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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURDON DEMOCRACY. VOL. XV. Hr he;t -T all i Evening Power.—U. S. Gov t Reyort, Aug. 17, I*B9- It iWmlci AfVSOLUTEIY PURE /'/;o mss m s .11 t'.i 1; ns. L at w *’• O E N T 1 ST . Ifc’JdNOl (iH ( *A. Any one desiring work done cun *»u ac commodated either by calling on me in pci - «on or addressing me through the mails. Terms cash, unless special arrangement* Hie otherwise made. Gf.o W Bryan j VV.T. Diokkn. liiitl A DICKIE, attorneys at law. McDonough, a . Will practice in the counties composing Ihc Flint Imiiciitl Circuit, (ho Supreme Com t ni Georgia und tiie I sited Suites District Court. apr27-i y TAW. H. TVWmil. attorney at law, McDonoi OH, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court < f Georgia, end the United States District Court. marl 6-1 y rt J. Rll.ttai, ATTORNEY AT LAW. McDonough, Ga. Will pructice in all the Courts nl Georgia Special attention given to commercial and ~tUercollections. Will attend all t lie Courts *t Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over Tun Wkkkly office. y . wAu, attorney at law, McDonough, U a . Will practice in the counties composing t he Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given :i' colK,eticus. octs- 7‘t yj ,4. HKOWA. , . " -ATTORN. KY AT LAW, Wi!f-p <4 * 1 tbccmmties -oinpos infyjhe Flint lliu Supreme Cmij of Getjigi.i. and ?tl ••; rnilj'4, St.tb'y , , i Co-ar'. * fAnt -It' DU ON l CAMP. WHOLESALE GROCERS AND DEALERS IN Floor, Meat, Lord, Stars, Coffees, Tobaccos, dears ale. • ALSO, HAY, BRAN, OATS, CORN and all kinds of Feed Stuffs a specialty. We beg to call special attention to our Brands ol Flour, OCEAN SPRAY, POINT LACE AND PRINCESS These arc our Brands, manufactured ESPECIALLY FOR US 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 cp, 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 continuance of the same, we are Respectfully, DUNCAN & CAMP, 77 WHITEHALL ST . ATLANTA. GA. u 4. I’IIHIM.I S, tl . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hami-ton, Ga, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and tiie District Court of the United States, Special and prompt atten tiongivento Collections, Oct H, 1888 Fno. D. Stiiwai-.t. j R.T. Damkl. BTEWAKT A »4.41FX, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Gurus, Ga. j | lt. K. .1. AK.4OMK Hampton. Ga. 1 hereby let.dcr my professional service to the people of Hampton and surrounding country. Will attend all cal's night and day. j 0114 1.. TVK. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Natioal Rank Ruilding, Atlanta, Ga, Practices in the State and Federal Courts. GRIFFIN FOUNURY AND Machine Works. life announce to the Public that we are \\ prepared to inaiiufactuie Engine Roll ers ; will lake orders for all 1 bids of Boil ers. We ate prepared to do all kinds of repairing on Engines, Boilers end Machin ery, generally. Wo keep in stork Brass linings of all kindH ; also Inspirators, In ject.ns, Safetv Va’.-es, Steam linages, Pipe and Pipe Fittings andiron ned IJpss Castings of every Description. OSHOWN A WAWO'rr, « Vi C Pi K 3 utO Whiskey HaWte gsefig cured home witb -1 BH B B n Snout J>ain. Book o( par* 111 tlcJ.an sent Fit MB. MlmkSmmmu B.M.WOOInUSY.M.U T£TXu£bU>,tl«i oifleelJciH Whitehall McDonough, ga.. Friday. October, 10, tsoo. The Hayseed. i once was the tool ot oppression. And as green as a sucker could be. And monopolies banded together To beat a bayeeed like me. The railroads and old party bosses T, the, did sweetly agree, And they thought there would be little trouble In working a hayseed like me And at every election they fed me With taffy as sweet as could be. But when they elected their tteket They forgot a poor hayseed like me. They sold themselves out to the banker. Amt thought It would he a line spree To lire all the greenlwicks and silver, And rob all such hayseeds as mo. They went into league with the devil For the sake of a high license tea But never a cent of the proiits Has come to a hayseed like me. But now I have roused up a little. And their greed and corruption I see. And my neighbors ore waking around am, - And I find they're all hayseeds like me. And so we have formed an alliance. From oppression we ore bound to be free. And the ticket we vote next November Will he made up of hayseeds like me. We're bound to uphold our strong platform In spite of The Omaha Bee. And the railroads will go to the bottom By the vote of such hays.