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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY.
VOL. XIV.
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Any oiicdoswing work done can !«■ ac
eonimodak d either bv calling on me in per
«on or addressing me Ihrongh the mails,
forms rash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
C.ko W. Huy an j W. T. Dickkn.
■ tit Yl Y .V ItH KI.A,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Mo Don or on, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint .ludicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
oi' Georgia and the United States District
Court. apt-27-ly
j \s. M. ri itAi.it.
attorney at law,
McDonoioh, ( a.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. inarlti-1 y
g J. «KAOAI«,
attorney at law.
McDonough, iSa.
Will practice in all the Courts ol Georgia
Special attention given to commercial ami
other collection?. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
TflK WEEKLY otlicc.
] “■ ' " AS S.,
attorney at law,
MuDoNOUGH d'A.
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
giv '.n to collections. oeto-
A. ItICOWA.
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MoDoNOrc'ii, Ga.
Will ni-actice in all the counties compos
ing Hu* flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia ami tin 1 United States Distiict
Court. janl-lv
fpr. i*s.a:i*«.i.s.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
H ampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
,H,o Flint .Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
■of Georgia and the District Court ot the
(United States. Special and prompt ntten
ition given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
JJno. D. Stkwakt. j R.T. Danikl.
«in.H tit r & oAHinr,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Griffin, Ga.
j|lt. It. J. AR9OI.V.
Hamptok, Ga.
I hereby tender my professional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country, Will attend all calls night an*
day.
jOH A TH
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gv' City Natioal Hank Building,
Atlanta, Ga,
Practices the State and Federal Courts,
GRIFFIN FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works.
Ttfc announce to the Public that we are
H prepared to manufacture Engine Boil
ers ; sill take orders for all kinds of Boil
ers. Wt are prepared to do all kinds of
repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin
ery, generally. We keep in stock Brass
fillings of all kinds; also Inspirators, In
jectors, Safety Valves, Steam Guages,
Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
Castings of every Description.
OXIMIU.I Ac H tl.t’O IT,
T./irifi For Sale,
irK havo 1 ,100 acres of land lrin*r in one
\ t lio.lv, the Atlanta and Florida R. R.
running directly through it, and tin. town of
Blalock is fituated jn its center. The land
will Ik* sold in lots of 50, 100, 150 and 2 00
acre#. We are prepared to pell to good par
tie? on reasonably good terms. For partic
ulars apply to
&PEKK k Tl KNEE.
\oimi:.
,Tcc George, a colored man. is under-con
tract as a wap. s halfl to me lor. the prepent
v»**»r. and has left ray employment without a
cans*', this is, therefore, to notify the pub
lic not to tmplov said George under penalty
(ifthe law. ‘ J3O. R. HAMB£ICK.
June 5
THE OLD ACTOR.
Ilf* plays the parts wo watched him play of old
With supple and vibrant volco, with healthful
frame;
But all his glory of skill has now grown cold
And tame.
The jx-ople are kind; their strenuous welcome
cheers.
Yet rings as if ’twere echoing, loud or low,
The hardier plaudits that were given him years
Ago. *
Ills art of yore, both real and regnant then.
Courts now mere vacant mummery; and at
whiles
Mirth wages fight with melancholy • • * ns
w here
He smiles.
Or yet so tired he seems by claims that bisk
Those powers of portraiture, once firm and
high.
Pathos but half screens humor, like a mask
Worn awry
Ah. piteous trend of time, that thus may bring
Genius from grand achievement to grotesque—
Turn Falstuff tragic and round Ilamlet fling
Burlesque!
—Edgar Fawcett in (.'osiuoDodton
Helping the Injured In Londoa.
Mr. J. 0. Colt l , husband of the famous
contralto, was some time ago trying 1 ,
break a colt to harness. The colt took
fright and ran away, and Mr. Cole was
thrown from the buekboard wagon,
breaking a leg just above the ankle.
He was pickl'd up and sent home in a
passing carriage. That evening seven
men called at the Cole mansion and
demanded money for the services they
had rendered in carrying the injured
-man across the street to the carriage!
