankruptcy was staring them in the
fiiee; that remedial action was inqsero
tivo, and then refused to discharge the
duties which their ouths and tho courts
imposed. A few days ago 50 cents per
hundred pounds was taken for hauling
household goods from Seward to Una
dilla, fifty-four miles. Tho Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy, which owns the
Burlington and Missouri, makes rates
from Chicago to the Missouri rivor, and
they demand at®ut 00 cents for that
600 miles, and in Nebraska 50 cents for
fifty miles, and this is i>emiitted by the
board which has so much sympathy for
fanners.—Senator Van Wyck’s Speech.
Farmers Not Ueprosonteil.
• There Is a bill before congress in re
gard to the business of the supreme
court. It will become a law without a
doubt, and a few more favored men will
get a pull at the treasury teat. That bill
was agitated by tho lawyers, of whom
there are 50,000 in the United States.
Thero are 34,000,000 fanners in the Uni
ted States, and what Jias lieen done with
the only bill that was before congress
for their benefit? Alas! it sleeps the
sleep that knows no waking, and it
forces us to the conclusion that fanners
are not represented, but tliat this gov
ernment is run, managed and controlled
by snljsidized corporations or their pliant
tools.—J. J. Mills in Texas Farmer.
The jute bagging comhination.it is re
ported, has reached tho conclusion that
it will be more profitable to dissolve their
league anil seek incorixjration. Accord
ing to The Boston Commercial Bulletin
eight com[«mies, with a rated annual ca
pacity of 81,000.000 yards, will lie Incor
porated under the laws of West Virginia
as tho American Manufacturing com
pany, with a capital stock of $1,000,000.
Fourteen mills will remain independent,
with a capacity of 80,000,000 yards.
The delegates who met at Norristown,
Pa., to form a farmers’ league, passed
this among other resolutions: Resolved,
Tliat this union will demand equallza
tion of taxation of the next state legislate
ure; that we should not lie compelled to
! pay tax on such jiortions of our property
I already covered by mortgiige, and tliat
we should not pay county, school and
road taxes levied against our farms,
whilst corporations, stock and moneys at
interest i»ay only a state tax.
The agricultural editor of The Cincin
nati Commercial Gazette, who has been
been making jx.'raonid observations for
fifty years, prints a glowing eulogy of
the railroads and an anathema of dema
gogues and unthinking clainorera, who,
by long time indiscriminating raillery,
j have created an unhappy state of hostility
I between the railroads of the country and
the farmers.
I lather Awkward.
Thero were two pretty sisters who
had married, one an eminent lawyer,
the other a distinguished literary tnau.
Literary man dies, and leaves younger
sister a widow.
Home years roll away, and the widow
lays aside her weeds. Now, then, it
happens that a certain author and
critic Ims occasion on a broiling day
in.summer to call ou the eminent law
yer, husband of the elder sister. He
finds the lawyer pleading and swelter
ing in a crowded court, sees that tho
lawyer isuffering dreadfully from tho
heat, pities him, rejoices that be him
self is not a lawyer, and goes for a
ooul saunter under the sheltering trees
of a fashionable park and garden.
Among the ice eating, fanning
crowd there, he meets the younger id
the two sisters, and for a moment
thinks he is talking to the elder.
"Oh, Mr. ,” says the lady,
‘*liow dreadfully hot it is here!”
"Yes. madam,” replies our luckless
critic, "it is hot here; but I can assure
you the heat of this place isn’t a cir
cumstance when compared with the
heat of the place where your poor dear
husband is suffering today.”
A horror stricken expression comet
over tho face of tho lady; she rises
from her chair, and llounces indig
nantly away.—New York ledger.
The Deo«y of ltovengu.
How surprising it would bo to any
Nineteenth ceutury man who should
read the l'selms for the first time at
the age of reflection, to note how Da
vid (or whoever did that terrible curs
ing) was in continual collision with
“enemies!” Tho word occurs ninety
four times in the 150 Psalms; thirty
live times joined with tho ]x>ssoßKive
pronoun “iniue.” Cau we conceive
of Tennyson and Browning, not to
speak of Charles "VVesley and Whit
tier, giving enemies swell u place in
their hymns? Queen Victoria lias a
good deal larger frontiei than David,
and may lie officially supposed to have
enemies all over tfie globe; but oven
when we sing “God Suvo the Queen”
wo are content to wisli their,“knavish
tricks’’ frustrated and their“politics"
confounded, and do not want to take
their little ones and dasli ttfem
against the stones. But not only may
we congratulate ourselves ou tho
wuning of tho dread pussionsof hatred
uud revenge; wo may also, I feel sure,
rejoice in the positive development of
tlio converse sentiments of benevo
lence and sympathy. Tho enthusiasm
of humanity is a truly nmdern pus
sion.—Frances Power Cobue in Fo
rum.
