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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
A JOURNALDEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY.
VOL. XV.
Highest of all in Leavening Power. —U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug, 17, 1889.
DqV*! Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
DUNCANI'CAMP.
WHOLESALE GROCERS AND DEALERS IN
Flour, Meat, Lard, Sugars, Coffees, Tobaccos, Cigars elc.
ALSO, HAY, BRAN, OATS, CORN
and all kinds of Feed Stuffs a specialty.
We beg to call special attention to pur Brands ot Flour,
OCEAN SPRAY,
POINT LACE
AND PRINCESS
These are our Brands, manufactured ESPECIALLY
FOR ITS and we guarantee every sack.
Write as lor quotations. We guarantee satisfaction and
the lowest possible prices. We also call your attention to
our TOBACCOS,
-GOLDEN SPARKS,”
“HENRY GOUNTY 9in.s’s,”
AND “HOE CAKE.”
These goods we guarantee to give satisfaction. Sam
ples sent free on application.
We have also a fine line ot
New Orleans Syrups,
which we can sell at “ROCK BOTTON PRICES.” We
will make it to your interest to see us before buying.
Thanking our friends for their patronage in the past and
soliciting a continuanc e of the same, we a^e
Respectfully,
DUNCAN & CAMP,
77 WHITEHALL ST.. ATLANTA, GA.
riIOFTSSSIOXA L CA Itl>S.
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DENTIST,
AlcDonoi gh <ia.
Any one desiring work done can lx* ac
commodated either bv vailing on me in per
son or addressing me through the. mails.
IVrms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
Gno W. Buy an I W. T. Dickkn.
HICV\> X OK lil A,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
MI'DONOICH, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
ihc Flint Judicial Circuit,the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-lv
J AM. 11. TIRJHK,
attorney at law,
McDonoihih, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marlH-ly
ji REAWJIH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
McDosocen, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts ot Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
nther collecting. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Other upstairs over
The Weekly office.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDoSough, G a .
Will practice in the counties composing t he
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme anti
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
to collections. octs-’7U
A. IIROWV
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
in" the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Comt. janl-ly
jj| a.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
H AMPTON, Ga,
Will practice in 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 give if to Collections, Oct 8, ISHB
Ino. D. Stkwaut. | R.T. Danikl.
«TKWAK r r A DA.MIID,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
G«i»kin, Ga.
||K. K. .1. %K\Ol,l>.
Hampton. Ga'.
I hereby tender mv professional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all cal's night and
day.
| Oil A L. tit:.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Hank building,
Atlanta, Ga.
Practices in tin* State and Federal Courts*
GUIFTIn FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works.
11 't announce to the I’uhl'c that we are
* I prepared to manufacture Engine Boil
ers : will take orders for all k'uds of Boil
ers We are prepari d to do .11 kinds of
repairing on Kaginea, Boilers and Machin
ery, generally. We keep in stock Brass
fittings of all kinds; also Inspirators, In
jectors, Safety Valves, Steam linages,
Pipe ami Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
Castings of everv Description.
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McDONOUGIL GA.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER, 2«, 1800.
ILLINOIS FARMERS.
1111«»retting: I''ljrure* Compiled by tho Cor
respondent of a Cli(«ago Paper.
A Greenville (111.) correspondent of
The Chicago Herald recently contrib
uted an interesting' letter on the farm
ers' movement in that state. Tho fol
lowing bits of information are taken
therefrom:
The fanners of southern Illinois have
a tradition that about five years ago a
few Williamson county fanners hauled
their wheat to market one summer day.
An-iving at the town wlmre they ex
pected to sell the grain they found that
all the grain buyers had gone fishing.
There was no one in the town to bny
their -wheat. They did not wish to haul
it home, nor had they time to wait for
the return of the fishermen grain buy
ers. They concluded to engage,a rail
road car, load it, and aahitaMWtif wheat
to Chicago on their own account This
thdvdid, and it so happened that the
venture netted each farmer several cents
more per bushel for his wheat than he
would have received from the grain buy
ers. The experience demonstrated to
these farmers the benefits to ho derived
from co-operation in business, and the
incident gave birth to the Farmers'
Mutual Benefit association.