One creature was willing to take
tu’pence for his services; lie hud picked
up Mr. Cole’s hat. Another man want
ed three ha'pence for having called the
carriage. All these fellows said t*.ey
wouldn’t have volunteered their ser
vices if they hadn’t expected to be paid
therefor. This is a fair illustration of
the spirit that obtains in London, and
I am told it prevails throughout Eng
land.—Eugene Field’s Letter in Chi
cago News.
Justice Waiting Outside.
Hr. Tanner tells a story on a circus
follower whom he met on his travels in
the past. The “grafter” in question
was arrested for stealing a silver watch
from a canvasman, and was duly tried
before a justice of the peace and ac
quitted. When the crowd had gone
the magistrate saw the former prisoner
still sitting furtively watching the door.
“Ah, my good man,” said he, “the
law has found you to be innocent. Why
don’t you go?”
“Wo! go!” gasped the “grafter.”
“With that big strong arm guy that 1
swiped the watch from laying for me
outside? I guess not; I’ll stay here as
long as he dres.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
ToudM us B!iurp*!iootei*s.
The toad is the best marksman 1 ever
saw shoot, and very rarely misses his
mark. He has a tongue more than
twice as long as his body. This he can
shoot oul like a dart or lance, and on
its sharp point he impales his game. I
have frequently attached a lly by
means «f mucilage to the end of a
stick and brought it within seven or
eight inches of the nose of one of my
toads, lie would wink one of his large
eyes, take aim, and in a second the fly
was impaled on the point of his tongue.
—Macon Telegraph.
. Butter Made from Minerals.
A mineral oil. or rather buttor, lias
been introduced ns a lubricator by the
Compagnie Francai.sc do Graitwcs Min
tunics Consistantes. It is stated to bo
free front acid, resin or drying oils, and
docs not alter with exposure to the
air. Its melting point is 84 dogs. ,Ci
(183 dogs. Fahrenheit), and it does not
inilame at a lower temperature than
220 dogs. C. While it resembles butter
in color it is odorless and lias no chem
ical action on metals. English Me
chanic.
Now I'm) of tint Kpoot i-osco|)c.
It is proposed to use the spectroscope
to determine whether cesspools, stables,
etc., drain into neighboring wells. A
solution of carbonate or chloride of
lithium is poured into the sus|»ected
sources of pollution in the neighbor
hood. and after a week or so the well
water is examined spectroscopically for
lithium, which can thus be detected
even if the water holds in solution less
than one pint in a million.—New York
Telegram.
Worth gives ns much thought to one
of his wonderful gowns us a poet would
to a poem. His best creations are
born at some quiet French or German
spa, and the detail wrought out in his
Paris house. lie has a fine residence
on the Rue de la Paix, where he can be
•seen only by the initiated. His con
stant companions at home are two lit
tle black dogs that are always at his
heels.
The improvement of coffins has long
been a favorite field for ingenuity.
The latest idea is to have the name
plate in the form of a scroll. At the
top the scroll turns into a hollow cylin
der with a cap whicli can be unscrewed.
This cylinder is intended for the pre
servation of any record which may be
inclosed in it at the time of burial.
Saginaw, Midi., has a family which
lives in ashed 12 by 10 feet in area.
The family consists of father, mother,
three children, three horses, two cows,
two goats, six dogs, a flock of pigeons
and six cages of singing birds. A bale
of bay separates the so called brute por
tion of the family from the rest.
Any l>ook of poems which lias the
word "tvrant” in it cannot pass the
Rum ian frontier The czar thinks it a
dir. ct hit at him. An English book
v . . y t: lx-, i I- < . '!-■> * It bad the
K i:l—v*. .vc. i ..lio.car
i., ... is ! I.i it _■
mchonough, ga.. Friday, july us, ihoo.
“Put t T p or Shut Up.*
Can governors or president. l a fixed to
leave the party heelers “out in the cold”
in order to appoint a farmer to an office
that he is particularly adapted to fill
with credit to himself and satisfaction to
the people? Such a thing would revolu
tionize polities. Of course the farmer
candidate may have voted for the in
cumlxnt, bat that does not matter. The
funnel's always do that, and always get
left when the time l<*t appointment
comes. Is the governor or president to
lie blamed for this? The farmer will
vote the ticket anyway, whether ap
jxiintetl or not, but the party heeler is
not such a "greeny.” He must he taken
care of or he will fight.
