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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY.
VOL. XV.
Highest of all in Leavening Power. —U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
Pujyfc.l Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTE CT PURE
fIiOI'EiSSIOXA /, VAItIIS.
||R. M. I>. CtMCMKI^
DENTIST.
McDonough <i\.
Any one desiring work done cun -*c ac
commodated either by calling on me in per*
•mn or addrewning me through the mail*.
•Vims cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
GKO VV. ItItYAN j W.T. Dickrn.
ItlSVl\ & mCKLI,
attorneys at law.
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Ooui I
cl'Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-l v
| an. 11. ri r\«:k.
attorney at raw,
MvDonouuii, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
tlic Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court < i
Georgia, and the United Slates I'istnei
Court. marl 0-1 y
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ATTORNEY Ai LAW.
McDonol'oh, tL.
Will practice in all the Courts <>t < •eori.'ia
Special attention given to commercial and
ithevcollections. Will attend ail the Courts
it Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
I'hk Wjskkly office.
r F. WAI.I*
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MoDosocun, Ga .
Will practiee in the counties composing 1 Itu
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
to collections. oets-’7!l
A. IlltOH A.
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonouoh, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-lv
DUNCAN X CAMP.
WHOLESALE GROCERS AND DEALERS IN
Flour, loot, Lard, Sugars, Coffees, Tobaccos, Cigars etc.
ALSO, HAY, BRAN, OATS, CORN
and all kinds of Feed Stuffs a specialty
We betj to call special attention to our Brands ot Flour,
OCEAN SPRAY,
POINT LACE
AND PRINCESS
These are our Brands, manufactured ESPECIALLY
FOR US and we guarantee ever)- sack.
Write as for 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 of
hew 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 continuance of the same, we are
Respectfully,
DUNCAN & CAMP,
77 WHITEHALL ST . ATLANTA. GA.
l| A. PUKFMSt,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, 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 given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
Ino. D. Stewart. | R,T. Danikl.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Grisfin, Ga.
J | lt. It. .1. A H >OI,O.
Hampton. Ga.
1 hereoy lender my professional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all calls niglit and
day.
JOHN 1.. XVK.
AT I ORNEY AT LAW,
Gale City Niiiioal Hunk Buildimc,
Atlanta, Ga.
Practices in 1 he Stale and Federal Courts,
UlillTlN FDIJNIIIiY
AND
Machine Works.
Hre announce to the Public that we arc
? i prepared to manufacture Engine Hoi 1 -
ers ; will lake orders lor all kinds of Boil
cvs. We are preparrd to do all kinds of
repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin
ery, generally. We keep in stock Brass
fittings of all kinds; also Inspirators, In.
jeetors, Safety Valves, Steam Guages,
Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
Castings of every Description.
OKItOWN A WAI.POIT,
OSPttS y S a»JWiils'tceyHabits
fcv. I,; ~ gj SUlu cured at home with-
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MCDONOUGH, GA.,I FIUDAY. NOVEMBER,?, 1890.
AT LAST.
od my day of Hfe the night la falling.
And in the winds from the unsunned apaeea
blown
I hear far voices out of darkness calling
My feet to paths unknown.
Thou who hast mode my home of llfo so pleasant,
Leave not Its tenant when Its walls decay;
O love divine, 0 helper ever proneut.
Be thou my strength and stay*
Be near me when all else Is from me drifting.
Garth, sky. home's picture. days of shade and
shine,
And kindly faces to my own uplifting
The love which answers mine.
I have but thee, O fathen Lei thy sptrtt
Be with me then to comfort and uphold;
No gate of pearl, no branch of palm 1 merit.
Nor street of shining gold
Suffice It If, my good and 111 unreckoned,
And both forgiven through thy abounding grace.
I find myself by hands familiar beckoned
Unto my fitting place.
Some humble door among thy many maostoos,
Some sheltering shade where sin and striving
coaae.
And flow s forever through heaveu s green ex pan
stone
The river of thy peaca
There from the music round about me stealing
I fain would learn the new and holy song,
And find at last beneath thy trees of healing
Tho life for which I long.
—John Greenleof Whittier In Churchman
Man's Small Toe.