Tho association was incorporated by
the state in September, 1887. Political
action by the association was not direct
ly contemplated by its organisers. In
asking for legal organization by the
state they set forth that the object was to
unite fanners in all spatters pertaining to
their interests; to devise means of pro
moting their general welfare; to encour
age systems of co-operation t hat would di
minish the cost of farm production, fann
life and farm operations. The associa
tion was first located at Marion, Will
iamson county, but with the growth of
the order and the organization of a gen
eral and state assemblies the headquar
ters was located at Mount Vernon, Jef
ferson county.
At Greenville is properly the head
quarters of the state assembly.
The Illinois stato assembly was organ
ized in February, 1890, at a meeting of
delegates from the county assemblies
held at Centralia.
From the lodge of five members, or
ganized in Williamson county in 1887,
the F. M. B. A. has grown to 1,519
lodges, with a membership of 50,000 in
Illinois. The order has organizations in
fifty-six of the 102 counties of the state.
Of these only two—Rock Island and
Winnebago—aro in the north. The rest
are In a solid territory south of Peoria
and east of the Illinois river. These
counties, with the number of lodges and
total membership, as reported tp the
state assembly at its meeting in July,
are as follows:
Number of Member
lodges. ship.
Massac lO 551
Pulaski 12 200
Union 20 540
Johnson 25 078
Hardin 15 483
Jackson 20 711
Williamson...., 10 525
Saline 15 800
Gallatin 20 400
Randolph. 14 840
Perry 24 520
Franklin 83 808
Hamilton. 21 457
Monroe 20 655
St. Olalr 14- 814
Washington 20 407
Jefferson 40 1,200
Wayne 87 2,100
Wabash 20 697
Madison 80 ' 1,020
Bond 80 1;146
Clinton 24 748
Marion 80 2,891
Richland 20 1,227
Lawrence 40 1,420
Jersey 0 285
Macoupin 21 405
Fayette 07 2,208
Effingham 33 070
Crawford. 80 1,020
Sangamon 58 2,120
Christian 60 1,780
Shelby 84 1,907
Moultrie 42 1,427
Cumberland 41 1,800
Clark. 58 2,105
Logan 9J 453
Macon 23 1,250
De Witt 10 1,000
Platt 16 547
Coles 47 1,525
Edgar 53 1,550
Uouglas 45 950
Vermilion. 8 205
McLean 7 215
Winnebago 13 880
Rock Island 12 2 5
Totals 1,519 44,086
The counties of Tazewell, Menard,
Alexander, Pope, Clay, White, Edwards,
Jasper and Montgomery are organized,
but no report has been mado as to their
membership.
A Protectfoniftt's Views.
“Can you figure any benefit to the
cotton planter from the policy of pro
tection in the past?” asked a Washing
ton correspondent of Gen. J. R. Chal
mers, of Mississippi
“Certainly,” said the general. “All
American farmers have been benefited
by the protection given to manufactures
in the withdrawal of competition of la
bor from the field to the factory, and in
the creation of a home market for their
productions. But this is especially true
of the cotton planter. The demand of
the home manufacturers for cotton has
most wonderfully kept up the price of
the raw article, so that while the pro
duction of cotton has almost doubled
since 1860 the price has been maintained.
When Europe furnished our cotton buy
ers under a tariff for revenue only our
planters were constantly alarmed at the
fall of price on the increase of produc
tion. Now vve get as good, if not a bet
ter, price for onr large crops than we
did for a small one. But the profits of
agriculture are small the world over in
comparison with those of other employ
ments. "
The Farmer at School.
If fanners' organizations should ac
complish nothing more they have proved
to be the greatest schools of political
economy ever known, and are doing
more to set people to thinking for them
selves instead of allowing others to think
for them than any other society in exis
tence. Go where you may yon will find
the masses talking intelligently njon
subjects that a few years ago they were
wholly ignorant of. They no longer look
to j arty bosses for their opinions, but
study for themselves.—Farmers’ Friend.