There is not a single farmer in the
senate of the United States and very few
in the house, simply because the farmers,
having the appointing power, refuse to
appoint one of their number. If we can
not trust each other how do we expect
presidents or governors to do so? Betting
men say to a man who is doing consul
erable betting, “Put up or shut up.”
Should not the farmers do likewise? If
they do not wish to Ix 4 ignored by the
appointing power they must imitate the
“heeler,” and when they are ignored
await the opportunity and then ignore
the “other fellow.”
It will no doubt surprise the president
and governor if farmers remember the
snub when the next opportunity to vote
comes around, but it will be a surprise
that will do good. He is down at the
bottom now; and when somebody else
drops die farmer can stand on him and
reach the lower round of the ladder. —J.
H. Brigham.
QueKtioiiable Aid for Farmers.
Mr. Ewart, the representative in con
gress from this district, where the
farmers are very poor, so much so that
scores of them live through the winter
on corn purchased in the spring and
summer on borrowed money at a dollar
or more a bushel, has introduced a bill
in the house of representatives having
for its purpose the lending of money by
the government on mortgage of the
farms at 2 per cent, ixu - annum, hut by
a strange inconsistency he exempts from
the proposed privilege all farmers whose
land is not worth SSOO.
If this proposed bill is for the benefit
of the poor farmers of the district repre
sented by Mr. Ewart, the majority of
whom are not worth SSOO, of what ad
vantage till it Ix 3to them? Money is
borrowed by these p- sir farmers often to
buy food until their crops mature at
most usurious rates; a hundred dollar
loan or less is often made at 8 per cent,
interest and a discount of 25 per'cent.,
both on the gross amount, so that the
borrower of S3O gets no more than $31.50,
for which he returns in six months (the
whole of the interest is exacted) the SSO
for which he has given a mortgage.
Where Mr. E wart’s philanthropy for the
poor farmer comes in it is hard to per
ceive; but it is easy to see how it may
be turned to the advantage of the rich
ones. A farmer who can borrow $2,000
may lend it out to his jxjor neighbors on
the terms mentioned and make a profit
of just SO2O, getting $660 for the loans
and paying $lO only to the government
for the interest. He can thus live very
comfortably on the proceeds of other
men’s labor.—Asheville (N. C.) Tele
gram.
Rum-st Taxation,
In the west there is a growing demand
for a revision of the tax laws, to the end
that personal property may he more gen
t-rally taxed. This same demand has
been made in New York from year to
year at every session of the legislature,
but every effort to revise these laws, so
as to equalize the burdens of the people
1 y imposing a proper share upon per
sonal property, is met by obstacles that
seem to he insurmountable.
Corporate influences combine with pri
vate and political influences, and these
seem to lie sufficient to control the action
of both political parties. In other states,
noticeably in Vermont and other New
England commonwealths, personal prop
erty is compelled to pay its duo share of
tlTc public exjiense, and the demand for
this reform, now that it has been taken
up by the Farmers’ Alliances of the west
and by the labor organizations of the
east, will be made so emphatic that it
cannot be passed by or neglected.
If our tax laws mean anything they
mean that property, personal and real,
should equally contribute to the main
tenance of public interests. But it is
acknowledged that personal property in
this state too readily escapes taxation.
The legal legerdemain by which this is
done is familiar to assessors, and wealthy
men of the highest standing do not hesi
tate to resort to it. It is a disgrace that
the tax laws are so openly defied and
readily nullified.—Frank Leslie’s News
paper.
The* Farmer at School.
If this farmers’ organization should ac
complish nothing more it has proved to
lie one of tlie greatest schools of political
economy ever known, and is doing more
to set jteople to thinking for themselves
instead of allowing others to think for
them than any other society in existence.
Go where you may you will find the
masses talking intelligently upon sub
jects that a few years ago they were
wholly ignorant of. They no longer look
to party bosses for their opinions, but
study for themselves.—Exchange.
The conditions of the membership in
tlie Farmers’ Alliance of Ohio are that
the candidate lie a practical operative
farmer, farm lalxircr, mechanic, coun
try physician or minister of the gospel;
tie of good moral character, ®f industri
ous habits, lielieve in the existence of a
Supreme Being and a resident of Ohio
for six months preceding tlie time of ap
plication. Ladies are admitted free of
any charges in the way of foes and dues.