-eds as me. —Arthur U Kellogg In Omaha Woricl-tlorakl. Whore's That Billion. The following from The Burlington Hawkeye indicates that the editor wants his readers to believe he thinks the fanner is prospering, and that the rail roads and Mr. Depew are his best friend: Tho farmers of the country, and es pecially those who look ujhui the rail roads as their worst enemies, should read Chauucey M. Depew's address to tho New York State Agricultural *« i ety, delivered some days ago. He said: "The railroad first develojied the agri cultural resources of our country, then threatened their paralysis, ami now, un der wiser administration on the one hand and a more liberal understanding on tiie other, the farm and the railroad are seen to be inseparably united as al lies and partners. The blight of the one is the bankruptcy of the other.” • • Every student of political economy sees the truth of this assertion, but Sap many of the fanners never get lieyoml the second stage noted by Mr. Depew. They still look upon the railroads as working to paralyse agricultural inter ests. To them the sja-aker’s figures' are instructive. Ho showed that within the past twenty years railway rates have gone down over “100 per cent.” —mean- ing, doubtless, 50 jiercent., or one-half — while farm products have fallou taak 00 l>er cout. “The rates of 1870 i appliM to tho tonnage of 1889, would have yielded for the year $1,000,000,000 more than tho gross .’evenue of the railroads of the United States.” This is practically $1,000,000,000 a year give:- *0 tho farmers toenuble thefn to make farming i«iy. It is a phase of the subject that too many railroad theo rists are too apt not to think about. Agitation the Thing. A look over tho country humiliates one to see t hat thousands of farmors still linger in listless ignorance outside of tho only order that can avail them anything in the battle of life. But the most hu miliating of it all is to 6ce the egotistical class *of farmers, whoso pretenses are that they need none of the aids of organ ization to place themselves above the common level of the toiling producers of the country. They are sufficient them selves, anil do not see that though they may, by the aid of circumstances, float on the top of the sea of prosperity, both of these classes need tho awakening in fluence that may be exerted by some plan of oj>en meetings on tho part of the Alliance. If two or three Alliances in one coun ty should resolve to hold meetings of this kind every two months, first ut one place and then at another, and should invito and have good reasons to expect Uie presence of officers of the State Alli ance, the scattered farmers of the adja cent country would as naturally grav itate toward them as growth would fol low cultivation. I just want to throw out these hints so that the south may be better üblo to unite in common brother hood against such infernal measures as oppress her.—R. L. Wood in Southern Farm. Tl»« Poor Hanker. All local and county organizations throughout Alabama are holding meet ings and binding members by resolutions and written agreements not to sell their sot,ton crop until the price has been forced up to a figure satisfactory to the Alliance. The members readily enter into these agreements, believing they can hold the bulk of the cotton crop until the price will lie forced np to 12 cents or higher. If this arrangement is carried out it means ruin to thousands of merchants and many bankers in the south. Ninety per cent, of the cotton crop is sold when it is planted, and the crop is grown on trsdit. The fanner owes tho Merchant, tho merchant owes the banker, and the banker in many cases owes his eastern correspondent. The merchant’s notes to the banker fall due from Oct. 15 to Nov. 1, and the banker’s paper in New York is due a little later. If the farmer does not si ll his cotton he cannot pay his mer chant, and the latter cannot pay the banker.