®S«ved by u I>og.
About 4,000 anecdotes have boon
published under the above title, in
which dog's have figured in preserving
human life. Wo hud a dog once noted
for saving things, but there wasn’t a
life umoug thorn. Ho kept the things
lie saved under the summer kitchen,
and his hiding place wasn’t discovered
! for a long time; not, indeed, until it
became necessary to tear up the kitch
en floor to find a good place to deposit
some chloride of lime during u chol
era season; 'then wo found what had
been “saved by a dog."
There wore a couple of kittens, a
cat, two or throe rats and a chicken,
| very dead; a large assortment of
bones, the remnants of an ottoman,
for the theft of which the best hired
girl we ever had was discharged; a to
mato can, a couple of teaspoons, u
torn volume of Hoyle’s games, an old
hoopskirt, a canary bird, a nutmeg
grater, a plaster of Paris pigeon and a
cook book. It is rarely that there is so
much saved by a dog, for they are
generally improvident.—Texas Sift
ings.
Uueer Mark Twain.
Whenever Mark Twain lias a largo
dinner party at his home in Hartford,
particularly when he has any English
men for guests, he is in the habit, it
is said, of rising at what he considers
the proper moment, without uny
warning or explanation, and begin
ning a set speech of a humorous kind,
lie usually occupies from fifteen to
twenty minutes, and doe* his best to
entertain and tickle liis auditors.
Sometimes his efforts, always premedi
tated and carefully prepared, are
highly successful; sometimes they are
not. Humor cannot be fabricated to
order. But they are in variably
laughed at, of course. It is an abso
lute requirement of common polite
ness that they should be, when a host
demands laughter us a return for hos
pitality. Twain likes to be regarded
as eccentric and original; und this is
unquestionably original. —Now York
Commercial Advertiser.
H«m»rk*ble ligredlentn.
Not long ago a yoitfig colored mau
brought in a bit of paper that called
for nearly twenty different substances,
among which were a lock of hair from
the head of a haby, five whole black
peppers, the tooth of a cat. a nail from
the left hind pa'.v of a dog, a bit of
gum bezoin. and a drop of blood from
Die vein* of a living man. All these
were to be put together at midnight
when the moon was in a certain Quar
ter. To be taken internally) Oh, bless
you, no. It wus to be worn in a bug
about the neck, and was, I fancy, the
relic of some old darky superstition of
plantation days.—lnterview in New
York Evening Bun.
UreM In Colombia.
In the course of a year the people of
Ban Bias supply the United Btutes
with about $0,000,000 worth of cocoa
nuts. In return they get about $2,500,-
000 worth of food, consisting of canned
meuls, groceries, flour and other kinds
of food. All of their clothing comes
from New York or Baltimore, a»id
consists of the gaudiest of calicoes and
ginghams for the women, and the
loudest of loud yellow checked trousers
for the men. Their fondness for
gaudv attire and trifles like mirrors,
lackknives, cheap watches and silk
hats amounts to a passion.—New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Banta Cruz, Cal., has a horse that is
5$ years old. For many years he lias
worked in a but was turned
out to tami lust year, ills favorite food
is the refuse malt from the still.
$ 1.00 CASH, $ 1.50 ON SPACE : AND WORTH IT.
DUNCAN 8 CAMP.
* GROCERS, *
77 WHITEHALL AND 88 BROAD STS., ATLANTA, GA.
Flour, Meat, Lard, Sugars, Coffees, To
baccos, Cigars, Etc. Hay, Bran,
Oats, Corn and Feed Stuffs
a Specialty.
We desire to call attention to our numerous I lenr)-coun
ty friends and patrons, that wo are handling the following
celebrated brands ol Hour :
OCEAN SPRAY,
POINT LACE
AND PRINCESS
We have handled these goods for a longtime and oiler
them to the trade with perfect confidence, and with a strict
guarantee.
We are offering SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS in
Syrups and Tobaccos.
We buy from first hands and in large quantities.
Send us orders and we guarantee lowest prices and perfect
satisfaction.
We desire also to thank the people of Henry County
lor the very liberal patronage they have given us in the past
and to solicit their future orders.
Write to us for quotations.