There seems to be an impression
abroad that the Farmers’ alliance is a
political sch-me f.,r the advancement of
one of the parties. This is a mistake,
as its members come from all parties,
and no pledges are exacted nor political
tests made at the time of initiation.—
Ohio State Journal.
ALIEN LANDLORDS.
A W.'»tern Journal Makes Some l’ertl
nent Remarks on This Subject.
Landlordism iu America, especially
upon the plan coanion to England and
Ireland, is something no thoughtful
man wants to see established, yet
it is gaining a rapid foothold. We have
not only made our country "an asylum
for the oppressed of all nations,” but we
have welcomed with open arms the op
pressor as well. With eqnnlhospitality
wo have opened our arms t# ■fceiverent
racked tenant and the pie thin c pursed
landlord; with this differenc* however:
In the case of the tenant w« Jhave got
the man, and in the case of tne lundlord
we have let his money get usi
Having acquired title to oApssession
of thousands of acres of Aiunmp land,
the English capitalist sits iHgUs easy
chair at home and draws tßLprofits,
without contributing to the of
the country more than the jrdferty **
Our liberality has been tooWlP. It
is time this universal refugM Va be 1
abandoned, both as to immigKmts and
'non-resident landlords. Not an inch of
American soil should be owped in fee
simple by one who is not a citizen and
bound loyally to support the govern
ment. It is bad enough to have Ameri
can landlords, too bad in many cases,
but to have alien ones is qpt only unen
durable but unnecessary. v
In the west, where great areas of
country have lxx>n fenced in In' corpora
tions, much of it illegally, it is unbeara
ble to think that settlers arq excluded
for the benefit of subjects of n foreign
power who have no interest in the coun
try save for the income they may derive
from their investments.
In view of this condition of affairs a
hearty support ought to lx; given to the
bill now before congress providing that
an alien can secure no lietter title in tlx*
United State's than a lease for a term of
five yeqrs, and confiscating the property
of all alien land owners who do not be
come citizens before the expiration of
ten years.—West Shore.
The IsHue In PeniiHylvaiiJa.
The issue which confronts the fann
ers of Pennsylvania in the pending jxilit
ieul campaign is the equalization of
taxation, and on this issue nlope must
tho battle lx> waged. There Is danger
tliqt in the heat and excitement of file
political fight raging from one end of the
state to tho other over who shall be the
chief executive of the commonwealth
the real issue will be obscured or lost
sight of altogether.
The whole question of our success now
hinges on this: “Can the farmers of the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania so break
away from party ties as to be, able to
unite on nr u for th > .legislature who
will stand up first, last and aIE the time
in support of the enactment of such a
revenue law as they should in justice
have?’
We must make this question the one
issue of the campaign, anil bend all our
energies to the accomplishment of this
purpose. If the candidate of the party
with which you have always acted re
fuses or neglects to openly pledge him
self to labor for tho passage of a fair and
equitable revenue law erase his name
from your ticket and insert in its place
the name of a candidate who stands
pledged to do the work, no matter which
political party lias placed him in nomina
tion. The time lias come when the
farmers of this state must take care of
themselves, and to do this they must
stand together, and vote together and
go into this fight contending for hut one
principle—tho principle of equal taxa
tion. —Mechanicsburg Grange Advocate.
Farmer*’ Indifference.
In view of the direct and important
interests at stake we aro amazed at the
indifference shown hy the bulk of fann
ers to these interests. It seems almost
impossible to arouse them. Of course
there are many well informed and able
men among the agricultural class, but
how few, comjiaratively, take any part
in tin- means used to diffuse knowledge
among themselves even upon their own
branch of business. Work, work; plod,
plod; work and sleep, and sleep and
work, from the first of January till the
last of December, and from year to year.
The granges meet weekly or bi
monthly, Hie institute once a month;
tho one costs a trifle, the other nothing;
time required is only a couple of hours
each meeting, yet with all those facili
ties and advantages how few attend.