—Cor. New York Times. Hm<l Figuring. Figures are fearful things when they are wrongfully handled. For instance, an agricultural contemporary states that the number of farm mortgages in Kan sas to be foreclosed this year is esti mated at 2,650. amounting to $200,000,- 000. At its best this farm mortgage business is liad, but if our contemporary is right in its figures there is more money in mortgaging Kansas farms than in raising wheat or corn on them. The above figures give an average of more than $75,000 mortgnge indebted ness on each of the 2,650 farms.—Farm ers’ Friend. There are 218,000 tilled farms in Penn sylvania, and the farmers constitute one third of the voting population of the state AS BAD AS EVER. I.fk<! Their Brethren <>t Old These Bar bers Bleed ♦heir Customers. The place will be easily recognized. It is u well known and extensively put ronized burlier ahpp, located on 0110 of the principal thoroughfares of the city. Ostensibly the shop does uot difl'or materially from hundreds of other ton serial establishments scattered all over tho city, but this place is somewhat peculiar inasinußb as it is a sort of ton serial highway Jobbery concern, to which fact thousands who have visited it will bo willing to testify 1 was there once—only once. “You must be crazy to go in there,” a friend remarked,''as I was about to enter the place ityjuesiion. “What d*>_yo'3 tqemtr” Vnsked. “Why, it wi(pTNWb you $2.50," he said. “Nonsense, I replied, mid went boldly in. f On entering the place some dozen or more unemployed barbers yelled “Next 1" an equal number of “broom boys” tnude a rusii for my hat and coat, and without knowing exactly how I g6t there I found myself in a chair, with a black visaged barber in dustriously smearing my face with lather. “Very tlfn on top, sir; very thin," he observed as he ran his fingers throrigh my hair. “But that balsam of ours,” he went on, “will soon fix that all right. Lucky I mentioned if, isn’t it.?" ho observed. “Yes," said I, “but never mind a hair cut,” as after the shave I saw him take tip the shears and prepare to use them on my hair. “Just one little ragged s|w>t there that needs touching up," said the artist as he began the operation. I saw that I was in for a hair out and resigned myself to fate. “This way, for one moment,” lm con tinued, motioning to the wtislista-nd. Of emfhse I went, and then it dawned upon me that I was in for a shampoo as well. “Seo here,"said I, "just lot this busi ness end right here; I don’t want any thing more done. Do you under stand ?” “All right, sir," he replied meekly, and then almost before I knew it lie was calmly making a torch of my hair by applying the (lame of a lamp which he held in his hand. “What on earth are you doing now?" 1 asked. “Oh, 1 thought you wanted your hair singed. Tho only way to prevent Its falling out. ■ I"' “Hang it,” I broke in, “1 didn’t come here to buy your barber shop. How ever, I suppose you might as well go on.” This last operation finished, ho looked at me in a pitying sort of way and asked how long I had had them. “Had what, for heaven’s sake?” “Why, those blackheads. But hold on just one minute. I’ll fix them." A scorching hot damp towel vvtis then ap plied to my, face, causing me so much pain that I began to wonder why 1 had allowed it%t all and whether the next operation would involve the extraction of any of my teeth. After a minute or so of additional rubs and sundry squirts from a cologne atomizer with a friendly pat on tho back I was informed that the agony was over. “Here’s your hair restorer,” said my barber as lie handed me the package, together with my check. It would bo needless to go into details. Enough to say that liaving entered tho place for a fifteen cent shave I was only permitted to depart on the payment of $.'125 for the experience.—Now York Herald. A Wonderful Bridge. David Gowan, who lives in the north ern part of Gila county,. A. T., in what is known as “the Tonto Basin," is the owner of one of the greatest naturtd curiosities in tho United States, if not fn the world. Gowan’s wonder is the famous natural bridge which spans Pine creek by a single arch of 200 feet, the walls on either side rising to a height of from 700 to 800 feet, on one side form ing a perpendicular precipice. The bridge is 600 feet In width; from the bottom of the arch to the top it aver ages 40 feet; span, as above mentioned, 200 feet; lower side of arch, 150 feet. The action of the water which litis poured under this natural span for ages has worn it as smooth as though it had been chiseled and sandpapered by a stonemason. Although the arch, which is solid limestone, averages about fort,’ feet in thickness, there is one place near the top of the arch where the thickness scarcely exceeds six feet; near tho center of this thin place there is a semi-circular hole two feet in diam eter through which one may watch the waters swiftly gliding 200 feet below.