Newspaper Page Text
THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY.
VO.I . XV.
•ITTTe TO A pvxf? m»T S»r>wra<l '» "1»»< Oo*.
iIUD X JXX XUJ-b y. A; Oo '* wwiiMti*.?
Advrrtt.txur Bmvfwi < !0 Spcuv si-i. w>>.
«fM>Lrao4j» ia»* r Lo iox it l-N Na» *» ***r
c;<> C'«'< 14 '5 F\A !
Hi-fi- is 111.- of a ’ifVil iie. A
spU-i.clifi ai.il j.:>s.turo ahiml cm- mi!<
nufi a h*!f Ireiii Ho«i<le son, Texas, most
under i« nee. 'I h ■ laud lit-s well. Here eon
use no guano mid mike more eotlou ’pi i'
iU-te Hum Ihev do in the south »ilh jnisnos
The lauds are mostly umh r I'etiee and soil
timliered where not in cultivation. $4.;,0 |
per acre. T* rme t asv. Apply to,
Oct. :J4. .!■ Hakvky Tiiknkk
Heiidi rs m, T.-x.
pnoFEssf'i V m. r.i /.*/»'•
«j. **. rtni’iii i.i .
DEN T I ST.
Mrr.ONOi flit <4\.
Any one desiring work done can • >:■ ae
3C,rimiodated either l>y calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Perm* eash, unless special arrangements
arc otherwise made.
Geo W. Bav.vs J 'V.T. Dickks.
urvah A IHOiUJI,
ATTORNEYS at law,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit,the SupremeOourl
cf Georgia and (he United Slates District
Court. ap.-27-ly
j ASi. 11. rIItAF.K.
attorney at law,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court et
Georgia, and the United Slates District
Court. nmrl6-ly
.». RKA(«*Hi
ATTORNEY' AT LAW.
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts ol Georgia
Special attention givcu to commercial and
■tWcr collections. Will attend all the k ourts
at Hampton regularly. Offi.-c upstairs over
The Weekly office.
J vT. WAI ls
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ua .
Will practice in the counties composing t he
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme ami
District Courts of Georgia. I’rompt attention
givvn to collections. oc.t.v-’/.i
A. IIUOW.V
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. lan 1 1 *
DUNCAN S CAMP.
%
WHOLESALE GROCERS AND DEALERS IN
Flour, leal, Lari, Saw Coffees, ToMccos, Clears ate.
ALSO, HAY, BRAN, OATS, CORN
and ali kinds of Feed Stuffs a specialty
We beg 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 every 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
New Orleans Syrups*
which we can sell at “ROCK BOTTOM 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,
7? WHITEHALL ST. ALANTA, CA.
TEN DOLLARS
will be paid tor the best description of the celebrated
Naat Cartoon entitled "The New South "reached bjr
The- Eaal Tenimwe. Virginia A Georgia
Hallway. Des. rlptlou shall Cicludc all resource#
shown in the cawoon. Contest close# Dec list.,
USD. Decision by three distinguished Southerner*
AdUrecs li, W, WKKNN'. K.nuxvilui. Tunn.
OR HEN mjfi
LOBT or FAILING SANE 003);
*• ai?Uf^fn aßn9r,U and * EK.VOVB DEBILITY;
vArillHl |W- a knees of Body and Kind, Ltfect.
Error* or Exasase* in OJdor Yeans,
ft, bujt, Nt oL-i FANiMMIB fwli/ H?-(or*-\ How (o enlarge Rad
’|rri:*;!ien W*tAK. UXi>KVELO!*KD GKO* YR A PARTBUF DOIMu
AhdUktob ci»r»!H»6 HOflK TitEATXKN T —HrmUit In s def.
cn IVcai 30 tttiueu mwl Fwrelrw Cocctrle*. Write lh.«».
< < *cfit fl-* Book, etjGeaatl" a«d proof* Mailed .aetlea) frfA,
UUw ESiS UIUIICA'. CO.. BUFFALO, M. V.
q A. PFEPI.Ffci,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, J
Hamuton, Ga,
Will praclicc in ail (he counties composing
;he Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
jl Georgia and the District Court of the
TluTted States. Special r.nd prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Out 8, 1888
no. D. Stkvvakt. | It. T. Danikl.