The small toe In man has recently
been made a subject of study by Herr
Pfltzner. It Is well known that thumbs
and great toes are two Jointed,
and the otlier fingers and toes
generally three jointed. In ninny
human skeletons, however, the small
toe Is found to be two Jointed, the
middle and end phalanges being fused
into one piece, though still distinguish
ablo. This variety occurs in about 36
per cent- of cases, and as a rule in
both toes simultaneously; and there
are more instances among women (41.5
percent.) than among men (81.0 per
cent.) One naturally thinks here of
shoe pressure causing union of two
bones originally separate.
But it appears that in children, from
birth to the seventh year, the fusion
occurs about as often ns In adults.
Further, tho material of examination
was not from a class of people who
wear tight shoes. Herr Plitzner con
eludes that the small toe In man is in
course of degeneration (Ruckbildung),
and tliat without apparent adaptation
to external mechanical infiuencea Pro
cesses of reduction are also observed in
the connected muscular system. The
question arises, has the tendency
reached its limit, or have we merely
the first act of a total degeneration of
the fifth toe?
The author inclines to the latter view,
but desires an extension of these re
searches among peoples who do not
wear shoes or sandals, or have only of
late begun to wear them. In living
persons it is not difficult to determine,
by stretching and bending, whether the
small toe is two or three jointed; and
in tills way adequate data might be had
for determining any percentage differ
ences in occurrence of the old and tire
new form hi dlfforont races; also, for
Investigating the inheritance of acquired
characters, members of several succes
sive generations being examined.—
Humboldt.
Mamma'll Owing*.
Daisy was lost From garret toyel
lor they searched for iter, and then
went out to rouse the neighbors and
scour the town. At last, near night
fall, tite little girl was found sound
asleep by the side of a imyoock In a
neighbor's Held.
Disturbed by the joyful outcry about
Iter site began to cry, and was only
comfort'd when mamma rushed
through the groups and cuddled her to
Iter heart. Then the happy procession
went home, and in half an hour Daisy
was asleep in her little bed.
Papa, however, lmd gone in another
direction, and came home tired aud
anxious to hear the good news.
Now tliut there was no longer cause
for worry lie grew a Httie cross at hav
ing su tiered such needless fright, and
in the morning when Daisy appeared
at the breakfast table tried to greet her
with judicial severity.
"Well, little runaway,” he said in a
vain attempt at gruffness, "how do you
find yourself f'
Daisy looked up at him witli eyes
shining in limpid innocence.
“I didn’t find myself," she replied
simply. “Mamma found me. ” Youth's
Companion.
Totmrco In American Civilization.
The development of the American
colonies, their rapid growth In the oen
tury preceding the American revolu
tion, depended In a large measure on a
VxtuAcal accident, viz., on the Intro
duction of tobacco Into the commerce
of the world. No contribution from
newly discovered lands lias ever been
so welcomed as this so colled noxious
weed. No new faith has ever traveled
so fast or far among men as the habit
of smoking. Itt scarce a century from
tite first introduction of the plant in
Europe its use lias spread to nearly
half the peoples of the Old World.
The eastern coast of America from
tlie Hudson southwurd to South Caro
lina is peculiarly well suited for the
growth of tlie tobneco plant, and tbe
rapid extension of the British colonies
in America, whicli brought their popu
lation at the time of the revolution to
a point where they numbered about
one-sixth part of the English people,
was largely due to the couiineree which
rested upon the use of this plant
Professor N. 8. Shaler In Scribner's.
Personally Conducted.
Master—Where’s Bridget today!
Mistress—Off on a little Jaunt with
her young man.
Master—l see. One of Cook’s tours
jx rsonally conducted. —Pittsburg Bui-
BENEFITS OF GRANGE.
Some of tho Advantage, Thnt Am Found
In tho Fnrinei*' Organization*.