And yet if anything is to be done for
the advantage of farmers it must be
done by concerted and united action. It
is only in tliis way they can protect
themselves from injustice and protect
their own interests. Farmers, think of
it, and give some little time to looking
after your own affairs. —Grange Advo
cate.
Farmers Awake.
Tlie silver bill us amended in the sen
ate is defeated in the house to save the
dear president from the necessity of a
veto, to which measure the president
v.’iu undoubtedly pledged before his
election, should occasion require.
The demands of the gold bugs are of
vastly more importance than all the alli
ance members throughout the south and
west.
Is there anything more required to
show the farmers the importance of
united political action independent of
party linea
ls th'-re any more positive evidence
required to show that this nation is be
neath the power of Wall street?
Ls it necessary to write it across the
heavens in characters of fire?
* Will not a long “Rip Van Winkle”
fdeep complete the subjugation already
begun?
Let every loyal American awake to
sleep no more until the industrial world
is freed from the avaricious clutch of
its tyrants.—Frankfort (Kan.) Sentinel.
The Alliance in South Dakota claims
a vote for the next election of 40,000.
This is considerably larger than either
ot the old parties can muster.
SI.OO CASH, $1.50 ON SPACE: AND WORTH IT;
A Ills* for u I*loiv.
“1 t.v>k one of your pretty young
lathei for a drive on Wednesday,” 1
a traveling man at the \\ indior. "The
dust was blowing a cloud and covered
nr. up completely. 1 noticed that her
nos ' v.,4- twitching and that her eyes
wire f !i of dust, and six l nervously
felt in her pocket, but seemed not to
find what s! < was after. After a while
she sneezed a little birdie sneeze and
said. ‘.Montague (that’s me), will you
kindly loan me your handkerchief ! I
find that 1 have li »t mine hi some stu
pid v.ay." Now 1 had Just arrived from
a week's trip, so my laundry was in u
frightful state of decomposition and
the one handkerchief that 1 lmd in mv
inside |n cht t was like a printer’s towel
—it would stand alone on one corner
so 1 blushed and told her I had lost
mine. Tilings were getting rather seri
ous for want of a kerchief, and she said,
‘Dear me. 1 want to blow my nose aw
fully.’
“1 bashfully informed her that, per
luqis I eohld offer a substitute, and she
looked at iuo expectantly.
“ ‘What?' she said.
“‘A—a— kias,’ said 1, desjx'rately.
“ 'Sir! Take me home this instant.’
“I meekly turned my horse around.
'( was only offering to fulfil a biblical
injunction. Miss Rnpphyno.’
“She looked at me relennessly and
coldly said:
“ ‘How so ?’
“ ‘A kiss for a blow,’ 1 said, meaning
iy, trying to smile. She blossomed out
again in a minute.
“ I guess we needn’t go home,’ she
said.”— Denver News.
“Hurrahl”
What was the origin of the exelamu
tion “hurrah?" There are few wools
still in use which can boost such a re-’
mote and widely extended prevalence
as this. It is one of those interjections
in which sound so echoes sense tliat
men seem to have adopted it almost
instinctively, hi India and Ceylon the
mahout > and attendants of baggage
elcphiuits cheer them along by a perpet
uol repetition of "Ilur-re in! llnr-re
re!” The Arabs and camel drivers in
Turkey, Daleetinoanil Egypt encourage
their animals to speed by shouting "Ar
re, ar-rel”
The Moors in (Spain drive their mules
mid horses with cries of “Arre!” In
France the sportsman excites his hound*
by his shouts of “liar re, bar re!" The
herdsmen of Ireland and Scotland
shout “Hurrish! Ilurrish!” to the stock
they are driving. It is evidently an
exclamation common to many nations,
and is probably a corruption of “Tur
aie” (Thor aid), a battle cry of the an
eieiit Norsemen, who called upon Thor,
tho god of thunder, to aid them In
their strifes.—St. Louis Republic.
l oreiitH of ICuiopi' aml Africa.
“Since I imve made my map," said
Explorer Henry Stanley in an address
to tlie Royal Geographical society, “J
have token the trouble to measure the
extent yf the area covered by this for
est, and 1 find it to be something like
221,000,000 acres; and if xvo allow each
tree thirty feet around for sufficient
-puce, and only forty-eight trees to the
acre, we have the colossal figure of
1^,752,000,000 as the total number, and
if we calculate the plants and saplings
of the impenetfablo undergrowth we
shall be among the incalculable bill
ions."
