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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY. VOL. XIV. ROYAI W &AKIN c POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strenjrtli and wliolesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall street, New York. novl3-ly 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. NO. 42