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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