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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 |i .1. it 1. w; i>. 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. nTnw vii r a 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- BP -61 fit kSW 3 tieniam rent KJIIK. It. JJ.Vr'OiJI.LKV.M.I). Atlanta,He, -.nfioa Hk4>- # Whitehall St 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. XO. 12