In enumerating tho benefits of the
grange organisation, ltt *)|fliUon to the
duties that farmers owe ttt oaeh other in
the matter of combined action to effect
proper legislation ami better
laws, we should ilot lose sigKl W the so
cial and eduoationnl rff the or
der. It is wise introduce young people
into society »* fts early age and have
them grow up In educational refinement
and ease. Nothing is more embarrass
ing to parents than to see their ohildren,
when grown to near manhood and
womanhood, so bashful tjley dare not
attempt conversation in Jiresence of
strangers, and to see tlieiAvriggle and
twist to draw their big "may feet hi
or under and out* of sight, their hands
into security, and skulk into a corner or
the dark shade of soino favorable place
to hide them from view. These and
many other annoyances It is the
highest duty of parents to avoid.
We do not advocate rudeness nor im
modest boldness, but we do desire to see
every person In the world jierfeotly at
ease to tell what ho or she may know in
any place or before any audience, on the
forum, tho witness stand, in the social
circle. In private or publio conversation.
Today we have governors, legislators,
congressmen and many high officials
promoted from the farmers' private ranks
to high and honorable position simply
from the training they got whilo passing
through the many official chairs of tho
grange. Unlike most societies or orders,
this Is not a listening exercise simply,
but it Is a talking school, where every
member tB perfectly free to have his say
upon all questions. The debate is thor
ough and exhaustive on all subjects, and
before its close the truth is generally
made plain. Tho honest differences of
opinion are narrowed down to the least
possible compass, but they do exist.
Tho grunge embraces nil classes of
other societies, both political ami relig
ious, and their convictions upon these
points are never to bo called in question.
The only rule or test or uim of a granger
in to learn the higher cultivation of the
soil, perfection in all farm work ami
operations, as well as tho advancement
of agriculture in this nation to furnish
the safe foundation for a wiso and happy
people.
The exchange of experiences in the
grange, coupled with debate, advances
progress and enlarges the mental caliber
of mon and women. 'Tis here we can
fully develop our highest gifts, and if
we have the qualification for greatness
or goodness it is brought to the surface
and speedily utilized for tho benefit of
the world.—H. Talcott in Orange Advo
cate.
The near. Get the Cream.
Gen. .1. R Chalmers, of Mississippi, in
an intesVtow with a Washington corre
spondent recently, said: •
“The isolation of the farmers has
mode them victims to tho more easy
combinations of tho mercantile) and finan
cial operators, and hence they havo been
driven into nn alliance for self protec
tion. They bare an unquestionable
grievance, and they are unquestionably
entitled to relief. In describing tho con
dition of tho farmers I will take that of
the cotton planters, with which 1 am
familiar, and the condition of one may
bo safely taken as the condition of all tho
farming interests. The cotton crop is
made almost entirely on annual credits,
and fully one-half or it is made by labor
ers to whom supplies have been advanced
by their landlords or by country mer
chants who bold Hens upon their crops,
which compel them to qell oach halo of
cotton as fast us It can be brought to
market.
"Ttw farmers and their laborers are
indebted to tho country merchant, and
he to the city merchant, and he in turn
to the banks; thus the crop is forced to
Immediate sale to meet this indebted-!
ness, and tho bears get tho cream of it at
their own prices. Cotton is always low
while the fanner has any to sell, and it
always advances in price when the spec
ulator gets control of it Against the
oppression arising from this condition of
affairs the farmers demand relief, and
they are entitled to it if it can bo af
forded.”
Tim. to Wake Up.
So long as the farmer allows the buyer
to control tbe price of his labor so long
will ho be tho slave of tho world and tho
sole author of his own misfortunes, and
this is the mysterious leak which he
does not seem to comprehend. Ho is
toiling and sweating all day, tossing,
groaning and dreaming all night, be
cause every hope which for years'he had
cherished was blasted, every plan of re
demption averted and the last vestige of
pleasure departed, while wealth is revel
ing in splendor at his cost, and yet he
does not seem to know that he is a slave;
a slave to the lender, a slave to the
buyer and a slave to the seller, because
they fix their own prices. Is it not time
to wake up before the glqprn of igno
rance binds you forever?—Hutchinson
Brown in Grange Bulletin.
The Mortgage Crop.
There is no overproduction except in
the crop of mortgages.