NIKWAItI' A II A.AI FI.,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Guissin, Ga.
| |lt. K. .1. AKilOliO.
Hamuton. Ga.
I hereby tender my professional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all cal's night and
day.
| Oil A L. 'I'VE.
ATFORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Nalioal Bank Building,
Atlanta. Ga,
Fractices in the State and Federal Courts.
griffin foundry
AND
Machine Works.
\1 ’ e announce to the Public that we are
S prepared to manufacture Engine Boil
ers ; wili take orders for all kinds of Boil
ers. We are prepared to do ail kinds of
repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin
ery, gcnera'lv. We keep in stock Brass
fittings of all kinds; also Inspirators, In
jectors, Safety Valves, Steam Guages,
Pipe ami Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brasß
Castings of every Description.
OMItOWA A WAUOrr.
Otra U 0 Pi W\ O and Whiskey Eahits
Ej H fey l ® cured at home r/ith-
KM. WOO I , LEY,M. D,
Allaala, Clit. ollice 104%- Whitehall &
McDONOUGH, GA., FRIDAY. DECEMBER, 20, 181)0.
AMBITION.
The German emperor and 1
Wilitfa the self sai.io yt>ar were bona.
Beneath the «**ir same sky.
Upon the self same morn;
A kaiser he. of Ui*li estate,
And 1 the usual chance of fate
His father was a prince, and mine—
Why, just a farmer—that is aIL
Stars still a e stars, although some shine,
And some roll hid in midnight's pall;
Rut argue, cavil all you can.
My sire was just as good a man.
The Gorman emperor and l.
Eat, drink and sleep the self same way
For bread is bread, and pie is pie,
And cau eat but thrice a day
And sleep will only come to those
Whose mouths and stomachs ore not foea
I rise at six and go to work,
Aud he at five, and does the same.
We both have cares we cannot shirk;
Mine ore for loved ones; his for famo
He may live best, 1 cannot tell;
I'm sure I wish the kaiser well
I have a wife, and so has he;
Ami yet, if pictures do not ert
As far as human sight can see, »
Mine is by loug odds twice as fair.
Say. would I trade those eyes dark brown ?
Not for an empress and her crown
And so the emperor and 1
On this one point could ne'er agree;
Moreover, we will never try.
His frau suils him and mine suits me
And though his sons one day may rule
Mine stand A 1 in the public school.
Bo let the kaiser have his sway,
Bid kings and nations tumble down;
I have my freedom and ray say,
And fear no ruler and his crown;
For I, unknown to fame or war,
Live where each man is emperor.
—Fred Warner Shibley in Boston Globe.
I’layed tho Music Backward.
While sauntering through one >t the
courtsthe otherday twomembersof the
musical profession heard strange, weird
sounds, which seemed to have some
sort of connection with a pianoforte.
Turning a comer they came upon a
gentleman who was in the act of stow
ing away a strip of the perforated pa
per used in mechanical pianos.
Curious to hear the instrument, a
request was made that he should run it
through again. The piece selected was
the “March from Tannhauser,” but at
the first turn of the handle the sounds
produced were very unlike anything
Wagner ever wrote.
By-the time tho handle had made
half a dozen revolutions the cacophony
was simply awfuL The “performer,”
who continued to work with increasing
vigor, was tapped on the shoulder and
assured that there was something seri
ously wrong, but he merely smiled and
continued to grind for dear life.
At length the end caine, and it was
then discovered that the “Tannhauser
March" had been played backward.
In reply to his auditors as to why he
continued to play when such horrible
sounds wero produced the attendant
gave a childlike and bland smile and
said, “Me no English; me German!”—
Edinburgh Dispatch.
She Married Another.
Everybodj .n Anderson knows Sam
V , and he is the last person on
earth any one would suspect of having
a romance. He is a plain, straight
forward, every day kind of a man.
'Yet there is a romance in his history
When the war broke out Sam shoul
dered a musket nnd went to the front.
He, like many others, left a sweetheart,
who kissed him good-by at the depot,
and bade him think of his country
first and her next.
She wrote to him frequently, and he
carried her letters in the inside pocket
of his soldier jacket until there was
quite a bundle of them. One day in
battle a bullet struck Sam in the breast.
It plowed through his coat und tore a
hole in the bundle of precious letters
and made a big bruise over libs heart
The letters saved his life.