Conquerlug a Pupil,
A Maine boy who Is now a professor
in one of our New England colleges
used to teach town schools while fitting
himself for his university course. Seat
ed opposite to- him on a railway train
a while ago he related to me some of
his early experiences In teaching the
youthful idea. One strapping great
girl, a woman grown, caused him con
sidemble trouble beeanse of her Iri.ilF
to tho beauties of education in
general and “gogorfry" in particular,
for which neglect ho caused her to put
in considerable time after school In
making up.
It reached the teacher's ears one day
that this maid hail declared to an ad
miring group that she wouldn’t have
her lesson on that afternoon, and If the
teacher kept lwr afte* school he woufrf'
iiave the privilege iff sitting up one
night with her at any rate before she
would uiake the lesson up. This idea
caused much excitement among the
pupils, who aro usually ready to enjoy
a teacher’s discomfiture.
According to the programme the
young lady’s lesson that afternoon was
a complete failure, and she was told to
make it up after School. When the
session ended the other pupils lingered
about with an air of expectancy to see
the outcome of matters.
Tlie teacher [>olitely showed them
out of the room, However, and then
went in and stmt tl» door. There sat
the damsel with her arms defiantly i
folded, and tho Ixxik dosed on the desk
before her. The pedagogue cordially
invited her to open her book and begin
o iterations, but this hhd no effect What
ever.
“All right,” said he, taking out his
watch. "I’ll give you Just thirty min,
utes to get that lesson, and if it Is not
ready at the end of that time I’ll take
you across my knee and glvo you ono
of the most comprehensive, unabridged j
and able bodied spankings that have
occurred since Julius Ca>snr was an In
fant”
Then he took u chair with his back
to the enemy. Surprise,,mortification,
tears and sobs ensued, hut at the end
of the half hour the lesson had fyeen
learned—two lessons, probably.—Lew
lston Journal.
Distance ami Echo.
Did you ever figure on the exact dis
tance that on# may bo removed from
a reflecting surface and yet hear the
echo of his owp voice! It is said that
one cannot ptonounee distinctly or
hear distinctly more than five syllables
In a second. ThAgjYsg one-fifth of a
second for each kAHAA Taking 1,120
feet as the velocity or sound per sec
ond, we have 224 feet as tho distance
sound will travel in one-fifth of a sec
ond. Hence, If u reflecting surface Is
112 feet distant, the initial sound of an
uttered syllable will be returned to the
ear from a distance of 112 feet just as
the next syllable starts on its Journey. ;
In this case the first fifth of tho sec
ond is consumed in the utterance of a
syllable, and the next fifth of the sec
ond in hearing its echo. Two syllables
would be echoed from a reflecting sur
face 224 feet distant, three syllables
from 336 feet, and so on within the
limits of audibleness. It Is evident
that a sharp, quick sound, the duration
of which Is only one-tenth of a second,
would give an echo from half the dis
tance, or 56 feet. The above estimates
are for a temperature of 61 dogs. Fahr
enheit, at which the velocity of sound
is a little over 1,118 feet in a second.
The velocity of sound when the mer
cury stands at freezing is 1,086 feet per
second.—New Orleans Picayune.
Saving IK" Hooks.
There Is a story told on Hon. 11. G.
Struve which has not as yet been made
public property. It is said that during
the raging of tlio great fire, in which
Mr. Struve with nil tho rest of Seattle
wus a heavy loser, he rushed up into
his office to save some of Ins most valu
able books. It is well known that he
had accumulated a vast amount of
material, which he purposed working
up into a history of Washington. This
material and some of his books were
very precious to him. So as tho fire
came sweeping down toward his office
he rushed up stairs and began to select
the books most valuable.
“Ah, this ono I will save. No, I guess
this one is more valuable.” Thus he
hesitated, and among liis many books,
all of which were dear to him, he was
unable to decide wliich ones to save.