The forests of Europe, according to a
recent report of one of the state forest
ere of Prussia, cover the following
areas: Germany, 34,5!)6,000acre5; Itus
sia, 491,228,600 acres; Austria-Ilun
gary, 46,061,700 acres; Sweden, 42,
000,000 acres; France, 22,210,000acre5;
B|siiu, 19,769,000 acres; Italy, 9,881,
570 acres, and Enghuid, 2,471,000acre5.
Mcil Lilt 49 to <ilv«*.
“Much obliged. Yes; don’t care if
I do,” responded the close fisted man
of our set as I asked him to help on a
new wing to the orphan asylum where
my wife was a directress. As 1 turned
the corner I whipped the book out of
my overcoat pocket, and stuck it un
der the nose «f the m<»st lienevolent
miui in our crowd. .“Well, well,” lie
gas|ssl. “I wouldn't have asked him,
though. I should have expected to get
a slap in the face, and I would rather
have [laid the SI,OOO ho has put down
out of my .own pocket than to have
risked insult in asking him."
"Yes, and tliut is your constant mis
take,” 1 rejoined. “That is how you
have earned your name for generosity.
You give rather than ask. But I assure
you that other men like to be asked.
Men are better than they seem.”- New
Y’ork Weekly.
Look Out for Clie«M.
A Virginia artillery compuny ha.
been using cheeses in target practice,
and it was shown that one of the
chesses fired against an earthen breast
work penetrated two feet further than
a solid iron ball. They carry at [siint
I,lank range farther than shot or shell.
Look out for cheese rinds in the next
war.—Detroit Free Press
The cars on the Jungfrau railway
have movable flaps, which may be ox
piuidod by tlie guard until they nearly
touch the tunnel lining In this way
the ear become* a kind of piston, acting
in the tunnel us a cyclindcr, and the
air acts its an automatic brake Usclitek
the speed of the descending car
The earjK’t product of Smyrna, says
the French consul, readies 4.(00,009
francs or about SBOO,OOO. 1 here are
three centers of manufacture Oucltak,
Koula and Ghlordes where carpets of
various dimensions nre made, but the
sauift processes are in vogue In thorn
all.
FUN OPENING SAFES.
Some IneUlont* Showing How Trouble* I
Arise from Little Cuuaeit.
“There are miuiy amusing incidents
connected with our busineigi,” said a
safe manufacturer one day q> a Boston
reporter. “It is to bo c .pooled that hi
the ordinary course of events circum
stances will arise when a Halo will have
to bo ojieiiod by an export. Locks, like
any other piece of mechanism, are not
infallible. Tho host uf them are liable
to fail at time ; through some slight de
feet in manufacturing, suin' as the
mainspring of the me t valuable watch
may give out uiH>\|«s-lislly.
“Not long ago a firm wonted a man
to fix their safe. It was open, but they
could not sin t tuo door for enough to
throw the hole The man went to tire
place iuhl after a brief examination saw
a penny resting on nno cf the bottom
tlunge?. Taking this off the door shut
and locked all right. ! forget how
mill'll jt cost the firm to have the m:iu
got* l their pbice and pick up tl :;t Utile
Coin, but it Win enough to prevenr its
living repeated, n > doubt. A similar
ease happened recently. Wo were sent
for at about the close of business hours
to hoc what was the trouble with one of
our safes. Tho holts would not tin w
far enough to turn tho look. The re
suit was the finding of a cloth button
from a lady's dress in tho lower bolt
hole.
“Some years ago wo had delivered a
new set of vault doors fora bunk about I
two hundred miles away. Just before
they were ready to occupy their new
quarters a tel >gn4ui to sen I a
man at oneo. The bolts of tho outer
door would not throw far enough to
lock it. Our man went, and (his is
What ho found: The hank officers had
fitted in a hoard for tho tread of the
vestibule, hut lmd omitted to bore holes
in it for the throw of the bolts. An
auger and ten minutes' lab r made
everything all right, hut made that
piece of board a rather extravagant
luxury.
