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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY. VOL. XIV. RtfiM r CROYAL f WBS j TO «AkiH 6 POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder novur v;im > A marvel of purify, stivnirlh si.it• 1 wiiol« <omrm ss. More economic:! I than Ihr ordinary kinds, and f.annot lie sold in compel i lion willi the mul tilmle of low tost, short weight alum or phosphate, powders. Sold only in cans. Koval Making Low one Co., lOh Wall street, New York. novKMv ritOFESSIONA L CA IU>S. j |K. «. I*, t DENTIST, McDoxni (ill 11 a . 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. NO. 48