Just then tho cries of firemen wero
raised, and the judge was urged to
come down and save his life. Being
thoroughly alarmed and still undecided,
he turned and grabbed the first book
in reach and rushed out of flic build
ing. Reaching the pavement he found
he had saved—the city directory.—
Seattle (Wash.) Press.
Cure of Haby’a Food.
A visit to 'the buttery in the Hahies’
hospital of New York, in East Fifty
fifth street, shows tho care witli wliich
every mouthful of food is pre[iare(L
There are great cans of milk, bottles
of the best of baby foods, rare beef
and its jaiees, delicious bread—every
thing suitable for all the different baby
needs. Out in the cold room there
is a large case of “postoffice boxes."
Each baby has one, labeled with its
name. In it is daily placed the food
he or she needs, apportioned and chosen
with the greatest exactness, and In bot
tles queerly corked with baked cotton
batting. This is done because the doc
tors und wise men have found out a
strange tiling. The air wo breathe is
full of Moating hits—germs of disease—
and these cannot get through cotton
batting and poison the babies’ milk.—
New York World.
$ 1.00 CASH, $ 1.50 ON SPACE : AND WORTH IT.*
VIRTUE IN CEDAR BLOCKS.
An Impecunious Traveler Had Them In
His Valise. But the Veteran Caught On.
A well dressed stranger walked brisk
ly Into the Treniont house one morn
, lug, placed a large valise on the desk
■ and his name on the register. Tho
! veteran Cobb assigned him a room, but
it was noticed that tiro clerk followed
hiin with his eyes until he w«a lost to
j sight, and thon, if the brown study
Into which ho plunged was an Indica
tion, ho continued the chase mentally.
I Then he turned to his French Assistant,
I Mike O’Brien.
j “Mike," lie said, “I have suspicions
of that man who Just registered."
“Indeed," quoth Mika .“And why,
pray! He certainly appeared all
j rigid-”
“All, perhaps to you, my boy, per
haps to you," the veteran responded,
“but when you have been In the hotel
business for tho best part of half a
i century you will have become suspl
| clous of any man who takes the trouble
to place a heavy valise on a desk in
stead of setting It on the floor, us
1 would be most natural and easy to da
| Now, that man put his valise on the
counter, and therefore I am suspi
cious. *
M. O’Brien has an infinite respect
for the veteran’s opinion, and lie con
fessed that In this Instance in particular
his opinion was well founded.
“In fact,’’ he said, “I had a queer
kind of feeling myself pass through
me when lie registered. I didn’t know
what It was at first, but now I know it
must have been a suspicion.”
A little later, when the veteran had
made up his mind that tho proper
thing to do would bo to demand pay
ment in advance the housekeeper asked
him to step to the new comer’s room.
He did so, and found lying open on the
bed tho valise where the housekeeper,
entering the room to see If it was in or
der, had found It. In one side was a
linen duster, a pair of soiled collars and
cuffs; hi the other side four large cedar
blocks, presumably to give it weight
With feelings of mingled wrath and
self congratulation the veteran return
ed to tiie office, whore the guest In
question after finishing his breakfast
appeared.
“One moment, please," Veteran
Cobb said to him as the guest laid his
key on the desk and started to depart.
“It is customary for strangers stopping
here without baggage to pay in ad
vance."
“But I have baggage,” tho stranger
said without turning a shade. “My
valise; you saw It when I came in.”
“Pardon me, you aro right,” said
Mr. Cobb blandly. “But permit mo
to ask what you havo In it.”
“My clothes.”
“Your ward rot >e is extensive,” rather
sarcastic liko. “By the way, what aro
the cedar blocks for!" asked Mr. Cobb,
by way of a settler. But the stranger
wasn’t settled, noitherdid ho settle, for
looking his interrogator In the eye lie
replied: “Oh, they are to keep tho
moths out. Cedar's great for that,"
and before Mr. Cobb could recover
from his astonishment lit a cigar and
walked out of the hotel. —Chicago Post.
Cu telling Gold Flail.