“Epicurean like, we have reserved
tho liest for tho last. For fear that
this may reach tho eyes of the hereof
tho incident I will substitute for his
correct address tliat of ('.dais, Me. It
was not u thousand miles from there.
The letter read to come at once and
open a safe, ns there were important
documents wanted for immediate use
With his kit of tools a man took the
next train and arrived on the following
evening. It proved to lx) an old
fashioned safe with a largo keylock.
'There,’said the man. ‘is the safe. The
lock has been working harder and
harder for weeks, until now 1 am
. locked out. lam in a hurry to have
it opened. Never mind the damage if
you will only break into it in short or
der.’
“Our expert took the key and tried
it, but it refused to work. Ho then
took a small wire and picked out half a
thimbleful of dirt and lint from the
key, tried it again and a better working
lock was never seen. ‘How much Is
your billf As this involved a trip to
and from Calais of about 000 miles, and
-time and expense in proportion, he re
plied $lO. Taking a roll of hills from
his pocket lie said : That is satisfactory
on conditions. D as any tine in the
place know your business here?' The
reply was, ‘N > one.' All right, then;
get out by the next train and keep
mum, for I would gladly pity SIOO
rattier than have any of my friends
know that 1 was fool enough to go to
Boston for n man to pick the dirt out
of my key.'"—Boston Courier.
A I'hulitom I‘oMtmun.
For weeks a remarkable phantom or
illusion has attracted uttaiitiisi ut Purl;
ersburg, W. Va. On dark nights tile
figure of a phantom [sistman has Ihmi
seen clearly outlined on one of the win
down of the city postoffioe. The form
and features of the phantom arc as dis
tinct as life. It upiieurs to lie in the
act of distributing mail. The uppari
tion has lieen seen only when no ong
was in tint building, and it cannot be
accounted for. Hundreds have seen it.
and among the superstitious it. lias ere
ufisl alarm. It reads the [sistnl curds
Exchange.
Hiivro "('ounliH'puno" ( hiiii h l imn.
Counterpane is u corruption of coun
terpoint, from the lartin cul, citu (a
wadded wrapper, a quilt). When the
stitches were arranged hi patterns it
was called cul, cita, puncta, which in
French Income courtepoLute, corrupted
into contra poiiite, counterpoint where
[stint is pronouneed “poyn" corrupted]
into “[iiuie.” —Dry Goods Chronicle.
Ilotuul to W in.
Boston Girl Papa, Mr. Toney is
coming here to night to press his suit
With you.
Boston Papa -Does the young man
appreciate what an nllianco with our
house means?
Boston Girl—Yes, papa, but Albert
says he is bound to have mo at any
price. New York Ledger.
Hixutiwlpii in Art.
The earliest picture 1 know of is one
by Domcnichino, in which St. Hurtle >1
omew “ecolesiam B. M. V. tedificari
jubet; ct coiumna decide, m Monadli
ejus discipuli jussu Bistitur.” The saint
stands in the center of the picture ex
ambling a plan through a pair of pince
nez. Notts; and Queries.
Determined to Siucffd.
Wadloy—You have had a good deal
of trouble getting Miss Goldust to nc
eept you, haven’t you?
Dudely—Yes; but my last scheme
can’t fail to succeed. I sent her txvc
photographs of myself, and you know
two negatives always make an affirma
tive.—America.
CIGARS THAT WERE CIGARS.
110 Know What Thoy AVoro Because Ho
Knisoil uiul Mmlo Thi'in Himself.
Ho was tho conductor of a milk train
on tho Erie railroad, and ho sat on a
can at luncheon hour smoking in a
reminiwont mood.
“Did you over roll a cigar f" ho asked
tho hraketnan.
“Can't say 1 did,” answered tliat
worthy, spearing a piece of corned hoof
from his dinner pail with a case knife.
“I have,” said tho conductor. “1
had a farm up country, and a man says
to me, ‘Hank, here's a little terhacker
seed. See what you can do with it.
And when it sprouts look out how you
weed it, beoituso terhacker looks terri
bly like mid loin.’ So 1 planted the
seed, and when tho plants got high
enough I transplanted most of ’em, and
every night I'd go out and spade
around and water tho plants and pile
on the fertilizer. 1 never saw anything
• grow tho way them terhaoker plants
did. I told the feller that gave mo the
wed how tho plants was growin’, and
ho came over to get some sprouts. Ho
looked at tho plants rather queer, felt
tho it laves and says lie, ‘Hank, yor ter
backer 'll make lino mullein stalks.'