In Illinois this crop has increased over
103 per cent, in seven years. The farm
ers' property has been steadily decreas
ing for years. Twenty years ago I sold
a farm in lowa and today it would not
bring the same price with all the im
provements. It is estimated that 35,000
men own of the wealth of
the country. Over 5,003,000 men in the
United States receive less than S2OO per
year and the tanners do not average
S3OO. All this is the result of vicious
class legislation. The greater the wealth
of the individual the loss the proportion
of taxes levied upon him.
Our farms and public domain are be
ing absorbed by aliens nnd corporation*.
—Hon. Alonzo Marshall.
The Rural New Yorker advocates the
formation of tranche:! of the Farmers'
Alliance in New York state to fill the
political field, which the grange, not
withstanding its excellence in other
ways, cannot do, because of its constitu
tion.
$ 1.00 CASH, $ 1.50 ON SPACE : AND WORTH IT.
Alliance Stock Yard*.
It lias just become known that a gi
gantic movement is oil foot among the
members of the Farmers' Alliance of the
western states to organize a stock yards
company and establish extensive yards
in Kansas City, Kan. Work has been
going on quietly for tho jiast month, and
it was learned yesterday that the site
for the new yards had been select*-d and
the company .would be organized in a
few days.
This move was unexpected, and it mi
dOubt will create some surprise among
cattle dealers of this city. For some
montiis past the American live stock
cbtSßiiasi. m company at the stock ex
change building has been doing business
for the Alliance, and move will
doubtless bo news to it. A representa
tive of the F armors’ Alliance of sonth
westom Kansas and a cattle raiser of
that district, who is working on the
scheme, was seen last evening by a
Times reporter.
"You see," said he, "tho farmers of
the west, and especially tlie cattle rais
ers, have determined to do away with
the second men or commission men. The
American live stock commission com
jtany at tho stock yards has been doing
the business for the Alliance fur the past
year, bat for some reason the farmers
have become dissatisfied, and so a meet
ing of tho representatives of the Alli
ance of Kansas, Nebraska and other
western states was held a few months
ago, when it was decided to organize a
stock yards company and establish yards
at this point.
"Tho new company proposes to adopt
a system concerning the shipping of live
stock which it claims will be the means
of placiug the prices of cattle and hogs !
on a solid basis. The agents who will
have charge of the general offices at this
point 'rill l*o kept posted in regard to an
approximate numljor of cattle and bogs
ready for the market by each division
of tho Alliance, ami orders for live stock
will bo sent ont each day. In this man
ner the yards will not be packed with
cattle one day and nearly empty the
next. When the Kansas City Btock j-ards
are crowded with cattle the prices are
naturally forced down ami the jiackers
take advantage of tho market by buying
enough cattle and hogs to supply tho
houses for two or three days, ami then
when tho prices go up again only a few
buyers can be found."—Kausas City
Times.
I>ear<M*nlng Fur in Vulu«ii.
Since 1860, and therefore since tho ex
istence of an extremely high protective
tariff, inordinate watering of corjiorate
stocks, capitalistic conspiracies to rob
productive industry and other modern
financial and political alxises, agricul
tural wealth, relatively to population, has
been steadily decreasing. For the ten
years ending 1860 farm values increased
101 percent., for tho ten years ending
1880 farm values Increased but 9 per
cent., though population increased 37
per cent., and the agricultural propor
tion of population was not perceptibly
changod. It is yet too early to say just
what tho census for 1890 will reveal re
garding this matter, bnt from data so
far received it is estimated that farm
values will bo from 9 to 15 per cent, less
than in 1880, though popnlation, agricul
tural and all, has increased al>out 30 per
cent
Judged by surface indications, the de
crease will bo greater than either of tho
foregoing estimates, for it is difficult,
indeed, to find a locality settled morn
than ten years where farms could bo 1
sold for 85 to 00 per cent, of their value
in 1880, Tho situation is a grave one,
anil should oxcito the gravest apprehen
sion. Here is n matter for our states
men to grapple with quite as important
as protecting manufacturers, as super
vising anil running elections by United
Btates officials, as building poetoffico
buildings in villages, or as exhausting!
the “surplus" without decreasing tho
revenues.—Farm, Stock and Home.