“Of course Sam married the writer
of the letters?” guesses a romantic
young miss.
Of course Sam didu't, but some one
else did. He has a son in the employ of
a well known corporation at Anderson,
and his sweetheart “during tlie war”
lives in tills city the happy wife of a
popular railroad man. Bangor News.
A Dog with a Memory.
The following, remarkable at all
events as u feat of memory, was told
me by the owner ot an Irish water
spaniel, the only dog I ever knew who
would perform tricks and was good to
shoot over at the same time. His
master was out walking with him at
the beginning of the long frost in the
year 1855, which set in about the mid
die of January. He went on a frozen
mill dam. where the water was of
course very deep, and accidentally
dropped his snuff box through a little
round hole in the ice. The dog was
dreadfully distressed at not being
able to get it, but was obliged to go
home with its owner, who thought no
more about the matter Two months
afterward, when the frost had gone,
he and the dog passed by tlie same
place. The dog paused opposite tlie
s|K>t where the box had disappeared,
seemed to think intently for a minute,
then plunged in, dived to the bottom,
and returned with the snuff box in his
mouth. —Quarterly Review.
The riutluum from Electric Lamp*.
It is singular that while this remark
able reduction is going on in tlie price
of aluminum the price of platinum
should be going up. Platinum is one
of the essential metals in the construe
tion of successful incandescent lamps;
in fact, it is said that it is uow one of
tlie largest items, there being eight
cents’ worth of platinum in each lamp.
So well is this fact recognized that of
late some of the lamp manufacturers
have collected the butts of old lamps
that had done service and have recov
ered tlie platinum by smashing tlie
glass and plaster, etc., and extracting
the leading-in wires. —Safety Valve.
Boys Wisvinf Carpets in India.
YVe pfcsseJ through an archway into
a largo, deserted inelosuro full of rub
bish hoaps, and having a deep colon
nade of mud bricks running all round.
Under this were erected ruda looms, of
which there most have l>eon over fifty,
but only six were being worked, owing
to trade being slack
The carpets were most beautiful in
oolor and design, all intended for the
London market. We saw one, measur
ing 12 feet by 10, which was nearly tin
ished. Six little boys, varying in age
from 8 to tl years, were working it,
while one of them read" out the pattern
from a slip of paper. Their small,
brown Angora worked so nimbly, knot
ting on the various colored wools and
cutting off the ends with a knife, that
ono could hardly soe wluut they were
doing. It seemed am fting that ftucb
young boys oo<£d have attained such
dexterit..* id''rfoiii eight ‘to’
twelve shillings a month.
We were told that they could make
a carpet of the size they were then
working in one month, so tliut the
actual cost of the making would be
about £3, and ns the carpet would sell
for over £l3, there must be a handsome
profit over and above the cost of the
wool and the interest on capital sunk.
—Mrs. King's Letter.
Children's Queer Talk.
A friend sends word of what he re
gards as a discovery of his own in a
Boston suburb about children’s Inn
guage. “Nearly all children,” he Bays,
“seem to have a tendency to use ‘dog’
or ‘hog’ Latin (a survival of baby talk
perhaps). It used to be common for
children to talk thus: ‘Whatvus did
vus youvus sayvus?’ adding the syllable
vus t 6 overy word. But the children
of the suburb alluded to add the syl
table ay to words and remove the first
letter of each word to its close, prefix
ing it to the ay; thus, ‘lll way ouyny!
ogay otay Ostonbny odaytay ?’ means :
‘Will you go to Boston today T
“I am informed by one of these chil
dren tliat many of them have Required
the power of speaking this curious lan
guage with great rapidity. They also
have, or a clique of them, a kind of
cipher or Free Mason language. My
young informant was amazed and stu
pefied one day to hear a little girl say
to a boy, ‘B W W A.’ The boy there
upon replied, ‘No, bo has gone down
the hill.’ Verily there are curious things 1
going on about us, ob, learned Kflendi
minel”—Boston Transcript.
(Jm for Refuse Tin.
For years and years 1 have been ac
customed to tiie sighfeof carts loaded
high up with scrap or refuse tin, on
their way to tho southern part of the
city. When 1 was a boy and played
about dumps these irregular piooss
of the shiny metal were always thrown
there. I supposed that this was still
the case, but feeling curious the other
day I stopped tho driver and asked
him where he was taking his load. Ho
mentioned the name of a South St
Louis manufactory "But what do
they do with it? It Is no good.”