And blamed if I hadn't been diggin'
and waterin' a whole mullein patch.
“Well, sir, lie give mo some more
seed, and 1 raised that terhacker and
cut it. There was a woman lived near
mo that used to work in a cigar factory,
so I got her to show mo how to roll
cigars, and then I wont to work. I
reckon tho first cigar I made ha I
enough terhacker in it to mako five,
and when I lit it 1 hrnced my feet agin
tho mantelpiece and pulled till I
thought I'd bust. 1 had to tsire that
cigar with a gimlet h -fore it would go,
but after a while I got tho hang of
rolling, and I'd make up a boxful at a
time. I tell you they was men’s cigars.
I never seo anything sineo like tho
itrongtli of ’em. Tim way they’d burn,
too, was a caution. Tho light would
wind all around one of them cigars
like a cowpath, and you never knew
how much smoko you laid loft.
“I used to go out with a pocketful
and give ’om away, but I novor seed a
feller try one but once, 1 was down at
the station one Sunday afternoon. We
was siftin' in a milk car smokin', and a
young feller came along 1 knew. He
had on a brand new suit, and lie
wouldn’t sit down on a milk can for
fear of a grease spot. I offered him
one of my cigars, and ho lit up. Just
about tho llfth puff that feller sat down
on a milk can as slick as could be;
didn't mind the grease at ail, and when
lie finished half an inch blamed if ho
didn't throw tliat cigar away, forgot all
about his now clothes, and plump right
down in a heap on the dfrty floor, with
a face on him as white as tho milk in a
can. Before that young feller went
home we thought he'd throw up his
feet."
“I tell you,” said tho conductor
thoughtfully, “them cigars was hum
mel's."
“Didn't tho smoko smell bad?” in
quired tho hrakeipan with much inter
est.
Tho conductor knocked tho ashes out
of his pipe and waved tho engineer to
start up. “Well,” lm replied diploinat
ieully, “I didn't mind it.”—New York
Tribune.
Infection in Chewing Gam,
The practice of chewing gum has be
come very widespread. It isnotavery
elegant habit, to many it is positively
repulsive, and there are sources of dan
ger, too, t lint should not be overlooked.
A case in point was related to us a few
days ago. Diphtheria broke out in a
family in Fust Des Moines. After the
child had recovered, the clothing and
all the ex posed* articles fully disinfected,
the parents, with the convalescent
child, visited some relatives in the coun
try. The indispensable chewing gum,
like Hutuo, went also in the mouth of
the little child. Prompted by generos
ity it allowed its ix,untry cousins—two
children to chew the gum previously
chewed by the visiting child. In three
or four days, without any other known
source of infection than the chewing
gum, the Jwo children were simulta
neously stricken down witli diphtheria
in a most serious form. Exchange.
The AviTugH Mail'll Tiute*
As a rule the ingenious woman is
much admired and sought after by the
opposite sex. The average man cannot
stand a woman who will wear her dress
buttoned in the hack, a la Kate Green
away. He may eondeseend to talk to
a woman dressed liko a but ho
will never, never take her out. The
average man may call a dress a gown
and mistake satin for silk and silk for
satin, but bis ideas on woman’s dress
are far more significant than many peo
ple suppose. He dislikes anything ap
proaching. the masculine in woman’s
dross, and a cardinal [• >int in liis belief
is that the bodice of a gown should be
of some soft material never a shirt
front and never bended. New York
Press.
Twenty Dollars* for Smith'** Name.
Henry Smith, a drummer from the
flats of Jersey, wrote his name on one
of the outside windows in the top of
the Washington monument. Officer
James B. Evans, who is stationed at
the monument, promptly arrested him,
and Mr. Smith forfeited S2O collateral
when the case was called in the police
court a few hours later.—Washington
Star. _____
Their Future Secure.
Sl»e —Come, get up. you silly follow,
and tell me how wo are to live; we
cannot live on love, you know.
He —No. but xre can live* on my love’s
father. —Chut ter.
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