A Beimtor'g Imlomuioiit.
The much more numerous class of our
society are the agriculturists, but it can
not be questioned that they have not ex
ercised tlie power and control over elec
tions and governmental affairs which
their numbers entitlo thorn to. They
have been confiding and true, and they
have left it to other iiersons of other pur
suits mainly tocondnct the affairs of the
politicians and statesmen. The cense- ;
qtienoo tins lieen that their claims to a
just and fair recognition havo not always
been respected as they should havo been.
They have borne this state of things for
a long time with great patience and i
moderation, but they have finally reached
tho point where they propose to take into
their own hands the management of;
their own interests, and to have a word
to say in the manner of conducting the
affairs of the government.
This, I think, is commendable, and 1
have no quarrel with any organization
vf fanners who unite themselves to
gether for the purpose, not of assaulting
and crippling the interests of other
classes, but of protecting their own.—
Address of Senator Brown, of Georgia.
Injustice and Crime.
The history of our competitive system
is a history of injustice and crime. It
began with physical competition for the
possession of wealth among savages. It
is yet the barbarous doctrine of the
"survival of the fittest”—that is, the tri
umph of tho most powerful. What mat
ter whether the power be physical, men
tal, the power of superior wealth, or
that conferred by special privileges. The
man who robs his fellow by legal pro
cedure is no more honest than he who
does so at tho pistol's point. Tiie man
who takes advantage of another’s mis
fortune to extort money from him is a
thief and a robber. There is no such
thing as honest speculation.—Grange
Advocate.
There is every indication of a grange
revival in the near- future; in fact it is
already in progress. But why are there
so many idlers? The order calls for tbe
active work of its every son and daugh
ter. Let. love of order and duty and a
praiseworthy prido govern each patron,
and ail will bo well. —Grange Bulletin.
IF IT WERE TRUE, WHY NOT?
Hnv« Not the Farmer* tho Right to
Share In t'rngre**? -Hut They Don’t.
The following, taken from a re
cent issue of Frank Leslie's News
paper, seems from the manner of
its construction to imply that the fann
er has no right to share in tho ad
vancing civilization. “Potatoes, hoe
cake and bacon," with carjietless floors
and bare walls, are all that tho tillers
of the soil have tho right to expect, and
for daring to aspire to anything better
they and their ixwterity shall bo punish
ed. But the chargo of extravagance
against tho farmers as a class is arrant
nonsense. If they avo not frugal and
Industrious there are nono such on earth.
However, here is tho articlo from Frank
Leslie's Newspaper;
"Anotliiy reason for tho existence of
the so called fanning depression, in
America at least. Is to bo-found in tho
fact that farmers live far differently
now from what they did fifty or even
twenty-five years ago. In Tho Ashtabula
(Ohio) Sentinel recently comment was
m;ulo on tho fact that a tract of 105
acres near that place had been sold at
administrator's sale for $10.50 an acre.
A veteran fanner mime James Herrick
was bantered about tho matter, and re
plied that no farmer could buy land,
oven at a low price, nn<l pay for it off
tho land “and live as farmers do now.”
lie added:
“When I was a boy for eight month* one year
we (lid uut have a loaf of white bread In our
hoiiHO. One year we bail three acres of wheat,
which was very tall and heavy growth, and prvm
toed a groat yield About the middle of Junu It
was struck with black rust, and wo did not get a
pint of wheat off tho field. Tho same fall the
fi-oHt killed the corn, and we did not have even a
bushel u> grind. We had sold our choose at four
and one-half cents a iwuud to Job Austin, and
hail not taken It quite all out at the shire, and us
a great favor be paid file balance In money,
which my father took and went almoet to the
center nf the state and bought six bushels of
wheat for bread and seed.
"Mr. Herrick said tho first money ho
earned after coming of ago was ten dol
lars, which he got in cash, and very
soon after bought twenty good sheep
with tho money. Now it would bo ten
very poor sheep you could get for twen
ty good dollars. Mr. Herrick’s experi
ence is that of every old farmer in tho
country. In other days tho prices of
farm products woro l'ar below what they
are today, and tho comforts and conven
iences of tho farm were far less. Very
few farmers of thoso days could tift'ord
such a thing as a sowing machine, much
less a piuno. A common—vory common
—school education was all the fanner
boy got.