“Do with it?” lie replied. "Why, |
this stuff is piit into a heavy machine
while hot anil pounded Into sash
weights for windows. It is cheaper, of ■
course, than iron, and answers the pur
pose better, 1 am told, as when the I
weight comes out of tho molds it is
heavier than a piece of cast iron of the :
same size, and the saving of space in |
the window sash is a big tiling." I left
the driver, and recalled my old school
day lessons about the indestructibility
of matter. —lnterview in St Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Obliging Merchants.
Not only will any merchant in Brook
lyn eliange any piece of goods any
length of time after it has been pur
chased, but cases have been known in
which women nave even been kindly
received bringing back tablecloths that
had been laundered and napkins after■
they liad been hemmed, and a single!
case is reported where one salesman,
who had emigrated from New York i
and was rash enougli to bring its un
toward business methods with him.
was promptly discharged by a proprie |
tor who found him refusing to lake
back a toothbrush because the tom
porary purchaser had found it "too
large. ”
Here is a state of things which it
may profit our enterprising merchants
who are wont to consider a sale as a
final transaction to ponder ripor It
is just possible that the truest business
enterprise may consist in not being so
Virmcntedly enterprising after all
New York Evening Bun.
A PnrchiM for Mother.
Mother—Are you going out, my dear?
Daughter—Yes, ma; the Physical
Improvement society meets this after
noon.
Mother— Well, I wish you would
stop in somewhere and buy mo a broom.
—Now York Weekly
The first watermill every built was
erected on tlie river Tiber, at Rome,
A.D. 50. Windmills were in original
use in tlie Twelfth century Thlemills
were operated in Venice about 1708.
Sawmills ure said to Lave been in use
at Augsburg. Germany, about 1332
Halibut is growing scarcer year by
year, while lobsters are becoming so
few and Sinai! that the canneries find
it difficult to obtain supplies, nnd shad
and salmon are only kept up by the
propagating efforts of the fish commis
sion.
Experiments made In Austria make
1: appear tha: the addition of soda to
Portland cement enables it to with
stand the action of frost
SI.OO CASH, $1.50 ON SPACE: AND WORTH IT.
DR. UIXuN TALKS FOR FARMERS, j
He Ohillntti* the Moaning m»«l Frli>cl|)!«3
«»f (Ito Alliance Mcuiit-iit.
The Rev. Thomas Dixon preached yes
terday morning in Association hall. Pre
ceding tlie regular Rcrmon Mr. Dixon
read his customary pulpit review, select
ing for hiss subject “The Morid Im]xirt
of the Fanners’ Alliance.” The lecture
seemed to be favorably received, as at
its conclusion the lecturer was greatly
applauded.
“The real sensation of the year," said
Dr. Dixon, “is the advent of the National
Fanners’ Alliance and Industrial Union.
It is no mushroom growth. It is tke re
sistless-movement of millions who have
suffered under the aggressions of centu
ries. The advent of these embattled
hosts i» the most preguant event of this
generation. It is the beginning of a
revolution that will shake Uj is continent
and the wor Id. The fixsl t. tinte 1 they
three million votes, elected govomore'etf
three states and sent forty men to con
gress.
‘‘What is the moral meaning of this
great movement?
“First—lt is the protest of the patient
burden bearers of the world, who have
toiled through weary years, struggling
beneath the wrongs of economic and po
litical superstitions. In America the
fanners have become the boasts of bur
den to tho nation. Their business hits
been to feed over 65,000,000 people, aud
then through tho winter eke out a miser
able existence wrestling with their mort
gages, cyclones and fkods. While they <
are doing tins wo laugh and grow fat,
dance aud make merry in the city and
gamble how much they will make next
year, buy and sell their crops fifty time*
before they are planted, and charge old
‘Hayseed’ with all our losses.