Tho Ford-Whistler quarrel called
forth in a chib cafe half a dozen good
stories about Whistler. One concerned
an amusing performance of his in Flor
ence. He and a brother artist were
lodging together on a high floor of a
big house, and just below their win
dows were those of the landlady's
apartments. One morning Whistler
discovered a Jar with gold Ush setting
in one of tho windows below, and ho
at once announced his intention of
going a-flshing. Baiting a pin with n
bit of bread crust, he deftly lowered it
into the bowl and soon landed a fish.
The operation was repeated until all
tho fish had been caught, and then
Whistler proceeded to cook them Just
as they were. The first taste of tho
fish was enough for both artists, how
ever, and Whistler quietly lowered
tliem all back into the bowl. On
Whistler's rotum from a day’s outing
that evening the landlady gravely in
formed him that the sun luul been so
extraordinarily hot during the day that
her gold fish wero actually boiled to
death in their bowl. How the good
woman accounted for tho appearance
of the Osh that the artist had tasted
Whistler does not explain.—New York
Star.
A Famous Criminal I,«wyrr.
A little man, say 5 feet 4 incites, with
bis head set well back on his shoulders,
is Abe Hummel, of the law firm of
Howe Si lluinmeL He has been ex
cessively caricatured in New York
papers, but he is a good deal better
looking than his pictures. His name
is the most Hebraic tiling about biin.
His heavy mustache is blonde and his
eyes are brown. He dresses very plainly
in gray, yid shows almost no Jewelry.
Twenty years ago Hummel was an alert
newspaper man and picked up news
about the police courts. Now he is the
junior of the law firm most frequently
mentioned in New York papers. Howe
& Hummel have the pick of the big
divorce eases. The criminal calendar
is their meat All of the about town
people of prominence who get into
trouble go to them.—Saratoga Letter.
Someth iug to Fonder Oter.
McWiggius —Yes, I maintain that a
really smart inun will make
it a point to hide the fact as much as
possible.
Mrs. McWiggius— Well, then 1 should
say that you are certainly the smartest
! man on this earth, without a doubt.
McWiggius mused. Detroit Free
Press.
Homes of Sea Urchins.
The sea urchin gets its name from the
spines which cover its shell. The true
name, echinus, moaning a hedgehog,
has boon corrupted into urchin, with
plain Injustice to small lads. These
curious shellfish havo acquired strange
habits on the ooost of France. They
ore found at home hi cavities of the
rock on tile shore. The duuueterof the
cavity is often greater than that of the |
entrance, and tho creaturo is so large i
that ho could not leave his cell even ifj
ho very much wanted to do so. It is
said that thousands of these may be
six'll thus domiciled in thy granite rock.
It Is not doubted that tho creatures
make these holes for themselves, but
1 bow they do ttm Is a question not yet
sutisfatitorily answered. It has been
suggested that the rock Luis been some
how acted upon chemically, but this
theory has to Ik* given up when the na
ture of the rook is considered, and the
fact that no acid lias been proved to
exist in the animal.
The matter has been studied lately
by a French naturalist, who refers the
excavation to mechanical means. Ills
explanation is that the creature “prob
ably bites the rix-k, the sucker f(>ot are
also attached and a rotary motion is
Imparted to tho*body, tho prickly points
gradually wearing down the surface.”!
This work would certainly occupy tlie
animal a gixsl part of his lifetime, and
tho wonder is that no observer lias yet
seen the excavation going on.
An attempt is made to conceal these
holes by means of mussel and other
shells. Tlie rocks in which the cavities
occur are in general thickly covered
with sea weed. A number of other ani
nulls are known to penetrate rocks, and
It is supposed that they do it by uic
cluuiical means. In tlie hard lluiu
stones of Algiers spotted snails were
found In holes four or live Inches deep.
—Youth’s Conipardon.
I'iiin<hin Art TroiiMuroM.
Though tho Into Sir Richard Wallace
left rich and valuable collections In his
two Paris residences the most precious
of his possessions woro those which for
nearly twenty years lie stored In Ids
house tn Mhnchestnr square. Startled
by the events of tho Commune, Sir
Richard reconstructed his London man
sion and striped his Paris galleries to
furnish and enrich those of I/union.