"Now tho district Hchool is equal to
the grammar school of twenty-five years
ago, but even tho district school is not
sufficient. Tiie farmer boy must go to
tho city high school or to the normal
school and college. Carpets are on tho
fanner’s floor today— not tho rag car
pets of twenty-five years ago, but good
three ply ingrains and even Bmssels.
Potatoes and pork no longer make up
the daily bill of fare. Angel food lias
taken tho place of hoocake, and beef and
chickens have supplanted tho jiork barrel.
"The farm brings in moro than it did.
No man’s sheep sells for fifty cents a
head; but oxponses havo also increased.
The fanner who was led to oxtravagant
notions during tho i>oriod t>t high prices
in war times now feels tho hardship of
low prices, for he finds it difficult to go
back to tho severe economies necessi
tated in his earlier days."
Who Will Lift th© Ilurden?
Many of our farms aro heavily mort
gaged, and it is gross injustice to collect
a tax on the full valuation of property
when some rapacious money lender holds
a claim against it for half or two-thirds
of its worth. Clearly such claim ought
to bo deducted from tho valuation of tho
realty, and tlie mortgage itself be made
to bear its share of the burden of taxa
tion. Anil, further, there is groat in
justice in the fact that hidden property
inay escape all assessment. Our tax laws
discriminate against the farmer, bring
ing him to account for possessing prop
erty whicli he cannot pnt into bank
vaults, and allowing tlie liond holder,
the speculator and stock gambler to se
crete their wealth beyond the reach of
the tax collector. Will either of tho
chief political parties of this nation, hav
ing as they do heavy cartalists for their
leaders, ever lift these burdens? To look
for such a thing would be to expect tho
impossible!—Rural New Yorker.
What Dr pew Say*.
i Chauncoy M. Depow, president of the
New York Central railroad, made a
speech to tho fanners at tho Syracuse
(N. Y.) fair, of which tho following
were the closing sentences:
‘‘The English farmer first pays the
landlord, then the parson, then the gov
ernment before there is any left for
himself, but three-quarters of the Amer
ican farmers own their own laud and
most of the remainder fann upon shares,
which is better than ownership, be
cause, from my experience, it gives
them all the profits and imposes upon
them none of the bunions.
"With agricultural prosperity before
us, so certain and so full of promise,
the country can be confident of its
growth in wealth and happiness.”
Mr. Depew went to the grounds in his
private car.
Bogun Crop lie port*.
The flattering crop report of July and
the receipts double thut of last year are
misleading. Tho flattering published
prospects and reports with the present
receipts have materially reduced the
price of cotton. These facts out to be
known to farmers as soon as possible. A
majority of farmers will have feed
to buy at a high price, and next year
will be one of the hardest years this part
of Texas has known for several years.—
A. M. Somers, Lawrence, Tex.
The farmers’ cyclone is sweeping
South Carolina. It looks as though only
one or two of her members would be
returned to the house. The veteran
George D. Tillman is one of them, but
he will have a fight for it with the state
lecturer. His brother ia the Alliance
Democratic candidate for governor of
the state.—Amos Cummings’ Letter.
Tho llund Saw.
English mechanics are said to depend
much upon a tool which Is but little
used in America, namely, a band saw
for metals. Its construction, as de
scribed, is simitar to that of a heavy
band saw, with a third carrying wheel
for the saw, tho object of this being to
reinovo the up moving side of the blade
from tho vicinity of the table, and thus
leave a deep throat through which a
large pieco of work can be passed or a
wido plato turned. This tliird wheel is
placet! at tho back of the machine,
about midway in the vertical height of
the saw blade. The toinpor of tho saw
is slightly harder than that of thoso
used for wood, and tho tooth are sharp
ened straight across the blade by a cut
ter with its teeth at tho right height to
suit the teeth of the saw blade.