“Second—This movement means.the
education or the masses as masses, of the
farmer as a fanner. It means tho asser
tion of the manhood of tho yeomen of
tho nation. This is real education. We
have to climb out of tho humble sphero
in which we wero boni into tho so called
higher sphere. The smith learns to de
spise his anvil and tho clodhopper to look
with contempt on the plow. They rise
to higher things. They become lawyers
anil doctors and preachers and hankers,
railroad men and jioliticians. Wo now
have fully 8,000,000 men in this country
educated to bo presidents of the United
States. We only need about a dozen in
a hundred years—an awful waste of raw
material.
“The farmers learning and teach
ing to their children in this organization
that the work of the farm is as sacred,
as noble, as honorable as that of any
sphere in life. Women, too, aro admit
ted to the order. Well they mayl There
are more farmers’ wives in tho insane
asylums of America thar any other class.
They have actually recognized the fact
tiiat woman is a human lining.
‘Third —This movement means co-op
eration as against competition. It is in
this principle of socialism that the order
has its strongest foundation. They aro
all pledged to co-operate with each other
in the production of economic goods,
and not only so but to co-operate in the
distribution of these goods. They are
learning the secret of associated power—
that in union there is strength.
“Fourth Tho organization means
brotherhood. It is a benevolent ami
fraternal order, with principles of love
and fraternity, wide as the world, uni
versal as the race.
“The fifth and sixth articles in their
St. Louis declaration of purposes, a sec
ond declaration of independence, read
thus:
“ ‘To constantly strive to secure en
tire harmony and goodwill to all man
kind and brotherly love among our
selves. To suppress personal, local, sec
tional, national prejudices, all unhealthy
rivalry and all selfish ambition.’
“They went into politics because they
have been forced there."—Now York
Star.
Mortgaged Farina In Canada.
Sir Richard Cartwright delivered an
address before the fanners of Welling
ton county in the city of Guelph recent
ly, in which he said:
Now, although the population on the
farming lands had diminished from one
end of Ontario to the other, there was
one thing that had increased, and that
was the mortgage debt on the fimn
lands. While the population had di
minished, while the value of the farms
had decreased, the mortgage indebted
ness had increased with great rapidity.
Sir Richard next told how in the olden
times in many districts in Canada when
a fanner had a farm to sell he was pur
sued by two, three or four buyers, all
anxious to get it; but how was it today?
Why, in many fertile districts if yon
were to put half a dozen farms up for
sale you would break tho market, and
find yourselves utterly unable to get pur
chasers.
Many facts and figures were cited by
Sir Richard Cartwright, allowing that
while an increase of wealth hail taken
place in one or two favored localities,
and certain favored Individuals had been
enriched enormously at tho cost of tlie
oulk of the people, the net result of tho
adoption of the policy of the p;ist ten
years had been that at the very best
4,000,000 or 5,000,000 intelligent, capable,
industrious people In as fine a country as
the snn shines npon, taken collectively,
hail made no progress at all. During
this time the federal taxation had in
creased many millions of dollars a year,
and so had the public debt, the provin
cial debt and the municipal debt of Can-
Taking all tlie departments at Wash
ington together, with their branches. It
is probable that they consume about
24,000 pounds of ice daily, averaging
the year around. This makes a total
annual consumption of a good deal
over 4,000 tons.
To fasten a steel blade which lias
come out of the handle, fill the cavity
with rosin, then warm the part to be
adjusted, and insert slowly i»resslng <t
in firmly Hold till it gets cold
Too Litoral.
Young men who play football on the
oollego elevens generally have an extra
Incentive to strivo for championship
honors in tho shape of souvenirs of tho
precious metals given to the team at
tho head of the list. It isn’t that those
medals ore needed to bring the atldotes
up to tho proper st:ige of enthusiasm,
but it is tho custom to give them, and
very nice trinkets they are to have. A
great deal of care is taken in their do
signing and pnqiaration, of course, for ■
after a man lias attended a few social
reunions on the football field ho lias a
fancy for tho urtistio in life. Recently
a victorious team were to be presented
witli trophies, and a noted Now York
jeweler was retained to turn out the
lot. Included in the set wns one for
the manager of the eleven, who, ns it
happened, did not play on tho eleven.
It hail been arranged that each
ptayor was to have lus position on the
team engraved under his name on his
medal. I‘crimps the letter explaining
this had been a trille too explicit in its
directions, for when tho trophies were
delivered the manager was surprised to
find tliat carefully inscribed on bis un
der his name was this: “No position;
did nettling at all." As this manager
was rather a hard worker for the suc
cess of his team, ho was far from
pleased with tho result tliat had fol
lowed his little explanatory note to tho
engraver tliat he had not taken part in
any of the bloody battles on tho white
wash lined field.—Now York Times.