— St. Louis Republic. A New Telephone Attachment. A Fort Dodge man has invented a telephone attachment in tfie shape of a clockwork device, by the use of which a man ringing up a person who lias left Ills office or room can be informed automatically at what time he will re turn. A dial similar to that of a clock is provided, and when the person is about to leave the vicinity of the tele phone he turns the hands on the cloek to the hour at which he will return. This hour is communicated to the ringer by a series of taps.—Newt York Telegram. Hcjond th« Limit. He (piqued)—lt seems to me tfyat your last remark rather indicated that you consider me stupid. She—Was it so obvious as thatlM Enoch. SI.OO CASH, $1.50 ON SPACE : AND WORTH IT. Submarine Surreys. Tho linos over which it is proposed to lay a telegraphic cable ore now as carefully surveyed beforehand a* a line of railway is surveyed before construc tion. Not only are soundings taken to find out the inequalities of the ocean bed, but tho nature of that bed is also investigated. This is dime by using a sounding machine, which brings up a portion of the bottom itself. The fol lowing account of the survey between Cadiz ami the Canary islands gives a good idea of tho care with which the work is done: Two ships made zigzag courses across tho proposed lino of the cable, and soundings were taken every few miles, and more frequently if circumstances warranted the delay. In this maimer the ground wn* covered effectually. On board the Dacia we had an Inter esting time and made some remarkable discoveries. Wo etuue across several banks where deep water had been supposed to exist. One of these banks nearly escaped us, as we were sounding at long intervals, but a suspicious shoaling was noted on comparing one sounding with the pre x'ious one, and as a little further on deeper water was found wo tried back, stopping to sound every few miles. The depth decreased very rapidly, and ex citement ran high when the sinker found bottom at sixty-eight fathoms. Wo had found u submarine mountain raising its crest to within a few hundred feet of the surface, rising precipitously from a depth of nearly 2,000 fathoms , Suoh incidents as this sliow olongiy tlie necessity for careful surveys of 1 ocean cable routes. This bunk was right on the proposed course of the cable, and if this lmd been laid as originally intended the strain would have proved fatal to its existence. A Familiar Adi’ertUemunt. The advertising columns of tho daily papers have ever boon a fruitful theme for speculation and deep research. Of j tho many which strike tho observant reader as, to say tho least of it, pecul iar is that 0110 emanating from the man with the horse which he Is always desiring to sell, and which some unkind fato would sooni to hinder him from so doing. Quito a sad history attaches to some of them. That one in which tho widow of a deceased merchant offers a very “tony" horse at an absurd sacri fice is eloquent of distress and kind heartedness. The horse always costs originally $1,250, and equally, of course, is for sale at $250. • Then follows a fearfully and wonder fully worded “ad” in which the horse is praised up to the skies. Tho stable is always a “private” one. Tho steed for sudo undergoes some iieculiar meta morphoses both In breed and record. Ho has alxvays any number of aliases so far as ids first name is concerned. By a strange coincidence each “stable” has its own pot surname. To give the w hole tiling n glamor of genuineness theio is always for sale a top buggy, harness und whip. The causes assigned for the sale are monotonous, tho changes being run on “business complications” and "death of owner." Of course these gentry are not acquainted with Adam Smith, and do not knoxv that a “little 1 originality and tho diversion of their ! energies to a new channel would lend to fortune.”