TWb topi Is used for cutting off tho
spines from steel castings, tho ends of
bolts, to saw up steel, Iron and copper
plates to any form, and to rough out
the jaw sof eccentric rods and other
forgings which would require tho use
of slotting machines, and it cuts ns well
on a circle ns upon a straight line.
Tho blade is lubricated with soap anil
water, and in a cut six inches long
through a steel connecting rod jaw it
works freely and satisfactorily. Not In
frequently circular saws of largo dimen
sions are used for the same purpose,
and, being mounted on heavy frames
and fed carefully up to their work, cut
off largo pieces of steel, leaving nearly
a smooth surface on tho face of the
slut,—New Orleans Picayune.
Cement Under Witter.
The uso under water of sacks of ce
ment mortar is in certain cases of tho
greatest servico. It is probable that no
other process will permit work under
water wliieh will secure so "perfect a
contact with old masonry. A notable
example of this may be cited In tho via
duct which is now being built across
tho Loire for the railroad from
to Glen, France, which lias the found
ations of its piers dug through a water
bearing sand to tho marly limestono
which forms the subsoil of the valley.
In some of these excavations the bot
tom is disturbed by violent currents of
water comii:g either from tho water
bearing -o.u into tho pit, or from cracks
which are freqm i.tly met with in tho
limestone and t! e waters of which
spout out In the bottom of the excava
tion. This water could not bo carried
away by masonry uhannels or drains,
since the mortar would bo at once
washed out. Tho use of cement in
sacks allows the engineers to obtain a
pavement or foundation for tho bottom
of the pit almost solid and fitting itself
perfectly to all tho irregularities of the
bottom, thus allowing tho concrete to
be sot with i>erfcct security.—Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Truly a Railway Hero.
In the evidence taken in case of John
W. Winn, freight conductor on tho
Richmond division of tlie Atlantic
Coast lino, who was killed at Redfiold
station, on tho Petersburg railroad, one
Thursday morning, in attempting to
get on the caboose while tho train was
in motion, it is shown that Winn fell
and tlie wheels of tho caboose passed
over him, cutting his right leg off bo
tween tho ankle and knee, his loft log
off between the knee and hip, his left
arm off between the elbow and shoul
der, When lie wua missed tho train
was backed and lie was found con
scious.
Before he would allow anything to
be done for him ho directed tlie brako
liuui who camo to ills assistance to tako
eliargo of his train and put it on the
siding, so os to prevent collision witli a
passenger train. lie then made this
lirakeiuiui examine tlie switches used
so as to muko sure that ail was safe.
Ho then remarked that lie hud per
formed his last duty, as lie would never
lie able to work again. —Richmond
Times.
A Forcible Reminder.
A wife recently gave her husband n
sealed letter, begging him not to read it
till lie got to his place of business.
When he did so he read:
“I am forced to tell you something
that 1 know will trouble you, but it is
my duty to do so. I am determined
you shall know it, let the result be
what it may. I have known for a week
tliat it was coming, but kept it to my
self until today, when it has reached a
crisis, and 1 cannot keep it uny linignr
You must not censure too liars!fly, for
you must reap the results as well as
myself. Ido hope it won’t crusli you.”
Here ho turned tbe page, his hair
slowly rising.
"Tbe coal is all used up! Please call
and ask for some to be sent this after
noon. I thought by this method you
would not forget it."
He didn’t.—London Tit-Bits.
Itosrendantft of Poutlua Pilate.
It may be known to only few people
that direct descendants of Pontius Pi
late, the Roman governor, are living in
tiiis country. The ancient archives of
Vienna, Austria and Perth, Hungary,
show tliat a grandson of Pontius Pilate,
Caius Flavius Pilate, was matte proctor
of tho Roman province of Dacia, on the
lower Danube. Later on we find a de
scendant of his governor of Panonia,
the present kingdom of Hungary, and
married with one of tite Byzantine
Greek princesses. Still later the family
moved into Austria. Some forty years
ago two members of the family moved
to this country and gained reputations
as florists and landscape gardeners.
One of the brothers laid out the Cen
tral Park of New York, and soon after
died. Tlie other is carrying cm with
his son the florist business in Sing Sing,
N. Y. —Chicago Tribune.
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