In Manchester square there are no
fewer than seventeen Meissoniers, ton
paintings by Paul Doloroohe, thirty by
lloraco Vernet, twelve by Eugene De
lacroix, and numerous examples of the
old masters.
There are five grand galleries ono
devoted to modem and another to an
ciont paintings, one to Oriental arms,
one to arms of idl epochs, and a renais
sance gallery. There aro four spacious
saloons, threo of them named after tho
painters whose works adorn them—
Valasquez, Guardi, Greuze. Tho fourth
Is fitted with paintings of the English
school. Tho staircase is enriched by
what Is lielioved to bo the finest Bou
cher in existence. Sir Richard was also
a great collector of rare furniture,
sculpture, bronzes and carvings. In
his galleries are to he found a hundred
clocks of marvelous workmanship and
bronzes of every age, thousands of
wood carvings and of rare enamels,
Hovres vases, cameos, intaglios and
precious stones. At tho time of his
death Sir Richard was engaged In coin
piling a catalogue of his priceless treas
ures.—London Chronicle.
She Traveled on Her Miim Ih.
Hhe stood at the Union depot gate,
largely clad in a white dress that did
not fit her. There were lovely big
bunches of green on her bonnet. Her
feet wero large, and seemed to lie con
tinually getting in the way and hum
pering her movements. Her hands
were clasped, and drooped down be
fore her with a suggestion of pensive
ness. Not more than nineteen soft,
summery summers and as ninny hard
winters had pussed over her head.
As she stood thinking huge thoughts
a brassy cheeked bookman approached
with a howl of “Cab, miss?" Still she
was held in the toils of thought. With
u repetition of Ida yell the hackmon
just placed his hand on the soft loveli
ness of that shoulder. With lightning
like rapidity the hands unfolded, and
tho unshaven haekdrlver received a re
buil alongside the Jaw. He looked
hurt. In an awful falsetto voice the
rural beauty shouted: “No, you var
mint. I don’t want no kerrldge, and
you slopsidod city dude, witli a sign on
yor hat, don’t you put yourdirty hands
on me agin. Hear? And if you don’t
swot me to pull yer hair and knock
yer down don’t call me miss. Hear?
I married Silas Prett last year, you
ignoruuius. Uit before I hit you agin.”
The hackmun got.-—Albany Argus.
Save Your Sea Koblrm.
Did you ever hear an old salt reel
curses out by the yard when he catches
a sea robin ? Fishermen dislike catch
ing the sea robin, although their meat
is as sweet as that of any fish that
swims, but very few fishermen are
aware of this fact. The fish is gainey,
but very peculiar looking.
its head is large and ilut, witli small
almond eyes, a large mouth, slender
body arid a rough skin without scales,
and when landed it makes queer noises.
When tlie sea robin is skinned and its
head taken off its flesh is as white as
snow. When fried with butter it
makes very palatable eating. It also
makes due chowder.
An old boathouse keeper at the
Boekaway trestle told me tliat he is in
the habit of gathering them up every
evening after his boats come in -with
the tlsliiiig parties, who have no idea
of their good qualities.—New York Her
ald
FORCED TO DROP 100 TEET.
Four Workmen In Flttshurg: Unwillingly
Do the llr«wile Act.
What might have resulted .in a seri
ous accident occurred to some workmen
engaged in building the extension to
the Smith Hold street bridge. While the
James O. Hliline.wus passing under the
bridge, on her way up, her smokestacks
came In Contact with a platform which
swung from tile bottom of tho bridge.
Copt. Cock saw that the boat must strike
tile platform, and called .to the pilot
to sound the whistle. The men real
ized their dangerous position, and got
off tlie platform and caught hold of on
old iron bar which runs from pier to
piernot a moment too soon, as the
smokestack of the Blaine struck the
obstruction as the last man stepped off
the platform. One of the steamer’s
stacks was broken in two by the force
of tlie collision, and the swiuging plat
form snapped from its fastenings and
fell to tlie water.