—Now York Telegram. SoiiNltlvo Scale. A great many ingenious device* owe their origin to taking Homo old familiar appliance and making it servo a new purpose. Hardly any Invention is com moner than a pendulum clock, and yet from one of its parts an American in ventor has developed a scale much more sensitive than the best knife edge balance. If the wire rod by which a pendulum rod hangs 1h examined, the upper end, where it is fastened to the 'clock frame, will bo found flattened into the form of a spring. As a spring the metal sways to and fro with the minimum of friction. Sus [>onding the horizontal rod of his bal ance from Just such a spring, tlie in ventor lias been able not only to con struct an exquisitely sensitive scale, measuring one part in 2,350,000, but also to build a testing machine, in which steel bars are drawn out and broken as easily as If they wore glass, and in which the force at work is indi cated with the utmost uoeuracy.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Automatic Illcycle. An automatic bicycle has been pat ented wliich gives free use of the hands and considerable relief to the muscles of the rider. It can be fixed to any safety or tricycle in flvo minutes, and is only a few ounces in weight. It is as valuable to learners as it is to ex perienced riders. The ail vantages claimed fo: are that on straight roods it automatically steers the machine and allows liberty of hands with entire safety, thus avoiding considerable hand vibration, arid that when meeting ob stacles the front wheel glances off and regains its direct course. Great assist ance is, moreover, afforded Iri climbing lulls, and the invention acts as a spring stop to the front fork, arul leaves the machine rigid when placed against a wall.—-New York Commercial Adver tiser 1 It sometimes happens that a mechan ! ic will fool around fifteen or twenty 1 minutes trying to find out the number i of threads per inch in the stud hole in ; some obscure corner of an engine or | other machinery. About the liest way out of the difficulty is to whittle a soft pine plug and screw it into tho hole. When removed tlie threads can be counted easily and measured; also a very good approximation of the size of the hole ean Ve made. THE PLASTER PARIS BANDAGE. How That Valuable Auxiliary to Suini cal Science \V«n Invented. lift mo till you a story and at the j same time give you the history of the plaster Paris bandage. You must un- j dot-stand first that the inventions of 1 plaster Paris, starch, glue and paste bandages are of recent date. During the late war t hey wore unknown,and the first place in which they figured in surgical science was in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, when the Bavarian splint was first used. The Bavarian splint, which suggested to an American doctor the use of piaster Paris, was a contrivance ! made to tit closely to the limb. It had a si-at 11 up the back. und when removed was split down the front and o[>enod like a book, it (s.uld then be used again on a limb of similar dimensions— but to our story. About tiie year 1870 a gentleman from New York was making his way to j Chicago, where ho whs going to give personal superintendence to a lawsuit hi which lie was tho plaintiff. If he ; lost the suit ho would lose his all. lie | had but n day to finish his journey, j when, as fate would have it, he slip[»'d on the street in Cleveland, 0.. and j broke his leg. The |*x>r man was in great distress. Everything he had was involved In tiie Chicago lawsuit, lie sent for his doctor und told him that he hod decided to continue the Jour ney, even at tho risk of his life, stating at the kuuio timo the reasons why tho Journey was so imperative. The doctor, who happened to lie mi ingenious follow, had just been reading about the Bavarian splint, and at once sent for a dentist whom he lmd soon a few days before making plaster Paris molds of teeth. Tho dentist came, mid both went to work on the limb. They first wrapped It securely with cloth bandages, then lmrlod the entire limb iti a mass of the plaster Paris As soon as it hardened the man was