Gold Dost und Nugget*.
The mines of tho far west are well
illustrated in the government col 100
tion, and in sotno of the specimens nug
gets of gold are seen. In a great safe
of steel, behind glass doors, there are
dozens of little boxes containing gold
dust, and other boxes on which there
are nuggets of pure gold of ail sizes
from the head of a pin to the size of
your fist. On a shelf over all are two
round pieces of gold as thick us your
wrist and about two inches long. 'They
came from the vaults of the treasury,
and no ono knows how they ever got
there.
Tho most valuablo of tho jewels of
Undo Sam, however, ure those wldeh
are found in tho relics of great men 1
near the entranco to tho museum.
They aro worth tens of thousands of
dollars in tho intrinsic value of tho
gold and Jewels of which they are
mode up, to say notliing of their work
manship. There aro swords by the
dozens set with diamonds, guns inlaid
with precious stones and cones which
have heads of gold, in which are im
bedded jewels which would shine at
any White House reception. These
jewels ore so valuable that a guard is
detailed to watcli them night and day.
Each case has a burglar alarm.—Wash
ington Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.
It I* Good Reading.
It lias occasionally boon remarked in
a half reproachful way that most of tho
reading of tho people is newspaper
rootling. Grant it, anil there is no rea
son to find fault. The average goo J
newspaper contains less fustian and
untenable matter than a large jiercont
age of books. It Is bound to keep paeo
with tlie level headed common sense of
the people.
The well equipped daily of our time
covers a wido field. It embraces sci
ence, literature, social economy, pas
times anil a host of other themes that
ore interesting and instructive, as well
us nows anil politics. Any ono cun
well afford to bo ignorant of many
books. No one can afford to ignore
the nowsiMipcr anil lie thereby excluded
from a survey of the globo and its
activities.
Tho newspapers liavo steadily im
proved in every particular. Tho most
scholarly inon and men deepest on
grossed in business are persevering
newspaper readers. In reality there is
not on institution of the age more
potent nnd more useful than the
press. —Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Thu Oddest Hotel Man.
“1 mot the oddest hotel man In the
business two weeks ago," said a young
commercial travelor at the Astor house.
“He lives in Beliaire, Olfio, and runs
the Globe hotel there. His name is
‘Zeke’ Morris, and he is a little, stoop
shouldered man, with a gray mustache
and eyes, who tolls all his guests wjio
stop with him for tho first time that his
rates are $2 a day regular, $2.25 if you
spit on the floor. He has no bar in his
house, nor does he ever sell cigars to
help his revenue. Still, lam told that
tio measure out every bit of food that
goes into his dining room.
“He had a fight with one of his guests
once, owing to his peculiar rules, and
came out second best with a big black
eye. After the fracas was over be
shook hands with his antagonist, and
informed him that since ho was a bet
ter man than ho was ho would not
charge him any board. He treated me
all right, however, and I didn’t linve
to whip him either,” said tlie commer
cial man reflectively. “But then I did
not expectorate inside of his threshold.”
—New York Telegram.
Why She Was So Called.
“How did you eomo to name your
little daughter Mildred?” asked the
judge. “No one in your family bears
that name.” “It was this way,” re
plied the major. “Wo were a long
time choosing a name for her. One
day she was playing near a inillrace
and fell in. Although we rescued her
she was badly frightened and can’t be
induced to go near the place since.
Her dread of tho mill has supplied her
with her name.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-
Telegraph.
Exf«n.tve Chivalry.
Georgia Drew Barrymore has been
tolling some of her eastern friends a
good story on a well known manager
of a Chicago theatre. The maimgcr is
noted for liis gallantry, and many a
pretty actress can testify t hat he is al
most without a rival ns an enter
tainer. Ono Saturday night, when the
eomi*uiy with which Mrs. Barrymore
was playing had completed its Ciiicago
engagement, this young manager met
the lady as sho was leaving the theatre,
and getting Into her carriage escorted
her to the de[>ot, where sho was to toko
a train for the east.
