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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. ir .« 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. | 1 • 'VA1.1.7 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. O*IIOUN A W AI.rOIT, 4 | 2 .i !£■■■■ nd Whiskey Habit* Ikß BJI I % U cured .it Inline with- Kl & B II j IWB° ;:t 1; o 'k par. ■■■ |U|Vrif«<s','ll'KW ffejf ■■ ■ I— r,m . M.iVi HrI.J.K ..M l). HW Atlanta, «,a. Office Whitehall S' 1 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. NT). 0.