DUNCAN & CAMP,
Dnngmrs of VrravrL
If one wants to get a lively sense of
wlmt it means to rush through space at
fifty or sixty miles an hour he must
get on a locomotivo. Then only does
he begin to reulixn what tribes stand
between him and destruction. A few
weeks ago a lady sufcan hour in tho cab
of a locomotivo hauling u fust express
train over a mountain rood. She saw
the narrow bfight lino of tho rails und
the slender points of the switches. She
heard the thunder of tho bridges, and
saw tho truck shut in by rocky bluffs
and new perils suddenly revealed us
the engine swept around sharp curves.
The experience was to her magnificent,
but the sense of (lunger was most ap
palling. To have made her axjicri
ence complete she should have taken
one engine ride on a durk and rainy
night.
In a daylight ride on a locomotive
we come to realize how slender is the
rail and how fragile its fastenings
compared with the ponderous ma
chines which they carry. Wo sec what
a trifling movement of a switch makes,
the difference between life and death.
Wo learn how short the look aheud
must often be and how eloeo danger
sits on either hand. But it is only in
a night ride we learn how dependent
the engineer must be, after all, upon
the faithful vigilance of others. The
head light reveals a few yards of glis
tening rail and ghostly telegruph poles
and switch targets. Were a switch
open, a rail taken up, or a pile of ties
on the truck, we could uot possibly see
the danger in time to stop. —11. Q.
Prout iu Scribner's.
lifting Steam Talee.
W. C. Andrews, of the steam com
pany, told me of u marvelous double
use of steam which his company has
been making. Said he: “I have long
contended thut steam could bo used
twice, but tho engineers have been
aguinst me iu opinion- But it is de
monstrated now by practical opera
tions. From our station at Fifty’
eighth street and Madison avenue we
supply steam for 1,100 electric lights
at the Lenox Lyceum. This steam is
supplied, to tho engines at 130 pounds
pressure, and after it pusses through
the cylinders the exhaust is passed at
a pressure of sixty pounds into our
street mains, where it serves to run el
evators, heat houses, cook food and
perform such otlier functions as we re
quire of it.
‘"The steam thus does its work twice
over. The saving is about 60 percent.,
which is a clear net gain. Very few
people know, although it is a fact, that
of the steam that goes from a boiler
into an engine only about 13, or at
the most 20 per cent., is actually uti
lized to create power. The other 80 to
85 per cent, is exhaust and goes off
into the air, where it is wasted. Now
we hafe discovered that this waste
product cun lie made to serve just as
jicrfect a purpose as if it wero made
fresh in a separate boiler. It means a
great revolution in tho steam busi
ness."—New York Press.
It Fell Flat.
One day, as a Bixtli Avenue barber
shop bud but one empty chair, a man
wearing a very big hat and walking
witli u great deal of swagger entered,
hung his baton a peg, and then draw
ing a revolver ho turned to the idle
man and said:
“I want a shave just a common
shave. I want no talk. Dtin’t ask me
if I want a hair cut or u shampoo.
Don’t speak of the weather or politics.
If you speak tome Til shoot.”
He took the chair, held the revolver
across his legs, and was shaved with
promptness and dispatch. When ho
got up lie returned tho shooter to his
hip pocket, put on his hat, and after
a broad chuckle he said to the cashier:
“That’s the way to keep a barber
quiet. lie didn't utter a word.”
“No, sir—ho couldn't.”
“Couldn’t?"
“No, sir; he’s deaf and dumb.'’—
New York Sun.
Skating on StlltH.
A now mode of utilizing tho princi
ple of stilts for locomotion has been
putontod. Tho actiog of propelling is
that of skating on ice, and any for
ward figure that cau bo douo on ico
can be accomplished with ease by these
machines. Each wheel is independent
of the other, and backward travel is
prevented by mechanical action. Tho
balance is the first movement to lie
learned. By T pressing tho thumbs on
the brakes the wheels become fixed,
by which means tho learner can walk
on them the same as on stilts.— New
York Journal.
The Kliik Win*.
When the King of Greece first skirt
ed out as a euchre player he made up
his mind to always win, and he has
never lost a game yet. The chief
reason for his good luck lies in tho
fact that every’ man who plays against
him is given to understand that if ho
wins over three points out of five ho
will be trotted off to some fortress as
a political conspirator.—Detroit Free
Press.
Two Florida men cut down a bee
tree and saved several hundred pounds
of honey. When they finished gath
ering tho honey they commenced to
investigate the top Of the tree and
found where cranes had built their
nests. They gathered up 140 dozen
Lggs.
A tramp who has stolen about twen
ty thousand miles of free rides on
freight trains in this country says that
he hopes congress will do something
to insure safety on freight cars.
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