As she was about to dismiss the car
riage her gallant escort told her not to
pay the driver, for he would ride homo
in the same carriage and settle with
tlie driver himself. “Oh, you’ll settle
witli him, will you?” said Mrs. Barry
more naively, without a suggestion of
mischief in her quizzical eyes. “Very
well hank you. Good-by!” She took
the (rain and tho manager was driven
home. “How much?” he naked tho
driver, talcing a $2 bill from his pocket.
“Twenty-eight dollars," was tho reply.
“What—for two blocks, you robber!—
what do you mean?” “Twenty-eight
dollars is what I mean. I’ve been tak
ing that lady to and from the theatre
all tlie week, and that’s what it amounts
to. You told her you’d settle." Tho
manager settled.—Ciiicago Herald.
What He Was Worth.
Absolute monarchs are givon to
teaching their subjects practical lessons
in ways which aro more salutary than
amusing to tho objects of such instruo
tion. A traveler in Morocco tolls tho
following story of a monarch’s method
of playing schoolmaster:
Tlie sultan discovered that ono of his
viziers was becoming too powerful He
therefore summoned him to tea, nnd
complimented him on his great wealth.
The vizier becoming vain boasted of
the number of his houses, horses, wives
and slaves, und tho saltan rebuked
him, saying that he was too rich and
thought too much of himself.
To show tho man exactly what ho
was worth his majesty had him taken
by soldiers to tho slave market, where
ho was put up for salo, and received
only ono bid, of cightpenco. Ho was
then takpn back to the sultan, who
said to him, “Now you know your
proper value—cightpenco. Go homo
and ponder over it.”
When tho man reached homo, how
ever, he found that nearly all his prop
erty had been taken away by order of
tho sultan. Only ono small residence,
one wifo, ono horse and ono slave had
boon loft blm.
A Diplomatic Story.
One day In 1880, while I was secre
tary of tho United States legation at
Peking, I took to tho minister a dis
patch for tho secretary of state, re
questing hi in to indorse it favorably.
It was to ask for an eight months'
leave of absence, without pay, to travel
in western China anil Thibet Tho
minister read it over and turning to mo
said: “1 cannot give my approval to
this. If you absent yourself from tho
legation I must have somo ono to take
your place and do your work. Bat I
toll you what I will do: shico you aro
so anxious to see Thibet I will use my
influence at Washington to have you
appointed minister resident and consul
general there." I timidly asked him if
lie knew where Thibet wm. “No,” ho
answered; “but it makes no difference.
I'll tio what 1 said.”
What better illustration could I give
of the ignorance in which wo are con
cerning Thibet? The minister of tho
United Mates to China did not know
that it was on integral part of tho em
pire to tho court of which ho was ac
credited I —Cor. Century.
Three Men of Great Wealth.
A udrew Carnegie is the richest Scotch
man in tho world and he does not care
who knows it. Ho began work at $3 a
week and his income in ono year ex
ceeds $1,000,000. Ho gives freely to
cliarity and to public enterprises, but
personally is inclined to enjoy life while
he lives and to tako coaching tours
through Scotland rather than to leave
a fortune for some one else to spend
after ho is gone.
John D. Rockefeller was also poor,
but w:is lucky enough to secure good
situations early in life. He stepped
into the oil business from a position as
bookkeeper at SIOO a month. Now he
probably is tho richest man in tlie
world, and the company with which he
is identified employs an army of per
haps 40,000 men. Although John D.
Rockefeller’s name alone is always as
sociated with tho Standard Oil com
pany, he has two brothers—William
and Frank —each of whom has many
millions which tho Standard has made.
Chicago Mail.
nurpnjM.
A man who has the engaging habit
of fumbling the watch chains of liis ac
quaintances when talking with them,
occasionally pulling out tlie timepiece
to note tlie time of day, received a sur
prise recently; and so did the other fel
low. He was lingering tho expensive
chain of a friend, whose clothes were a
model of tho tailor’s art, when ho gave
it a Little jerk, and out from tho watch
pocket leaped—a lump of coal. —Spring
field Homestead.
Ill* Rook* Matched the Carpet.
I have a curious customer, a wealthy
man, who lias bought a lot of hand
some books' of ine, choosing them en
tirely by their bindings so as to match
in color his furniture and carpets, and
regardless of their contents Interview
In New York Commercial Advertiser.
NO- 17