assisted to [ rise, and a great portion <>f the surplus ! plaster was cut off, reducing tho hulk A pair of crutches wero secured and the Injured man, with liis limb secure ly bound, liourdod the train the next morning, to his infinite satisfaction. Of 1 course ho won the suit and Indirectly hastened an invention that has proved a great value to tho medical world - Interview’ In Cincinnati Times Star CaHt Iron llrirkn. Wl&at are termed hollow ciuit iron bricks aix' thu invention o( an Erfurt mechanic. As the name indicates tlioy arc mode of regular brick form j and sire, the walls being 0.12 inches ! tlilcxk, but no mortar or other binding ! material is Intended to enter into their ‘ nee, the method of fastening adopted being as follows: The upper anil lower sides of the brick are provided with grooves and protecting ribs, which tit Into one another easily and perfectly, so as to make a uniform and complete union or combination. There are in addition two large cir cular openings in the upper side of each brick, arranged to receive suit ably formed projections on the lower side of the brick above, one of those projections being also hooked shape, thus securing a more secure hold; and in order that the Joints be made and remain air and water tight a fluid is applied to the surface of tho bricks with a brush. The non-conducting air spaces in tho bricks, and tho ease witli which they may be put together and | taken apart without Injuring them, are cited as special advantages in their fa vor as a substitute for ordinary bricks and brick construction—Chicago Jonr n&l of Commerce. Ilow He HfM'.nt llin Yttcullnn. A young man employed in a big re tail dry goods storo was granted a va cation.' It was expected that lie would hie to tiie mountains or gpto the shore. The first morning ho was free ho walked through the storo leisurely, nodding to his comrades behind the counters, but speuking to no one. lie then • made his exit. Tho second day lie was on hour later, but he passed in review his toiling associates, and then went out. Tills he repeated for six days. When ho returned on Monday he was asked why this strange behav ior. lie replied that he hail felt 1.,r a long time a desire to do as he pleased In tho store, and he had now tieen able to do so, and he added: “I’m satisfied and ready to go to work again—better satisfied than If I had climbed mount ains or bathed in tho surf."—Boston Journal. All HtiaiiU'y’ft Fault. Not long ago a mother looked over tlie shoulder of her littiu girl who was groaning ulxmt a difficult lesson. The book wus open at the map of Africa, and tho mother exclaimed: “Wliy, how that map has changed since I was a child 1 Then it had only a few towns about the coast, and all the middle was a blank. We didn’t have to learn much about the map of Africa in those days.” “1 know it,” cried tho little girl, al most in tears, “and it’s all tho fault of that dreadful Mr. Stanley!”—Ex change. A Lucky Fellow. Mrs. Sharptongxie (querulously) Here you are earning next to nothing, and our old neighbor, Mr, Quickwlt, is making SIO,OOO a year. Mr. S.—Lucky fellow, that Quick wit. He’s got a job as traveling sales man, and is away from home ten months in the yeur.—New York Weekly. The longest day* of the year has 19 hours at Rt. Petersburg, 17 hours nt Hamburg, 10 I f hours at. London, 15 hours at New York, and 3 1-2 month* at Hpitzbergcn. Picking I p Diamonds In tho Street. Park row, between Brooklyn bridge and Ann street, is the greatest artery of travel ori this side of tho Atlantic, by day and by night, and is the most democratic of thoroughfare's. Bunco men, preachers and hayseeds, editors, peddlers and insurance presidents, working girls, wives of buriness' men and scrubwomen forever jostle each other here, and no ono would dream of finding pocketbook or package that had slipped to tho juivemeld or expect Its restoration. Yet tho early bird of the morning and tho keen eyed man whose occupation lies there sometimes find the crowded thoroughfare a gold •or diamond mine. A scrub woman on her way to clean up the offices of a Park row establisli -1 munt found a diamond stud on tho pavement in front of the place, tpid sold it to an employe lor f,lO. She was de lighted at her good luck, but. not half