The four men remained hanging by
their Imnds, their dnly incans of rescue
living to let go of tho striugor and drop
to the water below, nearly 100 feet
Several men wore attracted, aAd pushed
out skill's to rescue them.
Finally one of the fonr was com
polled to relinquish hi* hold through
exhaustion, falling into the water.
He disapiiearcd beneath the water,
arose again and tried to swim to tho
skill, but before reaching it tho littlo
strength which bo retained gave out
and lie sank. lie arose for the second
time, and tho occupants tlie skill
succeeded in catching hold of him and
pulling him into tlie boat.
The poor follow hecanm uuoonacious,
but tlie rosduers could not give their
attention to him, as the other throe
workmen wore still hanging to tho iron
bar. All three held on for dear lifo for
fully ton minutes, when they could no
longer retain their grasp, and ono by
ono they fell to tlie water and were
rescued by tlie men in tits skill, who
wore by this time re-enforced by an
other l>out from the shore. Tho first
man who fell soon recovered, and was
taken ashore, where all throe received
medical attention on the Brownsville
wlmrfboat. After resting awhile they
wero sufficiently strong to resumo work
again.
During tho cxcltcmont a largo crowd
gathered on the shore tuid shouted at
tlie men to do different things, which
badly disconcerted them, oud if they
could have lield to their positions a few
moments longer they would havo been
rescued without getting a ducking.
The workmen would not give their
names, but say it is their own fault, as
they should not have blocked the chan
nel with tlie ladder.—Pittsburg Dis
patch.
flouted, but Died.
The story of tho fat man who fell
overboard in New York harbor and
floated around for an hour or two until
he was mistaken for a whale and towed
to shore unhurt has set tho old water
men and wharftnen all ugog with re
miniscent talk. They tell peculiar
tales ol happenings to fat men which
have occurred under their eye. and in
which they took a part.
John McClain, tho veteran watchman
on the Thomas Clyde pier, above
Chestnut, told a number of incidents
concerning the floating tendencies of
fat men.
During tho war Mr. McClain was a
night watchman on tho piers nt Wash
ington avenue. One dark night a gov
ernment receiving vessel came up tho
river, and when it neared tho Washing
ton pier two sailors Jumped overboard
to make their escape. One was a
gigantic follow and the other a man of
medium size.
Before Jumping overboard the fat
man fastened S2OO In double gold eagles
in a leather belt which was strapped
around ids waist He Could not swim
a stroke. When they touched tho
water ho floundered around, but did
not sink. Shortly afterward a tre
mendous swell carried him under tho
pier, where lie was knocked senseless
by the piling. When tiiu body was
found, several hours afterward, it was
not at tlie bottom of the stream, but
plump against the planks of the pier,
witli the head abovo the water. Tho
man never sunk, hut was drowned
while insensible. Superstitious sailors
concluded that it was tlie gold thut
kept him on tlie top of the river.—
Philadelphia Record.
Murk Twain’* Uouim).
You should see Mark Twain's house,
til? «ipst picturesque and most elegant
of ail those Farmington avenue houses
on the road to West Hartford. It is a
dark, rich red, with showy windows,
one of deep blue, surrounded by green;
billy lawn, overlooking a meadow gay
and flowery, not foggy and froggy, as
is the mariner of some meadows.
There’s a cool, retired, covered plat
form at tlie back of the house where,
during the warm days, tho children’s
playtlrings and the tables and easy
chairs of older ones aro brought. The
kitchen is on the front ell, very near the
street, “so that the kitchen folks can
see who is going by in the road without
having to go through all the rooms in
tho house.” Tlie elegance is suggest
ive of Mrs. T wain, but the kitchen joke
standing there always, to make us
laugh every time we pass there, was, of
course, made by Mark himself.—Hart
ford OUr. Springfield Homestead.
The kali mujah, or death plant, of
Java lias flowers which continually give
' off a perfume so powerful as to over
come if inhaled for any length of time
1 a full grown man, and which kills all
forms of insect life that come under
its influence.
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