so much so as the employe when a jew eler appraised tho stud at SOO, or his wife when ho presented it to her. Not a great while afterward another em ploye, standing idly in front of the place, noticed a piece of white tissue paper which was kicking about beneath the fix't of tho throng. Ho watched it for a while, and growing fascinated by tiie little tinted roll of paper picked it up and found an uncut diamond in its folds. it was never advertised, and is now worn in a pin by tiie lucky finder. If there is a moral iri this true story of flotsam and jetsam it will hardly per suade people that it will pay them to put in their time hunting diamonds in Park row. - New York Bnn. Limt SpucliiMuu. The man who said Jestingly that tho chief use of going to school and college was to got stories to toll for the rest of one's life won not v itliout a certain foundation for his since no anecdotes arc more constantly repeated than those winch belong to this part of life. Graduates who left tiie Boston Igit.in school halt a dozen years ago, for in stance, are always pleased to tell what happened to u preceptor there who hud awakened much interest in natural his tory among Ills pupils by the use of the microscope. IJe was In the habit of bringing specimens to school, and ono morning an assistant found him grovel ing about tho floor, iui empty box in I his hand and an expression of dtp deep* I out consternation on ids face. I “Oh, I’ve done tho most dreadful tiling!” lie exclaimed, "i’ve dropp-d my box and spilled nil my specimen*.” “Can’t you pick the m up?” asked the other. “Oh, no,” replied the igituraiid, with u groan : "I haven't maud out to catch a single ono." ‘‘What were they ?” asked fho assist ant, <>bllg)ngly stooping down to as- ist In the search. "Forty live fleas,” was tho startling answer. The Resistant sprang up like a flash. “Don’t you think,” ho said laugh ing, “that tiie pupils may bf 1 trusted to pick up tho wliolo forty, U you givo them tirno enought"—Y’otith’s Com panion. M<xl«>rn Han Worshiper*. There are some people in Buffalo to whom the sunflower is a sacred flower, because It follows the course of the sun every day. Tlilh Is the truth neverthe less. We have sun worshipers among us; periple who do not obtrude their ideas ti|s>n their neighbors, but who aro as devout worshipers of the great orb of day as tho ancient Persians. Ho Is to them a visible and potent god, whose work they can see, whose opera tions are perfectly visible, who regu lates the seasons and brings forth tiie fruits of tho earth, and who is at least comprehensible in ids operations. I know a few of these sun wonhipem. One of them is an ancient, venerable citizen, who rises at dawn every day so that he may bow and kiss his hand to tlie rising sun, and that is the extent of his devotion. He huihers nobody as he pursues his way through tlie world, is charitable, kindly and good, and I rather suspect that lie goes to Ids little bug walk not much after sundown. — Buffalo Truth- UublnKteln'i Willing Spirit. When Rubinstein was last giving pi anoforte recitals at Bt. .fames’ hall he was one day accosted in a passage of tho building by a lady, who oxplain(*d that she was too poor to buy a ticket for the performance. She therefore tb»* gr»r.t szr.n to give her one. “Madame,” said Rubinstein, “the fact is that to-night I have but one seat at iny disposal, bnt if you do not mind occupying it It is entirely at your ser vice. " “I am very much obliged, f lay I ask where tho a-at tst” Inquired the de lighted applicant. “At the piano,” said the master, with his best bow. Tho lady was not pres ent that night.—London Tit-Bits. Ilomtftt fur a fortnight. William Whiston was a court chap lain Ur George ll'3 Queon Caroline. Once when Mr. Secretary Craggs said that a minister of state might be hon oet for a fortnight, but it would not answer much longer, Whiston. with characteristic simplicity, asked, "Mr. Secretary, did you ever try it for a fort night r —San Francisco Argonaut. A gold modal has been offered by the i Dutch Academy of Science in Haarlem, for the best work on microscopic in-) vestigallon of the mode in.which differ-' enkparts of plants ean unite with one another, and the phenomena which ac company healing after grafting. NO. 8.